1 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:20,800 Let's turn over to 1st John chapter 4. 2 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:23,360 First John chapter 4. Amen. 3 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:27,120 First John chapter 4. We'll start in verse 15 and 4 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:34,720 we'll go to verse 17 and it says this whoever say whoever, so 5 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:39,720 that's anyone on the planet at any time, whoever confesses that 6 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:42,880 Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him. 7 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:49,320 And he and God, we have come to know and have believed the love 8 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:53,240 which God has for us. God is love and the one who 9 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:57,760 abides in love abides in God and God abides in him, right? 10 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:03,440 Verse 17 by this love is perfected with us so that we may 11 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:08,720 have confidence, say confidence in the day of judgment, because 12 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:16,960 as he is, as he is, as who is Come on, who's he, What's his 13 00:01:16,960 --> 00:01:18,760 name? Come on, what's his name? 14 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:23,920 What's his name? Say it again, say it again, say 15 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:25,760 it again. Again. 16 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:31,520 Yesterday in stadiums all over our nation, people shouted for 17 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:36,040 their team. So if anyone should be in an 18 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:40,520 uproar about being on a team, it should be us. 19 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:44,120 What's his name? Because I'm telling you, heaven 20 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:50,000 will not be quiet nor reserved when it comes to Jesus showing 21 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:52,480 up. We are going to be giddy, 22 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:56,680 excited, about to explode, I mean screaming. 23 00:01:56,720 --> 00:02:00,880 It's going to be amazing because the King of glory, the creator 24 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:04,840 of heaven and earth, God himself, is going to show off. 25 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:07,720 Come on. He's going to walk out amongst 26 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:12,320 us with holes in his hands and his feet and in his side He 27 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:20,680 reigns supreme. Glory to God, the key Woo Mama. 28 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:22,680 His name should get you on your feet. 29 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:27,000 Shout, put you on your knees. My God, do not lose the fact 30 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:34,840 that Jesus reigns now. Yeah, so often people use it 31 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:37,760 here, say his name and it's just like Jesus. 32 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:42,360 No, this is not just some brother, somebody or pal, 33 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:46,520 somebody that you've D God and humanized. 34 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:52,960 He is the name above all names. He is the name to be honored, 35 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:56,240 the name to be glorified, the name that makes you want to 36 00:02:56,240 --> 00:03:00,720 shout from the rooftops, right? The the name that no one could 37 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:05,400 ever suppress, the joy in your life, the peace that you have, 38 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:08,080 right? You would never be intimidated 39 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:10,360 with anyone. You would be willing to do 40 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:13,240 what's happening in other nations where you would never 41 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:16,480 denounce His name, even if at the cost of your own life. 42 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:21,400 Hallelujah. Because I'm telling you, if you 43 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:24,080 can't come to church without an air condition, you sure going to 44 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:28,840 have a hard time if somebody's got a machete, praise the Lord. 45 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:38,800 Anyway, so, so as Jesus is, so also are we. 46 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:43,200 In which one? Come on, which world? 47 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:48,200 Which world have you read about Jesus in this world? 48 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:54,960 Have you read the gospels of how Jesus walked on the planet and 49 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:57,360 the exploits that he did by the Father? 50 00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:04,400 And it says as he is now listen, this is as he is prior to his 51 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:09,560 death, burial, resurrection, prior to his death, burial, 52 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:12,720 resurrection. Although he did walk on this 53 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:18,680 earth after his resurrection, but before it, he walked on the 54 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:25,920 planet, not intimidated with someone who had authority, who 55 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:33,640 was reigning and walking in a dominion that was was his 56 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:37,640 brother Adam. But he was not intimidated. 57 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:42,320 Good news is he has beat him. He has stripped him of his 58 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:44,560 power. He has destroyed him. 59 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:48,040 He has put him under the feet of the church. 60 00:04:48,280 --> 00:04:52,320 So here we've got to think as Jesus is, so are we. 61 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:58,400 I mean, Jesus didn't walk around depressed, didn't walk around 62 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:01,440 inferior. Jesus didn't walk around like, 63 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:02,760 oh, I don't know what I'm going to do. 64 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:04,440 How am I going to make it through tomorrow? 65 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:08,480 How did Jesus function? That's how we are to function. 66 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:12,080 See, if you don't know your Kingdom identity, then you're 67 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:15,280 not going to function in this earth as God intended you. 68 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:18,720 This is not about waiting to go to heaven to arrive. 69 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:24,400 You have arrived the day you were born of God and you commit 70 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:28,120 yourself to learning the ways of the Kingdom. 71 00:05:28,280 --> 00:05:32,440 You get to elevate yourself right now and reign in this 72 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:36,280 life. Glory to God, Hallelujah. 73 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:41,640 This is not barely making it, holding on, waiting to go. 74 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:45,640 It's about bringing that realm into this realm through our 75 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:49,600 lives so that when people see us, they're like, my gosh, it's 76 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:54,440 as if you were with Jesus. You do the same things he did. 77 00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:59,080 Are you hearing me? So this is really important for 78 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:05,480 us to understand that as He is, so also are we and we need to 79 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:08,040 get this revelation. I mean, when you get it, you'll 80 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:11,040 never be depressed another day, you'll never take another 81 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:14,440 thought, you'll not be anxious, you'll not worry one more day of 82 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:18,720 your life because Jesus did not walk around worried, clinging, 83 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:20,920 ringing his hands, trying to fig. 84 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:24,600 He just said whatever the Father says, so be it, it's done and it 85 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:26,400 was done. Amen. 86 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:30,840 And we can function this way. I'm going to bring you into a 87 00:06:30,840 --> 00:06:34,360 passage of scripture that I'm going to show you that this 88 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:39,280 thing that Jesus encountered the first time is the same thing he 89 00:06:39,280 --> 00:06:42,080 encountered through the cycle of his life. 90 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:48,520 It did not change and He conquered it the same way every 91 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:54,160 time. It is considered from Bible when 92 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:57,480 we went to Bible school, what they call a precedent setting 93 00:06:57,480 --> 00:07:00,520 event. That means it set precedent and 94 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:03,920 then anything after that would fall underneath this precedent. 95 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:07,400 All right. And so Jesus shows us how we 96 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:11,240 overcome, how we dominate in life. 97 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:16,920 Because here's the thing, when Jesus was on the planet, the one 98 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:24,600 the enemy had dominion. But now during our time he 99 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:30,040 doesn't, he doesn't even have dominion. 100 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:34,800 He doesn't have this power anymore over us that are 101 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:39,320 believers doesn't even have it. So how much more confident 102 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:44,920 should we be in this life and in this world, knowing that Jesus 103 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:49,640 has already defeated this folk and overcome? 