1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:03,400 Welcome to the Cross Power Church podcast. 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:06,800 You're listening to a service from our church in Campbell, TX. 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:10,480 We pray this message strengthens your faith and points you to the 4 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:12,840 cross. Now let's join the service. 5 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:15,120 Want to preach to you about something today? 6 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:18,160 I kind of been on a series of this last three messages that 7 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:23,960 started at the biker rally. I preached on along these lines 8 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:29,640 and I guess it's kind of what led me into full time ministry 9 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:33,840 or pastoring a church is I had, as many of you know, I had a a 10 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:36,560 buck out ministry, buck bulls and horses and LED a lot of kids 11 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:40,480 to to Christ. And I set back over a period of 12 00:00:40,480 --> 00:00:44,840 a few years and I've seen a lot of people save, but not a lot of 13 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:48,160 change in their life. And I've read nowhere in the 14 00:00:48,160 --> 00:00:50,600 Bible that when we're saved, when we're born again, and you 15 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:51,800 know, it's not even really mentioned. 16 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:55,160 Saved, as I've said, is the ultimate goal to be saved from 17 00:00:55,440 --> 00:00:58,600 from the tribulation period, from the wrath of God that's 18 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:02,040 coming upon this earth. That's the ultimate goal. 19 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:05,519 But right now we are not saved. We're born again. 20 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:08,360 We're living in a world where there's people that act 21 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:09,880 different than us. Hello. 22 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:12,760 And that we're even living in a world where the church acts 23 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:14,760 different than the church down the street. 24 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:17,640 And it's kind of confusing to a lot of people. 25 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:20,240 I want to clear some of this stuff up today. 26 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:23,400 And, and this message here, I'm going to tell you if you'll take 27 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:25,800 notes. I put it together over a lot of 28 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:27,840 years. If you'll listen today and let 29 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:30,880 it get in your spirit, it will change your life. 30 00:01:30,960 --> 00:01:33,120 Amen. And I just want to, I just want 31 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:37,120 to share that and, and go over some things here, But we're 32 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:39,640 going to begin reading Second Corinthians chapter 5. 33 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:45,120 It's always amazed me in verse 17 of Second Corinthians chapter 34 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:47,360 5. Let's stand in the reading of 35 00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:55,440 the word this morning preached on this little scripture here a 36 00:01:55,480 --> 00:02:00,880 couple weeks now, but it, it's always grabbed my spirit when I 37 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:03,160 read it. It's always intrigued my mind 38 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:06,640 when I read it. The apostle Paul, he said here 39 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:09,960 in Second Corinthians chapter 5 and verse 17. 40 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:16,080 He says, therefore, if anyone, I love that we like to tell God 41 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:19,520 where we come from, what we've been, what we've done and why he 42 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:23,800 can't make us be a born again child of his. 43 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:29,080 It doesn't matter. He said if anyone is in Christ. 44 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:31,840 I preached on that Wednesday night of what it is to be in 45 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:34,040 Christ. It means to set, to wait. 46 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:37,480 The word in, in the Hebrew and Greek means a little deeper than 47 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:39,120 that. It means that you're walking 48 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:41,600 toward a destination. Can I get a witness this 49 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:43,840 morning? Therefore, if anyone is in 50 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:47,880 Christ and he's walking toward a destination called heaven, I 51 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:51,280 love what it says right here. And yes, sometimes it's hard, 52 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:57,840 but Paul says if you're in Christ, if you know Christ, he 53 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:02,920 said that you're a new creation. To be a new creation, some old 54 00:03:02,920 --> 00:03:07,200 things have to pass away. That's where we get it. 55 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:08,920 That's where the Christian gets worried. 56 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:11,760 What's God going to take away what I got to quit doing? 57 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:15,840 What's it going to cost me? I can promise you, whatever it 58 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:19,160 cost you, he's going to replace it with something that your eyes 59 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:22,760 not seen, your ears not heard, and the glory has not even been 60 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:26,000 revealed to a man of what God can do in your life. 61 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:28,720 So just let him replace it. Let him take it away. 62 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:34,400 But the Christian walks around on earth a long time not letting 63 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:37,640 these old things pass away. Therefore there's no room for 64 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:42,040 the new. He said this, He said, behold, 65 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:47,640 all things have become new. Can I read that again in its 66 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:49,400 entirety? Therefore, if anyone is in 67 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:55,280 Christ, he is a new creation. Old things have passed away. 68 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:57,720 Boy, there's a red flag for. A lot of people. 69 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:03,560 Behold, all things have become new. 70 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:05,720 Father, we thank You for Your word today. 71 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:08,520 Pray for the anointing to preach Your word once again. 72 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:11,640 I pray for those that are battling with the old things as 73 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:14,640 we all are. Father, that You would make all 74 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:18,200 things new to us today. That You'd make this word new to 75 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:21,480 us today, Father. That you would make just a new 76 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:26,200 life, a new creation within us with a expectation of the coming 77 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:30,680 of the Lord Jesus Christ to take those that are born again, those 78 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:33,200 that are ready to meet the Lord and set down at the marriage 79 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:35,520 supper of the Lamb. That you would just help us to 80 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:37,760 know we're a new creation this morning. 81 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:41,400 It's in your Son's name. We ask and pray, Amen. 82 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:49,040 As I've preached this many times before, I'm a preacher that 83 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:51,720 believes if we're born again, there should be something 84 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:56,880 different about us. We're in the world, but we're 85 00:04:56,880 --> 00:05:00,640 not out of the world. But as many find out, come on 86 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:03,960 y'all preach with me this morning as many find out and I 87 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:06,240 got tired of leaving people at salvation. 