1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:04,400 Welcome to the cross power church podcast you're listening 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:06,800 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 --> 00:00:13,600 cross. Now let's join the service and 5 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:15,840 good to be in the House of the Lord this morning. 6 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:18,040 And I was sharing with a guy the other day. 7 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:21,000 He was sharing with me and he travels around to a lot of 8 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:24,360 churches, goes to a lot of places and, and he said I, he 9 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:26,960 said I found that some churches, you know, he said the Bible says 10 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:31,400 we're two or three are gathered that what he's in the midst. 11 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:34,760 He said, I fear there's some denominations that have adopted 12 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:41,640 where 3 or 4 are gathered. There's usually 1/5 and some of 13 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:49,200 y'all will catch that later. But how many know the 14 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:53,640 denomination? You got to say it glad to be in 15 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:56,320 the House of the Lord today but if you have your Bible is going 16 00:00:56,320 --> 00:01:00,480 to be in second Corinthians chapter 4 and 16 and 18 do some 17 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:04,239 reading but got something the Lord laid on my heart. 18 00:01:04,239 --> 00:01:07,440 I've been putting together for a while here today and there was a 19 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:10,920 wise man. He once said if you were 40. 20 00:01:11,320 --> 00:01:13,760 He wasn't real wise. He seems 40 is where everything 21 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:18,440 hits right for a lot of people. The aches, the pains, the the 22 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:23,240 thoughts of maybe the afterlife, the thoughts that your life is 23 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:25,200 maybe half over. There's a lot of thought. 24 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:26,760 How many? How many's hit 40? 25 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:29,120 Did you have some thoughts that you never had? 26 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:31,120 You not 40. I remember when you were 16. 27 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:36,560 Makes me feel old. But a wise man was said if you 28 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:42,040 were 40, if you were 40, don't waste time wishing you could be 29 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:43,600 18 again. I wouldn't want to go back to 30 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:46,200 18. I was a little confused at 18. 31 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:49,320 How about y'all? But he said, if you were 40, 32 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:53,280 don't waste time wishing you could go back to 18 again. 33 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:58,640 Instead, imagine you're 90. Imagine you're 90 and just woke 34 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:02,520 up back at 40 with 50 more years ahead of you. 35 00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:06,120 What would you do? Puts it in perspective, doesn't 36 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:07,800 it? What would you do? 37 00:02:08,639 --> 00:02:12,440 You're 41 is coming. I titled this I want to look at 38 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:16,160 this today because see 41 is coming the day. 39 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:22,000 It all ends. 40 represents a lot of things in the Bible, but day 40 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:24,400 41 is what I want to preach to you about. 41 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:27,400 There's there's a lot of people went through some 40 days, some 42 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:32,200 40 nights, some 40 years. I can't tell you when your trial 43 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:34,840 will end. I can't tell you when you're 41 44 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:37,200 is coming. I can only tell you that it's on 45 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:40,080 the way. Can I get a witness you're 41 is 46 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:44,320 coming when the Messians when the trials of this life are over 47 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:47,600 the the the burdens that you're bearing or been bearing the 48 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:51,480 prayers that you're praying for children and loved ones and and 49 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:55,040 the things in this life that seem to not be getting answered, 50 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:59,800 loved ones that seem to not be responding to the prayers that 51 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:01,920 you're praying. I always believe God answers 52 00:03:01,920 --> 00:03:03,680 prayer. I've said it many times. 53 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:06,600 Sometimes it's sometimes it's yes, sometimes it's no. 54 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:11,120 Sometimes it's wait a while till you see it and sometimes our 55 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:13,720 prayers are doing a lot. It's just the people that we're 56 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:16,240 praying for is not responding, right? 57 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:18,880 They have not responded, but it's Second Corinthians. 58 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:22,840 That's why we have to do this in Second Corinthians chapter 4, 59 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:27,360 let's stand in the reading of the word and verse 16. 60 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:32,680 Many have titled these few verses as seeing the invisible. 61 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:36,720 How do you see the invisible? You want with the naked eye, but 62 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:39,000 with the spiritual eyes. I've been preaching for several 63 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:43,320 weeks now on Wednesday Now it's about believing that which you 64 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:46,200 cannot see which, but a lot of Christians have never stepped 65 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:49,360 into that realm because we operate wear and fear and doubt. 66 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:54,240 But in Second Corinthians chapter 4 verse 16, it says 67 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:59,520 therefore we did not lose heart. Anybody ever lost heart? 68 00:03:59,960 --> 00:04:02,440 It's easy to lose heart on some things in this life. 69 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:06,240 When you look around. Even though our outward man is 70 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:11,960 perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. 71 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:14,800 I like that. It's a daily walk. 72 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:19,240 You can't look at yesterday. You can't look because you're 73 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:23,440 not promised tomorrow. All you can do is live where 74 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:25,720 you're at. Say it with me today. 75 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:30,800 What would life be like? The inward man is being renewed 76 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:33,520 day by day for our light affliction. 77 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:38,040 Sometimes it don't feel like, does it, which is, but for a 78 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:40,640 moment it's doing something, he said. 79 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:45,000 It's working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of 80 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:49,040 glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but 81 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:51,760 at the things which are not seen. 82 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:54,080 For the things which you're seeing. 83 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:57,360 We got to get this this morning, the things which you're seeing, 84 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:01,040 if you're a child of God, I like to put that in there because if 85 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:03,600 you're not a child of God this morning, I've got, I can't tell 86 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:06,280 you it's going to change. I can't tell you there's a lot 87 00:05:06,280 --> 00:05:09,200 of hope maybe in this life you'll be rich and, and you'll 88 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:12,280 do all the things you want to do, but there's coming a day 89 00:05:12,280 --> 00:05:15,560 that it will not work. There's coming a day that it's 90 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:18,680 going to be tested. And he says that the things 91 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:22,200 which you're seeing are temporary, but the things which 92 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:25,640 you're not seeing that you can't see are going to last for 93 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:30,480 eternity, Forever. What a promise, what a hope. 94 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:35,000 You're 41 is coming. If you don't give up, Father, we 95 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:36,840 come before you. We thank You for Your word once 96 00:05:36,840 --> 00:05:40,480 again that Your word is truth. It's life to a lost and dying 97 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:42,360 world. We thank You for the hope we 98 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:44,840 have in this life. I pray today we would close our 99 00:05:44,840 --> 00:05:48,360 eyes and look with our spiritual eyes and our life and our family 100 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:52,280 and the circumstances and the things that we face on a daily 101 00:05:52,280 --> 00:05:55,040 basis and help us to realize, Father, that it's only 102 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:57,400 temporary. It's about to change. 