Peace'd Together // Missing Peace (Part 6) // Tim Ross

What's up to my Pando family? Listen, I am so excited that you have had the opportunity to have your lives pieced back together again by God's Word. No matter what situation you are in, there is nothing too impossible for Adonai Elohim, the God of your salvation. Men, women, keep your head up. Square your shoulders high. The best is yet to come. I love you guys so much and until next week, peace. We have been in a series for the last six weeks called The Missing Peace. Every single week of this sermon, of this sermon series, the Holy Spirit has given me something to preach that I did not even write in the book. None of these messages I've preached the last six weeks, the last five weeks. Can we give a shout out to Pastor Bri, Pastor Bri. Pastor Bri altogether held it down in week three. That woman brought a message about Hagar that I will not preach Hagar for 18 months. I gotta let that cool off. I'm glad the Bible is not a pamphlet. There's other stuff I can preach because Bri took that down. But the last six weeks we have been talking about what it is to get our peace back, a peace that Jesus promised, a peace that He gave. Gospel according to St. John chapter number 14 verse number 27. Shalom, I leave you. Shalom, I give to you. But not as the world gives. So neither be thou troubled or afraid. This peace was more than chill bumps on Sunday. This peace was altogether meant to regulate your bodily nervous system. Not that you wouldn't feel fear. Not that you wouldn't be anxious. But you would not trade that emotion for the peace that you have. That you could literally be calm while everybody else is crashing out. To be completely unbothered while everybody else is unbothered. To be completely at peace while everybody else is completely disrupted. He promised to give us that. And that's why you saw the Apostles in jail unbothered, threatened unbothered, killed unbothered. Do you know what kind of peace you got to have for somebody to say you're gonna die tomorrow and you say I'll see you in the morning? You know how confusing that is to the executioner? Most people stay up all night crying and shivering and asking for the governor to give them clemency. I'm in a win-win situation. You do understand that as a believer you're in a win-win situation? If I live, amen. If I die, amen. For to be absent from the body

is to be present with the Lord. So I'm in a win-win situation. I come from the hood so in the hood our life was under duress and threat all the time. I've been held at gunpoint. Literally held at gunpoint. I've been held at knife point. And I was scared. I was a teenager. That was like scary. I don't pray for this now. I don't wish for it now. But if it happens, I already have my script. As a believer who has peace, I already have my script. If somebody comes up to me, points a gun in my face, I'm gonna kill you right now. You know what my response is gonna be? Do you have my father's permission? It's appointed unto man once to die and then after that the judgment. Do you have my father's permission? And if you do, all you gonna do is send me home. So, you killing people today. I'm gonna be in glory today. It changes your whole mindset. So in this last message, I want we've talked about what it's like to have to go fight for your peace in these different circumstances, in these different situations. In this last message, I want you to know what it feels like to have it back. So if you have your Bibles, I want you to turn with me to the book of Ezekiel chapter number 37. The book of Ezekiel chapter number 37. This thing feels churchy. It may not be churchy, but the way I hear it in my head, it's just kind of hard. I feel like preaching until people just jump in the water. Is that too much? That's the way I feel it. Might be one crazy person that's not even going to wait on the baptism handlers. I don't even know what you call them. The people in the blue shirts. It's like, make sure you get in there. They might beat you into the water. You're like, wait. Legally, I must be in there with you. Ezekiel chapter number 37.

Here is what the word of the Lord says. The hand of Adonai was upon me. The Ruach Adonai carried me out and set me down in the middle of the valley. It was full of bones. He led me all around them. Behold, there were very many on the floor of the valley. Behold, they were very dry. Then he said to me, son of man, can these bones live? I answered, Adonai Elohim, you know. What a smart answer. Prophesy over these bones, he said to me. Say to them, dry bones, hear the word of Adonai. Thus says Adonai Elohim to these bones. Behold, I will cause Ruach to enter you so you will live. I will attach tendons to you, bring flesh on you and cover you with skin. Then I will put breath in you. You will live. There's a period after that. There's no comma after that. There's no exclamation mark after that. There's no semicolon after that. You will live. You will know that I am Adonai. So I prophesied just as I was commanded. As I prophesied, there was a noise and behold, an earthquake. Then the bones came together, bone to its bone. I saw and behold, there were tendons on them. Flesh came up and skin covered them above, but there was no breath in them. Then he said to me, prophesy to the Ruach. That is the spirit.

