Welcome to the Cross Power Church podcast.
You're listening to a service from our church in Campbell, TX.
We pray this message strengthens your faith and points you to the
cross. Now let's join the service.
The setting of this Scripture finds the Apostle Paul.
He's addressing a group of believers at Ephesus.
I said they're believers and they're rich beyond measure.
If you believe in Jesus Christ this morning, you're rich beyond
measure. There's no measuring it.
He can do exceedingly. And above all that our mind can
think, ask, or imagine. That's big.
You wives can ask your husband some big things.
Hey, man, so can husbands. But he says here that they were
rich beyond measure, but yet they were living as beggars.
Sometimes we do that. We're rich beyond measure in
Christ Jesus, but yet spiritually we're begging and
only because the apostle Paul says it was because of their
ignorance. Say that word.
Linda taught y'all that word Wednesday nights because of
their ignorance of the word of God.
When we're ignorant of the word of God, we, we, we don't have
the word without measure. Sounds like a lot of people, a
lot of believers I know today. How about you?
But I titled this today how to deal with fiery darts.
Anybody ever had a fiery dart throwed at them?
How do we deal with them? It will affect your relationship
with your spouse, your coworkers, your church, your
relationship with yourself. You know you got to get along
with yourself in life to make it through life, right?
But it will affect every area of your life.
So what I'm preaching today will affect every area of your life.
And let's ask for the God to touch this word.
Father, we pray you would touch it once again.
Father, that the anointing, the Holy Spirit would be here as
we've already felt your anointing this morning, that
you'd give me strength, that You would bring all these thoughts
and these things that You've given me to my remembrance.
It's in Your Son's name. We ask and pray that you would
touch everyone here. Amen.
Let's read in Ephesians chapter 6 and verse 10.
He says finally, my brethren, say it with me, be strong, not
weak in the Lord, but strong and in the power of his might.
What does that mean? What he might do right?
He's got might, He's got power put on the whole armor of God.
I like that, that you may be able to stand against the Wiles
of the devil. What are the Wiles of the devil?
There's a certain some terminology in here I want to
explain this morning. But the Wiles of the devil is
Satan's cunning, deceptive strategies, right?
It's cunning, it's deceptive. That's the Wiles of the devil
and he's cunning, he's deceptive.
So we're to put on the whole armor of God in verse 12, very
familiar passage for and we read this, but what do we do about
it? It says we do not wrestle
against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against
powers, against the rulers of darkness of this age, against
spiritual host of wickedness in heavenly places.
He says, therefore take up the whole armor of God that you may
be able to withstand in the evil day and having done all to
stand, you may be seated unless you want to stand the whole
service. That's good.
So I want to back up and look at this other word we learned about
the Wiles of the devil. But this principality, what is
this word? In the Greek it is described as
a, as a high-ranking and organized spiritual force.
A principality is organized. The devil knows how he's going
to come at you. I, I got 2 messages here.
I'm going to try to tie them into one.
But as early as Genesis, what happened when Eve went to the
garden? We all, we all throw things at
Eve and say, oh, Eve, she was, she was just going to be a
harlot with the world. She wanted to do the things of
the world. She wanted to know.
But really, when you look at what Eve was doing, she was
seeking good. She sought the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil, and she tasted of the fruit.
What happened? There's nothing wrong with
eating an apple. They say it's good for you,
right? But the problem was, is it was
disobeying what God had said to do.
There was really nothing wrong with it.
The church needs that today. There's some good that you can
do in life, but that good will lead you away from God, right?
It was good to seek the good, but the good is what God said
will lead me away from you see? But the enemy is a deceiver.
He, he's organized, he's organized in the spiritual realm
and the force of fallen angels that operate in the, in the
demonic holding authority. Come on, somebody get this.
We've seen this in our lifetime, many of us and some our
ancestors before, but holding authority and influence, what is
a principality? It holds authority and it holds
influence even over earthly rulers.
