[Music] dr. Samuel Rodriguez is the president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference if you consider yourself Hispanic in this room stand up yeah just look at that look at that come on come on come on that's awesome oh wow makes me want to speak Spanish but I'm not very good at it so fantastic the NaCl sea is the world's largest Hispanic Christian organization has been named among the and Sammy has been named among the top 100 Christian leaders in America Maz Newsmax in 2018 and nominated as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2013 Rodriguez is regularly seen on CNN Fox News Univision and PBS he's been featured in Time magazine Christianity today the New York Times The Wall Street Journal to name a few Rodriguez has advised three u. s.
presidents and frequently consults with Congress to advance immigration criminal justice and religious freedom initiatives on Friday on Friday January 20th 2017 with over 1 billion people watching around the world Reverend Rodriguez became the first Latino evangelical to participate in a presidential inauguration ceremony Rodriguez is a best-selling author executive producer flaming-hot and breakthrough the impossible in partnership with 20th Century Fox as well as co-founder and leader of TBN salsa Rodriguez serves a senior pastor of new season a multi-ethnic multi-site Church he lives in Sacramento California with his wife Eva and their three children brother Sammy is a friend he's a colleague he journeys with us with empowered 21 he's a friend of all Roberts University and he's home today would you welcome Sammy Rodriguez home today [Applause] silly girl Oh [Applause] come on come on come on let's give a great cheer for Sammy now let me say just a word if the media works we want to show you a trailer today Sammy has become a producer of a movie for the first time in history a preacher - a producer not sure what all that means but I've asked me to talk just a little bit about it and show us the trailer for breakthrough and tell us the story again welcome Sammy Roderick Wow so yeah are there any questions I'm honored to be with you it's been a couple years since I've been here and I love being here it feels home being here and this is a mutual affirmation Society component here but I do it with sincerity of heart and transparency of spirit dr. Billy Wilson is one of my elders so there's seven people that I am accountable to in addition to my denomination which is the Assemblies of God and and it actually to God my wife my kids and then I have seven elders one of the seven elders is dr. Billy Wilson he's your president I know him as one of the most influential Kingdom leaders I love appreciate admire respect him so give it up for the best college president on the planet right here and William Wilson la sangre de cristo Padre USA or nobody hustles all right real quick we after we have like minutes we have to hurry up so this crazy thing happened it's a it's a long story sighs well give it to you real straight what happened like I like a few years ago two four seven eight nine eight years ago we were Church planning in Sacramento and so we're in Sacramento where church planning my wife and I and the church is booming the church plant but we were financially broke and and numerically rich financially broke and asking God were the resources we were ready from a church we were about to be kicked out because we outgrew the church we were running from and so we were about to be and then we invited a speaker to come in and she's very well known in the spirit of power charismatic prophetic movement and she came in and she's legitimate because there's a fine line between the prophetic and the pathetic and because yeah I've been in the presence of both but she's legitimate and so she deep and then she all of us are like she goes Samuel I have a word right now she's speaking that day I'm seeing it right here next to my wife and I'm going God's gonna speak to me about the finances how he has been a building for us people and nope she says Samuel the Lord says Hollywood like hashtag random what in the world Hollywood I'm driving back home I watched she is she's looking at me going like did what do you think about what what the word that was shared now we're like you know I'm not doubting it like I would have prefered like the Lord says a building paid in full but we are fine what do I say all of us say everything God said that day came to pass now by the grace of God I'm going to show you a trailer this is I'm executive producer of a film that's coming out Easter week with not with pure flix and God bless pure flix I love them partners but with 20th Century Fox so watch this it is do your google due diligence on this it is the first movie in history by a secular major studio 20th Century Fox it's the first movie ever by a secular studio where the main character is the Holy Spirit Hey hey Dorothy we're not in Kansas anymore god there's something amazing happening powerful III wonder I want to warn you because I am my youthfulness I was immature even in my preaching so I don't want you to make the same mistakes I made when I was in my 20s which was fine last year and the laughs and and I used to preach I would preach against Hollywood and I would condemn Hollywood and I would say silly stuff like Hollywood is of the devil and and it was just my legalistic mindset the moment you you declare with your mouth that something belongs to Satan then you're actually diluting your ability to speak prophetically into something that you've given away are you with me right now so don't judge it and don't condemn it