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Message podcast from st. Augustine Florida.
Now enjoyed this message. I want to talk to you about
hearing the voice of God. Okay.
But I want to kind of put it at an angle that's going to help us
a little bit because Have you ever noticed that?
It seems within the realm of the church Bond?
I'm talking to church folk, okay?
I'm not talking to the Lost. I'm talking to church people.
Tonight's message is for those who are born again.
All right. Have you noticed that?
If you get around people who are born again, we are okay with not
hearing the same thing from God. We're okay with it.
We're okay with you hearing God something and me hearing God
something and it may be different and we're okay with
that. Now I'm going to tell you.
There are some things in the world that we should not be okay
with that. It should not be okay, it's not
okay for a born-again Believer, to say.
It's okay, that you believe being filled with the Holy Ghost
with evidence of speaking in tongues is for you.
But I don't, That's unacceptable.
Because there are things that God is saying to his children
that are not holding his children from benefits.
Things that are rights. They have the Holy Ghost
responsibility. As the teacher is to teach all
of God's children Kingdom truths.
Period. So there are things again, it is
not okay for one believer, to say, well you believe that
you're healed, but I believe that God puts sip sickness on
us, that's unacceptable. And to make this statement.
Well, it's okay to agree to disagree, is not acceptable
because someone is agreeing to be rebellious to God's truth and
say God is saying something. He's not saying are you hearing
me? So there are some things that
the voice of God is not saying different to someone else but
tonight I'm going to show you when God is saying something
different. Because we also develop an error
in thinking God will say the same thing concerning certain
situations to everyone, and he does not his benefits to his
children. What is afforded to you as a
believer? In Christ, he's saying the same
thing. But situationally in your life,
he may not say things. And we're going to see why he
would say. One thing, to one person and one
to another. All right.
Now, in order for us to set this up let's look at a few
scriptures here. First Issa, let Matthew 11:15,
okay? Because here's the thing guys,
and Ladies as we continue down the path of the last of the last
days, Where there will be more and more people deceived and
being deceived. And the love the Agape, the god
Kind of Love of Believers growing cold because of
lawlessness. We're going to need to
understand why certain Church groups are responding one way
and some are responding another way and why God could have said
that to that church. Okay?
Could have said that to that church.
Are you hearing me now? God is not saying again, to the,
to a church. You can't be healed.
He's not saying that, he's not saying to a church.
You can't walk in the joy of God.
Casting all your cares and never have anxiety or worry.
He's never saying that. He's not telling a church.
You worry about what's going on in the world.
You guys don't worry. Right?
Because when you learn that you're not supposed to worry,
and that the Bible says to cast all your cares on the Lord, be
anxious for. That is not for a select group,
that is for the body of Christ. Healings for the body of Christ,
being in do with power, it being baptized in the spirit, it is
for the body of Christ, the body of Christ is to grow up.
Right? And we are to grow up in the
things of God, okay? In Matthew chapter 11 verse 15,
it says he who has ears to hear, Let Him hear.
Now, the key to, this verse is the word to because what he's
not saying is he who has ears that hear It's not ears, that
hear is ears to hear. To here.
So what that tells us is that all of us in this room actually
have ears, right? And that means when I'm
communicating, whether through voice are through fingers, We
are hearing what I'm saying. But are you do you have ears to
hear what I'm saying? You know, as well as I do.
Many of us have gotten in situations or in places where a
lot of things are being caught by our ears, but we're not tuned
into those things. A lot of times, we call it white
noise, you understand? I mean, I had, I'm really
terrible at this. You know?
If something's on the TV that I've gotten very zoned into,
I'll have ears. To hear that movie.
Which means then, when my wife has is talking to me and my ears
are hearing her, I do not have ears to hear her voice, but the
movie that I am currently engrossed in, Right.
And typically it begins to sound like this because my wife will
get my ears to hear, right? She'll say Earl.
Earl Earl. Hey what right are you listening
to me? No, I was not.
Now she may have been talking over the last 60 seconds and my
ears heard her, but I didn't have an ear to hear her because
I was too focused there. Now, how many of you done this?
Because this has happened without even sound without even
audible sound. Someone is talking to you and
you're hearing them in your ears but then you get a text and you
open it up while they're talking.
Come on now and you start to read that text and now you have
no ears to hear the voice in the room.
But you're only hearing your own voice inside your head, that is
not audible, read the text and you have no ears to hear the
actual Audible Voice in the room anymore.
Has that happened to anybody? Yeah happened to me while I was
like, did you hear what I said? What, why are you reading that?
I mean, I'm talking right? Sorry.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry. That was wrong of me.
If the throw the Fallen across the room, right?
Please don't text me when my wife's calling, that's what I'm
asking. You talking to me.
I'm just kidding. But you have to have ears to
hear Right, was tells us then not everything.
We're hearing is being received at his as it's being given in
this room. We have quite a few pairs of
ears, which means everything I speak tonight.
We'll have an issue, not with what I say.
But how you here? cuz how you here is going to be
filtered, Through you. And any given moment, if you
ever get offended with me, then how you hear me preach?
I've had people come in and they never heard me preach before new
to the church. I preached a message, the Holy
Ghost moves in their life. Like I've never heard this is
most powerful thing, you know, it's like you were the best
preacher on the face of Planet but then they stayed long enough
to get offended. Now, all of a sudden the same
boys with the same Revelation the same anointing.
Is it received through those same ears the same way anymore
or you are like God? It meant it.
I hear God. I mean, God is spit.
I Love The Way You Preach. I mean, it's so real.
It's ministering to my life and then God gets to that section in
your life. You've never dealt with and it's
the same Revelation, same passion, and all of a sudden
theyíre starting to lock up and say, I don't hear that, that
means I can't be a victim anymore.
