Have you ever pondered why God only provides a glimpse into the forthcoming dimension, but will never give a full synopsis of what’s to come? This deliberate omission of details is intended to broaden your faith, for your next stage requires a door. And, humility is a prerequisite to access the entrance. Although you may feel uncomfortable due to the uncertainty, trust that the proverbial doors develop humility! You are a door as well. Like Jesus is to our salvation, your selflessness is the entryway to someone’s expansion (John 10:9). When you leverage your power to help elevate others, God will inevitably advance you!
I want you to get your Bibles I’m gonna
go right into the Word of God will
receive the offering at the end of the
service we’re gonna go right into the
Word of God we’re going into the book of
Acts chapter 10 I got you
we’re gonna reverse five and then verse
24 down through verse 29 of the book of
Acts and you have its Amen and now send
men to Joppa and call for one Simon
whose surname is Peter and the morrow
after they entered into Caesarea and
Cornelius waited for them and had called
together his kinsmen and his near
friends and as Peter was coming in
Cornelius met him and fell down at his
feet and worshiped him but Peter took
him up saying stand up I myself also am
a man and as he walked with him and as
he talked with them he went in and found
many that were come together and he said
unto them he know how that it is
unlawful it is an unlawful thing for
another for a man that is a Jew to keep
company or come unto one of another
nation but God have showed me that I
should not call any man common or
unclean therefore came I unto you
without gain saying as soon as I was sit
for I asked therefore what intent ye
have sent for me come back to verse 25
because I’m really gonna focus there and
then I’m going everywhere but I’m gonna
start at verse 25 and maybe even verse
26 and as Peter was coming in as Peter
was coming in as Peter was coming in
Cornelius met him and fell down at his
feet of washing him but Peter took him
up saying stand up I myself also am but
a man I want to use a subject this
morning the door of expansion
the door of expansion I’m going to say
that again the door of expansion get it
in your head get it in your heart get it
in your mind get it in your spirit get
it in your life you’re coming to a door
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you’re coming to a door of expansion a
stretching place a door of expansion
let’s pray spirit of the Living God fall
afresh on us today we come here Lord
empty before you saying fill us we come
thirsty that we might drink we come
hungry that we might eat we come
ignorant that we might learn we come
open that we might be filled we we come
here available that we might experience
we are not just sitting in the building
we are not just here with our mind
somewhere else we are present and
accounted for we come because we respect
you and we honor you and we want to hear
from you we come because we esteem your
word more than our necessary food we
come because we know how wicked we are
left without you we come because we know
how wicked our generation is around us
we come because we have enemies that
seek to destroy us we come because we
have a devil to fight we come because we
want to shield around our families we
come because we lack wisdom without you
we come because we are fools without you
we come because your direction is better
than our own open our hearts and open
our spirits that we might be filled with
the Word of God
thank you for what you’re about to do in
this place in the name of Jesus we pray
somebody shout amen
you may be seated in the presence of the
Lord on your way down I’m looking
somebody say hi
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hi as about his country as you can have
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especially if you put a little Texas
twang to it hi
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the book of Acts all by itself is quite
complicated really it is it is an
expression of a man first attempt to
carry out the Mandate of God without the
physical presence of God there to steer
it it is it is the trial flight of these
new apostles as they step into
leadership and more importantly
understanding what the leader has spoken
there is a great gulf between what the
leader has spoken
and what the student understands I have
learned as a pastor that just because
you teach something one time doesn’t
mean people got it I have learned in the
process of teaching on Sunday morning
that that there are people who do not
hear what you said then there are people
who hear what they want you to have said
I’m amazed I’m so glad that I live in a
generation of social media because
sometimes they write what they got out
of the message and I can tell that I
didn’t say that you know but they you
know the Lord spoke right through you
and told me to leave my husband I didn’t
say a word about your husband I don’t
even know your husband don’t use me as
the fall guy if you’re gonna leave just
leave don’t blame the bishop people
don’t really really get it all at once
and so the Apostles are now grappling to
see how they have successfully retained
an adequate understanding of the Word of
God because you cannot teach what you do
not understand you cannot teach what you
do not understand and and and this this
book is quite quite interesting or if
they have they are now up under the
administration of the Holy Spirit the
Christ that was with them is now in them
and now the voice of surrounded them now
speech from the inside and the problem
with the voice has speaks from the
inside is that it is not the only voice
that speaks when God speaks within you
there you have to filter because there
are other voices and speak inside of you
your past your history your religious
tradition your own opinion your own
ideology and it is easy to confuse the
voice of God with your own opinion and
so the disciples are trying to learn how
to differentiate what is God and what is
me what is God and what is my teaching
what is God and what is my tradition
what is God and whatever of my personal
proclivities what is God and what is
religion and understanding the
difference between those voices is a
process to which big proper with all of
their lives and they disagree amongst
themselves and the disagreement becomes
intense and exciting I’m exhilarated to
know that they are
fought amongst themselves that gives me
some sense of comfort to know that
because I know that preachers today are
still debating texts and it’s good to
know that even those who heard Jesus
directly heard different ideas and
grumbled to understand what he said and
I understand that because he said my
thoughts are above your thoughts and my
