1 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:22,480 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Love Quest International 2 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:25,600 Church Podcast where we seek to love all nations, equip the 3 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:28,560 church, mobilize the equipped, and serve all. 4 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:32,080 We're super glad you're joining us from whenever and wherever 5 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:34,760 you're at in the world. Welcome to the family to get 6 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:37,440 your Bibles ready, get some water, get some coffee, maybe 7 00:00:37,480 --> 00:00:39,720 some tea, and get ready to receive. 8 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:41,720 It's go time. Let's get into it. 9 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:52,160 What if I told you or ask you the question? 10 00:00:55,400 --> 00:01:09,320 What if what you are blaming as being a season is really a 11 00:01:09,320 --> 00:01:20,920 cycle? What if I told you that what you 12 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:27,440 have been blaming on a season is really a cycle? 13 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:31,240 We'll say it one more time and then I'll explain. 14 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:43,280 What if in our Christian talk, rather good or bad, we say it's 15 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:46,480 a what season? We write songs about it. 16 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:48,680 It's a new season, it's a new day, right? 17 00:01:50,360 --> 00:02:00,320 Somebody say season, but what if you've been stuck in a cycle and 18 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:04,640 not a season? What's the difference? 19 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:09,600 The only way you get out of a season is time. 20 00:02:11,640 --> 00:02:17,880 The only way you get out of a cycle is you change. 21 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:27,720 And here's what I do know is as a believer, one of the dangerous 22 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:33,080 things that we fall into, watch it very carefully. 23 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:42,000 Ever since the world has been given the language, mental 24 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:51,480 illness, or it's like a thing. And you notice we didn't really 25 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:56,600 push people to get healed as much as we push them to feel 26 00:02:56,600 --> 00:03:01,400 safe enough to talk about it. And the dangerous? 27 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:08,880 Thing about a believer is as you grow in knowledge you increase 28 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:17,720 your ability to explain your way out of change because you put 29 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:26,600 everything on God or a season or the devil or this too shall 30 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:28,560 pass. But I'm here to tell some of 31 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:34,440 you, some stuff in your life will never pass until you 32 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:38,760 change. Because what I do know is 33 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:44,120 because your increased knowledge of the things of God has put 34 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:48,200 hell on alert that you're no longer ignorant. 35 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:54,200 Therefore, because of the heightened understanding that 36 00:03:54,200 --> 00:04:01,760 you are no longer ignorant in an area, he now has to come a 37 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:10,080 different way. Same cycle, different posture, 38 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:14,240 different people. It once was crack. 39 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:17,480 It once was a drug, now it's money. 40 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:20,200 It once was money, now it's the gym. 41 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:28,440 It once was the gym, now it's a healthy diet, right? 42 00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:34,240 Long as it's healthy, it's OK. But some of us even idolize our 43 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:39,320 devotional time over being devoted to God. 44 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:45,000 So you think you're close to God because you spend 2 hours a day 45 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:49,680 with Him. But the true fruits of your 46 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:54,560 nearness to God is your obedience to His Word, His 47 00:04:54,560 --> 00:05:00,400 principles, and every proceeding word that comes out of. 48 00:05:05,950 --> 00:05:10,480 And so you find that we are in. Cycle. 49 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:12,800 This is like somebody that knows how to dress well. 50 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:15,800 You won't be able to tell they wore that twice in a week 51 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:17,640 because they just dressed it different. 52 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:23,800 Same jacket, just black T-shirt. Tomorrow I could wear it with a 53 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:27,960 white collar shirt, different pair of shoes, throw a 54 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:32,280 handkerchief in, same jacket, dress different. 55 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:40,760 And some of you have been stuck in a cycle for a long time. 56 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:46,360 And what I do know about cycles, if I'm thinking about washing 57 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:53,920 clothes or something like that, is that one cycle can stop and 58 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:56,720 it can't, that you can't get to the next cycle sometimes till 59 00:05:56,720 --> 00:06:01,200 you restart it. The devil is really good at 60 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:08,200 letting up off you, let you think you've defeated him. 61 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:11,960 It's in the Bible. He did Jesus that way because he 62 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:15,480 said he tried all that he could for that cycle, but he waited 63 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:17,840 around to wait for another opportune time. 64 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:21,240 What was he waiting? For to see if your knowledge 65 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:26,120 will turn into wisdom and your wisdom will turn into obedience. 66 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:33,240 He's like, oh, they're, they're moving different, but they, 67 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:36,200 they, they tweaked God's word a little bit. 68 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:42,520 They serve more, but they're still not doing what God told 69 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:47,360 them. Oh, they're abandoning 70 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:50,000 relationships. Now they have idolized the 71 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:53,720 blessing. Here it is. 72 00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:56,680 God says supper time. In other words, God is gathering 73 00:06:56,680 --> 00:06:59,480 people to his house. Then all of a sudden you get 74 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:02,480 busy with work, you get busy with a husband or wife. 75 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:05,840 You get busy with new property, you get busy with blessing. 76 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:13,800 And now you get pulled away from tribe. 77 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:16,400 You get pulled away from. And here's what you say. 78 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:23,560 But I'm still good with God. I'm still in my Word. 79 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:33,320 I'm still watching sermons now if we go to the Word. 80 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:39,920 Then what if I come back to you and tell you how important in 81 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:44,480 the last days, Paul warns us about the gathering of the 82 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:46,640 Saints. Not just hanging out with 83 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:52,960 Christians, but gathering with with Christians across the 84 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:58,360 board, but also gathering to the tribe, the tent, the house, the 85 00:07:58,360 --> 00:08:02,920 people, the leaders, the voice that he is, the anointing that 86 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:06,360 he, the atmosphere that he has called you. 87 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:17,200 To walk in and one of the attacks of the enemy is to use 88 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:28,080 an overdose of variations of the word to get us drunk with 89 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:34,480 unnecessary knowledge, and unnecessary knowledge can choke 90 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:40,760 out the word that God gave us. You, you, you. 91 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:45,320 So busy taking the word from the house and then crowding your own 92 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:48,800 opinion. AI and all this other stuff 93 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:53,400 around it. Cat GPT Google instead of taking 94 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:56,920 the word, putting it under the lens of the Holy Ghost, getting 95 00:08:56,920 --> 00:09:00,800 wise counsel if you got questions, and then allow God to 96 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:06,800 interpret it based on the soil it came out of. 97 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:13,200 Some of us will take a word out of this soil, take it to another 98 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:17,520 house, and ask another house who didn't get that word to 99 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:21,560 interpret it for you so we can appease your little. 100 00:09:21,560 --> 00:09:25,360 Itch. We're in a day and time. 101 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:30,400 Man, man, man, man. Separation. 102 00:09:30,920 --> 00:09:32,920 Here it is. It's harvest time, no doubt. 103 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:36,720 Woo, we talked about that for a long time, bumper crop, all 104 00:09:36,720 --> 00:09:38,280 that. But you know what shows up in 105 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:45,400 harvest time, Darnell, the wheat. 106 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:49,440 I was talking to the team yesterday. 107 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:53,320 What's about to happen in this harvest time is some of y'all 108 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:56,520 while getting blessed, you going to be exposed to some things 109 00:09:56,520 --> 00:10:01,400 that you didn't realize was sown in your soil because God says 110 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:03,720 no, no, no, leave Darnell there for when it's harvest time. 111 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:06,760 They both going to sprout up and then we'll cut it away. 112 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:10,680 And some of the stuff you have idolized in this season, you're 113 00:10:10,680 --> 00:10:12,760 going to be mad because God is going to cut it away. 114 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:17,080 And the struggle is going to be you trying to hold on to it 115 00:10:17,880 --> 00:10:21,120 because God, here it is. Over these last several years, 116 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:22,960 He has been trying to perfect you. 117 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:26,400 And for some of you in the perfecting, you've allowed a 118 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:28,040 seed of offense to get in your heart. 