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1: And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and preach in their cities.
2: Now when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples,
3: And said unto him, Art thou he that should come, or do we wait for another?
4: Jesus answer and said unto them, Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see:
5: The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preach to them.
6: And blesseth is he, whosoever shall not be offended of me,
7: And as they departed, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind?
8.Butwhat went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft rainment? Behold they that wear soft clothing are in the kings houses.
9.But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? Yea, I say unto you and more than a prohet.
10: For this is he of whom it is written, Behold I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare they way before thee
11.Verily I say unto you, among then that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: not withstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
12. And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
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Message of the Hour: Take It By Force!!!
Sub-Topic: Is There Not A Cause?
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Scripture: Matthew 11: 1-12 verse
Message: Take It By Force!!!
Sub Topic: Is There Not A Cause?
The Writer of this book of Matthew is indeed Bro. Matthew himself, the great Tax Collector and one of the twelve disciples. This book is written and is address to the Jews. Why? Well Matthew is trying to Prove something to the Jews he is trying to prove that the Messiah which is Jesus Christ has already come. Jesus Christ is the long expected Messiah. Matthew is the book of generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, and the son of Abraham. This statement links Christ with the two of the great covenants that God had made with David consisted of the promise of a King to sit upon his throne forever {2 Sam. 7:8-13}. And God¡¦s covenant with Abraham promised that through him his families the earth would be blessed {Genesis 12:3}. David¡¦s son was a King. And Abraham¡¦s son was a Sacrifice. So this Book of Mathew opens with the birth of a King and it closes with the offering of a Sacrifice. And this was what Brother Matthew was trying to prove to the Jews that he was the Messiah because Prophecy concerning the Messiah had been Fulfilled.
The keyword of this book is Fulfilled. It 13x¡¦s that Fulfilled is throughout this book and just as Jesus Christ fulfilled every Prophecy in the bible I stop by to let somebody know that God has not forgot about your Promises that he made to you. I come to tell that Christ is going to fulfill every Promise that he has made, he going to fulfill the very promises that has been spoken and brought to your attention. So be not dismayed whatever betides God will take can of you. Lift up your heads o ye gates and be ye lifted up ye ever lasting doors and the King Listen that¡¦s a Promise the King of Glory shall come in. Who is this king of Glory The Lord Strong and Mighty Lift up your Head. I stop by to encourage somebody that God is not a man that he should lie neither the Son of Man that he should Repent. It¡¦s not in God Vocabulary to Lie. God will do just what he says. One more thing I want to leave with you to take home and that is that God Is Not Slack Concerning his Promises. So be encourage because God is going to do Just WHAT he said he¡¦s Gonna Do. All you have to do is just stand back and watch God Move on your Behalf because there is nothing to hard for God.
Hifi 3 people and say, ¡§God is Gonna Fulfilled¡¨
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So Now in this book of Matthew the 11th Chapter. John heard about the works of Christ. He had predicted the coming of the Messiah just as the prophets of old had predicted. In his mind the Messiah was coming to baptize people with the Spirit of God and with fire. Christ had appeared upon the scene and was baptizing people with the Spirit of God, and the people were flocking around Him as though He was the Messiah. But He was doing nothing about baptizing people with fire, the messianic fire of judgment. To John’s mind Christ was fulfilling only half of the prophecies concerning the Messiah. John was confused. Was Jesus really the Messiah? He had to know. His whole life had been given over to the belief that Jesus was the Messiah. He sent two disciples to ask, and Jesus used the opportunity to vindicate His Messiah ship.
The bible goes on to say that after Jesus ended the commissioning of His disciples. The idea is that Jesus sent them out alone without Him going along with them. Why because they were to learn to minister, and thee only way they were going to learn was through practical experience. They were to learn while they were actually out in the process of ministering. Which left Jesus alone and to began to minister again all alone and that¡¦s when the disciples presented Jesus with the Question that John has sent them out to ask Jesus.
