1 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:19,320 I want us to put this scripture up. 2 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:24,000 I did not give it to our team, but I think it would be really 3 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:27,360 good for our service to look at this verse for a moment before 4 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:30,800 we get into today's ministering of the Word. 5 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:36,800 And that is Matthew chapter 15, verse 3, Matthew chapter 15, 6 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:40,080 verse 3. And now we've used this verse a 7 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:44,520 lot, and Jesus himself is talking to some individuals that 8 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:50,200 are not unaware of Scripture. In fact, He's talking to the 9 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:56,320 group that hold the scriptures of that day, which is the law. 10 00:00:56,560 --> 00:00:58,560 It is the book of Moses, the Torah. 11 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:03,000 And then they have the writings of prophets, all right? 12 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:06,160 And so they have a lot of manuscripts that they 13 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:11,840 meticulously go through and make sure that they are accurate and 14 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:13,880 complete. In fact, they actually have an 15 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:18,520 anointing on their lives in order to understand it, to give 16 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:20,600 instruction to the nation of Israel. 17 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:28,160 However, those that were gifted to function in this way love the 18 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:31,960 praises of men more than the praise or had the fear of God. 19 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:38,280 And as a result of that, they took the passages of Scripture 20 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:43,640 and they would form them. That would be politically 21 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:45,920 correct. We could say that for the day. 22 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:50,040 All right, so Jesus talking to religious people. 23 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:52,960 Now this is not those that did not have access. 24 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:57,080 He speaks to them and he says and he answered and he says, why 25 00:01:57,080 --> 00:02:00,400 do you yourselves transgress the commandment of God for the sake 26 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:04,920 of your tradition? In essence, he talks to them. 27 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:08,560 You are making you're taking God's word. 28 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:12,640 You're establishing a man's religion with his word. 29 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:18,320 Living by it is only a tradition and it lacks power. 30 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:22,200 In fact, he went on to say at another time that you're causing 31 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:27,320 God's word to be of null effect or void, not because it lacks 32 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:35,120 power, but because you view it through the lens of tradition of 33 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:39,200 your human intellect and not spiritual revelation. 34 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:41,840 Because Jesus knew about spiritual revelation. 35 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:44,280 When he asked the disciples, who do you say, who do people say 36 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:47,880 that I am in Matthew 16? And then later on he says, well, 37 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:49,880 who do you say that I am? And Peter says you are the 38 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:51,080 Christ, the Son of the living God. 39 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:54,640 He said flesh and blood has not revealed this to you. 40 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:58,040 You could not have studied it through any synagogue. 41 00:02:58,040 --> 00:03:01,680 You could have not gone through any line of Pharisitical 42 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:05,840 priesthood of which Paul did and missed that revelation. 43 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:11,600 But Peter, it was revealed to him by the Spirit that Jesus was 44 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:17,400 the Christ, which is the King that is to come and establish 45 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:19,400 his Kingdom forever. Hallelujah. 46 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:25,400 So traditions will affect God's word. 47 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:30,080 And so, you know, a lot of times people have this thought because 48 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:32,480 they've been taught traditionally that the gifts of 49 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:34,240 the Spirit died out with the apostles. 50 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:35,760 Well that's just not a true statement. 51 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:40,400 If you literally took the time to go through scripture you 52 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:43,040 would have to conclude it is false. 53 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:48,840 It is not truth, it is just man's attempt to make an excuse 54 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:54,200 of why they are not yielding to the Spirit and they through 55 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:58,160 their intellect now and through their own understanding want to 56 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:01,680 have a relationship with God instead of yielding to the 57 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:03,720 Spirit. Cause the Spirit will put you in 58 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:07,200 places that keep you solely dependent on Him. 59 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:11,360 Hallelujah and I thank God for the Holy Spirit, Amen. 60 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:16,440 And so with that being said, we want to make sure that we are 61 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:21,839 not stuck in a tradition is so important that no matter how 62 00:04:21,839 --> 00:04:25,920 long you've been in church, that you always are open. 63 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:30,160 Lord, if there's something I'm seeing in the word that through 64 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:35,080 studying it, it challenges something I thought I knew, but 65 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:39,600 but now I cannot have enough truth to support it, then, Lord, 66 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:42,360 reveal the tradition so that I'll get rid of it, so that I'll 67 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:45,160 stay with your command. I'll stay with in essence, what 68 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:49,200 the Lord is saying about it. In my own personal life, I have 69 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:52,560 done this. I was was raised in a particular 70 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:58,240 denomination that its focus of truth was limited. 71 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:01,400 It was very singular in its approach. 72 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:06,240 It only wanted to focus on the salvation of man alone. 73 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:09,320 And as a result of that, there were many things that the 74 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:13,040 Scriptures talked about that that particular denomination did 75 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:19,160 not tread into those waters. And so I had a limited knowledge 76 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:23,040 of certain things as I began to seek God myself. 77 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:26,960 Because, you know, in that particular denomination, I had 78 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:30,400 this yearning, I knew that I was going to go to heaven if I died. 79 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:32,880 But I just had this sense there's more. 80 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:36,760 And that more was not myself wanting more. 81 00:05:36,840 --> 00:05:40,600 It was the Holy Ghost in me saying, son, there's a lot more 82 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:42,320 than just going to heaven when you die. 83 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:49,360 There's a lot more and man, that lot more kept talking to me to 84 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:53,400 where it moved me scripturally to start seeking first. 85 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:56,200 Now I was just seeking first God. 86 00:05:56,200 --> 00:05:58,400 I didn't realize there was a whole Kingdom behind it. 87 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:01,320 I just thought heaven was the result. 88 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:05,680 Didn't realize it was way bigger than that, but he then started 89 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:11,320 divinely connecting me with men and women of God who had heard 90 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:14,880 and received revelation and then began to instruct me through 91 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:18,280 scripture, where God then revealed to me, there's a whole 92 00:06:18,280 --> 00:06:22,480 lot more than just being saved, a whole lot more. 93 00:06:22,840 --> 00:06:25,360 And man, when you find out there's a whole lot more, how 94 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:29,080 can you go back? I said, how would you go back, 95 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:30,920 man? Not me. 96 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:33,800 No. I want to stay moving ahead. 97 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:37,120 And so I'm thankful for the truths God has revealed, but I'm 98 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:39,880 always open for more clarity. Hallelujah. 99 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:43,120 And as I've gone through that, you know, the truth that was 100 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:45,000 within that denomination, and it's true. 101 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:48,040 There's only one way to have a relationship with the Father is 102 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:51,000 through Jesus Christ, his Son. And it's because of his death, 103 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:53,600 burial, and resurrection. And you know, I never abandoned 104 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:56,280 that. That was truth. 105 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:00,960 But there was more. I said there was more, and there 106 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:04,400 was a whole lot more. Hallelujah. 107 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:08,200 How many you want all that God has for you now, Because I'm 108 00:07:08,200 --> 00:07:10,920 going to tell you right now, the minute you break from this side 109 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:21,960 into the next side, you assume. You make an assumption of how 110 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:27,280 you're going to respond, as the old Christian song was. 111 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:33,040 I can only imagine most are imagining based upon fables, not 112 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:38,840 even truth. You may very well step over and 113 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:45,080 begin to realize all that I could have done and that was 114 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:50,560 given to me that I did not do when I was on the earth. 115 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:58,000 Hallelujah, Amen. I will say this, welcome to 116 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:04,560 Anchor Faith Church and here we will help you grow in the things 117 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:06,760 of God. Hallelujah. 