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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So today I want to talk to you this morning
from the subject bother me, bother me, because I believe
that's what God is saying to us.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I want you to bother me. Somebody shall bother me.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Holy Spirit, fall in this place, descend upon us like
the morning dew falling elegantly upon the leaves before the
sun has ever begun to shine. Fall with such propensity
and such power that our leaves are affected by the
amount of dew that has saturated our circumstances. Speak to
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us in a divine, providential way, so that you might
unfold to us the mysteries of the book.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I thank you in advance for what you're going to do.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Now, bind every foul spirit, every evil principality that was
trying to disrupt the Word of God from penetrating the
souls of men, and give us the life that we
have been promising descriptions, and that life more abundantly, and
it is in the end invincible, irrevocable, eternal, immutable name
(01:03):
of Jesus, we pray every believer who loves his name,
shout Amen. You may be seated in the presence of
the Lord. Now, it is interesting to me that the
Bible says, this is the confidence that we have in
Him that if we ask anything according to His will,
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he hears us.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
That's the confidence we know. We know that he hears us.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Okay, So that means that if we pray one time
and we believe God when we pray, we can walk
away from the prayer knowing that God hurt us. Yes,
And there's a great deal of teaching and a great
deal of scripture that validates the fact that God doesn't
have amnesia. He doesn't forget, so we don't have to
(01:52):
keep reminding him like he's forgotten what we said. And yet,
when Jesus is teaching on prayer in this particular text,
he is telling us about the tenacity of this woman.
And I want to talk to you about tenacious prayer
because we must admit that the effectual, fervent prayers of
(02:14):
a righteous man available mother, effectual and fervent, intense, continually, potetially.
We also know that men out of lift up holy
hands without doubting and without right praying, without ceasing. That
prayer should become a lifestyle, not an emergency. But you
only pull when you're in trouble. It needs to become
a part of your daily life. But there is more
(02:37):
to this text in that, and I want to walk
you through just some beginnings of gleanings of truths. That
we must first look at the system in which the
prayer is operating, because a lot of times we preach
about prayer, but we don't preach about the system that
prayer has to penetrate in order to function. Prayer penetrate systems.
(03:01):
Prayer penetrates systems. So systems are set up and they
tend tend to be the status quo, the way things
are done, how it operates over here, if you're going
to come over here, it works like this. These systemic
pressures have to be penetrated through prayer. And prayer can
(03:23):
penetrate a system. It can penetrate a sickness. It can
penetrate a pathology. It can penetrate a mentality. It can
penetrate a behavior. It can disrupt a pattern an order.
Prayer is a weapon. It is an anvilo Ite is
meant to penetrate. It is meant to break through. It
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is meant to crush. It is meant to dislodge. It
is meant to change the circumstances, whether it is penetrating
a storm on a boat that's rocking in the winds
and the waves, and Jesus says peace be still and
traded the turbulence around it. There are some turbulences that
we're dealing with right now and have been dealing with
(04:06):
for a while. It's not just COVID nineteen. There are
some systems that are in place that prayer must be
able to penetrate. When you pray, you're bucking the system.
There's no need in praying if you're not going to
be prepared to buck the system. Prayer is how you
buck the system. Prayer is how you disrupt the outcome.
(04:30):
I know that some of you have heard a prognosis
that doesn't look good. But prayer, prayer will buck the system.
It will change some prognosis. It will dislodge the circumstance.
It will remove the obstacle. It will open up a door,
It will bring a wandering child back home, it will
reconcile a marriage. This off try. Prayer will bunk the system.
(04:54):
And I want to talk to some radical people. This
is not a message for the feeble and the faith
a message for the polite and the timid. This is
a message for somebody who has got something that they
so urgently need from God that they're willing to be
out of order and they're willing to be looked at
scandalously and they're willing to be ostracized and criticized because
(05:15):
you're ready to buck the system. This is not for
somebody who's more concerned about being like than being healed.
This is not for somebody who's more concerned about being
popular than they are about being powerful. This is not
for somebody who's more interested in political acceptance and the
grandiose ideas of me and No, this is for somebody
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who knows clearly what they want and they need a
breakthrough and they're ready to put a hammer behind an
anvil until they cracked something that a door may be open.
