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00:06 Sermon #S022 - I've Got Receipts - (Part 2)
00:20 Welcome to the Breath of Life Television Ministries broadcast with Pastor Debleaire Snell! 00:26 In today's episode, Pastor Snell will share Part Two of the powerful message entitled “I've Got Receipts” 00:34 Let learn more about God's power through the study of His Word. 00:42 Pastor Snell: See I need yall to get that one thing about human nature and it's not just you, it's human nature. 00:48 Human nature has a bend toward evil. Are you all still with me, church? 00:51 [Congregation: Amen] 00:53 We have a natural inclination toward sin and not just saying but the covering of our sin. 00:59 The problem with sometimes is that God is so merciful that God won't let you blow up the first time. 01:06 What he will do is he will allow some grace. But what happens is we confuse grace as a license for sin. 01:12 [Congregation: Amen] 01:14 And what should be helping us turn around actually makes us bolder in our dirt. You are all acting brand-new today? 01:20 [Congregation: Amen/Clapping] 01:21 Because it's quite as it's kept, though nobody gets caught the first time. 01:26 [Congregation: Laughing] 01:29 Come on, tell the truth. That's what you told your parents, but nobody gets pregnant the first time. 01:38 There are some scares along the way, but we didn't turn around am I telling the truth, like, 01:42 nobody goes to jail for the first crime they commit. In other words, there are usually. 01:47 They can anybody look back at their life 01:49 and realize that there were some times there was some margin where God gave us to turn around. 01:55 But the problem is that some of us will not turn around until certain things are drawn from the darkness. 02:03 [Congregation: Amen] 02:05 And put into the light. And so I need us to understand something about the truth. 02:09 Like for those that are living with a lie right now, I need you to know man, the truth is the one element that cannot die. 02:18 [Congregation: Amen] 02:20 I mean, the truth is like that blade of grass that burst through the concrete crack. 02:25 And I want to encourage somebody that is living with a painful lie, I need you to know, 02:30 the one thing about secret sin is that it's strongest in secret. 02:35 And that's what God has done certain things hit the light 02:38 because it is not until it hits the light that we can find our salvation. 02:43 I need us to kind of think through this with the scriptures 02:45 because I needed to know that some of the greatest blessings in the scripture are when some people got caught. 02:51 And you see, the blessing of the woman is not just when she was forgiven, it was when she got caught. 02:57 I can see you all still are not convinced. Let's look at my man Samson. He had gotten away with it, 03:04 and he always had his strength but he didn't turn around and depend on God until he got caught 03:11 and that's when he realized that his help came from God. You all still aren't convinced. 03:17 Remember your boy, Jonah was doing good, running from the presence of God 03:22 but he didn't realize his full potential until he got caught in the belly of a whale 03:28 and then he made supplication unto God. Okay, you'll be convinced here. 03:33 Remember there was a thief on the cross who is out there living his best life 03:39 and had gotten away with it. But one day he was caught and put on the cross next to Jesus, 03:45 and it was there on the cross that he met his savior, we're saying today I say unto you that you will be with me in paradise. 03:56 In other words, God blesses some by covering, and sometimes he saves you by letting it come to the light. 04:06 [Congregation: Amen] 04:08 The third thing that teaches us is that Jesus applies justice evenly. The one thing about my Jesus, 04:18 he is the God who balances the scales. In this text, as much as Jesus is a moral advocate, 04:28 I need you all to get that he is also a justice advocate. I didn't even realize, 04:34 do you realize that this story actually has social justice implications to it? 04:39 The one thing that is interesting about Jewish law at this time is that Jewish law kind of overlapped with civil law so much 04:48 so that you could be punished civilly. Because there was no separation of church and state. 04:53 You can be punished civilly for moral indiscretions. Are you all still with me? 04:58 [Congregation: Amen] 05:00 And it's amazing because you could be stoned to death if you are found guilty of the act of adultery. 05:05 But this is where Jesus is essentially trying to even the scales and the distribution of justice. 05:13 Because when they bring this woman and they say, listen, we found her Jesus, we caught her in adultery in the very act. 05:23 The question should immediately be raised. Wait a minute. 