 Jamal Brian is either a moron, he is either just unethical and a liar, a deceiver, or all of the above. Now, what you're going to hear today, it's not really up there with the world-famous 85% of Jesus' life. He was out of order. Now, it's not that bad, but it's up there. You're going to hear him make some statements about Jesus that-how should I put this? Well, let's put it this way. If you were to go through a list of the greatest hits of Jamal Brian, this particular sermon, you can just clip certain parts of it out and it would make the cut. And remember, this is a man who has-it'd be one thing if his past was his past, but his past is also his present. It'd be another thing if he had a bad past and was struggling, but his doctrine wasn't so bad. And truth be told, his doctrine is not that his doctrine is bad, it's just he intentionally twists things. And you're going to hear this. Matter of fact, when I play this, I'll go ahead and jump into it just as soon as I can, but I want to tell you this, at the very beginning, at the very outset, you're going to hear him state something about the Scripture. Then you're going to hear him all of a sudden act as though he didn't say what he just said. He's going to, I guess, forget it. But what he does is he moves things, he twists things, just so it can fit a narrative. And the narrative does not have to be biblical. On the third day, a wedding took place at Canaan Galilee. Jesus' mother was there. Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. When the wine was gone, Jesus' mother said to him, they have no more wine. Now, I want you to catch that. I just want you to catch that because he just made a statement. He's going to not make the statement so that he can prove a point that's not there. Okay? Woman, why did you involve me? Jesus replied, my hour is not yet come. I want to preach tonight using as a subject. I'm here for a good time, not a long time. Okay. So now, a lot of times you hear in a lot of primary black churches where someone's going to say something like that, they'll have something, you know, cute. I'm here for a good time, not a long time. And his point that he's trying to get across is just to kind of give you some, I don't know, an opportunity to have some feel good, an opportunity to just have a good time to kind of let your hair down. Some joy is going to come your way. There's going to, you're going to hear some bad doctor and some false teach. You're going to hear some bad prophecies, some false prophecies. You're going to hear a lot. I think he's going to run the full gamut through this whole thing. You're going to see some chicanery, chicanery, however you want to, however you want to pronounce it, you're going to see all of that here. But before we go, let's go ahead and jump into the pastors that he's speaking of. And I want you to highlight, notice what he, what he just said. He says, this is obviously from John chapter two on verse one. He says, on the third day, there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee. And the mother of Jesus was there. And both Jesus and his disciples were invited to the wedding. When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, they have run out of wine now, who ran it? Who did she say they ran out of wine? There's a reason why I'm picking up on that point. I'm here for a good time, not a long time. Bishop, Brian, I want to argue, allow tonight that perhaps John chapter two, the wedding at Cana can be classified as an unnecessary miracle. Jesus's first miracle. How do you make that statement? As an unnecessary miracle. Now, listen, Jamal Bryant is no stranger to saying things that are either borderline blasphemous or blasphemous. I'll let you choose if this is blasphemous or borderline, but he's saying this is an unnecessary, unnecessary miracle. I never heard of that before. Terence is a miracle that quite frankly didn't need to happen. Jesus. It's a miracle that didn't need to think about this for a second. I was thinking about this for a second. For him to say or for anyone to say, it's a miracle that didn't need. You know what I thought about? Let me tell you what I thought about when I first heard that when he says it's a miracle that didn't need to happen. I thought about Job, you know, Job is wondering out loud with his friends. And so God shows up. You know what? You're doing an awful lot of talking and an awful lot of thinking. And so God says to him in just a minute, Bob and Louie, I'll do the thinning or I'll do the thinking right here. We asked Job a question. He says, who is this that darkens council by words without knowledge? Now, gird up your loins like a man and I will ask you and you instruct me. That's what I thought about. That's what I thought about. But it's pretty bold to make that statement that this was an unnecessary miracle. This is at a wedding in Cana. And what I needed you to see is that no blind people are there. He's at a wedding and nobody is there who is crippled. All the more dizzying is I need you to peer into John two and you'll see that no demons are present. And so I cannot biblically substantiate or justify why it is that this is his first miracle. So I cannot biblically justify, substantiate why this is first if there's no demons there, there's nobody blind there. So I guess in his mind, those are the things that have to be there, that have to be present in order for a miracle to happen. You know, I think that because he's about being seen and he's about science. But what does the Bible say about a group of people that want to see science? He calls them a evil and adulterous generation. Now, and I think those are probably at worst used for him, evil and adulterous that I think appropriately describes who Jamal Brian is, who he was and who he is right now. And so he makes this statement that because they weren't there, this is an unnecessary miracle. Let me ask you guys a question. He says something and and this is where it gets bothersome for me. It gets bothersome for me because and I see this often and really truth be told, Jamal Brian is just the face of my my my bothersomeness. I just made up a word right there, bothersomeness. But he is the reason that he is the face of the reason that gets me bothered. If I want to cover, if I want to put together a video, if I want to cover a lesson, put together a teaching, if I'm doing my studies, if I'm writing my papers, if I'm if I'm preparing a sermon, I put some time into it. I don't want to say something, even something small and minute. I don't want to just say it just to say it just to I want to prepare. There is a reason why you can't see them. But all those books are over there and back there. The reason why I've got logos and accordance, the reason I've got all the books and so forth is because I want to make sure and I was I think I was trained right by my mentor, former pastor would say, I don't want you getting up before the people preaching and then I have to come back and make an apology and explain what you just said. But I don't want to do that for myself. I don't want to ever get up and have to say, you know what, come back. I was wrong. And so I see this with him. So it makes a statement. I want you guys to think about this. I'm going to come back to this question again. But think about this question. Was this Jesus's first miracle? And I'm asking this question because I think that he should he should know this, especially if you're going to go there and preach and where he yet where he's at is Empowerment Temple. This is where he he was the founder of Empowerment Temple in Baltimore. So it goes back, I think his his mother and father there. And I think I'm not sure who's passing the church now. Maybe his father. I'm not sure. I can't I can't say. But so he's back. He's back at, as they say, the the scene of the crime. And when we say the scene of the crime, you all remember, let me find the right one. Do you remember Jamal, what really made him famous, what kind of kicked things off? Jamal Bryant had got caught up in some sex scandals there at that church, not this church. He said that those are a whole another separate set of sex scandals. But at that church and Jamal Bryant, listen, say what you want to say. But the man is Teflon. He is Teflon Don if there ever was Teflon Don. Remember, after getting caught and being made public, you all remember his sermon that he gave? I'm still the man. And after you're able to say that, yes, I'm a real man, people who are unsafe will find out that there is a man that God can save absolutely anybody. So let me say to all of you who are here and I'm finished. I want you to know I'm still the man in spite of what it is that God has, in fact, provided me through in spite of my fingers, in spite of my shortcomings, in spite of my fingers, in spite of me falling down. I'm still the man. If you're not here next week, I'm still preacher. If you don't come Tuesday, I'm still preacher. If you turn the TV off next Sunday night, I'll still be preacher. You know what? It takes a whole lot of gall to get caught. You know, listen, hey, hey, hey, hey, I'm still the man. I don't care. I don't care. And and the women are cheering, but they just women, the men are also cheering, too. You get caught and you say, could you imagine getting caught in something like that and you're married and say, you know what? Don't worry about it. I'm still the man. Could you imagine going before the judge? Listen, judge, I know what I did. I know exactly what I did. But just in case you forgot, judge, I'm still the man. That takes an awful, an awful lot of gall. But you know what it really takes? Someone said it pride. Yeah, it takes pride. But you know what? It really takes more than that. Do you know what the key ingredient to be able to say that to people? Yeah, arrogance. Yeah, it takes