{11:2-3} John’s perplexity was caused by his picture of a stern Messiah. Because His idea of the Messiah did not match what Jesus was doing. Jesus was not mobilizing people into a great army to free Israel from Roman domination (see Deeper Study #2-Matthew 1:18). He was not the stern Messiah pictured by the prophets (see note-„XLuke 7:21-23). John was in prison. He expected to be involved in the overthrow of the Roman conquerors and in the establishment of Israel as a free nation, yet he was suffering in prison. He could not understand why the Messiah did not free him. Had he not been the prominent forerunner for the expected Messiah? John needed assurance. He needed his faith strengthened. And just as John needed his Faith Strengthen sometimes we as Saint of God need the Lord to occasionally confirm our faith. Yes Even the strongest sometimes need A word of Confirmation and the presence of the Lord to give us the assurance of that he is who he says he is and he would never leave us nor will he forsake us and he will uphold us with his right hand. Because every now and again when I get down in my spirit and I need a little word to whole on to hold on to.
And my inner man will take me to the scripture when it says to be still and know that He¡¦s God. And if that¡¦s not my cup of tea for the
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The occasion then the Holy Spirit will take me to Romans the 8 Chapter, which says If God be for you then who can be against ya. And right about then I become encourage because if I know that God is for me then I know that all things work together for the good of them who love the Lord and if I know that all things work together for the good of them who love the Lord I know that Yea in all things I¡¦ am more than A Conqueror.
And once I realize that God is for me and all things or working for my good and I am more than a conqueror then I really realize that there is therefore no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus to those who walk not after the Flesh but after the Spirit. And once the Spirit of God has encourage me with those words of promise then I am able to stand in the fact that I am Predestined for greatest not only predestined but called and not only called but I¡¦ am justified through Jesus Christ.
Can I leave you with a thought?
1) Again I say John did not fully understand Jesus, and to be honest, we all lack understanding sometimes when it comes to knowing what Christ is up to but yet and still we need to find ourselves doing what John did which is
„± To trust Christ anyway.
„± And He did not let his questions destroy his faith. Its alright to question God the Bible says in James 1:5 that if any one of you lack wisdom, let him ask God, that giveth to all men liberally and upbraided not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith and nothing wavering.
So the Bible says that Jesus’ assurance to John was that He was beyond question the Messiah. Jesus gave five assurances to John.
1. Jesus spoke as the Messiah. His words and the power of His message were evidences that Jesus was the Messiah. There were no greater words and no greater lessons than the words and the lessons that Christ taught. He is recognized as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, teacher of all times. This is one of the proofs that He is beyond question the Messiah. But all and still he commanded John¡¦s disciples to go back and tell John The Baptist of the things you have seen and heard. And the Bibles makes it clear of how Jesus demonstrated the power and works of the Messiah. Look:
a. He gave sight to the blind. Meaning that The blind saw not only saw physically but spiritually.
b. He made the lame to walk. He caused men to walk physically and spiritually. They moved strongly about, serving both God and man.
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c. He cleansed the lepers. He made them pure physically and spiritually. And they were accepted both by men and God.
d. He opened the ears of the deaf. He caused the deaf to hear physically and spiritually. So they could hear both the voice of men and of God were saying.
e. He raised the dead to life. They were given life again physically and spiritually. Whereas they had been dead, they now walked as new creatures before men and God.
f. He preached the gospel to the poor. They who had been so neglected and possessed so little were now receiving the good news of salvation from God Himself.
And Jesus encouraged John not to be offended by Him. He encourages all of us not to be offended by Him, but to believe and trust that He is the true Son of God," the Messiah.
So since Jesus was around the Crowd he had to justify Bro. John the Baptist so that people would not think that John was wavering in his faith, and that he was weak and inconsistent. If the people were allowed to think this, they would soon question if John was the real prophet who was to pave the way for the Messiah.