119 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:32,400 You've allowed the Leviathan spirit to bring confusion to you 120 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:37,440 because He chokes the word. You've allowed complacency in 121 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:40,280 you. You've allowed double mindedness 122 00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:42,120 in. You've, you've, you've. 123 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:45,680 You've allowed gossip and messiness in, and every time we 124 00:10:45,680 --> 00:10:50,040 sow mess, we also allow the enemy to sow something into our 125 00:10:50,040 --> 00:11:00,480 hearts. I'm going to be courageous 126 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:05,880 enough to say this, and it's biblical, so go figure it out. 127 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:12,440 The Saints that don't have a shepherd in the last days will 128 00:11:12,440 --> 00:11:18,120 have a hard time surviving in the Kingdom of God. 129 00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:23,680 The Saints that don't have a shepherd, I didn't say the 130 00:11:23,680 --> 00:11:28,240 Saints that don't go to church because there's a lot of you in 131 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:30,320 here that won't let us pastor you. 132 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:42,340 You just want a sermon. It is not the Good Shepherd's 133 00:11:42,500 --> 00:11:50,800 will that you walk as sheep without a shepherd and is not 134 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:57,360 good enough to say that's just another man, Jesus my. 135 00:11:57,360 --> 00:12:04,280 Shepherd, let me help you. He is, but He gave to us pastors 136 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:11,880 after his heart, prophets after His heart, apostles after his 137 00:12:11,880 --> 00:12:15,160 heart, evangelists after he's the one. 138 00:12:15,160 --> 00:12:22,840 Laying mantels so when you reject the gifts he put in your 139 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:26,600 life, you're in a form rejecting him while you go home and ask 140 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:29,040 him to speak to you and he going to turn back and say, well, what 141 00:12:29,040 --> 00:12:33,320 it what did the pastor that I sent after the prophet say that 142 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:36,760 I sent the event the apostles? What did he say? 143 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:44,320 That's what I said. He said what I said, he did what 144 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:47,520 I did. Here it is. 145 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:52,520 Bible says that Jesus didn't do nothing that he didn't hear the 146 00:12:52,520 --> 00:12:57,480 Father say do watch this. Holy Spirit says he didn't say 147 00:12:57,480 --> 00:13:01,040 nothing that he didn't hear the Savior say say. 148 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:06,680 You see the order, and I know it's rare to find men and women 149 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:10,280 who walk a life where they're trying to be disciplined so that 150 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:13,040 they only. Say what they hear the Father 151 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:17,080 say. And we are in a generation 152 00:13:17,560 --> 00:13:23,200 that's like this. Oh, and then when our ears 153 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:26,840 itching, somebody kind of saying something that like, make my 154 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:31,720 flesh unchallenged, I'll take one finger out. 155 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:46,280 We're in the days where the enemy is going to be so crafty. 156 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:55,600 Pride comes before the what? No, it doesn't. 157 00:14:02,700 --> 00:14:05,660 Proverbs 168I believe it is. Let me help you with this and 158 00:14:05,660 --> 00:14:08,540 I'm going to move on. You see how quick pride comes 159 00:14:08,540 --> 00:14:11,020 before the fall, but if you don't read it carefully, you're 160 00:14:11,020 --> 00:14:13,500 going to miss the whole thing. And this is what we're dealing 161 00:14:13,500 --> 00:14:17,140 with today. You see how close? 162 00:14:17,140 --> 00:14:22,380 To accurate, you can be and be so convicted that that's what 163 00:14:22,380 --> 00:14:26,400 it's saying. And then go spread that to 164 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:28,880 somebody else and then build your life on it. 165 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:32,760 You build a. House on something. 166 00:14:32,840 --> 00:14:34,920 You better hope it's accurate. It's right. 167 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:38,960 Proverbs 168I believe it is. Is that what it is? 168 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:42,560 Huh. Go, go. 169 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:43,920 Well, you got it. Put it up. 170 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:46,320 Watch this. Watch this. 171 00:14:47,760 --> 00:14:52,920 Right, everybody? We were so in Unity and that's 172 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:55,000 what we is. Here it is, here it is. 173 00:14:55,520 --> 00:15:04,720 We find Unity around error. What does that say? 174 00:15:19,070 --> 00:15:21,190 See how the enemy wants you to read it wrong? 175 00:15:22,270 --> 00:15:26,840 Because one, you'll miss God's grace in the Scripture and #2 176 00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:28,960 you'll miss the red flags in the scripture. 177 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:32,880 Pride goes before destruction. The difference between 178 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:35,280 destruction and fall. Fall you can what? 179 00:15:35,480 --> 00:15:38,000 Get back up. Destruction is over. 180 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:47,120 You got to start over. Pride goes before destruction. 181 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:50,280 So this scripture works backwards. 182 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:54,600 A haughty spirit before fall. Man, I don't need, I don't need 183 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:57,240 PTI, don't need hero. I don't need the church, the 184 00:15:57,240 --> 00:15:59,000 local church. Now I could do what I want to 185 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:00,680 do. You just this hottie spirit, 186 00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:04,800 like, OK, I receive it now I'm gonna go home and I'm gonna 187 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:07,680 twist it a little bit to my liking or I'm gonna have this 188 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:11,760 little side ministry over here where I get to speak my opinions 189 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:13,880 and I'm gonna I'm gonna do it the way I want it. 190 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:15,920 It's this hottie spirit. Like I got this. 191 00:16:15,920 --> 00:16:17,880 I don't, I don't need your wisdom. 192 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:19,200 I don't. It's this hottie spirit. 193 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:22,360 Somebody say hottie spirit. Now watch this, the haughty 194 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:24,200 spirit. There's a grace to allow you to 195 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:26,200 fall, but there's a grace to allow you to what? 196 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:27,720 Get back up. Watch this. 197 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:36,400 Here's pride. God sends warning and pride says 198 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:46,480 I'll be fine. I'll ignore the warning or I'll 199 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:51,000 delay obedience to the warning. The Bible tells or, or or word 200 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:53,480 came. The prophet came a couple years 201 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:55,480 ago. Now God's grace on this house 202 00:16:55,480 --> 00:16:58,040 has been magnificent. He has been warning us. 203 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:06,319 He says it's go time, get on the bus time. 204 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:10,720 He said some will make it. You'll be surprised who makes it 205 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:16,319 and you'll be surprised who don't make it and also warn the 206 00:17:16,319 --> 00:17:22,720 folks that will get offended. You can't blame leadership or 207 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:28,520 whoever you want to blame. She said it's go time and she 208 00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:31,680 said shoulder season is. Over because you've been 209 00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:37,080 equipped. Or in other words, you've been 210 00:17:37,280 --> 00:17:41,320 held. You, you've been cosigned for 211 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:49,920 you've been carried. And we can go back in history of 212 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:52,840 love quest. God has always sent a word to 213 00:17:52,840 --> 00:17:57,000 this house because we've always been faithful over that word. 214 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:01,960 And then here we are 2025, the fear of God. 215 00:18:03,080 --> 00:18:07,400 Remember that. And you just see people in 2025 216 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:12,400 moving dicey, not considering if God says the theme of the year 217 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:14,920 is the fear of God, He is saying you need to move through this 218 00:18:14,920 --> 00:18:19,240 year with fear and trembling. And you see hasty decisions, you 219 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:23,120 see offense, you see people isolating themselves in a year, 220 00:18:23,120 --> 00:18:24,640 not the serious center of the ring. 221 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:29,080 You, you, you see, you see the enemy being very crafty. 222 00:18:29,760 --> 00:18:33,000 And let me help you. The enemy has to be craftier. 223 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:40,720 He has to send high level demons to a highly spiritual, 224 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:47,080 intelligent church. So we, this church, don't deal 225 00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:54,400 with drop out demons, but we don't deal with the demons that, 226 00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:59,480 that, that just you, you just. You already on on on the cycle 227 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:01,400 that I've set is running your life. 228 00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:05,920 No, no, no, no. A house like this is going to 229 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:13,600 deal with very principalities, territorial. 230 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:18,200 The impact that this house has is regional, so you're going to 231 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:23,200 deal with regional darkness and influence. 232 00:19:24,960 --> 00:19:29,040 So it's not going to be. In the obvious that we expose 233 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:34,080 the enemy. So as we go forward in this 234 00:19:34,080 --> 00:19:38,680 series, the Perfecting of the Saints watch. 235 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:50,120 This Watch this Jesus is calling his bride higher, so the Spirit 236 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:55,080 is taking the. Church deeper watch this Lord 237 00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:59,560 showed me this this morning. I was like, oh Jesus, from grace 238 00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:02,520 to grown-ups, do you remember? No, no, no, no. 239 00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:06,880 Go back please. If anybody's been around for a 240 00:20:06,880 --> 00:20:10,000 minute, there was a huge grace movement. 