1 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:15,040 I I Hallelujah. Well, the Lords, good, Amen, are 2 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:18,480 excited about the word today, are excited about receiving the 3 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:20,880 word today, Amen. We're going to be doing 4 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:23,560 communion a little bit later. And so, you know, as I was 5 00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:26,960 praying today, about an hour and 10 minutes, you know, and I 6 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:29,280 prayed throughout the week. Really at any time the Lord can 7 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:32,880 give me a message for service. Sometimes it's later than 8 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:35,760 earlier. In this case, you know, as I was 9 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:38,600 praying, I'm like, I'm not getting anything yet, Lord, 10 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:41,520 nothing, nothing, nothing. But I trust, I trust because, 11 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:44,320 you know, we could come in here and have service and not preach 12 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:46,160 at all. And it could just be a totally 13 00:00:46,160 --> 00:00:48,960 different presentation. And he's not obligated to let me 14 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:51,360 know anything. But he spoke to me and he said 15 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:53,440 you need to remind them of some things. 16 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:55,600 And I love the messages of reminder. 17 00:00:55,880 --> 00:01:01,400 Now, when I say that for those who know you don't check out, 18 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:04,879 but the second thing is when I say reminder, you have to 19 00:01:04,879 --> 00:01:07,800 understand that sometimes there are people in our congregation 20 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:10,880 right now or that will listen online that this is not 21 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:13,080 remembering. This is I've never heard that 22 00:01:13,080 --> 00:01:15,240 before. Amen. 23 00:01:15,960 --> 00:01:20,800 Cause again, if you do not exercise even what you know, it 24 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:23,800 will become weak. I said it become weak. 25 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:27,120 I mean, we could do a test, although he would not allow it 26 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:29,040 to happen. But I could have Pastor Mike 27 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:32,240 come up here on the platform right now right in shorts. 28 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:35,400 I could have him flex his quad. And then I could say for the 29 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:40,800 next two years, I want you to do no, legs don't work out on them, 30 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:43,680 just walk. We take a picture, we can 31 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:48,520 measure his legs and then he does not do anything with his 32 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:53,160 legs at all except walk. I guarantee in two years we're 33 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:56,880 going to be shocked at how much smaller they are. 34 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:01,480 So again, when we talk about remembering, remembering is at 35 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:05,200 minimum allowing you to maintain size. 36 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:09,600 In one sense, maintain. This puts you in a place where 37 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:12,720 we're not going to lose size. We're not going to lose where 38 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:16,360 we've attained to it. It strengthens us to maintain 39 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:19,240 size. All right, So in Second Peter 40 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:23,360 chapter 1, verses 12 to 13, as you're turning over there, I 41 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:27,320 just want to thank you for the gifts that you gave to Pastor 42 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:29,640 Marcy and I for pastor's appreciation. 43 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:32,920 She mentioned it on Wednesday. I just wanted to mention it on 44 00:02:32,920 --> 00:02:35,440 Sunday. And we just appreciate you 45 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:38,680 tremendously. I'll be honest with you. 46 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:42,880 I sometimes wish that we wouldn't do this at all because, 47 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:46,560 you know, at the end of the day, the Bible talks about honoring 48 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:49,520 one another. And, and sometimes I feel like 49 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:53,440 maybe in the church, we start creating these things just 50 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:56,160 because, you know, we got to put them in calendars. 51 00:02:56,360 --> 00:02:58,960 Is it right to honor those that are in oversight? 52 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:01,480 Absolutely. You know, but why do we wait 53 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:04,040 around for one particular month to do something? 54 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:08,440 You know, I, I feel like maybe I'm going to let our staff know, 55 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:13,440 let it go because at the end of the day, if it's not something 56 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:16,680 you want to do at any time, I don't want you to ever feel 57 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:26,080 pressure that you have to. Right, because I love you, 58 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:28,440 period. Amen. 59 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:32,360 So mark that down. Make sure you tell Pastor 60 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:35,600 Vanessa because he always organizes this stuff. 61 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:39,080 All right, Second Peter, chapter one, verse 12 through 13. 62 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:43,280 Again, if you can't remember us for who we are, I mean, it is 63 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:44,920 what it is. Hallelujah. 64 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:47,840 Amen. Second Peter chapter one, verse 65 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:50,240 12 to 13 says. Therefore, I will always be 66 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:53,240 ready to remind you of these things, even though you already 67 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:56,560 know them and have been established in the truth which 68 00:03:56,560 --> 00:04:00,040 is present with you. I consider it right. 69 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:02,320 Say, consider it right. We'll talk about this word. 70 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:05,280 Consider later on. I consider it right as long as I 71 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:10,840 am in this earthly dwelling to stir you up by way of reminder 72 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:14,880 in Psalm chapter 33, verse 9. This is a great thing to keep us 73 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:19,720 stirred up in, and that is this. He spoke, it was done, He 74 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:25,040 commanded, and it stood fast. Can I get a better holiday than 75 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:28,000 that? He spoke. 76 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:35,480 It was done, He commanded, and it stood fast. 77 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:40,480 Whoo, glory to God. In the age where everything's 78 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:45,120 being questioned, this reigned supreme. 79 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:52,640 He spoke, it was done. He commanded and it stood fast. 80 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:55,960 Hallelujah. I said Hallelujah. 81 00:04:56,240 --> 00:05:00,040 I don't care about the shifting sands of time. 82 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:05,200 I don't care about the ebbs and flows of culture of the world. 83 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:08,960 I'm telling you. He spoke, it was done. 84 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:14,040 He commanded, it stood fast. Hallelujah. 