arrogance, takes pride. And T.T. you're on the right spot. You know what it really takes? It takes a group of people who don't think I haven't got a brain. Only story. How can you talk if you haven't got a brain? I don't know. But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't they? Yes. And I think that's Jamal. But I also think that's also the audience that he's with. Yeah, you have to have some sort of you have to just divorce yourself of intelligence or you're just as what's the word? Debauched, you are just as low as the person that's selling that to you. It takes an awful lot. And so this is the Jamal Brown. We're going to talk about his who he is and how he sees himself in just a little bit. Oh, why the miracle happened? George Jury wrote a book called Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome. That suggests in chapter two that a lot of the stress that black people carry is inherited. Now, obviously, Jamal Bryant is as pro black as it can. I'm not sure how pro black he is. I'm not sure if he's if he's as pro black as he makes himself to be. But but he's going to throw something black in there. It's not even birthed out of a current situation. You, in many regards, are anxious because your mama was anxious. You're stressed because your grandmother was. OK, let me just stop. This is listen for all all my white friends and family members and all my Hispanic friends and family members and an Asian family members and so forth is saying for you. This is for you, Color Folk, you Color Folk are stressed out because your mom and your daddy, your grandma and grandpa. And matter of fact, all the way back to the slave plantation, Kootuck and all him. That's why you are stressed out. So just but guess what, Jamal's here, which means help is on the way. You contend with migraine headaches because all your aunts have. You stay up at night looking at the ceiling and you're worried. Here's the catch and not show up what you're worried about because we have not found the Cirque du Soleil tightrope of living a life that has balance. Well, Jamal is going to give you how you can have a life full of balance. How you can kind of. And I know this sounds funny coming from me, but how you can let your hair down? Now us bald folk, we don't need to let our hair down. We are. Listen, we are living the life because we're bald. But for the rest of you folks that have hair, he's going to tell you how you can live the life or that God wants you to live the life. Let your hair down and be godly. It's hard to have a balanced life here, this Erica, and to be saved. Because people want you to be either consecrated or you are deemed secular. Now, listen to what he's saying. It's hard to live a saved life and really enjoy life. You can't do nothing if you're Christian, you know, I mean, you can't. All you can do is read your Bible and pray and after you get from praying, read some more of your Bible, you can eat, but make sure you eat only the foods that are in the Bible that are spelled out. This is what he's saying. So some people have in their own figment of imagination that your only responsibility is church, Bible study, work and go home. You cannot even find the space to unwind without guilt. It seems as though he thinks that what God, how God wants us to live is it's hard. Now, imagine for him, it is. You can't you listen. You can't carry on with all that carousing and frolicking and so forth. Yeah, frolicking. That is the word for the day, frolicking. You can't you can't carry about with all that frolicking and so forth and be godly at the same time. But what does God say? He says, for this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments, his instructions, his commandments are what, not burdensome. And so therefore, therefore. You don't have to, again, if you plan on sinning, if you plan on doing some stuff, well, go on and I don't listen. Now, there's a passage. Paul makes a statement. He says that we should not make any room for sin. In other words, here's how this goes. Let's say you're single and you're dating and what have you and and you want to go see him or you want to go see her. Here's a practical application. Don't stop off at this door and get and get, you know, condoms. Don't do that. Just just in case something happens. But, dawg, I want to be able to let my hair down. It's hard being saved and sanctified and full of the Holy Ghost with them with them going back to the coaching days. It's hard being saved. And then living, I want to I want to have some joy. Can we get a gospel hall pass? Is that possible, Mr. Bryant? Well, where can I enjoy myself without being judged? Where in the world am I able to let my hair down with somebody pointing me out? You supposed to be a Christian. Don't do unchristian things. That's all. Don't do stuff that. Listen, listen, listen. He's a pastor. It's not that you should. It's not that difficult. Don't do stuff that Christians ought not do. I do things, I say, for the most part, I'm telling the truth. Shame on the devil. There for the most part, I do things that Christians are supposed to do. I might every now and then, once every other every five years, sin, I might. And if I do, I should, you know what I should be judged. I should get in trouble for. I should feel bad for it. That is the Jamal. That is the very definition of having a repentant heart. What it sounds like is guilt is hitting you and the folks that are clapping. Guilt is hitting them. I don't want to feel guilty. I want to be able to just lose, just let go of my inner inhibitions and just do me. Do me. And then let me come back later and do my God thing. So John chapter two becomes weighty because it doesn't even say that Jesus shows up for the ceremony. He comes for the celebration. Jesus shows up for the ceremony. Jesus shows up for the party. You got to get that. You got to get that. Jesus is showing up for the party. Now, remember, he already told us that Jesus is a black man. Now, I don't have that clip lined up, but he already told us that Jesus is a black man. And so he shows up to the party, presumably late, bring your B Y O B. And so he skipped the actual wedding and showed up for just the reception part. And so we got a rare picture of Jesus partying. I knew y'all weren't ready for that. Were you ready for that? Jesus party. Can you imagine? Again. And he says some things that are just borderline. He's always said things that are kind of borderline blasphemes. We'll get to that. And I don't know if he's more, what's worse, him more, I don't want to say, well, more socially conscious, more blasphemous, more sinful, more idiotic and the things that he says. I don't know, but you weren't ready to hear or even just when you hear of certain words, you think about it. You think about Jesus partying. You think about, you know, what kind of dance is Jesus doing? Did Jesus dance? You know, what, what did he do? Was he like, when I was in college, I don't, I don't drink. I've never been a drinker. But you know, you in college, you have your cup of something in it. And me, I would have a cup of something. I don't know what it was. It didn't matter what they put in it because I'm not going to drink it. I would take a sip and I'm just holding it down right here. You know, that was kind of my thing. I'm leaning up against the wall and just talking to girls with the drink. You got to have a drink again because you got to look cool. So that's me. Is that how we're supposed to picture Jesus? Jamal. Jesus is throwing down at the party and it needed to be written in scripture so that you could have permission to live a life where you are allowed to enjoy yourself. Oh, there it is. There it is. So you could have permission to live a life to enjoy yourself. I got to correct something real quick. Lovely said to look cool. No, I wasn't trying to look cool with a drink in my hand. Lovely, I was trying to look cool. You catch that. I'm just messing with you. But he's coming to give you permission to live the life that you want to live. If someone told you that a preacher said that, well, in the past, if someone told you a preacher said that, they didn't say that. Nowadays, you're not really, you're shocked, but you're not shocked. And so coming from his mouth, you're shocked, but you're not shocked. And not feel bad about it. Here is the miracle before I ever get to wine. The miracle is that Jesus is able to enjoy himself at the last moment. Here it is in the natural. Jamal Bryan is a moron. I'm sorry. Y'all forgive me. Y'all forgive me. Jamal Bryan is a moron. He is, this is, this is, this is idiotic. And where does the word moron come from? This is actually a Greek word that we see used. Or we can call him an idiot. That's also, matter of fact, the Bible says when an ungifted man comes in, that word that's used there is where we get our word idiot. It's idiota. Yeah, that's what he is. This is, this is dumb. This, this is dumb. So Jesus, before it becomes Jesus, Jesus, this is last week. But before he gets ready to go into it, it's almost like, hey, listen, I'm getting ready to ship off a basic. So let me go out to the clubs and do this and do that and so forth. Remember, remember, and this is, at least he's consistent. At least he is consistent about Jesus. 85% of Jesus's life, he was out of order. Yeah. So he, he, he's maintaining his consistent foolishness, the way he thinks about Jesus. Before he steps into his gift, he has finally allowed two weeks to just be free. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. That's just, that's just dumb. Two weeks before he back before he takes on his role, two weeks. Now, if Jesus got two weeks, it's not fair. It's not fair. Jesus, that's not fair. You getting two weeks before you do your job and your God. So then what about us? I'm going to prophesy over you. I want you to lift up that hand, please. It's not for you to be a millionaire. It's not for you to be debt-free. It's not for you to move into a 10,000 square foot home, but I speak over every lifted hand that God would give you two weeks of being stress-free. God, I can't hear nobody. Two weeks of just having peace. This is the dumbest prophesy I've ever heard. This is one of the dumbest, it might be the dumbest. I'm going to give you, I'm speaking all your life. You got two weeks of peace. Well, okay. Let's think about it. Two weeks of peace, of freedom. Two weeks stress-free. How do you do that? How in the world do you do that? Well, you can. But again, it's Jamal Bryant and Jamal can do anything. Give me two weeks to unveil myself. Matter of fact, I like this. I like what Sierra said. Just two weeks. I need an attorney. We're going to get an attorney of peace. Matter of fact, I do believe, I do believe, and this is probably what he ought to be preaching. I do believe we are going to get a Sabbath's rest. I do believe I recall reading that somewhere, Sierra. Y'all remember that, don't you? But again, thank God for Jamal, for giving me. I wish I was here. I could have got two weeks of just stress-free living. Some of y'all don't need it. And I want to do an autopsy on the text, and I wanted you to notice something significant that happens is that the writer goes into painstaking picturesque detail to show us the guest list. Is that shit? No, he doesn't. No, he doesn't. He doesn't give us the guest list. He likes to use these words. But again, the people there are not listening. The people there don't care, don't even want to read the words like autopsy. Listen, go to John. Go to John 2. There is no painstaking detail about the guest list. Jesus is invited, and the disciples are invited. The reason why this is significant is that this is John chapter 2, and the disciples have just been called in the previous chapter. So, he thinks that the disciples were invited by name. Sometimes it just, one, does some just do some research. Just do some research. But two, stop thinking like you are in America in the 21st century. You know, when I go, if I get invited to a wedding, you're going to put my name, my wife, and I have heard it bring me, or vice versa, or you'll send one to me, or anything like that. You know, we're thinking about an actual invitation to us directly. The invitation was for Jesus, and if you've got disciples, you bring them. That's how that works, Mr. Jamal. Now, because they have just been called in the previous chapter, they had to have been invited before they got called. Now, here's what is amazing, is so that they got an invitation to the wedding without riding Jesus' back. I think this is where he's venting a little bit. I think he feels like a lot of folks are riding on his, on his coattails riding, you know, on him. Which I don't understand that, listen, that shouldn't be a problem for him. It shouldn't feel, he shouldn't be feeling that burdened if people are kind of piggybacking off of him because he is the one that said, I'm still the man. So if you're still the man, then that shouldn't be a problem. This is the last time they have their own identity. Do you know how draining it is when you got to carry your whole circle? That nobody has enough cash aid by themselves in order to get in anywhere they got to go on your back. Give me a couple of people that got my best interest. I'm tired of always having to treat and pick people up and be a therapist when I'm falling apart. Well, here's the good news. At some point in time, you'll have somebody to fan off the heat from you to kind of, you know, help cool you down. Y'all can sit around a circle and fan the flames from yourself, from each other. You can help each other out while you're in where you're going. It ain't around, even though he ain't present, even though he doesn't know how to push you, I still want something to happen for you. Jesus is trying to unwind, have a couple of days, and his mother comes over to him and says, Houston, we got a problem. We've run out of wine. She says it to Jesus, but doesn't announce it to the party. She does not take the microphone from the DJ. She slips over to Jesus and says, we've run out of wine. Now, I don't know if you caught that. I don't know if you caught that. Back up, because I want you to catch it. He literally read it off for us. He read it. Matter of fact, y'all didn't see it. He read it off twice and it was on the screen. So let's go to this passage again. This is, and this is what I'm talking about. There's just the little basic mistakes or the basically intentional. I shouldn't say mistakes. These aren't mistakes, but it says, when the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, they have no wine and we're going to use the word they, even though the word they is in there. It's ouch. This is a third person plural. Third person plural in English or Greek or French or Spanish is they. They ran out of wine. Not we. Notice the inclusive tense of language. We have run out of wine. It ain't even Jesus' party. And that's my point. Those are the little things. Y'all have no idea. It just, it frustrates me when you see just the little things. Wait a second. It's in the text. The reason why someone will say something like that is because I, I want to make a point. That point is not present in the scriptures, but I want to make the point. Forget the scriptures. I need to make my point. Dog on it to heck with the scriptures. I've got to make my point. Let me just change the word even before your eyes. It's not, I'm not even doing it quickly. The scriptures are there, but I know for a fact that you guys aren't looking. So I'll just say we when it's they. He read it a couple of times and it's in the scriptures, but he says, I'm sorry. It says they, but he says it's weak. Those are the things. And so when you start building off of a faulty foundation, it becomes even worse. And so if you make, if, if through the court, let's say you're going down, going down the road somewhere, you're taking a trip and you make one mistake. You turn, you make one wrong turn where you're, you are subject to end up anywhere. And then you keep making wrong turns. Now you were going towards East coast. Now you're in Baja, Mexico. But we have run out of wine. The reason culturally why this is important is because the wedding reception gives a semblance of what is the financial way with all of the brighter family. No, it doesn't. No, it doesn't. Because everybody that had a wedding, you didn't get everybody at the wedding or had weddings or rich. No, no, that's not the case at all. They just ran out of wine. It wasn't that someone's going to have some sort of negative stigma attached to them because they ran. They just had a bunch of folks there. But listen to, now he's going to tell us whose fault it is. He's going to tell us whose fault it is they ran out of wine. So for them to run out of wine is shame and disgrace because it says they can't afford it. And Mary walks over to Jesus and says, we have run out of wine. Watch what the gospel says. Jesus is invited. The disciples are invited. Mary is invited. Isn't it amazing that for 2,024 years you've ever paid attention to the fact that they never name the bride and groom? For all this time, no one ever cared about the name of the bride and groom. Now there are some writings that signify or state that this was a relative of Mary's, which by the way can make sense. The customs were and it wasn't the same with everyone all the time. And you'll hear him say it, he'll say it again, about it being two weeks and so forth. That's why he's bringing this whole two weeks that he believes that this wedding was a two week long process. No, not necessarily. As a matter of fact, typically it was about one week. And one of the reasons why we get that from is going back to Genesis. Let's put it on the screen. Remember the story about Jacob and him getting Rachel and Leah and so forth that whole little, it worked out. It worked out. But remember he had to wait for a week's time. So the way this would work is that this whole process, there would be obviously a betrothment or betrothing. And then the father is going to actually blow a trumpet or say, go get the bride. Jesus brings this up in John 14. You remember the passage where he says about, I go to a prayer place for you. And if it weren't out so, I would not have told you in my father's house of many mansions or many dwellings. So the way this works is under the Jewish custom, at least then they would have you betroth. The son, the groom would go and prepare a place for his bride. Now there's a whole lot of salvific implications in here. Matter of fact, if you're Pentecostal, let me just do like Jamal. Let me speak a word over you. You can go ahead and shout on this because what the saying is in John 14 is if I'm going to prepare a place for you, then guess what? I'm coming back. I'm not going to prepare a place for you for no good reason. I don't know who you think I am. I'm God. If I'm going to prepare a place for you, I'm coming back. And so how we get this is the son goes to prepare a place in this custom for his bride. She's waiting. She's getting ready. He's getting ready. Where is he getting ready at? He's getting ready on the father's property, either in the same building or on the land to be in where in the father's house. And in that custom, what happened is you would join the bride joins the son's father's house. And here's a good part. You're already considered to be part of the father's house at that point in time. And so he's coming back. The father blows a trumpet to go get your bride. And then they come back in and they celebrate for how long? Seven days. So therefore that might be where Jamal's misunderstanding comes from, what have you. But