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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Whenever you're stubborn and you refuse to hear God, he
has to send something worse to get you to turn around. America,
hear me. If we don't hear God here, it's going
to get worse if we don't stop bickering. But politically
is going to get worse if we don't stop killing
innocent people. Is going to get worse when we don't.
If we don't stop calling wrong right and right wrong,
(00:23):
it's going to get worse if we don't get a
sense of justice. Irrespective of who it is, it's going
to get worse. God is going to get our attention,
and I don't care what it takes. The bush is
gonna burn until you turn aside. Let me go on
record that God is a just God. He's against all injustice,
(00:47):
He's against all immorality. I'm not speaking to the guilt
of the innocence of any man. I'm talking about the
lack of due process of law. If there's not due
process or can't be justice. While you arguing about maybe
there's another side to the story, I'm arguing about they
never even arrested demand in the first place, and they
would snatch me in jail if I go two miles
(01:08):
over the speed limit. I'm talking about justice, and so
something has, something has to be done. Not only in America,
it's around the world. Inequity, people starving to death, aside
people who live in mansions. It's inequity in every sphere
of like. I'm not talking about having enough or even
more than enough. I'm talking about having such a surplus
(01:30):
and employees can't get a raised. I'm talking about big
companies paying off stockholders and off the backs of people
who are making minimum wage, who can't even pay their
rent working for you every day. Enough something has to
be done with injustice. Something has to be done when
the people who protect the city can't afford to live
(01:50):
in the city they protect. Something has to be done
when I have to drive an hour to get to
work because I have to stay out of town to
find something cheap enough to accommodate the wages that you
pay me so that I can come in and protect
you in the city, and you don't respect me. Away
with your flowers and your songs and your God bless
you and call me a hero. I don't need a title.
(02:12):
I need a raise. Whenever injustice goes on us long enough.
After while, God will have to do something to get
your attention, to make you appreciate people that you look
down on. They should have went back to school, they
should have got more education. And all of a sudden,
we're thanking God for truck drivers and check out girls
and people we were looking down on. Other God has
(02:35):
a way of getting your attention. And the bush started
burning and nobody could stop it. It burned into the
hotel business, and it burned into Hollywood. My God, it burned.
It burned into the music industry, and all the concerts
(02:56):
were canceled. It burned into the opera houses and all
the opera singers had to sit down. It burned into
New York, and all of a sudden, Madison Square Garden
closes down, and all of a sudden everything begins. They
burned into Vegas. It burned in the Florida and all
the snowbirds had to come home. It burned and kept
(03:19):
burning and burning. This is a burning bush. Moses saw
burning bush in the Bible, said he turned aside to see.
And that's all God wants us to do, to turn
aside to see see what that means, to change direction
in order to turn aside to see. You have to
(03:42):
change direction. That's all repentance mean. Repentance does not mean tears,
It does not mean crying. It has nothing to do
with emotion. It means changing behavior, changing direction, changing direction,
and burning bushes always require a change of direction. I
was on the pune with a bunch of preachers and
they were telling me we need to all get together
(04:02):
and all pray at the same time, and they're gonna
distribute prayers and we're gonna all reprayers on Sunday morning,
and we're gonna pray about not knowing that Sunday morning
was about to close down. And when they got through
having this big conference call, these global preachers, real big, important,
significant preachers, sincerely trying to do something to stop the
pandemic from coming, to ask me to have remarks and
(04:23):
do the benediction. And when they started talking about the
plagues of the Bible and so forth and so on,
and that the plagues were stopped through prayer. When I
got down to the benediction, I said, I just want
to insert something into your thinking. It was not the
prayers that stopped the plagues. It was the repentance. We
(04:45):
can all pray the same prayer at the same time.
But if we don't change our behavior, the plague is
going to continue. Times we gon finde the prayer. But
the prayer was not the point. It was not the prayer.
