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 --> 00:00:37,480 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 00:00:44,480 --> 00:00:50,880 Is he worthy, church? Is Jesus worthy of the highest 10 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:54,920 grade? Yes He is. 11 00:00:56,720 --> 00:01:01,040 God paid the highest price for your salvation. 12 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:04,720 The least we can do is give Him the highest praise. 13 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:11,560 He is worthy of it all. Earlier in that song we were 14 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:14,760 singing that he does all things well. 15 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:19,080 And the Lord impressed on my heart to share with you that 16 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:25,200 each and everyone of you are a thing that God has done and he 17 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:30,560 has done well with you. And whether you've heard it or 18 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:33,640 not, God is well pleased with you, son. 19 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:36,480 God is well pleased with you, daughter. 20 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:43,200 And maybe you've you've heard otherwise in your life up until 21 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:48,320 now, but the Lord brought you here this morning for you to 22 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:50,840 hear that God is well pleased with you. 23 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:59,000 You are not a mistake, you are not a failure, God is not done 24 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:02,720 with you. The Lord has done well with you, 25 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:11,360 and Jesus is here to redeem every area of your life because 26 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:13,760 you are more than a conqueror in Christ. 27 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:20,080 Hallelujah, Hallelujah. He is worthy of the highest 28 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:21,600 praise. Amen. 29 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:25,560 Amen. Turn to your neighbor and say he 30 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:29,720 is so worthy as you take your seat in Jesus name. 31 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:35,440 Hallelujah. Wow you guys really went off. 32 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:38,640 That was great. Aren't we blessed with an 33 00:02:38,640 --> 00:02:42,880 amazing worship team here? Love Quest, Give it up for the 34 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:48,520 worship team. We are spoiled. 35 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:56,480 We are spoiled with anointed musicians and singers. 36 00:02:56,480 --> 00:03:00,560 What a privilege it is to be in the House of the Lord this day. 37 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:05,560 Welcome each and everyone of you to the presence of the Lord. 38 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:08,920 I'm so glad each and everyone of you are here today. 39 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:13,720 It really encourages me honestly to see each and everyone of my 40 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:18,080 brothers and sisters of Christ gather here for the same reason, 41 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:23,480 to encounter the Lord and experience His love and His 42 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:26,520 grace in a new, fresh way this day. 43 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:30,200 David said. I was glad when they said unto 44 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:33,480 me, let us go into the House of the Lord. 45 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:36,960 And that's me today. I'm super glad to be here. 46 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:41,480 My name is Dylan, and I'm one of the ordained pastors here at 47 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:46,240 Love Quest International Church, and I want to begin by just 48 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:50,400 giving honor where honor is due, and that is to my dear pastors, 49 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:54,720 the lead pastors of this church, Pastor Terence and Pastor Julia. 50 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:58,720 I thank you guys so much for just entrusting me with this 51 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:01,760 opportunity to bring the Word here today. 52 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:07,840 I also thank you for leading me and truly covering me as you 53 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:10,720 carry the Father's heart and the Father's love and all that you 54 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:13,840 do. This church would not be here if 55 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:18,519 it wasn't for your faithfulness to the call that the Lord has 56 00:04:19,079 --> 00:04:21,680 for each of you. And I'm just so grateful and I 57 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:26,200 know many lives have been impacted and will continue to be 58 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:30,600 impacted as God does a good work through you guys. 59 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:33,800 So thank you pastors, for this opportunity. 60 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:43,640 Does anyone remember New Year's of 2024 going into 2025? 61 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:49,440 The Lord gave Pastor Terence a theme for 2025. 62 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:52,680 Do you guys remember what that theme is? 63 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:57,600 Shout it out if you do. The spirit of the fear of God 64 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:05,720 and there is more to it. It was about a life of awe and 65 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:12,680 wonder, and the Lord truly desires for the church to grow 66 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:15,800 in the spirit of the fear of God. 67 00:05:16,840 --> 00:05:21,400 Why? Because as we grow in the spirit 68 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:26,600 of the fear of God, that's where we really crossover and into 69 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:33,280 this place of awe and we start to experience the wonders of 70 00:05:33,280 --> 00:05:37,280 God. And so this morning I'm going to 71 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:42,200 continue to preach on the fear of God. 72 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:49,880 And the fear of God is kind of sounds intimidating at first, 73 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:51,880 doesn't it? This, this word fear doesn't 74 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:56,720 always just sit right. And So what business does fear 75 00:05:56,720 --> 00:06:00,080 and God have doing in the same sentence? 