Prophesy, son of man, and say to the Ruach, thus says Adonai Elohim. Come from the four winds, Ruach. Breathe upon these slain that they may live. So I prophesied just as he commanded me. The Ruach came into them and they lived. They stood up on their feet, a vast army. Then he said to me, son of man, these bones are the house, the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say our bones are dried up. Our hope is lost. We are cut off by ourselves. Therefore prophesy and say to them, thus says Adonai Elohim. Behold, I will open your graves. I will bring you up out of your graves, my people. I will bring you back to the land of Israel. You will know that I am Adonai. When I have opened your graves and brought you up out of your graves, my people. I will put my Ruach in you and you will live. I will place you in your own land. Then you will know that I, Adonai, have spoken and that I have done it. It is a declaration of Adonai. If you're taking notes on this, two words. Pieced together. The final message in this series is I want you to have the testimony that you have been pieced together. That everything from your past and your present has been pieced together. together to give you a future that you can testify about the glory of God in your life. You have indeed been pieced together. Let me pray and then we'll go into the message. Holy Spirit, thank you for piecing us together. In Jesus name. Amen.

Before you take your seats since we real church you today, I want you to high-five at least three people and tell them I'm a piece together, I've been pieced together, I've been pieced together, I have been pieced together, I have been pieced. Together, I have been pieced together, I have been pieced together. It's too late now devil. I've been pieced together. You should've took me out while you had the chance because now I've just been pieced together. You should've caught me while I was still broken up. It's too late now. I've been pieced together. You had all the opportunities you were ever going to have because now that I've been pieced together, there's nothing you can do about it. You know what? Real quick, I just have a praise God in advance feeling inside of me. Before you even hear what the Lord has to say, if you already know that you are happy about being pieced together, can you just give a shout of praise to the God of your salvation? See, he's done so much in my life that I don't even have to wait for anybody to set it off. Anybody like me, anybody that was in the world and you didn't need to wait for anybody to set it off. You were like, I'm going now. I just felt that advance praise for somebody that's in here that's like, I don't even need to hear the rest of that. I'm pieced together already. The enemy already took his best shot and I'm still here. God already brought me out of the most traumatizing season of my life and I am still here. The devil thought he took my praise. But I've got to let him. I got a praise. I got a praise and I got to let it out.

I got a praise. I got a praise. I got a praise and I got to let it out. I got a praise. Give him a praise. Give him a praise right then and there. Since you've got a praise and you've got to let it out, there's no time like the present. I'll get it out right... right now. Right now. Right now. Hallelujah! The prophet Ezekiel, a major prophet in the Old Testament, not because he was special, just because he wrote a lot. Distinctive between the major prophets and the minor prophets. This is the volume of the work that they were able to write down and the experience that they were able to have. Ezekiel has many dreams and visions. Some of them, to this day, very difficult to understand, very difficult to interpret, very difficult to try to extract meaning from. But Ezekiel chapter number 37, for as long as I have been alive, has been a chapter that people run to when they are thinking about what it's like to be lifted up out of bondage, what it's like to be revived when you thought that you were dead.

We know that the literal vision and moment that Ezekiel has is a promise to Israel. I think it's very important that we never run to scripture and extract from it something for us without knowing who the first person audience was. I'm glad that you have Jeremiah 29 11 written on your wrist or highlighted in your Bible. But just know he was talking to Israel before he was talking to you. He was talking to a people that he had made a promise to, and he was going to make sure that that promise came to pass. Ezekiel 37 is a prophetic word to the children of Israel who have been in bondage and in captivity, and they're given this word, a promise by Adonai Elohim that they will be brought back home. But there's something about God giving a word to his people that echoes throughout the tunnels of time and can still resonate deeply with us. Ezekiel is taken up by God and he is dropped off by God in a valley of dry bones. Ezekiel's experience in this valley is that they're not just a few bones scattered around. This valley is littered with the bones of people that are long gone. These are not decomposing bodies that he finds inside of this valley. These are not people that just died that are found in this valley. Ezekiel literally finds bones that have been here dried out for a very, very long time.

And as he's walking around this vast valley littered with the bones of humans, can you imagine walking around and seeing a skull here, a fragment of a femur bone there, and a clavicle bone over here, and a thigh bone over there? You have no idea who these bones belong to. This would be the worst type of jigsaw puzzle to have to connect together. I might put the wrong bone with the wrong hip. I might scatter the wrong things in the wrong direction. And so he's over here looking in this valley of dry bones brought there by God. Ezekiel wasn't wandering around and then accidentally just stumbled upon this situation. God brought him to a place that people had been long gone. He allows Ezekiel to take in, to literally, with his eyes, ingest how vast and how sad this scene is. And then he poses a question to him, a question that I find absolutely unfair, a question that I think, as the God of the universe, why would you even ask a human this question when you know good and well they can't answer it? Can these bones live? Sir, you're the one who brought me to the valley. You let me tour the valley. I don't just see a few scattered bones around. I see piles and piles of bones scattered all around this valley and your question to me is, can these bones live? Dried out bones.

