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Church: A Hospital for Broken Hearts 0:00 Sometimes a church is a hall of education where people come to learn and there's not a whole lot of spiritual0:11 application. Sometimes you just gather knowledge and you take it out into the world. Then other times you come into church and it's just a real encouraging sweet time.0:24 Then other times you come into church and it's a hospital where weary hearts come hoping to find medicine to cure what's ailing them. This morning0:36 at 4 45, I woke up and immediately on my mind, there were 2 or 3 different people in the church and I don't know people quite well0:47 enough where people just would pop into my mind out of nowhere. And I've been doing this long enough to know that sometimes God will lay people on you. This morning,1:00 I got into my prayer closet. Man, I had a good message on tithing this morning. I was gonna preach on tithing. But, you know, the more I I just I couldn't get I couldn't get over, So I've got a1:12 closet in my, in my my office in there and I go in there to pray, and so I text Erica. I said, if you need me, I'll be praying. And and I went in the closet and I shut the door and1:25 got to thinking about something. A word came to my mind. The word is broken.1:40 This morning, we gather in the presence of God Almighty in different places, in different seasons of life.1:53 Some this morning have got very little to worry about. You're happy, you got great things before you, families all together, marriage is2:05 doing fantastic, Other people are in this room and you don't really care if the sun comes up, comes down. You don't even know why you're here. But there's a whole vast2:17 array of people that have gathered into this room this morning broken. For some people in this room, it is the sorrow of a situation that has overwhelmed2:28 them. It is the sadness of what could have been, what should have been, and what really is. You're broken. There's some in our congregation2:40 that have been touched by the the hand of death this week. Death has walked into their home and has snatched away 1 and put them in a place that seems so far2:52 away, and this morning you gather in broken. Then there are people in this room this morning, you are broken of your own accord. The decisions3:04 you have have made and are making are putting you where you are. Beloved, it's not always somebody else's fault. Sometimes it's your fault, sometimes it's my3:16 fault, But this morning, I cannot get away from that word broken. And I imagine that many of you come from churches where it's3:28 always the same rigmarole. Man, it doesn't matter what you're going through. The preacher's got his outline. He's got his thing. He's gonna say it. It doesn't matter if you need it or not. 1 preacher said3:40 it like this. The scariest thing for a pastor is preaching about stuff that nobody cares about. Unfortunately, we have forgotten the word of the3:51 Proverbs that said, look well to know the state of thy flock. It is not my responsibility this morning to give you 3 points4:03 and a poem. It is my word and job this morning to make sure that you know there is a God in heaven that cares about you, and he has not forgotten you. Therefore, I'll give you 14:15 phrase out of the book of Psalm chapter 34 in verse number 18. The Bible says the Lord is nigh4:28 unto the brokenhearted. The Lord is nigh unto the brokenhearted. I'm afraid4:40 that the baptist have missed it just like the methodists have missed it, just like the pentecostals have missed it. The Methodist have missed it in the sense of they think that everything is a method, everything is a4:52 program, everything is a routine, and and that methodology has led to a formalism, that methodology has led to a routine that can never be broken and never be5:04 shattered. Pentecostalism has got the fervor of this thing right, but they have missed it because their fervor has turned into fanaticism. They have become so5:15 fanatic about everything that it can never just be normal. And what they have built is they have built a people that live off of emotional highs.5:29 Methodists and the the folks that follow the more traditional routes of Christianity, they have built people that run off of a routine and unfortunately, humans are not machines.5:43 Neither can we be flopped on the other side where everything you come into the house of God, and I am your I am your spiritual drug dealer, and I'm gonna give you something to give you a big enough high so you can get5:53 out of here. That's not what church is about either. Unfortunately, the Baptist have missed it. And our desire to see more and more people come to the knowledge of Christ and6:05 in our evangelistic thrust, what we have done is we have turned the church into a capitalistic business where we need more and more people and more and more6:17 people and we're constantly going and in the process of going, we have forgotten the ones that are here. In the process of