That means, I can't hold on to my past anymore.
That means I can't use that as an excuse anymore.
So now, all of a sudden what we hear is different, somebody
walking out so bad. I was such a powerful message,
somebody else like they hate it. You know, you know what he's
talking about. Well, you don't know what you're
hearing about. See, I'm filtering through.
Everyone's paradigm shift, if you have a paradigm that all
pastors are there just to take your money than any time I
preach about money. That's the only way you'll hear
it. Tell me where you'll hear it
now, don't go stop me from preaching on it but that's the
only way you hear it. If you ever abused by a pastor,
That's the only way you hear it. If you've only been abused by a
father, anytime you hear, father God, you'll think of him that
way. So what I say is then,
interpreted through your Paradigm, this is why Jesus
said, repent, change your thinking.
Quit allowing what I say to go through your mind.
That way. That's why Jesus is Sermon on
the Mount. Sounded like this, you've heard
the ancient say, but I say to you you got it all wrong, the
way you heard it. What in the right way to hear it
because you know what? You hurt and then he goes and
throws things down. You heard Thou shalt not, but I
say unto you, we started if it wasn't about you physically, not
doing something. It's about the motive of your
heart, because if you already got in your heart, it's like
you're done it and that's like crazy hearing.
He for someone who's prided themselves to never have acted
on but yet in their heart wants it all the time.
Thus in there, physically are outwardly betraying, they're not
doing. This is why Jesus said to the
Pharisees. You bunch of whitewashed tombs
on the outside. You look all clean, but you full
of dead man, bone. Are you hearing me, okay?
So he who has ears to hear. So you have to come in every
time to service them be intentional, believe you me.
I have to be intentional. I have to be in tension when I
study, but I have to definitely be intentional when I'm hearing.
Because when you preach as much as I have, and studied as much
as I have and been in places as much as I have, you can sit down
and begin to hear. And if it doesn't come out a
way, you think it could come out, you could miss.
And I will arrest myself. Nope.
You're going to get something
out of this. You're not here.
Critiquing your not here. Try.
You know, you're not you're all you.
What? Just get give me a God.
Give me a word. You got to keep yourself in
these. These positions, you've got a
rest yourself especially when you come across scriptures.
That you've heard often. Our story.
You've heard again. And Kenneth E Hagin.
He's told the same stories over and over and over and over.
I mean you could quote some of them if you if you listen to his
ministry enough but if you don't watch out the many, he goes to
1, you can go and you no longer have ears to hear although your
hearing So how do we know this is supported?
If you go to a couple chapters over in Matthew, Matthew chapter
13, verses 18 to 23, let me just read it real quick.
You know, it hearing then here then the parable of the sower
when anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not
understand it. The evil one comes and snatches
away. What has been sown in his heart?
This is the one whom the seed was, sown beside the road and
the one of on whom seed was sown on the rocky places.
This is the man who hears the word and immediately receives it
with joy yet. He has no root no firm root in
himself, but his own is only temporary.
And when Affliction or persecution arises because of
the word immediately, he falls away.
And the one on whom seed was sown among the Thorns, this is
the man who hears the word and the worry of the world and the
deceitfulness of wealth choke the word and it becomes
unfruitful and the one on whom the seed was sown on the good
Soul, this is the man who hears the word and understands it, who
indeed, And bears fruit and brings forth some, a
hundredfold, some sixty, and some Thirty.
So, again, what this tells us is that this describes the
condition of the man's heart by which he is the Paradigm by
which he's hearing and notice the word brings persecution,
write the word deliver sets you free, but persecution comes
because of the word and if you don't get rooted in it, Then
you'll allow the trouble and the persecution to talk louder and
you abandon it. Because you'll want to stay
Associated to the problem instead of the word that gets
you out of the problem. You'll abandon the word to try
to get out of the problem, but that just means you'll get into
more Perpetual problems and then the one that's on a mug, the
thrall Thorns. Here's a couple people.
Here are the people who worry about everything, they're always
worried like how we gonna get an actual eye.
Every doesn't matter the words are that worry.
Chokes. It out every dog on time and you
got it but you won't let it bear fruit because a, how your
hearing? Are you have, you know, the
deceitfulness of wealth? Which in one sense the Bible
says, is the lust of money that is the root of all evil.
And so what it is is it's about making it on your own.
And when you have a knesset selfish, ambition, When you hear
the word, you're always trying to manipulate the word to get
you ahead. And it's unfruitful.
It's unfruitful. I was talking with my creative
team, not too long ago. I'm going to preach a message on
this but here's the thing, as long as selfish ambition is a
part of you, you are always subject to deception. if you
have any selfish ambition, you will be deceived. .
Can't avoid it. Jesus, his greatest modeling to
us was selflessness. This, why couldn't be deceived
because his life was not his own.
It wasn't about doing great works.
It was not about being known as the greatest profit, it was
never about that. It was only about only do the
will of my father. That's it will preach that at
length, that's a nugget. So we see then it's how we here
will determine things in our lives, okay?
And if we do not allow the word to change this like the good
soil, meaning we're going to yield to it.
We're hearing it. We want to hear it.
We want to be transformed by it. Then any natural deficiencies
are things that would hinder the word from producing fruit, we
get rid of it. We get rid of it when we
realize, I gotta change the way I think about that.
Now that thought is actually against God's word that behavior
is actually against God's word that way of acting is against
God's word. I'm gonna have to stop that I'm
going to stop that. I'm going to yield to the word
and let it produce that fruit in my life.
And if you do not do that, it will put you in positions where
God will have to say something to you different.
Look at Mark chapter 7 verse 6. It says this Mark chapter 7
verse 6 says and he said to them, rightly did Isaiah
prophesy of you Hypocrites, as it is written.