241 00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:15,080 The enemy tried to pervert it to come against those who who a 242 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:19,320 grace mantle, a grace teaching mantle fell upon them because 243 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:24,960 the church needed to understand the love of God, because we were 244 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:31,720 rooted in works. But after the movement of grace, 245 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:41,720 Ephesians 3 says, be rooted in love, Grace that you may know 246 00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:45,000 the depths, the width, the height, and the length of his 247 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:54,000 love, that you might come into the fullness, completeness, the 248 00:20:54,000 --> 00:21:00,480 perfection of God. So God told me to tell you today 249 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:06,840 that the grace movement was only a setup for an equipping 250 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:14,080 movement. Thank you Lord, for sending 251 00:21:14,080 --> 00:21:15,240 words to the. House. 252 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:20,840 The movement of grace was preparing us for the movement of 253 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:24,880 growing up. Think of childhood development. 254 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:34,000 I was thinking about this earlier, Troy, the entitlement A 255 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:43,000 child has a child. The covenant is all about them. 256 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:52,080 Told the worship team yesterday That song does not have its 257 00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:57,720 greatest measure of oil until you complete the other side of 258 00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:03,240 what you're singing. He leaves the 99 for the one. 259 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:07,880 That's his part. What has he asked you to leave 260 00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:11,760 for? The one it's a covenant. 261 00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:17,280 Both sides have stuff to leave, but what we've made our 262 00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:24,520 relationship with God all about is us not. 263 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:29,720 Realizing that there was joint custody of the God, God says 264 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:31,840 here's what the word says. The earth is mines. 265 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:34,280 I mean, the heavens is mines. Watch this. 266 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:38,520 The heavens is mines. So let us make man in our image 267 00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:43,840 and let them rule earth so they can be a reflection on earth as 268 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:48,160 it is in heaven. So let them have dominion on 269 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:51,640 earth like I have dominion in heaven. 270 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:57,920 So Jesus comes, he dies, and he, he's risen, and it says that he 271 00:22:58,040 --> 00:23:03,320 has authority over the heavens, the earth beneath and above, far 272 00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:08,440 above. Why does he want to share his 273 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:14,840 authority with us? How can he share his authority 274 00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:22,280 with you, which all of us want, but he's struggling sharing his 275 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:32,550 love with you. And when I think of the shoulder 276 00:23:32,550 --> 00:23:37,110 season is over, it's like when kids, there's times where you 277 00:23:37,110 --> 00:23:39,590 come to a place when raising your kids is like, no, no, no. 278 00:23:40,120 --> 00:23:41,760 You going to clean that up today? 279 00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:44,800 No, no, your turn to take out the trash. 280 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:47,440 I didn't take out the trash for years yo. 281 00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:50,400 And I don't feel bad for you washing dishes. 282 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:54,360 You have a great you got the best contract in this house. 283 00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:58,880 You got to go to school, but you get a ride, you get food, you 284 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:01,400 get clothes, you get to boss me around. 285 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:04,960 Sometimes I want to be mad at you, but I can't stay mad at you 286 00:24:05,120 --> 00:24:06,560 because I got to do life with you. 287 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:10,920 You have a great deal. I do not feel bad that you have 288 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:16,800 to labor. God is not moved because it's 289 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:22,920 hard for you, but it's the little kid in you that want God 290 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:26,600 to take the weight off of you. When He sent His only Son to 291 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:32,120 wash all your dishes to clean your little stinky sinful self, 292 00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:37,520 you should have been dead. But He kept you alive and you 293 00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:40,720 got the nerves to pout because you're carrying a little bit of 294 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:46,960 weight in your life. And no matter how hard the cross 295 00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:52,440 was getting, He did not move. And when life gets hard for some 296 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:55,840 of you, you start moving and you start making different plans and 297 00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:58,560 going different ways, finding different friend groups and 298 00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:00,800 leaving churches and moving all over. 299 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:08,840 The wavering. The wavering is why he said he 300 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:12,960 sent apostles and prophets and teachers and pastors and an 301 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:17,240 evangelist so that he can mature you. 302 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:22,480 So so you can stop wavering boy if you think you wavering now 303 00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:25,400 what's coming you going to be done. 304 00:25:33,930 --> 00:25:40,610 Watch this I hope y'all ready for this concerning this Jesus 305 00:25:40,610 --> 00:25:45,890 in in Hebrews 5 Paul is talking about the high priest. 306 00:25:46,970 --> 00:25:49,210 OK, he's talking about the high priest. 307 00:25:49,490 --> 00:25:56,040 He's talking about Jesus human experience, how he was clothed 308 00:25:56,240 --> 00:26:02,840 in weakness so that he can relate to us, but also talking 309 00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:05,040 about Jesus's divine appointment. 310 00:26:06,120 --> 00:26:09,040 OK. It talks about how Jesus is 311 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:12,560 suffering is what qualified him for the cross. 312 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:19,600 It it, it goes on. And and Paul, the urgency he's 313 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:25,440 preaching with here is because he has a concern about the 314 00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:32,320 immaturity of the church and their potential to fall away. 315 00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:36,480 Matthew warns us in the last days there will be a great 316 00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:42,560 falling away from us Saints and probably Saints that would never 317 00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:47,160 think they would fall away because you 2 saved see you 318 00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:50,200 built on I love God, but it's church. 319 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:56,320 If you're one of them, it's only a matter of time for you to fall 320 00:26:56,320 --> 00:27:00,680 away, because what keeps. You rooted is his church. 321 00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:08,240 There's that there's I hear it in somebody's mind. 322 00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:12,840 No, Jesus roots me. OK, well, you just walk around 323 00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:17,120 like like you like, like, like like you in in in Italy or Rome 324 00:27:17,120 --> 00:27:19,000 somewhere. Walk around with just a head of 325 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:22,880 Jesus. You think he he's just a head. 326 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:28,440 You just got to you probably got an altar at home with just a 327 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:32,040 Jesus head on it. You didn't cut off the body. 328 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:37,920 You just go home and and and you worship the Jesus head. 329 00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:43,360 He's like. You need to cut all this off. 330 00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:50,320 Watch, watch this today, he said. 331 00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:54,920 Concerning this, he's like, I want to get into the high priest 332 00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:00,120 and the work of the ministry and but watch this. 333 00:28:00,120 --> 00:28:04,960 Concerning this we have much to say, but it's hard to explain to 334 00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:11,320 you since you have become dull in your spiritual hearing and 335 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:17,240 sluggish, even slothful in achieving spiritual insight. 336 00:28:20,120 --> 00:28:23,920 No, no, no, here we want to feel we we we know how to get sermon 337 00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:27,000 series about love and relationships and all the things 338 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:30,320 our flesh want to be right. Money like I we, we can build a 339 00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:33,360 church, but it's hard to build a church when you go to preach a 340 00:28:33,360 --> 00:28:36,280 series on equipment and five fold ministry grips. 341 00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:37,760 No, I ain't no apostles for today. 342 00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:43,920 Spiritual food, right? We just want to know he loves 343 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:47,040 us. Oh, how he loves. 344 00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:53,320 We just want to sit there, watch what he says. 345 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:59,080 He says you're still too. So I can't talk to you about 16 346 00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:03,720 year old stuff. And here's what I understand, 347 00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:11,040 EJ, about a baby eating the meat that they can't eat is less 348 00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:14,680 about their ability to chew it, although it's part of it. 349 00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:17,640 It's about their ability to digest it. 350 00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:26,520 Your digestive system is immature, can't handle 351 00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:29,680 accountability. We can't handle the strong stuff 352 00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:32,960 because you can't talk about equipping without 353 00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:38,800 accountability. You can't talk about maximizing 354 00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:42,400 your your your your fullest potential without 355 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:46,520 accountability. Watch this. 356 00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:51,840 That's what Paul says. For even though by this time 357 00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:56,120 you, by this time you ought to be teaching others. 