WEBVTT 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:07.719 It's just a really, really pleasure to be here. I have quite a history of worshiping in this church. 00:00:07.839 --> 00:00:13.380 In fact, back in June or July, I preached for the Canaan Baptist Church for Pastor Owens. 00:00:13.540 --> 00:00:24.359 But years, for many years, when I was literally a little boy, they would have choirs, gospel choirs come and sing here, and I would come here, part of it. 00:00:24.359 --> 00:00:35.920 And my uncle, who is my father in gospel, the pastor of the Isle of Patmos Baptist Church, and Pastor Cornelius Carter, who is a former pastor of the church, were dear friends. 00:00:36.480 --> 00:00:38.359 So just a rich, rich history. 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:43.859 And so it's just really interesting for me to be coming and worshiping here. 00:00:45.320 --> 00:00:51.039 Every once in a while, God uses me to do something noble and noteworthy. 00:00:51.039 --> 00:00:57.259 And without a doubt, I thank God for using me to bring about this relationship. 00:00:58.679 --> 00:01:03.899 What I think God is really trying to do, does anyone here ever, have you ever had an Arnold Palmer? 00:01:05.379 --> 00:01:06.659 You've had an Arnold Palmer? 00:01:07.239 --> 00:01:16.060 You know it's iced tea and lemonade in the same glass. 00:01:17.739 --> 00:01:20.799 I think that's what God is really trying to do here. 00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:26.719 To put together a spiritual Arnold Palmer. 00:01:28.960 --> 00:01:35.860 All right, the rules of engagement for congregation and African American preacher. 00:01:35.980 --> 00:01:36.900 Rules of engagement. 00:01:37.760 --> 00:01:40.600 We like to hear you respond. 00:01:40.599 --> 00:01:52.280 You know, a football team, sports teams, they love to play at home because they'll get the crowd into the game. 00:01:53.079 --> 00:01:55.379 And that's the way we need. 00:01:55.439 --> 00:01:58.699 We need you to get into the preaching with us. 00:01:58.780 --> 00:02:00.719 So you'll need to laugh at my jokes. 00:02:00.719 --> 00:02:06.159 You'll need to say amen when something, you know, find something to say amen about it. 00:02:06.599 --> 00:02:11.139 So that you can get, and if you don't, then it takes me longer to preach. 00:02:13.939 --> 00:02:16.139 All right, all right, all right. 00:02:16.780 --> 00:02:18.900 All right, we'll figure this out. 00:02:18.900 --> 00:02:32.480 This morning I dedicated my sixth grandson, my son's fourth son, and having a big family dinner. 00:02:32.939 --> 00:02:34.780 And that's why my wife is not with me. 00:02:34.879 --> 00:02:36.280 Mabel's always with me. 00:02:36.640 --> 00:02:39.780 Lord has blessed us to be married 49 years. 00:02:39.780 --> 00:02:40.340 Amen. 00:02:44.819 --> 00:02:45.340 Amen. 00:02:45.740 --> 00:02:50.280 And so I'm just a little off for her not being here. 00:02:50.379 --> 00:03:00.240 Lord, would you see fit to anoint the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart? 00:03:00.240 --> 00:03:10.420 Let them bless your people and change them so that they leave out of here better than when they came in. 00:03:10.719 --> 00:03:12.460 In Jesus' name we pray. 00:03:12.719 --> 00:03:13.140 Amen. 00:03:15.640 --> 00:03:17.140 Psalm 37 and 1. 00:03:17.340 --> 00:03:22.219 Fret not thyself because of evildoers. 00:03:23.260 --> 00:03:26.680 Neither be thou enviates against the workers of iniquity. 00:03:27.360 --> 00:03:29.080 For they shall soon be cut off. 00:03:29.080 --> 00:03:31.380 Wither like the greener. 00:03:32.620 --> 00:03:39.560 I want to talk for a few minutes about fret not. 00:03:40.820 --> 00:03:41.640 Fret not. 00:03:42.360 --> 00:03:45.220 I preached this message a couple of times. 00:03:45.900 --> 00:03:53.200 And I keep repeating it until finally I'll do what I'm preaching about and not fret. 00:03:53.199 --> 00:04:00.079 Because if there's anything I'm good at, I'm good at fretting. 00:04:00.879 --> 00:04:03.919 I know how to fret. 00:04:04.879 --> 00:04:06.299 Am I by myself? 00:04:07.299 --> 00:04:08.019 Yeah. 00:04:08.159 --> 00:04:08.759 I know. 00:04:08.859 --> 00:04:11.179 I know how to fret. 00:04:11.180 --> 00:04:17.980 I retired from pastoring the triumphant church, but now I pastor the church of the fretters. 00:04:20.759 --> 00:04:24.259 And I have this thing down to a science. 00:04:24.259 --> 00:04:29.300 I know when the best time to fret. 00:04:30.599 --> 00:04:38.360 The best time to fret at my age, I have to get up during the middle of the night at least one time to go to that little room. 00:04:38.360 --> 00:04:46.500 And when I come back and get in bed around four o'clock, that's the best time to fret. 00:04:46.500 --> 00:04:53.939 I can solve so many of the world's problems at four o'clock in the morning. 