Philip Anthony Mitchell
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Jubilee Sunday | Philip Anthony Mitchell
My wife and I moved here in 2010. We came here with nothing. We had a Ryder truck. My wife and I, our children, no family, no jobs, no money. We had nothing. And from 2010 to about 2020, for 10 years, every two years, we had to move to another house. And it was very tough for us, living very nomadic for all those years.
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Jubilee Sunday | Philip Anthony Mitchell
And that what we feel today, what God deserves is a pause on preaching. That we could be a house of presence and give him a sacrifice of praise for what he has done. Now, now hear me. I shared this with your family earlier, and I want to share this with you.
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Jubilee Sunday | Philip Anthony Mitchell
I want to confess sin before you that during those 12 years, and this is going to help somebody, and I wrestled with the sin of jealousy, and I wrestled with the sin, watch, of covetousness.
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Jubilee Sunday | Philip Anthony Mitchell
anger my heart towards God why is it that church gets a building and why do you open that door for them and why have you done that for them and why haven't you done this for Lena and I and for our ministry watch haven't we been faithful Lord haven't we been sacrificial Lord Are we not paying a price in private, Lord?
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Jubilee Sunday | Philip Anthony Mitchell
Are we not trying to have integrity in private, Lord, and complaining and sinning against God? And in this week, with the stroke of that pen, I was reminded of this truth, that God is never late. Listen, and that even when he says no, he's being good to you. And that even when he says wait, he's being good to you.
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Jubilee Sunday | Philip Anthony Mitchell
is going to put us in a position to acquire our very first facility. Cash without debt. That we're going to be able to buy that first facility. Seven million dollars cash, we're going to buy that without debt? And then that $18 million journey to fix it. I believe that God could put it on somebody's heart to write a $25 million check. Nothing is impossible for the Lord.
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Jubilee Sunday | Philip Anthony Mitchell
That what Lita and I was begging for in a previous season, we did not have the character for. Amen. Didn't have the team for, the structure for, the knowledge for, the wisdom for, the maturity for. And that sometimes God would love you so much, he'll make you wait for another season. While he's perfecting your character. Perfecting your faith. Watch. Delivering you from idolatry.
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Jubilee Sunday | Philip Anthony Mitchell
So that he can hand you a multi-million dollar investment and it not become a God to you. He couldn't do that five years ago. He couldn't do that seven years ago. He couldn't do that ten years ago. And I just need to encourage somebody in this room. Hear me. God has not forgotten about your prayers. No. He has not forgotten about your tears. No.
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Jubilee Sunday | Philip Anthony Mitchell
That there is a passage in the Old Testament in Psalm 126 that says those who sow in tears, a season is coming where they're going to reap with shouts of joy. And what we are reaping right now is the shouts of joy. that I can look back on that 12-year wait for our first facility, and I can tell you, man, just run your lane. Hear me. I guess I'm preaching right now. Run your race. Watch this.
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Jubilee Sunday | Philip Anthony Mitchell
Stop looking to the left and to the right of what everybody else got. And trust God what he has for you. And that he'll bring it to pass in the right season. For no parent with wisdom gives a 10-year-old child a vehicle. Although you have every desire to give it to them. You know if you gave a 10-year-old child a vehicle, they would kill themselves.
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Jubilee Sunday | Philip Anthony Mitchell
But in your love, you wait for that child to grow. Until they come to an age of maturity where they can now handle the thing they've been asking for. And I don't know who this is for or who's waiting on God right now. Watch. But let's wait without complaining. And let's wait without jealousy. And let's wait without covetousness.
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Jubilee Sunday | Philip Anthony Mitchell
And let's trust that God, who is sovereign, who knows the end from the beginning, who is the author and the finisher, who has gone ahead of you and has engineered your whole future, that all you got to do is be faithful until you catch up with what was already done. And maybe somebody brought you here to say, oh, come here, Philip Anthony Mitchell preached. Oh, he's just a man.
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Jubilee Sunday | Philip Anthony Mitchell
Come feel God's presence is much better. No. No, just come feel God's presence. This is called jubilee. This is called, watch the God, thank you. This is us giving him a sacrifice today.
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Jubilee Sunday | Philip Anthony Mitchell
And that where we are going in 60 days, I'm believing it will be our last temporary facility. And that in 24 months, we will march into the house that we built for the Lord by faith in Jesus' name. We're going to build God a house.
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Jubilee Sunday | Philip Anthony Mitchell
praise this is us saying God you've been so good to us and what you just did this week that we can pause for a singular Sunday and not idolize a preacher that we can pause for one Sunday to say thank you for what you have done watch for us as a family Is that alright? Are you sure? They're telling me my time is up. I want to do something special for you. Silver and gold, I do not have.
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Jubilee Sunday | Philip Anthony Mitchell
But what I do have, I'm going to ask God if he's willing that he'll transfer that to you. And what I do have, and I don't know why he has done it. I don't know. But God has bestowed upon Lena and I an unusual favor. That we're doing our best to steward, hear me, this intangible gift. Because we spend so much time as American Christians begging God for only materialistic things.
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Jubilee Sunday | Philip Anthony Mitchell
Houses and cars and... But we never think about what's more powerful are the intangible things like wisdom and character and integrity and favor. Favor could do more for you than a house. Favor could do more for you than a vehicle. Favor will put you in rooms you don't belong in. Favor will intersect you with people you have no business knowing.
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Jubilee Sunday | Philip Anthony Mitchell
Favor would open doors for you you could not open for yourself. And for whatever reason, in this season of our lives, I don't know, God has poured out on Lena and I an unusual favor. For whatever reason. And what I want to do in this moment is if God would allow, I want to pray a transfer of this intangible gift upon you and upon your homes and upon your marriages and upon your children.
