City Central Church Podcast
Go get the Kids
Dwayne Parker aka "Bishop Freeze" shares his powerful testimony of God's redemptive love.
I'm so thankful for you to you man. You giving me Godly counsel man when I was ready to give up like how many times three Do not count I can count it was I think it's been three and it things work for me in at number three a man But I heard it I heard a centive if you want to make God laugh telling me your plans Hey, man And I'm gonna confess to you. I'm gonna confess to the body today That I was ready to give up Like three weeks ago. I was about to pack my bags and leave Tacoma again I was just like lord. I'm sick of this. I can't take it no more. I don't know what to do God. I'm through I'm going to Florida. I know you'll bless me in Florida because I went to Florida I said I'm just going to Florida and I I told my pastor first I He didn't even talk about he said we ain't gonna even talk about that We win this wing wing wing when you get down like that. Let me go pray first and I'm gonna come back and talk to you And I've seen him like a week later. I seen him. I'm supposed to be telling my testimony, but hey This is part of it. Hey, man. This is part of I seen him like a week later, and he said He just ignored me like he didn't even see me. I was like man. Come on. Do you suppose to be telling me I can go to Florida? Come on And he just looked at me like he I didn't even ever asked him that question. I Said okay, I'm gonna go back and pray some more Lord Okay, and I just I found a description I was just trying to find anything for the Lord to say you can go and then I heard the description was saying a man's heart plans His ways But the Lord directs his steps And I was like okay didn't that can I can go then Lord, right? He's like I Just couldn't hear all I heard was no Y'all understand I was about to leave Tacoma and give up what God is about to do in this city and it's gonna be Explosive it's gonna be big. It's bigger than anything. We can see think or imagine God is gonna do something in Tacoma. That's huge With the youth it's gonna be right revival right here in Tacoma We're already seeing some fruit right now gangbangers putting their rags down and coming to Christ We already seen it Prostitutes coming off the whole stroll. We're seeing it In the same thing that I felt three weeks ago about packing up and going to Florida some of y'all feeling the same way to Some of y'all ready to give up Cuz you forgot what God said And you really don't believe it no more But God is here to I'm here to stir up a gift in you tonight God placed me here to stir up a gift in you tonight to get you back on track Cuz God needs us He gonna do something great in this city, amen Hey, man, and I just wanted to get that as an introduction. That's just a little introduction They said only have 45 minutes on I'm gonna try to take my time usually take me like an hour to tell my testimony no two hours It takes me two hours, but I'm gonna break this down and the Lord Holy Spirit spoke to me today when I was praying and I was just trying to figure out. Okay. God. You want me to share my whole testimony? Yeah, I'm gonna do that But God said focus on on your childhood See cuz my testimony is manifold it just like some of y'all just like God's grace is manifold this mini sighted It's mini sighted God said I want you to stick to your childhood tonight because children we got children out there young people I see some of my solzo cats in the building right now Tim is in the building Tim is in the building Chris is in the building Listen listen, where you at? Listen? She's in the building. I try to call a few of my solzo kids, but I couldn't find them, but that's all right We got kids man That they're going through the same thing that I went through with God says share your testimony about your childhood and bring it together And I'm gonna tie it in and we're gonna go back and we're gonna take these kids from the devil way, man That's what we're gonna do. We're gonna take these youth from the devil. Hey, man. So if you got a Bible Turn with me to Matthew 19 Amen Matthew 19 verse 13 And I'm gonna try to be as quick as possible with this. I'm gonna try to move on I got a whole bunch of notes. You wouldn't believe it. I was stuck there. I think this was mostly for me and not your You ever get that you ever get to start the study you're gonna deliver a sermon, but then God said don't tear that up You know that's for you that wasn't for them Amen, so it's gonna get flipped all up, but somebody gonna get something out of this today. Amen Hey, man. Matthew 19 verse 13 It says then little children were bought to him that he might put hands on them and pray He says little children were brought to him That he might put hands on them and pray But the disciples rebuked them. Excuse me. I'm sorry The disciples rebuked them But Jesus said let the little children come to me And do not forbid them for as such as the kingdom of heaven and He laid his hands on them and departed from them Amen May the Lord add a blessing to the reading of his word the hearing and most importantly the doing of his word They brought little kids to him City central the subject that the Lord Holy Spirit gave me tonight is let's go get the kids Look at your name and say let's go get the kids Look