88 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:10,320 A lot of preachers leave them at salvation and pat them on the 89 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:11,960 back. Tell them you got everything you 90 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:13,560 need. Just go, just go. 91 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:16,040 You know what you finna do? You finna go out and get your 92 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:20,640 tail kicked by an enemy because the enemy knows all the tricks. 93 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:23,880 He knows the word that the new believer that just received 94 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:27,000 salvation does not know. He knows how to throw a 95 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:30,880 roadblock up in you, in your path before you can ever grasp 96 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:33,400 and before it ever falls upon good ground. 97 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:37,400 So I want to teach this morning on how to how do we become this 98 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:39,640 new creation? Anybody wants something new in 99 00:05:39,640 --> 00:05:41,440 their life? Look at your neighbor. 100 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:43,160 Say I want something new in my life. 101 00:05:43,840 --> 00:05:45,720 Look at your other neighbor that didn't get it. 102 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:51,480 But if many find out, it's salvation. 103 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:56,680 And can I say this, even after water baptism, we want a big 104 00:05:56,680 --> 00:05:58,960 trophy on our shelf. Oh, I've been baptized. 105 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:02,680 That's a good thing. But was there a change? 106 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:06,760 Did something happen? Did the old man or woman that 107 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:10,000 you were seem to just totally die at water baptism? 108 00:06:10,840 --> 00:06:13,520 I felt like a fire was started and I felt like there was two 109 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:16,680 things fighting inside of me that I never felt before. 110 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:19,640 How about you? I felt like there was a war that 111 00:06:19,640 --> 00:06:22,440 was started. It would be really cool if God 112 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:26,000 just snapped his fingers and the old man was instantly dead. 113 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:29,080 And all the cravings and the lustful things that we walked 114 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:32,000 through in this life and the addictions and the mouth that 115 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:33,760 just spouts off when it shouldn't. 116 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:37,000 And Amen, it'd be cool if all that stuff was just gone. 117 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:39,120 But I give you a heavy Ravi this morning. 118 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:43,240 It's not, It's still in the body of Christ. 119 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:46,560 It's still in the church. It's still in the hearts of many 120 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:50,280 believers because they haven't let the old things pass away. 121 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:53,480 Oh, I feel his glory this morning and let all things 122 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:57,280 become new. Just as we developed the worldly 123 00:06:57,280 --> 00:07:00,240 habits, you know, the habits that we have, the habits that 124 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:02,800 that kill a lot of people on a daily basis. 125 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:06,400 The old things that we held on to see, they didn't just come up 126 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:08,120 on you. You had to develop them. 127 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:12,760 Hello how many remembers the first part day they went to 128 00:07:15,320 --> 00:07:17,720 thought it was going to be a party but it wrecked the rest of 129 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:21,080 their life. How many remembers those things 130 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:24,880 We had to develop those habits. So why wouldn't we have to 131 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:29,280 develop the new created spirit that God has placed within us 132 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:32,480 because we all can agree that it didn't just change. 133 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:35,840 You had a knowledge of who you was, the Holy Spirit come in, 134 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:37,920 and it convicted your being of sin. 135 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:40,920 And you knew that something about the person that you used 136 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:43,960 to be was a little bit messed up and it was a little bit wrong. 137 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:46,800 And I wasn't supposed to act. I'm not supposed to act that way 138 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:49,000 yet. But I find people that that can 139 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:51,000 justify it. I find preachers that can 140 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:53,720 justify it. And we start another convention 141 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:57,360 church over here that it's OK to do and we pat on the back. 142 00:07:57,360 --> 00:08:01,520 It's happening everywhere, everywhere. 143 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:05,360 I get calls from old friends attending churches that got big 144 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:07,720 churches and big buildings and big problems. 145 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:13,760 But we have to develop our recreated human spirit. 146 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:17,040 It would be great, as I said, if God snapped his fingers and we 147 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:19,600 were automatically Christ like. But we can agree that's not 148 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:23,040 true. But the truth is God helps us 149 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:27,400 with the great Helper, with the great Helper, with the great 150 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:31,160 helper, the Holy Ghost. And in Genesis 1 and 27 it says 151 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:34,000 that we were created in the image of God. 152 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:38,280 Isn't that cool to know that you were created in the image of 153 00:08:38,280 --> 00:08:41,120 God? But seeing entered in and 154 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:45,000 separated us from God. So when we're born again and 155 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:50,000 we're reconciled with God, we must develop the Spirit, the new 156 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:52,800 Spirit that God has placed within us. 157 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:55,480 And to do so, we must do one thing. 158 00:08:55,480 --> 00:09:00,560 As Galatians chapter 5 and verse 22 through 25 says, we have to 159 00:09:00,560 --> 00:09:03,880 look at the fruit. I'm not sure if a lot of 160 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:05,280 Christians ever look at the fruit. 161 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:09,120 Can I tell you, the unbeliever, the one that you professing to 162 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:12,880 know Jesus in front of the one that knows that you read 163 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:14,880 scripture or maybe you send scripture. 164 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:17,280 Can I tell you, come on, somebody, they're looking at 165 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:19,880 your life today and they're expect, they're looking at what 166 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:21,560 kind of fruits hanging off of you. 167 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:24,560 And the problem is most Christians tell them that I'm an 168 00:09:24,560 --> 00:09:27,600 apple tree, but they look at you and they see big bananas hanging 169 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:30,720 off of your tree and they know that you're professing a lie 170 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:33,880 because you ain't no apple tree. You're a big old banana tree, 171 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:36,560 right? But we think that they're dumb. 172 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:40,960 Hey, man, we think that they can't see that. 173 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:44,800 Why? Because we're not a new creation 174 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:46,720 yet. We have to work on it. 175 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:49,400 So what do we look at? See the the fruit. 