We look at Hitler, what happened?
Something was holding him to evil, right?
We look at all the magicians and the and the soothsayers and the
witchcraft, something influencing them and holding
them here in the earth and nations and systems that oppose
God's will. That's what a principality is.
That's why Paul said this flesh that you can pinch, pinch
yourself. That's really not what you're
wrestling with. It's way deeper than that.
Hey, man, it's something that's heaven.
You're you're a heavenly, you're blood bought.
But there's a principality of darkness.
Come on, stay with me this morning.
And it's and it's being formed, right?
And it's and it's forming part of this spiritual battle.
Anybody in a spiritual battle this morning July you fry how
many is in a spiritual battle layman.
But see the thing about a spiritual battle is is that's
what we're facing. It's part of the spiritual
battle that we as followers of Christ face and we wrestle
against. And Paul was addressing this and
as we read the Scripture, we see an urgency from Paul here to put
some stuff on. Obviously he's not talking about
walk around with a helmet and walk around with a breastplate
that everybody can see in a big old buckle that says truth on
it. Obviously he's not talking about
walking around with the armor on your body, but your spirit.
He says stand, stand, stand, not sit, sit, sit.
I want to look at this armor as we read on a little bit here.
He says in verse 14 stand therefore having gird your waist
with what truth? Why?
Because John 8 and 32 it says that Jesus said ye shall know
the truth and the truth shall set you free.
Why do you think people don't like the truth?
You know, you walk in a building and you weigh 400 lbs or you
weigh 90 lbs and somebody says you're either fat or you're
skinny. And we walk around the rest of
the day worried about it, right? But what they said may have been
the truth, but we don't like the truth.
We want to make this thing up in our mind, right?
Of how we are and how people receive us and receive our
spirit. And yet many people do not like
the truth. But the truth shall set you
free. That's why he put it around his
waist. He said the truth is what holds
everything together in this Christian walk.
The truth is what holds every. When everything's falling apart,
the enemy's coming against you. You still have the truth, Amen.
Because it's girded around your waist.
See. True, true spiritual freedom.
Truth is described as a belt that holds everything together.
I got to hurry with this number 2, The breastplate of
righteousness. The breastplate, it's, it
protects all of you because it's righteous.
Live right, obey the word, being right, standing with God.
Why? Because it will protect you.
First, John 5 and 18. Let's see how deep this is right
here. This righteousness is a deep
thing, but yet it's the very thing that Satan deceives
Christians into people that are supposed to be.
What does Christian mean? It means you go to church and
you pay your tithes and you sit on the Pew and you endure a 30
minute sermon and watch a 2 hour movie.
No problem watching 2 hour movie, but that's hard and
you're a 30 minute sermon. My God, it just hurts, right?
But if we're righteous, it says that those that hunger and
thirst after righteousness shall be filled.
Why are a lot of folks not filled?
They're not hunger and thirsting after righteousness, but as we
begin to live right, How do you know that you're born again?
Because there's something different about you.
You're living right, and there's something that you are now that
you used to not be because you're born again.
But see, people don't like the born again part.
They just want to skip the born again and end up saved and in
heaven. I hope it works that way because
most people I know are living that way.
I just want to be saved. I don't, I don't want to change.
I don't want to be born again. I just want to end up in heaven
with fire insurance of walking around.
I'm saved. John the Baptist never said
that. He said a man must be born
again. Jesus said it, A man must be
born again. Let's see how serious this is.
Oh, but we can't do it. We're just old sinners.
First, John 5 and 18 sets a high standard of righteousness for
those they're to born again. See, if you're not born again,
it doesn't apply to you. You can't do it.
But he says, I'll never forget the first time I read this.
You know what I did? I didn't get offended.
I'll hit my knees. I said, my God, I got something
to work on because I read John. I read this and it changed my
life. It says we know that whoever is
born of God does not sin. Well, that rocks the mind a
little bit, don't it? That rocks what the church is
teaching today, don't it? I didn't say it.