103 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:00,640 Our 41 is coming if we do not give up in the desert. 104 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:04,400 Our 41 is coming if we obey God and keep His commandments. 105 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:08,640 We have a blessed promise that the things that we see are only 106 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:10,240 temporary. It's in Your Son's name. 107 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:13,160 I asked for the anointing to preach once again, Amen. 108 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:20,880 I think about this number 48. A man was commanded to build an 109 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:25,200 ark in a place that if you know your Bible, help me today That 110 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:28,160 it had never rained. But we're going to build an ark. 111 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:30,360 Why? Because he he could see 112 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:33,480 something that they could not see with their fleshly eye. 113 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:36,600 And it rained for 40 days and 40 nights. 114 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:38,840 But I, I want you to help me this morning. 115 00:06:38,840 --> 00:06:45,440 But day 41, the rain stopped Moses committed murder. 116 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:47,320 Think about it, committed murder. 117 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:52,320 The very man that God would use to lead his his chosen children 118 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:56,320 out of bondage and out of the out of a place into a promised 119 00:06:56,320 --> 00:06:58,440 land. Moses committed murder and then 120 00:06:58,440 --> 00:07:01,480 hid in the desert for what, 40 years? 121 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:05,440 On year 41, when it came, God called him to do what? 122 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:07,840 To rescue his children. God dealt with him. 123 00:07:07,840 --> 00:07:12,440 See 40 was a very significant number in Scripture. 124 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:17,400 Moses went up to the mountains for how long 40 days and on day 125 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:21,080 what 41 God give him the 10 commandments. 126 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:24,960 The Israelites wandered around the wilderness which you can go 127 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:29,200 over there and they say not even a man in shape can walk it in 13 128 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:31,560 to 20 days. But yet they wandered in a 129 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:35,080 circle around the same mountain they had their eyes up on and 130 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:38,360 the trials in their life. They wandered around it for 40 131 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:42,720 years, but year 41 came some, some died out there. 132 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:45,440 And they walked where? Into the promised land. 133 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:49,120 Goliath taught it. Israel for how long? 134 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:52,840 40 days. But day 41 came and what 135 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:55,480 happened? David defeated the giant. 136 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:57,360 We look at Jonah, the great prophet. 137 00:07:57,560 --> 00:07:59,920 He preached a message of repentance to Nineveh. 138 00:07:59,920 --> 00:08:04,000 For how long? 40 days and on day 41 God 139 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:06,440 stopped his plan to destroy them. 140 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:09,240 We look at the life of Jesus upon this earth. 141 00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:13,880 Jesus fasted and was tempted help me for 40 days and on day 142 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:18,720 41 the devil fled from him right after Jesus resurrection. 143 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:22,200 What happened? Jesus appeared to his disciples. 144 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:26,840 Help me 40 days and on day 41 he ascends into heaven. 145 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:30,960 I come by to tell you the rain will stop, the giant will fall 146 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:35,080 and you will enter the promised land as long as you keep walking 147 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:37,799 toward day 41, you're 41 is coming. 148 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:43,440 In Romans chapter 8 verse 37 and 9, it says yet this is a big key 149 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:45,720 to get into 40. What it's there. 150 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:48,640 There is a promise from God that it will stop. 151 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:52,080 The Bible says that trials only come for a season. 152 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:55,680 It depends on how we respond to the season and how we get out of 153 00:08:55,680 --> 00:08:58,000 the season and how we keep moving forward. 154 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:00,640 So I want to give you some of these things today, and Romans 155 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:02,840 830, 27 is a great place to start. 156 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:06,320 It says in all things we are more than conquerors. 157 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:10,440 I got to realize that in my life, in all things we are more 158 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:13,280 than conquerors. Right through him who loved us, 159 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:17,320 the apostle Paul says, For I'm persuaded that neither death nor 160 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:21,280 life, man, what a God we serve, neither death nor life, nor 161 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:26,040 angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things to come, nor 162 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:30,840 heights, nor depth, nor any other boy like this right here. 163 00:09:30,920 --> 00:09:33,600 You know, years ago I couldn't, I couldn't figure out this 164 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:36,440 because it says any other created thing. 165 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:40,560 Hello. I grew up in an age of no phones 166 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:45,360 and somebody created it, right? I drew, I grew up in a day that 167 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:48,320 if you, if you had your keys in your hand, you knew you had to 168 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:50,240 start your car. Now you don't even have to have 169 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:53,120 the keys to start them. I forget to put the key in and I 170 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:55,320 don't start it. So when I get out, I leave it 171 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:57,040 running to my wife's because I don't have a key. 172 00:09:57,960 --> 00:10:00,440 My mind was programmed. The key does it right. 173 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:04,360 But created thing, what is the enemy created in the spirit 174 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:07,000 world, man, we could go on and on. 175 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:10,440 There's things that were that's created today that can cause you 176 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:14,240 and I to lose sight that that our ancestors people even 10 177 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:16,360 years ago didn't have to deal with right. 178 00:10:16,560 --> 00:10:19,520 Satan just creeps in. He creeps in, he creeps in and 179 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:23,080 he says neither heights nor depth nor any other say it with 180 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:26,040 me. Created thing shall be able to 181 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:28,680 separate us from the love of God. 182 00:10:28,920 --> 00:10:31,440 It didn't say, it wouldn't get me to follow it, but it said, 183 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:35,400 and when I do fall, when I do fail, that my God still loves 184 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:37,760 me. You cannot separate me from his 185 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:40,920 love. His love is an endless love and 186 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:45,160 it reaches out and touches me this morning, which is in Christ 187 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:48,000 Jesus our Lord. But wait a minute. 188 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:50,920 There's this great word called temptations. 189 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:54,520 If Christians could get past, if I could get past the temptation, 190 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:58,720 pastor, I can serve the Lord. Maybe God's using the temptation 191 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:02,040 to get you to serve God right. See, we have this word back that 192 00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:05,600 back because a temptation we think of is what when I say 193 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:07,880 temptation, what's the second thing comes to your mind? 194 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:12,520 A sin, something that's out there that you can't do that the 195 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:15,160 flesh wants to do right. Listen to me young people. 