what's going on my name is Will and I have the honor and the privilege as serving as one of the leaders here at Transformation Church I just want to say thank you so much for tuning in from wherever you are watching from and if you haven't already be sure to like And subscribe we believe that God has such an incredible word for you today so let's jump into this amazing message hi I love you love so good to see you so grateful to be here with you all and uh so honored um to serve today I'm so grateful for your pastors uh Michael and Natalie and The Visionaries that they are to this house and to TC Nation literally all over the world thank you all for being a part of this movement this church um so happy for pastors Charles and Abby and anybody else that needs to quit their church I can help if you're about to make a decision and you need some clarity holl at your boy I'll help you out I guess I'm so excited to be a part of this series um it could not have come to me at a more specific time and a more relevant time we have been in a series uh called receipts right and um Michael has walked us through all of these uh attributes that that contain the fruit of the Holy Spirit there's no s on the end of it right this is not bananas and grapes and apples and cherries it's one fruit that has all of these this different attributes in it and growing up Pentecostal charismatic I saw firsthand people that claim to have the Holy Ghost but did not bear any of that fruit and so I'm so grateful for a pastor that would literally slow walk us through week by week by week by week by week just all the things that the Holy Spirit living in US produces through us and it is no accident that I'm supposed to talk about what I'm supposed to talk about today cuz child when I tell you I've been tested the last six days [Music] I think it was the holy spirit's quality assurance check to make sure like I want to make sure you have this receipt in your pocket you know how some people when you get a receipt if you if you're good with your money and your taxes and stuff you keep receipts and you file them away I think the Holy Spirit was like Pat in my pockets like you need to have this on you now I'm going to make sure you have it on you so uh I'm my assignment today is is gentleness yeah on we have to talk about this gentleness that the Holy Spirit the person of the Holy Spirit produces in and through us I know we've been walking through this uh for weeks now but I I want to read Galatians 5:22 and 23 again uh because I'm a word guy and and I just can't get tired of the Bible but the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives love joy peace patience kindness goodness faithfulness my weak [Music] gentleness the hood dude from Cali whose brother founded a gang gentleness yes so if you're taking notes how many note takers do I have in the room yes you better be keep your hand up if you real cuz you a nerd if you take notes keep your hand up don't be ashamed just but now now that your hand is up look down your row at who's not raising their hand cuz those people will work for you one day cuz nerds rule the world I'm so sorry the people that take the notes they actually rule the world so two words write this down this is a regular degular uh like I don't have no Jazzy message two words be gentle that's the title of this message be gentle would you say that with me be gentle would you do it at my Cadence please be gentle one more time be gentle bow your heads let's pray Holy Spirit help us to be gentle amen this is a Praying church if you need me to go into more intercession how much what are you doing I'm the one you w over for Thanksgiving dinner cuz we will eat it while it's hot we'll pray for Nations later we going to eat this this mac and cheese [Applause] now um obviously Mike has done an incredible job walking us through uh this series I I just want to remind you that when it comes to the attributes that we have been uh articulating in the last several weeks when we're talking about the holy spirit's fruit I need you to keep in mind that the Holy Spirit does not care about your personality if the holy spirit's in you he is going to make you produce this fruit he does not care that you are not a loving person yeah he's going to make you love he does not care that you're a impatient person he's G to make you patient he does not care if you're not a gentle person that's just not me he's going to make you him you was never never meant to be you he did not die for you to be you Jesus died for you to turn into him so I just want to establish the groundwork first you can't skip none of these attributes patience ain't my weak you know that's just not the way I'm wired oh you going to be if you're really submitted to the holy spirit's work in your life you are going to turn into this type of person ask me how I know cuz for the last 28 years he has been turning me into him in ways I never asked for I never once came to the altar line like Lord make me a patient person he just put me in situations that produce that fruit I call it the teabag test you never going to know what you got or not until you put it into a pot that's boiling hot it's just better when it Rhymes it's the teabag test you're never going to know what you got or not until you put it in a pot that's boiling hot why do I say that because until you are putting hot water you don't know what's in you I could hold back I could hold up a teabag from right here you without having a laser acute awareness and discernment you wouldn't be able to go that's chamomile that's Ginger but you put it in hot water yeah and whatever is on the