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Jubilee Sunday | Philip Anthony Mitchell
And if you don't want it, just reject it. But I'm going to pray by faith. That God would pour out favor on the sons and daughters. Watch. Who have the humility to care about something intangible. That God would perfect your character that you can carry that. That he would purify your heart. That you can carry that. That he would do something on the inside.
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Jubilee Sunday | Philip Anthony Mitchell
He would work out of you the ugliness of your heart. That you can carry that. So a sermon I don't have for you today. But what I do have. I'm going to pray God bless as many people as he chooses. To bestow that upon. So if that's you. If that's you, and you have enough faith for a more powerful, intangible gift than a house, than a bag, than a business.
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Jubilee Sunday | Philip Anthony Mitchell
If you have enough humility in this moment to value an intangible gift, I want you to move towards God with a step of faith by turning your palms up. It's just a position to receive. It's just an act of faith. And you ain't got to lift your hands high. You can just turn your palms up. The intangible blessings are far more powerful than all the things we're begging God for.
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Jubilee Sunday | Philip Anthony Mitchell
It can transform a marriage. It can transform a home. Favor can go and snatch a wayward child. It can bring something into your life you've been believing for for years. My life has changed in a singular year. My whole life has been transformed because of God's favor. And so, Father, in the name of Yahshua, I pray over every palm that's turned up local and abroad.
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Jubilee Sunday | Philip Anthony Mitchell
That, Father, you would perfect in our hearts purity. That you would work out of our hearts idolatry and wickedness and evil and rebellion. I pray you would create in these hearts consecration And give us clean hands before you even right now. And Father, if you are willing, I pray on the backside of transformed hearts, you would pour out upon these sons and daughters the intangible gift of favor.
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Jubilee Sunday | Philip Anthony Mitchell
Hallelujah, God. I pray it would open up doors they cannot open. It would bring them into spaces they could not get in on their own. It would bring into their lives people they need in this season and for the future. I pray it would bring saved loved ones into the kingdom. It will transform marriages and children and homes. It would bring about joy. Unspeakable. Unspeakable.
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Jubilee Sunday | Philip Anthony Mitchell
like Mary and others who found favor in your sight. I pray it would deepen intimacy with you. And that Father, by this time next year, there will be testimonies of transformed lives because of the intangible gift of favor. Father, if you're willing, I pray what you have trusted Lena and I in the spirit, you would pour out on our brothers and sisters.
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Jubilee Sunday | Philip Anthony Mitchell
on the backside of hearts being purified for you. I pray favor over every person under the sound of my voice. I pray it would resurrect businesses, it will resurrect ministries, it will resurrect hope, dreams, and visions. I pray for people who have been striving that that would cease And that favor God would walk them through open doors like electronic doors would just open one after the other.
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Jubilee Sunday | Philip Anthony Mitchell
Hey! And that you would give them humility and integrity to steward the intangible gift of favor. Lord, do as you will. And we thank you for that. Gosh, I see people on their knees. God, give it to them, Lord. Give it to them, Lord. I ask that over my family and the mighty and the majestic and the matchless name. of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Now hear me.
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Jubilee Sunday | Philip Anthony Mitchell
Sometimes you gotta act like it's already done. Would you praise him right now like it's already done?
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Jubilee Sunday | Philip Anthony Mitchell
By 2020, we ended up paying off all of our debt, $100,000 in debt that we paid off.
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Jubilee Sunday | Philip Anthony Mitchell
and today we enjoy the freedom of not having any debt at all no credit cards no car notes no nothing and after we paid off all of our debt we purchased our very first home in 2020 and from 2020 until now what my children feel in that home is the sense of like peace and things are settled they're not afraid that we're going to pull them out of school they're not afraid that somebody's going to come knock on the door and pull us out their stability that they feel
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Jubilee Sunday | Philip Anthony Mitchell
God has given that stability to my wife and I personally, but we are now believing that stability for our spiritual family That for 12 years our church has been nomadic. We've been put out of four different facilities for circumstances beyond our control. And it's always hopping from one circumstance to another, one facility to another. Man, I am believing this year, by faith, that that...
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Jubilee Sunday | Philip Anthony Mitchell
This key represents, this is the key to the building we now own and three pieces of property.
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Jubilee Sunday | Philip Anthony Mitchell
That after 12 years of being nomadic and being put out of facilities, that God has changed the trajectory of our ministry with the stroke of a pen.
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Jubilee Sunday | Philip Anthony Mitchell
But God is sending a light, a beacon of light in that place. My wife said earlier that that building is not attractive. You want to tell them for yourself? Yeah, you grab that microphone right there and just tell them.
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Jubilee Sunday | Philip Anthony Mitchell
Journey is gonna come to an end as we do something to change our entire future We're on the last Sunday in February for our gospel Expansion offering where we come together as a family local disciples and digital disciples where we all give one sacrificial gift Generously once a year and I'm believing God I'm saying it today by faith that was gonna come in on that day by faith I believe
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Jubilee Sunday | Philip Anthony Mitchell
If you are a guest at 2019, we're not going to apologize for today. And because I am not an idol. And I won't let you make me one. And what I mean by that is that in America, church is so highly programmed that we have almost pushed the Holy Spirit out of our gatherings.
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Jubilee Sunday | Philip Anthony Mitchell
And just like Ryan was talking about the things that God does in worship, that the God that you and I serve, one of the things he wants from us is sacrifices of praise, of worship. And they're telling me right now my time is up. And here's what I'm saying. I believe we could survive a Sunday without a sermon.