this is what we're seeing here. And so I just want to throw that in. I think there's this awesome news to think that we are his. We are this, this, this bridegroom in the room is going to come back and get us. And if he says he's coming back to get us, he's coming back. If he's going to prepare a place for us, he's not doing it for. He knows in as just like he knows the beginning, he's coming back. I think this is just awesome. I don't even want to stop talking about it because it's just an awesome concept to think that God is coming back. The son is coming back to get us. Anyway, let's go back to it. They are the central characters of the wedding and never get their name called. Said Jamal, when you get to Baltimore, let them know that the kind of God I am, I'm going to protect their name. So that when they're going through, folk won't even know how bad it is. Now I want to pull up something because typically a Jamal Bryant would show up and we've got one. Somebody, I can say his back up phone. He says, he says, I just have to catch this. And I think it's wonderful that he's here. He says you hate him because you ain't got no prophetic voice. All you can do is preach Jim Crow Jesus of fall in line. I have no idea what that part is of fall in line. We're going to work on the spelling and the grammar and so forth and how we, you know, but anyway, he didn't preach the gospel. So if you are following him back up phone, whatever your real name, I'm pretty sure your mother and father's last name is in phone and they didn't name you backup. If they did, there's something wrong with him. But back up phone. If you're following him, if you are following someone like someone says, what is Jim Crow Jesus? Oh, we'll talk about Jim Crow Jesus in a second. We'll talk about what he's alluding to. But if you're following him, there's only one reason while you're following him. One, I haven't got a brain. Only story. How can you talk if you haven't got a brain? I don't know. But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking. Don't they? Hey, they sure do. They sure do. They type and so forth. They do that. They do that. If you're following this man, there's something wrong with you. Tell me the gospel that he preaches that you like. Tell me what he says that just tickles your ears. That's what he's doing, tickling your ears. But anyway, back to Jamal and your fans. Okay, now I'm confused. Maybe you all are confused too. Maybe you don't know you're confused. I thought he just declared they're going to have two weeks of no concerns, no worries. And then tomorrow, though, everything's going to be all right. But which one is it? Which one is it? I'm not... Okay, I don't know. But far be it from me to try to understand the prophetic voice of Dr. Jamal Bryant. This is sanctified misogyny, where it is that women do not have voice. That women are not prone to leadership positions. Jesus says to his mother, it's not my time yet. And now I want you to follow the actions of Mary. I want to see what Mary does. Mary ignores Jesus. Bessie? No. No. Let's just go to the Bible. Let's go back to the Bible. So we don't forget where he's actually preaching from. Let's just go there ourselves. When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, they have no wine. Again, they, not we, they, they have no wine. And Jesus said to her woman, what does that have to do with us? And so now this is a common phrase, by the way. T. M. O. K. Soy, which is... I'm sorry, I brought the wrong one. Well, where am I at? In verse four. Yeah, that was the right one. Yeah. What does that have to do with us? You see this happen what, and it is used different ways. It's not as though Jesus is putting her off. It could be, but it's not. So he's like, it's not a put down dog on it woman. What do you want? That's not how that's, that that's taken. Leave me alone. No. He says, now there's a reason why this is here. Remember, remember this makes it into the cannon. This makes it into the cannon. And so there's a purpose for that. And so my hour has not yet come. His mother said to the servants, whatever he says to do, you do it. She's not ignoring him. I don't know where he's getting it from. But his point is that he wants to... This is Mary showing that she's being empowered as well. And dog on it, if Mary's getting empowered, then so do the rest of the women. He'd be empowered as well. Spends on her heels. And I need you to see what Mary starts doing. Here it is as a woman in a culture that doesn't respect women. I want you to watch what Mary does in a culture that does not respect women. Watch how Mary functions. Mary ignores Jesus saying her timing is off and starts speaking to the catering staff. Y'all ain't saying nothing. Start speaking to the catering staff. Whatever he tells you to do, get ready to do it. I need some prayer warriors who got confidence. God getting ready to start talking. I need to hear his voice. Y'all brace for it. Look at your lips and whatever God tells you to do. If he tells you to leave that job, leave it. If he tells you to cut them people off, cut them off. Whatever he tells you to do in the culture, the catering staff should not listen to Mary. That's not true. That's not true to say that these are the servants. All throughout history. I don't care what society you're in. If there are servants, the servants serve the people that they're serving, be they male or female. You'll see where he's going with that because she shouldn't be giving anyone any instructions. That's not true. In the culture, the catering staff should not listen to Mary. I hope y'all can handle it. Unless, let's follow the trail of breadcrumbs, unless the catering staff works for her. Not true. Not true. But my favorite person is back. I think the Lord is using you to say timely things that just don't make sense, any biblical sense. Brother phone. Brother phone, you do realize that if you're going to get up and preach, if you're not preaching out of the Bible, what are you doing? Just give me your opinion. Whatever. Even though Jamal is twisting it, he's twisting what's in the scripture. The purpose of Christ and the cross is not to worship the Bible. No one's worshiping the Bible. However, how do you know about Christ and the cross without the Bible? You, sir, ought to just sit back. You should do what Jamal should do. Do what Jamal should do. Just sit back and just listen. How much wine Negroes are going to drink at a party? Oh, that is okay. It's Mary's fault. And as he says, Mary has undercut how much wine Negroes are going to drink. And by the way, back up phone is on. Now I've got both channels are running. And so brother phone, make sure that, because we do a lot of commentary on the smaller channel. Make sure you come over to the larger channel where we get all the teaching in and how we value the scriptures. And we go through the scriptures. Sometimes it might be a little bit boring, might be a little bit boring for some folks because, you know, again, going through the scriptures might be an issue. But I promise you, you're going to find a whole lot of joy and comfort in it. And you're going to find, you're going to find freedom. That's what you're going to find in that. So anyway, brother, brother, brother phone, make sure you come to the main channel and check out some of the teachings. Amen, amen. Because Mary is a church girl. Y'all ain't saying nothing. And she don't know that families like to get lit at the wedding and at the funeral. So she has not ordered enough liquor when she spins around. So it's Mary's fault. She didn't order enough. This is funny. This really is funny. And it starts talking to the catering team. They didn't ask who are you, but they must have recognized her as a woman in authority. Y'all don't know when to shout. Let me see if I can help you. God says, I'm getting ready to bless black women in this room with your business. You colored ladies. You Afrocentric Afro-American ladies. He's getting ready to bless you. And I, it's lovely. Mr. Telephone man, something's wrong with your line. That was class. Classic. And I don't even think Lovely's old enough to even know that song. I don't think she's even old enough to even know who new addition is. Some of you folks don't know how good singing back yet. I wanted to be, I wanted to be a part of the group. Yeah. I wanted to tell Ralph, get out of the way. The only couple of years older than me, get out of the way Ralph. I got this, but you know, the call never came. So I guess there was something wrong with my line also. Mr. Telephone man. They ran out of wine, but they're in Cana. Pastor, why is that important? It's important because they ran out of wine in Cana. Here it is. And in Cana, they don't grow grapes. Now I don't know what point he's making here and you can go back and watch the complete video. He doesn't make a point here. This is again, this is the problem with not just him. I promise you, he's just the face of it. But if your pastor is connecting dots that aren't even there, he's going to talk about the grapes don't grow in Cana and he's going to talk about olives and he never makes a point. I mean, ever makes a point. That bothers me. Get your Bible, open it, read it, study it and expound on the text. It can be a topical sermon. I have no problem with that. But if you're going to give a topical sermon, make sure in, give it, deal with the topic. Make sure you use the scriptures correctly and expound. Draw it out. Cause the people that listen to you preach, listen to you teach. Make them, give them an impression that you enjoy the scripture so much and you open it up so that they want to go back and look for themselves. If someone is listening to you, watching you, following you and they don't enjoy the scriptures, it's a good bet. It's a safe bet because you don't either. If the people that are following you, listening to you don't have an appreciation of the scriptures, it's because they don't have an appreciation of God, which means you don't either. You are, you are a horrible instructor, teacher, leader. That's exactly what Jamal Brian is, whether it was in Powerman Temple or if it's new birth. The same problem following this man, this man is not in love with the word of God. That's what we have. That's all we have. Paul says, the Bible tells us we're told to grow one. Peter says growing the grace now is the Lord. We are told to teach what conforms with or cores with sound doctrine, not Jamal. No grapes are grown in Cana. The only thing, in Cana that grows in Cana is not grapes, is olives. God, help me. If you squeeze a grape, you can get wine. But if you squeeze an olive, you get the anonac. So I got six empty cisterns, but I got no grapes. Now, if you squeeze a grape, you get wine. If you squeeze an olive, you get the anonac. Okay. All right. Hallelujah. I got no grapes, but I got olives. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Oh, now, here's the oil flowing. This is, this is, whatever this is. You won't scream away from your life coming back together. You are one hollow way from you getting back on track. I'm confused about being confused, which makes me more confused. This is my confusion. See if you all can be, if you can track my confusion, because maybe you're just as confused. There's a lot of things to be confused about in this thing. There's a whole lot. But remember the first prophecy, the first prophecy, or the first declaration was, he declared two weeks of stress-free living. He declared that we are going to live for the next two weeks, no problem, no nothing. Then he declared starting tomorrow, everything is going to be great. Now he's saying, all you got to do is shout and you'll break through whatever's there. Wait, what is it? Don't go on it, Jamon. I'm trying to follow your goofy way of thinking, but you're confusing me, which is confusing others, which we're all confused. And it's all your fault. Well, it's your fault, it's Mary's fault for not bringing enough wine. It's Jesus' fault for wanting to let down his hair and party. It's everybody's fault. Yeah, this is, this is, yeah, again, he makes these three declarations about what God is going to do, and they don't, they don't line up. This is, this is, this is silly. Now, I don't know what's going on there. Actually, I do. What it is, is the people are so excited. They're getting something and they feel like this was wonderful. This, this made my day. I know for a fact, none of what Jamal said is going to come true. But just to think about, it's like what Richard Pryor said, can you tell me some more of the modalized to help me stop thinking about the truth. And I don't think, I'll venture into saying that there are some Christians probably in that church. I'm not going to say that the church is unsafe. There probably are. But again, why, why do we think that there's probably some Christians in there? Because listen, you can be, you can be a Christian and listen to this. Why? Chest chant, why can, how is it that a Christian can actually listen to this? You can be saved and stupid. Treat that. You can be saved and stupid. So yeah, that might be the reason why you can be saved and stupid and listen to that kind of stuff and it just doesn't do anything for you. Doesn't do anything for you. But you feel good because I dare you to come back and listen to that. I dare someone to go and listen to the sermon and then come away with what was he teaching? You can't come away with anything coherent because he didn't say anything coherent. Hallelujah. I got to move. I got to move but if I can just get 10 seconds out of you, I just need a shop to just penetrate the atmosphere. Come on, open up your mouth. I don't want y'all confused. This ain't no stage. This is a altar. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, it is, no, it is a stage. It is a stage and for him, all the world is a stage. It's not, no, you're not you're not reverencing it like it is. You're not treating it like it's something reverential. Yeah. Kurt, it is, it's an emotional high. It is, it is. You know what it is? Let me tell you what it is and y'all forgive me. I'm getting ready to insult a few people. I'm sorry. I apologize. I apologize. But I'm getting ready. I haven't done it in a while. So I need to do it. It's the off season for the NFL season and everyone's thinking, you know what? I got a chance. I got a shot. Next year, we're going to Super Bowl and y'all know, you all know next year, every cowboy fan in the world is going to the Cowboys and they feel good right now. The ball is kicked off and so forth. And they realize that it ain't happening. Right now, you feel good. It's an emotional high. Your team scored. You feel good. Now you're down by 30. So you're right. It's, it's an emote to keep telling people the same thing. Let me just say this. Can I, can I just stop for a second? Let me just stop for a second. And just, I want to, I want to say something to my colored folks, to my friends that are, that are a similar hue as me. You let people come and tell you a bunch of crap. Make you feel good about the crap they told you. Make you tell, they'll tell you some more crap about the broken promises they offer. And what do you do? You salivate and wait for some more. You let people tell you how they're going to help you. How they're going to fix you. How they're going to bless you. How they're going to bring something to you. How they're going to bring jobs to you. How they're going to bring jobs to you. I'm going to bring comforting arms. I'm going to do everything that I can to make sure that, hey, one, that your babies say, I want to make sure that you can keep aborting your babies. I want to make sure that you have the father at home, but that's no problem. You don't, you don't need the father at home. What you need is good old Uncle Sam. I'm going to do everything that I can to pacify you as a community and talk down to you. Tell you about it. And so it's this emotionalism that that you keep feeding. That's why you see this a lot of time. I'm not saying that happened to white churches or predominantly Hispanic churches. It's happening more and more. But the poster child for a bunch of emotional preaching with not a lot of meat is the black church. Yeah, I understand there's no such thing as the black church, but I mean the predominantly black church. I don't think it's a white face in that church. Not that we're going to call it a church, but the point is the point is this is what's being fed. And so what is happening is at these sort of churches, you see this stuff being pushed in even to the point to where you see to where you see political things being piped in. Where you see things that are just socially acceptable to the world to mainstream, but not to Christians. And while I'm talking about politics, y'all do realize this is a man who had this person who should not be a preacher because his concern for the sheep is not there. He doesn't have a huge concern for the sheep. He's not that kind of a shepherd. He has a concern for himself. Remember, he left, he left Empowerment Temple. That wasn't his first time trying to leave when he went to go to Atlanta. That was not his first time trying to leave Empowerment Temple. Oh, no, no, no, no. The first time that he tried to leave was when he ran for office. We don't need leadership as usual. We need a brand new voice, a brand new vision and a brand new opportunity. His reasons for running, he says, center around the Freddie Gray uprising, police brutality, lack of jobs, poverty and the environment. So even then his heart wasn't in it and so he ended up dropping out of the race, I think seven, eight, nine, ten days later, the church should have taken him back. Wait a minute, you were going to leave me? Some of y'all know how to feel. You were going to leave me and you take him back. But no, matter of fact, we've already filled your position. The moment that you threw your hat in the ring, we filled your position. Sorry, Jamal, but he came back which tells us his heart is not in pastoring people. His heart is in pushing himself out there. He's more about himself. Now, the guy said earlier about this Jim Crow Christian, whatever preacher would have you, Jamal Bryan is one who is one of the first ones going to tell you something negative about Donald Trump. Now I'm not here to promote Biden or anything like that. I think both of them need some work, a whole lot of work. Both of them need some, listen, if you want to cast a demon out, cast him out of both of them. If you want to douch them with olive oil and call it the anointing, do that to both of them. Now they're going to shoot you because, you know, it's a president. But I'm not to say that either one of them is going to have us in good hands, but my point is, now he talks a lot about how bad Trump is, but this is the same, this is the same Jamal Bryan who was on one of Trump's television shows and taking a paycheck and was doing it gladly. On The Ultimate Merchant. I'm a rosa. Mr. Trump, you coming hard at me now. Mike does not go home tonight. I'm going home. Sit, chill, back and relax. What happens in bacon stays in bacon. What happens in bacon stays in bacon. Now you got to admit though, that little soft, effeminate pink, it was shiny and it was shiny and it was shiny and it was shiny, wasn't it? That was, yeah, that was Jamal Bryan. Didn't have a problem then because Jamal is about himself again, again, again, Jamal was the one who said, and after you're able to say that, yes, I'm a real man. People who are unsafe will find out that there is a man that God can save. Absolutely. Yeah, that's him. That's him. Jamal Bryan is still the man