Bust A Move

0:20 As that you'll stand to your feet, would you accept my invitation to join me in Matthew chapter 14? As that you'll stand all over the sanctuary. JJ, thank you so very much. I don't take it lightly. You coming away on a Sunday morning is a major sacrifice. Thank you so very much. Matthew chapter 14. We're continuing in our series Stranger Things because we believe some strange things are going to happen in the month of January. Matthew chapter 14 is a familiar passage of scripture, but I hope to expose something different about it. Matthew chapter 14, verse 19 and 19 only. Matthew chapter 14, verse 19.

1:21 Once you have found it or you can see it, say I got it. Amen. Let's read together with uplifted voices. And he directed the people to sit down on the grass. Amen. Let's read it again with a little bit more Vim, Vig, and Vitality. Come on, everybody. And he directed the people to sit down on the grass. Take the five foes and the two fish, and they'll come to heaven. He gave thanks to four foes, and he gave it to the disciples, and the disciples gave it to the people. Amen. You may be seated in the presence of the Lord.

2:20 I want to preach today using as a subject, bust a move. Bust a move. Look at the person beside you. Tell them it's time for you to bust a move. My dear comrades, this is probably the first generation in a hundred years that doesn't know how to play Simon Says. Childhood obesity has risen to such gigantuan numbers because children are no longer playing outside. To make matters worse, the parents are inside as if they have a court-ordered ankle bracelet.

3:24 our bodies are designed to jump to run to twist and to walk dr andrew jagen who is a sports medicine physician said we have turned sitting into an art form without realizing that sitting as an art form comes with side effects. Hypertension, back pain, cardiovascular disease, depression, and excessive weight gain. stagnation my dear friends stagnation is a byproduct of technology 200 years ago 90 of the world lived in agricultural communities people used to only sit on average three to five hours a day which usually was taking a break from working in current times most of us sit 13 to 15 hours a day soul food was nourishment for those who extended physical exertion not designed for people sitting at a desk all of that mac and cheese all of them yams all of that chicken is a millstone around your neck if you don't exercise.

5:28 The average one of us only form of exercise is the walk to the car. Movement is medicine. Sharpens your mind, balances your body, fixes your focus. Elbow your neighbor and tell them, you got to bust a move. Dr. King challenged racism in this nation, but realized he couldn't do it sitting behind a pulpit, which is why he sprung into, here it is, the Civil Rights Movement. he marched on Washington he pulled down the curtain of segregation for the mistreatment in the south to be seen by the entire world he pushed back against unfair voting laws he pulled down Supreme Court decisions of division and stood against barking dogs and fire hoses To be clear, it was not an event. It was a movement. It was protests, legal challenges, civil disobedience, and boycotts, stretching every part of the American body politic all at the same time because he knew stagnation would be the death of us.

7:17 I rise this morning because we as a people have become lethargic, sluggish, and sedentary. Because we've been sitting so long in comfortability that we no longer feel inclined to make a move. You are in such a rush to go to brunch, to go play golf. to binge watch on Netflix that making a move is no longer even entertained in your subconscious.

8:00 ICE in Minneapolis has killed an innocent woman named Renee Mackling Good. And as of this hour, the officer will face no penalty. We're going to have to make a move. An ICE agent threw tear gas in a car full of black children, some of whom are in ICU in this moment. Just this week, one ICE agent has been charged with SA-ing a detainee because it was the only way he would allow her to get visits. visits. 1,000 more agents are headed to Minneapolis this week, not even realizing, ladies and gentlemen, that ICE is now the new slave patrol.

8:56 The Klan no longer wears hoods, they now wear masks. They are no longer volunteers. They're being paid to oppress brown and black people. The budget for ICE must be frozen immediately. If it's in Minneapolis today, it'll be in Marietta tomorrow. If you don't say anything, racism and bigotry will continue to wield its head. But I'm so glad there are some witnesses in the building that understand I cannot sit still when other people are being marginalized. Donald Trump said civil rights has made white men get treated poorly if they getting treated poorly then black people are below welfare they want to go door to door and arrest people with no warrants and no probable cause and all while he has named himself as the acting president of Venezuela He's asking Jamaicans and Haitians to self-deport, but has said nothing about illegal Germans and Italians and Swedes because they believe, here it is, that if you are black or brown, you are illegal.