inside is going to seep out and you don't know that you have these attributes until you are put in situations where it's going to be imperative oh they got that fruit or God's still working on them y'all pray they strengthen the Lord they they not they don't have it yet so so I I want to I want to deal with uh three ways that gentleness uh shows up in our lives as Manifest through the Holy Spirit In Our Lives it comes through accents it comes through our attitude and it comes through our actions gentleness is an accent it is an attitude and it is an action I'm say it one more time gentleness is an accent it is an attitude and it is an action let's deal with the accent first Proverbs 15:1 says a gentle answer deflects anger but harsh words make tempers flare Proverbs 15:4 gentle words are a tree of life a deceitful tongue crushes the spirit Proverbs 25:15 patience can persuade a prince and soft speech new King James literally says gentle words can break bones do you have the accent of gentleness how do you talk to the people that you love how do you talk to the people that you hate because when he when he when he produces the fruit of gentleness in your heart it's not just for people that are nice when you get the accent it's supposed to work on people that you love and people that you hate it's supposed to work on people that you like and people that you dislike never did I get checked more by the Holy Spirit than when I got married to Juliet I could not believe how much he was on my neck when I got married to this girl now I come from a loud family we just loud for no reason we loud all the time and when you are from a family that's loud you don't know you loud CUA everybody is loud so this is normal tone for me and I'm not even hyped yet I come in the house what's [Laughter] good nothing was even funny just walked in there ah we just loud didn't I get married to Juliet we talking about something she's like well babe I don't I don't really like that you did that and I was like I wouldn't what what I don't see what the problem is and she's like why you yelling I'm like I ain't yelling I'm just passionate [Applause] about what we talking about right now I mean you said your part I'm saying my part I don't see what the big deal is ain't nobody mad this just my tone so then I wake up to have my devotion time for he is Lord he he is Lord he has risen from the dead and he is Lord every knee shall bow every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord Holy Spirit I want to talk to I want to talk to you about your tongue last night [Music] for he's my [Music] Lord he's my Lord like cuz you can't be talking to me about my tone last night did you hear her tone last night he said I want to talk to you about your tone last night I want to talk to you about your accent that was not gentle that was not gentle yes it was anybody beside me have a conversation with the Holy Spirit you're just not going to talk to me and I'm not going to talk back I know you a holy spirit I'm not going to disrespect you and you going to get this feedback from me cuz I don't just you you the one brought the subject up so he said this is literally what he said to me he said I want you to watch your tone with my daughter I said have you had this same conversation with [Applause] her he said we ain't talking about her right now and can I just pause and say when the Holy Spirit is speaking 99. 2% of the time he talking about you if you hear a spirit speaking to you about other people in the negative all the time that's not the Holy Spirit oh it's a spirit it's just not the holy spirit it's a demonic spirit a demon wants to talk to you about other people the Holy Spirit wants to talk to you about you he not checking for the other person he wants to know do you have the receipt we ain't talking about they receipt we talking about yours fix your tongue got to fix your or accent I'm learning Spanish right now and the the the the accent is so important it it actually communicates to Spanish speaking people that you're actually doing the work to to to sound like an authentic Spanish speaker a story in the Indo espanol see see if I were to walk up to a Spanish-speaking person right and say esto a prendo espanol like they would be like okay better okay the accent is important you can't fake Gent gentleness let me tell you what fake gentleness actually is pettiness I couldn't go back to Juliet and say holy spirit told me to fix my tone so I mean you know I'm gentle now you happy yeah sorry you good I won't be loud no more you are right now is my tone good now can you hear me now you're not gentle you're Petty so the accent has to be precise you got to roll your RS that's not Roberto that's Roberto if he deep in Latin America he's rigoberto right so so the so the accent is important everybody say the accent is important accent is important you got to get the accent right gentleness is an accent it is a tone and and you don't know if you got it until somebody hit you with with something where you would usually be like what and then you like what it's a tone when I tell you I've been tested with this real time in the last six days my family has been threatened twice and I received notification uh from a friend of mine that um I'm part of the Christian Illuminati I didn't even know until last night and I am a hood dude from Cali I started rapping when I was nine years old I started battle rapping when I was 13 I was always a skinny dude everybody used to bag on me so I got really really precise with my words I have made grown men cry pre-s salvation I'm not proud of it I'm not like trying to say it like but but