Sunday Evening Worship Service

Would you give that to the Lord Jesus Christ? He alone is worthy. Come on and bless him. He alone is worthy. Worthy of our praise. Worthy of our adoration. Worthy of our devotion. There's nobody like Jesus. And I love him with all of my heart. And I'm so thankful and so delighted if you would remain standing in honor of reading of the word of the Lord. Again, I honor uh the Mcool family, bishop and first lady. What a treasure you are. It was just a joy to have uh lunch with the Mcool family. And I know this sounds corny, >> >> uh but I told my wife, I was like, "Yo, babe." I said, "They're just cool people." I was like, "The Mcools are just cool." And you all are not just blessed, but you are spoiled. And I know that you know that. And if you're thankful for the leadership of this house, would you give God praise? Pastor, we honor you, First Lady, the entire leadership team. I'm so thankful for each of you. And I'm thankful for each of you. Look at your neighbor and say, "I'm thankful for you." What a beautiful thing the Lord here is doing in Knoxville. Everybody should get in on this. Everybody needs this. All of Knoxville needs what you have. You're the answer. We've got the answer. Praise God. There's room for everybody here. And so I'm so thankful for what the Lord is doing. I want to read a passage of scripture to you out of 2 Corinthians chapter 5, beginning at verse 13. I don't have um my physical Bible on me, which is like a transgression that I usually do not make. Uh but if you would do me a favor, uh I feel at home, so we're going to do this. If you have a physical Bible or a digital Bible, just lift it up in the air and just repeat after me if you don't mind. Here we go. You got it. Say, "I got it." >> Okay, here it is. This is my Bible. >> It is the word of God. >> It is the word of God. >> I can do what it says I can do. >> I can do. >> I can be what it says I can be. >> I can be. >> And I can have what it says I can have. >> I can have. >> Amen. If you believe that, clap your hands unto the Lord. >> >> Praise God. 2 Corinthians chapter 5:13 out of the New King James, it reads, "For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sound mind, it is for you." For the love of Christ, there's something about the love of Christ. The love of Christ compels us because we judged thus that if one died for all, then all died. And he died for all that those who live should no longer live for themselves. But for him who died for them and rose again. Therefore, because of what he just said, from now on we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him thus no longer. Therefore, isn't that amazing? I love the word therefore. If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. Old things have passed away. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Behold, all things have become new. >> Praise God. Let Let me read this to you out of the New Living. I I study New King James, but I read New Living. Watch this. In the New Living, it says it like this. If it seems we are crazy, if it seems we're crazy, it is to bring glory to God. And if we are in our right minds, it's for your benefit. Either way, Christ love controls us. Since we believe that Christ died for all, we also believe that we have all died to our old life. He died for everyone so that those who receive his new life will no longer live for themselves. Instead, they will live for Christ who died and was raised for them. So we have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view. At one time we thought of Christ merely from a human point of view. How differently we know him now. This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone. A new life has begun. And by the help of the Holy Ghost, I want to preach this thought to you this evening. And it's been a while since I've had Sunday evening church. So I'm excited. Praise God. I want to preach, call me crazy. Call me crazy. Look at your neighbor and say, "Call me crazy." Come on. Don't Don't Don't do it if you don't mean it. Look at your other neighbor and grab them by the hand or grab him by the arm and say, "Call me crazy." Praise God. Would you clap your hands unto the Lord and give him praise as you're seated? If you would, that'd be amazing. Praise God. Praise God. Thank you, Jesus. The Lord is good. And we'll just flow. When I I give you a cue, you'll follow me. Praise God. If I don't, we'll just boom. You know, there we go. Praise God. Give it up for my man. Praise the Lord. Crazy is a is a versatile word. I'm I'm an 80s baby. Uh and I I typically enjoy all things ' 80s. But, uh you can use the word today crazy in a lot of different ways. Uh you could watch somebody, for example, you've seen Stephen Curry make some crazy basketball shots. Uh you've seen athletes do some crazy things growing up. Uh my mom, if if I I'll never forget it. My brother, he asked one too many times. We're in the store. You know how uh he's like, "Mom, I want this. I want this." And she was like, "Boy, you must be crazy. Don't make me lose my mind up in here. Don't Don't make me lose my mind. Up in this store, we use the word crazy to describe unusual, irrational, extreme, uh, excessive, unpredictable, things that we consider to be outside of the boundaries of what is normal. I I can remember um it's it's story time. Is story time. All right. Okay. I I had uh I was praying. I I was I had recently come to to know the Lord in my late teens and I was at university and I can remember applying uh for a job at a particular bank because they had tuition reimbursement. You know, student debt is not of the Lord. And so uh debt is not of the Lord. Praise God. Uh but I can remember I said I want to apply uh at this bank and if I can get a job, they'll take care of my tuition. I thought this would be great. and I applied to get into the marketing group and uh the marketing department at that time and I remember the interview went well and you know how interviews go well and you're like man I think I think I'm in a good position Lord just bless me and let this go well and uh it did and they called me back and Tammy McGee I'll never forget it she was like hey Akquille great interview you did really well uh I've got good news and and and and bad