Oh my god, I'm trying not to get excited, but
I'm happy already because I feel like we've been talking
about breakthroughs and now we're gonna crack something, and I'm
gonna show you how to break through. You're gonna break
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through with prayer. You're gonna break through with faith. You're
gonna break through with works. You don't want works without prayer,
and you don't want prayer without works, you want them
to work together succinctly. How to be able to see
what you're praying for by what you're doing, I'm gonna
say that again. How to be able to see what
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you're praying for? You don't have to say what you're
praying for. How to see what you're praying for by
what you're doing. You're doing and your prayer have to
be concerned. They have to be in sequence. They have
to be synchronized together. Why because faith without works is dead.
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God says, I don't care how much you believe it.
If I don't see your actions validating what you believe,
nothing is going to be done. I want to back
up and look at this system though, a little bit,
because this woman lives in a cast system. A cast
system is a class system where you have the halves
and the have nots. You have the powerful and you
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have the powerless, you have the influential, and you have
the peasants. She's operating in a cast system that is
not steered.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
In her direction.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Some of us have to operate against gaining winds of opposition.
Now let me show you what I mean. It's funny
to me that I can get on a plane flying
from Dallas to California, and it only takes two hours,
But when I fly back from California to Dallas, it
may take three and a half. It seems like it's
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the same distance going as it is coming. Why is
there a difference, Well, the difference is when I'm flying
to California, often I'm flying with a tailwind that is
expediting the process. That when I'm flying back home, I'm
flying against a tailwind and it slows down the process.
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There are some things that you want from God that
you're flying against the wind. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nobody in
your neighborhood ever did that. Nobody in your family ever
did that. Nobody in your choir ever did that. Nobody
in your church ever did that. And whenever you're flying
against the wind, it may take a little bit more
effort and a little bit more tenacity. And this is
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the inflection of this prayer for those moments when one
prayer won't do it. But you're flying against the wind
and you're gonna have to bombard the system to get
the kind of breakthrough that you need. But I believe
in breakthroughs. Somebody say breakthroughs. I believe in breakthroughs, even
when you're flying against the wind, even when the odds
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are stacked against you, even when you're dealing with systemic racism,
even when you're dealing with sustainable genderism. Whatever the system
is is flying against you, doesn't mean you can't break through.
If that were not true, women wouldn't have the right
to vote if that were not true, Blacks wouldn't be
able to eat in restaurants if that were not true.
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America would not be a country if that were not true.
The Jewish population would have been destroyed in the Holocaust.
There's always somebody who pushes against the system. Whether there's
a Nussing Mandela in the apartheid, there's always somebody who
pushes against the wind until.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
We get the breakthrough.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
The interesting thing to understand, though, this woman is pushing
against a system that is.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Not designed for her to get what she needs.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Now, we in this country, which profess to be a democracy,
are more aptly of republic, still function in many ways
like a cast system. We don't like to admit it,
but there's two different levels of justice. There's rich folk
justice and poor folks justice. There's people who get things
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worked out on the golf course, while other people have
to go through the courtroom. It depends on who you
know and what know how things happen. Even in this
country that says and tries to be and wants to
be fair, we are still struggling after hundreds of years
to perfect freedom and liberty and justice for all. We
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got justice for some, we got justice for certain sex
and community. We got justice for certain groups at certain
income levels.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
But if you're born in the wrong.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Zip code, oh, come on, somebody, if you don't know
the right people, justice becomes something that you have to
pray for.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Some people don't have to teach on prayer for justice
because they already possess justice.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
The wind is blowing their way.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
But if you happen to be born in the wrong
zip code, the wind is not going in your direction
for true justice, and you have to fight for it
a little differently than somebody.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Who was born with it. Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Interesting thing is we have this judge who is a
power that this woman normally would not even have access to.
And we are told about the personality of the judge
that he is tenacious and relentless, that he does not
fear God nor care what anybody thinks he is a power,
He is a sovereign, He is a decision maker, he
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can resolve issues. And then on the other hand, we
are told about this woman and the woman the Bible
says is a widow. Now, that's just a slight little
detail that he gives us about this woman.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
It does not give us her name.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
It doesn't tell us her name, it doesn't tell us
what she had on, it doesn't tell us about her
income level.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
But it says she's a widow.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
The reason that tells us that she is a widow
is because Jesus lived in a missage intic society where
being a woman without a man meant that you really
had no voice.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Uh, we're about to get into something.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
And Jesus you since he's teaching the disciples, but he's
talking about a widow woman. Why would Jesus use a
widow woman when leaving a message for a group of
men about how to pray. He's teaching these men how
to pray when the system is against you. Oh God,
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the system you see is against women, and it has
been for a long time, and it is all through
the Bible. If you will remember the daughters of Zelophahad,
who had to go to Moses, says, said, why cannot
we reap an inheritance that our father left us, singing
us he had no sons. Why should we be discriminated
against because we are women? And at first Moses was
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not going to give them their fair chair, but he
had to go to God, and God told Moses. God
told Moses, look at how God overruled Moses. God told Moses,
the woman is right. Sometimes God has to speak up
for you to get justice.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
God told Moses, the woman are right.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
It's a shame that they had to go that high
to get what men didn't have to go that high for.
