New Caster: "We begin tonight with a nation already on edge in the corona virus pandemic as
protests turned violent across America the arrest of a former Minneapolis police offer".....
Chant "I Cant Breathe- I Can't Breathe...."
Making a commitment involves... dedicating yourself to
something like a person or cause before you can make a commitment I need you to
think carefully AMEN. a commitment obligates you to someone or to something
the commitment to the solution is the answer to the problem. The commitment,
Come on - the commitment to the solution is the answer to the problem... come on -
Strategy. "Pastor we need a strategy, Pastor, we need some direction"
the direction is that as long as you're dealing with the problem then you're
giving the problem the energy but once two people come together and agree that
they're gonna get in The Boat,..Listen to me, The disciples waited on CHRIST. He
did not come they did not get weary they did not give up they're got their butt in
The Boat. The first thing we need to do is make a commitment, get in The Boat
grab the oars and begin to row!!! I'ma show you what that looks like it is when
you commit yourself to something you commit yourself to a person - hallelujah
you put you commit yourself to a call in this instance I'm talking about
committing yourself to a people committing yourself to a cause,
Praise-GOD in the name of JESUS the first strategy is
I need you to commit and when I say commit I'm not talking about [Jamie I
told you I'm being honest] I ain't trying to tell nobody business but somebody
called me two weeks after we had a counseling session and said, "Pastor it
ain't work!" I said, "what didn't work?" "what you told me". I said, "what I told you 14
days to go didn't work?" I told you 14 days to go! I declare in the name of
JESUS CHRIST that Dr. Martin Luther King and the Montgomery bus boycott, it lasted
for 381 days.... Commitments!!!
- Crowd Cheering -
- Bus Sound -
MLK Voice - "That was the Day that we started... a Bus Protest"
Commitments! Commitments! Sometimes the only way to get a solution is you have
to commit yourself to something and when I say commit yourself [to] something I'm not
talking about for a weekend. You think you're gonna Post for a weekend and make some
changes "Oh Pastor, are you saying its something wrong
with posting?" I'm not telling you how to protest but if you think for one minute
that you're gonna protest for a weekend if you think you're gonna protest for a
week if you think you're gonna protest for a month I'm telling you you don't
have to question the strategy you don't have to question the system you don't
have to question all you got to do is go to Dr. Martin Luther King and look at
the history and studying you don't have to worry about what people are saying
you don't have to worry about what people are thinking all you got to do is
go to the model all you got to do is go to the individual. Hallelujah! that was
most successful. Hallelujah all you got to do is go to Gandhi all you got to do
is realize that it's not going to happen in three days.
AMEN.. and some of us are going to Post for the weekend and some of us [are] gonna post for a
week you know why... cuz it's convenient. It's convenient to look like you
committed and some of us are going to go and March for three or four days and
some of us are gonna march for seven days and some of us go get up and in our
emotions and we gonna go all that talking but I'm here to tell you today
that yes Change Can Come but change don't come when you're Convenient. Change only comes
when you make a commitment and Dr. Martin Luther King led his people for
381 Days. 381 Days, nobody took the bus
and 381 Days people walk to work and people walked home and people walked to
the store for 381 days people were inconvenienced. I'm talking about a commitment
you talk about convenience. You talk about how you look in front of other
people you talk about What other people gonna say about you. You're
talking about trying to gain some political power or you talking about
trying to get somebody to see what you're doing I declare to you today
Martin Luther King. Hallelujah.. when they were..... 381 Days- 381 Days- 381 Days
No bus... Hallelujah.. No transportation 381 days ... AMEN.. they carpooled.
381 Days they had to get up three hours early so they can get everybody to their
destination. 381 Days that's over a year. 381 Days, not 30
days, not 3 days, 381 Days and you want to get online for three weeks and act like
you've done something, you want to get on for a weekend and act like you've done
something, you want to post and act like you've done something, you want to walk...
when you wanna... you want to go March when you off work and you wannna "Ahhh"
you want to show your solidarity when you got when you got time.
381 days. Dr. Martin Luther King had a PhD. Dr. Martin Luther King had a job he could have
lived anywhere he wanted to but guess what he was committed! He was committed
to the cause so he lived in the neighborhood he was committed to the Cause.