76 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:05,920 But this fear of God is not speaking to being afraid of God. 77 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:15,240 This fear speaks of a Worshipful reverence towards the Lord, a 78 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:22,160 respect and awareness of God and all that He is and all that He 79 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:25,280 has done. And we are to carry this 80 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:28,320 reverence into every area of our life. 81 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:31,720 It's not just something we pick up on Sundays, it's not 82 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:36,160 something we bring to midweek service on Wednesdays or just a 83 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:39,560 prayer on Saturdays. The spirit of the fear of God we 84 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:42,360 are to carry in every area of our life. 85 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:45,720 Amen. Amen. 86 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:54,920 And so as I was just meditating on what is the essence of the 87 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:58,920 fear of God, Lord, what revelation would you have me 88 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:02,880 share with the church when it comes to the fear of God? 89 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:09,440 And the Lord gave me the picture of what it might have been like 90 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:15,640 when man first discovered fire. You can go ahead and put the 91 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:18,920 first slide up. I'm going to be preaching to you 92 00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:24,840 on the fear of God living and in spirit and in truth. 93 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:32,320 And so as I was meditating on Lord, bring fresh revelation to 94 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:37,600 me on what the fear of God may look like in a believer's life. 95 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:44,160 And he showed me the picture of man first discovering fire. 96 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:55,320 Up until this point, this man had to live and exist in a cold 97 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:59,080 and Dark World. Imagine on a morning like this 98 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:02,360 morning where it's raining sideways and the wind is blowing 99 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:09,000 and it's cold and it's dark out. All the man knew up until that 100 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:16,240 point in the winter season was coldness, until one day they 101 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:22,240 encounter the comfort of a burning fire. 102 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:28,960 What would have that meant to that man in that moment to 1st 103 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:35,200 encounter fire? Well, fire represents warmth. 104 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:43,760 Fire came to help that man survive through the cold winter 105 00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:47,640 nights where up until before then they might have just had 106 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:53,160 the comfort of a cave or might have had animals hide to wrap 107 00:08:53,160 --> 00:08:57,520 around to stay warm. But the fire came as a companion 108 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:03,960 to bring warmth. Fire came as a means to now cook 109 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:10,440 food and sanitize water, so fire brings a level of nutrition to 110 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:15,200 man's life. Fire also brought protection 111 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:22,400 from predators as fire would be used to ward off predators and 112 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:28,920 and enemies. Fire was used to create 113 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:33,320 technology for pottery and for forging metal into weapons. 114 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:37,480 So fire brought a level of weaponry. 115 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:45,000 And so the same way that fire so drastically impacted mankind, 116 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:52,320 fire is what marked mankind from simply just existing in the 117 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:58,040 world to start, to begin to shape the world that man lives 118 00:09:58,040 --> 00:10:04,480 in, in every area of man's life. And so it is with the believer 119 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:11,720 the moment that we first discover the light of salvation, 120 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:17,640 Jesus Christ, the light of the world who came in darkness, that 121 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:20,600 we may find life and life in abundance. 122 00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:25,480 And now, church, every area of our life is to be impacted 123 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:30,280 because we now, by the blood of Jesus Christ have been purified 124 00:10:30,280 --> 00:10:32,920 to receive the Holy Spirit, our Comforter. 125 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:42,760 Jesus came to disarm the power of the enemy protection, the 126 00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:47,640 word of God, which is spirit is, and life comes as nourishment to 127 00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:52,000 our soul. And so the fear of God is simply 128 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:56,720 the awareness of the salvation that we have in the Lord in 129 00:10:56,720 --> 00:11:03,320 every area of our life. And to live and exist in this 130 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:08,360 reverential respect and awareness of God. 131 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:11,640 That's what it means to live in the fearness fear of God. 132 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:17,440 And so we're going to unpack this word fear of God living in 133 00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:20,280 spirit and in truth. Does that sound good to you? 134 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:23,960 All right, now you guys can help me out. 135 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:26,440 I know that we're just coming into winter time and it's a 136 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:31,040 little gloomy outside. But who knows that we have the 137 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:33,920 bright morning sun within each and every one of us? 138 00:11:34,560 --> 00:11:41,800 Who knows that Jesus Christ, the hope of the world, lives in each 139 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:45,600 and every one of us. We got good news and we got 140 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:48,440 reasons to shout. We got reasons to praise. 141 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:51,520 We got reasons to say Amen. So you can help me in delivering 142 00:11:51,800 --> 00:12:01,080 this word this morning. And so the fear of God is not 143 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:03,680 being afraid of God. It speaks to reverence. 144 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:09,320 Proverbs 1923 says the reverence. 145 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:14,160 Can you say reverence, Worshipful fear of the Lord 146 00:12:14,520 --> 00:12:22,520 leads to life and he who has it rests satisfied? 147 00:12:23,240 --> 00:12:27,400 Isn't that the pursuit of each and every one of us is to rest 148 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:35,520 satisfied to come to this place of contentment, to find peace, 149 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:39,560 to arrive? It's it's all of our souls 150 00:12:39,560 --> 00:12:44,520 desire to find rest and be satisfied. 