These people honor me with their lips, but their heart is far
away from me, what? And when he says Hypocrites,
he's talking to religious people keepers of the law knowers of
the word by word. But not in heart, so they hear
the word but their life is not modeling.
It's why Jesus told the crowd he said, do what the Pharisees say?
Just don't do what they do. Don't model their lifestyle but
model the words they say see they don't keep the words they
say but the words they say is true.
Okay. And the reason why the Pharisees
struggled is because they had selfish ambition, they had
different motives So when they heard the word, they manipulate
it to their situation and then they would modify the word. so
that it would fit their cause And it made them unfruitful and
the most targeted Group, by Jesus.
The most targeted Group by Jesus.
All right, so Jesus obviously again just in a type and Shadow
we see then Jesus Christ had a word for the Pharisees but had a
word for the general crowd. Sounded different He didn't
speak to him the same. Now, the promises and the
blessings. And the, the the lifestyle of
God's kingdom rain could be for both, but how he spoke to them
were different based upon their hearing.
And based upon the hearing they have and how they were living
what they heard. Now turn over to Judges chapter
6. I've ministered how this passage
in the realm of leadership before.
I've focused primarily on Gideon but today we're going to focus
on the nation. All right, we're going to focus
on the nation out of this. Passage of scripture, I have
ministered of message called the fearless leader becoming a
fearless leader. Okay.
But we're going to focus on the nation.
And so here in Judges chapter 6 to set context that says this,
then the sons of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the
Lord. What did the Sons of Israel?
Do some evil in the sight of the Lord, the lord gave them gave
them into the hands of the midi in seven years.
Why did God give them into the hands of Medians for seven years
because they did Evil. Not did teach them a lesson.
Not to test them. Okay, so we have clarity.
Verse 2, the Power of the medium prevailed against Israel because
of media and the sons of Israel made for themselves, the dens,
which were in the mountains and the caves and the strong horse
holds for. It was when Israel had sown that
the midianites would come up with the amalekites and the sons
of the East and go against them. So they would Camp against them
and destroy the produce of the earth as far as Gaza and leave,
no sustenance in Israel. As well as no sheep ox or donkey
for, they would come up. With their Livestock in their
tents and they would come in light, Locus for numbers, both
day and their camels were innumerable, and they came into
the land to devastated. So, Israel was brought very low
because the medium and the sons of these are cry to the Lord
while they do cry to the Lord. And now, it came about when the
sons of Israel cried to the Lord on account of minion that the
Lord sent a prophet. All right, because again, in the
old Covenant, in order to hear the voice of God, it had to come
through someone because they were not born of God.
They couldn't personally tap into the spirit of God speaking
to them personally. God had to send someone so he
sent a prophet. Now, when he sends a profit,
this Prophet has God's voice. So in this context, you
understand, when we talk like this, this is God speaking to
them because in this dispensation this is how God
spoke. So it's not a disadvantage.
It's how God spoke. So when the prophet spoke it was
at, they had the Revelation. It's not like they did not
understand, that's God. You got to understand this.
This is not well, I don't know if I believe him.
I mean, they knew that was the man of God and they were
confronted with a word from God that at that point, they had to
choose whether to yield to or not, okay?
So the Lord sent a prophet to the sons of Israel and said to
them, look what he said, thus says the Lord, the god of
Israel. It was I who brought you up from
Egypt and brought you out of the house of slavery.
I've delivered you from the hands of the Egyptians.
And from the hands of Your oppressors and dispossess them
before you and gave you their land.
And I say to you, I am the Lord your God.
You shall not What Fear the gods of the amorites in whose land
you live. But But you have not obeyed me.
And that was God's word to the nation.
Now is this God's will for the nation?
No, but it is God's word to the nation.
And why is God got an issue with a nation?
They're doing evil. Right?
Well, I they doing Evil Jesus. Tells the Lord tells at the end.
What is the last statement you have not obeyed me when you do
not obey, God, guess what you're doing?
What did the Lord tell him? Do not fear the gods of the
amorites? But they, feared them meaning
not like being afraid of prey, they worship them.
They begin to honor them. They began to worship them
instead of Hill. And that was evil in the sight
of God. And he said, what?
You've not obeyed me but now is it God's heart to deliver?
Well, let's keep on reading, jump down to verse 12, then the
angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, the Lord is
with you all violent. Valiant Warrior than Gideon said
to him, O My Lord, if the Lord is with us, why then has all
this happened? And where are all his miracles,
which our father told us about saying, did not the Lord bring
us up from Egypt but now the Lord has abandoned us and given
us into the hands handle Medium. Now, you know what this tells
us, this means midi Gideon didn't come to the prophet
meeting. because if he had been at the meeting where the Prophet
showed up, he would have known something else.
But God Reveals His will. What's he say?
He said the Lord looked at him, right?
And said, go in this in this your strength and deliver Israel
from the hand of Minion have, I not sent you.
Now, if you read the rest of the chapter 6, we understand that
Gideon's got his own problems. He's got his own challenges that
God has to deal with and then I'm not here to deal with
Gideon, but Gideon deals with his problem.
His problem is that he's afraid he's fearful and the Lord's
having to drive fear from him. Meaning he got to let him know.
You don't have to be afraid. Don't be afraid.
I mean this is a recurring event that God says throughout the
whole Testament do not be afraid.
Be strong and very courageous. Do not be and he's saying it in
the New Covenant. Do not be afraid.
Do not be afraid, Jesus, do not be afraid, yet.
We get world events. Can place.
Now is God telling some groups, you should be afraid of this.
If God consistently says, do not be afraid throughout scripture
then. Will there ever be a time that a
group of his kids? He'll say you need to be afraid
and other group, he'll say, don't be afraid.