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Jubilee Sunday | Philip Anthony Mitchell
I believe we could survive a Sunday without a sermon and that you don't have to be disappointed that I didn't preach. That we can't just gloss over the fact that we've been nomadic for 12 long years. And with the stroke of a pen this week, we own three pieces of land and a building. One for the father and one for the son and...
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ENTRY & END TIMES | Which One Are You? | Matthew 21:28-32 | Philip Anthony Mitchell
You can be seated Dang it I just feel faith rising up in the room right now. We just believe. Man, I got to move quick before I jump into the proclamation of the gospel. I just got a shout out. You know, two of my friends are in here. My brother Will and my brother Stan, they listen. They got a dope barbershop on the south side of Atlanta called Faded Luxury.
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ENTRY & END TIMES | Which One Are You? | Matthew 21:28-32 | Philip Anthony Mitchell
And these parables he's about to teach, hear me, listen to me. Heat, heat, heat. Today we unpack the first of his three responses. The first parable. He responds by this, verse 28. What do you think? Now he gives them the first parable. Very short, very easy to understand. A man had two sons. And he went to his first son and said, son,
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ENTRY & END TIMES | Which One Are You? | Matthew 21:28-32 | Philip Anthony Mitchell
Your ministry is wherever Jesus has planted you, in your home if you're a single mother, in a barbershop or hair salon, on your campus or on your job in the cubicle with the atheist sitting right next to you. We're going to be fruitful wherever God planted us. If you're a mechanic or you're doing somebody's weave, you're putting in a bundle while you're praying over her.
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ENTRY & END TIMES | Which One Are You? | Matthew 21:28-32 | Philip Anthony Mitchell
Go, powerful word, and work, powerful word, in the vineyard when today. And he, the son, answered, I will not. But afterward, he changed his mind and he went, stop. So the Lord introduces the parable with a son. He says a man had a son and he went to his son with authority, watch, and with affection. And he says to him, son, watch, daughter, go, move now, work, be fruitful in the vineyard. When?
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ENTRY & END TIMES | Which One Are You? | Matthew 21:28-32 | Philip Anthony Mitchell
Today. Today. Right now. Not next season. Not when you're 25. Not when you're 55. No, I want you to go in the field and work when? Today. Now. And how does the son respond? I will not. I will not respond. I will not go. Now, hear me. This sounds normal for us because in 2025, we're used to kids being rebellious. It's normal for you to see little Jaquan cursing out his mother at the restaurant.
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ENTRY & END TIMES | Which One Are You? | Matthew 21:28-32 | Philip Anthony Mitchell
It's normal for you to see little Connor arguing with his parents in Walmart. It's normal for us to see little Jesus fighting with his father at Home Depot. I mean, we all in here, black, white, Hispanic, we all in here with rebellious kids in 2025. Yeah, I'll be on the Shade Room app looking at all these rebellious kids, three or old, cussing out their parents like you can't control them.
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ENTRY & END TIMES | Which One Are You? | Matthew 21:28-32 | Philip Anthony Mitchell
They three. I'm trying to, sister. But this is the first century. And in the first century, children was not normally rebellious to their parents. That's why Paul wrote, a day is coming in the last days where children will be rebellious towards parents. That's why Paul wrote in the first century, a day is coming in the future. Watch.
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ENTRY & END TIMES | Which One Are You? | Matthew 21:28-32 | Philip Anthony Mitchell
In the last days, we will see a rise of rebellious children towards parents. But this is a patriarchal society. Watch. So it was not normal for a child, a son, to disrespect a father. The father gives him, watch this, not a suggestion, not an option. The father gave him a straight command. Go and work in the vineyard today. To which the son gives him back a response, I will not. But watch.
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ENTRY & END TIMES | Which One Are You? | Matthew 21:28-32 | Philip Anthony Mitchell
But then the Lord says, but then after a while, man, that word was sitting on that son. And that word was heavy on his mind. And that son was probably being harassed by that word. That word was tugging on his soul. Man, that word was working in his heart. Man, he couldn't get away from that word. This is me. He couldn't escape that word. He couldn't escape the nudging of that word in his heart.
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ENTRY & END TIMES | Which One Are You? | Matthew 21:28-32 | Philip Anthony Mitchell
We're putting in a bundle while we're praying over her. Where are all my ladies at? You be doing that sowing, praying over her marriage, and praying over her mind, and praying over her heart. Now, it's Gospel Expansion Sunday. And I'm going to come back to that at the end of the message. And I want everybody to sit still when I'm done preaching.
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ENTRY & END TIMES | Which One Are You? | Matthew 21:28-32 | Philip Anthony Mitchell
And the scripture says at some point in time in the future. That word got a hold of his heart, and he could no longer rebel against God. The Scripture says he changed his mind, i.e., he repented, went into that field and was fruitful. Man, this reminds me of my life and some of your lives. This ain't Mary J. Blige, but your life. This reminds me. Y'all too young for that, right?
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ENTRY & END TIMES | Which One Are You? | Matthew 21:28-32 | Philip Anthony Mitchell
My life, my life, my life. Right, y'all too young for that. If you look in my life and see what I... They too young for that. This reminds me of my life. It reminds me, man, when the word of God came to me and I rejected that word and I wanted nothing to do with that word. Man, some of you was just like that. We don't want nothing to do with God. Man, I don't want to respond to that word.
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ENTRY & END TIMES | Which One Are You? | Matthew 21:28-32 | Philip Anthony Mitchell
You've been to church and you run out in rebellion. Man, you see people running to the altar and you run out in rebellion. A message comes to you across the TV. You're running rebellion. You're afraid of God. You don't want to surrender. He might make me a missionary, send me into a country in Africa. He might make me give up everything so we'd be running from God.