151 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:51,240 The man who carries the fear of the Lord, the Word says, cannot 152 00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:58,840 be visited with actual evil. So if I walk in the reverential 153 00:12:59,120 --> 00:13:04,280 fear of God, the Word of God promises that I will find life 154 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:08,600 and life in abundance. The Word of God says that I will 155 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:12,000 be satisfied and I'll find rest for my soul. 156 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:16,840 The the Bible also says that I will not be visited with actual 157 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:23,800 evil because Jesus Christ came to disarm the power of the evil. 158 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:29,920 1 John 1010 says that the thief, the enemy comes to steal, kill 159 00:13:29,920 --> 00:13:33,680 and destroy. But Jesus says, I have come to 160 00:13:33,680 --> 00:13:36,680 bring life and life in abundance. 161 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:43,400 And so walking in the fear of God leads us to life, leads us 162 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:49,040 to a refreshing place of satisfaction as well as a place 163 00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:53,440 of divine protection when we walk in the awareness of the 164 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:57,480 Lord. This word reverence means a deep 165 00:13:57,480 --> 00:14:05,080 respect for someone or something other words that be that can be 166 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:09,640 interchanged with the word reverence would be respectful, 167 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:18,120 Worshipful, adoring, loving, admiring, devoted, dutiful, 168 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:26,440 obedient, odd, submissive, humble and meek. 169 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:32,240 And now think about the initial imagery that I put before you 170 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:38,240 guys as a believer walking in the fear of God might be of that 171 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:47,360 of when mankind first discovered fire, how they walked and 172 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:49,640 conducted themselves with this fire. 173 00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:53,120 They respected that fire. Remember that fire brought a 174 00:14:53,120 --> 00:14:58,160 greater ability to live and flourish. 175 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:03,840 They they respected that. They loved that fire. 176 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:06,520 They admired that fire. They devoted themselves to 177 00:15:06,520 --> 00:15:10,320 collecting firewood to keep that fire ripping and keeping them 178 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:14,920 warm. They were dutiful to steward 179 00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:18,400 that fire, make sure that fire didn't go out during the cold 180 00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:24,000 winter season. They awed over that fire. 181 00:15:24,680 --> 00:15:29,400 Have you ever felt found yourself lost just staring into 182 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:35,120 a fire or the flame of a candle? Something about that fire just 183 00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:44,480 sucks you in and mesmerizes you. Submissive, humble, meek. 184 00:15:45,520 --> 00:15:54,440 When we truly understand the greatness of our God, the love 185 00:15:54,440 --> 00:16:00,520 of our God, the beauty and majesty of our God, it consumes 186 00:16:00,520 --> 00:16:04,880 you. It sucks you in like the like 187 00:16:04,880 --> 00:16:15,160 the your gaze into that fire. The fear of God is to know God. 188 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:20,640 Elder Brett did a phenomenal job preaching on the fear of God 189 00:16:20,640 --> 00:16:28,280 last Sunday, and he spoke to the vastness of God, the omnipotent 190 00:16:28,280 --> 00:16:31,440 omniscience of God, the all powerful, all knowing. 191 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:33,640 He created the heavens and the earth. 192 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:39,000 And so to truly walk in reverence or respect towards 193 00:16:39,240 --> 00:16:46,760 someone, we need to properly know that person in order to 194 00:16:46,760 --> 00:16:51,920 know how to correctly position ourselves before that person. 195 00:16:57,320 --> 00:17:05,280 The Bible says that God is spirit and we are Tri part 196 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:09,280 beings. We are spirit, we were created 197 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:15,119 in the image of likeness. Genesis 126 says we possess a 198 00:17:15,119 --> 00:17:20,040 soul, which is our mind, our will and our emotions, and we 199 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:24,680 live in these temporary bodies, these earth suits, these 200 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:28,960 vessels, and so there is 3 parts to us. 201 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:33,560 Now the body part of us has a sinful nature. 202 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:39,840 We inherited from our ancestors Adam and Eve, and they in sin 203 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:44,360 entered into mankind the moment that Adam and Eve disobeyed the 204 00:17:44,360 --> 00:17:48,760 Lord's word and command, and they stepped out from under the 205 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:52,200 Lord's covering. And so there is a part of us, 206 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:57,840 Romans 8, the mind of the flesh, that is at war against the mind 207 00:17:57,840 --> 00:18:00,280 of the spirit, the other part of us. 208 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:04,840 And our soul is caught somewhere in between this war. 209 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:13,840 And if God is a spirit, we have an obligation to cater to our 210 00:18:13,840 --> 00:18:18,880 spirit man more than our flesh man in order to engage or 211 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:21,360 posture ourselves right before God. 212 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:32,880 The Bible goes on to say in John 4 verse 24, God is a spirit, a 213 00:18:32,880 --> 00:18:39,680 spiritual being, and those who worship him or those who engage 214 00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:45,200 him must worship him in spirit and in truth. 215 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:53,360 Worshiping the Lord is more than just physically showing up. 216 00:18:54,240 --> 00:18:58,680 Me just walking through the tent and into this sanctuary when 217 00:18:58,680 --> 00:19:02,000 praise and worship is going on and singing along with the words 218 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:07,280 on the screen is not worship in and of itself. 219 00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:15,760 Worship is a heart posture. Worship comes from a place of a 220 00:19:15,760 --> 00:19:21,800 pure heart, and that pure heart is only made available through 221 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:25,520 the revelation of the truth of God. 222 00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:32,560 Pure heart being right before God, being righteous is only by 223 00:19:33,280 --> 00:19:38,520 the good news of salvation. It's only found in Jesus Christ. 