growing6:29 and becoming larger and larger, we have forgotten that people are not a number, they're humans, and they have hearts, and they have lives.6:42 David realized this and he wrote this phrase down in the midst of 1 of the hardest trials of his life. He said, Lord, you are nigh unto the brokenhearted.6:54 This morning I come before you as somebody that wishes I could fix you. Son, I wish I could fix me. I really wish I could fix my wife's people, but I don't have the7:06 power to do any of that. In fact, I'm learning my people are crazier than her people. I wish this morning I could give you a methodology and7:18 a formula that would take the broken tatters and shatters of your life and begin the process of putting them all back together, but unfortunately, I'm a pitiful potter.7:31 And unfortunately, this morning I don't have a formula that can fix you. If there was a formula that could fix humanity,7:43 God would have already put it back together, but since there's not a formula that doesn't heal the brokenhearted, God makes this promise that I am nigh under the brokenhearted.7:57 Being broken is a long term process. It is not something that happens overnight. The event that leads to the brokenness happens like that, but oftentimes, oftentimes, the build up8:09 to that thing takes time. I look at people this morning. If you would just get real with God, you probably would find some help. But in our fear of what8:21 other people will think we constantly keep a facade on us, unfortunately, all people are broken. All8:33 of us deal with heartache. All of us wish we were completely whole, but all of us are nothing more than the clanking of8:45 what could have been. Last year this time, my wife and I, this would have been Easter Sunday last year. The first Sunday in April 208:56 23, my wife and I were about 2 weeks outside of the lowest valley of our lives. Unfortunately, because of where God had brought us to in our9:08 journey, we didn't have people to come around us. We didn't have a church family that we could rally, we were the ones that had to be in charge. We were the ones that everybody9:20 looks to and and Tyler and Erica, you you can't have problems, because if you have problems who's gonna help me with my problems. Brothers and sisters, I wish I could tell you9:32 I had a perfect life. I wish I could tell you me and my family have no issues, but we're all broken people. I don't know this, but9:44 I think God loves rednecks. You know why? Because he didn't say the Lord is near to the broken hearted, he said the Lord is9:56 nigh. I looked up that word nigh, and that word nigh means 3 things. Number 1, when it says the Lord is nigh, first and foremost, it10:08 means in proximity. It has the idea of being close in location. Brothers and sisters, you and I have got to understand that10:20 there is not a place where God will not go. There is not a place where God cannot trudge through. There is no funeral home that makes God10:31 nervous. There is no cemetery that makes him unable to bear. There is no hospital room that gives him the heebie jeebies. There is no situation10:43 at your house that he says, you know what, maybe I should just exit. There is no argument that makes him so nervous that he says, no, I better not go near that. There is no child that10:55 curses you and walks out on you that he says, no, that right there is just a little bit too much. There is no marriage that looks 1 way, but it's really another where he says,11:07 no, that 1 right there, that's a little too far gone. At the end of the day, there is no location that God is far away from. And in fact, it's not that he's not just not far away. He11:19 says, I'm right there at that thing. I'm right there in the midst of that thing. I stand right smack dab in the middle of that thing. Your young and may have walked out, but he said, I am nigh11:31 unto you that are left with a broken heart. To the wife that does not know what to do, with the husband that won't come back, to the daddy and the mama that don't know what to do, with the child that doesn't care, to11:43 the wife that is so sad and broken of the sickness of a husband. He says, I'm right there smack dab in the middle of that situation. He said, I am nigh to the11:57 brokenhearted. Here's the question we always ask, if he's close, why can't I feel him? If God isWhen You Can't Feel God's Presence 12:09 so close, why can't I feel him? Troy, would you help me? I promise I won't embarrass you my brother. I pro I give you my word. Troy, you're gonna represent12:22 a normal Christian and I'll represent the Lord. When you get saved, he says, I will never leave thee and I will12:34 never forsake thee. You can call that getting hooked up with, linked up to, shackled to, right there beside you all the days of you. I'll never12:46 and boy, when you get saved, everything's juicy. I mean, Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, that's juicy. My chains are gone, that's juicy. I mean, he can sing the mountain