Bishop Noel Jones Preaching - The Devil Wants You to Fear the Fire

[music] I want you to go with me for a few minutes. I was going one way. Uh and then you know I remember the old time preacher would say the Lord changed his thought as if the as if the Lord didn't know what he wanted him to do before the foundation of the world.

Uh it's the preacher who didn't know what the Lord wanted. And so I think I caught up now. Uh go with me to Daniel chapter 3 and I won't keep you long.

Uh you know some messages you can uh get into and and find a way out of quickly. Uh others you get stuck. You just got to go all the way.

In Daniel chapter 3, of course, we all know the story very well uh of Nebuchadnezzar and uh the king of course made an image of gold and I'll read very quickly uh whose height was three score cubits and the breath three score thereof six cubits and he set it up in the plain of Dua in the province of Babylon. This is Daniel chapter 3. And of course the king he sent to gather together the princes, the governors, the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs and all the rulers of the provinces to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.

Then the princes of course they repeat all of them uh they gathered together unto the dedication verse three of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up and they stood before the image that the king had set up. And then and Herald cried aloud to you it is commanded oh people nations and languages that at the time you hear the sound of the cornet flute harp sack but sultry doulamer and all kinds of music you fall down and worship the golden image at the Nebuchadnezzar the king had set it up and who so there's always you know there's always something and who so fallth not down and worshipeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace Therefore, at the time when you hear, of course, the sound of the cornet flute to harp, sack, but sultry and all kinds of music, all the people, the nations, and the languages fell down, worshiped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar, the king had them. Uh, wherefore at that time certain calaldanss came near and accused the Jews.

They spake and said to the king Nebuchadnezzar, "Oh king, live forever. Thou, oh king, hast made a decree that every man that shall hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sack, bud, sultry, doosmer, and all kinds of music shall fall down and worship the golden image. And who so fallth not down and worship it uh that he would be cast into the midst of burning fiery furnace.

There are certain Jews whom thou has set up now, and I imagine they emphasize who thou has set up over the affairs of the province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. these men, oh king, have not regarded thee. They serve not thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.

Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage, notice now, rage and fury, commanded to bring Shadrach, Meach, and Abednego. And then they brought these men before the king. Nebuchadnezzar spake unto said unto them, "Is it true, oh Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego?

Do you not ye serve my gods? " Now notice now he separates his gods from the golden image nor worship the golden image which I have set up. Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the coinet flute harp sack but sultry and duc and all kinds of music you fall down and worship the image which I have made.

Well, but if you worship not ye shall be cast this same hour in the midst of a burning fire furnace. And who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands? Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego answered and said unto the king, "Oh Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful.

We're not careful at all to answer you concerning this matter. If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, oh king. But if not, be it known unto thee, oh king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.

Now notice 19. Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his vad was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He commanded the furnace to be heated seven times hotter than it was.

He got all his mighty men and told them to throw them in the fire. And of course, the mighty men died outside the fire. And the boys were alive in the fire.

And he looked in the fire, and he was astoned. in verse 24 and rose up in haste and spake and said unto his counselors did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire. They answered and said unto the king, true king, he answered and said, lo, I see four men loose walking in the midst of the fire and they have no hurt and the form of the fourth and the real interpretation should be is like one of the gods like the son of God.

Look at somebody uh with all the ebullians you can muster and tell them I'm not built to break when you consider and I I I think I should consider Nebuchadnezzar first because Nebuchadnezzar, believe it or not, was a very narcissistic, egoomaniacal tyrant. He was extremely Have you ever seen anyone who is really sold on themselves? And it's interesting that he conquered Nineveh, a city that was claimed never to be conquered at the age of 17.

He conquered Nineveh at the age of 17. And he conquered them with 50,000 men who uh the historians callians. The schyians were regarded as the fairest group of human beings who had ever lived at the time.

