1 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:27,440 Matthew chapter 4 verse 17. If I had this message since the 2 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:31,000 beginning of the year and I've been waiting on the Lord to 3 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:35,360 allow me to release this, if you have ears to hear, to change 4 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:38,440 your life. If it doesn't, then you know 5 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:40,120 you're not going to stay with the Lord anyway. 6 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:45,200 So you know, that's kind of how this is going to go. 7 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:49,560 Thinking about that sermon we had back in the day called Let 8 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:51,600 It RIP. You know, that wasn't my sermon, 9 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:55,320 but it was that little analogy. And some things I need to say 10 00:00:55,320 --> 00:01:00,000 today are going to be pretty straightforward because there's 11 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:02,480 a lot going on in the earth today, a lot going on in the 12 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:05,319 realm of the spirit today that many people are getting caught 13 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:07,480 up in, and they're not winning the battle. 14 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:13,960 And the reality is, is that they're falling to opinions and 15 00:01:13,960 --> 00:01:18,520 not even truth. And so when you start living 16 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:22,560 your life based upon opinion about what somebody thinks, you 17 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:25,200 know, then the reality is you're going to get swayed pretty 18 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:28,400 quickly because, you know, there's many ways to do 19 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:39,740 something. OK, There are many ways to put 20 00:01:39,740 --> 00:01:44,980 this shoe on. All right? 21 00:01:46,700 --> 00:01:53,740 One way is to untie it, loosen it, put it down and put your 22 00:01:53,740 --> 00:01:57,140 foot in it. That's one way. 23 00:01:57,780 --> 00:02:01,940 Another way is to bring your foot up like this, like my wife 24 00:02:01,940 --> 00:02:06,120 does, and put it on this way. That kind of hurts my hip 25 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:09,919 flexors right now. And you can tie it from this 26 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:13,760 position or you can tie it from down here. 27 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:20,520 In both of those example examples, I've put my shoe on, 28 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:31,760 or you can do it like I do it, which is there. 29 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:38,600 Now, you may hate my way, you may adamantly disagree with my 30 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:43,480 way, but my way is not wrong. It's my way because there's 31 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:46,160 nothing written in Scripture that says I have to put my shoe 32 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:50,200 on a very specific way. And yet we are finding 33 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:53,560 ourselves, especially here in the last of the last days, that 34 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:56,440 people are going to fall away, not because sin is the issue, 35 00:02:56,440 --> 00:02:58,680 but opinion is becoming dominant. 36 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:02,920 We're in a society where everybody wants it. 37 00:03:02,920 --> 00:03:04,680 How do I know this? Because the Bible says that 38 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:05,920 there's going to be itching ears. 39 00:03:05,920 --> 00:03:10,560 People want to hear what they want to hear, which means. 40 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:17,480 And our, you know, our devices are tailoring that to us. 41 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:20,160 As you know, you know, if you have a smartphone, it's 42 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:23,040 listening to you. And if you talk about certain 43 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:25,760 things and all of a sudden it shows up on your social media 44 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:28,360 stuff, you're like, wow, look, there's an ad for this. 45 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:31,880 We were just talking about that. Well, you understand, you're 46 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:35,680 going to hear that concerning scriptures, people that are out 47 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:37,760 there saying stuff that's not even scriptural. 48 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:42,280 But if you have an opinion about something without going into 49 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:46,000 scripture or you identify with something on a, on an opinion 50 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:49,040 base, then you know the enemy is going to find plenty of 51 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:51,480 opportunities for you to be supported. 52 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:55,480 And so you got to make sure that you abandon opinions and you 53 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:59,360 say, what does the word say? And when we look at Matthew 54 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:02,560 chapter 4, verse 17, it says from this time Jesus began to 55 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:08,760 preach and say very important word repent, say repent. 56 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:12,520 Come on, say repent. Now to say repent. 57 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:15,680 Many people when you hear that you're already in a religious 58 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:19,920 thought process because for most people the word repent is the 59 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:27,160 dominant thinking, is that I need to not sin so that I can 60 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:30,640 accept Jesus, so that when I die I go to heaven. 61 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:33,520 And that's all they think about when they hear the word repent. 62 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:37,960 I need to be born again so when I die I go to heaven. 63 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:41,720 Although Jesus is talking about something that you would be 64 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:47,680 doing on a continual basis because repent is not a 65 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:50,360 religious word. It means change your thinking, 66 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:53,920 and we have to change our thinking about a lot of stuff, 67 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:57,920 not just where are we going to go when we die. 68 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:00,480 In fact, Jesus is not even asking that question. 69 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:06,160 Jesus is like, there's something totally different, more, more 70 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:09,480 important than knowing where you go when you leave your body. 71 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:12,000 In fact, Jesus is addressing death now. 72 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:14,800 He's addressing people who are dead. 73 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:19,120 They're spiritually dead, separated from God. 74 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:23,040 And so he's addressing, listen, if you want the Kingdom, if you 75 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:26,480 want to, to get back in your original position, then you're 76 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:28,680 going to have to change your thinking. 77 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:32,280 Say change my thinking. It's amazing how many Saints 78 00:05:32,280 --> 00:05:36,000 want to change God's thinking. I mean, we're almost like 79 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:41,800 begging God to accept us our way or accept our situation our way, 80 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:44,680 or get us out of our situations our way. 81 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:51,000 Yet Jesus leads his public ministry with this word. 82 00:05:51,520 --> 00:06:00,240 Change your thinking. Notice Jesus's first public 83 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:03,480 address was not you need to be born again. 84 00:06:06,880 --> 00:06:11,440 Because even if a person's born again, if they do not change 85 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:19,160 their thinking. They will live a defeated life 86 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:24,200 in the planet. So Jesus did not come just to 87 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:28,680 save your spirit. He came to revitalize your whole 88 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:33,440 man, spirit, soul and body. Are you hearing me? 89 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:37,840 So from that time Jesus began to preach and say repent for the 90 00:06:37,840 --> 00:06:41,520 Kingdom of heaven as a hand. Change your thinking now. 91 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:44,600 How many people does God wants their thinking changed? 92 00:06:45,840 --> 00:06:50,240 Acts 1730 says it this way. Therefore, having overlooked the 93 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:54,680 times of what? Of what say I was ignorant? 94 00:06:55,520 --> 00:06:57,080 I mean, let's just go ahead and admit it. 95 00:06:57,080 --> 00:07:02,240 We were ignorant and being born again does it instantly make you 96 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:07,400 wise, Nor does it instantly make you have all knowledge and 97 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:13,400 understanding. Being born again gives you 98 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:19,200 access to wisdom, understanding and knowledge, but it requires 99 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:26,800 effort on your part to seek His Word and let His Word transform 100 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:29,040 your thinking. So He says. 101 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:32,680 Having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring 102 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:38,480 to men that how many all people everywhere should repent. 103 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:43,840 Repent. We have to change the way we 104 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:49,440 think now the good news is being born again allows our spirit man 105 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:52,800 to be alive to God where we can hear God's voice. 106 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:57,440 It gives interest to the Holy Spirit inside us, meaning we 107 00:07:57,440 --> 00:08:00,120 become the temple of the Holy Ghost where the Holy Spirit who 108 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:05,680 is our teacher, right? He will reveal truth to us, He 109 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:10,040 will speak to our spirit so that our spirit can tell our soul or 110 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:16,400 our mind change that. And our spirit now has the 111 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:23,840 ability, if we yield, to make our mind change. 