176 00:09:49,560 --> 00:09:52,640 There's only one way the Bible says that you will not be the 177 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:55,280 lustful ignorant. Can I just preach it this 178 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:58,680 morning, dumb person you was when you were living in sin and 179 00:09:58,680 --> 00:10:00,320 you were blinded to the things of God. 180 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:02,680 The Bible says there's only one way you're going to get out of 181 00:10:02,680 --> 00:10:05,280 that life. There's only one way. 182 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:09,800 That is to walk in the Spirit that you will not fulfill the 183 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:12,680 lust of the flesh. That's the only way to walk in 184 00:10:12,680 --> 00:10:14,400 the Spirit. And how do we do that? 185 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:16,400 I preached that last week about walking in. 186 00:10:16,560 --> 00:10:19,840 So if we're walking in the Spirit, what is what does the 187 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:22,600 Spirit do? In Galatians 5 and 22, it says 188 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:26,720 the fruit of the Spirit is love. That's the number one thing I 189 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:28,920 want to preach to you about today is love. 190 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:32,280 God is love. So it's pretty important to 191 00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:34,880 preach about what God is. If you want to know God, right? 192 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:38,240 God is love, but the fruit of the spirit is love. 193 00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:44,840 It's joy, it's peace, long-suffering, kindness, 194 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:51,200 goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control against 195 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:53,560 such. There's no law, there's no wrong 196 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:56,800 in those things. I read you the next verse says 197 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:04,160 that in those who are Christ. Here's a key have crucified the 198 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:08,200 flesh with its passions and its desires. 199 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:10,520 The apostle Paul said in Galatians 220. 200 00:11:10,520 --> 00:11:13,320 He said I have been crucified with Christ. 201 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:17,640 It's no longer I who live, but it's Christ who lives within me 202 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:21,040 and the life that I now live. I live through the Son of God 203 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:23,720 who loved me and gave his life for me. 204 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:25,640 Y'all staying with me this morning? 205 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:30,400 So to produce fruit, the first thing I got to do is to walk in 206 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:32,200 love. Say that with me. 207 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:35,480 Walk in love. I've got to walk in love. 208 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:40,240 There's a lot here, but we must practice it every day because 209 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:43,200 God is love. And to develop our recreated 210 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:46,080 human spirit we must walk in love. 211 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:51,080 Because in in first John 4 and 18 it says there is No Fear in 212 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:56,080 love, but perfect love cast out all fear because fear has 213 00:11:56,080 --> 00:11:58,360 torment. He that feareth is not made 214 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:01,440 perfect in love. We love Him because He first 215 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:04,600 loved us. We must learn to walk in love. 216 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:07,240 You will never lead anybody to Christ hitting them over the 217 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:09,280 head with the Bible and not loving them. 218 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:12,920 I have found the greatest way to lead people to Christ is love 219 00:12:12,920 --> 00:12:14,440 them while they're sinners, Amen. 220 00:12:14,560 --> 00:12:17,840 Shake them a little bit and and every now and then drop some 221 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:20,480 words in their spirit. But most all you got to love 222 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:21,160 them. Amen. 223 00:12:21,680 --> 00:12:26,280 You got to love them because God is love to produce fruit. 224 00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:30,600 We have to walk in love, love God and love your neighbor. 225 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:35,440 The second thing we must do this is a hard one. 226 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:39,360 I know Christians that battle it on a daily basis. 227 00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:44,280 I know preachers that battle it on a daily basis is to give the 228 00:12:44,280 --> 00:12:49,640 Word first place in your life. If I've heard it once, I've 229 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:52,680 heard it 1000 times. I know the Bible says that, but 230 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:57,000 I know the Bible. But there's no butts in it. 231 00:12:57,680 --> 00:13:00,280 There's no butts in it. We have to if we're going to 232 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:02,920 produce fruit that God speaks of there. 233 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:06,720 And there were some hard fruit to produce. long-suffering, 234 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:11,520 patience, kindness, gentleness. You know, we can't even get it 235 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:13,000 right with one person in our life. 236 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:16,760 Most of the time we're in an 80% divorce bracket, divorce 237 00:13:16,760 --> 00:13:18,280 brackets. Now two people. 238 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:20,680 Think about it, how you going to go out and get it right with a 239 00:13:20,680 --> 00:13:23,920 bunch of people when two people walk and preach right here when 240 00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:25,720 two people? Can't even get it right most of 241 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:29,680 the time. We have to walk in love, 242 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:33,480 long-suffering, patience, gentleness, kindness, and it's 243 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:35,640 hard sometimes. You just got to have a meltdown 244 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:39,200 within. Hey man, you know it's better to 245 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:50,160 just stop. It's better to let it all just 246 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:53,960 and just, you know, let it out like that because you need to, 247 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:56,920 if you, if you're hurt, if you're broken this morning, the 248 00:13:57,040 --> 00:13:59,440 greatest thing you can do is hush until you heal. 249 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:03,160 Because all you do is separate yourself from other people. 250 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:08,760 And the first thing they do is I thought you, I thought you. 251 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:11,040 The world loves to say I thought you. 252 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:14,640 I thought you, I thought you was a Christian. 253 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:20,160 Anybody ever heard that? That's reflecting failure in US. 254 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:24,120 I've heard it. It's reflecting failure in US. 255 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:26,440 How do we do this? Give the Word first place in our 256 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:28,920 lives. Psalms 138, verse 2. 257 00:14:29,240 --> 00:14:31,920 The psalmist said, I will worship toward your holy temple, 258 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:35,040 and I will praise your name for your loving kindness and your 259 00:14:35,680 --> 00:14:40,600 trust or your truth, For you have magnified. 