00:04:54.439 --> 00:04:56.560 It's just the best time. 00:04:56.759 --> 00:05:06.360 And you know, just between you and me, we have a lot to fret about in this time in which we live. 00:05:06.360 --> 00:05:16.879 I mean, we hit the menu button on the computer and have the drop down, and that drop down of choices is just endless of so many things. 00:05:17.040 --> 00:05:23.939 I mean, you know, one of the things I fret about is whether or not my personal information is out on the dark web, as they call it. 00:05:25.620 --> 00:05:28.939 By the way, I don't know why it has to be the dark web. 00:05:29.120 --> 00:05:30.520 Why can't it be the light web? 00:05:33.300 --> 00:05:34.400 Some of you got that. 00:05:36.360 --> 00:05:42.460 And of course, David is the one that has said to us, fret not. 00:05:43.960 --> 00:05:47.879 But I guess David can say fret not. 00:05:49.040 --> 00:05:52.319 I mean, David didn't have any bills to pay. 00:05:54.420 --> 00:05:56.540 He didn't have an aggravating boss. 00:05:58.740 --> 00:06:01.560 He didn't have a child that was contrary. 00:06:01.560 --> 00:06:07.000 David never got a pink slip or the flu. 00:06:08.899 --> 00:06:14.060 David never got stuck in traffic on the way to an important meeting. 00:06:14.879 --> 00:06:19.399 David never had more month than he had money. 00:06:20.840 --> 00:06:25.120 He never had more refrigerator than he had food. 00:06:25.120 --> 00:06:30.199 David was never on the brink of divorce. 00:06:30.319 --> 00:06:33.720 I guess he can say fret not. 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:47.460 Those of us who live in this world and this day and time, we've got some things that consume our fretting. 00:06:47.459 --> 00:06:55.879 As I was daring to challenge David, David said, just hold on, hold on. 00:06:56.019 --> 00:06:57.099 I'm not through talking. 00:06:57.259 --> 00:06:59.479 That's not the only thing I've said. 00:07:00.979 --> 00:07:06.459 He said, tell them how to have a fret-free life. 00:07:06.459 --> 00:07:14.459 This sermon will only work for you if you do these four things. 00:07:15.019 --> 00:07:25.639 You can actually come to church tonight, hear the sermon, and leave here a fretter unless you do these four things. 00:07:25.719 --> 00:07:26.539 Are you ready to go? 00:07:26.539 --> 00:07:27.259 We're ready. 00:07:27.259 --> 00:07:37.199 First of all, verse 3 says, trust in the Lord and do good. 00:07:37.319 --> 00:07:39.339 So shall thou dwell in the land, very light as thou shalt. 00:07:39.339 --> 00:07:46.819 The first thing to have a fret-free life, you must trust in the Lord. 00:07:47.219 --> 00:07:48.959 Somebody say, trust in the Lord. 00:07:49.240 --> 00:07:50.399 Trust in the Lord. 00:07:50.399 --> 00:07:56.060 I had an experience last year. 00:07:57.599 --> 00:08:01.359 Most of my friends down through the years have been pastors. 00:08:01.679 --> 00:08:07.459 And when I retired five years ago, most of my friends had had me come and preach for them. 00:08:07.919 --> 00:08:12.179 And one of my friends had not asked me to come and preach. 00:08:12.179 --> 00:08:16.219 And it bothered me that he had not asked me to come and preach. 00:08:16.220 --> 00:08:21.600 And I kept wrestling and saying, well, maybe I should just call him and let him know. 00:08:21.860 --> 00:08:24.260 You know, I'd like to come preach. 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:25.220 And I kept wrestling. 00:08:25.400 --> 00:08:26.320 I mentioned it to Mabel. 00:08:26.380 --> 00:08:27.600 She said, no, don't do that. 00:08:27.660 --> 00:08:28.360 Don't do that. 00:08:28.440 --> 00:08:31.420 And I kept going back and forth with it. 00:08:31.420 --> 00:08:39.820 And I have a group of young church planners that I meet with in my home the first Monday of every month. 00:08:39.879 --> 00:08:43.160 And I invited him to come and speak to them. 00:08:43.159 --> 00:08:45.620 And he agreed. 00:08:45.740 --> 00:08:46.899 He loved to do it. 00:08:47.079 --> 00:08:49.360 And so agreed to come, gave a date. 00:08:49.539 --> 00:08:54.959 And so I said to myself, you know, well, he's coming to speak to me. 00:08:54.959 --> 00:09:05.100 So maybe I have the right to just sort of suggest that he should have me come preach. 00:09:05.259 --> 00:09:07.939 And so I was getting ready to do it. 00:09:08.000 --> 00:09:10.639 I told Mabel and she said, Tio, please don't do that. 00:09:10.639 --> 00:09:13.879 And I said I was just going to do it anyway. 00:09:13.980 --> 00:09:17.699 And I started walking toward the telephone. 00:09:19.000 --> 00:09:23.299 And the Lord said to me, I got this. 00:09:24.699 --> 00:09:27.059 He said, I got this. 00:09:28.120 --> 00:09:33.439 In fact, he actually said, I told you I've got this. 00:09:34.439 --> 00:09:35.980 Reminded me he had said this before. 00:09:35.980 --> 00:09:38.259 And so that was on a Monday night. 