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I just want you to paint the picture right now. I don't know who your friends are, but there are some people that roll with me that if we all walk in together and your step to me is wrong, I don't know what they carrying, but sometimes the reaction comes out faster than the thought. Peter has just watched Jesus. I need you to get this. Sweat, blood, cry out in agony. And now people are coming to take him away. Not my dog. Not my man's JC I roll with this man. Who are you? And at the moment, Peter pulls out his knife and cuts off his ear. Now, watch who goes to a fight to cut off an ear, okay? If I'm pulling out my knife, it's like, what am I do? Stab him? Cut off a finger? No, let's go for his ear. I think that he was trying to kill the dude. It just so happened that he only. Peter is about to make a decision that would alter everything. The plan that was set up so Jesus could actually go to the cross, it looked unfavorable, but it says in the Bible that it had to happen like this. So at the moment that Peter cuts off my man Malchus's ear, that's his real name. Y' all thought I made that up. Y' all gotta read your Bible, Malchus. He cuts off his ear. Watch the Correction. In verse 52, he doesn't first speak to the man with the ear on the ground. He speaks to Simon Peter. Put your sword back in its place. He corrects them in the middle of his emotional crash out, which he's kind of justified for. If somebody came against the people you love, some of y' all be like, you could do whatever. You can call me whatever. But if you say anything about my baby, y' all know how y'. All. If you say anything about. Okay, say same type of energy. Why wouldn't God correct the guy coming to take him? Why wouldn't God correct all of the situation that's happening? He goes for Simon Peter, and he literally says, put it back. Jesus said to him, for all who draw the sword will die by the sword. Do you not think that I'm cold enough to handle this myself? Do you not think I can call on my Father and he will at once put at my disposal More than 12 legions of angels? With a legion, it's usually 6,000. So 72,000 angels will pull up on you. You don't think if I wanted to change this situation, I couldn't? But the only reason I'm not, because if I did, how then would the scripture be fulfilled that says it must happen this way? How many situations have happened that you are trying to figure out an alternate reality or way that it could do? And God's saying it must happen this way. So at this moment, Jesus picks up my man's ear, pops it back on, and the only person that was corrected was Peter. You gonna correct me in the middle of this crash out? Let's look at another guy turn into the Old Testament. This guy's Name is Saul. And Saul has a crash out in 1st Samuel 13 today. I just want to help you because God's going to correct you in some things, and most of us don't know how to handle it. First Samuel, chapter 13, verse 8. It says, Let me just set a little context. They're at war. Saul is leading the army, is supposed to actually wait for Samuel the prophet to come because they were going to make a sacrifice and God was going to bless their victory that they were going to have. But Saul started getting impatient. And we're going to see this right here. It says, then Saul waited for seven days according to the time set by Samuel. But Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the people were scattered from him. So Saul said, you know what? Forget this. The pressure is too much. Bring me the burnt offering right now. I ain't waiting for nobody. And the peace offering, Bring it to me right now. And he offered the burnt offering. Now, it happened as soon as he had finished presenting the burnt offering. Then Samuel came, and Saul went out to meet him, that he might greet him. And Samuel said, what have you done? Said Saul. Well, okay, okay. When I saw the people, they were scattering from me, and that you did not come when you had said that you was gonna be here at the appointed time. I know you here now, but you. I mean, whoo, 13 minutes ago would have been really good. And that the Philistines gathered to come to Mikmash to Big Bass. Then I said, the Philistines will now come down on me at Gilgal, and I have not made a supplication to the Lord. So who am I not to make a supplication to the Lord? So I thought, since you wasn't here, I should make the supplication. Therefore, I felt compelled. That's a good churchy word, huh? I felt compelled and offered the burnt offering. And Samuel said to Saul, you have done something so foolish. You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of the Lord your God, which he commanded you. For now, the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. But now, since you made that rash decision because you were triggered by everything you saw, your kingdom shall not continue. The Lord has sought for himself a man after his own heart. And the Lord has commanded him to be commander over his people because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you. The crazy thing is, I get it. Saul's under pressure. People coming from the left, the right, all his people who was down start scattering, and if you telling me this is the Way we gonna get victory. And I don't see the prophet nowhere. Nobody's is he. Where he at? He ain't there. I' ma just do it myself. Has anybody taken matters into your own hands before? You know God told you to wait. Okay. You know God told you, don't move into that apartment. You know God told you not to date them. You know God told you not to open the business yet. You know God told you wait. But the situation started speaking to you louder than God, and so you decided to take matters into your own hands. He canceled out a legacy that was supposed to still be experienced to this day because he could not wait. In a state where he was triggered, Samuel comes to correct him. And I just came to tell everybody who's potentially in a situation that seems like you're justified to make a critical decision while the situation feels confusing. Write this down. Be careful making quick decisions in the middle of crisis. This is not the season where you do knee jerk reactions without going to the father. This is not the season where, oh, it makes sense on paper. The Bible says in Proverbs 3, 5, acknowledge God in all your ways, and he will direct your path. Some of you are the director of a movie that you did not fund. God is supplying everything for this movie, and you telling him, no, no, no, no. But I don't need to do it your way. This is how I see the movie ending. And he said, you have no clue what I'm trying to do in this thing. You will not let me direct this thing, and you will not let me guide you into all truth. And I'm telling you this because when you're in confusion, you're not seeing clearly. Saul was confused, and he was not seeing clearly. And what God sends when you're confused is a word before the confusion. The question is, will you remember and listen to the world when the confusion comes? That's why the word of the year at Transformation Church this year is what? Focused. He's saying you have to kill the distractions because you're confused in a season where you should be sure he's already told you what he wanted to do. He told you to stay faithful. He told you to keep giving. He told you to keep serving. He told you to stay submitted in that house. And then you got offended. Now, since you got offended, confusion sets in. Why am I supposed to listen to somebody who's just gonna say something crazy to me like that? Am I supposed to stay in a house where I don't feel like I'm getting fed Am I supposed to do this with all this other stuff? And God's saying, hold on.