260 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:43,800 Think about this, you have magnified, Jesus has the name 261 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:46,920 above all names. But the psalmist says here, for 262 00:14:46,920 --> 00:14:50,880 you have magnified your word above all your name. 263 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:54,800 Jesus knew that the word was the only thing above his name, 264 00:14:54,800 --> 00:14:57,120 right? He was the word, but he went to 265 00:14:57,120 --> 00:14:59,760 the word before he used. He could have prayed in his own 266 00:14:59,760 --> 00:15:03,120 name, but he went to what is written to defeat the enemy. 267 00:15:03,280 --> 00:15:07,080 He went to what was already written to produce fruit, right? 268 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:10,920 In Proverbs 3, five and seven, it says trust in the Lord. 269 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:14,280 Say it with me with all your heart and lean not on your own 270 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:16,560 understanding, but in all of your ways. 271 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:19,800 We love to leave that first part out and go to the comma down 272 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:21,160 there. In all your ways. 273 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:24,440 Acknowledge Him and He shall direct your path. 274 00:15:25,520 --> 00:15:29,560 Not true if you're not leaning, not on your own understanding, 275 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:33,240 but in all your ways. He says do not be wise in your 276 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:35,520 own eyes. Fear the Lord, depart from evil 277 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:38,000 and it will be health to your flesh and strength to your 278 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:41,520 bones. We must develop a recreated 279 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:45,480 human spirit. We must put the Word first place 280 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:47,760 in our life. It will bring blessings and not 281 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:50,920 cursing to our life. See, the spirit of the man is 282 00:15:50,920 --> 00:15:54,040 the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts 283 00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:58,120 of the belly. We must learn to obey #3 Y'all 284 00:15:58,120 --> 00:16:03,760 ready for this? We must learn to obey the voice 285 00:16:04,280 --> 00:16:06,160 of the Spirit. I lost a lot of people right 286 00:16:06,160 --> 00:16:09,320 there because a lot of people say God don't speak to them. 287 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:13,960 You know when people say God don't speak to them? 288 00:16:13,960 --> 00:16:16,720 You know what I say? I say you're not reading your 289 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:19,600 Bible. That's how God chooses to speak 290 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:21,600 to us. It's through His written word. 291 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:23,880 He wrote it through through anointed people. 292 00:16:24,760 --> 00:16:26,920 We must learn to obey the voice of the Spirit. 293 00:16:26,920 --> 00:16:31,040 Proverbs 20 and 27, it says the spirit of man is the lamp of the 294 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:34,360 Lord searching all the inner depths of the heart. 295 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:40,160 Man can only have contact with God through spirit, right, 296 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:44,400 because he can't approach us not till we have a glorified body. 297 00:16:46,040 --> 00:16:52,280 But if, if you're only trying to seek God in the flesh and the 298 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:56,000 things that you can see, taste, touch and feel, you'll be 299 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:58,360 greatly disappointed. You can feel the spirit. 300 00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:01,560 Many gets the clothes, They can even taste the spirit. 301 00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:04,560 But see, the spirit of man is the lamp of the Lord searching 302 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:10,560 all the inner depths. And John 16 and verse 13, he 303 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:12,319 gives a great passage. We're going to read a little bit 304 00:17:12,319 --> 00:17:13,839 here. Let's go to John 16. 305 00:17:15,079 --> 00:17:17,520 He gives a great way here to do this. 306 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:25,560 We must learn to obey the voice. Say it with me of the Spirit, 307 00:17:27,160 --> 00:17:28,480 and maybe you're stuck in the realm. 308 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:30,960 Well, the the Spirit doesn't speak to me. 309 00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:34,320 Sure it does. If we listen. 310 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:38,320 It says. However, in John 16 and 13 here 311 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:43,240 it says, however, when he, the third member of the Godhead, the 312 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:47,240 Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you in all truth. 313 00:17:48,080 --> 00:17:49,920 I believe the Christian ought to know all truth. 314 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:53,120 I believe if we're in Christ Jesus, and I believe if we 315 00:17:53,120 --> 00:17:57,080 develop our spirit and what I believe if we read this Bible, I 316 00:17:57,080 --> 00:17:59,080 don't see why any churches should disagree. 317 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:02,480 I may not operate in the gifts you operate in. 318 00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:05,840 You may not operate in the gifts I operate in, but they're still 319 00:18:05,840 --> 00:18:10,040 gifts and they're still there, and they will still be bestowed 320 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:13,480 upon who God chooses to. And until He does, I don't need 321 00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:16,000 to worry about what gift you got, and you ain't need to worry 322 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:18,480 about what gift I got. We just need to obey the voice 323 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:20,880 of the Spirit, and we could all be one big church. 324 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:22,520 There will be no financial burdens. 325 00:18:22,520 --> 00:18:26,320 God could set His Kingdom up on this earth, but sadly that does 326 00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:30,880 not happen. There's no way we could read 327 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:35,040 this word and come up with all the different denominations. 328 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:39,320 Where we come up with the denominations is we. 329 00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:44,360 Don't want to create. We don't want to recreate. 330 00:18:44,360 --> 00:18:47,600 The human spirit. We want to recreate a lifestyle 331 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:51,200 that everybody says it's OK to do what the Bible says not to 332 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:54,920 do. And then we can feel good and we 333 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:57,360 can feel like we're going to heaven and we don't have to hear 334 00:18:57,360 --> 00:18:59,720 a short, slobbering, screaming preacher tell us we might go to 335 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:03,280 hell. Hey man, it's a whole lot 336 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:05,840 easier. I love. 337 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:08,240 To wake up in the morning, God speaks something to me and I 338 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:11,160 feel condemned about it. And God begins to. 339 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:13,720 Tell me you did this. Yesterday and you did it 340 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:15,640 yesterday. And I can say, Oh no, there's no 341 00:19:15,640 --> 00:19:18,480 condemnation in Christ Jesus. That ain't God telling me that. 342 00:19:19,560 --> 00:19:23,560 No, I know what I did and I know it wasn't what the word of God 343 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:26,080 wants me to do. So I when I feel that little, 344 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:29,120 that little I have to say there is no condemnation. 345 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:32,520 I got to get back over here in Christ Jesus and I got to repent 346 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:36,080 for what I did and I got to realize, woe is me, God, would 347 00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:39,440 you forgive me? And then I got to figure out how 348 00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:44,600 to never be back there again when I can never figure out how 349 00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:46,800 to, when I can figure out how to never be back there again, 350 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:48,760 because it's not just going to go away. 351 00:19:49,360 --> 00:19:52,080 You got to figure out how to overcome, right? 