00:09:38.460 --> 00:09:40.220 He came and spoke on the Monday night. 00:09:40.779 --> 00:09:42.019 Joined himself one at a time. 00:09:42.460 --> 00:09:45.279 Thursday morning, about 8 o'clock in the morning, he called me. 00:09:45.360 --> 00:09:49.940 He said, T.L., I just enjoyed my time with you and the young men. 00:09:50.120 --> 00:09:52.659 And you're doing such a wonderful job. 00:09:53.980 --> 00:09:57.800 Could you speak for me Thanksgiving morning? 00:09:57.799 --> 00:10:03.000 And I said, I'd be glad to do it. 00:10:03.959 --> 00:10:12.000 And as soon as I hung up, God said, I told you that I had said, I got this. 00:10:14.240 --> 00:10:15.899 I've come to help somebody tonight. 00:10:15.899 --> 00:10:28.199 I want to catch you before you do that self-promoting thing that we know how to do so well in Washington, D.C. 00:10:28.799 --> 00:10:39.399 I want to catch you before you try to use your skills to open some doors or try to hustle someone. 00:10:39.399 --> 00:10:49.159 I came to tell you that your father says, I got this. 00:10:49.659 --> 00:10:50.899 Am I helping anybody? 00:10:52.819 --> 00:10:54.779 What are you fretting about? 00:10:55.939 --> 00:10:57.220 What are you fretting about? 00:10:57.220 --> 00:11:08.399 While you're trying to figure it out, there's a song that says, he's already worked it out. 00:11:09.019 --> 00:11:16.840 In fact, Jeremiah 29, 11 says, I know the plans I have for you. 00:11:18.180 --> 00:11:20.820 Plans for you to prosper, not for you to fail. 00:11:20.820 --> 00:11:25.800 Another scripture says, he knows the end from the beginning. 00:11:26.700 --> 00:11:31.260 And while you're fretting, he's saying, I got this. 00:11:31.340 --> 00:11:33.100 Come on, somebody say, I got this. 00:11:33.640 --> 00:11:35.520 Come on, say, I got this. 00:11:37.580 --> 00:11:43.960 This will help you just a little bit with trusting in the Lord. 00:11:45.260 --> 00:11:47.940 He's actually your father. 00:11:47.940 --> 00:11:52.100 He's actually your father. 00:11:52.180 --> 00:11:53.060 That's the problem. 00:11:53.920 --> 00:11:56.160 You're thinking he's God to you. 00:11:56.540 --> 00:12:06.620 But David said, trust in the Lord because that was his relationship to God. 00:12:07.620 --> 00:12:09.660 He was the Lord God to David. 00:12:09.800 --> 00:12:14.140 He was the shepherd God to David. 00:12:14.260 --> 00:12:17.080 He was a rock to David. 00:12:17.080 --> 00:12:20.180 He was a shelter in the time of storm. 00:12:20.639 --> 00:12:24.540 But to you, he's dead. 00:12:26.040 --> 00:12:27.460 Somebody say, ah. 00:12:29.120 --> 00:12:36.220 Jesus said, when you pray, say our father. 00:12:37.320 --> 00:12:39.040 Not enough of you know that. 00:12:39.039 --> 00:12:42.120 When you pray, say what? 00:12:42.839 --> 00:12:45.059 Our father. 00:12:45.719 --> 00:12:46.539 Father. 00:12:47.860 --> 00:12:51.980 You know, that changes everything. 00:12:53.099 --> 00:12:56.039 When God is your father. 00:12:56.139 --> 00:12:59.179 That's a game changer. 00:12:59.179 --> 00:13:05.679 Because there's some things I'll do for my children that I won't do for anyone else. 00:13:06.599 --> 00:13:06.779 Yeah. 00:13:06.879 --> 00:13:13.519 When my granddaughter, Kennedy, she is the only of the seven grandchildren I have. 00:13:13.559 --> 00:13:14.339 She's the only girl. 00:13:14.439 --> 00:13:15.059 She's the oldest. 00:13:15.179 --> 00:13:15.979 She's poor rotten. 00:13:15.980 --> 00:13:22.420 And my pastors, when they call me, my young pastors, they might say bishop. 00:13:22.539 --> 00:13:23.440 They call me, say bishop. 00:13:24.200 --> 00:13:27.159 And, of course, professionally, I'm Pastor T.L. 00:13:27.360 --> 00:13:31.519 And at Triumph, I'm Pastor T.L. Rogers. 00:13:31.519 --> 00:13:38.220 But when Kennedy calls me, she doesn't say Pastor T.L. 00:13:39.279 --> 00:13:40.539 No, no, no, no. 00:13:41.259 --> 00:13:42.819 She doesn't say bishop. 00:13:43.519 --> 00:13:45.879 She says poppy. 00:13:47.220 --> 00:13:48.199 She says poppy. 00:13:48.779 --> 00:13:50.500 Yeah, because, and, and, yeah. 00:13:50.679 --> 00:13:52.019 How you doing today, poppy? 00:13:52.100 --> 00:13:53.000 I'm doing well. 00:13:53.240 --> 00:13:54.720 Everything going good for you? 00:13:54.799 --> 00:13:55.039 Yeah. 00:13:55.220 --> 00:13:57.419 I know she's setting me up, but it's all right. 00:13:57.419 --> 00:14:02.000 Kennedy's parents were out of town. 00:14:03.019 --> 00:14:06.519 And, by the way, out of town again. 00:14:09.459 --> 00:14:13.259 She needed to get to this birthday party on Saturday night. 00:14:13.620 --> 00:14:16.860 And she said, you know, the party doesn't start until 9 o'clock. 