ways are above your ways as high as the
heaven he is above the earth so are my
thoughts above your thoughts if he were
easily understood if he were easily
diagnosed he would not be God if he
could be explained he would not be God
because anything that can be explained
to be managed God can never be explained
stop trying to explain God to people
stop arguing at work trying to explain
God this is this thing about God has not
received through intellectualism God
cannot be explained
he must be experienced he must be
revealed
he must be revealed walked out in your
life and in your circumstances and
little by little he wings us from the
elementary fundamental ideologies that
started us on our way and we graduate
from faith to faith and from glory to
glory in our understanding if we are not
afraid to let go of what we once held
that’s true addition was all that was
true until they taught me multiplication
and multiplication was all that was true
until they brought up algebra and
algebra was all that was true until they
introduced me to trigonometry and every
round got higher and higher and higher
and in order to embrace the next
principle I had to be willing to move
beyond
the one that I was taught before the
moving beyond is so hard it is so hard
to move beyond when we come to the tenth
chapter of the book of Acts
after the explosion in the chapter 2
proceeding in chapter 2 we have the
invasion the inauguration I should say
not invasion the inauguration of the
Holy Spirit as it fell on the day of
Pentecost inaugurating the dispensation
of the Holy Spirit reigning over this
era of the church age and the regalia is
so powerful that it comes with wind and
sound and tongues as of Poland fire as
the Holy Spirit sits upon the throne of
authority and takes over his residence
over the early church it is so powerful
that the men who experienced not
explained experience God were accused of
being drunk drunk up under the power of
God intoxicated so drunk and so rowdy
and so noisy that it disrupted a city
and people who were doing business
stopped doing business and came to see
what wine these men were drinking it was
powerful because behind that we have
demonstrations of the Holy Spirit
healing and delivering and setting
people free delivering them from all of
their conditions we have the lay man at
the gate called beautiful when Peter and
John come up at the hour of prayer and
they by the Bible says they said look on
us and the man was healed and leaped up
on feet that didn’t work before and
started dancing and leaping and praising
God their power was so strong that their
shadows were falling on people and they
were being healed but it is possible to
have more power or Talent
did you do understanding sometimes your
gift or your talent or your anointing
will take you into places that your head
is
before I should have to think that some
of the opportunities I had early in my
ministry my ministry had brought me into
places that my experience was not
prepared for and I was in that in my
mind as I get older I’d like to do a
do-over because now I understand more
expressly what is expected of me than I
did at the time in the moment up under
the stress of having an opportunity for
which I was not ready to handle I gave
what I could but not what I should can I
get a witness somewhere now God is
dealing with their minds and dealing
with their spirits and and I am
fascinated because the tif chapter is I
have never seen a chapter in the Bible
where it is so apparent that God is
weaving lives together that he is
preparing simultaneously two different
men from two different worlds from two
different cultures from two different
ideologies one without the knowledge of
the other that he weaves their
experience together that by the time
they collide something happens it is
here that we understand the Providence
of God that God is not just getting you
ready for it
God is getting it ready for you it is
here that we appreciate that while
Abraham was walking up one side of the
hill with his son Isaac that the RAM was
walking up the other side of the hill so
that the RAM would be there by the time
that the son got there so that Abraham
would not slay his son God said Behold a
ram
tied in the thicket they must have been
climbing at the same time without each
other’s awareness and it makes me wonder
what God’s got coming up the hill for
you
sometimes you’re so engrossed with the
journey of what you’re going through in
the rocks and the ridges and the heels
of the valleys you have to climb you are
not cognizant of the fact that God’s got
a blessing coming up the same side the
other side of the mountain coming up to
meet you that when God orchestrates our
affairs it’s not just you that he’s
moving in situations and circumstances
and other people and sometimes it’s not
the problem whether you are ready or not
the problem is are they ready or not and
God has to get them ready so that when
we’re ready we all get to the same blaze
at the same time and such is the case in
the doorway of Cornelius house it all
collides in the door it all collides in
the door Cornelius this Italian
satirists interior who is a head of a
band of soldiers called the Italian man
Cornelius who is a devout and spiritual
man Cornelius who is a generous man who
has given alms all of his life and a man
of prayer and concentration a man of
discipline and a man of order but is a
Gentile man Cornelius is a man that God
has noticed and touched and moved in and
out of his life even though technically
he was without covenant not of the
Commonwealth of Israel not one of the
sons of Abraham not one that you would
traditionally think of as being a
believer as such and yet he has had an
experience with God that has warmed the
commendations of God it must be these
type of people that Jesus was speaking
of when he said other sheep have eyes
who are not of this fold them also must
I bring I want to point that out to you
because traditional Orthodox Judaism
would have considered Cornelius a dog a
dog is a biblical name for somebody who
is not of covenant it would not have
considered him eligible to receive the
kind of blessing or have the depth of
relationship that he did it makes me
wonder if there are some people that we
have maxed out that God has x10 and in
it it makes me it makes me wonder
because God says to Cornelius your
prayers have gone up before me as a
memorial and I have watched your giving
I have watched your generosity
I have watched how you took care of
others I have watched how you have given
arms I have watched how your support it
lets me know that God watches over your
giving that could be a scary thought for
somebody but just take a deep breath
breathe in breathe out it’s going to be
okay that he maybe that’s why Jesus set
by the table and was watching their