118 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:10,640 So we are not afraid to deal with idols. 119 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:13,560 We are not afraid to deal with traditional thinking. 120 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:16,640 We are going to go line by line, precept upon precept. 121 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:19,400 And the crazy thing is I'm not actually a teacher. 122 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:24,200 Hallelujah. I function more as the as an 123 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:28,240 apostle then I do as a strict Bible teacher. 124 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:29,920 But man, we'll bring the scripture. 125 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:32,000 Amen. All right, Second Corinthians 126 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:35,960 chapter 4, verses 16 to 18. We need to be focused. 127 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:41,000 OK, what's your focus? 2nd Corinthians 416 to 18 says 128 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:43,360 is therefore we do not lose heart. 129 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:49,200 But though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is 130 00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:55,000 being renewed day by day. For momentary light afflictions 131 00:08:55,520 --> 00:08:59,520 is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all 132 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:03,480 comparison. For while we look not at the 133 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:09,760 things which are seen for the thing, but we are but at the 134 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:11,960 things which are not seen. For the things that are seen or 135 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:15,960 temporal or temporary, but the things that are not seen are 136 00:09:15,960 --> 00:09:18,640 eternal. Now, many of you've asked me, 137 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:21,640 you know, as I've been walking through the hallways today, 138 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:25,080 asked me how was my vacation, You know, how was my trip? 139 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:29,760 And this was a different trip for me because #1 anytime I 140 00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:33,240 typically do a vacation, I'm vacationing only with my wife, 141 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:35,600 right? Or, you know, my wife is a part 142 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:39,880 of that vacation. In our 34 years of marriage, I 143 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:43,320 was not the type of guy that liked to do guy trips. 144 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:47,200 I just didn't do guy trips. OK, Basically, you know, if I'm 145 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:49,520 going to go on vacation, I'm going to be with my wife or my 146 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:51,880 family, or she's going to be a part of that process. 147 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:54,920 Now, I've done many trips without my wife in the realm of 148 00:09:54,920 --> 00:09:58,720 missions that has happened. And so I've been in multiple 149 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:02,960 countries preaching the gospel of the Kingdom, and my wife has 150 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:06,160 not been able to attend. And those are exciting times for 151 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:10,320 the Lord, but also lonely times when I go to sleep because 152 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:17,920 pillows do not compare. I'm always wrestling with sheets 153 00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:22,040 trying to find her. She wants a king size bed. 154 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:24,120 I keep her in a queen so she can't get away. 155 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:29,240 Honestly, it's a queen size bed because she's a queen. 156 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:31,200 You don't want it to be a king and be mine. 157 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:36,280 You want the bed to stay yours. Because if we get a king size, 158 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:39,840 then I'll be even closer because I'll block off the rest of my 159 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:46,440 side. We'll go to a twin in a king be 160 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:54,360 breathing on her neck all night. I love my wife. 161 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:58,800 All right, so this was my first trip. 162 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:03,400 You know, that was kind of like a vacation, but it wasn't alone. 163 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:07,560 My son was there and my son-in-law was there as well. 164 00:11:07,560 --> 00:11:09,120 And then some other people from the church. 165 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:11,440 And it was just basically an adventure church. 166 00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:13,520 It was not a vacation. Because when you go with people 167 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:17,360 who are photographers, you know, the best light is early in the 168 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:19,120 morning or when the sun goes down. 169 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:22,160 So, you know, we're out at 5:00 in the morning, no sun. 170 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:28,680 Oh, we got to get first light. Then you add that it's cold 171 00:11:28,680 --> 00:11:32,760 because I'm from Florida. And so, you know, 53 is cold to 172 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:36,600 me. I am layered at 53. 173 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:41,240 I wore this shirt 'cause it was 68 this morning and actually had 174 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:43,320 on a sweater Marcy says is at that time. 175 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:47,600 I said, did it get below 70? Right. 176 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:53,960 I mean, that's where I'm at. And so anyway, but it was so 177 00:11:53,960 --> 00:11:57,560 picturesque. We did 50 miles of trails. 178 00:11:58,040 --> 00:12:02,360 We elevated up to I think 1500 feet on an mountain. 179 00:12:02,360 --> 00:12:05,760 That was the highest peak at 6900. 180 00:12:06,440 --> 00:12:09,160 We couldn't get to it, especially the way we went. 181 00:12:09,160 --> 00:12:12,200 Plus we were not equipped to get to it because there's an 182 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:16,040 iceberg, you know, or glacier on the top. 183 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:18,520 So with that being said, you know, we had a really great 184 00:12:18,520 --> 00:12:22,520 time, awesome views. But this verse 16 says, 185 00:12:22,520 --> 00:12:26,960 therefore do not lose heart though your outward man is 186 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:31,760 decaying. And when we went up this 1500 187 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:35,600 foot elevation, which basically had a grade that, you know, you 188 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:40,440 were almost like you were walking standing up this grade 189 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:44,920 and you felt it. And you know, my glutes got so 190 00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:47,320 tight. I mean, I got some of the 191 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:50,800 greatest glute workout ever climbing these mountains. 192 00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:52,720 And so, you know, I'm getting to the top. 193 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:56,440 And then it dawned on me that I am twice the age of the youngest 194 00:12:56,440 --> 00:13:01,880 person who went twice the age. All right. 195 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:06,280 But they did capture a picture of me that I was not fond of 196 00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:14,160 because I'm like, when I see myself, right? 197 00:13:14,560 --> 00:13:18,640 I still probably see myself 1520 years ago. 198 00:13:19,040 --> 00:13:25,440 But this picture captured a different person, and I thought, 199 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:27,640 I'm going to have to do something about that. 200 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:30,840 I'm going to have to do something about that. 201 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:38,080 You know, I'm not as young as I used to be, but I'm still 202 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:40,120 driving on. Amen. 203 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:45,680 But this is what I do know. My inward man is stronger than 204 00:13:45,680 --> 00:13:54,000 ever, which tells me when I'm going up I can focus in two 205 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:57,640 places. I can either focus on my outward 206 00:13:57,640 --> 00:14:05,800 man and as I'm going up, say I am twice as old as one person on 207 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:09,280 this trip right now and I am not going to do this. 208 00:14:11,840 --> 00:14:17,240 Or I could listen to my inside that says you got this man, 209 00:14:19,360 --> 00:14:23,320 you're strong in the Lord. I understand you're not their 210 00:14:23,320 --> 00:14:26,880 age, but don't worry about that. You keep pressing on. 211 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:30,680 Amen. And you know, every day I was 212 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:34,440 sore at the end, but every morning I was not Glory to God 213 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:37,760 because, you know, you kind of prepare yourself for this 214 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:41,800 particular events so that you can conquer. 215 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:45,240 But the reality is, the only way I would have not made it to that 216 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:49,200 summit that day is because I would have chosen in my mind 217 00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:54,280 what I would focus on. If I wanted to focus on my body, 218 00:14:54,280 --> 00:14:58,240 I could have given myself plenty of reasons to stay at a lower 219 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:01,240 elevation. I could have. 220 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:05,120 In fact, everyone on the team probably could have done that as 221 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:08,560 well. Decided, you know, not doing 222 00:15:08,560 --> 00:15:14,640 another 3 miles into the woods hunting waterfalls we could have 223 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:17,760 definitely done that but you know something on the inside 224 00:15:17,760 --> 00:15:20,920 said no it's like every time you turn the corners like what's on 225 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:25,560 the next corner. And that conquering mentality in 226 00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:29,080 US kept us moving forward. The only time we ever abandoned 227 00:15:29,080 --> 00:15:32,400 a waterfall to see it when it where it hits, you know, and 228 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:35,480 kind of be at the base of it is because there was a different 229 00:15:35,480 --> 00:15:37,680 one we're chasing. And we were like, that's another 230 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:41,240 hour to get there. And that was technically not our 231 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:45,160 objective today. We just kept going around 232 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:47,600 another corner. We kept climbing another hill. 233 00:15:47,640 --> 00:15:49,560 We kept going through another valley. 234 00:15:49,880 --> 00:15:53,160 Are you hearing what I'm saying? And something on the inside was 235 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:56,200 our focus more so than what was on the outside. 236 00:15:56,440 --> 00:16:00,400 And so you need to ask yourself today, what are you focused on? 237 00:16:04,560 --> 00:16:09,880 Because we're supposed to look not at the scene, but the 238 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:16,480 unseen. The scene or the unseen. 239 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:19,440 Now here's the thing about the 18th verse. 