Some of them hollowed out, fractured, cracked in half. And you're asking me, can these bones live again? You bring me to an impossible situation and your question is, is it possible? Only God can mess with somebody's brain like this. Now, a God that can defy all impossibilities, ask a man who is limited to possibilities, can these bones live again? And this is when I knew Ezekiel was smart. The response that Ezekiel gives lets me know that he's an incredibly smart guy because he doesn't feel the pressure to try to say something deep. He doesn't feel the pressure to try to impress Adonai Elohim. You know, sometimes you get around some people and you ask them a question and they try to wax eloquent, like they know some things. Well, you know, I would say if you reverse the polarity of the situation and maybe if, like, you know, maybe if I stay here long enough and I put some of these bones together and you let me see if I can match at least one or two, I think there's something I can do about this situation. That's just absolutely stupid. When God asks you a question, your best response is Ezekiel's response. And I loved it. It was just two words. He didn't try to make it deep. Can these bones live?

He said, you know. Don't be asking me no questions you know I don't got no answer to. I don't know the answer to that question. You know the answer to that question. And he goes, you're absolutely right. I do have the answer to this question. Speak to him. I'm so sorry, what? Yeah, these bones are dead. I asked you, can they live? You said, I know the answer. And I do know the answer. I want you to give the bones a word. Not people. Not a person. No. I want you to speak to the very infrastructure of that person who no longer has ears to hear or a mouth to respond. I want you to speak to what used to hold them up. And if you would do that, I'll work. Can I just pause and say, this is why it is important to have a word from God. No matter how impossible you think your situation is, if you have a word from God, you have all you need to get out of the situation that you think is absolutely impossible. So he says, I want you to prophesy to bones. And I want you to tell these bones to live. And when you prophesy, I'll start working. Do you see, there's always a partnership between you and God. There's something that I just want to make a correction on in the church. I know we're going to use this because generationally, we have used it for years

and years and years and years and years. But I want you to have the philosophical difference so that you don't think that you're some item that God is using. I know that we say, God is using this person. God is using that person. God wants to use you for this and God wants to use you for that. But please, can we please consider that this is your daddy? As an earthly father, I don't use my kids. They're not forks and knives and dinner plates that I use. We're in a relationship. We have a partnership. God wasn't using Adam and Eve in the garden. He created them in His image and placed them in the garden to manage what He had created. It was a partnership. So, God will never do anything in the earth unless He partners with a man and a woman to get it done. So, how come God just didn't speak? You can't do nothing anyway, Ezekiel. And since you can't get the bones up, step back and watch me do it. No, no, he says, I want to partner with you. And since you don't know what to do, I'll give you the words to say. Tell somebody to say, repeat after me, repeat after me. Sometimes you got to repeat what the God of your salvation has already said about you. Don't be trying to freestyle and make up words. Just repeat what the God of your salvation has already told you to say. You are the head and not the tail. You are above and not beneath. You are blessed in the city, coming in and going out.

Repeat after, repeat after me. So, Ezekiel, I love how scripture says it, I prophesied as I was commanded. He told me to say it, it seemed absolutely ridiculous, but I prophesied. Bones live. And then the wind started blowing. And the earth started shaking. And bones that had been scattered throughout a valley for I don't know how long just started coming together with their own bones. This is very, very important to understand. None of the bones got mixed up. Nobody's bone went to another person's body. All the bones got together because he was the God that put them together. So, when he prophesied to them, they all went back to the original place that God intended them to be before the death had occurred. Let me just prophesy and say somebody's coming back together, and you are coming back together the way God always intended you to be, not what the trauma wanted you to be. Somebody's coming back together, and you're not going to be put back together the way that you were when you were traumatized, you will be put back together the way God always prophesied for you to be back together. The bones came back. All the bones came back together. The human body is an absolute engineering marvel because the skeletal bones came back together, and then the muscles and the tendons wrapped themselves around the skeleton because it wasn't just enough for the bones to come back together. What is reconnected has to be strengthened. He was never going to let you be bony and not strong. So, he puts the tendons, and the tissue, and the muscles around the skeleton so that the skeleton is strong enough to stand. Once the tendons and the muscles come around the skeleton, then flesh comes over