But when you're flying against a current and you're trying
to break a system, sometimes you have to put in
prayer work to get what is rightfully yours. But the
daughters of Zelapha had would not be denied. They said, no,
we're gonna pray and pray until we get a breakthrough.
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Because they lived in a misogenic society that did not
appreciate women nor regard them as being influential. And yet,
in spite of that, this woman, this widow woman, this
man less woman, went before the judge and worried him
and bothered him until there was a change. Or think
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about Leah and Rachel, whose marriage was negotiated by Laban
and Jacob. What woman today wants Laban and Jacob to
enter into a business deal that affects who you end
up in the bed with. Look at how women were
considered like property, like cabbage, like cattle, like sheep, like oxen.
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They were traded off in a business deal even though
they were his daughters. Now you know, if you'll trade
your daughters your handmaidens, don't stand the chance. I want
you to see what we're talking about when we're talking
about this widow woman, and how little regard throughout scripture
was given to women. They were not respected, they were
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not appreciated, they were not honored, And seldom in the
scriptures do we even get the name of women. For example,
we know that there was a woman at the well,
we know what happened to her, we know the details
of her life, we even know about her sex life,
and we don't know her name.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Y'all not gonna talk to me this morning.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
They didn't even think it important enough to identify who
she is. They identified what she done, They identified her religion,
but her name wasn't in enough to be shared with us.
And know historian to this date has been able to
dislodge the information about her name because who she was
was an incidentalist, like naming a puppy or naming a dog,
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or naming a goldfish. It wasn't significant enough in the
story to be included who she was. While they described
with great intent, where she was, where the well was,
what the conversation was, how many men she'd had, what
her religion was. You would think they would mention her name,
But women had such a lower regd in the scripture,
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in the days of the scriptures, that the penmen did
not even think to note her name. Oh what about
the woman with the issue of blood. We know the
personal information of her hemorrhaging. We understand the fact that
she's bleeding. We understand what the law has said about her.
We know how long she's been bleedingy, we know how
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many physicians she's been to see. We know everything about
her circums said. We know the names of the people
that are surrounding Jesus. But this woman who is the
centerpiece of the story, she is the leading lady of
the story. She is the one with whom the story
is written about. How can we know all of these
men's name, and the woman who the story is written about,
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they never even mentioned her. Now, I want to talk
to somebody who's been left nameless. I want to talk
to somebody who's been referred to as a statistic. I
want to talk to somebody that's been referred to as
a people group. I want to talk to somebody who's
never had their name mentioned, never been recognized, never had
a voice, never had any influence, and yet God has
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a plan for your life. Oh, I'm gonna get into
something in a minute now. Was the woman in the
bottle that was caught in the act of adultery? The
men caught her, snatched her out of the bed, brought
her down the road, and threw her down at the
feet of Gina. They were getting ready in a stone
to death, and never even mentioned who she was. Have
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you ever felt unseen? Have you ever felt overlooked? Have
you ever felt like your voice could not be heard,
your opinion not valued, who you were not appreciated. Have
you ever felt like you were locked out of the
circle where decisions are made, where changes are done, where
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righteousness is accomplished where justice is ratified. Such is the
case in the text today.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
This manless woman.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Who could not, in spite of the fact we know
that she is a tenacious woman, was unable to be
regarded by her adversary. You're not going to tell me
that she was tenacious with the judge and had not
been tenacious her adversary. But because she is a widow woman,
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she is easily overlooked. Come on, help me, somebody. She
had exhausted all means of resolution on her level. Now
now listen to this. She had exhausted all means of
resolution on her level. This is where most people quit.