05:32 How do you just go catch one person in adultery, but the other person goes scot-free? I mean, Rob Base told us in the 90s, 05:42 it takes two to make... 05:43 [Congregation: You've been saved all your life[?]] 05:45 Okay, all right, you've all been saved all your life, okay, I hear you. 05:48 But did you realize friends that in the Jewish law, specifically, the Talmud that a man could not be guilty of adultery, 05:58 that only a woman could be found guilty of adultery? And in other words, they dragged her out the bed 06:06 and your boy sitting there with a cigarette like, man, you better get right with God. 06:10 [Congregation: Amen] 06:12 In other words, the only one that could be found guilty of adultery was a married woman. 06:18 And if a single woman messes with a married, man, guess what? Then the woman would be found guilty of adultery. 06:25 And see what happened, in a patriarchal society where the men had all the power, 06:31 they set up rules that would punish a segment of those without the power. 06:37 While those with the power to commit the same crime or do the same deed and not experience the same consequence. 06:48 And see friends of mine, I need us to understand that Jesus came to show us what God was like. 06:56 One of the things that Jesus does in this story is when he says, let him who is without sin. 07:02 And notice when Jesus says this, he is not talking about general sin, he said to let him who is without the same sin, 07:11 cast the first stone. In other words, he is saying, let's have a stoning party up in here but we are going to stone everybody. 07:23 [Congregation: Clapping/Amen] 07:25 That's committed the sin. I need you to understand that Jesus doesn't just deal with the issue here. 07:30 Remember in Matthew Chapter 5, when Jesus teaches on the mountain, he says, "Thou says, the Bible says, 07:37 Thou shalt not commit adultery," 07:39 and Jesus says that he that looks upon a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 07:47 And the radical part is not just that he raises thought to the level of adultery, the radical part is that he says, 07:54 even you all brothers can be found guilty. Are you all hearing the word today? 07:59 [Congregation: Amen] 08:01 So Jesus says, let him who is without sin cast the first stone at her first and see, remember Jesus says, 08:07 I didn't come to destroy the law and the prophets, he says, I came to fulfill the law. 08:16 In other words, he says, I come to make sure that everybody is judged by it equally. 08:22 And see what Jesus is teaching us friends, is that he is the god that champions the cause of the oppressed, 08:29 that he is the God that stands with the marginalized. He is the God that stands up for those who have no voice. 08:36 He is the God that stands in the gap and advocates for those who have no advocate. 08:43 And I just want to say to anybody that is on the wrong side of oppression that we serve a God 08:50 who has made it his mission to make sure that evens the scales of justice. 08:56 And I need you to know that you might be on the wrong side today, 09:00 but God is going to make all things equal in time. Are you all hearing me today, friends? 09:05 [Congregation: Amen] 09:07 I needed us to know beloved because God is saying, listen, we're going to do this thing right because I got receipts. 09:12 [Congregation: Amen] 09:14 As I need us, no friends of mine that the scales of justice are still uneven in our time. 09:18 Do you realize that this patriarchal stop structure is even alive in our time? 09:22 Pew Research Center states that 5 out of 25 women state that they earn less than their male counterparts, 09:29 even though they do the exact same work, at the same job. 09:33 Do you realize friends of mine that women make 84 cents for every dollar that their male counterparts make? 09:41 Do you realize that in our own church, you have female pastors that preach and they visit and they minister, 09:50 and yet they're classified differently than their male counterparts that do the exact same thing? 09:56 Do you realize that in the justice system, a black man and a white man can commit the same drug offense 10:04 but the wet black man's sentence is going to be two times as long? 10:09 Do you realize that during the crack epidemic they pronounce the war on drugs and stiff penalties, 10:17 but during the opioid crisis, we created rehab centers and it was treated as mental illness 10:23 Do you realize that blacks are three times more likely to be pulled over by the police, 10:28 that blacks report that there are times that when they're in a position of administration, 10:35 they will train a white counterpoint only to have that same white person, 10:41 I'll get promoted ahead of them and they find themselves answering to the one they train. 