112 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:29,320 Our spirit man, if we yield, has the ability to reach within our 113 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:33,799 soul, within our mind and say that thought, do not take it 114 00:08:33,799 --> 00:08:39,679 anymore. This thought hold fast to it. 115 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:43,600 Prior to being born again, we could not do this. 116 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:48,840 We were dead separated from God. We love to do things that were 117 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:52,960 contrary to his word. Paul had this conflict. 118 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:56,000 He said, Ben, I wanted to do good, but I found myself always 119 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:57,960 blowing it. No matter what I did, I found 120 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:00,800 myself not doing it. I was a wretched man in sin. 121 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:02,880 Who will save me? Who will deliver me from this 122 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:06,080 life of sin? But thanks be unto God that he's 123 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:09,000 more than a tribe in Christ. He's given me the necessary 124 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:13,160 tools that when I hear the Holy Ghost within me and He speaks to 125 00:09:13,160 --> 00:09:16,480 me concerning truths from heaven, that now has the power 126 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:21,600 within me to gain access to my mind and break off thoughts that 127 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:24,880 hinder the power and purpose of God from manifesting in my life. 128 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:29,440 All right. And so everyone is to repent. 129 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:36,560 The reality is, is that all of us had prior to Christ, and even 130 00:09:36,560 --> 00:09:42,440 in Christ a negative mindset. Many times we talk it this way. 131 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:47,280 We call it sin consciousness, cause sin is simply disobeying 132 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:49,480 God. Our consciousness of sin, we're 133 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:51,520 always rebelling, going against God. 134 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:53,760 All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. 135 00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:56,600 We are wanting to do it our way. We are independent of God. 136 00:09:56,600 --> 00:10:00,240 We are rebelling from His word. In essence, we're always 137 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:05,160 thinking evil, even when it seems good because there's a way 138 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:09,680 that seems right to a man, but in the end lies death. 139 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:15,600 All right, Albert Barnes, according to this verse, Acts 140 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:18,680 1730. He says this, if God commands 141 00:10:18,680 --> 00:10:24,000 all people to repent, we may observe one that is their duty 142 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:27,480 to do it. There is no higher obligation 143 00:10:27,480 --> 00:10:32,480 than to obey the command of God #2 it can be done. 144 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:39,080 God will not command an impossibility #3 it is binding 145 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:44,000 on all. It is binding on all that all 146 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:47,360 need to what? What does that word mean? 147 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:51,200 So when I say repent, you say change your thinking. 148 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:55,960 When I say repent, you say, when I say repent, you say, That way. 149 00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:59,280 We understand what we're saying here because we're not saying 150 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:04,040 repent, let's get saved. We're saying repent, change your 151 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:11,520 thinking because as a man, so, and if you don't change it, even 152 00:11:11,520 --> 00:11:20,080 though your spirit man may be alive #4 it must be done or the 153 00:11:20,080 --> 00:11:24,800 soul is lost. He said it will not, It will 154 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:28,080 not. It is not safe to neglect a 155 00:11:28,160 --> 00:11:32,880 plain law of God. It will not be well to die 156 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:37,560 reflecting that we have all our lives despised His commands. 157 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:46,240 Hallelujah, you say, Can you despise the word of God and be 158 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:48,640 born again? Well, let's ask Adam. 159 00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:54,040 Adam is not born again, He's born of God. 160 00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:58,440 He's a man without sin. He's a man who's perfect in his 161 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:01,920 body, in his soul, and in his spirit. 162 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:05,600 He is created in the image of God, in the likeness of God. 163 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:10,960 Are you hearing what I'm saying? He has the nature of God. 164 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:16,600 He functions as God of this world, and he was given 165 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:21,200 dominion. Yet someone in another realm 166 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:26,000 rebels against the word of God and God casts him out of his 167 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:29,960 realm. He shows up in the garden and he 168 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:35,840 starts asking questions. He says, what has God said? 169 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:41,720 I want I want to know what you know about God. 170 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:47,240 In essence, how does God thinking of which he asked this 171 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:49,320 question? Oh, you can't eat from any tree, 172 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:51,240 Eve says. You can eat from any tree of the 173 00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:53,160 garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you 174 00:12:53,160 --> 00:12:54,880 shall not eat. For the day you eat, you'll die. 175 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:59,280 Then he says this. You're not going to die 'cause 176 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:03,880 God knows. Now he starts talking about God 177 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:12,400 as if and not acknowledging God even being somewhere in essence. 178 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:17,440 He's, you know, in this thought process, since you don't see God 179 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:19,160 and God's not here, let's talk about him. 180 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:24,200 Let me give you a thought of God. 181 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:25,840 Let me tell you what I know about him. 182 00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:29,720 You know, why didn't Adam say, you know what, let's just to ask 183 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:33,120 the Father that. Let me hold on a second. 184 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:35,640 What are you saying? You're saying that if I eat the 185 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:38,080 fruit, I'm not going to die and I'll be like him knowing good 186 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:39,840 and evil. You know what, Let me get him in 187 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:41,960 the room right now because you know, he comes in the cooler 188 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:44,680 today and let's have a conversation with him and you 189 00:13:44,680 --> 00:13:50,280 here. But did he do that because the 190 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:55,040 minute Adam chose to listen to another voice without the one 191 00:13:55,120 --> 00:14:02,880 who spoke it originally be there to verify this conversation, he 192 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:10,200 lost the world. He lost the world. 193 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:20,160 So can we be born again today and not obey the commands of 194 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:24,120 God? Yes, we can, although it's our 195 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:28,000 duty because He says we all should repent. 196 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:29,840 We all need to change our thinking. 197 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:35,600 The greatest thing you can do is decide that you don't know 198 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:40,080 everything that God does and you're going to seek Him and 199 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:43,640 change the way you think. And you'll never arrive to all 200 00:14:43,640 --> 00:14:46,840 knowledge, but you'll always be in discovery. 201 00:14:47,960 --> 00:14:51,400 Amen. And there's nothing God cannot 202 00:14:51,560 --> 00:14:56,000 bring to light, all right? Look at John chapter 3, verse 203 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:58,120 20. John chapter 3 verse 20 says for 204 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:03,200 everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the 205 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:07,600 light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 206 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:12,920 Now I'm going to use a little analogy here because I think 207 00:15:12,920 --> 00:15:16,040 it's kind of, and I'm using negatives in two different ways 208 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:17,640 here. OK, so let's talk about 209 00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:22,000 negatives in photography because when you take a photo, in 210 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:27,880 essence, you expose this film to the light that's in darkness. 211 00:15:27,880 --> 00:15:34,480 You expose it for milliseconds to light, and that light burns 212 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:39,920 an image on the film. Now, when it burns that image, 213 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:45,520 it is called a negative. And when it goes underneath a 214 00:15:45,520 --> 00:15:53,760 process, it becomes a positive. I remember back in the day, now 215 00:15:53,760 --> 00:15:57,880 you know, I'm older and there were you had to send your film 216 00:15:57,920 --> 00:16:02,640 off to be developed. None of this clicking on the 217 00:16:02,640 --> 00:16:07,160 phone, right? I mean, now I love today because 218 00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:10,680 today tells me I can get in the positive quicker. 