0:01

Coming up on the

0:03

Butters Touch. It

0:13

doesn't matter what you say. It doesn't

0:15

matter what you say. It doesn't matter

0:17

what they say. You spend too much

0:19

time worrying about what they say. I

0:21

am who God says I am. Abraham

0:33

believed God and

0:36

it is counted under him as

0:39

righteousness. He's not right,

0:43

but it was counted as right. Got

0:46

credit for it. It's counted.

0:49

It's counted. God said accountants

0:51

moved a figure from one

0:54

column over into another column.

0:57

It's the same money, but they

0:59

moved it to another column. He

1:01

said I'm going to move you

1:03

from this category to that category

1:05

because you believe me. Let

1:10

me show you why faith is important. Works

1:14

is based on my integrity. Faith

1:18

is based on his integrity. To

1:21

not believe God is to suggest

1:23

that he's a liar. And

1:25

God said I'm not a man

1:28

that I should lie or the

1:30

son of man that I should

1:32

repent. He said your salvation can't

1:34

be based on your works because

1:36

frankly you don't have no integrity.

1:39

You don't even keep the promise you

1:41

made to yourself. So I know you're not

1:43

going to keep the promise you made to me, but

1:46

faith ties into my

1:48

integrity. Good God

1:51

of mercy, I feel like teaching

1:53

this thing. I feel

1:55

somebody's heart catching on fire. Hallelujah

1:58

to God. your

2:00

neighbor and say, God

2:05

can't lie. God

2:10

can't lie. God

2:12

can't lie. It

2:14

is the one thing that it said it was impossible

2:16

for him to do. It

2:18

is impossible for God to lie. And

2:21

he says, when you believe me, it

2:24

means that you have tapped into

2:26

my character and

2:32

not my gifts. You're

2:38

not serving me because

2:40

I took your fever away. You're not serving

2:43

me because you got a new car. You're

2:45

not serving me because you got a new

2:47

job. You're not serving me because everything's going

2:49

right in your life. You are serving me

2:52

because you know that I am holy. You

2:55

know I am righteous. You know I

2:57

am just. You know I am pure.

2:59

You know my heart. They

3:02

know my ways. You know my

3:04

heart. And

3:07

Abraham, check this out,

3:10

became the friend of God.

3:13

Now you ain't got no better friend, it's

3:15

your shot time, than to

3:18

be a friend of God. Abraham

3:20

became the friend of God

3:24

just because he

3:27

believed it. And

3:31

there you are with your churchy self and

3:33

your churchy clothes and your

3:36

churchy cologne and your

3:38

churchy Bible walking in here with

3:40

your family Bible, Bible

3:42

bigger than you. I

3:47

don't care how big the Bible is, if you don't believe

3:49

it, it doesn't do you any good. Now

3:56

then he goes to this thing, watch this, watch this,

3:58

he said, oh God, I

4:01

should do this because truth be told I'd

4:03

much rather teach and preach. If this

4:05

is what I love to do, I'm

4:09

looking through my hand, through

4:14

faith, through

4:20

faith. I'm

4:23

looking through my hand, through faith. See, when

4:25

I look through my hand, I get a

4:27

different perspective. Through

4:30

faith, through faith,

4:33

we understand. Now understand simply

4:35

means the truth you stand

4:38

under. What

4:40

truth do you stand under that's covering you when

4:43

all hell is breaking loose and

4:45

storms are raging in your life? What truth

4:48

do you look at it through that

4:50

you understand, that you stand under?

4:53

I stand under this truth. I

4:57

stand under the truth that God is for me.

5:00

I stand under it. I can't hardly stand to

5:02

hear anybody sing about it. I'll start crying. I

5:04

know that He is for me. I

5:07

know. I know

5:10

that He is for me. I've lived too long.

5:12

I've seen too much. I stand up under the

5:14

truth that He's for me. It's mind

5:16

boggling. It doesn't make any sense. We

5:19

are unequally young. He did not

5:21

get a good deal, but I

5:23

stand under the fact that God

5:25

is for me. If

5:27

you're against me, you've got

5:30

to be against God because

5:32

God is for me. I

5:37

take a lot of touches to this right now.

5:40

I'll pass it right now. I believe that thing.

5:43

40 years of walking with Him has proven

5:45

to me that He was for me. When

5:48

my back was up against the wall. He

5:50

always snatching me out. You've

5:54

got to know that God is for you. Let

6:00

me hear it. Through faith, we understand. Sit down,

6:02

because you're gonna make me go off. Through faith,

6:04

we understand. Through

6:06

faith, we stand under the truth. Now,

6:09

this is the truth that he says, that

6:11

the worlds were

6:13

framed. That

6:16

the worlds were framed

6:18

by the word

6:20

of God. Okay,

6:24

I need, I need 16 men up here.

