1 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:20,320 If you have your Bibles, turn over to Matthew chapter 6. 2 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:24,720 Last week we were rolling in to this Kingdom pursuit and it just 3 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:27,360 came to a place that it seemed like the Holy Ghost said just 4 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:30,520 save that for next week. And so here we are in this week 5 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:34,040 still dealing and thinking about this thing called Kingdom 6 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:35,440 pursuit. I know it's the first of the 7 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:37,120 year. And so, you know, again, 8 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:40,720 traditionally a lot of people will put goals down, you know, 9 00:00:40,720 --> 00:00:45,000 their New Year's resolution. And as my, my wife has said, 10 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:48,640 Apostle Marcy, that there's something even within man that 11 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:53,320 their willpower can can, can get in involved and they can make 12 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:55,960 certain changes in their life, develop different habits. 13 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:58,080 And they can do this independent of God. 14 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:01,160 But God's giving you something greater than just willpower. 15 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:04,640 He's giving you the grace to accomplish something bigger than 16 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:09,120 yourself, something that your personal willpower can never do 17 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:11,240 without the grace of God in your life. 18 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:15,040 So when you put your willpower can connected by faith with the 19 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:19,160 grace of God in your life, it will release a grace in you that 20 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:26,920 that you'll sit back and say but God but God, but God man the 21 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:30,840 word of God in the Spirit of God active in us through faith will 22 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:34,720 cause us to look back on our lives and say but God. 23 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:41,200 That I could have never of my own self will will this 'cause 24 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:44,560 this to come to pass. Only God could have done that. 25 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:47,480 And you want people to have that testimony about your life when 26 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:48,760 they're looking at you. You want. 27 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:52,560 Them to be able to say you're a but God person because the 28 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:54,960 things you're walking into, things you're operating in, the 29 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:58,320 way you carry yourself, it is only but God. 30 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:00,920 Aren't you glad that you're a part of God's butt? 31 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:05,960 In life, but God, while I was dead, in my transgressions of 32 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:10,120 sin, He died for me. He rose for me, and he saved me 33 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:12,920 and delivered me, and then I called on his name. 34 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:18,760 Glory to God. And He moved me into His Kingdom 35 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:22,600 where He has empowered me. The things that I'm ministering 36 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:27,120 on these last couple of Sundays. Honestly, if you would just do 37 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:32,120 this, you would never ever worry one bit ever again. 38 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:36,280 You would never have another anxious moment and you would 39 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:38,400 save yourself from a lot of trouble. 40 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:44,600 I am technically giving you the secrets of life while on the 41 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:47,280 planet. I literally AM. 42 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:51,240 And not because I'm saying it. I'm saying what God has said. 43 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:54,760 But you, you have to trust God with what he has said. 44 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:57,600 I said you have to trust God with what he has said. 45 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:00,560 And so we're in Matthew chapter 6. 46 00:03:01,640 --> 00:03:06,680 This chapter is the middle of Jesus's famed Sermon on the 47 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:10,680 Mount, and that covers Matthew chapter 5-6 and seven. 48 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:14,480 And he has a whole lot to say that if we just stayed in these 49 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:18,840 three chapters until he returns, we would never exhaust the 50 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:22,800 revelation that is within these three chapters alone. 51 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:25,720 And so there's some very important things right at the 52 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:30,040 conclusion of this chapter 6 that he gives the key to life, 53 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:35,760 the key to to living a life that dominates in the planet. 54 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:40,040 He gives the key. Now, what he says and applying 55 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:44,600 that are two different things. They're two different things. 56 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:50,040 But if he says you can do it and he's saying you should, then he 57 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:54,640 will grace you, meaning he will empower you to actually 58 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:56,560 accomplish it. Amen. 59 00:03:56,920 --> 00:04:00,320 And so we started in six verse 31. 60 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:04,120 He said, do not worry. Say I don't worry, say I don't 61 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:08,760 worry, do not worry. Then saying what will we eat or 62 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:12,160 what will we drink or what will we wear for clothing for the 63 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:15,720 Gentiles eagerly what, what do they eagerly do? 64 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:20,160 What do they eagerly do? Seek all these things, for your 65 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:25,000 heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 66 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:30,000 So our Father knows we need them, but he says don't seek 67 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:33,640 them. That's not your focus. 68 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:39,680 You do not wake up in the morning trying to figure out how 69 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:41,920 you what you're going to eat, drink or where. 70 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:47,720 In essence, where am I getting the natural provisions to live? 71 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:52,240 What am I doing so that I can live naturally? 72 00:04:52,360 --> 00:04:55,000 He says that's not your number one priority. 73 00:04:56,920 --> 00:04:58,880 I said that's not your number one priority. 74 00:04:59,280 --> 00:05:05,480 Now it seems like the church has forgotten what first is, but 75 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:07,800 other sectors of society have not forgotten. 76 00:05:08,280 --> 00:05:14,120 In fact, on on January, I think it's the 19th or I don't know 77 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:17,480 the exact date, but the the college national championship 78 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:22,880 game, the reality is at the end of that game, someone's going to 79 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:29,800 hold a trophy and someone is not someone will be declared first 80 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:34,480 and someone will not. But because we are in the age of 81 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:38,680 participation trophies, we at like, well, if we're just at it. 82 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:48,120 OK, now for all, I don't know of tons of Indiana fans in here. 83 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:49,800 We have any Indiana fans in here. 84 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:51,760 OK, I got one. Nice. 85 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:56,040 I mean, they got quite, they have quite the program happening 86 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:58,960 right now. How many Miami fan up in here? 87 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:01,120 All right, we got some youth fans in here. 88 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:04,600 The rest of us are most. Likely Gator fans. 89 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:06,760 We don't even acknowledge Florida State at this point. 90 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:13,920 I'm kidding. The point is is that if you are 91 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:17,560 a Miami fan and you went to the game and your team won, you 92 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:20,080 would feel like a champion. But guess what? 93 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:25,400 You will not get a ring or a trophy. 94 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:30,080 Now you can say you're #1 but you're not technically number 95 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:32,880 one. You're there by fanbase only. 96 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:37,000 Are you hearing what I'm saying? And it's like the church wants 97 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:44,120 to be #1 by fanbase only. I'll show up and scream, but I 98 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:51,400 would never put in the work and get on the same field that would 99 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:54,240 require me to actually win that trophy. 100 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:59,200 Are you hearing what I'm saying? And so you understand God has 101 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:01,920 said to us in the church, there's something I need you to 102 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:07,480 make priority in your life. It needs to be first, first, 103 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:14,320 first, first, first, first. Let me tell you what he did not 104 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:21,360 say was first your family. He didn't say your family was 105 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:24,080 first. He did not say your job was 106 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:25,640 first. Your career was first. 107 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:29,640 He didn't say raising your children were first. 108 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:37,040 Oh, it's getting real quiet. Hallelujah. 