so so that and that's my first nature I was born in sin shap and in iniquity and so when somebody comes at me i' be like you go first I go last there's no rounds you going first and I'm going last cuz when I'm done you going to need therapy for seven years I never played Fair folks would be like you you so skinny you you you you look like you from Ethiopia and they would sing literally We are the world we are the children like when we me and my brother walked to school they be like they called us the Ethiopian twins it was sad it was very sad I appreciate your sentiment but I was like where's your [Music] dad you have no dad you have no future [Applause] tempers would flare and because I'm skinny I ran I did I wouldn't I would have got beat up so I ran as a believer in Jesus all that is still in me here's what you got to this is why you got to keep your receipts on you you can't have them filed away that takes too long to go rummage them up they got to be on you because when you get tested you got to produce the receipt right then and there you don't get to spaz and then come back I'm so sorry I acted unseemly in that moment no at some point the Holy Spirit should be producing enough fruit that you get to the back to the house later and you go I used to cut people I didn't even like I I I did I did not even this past week would would have been I would have been Justified they text my wife this wasn't like a comment on social media they s they got the number in text that's that's grounds for termination the only tone either one of us had was oh man we have to pray for this person they're hurting they're really really hurting which brings us to the attitude let's go through these Attitude scriptures I I'm giving you I'm giving you scriptures and passages so you can stand on the word when when it comes to gentleness you got to have a word to stand on and I'm telling you when you start producing this type of fruit in your life when when it when it really manifests your life becomes so much easier cuz you're not going to be dealing with what other people deal with other people are stressing they're fragile they're every post is triggering them and you're just like it's fine people disagree with you and and and and and try to pick fights and you're just like it's fine you're you're going to be all right because I've produced I'm producing gentleness Matthew chapter number 11:29 says this this is Jesus talking take my yoke upon you let me teach you because I am humble and gentle at heart this is an attitude and you will find rest for your souls Ephesians 4:2 always be humble and gentle so this is not something that you like pick up and put down that's this meant to be a permanent attribute of the holy spirit all of them are always be humble and gentle be patient with each other make allowance for each other's faults because of your love oh can I pause right here gentleness produces understanding when you really take on the attribute of gentleness understanding is one of the subsequent results because when you're when you're interacting with people and when you're in relationships and you become a gentle soul other people don't bother you no more because you understand them you simply understand when this person doesn't eat they are hangry it is not personal you understand other people you know what the only PR the only reason why this person keeps lashing out like this is because they have a untreated father wound this has nothing to do with me this has to do with their family of origin between zero and six years old I was not around however I'm the closest thing to them right now and so they're taking it out on me you don't have to internalize and personalize everything when you're gentle because gentleness produces understanding everything Ain't About You I'mma help some I'mma free some people right now the average person in this room doesn't have one hater let alone five you can't hate somebody you don't know what you have is a misunderstanding from afar somebody misunderstood your Facebook post and wrote you a angry dissertation in response and if you read it thoroughly you will find out they don't know me they're not even mad at me they're mad at somebody else that they can't reach and so they put something in my comment section that's all that is good very good 1 Timothy 3:3 this is the qualification for a leader Lord have mercy we need to do a review for these leaders 1 Timothy 3:3 he must not be a heavy drinker or be violent he must be gentle this next two words is in contrast to the gentleness not quarrelsome and not love money hear me attitude he must be gentle not quarrelsome he must be gentle not quarrelsome a gentle person does not argue I'm not saying that they don't have conversation or they can't even be in a heated exchange what I'm saying is they're not a nitpicky quarrelsome person they're not looking for a negative thing to attack and to always bring up and condescend and talk down a gentle person doesn't do that a gentle person has all the other attributes that Mike has taught and then they're gentle yeah never have I found out how much I have this receipt it must not be in my pocket it must be pinned to my chest cuz in the last two years as a podcast Pastor I can't tell you how many people have been trying to pick fights but that receipt is in my pocket there's bread in my pocket on this side and there's gentleness in my pocket on this side so the reaction video and the comment sections and the this that and the other I'm just like a they want to fight Holy Spirit can I fight he's like no and I'm like but I are you sure I can't tell y'all how many times