the muscles and the tendons, and then skin covers the muscles, and the tendons, and the bones. Because you got to get your identity back once you get your integrity back. I'm going to say that again. You must get your identity back after you get your integrity back. The bones coming together, and the muscles, and the tissue, that's the integrity. That's the inner part of you. That's the inner workings of what holds you together. But now that you're together, your identity must come back to you so that you know who you are and can testify to the people who don't. See, before we had our peace, we called ourselves what other people called us. But once you get peace back together, you know who you are and whose you are, and you can start testifying according to what God has said about you and not what they have been saying about you. See, when you really get peace back together and people start calling you the old... You don't have to get mad. You don't get defensive. You don't have to talk back to them. You're just like no, I'm not No, yes, you are you still that drunk that used to do this this and that and you're like, no, I'm not That's not me anymore Yes, it is and you'll never be anything else. That's who you are. No, I'm not I'm not the drunk anymore. I'm not promiscuous anymore. I'm not the liar anymore. I'm not anxious anymore. I'm not fearful anymore I'm not violent anymore. I'm not a fighter anymore I know you still got the video footage because that's who I used to be, but that's not who I am anymore Do I got anybody in here beside me that you're like that ain't me anymore It used to be me. I used to be mad. I used to cuss you out. I used to fight you in the street I used to be petty. I used to be passive-aggressive, but that's not me any It's not me anymore I've been pieced back together It's not me anymore

the wind blew the earth shook All the bones came back together the skeleton and the tendons came back on top of the bones the the flesh and the skin came on top of the the skeleton and the muscles and tendons and Scripture says that their bodies were back together But there was no breath in them I just pause and say you can be put together and still not be alive. I Know I'm talking to somebody right now. You can have your whole life put together and still be dead on the inside Look no further than Hollywood to find a whole bunch of people that are put together and still dead on the inside They still need a bunch of proper feel to go to sleep. They still need fentanyl to get to bed They did they still need to pop Molly's and oxycontin. Why? They looked apart What did you say her outfit? Oh, she look good. She did on the inside Man he looks oh my bro that dude. Whoo. He's sharp She graduated Ivy League. She is smart and dead on the inside He's a prestigious doctor in his community he graduated top of his class and he's dead on the inside Because just because you've been put together Doesn't mean you're alive I Know some of y'all cleaned up your credit score, but you still dead on the inside I I know that you paid off the car, but you still dead on the inside You got the marriage But you still dead on the inside because any time you dictate your peace based on your things You will get your things but not have your life Am I talking to anybody today Can you imagine all he just saw a miracle And that miracle put them together But They had no breath I can't tell you how many people I know living like this on the inside Put together look amazing, but you can't hear this And you always notice when somebody's put together, but they're not alive because you can't feel the breath

Okay, they're at work, but the Roo Rock is not at work. Oh They working really hard they out there grinding But the spear is not moving And they're sitting there lifeless Miraculous They shouldn't even be together at all But this is why you need a continuing word from God Because there are words that bring you out and there are other words that fill you up and there are other words that move you forward this is why Jesus said in his battle with Satan out in the wilderness He said man shall not live by bread a word of by bread alone But by every word that proceed death out of the mouth of God ETH is the equivalent to I NG. It's a continual word You don't get a word for your life you continue to get words for your life for every situation and every Circumstance and every season of life that you are in God has a word Word for every season of your life. Miraculously put together and lifeless. And God has a solution. He says, hey, you gave them a word. Now I want you to prophesy it to a person. You gave them my word and they got put together by my word. But now I need you to prophesy to the wind, prophesy to the ruach, the spirit, the wind, the mover. And I want you to prophesy to the wind and tell them to come from all four corners and wake up what I put together. Anybody beside me been awakened by what God has done in your life?

You remember when you were sleeping your sins and you were doing things and you were never convicted about nothing you was doing. And then one day you just woke up. And when you woke up, you was like, I can't be doing this no more. I can't stay at your house no more. I can't talk about this no more. I can't be around that no more. I can't keep drinking this no more. I can't keep hanging with you no more. Anybody beside me been wakened up? When you get a generation that wakes up, you get a generation that's been filled with the spirit and they are awakened to the things that they used to be dead in their sins to. And they're like, I can't do that no more. I can't do that no more. I'm so sorry. I know I did that yesterday. I know I did that four hours ago. I can't do that today. I'm so sorry. I know I told you after church that we would go hang and smoke a blunt, but there was something that happened at church that opened up my eyes and I can't smoke that blunt with you today. I'm so sorry. I'm gonna get high a different way,

