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 --> 00:00:17,480 The setting of this Scripture finds the Apostle Paul. 6 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:21,080 He's addressing a group of believers at Ephesus. 7 00:00:22,560 --> 00:00:26,120 I said they're believers and they're rich beyond measure. 8 00:00:26,120 --> 00:00:29,600 If you believe in Jesus Christ this morning, you're rich beyond 9 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:31,800 measure. There's no measuring it. 10 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:36,480 He can do exceedingly. And above all that our mind can 11 00:00:36,480 --> 00:00:39,520 think, ask, or imagine. That's big. 12 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:42,440 You wives can ask your husband some big things. 13 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:50,160 Hey, man, so can husbands. But he says here that they were 14 00:00:50,160 --> 00:00:54,840 rich beyond measure, but yet they were living as beggars. 15 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:57,760 Sometimes we do that. We're rich beyond measure in 16 00:00:57,760 --> 00:01:02,920 Christ Jesus, but yet spiritually we're begging and 17 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:05,960 only because the apostle Paul says it was because of their 18 00:01:05,960 --> 00:01:07,880 ignorance. Say that word. 19 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:10,800 Linda taught y'all that word Wednesday nights because of 20 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:12,280 their ignorance of the word of God. 21 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:15,720 When we're ignorant of the word of God, we, we, we don't have 22 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:19,200 the word without measure. Sounds like a lot of people, a 23 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:21,440 lot of believers I know today. How about you? 24 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:26,920 But I titled this today how to deal with fiery darts. 25 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:29,040 Anybody ever had a fiery dart throwed at them? 26 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:33,000 How do we deal with them? It will affect your relationship 27 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:37,480 with your spouse, your coworkers, your church, your 28 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:39,800 relationship with yourself. You know you got to get along 29 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:42,320 with yourself in life to make it through life, right? 30 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:46,040 But it will affect every area of your life. 31 00:01:46,040 --> 00:01:49,200 So what I'm preaching today will affect every area of your life. 32 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:51,680 And let's ask for the God to touch this word. 33 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:53,640 Father, we pray you would touch it once again. 34 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:56,400 Father, that the anointing, the Holy Spirit would be here as 35 00:01:56,400 --> 00:01:58,680 we've already felt your anointing this morning, that 36 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:01,440 you'd give me strength, that You would bring all these thoughts 37 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:04,320 and these things that You've given me to my remembrance. 38 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:06,600 It's in Your Son's name. We ask and pray that you would 39 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:08,840 touch everyone here. Amen. 40 00:02:09,039 --> 00:02:12,360 Let's read in Ephesians chapter 6 and verse 10. 41 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:19,160 He says finally, my brethren, say it with me, be strong, not 42 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:24,600 weak in the Lord, but strong and in the power of his might. 43 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:26,800 What does that mean? What he might do right? 44 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:31,480 He's got might, He's got power put on the whole armor of God. 45 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:36,800 I like that, that you may be able to stand against the Wiles 46 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:38,960 of the devil. What are the Wiles of the devil? 47 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:41,320 There's a certain some terminology in here I want to 48 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:44,280 explain this morning. But the Wiles of the devil is 49 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:48,320 Satan's cunning, deceptive strategies, right? 50 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:52,400 It's cunning, it's deceptive. That's the Wiles of the devil 51 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:54,720 and he's cunning, he's deceptive. 52 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:58,240 So we're to put on the whole armor of God in verse 12, very 53 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:02,320 familiar passage for and we read this, but what do we do about 54 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:04,320 it? It says we do not wrestle 55 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:08,320 against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against 56 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:12,680 powers, against the rulers of darkness of this age, against 57 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:16,560 spiritual host of wickedness in heavenly places. 58 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:21,200 He says, therefore take up the whole armor of God that you may 59 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:26,840 be able to withstand in the evil day and having done all to 60 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:30,240 stand, you may be seated unless you want to stand the whole 61 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:31,040 service. That's good. 62 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:34,920 So I want to back up and look at this other word we learned about 63 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:38,520 the Wiles of the devil. But this principality, what is 64 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:41,760 this word? In the Greek it is described as 65 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:46,080 a, as a high-ranking and organized spiritual force. 66 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:50,120 A principality is organized. The devil knows how he's going 67 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:52,480 to come at you. I, I got 2 messages here. 68 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:54,040 I'm going to try to tie them into one. 69 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:57,680 But as early as Genesis, what happened when Eve went to the 70 00:03:57,680 --> 00:03:59,760 garden? We all, we all throw things at 71 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:02,360 Eve and say, oh, Eve, she was, she was just going to be a 72 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:04,800 harlot with the world. She wanted to do the things of 73 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:06,160 the world. She wanted to know. 74 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:08,840 But really, when you look at what Eve was doing, she was 75 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:12,280 seeking good. She sought the tree of the 76 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:16,160 knowledge of good and evil, and she tasted of the fruit. 77 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:17,640 What happened? There's nothing wrong with 78 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:20,000 eating an apple. They say it's good for you, 79 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:22,120 right? But the problem was, is it was 80 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:24,160 disobeying what God had said to do. 81 00:04:24,280 --> 00:04:26,120 There was really nothing wrong with it. 82 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:29,320 The church needs that today. There's some good that you can 83 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:32,640 do in life, but that good will lead you away from God, right? 84 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:37,040 It was good to seek the good, but the good is what God said 85 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:41,040 will lead me away from you see? But the enemy is a deceiver. 