giving when the widow gave her might and
Jesus knew and took attention of what
they were giving he set by the offering
table and watch them as a game he told
Cornelius I seen your giving and I’ve
heard your prayers and now I’m getting
ready to do something awesome in your
life he does this through a vision he
shows him through a vision I’m getting
ready to do something awesome in your
life I’m getting ready to do something
amazing in your life I’m getting ready
to blow your mind
I’m not gonna give you any details I’m
not gonna go into much depth about it
but I’m getting ready to blow your mind
with what I’m about to do
your life and God is big old ideas but
he’s short on details you meant said God
is big on ideas but he’s short of
details and so he will give you an
overview but he won’t give you a
detailed synopsis Oh glory to God
because he wants you to walk by faith
and not by sight and if he explained too
much he wouldn’t need faith and so God
is not big on details he just says
something amazing is about to happen and
I I don’t know why he’s gotta be
preaching there this morning
except my sense if there are some people
in this role that every time the enemy
tried to kill and destroy you you held
on if you had to hold on by a thread
because he kept on believing that
something amazing was about to happen in
my life I can’t explain it I don’t know
where it’s coming from I don’t know who
it’s coming through I don’t want there
to be here Tuesday or Friday right but
something amazing is about to happen in
my life and God’s giving me an idea but
I’m gonna have details
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[Music]
so I don’t think I’ll die today
I think I’ll fight death off today I
don’t think I’ll quit today even though
our arms are weary and my back is aching
and my feet are tired I don’t think I’ll
quit today because I’m taunted by
tomorrow I think something is going to
happen but I don’t know exactly I don’t
know exactly what it is
Cornelius invites all of his friends and
all of his family to come over to his
house after he comes out of this dream
and sends his servants to Joppa and
since I’m up through Caesarea and sends
them to the coast to the Tanners house
where Peter is lodging there in the
tanners house Peter doesn’t even have
his own place to stay he’s staying with
Simon the Tanner you know Simon Simon
whose house is down by the seaside
Cornelius has now sent his servants
notice Cornelius is wealthy enough to
have servants powerful enough to have a
hundred men up under him he now sends
his servants go to Joplin
fetch Peter the Lord said that he would
be at Simon the Tanners house down by
the seaside and bringing the here to me
why I don’t know what’s going to happen
I’m not sure all I know is said the Lord
told me
and now now on the other hand well the
Lord was talking to Cornelius about what
to do and who to sin for and how to sin
for them and even knew his address if I
was at home I would shout by myself
because dr. James I get happy when I
think that God knows my address he knows
where I live in whose house upstanding
he knows where to find me when other
people don’t know where to find me have
you ever had people try to find you and
they didn’t know where you were at but
God knows exactly where you’re at you
know Simon down the panner he’s over in
his house over by the seaside when God
gets ready to get you he knows exactly
where you’re at and he knows how to
reach down and sin for you and get your
attention meanwhile back home at the
ranch while God is appearing in a vision
to Cornelius he is appearing to Peter in
a dream Peter is hungry and they’re
fixing him something to eat Peter is
angry and they’re fixing him something
to eat and he goes up on the rooftop and
falls asleep and while he falls asleep
he he he falls asleep hungry he’s hungry
and he falls asleep and while he’s
hungry and he fall asleep he dreams and
like most people who fall asleep hungry
he dreams about food
what else would you dream about if you
went to bed hungry you dream about food
because he was hungry and while he was
dreaming he saw articles coming down out
of heaven all types of animals
four-footed beasts of all types and
descriptions these are beasts that that
the Old Testament would have said were
unclean they were coming down out of
heaven and they were unclean and and and
and when they came down of the voice
spoke and said rise Peter slay and eat
and he said no Lord I have never ever
eaten any of these beasts which means I
have been devoutly committed to my
teaching all of my life I have never
tasted it maybe he was vegan
I’m not thrown off for nobody I’m not
looking at nobody
he had never eaten any of these meats
and God says how dare you call what I
have cleansed uncommon or unclean I’m
still struck that the unclean beasts
came down out of heaven
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that something that looked wrong came
from someplace right is still amazing to
me something that was forbidden by law
came down out of heaven and God said how
dare you call what I have cleansed
uncommon or unclean he did not deny that
they were unclean animals because God
cannot deny his own law when God says
something is unclean it’s unclean but if
God said it was unclean and His Word
made it unclean then his word can make
it clean it is what God says it is yeah
if it was a bitter kiss he says it’s
unclean it’s unclean but if an axe he
says it’s clean that which was unclean
is now clean and if you don’t believe in
that you don’t believe in salvation and
if you don’t believe it that’s you don’t
believe in Redemption and if you don’t
believe in that you don’t believe in
regeneration and if you don’t believe in
that you don’t believe it you
because you who were uncommon and
unclean have been cleanse at the Word of
God they have been sanctified by the
word the word has liberated you but
somebody still sees you by your old
definition and we all have to live with
people who see us by our old definition
God always let somebody survive to bring
up what you used to do to doubt the
integrity of where you are now to
question the legitimacy of your
salvation your conversion your sincerity
your marriage your life your tenacity
there’s always somebody who’s reading
old data about you no matter how much
good you do there’s always somebody
who’s reading old data on you Peter was
reading old data and he had decided that
the meats were unclean now God is using
the meat to talk to him about men
this text is not about food it’s about
bias
it’s about religious ideas it’s it’s
about disagreements and hating people
and ostracizing people because they do
not fit your traditional understanding
of who God is or what God does or what
God would like or what God would have
you know all you got to do is learn five
scriptures and you become an expert on