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When you have exhausted all means of resolution on your level,
most people give up. She couldn't work it out with
her adversary. She couldn't get an arbitration, cous she couldn't
get ratification on her level. Most people get to that level,
say I did all I could, and I give up.
I just walk away. If God would have meant for
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this to happen for me, it would have happened. If
God means for me to get a house, he'll give
me a house. If God means for me to get
a job, he'll give me a job. If God means
for me to get out of this court case, he'll
bring me out. If God me no, no no no
no no no no no no, no no no. Not
this woman. Somebody needs to say, not this woman, not
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this woman. See, you have to set yourself apart from
the status quo and let the system know. You may
have run over everybody else, but you're not gonna run
over me. You might run over people who look like me,
but you're not gonna run over me. You might have
run over everybody in my neighborhood, but you're not gonna
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run over me.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
She said.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
You might have run over every other woman, but you're
not gonna run over me. And Jesus is using the
story of this nameless win a woman to teach his
disciples because his disciples were hated as much as the woman.
They were ostracized for being Christian. They were ostracized for
being believers, they were exercise for being his followers. They
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could not say the name of Jesus and be respected
because Jesus himself was to be crucified. And he's showing
you how to fight when the wind is against you
and all hell is breaking loose, and there's trouble in
your life. And though he slay me, yet shall I
trust him? I still believe the God. It's gonna work
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it out, my God. I feel the power of the
Holy God. I didn't come up lift the people that
are already uplifted.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
I came to.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Snatch somebody that's down trodden. I came to snatch somebody
that the odds are against you. I came to talk
to somebody that the diagnosis doesn't look good. I came
to talk to somebody that's got bad credit. I came
to talk to somebody that's been abused and criticized, ostracized, molested.
I came to talk to somebody that's got a laundry
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list of reasons why you are to just give up
and turn around and walk away and go back. But
Jesus say that you ought to bove me until something happens,
until a breakthrough comes, until a change is made, until
a body is healed, until a job is found, until
a deed is signed, until the property is conveyed, until
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the book is written, until the door is open, until
you get your voice back, until you get your site back,
until you get your legs back until you get your
temperature under control, until your lungs clean up.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
You gotta fight
So today I want to talk to you this morning
from the subject bother me, bother me, because I believe
that's what God is saying to us.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I want you to bother me. Somebody shall bother me.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Holy Spirit, fall in this place, descend upon us like
the morning dew falling elegantly upon the leaves before the
sun has ever begun to shine. Fall with such propensity
and such power that our leaves are affected by the
amount of dew that has saturated our circumstances. Speak to
(00:33):
us in a divine, providential way, so that you might
unfold to us the mysteries of the book.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I thank you in advance for what you're going to do.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Now, bind every foul spirit, every evil principality that was
trying to disrupt the Word of God from penetrating the
souls of men, and give us the life that we
have been promising descriptions, and that life more abundantly, and
it is in the end invincible, irrevocable, eternal, immutable name
(01:03):
of Jesus, we pray every believer who loves his name,
shout Amen. You may be seated in the presence of
the Lord. Now, it is interesting to me that the
Bible says, this is the confidence that we have in
Him that if we ask anything according to His will,
(01:25):
he hears us.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
That's the confidence we know. We know that he hears us.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Okay, So that means that if we pray one time
and we believe God when we pray, we can walk
away from the prayer knowing that God hurt us. Yes,
And there's a great deal of teaching and a great
deal of scripture that validates the fact that God doesn't
have amnesia. He doesn't forget, so we don't have to
(01:52):
keep reminding him like he's forgotten what we said. And yet,
when Jesus is teaching on prayer in this particular text,
he is telling us about the tenacity of this woman.
And I want to talk to you about tenacious prayer
because we must admit that the effectual, fervent prayers of
(02:14):
a righteous man available mother, effectual and fervent, intense, continually, potetially.
We also know that men out of lift up holy
hands without doubting and without right praying, without ceasing. That
prayer should become a lifestyle, not an emergency. But you
only pull when you're in trouble. It needs to become
a part of your daily life. But there is more
(02:37):
to this text in that, and I want to walk
you through just some beginnings of gleanings of truths. That
we must first look at the system in which the
prayer is operating, because a lot of times we preach
about prayer, but we don't preach about the system that
prayer has to penetrate in order to function. Prayer penetrate systems.