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Pastor Mike Todd (34:02)

To the word I already gave you. And Saul doesn't hold on to the word. So he goes ahead and doesn't heed the correction like many of us. And this is what. This is what. It kind of painted a picture in my mind. How many people like football, like just. Just hands? How many football. How many people don't understand football at all? Like, just. Okay, we love you too. Okay. One thing that most people understand is that there's a quarterback and there's these little guys on the end called receivers. And the quarterback's job is to throw the ball to the receivers. And what's the receiver's job? Class? Catch the ball. Mo, could you be my quarterback for a second? And Mo. Yeah. You just come stand up here for me. You've never seen a Hispanic 52 quarterback. But we have one today. We have one today. What would end up happening in a football game is the quarterback would be here and the receiver, they would say, hut. And I would run as a receiver and he would throw me the ball. Now, I don't know if you saw what happened. I don't. Somebody saw it. What? What do you. What did you say? No, no, no, y'. All. No, I'm. I'm a great receiver. I'm a great receiver. I'm a. I'm a great Christian. I receive what the word says. Are you seeing what's happening right now? I'm in a position. God give me clarity. Some of y' all still ain't got it. This is what we do. Every Sunday we come. Oh, Gloria, God, use me. Give me a prophetic word. I'm not doing what. I'm not receiving the correction that he's throwing my way. When God is passing you correction, you don't even got your hands up. How long would I be in the game if every time God calls a play for me, you, Y' all looking at me. Get him out the game. Take them out. Get them out of here. Little boy, 12 years old. Get them out. Because it doesn't make sense to keep running the same play. It doesn't make sense to keep running the same play. And you're never in a position to receive. Doing all that zigzagging, all that praying, all those all night prayers, all of those supplications, prophesying to yourself, got everything written down. And God sent saying, hut. And every time, if you cannot receive correction, you are a liability to the kingdom of God. I cannot have you on my team if the coach can't tell you. You said that with the wrong spirit. You sent that in anger. That was a sarcastic response to a real issue. And your boss, nor your leader, your husband, nobody can correct you. Amen. God, keep using me.

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I mean, I feel a fresh fire. I'm giving you direction. You're giving me direction, and I'm not listening. This time. I'm gonna listen. I went to conference and I. Oh, my God. Faith in the fire. It shut up in my bones. I. I got it. So when. When you. When you. When you. When you tell me to do it again. Yeah, I'm gonna. I'm gonna listen.