but I'm not gonna be using this no more. Prophesy to the wind and the wind came and everybody came alive. Everybody that was put together came alive. They had been pieced together, but then the wind, the ruach, came on the inside of them and they woke up. Now, I would just imagine that if not, I haven't been asleep, I've been dead. And not only have I been dead, I've been good and decomposed. I've been good and dead so long, my bones have scattered. My wrist bone was way over there. My skull had rolled like a tumbleweed way over here. My thigh bone has a little more density. It's been there, the same place it's been since I laid down. And then a word puts me back together. Not only puts my bones back together, but put muscles and strength back on my bones and then puts flesh and skin back on top of that. And then the spirit comes into my body. I come back alive. And when I wake up, I complain. How? How you been dead all this time? And when you wake up, you don't have a testimony. This makes no sense to me. In Ezekiel 37, verse number 11, here's what it says.

Then he said to me, son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, they've been awakened, right? They're alive, right? They're pieced together, right? And here's what they say. Our bones are dried up. How? You're alive now. Our bones are dried up. Our hope is lost. We are cut off by ourselves. There's a part of me that wants to be critical, but I've lived long enough to know what it's like to have God do a miracle in your life. And you're still not in the place that you thought you would be in. Anybody beside me can be honest. God's been doing some transformational things in my life, but my situation still looks like bondage. My situation still looks hopeless. My situation still looks like I'm not gonna come out of the situation that I've been in all my life. I want to critique them so bad. I wanna be so petty. I wanna act like I'm the guy that has done all the right things in my last 30 years. to salvation and then look at the text and tell them,

I don't understand why they don't have a testimony. But can I be honest? I have been Israel. I know what it's like to have the miraculous nature of God piece me back together and the Holy Spirit fill me up from the inside out. And I'm still looking at people going, I'm still, ain't no hope. I've been through so much stuff in my life. Man, I mean, I thank God for what he's done. Anybody ever had that one? I mean, no, no, no, no, don't get me twisted. I'm grateful, but this is it for me. It's hopeless out here. God could have been way pettier than me. That's why I'm glad he's God and not me. I could never be God, let me just tell you right now. I could never be Jesus, forget being God, I could never be Jesus. Because if I was Jesus, you'd have to serve me. I'm just telling you in my flesh and the way I'm set up, if I die for you, oh, you gonna live for me. I'd haunt the hell out of you. Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth? If I die for you and you get up every morning talking about there is no God, I would be in your bedroom. Every time your eyes would peel open, I'd be like, you wanna get me today? You gonna get me today? Oh, you still gonna, you gonna act like,

oh, oh, oh, so you still don't want to? Okay, breathe. Don't you know that I'm the one that's giving you that breath in your body? I can hold mine longer than you can hold yours. You gonna serve me now? You gonna serve me? Are you gonna serve me now? That's why I can't be him. Just telling you, I can't be him. Because I'd yam your feet up. Just turn your feet into meatballs and then tell you to walk. I'd be doing some petty stuff. I'd take your eyesight, tell you to look at me. I would just be doing, I'd be doing, I'm telling you, I'd be doing petty, I would be doing petty stuff. I'd put food in front of you and then take your appetite and you would just be looking at it like. I cannot be God. Okay, I'm sorry, I'm really sorry. I can't be God, I can't be God. I'm just glad, all that to say, I'm just glad he's not petty. Because after you get people up and they say, our bones are dried up, our hope is lost, we are cut off by ourselves, the propensity could have been if he was human,

which I'm so glad he's not. If God is not a man that he should lie to and the son of man that he should repent, he's also the guy that's not petty. So he don't think like us, act like us. He doesn't respond like us. Because he lives before time, in time and after time. And so he knows what you whining about right now, you ain't gonna be complaining about in four months. Because you have no idea, your deliverance has already been set. You still walking through Tuesday and you have no idea the breakthrough's Friday and I gotta listen to you complain for the next 72 hours just so for you to get to Friday and be like, thank you God, I didn't know you was gonna do it again. But I thank you God. He's not petty. So he looks at him and he says, they're complaining. Even after I gave them a word that fixed their past, they're complaining. I pieced them together. They had no life in them. I put life back on the inside of them and yet they are complaining. He doesn't say son of man, tell them forget it. He doesn't say son of man, tell them on Saturday let me have a second thought. Let me dismember what I remembered.

