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Hey good people, this is Torre Roberts. Blessings to you and welcome to the ONE Podcast. I'm excited that you're here. ONE is a community of dynamic and vibrant thought leaders, preachers, teachers, and just a community of wonderful people all together. And we're excited to bring you this weekly podcast from our services from ONE in la. If you haven't been the One, I encourage you to check it out. You can go to One the Word one O N E online and find out all about the service times and all about the teachers and all the philanthropic things that we have going. I believe you're going to be blessed to be a part of it. And speaking of being blessed, we're getting ready to get into a teaching right now that I believe is going to bless you. So tune in, enjoy, and I'll be back with you at the end.
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Well one, it's my first official Sunday and I feel like preaching. I do, I do. I always feel like preaching, but I actually feel like preaching today. Hallelujah. Thank you all for being with me this week, for celebrating with me and Pastor Ed. Pastor Charles God has elevated us and we are humbled by that. But also that means we all win. Do not just be a spectator, be on the lookout for where God has also elevated your life. Cause we need you in the kingdom. Hallelujah. Mark, chapter 5, verse 25. This is my first time and I've been preaching since I was 19 years old and I'm not 19 now. Bless the Lord. This is the first time God has ever called me to preach this story. And I was so excited about it, but also felt kind of like, well, God, what could be in there? Because it'd been preached a lot. But oh, he is an eternal well. Mark chapter 5, verse 25. Now a certain woman had a flow of blood for 12 years and had suffered many things from many physicians. She had spent all that she had and was no better. Nothing made it better. Anybody in here done took all advice they could take. And you still in the same situation in some aspect of your life. You sought the good advice you paid for. Okay, but she was no better, but rather grew worse. Because now you ain't got your money or the answer, my God. For when she heard about Jesus, though, she came behind him in the crowd and touched his garment. For she said, if only I may touch his clothes, I shall be made well. Immediately the fountain of her blood was dried up and she felt in her body that she was healed of the affliction. She felt it and Jesus immediately knowing in Himself, that power had gone out of him, turned around in the crowd and said, who touched my clothes? But his disciples said to him, you see the multitude thronging you? And you say, who touched me, sir? And he looked around to see her who had done this thing. But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before him and told him the whole truth. And he said to her, daughter, daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace and be healed of your affliction. Amen. The Lord bless the reading of his word. Grab your seats and take a look at your neighbor and say this to me, to them, go big or go home. Go big or go home. See, this is the one movement. We're a revival movement. We built big people who make big moves. Big stands for bold. Christ identified goers. We don't do small. So you're in the right place. If you got tired of doing small. If you love doing big, you're in the right place with the right crazy people following the right God, because this is a big year for us. The Lord gave us a word over 20, 26, and that word is abundance. And we continue to stand in abundance. And we are making big moves. And so I've challenged you, God, put this in my heart late last year to challenge you during this season to make a big move. Get out there and go. This is hands and feet. Not thoughts, not ideas, not ideation, not planning. Put your hand to it, move your feet, do the thing. God will direct you. He will tell you, he will open doors. But we can get a little frozen sometimes, and it doesn't mean just more of what you're already doing. Well, I want you to dig into that area where you don't really feel like you know what else to do. I want you to dig into that area where you feel like you tried everything and that's just not working. I want you to dig into that area that you've accepted a lower standard for the area that made you say, well, you can't have everything. It's always going to be something. We have ways of protecting the thing that would require bold force because it's been bleeding us out for a long time, and nothing has made it better. She was still alive. It wasn't killing her. So she could have gone on with her life. She could have stopped when she hit 50% broke. But she was intentional. They talk about the woman with the issue of blood as if she was was just crawling in desperation. But I and I've heard that story, and I've believed it, but I. I gotta have something in my spirit when I read it this time, that there was a deliberate movement inside this woman. She could have stopped going to doctors, but she did not stop. She had decided that her health was more valuable to her than her finances. She couldn't have been broke from seeking treatment if she ain't had no money in the first place. It didn't say all the charity had run out. Hey. It said she had spent all of what she had, so she wasn't broke. But she made a decision about what was valuable to her, and she continued to make a pursuit. And so she hears about this man named Jesus. I want you to get that thing in your mind that's maybe been bleeding you out for a while, an area where you feel a little bit weak. You strong over here, but you feel weak over there. Oh, that's a big move to