109 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:40,640 Now there is a hierarchy that has been taught in a lot of 110 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:51,240 places, and that is God, right? Family, Church work. 111 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:56,800 Well, we have a problem with that list because how can you 112 00:07:56,800 --> 00:08:03,240 separate God from church since Jesus is the head of the church. 113 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:09,280 So we say God, you're saying church, you're saying that how 114 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:13,680 can you say now if it's institutionalized where the Holy 115 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:16,320 Spirit's not there, it's just a list of social programs where 116 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:20,120 people gather together to to put on the appearance of godliness, 117 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:21,640 but never transformed their mind. 118 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:25,720 Then sure, that is like another institution, but that was never 119 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:30,640 in the heart of God. Concerning church, he says seek 120 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:35,799 first the Kingdom. God is the king of the Kingdom, 121 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:39,799 of which in the earth His church represents that Kingdom. 122 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:45,040 So when we look at the line, it's God, church, then your 123 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:50,760 family and then your influence in sectors of society. 124 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:56,000 And if you want your family to be great, then you want the 125 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:00,600 priority of God to be first. Are you hearing me? 126 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:05,800 Because inevitably, if you don't watch out, if you make anything 127 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:12,840 else priority, then God actually becomes optional. 128 00:09:16,680 --> 00:09:20,720 And let me tell you, God the Father who sits on the throne is 129 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:26,480 not understanding why you cannot participate with what He is 130 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:29,840 passionate about in the planet as his as his child. 131 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:35,080 He does not understand that because he says here in verse 132 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:44,640 33, but seek, seek what first his Kingdom and his and all 133 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:47,040 these things will be added to you. 134 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:49,040 So when people say, well, you know, you got to understand, I 135 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:53,160 can't, I cannot make it to church because I have to work 136 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:55,280 the Lord saying that doesn't make sense. 137 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:58,280 I said if you'll seek me and you will do what I've asked you to 138 00:09:58,280 --> 00:09:59,920 do. Then I'll add that stuff. 139 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:05,400 Most people wouldn't even consider leaving their job to 140 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:06,840 make sure they can make it to church. 141 00:10:09,280 --> 00:10:12,920 OK, let me go over here. No, most people would never 142 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:16,600 consider that, but yet could you say, Lord, I know that first and 143 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:19,320 foremost your word says seek first the Kingdom of God, which 144 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:22,560 includes assembling yourself together with other believers 145 00:10:22,560 --> 00:10:25,240 because you're extremely passionate about your church, 146 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:27,720 the one that you're building, and you're coming for them. 147 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:30,320 When you return, you're not coming back for the lost. 148 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:31,520 You're coming back for the church. 149 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:34,120 You're going to catch up the church together with you, you. 150 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:37,840 Love your church. You even said through your 151 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:41,720 apostle Peter that you know what we help the the church or the 152 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:43,800 world. We do things he said, but he 153 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:48,120 takes care of the household 1st and that household is not 154 00:10:48,120 --> 00:10:51,040 immediate family. It is those who call on the name 155 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:53,680 of the Lord to be saved and are doing the will of the Father. 156 00:10:53,720 --> 00:10:56,960 He's talking about the household or the body of Christ, or the. 157 00:10:56,960 --> 00:10:59,840 Church of the Living. God, that's what he's talking 158 00:10:59,840 --> 00:11:02,680 about. And he's saying if you will be 159 00:11:02,680 --> 00:11:06,480 passionate about those things then he will add everything 160 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:11,000 else. I have never seen a person who 161 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:16,920 genuinely loves God and are led by their spirit and have kept 162 00:11:16,920 --> 00:11:21,080 First things first ever burn out or ever. 163 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:26,360 Lose. Their marriage and their total 164 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:33,560 family. Now side note, you can lose a 165 00:11:33,560 --> 00:11:38,040 spouse and you can lose children when you're doing everything 166 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:41,440 right for God. Why do we know this? 167 00:11:41,640 --> 00:11:45,960 Because God the Father has never gone wrong and He gave 168 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:49,640 everything to His Son. He made a planet for him, He 169 00:11:49,640 --> 00:11:53,440 provided for him, He was personally present with him, He 170 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:56,520 cared for him, gave him instructions that led to life 171 00:11:56,520 --> 00:12:03,400 and godliness and Adam rebelled. So again, typically when someone 172 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:05,120 says, well look how their children, they just went to 173 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:10,680 church too much, well, no, they're free will moral agent 174 00:12:10,680 --> 00:12:13,320 just like Adam is. So we're going to blame Adam's 175 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:17,360 sin on God. No, typically the people making 176 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:20,320 those statements are those that are carnal. 177 00:12:20,680 --> 00:12:24,160 They're feeding their flesh. They don't want to put that down 178 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:27,400 and they don't no longer want to do what God's asked them to do 179 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:31,440 and that is serve. Seek first the Kingdom. 180 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:35,560 The greatest leader is well the minute you quit serving you 181 00:12:35,560 --> 00:12:37,200 decide you don't want to lead anymore. 182 00:12:38,560 --> 00:12:41,640 Same in anyway. Just smile a lot. 183 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:46,320 First things first. Now I didn't say it. 184 00:12:47,160 --> 00:12:51,520 Now I get accused, you know, because as an apostle of a 185 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:56,120 ministry that is advancing God's Kingdom and preaching his word, 186 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:58,640 you know, well, there's just, they want too much. 187 00:12:58,640 --> 00:13:00,640 I don't want anything but what God wants. 188 00:13:00,640 --> 00:13:02,240 And he said it was first. I didn't. 189 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:05,960 In fact, if it was up to me, I probably would have made some 190 00:13:05,960 --> 00:13:10,640 concessions. Yeah, I remember hearing this 191 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:14,760 one minister that I thought was crazy was like, I don't know why 192 00:13:14,760 --> 00:13:17,720 things are what they are. Maybe if I was in the beginning 193 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:19,000 I would have said something different. 194 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:21,000 And I'm not. I'll leave it as vague as that. 195 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:24,480 But in my mind, I'm thinking, bro, you actually think that you 196 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:30,400 have an idea better than God? As a human that has been well 197 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:35,600 proficient in rebellion and not doing God's word, I'm sure I 198 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:37,600 could say, Lord, that's too much. 199 00:13:38,360 --> 00:13:42,440 But I mean, how can I sit, stand in front of the one that I say 200 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:46,400 is Lord of my life and talk about too much when he would 201 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:49,120 just say, shall I show you my hands? 202 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:58,800 You want to look at my feet? Shall I take you back in time 203 00:13:59,040 --> 00:14:05,760 and watch them, let you watch them open up my back, and then 204 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:12,520 after that still carried that cross, shall I show you the 205 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:17,040 moment? All of the world's sin came on 206 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:23,200 me, and you want to talk to me about too much? 207 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:28,320 I'm like, Lord, what else? When you understand that 208 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:30,120 revelation, you're like. What else Lord? 209 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:33,360 What else Lord? What else Lord? 210 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:37,680 What else, Lord? What else Lord, because you gave 211 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:40,760 all now people could say well, but you know God could do that. 212 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:42,880 We couldn't, but we still have a part to play. 213 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:47,400 He tells us unless we deny ourselves take up our cross and 214 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:50,320 follow him, then we really not worthy of him. 215 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:53,760 So he expects some kind of reciprocation. 216 00:14:53,960 --> 00:14:56,920 Once you've called on the name of Jesus this why Jesus said 217 00:14:56,920 --> 00:14:59,240 listen, I understand what you can see. 218 00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:01,120 I understand that everything around here. 219 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:04,840 Is, is, is. Moved by things, what you need, 220 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:07,480 what you need, what you need and and you're attached to those 221 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:10,200 because of the fallen state. But I'm telling you, if you'll 222 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:14,160 seek the Kingdom first, I'll just add those to you. 223 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:16,400 I said, I'll just add those to you. 224 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:18,760 So you know when you're under financial strain. 