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Bishop Noel Jones: Praise you together; we will worship you together
we will lift you up together. I don't see
my brother as a rival; I don't see my sister as
competition, we are all one
in the name of Jesus, and I
claim the victory now in the name of
Jesus and when we loose these hands
we loose these hands to give God the glory together
to lift him up together; to praise
his name
together. We will have the victory
we will have the power; we will overcome
Grace Jones: Amazing
grace - World Changers International Church
how sweet the sound That saved a
wretch like me
I once
was lost but
now I'm found was blind
but now I see. St. Martins Episcopal Church:
'Twas grace that taught
my heart to fear
and grace my fears relieved
How precious
did that grace
appear
The hour I first
believed
City Of Refuge LA: Praise God
Praise God
Praise God
Praise God
Praise God
Praise God
Praise God
Alfred Street Baptist Church:
When we've been there ten thousand years
Bright shining
as the glorious sun. We've no less days to sing God's praise
Than since the day we first begun
Than since the
day
we first begun
God's amazing
Grace
[applause]
[applause]
[applause]
Bishop Jones: I thought you all had discernment
[laughing]
In the Book of Micah
and I'm still fighting this
I don't what kind of bug this is, but in the Book of
Micah
Micah Chapter 7
and he says,
"WOE is me! for I am
as when they have gathered the summer fruits,
of the grapegleanings of the vintage:
there is no cluster to eat:
my soul desired the firstripe fruit.
2 The good man
is perished out of the earth: and
there is none upright among men:
they all lie in wait
for blood; they hunt every
man his brother with a net. 3 That they may do
evil with both hands earnestly,
the prince asketh, and the judge
asketh for a reward;" that's a bribe.
"and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous
desire: so they
wrap it up. 4 The best
of them is as a brier: the most
upright," my goodness,
"is sharper than a thorn hedge:
the day of thy watchmen and thy
visitation cometh; now shall be their
perplexity. 5 Trust ye not in a
friend, put ye not
confidence in a guide:
keep the doors of thy mouth from
her that lieth in thy ***.
6 For the son dishonoureth the father,
the daughter riseth up
against her mother, the daughter in law
against" --
Man, this is a bad situation going on [laughing] "against her
mother in law; a man's enemies
are the men
of his own house.
7 Therefore I will look unto the LORD;
I will wait for the God of my salvation:
my God
will hear me."
Now as bad as that sounds, look at somebody
beside you with all the ebullience you can find and tell them, "I
know who to trust," [I know who to trust]
I know who to trust
Ooo...
A trust is an interesting word,
it's defined
yes, it's defined as
firmness or certainty
so the basic concept of, is
support and it is used in a strong sense
of the parent
literally supporting the helpless child - the arms.
When you look at the imagery
from the Hebrew word, it's
the arms of the parent
supporting the child. Trust
from the Greek conceptualization
is to give beforehand
and that is that you're -- there is no escrow.
The only reason we have escrow now is
because people aren't trustworthy
and
the thing about trust is it's certainty,
it's absolute certainty in the behavior
and the attitudes
of others and it's a matter [baby crying]
of me putting my life [baby crying]
in your hands. [baby crying]
It's interesting because many times we
we, we, we have to trust
and trust is a
natural thing, we are literally suppose to trust,
[baby crying]
but because
people have no real regard [baby crying]
for the other person in a general sense,
you end up being broken [baby crying]
because you gave before [baby crying]
hand and you had [baby crying]
absolute certainty and firmness
that
you would be all right.
The more you have to lose
is the more precipitous
trust becomes.
mm-mh [what?] Should I
say that again? [yes, laughing] You didn't hear that?
The more you have to lose,
is the more precipitous -
like precipice, like on the edge of a,
a ravine, [yes] yeah, okay that's what that means.
[laughing]
- the more threatening
trust is
and when you have been hurt many times
one of the defense mechanisms for being
hurt, is to lower
your expectations
and lower your trust.