352 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:55,080 He said, I come that you might have life more abundantly, that 353 00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:57,440 you might be an overcomer in Christ Jesus. 354 00:19:57,560 --> 00:19:59,240 I got to figure out how to overcome. 355 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:03,960 How do I do it? I recreate my spirit because I 356 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:06,800 have the spirit of truth will bring me into all truth. 357 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:09,800 For he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he 358 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:12,800 hears, he will speak, and he will tell you things to come. 359 00:20:13,360 --> 00:20:14,720 It's a good way to get over it, right? 360 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:17,480 That's why I need to create my spirit to where the Holy Spirit 361 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:19,800 can live within me and He can tell me the things to come. 362 00:20:20,560 --> 00:20:24,160 He will glorify me, for He will take, Can you imagine taking of 363 00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:27,800 what is Christ, what is mine? Jesus said. 364 00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:32,520 And the Holy Spirit's going to declare it to you see, Jesus 365 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:35,520 separates himself here and and and people get hung up. 366 00:20:35,520 --> 00:20:39,320 It is a try you and Godhead, but they have different areas of 367 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:41,560 ministry that they minister to us in. 368 00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:45,760 Jesus came and hung on the cross and and and made eternal life 369 00:20:45,760 --> 00:20:48,560 possible. He said, I forgive your sin, but 370 00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:51,280 we have a lot of people crying out to Christ and and trying to 371 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:52,800 give him that he don't want your sin. 372 00:20:54,120 --> 00:20:57,600 He forgive your sin. He said it's finished. 373 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:02,360 He said I can no longer come back down there and and commune 374 00:21:02,360 --> 00:21:04,480 with you, but you feel the pulling of me. 375 00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:06,600 But I'm going to go and I'm going to sit at the right hand 376 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:09,000 of the Father. And because I'm there, I'm going 377 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:12,320 to send the helper back to you to bring you in truth and 378 00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:14,800 knowledge and he's going to teach you how to overcome your 379 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:17,720 sin and that you can be created in the image of me. 380 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:21,480 But you got to develop it. You've got the helper. 381 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:24,720 All things that the Father has are mine. 382 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:29,080 Therefore I said that he will take of what is mine and he will 383 00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:30,920 give it to you. Isn't that a powerful word from 384 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:33,760 Christ this morning? He will give us the authority. 385 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:35,880 But see, somebody's hung up on this. 386 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:37,520 Well, I just don't hear from God. 387 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:43,120 Listen because he speaks. He says my sheep will know my 388 00:21:43,120 --> 00:21:46,320 voice. We have God's voice in the 389 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:50,280 natural written word of God. And I've said this many times, 390 00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:55,520 if God spoke in the natural, in the audible voice of God that so 391 00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:59,520 many long to hear, You know, we click on so many things. 392 00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:02,480 We we click on something and somebody takes an AR and walks 393 00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:05,920 in a church or in a school and they just go to shooting like 394 00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:09,520 they're in a war zone. We read the post of it. 395 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:12,680 Not much emotion went out. It happened yesterday. 396 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:17,280 Not much emotion goes out, not not much prayer goes out. 397 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:19,160 It's just something that happens anymore. 398 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:24,920 We become that way with sin. Oh, it happened, but it's just 399 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:29,560 no, we need to learn to hate it. We need to learn to hate evil. 400 00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:32,480 Amen. We need to learn to hate evil. 401 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:40,840 But yet we become so used to it, so accepting of it. 402 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:46,280 If God spoke in the natural realm, if we was all out working 403 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:50,040 with cows one day and we heard the voice that said walk in my 404 00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:53,400 way and do not sin. And people would listen, they 405 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:56,120 would hear it. But most of the people I know, 406 00:22:56,520 --> 00:22:58,120 two days from now, they would forget. 407 00:22:58,120 --> 00:23:03,400 It wouldn't really change them. Let's see what Jesus said about 408 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:05,720 that. If I can hear the audible voice 409 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:09,320 of God in the United States of America, John chapter 12, verse 410 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:14,080 21, If we could just hear the audible voice, if God would just 411 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:18,200 do something. I challenge you, don't limit God 412 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:20,680 like that. He's already done it. 413 00:23:21,360 --> 00:23:24,960 If he never does anything else again, I'm going to serve him. 414 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:27,640 How about you? If he never if, if, if, if 415 00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:30,080 everything in my life fell apart. 416 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:33,600 He's still God. He's still got the answer. 417 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:40,880 God doesn't need me, I need God. Don't limit God by saying if. 418 00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:43,680 He would just speak because it's happened. 419 00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:51,120 In John chapter 12, as we back up, we read Jesus taught on this 420 00:23:51,120 --> 00:23:53,800 one day He was talking about the fruitful grain of wheat. 421 00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:58,960 And in verse 22 of John chapter 12, Philip came and told Andrew 422 00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:03,880 and in turn Andrew told Philip and he told Jesus there was some 423 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:07,560 people that there was a certain Greeks among them that wanted to 424 00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:10,920 come and they wanted to worship, they wanted to see Jesus. 425 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:13,320 But Jesus said the hour has come that the Son of Man should be 426 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:17,360 glorified. Most assuredly, I say to you, 427 00:24:17,360 --> 00:24:19,880 unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it 428 00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:23,800 remains alone. But if it dies, it produces much 429 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:26,440 grain. There it is again about being 430 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:29,120 born again, about the new creation. 431 00:24:29,360 --> 00:24:31,280 It's got to die to be a new creation. 432 00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:38,240 He who loves this life will lose it, and he who hates this life 433 00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:42,640 in this world will keep it for eternal life. 434 00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:46,880 If anyone serves me, let him follow me where I am, there my 435 00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:51,520 servant will be also. If anyone serves me, Him my 436 00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:54,640 Father will honor. And in verse 27, he was 437 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:56,400 predicting his death on the cross. 