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 --> 00:00:13,840 cross. Now let's join the service to 5 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:17,760 have your Bibles today going to be in Matthew chapter 13 6 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:25,200 starting off and be a few places, but how many is happy 7 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:28,920 today? How many think you got problems 8 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:30,520 today? Nobody. 9 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:36,080 Nobody thinks they got problems. You can walk around. 10 00:00:36,080 --> 00:00:38,600 You can breathe. Yeah. 11 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:40,400 The place I went last week. Yeah. 12 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:45,040 We ain't got no problems, you know, to sit there and see those 13 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:47,880 that are in line to receive treatments for disease. 14 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:50,040 And it's no respecter of persons. 15 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:53,360 It's young, it's old, it's middle age. 16 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:56,880 So if you're healthy and you're breathing today and you're on 17 00:00:56,880 --> 00:00:58,760 your way to heaven, you ain't got no problems. 18 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:02,720 They're only temporary. But man, I had so many. 19 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:05,040 I stayed up late. I got in late and I just didn't 20 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:06,440 know which way to go this morning. 21 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:10,160 But if God finally lied me out and, you know, I had a thought, 22 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:11,720 I wanted to preach on this, won't preach it later. 23 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:14,440 I'm going to share it right now. Everybody's got somewhere to go. 24 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:17,480 You ever know, you know anybody that ain't got nowhere to go. 25 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:22,000 I've seen some old men you used to sit and whittle and sit on a 26 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:23,920 stool and this act like they had peace. 27 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:27,360 They wasn't in no hurry, you know, but everybody's got 28 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:30,720 somewhere to go. And I had the thought, I wonder 29 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:33,840 what happens when the rapture takes place. 30 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:36,680 You know, there's people that I really think there's people that 31 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:38,160 will say, hang on, God, let me get this done. 32 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:41,040 I'll go in a minute. You know, I got to I got to get 33 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:44,000 this done. But everybody's got somewhere to 34 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:45,680 go. I just wonder how many is going 35 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:49,040 to be too busy to go to heaven. That'll preach, won't it? 36 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:52,880 But you chose to come to church today, so I'm going to preach to 37 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:54,960 you. Hey man, good to be in the House 38 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:58,840 of the Lord and I, I love preaching the Gospels. 39 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:02,480 I said I, I, I didn't mean to say I don't like like weddings. 40 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:05,880 I slip slip sometimes I ask if one time if I like weddings or 41 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:07,480 funerals. I said, well, I like funerals 42 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:10,639 better if I didn't know one. And you know, they can't 43 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:14,480 complain and a wedding is 1 big. This lady was sitting there to 44 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:16,880 go into this wedding yesterday and she said we're in the old 45 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:19,440 cotton gin. She said, remember anything you 46 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:23,440 say, somebody can hear it because it echoes. 47 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:27,040 And this one boy, he's he, he was there with the, with the 48 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:28,680 groom. He's that's the way I like it. 49 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:31,000 I thought that's good. You know, you go to South, you 50 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:32,800 go to Louisiana, you can see some real people. 51 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:35,440 They man, they don't care. They don't care. 52 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:37,960 But you go to some other place and it's like we put up a front, 53 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:41,120 you know, but it's good to be in the House of the Lord today. 54 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:44,000 You know, I preached this several years ago and it's just 55 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:48,200 one that stuck out and I've got messages stuck in book and 56 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:51,080 folders and sometimes they just stick out. 57 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:53,880 And I tried the iPad deal for a while me and it didn't get along 58 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:56,440 too good. So, but sometimes I'll go back 59 00:02:56,440 --> 00:02:59,680 and look at some titles in there and and let's stand in the 60 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:02,880 reading of this because it, this message goes lots of ways. 61 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:07,920 But there was a few years ago it seemed that everybody I come in 62 00:03:07,920 --> 00:03:10,000 contact with, it was a little phrase. 63 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:13,840 It's kind of died off somewhat, but it seemed like everybody 64 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:16,280 that opened their mouth, I would hear this statement. 65 00:03:16,920 --> 00:03:20,640 It is help me. Y'all know it. 66 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:24,280 Well, it sounds cool, don't it? When you're going through just 67 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:27,000 saying, man, I, I don't care. It's just you know, it is what 68 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:28,040 it is. It's going to happen. 69 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:30,240 I can't do nothing about it. Say it with me. 70 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:34,880 It is what it is. And I heard someone saying that 71 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:36,280 they were talking about their life. 72 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:40,960 I said, well, it is what it is. And the Holy Spirit spoke to my 73 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:43,880 Spirit and said, but it's not what it seems. 74 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:48,320 If you're a child of God today, you're going through some things 75 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:52,360 that it is what it is, but it's not what it seems. 76 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:55,960 Because if you're a child of God, you have a hope and you 77 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:59,880 have a future and you have a God that knows the plans for you, is 78 00:03:59,880 --> 00:04:01,760 to prosper you and not to harm you. 79 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:05,000 It may be what it is for a moment, but I got news for the 80 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:06,480 devil. It's about to change. 81 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:10,840 It is what it is. Say it with me, but it's not 82 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:14,520 what it seems. In Matthew chapter 13 and verse 83 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:19,600 24, Jesus was teaching a parable here and he put it forth to them 84 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:22,360 saying, and I love these parables that you want to know 85 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:25,080 what heaven's going to be like, Go read the book of Matthew in 86 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:27,520 the gospels. Because when Jesus said the 87 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:34,440 Kingdom of heaven is like he says here, it's like a man who 88 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:38,840 sowed good seed in his field, but while men slept, his enemy 89 00:04:38,840 --> 00:04:44,960 came and he sowed tares among the wheat and he went his way. 90 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:49,040 He snuck in, he scattered some things among your field, among 91 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:52,520 the things you have planted. And it said he throwed these 92 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:55,400 seed out. And when the grain sprouted up 93 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:59,480 and it produced a crop, then the tares also appeared. 94 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:02,000 You've got to understand about the terror here. 95 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:05,000 To the naked eye, the the terror resembles wheat. 96 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:08,320 It was very hard to to tell it apart. 97 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:14,080 In verse 27 it says, so the servants of the owner came and 98 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:17,640 said to him, Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? 