at your other name and say let's go get the kids The kids is waiting for us And you know how I know because when I was When I was 11 years old I fell in love with Jesus Christ I had a I used to and the only way that it happened is my grandmother used to take me to church and My mama used to tell me to go to church and it was always somebody coming and not going on our door saying Hey, this is a the new church in town and you guys are welcome to come to our church. Come on I used to be like yeah, I want to go You know cuz every time I went see like every time I went the church people would always give me some candy and They would always give me some and stuff and they'd be all nice to me and stuff and they was always smiling and I liked it that Because my home was so broken and so messed up That when somebody else came to me with a smile on their face. Just love it on me. I felt good and I liked it that I Like that I liked it is so much that I started going to this church every Sunday This church and I what we was going to Sunday school this Sunday school bus would come and pick me up And all my brothers and sisters and sometimes they'd be late the church and I'd be like get up y'all get up The buses coming to Sunday school buses coming. It's time to go to church. Come on. Let's go to church And so we'd all get up and go to church and then one day the pastor said this the pastor said We're gonna have a contest at church We're gonna do this We're gonna we're gonna have a contest that whoever out of our youth in the building can bring the most people to church They get to win this and they rolled it out like it was the price is right a brand new Huffy spider-mag bike And I looked at that bike when I saw that bike. I was like, oh snap. That's mine. I want that She's I was like, don't know Jesus. Please let me win that bike. That's gonna be mine And to me looking at that bike today was to me looking at that bike back then was like looking at a Cadillac Escalade on 26 is for real That bike was off the hook So I claimed it in Jesus name. I said it's mine So I went out knocking on everybody's door boo boo boo boo. John this I think I got good at sales But I'm not gonna get on everybody's door boo boo boo. Hey, man We got a church down the street. We can bring the Sunday school bus to come pick y'all up I was 11 years old saying it and if you come to our church We're gonna give you some prizes and some gifts. So come on because Jesus loves you and come to our church Contest went on for about a month. I'm a 11 year old 11 years old and then the pastor comes up with me at the final day And he says We had an awesome competition We had an awesome competition. I don't think we got this many people to come to church in a long time But unfortunately only one person's gonna win this brand new Huffy spider-man bike And we have a winner and I'm sitting there going Lord, please let it be me. I know I brought a lot of people I remember I was kind of like a six six seven people. I know I brought some people Lord in the pastor said and the winner is Duane Parker That's my real name y'all Come on. Come on. That's my real name. I want I want I will tell that to the day I'll die because that was that that right there show me that God loved me that God had a calling on my life at a Early-age and it all started out by people coming to knock on my door getting out there and coming to get me Somebody say let's go get the kids We got to go get the kids somebody came and got me and that's how I won that bike And that's how I'm standing here today to tell you what Christ did in my life. Hey, man Get all of a sudden my mom gets married to my stepdad I this was like a nightmare straight up My mom gets married to my stepdad. He comes in the house, you know, I'm gonna introduce this himself and and It wasn't cool. You could just tell you when he walked in. It was like what's happening I'm the man at this house now. I was like, okay, well, you know, I got two other brothers and stuff You know, we we've been doing this for a minute So we I'm a 11 years old acting like well I'm not finished. Let you come in here and what do what you want to do But he was like six six and I was like five something And so I was like I ain't tripping. I'm going to church tomorrow. Anyway, I'm going to church And so he when it's when the Sunday school bus came he said Sunday school bus came he said he told me he said He woke up. He said you ain't going to church today I said what? He said you ain't going to church today. You coming with me. I said hold it. Hold it. Hold it. Hey, my my my he told me He said I ain't going to church today And my mom said the baby don't don't don't say nothing. Just gone with him now. Don't just go on with it I said we ain't going to church where we going Said but we don't still ask me no questions come with me. I'm gonna show you where we're going Okay He took me this when we moved to New Jersey. He used to take me I got two other brothers and he never would bother them for some reason I wonder why but he always would grab me and say the way and come with me He said uh You come with me. I want you to hold this bag right here This brown paper bag and what you put it in your bomber coat We lived in New Jersey and we would we would get on the subway of New Jersey and drive all the way down a