It was the repentance repentance that stop God from destroying Nineveh. Yes, oh,
come on, somebody. The Bible said nine of a repentant
(05:08):
and because none of a repentant judgment was spared. It
was repentance that will turn it around. Repentance will make
the angel put his sword back in his hold. Of
repentance will stop the plague. Repentance is to change, so
in your life periodically, in your life, and in my life,
(05:29):
and in your life and your life, and your life
and your life. There have been burning bushes. Look back
over your life. Every now and then something started burning
and would not be consumed, and God used it to
get your attention. I wouldn't be a Christian today if
it weren't for burning bushes. Burning bushes made me humble myself.
(05:51):
Burning bushes made me shut my mouth. Burning bushes brought
me down to my knees. Burning bushes stopped me from
thinking too highly of myself. Burning bush just humbled me
down from thinking that I knew everything. Burning burning bushes
stuff that don't make no sense. A burning bush that
will not be consumed is something that happens in your
life that don't make sense, and you cannot ignore it,
(06:15):
and you cannot stuff it, and you got to deal
with it. And it'll make you throw your hands up,
and it'll make you get down on your knees, and
it'll make you get on the phone and call people
you normally ignore, and it will make you stream online
to get a word from God. Because you got a
burning bush in your life. And it doesn't have to
(06:35):
be COVID nineteen to be a burning bush. No, no,
no no. For some people. Burning bushes breast cancer for somebody.
A burning bush is a divorce in a broken marriage.
For somebody, a burning bush is the death of a
loved one. It doesn't have to be an international calamity
to be a burning bush. And the whole world did
(06:56):
not know that Moses's bush was burning, and the whole
world might not know, But you got a burning bush
in your life, a private display of God's insistence to
get your attention and undeniable declaration of I'm gonna have
your attention. If I have to get it in a wheelchair,
(07:19):
I'm gonna have your attention. If I have to get
it in a hospital room, I'm gonna have your attention.
If they have to cut your legs off, I'm gonna
have your intention. I'm gonna win this fight. I'm talking
about burning bushes and Moses turned aside to see and
what amazed me, even though I've read it many many times,
(07:40):
appreciate on it many times before, it's a conversation that ensued.
God told Moses, take off your shoes. For the ground
you stand on is holy ground. It's what's holy because
God was there. That's the only thing that makes the
place holy is because God is there. Your living room
could be holy if God is here here. You could
(08:01):
be in the shower. It could be holy if God
gets in there. You can be in your car. If
God gets in the car, it can be holy because
God is there. It's not holy because it's got pews
and stained glass windows and crosses and pictures of somebody's
idea of Jesus, Oh the Lord. That's not what makes
holy is ai because God is Take off your shoe
for the ground you stand on. This holy ground God's
(08:24):
gonna make it holy ground in your house, holy ground
in your living room of holy ground in your apartment,
Holy ground in your car, holy ground on your break,
on your job. God says, where I am holy ground,
I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. It
(08:44):
is the first time that God says that he is
the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. God has never
referred to himself as being the God of Abraham, Isaac
and Jacob until Moses. He does not even tell Jacob
that he the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. In fact,
he told Jacob that his name was not Jacob, that
(09:07):
his name was Israel. But God does not say I
am the God of Abraham, Zak and Israel. He says,
I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. In
other words, I'm not just the God of the best
in you. Yeah yeah, see, Jacob. Jacob was not the
(09:30):
good part of Israel. Jacob was the tricks to the
con artists, the supplant, the rocketeer. He was like his family,
Rebecca and Labor and all of them. Jacob was the
part that wrestled with God. Yeah yeah, and Israel was
who he was destined to be. And God said, your
name is really Israel, and you're a prince and you
(09:52):
have power with God. But every prince has got a Jacob,
so all of us. But God gets ready to identify himself,
the God who told Jacob that your name shall no
longer be called Jacob. But Israel, says, I am the
God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Yes, Oh, thank you,
(10:15):
Thank you Lord for being the God of Jacob. Thank
you for being the God of the worst part of me.
Thank you that I don't have to hide by Jacob.