And they were so mean and so cruel that when they'd conquer people, they would tie the foreign soldiers to their chariots and they pull them apart, running the chariots in four different directions. And Nebuchadnezzar controlled them not with any sort of council, not with any kind of government. Nebuchadnezzar controlled them by the fierceness of his own personality and character.

He controlled these men. Uh by the age of 25 he was world ruler. He conquered and he controlled the world by the age of 25.

Can you imagine having a narcissistic, egoomaniacal, tyrinical person who controls the world at the age of 25. Now, I don't mind being around people with power if they're mature enough to handle it. And my mother's here.

Just wave your hand, Mom. It's good to see you. And uh it's all right to be around people who have great power as long as they have balance.

It's like giving your child power over you and over everything around you when they aren't mature enough to be able to handle it. Nebuchadnezzar was the kind of fellow that you just didn't play with because you didn't know where he was at any given time. He may choose to put an image up of himself and the image according to history was not of one of his gods.

But the image was an image of himself. And three Hebrew boys obviously they confronted him in a very powerful manner and they stood up against him in a way that showed they believed in God. Uh, I'm going in here very easy because I want you to understand that it is difficult to grasp that they could have had any faith at all, particularly with what they had been through.

And let me argue from another point of view. Whenever you see any kind of battle in the Old Testament, you will understand that the battle is actually a battle of gods. It's a battle of gods because each nation went before their god before they went into battle.

And it was assumed then that the god who was most proficient, the god who was most powerful would give them the victory in battle. The interesting thing here is that God Jehovah has never had an image of himself put up. He would not allow an image of himself because any image of himself would have to be garnished by our sensual perception.

Uh God has always allowed himself to be outside of our sensual perception which means that none of us have seen him. We have not smelled him. And when the Bible says, "Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good.

" He's not speaking about tasting him literally, but rather it's metaphorically to indulge yourself in the things of God and wonder how great he can be. You I have never heard him audibly. I've heard people said, "The Lord spoke to me, but he has never called my name audibly.

" I have never heard him say, "Noel, Noel, I need to talk to you. " I I haven't quite had that privilege and I have not touched him with my hands because he leaves himself outside of our sensual perception. Whereas the other nations, they were able to form gods and they drew their gods and uh they had their gods in visibility.

And of course uh my god cannot be brought within the parameters of sensual perception because how do you form the shape of an omniresent god? I mean what shape would you have of him? It was always a battle of gods because each nation would go to their god and the children of Israel's difficulty was that he would not allow himself within the parameters of sensual perception.

I think I like that because what he does is when he takes himself outside of our sensual perception then he has to speak to us on a spiritual level. Uh that means that the relationship with a god cannot be cognitive. It can't be intellectual really.

It's got to be spiritual and it's where his spirit speaks to my spirit over the bridge of faith and then he lets my spirit talk to my mind. Uh can I go over that again? I'm going I'm with the bishop tonight so I'm going to talk to this group of you see uh because of sensual perception.

sensual perception limits you to whatever your senses can garnish. But when he takes himself outside of your sensual perception, what he's saying essentially is that the relationship that I want to have with you is not cognitive or intellectual, but the relationship that I want to have with you is very spiritual. In order to grasp this even further, we think a little bit about the Holy Spirit that maketh intercession with groanings that cannot be uttered.

A groaning that cannot be uttered is not a is not a m. If it can't be uttered, there is no sound at all. which means that God is making deposits in your spirit that you are not cognitively aware of.

Uh he spoke to Elijah if I may go further and he spoke to Elijah in a still small voice and please tell me if you will what is a still small voice? It is a voice that you're not picking up audibly, but rather it's going to your spirit. See, God has left himself outside of our sensual perception so that he might deal with us deeply in our spirits.

And then he lets our spirits talk to our minds about an assurance that is not intellectually to do. It is not cognitively achieved because it's something that is just in your spirit. I feel something happening already.

Now, it's interesting because somebody's holding out on me. And the fact is, how can you have peace which passes all understanding if your relationship with God is simply intellectual? Because if the peace he gives you has to be a spiritual peace that your mind cannot even conceive of why you are so peaceful according to everything that you have cognitively deducted.