(03:01):
Prayer penetrates systems. So systems are set up and they
tend tend to be the status quo, the way things
are done, how it operates over here, if you're going
to come over here, it works like this. These systemic
pressures have to be penetrated through prayer. And prayer can
(03:23):
penetrate a system. It can penetrate a sickness. It can
penetrate a pathology. It can penetrate a mentality. It can
penetrate a behavior. It can disrupt a pattern an order.
Prayer is a weapon. It is an anvilo Ite is
meant to penetrate. It is meant to break through. It
(03:45):
is meant to crush. It is meant to dislodge. It
is meant to change the circumstances, whether it is penetrating
a storm on a boat that's rocking in the winds
and the waves, and Jesus says peace be still and
traded the turbulence around it. There are some turbulences that
we're dealing with right now and have been dealing with
(04:06):
for a while. It's not just COVID nineteen. There are
some systems that are in place that prayer must be
able to penetrate. When you pray, you're bucking the system.
There's no need in praying if you're not going to
be prepared to buck the system. Prayer is how you
buck the system. Prayer is how you disrupt the outcome.
(04:30):
I know that some of you have heard a prognosis
that doesn't look good. But prayer, prayer will buck the system.
It will change some prognosis. It will dislodge the circumstance.
It will remove the obstacle. It will open up a door,
It will bring a wandering child back home, it will
reconcile a marriage. This off try. Prayer will bunk the system.
(04:54):
And I want to talk to some radical people. This
is not a message for the feeble and the faith
a message for the polite and the timid. This is
a message for somebody who has got something that they
so urgently need from God that they're willing to be
out of order and they're willing to be looked at
scandalously and they're willing to be ostracized and criticized because
(05:15):
you're ready to buck the system. This is not for
somebody who's more concerned about being like than being healed.
This is not for somebody who's more concerned about being
popular than they are about being powerful. This is not
for somebody who's more interested in political acceptance and the
grandiose ideas of me and No, this is for somebody
(05:36):
who knows clearly what they want and they need a
breakthrough and they're ready to put a hammer behind an
anvil until they cracked something that a door may be open.
Oh my god, I'm trying not to get excited, but
I'm happy already because I feel like we've been talking
about breakthroughs and now we're gonna crack something, and I'm
gonna show you how to break through. You're gonna break
(05:59):
through with prayer. You're gonna break through with faith. You're
gonna break through with works. You don't want works without prayer,
and you don't want prayer without works, you want them
to work together succinctly. How to be able to see
what you're praying for by what you're doing, I'm gonna
say that again. How to be able to see what
(06:21):
you're praying for? You don't have to say what you're
praying for. How to see what you're praying for by
what you're doing. You're doing and your prayer have to
be concerned. They have to be in sequence. They have
to be synchronized together. Why because faith without works is dead.
(06:43):
God says, I don't care how much you believe it.
If I don't see your actions validating what you believe,
nothing is going to be done. I want to back
up and look at this system though, a little bit,
because this woman lives in a cast system. A cast
system is a class system where you have the halves
and the have nots. You have the powerful and you
(07:03):
have the powerless, you have the influential, and you have
the peasants. She's operating in a cast system that is
not steered.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
In her direction.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Some of us have to operate against gaining winds of opposition.
Now let me show you what I mean. It's funny
to me that I can get on a plane flying
from Dallas to California, and it only takes two hours,
But when I fly back from California to Dallas, it
may take three and a half. It seems like it's
(07:35):
the same distance going as it is coming. Why is
there a difference, Well, the difference is when I'm flying
to California, often I'm flying with a tailwind that is
expediting the process. That when I'm flying back home, I'm
flying against a tailwind and it slows down the process.
(07:56):
There are some things that you want from God that
you're flying against the wind. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nobody in
your neighborhood ever did that. Nobody in your family ever
did that. Nobody in your choir ever did that. Nobody
in your church ever did that. And whenever you're flying
against the wind, it may take a little bit more
effort and a little bit more tenacity. And this is
(08:20):
the inflection of this prayer for those moments when one
prayer won't do it. But you're flying against the wind
and you're gonna have to bombard the system to get
the kind of breakthrough that you need. But I believe
in breakthroughs. Somebody say breakthroughs. I believe in breakthroughs, even
when you're flying against the wind, even when the odds
(08:42):
are stacked against you, even when you're dealing with systemic racism,
even when you're dealing with sustainable genderism. Whatever the system
is is flying against you, doesn't mean you can't break through.