Nope. Now that doesn't mean there
aren't those that are afraid And being afraid.
Isn't a problem. If you'll deal with your fear
being afraid is a problem, if you will not deal with your
fear. That's the problem.
How do we know? Because obviously Gideon goes
through some tests starts to conquer fear, right?
And then, he's like, I need to know that.
I know, I heard God again and he does the whole fleece thing.
We don't do fleeces in the New Covenant because we have the
Holy Ghost in us. Do not lay your rug outside like
Gideon. You have the third person of the
godhead, you do not need to see a mat wet and the ground dry.
The devil will accommodate those signs for you in the New
Covenant because that's being led by sight in the old
Covenant. They had to have that in the New
Covenant. If you start doing that, you're
subjecting yourself to deception.
Lord, I just need a confirmation.
If you can't get a confirmation in your spirit, you need to
fine-tune being able to hear the Holy Ghost.
I won't tell you that God won't confirm it would natural things
but I don't go around looking for the natural confirmation to
confirm. My inner witness.
I have the Holy Spirit on the inside.
And we are to be led by the not by some external sign to confirm
and internal hearing. But in Gideon's day he had to do
it. Then we get to verse 2, chapter
7 and chapter 7. Then obviously Gideon has done
enough. That he has told the nation what
God has said to him. How do we know this?
Because he assembles 32,000 people 32,000 people get behind
what Gideon said and you know what Gideon said, Gideon said
the angel showed up at my place and it's what he told me and I
honestly at first, I didn't believe it.
But it was an angel and then he told me to do things and I did
them and it worked and then just to make sure before I got you
guys involved, I'd had him DUIs on two different occasions to
let everything. Be confirmed by two or three
Witnesses. And I'm telling you right now,
God is with me and he wants to deliver our nation like he did
back with Egypt. And 32,000 people said, Okay.
Now you said the Lord said to Gideon after these 32,000 show
up. He said, the people who are
with, you are too many for me to give to the minion, a nice into
their hands less Israel. Boast about themselves against
me saying, my own hand has delivered me Right?
So now Proclaim in the ears of the men saying, whoever is
fearful and trembling let him turn back and depart from Mal.
Right. And 22,000. 22,000.
A little more than two-thirds of the men returned.
But 10,000 right remained well what do we hear hear?
What are we learning this? What do we learn?
Why would God tell 22,000 people go home?
First of all fear will determine what God says to you.
Fear will determine what God says to you.
Fearful people Mass Their Fear and pride.
How do we know this? He said, if I give this many
people, y'all go down there and take many a nights.
All I know where they are. I mean, God knew where then why
did he tell to get him to ask the question?
I mean, think about this just ask him if they're fearful and
trembling. Because God and before that it
says, if I take this group this group right here and they go
down and I do the battle and Whip-It you know what they're
going to say we did this. Look at us, we so bad.
We so tough yet. All the while, they so scared.
They're so scared. But you can't let you know
they're scared. Can't let you know, they were
scared out of their mind during the middle of the battle, they
could let you know that they were freaking out the whole
time. Because at the end, they got to
come back and save face. They took, I make sure nobody
didn't know. When they were actually hiding
in the bushes head of being out in the battle.
Yeah, we did it. Well, we did it.
Yeah. Okay, Hallelujah, this is
leadership. Do we have any leaders in here?
Don't need believe followers, unless, let's, let's identify.
So a person with fear May assemble though for the battle
but will never go to battle now. How do we know this David and
Goliath? David and Goliath.
David the shepherd boy he shows up there are soldiers bigger
than him stronger than him. Well more well-trained than him
and he comes bringing lunch not dressed for battle.
Dressed as a waiter. You just came out to field,
right? And so he shows up and the
mountain of the man's out there taunting Now, what does all of
the nation of Israel? Have ears to hear. so they
filter that message, not through God's word, but through goliaths
word and their image of themselves, And it paralyzes
them. I said it paralyzes them and he
does this for days, David shows up.
And he's like, who is this? Uncircumcised Philistine.
See how he heard. He, who is this?
Uncircumcised Philistine that with the FAA, the armies of God,
He's in the church service where thousands of people are attended
and I got one guy like let's go killed a guy.
I got one, man. Here in the same thing everybody
else is hearing but he hears a through a covenant.
He said whole in, who is this? Notice what he said, who is this
on circumcised? He heard the man's voice through
God's covenant, that man ain't even in Covenant.
How can a nun? Covenant guy?
Think he can talk and run off at the mouth, like that.
What is happening here? You know, just what is happening
here. Just like right now I mentioned
this, I think Sunday I'm gonna mention it again because it
Bears repeating how you hear me is based upon your attentiveness
of me. I'm going to come back to that
thought process here in a minute.
So here, David's like I'll go kill him and then he's like
shocked at the prizes, the rewards and he's almost like,
why is no one moving? So, you understand David at that
church, looks like he's a fanatic.
He looks a little strange. A little too much.
God. I mean, you're taking a little
too literal, aren't you? I mean, they're taking a little
too literal. Well, he literally went down and
cut the man's head off. He literally went destroy the
rest of the army. Yeah thank God.
He was literal. Thank God.
He literally believed what he couldn't see.
Hallelujah, once again, the rest of them are here and we ain't
going and he honestly the Lord's, like don't even go.
How do I know this? Because a person with if, if you
are a person who will not deal with fear, God will not ask you
to go to battle. So God literally could say you
should just stay home. Okay.
Me why I got? Why would God not let these
22,000 go? He going is he not going to
fight it anyway? We know he's going to fight the
battle. We know that every battle is
ultimately the Lord's but yet he won't let 22,000 people be a
part of the battle, although they'll reap the benefits.