Yeah, see many times
oftentimes the bible indicates that you
literally get what you expect [right]
because when you
have lowered expectations
and you get into new relationships,
you come to the table
with the lowered expectation because of
what you experienced. See that's why
you should have no new relationships 'til
you heal from the old one. [that's right, applause]
So you come to the table
with lowered expectations because
of what I just read in this text,
but when you come to the table with lowered expectations
what it seems like on the other side is suspicion
because you don't know me like that
[right] and yet, I hear
some hesitation
and I feel some judgement
because you're seeing me in light of
that nightmare you just came out of. [chatter]
So because you lowered your expectation as a defense mechanism,
then you don't send
trust across the table. So because
I'm not getting any trust here and your feeling of
trust from you, then I decide
that I'm going to be careful [amen] how I deal
with you, and then you end up getting
just what you expected. [right] mm-mh
See the real issue now is if you come to the table healed,
then you come to the table with the standard you always
had, and when you come to the table with the standard you
always had, you come with a boldness that says,
"If you can't deliver on this level, [yes, right] we don't even need
to get started." [applause]
Now if the definition of trust is in it's absolutes,
that it is something that you absolutely
believe with certainty,
absolute certainty,
then trust
once it's broken,
the philosophical question is
can it ever be fixed?
[well] Because if the definition
is absolute
certainty,
if you break the absoluteness - now I can go ethnic at any time
mmm, O Lord.
If you break
the absoluteness
of trust
can it ever be absolute again?
I mean I had one piece of metal and
the metal was good, and the metal broke
can I weld it
to it's former
perfection? [no]
Because there
has to be a scar in there some
where, [yeah]
and then when I have
trusted you so totally and completely,
then
when it's broken,
I have to forgive
two people:
[come on] I have to forgive myself
[right] because I
feel like I was too gullible; [right]
and I have to forgive you for betraying me.
[yes] Maybe,
maybe I'm talking to myself. [come on now, come on]
[right, yes] See I gave before
hand with absolute
certainty
and it's interesting here that the writer
defines how difficult it is to find
anybody that's good
and because we have been hurt so much,
we are walking around without the
ability to trust.
We don't pick up strangers now,
amen [amen]
because most of us are nervous
about people. [yep]
I used to - let me talk about me for a minute. I used to
have open house,
whole lot of folk, "O we're going to hang with the Bishop,"
and now it has shrunk, [well]
O it shrunk, I'm telling you
it shrunk. I've been sitting there all week by myself
[laughing, clapping]
because none of us
really know who to open up to
[come on Bishop, preach] and we're very
nervous about being
transparent. [right] So because of a lack
trust, we live behind a façade [yes]
'cause I can't show you me
'cause I can't
trust you with me.
See just to be
certain about a thing, and then
from a passive point of view that same word
in the text is one who is established.
Touch your neighbor and say, "I'm suppose to trust." [I'm suppose
to trust] Micah
actually prophesied during Ahaz' reign,
if you notice in 11 Kings 17
14-17, it was a bad time
and, and I'm here to tell you that
people make bad times. [yes] Should I
say that again? Governments make bad
times [yes] and
the people, of course, were deceived and
so Micah says, "Thus saith the Lord concerning the
prophets that make my people err
that bite with their teeth and cry peace
and he that putteth not into their mouths
they even prepare war against him."
They were confused because in the time of Micah
they, Ahaz, they had human
sacrifices and
in many senses from a metaphorical sense
there's so many of us are being sacrificed
for the benefit of others and
he says, "Will the Lord be pleased with
thousands of rams or ten thousand
rivers of oil? Shall I give my
firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body
for the sins of my soul? He
showeth thee, O man, what is good; and
what doth the Lord requre of thee,
but to do justly, and to love mercy,
and to walk humbly before your God?"
In many instances what we have done
is used religion
to control people. [amen, preach]
I might not whoop today. [take your time]
I'll give you an example of what I mean
without being too off.
What happened the other day
when the people
were in church and
somebody walks in
obviously, they trusted him.
See there's certain attitudes that we have
that we don't question
certain people when they come around. [right]
We don't question
certain ethnicities, certain races when they
come around, but you
let one of us walk into a prayer meeting [come on]
with our Caucasian brothers,
and I'm sure everybody would be
watching close [well] on their
Ps and Qs because
they wouldn't trust like we do.
Now, I don't want to just
stretch you too far,
but I'm in here, nine of us
where we're
serving God
and obviously if we're in there serving God,
then it's because we trust him.