438 00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:59,040 He said, my soul is troubled and what shall I say? 439 00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:05,400 Father saved me from this hour. Jesus was burdened, he said, but 440 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:09,720 he said, wait a minute, It's for this purpose I've come to this 441 00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:11,720 hour. Can I tell you if you're born 442 00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:14,800 again and all the things that are happening in this world, 443 00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:17,560 it's going to happen. But for this purpose that we 444 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:20,960 preach about, for this Jesus that we talk about, for this 445 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:24,240 Christian life that we live, it's for this purpose that we 446 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:26,560 come into the hour. Because I come by to tell you 447 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:29,440 that all the hell that's breaking loose in this earth, if 448 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:32,840 you're born again, you serve a God that is not troubled by it. 449 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:36,240 He can control it at the snap of a finger, but he's looking for 450 00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:39,400 people to stand up with a new created spirit that's been 451 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:43,600 developed that says my God shall supply all of my needs according 452 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:47,680 to his riches in glory. But we get stirred up because of 453 00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:50,520 what Fox says. We get stirred up because of a 454 00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:52,960 tariff that's been played. We get stirred up on the 455 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:58,000 littlest things and lose faith. But for this purpose, wake up in 456 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:00,760 the morning, tell the enemy it's for this purpose I've come to 457 00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:04,000 this hour. I'll bring something with me, a 458 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,440 new created spirit in Christ Jesus. 459 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:09,360 He's taking everything that's the Father's and he's making it 460 00:26:09,360 --> 00:26:12,120 mine and I'm about to release it upon this earth. 461 00:26:12,120 --> 00:26:16,200 Can I get a witness when Jesus said this, when he said for this 462 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:19,040 purpose I've come to this hour, there was something really neat 463 00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:21,600 happened right here. It says, then a voice came from 464 00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:24,840 heaven. Say I have both glorified it and 465 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:28,240 I will glorify it again. Talking about the hour that he 466 00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:30,560 was about to face. How's anybody going to bring 467 00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:33,560 glory to someone hanging on a cross because he's God. 468 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:35,680 Hey, man. And he had an eternal plan and 469 00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:39,160 eternal purpose for his children that involved an old rugged 470 00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:40,600 cross. Can I get a witness? 471 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:43,880 He had a plan to to send grace to planet earth. 472 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:47,360 He said for this purpose, for this hour, I have sent you to 473 00:26:47,360 --> 00:26:51,360 this purpose. But what did the people do? 474 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:54,920 I have glorified it and I'll glorify it again. 475 00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:57,160 There was a great move of God taking place in them. 476 00:26:57,160 --> 00:27:01,120 Two verses right there. Therefore the people who stood 477 00:27:01,120 --> 00:27:04,480 by and they heard it. What did they hear? 478 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:07,760 This voice coming from heaven that said I glorified it and 479 00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:11,680 I'll glorify it again. Therefore the people stood by 480 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:14,400 and they heard it. I'm just picture a bunch of 481 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:17,200 believers out. God speaks that Thunder. 482 00:27:19,120 --> 00:27:23,120 No, dummy, that was God. I see it in the church. 483 00:27:23,120 --> 00:27:26,040 The Holy Spirit sweeps through and somebody's getting blessed 484 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:28,320 and somebody says, oh, did they raise a hand? 485 00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:30,120 Did they speak in an unknown tongue? 486 00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:33,440 No, the power God was being magnified upon them. 487 00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:36,080 Amen. Get past what you see and get 488 00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:38,440 into what the what you're feeling in the Spirit. 489 00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:40,840 Amen. We get so hung up. 490 00:27:41,360 --> 00:27:44,760 Oh, it made me uncomfortable. I'll tell you what, the rapture 491 00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:45,960 is going to make you uncomfortable. 492 00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:48,760 If you ain't going, the tribulation is going to make you 493 00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:50,960 uncomfortable. I don't know where we got that 494 00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:52,840 we're supposed to be comfortable as Christians. 495 00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:55,360 I don't know where we got this fact that we're supposed to be 496 00:27:55,360 --> 00:27:56,320 comfortable. Amen. 497 00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:59,200 You supposed to walk in when God gives you a word? 498 00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:01,200 Whoo. Man, I feel his glory. 499 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:05,120 It doesn't matter who it is or where it's at, if God gives you 500 00:28:05,120 --> 00:28:07,160 a word, they're not unapproachable. 501 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:10,600 I told a man that this week of big church. 502 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:12,240 He talked about his past, some things going. 503 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:16,040 I said he's a man, he's not unapproachable. 504 00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:18,560 He may need a Nathan in his life. 505 00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:22,360 That's a whole nother message. David had a Nathan in his life. 506 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:25,040 We may need a Nathan in our life. 507 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:30,240 But he said I've glorified it and I'll glorify it again. 508 00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:32,760 Therefore the people who stood by heard it. 509 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:36,000 Isn't this powerful talking about hearing the voice of God? 510 00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:41,560 He said they said it had thundered. 511 00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:48,120 Others said an Angel had spoken to him, and Jesus answered and 512 00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:54,000 said this voice did not come because of me, but for your 513 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:57,880 sake. Now is the judgment of this 514 00:28:57,880 --> 00:28:59,680 world. Now the ruler of this world be 515 00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:06,360 cast out and I if I am lifted up, think about it, if I am 516 00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:12,240 lifted up from the earth, I will draw all people to myself. 517 00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:19,000 So quit saying if I you could just hear the voice of God, seek 518 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:22,480 the spirit of God, you will hear the voice of God because John 4 519 00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:26,560 and 24, it says God is a spirit. Say that with me. 520 00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:30,360 God is a spirit and those that worship him must worship Him in 521 00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:36,360 spirit and truth. So to develop your spirit, what 522 00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:39,520 is it? Worship is man's reaction to 523 00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:41,080 what? To God's holiness. 