be made. Because if I can get strength in an area where I'm weak, I am less likely to drop the big ball. See, we put a lot of effort into our strengths, Pastor Ed, but my strength won't wipe me out. My weakness will. Yeah, yeah, we see it happen. We see people reach the highest levels. They win in the Grammy, and then drugs take them out. They become the President of the United States, and then an affair takes them out. It's not your strength that you need. What's trying to steal from you? The enemy wants to use that to steal and to kill and to destroy. But he said that he came in John 10:10, that you may have life and have it more abundantly. And so she was. He hadn't said it yet, but she was seeking that abundance. But something does happen to us spiritually. When we run out of ideas, naturally we turn around and be like, well, let me see about. Let me see. Maybe. Maybe I'm gonna get real spiritual about this. And I think that's what happened. So she had heard about Jesus. The key here is she knew that he was being said to be healing people. And so she gathered her faith to be healed. God will never require of you faith beyond that with which you have some experience. If you think about every time God asked you to have faith, you had a little something to work with. You knew somebody who had the same issue, and God did it for them. You can remember the last time he did a thing for you. You've heard us all preach about how God has changed our lives. When I tell you, I will never stop saying, I am so far from home. Oh, now I'm Home again. Amen. But I'm a long way from Jersey. I'm a long way from a PK in Jersey. I'm a long way from a church leader in Baltimore. I'm a long way from a woman who was married and then survived the divorce. I'm a long way from a professor for career to this. I'm a long way from what I call my home base. But we share those stories with you. I've told you how God moved and changed my life. I don't even recognize my life. You've heard Pastor Torre share that. Pastor Sarah Devon Franklin. Pastor EV we tell you those things so that you can have. You will have heard of Jesus because without some other witness, you don't know what's possible. I don't expect God tomorrow to tell me to go up in a plane and jump without a parachute. I have no experience with that. I would have no faith for it. I promise you. Now, if I had done a little skydiving, you know, a little sky, sky, plane, you know, something. But I got nothing. He just pushes us right past the last thing. He's constantly expanding us. And so she had heard that other people had been healed. By the time she was looking for Jesus, she had heard of a leopard being cleansed. Now, that's a big deal for her to have heard that because she was ritually impure as a result of her bleeding in her Jewish space, she was considered impure. So she wasn't supposed to touch people. People weren't supposed to. To. And so she had to live with that issue. But she had heard that he had healed a leper. A leper was a level above that. A leper was considered unclean. And a leper had to walk around town saying, unclean, unclean everywhere they went. Can you imagine? And Jesus healed that leper. She didn't have to do that. So that was up above her level. So she had heard about Jesus. She had probably heard that he had healed a paralyzed man. She had probably heard that demons had been cast out and sent into a pig. And a man that had been completely overcome by demons was found clothed and in his right mind. What have you heard about Jesus? Remember the stories. I don't care how long ago it was. I remember my grandmother's testimony of God healing her from a heart problem and breast cancer, how he healed her from infertility. My grandmother was 40 years old when she finally got pregnant for the first time before, there was no ivf. But she begged the Lord God, give me a daughter if you Give me a daughter. I'll give her back to you. And because God answered her prayer, he gave her a daughter. And she gave my mother back to her to preach. And then she had a daughter. And now I have a daughter. So Nana didn't even know. Oh, God. But I heard a testimony. What have you heard about Jesus? This gave her faith that it's possible that she too could be healed. She had heard about Jesus, but also she had reason to believe she could access Jesus. That's not a small thing because she was a woman and impure in a time and a place where she should not have been able to just walk up to a rabbi and tap him on the shoulder, especially while he was working, healing people, teaching and moving out. But she believed she had access to Jesus. Why? Well, I believe that one of the stories that she heard about Jesus is found in John chapter four. Because by the time Jesus was in Galilee doing all of these miracles and she became one of those miracles, his fame had already gone out in all the region. The Bible says that they spoke of him from Judea all the way up to Jerusalem. So now Judea was down here. That's like Long Beach. And then there was another town. Then you had Galilee that was up here, like Pasadena. And right in the middle, there was a place called Samaria. And a woman in Samaria that Jesus met by a well. In John 4. 