224 00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:45,000 And so to worship God, he's looking for those that worship 225 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:48,960 Him in spirit and in truth, those that walk in the true 226 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:53,680 salvation of Jesus Christ, and those who stand on the Word of 227 00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:57,880 God, knowing that they are right before him and are able to 228 00:19:58,040 --> 00:20:03,400 release a fragrance of worship that is pleasing unto Him. 229 00:20:09,540 --> 00:20:16,140 And so going through the notions as Christians will not cause us 230 00:20:16,140 --> 00:20:21,800 to draw close to the Lord. The Lord is looking for those 231 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:26,680 who are willing to be led by the Spirit of God in every area of 232 00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:30,400 their life. To truly walk in the fear and 233 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:34,240 reverence of God is to live a spirit LED life. 234 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:40,560 I'm not being conformed by this world, but I am being led by the 235 00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:44,040 Holy Spirit and constantly renewing my mind with the Word 236 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:48,040 of God. And that is the hour that we are 237 00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:51,480 in. We are a church that is truly 238 00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:57,680 after being led by the Spirit to truly engage in the Lord with a 239 00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:00,800 pure worship. And there is a strong anointing 240 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:06,880 on this house for worship. The fear of God is to engage 241 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:11,160 with God in spirit. There once was a time where my 242 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:16,040 spirit man was dead and I was led by the flesh. 243 00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:20,760 But now I have my new creation in Christ. 244 00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:26,440 My spirit man is alive, the fire of God is alive and well within 245 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:31,960 me, and now it is time to live a life, walking with God, talking 246 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:38,040 with God, abiding in God. Hebrews 4. 247 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:43,720 Before that, God's word is truth. 248 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:49,280 He's looking for those that worship Him in spirit and truth. 249 00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:53,840 And as we are learning what it means to walk in a greater 250 00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:59,600 measure of the fear of God, we must decide within us. 251 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:03,480 God's Word is the ultimate truth. 252 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:13,200 In John One it says that Jesus was the word that became flesh. 253 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:24,920 So Jesus fully God humbled himself and became man in order 254 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:29,320 that he could live a life free of sin and pay the penalty for 255 00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:32,840 our sin that we may find salvation. 256 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:37,600 So salvation originated in the Spirit. 257 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:50,120 The Bible also says in John 1 that all things God spoke 258 00:22:50,120 --> 00:22:55,520 creation into existence, that Jesus is the Word and nothing 259 00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:58,960 came into existence apart from the Word. 260 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:06,240 So we see in John one that Jesus is the word of God and that the 261 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:13,760 word of God is truth. Hebrews 4 verse 12 says for the 262 00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:18,560 word of God is living and powerful, turn to your neighbor 263 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:26,320 and say it's alive and it's powerful all right and sharper 264 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:30,800 than any 2 edged sword. I'll take it from here. 265 00:23:31,360 --> 00:23:36,760 Piercing even to the division of soul and spirit. 266 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:40,640 So we see here the Word of God is sharper than a double edged 267 00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:42,560 sword. And there and there. 268 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:44,800 And we are a tripart being, remember? 269 00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:50,040 And the Word of God comes to separate between soul and 270 00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:55,720 spirit, and the Lord desires for us to walk in the spirit. 271 00:23:56,200 --> 00:24:00,400 And the Word of God comes to tell us when it's our soul that 272 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:02,960 is responding to the circumstance right now. 273 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:06,280 Verse This is how the Holy Spirit would have you respond to 274 00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:13,280 this circumstance right now. It's a double edged sword, 275 00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:17,360 piercing even to the division of soul and spirits and of joints 276 00:24:17,360 --> 00:24:22,760 and marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the 277 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:31,080 heart. And so we need to make up within 278 00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:36,160 our hearts that we are going to be believers that stand on the 279 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:40,600 on the truth. We don't ignore the facts of 280 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:47,000 this world, but we stand on the truth as our bottom line because 281 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:49,600 we are in this world and not of this world. 282 00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:55,640 There is an enemy who the Bible refers to as the God of this 283 00:24:55,640 --> 00:25:00,400 world, Satan. He is the author of sickness and 284 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:03,040 he has an agenda to steal, kill and destroy. 285 00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:08,920 And so when we see things happening in this world around 286 00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:14,400 us, we cannot allow that to steal our peace or determine the 287 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:18,480 way we respond if what is happening around us does not 288 00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:22,680 align with the Word of God. I have a right to stand on the 289 00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:26,640 Word of God as my truth and command things to come into 290 00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:31,080 alignment with the Word of God. I'm not going to allow the 291 00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:35,920 situation in the natural to steal my peace, which is 292 00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:41,160 supernatural. Jesus says to me, says to us, My 293 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:46,120 peace I leave with you, not as the world gives peace, but my 294 00:25:46,120 --> 00:25:48,760 peace which surpasses all understanding. 295 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:56,080 The word of God has the ability to bypass your understanding. 