85 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:20,720 When your king talks, I said, when your king talks, he's able 86 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:24,120 to bring it to pass. I said, he's able to bring it to 87 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:25,280 pass. Come on. 88 00:05:25,280 --> 00:05:28,880 You know, in Romans chapter 10, verse 17, it says this. 89 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:35,040 So faith comes from hearing and hearing from the word of, of 90 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:37,960 Christ. Now, I'm not an English scholar 91 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:46,200 at all, not even close, but I do believe that this verse would 92 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:48,520 have been better to have said so. 93 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:56,800 Faith comes by hearing, period. And hearing or our hearing 94 00:05:57,040 --> 00:06:02,040 should be by the word of Christ, because we're all hearing, and 95 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:07,720 hearing is what's giving us a firm persuasion of the words we 96 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:11,280 heard of whether we believed it so much we act on it. 97 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:16,600 We allow it to govern our lives. And there are things I have 98 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:19,120 faith in that's not in the Bible. 99 00:06:19,280 --> 00:06:24,040 I mean, I am firmly persuaded, and I'll give you one very 100 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:31,280 practical, I am firmly persuaded that the yellow dotted line on a 101 00:06:31,280 --> 00:06:39,160 highway is able to keep a car coming in the opposite direction 102 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:45,800 on the other side of the road. That the one on the other side 103 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:50,960 coming in the opposite direction has the same faith I have in my 104 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:54,440 lane. And that is because that dotted 105 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:58,280 yellow lines there that I am to stay on my side. 106 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:02,040 I'm firmly persuaded I should stay on that side and never 107 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:05,120 cross that unless you're going too slow in the Prius. 108 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:13,040 OK, the only vehicle I get behind that they never do the 109 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:14,800 speed limit because they're watching the little green 110 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:21,160 battery deal of efficiency. However, but it is safe that you 111 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:23,360 and again, I'm only packed because it's a dotted line 112 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:28,440 because if you're gets a strike a solid one on my side it I'm 113 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:32,400 firmly persuaded I should not because that would make me 114 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:37,960 unrighteous. Meaning if the police saw me the 115 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:42,880 law, the one who is able to enforce that law saw me cross 116 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:48,160 out of my lane with that solid yellow line that I'm subject to 117 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:51,200 a ticket. Are you hearing me and that 118 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:55,800 comes by what hearing? How do I know this? 119 00:07:55,960 --> 00:08:01,120 I heard I was taught it is within our culture and I stay 120 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:06,480 over on my side because it keeps me with life and the one coming 121 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:11,720 against me towards me In life the goal is for us not to die. 122 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:16,200 Well you understand God's word is to keep us in life. 123 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:20,040 That's all it is. So faith comes by hearing. 124 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:25,320 So whatever you choose to hear, except His truth and act upon, 125 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:29,320 well guess what? That's what you have faith in 126 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:31,840 and it can be something that's not even God's Word. 127 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:37,679 Paul is saying your firm persuasion needs to be in the 128 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:39,280 Word of God. Why? 129 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:46,280 Because he spoke and it is done. He commanded and it stood fast 130 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:50,360 and it does it for all eternity. Isn't that good news? 131 00:08:50,680 --> 00:08:53,800 Now faith comes by hearing. That doesn't mean you have faith 132 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:58,000 just 'cause you heard. You have faith because you act 133 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:02,320 on what you heard. Faith though comes by hearing in 134 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:05,400 in Hebrews chapter one, verse 1. You know this. 135 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:09,960 The amplified classic says this. Now faith is the assurance the 136 00:09:11,040 --> 00:09:14,160 the confirmation, the title deed, the amplified classic. 137 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:17,240 I'm going to read out of the confirmation, the title deed of 138 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:21,680 the things we hope for being the proof of things we do not see 139 00:09:21,680 --> 00:09:23,480 and the conviction of their reality. 140 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:29,000 That's faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the 141 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:34,880 senses, meaning we believe what we heard God say more than what 142 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:38,080 our physical senses can grab hold of. 143 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:43,320 Again, a point is Jesus is walking on water. 144 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:47,360 I mean in the natural senses, especially to a professional 145 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:50,760 fisherman who has jumped out of a boat more than one time in his 146 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:56,400 life, knows that is impossible. But as he's seeing Jesus walk on 147 00:09:56,400 --> 00:09:59,920 the water, coming to the boat and he no find realizes it's 148 00:09:59,920 --> 00:10:05,200 Jesus, he doesn't just assume, 'cause Jesus did it, I can do 149 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:10,320 it. OK, Just because Jesus is doing 150 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:15,360 something doesn't mean you can unless he speaks. 151 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:20,760 Notice Peter didn't just step out of the boat and come to 152 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:26,160 Jesus. What did he do? 153 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:35,960 Lord, if it's you command me to come out, 'cause if I hear you 154 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:42,520 say I can, then although I have all physical senses and natural 155 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:47,440 experience that this is crazy and it's not going to happen, 156 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:56,320 but at your word, come on. At your word bid me command me 157 00:10:56,320 --> 00:11:00,240 to come out. He said, come, four letter word, 158 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:04,160 come. Peter got out of the boat and 159 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:09,640 walked on the water as well. But what happened? 160 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:16,680 See, he's not well versed in water walking, right? 161 00:11:16,680 --> 00:11:21,280 He's well versed in swimming, not in walking on it. 162 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:28,000 And so when conditions arose that cause fear to enter in, he 163 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:29,960 began to seek. I'm going to give you a 164 00:11:29,960 --> 00:11:33,800 practical lesson in faith, all right? 165 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:39,480 Practical lesson in faith. Faith requires us to go against 166 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:46,040 our natural senses, OK? Faith requires us to go against 167 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:48,000 our natural senses. All right. 