3, it says he left Judea and departed again to go to Galilee, but he needed to go through Samaria. So we know that Jesus traveled and we know word about what he did travel to do not believe. Because they didn't have ig, text messages, smartphones, or email that word did not get around. Human beings been making word travel since they've been having a word. And women, definitely we've been getting the message out. Glory to God. Come on now. I told the first nine o', clock, I was in Johnsonville, Tennessee a couple years ago. Johnsonville, Tennessee. Like, I didn't even know that was a place. And I was going there to preach and I was being sent out into a diverse part of the kingdom. And I needed a makeup artist. I needed one who could do this, not just this. And so I started asking women, can anybody tell me if there's a makeup artist? Child. It only took 30 minutes and they had somebody for me. So we know how to get in and out of the world. And so this woman in Samaria met Jesus and it says he came to that city of Samaria near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his Son Joseph. So it was a holy place. Skip down to verse seven. A woman of Samaria came to draw water. And Jesus said to her, give me a drink. For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. Next verse. Then the woman of Samaria said to him, how is it that you, being a Jew, ask a drink from me a Samaritan woman? For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. And so Jesus is over here breaking rules. He's talking to an ethnic group that the Jews wouldn't talk to at that time, and he's talking to a woman. And so by the time the disciples came back, they actually, if you continue to read the chapter, they stood back like, why are you talking to her? He ain't supposed to be talking to her. But they knew better than to ask Jesus because he had done back them up a few times already. So they learned to stop messing with Jesus. But it was no longer a surprise that Jesus was breaking a rule. And so I want to point out to you that not only did Jesus reputation of healing people go out, but his reputation for breaking the rules and talking to people that he ain't supposed to talk to and touching people he shouldn't talk to and welcoming people into his faith that nobody else would welcome, that that reputation went out too. So she had reason to believe that she could access Jesus. So we always talk about her as being terrified to walk up to Jesus. But my text, the Bible, I don't see that supported tay because if she had heard his reputation, she would have heard, because we know Jesus did all kind of stuff. He had his disciples picking food on the Sabbath. He healed a man on the Sabbath, like they were constantly on his case for breaking rules. But she probably, I believe, had proof that he broke a rule for a woman. Furthermore, he tells this woman about her life. Y' all know, she was extra. She had several husbands, and she was living with somebody with one that wasn't even her husband. And he told her this. And she was so in the presence of love that we don't even see her respond in shame. She doesn't go, oh, Lord. She's like, oh, you must be the Messiah. I mean, confidence combined with love. Because you would think you'd be embarrassed when you realized God was telling your business like that. But he must have exuded so much love and welcome that she stayed upright and said, I know the Messiah is coming. I think you might be the Messiah. And Jesus said, you right, I am. She is the first person, person on this earthly planet to whom Jesus admitted who he was. Other people guessed, but he never admitted it. So he's now also admitted that he's the Messiah. So I am relatively sure this story got out because this woman goes back to Samaria. The Bible says she told all of the men in her city about Jesus, the Messiah and brought them to him. So this woman is running around spreading the word to men again in this moment. There's no way that poison part of the story. So I believe that the woman with the issue of blood had reason to believe that Jesus would entertain, he would not reject, he would not rebuke that she had access to Jesus. And I want you to know you do too. You have access to Jesus and not because of how good you are. Some of us, our faith starts to get stronger the longer we get from the last time we did the thing. It's been a month, you start feeling like you might really be all right. It been three months since that pornography, since that weed, since that call. Oh, Jesus. Y' all know Dr. A keeps it real. But why is it that we start feeling stronger in our faith? Because it's been a lot of time that we've behaved ourselves, baby, your access to Jesus is by his blood. If you didn't think you had to earn it, you would be able to live right longer because you wouldn't be trying to do it in your own strength. You would be running into the presence of God and not being thrown up by a fall. See, half the reason you get in trouble when you fall is because it take you too long to get back up because you're ashamed to come to Jesus instead of realizing, wow, I blew it. This is my opportunity to bask in his love because he never rejects me, ever. Oh, you gotta learn to let him love you good, you can't earn that. You have access to Jesus. I love this movement. We say we are church, where people who don't like church go to church. Yes, because somewhere somebody made you think you didn't have access to Jesus, but you have access to Jesus and we are here to prove it. Because we are a messed up bunch who Jesus saved. My God, my God, my God. I know who I am and I've seen how he's worked. Anyway, Jesus, she had access, so she didn't need to be afraid of Jesus. So I don't believe she was crawling, scared and desperate minded. I believe she was intent. She heard about Jesus and the possibility of this taking care of my situation. And I heard that he doesn't rebuke or reject people that get pushed out. And so I can actually walk up to him and he will back up other people off me. So she started moving in that direction. I feel like she was making a bold, big move. I don't know that she was crawling and crying. I think she knew where she was going. And then on top of that, she had witnesses. She had access. I