He'll tell the megachurch. Stay home.
You don't want to hear this. Just stay home, right?
I just don't believe the Lord wants us to do anything.
Mmm. Yeah you're right.
I know why he's telling you that.
Now, that's not to be demeaning, but I much rather know why God
would say something to someone. Then assume that everyone would
get what I'm like. Who is this uncircumcised
Philistine. Let's do this thing man.
What's the problem, right? And when you're like, what's the
problem? And they're like, no, you're
like, what's the oh oh, that's the problem.
Okay, okay. I'm going to get it for you.
See, if you're a person who will not deal with fear, God knows
you have already lost before you start fighting.
Cuz you're not going to be working with him.
You will not work with him. You won't do it.
Let me just say this way. No Victory exists.
Where fear is present? No, big tree exist were fears
present. This is why knowing the word so
important. See if you do AR, not a studier
of the word, I cannot stress this enough if you are not a
studier of the word, Fierce coming to your life.
It's coming. The only way you beat fear down
is to know the voice of your king firmly.
Persuaded never doubting the only way is the only way that
you'll say stuff that the rest of the world is saying is saying
different Like you crazy. I have heard the voice of Maga.
I don't know how to hear anything different.
I have ears to hear only what he says and to respond only as he
says and it's never by sight and to a fearful person, you're not
going to hear that. You're probably going to hear,
you should sit this one out. So on that day, that occasion.
22,000 heard, God say go home. You're not fight in essence.
I'm not even give you a word to believe.
Oh man. But 10,000 heard God, say
continue towards the Bible. Well, let's continue on then
jump down to verse 4. Verse 4 says the Lord said to
get him. The men are still too many.
Bring them down to where. Now when God says they're too
many. It's not because it's just a
numbers issue. It's the heart issue.
You got to understand this is not just about sheer numbers.
Notice how God identified, the too many because of things going
on in their heart. They've all heard God wants to
deliver Israel. From the hand of many the Midian
nights and Gideon's the guy to do it.
Although he's never fought a battle.
He's only torn down a statue of bell at MIT at, you know, eight
in the a.m. when nobody was watching with about 10 guys.
And they could those two guys could testify.
We did it man, we did we tore down?
And it didn't get up and kill us or smote us.
You know, there really nothing. I personally think that the Lord
needed them to tear that down because they were afraid of the
Gods of the amorites. He need let me know.
You need to know that God can't do nothing to you.
That's why I got another name that meant let, Bale Bale
contend with him. This is the his father like it.
Bales got a problem with him, let him content.
Why are you trying to do is work and killing?
If your God so tough and he's got a problem with him tearing
down one of his statues. Let him deal with him.
Kill him. Guess what?
He didn't die, which embolden the 10 and A, you know, allow 32
that really hated their suffering.
You understand, you can hate your suffering and still be
afraid to get out of it. Okay, I'm gonna say that again,
you can really hate your suffering and really want
something to be done about it. But at the end of the day you
can't because you're too afraid to deal with your suffering.
At the end of day, 22,000 had to admit I I cannot face my enemy.
I'm too afraid. I'm am scared to death.
You know what? It'd be better for you, to be
honest, that you're scared to death of cancer.
Then the a lie about it. You know, I'd be better because
God, so Marshall, he'll say you sit on the sideline.
I'll send somebody that can get it for you now, that doesn't
mean you're not going to be responsible.
To have to grow and deal with cat cause cancer will show back
up. No doubt cancer was show up
there. Anyone who's afraid of it?
It can do it. You've got to develop where I'm
going to deal with fear. I'm not going to let anything
intimidate me, that keeps me from the promises of God being
activated in my life. But God is merciful that if
you're honest and say, Lord, I am afraid.
This is why God was really honest with the one man.
He said when he came to him because he took him to the
disciples as son, that was being thrown around by a demon.
And he said, man, if you can do anything in the Lord's, like if
you can, all things are possible to him, who believes the Lord?
I do believe him. Unbelief.
Thank God for his honesty. I was Believers, will be more
honest. Now, honesty and knowing facts.
We shouldn't stay there. But let's be honest when I deal
with anyone with any sickness and disease especially if they
get a little bit older I asked the question where are you?
Well, I just believe I don't care that you believe.
Where are you? Where are you?
Because everybody in the room could believe God for your
healing. But are you thinking about
heaven? Does your thing about heaven?
We're going to have, we're gonna have problem and I've seen many
in fact just today. A Rhema pastor's wife passed
away. Leukemia.
About it for six months. Okay, the regional director
called me. Text me says, man, I didn't know
I look at my call log. We talked about it, I did not
realize this is a very dicey. Here's the problem with the
older Rhema graduates. They tell us what they believe.
But they don't tell us the severity.
The reason when the you don't tell me the severity then you
don't give me any indication. I might need to do more
interceding because the more severe it is the more that
talks. So I was, I was very candid with
it died last night. See, we are way too touchy.
When we really should be more walking in the love of God.
I said, pastor. Talk me through what happened?
Tell me, what, tell me what happened?
he said, well, you know, he went through a few things, he says,
you know, she got tired Many. He said that I knew and, and his
saying it was letting me know and he was telling me she got
tired. So got the family together.
We had some, you know, worship music going on the praying with
her. You know, praying for her, you
know, just spending time and it was the most peaceful transition
I've ever seen. It was great.
They celebrated it. Why?
Because at the end of the day, this is not the end right?
At the end of the day, right? What was so powerful about that?
Is that the only reason is because she chose to let this be
her moment to go, not because she couldn't have beat it, not
because it couldn't get off. Not because it one is because
she at some point chose, you know, I'm tired of fighting this
fight. So, I'm going to, I'm going to
go. I was so thankful for that
Honesty. Because you don't have any
Generations are messed up. So screwed up about God is
because they told I'm believing, I'm believe, then they die.