news which do you want first and I'm thinking to myself what I was like give me the bad news. Okay. She was like, "The bad news is you didn't get that job." And I thought, "Okay, all right. All right. What's the good news?" And she said, "The good news is I've got the perfect job for you." >> I said, "What is the perfect I'm thinking to myself, man, I don't even have my degree yet, and they want me to be a vice president." I said, I said, "You know, are y'all ready to promote me to CEO already?" She said, "Listen, you didn't get that job, but here is the perfect job for you." And I thought, "What what could that be?" She said, 'We think you would be an amazing security guard. Now, there's nothing wrong with being a security guard. That that was just not what was on my radar. I thought to myself, Tammy, you don't know me really well cuz I'm not chasing anybody else for them taking somebody else's money. Yeah. >> I was like, I'm not I So I I didn't know what that me. So I said, do I get a gun? And she was like, no, no, you don't get a gun, but you do get mace. And I thought, what am I going to do with mace? Like, is there a problem? I spray everybody in this place. We'll be coughing and and hacking because I didn't know what, you know, and I I was kind of discouraged. You know, sometimes uh you pray for stuff and it doesn't go the way you want, you can get discouraged. So, I was kind of moping around. I took the job because I wanted that tuition reimbursement. And so, uh I can remember we had some guys too that I worked with. They were just a little too serious about the job. Uh they were looking for stuff to happen. You know, they anytime you know, you'd be surprised. you work. I mean, there's there's conflicts and relationships and domestic disputes and stuff and anything that happened. I mean, they were like they were just I mean, they were zealous to get all up in stuff. I was not necessarily that guy. I I can remember my dad, I would kind of mope around cuz he would like I said, "Dad, I don't even have an office. I just walk around." And I said, "Man," he said, "Well, where do you spend most of your time?" I was like, "Really? Just walking in the hallways and going by cubicles and making sure stuff is good." He said, 'Why don't you stop moping? And uh he said, 'Why don't you start hanging out where all the executives are? I said, ' Okay, okay, well, I'll listen. And I So, I went and I began to just hang out on the second floor. That's where the CEO was, the CFO, the COO, uh the regional presidents. And I began to just uh walk by them and see them a lot. And we started talking about sports. And I knew where they went to university. And you know, I would be cheering for their team. And they get on elevators and everybody else would kind of get tight and they would talk to me. like, "Hey, Akquil, it's good to see you. How are things going?" And I just spent time there. And wouldn't you know it, Bishop, they they the uh the director of marketing came up to me one day and she said, "What are you doing being a security guard?" I said, "Linda, I'm wondering the same thing." She said, "Come see me on Monday. I want to talk to you about a job." And so I thought, okay, well, I mean, I'm I don't know what what the job is, but I'm just thinking to myself, I was trying to get in marketing. And so I sat down, I met with her, and we just we just had a conver we didn't even talk about the job. We just had a conversation. And she said, uh, when can you start? And I thought, well, what will I be doing? I mean, I was excited, but she said, oh, well, I'm going to have you do this and that. And I thought, is this how this works? It it really does matter who you know. it m and and and from that point forward the Lord just began to accelerate my career and and give me promotion and then uh one day you know you kind of have your dream job. I wanted to be a corporate banker. I was in acquisitions at the time had managed wealth been on the retail side the corporate side had gone through a lot of different spaces and places manage markets. Anyway uh I'm there and this guy the director of commercial bank uh banking comes in. He says uh we want you to consider this job. Well, I've had this conversation a lot of times now by this point. He said, "I want you to consider this job. Uh, we'll talk to you next week." And I looked at the requisition. Uh, and it the description was great. I knew it. And more importantly, I was focused on the compensation. And I thought to myself, this was early 2000s. I thought, "Oh, I said, we in the money, Jesus. Praise God." I thought, "This is great. I'm going to be making, you know, north of $250,000. And uh I'm just I thought finally f I'm a utilitarian when it comes to vehicles. I said, "Finally, I'm gonna get a 7 series BMW and I'm going to pay cash for it. That's what I'm going to do." And I'm shouting and I'm just I'm I'm serious. Y'all think I'm just shouting, have a little praise break, a a a reserved praise break, but a praise break right in the conference room. And I'm just, "Thank you, Jesus. We go." And I said, "You done it again." And the Lord spoke to me and he said, "Resign." I was like, "Not that, that must not be the Lord." I was like, "Get behind me, Satan." I was like, "Not today, devil. Not today. Not today." I wish I could tell you that I resigned. I didn't. I didn't. N within 90 days, like all of the favor that the Lord had given me was slipping through my fingers. I was being accused of all kinds of stuff. The regional president called me in his office. He said, "Akle, what is going on?" And I I said, "Dave, I don't have a clue." And the Lord spoke to me again. He said, "I told you to resign. You will not return to secular employment." I THOUGHT, "WHAT in the world are we going to do? My wife is at home with the kids." I was like, "What are my options?" But I knew I had to resign. and nobody would understand it. I went to my director. I said, "Listen, uh, I'm crying. I'm crying at this point." Uh, and she said, "What's wrong?" She was like, "Is everything okay? Did something happen to your family?" And I was like, "I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm resigning. I'm crying." And she's like, "You are?" She starts crying. She's like, "Why are you