You should be one mess right now. But because he has made a deposit in your spirit and he has spoken to your spirit, you have an assurance that you cannot even explain. Ah, somebody's still holding out on me.

Uh, I I think I'll take it further. Uh, there were two boys in their mother's womb. There were two boys in two separate wombs.

Uh, one's name was John and the other was Jesus. The two boys were unconscious in their mother's womb. I know Jesus is God, but he was not reading the Jerusalem Tribune in his mother's womb.

Uh if he's human at all, he is unconscious in his mother's womb. The two mothers came together. I think it's Mary who went out into the country to visit Elizabeth.

And the two boys were in their mother's womb, separated by two thin layers of cutaneous tissue. And yet still when the mothers came together, the Bible said that John leapt in his mother's womb because he was in the presence of Jesus. To show you how spiritual it is, the man John the boy is unconscious in his mother's womb.

Yet even in his unconscious state, he receives revelation of who Jesus is. And indeed, and in fact, he receives the Holy Spirit without saying hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Now, years later, the conscious John sends word to Jesus.

Oh God, I I wonder, do you get it? The unconscious John had no doubt about who Jesus was. Yet the conscious John sends messages and asks, "Are you the one or should we look for another?

" And I just rose to tell you, don't ever let your mind talk you out of your revelation. It was a battle of gods. You see, it was a battle of gods.

And notice, if you will, that the three Hebrew boys, Hananiah, Mishiel, and Azeriah, the three Hebrew boys had on been on a steady decline. It was not that they had just walked into Babylon and they were standing as real I say advocates or ambassadors from Israel. If you notice the decline you will find first of all that they were defeated by Nebuchadnezzar because Israel couldn't actually be defeated by anybody if they walked according to the principles of God.

I am not afraid of my enemies when I'm walking in principle. Uh-huh. You got haters everywhere.

But I'm not afraid of my haters when I'm walking in principle. It's when I'm walking outside of the principles of God that I have to worry about the rumors and about who is going to bring me down. Because as long as I'm walking within the parameters of the principles of God, then I don't have to worry about what anybody has to say because it's the principle that protects.

I don't want to be too hell to skeleton here, but Jesus said to his disciples, he says, "Obey my commandments and abide in my love because as long as you're walking within the confines of my commandments, then no weapon formed against you can prosper. " The enemy can only get you when you're walking outside of the principles of God. Uh many of us say, well, we have angels to protect us.

Well, what is an angel? An angel is a messenger. It is not the angel that protects you as much as the message that the angel brings.

Because if you walk within the parameters of the principle, it doesn't matter how many haters are around you. And I'll just give you this one. If you don't have any haters, you're not that gifted.

uh and and it's significant piece here and it's very important because Israel would not walk according to the principles of God. The Lord raised up nations to chasen them to bring them back within the confines of his word. He would raise up nations.

And because everybody thought it was a battle of gods, then they thought that Jehovah had lost his power. If you look through Isaiah, you'll see often where he tells them, "I am God and beside me there is no other. " If you think that you're being defeated because some other God is greater than me, you're making a mistake.

I'm the one who's whooping you through them. I raise them up and I take them down because if you walk according to my principles, you'll never have to worry about any. I want you to see the extent of the spirituality and the connection of the spirit that these fellas had with God.

Now, first of all, they have lost the battle and secondly they are taken out of their homeland. uh they are the most pristine and the most significant of all of the fellows in Israel because Nebuchadnezzar made sure that he collected the most pristine the most physical pulcratudinous magnanimous splendor. He made sure that they had no blemish, that they were intellectually alert and astute enough to understand his astrology and to learn everything that was significant to his nation.

He took the best of the best, the creme of the creme. I mean, he took the fellas who were just everything. Now, not only had they lost the battle, they lost their place.

Not only did they lose their place, they also lost all of the treasures that belonged to the temple. Not only did they lose their place, lose the treasures, lose the battle, he took them over and he made unuks out of them. Uh-huh.