296 00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:01,760 But in order to cross into this place of peace that surpasses 297 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:08,960 understanding, we must forfeit our right to have to understand 298 00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:13,320 everything. But if the word of God says 299 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:19,120 peace belongs to me in the midst of chaos, in the midst of 300 00:26:19,120 --> 00:26:23,440 storms, I have a right to stand on that, believe that, and 301 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:27,680 declare that. And so God is Spirit. 302 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:32,120 So we must learn to engage him in spirit and stand on His word, 303 00:26:32,120 --> 00:26:34,480 which is Spirit as our ultimate truth. 304 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:42,840 And this is in every area of our life when it comes to sickness. 305 00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:49,480 These natural bodies may be attacked with sickness. 306 00:26:50,120 --> 00:26:56,240 But the Bible says in Isaiah 53 that by the stripes of Jesus, I 307 00:26:56,480 --> 00:27:00,400 am healed by the finished work of the cross. 308 00:27:01,120 --> 00:27:04,880 I have a right through my sniffles, through my cough to 309 00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:08,200 say thank you Jesus, that by your stripes I am the healed and 310 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:16,440 not the sick because the truth has the last say in my life. 311 00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:23,480 God's word is truth. John 17 verse 17 says this is 312 00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:29,160 Jesus praying for his followers. He asked the Father, sanctify 313 00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:34,400 them, purify, consecrate, separate them for yourself. 314 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:40,480 Make them holy by the truth. Your Word is truth. 315 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:50,920 We see that the Word has the ability to purify us, to cleanse 316 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:56,560 us, to consecrate us. The Word has the ability to make 317 00:27:56,560 --> 00:28:01,080 us holy. And so as followers of Christ, 318 00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:06,080 those who walk in the spirit of the fear of God, we prioritize 319 00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:10,400 the Word of God. For Jesus is the Word who came 320 00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:13,320 to bring us salvation, who came to sanctify us. 321 00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:17,680 And so when we engage with the Word of God, when we speak the 322 00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:21,160 Word of God, when we meditate on the Word of God, we are 323 00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:24,960 purifying our hearts to walk in the power and the love of God. 324 00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:39,000 Hallelujah, that's good stuff. John 8 So Jesus said to those 325 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:45,920 Jews who had believed him, If you abide in my word, hold fast 326 00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:52,680 to my teachings and live in accordance with them, and live 327 00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:59,560 in accordance with them, you are truly my disciples, and you will 328 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:04,560 know the truth, and the truth will set you free. 329 00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:13,160 It's the one that abides in the word of God, the one who truly 330 00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:18,880 applies the word of God. Jesus says the wise man is the 331 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:25,160 one who hears his word and applies them to his life and is 332 00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:29,320 likened to the man that builds his life on the rock. 333 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:37,440 Firm foundation. The word of God is a firm 334 00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:46,520 foundation for us to live. And he goes on to say that you 335 00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:50,200 will know the truth as you live and apply it to every area of 336 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:53,360 your life. You will come to this place of 337 00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:58,400 knowing the truth through application, through exercise, 338 00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:02,520 through putting this thing to the test, and you will know the 339 00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:05,280 truth, and the truth will set you free. 340 00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:13,720 But it's only the truth that you know through experience that 341 00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:18,200 will set you free. So when the enemy comes to try 342 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:26,720 you at the time of temptation, or when anxiety or fear comes 343 00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:32,920 knocking at your door, you can tell that devil who the sun sets 344 00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:36,320 free is free indeed. And that's me. 345 00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:40,400 I am the redeemed of the Lord, and I say so. 346 00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:46,040 I am the head and not the tail. I am a son of the living God. 347 00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:52,240 And so it takes abiding and living and practically applying 348 00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:57,320 the Word of God in your life and speaking the Word of God out 349 00:30:57,320 --> 00:31:01,960 against thoughts in your own mind to truly start to know the 350 00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:07,160 truth and to truly experience the freedom that knowing the 351 00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:09,280 truth brings. Amen. 352 00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:19,840 And so we don't just read the Bible simply to memorize 353 00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:23,000 scriptures. We don't just read the Bible to 354 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:27,400 know facts about history, though those things are great. 355 00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:33,400 But we read the Word to build a relationship with the Word. 356 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:38,560 We read the Word which is alive, which is active, which is 357 00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:45,560 spirit, and which is life, to encounter our Father in heaven 358 00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:51,560 to build a relationship with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 359 00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:57,800 He will meet you in your Bible when you open up that Bible to 360 00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:01,080 for the purpose alone of encountering Jesus Christ. 