As we skip on down to verse 12 there is a very difficult saying and this verse also has a two-fold meaning, "The kingdom of heaven has suffered violence, and men of violence take it by force." The good Dr. Luke has this saying in another form in (Luke 16:16) he says this: "Since then the good news of the Kingdom of God is preached, and every one enters it violently." It is clear that at some time Jesus said something in which violence and the kingdom were connected, something which was a dark and a difficult saying, which no one at the time could fully understand. Certainly Luke and Matthew understood it in different ways.
Luke says that every man storms his way into the Kingdom; in other words he is saying that the "Kingdom of heaven is not for the well-meaning but for the desperate," He¡¦s also saying that no one drifts into the Kingdom. Why because the Kingdom only opens its doors to those who are prepared to make as great an effort to get into it as men do when they storm a city. And I stop by to let you all know that if you are really serious about get into the kingdom of heaven and going to heaven then you are gonna have to force your way into the Kingdom. In other words we are going to do what Jesus told his disciples. Jesus told his disciples that if anyone desires to come after me he must first have to deny himself and take up his cross, and follow me. Listen Saints of God we
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Cannot get into the Kingdom with our any old lifestyle, nall nall He wants us to be holy. You are gonna have to Fight for your salvation, Fight temptation, Fight Trials, Fight Tribulations, Fight those Habits that try to overtake you. Whatever it takes you got to have a mind that says I not going to let nothing stop me from getting into the Kingdom. Because right now there are a lot of so called Saints that are on there way to a Devils hell because of unnecessary things that they let get to them and they are not even trying to fight to do right fight to live right. But I stop by to let you Know that if you really want to see Jesus you are going to have to Give up everything to Follow him. And Fight to stay Holy. Yes I know it gets
hard. And for some of you all It¡¦s A struggle to Stay: Saved, Deliver, Free from those Bad Habits that you love so much. Free from letting your Tongue Curse Folks Out because they have gotten under your skin. Free from going back to the way you use to be. But you got to Talk to yourself and Evaluate some things in your life and ask yourself. SELF which one is more important?
Fulfilling the Desires of the Flesh or Fulfilling the Desires of God
Fulfilling the Desires of Man or the Master
Going to Hell or Make Progress and DISCPLINE myself so that in thee end it will all pay off when I receive my Crown of Life.
Is there anybody up in here that made up your minds that no matter what it takes by any means necessary I got to get to heaven and made up your mind that the harder my Trials and Temptations are. The Harder I going to stay on my knees in Prayer and Fasting and seeking God¡¦s Face. Because there is no temptation which have over taken but such temptation which is common to man, but God is faithful and will not allow you to but tempted above more than ye are able but with the temptation will provide a way of escape. That you may be able to bear it. But you still got to Fight and Force yourself to do right even when you have every right to be wrong and act a fool. Force yourself to fast and prayer. Force yourself to avoid those places that get you caught up into things in which you have no business.