Yes, he did indeed. Now, can you imagine now I'm serving God and I'm on a downhill slide. I'm on a downhill slide where we have lost the battle.

We have lost all of our precious and all of our sacred stuff. We have lost our place and now we have lost our manhood. With all of the beauty and the wonder of who we are, we will never produce an offspring because Nebuchadnezzar has made unuks out of all of us.

Now, can you imagine where faith could possibly come from when they have been losing from the day that they lost their battle all the way to this day and yet they had the unmmitigated gall and audacity to say to the king, "We are not going to bow. " I feel it here. I I just got a few minutes to go.

I promise I will not keep you long. When you understand that the perensual perception is always against faith because what you have is sight against faith. And every child of God has to deal with the reality of your environment, the things that you see and the reality of the things that you don't see.

Uh the Greeks when they talked about fear they talked about fear from the word phobus and it means flight and anytime you see phobia of any kind that's the root the ethmological root word is phobus and it means flight that which causes one to be scared. It's something that introduces terror and and and the terror generally comes from your sensual perception from what you see around you for what you hear [snorts] and and then [clears throat] of course they added another word to it and this word is dela. This is not something that comes necessarily from the outside.

This is just an attitude that an individual has. You can raise two children and one's very bold and the other is just timid, just timid by nature. Not timid by circumstances, just nature.

Some people are just timid, just scared to do everything. Some people are just shy. Uh it's the word that Paul deals with when he talks about Timothy.

And Timothy uh he wants him to be bold and he doesn't want him to be timid. He wants him to be able to [clears throat] partake of the affliction of the gospel. And so it's not just an act.

Now the dela speaks more of a spirit. It's a kind of way that you are now. Can you imagine being timid by nature and then being scared by circumstance?

You know, I'm already timid. Please, for God's sake, don't bring anything around me that's going to be scary because my genetics already lead me to be timid. Now, there should be a certain amount of caution in everybody's life because caution helps you to assess circumstances and teaches you how to position yourself.

But when it comes to being in a situation that you have absolutely no control over, then you have to be able to trust. Ah, I'm here to tell you, for those of us who trust the least, we want to control the most because if I can control it, then I don't have to trust it. Uhhuh.

You know, that's why he gave you a Bieber. That's why he gave you all of those machines. So that and he's already timed how long it takes to go to the grocery store and get back.

It ought to be 15 minutes over, 15 minutes back. I'll give her two or three minutes for the groceries and uh to get him in and out of the car and after that I'm calling because the more you can control, the less you have to trust. Uh trust comes when you're in a situation where you don't have any control.

It's either you're going to trust or lose your mind. Uh I feel something happening. I'm I'm coming.

I'm almost there. It's critical because now the word for caution uh to the Greeks then became reverence and godly fear. And the whole idea is if I'm going to fear anybody, I need to fear God who can put both body and soul into hellfire.

I don't need to fear anybody less than God because God is the only one who has total charge over everything. So even though I'm on a downhill slide, I'm not connected to God through my sensual perception. I'm connected to God through my spirit.

Which means you can mess with everything I can sensually perceive, but you can't break my spirit. Uh I I feel it here. Uh let me go to the text very quickly.

I just want to talk a little about the Hebrew. The Hebrew word uh for fear is pahad. And it's a very strong verb of fearing with the emphasis on the immediacy of the object of fear.

In other words, you're doing fine until something shows up that sets you off to the point where you even begin to tremble. It's a strong emotion of fear. I don't know, have you ever been there, but I've been there in my life where I was just about having a panic attack.

Anybody familiar with panic attack? It's the kind of place where you can't find any peace. It's a kind of place where you think you're going to lose it at any minute.

And generally it has been stimulated by something that's external that's trying to become internal. Uh it it's trying to break into where you see Satan just doesn't want you to have experiences without leaving a mark. Uh what he wants you to do is go through something that leaves you psychologically debilitated so that the next opportunity for you to make a move, you're so caught up in the past with the things you have failed in that you will not take a step that is guided by the spirit of God.