86 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:46,320 He, he's organized, he's organized in the spiritual realm 87 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:50,520 and the force of fallen angels that operate in the, in the 88 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:53,480 demonic holding authority. Come on, somebody get this. 89 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:56,960 We've seen this in our lifetime, many of us and some our 90 00:04:56,960 --> 00:05:00,640 ancestors before, but holding authority and influence, what is 91 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:03,600 a principality? It holds authority and it holds 92 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:05,760 influence even over earthly rulers. 93 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:07,480 We look at Hitler, what happened? 94 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:09,640 Something was holding him to evil, right? 95 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:13,120 We look at all the magicians and the and the soothsayers and the 96 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:16,480 witchcraft, something influencing them and holding 97 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:20,240 them here in the earth and nations and systems that oppose 98 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:22,880 God's will. That's what a principality is. 99 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:26,200 That's why Paul said this flesh that you can pinch, pinch 100 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:27,760 yourself. That's really not what you're 101 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:30,280 wrestling with. It's way deeper than that. 102 00:05:30,280 --> 00:05:32,280 Hey, man, it's something that's heaven. 103 00:05:32,280 --> 00:05:34,440 You're you're a heavenly, you're blood bought. 104 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:36,680 But there's a principality of darkness. 105 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:38,280 Come on, stay with me this morning. 106 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:40,920 And it's and it's being formed, right? 107 00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:43,680 And it's and it's forming part of this spiritual battle. 108 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:47,240 Anybody in a spiritual battle this morning July you fry how 109 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:49,240 many is in a spiritual battle layman. 110 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:53,840 But see the thing about a spiritual battle is is that's 111 00:05:53,840 --> 00:05:56,080 what we're facing. It's part of the spiritual 112 00:05:56,080 --> 00:06:00,160 battle that we as followers of Christ face and we wrestle 113 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:03,040 against. And Paul was addressing this and 114 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:07,160 as we read the Scripture, we see an urgency from Paul here to put 115 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:10,280 some stuff on. Obviously he's not talking about 116 00:06:10,280 --> 00:06:13,320 walk around with a helmet and walk around with a breastplate 117 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:16,400 that everybody can see in a big old buckle that says truth on 118 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:18,440 it. Obviously he's not talking about 119 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:22,280 walking around with the armor on your body, but your spirit. 120 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:27,040 He says stand, stand, stand, not sit, sit, sit. 121 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:29,720 I want to look at this armor as we read on a little bit here. 122 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:34,800 He says in verse 14 stand therefore having gird your waist 123 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:38,360 with what truth? Why? 124 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:42,600 Because John 8 and 32 it says that Jesus said ye shall know 125 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:46,240 the truth and the truth shall set you free. 126 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:48,400 Why do you think people don't like the truth? 127 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:52,240 You know, you walk in a building and you weigh 400 lbs or you 128 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:55,960 weigh 90 lbs and somebody says you're either fat or you're 129 00:06:55,960 --> 00:06:58,040 skinny. And we walk around the rest of 130 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:01,320 the day worried about it, right? But what they said may have been 131 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:03,800 the truth, but we don't like the truth. 132 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:06,480 We want to make this thing up in our mind, right? 133 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:10,040 Of how we are and how people receive us and receive our 134 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:12,720 spirit. And yet many people do not like 135 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:14,760 the truth. But the truth shall set you 136 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:17,040 free. That's why he put it around his 137 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:19,000 waist. He said the truth is what holds 138 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:21,920 everything together in this Christian walk. 139 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:25,360 The truth is what holds every. When everything's falling apart, 140 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:28,560 the enemy's coming against you. You still have the truth, Amen. 141 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:30,480 Because it's girded around your waist. 142 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:32,520 See. True, true spiritual freedom. 143 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:36,080 Truth is described as a belt that holds everything together. 144 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:40,200 I got to hurry with this number 2, The breastplate of 145 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:43,800 righteousness. The breastplate, it's, it 146 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:46,600 protects all of you because it's righteous. 147 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:51,680 Live right, obey the word, being right, standing with God. 148 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:53,560 Why? Because it will protect you. 149 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:56,840 First, John 5 and 18. Let's see how deep this is right 150 00:07:56,840 --> 00:07:58,560 here. This righteousness is a deep 151 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:02,840 thing, but yet it's the very thing that Satan deceives 152 00:08:03,440 --> 00:08:06,280 Christians into people that are supposed to be. 153 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:08,160 What does Christian mean? It means you go to church and 154 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:10,880 you pay your tithes and you sit on the Pew and you endure a 30 155 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:12,640 minute sermon and watch a 2 hour movie. 156 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:16,040 No problem watching 2 hour movie, but that's hard and 157 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:19,960 you're a 30 minute sermon. My God, it just hurts, right? 158 00:08:21,480 --> 00:08:25,640 But if we're righteous, it says that those that hunger and 159 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:28,640 thirst after righteousness shall be filled. 160 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:30,080 Why are a lot of folks not filled? 161 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:34,200 They're not hunger and thirsting after righteousness, but as we 162 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:36,799 begin to live right, How do you know that you're born again? 163 00:08:36,799 --> 00:08:38,880 Because there's something different about you. 164 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:41,799 You're living right, and there's something that you are now that 165 00:08:41,799 --> 00:08:44,400 you used to not be because you're born again. 166 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:46,680 But see, people don't like the born again part. 167 00:08:46,680 --> 00:08:49,680 They just want to skip the born again and end up saved and in 168 00:08:49,680 --> 00:08:53,280 heaven. I hope it works that way because 169 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:54,960 most people I know are living that way. 170 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:58,120 I just want to be saved. I don't, I don't want to change. 