Thank you that you love my Jacob. I know you
want to argue with that. But God who commended his
(10:37):
love toward us, and that while we were yet sinners,
Christ died for us. The theology is absolutely right. God
does not love you because you're a holy and because
you read your biby and because you go to church
all the time and you fast on Thursdays time and
you will only eat cold greens on Wednesdays. God does
(10:57):
not love you because you singing the and you work
on the nutsherboard. God loved you when you were lying
and cheating and stealing and hoarding and hanging off a
pole and going strip tease in a cheap hotel room.
God loved you when you were shooting dope up your
arm and laying in gutters and alley ways and burning
(11:19):
the hair out of your nose. God still loved you
when you were high. And God loved you when you
were locked up in jail. And God loved you when
you were in your perversions and your filth and your mucking,
your mird. God loved you in the decadence of your life.
God didn't wait till things got better to love you.
He loved you in your mess. He is the God
of Abraham Isaac. And take off your shoes. Take off
(11:45):
your shoes because the ground you stand on, this holy gud.
You ain't holy, You ain't holy, but the ground, the
ground is holier than you. The ground you stand on,
this holy ground. That's how God started his conversation off
with Moses. And they start entering in the conversation a
(12:05):
God and a man in a desert alone. Can you
imagine a God a man in a desert alone, And
there he is having a conversation with Moses to help
Moses understand who he is. And God begins to tell
Moses what all he's going to do with him. Now,
(12:27):
you must understand that Moses is a murderer, he's a convict,
he's on the run, he's an outlaw. He's hiding on
the backside of the desert. And God found him. You
can't go nowhere where God cannot find you. If you
make your bed in hell, he is there. If you
ascend to the most parts of the earth, he is there. Y'all.
(12:47):
Don't care. If you're locked up in the bottom of
a jail, sell God is there. They can put you
in the inner sanctum of a prison. God is there.
They can fly you off to the mountain peaks, and
God is there. You can be an astronaut and fly
away out of there. Else aught it. But God is
up there too, and he will find you and flush
you out.
Whenever you're stubborn and you refuse to hear God, he
has to send something worse to get you to turn around. America,
hear me. If we don't hear God here, it's going
to get worse if we don't stop bickering. But politically
is going to get worse if we don't stop killing
innocent people. Is going to get worse when we don't.
If we don't stop calling wrong right and right wrong,
(00:23):
it's going to get worse if we don't get a
sense of justice. Irrespective of who it is, it's going
to get worse. God is going to get our attention,
and I don't care what it takes. The bush is
gonna burn until you turn aside. Let me go on
record that God is a just God. He's against all injustice,
(00:47):
He's against all immorality. I'm not speaking to the guilt
of the innocence of any man. I'm talking about the
lack of due process of law. If there's not due
process or can't be justice. While you arguing about maybe
there's another side to the story, I'm arguing about they
never even arrested demand in the first place, and they
would snatch me in jail if I go two miles
(01:08):
over the speed limit. I'm talking about justice, and so
something has, something has to be done. Not only in America,
it's around the world. Inequity, people starving to death, aside
people who live in mansions. It's inequity in every sphere
of like. I'm not talking about having enough or even
more than enough. I'm talking about having such a surplus
(01:30):
and employees can't get a raised. I'm talking about big
companies paying off stockholders and off the backs of people
who are making minimum wage, who can't even pay their
rent working for you every day. Enough something has to
be done with injustice. Something has to be done when
the people who protect the city can't afford to live
(01:50):
in the city they protect. Something has to be done
when I have to drive an hour to get to
work because I have to stay out of town to
find something cheap enough to accommodate the wages that you
pay me so that I can come in and protect
you in the city, and you don't respect me. Away
with your flowers and your songs and your God bless
you and call me a hero. I don't need a title.
(02:12):
I need a raise. Whenever injustice goes on us long enough.