Oh, he wants to break you down. Have I told you touch your neighbor yet? Oh, it's coming.

Just hold on. Uh it's a critical piece because now it's the object that causes fear that allows the subject to tremble and the whole point is to intimidate and and break you down to feel as if you cannot stand in the midst of what's about to happen. [laughter] Uh the Lord said to the judges in Israel, he said, "Fear not the face of men.

uh don't let any social position or any adversary in any litigation intimidate you and sway you from your judgment. If you know this thing is right, then stand to it. Uh the next Hebrew word was one that is to pursue or cast down.

It it's a word that talks about driving. Uh the enemy wants to drive you. And again, we're talking about external stuff.

We're talking about horrific people, horrific situations that are designed for the outward display to generate an inward breakdown. How long are you going to be there with all of your talent and allow some little chip that's missing to keep you from being all that you can be? When are you going to get over what you didn't achieve yesterday for what you can achieve tomorrow?

When are you going to allow yourself to be released from satanic control over your mind? Because you are already gifted. But what Satan wants to do is use your sensual perception to cause your environment to control your thinking.

What God wants to do is allow your faith in his spirit and word to talk to your mind to tell your mind that you're not driven from the outside, but you're driven from the inside. And when you stand up with what's inside, what's outside has got to bow down. Oh, I feel something helping.

Ah just give me give me just a few more minutes and I'll be through. You see now faith on the other hand is the substance of things hoped for. It is actually the hoopostasis of things hoped for.

It is the elocost of things not seen. So what we have now is we have substance and we have assurance or conviction. It's something when you can have a conviction that has nothing to do with your sensual perception.

I'm looking at a horrific situation, but I am convicted that this situation does not determine where I go. It is not my circumstance that controls me, but rather it is my faith in the mighty God. Ah, can I take it another way?

Molton and mulligan when they look at the word hoopostasis they regard it as a title deed and what it says essentially is that this is a title for what I have hoped for in God. I buy properties all over the place. In fact, I just bought some way over in some island and I haven't seen it yet.

And somebody said, "Well, how do you know you have it? " I say because I have the title. I don't have to see the land in order for me to declare it's mine because I have the title.

Uh Molton and Milligan says that faith is the title of the things that you have believed God for. Oh yeah. Can can can I preach just a minute?

uh uh uh UH FOR FOR 45 years uh Caleb had the title. He had never walked in the land, but he had the title. Uh now touch somebody for the first time and tell them I'm entitled uh for everything I believe God for.

I'm entitled. I'm entitled to be more than I am because I've been restricted by fear because of my circumstance. But now that I've connected to God and I believe God, I am entitled to the things that I have believed him for.

Uh I'm not going to keep you too much longer. I feel it coming on. uh when I looked at the text and I understood this that there are some unseen realities and what I need is internal evidence of ownership and this is what I call assurance.

It brings us then to the New Testament word pistice and this is a firm persuasion or a conviction of something that I believe. If you don't believe it, who will? Uhhuh.

If you can't stand up for what you believe, who will? Uh you have to stand up on it. And you don't need a committee to become what God would have you to be.

Oh, I feel it now. All right. Just keep me right there.

Uh it's important to understand why God has left himself outside of our perception, our sensual perception. And I'm glad he did. Because no one of us can dictate to the other one of us how we conceptualize our God.

I don't have to have your concept of God. I am free to have my own concept of God because he's left himself outside of my sensual perception. YOU CAN'T DRAW a picture OF MY GOD.

AND I know that we're in the same church, but each one of us have an idiot concept of God. It's idio. It's completely distinctive because I can't believe God the way you do and you can't believe God the way I do because it's idiosyncratic.

It's mine. And I see him where you don't see him. And you conceptualize him where I don't.

That's why we fellowship because it takes all of us to put together the complete picture of the mighty God. Uh if you choose TO MAKE HIM SMALL, THAT'S YOUR BUSINESS. Uh but you cannot IMPOSE A SMALL GOD ON ME.