resigning?" I'm like, "Cuz God told me to." She was like, "He did?" I was like, "Yes." She's like, "What are you going to do?" I was like, "I don't have a clue. Here here I am uh for for 90 days after that I wasn't working. I didn't tell my pastor. I didn't know if somebody just going to come and give me like a million dollar check and say go start full-time ministry. I had no clue, you know. I had no clue, you know, what was going to happen. And so here I am uh and my my pastor wanted me to go, "Oh, this is I didn't even thought about this. This is a bread and cheese assignment. This my pastor said, "Hey, we have this preacher coming in. I want you to go pick him up." And uh I said, "Oh, sure. Sure, Bishop. I'll do whatever you want me to do." Uh but I told my wife this. I said, "I'M GONNA PICK HIM UP, but I feel like something spooky is going to happen." I said, "I ain't in all that spooky stuff." So, uh I said, "You know what? We not going to talk about anything spiritual. Can you imagine a young man of God saying, "You don't want to talk about anything spiritual?" She was like, "Boy, you crazy." And I was like, "Yeah, but that's just where I'm at." So I picked the man up and here's what I pick him up. We're three minutes from the hotel. We didn't talk about anything spiritual. And I said to myself, "Yes, no spiritual conversation." The nancond I said that to myself, that man turned and looked at me and said, "Thus sayaith the Lord." You think you've been called to be a banker in the natural, but the Lord used it as training ground to develop you to be a banker in the spirit. and he's deposited things in you for people who are spiritually and emotionally bankrupt. And by this time, I'm crying like a wild man. I'm crying and we're driving. HE'S LIKE, "MY GOD, BOY, YOU GOING TO KILL US." He was like, "You got more confidence in THESE PEOPLE DRIVING OPPOSITE TRAFFIC than you do God." And I was like, "You're right. You're right. You're right." And so here then it gets even crazier. He says later that night, he knows nothing. HE'S NEVER MET ME. THIS WAS PREF FACEBOOK. WE TALKING ABOUT MYSPACE. Y'ALL don't know nothing about that. You don't know nothing about a MySpace. So, he calls me in the office after calls me in my pastor's office. He said, "Um, uh, have a seat." I was like, "Oh, I'm good. I'm good." He was like, "Sit down." I was like, "You got a little bit much bass in your voice there." I was like, "Yeah, a little too much bass in your voice, sir." But I I had a seat. He said, "The Lord is done with so and so bank." Now, at this point in time, this was the fourth largest bank in the country for from an assets perspective. HE SAID, "THE LORD IS DONE." HE DIDN'T THE LORD TOLD HIM WHAT I WORKED FOR. HE SAID, "THE LORD IS DONE WITH SUCH AND SUCH BANK." I said, "What do you mean?" HE SAID, "YOU heard me." He said, "The Lord raised that bank up to bless you and to bless his kingdom. He's taken his hand off of that bank." Within less than six months, that bank had a government required buyout. went completely under. He said, "DO YOU THINK THIS BANK IS YOUR EMPLOYER?" GOD IS YOUR EMPLOYER. >> HE SAID, "GOD IS YOUR OH, I FEEL THE HOLY GHOST. I I don't know why the Lord wanted me to share this, but we about to step into something because God is calling some people into some supernatural territory where you're about to do some things that are not necessarily going to line up. Now, let me be clear. You want to stay submitted to your spiritual leadership and you want to be in alignment with the word of the Lord. But there is a call that is going out where God is beckoning you to get beyond the ordinary TO STEP OUTSIDE OF the normal. And when you begin to trust him, God's going to do something supernatural in your life. If you believe that, give him praise. I wish I had time to tell you. I wish I had time to tell you this. I don't. I'mma preach this, but you need to understand the Lord spoke to me. He said, "If I have to SEND STRANGERS TO GIVE INTO YOUR BOSOM, I'LL DO IT." I've literally been sent on cruises, THREE ALL PAID FOR. CARS HAVE BEEN GIVEN TO ME. I HAD A STRANGER ONE TIME COME UP TO ME AND SAID, "MAN, God bless you." I was getting on the elevator and uh he said, "God bless you." Open it up. It was a blank check for $10,000. The Lord is MY PROVIDER. AND I SHARE that because what I want you TO UNDERSTAND IS GOD IS CALLING US BEYOND THE NORMAL. WHAT IS CONSIDERED NORMAL? WHO GETS TO DECIDE WHAT NORMAL IS? >> IN TODAY'S WORLD, THE LINE BETWEEN WHAT IS CONSIDERED NORMAL AND WHAT IS CRAZY HAS BECOME BLURRED. SOCIETAL norms are rapidly uh they're shifting rapidly often in ways that directly CONTRADICT THE VALUES OF the kingdom and the principles of the word of God. In today's day AND AGE, HUMILITY can look crazy in a world that's full of self-absorption AND SELF-PROMOTION. PURITY CAN LOOK CRAZY IN A WORLD WHERE PEOPLE ARE CONSUMED WITH SELF-GRATIFICATION. GENEROSITY CAN LOOK CRAZY IN A WORLD THAT SAYS just get more and more and more and more. FORGIVENESS LOOKS CRAZY IN A CANCEL CULTURE WORLD. BUT CAN I TELL YOU THE KINGDOM WILL ALWAYS LOOK INSANE TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE ACCEPTED A BROKEN DEFINITION OF NORMAL. WHY IN THE WORLD IF THE CULTURE IS CONFUSED? Conformity then TO THE CULTURE IS NOT PROOF OF SANITY. You and I have GOT TO UNDERSTAND THE APOSTLE PAUL. HE ADDRESSES SOMETHING HERE. HE ACKNOWLEDGES THAT DEVOTION to God might appear irrational to other people. He essentially says, "IF IT LOOKS LIKE we've lost our minds, it's for God." Paul understood that there are dimensions of devotion that will never make sense to people who do not understand what has happened to you. In other words, people have always uh told me, "Oh, you you you do a little much. You you you're a little too passionate. You you you you always doing the most." And for a little while, CAN I TELL YOU THAT BOTHERED ME BECAUSE I WANTED TO FIT IN. I WANTED TO BE ACCEPTED. THERE WAS A TIME WHERE THAT USED TO BOTHER ME. BUT NOW, I'M NOT INTERESTED IN blending in. WHEN YOU'VE TASTED HIS GRACE, WHEN YOU'VE BEEN FILLED WITH HIS SPIRIT. WHEN YOUR SINS HAVE BEEN WASHED AWAY. WHEN YOU KNOW WHERE YOU WERE BEFORE HE FOUND YOU. >> >> WHEN YOU KNOW HIS MERCY KEPT YOU, WHEN YOU KNOW HE DELIVERED YOU, YOU LOSE