also believe she had a word. See, the woman was ritually impure, but not unclean or morally in sin. And so. But because of this, one of the consequences was that she could not go to the temple in Jerusalem. The Jews went there three times a year, and not everybody could go every time. You had to have the means and be able to go. Sometimes only the husbands went, sometimes wives went with them. But three times a year, there would be a major pilgrimage to Jerusalem, to the temple, and sacrifices for sin are made there, among other things. That's where the high priest would be. But she was not allowed in the temple. So for at least 12 years, she had not been there because she was ritually impure. Now, let me take a side note. We have, I think, overestimated the consequences of her impurity. She was not the leper, like I said, saying unclean, unclean. Everywhere she went, she could be in a space and not be physically identifiable as bleeding. So she could go and nobody would know just by looking at her. We have no reason to believe that. So she was still moving about her life. Obviously, she's going to doctors, she's doing her thing. And also, the consequences of someone touching you were not deaf. It was like, go home, take a bath and stay there till the sun goes down. It was actually pretty common. There were quite a few things that could cause somebody to need to go home, take the bath and stay inside until the sun went down. Pretty much anything that had to do with bodily fluid emission, female and male, I'll leave it at that. Google could send you home for this bath and this sundown time. So it wasn't as intensely rejecting as we have come to think of it. And that's really important because I think we too overestimate the risk of pressing our way. Because we think everybody's going to see me. If I come to the altar, they're going to know something is wrong with me. If I go out there and say I need prayer, they're going to wonder what it is. I might get rejected. If I try to, I might not get the job. If I apply and you act like this rejection will kill you, and it won't. The risk is not as high as you think it is, honey, just keep moving. She got out there and started moving through that crowd. Ain't no way nobody bumped into her in that crowd. But she was like, baby, first of all, you don't even know what that. But if you find out, go take your bath until Sunday night. I'm not gonna let that small consequence stop me from getting to Jesus. Jesus, I need you to adjust your risk assessment because it's way too high. It should not outweigh what you've heard about Jesus and the access that you have been given. And then the Word. So I was saying she could not go to the Temple, but she could go to the synagogue. The Temple and the synagogue are not the same place. There was one temple at that time, and it was in Jerusalem, but there were synagogues all over the place. That was like your local church. And then the synagogue was like the headquarters. Think of it like that. So she couldn't go there, but she could go to synagogue. And when she would be in the synagogue, what she would hear was the priest reading Scripture. We have a largely oral society at that time. People weren't overwhelmingly literate. And even if they could read the scroll, it was not that many scrolls. Of all the Scriptures, they didn't want no Barnes and Noble. You had to hand write those. So it was a few. And then the priests would read them out loud in the synagogue. And so imagine her sitting in the synagogue and hearing this verse. Malachi, chapter four, verse two. But to you who fear my name, the son of righteousness shall arise with healing in his wings. Stop right there. The word wings in Hebrew, that's translated as wings is kanaf. I might be saying that wrong. K A N A F. And not only does it mean the wing of a bird, it also means the corner of a garment. Aw, shucks. Aw shucks. In fact, that word is seen again in Numbers, chapter 15, verse 37. And the Lord spoke to Moses saying, speak to the children of Israel. Tell them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations. So starting from Moses on down, the men, especially the rabbis, were wearing these robes that had tassels on the corners throughout their generations and put a blue thread in the tassels of the corners. The word translated as wings in Malachi is translated as corners here. And so she had a reason. To get to the hem of his garment. There is a reason why she was down here. She had an actual word. She had scripture on the fact that if this man is the Messiah, as this Woman told me. And I can access him no matter my name, my reputation, or my gender. All I have to do is get to the corner of his garment because I'm going to stand on what the Word says. Is that scripture that shows she heard Malachi? No, but I absolutely don't see why she would not have heard it because they read it in the synagogue over and over. And if she didn't read hear it, it's even more miraculous because that means the Holy Spirit took her straight to the spot on his garment that the word of God said said there would be healing. So you can believe she heard it or you can believe the Holy Ghost did it. Either way, his word can not return void. You have got to get your hands on a scripture. You need more than a revelation. You need more than a dream. You need more than a word of wisdom or word of knowledge. You have got to have some scripture. The Lord never moves in opposition to scripture. Furthermore, the Lord always moves in tandem with scripture to prove his word over and over again. And so now I have a woman who I've always believed took a desperate random shot. Turns out, not so much. She had heard that Jesus could help somebody in her position