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You want me to go five and then in? Okay, cool. I supposed to. I was supposed to go the other way. That was five and out, But I like it out here. But this is where people see me at. This is where I get recognized. You wanted me to go five and into my prayer closet, but I wanted to go five and outside for people to see me. I wanted to be. And how many times have we not caught the correction? See, because anytime you actually catch the correction in correction, God's trying to do something to shape our character. So when he's correcting us, he's shaping our character. When we catch correction, I'm trying to tell you why you should catch it then. God is trying to do something for our confidence. See, the more I get character like Christ, the more confident I am that. Hold on. When he calls me to a war, even if I have opposition, when we've run this play before, it don't matter who's standing in front of me. They don't know the play. They don't know what God's called me to do. So I'm confident that God will see me through this. See, when I catch correction, it makes me Christ like I become more like the one throwing me the ball. We have the same mind. Let this mind be in you, which is also in Christ Jesus. When a quarterback and a receiver get on the same plane, I don't even have to understand what he's up against. If he just goes like this. I already know because we have the same the only reason there's a correction is because you have a calling. And how many believers every Sunday, every Monday?

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Ah God use me. God use me. God use me. Man, why won't you throw the ball better? God, why wouldn't you put me in a better situation? God why was I born into this family? God why Wouldn't you put me in Dallas or Atlanta or la? Why would you put me here? And because I can't catch calling, because I can't catch correction, I start complaining to the one who threw the ball. God, if you would do it like I told you to, God, if you would gave me my wife, I wouldn't be out here sleeping with everybody. If you would give me a job where I could actually provide, I would stop pushing at work, I would stop lying, I would stop stealing food stamps if you would actually provide for me. Amen. And some people have the nerve to be upset with God because the entire time he's been letting you stay in the game by your own credentials, you should be out. Because you judge the other receivers when they don't catch the ball like you would. He said, I'm letting you stay in the game. And you still, you still won't hear the correction. And this is what happens to all believers. And I'm telling you today, point one of this, we almost done catch the correction. You have to be a receiver of correction. And God's going to correct you in the middle of a crash out. It's going to be when you are already stressed about money that God's going to say, you need to start tithing. Y' all saw how there was no Amens right there because he's going to use the moment of a crash out. He said, I can't rebuke the devourer. I already told you in my word, the people who honor me with their wealth, that's who I protect, their finances. You want me to change and let you hit the lottery and do all this other stuff. But right now, while you still need a miracle, I'mma correct you. Your money will never be right. It doesn't matter how many zeros you put in the account. You have too much wisdom to keep disobeying me. Well, God, I'll make it up at the end of the year. And he said, that means you don't trust me daily. So you need your money to be able to make rent now. And God said, with that $25, $2.50 belongs to me. He's gonna correct you in the middle of the crushdown. And right now, some of y' all are in this exact situation and God's saying, hunt and you like, ah, that must be for somebody else. He can't be talking about me. Catch the correction. You've been married to that man for years, and all you do is tear him down every time he messes up. But The Bible tells us that the faith of a woman can change a household. Well, I'm just telling it how it is. I'm just telling you how it is. And God said, yeah, he messed up again. Speak life over. Tell them who you see. Sow seeds of encouragement. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth only that which is edifying to the hearer. If you got to walk around and God's saying, I know he messed up. I know he did it. But I'm about to run another play for you, and I'm gonna correct you in the middle of this. And we standing out here, oh, Lord, I can't stand jerome. It's been 20 years. He ain't gonna change. Neither are you. Would you catch the correction? Proverbs 3:12. This is why you got to catch the correction. And you have to have the right perception on it. For the Lord corrects those he loves, just as a father corrects a child in whom he delights. The Lord says, I love you too much to have you keep running the wrong route. So I need you to catch this correction. When I was on the football team, I could tell the people who was going to play in the game during. On the weekend and who wasn't by who. The coach corrected. There were certain people on the team that when they messed up, the coach didn't say nothing. The reason he didn't say nothing to them, because they wasn't gonna play. Do you understand what I'm saying? But it would be like the coach's son and the star players, like, hey, listen to me. When you do this, go that way, you don't see the defense and, oh, oh, Bobo over here, he's, like, playing with flowers, drawing stuff in the grass. Coach don't even care. Because the investment of correction is proof of a future. The reason God corrects us is because he sees how he wants to use us in the future. Stop sleeping with them. Stop. Because I see in the future you having to explain that soul tie to the person I've created you for. And you don't know why you're being pulled at the. Stop. Because I see your future. Stop giving that money to that family member who's just abusing it. Stop. Because you're enabling them to continue in the destruction. Your love should say, no, but that's my baby. And he's manipulating you. You have funded his foolishness in the name of love. Stop in the name of love. Who said that? Wasn't that Diana Ross? Stop in the name of. Okay, and. And let me Help you because some of y' all are like, yeah, if God corrects me, If God corrects me, I will catch his correction. God, I just promise you right now, whenever you throw correction my way.

