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Plan We just, you know come out of Second Chronicles, right?
So you you came across this scripture but Second Chronicles
chapter 2 verse five. This struck struck my spirit
yesterday actually. Says the house which I'm about
to build will be great for greater is our God than.
All the gods. Let's see.
Let's say that again, the house which I'm about to build will be
greater. Great.
Yeah, that's good. For greater is our God than all
the gods. Now you can probably go back on
our podcast and hear a message that I ministered once called
someone greater than. Solomon is here, OK?
And if you hadn't heard that, I encourage you to go find that
message and listen to it. You know, Solomon is the one who
announces I'm going to build a house with the Lord, and
obviously his father wanted to do so, but the Lord's like
you're not building the house. He says you're a man of blood
shed. And now again David's bloodshed
was authorized, but he says you're not going to build that
house. And so he, you know, delegated
that to his son Solomon. And in his lifetime he began to
accumulate resource for the temple.
Not only did he accumulate it from the nation of Israel, but
from his own personal account. Did he put towards the building
of this temple? And you know you can take time
to go through for your own personal history lesson and see
all the wealth that was stored for this building.
And so now Solomon, and again, if you just jump over a chapter,
you'll begin to read him starting this particular temple
and the the main floor. OK, the main floor.
Build out a cedar. But you don't see cedar when
you're walking on it because the whole floor is overlaid with
pure gold. The whole thing, I mean this is
extravagant. And then they got precious
stones and then they hand carve palms, you understand?
He definitely loved the state of Florida and so.
They were thinking of us when he was carving out the temple, but
all gold. I mean, we really can't fathom
what this place looked like, this house.
And notice Solomon says this. He says, Now listen, I'm going
to build a house for the Lord, for God, and it's going to be
great. Now why is that?
Because he's a greater God. Than all other God.
If I'm going to build a house that we can see, that this world
can see, then there's no way some other temple dedicated to a
false God can be more impressive.
I mean, Solomon was like, there's no way that another
nation's going to come and see the temple dedicated to the
creator of heaven and earth. And they go that ain't got
nothing on our God. Oh, that's a shack.
Oh, wow. That's not a big deal.
Are you hearing me? Sodom was like, there's no way
that I'm going to build a house that can be publicly seen by
this nation or any other nation, and somebody would have the
audacity to come into this place and act like their temple to
their false God. Could even compare.
Do you understand? Solomon had this mindset?
Are you hearing me that when you see the House of the Lord, when
you see the House of the Lord that I'm about to build, you're
going to be in awe Now Solomon was someone who could clip
people in awe? In fact, the Queen of Sheba, if
you read about her, she came to see Solomon one day because she
heard about all of his wisdom. Now you understand why Solomon
has the wealth that he has anyway is because all he wants
to do is take care of God's people, which is a whole another
message by itself. When the king decides that all
he wants is the rule God's people well, in essence be able
to rule before the people well. Are you a little king?
Are you rulers? Then you should desire to want
to rule well before the people and because all he said, give me
wisdom and knowledge to rule well before your people.
And man, God came down and says wow, because you did not ask for
the heads of your enemy because you didn't ask for wealth.
He didn't even ask for long life, a legacy where your name
would be remembered. Oh, he said.
You're all you were concerned about is leading my people, he
said. Son, I will give you that
wisdom. But guess what comes with that
now? What comes?
What is happening? Hallelujah.
Is it me? OK, Somebody scratching on a
mic? Man, I'm going to be rapping
here in a minute. Hallelujah.
I think Meridas over there, going over there.
Watch her now, because I'm going to start beatboxing here in a
minute. OK, So what was I talking about
before I was rudely interrupted by her beatbox?
Over here, Wisdom. You get the wisdom.
Guess what? Guess what follows Wisdom.
Well, your enemy. And be at peace with you.
And everybody's going to remember your name.
Are you hearing me? So again, if we just put the
order right. So here's Solomon.
He's at his Kingdom. The Queen of Sheba comes, and
she does not come to not be impressive because when she
showed up, because you don't come to a king empty handed, she
shows up. I'm going to say that again.
You do not come to the king. And if you've come to this
house, the king is here. His name's Jesus.
I hope you did not come emptyhanded, but she comes with
the most spices that have ever rolled in to Israel.
The most. I mean, she has an entourage of
so much wealth. Are you hearing me okay?
And so with that being said, she in turn goes and sees the people
all right? And before she even sees the
king, she's like. Wow, look at his servants.
Look how they're dressed. I mean, they're not dressed like
slaves, although they were slaves.
They were so dressed so well. The order of his house, the
amount of wealth that it took her breath away.
Just the natural sight of his house and his servants struck
her in awe. Now you understand when Solomon
wants to build a house for the for God, the God that's greater
than all gods, He's like, it's going to take their breath away.
Now here's the thing. What he's building is not his
own, because the plan has come from the Lord.
The Lord is the architect, designer of what this temple
looks like. And so it's my, it's mighty
impressive. It's mighty impressive.
And you know, so again, this statement just struck me.
The house which I'm about to build, who's building it?