104 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:56,120 He said in this life you'll have but be of what? 105 00:07:57,120 --> 00:08:01,240 Good tears? No, be of good what now? 106 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:04,520 This is not some little hat laughing moment. 107 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:11,040 This is not putting on a laugh. This is being of a cheer, 108 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:16,080 knowing that God has already defeated and overcome everything 109 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:19,800 in life pertaining us. Amen. 110 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:25,280 And so we can function now in this life in a way that allows 111 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:27,640 us to overcome and conquer all the time. 112 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:32,200 All right, here we go. Matthew chapter 3, starting in 113 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:35,720 verse 13. Matthew 313 says this. 114 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:40,880 Then Jesus arrived from Galilee at the Jordan, coming to John he 115 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:44,560 to to be baptized by him. But John tried to prevent him, 116 00:08:44,560 --> 00:08:48,080 saying, I have need to be baptized by you, do you come to 117 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:50,720 me? But Jesus answer answering said 118 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:54,960 to him permitted at this time, for in this way it is fitting 119 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:56,920 for us to fulfill all righteousness. 120 00:08:57,280 --> 00:09:00,400 Then he permitted him. After being baptized, Jesus came 121 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:03,000 up immediately from the water, and behold, the heavens were 122 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:05,760 open. And he saw the Spirit of God 123 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:08,120 descending as a dove and lighting on him. 124 00:09:08,520 --> 00:09:12,640 And behold, a voice out of heaven said, This is my beloved 125 00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:18,400 son, in whom I am what well pleased. 126 00:09:18,680 --> 00:09:25,080 Now we have no recorded account of the new birth of Jesus, 127 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:29,520 because Jesus did not have to be born again. 128 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:35,800 Jesus was before in the beginning was the Word, and the 129 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:38,880 Word was with God, and the Word was God, and the Word became 130 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:42,040 flesh, right? And he's without sin. 131 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:46,280 Amen. That's why Isaiah said a child 132 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:49,800 will be born, a son will be given, Son's not born, a son's 133 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:50,360 given. Why? 134 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:53,520 Because the Son always existed and he existed in God. 135 00:09:54,160 --> 00:09:58,680 So we have no account of a salvation experience with Jesus 136 00:09:58,680 --> 00:10:04,400 because Jesus doesn't sin. However, Jesus is emptied 137 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:09,400 himself of His glory and he comes to earth, not functioning 138 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:14,280 as God, but functioning as a man anointed of God. 139 00:10:14,680 --> 00:10:18,800 And so Jesus, who is righteous, He is holy. 140 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:22,640 His whole life up to this point has been separated unto God. 141 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:25,960 He is only consumed with His Father's business. 142 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:30,120 Remember when he was 13 years old, his parents thought he was 143 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:34,080 with family members, only to have left three days from the 144 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:36,880 community to realize Jesus is not around. 145 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:40,880 They had to go back to where they had last seen him. 146 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:44,000 Then it took some time for them to find him in the synagogue, 147 00:10:44,160 --> 00:10:47,920 where He is blowing the minds of the religious with his 148 00:10:47,920 --> 00:10:51,320 interpretation of the Scripture. Now when I say his 149 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:54,680 interpretation, he's the one who wrote it in the first place. 150 00:10:55,520 --> 00:10:58,280 He is the author. He is the finisher. 151 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:03,600 He's the author of all the words of the prophets and of Moses. 152 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:07,320 He knows the context. Amen. 153 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:09,400 He's like, you've been interpreting this wrong. 154 00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:13,320 This is what I meant when I said, and this is what I meant 155 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:16,200 when I said, Now I've authored 8 books myself. 156 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:19,160 And if you want to know what I mean when I talk about something 157 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:21,360 in the book, well, you don't have to go to your neighbor. 158 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:23,560 You don't have to find somebody else and say, what do you think 159 00:11:23,560 --> 00:11:25,360 the author meant? All you got to do is set a 160 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:29,240 meeting with me and I'll say this is exactly what I meant 161 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:31,840 when I said it. So that's why Jesus said, you've 162 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:33,440 heard the ancient say, thou shalt. 163 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:36,640 But I say unto you, let me give you the right interpretation. 164 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:44,960 I am the author, Amen. And so Jesus is here in this 165 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:55,160 moment, no sin, yet is not publicly preaching, because for 166 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:58,560 him to step out and do what God's called him to do as a man 167 00:11:58,920 --> 00:12:02,280 of what God intended, is that he would have the Spirit of God 168 00:12:02,280 --> 00:12:05,800 upon him, Amen. Because he is, he emptied 169 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:10,440 himself up his God of being God, and he says I am going to 170 00:12:10,440 --> 00:12:16,720 function as a man, as the first Adam was supposed to anointed of 171 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:20,120 God. So when he comes in on John the 172 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:25,000 Baptist here, he tells him it's been written that this event is 173 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:28,720 to occur and I only fulfill God's word. 174 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:31,520 That's right. That's why he said you need to 175 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:34,080 baptize me. And John's like really, I should 176 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:35,440 baptize you. Remember what John was 177 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:38,280 preaching? He said I am not worthy to even 178 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:41,640 untie the man sandals when he shows up, the Messiah that's 179 00:12:41,640 --> 00:12:45,840 coming, the King of Israel, the lamb that will take away the 180 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:49,120 sins of the world. I'm not even worthy to unlace 181 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:52,520 his sandals. And I'm baptizing you with 182 00:12:52,520 --> 00:12:56,080 water, but he's going to baptize you with a Holy Ghost and fire. 183 00:12:56,760 --> 00:13:01,200 Whoa, glory to God. However, Jesus says, cannot do 184 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:04,520 what you're wanting me to do, because I need to yield and 185 00:13:04,520 --> 00:13:10,080 submit to my Father's word. I must go into the earth 186 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:15,600 preaching the Kingdom as a man anointed of God. 187 00:13:17,760 --> 00:13:20,920 And so he says we must do what Father said. 188 00:13:21,360 --> 00:13:25,920 He yielded to that submission. John baptized him, and as he 189 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:30,160 came up in faith, this was a faith project. 190 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:33,800 He was believing God was going to anoint him because the Father 191 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:36,960 said, this is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased. 192 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:41,240 There's a word associated with faith, for without faith it's 193 00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:44,280 impossible to. So if the Lord says he's 194 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:47,080 pleased, guess what? He's acknowledging you are a 195 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:49,920 person of faith. Let me say this, I heard a 196 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:53,520 minister say it this way. He said, you know, God never 197 00:13:53,520 --> 00:13:58,600 called, said he was proud of his son because to be proud is to 198 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:03,640 have pride and God has no pride. But the greatest thing that a 199 00:14:04,040 --> 00:14:07,240 parent can say to their child is I am well pleased. 200 00:14:08,280 --> 00:14:10,560 And this is what he said. He said and say, this is my 201 00:14:10,560 --> 00:14:12,120 beloved son and whom I'm proud of. 202 00:14:12,560 --> 00:14:14,280 He said, this is my beloved son and whom I am. 203 00:14:14,280 --> 00:14:20,160 Well, He's following me at my word because my word is life. 204 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:24,000 Hallelujah. And so we can learn a few things 205 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:28,160 from this passage of Scripture that is repetitive in our life. 206 00:14:28,560 --> 00:14:32,400 And that is Jesus did not come to show you what God can do. 207 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:39,160 Jesus came to show you what you can do, what man was destined to 208 00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:44,080 do from the beginning. Again, Jesus came to take away 209 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:49,080 the sins of the world, but that's not the only reason He 210 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:52,120 has to take away the sins of the world because the sins of the 211 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:55,880 world is what's hindering you from being what God originally 212 00:14:55,880 --> 00:14:59,240 intended you to be. See, we have we, if we don't 213 00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:03,280 watch out, we can make the gospel in our own minds about 214 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:07,720 taking away our sin. Well, why are we taking away the 215 00:15:07,720 --> 00:15:10,280 sin? What's the purpose for the sin 216 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:12,920 to be taken away? Well, we jump one and say, well, 217 00:15:12,920 --> 00:15:14,400 it's to have a relationship with God. 218 00:15:14,520 --> 00:15:17,200 Well, what kind of relationship then do we have? 219 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:20,240 You understand, we have to keep asking these questions because 220 00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:22,400 there's more to it than just relationship. 