who God loves and who God has it and if
you learn ten scriptures you get the
keys to heaven so you can send people to
hell that disagree with you because
[Applause]
it matter how it works at that’s how
people act like it works that now you
get to say where I get to go whether I
get to go to a place that you ain’t got
yet that they’re always kind of that
just kind of boggles my mind that you
get to lock me out of some place that
you have never been kind of confuses me
[Applause]
it’s all the people who are tweeting
hewn and and said getting on your sites
and telling you you’re going to hell and
that you can’t go to heaven remember
they haven’t got there yet either
[Applause]
you can’t lock me out if you ain’t in
we can debate whatever you want to
debate we can talk about whatever we
want to talk about but we need to talk
about it as men not as if you are God
and I am man not on two different levels
no we have to talk about it like men
with mutual respect because if you don’t
humble yourself to have conversation
rather than condemnation you lift
yourself up as a god and after all do
you really know what you’re talking
about
do you really know I mean no I’m not
talking about believe do you really know
what you’re talking about
and God begins to deal with Peter and he
he’s getting Peter Remy because he’s
been talking to Cornelius and if he
doesn’t get Peter ready
then when Cornelius sends his servants
Peter would never go now let me stop you
just a minute because in my mind Peter
should be further than this Peter should
be further than see see the reason Peter
wouldn’t normally go is because he would
have to eat with the Gentiles and in my
mind Peter should be further than this
because because Jesus has demonstrated
his power in the life of Gentiles before
he has healed the Seraph remission woman
healed her daughter anyway and
acknowledge that he has not found so
great of faith in all of Israel he has
seen Jesus go outside the box and sit
down by the well and wait for the woman
from Samaria to come he has heard Jesus
preach on the good samaritan redefining
as i did last week who is your neighbor
he was there on the day of pentecost
when the bike with the Holy Ghost fell
and God said you shall receive power
after that the Holy Ghost is come upon
you and he plainly said ye shall be
witnesses unto me in Judea Samaria and
the uttermost parts of the earth you
would think that all of these classes
would have led him to a deeper
revelation of God the people don’t
change easy
you wouldn’t think that Peter would need
a dream to confirm what he had heard
Jesus say right out of his mouth but
something that has been hammered into
you deeply does not come out easily so
for fear that Peter is not prepared for
this opportunity for fears that some
hidden implicit bias might be operating
in his life that makes him reject a
moment that would change the rest of his
life for fear that Peter would miss this
door in his life for fear that Peter
would walk away from what was meant to
be a life-changing experience in his
life for fear that Peter would be hungry
for something and yet be so biased that
he would refuse to eat that’s why I took
the time to emphasize that he was hungry
sometimes we were hungry for something
and when God sends that we reject it
because our hunger is not even enough to
make us think beyond our tradition
hunger is one of the strongest cravings
in the human body but even that was not
enough to overcome bias by the time
Cornelius
servants get down to Simon the Tanners
house and go up to Joppa and come down
by the sea siding and say you have been
invited to come to Cornelius house the
only thing that makes him go to
Cornelius house is that he has had a
dream that a door is about to open
I told them but only five people got it
the only thing that made him take the
risk and goal is that he has had a dream
that a door is about to open I think
about a hundred of them got it the only
thing that made him take the risk and go
where he had never gone before is that
he had had a dream that a door is about
to open yeah I got a big crowd from over
there somebody over there has a dream
that a door is about to open you don’t
have any details but you know a door is
about toes but you don’t know wheels but
you know a door is about the head you
don’t know what this believes itself
sounds or the east side but the door is
about to open you don’t know what this
comes to this job or that job to a
friend or an enemy to a friend or an
enemy but you know that a door is about
to open because God doesn’t always use
your friends to bless you sometimes God
uses something that you would reject
what do you do when God puts your
blessing in a house whose door you would
never go in what do you do when God
sends your healing in a church that you
said you’d never come to what do you do
when God has the answer to the problem
in your marriage but you don’t like that
preacher you don’t agree with that
theology you don’t embrace that doctrine
and you don’t embrace him that dude and
yet God would put your breakthrough
behind what you might receive as enemy
lines
if he didn’t ever do that you would
never be stretched when God gets ready
to stretch you he puts your blessings in
places that challenges your tradition
when God gets ready to bless you
he puts your blessings in places that
challenge your comfort zone when God
gets ready to bless you he takes you out
of your element and puts your blessings
in a place of discomfort because God
wants to stretch you the way you think
the way you function the way you do the
way you move have you ever had god
strats you
[Applause]
now Peter is going down to Cornelius
house and they’re coming down from Joppa
down to Cornelius house to have an
encounter with God and Cornelius has
invited all of its friends and his
family to something
he’s not really sure what he’s invited
him to but he’s so excited that the
house is full of people and then he
hears that knock at the door what drew
me to the text in the first place is not
the meat or the clean and unclean and
it’s not the Italian soldiers it’s none
of that that drew me to the text in the
first place what drew me to the text in
the first place
what’s the door yeah I was reading the
text and I got stuck at the door and I
asked myself what what is a door what is
it door the word door is not used it
just says that that Peter entered in but
I have an assistant know that if you
enter in you had to come in through the
door because doors are how you get in
yeah for anything I want to get into I
have to find them yeah if I don’t find
the door I’ll never get in and when I
think about a door I think about a wood
frame and a doorknob and a handle and
shutting my turn and I open it and I
come in and I walked in the door and
that’s how my mind pitches the door