subway To Harlem, New York Okay, and he'll make me go stand across the street in Harlem with this bag brown paper bag in my coat And he'd be like stand over there with your basketball act like you playing basketball and when I call out of color like red or blue You reaching that bag you get that red or blue balloon and somebody gonna walk up to you and you give it to them I said, okay And so I'm standing across the street is cold out in Harlem playing with my basketball just chilling at 11 years Oh, he said red And I look around I get there in the bag and I pull out a red balloon and somebody crazy walk up to me I give it to him. They walk away So I'll be chilling with the ball again He'd be like green and I reach in there get a green balloon out somebody else to walk up to me I get in the green balloon and they go away. He'd be like red blue all day long Come to find out my stepdad had me selling hair on at 11 years old and I didn't even know it Now the enemy was coming The enemy we all know comes to do three things in our lives and that's the steel kill and destroy us. Hey, man He'll come get the kids too if we don't He'll come get a get the kids But God needs us to rise up and go get the kids The Sunday school people still was coming knocking on his door every Sunday like as Dwayne coming to Sunday school today And he doesn't tell him no, he ain't coming today He ain't coming to school that he ain't coming to church today, and I'll be like man, what you doing? I don't want to go to church You'd be like you ain't going be like come with me. You're gonna be like, oh, man. Who are we going? He would he would take me in our car Park the car down this street come back go walk down that street come back with somebody else's van or truck Tell me to get out the car get in the truck. We will go drive through people's neighborhoods Pull up the people's houses and he'll be like wait right here. He'll go to the back door of the house Boom kick the door door in tell me and my brother this time to come and go into these people's houses and say come on Get this microwave take it to the truck get this this refrigerator Help me put this up take it to the truck get this TV put it in the truck. He had me doing burglaries Stealing from me what God is placing my heart We got some kids in Tacoma right now Who are just waiting for us to come and get them? Because they're their homes are broken. I know it God wouldn't have me up here saying this today Some of the some kids are going through the same things that I went through But we got to go get him We got to go get him see like every other night. He was domestic violence was in my home He was in there beating up my mom. I used to run in there be like make it your hands on my mom What you doing? And he'll sock me in the face boom knock me down domestic violence off the hook Let me tell you this one I'm gonna tell you one more story and then I'm gonna go move on a little bit one night One night he came home with handcuffs on I Think it was it was like two o'clock in the morning. He came home with handcuffs on and he He woke me up. I was like doing get up get up come on come in come in come down to the basement and help me I'd be like man. What you're doing and it's three o'clock in the morning. Let me alone This one I start getting a little older now like boy Get your butt off that bed for I beat you down come down in this basement with me And he took me down in the basement and I look when I finally got to sleep on my eyes I've seen that he had on handcuffs I was like, how did he get these on did he put these on himself? He's like we get that get that it's a hacksaw blade right there. I want you to get it I want you to saw these handcuffs off me So I'm sitting there with a hacksaw blade sawing off handcuffs off of this grown man And it was and I'm sitting there for hours doing it. The blade was getting hot I was dropping it and trying to just keep that was a sitting there and eventually I finally got them all The devil peeked into my future he saw that God had a plan and a purpose for my life God has a plan and a purpose for the young people on the heel top in the east side into all over Tacoma But we got to go get them God has commissioned us to go get these kids because they're going through the same things Amen I'm gonna skip a little bit So anyway, he eventually what happened is my step pops eventually got Arrested. I don't wish nobody getting arrested, but I was glad when they arrested him that day Hey, man, but now all of a sudden I was cursed with with sin I Was cursed with sin I was I was being trained up in the gospel when people was going to get me and bringing me to church And everything but now all of a sudden I'm getting trained up and sin crime violence drugs Sin and I researched being cursed with sin and when you curse with sin now, you're cornered by obstacles Everywhere you turn you you you you in trouble something is in your way from doing right Your powerless to resist it And your destiny is failure So now I'm cursed with sin I'm This dude. Don't tell me how to be a gangster a thug a drug dealer a violent cat We got some kids into coma that's just like that that are being trained up and it is same Mess the enemy is is trying to destroy them and people are literally training our kids like this But we got to go