225 00:15:18,880 --> 00:15:21,800 It's it's not about getting two or three jobs to come out. 226 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:25,000 It's first going to the Lord and say, how do you want me to come 227 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:27,360 out of this? Amen. 228 00:15:27,960 --> 00:15:30,600 I said Amen because He has the plan. 229 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:36,960 The Matthew 633 says yes, but seek, aim at and strive after 230 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:40,840 first of all His Kingdom and His righteousness, His way of doing 231 00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:45,040 and being right and then all these things taken together will 232 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:47,600 be given. Besides, I understand this 233 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:52,240 statement of Sikh is very challenging and 1st is very 234 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:54,040 challenging. I get that. 235 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:58,880 I understand why when we minister along these lines, the 236 00:15:58,880 --> 00:16:02,200 air or the oxygen in the room starts to get sucked out because 237 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:05,080 all of a sudden there's a self examination that starts to go on 238 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:08,760 by the Holy Ghost and he begins to talk to you and say, am I 239 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:15,120 first in your life? Do I get the first option in 240 00:16:15,120 --> 00:16:17,880 anything you're going through? Do you come to me first? 241 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:21,640 Do you seek me first? Do you are you passionate about 242 00:16:21,640 --> 00:16:24,720 my way of handling any situation first? 243 00:16:25,240 --> 00:16:28,120 Do you worse, do you worship and praise me first? 244 00:16:28,400 --> 00:16:33,880 Do you put my priorities first? I understand and you know when 245 00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:36,920 there's so much going on in the world and there's so many things 246 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:39,080 that we have to address day in and day out. 247 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:42,920 These are daunting task and in our minds because we lived a way 248 00:16:42,920 --> 00:16:47,360 prior to knowing God, you know and we've had some level of 249 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:51,720 natural success to all of a sudden hear the Lord say you 250 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:57,600 know what change that thinking, go after me and me alone and 251 00:16:57,600 --> 00:16:59,600 watch what I do to open up doors for you. 252 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:06,280 Now that requires 2 things, faith and the big one, trust. 253 00:17:08,119 --> 00:17:12,760 Trust the word seek here means to seek in order to find, to 254 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:19,599 aim, to strive after, pursue, endeavor to obtain and so in 255 00:17:19,599 --> 00:17:21,200 order. When he says seek first, he is 256 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:25,680 saying you are to seek in order to find it right? 257 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:29,640 Seek and you will. He doesn't say seek and man wait 258 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:32,200 till you get to heaven because that's where it's all at. 259 00:17:33,120 --> 00:17:36,400 Notice he doesn't say in this passage of scripture but seek 260 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:43,240 1st heaven. Heaven is what comes with being 261 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:46,280 born again. It's not the focus of our 262 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:49,840 attention, it's his Kingdom that's the focus because his 263 00:17:49,840 --> 00:17:51,920 Kingdom is not limited to heaven. 264 00:17:52,040 --> 00:17:54,640 In fact, his Kingdom will manifest in the earth. 265 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:57,280 That's why Jesus said when you pray, pray this way, let's say 266 00:17:57,280 --> 00:18:00,320 it together. Our Father who art in heaven, 267 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:06,160 hallowed be your name, your Kingdom, your will be on as it 268 00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:08,440 is. So we're seeking. 269 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:16,840 God's will, not God's location. Because if all you're doing is 270 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:20,400 seeking God's location, then you don't care about His will, 271 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:23,200 because you'll just pass through and take whatever this world has 272 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:28,440 to throw at you and wait for a place. 273 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:31,760 But when you seek His Kingdom, you do not have to wait for a 274 00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:34,800 place. You can pull the environment and 275 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:36,800 the will of that place into the earth. 276 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:41,680 Through your life, Hallelujah. Now first means this first in 277 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:47,480 time or place, chief foremost in time, place, order of it, or 278 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:50,800 import order of importance first of all. 279 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:55,240 So the order of importance, the first thing you do when you get 280 00:18:55,240 --> 00:18:57,680 out, do you praise the Lord? Do you thank Him for another 281 00:18:57,680 --> 00:18:59,600 day? Do you go into the word and say 282 00:18:59,600 --> 00:19:02,360 Now Lord, what are you saying? Do you have that personal? 283 00:19:02,360 --> 00:19:06,240 Is it first or is it Instagram to see what you missed and who, 284 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:10,040 what someone did or didn't say or what they posted while you 285 00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:12,000 were asleep? Are you here? 286 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:14,200 Do you check a game? I checked games. 287 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:17,440 I just try to make sure. I make sure it's after I've said 288 00:19:17,440 --> 00:19:20,160 thank you, Lord, that I'm awake. It's so good. 289 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:22,600 And then I'm like, oh, yeah, so and so played last night. 290 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:26,960 I wonder if they won. That's how connected I am. 291 00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:29,240 I've left a mini a game that was excited because I'm like, you 292 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:31,720 know what, I've got to get up. I've got things to do with the 293 00:19:31,720 --> 00:19:33,800 Lord and I'll just find out tomorrow. 294 00:19:34,560 --> 00:19:37,920 Amen. I'm interested, but it's not 295 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:39,840 first. Hallelujah. 296 00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:43,960 I said it's not first. And so we see here that God has 297 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:45,440 this since it's the first of the year. 298 00:19:45,560 --> 00:19:49,200 Let's make 2026 not where we're seeking after. 299 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:51,680 And I'm just tell you this with church dynamics. 300 00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:56,960 This has been happening since we planted anchor fee churches and 301 00:19:56,960 --> 00:20:00,600 all of the relationships that I have with other ministers that 302 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:05,000 oversee churches it it tends to be the exact same. 303 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:14,400 OK, there are three thrusts or growths that happen in the 304 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:19,200 church, all right. The first one is in January. 305 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:23,720 Everybody's thinking about God again, new, you know, you know, 306 00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:25,240 I'm going to commit to God better this year. 307 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:28,680 So they go looking for a church, they show up or you know what, 308 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:31,480 I've been out for so long with the holidays. 309 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:35,440 You know, we were doing so much and we, you know, we need to get 310 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:37,880 back in church. All right. 311 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:42,040 So there's this push in January all the way up to about the 312 00:20:42,040 --> 00:20:44,960 first week of February. And then by the time we get to 313 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:48,920 the mid February, all of a sudden the sound of spring is 314 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:51,480 calling. Sun starts showing up a little 315 00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:54,200 bit, right? You know, And the next thing you 316 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:59,480 know, the options kick in. And then especially in Florida, 317 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:01,040 right? And then obviously we have 318 00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:03,240 spring break. And when spring break hits and 319 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:06,080 all the parents take their children, they're out of school, 320 00:21:06,080 --> 00:21:07,880 we're out of church, we're out of everything. 321 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:10,480 And then we're. Kind of out until the next big 322 00:21:10,480 --> 00:21:11,760 day. And what day is that? 323 00:21:12,120 --> 00:21:14,520 Easter Sunday. Easter Sunday? 324 00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:22,520 Why is that day so packed out? Notice he didn't say seek only 325 00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:27,640 at the identified service called Resurrection Sunday. 326 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:38,160 Hallelujah. But that's a big dance. 327 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:43,560 And then that's only last two weeks. 2 weeks right there, I'm 328 00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:45,600 telling. You all across. 329 00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:50,960 Pastors, God love them. They post how many people were 330 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:55,040 in their services on Sun Easter Sunday. 331 00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:57,520 They post how many people got born again. 332 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:01,640 But the next Sunday. Depending on the size of the 333 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:05,440 church, if it's already a large church running over 1000, they 334 00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:12,760 may see 3 maybe twice the size to three times the size they 335 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:16,360 normally see on a Sunday. They'll get Easter Sunday and 336 00:22:16,360 --> 00:22:19,520 the amount of salvations are like wow, crazy. 337 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:24,200 The very next Sunday, almost back to normal. 338 00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:27,400 What happened to all those people in one week? 339 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:30,080 What happened to all those salvations? 