240 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:26,520 Both are realities. For while we look not at the 241 00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:29,480 things that are seen, seeing things are real. 242 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:34,800 Not looking at it doesn't mean the scene doesn't exist. 243 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:44,120 The scene is there and you see it the most, but we are to look 244 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:48,840 at the things that are not seen because the things that we do 245 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:54,200 see are actually temporary, meaning the state that we see is 246 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:57,120 not forever. Hallelujah. 247 00:16:57,360 --> 00:17:01,960 I said it's not forever, but the things, if we focus on the word 248 00:17:01,960 --> 00:17:05,680 of God and the things of God and what God is saying, well then 249 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:08,800 that's eternal and that will go on beyond the things we 250 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:12,720 currently see today. But both are available to see. 251 00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:15,119 The question is, what are you focused on? 252 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:21,400 So this is a famous picture that I want to put up right now for 253 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:24,200 you to look at. And many of you probably seen it 254 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:26,359 before. Some of you may have never seen 255 00:17:26,359 --> 00:17:31,720 it before, but when this pictures up, you know, what do 256 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:35,120 you see? All right, now, just to help, 257 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:38,360 who sees the young lady? Raise your hand. 258 00:17:39,520 --> 00:17:42,160 All right, put your hand down. Who sees the old lady? 259 00:17:43,280 --> 00:17:49,080 OK, who is seeing both? Who does not see the young lady? 260 00:17:50,080 --> 00:17:54,000 OK, very good. All right. 261 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:59,200 Who does not see the old lady? Very good. 262 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:03,640 It took a long time for my wife to find the old lady. 263 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:07,520 And I said she's in there. No, Yeah, she's there. 264 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:10,840 She is not there. I said she's there. 265 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:12,080 All right. So I'm. 266 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:13,080 We'll help you out. OK. 267 00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:14,880 A little bit. For those who are struggling a 268 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:15,640 little bit. How many? 269 00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:20,120 You can not see the old lady. All right, So I'm going to go 270 00:18:20,120 --> 00:18:21,720 over here because I can get closer to it. 271 00:18:22,560 --> 00:18:28,000 So the young lady's necklace is actually the old lady's mouth. 272 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:32,800 And below. Oh, you see it now? 273 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:40,200 Yeah. How many still do not see the 274 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:44,200 old lady? We got you see it? 275 00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:47,040 You see the old lady. You don't see the young lady. 276 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:48,360 OK, I'm going to get you the young lady. 277 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:50,240 All right? OK. 278 00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:53,520 Anybody else not see the old lady? 279 00:18:54,560 --> 00:18:55,520 Right. You still don't see her. 280 00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:58,600 OK, That's OK. Heaven. 281 00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:00,440 It took my wife a little while. It's no problem. 282 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:02,120 Let me help. OK. 283 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:05,400 The necklace of the young lady is her mouth. 284 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:09,680 So below it is the chin. If you work above it, the the 285 00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:13,360 jawline of the young lady is the nose of the old lady. 286 00:19:15,640 --> 00:19:19,160 Focus on the ear. Focus on the ear of the young 287 00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:21,040 lady. It's actually an eyeball. 288 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:25,480 OK, there you go. See. 289 00:19:26,560 --> 00:19:27,720 There it is. That's all right. 290 00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:30,000 All right. Rafael, do you don't see the 291 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:32,320 young lady yet? OK, It's OK. 292 00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:37,720 OK. So Rafael, the mouth of the old 293 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:41,360 woman is a necklace on the neck of a young lady. 294 00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:45,200 So start looking up her neck and that's her jawline. 295 00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:48,440 What you think is the nose is actually the side profile of 296 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:51,560 this young lady. So think of this young lady is 297 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:56,000 so that little bump out that you thinks another eye is actually a 298 00:19:56,000 --> 00:20:01,880 nose of a young. OK, It's all right. 299 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:06,520 We're going to help you out. Do you see it? 300 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:10,640 OK. All right, Stand up. 301 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:15,120 Eloise, please stand up in front of your husband. 302 00:20:15,120 --> 00:20:16,480 Just off. You OK? 303 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:17,640 You do. OK. 304 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:19,880 I want you to look at the wall, please. 305 00:20:20,040 --> 00:20:23,120 Eloise OK, look at No, look at there you go. 306 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:24,600 Look at the wall. Don't look at the picture. 307 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:28,920 Look at the wall. OK, See where what you think is 308 00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:32,040 the hair of the old woman. It is the hair of the young lady 309 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:33,640 as well. But all the way on the left. 310 00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:37,200 If you come down, what you think is an eye is actually a nose of 311 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:39,640 the young lady. Just like your wife right now is 312 00:20:39,640 --> 00:20:41,880 her profiles the side of her face. 313 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:46,160 That's a nose, and it had come around to where that's her 314 00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:48,840 jawline. So everything that you think is 315 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:50,920 a mouth of an old woman is actually the neck. 316 00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:58,680 Yes. OK, You see it. 317 00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:05,240 Very good. Now, at this point, since 318 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:08,720 everyone can see it, I want you to focus on the old woman. 319 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:15,640 Can everyone see the old woman? All right, now shift and focus 320 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:17,600 on the young lady. Can you see the young lady? 321 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:23,920 Notice both are still there. The question is, what will you 322 00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:27,680 focus on? What will you focus on? 323 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:33,920 All right, I put this up because the Bible talks about an old man 324 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:38,480 and a new man. There's an old man and there's a 325 00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:45,640 new man and you can preach the gospel focusing on an old man 326 00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:55,400 are focused on new man. Many believers have a focus of 327 00:21:55,400 --> 00:22:02,040 an old man, even though they've been made a new man, that every 328 00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:05,640 time they look in the mirror, even though they're a new man, 329 00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:13,440 they only see the old man. And the whole gospel that they 330 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:19,120 preach, minister, talk to people about is from this perspective 331 00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:22,840 of the old man. And they know the old man. 332 00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:26,440 The old man was not good. The old man was broke, beat 333 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:30,240 down, couldn't get to God, didn't do things great, was out 334 00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:35,960 of sort, and everybody on the planet was an old man, meaning 335 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:38,080 they were lost, separated from God. 336 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:42,320 But God, being rich in his mercy while we were yet sinners, died 337 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:47,160 for us and then made us say. Now people who focus on the old 338 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:52,600 man only think they can achieve new man's status in his fullness 339 00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:56,200 once they get to heaven because they're very focused on their 340 00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:57,840 old man. You know, I'm just a sorry 341 00:22:57,840 --> 00:23:00,960 Sinner saved by grace. I can't help but I mess up all 342 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:03,440 the time like everybody else, you know, You know what I'm 343 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:06,040 talking about. I feel, I feel these things all 344 00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:07,960 the time. A beautiful woman walks by and I 345 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:10,840 can't help but lust after, you know, I'm just glad God saved 346 00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:12,480 me. I'm just glad, God, you know, 347 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:14,120 that when I die, I'm still going to go to heaven. 348 00:23:14,120 --> 00:23:15,280 You know, I can't help it, you know? 349 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:17,880 You know, sickness and disease, you know, we just all subject to 350 00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:19,400 those things. It should, you know, I can't 351 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:21,280 help. It's my family, you know, we 352 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:23,360 always get into arguments and stuff. 353 00:23:23,360 --> 00:23:24,720 You know, I just have a hot temper. 354 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:27,880 You know, it's just old man. But you know, God saved me and 355 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:30,680 you know what I'm talking about. And you can with each other 356 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:34,400 because we all have these types of challenges with the old man. 357 00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:42,960 Yet did God want to save us and only reminisce about an old man? 358 00:23:47,360 --> 00:23:50,960 Is that the goal? And, you know, a lot of times 359 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:55,320 messages and ministries from Saints all over the globe, 360 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:59,880 especially in the United States, is there such a huge emphasis on 361 00:23:59,880 --> 00:24:07,040 our humanity, our human suit, the things that have connected 362 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:12,760 us to the old man, the the aspect of us that is not 363 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:17,080 redeemed, but one day we'll put on immortality. 