speak life into it speak love into it speak troupe into it let me show you the trailer coming up Easter week rise and shine breakfast is ready in ten minutes and don't make me come back up there this is our town it's a close-knit community a kind of place where everyone knows everyone hi mister hey how are you girls and we're always there for each other nice sermon pastor well you guys have on for the rest today well John has a basketball game yeah I see this guy who pit up around here this kid is so rich text your mom tomorrow and when and where to pick you up and don't do anything stupid love you guys we're training for the Olympics er Jimmy he's been underwater for more than 15 minutes it's gonna be a recovery but a rescue [Music] we've done everything medically possible there's nothing more what you do please God send your spirit there's a must [Music] a fourteen-year-old st.
Charles boy who spent 15 minutes trapped underwater is continuing to fight for his life I don't believe John will survive the night you don't know my son he is a fighter so I need you to be the best for John and you just let God do the rest you are my pride and joy I can't wait to see you because baskets and run up and down again the Smith family asked for one thing please pray for John in the water that day I was ready to give up but then I hear this voice is telling me go back there are nuts or gods talking to you but I don't believe in God I believe but maybe that only goes so far something like this I'm your pastor I'm supposed to walk alongside you can for as long as it takes did you see the Facebook page going viral call me I hope is gonna be okay we're not going to get through this alone whatever you have for me from time the hallways hurt and I say that with fear and trembling the Holy Spirit spoke to my heart and say when I heard the story from the st. Louis Dispatch it was a secular news story about a boy who had died for an hour and 8 minutes 1 hour and 8 minutes 15 minutes underwater 45 minutes he couldn't find the pulse and then eight minutes post facto until mom came in an hour and eight minutes dead the moment I read it the Holy Spirit told me you're doing some great with this I'm gonna enable you to do this and I and I and God just told me make it into a movie there was a problem I have like no like what do how do what do i do call someone up and say I want a movie you know this what do you mean make it into a movie you're making it into a movie so I have a friend of my mean I just I heard from God and by coincidence one of my besties happens to be a guy named davon Franklin Meghan Goodes hubby just so de bon is one of my just friends we spend Christmas together we hang out my buddies so he is an executive at one of the movie studios but you don't want to like be awkward and like you know exploit your relationships so like God said you're making it into a movie I'm going like the only one I know is this guy so I said Devon I have your next movie and he said that's what everyone tells me pastor Sam like good luck with that I gave him the idea initially and he kind of like shrugged me off and we're like oh that's adorable ain't that special so I set him up and put him in a studio to make a long story short it's a done thing and Easter week it's a given and by the way we came out our trailer came out the same week as Captain Marvel's trailer so what what timing and we went like oh yeah right like we're gonna beat the Avengers right so Rick weren't it's us against Marvel like who's gonna win well in full disclosure Captain Marvel had 13 million views we had 36 million views to the banner 25 and if you google it right now we have over 100 million views on a trailer for a faith-based film I'm gonna I'm gonna share with you briefly about the story and we have a limited amount of time so I want to expedite the process John chapter 5 let me tell you what God's Spirit place in my heart for you and the message is you are next you are next what is próximo you are next you are next George this is my travel assistant and I want you to help me illustrate this this is a poor man's illustration because we have a like a map we just found randomly and it's just like not well coordinated but we're gonna make this happen so I want you to visually capture was gonna happen here you are next is the story of a paralyzed man let me read it for you John chapter five so this is about this is about a guy who always missed his turn he explicitly a man was paralyzed and he was paralyzed for 38 years he states in the seventh verse of John chapter five that he will always miss his turn because he was dependent on someone else he was paralyzed and we don't know who we were not privy to how long he was next to a body of water the pool where on occasion an angel would come down and stir up the waters and the first person to step in would receive your miracle but we do know is that he said every single time he thought it was his turn he would miss it so I'm gonna ask you right now if you've ever missed your turn in life using it as a metaphor if you've ever missed your turn where you knew like that was your turn by your route if you ever missed your turn spiritually relationally speaking whatever it may be at least one turn in life raised one hand if you've missed a couple of turns in life or you and I wish I would have taken that exit raise both hands if you've missed so many turns and if I google your name automatically the word rerouting would show up and this message is for you because I'm believing prophetically that after today you're never gonna miss your turn again in Jesus name we got a hurry