UH BECAUSE I CHOOSE TO MAKE HIM BIG AND THAT'S WHAT I WANT HIM TO BE. OH, I feel something happening in here. Oh God, I feel it.

Just uh give me just a few more minutes. Uh it's true now then that fear has an object, but faith has an object also. And you've got to decide is your God bigger than what you're looking at.

Is your God bigger than Nebuchadnezzar? Because even on the downhill slide from being the pristine princes of Israel to becoming Unix, losing even their manhood, they still had the nerve to stand before the king and say, first of all, knowledge says he's able, but faith says he will. Uh, but commitment says if he don't even do it, [laughter] we're still not going to bow.

I'm almost there. I feel something. Give somebody a high five.

Say he's almost there. Uh, it's a critical piece here now because I used to simply think that that faith on the one hand said uh that he is able and faith says he will. Of course, knowledge says he's able, but he's sovereign, which means that he's God.

He may or he may not. The issue is we're still not going to bow. I can't lose if I die.

Because if I can't live for what I would die for, then my life is not worth living. So, I can't lose if I die. And I sure can't lose if he delivers me.

The only way I can lose is if I bow and that's and that's not what I'm going to do. I can't lose if he brings me out. AND I CAN'T LOSE IF I DIE BELIEVING.

But if I bow, then you have got the advantage over me. So king, let me just tell you, I am not going to bow. Which means you can't win.

If you kill me, you can't win. If you leave me alive, you can't win. Because I am not built to break.

Oh, I feel something happening here. Uh, take my house if you want. Uh, take my car if you want.

WALK OUT ON me if you choose. Turn your back on me if you want to. Uh, but that's not going to break me.

Uh, because I'm not built to break. Oh, I feel the Holy Ghost here. Ah, I just come to tell you there's been trying times and these have been hard times particularly for us who walk in the kingdom of God.

Because for 25 years, we have heard nothing but health, wealth, and prosperity. Uh, for 25 years, we have given in every offering. And by now, all of us should be millionaires.

The word is that more of us are losing our minds than any other time in the history of the Africanamean race. And we're losing our minds over things. I feel like preaching now, BUT PLEASE TELL ME, can you frighten Lazarus with death?

He already died before. And I don't know why you're losing your mind over being broke. You've been broke before.

Uh, I feel like having just a little church. I feel like having a little church. Give somebody high five and say, "Neighbor, I'm not built to break.

I've got too much anointing to fall apart. I've got too much of the word in me to let the devil cause me to think that I'm going to lose my mind. I'm not going to lose my mind over losing a house cuz I'm GOING TO NEED MY mind to decorate the next one.

I'm not going to lose my mind over losing a man cuz I'm going to need my mind to be good to the next one. I'm not going to lose my mind over losing a woman CUZ I'M GOING TO LOSE my mind to make sure the other one is ALL RIGHT. GIVE SOMEBODY HIGH FIVE.

SAY I'M NOT LOSING my mind cuz I wasn't built to break. IF I WAS GOING TO BREAK, I'd have broken a long time ago cuz I've been to hell AND BACK AND I'M still here lifting up the name of the Lord. If I were going to break, I would have broke when Satan HAD MY HOUSE TWISTED UH AND TURNED UPSIDE DOWN.

UH BUT I FOUND OUT THROUGH THE TEST AND THE TRIAL THERE'S SOMETHING ON the inside. UH THAT NO MATTER HOW LOW I GET, IT BOUNCES BACK. UH THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO WALK OUT, BUT MY ANCHOR HOLDS AND GRIPS THE SOLID ROCK.

I'M NOT built to break uh in the middle of the storm uh because the reason the house IS STILL STANDING IS NOT BECAUSE OF THE STORM. THE STORM MAY BLOW, THE WINDS MAY COME, BUT THE reason the HOUSE IS STILL STANDING IS BECAUSE IT'S BUILT ON THE RIGHT FOUNDATION. SHAKE somebody's hand for the third TIME AND SAY, "NEIGHBOR, I'VE BEEN built on the right foundation.