340 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:33,520 The people who came out of the domain of darkness into the 341 00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:36,200 Kingdom of his beloved Son, and all of a sudden they came one 342 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:38,520 service, and then they've never show back up. 343 00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:42,000 Is that lordship? Did they really? 344 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:47,800 Confess Christ. Same in anyway Hallelujah, 345 00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:52,600 right? Same in anyway the next one. 346 00:22:53,120 --> 00:22:56,920 When school starts, man, when school starts, here we go. 347 00:22:57,760 --> 00:22:59,360 We're piling them in. Why? 348 00:22:59,360 --> 00:23:02,560 Cuz we're back to school. Kids are back in school, let's 349 00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:05,480 start going. And that runs well for about 6 350 00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:12,120 weeks until the middle of all the sports, right? 351 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:15,720 I love sports. Our school has sports. 352 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:18,440 I'm all about sports. But sports should never be above 353 00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:21,320 God. And there was a time in our 354 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:25,080 nation that Wednesday night practice was off limits because 355 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:28,840 it respected the church. But now it's practice all the 356 00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:32,280 time. And the one number one reason I 357 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:36,600 do not go to a different time slot on Wednesdays is it keeps 358 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:40,880 the availability for all my student athletes to finish their 359 00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:43,840 practice and still make it to church. 360 00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:46,520 Which means then the parents can look at them and say, hey, 361 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:48,600 practice is over, we're going to church. 362 00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:51,000 And there are many parents here that have done that. 363 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:54,000 But yet in a lot of places it starts to wane. 364 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:57,360 Why homework, practice, We're out all the time. 365 00:23:57,400 --> 00:23:59,840 We got practice this day, this day, this day, this day. 366 00:23:59,960 --> 00:24:02,160 You have homework, you have this, we have all these. 367 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:03,160 You know what we're going to miss? 368 00:24:04,360 --> 00:24:08,240 Say it anyway. Say it we're going to miss. 369 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:17,160 God knows word all week. Ran my kids to practice already 370 00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:20,320 4 times this week. We're out every night. 371 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:30,200 Hallelujah, Hallelujah. Aren't you glad we do not live 372 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:34,720 stream? Because I, you know, let's do 373 00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:39,480 some training here. Listen, when something is 374 00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:43,480 ministered and you're like, maybe I should think about that 375 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:49,320 or you sense a bit of do I do that instead of dwelling on 376 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:51,960 that? Or having this thought that's a 377 00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:53,960 hard. Saying you're going to hear that 378 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:55,680 again here in a minute, that's a hard. 379 00:24:55,680 --> 00:25:01,560 Saying just shout Amen. Are you hearing me? 380 00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:05,160 I want to liken that experience to a roller coaster. 381 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:12,280 OK, I have ridden roller coasters in my life and you 382 00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:13,920 know. As a guy. 383 00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:18,440 Riding a roller coaster, you know, you want to seem tough and 384 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:26,440 dignified, right? You know, and you're just kind 385 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:30,720 of like, but on the inside you're like. 386 00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:38,480 I don't feel good. Right, well, I found the trick 387 00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:42,120 to getting rid of this weird sensation. 388 00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:46,720 And that is scream. Just scream. 389 00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:50,240 Everybody else is anyway, just join the praise. 390 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,040 So you're going up? Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, 391 00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:54,760 tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, Right. 392 00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:57,440 You're the anticipation and your heart starts doing this and 393 00:25:57,440 --> 00:26:01,800 you're like, Oh my, my, Oh my Lord, we get religious right at 394 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:04,280 the top of the top of the thing. Oh God. 395 00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:08,440 Right, we get religious. I remember doing the one in in 396 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:11,880 Dallas, Six Flags, I can't remember the name of it, but it 397 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:14,960 went down and it went down in a hole and they came up and then 398 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:17,600 spiraled upward because it was so fast. 399 00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:23,040 In fact, I had teenagers black out during those moments because 400 00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:26,080 of the G force that was taking place as they were going up. 401 00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:29,040 And you're like looking over the edge of this thing, man. 402 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:31,520 And all of a sudden you're like, my God. 403 00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:34,560 Right. You want to know you're right. 404 00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:39,680 And then all of a sudden, man, here you go and all these organs 405 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:44,560 show up right here, right here. There they are. 406 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:48,160 And and you don't scream because you're afraid you'll drop a, a, 407 00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:52,000 a stomach and your large intestines to start flying out. 408 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:54,360 And like, what's that going to look like if you trying to put 409 00:26:54,360 --> 00:26:57,240 that back in? But if you scream, it will shut 410 00:26:57,240 --> 00:26:59,480 it back down. It will put every organ back in 411 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:01,280 place. So you just whoa. 412 00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:07,120 So I just learned to whoa whoa. And every time I did that, I 413 00:27:07,120 --> 00:27:10,360 don't Care now I don't feel the effects, I'm just praising. 414 00:27:10,360 --> 00:27:14,080 So when the lure's moving on you and you got a little, just go. 415 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:17,600 Whoa, glory to God. Hallelujah. 416 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:22,000 Now everybody is going to assume you're so right with God, that's 417 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:27,000 why you're praising. But we'll actually know now that 418 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:31,080 you're scared because he's talking to you. 419 00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:36,600 Shout, Amen, Amen. We should shout, have a shout of 420 00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:39,840 praise. I understand now, if if an 421 00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:42,920 environment comes where a holy hush comes, great, we're going 422 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:44,760 to know that. But a lot of times you're 423 00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:47,080 ministering the word. This is all shouting material 424 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:50,440 because this is your king trying to renew your mind, trying to 425 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:54,280 open you up, trying to release who you really are, who he knew 426 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:57,360 you were before the foundations of the world, before you messed 427 00:27:57,360 --> 00:28:00,840 your whole life up, before you tried to do it your way, before 428 00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:03,600 you did an experiment on yourself and found it was an 429 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:07,680 absolute debacle. But God being rich in his mercy, 430 00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:11,560 well, glory to God, He saved me. He picked me up. 431 00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:14,000 He put me on the seat with Christ. 432 00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:19,920 Yeah. And it was his word that set me 433 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:23,160 free. And his spirit brought the power 434 00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:24,040 to deliver. Me. 435 00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:28,280 Well, glory to God. Amen. 436 00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:30,920 Let's do some more testing. Sit down. 437 00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:32,960 I'll want all the men to stand up. 438 00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:37,480 I want all the men to stand up. Every man I tell. 439 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:43,320 I told my wife this just on the couch yesterday or Friday when 440 00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:48,120 Indiana was playing Oregon. I'm like, look, look at those 441 00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:49,200 men. Praise. 442 00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:53,360 Look at all those men standing up with their hands up, 443 00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:57,160 shouting. Look at them praising, I mean 444 00:28:57,160 --> 00:29:01,440 praising. They were like, hey, hey, hey, 445 00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:03,520 they were not on their seat. They were not. 446 00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:05,040 But. That was a good catch. 447 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:09,240 Do you? What do you think? 448 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:11,120 Coach played that play right now. 449 00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:14,920 You know. I can't believe he dropped that. 450 00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:18,680 I've never seen no one do that. I see it look like this when 451 00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:21,120 they drop it. Oh my gosh, what? 452 00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:24,480 What are you doing? Catch the ball, man. 453 00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:29,720 Now you understand the athletes probably thinking, why don't you 454 00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:33,200 get down here, run the reps that I'm running, catch as many 455 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:36,000 passes as I've caught, be in this pressure cooker, and then 456 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:37,560 talk to me about missing something. 