6:28

16 men, 16 men. Eight

6:32

on one side and eight on the other. And I

6:34

want you to face each other. Eight

6:37

on one side and eight on the other till you're facing

6:39

each other. Yeah, yeah,

6:42

yeah, that's good. That's

6:44

good, that's good, that's good. Now,

6:48

now, now, now,

6:51

you got me framed in.

6:53

Through faith, we understand that

6:56

the worlds were

6:59

framed by the word of

7:01

God. Okay,

7:04

I can't go but so far, because

7:09

you got me framed in. That

7:15

that I would do, I can't do.

7:19

That that I would do, I can't do. Because

7:23

you got me framed in. I

7:26

can't get out of control, because

7:28

you got me framed in. Yes, sir, yes, sir.

7:32

And double, you can't get to me either. Because

7:36

you got me framed

7:39

in. Try three people to tell them I've

7:41

been framed in. I've

7:44

been framed, I've been framed.

7:55

Now watch this, watch this, watch this. Now, I'm gonna take it deeper.

7:57

I'm gonna go deeper. The

8:01

word world there is not

8:03

cosmos for planets. It

8:06

is eon for ages.

8:10

So through faith we

8:13

understand that the ages

8:15

time is

8:19

framed by

8:21

the Word of God. Yesterday,

8:24

today, forevermore it's

8:26

all framed by

8:29

the Word of God. The Word of

8:31

God has got control of my now,

8:34

my then, and my

8:37

tomorrow. So,

8:41

sha'dobu kuash'a. When

8:47

God speaks a thing, He

8:51

speaks eternity into

8:53

it because

8:55

He is an eternal God. The

8:58

reason all of my children are African-American

9:02

is because I

9:06

love Asian people, the beautiful long hair

9:08

and everything, but I cannot have an

9:10

Asian child because it is not authentic

9:12

to my core. You

9:15

can only produce what you are. So

9:18

what's this? An eternal

9:21

God, an eternal

9:23

God cannot speak a temporary

9:25

thing. Come

9:29

on, come on, come on with it. So

9:33

when God speaks a thing,

9:36

I don't care what time in

9:38

your life it is. God

9:42

said, I got you framed in. I

9:45

don't care what season it is. I

9:47

don't care what stage of life you're in. You

9:50

can be at the beginning of your life. You

9:53

can be in the winter of your

9:55

life. He said, I took all of

9:57

that in consideration when I said,

10:00

let there be. It was

10:02

let there be. My

10:07

word is eternal because I

10:09

am eternal and

10:12

I got you framed

10:14

in winter, spring, summer,

10:17

or fall. All

10:20

you got to do is

10:22

call and I'll

10:25

be there.

10:28

I got you covered. I

10:32

got you framed. I

10:37

got you framed. I got you

10:39

framed. I got you framed.

10:41

I got you framed. Now what's the

10:44

frame? Watch the frame. The

10:46

frame is two

10:48

dimensional. Okay? It

10:51

lets me know that

10:53

anything that has got frame

10:55

has got space. So

11:00

this is grace. Grace

11:06

gives me space. Before

11:10

I hit the frame, I

11:12

got grace. I got a certain

11:14

amount of room. I got a

11:16

certain amount of grace. I can

11:19

kind of hang out. I can kind of chill

11:21

out. I can do my thing. I can do

11:23

anything I want to do until I get ready

11:25

to do something that will mess up the picture

11:27

and then the frame. The

11:31

frame won't let me out. The

11:34

frame won't let me out. The frame

11:36

won't let me out. The frame won't

11:39

let me out because see the

11:41

reason the frame won't let me

11:43

out is that I'm pushing against

11:45

the frame with my wheel. But

11:48

the frame is founded on

11:50

God's will. So you

11:52

know in my wheel, it's God's

11:55

wheel. You know which wheel is

11:57

going to win. Thank

12:03

you, thank you, that's good. Bless

12:09

you, Father. Bless

12:11

you, Father. Bless

12:14

you. Bless you, Lord. Thank you. Through

12:19

faith we understand that

12:21

our ages are

12:24

framed by the Word

12:26

of God. There is

12:29

nothing that God didn't

12:31

take into consideration when He saved you.