00:14:16.959 --> 00:14:18.939 I said, well, Kennedy, I'll take you. 00:14:18.959 --> 00:14:22.339 But I have to preach the next morning, so I'm going to need to go to bed. 00:14:22.480 --> 00:14:25.500 She said, well, how about I get home? 00:14:25.500 --> 00:14:26.980 I said, well, I'll take you. 00:14:26.980 --> 00:14:29.320 And so we'll figure it out. 00:14:29.420 --> 00:14:32.879 And so I took her, and she's getting out of the car. 00:14:32.980 --> 00:14:35.980 And she said, now, how am I going to get home? 00:14:36.720 --> 00:14:39.639 And I said to her, I got this. 00:14:40.580 --> 00:14:44.659 I said, call me when you're ready to go. 00:14:44.800 --> 00:14:48.120 So she called me, and she said, I'm ready. 00:14:49.519 --> 00:14:52.860 And I used my Uber account. 00:14:52.860 --> 00:14:53.419 Yeah. 00:14:53.419 --> 00:14:53.860 Yeah. 00:14:53.860 --> 00:14:58.259 And I sent a car to pick her up. 00:14:58.320 --> 00:14:59.879 I didn't use her account. 00:15:00.580 --> 00:15:01.080 Ah. 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:04.560 She didn't have enough money on her account. 00:15:04.680 --> 00:15:09.700 I used my account and got her picked up. 00:15:10.500 --> 00:15:15.680 Can I just tell you that your father has some accounts? 00:15:15.679 --> 00:15:16.559 Woo. 00:15:16.559 --> 00:15:16.599 Woo. 00:15:18.459 --> 00:15:29.879 Philippians 4 and 19 says, and my God shall supply all of your needs according to his riches in glory. 00:15:29.879 --> 00:15:31.600 And he will supply. 00:15:31.679 --> 00:15:32.820 So what are you fretting about? 00:15:32.879 --> 00:15:33.639 What are you fretting about? 00:15:33.720 --> 00:15:54.759 Are you fretting about the election or rejection or tax reform or an intercepted text message to your spouse or alternative facts or personal tax issues or an ailing parent or student loans? 00:15:54.759 --> 00:15:57.319 Oh, God forbid, student loans. 00:15:57.679 --> 00:15:59.019 You worried about that promotion? 00:16:00.720 --> 00:16:02.860 Or maybe you felt a lump. 00:16:03.200 --> 00:16:04.659 Whatever it is. 00:16:04.919 --> 00:16:05.319 Ah. 00:16:06.600 --> 00:16:13.379 I've just come to tell you that your father in heaven says, I got this. 00:16:13.980 --> 00:16:15.620 Am I helping anybody here tonight? 00:16:17.259 --> 00:16:22.439 I need to add a little qualifier here, though. 00:16:22.440 --> 00:16:29.660 The Lord God is not everyone's father, though. 00:16:30.900 --> 00:16:39.220 Only those who have been born into the family of the father through the process of new birth. 00:16:39.300 --> 00:16:42.420 And I know we say all the time, we're all God's children. 00:16:42.540 --> 00:16:44.660 Well, that's not quite right. 00:16:45.020 --> 00:16:47.180 We're all God's creation. 00:16:47.179 --> 00:16:57.259 But in order to be one of God's children, you have to be born into the family of God. 00:16:57.399 --> 00:17:03.939 And then you can call God your father. 00:17:03.940 --> 00:17:15.539 The second thing you need to do if you are going to have a fret-free life is in verse 4. 00:17:15.700 --> 00:17:27.180 It says, delight thyself also in the Lord, and he shall give thee the desires of your heart. 00:17:27.180 --> 00:17:30.980 It didn't say he will meet your needs. 00:17:31.299 --> 00:17:32.000 Yes, he will. 00:17:32.960 --> 00:17:35.279 It didn't say he'll answer your prayers. 00:17:35.400 --> 00:17:36.279 Yes, he will. 00:17:37.220 --> 00:17:43.200 It says he will give you the desires of your heart. 00:17:43.759 --> 00:17:44.000 Hmm. 00:17:44.500 --> 00:17:44.740 Hmm. 00:17:47.120 --> 00:17:49.080 Do you delight in the Lord? 00:17:49.079 --> 00:17:54.240 I tell you, I really do delight in Uber. 00:17:55.000 --> 00:17:56.019 I delight in Uber. 00:17:57.279 --> 00:18:00.599 I was telling Mabel yesterday, Uber is just wonderful. 00:18:00.779 --> 00:18:03.059 It's really the best thing since apple pie and ice cream. 00:18:03.359 --> 00:18:03.779 Amen. 00:18:04.859 --> 00:18:08.519 If I lived in Washington, D.C., I would not have a car. 00:18:08.639 --> 00:18:09.159 I just wouldn't have. 00:18:09.220 --> 00:18:14.419 Why have a car, $400 car note, and insurance, and gas, and parking? 00:18:14.539 --> 00:18:16.379 Would you just use Uber? 00:18:17.179 --> 00:18:18.559 I delight in Uber. 00:18:18.559 --> 00:18:19.940 I enjoy using it. 00:18:20.099 --> 00:18:25.460 I was telling Mabel, Mabel said, do they tell you ahead of time how much it's going to cost? 00:18:25.519 --> 00:18:27.899 I said, yeah, they tell you ahead of time, and then you can choose. 00:18:28.059 --> 00:18:30.980 Yeah, if it's too much, you just don't use it. 00:18:31.399 --> 00:18:31.879 I delight. 00:18:32.059 --> 00:18:42.419 And because I delight in Uber and use Uber so much, there are certain perks that I get with Uber. 00:18:42.420 --> 00:18:49.180 There are certain discounts that I get because I delight in Uber. 00:18:49.240 --> 00:18:58.759 When you delight yourself in your heavenly Father, please hear this old gray-haired man. 00:18:58.759 --> 00:19:06.579 There are certain things that he will do for you that go beyond just meeting your needs. 