Solomon is. Who's building it?
Solomon is now. He's not personally building it.
He's, you know, because again, it's an architectural project
and he's is, is enlisted all kinds of people.
I mean, there's like 150,000 people that he's, you know, are
working. And 36,000 are foreman and he's
getting, you know, supply from all over the regions.
But ultimately, once it's built, then he does this massive
sacrifice, which was a lot of resource just to sacrifice 1000
bulls. Wow.
And all of a sudden God's present showed up in that house.
So much so, the Bible says that the priests that were inside it
couldn't even stand up. They couldn't even stand up the
weight of the glory of God his presence that when it filled it
is says his train filled the temple.
His glory filled the temple so full that the the measure of
that presence of God's spirit put them all down on the ground.
They couldn't even stand. Are you hearing me?
And he said, man, I'm about to build a house.
It's going to be great for greater as our God than all the
others. And then the Lord reminded me of
First Corinthians chapter 6 and 1st Corinthians chapter 6 will
start in verse 19. It says.
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy
Spirit? Who is in you, whom you have
from God, and that you? Are not your own verse 20 for
you have been bought with a price.
Therefore glorify God in your body. 1st Corinthians 3 verse 16
says it this way. Do you not know that you are the
temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
Do we have the same attitude as Solomon that when we got born
again and the Spirit of God came to live inside us, that when we
look in the mirror we're saying, Lord, I am going to build you a
house because greater? Is he that is in me, then he
that is in the world? How in the world could I not
build this house so that when it walks around in society that all
of a sudden people are like, there ain't no way I'm better
than that. Are you hearing me?
I mean. All we are, we have.
It's like we are not taking thought that God did not want to
move in a gold house. He did not want to move into a
natural home. He always wanted to be back in
man. And now that he's showing up,
what are we showing the world that's housing God?
I mean, are we allowing the gods of this world to showcase more
in those bodies than what God can do in us?
Because at the end of the day, God came to the house that
Solomon built. And at the end of the day, God
made man, and through the dust of the earth he ultimately howls
this suit. But when you make Jesus Lord,
you're asking him to move in. And since he's moving in, what
is he moving into? And he's giving you the tool to
renovate. Are you hearing me?
He's giving you the tools to renovate.
He's giving you the tools to the renewing of your mind and to the
point of keeping your body subject so that there's no
excuse that when someone in the world would look at you, they
would be in awe, OK? Well, now the Spirit of God, you
can't see it. You may not be able to see it,
but you can sense it. In fact, Smith Wigglesworth
worked on his temple, so much so that when he was sitting on a
bus, it was. It was testified to him that
when one man was getting off a bus, he says.
Your mere presence convicts me of my sin.
Cause you understand, when the Holy Spirit or when the Spirit
of God came down in Solomon's temple that day, they couldn't
stand in his presence. When the power of God came down
upon the mountain, they were in fear and trembling.
I mean the presence of God and pure holiness is something to be
with, be to behold. And it will put all of us on our
face. I said it will put all of us on
our face. Are you hearing me?
But with that being said, we ourselves have a responsibility
to take care of the house cause we've been housed, we've been
housed, so we shouldn't be sick like the rest of the world all
the time. We shouldn't be, you know, beat
down all the time like the rest of the world.
We shouldn't be come, you know, there shouldn't be creaking
coming from our temple. You know what creaking is?
It's complaining and whining. Now that don't mean we're not
going to have problems, but we overcome them so fast that
people think we don't have them. They don't see depression
associated with you because that's other God's temples.
They don't see you walking around in fear, that's other
God's temples. You understand because Jesus
said you are of your father, the devil.
And some of those temples, those bodies, they not only are they
dead spirits in them, they're housing evil spirits and we
should look nothing like this. Now you understand Solomon built
a building. Anybody can build a building.
Anybody can build architecture. You know, he's not the only
person who can put gold over wood.
But there's something about this house.
And man, there was something about that ark.
That he brought into that house because that art, before it even
had that house and it was stuck in a tent.
But that was one fine looking tent people.
I'm telling you, the wealth of the tent itself, you understand
religious, religious Christianity can't handle the
tent or the temple because that would go against their
stewardship. They can't.
Handle that now, Pastor. We are definitely not going to
have gold floors in our church. That is way too extravagant.
Well, I guess you're not going to heaven.
I mean, we'll complain about how much we pay for carpet.
Speaking of carpet, we bought the rest.
You know, we asked for $45,000. We've got $41,000.
I'm like we're buying the rest of the carpet.
So if you're like, oh, I still want to get in that field and
and so towards it, you absolutely can because.
But I we bought the rest of the carpet.
So our goal is to have that all the way in by the end of
October. All carpet in the mall, all
right. Then we can move to continue
projects. And if you haven't been to the
front of the mall, we got a little sneak peek on the white
columns. They're disappearing.
A couple of them have disappeared, right?
We just laid hands on them. And they're gone.
It did take a couple days. And I think now that we know
what we're doing, we can do the next one in a day.