168 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:52,280 How many you can ride a bike, OK, with every hand up, keep 169 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:55,880 your hands up. How many of you have not ridden 170 00:11:55,880 --> 00:12:04,040 a bike in You haven't ridden a bike in the last six months? 171 00:12:05,560 --> 00:12:07,120 OK. You haven't ridden a bike in the 172 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:11,000 last year. You haven't ridden a bike in the 173 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:14,160 last two years. Oh, this is good. 174 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:18,160 You haven't ridden a bike in the last three years. 4 and I get 175 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:35,240 567-8910. All right, I'm looking around. 176 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:37,320 Why is it all women now? No, there's a guy. 177 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:41,920 All right, all right, Keith, I can't use you. 178 00:12:41,920 --> 00:12:47,160 You're you're not 100% yet. Who we got back here, Kevin. 179 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:50,400 Come on, Kevin. Come on down, Kevin. 180 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:56,800 Now, Kevin, let me ask this question. 181 00:12:57,240 --> 00:13:00,200 Have you ever ridden a bike? Huh. 182 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:03,720 OK. Now, how many years has it been? 183 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:04,440 Kevin? You think? 184 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:13,160 Come on, Don, you live with the man. 185 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:19,280 At least 11. All right, we'll go over here 186 00:13:19,280 --> 00:13:30,200 then. Let's get over here not to. 187 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:33,280 Sorry. Sorry, Charlie. 188 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:40,160 It's Charlie's bike. OK, Now he's riding a bike, but 189 00:13:40,160 --> 00:13:41,720 he hasn't ridden one in 11 years. 190 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:45,560 And you know the saying, you know, obviously once you get on 191 00:13:45,560 --> 00:13:47,760 a bike, you know, you can just get back on the bike. 192 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:50,000 You know, it's like, as easy as riding a bike. 193 00:13:50,760 --> 00:13:52,920 But how do you remember the first time you ever got on a 194 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:55,680 bike? What did that look like? 195 00:13:57,320 --> 00:13:59,080 Right. Come on. 196 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:08,360 What did that look like? Stay here. 197 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:12,080 We're going to do a little illustration here. 198 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:14,160 Come on, jump up here on the bike. 199 00:14:14,520 --> 00:14:16,320 All right? You can ride a bike, right? 200 00:14:16,960 --> 00:14:21,440 OK, but now remember when we first started learning how to 201 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:22,720 ride a bike? Put your feet on the pedal. 202 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:23,600 You got them. I got you. 203 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:25,440 I'm going to hold you. OK, so we're going to pretend 204 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:29,440 like you don't know how. Now, at this point, you 205 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:32,160 understand this goes against our natural senses. 206 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:39,880 The bike is faith. It's the vehicle that gets the 207 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:45,320 unseen into the scene. So God gives you the bike, but 208 00:14:45,320 --> 00:14:51,240 you have to ride it all right? Now, The thing is, it's kind of 209 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:55,160 against your senses. I mean, He can walk by himself 210 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:57,160 once he figured that out. But now when it comes to bike 211 00:14:57,160 --> 00:14:58,480 riding, that's a whole nother ball game. 212 00:14:58,640 --> 00:15:00,200 And he can balance for a little while. 213 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:02,280 But if he's never done it, So what do we do? 214 00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:04,960 Typically, God helps us in our faith. 215 00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:09,160 Put your feet on the pedals. And so He what goes with us as 216 00:15:09,160 --> 00:15:11,280 he begins, right? This is how we're going like 217 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:12,600 this. He's helping you. 218 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:15,160 Then he let's go of that, you know, and then he let's go of 219 00:15:15,160 --> 00:15:17,160 the seat. Are you ready? 220 00:15:17,160 --> 00:15:18,320 I don't know either. You're OK. 221 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:20,360 And he's like there now. If you start to fall, he's like, 222 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:24,440 what's he do they catch you? Right. 223 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:26,800 I mean, if you were a good parent, you did that. 224 00:15:26,800 --> 00:15:30,600 All right. Turn the bike around. 225 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:36,760 Turn the bike around So when you're a good parent, you're 226 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:38,160 done. You're running behind it, like. 227 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:40,360 And then what are you doing as a parent? 228 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:42,360 Because the father does that. He buys you the bike. 229 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:43,840 That's faith. He's like, you're doing it. 230 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:45,480 You're doing it. You're doing it, you're doing 231 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:47,880 it, you're doing it. And he's running with you, 232 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:49,480 champion with you. You got it. 233 00:15:49,480 --> 00:15:52,480 You can do this thing. But again, when you first start, 234 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:56,000 you're a little sketchy, little wobbly, right? 235 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:56,920 You can be seated. Thank you. 236 00:15:56,920 --> 00:16:01,640 You help me out. Hey, Laura Wade. 237 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:05,080 Laura Wade, you in here? Is she working? 238 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:14,560 OK, who's working at cafe today? Who will will in here? 239 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:19,200 Macy. Macy, get that man whatever he 240 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:20,640 wants from the cafe after service. 241 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:25,600 OK, So you know you started you're having to get yourself 242 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:30,920 because living a life of faith is another environment and you 243 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:33,080 got to steady yourself. You got to balance yourself 244 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:36,920 right now again, you know as well as I do what happens, I'm 245 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:37,960 coming to you. We're not done. 246 00:16:39,160 --> 00:16:42,440 But when you're riding your bike of faith, right, you're doing 247 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:45,560 what God's called you to do all right, I'm really going to mess 248 00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:46,640 the media team up. That's fine. 249 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:52,320 I mean, you're going, but you understand every of us when 250 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:56,880 we're learning faith, we'll get in situations our obstacles may 251 00:16:56,880 --> 00:17:03,600 come and we I staged that. That was pretty good, right? 252 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:09,880 Anyway, we can wreck. Well, what do you do when it 253 00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:12,839 seems like faith's not faith is still there. 254 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:20,160 You just have to get up. You got to get back up. 255 00:17:22,280 --> 00:17:25,720 Don't abandoned your faith like some of y'all did when you were 256 00:17:25,720 --> 00:17:27,640 young. You banded it, went home and 257 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:35,920 your mom and dad's like, where's your bike, right? 258 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:40,160 And then your parents went, picked your faith up, brought it 259 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:44,960 back to you, nursed your pain, right? 260 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:46,520 But then the next day, what are you doing? 