00:19:06.579 --> 00:19:13.579 But he actually will give you the desires of your heart. 00:19:13.579 --> 00:19:21.799 It was Mabel's birthday was coming up, and it was a significant number, and so I wanted to do something special for her on her birthday. 00:19:21.799 --> 00:19:35.639 And so I invited several of my pastor friends and their wives to come over to the house, and I hired a professional chef. 00:19:35.640 --> 00:19:43.840 Oh, that's an African-American joke. 00:19:43.900 --> 00:19:44.940 I'm sorry, you didn't get that. 00:19:46.380 --> 00:19:48.740 Not Leroy's barbecue down the street. 00:19:48.860 --> 00:19:52.920 But I hired a professional chef. 00:19:53.880 --> 00:19:55.080 I had him come, man. 00:19:56.040 --> 00:19:58.660 And he fixed horse divers. 00:20:02.100 --> 00:20:03.200 You all are slow. 00:20:03.340 --> 00:20:03.860 You're slow. 00:20:03.859 --> 00:20:06.079 Horses. 00:20:10.079 --> 00:20:20.199 We had soup and salad, and I wanted those lamb chops, the lollipop lamb chops, you know, those really good ones. 00:20:20.799 --> 00:20:33.740 Oh, it was just such a wonderful dining experience, and she was so happy, and she was just thanking me for all of the trouble I went through to have this meal. 00:20:33.740 --> 00:20:36.740 And I was saying, but you just wait until you see your present. 00:20:36.880 --> 00:20:38.460 And she was so excited. 00:20:38.620 --> 00:20:45.700 She came with an ugly neck, and all excited, and it was time to give her a present. 00:20:45.700 --> 00:20:50.200 And I gave her a present, the gift bag. 00:20:50.920 --> 00:20:53.180 I mean, I spent some money on this gift wrapping. 00:20:53.920 --> 00:20:57.319 And she pulled it out, and it was a box. 00:20:57.319 --> 00:21:01.839 And I knew her iPhone had had a cracked case. 00:21:02.200 --> 00:21:03.779 She cracked the face, rather. 00:21:04.379 --> 00:21:06.799 And I knew she needed a new iPhone. 00:21:07.159 --> 00:21:18.759 So when she opened the wrapping and she saw this iPhone, AT&T iPhone box, you know, Apple box, oh, she just went crazy. 00:21:19.200 --> 00:21:23.119 Oh, wow, you knew that I needed this. 00:21:23.259 --> 00:21:24.879 Oh, thank you so much. 00:21:24.879 --> 00:21:30.559 And then she opened the box, and there were a set of car keys. 00:21:33.759 --> 00:21:35.339 You all are, come on, come on, come on. 00:21:37.379 --> 00:21:42.400 There was a set of car keys where the phone was supposed to be. 00:21:42.400 --> 00:21:46.980 And earlier, earlier, earlier that week, maybe a couple weeks before, we had gone out. 00:21:47.040 --> 00:21:50.920 We just sort of driving around and went into a car lot. 00:21:51.740 --> 00:21:55.340 And she said, boy, I love that car. 00:21:55.580 --> 00:21:56.240 I said, really? 00:21:56.540 --> 00:21:59.340 She said, if you were to get one, what color would you like? 00:21:59.400 --> 00:22:00.680 And she told me she would like blue. 00:22:01.480 --> 00:22:05.440 So I went on there and found they had a subsidized lease on them. 00:22:05.519 --> 00:22:08.320 I mean, it was just really inexpensive. 00:22:08.600 --> 00:22:09.960 So I got the car. 00:22:09.960 --> 00:22:19.240 And so when she went outside, there was this car with a blue boat sitting up on top of it. 00:22:19.600 --> 00:22:32.120 And she went crazy because I had not just given her what she needed, but I had given her the desire of her heart. 00:22:32.120 --> 00:22:34.600 Can I help someone tonight? 00:22:34.599 --> 00:22:44.219 That if you will get excited and thankful about God meeting your needs, 00:22:44.219 --> 00:22:52.019 if you'll get excited and thankful when he opens a door that's been shut, 00:22:52.740 --> 00:22:58.319 if you'll get excited and thankful when he just answers a prayer, 00:22:58.319 --> 00:23:08.159 you'll be surprised when he not only does that, but he will actually give you a desire of your heart. 00:23:10.960 --> 00:23:16.599 Somebody thinks God is not into giving you the desires of your heart. 00:23:16.659 --> 00:23:18.639 I've often tried to explain this away. 00:23:18.640 --> 00:23:23.160 But when you realize the person we're talking about is your father, 00:23:24.640 --> 00:23:29.480 you know fathers like to make dreams come true. 00:23:29.759 --> 00:23:30.940 Am I right about it? 00:23:31.440 --> 00:23:36.720 So it says he will give you the desires of your heart. 00:23:36.720 --> 00:23:44.180 If you want to have a fret free life, third thing you have to do is, 00:23:44.839 --> 00:23:47.440 verse five says, commit that way unto the Lord. 00:23:48.640 --> 00:23:51.539 Trust also in him and he shall bring it to pass. 00:23:52.240 --> 00:23:55.319 The third thing you must do, might be a little tough. 00:23:56.259 --> 00:24:02.740 You have to commit your way to the Lord. 00:24:02.740 --> 00:24:08.359 I decided, I've been up here many times to this church. 