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ENTRY & END TIMES | Which One Are You? | Matthew 21:28-32 | Philip Anthony Mitchell
But man, is anybody thankful that that word was... Is anybody thankful that that word didn't let you go? And at some point in time, that word wrestled you down to the floor. The Lord was tapping your heart. I know I'm not the only person thankful. Man, that word wrestled me down to the floor. And I finally surrendered to God. And then sometimes I just get a flashback of where I should be.
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ENTRY & END TIMES | Which One Are You? | Matthew 21:28-32 | Philip Anthony Mitchell
Eternally damned. Where I should be eternally lost. Where I should be separated from God. But his grace kept me alive while that work. Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God. His grace kept me alive. Do I got any formerly rebellious saved children in the house today? Somebody give him praise for his word. See, y'all so prideful and arrogant. Let me repeat myself.
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ENTRY & END TIMES | Which One Are You? | Matthew 21:28-32 | Philip Anthony Mitchell
Do I got any formerly rebellious sons and daughters who are thankful that the... That that word got a hold of you and you repented and changed your mind. Somebody give him praise in the house. Thank you, Jesus. Man, I feel that in my spirit for me, Elder. Because I get a flashback when I read this. Man, this brother gives me hope.
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ENTRY & END TIMES | Which One Are You? | Matthew 21:28-32 | Philip Anthony Mitchell
This brother gives me hope because he reminds me of what God did in my life. When I was far away and he wrestled me down to the floor in that bathroom over a toilet. When I had heard the word before. Heard the word when I was a teenager. Man, I'm so thankful that word, man, did it. Man, this gives me hope for those of you who are parents and have children who are far away from God.
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ENTRY & END TIMES | Which One Are You? | Matthew 21:28-32 | Philip Anthony Mitchell
Man, this gives me hope that we should never give up on our children who are far away from God. That if we keep praying for them, a day might come when that word might wrestle them down to the floor in a hotel room, in the middle of a car, leaving from the club, smoking weed. God gets a hold of them. When God get a hold of their mind.
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ENTRY & END TIMES | Which One Are You? | Matthew 21:28-32 | Philip Anthony Mitchell
Man, for that child that's far away, they're going to be sitting in an abortion clinic, and God get a hold of their mind. They're going to be driving home high from the club, and God get a hold of their mind. They're going to be sitting alone in a room, and God get a hold of their mind.
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ENTRY & END TIMES | Which One Are You? | Matthew 21:28-32 | Philip Anthony Mitchell
This encourages me for everybody who got family members, friends, parents, loved ones who've been saying no to God for years. But this gives me hope that a day can come when that word wrestles them down. But not just because they said no. that doesn't mean God won't get them in another season. And when the Lord tells this part of the parable, I'm almost done.
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ENTRY & END TIMES | Which One Are You? | Matthew 21:28-32 | Philip Anthony Mitchell
This part of the parable is for all the people who was alive in the nation of Israel. Look at me, eye contact, who watch, who heard the preaching of John. And they didn't want nothing to do with the preaching of John. And then they heard the preaching of Jesus. And they didn't want nothing to do with the preaching of Jesus.
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ENTRY & END TIMES | Which One Are You? | Matthew 21:28-32 | Philip Anthony Mitchell
And at some point in time in the ministry of Jesus, or at some point in time in the ministry of John, they heard the preaching of righteousness. They heard the preaching of holiness. They heard the preaching of love and repentance. And they changed their mind. And the nation of Israel saw a revival because of John's ministry and because of Jesus' ministry.
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ENTRY & END TIMES | Which One Are You? | Matthew 21:28-32 | Philip Anthony Mitchell
There was a revival of people who formerly said no. and who was saved and transformed. It's like the woman at the well who tried to hide her issues from the Lord. Go call your husband. I don't have one. Still running from the word. Yeah, you know, you had five, and the one you got now is not your husband. But here is the seventh man. Jesus. One husband, two, three, four, five.
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ENTRY & END TIMES | Which One Are You? | Matthew 21:28-32 | Philip Anthony Mitchell
And I'm not going to preach a message to you about giving to try to manipulate you for 55 minutes to give. No. It's week five of our brand new series. Entry and End Times.
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ENTRY & END TIMES | Which One Are You? | Matthew 21:28-32 | Philip Anthony Mitchell
Here's the seventh man. Well, she couldn't run from that word any longer, man. But then the Lord doesn't stop there with the parable. Watch. Then he continues the parable with these words. In Matthew chapter 21, watch. Then he says this in the second part of the parable. Listen to what he says. He says, "'And he went to the other son.'" And he said the same thing, go and work in the vineyard.
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ENTRY & END TIMES | Which One Are You? | Matthew 21:28-32 | Philip Anthony Mitchell
And that second son said, I go, sir. I go, sir. But he did not go. This second son has heard the same command, go, work in the vineyard. And he responds, no. With respect. I go. Watch. I will do it. Watch the respect. Sir. So he has a mouth of honor, but feet of rebellion. He has commitment with no follow through. He has words with no actions.
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ENTRY & END TIMES | Which One Are You? | Matthew 21:28-32 | Philip Anthony Mitchell
He's near to the Father with his mouth, but far from the Father in his heart. He's been in church his whole life. He's been to VBS his whole life. He can quote Psalm 23. He knows the Lord's Prayer. He walked the aisle when he was five. He's been around the things of God his whole life. He's respectful on the outside. He's pious on the outside. He's religious on the outside.
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ENTRY & END TIMES | Which One Are You? | Matthew 21:28-32 | Philip Anthony Mitchell
He got posts with no life to match. He be putting scriptures on Instagram with no life to match. She's a Proverbs 31 woman with no life to match. She got everybody fooled with words and posts. But heart is far away from God.