10:47 Blacks rate twice as long in emergency rooms with charge more for bail. 10:53 We get less access to loans when we have the same credit score. Ain't it crazy, 10:59 how a black person can be put in jail for using an EBT card, 11:04 but Brett Favre can steal five million dollars from the welfare fund to give to his alma mater, 11:14 and yet, no charges have been leveled against him or the governor. 11:19 [Congregation: Amen] 11:20 And what I'm saying today friends, is that on this side, 11:23 there is always a powerless minority that's going to have the scales of justice in this place in an uneven way. 11:31 But I love the promise of Isaiah chapter 40, as it related to the Messiah, and Isaiah 40 verses 1 through 4, 11:38 he declares that there's going to be one that cries out in the wilderness that makes a highway in the desert. 11:45 And the Bible says that when he comes that every hill and mountain is going to be brought low, 11:50 and every valley is going to be filled and that the rock places are going to be made smooth. 11:56 I don't know if somebody realizes what he's saying, is that when the Messiah comes mountains will be brought low 12:02 and valleys are going to be filled. 12:04 In other words, those that are up high are going to be brought low, 12:07 and those that are in the valley are going to be raised up. And guess what? 12:11 It's not going to matter your color, your gender, or your creed 12:16 because the ground is going to be leveled at the foot of the cross. 12:20 Is there anybody thankful that the wall of partition has been torn down, and that there is no Jew, no Gentile, 12:28 no Greek, no male, no female, no bond, no free, but we are all one in Jesus Christ? 12:36 [Congregation: Amen/Clapping] 12:38 And that's why Amos says that before the Lord comes that justice is going to roll on like a river 12:42 and righteousness like a mighty stream, and know that nobody gets away with it forever. 12:49 [Congregation: Amen/Clapping] 12:52 Because everybody has to appear before the judgment seat of Jesus Christ. Now, just a point of information. 13:00 You all know that they don't care anything about this woman's morality. They're just using her to get to Jesus. 13:12 I want to be clear friends that the miracle of the story, is not the abandonment of the law. That's not what is that work here. 13:23 Your takeaway from this particular story should not be that Jesus overlooks or nullifies the law. 13:31 No, your takeaway from the story ought to be that there is only one that is worthy to act as judge. 13:39 [Congregation: Amen] 13:40 And it is the sinless Son of God. Are you all with me today, friends? 13:44 [Congregation: Amen] 13:46 So listen, they come to Jesus. They're like listen, Lord, we caught this woman in adultery in the very act and say, 13:52 I need you to get this job. Like they pretty much think they got Jesus in a bind. In other words, 13:57 they feel like they are in a win-win situation because guess what if Jesus then on omits 14:03 or nullifies the law then they'll be able to condemn him as a lawbreaker. But then, if Jesus has the woman stoned, 14:11 then guess what his movement of mercy is going to lose all of its credibility. So if they stone her, they win, 14:18 if they release her, they win and they feel like they've got Jesus up the creek without a paddle but they don't know who they messing with. 14:27 My savior is like okay, you all came from me even when I didn't send for you all, you all want to have our conversation about the law. 14:36 Let's have a law-and-order jamboree in this joint. 14:41 [Congregation: Amen/Clapping] 14:42 He said okay, you all want to be about the law. Let's execute the law in all your functions. 14:47 Remember, he says, I didn't come to destroy the law or the prophets, I came to fulfill the law. 14:52 You all don't even realize I'm the embodiment of the law. I am literally the only one that's kept the law in all of its points. 14:59 So, if you want to talk about the law, you came to the right one today. 15:05 [Congregation: Amen] 15:06 Are you all with me today, friends? 15:07 [Congregation: Amen] 15:09 So, essentially now, what Jesus says, he's like, okay, men listen, let's have a law party. Let's implement it in a very particular way. 15:16 I want to listen, this is not in the Bible, but I believe Jesus sees some stones and he grabs some stones. 15:22 And he goes and gets one to this person and he goes and gives one to that person and he goes 15:29 and gives one to the other person and then it gets a big stone and gives to a big man. 15:33 And he says, listen, when you throw this, don't forget to wind up a long way and make sure you aim good at the woman. 15:40 And he says, he who is without sin cast the first stone. And when the woman, here's Jesus says it's okay to cast a stone, 15:49 I can see her ball up in the fetal position. 