It's in the word. Well, that preacher said that,
that if we're born of God, we know sin.
I didn't say that. The Bible said it.
I read it to you. Let's get that straight.
But it is in there. But you know, we're Bible
believing Christian, so we might hardly believe it.
So when I read it, I said, you know what?
I ain't got to sin every day. There's days I do, there's days
I don't. But there the goal is not to
right? We know that whoever's born of
God does not sin, but he who has been born of God, oh, here's the
key right here. Keeps his self.
Hey man, if you begin to keep yourself from a lot of things of
the world, you'll find that you're sinning becomes less
regular. He was born of God keeps himself
and the wicked 1 does not touch him.
Boy, I like that. Well, preacher, you're going to
walk around and say you're not going to get sick.
He can't touch you. Once again, we do not wrestle
against flesh and blood. Yes, he can touch the flesh and
blood. He proved that in the Book of
Job, right? He can touch the flesh and
blood. But even when he touches the
flesh and blood, there's something that's deep down
inside of me that he cannot touch.
It's called a hidden treasure in this jar of clay.
And no matter what the enemy piles on, he can't touch this.
Say, man, devil, you can't touch this.
You may touch the flesh, but this hidden treasure that's in
here is more precious than gold because there was blood shed and
it's locked in, in a covenant that's ever binding.
Boy, y'all ain't preaching with me this morning and you can't
touch it because it's blood bought.
This tells us that we're to be different.
We're to be different. The third thing he mentions, he
says the shoe or shod, however you pronounce it, your feet with
the preparation of the gospel of peace.
You ever thought about that? The Bible says that the steps of
a righteous man, whoa are ordered of God.
That means every step I take I need to be praying about.
I need to have already prayed about it.
I don't need to have to think about places that I can't or
can't go. Anybody ever lived that way?
Man, one time I was hanging around people did all kinds of
crazy stuff, and I'd heard this Catholicism deal about go to a
man and speak into a little window and confess and brother,
you're OK. And boy, it sounded really good
because see, I'd come from a Pentecostal church, and if you
sin, God may strike lightning down and wipe you out.
I said, this thing sounds pretty good, just go confess.
But see, I'd already put that truth on.
I had already buckled that truth around my waist and something
inside of me said, no, that ain't right.
You can't live like you want to. Your blood bought.
And then he and then he sent that Holy Spirit that whispered
in my ear. He said, you know what?
Here's how I want you to live your life.
And I've never forgot it. I was 17 years old when he spoke
this word into me. And he said, he said, here's
what I want you to do. The Holy Spirit, if I've ever
heard the audible voice of God, it says, if I was with you,
would you go there? Would you do it because I am
Amen. And when I got that word that
he's with me, it changed my life.
It took out a lot of the places that I wanted to go that and and
do because he said I'm right there with you.
Would you take me there because I am powerful word of God shot
your feet with the press preparation of the gospel.
Anybody ever took an old horse and pulled the shoes off of him
or maybe not shot him for a few years and and and there's
certain places you come to gravel you your common sense.
I got to swallow. Yo, forgive me.
Common sense tells you don't lead him across the rocks
because he's barefooted. I watched Swayze, you know, the
day I took off his hot that whole shoes on.
She took off across that, across the gravel.
And here I went. Boy, by three steps in, I
halted. Oh, I began to watch because I
wasn't shot. I didn't have it on.
We'll see. A lot of Christians are like
that. They've got it on their head.
They've they've got a little bit in here, but their, their feet
are still wandering and they walk around.
You know, I had Christians. Oh, we can't go over there,
brother. They're drinking.
We can't go over here. They're smoking.
We can't go over. I said, why, maybe you still
struggling with it. I ain't, I'm gonna walk in there
and I'm gonna change environment.
I'm gonna make some folk nervous when I walk in there.
I'm not going to I'm not going to tiptoe around sin because I
know sin destroys. But we got a lot of Christian
that's walking like this. So I can't be around now.