524 00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:46,120 Worship is not about us, it's about God and what He's done, 525 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:51,400 His Holiness, His faithfulness. We bow down before him because 526 00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:54,760 He's Lord of all. And if He's not Lord of all in 527 00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:56,920 your life, he may not be Lord at all. 528 00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:04,160 Praise comes out of our mouth. Worship is an attitude. 529 00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:07,840 We must worship the Lord in spirit and in truth. 530 00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:13,840 So to be a new creation, we must have a recreated spirit. 531 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:19,960 And to do this we must do what? We must walk in love. 532 00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:23,960 We must give the Word first place in our life. 533 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:30,240 But then you have to obey the voice of the Spirit of the Lord. 534 00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:35,120 You must obey the voice of the Spirit of the Lord. 535 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:38,400 But see, the problem is in our life. 536 00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:43,480 We looked outside circumstances to change our lives. 537 00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:47,120 We look at what somebody else is doing or what somebody else has 538 00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:50,480 done and we think if, if they would, if they would just change 539 00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:55,000 that, I could change this. That's the attitude we have a 540 00:30:55,000 --> 00:31:00,280 lot of times. We throw everything about us on 541 00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:04,640 somebody else and we depend on how they act for happiness. 542 00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:08,000 We're good at that, ain't we? Anybody know anybody like that 543 00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:12,720 But the Bob, the apostle Paul approached that many times. 544 00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:15,440 He said no. He said you have a hidden 545 00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:17,800 treasure. Let's see. 546 00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:20,320 When I look at a lot of people, I don't see the hidden treasure 547 00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:24,480 because I don't see a human spirit that has been developed 548 00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:30,360 in Galatians 5 and 16. He says, I say walk in the 549 00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:35,640 spirit and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh for the 550 00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:37,400 flesh. Lust against the Spirit and the 551 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:40,680 spirit against the flesh and these are contrary to one 552 00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:42,720 another. Y'all figured that out yet? 553 00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:49,360 So that you do not do the things that you wish, but if you're led 554 00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:52,680 by the Spirit, you're not under the law. 555 00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:58,680 We serve a mighty God that has a lot of things for His children, 556 00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:03,040 but I challenge you work on recreating your human spirit. 557 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:06,320 We're good at going to church or going to meeting a Christian 558 00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:08,600 that doesn't have it all together and spending the rest 559 00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:11,520 of the week talking about what they did didn't do that they 560 00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:16,040 should have done. I think about myself is what I 561 00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:17,360 try to do. What can I do? 562 00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:22,240 What can I carry around in me that might get on them if I'm 563 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:26,200 walking in love, Love can get on them if I'm walking in the 564 00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:28,680 Spirit. You know, think about the think 565 00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:31,040 about Peter and Paul and think about the apostles. 566 00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:34,360 The anointing was so great, Brother Tim, you know, when they 567 00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:36,720 they, there was times they laid hands and they prayed. 568 00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:39,080 I prayed for him and they were instantly healed. 569 00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:41,000 But there was other times that they just walked by. 570 00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:44,160 They just walked by and just a shadow. 571 00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:47,920 I've often thought it, but you know, Jesus said that same power 572 00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:50,680 rest in US today. He said, because I went back to 573 00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:53,400 the Father, the works that I did, you can do. 574 00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:58,720 But we got to, we got to create this spirit within us, the place 575 00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:02,080 that God can dwell, that he can live. 576 00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:04,600 And I'll leave you with this today. 577 00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:08,080 I got a lot more on this. But the apostle Paul says that 578 00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:12,760 we have this hidden treasure within this vessel, within this 579 00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:15,360 jar of clay. There's something inside of us 580 00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:20,080 that people can't see. And if they can't see it, what 581 00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:22,080 are they? If they can't see it, how, what 582 00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:23,800 are they going to do? How are they going to watch it? 583 00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:27,760 Anybody ever study people? I don't mean Barbara Rodeo. 584 00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:29,080 And you spend a lot of time on the road. 585 00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:30,560 You get to know people very well. 586 00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:34,560 You get to know people and you get, you know, I, I can watch 587 00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:37,080 people by their actions pretty much and tell if they're going 588 00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:38,760 to get on my nerves. Do y'all do that? 589 00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:42,640 They ask you to go on a trip with them and you never been 590 00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:44,360 around with them long enough that you know that. 591 00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:47,360 They can't bother you. Bob. 592 00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:49,240 Was always hyper when we was rodeoing. 593 00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:53,480 And one time we got on this plane, it had an aisle over here 594 00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:56,320 and an aisle over here. Bob was hyper. 595 00:33:57,920 --> 00:33:59,320 He was sitting in this little floozy. 596 00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:00,600 Lady She. Come in with her bag. 597 00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:02,520 OK, I'm sitting back here in the back. 598 00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:07,200 I got to tell this I'm. Sitting back here in the back of 599 00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:08,520 the plane. I'm watching Bob, Bob. 600 00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:10,840 He's like this. He needs about four seats to. 601 00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:13,520 Get all this stuff in Donnie Holly. 