99 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:23,840 How then does it have tares? I've had to ask the enemy that a 100 00:05:23,840 --> 00:05:26,240 lot lately. I've sowed some good seed. 101 00:05:26,280 --> 00:05:29,760 Why is there tares? Because somebody, the enemy 102 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:35,320 sneaks in and he said to them, an enemy has done this. 103 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:40,160 The servant said to him, do you want us then to go and gather 104 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:42,800 them up? This is Jesus talking. 105 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:46,160 But he said, no, you know, we're good at gathering. 106 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:49,360 I think sometimes the body of Christ is so focused on the 107 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:51,840 terror, we missed the real task at hand. 108 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:55,800 We got to get rid of the tear because we ain't, come on, we 109 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:59,120 ain't saw some issues in our life and we're afraid the tear 110 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:00,760 is going to get on us. Amen. 111 00:06:00,840 --> 00:06:02,520 So we got to get away from that tear. 112 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:04,600 We got to pull it. Jesus looked at it totally 113 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:08,160 different because he knew that it is what it is, but it ain't 114 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:11,480 what it seems because there's something on the inside of me 115 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:13,560 that can withstand the tear. Hello. 116 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:19,080 But he said no, unless you gather up the tears, you might 117 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:21,360 root up some wheat with them. I like that. 118 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:23,320 But look what he said right here. 119 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:30,080 Let both grow together. Let both grow together until the 120 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:31,560 harvest. Can I tell you there's a great 121 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:35,960 harvest coming? And at that time of the harvest, 122 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:41,560 I will say to the reapers first gather the tares and bind them 123 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:46,480 in bundles and burn them. I like this right here, but 124 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:50,680 gather the wheat into my barn. Father, we come before you 125 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:52,240 today. We thank you for your love and 126 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:54,720 your mercy. We thank you for the anointing 127 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:57,320 to preach the gospel once again in Jesus name. 128 00:06:57,880 --> 00:07:01,600 Amen. A statement that seems to be 129 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:05,560 used more and more today, but when I hear it, it really gets 130 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:11,880 up in my spirit because many times we're just accepting the 131 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:18,600 fact of the way life is the way I am and the situation in our 132 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:20,800 life and the thing we're going through at the time. 133 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:24,200 But when you're a child of the Most High God and you begin to 134 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:28,480 look through the Scripture and what it says there should be 135 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:31,080 something else to it is what it is. 136 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:34,720 It's not what it seems because some things are real. 137 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:36,680 And yes, we go through heartache in this life. 138 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:41,720 We go through trials and John 16 and 33, it says that that in 139 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:46,000 this life we we will have trouble, we will have 140 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:48,920 tribulation. It is what it is, but it's not 141 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:53,440 what it seems because he goes on to say if we're a child of God, 142 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:58,600 but but God knows how to what deliver us out of them all. 143 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:01,720 I think of many situations through scripture. 144 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:04,040 I think of the blind man in John Chapter 9. 145 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:07,160 Let's do a little reading here. I think of the blind man and 146 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:11,880 Jesus had saw this man and he was blind from birth, but he was 147 00:08:11,880 --> 00:08:13,680 a lad. He was believed probably to be 148 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:15,800 in his 30s. He'd been blind quite a while, 149 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:18,760 maybe older. But his disciples, they walked 150 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:22,080 by and they automatically looked at him. 151 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:25,360 They were travelling with Jesus, the man who could heal, the man 152 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:29,240 who could raise the dead. And they looked at this man 153 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:32,960 talking about the wheat and the tares growing together. 154 00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:37,120 You know, as I said, I, I, I do funerals, weddings, I do all 155 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:38,640 kinds of stuff. And they, you know, they, they, 156 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:41,200 they want to tell you. Well, pastor, I want you to know 157 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:42,559 there's going to be alcohol there. 158 00:08:42,559 --> 00:08:46,520 Well, I don't care. Alcohol is not going to stop me 159 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:49,200 from preaching the gospel. What you doing is not going to, 160 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:52,000 not your tares, not going to get in this wheat that I've been 161 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:55,160 growing a long time. Hey, man, I'm not going to 162 00:08:55,160 --> 00:08:57,560 condemn you for it. I'm not going to be like the 163 00:08:57,560 --> 00:08:59,880 disciples that day I learned that don't work. 164 00:08:59,880 --> 00:09:01,560 They were about to learn it didn't work. 165 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:04,320 But they said they looked at this blind man that had been 166 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:06,120 blind from birth. Picture this. 167 00:09:06,320 --> 00:09:09,080 And they said, they said, Master G, who sinned? 168 00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:12,760 This man or his or his family? But see, that was the tradition. 169 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:16,720 Hello, that was what they had been taught from birth that if 170 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:19,160 you had an illness, if you you know nowadays, if you had 171 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:23,000 cancer, if you had something ailing your body that who send 172 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:27,720 this man or his parents that he was born blind. 173 00:09:27,720 --> 00:09:32,400 I like how Jesus answered this. He said neither, neither. 174 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:35,240 What were they trying to do? They were trying to figure out 175 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:39,200 the reason for the is what it is they were trying to figure out. 176 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:42,600 And we do the same thing. We try to figure out why we're 177 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:46,240 going through what we're going through and the why just drives 178 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:48,240 us crazy. Hello. 179 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:52,800 Sometimes there is no why sometimes you will never you may 180 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:55,240 I can't tell you Prince. Well you'll know it God or he 181 00:09:55,240 --> 00:09:57,440 may never reveal it to you this side of heaven. 182 00:09:57,480 --> 00:09:59,400 Amen. He did an apostle Paul. 183 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:01,440 What makes it think that he will do it to us. 184 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:04,320 He didn't reveal the thorn that was in the flesh of the apostle 185 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:07,800 Paul, but he left it there because he knew that they kept 186 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:11,960 the apostle Paul digging it kept the apostle Paul seeking quit 187 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:17,240 looking at the why. But he said neither this man nor 188 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:21,200 us parents sin, but Jesus went against everything they had been 189 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:25,680 taught that the church, the the religion of that time had taught 190 00:10:25,680 --> 00:10:27,800 them. But look what he says here. 191 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:32,040 He said he was born blind, that the works of God should be 192 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:33,520 revealed in him. Amen. 193 00:10:33,560 --> 00:10:36,720 When you begin to look at your situation and you don't say it 194 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:39,800 is what it is, it may be for a moment, but it's not what it 195 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:43,680 seems because I serve a God that's able to deliver me, Amen. 196 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:45,640 I serve a God. Y'all ain't preaching with me 197 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:49,160 this morning. I serve a God that's able to 198 00:10:49,160 --> 00:10:53,640 look in the innermost part of my situation and he's able to 199 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:56,800 change it. Jesus said he's born blind 200 00:10:56,840 --> 00:11:00,200 because I'm fixing to do a work and you're fixing to see it, and 201 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:02,200 all these heathens is standing around. 