15:53 [Congregation: Amen] 15:55 She is bracing herself to get what she deserves. She's trying to figure it out. Do I cover my head, 16:01 but if I cover my head, I leave my organs exposed? If I cover my organs, I leave my face exposed. 16:07 If I cover my face, I leave something else exposed. 16:11 And in this moment of trying to brace it becomes clear that the sinner cannot cover themselves. 16:18 [Congregation: Amen/Clapping] 16:22 So, Jesus is walking around and he's just hanging out stones. 16:25 He says, listens you get a stone and you get a stone and you get a stone. 16:29 Make sure your aim is good to make sure your wind up right, he says he who is without sin cast the first stone. 16:36 But before you throw it... 16:41 Let me show you some receipts. 16:43 [Congregation: Amen/Clapping] 16:47 As the word says that he just starts writing on the ground. He acts as if he doesn't even hear them. 16:54 And then the Bible says, he writes some stuff in the ground. Then he says, before you throw it, 16:59 realize you got to be without sin before you cast the first stone. You see the right Jesus begins writing in the ground, 17:07 and the servant of the Lord says that Jesus begins to write their names. 17:14 [Congregation: Amen] 17:15 And a list of all their sins. 17:19 [Congregation: Amen] 17:20 And God is saying before you throw it, remember, I got receipts. 17:25 [Congregation: Amen/Laughing] 17:28 Can you imagine what it's like when you see your name in the sand, and it says, Sam, March, 23rd 7 p.m. at the Howard Johnson, 17:39 oh yall not hearing me? 17:40 [Congregation: Amne] 17:43 He says, Joe, Aug 24th, 2:24 p.m. on your lunch break with your secretary. Devante March, 17th at 12 p.m. you thought nobody saw. 17:54 But I saw, oh, Bill, I saw you on December 23rd, you crept the day before Christmas Eve. But guess what? I still saw you. 18:03 And as they look at the list of their sins in the sand, they start acting like good Baptists. 18:11 [Congregation: Amen/Clapping] 18:13 They put that finger up, and the word says that they walk out from the oldest all the way down to the youngest. 18:25 I love the way Jesus does this. Because not only does he not expose the woman, he doesn't even expose the man. 18:35 There are two times when we see God writing in Scripture. 18:38 [Congregation: Amen] 18:39 Oh where Bible folf at? 18:41 [Congregation: Amen] 18:43 We see Jesus take the same hand, and we see him right down the Ten Commandments. 18:47 [Congregation: Amen] 18:49 He takes the same sand, and as hand and he writes the sins in the sand. You all didn't catch it. 18:54 He wrote the Commandment in stone. He wrote sins in the sand so that when they walk through the list of sins can be wiped away. 19:07 [Congregation: Amen/Clapping] 19:08 I'm grateful that the law cannot be changed. 19:12 [Congregation: Amen/Clapping] 19:13 But I'm thankful that my sins can be wiped away. 19:16 [Congregation: Amen/Clapping] 19:17 They can be erased. 19:18 [Congregation: Amen] 19:19 They can be blotted out. 19:20 [Congregation: Amen/Clapping] 19:21 They can be removed. 19:22 [Congregation: Amen/Clapping] 19:24 Thank God, he didn't write them in ink, in concrete, he wrote them in the sand. 19:28 [Congregation: Amen/Clapping 19:31 Are you hearing the word today? 19:34 [Congregation: Amen/Clapping] 19:36 I love this thing because the woman is still there bracing herself. 19:42 [Congregant: Amen] 19:43 Jesus has to tell the woman to get up. She said, bracing one side and covering the other side, 19:48 and she knows she's done because there's something that is left exposed. And he says woman, where are your accusers? 19:56 And she finally looks up and says none. And he says, neither do I condemn thee and what he's saying to the woman is wake up, 20:06 stop covering yourself. You ain't got to cover yourself because I got you covered from now on. 20:13 [Congregation: Amen/Clapping] 20:15 I got you covered. Anybody thankful to be covered in his righteousness and his blood, in his mercy, and in his goodness. 20:26 [Congregation: Amen] 20:29 So he does not omit the law. He simply evenly distributes it and he shows mercy by showing that none of us are good, 20:38 none of us are deserving, but the same woman stood under the same judgment that the Pharisees did 20:45 and they could all only be made whole in him. I do want to say. 20:50 One quick thing before I close is that some of the more than most powerful statements in the word it is not just neither, 20:56 do I condemn you. We shout out there and we go home but Jesus says something even greater to the woman. He says go... 21:06 [Congregant: Amen/Hallelujah] 21:09 ...and sin no more. 21:13 [Congregant: Amen/Hallelujah] 21:16 The problem is we see that as just a religious instruction. But