Bring out, bring it on because it's defeated at the cross of
Calvary. I've I've shot my feet with the
preparation of the gospel and I'm not going to change because
of what you're doing. Amen.
We have so many people looking at what other people's doing.
I learned a long time ago that when I try to justify what God
has told me to do through what you're doing, what you have
justified might kill me. Boy, young say man right there.
Why? Because I've shod myself with
the gospel. Watch where you step.
Don't walk around barefooting, letting every little thing hurt
you, letting every little thing weaken you.
Walking into the church house looking for somebody to offend
you. Amen.
You're walking on the egg. Just just go in there and say,
God, I don't see nobody today. I didn't come to impress my
neighbor. I came to receive the word that
you have for me. Just go ahead and shot me.
Let me get the whole armor of God.
On that I can withstand. The fourth thing he mentions is
a shield of faith. Who?
It's a substance of what we're hoping for, but it's the
evidence of what we cannot see. Why is this so important?
Why is faith so important? Because Scripture tells us that
without faith you cannot please God.
Without believing is something that you haven't seen, you can't
please God. Hebrews 11 and six says it
Without faith, it's impossible to please God.
Well, I know what the Bible says, brother, but that ain't
what I'm seeing. Then you don't have faith.
Elijah, Elijah's follower, had that problem.
And Elijah prayed. He said when they were
surrounded by the armies, this guy didn't see nothing but the
armies. And Elijah said, no, the armies
are down here, but look on the hills around us.
He said we're surrounded by Chariots, we're surrounded by
angels. Without faith, it's impossible
to please God for he who comes to God must believe that he is
and that he we, we do believe that a lot.
But I love this last part. It says you got to believe that
and you also got to believe that he is a rewarder of those who
diligently seek him. What does that mean?
When I live righteous and I get this truth in me, God's got some
rewards. He going to drop on me.
Hey man, and you say, oh, I'm going to have that.
I don't need the money. Hey man, the money just causes
more problem. God just drop some gifts on me.
Just drop some discernment on me.
Just drop some tongues on me. Just drop some healing on me,
drop some discernment on me. See, those things will last
forever. The money's going to run out.
Amen. Y'all ain't figured that out
yet, huh? He's a rewarder of those who
diligently seek him. I get conversations a lot.
I'm going. I ain't got my message yet.
I got to preach this before I get to it, but I have a
conversation this week with a guy I've been working on, Lord's
been working on. But sometimes you think they're
getting it. Sometimes you know they ain't
getting it. But he asked.
He said he heard a heard a deal the other day about when the
thief on the cross got to heaven.
And what the what he was asking. He said, how'd you get here?
I said, where'd you read that? I said I ain't never read that.
He said, what was his name? I said I've never read his name.
I said he was a thief at Jesus that that looked on Jesus and
believed on Jesus. And Jesus said what?
Today you will be with me in paradise.
He said, well, I thought I said Nope, not in the Bible.
About when he got to heaven, what he was asked and he said,
OK, well I'm asking you if God come to you, I'm asking you the
same question. If God come to you And he said
if you will give up this and he was specific and you will have
an entrance into the throne room of heaven.
And this is what the guy asked me.
This is a worldly guy. Now he said, would you give it
up? And he says like me, he said if
God come to me and told me to quit cussing.
He said I wouldn't quit cussing. He said I can't.
He said it's just I said I say I'm going to.
But he said I don't quit. He cleans it up to me.
One guy said how you talk to us? He don't talk like that around
me. He said he don't.
I said no. I said he wants to be my friend
and if he knows he won't be his friend, he ain't going to drop
them things every time he's on the phone or he ain't going to
be his friend. Hey, man, why is that right or
wrong? I got to keep myself right, but
ask that question. So would you really give it up?
And then they go to firing them darts.
I'm fixing to read to you about in a minute.
You ever get a dart fired at you?