And they're like, well God didn't heal my, if there's no
documented case, that God never not healed.
It's better to be honest to say. I'm just ready to go.
You know there's nothing wrong with being ready to go.
Paul wasn't dealing with disease when he was thrown in prison,
you know. In the Philippian prison he says
you know, I'm betwixt between two places whether to go on and
be with the Lord, which is and I mean seriously when you when
some people have lived their life.
So long and I've done so many things for the Lord, even
though, you know, I heard one man of God say, well just beat
the disease and then go ahead and leave.
And yes, you could do it that way. but at the end of the day,
I'm not going to fault someone that makes the choice.
To say it's going to be far better for me to go on and Lee's
be honest about it. So then we know the transition
became a willful transition, not a failure of God to perform his
word. Not a failure.
And hopefully, when they do the funeral, they will say, you
know, we were there and she chose I mean, let it let the
death doesn't have a victory over a thing.
Don't let it happen. We chose.
I mean, think about it. Jesus left his body because he
chose to go, it is finished and not be called fbt.
Me even though there may be stuff.
Going on our physical body, you don't beat me.
I just choose to leave now. Even though medical examiner's
going to say I died because of it and it was affecting my body
but the word does tell me I could have gotten it off but
where I'm at today in my age and I'm not going to fault those
individuals and you shouldn't either.
But now you decide on your own. Then I mean, if you're 96 and
all medical just coming against your like, I'm gonna live to be
100 bless God. Believe God drive on Cause the
Lord heals and I have documented case of people who will, you
don't want to die by martyrdom, you know?
I mean it can happen but you know, you don't want to but
there's documented case of people who just left their body.
Their we're done, we're done and it went sickness every disease.
I'm finished we're done. Hallelujah.
You. All right.
Okay, so he said there's still too many.
He said bring them down to the water and I'll test them for
you. There.
And of whom I say to you, this man shall go with, you shall go
with you and he whom I say to you.
This man shall not go with. You shall not go.
So God's going to have two different words for due to
different people, but why So he brought the men down to the
water, and the Lord said to Gideon, everyone who laps up the
water with his tongue as a dog laps it you shall set him by
himself likewise everyone who boughs down on his knees to
drink and the number of those who lap putting their hands to
their mouth was 300 men. But all the rest of the people
bow down upon their needs to drink water.
The Lord said to gain, I would deliver you with, with the 300
men who laughed and we'll give the midianites into your hands.
So let all the other people go each man to his home.
So what does that look like? Those individuals got down like
this and was doing this with the water, right?
The other ones did this. Okay, so that's the two
postures. You understand, okay so what
what do we learn out of this concerning, why God would say
something different to somebody will test will determine what
God says to you. Fear will determine what God
says to you and tests will determine what God says to you.
If you are a person who lacks attention, God knows God knows,
the results will be the potential of you hurting other
people in battle. Now, what do I mean by that?
Here's the position. Right.
I mean the median eyes are on the other side of the valley.
I mean, by All rights, we're in war.
We just had made it to the front lines and I've got out of
10,000. People 9700 are paying no
attention. People who spend more time on
their phones, while I'm preaching.
Are paying no attention. The pay no attention.
Where's checking in? Your heads, buried, and God's
trying to prepare you for battle.
And you know, you're not having ears to hear because you're
reading your text threads are your social media threads are
your notification threads. And even though my voice is in
the room, it's white noise at that moment. so when you try to
ring gauge thinking, these guys were like
you've missed a lot. I have a boxer.
And by boxer because when she was born, she had a challenge in
her nostrils. They didn't what an opened all
the way. I remember one time, Brian, and
Cheyenne's boxer. They have his name's Andy and I
had both of these two dogs at one time.
And so Andy was the stronger dog.
Tybee was the runt and most medically challenged dog.
We had she's healthy now. She had problems anyway, Mars
would be at the end of the road at the other house.
We used to live and she would like unhook them and I would
like to write and they were flying in Dewitt just like run
up to the house, you know? Yeah.
Then I get out there like come on, Chinese, going real fast,
got up to the house and then went and fell out.
She passed out because she couldn't breathe because there
are ways like thank God Marci didn't see this.
I like we killed the dog. But she came around, you know?
Anyway she end up getting this like blood blister on her
nostrils and we had it cut off later to find out Benadryl gets
rid of it. She got another one on a paw on
the and the vet said we're going to probably cut her toe off and
I passed a some Marcy heard the Holy Ghost, because I'm gonna
give her some Benadryl gave her Benadryl and it dried up.
And any time she gets another give her Benadryl.
I can save you a lot of money. If your dog is like these blood
vessels, these hemo Tobin whatever.
Called Benadryl dried up. It's crazy anyway.
We didn't know that the first one.
So we had it cut out while they were doing surgery.
Say Clipper, you know, the nostril so she can get a good
Airway when as a as a pump because she couldn't breathe
when she drinks water. She puts her whole face in It's
like Barry to her eyeballs and she drinks the whole thing.
Why? Cause she can breathe anyway,
really? So she would just drink that way
to this day. She still does that.
Although technically, she could snort up some water but that's
how she was trained earlier, right?
That's what these people are doing, okay, so they are lacking
attention, see when you go into battle, if you can't pay
attention, So here's here's the problem, if you accept hdhd at
180 HD. So, you know, so many acronyms
today, Attention deficit, disorder are hyper disorder,
right? If you accept that about
yourself and give yourself the excuse to, not be able to pay
attention, Then God, may talk to you different when it comes to a
faith battle. Because you're not going to stay
focused on the word. I'ma tell you right now
seriously it we used to say the within the youth ministry all
the time when I was a youth pastor I said if you can't come
to service and not hold your girlfriend or boyfriend's hand,
while we're supposed to be hearing from God and experience,
then you probably should reconsider the relationship
because you have an idol. Same thing.