361 00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:04,280 He desires to meet you in the Word of God. 362 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:14,920 I challenge you see your word in a fresh way as a meeting place 363 00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:21,160 for you and the Lord. The Word of God is a place for 364 00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:26,040 us to camp out and find refuge in the presence of the Lord. 365 00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:36,800 Psalm 23 is one of my favorite campsites to go and just hang 366 00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:40,440 out in the presence of God, especially if I'm going through 367 00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:44,040 a rough season, the winds are kicking up around me and it's 368 00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:46,920 stormy out. I just need to know that the 369 00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:52,200 Lord is my shepherd and I shall want for nothing, and that He's 370 00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:54,880 the one that leads me along still waters. 371 00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:59,480 He's the one that causes me to lay down in green pastures. 372 00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:02,800 He is the one that refreshes my soul. 373 00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:08,200 But sometimes I'm looking to the world to refresh my soul. 374 00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:15,480 Sometimes I'm looking for guidance in career or finances, 375 00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:19,920 or sometimes I just get off track and I need to go back to 376 00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:23,360 the Word of God to encounter my Good Shepherd. 377 00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:29,280 The Lord desires to abide with you in His Word. 378 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:37,440 The fear of God means to let God's Word reign supreme in your 379 00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:40,440 life. That the Word of God has the 380 00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:46,400 final say in every area of my life when it is easy and 381 00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:53,160 beneficial and when it is not so easy and is challenging my flesh 382 00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:57,320 or is challenging my soul. Or there's times where I just 383 00:33:57,320 --> 00:33:59,720 feel like being sorry for myself. 384 00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:06,480 But I'm choosing to let the Word have final say in my life and 385 00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:10,440 out of my mouth I begin to speak and declare the word over my 386 00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:15,600 soul as David taught us to encourage himself in the Lord. 387 00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:19,960 David was always found speaking to his soul as if it was another 388 00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:24,400 person, which I truly, I think that that is awesome and I've 389 00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:27,760 learned start doing that myself. Stay steadfast. 390 00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:32,440 Oh my soul, remember the goodness of the Lord. 391 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:42,080 And so I'm going to choose to allow God's word to reign in my 392 00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:46,360 life. I'm making a, I'm making a 393 00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:57,720 specific choice to not allow my emotions and not allow my facts 394 00:34:57,720 --> 00:35:03,400 to determine the way that I act or respond or move. 395 00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:08,200 That is a decision, Saints, that you have to make before trial 396 00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:17,840 comes knocking at your door. Pastor said something very 397 00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:20,560 profound. He says the grace of God comes 398 00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:22,840 on the other side of a made-up mind. 399 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,360 There's no grace for double mindedness. 400 00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:35,280 And if I am finding myself stuck in between my emotions and the 401 00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:38,800 word of God and there's a wrestle that place, that means 402 00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:43,120 the mind of the flesh still has power in your life. 403 00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:50,240 But I'm desiring for the Spirit of God to move in the in the 404 00:35:50,240 --> 00:35:55,120 mind of the Spirit in my life. There is 2 minds that are at war 405 00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:59,080 within you and that is called a double minded person. 406 00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:04,040 And the Bible says a double minded person should not expect 407 00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:07,360 to get receive anything they ask of the Lord for they are 408 00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:11,920 unstable in all of their ways. And so we have to make a 409 00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:16,400 cognitive decision that the word of God, which is spirit and 410 00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:19,760 truth, that's going to have the final say in my life. 411 00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:23,880 At the time when I'm frustrated, when I'm angry, when I'm 412 00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:26,040 emotional, I've already made-up my mind. 413 00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:28,520 The word of God is going to win in this battle. 414 00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:34,360 And love, God is love and love always wins. 415 00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:44,360 God is love, right? To walk in the reverential fear 416 00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:49,600 of God, we must know God. God is love, the real love, 417 00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:52,960 agape love. It's that spirit love. 418 00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:57,560 It's a love that's different than the love that we were once 419 00:36:57,560 --> 00:37:01,880 used to before we found new life in Christ. 420 00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:05,160 The world offers conditional love. 421 00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:11,720 You have to earn my affection. But God's love is a love 422 00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:16,200 unconditional, unlike we've ever experienced before. 423 00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:19,640 For God so loved the world that he gave his best. 424 00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:23,280 While we were yet sinners, while we were enemies of God, He gave 425 00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:27,280 his best that we may not perish but have eternal life. 426 00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:35,680 We must become acquainted with the agape love of God to walk in 427 00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:42,160 the reverential fear of God who knows that when you are born 428 00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:47,360 again you are born into a new Kingdom, which is a new way of 429 00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:50,560 life. Jesus refers to his Kingdom as 430 00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:56,840 an upside down Kingdom. The world will tell you eye for 431 00:37:56,840 --> 00:38:01,600 an eye, tooth for a tooth. You do bad to me, I'm going to 432 00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:05,480 do even worse to you. I'm a return evil with evil. 433 00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:09,200 But Jesus says Nah, Nah Nah Nah, not in my Kingdom. 