364 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:21,600 There's a future event for the body. 365 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:27,320 And that body keeps you attached in this world that has, you 366 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:35,400 know, fallen and yet has things that they are living by the five 367 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:39,200 senses, things that are tangible. 368 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:44,400 And we can all relate to that. So, you know, they get around 369 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:47,920 and testify and talk about, you know, I was this and last week I 370 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:50,680 did this, you know, but I'm just thankful that God did this and 371 00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:53,400 God did that and that whole conversation because they 372 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:59,400 identify with their humanity. But God, they just keep talking 373 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:04,680 about their humanity. But God, that's like you going 374 00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:09,760 to a financial seminar because you are broke and you want to 375 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:12,880 get out. And the person that gets up on 376 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:17,240 the platform, you know, you've heard reports that they are 377 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:20,080 wealthy and that they've accumulated wealth and they come 378 00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:25,840 out say 15 years ago, I only I had $5000 in my name and did 379 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:28,880 this, that the other and it fell apart and broke and I lost my 380 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:31,240 car, my house and this that the other. 381 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:33,160 And you're like, I can identify with you. 382 00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:36,120 My life's like that, you know, And then they say, you know, you 383 00:25:36,120 --> 00:25:37,760 know, I know how you feel right now. 384 00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:47,160 Thank you for coming. And you're like, OK, I didn't 385 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:54,840 come here for you to identify with me so that I can still feel 386 00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:58,200 like I feel just because, you know, I feel. 387 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:01,640 But that's not why I'm here. I'm here so that you can teach 388 00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:05,720 me how to not be this way. That's like you going to a 389 00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:10,840 substance abuse place and say, you know, I'm an alcoholic and I 390 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:12,440 can't help but drink and that's what I do. 391 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:14,560 And you know, I've been clean for so many days, but you know, 392 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:17,400 I this at the other and I failed the other week, but I'm back 393 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:20,080 here with you guys or, you know, drugs or whatever and someone 394 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:22,240 comes and they begin to share with you. 395 00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:24,280 I was strong out here. I was this at the other. 396 00:26:24,360 --> 00:26:26,840 But never tell you how you overcome. 397 00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:34,960 Now it's easy. In fact, even in the church we 398 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:40,640 have picked up this concept that unless you've gone through what 399 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:45,680 I've gone through, you can't talk to me because you don't 400 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:50,800 know how I am. So you can't actually speak into 401 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:53,800 my life because you don't know. You can't relate to me. 402 00:26:54,360 --> 00:26:56,080 Well then I Why are you in church? 403 00:26:57,040 --> 00:27:01,800 Because Jesus never fornicated, never committed adultery, never 404 00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:07,840 was drunk, never was on drugs, never stole, never did anything 405 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:13,400 wrong, ever. He cannot relate to you by 406 00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:15,760 experience. Oh y'all don't want to hear 407 00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:17,920 this? He can't relate to you by 408 00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:19,520 experience. He cannot say. 409 00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:21,560 Man, I know what it means to be strung out on drugs. 410 00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:25,840 Bro, I was doing some crack before they knew it was crack up 411 00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:29,080 in the mountains. Didn't do that. 412 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:31,680 I know what it means to be lusted after women, all them 413 00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:33,840 women that came and started touching me and stuff and I was 414 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:36,720 healing people. Oh my gosh, he doesn't, he can't 415 00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:39,440 relate to that. No, he kept it down. 416 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:44,400 He was tempted on all accounts, yet he never failed. 417 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:49,120 And you're going to tell me Jesus is your answer. 418 00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:53,720 Yet a human who's never gone through your problems cannot 419 00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:55,440 come to you and say, hey, let me tell you what the worst. 420 00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:56,480 Well, brother, you don't know, man. 421 00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:59,240 You've not gone through, you've not been into this stuff that as 422 00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:01,520 a veteran, you can't talk to me. You never went to war. 423 00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:04,120 You never saw the death and destruction on the field. 424 00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:06,640 You don't don't know what it means to have somebody die in 425 00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:09,160 your hands and all this stuff. And you're right, I do not have 426 00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:10,520 that experience. But that doesn't mean I don't 427 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:14,080 have the answer to help you overcome your, your post 428 00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:19,680 traumatic stress disorder. Thank you. 429 00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:24,880 That doesn't mean I can't. Because if you're going to look 430 00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:29,280 to Jesus, Jesus knows what it means to overcome. 431 00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:33,960 So in the church, a lot of times we write things off again. 432 00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:37,160 You don't want someone who's never been an alcoholic to talk 433 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:38,840 to you about getting out of alcoholism. 434 00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:52,440 And this is all about focus yet. But there's another group that 435 00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:56,640 focuses on the new man and they're like the old man is 436 00:28:56,640 --> 00:29:02,000 dead, the old man is dead. Do not be resurrecting my old 437 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:07,840 man. You know that the number one, 438 00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:11,880 one of the number one reasons why people cannot stay within a 439 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:16,400 church where the focus is on a new man is because they keep 440 00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:18,800 want. They want to hear you talk about 441 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:25,320 your old man. Because when you talk about the 442 00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:27,680 new man, it seems like you have no problems, right? 443 00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:34,440 That's good because the new man knows how to overcome and the 444 00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:37,200 emphasis is not on the problem, it's on the overcoming. 445 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:42,000 That's the focus. So what are you looking at? 446 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:46,360 What's your focus? Is it the old man or the new 447 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:49,440 man? And it's up to you to decide. 448 00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:54,440 So with that being said, look at 2nd Corinthians 120 to 22. 449 00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:59,720 It says for many, for as many as are the promises of God in him, 450 00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:02,720 they are yes. Therefore also through him is 451 00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:04,840 our Amen to the glory of God through us. 452 00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:08,800 Now he who establishes, what does he do? 453 00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:13,360 He establishes who? Who does he establish with you 454 00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:15,920 in Christ? And what did he do? 455 00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:20,440 What did he do? Anointed us in God. 456 00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:26,280 So the anointing of God has you live old man living. 457 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:32,960 How can the anointing cause you to focus on an old man? 458 00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:41,240 And there are so many congregations and Saints and 459 00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:49,000 preachers that are so adamant to minister alone the feelings of 460 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:53,440 man that are attached to an old man instead of dealing with the 461 00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:59,920 anointed man. Because yes, do we all feel? 462 00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:01,800 Yes. Do we all have problems? 463 00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:03,480 Yes. Are we all tempted? 464 00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:06,080 Sure. That's not the point. 465 00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:09,640 The point is, what can we do under the anointing? 466 00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:14,600 That's what we should be desiring. 467 00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:16,360 That's what we should be seeking. 468 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:21,680 So he said Now he who establishes us in with you in 469 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:26,600 Christ and anointed us is God verse 22, who also sealed us and 470 00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:29,400 gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a pledge. 471 00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:33,160 The reason why this has occurred is because God is in the 472 00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:38,880 business of restoration and because man has preached the 473 00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:43,640 gospel from the old man perspective alone and stays with 474 00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:46,760 the old man. They only go back to Genesis, 475 00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:51,880 Genesis 3 because Genesis 3 is where the old man shows up. 476 00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:57,240 Prior to Genesis 3, there was not an old man. 477 00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:02,720 There was not an old man before Genesis 3. 