So they used his car he was committed to the cause so he walked. Your little 3-Days
you ain't doing nothing you're doing what's convenient to you. You're doing
what people are seeing you do. Your doing what's making you
popular you're doing what's bringing you attention. Dr. Martin Luther King wasn't looking
for no attention. 381 Days [381] days they Marched. 381 days they fed each other 381
days they took off they're lunch and couldn't go to lunch because they had to
pick somebody [up] and take Somebody... 381 Days they got home late because they were
picking each other up 381 days... Is this convenient for you or
is just a commitment?? Some of us been doing this for a real
long time before social media we was doing this I was 14 years old my mama
had me out {Jaime} registering people to vote at 16 years old 14 - 16 years old.
At 27 years old when I was in college I was registering people to vote.
Ran the GED program. We was doing "Gun [buy] Back stuff. Some of you're doing it because it's
convenient. I'm looking for everybody who's committed I'm looking for the
Folks to say, "if I got to do this for a month if I got to do this for six months
if I got to do this for a year if I got to do this for five years if I got to do
this for six years if I got to do this for 10 years
whatever it takes I'll do whatever it takes" and I'm telling you today
Martin Luther King said WE Shall Overcome but I'm telling you he said it because he waited.
In the morning it didn't happen, He Waited! in the afternoon it didn't happen
He Waited! at night and it didn't happen and he jumped in The Boat! he got
in the boat and there was some folk that got in the boat with him and they grabbed
the oar. you ready to grab your paddles but you just want to talk you're ready to
grab your paddles or you just want to be seen you ready to grab your paddles and
do the work some of us been doing the work forever
GOD said there's a reason why I make you wait I make you wait because I'm trying
to see people's pure intentions. 500 miles Booker T Washington's walked 500
miles he walked 500 miles! I'm not mad at you I
can't tell you how to protest but I'm telling you I'm not looking at some
folks in 2020 to show me how to protest I'm going back .. AMEN... to the Bible and
the Bible says JESUS was so committed that he left Heaven, HE came on earth
33 years and then HE died on the cross Committed.
Not convenient Committed. Yeah Peter was convenient committed. Yup. Yup. Because when
they called Peter to the carpet he denied JESUS not once he's not in three times
he walked with CHRIST when it was convenient, he walked with The Master
when it was convenient there are those of you who are doing what you do because
it's convenient but some of you ain't never made a commitment and we're not
going to be able to solve any problems until we put it both feet down and we
make a commitment we sacrifice our heart we sacrifice our mind we sacrifice our
soul. I didn't say he caught the plane I didn't say he caught a ride I didn't say
he rode his bike I said he walked 500 miles!! Committment!!
Commitment Winter Hampton "oh come on come on" I know
you read the story they denied him that night he went to the library and he
cleaned the library {Jamie} not once not twice three times and when they came
back the next day and they saw her cleaning is was
they took their figure and they put their finger on the wall, a white wall
and guess what happened there was no dust no dirt, Committed!. They said "NO" he
could have went home "NO! you can't come here because of the color your skin" he
could have said, "No!"... he walked 500 miles you'd thought he would've needed at least
3 or 4 days of sleep but it's not about what's convenient he got in school
graduated and became a professor you're not hearing what I'm telling you!
What I'm telling you is.. hallelujah.. you gotta make a commitment! Even after he
graduated he became a professor he founded Tuskegee... an institution
that is still productive to this day I need you to be active... hallelujah... but I
need you to be passive meaning that while you're waiting you're doing
something what did I do while I waited [Jamie] I got the PhD I saw
what happened to Emmett Till, I saw it so - so I went back and got the four-year
degree while I waited I went and got the masters while I waited I went and got
the PhD while I waited... we started a summer school for kids come on come on
with a curriculum [Jamie] wit music we bringing in Grammy artists we've got
somebody helping them with the SATs tests and the ACT helping them with
standardized tests you're not hearing what I'm saying we're helping them [Jamie]
with conflict resolution... we're helping them to be entrepreneurs. Jemal
is gonna introduce them to it Make Real Estate Real so they can learn how to be
proud you're not hear what I'm saying [Jamie] yup yup yeah while you wait while you
wait while you wait while you wait I know you want to do it when it's convenient
but while you wait instead of playing video games while you wait educate
yourself while you wait become a lawyer while you wait become a
judge while you wait get economic freedom
while you wait start a community program while you wait
educate the police system while you wait change the culture while you wait don't
tell other communities to be a blessing to our community and we're tearing our
own community down why are you wait build businesses in your community while
are you wait teach kids how to read while you wait
tell daddies to get in their kid's life
while you wait strengthen single-parent mothers while you wait
bring folks to church while you wait pray and wait on GOD. While you wait!