Now maybe God
said to somebody,
"You better watch that fellow"
and somebody didn't listen
[thank you] or maybe God didn't
say anything at all
because there's a responsibility that we have
to make sure everybody is
safe. I want to go over that again. See many times
God operates within the parameters of
what is our responsibility and
when we fail in our responsibility,
then we're vulnerable
to whoever is not trustworthy.
I should go over that another way.
Consider with me that the young
man is being
taken to court
and I go to court to make a speech. Now my mama is on the cooling
board, she hasn't made a coffin yet
and somebody just blasted
my mother, who is in church
and she's on the cooling board
and I go to court and immediately
I forgive. Now I'm a
tell you this, I'll tell you this
I couldn't
forgive in an instant. [right, all right Bishop]
[come on, come on]
The whole media thought it was
just marvelous that
we could come in there and talk forgiveness
because we have been
processed by religion
to take
whatever [right]
[come on Bishop]
[come on Bishop, clapping] the dominate
culture has given us
a religious view
that has kept us from being
active in our own environment [right]
[preach, clapping] because what they
have told us, while they make all the business deals,
that "The Lord will do it for us"
and that's when we're coming out of slavery
it went like this,
"When I get to heaven -- [right]
[right] no, "All God's
children got shoes and when I
get to heaven I'll put on my shoes [yeah] and walk all
over God's heaven." I got news for you,
you don't need shoes in heaven [yes, applause]
you need shoes right now. [yes, applause]
[hallelujah, applause]
We have used religion --
I told you before, we look even
in the City Of Refuge and there are no
windows that makes us a
select group, a little wonderful club
we testify to each other, we sing
to each other, we rejoice with each other,
but God is saying, "I'm not pleased with ten
thousand rivers of oil, [right]
but what I need you to do is
good, what the Lord requires and that's
to do justly,
and to love mercy, [amen]
and to walk humbly with thy God." We don't serve
God while we're sitting in here, [right]
our responsibility is to change the community.
Can I take it further? [yes] I don't want to mess with you Super Bowl day,
[applause]
Now I have a lot of faith in the,
in the Black Lives Matter!
I do.
I don't care how radical they are, it don't bother me, but I
just have one question: black
lives matter to who? [right]
Because we
kill each other [right, preach Bishop] more than any
body else [preach pastor, applause]
and if other people are going to respect our lives,
I think we ought to first respect it ourselves. [applause]
[amen, applause]
[applause]
Then we put some weight on
some other people to treat us with dignity [yes] because
we treat each other with dignity.
You're saying now I just don't want
you to be religious, [right]
but I want you to move to the place where you can
bless somebody else [yes, right] and touch some
body else's life and pull them out of the difficulties
that they face. It indicates then --
I'm almost there, a few in number and
he's got corruption everywhere, [right]
where there is corruption, trust is
high [yes] because how can I trust
you, if every time you get an opportunity, you do
something to me. [right] He indicated
that the good man is gone and the
psalmist cried, "Help Lord for the goodly man, the godly
man" rather he said, "for the faithful
failed among the children of men."
The psalmist as Micah is feeling
the pain of not being able to find good people
and I'm telling you that good people have
dissipated so rapidly that it takes a
sift to sieve out somebody that's good.
and the bible says, "If a man findeth a wife,
he findeth a good thing," but he didn't find
her out of his own ingenuity and sagacity, [right] he
receive favor from the Lord. [yes] You have to
trust God to put people in your life [yes] that are
people that are good to you, good for you. [yes] 'Cause a lot
people can be good to you, but are not good for you [yes, applause]
and God needs me to have somebody in your life. [yes, applause]
And what God says, "Let me take the folk out that need to come
out," [yes] and you need to quit going back for
folk who God is taking out of your life [yes]
because as long as you got them negative folk in your life, there
is no space for the good folk. [applause]
[preach, applause] Let Jonah go overboard
just throw him overboard so you
can make your destiny. [applause] I'm almost there
Then he says violence is rampant,
you got killers everywhere [yes]
and not only physical, but
people will kill you with their mouth [come on now]
particularly when you're moving to another level and God is
blessing you and taking you higher, you got haters every
where [applause] and one of the problems in our
community is that whenever any one of our
children try to aspire to anything, [come on] then
they have others in their same community, [come on] who
ridicule them and talk negatively about
them [right] because they want to play a violin instead of
shoot a gun. [come on Bishop, applause] O I feel
the Holy Ghost. And somewhere we've got to get out of this church
without windows and participate
actively by saying to our children, "You can
be what you want to be and we'll keep the others off you
so that you can go forward." [yes, applause] Then we got to turn around
and tell the parents, "Raise your kids so that they can touch
other kids lives without being negative." [yes, applause]
O God I'm sick and tired of going to funerals where we get up and talk [applause]
about the "Lord plucked a rose for his rose garden."