00:24:08.980 --> 00:24:12.140 I literally used to drive a cab when I was in school. 00:24:12.660 --> 00:24:17.620 I know Washington pretty well, but I decided I better put it in ways. 00:24:19.819 --> 00:24:22.680 Because I wanted to get here the quickest way. 00:24:23.440 --> 00:24:27.039 And I put it in ways and I got here. 00:24:27.120 --> 00:24:31.000 The other day I was coming home, been up in Bethesda, 00:24:31.000 --> 00:24:32.819 and I was going to live all the way out in Bowie. 00:24:33.240 --> 00:24:34.940 And it was about rush hour traffic. 00:24:35.380 --> 00:24:36.539 And I put it in ways. 00:24:37.259 --> 00:24:39.720 And she started taking me away. 00:24:40.440 --> 00:24:44.140 I didn't have a clue where I was. 00:24:44.420 --> 00:24:46.140 I told Mabel, I called her, I said, 00:24:46.359 --> 00:24:47.900 I sure hope this thing is right. 00:24:48.539 --> 00:24:51.180 Because I don't even know where I am, 00:24:51.259 --> 00:24:52.880 let alone how I'm getting there. 00:24:52.880 --> 00:24:55.140 But I went on and went with her. 00:24:55.220 --> 00:24:59.400 And the reason I went with her is because I had had such good experience. 00:24:59.400 --> 00:25:02.320 With her in the past. 00:25:02.420 --> 00:25:06.480 That she had taken me places, directions I would not normally have gone. 00:25:06.880 --> 00:25:12.140 But when I arrived, I arrived when I was supposed to. 00:25:14.060 --> 00:25:18.220 And safely, because I trusted her. 00:25:18.220 --> 00:25:20.900 Can I just say to you, 00:25:23.240 --> 00:25:26.240 there's a way, Proverbs says, 00:25:26.980 --> 00:25:31.299 that seems right to a man. 00:25:32.360 --> 00:25:36.259 But the end thereof are the ways of death. 00:25:36.339 --> 00:25:37.039 Did you hear me? 00:25:38.059 --> 00:25:43.120 There's a way that it seems right. 00:25:43.200 --> 00:25:44.819 Say with me, seems right. 00:25:44.819 --> 00:25:49.399 It just feels so right. 00:25:51.700 --> 00:25:54.099 Everybody's doing it. 00:25:56.119 --> 00:25:59.399 Pastor Rogers, don't be old fashioned. 00:26:00.519 --> 00:26:02.539 Times have changed. 00:26:04.319 --> 00:26:09.539 There's a way that seems right. 00:26:09.539 --> 00:26:12.779 But the scripture says, 00:26:12.899 --> 00:26:17.779 but the end thereof are the ways of death. 00:26:17.899 --> 00:26:21.019 If you're going to have a fret free life, 00:26:21.759 --> 00:26:26.659 you better stop doing what seems right to you. 00:26:27.220 --> 00:26:31.420 And find out what the word of God says. 00:26:32.420 --> 00:26:35.059 There's a passage of scripture that you might not know. 00:26:35.059 --> 00:26:39.319 It's in 1 Timothy 4 and 2. 00:26:39.679 --> 00:26:40.099 That says, 00:26:40.220 --> 00:26:41.419 In the latter times, 00:26:41.899 --> 00:26:44.700 men would fall away. 00:26:45.339 --> 00:26:46.519 The King James says, 00:26:46.659 --> 00:26:49.960 giving heed to seducing spirits. 00:26:51.019 --> 00:26:52.220 And doctrines of devil. 00:26:52.339 --> 00:26:54.500 The English Standard Version says, 00:26:55.220 --> 00:26:56.759 being deceived. 00:26:58.879 --> 00:27:01.079 You know how Eve got in trouble. 00:27:01.079 --> 00:27:02.139 The world got in trouble. 00:27:02.659 --> 00:27:10.139 Because what Satan the serpent was suggesting made sense. 00:27:10.960 --> 00:27:13.379 It sounds good. 00:27:14.139 --> 00:27:17.000 But it deceived her. 00:27:17.500 --> 00:27:18.279 And because of that, 00:27:18.359 --> 00:27:20.339 we're having all the problems that we're having. 00:27:20.519 --> 00:27:21.939 Commit your way to the Lord. 00:27:22.500 --> 00:27:23.279 I mentioned to you, 00:27:23.319 --> 00:27:25.000 Tiffany and Daniel had gone out of town. 00:27:25.099 --> 00:27:27.639 They were in Chicago for the weekend. 00:27:27.799 --> 00:27:28.579 On Friday night, 00:27:28.579 --> 00:27:31.039 Tiffany told us, 00:27:31.299 --> 00:27:31.500 said, 00:27:31.559 --> 00:27:31.859 Dad, 00:27:31.980 --> 00:27:33.019 now tomorrow morning, 00:27:34.179 --> 00:27:39.319 Carter has to be at football practice at 930. 00:27:42.119 --> 00:27:46.099 Lincoln has to be at karate practice at 10 o'clock. 00:27:47.399 --> 00:27:52.379 And Kennedy has to be at swim practice at 10 o'clock. 00:27:53.460 --> 00:27:54.039 I said, 00:27:54.099 --> 00:27:54.220 Well, 00:27:54.240 --> 00:27:55.419 how do you all do this? 00:27:55.419 --> 00:27:56.759 How am I supposed to do this? 00:27:56.759 --> 00:27:57.519 930? 00:27:58.240 --> 00:27:59.039 10 and 10. 