457 00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:42,320 All right, man, let's get a shot of praise. 458 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:46,640 Say Hallelujah, Say glory to God. 459 00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:51,520 Say Hallelujah, say glory to God. 460 00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:55,560 I'm telling you, there's there are plenty of things on the 461 00:29:55,560 --> 00:30:03,040 planet, yeah, that a man will shout over if he's Lord. 462 00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:06,040 I. Should have to say, gentlemen, 463 00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:09,920 please let me preach. I love you. 464 00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:12,640 Shout of praise. I'm trying to get something out. 465 00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:15,520 And in 20 something years I've never had to do that. 466 00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:18,680 Let's see if we can change it in 2026. 467 00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:24,160 Come on, Can I get an Amen? All right, you can be seated. 468 00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:25,720 Thank you man for being an example. 469 00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:29,080 Hallelujah. And all the women say about 470 00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:32,640 time. Hallelujah. 471 00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:37,680 So Jesus kicks off this message here about seeking first with 472 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:40,960 this idea. Matthew 5-6 He says this. 473 00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:43,760 He says blessed are those who hunger and thirst for 474 00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:46,080 righteousness, for they will be satisfied. 475 00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:50,120 Now Jesus tells us to seek first the Kingdom and His 476 00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:54,400 righteousness and he tell he already let them know initially 477 00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:58,200 when he started this message that righteousness is to be 478 00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:03,080 pursued like hunger and thirst. So now he's giving you the 479 00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:07,640 attitude of what he means when he has says seek first the 480 00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:10,200 Kingdom of God and his righteousness, which means you 481 00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:14,400 should be hungry and thirsty about like when you get hungry, 482 00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:17,280 what are you going to do to get to that food? 483 00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:21,320 What are you going to do? When you're thirsty, like I am 484 00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:23,840 right now. What are you going to do to get 485 00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:26,560 to that thirst? What do you do to satisfy that? 486 00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:29,080 What do you do to satisfy that? What do you do to satisfy that 487 00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:32,040 Right? I mean, where do you go? 488 00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:34,600 What it's? What links do you do? 489 00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:37,440 Now in the. Natural We got this new term 490 00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:40,520 called hangry. We're angry 'cause we're hungry. 491 00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:43,040 And if we just get hungry, and I love that one Snickers 492 00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:44,880 commercial that they brought out. 493 00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:47,560 When you know the people are acting like Divas, you know and 494 00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:49,680 that and they like give them a snicker, then they turn into a 495 00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:53,240 regular human being again. It's like, OK, it's satisfied. 496 00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:56,520 Well, you understand you're not, you are you're you're, you're 497 00:31:56,520 --> 00:32:04,280 not going to do what God has designed for you until you seek 498 00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:06,200 His. Kingdom and his righteousness 499 00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:11,680 with that kind of tenacity. It is not a complacent, sit 500 00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:16,360 back, relax. It is a pursuit. 501 00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:21,960 It is intentional. And if you want to arrive at the 502 00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:27,480 highest levels of revelation and wisdom and a walk with God while 503 00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:30,960 you're on the earth, it's going to require a conditioning for 504 00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:35,000 you to go after Him with hunger and thirst. 505 00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:39,640 When we were lost dead in our trespasses of sin, no man went 506 00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:40,560 after God. No, not. 507 00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:45,320 One but once you're born again, the Bible says draw near to God 508 00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:54,040 and he will so you cannot apply exactly you're without Christ 509 00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:59,600 life into your in Christ life and this happens all over the 510 00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:03,560 place with believers is they're applying what how God responded 511 00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:06,320 to them in their sin and when they weren't a part of the 512 00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:09,800 family and they want to keep that same kind of living in the 513 00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:12,120 Kingdom when he's like that guy died. 514 00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:17,120 We left them at the cross. You're another species of being 515 00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:19,480 now. You couldn't pursue me. 516 00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:22,120 You couldn't get to me. You couldn't do anything to 517 00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:24,240 please me. You couldn't even know me. 518 00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:28,880 You know, I was making myself known to you and then I drew you 519 00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:33,040 with my kindness. But once you accepted me, now I 520 00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:37,240 put within you the ability to know me to, to to know I'm 521 00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:39,720 alive. I even put myself on the inside 522 00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:43,240 of you with the Holy Ghost who will wake you up and talk to you 523 00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:45,400 about. And he wants you to now pursue 524 00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:47,520 him. And if you will draw near to 525 00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:51,080 God, he'll draw near to you. And if you're saying where's God 526 00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:54,160 and you're a believer, you are the one who quit the pursuit 527 00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:58,480 because God's like, I brought you in the house, now you're 528 00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:00,760 part of my family. How much do you want? 529 00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:07,720 Come on, how much do you want and you're wanting? 530 00:34:28,590 --> 00:34:33,909 Hallelujah, I'm going to come to it that fault. 531 00:34:34,230 --> 00:34:38,870 John 64848 to 51. Jesus said this. 532 00:34:39,350 --> 00:34:41,800 I am the bread of life. Your father's. 533 00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:45,040 Ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died, right? 534 00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:49,159 This is the bread which comes down, thank you, Lord, down out 535 00:34:49,159 --> 00:34:54,600 of heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. 536 00:34:55,679 --> 00:34:59,720 Verse 51 I am the living bread that came down out of heaven. 537 00:34:59,720 --> 00:35:02,400 If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. 538 00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:07,880 And the bread also, which I give for the life of the world, is my 539 00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:10,680 flesh. So Jesus lets them know I am the 540 00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:16,200 bread of life, I am the bread of life, I am the bread of life, I 541 00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:19,440 am the bread of life. Now why did is he this and what 542 00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:22,600 did he mean by this when he said in verse 49, your father's ate 543 00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:24,280 man in the wilderness and they died. 544 00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:29,120 Look at this in Deuteronomy. 83 It says he humbled you and let 545 00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:32,360 you be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you did not know, 546 00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:36,440 nor did your father's know that he might make you understand why 547 00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:39,640 did. He feed them not to satisfy 548 00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:48,170 their gut. He did not feed them to satisfy 549 00:35:48,170 --> 00:35:53,210 their gut. He said that he might make you 550 00:35:53,210 --> 00:35:57,690 understand that man does not live by bread alone, but man 551 00:35:57,690 --> 00:35:59,490 lives by everything that proceeds. 552 00:35:59,490 --> 00:36:03,730 Out of the mouth of the Lord. So when Jesus said I'm the bread 553 00:36:03,730 --> 00:36:09,560 of life, your Father's ate manna and they died, yet my dad was 554 00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:14,080 trying to teach them do not be receiving the manna just to 555 00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:17,920 satisfy your gut. What I'm doing is not about 556 00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:28,280 things, it's about. My word, it's about 557 00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:32,200 understanding me. It's about knowing me. 558 00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:37,480 It's about me. So I'm going to give you mana, 559 00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:41,120 not so that your gut's satisfied, but so that you'll 560 00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:47,640 know that if you'll hear me. These come automatically. 561 00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:51,360 They follow. They come automatically. 562 00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:53,080 They follow. You said. 563 00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:57,000 Well, how did they follow? He's already had Moses 564 00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:00,000 demonstrate what it looks like to follow the voice of the Lord. 565 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,440 It conquered the whole nation, brought him through the Red Sea 566 00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:06,200 into the wilderness, and here they are receiving man a place 567 00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:07,960 to eat, because they were. Hungry. 