358 00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:02,480 No, I am teaching others. I guarantee you if I went to 359 00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:06,680 somebody, if I was a family on some of you guys's walls, what 360 00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:15,320 you're teaching, in some instances it's variations of 361 00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:20,000 your opinion and thought, right? We mix. 362 00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:21,040 We mix. It. 363 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:25,040 How many times you have coffee meeting where you breaking down 364 00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:28,200 what the five fold ministry gift is gifts are and you activating 365 00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:31,000 gifts and mantels in people's lives and you from from you. 366 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:32,800 You caught it, you understand it. 367 00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:37,200 The last time you talked about what a Kingdom citizen is 368 00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:42,680 talking about being filled with the Holy Ghost. 369 00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:49,440 The last time you had a coffee meeting where you are 370 00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:52,040 regurgitating what God said in this house. 371 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:55,720 Some of you have completely different conversations outside 372 00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:58,600 of here. Be like PT that sounds 373 00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:03,880 controlling or that sounds OK. Whoa, we can look in. 374 00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:05,520 Scripture where we're we're we're called. 375 00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:11,720 To echo the preceding word of God, we're called to say follow 376 00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:16,080 me as I follow Christ. There's no leadership without 377 00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:20,760 followers. There's no following without 378 00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:26,200 leaders. And what we've done a great job 379 00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:27,960 as is. We have. 380 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:30,520 We will. Come and listen to a man or 381 00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:33,200 woman. On their platform. 382 00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:36,080 But we want to put them in our seat. 383 00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:42,360 We want to lower the call. You just like me. 384 00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:50,280 Yeah, sure I am. But how you are receiving it is 385 00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:58,240 not Bible. What do you gather? 386 00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:00,720 What? When you say I'm called to love 387 00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:03,880 quest, what does that mean to you? 388 00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:09,600 And don't be such a fool to be called to love quest. 389 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:13,600 Sow into love quest, but don't get the fruit. 390 00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:16,800 That's for you. Or you take the fruit but try to 391 00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:21,720 change the. Seeds and replant. 392 00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:22,680 Something. Different. 393 00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:31,200 Let me get back to boss. Paul, you actually need someone 394 00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:35,160 to teach you over again the very first principle of God's Word. 395 00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:37,520 Watch it. You have come to me. 396 00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:40,360 Milk, not soul food. Solid food. 397 00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:51,760 Sorry, solid food, not solid. Food. 398 00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:57,280 He's talking to the church and he's saying we got to pause 399 00:32:57,280 --> 00:33:01,080 because you are at a place where you've been churching, you've 400 00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:04,720 been serving, you might even have been witnessing, but now 401 00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:08,800 the apostle is coming in and and checking on the people. 402 00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:12,280 It's why it's important to understand the difference 403 00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:15,640 between the five gifts. You might be trying to get 404 00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:19,160 wisdom from a pastoral gift, but you've been called to an 405 00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:23,200 Apostolic gift and you trying to take the words from the apostle 406 00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:26,160 and give them to a pastor, and the pastor can't even understand 407 00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:29,120 the word that the apostle gave to you based on what God has 408 00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:33,920 shown him about you. Digestive. 409 00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:41,920 Systems and some people only have a digestive system to 410 00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:47,080 receive what God's going to do for you so you can remember and 411 00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:50,440 receive and be rooted in the words that God's going to break 412 00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:54,120 you through. He's going to promote you, He's 413 00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:58,680 going to heal you. Watch this. 414 00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:03,520 Let's see what solid food is. For everyone who continues to 415 00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:12,120 feed on milk, everyone who stays on that applesauce, the Gerber, 416 00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:13,800 they've got Gerbers in in Canada. 417 00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:22,199 Gerbers OK, damn everybody who stay on that queen of weed that, 418 00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:26,360 that Malta meal that that did the grits, the the, the sauce 419 00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:28,199 stuff. You don't need no teeth for 420 00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:33,199 everybody who continues to feed on milk. 421 00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:41,040 You allow yourself to remain an infant because you throw up 422 00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:48,239 meat. It is obviously inexperienced 423 00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:51,960 and unskilled. Here it is in the doctrine of 424 00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:55,520 righteousness. Watch of conformity to the 425 00:34:55,520 --> 00:35:01,560 divine will and purpose, thoughts and action. 426 00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:06,520 For he or she is a mere infant. Watch it. 427 00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:14,880 Not able to talk yet. What you digest comes out your 428 00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:19,720 mouth. I Sometimes you hear me. 429 00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:22,240 It's like when I go, OK, you ever go back home? 430 00:35:22,240 --> 00:35:24,800 I don't know if you from a place like you ever leave for a while 431 00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:27,880 and you go back home and you sit around the table and you like 432 00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:31,960 y'all ain't change, y'all feel the same. 433 00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:35,840 But that's what make home home, because you can go back home and 434 00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:40,400 count on some people's ignorance, right? 435 00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:42,400 You can count on their ghetto, you can count on their 436 00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:44,560 stupidity. You go home, but you can only 437 00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:47,480 take so long, so much of it. And you like, I can't wait to go 438 00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:50,120 back home 'cause you have now found your new home. 439 00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:54,120 But you go back and you like, man, y'all still talk the same. 440 00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:57,400 You ain't read a book yet man, I've been gone for 20 years. 441 00:35:57,400 --> 00:35:59,400 You ain't read a book. You still stay in the same but 442 00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:01,080 what? Y'all still talking the same? 443 00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:03,040 You still selling dope? You still talking about robbing 444 00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:05,280 people? You still, what are you doing? 445 00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:09,600 You still in dysfunction, your relationship's janky, like what 446 00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:13,120 are you doing? You're not able to talk yet. 447 00:36:21,910 --> 00:36:27,310 But solid food is for full grown men, full grown perfected men. 448 00:36:28,630 --> 00:36:30,990 Here's what I understand. There is so much that God wants 449 00:36:30,990 --> 00:36:35,800 to get to you, but you have to change your digestive system. 450 00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:37,600 You have to mature. Here it is. 451 00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:41,280 Some of us think we're mature because we got new language. 452 00:36:42,720 --> 00:36:47,640 Hey, I love Micah. He 10 he not one no more, but 453 00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:50,600 based on how he talked, based on how Malachi talked, based on how 454 00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:55,200 Malia talks sometimes he like Yep, like Malachi for deep voice 455 00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:59,240 mustache like he he like he you think you talk to him on the 456 00:36:59,240 --> 00:37:00,520 phone. You like how you doing, Sir? 457 00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:04,200 You full grown man. But then sometime he'll do some 458 00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:05,680 stuff. You're like, yeah, you still, 459 00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:07,920 you still a kid. You still, you still a kid. 460 00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:11,840 And as a father, watch this. There are some things. 461 00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:14,320 Yesterday I was laying down or whatever, I don't know. 462 00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:17,680 Whoever saw that moment, I was laying down on the couch at my 463 00:37:17,720 --> 00:37:20,720 friend's house. And then my son, my big old son, 464 00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:23,160 came and laid his back on my legs. 465 00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:26,360 Like I I almost it almost moved me to start rubbing his hair, 466 00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:30,680 but I was like, that's too much. That's too much. 467 00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:36,240 Let me Right. It's my son. 468 00:37:36,240 --> 00:37:37,920 I can do that. But let me enjoy this because 469 00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:40,040 he'll probably get up and be like, Dad, you doing too much. 470 00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:42,440 Because I don't even think he realized he was laying on his 471 00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:50,640 dad's lap yesterday. Yeah, my lap is right here. 472 00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:53,400 My thighs. So your spine was on my thighs. 473 00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:55,840 You too big. Like, if you were still a baby, 474 00:37:56,080 --> 00:37:58,000 you, you would have been sitting on my lap. 475 00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:00,680 But you're tall, buddy. You're tall. 476 00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:04,440 You're tall, right? You're tall. 477 00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:11,280 It's OK, right? It's OK, right? 478 00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:14,680 You don't have to hide your relationship with the father, 479 00:38:17,240 --> 00:38:19,760 right? Intimacy is great. 480 00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:21,520 That's why you go to some countries. 