won't move12:58 and that gets juicy too. You can talk about how the mountain will move and every time I'm in it, you just feel God right there. I mean, Tyler gets up and preaches on tithing and you're up there shouting the victory, I13:09 feel God on that thing. Tyler gets up there and talks about the valley and I mean you feel God right up close to you. I mean when you go to get baptized it's like you come up and he's linked right up there to you. Every13:21 time Troy stands up, you say, man, I don't care if you just sang that last week, sing that bad boy again. Every time you get near, you can feel God, but something happens with time. The further13:33 you go with God, the less you'll feel him. Now I'm 38 years old. I'm 38 years old,13:46 and I'll be downright honest with you. In a spiritual sense, I feel God less than I ever have. You know, my wife and I have13:58 been married for13:59 1514:00 years. Boy, when we first got married hang on right there. We first got married, we getting that 19 98 Toyota Avalon, it had that center console right there, the paint was peeled off14:12 the the the 2 mirrors on the we didn't care, we weren't looking at mirrors, we was looking at each other. Son, she gets so close to that center console. If I'd needed to light a cigarette, I'd lit her breeches on fire. I14:22 mean, we every time we were in that thing, I mean, we were so close. Y'all remember them old Toyota. They had a console about that. I mean, she's basically just sitting hunched up on 1 side. We were so in14:34 love. We had to be just always touching each other. I got that truck now and so help me the consoles as big as this pulpit.14:47 There will be times in 15 years, we'll get in the car together and we don't even talk. And you young couples don't don't you look at me. You14:59 ain't got no idea about real love. You know what? I didn't know what love was back then15:12 because it's not our physical touch that equals love. It's the covenant we made. Re enter the average Christian.15:24 You remember that day when you felt God near to you and when you would go right, God would go right and you felt him. And when you let left, God would go left and you felt him. But15:36 through time and experience and brokenness and heartache, you spend your time now and you say, Lord, when I go right, when I go right, I don't feel you. And when I15:48 go left, Lord God, I don't feel you. And when I go forward, oh God, why don't I feel you? And when I go backwards, oh God, why don't I feel you? Because here is the problem.16:00 God is trying to break something within us that we do not walk by faith. We're walk by sight. We walk by faith. We don't walk by our senses. Here's what you've got to realize. Whether16:12 I feel God or don't feel God, when I go right, God says I'm still with you, and when I go left, God says I'm still with you, and when you go forward, God says I'm still with you, and when you go backwards, God16:24 says I'm still with you. He says at the end of the day, you don't have to feel me, we've got to stop being so childish in this spiritual walk. Whether I feel God or whether I don't feel God, I've been given16:36 a promise that he'll not leave me and he'll not forsake me, and so whether you feel him, he's nigh. Yes. Amen. He's16:47 nigh the broken hearted. It doesn't just mean a physical location. It also means a relationship or a we call it next of16:59 kin. When you're nearly related to somebody, it means they've got a dog in the fight with you. I'm not a fighter.17:11 I don't wanna fight. I don't care to fight. I'm not interested in fighting. I ain't never had to fight. You know why? Because up until I was about 18, I had a cousin 2 years older than me that could17:23 bench press a Volkswagen. And it was amazing we'd be in school together. And17:35 everybody that bothered me well, rarely did they bother me because they knew at the end of the day, I had somebody that was always gonna be there with me.17:49 And, you know, I never fought a fight by myself. I really didn't. Up until my cousin went to the police academy, I I never fought a fight then I had to close my mouth but, you know, I18:01 never you know, it didn't matter if that fight was my fault or not. It's always there with me. I wanna talk to18:13 people in this room that have made your own mess. You're broken and you broke the people around you. Yeah. It is18:25 your fault. No. You ain't done right. But whether you broke yourself or whether you were broken by somebody, you've still got his blood in18:37 your veins and you're still his child. And the Lord is still nigh unto you.God: Your Next of Kin in the Fight 18:55 Last year, Erica and I, we spent probably about 3 months in a state of spiritual paralysis.19:07 We went through the motions, but there was no life. There was there was very little, spiritual revival and whatever the wording is you want. Now, I'll be honest, we learned how to carry the19:19 oil, but we were just a bunch of broke vessels is all we were. We didn't understand