171 00:08:58,120 --> 00:09:02,000 I don't want to be born again. I just want to end up in heaven 172 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:04,160 with fire insurance of walking around. 173 00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:07,640 I'm saved. John the Baptist never said 174 00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:11,920 that. He said a man must be born 175 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:14,880 again. Jesus said it, A man must be 176 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:16,800 born again. Let's see how serious this is. 177 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:19,320 Oh, but we can't do it. We're just old sinners. 178 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:25,440 First, John 5 and 18 sets a high standard of righteousness for 179 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:28,520 those they're to born again. See, if you're not born again, 180 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:30,360 it doesn't apply to you. You can't do it. 181 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:34,080 But he says, I'll never forget the first time I read this. 182 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:35,600 You know what I did? I didn't get offended. 183 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:37,920 I'll hit my knees. I said, my God, I got something 184 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:41,480 to work on because I read John. I read this and it changed my 185 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:43,760 life. It says we know that whoever is 186 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:47,120 born of God does not sin. Well, that rocks the mind a 187 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:49,360 little bit, don't it? That rocks what the church is 188 00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:52,760 teaching today, don't it? I didn't say it. 189 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:55,200 It's in the word. Well, that preacher said that, 190 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:56,840 that if we're born of God, we know sin. 191 00:09:56,840 --> 00:09:58,520 I didn't say that. The Bible said it. 192 00:09:58,520 --> 00:10:01,320 I read it to you. Let's get that straight. 193 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:03,960 But it is in there. But you know, we're Bible 194 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:06,560 believing Christian, so we might hardly believe it. 195 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:09,320 So when I read it, I said, you know what? 196 00:10:09,680 --> 00:10:13,200 I ain't got to sin every day. There's days I do, there's days 197 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:15,320 I don't. But there the goal is not to 198 00:10:15,320 --> 00:10:18,240 right? We know that whoever's born of 199 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:23,160 God does not sin, but he who has been born of God, oh, here's the 200 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:25,400 key right here. Keeps his self. 201 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:28,320 Hey man, if you begin to keep yourself from a lot of things of 202 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:31,120 the world, you'll find that you're sinning becomes less 203 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:34,920 regular. He was born of God keeps himself 204 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:37,760 and the wicked 1 does not touch him. 205 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:40,800 Boy, I like that. Well, preacher, you're going to 206 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:42,560 walk around and say you're not going to get sick. 207 00:10:42,560 --> 00:10:45,400 He can't touch you. Once again, we do not wrestle 208 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:48,080 against flesh and blood. Yes, he can touch the flesh and 209 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:49,680 blood. He proved that in the Book of 210 00:10:49,680 --> 00:10:51,840 Job, right? He can touch the flesh and 211 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:53,520 blood. But even when he touches the 212 00:10:53,520 --> 00:10:55,760 flesh and blood, there's something that's deep down 213 00:10:55,760 --> 00:10:57,880 inside of me that he cannot touch. 214 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:01,120 It's called a hidden treasure in this jar of clay. 215 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:04,440 And no matter what the enemy piles on, he can't touch this. 216 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:07,080 Say, man, devil, you can't touch this. 217 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:10,400 You may touch the flesh, but this hidden treasure that's in 218 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:14,080 here is more precious than gold because there was blood shed and 219 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:16,800 it's locked in, in a covenant that's ever binding. 220 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:19,480 Boy, y'all ain't preaching with me this morning and you can't 221 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:21,680 touch it because it's blood bought. 222 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:24,920 This tells us that we're to be different. 223 00:11:25,560 --> 00:11:32,560 We're to be different. The third thing he mentions, he 224 00:11:32,560 --> 00:11:37,760 says the shoe or shod, however you pronounce it, your feet with 225 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:40,200 the preparation of the gospel of peace. 226 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:47,320 You ever thought about that? The Bible says that the steps of 227 00:11:47,320 --> 00:11:52,200 a righteous man, whoa are ordered of God. 228 00:11:53,120 --> 00:11:56,240 That means every step I take I need to be praying about. 229 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:58,160 I need to have already prayed about it. 230 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:02,320 I don't need to have to think about places that I can't or 231 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:04,320 can't go. Anybody ever lived that way? 232 00:12:04,320 --> 00:12:06,320 Man, one time I was hanging around people did all kinds of 233 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:09,840 crazy stuff, and I'd heard this Catholicism deal about go to a 234 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:12,440 man and speak into a little window and confess and brother, 235 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:14,240 you're OK. And boy, it sounded really good 236 00:12:14,560 --> 00:12:16,880 because see, I'd come from a Pentecostal church, and if you 237 00:12:16,880 --> 00:12:20,200 sin, God may strike lightning down and wipe you out. 238 00:12:20,760 --> 00:12:24,440 I said, this thing sounds pretty good, just go confess. 239 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:26,760 But see, I'd already put that truth on. 240 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:30,520 I had already buckled that truth around my waist and something 241 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:32,840 inside of me said, no, that ain't right. 242 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:36,400 You can't live like you want to. Your blood bought. 243 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:39,320 And then he and then he sent that Holy Spirit that whispered 244 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:40,680 in my ear. He said, you know what? 245 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:42,240 Here's how I want you to live your life. 246 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:45,440 And I've never forgot it. I was 17 years old when he spoke 247 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:47,960 this word into me. And he said, he said, here's 248 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:50,200 what I want you to do. The Holy Spirit, if I've ever 249 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:53,280 heard the audible voice of God, it says, if I was with you, 250 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:56,280 would you go there? Would you do it because I am 251 00:12:56,320 --> 00:12:58,520 Amen. And when I got that word that 252 00:12:58,520 --> 00:13:00,520 he's with me, it changed my life. 253 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:04,240 It took out a lot of the places that I wanted to go that and and 254 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:06,160 do because he said I'm right there with you. 255 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:11,520 Would you take me there because I am powerful word of God shot 256 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:14,680 your feet with the press preparation of the gospel. 