and he wants to let everyone know that now. I don't know what's his political leanings, his twisting of the text, which is bad, but he brings his political leanings into the church. Remember, this is the same Jamal Bryan that is, what does he say? His blasphemy encroaches on or crosses over into the politics because he, what does he say? He says that Jamal Bryan, I mean not Jamal Bryan, that God is pro-choice. Rashan, after the Supreme Court ruling about new birth and me are pro-choice. Because Jesus is. Right. He said, behold, I stand to do it now. If you decide to let me in, that's pro-choice. God in the garden of Eden said to Adam and Eve, all of these trees are available to you. I want you to pick those. I'm not putting this other tree behind Bob Wyatt and ADT along. Don't eat it, but that's your choice. Christianity and into itself is pro-choice. But we don't say anything because a lot of black churches are white evangelicals in drag. Yeah, white evangelicals in drag. So you mean tell me, to protect babies, that's white evangelicalism in drag. Being against what the Bible says is a seeing the LGBTQ movement. That's okay. You do realize that Jamal, that those people that do those things and even give hearty approval to those who do those things, they're going to hell. And that's Jamal. And this is the same Jamal Bryant who is in the middle of a baby. Think about it. A baby dedication is promoting abortion. I want all of us all over this room. Would you do me a favor? Would you celebrate the women around you who are competent enough to make decisions about their bodies, decisions about their life and decisions about their future with this measure that has just taken place? A baby infant mortality is going to rise by 30%. I'm still trying to figure that out. How is taking abortion off the table is going to cause infant mortality to rise? I think there'll just be less babies killed. I think there'll just be less babies killed. How about that? How about Jamal, Mr. Pro Black? How about almost 20 million Black babies not being aborted? That'd be pretty cool. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, because a party that I have in Allegiance 2 is going to tell me we got to have that. And it's not a Democrat or Republican issue. It really isn't. It really isn't. It's a Bible issue. It is a Bible issue. But if it's not his political innings, and I'm talking about the ones that we know are called out in the Bible. Folks say, why do you always talk about abortion and gay marriage and things like that? Because those are the things that you're promoting that we know are clearly spelled out as sin in the Bible. But if it's not that, it may also be his blasphemy. Now listen, when you can actually talk about the gospel, what is the gospel? The gospel is centered around the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. And so just recently when you get the opportunity to preach about it on Easter Sunday or Resurrection Sunday, whatever you want to call it, instead of preaching about the goodness of it, you preach about people coming out of debt and then to turn around and say that the reason why Jesus died. Remember, he's piggybacking off of Ezekiel, Leviticus 28, I'm sorry, Deuteronomy 28, where he's saying that we're going to be blessed coming and going in the city and the field, and that's going to be us. And so he tells us that Jesus died and rose was resurrected so that we can be financially stable and not have debt. And he's still bound in a borrowed tomb. Jesus quickened in his spirit and realized not only do I have to get up for you to be saved, but he said, if I remain dead, they will have to tear Deuteronomy 28 and 12 out of the Bible. Because if I stay in this tomb, I would never be able to pay Joseph back. God, I can't hear nobody. So part of why he had to get up is he said, I'm not going to go to death owing other people. I got to make sure that I'm able to pay it all back. I don't know where you are, my time is almost up, but I want to pronounce over you, you are not going to spend the rest of your life paying other people back. Okay. That's why Jesus got up. He got up just so you ain't got to be in debt. Jesus got up so that he wouldn't owe anybody and that you also wouldn't know anybody. On the resurrection Sunday, that's what you come up with. Thank you, Mark. He's one of the top five most dangerous preachers. He is. Or if he's not, he's in cahoots or in leagues with. It's bad out there. It's bad. It's like going swimming and you have to literally get around. You have to duck and dodge and swim around the sharks and the piranhas. And I'm not sure which one he is, but he is certainly, he is certain poison to the body. Now, he is political. He is obviously racial and racist. I shouldn't say racist, but at least racist. Maybe he is. Again, at his church, you see the Black Lives Matter fist holding the cross. That's a bad marriage. Especially knowing that Black Lives Matter is against or was founded against any sort of religion, particularly Christianity. But he didn't care. He didn't because, again, it's not about your soul. It's not about any of those things. What he really wants to do is keep you separated, keep you divided, even if it's along racial lines. By the way, you Black folks, as far as Jamal's concerned, you better not be going to one of these white churches. If you are, you're dead to him. I got a problem with black people that go to white churches. Let me put it out there, because you never see it in the reverse. I got a problem with black folks, white folks, Hispanic folks, Asian folks, or Eskimos, Australians, whoever. I have a problem with anyone going to a bad church. I have a problem with anyone going to a bad church. But I think that his, maybe his focus is in the wrong place. His focus is clearly in the wrong place. Because, again, at that very same, a week before that very same service, he's not talking about Jesus coming in in a triumphant fashion, knowing that his fulfillment of the reason why he's coming, that's not his concern. No, no, no. What he wants you to do, he wants you to be concerned about plants. That in all your life growing up in church, for 2,000 years in the study of theology and biblical study, that nobody has ever paused to ask the probing in a rock. How did the trees feel on Palm Sunday? Because no one's stupid. No one's that dumb to sit and worry about on this day. I wonder how the branches felt. I wonder how the trees felt. I wonder. Really. Well, if you're wondering about feelings, Jamal, instead of worrying about how the plants feel, how the palm branches feel, what about how those babies felt? I'm still wondering about that. I wonder how those babies felt, Jamal. They do feel pain, after all. But Jamal is always wanting to say something dumb, something worldly like this. New birth is the largest land-owning black church in America. And so my position to my deacons is why aren't we not raising cannabis? Yeah, why not? Let's again, maybe that's why he wants to protect the plants. Weed has feelings too. Listen, stop persecuting the weed. The weed has feelings too. But not just the weed. Because, listen, again, what do we need? We want to track folks that smoke weed. And I think we ought to track folks that smoke weed. We ought to track folks that are in any sort of sin, not for them to come and stay in the sin, but to be changed. I don't think we need to change anything to suit the culture. Remember, when Jesus walked the earth, even prior to him, and then even after that, what did they preach? They preached repentance, a repentant heart, and placing your faith in Christ. Not just kind of sugarcoating sin and letting everyone get away with it. That's not no. And guess what? We saw you guys are looking for revival. If you're looking for revival, stop with the phony revivals and just preach the gospel. Isn't that where we saw the greatest revival ever? Or the greatest coming together ever at the preaching of the gospel? How about that? Isn't that cool? Isn't that interesting? But no, he is not interested in that. He's interested in the fillings of plants. He's interested in weed. And he's also interested in, like, what? Sex toys? Stuff that was applicable for your grandmother means nothing to you. For me to tell 16-year-olds to be celibate is one thing. A 37-year-old who's used to getting some, I need a different kind of gospel. Yeah, I need a different kind of gospel. How do you sell that? That's why I said weed lives matter. Yeah, how do you sell that? How do you sell? I need a different... Didn't that even feel funny coming out of your mouth? Are you hearing the words that are coming out of your mouth? No, you're not, Jamal. And the young lady that's sitting there and the people that are in your congregation. Again, this is them. I haven't got a brain. Only straw. How can you talk if you haven't got a brain? I don't know. But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking. Don't they? Yes, they do. Yes, they do. I think... I think... I think Jamal Bryant is going to go down in history. He's going to go down in flames, too. But he's going to go down in history as... almost the smoothest apparent... I mean, because all of his sin... all of his stuff is apparent. It's in front of you. It's in front of you. And folks are still following. Why? Because... I'm still the man. I'm still the man. I'm still the man. I'm going to try that with my wife. I'm going to try that. The next time she gets upset with me... not for anything that I do, because I don't mess up. I don't do anything wrong. I don't know why she... The time that she gets bothered at me is not me. Let me just say that. America is not me. But when she does... I already know what I'm going to say to her. I'm going to... Baby, I'm still the man. I'm still the man. I'm still the man. That's what I'm