434 00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:14,360 In my Kingdom you are to love your enemies and pray for those 435 00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:20,080 who persecute you. God is love and love always 436 00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:22,640 wins. We must become acquainted with 437 00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:28,920 love so that in these times when it's hard to love, our response 438 00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:34,760 is not evil, but we choose love, and God is the only one that can 439 00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:37,400 change your enemy's heart in that moment. 440 00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:42,480 So why not bring God into the equation by responding evil, 441 00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:49,680 returning evil with love? Love always wins, doesn't it? 442 00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:58,280 It's true. 1 John 4 verse 16. The Bible says God is love, and 443 00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:04,040 he who dwells and continues in love dwells and continues in 444 00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:09,520 God, and God dwells and continues in him. 445 00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:18,120 And it's this idea that when we are faithful to choose love, we 446 00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:22,160 are dwelling and continuing to dwell in love. 447 00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:26,960 I love how it says and continues and continues. 448 00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:30,760 It reminds me of when Paul encourages us, encourages us. 449 00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:34,880 Do not grow weary in well doing for a due season. 450 00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:40,480 You shall reap if you faint not. God is faithful that when we 451 00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:46,280 continue to pursue and live in love that He will continue to 452 00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:50,400 pursue us and dwell in us as we dwell in Him. 453 00:39:55,200 --> 00:40:02,160 The Lord gave me this revelation about continuing on in love that 454 00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:06,360 who knows that it's not always easy to walk in love. 455 00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:08,640 Have you experienced it's challenging, right? 456 00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:18,440 Well, love tests brings out Love's best. 457 00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:24,280 It's an opportunity. To demonstrate the greatest 458 00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:29,280 love, the unearned love, the undeserved love, the uncalled 459 00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:33,920 for love so love test. You can see it as aw man this is 460 00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:36,800 awful. Why are you testing my love 461 00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:39,040 right now? Or you could be excited. 462 00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:43,120 This is an opportunity to share the love of God right now and 463 00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:46,720 for me to become more like my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 464 00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:52,680 Remember Jesus's love was so great that as the ones who 465 00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:56,120 crucified nailed them to the cross, he said, Father forgive 466 00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:59,280 them for they know not what they are doing right now. 467 00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:02,320 That kind of love. That's the love that we are 468 00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:06,120 called to walk in. God is love. 469 00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:12,040 And so love tests bring out Love's best, but sometimes we 470 00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:14,880 might fall short and and the love test might bring out the 471 00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:19,160 worst in US. Can anyone else to testify to 472 00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:21,600 that? I know I've had moments where I 473 00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:25,240 dropped in an oof, That's not how I wanted to respond. 474 00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:29,160 That's not what my loved ones deserve in that moment. 475 00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:33,280 But it's an opportunity to allow the love test to bring the worst 476 00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:37,200 out of you and allow it to stay out of you once and for all. 477 00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:40,680 You can make a decision right then and there. 478 00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:43,320 That's the last time that that's going to happen. 479 00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:48,400 God's love and mercy is new for you every day. 480 00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:54,840 The fear of God is to dwell and continue in God's love. 481 00:41:57,520 --> 00:42:00,880 John 3 verse 35. Jesus answered him. 482 00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:05,680 I assure you most solemnly I tell you, this is what Jesus is 483 00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:11,320 talking to Nicodemus. Unless a person is born again, 484 00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:18,840 shout out, born again anew from above, he cannot ever see, know, 485 00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:23,960 be acquainted with and experience the Kingdom of God. 486 00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:31,280 So Jesus is telling this man, in order to experience this new 487 00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:35,560 Kingdom I come to establish, you have to be born again of the 488 00:42:35,560 --> 00:42:40,480 water and of the Spirit. You have to be cleansed by the 489 00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:45,520 blood of Jesus and filled with the infilling of the Holy Spirit 490 00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:49,160 in order to walk and live and exist in this new Kingdom. 