257 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:17,640 Anybody ever took an old horse and pulled the shoes off of him 258 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:20,720 or maybe not shot him for a few years and and and there's 259 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:23,680 certain places you come to gravel you your common sense. 260 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:25,840 I got to swallow. Yo, forgive me. 261 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:31,600 Common sense tells you don't lead him across the rocks 262 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:34,520 because he's barefooted. I watched Swayze, you know, the 263 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:36,440 day I took off his hot that whole shoes on. 264 00:13:36,640 --> 00:13:39,600 She took off across that, across the gravel. 265 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:42,040 And here I went. Boy, by three steps in, I 266 00:13:42,040 --> 00:13:47,760 halted. Oh, I began to watch because I 267 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:49,200 wasn't shot. I didn't have it on. 268 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:50,520 We'll see. A lot of Christians are like 269 00:13:50,520 --> 00:13:52,080 that. They've got it on their head. 270 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:55,120 They've they've got a little bit in here, but their, their feet 271 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:58,560 are still wandering and they walk around. 272 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:00,760 You know, I had Christians. Oh, we can't go over there, 273 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:01,560 brother. They're drinking. 274 00:14:01,560 --> 00:14:02,920 We can't go over here. They're smoking. 275 00:14:02,960 --> 00:14:06,480 We can't go over. I said, why, maybe you still 276 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:09,880 struggling with it. I ain't, I'm gonna walk in there 277 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:11,240 and I'm gonna change environment. 278 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:13,960 I'm gonna make some folk nervous when I walk in there. 279 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:17,160 I'm not going to I'm not going to tiptoe around sin because I 280 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:19,720 know sin destroys. But we got a lot of Christian 281 00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:22,040 that's walking like this. So I can't be around now. 282 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:25,000 Bring out, bring it on because it's defeated at the cross of 283 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:27,480 Calvary. I've I've shot my feet with the 284 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:30,680 preparation of the gospel and I'm not going to change because 285 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:32,120 of what you're doing. Amen. 286 00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:36,040 We have so many people looking at what other people's doing. 287 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:39,840 I learned a long time ago that when I try to justify what God 288 00:14:39,840 --> 00:14:42,640 has told me to do through what you're doing, what you have 289 00:14:42,640 --> 00:14:46,640 justified might kill me. Boy, young say man right there. 290 00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:50,320 Why? Because I've shod myself with 291 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:51,960 the gospel. Watch where you step. 292 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:55,240 Don't walk around barefooting, letting every little thing hurt 293 00:14:55,240 --> 00:14:57,480 you, letting every little thing weaken you. 294 00:14:57,640 --> 00:15:00,720 Walking into the church house looking for somebody to offend 295 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:01,120 you. Amen. 296 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:03,640 You're walking on the egg. Just just go in there and say, 297 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:06,680 God, I don't see nobody today. I didn't come to impress my 298 00:15:06,680 --> 00:15:08,840 neighbor. I came to receive the word that 299 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:11,200 you have for me. Just go ahead and shot me. 300 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:12,960 Let me get the whole armor of God. 301 00:15:12,960 --> 00:15:17,320 On that I can withstand. The fourth thing he mentions is 302 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:19,840 a shield of faith. Who? 303 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:23,840 It's a substance of what we're hoping for, but it's the 304 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:26,760 evidence of what we cannot see. Why is this so important? 305 00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:29,600 Why is faith so important? Because Scripture tells us that 306 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:32,640 without faith you cannot please God. 307 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:36,400 Without believing is something that you haven't seen, you can't 308 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:40,240 please God. Hebrews 11 and six says it 309 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:44,040 Without faith, it's impossible to please God. 310 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:47,320 Well, I know what the Bible says, brother, but that ain't 311 00:15:47,320 --> 00:15:49,360 what I'm seeing. Then you don't have faith. 312 00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:53,640 Elijah, Elijah's follower, had that problem. 313 00:15:54,160 --> 00:15:55,840 And Elijah prayed. He said when they were 314 00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:58,960 surrounded by the armies, this guy didn't see nothing but the 315 00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:00,800 armies. And Elijah said, no, the armies 316 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:02,800 are down here, but look on the hills around us. 317 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:06,000 He said we're surrounded by Chariots, we're surrounded by 318 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:08,800 angels. Without faith, it's impossible 319 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:14,840 to please God for he who comes to God must believe that he is 320 00:16:15,560 --> 00:16:17,840 and that he we, we do believe that a lot. 321 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:20,800 But I love this last part. It says you got to believe that 322 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:26,440 and you also got to believe that he is a rewarder of those who 323 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:28,320 diligently seek him. What does that mean? 324 00:16:28,400 --> 00:16:31,480 When I live righteous and I get this truth in me, God's got some 325 00:16:31,480 --> 00:16:33,000 rewards. He going to drop on me. 326 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:34,960 Hey man, and you say, oh, I'm going to have that. 327 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:37,200 I don't need the money. Hey man, the money just causes 328 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:39,680 more problem. God just drop some gifts on me. 329 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:41,480 Just drop some discernment on me. 330 00:16:41,560 --> 00:16:44,920 Just drop some tongues on me. Just drop some healing on me, 331 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:47,960 drop some discernment on me. See, those things will last 332 00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:49,800 forever. The money's going to run out. 333 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:53,080 Amen. Y'all ain't figured that out 334 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:56,880 yet, huh? He's a rewarder of those who 335 00:16:56,880 --> 00:17:01,640 diligently seek him. I get conversations a lot. 336 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:05,800 I'm going. I ain't got my message yet. 337 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:09,880 I got to preach this before I get to it, but I have a 338 00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:12,359 conversation this week with a guy I've been working on, Lord's 339 00:17:12,359 --> 00:17:15,560 been working on. But sometimes you think they're 340 00:17:15,560 --> 00:17:16,960 getting it. Sometimes you know they ain't 341 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:19,720 getting it. But he asked. 