221 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:25,720 Because again, if it's just relationship, well, I can kind 222 00:15:25,720 --> 00:15:29,600 of wait to have the fullness of that relationship when I go to 223 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:32,360 heaven where God is. But when I realized it's not 224 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:36,240 just about relationship, it's about sonship, it's about 225 00:15:36,240 --> 00:15:38,960 destiny. It's about what I was destined 226 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:41,800 to be from the beginning. And that is God said, let us 227 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:44,560 make man in our image according to our likeness and let him have 228 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:48,720 dominion where on the earth, not in heaven, but on earth. 229 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:53,640 And so I'm not forfeiting my destiny by waiting to go 230 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:56,080 somewhere. I'm able to walk in it today, 231 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:59,320 and Jesus demonstrated how we could. 232 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:07,000 Now Jesus shows this demonstration right out the gate 233 00:16:08,960 --> 00:16:12,400 of what we would face. The first thing we can learn in 234 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:16,080 this passage of Scripture is that outward submission always 235 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:18,720 manifests after inward submission. 236 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:25,880 Now let me give you a lesson on submission because I hear this 237 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:28,760 often. They people say this all the 238 00:16:28,760 --> 00:16:31,640 time. If you agree with someone, 239 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:37,320 you're not submitting. True submission only comes when 240 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:39,960 you disagree. But do it anyway. 241 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:44,480 That is not scriptural. Period. 242 00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:50,960 If that was scriptural, then we could disagree with God, yet do 243 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:55,840 what God says and get a result. But yet that's contrary to faith 244 00:16:55,840 --> 00:16:58,360 because faith is called a firm persuasion. 245 00:16:58,920 --> 00:17:01,200 We are to be firmly persuaded what God said. 246 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:07,480 We cannot hold our own opinion and think we're right, yet do 247 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:13,720 God. This is why Kennethy Hagan was 248 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:17,640 corrected after his first year of leaving the pastorate 249 00:17:17,720 --> 00:17:21,200 ministry and going out on an assignment to teach his feet, 250 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:24,800 teach God's people faith. And he came to the end of the 251 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:27,800 year and he sat down and did a presentation before the Lord 252 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:31,000 according to Isaiah says make bring your case before me. 253 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:35,440 And his case was when I was pastoring, I was prospering, I 254 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:40,600 was doing better and and your word says the the willing and 255 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:42,520 obedient obedient will eat the good of the land. 256 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:46,880 Here I've been on the road doing what you told me to do, yet I'm 257 00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:50,240 not better off. I'm doing worse. 258 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:59,160 So what's the problem? Because Lord, your word says the 259 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:02,680 willing and the obedient will eat the good of the land. 260 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:05,840 And the Lord corrected his non submission. 261 00:18:08,120 --> 00:18:11,240 He said you don't qualify for that verse. 262 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:15,400 And he said he punched me in my spiritual stomach. 263 00:18:16,360 --> 00:18:21,000 He says you've been obedient, but you've not been willing, 264 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:24,640 which means the whole year he was thinking, man, I wish I was 265 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:27,480 pastoring man. It was better back there had the 266 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:30,920 best house we ever had had the best finance we ever had had all 267 00:18:30,920 --> 00:18:34,040 this, but I'm going to obey. So guess what, he was in 268 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:42,960 disagreement with God, yet obey. Jesus does the same thing as 269 00:18:42,960 --> 00:18:46,000 well when he said, you've heard the ancient say, thou shalt not, 270 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:53,160 But I say unto you, you may not be sleeping with that woman, but 271 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:59,560 you want to. Now the outward action is 272 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:07,440 showing that you are not in adultery, but inwardly you want 273 00:19:07,440 --> 00:19:13,000 to be with that Lady. And he says that is punishable 274 00:19:13,360 --> 00:19:16,800 with death. So you understand what true 275 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:21,800 submission is, is that it doesn't mean you can't disagree, 276 00:19:22,120 --> 00:19:25,520 it just means you have to recognize I disagree with God. 277 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:29,200 So I'm going to throw away my thought and now I'm going to 278 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:35,560 fully agree with God. I cast down my thought. 279 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:40,400 I take His thought as my own and now it is my own. 280 00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:42,680 It's as if it originated with me. 281 00:19:42,760 --> 00:19:47,280 I am all I am willing to do. All this is the only plan there 282 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:49,120 is. There is no other idea. 283 00:19:50,080 --> 00:19:53,880 So you abandon all of your thoughts in your way, and you 284 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:57,200 fully accept God's way, and then you act on that. 285 00:19:57,720 --> 00:20:02,680 See, that's why Jesus in the garden said Lord, if there's any 286 00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:07,400 other way. Let this cut pass, but not which 287 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:11,240 means I get willing to totally do it your way. 288 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:17,920 Jesus did not drag a cross down that road saying man, I don't 289 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:21,320 want to do this. No, he settled that I'll get 290 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:24,440 he's three times. I will not take this thought 291 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:27,680 that I shouldn't do it. I will be in full agreement with 292 00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:31,280 my Father. I am totally submitted to him in 293 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:36,360 heart, thought and action. In heart, thought and action, in 294 00:20:36,360 --> 00:20:39,840 heart, thought and action. I am totally submitted. 295 00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:44,040 His way is my way. That is true submission, which 296 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:49,600 means now I am in complete agreement with the Lord. 297 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:55,920 Hallelujah. And so His outward submission 298 00:20:56,240 --> 00:20:58,440 manifested with His inward submission. 299 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:00,800 The second thing we learned is outward submission is the fruit 300 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:04,880 of righteousness. Again, I just heard a minister 301 00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:08,680 or someone say this recently that they had an orange in their 302 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:11,120 hand and would ask questions. You know, what is this an 303 00:21:11,120 --> 00:21:12,640 orange? If I squeezed it, what will I 304 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:14,280 get? Juice. 305 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:15,920 What kind of juice? Will it be orange juice? 306 00:21:16,120 --> 00:21:18,440 Will I ever get pineapple juice out of this? 307 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:19,280 I'll say no. Why? 308 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:22,120 Because it's an orange. And then in essence, no matter 309 00:21:22,120 --> 00:21:24,960 what kind of pressure you put on an orange, you'll always just 310 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:27,800 get orange juice because it will always produce what's on the 311 00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:34,600 inside, right? And so when pressure comes to 312 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:38,160 us, it should only produce what's in US. 313 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:45,000 And we are the righteousness of God in Christ. 314 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:47,840 Are you hearing me? It should not produce a 315 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:50,400 different nature. It should not produce a 316 00:21:50,400 --> 00:22:00,310 different behavior. OK #3 Jesus's work of faith 317 00:22:00,310 --> 00:22:04,870 granted access to power because he was in faith. 318 00:22:04,870 --> 00:22:08,390 Power came, man. When you get in faith, power 319 00:22:08,390 --> 00:22:11,760 shows up. But again, faith is a firm 320 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:16,240 persuasion that God's Word is the only word concerning what 321 00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:23,080 you're facing. And you call that thing as 322 00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:25,840 though it be, not as though it were. 323 00:22:26,120 --> 00:22:29,200 Yet you're firmly persuaded it's exactly as he said. 324 00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:33,960 And when you do that, the power of the Kingdom of God will show 325 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:42,440 up #4 Jesus received power #5 God the Father acknowledges his 326 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:45,360 pleasure of Jesus's seeing obedience. 