568 00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:11,920 And when you're hungry, naturally you do a lot of 569 00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:14,640 complaining until you get satisfied. 570 00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:18,240 Are we doing this spiritually when it comes to righteousness? 571 00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:21,080 Well, what does God really mean when He said this? 572 00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:24,560 And what is God doing here? And how do I handle this? 573 00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:29,440 And my gosh, I am going to get to you and talk to you until I 574 00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:33,560 find out I need some spiritual bread of life. 575 00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:40,280 That there should be within us a hunger to want to know him. 576 00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:42,960 And he's like, you get to know me, I'll show you what comes. 577 00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:45,320 So when he brought him, I said, this is easy. 578 00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:49,520 There's nothing yet. I'm fixing to give you 579 00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:54,800 something, right? I mean, when there's seems like 580 00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:57,280 there's no way to make bread, they don't. 581 00:37:57,280 --> 00:38:02,040 Have the the wheat, the crops, I can get it for you. 582 00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:08,160 God's not limited to just seed thyme and harvest naturally. 583 00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:13,400 You understand, God's functional for principle. 584 00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:19,520 He's already spoken when he told Abraham hundreds of years 585 00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:22,760 earlier, see this land, your descendants are going to get it, 586 00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,600 but they won't get it till after they've been in slavery from 587 00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:28,400 another nation for 400 years. But then I'll bring them in, 588 00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:31,560 I'll deliver them, I'll provide for him. 589 00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:36,240 See, he's enacting on something he said spiritually hundreds of 590 00:38:36,240 --> 00:38:39,000 years earlier, and he's allowing it to now reap in this 591 00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:42,880 generation. What has God spoken about our 592 00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:46,400 time from generations before us that they prophesied that we 593 00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:49,200 weren't even around those prophetic moments, but now God 594 00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:52,560 is obligated to His word through them to make it happen in US? 595 00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:57,720 Oh man, when we'll press into God, then we'll find out there's 596 00:38:57,720 --> 00:39:01,000 all kinds of resources, there's all sorts of things made 597 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:02,600 available. Jesus said it this way in Luke 598 00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:05,760 4/4. He said in Jesus answered, it is 599 00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:07,920 written, man shall not live on bread alone. 600 00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:11,680 When he was attacked by the enemy, he did not talk about his 601 00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:15,040 Now he didn't say, you think I'm, you think you think I'm 602 00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:17,600 hungry. You think? 603 00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:21,840 I mean, I've been praying, seeking God without food, and 604 00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:24,960 then you're going to come up in here and ask if I'm really of 605 00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:27,520 God and turn this rock into bread. 606 00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:31,280 Now Jesus just said sure. I can do that. 607 00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:37,440 I'll show you. But he didn't do that. 608 00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:43,920 What he did was let me seek him first because I'm being attacked 609 00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:48,960 and my response Because I sure am I. 610 00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:52,760 Mean what's it matter? I mean, really, what's it 611 00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:54,280 matter? I mean, Lord, I can hear you. 612 00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:56,920 Think about. I can hear you. 613 00:39:57,080 --> 00:39:59,240 I mean, I'm born of you. I was born of a virgin. 614 00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:02,160 I am. The Christ, you just said it. 615 00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:03,960 I know. So I'm going to eat. 616 00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:05,000 I'm going to do this bread thing. 617 00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:06,000 Real. Quick and then we going to re 618 00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:15,760 engage. No, what are you saying? 619 00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:19,920 Man shall not live on bread alone, He said. 620 00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:21,360 It is written now. He didn't. 621 00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:22,840 Quote the rest of the verse here in Luke. 622 00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:25,440 But you know Jesus knew the rest of the verse. 623 00:40:26,720 --> 00:40:29,040 But man shall live on every word that proceeds out of the mouth 624 00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:31,680 of my Father. And I'm only going to say what 625 00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:34,000 he said and I'm only going to respond like he responded. 626 00:40:34,240 --> 00:40:36,360 And you know what? At the end of the day, he was 627 00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:40,160 able to then pass all the tests. Look at Satan, say get the I 628 00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:42,280 rebuke you. And I'm going on to the next 629 00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:43,440 assignment. Why? 630 00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:48,800 Because I'm satisfied with the righteousness, God's way of 631 00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:51,000 doing things, and I'm only seeking his Kingdom. 632 00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:55,520 And it was after that moment that the angels came and 633 00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:58,280 ministered to him, which means the things he needed came later. 634 00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:02,240 Then he goes and testifies of the place that brought the 635 00:41:02,240 --> 00:41:04,560 things. Repent for the Kingdom of heaven 636 00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:09,960 as a hand, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah. 637 00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:14,040 So when Jesus and John chapter 6 says he's the bread of life then 638 00:41:14,040 --> 00:41:16,680 and he makes that statement, unless you eat of my flesh. 639 00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:18,000 Right. And then another drink of my 640 00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:19,320 blood, you'll have no part of me. 641 00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:22,560 And these people are saying that's a hard thing. 642 00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:28,880 That's hard. And it goes on to say, and many 643 00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:35,480 of his disciples left, many quit following Jesus. 644 00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:43,200 That message to the crowd that day was to identify who's with 645 00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:49,960 me and who's not, because God knows. 646 00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:54,480 I said God knows, now let's pick it back up in verse 59. 647 00:41:54,680 --> 00:41:58,040 John chapter 6, verse 59. This is new material for today. 648 00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:02,200 These things he said in the Sonic Synagogue as he taught in 649 00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:04,880 Capernaum. Therefore many of his disciples 650 00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:08,120 when they heard this, said this is a difficult statement. 651 00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:11,640 Who can listen to it? There are many believers today 652 00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:15,120 throughout a lot of churches that when the man or woman of 653 00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:18,960 God ministers the word of God, exactly what he needs for them 654 00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:22,080 to hear so that they will crucify the flesh. 655 00:42:22,240 --> 00:42:25,720 They'll get rid of the sins that so easily beset them. 656 00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:30,600 They will set aside weights that hinder their active faith from 657 00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:32,600 moving forward. He begins to say you're going to 658 00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:34,560 have to change that thinking. I want to elevate when he begins 659 00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:37,360 to prune and say you were. Fruitful in this season, but 660 00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:39,960 we've got to prune this all so the next season could be more 661 00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:42,080 fruitful when those messages go forth. 662 00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:44,560 Every believer's having this thought. 663 00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:52,760 That's a hard say. Up to this one to like we've. 664 00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:58,480 Enjoyed what he says. I want to preach this message, 665 00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:02,480 you know, a little sound clip that comes from the movies, 666 00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:06,000 Jurassic Park. And that's when the guy that's 667 00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:07,560 got the glasses, what's his name? 668 00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:10,720 Jeffrey What? Yeah. 669 00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:13,640 And he's like, goes in the second one and they're, they, 670 00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:16,240 you know, crashed on the island that he doesn't want to be back. 671 00:43:16,240 --> 00:43:18,600 He does not want to go back to that island. 672 00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:21,840 And now he's there. And then they see the dinosaurs 673 00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:24,440 and they're like, oh, ah, And he goes yes. 674 00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:27,160 Oh, and ah, and then there's running and screaming. 