481 00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:24,320 They they still are intimate and it's not perverted. 482 00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:26,400 You'll see. Oh man, kissing each other 483 00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:27,960 cheek. No, no, no, no, by culture. 484 00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:33,680 That's that's that's honor. That's that's you find that in 485 00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:38,440 more like Kingdom cultures you say. 486 00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:41,320 But solid food is for full grown men. 487 00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:44,960 For those whose senses and mental faculties are trained by 488 00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:48,160 practice to discriminate and distinguish between what is 489 00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:51,960 morally good and noble and what is evil and contrary, either to 490 00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:54,120 divine or. Human law. 491 00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:58,960 It goes on to Hebrews 61. Watch this you guys, please. 492 00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:07,840 Therefore, let us go on the bus is taking off and get past the 493 00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:13,280 elementary stage in the teachings of the doctrine of 494 00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:20,320 Christ. Can we move on or do every time 495 00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:23,360 you come back or you go to God, you got to be reminded you're 496 00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:26,760 loved. You got to be reminded He'll 497 00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:30,160 never leave you nor forsake you. You got to be reminded you're 498 00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:31,640 healed. By his stripes. 499 00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:36,360 You got to Sunday's got to be a reminder that you are more than 500 00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:40,080 a conqueror. When can we move on? 501 00:39:42,240 --> 00:39:44,160 Watch this. But I want to go deeper because 502 00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:45,240 I want you to see what he's saying. 503 00:39:45,240 --> 00:39:48,680 Move on from that. Most of us probably thought was 504 00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:50,520 food. It was, I mean meat. 505 00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:54,640 Watch this, he says, advancing steadily toward Here it is. 506 00:39:55,000 --> 00:40:00,480 The completeness and perfection that belong to spiritual 507 00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:04,440 maturity. Some of us think we are mature 508 00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:06,480 in Jesus because we've been saved. 509 00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:08,720 For a long. Time we, we, we got the 510 00:40:08,720 --> 00:40:13,000 Christian language, we can articulate things and, and, and, 511 00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:16,880 and we think we're mature because we can articulate 512 00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:21,920 Scripture, remember Scripture and we sound mature. 513 00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:26,280 But look at my. Look at my fruit. 514 00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:32,560 What does your fruit look like? What does your household look 515 00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:36,040 like? What does your joy look like? 516 00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:40,040 What does your, your, your, your, your, your faithfulness in 517 00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:45,520 relationships look like? Watch this, watch this. 518 00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:49,720 Let us not again. Here it is delaying the 519 00:40:49,720 --> 00:40:55,560 foundation of repentance. And the abandonment of dead 520 00:40:55,560 --> 00:41:02,680 works and the of the faith. By which you turned to God, he 521 00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:04,600 said let us not again keep talking about that. 522 00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:18,240 Watch this next verse with teachings about purifying. 523 00:41:18,720 --> 00:41:21,640 We still got to talk about and warn y'all. 524 00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:23,320 Y'all think I'm going to be talking about single and all 525 00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:29,360 that, You know, you know God's calling us the holy perfect, 526 00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:34,880 holy first. Not like, oh, I'm. 527 00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:36,480 Strong. I could. 528 00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:38,600 Oh, I want to. Oh, I want to. 529 00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:41,520 Oh, but I'm not No, no, no. When you going to get to not 530 00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:46,040 even being tempted, right? Watch this. 531 00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:48,120 Watch this. The laying on of hands. 532 00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:51,840 Do you know how many believers? Don't know about the land on 533 00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:54,200 their hands or or if, if or if they see it. 534 00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:59,680 It's, it's, it's, it's weird. Watch this. 535 00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:05,040 The resurrection from the dead and eternal judgment and 536 00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:08,160 punishment. These are all matters of which 537 00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:17,480 you should have been fully aware long, long, long, long time ago. 538 00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:28,440 And you see, when he sends an Apostolic move, he's trying to 539 00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:37,040 move the church forward from this infancy, this immaturity. 540 00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:41,040 If we ain't sick, we are for sure immature. 541 00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:43,120 That's a body. That's a body. 542 00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:48,240 We got some strong fingers, a couple strong toes and a strong 543 00:42:48,240 --> 00:42:51,040 arm and we got some some strong earlobes. 544 00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:53,240 But there's there's, there's some there. 545 00:42:53,240 --> 00:42:54,920 There's still if the body if one. 546 00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:58,320 Part of the body. Then we all got to take 547 00:42:58,320 --> 00:43:03,680 ownership and lead with urgency until the whole body is in 548 00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:12,000 unity. Oh, this is the day you're going 549 00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:17,440 to see apostles rising up there. There was the move where 550 00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:20,640 teachers, there was a movement of teachers and that got into 551 00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:22,720 the Word of Faith. Every move is going to have a 552 00:43:22,720 --> 00:43:26,280 perverted version or an incomplete version. 553 00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:29,200 Oh, in the last days, watch out for the false prophet. 554 00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:30,320 Well, guess what? Why? 555 00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:33,440 Because God's about to restore and is restoring the real 556 00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:39,120 prophet. And then we have to let the 557 00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:43,600 church know in the world know that you're saved by grace. 558 00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:49,280 And then we took it too far or we highlighted where people took 559 00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:52,680 it too far and that movement was persecuted. 560 00:43:54,080 --> 00:43:56,600 But sometimes God goes all the way to the left because it's a 561 00:43:56,600 --> 00:43:58,600 movement. He's trying to restore 562 00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:01,160 something. When you see a prevalent message 563 00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:05,680 happening and and and and and a dose of gifts happening, the 564 00:44:05,720 --> 00:44:08,120 teaching movement. We went all the way. 565 00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:11,160 All we hire is teachers. We hire teachers, we hire 566 00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:17,000 teachers, we hire teachers. We have theological seminaries, 567 00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:21,440 we have church networks where we place, if a church fails, we 568 00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:24,240 send another pastor and we turn in applications. 569 00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:29,600 We, we, we, we rarely have seen God send a man and a woman to a 570 00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:33,440 city, a region, and they start with nothing, with nobody's 571 00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:37,080 approval. And then you got to deal with 572 00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:40,040 what church you go to, who sent you, what school you went to. 573 00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:42,560 And then we see when the apostles. 574 00:44:42,560 --> 00:44:44,840 Was birthed. That's what the religious people 575 00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:46,720 dealt with. They didn't go to the schools. 576 00:44:46,720 --> 00:44:48,760 We went to. Who are they? 577 00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:52,960 But we can tell they follow Jesus. 578 00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:59,480 The distinguishing matter was we can tell they've been with 579 00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:00,600 Jesus. Here's why. 580 00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:06,880 Because they were not moved. There was no wavering, wavering 581 00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:10,000 Peter all of a sudden is ready to be persecuted. 582 00:45:12,560 --> 00:45:18,800 So I'm here to tell you we're in that day where the wavering 583 00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:20,840 Saints allowed to waver too long. 584 00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:25,280 You will be a falling away St. and falling away does not mean. 585 00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:26,560 See. Don't compare. 586 00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:31,240 That you going to walk away and never be a Christian again. 587 00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:33,320 Let's say that you're falling away. 588 00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:35,080 Is you just going to go lukewarm? 589 00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:37,920 Say you're just going to go cold. 590 00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:40,000 You go read your little Bible though, because you got respect 591 00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:44,640 for Jesus. Some of y'all, and here's the 592 00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:48,720 warning, some of y'all going to be serving and you're going to 593 00:45:48,720 --> 00:45:51,920 find yourself far away in the spirit in the back row. 594 00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:56,040 Some of y'all going to be singing, some of y'all going to 595 00:45:56,040 --> 00:45:59,840 have chances to preach and you going to see God is not afraid 596 00:45:59,840 --> 00:46:04,200 to call you to his platform and give you an opportunity. 597 00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:05,800 So when you do. Fall away. 598 00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:09,400 You can never say this church ain't seen your gifts. 599 00:46:16,690 --> 00:46:20,090 You can never say God didn't use me because I was doing something 600 00:46:20,090 --> 00:46:21,930 wrong or I sinned. No, no, no, no, no. 601 00:46:21,930 --> 00:46:25,490 There's enough grace for you to be in your pit right now, and 602 00:46:25,490 --> 00:46:30,560 God give your word. That's his grace. 