342 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:22,560 He said he heard a heard a deal the other day about when the 343 00:17:22,560 --> 00:17:24,119 thief on the cross got to heaven. 344 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:27,760 And what the what he was asking. He said, how'd you get here? 345 00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:31,440 I said, where'd you read that? I said I ain't never read that. 346 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:33,360 He said, what was his name? I said I've never read his name. 347 00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:37,320 I said he was a thief at Jesus that that looked on Jesus and 348 00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:39,080 believed on Jesus. And Jesus said what? 349 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:41,080 Today you will be with me in paradise. 350 00:17:42,160 --> 00:17:44,120 He said, well, I thought I said Nope, not in the Bible. 351 00:17:44,120 --> 00:17:46,520 About when he got to heaven, what he was asked and he said, 352 00:17:46,520 --> 00:17:51,960 OK, well I'm asking you if God come to you, I'm asking you the 353 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:55,240 same question. If God come to you And he said 354 00:17:55,440 --> 00:18:01,200 if you will give up this and he was specific and you will have 355 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:04,200 an entrance into the throne room of heaven. 356 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:06,840 And this is what the guy asked me. 357 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:09,760 This is a worldly guy. Now he said, would you give it 358 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:15,200 up? And he says like me, he said if 359 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:16,920 God come to me and told me to quit cussing. 360 00:18:18,080 --> 00:18:19,960 He said I wouldn't quit cussing. He said I can't. 361 00:18:22,840 --> 00:18:24,720 He said it's just I said I say I'm going to. 362 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:27,760 But he said I don't quit. He cleans it up to me. 363 00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:29,800 One guy said how you talk to us? He don't talk like that around 364 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:31,240 me. He said he don't. 365 00:18:31,280 --> 00:18:34,640 I said no. I said he wants to be my friend 366 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:37,160 and if he knows he won't be his friend, he ain't going to drop 367 00:18:37,160 --> 00:18:39,040 them things every time he's on the phone or he ain't going to 368 00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:44,000 be his friend. Hey, man, why is that right or 369 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:49,840 wrong? I got to keep myself right, but 370 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:51,640 ask that question. So would you really give it up? 371 00:18:52,280 --> 00:18:53,960 And then they go to firing them darts. 372 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:55,280 I'm fixing to read to you about in a minute. 373 00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:56,720 You ever get a dart fired at you? 374 00:18:57,560 --> 00:18:59,400 You know, most people, they'll ask you like they want you to 375 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:01,120 witness to them. And then they're really fixing 376 00:19:01,120 --> 00:19:06,280 to turn it around on you because they're narsic, narcissist, 377 00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:10,840 whatever the word is. I call it goofy, I call him 378 00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:15,560 idiot, belligerent. But let's read right here. 379 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:17,720 It says in 14, I'm going to get back to that story. 380 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:19,800 Hold that thought. But he says stand, therefore, 381 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:22,200 having girded your waist with the truth of righteousness, 382 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:24,960 breastplate of righteousness, having shod your feet with the 383 00:19:24,960 --> 00:19:29,040 preparation of the gospel and above all, the shield of faith. 384 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:30,560 That's what we're talking about right now. 385 00:19:30,560 --> 00:19:35,840 We're talking about faith with which you will be able. 386 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:38,960 Why is it important to put on the full armor of God? 387 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:42,200 He tells it right here. This got all over me when I read 388 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:44,560 it this week, that you will be able. 389 00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:46,840 It doesn't say that God will be able. 390 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:50,920 He says I've given you the things to place up on your 391 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:54,440 spiritual being and in your soul and in your mind. 392 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:57,960 I've covered every area of your body within these few verses, 393 00:19:57,960 --> 00:19:59,960 Paul says. But he says you got to take 394 00:19:59,960 --> 00:20:04,920 these things on so that you will be able to quench. 395 00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:09,320 All the fiery darts of the wicked one. 396 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:11,720 How do you quench the fiery dart? 397 00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:14,560 The fiery darts are coming. They're not going to stop. 398 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:17,160 They're going to come through the enemy or they're going to 399 00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:20,520 come through people that the enemy is operating in. 400 00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:25,280 But back to this conversation. If you give this up, here comes 401 00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:26,840 that dart. I knew it was fixing to be 402 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:30,440 fired. If God asks, if God come to you 403 00:20:30,440 --> 00:20:33,720 and say give up Coon hunt, I love Coon hunt. 404 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:38,800 Be hard if God come to you and say give up riding those horses, 405 00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:45,240 give up whatever it is you do. Couldn't be a job and you knew 406 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:46,960 you had entered straight into heaven. 407 00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:50,200 He said truth is none of us would really do it anyway. 408 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:58,000 I said help me Holy Ghost and boy the Holy Ghost begin to fire 409 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:00,480 some darts back. I said, well, let me tell you 410 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:03,800 something. I said that sounds good, but I 411 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:06,840 said God does not operate that way. 412 00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:10,160 He didn't ask the thief to give up nothing. 413 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:15,280 All he did was have faith. That's why the Apostle Paul said 414 00:21:15,280 --> 00:21:17,880 here, above all, take the shield of faith. 415 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:20,120 He believed with all his heart. He said, when you get there 416 00:21:20,120 --> 00:21:22,440 today in heaven, he said, Remember Me? 417 00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:24,920 He said, no, today you'll be with me in paradise. 