God ain't plucking no 17-year-old, no 15-year-old
for no rose garden, God gave them life to live
and everybody deserves to live their life. [applause]
[applause]
Violence is rampant and then he says, "They
connive evil and evil devices" and
according to the text, "their doing it without rest
every man hunting his brother with a net" and then
God help us when we have leaders who don't understand
because all they're trying to do is take position to make
riches. [chatter] Can I preach it like I feel it?
The leaders and the magistrates seek bribes and they
operate for pay offs, so there's no sensitivity to the
masses because all they're thinking is about themselves.
I asked the question: how much is too much? I mean
when do you get enough? I was in Africa
the other day I think it was Zimbabwe and it was just awful
how the people were living and the leader
had more money than Genghis Khan, I mean I --
how much is enough? When do you have some sensitivity
for the people around you? And when do you let it
trickle down to folk who are suffering, when you got billions
and billions and they have absolutely nothing? I was talking
to a billionaire the other day and he said, "I don't want people to be
broke, I want people to be rich" because he owns grocery stores.
He said, "I want people to have enough to buy my groceries, so I'm not
here." He said, "The second thing is I don't want to sit on this hill
and have a hoard of people come pull me down out of here. I
want to spread it, everybody has a right to receive
and to be blessed," but I say to you and I, we have to be
prepared because if we don't prepare ourselves for the opportunity,
God can open the doors and none of us can go in
because we're not prepared. It is our job to
prepare ourselves, so that when the doors open
nobody can close them [yes] because God has set
the door for you and I, and when God custom fits a
door for you, he custom fits you for the door
and when that door opens, you're not sitting around wondering whether
I should ask God to help me. He already helped you when he
prepared you and opened the door - it's time for us to get up.
I feel like preaching today. [applause] The leaders
and the magistrates he says, "the best are hypocrites,
they're like rose bushes" and the characteristic of the rose
bush is that it's pretty, but don't stick
your hand in it because it's pretty, but it's thorny.
And many times the approach is good-looking and
it's all eloquent and grandiloquent, but
behind it there is nothing but problems.
Jesus said to the Pharisees, "Woe unto you scribes
and Pharisees, ye are hypocrites
for ye are like unto whiten sepulchers," yes, look good
on the outside, "that appear beautiful outward, but
inside there are dead men's bones and all
uncleanness." You can't take every approach. Can I preach like
I feel it? [yes] Because the devil wears Givenchy and
Charles Chardon and Lou Vuitton, the devil
isn't coming advertising, he or she is a devil.
He's coming with a glossy look and the good look.
You can't trust everybody, seniors who come to your
house with some kind of scheme because they look good and
they promise you things and the next thing, your money is gone and they're
gone too. [right] And the next thing you're sitting around crying and sulking
and mad with God because there are certain responsibilities
we have got to take. We have got to say to our seniors,
"Don't you listen to everybody who comes to your door."
I heard it today, before you jump into any one of these school
things, call the office and find out just
how things are so you don't end up not trusting
because you've been broken another time.
Woe unto you scribes and Pharisees, then he says,
"Friends well intentioned, but they're weak"
people who would, if they could. Then he says,
"A guide will lead you astray." Now you know you're in trouble,
when the person who should know the way is leading you
astray; the person who should know how to get there,
doesn't know how to get there. I had a debate the other
day with a friend of mine, we're talking about the blind leading the blind
and they both fall in the ditch. I
said to the Lord for many years, "I don't understand this" -- I'm getting ready to get ethnic
now. I said to the Lord for many years, "I don't understand
why you would let the second man fall in the
ditch. If the first blind man presumed to lead,
then let him fall in the ditch, but why would you let
the second man fall in the ditch? Finally
after many years of meditating it came back to me. If
anybody ought to know the symptoms of blindness,
the blind ought to know it and if you're latching
onto somebody whose stumbling all the time, whose
hitting trees all the time, then you need to ask the question,
"Can you see? I feel like preaching here.