get them somebody say go get the kids for real go get the kids I Was cursed Gangs came to Tacoma this when we move back to Tacoma, but he was in the pen now and real quick Still, I'm like thirteen or fourteen fifteen something like that And my mom was always when he was in jail always taking me up to the jail house And I didn't want to go visit this dude, but she would make me go just so I could smuggle in the drugs Be like hold this put this in your draws and when we get in the thing you go in the bathroom and leave it in the thing It's somebody gonna come get it Because I showed him want to go visit him So gangs came to Tacoma I'm cursed with sin. I'm the I'm a bully I'm brainwashed now that thinking I'm bad. Can't nobody beat me up You know, I didn't know that we didn't know nothing about gangs though And one day I'm driving my little mopan on 23rd Street on the hilltop Seriously, why y'all laughing? I'm this is this is real. I'm driving my little mopan on the hilltop and I go up to the store on 23rd the Boschys and I see like six to eight dudes dressed in blue We went we went hip to this we from square to coma And so I get off my mopan. I'm looking at these dudes like what they got on blue rags and khakis and chucks and hats and Imagine stuff. That's kind of cool And so I'm getting ready to walk in the store and what I'm saying the little biddies one about the same size as Doug Johnson says this He said he looked at me that little dude looked at me and said what's up cuz I looked around like What what's up gangsters? I didn't know what to say. I didn't know what to say. So I said, what's up gangsters and a little bitty one like Doug said We ain't quick. We ain't gangsters. We cribs come from Los Angeles And I said, okay, and I walked in the store. I said all right whatever I ain't trying to handle beats with all eight of y'all So I walk in the store and I go get what I'm getting them hoping they was gonna leave, but they didn't leave So then I looked out the door. I was like, okay, well, I ain't scared of nobody I'll go out here, and I walks out there and now all of a sudden they right in front of the door Soon I walk out they like he come a little one again He said what's up, cuz this whoop whoop block six blank block grip gang from and I sound like he was speaking Chinese to me I Know what he was saying Casey. He said this whoop whoop block from six block Boom sock me in my mouth just like that He would he didn't get all his words out He socked me in my mouth, and I was like what and I'll sock them back boom knock them down And then all sudden boom I'm getting from fighting like eight dudes from Los Angeles This is my first encounter with Los Angeles grips I'm sitting there fighting these dudes from Los Angeles And then that little bitty one gets up and says give me the gun cuz give me the gun and I heard gun So I started running And while I'm running out here True story this is my first encounter with Los Angeles grips The devil is real And he wants to steal your soul be do it. Do you know there's a battle for your soul Between good and evil do you know that? He wanted to steal my soul and he knew when I got on the Lord bless me praise God the Lord bless me that I didn't get shot by one of them Bullards that day and I Got away and I went home and I was tripping like the minute. I just got beat up left my moped and Got shot at like six times. I Was mad now all of a sudden rage and anger starts to build up this stuff that I that I started to get trained up In by my step pops now. I'm mad. I'm like, okay We don't even know these guys from Los Angeles But they show in from Tacoma and we're not gonna deal with this into coma I'm gonna tell I'm gonna tell my brother my cousins and a couple of my friends I said man, we gotta do some these Los Angeles dudes is here and we gotta do some we they just jump me and just shot at me We are we ain't going for this And little did I know I was getting by the devil Pimped I call him a pimp The devil is a pimp I tell young people this when I go into the juvenile facility all the time They think I'll be I'll be cussing but it's saying the cuss word. I said the devil is a pimp Don't be his whole Hey, man So he pimped me And when the movie came out into coma called colors. This is the devil. He's real He's real and he'll do whatever he got to do to destroy our young people That's why we got to go get the kids a movie came out called colors a motion picture Right after I got jumped and beat up bodies dude now All of a sudden this motion picture is out about Crips and Bloods warring And so we go to the movie We go to the movie we look at it. I'm watching it on the on the motion screen like okay, the crypts just smoke the dude in the red So they must be bloods and the dudes in the red is shooting the crib and then there's cribs And it was they was banging and it was like man and I was looking at the thing I was like I don't want to be like them dudes in the blue I'm not being a crip so I'm gonna be a blood in the devil pimp me to start a gang into coma the first gang into coma on the heel Top call the heel top No glory to the devil right now We step it on his head in Jesus name because the Bible says we overcome the devil by the blood of the lamb and by the word of our Testimony a man and we love our lives not even unto death