how many of us know that Jesus' word is not just instruction, 21:27 his word is also the will to carry it out? Oh, you all didn't catch that. 21:37 The problem is we've been treating the word like just this law of codes that is without us or outside of us, 21:45 but I need us to know that the word of God, is alive, active, and sharper than a double-edged sword and it is a discerner of the thoughts 21:56 and the intents of the heart. And what I'm saying to somebody today is that his word is not just an instruction, his word is the real, 22:05 it is the force. It is the power to perform what it is that he is asking for you to do. 22:13 In other words, there are times when we read what God desires in the word and we pray to God, give me the power to do what's in the word, 22:24 know if you just internalize the word. 22:27 [Congregation: Amen] 22:29 Then you've already got the power. See you all still see the word as just syllables. The Bible says, in the beginning, was the Word, 22:36 and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, and the Word became flesh and dwelt amongst us. So that when I caught the word in me, 22:48 I'm getting an infusion of Jesus so that the same power that caused him to overcome is the same power that allows me to walk in the newness 23:00 of life. So if I'm going to overcome, I've got to be like Jesus and say it is written. 23:08 [Congregation: Amen/Clapping] 23:10 Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. 23:17 I need somebody to know that there's power in the Word. 23:24 [Congregation: Amen] 23:26 Snell: Help me, Holy Spirit. There is authority in the pages of scripture. 23:32 There is something supernatural in the 66 books that have been canonized. 23:39 The problem is you're praying for the power to act on the Word when you ought to just be activating the power that's already in the word. 23:48 [Congregation: Amen/Clapping] 23:52 Okay, thank you, Holy Spirit. The problem is we've been the Word, like hardware, instead of software. Oh, God. 24:03 Let me talk to the deacons. In other words, hardware is the tool that I use because I got to work hard to make something change, 24:11 that's hardware. But when I get the software and it's downloaded on my phone, the operations do so automatically 24:20 because it is inscribed on the tablets of the device? And when his word is inscribed on my heart righteousness 24:34 becomes an automatic byproduct of having my operating system change from Windows to Mac OS. Are you all hearing what I'm saying today? 24:43 [Congregation: Amen] 24:44 The word is software, not hardware. 24:48 [Congregation: Amen/Clapping] 24:52 I'm excited friends that Jesus says I've got receipts. 24:58 [Congregation: Amen] 25:00 Now, some of you all are here that Jesus got receipts and you get scared. 25:04 [Congregation: Laughing/Amen] 25:06 You know why I'm glad Jesus has receipts, any redeemed folk in this room with me yet? 25:12 [Congregation: Yes] 25:13 Any folk that now you saved by grace. 25:16 [Congregation: Amen] 25:18 You're the reason, I'm glad Jesus got receipts, is because receipts are proof of purchase. 25:24 [Congregation: Amen/Clapping] 25:29 Receipts are not proof of what you did wrong. 25:32 [Congregation: Amen] 25:33 It's the evidence that you've been brought by somebody. 25:36 [Congregation: Amen] 25:38 So that if I have something, and somebody says it's mine and I'm saying, it's mine, 25:44 the proof and what breaks the tie is I got receipts. 25:49 [Congregation: Amen/Clapping] 25:50 I got something that says where been brought it. Where is been brought? 25:54 The last four numbers in my credit card statements? 25:58 [Congregation: Amen] 25:59 The devil says they sinned. The devil says they're mine. 26:04 [Congregation: Amen] 26:05 The devil says they belong to me but Jesus stands up in dispute. The enemy accuses. 26:12 God is covering. Satan says they're mine. Jesus says they belong to me. 26:18 [Congregation: Amen] 26:20 But then Jesus, rolls up his sleeves, and shows the nails in his hands. 26:24 [Congregatnt: My Lord] 26:27 Opens up his coat. Show his nails on his side, takes his shoes off, shows the nails on his feet, and says, I've got the receipts. 26:37 [Congregations: Hallelujah/Amen/ Clapping] 26:40 I know when I bought, I didn't purchase them with corruptible things, such as silver or gold... 26:48 [Congregation: Amen] 26:49 ...but with the precious blood of Jesus. 26:52 [Congregation: Amen] 26:53 If you're thankful, he's got the receipt. 26:54 [Congregation: Amen] 26:55 Praise the Lamb, give him glory. 26:58 [Congregation: Amen/Clapping] 27:00 Thank him, that he knows you, that he purchased you and that our God knows your name. 27:10 [Congregation: Amen/Clapping] 27:12 (Breath of Life Theme Music) |
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