I Ain’t Never Scared, Part 2

is with them, but they're just struggling today. Can you talk to that person?

every time they're like, I'm scared of the dark. I'm scared of this. I'm like, hey, remember that VeggieTales song? God is bigger than the boogeyman, and he's with you. He's watching out for you. So kind of similar to what you're talking about there. You're going to have to go check that out. Yeah, I think it was Junior Asparagus and his dad. Well, we are going to move on from VeggieTales here, and we're going to go back to the Book of Psalms. We're in Psalm 27 today, though,

as we continue this message. I ain't never scared. Here's Pastor Ford.

crates of chicken. Uh, but you ain't healed after 20 years. Can you still get up in the midst of the saints and tell everybody I will praise him. See you pray for the child. But the child is still on drugs. You pray for your for your relative and they're still gay. They're still banging your house, still in foreclosure, your spouse still cheating. The vision didn't go like you planned. But can you say, like the psalmist, I will bless the Lord at all times. His praise shall continually be in

my mouth. My soul shall make her boast in the Lord. The humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. Oh, magnify the Lord with me, and let's exalt. Are there any praises in the house? Are there any who will give him the sacrifice of praise? Amen. Amen. Yeah. The sacrifice. What do you mean by that? You buy at Payless, but you praise him like you got it at Neiman Marcus. Yeah. Give him some glory. You drive a hooptie. Uh, yeah, but you drive it like you're driving a Bugatti. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

You eat at Mickey D's every day, but you act like you eat at McCormick and Schmidt's every night. Yeah. Yeah. You wear polyester, but you praise him like you wear an Egyptian cotton. Yeah, yeah. Your unemployment is about to run out, but you running around acting like you're the CEO of a fortune 500 company. You live in an apartment in the projects, but you're walking with swag like

you got a mansion in Winnetka. I wish I had some folk who understand how blessed they are, and can just give God some praise for how I am right now. You don't got to give me nothing else. You don't got to provide anything else. You done already done enough for me to praise you, to lift you up, to magnify you, to give your name the glory. I ain't never scared. I ain't never scared. I ain't never scared. Mm. Yeah. Mm. David, would you understand? You want me to share with the congregation?

God will often change the things around you so he can expose to you the things that are really in you. Oh, somebody ought to be tweeting that. Now, that's worth taking the cell phone out and tweeting that. Let me say that again. That's Tweetable moment there. I said, God will often change things around you so he can expose to you what's really in you. See, all of us can talk a good game in church, but what about on the job tomorrow. Will you lift your hands and say

thank you, Lord, that I got a job? Amen. Now look at what he's doing here. David is celebrating the easiness of God. Aren't you glad God is and never was? Was? There goes another tweet. Yeah. That that he's saying. He's saying. Listen, the Lord is my light. He's my illuminator. Uh, the Lord is my salvation. He's my liberator. And the Lord is the strength of my life. He's my generator that I've got a God that got me covered. Uh, that he's my illuminator, my liberator and my generator. He gives

me power. He gives me protection. He gives me provision. Everything I need is wrapped up in his purse. Amen. Mhm. I feel good today. You get a deke? Yes, sir. He said the Lord is my light. He said, what do you mean, David? You know what I mean. Dispels darkness. You remember what happened? The four of us were were in my vehicle going to the cemetery. I looked down and I had on. I had on black shoes. I had on black pants. I had on a black vest, had on a black jacket, had on a black hat,

had on a black overcoat, had a black Bible. And I looked and I had on bright. You'll be laughing at my socks. Just, just the old school man. We this old school. This is what we used to wear. Old school. Now you know. That's it. You see that purple? The purple in there, baby. Shoot. It's coordinated purple in there. Now come on. That's it, that's it. You know, your pastor got swag. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. So whenever I sit down and pull em up. Yeah, yeah.

