nobody no matter how powerful they are no matter what they have or what they own or what they drive can stop God from bringing you out that's right and even though Pharaoh settled up 600 chosen chariots and decided to go get them and try to drive them back he could not drive back what God had loosed yeah that's right and there they stand at the Red Sea with Pharaoh chasing in behind them and when Moses stretched forth his staff when he stretched forth what he had the wind started blowing and the waters went hither and
thither and they walked across on dry ground because it was time for the wine to come [Music] out in the same year the first time I made my first trip to the motherland to the land of my ancestors when I first got off the plane to hear the gentleman say in a deep African accent welcome home was absolutely staggering and it was amazing because in that same year I made my first trip to my spiritual ancestry to Jerusalem it was the first time these Old West Virginia feet had walked down cobblestone streets and smelt bread
baking early in the morning and watched Jerusalem open up and come to life much as it would in the days of Christ time and I searched it through I went everywhere I could go I went down to where the pool of Bethesda is thought to have been I went down to the Sea of Galilee I set my feet in the waters of the Jordan and I went to a place called megaa where Armageddon is supposed to be leaped out of the car over in Jordan and ran out in the mud to stand and look around
at the amphitheater a natural Amphitheater of mountains all around just to see what was going on I went in the Temple Mount which is now controlled not by the Jews but the Muslims and they told me to take off my shoes as I went in there and I went inside the Temple Mount and had the experience of walking up into what would have been the holies of holies only to find Abraham's Rock the place where he would offer up Isaac and it was then that I realized that the Bible isn't wide it's deep that the
same place that Abraham offers up Isaac is in the same area where Christ is to be crucified so it's not about going from place to place it's about digging deeper so you stand in a contemporary place with a contemporary shovel and dig your way through the Epistles and dig your way into the prophets and dig your way into the Old Testament because the history of our faith is in layers yeah I walk down to the Wailing Wall The Wailing Wall where all the Jews go to pray and the rabbis stand in front of the Wailing
Wall and rock back and forth placing their prayer requests into the crevices of The Rock and rocking back and forth they Rock back and forth I asked the God why are they rocking back and forth they said because they believe that God is a moving God and if you're going to come into His presence you have to be moving in his presence because God is always moving he's always rocking he's always doing and I said can I go and with the women on one side and the man on the other I came to the Wailing
Wall and had the most amazing experience I burst into to tears because the Wailing Wall is The Last Remnant of herod's Temple The Wailing Wall is reminiscent of Solomon's Temple and when I looked at the faith of so much history layered and still standing there in the Rock and I'm standing at the Rock I'm standing at the rock where Jesus has stood I'm standing on the spot where the threshing floor of or and was where Solomon's Temple was where all of history had collided in that moment and I just started crying and I'm surrounded by
Jews and they're watching a Christian cry at their Wailing Wall and suddenly I recognize or hope they recognize that your Jehovah is my Jesus that your Elohim is my Prince of Peace that your bright and Morning Star is my lily of the valley that we are K and that we are connected and that that we have something in common though our perspectives are different for you stand waiting on a messiah to come and I stand looking back at a messiah who visited and you recognized him not and yet we all whale at the Wailing Wall
for even though we recognize Jesus as the Messiah that doesn't mean that we're not waiting for him to come too we wait and we weep and we rock to my brothers and my sisters ladies and gentlemen Saints and Friends keep on rocking keep keep on weeping and for God's sake keep on [Music] waiting the thing that separates wine from anything else that you might drink like Kool-Aid water or anything else is that wine making is a process that could take years and sodas and drinks can be made very quickly but wine takes time and the
older it is the better it gets the reason we use wine as a metaphor for the book crushing is because wine takes time and I'm talking about taking time to an Era of people who don't believe that anything takes time in other words I'm talking to a microwave crowd yeah about a cold stove recipe I remember my grandmother's coold stove was sat on the back porch and you had to put coal in it and she fried chicken and cast iron skillets and baked cakes until they were standing that high and I wonder even to this
day how they regulated the temperature in a cold stove I remember her making cakes without a mixer but she take a spoon and turn it flat and beat the butter and I can see her arm shaking baking a cake and she did better with the spoon than I can with the mixer oh and I'm good with the mixer Grandma knew that the best cakes took time and she was willing to put in the time and the effort and the sweat to get the cake to rise to the place that it needs to be and so
it is with the wine wine makers know that good wine takes time that's right it starts with the soil you plant the seed in yeah and the grape that grows from it and the grape accepting the fact that it was raised to be crushed right I think we need to teach our children a little differently that you are raised to be crushed instead of teaching them that you're raised to be applauded and you're raised to be exalted and you're raised to be lotted I think we should tell them that you are raised to be crushed
and when you come to the crushing Place do not believe for one moment that it is the end because the crushing of the grape is not the end of the grape it is the transition from one error to the next what I'm talking about is process yes when I'm talking about crushing I'm talking about process I'm talking about subm committing yourself to the process because that is respect to commit yourself to the process means you respect the Artistry of the calling come on when you put the work in and the labor in and the commitment
in and and and all of the sacrifice into it that means you respect it I wouldn't go down to the Cowboy stadium and ask Jerry Jones to put me in a uniform and just because I watch football think I could play football that's disrespectful to the people who have worked hours and years getting ready and training all their life to become excellent at what they do process is respect wow to recognize that just it's not supposed to happen fast yeah because if it happens fast it will not last come on that that is slow broed
and slow cooked and cooked overnight and smoked on a smoker until in the morning has a richness and a flavor that you just cannot get in a microwave that's right you have to understand that and if you want microwave success go on and do it quick and you'll go up quick and you'll come down quick but if you really respect the Artistry and the and and the technique and the style and the fashion and the depth and the anointing and the unction and the power and the collaboration between the spirit and the man and the