Tell somebody ¡§Force the Flesh¡¨
Listen now the second meaning of this verse Jesus puts it like this he says: "Always my Kingdom will suffer violence; always savage men will try to break it up, and snatch it away and destroy it; and therefore only the man who is desperately in earnest, only the man in whom the violence of devotion matches
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And defeats the violence of persecution will in the end enter into it. Listen here Saints of God the Kingdom of Heaven is suffering attack The Kingdom is suffering Violence. The word Violence means a physical force used so as to injure, damage, or destroy; extreme roughness of action. The Kingdom is suffering Injury, it¡¦s being damage. And we as Saints of God have to get as violent as the Devil and take back our cities and take back our Streets. And take back our community. Whether you know it or not we are at War not just in the Physical but also in the Spiritual Realm. Satan is trying his best to gather up all he can to come up against the Saints of God and is trying to sift us as wheat. And it¡¦s time now for us as Saints of God to stop Battling against each other. The bible clearly lets us know that we are in a spiritual war. Because The Apostle Paul said that we wrestle not against Flesh and Blood but Against Principalities, Against Powers, Against Wickedness in high places meaning in the heavenly places. And we don¡¦t have time to war against one another. And the Devil has came and has Violated our: Homes, Our Jobs, Our Families, Our Minds, Our Thoughts, Our Health, Our Wealth, Our Success, Our Career, Our Children, Our Ministries, Our Churches, Our Schools, Our Government, Our Community. Is there Not A Cause? You got Different States that have legalize Same Sex Marriages, Priest raping lil Boys, they want the Pledge of Allegiance change all because it says One Nation under God. Gospel that is spread across this country some folks don¡¦t agree with it being on Television and the Radio because the don¡¦t want to hear all that Preaching and Shouting and Speaking in Tongues. Is There Not A Cause? The Devil desire to sift as wheat, but is they¡¦re anybody in here that have made up their mind that Devil I come against you in the name of Jesus. I got power over you and I take Authority over You. You is no longer in control my life I take Authority over my Life I take Authority over my Characteristics. No longer will you try to destroy my body with sickness I take authority over sickness I don¡¦t time to be sick and in somebody¡¦s Hospital. I got to Get Violent. I don¡¦t got time to Sit around I got to get Violent I don¡¦t got time to worry about titles and credentials I got to get Violent for the cause and the Cause is the Kingdom. I got to defend the Kingdom. Satan is trying to take over the Kingdom by Storm, but I come to take his Kingdom by storm. God is looking for somebody to stand up and defend his Kingdom to the Death.
Listen there is a story in the book of 1st Samuel the 11th Chapter about how when Nahash and his men come up to encamped Jabesh Gilead and his
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Army and Jabesh Gilead ask Nahash to make a covenant with us and we will serve you. And Nahash told Jabesh he said ok but on this condition if you let me thrust out all of your right eyes so that Israel may see and see back then the right eye was use for looking at the enemy over the shield. And see the Devil wants us to surrender to him with some things plucked out of our lives so that we wont useful to the Body of Christ. And Jabesh said well give us seven days
So that we may be able to see who will help us come out and fight. And if no one comes out to our rescue than we will do as u desire. The word got back to King Saul. And the bible says that the Spirit of the Lord came upon him and he got angry. And he took a yoke of oxen and begin to cut up and hack it into pieces and told them that this is what¡¦s going to happen to you if you don¡¦t come out to me and to Samuel and help us fight against Nahash and his army. You going to end up like these oxen Dead, Defeated, Discomfited, Dismayed, Displaced, and Wipe out, Annihilated. And the Bible says that the fear of the Lord fell upon the people and they begin to come together to go against Nahash and his army. I said that to say this #1 is that we ought to get angry when we hear about how the Devil is making Whores out of our Men and Women. You ought to get Angry at how the Devil is trying to destroy your marriage. You ought to get angry at how the Devil is trying to Destroy your Bank Account. You ought to get angry and How the Devil Plays on people mind to make them want to Kill themselves. You ought to get angry at how the Devil is trying to stop you from Progressing to the next Level. Are you trying f the Devil messing with ya Aren¡¦t you tired of the Devil Picking fights with you. When you think you got one problem solve here comes another you got your health right then the Devil tries to attack you Finances, then he tries to attack your Family. Is there anybody in here that is Angry and Say Devil you have perform your last trick, you have done you last dance. And I HAVE DANCE BY your Music to Long. You got to get out of my Life right now Get out of y mind Get out of my Heart Get out of my Thoughts. Devil you no longer live here in my life.