Hallelujah. But with that being said, what
is your temple? Do you have the same attitude as
Solomon that you're like, I'm telling you, when the world sees
me, they are not going to mistake me with their temples?
This is why this temple's not full of debauchery, right?
I mean, this is not a dumping ground for toxic material.
I don't feel this temple full of toxic material that messes my
mind up. That starts to play with it
because there's plenty of other temples in the world.
Are you hearing me? I understand we're going to look
the same to a degree. We're human, but you can begin
to walk in the power and purpose of God so much that people will
say something about you, something about you.
I've been in multiple places where my wife where people have
said you're glowing and it's not because she just had a facial.
It's not that. It's not because she's, you
know, just came away from the sun.
It's not that something else. They're starting to sense
something else. Amen.
And you can walk in again. It's the inside.
It's the Spirit of God radiating through your soul and your body
that you decide I'm going to live such a pure life according
to scripture. That the other gods temples
don't look nothing like mine. Are you hearing me?
So what type of house are you building?
All right, Does it reflect God? Look at Hebrews chapter 6 verses
one and two. Hebrews chapter 6 verse one and
two. Therefore, leaving the
elementary teaching about the Christ, let us press on to
maturity. Not laying again a foundation of
repentance from dead works and faith towards God, of
instructions of instruction about washings and laying on of
hands and the resurrection of the dead in eternal judgment.
Notice Hebrews chapter 6 here lets us know that if you're in a
place that only preaches repentance from dead works,
that's being born again. Okay.
Faith towards God. That's being born again.
That's one and the same repentance from dead works and
faith towards God, that's salvation of instruction about
washings again, baptisms. Okay to be baptized in water.
All the laying on of hands. And most of that has to do with,
you know, receiving the baptism, the Holy Spirit.
And there's some places don't even get their foundation
finished. OK, but then you lay hands on
the sick even, and then the resurrection of the dead, which
is the catching away, right? And then eternal judgment, which
is the final judgment, those that are going to go before the
great white throne judgment and be thrown into the lake of fire.
All of those are elementary teachings.
And if that's all you know, you have to say I am an elementary
student and all you have at best, is a foundation.
And we don't live only on a foundation.
You have a great foundation. But when the storm comes, you're
exposed. And This is why modern Christian
religion has you on the foundation of salvation.
Water baptism, right? Eternal judgment, the catching
away. But when the storms of life
come, they're completely exposed and they're begging out to God
do something. He's like, why don't you build
some walls? Why don't you get a roof on that
thing? Why don't you get central heat
and air in there? You know, why don't we build you
some protect? Why don't you come into the
House of the Lord? Why don't you get some other
truths? Because he says we need to go on
to maturity. And here's the thing, you are
not going to look different from the temples that house other
gods if you haven't gone beyond a foundation.
In fact, Paul, according to First Corinthians chapter 3,
says to the church there. He says now I cannot speak to
you as spiritual people. I'm going to have to come and
talk to you as babes again. I want to come and give you some
spiritual meat. I want to give you some some
things that can move on to maturity.
But I cannot do it because you have identified yourself through
your words and actions that you are carnal.
You are acting like mere men. In essence, you have the Holy
Ghost in you, but you look like the other temples of people that
aren't even born again. You're carnal.
You're led by your flesh. You say what you want to say.
You're led by your emotions. You're moved by your emotions.
You respond by your emotions. You let the situations dictate
how you feel. You're jockeying for position.
You're doing everything the world does.
Now you're born again. That's true.
But man, I can't tell your temple from theirs.
And Solomon said I will not build a temple that you can
mistake that it's not greater, not going to do it.
And in the church today, I'm telling you God is in the
business of building you to maturity.
He's. He never sent Jesus so that you
could only have that one teaching of repentance from dead
works and faith towards God. So when you die, you go to
heaven. That was just the door.
It doesn't bring maturity. Are you hearing me?
Let's go over to Luke, chapter 14.
Luke chapter 14. Once again, nobody.
When I say nobody, I don't mean that literal, you know, it's
just that too often because of religious Christianity, OK?
And I say religious Christianity, and I mean that
because at the end of the day, if you take God's word and you
decide how you're going to apply it and never console God, that's
religion. That is religion.
And what we've done is we've done a disservice, OK?
Our our ministers have by communicating that you know the
word by itself. You know, if you try to do it,
you know it's law, law, law. And now we're under grace and we
have to do anything because we couldn't do anything.
Well, that's not what law was. We're confusing law with
religion and and the Pharisees were religious because they took
God's word and then they interpreted it on their
understanding what they wanted it to be.
That's why Jesus said why do you forsake the commandments of God
for the sake of your traditions? You are telling people that this
is what I meant by that when I did not mean that this is what I
meant. And the same thing happens after
you're born again. We will try to fit scriptures to
fit our emotions when it's not about fitting your emotions,
it's about you changing your emotions to go to the word,
renewing your mind to God's way of doing.
And you do that by faith that His way.
If I do it his way then I'll get the result of his way.