man and the spirit and the spirit and the man until you can't tell the difference between the talent and the tool of the master and how he uses it in such synchronization that you don't know whether it was the hand of Gideon or the sword of the Lord that defeated the enemy that means that you want to fit so good in the hands of God that at a moment's notice he can use you anytime and anywhere and in order to be that kind of good that means you have to go through the process and embrace
it yes embrace the process not resent it not feel betrayed or denied because it didn't happen as quick as the person next to you because you are not comparing yourself with the person next to you that is not the goal to be like the person next to you you are not running against him you're running against the hope of your calling and what God wants to do in your life and what he has to take you through to produce what he is trying to produce in your life and that means you have to listen at
what he's saying that's right even when he's talking about waiting while you're talking about winning wow you have to respect the process because if you do when the process is over you will last longer as wine than you would have as a grape it's amazing when you start talking about the life of Joseph and all of the turmoil that he went through and how his father made him a coat of many colors which was really prophetic to him becoming The Prince of Egypt it was also prophetic to the multiplicity of a God who is able
to love all colors and kinds and Stitch them together and make one garment and become the dwell amongst us God and Joseph wore his coat and his brothers stripped him of his coat they stripped him of his coat but they couldn't strip him of his calling they threw him in a pit and they said he was dead the midianites came along and bought him for 20 pieces of silver because God was using Joseph's Life as a shadow of Jesus who would be rejected of his Brethren who would be thrown into a pit who would be
sold for 30 pieces of silver and Joseph doesn't know it but he is acting out what Jesus will fulfill and then he goes from that to Piper's house and Rises to a place of power only to be lied on by Piper's wife and have to flee and end up in prison and then Joseph the Young young man who grew up with the coat of many colors ends up with stripes in a prison locked up behind bars and even there he exceled and you know all of this but what you may not realize is that that
is only a small fraction of his life that he spent more years free than he did bound wow that he spent more years as The Prince of Egypt than he did as a prisoner in the jail that's right and what you have to understand the process may seem long while you're going through it but if you will go through the process when you get to the end of it you'll be a prince much longer than you'll be in process and God is trying to fix you so that you will last and when the wine maker
makes the wine he makes it in such a way that when they bring it to the table they ask they tell you first what year it was made and the best wines have been preserved for hundreds of years and the longer it lasts the more it costs and if you want to be expensive in the Kingdom exotic in the Master's Hand if you want to be the kind of wine that is prophesied at the marriage at Kaa that he saved the best wine for last then all of that is predicated upon how well you endure
the [Music] process when God sends Jacob's family to Egypt it is not just to get bread it is not just to get food he is trying to transition a family into a nation and so Egypt becomes an incubator it becomes a womb where God turns Jacob's family big family though it was 70 people into millions of people yeah and he fermented them through the slavery of Egypt the atrocities and the abuses and the 400 years of Agony was how God incubated them so they go into Egypt a family wanting bread and they come out of
Egypt a nation carrying gold do you hear what I'm saying to you yes in order to turn family thinking into Nation mentalities it takes time it takes time 10 Generations went past so many generations went past that they had forgotten how to worship their God because they had so assimilated into the culture of Egypt that much of their understanding of who God was had drifted away but with the limited residue of faith that they had left they cried out unto God and he still heard them though they had forgotten what Abraham had taught them and
what Isaac had shown them and Jacob had long since been buried he still heard them I know he did because he told Moses I have heard heard the Cry of my children Israel go down there and tell pharaoh to let my people go yes you talking about times up that was God's times up that what God saying the process is over the fermentation is completed the wine is made and I'm ready to bring it out and when God gets ready to bring you out nobody no matter how powerful they are no matter what they have
or what they own or what they drive can stop God from bringing you out that's right and even though Pharaoh settled up 600 chosen chariots and decided to go get them and try to drive them back he could not drive back what God had loosed that's right yeah that's right and there they stand at the Red Sea with Pharaoh chasing in behind them and mountains surrounding them and they think that they are in a place of hopelessness and despair because they can't can't swim the Red Sea and they can't escape across the mountains and the
horses are coming faster than their feet can run and their children are Laden down with the wealth of Egypt and there they stand in total dismay Moses included saying God what am I supposed to do and God says to him why stand ye here gazing at me stretch forth Your Rod wow and when Moses stretched forth his staff when he stretched forth what he had the wind started blowing and the waters went hither and thither and they walked across on dry ground because it was time for the wine to come out it was time that
the family had become a nation it was time that the purpose of God had been completed and he brought them out by his mighty power and he brought them out on dry ground they didn't even have to get mud on their feet they walked out on dry ground it was almost as if God had paved the bottom of the riverbank so that they could have comfort while they exited wow they came out on dry ground but when Pharaoh tried to come through the way that God had made for his people Pharaoh drown see what God
has for you is for you and nobody else can take it so don't waste time arguing with people who are trying to get what you got because nobody can take what is yours if it's it's really yours it's yours and no one can get it and when Pharaoh tried to get it he drowned in the Red Sea he drowned in the Red Sea cuz the god stopped the wind from blowing and the waters collapsed and covered him up and pharaoh and his horses and his chariots drowned in the Red Sea and Miriam grabbed the tambourine
and begin to beat it to the glory of God and the women begin to dance around the mountain and as they dance the bodies of the Egyptians were washing up on the bank but God did not just close the Red Sea to drown Pharaoh or his horses or his men one of the reasons that God closed the Red Sea is to keep them from going back once you get out never go back [Music]