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ENTRY & END TIMES | Which One Are You? | Matthew 21:28-32 | Philip Anthony Mitchell
And we are marveling in this series over the final actions of Christ in the final weeks of his life and the final words of Christ about the end times, about everything he said is coming for America and coming for the nations of the world. Whether people believe that or not, they will not escape what he said is coming.
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ENTRY & END TIMES | Which One Are You? | Matthew 21:28-32 | Philip Anthony Mitchell
got lip service with a rebellious heart, lip service with rebellious hands, lip service with rebellious feet, respectful on the outside, singing and rebellious, preaching and rebellious, leading and rebellious, on platforms and rebellious, got everybody fooled in culture, but heart is far away from God. I will go.
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ENTRY & END TIMES | Which One Are You? | Matthew 21:28-32 | Philip Anthony Mitchell
That's all of that stuff, all of that religion, all of that piety, all of that outward show of godliness, but never went and denying the power thereof. This second son, watch, the Lord told in the parable, represented, hear me, the pastors, the spiritual leaders, the chief priests and scribes and Pharisees of the nation of Israel. You gotta follow the text.
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ENTRY & END TIMES | Which One Are You? | Matthew 21:28-32 | Philip Anthony Mitchell
It represents the spiritual leaders that he was talking to. Watch, it represented men who had the Old Testament, men who'd been studying the Torah, men who understand the word. Watch this, men who was looking for the Messiah And when he came, they rejected the Messiah because the Messiah's ministry was blowing up and they were jealous of the Messiah's ministry.
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ENTRY & END TIMES | Which One Are You? | Matthew 21:28-32 | Philip Anthony Mitchell
So they made videos about his ministry and posts about his ministry and they tried to tear down his ministry and they did everything to discredit his ministry. Not because he was not the Messiah, not because he was not called, but because their envy cannot understand God's favor on the life of the Son. No, it's in the Scriptures. You don't believe me.
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ENTRY & END TIMES | Which One Are You? | Matthew 21:28-32 | Philip Anthony Mitchell
Another gospel writer says about those Pharisees, they said to themselves, listen, this man of God, if he keep preaching, talking about Jesus, if he keep preaching the way he's preaching, the whole nation is going to believe him. If he keeps preaching about the kingdom, the whole nation is going to believe him. If he keeps preaching about righteousness, the whole nation is going to believe him.
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ENTRY & END TIMES | Which One Are You? | Matthew 21:28-32 | Philip Anthony Mitchell
If he keeps preaching about holiness, the whole nation is going to believe him. If he keeps preaching the way he's preaching, they might have a revival. So we need to do something to stop him, the Pharisees said. Not that they don't know he's the son of God. Their envy won't accept the fact that he's the son of God. Jealousy is an evil thing. I'm trying to, daughter. Jealousy is a dangerous thing.
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ENTRY & END TIMES | Which One Are You? | Matthew 21:28-32 | Philip Anthony Mitchell
And I'm telling you right now, there is nothing we're going to hear more important in this hour of our life than the words of Christ. And his words are heat. And we need to be informed. His words are here and we need to be informed. So if you are guests to 2819, we welcome you.
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ENTRY & END TIMES | Which One Are You? | Matthew 21:28-32 | Philip Anthony Mitchell
If you can't celebrate, just pray. But why are you trying to tear down that man's ministry? Because you don't understand. Why are you trying to tear down that woman's ministry? Because you don't understand. You're not driven by the Spirit. You lie. You put the Word of God on your post. You lie. We're driven by the flesh. These Pharisees are driven by the flesh.
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ENTRY & END TIMES | Which One Are You? | Matthew 21:28-32 | Philip Anthony Mitchell
And so the Lord now, watch, will now identify for them the two sons. I'm almost done. He says to them, watch. He asked them a question. Second question of the text. Which of the two did the will of the father? He asked those religious leaders. They said, the first. Jesus said to them, truly, that is now, pay attention to what I say.
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ENTRY & END TIMES | Which One Are You? | Matthew 21:28-32 | Philip Anthony Mitchell
Based on your answer, since you understand the text, I say to you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes. Jesus said that in church? He said prostitutes in church? Man, how could a man of God talk like that? How could he talk about hoes in church? You self-righteous and religious. And we don't read. How could a man of God use that kind of language in the gathering?
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ENTRY & END TIMES | Which One Are You? | Matthew 21:28-32 | Philip Anthony Mitchell
The Lord said to these religious leaders who were self-righteous and self-deceived, he said to them, truly I say to you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes go into the kingdom of God before you. So now what the Lord does now, everybody pay attention, now for the leaders who are, watch, battling with self-deception, they can't see, now he identifies for them the two sons.
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ENTRY & END TIMES | Which One Are You? | Matthew 21:28-32 | Philip Anthony Mitchell
The first son are the tax collectors and the prostitutes, i.e., the first son, he said, are the people who the Pharisees and the spiritual leaders, watch, saw in their own eyes as the lowest humans in society. Tax collectors who were Jews who extorted their own people for the Roman government and prostitutes who were seen as the lowest form of sinners in society.
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They wasn't raised in church. They don't know the Old Testament. They can't quote a scripture. She got her thong out in the gathering, but she heard the message. And they're coming into the kingdom. Them hood dudes from the street, they coming into the kingdom. That hoe from the club, they're coming into the kingdom. That drug dealer, they coming into the kingdom. Gosh, man.
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For everybody sitting in the overflow rooms who are guests to 2819, we welcome you to all of our digital disciples watching live right now across the nation and around the world, we welcome you to 2819. Our text today is coming from Matthew chapter 21, verses 28 through 32. And it's already done. And that ain't the title of the message, but that's in my spirit for the day. It's already done.