327 00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:51,320 This is what we're learning here in this first passage, this one 328 00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:53,560 little thing, now this. How does this reflect us? 329 00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:57,280 Can we not do this? Can we have an outward 330 00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:00,240 submission that's a result of us inwardly submitting to God's 331 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:04,960 word? Can we not produce the fruit of 332 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:08,560 righteousness through our obedience that is being seen by 333 00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:12,320 everyone else? Can we not function in faith and 334 00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:16,600 cause power to show up? Do we not receive power from on 335 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:18,040 high? Jesus said don't even be my 336 00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:20,960 witnesses until you receive power from on high. 337 00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:24,000 He wants us anointed. Jesus said the Spirit of the 338 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:27,960 Lord is upon me, for he has, and he wants us anointed with the 339 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:31,240 same anointing. All right, and then God the 340 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:37,160 Father will acknowledge his pleasure in us when we function 341 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:41,080 in that obedience. The next thing we learn is that 342 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:45,800 God the Father recognizes this demonstration as an act of his 343 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:51,960 Son. Romans tells us those who are 344 00:23:52,240 --> 00:24:01,440 led by the Spirit of God, these, let me go over here, those who 345 00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:05,840 are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God. 346 00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:10,240 You know the Bible talks a lot about sons and daughters of God 347 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:13,880 beyond just a salvation confession. 348 00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:22,760 In essence, the Bible informs us that the confession alone is not 349 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:29,120 the only manifestation that they are sons of God or children of 350 00:24:29,120 --> 00:24:32,480 God. If they do have a confession of 351 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:36,800 faith that Christ is Lord of their lives, then guess what? 352 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:42,520 It will demonstrate that they will be led by the Spirit, that 353 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:45,400 their lifestyle will look differently. 354 00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:49,200 There's a list. What we do is we start at one 355 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:53,840 spot that gives us entrance, and then we ignore that all of these 356 00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:59,080 are equal evidences of what took place of a confession of faith. 357 00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:04,800 Yet sometimes we'll discount that being led by the Spirit of 358 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:06,720 God makes your child. No, that doesn't make me a child 359 00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:07,880 of God. I just had to confess. 360 00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:10,320 Well, if you confess then this will happen. 361 00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:16,240 It's not like you can confess and the rest do not happen. 362 00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:24,360 These things come together. In essence, the Bible is showing 363 00:25:24,360 --> 00:25:27,320 to us, if this has occurred, then this will be an evidence. 364 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:30,040 If this has occurred, then this will be an evidence. 365 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:32,480 If this has occurred, then this will be an evidence. 366 00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:35,480 Amen. And so we have to then aspire so 367 00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:39,360 that when we are born again, we would recognize that I am 368 00:25:39,360 --> 00:25:42,960 different, God lives in me, I won't function like the world, 369 00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:45,240 and He's going to train me. So guess what? 370 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:47,720 You're going to actually see something different about me 371 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:52,480 period. Not I asked him into my heart. 372 00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:54,560 Now when I die, get to go to heaven. 373 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:56,640 How I live now is really irrelevant. 374 00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:59,280 The Bible does not support that kind of gospel. 375 00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:04,400 Amen. So the Father recognizes sonship 376 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:08,520 through obedience. He said this is my beloved Son 377 00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:11,800 in whom I'm well please and then the last thing we can learn from 378 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:14,960 this one section. God the Father decreed or 379 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:19,240 declared him to be his son. Well, you want the listen. 380 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:24,560 You cannot arrive to any higher platitude than being known as 381 00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:29,960 God's child cannot. That is the pinnacle of being 382 00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:36,040 known is to be known by the Lord, that your Father in heaven 383 00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:40,200 knows your name. He knows you, He knows 384 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:42,560 everything about you. He knows why you were created. 385 00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:45,000 It is the greatest thing on the face of the planet. 386 00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:47,520 Doesn't matter how many people know you, doesn't matter how 387 00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:49,920 many people in the world know you because they didn't die for 388 00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:51,640 you, they didn't write your story. 389 00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:54,120 They don't know your plan, they don't know anything. 390 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:57,600 The only one that matters is Jesus knowing you, the Father 391 00:26:57,600 --> 00:26:59,440 knowing you, and you being known by him. 392 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:04,560 Because once you've hit that, you're at the pinnacle and if 393 00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:08,640 you walk through life and he was the only one who knew you, you 394 00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:10,360 would have arrived. Now, here's the thing. 395 00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:14,120 If you're known by him that way and you stay wanting to be known 396 00:27:14,120 --> 00:27:16,680 by him that way, well then others are going to know you 397 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:23,160 because you show him. I said you show him Hallelujah. 398 00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:27,880 As Paul said, I must decrease. Or, or as John said, I must 399 00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:33,000 decrease and he must increase. So God expected that we would 400 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:37,520 yield to the Father, we would receive power from the Father, 401 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:41,040 that we would be declared sons of the Father. 402 00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:45,440 Because we have received power, we walk in obedience and we 403 00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:48,560 carry out God's will for our lives. 404 00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:53,840 The minute this moment happens, we then go straight into the 405 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:57,160 temptation of Christ. This is Matthew chapter 3, which 406 00:27:57,160 --> 00:27:59,840 now clips over into Matthew chapter 4 verse one. 407 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:01,840 But I'm not going to read the Matthew account. 408 00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:05,360 I want to go to the Luke account and so go to Luke chapter 4, 409 00:28:05,360 --> 00:28:08,000 same chapter in Luke as in Matthew. 410 00:28:08,120 --> 00:28:11,520 But I want to look at it because it explains one particular 411 00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:15,000 temptation a little bit better than Matthew does. 412 00:28:15,120 --> 00:28:19,840 So Luke chapter 1 or 4 verse one, Jesus full of the Holy 413 00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:21,400 Spirit. Come on, can you be full of the 414 00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:24,320 Holy Spirit? God wants us full of the Holy 415 00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:26,320 Spirit. Amen. 416 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:31,760 So Jesus is showing us how we are in the world like him. 417 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:38,120 And listen, he's not, for He's not even preached his first 418 00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:44,880 public sermon, right? Come on, come on, He's not even 419 00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:46,680 done it. Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, 420 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:51,760 returned from the Jordan and was led around by the Spirit in the 421 00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:55,000 wilderness. So the Spirit of God took him 422 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:58,120 into the wilderness For what purpose? 423 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:03,440 For 40 days, being tempted by the devil. 424 00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:06,120 And he ate nothing during those days. 425 00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:08,000 And when they had ended, he became hungry. 