INTEREST in being palatable. >> Oh, help me, Holy Ghost. YOU LOSE INTEREST IN BEING UNDERSTOOD. PEOPLE CAN TELL YOU THAT YOU'RE CRAZY. CAN I JUST MAKE A DECLARATION? IF THEY GOING TO THINK WE LOST OUR EVER LIVING MINDS, WE MIGHT AS WELL LET THEM KNOW I AM CRAZY FOR JESUS. YOU NEED TO READ YOUR BIBLE. JESUS, HIS OWN FAMILY SAID HE WAS MAD. >> RIGHT THERE IN MARK CHAPTER 3, THEY THOUGHT HE WAS OUT OF HIS MIND. THEY SAID THE SAME. FESUS SAID TO PAUL, HE SAID, "PAUL, you really need to chill. All this learning is making YOU MAD BECAUSE YOU DON'T TALK LIKE THE WORLD TALKS. BECAUSE YOU WANT TO GO TO CHURCH ON A SUNDAY NIGHT. BECAUSE YOU WANT TO LIVE GENEROUSLY. BECAUSE YOU WANT TO LIVE A SANCTIFIED LIFE. BECAUSE YOU NO LONGER WANT TO GET HIGH. BECAUSE YOU HATE SIN. BECAUSE YOU'VE DECIDED TO SAVE YOURSELF FOR MARRIAGE. BECAUSE YOU NO LONGER WANT TO DRINK ALCOHOL. YOU DON'T BECAUSE YOU WANT TO WORSHIP WITH EVERYTHING THAT YOU HAVE. THEY WANT TO CALL THAT CRAZY. WELL, I'VE GOT NEWS FOR THEM. CALL ME CRAZY. I'M A HOLY GHOST FILILLED, TONGUE-TALKING, BAPTIZED IN JESUS' NAME, DEVIL CHASING. CALL ME CRAZY. AND IT, YOU KNOW WHAT'S INTERESTING? This is This is crazy. Isn't it strange? I could go out right now in downtown Knoxville, which is beautiful. I could I could go out there and get some crystals, fold my legs up like this, put little crystals around, get some candles. Nobody would say anything. Oh, they were like, "Oh, that's that's normal. Doesn't bother anybody. You can go get piercings all over your place. places we we got people and I ain't throwing no shade but people getting piercings in places we won't even discuss and that's normal. We got people getting tattoos of teardrops on their face. I'm looking and you know we got tattoos all over the place. And I ain't throwing no shade because you know what? I ain't always living for the Lord. I got a tattoo. But you know what? We look at people who are covered and we it's not it's not only normal. You know what we say that's art. We we we we have men and women who are having multiple affairs, destroying their families, but it's okay because they can pursue their happiness. I can get high on drugs and alcohol and go from bedroom to bedroom and HOOK UP WITH PEOPLE THAT I DON'T EVEN KNOW AND it's normal. This is interesting. BUT THE MOMENT I DECIDE THAT I'M GOING TO LIVE for Jesus Christ, I'm unbalanced. >> THE MOMENT I GET RADICAL ABOUT REACHING SOMEBODY, THEY THINK I'VE GONE TOO FAR. THE MOMENT I DECLARE THAT JESUS HEALS BECAUSE he was wounded for my transgressions, bruised for my iniquities, AND THE CHASTISEMENT OF MY PEACE WAS UPON HIM, AND BY HIS STRIPES, WE ARE HEALED, I'M DOING TOO MUCH. THE MOMENT I DECIDE TO GIVE GOD AND INVEST IN HIS KINGDOM, I'M UNBALANCED. BUT HEAR ME, THE WORLD DOESN'T CARE ABOUT YOUR DEVOTION. IT ONLY GETS UNCOMFORTABLE WHEN YOUR DEVOTION BELONGS TO JESUS CHRIST. >> OH, help me, HOLY GHOST. THEY'RE NOT BOTHERED BY YOUR OBSESSION. THEY'RE ONLY BOTHERED WHEN JESUS IS THE OBJECT OF YOUR OBSESSION. >> YOU DON'T NEED THE WORLD TO UNDERSTAND YOUR OBEDIENCE BEFORE God can honor it. >> Somebody ought to give him praise. Somebody ought to give him praise. What is the Holy Ghost doing right now? What is the Holy Ghost? He's calling you out. He's calling you out of normal. Some of you know right now you're walking in the routine, the mundane, the ordinary. And that is not where you are supposed to reside. I've come in the Holy Ghost in an assignment to evict you out of the routine. >> I've come TO EVICT YOU OUT OF THE MUNDANE. I've come to declare to you that God wants to do something supernatural through you. Through you. THROUGH YOU. YES. THROUGH YOU. NOTHING ORDINARY, NOTHING ROUTINE. He wants TO DO THE SUPERNATURAL THROUGH YOU. >> If you believe that, you ought to give him praise. ALL I NEED IS ONE PERSON. ALL I NEED IS ONE who will take him at his WORD AND UNDERSTAND. YES, I'LL NO LONGER BE SANE. I'LL NO LONGER DO THINGS ACCORDING TO MY UNDERSTANDING. I'LL WALK BY. SEE, this is how this is how we we've got we've normalized the Don't be mad at me. >> We've normalized an anemic Christianity. >> We we we've normalized this this this people coming in one way and leaving the same way they came. >> We we've we've normalized that. That's not normal. No, no, no, no. You you you can't come into the presence of Jesus Christ and leave the same way you came. >> You can't come into a place like this, people full of the Holy Ghost, and know the name of Jesus and have been sanctified when they begin to bless them. You can't come and not feel nothing. No, it's this kind of environment where chains fall off. It's this kind of environment where people are set free. It's this kind of environment where deliverance happens. I know y'all ain't SEEN IT IN A WHILE, BUT IT'S THIS KIND OF ATMOSPHERE WHERE PEOPLE RUN TO THE altar and they they THROW WEED ON THE ALTAR. THEY THROW CRACK PIPES ON THE ALTAR. THEY OH, Y'ALL NOT GOING TO HELP ME. I'M TELLING YOU, WE WE'RE IN AN ATMOSPHERE THAT GOD CAN DELIVER. GOD CAN HEAL. God can set. But here's what we do here. Be seated for a minute. Praise God. You know what? Here's what we do. We'll preach that and what he said. Isn't it crazy? We'll be more excited about sports. I'm talking to myself. You know what? I remember one time I'm a Washington Commanders at this time. They were known as the Washington Redskins. I'm a fan. And uh we hadn't been to the playoffs in a long time. And so we had our our glory days were when Joe Gibbs was the coach and we had the Hogs and we had the Three Amigos and it was just wild. And we hadn't seen something happen in a while. So, he came back to coach for a second stent. We had made the playoffs. Mark Brunell was our quarterback. I'll never forget it. And we had made the playoffs and uh my wife was like, uh, we had been married a few years, had some kids, and I said, "I'm I'm going to watch the game." She had never seen me watch a game before cuz I ain't had nothing to cheer about. So, I'm like this. I mean, she's she's like she I was like, now when I watch the game, I said, "Babe, there's certain things that I need." I was like, one, I got to have the right eats, you know? I gota got to have the right food. And I'm I'm locked in pregame. I'm I'm I'm like I'm walking around like I'm