418 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:28,000 So I said what that statements really saying it's not about a 419 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:29,440 question. What happened when he got to 420 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:31,680 heaven? The question was it the the the 421 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:35,360 answer to that question is the thief believed and I said, let 422 00:21:35,360 --> 00:21:37,040 me tell you. So I said I did the Holy Ghost 423 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:39,200 just begin to flood my spirit. I said, let me tell you 424 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:42,200 something about salvation. I said it is free, but it ain't 425 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:45,040 cheap. And I said, you are right, you 426 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:47,760 can't give up anything. I said I'm weak in the flesh. 427 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:50,240 I can't give up anything. But I said when you take the 428 00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:53,680 gift of salvation and you just don't keep it on a shelf and you 429 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:56,840 just don't look at it, but you begin to peel the layers of that 430 00:21:56,840 --> 00:21:59,960 salvation back and you realize, my God, there's a little bit of 431 00:21:59,960 --> 00:22:02,400 forgiveness in here. You realize you're in a blood 432 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:06,000 covenant, that a man died on a cross and became God in the 433 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:08,200 flesh. And you begin to open the gift 434 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:10,600 of salvation. I said, there's something on the 435 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:13,960 inside of you that's going to begin to happen and it's going 436 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:16,520 to change your life. And I said, I found that. 437 00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:18,200 I said, well, this is really good. 438 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:19,880 The Holy Ghost told him. He said. 439 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:22,360 I said, I found that. You may not have to give up 440 00:22:22,360 --> 00:22:24,400 anything. He might just change the way you 441 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:25,560 do it. Whoa. 442 00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:30,160 And I said, what? I give up. 443 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:34,480 But it was Silas on the line. I'm beginning to preach a little 444 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:37,760 bit. If you give this up, that's what 445 00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:39,200 that's what. And that's the way we do. 446 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:40,600 That's the way our mind thinks. Why? 447 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:42,040 Because we hadn't got that true faith. 448 00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:48,000 It's not the cousin, the cousin's the the cousin comes 449 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:51,600 out because of something that's wrong in here, right? 450 00:22:52,120 --> 00:22:58,120 It's a hurt and you think it helps, but see God doesn't 451 00:22:58,120 --> 00:23:00,080 operate like that. Salvation's free, but it ain't 452 00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:02,800 cheap. But when you have faith, he said 453 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:06,160 a small it don't take a lot. Thief didn't have a lot of 454 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:07,840 faith. He didn't go into telling Jesus 455 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:10,400 who he thought he was. He just said Remember Me, 456 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:14,280 Remember Me. He cast all his carriers upon 457 00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:15,800 him. Come on somebody. 458 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:19,320 You see, it's what's in all these promises. 459 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:22,960 When we begin begin to realize what Jesus did for us and you 460 00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:27,240 begin to saturate, you begin to meditate on these things and 461 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:30,320 then he pours the Holy Spirit into this vessel. 462 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:33,120 You might be surprised at what you have to give up. 463 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:36,520 It just changes. You do it a different way. 464 00:23:37,120 --> 00:23:43,360 Mark 11/23 confirms this. It says Have faith in God. 465 00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:46,280 If we ain't got faith, we ain't got nothing. 466 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:50,640 For surely I say unto you, whoever says that this mountain 467 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:55,640 be removed and cast into the sea, and does not doubt in his 468 00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:58,480 heart, but believes those things, say that with me, 469 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:04,560 believes those things which he says it will be done. 470 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:10,400 He can have whatsoever he asked. Why does Paul say above all 471 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:14,320 these things, take on the shield of faith? 472 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:20,040 So that you can do what? Quench the fiery darts? 473 00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:22,240 I don't want to leave you hanging this morning because 474 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:23,920 there's some fiery darts. What are they? 475 00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:28,960 How do we get through them? You know, it's been in ministry 476 00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:31,040 nearing 30 years now of some sort. 477 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:36,440 I've seen a lot of fiery darts that were sent to destroy me. 478 00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:40,800 I've seen a lot of fiery darts that was sent to destroy this 479 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:43,200 church. The Holy Spirit give me these 480 00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:46,040 words this week sitting in my truck waiting on someone. 481 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:49,160 You know, I've realized I can't determine what the fiery darts 482 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:53,720 are that's being fired at me. But the apostle Paul thought 483 00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:57,840 that we needed all these things upon our spiritual body so that 484 00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:02,280 we could deflect them, right? I can't determine what the fiery 485 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:04,400 dart is. I can't determine who it comes 486 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:07,840 from have learned it comes from a lot of people that's close to 487 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:10,080 you. A lot of times it comes to those 488 00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:12,640 that you'd play some trust that come on, y'all ain't y'all ain't 489 00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:14,800 getting out of this by yourself. I'm we're in this deal. 490 00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:19,840 I don't even know many times what's being fired. 491 00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:22,360 You don't know what's being fired at you this morning, or 492 00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:25,480 maybe from a loved one, maybe from a message that you've 493 00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:29,480 heard. But I can position myself to 494 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:33,880 receive it and I can be strong in the Lord and the power of His 495 00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:36,680 might and what He might do and how He might handle it because 496 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:38,800 there's times I can't handle it. Can I get a witness? 