Blood Thinner Than Water

0:00 Brace yourself and buckle up. You are about to hear a life-changing, history-making, world-defining message from the New Birth Podcast. Tell everybody you know, things will never be the same. John chapter 7. Matthew, Mark, Luke. John. John chapter 7, verse 5. John 7, verse number 5. won't you find won't you say i got it come on let's read it together out loud for even his own brothers look at the person beside you tell him that's crazy john chapter 7 verse number 5 come on let's read it together one more time Amen. You may be seated in the presence of the Lord.

1:08 for even his own brothers didn't believe in him. I want to preach today using as a subject, blood is thinner than water. Blood is thinner than water.

1:32 I recently read an impactful quote that states, having siblings is like making music some high notes and some low notes depending on how you play the chords it can be the blues it can be gospel or it can be disco the soundtrack of everybody's childhood plays different when you rewind the cassette tape as an adult If you want to discuss the rubber hitting the road, you can't help but remember the Dastler brothers, named Adolf and Rudolf. They were raised in Germany, but they were always at war amongst themselves.

2:26 Collectively, they started a tennis shoe company, but neither them nor their wives could get along. So they parted ways. These brothers, two years apart, one started Puma, the other one started Adidas. If they had stayed together, it would be the largest athletic brand in the world. But now they're having to split the market share. I want to ask you a question. Can you imagine what could be accomplished if only your siblings could get along? The enemy hates unity, but you have to trust the Lord to restore family harmony. Being who you are comes with a lot of pressure.

3:28 Strangers hate on you. Social media is judging you. Coworkers are undermining you. society is devaluing you AI is trying to replace you and on top of all of that you have to contend with family who in large measure doesn't see you it's a lot to contend with it's a common occurrence for people like you and me but I was literally polarized when I realized that this was a bitter reality that the Lord himself had to deal with. When I stumbled upon John 7 and 5, where it says, not even Jesus' brothers believed in him.

4:26 I couldn't believe it. Never paid attention to it, never parked there. I had to read it again. Not even Jesus' own brothers believed in him. We're given no reason or rhyme as to how his siblings arrived at that decision to doubt him. I decided to cut his brothers some slack. because I can't imagine what it must have been like being brought up with somebody who has all-encompassing intellect matched with boundless wisdom. Can you imagine at 12 years of age, Jesus was already mesmerizing the rabbis. What were his brothers doing?

5:20 What were they thinking? when the Pharisees and the pastors and the prophets were all in awe at how much Jesus knew at 12, while his brothers were coloring Noah's ark in Sunday school. I remember sitting in detention. I remember sitting in detention while my parents were in the auditorium for my sister's honors program On the way home, she had a lap full of certificates, and I had a pocket full of demerits.

6:06 Never put one child's success against another child's struggle. having identical last names does not mean having identical strengths if you make them compete against each other as children they will be in secret competition as adults you have subconsciously been training them to be on the defensive line when they should be on the cheerleading squad. I want to help you with something. Somebody write this down. Somebody post this. Insecure children grow up to be jealous adults. You got to figure out how it is that you can get your children to celebrate each other's success without undermining their potential.

7:04 Would you do me a favor, please? Would you just cheer for your brother or sister in Christ next to you? More important than Jesus' intellect was his sterling character. Can you imagine him taking a stand against his siblings, saying he was not going to break curfew, that he, Jesus, was safeguarding his sexuality, abstaining from controlled substances speaking with respectability to people in seniority how was he raised was it any different than his other brothers that he knew common courtesy did Mary and Joe give him a special class on what it means to be honorable and not give his brothers the same instruction ladies and gentlemen brothers and sisters we have got to begin raising our children right eye contact is what's expected firm handshakes are required saying huh and what is not tolerated yes ma'am yes sir needs to be at the end of every statement my mother used to say if everybody else jumps off the cliff are you gonna go do it with them you gotta train our young people how to do it right tell your son he is not gonna pull up in front of a house and honk the horn go to the door Take your hat off.