While you wait! While you wait!
do something! While you wait do something..... You need leadership, JESUS
CHRIST, you need leadership, Dr. Martin Luther King, you need leadership,
Booker T Washington, you need leadership, Malcolm X, what did they do they did something they
made a commitment in prison Malcolm X made a commitment to the
Nation of Islam he came out and there might have been thirty thousand folk he
made a commitment and in less than a few years he recruited five hundred thousand
people to the Nation of Islam he made a commitment he wear his glasses not
because he couldn't see he wore glasses in jail he read read read read read I'm
telling you to make a commitment. You want to help the cause read you want to help
the call study and [Jamie] when I was 19 years old and I saw the Emmett Till story
from that day forward I would go to the library people asked me do you know this
artist and this artist have you seen that movie and [Jamie] I'm embarrassed to say
no I haven't why I wasn't watching movies [Jamie] I was in the library and I
was studying souls of the black folks how you not hearing what I'm telling you.
succeeding against the odds, you're not hearing what I'm telling you I started
reading the Mayflower 'Make me Wanna Holla' Nathan McCall are you
hearing what I'm saying I'm telling you today that you got to get in the boat
and some of you- you think you're doing some cuz you
standing by the boat you think you're doing some cuz you around the boat you
think you're doing some cuz you call the people name out who in the boat you think
you're doing some because you cheered you think you're doing something you ain't
doing nothin till you make a commitment. wait wait wait I'm waiting just like
you're waiting I'm hoping just like you hoping for the second coming to JESUS
CHRIST I'm hoping just like you hoping that one
day it doesn't matter what the color of your skin is... Hallelujah... I'm waiting just like
you waiting to get pulled over and know one day that.. that as an
American man I don't have to fear for my life I'm waiting just like you waiting
if I go to a bank I'm gonna get treated like everybody [else] I'm waiting just like you
waiting I'm anxiously hoping for just like you hoping for
I got an African-american son I got an African-american daughter. I'm waiting just
like you waiting don't think I ain't waiting like you wait don't think I'm
not longing for it like you're longing for it don't think I'm not Like You. But I'm
telling you the difference between when you make a commitment to something and it's
just a convenience you lose your hope I'm telling you we can't lose our hope
because once you lose your hope you lose everything I'm here to tell you that
once you get started you can't stop until you get there I'm telling you when
you get in the boat you make a commitment it doesn't matter if the Gale
comes it doesn't matter if the winds and the waves come it doesn't matter if the
storm comes. Just Keep Rowing this is what I mean when I say wait when I say wait
if the ship goes down you keep rowing if the sides come off you keep going if
you lose one of your paddles you keep going. Hope! Hope! don't ever
lose your Hope don't let some evil don't let some hatred don't let some
circumstance don't let some situation Martin Luther King said, "and I have a
dream I have a dream that one day we will get there
I've been to the mountain top" we can't lose our hope we can't lose our faith we
can't lose our hope we can't lose our faith because when you lose your faith
and you lose your hope you stop rowing when the boat comes from up under you. Keep rowing
don't get so emotional that you stop rowing don't get so emotional that you
lose your strategy don't...oh come on. Dr. Martin Luther King... I promise you
they sicked the dogs on him he kept his hope they put him in jail he kept his
hope they put the water hose, he kept his hope they beat him, he kept his hope
whatever you do don't lose your hope because once you lose your hope you lost
everything the last thing we need is to give up the
last thing we need to do is to give in to racism the last thing we need to do
is lose hope we can't... Martin Luther King worked too hard. Malcom worked too hard,
Fannie Lou Hamer worked too hard. Stoney Carmichael worked too hard.
Medgar Evers he work too hard. Booker T worked too hard
Harriett worked too hard. Martin worked too hard Frederick Douglas work too hard. Nat Turner
worked too hard they work too hard. Coretta worked too hard. They worked
too hard for us to stop now. Rosa worked too hard they worked too hard
for us just to give up now. Now we got a press and not press for weekend
not press for a week not press for month 381 day 381 days 500 miles 500 miles 381
days 500 miles now we gotta put our seatbelts on
and we have to commit! I'm not telling you how to commit but I'm telling you
don't do it for a weekend. I'm telling you don't do it when it's just
convenient to you don't do it to try to make money off this situation don't do
it because it's Convenient. Do it because you're ready to Make the Commitment..........