in the locker room. Let's go, boys. We going to get them. We going to get him. It's game time. And then we I'm getting frustrated because uh we getting beat pretty bad. And uh I'm I'm I'm yelling and I'm screaming. SHE'S LIKE, "MY GOD." SHE'S LIKE, "GET OUT OF HERE." SHE'S LIKE, "GO IN THE BEDROOM AND WATCH the game. You scaring me and the kids." She's like, "You're hitting your chest so HARD YOU'RE GOING TO GIVE YOURSELF A HEART ATTACK." SO, I go in the I go in my room and we down uh 13- nothing. And before you know it, we uh they the team just scored. They kick off and Santana Moss does what it does. And we It's a touchdown at 1377. I'm screaming. I'm going crazy. I'M LIKE, "THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. Let's go." Well, we get a we get a turnover and next thing you know, we going in the half. 1413. We up. I'm screaming. I'm flipping the bed mattress. I'm doing all kind of stuff. Well, somebody knocks on the door like but they knock like really loud like like they own the place. So I wasn't like hey who is it? I was like who is it? And they were like Henriiko police. So I was like Henriiko police. My wife is there. So we open the door. He's like hey how y'all doing? I was like we doing fine. He was like is everything okay? I was like, "Yeah." Sarah was like, "Yeah, my kids are like And he was like, "Uh, miss, is everything okay?" I was like, "What you asking her for?" I was like, "If something is going down, we all need to leave." I was like I was like, "Yeah, everything is okay." He was like, "I'm not talking to you." I was like, "I know. That's the problem." I was like, "I want to know what's going on." He said, "Sir," he said, "Miss, is everything okay? She was like, "Uh, yeah." He's like, "Are you sure?" She was like, "Um, I am sure." He's like, "Okay." He was like, "I don't know what's going on." He said, "We got a call of a domestic dispute." And we like, "A domestic dispute here? Somebody, one of our neighbors call." He said, "Yes, sir." I said, "Who was it?" He said, "I can't tell you that." I said, "Man, I don't want I said, and then it hit me. I said, "I don't know." I SAID, "OH, MAN. I'm watching the game." He said, "The football?" HE SAID, "MAN, I'VE BEEN LISTENING TO IT IN THE CAR." HE WAS LIKE, "WE UP." I SAID, "I KNOW, MAN." THAT'S WHAT IT WAS. I WAS SO EXCITED. IF I CAN GET THAT EXCITED ABOUT A FOOTBALL GAME, >> you think I'm a sit back and give God a golf clap? You think I'mma GO LIKE, YOU THINK THAT'S ALL I'M GOING TO GIVE HIM? There we go. All it takes IS ONE. ALL IT TAKES IS ONE. I'LL RUN. I'LL JUMP. I'LL DANCE. I'LL SHOUT. I'LL HOLLER. I'LL CRY. I'LL SCREAM. WHY? BECAUSE HE IS WORTHY. SOMEBODY OUGHT TO BLESS HIM. SOMEBODY OUGHT TO GIVE HIM GLORY. SOMEBODY OUGHT TO GIVE HIM A CRAZY PRAISE. SOMEBODY OUGHT TO GIVE HIM A CRAZY PRAISE. THAT'S A CUTE PRAISE. BUT IS THERE SOMEBODY THAT'LL give See, we're getting there. We're getting there. I This is how I was raised. I I wasn't raised in this, but I was raised by a 75year-old southern bell. Uh I was 18 at the time. She had some injuries and she she had a mobile assistance device just like my girl right here. But you know what? She had a spirit just like my girl right here. Would get him from praise. But she she couldn't get around as good. I'm talking about one of them church mamas that'll cook for you. And when they cook for you, uh, they'll be like, "Baby, you you had you' already had one plate." And like, "Baby, that ain't enough. You need to eat a little bit more." I'm like, I'm like, "Boo, I'm good." She like, "No, no, no. Have some more cornbread and some greens and some roast and some mashed potatoes." And then she pat me on me on my head and she was like, "It's good, isn't it, babe?" You know them church mas, they know they can cook. They know it's good. It's good, isn't it, baby? You like, "Yeah, mama. It's good." She would say, "You know what?" She would say, "Man, I love the way you worship. I love the way you praise God." She said, "I I can't I can't get around like that uh anymore." She said, "I I can stand up a little bit and do this." She said, "You know what? Next time this Sunday," she said, "I want you to take a lap for me." >> See, it's interesting. WE HAVE MORE ACCESS to more stuff today. We We're more connected than we've ever been. Got more money than we've ever had. Supposedly allegedly got more DISPOSABLE TIME. GO BACK TO BISHOP MCOOL'S DAY. >> MY MAN WOULD GET HE WOULD HITCHHIKE AND PREACH AT 11 AND 12 YEARS OLD. >> YES, SIR. >> COME INTO THESE THIS BRUSH ARBOR MEETINGS, THESE 10 MEETINGS. THEY AIN'T HAVE NOTHING. PEOPLE DEPRESSED, economically depressed, GOING THROUGH IT, but always had a praise. >> ALWAYS HAD JOY. I AIN'T TALKING ABOUT HAPPINESS BECAUSE HAPPINESS IS PREDICATED UPON WHAT HAPPENS. I'M TALKING ABOUT JOY. THIS JOY THAT GOD HAS GIVEN ME. IS THERE ANYBODY THAT HAS JOY? YOU'LL PRAISE HIM EVEN THOUGH YOU MIGHT NOT FEEL WELL. YOU'LL PRAISE HIM EVEN THOUGH YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE MONEY IN THE BANK. YOU'LL PRAISE HIM EVEN THOUGH YOU MIGHT HAVE JUST GOT IN AN ARGUMENT WITH YOUR SPOUSE. WHY WILL YOU PRAISE HIM? YOU'LL PRAISE HIM ACCORDING TO >> NOT ACCORDING TO HOW YOU FEEL. HEAR ME. HEAR ME? Don't you ever Don't you ever praise them according to how you feel. >> Now, now today in church, thank God we ain't got to do this at FAC. Other churches, they got to pump you up. >> Boy, you got to had an organ. You got to have people on the keyboard. You got to have a drum druming and you got to go and you got to have people hooping. And we got to do all that just to get people to stand up and magnify God. >> No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. We praise him here at FAC according to his excellent greatness. And as LONG AS HE IS GOD AND I AM WHO I AM, I WILL GIVE him help. Fast. I WILL GIVE HIM PRAISE. I WILL SHOUT UNTO GOD WITH A VOICE OF TRIUMPH. I WILL BLESS HIS SOMEBODY OUGHT TO GIVE him praise. Somebody ought to bless him. I know it's embarrassing, BUT IT WON'T BE EMBARRASSING WHEN THE PRISON DOORS OPEN. IT WON'T BE EMBARRASSING THEN. IT WON'T I KNOW IT'S UNCOMFORTABLE. HEAR ME. BUT IT WON'T BE UNCOMFORTABLE WHEN SOMEBODY'S HEALED. IT WON'T BE UNCOMFORTABLE WHEN SOMEBODY'S FILLED. SOMEBODY OUGHT TO BLESS HIM. SOMEBODY