OK, but in Luke chapter 14, verse 25 to 30 and then we'll
jump to 33, it says as massive crowds and read out of the
Passion follow Jesus. He turned to them and said, When
when you follow me as my disciple, you must turn aside
your father, your mother, your wife, your sisters, your
brothers, yes, you will even seem as though you hate your own
life. This is the price you'll pay to
be considered one of my followers.
And anyone who comes to me must be willing to share my cross and
experience it as his own. And he cannot be considered or
or he cannot be what considered to be my disciple.
So don't follow me without considering what it will cost
you for who would construct a house before first sitting down
to estimate the entire cost to complete it.
Otherwise he may lay the foundation and not be able to
finish and the neighbors will ridicule him saying look at him,
he started to build but couldn't complete it.
He couldn't complete it. Then verse 33 says likewise.
Unless you surrender all to me, giving up all you possess, you
can not be one of my disciples. Now what I love about the
passion translation put it back on the 25 to 30 is there's a few
things we want to say. Other translation says this.
Unless you hate your father, your mother, your wife, your
sister, the brothers, you know to come follow me.
Now, it's not literally saying, husbands, you have a right to
hate your wife. Now wives, you have a right to
hate your husbands. Now, that's not what it's
saying. What it's saying is it's
literally saying this. If you're going to be my
disciple, then you cannot. You got to put aside what daddy
says. You got to put aside what Mama
says. You got to even put aside what
your wife? Says cause what your sister says
your brothers have said. In fact, you got to put aside
your own thoughts to the point that you even hate your own
thinking when you know it doesn't line up with mine.
In essence, a husband saying, honey, we're going to go to
church. Well, I don't want us to go.
Well, honey, I might have to put aside that thought.
I'm going to church. You can stay home if you want
to. But As for me and my house,
we're going to serve the Lord. I got to put aside that, I said.
I got to put aside that. I got to put aside that.
There's Mamas out there. Some of the kids need to put
aside Mamas. I'm talking about, you know,
ones that are a little bit older.
But again, even then, if you don't watch out, you know we
should condition our children, our own lives, that we're what
does the word say? What is the Father say?
And he say, listen, if you're going to be my disciple because
he's He's, this is what's crazy is that God clearly communicates
what a disciple looks like, just like He clearly communicates
what the church looks like. And I got this while I was
cutting grass. The Lord's like, you know what?
You know, people. It's amazing how people throw
church around and just run church through the ground.
It's, I mean, they drag church through the ground and.
Right. I mean, the church has been
attacked the most than anything. OK.
But here's The thing is what? And I don't know, it's so
amazing because of the illiteracy of believers.
Why? Because they have a foundation
that they never build, OK. And as a result of that, they're
ridiculed. But here's the thing.
The Lord's like, you know what everyone knows?
You know the religious Christians, that there's God,
only one true God, and that there are false gods.
Well, if there can be false gods, then there can be false
churches. But because we assumed church is
only our name, well, you know God's not the only God.
Now when I say that, I know he's the only God, but the world has
other gods and we even acknowledge that they have them.
We can go to like out. We'll be going to India in
November. And I can say, well, that's
their God. Now we it's no God.
And I would love for God to let me just start ripping down idols
in India. That would be amazing.
The amazing practice of the Lord would just say tear it down,
take it to construction team. Maybe we'll let us do it.
I mean, they won't let us back. I get it.
They ever catch us. But you understand what I'm
saying. I mean, you know, you want to
have one of those, like knock it over, grind it up moments, You
know, you wish you could go back to some of that old covenant
stuff. But with that being said, you
know, well, here they are, That's that God, that God.
And we know they're not gods, but we say that.
But then we use church and we think church is only Jesus.
Well, Jesus clearly defines what his church looks like.
So then, if it doesn't look like that, I would say, well, that's
a false church. That's really not his shirt.
Oh no, that's it's not his church.
Just like I can say you're not his disciple now, I'm not saying
you're not born again. I'm just saying you're not a
disciple. And Jesus never came or never
commissioned us to go make converts.
He says. You need disciples and disciples
go beyond foundation. So look what happens, he said.
Now listen, if you're going to be my disciple, you're going to
have to put aside everybody else's thoughts, their way of
doing it, Their thoughts. This is my parents.
You got to be wiser than this. You got to say okay.
Well. How does the the Lord want me to
respond to these situations? And then you got to correct some
stuff. You know, when you've been
saying stuff wrong and you got to go back and say, you know
what, I got to correct that one thing that parents need to
correct right out the gate is telling your kids you can't
afford nothing. You need to stop that.
Now, it may not be in your account, but you know, when
somebody hey, can we go? Don't say, well, we can't afford
to go there. Say, well you know what?
Let's see if the Lord wants us to do that, you know, because if
the Lord wants us to do it, he'll supply it.
Now that's more accurate. Now you're not promising them to
go, nor are you telling them you have the means today to go, but
what you are doing is acknowledging that if the Lord
wants it, then it had come to pass.
But at the end of the day, God doesn't do everything just cause
we want all right. And it begins to give them this
thing that you know, we're just talking with the Lord.
It's like a regular conversation.