196 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:17,120 The flesh wants to do it because it. 197 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:20,680 The pleasures of sin are for a season. 198 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:23,440 The enemy comes to us with something we can taste, touch, 199 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:26,000 feel and see, and he begins to attack the spirit man. 200 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:27,600 Right. Y'all ain't helping me this 201 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:30,120 morning. So what are temptations? 202 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:34,040 It's not just sin when we look this word up in the Hebrew. 203 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:38,280 It's to test or to prove or to try. 204 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:40,400 Isn't that cool? It's not just that sin out there 205 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:42,640 that you're wanting to do. The church said you can't do or 206 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:47,400 the Bible says you can't do. It is a test to prove or to try 207 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:51,280 you a trial to test 1's faithfulness to God, right, 208 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:53,680 rather than just an enticement to sin. 209 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:56,880 So the next time you see it, you got to realize it's not just a 210 00:11:56,880 --> 00:11:58,440 temptation. It's something. 211 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:00,560 It's a test that's put in my way, right? 212 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:04,920 Because day 41 is coming if I do not fail in the hour of 213 00:12:04,920 --> 00:12:07,520 temptation. See, your greatest temptation 214 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:09,560 will come. Anybody ever been tempted by the 215 00:12:09,560 --> 00:12:12,040 devil? What comes with the greatest 216 00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:14,760 temptation? Every time in my life, when I 217 00:12:14,760 --> 00:12:17,800 look back, the greatest temptations in my life, no 218 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:21,680 matter what it was past the drug, sex and alcohol when we 219 00:12:21,680 --> 00:12:25,560 were young, past the past the lust of the the the new things 220 00:12:25,560 --> 00:12:28,080 and I'll past all that. There's always something there. 221 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:30,840 What is it? The greatest joke? 222 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:32,840 Somebody been listening? I've preached this before. 223 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:36,000 The greatest justification, right? 224 00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:39,080 What keeps you from repenting? You justified. 225 00:12:39,680 --> 00:12:42,680 It's OK, right? It's OK, but it's still a test 226 00:12:42,680 --> 00:12:45,600 that God put there. And until you get over that test 227 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:48,920 and the more you grow, the more you're not going to find the 228 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:51,760 test that you're going through written in Scripture because we 229 00:12:51,760 --> 00:12:55,000 overcome the main things that's in the 10 commandments, right? 230 00:12:55,160 --> 00:12:56,480 We're not going to go out and kill. 231 00:12:56,480 --> 00:12:58,160 We're not going to go out and commit adultery. 232 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:00,680 We're not going to go out there. So God moves us up here to 233 00:13:00,680 --> 00:13:03,120 another level. See, because they were under a 234 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:06,720 law, but you're in the covenant and Jesus said I didn't come to 235 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:09,400 a know of the law. I came to make the covenant of 236 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:12,480 more effect in your life where when you look at the temptation 237 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:14,160 and you realize it's just a test. 238 00:13:14,280 --> 00:13:17,400 And if I pass this test, my God's about to elevate me to day 239 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:20,520 41 and day 41. There's some great things about 240 00:13:20,520 --> 00:13:24,040 to happen in my life, but I get hung up on the little 241 00:13:25,040 --> 00:13:29,120 temptation. See it's rooted in everlasting 242 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:32,520 character or trust. It comes from the Hebrew word of 243 00:13:32,520 --> 00:13:37,040 Nisha to test. To prove, See, in the Bible, 244 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:39,640 temptation is rarely just a lure. 245 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:43,000 You know what a lure is, You throw it out there and you throw 246 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:46,000 it out there in the pond, a lure and you catch a fish. 247 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:48,600 He's tempted and he has to bite it, but there's a big old hook 248 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:51,080 on it. We tell you all the people catch 249 00:13:51,080 --> 00:13:53,520 coyote, say they call it cruel, shooting them. 250 00:13:53,520 --> 00:13:55,720 But some of them will take a big old piece of meat, put it on a 251 00:13:55,720 --> 00:13:59,000 treble hook, hang it from a tree and let the cow grab it and hang 252 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:00,960 a while. Then shooting, which is 253 00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:02,920 crueller. See, it's the lure. 254 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:07,440 And the Bible temptation is rarely just a lure to do evil. 255 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:11,680 Get this, Write this down. But it's fundamentally a trial 256 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:17,160 or opportunity to choose between obedience and disobedience. 257 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:21,720 Why did the children of Israel spend 40 years and come out year 258 00:14:21,720 --> 00:14:24,960 41 in the desert? Because they didn't obey God, 259 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:28,800 God had a plan to get them to point from point A to point B. 260 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:32,040 You, you want this morning or you're looking for 41 today? 261 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:34,040 How many is there? Am I the only one? 262 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:38,520 We all need a day 41 our life a time to come. 263 00:14:38,520 --> 00:14:41,160 That's much easier than where we are today. 264 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:43,960 How do we get there? Trust and obey. 265 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:47,920 First Thessalonians chapter 5. We have to read this First 266 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:54,560 Thessalonians 5 and 18 we read of how to get out of this. 267 00:14:54,560 --> 00:15:00,680 He says that in everything we fail right here. 268 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:05,680 In everything, give thanks. That's hard. 269 00:15:06,240 --> 00:15:12,240 In everything give thanks for this is the will of God, in who 270 00:15:12,920 --> 00:15:18,680 Christ Jesus, for who you, in everything, give thanks. 271 00:15:18,680 --> 00:15:20,520 That's hard to do. I haven't mastered it yet. 272 00:15:20,520 --> 00:15:22,400 Anybody want to give a testimony this morning? 273 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:25,560 Have you mastered it? We give thanks after the 274 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:30,680 complaining, after the question of why to God, we give thanks on 275 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:34,400 a later date, right? Give thanks, God, I don't 276 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:36,920 understand it. I don't know why I'm going 277 00:15:36,920 --> 00:15:40,840 through it, but I thank you that you're giving me strength to 278 00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:44,080 make it through the journey. Let's go to that next verse. 279 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:47,160 It says do not quench the spirit because when you don't give 280 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:50,960 thanks, you quench the spirit. And well, pastor, I can't give 281 00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:53,600 thanks with the pain. I can't give thanks with a bad 282 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:55,880 report. I can't give thanks when I when 283 00:15:55,880 --> 00:15:57,440 I'm not in the mood to give thanks. 284 00:15:57,440 --> 00:16:00,040 God don't care what mood you're in, Give thanks. 285 00:16:01,880 --> 00:16:05,320 Because when you don't give thanks, what does he say right 286 00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:08,560 here in verse 19, He tells us to don't quench the spirit. 287 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:12,800 But when you don't give thanks, you quench the Spirit of God. 288 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:17,600 The next verse 20, do not despise prophecies. 289 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:21,360 Somebody walk up to you. There may be up here in the 290 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:22,680 Lord. You're maybe down here, you 291 00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:24,280 know, there's, we're all at different levels. 292 00:16:24,840 --> 00:16:26,560 There's days you own different level than me. 293 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:29,000 There's days I'm different. These days we need him on the 294 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:30,440 level. Can I get a witness? 