condition. She had heard that Jesus would help somebody in her position. And then she heard that he was the great physician because he was the Messiah who had healing in the corners. Why do you think she said, if I could just touch his clothes. If I could just touch his clothes? She didn't say his hand. She didn't say his foot. She said, if I could just touch his clothes. She knew, I need you to get bald in standing on what the Word of God says. And I need you to take a shot at it being literal. She obviously didn't leave it as a metaphor. Well, he's not really the sun. And in fact, it's spelled S U N right there. So she didn't leave that. It's like, oh, well, it's just a figure of speech. Stop. Figure of speech in your Bible, get that thing out and say, God, show me. Show me. I want to see it manifest in my life. Abundant life. Open up the windows of heaven and pour me out a blessing that I don't have room enough to receive. I still got room. I still got room. So I'm walking around looking for the blessing. I still got room. It says that he would send those to give into my bosom. So open the door, giving me money. But see if you don't get excited about, oh, keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going. I Want to go back to you see what happened to her after she got healed. But she made a big move to get there. She made a big move to get here. Believe what you've heard about Jesus. Know that you have access. Stand on Scripture. Stand on this scripture. As a result of this, she gets healed. But she also has what we would now call a salvation experience. Because she went from being just a woman with an issue of blood to daughter. That matters. She became a child of God. And if you look back at Matthew, chapter nine, at the beginning, we see the same thing happen with a man who was healed from paralysis. Matthew, chapter nine, verse two. Don't y' all just love the Bible? This is like the ultimate Bible nerd message. I am losing it because I love how true this book is. Matthew 9. 2. It says, Then, behold, they brought to him Jesus, a paralytic lying on his bed. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, son, be of good cheer. Your sins are forgiven you. Now, they got mad at Jesus for that, but he said, no, I need you to know that the Son of man can forgive sins. And so he says, it has power on earth to forgive sins. And then he tells the man, arise, take up your bed and go to your house. And. And then he goes. He departed to his house, and so we have him do that. But he calls him son. After he forgave his sins, he calls the man son. So he gave him the power to forgive sins, which also is the power to make us a child of God. So he called that man son, and then he called this woman daughter. Nowhere else in Scripture does Jesus directly address anyone as son or daughter, except in these two instances. So these are salvation experiences as well. And finally, I'm gonna tell you why the woman. Why I know for a fact the woman wasn't scared. Are you ready? I'm gonna tell you why we know she wasn't scared because it says that after that, she knew she was healed. First of all. So go back to Mark, chapter 5, verse 32. The woman fearing and trembling, knowing what had happened to to her. It doesn't say fearing and trembling, knowing what she had done. It doesn't say fearing and trembling, knowing she had broken a rule. It doesn't say fearing and trembling, knowing that they were going to cast her out, yell at her, punish her. It says she was in fearing and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, because she immediately knew in her body that the healing had occurred. She wasn't scared to go there. She wasn't scared to believe the Word. She wasn't scared to act specifically on it by touching the spot that the Word said. And she wasn't scared of Jesus. She knew what had happened to her as she was shook. That word fear means awe. And she was literally trembling so because there's shock and awe. Do you remember if you know Jesus, the first time Jesus absolutely changed your life? Did you. Did it shake you up? Were you stumbling for words to try to explain what just happened? Have you ever been just moved by God? You could barely explain what had happened in your life. But I will prove it to you further. Oh, my God. Because later Paul teaches us this in Philippians, chapter 2, verse 12. He says, Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence, O only, but now much more in my absence. Work out your own salvation with what? The same phrase. And God would never tell us to be terrified. He would never tell us. Work out your salvation in fear. God has not given me a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind. So why would he tell me to work out my salvation in fear if I ain't supposed to be scared? Awe, shock, disbelief, almost of the goodness of God. This is what you should be doing as you walk with Jesus. You should be in awe and shock. See, the reason that we sometimes let our salvation behavior slip through our fingers is because we let the awe go. We ain't shocked no more. Now he, our motivational speaker in force to get me what I want you to stop forget. You forget. I don't forget the addiction he broke off my life. I don't forget laying on the floor of my bathroom with tears streaming down my face, ashamed and hurt because I had been left behind and my family was falling apart. I don't forget when I didn't have community and look what he gave me. I don't forget. I'm always shocked. I'm always in awe. And that keeps me close to him. I need you to not be serving him with a what have you done for me lately, Janet Jackson kind of energy. Baby, if he never do nothing else for me, I am shocked at how he has loved me and changed me and healed me. My God. Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, awe and shock. That's why we love worship. That's where we. We plug back into the awe. That's why I love to go into the forest. I love to go to the beach. Look at creation. I'm in awe. The same God who did this made me. I'm in awe. I need to Change how I look in the mirror. I need to change where I think that I'm losing. My victory rate is 100%. I'm in awe. You've got to talk yourself through. Because our fallen nature. Our fallen nature because of sin and the fall we gotta. We reflect God but we got a little bit of the devil in us. He got bored with being a high angel in heaven. He was made so beautiful. His body was made out of instruments. Can you imagine the sound? But he decided he got tired of that and wanted to be God instead. And we gotta be careful we don't let a little bit of that mess that comes in our flesh because of the fall. Let us keep getting bored with what God has called us to do. Bored with the next thing. Bored with the provision we already got. And we just want the next thing. We want the next thing. I'm not saying don't make a big move forward. I'm saying Jesus, I'll make. Never forget what you've done for me, Jesus. I'll never forget how you set me free, Jesus. I'll never forget how you brought me out, Jesus. I'll never forget. No, never. Never. And you. You. This generation. Oh God, this generation. I tell you one of the reasons I'm so grateful for this assignment because in yalls world I'm a church mother. I'm over 50. Most of you are not. Many of you are the age of my children, 28 and 30. And it is my privilege to remind you to tell you if you didn't know of the God that has kept us generation after generation. We got to have fathers and mothers in the kingdom. Jesus will never leave you nor forsake you. I need you to watch me and hear me so that you chase God like my grandmother did, like my mother did and like I do. We can't leave that generational insight behind. We can't leave the power of the Holy Ghost behind. I love being here to tell you will be the greatest generation we've seen. I don't even know what it's going to look like. I'm watching you. I'm waiting for you to show me. I'm praying for you. I'm teaching you the word. I'm calling the Holy Ghost. I want you filled with the Holy Ghost. I want you to have power. But it might not look like revival when I was a kid. I don't know what it's going to look like. But I need you to do it. He is a great God and you are hear me prophetically. This generation especially that under 40, 35, my God. You are positioned to show the world who God actually is in a moment when everything artificial is confusing. Do you realize that in about five more minutes we're not going to be able to tell the difference between AI and reality? But you know what AI can't do? It can't heal a tumor. You know what AI can't do? Do you know what AI can't do? It can't wake me up in the middle of the night and tell me what your problem was for me to call you and give you a word. AI can't do that. This is the opportunity for the power of God to differentiate between what is fake and what is real. And God can't be faked. Arguments can be fake. You can use AI to find a scripture, but the power of God can't be done. And it's on you. You, you. You got to be you. Fear and trembling. Shock and awe. If you're not able to quickly tap into that sense of shock and awe, you're too far away from them. Cut something off, cut something out fast. Something. Unplug something, give something up. But shock and awe should be right there. Well, we can't be emotional all the time. I'm always emotional. You get emotional about other stuff. People always say, oh, well, your emotions can't guide your faith. No, the problem is you are not emotional about. You are emotional about other stuff. If you are as emotional about this thing that God has done for me as I get about other stuff, it would be no problem. The emotion, not the problem. It's the target. Nothing should make you more emotional than what Jesus has done for you. Nothing. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Jesus. Father, Come, Holy Ghost, come powerful. Take over this room. Change us in ways that we won't be able to get back from. In the name of Jesus. Confused them with experiences they haven't had with you before in this room, but especially out of the room. Shake them in their cars, shake them on buses. Wake them up in the middle of the night. They open their eyes and they're wide awake. And they don't even know why. And then they'll remember this moment when I said, wake them up. I want you hearing the voice of God. I want you all walking past people on the street and stopping and turning around and saying, bob, Stacy. And they turn around. You know me. No, but the Holy Ghost does. Come on. But that don't come just out of nowhere. Focus on God. There's a reason why the Lord said that this needs to be the most Spiritually focused year of our lives. Because of what he's trying to change us into, only the supernatural power of God cannot be replicated. So I want that. I want that. My final point. Oh, my God, is what we learn about Jesus in this moment. Because the woman doesn't have to. He doesn't send her to be to see a priest to say that she's pure. He doesn't tell her to go wait seven days anywhere to show that she's poor. He just tells her to go. Why? She has been out of the temple for 12 years, unable to make sacrifices, unable to do where the high priest stands. But suddenly she was standing in front of the high priest. Hebrews 4:15 said, we have not a high priest who cannot be touched by the feelings of our infirmity. Jesus is our high priest. The Bible says Paul writes later that