675 00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:31,680 And I think that's how many. Believers are is. 676 00:43:32,240 --> 00:43:34,920 Oh, ah, Lord. And then there's running and 677 00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:37,600 screaming because then he says, let me touch you. 678 00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:41,000 Here, let's cut that off. Don't get offended with that. 679 00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:45,560 Now you gonna forgive them? Now I've put it in you, this is 680 00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:48,880 easy. So it was, oh, ah, and then it's 681 00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:52,320 running and screaming. Hallelujah. 682 00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:54,600 I can do this with marriage. I can do this with children. 683 00:43:54,720 --> 00:43:58,360 I can do this with every subject known to man, right? 684 00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:00,720 But he said this is a difficult statement. 685 00:44:00,720 --> 00:44:03,120 A lot of times people are. That's a difficult statement. 686 00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:07,480 When things are being preached, that's a difficult statement, 687 00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:13,040 but the Lord's like saying, hey, I am going to give all so you 688 00:44:13,040 --> 00:44:17,280 can give all. And all that you're giving is in 689 00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:19,960 exchange for all that I'm going to pull out of you. 690 00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:25,920 Your best life ever is if you just do it the way I'm telling 691 00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:28,120 you, because I knew you before you're in your mother's womb. 692 00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:30,680 I knew you before the foundations of the world. 693 00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:35,120 I'm not asking you anything that I I am not willing to do. 694 00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:40,320 In fact I didn't even have to do what I did, but for a word from 695 00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:43,560 God. Are you hearing me verse 61 it 696 00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:47,240 said, but Jesus conscious that his disciples grumbled at this. 697 00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:50,000 You know, I'm conscious when people grumble said to them, 698 00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:54,600 does this cause you to stumble? What then if you see the Son of 699 00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:56,960 Man ascending to where he was before? 700 00:44:57,040 --> 00:45:00,960 If the Spirit who gives life, the flesh profits nothing, The 701 00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:04,880 words that I have spoken to you are what their spirit and our 702 00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:07,800 life. Don't substitute God's word for 703 00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:12,520 your word and your way of doing it and trying to sound like it's 704 00:45:12,520 --> 00:45:17,560 God saying it. But there are some who do not 705 00:45:17,560 --> 00:45:21,600 believe, he says, For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were 706 00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:25,000 who did not believe and who it was who would betray him. 707 00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:29,560 And he was saying this for the reason that for this reason I 708 00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:32,040 have said to you that no one can come to me unless it has been 709 00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:35,440 granted him from the Father. As a result of this many, how 710 00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:38,400 many, how many come on, how many? 711 00:45:39,240 --> 00:45:42,280 And the Bible tells us when the return of Jesus, he says. 712 00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:44,040 That many will fall away from the faith. 713 00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:49,360 So that climates right here and that climates here because the 714 00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:52,840 word of God going forth through the man and woman of God in the 715 00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:57,000 earth, that's declaring as the Kingdom and, and, and tapping in 716 00:45:57,080 --> 00:46:01,200 so that the believer can attain to all that God ordained for 717 00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:04,680 them if they want to maintain something of their own 718 00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:11,920 consciousness, opinion or flesh. It is a difficult saying and you 719 00:46:11,920 --> 00:46:15,360 don't want to be those. That thing that's too difficult, 720 00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:19,640 listen, nothing's impossible for God, so anything he's asking you 721 00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:23,960 to do is not impossible nor actually difficult. 722 00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:27,320 Hallelujah, I said. Hallelujah. 723 00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:31,280 It says as a result, many of his disciples withdrew and we're not 724 00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:35,920 walking with him anymore. And many of you can testify of 725 00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:40,040 people through your tenure on earth that you fellowship either 726 00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:43,320 at this church or other churches that aren't even following God, 727 00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:47,440 not even in church anymore, have substituted how they follow God, 728 00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:51,640 all kinds of things. And he goes on and it says Jesus 729 00:46:51,640 --> 00:46:55,040 said to the 12 verse 67, very powerful he says. 730 00:46:56,160 --> 00:46:58,240 You do not want to go away also, do you? 731 00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:04,000 This is powerful because the Jesus is saying I am going to 732 00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:06,600 fulfill the plan of God. Period. 733 00:47:06,920 --> 00:47:12,480 My emotional attachment to you will not stop me from only doing 734 00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:17,720 it God's way. And He's already ran that test 735 00:47:17,720 --> 00:47:22,040 once with Peter when Peter pulled him aside emotionally and 736 00:47:22,040 --> 00:47:24,640 said, Jesus, may it never happen, we are not going to let 737 00:47:24,640 --> 00:47:26,160 you die. This is not going to happen. 738 00:47:26,160 --> 00:47:27,480 He said, get thee behind me, Satan. 739 00:47:27,640 --> 00:47:31,040 In essence, Jesus said my emotional relationship with you, 740 00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:33,480 of which I have one, I'm connected with you. 741 00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:37,080 I love you. Not emotion, emotionally. 742 00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:41,400 And from a human nature standpoint, He had that kind of 743 00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:45,240 love, connection, a friendship, camaraderie and all that they 744 00:47:45,240 --> 00:47:48,200 had already been through. But all those things do not 745 00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:51,680 supersede the will of my Father, His Word, and I will not 746 00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:55,400 compromise His word just because of our natural relationship. 747 00:47:56,680 --> 00:47:59,880 If our natural relationship cannot stay in the will of the 748 00:47:59,880 --> 00:48:03,200 Father, then I'm going to go with the will of the Father, and 749 00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:06,120 I'm going to have to go in your You may go in a different 750 00:48:06,120 --> 00:48:09,400 direction. Jesus did not run after all of 751 00:48:09,400 --> 00:48:11,480 these that left and begged them to come back. 752 00:48:14,560 --> 00:48:17,440 Did He care for Him? Did he love them? 753 00:48:17,720 --> 00:48:20,640 Was he dying for them? But he sure didn't beg them, 754 00:48:23,040 --> 00:48:27,120 didn't do it. And he looks at his own trusted 755 00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:30,360 12 that have seen walk did all these things. 756 00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:35,800 And now here they go. Are you going to go too Below 757 00:48:35,800 --> 00:48:37,880 what Peter says? Peter answered. 758 00:48:37,880 --> 00:48:41,240 Peter, you know, he, he can get some revelation in some moments. 759 00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:45,680 He said Lord. To whom shall we go? 760 00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:53,680 You have words of eternal life, I said. 761 00:48:53,680 --> 00:48:57,640 You have words of eternal life. So what was? 762 00:48:57,760 --> 00:49:00,600 That which the Lord gave me a minute ago and I stopped. 763 00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:05,120 He says this, listen to this. I'm going to give you the 764 00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:06,280 thought. Here's a different one. 765 00:49:06,280 --> 00:49:11,160 First these. People were witnesses of him 766 00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:14,240 healing the sick, curing blonde eyes. 767 00:49:14,360 --> 00:49:17,960 The lame were walking. Devils were being cast out. 768 00:49:18,120 --> 00:49:24,960 They saw storms being stopping at a word. 769 00:49:25,040 --> 00:49:31,960 They saw the dead raised, they saw food multiply, they saw all 770 00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:35,440 these things, and yet there was after the food multiplication 771 00:49:35,640 --> 00:49:40,400 that came as a result of God demonstrating what He said in 772 00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:42,120 Matthew 6. If you'll seek first the Kingdom 773 00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:43,920 of God, the rest of this would be added. 774 00:49:44,080 --> 00:49:46,880 And all of a sudden Jesus out and people were coming to hear 775 00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:51,000 his teaching, and He taught for them to them for three days, and 776 00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:53,640 they did not eat. So what did He do? 777 00:49:53,960 --> 00:49:56,720 That's the principle You sought me. 778 00:49:59,720 --> 00:50:06,400 Now I am. Obligated to give you the things 779 00:50:06,600 --> 00:50:10,160 that you weren't seeking. Gentlemen, feed them. 780 00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:14,000 It wasn't just to work a miracle. 781 00:50:15,640 --> 00:50:19,240 It was an obligation to the word that if you'll come after me and 782 00:50:19,240 --> 00:50:22,040 want to hear what I'm saying is sit at my feet and listen to my 783 00:50:22,040 --> 00:50:26,800 teaching and walk in my wisdom. When I'm obligated, man, we are 784 00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:29,080 going to feed these people right now. 785 00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:32,920 The things that they weren't going after, I'm going to give 786 00:50:32,920 --> 00:50:34,680 it to them. They did not say, look, this 787 00:50:34,680 --> 00:50:37,520 meeting is going long enough. I got to get to a place and eat. 788 00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:50,080 I need to eat. So in turn I have to go. 789 00:50:50,080 --> 00:50:52,160 No, they stayed and he said I got to feed them. 790 00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:57,400 I got to feed them. Come on, right? 791 00:50:57,400 --> 00:50:58,600 How many you want some? Bread. 