And so so so anyway, I had on brown socks, I said, look, I got on brown socks. They said, man, you should have kept them down. They're messing up your thing. But you know what happened? I got dressed in the dark and they. I'm looking at some of the brothers. I know y'all done done this before. Y'all looking at me like that. That man, that's stupid that we do that sometime in the dark. But it took the light

to expose what was happening. If I'd have never come in the light, I never would have known I wasn't looking good as I thought I was looking. I never would have known I was uncoordinated. Yeah. And that's why he says the Lord is my light. You want to know why? Let me. Let me just share this with you. My mother in law, uh, took my my granddaughter Nini to her first play. And, uh, her friend went. So they were sitting, uh, my my my nanny. Nanny's here. Uh,

nanny's here. Her friend's there. So the first act was over, the curtain goes down and the light goes out. And my mother in law said, when the light went out, nay, nay jumped in one jump into her lap, she said, and the boy that was two seats away. He jumped in Nina's lap in one jump, and they were saying, what's going on? Why did they turn off the lights? I'm scared. Hold me nanny. And she said, I told them, listen,

let me teach you something. They put the curtain down and turned the light out because they're changing things, but they don't want you to see them changing things. So that's why it's dark. But in a few moments when they get done setting everything up, they're going to raise the curtain and turn on the light. And she said, whenever they raise the curtain and turn on the light, they they said, wow, did you see that? Everything has changed. I came to tell somebody that you need to know.

The Lord is your light, that it's dark right now, in your trouble, your trial, your test and your tribulation. But the curtain is down and the light is up because God does his best work in the dark. He wants you to walk by faith, not by sight. So he can't let you see what he's setting up, but he's setting it up so that whenever the curtains go up, you done gone from one level to the next level

and you just say, wow. Then hindsight, which is always 20, 20, you look back and say, if it had not been for the Lord on my side, where would I be if it had not been? Mm. Yeah. He says yeah God works in the night seasons. Mhm mhm mhm. He said I ain't never scared. Yeah I ain't never scared.

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day and he's my ray. Yeah. He could have stopped there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I used the thesaurus. He said the Lord is my light and my salvation. He's my savior, he's my Redeemer. He's my helper. He's my chain breaker. He's my fetter taker. He's my heavy load bearer. Yeah. Huh. So he says I ain't never scared. Who should, who should I fear? What, who, what person, what doctor's report should I fear? What bar should I fear? What neighbor should I fear? What family

member should I fear? What racist should I fear? No. Yea. Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil. Why? Because you're going to do something, though. Because you're with me. Because as long as you're with me. As long as God is, is and never was, was and never will be, will be. As long as he is, is. I ain't never scared. I ain't never scared. Yeah. Here's the second one. Here's

the second one. Here's the second one. He says, I ain't never scared because of my celebration about God his person. But then notice verse two, he says, I ain't never scared because of my conquest through God. Listen to what he says. When the wicked, even my enemies and my foes come upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. Man. I looked at the word stumble and I looked at the word fail. And they're closely related.

And he could have used one. He didn't have to say stumble and fail, but he wants us to know in the first one. Uh, here's what the Bible says. No weapon formed against you shall prosper. In other words, they can form it, but it can't prosper. In other words, they can use it to try to use it against you and they can put it against you. But whatever they're putting against you for is not going to happen. And so he says, listen, I look back in the past and I remember what God did. And so now

I just trust him. I gotta share this. It's one of my favorite, favorite stories. Uh, here's what happened to me when I, when I got saved. Uh, I was going around witnessing. I asked God, let me witness in every bar, pool hall, juke joint, uh, that that ever, uh, I, I sold drugs in. And before I left Pittsburgh to come to Chicago. God showed me. He let me fulfill that promise I made to him everyone that was still open. You know, and some of em. Some of them I

used to shut down before I got saved. And some of them, I shut them down after I got saved. Amen. Because I walk in there with the Bible and and quote the scriptures and and chase everybody up out of there. As a matter of fact, I was barred from some bars. I was deep because I'd go up in there just. And they wouldn't, you know, people would. Whenever I would go up to put my arms around, have my Bible

go put an arm. They start backing away because they, they said in the community, don't let him touch you because he got some kind of touch. Everybody he touch and open that Bible to, they get religious. And so, uh, Ray and I were trying to witness to a brother named hook. His name is Michael. And, uh, Mike, uh, was like, like a sinner to the max. And didn't he? He would flaunt it in front of us even though we were friends. And so, you know, we'd say, you know,