He says no. They have a word that fixed their past. I gave them the spirit to be in their present. But now they need a word for their future. If you are left without a word for your future, we would all sound like the Israelites. Our hope is lost. We're put back together but our bones are still dry. There is no hope for us. And he says, don't even worry about that. I have a word for their future. Prophesy to them and tell them, Thus says Adonai Elohim, Behold, I will open your graves. There's a period behind that. He doesn't even put it as a comma. Do you know that the I am that I am, he cannot speak a word, and it comes back without doing what he said it was sent to do? So just at the statement, I will open their graves, I would assume they would be encouraged. But he doesn't stop there. He says, I will bring you up out of your graves. Then it says this, my people. I'm from a neighborhood where we talk about having my people. You know the people that are like you, and you know the people that's not like you. Somebody mentioned a name to you, and you'd be like, no, that's not my people. Maybe that's your people. Them not my people.

You don't know the Andersons. I know of them, but those not my people. Here's what Jesus says, ain't no way I'm getting out of my grave and keeping you in yours. Ain't no way I'm going to have my son come down there, die for the sins of the world, be buried in a grave for three days, and then rise again, and I'm going to keep you in yours. Here's Adonai Elohim in the Old Testament. Jesus is not even in the earth yet. And he says, I'm bringing you up out of your grave. Now, words matter to me. If you got to bring somebody up and out, that means they were down and in. And he said, no, no, no. I'm about to bring you up out of your grave. I will bring you up out of your graves, my people. I will bring you back to the land of Israel. You will know that I am Adonai when I have opened your graves and brought you up out of your graves, my people. I will put my Ruach in you, and you will live. I will place you in your own land. Then you will know that I am Adonai. I have spoken and that I have done it. It is a declaration of Adonai. Here's the hope we have of being pieced together, that God has a word that has not just gone behind us, is not just with us, but a word that's gone before us. So you can't die in a situation that you should be dead in because he's already given you a word

that you are coming out. And when God gives you a word that he's about to pop your grave doors open and that on the other side of that grave is going to be life, this is when you have to start agreeing with the prophecy and speaking the prophecy before it comes to pass. This is one of the reasons why I wanted to know if I at least had 100 shouters before I even preached a message because I needed a test run to know if you would know what it feels like to be a person that walks around not pity partying about your present, but prophesying about your future. I hope there's at least 200 people now that can walk around and say that I am not the situation yet, but I will be out of this situation because God has already given me a word about where I'm going to be. He already told me I was coming out. Are you out yet? No, I'm not out yet, but I will be out. How do you know? He gave me a word that I was coming out. And if he gave me a word that I was coming out, I am coming out. Church time, touch at least three people and say, I'm coming out, I'm coming out. I'm coming out, I'm coming out. I'm coming out, I'm coming out. I'm coming out of depression. I'm coming out of anxiety.

I'm coming out of debt. I'm coming out of a generational curse. I'm coming out of bondage. I'm coming out of suicidal ideation. I'm coming out of addiction. I'm coming out of pain. I'm coming out of trauma. I'm coming out of my past. I am coming. This is the difference between having a word and not having a word. When you don't have a word about your future, all you do is complain. But when you get a future about your word, the situation in your present doesn't have to change, but your mindset does. I'm coming out of this. I know it's been a long time, but I'm coming out of this. I know that I've been struggling, but I will be coming out of this. I know my body is not healed yet, but I am coming out of. Somebody just shout, I'm coming out. How can I not come out? He already gave me a word. How can I not come out? No wonder why the devil's so mad at me. He understands that I have a word, and there's nothing he can put in my present that's going to make me doubt the future that God has already given me, I am. This is why I'm so glad that God gave me this word on Flood Sunday. Because when I think about baptism, there's no way I can't think about what happened to the children of Israel who had been in bondage for over 400 years. And they had been in this bondage so long, they thought they were never coming out. But then God sent Moses to give them a word. And the word was, you are coming out.

And they came out just to face a body of water that they could not get past. And with the Egyptians behind them, and the Red Sea in front of them, they thought they were about to die. If we turn around and face our past, we die. If we try to go into our future, we drown. But God said, no, no, no, I want to use the water. I'm going to use this water to piece you together. Oh, you're going through the water, and you're going to get to the other side. And the only thing that's going to drown is your enemy behind you. The only thing that's about to drown is the past you came out of. The only thing that's about to drown are the people that said you weren't going to make it. The only thing that's going to drown is your trauma, your pain, your suffering, your anxieties, your fears, those generational curses. Oh, something is about to drown. It's just not going to be you. I come out of the water wet, but everything in my past is dead. Behold, I am a new creature in Christ Jesus. The old things are passed away. Behold, all things are. Somebody just point up here and say, there's some water right up here. There's some water right up here. There's somebody in this room. You know for real, you need to be cut off from your past. And you've been pieced together. God has brought you back with a word. He's placing his spirit on the inside of you, and he's giving you a word from your future. If you don't want to be haunted by the hounds of your past, all you need to do is get in the water. And there's some water right here. There's some water right here. They're going to put a code up, because if you want to get baptized right now and you didn't plan on getting