219 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:19,480 In fact, I can live in positive instead of having this process 220 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:25,520 from negative to positive. And So what happens is a 221 00:16:25,520 --> 00:16:30,080 negative. Everything in the positive realm 222 00:16:30,280 --> 00:16:33,080 that is light in the negative is dark. 223 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:37,400 And what is dark is light. It's the reverse. 224 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:42,760 And the thing about a negative, you must hold it up a lot of to 225 00:16:42,760 --> 00:16:45,960 the light in order to even see the image. 226 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:53,040 So when you are born again, God hit you with the light of His 227 00:16:53,040 --> 00:17:00,280 word and impressed in essence an image of you that now He wants 228 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:07,319 to process to create a positive. Because when you bring up the 229 00:17:07,319 --> 00:17:10,000 negative to the light, you can see the image, but you miss 230 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:16,560 details because the details show up after the process and it 231 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:22,480 turns into a positive where all the real colors can manifest. 232 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:27,000 Are you hearing me? So when you're born again, God 233 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:29,480 exposes you with His light. Hallelujah. 234 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:36,840 He exposes you with His light and He puts an image about you. 235 00:17:37,120 --> 00:17:47,000 That image is called in Christ. Now, the darkest area of you at 236 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:52,680 this point after you're born again is your mind, and God 237 00:17:52,680 --> 00:18:00,360 needs to expose it so that it can turn into light, so that you 238 00:18:00,360 --> 00:18:05,440 can begin to walk out that which you are an image of already. 239 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:09,680 But many of us don't want to go through the process. 240 00:18:15,120 --> 00:18:22,000 We got our little negative that, you know, as long as we hold in 241 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:23,800 the light, we see it. But the minute you're away from 242 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:26,960 the light, we don't know who you are. 243 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:33,280 We don't know who you are. I got to quit looking at that 244 00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:38,600 light up there. I'm seeing dots now as long as 245 00:18:38,720 --> 00:18:40,960 again, This is why the church, the church, the reason why 246 00:18:40,960 --> 00:18:43,160 sometimes people have a hard time born again believers have a 247 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:47,040 hard time coming to church is because it starts to expose this 248 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:52,600 image and then says, hey, I want to process this. 249 00:18:55,880 --> 00:19:00,400 I want to process this so that all can see the beautiful colors 250 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:04,320 that you are in me. Are you hearing me? 251 00:19:06,120 --> 00:19:10,200 But there's another definition of negative, and that is marked. 252 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:12,360 Here's a Merriam Webster dictionary. 253 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:16,200 Negative means marked by features of hostility, 254 00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:22,880 withdrawal, or pessimism that hinders or opposes constructive 255 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:27,440 treatment or development. All of us, because we have 256 00:19:27,440 --> 00:19:30,800 sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, have sin 257 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:36,720 consciousness or a negative mindset, meaning we filter 258 00:19:36,720 --> 00:19:42,320 things through a negative mind because we have been there, we 259 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:46,280 have sin has ran its course in our lives. 260 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:49,200 We have been disappointed. All kinds of things have taken 261 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:54,360 place in our lives so that when God begins to try to speak 262 00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:59,640 constructively to you for your development, we get resistant. 263 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:05,400 Because we are filtering everything he's saying through 264 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:10,480 this negative mind. How do I know? 265 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:13,160 Because the minute something start, oh, am I in trouble? 266 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:18,080 Felt like I'm in the principal's office. 267 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:22,080 Oh, man, that service today, man, you know, that was hard. 268 00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:27,920 Was it hard? I mean, why do you why do you 269 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:36,200 sound so negative? They just want this. 270 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:37,640 They just want that he wants this. 271 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:42,760 I got to do that. I, I have the privilege of being 272 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:45,680 developed. I, I all have to do is shift and 273 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:48,840 not see what God's saying as a negative, but see it as a 274 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:53,080 positive. It's my attitude in my mind that 275 00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:57,520 if I'll change it, that will give full exposure to this image 276 00:20:57,520 --> 00:21:00,400 God has made me, but I'll never get there. 277 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:06,880 As long as when something comes and exposes I see I meet it with 278 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:15,800 hostility instead of brace it with positivity, then my growth 279 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:17,160 and development will be hindered. 280 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:23,200 It said we're marked by features of hostility, withdrawn or 281 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:25,360 pessimism. This word pessimism is really 282 00:21:25,360 --> 00:21:27,840 interesting. By definition, it means an 283 00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:32,680 inclination to emphasize adverse aspects, conditions or 284 00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:36,320 possibilities to accept the worst possible outcome. 285 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:40,280 You know how many people come to church with a pessimistic mind? 286 00:21:47,120 --> 00:21:50,000 You know, we're always thinking of the negative side. 287 00:21:50,120 --> 00:21:53,920 Well, if I do that, that's this. And you know, oh, I can't be. 288 00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:55,360 I hope they don't preach on that. 289 00:21:55,440 --> 00:22:01,920 Hope this doesn't happen instead of how's the Lord going to speak 290 00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:04,240 to me today? What kind of training will I get 291 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:06,360 today? What's he going to knock off me 292 00:22:06,360 --> 00:22:08,080 today so that I'm look more like him? 293 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:13,560 I mean, not coming to service thinking, oh, I hope they don't 294 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:18,720 say anything that would hurt my feelings to. 295 00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:21,640 I hope the Lord shows me something that I need to get rid 296 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:25,120 of and I'm going to be quick to do it because you know what? 297 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:28,720 I had a terrible mind and a spirit before I met him. 298 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:31,720 And then I met him and I know my mom was still jacked up. 299 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:33,960 And I'm like, Lord, get this mind together. 300 00:22:34,120 --> 00:22:40,120 Help me out, renew in me, renew my mind, transform my thinking, 301 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:42,880 Allow me to see this image and do something now. 302 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:46,240 If you have that attitude, sermons will be something you'll 303 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:50,960 embrace. Moves of the Spirit or something 304 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:53,000 you embrace. Oh man, they're speaking in 305 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:55,200 tongues again. Oh, are these people even going 306 00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:56,120 to? What are you doing? 307 00:22:56,120 --> 00:22:59,840 What's your mind doing? Why are you so hostile? 308 00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:04,240 How long are they going to sing? Why are you hostile? 309 00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:09,800 Adverse reaction to something the Bible says. 310 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:13,280 Holy hands lifted high. We're to praise him. 311 00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:17,760 Why would we be hostile to that when the when the worship leader 312 00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:20,000 says let's lift your hands before the Lord? 313 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:32,240 Why is there pessimism? I mean, I understand it's really 314 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:38,680 difficult to do this. I know it's so much effort. 315 00:23:48,120 --> 00:23:50,520 That's a lot of work, right? A lot of work there. 316 00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:54,120 But what happens? How do you know your negative 317 00:23:54,120 --> 00:23:56,200 mindset? Because you're resistant. 318 00:23:56,200 --> 00:24:04,040 Anytime someone gives a command, when someone gives a command of 319 00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:07,520 the Lord, you're resistant. You're adverse. 320 00:24:08,120 --> 00:24:11,080 Well, God didn't tell me. Did we just read Scripture then? 321 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:17,520 God told you another definition of pessimism. 322 00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:23,600 Is this the doctrine that reality is essentially evil? 323 00:24:25,360 --> 00:24:31,320 It's the doctrine that evil overbalances happiness in life. 324 00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:39,040 No matter how much good comes, you always can find something 325 00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:44,760 wrong. I remember talking to someone 326 00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:49,240 that used to be here, they were like, I just want to win. 327 00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:53,680 And I went through the testimony their whole life of how God had 328 00:24:53,680 --> 00:25:01,480 done so many amazing things. And I'm like, but because 329 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:08,320 they're broken in their mind and they refuse to develop a 330 00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:12,480 positive mindset anytime the word comes the only way it would 331 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:17,600 be positive if you give them accolades and they're looking 332 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:21,600 for accolades instead of just having peace with the Lord. 333 00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:27,000 I've been doing ministry for 30 something years. 