You know, most people, they'll ask you like they want you to
witness to them. And then they're really fixing
to turn it around on you because they're narsic, narcissist,
whatever the word is. I call it goofy, I call him
idiot, belligerent. But let's read right here.
It says in 14, I'm going to get back to that story.
Hold that thought. But he says stand, therefore,
having girded your waist with the truth of righteousness,
breastplate of righteousness, having shod your feet with the
preparation of the gospel and above all, the shield of faith.
That's what we're talking about right now.
We're talking about faith with which you will be able.
Why is it important to put on the full armor of God?
He tells it right here. This got all over me when I read
it this week, that you will be able.
It doesn't say that God will be able.
He says I've given you the things to place up on your
spiritual being and in your soul and in your mind.
I've covered every area of your body within these few verses,
Paul says. But he says you got to take
these things on so that you will be able to quench.
All the fiery darts of the wicked one.
How do you quench the fiery dart?
The fiery darts are coming. They're not going to stop.
They're going to come through the enemy or they're going to
come through people that the enemy is operating in.
But back to this conversation. If you give this up, here comes
that dart. I knew it was fixing to be
fired. If God asks, if God come to you
and say give up Coon hunt, I love Coon hunt.
Be hard if God come to you and say give up riding those horses,
give up whatever it is you do. Couldn't be a job and you knew
you had entered straight into heaven.
He said truth is none of us would really do it anyway.
I said help me Holy Ghost and boy the Holy Ghost begin to fire
some darts back. I said, well, let me tell you
something. I said that sounds good, but I
said God does not operate that way.
He didn't ask the thief to give up nothing.
All he did was have faith. That's why the Apostle Paul said
here, above all, take the shield of faith.
He believed with all his heart. He said, when you get there
today in heaven, he said, Remember Me?
He said, no, today you'll be with me in paradise.
So I said what that statements really saying it's not about a
question. What happened when he got to
heaven? The question was it the the the
answer to that question is the thief believed and I said, let
me tell you. So I said I did the Holy Ghost
just begin to flood my spirit. I said, let me tell you
something about salvation. I said it is free, but it ain't
cheap. And I said, you are right, you
can't give up anything. I said I'm weak in the flesh.
I can't give up anything. But I said when you take the
gift of salvation and you just don't keep it on a shelf and you
just don't look at it, but you begin to peel the layers of that
salvation back and you realize, my God, there's a little bit of
forgiveness in here. You realize you're in a blood
covenant, that a man died on a cross and became God in the
flesh. And you begin to open the gift
of salvation. I said, there's something on the
inside of you that's going to begin to happen and it's going
to change your life. And I said, I found that.
I said, well, this is really good.
The Holy Ghost told him. He said.
I said, I found that. You may not have to give up
anything. He might just change the way you
do it. Whoa.
And I said, what? I give up.
But it was Silas on the line. I'm beginning to preach a little
bit. If you give this up, that's what
that's what. And that's the way we do.
That's the way our mind thinks. Why?
Because we hadn't got that true faith.
It's not the cousin, the cousin's the the cousin comes
out because of something that's wrong in here, right?
It's a hurt and you think it helps, but see God doesn't
operate like that. Salvation's free, but it ain't
cheap. But when you have faith, he said
a small it don't take a lot. Thief didn't have a lot of
faith. He didn't go into telling Jesus
who he thought he was. He just said Remember Me,
Remember Me. He cast all his carriers upon
him. Come on somebody.
You see, it's what's in all these promises.
When we begin begin to realize what Jesus did for us and you
begin to saturate, you begin to meditate on these things and
then he pours the Holy Spirit into this vessel.
You might be surprised at what you have to give up.
It just changes. You do it a different way.
Mark 11/23 confirms this. It says Have faith in God.
If we ain't got faith, we ain't got nothing.
For surely I say unto you, whoever says that this mountain
be removed and cast into the sea, and does not doubt in his
heart, but believes those things, say that with me,
believes those things which he says it will be done.