491 00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:57,080 And what we have to be OK with church is, is if I am being born 492 00:42:57,080 --> 00:43:02,800 again in the Spirit, that means that I am being made a baby in 493 00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:10,040 the spirit realm and I have to be OK with being re fathered and 494 00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:12,280 brought up in the way that I should go. 495 00:43:13,240 --> 00:43:16,520 Because up until this point in my life, I was raised by the 496 00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:21,560 world, the world system, or I was raised by an earthly father 497 00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:24,960 that was doing their best. But there comes a time where we 498 00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:29,360 need to be raised by our heavenly Father, our spiritual 499 00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:35,720 Father, and we must carry the spirit of the fear of God, this 500 00:43:35,720 --> 00:43:42,360 reverence towards our spiritual Father, to allow him to raise us 501 00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:50,320 up as spiritual children and for him to raise us in the way that 502 00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:58,720 we should go. Acts 17 says, For in Him Jesus 503 00:43:58,720 --> 00:44:05,600 Christ, that is, we live and we move, and we have our being, as 504 00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:12,640 also some of your own poets have said, for we also are his 505 00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:16,680 offspring. God did not leave us here on 506 00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:21,920 earth as orphans. He did not leave us here to 507 00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:27,080 figure things out on our own. But the Bible says that we are 508 00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:32,560 no longer outsiders, but we are members of the family of God. 509 00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:37,760 We have received the same spirit of sonship that Jesus Christ 510 00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:44,280 himself walked in. And so the fear of God is to 511 00:44:44,360 --> 00:44:49,880 live, is to move, and it is to be in Christ. 512 00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:54,880 It's no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. 513 00:44:55,440 --> 00:44:59,680 The fear of God is for that to be your daily declaration. 514 00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:06,680 It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me at the 515 00:45:06,680 --> 00:45:11,040 moment of temptation and trial. It is no longer I who live, but 516 00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:16,040 Christ who lives in me. The moment we follow Jesus, 517 00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:20,280 decide to be a a a follower of Christ, it's no longer about me. 518 00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:24,720 It's about Jesus and everybody else. 519 00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:31,360 And the sooner we come to that revelation, the sooner we come 520 00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:35,600 into the peace of God that transcends all understanding. 521 00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:43,760 Hallelujah, Hebrews 12. I'm a close on this. 522 00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:51,560 Let us therefore, receiving a Kingdom that is firm and stable 523 00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:57,280 and cannot be shaken, us who have chosen to build our lives 524 00:45:57,280 --> 00:46:03,280 upon the rock which is our firm foundation, Let us offer to God 525 00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:09,920 pleasing service and acceptable worship, spirit truth with 526 00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:14,320 modesty and peace, care and godly fear and awe. 527 00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:20,760 For God is indeed a consuming fire. 528 00:46:21,680 --> 00:46:27,200 Church, the Lord desires to consume every area of your life, 529 00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:33,600 not to take anything from you, but to give you everything. 530 00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:40,520 The Bible says that He has already lavished every spiritual 531 00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:46,520 blessing upon us needed for life and godliness, and it's through 532 00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:49,680 our yielding our life wholeheartedly to Him and 533 00:46:49,680 --> 00:46:55,240 walking in a greater revelation of who He is, this fear of God 534 00:46:55,680 --> 00:47:00,320 that we crossover to live in all that He's already lavished upon 535 00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:02,040 us. Amen. 536 00:47:03,080 --> 00:47:06,120 Amen. This moment I'm just going to 537 00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:11,360 invite the worship team to come back as I just pray for each and 538 00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:16,600 everyone of you guys that you would just grow in the spirit of 539 00:47:16,600 --> 00:47:24,440 the fear of God. This is not a word to intimidate 540 00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:28,840 or scare you, but a word to bless you that the Lord desires 541 00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:32,600 to get more to you. He desires for you to find that 542 00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:40,280 place of rest, that place where you find true life, that that 543 00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:44,960 place where you are satisfied, and that place where you are 544 00:47:44,960 --> 00:47:48,800 above all evil. Amen. 545 00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:53,640 And so I'm invite you to just stand with me right now as I 546 00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:58,560 pray that this word penetrates the very depths of our soul. 547 00:47:59,920 --> 00:48:02,560 Father, we thank you that you are good. 548 00:48:02,800 --> 00:48:08,000 We thank You that you are love. We thank You that you are spirit 549 00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:11,200 and you sent your Spirit to dwell within each and everyone 550 00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:13,680 of us. We thank you that Your word is 551 00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:16,760 true, and it is a firm foundation for us to build our 552 00:48:16,760 --> 00:48:19,600 lives upon. Father, right now in this 553 00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:22,800 moment, we receive the word that your wind is blowing. 554 00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:27,720 Blow and blow in our lives. Lord, we know that you are a 555 00:48:27,720 --> 00:48:31,880 consuming fire and that the Holy Spirit blows so that that fire 556 00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:36,080 can grow greater and greater and greater within each and every 557 00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:40,840 one of us. Father, we thank you that you 558 00:48:40,840 --> 00:48:43,680 are good and You are worthy to be praised. 559 00:48:45,440 --> 00:48:53,080 Reveal to us, us, show us our own hearts and where we have a 560 00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:57,800 hard time surrendering to You, and then reveal us your 561 00:48:57,800 --> 00:49:00,160 goodness. Reveal to us Your goodness, 562 00:49:00,600 --> 00:49:06,360 which causes us to repent and turn and give every part of us 563 00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:09,600 over to You. We thank the Holy Spirit that 564 00:49:09,600 --> 00:49:12,640 you who are doing a good work, you shall see it come to 565 00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:15,680 completion. In the mighty name of Jesus, I 566 00:49:15,680 --> 00:49:17,080 pray. Amen. 567 00:49:22,920 --> 00:49:25,160 Thank you so much for tuning into this week's sermon. 568 00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:28,480 We pray you were challenged, equipped and encouraged. 569 00:49:28,720 --> 00:49:30,680 Make sure to follow us on all platforms. 570 00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:34,760 That's Lovequest Intl church. We out here for real. 571 00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:37,120 We're really doing it. That's Facebook, Instagram, 572 00:49:37,120 --> 00:49:40,360 YouTube and TikTok. You can find us anywhere you 573 00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:42,640 need to find us. But until next time, you know 574 00:49:42,640 --> 00:49:44,840 the drill. You know the motto, get your 575 00:49:44,840 --> 00:49:47,040 love fixed man and we'll see y'all real soon.