334 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:30,600 I'm not a novice at this. I've been 21 years in this one 335 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:34,040 location and been around people for years and know a lot about 336 00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:38,000 people, know about what they've gone through. 337 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:46,320 I know about their minds, their thinking, their behaviors, what 338 00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:50,760 they struggle with, what they cannot seem to overcome, and 339 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:52,360 then see others thrive. Why? 340 00:25:52,360 --> 00:25:56,400 Because they just accept God's Word as training and they 341 00:25:56,400 --> 00:26:00,400 embrace it and love it and they believe more that God's way is 342 00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:02,720 better than anything they're thinking. 343 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:09,560 Hallelujah, Proverbs 623 says this, For the commandment is a 344 00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:17,320 lamp, and the teaching is light, and reproofs for discipline are 345 00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:20,160 the way of life. So again the commandment is a 346 00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:22,080 lamp. Again, there's darkness in our 347 00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:24,320 thinking, so God has to expose it. 348 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:27,720 Remember, He says you are to work out your salvation with 349 00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:32,440 fear and trembling, meaning it's your assignment after you're 350 00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:35,040 born again and your spirit is made alive and God places the 351 00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:39,920 Holy Ghost on the inside of you that you work out your salvation 352 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:43,600 with fear and trembling. You renew your mind. 353 00:26:44,120 --> 00:26:49,040 That's your responsibility and the reason why you are to renew 354 00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:51,080 your mind. The reason why God listen, the 355 00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:56,480 reason why God did this is because he needs to know he is 356 00:26:56,480 --> 00:27:00,960 not making robots. These are not you are not a 357 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:04,840 robot. And when your spirit man's dead, 358 00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:07,960 you're at a great disadvantage that you cannot be before God, 359 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:10,720 for He is spirit. But when he causes what only he 360 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:14,240 could do through the death, burial, resurrection of Jesus 361 00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:19,400 and the blood that's applied to your account because you met God 362 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:22,800 at his word and believe that Jesus came, died on the 363 00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:25,800 crossroads from the grave. His blood is on the mercy seat. 364 00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:29,320 You accept his blood as the forgiveness of your sin and 365 00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:32,280 wrongdoing. Then it makes you a new creature 366 00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:35,960 in Christ. Then he says, now you transform 367 00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:39,560 your thinking. I'm now empowered you and 368 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:44,400 there's a my spirit is in you that as you submit yourself to 369 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:49,840 study, then you will remove renew your mind and you will 370 00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:53,040 begin to create the image that you are on the inside that I've 371 00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:59,400 made you. You will release because God 372 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:08,960 will not override your will. He wants you to love him because 373 00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:13,280 you choose to love him. And choosing to love him is not 374 00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:20,480 only at salvation. It's not only at salvation 375 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:26,840 because Adam made a choice being made in the likeness of God to 376 00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:30,080 rebel from him and die spiritually. 377 00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:36,960 So we have to allow our minds to be renewed. 378 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:41,920 It's our responsibility to be transformed by the renewing of 379 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:45,360 our minds and God has empowered us. 380 00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:47,760 This is why we would be without excuse because the Lord's like I 381 00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:50,440 put, I made your spirit alive to me. 382 00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:53,440 I gave you the Holy Spirit who is the great teacher. 383 00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:56,720 He is, you understand, he's recording every class. 384 00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:01,120 Can I just say it that way? God is recording every class. 385 00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:06,000 He every conversation he's having with you. 386 00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:10,040 He's recording how he taught you and he's recording your 387 00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:15,200 response. We're all without excuse because 388 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:21,440 what we think on is up to us. Paul said think on these things, 389 00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:24,760 which implies you cannot and is God. 390 00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:30,680 Listen, if God was in control, he would only make you listen to 391 00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:36,520 his word. But you're in control of what 392 00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:39,240 you listen to. You're in control of what you 393 00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:41,440 take heed to. My wife says she's got a some 394 00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:44,080 message on that. I'm not touching it today, but 395 00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:47,400 you know what? You need to take heed of what 396 00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:54,000 you hear, because God's not giving you thoughts to to kill 397 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:59,720 someone, to steal from someone, to covet from someone, to walk 398 00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:02,320 in unforgiveness with someone. He's not giving you those 399 00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:09,490 thoughts. You have to decide. 400 00:30:09,490 --> 00:30:12,450 And when. The commandment is a lamp and 401 00:30:12,450 --> 00:30:15,400 the teaching is the light. Then guess what? 402 00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:19,040 It's going to bring a reproof because God already Jesus lets 403 00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:20,880 us know right out the gate. You're going to need to change 404 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:25,960 your thinking. Don't think more highly of 405 00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:30,440 yourself than you, which means the the place of humility you 406 00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:32,320 have to maintain is in your soul realm. 407 00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:36,480 OK, Lord, how should I think about this situation? 408 00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:45,640 How should I go about with this, you know, in in this, you know, 409 00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:49,600 situation. Psalms 100 nineteen 9/11 says 410 00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:51,520 this way. How can a young man keep his way 411 00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:57,400 pure by keeping it according to your word, verse 11 your word I 412 00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:02,520 have treasured in my heart that I might may not what sin against 413 00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:04,600 you. So it's the Word of God that 414 00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:09,760 will help us, that we keep our mindset on it and then we allow 415 00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:13,680 our mind to be renewed to that word, not to our feelings, not 416 00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:16,480 to what just happened, not to how I feel. 417 00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:24,200 And again, that word is going to come as a reproof because your 418 00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:28,560 thinking is off. All of our thinking is off and 419 00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:31,840 needs to be corrected, needs to be changed. 420 00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:36,120 But if every time God comes and begins to talk to you about that 421 00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:40,240 way of thinking and you become resistant, ah, well, that's a 422 00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:43,520 negative mindset, which means you're going to hinder. 423 00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:46,400 And you don't realize he did that because he's trying to 424 00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:52,440 produce a positive. It's actually great news that he 425 00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:55,960 pointed this out, that the reality is we should be 426 00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:59,760 rejoicing that he just brought a reproof. 427 00:31:59,920 --> 00:32:05,880 Instead of crying, instead of being resistant, we should be 428 00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:10,400 like, give me more now. It was a statement of faith when 429 00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:14,120 I was in the Army, you know, But the reality is it made me 430 00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:17,040 better. They would say, you know, make 431 00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:18,720 it hurt, drill Sergeant, make it hurt. 432 00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:22,840 Well, you know, naturally you don't want it to hurt. 433 00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:27,800 But if it does, then ultimately you're better. 434 00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:33,240 Yeah, you're better. I mean, I went in doing only so 435 00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:36,760 many push ups. The first PT test I had, I think 436 00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:41,320 I might have did 55 to 60, little surprise, 80s a Max. 437 00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:45,640 So it wasn't so far off, but it took me two minutes you just to 438 00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:49,840 get to that number and you know, I was going to muscle failure. 