602 00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:16,480 He gave us about four seats to get all this pirate stuff in 603 00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:18,159 here. He's up there and I see this 604 00:34:18,159 --> 00:34:20,080 little lady compressed. In there this bag she's. 605 00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:22,920 Walking in there, I was sitting back. 606 00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:25,320 I know this dude. This ain't fitting to work. 607 00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:30,159 She sits down by Bob and. Lo and behold, her comes. 608 00:34:30,159 --> 00:34:32,199 Another one sits down on that side. 609 00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:36,440 So I'm back here and I he's being pretty still for about 10 610 00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:38,480 minutes and he gets to moving around. 611 00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:44,840 I'm about to doze off and I'm looking up there watching Bob 612 00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:46,760 and I'm thinking this is good. I got to stay awake. 613 00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:49,120 This something happened. Here, in a minute, we're 614 00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:50,719 sitting. There, I'm sitting there and I 615 00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:53,080 see this little lady says, Do you see? 616 00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:55,159 That armrest, this side is my side. 617 00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:59,640 That side is your side. Stay on your side. 618 00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:07,920 Keep in mind, I'd known him since the 4th grade. 619 00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:11,560 I knew it wasn't going to, boy. It was the best TV show I ever 620 00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:13,000 seen. I just got to set back there. 621 00:35:14,240 --> 00:35:16,960 I knew what this lady. He done bopped her in the ear 622 00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:19,960 once and he when he was touching this and he was hitting that 623 00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:23,480 one, it was bad, but he there was four seats there and he was 624 00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:25,880 in the middle or five and he was in the middle and. 625 00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:28,680 Finally, somehow, they move. Him I think over. 626 00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:35,120 To Windows, but anybody? You know, we, we have people 627 00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:37,720 like. That that we know that we just 628 00:35:37,720 --> 00:35:40,360 couldn't travel with. I traveled with him, but his 629 00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:43,240 brother couldn't. Not very long. 630 00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:52,760 But the problem is we're like that in the body of Christ. 631 00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:56,840 There's people that don't want to be around Christians and that 632 00:35:56,840 --> 00:36:00,040 should never be the case because there's Christians that beat 633 00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:01,360 them over the head. You need to do this. 634 00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:04,280 You need it's not my job to tell you what you need to do. 635 00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:06,840 I preach what the Word says that we should do. 636 00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:12,880 But now when you sit there and you're not doing it, you get mad 637 00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:16,680 at me. Give the Word first place you 638 00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:17,880 get mad before you get mad at me. 639 00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:20,800 Go see if the Bible says it. And if the Bible says it, you 640 00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:23,320 ain't mad at me. You just mad at me for saying 641 00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:25,960 what the Bible says. You're really having conflict 642 00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:28,400 with God. And when you have conflict with 643 00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:30,680 God, I believe God's kind of like I was with Bob. 644 00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:33,200 He folds his arm. He said he don't want to listen. 645 00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:36,160 I love him, but he's got to learn. 646 00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:42,640 And he watches the show. Hey, man, anybody ever been in 647 00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:45,560 the show? It's not a good place to be. 648 00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:50,160 But God said if we begin developing on our own, we ain't 649 00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:52,240 got to be in the show. We ain't got to. 650 00:36:52,240 --> 00:36:56,720 God can take you around so many things, so many things, young 651 00:36:56,720 --> 00:36:59,440 people, if you'll just listen, if you'll just resist the 652 00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:02,440 temptation, don't give place to the devil. 653 00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:09,560 Resist the enemy, resist it. And the Bible says he will flee. 654 00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:15,880 But I challenge you, strive. We'll never be all we're 655 00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:19,240 supposed to be upon this earth. But I believe we're to try. 656 00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:23,440 I believe we're to try, but you know, as we stand our feet, I, I 657 00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:26,520 see this so much and I just, I'd like to relate stuff to real 658 00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:30,360 life, but we're doing a rodeo school one time and this boy, 659 00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:33,160 he, they'd open the we'd open the gate, he'd land on his head 660 00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:35,840 every time right there, right there. 661 00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:38,240 And he just kept getting on. He just kept getting on. 662 00:37:38,720 --> 00:37:40,760 We'd put him on an easy horse. He'd fall off right then. 663 00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:46,360 He couldn't ride a stick horse. And I had some Christian guys 664 00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:49,040 there with me and the boy they'd say, man, you're you're cowboy, 665 00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:50,760 you're tough, you're good, you're good. 666 00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:53,360 After about 3 days of hitting on his head, he. 667 00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:56,440 Kept walking and they said, you ready, cowboy? 668 00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:57,440 He said. I'm going to tell you all 669 00:37:57,440 --> 00:37:59,040 something. I don't feel like no cowboy. 670 00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:05,600 Rightfully so. But that's how a lot of 671 00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:07,560 Christians are today. We keep patting them on the 672 00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:10,760 back. You're OK as your heads are bad. 673 00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:12,680 You're OK. You're a Christian. 674 00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:16,760 You know Jesus, you're going to heaven. 675 00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:21,000 It doesn't matter who you what you're doing, that ain't what 676 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:23,920 the Bible says. The Bible says get a new spirit. 677 00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:29,400 Behold all things, behold all things become new. 678 00:38:30,720 --> 00:38:33,520 I come by to tell you today, behold all things that can 679 00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:36,680 become new. Well, Pastor, I got bills that I 680 00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:39,240 can't be. All things can become new. 681 00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:43,440 He says that my blessings are fresh and anew every day. 682 00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:47,840 How much does God have that we ain't receiving a whole lot? 683 00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:53,600 Would you worship Him today? Thanks for listening to the 684 00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:56,920 Cross Power Church podcast. May you know that true hope, 685 00:38:57,040 --> 00:38:59,960 peace, and salvation can only be found in Jesus. 686 00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:04,160 If you're near Campbell, TX, we would love for you to join us in 687 00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:06,640 person. You can find service times at 688 00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:08,240 crosspowerchurch.com.