I've been built ON THE WORD OF GOD. I'VE BEEN BUILT ON THE SOLID ROCK. " [laughter] AND I HEARD HIM SAY, "UPON THIS ROCK, I'LL BUILD MY CHURCH, AND THE GATES OF HELL SHALL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST IT.

" GIVE SOMEBODY A MIGHTY HIGH FIVE for the fourth time. and said, "Neighbor, I've got a piece of the rock. I'VE GOT A PIECE OF THE ROCK.

ANYTIME YOU THINK YOU GOING TO DRIVE ME OFF, YOU BETTER REMEMBER I GOT ROCK UP IN HERE. I GOT SOLID ROCK. THAT'S WHY I STAND ON THE WORD OF GOD.

AND I GET SOMEBODY HIGH FIVE. SAY, NOT ONLY DO I HAVE THE WORD, BUT I AM ANOINTED. >> [laughter] >> I AM ANOINTED.

IF I WEREN'T ANOINTED, I'D HAVE LOST MY WAY. IF I WEREN'T ANOINTED, I'D HAVE LOST MY MIND. BUT SOMETHING THAT'S INSIDE OF ME SAYS, "GET UP AGAIN.

SHAKE YOURSELF. GET BACK IN THE RACE AND LET THE WORLD KNOW IT AIN'T OVER YET. IT AIN'T OVER YET.

I'VE BEEN WALKED ON. You've been talked about. >> [laughter] >> You've been mistreated.

YOU'VE BEEN DROWNED, BUT YOU'RE still here. Still praising him. They left YOU FOR DEAD A LONG TIME AGO, BUT YOU'RE STILL LIFTING UP THE NAME OF JESUS cuz I'm not I'm not built to break.

GET SOMEBODY FOR THE SECOND TO THE LAST TIME AND SAID, "NEIGHBOR, I'M here to stay UNTIL I DIE cuz [laughter] I feel the Holy Ghost. I feel the Holy Ghost. I've learned something about that scripture that changed my mind.

The first thing is our God I serve is able to deliver me out of the fire. Can I preach like I feel it? Give somebody a high five.

Said, "DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY times I've been delivered out of the fire? The fire TO LOSE MY JOB. THE FIRE TO GET ME FIRED.

THE FIRE OF TALKING about me. The fire of trying to HURT ME. THE FIRE OF trying to destroy WHO I AM.

BUT I'VE BEEN DELIVERED. I'm closing. I'm closing.

TOUCH SOMEBODY AGAIN. SAY, I'M STILL HERE. I DON'T LOOK LIKE WHAT I'VE BEEN THROUGH BECAUSE NOT EVEN A HAIR ON MY HEAD HAS BEEN SINCE BUT I'VE BEEN IN THE FIRE AND THEY LOOKED IN AND SAW A FOURTH ONE.

OH, I FEEL LIKE PREACHING. GIVE SOMEBODY HIGH FIVE FOR THE LAST TIME AND TELL HIM SOMEBODY'S WITH ME. SOMEBODY'S WITH ME.

SOMEBODY'S WITH ME. AND HIS NAME is I'm not built to break. Touch three PEOPLE REAL QUICK.

SAY I'M NOT built to break. I'm still here. [groaning] It ain't going to break.

It ain't going to break it. It ain't It ain't going to break it. You've been put together THROUGH WHAT?

YOU'RE GOD'S WORKMANSHIP. He stitch you together. HE PUT YOU TOGETHER.

LEAVE IF YOU WANT TO. GET OUT OF MY FACE IF YOU WANT TO. BUT I WILL NOT bring It's been It's been tough.

But you catch I'm >> I'm closing. Time is upon You might as well put your praise on I I closed already three times. I'm going to close for the closing time.