I have been in the comment section and take and and and and and literally written out what I thought was a holy spirit response and the Holy Spirit is on the inside of me watching me type the whole thing and I'm checking in like this good right like this is good this got to be good right this got to be good and the Holy Spirit was like he lets me get the whole thing done then he's like delete that anybody beside me I mean you crafted it you had scriptures everything I got the I mean the whole thing was structured I had hyperlinks everything I mean I that thing was I put Logos Bible app quotations in the middle of like the whole thing was ready and the Holy Spirit was like delete that I was like why can't I and the Holy Spirit just gave me my parameters my the parameters are you are not to engage with anybody unless you are talking to them in person it's easy to hate somebody a far off it's hard to hate up close I need to feel your energy I can't feel that through a text I can't feel that through a comment I need to feel I need to I need to attune to your nervous system I need to know what's going on I need to I need to pick up on the traumatic wounds because the hurt is talking but I don't know where you are gentleness allows you to have that so we have accent we have uh the attitude of gentleness I want to deal with now um the actions and there are these two passages in uh James and in Peter uh that are profound to me so so I just want you to here can I just encourage everybody if you haven't done so if you've never done this I want you to feel no shame but if if you've never read the whole Bible I implore you to read the whole Bible if you've never you know when when uh when people get saved they'll say hey I'm I'm a new believer uh where should I start and I'm like from Genesis I mean it's the beginning but I don't understand and then the bats and them all them big names and them and I'm just like just read it cuz the Holy Spirit given by Jesus promised that he would bring all things back to your memory but he can't bring it back if it ain't in there so I think a lot of people have been playing duck duck goose with scripture where they've literally just stapled the famous passages they have like Psalm 23 stapled to Psalm 91 staple to Isaiah 54:17 stapled to Jeremiah 29:11 staple to John 36 staple to Ephesians 3:20 and then when life hits them in a different way they only got those seven verses and then you wonder why what how come did they know that this whole passage was in the Bible no they never read it so if you would take a journey through the entire Bible it would literally bring you a peace you have never understood in your life right James chapter number 3: 13-18 if you are wise and understand God's ways prove it by living an honorable life doing good works with the humility that comes from wisdom but if you are bitterly jealous and there is selfish ambition in your heart don't cover up the truth with boasting and lying for jealousy and selfishness are not God kind of wisdom such things are Earthly unspiritual and demonic for whever there is jealousy and selfish ambition there there you will find disorder and evil of every kind but the wisdom from above is first of all pure it is also peaceloving gentle at all times and willing to yield to others it is full of mercy and the fruit of Good Deeds it shows no favoritism and is always sincere and those who are peacemakers will plant seeds of peace and reap a harvest of righteousness y'all the Bible's good when I tell you that thing is tasty it is is absolutely tasty this is where you get into the action and the lifestyle of being a gentle person I'm gentle because it's going to help all relationships it's going to help me with everybody it helps me with my wife it helps me with my children but it also helps me with the public because it doesn't matter what they're bringing up and it doesn't matter what they're talking about if I'm gentle gentleness will not interrupt your sentence gentleness is not defensiveness gentleness is power wrapped in peace somebody needs to write that down gentleness is power wrapped in peace now again I'm from the hood so all of my references are Hood based let me tell you what gentleness looked like on the street gentl on the street look like this you should have died for that but I'mma let you live let me tell you how extravagant that gift is the person that didn't even know how close they were to death never knows cuz the person never told told him Tim why would you bring that up that's a little bit okay let me bring you back to the Bible Jesus did the same thing on the cross those Romans and those Pharisees had no idea how close they were to death he was being gentle on that cross why don't you call down a legion of angels to help you if he would have said say less while he is out up there bleeding out for the sins of both you and I if he would have been like and they mocking him they've already pulled out his beard they've already ripped his back open his whole face is disfigured they've crushed Thorns into his head they have punched them they have pierced them they have poked them if they if that person would have been like if you really the son of God why don't you do something about it if he would have been like okay what we wouldn't even be here right now Jesus could have eat Rome we would have all went to hell that was gentleness the same one that blew breath into Adam's lungs has appointed a day for all of Adam to die yeah and he could have just moved up the date that was gentleness gentleness is literal power wrapped in peace I could crush you but I love you too much I don't