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Pastor Mike Todd (50:43)

I'm catching it. He's going to use a person, an actual human, to provide the correction. Can you catch the correction if it comes through a different vessel? God sent Samuel to correct Saul and he couldn't catch the correction. I'll tell you a true story. Pastor Will, the one that was up here doing all of our announcements and leading us, our associate campus pastor. It was about four years ago that we were at Incredible Pizza and we were there for, I think ava's birthday or MJ's birthday. We were there for MJ's birthday. And the Holy Spirit told me that Will had a huge future in our church. But there was one thing holding him back and it was his fork. Will was 351 pounds and was killing himself with, with fast food and a fork. And so because I saw his future, I saw what was in him. I saw his loyalty and his ability to connect with people and his study in the world. I saw him and God said, you're gonna have to be his pastor right now and go correct him. This was a defining moment for our relationship because I didn't know how he was gonna take this. And right there in the hall of Incredible Pizza, I told Will, hey man, you gotta lose weight. And right now some of y' all are offended. And I didn't even say it to you. You can feel the tension in the room right now because what does my spiritual life have to do with my weight? You get one temple of the Holy Spirit. And this was just something that I knew was specific to him. I didn't give a prophetic word to everybody. I want to talk to somebody who said they were submitted to my leadership. And I corrected him. And I said, will, I said, I'm gonna help you get started. And I said, I got kids. Don't waste my money. Said, I'm gonna give you 30 days and I'm gonna pay for it. And what you do after that is on you. You know what Will did? I corrected him. He caught it and that boy ran. Hold on. He took what I gave him in correction and turned it into a testimony. How much weight have you lost? £141. He about to run in a high rocks and is about to. Kaylee got a new husband. Most of you would have left the church right now. He knew it was a problem before I corrected it. It's crazy that the stuff we know when somebody calls it out. Now I have the opportunity to be offended. But when I corrected him, it's because I saw his calling. When I corrected him, it's because I knew he wanted to be like Christ. I needed him to have confidence and I wanted to help him build his character. And what I'm telling you is if Christ sends anybody to correct you in the middle of a crash, out catch it. All I came to say is it will come at the most inopportune time. You gonna be in the middle of the thing and God's gonna be like, hey, put your hands up. Cause I'm about to throw you some correction Even why you have opposition. And the only thing that allows you to really catch correction is when you have these gloves right here on the back of them. They got a word on it that the church is not used to. Humility. If your hands and heart don't have humility, you won't catch correction. That's why the Bible tells us to actually be more humble than we are. Anything else? Let me tell you. I can't. You. Oh, I can't.