baptized right now, all you got to do is go to the back and they'll get you a change of clothes. They will get you a change of clothes right now, because we don't want you in the clothes you came in getting soaking wet. But if you want to get baptized today, today is the day of salvation. Today is the day of your breakthrough. Today is the day of your miracle. Today is the day of your salvation. Today is the day of your breakthrough. Today is the day you get pieced together. Today is the day you get filled with the spirit. Today Today Say some all the hell is mad right now Somebody jump in this water. They bought to cut off a generational curse Somebody jump in this water Suicide is not gonna be on their mind every single night. Somebody drop in this water Alcoholism is going cut off in Jesus name. They somebody jumps in this water drug addiction is going cut off More than rehab you need the Ruroc I'm Glad you got therapy, but you gonna need theology To anchor you you gonna need the Word of God. We ain't talking about positive Affirmations we're talking about the Word of Adonai Elohim in your life He sent the word He sent the word And healed their disease And after you've been pieced together You have a testimony To share with everybody around you How God brought me back together again, I shouldn't have made it through what I made it through but he brought me back together again 30 years. I've been preaching the gospel and I'm still not over how he pieced me back together

There is zero way that a kid who was sexually abused At the age of eight years old Who was told by the family doctor to be aborted? Who was porn addicted Low self-esteem low self-worth people pleaser Suicidal ideation, there's no way that dude is a preacher Except for the fact that when I gave my life to Jesus on January 14th of 1996 He gave me a word that pieced together my past And he gave me a spirit so I could be led through my present Then he gave me a word That was set a course for my future And that's all it takes This ain't hype Ain't nobody trying to gas you up We're telling you the truth The last 30 years of my life have been radically different not because I'm smart I graduated from an alternative school I don't have no degrees I didn't go, I barely got out the alternative school. They were like are you going to college? I was like I'm about to bedazzle this diploma That's as far as I'm going you have a brilliant mind you should just go to college no Barely got out of high school that dude from Englewood, California should not be here Not married to a wife that is fine as she is I Mean she anointed in everything and she fine What's the point of being a preacher? Why is she so fine though Lord I Got two beautiful kids and they both love Jesus at 18 and 16 I Wasn't feeling Jesus at 18 and 16 But all that happened because I got a word and

And when you get a word it does not matter what you've been through His word prevails Heaven and earth is gonna pass away The grass wither it the flower fadeth, but the word of the Lord endures forever And I want you to be anchored with a word I want you to have something on the inside of you You that's gonna keep you on the days where the enemy is trying to tell you you are not going to make it We've been pieced together Perfectly pieced together To do what it is that God has called us to do you might be at home And you like I'm not it's flood Sunday, but I'm at the house jump in the shower But real talk what you think There's some water right over there there's some water right where you are You like I'm in an apartment the showers in the tub Jump in the tub. I Don't have nobody to baptize me go down Just go just just just until you can get to somebody's church just do a dress rehearsal Fill that tub up with water and go down in it Hold your nose if you have to but get all the way under Here's why why why do we have to be completely immersed in the water because we want our paths completely gone I Don't want my past taking care of up to my waist. I don't want my past taking care of up to my neck I want it completely erased in The water So is there anybody that's about to be baptized did anybody go change a gang of people want to go change yeah Hey this lady up in the front that's my auntie for real she said there's a lot of people that live I Saw a gang of people get up and go down there. I know they wouldn't leave and they were to go change Crystal was one of them. I know she need to get down in that water. No. She didn't say all that. I just I'm so proud of Your faith

I'm proud of your faith walk. I'm proud of your faith talk. I'm proud that you have chosen to live out loud for Jesus Because it absolutely unequivocally changes everything It has been my honor and my privilege To be your preacher for the last five out of six weeks TC. I love y'all so much I Love y'all so much I love y'all so much Whether you've been in person or you've been online For us to be able to carry the message of peace To a world that is so disrupted and so full of chaos The world needs the message of peace The world no needs to know what peace looks like around dysfunction disruption in Orientation You have no idea how many people I get to witness to just because I have peace I'm at the airport and seems nowadays more flights than ever are delayed And I have considerable status with one airline and they're like, oh my goodness. I hope you're not mad You know, this flight is delayed for like another hour and I'm like we good I've been with y'all for a long time. It's not a big deal and they're like, wow, you're so calm Most people like you have no idea they yell at us. Let me tell him about the gate agent. She's not even a pilot What can she do? She's just sitting there clickety-clacking and you acting like it's a private jet. When are we leaving? Sir ma'am, this is a commercial airline It's a bus that flies Why are you spazzing out Why are you so entitled? You are not a billionaire You don't have your own plane You're in a long tube