478 00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:09,360 An old man showed up in Genesis 3 when Adam ate the fruit that 479 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:13,120 God told him not to eat. This through that action of 480 00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:17,680 disobedience, sin entered the earth man died his spirit man 481 00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:21,800 was cut off from God and he became the old man and his 482 00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:28,400 nature is like his father the devil now and his actions are in 483 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:33,440 complete rebellion to everything God wants to do and it is the 484 00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:39,760 thing that brings guilt shame it saw it's the thing that brought 485 00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:44,600 all of the horrible things that we see on our planet today is 486 00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:47,160 rebellion against the word of God. 487 00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:54,360 But in Genesis 126 was the original thought of man come on 488 00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:56,320 and you know it. It says this. 489 00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:59,360 Then God said, let us make man in our image according to our 490 00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:05,520 likeness, and let them what? Let them what rule over the fish 491 00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:07,760 of the sea, over the birds of the sky, over all the cattle, 492 00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:10,360 over every, over all the earth, and over every creepy thing that 493 00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:12,360 creeps on the earth. Who gets the rule? 494 00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:14,320 It says God created man in his own image. 495 00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:17,400 In the image of God. He created him, male and female. 496 00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:21,280 He created them. So God's original design for man 497 00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:29,280 was that he would look like God, rule like God, be anointed in 498 00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:33,760 God, and function like God does in heaven. 499 00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:36,160 We do it on earth. Hallelujah. 500 00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:39,960 Amen. When when the Lord came down in 501 00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:41,320 the cool of day, he wasn't like man. 502 00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:45,720 You are miserable stuff. I can't even believe I'm down 503 00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:49,680 here with you. No, he was with a like nature, 504 00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:55,720 someone who functioned like him, who operated like him, both male 505 00:33:55,720 --> 00:34:00,000 and female. And their only requirement is 506 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:01,720 that he doesn't eat from the tree of the knowledge of good 507 00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:04,640 and evil. Because on the day he eats, 508 00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:08,840 death comes. If he doesn't eat, death doesn't 509 00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:11,159 come. So we would never be talking 510 00:34:11,159 --> 00:34:14,400 about an old man if Adam had never eaten the fruit. 511 00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:18,320 But he did and sin enter the world. 512 00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:21,960 And so the reason why God has anointed us, the reason why 513 00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:25,239 we're in this particular dispensation or we're up to this 514 00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:29,040 time frame in the plan and purpose of God is that God is 515 00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:31,360 like, I want the anointing back on man. 516 00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:34,719 I do not want to associate man with his sin. 517 00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:40,480 I want to associate man with his God like nature and again now I 518 00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:44,080 am going to be accused as being as a preacher of a little God 519 00:34:44,199 --> 00:34:48,880 theology. You bet I am because the Bible 520 00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:54,639 is about a little God theology. We are sons of God. 521 00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:02,080 Hallelujah. Now, I'm not God, He's God, but 522 00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:05,360 I'm a child of God and I have the nature of God. 523 00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:08,680 I have the DNA of God, I have the anointing of God. 524 00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:10,800 And I didn't do it on my own accord. 525 00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:13,480 He gave it to me. He put it on me. 526 00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:17,680 He made it a part of my nature. He that was part of my original 527 00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:22,720 desire. He did not design me as a human 528 00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:26,880 to drag my knuckles on the ground and beg for things. 529 00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:35,280 He created us to be able to walk into the courts of heaven, just 530 00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:39,720 stand before the throne of God, to be champions with the king of 531 00:35:39,720 --> 00:35:44,800 creation, of heaven and earth. And that's all we're supposed to 532 00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:49,680 focus on. So why are so many people 533 00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:55,640 focused on the old man? Brother, hold on. 534 00:35:56,400 --> 00:36:01,000 You know, it's tough down here. You're like tough. 535 00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:04,720 So oh, you better humble yourself, brother. 536 00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:08,320 I am the most humble person you've ever met because I'm 537 00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:09,960 actually doing what my father said. 538 00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:12,520 I'm not in pride thinking I'm still like, I'm lost. 539 00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:17,720 I actually believe God in His word. 540 00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:20,040 I'm going to be who he said I am. 541 00:36:20,240 --> 00:36:21,880 I'm not going to be who you say I am. 542 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:24,880 You're saying that I'm still an old man, but I'm just forgiven 543 00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:27,800 of sin and I can't get out of all this and I can't overcome 544 00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:29,840 this and I just need to be thankful that I'm getting up 545 00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:31,560 there. But he says that I'm the 546 00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:34,240 righteousness of God and Christ. He said I've been raised up and 547 00:36:34,240 --> 00:36:35,680 seated with Him in heavenly places. 548 00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:39,440 He said that there that I have His name and I can use His name 549 00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:42,720 on the earth. That's what He says about me. 550 00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:49,640 That's what the anointing does. That's who we are. 551 00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:55,840 And the world needs the Saints of God, the true ones, to stand 552 00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:59,520 up, to know they have been liberated, they have been set 553 00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:02,400 free. They are no longer bound to the 554 00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:05,480 old things in the world now we haven't. 555 00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:10,680 Church today people, because this revelation is what when you 556 00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:14,400 bring in someone that is stuck in the world, stuck in their 557 00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:19,240 sin, stuck in their trespasses, stuck in the cycle of life, and 558 00:37:19,240 --> 00:37:22,280 then you want to get over there by them and say, brother, I know 559 00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:24,560 how you feel. Oh Lord, it's just so tough. 560 00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:25,800 I mean, I was struggling this weekend. 561 00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:29,120 But listen, you need Jesus and they do need Jesus, but they're 562 00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:33,080 like, well, you're right. And I don't want to die in my 563 00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:36,200 transgression and sin, but my gosh, I would hope that Jesus 564 00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:38,480 could do more for me down here than just have to wait. 565 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:44,960 We get to say you want to get out of that. 566 00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:49,400 You want to be changed. Praise God, glory to Jesus 567 00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:53,600 Christ has come to set you free. And it is not liberation when 568 00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:56,880 you go there. It's liberation now, right now. 569 00:37:57,480 --> 00:38:06,520 I mean, Jesus Christ is a liar when he says our Father who art 570 00:38:06,520 --> 00:38:09,840 in heaven, hallowed be your name, your Kingdom come, your 571 00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:14,680 will be on as it is. And yet we act like we can't 572 00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:20,400 have God's will on the earth. Jesus is not a liar because God 573 00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:23,520 is not a man that he would lie nor the Son of man that he would 574 00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:25,560 change. And I'm telling you right now 575 00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:27,960 that we can bring God's will into the earth. 576 00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:31,360 We can because we are children of God, anointed of God. 577 00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:34,800 The dead has passed away in my life. 578 00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:38,040 Behold, all things have become so. 579 00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:40,880 When I'm looking at the picture, I only see young. 580 00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:44,000 I only see the new man. I don't even know the old man 581 00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:49,600 exists. Do not be trying to drag my old 582 00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:54,240 man corpse back to my life, and don't let nobody else try to 583 00:38:54,240 --> 00:38:57,080 bring it to yours. Are you hearing me? 584 00:38:57,720 --> 00:39:00,880 The anointing's powerful. He goes on and says this. 585 00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:05,040 How powerful is the anointing? Luke chapter 4 verses 18 to 19. 586 00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:06,960 Jesus said the Spirit of the Lord is upon me. 587 00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:13,120 See, Jesus is without sin. Jesus did not come to the earth 588 00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:20,240 solely as God. He came as a man, but he 589 00:39:20,240 --> 00:39:22,720 functioned as a man anointed of God. 590 00:39:23,240 --> 00:39:26,040 Jesus did not come to show you what God can do. 591 00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:33,520 Jesus came to show you what you can do anointed Jesus has to 592 00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:38,640 come as a man because God gave dominion to man and God does not 593 00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:41,240 go against his own word. So when he said let us make man 594 00:39:41,240 --> 00:39:43,320 in our image according to our lives, to let them have dominion 595 00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:45,840 over the earth. And when Adam abdicated the 596 00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:49,400 throne, he gave his dominion over to the devil, of which the 597 00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:53,520 devil acknowledges his receiving, not stealing, but 598 00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:56,480 receiving this dominion. In Luke chapter 4, at the 599 00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:59,280 temptation of Christ, he said, I'll give you all this domain, 600 00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:02,360 this power, this authority, these kingdoms on the earth. 