So we're gonna step on his head right now pimp. You don't get no authority here. We get God all the glory for redeeming me Amen for so so and me are the gangs and drugs. Hey man We just got to let him know that right now We I don't want nobody out when I walk out of here coming up to me saying saying something crazy either So we're gonna squeal crush that in Jesus name Amen So the devil pimp me he played me he punked me I started a gang It was the worst thing I ever could done I started seeing people get shot. My homies getting shot This with bullet holes in their heads I'm seeing the homie get shot for trying to snap somebody dope and they shot him in his head his brains was coming out I want another one of my homies They used to go in the room all the bloods and play Russian roulette and spin the thing with one bullet in there They see the homie blow his brains out. You know, so I'm seeing people get shot in cars get paralyzed by bullets People getting strung out on crack cocaine running down the street butt naked and then they mama's smoking and everything. This was crazy And I was cursed in it. I Was cursed in it now. I don't started the game the devil punk me pimp me. I'm cursed now I'm cornered by a lot of obstacles Everywhere I looked it was gang banging shooting violence drugs I had no power to resist it every time somebody said what's up cause to me I didn't even know what to do. I flipped out In my destiny was failure And Some of our kids into comers going through the same thing They're being trained up like this the Bible says if you train up a child in the way that he should go when he's old He shall not depart from this But I believe we'll take it depart from that by the deliverance of Jesus Christ I'm a witness Amen I'm a witness they can be so zoned save set free delivered heal and made whole but we got to go get them Touch your name and say go get the kids We're going to get the kids We all right I'm gonna cut I'm gonna cut some of the stories I can tell you about like five times where I know the Lord took bullets and did this like the Matrix For such a time is this I Know for a fact, but I'm gonna cut through that. Okay, we're gonna we're gonna do that on another day when the movie come out You can go get it winning You man when the book come out you can go I guess I'll be the first one sign for Hey, man, it's a miracle that I'm standing here today to tell you this And I just believe God wants to do something so great in this body With us because I'm part of this body now. Hey, man Who would have thought it Amen, but that's what love does that's what Christ did for me when I was a little youngster when those people came And they were so unceased into my life at a young age just like Darren Miller is so unceased into my life even now You know that's that's why that's why we're able to do what we do to function together and be able to go out And win souls because of the love Jesus said I have drawn you by my loving kindness That love that Darren drew me here with Really was God, but he used Darren as the vessel. Amen That's what that's what's in this building and I feel it and that's why I'm here. Who would have thought this I? Was about to move this I'm four or three weeks ago, dude You didn't you didn't receive it either, huh? Hey, man All right, I'm gonna go on cuz I know we wrapping up y'all all right You all right? Okay The federal government skipping to it the federal government came on TV Bush senior y'all know who Bush senior is not the little bush That messed us all up, but the big the big dude. He messed us up too, but I'm sorry No political views He came on TV in 1980 I think it was eight or six or something 88 88 And he said this is crack cocaine in the United States of America declares war on crack cocaine And if you're selling this in our inner cities and you're involved in gangs The United States of America declares war on drugs, and if you're selling this we're coming to get you Guess who they came to get first in Tacoma Yes, they came and got me The federal government came and got me when they arrested me there was a handcuff of me and everything broke in my door Put guns in my face and they had these little jackets ons and said ATF I didn't know what that meant all I knew was TPD you know I said I got arrested by TPD are like a like a thousand times, but when the ATF came I was like who are y'all And they say we the federal government boys shut your mouth you're going to the feds. I Said for what Lion The federal government sent me to the federal penitentiary And it died to me. I must come cutting to the chase And gave me ten years in the federal penitentiary for gangs drugs and violence I was pimped I was cornered by so many obstacles gangs drugs and violence. I was Powerless to resist it. I wish I had that power to resist it, but I just didn't And my destiny was fair because now I'm going to the pin for ten years When the judge gave me the sentence I swear I couldn't even stand up and I should have got 30 years praise God I should have got 30 years. That's another story But I went to the federal penitentiary and they flew me on con air y'all ever seen that movie car con air That's the truth That's real. I was on that airplane With a handcuff you black box you in the in the seat and make you eat your lunch like this While you