he say he say you're not smoking anymore, huh? And he light up a joint and blow it in your face, stuff like that. Yeah. He do stuff like that. You ain't drinking no more, huh? Oh. you know, he would do something like that. Mike was so bad. Mike had two women that both knew that he was going with them, and he invited both of them to live with him, and they both came to live with him. So two he living like Abraham, Hagar and Sarah and I. I never could figure out Sarah as a black woman doing

that one anyway. Ain't no black woman I know. Now, when she kicked him out, that's the black women I know, you know. But anyway. So. So, uh, two, two, ten in the morning, I get a call. Who's this? It's Hulk. What's wrong? What's wrong? We want to be saved, man. We want to be saved at 210 in the morning. Mhm. I got up, brushed my teeth, put on my clothes. My wife said, where are you going? I said hook called me. He want to be saved. You, you ain't going out there tonight are you. Tell him you see

him in the morning. He want to be saved now. I'm going now, he cried. Now I'm going now. And I got in what we call the gospel buggy. It was a car that was given to me. It was the first miracle that God showed me whenever I turned my car in, because I had to make a choice between keeping my car and paying my rent, and and anybody knows, before I got saved, it was no contest. I keep my car. But now that I was saved, I had to pay my rent. So I had to let the car go. And so Ray said, well, let's

pray and ask God, God don't give cars. And boom! Two days later I was given a car and I called it the Gospel Buggy. And so I get in the gospel buggy and and I get ready to go. I leave Homewood, I head on up to Wilkinsburg, uh, where where hook live? Uh, when I get around the corner, uh, the car stops. I'm four blocks from his house. This is a dangerous place. Uh, best I can tell you is it's like being in the bucket of blood at 3:00 in the morning. Amen, Amen. You Chicago folk know

what I'm talking about. And and so and so I'm saying, God, get this car to going, I gotta get the hook. And I can't be walking four blocks in in this because I knew. Because, see, before, uh, the, the people that I was afraid of as a Christian, uh, was me before I became a Christian. Yeah. And so and so, you know, I said, man, I got to go. Okay, Lord, you're not going to start the car. You got to protect me. So I'm walking, I'm walking, I'm singing and

I'm singing. You know, Andre Cross was big back then. Andre Crouch was our Kurt Franklin and Tye Tribbett. And so I'm singing some Andre Crouch songs, you know, and and and and and just watching and and thinking man, you know, you used to be out in this, you know. Yeah. But that was before I became a Christian. So I come around the corner now cemeteries here. And he lives on a dead end street. So once you walk, start walking up that street, there's only one way out. That's

the back this way. So as soon as I turn the corner, I look out of my peripheral vision. I see a guy steps to block my entrance or exit, actually, because that's what it would have been. And I begin to pray. I said, Lord, I know this scenario. I used to do it myself, me and my brother in law, Bill. That's the way we were robbed. Somebody come behind them. Step out in front of em, I said, I know

somebody's going to step out in front of me. And a couple doors up, God stepped out from a walkway and I said, oh, man, I ain't got no money. And so, you know, folk, when you ain't got no money, you know, I said, okay, well, I'm just going to witness to him, Lord, I'm just going to witness to him. I said, you know, Ray said, you're a deliverer. I need deliverer right now. And I'm telling you, I didn't hardly get the words out of my mouth when I saw a light. And then I heard, whoop, whoop, whoop!

Now they used to send me running. It put a smile on my face. I turned around and looked. And them boys scattered like roaches. When you turn on the lights. Don't act like you don't know what I'm talking about, man, I'm so happy. And so he pulls up. He says, what are you doing, sir? I said, I'm going to hooks. I got my Bible. He called me. He wants to be saved. And so I'm going to save hook. Do you know Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior? And he said, go on, save hook. And he turned

on around and moved. So then I get up to where hook lives. Now there's three floors and you would think he lives at the first floor. You think the bottom bell was his second third? It wasn't that way. I hit the bottom bell, and as I hit the bottom bell, I'm ringing and ringing and ringing it. And nothing's happening. Then I hear, step back now. Wasn't loud. It was in my head. Step back. And I stepped back.

When I step back, the woman on the third floor whose bell I was ringing, that was the first one, had slammed up her window. And the pane fell out and the pane fell where I was standing.

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