on this we got 20 minutes to land this John chapter 5 afterward Jesus returned to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish holy days inside the city to the sheep gate was the pool of bethesda with five covered porches crowd to sick people blind lame or paralyze lay on the porch waiting for a certain move into the water for an angel the Lord would come from time to time and stirred up the water one of the men lying there had been sick for 38 years when Jesus saw him and knew he had been ill for a long time he asked him would you like to get well I can't serve the sick man said for I have no one to put me into the pool when the water bubbles up someone else gets there ahead of me Jesus told them stand up pick up your mat and walk instantly the man was healed he rolled up his sleeping and began walking but this miracle happened on the Sabbath but this miracle happened on Sabbath this the title of the sermon that I want to share with you this message you are next but that but the subtitle is but it happens on the Sabbath the god that makes it happen when it's not supposed to happen but it happened on the Sabbath the word bud is a conjunction it's the quintessential grammatical disruptor in my generation when I hear of cannae here but I think of conjunction junction what's your function how would you know that [Music] Santo Dios are you are not bothering but but but on the Sabbath but on the Sabbath we won't be aware of paralysis crowds of sick people blind lame and paralyzed lay on the porch the condition was paralysis he was paralyzed to be paralyzed as to lack mobility in action to be in a perpetual state of stagnation and here's a revelation every single person here if at least for one minute or one second we've all suffered from paralysis not physical but spiritually speaking emotionally financially relationally we have all been for at least one moment paralyzed maybe right now there's paralysis in your life there's a lack of in mobility and action and measurable outcome paralyzed integrity paralyzed faith paralyzed dreams paralyzed destiny paralyzed loved ones paralyzed ministries anointing joy peace future worship paralyzed by what paralyzed by sin sin paralyzes paralyzed by failure by fear the past shame religious condemnation self-pity a perpetual victimization mentality erroneous thoughts abuse broken relationships unforgiveness unbelief paralyzed by the constant need to be affirmed and validated like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like paralyzed by fear a fear of windows of what you see in the outside world a fear of mirrors of what you see within yourself paralyzed by permitting others to define us paralyzed by the opinions of others what others say about us we live at a time of great paralysis to a great degree a generation multiple generations are paralyzed the nation is paralyzed the world to a great degree is paralyzed but I want you to hear me the greatest paralysis emerges when we do not know who we are it's an issue that dr. Wilson and I referenced yesterday in the imagined summit in the conference this issue of identity we are paralyzed by the lack of a viable christ-centered bible-based spirit empowered identity what does that mean let me remind you what defines you in order to repudiate every single message of paralysis you are not defined by what surrounds you you are defined by God's Spirit inside of you you are not defined by your circumstance you were defined by his company you are not defined by the hell you're going through you're defined by the heaven you're going to you were not defined by your failures you were defined by his forgiveness for all of my Facebook Twitter and Instagram brothers and sisters you were not defined by the likes of Lenny you are defined by the love of ones it's into other religious folk you're not even defined by what you do for God you're defined by what God already did for you you're defined by Galatians 2:20 my own self has been crucified with Christ it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me people are paralyzed paralyzed and I want you to hear me carefully we have to push back there is a present paralysis that is emerging from mass culture and it's an it's counterintuitive to the centrality of Scripture there is an attempt to paralyze us with a perpetual victimization mentality what does that mean everyone is a victim everyone is a victim everyone is a victim and you're a victim for a lifetime and everyone has a hashtag movement and there are movements that require hashtags and there are movements that are viable that require us to articulate prophetic activism and to engage fully in order to addressing justices but man we can't drink the kool-aid because you can't say that you're a Christian and you are a permanent victim when the Bible says that we are more than conquerors through Christ our Lord so we have to push back on that idea paralyzed this woman found herself paralyzed Joyce Smith the mom this boy drowns for 15 minutes goes underwater in a lake outside of st.