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Hands of humility. First Peter 5, 6. Humble yourselves therefore, under the mighty hand of God, so that at the proper time he may exalt you. The reason why God's correcting you is because he loves you. And if you put on humility, correction. Listen. Without. Love creates rebellion, not repentance. The reason I need to tell you God loves you is because he's correcting you. He's telling you, stop comparing yourself to them. Stop following them. That's a smart correction. Well, God, why am I? I mean, they ain't doing nothing to me. Because every time you see them, you compare yourself to them. And what I'm trying to do is change in you the ability to not see them and think something's wrong with you. I want you to become content. And right now you're comparing. So obey me and unfollow them. But God, they give Me? Creative juices? No. They give you comparison and anxiety. And they give you a reason to not do what I've called you to do. Because 4,000 people like it when they do it and four like it when you do it. Stop. And when he comes to correct, because you've taken off humility and you've put down your hands and you're like God, you know what? I'm gonna do it my own way. Run the play. You're almost proud now that you're doing it your own way. All I'm telling you right now. Jesus. Yeah, Jesus. Jesus. I love our church. Catch the correction. All right. Once you catch the correction, comply with the command. If God tells you to go five and in, just do it. Well, I don't know why I gotta do it. You don't have to know why you gotta do it. You do not have to understand to obey. It takes faith to follow Christ's command. When you feel something contrary, just do what God tells you to do. No, you don't go nowhere. Jesus. You stay right there. Okay, God. You want me to forgive? Yes. It doesn't make sense. Doesn't matter. Comply. Comply with the command that God gave you. The reason why Saul cancels out the legacy of his children's children's children is because he would not watch this as another word for comply. He would not obey. And when you don't obey, you're always forfeiting something that God wanted to do. And that's when you start complaining and you stop complying. And this is where I gotta read you just a little more scripture. First Samuel, chapter 15, verse 10. This is where the title of this in the Bible is. The Lord rejects Saul. Then the Lord said to Samuel, I am sorry that I ever made Saul king, for he has not been loyal to me and has refused to obey my command. Samuel was so deeply moved when he heard this that he cried out to the Lord all night. Drop down to verse 20. He's confronting Saul now. And this is Saul's excuse. But I did obey the Lord. Saul insisted. I carried out the mission he gave. I brought back King Agag, but I destroyed everyone else. Then my troops bought the best sheep and goats and cattle and plundered to sacrifice to the Lord your God at Gilgal. But Samuel replied, listen to this. What is more pleasing to the Lord? Your burnt offerings and sacrifice or your obedience to his voice? Does God like you putting a spectacle on? That I obeyed God or actually obeying him? Listen. Obedience is better than any sacrifice you can make. And submission Is better than any offering of a fat ram. Rebellion. Watch this. This is strong Bible, y'. All. Rebellion is as sinful as witchcraft. Some of y' all scared of Halloween. And he said, you disobey. You are a witch. You are moving in witchcraft because you won't obey me. Oh, God. They don't want the Bible and stubbornness as bad as worshiping idols. So because you have rejected the command of the Lord, he has rejected you as king. Write this down. Disobedience doesn't look demonic, but is the invitation to your destruction. You think, well, I just didn't do that one thing. God told me. You don't understand that that one thing was the thing to lead to the thing that was going to be the thing that does the thing you've been praying the thing would do. What are you saying, Pastor Mike? You have no idea what's on the other side of your obedience. In the same token, you have no idea what's on the other side of your disobedience. Jesus compares the disobedience to idol worship in witchcraft. So the next time God says, hey, go talk to them and share my love with them. I know you're busy, and I know you're on your way to the movie and you're gonna miss, but I need you to go tell them that I love them and pay for $10 of gas for them. And the next time you get in your car and act like that's nothing, he said, you might as well worshiped an idol and participated in a witchcraft ceremony. I want you. We don't think about it like that.

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I didn't have a time as a. Oh, man. I promised my kids, and he's like, eternity's in the balance and you won't obey me. I've been telling you for years to start that llc. You have no idea what resources I have available for you to change the community that you're in, but you just won't obey me. You won't obey me to tell that person that you gonna work with them for free. I know what you put on your flyer and how much you charge, but I told you, you were supposed to sew into them. Why won't you obey me? I've told you to enroll in that school. Well, God, I'm this old or I don't got the. Why won't you just do what I asked you to do? And I found that when God comes with the correction, most time our hands are down, our hearts aren't open, and we won't Catch the correction. Peter though, catches the correction, cuts off the ear. Jesus says, put your knife up. They didn't take his knife. So he still has the same opportunity to do the same thing again. If it was some of the people that I run with, they would have cut off one ear, then would have went to the homeboy, started trying to cut his ear off. They would have. We don't hear about Peter putting up any fight in that moment. Again, he falls back. Why not? Because the situation changed. He falls back at the command, at the word of his savior. He obeyed. This is why Peter gets used again and messes up.