10:30 But if you are European, then you are permissible. Ladies and gentlemen, the cost of living is skyrocketing. Upcoming elections are being questioned. And military leaders who speak up for accountability are having their penalty, their pensions being cut. We need a movement. But you have become so comfortable wearing Prada and Gucci and Louis Vuitton that you think that you have arrived. You are no more than a dressed up runaway slave. If you will sit back and watch other people get vilified and dehumanized and say absolutely nothing, you've got to make a move. Your ancestors are waiting for you to make a move.

11:25 After they had to march a year in Montgomery with no buses, they asking, when are you going to make a move? When they came across the Edmund Pettus Bridge and saw fire hoses and barking dogs. When are you going to make a move when children were spit on and had Coca-Cola thrown on them? Integrating schools in Little Rock, Arkansas. You got to make a move when they were burning your churches and your houses. But you sitting here with your arms folded and your legs crawled singing, we shall overcome. Well, if you believe it, bust a move and stop just talking about it and do something about it. Bishop Robert Hirschfield, the Episcopal Church of New Hampshire, had a press conference last week and he informed the clergy of his reformation to start preparing wills.

12:28 He told the clergy, this week, Bishop Robert Hirschfield did, told all of the Episcopal clergy, start preparing your wills because we have entered a new era of martyrdom. Dr. King said, if you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything. You've got to make a move. There's something I wanted to show you in sacred scripture this morning, that while it is a familiar passage, there may be something in it that you didn't see and you didn't pay attention to. there were 5,000 people who were under the Palestinian sun that were absent of food and the disciples came to Jesus and said snap benefits need to be cut off we don't have anything in the budget to feed them it would take a year of our wages in order to corral all of the resources that are necessary and he asked them do you have anything and they found a young man who was Gen Z. Wasn't a disciple, wasn't a deacon, wasn't a leader, wasn't a minister.

13:40 He was just there at the church. And said, this young man has something to offer. Ladies and gentlemen, you've got to stop overlooking the new generation. This is the oldest generation of leadership black people have ever had because we are dying with the baton in our hands. Young people want an opportunity to serve and to lead, and you cannot regulate them to youth day and the fifth Sunday. They are not the church of tomorrow because if you don't put them in position today, they won't be here tomorrow. You bring our children in church and you let them sit on their computers all day, play on their phone all day, and so the word is not getting in them, and they don't know how to pray for themselves. You got to go back to turning your home into a praying station. You got to go back to your children knowing the word of God for themselves, and being able to cry out unto God by themselves, or else they're going to get to college and lose themselves. I need somebody in the room that was raised the old school way, that before it is you could eat, you had to go around the table and everybody had to give a scripture. Y'all wasn't raised like that. Saturday night, you had to iron your clothes and fill out your giving envelope that. Sunday morning, you had to, in fact, listen to gospel on your way to church. It didn't matter how late you stayed out on Saturday night, Sunday morning as for me and my house, but look at you sitting up in church this morning and you let your kids stay in the bed as if faith is an option.

15:34 If it had not been for God, you ought to be in the house of the Lord. This young man is in church and he's got two fish and five loaves of bread. And the Bible says he took it from the young man. He blessed it. He broke it. And then he handed it to the disciples. And the disciples gave it to the people. Here's what's amazing. It's the disciples who told Jesus to send them away. And it's the disciples Jesus now makes serve. Y'all just missed it. The disciples didn't want them to have no food.

16:28 But when food comes into play, God makes them become servants over the people they didn't even want to see get fed. you better be careful how you treat God's children how you try to take away food and try to take away Medicare and try to take away affordable housing and take away access to higher education before it's all over God will make you serve the very people that you despise the last shall be first and the first shall Thank you. He said, make the people sit down. Make them sit down in order. Y'all are getting ready to miss it.

17:21 You forgot when they got there, when they got there, it is a desert. But the Lord told them, sit down. When they got there, it was a desert. but God told them sit down when they got there nothing was flourishing nothing was growing nothing was prosperous but here it is when they followed what he told them to do hallelujah you missed the first miracle the miracle is not the two fish and the five loaves of bread when they got there it was a desert but because they did what God told them to do when they sat down what was a desert was grass. Did y'all hear what I just said to you? When you are obedient to what God tells you, the stuff you thought you were going to die in, the stuff that you thought was going to dry up on you, the stuff that you thought was never going to flare, God said, I'll shift it because you follow directions.