603 00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:35,880 Go from murdering Christians to right away sharing the gospel. 604 00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:42,440 What but man in control and tradition and religion. 605 00:46:42,440 --> 00:46:44,520 We want you to work for everything. 606 00:46:44,520 --> 00:46:46,960 Go to that school four years. Get a piece of paper. 607 00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:50,240 What network you a part of? Oh, you a part of pay arc you a 608 00:46:50,240 --> 00:46:53,720 part of Foursquare you a part of the ark you a part of and then 609 00:46:53,720 --> 00:46:55,880 they judge you. The reason why we're non 610 00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:57,680 denomination because we do good at you. 611 00:46:57,720 --> 00:47:00,440 Oh, you're you believe in what you believe in the feeling of 612 00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:03,600 the Holy Ghost. You, you Baptist, you this you 613 00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:05,760 Presbyterian. Oh, that means this? 614 00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:08,480 Well, you ever heard of a church called St. 615 00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:11,240 Sabina? In in in in Chicago, that's a 616 00:47:11,240 --> 00:47:16,560 spirit filled, Holy Ghost filled tongue talking Catholic Church 617 00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:22,280 and go look at how they how they impacting a church and go look 618 00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:25,760 at how how how world leaders gravitate to that church. 619 00:47:26,040 --> 00:47:34,600 A spirit filled Catholic Church, Caucasian priest is like like 620 00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:36,520 Nah, Nah, Nah, we I'm filled with the Holy Ghost. 621 00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:37,800 Y'all gonna be filled with the Holy Ghost. 622 00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:42,600 We he understands the sitting in the middle of this hood. 623 00:47:42,600 --> 00:47:46,400 Ain't no way the devil gonna bow down to a lukewarm church. 624 00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:53,120 You seen that video? You seen all the homelessness 625 00:47:53,240 --> 00:47:56,560 that was up this street just somewhere around here used to be 626 00:47:56,560 --> 00:48:02,520 a graveyard, A burial ground where the indigenous like we're 627 00:48:02,640 --> 00:48:06,320 we're moving in to where the enemy once set up shop to 628 00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:12,280 destroy lies forever. And then God moves the church in 629 00:48:14,160 --> 00:48:16,880 that can handle what it once was looked like. 630 00:48:17,320 --> 00:48:20,880 Then he sends a pastor from the hood who ain't afraid of the 631 00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:25,560 hood while most of us stayed away from this area. 632 00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:30,800 Some of us did dirt in this area. 633 00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:37,600 The devil was ready for generations to be destroyed on 634 00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:40,560 these streets. You think God's not going to 635 00:48:40,560 --> 00:48:44,320 finish this work? This is an Apostolic move of 636 00:48:44,320 --> 00:48:48,640 God, so we're not. Trying to fill seats. 637 00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:55,040 Filling seats is a byproduct of health or a good business plan. 638 00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:03,800 This church will be built off obedience and those that really 639 00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:16,170 want to be equipped if indeed God permits. 640 00:49:17,650 --> 00:49:22,290 Scripture says we will now proceed to advance teaching. 641 00:49:27,530 --> 00:49:28,970 That's what Paul said way back then. 642 00:49:30,610 --> 00:49:41,620 Ain't that crazy? Years later, what happened 643 00:49:41,620 --> 00:49:44,900 between the fire Paul had and the fire the church had? 644 00:49:44,900 --> 00:49:46,620 Then why does the fire keep going out? 645 00:49:47,500 --> 00:49:52,420 Generation to generation. We have a generation that is 646 00:49:52,420 --> 00:49:57,460 taught on Instagram with messages that have no context. 647 00:50:01,060 --> 00:50:07,480 92nd sermons. Our hope is built on the 648 00:50:07,480 --> 00:50:10,640 ministries we follow on YouTube this generation. 649 00:50:11,920 --> 00:50:14,520 Paul warns us there will be a day coming where people don't 650 00:50:14,520 --> 00:50:16,720 have the stomach for sound doctrine. 651 00:50:26,610 --> 00:50:31,330 I don't know one apostle that was fully understood. 652 00:50:34,130 --> 00:50:40,760 I don't know one church that was carrying the Kingdom mantle that 653 00:50:40,760 --> 00:50:43,000 was not attacked and was not persecuted. 654 00:50:43,600 --> 00:50:48,600 That's inevitable. But in this season, God is 655 00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:51,720 making a Clarion call to all believers. 656 00:50:52,040 --> 00:50:58,800 How long will you procrastinate and use your your your desires, 657 00:50:59,560 --> 00:51:05,240 your businesses, your families, your ideas? 658 00:51:05,640 --> 00:51:14,360 As an excuse. To not sit at the supper table, 659 00:51:14,480 --> 00:51:16,480 watch this. He's going to be challenging us 660 00:51:16,480 --> 00:51:19,240 on holiness. And I was telling you the other 661 00:51:19,240 --> 00:51:22,680 day, we got to be careful because we got to we got to we 662 00:51:22,680 --> 00:51:26,040 got to make up, we got to define definitions based on how God 663 00:51:26,040 --> 00:51:31,680 defines definitions. No, he didn't just say you holy 664 00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:33,200 because I'm holy. He said be holy. 665 00:51:34,040 --> 00:51:38,120 We call to Holiness. We're called to make sure that 666 00:51:38,120 --> 00:51:40,320 our good is not evilly spoken of. 667 00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:46,880 We're called to pass on good things that may become idols 668 00:51:46,880 --> 00:51:49,040 that get in the way of God's will in our lives. 669 00:51:50,080 --> 00:51:52,560 We're called to work out our salvation in what? 670 00:51:52,760 --> 00:52:02,040 Fear and trembling. So it's time to go higher. 671 00:52:03,280 --> 00:52:05,000 Come on, say it. It's time to go higher. 672 00:52:06,320 --> 00:52:07,840 It's time to go deeper. Go deeper. 673 00:52:09,240 --> 00:52:14,520 I close on Phil Philippians 3. I don't depend on my own 674 00:52:14,520 --> 00:52:17,640 strength to do or to accomplish this. 675 00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:22,680 However, I do have one compelling focus. 676 00:52:22,680 --> 00:52:27,000 Somebody say compelling focus. Watch this, watch this. 677 00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:31,320 Let's not overlook this one word. 678 00:52:32,200 --> 00:52:43,160 And the one word is 1. The call is so serious it's only 679 00:52:43,160 --> 00:52:49,720 room for one. And a lot of us are worried 680 00:52:49,720 --> 00:52:56,200 about everything. Our talents, our bank accounts, 681 00:52:56,320 --> 00:53:00,800 what people think about us. Status, proving our parents 682 00:53:00,800 --> 00:53:04,560 wrong. And then if a church is not 683 00:53:04,560 --> 00:53:07,120 going to deal with us with the lowlife stuff, like relationship 684 00:53:07,120 --> 00:53:13,200 goals, that's lowlife teaching. I I don't mean to offend you, 685 00:53:13,360 --> 00:53:17,080 but that's lowlife teaching. Because if you really pursue 686 00:53:17,080 --> 00:53:24,320 God, it is meant following. Jesus is meant to teach you how 687 00:53:24,320 --> 00:53:28,800 to walk in his love. And when I walk in his love, 688 00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:32,400 that's the love that he is called. 689 00:53:32,720 --> 00:53:36,840 That institutes marriage. Eros does not institute 690 00:53:36,840 --> 00:53:40,760 marriage, Stark. He does not institute marriage 691 00:53:41,560 --> 00:53:47,560 ero I mean, agape is the institution of marriage, the 692 00:53:47,560 --> 00:53:51,200 person receiving it from God first and then enter the 693 00:53:51,200 --> 00:53:54,920 institute and share the love of God. 694 00:53:55,760 --> 00:54:06,000 Marriage is God's institute, so the one thing that I have to get 695 00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:09,600 down in my life is being abased in Him. 696 00:54:10,200 --> 00:54:13,520 I've learned when it's bad, I'm good. 697 00:54:13,520 --> 00:54:18,560 When it's abundant, I'm good. And if you're honest with 698 00:54:18,560 --> 00:54:21,640 yourself, a little bit of pressure applied to your life, 699 00:54:21,840 --> 00:54:26,920 you ain't good, you not stable. You want to have elementary 700 00:54:26,920 --> 00:54:29,960 conversations to be reminded God's with you. 701 00:54:35,560 --> 00:54:42,920 What did he say? I do have one singular, 702 00:54:43,120 --> 00:54:47,520 compelling focus that's fueling everything in my life. 703 00:54:49,080 --> 00:54:56,960 I first forget all of the past as I fasten my heart to the 704 00:54:56,960 --> 00:54:59,400 future. Instead, watch it. 705 00:54:59,400 --> 00:55:07,760 Next verse I run straight. He's not break dancing. 706 00:55:07,760 --> 00:55:12,920 He. Didn't know. 707 00:55:12,920 --> 00:55:15,360 No wavering. No wavering. 708 00:55:16,640 --> 00:55:18,560 He realized what God did for him. 709 00:55:18,560 --> 00:55:21,120 God, you using me after I'd enslaved your people? 710 00:55:21,360 --> 00:55:24,520 You want to use me? Watch this. 711 00:55:25,240 --> 00:55:28,520 I run straight for the divine invitation of reaching the 712 00:55:28,520 --> 00:55:32,120 heavenly call goal. And the another translation says 713 00:55:32,320 --> 00:55:38,200 the high calling. So in a house like this, you're 714 00:55:38,200 --> 00:55:47,400 going to major in high calling sermon series because if you get 715 00:55:47,400 --> 00:55:51,320 the high calling stuff, you get rooted in high calling you, you 716 00:55:51,320 --> 00:55:53,320 make your life singular on high calling. 717 00:55:54,120 --> 00:55:59,560 Watch what happens, he says and in gain and gaining the Victoria 718 00:55:59,680 --> 00:56:04,200 victory prize through the anointing of Jesus. 719 00:56:05,440 --> 00:56:07,640 I cannot do this without the anointing. 720 00:56:08,680 --> 00:56:11,360 I don't care you, you some of you guys, just because you're 721 00:56:11,360 --> 00:56:13,520 saved don't mean you walk in the anointing. 722 00:56:16,280 --> 00:56:18,760 Just because you you got a bunch of Christian friends don't mean 723 00:56:18,760 --> 00:56:25,480 you walk in the anointing. And I'll take the anointing. 724 00:56:27,840 --> 00:56:29,880 I've learned to. I've been, ain't gonna lie, I've 725 00:56:29,880 --> 00:56:31,320 learned to. I've take, I'll take the 726 00:56:31,320 --> 00:56:34,800 anointing and the favor of God over $5,000,000 in my bank 727 00:56:34,800 --> 00:56:36,920 account now. I'll take all three. 728 00:56:38,480 --> 00:56:42,400 OK. Right, That's not me confessing 729 00:56:42,400 --> 00:56:46,280 like the Lord knows my heart, but the point you, some of you 730 00:56:46,280 --> 00:56:49,920 are pursuing this achievement and you think, watch this, 731 00:56:49,920 --> 00:56:52,120 here's a danger for some of you. You're going to find your fall 732 00:56:52,120 --> 00:56:54,160 here. You're going to get everything 733 00:56:54,160 --> 00:56:58,560 you're pursuing for to get there and find out it's not enough 734 00:56:59,520 --> 00:57:01,320 because God has put a call in your life. 735 00:57:01,320 --> 00:57:05,320 You put it on hold. You put proximity on hold. 736 00:57:05,480 --> 00:57:07,560 You've put certain partnerships on hold. 737 00:57:07,720 --> 00:57:11,360 You put certain things on hold to pursue this thing and you're 738 00:57:11,360 --> 00:57:14,000 going to show up there and you're going to be devastated 739 00:57:15,000 --> 00:57:19,240 because what it's going to take to keep it is what you didn't 740 00:57:19,240 --> 00:57:22,200 count for. You didn't see once you get 741 00:57:22,200 --> 00:57:26,960 there, how how much further it's going to take you away rather 742 00:57:26,960 --> 00:57:31,640 than letting God have His time. And when you get in the thing, 743 00:57:32,200 --> 00:57:35,720 even when you get the thing, it does not move you. 744 00:57:35,720 --> 00:57:45,680 It does not change you. So let's keep focused on that 745 00:57:45,680 --> 00:57:49,200 goal. Those of us who want watch this, 746 00:57:49,800 --> 00:57:58,760 who want everything God is Troy. I've come to a place in my life 747 00:58:00,600 --> 00:58:03,000 and I think it's a part of this competitive nature in me. 748 00:58:04,160 --> 00:58:07,400 I want everything God has for me. 749 00:58:08,160 --> 00:58:14,360 Some of us are settled with some things, but I want every fruit 750 00:58:14,360 --> 00:58:18,480 of the Spirit He has for me. I want every gift He has for me. 751 00:58:19,440 --> 00:58:23,480 I, I, I want everything He has for me and everything He has for 752 00:58:23,480 --> 00:58:26,200 me. Also sparks the desire to 753 00:58:26,240 --> 00:58:31,520 understand that what He has for my children is everything I 754 00:58:31,520 --> 00:58:34,720 desire. So there's decisions that I make 755 00:58:35,400 --> 00:58:37,840 based on everything He has for them. 756 00:58:38,560 --> 00:58:40,960 And some of you are making decisions based on what you 757 00:58:40,960 --> 00:58:44,320 think he has for you, not realizing He needs you to say no 758 00:58:44,320 --> 00:58:46,800 because He has something planned for them. 759 00:58:48,440 --> 00:58:52,120 Jesus had to deny himself because he had a plan for you. 760 00:58:54,040 --> 00:58:58,240 We live this Christianity where it's just like ABBA, Father, 761 00:58:58,880 --> 00:59:04,000 what do you have for me today? And how dare him say me? 762 00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:15,640 If any of you have something else in mind, watch it. 763 00:59:16,200 --> 00:59:19,360 Something less than total commitment. 