Cause I didn't know you wanted to go to universal.
And now you're saying, hey, this summer, let's go to universal
and we're just conversing. But maybe we can and maybe we
cannot. And there may be a legitimate
reason why we would not. But just say, well, we can't
afford. Well, then you say, well, I'll
go to a place that I can always afford, and we're acting like
God can't, so we can't. These thoughts, we have to put
them aside, he says. And then he says this, he said.
Now listen at the end of the day, and if you don't position
your life, close again. You are the temple of the Holy
Ghost. You're building a house that
you're like. You got full liberty to give me
all the instructions necessary for this house to be glorifying
you, that through me you'll be glorified.
And he says this is the price you'll pay to be considered.
Now you may say on such and such day I ask Jesus into my heart,
but that doesn't mean God's considering you a disciple.
He may accurately be saying, well, your carnal they can't
really do nothing with you. You're just a babe because
you're not being trained in righteousness.
I can't even give you mature stuff yet.
I got to keep giving you milk because you won't get off the
foundation, You won't build on the foundation.
And again, if all you have is a foundation that keeps getting
exposed to the elements, what do you think's going to happen to
your foundation? It's going to erode.
It's going to crack, and you have to continually do
foundation maintenance. That's why all of those
religious Christians are always having to come back and
rededicate their life. I'm gonna do a rededication.
I've come to fix my foundation because they constantly be
exposed. They won't go on the maturity
and they're not counting the cost.
And so This is why it goes on and says if anyone's wanting to
come come after me, must be willing to share my cross, What
does that mean? It doesn't mean you literally
carry a cross. It means you do what's Christ
did. It's not my will, but your will
be done. Even death on the cross, My
purpose was to die for you. So you're going to have to have
the same thing. You're going to die to your will
and do the will of the Father who sent who who calls you to be
born again and knew you before the foundations of the world,
before you and your mother's womb.
He knew your destiny. And I came into this world to
only do the that's what Jesus said.
He said, look, as the Father has sent me, I send and he only came
to do the will of the Father. So he's saying same things
required out of you. And let me tell you a few
things. That's not on God's top ten list
for you. A good job it's not on his top
ten list. Well, for retirement it is not
on his top ten list. It's not what college you go to
is not on his top ten list, because you should already be
enlisted in his university the day you got born again.
Because what all professors fail to know is what the Holy Ghost
already knows. Because he was there when it all
started. He was the power that caused it
to come to pass. Now, I'm not saying you can't go
to college. I'm just saying we have this
mindset. Got to get a good job, got to
get a nice house, got to get good retirement, got to get good
benefits. The Lord's like, I've took care
of the benefits. I put you in the Kingdom.
I got your education covered. I just need you to do my will.
That's all I'm concerned about. You to seek First, the Kingdom
and his rights and everything else.
I mean, it's not complicated. Where's our kids going to go to
college? You know, after they have you
even asked the Lord, should they even go to college?
Have you even? Maybe the Lord's like, they
don't have time for that. Don't waste, don't waste four
years on a piece of paper. I go ahead and do them with
power and I got a whole another project for them to do.
I'll tell you them all over the world, you understand the
wealthiest people do not have college degrees anyway.
But I'm just saying it's not necessary.
But what's the enemy do? He gets us bond lives to
distract. Why?
So we won't build. So we got to take the cross
again. We learn the parenting
conference. The best thing you can ever tell
your children is you need to discover why.
What God's plan is for your life.
It's the greatest thing you could ever do, because if you
don't do that, you can't even be considered as disciple.
I'll just even be more bold if you've never asked the Lord and
what I do. Am I what I am?
What I am doing currently right now?
Is this even your will? If you've not even asked that
question, then you're probably not a disciple, even though you
may have informational knowledge about scripture.
Because applying God's word to your will, that's right.
Is religion. Is religion.
Is everyone going to be called the pastor?
No. Is everyone going to be called
to be a prophet? No.
I mean, he tells us this very specifically that not all are
the fivefold ministry. I get it.
But again, why are you in the sector of society that you're
in? And are you doing what you need
to do in that set? Are you walking with the Lord?
And are you walking in a way that when you're at work, people
are like, your temple's different now.
They're not saying that, but you understand there's just
something about your atmosphere that's all of a sudden different
than everybody else. You know, I've never heard you
cuss. How was that?
You know, you did not get upset when we heard they were going to
do cuts. Why is that?
Because the great, the God in me is greater than all gods.
And this house I'm building, it's going to be great.
It's going to be such a reflection, right?
So it goes on verse 28 though. And this is where the problem is
in modern day religious Christianity.
So don't follow me without considering what it will cost
for you who construct a house before first sitting down to
estimate the cost to complete it.
Otherwise he'll lay the foundation, not be able to
finish. You know how many people are not
coming to the Lord because of people who came to the Lord and
stayed on a foundation? Man, I got saved.
I went to church. Oh, really?
Yeah. And they're different for two
weeks, a month, three months. And you know what happens at
work? Well, we'll see how that is it a
path. And you know what?