Louis he goes under in January this is 2015 and it was thawing out they weren't privy to it he's hanging around with two friends all three of them go under two of them come out of hypothermia rescued with my first responders but John Smith goes under 15 minutes couldn't find his cadaver couldn't find his body he's gone it's a deep lake frozen lake he's gone matter of fact the first responder was already beginning and they were excavating breaking the ice breaking through and they covered a significant portion of the lake and all of a sudden one of the first responders hears from the shoreline go back two feet so the first responders like looking like are you kidding me I just covered that area we're gonna be here all day and it's already of course it's no longer it's just recoveries no longer a rescue and he heard again go back two feet so he heard from the shoreline someone yelling go back two feet so he went back the very area he just covered one two coincidentally right there the undercurrent was pushing the body he put his hook down and he picked up the cadaver which is John Smith a pretty interesting story since when that guy went back to his firehouse and he asked his captain how in the world did you know there were no drones and no infrared how were you aware that the body was there after I covered a space and this captain said what are you talking about and he said when you yelled go back two feet and his and his captain said I never yelled and he said no you yelled and you yelled it loudly and you repeated go back two feet he said I never said anything well no you yelled I did not yeah in the matter of fact no one yelled no one spoke someone told me to go back two feet and the captain looks at him and says no one spoke to you man and he said well someone spoke to me loud and clear the captain said it must be gone the first responder said it must be God but there's a problem the captain says what's the problem I don't believe in God or he did not believe in God before anyway so this woman was paralyzed by her circumstance and she's paralyzed and she walks into she walks into the hospital room they call her in and her boy the cadaver of the boy is laying there on the bed and the doctor one hour and eight minutes they tried everything he's dead completely brain dead heart dead one hour and eight minutes nothing nada zilch it's gone so they bringing the mom to say goodbye mom comes in touches the feet of the boy and this is all she says nothing else no other conversation nothing else not like she went in there and went god I can't believe you took away my boy they didn't do any of that she walked in there and she did the following she touched the boy's feet and she looked at the doctors and nurses that were there and the st. Louis Dispatch article said that she yelled so loudly that everyone in the emergency floor heard her prayer so it wasn't like a very introverted casual you know very conservative reserved prayer and that's that's fine if you're engaging in your conservative introverted not emotionally exuberant sort of thing that's god bless my son Leslie xx man that's cool that's if you want to pray like Spock you do that that's not that that's not what she did she walked in there and she did the opposite she prayed like Kirk and William Shatner so she actually raised her voice and she said this is what she said verbatim Holy Spirit bring back my son right now not five minutes later not four minutes later or not three minutes later not two minutes later not even 30 seconds later the moment she finished brain every single machine in that room turned on right there right I'm here to tell you that there is power I'm here to tell you that there is anointing I'm here to tell you that it's not made up that God answers prayers are you with me right now matter of fact let me speak to you prophetically John Smith is now 18 years of age he's completely fine and I don't mean not even a limp hey guys he was brain dead he was completely dead I mean you tell me no oxygen he should be in a vegetative state nope he should be in a wheelchair no he should be walking around of a limp nope he is completely perfectly 100% who does that so let me speak to you she was paralyzed but all of a sudden she stood up in her circumstance Jesus looks at this man who was paralyzed he looks at him and he says do you want to get well he says I can't I can't wrong answer first of all my query requires a yes or no response do you want to get well it's yes or no sunshine he comes out and says I can't and let me speak parenthetically now obviously you can't if you could you wouldn't be there in the first place I never asked you if you could it's real simple it's you're a narcissist man not only is your body paralyzed your spirit is paralyzed your faith is paralyzed your mouth is paralyzed your thinking is paralyzed because you think it's about you you said I can hey get over yourself it's not about your ability it's about my anointing it's not about your gift it's about my grace it's not about your potential it's about my power get over yourself man it's not about you it's about the power of God in you with you and through you and all of a sudden Jesus looks at him and says the following he tells him to do His Majesty can appoint the man just said I can't and Jesus could have said deuces I'm out I can't work with you there's too much negativity too much negative energy he said I can't and Jesus ignored that do your biblical due diligence please Jesus ignores what he just said and tells them to stand up no no you missed it I'm the only one here probably I am grateful for every single time that God ignored the foolish stuff that came out of my mouth when I told god I couldn't he said I'm still gonna do it when I said I give up he says no you're not it's not about you it's about my spirit inside of you so he told him to stand up which means that he spoke he spoke to his he taught me and by the way look it up do your Greek oxygen on the passage he speaks to him and he's telling him to stand up not in a hypothetical not a theoretical recommendation stand up is a command exclamation point you're missing it Jesus looks at a paralyzed man who just said I can't and he