OUGHT TO GIVE HIM PRAISE. YOUR PRAISE WILL PULL SOMEBODY OUT. YOUR PRAISE WILL PULL SOMEBODY OUT. I I SAID YOUR PRAISE WILL PULL. YOUR PRAISE HAS POWER. SOMEBODY GIVE HIM A CRAZY PRAISE. OKAY, [panting] let's get the drummer. Praise God. Okay. who get give get me a drummer. Get me a basist. Tell him to come on. He said, "Bring them all. Bring them all." Okay, I'mma help me. So, watch this. I was at home and can I just There's another story. The Lord told me I love loud music. So, he said I was at home by myself, Bishop. I knew that I I turned the uh the music No, the Lord said, "Turn the music up." I said, "Lord, I can do that." I turned the music up. He said, "I want you to shout hallelujah as loud as you can." So, the first thing I did, I didn't do that. The first thing I did was I went to go see who was home and I knew I was by myself. I was like this. Uh, went up the steps. I was like, "Mom, you home? I ain't hear nothing." I was like, "Khal, Camila, y'all home? Ain't hear anything. Come back down to my room. The Lord is waiting on me." He's like, "Mhm." >> He's like, "You know why you didn't do it when I told you to do it?" And I was acting like, "No, Lord." What? He was like, "Pride." >> Yeah. Pride. I was by myself and I was let can I tell you it's only you against you >> what if I told you you are the only thing stopping you from having crazy faith >> crazy faith doesn't mean you always get what you want maybe it gives you the ability to tap into a grace that will sustain you. >> Okay, so the Lord said, "Here's what we do." The Lord said, "I want you to shout hallelujah." And so I was like this, "Hallelujah." Expecting the glory to come. That's what we do. You know, you always got some people who run and jump in the pool, but then you got some people that are like this. Is it cold? And you're like, they're like, "Oo, it's cold. It's cold." And the friends out there having a good time. They're like, "Come on." And you're like, "I'm coming." and they they they splashing you AND YOU'RE LIKE, MAN, DON'T GET ME WET. LIKE, why am I at the pool? Don't get me wet. Some of us kind of got that mindset. We want to watch everybody else praise. Oh, help me, Holy Ghost. Help me. So, I was like this. Hallelujah. Getting a little louder. Take another step in the pool. Hallelujah. And the Lord was like, I'm really ready when you're ready. So, I just decided I was going to throw caution to the wind and humble myself. So, YOU KNOW WHAT I DID? HALLELUJAH. When I screamed with EVERYTHING THAT I HAD, THE GLORY OF GOD BEGIN TO FILL THAT. HONEY, YOU BETTER OPEN UP YOUR MOUTH AND SHOUT UNTO GOD WITH A VOICE of triumph. You ought to shout. You ought to shout. I said YOU OUGHT TO SHOUT. YOU OUGHT to You better do it. Open up your Open your mouth and shout unto God with a voice. See, see. Oh, help me. Watch. So, the Lord, the glory of God began to fill that place. I I had never encountered the glory of God like that before. And I I didn't know what to do. And I I DIDN'T GROW UP IN CHURCH. SO THE LORD WAS LIKE, "I WANT YOU TO DANCE under me. I love dancing when I was in the world." So pastor Nathan, first thing I did, I was like, I was I was over there hitting the kitten play. I was like, "This for you, Jesus." And the Lord the Lord is like, "Chill." He said, "I I'm going to help you here." He said, "I want you to dance unto me and not be worried about whether or not you're on beat, you're on Q." He said, "I want you to offer me a dance." So, you know what? I begin to I begin to just I just figured out I'm just bouncing like this a little bit. I'm lifting my hands and next thing I know I'm doing this and I'm I'm spinning and I'm shouting and I'm dancing and I'm singing and while I'm doing that shackles are falling off of me. While I'm doing that the scales are coming off of my eyes and I'm seeing his glory in a way that I hadn't seen it. His grace is beginning to touch me in a NEW WAY. AND GOD WAS HELPING ME UNDERSTAND SOMETHING. YOU'VE GOT TO get this in YOUR SPIRIT. SOMETIMES HEAVEN'S STRATEGY WILL LOOK LIKE INSANITY to those who only operate in earthly logic. >> What did HE TELL JEHOSHAPHAT? WE GOING TO GO TO WAR. WE GOING TO WAR. BUT HERE'S WHAT I WANT YOU TO DO. GET ME SOME PRAISE SINGERS. Get me some praisers. Get me some worshippers. AND THAT'S WHO'S GOING TO GO INTO THE BATTLE FIRST. >> YOU KNOW WHY? BECAUSE GOD NEEDS SOME PEOPLE WHO CAN USHER in his presence. >> DO I HAVE ANYBODY WHO WANTS TO USHER IN THE GLORY of the Lord? The Lord IS READY TO FIGHT YOUR BATTLES. HE'LL FIGHT YOUR BATTLES FOR YOU IF you begin to pray. His glory will step in. HIS POWER WILL STEP IN. His victory will step. Okay. I wasn't sure how this is going to go, but we're going to sing. We're going to worship. And I'm going to not try to trip over a monitor. Praise God. Here, I'll never forget this. I'm going to show you. I'm going to show you the power of praise and how this place is about to pop off. We're about to operate in the prophetic. I can already feel it. Deita, we're about to step into something. Lift your hands here. Lift your hands and begin to worship him. Lift your hands and begin to bless him. Come on. Come on. Come on. That's it. Begin to exalt him. Deita. Come on. That's it. That's it. It's happening. It's happening. day. Praise God. Praise God. Thank you, Jesus. Okay. I was driving to Starbucks. I like what my girl is doing here. She took her shoes off. Y'all not ready for that kind of church. >> Y'all not ready for that. I used to You ain't have good church until YOU HAVE TO COME BY AND PICK UP BOBBY PINS. Shoes all over the place. PRAISE GOD. TIES ON THE FLOOR, TIE CLIPS LOST because people help us, Holy Ghost. So, I go to Starbucks and I have my subwoofers and I had on and the music was playing and the Lord said, "Leave the music up loud." While I went into Starbucks, he said, "Turn it up. Keep the windows down." I said, "Okay, Lord." So, I went into Starbucks was playing loud music. Come here, my brother, real quick. So, uh, he's going to be me right now. Okay. Praise God. Praise God. just the head isn't as big, but just go with it. Praise God. Okay. All right. So, he's at Starbucks, right? And uh he left the car. The music is playing while I I feel somebody behind me, right? Like like like like right up on me