8:53 Introduce yourself to the parents. Y'all ain't saying anything. You got to raise our girls to be ladies and raise our boys to be gentlemen. You are not raising thugs. You are not raising hood creatures. Y'all ain't saying nothing. Raise them to believe that they are going to change the world and impact the world. The world does not owe them anything, but you owe it to your children to show them that people are only going to treat them how they carry themselves. Pull them pants up. Y'all ain't saying nothing. Cover yourself up. Open up your mouth. Speak when people speak to you. And here's for the old school. Only talk when you are spoken to. Stay in a child's place until it's appropriate. You got to raise them to have character.

9:50 Raise them to have integrity. Raise them to know that honor still means something. Y'all not saying anything. Do not let the White House be your child's example. There is no your truth. It is either the truth or it's a lie. You got to stand on business and own when you made a mistake. and be honorable enough to apologize. Oh, y'all thought I was talking to children. I'm talking to parents. Hallelujah. They only copying what they see you do. Just because you groan don't mean you don't make mistakes and you don't make error and you don't ever say nothing that's out of hand. They learn how not to be accountable from you. Mary and Joseph knew he was the Lord's. So rest assured, his siblings had to know who he was.

10:53 In spite of knowing who he was, the Bible says, and they doubted. They didn't want to accept. I want to say this to you. It's late breaking news, but I need you to hear it. Your siblings know exactly who you are. They just don't want to accept it. You are the chosen one. You are the designated driver. You got a big heart. You got broad shoulders. You got fixed eyes. You got open hands. But stop disrespecting me like you don't know who I am. I never looked at you different. I never looked down. at you but stop fighting me you are making it difficult when all i'm trying to do is love you y'all ain't saying nothing i got good news for you his brothers jesus's brothers doubted him but he still turned two fish and five loaves of bread into a dinner for five thousand they doubted him and he still made the blind see he they doubted him and the woman with the issue of blood still got healed. I want to tell somebody even if your family doubts you, it ain't going to stop the glory of God that is on your life.

12:15 You still going to make something out of yourself whether they like it or not. Come on Maya Angelou. You may write me down in history with your bitter twisted lie, but still like dust I rise. I rise. I rise. Look at your neighbor telling They can doubt you, but it won't stop you They doubted you. be seated please i i don't need you to look at your neighbor i'm talking to you i ain't talking to them please whatever you do i don't want a riot to happen don't don't look at your neighbor just pat yourself on the chest and say they doubted me but i still did it come on huh lay hands on yourself they doubted me but i think i'm doing all right they doubted me but i'm still raising these kids they doubted me and I'm fine about where I am they doubted me but God's hand is on my life You have the weight of family members doubting you.

13:33 And people have no idea that like Samson, people don't know what makes you so strong. Pull yourself together. I don't want you to cry just yet. They have no ideas about what you've had to overcome. I don't even tell them about half the wars I've been in. I hide the scars that I've had to bear for years. I've endured so much and yet through the grace of God, I'm not bitter, resentful, or angry. I covet you in places that I never told you about, and yet you resent me for stuff. What you don't realize is I don't even care about the stuff you jealous of.

14:29 I just want to see you eat. I want to see you do all right. Y'all ain't saying nothing. if I could trade all of this in just for you to be on your feet and love yourself and know your purpose and be happy my soul would be satisfied how are you in a fight by yourself cause I'm not even fighting you I just stepped away from you and it eats me up on the inside and people don't even understand that my cutoff game for everybody else is easy if folk don't talk to me I can deal with it and I don't even think about it but I got a heart for you even when you've been nasty to me for no reason come on I can't hear nobody in here You don't even know the days I pray for you.

15:24 You don't even know how it is that I go in the enemy's camp because I can see where he got his claws on you. But I want to see you come out of this. And God told me to tell somebody that's been interceding for your sibling. He said, I heard your prayer. And watch what I'm getting ready to do in your brother's life. Watch what I'm getting ready to do in your sister's life. Some of y'all ain't had this kind of warfare. But I came to tell that no good lying devil. You can't have my brother. You can't have my sister. If God be for me. hallelujah you may be seated hallelujah you you may be seated in the presence of our god hallelujah you may be seated hallelujah just you've been praying for your brother wave that hand hallelujah god says i'm gonna get that anger out of control come on you've been praying for your sister God said watch me pull them out of the street come on wave that hand God says I'm gonna do it they gonna realize how beautiful they are how smart they are that they need to stop settling and all you wanted was the best for them I'm waiting on some screamers I am not trying to be your mama I'm just trying to be the best sister and the best brother you can have and you fighting me like I'm your enemy.