295 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:34,000 And somebody come up and give you a prophecy and a word. 296 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:37,960 And you know, you're like, I know that I've read that. 297 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:41,640 I was taught that I was taught the first song in Sunday school, 298 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:45,560 that Jesus loves me this. I know the Bible tells me so. 299 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:48,600 But somewhere in this busy life, we forget that prophecy. 300 00:16:49,880 --> 00:16:51,280 Come on. Well, I don't feel like it. 301 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:54,800 That's despising A prophecy. Somebody comes and gives you a 302 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:56,280 word. Brother days are going to get in 303 00:16:56,280 --> 00:16:58,280 all they're not. You don't understand what I'm 304 00:16:58,280 --> 00:16:59,920 going. Don't despise prophecies. 305 00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:03,240 Don't despise what somebody's speaking, you know, prophecy. 306 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:06,839 We get all freaked out and weird when somebody says a prophecy. 307 00:17:06,960 --> 00:17:08,720 It's just a word of God over your life. 308 00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:11,160 It's that hard. Jesus loves you. 309 00:17:11,560 --> 00:17:13,560 God told me that you're going to pray for somebody and they're 310 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:15,319 going to get well. God told me you got great 311 00:17:15,319 --> 00:17:16,560 things. That's a prophecy. 312 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:19,920 That is a spoken positive word in Christ is what? 313 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:21,800 Don't despise them, receive them. 314 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:24,720 Amen. I had a guy tell me one time to 315 00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:26,480 preach, man, I'm going to pray for you, brother. 316 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:29,360 He said in a condescending way. And I said please do. 317 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:33,320 I didn't despise the prophecy. Verse 21. 318 00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:37,680 I like this. See, some folk don't test 319 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:39,200 nothing because they've never heard of it. 320 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:43,560 Can I say, well, I can preach to the Baptist Church this morning, 321 00:17:43,560 --> 00:17:50,400 get more Amens, test all things. Test them what? 322 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:52,240 Worked for me, may not work for you. 323 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:56,800 Hello I've had to take my shirt off and sweat and walk around 324 00:17:56,800 --> 00:18:00,200 the house and outside my fence and plead the blood of Jesus. 325 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:04,680 Maybe maybe you can't walk that far you sweat you get sick or 326 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:06,720 something. See what worked for me may not 327 00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:09,880 work for you. But yet Christians here what 328 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:13,280 worked for brother so and so over here and we going to go try 329 00:18:15,960 --> 00:18:17,240 just because they said it worked. 330 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:21,080 What worked for them may not work for I don't understand it, 331 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:23,560 but I test all things if it's in the Bible. 332 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:24,600 Test it. Amen. 333 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:26,840 Test it. Hold fast to what works. 334 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:29,440 Hold what's good, throw out what don't. 335 00:18:29,920 --> 00:18:32,880 I never forget in the rodeo, in the rodeo world, you know there 336 00:18:32,880 --> 00:18:35,520 was a right way to do thing. You had muscle memory because 337 00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:38,520 when the gate opened, you didn't have time to adjust and correct 338 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:39,920 anything. You operate you. 339 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:41,880 You were you. It was all reaction. 340 00:18:42,360 --> 00:18:45,720 You had to do what you had trained your, your, your muscle 341 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:50,720 memory, your, your subconscious mind to do and it would begin to 342 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:52,600 react. There was no way to change it, 343 00:18:52,600 --> 00:18:55,280 right? And if I had started doing and 344 00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:57,160 it, you know, I could see somebody doing. 345 00:18:57,160 --> 00:18:59,440 I had some of the best in the world, Bob and Bruce Ford 346 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:02,560 teaching me that. But yet when I see somebody else 347 00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:04,880 doing something, the guy told me, I said I'd do it that way. 348 00:19:05,240 --> 00:19:06,320 And the guy told me what they said. 349 00:19:06,320 --> 00:19:08,600 You can learn something from everybody. 350 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:12,600 I may take what didn't work from you from them and apply to my 351 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:14,240 life and change something in my life. 352 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:16,240 I may see somebody doing some little something. 353 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:18,400 It's a figuring out what he's talking about. 354 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:23,280 Test all things, hold fast to the good. 355 00:19:23,840 --> 00:19:26,400 There's going to be some bad. Don't dwell on it. 356 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:30,600 Let it go and everything's give thanks for this is what the will 357 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:33,280 of God in Christ Jesus. Do not quench the Spirit. 358 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:37,600 Do not despise prophecy. Test all things, hold fast to 359 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:40,520 what is good. And here's the key right here in 360 00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:44,280 that last verse, it says abstain from every kind of evil. 361 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:49,920 See, the number 40 consistently symbolizes a period of testing 362 00:19:50,080 --> 00:19:51,800 when you read it all through the Bible. 363 00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:56,840 The number 40 symbolizes a testing, a probation, a 364 00:19:56,840 --> 00:20:01,960 purification, often marking a significant thing of transition. 365 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:05,520 A change Christians don't like see that's why a lot of people 366 00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:07,000 never grow because they don't test things. 367 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:09,440 They don't try things. They they they know what one 368 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:13,400 man, one person told him 1520 forty 50 years ago and they 369 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:18,360 still do the same old thing transition or judgment appearing 370 00:20:18,360 --> 00:20:20,280 over 100. This is pretty unique right here 371 00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:25,040 appearing over 150 times in the Bible 40. 372 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:28,400 It represents the time required. I like you won't know what it 373 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:32,240 really represents the time required to prepare for a new 374 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:37,560 important phase or fulfillment of God's promises. 375 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:40,800 That's what it's doing. I can't tell you if it's forty 376 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:42,240 weeks. I can't tell you if it's forty 377 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:45,880 days, 40 years, 40 months. I can't tell you if it's this 378 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:50,840 side of help me heaven. But see Noah's 40 days wasn't 379 00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:54,520 just to survive. I got to get on the boat. 380 00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:56,520 Y'all got to get on the boat to survive. 381 00:20:56,680 --> 00:21:00,400 That wasn't what it was really about, was just Noah surviving. 382 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:03,560 It was who would obey God and believe that what he said was 383 00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:06,160 about to happen. It's very symbolic of the 384 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:07,840 rapture of the church. Amen. 385 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:10,560 If you don't get on the gospel ship, you're going to get wiped 386 00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:12,080 out. You're going to be left here and 387 00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:14,080 then God's going to purify this earth. 388 00:21:14,080 --> 00:21:16,840 That's what it's about. It's not about the sin that's 389 00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:17,880 all being committed and all that. 390 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:20,080 God's going to wipe it out because he's already conquered 391 00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:22,240 sin, hell, death and the grave, right? 392 00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:27,760 So Noah's 40 days wasn't just to get out and survive. 393 00:21:28,120 --> 00:21:30,120 What was it? It was much deeper than that. 394 00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:34,080 It was marking A purification. Oh, God, how we need it today. 