202 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:04,240 They fixing to believe in the power of God. 203 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:10,040 Hey, man, he says I must work the works of him who sent me 204 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:13,560 while it is day, the night is coming, man, the scripture, I've 205 00:11:13,560 --> 00:11:16,600 read it many times in my life and, and, and, and it's really a 206 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:20,680 sad statement because Jesus says that there's coming a time that 207 00:11:20,680 --> 00:11:24,840 he's calling night here when it's coming and no one can work. 208 00:11:25,480 --> 00:11:28,280 There's not going to be the Holy Spirit up on the face of the 209 00:11:28,280 --> 00:11:32,320 earth because when the rapture of the church has taken place, 210 00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:35,600 the restraining of the Holy Spirit is unleashed. 211 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:39,080 See, the church is praying and holding back the wrath of God 212 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:42,720 right now until the Saints of God and the children of God are 213 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:45,080 raptured out of here. And then you're going to see the 214 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:48,160 wrath of God with all vengeance and everything called the 215 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:50,720 tribulation period hit planet earth. 216 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:52,200 Amen. And that's the night he's 217 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:54,560 referring to right here. There's going to come a time 218 00:11:54,680 --> 00:11:56,400 that it's not going to the work. Amen. 219 00:11:56,480 --> 00:11:59,760 That the Spirit is going to be lifted from mankind. 220 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:06,200 I must do the works of him who sent me while it is day, but not 221 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:10,440 is coming when no one can work. As long as I'm in the world, I 222 00:12:10,440 --> 00:12:13,000 am the light of the world. And when the disciples had seen 223 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:15,720 these things, Jesus really rocks the world. 224 00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:18,120 Now he goes over there and he spits on the ground. 225 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:21,520 He mixes him up a little mixture of saying I can just see him do 226 00:12:21,520 --> 00:12:22,720 it there. They're like, what's he going to 227 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:25,520 do, man? What's he going to do? 228 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:28,280 Some of these people today will say, Oh no, I might get a 229 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:29,920 disease. Don't rub that on my eye. 230 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:32,920 They don't even want the oil rubbed on them. 231 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:35,720 It smells good. Afraid the oil going to do 232 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:37,640 something to them. It'll do something to you. 233 00:12:37,640 --> 00:12:43,920 All right. But Jesus spits upon the ground 234 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:48,400 and then he tells him something. He says he says go wash in the 235 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:52,760 in the pool of Shalom, which is translated sin. 236 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:56,560 Go wash in that pool and wash this stuff off of your eyes. 237 00:12:56,560 --> 00:13:00,680 And and he went and and he began to wash it off of his eyes. 238 00:13:00,680 --> 00:13:02,720 You know the story and his sight. 239 00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:07,360 But Can you imagine the man that began to see and the minute it 240 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:09,080 happened, those that were around? 241 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:12,600 Can I tell you when you step out in faith and you begin to say it 242 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:16,240 is what it is, but you don't stop there and you say, oh, but 243 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:19,680 it ain't what it seems because my God's about to do a work in 244 00:13:19,680 --> 00:13:21,960 my life. But see, we we stopped short of 245 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:25,520 that faith because when you leave the is what it is, you 246 00:13:25,520 --> 00:13:29,200 start operating in the not what it seems and you realize that 247 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:31,480 every day, every chance. Amen. 248 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:34,800 I was sitting in that in that chemo treatment place the other 249 00:13:34,800 --> 00:13:37,760 day and I said it maybe is what it is, but it's not what it 250 00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:42,120 seems. Something's about to change. 251 00:13:43,040 --> 00:13:45,080 I'm not supposed to be here, you know, I don't have to. 252 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:47,560 I have to. I have to know that I'm going 253 00:13:47,560 --> 00:13:50,920 through some things, but I also have to know it's got not God's 254 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:54,360 ultimate plan. His ultimate plan is to get me 255 00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:56,600 to heaven. What is God's ultimate plan for 256 00:13:56,600 --> 00:13:58,800 us? It's really to to either go in 257 00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:01,960 the rapture if he tarries or when we die, to be absent from 258 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:04,160 the body is to be present from the Lord. 259 00:14:04,280 --> 00:14:07,280 And I got to not be scared to live in that plan of death that 260 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:11,040 God has appointed to each and every man and woman and child. 261 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:15,960 But as they begin to wash, as he begin to wash, his sight begin 262 00:14:15,960 --> 00:14:18,840 to come back and they begin to question him. 263 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:22,040 I, I preached a message on this one time, the investigation of a 264 00:14:22,040 --> 00:14:23,760 healing. The Pharisees had to know 265 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:25,720 everything about who was this man? 266 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:28,200 They said, Gee, they told you, you can't do this, you ain't 267 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:29,320 God. Well, it's too late. 268 00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:33,480 It's not been done. Amen, because it's about Jesus. 269 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:37,480 And then they keep on asking the man and and they asked him, they 270 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:41,200 said, is he a prophet? But the Jews in verse 18 did not 271 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:44,520 believe concerning him that he had been blind and he had 272 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:47,000 received his sight. So they go on and they call his 273 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:48,520 parents. Hey, is this your child? 274 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:51,280 Yeah, He was born blind. He's been blind his whole life. 275 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:53,600 Well, all they were trying to see it was OK. 276 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:55,920 Did you go home and read this? It was OK. 277 00:14:55,920 --> 00:14:57,800 They they said, man, just say God did it. 278 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:02,680 Just say God did it. He said, no, God did do it. 279 00:15:02,760 --> 00:15:05,320 That man that was walking right by me that they're calling the 280 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:08,120 prophet, the healer is the one that did it. 281 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:12,040 He was God in the flesh. But see, they wanted to deny 282 00:15:12,040 --> 00:15:14,640 that, that that the deity of Christ. 283 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:16,720 And can I tell you, we're still doing it today. 284 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:20,360 We want to deny the deity of Christ just mentioned Jesus in a 285 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:23,880 school system. Just go to a real religious and 286 00:15:23,880 --> 00:15:27,040 educated church and just keep mentioning the name of Jesus and 287 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:28,840 you see the demons begin to crumble. 288 00:15:28,880 --> 00:15:33,080 You see the walls begin to break because he knows that it is what 289 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:35,080 it is, but it's not what it seems. 290 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:41,240 Some things are about to change this particular day Jesus walked 291 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:46,320 by and his is what it is became not what it seems. 292 00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:50,080 It can happen to you too. I said it can happen to you too, 293 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:54,000 but you have to understand Matthew 17 and verse 20. 294 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:56,520 See they had brought a boy to Jesus. 295 00:15:56,520 --> 00:16:02,160 That was an help me with that word somebody and and he had he. 296 00:16:02,280 --> 00:16:06,000 I can't say that word right now. Epileptic, I guess is the name 297 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:07,480 of it. He would fall on the ground. 298 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:09,720 He would fall in the fire. You know, I was in Walmart a 299 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:11,480 while back and I seen a kid like that. 300 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:15,160 You know, he, he really wasn't. He just needed a whooping. 