have permission to cook you don't think I can't though and that's the thing you got to understand gentleness is not weakness I got to help somebody because if you do this right if you've been like a Brash person and you always clap back and somebody GNA get this work and if you if you've been that type of personality when you first allow the holy spirit's gentleness to take control of your life it's going to feel like you dying and that's cuz you are you better read Galatians 2:20 I am crucified with Christ CHR present tense it wasn't P it doesn't say I was I am crucified with Christ it's no longer I who lives but Christ that lives on the inside of me so the only thing I can give you is what he put in me through the Holy Spirit I have some other stuff I would love to give you except he said I can't you're welcome now this is I'm about to read you this and then we done one of the reasons why I want you to to take the time to read the whole Bible is you do it once and you're like wow that was a big accomplishment but the more you do it the more the story the whole overarching narrative starts to make sense so I'm about to read you first Peter 3 8-17 before I read it to you I want to remind you who wrote it before I even read it what I'm about to read you was written by the guy who had the hottest temper in Jesus's Camp what I'm about to read you was written by the guy who was ready to fight everybody on Jesus's behalf what I'm about to read you was written by the guy that when Jesus himself said the son of man has to die for the sins of the world he was like no you're not I got you fam that's not going to happen to you nothing ever is going to happen to you and I will never leave your side Jesus said before the rooster crows three times you would have denied me three times no I won't yes he did and when they came up to him to be like you look like him you sound like him I think you've been around him he went to cussing him out to try to prove he was somebody else after they went to the Garden of Gethsemane the soldiers came to get him Peter pulled out his sword swung at a dude cut his ear off now if bro was Zoro that would have been like a dope thing he missed that wouldn't have been the ear that would have been a heads split blow wasn't trying to warn him he was trying to off him he swung the dude must have he caught his ear it fell off Jesus was like man that's gentleness Peter when Jesus died he went back to his old job fishing with his underwear on read your Bible and then in Acts chapter number two the Hol he got filled with the Holy Spirit and that angry hot-tempered curing fighting cutting man turned into this finally all of you should be of one mind sympathize with each other love each other as brothers and sisters be tenderhearted and keep a humble attitude who is writing this this can't be the same Peter that don't repay evil for evil py py not you talking you can't be don't repay evil with evil you was about that life py you writing it who got you writing like this don't retaliate with insults when people insult you [Applause] py pay them back instead pay them back with a blessing that is what God has called you to do and He will grant you his Blessing for the scriptures say if you want to enjoy life and see many happy days keep your tongue from speaking evil and your lips from telling lies Turn Away From Evil and do good search for peace and work to maintain it the eyes of the Lord watch over those who do right and his ear ears are open to their prayers but the Lord turns his face against those who do evil now who will want to harm you if you are eager to do good but even if you suffer for doing what is right God will reward you for it so don't worry or be afraid of their threats pety said this instead you must worship Christ as Lord of your life and if someone ask about your hope as a Believer always be ready to explain it but do this in a gentle and respectful way keep your conscience clear then if people speak against you they will be ashamed when they see what a good life you live because you belong to Christ remember it is better to suffer for doing good if that is what God wants than to suffer for doing wrong yo the manifestation of fruit and this passage lets me know that Peter got the receipt of gentleness great this is one of the messages that you just have to this is a message this whole series has been a series where you just have to grow up yes you can't keep making excuses for your attitude well I was cool up until they said then they they G to have to learn to respect me no pet Peter literally says in this last verse it is better to suffer for doing good if that was God wants than for suffer for doing wrong so many of us have found ourselves in bad situations because we was trying to keep it real I had to let him know I'm not the one but Jesus was he was the one and he chose to show humility and gentleness I got to tell y'all it's not always easy but when I tell you the peace of God that rest in your heart when you don't have a lot of drama going back and forth when you don't have to lay your head on the pillow and silently regret all the things you said that day did that day behave that day acted that day I told you about the re The Reckless text messages I told you about the um the the dumb post and then last night I got to the airport at 5:55 to come to toasta to preach today first plane had a mechanical [Music] issue they put me on another flight we get on the flight flight that flight's missing a panel it's supposed to be coming over from another place and then everybody gets a phone update that that flight has been changed to 12:00 p. m.