00:27:59.079 --> 00:28:00.140 How am I supposed to do it? 00:28:00.160 --> 00:28:01.140 And you know what she said? 00:28:02.359 --> 00:28:03.420 You'll figure it out. 00:28:05.379 --> 00:28:06.579 She went on, 00:28:07.000 --> 00:28:07.619 Chicago, 00:28:07.859 --> 00:28:08.500 her and her husband, 00:28:08.879 --> 00:28:10.099 having a wonderful time, 00:28:10.220 --> 00:28:11.259 going out to eat, 00:28:11.460 --> 00:28:11.879 shopping, 00:28:12.039 --> 00:28:13.140 just having a ball, 00:28:13.359 --> 00:28:15.700 and didn't even worry about it. 00:28:16.539 --> 00:28:19.220 Because she had committed it to us. 00:28:19.980 --> 00:28:21.079 And guess what we did? 00:28:21.160 --> 00:28:23.759 We figured it out. 00:28:23.759 --> 00:28:29.839 Can I help someone tonight and let you know that the thing you're fretting about, 00:28:30.079 --> 00:28:31.740 the thing you're wrestling about, 00:28:32.099 --> 00:28:33.980 give it to God and say, 00:28:34.279 --> 00:28:35.759 you figure it out. 00:28:35.819 --> 00:28:36.379 Go on and say, 00:28:36.480 --> 00:28:36.740 God, 00:28:36.879 --> 00:28:37.640 figure it out. 00:28:38.200 --> 00:28:38.859 Come on, 00:28:38.879 --> 00:28:39.220 say it. 00:28:39.400 --> 00:28:39.740 God, 00:28:39.859 --> 00:28:40.579 figure it out. 00:28:43.160 --> 00:28:43.879 In fact, 00:28:43.920 --> 00:28:44.720 he says, 00:28:45.519 --> 00:28:46.579 I got this. 00:28:48.039 --> 00:28:48.680 Fourth thing, 00:28:48.720 --> 00:28:49.240 and I'm through. 00:28:49.240 --> 00:28:50.880 in one minute. 00:28:52.400 --> 00:28:52.960 Rest 00:28:52.960 --> 00:28:55.480 and wait 00:28:55.480 --> 00:28:57.420 patiently 00:28:57.420 --> 00:28:59.480 on the Lord. 00:29:00.500 --> 00:29:01.740 Rest in the Lord 00:29:01.740 --> 00:29:03.059 and wait 00:29:03.059 --> 00:29:04.519 patiently 00:29:04.519 --> 00:29:06.299 for him. 00:29:06.779 --> 00:29:09.200 Fret not thyself because of him who prospers 00:29:09.200 --> 00:29:10.779 in his way. 00:29:10.779 --> 00:29:14.059 We know how to 00:29:14.059 --> 00:29:15.819 wait, 00:29:16.420 --> 00:29:19.379 but we don't know how to wait patiently. 00:29:20.639 --> 00:29:22.759 We wait because we don't have any choice. 00:29:24.259 --> 00:29:24.359 We 00:29:24.359 --> 00:29:26.700 did my last story. 00:29:28.359 --> 00:29:29.700 About two years ago, 00:29:29.779 --> 00:29:31.019 I went in the hospital 00:29:31.019 --> 00:29:34.579 for eating something 00:29:34.579 --> 00:29:36.559 I shouldn't have eaten. 00:29:38.559 --> 00:29:39.500 It was so dumb, 00:29:39.500 --> 00:29:40.319 I couldn't even pray. 00:29:40.779 --> 00:29:41.660 Couldn't pray in this, 00:29:41.740 --> 00:29:41.879 Lord, 00:29:41.960 --> 00:29:42.259 heal me. 00:29:42.359 --> 00:29:44.220 I'm in here because I hadn't been seen 00:29:44.220 --> 00:29:44.859 when I was eight. 00:29:46.039 --> 00:29:49.039 I'd gone on a three-day liquid fast 00:29:49.039 --> 00:29:51.660 because I wanted to lose some weight 00:29:51.660 --> 00:29:54.019 and I went on this liquid fast 00:29:54.019 --> 00:29:54.720 for three days. 00:29:54.819 --> 00:29:55.220 Did well. 00:29:55.299 --> 00:29:56.960 I lost seven pounds in three days 00:29:56.960 --> 00:29:58.420 on this liquid fast. 00:29:58.720 --> 00:30:00.000 Came off on Thursday. 00:30:02.180 --> 00:30:02.619 Sunday, 00:30:02.759 --> 00:30:03.599 we went to 00:30:03.599 --> 00:30:05.339 one of Mabel's 00:30:05.339 --> 00:30:06.599 niece's house 00:30:06.599 --> 00:30:09.139 for a family dinner. 00:30:10.779 --> 00:30:12.359 Can you figure out 00:30:12.359 --> 00:30:12.960 where I'm going? 00:30:14.960 --> 00:30:17.119 We had barbecue ribs. 00:30:17.740 --> 00:30:19.599 We had pork chops. 00:30:20.039 --> 00:30:22.019 We had fried chicken. 00:30:22.660 --> 00:30:24.139 We had cheeseburgers. 00:30:24.779 --> 00:30:26.460 We had sausages. 00:30:26.460 --> 00:30:30.720 And I ate like I was crazy. 00:30:33.420 --> 00:30:36.259 And around Monday evening, 00:30:37.340 --> 00:30:40.200 I was sick as a dog. 00:30:40.680 --> 00:30:42.240 I was sick. 00:30:43.019 --> 00:30:44.440 I couldn't even burp. 00:30:46.059 --> 00:30:47.920 There was nothing passing, 00:30:48.120 --> 00:30:48.900 no kind of way. 00:30:48.900 --> 00:30:50.780 I was sick. 00:30:51.259 --> 00:30:51.720 I mean, 00:30:51.759 --> 00:30:52.900 I was so sick 00:30:52.900 --> 00:30:54.500 and I began to throw up 00:30:54.500 --> 00:30:56.360 and went in the bathroom 00:30:56.360 --> 00:30:57.300 and threw up 00:30:57.300 --> 00:30:58.660 and fell all over. 00:30:59.019 --> 00:30:59.580 I said, 00:30:59.640 --> 00:30:59.840 Mabel, 00:30:59.920 --> 00:31:01.780 I've got to go to the hospital. 00:31:01.980 --> 00:31:03.759 And Mabel took me in the hospital. 00:31:03.860 --> 00:31:05.040 It was when they were having the problems 00:31:05.040 --> 00:31:05.960 about Ebola. 00:31:06.400 --> 00:31:07.900 And we went in the hospital 00:31:07.900 --> 00:31:10.380 and I walked straight to the trash can 00:31:10.380 --> 00:31:11.400 and I threw up 00:31:11.400 --> 00:31:11.740 and they said, 00:31:11.800 --> 00:31:12.780 have you ever been to Africa? 00:31:12.779 --> 00:31:13.259 I said, 00:31:13.319 --> 00:31:13.519 no. 00:31:13.779 --> 00:31:14.180 I mean, 00:31:14.240 --> 00:31:14.899 it doesn't matter. 