301 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:19,480 It's a demon. No, it ain't. 302 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:27,880 A belt will fix a lot of it. But this particular 1 he had, he 303 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:30,400 was at that said he was falling and I'm going to get away from 304 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:32,480 that. Said it was fall. 305 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:34,840 But but now let me preach on it a little bit. 306 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:40,400 They may be four or five years old and they can turn one of 307 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:43,720 these tablets on. I don't know how I'm getting on 308 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:47,920 this, but I'm going, I like it. They can turn a tablet on. 309 00:16:47,920 --> 00:16:49,800 They can dim it, they can brighten it. 310 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:52,200 They can turn it off. They can turn it on. 311 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:54,720 I'm over here trying to find a button. 312 00:16:56,400 --> 00:16:59,200 So he's like Pulitz right here sitting here waiting on us. 313 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:01,040 So what's this thing doing trying to start a movie? 314 00:17:01,040 --> 00:17:03,560 She said Paul, it's loading four years old. 315 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:08,119 Hello. But yet when we set them down 316 00:17:08,119 --> 00:17:11,000 and we we put a Bible in front of them or we put a little 317 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:14,599 literature in front of them. And and then I get this all the 318 00:17:14,599 --> 00:17:15,760 time. I've had it. 319 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:18,880 I fought it for 17 years here because our teacher back here 320 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:23,520 teaches she don't just play well. 321 00:17:23,520 --> 00:17:26,560 If if they would just do that a little more activity. 322 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:29,920 You think they can't understand the word of God? 323 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:32,600 My mom called last night when I was talking to her. 324 00:17:32,840 --> 00:17:35,280 My daughter and my granddaughter just turned 4 in February. 325 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:40,880 So she's barely 4, barely four. And my mom, the other day 326 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:43,160 yesterday, she said she was working on something. 327 00:17:43,160 --> 00:17:46,360 She said, well, crud, Swayze said. 328 00:17:46,360 --> 00:17:49,920 Nana, you can't say that that's a bad word. 329 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:56,880 She said crud is she said yes. And then she proceeded. 330 00:17:56,880 --> 00:18:07,840 She said you've got to get in the word, a scripture out of the 331 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:11,600 mouth. She said, Nana, you got to get 332 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:14,880 in the word. And she said when you get in the 333 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:18,960 word it, it changes you. But now when she said something 334 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:22,440 that changes you, you know what to do with your life. 335 00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:26,680 But that's a three-year old. Just turn 4. 336 00:18:26,760 --> 00:18:31,840 You got to get in the word. Don't tell me they ain't get 337 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:33,480 but, but OK, here's what happened. 338 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:36,880 She's supposed to be back here on Wednesday night, but we don't 339 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:41,280 have enough in that class. So it's just her. 340 00:18:41,960 --> 00:18:46,440 So she has to go back here with the teenagers all but they can't 341 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:48,080 comprehend. They need to be back there with 342 00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:51,160 the Tonka toys. Four years old. 343 00:18:51,760 --> 00:18:55,520 She got it. Grab your ears and get it this 344 00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:57,560 morning. I got to get in the ward. 345 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:02,960 I don't know how I got in that, but you needed it. 346 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:09,720 See in Matthew 17, you got to get this verse 20. 347 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:13,040 They had just brought this boy and they could not heal him. 348 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:15,880 Jesus said it was because of what? 349 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:17,800 Why couldn't they do it? Why couldn't the disciples do 350 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:19,040 it? Because of what? 351 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:23,280 Why can't we do it? But you know, sometimes I feel 352 00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:25,600 like I really believe, don't you? 353 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:29,240 And it don't happen. That's when I say it is what it 354 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:32,440 is, but it ain't what it seems because God's about to change 355 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:34,840 something. But Jesus said, he says it's 356 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:37,800 because of your unbelief. And then he said, I assured 357 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:39,680 them. He said, I say to you, and I 358 00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:42,240 know I preach this a lot, but I believe this is where it is. 359 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:46,520 I assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith, the substance of 360 00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:49,920 things hoped for of a mustard seed, Brother Tony can show you 361 00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:51,880 how small one is. He carries them in his pocket 362 00:19:52,120 --> 00:19:54,560 and he sews them little bitty seed. 363 00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:57,960 But see, the deal is when you take that little bitty seed, you 364 00:19:57,960 --> 00:20:00,720 got them with you. You take that little bitty seed, 365 00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:03,520 it's like a speck of pepper and you begin to look at it. 366 00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:07,360 But see, faith is looking at that seed and believing that it 367 00:20:07,360 --> 00:20:11,000 can become a tree. Because a mustard seed really go 368 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:13,200 grows. But he said, I say to you, if 369 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:15,960 you have faith as a mustard seed, come on, let's get in the 370 00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:17,960 word. Like the four year old said, you 371 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:21,880 will say to this mountain be removed. 372 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:24,920 See, we we try to figure out why the mountains there. 373 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:28,040 We try to figure out what the mountains going to do to us 374 00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:30,800 physically and financially, mentally and socially. 375 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:32,640 Hello. Don't we, instead of just 376 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:38,600 saying, be removed from here to Yonder and cast into the sea? 377 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:40,640 Then Jesus said this. I didn't say it. 378 00:20:41,160 --> 00:20:44,320 He said that nothing will be impossible for you. 379 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:47,280 Can you see the trees and the seed that you're planting yet? 380 00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:50,640 It's the smallest, but when it when it grows, if you plant it, 381 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:51,840 it will. Grow. 382 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:55,280 Go ask the. Shepherd boy in the field, go 383 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:58,800 ask David when he began to plant seeds of faith and said, who is 384 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:02,200 this uncircumcised Philistine that defies the armies of the 385 00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:04,200 living God? When he began to sow seeds of 386 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:07,440 faith that I can't overcome this Philistine, what happened? 387 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:10,240 His faith begin to grow. Ask the little boy that had 388 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:12,840 brought his lunch to the seashore that day and they had 389 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:15,040 no food. And Jesus said, let me borrow 390 00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:18,280 your lunch for a little bit because it is what it is, but it 391 00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:20,960 ain't what it seems. I'm fixing to multiply that 392 00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:24,600 thing that comes to you. Place the seed in the soil of 393 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:26,880 your faith. Place the seed. 394 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:29,320 Many got faith, but they never placed the seed. 395 00:21:30,120 --> 00:21:33,600 See, when planted it will grow. The only. 396 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:36,160 Way a seed will grow is to place it where. 397 00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:38,280 In the. Ground, you can't place it in 398 00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:40,520 your pocket, you can't keep it in your ears. 399 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:43,680 You can't tuck it in your lip. You got to sew it right. 400 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:47,880 And when you place it in the ground, it it may be really dark 401 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:50,760 for a while because see, when you place it in the ground, what 402 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:54,200 happens to that seed farmers, they say it actually dies. 403 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:58,360 The soul kills it, it dies. It begins to re germinate, 404 00:21:58,360 --> 00:22:00,360 rejuvenate or whatever it's called. 