After while, God will have to do something to get
your attention, to make you appreciate people that you look
down on. They should have went back to school, they
should have got more education. And all of a sudden,
we're thanking God for truck drivers and check out girls
and people we were looking down on. Other God has
(02:35):
a way of getting your attention. And the bush started
burning and nobody could stop it. It burned into the
hotel business, and it burned into Hollywood. My God, it burned.
It burned into the music industry, and all the concerts
(02:56):
were canceled. It burned into the opera houses and all
the opera singers had to sit down. It burned into
New York, and all of a sudden, Madison Square Garden
closes down, and all of a sudden everything begins. They
burned into Vegas. It burned in the Florida and all
the snowbirds had to come home. It burned and kept
(03:19):
burning and burning. This is a burning bush. Moses saw
burning bush in the Bible, said he turned aside to see.
And that's all God wants us to do, to turn
aside to see see what that means, to change direction
in order to turn aside to see. You have to
(03:42):
change direction. That's all repentance mean. Repentance does not mean tears,
It does not mean crying. It has nothing to do
with emotion. It means changing behavior, changing direction, changing direction,
and burning bushes always require a change of direction. I
was on the pune with a bunch of preachers and
they were telling me we need to all get together
(04:02):
and all pray at the same time, and they're gonna
distribute prayers and we're gonna all reprayers on Sunday morning,
and we're gonna pray about not knowing that Sunday morning
was about to close down. And when they got through
having this big conference call, these global preachers, real big, important,
significant preachers, sincerely trying to do something to stop the
pandemic from coming, to ask me to have remarks and
(04:23):
do the benediction. And when they started talking about the
plagues of the Bible and so forth and so on,
and that the plagues were stopped through prayer. When I
got down to the benediction, I said, I just want
to insert something into your thinking. It was not the
prayers that stopped the plagues. It was the repentance. We
(04:45):
can all pray the same prayer at the same time.
But if we don't change our behavior, the plague is
going to continue. Times we gon finde the prayer. But
the prayer was not the point. It was not the prayer.
It was the repentance repentance that stop God from destroying Nineveh. Yes, oh,
come on, somebody. The Bible said nine of a repentant
(05:08):
and because none of a repentant judgment was spared. It
was repentance that will turn it around. Repentance will make
the angel put his sword back in his hold. Of
repentance will stop the plague. Repentance is to change, so
in your life periodically, in your life, and in my life,
(05:29):
and in your life and your life, and your life
and your life. There have been burning bushes. Look back
over your life. Every now and then something started burning
and would not be consumed, and God used it to
get your attention. I wouldn't be a Christian today if
it weren't for burning bushes. Burning bushes made me humble myself.
(05:51):
Burning bushes made me shut my mouth. Burning bushes brought
me down to my knees. Burning bushes stopped me from
thinking too highly of myself. Burning bush just humbled me
down from thinking that I knew everything. Burning burning bushes
stuff that don't make no sense. A burning bush that
will not be consumed is something that happens in your
life that don't make sense, and you cannot ignore it,
(06:15):
and you cannot stuff it, and you got to deal
with it. And it'll make you throw your hands up,
and it'll make you get down on your knees, and
it'll make you get on the phone and call people
you normally ignore, and it will make you stream online
to get a word from God. Because you got a
burning bush in your life. And it doesn't have to
(06:35):
be COVID nineteen to be a burning bush. No, no,
no no. For some people. Burning bushes breast cancer for somebody.
A burning bush is a divorce in a broken marriage.
For somebody, a burning bush is the death of a
loved one. It doesn't have to be an international calamity
to be a burning bush. And the whole world did
(06:56):
not know that Moses's bush was burning, and the whole
world might not know, But you got a burning bush
in your life, a private display of God's insistence to
get your attention and undeniable declaration of I'm gonna have
your attention. If I have to get it in a wheelchair,
(07:19):
I'm gonna have your attention. If I have to get
it in a hospital room, I'm gonna have your attention.
If they have to cut your legs off, I'm gonna
have your intention. I'm gonna win this fight. I'm talking
about burning bushes and Moses turned aside to see and
what amazed me, even though I've read it many many times,
(07:40):
appreciate on it many times before, it's a conversation that ensued.