792 00:50:58,880 --> 00:51:03,440 I can get it back there I'm. Working on it, there it is. 793 00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:07,640 Off the wall. I mean, we want the bread of 794 00:51:07,640 --> 00:51:12,520 life, right? Do you want the bread of life? 795 00:51:13,360 --> 00:51:15,440 Come on. Do you want the bread of life? 796 00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:17,360 Kiss it now. Oh, yes. 797 00:51:19,920 --> 00:51:23,320 Wow, do you want the bread of life? 798 00:51:23,680 --> 00:51:27,720 Do you want the bread of life? Come on, do you want it? 799 00:51:29,080 --> 00:51:32,320 Oh, I mean when you want it. You'll do whatever it takes to 800 00:51:32,320 --> 00:51:35,160 go get that stuff right. You'll go after it. 801 00:51:35,160 --> 00:51:36,320 You'll get. I don't know why it keeps 802 00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:39,080 curving. Y'all must be hungry in that one 803 00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:42,040 section. Like the food just keeps coming 804 00:51:42,040 --> 00:51:45,360 to you. I mean, this lady hasn't eaten 805 00:51:45,360 --> 00:51:48,440 for three days. Apparently she has gotten 3 806 00:51:48,440 --> 00:51:52,600 rolls already. My gosh, Hallelujah. 807 00:51:52,680 --> 00:51:55,600 I'm trying to get to this one section over here, but it just 808 00:51:55,600 --> 00:51:57,280 keeps curving. Let me see if I can start a 809 00:51:57,280 --> 00:51:59,360 little earlier. Oh, there it is. 810 00:51:59,360 --> 00:52:02,200 I made it. Now I learned that from golf. 811 00:52:04,040 --> 00:52:05,360 Right, you understand what I'm saying. 812 00:52:06,040 --> 00:52:09,000 It is life. There you go. 813 00:52:09,760 --> 00:52:12,640 Oh, Collin's Trami, he's saying. Can you get it back here? 814 00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:15,320 I mean, I can if the bread would. 815 00:52:16,680 --> 00:52:18,800 Sorry. One more ready. 816 00:52:19,360 --> 00:52:22,400 Oh, Macy, since she made them all, let's thank Macy. 817 00:52:25,240 --> 00:52:28,680 Hallelujah. Do you? 818 00:52:28,680 --> 00:52:31,320 Y'all right? Do you hunger? 819 00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:34,760 Oh, y'all want some scent? Well, nobody in the center. 820 00:52:34,760 --> 00:52:37,240 Really was putting her hand up. Oh, did you OK, I. 821 00:52:37,640 --> 00:52:38,760 Let me see. Here we go. 822 00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:41,200 Here we go. Are you ready? 823 00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:43,480 I need you to catch it. Come on. 824 00:52:43,480 --> 00:52:45,360 Miss Mary's in preschool, so, you know, I got. 825 00:52:45,680 --> 00:52:46,920 She knows how to talk. I'm gonna talk. 826 00:52:46,960 --> 00:52:49,080 You know she's used to it. Come on, Miss Mary. 827 00:52:49,200 --> 00:52:51,720 There it is. Miss Mary. 828 00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:53,760 Miss Mary. Two or three witnesses. 829 00:52:54,880 --> 00:52:57,040 You ready? Are now? 830 00:53:02,120 --> 00:53:06,040 Sometimes you just got to get out of your seat and get more 831 00:53:06,040 --> 00:53:09,640 than enough. Oh, the TV. 832 00:53:11,320 --> 00:53:21,440 Oh, hey, all right. The bread of life. 833 00:53:21,800 --> 00:53:26,200 They saw all this, and yet what did Jesus identify? 834 00:53:27,720 --> 00:53:30,600 So you're. Really only following me for the 835 00:53:30,600 --> 00:53:39,850 things. You're only following me for the 836 00:53:39,850 --> 00:53:43,450 things. See, when you hunger and thirst 837 00:53:43,450 --> 00:53:49,520 for righteousness, God will know the why of your want, because if 838 00:53:49,640 --> 00:53:54,480 all you want and seeking the Kingdom and being in his 839 00:53:54,480 --> 00:53:58,640 presence and sitting at his. Feet is to get the. 840 00:53:58,640 --> 00:54:01,760 Things that come with it, he'll know. 841 00:54:01,760 --> 00:54:03,280 So here was the thought the Lord gave me. 842 00:54:04,840 --> 00:54:08,240 Your wanting cannot be to be known. 843 00:54:12,120 --> 00:54:13,760 A lot of times people, I want to seek Him. 844 00:54:13,760 --> 00:54:15,760 I want to seek His presence. I want to know His power. 845 00:54:15,800 --> 00:54:18,520 I want to I want to know Him and the power of his resurrection. 846 00:54:18,520 --> 00:54:20,880 They want to work in the miraculous because really they 847 00:54:20,880 --> 00:54:24,600 want to be known that they work in the miraculous because they 848 00:54:24,600 --> 00:54:27,200 want the things of healing. They want the things of a word 849 00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:29,360 of knowledge. They want the things of a word 850 00:54:29,360 --> 00:54:31,080 of wisdom. They want the things that come 851 00:54:31,080 --> 00:54:35,080 with the Kingdom. But the Lord's like just you, 852 00:54:35,280 --> 00:54:41,640 you got. To want me and if you get me. 853 00:54:42,360 --> 00:54:45,600 You get it all, I said. You get it all. 854 00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:48,280 And if you. Took some time to just calculate 855 00:54:48,480 --> 00:54:52,120 real quick how much time you are seeking other stuff. 856 00:54:54,800 --> 00:54:56,400 But I want to, I want to help you. 857 00:54:57,240 --> 00:55:00,040 God is not asking you to do whatever you do in the natural 858 00:55:00,040 --> 00:55:01,720 in time. Make sure you're doing the exact 859 00:55:01,720 --> 00:55:06,040 same with Him because in the spirit things are multiplied. 860 00:55:06,040 --> 00:55:11,040 Speed up, it's totally. Different God can do God can 861 00:55:11,040 --> 00:55:17,200 give you a seed and 60 seconds that it would require you 862 00:55:17,360 --> 00:55:24,120 another 10 years to mine out all the revelation again. 863 00:55:24,120 --> 00:55:26,320 It's not oh, I worked out for an hour. 864 00:55:26,360 --> 00:55:28,640 I have to make sure I pray for an hour again. 865 00:55:28,880 --> 00:55:31,840 You're doing it by rote religion. 866 00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:35,040 You're being you're having semantics here, right. 867 00:55:35,320 --> 00:55:38,120 Instead, it's like I want to spend time with him because 868 00:55:38,120 --> 00:55:41,560 wanting is kind of like I can't watch this anymore. 869 00:55:41,560 --> 00:55:43,800 I just heard the Lord. I got to go pray because he's 870 00:55:43,800 --> 00:55:45,560 first. It's not. 871 00:55:45,840 --> 00:55:48,400 Oh, I probably should pray. Well, I'll wait till this show's 872 00:55:48,400 --> 00:55:52,640 over. You see what I'm saying? 873 00:55:52,840 --> 00:55:56,680 It's not the quantity of time, although it will require time. 874 00:55:56,680 --> 00:56:00,880 And again, sometimes if you go into a place, and I've done this 875 00:56:00,880 --> 00:56:03,160 before, I've gone off prayer and fasting, come back. 876 00:56:03,160 --> 00:56:04,400 My wife said would you get anything? 877 00:56:04,640 --> 00:56:11,800 And I was like, no, but I was with him because sometimes I've 878 00:56:11,800 --> 00:56:16,160 had questions that I was asking and did not get an answer, did 879 00:56:16,160 --> 00:56:18,480 not know how to change it yet, did not know how to do. 880 00:56:18,480 --> 00:56:22,520 But I'm say I was with him because at the end of the day, 881 00:56:23,160 --> 00:56:28,480 if I'm with him and I want him, then when the time is right for 882 00:56:28,480 --> 00:56:31,960 whatever needed to take place, my Mama is going to come to 883 00:56:31,960 --> 00:56:33,160 back. Because some of the things that 884 00:56:33,160 --> 00:56:37,920 I'm going through are to develop me and my character to grow me 885 00:56:37,920 --> 00:56:40,840 so that I can endure as a apostle. 886 00:56:40,840 --> 00:56:42,240 Mark she's been preaching is powerful. 887 00:56:42,240 --> 00:56:44,440 OK, let's do a speed round of last verses and we're done. 888 00:56:45,480 --> 00:56:50,640 Are you ready for this Psalms 34 eight old taste and see that the 889 00:56:50,640 --> 00:56:56,720 Lord is whoa, He's good. How blessed is the man who takes 890 00:56:56,720 --> 00:56:59,960 refuge in Him? You're saying the word tastes 891 00:56:59,960 --> 00:57:02,120 good. I said it's good. 892 00:57:02,280 --> 00:57:07,640 In Psalms 1191-O3 it says this. How sweet are your words? 893 00:57:07,640 --> 00:57:11,720 To my taste, Yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth. 894 00:57:12,040 --> 00:57:16,000 Oh my goodness. I mean, do you have this desire 895 00:57:16,120 --> 00:57:19,160 to want to go into the word? And it's satisfied. 896 00:57:19,240 --> 00:57:22,760 It becomes such a taste. And here's the thing I was 897 00:57:22,760 --> 00:57:24,480 talking. About this the other day is 898 00:57:24,480 --> 00:57:29,480 that, you know, during certain holiday seasons, some plates, 899 00:57:29,480 --> 00:57:33,160 some. Items are cooked that are really 900 00:57:33,160 --> 00:57:36,360 good to me. One is a sweet potato casserole. 901 00:57:36,640 --> 00:57:39,680 And so when the sweet potato casserole gets in the house, it 902 00:57:39,680 --> 00:57:46,240 is first. Everyone who's around me knows 903 00:57:46,440 --> 00:57:49,000 that's the first thing I eat, that first. 904 00:57:50,400 --> 00:57:54,560 Not the only time, but first. It's first. 905 00:57:54,920 --> 00:57:57,440 Then when I make my plate, it makes it to the plate. 906 00:57:59,280 --> 00:58:03,680 Then and I know how it tastes, I've already had two plates now 907 00:58:04,080 --> 00:58:08,320 but it's so good. Then when dessert comes, I'll 908 00:58:08,320 --> 00:58:13,480 eat it first, then find a dessert and then when my stomach 909 00:58:13,520 --> 00:58:18,240 really hurts and I should not eat anymore but my taste buds 910 00:58:18,240 --> 00:58:22,320 say. Man, don't you know that you 911 00:58:22,320 --> 00:58:25,080 could taste and see that it is good? 912 00:58:26,080 --> 00:58:29,840 A sweet potato casserole will not last more than 48 hours in 913 00:58:29,840 --> 00:58:33,720 my house, just like a box of cereal will not last more than 914 00:58:33,720 --> 00:58:35,960 24. That's why I do not buy them, 915 00:58:37,560 --> 00:58:42,960 because I'll make a bowl. This is satisfied, but I. 916 00:58:43,480 --> 00:58:46,760 Think of the taste. See this is the thing, when you 917 00:58:46,760 --> 00:58:51,040 go pursue God, He'll answer, but all of a sudden it'll put a 918 00:58:51,040 --> 00:58:53,600 taste in you. You know, you, you don't have to 919 00:58:53,600 --> 00:58:56,280 eat, but I want to taste it again. 920 00:58:57,760 --> 00:59:01,200 I mean, is God that real to you that Yeah, I did my Bible 921 00:59:01,200 --> 00:59:04,880 reading plan. I read, but man, it tastes so 922 00:59:04,880 --> 00:59:09,240 good to be with him, to fellowship with him, to pray to 923 00:59:09,240 --> 00:59:13,160 him, to, to commune with him, to get down with his word. 924 00:59:13,480 --> 00:59:15,040 You know, I just want another bite. 925 00:59:15,160 --> 00:59:18,360 I just want another bite. I just want another bite because 926 00:59:18,360 --> 00:59:21,240 where am I going to go? He has words of life. 927 00:59:23,320 --> 00:59:26,040 Wow. Last two verses are these 928 00:59:26,160 --> 00:59:30,440 Proverbs 2413 to 14. You said my son, eat honey for 929 00:59:30,440 --> 00:59:33,560 it is good. Yes, the honey from the comb is 930 00:59:33,560 --> 00:59:37,280 sweet to your taste. Know that wisdom is thus for 931 00:59:37,280 --> 00:59:40,040 your soul. If you find it, then there will 932 00:59:40,040 --> 00:59:44,960 be a future and a hope will and your hope will not be cut off. 933 00:59:45,160 --> 00:59:47,520 Wow. Last verse comes out of Job. 934 00:59:48,960 --> 00:59:53,560 Job 23. Says this verse 12 he said I 935 00:59:53,560 --> 00:59:57,240 have not departed from the commands of his lips. 936 00:59:57,520 --> 01:00:02,960 I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my necessary 937 01:00:02,960 --> 01:00:07,480 food. Question. 938 01:00:08,160 --> 01:00:11,160 How long does it take to be hungry for God? 939 01:00:12,440 --> 01:00:16,600 About 10 seconds don't take long at all. 940 01:00:18,320 --> 01:00:20,800 How long does it take to stay hungry? 941 01:00:21,800 --> 01:00:24,960 Not long at all. My wife will say to me, 942 01:00:24,960 --> 01:00:27,200 sometimes you're getting something to eat. 943 01:00:27,200 --> 01:00:30,640 We just ate well. I just want to taste something 944 01:00:30,640 --> 01:00:33,360 good. And I can do this with a word 945 01:00:33,640 --> 01:00:38,400 all the time. All the time because he's my 946 01:00:38,480 --> 01:00:38,920 first.