For most of them, it does. Next thing you know, they're
drinking with them on the weekend.
Again. They're custom with them again.
They're jumping back into the same things.
They're just like their passion, their fires.
Why? Because they didn't consider the
cost. Because too often the call to
repentance. Isn't even a call to repentance.
It's a call to be saved. Jesus did not preach publicly.
Get saved, he said. Repent.
You're going to have to change. That's his first word.
Change. President Obama didn't didn't
inaugurate that word change. The Lord Jesus Christ did change
'cause what you're doing now in Kingdom, it's not.
And The thing is, is that God does it first have to educate
you to get in it. He gives you the Spirit that can
stay in it. Are you hearing me?
He gives you the Spirit that can stay in it.
Now you have the ability and no excuse to build a house to
maturity. You're with no excuse and the
reason why people laugh at you and laugh about you laugh about
your marriages. Now, I'm not talking about you,
I'm being general. But the the reason why religious
Christianity is laughed at by the world is because their
marriages fall apart like everybody else's.
You know, they live on the weekend like everybody else but
still go to church. They had.
They act in rebellion. They hate authority.
They talk about their managers and their bosses and their
pastors. They gossip like everybody else
because they haven't considered the cost.
What do you think about the manager?
I have nothing to say about it. What you just saw they did.
Doesn't matter. I'm not falling back into that.
I'm a different person. There's too many that are doing
it. Why?
Because they don't have the same mindset.
They don't have the same insight that Solomon had.
And I'm going to build a house that is great because our God is
greater than all gods. Do you understand?
The Hindus are more dedicated to prayer than USA Christian
churches. Islam is more dedicated to
prayer than US Christian churches.
They're more dedicated now. It's religious nonetheless, but
at least they have a commitment and we actually have the God on
the inside of us. I mean, the one they're
searching lives here. Right here.
He's right here. He's alive in me.
Yeah, like, well, you know, I'll get into prayer when I can.
It's not building the house. Hallelujah.
Go ahead and smile anyway. First, Peter, Chapter 2.
Amen. I mean, this is good news.
Honestly, the only reason why you wouldn't be shouting and
running around is because you know, if you're like, dude, I'm
letting my house stare up, you know we'll fix it.
Guess what? Good news, good news.
Good news if your house is utterly falling apart right now.
I mean everything's like, geez man, I got the tiles.
I mean my shingles are coming off because you know, I'm
gossiping, you know, I mean you know I got water pot pipes
busting you know, my hot water heater went down you know,
whatever. I don't care how bad.
And you're like I I don't have enough to fit the Lord's like
that's alright I'll, I'll, I'll get you all the funds you need
to. Fix it.
I mean, he's going to fund your project.
I mean, what would your natural house look if there was no, if
you didn't have to come up with the money yourself?
Oh. You don't want to hear this,
right? Come on, Pastor Tim.
You, you and Pastor Bridge. You don't know what I'm talking
about. What would it be like if God's
like, son? Just go buy it now.
Again, God ain't going over there putting your sheetrock on,
putting in your electrical outlets, putting up your.
But you have all the resource. All you got to do is put forth
the effort to apply the material that he's bankrolling and God is
bankrolling on the inside of you.
Everything you need to renovate this thing so that the glory of
God is walking around with you everywhere you go.
He's like, oh, you need a little bit of love to cover up that
offense. I got that.
Oh, you need some peace. I got plenty of peace to cover
your pain right now. All you got to do is work it,
put it in your house, build your life around it.
And then people like, wow, how's he do that?
First, Peter chapter 2, verses one through 5.
He says therefore say therefore, putting aside all malice, all
deceit, all hypocrisy and envy, and all slander like newborn
babes, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may
grow in respects to salvation. If you have tasted the kindness
of the Lord and coming to him as to a living stone which has been
rejected by men, but it's choice and precious in the sight of
God. You also as living stones are
being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood to
OfferUp spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Christ
Jesus. I mean he wants a place that is
seen in the world that when people come by you all of a
sudden this house that is housing the Holy Ghost is so
different from the rest of the world that you have understood
that God will only take up residence in the place that is
holy and pure. And Jesus put the new spirit in
me that gave the Holy Spirit permission to move in.
He was the great sacrifice that allowed my spirit man to come
alive and for the third person of the godhead to move right in.
And now the greater one. I said the how many times we
quote this? Greater is that is well how you
housing him, You taking the Holy Ghost to bed on the weekends and
fornication. I mean you taking the Holy
Spirit out and say now, I know you could get me drunk, but I'm
gonna get you drunk. I got some tongues.
One starts with an F There's other languages because the Holy
Ghost isn't talking that, I said he didn't talking.
That and people will walk by your temple.
And go. That place reminds me of the
temple I saw at the club last night.
And that temple reminds me, you know of that person at work and
you know that sorry old manager, you know, it's always
complaining and stuff. And the one who's who's tasked
with the building is you. One of the powerful statement
that Pastor John said. He said God took the
responsibility of saving your child's spirit, but as a parent
it's your responsibility to save their soul.