439 00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:53,480 And there's nothing more ugly than a push up going to muscle 440 00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:56,840 failure because your whole body starts shaking kind of crazy 441 00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:59,440 looking. You're like, bro, he can't even 442 00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:01,400 push himself up. I mean, you're, you're gone. 443 00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:03,840 Your arms are shaking, your legs and start shaking. 444 00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:08,280 I mean, you just look crazy. But yet because they kept it 445 00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:11,960 instead of seeing the physical exercise as Oh my God, I got to 446 00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:19,880 work out to man, if I was in war, I sure want to be able to 447 00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:24,040 run, jump, leap, be strong and overcome. 448 00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:29,200 This is good for me. I mean, they're only thinking 449 00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:33,200 about my best interest. They're not concerned about how 450 00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:36,440 it feels to my body. They were concerned about what 451 00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:41,080 it will produce out of my body. So that by the time my I was, 452 00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:44,440 you know, finished basic training, I could do the Max of 453 00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:51,200 82 push ups in less than 60 seconds and I would just get up 454 00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:57,880 and rest the last minute because they had conditioned me to do 455 00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:03,800 something that I could not do before and it was positive. 456 00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:09,159 But most of the time, you know, again, there are penny plenty of 457 00:34:09,159 --> 00:34:11,239 people right here in the sanctuary right now that if I 458 00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:14,280 say you need to go to the gym, that's negative to you. 459 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:18,560 That's not negative, that's a positive. 460 00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:23,080 You need to embrace it. Now, you shouldn't look at one 461 00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:24,960 body type and think that's in shape. 462 00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:27,679 In fact, we were down in South Florida and someone had 463 00:34:27,679 --> 00:34:29,880 mentioned, you know, well, you know, I want to be in shape like 464 00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:31,920 Pastor Earl. And you know what, on the 465 00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:36,560 outside I am in shape, but yet I'm working on the inside of 466 00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:41,679 something that's not as much in shape because my outside was 467 00:34:41,679 --> 00:34:46,760 deceiving me. I had a fast metabolism. 468 00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:49,480 I could eat whatever I want to. It wouldn't gain Jack. 469 00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:54,639 But in around 42, I think it was in prayer of the Lord said, son, 470 00:34:54,639 --> 00:34:56,120 you better change the way you eat. 471 00:34:57,200 --> 00:35:01,480 And I'm like Lord, I'm not overweight. 472 00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:03,800 I work out. He says, son, you don't know 473 00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:06,120 what your inside, what's happening to your insides. 474 00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:09,600 Then about five years later, I went to a nutritionist who 475 00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:12,680 pulled blood from me. And come to find out, I was in 476 00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:18,440 the beginning stages of heart disease because my vascular 477 00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:25,880 system was gunked up with all of the hamburgers I ate in my 20s 478 00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:30,880 and other food that all youth pastors eat and destroy the 479 00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:34,080 inside, probably the insides. I can't say that because, you 480 00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:36,680 know, everybody's body makeups different. 481 00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:40,960 My wife, now, she ate, you know, basically what I ate. 482 00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:42,920 But her vascular system is amazing. 483 00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:47,080 I mean, when we go out, my heart rate, boom, it goes up. 484 00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:49,800 Why 'cause my veins have constriction. 485 00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:55,760 She not at all. We can go to the gym together, I 486 00:35:55,760 --> 00:36:00,600 can do a set on the bench and my heart rate to jump up to 13135 487 00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:04,960 pretty quick. Hers, it's less than 100, and 488 00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:06,040 you're like, well, you're doing more weight. 489 00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:08,720 I mean, she's doing the weight for her that would cause 490 00:36:08,720 --> 00:36:10,600 something. But her vascular system's so 491 00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:12,520 much better. I mean, she has to do jumping 492 00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:15,320 jacks in between sets to get her heart rate up. 493 00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:21,000 Me, I just have to look at it. Yeah. 494 00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:26,720 So I have to do something for my inside to change that because my 495 00:36:26,720 --> 00:36:29,920 outside was telling me I was OK, but my insides were getting 496 00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:34,600 messed up. So you understand, I don't see 497 00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:38,960 it as a negative to eat a salad. I don't see a negative to eat 498 00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:41,120 broccoli. I don't see negative to eat 499 00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:43,360 spinach. I don't see a negative to say 500 00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:46,520 I'm not doing that dessert. I see that as a positive because 501 00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:48,960 I want to have long life. And you know what? 502 00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:53,480 God cannot satisfy me with long life if I resist the protocol of 503 00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:57,320 the natural body and just eat Twinkies the rest of my life. 504 00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:05,320 In the words of Doctor Miles Monroe, you cannot be smoking 505 00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:11,240 cancerettes, puffing on them, and calling your lungs clean. 506 00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:17,000 Well, some foods are doing stuff when you know what it is, and I 507 00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:21,040 know what that is with me. So again, the doctor had to 508 00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:27,000 reprove me. He reproved me. 509 00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:32,000 He said you're going to have to change this here. 510 00:37:32,240 --> 00:37:36,160 Wait, he basically said, Pastor Earl, because you heard God 511 00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:41,360 earlier, you're already on the, the, the road to recovery, that 512 00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:42,920 this is what else you need to do. 513 00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:45,560 And I'm you're going to need to take these as well. 514 00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:49,760 And I'll be honest with you, you know, I got a little skeptical 515 00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:53,800 because I was dropping a lot of money monthly on supplements. 516 00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:56,840 And I'm like, really, is this our food really lacking this 517 00:37:56,840 --> 00:37:59,480 much nutrition that I got to take all this stuff, man. 518 00:37:59,720 --> 00:38:02,240 I mean, wow, at least it's not pharmaceuticals. 519 00:38:02,240 --> 00:38:04,720 I mean, it's just natural vitamins, just different types. 520 00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:09,040 And I came off for a little bit, had a blood draw and my stuff 521 00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:12,440 went in another direction. I'm like, wow, that's the real 522 00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:16,000 deal. Let me go get my omegas back 523 00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:20,280 out, right? Let me go jump on some homo homo 524 00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:24,000 stay scene. Let me get into some other DHEA 525 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:27,560 and all kind of other stuff that I'm taking, you know, so I'm 526 00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:30,840 having to make some adjustments. Well, because I want to have 527 00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:33,440 long life and I'm thankful that the Lord said, son, you need to 528 00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:35,760 do something different. I'm glad he arrested me at 42 529 00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:39,040 and say, son, if you don't change the way you eat, you're 530 00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:42,760 going to have a problem. And I'm thankful that the Lord 531 00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:46,360 loved me enough. Let me just do what I wanted to 532 00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:51,600 do, because His Word says with long life, He'll satisfy me. 533 00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:57,760 Second Timothy 316 and 17 says that this way. 534 00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:00,000 All scriptures. How many scriptures, all 535 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:03,800 scripture is inspired by God for and profitable for teaching, for 536 00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:06,560 reproof, for correction, for training and righteousness so 537 00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:10,600 that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every 538 00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:15,400 good work. Again, because in the last of 539 00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:19,200 the last days, they'll, they'll be a falling away that will take 540 00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:22,960 place and there will be seducing spirits and doctrines of demons 541 00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:25,440 and people will have itching ears to hear what they want to 542 00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:26,880 hear. And again, we're living in the 543 00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:30,880 last of the last days right now. So again, somebody's going to be 544 00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:34,200 subject to this. You have to be intentional that 545 00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:43,000 it's not you. You, you cannot accept that just 546 00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:46,040 'cause you come to a church, you are growing. 