flying with you United States marshals all outside of the plane when it's on the ground with guns and scopes and just look like snipers Straight up, I was like what is I'm a dream it That's what Santa do to you Santa I heard it says Santa take you farther than you want to go It'll keep you longer than you want to stay It'll cost you more than you want to pay Hey, man It will So I'm on con air like oh my god sitting next to these crazy cats and when they brought me to lompot, California Pinitentiary lompot, California. That's where I was able to meet two poxie coolers dad and two pot We did a concert together. I'm trying to cut to the chains and We got into a riot and The Wharton came in after I got into a riot with like six cops I was I was I really believe that the devil had pimp me and just stole my mind If you see some pictures of me, I'll show you someday. I was 265 pound bench press and almost 500 pound went along here down my back Like a demon Hey, man Anyway, we got to a riot and in the Wharton came and he told me he said Because I beat up six of his guards He said if you ever put your hand on another one of my guards in this penitentiary Dwayne I Have you so doped up With Thorozine and high old dog and all that good stuff y'all don't know about that That you won't even know your name Something snapped in me that that day, but I didn't still didn't get saved but I heard him And I think the Holy Spirit let me hear what he said. He's he basically told me I'm gonna have you like them cats That it's on Thursday and walking around penitentiary slobber and like did They literally walk this took this slow to the child line Anyway We got into a riot some people got hurt real bad I got sent to Marion super max penitentiary Marion, Illinois It's where they sent America's United States prisoners America's worst of the worst to this place That's a trip because I now I realize why I was considered one of the worst of the worst I never said this before Because now I'm one of the best of the best because I'm in God's ain't army a man How they loot you? Now figure that out Now I know why they label me like that, dude Because I'm great in the kingdom now Hey, man Wow, look at God That that just came to me That just came to me. I just realized that Seriously, they said I was one of America's worst of the worst inmates You can't be in population with everybody else You got to go over here When you're locked up 23 hours a day and you only can come out one hour today by in your by yourself in this little lock-up room And do sit-ups and push-ups and whatever you want to do my next door neighbor right here in this Cell I couldn't touch him though, but he could pass me stuff because I was an injured an inmate didn't have no no money of food This dude right here next to this in this cell was John Gotti my boss from New York City That was my man down in this cell down this down right down there was a crime ball from Philadelphia Nick Nicky Stoffey a crime by boss from Philadelphia down in that cell down in it because they moved him over there too was Matulu Shakur two pucks daddy political prisoner for armor car robberies and the list goes on Timothy McVay made it there And and you name it all kind of cats was there and I got 10 years And I'm surrounded with these dudes. They got life without the possibility of parole The devil was trying to kill me too. They're in there Cut to it I still was cursed with sin I Was cornered by everything independent Masturbation pornography Anger and rage I didn't have no no power to resist none of that drama that came my way And my destiny was even more failure that the devil wants to kill you he wants to kill our young people That's his goal he's like I said the early on it's a it's a it's a war between good and evil of our souls, hey, man so I Don't know how it happened, but I know now I End up doing eight years straight because they locked me down for such a long time in the hole that I earned a little bit of good time I end up doing eight years straight in the federal penitentiary They flew me out when they flew me out. They flew me out on Conair again I was like man, I'm free now. I got to get back on Conair boy get up get your butt on that plan. You'll be back You know they curse you like that all day long and it works You know I'm a witness it works when the guards tell you you'll be back if you don't have the power to call that down in Jesus name You'll be back I'm telling you I tell you I'm telling you when I go into Raymond Hall all the time. I asked him straight up. How many of y'all said How many of y'all in here is gonna be a career criminal and I'm trying to get them a raise their hand for real That's your goal in life to be a career criminal. I'm talking to the youth and nobody raises their hand I'm like come on tell it true. That's why you got the blue suit on how many y'all want to be a career criminal raise your hand And they'll be like it's you crazy And I'll say okay, how many y'all ain't never coming back raise your hand and every hand in the building go up Every hand in the building go up saying I ain't never coming back and I just tell them straight up you will be back brother If you don't get Jesus Christ in your life, you will come back Jesus Christ. I'm a witness. He'll keep you out of jail I'm a witness Hey, man Moving