until I remember that Jesus said
[Applause]
and so suddenly I begin to realize that
my understanding of a door is limited to
my past experiences that I see doors as
wood and brass handles but God sees
doors as access to new dimensions
because when Jesus says I am the door he
is me the wood nor handle he is a place
of access to the next dimension and for
everything you’re trying to get into
there is a there is a door and I want to
warn you that all doors are not made
awarded all doors don’t have handles but
all doors do access something that you
were locked out from before and somebody
in this room
the Lord said you’re standing at a door
you’re standing at a door and I want you
to be careful that you don’t think that
a door is always a door it might be a
person it might be a job it might be an
opportunity it might be a place but God
said you’re standing
[Applause]
Tessa might say this is a lure you don’t
understand it but this is the door this
is a door this is a door this thing this
thing that’s going on in your life right
now the Holy Spirit said this is the
door this thing the thing that you’re
contemplating right now this thing that
you’re wrestling with and gruffly with
the Holy Ghost said it is the door it is
the door it is the door it may not have
wood it may not have handles it may not
have a locker the key but it is a door
it is access it is a point of entry
it is a door I have met people that were
doors I have spoken places that were
doors that one place opened up a door
preachers don’t wait on the big
engagements because doors are not always
being the room may be bigger than the
door one time I spoke at a little place
did hand but 40 people but one person
heard me and brought me before thousands
of people the room is always bigger than
the door so don’t save your best stuff
for the big crowds use your best stuff
even when the door is small just because
the door is small doesn’t mean that the
room is small
no matter how big the room is with Oscar
you must come in at the door
are y’all a two-yard and no never but
them old soul but the whole song says
you must come in at the door so what
drew me to the text was the door and I
struggled to understand the door because
when when the wooden Cornelius opens
this door and he sees Peter he
prostrates himself on the floor he
prostrates himself on the floor and
warships Peter he is a man in and under
Authority he is a man of power and
influence you have to be a big guy to go
low
[Applause]
only little guys stay puffed up
because they don’t feel safe enough to
go low you have to be strong to go low
you have to know who you are to be
willing to get down low yo y’all hear
what I’m saying what I’m saying is so
good about to shop myself I learned a
long time ago that people who are
arrogant are always small they’re small
people dress up in the air get close to
make themselves look big so that you’ll
be distracted from knowing that inside I
am small you have to be big enough
inside to get down low cuz you know if I
got down I can get back up again
Oh y’all hear what I’m saying oh I feel
like getting down this morning
Canadians went down will old Canadians
went down low because he was high
Cornelius went down low because humility
is important at the door you will never
get in the door if you do have humility
is a prerequisite for access to the next
dimension trust me when I tell you
you’ll never get in too high but if you
get down low
if we get down low if you get down low
you can get in where how people get
stuck at the door but low people can
slide into the crevice but you can’t get
low
unless you’re big enough
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big people do not see humility as a
problem because they know who they are
no matter what position they’re in I’ve
noticed when we have our Leadership
Conference the smallest passengers
demand the biggest seats the people with
the least name cry for recognition
people with big names try to be obscure
they try to slip in and go unnoticed
people with little names demand that
they be called and recognized and sit up
front and move me over here and sent me
over there and they got four or five
security people nobody trying to kill
you they don’t know you
but-but-but when you’re small Oh y’all
can handle it when you’re small you
gotta like be when you’re being you try
to be small
so what drove me to the text was the
door the Cornelius barrels down at his
old house this is my house I don’t have
to do but this is my you came to my
house I sit for you by my power My
servants brought you down the road
my horses rode you down to here you
walked up my sidewalk you came up to my
door and now Cornelius Lea prostrate in
his own house I told you he was big
enough to go down low it’s one thing for
me to bow down in your house but it’s
another thing for me to bow down and man
I’ll make the payments up in here how
this house up in here come on somebody
and yet he thought it not robbery and he
humbled himself and he got down on the
floor and his theology is off he doesn’t
know much because he worships Peter he
worships Peter and I thought to myself I
wonder how uncomfortable Peter must have
been to know that the guy who’s on his
face worshipping him is the guy that God
had to talk you into coming to his house
can you see the dichotomy there that the
Cornelius thinks so much of him that he
over inflates Peters importance he over
inflates the importance of a guy who
didn’t even want to eat with him
and so when Peter when I used to read it
I thought Cornelius is just off and he’s
just crazy and Peter is just humble and
he just he just tells him get up don’t
worship me I’m better man and and now
when I read it I don’t know whether he
was whether Peter was humble or guilty
because there’s nothing like being
treated nice by somebody you’ve been
talking about
the Bible says the goodness of God
needed to repentance and that’s why
Jesus said do good to them that
despitefully use you because when you do
good to them you shame them you shame
them because they’ll find out that
you’re not what they thought you were
see you mess up when you try to go
toe-to-toe and be nasty – they’re nasty
be nice – they’re nasty because when
you’re nice to them nasty you disgrace
them here you supposed to be the man of
God I’m supposed to be the dog and Here
I am at my old house
so what drove me to the text teller was
I got stuck at the door I got stuck in
the door and suddenly I realize that God
is stretching both of them he is
stretching both of them he is stretching
Cornelius with an opportunity that is
beyond his wildest imagination Cornelius
house is the icon it is the app that
opens up a new dimension of salvation to
the Gentiles and app is what you click
on the access a program that is bigger
than what you touched Cornelius house is
