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Hey there believers, I got a great episode for you this week.
Before I record this week's episode, I want you to know I
didn't miss an episode. I did a live episode on YouTube.
I tried to put it over onto the podcast platforms and for
whatever reason, out of like 8 people that showed up to be on
the show, the audio didn't pick up for five, maybe six of them.
So you could just hear me reply and I couldn't share that.
But the full audio or the the full video is on YouTube.
So please go check that out. It was a lot of fun and I didn't
release anything new, but I highly encourage you to go to
the live on YouTube and watch that.
And it was a good time. And for those of you that didn't
get to catch it, it's sitting right there waiting for you.
I'm going to move forward with the show.
I have a lot of guests lined up. I'm going into summertime, so I
got a little bit more time to. A little more.
Flexibility in my schedule in coming months, so I'm hoping to
be more consistent with YouTube as well as keeping a weekly show
on the on the podcast. Right now what I'm about to play
is an Army of God episode. I felt LED.
I was blessed with another opportunity at the church to
teach and I felt led to talk about discernment, especially
with the coming deception. And it's about 2526 minutes.
It's a, it's a shorter lesson at church, but I've released it
already on social media. I put it on TikTok, put it on
YouTube, Facebook, but I wanted to put it on the podcast
platforms and I might put this on YouTube also.
Seems like they have loosened up with their restrictions and
stuff like that for podcasters. So it might be a good time to
share, but yeah, I hope everybody's doing well.
We're now in the seventh season or his 7th year and also 7th
season of the show. So I just want to thank
everybody for all the love and support over the years.
It it's been good. I know that on my end growth has
only went so far, but also I'm, I'm very aware that I don't do
the big wow factor 8K videos and huge, you know, backgrounds and
stuff like that. So I get it, you know, and I got
a great mic. But for whatever reason, there's
still tech. Troubles with audio and stuff
like that. So no, I don't have the money to
pour into it. I'm not independently wealthy.
I'm not. I don't have 1000 sponsors or
anything like that, this is just a.
It's a show for the Lord. You know, I give it what I can
and I think that's all that he asks of us, right?
So there you go. I'll keep doing it to the best
of my ability and let God provide the increase.
Little announcement and it's it's nothing bad because I don't
accept anything bad right I'm standing on faith just like I
did with the job and the job turned out I'll I'll get more
into that later on to this episode but last.
Week. Actually, just two days ago, I
got a call back from the dermatologist and the doctor
said that they have found some skin, skin cancer on my head in
a few places. And that evening I went to the
church. Everybody laid hands on me.
I was anointed with oil. I believe I'm healed.
However, I still have to go through with the, the procedure,
right? It's dead.
It's, it's done. I'm healed.
I won't have to worry about this in a month from now.
But I, I'm still going through the procedure.
They're going to remove whatever they have found, if it's if it's
even identified when I get there.
So keep me in your in your prayers and I'll I'll keep you
in mind. All right.
Yeah, God. 'S going to work out for the
good. There's nothing to worry about.
It's just one more thing to give God glory for, OK.
And nobody wants to hear that word, but it's nothing to be
afraid of. All right, All right.
I love you guys. God bless.
And I hope that this blesses you.
Got to driving me crazy. I got the testimony or I got to
testify. I'm just sitting on it.
I got good news yesterday. I wanted to wait till I got up
here and looked out, looked at you guys face to face to let you
know about it. Because a couple months ago I
found out that my job was being cut that June 26th.
Is it contract's over? And I refuse to believe that I
just stood on faith that God's going to put me where he wants
me. And I felt like I need to be
with these kids at the school, that it's not over yet.
And so I didn't go job hunting, didn't look for anything.
There's three positions in this county that do what I do, OK?
There's three instructors, one at each high school.
And the other two instructors, they've already found new jobs
and they're they've moved on. They're finishing up this school
year. But when people would ask me
what I'm going to do, I say I'm waiting on the Lord.
I'm standing on faith. Come on.
And I know I sounded crazy about that.
I know they don't make any sense.
Come on. I mean, I got a mortgage.
I got a car payment, but I was just standing on faith.
Yesterday at 6:15 in the morning, the director of the
program texted me and said that the Board of Education has found
room for me doing my job at the vocational school.
So I'm going to take the all glory to God.
It was just the night before whom I told Jesse.