there is one mediator between God and man, and that man is Jesus Christ. She finds out right then she doesn't need a priest to do anything. She's standing in front of the ultimate high priest. You don't need me to get in between you and God. Take this word and run. And I understand God gives us leaders for a reason. He gives us leaders so that we can follow them as they follow Christ, so we can learn what it looks like to follow Christ, so that we can unpack the Word. He gives us pastors, teachers, preachers, evangelists, apostles, so that you can be strengthened and made well. But he doesn't give us to you as a substitute for him. And you know, y' all know I love y'. All. I ain't got to convince you. You know I do. But some of you, sometimes you're trying to get to me, and I want you to come hug me. But don't ever let it get in your mind. If I could just have one conversation with her, then it would fix everything. Baby, I am not the Lord. I'm telling you, there is one mediator between God and you. And that man is Jesus Christ. If you would hold on to Jesus, you will never get offline. If you would stay in Scripture, you would never get off track. No cult will get you. No mess will get you. Scripture and Jesus, he showed us here that he is the high priest in the streets. He ain't in the temple behind the curtain. As a matter of fact, when he hung on the cross, the Bible says he rent the veil. The veil that covered the temple, holy of holies, where nobody but a high priest could go. Ripped from top to bottom, not even bottom to top. Top to bottom, to show that direct access to. To God is available to all of us. Are you ready for that kind of access, that kind of power, that kind of word to show up in your life? Stand to your feet. Are you ready? When I'm telling you, when I say it's big move season, I'm not just trying to hype you up. This is what God said, and we are movement, and we have just been elevated as a movement. Don't waste it. I shared with our staff this morning that I've been watching posts all week long about a super bloom. Anybody seen that? Because of all the unusual amount of rain that we've had in California, we are spoiled because it wasn't really a lot of rain, but it was a lot of rain for us. So we were stressed out. But because of all of the rain, we are in the midst of a super bloom. Wildflowers are blooming like crazy. Crazy. They're thick, they're everywhere. And we get excited when we see a bloom and we want to bloom, but we misunderstand that a bloom is not the end of the story. You want to cut the flowers and put them in a vase, but the problem is you undermine the plant at that time. Because when a flower blooms, it is an indicator that the plant is ready to reproduce. Blooming is a sign that it's time to multiply. So don't get distracted by that one thing in your life that popped open and you so busy praising God for it that you forget to get inside of it because it's time for you to multiply. Big moves happen when we bloom. Don't let the bloom die. Look at how pretty it was. Get out here. California's in a super bloom, and so are you. I'm in a super bloom moment, I expect. Man, the Lord dropped a number in my heart during offering today. I got a contract that gave me money, extra money, and I was paying my tithe on that. And praise God, I had something last week that he gave me and I paid tithe on that. And I was like, man, two Sundays in a row at this level. That. And I stopped and said, God, I want to do this every week. I want to do this every week. You can trust me. I want to do this every week. Now, that's not my. That's not a normal think process for me, but I felt it and I. And then my mind was kind of like, no. And it was like, oh, wait a minute. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm not going to let that Go by, bring it. And I started thinking about my big seed. Cuz on Good Friday we're coming in here with a big move seed. And I started thinking, God, what would you like me to give for my seed? And he gave me a number and I was like ow. And so that's. I know it was the right one. I had a plan for that. I was saving for something. And you know what? Maybe that thing I was saving will be deceived. But maybe just me saying God, you can have it, he may send it another way. You have got to run into the thing that makes you want to pull back from God. I want to come like the woman in fear and trembling talking about oh my God. She knew what had happened inside of her right in that moment when I gave him my yes. I don't see it all yet, but he multiplied me my yes. And so I want you thinking about that too on Good Friday. Come in here and drop a seed that exceeds anything you've done before. Stand on the word of God. But that's for then. But anyway, my God, did anybody. Was anybody blessed by this word? Are you free? I'll never see the woman with the issue, the blood the same again. She was a monster. That woman was a beast. And she got her healing. Is there anybody in here who doesn't know Jesus? The way that this woman came to know Jesus? Or you don't know Jesus, you feel like you don't know him. Like it sound like I'm in with him. I want you to have that. Jesus was born the son of God and totally human at the same time. He died for us. He let some people kill him for us. He literally rose from the dead for us. All for love. And now he's sitting next to his Father in heaven, praying for you. Literally praying for you 24 7. My Bible. There's scriptures for all of that. Read the whole Bible, you'll find it. And so relationship with Jesus is such a big deal. If you haven't had that moment where you knew something inside you happened because you said yes to Jesus. If you don't have a date. November 7, 1992. I know the