261 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:49,240 Here we go. We're back on it. 262 00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:52,280 And the cool thing about faith is that once you learn it, man, 263 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:56,280 you can really get moving and you can really get going, right? 264 00:17:57,160 --> 00:18:01,200 You can get going. Feel like a BMX bike guy right 265 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:01,520 now. Yeah. 266 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:05,000 Sorry. Excuse me. 267 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:10,480 All right, we're going back. Now, here's the thing. 268 00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:15,200 When we if you don't watch out, if we don't stay in the things 269 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:19,280 of God, we'll start living by the natural again and we'll find 270 00:18:19,280 --> 00:18:28,280 ourselves living on our own ability that oh legs blew up a 271 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:36,080 little bit. Watch out now that we've lived 272 00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:39,360 in natural so that we've not lived where we're calling those 273 00:18:39,360 --> 00:18:42,400 things that be not as though they were. 274 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:45,920 We're living based upon the blessing we've already received 275 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:49,960 and the Bible talks about going from faith to faith. 276 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:55,880 So again, when I get a bike now, I'm like, praise God, right? 277 00:18:56,160 --> 00:19:01,240 Jump on that thing, let's go. Because faith is always going 278 00:19:01,480 --> 00:19:03,960 and you have confidence. So when God gives you faith, 279 00:19:03,960 --> 00:19:07,880 you're like, OK, because you've conditioned yourself to live in 280 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:12,800 the environment of the unseen. You don't no longer go by your 281 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:16,400 senses anymore. You're like, bro, the word has 282 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:19,760 spoken. And when you get real good in 283 00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:24,920 faith, you'll be like those BMX guys that when an obstacle 284 00:19:24,920 --> 00:19:28,280 comes, you know how to jump them, you know how to hop over 285 00:19:28,280 --> 00:19:32,520 them, you know how to slide down a place and then jump off to the 286 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:35,040 other side. You know, you get so good in 287 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:38,280 faith that when you come to an obstacle, you'll hit the 288 00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:42,920 obstacle, you'll do a backflip over the obstacle and land on 289 00:19:42,920 --> 00:19:49,720 the other side and keep going. Now the world will call you a 290 00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:54,040 show off when that takes place. But you know, you have practiced 291 00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:59,520 because those guys that do those kind of tricks did it through 292 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:03,600 many trials, falls. But they said I'm going to get 293 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:06,360 back on faith. I'm going to keep rioting. 294 00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:09,720 I'm going to beat that obstacle. I'm going to overcome that 295 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:12,160 thing. I'm going to do that and land 296 00:20:12,160 --> 00:20:20,320 it. 11 years, people. And again, I'm putting him on a 297 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:23,200 girl bike on top of that. Come on, now. 298 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:26,840 Come on. See you guys. 299 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:30,360 This is great. Yeah, this is amazing. 300 00:20:30,360 --> 00:20:31,800 You're doing so much better than I thought. 301 00:20:32,360 --> 00:20:33,320 Come on. Here we go. 302 00:20:33,360 --> 00:20:35,240 Hey, hey, hey. Whoa, whoa. 303 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:47,080 You can take it on to the back. Man, that was like an anointed 304 00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:49,440 illustration right there. You couldn't have done that 305 00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:52,680 better because when you've been out of faith a little bit, 306 00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:59,480 although you've been on when you first get back, it's a little 307 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:02,640 shaky. See, the reason why the devil 308 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:05,920 wants you out of faith is because and then he'll convince 309 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:07,680 you you you can't ever ride again. 310 00:21:12,360 --> 00:21:16,320 And when you start to try, you're a little, what do we say, 311 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:19,920 Rusty? You got to knock the rust off. 312 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:23,080 Are you hearing me? Amen. 313 00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:29,800 So we want to be those individuals that aren't staying 314 00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:32,160 off of faith for a number of years and then having to pick it 315 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:34,120 up. You don't go to faith when 316 00:21:34,120 --> 00:21:40,840 trouble comes only we want to be in faith for everything, for the 317 00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:45,760 purposes, for the plans of God, for for other people, right? 318 00:21:46,120 --> 00:21:49,840 Because again, you can get so good in your faith that you can 319 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:56,400 carry someone on it and you can carry a few people, right? 320 00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:59,160 In India they're pretty good at carrying people actually on 321 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:02,320 their bikes. Now there's motorcycles they do 322 00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:05,000 this on, but then they also do on regular bikes as well. 323 00:22:05,120 --> 00:22:07,080 You know, you got them on the front and you got someone on the 324 00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:10,160 back and then they got a kid on the back of them and they got 2 325 00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:14,080 on their legs here and they're, it's like 5 or 6 people and 326 00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:19,280 someones pedaling, right? So again, you can carry someone 327 00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:23,280 on your faith, but you understand it's more enjoyable 328 00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:26,920 when you go with someone that they have their own faith to 329 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:31,000 ride alongside you than you having to carry them all the 330 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:35,240 time, right? And so, you know, put them on 331 00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:37,960 the handlebar, stick them on the back, whatever the case may be. 332 00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:41,280 But the goal is man, let's get you your own faith so you can 333 00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:44,440 ride this ride with me. Amen. 334 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:47,960 And the greatest thing I love about faith is the skid. 335 00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:52,080 Oh my guys, they're listening to me. 336 00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:55,680 The skid, When you get going real fast down that road, a 337 00:22:55,680 --> 00:23:00,080 little bit of gravel and then you hit that brake, skid, that 338 00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:01,480 thing all the way around like that. 339 00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:03,720 I love to skid right on the top of the devil. 340 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:06,200 Every dog on time, my faith comes to pass. 341 00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:12,640 I like to skid on him and then pump it so that my tire spins on 342 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:15,360 his face a little bit. Boom, and then I'm going off to 343 00:23:15,360 --> 00:23:18,520 the next project. You know what I'm talking about. 344 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:22,000 Now we move this whole analogy over to motorcycles. 