going to do. That's what I'm going to do. Baby, you didn't like the way I talked to you? You didn't like this? What? I didn't say what? Excuse me? Who are you talking to? Do you know? I'm still the man. Yeah, buddy. If you see me with some scrapes and bruises... I don't even care. I don't even care. I am taking a page from Jamal... from Jamal Bryan's playbook. What'd you say to me, honey? I'm still the man. Yeah, buddy. Take the trash out. Do you know who I am? I'm still the man. And if... Listen, if it don't work out... I guess I'll be apologizing. I guess... I guess... Because listen, if you can say... 85% of Jesus' life... He was out of order. If you can say that and still get away with it... You are a bad boy. You... My other computer just went down. If you can say that... with a straight face... you can get caught cheating. You can do all kind of stuff. You can tell everybody... I'm still the man. Maybe you are. Maybe... Now, what man are you? I don't know. Aren't you even afraid... of what could possibly happen? Aren't you afraid of... what God will do to you? At some point in time... at some point in time... you're going to have to face Him. And you're not going to be... Listen, you're not going to tell God... you're still the man. That you're not going to do. But even if... just to set an example for your children... all 12 of them... or however many they are... I'm not sure. I think it's 6 or 7. I think it's 6 or 7 by 5 women. Stuff like that. That's a pastor. That's a pastor with all of those people. Now, by the way, look at the Bible says... let's deal with a couple of things. One, here are the qualifications of a pastor. The qualification of a pastor is that... unless you decided to do so... he must be above approach. Nope, not for you now. The husband of one wife. The husband doesn't have a wife right now. Temperate, prudent, the respectful part... that's long been gone. Hospitable, able to teach. Nope, not able to teach. Not addicted to wine. Well, again, Jesus came... so that you can let your hair down for 2 weeks... and you can just get drunk if you want to. Pugnacious, but gentle, peaceable. I don't know about that. But free from the love of money... I'm going to say no. I'm going to say no. The reason why I'm saying... because what you do, you do for money. Whether it's going on the show with Donald Trump... whether it's putting your hat in political rings... whether it's going... I don't think so. I don't think so. And here's the problem. You give these little vague, stupid false prophecies... and notice how false prophets are also synonymous... with false teachers. False prophets also arose among the people... among you who will secretly introduce destructive heresies. That's him. Making all these silly statements about Jesus... about his resurrection and so forth. Now, I asked a question earlier. I want to end on that because it's just a... I want to have fun. And be in the Bible. Here's a question I asked earlier. He says that most... Matter of fact, let me finish what he was saying. Let's go back. Let's end on... I got a few more clips to play with what he's saying. Listen to me. And I'm thankful that... it's not going to be your lot. They've been partying at least for two weeks. At least two weeks. They're partying. Again, they weren't partying for two weeks. Just... You keep saying it and it's not going to get easier... and it's not going to become... truer the more you say it. Run out of wine. Listen to me. And all this time you never paid attention. You never observed. You never noticed that Jesus never had any. I think a lot of folks knew that the Bible doesn't say... Now we don't know if Jesus did drink any or not. We don't know that. But we paid attention to the fact that it didn't say that he did drink it. No, it didn't say that he did not. But we paid attention to that. We knew, Jamal, there are people that actually do read their Bibles. It's a painful thing, Bishop Bryant. Where you never get an opportunity to taste your own success. God says, I'm not going to let you die without you tasting your success. I don't think he says that. I don't think he says that. But again, it seems like that maybe that's more of him. I didn't enjoy... Listen, all this that I've done, I need... because now if you let him run down the list of everything that he's done, he will. And maybe he just wants to just enjoy the fruits of his labor. I don't know. This is, according to all theologians, all commentators, this is Jesus' first miracle. Now, I want to ask you a question. By the way, that's not according to all commentators or anything. So I ask a question. Jesus turning water into wine was that his first miracle? Let's go to a passage that I think would kind of help out with that. If we go to this, he says after the water was turned to wine is every man serves a good wine first. And when the people have drunk freely, then he serves the poor wine. But you have kept the good wines now. This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee. I think that part's important. In Cana of Galilee, and manifested his glory and his disciples believed in him. This is where the disciples... you know what? We're seeing something. But let me ask you guys a question. And it may be a trick question, I'm not sure, but is this his first miracle? Or I put it this way, is it his first recorded miracle? Well, the answer is no. It's not his first miracle. It's not even his first recorded miracle. Remember, this is after John 1. I was going to do John 2 today, John 2 and 3 today, but I want to do it after covering this because he just happens to be in John 2. So we'll go through John 2. But remember, this is after chapter 1. And we talked about how Jesus called his disciples. And it looks like if you read Matthew, Mark and Luke, it looks like that Jesus first meets them by walking along the edge of the sea and saying, come follow me and be fishers of men. No, no, no. That's the last thing he said to them in terms of calling his disciples. Or when he gets in the boat and says, push out. No, the first thing that he did was they see him and they're told, and then Andrew, whose Peter's brother, goes with him and then goes and gets Peter. And so they've been waiting for him. And then he comes to Peter and says, preach before the people on the edge of the sea and then tells Peter to do what? Push out. And here is one of the first recorded miracles that we see of Jesus. Simon answered and said, Master, we worked all night long and caught nothing, but I will do as you say and let down the nets. When he had done this, they enclosed a great quantity of fish and their nets began to break. And so what does Peter do? Peter sees that and he just falls down and gives glory to the Lord. Now, remember, at this time, at this miracle, he's only got four people with him. Four, and then he starts bringing in the rest of them. And so this was, if you want to call it his first miracle, I would say that. But the other disciples all weren't there. But at this point in time, as the Bible says in John 2, now they can see this. And he says he manifests or reveals his glory and his disciples began believing. So did you want to bring that up? Because again, I think the Bible, going through the Bible is actually important. Don't you? So how did Mary know he could do it? God help me. He had never performed a miracle before. But she said something was in him. The shout you can ever give tonight is going to eclipse everything you've done. Now, this part is silly. She, how does she know something was in him? She sensed something in her child. I just, maybe he didn't know. He didn't know. Maybe he didn't know. But how did the mother know? She sensed something in him. Okay. As though Mary did not remember the fact that she didn't have any sort of sexual relations with Joseph or any other man. Like, she didn't know where Jesus came from. She has no idea where Jesus... Yeah, she didn't know. She didn't have a conversation with an angel. And she says, how will this be? Because I've not been with a man. No, she didn't know. She just sensed something. Jamal is something else. Because it is not going to benefit you. God help me. I'm telling you, brace yourself, clear your throat. It's going to be the most penetrating sound you give of the night. I said to you, it's not going to benefit you. Hallelujah. God said, when you give me glory tonight, and this is our last one, I'm going on back on the midnight train to Georgia. But he said, when you give me glory tonight, this is not for your business, for your career. Here it is. When you give me glory tonight, I am going to provoke the gift in your children. Oh, God, I can't hear nobody. There's something in your child that they carry. All they needed was one push. I wish I didn't have the moral. Another reason to shout. Another reason to shout. But now this is the end, guys. We're coming to the end because I want to end with him saying this. I want to end with him saying this. This is where, okay, y'all sit down. Have you ever had someone say something to you? Let's say a person. Let's say if I were to say, you know what? I don't like talking. I'm shy. You would like, you're like, what? You just spit up in your mouth. What'd you say, huh? It's like, when someone says something that is the opposite of them and you know it's the opposite of them and they play it off like it's true. So he's going to say something and he's like, did you just say that? At least for us. Remember that I could lie to you with conscience. God help me. I'm telling you, brace yourself, clean your throat, because this is God's business for your career. Here it is. When you give me glory tonight, I am going to provoke the gift in your children. Oh, God, I can't hear nobody. There's something in your child that your child don't even know they carry. All they needed