It was just the night before that I really submitted it, you
know, like I was waiting. I had faith, but I wanted it so
bad. You know, I wanted, I was just,
I wanted it so bad for it to work out.
Well night before last I submitted fully and I was
talking to him and I was like, Lord, I know no matter what, you
know, no matter what you had. And if, if that's not the job
for me, that's OK. You know, I, I submit to your
will. I want, there's things I want,
but I want what you want more. And it was 4 hours later, it was
delivered. Thank God.
I thank God for that. It's going to be a big change.
You know, I'm going to be driving down to the vocational
school every day, but who cares? And we've we've had two good
lessons already today. You know, we had Kenny talking
about taking every thought captive.
You know, we have brother Steven talking about what drives us.
And I have a, I've got a lesson prepared to on discernment
tomorrow. I feel like we're in a, a good
time to talk about it with everything going on in the
world, you know, yes, come on. And so everybody get ready to
read a little bit. We can volunteer to read or
whatever, but I have about 8 different sightings here in the
Bible citations. We'll go through those and I
want you guys to just walk through with me.
We'll take our time. It's going to be.
A good time and I. Want to say to my lovely wife,
please stop sitting on your testimony because he called on
you and you weren't. You weren't going to say
nothing. I know that it's hard to follow
statement. You're like, I don't like being
caught up. Well, don't wait.
That was that was beautiful. I must confess I heard her give
a shout and see what? I heard that.
Tina come out so I. Heard Jesus.
Come out. Amen.
All right. We're going to talk about
discernment in, in First Corinthians 12 and 10, it says
the distinguishing of spirits talking about a spiritual gift
from God. It's referenced directly there,
but it's also mentioned all throughout the Bible.
But instead of just going through and reading every
passage that says discern I, I figured it would be a, a good
idea to actually break it down a little bit, talk about it, make
it relatable, and stress the importance of having discernment
in today's time more. That's good.
We all have a, a certain level of discernment.
You know, if you get that gut feeling about something or if
you know somebody's lying to you, you know, that's a level of
discernment. It might not be the spiritual
gift of discernment, but we all have that ability to to identify
what's obviously wrong besides what's presented on the service,
you know, being able to see ahead.
About how? Things are going to shake out
being able to distinguish between good and evil between
the truth and the lie when somebody's well meaning, but
they're wrong versus if somebody's trying to manipulate
you know and to see God's will in something you know that
that's discernment and to bother you again, Jess, I'm going to
ask you I I believe in my heart. I know in my heart that Sandra
has discernment and I know Jess has the gift of discernment and
there's the Lord if you don't care.
I know it's hard to explain a feeling, but can you just tell
me or tell everybody what it what it feels like in those kind
of moments when when the Lord talks to you.
I really. Don't.
I don't know how to explain that, you know, like in a
physical sense. And I just, it's a knowing.
I just know. But I pray for that because it,
I feel like sometimes it's not as strong as I, it should be as
I want it to be, But I do, I pray and I ask God to help me
see what is for me and what is against me because I believe
that we live in a world where there's a battle going on every
day or all around us. And we cannot walk through this,
this world without knowing what is good and what is evil because
there is a real evil. There's a real enemy out there.
And it's just a, it's just a feeling that I, I just, I can't.
Like I said, I always thought when I was younger, but I felt
like I've always kind of had it. Even when I was a girl, I just
would know. I would just know something.
And it seems crazy. Nobody really ever believes me
and I so I would question myself.
It would make me doubt when people about know that you're
you know, you're just imagining things or you're being
judgmental or whatever. But I've learned as I've gotten
older and gotten closer to the Lord that I'm seldom wrong in
it. And if that's not any, I'm not
trying to be like no glory to myself.
But when I lean on Adam and I just take it for what God shows
me it is. He's always showing if that's
the Holy Spirit leading me and telling me what is what is of
this you know of God and what is not so I don't I don't doubt it.
And even when nobody, nobody wants to hear it or nobody wants
to believe me, no matter how much evidence I can collect and
give you, it takes the law for most people finding out the hard
way just. Like walking in some place and
you know that you're supposed to be dead.
You. Know come on, it's time to
leave. You can walk in and it's just
like something just yeah. Rings.
In your head, leave. Leave this.
Place people. Always told me it was an
intuition like, oh, it's just your intuition, you know, trust
your gut. I've heard that a lot and that's
kind of what it is. It's just a knowing for me
anyway. I mean, it may be different for
somebody else. I really don't know.