If you can't come in here without looking at your phone
somewhere other than the Bible app and taking notes, you
probably should reconsider bringing in into the service
right? At the end of this.
If it becomes a weight or stumbling block, all right
hinders your attention because you know as well as I do it is
creating a bit of a tension issue with us.
Let me just go ahead and do it tomorrow.
Literally count. How many times you pick up your
phone to look at something? Just do it and you'll rip.
And again, can you curve it? Yes.
Can you fix it? Yes.
But you're going to have to discipline yourself, but I'm
tell you right now, if those things are in your life, God
knows ultimately you're going to hurt somebody.
Because you're not paying attention.
The next thing we learn as a result of this is if a person
will lay aside their weapon of warfare for self-preservation,
God knows once the battle gets heavy, they're going to run I
mean, think about it, they're going to war, I mean to get in
this position. You've got to get up all your
stuff off. You got to like get it out of
the way so you can because I'm thirsty, this is about me.
Zane about everyone around me now.
See a person is only worried about personally sir this is why
I hate that we have been preaching a personal
relationship with Jesus. Not that we don't have a
personal one. Like I'm one on one with geez I
can have my communion but at like no one else in the body of
Christ matters. Then God's probably going to
talk to you different when it comes to the battle, because at
the end, they all you are fighting a faith is for your
Reservation, not for your brother over here.
That ain't God, little will say. You should probably go home.
Now again all 32 thousand, plus the ones who didn't attend are
going to reap the benefit of the victory. but make no mistake,
the victory is won because 300 More qualified.
For God to say, I'll use you not because God wouldn't want to
use. Not because it's not his, he
fulfills, his original will to get in.
In the, in the cellar in the basement, I'll use you to
deliver. Go.
And I'm going to take these 300 because out of the tests now,
Only got 300 pass the test. if you fail tests, God, talk to
you, different I want to do something.
You got pass some tests. So we'll have us test.
Comes at Family Worship Center. You don't pass it.
You leave it. So then you go over to Anastasia
Baptist, you failed that test. So then you go over to Good News
Church, wherever it's at, right? You go to Colonial, you go to
home Port, you go to the Lutheran Church downtown.
All the while you want to be. Used to God but you keep
failing. All the tests you come to a cafe
kjersti going to be a giant killer.
Same test, don't show up. And they leave us and go to the
next one. Now, the trend is, is you talk
about all of us when you go to the next one, but, let me say it
this way, 22,000 assemble and they're fearful 9700 assemble
and they fail tests. But they get the benefit of the
victory. Of a place that will believe
God. And the ones that are believing
God and passed the test and are not afraid.
Aren't against the 22, are the 10 but they're wise enough to
know. That's why God didn't send them.
And I don't want to be the one that God can't send.
So when I'm out and about in the community and people at all, no,
I couldn't do that in this situation.
You're one of the 22. Okay, I get it.
I understand why God would say that instead of saying God, one
say that God wants you to do that.
I mean God ultimately wants his promises to come to pass but
some are never going to get it and that Capac, they're only
going to be at a refit from the ones.
Who come out of fear and pass tests.
Are you hearing what I'm saying? Now, ultimately, if you don't
get it together, you're going to die.
God, can I just say that? May ultimately, there's a lot of
people who died because they never dealt.
They never pass a test and never got out of fear.
They only got Concord so, if you are a person who chooses a self
centered position, In an approaching conflict.
God knows you'll give up instead of finishing and that kind of
position is self-centered. It ain't thinking about nobody
else. And guys, I go say, hey, I want
you to come and help conquer this.
Well, you're self-centered, it's all about you and what you can
get. And when it gets when you get,
when the whole group has to come together, start believing,
you're going to quit, you're going to abandon this thing.
You're not going to finish so you know.
You should go home. Notice God will not use the
fearful and the ones who failed the test in the battle.
He won't use them. Does he love them but he won't
use them. He won't use them.
They admit they're afraid they really don't.
They love the idea. But man, I'm scared up my mind.
Then don't come. This is how merciful god is
because God don't want you to get about you going down.
And all the while saying you're fighting for the Lord because we
sing it, he's never lost a battle.
By All rights you think he would have with the town of AI.
They conquered Jericho, send a little small group, you know,
over into Ai and get the bus whipped.
Like the Lord lost? No, the Lord didn't lose.
The nation failed. One man fell but it costs the
Hulk. It costs.
A whole knee. It costs them, 37, men's lives.
I think it was Wow, horrible. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
Because again when you hear that you're thinking, oh man.
A I admitted it. Why they why they kill him.
He was a murderer. He murdered 37 people.
Okay, Hallelujah. Fearful people, let me say it
this way. 97 heard God say go home.
That day. But 300 heard continue to the
bottle. Fearful people, and people who
fail the test will hear something different.
From those who are fearless and tested.
He's definitely going to talk different.
Now, his will for them, both is the same.
This is why you can't judge every Global situation globally
from a national perspective in different nations are from our
nation and think everybody should respond this way.
Because Listen, by All rights 22,000 says, God told us to go
home. Why are you not at the house?
God told us to go home. God did tell you to go home.
Why? That's the thing?
You're not asking today. We don't ask, why is God telling
me this? See, we just assumed because we
heard God. That's God's best.
No, we assume because God said, now you need to say to the house
and he don't even want me engage this.
Okay. Well, praise the lord.
It's the how come I can't engage?
Wait a minute. Is there a problem with me?
Lord, that would hinder me from getting involved here because if
there's a problem, we need to talk about that.
I need to get something corrected. 22,000.
Then the 22,000 get more confirmation that they heard,
right? Cause 9700 show up and go.
The Lord told us to go home. I told you I mean, we heard got
on the service. He said go home.
I don't understand why y'all kept moving.
Well, y'all are crazy. Why you keep moving towards it?
He said go home. Well, whose statement is 300
crazy. People didn't come, they're
idiots. Don't they understand?
The majority is responding this way.
the Lord says, Okay, you 300, I can take you.
I'm not mad at them. I love them.
They're going to reap the benefit.
But you're Fearless. You've been tested your
attentive. You're not about yourself.
You here for the nation, you're here for the vision here, for
the whole common good, I'm going to use you.
And you know what the part they all they played was a bunch of
lamp Breakers and the end of the day, all they did was break
lamps. I hunted you go here honey.
Go here 100. Go there.
All right, I'm gonna stay here cuz 301 Gideon.
Lord says she's break the lamps, we bad break the lamps, right?
Blow a bunch of trumpets or whatever.
Then they kill themselves. And then they go and just become
carriers of the spoil. But he had to find a list.
This is how bad they the whole nation was in fear.
That he had to find a group that could at least be bold enough to
break lamps. Why?
So that the minute they saw the actual enemy in the numbers on
that scale because you understand when it came and
invaded, they came with camels without numbers, but it's still
there. They're hitting people, people
are in their homes, they're getting the group that shows up
there, they're not seeing the vast of them.
Going Coleman the whole land. Now they're all laid out in the
valley and you're like, wow, that's the enemy and then when
you're looking around at each other, as 300 light Where in the
world is the rest of those guys. Right.
We have. I mean there's 330 1700 that
should get there. But here right now we need the
Lord's like I don't need them. That can't use them.
I want to but I can't I got to talk to them differently.
But I got the ones who are willing to break.
And then be not afraid to go in and trust that I've routed them
and they're not going to pop up. Now, there's no indication that
they may not may, they have, maybe they still had to stab a
few. You know maybe there's a couple
of stragglers doesn't say Doesn't say.
But we know the Lord fought the Battle, but he did not do it
without 300, fearless and tested people.
Are you hearing me? I said, are you hearing me?
So remember all knew the Lord wanted to want it Israel to be
delivered but only 300 plus Gideon.
Actually delivered them. So, as as as believers.
We need to be not so quick. To push our thus saith the Lord
in situations on people. We need to be more.
Like I didn't hear that. Why?
Because at the end of the day, I've said this, there are
certain situations that churches should respond differently.
And it was right that God wanted them to do it a certain way or
certain ways. But I'm not talking about
truths, like God wanted to kill that whole you know, church with
the hurricane. He did not want to do that.
It was not his will. Okay. but there are cases where
Certain churches going to inform their congregation.
We should respond to the hurricane this way.
And then others may say, we're going to do this.
We're going to talk to it. Right.
All right. Let's pray.
Father, we love him. We on you.
You're good God. You're a good God.
Hallelujah, may we hear the voice of God?
so, that the conclusion is, he was saying, ultimately, I can
use you. If he's not then let us get to
the place we can. Which brings me back to David
and Goliath. The majority said, we ain't got
nobody. We can't do this.
We're not going to be able to do this but one guy says, who is
and after he cuts that Giants head off, He calls the fear of
the rest of the nation to Fall Away.
And they marched behind David to Route the rest of the army.
What am I saying? The 300 God wanted to use.
To help the other 30 1702 come out of what they were in to be
used. Anytime we're here in something
that we knows God's word to bring in the impossible.
It's there to empower someone else to believe.
I've walked this property so many times.
Saying, Lord, why do you want us to believe for this?
And I'll never forget Lord's life because I need someone who
will let some all these other ministers.
Know that I still do it today. I said, I'll believe.
One about us, acquiring it for us alone.
It was about us to be able to stand and say, we believe God,
and he's the same Miracle, working God today, and that's
just in that area. If you're here today and you
never made Jesus the Lord of your life.
I'm not going to labor long at all, you just need to get up and
come down here right now. So we can pray with you because
his kingdoms worth getting into and there's only one word.
He's saying to humanity, be born again.
So if you've never made Jesus, the Lord of your life by calling
on his name acknowledging, that he came to the Earth died on the
cross Rose from the grave on the third day.
Come down here right now, let's pray because this kingdoms to
great to beg you to get in to Great hangout and beg you just
like, please come on, no get up. Come something saying just act
on that move, just get up move I'm telling if you do it got to
do something. If you here today you're born
again but you're not been filled with the Holy Spirit know with
and been and have the power of God.
How do you know you have your speak in other tongues then just
get up and come your child of God, come and get the promises.
God is telling you. He wants you to have the power.
So just come and believe just like you got born again, you can
come and believe and get the power of God.
The baptism of the spirit of God to come upon you and you'll
speak in the unknown tongues, just a language of the Kingdom.
That's all it is, okay? So, all it is, is powerful, but
that's what it is, that this, don't make it complicated, okay?
But if you've never made Jesus, Lord of your life, get them.
Come on, let's do this. If you're a child of God and
you're like, man, I'm fat. Let's just say it this way, as a
child of God asked the Lord. Not now tonight for you.
Go to Lord, is there anything going on in my life that you
would have to send me home? Just tell me what it is so I can
overcome because I want to be able to be used of you.
And in these last days, we need Fearless tested believers.
That is going to go against the majority of most Believers, most
Believers not counting the world but most believers.
We've got to stand. We got to believe.
We've got to do. We've got to be fearless.
Are you hearing me? I said are you hearing me?
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