18:26 told them sit down you sitting in grass when it used to be a desert and it's 5,000 of them and that's not even including women and children it's just 5,000 men so counting in women and children has got to be at least 10 to 12,000 people there and God took two fish five loaves of bread. Here it is. He blessed it then he broke it. He blessed it then he broke it and then he gave it to the disciples. You're not going to like it. When God is getting ready to use you he's going to bless you. You like the blessing part. You just don't like the second part.

19:22 That after he blesses you then he breaks you. The reason why your mind is still intact is he blessed you before you got broke. So that when you went broke, you didn't lose your mind because the blessing was already on you. And there's somebody in this room that ought to be tearing up your robe to thank God he blessed me before he tore me up. He blessed me before my life came in the shred. He blessed me before I lost my job. He blessed me. He broke me. And then he gave me away. Now, here's what I think that you lost from all of your years of vacation Bible school and all of your years of Sunday school.

20:15 All of your time of hearing the treatment of this text. Here's what I think you lost. is that they gave him the two fish, five loaves of bread. He blessed it. He broke it and then gave it to the disciples. Bread, hear this, did not fall from heaven. no quail came no ravens came dropping off bread the bread hear this ladies and gentlemen did not begin multiplying until the disciples started giving it as long as they held it it stayed the same number but when they started giving it it began multiplying multiplication happens in the process the principle is this when you start moving God starts multiplying I got the wrong church I better give it to you I said when you start moving, God starts multiplying. Look at the person beside you and tell them we need a movement. If the disciples did not start serving, God would not have multiplied the resource.

21:40 But when they started giving it out in groups, it began to push something in God to say because they moving, I better start moving. Look at the person beside you and say, I don't know how. You sat still for an hour and a half. If you need God to move, he's waiting on you to move. Because when you start moving, God starts multiplying stuff. He begins to add stuff to the equation that you never saw before. All right. Y'all don't believe it. All right, be seated, please. I'm coming. I'm coming. Let me, let me, let me do my work. In Exodus 14, in Exodus 14, we discover the children of Israel, watch this, have just got out of bondage. I'm in Exodus 14.

22:39 They get to the edge of the Red Sea. But here's what I needed you to see is that it wasn't until they stepped in the water. Read Exodus 14. When they stepped in the water is when God divided it. Had they just stayed on the edge of the sea looking at the waves and the wind, nothing would have happened. But when they stepped in it, stuff started separating. Some of y'all are never going to get your breakthrough because you sitting on the edge of it, but you ain't stepping into it. You want a job? You better apply for one. You want a house? You want to start driving through the neighborhood. God ain't going to stop moving until you move. Be seated, please.

23:33 I got to show you something. I got to show you something. Be seated. I got to show you something. Please, let me know. In 2 Kings chapter 5, we meet a man by the name of Naaman and when we meet this man by the name of Naaman watch what God says to him God says to Naaman go to the body of water here's what's going to mess you up I'm not going to send any of the disciples apostles or prophets with you watch what he says to Naaman get to the water I hope somebody doesn't miss their shout and dip yourself Five Orders not wait for somebody to dip you.

24:31 You gotta dip yourself. Some of y'all ain't got nothing wrong with your body. But if there's some stuff in your body, you need God to fix. God said, don't wait on the preacher to do it. Dip yourself. And don't do it just one time. Keep dipping yourself till every time you get back up, healing starts happening in your body. I dare y'all to just test it real quick. Would you just dip yourself? Your blood pressure just got regulated. Dip yourself. Everything in your reproductive organs is right on top. Dip yourself. Your kidney is functioning. Dip yourself. Your liver is operating. Dip yourself. Cancer cells are running out.

25:25 Dip yourself. No more diabetes from the top of my head to the sole of my feet. Dip your back. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Be seated, please. Be seated. You got to make a move. Hallelujah. You got to make a move. In Luke 17, in Luke 17, Jesus is walking one day and he comes upon a group of lepers and the lepers start screaming out, Son of David, have mercy on me. Hallelujah. Here's what I need you to see is Jesus never laid hands on them. He never pulled out a flask of oil. He said, go to church.

26:20 Hallelujah. Don't get a ride in a chariot. Walk there. And the Bible said as they were walking, hallelujah, they got healed. I hope your neighbor can handle the scream that's getting ready to happen. God said whatever was out of order in your life when you started walking in the new birth everything that wasn't right God said I shifted it on your way to church I can't hear nobody you could have stayed home you could have watched it online you could have stayed in the bed but I was glad when they sat under me Let's go! Be seated, please. So on your way to church, things started happening in your life.