426 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:09,360 Was he hungry? Sure. 427 00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:13,160 You go 40 days without anything, you're going to be most of you 6 428 00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:14,400 hours. You're done, right? 429 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:16,040 Right. We call a fast here. 430 00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:17,720 You're like, Pastor, I only do half a day. 431 00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:20,760 That's it, man. I just can't handle that, right? 432 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:22,760 40 days. He does this all right. 433 00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:26,880 And so we see here that the Spirit of God is not intimidated 434 00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:29,400 with an enemy. Now again, Jesus is encountering 435 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:31,320 an enemy that actually has dominion. 436 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:36,640 When you encounter an enemy, they do not. 437 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:45,120 I mean, what an advantage to us. What an advantage to us. 438 00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:50,520 So here Jesus, full of the Spirit, just had this huge 439 00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:53,200 accolade by God. That's typically how it works. 440 00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:56,240 That's what he's saying. You get a revelation from the 441 00:29:56,240 --> 00:30:03,440 Father concerning you, who you are, what you can identify with, 442 00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:09,120 what's yours, because you are now in the Kingdom the minute He 443 00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:11,080 gives you. And now when I say identity, I'm 444 00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:13,640 talking about all associated with your inheritance. 445 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,520 Because you are a child of God, you can prosper. 446 00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:18,760 Because you are a child of God, you can walk in health and 447 00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:20,160 healing. Because you are a child of God, 448 00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:23,480 you can walk in joy, unspeakable joy and full of glory. 449 00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:28,800 Because you are a child of God, you can have peace that passes 450 00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:31,640 all understanding. Now all those are great shouting 451 00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:34,720 services that we would run around and say great, and then 452 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:39,160 the Spirit of God is out there with you in everyday life and 453 00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:45,240 the enemy would show up and try to tempt you right after the 454 00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:47,960 event. Amen. 455 00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:51,640 Now let's see how Jesus responds to this. 456 00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:54,120 It goes on. And the devil said to him, If 457 00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:57,760 you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread. 458 00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:00,360 And Jesus answered him. It is written, Man shall not 459 00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:03,480 live on bread alone. And he led him up and showed him 460 00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:07,040 all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. 461 00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:10,120 And the devil said, I will give you all this domain and its 462 00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:13,560 glory, for it has been handed over to me, and I will give it 463 00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:15,920 to whomever I wish. Therefore, if you worship me, it 464 00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:18,520 shall all be yours. And Jesus answered him, It is 465 00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:21,480 written twice. He said this, it is written, You 466 00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:26,560 shall worship the Lord your God and serve him what only. 467 00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:28,640 All right, here's what we can learn out of this passage of 468 00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:33,000 Scripture that will identify with us as well as the Son of 469 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:36,880 God. He has the ability to be led by 470 00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:42,000 the Spirit, but as the Son of man, he has the ability to be 471 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:46,520 led by the Spirit because Jesus said I'm the Son of man. 472 00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:51,240 So he is a man anointed of God. He had the capacity to be led by 473 00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:52,840 the Spirit of God. Guess what? 474 00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:55,280 We have the capacity to be led by the Spirit of God. 475 00:31:55,600 --> 00:32:01,480 Quit saying I cannot hear God. You can. 476 00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:04,720 If you're born of God, you can hear God. 477 00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:09,080 So quit saying I cannot hear accurately if you're not 478 00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:13,120 hearing, you're saying I choose not to because the Bible is very 479 00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:16,920 clear. His voice we will follow and 480 00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:22,440 another we will not. He's very clear if we seek him. 481 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:25,960 We will hear from Him if we ask it to be given. 482 00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:27,720 If we knock, the doors going to be open. 483 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:32,560 So there's no problem with us being able to be led by the 484 00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:37,760 Spirit of God. This is a natural occurrence for 485 00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:41,080 those who are children of God. Are you hearing me? 486 00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:43,680 This is natural. No problem. 487 00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:47,240 OK. As the Son of man, he has the 488 00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:51,320 duty to obey and act on the leading of the Spirit. 489 00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:56,120 I'm going to say that again. As a son of man who's anointed 490 00:32:56,120 --> 00:33:02,880 of God, he has the duty to respond and act but on the 491 00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:04,680 Spirit of God in the word of God. 492 00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:08,920 So when the Spirit says go this way, it's his duty. 493 00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:13,040 It's part of the relationship. He doesn't tell the father I'm 494 00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:19,640 not going there. He doesn't do this because a 495 00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:27,600 child of God will go because I am completely obedient and in 496 00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:30,600 agreement with my Father's plan for my life. 497 00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:36,520 As He reveals it, I follow it. His word is a lamp into my feet, 498 00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:40,240 a light into my path. I'm going to carry it out, do it 499 00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:43,360 and it alone. Because again, no matter where 500 00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:47,880 the Spirit leads you, there's only one result, Victory. 501 00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:53,440 I said victory. If you don't follow the Spirit, 502 00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:58,600 you're guaranteed defeat because the Spirit produces life. 503 00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:02,800 It has no problem going through the valley of the shadow of 504 00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:06,440 death. No problem. 505 00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:12,960 It's not intimidated by a valley of the shadow of death because 506 00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:16,040 again, it's a shadow and it's not even real. 507 00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:19,199 And he'll carry you all the way through. 508 00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:24,520 Thank you, Jesus. The next thing we learn is this. 509 00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:27,320 The enemy will always attack your identity. 510 00:34:28,679 --> 00:34:34,520 First thing the enemy says, if you are now, he just heard, and 511 00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:37,040 I'm not talking loud speakers, I'm talking from heaven. 512 00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:41,040 This thunderous supernatural experience. 513 00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:46,320 Jesus hears from heaven. This is my beloved Son in whom 514 00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:48,880 I'm well pleased. And the first words out of the 515 00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:54,920 enemy's mouth is, Are you sure you are who you think you are? 516 00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:02,640 And you know as well as I do that is always the question. 517 00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:08,000 You question yourself, which means God's not saying that. 518 00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:11,120 I said God's not saying that to you. 519 00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:15,200 That is the voice of the enemy to question your ability, to 520 00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:18,080 question who you are, to question what you can do. 521 00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:21,440 This is what this is what he does. 522 00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:26,000 And so we have to recognize that a man anointed of God is going 523 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:29,480 to have an enemy come and challenge who we are. 524 00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:34,400 But the enemy's a liar. This is literally the devil. 