405 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:04,600 And it then after it's dead, see, after I've taken my doubt 406 00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:07,920 off of it, after I planted the seed of faith and I've left it 407 00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:10,280 alone, it may be dark for a little while. 408 00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:13,440 I may not know how God's going to do it, but it come on, y'all 409 00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:16,560 ain't helping me this morning. But if I plant that seed of 410 00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:19,640 faith and it begins to grow, even though you're in a dark 411 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:23,480 place of your life, even though Satan seems to be bombarding you 412 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:26,640 right now, maybe your hopes and dreams are vanished. 413 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:29,960 Keep your seed. Plant your seed. 414 00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:32,520 Hang out 2 and 19. What does it say? 415 00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:34,720 Anybody know that? He said. 416 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:36,840 Is there any seed left in the barn? 417 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:39,560 See, that's the problem. We leave it in the barn. 418 00:22:40,120 --> 00:22:41,800 We're scared to. Get it out of the barn. 419 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:44,640 We're afraid if we throw a little bit of that faith out 420 00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:50,760 there and God don't do it exactly the way we said we'd do 421 00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:52,400 it, we're going to get a little pride. 422 00:22:54,160 --> 00:23:01,800 Hello, place your faith. In the Word of God and the 423 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:04,800 Master of the seat of faith. Well, I don't have much. 424 00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:05,680 Faith. That's OK. 425 00:23:06,360 --> 00:23:08,600 Get in the Word. There's only one way you get 426 00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:12,200 faith is by getting in the Word. I you don't. 427 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:14,120 Understand how long I've been praying for this? 428 00:23:14,120 --> 00:23:17,000 No I don't. I've got some things too. 429 00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:21,080 Bury the seed. Try some faith. 430 00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:24,560 It don't take much, he said. Just a little bit of faith and 431 00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:26,600 you can move mountains. Jesus can fix it. 432 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:32,040 You can do this. Or you can run everywhere, but 433 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:35,160 when you come to the one that knows the real problem, guess 434 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:40,760 what he. Can fix it and there's 435 00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:42,520 something. Unique happens right here when 436 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:46,080 we do this. We find out. 437 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:49,400 Our identity. I've never seen so many people 438 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:54,880 with no identity in Christ Jesus. 439 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:57,680 Does that make sense? How do I really? 440 00:23:57,680 --> 00:23:59,960 Identify. God identifies you as his child. 441 00:23:59,960 --> 00:24:03,480 He knows your weakness. He knows your strong points. 442 00:24:04,120 --> 00:24:06,760 He knows where you overcome. He knows where you'll fail, 443 00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:10,120 right? He knows who we are, but yet we 444 00:24:10,120 --> 00:24:13,720 we don't really step in to our identity. 445 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:15,520 Where does peer pressure come from? 446 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:18,360 When we send our kids off to school, they see somebody that 447 00:24:18,360 --> 00:24:20,960 was that's a certain way and they they identify with that and 448 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:24,720 they say, I want to be like. That I want to act. 449 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:28,680 Like this person I want to do. Like this person I want to 450 00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:32,040 become what they are. But yet many times we're looking 451 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:35,760 at the wrong person, right? What's your? 452 00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:38,840 Identity in Christ. I love. 453 00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:41,680 Daniel the book of Daniel The first part of it the end of it 454 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:45,840 gets a little confusing, but Daniel chapter 3 we're going to 455 00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:47,840 get we're going to take a little time today and read this. 456 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:51,800 I love it. We know the story it was about 457 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:54,800 Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego that was about to be thrown. 458 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:58,560 It was about the three Hebrew boys 4 counting Daniel but. 459 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:01,680 They had. Came into a different Kingdom 460 00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:05,080 because Daniel could do what he could interpret dreams, and they 461 00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:08,600 were Hebrew boys and they were living under the rule of King 462 00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:11,040 Nebuchadnezzar. And he? 463 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:14,320 Declared a their their little bit of worship and prayer that 464 00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:17,240 they were doing it. And it's always, it's always 465 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:21,160 astounded me how that these four Hebrew children that were sent 466 00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:25,240 over there in this big Kingdom, it just shook them up because 467 00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:27,600 they worship the God that they did not know. 468 00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:32,480 Hello. But yet it didn't bother Daniel 469 00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:36,800 because he had his identity. He said it is what it is, but it 470 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:38,640 ain't what it seems. They're going to reject me. 471 00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:40,440 They're going to talk about the way I eat. 472 00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:42,320 They're going to talk about the way I worship. 473 00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:44,600 They're even going to take the worship away from me. 474 00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:48,440 But see, the modern day Christian now has no identity in 475 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:51,440 that worship and it come on somebody and in that praise 476 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:53,840 through Christ Jesus. Because the minute that the 477 00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:57,320 enemy attacks through other Christians or friends or social 478 00:25:57,320 --> 00:25:59,640 media, we want to change our identity. 479 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:03,840 Peter did it. Right by the fire they said 480 00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:06,280 you're that you're that guy that was hanging out with you. 481 00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:08,520 No, I don't know the man. You even talk like him. 482 00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:11,160 No, I've never been around. He didn't have his identity yet 483 00:26:11,360 --> 00:26:14,360 until the until the Holy Ghost fell upon him in Acts chapter 2 484 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:16,240 and then he got his identity right. 485 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:18,000 Boy, I'll stay with. Me. 486 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:21,400 This is good this morning. But they he. 487 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:25,280 Said he said to Shadrach Meshach and of Indigo he said anybody 488 00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:28,600 that doesn't bow to these golden images that Nebuchadnezzar had 489 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:31,160 put down. He said there's something going 490 00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:33,080 to happen to you. You're going to get thrown into 491 00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:40,600 a fiery furnace and in he says, but if you do not worship this 492 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:43,440 golden image, you shall immediately be cast into the 493 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:46,520 burning. I'm in Daniel chapter 3 and I 494 00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:51,160 don't know what verse 15 and who is I like this right here. 495 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:54,280 See, they had no identity. Who is the God? 496 00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:56,880 Who will deliver? You from your hands. 497 00:26:56,880 --> 00:26:59,680 You've been worshipping Him, you've been praising him, you've 498 00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:01,480 been eating a certain way and fasting. 499 00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:05,440 Who is this God? He did not know him. 500 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:09,640 But in verse. 