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Wrong route again. I'll never deny you before. Before the little rooster crows three times. But he was still in the game. He was still in the game because he could catch, correct. Have you been benched? Are you on your way out of the game? God called you to because you won't catch correction. Last thing I'm going to tell you, when you find yourself in there, you got to catch correction first. And then every time you catch correction, you got to comply with the command. Last thing you got to choose to continue after the confrontation. This is where most people leave the church, leave the marriage, leave the friendship. Your cutoff game so strong at the time that there's a confrontation, then you leave. What if Peter would have been like, nevermind, forget it, I'm done following you. Because you didn't have to call me out like that in front of everybody. Why you do it like that though? You didn't have my back. And Jesus was like, because you caught the correction, you fell back and you still stayed. I'm gonna use you. I'm gonna turn all of this into something that can be put in eternity. Because correction is a divine tool by God, not a human insult. And most of us think correction is something that God's trying to insult us with. The greatest moments of my growth has been when God has corrected me and told me, watch this, Mike, change course. You were going this way, go this way. And even sometimes when God calls the play, you're gonna miss. But were your hands even up to receive the correction? I promise you that when God calls this next play for me, I don't know what's going to happen, but my hands are going to be ready to receive the correction. And listen, it doesn't matter who claps. We just advanced. It doesn't matter who. Every time you catch a ball in the opposing players stadium, they boom. If I listen to the environment and the atmosphere to get the cue, if I Did a good job. It's when I look at the quarterback and he's nodding at me and he comes to the place we advanced, and then he runs another play, and it doesn't make a difference. I might have missed it. Okay, we get another chance. That's where grace is. And mercy came in. But I had an opportunity because of what Jesus did to catch another ball, get tackled, get down. Listen, what I'm telling you right now, Church, is if you're open to correction in the middle of crash out, God will use you in a way that you've never imagined. Church. I don't want to make you hype. I want you to walk in humility. I can't tell you how much in this last season, God has corrected me when it felt unfair, when it felt like I have every right to feel this way. God said, call them, call them, call them. Y' all know them. This doesn't feel fair. I don't want it to feel fair. I want it to create faith. And today my assignment was very simple. Catch the correction. I don't care how old you are. I don't care how long you've walked with God, until you go and meet with him in heaven. He's going to be trying to refine you and make you more like him. Catch the correction. Standing all over this place. I went and looked at what happened after Jesus dies and after the disciples are trying to figure out how to take the gospel forward. I found this little scripture in Acts 3:19. That's Peter talking. Because when God throws correction your way, you have two options. You can either repent or rebel. That's it. You can either do what he's saying and turn. That's all repent means. Turn the direction he tells you to, or you can rebel and go the direction that you want to. Acts 3:19. This is the same guy who caught correction. In this moment. He's saying to everybody, repent. That means turn and turn to God so that your sins may be wiped out. The times of refreshing may come from the Lord when you repent and catch correction. The end result of that is times of refreshing. How beautiful is it that God's saying, golly, they finally got it. They finally obeyed me. They actually caught what I was trying to give them. I don't have to run that same play again. I don't have to keep taking them through that same cycle. They caught. Didn't feel good. It was frustrating. He had to use my mom to do it. He had to use my boss to do it. He had to use my co worker to do it. He had to use opposition to do it. But I caught the correction. You were trying. You've been trying to tell me for 15 years I talk too much. Caught it. That's what it was. You was trying to tell me to stop responding out of my emotions and my childhood trauma. Caught it. Oh, you was trying to tell me that I'm valuable without being associated with them. Caught it. Oh, I'm actually chosen by you even when I'm not producing. God, some of y' all working five and six jobs, and still the ends ain't meeting. And he told you, just work those two. Your children need you. Well, God, how is this gonna. They won't catch the correction. Let those three jobs go. Work the two. I'm gonna give them a promotion. I'm gonna get this thing. But they won't. Will today. Catch. Will you be a receiver? Open up your hands. Come on, open up your hands. This is the only way you can receive anything hands down. You can't receive anything. Now at this point, if you looking at me. Tess, you ready for this bowl? Look at him. See, her hands is open. I can throw this ball anywhere in this arena. Who want it? I could. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Who want. It's. Did you see Hands went up in the direction that I was looking. Y' all ready? Cause you never know somebody's standing on their chair. There's a. There's expectation when you know who hands holds the ball. I would never throw this ball to hurt you. I would never throw this ball to hurt you. It's my love for you. Catch. Hands up at the sign. At the sign. So many people won't respond when God's saying, hey, catch this. God, I'm too old to go through this. You've just never caught it before. Catch this correction. I've got something for you that's better and bigger than what you would. You catch this correction. The way you're talking to your kids is not like me. Just because you got talked to like that. I'm trying to. Yes, they disobeyed, but they did not deserve that language and that attitude. Catch the correction. But I'm supposed to train them. You are training them, okay? They're going to do the same thing you did to your grandbabies because you wouldn't submit. Catch. You ready, big dog? Catch the. Look. She said, me.