along. I was still cursed got out got in trouble again This will be my third time going to the penitentiary I got in trouble again I'm in I'm in the county jail waiting to go to Walla Walla This is why I love prison ministries This is my third time in the penitentiary getting ready to go to the penitentiary. I'm in the Pierce County jail And he's in the one day they came and they said we have a church tonight if anybody want to go to church Come on. You're welcome to come to church That's what Chrissy be doing. That's why we love Chrissy. Hey man Chrissy you keep on preaching the gospel like that girl going into them to the belly of the beast like that God is gonna reward your reward It's great in the in the kingdom a man and souls are gonna be saved from what you do brother brother Rick Brother Rick, I just heard the other day this one cat that I've been trying to minister to for about three years He was able to lead in the Christ three four days ago. Amen You keep doing that brother Remember God said that your labor is not in vain brother It might not look like you're doing nothing, but you when you go get the kids God is taking care your business. Hey, man Hey, man. He says some will plant some will water But God will give the increase a man Rick. Hey, man So the they came into the jail house and I say I'm sitting there. I'm gangsta out. Oh gee freeze you know Didn't nobody say nothing to me All the homies did what I tell them to in the jail and they say we're going to church and I'm like Something just made me get up. I say I go. I go to church. I was bored tell you the truth. I Go to church tonight This was in 19. No, this was in the year 2000 This is in the year 2000. I went to church And a preacher start preaching I'm sitting there like you just chill and they preach a start preaching He's start saying stuff and he starts saying stuff that he said for God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten son that who should ever believe in him should not perish but have everlasting life and I was like what I heard that before that. That's all pretty familiar Then he kept preaching. He was like he was looking dead at me the whole service. I'm like, why are you looking at me? You know what I'm saying? He was like God said if you confess your sins He's faithful and just to forgive your sin and cleanse you from all unrighteousness And I start getting chill bombs Okay, what's this? He kept preaching And he was looking dead at me the whole time And I started thinking I heard something I said I remember this stuff I remember this stuff when I was little this This is familiar And he kept preaching And I kept getting goosebumps Right there in the prison in the jail sale in the prison church And they said now let's pray And so to preach and start praying I'm looking around everybody I want everybody to see me I want to try to be cool when I was in there cuz you know I had a rep a reputation to protect So I don't want nobody think I'm breaking salt for now Everybody around me so I'm like okay, we're gonna pray all right, but these goosebumps is on me and I remember I'm feeling funny in there This is real, but I don't want nobody to say nothing to me cuz I'm like, you know, I knock you out So I started praying I'm like, okay, god, you know, okay, whatever, you know, this is this church and I ain't I ain't used to this But hey, I think I remember some of this and yeah, this is cool. This is cool. Hey, man And then we went back to the sale, you know what I'm saying, but I felt different I feel different like man, so That was cool, and I you know, I kept my thing on like I was the OG and everybody was like you went to church, man How do you like it man? I let me move man get out my face and and so It was lock up. They said lock down we went to ourselves and I was in my cell and I was just pacing around like me And so what that was that was cool. I Remember that I was just pacing in myself. I couldn't even let that sit down on my bed And I was just pacing around and they're like man, what what happened in there? And so It was a Bible in my room. We had dust on it He's like, you know in the jail They put a the Bible in a lot of the sales and it minds are set there so long it had dust all over it And then I said, you know what? Something just made me go get that Bible And I just started reading I'm taking mine. This is this is my third time in the penitentiary gang leader thug doubt gang banger Just did eight straight in the feds Still cursed with sin corner by obstacles Powerless to resist them and destined to fail Here I go picking up the Bible in a year 2000 in myself Because some jail house prison ministers like Chrissy and Rick and Darren came in minister to gospel So I go and get the Bible And I'm just flipping through it. I don't know what I'm doing And I started reading I went to that thing. I've seen that thing when I do said for God so loved the world That he gave his only begotten son that who should ever believe in him should not perish but have everlasting life I said I remember that And I kept reading I didn't know what I was reading I just kept reading and I read it said if you confess to Lord Jesus And believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead that you shall be saved and Then I got the goosebumps again right there in my cell