OK, now you understand it's your responsibility to help them save
their soul. Because ultimately they going to
have to save their own soul, just like you have to save
yours. Meaning you're renewing your
mind to the new person you are and the recognition that the
Holy Ghost is in here. Man, when you know the Holy
Ghost is in here, it changed the way you start responding all the
time when you're in a real awareness, because at that
point, all you. Got to do is go.
What would you do? What would you do?
You know he's not going to respond carnally and as I was.
Going to say, well, I'm in this flesh like you.
I feel it too. Let's do this still.
No, he's going to respond. I mean, he's going to respond
beyond your capacity because he'll be able to say, I know.
Things I know, things he can talk to you and say, you know, I
know things. And at this point I just want
you to forgive. Because if you'll do this, I
know some things, it can unlock some stuff in them, but I need
you to be the first one to do it, because I know some things
could also say I know some things.
All that you're hearing right now.
It sounds good, but it isn't coming from my round.
There's manipulation with that and they're using my scripture
to boot. So you just hold your course
because I know some things. But I don't want you to give
vocal and get frustrated and mad.
You just be quiet, because I know some things.
And what happens is when you yield to that, then the temple
starts taking on the glory. Everything gets purified and
refined. You understand, Solomon, when
they laid the gold out, it was not unpurified, it had been.
Tested by the fire, the dross has been pulled off and purity
is covering the temple. And so the Holy Ghost could.
We always want the Holy Ghost and fire, for the fire is to
burn off the impurities, the impurities of your thoughts, the
impurities of your flesh. And listen, it's a constant
burning because your flesh and your spirit battle daily because
your flesh is like, I'll take that, I'll go back to that.
And you're like, no, you're never going back.
And the greater is he that send me that it keep you from going
back. Because I am the man of the
house with the man of the house And we're going to make sure you
don't take residence here. We don't have a temple that
looks like the other gods. Ours is greater.
So how you going to build your house because in these last
days? Listen, in these last days.
Wow, should I say that? Thank you, Jesus.
Hallelujah. Hmm, hmm, hmm.
In these last days, the Bible tells us that things will get
worse in the world. Gross darkness.
That's in the world. It should never have put you in
fear. Ever.
I don't care how bad it is, and let me just say it this way,
it's not going to get any worse than the days of Noah.
So my point is it can't get worse than it's already been.
So don't think this a new bad that's never been.
Because the Lord will come like the days of of Noah.
Now when his wrath gets poured out, that'd be like the world's
never experienced. Because when he did it in the
flood, I mean that was quick. They drowned.
What's the longest that a person can hold their breath?
Well, anybody know what the record is right now?
20, maybe 20 minutes? Maybe somebody Google it real
quick so I can help save your life.
OK. The days of Noah says he'll come
like the day. It'll be like the days of Noah,
OK, they'll be eating and drinking, giving to marriage,
right? They'll just be going on as if
nothing's coming. But those that are like Noah the
righteous, they know. It's coming.
Wow. Y'all's phones are really slow.
24 minutes. All right, 24 minutes.
So, OK, just so you have perspective, the most somebody
would have been living when the flood hit and the waters got
there and they went under. 27 minutes, 24 minutes and 37
seconds. That's nothing.
Compared to the tribulation that people are begging to die, just
perspective. But he said in the last days
people will be deceived and deceiving.
So deception will be at a heightened place, which tells me
if you're not a disciple. You're going to be in trouble,
even if you're a believer. I preached a message in 20/17/18
and 19 called equipped only for 2020 to turn out being a very
different time, but it didn't take us long to find out who was
applying the last three years of teaching.
The good news? The majority did.
There are very few people who did not.
I actually only had one person leave the church because of
COVID that they're thinking was I'll never assemble again.
Only one person. Okay.
But that means the Lord prepares you again.
These moments that we're having right now are not just midweek
fillings. These are in preparation for
things to come. Again, one of the assignments of
the Holy Ghost is to disclose things to come.
And the thing of it is, is that disclosing things that come are
not just coming through the gifts of the Spirit called a
Word of Wisdom. They can come through the
teaching of the word and subject matter that you're like, you
know what? I just got into this trial and
pastors been. Preaching on this and now I got
plenty of things to stand on. 10 virgins are waiting on the Lord.
Ten of them, and they all have oil in their lamps, all of them,
and the fire is lit, but five have more oil.
When they hear the bridegroom coming, they wake up, trim their
lamps. The five that had more oil
resupplied. The five who did not said, man,
we're not going to make it. Can you give us your oil?
Some of them they said can't do it won't be enough for us both.
You're going to have to go back and get your own.
You got to get your own and says why they were gone.
The door opened. I said it's why they were gone.
The door opened. The five came back and said
knocked on the door and said, Lord, Lord, let us in, He's
like, who are you? He said.
Because I don't even know who you are now, that word means I
was not intimately acquainted with you.
That don't mean I don't know. I don't know of you, but I don't
have a intimate relationship with you.
The Lord's showing me very clearly.
I'm extremely bold in this statement, very clearly, he
said. Son, everything is by faith
everything, nothing that you get from.