17:03 Now that I know that his brothers didn't even believe in him, it's so much weightier now when I read Matthew 13 and 57. A prophet is without honor in his own home. strangers celebrate me people on the street compliment me y'all ain't saying nothing co-workers affirm me but the people who saw me get it out the mud they should be the first ones clapping for me because they know what i climbed out of if anybody should be cheering for me it's the Negroes that saw me get tackled. If there's anybody that should be on the front line happy about what God has done in my life it's the folk that saw the devil go crazy in my childhood.

18:09 So now I'm like David. I just encouraged myself. If ain't nobody else happy for me I'm happy for how God has brought me this far. I know you ain't got the affirmation I know you ain't got the support I know you didn't get the commendation but would you just pause right here and give God glory for how far he's brought you from Come on, I dare you to cheer.

18:43 You survived the molestation. I dare you to cheer. You survived the emotional abuse. I dare you to cheer. You survived negative energy in your house. I dare you to cheer. You are absent of support of your intellect. I dare you to cheer. You never got a push to go further in life, but you got goals and dreams and ideas. I dare you to cheer for yourself. Thousands of people, thousands of people cried, Hosanna! Lest it be the one that comes in the name of the Lord. Thousands of people cried, Hosanna! And his brothers sit there with their arms folded.

19:41 Do you know how painful that is? that the only people I wanted to be happy for me got an issue with me and I wanted to free somebody in here they are not mad with you they are upset with themselves they don't know how you got a battery in your back to keep going when they quit and wave the white flag It ain't their fault. God gotta heal the brokenness in them. What's crazy, what's crazy is they tried to make Jesus feel like he was crazy. I'm going to show you something. You ain't never seen it in Scripture. It's going to mess you up. It bothered me so that I hated even reading it.

20:37 And now I hate repeating it. If you look at Mark chapter 3, verse 21, it's going to mess you up. Mark chapter 3, verse 21 says that Jesus' family tried to get him committed. I never read this in my whole life. They tried to get him committed and Jesus' family tried to convince people he was out of his mind. I don't know who this is for. I don't know where the seven of y'all are. I don't know the 12 of y'all online. But God told me to tell you, you are not crazy. I better say it again. I know there's taboo language in our culture and in our construct, but I need to tell you, you are not crazy.

21:30 Hallelujah. I don't know where you are online, but I don't know if you're in this room, but God told me to tell you, I know the enemy's been trying to convince you of such otherwise, but you are not crazy. You are not out of your mind. you just have a different mindset. I can't keep giving you money and you offend it because I'm asking you what it's for. God, I can't hear nobody. I got goals and dreams and all you got is weekend plans. I'm thinking about legacy and you thinking about Louis Vuitton. I'm thinking about generational wealth and you just trying to get away you're complaining about your job and I'm trying to create jobs I'm not crazy and I refuse to let you drive me there I just need my siblings to be transformed by the renewing of their mind God said if you give me glory it is not for cars, clothes, money or for promotion God said if you give me glory here's your shout I will change your siblings mindset that the way that they think is come on I can't hear nobody God said I need them to start thinking about their future start thinking about their purpose start thinking about their assignment and thinking about their call I need God to change their mind because they acting and functioning and talking like they done lost their mind.

23:23 B.C., it's about to get heavy. I need you to buckle up. I had to add insult to injury because I wanted to deal with everything that could possibly go wrong with siblings. And I found it all through the eyes and through the lens and through the experience of Jesus.