He can have whatsoever he asked. Why does Paul say above all
these things, take on the shield of faith?
So that you can do what? Quench the fiery darts?
I don't want to leave you hanging this morning because
there's some fiery darts. What are they?
How do we get through them? You know, it's been in ministry
nearing 30 years now of some sort.
I've seen a lot of fiery darts that were sent to destroy me.
I've seen a lot of fiery darts that was sent to destroy this
church. The Holy Spirit give me these
words this week sitting in my truck waiting on someone.
You know, I've realized I can't determine what the fiery darts
are that's being fired at me. But the apostle Paul thought
that we needed all these things upon our spiritual body so that
we could deflect them, right? I can't determine what the fiery
dart is. I can't determine who it comes
from have learned it comes from a lot of people that's close to
you. A lot of times it comes to those
that you'd play some trust that come on, y'all ain't y'all ain't
getting out of this by yourself. I'm we're in this deal.
I don't even know many times what's being fired.
You don't know what's being fired at you this morning, or
maybe from a loved one, maybe from a message that you've
heard. But I can position myself to
receive it and I can be strong in the Lord and the power of His
might and what He might do and how He might handle it because
there's times I can't handle it. Can I get a witness?
Sometimes in relationships, the dart bounces off and hits the
ground. Sometimes it sticks and you,
most people don't pull it out because when we dress it and we
begin to pull it out, it, it hurts and it bleeds for a little
while. But I can assure you, if you,
you, you have the, you have the privilege of determining what
darts stick and what bounce off. But I can tell you this, if, if,
if it hurts, it bleeds. It's hard to get over, but I got
to pull the dart out. I got to take the pain.
If you're in a relationship or you're in a ministry, sometimes
you just got to take it, don't you, sister?
We talked about that a few months ago.
Some things are flying around. I said we didn't really do
nothing about it went away. I said sometimes you just got to
take it. Hey, man, Because what it's
going to tear down is way, way. I'm not saying sin, I'm just
saying crazy stuff. But I can position myself to
either let it bounce off or take it.
But sometimes I have to take it. Sometimes in ministry to
continue, you got to take it. Sometimes in relationships, you
got to take it. If you don't, you'll be on
Facebook giving it. What is the fiery dart?
The Bible mentions? What is it?
I think we can go to James chapter 3 and find out really
quick what it is in James chapter 3, the fiery dart.
It's a thing that Jesus said no man can do and I found that
astounding because he says right here we read this morning that
you're born to God. It's able to not sin.
We read that what it says here, but James said my brother and
James chapter 3 and verse 1, he says let not many of you become
teachers knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment.
Man, that's powerful, isn't it? Some of these people teaching
some of this stuff that ain't in the Bible.
For we all stumble in many things.
If anyone does not stumble in Word, he's a perfect man, also
able to bridle the whole body. The whole body indeed.
We put bits and horses mouths that they may obey us, and we
turn their whole body. Look also at the ships, the
brother of Jesus here he was preaching a powerful word.
Although they are so large and are driven by fierce winds, they
are turned by a very small rudder that's up under them
wherever the pilot desires. Even so, the tongue is a little
member, and it boasts great things.
Everybody's looking for the problem in their life.
Most of the time it's the tongue.
I'd say 99% of the time, you change your speech, you change
your life. You change your speech, you
change your thinking when your ears hear your mouth, not just
the preacher professing the word of God.
There's something begins to change in your life because you
receive a Rhema from God, a spoken word of God, not just
something that you've heard about and kept inside, but you
begin to speak it. How great a forest, a little
fire Kindles, and the tongue is a fire.
Could this be the fiery dart that the apostle Paul was
talking about? A world of iniquity.
The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the
whole body, and it sets on fire the course of nature, and it's
set on fire, boy by hell. Powerful.
For every kind of beast and bird, reptile and creature of
the sea is tamed and has been tamed by mankind.