497 00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:44,680 Sometimes in relationships, the dart bounces off and hits the 498 00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:48,640 ground. Sometimes it sticks and you, 499 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:52,880 most people don't pull it out because when we dress it and we 500 00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:55,720 begin to pull it out, it, it hurts and it bleeds for a little 501 00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:57,920 while. But I can assure you, if you, 502 00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:01,600 you, you have the, you have the privilege of determining what 503 00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:07,280 darts stick and what bounce off. But I can tell you this, if, if, 504 00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:12,920 if it hurts, it bleeds. It's hard to get over, but I got 505 00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:15,360 to pull the dart out. I got to take the pain. 506 00:26:15,360 --> 00:26:19,560 If you're in a relationship or you're in a ministry, sometimes 507 00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:21,440 you just got to take it, don't you, sister? 508 00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:23,120 We talked about that a few months ago. 509 00:26:23,120 --> 00:26:25,680 Some things are flying around. I said we didn't really do 510 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:28,120 nothing about it went away. I said sometimes you just got to 511 00:26:28,120 --> 00:26:33,480 take it. Hey, man, Because what it's 512 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:37,440 going to tear down is way, way. I'm not saying sin, I'm just 513 00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:42,160 saying crazy stuff. But I can position myself to 514 00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:43,800 either let it bounce off or take it. 515 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:48,240 But sometimes I have to take it. Sometimes in ministry to 516 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:53,440 continue, you got to take it. Sometimes in relationships, you 517 00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:58,120 got to take it. If you don't, you'll be on 518 00:26:58,120 --> 00:27:04,200 Facebook giving it. What is the fiery dart? 519 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:06,240 The Bible mentions? What is it? 520 00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:09,240 I think we can go to James chapter 3 and find out really 521 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:16,320 quick what it is in James chapter 3, the fiery dart. 522 00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:20,000 It's a thing that Jesus said no man can do and I found that 523 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:22,680 astounding because he says right here we read this morning that 524 00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:24,760 you're born to God. It's able to not sin. 525 00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:28,200 We read that what it says here, but James said my brother and 526 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:31,840 James chapter 3 and verse 1, he says let not many of you become 527 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:35,120 teachers knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment. 528 00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:40,200 Man, that's powerful, isn't it? Some of these people teaching 529 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:41,800 some of this stuff that ain't in the Bible. 530 00:27:44,360 --> 00:27:46,040 For we all stumble in many things. 531 00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:49,800 If anyone does not stumble in Word, he's a perfect man, also 532 00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:56,480 able to bridle the whole body. The whole body indeed. 533 00:27:56,480 --> 00:28:00,840 We put bits and horses mouths that they may obey us, and we 534 00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:06,160 turn their whole body. Look also at the ships, the 535 00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:08,960 brother of Jesus here he was preaching a powerful word. 536 00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:13,480 Although they are so large and are driven by fierce winds, they 537 00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:17,880 are turned by a very small rudder that's up under them 538 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:22,840 wherever the pilot desires. Even so, the tongue is a little 539 00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:26,640 member, and it boasts great things. 540 00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:29,320 Everybody's looking for the problem in their life. 541 00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:30,320 Most of the time it's the tongue. 542 00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:35,400 I'd say 99% of the time, you change your speech, you change 543 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:37,320 your life. You change your speech, you 544 00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:41,360 change your thinking when your ears hear your mouth, not just 545 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:43,040 the preacher professing the word of God. 546 00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:46,000 There's something begins to change in your life because you 547 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:49,240 receive a Rhema from God, a spoken word of God, not just 548 00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:51,360 something that you've heard about and kept inside, but you 549 00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:54,960 begin to speak it. How great a forest, a little 550 00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:58,480 fire Kindles, and the tongue is a fire. 551 00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:01,440 Could this be the fiery dart that the apostle Paul was 552 00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:05,440 talking about? A world of iniquity. 553 00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:09,960 The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the 554 00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:15,480 whole body, and it sets on fire the course of nature, and it's 555 00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:20,000 set on fire, boy by hell. Powerful. 556 00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:23,520 For every kind of beast and bird, reptile and creature of 557 00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:27,280 the sea is tamed and has been tamed by mankind. 558 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:31,040 But no man can tame the tongue. It's an unruly evil, full of 559 00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:33,600 deadly poison. With it we bless our God and our 560 00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:37,240 Father, and with it we curse men who has been made in the in the 561 00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:40,680 in the solitude of God. Out of the same mouth proceed 562 00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:44,360 blessing and cursing my brother. And these things ought not be 563 00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:46,720 so. Does the spring send forth 564 00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:51,080 freshwater and bitter from the same opening? 565 00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:54,080 Can a fig? Can a fig tree, my brother, and 566 00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:56,320 bear olives, or a Grapevine? Bear figs? 567 00:29:56,560 --> 00:30:01,880 Thus, no spring yields both salt and water. 568 00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:05,800 Powerful. You're looking for a change in 569 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:07,120 your life. Change your speech. 570 00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:09,760 Change your tongue. Hey, man. 571 00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:15,080 Because it produces fiery darts. You know what I'm talking about. 572 00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:19,240 Am I the only one? Most of the time the Holy Spirit 573 00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:20,760 reveals. Here comes that dart. 574 00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:24,800 Here comes that dart. Maybe in the supermarket. 575 00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:29,560 They got a lot of owls in there. You can hide, you can duck off. 576 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:35,000 I know they got some darts. I don't want to hear them today 577 00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:39,320 because the dart effects you. You know, I can walk through 578 00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:40,920 that door. And somebody said, oh, boy, you 579 00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:42,320 preach that good last week, brother. 