Hifi your neighbor and say ¡§I¡¦m Tired of the Devil¡¨
Listen Here John The Baptist was a Violent Man. He told the truth, rather they Like it or Not. John generated conflict wherever he went, because his message of conviction would upset a multitude of folks. With his call for repentance, he stirred up a hornet¡¦s nest among the religious leaders and even with the king. Everywhere he moved there was reaction, and often-even
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violence, which eventuated in his being arrested,
imprisoned, and finally executed. Now he was arrested and later on executed because He had told a King, King Herod by the way that it was not lawful for him to have his brother Phillip¡¦s wife Herodias. And he Bound John and later on Beheaded because of his request of Herodias through her daughter. John dies for what he believes in. And was willing to Die for what he believe in John was commitment to withhold no punches when it came to the Devil he told the Truth, the whole Truth and nothing but the Truth. And this is what God is
Looking for somebody that will not and cannot and shall not twist God¡¦s word around. Somebody that will tell the truth the whole truth and nothing the truth, I stop b to tell somebody that I don¡¦t care what nobody says It¡¦s time to stop beaten around the Bush when it comes to Gods Kingdom. Its to many people Preachers changing Gods word around and try to make it comfortable for their conscience see the word of God doesn¡¦t make you and shouldn¡¦t make you comfort the Bible says that for the Word is like a two edge Sword It cuts you going in and it cuts you going out. And today I came to cut you with the word of God so that you may be able to Snap out of it and Get Busy for God. Snap out of it and be for real about it. Snap out of it and stop Sugar coating the word of God. Telling people that God will bless you in your mess well I stop by to tell you it¡¦s a lie. Holiness is still right. Jesus is the way the truth and the light and if you want to enter in you got to come correct. Because broad is the road that lead to destruction but narrow is the way that Lead to Salvation. Ask your neighbor Are willing to fight and die for this Gospel. Don¡¦t you know that people Real people will later on appreciate you for telling them the truth? Even if it they didn¡¦t like it a first. God wants to know who is going to stand through the thick and thin for the Kingdom of Heaven.
Hifi 2 people and tell em ¡§I Got to Tell the Truth No Matter What¡¨
Listen one more thing and I got to Go I remember back in the me and my brother use to wrestle back when we was kids and I really wasn¡¦t a fighter for real which would cause me to lose a couple rounds and I was soft on him because he was my lil brother not only that but I was one of those people that had to be fired up or already mad to but I say yeah about that 2nd or 3rd time I was got tired of Losing, I got tired of being a Failure, I got tired of my Brother being the Champion. I got tired of being on the GROUND. I got tired of losing to the same Person. I got tired of See me won over to my brother. I got tired of him laughing in my face. I got tired of being defeated; I got tired of
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being beaten. So I was amp I was ready for battle because I was getting ready to let my brother that we may have won some battles but he wasn¡¦t going to win the War. SO around that 3rd or 4th round I went on ahead and had to drop lil bro to let him know that his game was over.
Is there anybody in here that from this day for is going to declare to the Devil that his Game is over. You tried to Kill Me-Game Over
You tried to make me thing I was crazy-Game Over
You Tried to Take my Mind-Game Over
You Tried to Attack me on every hand-Game Over
You Tried to Make me have a Nervous Breakdown- Game Over
You tried to turn me Out- Game over
You Tried to Attack my kids with drugs-Game over
You Tried to Make my name Mudd-Gameover
You Tried to Take my Identity Away-Game Over
As a matter of fact Devil this is it you kept me down Long Enough
You kept me Depress Long Enough
You Kept me out of the Church long Enough
You Made me fell like nothing Long Enough
You kept me out of my anointing Long Enough
You kept me out of the Flow LONG enough
But from this they forward I not waiting until you step on my territory to do something, But I coming to Satan¡¦s territory and I going to tarn his Kingdom Down. Because you’ve been Building your kingdoms all over this land you’ve been. You been the Boss long enough. I take back every valuable thing you took from me because it¡¦s a lot of things that the Devil took that I don¡¦t want because I got something better and the stuff he took and taught me to next time fight for what I will not give up. But I¡¦m going into Satan¡¦s Lost and Found and take back Everything that is of Value to me and I taking it back. The word Take mean to get possession of by force or skill, seize, grasp, Catch
The word force means Strength, energy, might. It is physical power exerted against a person or thing. See you can¡¦t have a Take without having a Force. Like you can¡¦t have the Holy Ghost without Power Why because it just won¡¦t work. You got to have the both of them and In order to Beat the Devil in order to Take back every Valuable thing the Devil has stolen form you. You Got to have some Power behind your Take, You got to have some Strength behind your Take. You got to have some Energy behind your Take. There has to be some Might Behind your Take.