We have gone like sheep to the slaughter
and we have not asked the right kind of questions and
I used to think that certain people were smart, but I'm finding out
they're just as silly as they can be and we need
rise up and ask the question, "Can you see?"
And I'm here to tell you nobody is coming back in here
without us having a list of questions to
present to the politician as to what it is you
stand for? You can talk all you want to about all you're going
to do, but we need to come up with a list of questions and
say now, "Answer these for the five minutes you're going to
speak answer these questions. What are we going to do with the
schools, when our schools don't have the right equipment?
What are we going to do with our boys who are coming out of prison, who
need to be recycled into community?" And I think
we ought to ask the questions because there is a guide, who will
lead you astray. He says, "Your wife or your husband"
-- can I preach now? [yes] I'm ready to preach. He says, "You can't even trust
her, who when you lieth in her ***"
and I'm thinking about too many Delilahs running around
because there are folk who will set you
up. I might as well have church, give somebody
a high-five and say, "Neighbor, look for the
setup, you got to watch who you're dealing with"
and I feel I'm ready to close, but the
final thing he said, "is even in your own family,
you got enemies in your own house
and sometimes the folk that will keep you from
rising are sitting in your own house.
You got to learn to step over relatives,
learn how to step over guides, learn how
to step over friends and tell the enemy,
"I shall trust in the Lord because
victory shall be mine." Shake some
body's hand like you're going to shake it off and say,
"Neighbor, I know who to trust in, I
know who to give praise to, I know who to lean
on because every time I should have been
wasted, he stepped in right on
time." When they thought they had me, he
brought me out with a mighty hand and I just come
to tell you, "Put your trust in the Lord,"
I will trust him with all of my heart,
I will lift him up with all of my strength,
I will lift mine eyes to the hills
from whence cometh my help, my help cometh
from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.
He will not suffer my foot to
be moved. Give somebody a high-five and say, "Be
steadfast, hold onto the Lord, hold
onto your praise, hold onto your worship,
hold onto your integrity, hold on
to your ebullience, I will trust the Lord.
I will lift him up and glorify him
because he will work it out all right."
Do I have any praying people in here? Touch your
neighbor and say, "Neighbor, I waited patiently
for the Lord and he heard,
heard my cry, Ooo...
and he brought me out of an horrible
pit." O God I feel it here! Brought me
out of the miry clay, set my feet upon the rock to
stay and established my going. Can I
close? The Lord redeemeth the soul of his servants
and none of them that trust in him shall
be desolate. Give somebody a high-five
for the second to the last time and say, "Neighbor,
upon this rock I'll build my church
and the gates of hell shall not prevail against
it." Shake somebody's hand for the last
time and say, "Neighbor, I have a piece
of the Rock and with everything you've been
through, God ought to give you discernment, God
ought to have shown you by now, who to walk with,
who to talk with, who to have in your space,
who to get out of your space, who to avoid, who to
head for, who to network with, who to leave alone.
God ought to taught you by now that I've got
somebody that will bless you."
[hallelujah, applause]
I'm closing, [thank you] I
wish I had the strength, I wish I had the strength.
I wish I had the time. Can you touch somebody for the
last time, the second last time and say,
"Neighbor, haven't you learned anything yet with
all the hell you've been through, you ought to be able to
know, I got to trust in the Lord and when you
trust in the Lord, you trust in the God in you
to give you the direction you need." Stop being impatient,
rushing into stuff, sit down for a minute,
think it through and say, "Lord, direct me"
because if I acknowledge him, he will
[applause] I know who to trust.
[applause]
[thank you, applause]
[thank you Lord, thank you Jesus] I'm closing
the thing I feared
the most about my own life
is making
young men's
mistakes, when I'm old.