My my first view of that that the response to Nebuchadnezzar was he the God we serve is able and I ascribe that to knowledge says he's able and he will deliver us out of your hand And I said, "Faith says he will >> and if not, we're not going to commitment. " Meditated on it further and I discovered something. First of all, he said, "We're going to heat the fire hot and we're going to cast you into the fiery furnace.

" That was separate. See, I I assume that delivering them from the fiery furnace was the first two because Nebuchadnezzar said, "I'm going to put you in a furnace. " And who is that God?

>> That'll deliver you out of my hand. Which makes now for a separate issue >> because the first issue now is to be delivered out of the fire. The second is to be delivered out of his hand.

See? >> See, you can have a boss who is seeking to fire you and she tries in January and fails. She tries in February and fails.

>> So even though you've been delivered from the incident, >> you're still not delivered out of her hand >> because she's still the boss. He will deliver us out of your hand. Now, when Daniel was in the lion's den, God spoke to him, but he didn't show up.

When Israel was coming out of Egypt, God delivered them, but he didn't lead the charge. So, why is he in the fight? See, he's in the fire not to deliver them from the burning fiery furnace >> because they were already delivered from that when they were put in there and are walking around.

What he showed up to do, [crying] >> uh, we over here in Crrenshaw district. This is Crrenshaw. And we used to be over on uh on Hoover.

Now we got a little more sophistication. We went out to Gardina. But >> but you all know when somebody's being pumped.

>> Yes. Yes. Yes.

And he go and because now he says I see a fourth one >> and the fourth one LOOKS LIKE ONE OF THE GODS. You were punking my boys outside the fire. >> Now I'm getting ready to punk you inside the fire.

And what I'm saying to you, Nebuchadnezzar, is touch my boys again. Mess with them again. Mess with them again if you feel like it.

Understand who you dealing with. YOU AIN'T DEALING JUST WITH THESE BOYS. YOU DEALING WITH ME.

AND NEBUCHADNEZZAR SWORE THAT DAY THAT THEY WOULD WORSHIP NO OTHER GOD BECAUSE HE IS THE MOST GOD'S GETTING READY NOT ONLY TO TAKE YOU OUT THE SITUATION BUT DELIVER YOU OUT OF [screaming] THERE. Shake somebody's hand like you're going TO SHAKE IT OFF AND TELL THEM I'M NOT BUILT TO BREAK. God didn't put me together to fall apart.

Take one person by both hands. Get a prayer partner. One person by both hands.

Paul taught me not only to pray before, but pray after. Pray that the eyes of your understanding be enlightened. That you may know three things.

And the third is the exceeding greatness of his power to us wouldward what who believe. Friend of mine said something to me in one of my most gloomy times. He said to me, he said, "No, who's in there thinking with you?

" Psychologist Miami. He said, he said, "Ain't nobody up here thinking but you. You're the one doing the thinking in here.

So whatever you allow yourself to think is either going to break you or strengthen you. " Who's thinking in there? Every negative thing that's been suggested, >> you don't have to think on it.

>> Nobody's controlling your thought mechanism but you. So, so whatsoever things are pure, honest, good or poor, think on the things that strengthen you. Sometimes you got to eliminate to elevate And you got some people around you that just got to go.

>> They got to go. Father, you said to us, "Whatsoever things we bind on earth are bound in heaven. Whatsoever things we loose on earth are loose in heaven.

" You gave us that authority. Squeeze one hand. I bind out.

I bind low self-esteem. I bind depression. I bind discouragement.

I bind to every negative thought that would flow through my brother, my sister right now. I bind worry and anxiety. I come against that spirit right now.

I come against it with everything that the Holy Ghost has to give in the name of Jesus. I bind it now. I bind shortsightedness.

I bind procrastination. Get up. Shake yourself.

Move. Move. While it's day, for the night cometh when no man shall work.

This is your season. And I squeeze the other hand. I loose power.

I loose anointing. I loose creativity. I loose direction.

Revelation. I loose everything YOU ARE RIGHT NOW IN THE NAME OF JESUS. SOMEBODY LOOSE your hands and give God the praise.