16 Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego answered, 501 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:13,160 and they said, King Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need 502 00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:18,160 to answer you in this manner. But today we think we got to 503 00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:21,480 defend the cross. We think we got to defend No, 504 00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:23,720 it's a finished work, he said. I don't need to answer you in 505 00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:27,080 this manner. That meant there was nothing in 506 00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:29,880 their being, in their intellect, in their spirit, or in their 507 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:34,840 mind that was going to make them change just because it's a fiery 508 00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:36,800 furnace. I don't have to answer you in 509 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:38,760 this man. What what, what would our walk 510 00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:42,320 be like if we were like that? And the enemy knew that I had an 511 00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:45,760 identity in Christ, that no matter what you pour on me, it's 512 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:52,640 not going to change because he's still got, they said, 513 00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:54,520 Nebuchadnezzar. We have no need to answer you in 514 00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:56,960 this manner. It is what it is. 515 00:27:57,640 --> 00:27:59,520 But guess what? It ain't what it seems. 516 00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:03,880 If that's the. Case if we do have to go to the 517 00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:07,840 fiery furnace, if I do have to take some persecution on social 518 00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:10,360 media, come on. If I do have to take some 519 00:28:10,360 --> 00:28:13,960 persecution at the job, if that's the case, our God whom we 520 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:17,440 serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace. 521 00:28:18,360 --> 00:28:20,200 And he will. Deliver us from your hand. 522 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:22,560 Well, I like that. I want to hear Christians talk 523 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:25,800 like that today. We walk around. 524 00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:27,720 Or I can't go over here. They're going to be partying. 525 00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:29,240 I'm all I know. I'm going to do this. 526 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:32,200 If I go over there, I'm just going to do, I'm just, you know 527 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:36,120 what, getting the word. The words only thing. 528 00:28:36,120 --> 00:28:37,440 Will keep you from doing that stuff. 529 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:41,000 It's not by mind, it's not by power, but it's but my spirit, 530 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:44,600 saith the Lord of hosts, right? He said, he will deliver us from 531 00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:47,520 your hands, O King. And I like this because the mind 532 00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:50,480 always comes. The mind's always going to come 533 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:52,200 in and try to screw your world up. 534 00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:55,960 What did he say? He says, But if that's the case, 535 00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:59,360 if not, if we have to die, because there's a possibility 536 00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:02,440 that you might have to die for Christ, It's getting closer and 537 00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:05,800 closer and closer to us. And a lot of Christians can't 538 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,880 even assemble themselves a couple times a week for the 539 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:12,240 glory of God, much less go to the chopping block. 540 00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:15,440 I was asked one. Time you think you would, You 541 00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:17,160 die for Christ. I said that's something I 542 00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:19,360 cannot. I said I hope I would, but 543 00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:22,360 that's something I cannot answer until they got the gun to my 544 00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:25,000 little baby granddaughter's head or something. 545 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:28,040 And that's where we're headed. That's where we're. 546 00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:31,200 Headed you don't believe it. Look at the the Moss that's 547 00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:34,320 being set up right here in the state of Texas, 50 in the last 548 00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:38,200 two years. You better wake up because it 549 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:44,680 can happen here. It can happen here, but he says 550 00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:49,920 if not, if we do have to die and that's all, See, they had a 551 00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:52,200 mind. They had the mind like you do 552 00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:55,920 and I do, they said. But if not, I want you to know 553 00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:57,760 something. I'm talking to the devil today. 554 00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:04,080 You need to talk. To the devil sometimes, if not O 555 00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:08,320 King, that we need you need to know that we do not serve your 556 00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:13,920 gods nor will we worship the gold image which you have set 557 00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:16,120 up. Isn't that powerful. 558 00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:22,760 We will not worship him no matter what happens even though 559 00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:24,600 so you know the rest of the story. 560 00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:28,400 He said it made the king mad. He said I'm not getting anywhere 561 00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:31,120 with them. This is key right here. 562 00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:33,240 You go to stepping out for God. You know how the Christians 563 00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:36,160 well, I want to do something for God, but I don't want no trials. 564 00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:39,200 I don't want no battles. I don't want no fights. 565 00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:42,600 How can I tell you? What God can do if I've never 566 00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:47,760 been through it? He said turn it. 567 00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:52,320 Up 7 times more than it's usually heated. 568 00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:54,760 Get it? The people that went in there 569 00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:57,280 without it being turned up 7 times more melted. 570 00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:00,920 And these men? Were bound in their coats. 571 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:03,680 They wrapped them up with trousers and turbans and which 572 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:07,480 would just act as kindling. But guess. 573 00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:13,160 What it is, what it is, but it was not what it seemed in verse 574 00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:14,640 23. I'm going to skip down so I can 575 00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:16,240 get done. It says these three men, 576 00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:19,920 Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, they fell down bound in the 577 00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:21,880 midst of the fiery furnace in the dungeon. 578 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:27,160 Can you imagine? All they had to do was just bow. 579 00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:30,960 All they had to do was say, OK, it's you know, it's it's going 580 00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:33,680 to be OK today. We know who, Oh my, who I feel 581 00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:35,960 is power. We know who. 582 00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:38,920 God is I've been saved and I've been baptized, but it's it's 583 00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:41,960 going to be OK today. I'm just going to, I'm just 584 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:43,760 going to not acknowledge that for a little bit. 585 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:45,800 I got grace. I can run right back over here 586 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:53,200 tomorrow after I do this. But they said, no, bind us, 587 00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:58,600 throw us in there. And King Nebuchadnezzar, he was, 588 00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:03,040 he was astonished. He rose and haste, and he spoke 589 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:08,560 to the counselors, one of the most powerful passages of the of 590 00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:12,600 the Bible right here. It says, did, did we not cast 591 00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:16,840 three men bound in the midst of the fire? 592 00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:20,920 And they answered, and they said, the King true, O king, we 593 00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:25,080 did throw them in there. And the king said, look, he 594 00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:27,960 said, I see four men. And they're. 595 00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:31,760 Loosed in the fire. It is what it is, but it ain't 596 00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:34,040 what it seems. If you have faith in God. 597 00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:37,800 And he said they're walking around in the midst of the fire 598 00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:41,040 and they're not hurt. And the form of the 4th man is 599 00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:44,200 like the Son of God, Amen. It doesn't matter where the 600 00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:46,760 devil puts you. It doesn't matter where you go. 601 00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:49,680 If you keep faith in God, he'll go through the fire with you. 602 00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:53,320 Then Nebuchadnezzar went near the mouth of the burning fiery 603 00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:56,760 furnace, and he spoke, saying, Oh, Shadrach, Meshach, and 604 00:32:56,760 --> 00:33:00,240 Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out of here. 605 00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:04,000 And then Shadrach. And a Meshach and Abednego came 606 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:07,560 from the midst of the fire and the sad traps, and the ministers 607 00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:09,680 and the governors of the king and counselors, they gathered 608 00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:14,320 together and they said, and they saw these men on whose bodies 609 00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:18,360 the fire had no power. Isn't that cool? 610 00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:20,760 Can I tell you you've been made fireproof? 