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All those people you keep judging and tearing down, they coming into the kingdom. They know they messed up. They know they're broken. They know they got past. They know they got baggage. They're hearing the message and they're entering the kingdom. Before you, you preachers, you self-righteous, watch this word, hypocrites.
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Watch, you self-deceived spiritual leaders of Israel who think you are holy because of your long robes and your phylacteries and because you can quote the scriptures and because you know the Old Testament and because you know the Torah by heart, because you got religion without relationship. You think your garments make you holy. Hick-hack!
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So by default they realize now, watch, that they are the other son. They are the son who says to the Lord, I will go. Watch, they are the sons who are respectful in the eyes of the people. Gosh. Walking the streets of Jerusalem looking holy. Quoting scriptures on the street corners. but far away from God. This is why, hear me, y'all need to stop being impressed with big shows of godliness.
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Stop that. Y'all need to wake up, especially in America where it's easy for a fool to create an audience. Any fool with a microphone, any fool that know how to write can lead people astray. Do y'all know everybody who got a title ain't from God? Every person with the name prophet ain't from God. Every person with the name apostle ain't from God. Come on, man.
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We'd be so impressed with all of these big shows of godliness. And you walk past a person, man, who ain't got no title, but they love God with their whole heart. You worship men and you walk past the old woman in the back who got enough anointing to pray down principalities and powers. And you think I'm not holy because I don't got a suit? Because I got chains around my neck.
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We fix our eyes on external man-made religious godliness, lowercase g. And we don't have enough discernment to hear truth and to discern character and to discern true anointing. Because we love fanfare, but we don't have discernment. And the Lord said to these Pharisees, these chief priests, these pastors of Israel, y'all think you're right with God. No. Y'all ain't saved. You are deceived.
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You ain't saved. You're separated. You ain't close to God. You are his enemy. While you're trying to be outwardly holy, you are inwardly dark and evil. That's what he said. He is illuminating for them. Watch. Their hypocrisy, hear me. Their self-righteousness, hear me. Their self-deception. This is why right here in this moment, I want to lean on as many of you as possible, man.
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Man, to run from hypocrisy. Run from self-righteousness, man. If you're going to post, be about that. If you're going to sing, be about that. If you're going to preach, be about that. Let your words and your life match. Softly, Frank. Listen. Everybody look at these last verses. Verse 32. Verse 32. The last verse, for John came to you in the way of righteousness.
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That word you in the Greek is plural. He's talking to all the spiritual leaders of Israel. John came to you or y'all since we're in the south. He came to y'all in the way of righteousness. John's ministry was righteous. And you did not believe him. But the tax collectors and the prostitutes, they believed him. And even when you saw it, you did not afterward change your minds and believe him.
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So eternal God and ever-wise Father, Lord, we thank you for everything that is already done. We thank you for how you've gone ahead of us and have put together things in our future that's already done. We thank you, God, for the power of your holy scriptures and for your word that's already done. We thank you, Lord, for this text. We thank you for this moment.
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Man, you saw it. And you still didn't repent. Saw what? This is how you study. What did they see? He ain't talking about miracles. He ain't talking about healings. You know what he's talking about? The greatest miracle we will ever see. He's talking about people who were once far away from God, heard the gospel, turned towards God because of preaching,
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put their faith in Christ, they saw, we see, a revival exploded in Israel. They saw salvations, one after the other. And the Lord said to them, after y'all saw all of that outpouring, all of that favor, all of that fruit, all of those souls, you saw it with your own eyes and you still didn't believe. You know what that makes me feel like? It makes me feel like America, man.
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Like you crucify false prophets. You crucify real prophets. What do you want? Nothing is good enough for you. You attack people who are phony. You attack people who are real. Then what do you want? You just want lukewarm in the middle. He's saying to these leaders, that's what y'all want. Man, you attacked a real man of God, John. You didn't believe his witness about me.
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You saw all of those people being saved and you still didn't believe. Man, this is me right now at the end of this message, man, pleading with you. This is the Holy Spirit, man, through a man pleading with you. People, hear me, please, man. Run from hypocrisy, man. How long will we continue, man, to post and not be about that, man? Come on.
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Man, how long can we keep coming to church and not be about this, man? How long would it just be a check off of the box for you? Come on, man. At what point in time do we do this thing for real? At what point in time do we read the scriptures and find Christ and just not yourself?
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At what point in time, man, do you stop listening to preachers and podcasts of people who are, listen, man, at what point in time does Christianity become relationship? Man, Christ ain't die for us to live a phony, whack, hypocritical, self-deceived life. Man, come on, family. Man, I would even say to you right now, which son are you?
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Are we the son, watch, who finally went into that vineyard, finally, and our lives bore fruit? Man, you know what happens after repentance? Fruit. Fruit. Look at my life. This is called fruit. This is what happens after repentance. Man, which son are you? Are you the first son that heard the father change your mind? I'm going to go obey my father. You know what?
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I'm going to spend the rest of my life, watch, in his vineyard. Or are we that second son like these hypocrites who are deceived by our external piety all the while our hearts are really far away from God? Which son are you? Watch this. Which son do you want to be? Let me pray for you right now. Heads bowed, eyes closed. If you're in the overflow, do not move.
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If you're watching me live, do not log off. Nobody move. Hear me. There are people under the sound of my voice right now who you are that second son. Hear me. You have heard the message before. You have been in church your whole life. You know scriptures. You know Bible. And you're still far away from God. Tomorrow ain't promised for you. Today is the day of salvation. Man, hear the gospel.