547 00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:51,520 You can go to the gym and push weight and never grow. 548 00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:58,480 You can consistently go to a gym and push weight that never puts 549 00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:05,920 you in any type of muscular fatigue that a minute starts to 550 00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:07,000 hurt. You're oh, I'm done. 551 00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:09,360 OK, all right, I'm getting oh, that hurts a little bit. 552 00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:11,240 That seems a little heavy. I'm going to go down and you're 553 00:40:11,240 --> 00:40:14,960 like, all right, great. You go to the next one. 554 00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:17,680 You know, like I worked out. I did 30 minutes today. 555 00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:21,640 Yet your muscles never got to a place to grow. 556 00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:28,720 You understand this is working your muscle, this works your 557 00:40:28,720 --> 00:40:31,840 muscle. And the number one cause of why 558 00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:35,840 older people go to assisted living is not because they can't 559 00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:40,560 walk, it's because they do not work this out, this muscle here 560 00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:47,120 because they get to a place that they can't even do a body weight 561 00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:58,120 squat because when they go to sit down to #2 they can't get 562 00:40:58,120 --> 00:41:06,800 up, yet they can walk. Walking does not build quads. 563 00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:11,560 Say Amen. Anyway. 564 00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:17,120 So again, if you're a little bit older, you need to, to, to, if 565 00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:21,440 you want to be self-sufficient till you go and not be put 566 00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:23,720 somewhere where everybody's having to help you up, then you 567 00:41:23,720 --> 00:41:26,920 need to start a little process and you start by doing this. 568 00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:33,920 There's a particular minister whose father is like 8090 years 569 00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:40,000 old. He does this to work on his 570 00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:44,680 balance so that as he gets older, he can maintain it, 571 00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:49,760 right? You have to work on these 572 00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:52,200 things. You have to keep yourself 573 00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:53,880 trained. These are not negatives. 574 00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:56,640 They're actually positives if you see them. 575 00:41:56,680 --> 00:42:00,560 Oh man, I got to do that. Do you want to have success? 576 00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:03,720 I mean, that's all that God wants us to do is have success. 577 00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:07,640 So I'm doing this and though it may hurt, but eventually you're 578 00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:10,000 getting down and you're doing this. 579 00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:12,320 Before you couldn't do it at all, but now you are. 580 00:42:12,320 --> 00:42:16,000 And you know what? Praise God I can be longer in my 581 00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:21,840 sufficiency because I was willing to go through a little 582 00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:28,280 pain and discomfort that is not negative but extremely positive 583 00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:31,080 for my life. Tranisha stand up. 584 00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:37,560 Tranisha decided I'm I'm running and she started running 5 KS. 585 00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:39,360 Now I'm just going to be honest with you. 586 00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:45,000 She doesn't have a runner's physique and you've lost quite a 587 00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:47,640 bit of inches at this point, have you not? 588 00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:50,560 And how many five KS have you done now? 589 00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:54,000 Three or two? Two. 590 00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:59,040 Now notice she didn't wait till she looked like somebody that's 591 00:42:59,040 --> 00:43:05,240 been running their whole life. You understand, we make excuses 592 00:43:05,240 --> 00:43:11,880 to not because that's negative. Well, you know, I just start and 593 00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:14,880 know that every step's doing something now. 594 00:43:15,720 --> 00:43:18,080 Did you run walk the first one or run the whole thing? 595 00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:21,800 OK, the second one, run the whole thing or run, walk, run, 596 00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:25,480 walk further east. Time for the run. 597 00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:28,480 What are we doing? We're we're having games. 598 00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:31,920 Because again, she understands I'm not going to run a marathon 599 00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:33,440 today. But you know what I am doing? 600 00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:37,040 I'm run, walking a 5K and she's she just told me she's doing 601 00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:42,200 kickboxing now. Yeah. 602 00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:45,280 So if I'm around here, don't come up. 603 00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:49,360 She'll kick you. I'm forewarning. 604 00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:56,320 She may throw a Roundhouse. You can be seated now. 605 00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:59,560 Trenisha, do do you mind if I ask you how old you are? 606 00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:05,880 56. I mean, the point is, is you're 607 00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:09,680 not too old. There's not a, there's not a lid 608 00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:16,920 on you. There's not a lid if you just 609 00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:20,480 will commit in your your spirits alive. 610 00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:24,400 If you just commit in your soul and your thinking and then tell 611 00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:25,680 your body, no, you're going to do this. 612 00:44:25,680 --> 00:44:28,480 That's right. Now I'm sure her body told her 613 00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:31,040 multiple times, you're not doing this anymore. 614 00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:34,880 And she's like, Oh yeah, we are, because her mind is stronger 615 00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:38,920 than her body, and she can make her body submit to her mind 616 00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:40,760 because she's listening to her spirit. 617 00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:42,800 And everyone in this room can do it. 618 00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:44,400 You know what? That's extremely positive. 619 00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:47,720 Now I'm going to read some things from Rick Renner. 620 00:44:47,720 --> 00:44:51,360 OK, I'm going to read from Rick Renner. 621 00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:59,240 Sparkling Gem Book concerning Second Timothy chapter 3 because 622 00:44:59,240 --> 00:45:02,240 he's a Greek scholar and I want you'd, I'm going to have him 623 00:45:02,240 --> 00:45:06,000 break it down for you so that you know that a Greek scholar is 624 00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:09,760 telling you this verse Paul wrote in the Bible profitable 625 00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:12,360 for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction and 626 00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:14,040 righteousness. He said, let's look at each part 627 00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:16,680 of this verse so we get a full benefit of what Paul is telling 628 00:45:16,680 --> 00:45:18,240 us. First, he stated that the Bible 629 00:45:18,240 --> 00:45:21,600 is profitable for doctrine. This particular Greek word, I'm 630 00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:23,200 not going to read all the Greek words. 631 00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:26,600 I'm just going to say this Greek word of this word includes the 632 00:45:26,600 --> 00:45:30,440 idea of something that is need for or oblig. 633 00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:35,320 You're obligated like a debt that is owed. 634 00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:37,960 It can be translated as a word indebted. 635 00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:41,480 So it refers to someone, something that is mandatory, 636 00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:43,880 essential and an absolute requirement. 637 00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:48,400 So he says using this word, Paul is telling us that God's word is 638 00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:51,760 not optional in our lives. It is mandatory, essential and 639 00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:59,240 absolute requirement for us. So reading it daily is a 640 00:45:59,240 --> 00:46:01,560 positive. I got to read the Word again. 641 00:46:01,720 --> 00:46:03,360 They want me to do the Bible reading plan. 642 00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:10,800 We're trying to get an image to come out and God sees it that 643 00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:13,880 way, said Paul. Connected this word profitable 644 00:46:13,880 --> 00:46:18,160 to the word doctrine, which is a different Greek word, and this 645 00:46:18,160 --> 00:46:20,640 doctrine used in the New Testament denotes things that 646 00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:23,320 are that we affirm and believe to be true. 647 00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:26,800 Some Christians sneer at the mention of doctrine, thinking it 648 00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:31,160 is to be stuffy or unimportant, but the kind of But that kind of 649 00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:36,400 attitude reveals their ignorance regarding the importance of 650 00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:38,880 doctrine. Doctrine is the foundation of 651 00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:41,720 what we believe it. It impacts what we think. 