27:17 Before you ever heard the choir sing, before the pastor started preaching, when you got out of your car, something started to shift. Look at the person beside you, tell them this is just the after party. What I needed from God happened on my way to church. I had a weight on my back. I had a devil on my heel. But the closer I got to church, the closer I got to my delivery. I don't need everybody to shout. The Bible said nine of them got healed at the exact same time. Look at the person beside you and tell them I'm looking for my tribe. There are eight other people that are getting ready to get healed like me. But the ones that are going to get healed like me, they're not sitting still.

28:11 They're getting ready to bust a move. God said, if you find your other eight, what I do for you, I'm going to do for all of them. The way that I make for you, I'm going to make it for all. Hold on. Hold on. Be seated. I got to show you something. I got to show you something. Be seated. Hallelujah. Be seated, please. 2 Kings chapter 4. 2 Kings chapter 4. A widow woman is getting ready to die. And the prophet says, what do you have? She said, all I got is a little bit of oil. Having the oil was not enough. y'all dismiss what I just said having the oil was not enough said you gotta pour but don't just pour lock your children in the room so that the same oil you carry will be splattered on them I can't hear nobody there's getting ready to be an oil spill in aisle five if you don't need nothing to happen for the next generation keep your oil to yourself but God said if you pour your oil whatever it is that you didn't have to pay the bills it's getting ready to be unlocked in your life come on y'all I'm about ready to have church but you grab that neighbor's hand and say neighbor I tried to keep it to myself but I got some motion getting ready to happen my oil is getting ready to spit.

30:00 Whatever God put in my life is getting ready to pour into you. I should have been dead. I should have been in my grave. I should have lost my mind. If you knew what I endured, you'd feel sorry for me. How am I still standing? The oil started pouring. I told you to grab that neighbor's Tell your neighbor ready or not, the oil's getting ready to come. When I shout this time, your cup is about to run over and goodness and mercy is going to follow you all the days of your life. I got to make an announcement, the oil is blowing. Come on, cry out loud.

30:54 The oil is blowing. It's blowing on your children. It's blowing in your house. It's blowing in your job. It's blowing in your body. It's blowing in your mind. The oil. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

31:17 You may be seated for the last time. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Be seated for the last time. For the last time. Be seated, please. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

31:43 I got to tell you something. And then I'm going to go. Dr. Tyler Rawolf said this. Golf God often reveals provision. I don't want you to miss it. God reveals provision in motion, not in hesitation. I said it too fast. God reveals provision in motion, not in hesitation. Some breakthroughs don't happen until you start moving. provision is not allocated for those who are stagnant. Come on, here it is. You already know the law. Whatever is in motion stays in motion unless an outside force comes to distract it off of your motion. Everything you've been going through over the last 18 months was to stop you from getting some traction.

32:51 And you made it into God's house, weary, worn, and sad. But you found in him a resting place, and he has made you glad. Hallelujah. I came to Jesus as I was, but I feel like they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They'll mount up on wings as eagles. They'll run and not get weary. They'll walk and they will not fight. Grab somebody. Come on, shake them real good. And tell your neighbor, he almost got canceled this week. But because he canceled himself, it's all right to quote Ludacris. When I move, you move just like that see some of y'all thought that when I dance it's because of the choir and the drums that ain't why you're moving I'm moving cause I need to move for God I need him to handle a situation I need him to get in a circumstance I need him to turn tables around if I didn't need nothing I would sit there with my arms folded and my legs crossed.

34:18 But you don't know how bad life has been for me. And I can't go another week in the same position that I was in last week. So I will bless the Lord at all times. And His praise will continuously be in my mouth. Here's the deal If you don't need nothing Stay where you are But if this is an emergency Situation That you need God To do something By Tuesday morning I only got directions For you Bunch to move Jump if you got to Run if you got to Dance if you got to Holler if you got to.

35:13 I said I wasn't gonna tell nobody. But I just can't keep it to myself. Bust a move. Your son is on the line. Bust a move. Your daughter is on the line. Bust a move. Your house is on the line. Let Mount Zion rejoice. Rejoice. Ignite. Hallelujah Hallelujah Miracles Miracles don't happen for the stagnant. miracles only happen for the active I want you as slowly as you can would you just turn in a circle right where you are Sooner or later It's turning around right now.

36:37 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.