what was going on. We didn't understand what God was doing. We got in that place. We didn't know if we were the reason19:31 this was happening. We didn't know if they were the reason this was happening. We couldn't figure out. I'll tell you how bad it got. We we got so bad. We were waking up having nightmares just reliving everything in our19:42 minds of all that had been going on. We were just in this place of just whatever. And we went to this church and when I tell you those people were19:54 crazy, I'm telling you they were out of their mind crazy. Down in down in, Concord, down in Cherry Grove, North20:05 Carolina. If you ain't never been to Cherry Grove, don't go. Sunday crazy. We got down there and I'm telling you that preacher was crazy. He's 120:17 of the sweetest men. I I love him. I'm going back to preach this year on a Monday night. But I you you know, you get around crazy. You either reject it or you just gotta have more of it. Man, I didn't have to have more20:28 of it. We got down there. I had Erica with me. I had Mason with me. I had Ella with me. We sat in this room. And if you ain't done this20:40 a long time, let me help you. When you do this a lot, you can pretty well tell when they hit the first note on the piano what kind of service it's gonna be. Okay.20:52 If it starts out a normal piano lick, you got a pretty good chance. But when the first note goes zonk zonk, it ain't gonna be good.21:04 I remember looking at Erica thinking, I cannot believe we're here at this. About halfway through the service,21:17 that preacher got up. He brought me up. He said, I'm gonna stop service right now. Stop service right now. He said, Brother Tyler, I want21:29 you to come, and I want you to give us what's on your heart. God's give you something. I thought, Dude, you don't know God. God ain't give me nothing. I ain't got nothing. And I stood up.21:42 I said, you know what? In my head, I'm thinking, you know what? I ain't faking this no more. I'm fixing to tell them all God's done to us in the last 4 months. It's exactly what I'm gonna do. And I21:54 opened my mouth and before I knew it all that brokenness was flowing out of me. Next thing I knew my wife is crying on the second row.22:06 Next thing I know my children are weeping on the second row. And all of a sudden, a guy comes up to me and he grabs me22:17 by the shoulders, honest. He made Stanley Robertson look like a just a short little thing. His guy was massive. He scared me to death when he touched me. He grabbed me by the shoulders,22:29 Katie. He stiffens me up straight. He says, square your shoulders back boy. God's still with you. I looked at him, I said,22:42 okay. I felt electricity hit me from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet.22:54 From that day to this day, I have seen that even in brokenness, the Lord was nigh. Nick, where you at23:06 brother? Put me in the key of f. All I've come to tell you today is you ain't gotta go through the motions.23:19 Ain't nobody here gonna look at you and think you any less than the rest of us. We're all just a bunch of broken vessels. People in this room, just a bunch of broken vessels. The preacher, just23:31 a broken vessel. The deacons, we're all just a bunch of broken vessels. Acquired, we're all just a bunch of broken vessels. But the Lord is nigh23:44 under those broken vessels. That this morning, you're here and you broke yourself. You broke that listen. That scripture continues, it says, and23:56 he saveth such that are of a contrite heart. If you'll humble yourself this morning before God, God will heal24:08 you. This morning, you may be the the the victim of somebody else's mess up. The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a24:20 broken heart. This morning, you may be here and you are at your24:32 wits end. The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart. Brothers and sisters, it's not about having a24:43 sermon. It's not about walking out feeling like you got 3 points. It's about walking out knowing that God spoke to you. So the Lord is nigh24:56 unto them that are of a broken heart.25:08 There's not a friend25:13 like the lonely Jesus.25:20 No. Not all. No. Not all. None25:47 no26:22 no.26:39 1. Some of you right now need to get your broken pieces together and bring them to God.26:54 Some of you this morning probably with a husband or wife need to grab by the hand, so I don't really know what to do. But27:06 some of you've got a child that is shattered. The Lord is nigh. Tyler, what do I do? I don't have any27:18 idea, But the Lord knows and the Lord is nigh. Tyler, I'm not even saved. You get up out of your seat, you27:30 make your way down to this altar, and when you get down here, brother Brandon's gonna take a bible, brother Chris is gonna take a bible, and they're gonna show you how you can know.In this video 0:00 Church: A Hospital for Broken Hearts12:01 When You Can't Feel God's Presence18:55 God: Your Next of Kin in the Fight
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