345 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:25,840 That's more power. We into more power now. 346 00:23:26,360 --> 00:23:28,960 Amen. And more power can get you a 347 00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:34,640 higher jump, a longer distance. We have the greatest power 348 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:37,000 because we have the reigning spirit, we have the reigning 349 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,840 word. And this word will never cause 350 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:43,920 us to be defeated, be pulled back, to be destroyed, to be 351 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:45,680 stopped. Nothing of that. 352 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:50,640 None of that can happen because what I said, I spoke, it stood, 353 00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:53,760 it was done, I commanded, and it stood fast. 354 00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:57,360 Man, aren't you glad God's word reigns supreme? 355 00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:04,800 We know in Romans chapter 4 verses 18 to 21, it says who 356 00:24:05,120 --> 00:24:10,160 contrary to hope, who contrary to hope in hope believed so that 357 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:11,760 he became the father of many nations. 358 00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:14,800 According to what was spoken, according to what was what 359 00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:17,560 spoken, so shall your descendants be. 360 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:22,800 And not being weak in faith, he did not consider, say, consider 361 00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:26,840 his own body already did, since he was about 100 years old and 362 00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:30,640 the deadness of Sarah's womb. He did not waver at the promise 363 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:34,600 of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving 364 00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:39,040 glory to God and being fully convinced that what he had 365 00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:44,440 promised or said, he was also able to perform glory to God. 366 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:49,280 God will do what he says. Now this word consider, we're 367 00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:51,360 going to look at it in two passive Scripture. 368 00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:56,840 It it, it has some of the same context, OK to it. 369 00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:02,760 But notice what it says here in Romans that Abraham did not 370 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:06,520 consider. Say not he did not consider. 371 00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:11,120 So in order for your faith to see completions, you're going to 372 00:25:11,120 --> 00:25:14,480 have to have two considerations. You're going to have to have two 373 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:17,880 considerations. Now, the first consideration is 374 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:23,120 to what you consider, not what you consider not because the 375 00:25:23,120 --> 00:25:28,320 word consider here means to fix one's eyes or mind upon. 376 00:25:29,120 --> 00:25:35,080 So he considered not, he said. I am not going to look at the 377 00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:38,200 natural. I'm not going to look at it. 378 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:43,600 If I'm going to be firmly persuaded, fully persuaded, 379 00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:48,880 fully convinced that what God has said will come to pass, then 380 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:52,400 I cannot look at the natural circumstance. 381 00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:56,320 It tells me it's impossible. It tells me it can't be done. 382 00:25:56,440 --> 00:26:01,080 We have exercised this thing for years and it has never come to 383 00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:04,480 pass. But I cannot consider that 384 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:09,800 that's not where my eyes or my mind is focused. 385 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:12,360 Amen. Are you hearing me? 386 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:16,800 So the first consideration in order for our faith to get to 387 00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:21,560 the place of done is that we don't consider the natural 388 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:24,440 period. Doesn't mean we're not aware of 389 00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:26,160 it, Doesn't mean we don't know the facts of it. 390 00:26:26,360 --> 00:26:29,600 And we are not in denial of it. We're not in denial. 391 00:26:30,360 --> 00:26:35,560 We are just not considering it as the final say of what's going 392 00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:37,960 on. Because he has spoken. 393 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:41,040 See, he spoke to Abraham. He spoke to him. 394 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:43,120 I'm going to make you a father of many nations when he was 395 00:26:43,120 --> 00:26:45,640 still Abram. I'll make you a father of many 396 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:47,760 nations. I'll make you a father of you 397 00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:50,720 are a father of many nations. Through you a covenant child is 398 00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:52,480 going to come. And not just you through your 399 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:54,400 through your wife. You mean the one that can't get 400 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:55,600 pregnant? That's the one. 401 00:26:57,040 --> 00:26:59,760 Now he has said it. He spoke. 402 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:03,480 It is done. He commanded and it stood fast. 403 00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:06,600 Are you hearing me? So the second thing that we need 404 00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:10,000 to consider so that we can see our faith being done, that's in 405 00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:13,440 Hebrews Chapter 11, verse 11. This is his wife. 406 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:18,520 By faith even Sarah herself received ability to conceive 407 00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:24,680 even beyond the proper time of life, for she considered him 408 00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:27,640 faithful who had promised so she did. 409 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:32,360 The second consideration, Abraham's consideration, was to 410 00:27:32,360 --> 00:27:37,680 not consider the natural. Her consideration was to only be 411 00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:41,640 considering what he had said. In fact, the word consider means 412 00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:49,400 think on the leader's speech. It means to think on the 413 00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:54,240 leader's speech or the one who rules or governs me. 414 00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:59,720 So she said, I am going to think on what the Lord has spoken. 415 00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:03,400 That's what I'm going to think on. 416 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:09,240 That's what she did. And when she did, she realized 417 00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:13,880 that He was faithful and faithful defined means worthy of 418 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:18,360 trust. He was worthy of trust because 419 00:28:18,360 --> 00:28:23,680 he had always done what He said. Has God done what He said in 420 00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:25,520 your life? Come on, has He done what he 421 00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:27,480 said in your life? And you know what's so awesome 422 00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:30,080 about God? He proves it right out the gate 423 00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:31,680 the minute you become a child of God. 424 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:36,800 Now in some cases, and in a lot of cases, honestly, God will 425 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:41,560 prove it even while you're a Sinner, that if you get around 426 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:47,160 the environment of God, God through his believers can say 427 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:52,560 something on behalf of the King by their faith, prove His will, 428 00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:56,440 and He does what He says to help strengthen you when he starts to 429 00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:59,240 speak to you and say