Me does not come by, does not come unless by faith, period.
Are you hearing what I'm saying? So healing can come to you by
somebody else's faith. There are some things that God
will allow other people's faith to come over to you, but then
there's some things that it requires you.
You know what one of those are? Being born again, I cannot have
faith for your salvation. I can believe for you to be
saved, but ultimately you're going to get your.
But we know people today that are born again.
They've confessed Jesus's Lord, but they do not by faith believe
in the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
Whatever speak in its tongues. They're in the Kingdom.
Why are they not in do with power?
Why didn't it just come on them anyway?
Why didn't it just fall on them anyway?
Why didn't it just happen? Cause here's what's crazy is
that a person not born of God can be an atmosphere of people
that are are that are full of the Holy Ghost being one of
those meetings where the Holy Ghost falls and they fall down
under the power, but they don't yield to anything and they just
fall under the power physically. They can't stand in the weight
of the presence of the Lord, but yet they're still not speaking
in tongues because God will not make them do something they
don't yield to. We know there's people that are
born again, filled with the Holy Ghost, but sick because they
never renew their minds that healing is in the Kingdom.
So why do we think that when a trumpet blows, everyone
automatically goes? Why do we believe that?
Because there are so many people that are ask Jesus in their
heart and they don't think about God at all except as a CEO.
Christmas and Easter only, and most of them are just an EO.
Easter only. It's true and yet you're think
and you're you're and you're like because and I understand
the debate that takes well you're that's worse.
No it's called faith. It's called faith. 10 virgins is
10 virgins. So anyone who tries to take that
scripture and tell you the five virgins weren't born again,
that's the law. They are pure.
They're pure, but they don't get in.
Now I'm not telling you they won't ultimately go, But man,
I'm saying some things because we are in a we have always been
from Genesis one. We've always been in the
position I prove my love by obeying his word.
So I sacrificed my will on how to do it.
That is consistent in any covenant of God, in any
dispensation of God. And it's by faith in every one
of them. There's not one that doesn't
exist. Not one, not one.
So there's some form of crucifying something in order to
live to something else. At minimum, Adam has to crucify
not his flesh because he had him have sin.
He just has to crucify His will and do His after the fall.
Now it's crucifying and today we're in.
We crucify our flesh daily. So that we walk by the Spirit.
Could it be, if you're not willing to crucify your flesh
today and let you and be led by the Spirit, that you find
yourself left behind? And the Lord's going to say,
well, we'll find out in the natural if you really love me
because you, Are you going to take the mark or not?
Because when you didn't have to die, all you had to do was die
to yourself. You didn't do it because taking
a mark is the same as what Adam does.
Because the work of obedience is consistent, Adam had to obey to
stay alive. Forever.
So why are we in this dispensation that we know we
have an advocate with a father? I get it.
But that we think we can go back and practice, live, be habitual,
and think of trumpet blows. And we're coming that that kind
of life is discipleship, although the scripture never
says it. That's called religion.
It's called deception. The life I Live Today.
I live by faith that the Lord shows me.
Son, I made you a new spirit. You know you alive now.
Then I put my spirit in you, and he bears witness with your
spirit, your child of God. And you know you are now.
Now, son, you know that I talk to you about things you're
thinking that you need to get rid of.
And you know we're talking. You know I'm talking to you, and
all you got to do is yield. I can't make you do it, son.
But I can empower your choice to choose me.
I can cause what I say to you, come alive.
And you have the power now to deny that stuff.
You've always had the power to deny your will.
You now have the power, through a spirit that's alive, to
operate like I do and build your house, that the glory of God can
be seen to the world. So these meetings, these times
together are not just Fillins. They're strategic.
They're necessary. Some of make you laugh or some
of make you examine because God knows what's coming and you're
not going to stand before Jesus and say I didn't know, I didn't
know. For some he's going to say, I
told you leave that other church a long time ago and you didn't
listen to me, but you loved your tradition, so you have no
excuse. You loved your tradition.
Told you leave that church a long time ago.
You know, it's really going to be shocking to most believers
when they found out, when they find out that there was a
church. Because I believe there are,
there is a church within a I'm not going to say every
community, but I will say within the vicinity that there's no
excuse. And what's vicinity?
Well, how far will you go for a vacation?
How far will you go for a quick weekend getaway?
Man, we'll run down to Disney like no problem.
We'll have season passes to football games.
You told my vicinity. Those people in NFL and college
are die hard. They show up at the away games,
they go make it to church, so they going to make it to their
church and they going to pay their offerings.
They don't give their tie to get their season tickets and then
they going to pay their offerings through concessions.
And then they going to be drunk, as we suppose, and they going to
brag about it all week, about the next service they're having,
and then they get depressed when the season's over and they can't
assemble. Oh, y'all.
Don't want to hear that kind of preacher.
I get you. Oh, yeah.
Hallelujah. No, I'm here.
I'm going to do the little father.
You know what? I want to build this house that
every time I walk by anyone that's not of God, God can
rattle them. That I'm never confused with a
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