But like they said, I bear that happens a lot.
You just know when it's time to go, when it, when it's time to
stay and. When he tells you to do
something and you say no and as a fear comes on, you says I say
come now. You know, obviously some people
are blessed with that gift of discernment.
It's, it's extra, you know it, it's extra.
But like I said, you can pray for these gifts.
You know, Paul says this to seek Jesus bless you to seek these
greater gifts, right? So we're going to talk about how
to identify things and how to to build up that discernment, OK?
Because like in Jesus tells us in so many different examples,
but for one, he says in Matthew 716, he says you will know them
by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from
thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they?
So you'll know them by their fruits.
That means you can discern what somebody you know what their
intentions are or by by checking to see what what they produce
versus what they're talking about.
And down in verse 20, it says, so then you will know them by
their fruits when he repeats himself.
You know, it's a very important thing.
That's right, that's good. That's good if you see it more
than once. And in verses 21 and 22, it
says, not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord will enter the
Kingdom of heaven, that he who does the will of my father who
is in heaven will enter. That's right.
And he goes on, Many will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, did
we not prophecy in your name and in your name cast out demons and
in your name perform many miracles?
Yes. It's, that's not everyone who
says Lord, Lord who claims to do works in his name will see
heaven, But those who do the will of God will enter.
We can identify those gifts, those fruits from discernment of
what is God and what is of the spirit and what is people just
trying to go through the motions.
You know, people can say they're a Christian.
People can use the name of Jesus for what what fruit is that bear
and and identifying those things that those are that's that's one
way to help build up your discernment to actually to watch
people to what to watch what they do versus what they say.
You know both. Yeah, just.
Want to elaborate what you said there?
I was thinking about that about good people.
Like you said, it's not about a bad or it's correct knowing the
fruit and the the heartbreaking thing is, you know, the older
ones here and I'm sure some of the young ones too.
I've seen people get so caught up in things that they, they, I
believe they love God, but they a person seemed like they hinged
their relationship with God depends on that first grass or a
building or a denomination or a, you know, a, a something other
than and I'm like what you said that that God has to be.
That's why he says he called this.
He said pick up your cross and follow me and then another
script. He said daily pick up your cross
because then you will see like he's talking about, the fruit
that they will bear will be genuine because they're
following the blesser and not just enjoying the blessing.
Yeah. I mean, people, like I said,
well, somebody's well meaning, but if it's wrong versus
obviously trying to manipulate you, you know what I mean, or
secretly trying to manipulate you, when you have discernment,
you can tell the difference between the two.
And if someone is, if they're well meaning and they're just
wrong, you can't hold that against them, you know?
And if they're trying to manipulate you, you don't hold
that against them either, really.
Because these people are led by spirits, whether they realize it
or not. That's right.
You know, if it's a spirit of religion, you know, if it's, if
it's self gain or whatever, or pride or whatever, yes, we can't
blame it on the person. Because just as we are vessels
for God, they're vessels too, you know, and, and any of us can
fall short. Any of us can be mistaken.
It's easy to mean with, right? And that's why we got to check
those fruits. The fruits of the spirit are
listed in Galatians. So I'm just going to read
through what is deeds of the flesh versus fruits of the
spirit, OK? It says the deeds of the flesh
are evident, which are immorality, impurity,
sensuality, idolatry, sorcery. Enmity, strife, jealousy,
outburst of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, envy,
drunkenness, carousing and things like these.
I'll stop there. So if if what's being produced
looks like those things, right? That's not of God, but the
fruits of the Spirit is Lovejoy, peace, patience, kindness,
goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control, and
against such things there is no law.
Praise God. Praise God so.
Let's let's see what is being bore out of what people's advice
or what people's intentions are. And sometimes that takes
discernment. Sometimes that takes just
patience, you know, so we don't need to seek and practice
discernment. It goes hand in hand with wisdom
and knowledge. The, the older ones in the
church can probably already identify that, you know, with
wisdom, you can, you can discern with knowledge, you know what to
look for. Jesus warns us of a great
deception that's coming. And, and parts of this, this
lesson might get a little weird for some people, but it's going
on in the world. So we're going to talk about it
today, but this Great Recession that Jesus talks about, it's in
Matthew chapter 24, verses 23 and 24.
And these are things that I'm hearing rumors, like we're going
to hear rumors, right? But I'm hearing a lot of talk of
things like this, this exact example coming soon.