God told Moses, take off your shoes. For the ground
you stand on is holy ground. It's what's holy because
God was there. That's the only thing that makes the
place holy is because God is there. Your living room
could be holy if God is here here. You could
(08:01):
be in the shower. It could be holy if God
gets in there. You can be in your car. If
God gets in the car, it can be holy because
God is there. It's not holy because it's got pews
and stained glass windows and crosses and pictures of somebody's
idea of Jesus, Oh the Lord. That's not what makes
holy is ai because God is Take off your shoe
for the ground you stand on. This holy ground God's
(08:24):
gonna make it holy ground in your house, holy ground
in your living room of holy ground in your apartment,
Holy ground in your car, holy ground on your break,
on your job. God says, where I am holy ground,
I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. It
(08:44):
is the first time that God says that he is
the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. God has never
referred to himself as being the God of Abraham, Isaac
and Jacob until Moses. He does not even tell Jacob
that he the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. In fact,
he told Jacob that his name was not Jacob, that
(09:07):
his name was Israel. But God does not say I
am the God of Abraham, Zak and Israel. He says,
I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. In
other words, I'm not just the God of the best
in you. Yeah yeah, see, Jacob. Jacob was not the
(09:30):
good part of Israel. Jacob was the tricks to the
con artists, the supplant, the rocketeer. He was like his family,
Rebecca and Labor and all of them. Jacob was the
part that wrestled with God. Yeah yeah, and Israel was
who he was destined to be. And God said, your
name is really Israel, and you're a prince and you
(09:52):
have power with God. But every prince has got a Jacob,
so all of us. But God gets ready to identify himself,
the God who told Jacob that your name shall no
longer be called Jacob. But Israel, says, I am the
God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Yes, Oh, thank you,
(10:15):
Thank you Lord for being the God of Jacob. Thank
you for being the God of the worst part of me.
Thank you that I don't have to hide by Jacob.
Thank you that you love my Jacob. I know you
want to argue with that. But God who commended his
(10:37):
love toward us, and that while we were yet sinners,
Christ died for us. The theology is absolutely right. God
does not love you because you're a holy and because
you read your biby and because you go to church
all the time and you fast on Thursdays time and
you will only eat cold greens on Wednesdays. God does
(10:57):
not love you because you singing the and you work
on the nutsherboard. God loved you when you were lying
and cheating and stealing and hoarding and hanging off a
pole and going strip tease in a cheap hotel room.
God loved you when you were shooting dope up your
arm and laying in gutters and alley ways and burning
(11:19):
the hair out of your nose. God still loved you
when you were high. And God loved you when you
were locked up in jail. And God loved you when
you were in your perversions and your filth and your mucking,
your mird. God loved you in the decadence of your life.
God didn't wait till things got better to love you.
He loved you in your mess. He is the God
of Abraham Isaac. And take off your shoes. Take off
(11:45):
your shoes because the ground you stand on, this holy gud.
You ain't holy, You ain't holy, but the ground, the
ground is holier than you. The ground you stand on,
this holy ground. That's how God started his conversation off
with Moses. And they start entering in the conversation a
(12:05):
God and a man in a desert alone. Can you
imagine a God a man in a desert alone, And
there he is having a conversation with Moses to help
Moses understand who he is. And God begins to tell
Moses what all he's going to do with him. Now,
(12:27):
you must understand that Moses is a murderer, he's a convict,
he's on the run, he's an outlaw. He's hiding on
the backside of the desert. And God found him. You
can't go nowhere where God cannot find you. If you
make your bed in hell, he is there. If you
ascend to the most parts of the earth, he is there. Y'all.
(12:47):
Don't care. If you're locked up in the bottom of
a jail, sell God is there. They can put you
in the inner sanctum of a prison. God is there.
They can fly you off to the mountain peaks, and
God is there. You can be an astronaut and fly
away out of there. Else aught it. But God is
up there too, and he will find you and flush
you out.
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