601 00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:05,680 If Jesus, you'll just bow down and worship me, because this 602 00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:07,880 dominion has been handed over to me. 603 00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:11,600 Who handed it to him? Adam, the first son of God. 604 00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:15,040 He's not God in the flesh, but he is God's son. 605 00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:20,360 And he died. His spirit man was separated 606 00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:22,560 from God. Sin entered the earth. 607 00:40:22,720 --> 00:40:26,040 The devil took the power, but Jesus Christ came as a man. 608 00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:30,320 Legally into the earth through the room of a woman. 609 00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:37,480 And now God is in the earth as a man, and he strips the devil of 610 00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:41,720 his authority and power and takes back that dominion that 611 00:40:41,720 --> 00:40:44,080 once was on the anointed man, Adam. 612 00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:48,040 So that we who call on the name of the Lord can receive that 613 00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:51,440 same anointing and function in the earth once again. 614 00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:56,120 Now, unlike Adam, Adam was in a suit that would not die. 615 00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:02,720 We have one that will and one day we'll receive a glorified 616 00:41:02,720 --> 00:41:06,160 body. But in our spirit and in our 617 00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:10,560 soul we can renew our spirit. Man has been made new because of 618 00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:12,760 the blood of Jesus, the finished work of Christ. 619 00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:16,760 Our mind gets renewed because we take the personal responsibility 620 00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:19,040 to yield to the Holy Ghost that we can hear now. 621 00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:22,280 And we do what God says that we can do. 622 00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:26,320 We we get rid of our traditions. We renew our minds to the Word 623 00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:29,000 of God. We no longer think like the old 624 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:33,640 man anymore. We change it and then our body 625 00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:39,960 can stay strong enough every day to complete the assignment while 626 00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:43,560 we remain in the earth and sickness and disease has no 627 00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:47,960 right to take us out. Hallelujah, Jesus said The 628 00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:51,080 Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me, He's 629 00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:52,760 anointed. He goes on to say in Acts 630 00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:56,160 chapter 10 verse 38, it says you know Jesus of Nazareth how God 631 00:41:56,160 --> 00:41:58,640 anointed him with the Holy Spirit with power and how he 632 00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:00,760 went about doing good, healing all who are pressed of the 633 00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:03,960 devil, for God was with him. Man, when you have the anointing 634 00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:07,560 on you, when you will focus on the anointed man and not the old 635 00:42:07,560 --> 00:42:11,920 man, Come on, that's it. You need to be a part of a body, 636 00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:16,160 a church body that focuses on the anointed man, not the old 637 00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:19,320 man. Now, when we talk about the old 638 00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:26,320 man, we'll talk about the old man in past tense, not in an 639 00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:33,120 everyday occurrence. And we'll communicate to those 640 00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:36,120 who are living still in the old man because they're not born 641 00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:37,680 again. They're separated from God. 642 00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:39,240 That you know what? Liberation. 643 00:42:39,240 --> 00:42:43,680 Today's your day of liberation. Today's the day for that old man 644 00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:47,640 to be separated, in essence die from you. 645 00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:52,600 Hallelujah. But we want to focus on the 646 00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:58,040 anointed man. Praise the Lord, thank you 647 00:42:58,120 --> 00:43:00,400 Jesus. How do you know that you are a 648 00:43:00,680 --> 00:43:03,920 anointed person and your focus is on the anointing? 649 00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:06,160 Well, let's look at First Corinthians chapter 3 verses one 650 00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:09,000 through 3. Paul, who obviously focused on 651 00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:12,360 the anointing, not the old man, but the anointed man. 652 00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:15,840 He's speaking to a church he planted A Corinthian church and 653 00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:21,320 these, these, this church here was well versed in old man 654 00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:25,720 activity. I mean, before they were born 655 00:43:25,720 --> 00:43:32,080 again, they were given to everything of the flesh, any 656 00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:36,600 type of sensuality, self gratification, they were in it 657 00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:41,640 and as an act of actual worship to to fake gods. 658 00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:45,520 OK. And so he has liberated them 659 00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:47,720 through the death, burial, resurrection of Jesus, preaching 660 00:43:47,720 --> 00:43:49,360 the gospel of the Kingdom to them. 661 00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:54,160 And now he's speaking to them as he has hearing some things he 662 00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:56,000 says. Now brethren, I could not speak 663 00:43:56,000 --> 00:44:01,040 to you as spiritual men, meaning as men anointed, but as men of 664 00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:07,800 the flesh as infants in Christ. Verse 2, he said I gave you milk 665 00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:11,320 to drink, not solid food, for you were not yet able to receive 666 00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:13,720 it. Indeed, even now you're not 667 00:44:13,720 --> 00:44:15,160 able. And why are they not able? 668 00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:17,520 Here it is, for you are still fleshly. 669 00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:21,440 We could say it this way. You're still conscious about 670 00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:25,160 your humanity. That's good, that's good. 671 00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:34,160 Come on, your decision making is based upon a human response, not 672 00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:39,160 an anointed response, he says. Since you are still for since 673 00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:42,440 you are still, there is still jealousy and strife among you. 674 00:44:42,560 --> 00:44:44,960 Are you? Are you not fleshly? 675 00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:47,200 And are you not walking like here? 676 00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:49,200 It is mere men. I'm gonna give you a couple 677 00:44:49,200 --> 00:44:51,160 other translations, then I'm gonna explain this particular 678 00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:53,880 verse. The the amplified classic. 679 00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:57,160 Verse 3 says it this way. For you are still unspiritual, 680 00:44:57,160 --> 00:45:01,040 having the nature of the flesh under the control of ordinary 681 00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:04,800 impulses. For as long as there are envying 682 00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:08,680 and jealousy and wrangling and factions among you, are you not 683 00:45:08,680 --> 00:45:13,640 unspiritual and of the flesh behaving yourself after a human 684 00:45:13,720 --> 00:45:17,680 standard and like mere unchanged men? 685 00:45:19,080 --> 00:45:21,320 I'm just a sorry Sinner saved by grace. 686 00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:29,000 That is mere man speaking. That means you're still attached 687 00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:38,040 to your humanity. I was a Sinner. 688 00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:41,720 I have been saved by grace through faith. 689 00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:46,360 But now I'm a believer, anointed of God, Hallelujah. 690 00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:52,080 And I have authority and dominion over the law of sin and 691 00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:57,440 death. I have dominion over it. 692 00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:00,640 Another translation says it this way. 693 00:46:01,680 --> 00:46:05,520 For you are still carnal. For since envy and contention 694 00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:08,040 and divisions are among you, are you not carnal? 695 00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:12,160 Are you not walking according to Human ways? 696 00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:14,640 That's going to blow your mind a little bit. 697 00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:18,440 I think it will because again, when you hear these words, envy, 698 00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:21,960 strife, jealousy, everybody in the room right now, that's not 699 00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:23,160 me. Really. 700 00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:27,320 OK Have you ever went up to someone and say, now, I followed 701 00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:29,000 the teachings of Kenneth Copeland. 702 00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:32,400 Oh, yeah. But, well, you know, I 703 00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:36,240 personally like, you know, give me another name. 704 00:46:38,120 --> 00:46:45,120 Perry Stone I prefer the the the teachings of Stephen Furtick. 705 00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:50,960 Now that doesn't sound like jealousy, does it? 706 00:46:52,200 --> 00:46:54,200 But that's what was going on in this church. 707 00:46:54,640 --> 00:46:57,400 Because if you keep reading, he says, some of you say I'm of 708 00:46:57,400 --> 00:47:07,840 Apollos and I'm of Paul. So this human standard was 709 00:47:07,840 --> 00:47:10,680 exposed. Oh, y'all don't want to hear 710 00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:15,480 this? Which? 711 00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:17,600 Which person are you listening to? 712 00:47:26,090 --> 00:47:32,010 Hallelujah. So attached. 713 00:47:32,010 --> 00:47:34,450 You understand, This is why some people gravitate to certain 714 00:47:34,450 --> 00:47:35,170 ministers. Why? 715 00:47:35,410 --> 00:47:40,810 Because there's things that they can still be attached to. 716 00:47:43,650 --> 00:47:45,050 OK, We don't. All right, It's fine. 717 00:47:45,370 --> 00:47:46,090 I'm Alma. Preach it. 718 00:47:46,090 --> 00:47:48,200 Anyway. It doesn't matter, there are 719 00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:51,680 plenty of places you can go and stay carnal. 720 00:47:54,920 --> 00:48:03,040 It can happen, absolutely. And yes, Jesus saved you. 721 00:48:03,240 --> 00:48:05,000 Yes, it's the finished work of Jesus. 722 00:48:06,560 --> 00:48:12,720 However, you'll always live an old man in a new covenant as 723 00:48:12,720 --> 00:48:15,720 long as you always consider your humanity. 724 00:48:16,640 --> 00:48:19,920 But the minute you're like, I'm not human anymore alone. 