[right, chatter]
When you mess up at 25, [right]
you got years
to recover,
but when you mess up at
retirement [chatter]
[say it, tell it Bishop, help him Lord]
not only do we need to
use the wisdom we have received
to end up with a legacy, but
we need to use the wisdom we have received
to bless those
who don't know who to trust [amen]
[hallelujah, applause]
so that
they can understand [yes] that
I can live a healthy life [yes]
because there are certain people who aren't
trustworthy [yes] and haven't
exhibited that love, mercy
and do justly and it
all begins with how we treat each other. [yes] You can be
in the house of the Lord and you can have a friend in this house, [yes]
but if there's a situation where you know that friend was wrong, [come on now]
you tell them they're wrong. [yes, that's right]
You don't take their side simply because they're
your friend [right, applause]
and you don't let position
[say it Bishop] eliminate your
opinion [amen Bishop]
as if opinion has a lock on
intelligence. [my God] I don't want
to be in a car with anybody who knows the
bridge is out and I'm barreling towards the
bridge at 90 miles an hour and they're just sitting there
nervous, [laughing] but won't say anything
to me, I'm the one driving. [all right Bishop, I heard that]
Take one person's hand,
get you a prayer partner.
This is the year of the breakthrough,
but the breakthrough starts in our own minds
and our breakthrough is coming
because we have some things to do
that we just got to start doing it. [yes]
We don't only live to be
entertained and for entertainment, [right, yes] we have a
purpose, [yes] we have a job to perform.
God didn't save us and bring us into
this church just to be sitting around here with some
exclusivity, some
City Of Refuge, have you gone to the City Of Refuge Club?
[laughing]
It's an ecclesia, it's a called out and God called
us out to bless
and the first place
you bless, is your space,
[amen, hallelujah] your space.
Wherever you go on the job, on the bus, whether on the bus, whether,
even if you're in the jail, you bless your space,
[yes] not with religiosity,
but -- I'm not looking for rams
and oil, I'm looking
for somebody who loves mercy, [right] who does
justly, [yes] that's what blesses
me. [yes] Father, you
told us, "Whatever we bind on earth, you will bind in heaven."
I bind low self-esteem,
[right, preach] I bind depression,
[yes] I bind negative
thinking, [yes] I bind inactivity
and laziness [yes] I bind procrastination
[yes] I bind it right now, I bind
ignorance [yes Lord] every spirit of ignorance I against it
right now [right now Lord] I bind every violent
disposition, [yes] I bind hatred,
[yes Lord] O God I bind it right now. I bind
every spirit that will
not move to the next level.
So I bind fear and I bind self
doubt, and doubt and I claim it in Jesus
name. You said what I loose on earth, you'll
loose in heaven. I loose power [power] yes
Lord, I loose gifts, [yes] I loose
seasons right now [yes] I loose, I loose you
in the name of Jesus [yes] I loose your performance, I loose your
duties, I loose your desire, I loose your intensity
I loose your wisdom to operate, I loose your strength
to change the community and I claim it
right now [right now] in Jesus name. Somebody
loose hands, give God the praise. [applause] He's calling somebody
He's calling you, if you're in [applause]
this place and you're not born again, come on
[hear my humble cry] Come on young
lady, young man, you don't have to die in the streets [while]
[on others thou art calling] He's calling you, come
on, you don't have a church home [do not pass]
backslider, come back [me by] O blessed
Savior, come on [Savior]
Savior, come on [Savior]
this is the altar call [do not pass me by]
While
on others thou art calling
do not pass
[me by] Come on, he's calling
Where's that man [calling Savior]
and where's that woman [Savior] Somebody give God praise
Hear my humble cry
While
on others thou art calling
do not pass
me by
[Savior] We're still waiting
for you young man, still waiting [Savior]
young lady [hear my humble]
cry. While
on others thou art calling
do
not pass me by.
Everybody standing,
all right
remember now if you come by here tonight, you won't see anybody
so you think the rapture came and you
got left. [laughing] Father, as we go
go with us and bring us back at the appointed time in Jesus
name. All right I'll see you on Wednesday,
see you Wednesday, God bless. Gail C Copeland: Thank you for being with me at the Lord's Table.
The vision is to assist in providing answers
to situations we face on a daily basis
relating to: social conscience, sexuality
and religious thought. The mission and ministry
is to serve as mediators in our families, church
and community as we are empowered by the Word
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Christ as we are about our Father's business
Copeland Family: in Jesus name, Amen.
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