you need to receive Jesus Christ as your 430 00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:02,320 Lord and Savior. Now when you hear that as a lost 431 00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:06,160 person or person outside God's Kingdom, and then you act on it. 432 00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:09,400 We all know He does what He says because we become a new creature 433 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:10,960 in Christ. The old has passed away. 434 00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:15,560 Behold, all things become new. Anyone truly born of God is not 435 00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:20,680 vacillating. It's a mate, a lost person that 436 00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:23,880 has never been in his Kingdom. The minute they accept Jesus 437 00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:28,680 Christ our Lord, they know. They know they have eternal life 438 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:34,400 and their mind renewal is irrelevant to the reality of 439 00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:37,520 being a new creature in Christ. They know my God. 440 00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:42,080 I'm different, I'm different. I'm free from the shame, the 441 00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:46,560 guilt. I'm free because again, you can 442 00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:49,280 confess, Lord, with your mouth, but your heart be far from it. 443 00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:51,960 And all that was, was a confession that had no results. 444 00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:54,920 But man, when you believe, I believe it. 445 00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:58,800 I don't care how it happened, don't know, I don't understand 446 00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:04,400 it all, but I know this. He said that by his blood He has 447 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:07,840 forgiven me of all my wrongdoing, my sin. 448 00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:10,320 He's canceled it, moved it out of the way. 449 00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:14,000 I'm going to receive that forgiveness and be born again. 450 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:18,240 And man, when you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, you know I'm 451 00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:20,120 somebody different on the inside. 452 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:23,080 I look the same here. And my mind right now still 453 00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:27,000 thinks a certain way at times, but I know I have no doubt I'm a 454 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:29,520 child of God. I'm a child of God. 455 00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:32,960 So he gives you a convincing proof right out the gate. 456 00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:35,480 Woo. And then if you get in do with 457 00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:40,040 power from on high and you receive that by faith, then 458 00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:42,480 you're talking the language of the Kingdom, constantly 459 00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:44,240 reminding you God did what he said he'd do. 460 00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:46,400 He said he didn't do me with power. 461 00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:49,080 He put power on me. I have the power of God. 462 00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:51,280 You know what evidence is? I'm speaking in other tongues. 463 00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:58,640 Once again, here are two what we call baby are, are, are. 464 00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:05,440 Yeah, elementary expressions are knowledges of God that he 465 00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:11,480 instantly confirms in US. I do what I say, Hallelujah, 466 00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:17,120 Hallelujah, Amen. So we know Proverbs 3 five and 467 00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:20,320 six says this trust in the Lord because when he's found 468 00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:23,320 faithful, he's worthy of trust, trust in the Lord. 469 00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:27,880 But how do you trust in him? Trust in the Lord with with with 470 00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:34,400 all your as your whole being and do not lean. 471 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:38,120 So there's a consideration. So when you trust in the Lord 472 00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:40,720 with all your heart, then you're not going to consider your own 473 00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:45,760 understanding. You're you're going into this 474 00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:49,080 life of faith. I'm no longer going to consider 475 00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:55,040 the natural circumstance. I want to consider what has the 476 00:31:55,040 --> 00:32:01,200 leader spoken, the supreme King, the chief shepherd. 477 00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:03,200 And if you weren't here Wednesday night, you need to go 478 00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:04,520 online and listen. It's powerful. 479 00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:09,960 OK, So you do not lean on our own understanding in all in how 480 00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:15,320 many all your in all your ways, not in only in your trials. 481 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:18,440 Lord, I'm in trouble. I'm having a problem here, man. 482 00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:20,720 Let me pull please. Would you send me a bike that I 483 00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:22,320 can ride? Can you send me some faith 484 00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:24,600 because I'm in trouble? Lord, He's like in all your 485 00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:26,000 ways. Because you know when we get in 486 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:29,080 all of our ways, there's some trials we will avoid. 487 00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:34,080 There's really some trials you can just avoid all together. 488 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:38,440 Now again, if you get in a trial that you put yourself in, God is 489 00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:47,160 so merciful to get you out. Your your father is not saying, 490 00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:50,440 well, you got yourself in in a mess, get yourself out. 491 00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:54,000 We say that, but God does not say that. 492 00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:59,240 God may say, well, you're in a mess. 493 00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:04,600 And when you're like, yeah, Dad, I'm in a mess. 494 00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:07,480 Well, you do know how you got here, right? 495 00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:12,480 Yes, Dad, I know how I got here. Well, do you want to stay? 496 00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:20,160 Honestly, Dad, I do not. Well, Dad, would you help me get 497 00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:23,520 out of this mess? Son, daughter, I'd be happy, 498 00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:28,320 thrilled, elated, ecstatic to get you out of this mess. 499 00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:32,520 And this is how you do it. And the minute you hear his 500 00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:36,320 voice on how to do it, that's all the power you need and 501 00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:39,640 you'll come out. And then he'll, he'll put you in 502 00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:42,920 a perspective that you'll won't even have to remember the 503 00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:47,960 mistake you were in. Oh my goodness. 504 00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:51,240 So in all your ways, not just in trials and tribulations, in all 505 00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:53,160 your ways. Acknowledge him and he will. 506 00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:56,400 What's he going to do? He's going to make you pass 507 00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:57,440 straight. Man, I don't know what to do. 508 00:33:57,440 --> 00:33:59,880 He'll make you pass straight. It seems like I can't see around 509 00:33:59,880 --> 00:34:01,520 this thing. He'll make you pass straight. 