395 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:36,920 It was marking a purification of the earth. 396 00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:39,840 That said, God looked down and he seen that which he was 397 00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:43,960 created was so bad that he knew that it was better off dead. 398 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:47,000 I guess I don't know. But God did away with it, right? 399 00:21:47,360 --> 00:21:49,840 And he promised he'd never do it again by water. 400 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:52,480 But when we look, we look at Saul and David. 401 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:56,120 And Solomon each each rain lasted how long? 402 00:21:56,600 --> 00:22:00,440 40 years. Day 41's coming or year 41's 403 00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:04,000 coming in your life. It's a symbol of new beginnings. 404 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:06,840 See Day 41. The rain stopped the Israel 405 00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:09,840 entered the promised land and David did defeat his giants. 406 00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:12,120 You're 41's coming. Don't give up. 407 00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:14,840 Amen. Keep keep pressing on as a child 408 00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:16,560 of God. You're 41's coming. 409 00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:20,200 How many is ready for it? You ready for the truth? 410 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:27,120 That all sounds good, but many never make it to 41. 411 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:32,680 Many get stuck somewhere between 1 and 40. 412 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:36,440 Many don't see 41 this side of heaven. 413 00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:41,320 I want to look at why Philippians 3 and 12 through 16, 414 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:44,720 the Apostle Paul said not that I have already attained. 415 00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:47,840 I read that. I begin to think not that I 416 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:51,480 there's a lot of people that never reach 41 because they 417 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:54,600 think that they've already helped me attained. 418 00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:58,520 How many Christians think that they've already attained? 419 00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:01,960 They don't test the spirits. They despise the prophecies 420 00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:04,760 because somewhere along the way they've got trapped in this 421 00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:07,880 little mentality of how mom and daddy or grandma and grandpa 422 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:11,160 were raised. I tell my kids all the time when 423 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:13,520 they were growing up, I said don't just don't just go listen 424 00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:15,200 to me. Go listen to somebody else. 425 00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:18,320 Go gather what the Spirit said. If you can't go to this church, 426 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:21,760 go to a church, go get fed the word of God somewhere. 427 00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:23,760 Amen. Because you got to be fed. 428 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:28,120 But we think we've already attained. 429 00:23:28,120 --> 00:23:32,000 It's salvation. Many people think they've 430 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:35,440 already attained and water baptism. 431 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:38,440 We go a step farther. Come on, we think we already. 432 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:44,640 Have attained or am already perfected, He said people never 433 00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:48,240 get to 41 because they think they've already attained, but 434 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:49,560 yet they're still stuck in the trial. 435 00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:52,720 They're still stuck in waiting on God to do something, just 436 00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:54,840 like the children of Israel. God, you're feeding us from 437 00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:56,560 heaven. Just lead us out of this trial. 438 00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:58,880 God said no, you're going to obey me to get out of this 439 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:04,440 trial. Many never get there because we 440 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:09,680 think we've already attained or I'm already perfected, or maybe 441 00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:12,480 we even fall. But what does the apostle Paul 442 00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:15,000 do? He says I press on. 443 00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:19,320 Christians need to press on. If you're ever going to get to 444 00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:22,240 41, you got to press on. It doesn't matter what you're 445 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:24,240 listening to right now, what you're watching, what you're 446 00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:27,520 here, what's going on in your life, how how you got sin that's 447 00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:29,880 raining in your mortal body. It doesn't matter. 448 00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:34,520 You got to press on. Anybody remembering as a 449 00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:37,120 teenager, you go to church and you hear all this and boy, you'd 450 00:24:37,120 --> 00:24:38,440 leave. You say, come on, I got to try 451 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:40,440 about all the I got to try not to do all these things. 452 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:43,680 And then come Monday, Tuesday, some some people still there 453 00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:46,880 even as adults. And then we go out, we fail. 454 00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:49,960 Boys can't just just a struggle because the Bible says it's a 455 00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:52,440 little things hanging off of us. It's so easily beset. 456 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:54,760 US. But what do you got to do? 457 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:58,240 You got to press on. But the devil convinces you in 458 00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:02,640 your mind that you can't press on because you failed press on. 459 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:09,080 That I may lay hold of that which Christ Jesus has already 460 00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:10,880 laid hold of for me isn't that powerful. 461 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:13,480 If I keep pressing on, there's something that I can lay hold 462 00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:14,960 of. And when you get a hold of him, 463 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:18,160 don't never let him go. Hey man, keep pressing on. 464 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:25,280 Jesus has also laid of hold of my brother and I do not count 465 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:29,200 myself to have apprehended, but the one thing I do. 466 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:32,760 Somebody needs this. This morning is forgetting those 467 00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:37,440 things which are behind. So many people can't serve God 468 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:40,480 because they remember the things that are behind them more than 469 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:45,880 what God's got on Day 41 and reaching forward to those things 470 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:48,760 which are ahead. Here it is again, he says. 471 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:54,360 I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God 472 00:25:54,360 --> 00:25:57,960 in Christ Jesus. But one thing I do is I press 473 00:25:57,960 --> 00:25:59,840 on. There's a little verse in 474 00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:03,440 Proverbs chapter 24 and 16 I read this week that got a hold 475 00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:09,840 of me. It says for a righteous man may 476 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:17,280 fall 7 times, but the wicked, when they fall it's by calamity. 477 00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:19,680 I begin to think about that. What does that mean? 478 00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:23,080 To you the righteous man may fall. 479 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:26,040 God knew we would fall, that's why he give us. 480 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:32,320 Somebody help me grace. But the wicked fall by calamity, 481 00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:37,680 which is disaster, distress, pain with no hope. 482 00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:40,920 But what happens when a righteous man falls? 483 00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:43,440 There's something that I got there when a righteous man 484 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:44,680 falls. Anybody ever fell? 485 00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:46,760 Anybody ever fell on their Christian walk? 486 00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:48,240 Y'all got it all figured out this morning? 487 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:54,920 I ain't got it figured out. But see, I'm standing right to 488 00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:56,320 fall. What has to happen? 