a app Peter had to touch to open up the
Gentile nation
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ah the human I’m saying to you do you
hear what I’m saying and God is
stretching Cornelius he said your arms
have gone up before me your prize’ have
gone up before me I’m getting ready to
take you into a new dimension a new
expression of yourself can I teach this
word Cornelius doesn’t know that he is
the door
he thinks he’s out of door
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see some of you think that you are at a
door and you don’t recognize that you
so so so so oh my god oh my god oh my
god I’m not to get happy of my own
creatures because suddenly I realize I
got a go at Azure oh I will drive this
home can I Drive home lay your hands on
yourself say I am a door yeah yeah I am
a door that’s what Jesus said I am the
door I want you to be like Jesus lay
your hands on you said say I am a door
it may be possible that the enemy may
not be attacking you because you are you
it may be possible that the enemy is
attacking you because you are in door it
may be possible that the enemy is trying
to take you out because he’s after
what’s behind you you are a door I don’t
know who I’m talking to but you had to
be here this morning because you are a
door that’s why your childhood was so
rough that’s why your life has been so
tough the enemy’s been trying to stop
you not just because you’re at a door
but because you are a door
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being around you
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somebody given 30 seconds of rising
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just three people say I am a
door-to-door I am a door I am the door I
am a point of entry I am access I am
access to another dimension I am a
drawer there’s something behind me
there’s something that I opened up
there’s something that I bring that
nobody brings like I bring when I bring
it I am a door that’s why the devil
hates me because I am a door that’s why
the Lord called me because I am a door
that’s why people are drawn to me
because I am a door that’s why people
are attracted to me because I am a door
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yeah
yeah yeah yeah
you open up to something you open up to
something you open up to something
Cornelius does not know that he is a
door he knows that he is a soldier but
he didn’t know that he’s a door he knows
he’s a commander but he doesn’t know
that he’s a door he knows that he’s a
giver but he doesn’t know that he’s a
door he knows that he’s a proud warrior
but he doesn’t know that he’s a door he
knows that he loves God but he doesn’t
know that he’s a door sometimes you need
to know you’re a door why am I trying to
get next to you cuz you adore you lead
to something you open up something you
got access to something knowing you gets
me into something you are
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tell Sam I said on the door
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now I see why he was a giver
cuz when you’re ador you’re a giver
you get fulfilment by giving something
cuz you’re a dog when your adoring your
humble because you know it ain’t about
you it’s about the road it’s about the
rule not just the door it’s about the
room nobody lives on a door nobody eats
on a door nobody raises their family on
a door a door his access
we got a door standing at the door we
got Peter who preached the inaugural
message on the day of Pentecost who is
also a door Peter is a door because he
unlocks the New Testament experience of
the Holy Ghost
that’s what Jesus called him a rock
Peters our rock and upon this rock I’ll
build my church the revelation you got
is what I’m gonna build my church on and
so Peter too is a door coming to a door
to meet a door and they are all stuck at
the door and this is a place of
expansion
when doors meet doors
I will say that it all in the balcony
window sweep doors
you’ve been meeting locks but you’re
about to be the door when doors need
doors things expand when doors be doors
things expand God has a door coming to
me the door standing in a door because
somebody’s about to be expanded if
you’re about to expand give him a praise
right now
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I want to go on and I keep I keep
getting in this thing all of you doors
need to meet doors all your doors need
to meet doors doors deserve doors all of
those opportunists are not doors
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they’re trying to get to you so they can
get through you but when doors meet
doors there will always be expansion I
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had a meeting with a guy the other day
I’d never met him before in my life but
when I met him I felt like I’d always
known him and he was telling me about
his story he’s he’s that he’s a
billionaire now but he started out
talking about eating little hominy grits
and and and being raised with nothing
and slop jars at outhouses and his story
sounded like my story and and I liked
him without trying
and I told myself to slow down and not
like it because I don’t know him but but
but I knew him without knowing anything
because doors no doors doors no doors
y’all don’t know what I’m saying to you
when a door leads the door you recognize
it as a door is something
philosophically connected between the
two of you where you connect on a level
without strain I knew I was sitting
across the table from a door and we were
staring at each other trying to figure
out what we could do together
what we could make together what we
could build together what we couldn’t
become together because I knew I had
made an appointment with the door and
the door was looking at the door and we
knew it was a point of expansion now
this is a prophetic word this is not a
sermon for your entertainment this is a
word of direction for your edification
this is a word from the Lord saying that
he is bringing a door to your door
and that you are a door coming to a door
and you are coming to a place of
expansion oh yes you’re coming to a
place of expansion this is a word of
revelation from the Lord saying to you
that you have to be willing to give up
on your ass revelation to be stretched
into a new direction this is a word from
God preparing you that these will be
unlikely doors they will not be obvious
doors there will be doors that challenge
the way you think and the way you
perceive things they will be doors that
do not meet within the landscape of your
normal philosophical ideas this is a
word from the Lord warning you not to
walk in what he has said
oh this is tough now this is tough now
this is a word from the Lord say you
cannot get there walking and what I have
said you have to get there walking in