525 00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:37,640 He is the father of lies. He's been a liar from the 526 00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:39,360 beginning. He's a liar. 527 00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:42,080 So the many he says, and I'm not sure you can do that. 528 00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:45,160 You're like, thank you for guaranteeing I can. 529 00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:52,160 Thank you for giving me confirmation. 530 00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:54,320 I don't need the devil to confirm, but if he opens his 531 00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:55,800 mouth, he confirms a lot of stuff. 532 00:35:57,200 --> 00:35:59,360 Amen. I mean, believers get more 533 00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:02,880 confirmation from the devil if they would actually listen to it 534 00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:04,800 the right way and know it's just a bunch of lies. 535 00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:05,800 Well, you're not going to be healed. 536 00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:08,040 This is going to take you out. Well, thank you for letting me 537 00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:11,200 know it is guaranteed I am healed. 538 00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:15,600 Woo, because you know how it comes in, they come into the 539 00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:18,000 room, the doctor says, oh man, this is a bad case. 540 00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:20,520 This is bit man. I don't man, I don't know. 541 00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:24,360 You're like thank you Lord for the guarantee. 542 00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:28,160 Now that mean you're ignoring the symptoms. 543 00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:32,000 You're just going to the source. Hallelujah. 544 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,800 And so we see here that the enemy will come and attack your 545 00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:36,880 dinner. You know what else the enemy 546 00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:39,720 will do? Because once you won't succumb 547 00:36:39,720 --> 00:36:45,400 to an identity crisis, then he will always attempt you to 548 00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:48,160 accomplish the purpose of God without God. 549 00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:56,200 That's good. And this was replicated. 550 00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:58,800 What Jesus encountered happened in the garden. 551 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:06,360 He came into the garden and began asking questions. 552 00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:09,120 What has God said? Because he's got to find out 553 00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:11,480 truth in order to do to fabricate a lie. 554 00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:17,280 And in essence he convinces Adam and Eve that you can fulfill the 555 00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:19,600 purpose God has for your life without him. 556 00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:27,560 You can have dominion without him, you can reign without him. 557 00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:34,240 He's actually holding stuff from you and you would reign better 558 00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:36,480 without him. Oh y'all don't want to hear 559 00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:42,840 this? The devil knows that the devil 560 00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:44,880 knows. Genesis chapter 3. 561 00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:51,320 He was there when the Lord came down and did not snatch it out 562 00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:55,280 of his hands because he could not legally do that. 563 00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:58,440 He had given dominion to man. Let us make man in our image 564 00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:01,360 according to our likeness, and let them have rule or dominion. 565 00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:05,200 So man lost dominion. God's like the dominion. 566 00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:10,080 The way to rule Earth has now been turned over or handed over 567 00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:13,320 his he just said in Luke chapter 4 to the devil. 568 00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:18,920 Well, it's man's right to give away what I gave him. 569 00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:23,040 Now the planet God still owns, but how it's managed, how it 570 00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:26,040 function has been given. That dominion has been given to 571 00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:31,320 the father of lies. And man now is separated from 572 00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:36,480 God. He's dead now. 573 00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:39,880 God's in the dilemma as we know, which is really not a dilemma 574 00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:42,200 because he always does what he says he do. 575 00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:45,720 So he comes down before he even done any of this stuff. 576 00:38:45,720 --> 00:38:47,200 He already knew this would occur. 577 00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:51,480 And he says this. He says what I said about man is 578 00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:54,760 going to happen. It is available now. 579 00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:57,320 Whether man ever accepts it or not, that's on him. 580 00:38:57,520 --> 00:39:01,400 But he'll never stand before my throne, knowing that he could 581 00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:02,760 not be back. What? 582 00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:06,000 To the place that I originally sent him, and that is to have 583 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:09,280 dominion on the earth. Won't happen. 584 00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:12,400 I'm obligated to my word. So what I'm going to do is I'm 585 00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:16,680 sending another man. I'm sending another man. 586 00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:19,480 This man will not come from Adam. 587 00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:22,320 This man will come by the Holy Ghost. 588 00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:24,440 He'll come out of the Virgin Lady. 589 00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:29,440 Humanity will not help this child suit be born, but the Holy 590 00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:33,800 Ghost will impregnate her. And I'll put my own son in that 591 00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:38,640 skin suit, and I'll anoint him like my first Adam, and he'll 592 00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:43,640 function in that dominion. Oh my gosh, Because then he will 593 00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:47,560 conquer you, devil. He is going to crush your head. 594 00:39:47,720 --> 00:39:50,200 He's going to take the dominion you just got. 595 00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:53,960 He's taking it back. And all that time, the devil was 596 00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:56,400 looking for a kid, looking for a child. 597 00:39:56,440 --> 00:39:59,680 This is why they're killing babies constantly all through 598 00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:03,400 the Bible, trying to get rid of this child that's coming, that's 599 00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:06,560 going to take this dominion. He knows it's not God. 600 00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:11,160 It's a man of God coming, anointed of God, and it's going 601 00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:12,280 to take it. He knows. 602 00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:15,040 God is sending his son. My gosh, he's coming after me. 603 00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:20,760 So here's Jesus, anointed of God. 604 00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:24,480 The devil was not there at the baptism people. 605 00:40:26,240 --> 00:40:30,800 He doesn't hear the voice of God, but yet he's getting 606 00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:34,280 rumblings. The devil's not omnipotent, all 607 00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:37,240 knowing we we have put him on a level like he knows everything. 608 00:40:37,240 --> 00:40:39,440 He knows he does not know like God. 609 00:40:40,720 --> 00:40:44,800 So now he's discovering there's another guy out here that people 610 00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:48,160 are professing and thinking he may be the Messiah. 611 00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:56,520 I've been hearing this John the Baptist talk about him and 612 00:40:56,520 --> 00:41:00,520 people saying this something. So we'll just cut this guy off 613 00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:06,800 before he does anything. And so the Spirit brings him to 614 00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:09,920 a place. In essence, the devil really 615 00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:12,360 didn't find Jesus. The Spirit found the devil. 616 00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:17,280 Let's just get this party started now. 617 00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:24,280 I mean, we've had like, the devil's coming after us and, you 618 00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:27,560 know, he can try to pursue, which I'm doing a study on that 619 00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:31,200 at this point, only nine people have had an encounter with Satan 620 00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:35,160 himself. On our planet right now there 621 00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:41,320 are 8.1 billion people and none of them are in this list right 622 00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:47,240 now. My point is, is if the history 623 00:41:47,240 --> 00:41:51,920 book that we have 9 documented cases of where the devil himself 624 00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:55,320 came to attack, please don't flatter yourself to think that 625 00:41:55,320 --> 00:42:00,760 the devil's coming to your house, your flesh number one 626 00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:03,480 will beat you. And if as long as your flesh is 627 00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:06,920 dominating, the devil doesn't even have to send a demon, 628 00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:10,840 another spirit, a familiar spirit and unclean that spent 629 00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:14,280 send anything else. So until you conquer the flesh, 630 00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:16,280 no spirits are coming. Now here's the thing, it doesn't 631 00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:19,520 matter if they come or not because when you know who you 632 00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:21,480 are, doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if Satan shows 633 00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:23,880 up. I just want you to know he's not 634 00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:27,960 running around as much as believers give him credit for in 635 00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:30,560 their testimony services. Man, the devil's been after me. 636 00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:36,040 Probably wasn't him. Probably wasn't him. 637 00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:38,800 In fact, it was not him. Let's just be honest. 