611 00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:24,760 You've been made fireproof. The hair on their head was not 612 00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:31,560 even singed, their garments was not affected, and the smell of 613 00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:35,880 the fire was not on them. Man, if you can't get excited 614 00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:38,880 about that. Nebuchadnezzar spoke. 615 00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:42,480 He said. Blessed be the God of Shadrach, 616 00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:45,320 Meshach, and Abednego. But see, the deal is we're too 617 00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:49,040 busy telling people about God instead of showing them who God 618 00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:52,440 is through our actions, through the faith that God's given, to 619 00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:55,680 see when you identify with him, there is a change. 620 00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:59,520 We won't worship. The God that you worship, every 621 00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:04,360 time you take a new step of faith, get ready, get ready. 622 00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:07,800 You're going to get struck. You're going to get. 623 00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:10,239 Struck. If you want a true, genuine 624 00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:13,360 faith, it's tested by fire. Every time you step out and do 625 00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:17,040 something for God, you're going to get struck by the enemy. 626 00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:20,199 If the enemy ain't striking you, he ain't too worried about you. 627 00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:23,199 Because every. Level that you come to, there's 628 00:34:23,199 --> 00:34:25,679 another devil. But see, most Christians don't 629 00:34:25,679 --> 00:34:28,440 want to fight the devil. They want to compromise with the 630 00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:30,040 devil. I'm not. 631 00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:34,239 Compromising see Daniel we go on over here to chapter 3. 632 00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:37,159 We look at Daniel which had watched his buddies go in there 633 00:34:37,159 --> 00:34:39,600 and he was about to go in the lines then go home and read 634 00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:43,560 about that. I love Daniel chapter 6 it he 635 00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:46,159 was saying the same thing. It is what it is, but Daniel 636 00:34:46,159 --> 00:34:48,239 knew. That his. 637 00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:52,840 God was able. So if you know God, it maybe is 638 00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:54,760 what it is, but it's never what it seems. 639 00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:57,040 Daniel went home. They said you can't pray, 640 00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:58,840 Daniel. We didn't throw you 3 buddies in 641 00:34:58,840 --> 00:34:59,960 the fire. You can go. 642 00:34:59,960 --> 00:35:02,640 You can keep your position here. He was very high up in the 643 00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:04,800 government, but they said you cannot pray. 644 00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:08,240 Well, we panic. We'd be how am I going to do? 645 00:35:08,240 --> 00:35:11,480 I can't pray. You know, I can't pray. 646 00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:14,720 You come to everybody today and you'd say, oh, you can't read 647 00:35:14,720 --> 00:35:17,600 your Bible and you can't pray. Boy, we would social media go. 648 00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:20,960 But I wonder. What percentage? 649 00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:26,480 We're really doing it. Anyway, say Daniel what? 650 00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:28,480 Did he do when the trial hit? That's a great example. 651 00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:31,320 He didn't do anything different, he said I've been praying every 652 00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:34,120 day and I'm going to continue to pray every day, he said. 653 00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:36,920 I'm just going to open the windows that up in my room and 654 00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:40,120 I'm going to begin to pray. So what they do? 655 00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:41,760 They threw him in the lion's den. 656 00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:49,800 Satan knows what our weaknesses. But we have to. 657 00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:51,400 Know that it's not what it seems. 658 00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:53,840 He knew he. Wasn't going to win. 659 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:55,760 Daniel just kept doing what he was doing. 660 00:35:56,240 --> 00:35:58,000 I love that. I like to be in a place in my 661 00:35:58,000 --> 00:35:59,760 walk when trial and tragedy struck. 662 00:35:59,920 --> 00:36:01,280 Just keep doing what you've been doing. 663 00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:04,880 If you're doing the things of God, even the king in verse 16, 664 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:06,040 go home and read the rest of that. 665 00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:09,680 We all know that story, but he had faith in David's God. 666 00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:13,480 And then? Daniel, what did he do? 667 00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:16,040 He said he shut the lion's mouth. 668 00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:19,760 But see the King, your enemy, even Satan knows. 669 00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:24,320 It's not what it. Seems he knows that he knows 670 00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:27,240 he's not going to win, but he convinces us. 671 00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:30,440 That it's always. Going to be this way. 672 00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:33,280 It is what it is. He knows he's not going to win. 673 00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:39,080 But the the God whom? You serve continually, is what 674 00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:43,240 the King said to him, something we all need to settle now and 675 00:36:43,240 --> 00:36:46,200 forever to gain your identity in Christ. 676 00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:48,800 He's not the God that I serve when things go wrong. 677 00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:52,760 He's not the God. That I serve when I when I'm 678 00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:54,400 prospering and everything's good. 679 00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:57,000 He's the God that didn't. That's what King said right 680 00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:58,480 here. He said, Daniel, the God you 681 00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:01,520 serve continually. I done told you in the lion's 682 00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:03,320 den. I done take your prayer life 683 00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:06,560 away and you just continually serve. 684 00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:08,760 That's. What the apostle Paul said we 685 00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:13,360 overcome by constant use of the word of God, and God sent his 686 00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:15,840 Angel to shut the mouth of the line. 687 00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:19,240 God's about to shut the mouth of the line for somebody. 688 00:37:19,240 --> 00:37:22,880 I believe that here today. So where is God in the? 689 00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:27,120 Pain I'm going through, we wonder that because we we say it 690 00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:30,360 is what it is. It hurts and it does hurt, but 691 00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:33,800 you go to Psalms 139. And we can read a. 692 00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:36,680 Great scripture. Where is God when I'm really 693 00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:40,200 hurting? He was right there. 694 00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:43,960 In the lion's den, He was right there in the fiery furnace. 695 00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:46,360 He was right there when Peter denied. 