764 00:59:20,280 --> 00:59:22,920 God will clear your blurred vision. 765 00:59:23,560 --> 00:59:25,280 You'll see it. Yet, he said. 766 00:59:25,280 --> 00:59:30,360 If you have anything other than total commitment planned for 767 00:59:30,360 --> 00:59:36,960 God, your vision is blurred. Now that we're on the right 768 00:59:36,960 --> 00:59:42,840 track, stay on it. Stick with me friends. 769 00:59:43,760 --> 00:59:49,800 Keep track of those, watch it. Keep track of those you see 770 00:59:49,800 --> 00:59:54,680 running the same race. What does he tell you based on 771 00:59:54,680 --> 00:59:57,240 the map? Not just those who say they love 772 00:59:57,400 --> 01:00:00,920 Jesus. Get married to someone who is on 773 01:00:00,920 --> 01:00:05,600 the same track God has you on. Get in relationships with those 774 01:00:05,600 --> 01:00:08,240 that have that are on the same track. 775 01:00:09,880 --> 01:00:15,400 The same track, not just I love Jesus, I'm a Christian, I was 776 01:00:15,400 --> 01:00:18,280 raised Catholic. No, the same track. 777 01:00:20,480 --> 01:00:24,280 Just because we both are runners don't mean we on the same track, 778 01:00:26,760 --> 01:00:30,600 he said. Keep track of those he In other 779 01:00:30,600 --> 01:00:35,240 words, be be mindful when you've gotten away from those who was 780 01:00:35,240 --> 01:00:39,200 on the same track and now you find yourself around people who 781 01:00:39,200 --> 01:00:43,360 love God, who go to church, who might even serve God in church, 782 01:00:43,520 --> 01:00:46,120 but they're not on the same track. 783 01:00:49,480 --> 01:00:54,560 The local church brings specificity to your track. 784 01:00:58,760 --> 01:01:00,880 That's why we have all these different expressions of 785 01:01:00,880 --> 01:01:04,080 churches, their tracks, their lanes. 786 01:01:04,320 --> 01:01:06,000 What lane are you called to run in? 787 01:01:06,360 --> 01:01:08,400 He said. Headed for this same goal, 788 01:01:08,400 --> 01:01:11,320 headed for the same goal. I need to be around people in 789 01:01:11,320 --> 01:01:14,520 this season that's serious about the call of God. 790 01:01:14,800 --> 01:01:16,760 That's on fire for the call of God. 791 01:01:16,920 --> 01:01:18,720 That's not playing for the call of God. 792 01:01:18,920 --> 01:01:23,120 That's not that's not OK with living lukewarm. 793 01:01:23,280 --> 01:01:26,240 I'm, I'm, I want to be around some people that when I have 794 01:01:26,240 --> 01:01:30,440 trouble lands my life down, I can see them lay their life 795 01:01:30,440 --> 01:01:32,600 down. I want to be around people that 796 01:01:32,600 --> 01:01:34,960 don't mind making the hard decisions. 797 01:01:39,240 --> 01:01:41,160 That's why the call is a lonely Rd. 798 01:01:42,200 --> 01:01:45,720 That's why there's a narrow gate in a in a wide gate, The all the 799 01:01:45,720 --> 01:01:47,800 Christians ain't going through the narrow gate. 800 01:01:48,920 --> 01:01:50,720 The narrow gate ain't the Christian gate. 801 01:01:50,840 --> 01:01:58,280 And the wide gate is the world. They're both tracks, they're 802 01:01:58,280 --> 01:02:02,640 lanes, he said. There are many out there taking 803 01:02:02,640 --> 01:02:08,040 other paths, choosing other goals, and trying to get you to 804 01:02:08,040 --> 01:02:23,660 go along with them. What is God calling you to? 805 01:02:25,420 --> 01:02:27,660 Is He calling you a season of consecration? 806 01:02:27,900 --> 01:02:30,220 Holiness. Then you need to stay away from 807 01:02:30,220 --> 01:02:35,240 all appearances of evil. It might be OK for them, but 808 01:02:35,240 --> 01:02:46,000 might not be OK for you. They're trying to get you to 809 01:02:46,000 --> 01:02:48,360 water down the gospel. They're trying to get you to 810 01:02:48,360 --> 01:02:50,600 water down the way. They're trying to get you less 811 01:02:50,600 --> 01:02:52,760 accountable. Then you're here. 812 01:02:55,600 --> 01:02:58,280 They're they're called to do less services and you're called 813 01:02:58,280 --> 01:03:00,840 to do more and they're trying, man, you don't need to do all 814 01:03:00,840 --> 01:03:03,320 that. It don't take all that. 815 01:03:05,560 --> 01:03:09,240 Keep track of those you see running the same race. 816 01:03:12,920 --> 01:03:15,800 See, I I needed these elders because God knew this was going 817 01:03:15,800 --> 01:03:21,360 to get tiring sometime, but I've seen how they hold their course. 818 01:03:23,160 --> 01:03:24,920 I can't go to them and be like, oh, this. 819 01:03:24,920 --> 01:03:28,080 Hard. They'd be like, OK, won't you 820 01:03:28,080 --> 01:03:29,280 just take some time? No, no. 821 01:03:29,280 --> 01:03:31,680 They're like man, press in, press in. 822 01:03:32,880 --> 01:03:35,360 Now, I never went to them like that, with that kind of spirit, 823 01:03:35,520 --> 01:03:39,320 but I'm just like, you need to be able to look at some people. 824 01:03:40,520 --> 01:03:43,040 You need to be able to hear voices of confidence, not 825 01:03:43,040 --> 01:03:47,520 confusion. When I'm trying to fight for my 826 01:03:47,520 --> 01:03:51,520 family, my bloodline, I don't need people that's caught up in 827 01:03:51,520 --> 01:03:55,240 the thickets. That's encouraging me. 828 01:03:55,240 --> 01:03:58,040 It's OK. For you to I got to do all that 829 01:03:58,040 --> 01:04:00,040 right now. It's OK. 830 01:04:01,000 --> 01:04:05,360 Like God knows your heart. But, but maybe I know God knows 831 01:04:05,360 --> 01:04:09,080 my heart, whether I'm running the race in the right lane or if 832 01:04:09,080 --> 01:04:12,240 I'm sitting on the sideline. I know the man sitting on the 833 01:04:12,240 --> 01:04:14,200 bench who ain't played a minute can hoop. 834 01:04:17,080 --> 01:04:20,000 But on that team, he wasn't called to play a lot of minutes. 835 01:04:24,880 --> 01:04:30,960 Many are called. He'll respond to the call the 836 01:04:30,960 --> 01:04:37,480 chosen ones are the ones who say let's go God everybody in here 837 01:04:37,480 --> 01:04:42,120 is called here's the truth. Only a few of you will hear God 838 01:04:42,120 --> 01:04:46,680 today if some of you going to walk out here and you're. 839 01:04:46,680 --> 01:04:48,200 Going to look at me and go, oh, that was. 840 01:04:48,200 --> 01:04:51,960 Cool, I'll take this part. Some of you going to take the 841 01:04:51,960 --> 01:04:54,160 sermon and you're going to send it to somebody, say, hey, listen 842 01:04:54,160 --> 01:04:55,240 to this and tell me what you think. 843 01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:07,480 And some of you going to come some of your leaders and say I'm 844 01:05:07,480 --> 01:05:12,760 ready. Jesus had 12. 845 01:05:15,680 --> 01:05:17,800 He equipped those 12 for the work in the ministry. 846 01:05:17,960 --> 01:05:20,920 Who Who fed who who who? Fed the 15,000? 847 01:05:21,200 --> 01:05:23,920 Who fed the 20,002 fish 5 loaves. 848 01:05:23,920 --> 01:05:28,000 You think those disciples wasn't like well, jeez you crazy OK, 849 01:05:28,000 --> 01:05:29,800 cool, I'll take the fish, I'll take the bread. 850 01:05:32,040 --> 01:05:35,200 You can see a couple of them murmuring Jesus think I mean we 851 01:05:35,280 --> 01:05:38,240 out here looking stupid who fed them. 852 01:05:39,640 --> 01:05:43,440 Jesus prayed over it. He anointed it, he interceded, 853 01:05:43,760 --> 01:05:47,600 he believed he said you are equipped now go. 854 01:05:52,080 --> 01:05:53,400 And then it came to a point where he said. 855 01:05:53,400 --> 01:05:56,960 How long do I have to be with you? 856 01:05:58,680 --> 01:06:01,640 He also says there are some. Things that I can't tell you 857 01:06:01,640 --> 01:06:04,760 right now because you not have the Spirit. 858 01:06:06,040 --> 01:06:08,600 But when I go, I'm going to come back later and talk to you about 859 01:06:08,600 --> 01:06:12,000 a few things. For when the Spirit comes upon 860 01:06:12,000 --> 01:06:16,640 you, you'll be able to hear different. 861 01:06:19,200 --> 01:06:21,120 You'll be able to stand different. 862 01:06:32,240 --> 01:06:35,920 I've warned you. Of those people, many times, 863 01:06:36,480 --> 01:06:43,800 sadly I'm having to do it again. All they want is easy street 864 01:06:44,880 --> 01:06:46,600 they hate. Crisis cross, right? 865 01:06:46,760 --> 01:06:48,480 I love Christ, but do you love His cross? 866 01:06:51,360 --> 01:06:53,920 But Easy Street is a dead end street. 867 01:06:55,160 --> 01:06:59,560 But those who live there, those who live there, make their 868 01:06:59,560 --> 01:07:05,200 bellies their God, their gods. Belches are their praise. 869 01:07:06,880 --> 01:07:12,480 All they can think of is their appetite. 870 01:07:20,750 --> 01:07:28,430 But we are citizens of the state, Commonwealth, homeland, 871 01:07:29,070 --> 01:07:32,270 which is in heaven. We're in this world, but not of 872 01:07:32,270 --> 01:07:36,640 it, and from it also we earnestly and patiently await 873 01:07:36,640 --> 01:07:41,120 the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Messiah, our Savior, 874 01:07:41,400 --> 01:07:45,920 who will transform and fashion anew the body of our humiliation 875 01:07:46,080 --> 01:07:51,560 to conform to and be like the body of His glory and majesty. 876 01:07:51,560 --> 01:07:55,160 Somebody say the body. Watch this by exerting that 877 01:07:55,160 --> 01:08:01,280 power which enables Him even to subject everything to himself. 878 01:08:01,280 --> 01:08:04,400 Watch this church body. Somebody say the body. 879 01:08:06,200 --> 01:08:08,720 This is why we focus on heavenly realities. 880 01:08:10,880 --> 01:08:14,840 Heavenly reality is not about what He can do for us. 881 01:08:16,760 --> 01:08:19,880 It's but you appropriating what He has already done. 882 01:08:21,279 --> 01:08:25,240 It is finished. A Kingdom that cannot be moved 883 01:08:25,439 --> 01:08:28,800 done, finished Now Lord, can you do this for me and he said what 884 01:08:28,800 --> 01:08:30,319 you talking about I've done everything for you. 885 01:08:32,000 --> 01:08:40,850 What why is your prayers full of Kenya do In our next experience, 886 01:08:40,850 --> 01:08:42,130 we're going to get into understanding. 887 01:08:42,130 --> 01:08:45,250 What the body here really is. Ephesians tells us who we are. 888 01:08:45,689 --> 01:08:48,930 Watch this. Why should we be equipped? 889 01:08:49,890 --> 01:08:56,010 Ephesians one tells us that we are the full expression of Jesus 890 01:08:56,010 --> 01:09:01,319 in the earth and if we are not functioning how we should, the 891 01:09:01,319 --> 01:09:08,880 world will not perceive him. We can't afford how you act and 892 01:09:09,120 --> 01:09:13,279 our immaturity and your denial of call and wavering. 893 01:09:13,439 --> 01:09:17,359 It is not giving a full picture of who Jesus is. 894 01:09:17,359 --> 01:09:21,680 And if you look on social media, people, the church is being 895 01:09:21,680 --> 01:09:27,840 mocked. They're laughing at us. 896 01:09:30,120 --> 01:09:33,279 And no, it's not our job to go on Instagram and defend 897 01:09:33,279 --> 01:09:36,000 ourselves. It's our job to go in, out in 898 01:09:36,000 --> 01:09:38,439 this world and be for real about this thing. 899 01:09:40,560 --> 01:09:42,240 You got to be for real about this thing. 900 01:09:42,240 --> 01:09:45,640 You can't go, oh, type and share a scripture and God said this 901 01:09:45,760 --> 01:09:48,880 and you go on in this. It's not an argument with 902 01:09:48,880 --> 01:09:53,840 someone who's already won. And we're spending more time 903 01:09:54,040 --> 01:09:58,680 apologeticing and apologizing and and defending the faith in 904 01:09:58,680 --> 01:10:04,400 ways that are ungodly. Paul's writing most of the time, 905 01:10:04,760 --> 01:10:08,680 all the time to the church. The issue is us. 906 01:10:12,800 --> 01:10:17,720 We want to just just look down on the world, but how many 907 01:10:17,720 --> 01:10:22,680 things do we do casually, not understanding? 