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You are a sinner separated from God. And if you die in your sins, man, you're going to be eternally damned. You're not prepared to face what's going to happen if you die. Separated from God. But the Lord and his love for you sent to Jesus Christ. Died a sacrificial death for you. He already knew you belonged to him before the foundation of the world.
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We thank you, God, for how we're about to build you a house like Solomon for the glory of your name. We thank you for the spread of the gospel through 2019, the harvesting of souls and the multiplying of disciples. We thank you for revival being poured out on the nation. We thank you for this moment when we gather together without fear of our heads being chopped off in the parking lot.
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And right now in this moment, you ain't even got to walk an aisle. The Spirit is strong enough to meet you in your chair. Right where you are in your heart, you can even talk to God in your heart. He can see your thoughts. Just say, God, you know what? Today, I'm sorry. Today, I see a hand lifted. Oh my God. I repent of my sin. Today, I see another hand lifted. I surrender. What's happening?
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I see another hand lifted. Tell the Lord, today I surrender. Oh my gosh, I see hands. Tell the Lord, I surrender right now. I surrender. I'm going to work. I'm going into that field. I'm going to give you all of my life and see what you do with it. Do it right now. Just surrender. He already knew. I see hands. Oh my gosh. I see hands. Yeah, alright, lift your hands. He can see you.
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You repent in your own heart right now. I see tears. He already knew. Ain't no magic pixie dust. Your repentance. He already knows those who are his. I'm only setting up what he prepared. Oh, thank you, Holy Spirit. I'm setting up what was already done before the foundation of the world. Repent. I see hands. He can see those hands. That's okay. He's catching those tears.
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My sister, he's catching those tears. My brother, I see tears in hands. He's catching those tears. Repent. He knows, man, this might be the most important moment of your life. He's catching those tears. My sister with both hands raised in the glasses, he sees those tears. He's catching my, he sees those tears. My sister in the blue shirt with the dope haircut, he's catching those tears.
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It's time now. It's time. I don't even know who that's for. It's time. No more yes sir with disobedient feet. It's time now. It's time. Jesus. It's time. I don't even know who that's for. It's time. No more running. It's time. Change your mind. Repent. Throw yourself on the altar of God's mercy. Tell him you're sorry. Surrender. Surrender. Surrender. Oh, yes.
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And now, Father, I pray for every person under the sound of my voice. I thank you by faith for those you have saved by your sovereign will and by the power of your Holy Spirit. Apart from me. I thank you for the tears that are falling right now. The lies that are coming into the kingdom. The tax collectors. The prostitutes. I thank you that they're coming into the kingdom right now.
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That the kingdom is being enlarged with souls that belong to you from the beginning of the foundation of the world. It was already done. I pray they would love you with their whole heart. I pray they would love righteousness and holiness. I pray you would reveal Christ to them in the scriptures. I pray they would hate sin. I pray you would order their steps. I pray you would rearrange their life.
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I pray you would open their eyes. I pray you would deliver them from self-deception. I pray their hearts would burn. I pray you would help them to see it's the last days and time is running out. And now, Father, I pray for the sons and daughters. I pray you would deliver us from hypocrisy. I pray you deliver us from being liars. I pray you deliver us from being duplicitous.
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I pray a spirit of conviction, a spirit of desire to live a life that's consistent with our confession would fall on us right now. I pray for increased faith, increased anointing, increased power, increased love for the Spirit, increased intimacy, increased burden. I pray we will shed your tears, feel your pain, feel your grief. I pray. We will love what you love and hate what you hate.
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I pray we will be real and authentic. Do it now for the unbeliever who has become friends and for the believer who needs to be awakened right now. I ask all of this in the mighty. Look up that word. And the majestic. Look up that word. And the matchless. Look up that word. Name. Name. of our Lord and Savior. Now, can I trust you to clap without moving?
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And Father, now I pray you would draw the sons and daughters to yourself. You would even draw the unbeliever and the atheist to yourself. And pray, God, we will be stirred as the word is proclaimed. Our hearts will burn as the word is proclaimed. And that you will be glorified in this moment. Help your servant in his weakness to proclaim these truths. We ask in the mighty... Look up that word.
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And the majestic. Look up that word. And the matchless. Look up that word. Name... of our Lord and Savior and soon coming King. God's people said amen and amen and amen. Now family, hear me. One of the most dangerous things that will ever affect the life of a human being in this life is the dark power of this strong word called deception.
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It is when the human mind is misled to believe something that is not true or something that is not accurate. Deception can enter our life through false teachings or false words. Deception can enter our lives through wrong people and wrong associations. Deception can enter our lives through rebellion and sin. Deception can enter our lives through wrong exposures.
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Deception can enter our lives through things we're listening to or exposed to that is not true. And hear me, of all of the different forms of deception that exist, perhaps the most destructive form of deception is self-deception.
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When a person holds on with a tight grip to their own ambitions, their own ideals, their own biases that are false, only to man put them in a position, man, to suffer in the end because of that deception. And it's for the power of deception many people's gonna live a life now in darkness, they're gonna be separated from God for all eternity because of the power of deception.
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Enter every false religion in the world outside of Christianity. Enter psychics, mystics, Ouija boards, zodiac signs, horoscopes, and fortune telling. Enter sage, crystals, and rocks hanging around your neck for good luck. Enter new age philosophies and all of our spiritual ascent outside of God, outside of Christ, outside of the Holy Spirit. Enter the men at the center of this text.
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Now you remember from our study in Matthew that Christ is coming down to the end of his life and he enters the city of Jerusalem during Passover in a grand and non-verbal display, declaring himself to be the son of God. You remember that Christ went to the temple and he saw one night the corruption that was in the temple.
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You remember Christ going home to Bethany and then coming back and cursing a fig tree that represented the barren nation of Israel and the barren spiritual leaders. You remember Christ going into the temple and cleansing the temple from the corruption that was in the temple. And you remember Christ now from last week being in that temple and teaching.
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And I want to read to you the text that we had from last week because the text from last week is important for us as we jump into the text we're about to study right now. In Matthew chapter 28, you read this text last week in verse 23. The Lord is teaching now in the temple. In the final week of his life before he is executed, the city is packed with some two million people.
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The temple is crowded with thousands of people. And in Matthew chapter 21, Matthew the tax collector wrote, And when he entered the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching and said, By what authority are you doing these things? What things? Preaching, healing in the temple, cleansing the temple, breaking norms and customs.
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And by what authority are you doing these things? And who gave you this authority? And Jesus answered them, I will always ask you a question, he said to them. And if you tell me the answer, then I will also tell you by what authority I do these things. The baptism of John. From where did it come? From heaven or from man?
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And they discussed among themselves saying, well, shoot, if we say from heaven, he will say to us, then why didn't you believe him? So we can't give him that answer. And they said, but if we say from man, shoot, we will be afraid because of the crowd for they held John was a prophet. We can't give him that answer. So they answered Jesus. We don't know.
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And he said to them, well shoot, neither do I tell you by what authority I am doing these things. So there is Jesus in the temple. He's confronted by the elders, the spiritual leaders, the pastors of Israel. They ask him a question, but then he responds to them with a question. Now they're talking about John. John the Baptist, who God sent to be a forerunner of the ministry of the life of Jesus.
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It was John who was a preacher of righteousness and holiness. It was John who affirmed the identity of Christ when he was alive. It was John who said, behold, look. The Lamb of God, talking about Christ, who takes away the sin of the world. It was John whose preaching was so powerful it gave birth to a national and spiritual revival. It was John who was an outcast preaching in the wilderness.
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eating locusts and wild honey, and dressed in a garment, man, that people thought was hideous. It was John's preaching, watch, that was saving people by the thousands and transforming the nation of Israel. It was John they was talking about in this moment. And now Jesus asked them a question about John. But here, because John testified about the identity of Christ,
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To say his baptism came from heaven would be for these spiritual leaders to affirm Christ. They don't want to do that because they're jealous of his ministry. To say John's ministry came from man will be watched to diminish his ministry. They don't want to do that because John was respected, hear me, for being a preacher of righteousness.
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He was respected for being a preacher of holiness, not a preacher of compromise. not a preacher that keeps you comfortable in sin not a preacher that never confronts you not a preacher that gives you three points in a poem not a preacher that lies to you about his opinion not a preacher that reads a verse and spends 45 minutes telling you lies not an american preacher
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So if you need your edge up to stay holy, you live in the south side of Atlanta, Faded Luxury, okay? Just go see the shop. It's godly in there. They be having podcasts on and messages on and we talk about Jesus in there. And as I'm saying that, that's just a reminder to me, you don't need a platform for ministry.
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No, John was a preacher of what the people did not want to hear, a preacher of righteousness and holiness that transformed the nation. Yeah. Word. Word. And so Jesus, watch, he not only asked them a question to stop them in their antagonism against them, but he does not remain silent about, watch, he does not remain silent about their self-deception.
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So immediately after he stumps them in this conversation, he says to them the very first verse in our text, in Matthew chapter 28. Matthew chapter 21 and verse 28, he says, well, he's talking to the spiritual leaders of Israel and he says to them, what do you think? Stop. This is a very powerful question. He uses this question to ask them about John,
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about the ministry of John, about the witness of John, hear me, but he also uses this question as a transition to introduce to them three powerful parables that are a direct response to their question about authority. Hear me, he uses this question What do you think, listen, as a transition statement to introduce to them three parabolic teachings about what?
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About their question to him about authority. Let me say this one more time. He uses this question as a transition to introduce to them three powerful parables as a response to their question about authority. Jesus used parables, a form of encrypted teachings when he was alive in the first century. Teachings that concealed truth and revealed truth about the kingdom of God, about heaven, about life,
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about the future. It's these parables that we still have remaining for us in the New Testament. It's these parables that helps those of us who are followers of Christ, who are living in a dark and ignorant society. It's because of those parables we have knowledge about things that's happening right now that the world does not know.
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We have knowledge about things that's coming in the future that the world does not know. Like, for example, the parable of the sower. We know because of that encrypted teaching that when the word of God is preached, everybody doesn't respond to it the same way.
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We know because of the parable of the sower, when the word of God is preached, there was a category of people that receives that word and their lives are transformed. And there's a category of people who the word bounces off of them. It's because of the parable of the sower. We see people on social media who say things like, I tried Jesus and he didn't work for me.
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No, it wasn't that you tried Jesus. It was that you wasn't saved to begin with. We know because of the parable of the sower, why some people would hear a message and even walk an aisle to an altar. And five years from now, man, we know why they abandoned the faith altogether. We're not confused about that because we have the encrypted teachings called the parables. Does that make sense to you?
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So what the Lord is about to give us next, hear me, are three things. Powerful parables, encrypted teachings that are a direct response to their antagonism about his authority and about the ministry of John the Baptist. The other two we'll pack next week and the week after that. Listen to me. Those parables are heat. No, no, no, no, no. You love the words of men.
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You need to love the words of Christ. See, I don't want you to be impressed with my words. I want you to be impressed with his words, right? Too much in this nation. Man, we love the words of men and we swing on the words of men. But I want you to be impressed with the words of Christ. There is nothing you're going to hear more important than the words of Christ.