638 00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:45,520 It wasn't him, all right. But here we see that Jesus by 639 00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:51,120 the Spirit encounters the devil, of which number 1, he is 640 00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:55,560 challenged in who he is as God's child. 641 00:42:56,720 --> 00:43:00,640 Then #2 he says, what if you are? 642 00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:05,760 I know what you're after. You've come for the dominion. 643 00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:09,520 I'll show it to you. Let me show it all. 644 00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:12,520 Look at all these kingdoms. Look at it now. 645 00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:15,120 Look, we can settle this right now. 646 00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:19,720 I don't know what God's told you you have to do, but we can cut 647 00:43:19,720 --> 00:43:21,000 to the check. I'll give it to you. 648 00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:28,640 I cannot tell you how many believers the perp. 649 00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:32,600 This is why that is so tempting, because the devil taps into 650 00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:37,800 things that you know you're destined for, that you 651 00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:43,680 articulate that destiny that these spirits recognize, and 652 00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:46,920 then all of a sudden, because he's good manipulator, he'll 653 00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:52,880 pull you to deploy these gifts. But not with God. 654 00:43:58,700 --> 00:44:02,360 Happens all the time. Well, I believe God. 655 00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:04,480 God probably is. But you know what? 656 00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:07,280 The Bible is very clear of a process of how God works, what 657 00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:11,200 He does, how He does it. God never puts you to do 658 00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:14,120 something for him and split something else. 659 00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:20,920 God doesn't do that. God multiplies in his Kingdom. 660 00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:26,640 He's not splitting. OK, I'll say that again. 661 00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:31,360 He doesn't move you to your purpose to split. 662 00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:34,760 I heard, just heard one minister, I think it was Pastor 663 00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:37,160 Chase had sent it to me. Somebody was talking about, you 664 00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:39,680 know, these people think that they have these ministries and 665 00:44:39,680 --> 00:44:41,920 then they go and in essence, they just split churches. 666 00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:44,240 And how do they think God is in that? 667 00:44:45,720 --> 00:44:50,200 God splitting his own church up. God's adding to the church 668 00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:53,200 daily. Now a lot of them are being 669 00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:55,840 tempted by the devil saying, oh, you want to do this? 670 00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:58,600 Is this what you? Yeah, let me give it to you. 671 00:44:58,600 --> 00:45:00,280 But guess what? They're giving it to them 672 00:45:00,280 --> 00:45:04,640 without God. This is why Paul had to address 673 00:45:04,640 --> 00:45:08,440 this specifically. He said, look, when I leave, 674 00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:12,160 this is an axe to the church at Ephesus. 675 00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:17,080 He said now when I go some among you are going to come in as 676 00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:19,600 savage wolves. And he was talking to the 677 00:45:19,600 --> 00:45:23,520 church, to the church at Ephesus, the elders, the 678 00:45:23,520 --> 00:45:26,960 leaders, it says some of you are going to come in like savage 679 00:45:26,960 --> 00:45:29,120 world, not sparing the flock. Why? 680 00:45:29,120 --> 00:45:33,440 Because they had selfish ambition drawing people, because 681 00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:35,360 the enemy said you're such a good teacher. 682 00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:37,400 You know what you should let you should start this class. 683 00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:39,200 You know, you should start your own ministry and start your own 684 00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:40,440 teaching. You should do this. 685 00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:42,200 You're like, you know, I do the believe I'm called. 686 00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:49,120 But now guess what you're doing? You're doing it without him and 687 00:45:49,120 --> 00:45:52,040 the enemy wanted this for Jesus. He said, I'll give you the 688 00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:54,960 kingdoms, don't worry about it. But what did Jesus say? 689 00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:57,960 I said, what did Jesus say? It is written. 690 00:45:58,840 --> 00:46:02,080 It is written. I'm only going to do it God's 691 00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:04,440 way. There's only one way to do this 692 00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:07,920 is to do it his way because when Jesus said you shall worship the 693 00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:11,200 Lord your God and serve him, only worship is not singing. 694 00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:13,680 Again, we've said this and it's really a tradition. 695 00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:18,320 We say praise and but it's not. It's just praise people. 696 00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:22,160 It's only praise. A fast song and a slow song are 697 00:46:22,160 --> 00:46:25,720 all praise. Worship literally means to bow 698 00:46:25,720 --> 00:46:33,160 down and submit to now you can worship God by singing because 699 00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:38,000 if God saying sing to me, your worship is the obedience part. 700 00:46:38,080 --> 00:46:46,200 The singing is actually praise. If you take a different position 701 00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:49,960 or different job and you don't sing about it, you're 702 00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:52,600 worshiping. If God told you to take the 703 00:46:52,600 --> 00:46:54,680 other position. Well, I worshiped the Lord 704 00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:55,800 today. How's that? 705 00:46:55,800 --> 00:47:00,520 I quit my job to go start another and singing a song was 706 00:47:00,520 --> 00:47:03,080 not required. So what the devil? 707 00:47:03,160 --> 00:47:09,120 What Jesus is saying here, I will only yield my life to God. 708 00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:11,840 He's the only one I'm in obedience to and I'll serve Him 709 00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:15,520 only. So your plan to accomplish God's 710 00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:18,800 plan is not my plan. I only do His plan. 711 00:47:20,120 --> 00:47:25,480 No shortcuts here, none. Thank you Jesus. 712 00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:30,200 The next thing we learn is you can always resist temptation if 713 00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:39,440 you never forget who you are. And the Bible tells that Jesus 714 00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:42,120 was tempted on all accounts like us. 715 00:47:42,120 --> 00:47:44,680 Yet why? Because he never forgot who he 716 00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:47,880 was. And if you don't forget who you 717 00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:52,600 are in his Kingdom, then it doesn't matter The temptation is 718 00:47:52,600 --> 00:47:55,760 he relevant? You can always resist. 719 00:47:57,280 --> 00:48:00,040 And the last thing we can learn is this is that the Son of God 720 00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:03,400 or the Son of Man always responds from the source of the 721 00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:06,040 written word, not his circumstances or feeling. 722 00:48:07,400 --> 00:48:10,720 He did not say, he says, you know what, why don't you turn 723 00:48:10,720 --> 00:48:13,440 this bread into or this these stones into bread? 724 00:48:13,720 --> 00:48:16,440 He didn't say, jeez, I am starving. 725 00:48:16,440 --> 00:48:21,440 Wow, I'm so hungry. He didn't have a conversation 726 00:48:21,440 --> 00:48:25,960 with the devil about his hunger. He immediately jumped in. 727 00:48:25,960 --> 00:48:28,800 It is written. And this is the problem is that 728 00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:33,160 we have allowed this tradition now to show up in the church 729 00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:38,480 called being real, right? Well, I just got to be real. 730 00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:42,440 And so we talked about how we really feel. 731 00:48:43,080 --> 00:48:44,960 Jesus didn't talk about how he really felt. 732 00:48:45,080 --> 00:48:47,960 He said it is written now. Is he hungry? 733 00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:49,320 Yes. And this is what the church 734 00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:52,480 needs to elevate to. You don't need to know all of my 735 00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:57,800 hard stuff to know I'm going through something because we've 736 00:48:57,800 --> 00:49:01,280 all are going to be tempted. There's none of us that are not 737 00:49:01,280 --> 00:49:03,720 going to have some kind of trial or tribulation. 738 00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:05,480 We're all going to have an issue. 739 00:49:05,640 --> 00:49:07,960 All you need to know is did I win? 740 00:49:09,920 --> 00:49:12,760 And if I'm, if you look at my life, you think, my gosh, it 741 00:49:12,760 --> 00:49:14,680 seems like he never goes through anything. 