00:31:17.960 --> 00:31:20.420 They took an x-ray of me. 00:31:20.500 --> 00:31:21.420 They took an x-ray. 00:31:21.720 --> 00:31:23.160 And when they took an x-ray 00:31:23.160 --> 00:31:24.119 of my intestine, 00:31:24.460 --> 00:31:25.200 they said, 00:31:25.399 --> 00:31:27.319 it looks like you have a kink 00:31:27.319 --> 00:31:29.960 in your intestine. 00:31:31.079 --> 00:31:31.639 And they asked me, 00:31:31.680 --> 00:31:32.579 what did you eat? 00:31:32.619 --> 00:31:34.000 And I started naming the problem. 00:31:34.920 --> 00:31:36.519 And when I got to the sausage, 00:31:36.720 --> 00:31:37.240 he said, 00:31:37.859 --> 00:31:39.819 that's a sausage 00:31:39.819 --> 00:31:42.759 right there. 00:31:42.779 --> 00:31:47.399 that has clogged up. 00:31:47.879 --> 00:31:48.559 He said, 00:31:48.559 --> 00:31:49.200 sir, 00:31:49.379 --> 00:31:51.539 you sent your intestines 00:31:51.539 --> 00:31:52.960 into shock. 00:31:54.639 --> 00:31:55.720 He said, 00:31:55.759 --> 00:31:56.759 the only way 00:31:56.759 --> 00:31:58.420 we're going to get this cleared up, 00:31:59.180 --> 00:32:01.399 we need you to rest. 00:32:02.480 --> 00:32:04.899 You have to relax 00:32:04.899 --> 00:32:06.639 your intestines. 00:32:07.299 --> 00:32:10.000 You just have to rest 00:32:10.000 --> 00:32:12.700 the following week. 00:32:12.779 --> 00:32:13.720 It was coming up, 00:32:13.779 --> 00:32:15.440 Mabel's anniversary 00:32:15.440 --> 00:32:18.240 and my birthday. 00:32:18.779 --> 00:32:20.019 And we had planned 00:32:20.019 --> 00:32:20.859 to go on a cruise, 00:32:21.099 --> 00:32:22.200 one of these cheap cruise, 00:32:22.299 --> 00:32:22.480 you know, 00:32:22.579 --> 00:32:25.099 the $2.99 cruises. 00:32:26.099 --> 00:32:27.839 And we were going 00:32:27.839 --> 00:32:29.000 on a cruise that weekend. 00:32:29.259 --> 00:32:30.980 And I wanted to get well 00:32:30.980 --> 00:32:32.359 so we could go on this cruise. 00:32:32.359 --> 00:32:34.240 And so I was waiting, 00:32:34.379 --> 00:32:34.979 I was waiting, 00:32:34.979 --> 00:32:35.959 but I was restless 00:32:35.959 --> 00:32:36.459 and I was, 00:32:36.559 --> 00:32:37.799 and the doctor came in 00:32:37.799 --> 00:32:38.059 and said, 00:32:38.139 --> 00:32:38.779 you passed anything? 00:32:38.919 --> 00:32:39.259 No. 00:32:39.659 --> 00:32:40.479 He said, 00:32:40.639 --> 00:32:41.000 sir, 00:32:41.139 --> 00:32:43.059 if you're going to get out of here, 00:32:43.679 --> 00:32:46.179 I need you to rest. 00:32:47.839 --> 00:32:48.319 Rest. 00:32:49.779 --> 00:32:50.339 Relax. 00:32:50.339 --> 00:32:52.819 And if you will rest 00:32:52.819 --> 00:32:54.159 and relax, 00:32:55.099 --> 00:32:56.559 then that thing will move. 00:32:57.220 --> 00:32:57.720 Well, finally, 00:32:57.819 --> 00:32:59.039 after about three days, 00:32:59.619 --> 00:33:00.879 after relaxing, 00:33:01.659 --> 00:33:03.039 that sausage moved. 00:33:04.379 --> 00:33:05.279 And a whole lot 00:33:05.279 --> 00:33:06.379 of other stuff moved. 00:33:08.959 --> 00:33:10.740 Listen to me. 00:33:10.839 --> 00:33:11.599 Listen to me. 00:33:11.599 --> 00:33:14.240 If you will learn 00:33:14.240 --> 00:33:17.219 to rest in the Lord. 00:33:18.919 --> 00:33:19.399 Hallelujah. 00:33:20.659 --> 00:33:22.240 If you will learn 00:33:22.240 --> 00:33:25.079 to not just wait, 00:33:26.139 --> 00:33:29.079 but to wait patiently. 00:33:29.219 --> 00:33:30.359 Somebody say patiently. 00:33:32.299 --> 00:33:33.179 Patiently wait. 00:33:35.059 --> 00:33:37.259 The Lord will release some stuff 00:33:37.259 --> 00:33:38.319 and start moving some, 00:33:38.459 --> 00:33:40.179 some stuff you've been praying about, 00:33:40.319 --> 00:33:41.179 some stuff you've been, 00:33:41.180 --> 00:33:41.920 warning, 00:33:42.080 --> 00:33:43.519 some stuff you've been anxious. 00:33:43.740 --> 00:33:45.380 You've been anxious about it. 00:33:45.580 --> 00:33:46.740 And if you will learn 00:33:46.740 --> 00:33:48.000 to wait patiently, 00:33:48.960 --> 00:33:50.779 the Lord will move 00:33:50.779 --> 00:33:52.019 some stuff for you. 00:33:52.100 --> 00:33:52.380 And I, 00:33:52.700 --> 00:33:53.180 I, 00:33:53.180 --> 00:33:54.120 I've come tonight 00:33:54.120 --> 00:33:55.039 to let you know 00:33:55.039 --> 00:33:55.840 to fret not, 00:33:55.980 --> 00:33:56.460 fret not, 00:33:56.580 --> 00:33:56.980 fret not, 00:33:57.100 --> 00:33:57.600 fret not, 00:33:58.039 --> 00:33:59.400 because your father says, 00:33:59.519 --> 00:34:00.200 I got this. 00:34:00.360 --> 00:34:00.660 In fact, 00:34:01.019 --> 00:34:01.360 Kennedy, 00:34:01.480 --> 00:34:02.960 my 16 year old granddaughter, 00:34:03.060 --> 00:34:03.640 when I told her 00:34:03.640 --> 00:34:04.200 about the sermon, 00:34:04.560 --> 00:34:05.180 she told me, 00:34:05.340 --> 00:34:05.820 tell him, 00:34:06.180 --> 00:34:07.720 tell him that God says, 00:34:08.420 --> 00:34:08.980 you good.