tells the man stand up no you missed it it was a command now I wonder how could I put this Jesus wasn't asking him to stand up he was ordering him to stand up now put it differently but this thing had no choice but to stand up God God God Jesus didn't speak to his drama he spoke to his destiny he didn't he didn't speak to the problem he spoke to the promise are you with me right now he told him to stand up God was to his purpose and what did he do he stood up so I'm here to tell you why are we here we have seven minutes left I'm here to tell you just like John Smith stood up and he got up because this mom opened up her mouth I'm here to tell you there's a generation that has been deemed that's paralyzed there's a generation that already the obituary of Christianity and viable measurable biblical orthodoxy has been written I'm here to tell you that your generation will do greater things than my generation and the generation before that what does that mean let me prophesy to you you're gonna see an awakening that will make a Susan look like an opening act you're about to see God show up so here's what we're gonna do at the count of three George I want you to stand up but you're not representing us yourself you're representing an entire generation that's about to stand up and shine the light of Christ and he can write and preach the gospel around the world with signs and wonders like we've never seen before we're about to see your generation and the world says it is paralyzed that even some in the church say it is paralyzed that generation is about to stand up paint change the world that's what you're gonna do ready at the count of three look at your neighbor tell them neighbor this is for me paralysis ends right here right now I dare you to look at your other neighbor and tell them never again will I be paralyzed never again will I miss my turn in the name of Jesus in Jesus name my family my faith and my future will never be paralyzed again we are about to stand we are about the span we are about to stand one two three stand up George stand up stand up and be holy stand up and be one stand up and be light stand up stand up we gotta hurry right gonna pick up penny all right stand with but you are standing okay yeah hold on so by the way Ezekiel 2:1 stand up and I will speak to you acts 2:14 stand up and I will speak through you and Peter stood up and raised his voice standing up is prophetic it is a posture this is a metaphor it's a prophetic application not just in the physical but in the spiritual in your generation we need you to stand up but not only that watch this Jesus could have said hey you're walking you're walking you're about you're doing what you couldn't do before you you're doing what you couldn't do before and and and Jesus could have said I'm done but he didn't he told them nope all right now that you're standing standing up he told him pick up that mat now why would he tell him to pick up the mat because he would have if you would have left the mat behind there would have been an expectation that one day he may actually go back to that place let me explain when you pick up your mat you are telling both heaven and hell you are telling your friends and your haters and more importantly you're telling yourself I don't live there anymore I'll dare you to shout I don't live there anymore I don't live in sin anymore I don't live in fear anymore I don't live in anxiety anymore I don't live in depression anymore I don't live in failure anymore I live there [Applause] you don't live there anymore you're not who you used to be you were a new creation second Corinthians 5:17 you were a new creation you're not who you used to be do not and don't hang around people don't hang around people that would like you to go back to that place don't surround yourself with people that like to resurrect what God has crucified or crucify where God has resurrected so he told them pick up your mat I need you to pick up your mat and it did he tells him start walking so he starts walking he starts walking I need you in your generation not only to stand up repudiate all vestiges of paralysis and start walking but I want you to hear me my wife has an anointing for shopping and my bank account bears witness to that very undeniable truth and she has an anointing / addiction for shopping and and we go to the Roseville Galleria in Sacramento right and and so the Galleria Mall in Sacramento is so more my I drop off my wife she never touches door handles because there are no door handles all the doors are automatic sensors what does that mean I drop her off I parked the car I get off the car I'm in the parking lot there are doors that are completely closed no door handles but I keep on walking and I don't slow down I'm walking out of the parking lot and I'm walking towards the doors the doors are closed and I'm still walking and I get on the sidewalk those doors are still closed but I'm still walking and I keep on walking I don't slow down because I know that I know that there's a sensor that will read my presence and there will come a time when that sensor acknowledges Who I am that door doors will open up in my favor I'm here to tell you when you walk by faith and not by when you walk second Corinthians 5:7 when you walk Galatians 5:16 driven by the spirit and not by the flesh I don't care how close but bars may be I'm here to tell you when you pursue righteousness and you're full of Jesus the doors will open up in your favor [Applause] because there's nothing in your past that can stop you and nothing in your future that can stand in your way I'm dying I'm gonna give it to dr.