908 01:10:22,680 --> 01:10:27,760 That's a doorway into being like, like a Hillsong, how the 909 01:10:27,760 --> 01:10:30,720 Hillsong get there. Because there are certain things 910 01:10:30,720 --> 01:10:32,800 in the beginning that did not get checked. 911 01:10:34,760 --> 01:10:38,040 How dare you check somebody? Oh, certain people, certain 912 01:10:38,040 --> 01:10:40,560 leaders can drink, but the students can't drink. 913 01:10:41,960 --> 01:10:45,160 Oh, it's private parties after conferences over here. 914 01:10:46,040 --> 01:10:49,320 We do our little side thing over here and we're in appearances of 915 01:10:49,320 --> 01:10:52,080 evil, not understanding. Wow, that's keeping somebody 916 01:10:52,080 --> 01:10:54,360 lukewarm. Maybe you got to be scorching 917 01:10:54,360 --> 01:10:58,440 hot so somebody can go from cold to lukewarm and get hot. 918 01:11:01,520 --> 01:11:03,560 We're not fearing trembling. We just loose. 919 01:11:03,560 --> 01:11:05,680 We carnal. We just want to have fun. 920 01:11:05,680 --> 01:11:11,680 We want to push the boundaries. And that's how and then we man 921 01:11:12,280 --> 01:11:13,520 right? We'll we'll look at all 922 01:11:13,520 --> 01:11:15,920 Hillsong. They fail and this pastor failed 923 01:11:15,920 --> 01:11:18,280 and this pastor failed and this pastor failed. 924 01:11:18,280 --> 01:11:21,480 But OK, let's start celebrating the pastors and the teachers and 925 01:11:21,480 --> 01:11:25,400 the churches who, who who got some courage and a backbone to 926 01:11:25,400 --> 01:11:29,280 say, I see it. It may not happen for 15 years, 927 01:11:29,440 --> 01:11:32,240 but if we do this fun little good thing over here. 928 01:11:33,400 --> 01:11:38,240 The message that sends to someone, we are not building for 929 01:11:38,240 --> 01:11:43,960 legacy. So then you wonder how a pastor 930 01:11:43,960 --> 01:11:47,200 can go 30 years and now all this stuff is coming. 931 01:11:47,600 --> 01:11:51,560 Pride goes before destruction. Haughty spirit. 932 01:11:51,680 --> 01:11:53,400 Oh, they won't find out. I got enough money. 933 01:11:53,400 --> 01:11:55,680 Our church is big enough, we'll scoot it under the rug. 934 01:11:55,680 --> 01:11:56,760 Ain't nobody going to say nothing. 935 01:11:56,960 --> 01:11:58,680 And then it takes one person to get courage. 936 01:11:58,680 --> 01:12:02,760 They send they testimony to A to a, to someone in media and 937 01:12:02,760 --> 01:12:04,720 everything blows up. And what happens? 938 01:12:05,520 --> 01:12:08,960 How many souls are impacted 'cause you want to have a little 939 01:12:08,960 --> 01:12:11,640 sip, 'cause you want to have a little party, 'cause you want to 940 01:12:11,640 --> 01:12:14,600 have a little fun, 'cause you want to have a little little, oh 941 01:12:14,920 --> 01:12:18,000 little, you wanted to re. Oh, it ain't nothing wrong with 942 01:12:18,000 --> 01:12:19,560 it. This ain't about you going to 943 01:12:19,560 --> 01:12:22,800 heaven. It's about the loss, going to 944 01:12:22,800 --> 01:12:27,120 heaven, finding Jesus. It ain't about you no more. 945 01:12:33,760 --> 01:12:36,680 And if this is the route to my well done, I'm going to. 946 01:12:36,680 --> 01:12:39,760 I'm going to run this route every time like Randy Moss. 947 01:12:43,200 --> 01:12:49,680 But I will not lose sleep because I fail to carry my cross 948 01:12:50,080 --> 01:12:52,680 and wear my mantle. It does not matter how many 949 01:12:52,680 --> 01:12:55,280 people don't like us. It don't matter how many people 950 01:12:55,280 --> 01:12:57,480 persecute. It don't matter how many friends 951 01:12:57,480 --> 01:12:58,920 you lose. It don't matter. 952 01:12:58,920 --> 01:13:03,320 That is the cost. And if you really want to be 953 01:13:03,320 --> 01:13:05,600 like Christ, look at how He walked. 954 01:13:05,760 --> 01:13:08,760 Tell my mom I ain't got time right now because I'm in here 955 01:13:08,760 --> 01:13:10,880 giving a word to the people I'm called to right now. 956 01:13:11,080 --> 01:13:13,560 She'll understand. She birthed me. 957 01:13:14,280 --> 01:13:16,920 She actually prayed over me that I'll be in this temple doing 958 01:13:16,920 --> 01:13:18,160 that. How dare she get offended 959 01:13:18,160 --> 01:13:20,760 because I'm being faithful and God is bringing His Word to 960 01:13:20,760 --> 01:13:27,680 pass. Jesus says I've come to cut in 961 01:13:27,680 --> 01:13:29,680 between these domestic arrangements. 962 01:13:34,360 --> 01:13:39,160 Take a good close look again at Jesus, take a good close look at 963 01:13:39,160 --> 01:13:42,400 Paul and really ask the Holy Spirit to ask him what he's 964 01:13:42,400 --> 01:13:44,720 saying. Go ask him what the blood is 965 01:13:44,720 --> 01:13:46,440 for. Go ask him what carrying the 966 01:13:46,440 --> 01:13:48,680 cross is all about. Go ask him what holy is. 967 01:13:48,800 --> 01:13:51,960 Go ask him what consecration is. Go ask him what sanctification 968 01:13:51,960 --> 01:13:53,520 is. Go ask him what counting the 969 01:13:53,520 --> 01:13:56,080 cost is. Go ask him what last days is. 970 01:13:56,200 --> 01:13:58,400 And go ask him what it looks like when you got friends and 971 01:13:58,400 --> 01:14:00,560 family who was on your clock going to hell. 972 01:14:02,640 --> 01:14:07,480 Go take a real close look. And if you're going to be 973 01:14:07,480 --> 01:14:10,560 offended with anybody, be offended with the word of God. 974 01:14:13,640 --> 01:14:18,160 But God is raising up a remnant of real. 975 01:14:22,000 --> 01:14:28,000 Yeah, I just want to be 1. And I realize I am not exempt. 976 01:14:28,120 --> 01:14:33,160 From falling away. So I want to run as far as I can 977 01:14:38,940 --> 01:14:48,020 and I really desire when my day is up to make sure my tank is on 978 01:14:48,020 --> 01:14:52,780 empty and make sure that all that God has asked me since the 979 01:14:52,780 --> 01:14:56,780 day I got revelation of his love, I've done everything I can 980 01:14:56,780 --> 01:15:01,100 to do it and I want to leave my children. 981 01:15:09,160 --> 01:15:12,720 I don't want to leave my children with battles I was 982 01:15:12,720 --> 01:15:15,840 supposed to fight because they're going to have enough of 983 01:15:15,840 --> 01:15:20,320 their own. I want my wife to be able to 984 01:15:20,320 --> 01:15:26,520 stand by me and know that her husband loves the Lord. 985 01:15:27,120 --> 01:15:30,240 For real though, that she's safe. 986 01:15:32,560 --> 01:15:37,760 I want my children to not see a contradiction. 987 01:15:39,400 --> 01:15:40,840 Raise them in the way they should go. 988 01:15:40,920 --> 01:15:45,800 The way they should go is holy. Not have a church home, merely 989 01:15:47,760 --> 01:15:54,760 my prayer for you guys today is that the Spirit of God some way 990 01:15:54,760 --> 01:16:04,360 somehow arrests you and that you wrestle every bit of every bit 991 01:16:04,360 --> 01:16:09,360 of pride. Now today you be healed from 992 01:16:09,360 --> 01:16:15,640 offense and bitterness and excuses and procrastination. 993 01:16:19,800 --> 01:16:22,640 But it's no reason why people need to fly and drive to Atlanta 994 01:16:22,640 --> 01:16:25,200 to go to a church that seems to be on fire because they can't 995 01:16:25,200 --> 01:16:29,760 find one here. I don't want to be the church 996 01:16:29,760 --> 01:16:36,880 you drive by because you could. You couldn't find a fire drive 997 01:16:36,880 --> 01:16:43,520 by because our music too loud. But you won't say we're not 998 01:16:43,520 --> 01:16:46,880 really. Yeah. 999 01:16:47,480 --> 01:17:02,760 Lord, build your church. We repent today for lukewarm 1000 01:17:03,640 --> 01:17:07,120 living. Lord, give us eyes to. 1001 01:17:07,120 --> 01:17:10,040 See the wolves in sheep clothing. 1002 01:17:13,600 --> 01:17:28,200 Give us patience. Lord, we need you not we need 1003 01:17:28,200 --> 01:17:32,360 you for material things, and we need you to find this person for 1004 01:17:32,360 --> 01:17:33,640 us. We need you to bless our 1005 01:17:33,640 --> 01:17:38,960 business, Lord, if you called us to it, it's already blessed. 1006 01:17:40,720 --> 01:17:42,920 Or we just need you, period, full stop. 1007 01:17:45,000 --> 01:17:47,280 We need to know you because in you is us. 1008 01:17:48,720 --> 01:17:51,160 And when we get to know you, we'll get to fully know us. 1009 01:17:55,720 --> 01:17:58,560 Or we need you to heal our trauma and bring us out of Egypt 1010 01:17:59,320 --> 01:18:01,680 so that we can worship you fully. 1011 01:18:04,880 --> 01:18:06,760 May we be like Paul this one thing. 1012 01:18:08,920 --> 01:18:13,800 That I have a compelled focus. It's the high calling. 1013 01:18:16,600 --> 01:18:18,480 The high call is seek the Kingdom first. 1014 01:18:18,800 --> 01:18:24,120 High calling, all these things, low calling will be added. 1015 01:18:25,200 --> 01:18:30,040 It's nothing to God to bless you with stuff. 1016 01:18:31,440 --> 01:18:37,440 It's nothing but Lord. May we be a people that bear 1017 01:18:37,440 --> 01:18:44,720 your image. And I ask you Saints, for the 1018 01:18:44,720 --> 01:18:48,960 next two to three minutes to take a moment and open your own 1019 01:18:48,960 --> 01:18:55,240 mouth and worship him and lift your hands, and you could sit. 1020 01:18:55,240 --> 01:18:56,960 And you could. Stand, but for the next few 1021 01:18:56,960 --> 01:18:59,080 minutes I. Feel like the Lord, just the 1022 01:18:59,080 --> 01:19:02,720 Father. Wants to finish something in you 1023 01:19:02,720 --> 01:19:08,280 today? Just lift your voice to begin to 1024 01:19:08,280 --> 01:20:06,730 pray and we will close. You might be saying you don't 1025 01:20:06,730 --> 01:20:08,490 take all that. Look at the cross. 1026 01:20:11,650 --> 01:20:16,560 Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. 1027 01:20:20,080 --> 01:20:26,440 May we become undone. You've been so good. 1028 01:20:29,800 --> 01:20:33,760 Thank you for your grace. Thank you for your mercy. 1029 01:20:38,160 --> 01:20:43,680 Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. 1030 01:20:47,440 --> 01:20:53,080 Thank you, Jesus. Thank you Jesus. 1031 01:21:28,480 --> 01:21:36,200 Stir up the gifts. Set us on fire, Set us on fire. 1032 01:21:36,200 --> 01:21:52,800 Lord, the year of the fear of God is 1033 01:21:52,800 --> 01:22:00,000 upon us. I pray that you move with fear 1034 01:22:00,000 --> 01:22:05,920 and trembling, that you steal yourself, quiet yourself. 1035 01:22:07,800 --> 01:22:17,240 And if you've never taken God serious in the name of Jesus, if 1036 01:22:17,240 --> 01:22:21,760 there is no time you've ever taken God serious, this is the 1037 01:22:21,760 --> 01:22:29,480 time. Gross darkness is upon us. 1038 01:22:32,800 --> 01:22:40,840 The world is even setting itself up for the coming of the King. 1039 01:22:42,440 --> 01:22:46,840 Read your Bible. Look at what's going on in the 1040 01:22:46,840 --> 01:22:55,760 world. Amazing things like AI that will 1041 01:22:55,760 --> 01:23:04,800 talk to us, things that are happening in government, planes 1042 01:23:04,800 --> 01:23:08,680 crashing, wars and rumors of wars. 1043 01:23:10,920 --> 01:23:18,360 It's all right there. And any good Shepherd's greatest 1044 01:23:18,360 --> 01:23:31,200 grief evangelists pastor, but none could be more grieved than 1045 01:23:31,240 --> 01:23:37,920 Jesus himself is the great falling away of the Saints that 1046 01:23:37,920 --> 01:23:52,120 is promised to come. And my prayer, Father, as it was 1047 01:23:52,120 --> 01:24:00,360 with Abraham, Lord, because of the remnant, Lord, let the city 1048 01:24:00,360 --> 01:24:11,720 live. Let not one person in this room, 1049 01:24:11,720 --> 01:24:20,120 under the sound of my voice fall away, and you give them strength 1050 01:24:20,120 --> 01:24:29,360 to hold on. To repent, to return. 1051 01:24:35,240 --> 01:24:37,680 May we be a people move by great conviction. 1052 01:24:41,400 --> 01:24:46,440 We are standing on the backs, Abraham's and Elijah's and 1053 01:24:47,400 --> 01:24:52,160 Paul's and our grandparents. Lord, I want to be in that 1054 01:24:52,160 --> 01:24:59,200 number. So today we surrender this word 1055 01:24:59,200 --> 01:25:03,360 to you and we prepare our hearts for the next experience. 1056 01:25:04,280 --> 01:25:07,360 Bless us in our coming and in our going. 1057 01:25:16,760 --> 01:25:34,200 In Jesus name, Amen. Thank you so much for tuning in 1058 01:25:34,200 --> 01:25:36,640 to this week's sermon. We pray you were challenged, 1059 01:25:36,640 --> 01:25:40,200 equipped and encouraged. Make sure to follow us on all 1060 01:25:40,200 --> 01:25:43,400 platforms. That's love Quest Intl church. 1061 01:25:43,640 --> 01:25:45,880 We out here for real. We're really doing it. 1062 01:25:45,880 --> 01:25:48,840 That's Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok.