If you have your Bibles, turn over to Matthew chapter 6.
Last week we were rolling in to this Kingdom pursuit and it just
came to a place that it seemed like the Holy Ghost said just
save that for next week. And so here we are in this week
still dealing and thinking about this thing called Kingdom
pursuit. I know it's the first of the
year. And so, you know, again,
traditionally a lot of people will put goals down, you know,
their New Year's resolution. And as my, my wife has said,
Apostle Marcy, that there's something even within man that
their willpower can can, can get in involved and they can make
certain changes in their life, develop different habits.
And they can do this independent of God.
But God's giving you something greater than just willpower.
He's giving you the grace to accomplish something bigger than
yourself, something that your personal willpower can never do
without the grace of God in your life.
So when you put your willpower can connected by faith with the
grace of God in your life, it will release a grace in you that
that you'll sit back and say but God but God, but God man the
word of God in the Spirit of God active in us through faith will
cause us to look back on our lives and say but God.
That I could have never of my own self will will this 'cause
this to come to pass. Only God could have done that.
And you want people to have that testimony about your life when
they're looking at you. You want.
Them to be able to say you're a but God person because the
things you're walking into, things you're operating in, the
way you carry yourself, it is only but God.
Aren't you glad that you're a part of God's butt?
In life, but God, while I was dead, in my transgressions of
sin, He died for me. He rose for me, and he saved me
and delivered me, and then I called on his name.
Glory to God. And He moved me into His Kingdom
where He has empowered me. The things that I'm ministering
on these last couple of Sundays. Honestly, if you would just do
this, you would never ever worry one bit ever again.
You would never have another anxious moment and you would
save yourself from a lot of trouble.
I am technically giving you the secrets of life while on the
planet. I literally AM.
And not because I'm saying it. I'm saying what God has said.
But you, you have to trust God with what he has said.
I said you have to trust God with what he has said.
And so we're in Matthew chapter 6.
This chapter is the middle of Jesus's famed Sermon on the
Mount, and that covers Matthew chapter 5-6 and seven.
And he has a whole lot to say that if we just stayed in these
three chapters until he returns, we would never exhaust the
revelation that is within these three chapters alone.
And so there's some very important things right at the
conclusion of this chapter 6 that he gives the key to life,
the key to to living a life that dominates in the planet.
He gives the key. Now, what he says and applying
that are two different things. They're two different things.
But if he says you can do it and he's saying you should, then he
will grace you, meaning he will empower you to actually
accomplish it. Amen.
And so we started in six verse 31.
He said, do not worry. Say I don't worry, say I don't
worry, do not worry. Then saying what will we eat or
what will we drink or what will we wear for clothing for the
Gentiles eagerly what, what do they eagerly do?
What do they eagerly do? Seek all these things, for your
heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
So our Father knows we need them, but he says don't seek
them. That's not your focus.
You do not wake up in the morning trying to figure out how
you what you're going to eat, drink or where.
In essence, where am I getting the natural provisions to live?
What am I doing so that I can live naturally?
He says that's not your number one priority.
I said that's not your number one priority.
Now it seems like the church has forgotten what first is, but
other sectors of society have not forgotten.
In fact, on on January, I think it's the 19th or I don't know
the exact date, but the the college national championship
game, the reality is at the end of that game, someone's going to
hold a trophy and someone is not someone will be declared first
and someone will not. But because we are in the age of
participation trophies, we at like, well, if we're just at it.
OK, now for all, I don't know of tons of Indiana fans in here.
We have any Indiana fans in here.
OK, I got one. Nice.
I mean, they got quite, they have quite the program happening
right now. How many Miami fan up in here?
All right, we got some youth fans in here.
The rest of us are most. Likely Gator fans.
We don't even acknowledge Florida State at this point.
I'm kidding. The point is is that if you are
a Miami fan and you went to the game and your team won, you
would feel like a champion. But guess what?
You will not get a ring or a trophy.
Now you can say you're #1 but you're not technically number
one. You're there by fanbase only.
Are you hearing what I'm saying? And it's like the church wants
to be #1 by fanbase only. I'll show up and scream, but I
would never put in the work and get on the same field that would
require me to actually win that trophy.
Are you hearing what I'm saying? And so you understand God has
said to us in the church, there's something I need you to
make priority in your life. It needs to be first, first,
first, first, first, first. Let me tell you what he did not
say was first your family. He didn't say your family was
first. He did not say your job was
first. Your career was first.
He didn't say raising your children were first.
Oh, it's getting real quiet. Hallelujah.
Now there is a hierarchy that has been taught in a lot of
places, and that is God, right? Family, Church work.
Well, we have a problem with that list because how can you
separate God from church since Jesus is the head of the church.
So we say God, you're saying church, you're saying that how
can you say now if it's institutionalized where the Holy
Spirit's not there, it's just a list of social programs where
people gather together to to put on the appearance of godliness,
but never transformed their mind.
Then sure, that is like another institution, but that was never
in the heart of God. Concerning church, he says seek
first the Kingdom. God is the king of the Kingdom,
of which in the earth His church represents that Kingdom.
So when we look at the line, it's God, church, then your
family and then your influence in sectors of society.
And if you want your family to be great, then you want the
priority of God to be first. Are you hearing me?
Because inevitably, if you don't watch out, if you make anything
else priority, then God actually becomes optional.
And let me tell you, God the Father who sits on the throne is
not understanding why you cannot participate with what He is
passionate about in the planet as his as his child.
He does not understand that because he says here in verse
33, but seek, seek what first his Kingdom and his and all
these things will be added to you.
So when people say, well, you know, you got to understand, I
can't, I cannot make it to church because I have to work
the Lord saying that doesn't make sense.
I said if you'll seek me and you will do what I've asked you to
do. Then I'll add that stuff.
Most people wouldn't even consider leaving their job to
make sure they can make it to church.
OK, let me go over here. No, most people would never
consider that, but yet could you say, Lord, I know that first and
foremost your word says seek first the Kingdom of God, which
includes assembling yourself together with other believers
because you're extremely passionate about your church,
the one that you're building, and you're coming for them.
When you return, you're not coming back for the lost.
You're coming back for the church.
You're going to catch up the church together with you, you.
Love your church. You even said through your
apostle Peter that you know what we help the the church or the
world. We do things he said, but he
takes care of the household 1st and that household is not
immediate family. It is those who call on the name
of the Lord to be saved and are doing the will of the Father.
He's talking about the household or the body of Christ, or the.
Church of the Living. God, that's what he's talking
about. And he's saying if you will be
passionate about those things then he will add everything
else. I have never seen a person who
genuinely loves God and are led by their spirit and have kept
First things first ever burn out or ever.
Lose. Their marriage and their total
family. Now side note, you can lose a
spouse and you can lose children when you're doing everything
right for God. Why do we know this?
Because God the Father has never gone wrong and He gave
everything to His Son. He made a planet for him, He
provided for him, He was personally present with him, He
cared for him, gave him instructions that led to life
and godliness and Adam rebelled. So again, typically when someone
says, well look how their children, they just went to
church too much, well, no, they're free will moral agent
just like Adam is. So we're going to blame Adam's
sin on God. No, typically the people making
those statements are those that are carnal.
They're feeding their flesh. They don't want to put that down
and they don't no longer want to do what God's asked them to do
and that is serve. Seek first the Kingdom.
The greatest leader is well the minute you quit serving you
decide you don't want to lead anymore.
Same in anyway. Just smile a lot.
First things first. Now I didn't say it.
Now I get accused, you know, because as an apostle of a
ministry that is advancing God's Kingdom and preaching his word,
you know, well, there's just, they want too much.
I don't want anything but what God wants.
And he said it was first. I didn't.
In fact, if it was up to me, I probably would have made some
concessions. Yeah, I remember hearing this
one minister that I thought was crazy was like, I don't know why
things are what they are. Maybe if I was in the beginning
I would have said something different.
And I'm not. I'll leave it as vague as that.
But in my mind, I'm thinking, bro, you actually think that you
have an idea better than God? As a human that has been well
proficient in rebellion and not doing God's word, I'm sure I
could say, Lord, that's too much.
But I mean, how can I sit, stand in front of the one that I say
is Lord of my life and talk about too much when he would
just say, shall I show you my hands?
You want to look at my feet? Shall I take you back in time
and watch them, let you watch them open up my back, and then
after that still carried that cross, shall I show you the
moment? All of the world's sin came on
me, and you want to talk to me about too much?
I'm like, Lord, what else? When you understand that
revelation, you're like. What else Lord?
What else Lord?
What else, Lord? What else Lord, because you gave
all now people could say well, but you know God could do that.
We couldn't, but we still have a part to play.
He tells us unless we deny ourselves take up our cross and
follow him, then we really not worthy of him.
So he expects some kind of reciprocation.
Once you've called on the name of Jesus this why Jesus said
listen, I understand what you can see.
I understand that everything around here.
Is, is, is. Moved by things, what you need,
what you need, what you need and and you're attached to those
because of the fallen state. But I'm telling you, if you'll
seek the Kingdom first, I'll just add those to you.
I said, I'll just add those to you.
So you know when you're under financial strain.
It's it's not about getting two or three jobs to come out.
It's first going to the Lord and say, how do you want me to come
out of this? Amen.
I said Amen because He has the plan.
The Matthew 633 says yes, but seek, aim at and strive after
first of all His Kingdom and His righteousness, His way of doing
and being right and then all these things taken together will
be given. Besides, I understand this
statement of Sikh is very challenging and 1st is very
challenging. I get that.
I understand why when we minister along these lines, the
air or the oxygen in the room starts to get sucked out because
all of a sudden there's a self examination that starts to go on
by the Holy Ghost and he begins to talk to you and say, am I
first in your life? Do I get the first option in
anything you're going through? Do you come to me first?
Do you seek me first? Do you are you passionate about
my way of handling any situation first?
Do you worse, do you worship and praise me first?
Do you put my priorities first? I understand and you know when
there's so much going on in the world and there's so many things
that we have to address day in and day out.
These are daunting task and in our minds because we lived a way
prior to knowing God, you know and we've had some level of
natural success to all of a sudden hear the Lord say you
know what change that thinking, go after me and me alone and
watch what I do to open up doors for you.
Now that requires 2 things, faith and the big one, trust.
Trust the word seek here means to seek in order to find, to
aim, to strive after, pursue, endeavor to obtain and so in
order. When he says seek first, he is
saying you are to seek in order to find it right?
Seek and you will. He doesn't say seek and man wait
till you get to heaven because that's where it's all at.
Notice he doesn't say in this passage of scripture but seek
1st heaven. Heaven is what comes with being
born again. It's not the focus of our
attention, it's his Kingdom that's the focus because his
Kingdom is not limited to heaven.
In fact, his Kingdom will manifest in the earth.
That's why Jesus said when you pray, pray this way, let's say
it together. Our Father who art in heaven,
hallowed be your name, your Kingdom, your will be on as it
is. So we're seeking.
God's will, not God's location. Because if all you're doing is
seeking God's location, then you don't care about His will,
because you'll just pass through and take whatever this world has
to throw at you and wait for a place.
But when you seek His Kingdom, you do not have to wait for a
place. You can pull the environment and
the will of that place into the earth.
Through your life, Hallelujah. Now first means this first in
time or place, chief foremost in time, place, order of it, or
import order of importance first of all.
So the order of importance, the first thing you do when you get
out, do you praise the Lord? Do you thank Him for another
day? Do you go into the word and say
Now Lord, what are you saying? Do you have that personal?
Is it first or is it Instagram to see what you missed and who,
what someone did or didn't say or what they posted while you
were asleep? Are you here?
Do you check a game? I checked games.
I just try to make sure. I make sure it's after I've said
thank you, Lord, that I'm awake. It's so good.
And then I'm like, oh, yeah, so and so played last night.
I wonder if they won. That's how connected I am.
I've left a mini a game that was excited because I'm like, you
know what, I've got to get up. I've got things to do with the
Lord and I'll just find out tomorrow.
Amen. I'm interested, but it's not
first. Hallelujah.
I said it's not first. And so we see here that God has
this since it's the first of the year.
Let's make 2026 not where we're seeking after.
And I'm just tell you this with church dynamics.
This has been happening since we planted anchor fee churches and
all of the relationships that I have with other ministers that
oversee churches it it tends to be the exact same.
OK, there are three thrusts or growths that happen in the
church, all right. The first one is in January.
Everybody's thinking about God again, new, you know, you know,
I'm going to commit to God better this year.
So they go looking for a church, they show up or you know what,
I've been out for so long with the holidays.
You know, we were doing so much and we, you know, we need to get
back in church. All right.
So there's this push in January all the way up to about the
first week of February. And then by the time we get to
the mid February, all of a sudden the sound of spring is
calling. Sun starts showing up a little
bit, right? You know, And the next thing you
know, the options kick in. And then especially in Florida,
right? And then obviously we have
spring break. And when spring break hits and
all the parents take their children, they're out of school,
we're out of church, we're out of everything.
And then we're. Kind of out until the next big
day. And what day is that?
Easter Sunday. Easter Sunday?
Why is that day so packed out? Notice he didn't say seek only
at the identified service called Resurrection Sunday.
Hallelujah. But that's a big dance.
And then that's only last two weeks. 2 weeks right there, I'm
telling. You all across.
Pastors, God love them. They post how many people were
in their services on Sun Easter Sunday.
They post how many people got born again.
But the next Sunday. Depending on the size of the
church, if it's already a large church running over 1000, they
may see 3 maybe twice the size to three times the size they
normally see on a Sunday. They'll get Easter Sunday and
the amount of salvations are like wow, crazy.
The very next Sunday, almost back to normal.
What happened to all those people in one week?
What happened to all those salvations?
The people who came out of the domain of darkness into the
Kingdom of his beloved Son, and all of a sudden they came one
service, and then they've never show back up.
Is that lordship? Did they really?
Confess Christ. Same in anyway Hallelujah,
right? Same in anyway the next one.
When school starts, man, when school starts, here we go.
We're piling them in. Why?
Cuz we're back to school. Kids are back in school, let's
start going. And that runs well for about 6
weeks until the middle of all the sports, right?
I love sports. Our school has sports.
I'm all about sports. But sports should never be above
God. And there was a time in our
nation that Wednesday night practice was off limits because
it respected the church. But now it's practice all the
time. And the one number one reason I
do not go to a different time slot on Wednesdays is it keeps
the availability for all my student athletes to finish their
practice and still make it to church.
Which means then the parents can look at them and say, hey,
practice is over, we're going to church.
And there are many parents here that have done that.
But yet in a lot of places it starts to wane.
Why homework, practice, We're out all the time.
We got practice this day, this day, this day, this day.
You have homework, you have this, we have all these.
You know what we're going to miss?
Say it anyway. Say it we're going to miss.
God knows word all week. Ran my kids to practice already
4 times this week. We're out every night.
Hallelujah, Hallelujah. Aren't you glad we do not live
stream? Because I, you know, let's do
some training here. Listen, when something is
ministered and you're like, maybe I should think about that
or you sense a bit of do I do that instead of dwelling on
that? Or having this thought that's a
hard. Saying you're going to hear that
again here in a minute, that's a hard.
Saying just shout Amen. Are you hearing me?
I want to liken that experience to a roller coaster.
OK, I have ridden roller coasters in my life and you
know. As a guy.
Riding a roller coaster, you know, you want to seem tough and
dignified, right? You know, and you're just kind
of like, but on the inside you're like.
I don't feel good. Right, well, I found the trick
to getting rid of this weird sensation.
And that is scream. Just scream.
Everybody else is anyway, just join the praise.
So you're going up? Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick,
tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, Right.
You're the anticipation and your heart starts doing this and
you're like, Oh my, my, Oh my Lord, we get religious right at
the top of the top of the thing. Oh God.
Right, we get religious. I remember doing the one in in
Dallas, Six Flags, I can't remember the name of it, but it
went down and it went down in a hole and they came up and then
spiraled upward because it was so fast.
In fact, I had teenagers black out during those moments because
of the G force that was taking place as they were going up.
And you're like looking over the edge of this thing, man.
And all of a sudden you're like, my God.
Right. You want to know you're right.
And then all of a sudden, man, here you go and all these organs
show up right here, right here. There they are.
And and you don't scream because you're afraid you'll drop a, a,
a stomach and your large intestines to start flying out.
And like, what's that going to look like if you trying to put
that back in? But if you scream, it will shut
it back down. It will put every organ back in
place. So you just whoa.
So I just learned to whoa whoa. And every time I did that, I
don't Care now I don't feel the effects, I'm just praising.
So when the lure's moving on you and you got a little, just go.
Whoa, glory to God. Hallelujah.
Now everybody is going to assume you're so right with God, that's
why you're praising. But we'll actually know now that
you're scared because he's talking to you.
Shout, Amen, Amen. We should shout, have a shout of
praise. I understand now, if if an
environment comes where a holy hush comes, great, we're going
to know that. But a lot of times you're
ministering the word. This is all shouting material
because this is your king trying to renew your mind, trying to
open you up, trying to release who you really are, who he knew
you were before the foundations of the world, before you messed
your whole life up, before you tried to do it your way, before
you did an experiment on yourself and found it was an
absolute debacle. But God being rich in his mercy,
well, glory to God, He saved me. He picked me up.
He put me on the seat with Christ.
Yeah. And it was his word that set me
free. And his spirit brought the power
to deliver. Me.
Well, glory to God. Amen.
Let's do some more testing. Sit down.
I'll want all the men to stand up.
I want all the men to stand up. Every man I tell.
I told my wife this just on the couch yesterday or Friday when
Indiana was playing Oregon. I'm like, look, look at those
men. Praise.
Look at all those men standing up with their hands up,
shouting. Look at them praising, I mean
praising. They were like, hey, hey, hey,
they were not on their seat. They were not.
But. That was a good catch.
Do you? What do you think?
Coach played that play right now.
You know. I can't believe he dropped that.
I've never seen no one do that. I see it look like this when
they drop it. Oh my gosh, what?
What are you doing? Catch the ball, man.
Now you understand the athletes probably thinking, why don't you
get down here, run the reps that I'm running, catch as many
passes as I've caught, be in this pressure cooker, and then
talk to me about missing something.
All right, man, let's get a shot of praise.
Say Hallelujah, Say glory to God.
Say Hallelujah, say glory to God.
I'm telling you, there's there are plenty of things on the
planet, yeah, that a man will shout over if he's Lord.
I. Should have to say, gentlemen,
please let me preach. I love you.
Shout of praise. I'm trying to get something out.
And in 20 something years I've never had to do that.
Let's see if we can change it in 2026.
Come on, Can I get an Amen? All right, you can be seated.
Thank you man for being an example.
Hallelujah. And all the women say about
time. Hallelujah.
So Jesus kicks off this message here about seeking first with
this idea. Matthew 5-6 He says this.
He says blessed are those who hunger and thirst for
righteousness, for they will be satisfied.
Now Jesus tells us to seek first the Kingdom and His
righteousness and he tell he already let them know initially
when he started this message that righteousness is to be
pursued like hunger and thirst. So now he's giving you the
attitude of what he means when he has says seek first the
Kingdom of God and his righteousness, which means you
should be hungry and thirsty about like when you get hungry,
what are you going to do to get to that food?
What are you going to do? When you're thirsty, like I am
right now. What are you going to do to get
to that thirst? What do you do to satisfy that?
What do you do to satisfy that
Right? I mean, where do you go?
What it's? What links do you do?
Now in the. Natural We got this new term
called hangry. We're angry 'cause we're hungry.
And if we just get hungry, and I love that one Snickers
commercial that they brought out.
When you know the people are acting like Divas, you know and
that and they like give them a snicker, then they turn into a
regular human being again. It's like, OK, it's satisfied.
Well, you understand you're not, you are you're you're, you're
not going to do what God has designed for you until you seek
His. Kingdom and his righteousness
with that kind of tenacity. It is not a complacent, sit
back, relax. It is a pursuit.
It is intentional. And if you want to arrive at the
highest levels of revelation and wisdom and a walk with God while
you're on the earth, it's going to require a conditioning for
you to go after Him with hunger and thirst.
When we were lost dead in our trespasses of sin, no man went
after God. No, not.
One but once you're born again, the Bible says draw near to God
and he will so you cannot apply exactly you're without Christ
life into your in Christ life and this happens all over the
place with believers is they're applying what how God responded
to them in their sin and when they weren't a part of the
family and they want to keep that same kind of living in the
Kingdom when he's like that guy died.
We left them at the cross. You're another species of being
now. You couldn't pursue me.
You couldn't get to me. You couldn't do anything to
please me. You couldn't even know me.
You know, I was making myself known to you and then I drew you
with my kindness. But once you accepted me, now I
put within you the ability to know me to, to to know I'm
alive. I even put myself on the inside
of you with the Holy Ghost who will wake you up and talk to you
about. And he wants you to now pursue
him. And if you will draw near to
God, he'll draw near to you. And if you're saying where's God
and you're a believer, you are the one who quit the pursuit
because God's like, I brought you in the house, now you're
part of my family. How much do you want?
Come on, how much do you want and you're wanting?
Hallelujah, I'm going to come to it that fault.
John 64848 to 51. Jesus said this.
I am the bread of life. Your father's.
Ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died, right?
This is the bread which comes down, thank you, Lord, down out
of heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.
Verse 51 I am the living bread that came down out of heaven.
If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever.
And the bread also, which I give for the life of the world, is my
flesh. So Jesus lets them know I am the
bread of life, I am the bread of life, I am the bread of life, I
am the bread of life. Now why did is he this and what
did he mean by this when he said in verse 49, your father's ate
man in the wilderness and they died.
Look at this in Deuteronomy. 83 It says he humbled you and let
you be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you did not know,
nor did your father's know that he might make you understand why
did. He feed them not to satisfy
their gut. He did not feed them to satisfy
their gut. He said that he might make you
understand that man does not live by bread alone, but man
lives by everything that proceeds.
Out of the mouth of the Lord. So when Jesus said I'm the bread
of life, your Father's ate manna and they died, yet my dad was
trying to teach them do not be receiving the manna just to
satisfy your gut. What I'm doing is not about
things, it's about. My word, it's about
understanding me. It's about knowing me.
It's about me. So I'm going to give you mana,
not so that your gut's satisfied, but so that you'll
know that if you'll hear me. These come automatically.
They follow. They come automatically.
They follow. You said.
Well, how did they follow? He's already had Moses
demonstrate what it looks like to follow the voice of the Lord.
It conquered the whole nation, brought him through the Red Sea
into the wilderness, and here they are receiving man a place
to eat, because they were. Hungry.
And when you're hungry, naturally you do a lot of
complaining until you get satisfied.
Are we doing this spiritually when it comes to righteousness?
Well, what does God really mean when He said this?
And what is God doing here? And how do I handle this?
And my gosh, I am going to get to you and talk to you until I
find out I need some spiritual bread of life.
That there should be within us a hunger to want to know him.
And he's like, you get to know me, I'll show you what comes.
So when he brought him, I said, this is easy.
There's nothing yet. I'm fixing to give you
something, right? I mean, when there's seems like
there's no way to make bread, they don't.
Have the the wheat, the crops, I can get it for you.
God's not limited to just seed thyme and harvest naturally.
You understand, God's functional for principle.
He's already spoken when he told Abraham hundreds of years
earlier, see this land, your descendants are going to get it,
but they won't get it till after they've been in slavery from
another nation for 400 years. But then I'll bring them in,
I'll deliver them, I'll provide for him.
See, he's enacting on something he said spiritually hundreds of
years earlier, and he's allowing it to now reap in this
generation. What has God spoken about our
time from generations before us that they prophesied that we
weren't even around those prophetic moments, but now God
is obligated to His word through them to make it happen in US?
Oh man, when we'll press into God, then we'll find out there's
all kinds of resources, there's all sorts of things made
available. Jesus said it this way in Luke
4/4. He said in Jesus answered, it is
written, man shall not live on bread alone.
When he was attacked by the enemy, he did not talk about his
Now he didn't say, you think I'm, you think you think I'm
hungry. You think?
I mean, I've been praying, seeking God without food, and
then you're going to come up in here and ask if I'm really of
God and turn this rock into bread.
Now Jesus just said sure. I can do that.
I'll show you. But he didn't do that.
What he did was let me seek him first because I'm being attacked
and my response Because I sure am I.
Mean what's it matter? I mean, really, what's it
matter? I mean, Lord, I can hear you.
Think about. I can hear you.
I mean, I'm born of you. I was born of a virgin.
I am. The Christ, you just said it.
I know. So I'm going to eat.
I'm going to do this bread thing.
Real. Quick and then we going to re
engage. No, what are you saying?
Man shall not live on bread alone, He said.
It is written now. He didn't.
Quote the rest of the verse here in Luke.
But you know Jesus knew the rest of the verse.
But man shall live on every word that proceeds out of the mouth
of my Father. And I'm only going to say what
he said and I'm only going to respond like he responded.
And you know what? At the end of the day, he was
able to then pass all the tests. Look at Satan, say get the I
rebuke you. And I'm going on to the next
assignment. Why?
Because I'm satisfied with the righteousness, God's way of
doing things, and I'm only seeking his Kingdom.
And it was after that moment that the angels came and
ministered to him, which means the things he needed came later.
Then he goes and testifies of the place that brought the
things. Repent for the Kingdom of heaven
as a hand, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah.
So when Jesus and John chapter 6 says he's the bread of life then
and he makes that statement, unless you eat of my flesh.
Right. And then another drink of my
blood, you'll have no part of me.
And these people are saying that's a hard thing.
That's hard. And it goes on to say, and many
of his disciples left, many quit following Jesus.
That message to the crowd that day was to identify who's with
me and who's not, because God knows.
I said God knows, now let's pick it back up in verse 59.
John chapter 6, verse 59. This is new material for today.
These things he said in the Sonic Synagogue as he taught in
Capernaum. Therefore many of his disciples
when they heard this, said this is a difficult statement.
Who can listen to it? There are many believers today
throughout a lot of churches that when the man or woman of
God ministers the word of God, exactly what he needs for them
to hear so that they will crucify the flesh.
They'll get rid of the sins that so easily beset them.
They will set aside weights that hinder their active faith from
moving forward. He begins to say you're going to
have to change that thinking. I want to elevate when he begins
to prune and say you were. Fruitful in this season, but
we've got to prune this all so the next season could be more
fruitful when those messages go forth.
Every believer's having this thought.
That's a hard say. Up to this one to like we've.
Enjoyed what he says. I want to preach this message,
you know, a little sound clip that comes from the movies,
Jurassic Park. And that's when the guy that's
got the glasses, what's his name?
Jeffrey What? Yeah.
And he's like, goes in the second one and they're, they,
you know, crashed on the island that he doesn't want to be back.
He does not want to go back to that island.
And now he's there. And then they see the dinosaurs
and they're like, oh, ah, And he goes yes.
Oh, and ah, and then there's running and screaming.
And I think that's how many. Believers are is.
Oh, ah, Lord. And then there's running and
screaming because then he says, let me touch you.
Here, let's cut that off. Don't get offended with that.
Now you gonna forgive them? Now I've put it in you, this is
easy. So it was, oh, ah, and then it's
running and screaming. Hallelujah.
I can do this with marriage. I can do this with children.
I can do this with every subject known to man, right?
But he said this is a difficult statement.
A lot of times people are. That's a difficult statement.
When things are being preached, that's a difficult statement,
but the Lord's like saying, hey, I am going to give all so you
can give all. And all that you're giving is in
exchange for all that I'm going to pull out of you.
Your best life ever is if you just do it the way I'm telling
you, because I knew you before you're in your mother's womb.
I knew you before the foundations of the world.
I'm not asking you anything that I I am not willing to do.
In fact I didn't even have to do what I did, but for a word from
God. Are you hearing me verse 61 it
said, but Jesus conscious that his disciples grumbled at this.
You know, I'm conscious when people grumble said to them,
does this cause you to stumble? What then if you see the Son of
Man ascending to where he was before?
If the Spirit who gives life, the flesh profits nothing, The
words that I have spoken to you are what their spirit and our
life. Don't substitute God's word for
your word and your way of doing it and trying to sound like it's
God saying it. But there are some who do not
believe, he says, For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were
who did not believe and who it was who would betray him.
And he was saying this for the reason that for this reason I
have said to you that no one can come to me unless it has been
granted him from the Father. As a result of this many, how
many, how many come on, how many?
And the Bible tells us when the return of Jesus, he says.
That many will fall away from the faith.
So that climates right here and that climates here because the
word of God going forth through the man and woman of God in the
earth, that's declaring as the Kingdom and, and, and tapping in
so that the believer can attain to all that God ordained for
them if they want to maintain something of their own
consciousness, opinion or flesh. It is a difficult saying and you
don't want to be those. That thing that's too difficult,
listen, nothing's impossible for God, so anything he's asking you
to do is not impossible nor actually difficult.
Hallelujah, I said. Hallelujah.
It says as a result, many of his disciples withdrew and we're not
walking with him anymore. And many of you can testify of
people through your tenure on earth that you fellowship either
at this church or other churches that aren't even following God,
not even in church anymore, have substituted how they follow God,
all kinds of things. And he goes on and it says Jesus
said to the 12 verse 67, very powerful he says.
You do not want to go away also, do you?
This is powerful because the Jesus is saying I am going to
fulfill the plan of God. Period.
My emotional attachment to you will not stop me from only doing
it God's way. And He's already ran that test
once with Peter when Peter pulled him aside emotionally and
said, Jesus, may it never happen, we are not going to let
you die. This is not going to happen.
He said, get thee behind me, Satan.
In essence, Jesus said my emotional relationship with you,
of which I have one, I'm connected with you.
I love you. Not emotion, emotionally.
And from a human nature standpoint, He had that kind of
love, connection, a friendship, camaraderie and all that they
had already been through. But all those things do not
supersede the will of my Father, His Word, and I will not
compromise His word just because of our natural relationship.
If our natural relationship cannot stay in the will of the
Father, then I'm going to go with the will of the Father, and
I'm going to have to go in your You may go in a different
direction. Jesus did not run after all of
these that left and begged them to come back.
Did He care for Him? Did he love them?
Was he dying for them? But he sure didn't beg them,
didn't do it. And he looks at his own trusted
12 that have seen walk did all these things.
And now here they go. Are you going to go too Below
what Peter says? Peter answered.
Peter, you know, he, he can get some revelation in some moments.
He said Lord. To whom shall we go?
You have words of eternal life, I said.
You have words of eternal life. So what was?
That which the Lord gave me a minute ago and I stopped.
He says this, listen to this. I'm going to give you the
thought. Here's a different one.
First these. People were witnesses of him
healing the sick, curing blonde eyes.
The lame were walking. Devils were being cast out.
They saw storms being stopping at a word.
They saw the dead raised, they saw food multiply, they saw all
these things, and yet there was after the food multiplication
that came as a result of God demonstrating what He said in
Matthew 6. If you'll seek first the Kingdom
of God, the rest of this would be added.
And all of a sudden Jesus out and people were coming to hear
his teaching, and He taught for them to them for three days, and
they did not eat. So what did He do?
That's the principle You sought me.
Now I am. Obligated to give you the things
that you weren't seeking. Gentlemen, feed them.
It wasn't just to work a miracle.
It was an obligation to the word that if you'll come after me and
want to hear what I'm saying is sit at my feet and listen to my
teaching and walk in my wisdom. When I'm obligated, man, we are
going to feed these people right now.
The things that they weren't going after, I'm going to give
it to them. They did not say, look, this
meeting is going long enough. I got to get to a place and eat.
I need to eat. So in turn I have to go.
No, they stayed and he said I got to feed them.
I got to feed them. Come on, right?
How many you want some? Bread.
I can get it back there I'm. Working on it, there it is.
Off the wall. I mean, we want the bread of
life, right? Do you want the bread of life?
Come on. Do you want the bread of life?
Kiss it now. Oh, yes.
Wow, do you want the bread of life?
Do you want the bread of life? Come on, do you want it?
Oh, I mean when you want it. You'll do whatever it takes to
go get that stuff right. You'll go after it.
You'll get. I don't know why it keeps
curving. Y'all must be hungry in that one
section. Like the food just keeps coming
to you. I mean, this lady hasn't eaten
for three days. Apparently she has gotten 3
rolls already. My gosh, Hallelujah.
I'm trying to get to this one section over here, but it just
keeps curving. Let me see if I can start a
little earlier. Oh, there it is.
I made it. Now I learned that from golf.
Right, you understand what I'm saying.
It is life. There you go.
Oh, Collin's Trami, he's saying. Can you get it back here?
I mean, I can if the bread would.
Sorry. One more ready.
Oh, Macy, since she made them all, let's thank Macy.
Hallelujah. Do you?
Y'all right? Do you hunger?
Oh, y'all want some scent? Well, nobody in the center.
Really was putting her hand up. Oh, did you OK, I.
Let me see. Here we go.
Are you ready?
I need you to catch it. Come on.
Miss Mary's in preschool, so, you know, I got.
She knows how to talk. I'm gonna talk.
You know she's used to it. Come on, Miss Mary.
There it is. Miss Mary.
Two or three witnesses.
You ready? Are now?
Sometimes you just got to get out of your seat and get more
than enough. Oh, the TV.
Oh, hey, all right. The bread of life.
They saw all this, and yet what did Jesus identify?
So you're. Really only following me for the
things. You're only following me for the
things. See, when you hunger and thirst
for righteousness, God will know the why of your want, because if
all you want and seeking the Kingdom and being in his
presence and sitting at his. Feet is to get the.
Things that come with it, he'll know.
So here was the thought the Lord gave me.
Your wanting cannot be to be known.
A lot of times people, I want to seek Him.
I want to seek His presence. I want to know His power.
I want to I want to know Him and the power of his resurrection.
They want to work in the miraculous because really they
want to be known that they work in the miraculous because they
want the things of healing. They want the things of a word
of knowledge. They want the things of a word
of wisdom. They want the things that come
with the Kingdom. But the Lord's like just you,
you got. To want me and if you get me.
You get it all, I said. You get it all.
And if you. Took some time to just calculate
real quick how much time you are seeking other stuff.
But I want to, I want to help you.
God is not asking you to do whatever you do in the natural
in time. Make sure you're doing the exact
same with Him because in the spirit things are multiplied.
Speed up, it's totally. Different God can do God can
give you a seed and 60 seconds that it would require you
another 10 years to mine out all the revelation again.
It's not oh, I worked out for an hour.
I have to make sure I pray for an hour again.
You're doing it by rote religion.
You're being you're having semantics here, right.
Instead, it's like I want to spend time with him because
wanting is kind of like I can't watch this anymore.
I just heard the Lord. I got to go pray because he's
first. It's not.
Oh, I probably should pray. Well, I'll wait till this show's
over. You see what I'm saying?
It's not the quantity of time, although it will require time.
And again, sometimes if you go into a place, and I've done this
before, I've gone off prayer and fasting, come back.
My wife said would you get anything?
And I was like, no, but I was with him because sometimes I've
had questions that I was asking and did not get an answer, did
not know how to change it yet, did not know how to do.
But I'm say I was with him because at the end of the day,
if I'm with him and I want him, then when the time is right for
whatever needed to take place, my Mama is going to come to
back. Because some of the things that
I'm going through are to develop me and my character to grow me
so that I can endure as a apostle.
Mark she's been preaching is powerful.
OK, let's do a speed round of last verses and we're done.
Are you ready for this Psalms 34 eight old taste and see that the
Lord is whoa, He's good. How blessed is the man who takes
refuge in Him? You're saying the word tastes
good. I said it's good.
In Psalms 1191-O3 it says this. How sweet are your words?
To my taste, Yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth.
Oh my goodness. I mean, do you have this desire
to want to go into the word? And it's satisfied.
It becomes such a taste. And here's the thing I was
talking. About this the other day is
that, you know, during certain holiday seasons, some plates,
some. Items are cooked that are really
good to me. One is a sweet potato casserole.
And so when the sweet potato casserole gets in the house, it
is first. Everyone who's around me knows
that's the first thing I eat, that first.
Not the only time, but first. It's first.
Then when I make my plate, it makes it to the plate.
Then and I know how it tastes, I've already had two plates now
but it's so good. Then when dessert comes, I'll
eat it first, then find a dessert and then when my stomach
really hurts and I should not eat anymore but my taste buds
say. Man, don't you know that you
could taste and see that it is good?
A sweet potato casserole will not last more than 48 hours in
my house, just like a box of cereal will not last more than
24. That's why I do not buy them,
because I'll make a bowl. This is satisfied, but I.
Think of the taste. See this is the thing, when you
go pursue God, He'll answer, but all of a sudden it'll put a
taste in you. You know, you, you don't have to
eat, but I want to taste it again.
I mean, is God that real to you that Yeah, I did my Bible
reading plan. I read, but man, it tastes so
good to be with him, to fellowship with him, to pray to
him, to, to commune with him, to get down with his word.
You know, I just want another bite.
I just want another bite. I just want another bite because
where am I going to go? He has words of life.
Wow. Last two verses are these
Proverbs 2413 to 14. You said my son, eat honey for
it is good. Yes, the honey from the comb is
sweet to your taste. Know that wisdom is thus for
your soul. If you find it, then there will
be a future and a hope will and your hope will not be cut off.
Wow. Last verse comes out of Job.
Job 23. Says this verse 12 he said I
have not departed from the commands of his lips.
I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my necessary
food. Question.
How long does it take to be hungry for God?
About 10 seconds don't take long at all.
How long does it take to stay hungry?
Not long at all. My wife will say to me,
sometimes you're getting something to eat.
We just ate well. I just want to taste something
good. And I can do this with a word
all the time. All the time because he's my
first.