12:39

If you have a hot-two mentality

12:41

with God, you don't understand who

12:43

God is. You ought to have

12:45

a want-to ministry with God. Can

12:48

you imagine coming home to your wife and saying, I don't

12:50

have to kiss you. We're

12:52

still going to be married whether I kiss you or not.

12:55

No, you don't have to, but you're supposed to

12:57

want to, because love

12:59

is about giving and love is

13:01

about sowing, and love is about

13:03

understanding, reciprocity. It's not just, give

13:06

me God, give me God, give

13:08

me God, and don't ask me for

13:10

anything. Real love

13:12

makes you want to give something, makes

13:14

you want to do something, makes you

13:16

want to say something. That's why little

13:19

kids come up in their handmama drawing,

13:21

and don't nobody know what it is

13:23

but mama and God. But she pins

13:25

it up on the refrigerator because love

13:27

will find something to give. It

13:30

must express itself, or it's

13:32

not legitimate. If anybody tells

13:34

you they love you and they don't ever give you

13:36

anything, be suspicious. Can

13:45

I teach this? Give me a little bit more. Through faith,

13:47

we understand that the world's refrained by the Word of God.

13:51

Watch this, watch this. This is important. So

13:53

that things which

13:55

are seen were

13:57

not made of things. which

14:00

do appear. Oh

14:02

my God. Things

14:11

which are seen were

14:13

not made from things which do

14:15

appear. We

14:20

got two worlds, it's very deep. We got

14:22

two worlds here. We got a

14:25

physical world and we got a

14:27

spiritual world. Okay. Because

14:29

we are in the physical

14:32

world, we assume that

14:34

it is the real world. So

14:44

we fight everything we can to

14:47

stay here in the

14:49

real world, even though we hate

14:51

it here. And we

14:53

had an amenable time here. And

14:55

it's one thing after another the whole time

14:58

we're here and we barely fighting to stay

15:01

in a place that is

15:03

not the real world.

15:08

Imagine, oh, y'all don't see

15:10

y'all pulling on me. Don't do that, don't

15:12

pull on me like that. Imagine

15:19

that the world is a matrix. I

15:29

watch TV. What

15:32

is a matrix? A matrix is

15:34

a womb. Imagine

15:38

a baby thinking that the womb

15:41

was the world. When

15:48

in fact it is the only world that

15:50

the baby has seen. But

15:54

just because it's the only world the baby has seen does

15:56

not mean that there are not other worlds

15:58

that exist. Now,

16:01

you understand that about this womb? Do

16:04

you understand it about this womb? Yeah,

16:08

bro. Ain't

16:19

no needin' you drive no way out here for me to

16:21

be shallow. I

16:24

want it to be worth the gas money. Things

16:29

that do appear were

16:31

not made from things that do appear.

16:35

In other words, the spiritual world

16:38

created the physical world. The

16:41

physical world didn't create the spiritual world.

16:44

God, who is a spirit, stepped out

16:47

on nothing and said, let there be

16:49

something. And it became what He said.