580 00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:48,440 But you should have, you know what I say? 581 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:50,880 I would have. I should have. 582 00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:54,200 And I would have, but I didn't hear it from the Father. 583 00:30:55,600 --> 00:31:00,760 If that's your word, you get up there, quench is the dart. 584 00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:04,320 All right, y'all know those kids? 585 00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:05,760 Do y'all have any of those in your life? 586 00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:07,880 Some of you got to go to work tomorrow. 587 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:11,000 Here comes some darts. But see, the darts are bad 588 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:12,480 because they hadn't learned to tame the tongue. 589 00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:14,200 They got a little gossip bound up in them. 590 00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:17,800 They got a little jealousy bound up in them because you know, the 591 00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:22,640 Holy Spirit, give me this one time, people just running down 592 00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:26,160 the ministry, running down this, and the Holy Spirit said this to 593 00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:29,320 me. He said the reason they're doing 594 00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:33,800 that is because they're jealous of what you are because they 595 00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:38,040 will never be that I said, but we're created equal. 596 00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:41,080 He said I'm no respecter of persons, but I am a respecter of 597 00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:43,400 faith. And they're not willing to pay 598 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:47,080 the price to receive the faith that you have because they ain't 599 00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:49,400 no other way to get it but praying and seeking God and 600 00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:54,400 listening right. The fiery darts, it'll change 601 00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:56,400 your life. You got to realize that the 602 00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:59,920 fiery darts is coming from the enemy through a person, right? 603 00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:02,840 First they light it up with a little bit of lie. 604 00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:08,840 You know what's coming, but you got to consider the source of 605 00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:12,400 the fiery dart. I told someone that the other 606 00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:16,880 day and counseling I somebody they knew, I said, I said, would 607 00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:19,640 you take this the same way if it was coming from that person 608 00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:21,480 life? No, I wouldn't think nothing. 609 00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:24,960 I said, well, they're the same type person, I know them better 610 00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:28,600 than you do, so change the whole conversation didn't mean nothing 611 00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:32,760 then, right? We got to consider the source. 612 00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:37,120 If it's not coming from God, it shouldn't offend us at all, but 613 00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:40,720 it does consider the source. You know what's then of me 614 00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:43,440 working through someone? Sometimes you just got to take 615 00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:45,280 it. It's going to hit you, it's 616 00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:48,840 going to hurt, but only you can determine how deep you let it 617 00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:51,320 go. You know there's going to be 618 00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:53,680 people in hell because they fell out in church, because some old, 619 00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:55,880 well, you know, the world calls them hypocrites. 620 00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:58,320 I tell them all the time, the hypocrite in church closer to 621 00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:01,480 God than you are because he's in church, right? 622 00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:04,400 You're letting the hypocrite keep you from God because of 623 00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,440 something that happened in a church, right? 624 00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:08,800 There's going to be people and they're going to be people in 625 00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:12,880 hell because of a dart they let stick a little too deep and they 626 00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:14,640 got offended at what somebody said. 627 00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:17,600 And they thought that everybody in the Kingdom lived their life 628 00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:19,280 like that. And these Christians are just 629 00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:21,160 cruel and evil and everybody's like that. 630 00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:23,320 And I can't go back to church. I can't trust, I can't love. 631 00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:28,240 If God was really God, why all these thoughts and were darts 632 00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:31,440 from the enemy that the apostle Paul was warning you and I 633 00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:35,000 that's coming. He said that we have to 634 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,760 distinguish them. We have to quench them, right? 635 00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:43,840 I can tell you as a minister or in relationships individually, 636 00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:47,560 if you serve Jesus Christ, you will have to learn to quench the 637 00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:50,240 fiery darts or you will become drained. 638 00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:52,600 You can't determine how deep they're going to go. 639 00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:54,800 You can walk around all can't believe they said that. 640 00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:59,320 People will say anything, especially when they know the 641 00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:01,520 dart is you're going to let it enter. 642 00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:04,040 They'll fire one, but they'll see it. 643 00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:06,840 Here come another one. Here come another one. 644 00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:09,320 You can't deter. You can determine how many you 645 00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:11,880 pull out, but you must not let them stick. 646 00:34:13,199 --> 00:34:14,679 Let yourself heal from those darts. 647 00:34:14,679 --> 00:34:16,320 I'm preaching to somebody this morning. 648 00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:19,760 There's one thing for certain. There's one thing for certain. 649 00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:23,400 I want you to never forget this. If you let them stick in you, if 650 00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:26,239 you let don't quench those fiery darts with this full armor of 651 00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:28,239 God. So you've got that helmet of 652 00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:30,320 salvation upon you to know better. 653 00:34:31,639 --> 00:34:34,199 Here's what happens. You'll bleed to death 654 00:34:34,199 --> 00:34:37,080 spiritually. Thanks for listening to the 655 00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:40,400 Cross Powered Church podcast. May you know that true hope, 656 00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:43,480 peace, and salvation can only be found in Jesus. 657 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:47,679 If you're near Campbell, TX, we would love for you to join us in 658 00:34:47,679 --> 00:34:50,159 person. You can find service times at 659 00:34:50,159 --> 00:34:51,760 crosspowerchurch.com.