day I gave my life to Jesus. I don't want you to just fade into it if you can't say this was my day. I want today to be today. Who wants March 1, 2026 to be the day that they say Jesus is all mine. Is there one? Come here, baby. I see you. Come here, come here. This is a good, good, good, good, good decision. This is a Good, good, good decision. Is there another one that you're saying this is it, this is gonna be the day. I done played around, thought about it, mixed it with other stuff. But today I want Jesus to be my savior. Is there anyone? If you're watching online and you haven't done that, hey girl. March 1st. March. Hey. If you're watching online and you don't have that moment, you haven't been able to see from that moment I never turned back. Didn't say from that moment you'll never mess up. Didn't say from that moment you won't get tired. Didn't say from that moment you didn't fail. But you said I never turned back. I'm not gonna stop. Even if it don't go right, I'm gonna get up, keep moving. But it's me and Jesus from here. Just type that in the chat. We have people waiting to pray for you right in the chat and they will reach out to you. Just cuz you're not in the room doesn't mean Jesus is not in the room with you. He definitely is. Is there anybody else that wants to. Hey, come on sir. Come on sir, keep on going. I don't have to. Come on, come and let us pray for you. Yes, if you want to say March 1st, that's my day, spiritual birthday. Is there anybody else that wants to make Jesus the head of their life today? When my Bible says the word repent, it says repent and believe Jesus. That word repent isn't just, hey, come on. Isn't just about being sorry. That word repent actually means change your mindset, change your worldview, see things differently. Repent means look at this through the lens of the Word so you can think differently. Some translations have it as change your purpose. Repent means change your purpose. Anybody needs to change their purpose cuz Jesus will help you do that too. You can come and do that too. It's not all about if you want prayer, come on. It's not all about what I did wrong. But I've been chasing a purpose and can't find one. But I'm gonna change my purpose today. And this is easy. This is easy. All you have to do is state that you believe it. Come on. Yes, I love it. I love this. And know that Jesus has been waiting for you the entire time. And he will never leave you or forsake you. He will chase you down. If you try to run, he'll come and find you because he loves you so much. And I always like to point out that Jesus was there. He even on the hardest moments of your life, he did not do anything to hurt you, to get you here. He's here to heal you, not hurt you. The devil causes people to do bad things and they hurt us. And God, you'll say, God, why did you stop him? But I've hurt people and he didn't stop me. You might have hurt someone before, and he didn't stop you, right? So there's this. We got this free will problem, and people get hurt as a result. But Jesus is here to destroy the consequences of the people who have hurt you. And in ways you've hurt yourself, it's harder for you to forgive yourself than it is for God to forgive you. God got you right now, but I want you to receive his forgiveness and forgive yourself. Answer me these questions. Do you believe that Jesus was born the son of God? Yes. That sounded good. Do you believe that Jesus loved you so much that he let some people beat him to death and put him on a cross for you? Do you believe that after his human body died that he rose from the dead? Like if you was at a funeral and the person in the casket got up, like he literally rose from the dead. This is the important part. Do you believe that we do, too? Do you believe that now he's sitting next to his father and he's praying for you 24. 7. Welcome to the Kingdom of God. March 1, 2020 6. March 1, 2020 6. I promise you this. Hear me. Give God and us and me and Pastor EB a year. Get in here as much as possible, every Sunday. Ask for work off if you got to, whatever. But get in here on Sundays. Come when there's Bible study, come to women's ministry. Come to the men's group. Just. Just throw yourself in here. Give us a year. Your life will never be the same. One year from now, you will not recognize your life. Give us that year. Will you do that? You got family now 1. Let them know you got their back. You are not by yourself in this world. These people have your. Can you hug her, please? She needs arms. Yeah. Do you listen? Your back is God. And if you don't already have a church family or somebody you look at, be like, that's my pastor. I absolutely want the job. I am. I am thirsty for it. I want to be your pastor. Pastor E wants that. We want to pray for you and teach you the word and love you and hear you and be there for you. Yes, we want that. Thanks for trusting us. Hey, family.
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Well, I pray that you were just as blessed by this teaching as I was. I'm just so grateful again, to be a part of a dynamic community full of love, full of revelation and wisdom. One has been a movement that's been blessing people for over two decades, and I'm so glad that you got an opportunity to experience it. I also have a podcast called the called. It's right here on wherever you're listening to this Spotify or Apple or wherever you're listening to this podcast, you can just look up the call T H E C A L L E D with myself, Ture Roberts. This is designed for entrepreneurs, leaders, and business people. It's a weekly podcast and it will bless you. But hey, I enjoyed having you here. Meet us here next week. Check out the call. Much blessings to you. We'll catch you next time.