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Tell somebody ¡§Let the Force be With You¡¨
Well I closing now but its Time now for the Saints of God to Come together and stop worrying about what denomination we from and what faith we are and it time to come together and stop the devil and Take back our City Take back our Streets Take Back our Community Take Back our Schools. We got the power to take it by force. Listen Remember in the book of Numbers the 13th Chapter when God had Promised the Children of Israel the promise land Moses sent twelve Spies into the city and when they came back only two out of the twelve came back which was Joshua and Caleb and they declare lets go up and Possess it for we are well able. That¡¦s why the Bible says that one
Can put 1,000 to flight and 2 can put 10,000 so if 1 can put 1,000 to flight and 2 10,000 then that means that 3 can put 30,000, 4 can put 40,000,5 can put 50,000, 6 can put 60,000, 7 can put 70,000, 8 can put 80,000, 9 can put 90,000, 10 can put 100,000 and listen and it¡¦s a big army in here and I stop by to let you know that we are Well Able to overcome the Devil. We are well able to possess the Promises of God. Point to yourself and say I am well Able to fight off the Devil. You are well able to withstand anything You are well able to Conqueror Anything. You are well able to Accomplish Anything. You are Well able to Speak to the Mountain and tell the mountain to be thou remove and cast in to the sea. And I came to take it by Force.
People might not like you- But Take It By Force
Quit trying to fit in and Take It By Force
Your Joy-Take it by Force
Your Peace- Take it by Force
Your Peace of Mind-Take It By Force
Your Happiness-Take It By Force
Your Ministry- Take It By Force
Your Churches- Take it By Force
Your Members- Take it By Force
Your Prayer Life Take it By Force
Your Preaching-Take It By Force
Your Love- Take it By Force
Your Hope-Take it By Force
Prosperity-Take it By Force
Family-Take It By Force
New Jobs¡VTake It By Force
Your Mind-Take It By Force
New Cars-Take it by Force
They said your Credit was bad-Take it by Force
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Might be Struggling but Take it by Force
Might be Tired but ¡VTake it By Force
Might be hurting but-Take it by Force
Might have to stand alone but-Take it by Force
Your Career-Take it by Force
Your Dreams-Take it by Force
Do I have some violent folk in the House that¡¦s says I Aint no Pushover the Devil is A Pushover. I not Afraid the Devil is Afraid of Me. I¡¦M not weak the Devil Is weak.
Is there anybody here that¡¦s ready to declare War on thee Enemy. I dare you to put your Fist up and show the Devil you mean business now begin to fight.
Fight For your Healing
Fight for your Deliverance
Fight for your Faith
Fight for your Breakthrough
Fight for your Finances
Fight for your Beliefs
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT.
Tell the DEVIL THAT I¡¦m gonna force my way into My Destiny
I gonna Force my way into the Kingdom
I¡¦m gonna for my way into my Goal
I¡¦m gonna force my way into Better Living
I¡¦m gonna force myself to Live Holy
I¡¦m going to force myself to Live Right.
Be encourage Stand don¡¦t be afraid to Stand up against the Devil. But make sure that you got the whole armor of God on so that ye may be able to Withstand. Meaning be able to resist. Tell somebody I got to withstand Through the Storm-Withstand
Through the Rain Withstand. And having done all to stand Stand.
Now I dare you right now if you are ready to take back everything Every Valuable thing that the Devil has taken from you I dare you to begin to take it back and then Give God A Praise. Come on Lets Praise God promise to restore everything that the locust hast eaten and everything the cankerworm and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm.