510 00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:04,280 He does. He's not one to just show you 511 00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:08,040 how to navigate the obstacle. He removes the obstacle. 512 00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:12,280 If a mountain's in a way, it can be removed. 513 00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:18,239 If a tree's gone down, it can be removed because the shortest 514 00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:19,719 distance, I'm getting mathematical now. 515 00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:24,080 The shortest distance between any two points is a straight 516 00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:27,400 line. God doesn't want you to wander 517 00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:30,080 way out here to come back into here because they need to teach 518 00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:35,159 you something out here. God's faith is a straight line. 519 00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:37,159 Here it is. Here it is. 520 00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:39,320 That doesn't mean things don't want to try to get on it. 521 00:34:39,639 --> 00:34:45,120 And God's not asking you to go around it because the shortest 522 00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:51,400 distance is to stay on the line. Because when the devil tries to 523 00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:54,159 throw things on your path, you're like Lord, a tree fell. 524 00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:57,840 He'll say, well, let's get a chainsaw, we'll cut this thing 525 00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:00,320 out. Well, there's a mountain. 526 00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:02,960 Well, let's get some explosives. We'll blow this thing up. 527 00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:06,640 I mean, it doesn't matter. Well, there's a fire in the 528 00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:08,560 middle of the road. That's OK. 529 00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:10,360 I got some water. We'll put it out. 530 00:35:11,720 --> 00:35:16,120 Don't get off your straight course, because what you saw at 531 00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:19,320 the end is still there. And you do not have to go 532 00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:22,840 around. If you get off, he can navigate 533 00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:25,800 you back no problem. But the shortest distance 534 00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:29,080 between any two points is a straight line. 535 00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:32,040 Isaiah 5589 says this for my thoughts. 536 00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:35,360 So we are to acknowledge Him in all our ways. 537 00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:38,080 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor your ways. 538 00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:40,880 My ways declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher 539 00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:43,960 than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my 540 00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:47,080 thoughts higher than your, my thoughts than your thoughts. 541 00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:51,280 What he is not saying that sometimes gets translated is 542 00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:54,400 that His ways and thoughts are so high we can attain them. 543 00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:56,960 He is not saying that in this passage of scripture. 544 00:35:57,120 --> 00:36:01,280 He is saying don't lean on your own understanding your way and 545 00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:05,520 your thought of overcoming is not how I think and my way of 546 00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:10,200 overcoming lean to me. Acknowledge me because I have a 547 00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:13,240 way of doing things that you could have never considered 548 00:36:13,240 --> 00:36:16,320 before in your life. I do things that you would have 549 00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:22,960 never thought of and I'll tell you what I want and then you can 550 00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:27,960 think like me and do it because my power will cause that faith 551 00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:30,640 to come to pass. You jump down to verse 11 and it 552 00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:37,720 says this verse 11 says, so will my word go, which so will my 553 00:36:37,720 --> 00:36:40,040 word be, which goes forth from my mouth. 554 00:36:40,240 --> 00:36:43,840 It will not return to me empty without accomplishing what I 555 00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:48,120 desire and without succeeding in the manner for which I sent it. 556 00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:52,520 So to do an illustration, let me sit here on the front of the 557 00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:55,360 platform for a minute. Let's pretend that I am God the 558 00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:59,600 Father seated on His throne in heaven at his right hand. 559 00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:02,440 Seated on the throne is Jesus Christ his Son. 560 00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:09,720 OK, The Holy Spirit is not just staying there because you know, 561 00:37:09,720 --> 00:37:13,040 He's the Spirit. He's everywhere, but He has a 562 00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:16,280 direct communication line to the Son. 563 00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:17,760 Seated at the right hand of the Father. 564 00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:22,600 You are in the earth with the Holy Spirit because God has come 565 00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:25,880 down. Glory to God, He's with us, 566 00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:28,520 Amen. And so he's in US and he's come 567 00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:31,680 upon us and he allows us to have direct communication to the 568 00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:37,280 throne room, the throne of grace that we can come to in time of 569 00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:41,680 trouble, in need. And when we when we are in help, 570 00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:45,360 we need help because all, not all of our help is trouble. 571 00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:49,000 Sometimes I just need help to accomplish my purpose. 572 00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:53,640 Sometimes I need help and knowing what I don't know. 573 00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:56,680 I mean, help is pretty general term. 574 00:37:57,040 --> 00:38:01,680 So what we do is we pray, Father, this is where we're at. 575 00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:04,760 In the name of Jesus. He's the authorized one in the 576 00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:06,600 earth. He's the king, right? 577 00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:09,280 He's the one who has died and risen again. 578 00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:13,800 He's the one who got who has received back the dominion Adam 579 00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:18,480 lost and he's extended that to us and now we function in the 580 00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:22,320 earth as his ambassador with his name to carry out God's will. 581 00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:26,800 So he communicates to the Father by the name of Jesus and we're 582 00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:29,880 saying, Lord, we're in this situation or we need to know 583 00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:32,320 this or we are going in this. We have some paths. 584 00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:37,040 Whatever. Whatever the conversation is, it 585 00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:40,600 gets to Jesus by the Holy Ghost. Jesus turns to the Father and 586 00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:43,760 says, what do you want to say? The Father says, Son, tell him 587 00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:46,720 this. Jesus then speaks to the Holy 588 00:38:46,720 --> 00:38:47,960 Spirit. We know this scripture because 589 00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:50,360 it says the Holy Spirit only speaks what he hears from Jesus. 590 00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:52,640 Jesus only says what he hears from the Father. 