Sit out And they would say you're just so calm and I'm like, well I have peace I wish everybody had that peace I'm like you can have it Well, how did you get it Jesus Then they wrote her eyes I'm like no for real. That's Jesus He's the one that did this for us And he can do it for you as well. If you want to calm down you need Jesus You want to carry peace you need? Jesus is that him. Bring him out. Bring him out. Bring him out. Bring him out. It's hard for hell when heaven is in your mouth. Bring him out. Bring him out. It's hard for hell when heaven is in your mouth. Bring him out. Bring him out. Oh, it's a gang of y'all down here coming. Yeah. About to cut some things off up in here. Listen, I know we turned up while worship was going on. It's one thing to register and like to invite your family and to know like today I'm getting baptized. It's another thing to come in here, not know you was getting baptized today. And off of an invitation, you went in the back and changed your clothes and came back out here. So I need y'all to hear me when these people go down in this water. Okay. Thank you. Holy ghost. I gotta, I gotta make sure y'all get this. Listen, for everybody that goes down, this is, this is how I did my baptisms. Okay. When they get in the water, right? This is what you're going to do. When they go down, you're going to say bye. And when they come up, you're going to say hi. Hi. And here's why I did that. Because when you're waving by, when they're going down, you're saying goodbye to the them that they were. The person that they were is going down. The person that's coming up is not the same person that went down. So we say goodbye to the one that's going away. And we say hello to the one that's coming up. Y'all got it. So when they go down, say bye. And when they come up, you're like, if you want to be who you can be like, hi.

Let's get it cracking. Let's get it cracking. Who coming? If a whole family come and put them all up in there, let's get it cracking. It's a whole squad coming up in here. Hey, my guy, you just changed your whole family's trajectory. You just changed your entire family's trajectory. I promise you, bro. I'm so proud of you, man. Yeah, much love, man. I'm so proud of you. That's how you go from a generational curse to a generational blessing. If we could get men to be godly men that lead the family into the future, this is what we're talking about. Bye, little man. Hi. Come on, we're going to sing. We're going to sing. We're going to sing this song. We're going to say, We're going to sing this song. We're going to say, Come on, praise God with them. Come on. Praise God. Come on. Come on, baby. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So walls are coming down. This has been victory, yeah. Breakthroughs in my job. Don't get too close to me. I just end up getting free. Shake. Come on. Sing, shake, shake. Come on, I see freedom in the room. When you feel the spirit moving, break. Come on. Sing break, break. Break, break, break. My prayers is break.

My prayers is break. The heavens open. Sing heaven's open. Heaven's open. We pray. Sing heaven's open. Heaven's open. We want you to hurry, calm down. Get up and start it now. When we release the sound. Break, break, break. Break, break, break. My prayers is break. My prayers is break. The heavens open. Sing heaven's open. Heaven's open. Jesus has got it, everything that you need. Heaven's open. He's got it, everything that you need. Heaven's open. So freedom, come take over me. And shake this weight up off of me. Have your way in the room. You can have your way in the room. Sing freedom. Freedom, come take over me. Shake this weight up off of me. Have your way in the room. Sing freedom, come take over me.

Shake this weight up off of me. Have your way in the room. You can have your way in the room. And your freedom, come take over me. And shake this weight up off of me. Have your way in the room. Have your way in the room. Sing have your way in the room. Spirit. Spirit. Spirit. Spirit. So have your way in the room. Have your way in the room. Have your way in the room. Have your way in the room. You can have your way in the room. Come on. For there is freedom and a liberty in the room. We thank you, Jesus. Hey. Yeah, yeah. Come on. I need to put on a garment of praise. Come on. Freedom, come take over me. And shake. Freedom, come take over me. Shake this weight up. Shake this weight up off of me.

Have your way in the room. Have your way in the room. Have your way in the room. Freedom come take over me. Shake this weight up off of me. Have your way in the room. Freedom come take over me. Shake this weight up off of me. Have your way in the room. Freedom come take over me. Take this weight up off of me. Have your way in the room. Have your way in the room. Have your way in the room. Have your way in the room. Have your way in the room. Have your way in the room. Have your way in the room. Have your way in the room. So dancin'