If that were not true, women wouldn't have the right
to vote if that were not true, Blacks wouldn't be
able to eat in restaurants if that were not true.
(09:03):
America would not be a country if that were not true.
The Jewish population would have been destroyed in the Holocaust.
There's always somebody who pushes against the system. Whether there's
a Nussing Mandela in the apartheid, there's always somebody who
pushes against the wind until.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
We get the breakthrough.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
The interesting thing to understand, though, this woman is pushing
against a system that is.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Not designed for her to get what she needs.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Now, we in this country, which profess to be a democracy,
are more aptly of republic, still function in many ways
like a cast system. We don't like to admit it,
but there's two different levels of justice. There's rich folk
justice and poor folks justice. There's people who get things
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worked out on the golf course, while other people have
to go through the courtroom. It depends on who you
know and what know how things happen. Even in this
country that says and tries to be and wants to
be fair, we are still struggling after hundreds of years
to perfect freedom and liberty and justice for all. We
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got justice for some, we got justice for certain sex
and community. We got justice for certain groups at certain
income levels.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
But if you're born in the wrong.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Zip code, oh, come on, somebody, if you don't know
the right people, justice becomes something that you have to
pray for.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Some people don't have to teach on prayer for justice
because they already possess justice.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
The wind is blowing their way.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
But if you happen to be born in the wrong
zip code, the wind is not going in your direction
for true justice, and you have to fight for it
a little differently than somebody.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Who was born with it. Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Interesting thing is we have this judge who is a
power that this woman normally would not even have access to.
And we are told about the personality of the judge
that he is tenacious and relentless, that he does not
fear God nor care what anybody thinks he is a power,
He is a sovereign, He is a decision maker, he
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can resolve issues. And then on the other hand, we
are told about this woman and the woman the Bible
says is a widow. Now, that's just a slight little
detail that he gives us about this woman.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
It does not give us her name.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
It doesn't tell us her name, it doesn't tell us
what she had on, it doesn't tell us about her
income level.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
But it says she's a widow.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
The reason that tells us that she is a widow
is because Jesus lived in a missage intic society where
being a woman without a man meant that you really
had no voice.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Uh, we're about to get into something.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
And Jesus you since he's teaching the disciples, but he's
talking about a widow woman. Why would Jesus use a
widow woman when leaving a message for a group of
men about how to pray. He's teaching these men how
to pray when the system is against you. Oh God,
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the system you see is against women, and it has
been for a long time, and it is all through
the Bible. If you will remember the daughters of Zelophahad,
who had to go to Moses, says, said, why cannot
we reap an inheritance that our father left us, singing
us he had no sons. Why should we be discriminated
against because we are women? And at first Moses was
(12:42):
not going to give them their fair chair, but he
had to go to God, and God told Moses. God
told Moses, look at how God overruled Moses. God told Moses,
the woman is right. Sometimes God has to speak up
for you to get justice.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
God told Moses, the woman are right.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
It's a shame that they had to go that high
to get what men didn't have to go that high for.
But when you're flying against a current and you're trying
to break a system, sometimes you have to put in
prayer work to get what is rightfully yours. But the
daughters of Zelapha had would not be denied. They said, no,
we're gonna pray and pray until we get a breakthrough.
(13:25):
Because they lived in a misogenic society that did not
appreciate women nor regard them as being influential. And yet,
in spite of that, this woman, this widow woman, this
man less woman, went before the judge and worried him
and bothered him until there was a change. Or think
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about Leah and Rachel, whose marriage was negotiated by Laban
and Jacob. What woman today wants Laban and Jacob to
enter into a business deal that affects who you end
up in the bed with. Look at how women were
considered like property, like cabbage, like cattle, like sheep, like oxen.
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They were traded off in a business deal even though
they were his daughters. Now you know, if you'll trade
your daughters your handmaidens, don't stand the chance. I want
you to see what we're talking about when we're talking
about this widow woman, and how little regard throughout scripture
was given to women. They were not respected, they were
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not appreciated, they were not honored, And seldom in the
scriptures do we even get the name of women. For example,
we know that there was a woman at the well,
we know what happened to her, we know the details
of her life, we even know about her sex life,
and we don't know her name.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Y'all not gonna talk to me this morning.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
They didn't even think it important enough to identify who
she is. They identified what she done, They identified her religion,
but her name wasn't in enough to be shared with us.