725 00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:25,960 I mean, human is only because it's it was my entrance in the 726 00:48:25,960 --> 00:48:29,800 planet. I am a spirit and this spirit, 727 00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:33,280 this person is anointed. I want to focus on the 728 00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:35,680 anointing. I mean, we say we want to focus 729 00:48:35,680 --> 00:48:38,320 on Jesus, but we don't want to focus on what Jesus gave us. 730 00:48:41,120 --> 00:48:44,280 We, we are thankful for what he has delivered us and has he 731 00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:47,200 delivered you? But if you're delivered, why are 732 00:48:47,200 --> 00:48:48,600 you acting like you're still in it? 733 00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:51,320 And why do you act like you're still subject to it? 734 00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:54,920 And why do we give so much focus on it? 735 00:48:55,120 --> 00:48:57,760 And have you noticed, have you been around believers that like 736 00:48:57,760 --> 00:49:04,600 to hang out with other believers who are in touch with themselves 737 00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:06,440 more? They're in touch with. 738 00:49:07,040 --> 00:49:13,680 And then they'll talk about those that'll keep referencing 739 00:49:13,680 --> 00:49:16,200 the anointing, but they just think they're better than us. 740 00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:20,360 No, they're just saying you should live to the anointed 741 00:49:20,360 --> 00:49:25,560 life. And living a human life is not 742 00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:28,280 good enough. And it's never where God wanted. 743 00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:35,040 God did not take you out of the realm of darkness so that you 744 00:49:35,040 --> 00:49:38,920 can still live around it and in it, but not have the 745 00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:45,720 consequences of it. No, He sets you up. 746 00:49:46,520 --> 00:49:49,840 He pulled you out. He threw you on a throne. 747 00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:52,840 He crowned you with life. He clothed you with 748 00:49:52,840 --> 00:49:56,840 righteousness. He anointed you. 749 00:49:59,640 --> 00:50:04,400 He made your royalty. Hallelujah, Hallelujah. 750 00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:07,840 I mean, we've become so politically correct in the 751 00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:09,640 church because when I like, we're not different. 752 00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:14,680 I'm not like the world. And I didn't say that, God did. 753 00:50:14,840 --> 00:50:22,240 He said you are not up. Now if it was better to be 754 00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:28,080 broke, disgusted, led by my lusts, then I would have stayed 755 00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:30,440 there. But it's not. 756 00:50:32,040 --> 00:50:36,360 It is better to not be subject to that. 757 00:50:36,480 --> 00:50:39,320 So am I living a better life? You bet I am. 758 00:50:39,480 --> 00:50:43,560 I am so living a better life. It is so amazing not to be bowed 759 00:50:45,360 --> 00:50:50,200 with the lusts of the world, the pride of life, the impulses of 760 00:50:50,200 --> 00:50:54,680 the flesh, to be able to get into a conflict, to be able to 761 00:50:54,680 --> 00:50:59,040 say I would not hit you. I would let you hit me here and 762 00:50:59,040 --> 00:51:02,560 I would turn the other cheek. I'm not going to bow up at you 763 00:51:02,560 --> 00:51:06,600 and be a bully. I have a different nature and 764 00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:10,840 you don't even know who you are. And they'll hit you and walk 765 00:51:10,840 --> 00:51:16,680 away and and tout not like, but the true champion just but God, 766 00:51:18,400 --> 00:51:24,400 but God, I said, but God, Hey, man, I mean, a lot of times in 767 00:51:24,400 --> 00:51:27,760 conflict, there's a lot of issues that we deal with. 768 00:51:28,080 --> 00:51:30,120 Look, I deal with that stuff all the time. 769 00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:32,440 I think I'm redeemed. I mean, people beep the horn at 770 00:51:32,440 --> 00:51:34,880 me and I'm like, don't beep your horn at me. 771 00:51:37,520 --> 00:51:38,640 Please don't beep your horn at me. 772 00:51:40,760 --> 00:51:46,040 That man's dead. Be patient, bro. 773 00:51:46,040 --> 00:51:48,280 Here, let me throw you a patient fruit out right now. 774 00:51:49,080 --> 00:51:52,040 Throw you one out, right? Hallelujah. 775 00:51:52,360 --> 00:51:55,040 Had one guy, you know, gave me his hand up and I just gave him 776 00:51:55,040 --> 00:51:58,520 another praise like that. Yeah. 777 00:51:59,240 --> 00:52:01,680 I mean, I have been a little ruined when it comes to driving. 778 00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:04,000 Just let you know, I've been in other countries and I have 779 00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:06,560 realized that our two lane roads are actually 5. 780 00:52:09,040 --> 00:52:10,440 There's definitely a lot more room. 781 00:52:11,160 --> 00:52:13,000 We've given ourselves a lot of space. 782 00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:16,520 So if someone moves over a little bit, I have no problem 783 00:52:16,520 --> 00:52:19,960 leaning. And I do unfortunately trust 784 00:52:19,960 --> 00:52:23,080 that you're smart enough to realize there's other lanes here 785 00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:27,200 and we're not going to die and you're going to be OK. 786 00:52:27,440 --> 00:52:32,320 The people who stay behind the garbage truck that's over and 787 00:52:32,320 --> 00:52:35,200 there's like only a half a lane, but you will not go until 788 00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:38,440 there's nobody coming. You understand that crowd can 789 00:52:38,440 --> 00:52:42,720 get over into the bike lane too, and you can just creep right in 790 00:52:42,720 --> 00:52:48,280 between. I know I've been in India, 791 00:52:48,280 --> 00:52:50,120 people, I understand this is my logic. 792 00:52:50,120 --> 00:52:52,880 I'm like we, we, we do not have to wait here. 793 00:52:53,720 --> 00:52:57,200 We can go on around and we can move. 794 00:52:57,400 --> 00:53:00,280 But that doesn't mean the person that you're, you know, you took 795 00:53:00,280 --> 00:53:03,480 half and they still have a whole lot of Rd. won't even go off the 796 00:53:03,480 --> 00:53:07,400 side, will not be excited with you because you took half their 797 00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:11,440 length. And I had AFPL, you know, he was 798 00:53:11,440 --> 00:53:13,680 going to turn in, but then he decided he would come back. 799 00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:15,920 So I just kind of did a little thing and a guy beeped his horn 800 00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:24,160 and was like, and I was like, I mean, there's plenty over here 801 00:53:24,160 --> 00:53:27,000 now when I'm doing this. I didn't my all five hands were 802 00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:28,960 out fingers. OK. 803 00:53:28,960 --> 00:53:33,160 So please do not misread that. And he had all hands too, you 804 00:53:33,160 --> 00:53:34,360 know, all fingers were available. 805 00:53:34,360 --> 00:53:35,400 He was just like, what are you doing? 806 00:53:35,400 --> 00:53:36,840 I'm like just getting around him. 807 00:53:40,520 --> 00:53:42,680 You know, you've heard my one story when I was at Bible 808 00:53:42,680 --> 00:53:46,760 college how I pulled out in front of somebody by accident. 809 00:53:46,760 --> 00:53:49,920 You know, I'm looking looking, you know, because we're in a 810 00:53:49,920 --> 00:53:51,640 little 4 lane Rd. you're looking. 811 00:53:51,640 --> 00:53:54,280 And I went this way and, you know, went this way and went 812 00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:56,880 back this way and then I went. Well this one guy, I don't know 813 00:53:56,880 --> 00:53:59,840 where he came from. He must came, must have been not 814 00:53:59,840 --> 00:54:02,760 on the road but came out. Next thing you know he's on me 815 00:54:02,760 --> 00:54:06,120 and but he is upset and he's pointing at me. 816 00:54:06,120 --> 00:54:09,640 He's telling me I'm #1 I just didn't use this finger. 817 00:54:09,880 --> 00:54:11,480 You're number one. You're number one. 818 00:54:11,800 --> 00:54:15,480 I'm like, yeah. So at this point, you know, I'm 819 00:54:15,480 --> 00:54:19,000 like, I felt bad, you know, because I, I looked. 820 00:54:19,680 --> 00:54:22,160 So I did something extremely uncharacteristic. 821 00:54:23,240 --> 00:54:29,080 I pulled over into a store and he came to and I got out first 822 00:54:29,600 --> 00:54:33,720 and I went around to his truck with his window down with my 823 00:54:33,720 --> 00:54:37,960 hand going straight inside his window like this. 824 00:54:38,560 --> 00:54:41,400 Hey, man, I'm sorry. And he was leaning back, 825 00:54:41,520 --> 00:54:47,400 expecting me to close my hand, give him a fish pump a different 826 00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:50,080 way, right? But it caught him off guard. 827 00:54:51,680 --> 00:54:56,880 And I mean, he was saying some really flowery words while I 828 00:54:56,880 --> 00:55:00,560 always tell me I was #1 I'll show you how I said, look, I'm 829 00:55:00,560 --> 00:55:02,680 sorry. Now, why can I do this? 830 00:55:02,840 --> 00:55:05,280 Because I'm a new man. I focus on an anointing. 831 00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:08,920 I said, look, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do that. 832 00:55:09,880 --> 00:55:11,840 I look both ways. I said you came out of nowhere. 833 00:55:11,840 --> 00:55:14,160 I'm please forgive me. He goes, OK, It's all right, 834 00:55:14,160 --> 00:55:20,440 man, God bless you. I like to tell you got saved 835 00:55:20,440 --> 00:55:22,400 right then. But you know, I did not leave 836 00:55:22,400 --> 00:55:25,400 him in prayer, but he did acknowledge God pretty quick. 837 00:55:26,600 --> 00:55:29,520 Hallelujah. But there's something about the 838 00:55:29,520 --> 00:55:31,960 anointing we need to not live a human life. 839 00:55:31,960 --> 00:55:35,360 Listen, Moses knew this in an old covenant. 840 00:55:36,360 --> 00:55:39,560 Look what Moses said in Numbers 1129, because he's doing this 841 00:55:39,560 --> 00:55:43,040 work with the Lord. God has put an anointing on his 842 00:55:43,040 --> 00:55:49,000 life and there's so many people complaining, whining, stubborn, 843 00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:53,560 stiff necked, No matter what God does, they're never satisfied, 844 00:55:53,800 --> 00:55:57,320 always complaining. And then he's like, Lord, you 845 00:55:57,320 --> 00:55:59,920 got to do something, man. Listen, I mean, this way, it's 846 00:55:59,920 --> 00:56:01,320 way too much. He said I'm going to give the 847 00:56:01,320 --> 00:56:03,400 anointing on your life to 70 others. 848 00:56:04,160 --> 00:56:05,520 So he does it. Well, a couple of them that 849 00:56:05,520 --> 00:56:08,760 received this anointing aren't actually in the actual meeting. 850 00:56:08,760 --> 00:56:11,520 They receive it where they're at in their tent. 851 00:56:11,760 --> 00:56:15,720 And Joshua, which was Moses, his right hand man noticed this and 852 00:56:15,720 --> 00:56:19,960 was concerned about it because now these guys are acting like 853 00:56:19,960 --> 00:56:22,280 Moses. They began to prophecy when the 854 00:56:22,280 --> 00:56:25,400 anointing hit them. Look what Moses says, but Moses 855 00:56:25,400 --> 00:56:26,920 said are you jealous for my sake? 856 00:56:26,920 --> 00:56:29,880 He said would that all the Lord's people were prophets. 857 00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:33,000 Now not that he wants all of us to be the fivefold ministry 858 00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:36,160 prophet to have the prophet skip what he's saying here is all 859 00:56:36,160 --> 00:56:39,160 would have the anointing upon their lives that God would put 860 00:56:39,160 --> 00:56:42,720 his spirit look upon them. Moses were like, man, if 861 00:56:42,720 --> 00:56:45,800 everybody could just have the anointing, what did he conclude? 862 00:56:45,880 --> 00:56:47,520 If you had the anointing, you wouldn't be. 863 00:56:47,520 --> 00:56:49,720 So you wouldn't complain as much as you do. 864 00:56:50,000 --> 00:56:51,720 You wouldn't whine as much as you do. 865 00:56:51,840 --> 00:56:54,720 You'd be more committed to the plan and purpose of God. 866 00:56:54,800 --> 00:56:56,840 You wouldn't be trying to find a way out. 867 00:56:56,960 --> 00:56:58,720 Try to go back to where you came from. 868 00:56:58,720 --> 00:57:01,480 Listen, a person who focuses on the anointing is not trying to 869 00:57:01,480 --> 00:57:07,760 go back to Egypt. I mean, we preach so much human 870 00:57:08,680 --> 00:57:12,880 and feelings and so to the point that we're really like, how 871 00:57:12,880 --> 00:57:16,400 close can we get to the old man but still make it to heaven? 