It was crazy And right there in myself as I was reading that Bible God the father and all his infinite mercy and grace drew me to my knees in that cell right there In my penitentiary cell I Didn't even know how to pray I didn't even know what to say to God But I knew I believed what this Bible was saying and and something was going on in my heart And I remember when I was a little boy. I had a passion for Christ And so I just started playing like I like I was just in the hood I Said God God, I don't know what's going on here, but I know you real But if you real God, you need to really show me you realize because I believe this word what you said when you sent Jesus to die for my sins God you know, I don't know how to pray, but I but I'm tired of this life I Said Lord, I'm tired of gang banging. I'm tired of seeing my homies get smoke I'm tired of this Lord. I'm tired of watching my kids grow up in their photographs. I Said Lord, I'm tired of this and if you if you really if you could come into me and change me God, I said I promise you I Never gang bang again. God. I promise you I'll do whatever you want me to do But God you got to take this away from me. You got to take this away from me because I'm tired of this I Believe you when you're worried when you said Jesus died for me now coming to my heart and save me right now And if you do it God, I'll change I'll serve you and Right there in my cell up it was it was something somebody else was in there and I was kind of scared and I was OG freeze. I wasn't scared of nobody But some was in there and I was so scared I didn't want to open my eyes But I felt something touch me like on my shoulder and it started speaking to my heart and he said don't don't even don't even trip. It's me He said don't even be scared. It's me. It's Jesus. I'm and I'm crying out. I'm like Lord. Just please And he said it's Jesus today Salvation has come to you Dwayne Today you are not a gang banging no more Today you are saved you are a new man And right there I knew I Felt the presence of God and I felt God show up in my life in the year 2000 Jesus came into my heart and changed me and set me free right there in that prison cell everybody say hallelujah Hallelujah You're looking at a miracle You're looking at a miracle Jesus is real Jesus is real and he saved me And now he wants us to go and get the kids Because the kids are suffering now just like I was suffering when my stepdad taught me how to do all that mess We got to go get our kids I'm gonna touch on one little thing right here, then I'm gonna close I'm gonna close I Wish I can go on and tell you how what what God did did to me while I was in prison I started a Bible study I start I started a Bible study people start getting saved I Denounce gangs and drugs everybody thought I was crazy Straight up now I have power to say no when gangs came my way when the homies came and said what's wrong with you Man, let's go. Let's go do some. I was like no in Jesus name. I'm not doing that. I have power to resist it now Hey, man Now all of a sudden when I went to church and I was praying and everything I came on myself It didn't feel like I was cornered by so many obstacles. I Was cool. I was able to walk. I know God was into into my life that day because I was instantly delivered from profanity That might not sound like a big old deliverance to you But that was to me because I used to cuss more than anybody on planet earth He instantly delivered me from profanity Hey, man. I used to cuss out the police all the time now all of a sudden I didn't custom what it was like What's wrong with him? And my destiny was not failure Hey, man my destiny is success and Blessings and he'd been blessing me like crazy every since 2000 Hey, man, I'm gonna tell you on this last little thing and then we gonna go home And I'm gonna tell you a little bit a little bit just a little bit more. We are right there Amen put that scripture back up there, man Then little children were brought to him We got to bring them to Christ City Central we got to go get them They wait known us they wait known us And we the only Jesus they gonna see but if we sit right here in this pew and don't go get them That blood is on our hands I'm telling you right now the blood is on your hands We got to go get them They brought them to him that he might lay hands on them and pray But the disciples rebuked them Some of us is rebuking ourselves Sometimes people will will tell you now, man. Yeah, we don't want all them them hoodlums in our church I know y'all heard that before that's probably how some of the church split up and stuff. I don't know that but I'm just saying that but Sometimes people be like, man. Oh, don't go get them and bring them in here. No, no, they'll never be saved They'll never be saved Don't even waste your time on them If they were to waste it, they would have felt that way about me I probably wouldn't be here today telling you about God and what he can do Don't let nobody rebuke you and tell you not to go get them Don't rebuke yourself and say I'm too tired today. I'll get them some other day Don't say don't put it off on somebody else and say they got that No, you go get them You go get them because if somebody out there that God our purpose for you specifically to go get them Hey, man You a a a a a a a a [ Silence ]