the word that I am saying because if
Peter continued to walk in the word that
God had said he would have never come to
Cornelius house because it was God that
said don’t eat with the Gentiles in
Leviticus but now in Acts he has clean
what was unclean and what was wrong is
now right and you have to be broad
enough to handle a God in transition and
not just a God of tradition because
doors are transition not tradition doors
are transitioned and you cannot have
transition if you hold on to your
tradition and that’s where God is
stretching you because if he does not
break your old normal you will miss this
new opportunity my god I feel the Holy
Ghost
Kenna Kenna can I go deeper now the door
has come to the door and they’re
standing at the door and Cornelius has
prostrate himself on the floor and Peter
who would have thought himself a seed of
Abraham and Cornelius a dog in the face
of Cornelius humility reaches down and
raises him up and says I am but a man in
other words we are the same
the guy who wouldn’t go to his house
because they weren’t the same now sees
him answer saying because Cornelius has
lowered himself to the point that Peter
now humbles himself to say you don’t
have to warn me I am but a a man can I
teach this and Peter says you know my
tradition says that I should not be here
the only reason I came is that God gave
me a dream to come why have you sent for
me in other words I have come to a place
of uncertainty
not less lenient on this everybody at
this place this door is at a place of
uncertainty
peter has traveled all the way to get to
a place of uncertainty help me Holy
Ghost
you have come from a place of once being
sure of yourself help me Lord
to a place of uncertainty
the stress of being uncertainty
it’s weighing you down
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because you are saying why am I here
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what am i bringing do I have any value
in this situation
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the worst thing in the world for a
leader to feel is uncertain both of
these men are leaders but how can I do
what I do when I don’t know why I’m here
and I don’t know what I’m doing in a
place of confusion and I’m trying to act
like I’ve got it together
because I don’t mind worshipping and I
don’t mind wearing prostrate on the
floor but it’s hard for me to admit that
I was have been confused because I have
come to a stage listen listen I’ve come
to a stage in my life that I’m not sure
what’s gonna happen next
and Cornelius has brought all these
people to his house but he’s not sure
why he invited them because he could not
know what was about that and Peter has
come all the way down from Joppa the
teacher the inaugural preacher on the
day of Pentecost comes to a door and
says why am I here I want to talk to you
about the feeling you have not been
talking to anybody about
but has you sitting on the side of the
bed at night saying why am I here
what is my value here I have come to a
place of uncertainty and uncertainty is
uncomfortable because I cannot for the
life of me figure out what’s gonna
happen next I have been led to a place
of confusion and I am not sure where I
belong
what I’m to do I’m to say right sure
I dress sure I want sure I talk sure but
when I take off all of this stuff and I
lay down in the bed at night I whispered
to my god I’m not sure
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I don’t know I used to know when I was
20 I thought I knew I knew you know I
knew everything I knew
now at the time that I’m older and
should know the most I know the lease
and no wonder Cornelius Lee prostate on
the floor because it is in the doors of
uncertainty that we develop humility oh
my god it is it is see when you think
you know everything you’re arrogant when
you come to the point that you’re
willing to admit I’ll roll a fool
somebody said I don’t know
I’m here but I don’t know I came but I
don’t know I invited you but I don’t
know I got company but I don’t know I
got witnesses but I don’t know I opened
the door but I don’t know I took the job
but I don’t know I got married but I
don’t know about the house but I don’t I
came to you because of what you
whispered in your bed God answered in my
head I came to you who am i preaching to
what would you would you stop what
you’re doing I couldn’t sleep last night
you messing up my wrist
you got me getting up every hour and a
half walking the floor what are you
saying to God would you please let me go
to bed would you please let me get some
rest because whoever this is this this
this message is right at your house it’s
it’s right up in your face because you
just not sure you’re not sure the people
around you you’re not sure the
circumstances around you you’re not sure
yourself you’re not sure how you feel
you’re not sure where you’re going
you’re not sure what you gonna do you
just there and whatever you said to God
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whatever you tried to God wouldn’t let
me risk the cannibal Shia the Lord said
you had a door of expansion just a man
telling you had a door of expansion
whatever you’re about to expand is
confusing whenever you out to expand its
uncertainty whatever you about to expand
you’re not sure of yourself my God my
God my God that’s what God said don’t
put new wine in old skins because
whatever you’re about to expand old
skins like the elasticity to be able to
change and go with the flow and God said
you got to get rid of your old stuff you
all have it you’re all attitude you
won’t be able to stand one cuz you’re at
a door of expansion I gotta quit Oh
Oh
touch everybody you can read to say
something’s about to happen
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anyway you can reach anywhere and tell
them all up in the back and everywhere
all in the crotch stand anywhere
something’s about to happen somethings
about to happen
something is about to happen
something’s about to happen
something’s about up
something’s about to happen
something about soccer
the only thing I know for sure the only
thing I know for sure is something’s
about to happen the only thing I’m
signal is something’s about to happen I
can’t even explain it
but something’s about to happen a year
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Cornelius why did you send to me I don’t
know I had a dream told me to invite you
why did you come
I don’t know I had a vision and told me
to obey guests why are you here we don’t
know
Cornelius invited us I said come over to
his house everybody in the house and
nobody knows what’s gonna happen here
here’s my tipping point no I got to can
I give you – can I give it to you first
of all before I give you the one I was
about to give you let me give you this
one let me let me let me tell you how