23:45 And it's going to make you look at it a different way. You've seen it all of your life, but I want you to step back and have a fresh perspective of Jesus and his siblings. I bet you never considered this is Jesus is dying on the cross. Y'all ain't gonna like it. Jesus is dying on the cross for the sins of the whole world. Catch this new birth and his siblings don't show up. I'm dying for you. and you won't show up. All right. I get it. We've been beefing for a minute. We done had some tension. We got to disconnect. And you may, because I get all of the attention. I get it. I get it. So you don't want to come and you don't really believe in me.

24:40 I got it. But I'm going to go a step further and five of y'all, I hope you don't run through this building. But even when you couldn't come while I was dying, How couldn't you come staying with mama? so forget about how you feel about me come on y'all ain't saying nothing forget that we done had crossword forget that we separated mama here struggling and while i'm on the cross i gotta get one of my friends to take care of our mama where i gotta say mother behold thy son son behold thy mother where are his brothers so watch this Karen ain't not gonna believe this I am dying and still gotta take care of mama and y'all don't care about how I feel of what I'm dealing with you gonna let me struggle by myself when I am not an only child mama is all our responsibility I got issues too I got bills too I got a family too I get frustrated too I love y'all but I'm sick of y'all taking me for granted.

26:18 Somebody gotta help me take care of my life. Be seated, please. Be seated, please. Can you imagine?

26:39 Can you imagine how many people think you are an only child? God, I can't hear nobody. Folk are really surprised when you got to tell them, yeah, I got a sister, I got a brother. Cause y'all ain't talking back to me. The folk are thrown off cause they think you the oldest, but you are not the oldest. You just the most mature and the most responsible. I can't hear nobody in here. Folk think that you were mean and they don't understand. I'm not mean. I had to grow up early. I had, I had to take care of my younger siblings. I, I didn't have time to play. Y'all ain't saying nothing. I was going over homework. I was cooking. I was washing clothes. I was keeping them out of trouble and still trying to have my life it's a terrible thing being a multiple and a single For the last time, my Lord.

27:38 For the last time, I'll ask you to be seated. Last time. Let not your heart be troubled.

28:03 I stand today to tell you God is working on your siblings. But he's working on them in his time. And not yours. It's amazing that his siblings didn't show up to the wedding at Cana. They didn't come to the pool of Bethesda. It's absolutely amazing that they didn't find themselves present when there were two men screaming by the Jericho Road. They're not even there at the cross. But the next time that we find Jesus' siblings is in Acts chapter 1, verse number 14. Y'all ain't going to believe it. Acts chapter 1, verse number 14. I needed you all to see this because it's going to blow your mind. They were not there at the cross. And I couldn't find Jesus' brothers again until Acts chapter 1, verse number 14. The brothers, watch this, while they doubted him at the cross, somehow or another the brothers of Jesus end up in the upper room I think I lost you his brothers get filled with the Holy Ghost hallelujah I can't hear nobody they did not get filled with the Holy Ghost till their brother rose again I came to tell somebody your siblings are getting ready to watch you rise that they get ready to see you go to a whole nother level that eyes have not seen and ears have not heard i came to tell the enemy whatever you were gonna do to my sibling you should have did it last night you should have never let me live to get to new birth this morning because when i travailed this time y'all ain't gonna miss it i'm not shouting for my brother to get a raise or my sister to get a car i'm giving god glory because before this year is over i believe by faith that all of my siblings not one of them not two of them all of my siblings are going to

30:15 be filled with the holy ghost and the evidence of speaking in time i need you to grab that neighbor by the hand real quick and tell them your son and your daughter are gonna prophesy but so will your sister and your brother may your brother get a breakthrough may your sister get out of every straw hole may your brother be blessed in the city may your sister be blessed in the field and no weapon that is formed against your sibling will be able to prosper. I can't hear no worshipers in here. Don't wait till the battle is over. You got a shot right now. God said if you give me glory, every stronghold that the enemy got on your sibling is about to be broken.

31:15 every demonic principality that is over your sister's mind that's over your brother's heart it's about to be broken you ought to shout today that the enemy is a dirty fighter but he picked the wrong child I am an intercessor and when I call on his name angels begin to fight on my behalf because can't nobody do me like Jesus can't nobody do me like the Lord grab that neighbor's hand and say neighbor practice with me come on shake that neighbor's hand and say neighbor practice with me by next year this time it won't be you in my hand it'll be my brother shouting with me yelling with me hollering with me praise him because he's able praise him because now under him who's able to keep my brother from falling to keep my sister from falling.