489 00:26:57,200 --> 00:27:07,160 I got to be standing but yet I fall, but I can get up 7 * 1 for 490 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:11,240 every day of the week, right? A righteous man may fall, but 491 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:15,120 see, I can't fall unless I was standing, so God must be moving 492 00:27:15,120 --> 00:27:17,320 and in my life if I'm standing, right? 493 00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:21,080 So I got to keep moving, I got to keep getting up to get to day 494 00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:23,560 41. But if I fall and I believe the 495 00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:25,880 lies of the enemy, I will stay down. 496 00:27:27,120 --> 00:27:31,600 I got to be standing to fall. So you were standing, you fell. 497 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:34,480 Just get up. That's how hard this Christian 498 00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:38,680 walk, when you get up and you don't water in the distress of 499 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:42,520 this life and the sins that so easily beset us. 500 00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:46,120 If you just keep getting up, just keep pressing on, one of 501 00:27:46,120 --> 00:27:48,320 these days you're going to run out of that mess. 502 00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:50,720 Amen. I think of the story, the old 503 00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:53,920 donkey that fell in the well. Anybody ever heard that story? 504 00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:55,960 Y'all all heard it and ain't going to tell. 505 00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:58,600 It's long. How many more hear it? 506 00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:00,520 That's like sitting around dinner. 507 00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:01,880 Tell you why. So you already told that. 508 00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:04,840 I used to remember the ones I told, but I'm under the age I 509 00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:08,480 can't remember if I told it again and if I have told it, I 510 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:10,240 said, well, it's going to get better this time. 511 00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:13,560 Bob Thomas said don't ever let the truth get in the way of a 512 00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:15,720 good story. But see behind the pulpit. 513 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:19,160 I can't do that. Hey man, is it OK if it really 514 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:21,400 don't affect nobody? I asked God that. 515 00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:24,440 I said if I make the story better and it's not true, does 516 00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:26,000 it really? Does it affect? 517 00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:31,040 He said truth always prevails right but the story of the old 518 00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:33,160 donkey he farmer had a donkey, big old mule. 519 00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:36,440 He fell in this well they didn't know was out there and he fell 520 00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:38,000 in there. Y'all know what happened and he 521 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:40,320 couldn't get him out He said he's old he's crippled anyway 522 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:43,040 let's leave him in there so he called all of his neighbors. 523 00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:46,040 He said look, I got old sister and I need to fill up and old 524 00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:48,400 donkey fell in and he's about half dead anyway, we're going to 525 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:51,680 throw all this trash on him and they would drop a garbage sack 526 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:53,480 in there. Boy, how nasty would that be? 527 00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:56,120 And they said the old donkey would just shake it off and 528 00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:58,120 he'd. Stomp on it, compact it, and 529 00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:01,080 rise a little higher. The next day they brought some 530 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:03,200 old brush and junk in her throat on him. 531 00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:05,760 He stomped on it, said he rose a little higher. 532 00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:08,560 They just kept piling stuff. See, that's the hope we have as 533 00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:12,600 a child of God, when the world keeps piling it on top of it, if 534 00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:15,360 you'll just step on it and keep pressing on. 535 00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:17,840 And they said one day they threw enough in there that the old 536 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:20,120 donkey just got up and walked out of the sister. 537 00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:23,640 See, that's the hope we have. As a child of God, if you'll 538 00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:26,800 just stomp on it and know that he's placed it under the soles 539 00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:28,920 of your feet. Come on, somebody, if you'll 540 00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:31,400 keep getting up, you're 41 is coming. 541 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:33,560 You can't stay down. You're a child of God. 542 00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:36,840 How do I keep getting up? How do I make it? 543 00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:42,080 40 days, 40 weeks, 40 years. The truth is, we can't. 544 00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:45,760 We can't choose the time. We have to keep marching toward 545 00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:48,400 41. But I can live in hope of it, 546 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:51,440 right? I can live in the hope of day 547 00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:53,080 41. You're 41. 548 00:29:53,520 --> 00:30:00,000 The day that it's over. The day that God chooses to send 549 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:04,840 breakthrough. If I keep pressing on, you know, 550 00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:06,760 the things me and my wife been going through, the devil tries 551 00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:11,120 to get us not to press on. Sometimes bad reports and don't 552 00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:13,400 press on. You know, I told the devil the 553 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:16,680 other day, I said I really can't believe it's went this far. 554 00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:22,520 We got another bad reporting, have to take you. 555 00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:25,960 I said I can't believe it's went this far because I'm looking to 556 00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:31,600 a God that I know at any minute can speak and the situation can 557 00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:39,540 stop. So when he comes to me, I know 558 00:30:40,100 --> 00:30:43,940 just because it hasn't, I know that God can sitting there at 559 00:30:43,940 --> 00:30:46,620 10:00 last night, some people that used to go to church here 560 00:30:46,620 --> 00:30:49,800 faithfully. My father-in-law came here for 561 00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:54,160 several years off and on. I got a call one day. 562 00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:56,800 It was a busy busy day. Anybody ever have them? 563 00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:01,120 But see the devil don't quit. He wants you to quit pressing 564 00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:03,680 on. He don't want the 41 to come. 565 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:06,560 But I get a text at 10:00. Haven't talked to him in over a 566 00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:09,160 year. Don't know why they quit coming 567 00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:12,080 to church. But while they were coming, the 568 00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:14,680 father-in-law came some and he was diagnosed with some kind of 569 00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:18,560 bad, bad, bad cancer. And I was busy and it was a bad 570 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:20,400 day for me to go pray for somebody. 571 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:23,640 Anybody ever got it like that? But I said I ain't going today. 572 00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:26,120 You know what the enemy did? They ain't been coming to church 573 00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:27,800 anyway. Why do you need to go pray for 574 00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:28,880 them? That's the enemy. 575 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:32,560 I said I'm going to press on. I'm going to love, though I 576 00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:36,120 don't feel like loving. Today I stopped by here after 577 00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:39,440 work and got some annoying woman come to the house and I went to 578 00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:41,920 the house and and I just got on the way over. 579 00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:45,240 I said God help me because I don't feel like this is where 580 00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:47,400 I'm supposed to be right now. God said this is where you're 581 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:49,800 supposed to be. You pray a prayer of faith and 582 00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:54,760 you believe it had already had all these bad reports. 