652 00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:45,000 It affects our world view. It determines what we believe is 653 00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:47,680 right and wrong. It guides us in life, determines 654 00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:51,240 our convictions and standards, and effects all of our actions 655 00:46:51,240 --> 00:46:55,920 and activities in life. In short, we are to we are the 656 00:46:55,920 --> 00:46:58,600 product of our doctrine. Therefore, it is mandatory, 657 00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:01,560 essential. We are under obligation and an 658 00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:06,120 absolute requirement that our lives be based and and built on 659 00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:09,840 the Bible, that we must see ourselves as indebted to it. 660 00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:14,160 So it is also very important to point out the word profitable. 661 00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:18,720 The Greek word here means is connect in connection with law. 662 00:47:20,240 --> 00:47:24,480 Just as laws must be obeyed, we are obligated to live by them. 663 00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:27,880 We as believers must live our lives with the Bible as our 664 00:47:27,880 --> 00:47:33,160 guidebook and our law for life, obeying it absolutely to the 665 00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:35,120 best of our ability. You understand in today's 666 00:47:35,120 --> 00:47:38,720 society, we're so adverse to the word law because again, we've 667 00:47:38,720 --> 00:47:42,280 wrongly defined what law means from Scripture. 668 00:47:42,720 --> 00:47:47,320 The law itself is not bad. What's bad is when you try to 669 00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:50,720 fulfill the law in it of yourself or according to your 670 00:47:50,720 --> 00:47:54,080 flesh, you cannot do it yourself. 671 00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:58,320 That's the law revealed our inability, although the law 672 00:47:58,320 --> 00:48:02,920 itself is holy and Jesus fulfilled the law. 673 00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:11,760 So if Jesus kept the law, it couldn't be bad, but He's the 674 00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:15,880 only one who could because he was God in the flesh. 675 00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:22,240 And what we now fulfill is the law of the Spirit of life in 676 00:48:22,240 --> 00:48:25,760 Christ Jesus. By faith we believe God that He 677 00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:29,840 fulfilled all the requirements so that we could be born of God. 678 00:48:31,920 --> 00:48:35,320 But the reason why this term is used often, even in the New 679 00:48:35,320 --> 00:48:37,760 Testament when you break it down, is because the Bible's 680 00:48:37,760 --> 00:48:40,520 about a king, his Kingdom and his royal offspring anyway. 681 00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:47,160 And the Kingdom has laws and laws are not negative, they're 682 00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:53,680 positive. So if we approach, if we take 683 00:48:53,680 --> 00:48:57,680 this approach, the power of God's word will be released in 684 00:48:57,680 --> 00:49:04,440 our lives, making us to profit in every realm of existence. 685 00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:07,360 Next, Paul wrote in the word of the word of God produces reproof 686 00:49:07,360 --> 00:49:09,280 in our lives. This word, reproof is a Greek 687 00:49:09,280 --> 00:49:13,080 word that's nowhere else in the New Testament. 688 00:49:13,840 --> 00:49:18,600 The Old Testament uses a different word and it's used as 689 00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:21,200 conviction. So when God's word shines into 690 00:49:21,200 --> 00:49:23,920 our lives, it's glorious and brilliant. 691 00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:28,240 Light is so strong that exposes every dark area that remains in 692 00:49:28,240 --> 00:49:32,280 our souls and minds. As the light of the Word shines 693 00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:35,440 on our darkness and works in our hearts and minds, we are 694 00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:41,520 reproved, convicted, and censored by the Holy Spirit. 695 00:49:41,600 --> 00:49:43,800 As a result, we don't remain in darkness. 696 00:49:44,680 --> 00:49:48,840 That's positive. We are changed as our minds are 697 00:49:48,840 --> 00:49:54,240 renewed to think correctly what a benefit the word of God is to 698 00:49:54,240 --> 00:49:56,280 us. Paul then writes on that the 699 00:49:56,280 --> 00:49:58,600 word of God brings correction into our lives. 700 00:49:59,160 --> 00:50:02,080 Reproof and correction are not the same word. 701 00:50:02,160 --> 00:50:05,320 There is a difference because when you get to correction it, 702 00:50:05,320 --> 00:50:10,960 it means this. It means it. 703 00:50:11,080 --> 00:50:16,720 It means it's a triple Greek word or compound word that 704 00:50:16,720 --> 00:50:22,880 ultimately means it means this. That the apostles declaring 705 00:50:22,960 --> 00:50:27,640 wherever, whenever, wherever and at any moment or anytime a 706 00:50:27,640 --> 00:50:31,120 person makes it the decision to build his life on the Word of 707 00:50:31,120 --> 00:50:34,880 God, to allow its light to shine into the deepest parts of His 708 00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:38,280 being, to expose the dark areas that need to be changed. 709 00:50:38,440 --> 00:50:42,000 The Word will release the power required for the necessary 710 00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:45,200 change. God's Word will lift that person 711 00:50:45,680 --> 00:50:50,040 even if they have been knocked flat on his back in life, and 712 00:50:50,040 --> 00:50:52,640 will set him back up on his feet again. 713 00:50:52,840 --> 00:50:56,960 This correction that comes from God's Word will cause him once 714 00:50:56,960 --> 00:51:02,320 again to stand erect and upright, regardless of how long 715 00:51:02,320 --> 00:51:06,040 he has been down and out. Now that's important because 716 00:51:06,040 --> 00:51:10,640 some of your thinking is so bad and you thought that way for so 717 00:51:10,640 --> 00:51:13,840 long, but he's saying it doesn't matter how long you thought this 718 00:51:13,840 --> 00:51:16,160 way. God can correct it. 719 00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:22,080 God can correct it. God will release so much power 720 00:51:22,080 --> 00:51:24,680 in that person's life that he will put him on level ground. 721 00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:27,400 So once you're put, that person is back on his feet. 722 00:51:27,400 --> 00:51:30,680 The Word of God will then become His instruction and 723 00:51:30,680 --> 00:51:34,880 righteousness. This Greek word is means to 724 00:51:34,880 --> 00:51:38,200 train a child. It simply means to educate a 725 00:51:38,200 --> 00:51:41,120 child or to give a child everything necessary to prepare 726 00:51:41,120 --> 00:51:44,720 him for life. Hence this word simply refers to 727 00:51:44,720 --> 00:51:48,880 a child training or the process of getting a child ready for 728 00:51:48,880 --> 00:51:52,200 life so afterwards he can be sent out fully equipped in 729 00:51:52,200 --> 00:51:56,440 success and successfully live as he was taught and trained to do. 730 00:51:56,640 --> 00:52:00,000 It was believed by the ancients that such child training was 731 00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:03,760 essential for success in life. The word righteousness here in 732 00:52:03,760 --> 00:52:12,080 the Greek means right living or just right, right living or just 733 00:52:12,080 --> 00:52:16,000 living. It is means to live by a 734 00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:20,600 righteous standard that results in upright living. 735 00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:23,280 When you use this in connection with the word instruction, it 736 00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:27,360 tells us when God's Word is taken into our heart and applied 737 00:52:27,360 --> 00:52:31,240 to our lives, it fully equips us to successfully live by a higher 738 00:52:31,240 --> 00:52:34,680 standard that leads to upright, godly, clean living. 739 00:52:36,960 --> 00:52:40,520 So when you put all these words together, it could be 740 00:52:40,520 --> 00:52:43,560 interpreted this way. All Scripture is given by 741 00:52:43,560 --> 00:52:47,960 inspiration of God and is mandatory, essential, absolute 742 00:52:47,960 --> 00:52:51,760 requirement for those things we affirm and believe to be true. 743 00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:57,480 It brings reproof, conviction, and sensors into our lives. 744 00:52:57,720 --> 00:53:02,520 It it can take anyone, including those who have been not flat on 745 00:53:02,520 --> 00:53:06,440 their backs in life, and it can set them back up on their feet 746 00:53:06,440 --> 00:53:08,920 again, regardless of how long they've been down and out. 747 00:53:09,280 --> 00:53:12,720 The Word of God will make them once again stand direct and 748 00:53:12,720 --> 00:53:15,080 upright. It will put them back on level 749 00:53:15,080 --> 00:53:19,200 ground fully equipped them to to successfully live life at a 750 00:53:19,200 --> 00:53:22,760 higher standard that leads to upright godly clean living. 751 00:53:27,200 --> 00:53:29,480 Now I don't know about you, but that's extremely positive. 752 00:53:31,520 --> 00:53:35,240 So I'm like, and again, he says it will reprove, correct and 753 00:53:35,240 --> 00:53:41,480 instruct. 2/3 of that is cleaning up how you're thinking. 754 00:53:44,240 --> 00:53:50,200 Yet we are in the time when Saints only want to be 755 00:53:50,200 --> 00:54:00,840 instructed and celebrated. Give me instruction that 756 00:54:00,840 --> 00:54:06,960 celebrates me. Yeah, the Lord's like, I'm just 757 00:54:06,960 --> 00:54:10,680 trying to help clean up your brain so I can release who you 758 00:54:10,680 --> 00:54:14,160 really are to the world. Because as long as you think 759 00:54:14,160 --> 00:54:16,640 like this, even though you're born of me, you won't look like 760 00:54:16,640 --> 00:54:23,880 me because you're not allowing the mind of Christ to function 761 00:54:23,880 --> 00:54:27,840 through your soul. And that takes effort on our 762 00:54:27,840 --> 00:54:31,120 part. And that is the responsibility 763 00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:33,640 of the fivefold ministry to equip the Saints. 764 00:54:34,680 --> 00:54:38,600 My responsibility is not to celebrate you, although I will 765 00:54:38,600 --> 00:54:43,800 celebrate you every time you demonstrate equipping things. 766 00:54:45,920 --> 00:54:50,080 And I am being very positive to your life when I say you need to 767 00:54:50,080 --> 00:54:56,520 not do that. Well, Pastor wants to see you. 768 00:54:56,520 --> 00:54:58,840 Oh no, what did I do? Why are you thinking negative? 769 00:55:01,120 --> 00:55:03,880 Why are you thinking negative? Because even if we are 770 00:55:04,040 --> 00:55:09,160 correcting you, you should be praised, God, for that. 771 00:55:09,560 --> 00:55:12,280 Thank you Lord. Thank you, Lord. 772 00:55:12,840 --> 00:55:15,800 I mean, all of us have thought wrong. 