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Pastor Mike Todd (74:10)

Me who catch. And so many times in this moment, somebody. You caught it. Okay, now, look, five people went for the same correction. Did you see in that moment they were all reaching for. Because with understanding. When you know it's his love. When God corrects me. When I know it's his love. Y' all ready? Hands up. Y'. All, look. That whole section, that one, that, that. That lady's eyes got so big. She said, please don't throw it at me, Pastor. Please don't throw it at me. What would happen if the whole church was ready? What? What would happen? I know I'm taking a second, but I just need you to see what would happen. What would happen if you were ready? Ah. Nobody's caught it yet, but they tried. Not one time. This is why grace and mercy. This is why we serve God. It's because I may miss it. I may miss it, but the truth of the matter is I haven't thrown one ball of correction. Oh, oh. I may miss it, but I haven't thrown one ball of correction. Hey, listen. Guess who else rejoices when you obey heaven? Guess who else rejoices when you do the will of your father Heaven? I saw a whole section's hands go up because they were willing to catch correction. When your boss comes and tells you you could be on time, uh oh, it just got real. When your person tells you your attitude has been off this week, don't automatically get offended. Could that be the tool when your husband's saying, hey, it just doesn't feel like you're communicating with me. What, you mean you ain't? I ain't commun. Catch. Hands lifted. God, today we need your help, Father. There's so much that is going on, and there's so much we don't understand. And sometimes it feels overwhelming that in the middle of our situation and circumstance, you would still require us to catch correction, Father, whether it's in our attitude, in our conduct, in our character, thank you for the grace that still keeps us in the game, that allows us to have another opportunity to try to catch the things you're trying to teach us. Your word says you only correct those who you love. So today we thank you for your love that sees us in a better version than we are right now. Today we receive your love. Ah, I receive your correction. I thank you that today, Father God, that we won't be overwhelmed. You are the only one who gives us the opportunity to turn right now. And, Father, for some of us who have been running the wrong route for years, today we repent and we come to you and we're asking you, what's the play? What do you want me to run in this Next season? Who do you want me to play on the team with in this next season? What route am I supposed to take for my career, for my children, for my marriage, for my relationship? Father, how do you want me to communicate today, Father? God, I'm letting you call the play and whatever you say, I will obey. And Father, even if it's hard to receive it, I will not be stubborn or prideful in humility. I will catch the correction in the middle of the crash. Out. If you're in this room right now and you know that there have been situations where you have purposely fumbled the season that God has called you in and today you're saying, God, I want to repent. I need you to lift your hands. I want to pray for you right now. Yep. Okay. This is, this is, this is intentionally saying, God, I need you to come help me with this. Father, you see the hands that are in this room and that are lifted online all over the world today. I thank you that the one thing that you cannot refuse is a contrite spirit. A broken heart and a contrite spirit. We are saying right now we missed it, God, and we are turning to you. We're turning away from our ideas. We are saying, not my will, but yours be done. Give us direction, we'll run the place. But Father, I'm thanking you for supernatural rebuilding of things that we broke. Thank you Father, that you can restore the years that our disobedience has stolen. I thank you for mending relationships. I feel your presence, God. I thank you, Father God, for canceling out even the debt monetarily, emotionally that has been created because we've been running the wrong play today, God, we repent and we'll catch the correction. Thank you Lord that we won't be hard headed anymore. Stubborn, defiant. If you said it, we believe it. And if you have to correct us, it's not because you hate us. It's because you see our future. Thank you Lord that you have plans for us. Plans to prosper us and not to harm us, to give us a hope and a future. Thank you that relationships and marriages will be mended because we won't look at each other's correction as an indictment. I thank you that correction from my spouse is just another love letter from God. Let me see them the way you see them, God. I'll no longer have a fence for the messenger, but God, I will receive your message. God's doing surgery on people's hearts right now, y'. All. He's going to start revealing to us areas that he is like, yeah, catch this correction. I want to be altered here at the altar. God, you're gonna have to cut something off. It's not gonna be an ear, but it might be an attitude. I want to be altered here at the altar. Create in me a clean heart. Take me back to the here's my offering. It's me. I wanna be altar here at the altar. Creating