was one push. I wish I didn't have the moral fiber that I could lie to you with conscience. But I love you too much to mislead you. What I am speaking over your life tonight is a limitless supply of joy. I wish I had the moral fiber not to lie to you. I wish I had the moral fiber not to mislead you. That's all you do, Jamal. When he said that, you said that. I wish I didn't have the moral fiber to lie to you or to mislead you. Well, I know why. We know why he said it. I'm still the man. Yeah, that makes sense. That makes sense. Well, for us, and someone says this hurt my ears, listen, it's going to get worse. I promise you, it is going to get worse. I'm not a prophet. It's already, 2024 is off to an amazing start. It's going to get worse. You, however, need to be watchful. The reason why is it's going to get to the point to where this kind of stuff becomes the new norm. This kind of stuff becomes mainstream Christianity, which really isn't Christianity. I promise you, you're going to see more and more and more. There are a lot of good teachers out there, a lot of good preachers, but you're going to start seeing more and more and more bad teachers in terms of good versus bad. At some point in time, if it hadn't already happened yet, the bad will outweigh the good. Obviously, we see the bad having many of the larger churches. It doesn't mean that all large churches are led by some bad teacher. There are some large churches that are led by good, godly men. But you're going to see more and more of the bad stuff. You're going to see more and more stuff become the norm, become the norm. Let me tell you something that shocked me the other day. I've been wondering what this was every time and I had no, I didn't remember. I've been away for a bit on my federal tour, come back and so I go through the drive-thru. Go through the drive-thru. Yes, hit the like button. Thank you, Sheila. Y'all hit the like button. I never ask you guys hit the like button. But I go through the drive-thru. Hit the like button if you agree with this statement I'm getting ready to make. If your outrage is mine. This is the new norm. And I don't know how and I blame, you know what, I blame every last one of you people that were never locked up. I blame you guys for letting you all let this happen. So I go to McDonald's. I'm in the drive-thru. And they ask me this crazy question. I have no idea for these last three and a half years or so. I had no idea what these people were asking me. What are you talking about? And then I saw some video where this guy's doing like a little spoof. The spoof goes like this. He pulls up in the drive-thru and they ask, do you want to use your McDonald's app? No, what is that? So I'm listening to this spoof. That's what they're talking about. I'm talking to my wife about this. I said, you mean to tell me I can take my phone and type in my order drive to the place and tell the person whatever code or whatever it is and so what are they doing? Aren't you supposed to? I'm at least wasting my gas and driving to you so that you can type it in but I got to type it in for you and then tell you that I typed it in before you before you and then you could that huh? Somebody just gave me a thumbs down. I'm sorry somebody works at McDonald's. I apologize but listen let me down those apps make no sense it's the new norm. Tell me that's the new norm. The new norm is you go to the grocery store and you got to bag your own groceries that's the new excuse me I got to bag my own groceries or Lord help you if you order some food on the phone you got to tip them before they get here and when the food comes it's going to be cold or missing but I tipped you that's the new norm since you have no idea how old you sound right now I'm sorry do I sound like an old man when I heard that it floored me everything has changed what used to be unthinkable unheard of is now the norm. There is no such thing as customer service you pull up yeah what do you want huh but and I blame you folks I blame you people yeah if I was out never would happen never would happen it's the new norm you go to the store I don't care where you go I don't care if it's a good neighborhood or bad neighborhood you go and buy something basic it's locked up huh I got to get someone to come open the thing to give me some some razors so I can shave my head I don't always wake up like this I do have to shave a little bit one day though one day with a glorified body I won't have to worry about that the app what I'm using is accordance bible software so so why am I saying this the new norm for the church is going to be bad service the new norm is going to be now this part was always there but it's self checkout but you got to go and say hey wait a second pastor but we won't have we won't have enough heart to say no you're wrong you are wrong and I don't know where you got that from the new norm is bad preaching the new norm is bad teaching I have to pump my own gas you remember back in the day we had self checkout full service the guy pull up and what do you want regular super run let it all that's all that stuff has changed the new norm is no bible the new norm is if someone says turn to Nahum or Obadiah folks won't know where that is the new norm is not being held accountable now obviously the new norm has always been it's been that way for a while whether or even want to labor with them I don't want to take the time and look this stuff up I come to church to have you tell me what it says you say I can have a million dollars and be and be blessed okay fine I'll take that sounds good to me that's what that's the new norm the new norm is jack leg preachers yeah who's like this guy not taking the time and studying their word the new norm is having gimmicks guys on bouncy bounce houses and trampolines and self baptizing themselves that is the new norm and the reason why is the new norm is because we got folks that don't want to sit and do listen don't think that guy is gonna not hold you accountable for not looking at your own word he's not but that's the new norm and the reason why I'm saying is because don't fall for the trap when in 5 10 years they're saying certain things yep that's it oh I can promise you at some point in time even though the bible is clear and no one on the planet can out can say different the bible is clear in terms of women being pastors but I promise you I can promise you some point in time in my life there will be more women pastors than men at some point in time it's gonna happen now again I'm gonna live to be 128 so in the next 76 75 76 years I'll be there and so the next 75 73 dog gone and I can't even count okay in the next 70 something years when I turn 128 there'll be more women pastors you'll have more pastors who are in their 20s I don't have a problem with 30 year old pastors but the younger you are the harder it is more entertainment entertaining is gonna be the whole instead of getting up and going to a movie or to a show or to a theater you go to church for your entertainment you want to hear the gospel the word preach get it yourself that's not that is not what we're here for what's wrong with you you are a dinosaur if you come to this church think we're gonna open the bibles very long scarlet said I give it 10 years it might be if we have yeah I think I think what they say 20% of churches 20% I have to check and see what the number is but remember you are to as Paul says you do the work you do the work fulfill your ministry do not be the one that God has to rebuke now I hope your rebuke is not on your way to heaven or I hope if you have to get rebuke it's on your way to heaven but some folks are gonna find out nope off topic but does anyone think that he looks like R Kelly I think he does a little bit speaking of R Kelly wouldn't want to be him wouldn't want to be him I know what it's like where he's at now he's at a brand on him that's not gonna make it easier for him to walk around prison so he better listen R Kelly better be singing and singing good you better be singing good but anyway someone asked how long how long have I been out I've been out I got out in 2020 so not quite four years and my actual original update was 2025 so yeah Jesus come Jesus soon to come praise God praise God no he's not no he is well now we're talking about prison he is I think he's at a low he can't he can't go to a minimum you have to be under 10 well you need to be under 10 years for you to a camp but he's probably at a low he may be at a medium and if there's more charges to come he's definitely going to medium so he'll probably be end up put at a place where sex offenders are treated better so we went from Jamal to R Kelly because we're versatile here but guys let me just say this if you want something from the word if you're looking for a promise go to it as as Bible says we are to be like newborn babes and desire the word of God as though it's pure milk I might be behind the McDonald's time yeah and it's funny I just understood what I was like that's what they've been asking me no I'm pulling up here for you to do that I gotta come I'm sorry I'm on my soapbox I'm ranting but I'm not driving up here to do your job you want me to come back here and flip the burgers for you to push my I'm not I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm on my soapbox y'all forget me but don't think that this is just about Jamal because today tomorrow next week you'll see someone else on the exact same thing or saying the exact same thing the only difference is their name won't be Jamal Bryant it'll be somebody else it'll be Bob it'll be Frank it'll be Jeremy it'll be it'll be Lucy it'll be Mary who knows be on guard be sound and teach those around you to also respect and to love sound doctor now in the meantime as far as you guys are concerned I'm still the man yeah I'm still the man