742 00:49:15,480 --> 00:49:22,960 Well, that's false. But if it seems as if, then that 743 00:49:22,960 --> 00:49:28,040 means I'm saying it is written, it is written, it is written, it 744 00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:30,000 is written. And man, I'll be honest with 745 00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:33,400 you, anytime that I have not done that or I've said, yeah, 746 00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:34,640 it's been tough. You know what? 747 00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:39,360 I, I, I wish I could take those words back because I don't need 748 00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:42,160 you to identify with my humanity. 749 00:49:42,560 --> 00:49:45,080 We need to identify with the word and word alone. 750 00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:48,320 I mean, when are we going to rise as a church and get past 751 00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:53,080 the petty feelings and the common struggles that we know we 752 00:49:53,080 --> 00:49:55,480 all have and just ride to the word? 753 00:49:55,600 --> 00:50:00,240 Why don't we go and say, listen, I got a situation going on in 754 00:50:00,240 --> 00:50:03,720 this particular scripture I'm dealing with that I to overcome. 755 00:50:03,880 --> 00:50:06,480 Can you speak some more of that in my life? 756 00:50:06,600 --> 00:50:08,720 Well, that lets me know you going through something, but I 757 00:50:08,720 --> 00:50:10,600 don't have to talk about what you going through. 758 00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:19,560 And that doesn't make me unreal. I mean, it's more real that I 759 00:50:19,560 --> 00:50:22,640 would identify with God. Then I identify with my flesh, 760 00:50:22,640 --> 00:50:28,640 my hurts and my feelings that I identify that I struggle like 761 00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:31,440 everybody else. I mean, if you ain't figured 762 00:50:31,440 --> 00:50:33,680 that out, I mean, we are in a pathetic place. 763 00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:37,880 What we need to do is be able to get around those that are like, 764 00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:39,680 where are you going? What are you doing? 765 00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:41,280 How you overcome it? What is this? 766 00:50:41,320 --> 00:50:43,200 What's that? If you praise, let's go ahead 767 00:50:43,200 --> 00:50:44,200 and sing. How about a shout? 768 00:50:44,200 --> 00:50:50,320 Let's do this because that's where the victory lies, not in 769 00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:52,920 the complaint struggle. I just got to be real with you. 770 00:50:52,920 --> 00:51:00,050 It's hard, Pastor. You're doing all right. 771 00:51:00,130 --> 00:51:04,370 I'm overcoming. That's all you need to know. 772 00:51:06,290 --> 00:51:10,330 That's all anyone has to know. Well, how can I agree with you 773 00:51:10,330 --> 00:51:12,890 on your overcoming then? Because that's all that matters 774 00:51:13,090 --> 00:51:16,210 is to get to that place, not to Waller. 775 00:51:22,240 --> 00:51:26,760 Jesus's response was It is written, it is written, it is 776 00:51:26,760 --> 00:51:29,640 written, it is written. The only time Jesus started to 777 00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:32,440 show any a little bit of feeling is when he made these comments. 778 00:51:34,240 --> 00:51:36,000 How much longer must I suffer with thee? 779 00:51:39,920 --> 00:51:43,600 Right, because they were talking circumstance, situations, 780 00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:47,440 issues. Really. 781 00:51:47,560 --> 00:51:51,920 You think it's about food. I mean, you're like thinking, 782 00:51:51,920 --> 00:51:53,720 I'm talking to you about real bread here. 783 00:51:53,920 --> 00:51:57,960 I mean, I'm talking about the leaven of the Pharisees, guys. 784 00:51:57,960 --> 00:52:00,520 I mean, how much longer is this going to be that you're not 785 00:52:00,760 --> 00:52:03,920 pressing to keep your thoughts at a higher level? 786 00:52:03,920 --> 00:52:08,000 That's good. The place where victory comes 787 00:52:09,240 --> 00:52:10,680 second. Corinthians 517. 788 00:52:10,680 --> 00:52:13,200 We're closing up with this. Therefore, if anyone is in 789 00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:16,480 Christ, he's a new creature, right? 790 00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:19,760 The old things pass away. Behold all things. 791 00:52:19,760 --> 00:52:21,680 Why we want to talk about old things all the time. 792 00:52:22,240 --> 00:52:24,720 Talking about old things don't make you relevant or make you 793 00:52:24,720 --> 00:52:27,120 real. The real person is the new me, 794 00:52:27,440 --> 00:52:31,320 the new me, the new in Christ. That's the real me that's real. 795 00:52:31,480 --> 00:52:35,240 The other's dead. It's been evicted up out of this 796 00:52:35,240 --> 00:52:39,400 skin suit. Therefore, if anyone is in 797 00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:41,760 Christ, he is a new creature. How many? 798 00:52:41,760 --> 00:52:44,280 You're in Christ. So guess what? 799 00:52:44,640 --> 00:52:47,640 The if is no longer a question for you. 800 00:52:47,760 --> 00:52:52,600 You can just say I am in Christ. Now let's read a couple other 801 00:52:52,600 --> 00:52:55,840 translations real quick. The amplified says it this way. 802 00:52:56,080 --> 00:53:00,800 It says, therefore, if anyone is in Christ that is engrafted and 803 00:53:00,800 --> 00:53:04,560 joined to Him by faith in Him as Savior, he is a new creature, 804 00:53:04,720 --> 00:53:07,840 new, reborn and renewed by the Holy Spirit. 805 00:53:07,840 --> 00:53:10,480 The old things, the previous moral and spiritual condition 806 00:53:10,560 --> 00:53:13,080 have passed away. Behold, new things have come 807 00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:17,440 because spiritual awakening has a brings a new life. 808 00:53:17,600 --> 00:53:22,040 The NLV NLT says it this way. This means that anyone who 809 00:53:22,040 --> 00:53:24,080 belongs to Christ has become a new person. 810 00:53:24,240 --> 00:53:27,200 The old life is gone. A new life has begun. 811 00:53:29,440 --> 00:53:32,480 Amen. This temptation of Christ, He 812 00:53:32,480 --> 00:53:35,560 cycled it after he defeated the devil. 813 00:53:36,040 --> 00:53:38,920 The temptation, it was the same issue. 814 00:53:39,040 --> 00:53:41,760 He ran across similar things. Now all of a sudden it's 815 00:53:41,760 --> 00:53:45,680 Pharisees and it's Sadducees. It's the religious same thing, 816 00:53:45,680 --> 00:53:49,240 questioning who he is, questioning his ability, trying 817 00:53:49,240 --> 00:53:52,680 to get him to abandon, but he stayed with it is written, this 818 00:53:52,680 --> 00:53:55,320 is the word, this is the word, and he conquered, went to the 819 00:53:55,320 --> 00:53:59,240 next trial, whatever it was, same thing, nothing different. 820 00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:03,440 He was tempted on multiple occasions through his life to 821 00:54:03,440 --> 00:54:07,080 abandon and then his purpose. But in all times he said it is 822 00:54:07,080 --> 00:54:09,600 written, it is written, it is written. 823 00:54:10,560 --> 00:54:13,480 This is how he overcame. No different with us. 824 00:54:13,480 --> 00:54:16,360 The minute you win a faith battle, there's another 825 00:54:16,360 --> 00:54:19,680 opportunity for you to get somewhere else which the enemy 826 00:54:19,680 --> 00:54:22,920 will attack, attack your identity, try to get you to go 827 00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:27,320 down a purpose without God. But you just have to write and 828 00:54:27,320 --> 00:54:31,880 say it is written, it is written, it is written, and you 829 00:54:31,880 --> 00:54:36,080 overcome. It's a cycle of life, 'cause as 830 00:54:36,080 --> 00:54:45,120 He is, so are we. It's a cycle of life in this 831 00:54:45,120 --> 00:54:47,800 life. But you can reign, you can 832 00:54:47,800 --> 00:54:53,680 overcome every time because you keep your ear to the Spirit and 833 00:54:53,680 --> 00:54:56,720 only say what the Father's saying, and then you'll have 834 00:54:56,720 --> 00:54:59,000 what the Father says. The remedy says it this way. 835 00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:03,720 If anyone who has joined their heart in unity with Christ 836 00:55:03,720 --> 00:55:07,640 receives regeneration of character and has created a new 837 00:55:07,640 --> 00:55:12,400 to be like Christ, the old selfish characters replaced with 838 00:55:12,400 --> 00:55:19,600 a new Christ like character, it would be a fake for me to live 839 00:55:19,600 --> 00:55:29,080 fleshly. It would be a fake for me to 840 00:55:29,120 --> 00:55:33,840 identify with my emotions, flesh, and circumstance because 841 00:55:33,840 --> 00:55:42,000 the new me is in Christ. It's the old me, but they're 842 00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:50,080 dead, so I wouldn't actually be real if I discussed them. 843 00:55:51,400 --> 00:55:55,720 I would be fake because if I'm in Christ then I don't talk that 844 00:55:55,720 --> 00:55:59,480 way. Oh, it's a good word. 845 00:55:59,480 --> 00:56:02,560 All right. First Peter chapter 4, verses 14 846 00:56:02,560 --> 00:56:06,280 to 19. And we'll bring it home as 847 00:56:06,280 --> 00:56:09,320 obedient children. Come on. 848 00:56:09,320 --> 00:56:12,440 As what? This is what Jesus did. 849 00:56:13,080 --> 00:56:17,080 It's it's required. It is the standard. 850 00:56:17,640 --> 00:56:24,200 It is not subject to negotiation as he is. 851 00:56:24,440 --> 00:56:30,120 And what was He first obedient? What does God love more than 852 00:56:30,120 --> 00:56:33,440 sacrifice? Thank you. 853 00:56:34,800 --> 00:56:39,200 The reason Jesus is our sacrifice is because He was 854 00:56:39,200 --> 00:56:45,520 obedient as obedient children. Do not be conformed to the 855 00:56:45,520 --> 00:56:48,840 former lust which were yours in your ignorance. 856 00:56:49,800 --> 00:56:55,840 But like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in 857 00:56:55,840 --> 00:57:04,480 all your behavior, because it is written, it is written, it is 858 00:57:04,480 --> 00:57:09,960 written, you shall be holy. For I'm holy, and He made you 859 00:57:09,960 --> 00:57:11,960 that way. You didn't do this, He did that. 860 00:57:12,080 --> 00:57:17,520 So be what He made you, if you address as Father the One who 861 00:57:17,520 --> 00:57:20,320 impartially judges according to each one's work. 862 00:57:20,600 --> 00:57:25,520 Conduct yourself in fear during the time you stay on the earth. 863 00:57:25,520 --> 00:57:30,920 One translation says reverential fear, knowing that you were not 864 00:57:30,920 --> 00:57:35,120 redeemed with perishable things like silver and gold from your 865 00:57:35,120 --> 00:57:38,880 futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, but with 866 00:57:38,880 --> 00:57:45,200 the precious blood as of a lamb, unblemished and spotless, the 867 00:57:45,200 --> 00:57:47,360 blood of Christ. You know what the blood of 868 00:57:47,360 --> 00:57:52,360 Christ did for us? It made us a new creature once 869 00:57:52,360 --> 00:57:57,560 we accepted Him as Lord, and then He anointed us, and it made 870 00:57:57,560 --> 00:58:04,680 us to walk in the earth now as He did so the old's gone. 871 00:58:05,760 --> 00:58:12,120 I'm just new and I discover me every time I'm in the Word and I 872 00:58:12,120 --> 00:58:16,200 always win because he always won.