696 00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:48,840 Where is God? He's right there in the middle 697 00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:52,960 of it, but I don't see him. I don't feel. 698 00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:55,000 Him sometimes. Anybody ever feel like that? 699 00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:58,680 And Psalms 100. And 39 verse one it says oh Lord 700 00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:01,800 you have searched me. And you know me. 701 00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:07,080 We think we don't know God. I mean, we think God don't know 702 00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:12,080 know us. You have searched me and you 703 00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:14,520 know me. You know my sitting. 704 00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:18,920 Down, you know my rising up you understand my thought afar off 705 00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:23,520 you comprehend my path and my lying down, and are acquainted, 706 00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:28,800 acquainted with all my ways. And he still loves us. 707 00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:32,360 He still knows we're a work in progress. 708 00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:37,800 Maybe you're not a. Daniel, right now, maybe you're 709 00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:45,640 not a Shadrach, maybe you're not a Abednego or a Meshach, but he 710 00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:48,880 still knows you. But the kicker? 711 00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:52,560 Is I got to get to know him? For there is not a. 712 00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:59,360 Word on my tongue, but behold, O Lord, you know it all together. 713 00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:05,160 You have hedged me behind and before. 714 00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:08,440 You laid your hand. Upon me isn't that powerful. 715 00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:14,240 Such knowledge is too wonderful or lofty for me to contain. 716 00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:17,520 It's high. I cannot attain how someone 717 00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:20,680 could do that. Where can I go? 718 00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:23,840 From your spirit or where can I flee from your presence? 719 00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:28,200 If I send. Into heaven, you're there. 720 00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:32,480 If I make my bed in hell, behold, you're there. 721 00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:35,680 If I take the wings of the morning. 722 00:39:36,720 --> 00:39:38,840 And dwell in the. Uttermost parts of the sea. 723 00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:42,960 Even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall 724 00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:45,200 hold me. Come on, he's talking to 725 00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:46,840 somebody. You can't get away from God. 726 00:39:47,240 --> 00:39:49,560 You might as well find your identity and surrender. 727 00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:53,880 If I say. Surely the darkness shall fall 728 00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:56,800 upon me. Even the night shall be lied 729 00:39:56,800 --> 00:40:00,040 about me. Indeed, the darkness shall not 730 00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:04,040 hide you. But the night shines as day, and 731 00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:07,120 the darkness as the light can't hide from me. 732 00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:16,280 For you form my inward parts. You covered me in my mother's 733 00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:19,920 womb. I will praise you, for I'm 734 00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:24,280 fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are your works that my 735 00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:29,760 soul knows very well. So your soul knows you just got 736 00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:33,280 to get it through your mind. My frame. 737 00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:36,960 Was not hidden from you when I was made in secret and 738 00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:39,840 skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. 739 00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:44,280 Abortion clinics. Need to read this. 740 00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:51,000 Your eyes. Saw my substance isn't that 741 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:56,320 powerful. He saw your substance being yet 742 00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:58,520 on Well, there's a time frame on it. 743 00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:01,120 They say that ain't what the word says. 744 00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:07,280 He says your eyes saw my substance being yet unformed, 745 00:41:08,720 --> 00:41:13,800 yet unformed. I counseled with a guy one time. 746 00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:16,920 Him and his wife had 3-4 beautiful children, grown knew 747 00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:20,680 him very well and. The enemy had pulled. 748 00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:23,640 Him down because in their teenage years his wife had had 749 00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:26,480 an abortion. And he could not. 750 00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:32,120 Get over it. Could not get over it and I had 751 00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:33,680 to. Explain to Him and just you. 752 00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:36,200 You can't get over it. It's only grace. 753 00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:39,280 They can understand that. I can't understand that. 754 00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:41,600 But you got to get it out of your mind and go forward with 755 00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:43,280 God. And one day you'll give an 756 00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:45,440 account to God, and God will be the just of that. 757 00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:48,680 Not me, not what your mind thinks, not what you've been. 758 00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:51,840 What a hard thing to live with. But see if you know the Word. 759 00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:56,240 Your eyes saw my substance. Being yet. 760 00:41:56,240 --> 00:41:58,960 Unformed. If he could see that, do you 761 00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:01,000 think he can see what we're going through today? 762 00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:07,440 And in your book they were all written. 763 00:42:08,720 --> 00:42:13,600 The day's. Fashion for me when is yet there 764 00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:15,680 were none of them. Your days were. 765 00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:17,560 Fashion. And yet you weren't in your days 766 00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:20,640 of life yet. How precious also are your 767 00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:22,080 thoughts to me. Oh God. 768 00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:25,240 How great. As you stand your feet as the 769 00:42:25,240 --> 00:42:27,800 sum of them. If I should. 770 00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:31,720 Count them, they would be more in number than the sand. 771 00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:34,640 When I awake. I'm still with you. 772 00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:38,160 Can I read the rest of this? Oh, that you? 773 00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:41,800 Would slay the wicked. Oh God, depart from me 774 00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:45,760 therefore, you bloodthirsty men, for they speak against you 775 00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:48,280 wickedly. Your enemies take your name in 776 00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:51,480 vain. Do I not hate? 777 00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:55,640 Them, O Lord, who hate me, and do I not loathe that those who 778 00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:58,280 rise up against me, I hate them with perfect hatred. 779 00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:02,280 I count them my enemies. He got in the flesh a little bit 780 00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:04,800 right there. But then this should be our 781 00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:06,640 prayer today. If you want to find your 782 00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:10,080 identity in Christ, if you want to be one that say it is what it 783 00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:13,400 is, but it's not what it seems. You have to say. 784 00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:17,360 Search me, O God. Search me O. 785 00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:21,160 God and know my heart. See, the truth is. 786 00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:24,240 He already does, but you have to give him that entrance. 787 00:43:24,240 --> 00:43:27,240 Search me, O God, would you bow your heads this morning and get 788 00:43:27,240 --> 00:43:30,080 this prayer? Search me, O God, know my heart. 789 00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:35,880 Try me and know my anxieties. I just can't serve the Lord. 790 00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:39,520 I got too many anxieties. Let him search your heart. 791 00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:43,080 Try me and. Know my anxieties and see if 792 00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:47,840 there's any wicked way in me and lead me in the way of 793 00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:50,000 everlasting life. Thanks. 794 00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:53,240 For listening to the Cross Power Church Podcast, may you know 795 00:43:53,240 --> 00:43:56,640 that true hope, peace, and salvation can only be found in 796 00:43:56,680 --> 00:43:59,600 Jesus. If you're near Campbell, TX, we 797 00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:01,760 would love for you to join us in person. 798 00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:05,320 You can find service times at crosspowerchurch.com.