It says if anyone says to you, behold here is the Christ or
there he is, do not believe him for false Christs and false
prophets will arise and show great signs and wonders so as to
mislead if possible, even the very elect right.
We see it in the Luke two. You don't have to.
I'll just read Luke as well. It's Luke 21.
It starts in verse 25 and it goes through 28, and then I'll
read 31 and 34 through 36 just to keep the same thought, OK,
It's the same thing going through here.
Verse 25. Luke chapter 21 says there will
be signs in sun and moon and stars and on the earth.
Dismayed among nations in perplexity at the roaring of the
sea, in the waves, men feigning from fear and expectation of the
things which are coming upon the world.
For the powers of the heavens will be shaken, then they will
see the Son of man coming on the in a cloud with power and great
glory. But when these things begin to
take place, straighten up and lift up your heads, because your
redemption is drawn near. And I, I, I believe that our
redemption is drawing near. Now verse 31 says so you also
when you see that these things happening, recognize that the
Kingdom of God is near 34 be on guard so that your hearts will
not be weighted down with dissipation and drunkenness and
the worries of life and that they will not come upon you
suddenly like a trap for will come upon those all those who
dwell on the face of the earth. But keep on the alert at all
times. That's discernment, staying
aware, right? Praying that you will have the
strength to escape all these things that are about to take
place, to stand before the Son of Man.
That deception is coming. And don't be afraid to warn
others. We.
We need not be afraid about looking crazy or foolish.
I got a couple of verses that talk about that.
But you know, we do look foolish to people that think of
themselves as wise, right? They think of themselves as
intelligent. We're not worried about what the
world calls smart. We're not worried about what the
world advises. We have the rule book right
here, right? Everything this Bible has never
been proven false about a single point, you know, So if we look
foolish by seeing things through discernment, if it if it's
rooted in the word, don't worry about it.
Come on. That's right.
We have the mind of Christ. You talked about that.
And if we keep our minds on Christ, then we won't be easily
deceived. But Jesus warns us that it could
pull the very elect. Yes, All right.
I'm going to get a little bit weird, but that's just kind of
who I am, OK, on, on certain things, on social media, on news
reports, you have these investigative groups that have
called in pastors, OK, And they're being warned to prepare
their congregations because these weird things are coming.
They're talking about disclosure about aliens of all things,
right? Saying that what's coming is
going to shake people. It's going to shake people's
faith in God. Pastors are being warned to
tell, are being told to tell their congregations about this
thing. Don't believe what you see.
Don't believe what you hear. Keep your eyes on the cross
because there's going to be a great perception.
That's right. This is coming straight out of
the Bible and it's happening right now.
There's a lot of conspiracies and rumors of even holographic
projections in the sky. You know they're going to,
they're going to say, look, there's the Christ.
Right there he is. There's.
Going to be claims that they that these beings created us.
There's going to be a staged rapture is what some of these
conspiracy theories. There's the conspiracy theories
are saying that, you know, they're going to try to take
people up and claim that it's a rapture and that we miss it as
Christians because we're wrong. Come on, that we were seated
here by some kind of other being or whatever.
But don't be deceived by these things.
Come on, I know it sounds crazy, but it so many people that
aren't rooted in the word, come on, are going to fall for this
kind of stuff. That's right.
Me and Kenny's talked about it a little bit before.
So just as long as we stay in the word, we see that Jesus is
warning us of of these false claims and that of his return
and of terrible sights coming from the heavens.
So I can see where they're coming from with all this.
Just don't fall for it because there are a few people out
there, a few people in government even even the vice
president of this country is saying, they say that they're
calling aliens or demons. They're calling it out for what
it is. It's demonic.
It's demons posing as angels of light.
What? They're they're deceivers.
That's right. There's new ways of cult groups
out here that record themselves trying to summon these things,
thinking that they're, they're talking to higher beings.
Come on, they're summoning demons.
If you get a, you know, if you get 10 people together in a
circle on a mountaintop and you start praying and meditating and
asking for these things to enter and then they do, that's
demonic. Yes, it is.
OK, That's, that's a, it's a form of witchcraft.
So we cannot let our our faith be shaped because we know it's
coming. We even in this country, we have
golden statues being erected for our president and there's
Christian groups and there's Jewish groups going there and
praying over these things. It's idolatry.
And I'm not getting political and I'm not saying that the
president asked for that to be erected, but it was.
And people are laying their hands on it and they're praying
over it. That's idolatry.
That's right. That's right.
So we need to stay away from that stuff.
We need to, we need to be as the Bereans were in Acts 17.
That's right. OK, we'll read that one real
quick. Acts 17 verses 10 and 11.
I love it. And this is, this is how we as
Christians need to be. We need to be like these Bereans
are these people from Berea. Acts 17, verses 10 and 11.
It says the brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas away by
night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the
synagogue of the Jews. Verse 11.
Now these were more noble minded than those of Thessalonica, for
they received the word with great eagerness, examining the
Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
That's right. The Bereans were known for
diligent studying of Scripture. This is what they did day in and
day out, every day. They were open to learning.
You know, they received Paul, but they put everything he said
against Scripture and that that's the point.
And they were using discernment by measuring things against the
Word of God. And that's what we need to do.
We need to discern the truth through the Word of God.
And I just got one more verse. I'm going to read well about 6
more verses, but it's out of first John chapter 4.
It's about testing the spirits. And this goes back to seeing the
fruits. This goes back to taking
thoughts captive. This goes to knowing what drives
us and it's discernment. We're going to test the spirits
and this is how, when, when we're faced with something with
information that we're receiving, if somebody is
talking to us directly, this is how we test the spirit.
OK, First, John 4 verses one through 6, it says, beloved, do
not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether
they are from God because many false prophets have gone out
into the world by this. You know the Spirit of God,
every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the
flesh is from God and every spirit that does not confess
Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the
Antichrist of which you have heard that it is coming and now
it is already in the world. To be called an Antichrist
spirit does not mean that you are the end times Antichrist.
Anything that speaks against Jesus, come on, is Antichrist.
That's right. OK, So just know that it says
verse 4. You are from God, little
children, and you have overcome them, because the greater is he
who is in you than he who is in this world.
They are from the world, therefore they speak as from the
world, and the world listens to them.
We are from God. He who knows God listens to us.
He who is not from God does not listen to us.
By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
That's right. So.
There's discernment. We know the spirit of truth and
the spirit of error about if it's being spoken by someone of
God, truly of God. And we had to test the spirits
to see if what they're saying is of God.
We test the spirits by doing what?
Studying the Word, measured against the Scripture.
So we know that the only truth we'll find in this world is what
lines up with the Word of God. So get in the Word every day.
Can you been? You've been hitting on this for
a while. You want everybody reading the
Word every day. There's no This is how we
communicate with God. God.
Talks back to us through the word.
It's not. Thank you, Lord, if we.
Have questions? The answers are right here in
the book. Get in it every day.
It takes literally 5 to 10 minutes. 10 minutes is a long
chapter. You can get through a chapter in
5 minutes and just getting it in your eyes, right?
Getting it in your head, getting it in your heart.
You can slow down. You can study it verse by verse.
You can study it line by line. But if you just read 1 chapter a
day, you're doing more than most people.
You're doing more than most Christians out here.
But we need to be like the Bereans.
We have no excuse. We all have 5 minutes.
Every one of us have 5 minutes. Come on.
That's good. So let's be seeking discernment,
let's check for rotten fruit, let's test the spirits and stay
in the Word. Let's not allow ourselves to be
the very elect being deceived that Jesus was talking about.
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With a voice that sounds like Thunder, the streets of gold.
Here's a bit of this. Like Lightning saying hi upon
his strong AS 10 1000 * 10,000. Say Hallelujah right away.
Forever thank. You.
Yeah, yeah. Thank you right away.
Name of Jesus. Praise the Lord.
Oh my soul. Thank you God, in that sea
there's a river. Thank you for we, from God's
holy, from Thank you where the tree of life is only thank God
where the hell has not been told.
No more tears in that bright city.
Death will have to flee. In the perfect day, glory,
glory, thank you Jesus, blessed God, grace, thank you God.
Thank you, Grace the Holy. Name of Jesus.
Thank you, Lord is the Lord, Oh my soul.
Thank you. There's a table in that country
and see that way the sun. Thank you.
God, with the trouble far behind thee to neighbors.
And I'm. Going home in the morning to
that land, I'm so glad, in fact. Walk.
The street you need to go with Jesus name that sea build
Foursquare. Thank you for evermore.
I'm going home to live with Jesus, all that happy golden
soul. Thank you Lord.