32:40 Rest rule. Abide. Hinge forth now. That's it! This is the most beautiful thing.

33:13 Your sister, your aunt is going to lay hands on the sick. Your brother is coming out of it. No more addiction. No more bad relationship. My sister, my brother is anointed from the top of the head to the soul. Thank you God. Hey. Hallelujah.

33:49 Hallelujah. Lift up that hand. Hallelujah Something's going to happen in your siblings this season. A transformation is getting better to happen in your siblings. I can't believe y'all ain't shouting louder than that. I said a transformation. Lift that hand. I'm going to pray for him. It ain't been the same since mama died. It ain't been the same since you got promoted. It ain't been the same since you started making money.

34:48 It ain't been the same since you stopped being miserable. It hasn't been the same since you got healed from childhood trauma. It hasn't been the same since you refused to be a hostage to your past. their mindset has got to shift. If that hand is high as you can. Don't give up on your sibling.

35:27 God is still working on them. Don't give up on your brother. I know he's difficult. I know he's honorary. I know sometimes what he says is hateful. Don't give up on your sister. Petty is a skill.

35:49 Sarcasm is a gift. Lord, I pray on behalf of every lifted hand that wherever our siblings are, you'll visit them today. God, not even me put you on their mind. I pray, dear Lord, that this will not be a toxic holiday season. I need you to do it before Thanksgiving.

36:26 I want you to do it before Christmas. God, you know the weight that's on my chest, the weight that's on my heart. You know the weight that's on my back. I want to help them. But I can't do anything else at this point. I'm giving them back to you. Lord, I thank you for the miracle that's going to happen in my siblings life.

36:51 I better pause right here because I just got a download from heaven. I hope you'll respond to it. God, I need you to turn them around. Here's where you shout because I need you to cover my niece and nephews. I can't believe y'all ain't saying nothing about it I want them covered I don't want my niece and nephew to be casualties of their dysfunction. anoint their head with oil let their cup run over I want goodness and mercy to follow not just me I want goodness and mercy to follow everybody I was raised with and if your faith is connected to mine would you just explode in thanksgiving right there come on explode in it Thank you.

37:49 It ain't my mother, it ain't my father. It's me, oh Lord. And I'm standing in the need of prayer. I got to move, but real quick, if you'll indulge me, would you just speak your siblings' names out loud? Speak then.

38:10 Tamer Bryant, Micah Wright. Come on, open up your mouth. God, see about them, cover them. deal with the issues they haven't even discussed with me. I trust you for it in Jesus' name. Somebody celebrate our God by clapping your hands right there. Anybody got faith for a sibling? Anybody got faith for a sibling?

38:41 I want you standing all over this sanctuary. I want you standing. Somebody in this room. This is going to be strange. It's going to sound odd, peculiar, even weird. But I want you to be our brother. I want you to be our sister. I want you to be in the family of faith. Wherever it is that you are in this room, even if you're online and you're saying, I'm going to make this commitment even virtually.

39:18 I'm going to open the doors of the church. I got good news for you. This is nothing more than daddy's house. I am not selling you a bill of goods. just because we family don't mean we're going to agree on everything. That we're going to see eye to eye on everything. That is not what that means. Got to figure out how it is that we build and how it is that we move and how it is that we navigate this incredible thing called life. Wherever you are, sir, ma'am, you got your family here, you got your significant other here, you came by your lonesome. How would you come be in the family? Whoever you are, come join this church, wherever it is that you want.

40:04 I want you to join the church. I want you to get a family. Come on, New Birth, clap your hands as they start coming. I hope you are energized that you don't need an energy drink. What you just heard should have you off and running, chasing your dreams, pursuing your purpose, and answering your call. If this was a blessing, share it with somebody else. Don't be selfish. This is what God gave you so that you can be a blessing to somebody who needs it worse.