me, creating. Give me a clean heart. Take me back to the Here I am, here's my offer. It's me. Just one more time. That's our prayer and take me back. Here's my offering. It's me. God, if you've never received Jesus, listen to me, this is the only way you'll even catch the correction is you have to trust the one who's throwing the path. He's already taken care of your eternity. Let him actually help you live this life. It's the reason he came, according to John, that you have life and life to the full. So today, if you want to receive Jesus, I'm telling you, it's the greatest decision you could ever make. It took me from being a liar, manipulator, addicted to pornography, had so much dark stuff in my heart and it allowed me to see him as the one who knows the direction for my life. I can't keep following them and think that I'm gonna get to where God's called me to be. I need to go back to the creator and the designer. And today he wants a personal relationship with you. We're about to go home. But I didn't preach this whole message so that somebody could go and not have the opportunity to have their life completely transformed by meeting Jesus today. If that's you, on account of three, I just want you to slip your hand up. And if it's for one person, everything that has ever been done to get us to this moment was all worth it. And all of heaven will begin to rejoice because of one person that gave their life to Christ. That's how much he loves you. If you want to receive Jesus, whether you are in this room or watching online in your home right now, rebroadcast in a jail cell. Today is the day of salvation and you've been going the wrong way. And it's time for you to catch this correction or catch this compassion. Cuz his correction is his compassion. And it's moved him so much that before you even said yes to him, he said yes to you. If that's you and you know today is the day of salvation, I Need the church to begin to start praying because eternity is in the balance right now. Today, you are going to be transformed forever. Number one, this is God's day of your transformation. Number two, your name is gonna be written in the Lamb's book of life. And your security is in heaven and in Jesus. Three, if you want to receive Jesus, lift your hand up in the air. I see you, my brother. I see you, my sister. I see the whole row right there. I see you, my man. I see you. Come on, y'. All. I see you, my brother. All the way up. Transformation Church, this is what we celebrate. Put your hands up in the chats. Glory to God. Hey, listen. Hey, listen. You just caught it. Salvation is a free gift that you have to receive. Hands lifted all over this place. We're going home. But this is the best part of the service because heaven's turning up right now, and we are, too. This is the benefit of every believer that you don't have to worry no more. You just have to receive and obey at Transformation Church, we're a family. Everybody prays. Nobody prays alone. So say God, thank you for sending Jesus just for me today. I admit I've sinned and I need a savior. I repent and I turn to you. I believe you live. You died and you rose again with all power so that I could live in freedom. Change me, renew me, transform me. I'm yours forever. In Jesus name, Amen. Hey, can we. Can we celebrate all over this place? We want to say welcome to the family. And if you just made Jesus your Lord and savior, I want you to text save to 828282. And next week, God has given me the. The assignment to release a different word in a different package. And I can't wait for you to be here next week. This Friday, Transformation Worship is releasing a brand new album called Faith in the Fire. This is going to be that music. Pastor Rose, that was a good little jump. The Faith in the Fire. This Friday, I want you to get it. And conference tickets are almost halfway sold out in. In. In. In seven days. Tonight at midnight, the price goes up. We did an early bird special, so if you're planning to come to conference tonight at midnight, the price changes. So we want to tell everybody about that. God's gonna make a way for you to be there. And as we leave here, I just want us to sing that. There's a few people that just need to linger in this presence. If you're watching online, I'm gonna come pray for you. So stay logged in. I just feel like God is gonna allow us to catch some things this week that are gonna change us forever. Amen. Hey, everybody walking out. Turn around. I'm about to throw you the ball. Look, look. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Do you see the response when you have an expectation? What if part of how God loves us is correcting us? You ready for it? Hold on. There it is. Bam. There he got it. Until next week, go out and live a transformed life. We love you so much.

Podcast Host (89:57)

Thank you for joining us today. If you said that prayer and accepted Jesus into your heart, it's the best decision you could ever make. We want to celebrate with you and we have some tools to help you on your journey. Text saved to 828282 and to find out more about TC, text Connect to 828282. Be sure to subscribe and share this podcast with your friends. Thanks for listening. Now go out and live a transformed life.

Pastor Mike Todd (90:24)

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