16:51

So God created a matrix. But

16:55

you be born in it. And

16:59

now you walkin' around in this big old womb. And

17:07

the weirdest thing about it is, if

17:11

I put a mirror up in front of you and

17:14

you walk away with the mirror and

17:17

leave the man, perspective,

17:25

you look in here, you see a

17:28

man. And so you

17:30

say, that's a man. No, it's not. It's

17:32

a reflection. What

17:39

I want you to understand is that this

17:41

is a reflection. This

17:45

is not the kingdom. Thy kingdom come. Thy

17:51

will be done on

17:53

earth as

17:56

it is in heaven. And God

17:58

created man in his. and

18:02

after his oh

18:04

come on you're getting it now so

18:07

things which do appear were not made from things that

18:09

do appear I'm a hairy let me say this to

18:11

you so when you're

18:13

having a problem in the physical you

18:17

don't fight it in the physical you

18:21

fight it in the spirit you

18:25

understand the problem with that

18:27

is most

18:29

of you are not fighting your

18:31

devil in the spirit you're

18:35

fighting your devil in the flesh you're getting

18:38

mad you get upset you get depressed you

18:40

start crying you have temper tantrums got mood

18:42

swings can't eat into justice you're fighting everything

18:44

in the flesh when

18:46

the weapons of our warfare and our carnal

18:48

but mighty through God for the pulling down

18:51

a stronghold casting down imaginations every hot thing

18:53

that exalted itself against the knowledge of God

18:55

bring it every thought in the captivity unto

18:57

the obedience of Christ you could whip that

18:59

devil you

19:01

can put that devil is it

19:04

change your perspective I

19:08

am who

19:11

God says I am I

19:16

can do what

19:19

God says I can do shut

19:22

that hot thought I can

19:24

have what

19:26

God says I can have I

19:29

can be what

19:32

God says I can be it

19:35

doesn't matter what you say it doesn't

19:37

matter what you say you think too

19:39

much I'm worried about what they

19:45

say I am who

19:47

God says I am I

19:49

can do what God

19:51

says I can do I can

19:54

have what God says I can

19:56

have I can be what

19:58

God says I can Oh

20:01

hallelujah I feel something about to hit

20:03

this place Somebody

20:18

holla I believe it! I

20:31

need you to help me preach this Just

20:34

seven people don't change their perspective

20:36

change Michael

21:00

I was walking around the house. I was upset. I

21:03

Was down. I was low.

21:06

I was blue. I was sad.

21:08

I was in a dark place What

21:11

was one day? Two days

21:14

later. I'm in the same house, and

21:16

I'm whistling and I'm singing and I'm

21:18

happy and I'm glad and I

21:21

said to myself What kind

21:23

of fool are you? Ain't

21:27

nothing changed No,

21:30

nothing changed all the second. I

21:33

all the conditions were still the

21:35

same the only thing that changed

21:40

Was my perspective And

21:43

then I recognized my perspective has

21:46

been the problem the whole time

21:49

And what made me happy about that is

21:52

when I was depressed and upset and

21:55

frustrated I was frustrated

21:57

over somebody else's perspective

22:01

But when I realize that your perspective don't

22:03

have nothing to do with my peace, somebody

22:11

reach in and take your life back.

22:15

Give me my life back. Give

22:19

me my peace back. Give

22:21

me my joy back. Give me my

22:23

power back. Give

22:25

me my deliverance back. Show

22:29

the heart of you, yeah! I

22:47

suddenly realize you're

22:50

doing this to yourself. You're

22:56

doing this to yourself. By

23:01

the choices I

23:03

chose, by

23:06

the story I told myself,

23:09

I was telling myself a story that

23:11

was making me sick, Barbara. I

23:14

was making myself sick. And

23:17

it wasn't that my story was a lie,

23:19

my story was a choice. It

23:21

was how you choose to tell a story.

23:24

But there was another truth I had to

23:26

reach in and get. And when

23:29

I reached in and came my perspective,

23:32

and Scott, once everything's a

23:34

lovely, once everything's a good report,

23:36

if there be any virtues, if there be

23:38

any praise, think on these things. If you

23:40

would do that one verse alone, if

23:43

you would change the way you talk to

23:45

you about you,

23:51

you'll

23:53

save all kind of money. Some

23:58

of y'all will lose 30 pounds. Because

24:02

faith is

24:05

a perspective. I

24:08

guarantee you, I

24:10

guarantee you right now, you

24:13

are living with the consequences

24:15

of what you say about

24:17

yourself. If

24:19

you say I'm afraid, I guarantee you're

24:21

scared. If

24:24

you, if you, oh I'm just scared, I'm just scared, I

24:26

just can't, oh I'm just scared, oh no, no, I'm scared.

24:28

You can't take me up, oh no, you can't take me

24:30

up out of the house, I'm scared, can't do it, I

24:32

can't do it, I bet you can't do it, I bet

24:34

you can't do it. You are harvesting what you are sowing.

24:39

Why do you think the Bible

24:41

said, let the poor say I'm rich? Why

24:45

do you think the Bible said, let the weak

24:48

say I'm strong? The

24:51

story you say to

24:53

yourself determines how you

24:55

walk out your life.

25:02

Grab somebody and say strengthen my story. Yeah,

25:07

if you strengthen my story,

25:09

you can be my friend.

25:13

If you strengthen my story, you

25:15

can be my friend. I told

25:17

you that's how God picked his

25:19

friends. He picked

25:21

Abraham because Abraham believed him.

25:23

If you strengthen my story,

25:25

you can be my friend.

25:28

But whether man or angel come unto you and

25:30

preach anything. Oh y'all, let me tell you something.

25:34

If they come to you with anything other than what God

25:36

says about you, if

25:40

they come to you with anything other

25:43

than what God says about you, anything

25:46

other than what God says about you,

25:49

anything other than what God says about you, if they come

25:52

unto you, you're too old, you're too

25:54

late, you should've done it, you're too fresh, you

25:56

can't do it. Anything other than what God says

25:58

about you, that's not your friend. of faith

26:02

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26:05

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26:14

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