872 00:57:20,200 --> 00:57:25,960 How close can we live that old life but not go to hell because 873 00:57:25,960 --> 00:57:28,840 of it? And that's that focus. 874 00:57:29,360 --> 00:57:31,880 And he's saying, listen, if they could just have the anointing, 875 00:57:33,040 --> 00:57:35,560 if they would just walk under the anointing, if they would 876 00:57:35,560 --> 00:57:37,880 just focus on the anointing, well, then, you know, they would 877 00:57:37,880 --> 00:57:39,960 be like, Caleb, we're well able to conquer this man. 878 00:57:39,960 --> 00:57:41,440 We go in there. I don't care if there's a John 879 00:57:41,440 --> 00:57:42,760 in there. They already lost. 880 00:57:42,840 --> 00:57:44,560 I mean, God's already said it's ours. 881 00:57:44,680 --> 00:57:46,400 I mean, what they gonna do to us? 882 00:57:47,560 --> 00:57:50,000 See, that's what an anointed person sounds like. 883 00:57:50,120 --> 00:57:53,000 But a person who is still living by the old man. 884 00:57:54,600 --> 00:57:59,720 Well, rather be careful now because again, you're that kind 885 00:57:59,720 --> 00:58:03,800 of when an anointed person talks to a person still focused on the 886 00:58:03,800 --> 00:58:08,720 humanity of a human, the you know, they're they're stayed in 887 00:58:08,720 --> 00:58:12,080 the earth. They're convicted. 888 00:58:13,280 --> 00:58:14,520 Now, though, you're condemning me. 889 00:58:14,520 --> 00:58:17,200 No, you're being convicted because you're not raising up to 890 00:58:17,200 --> 00:58:20,840 the level that God has already paid the price for you to live. 891 00:58:23,880 --> 00:58:26,280 That's all there is. Ephesians chapter 4 verse 22 to 892 00:58:26,280 --> 00:58:29,880 24 says this, that in reverence to the former manner of life, 893 00:58:30,160 --> 00:58:33,240 you're to lay aside the old self which is being corrupted in 894 00:58:33,240 --> 00:58:35,960 accordance with the lust of deceit, and that you be renewed 895 00:58:35,960 --> 00:58:38,600 in the spirit of your mind and put on the new self. 896 00:58:38,640 --> 00:58:42,360 Come on, say new self which is in the likeness of God and has 897 00:58:42,360 --> 00:58:44,640 been created in righteousness, holiness and truth. 898 00:58:44,720 --> 00:58:47,960 Ain't that amazing? So here He tells us that we are 899 00:58:47,960 --> 00:58:50,920 to put off or lay aside the old self. 900 00:58:51,080 --> 00:58:55,480 Even though you may be born again, you have to lay it aside. 901 00:58:55,520 --> 00:58:59,000 You can no longer hang out or desire to go back. 902 00:58:59,080 --> 00:59:04,240 You can't be wanting the the food of Egypt and get into the 903 00:59:04,240 --> 00:59:12,480 promised land and how do you do it is through the spirit of your 904 00:59:12,480 --> 00:59:14,640 mind. You have to make a conscious 905 00:59:14,640 --> 00:59:16,800 choice. I am going to focus on the new 906 00:59:16,800 --> 00:59:19,840 man and not focus on the old cause. 907 00:59:19,840 --> 00:59:22,800 The the only reason why someone who has been free. 908 00:59:22,920 --> 00:59:23,840 David. David. 909 00:59:23,840 --> 00:59:24,560 David. David. 910 00:59:24,560 --> 00:59:25,360 David. David. 911 00:59:25,360 --> 00:59:26,280 David. Where are you at? 912 00:59:26,280 --> 00:59:27,560 David's in the back. Come down here. 913 00:59:27,560 --> 00:59:28,200 David. Real quick. 914 00:59:28,440 --> 00:59:31,320 David has been alcohol free for how many years now? 915 00:59:32,320 --> 00:59:34,960 1818 next month. OK. 916 00:59:35,240 --> 00:59:38,800 When he came to Anchor Bay Church, he was an alcoholic. 917 00:59:40,040 --> 00:59:46,280 Hid stuff everywhere. When you stopped, have you ever 918 00:59:46,280 --> 00:59:49,880 drank again? Now let me tell you the key to 919 00:59:49,880 --> 00:59:52,080 this. There's only one reason why, 920 00:59:53,120 --> 00:59:57,640 because he would say often that was the old man. 921 00:59:58,800 --> 01:00:02,120 He recognized what I just thought is an old man. 922 01:00:02,280 --> 01:00:06,320 Then what he did is he made sure the old man had no voice 923 01:00:06,320 --> 01:00:08,560 anymore. Now, how did he do it? 924 01:00:08,560 --> 01:00:10,960 Well, here it is right here. C DS right here. 925 01:00:12,040 --> 01:00:14,600 It's a headphone. You know why he's wearing these? 926 01:00:14,800 --> 01:00:16,280 Not because he's hard of hearing. 927 01:00:16,520 --> 01:00:22,600 It's because he downloads every message and he plays it 928 01:00:23,640 --> 01:00:26,880 constantly. He has probably heard more 929 01:00:26,880 --> 01:00:29,800 Anchor faith messages than you combined. 930 01:00:30,560 --> 01:00:34,080 He's probably listened to certain messages hundreds of 931 01:00:34,080 --> 01:00:36,840 times. It's being recorded right now, 932 01:00:39,520 --> 01:00:41,400 so he didn't have to wait for the podcast to come out 933 01:00:41,400 --> 01:00:46,120 tomorrow. This is how much he wants things 934 01:00:46,120 --> 01:00:51,840 to feed the anointing in his life so that when he when he 935 01:00:51,840 --> 01:00:55,880 said I'm done, walked into his own shed and was looking for 936 01:00:55,880 --> 01:01:03,960 something to do a project founds an old stash instead of it's 937 01:01:03,960 --> 01:01:06,920 just one. Well, it's been 10 years. 938 01:01:07,680 --> 01:01:18,600 Let me let's celebrate, right? I mean, he would let no voice to 939 01:01:18,640 --> 01:01:22,640 that because he focused on the anointing. 940 01:01:22,880 --> 01:01:26,920 And here's the thing, he's a man anointed of God, which means the 941 01:01:26,920 --> 01:01:30,760 power for him to overcome was not his own power. 942 01:01:30,920 --> 01:01:37,000 It's the power God gave him, and he just yielded to it every day. 943 01:01:37,400 --> 01:01:41,000 And every day is another day free. 944 01:01:41,520 --> 01:01:45,920 So you'll never hear David walk around and say, hi, my name is 945 01:01:45,920 --> 01:01:48,120 David Mackey and I'm an alcoholic. 946 01:01:49,680 --> 01:01:54,360 He would never say that because he's not an alcoholic. 947 01:01:54,640 --> 01:01:59,720 That man's dead. Come on, say Amen. 948 01:02:01,080 --> 01:02:03,360 Now. This is miracle working power 949 01:02:03,360 --> 01:02:07,720 right in the midst of us. This is day in and day out. 950 01:02:07,720 --> 01:02:11,760 You want to really be free, then you have to focus on the 951 01:02:11,760 --> 01:02:16,720 anointing in your life. I mean, close with this verse. 952 01:02:16,720 --> 01:02:18,640 I won't even do anymore. I'll just stop with this. 953 01:02:18,640 --> 01:02:23,000 Galatians 220 it says this. I have been crucified with 954 01:02:23,000 --> 01:02:26,000 Christ. How do you know you're not 955 01:02:26,000 --> 01:02:28,880 sitting under or you are entertaining because you don't 956 01:02:28,880 --> 01:02:31,920 want to get around? Believers who want to talk about 957 01:02:31,960 --> 01:02:37,000 feelings. Now I'm not. 958 01:02:37,560 --> 01:02:40,320 Again, while we look not at the things that are seen, but the 959 01:02:40,320 --> 01:02:42,400 things that are not seen. Do I have feelings? 960 01:02:42,440 --> 01:02:45,440 Yes. Do I get hurt? 961 01:02:45,800 --> 01:02:48,200 Yes. Do I get angry? 962 01:02:48,480 --> 01:02:54,600 Yes, I do. But when those things come, I do 963 01:02:54,600 --> 01:02:56,960 not focus on those feelings through an old man. 964 01:02:56,960 --> 01:02:59,640 I say you're going to focus on the anointing. 965 01:03:00,360 --> 01:03:03,160 So you're not going to be angry here. 966 01:03:03,240 --> 01:03:05,200 What you're going to do is you're going to rejoice. 967 01:03:06,880 --> 01:03:10,160 Now what you're going to do is you are going to do it his way. 968 01:03:10,160 --> 01:03:13,000 You're going to get your feelings in line with the word 969 01:03:13,320 --> 01:03:16,000 and you're going to feel, but you're going to feel victory. 970 01:03:16,600 --> 01:03:19,680 You're going to feel overcoming. You're going to feel peace. 971 01:03:20,320 --> 01:03:25,280 You're going to feel that even though my human side, well, you 972 01:03:25,280 --> 01:03:27,680 don't feel I feel everything you feel. 973 01:03:27,680 --> 01:03:30,760 I just choose not to focus on the old. 974 01:03:31,520 --> 01:03:33,760 I choose to focus on the anointing. 975 01:03:34,240 --> 01:03:38,200 When I do that, then guess what? The anointing starts working and 976 01:03:39,560 --> 01:03:41,360 now I'm not. You know, have you ever heard 977 01:03:41,360 --> 01:03:43,080 believer say this? Well, I just want you to be 978 01:03:43,080 --> 01:03:45,040 real. What they want you to do is 979 01:03:45,040 --> 01:03:51,720 really communicate how you think about carnal things because they 980 01:03:51,720 --> 01:03:56,360 think about carnal things. Well, you have carnal thoughts. 981 01:03:56,600 --> 01:03:58,760 You just have to learn how to crucify them. 982 01:04:00,000 --> 01:04:03,640 Every one of us have thoughts that we are to take captive. 983 01:04:03,880 --> 01:04:08,160 I mean, why is it that we enjoy services where people talk about 984 01:04:08,720 --> 01:04:13,400 the issues of life and then do last minute disclaimers, but God 985 01:04:13,400 --> 01:04:16,680 loves me, you know, anyway. And we're like, oh, get so 986 01:04:16,680 --> 01:04:18,320 excited. And they're only excited because 987 01:04:18,480 --> 01:04:22,120 finally I'm in a place that someone feels like I feel about 988 01:04:22,120 --> 01:04:29,640 this instead of you are a champion. 989 01:04:29,680 --> 01:04:31,880 I don't feel like a champion. We're gonna teach you how to 990 01:04:31,960 --> 01:04:33,720 teach you how to focus on the anointing. 991 01:04:33,720 --> 01:04:35,400 We're gonna teach you how to focus on. 992 01:04:35,440 --> 01:04:37,440 Well, you know what? I don't think these people ever 993 01:04:37,440 --> 01:04:39,040 have a problem. They're always excited. 994 01:04:39,040 --> 01:04:41,560 Happy, running around, full of joy, seem excited. 995 01:04:41,600 --> 01:04:43,840 I can't relate to these people. They don't have any issues. 996 01:04:43,840 --> 01:04:45,960 Are you kidding me? We probably have double the 997 01:04:45,960 --> 01:04:48,720 issues you we had. You have because the enemy wants 998 01:04:48,720 --> 01:04:52,240 us to fail in front of you. But we refuse to fail in front 999 01:04:52,240 --> 01:04:54,200 of you. We just choose to take captive 1000 01:04:54,200 --> 01:04:56,160 the thought. Stay in the anointing and 1001 01:04:56,160 --> 01:05:00,360 overcome because actually living your carnal life would be a lot 1002 01:05:00,360 --> 01:05:06,520 easier in one sense because it takes no effort. 1003 01:05:08,560 --> 01:05:11,040 Ah, but the anointing. I've been crucified with Christ. 1004 01:05:11,040 --> 01:05:14,560 Put this verse up, we'll close. I've been crucified with Christ. 1005 01:05:15,520 --> 01:05:17,800 How do you know you're not dealing with your human anymore? 1006 01:05:18,040 --> 01:05:26,960 It's no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. 1007 01:05:27,360 --> 01:05:30,800 Most of our worships about what God's done for us and our stuff, 1008 01:05:31,000 --> 01:05:36,600 and we're not even talking about him, how we feel. 1009 01:05:36,600 --> 01:05:38,840 I was broken. I was this, I was that. 1010 01:05:38,840 --> 01:05:40,680 But you, what are they focused on? 1011 01:05:40,840 --> 01:05:44,800 They're human, they're old man, and I'm not saying that you 1012 01:05:44,800 --> 01:05:47,440 shouldn't be appreciative of what you came out of, but we 1013 01:05:47,440 --> 01:05:50,120 need to be focused on. But in Christ, I'm more than a 1014 01:05:50,120 --> 01:05:51,680 conqueror. I'm this, I'm that. 1015 01:05:51,800 --> 01:05:53,920 This is who God's made me. This is who I am. 1016 01:05:53,920 --> 01:05:56,840 Now, if we're not leaving services, if we're not leaving 1017 01:05:56,840 --> 01:05:59,560 places where we are like man, we can do this. 1018 01:05:59,560 --> 01:06:01,880 We can conquer, we can overcome. And it's because of the 1019 01:06:01,880 --> 01:06:05,080 anointing on my life. What can we not do? 1020 01:06:06,320 --> 01:06:12,160 Then You know what, you're just holding on to go somewhere and 1021 01:06:12,160 --> 01:06:15,200 God never expected you to to live that kind of life down 1022 01:06:15,200 --> 01:06:16,800 here. He wanted you to overcome. 1023 01:06:17,000 --> 01:06:19,080 It's no longer I who live, but Christ lives to me in the life 1024 01:06:19,080 --> 01:06:22,720 that I live now in the flesh, in this body, in this human suit. 1025 01:06:22,760 --> 01:06:24,400 I live how? By faith. 1026 01:06:24,600 --> 01:06:27,040 What is faith calling those things that be not as though 1027 01:06:27,080 --> 01:06:29,440 they were. My focus is on the unseen. 1028 01:06:29,560 --> 01:06:32,000 What did God say about for me to do in this situation? 1029 01:06:32,000 --> 01:06:33,800 I'm only going to do that. That's my focus because that's 1030 01:06:33,800 --> 01:06:38,200 the anointing. If I stay on that, then I win.