But no man can tame the tongue. It's an unruly evil, full of
deadly poison. With it we bless our God and our
Father, and with it we curse men who has been made in the in the
in the solitude of God. Out of the same mouth proceed
blessing and cursing my brother. And these things ought not be
so. Does the spring send forth
freshwater and bitter from the same opening?
Can a fig? Can a fig tree, my brother, and
bear olives, or a Grapevine? Bear figs?
Thus, no spring yields both salt and water.
Powerful. You're looking for a change in
your life. Change your speech.
Change your tongue. Hey, man.
Because it produces fiery darts. You know what I'm talking about.
Am I the only one? Most of the time the Holy Spirit
reveals. Here comes that dart.
Maybe in the supermarket.
They got a lot of owls in there. You can hide, you can duck off.
I know they got some darts. I don't want to hear them today
because the dart effects you. You know, I can walk through
that door. And somebody said, oh, boy, you
preach that good last week, brother.
But you should have, you know what I say?
I would have. I should have.
And I would have, but I didn't hear it from the Father.
If that's your word, you get up there, quench is the dart.
All right, y'all know those kids?
Do y'all have any of those in your life?
Some of you got to go to work tomorrow.
Here comes some darts. But see, the darts are bad
because they hadn't learned to tame the tongue.
They got a little gossip bound up in them.
They got a little jealousy bound up in them because you know, the
Holy Spirit, give me this one time, people just running down
the ministry, running down this, and the Holy Spirit said this to
me. He said the reason they're doing
that is because they're jealous of what you are because they
will never be that I said, but we're created equal.
He said I'm no respecter of persons, but I am a respecter of
faith. And they're not willing to pay
the price to receive the faith that you have because they ain't
no other way to get it but praying and seeking God and
listening right. The fiery darts, it'll change
your life. You got to realize that the
fiery darts is coming from the enemy through a person, right?
First they light it up with a little bit of lie.
You know what's coming, but you got to consider the source of
the fiery dart. I told someone that the other
day and counseling I somebody they knew, I said, I said, would
you take this the same way if it was coming from that person
life? No, I wouldn't think nothing.
I said, well, they're the same type person, I know them better
than you do, so change the whole conversation didn't mean nothing
then, right? We got to consider the source.
If it's not coming from God, it shouldn't offend us at all, but
it does consider the source. You know what's then of me
working through someone? Sometimes you just got to take
it. It's going to hit you, it's
going to hurt, but only you can determine how deep you let it
go. You know there's going to be
people in hell because they fell out in church, because some old,
well, you know, the world calls them hypocrites.
I tell them all the time, the hypocrite in church closer to
God than you are because he's in church, right?
You're letting the hypocrite keep you from God because of
something that happened in a church, right?
There's going to be people and they're going to be people in
hell because of a dart they let stick a little too deep and they
got offended at what somebody said.
And they thought that everybody in the Kingdom lived their life
like that. And these Christians are just
cruel and evil and everybody's like that.
And I can't go back to church. I can't trust, I can't love.
If God was really God, why all these thoughts and were darts
from the enemy that the apostle Paul was warning you and I
that's coming. He said that we have to
distinguish them. We have to quench them, right?
I can tell you as a minister or in relationships individually,
if you serve Jesus Christ, you will have to learn to quench the
fiery darts or you will become drained.
You can't determine how deep they're going to go.
You can walk around all can't believe they said that.
People will say anything, especially when they know the
dart is you're going to let it enter.
They'll fire one, but they'll see it.
Here come another one. Here come another one.
You can't deter. You can determine how many you
pull out, but you must not let them stick.
Let yourself heal from those darts.
I'm preaching to somebody this morning.
There's one thing for certain. There's one thing for certain.
I want you to never forget this. If you let them stick in you, if
you let don't quench those fiery darts with this full armor of
God. So you've got that helmet of
salvation upon you to know better.
Here's what happens. You'll bleed to death
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