583 00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:57,200 And I went in there and the Spirit of God fell upon that 584 00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:00,320 place and I anointed with oil and I prayed for it. 585 00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:07,560 Hadn't seen him over a year and a half, hadn't really thought 586 00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:09,360 about it. I just did what God told me to 587 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:12,600 do that day. And I got a call last night that 588 00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:16,880 said he went to the doctor, hadn't seen him over a year and 589 00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:22,160 a half and said he's cancer free of the bad stuff. 590 00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:27,640 I give it to God, I obey God. What do you? 591 00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:33,440 Think the devil said to me sitting there last night, you 592 00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:36,360 can pray for somebody else but your own family. 593 00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:41,720 Why even pick up the mic? Why if you can't heal your own 594 00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:43,600 if I ain't healing anybody anyways? 595 00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:45,960 What I told you know, he comes that if you came here, I said. 596 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:50,040 I didn't do it anyway. I pray the prayer of faith. 597 00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:53,920 I can't tell you if God's going to heal you, but I can tell you 598 00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:57,080 one thing I can do is I can pray a prayer of faith that I can 599 00:32:57,080 --> 00:33:00,720 pray it without doubting and I can let God begin to work in 600 00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:01,600 your life. Amen. 601 00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:06,040 And if he decides that you're 40, if he says day 40, you're 40 602 00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:10,400 is right now you can step into you're 41, but I can tell you if 603 00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:13,600 you don't keep believing for it, you'll never receive it. 604 00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:21,360 You're 41 is coming. Steps to 41. 605 00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:27,560 The day it's over. Think about that. 606 00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:31,920 The rapture, the day I don't have to pray anymore. 607 00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:37,360 I'm thankful I can pray. But can I tell you, for me, 608 00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:40,200 there's coming a day I'm not going to have to pray anymore. 609 00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:44,920 There's coming a day that I ain't going to have to believe 610 00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:48,720 anymore. There's coming today that faith 611 00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:50,440 is going to end. Insight. 612 00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:54,760 Think about it. If you could see Jesus today, 613 00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:57,760 your faith would be over. You wouldn't have to believe for 614 00:33:57,760 --> 00:33:59,520 it. But that day is coming when he 615 00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:03,160 reveals himself because it says when we the Holy Ghost, just 616 00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:07,960 give me this, when we see him, we shall do what we shall be 617 00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:10,800 like him. Oh, what a promise we have when 618 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:14,679 we see Jesus. What a day that will. 619 00:34:14,679 --> 00:34:18,560 Be now I'm going to close and I'm going to give you 3 steps to 620 00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:24,600 this getting today 41 Write this down. 621 00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:29,920 Stop reliving and regretting the past. 622 00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:38,800 You don't ever forget it. Your past broken promises, 623 00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:42,440 broken relationships, and the things that the enemy has placed 624 00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:47,520 in your life, you don't ever forget it, but don't relive it. 625 00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:52,560 Don't regret it because it's what God used to get you where 626 00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:57,320 you're at today. Learn from it and move on and 627 00:34:57,320 --> 00:34:58,960 learn how to never be there again. 628 00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:02,120 That's what champions do Learn from it. 629 00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:08,400 The greatest lesson you can learn from a bad past situation 630 00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:12,960 is how you got in it and how to never be in it again. 631 00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:15,880 Not to think that I've already attained. 632 00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:18,760 I was talking about my little, my big nephew. 633 00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:21,840 He ain't little no more. But the other day and he said he 634 00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:26,160 weighed 180. I said you caught me, I'm 179. 635 00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:28,520 If I take my belt off, I try to stay at 179. 636 00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:34,120 He said I'm 180. I said, but you're a sophomore. 637 00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:36,640 And I said you need to be about 200 by ball season. 638 00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:41,080 And his dad agreed with me and I said. 639 00:35:41,720 --> 00:35:44,920 I don't know if you caught this, but I said I said you get that 640 00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:46,640 200. I said when they hit you, it 641 00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:50,400 won't go back as far. You know the verse I was 642 00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:53,120 preaching on about while ago about I've already apprehended. 643 00:35:53,720 --> 00:35:59,880 He said this 180 didn't go back and his daddy said I would taste 644 00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:02,040 it. He said when you tackle him and 645 00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:04,040 you go this way, that's going back. 646 00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:05,440 He said I want you to go this way. 647 00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:08,840 As a freshman he led the team and tackle the district, 648 00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:10,800 whatever state he was way up there. 649 00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:14,880 But the but see, sometimes we're like that, but we learn how to 650 00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:17,320 not ever be there. That extra £20, you're going to 651 00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:19,360 need it. Somebody going to hit you, they 652 00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:23,040 going to need it. Kind of like a little boy that 653 00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:25,280 comes to the rodeo. One time he told Bob and them he 654 00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:27,480 said they asked him if he fights. 655 00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:29,200 Oh yeah, I'm a fighter. I can fight. 656 00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:32,080 I ain't never been whooped. Bob looked at me and said you 657 00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:33,280 must pick your fights pretty good. 658 00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:40,800 That's the way a lot of Christians are. 659 00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:43,400 They pick the fights they know they can win them with the devil 660 00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:45,400 and it's the one he's destroying you with that you refuse to 661 00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:48,280 fight. Stop reliving and regretting the 662 00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:52,080 past. Second thing, y'all ready for 663 00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:54,840 this? Stop worrying about the future. 664 00:36:56,480 --> 00:37:00,120 Stop worrying about the future. I got a call yesterday from a 665 00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:03,160 guy that I partnered with some Coon dogs on and he's he's been 666 00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:06,280 he told me he said five years ago, he said two more years. 667 00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:08,120 I'm done. He works nights crazy shift. 668 00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:10,800 He's been doing it for a long time and he said as soon as my 669 00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:14,240 house paid off, I said I'm done. He paid his house off 3 years 670 00:37:14,240 --> 00:37:18,000 ago and he's still doing it. He said I just want to hunt. 671 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,360 I said, I said you got to quit worrying about the future. 672 00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:23,960 I got to stack some more away. I got to I got to yesterday he 673 00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:26,480 called me. He had to get hauled out of the 674 00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:27,720 woods. He had to call his wife to come 675 00:37:27,720 --> 00:37:29,280 and get him hunting by himself the other night. 676 00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:35,840 He's short of breath and he went and his one of his aortas has a 677 00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:41,560 has a somebody help me has blockage in it aneurysm. 678 00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:45,080 But see, we worry about the future. 