good it is to be in the room
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I may be confused but I’m in the wrong
I may not have all the details but I’m
in the room
nothing happens if you’re not in the
room if you don’t get in the room I’m
not even talking to you I don’t know who
I’m preaching to but God said he put you
in the room he put you in the
environment he put you in the right
place around the right people at the
right time and something is about to
happen and it cannot happen if you’re
not in the room if I’m talking to you
paint gods are in the room
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come on with me
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no no come out with me
ha
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you came a long way to be in the room
you paid a high price to be in the room
you came up some rugged Hills to be in
the room now thank god you’re in the
room
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that’s the only thing I know pass on
tear that’s the only thing I know is
that I’m in the room I don’t know what’s
going to happen but I’m norm in the room
I don’t know who God’s gonna use but I
know I’m in the room I don’t know what
God’s gonna do but I know I’m in the
room my soul knows I’m in the room I
came too far I’m in the room
ain’t no devil in hell
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cousin in the room and that’s had come
in the room come in the room
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[Music]
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Ramis shoulda got me when he had the
chance
what is too late
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now in clear this confusion I’m done
yes hello sir
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what do you do when you don’t know what
to do what do you do when you don’t know
what you’re supposed to do what do you
do when you don’t know what’s gonna
happen
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you’ve been asking God what am I
supposed to do
I’m in a place of uncertainty I don’t
know what I’m supposed to do and that’s
what Peter was there however what I’m
supposed to do okay could you say mmm I
don’t know what just wants to either I
just invited you here and this is the
first time watch this in the New
Testament that this happens Peter just
started doing what he does
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when you are in a place of uncertainty
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just do what you do and if you do what
you do is shunned herbal course I wanna
subdue me like this all of a sudden
y’all should give me like this all of a
sudden I can feel your spirit pulling at
me don’t get in a place of uncertainty
and stop doing what you do because God
brought you to that place to do what you
do and the expansion is gonna curve
expansion is going to accurse expansion
is going to occur when you do what you
do
legend even tell them I’m dim red knew
what I do
whatever it is you do do what you do
what happen is you just do what you do
stop feeling sorry for yourself and do
what you do not morning and groan it and
just do what you do complain to your
friends
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so watch it watch it
I’m not on there but I feel the Holy
Ghost and I feel a breakthrough coming
for somebody I feel the spirit of
release coming in the road I feel it
answer to pray in the building right now
God watching here to get direction the
enemy and he wants you to be a church
this morning but the devil is a liar the
something is about to break
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[Music]
every other time either cloven tongues
fell on people or somebody laid their
hands on people and they got filled with
the Holy Ghost but this time Peter just
started talking cuz that’s what he does
and when you’re in a place of
uncertainty if you do what you do it’s
gonna happen all by itself so the Bible
says while Peter yet spake these words
the Holy Ghost fell
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the other girl don’t get it the Holy
Ghost fell on him then heard the word no
hands no oil no touchy no baptism they
just fell out because Peter did what he
did but his Cornelius hadn’t done what
he did Peter couldn’t do what he needed
Cornelius invited everybody over there
and it just so happened that his
everybody were all Gentiles
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so even though they didn’t understand
what they were doing they were
consistent in what they were doing and
if you just do what you do I’m inviting
you to certain I don’t even know what it
is what I want you to talk
I’m invite you all want all y’all to
come over all my friends and everybody
all my cousins and Auntie big mama and
Grandma come on over what we come in – I
don’t know but come on over come on over
he’s gonna be amazing come on over it’s
gonna be wonderful
I don’t know exactly what it’s gonna be
but it’s gonna be good come on over so
he was doing what he did
Peter’s friend there in the door and he
just wants to talk it in the door while
he’s talking the Holy Ghost fell
on all them that heard the word let me
tell you who the holy ghost is falling
on in here I love using here the word
the Holy Ghost all of you that I listen
you ain’t got a word and let’s go follow
you no way but I love you then hear the
way
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the Bible said the Holy Ghost fell then
had the wine and all Peter did was do
what he does and all you got to do in
this season and do what you do do what
you do just do
Chateauguay shut up just you who just
got a word from God pilots and boys we
got a word for the world
I know you feel uncertain I know you
feel insecure I know it feels like it’s
not working but if you get right in the
door and do what you do the Holy Ghost
is gonna do the rest and the Bible says
the Holy Ghost fell on all them that
heard the word then Peter said well can
any man forbid water that these should
not be baptized who have the Holy Ghost
as well as we he said well we might will
baptize them because God has already
baptized
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one little less epilogue in act two they
were baptized first and then filled in
acts 10
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they were filled with the Holy Ghost and
then baptized God said he’s gonna do it
out of horror it ain’t even gonna make
any sense to you
it’s not gonna be like what you
experienced before he’s gonna do his
thing before you do your thing
by the time Peter knew anything they
already had the Holy Ghost God said he’s
gonna give you undeniable happiness
they’re gonna have to accept you
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