like breathing down my neck. So this guy turns around and he's like in my face like this. He's like face all red. He was like, "Is that your car out there?" Yeah. He was like, "Ned." Tears started streaming down his face. He said, "I haven't heard music like that in years. We in Starbucks." He said, "I'm backsliding and I need to come to God." Not only did I teach him a Bible study and we prayed with Mark and prayed Mark through. Come to find out, I worked with Mark's sister, REBECCA. TAUGHT REBECCA A BIBLE STUDY. ALL BECAUSE I WAS WILLING TO STEP OUTSIDE OF THE normal and do something THAT EVERYBODY ELSE THOUGHT WAS CRAZY. I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE ABOUT TO STEP INTO. SOMEBODY ELSE MIGHT THINK IT'S CRAZY. I CALL IT PAIN. SO, here's what we going to do. WE GOING TO GIVE GOD a radical praise. Now, I want to be clear. I'm not going to coax you. I'm not going to cajol you. I'm not going to beg you. I'm not going to plead for you with you. This is A ONETIME. I'm going to absolutely go all in cannonball type pray. I'm not going to be cute with it. I'm not going to wait till I'm not going to wait for somebody else to take off. I'm going to do it. Are you ready? Are you ready TO GIVE GOD THE CRAZIEST, MOST RADICAL PRAISE YOU CAN GIVE HIM? Somebody's getting it. Are we ready? We ready? We ready. Praise team. This is it. Glory. Glory. >> Glory. Hallelujah. This is what >> This is what we do. >> We're going to tear down the chain. >> Find the devil. >> In Jesus name. >> Tonight we >> come on and say glory. Hallelujah. >> Hallelujah. >> This is what we come to do. >> Tear down break. >> Find the devil. the devil in Jesus name >> tonight. >> Tonight >> we are to shra. >> Come on and praise him. >> Praise him. >> What the Lord is. >> Praise him. >> Praise him. >> Praise him. Praise him. >> Praise him. >> Praise him. >> >> Praise him. >> Praise him. >> Praise him. >> Oh, tonight >> you got it right. Tear down. >> Tear them down by the devil. >> The devil in Jesus name. >> Tonight we will praise him. >> Hallelujah. >> You're worthy of my praise. >> You deserve my praise. Praise him. >> Praise him. >> Praise him. >> Praise him. Praise him. >> Praise him. Praise him. Tonight. >> Tonight we are say tonight we got to praise. I got to praise and I got to let it out. I got a praise. >> I got I got a praise. I got I got a praise. And I got to let it out. >> I got to I got to praise. I got to praise and I got to let it out. I got to praise. >> One more time. >> I got to praise. I got to praise and I got to let it out. I got to praise. >> Okay, now here here's what I found out being in Toronto. It's a incredibly diverse city. So, we have probably eight different African nations in Extraordinary Church. We've got a ton of European nations and Latin American nations. Uh you you name it. One of the things that they do differently than what we'll do in American culture is they'll grab a dance partner. You need to link up with somebody that's going to help you give him praise. Now, you might be thinking, "Well, is that biblical?" Just read about Paul and Silas. All you got to do is link up with somebody, guy to guy, lady to lady, and you need to look at them and say, "Tonight, come on. Tonight, WE WE GOT a right to shake the foundations with praise." So I want you to join with me and dance and shout. Bless him. Come on and put a praise on him. Come on and put a dance on it. He is worthy. He is worthy. He is worthy. He is He is He is worthy. Glory. Hallelujah. This is what we stronghold. Break the chain by the devil. >> The devil in Jesus name. >> Tonight. >> Tonight. We got to sh him. Come on. Praise him. Hallelujah. Praise him. Praise him. Praise him. Hallelujah. Praise him. Praise him. Praise him. Praise him. Tonight we are alive to sh. He's worthy of this praise. He's worthy of this praise. He's worthy. I got to praise. I got to praise. I got to let it out. Go. I got to praise. I got to praise. I got to praise. I got to I got to I got to praise. I got to praise. I'm going to praise. I'm going to praise. I'm going to praise. I got to let it out. I got to praise. I got to praise him. I got to praise. I got to praise and I got to let it out. I got to praise. Hallelujah. I got to praise God. I got to praise. I got to let it out. I got to praise. >> >> Last time tonight. Tonight we got a right. Tonight we got a right. Tonight we come on. Tonight we shake to shake the foundation with Come on and do it. Shake the foundation. Shake the foundations. Shake the foundations with your praise. Shake the foundations. Bind the devil. Bind every bind the devil. Shake the foundations. Rattle the gates of hell. Let them know I bind every effort. I bind every opposition. I bind every spirit of depression. I bind it. THE BIBLE SAYS, "WHATSOEVER YOU BIND on earth shall be bound in heaven. Whatever you loose on earth shall be I I loose joy. I loose peace. I loose the kingdom righteousness. You have to We going We going to make a hard right turn. Let me tell you why. We're going to make a hard right turn. Because this, the Lord spoke this to my spirit. And I know you might feel like, Lord, why? Why the hard right turned? It's because he couldn't do what he needed to do with carnal flesh being prevalent. You do understand that the Bible says God gives grace to the humble. But he opposes resist means arrest the proud. But now let me just tell you humility is I have an elder I call him prophet. He always tells me, he says, "Humility is the maintenance program for the soul. Your victory, hear me, and your healing, your deliverance is about to ride in on your humility." Some of you have just stepped into something and you don't realize your humility is about to bring about healing in your spirit. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Deita. Come on. Come on. Come on. There's I'm not talking about a physical healing right now. The Lord told me there are broken hearts and wounded spirits in this house that are about to be healed. And if you don't know it, a broken heart can last a whole lot longer and wreak a whole lot more havoc than a broken ankle. day. Oh, day. Come on. We're just going to flow in this for just another moment. Then I'm going to give directionita. >> >> Come on. Some of you haven't help felt this kind of refreshing in a long time. You're experiencing something deep right now. Come on. He's filling you and renewing you, reviving you. Your joy is being restored right now in the midst of a most difficult season for some of you. Your joy is being restored. Come on. He's welcome here to have his way. Come on. Don't you see what the Holy Ghost is doing? Don't you feel what he's doing? Yeah. My God. My God. My God. My God. Come on. We're right there. It's spilling over. It's spilling over. It's spilling over. sweeping all over this place. You're welcome here. Come and have your way. Come and have your way. >> Your glory, God, is what I long for to be overcome. >> >> Come on. What's happening right now? People are being healed. People are being healed. People are being healed. People are being healed in this place right now. Listen, you have no idea what some of your babies are dealing with with the mental health struggles that they're dealing with. God is touching their minds right now. There are marriages here, I'm not I'm saying there are marriages here that are going through a difficult time and they don't know how to navigate that. They're frustrated and thinking about giving UP. IT WOULD SHOCK YOU. BUT GOD IS HEALING. Your glory, God, is what I long for. Okay. The Lord has given me some direction. Here's what we're going to do. I feel a few things are going to happen. The Lord wants to begin to do a healing work in your home. I want every married man here with your wife that's here. I just want every married man to lift their hand. I want to know who I'm talking to. Every married man. Praise God. Okay. Thank you, Jesus. Here's how the Lord helped me. He said, "Son, you you you can't continue to be passively aggressive." I said, "Lord, what are you what are you talking about? I'm going to show you what's going to happen because healing is going to break out for marriages and families and our kids. These kids in this house are about to be set free." He said, 'You can't continue to be passively aggressive.' I said, 'Lord, what do you mean? He said, whenever you're upset, things don't go your way. He said, you don't talk about it. Sarah will ask you, "Are you mad?" And I'm like, "No, I'm not mad. I'm mad. I'm mad." And I would let that fester. I get angry and it would build up. The Lord told me, he said, "When I told you to lay down your life for your wife like I did for the church," said, "What do you think that means?" I said, "Lord, I don't know." He said, "It was me calling you to a cross." And I said, "Lord, this cross is killing me." And you know what he said? That's the point. Hear me, man. You can't be all up in your feels. Don't let your emotions lead you. Your emotions do not have intelligence. They do not have intellect. And often times we let our emotions own. We own them. THIS IS WHY HE SAYS, "HEY, LOOK, YOU GOT TO LIFT UP HOLY hands without wrath." So many of us don't KNOW HOW TO COMMUNICATE when we're not angry. God wants to bring healing. And healing is going to begin to flow through your hands. There are some things that need to simply be done in this house. Right now, there's a grace coming to every married man in this place. A grace to apologize, a grace to speak life, a grace to encourage your spouse. Praise God. If your spouse is here, I want you just to gently grab them by the hand. Praise God. And just begin to pray with them in the name of the Lord. Begin to bless them. Come on. Look them in the eye and tell them you love them. Tell them you value them. Tell them you're sorry if you need to. Let the healing begin to flow. Come on. Speak life over them. I'm telling you, I'm telling you what I feel in the Holy Ghost. Come on. It's happening in the name of Jesus. That's beautiful. That's beautiful. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Let it flow. Humble yourself. Humble yourself. Encourage them. Strengthen them. Give him a hug. YOU SQUEEZE OUT ALL THE LOVE THAT'S INSIDE. Come on. That's it. >> >> Come on. That's it. >> >> day. I'mma do something. If I'm out of order, pastor, you check me. You check me. I felt this earlier. Here's what we're going to pray for. Healing is going to begin to flow. There's people's minds who are they're struggling. Were they praising? Yes. But their praise is not a reflection of the struggle that they're going through. The thing that I love about scripture is it's the truth, but it tells the truth about people. It's fascinating to me that Elisha slew all types of false prophets and then one wicked chick said, "I'm going to kill you." He runs for his life. thinks he's the only one and says, "I'm no better than my forefathers. Just kill me." That's about as honest as you can be. That was an honest prayer. And you know, you know the answer to that prayer was rest and food. Not Netflix, not a vacation, just a good sleep and some food. And the Lord did it again. All throughout scripture, you see people that are mightily used of God and they've got issues. They've got difficulties. Hear me. There are people in this house that are struggling. And I just want to say something to help you. It's okay. >> It's okay. It's okay. >> It's okay. YOU DON'T HAVE TO KEEP FAKING LIKE you have it all together. Faith is not PRETENDING IT HURT. DOESN'T HURT. Faith is REALIZING YOU'VE GOT SOMEONE YOU can go to and you've got covenant community who will rally around you and get up underneath those burdens AND PRAY AND WATCH GOD MOVE IN YOUR LIFE. SO, here's here's what I feel. We're in a vulnerable moment. And I don't know if this is okay or not. Um I don't know if we're live streaming this. Maybe maybe we we could turn off the live stream. Would that be okay, Bishop? Okay, we'll discontinue the live stream. God bless you. I honor everybody who's watching. I just don't want this to kind of be out in perpetuity for those who were about to step into something. So we honor you. Thank you so much. God bless you. And come back in person or continue to watch if you're watching from abroad. Y'all give me a thumbs up when we're good. Are we good? Just somebody. Okay, great. Okay, here's what we're going to do. If you are dealing with I'm I I feel led to pray for these two things. If you are dealing with you just feel like the thoughts in your