And know historian to this date has been able to
dislodge the information about her name because who she was
was an incidentalist, like naming a puppy or naming a dog,
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or naming a goldfish. It wasn't significant enough in the
story to be included who she was. While they described
with great intent, where she was, where the well was,
what the conversation was, how many men she'd had, what
her religion was. You would think they would mention her name,
But women had such a lower regd in the scripture,
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in the days of the scriptures, that the penmen did
not even think to note her name. Oh what about
the woman with the issue of blood. We know the
personal information of her hemorrhaging. We understand the fact that
she's bleeding. We understand what the law has said about her.
We know how long she's been bleedingy, we know how
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many physicians she's been to see. We know everything about
her circums said. We know the names of the people
that are surrounding Jesus. But this woman who is the
centerpiece of the story, she is the leading lady of
the story. She is the one with whom the story
is written about. How can we know all of these
men's name, and the woman who the story is written about,
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they never even mentioned her. Now, I want to talk
to somebody who's been left nameless. I want to talk
to somebody who's been referred to as a statistic. I
want to talk to somebody that's been referred to as
a people group. I want to talk to somebody who's
never had their name mentioned, never been recognized, never had
a voice, never had any influence, and yet God has
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a plan for your life. Oh, I'm gonna get into
something in a minute now. Was the woman in the
bottle that was caught in the act of adultery? The
men caught her, snatched her out of the bed, brought
her down the road, and threw her down at the
feet of Gina. They were getting ready in a stone
to death, and never even mentioned who she was. Have
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you ever felt unseen? Have you ever felt overlooked? Have
you ever felt like your voice could not be heard,
your opinion not valued, who you were not appreciated. Have
you ever felt like you were locked out of the
circle where decisions are made, where changes are done, where
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righteousness is accomplished where justice is ratified. Such is the
case in the text today.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
This manless woman.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Who could not, in spite of the fact we know
that she is a tenacious woman, was unable to be
regarded by her adversary. You're not going to tell me
that she was tenacious with the judge and had not
been tenacious her adversary. But because she is a widow woman,
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she is easily overlooked. Come on, help me, somebody. She
had exhausted all means of resolution on her level. Now
now listen to this. She had exhausted all means of
resolution on her level. This is where most people quit.
(18:32):
When you have exhausted all means of resolution on your level,
most people give up. She couldn't work it out with
her adversary. She couldn't get an arbitration, cous she couldn't
get ratification on her level. Most people get to that level,
say I did all I could, and I give up.
I just walk away. If God would have meant for
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this to happen for me, it would have happened. If
God means for me to get a house, he'll give
me a house. If God means for me to get
a job, he'll give me a job. If God means
for me to get out of this court case, he'll
bring me out. If God me no, no no no
no no no no no no, no no no. Not
this woman. Somebody needs to say, not this woman, not
(19:16):
this woman. See, you have to set yourself apart from
the status quo and let the system know. You may
have run over everybody else, but you're not gonna run
over me. You might run over people who look like me,
but you're not gonna run over me. You might have
run over everybody in my neighborhood, but you're not gonna
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run over me.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
She said.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
You might have run over every other woman, but you're
not gonna run over me. And Jesus is using the
story of this nameless win a woman to teach his
disciples because his disciples were hated as much as the woman.
They were ostracized for being Christian. They were ostracized for
being believers, they were exercise for being his followers. They
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could not say the name of Jesus and be respected
because Jesus himself was to be crucified. And he's showing
you how to fight when the wind is against you
and all hell is breaking loose, and there's trouble in
your life. And though he slay me, yet shall I
trust him? I still believe the God. It's gonna work
(20:22):
it out, my God. I feel the power of the
Holy God. I didn't come up lift the people that
are already uplifted.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
I came to.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Snatch somebody that's down trodden. I came to snatch somebody
that the odds are against you. I came to talk
to somebody that the diagnosis doesn't look good. I came
to talk to somebody that's got bad credit. I came
to talk to somebody that's been abused and criticized, ostracized, molested.
I came to talk to somebody that's got a laundry
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list of reasons why you are to just give up
and turn around and walk away and go back. But
Jesus say that you ought to bove me until something happens,
until a breakthrough comes, until a change is made, until
a body is healed, until a job is found, until
a deed is signed, until the property is conveyed, until
(21:16):
the book is written, until the door is open, until
you get your voice back, until you get your site back,
until you get your legs back until you get your
temperature under control, until your lungs clean up.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
You gotta fight
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