679 00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:48,520 When's enough enough When do we live? 680 00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:51,200 Somebody needs to ask yourself that. 681 00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:56,240 Stop worrying about the future. Psychologists have done studies 682 00:37:56,240 --> 00:37:59,440 that prove that this is high high percentage. 683 00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:03,720 I think it would even be higher than that in my life, 85% of 684 00:38:03,720 --> 00:38:06,600 what we actually worry about on a daily basis. 685 00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:12,280 Say it with me never happens. How much time do we spend on 686 00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:16,120 that instead of thinking about what God could do? 687 00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:24,400 It's a waste of time and energy. What if rules our mind, you know 688 00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:26,080 the next one. I think we rules even more than 689 00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:28,080 what if? What if they? 690 00:38:29,240 --> 00:38:35,360 What if they, what if they? It could have been so much 691 00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:37,680 worse. Everybody tell a story that and 692 00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:39,080 they say, oh. It could have been so much. 693 00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:44,600 But it wasn't. I want to scream that to people. 694 00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:49,120 It hurt them. It did the oh, thank God, it 695 00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:52,520 could have been so much worse, but it wasn't. 696 00:38:54,240 --> 00:38:56,720 And church folk, Christian folk are the worst. 697 00:38:57,920 --> 00:38:59,680 We supposed to have the most faith. 698 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:03,240 I got a guy, I'm not sure he he knows Jesus died on the cross. 699 00:39:03,240 --> 00:39:07,080 That's about the extent of it, but he knows he's a Heather. 700 00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:09,960 But I like to call him on Monday morning because there's some 701 00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:13,400 positive there. He's a positive, he's a 702 00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:15,440 positive. He looks for the good more than 703 00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:18,960 a lot of church folk I know. Tell them a story, boy. 704 00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:21,680 They fell down the stairs and it's sprained their ankle. 705 00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:23,160 Oh God, that could have broke their leg. 706 00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:26,880 That was a bone sticking out. No, it just sprained their 707 00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:35,680 ankle. It's a waste of time, energy. 708 00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:37,960 Oh, it could have been so much worse, but it could have been so 709 00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:41,880 much better. If you listen to the voice of 710 00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:46,840 God, I recall many times headed to a rodeo, the voice of God 711 00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:50,480 said don't go, you're not going to win, don't go, but I would. 712 00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:53,800 You've been there, didn't want to go, but this horse is ranked. 713 00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:56,080 But if I don't go, they're going to think I'm a Sissy. 714 00:39:57,200 --> 00:39:59,360 You say you're walking back and you accomplished what you wanted 715 00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:01,360 to accomplish, but your body's hurt for four days. 716 00:40:02,240 --> 00:40:05,880 You wasn't a Sissy, but you spent a lot of money to get 717 00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:07,600 there knowing you wasn't going to win on him. 718 00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:10,120 Had a judge tell me, they said, man, you turned this horse. 719 00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:11,560 I said I rode that horse five times. 720 00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:13,160 I proved I could ride him. I said, you know how many times 721 00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:15,040 I went on him? None. 722 00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:19,440 So the sixth time I learned, I said, so why would I go get on 723 00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:21,200 him if you're not going to let me win on him? 724 00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:24,000 Why are you telling me that? It's proven? 725 00:40:25,720 --> 00:40:27,880 But it's what they might think, right? 726 00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:30,360 It could have been so much worse. 727 00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:34,680 Thank God it wasn't. Many can't believe I like this 728 00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:37,440 right here. Many can't believe when it's 729 00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:41,280 good. You know, yesterday when I got 730 00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:43,960 that call and I said the cancer is healed, I didn't ask how many 731 00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:46,720 rounds of what he had. He said I can tell you this. 732 00:40:46,720 --> 00:40:49,120 The doctor walked in and told him it was nothing that I did. 733 00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:51,160 They said that he did. The doctor, he said it's nothing 734 00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:53,080 I did. He said it was all God. 735 00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:01,960 I've seen people pray for people. 736 00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:05,960 In the church. And say, well it may hurt you a 737 00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:09,360 little bit longer. And it may, but I ain't got to 738 00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:12,480 say it. I got to believe what I'm what, 739 00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:15,600 what did I open with? I got to believe what I don't 740 00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:17,920 see. Quit looking for the bad. 741 00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:21,240 So stop reliving and regretting if you want your day 41. 742 00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:24,080 Stop worrying about the future that you can't control. 743 00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:29,400 You ready for #3 Stop looking for happiness in other people. 744 00:41:31,720 --> 00:41:36,640 We do that because it will not happen. 745 00:41:36,720 --> 00:41:40,280 It'll only be temporary. Philippians one and six that 746 00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:44,080 says being confident of this very thing. 747 00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:50,200 As you stand your feet today, being confident of this very 748 00:41:50,200 --> 00:42:01,440 thing, he says that he who has begun a good work in you will 749 00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:04,680 complete it. I got to be confident in that. 750 00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:07,960 I don't know how he's going to do it from point A to point B, 751 00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:10,520 but how many know God started something in you? 752 00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:14,280 I may not be what I what I need to be. 753 00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:17,840 I may not be pressing on, but God started it and I can be 754 00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:21,680 confident that what He starts, He completes. 755 00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:25,280 He who started, he who has begun. 756 00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:27,320 Would you close your eyes and get that in your spirit? 757 00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:31,520 Be confident in this very thing that he who has begun a good 758 00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:36,960 work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ 759 00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:42,040 and His return. See, the day 41 of your life is 760 00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:44,840 coming. It may be the day he calls you 761 00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:46,920 home. It could be the day I don't know 762 00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:49,280 when it is, but they say it with me. 763 00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:54,040 Day 41 is coming, the day that it all stops. 764 00:42:56,520 --> 00:43:00,480 Whatever you're going through today, if you're looking for day 765 00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:04,000 41, I want you to stand around up here as we play this song 766 00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:08,400 because I have found that sometimes my hope is not 767 00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:10,920 stronger than what I'm going through. 768 00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:14,600 Sometimes what I see is not stronger. 769 00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:17,680 The faith that I have is not stronger. 770 00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:22,320 But guess what is his love. Thanks for listening to the 771 00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:25,640 Cross Powered Church podcast. May you know that true hope, 772 00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:28,680 peace, and salvation can only be found in Jesus. 773 00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:32,880 If you're near Campbell, TX, we would love for you to join us in 774 00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:35,360 person. You can find service times at 775 00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:36,960 crosspoweredchurch.com.