591 00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:55,880 The Father has the final say. So when the Father speaks to the 592 00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:58,000 Son, the Son speaks to the Spirit, and the Spirit speaks to 593 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:02,520 you. He has sent his word. 594 00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:08,360 It went forth. Once you receive that word, then 595 00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:14,640 prayer as a king is to declare what you heard, and you say 596 00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:19,440 well, in the name of Jesus, and then you speak what you heard. 597 00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:24,160 Well, when you speak what you heard, it goes back up by the 598 00:39:24,160 --> 00:39:28,200 Spirit to the ears of Jesus, of which Jesus then will 599 00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:38,440 authenticate the sound. Oh, he will authenticate the 600 00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:44,000 sound because when that sound hits his ears, he'll know 601 00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:49,160 whether a firm persuasion is in the voice. 602 00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:57,640 And then does it have the authorization? 603 00:39:59,240 --> 00:40:02,960 He'll hear the sound of faith in the voice and the authorization 604 00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:08,880 in the name of Jesus. Jesus will then turn to the 605 00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:13,120 Father and says. What Pastor Earl, you know, 606 00:40:13,120 --> 00:40:19,680 Sandy, whomever just said in the earth and the Lord says, well, 607 00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:28,280 that's my word, that's my word. So then he says to son, it's 608 00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:31,680 granted. And then Jesus says it's 609 00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:33,880 granted. And then the Holy Spirit, 610 00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:36,120 because we saw it in the days of creation, he hovered over the 611 00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:38,440 earth waiting for the Word, and then he accomplished it. 612 00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:44,120 Then he hears from the King what I say it's granted, thank you, 613 00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:49,520 it's granted. Then it materializes from the 614 00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:53,080 unseen into the scene, and now it we fulfill the scripture that 615 00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:55,800 says is this is the confidence that we have. 616 00:40:55,800 --> 00:41:01,440 If we ask anything according to his will, he hears us and we 617 00:41:02,240 --> 00:41:05,560 have what we have said or spoken. 618 00:41:05,720 --> 00:41:07,760 So that's how your prayers are working. 619 00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:12,520 Your prayers are, Lord, what do you need me to say about this? 620 00:41:12,720 --> 00:41:15,440 And the father's like say this. The son says, say this. 621 00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:17,720 The Holy Spirit says say this. Then you say that. 622 00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:20,040 And then the Spirit comes up and says he said this. 623 00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:22,760 And the Jesus says I've authenticated that's faith. 624 00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:25,000 He goes to the to the Father says he said this. 625 00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:28,040 And the Father says, well, he should have confidence because 626 00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:30,800 that's what I said, and he's going to have it or she's going 627 00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:36,880 to have it, Glory to God, Amen. And that's anything he says 628 00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:41,840 without doubting. I said without doubting, Amen. 629 00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:48,640 So we see then here in Psalms 119, verse 15 to 16, he says, I 630 00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:52,720 will meditate on your precepts and regard your ways. 631 00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:56,200 I shall delight in your statutes. 632 00:41:56,560 --> 00:42:03,480 I shall not forget your word. The number one enemy to you 633 00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:07,040 having faith that's done is forgetting. 634 00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:10,520 Don't forget. We can't forget. 635 00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:13,560 We must meditate. We must stay with the word we 636 00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:14,880 heard. We must speak that word. 637 00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:17,560 We must be firmly persuaded, and that word is going to come to 638 00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:19,560 pass. What is a New Testament 639 00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:25,080 equivalent of this particular Psalm of 119, which Psalms 119 640 00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:29,560 is such an amazing chapter. Oh my gosh, it's such an amazing 641 00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:32,120 chapter. It is the key to life. 642 00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:33,800 I'm telling you, it's the key to life. 643 00:42:34,160 --> 00:42:39,960 Psalm 60, Psalm 6, verse 33. I mean, not Psalm Matthew 633. 644 00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:45,200 This is your new covenant equivalent, but seek first His 645 00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:48,920 Kingdom and His, and all these things will be added to you. 646 00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:54,120 The word seek means to seek in order to find out by thinking or 647 00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:55,960 meditating. So when we're seeking, we're 648 00:42:55,960 --> 00:43:01,400 trying to find out what the Father's thoughts are, which 649 00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:04,960 when we get his thoughts in ways, then we understand his 650 00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:07,520 righteousness, which righteousness is his way of 651 00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:13,280 doing it, right. And so when we understand his 652 00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:16,200 way of doing it, then they're at it. 653 00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:23,200 We have what we say. I said we have what we say and 654 00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:26,160 This is why it's so important in the dispensation we're in as a 655 00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:30,120 church is to seek the Kingdom. What's the king saying? 656 00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:33,600 What is the King? Because Jesus is crowned King, 657 00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:36,520 He has been consummated in heaven as King. 658 00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:40,840 When he went and poured his blood on the mercy seat of in 659 00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:46,040 heaven, God did a coordination and and crowned him King of 660 00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:47,640 heaven, earth and under the earth. 661 00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:52,360 Hallelujah and so when he returns, he doesn't return as a 662 00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:55,040 suffering servant, but he comes as a reigning king. 663 00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:58,040 He's already laid down his life as the lamb that was slain. 664 00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:01,480 The blood has been applied. The blood has there. 665 00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:05,680 And the reason why we remember the blood we remember the 666 00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:09,880 crucifixion is because it's what gave us access to new life. 667 00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:12,440 It gave us a spirit that's alive to God. 668 00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:15,400 It gave us spiritual ears to hear the Holy Ghost. 669 00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:19,520 It gave us the ability to know that when the king speaks, when 670 00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:22,360 the where, where there's a word of the king, there's power. 671 00:44:22,360 --> 00:44:26,840 When he speaks, it's done. When he commands, it stands 672 00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:27,840 fast. Amen. 673 00:44:28,240 --> 00:44:29,000 Hallelujah.