773 00:55:16,760 --> 00:55:21,440 So not one person in this room is ever going to live without 774 00:55:21,720 --> 00:55:24,360 reproof. Or if you're going to a church 775 00:55:24,360 --> 00:55:30,200 that preaches the word of truth to equip you, your feelings are 776 00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:38,800 going to be hurt multiple times because God's going to expose 777 00:55:39,360 --> 00:55:40,680 now you got to quit thinking like that. 778 00:55:42,440 --> 00:55:45,040 God's going to say, don't respond to them like that. 779 00:55:46,320 --> 00:55:50,880 Don't talk like that to them. Don't hold that thought about 780 00:55:50,880 --> 00:55:59,320 me. And when you have a positive 781 00:55:59,320 --> 00:56:03,080 mindset, when you change it, then you embrace it. 782 00:56:03,840 --> 00:56:09,840 But if you have a negative, you will be offended and you will 783 00:56:09,840 --> 00:56:12,480 not stay with the Lord. You will. 784 00:56:12,720 --> 00:56:20,680 You will define God yourself. Second Timothy 4/2 says it this 785 00:56:20,680 --> 00:56:21,720 way. Preach the Word. 786 00:56:22,280 --> 00:56:24,280 Be ready in season and out of season. 787 00:56:24,840 --> 00:56:29,680 Reprove, rebuke, exhort with great patience and instruction. 788 00:56:30,240 --> 00:56:35,480 Once again, we have lost the reality of the atmosphere of the 789 00:56:35,480 --> 00:56:41,680 Church He's building. In fact, all you have to do is a 790 00:56:41,680 --> 00:56:44,000 study. This is why I love the Apostolic 791 00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:48,640 gift, because the Apostolic gift definitely has this ability to 792 00:56:48,640 --> 00:56:53,320 maintain big picture. It's amazing if you look at each 793 00:56:53,320 --> 00:56:57,480 dispensation before we leave 1 dispensation and move into 794 00:56:57,480 --> 00:57:02,800 another, there is a lot of correcting and reproving 795 00:57:02,800 --> 00:57:09,600 happening by the Spirit of God. In fact, before we go into the 796 00:57:09,600 --> 00:57:13,880 captivity of Babylon, all the false prophets are saying it's 797 00:57:13,880 --> 00:57:15,760 going to be good with us. Y'all are good. 798 00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:17,760 God's good with you. God's so good with you. 799 00:57:17,880 --> 00:57:20,480 Oh, you're good, you're great. Oh, you're amazing. 800 00:57:20,560 --> 00:57:23,280 Oh, let's celebrate you, you're so great. 801 00:57:23,960 --> 00:57:27,360 And Jeremiah's like, no, no, you're not. 802 00:57:28,240 --> 00:57:31,720 No, no. What's going to happen is, is 803 00:57:31,720 --> 00:57:37,400 that you are going to be made captives because every time a 804 00:57:37,400 --> 00:57:40,880 true prophet came and tried to bring correction and reproof to 805 00:57:40,880 --> 00:57:45,600 you, you killed them, you threw them in prison and you kept 806 00:57:45,960 --> 00:57:48,600 going against God. And he was patient and 807 00:57:48,600 --> 00:57:51,760 long-suffering. But at this time he says, I'm 808 00:57:51,760 --> 00:57:56,280 taking my hands off. Babylon will conquer Jerusalem, 809 00:58:00,600 --> 00:58:04,800 and between the New Covenant and the Old Covenant, we have what 810 00:58:04,800 --> 00:58:12,760 they call 400 years of silence. Because if you're not going to 811 00:58:12,760 --> 00:58:14,520 change, why is God going to talk? 812 00:58:19,360 --> 00:58:23,360 Because his words are life. Lord, speak to me. 813 00:58:23,720 --> 00:58:26,920 Well, probably 2/3 of that conversation is going to have 814 00:58:26,920 --> 00:58:29,480 some kind of adjustment. Now at the end of the day, that 815 00:58:29,480 --> 00:58:31,240 doesn't mean he's not going to say, now you can do this. 816 00:58:31,240 --> 00:58:33,880 You're awesome because you've been made in my image. 817 00:58:34,040 --> 00:58:37,280 He'll always finish out the conversation about the image of 818 00:58:37,280 --> 00:58:39,240 who you are. But that doesn't mean he won't 819 00:58:39,240 --> 00:58:45,480 touch those places in darkness. And you have to be comfortable 820 00:58:45,480 --> 00:58:48,000 with your heavenly Father to be able to have the many people 821 00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:50,600 don't have a relationship with their with their fathers or with 822 00:58:50,600 --> 00:58:53,280 their parents because they don't want to be corrected. 823 00:58:56,440 --> 00:58:58,280 But the reality is where to train. 824 00:59:00,320 --> 00:59:03,360 And this is not opinion. This is the right standard of 825 00:59:03,360 --> 00:59:04,560 living. Say Amen. 826 00:59:04,560 --> 00:59:08,200 Anyway, for all those who already know this positive. 827 00:59:08,200 --> 00:59:11,880 You should be shouting and helping the rest who's trying to 828 00:59:11,880 --> 00:59:14,680 get their minds adjusted. Amen. 829 00:59:15,080 --> 00:59:18,120 Because that becomes contagious. Like man, these people are like 830 00:59:18,120 --> 00:59:20,040 excited. I need to get excited about this 831 00:59:20,040 --> 00:59:22,640 as well, right? I mean, if you go work out with 832 00:59:22,640 --> 00:59:25,240 Pastor Mike in the gym, it's going to be pretty exciting. 833 00:59:25,400 --> 00:59:27,040 Now, your body's not going to say that. 834 00:59:29,680 --> 00:59:31,920 Your body's going to say like this is crazy. 835 00:59:32,320 --> 00:59:35,200 You've lost. You are another Nah. 836 00:59:36,680 --> 00:59:40,720 But if you stay with the process, you'll be different. 837 00:59:41,320 --> 00:59:45,200 Proverbs 1510 says his grievous punishment is for him who 838 00:59:45,200 --> 00:59:52,000 forsakes the way he who hates reproof will die. 839 00:59:52,720 --> 00:59:56,360 That's serious. So I'm like, thank God, he 840 00:59:56,360 --> 00:59:59,560 reproves me 'cause he just don't want me to die. 841 01:00:04,480 --> 01:00:08,760 I mean, you should come to service or anytime you're 842 01:00:08,760 --> 01:00:10,920 underneath the word, even in your own purse. 843 01:00:10,920 --> 01:00:16,400 You say, Lord, show me anything that I need to get rid of. 844 01:00:20,400 --> 01:00:22,560 Come work, work me out in my mind. 845 01:00:23,960 --> 01:00:25,600 I mean, you want to embrace that. 846 01:00:26,200 --> 01:00:27,880 You want to see it as a positive. 847 01:00:28,040 --> 01:00:31,000 You don't want to resist and go, oh, don't talk to me about that. 848 01:00:31,120 --> 01:00:35,160 No, now you don't. No, don't resist, don't walk 849 01:00:35,160 --> 01:00:38,200 away. Don't forsake, because when God 850 01:00:38,200 --> 01:00:42,320 begins to say, hey, make an adjustment here, he's, he's only 851 01:00:42,320 --> 01:00:44,360 telling you something you can do. 852 01:00:49,160 --> 01:00:51,560 How many of us can get up at 4:00 AM in the morning? 853 01:00:52,480 --> 01:00:55,680 Every one of us. We can do it. 854 01:00:56,440 --> 01:00:59,040 That doesn't mean we choose, but we can. 855 01:01:01,120 --> 01:01:04,680 We can. Hallelujah. 856 01:01:06,160 --> 01:01:10,440 I like what one minister said. A friend of mine in Nebraska, he 857 01:01:10,440 --> 01:01:12,560 said this. He said the Lord spoke to him. 858 01:01:12,560 --> 01:01:17,760 He said, he said, Pastor Tony, if you do not schedule pain, 859 01:01:18,040 --> 01:01:24,720 pain will schedule you. Meaning if you do not subject 860 01:01:24,720 --> 01:01:28,200 yourself to some training that's going to get you, they're going 861 01:01:28,200 --> 01:01:34,200 to cause your muscles to be sore, then pain's going to 862 01:01:34,200 --> 01:01:37,320 manifest in your body and you're going to have a scheduled 863 01:01:37,320 --> 01:01:42,280 appointment with your doctor. So you choose. 864 01:01:42,800 --> 01:01:49,040 You either schedule it or it schedules you. 865 01:01:49,040 --> 01:01:51,520 Hallelujah. So again, it's just a change of 866 01:01:51,520 --> 01:01:52,840 thinking. Amen. 867 01:01:54,480 --> 01:01:57,800 And we can do it. We must get rid of our negative 868 01:01:57,800 --> 01:02:00,280 mindset. Look at Psalms 5016 to 22. 869 01:02:00,880 --> 01:02:03,960 Because again, grievous punishment we saw in Proverbs is 870 01:02:03,960 --> 01:02:07,720 for him who forsakes the way. He who hates reproof will die. 871 01:02:07,720 --> 01:02:09,920 Now here's the thing about God's reproof. 872 01:02:10,520 --> 01:02:13,360 God is reproving, but just just speak. 873 01:02:13,400 --> 01:02:18,440 And when he's reproving and people are resistant, sometimes 874 01:02:18,560 --> 01:02:21,960 they'll get stuck in deception and think God is not really 875 01:02:21,960 --> 01:02:25,920 talking to them about things they need to change, He said. 876 01:02:25,920 --> 01:02:29,360 But to the wicked God says, what right have you to recite my 877 01:02:29,360 --> 01:02:35,520 statutes and take my covenant or pledge on your lips, seeing that 878 01:02:35,520 --> 01:02:39,440 you hate instruction and correction and cast my words 879 01:02:39,440 --> 01:02:43,480 behind you, discarding them. Now how can God know that 880 01:02:43,480 --> 01:02:46,000 they're doing this? Well, it's because of their 881 01:02:46,000 --> 01:02:50,240 action verse 18 when you see a thief, you associate with them 882 01:02:51,440 --> 01:02:55,640 when and you take have taken part with the adulterers. 883 01:02:55,640 --> 01:02:58,280 Now that doesn't mean sexual immorality alone. 884 01:02:58,280 --> 01:03:02,560 It can be idolatry, meaning going after other gods. 885 01:03:03,160 --> 01:03:04,800 So that was a form of adultery as well. 886 01:03:04,800 --> 01:03:09,280 Verse 19, you give your mouth to evil and your tongue frames 887 01:03:09,280 --> 01:03:12,240 deceit, but yet what's in the mouth? 888 01:03:12,240 --> 01:03:16,920 He says you're taking my word. He goes on and says you sit and 889 01:03:16,920 --> 01:03:22,680 speak against your brother. You slander your own mother's 890 01:03:22,680 --> 01:03:27,760 son, these things you have done and look what God says. 891 01:03:27,760 --> 01:03:34,640 I kept silent. Now he reproved, but you hated 892 01:03:34,640 --> 01:03:39,080 it, and he's quiet. Because if you're not going to 893 01:03:39,080 --> 01:03:43,080 do make the corrections, I'm not talking to you any more than 894 01:03:43,080 --> 01:03:44,760 what I've already said. You need to correct. 895 01:03:45,760 --> 01:03:50,160 Yet because they disregarded it, their life shows that they're 896 01:03:50,160 --> 01:03:56,160 not yielding to this correction. And he gives them the list of 897 01:03:56,160 --> 01:04:00,240 their behavior, the way they're interacting. 898 01:04:00,640 --> 01:04:03,400 So he says these things that you've done, and I kept silent. 899 01:04:03,400 --> 01:04:06,920 And because God didn't talk to him anymore about it, he says, 900 01:04:06,920 --> 01:04:13,640 you thought I was once entirely like you, but now I will reprove 901 01:04:13,640 --> 01:04:17,840 you and put that the charge in order before your eyes. 902 01:04:18,440 --> 01:04:22,840 Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you in 903 01:04:22,840 --> 01:04:25,760 pieces and there be none to deliver. 904 01:04:25,760 --> 01:04:29,280 Let me read this out of the Passion translation from verse 905 01:04:29,280 --> 01:04:31,760 19 down. It says the sins of your mouth 906 01:04:31,760 --> 01:04:34,920 multiply evil. You have a lifestyle of lies 907 01:04:34,920 --> 01:04:37,880 devoted to deceit. You speak against others, even 908 01:04:37,880 --> 01:04:39,880 slandering those of your own household. 909 01:04:41,360 --> 01:04:43,960 Now again, this is the church body. 910 01:04:43,960 --> 01:04:48,000 This is a household. You can't be slandering your own 911 01:04:48,000 --> 01:04:50,720 brother. He goes on and says this. 912 01:04:50,760 --> 01:04:53,120 All this you have done and I kept silent. 913 01:04:53,200 --> 01:04:56,320 So you thought that I was like you sanctioning evil. 914 01:04:57,200 --> 01:05:01,840 But now I will bring you to my courtroom and spell out clearly 915 01:05:01,840 --> 01:05:05,240 my charges before you. This is your last chance, my 916 01:05:05,240 --> 01:05:06,840 final warning. Your time is up. 917 01:05:07,160 --> 01:05:11,880 Turn away from all this evil or the next time you hear from me 918 01:05:12,040 --> 01:05:15,320 will be when I'm coming to pass sentence upon you. 919 01:05:16,160 --> 01:05:20,720 I will snatch you away and no one will be there to help you 920 01:05:20,720 --> 01:05:24,040 escape my judgment. Now I can move this over to a 921 01:05:24,040 --> 01:05:28,560 New Testament scripture that talks about gently reproving 922 01:05:28,560 --> 01:05:34,440 people so that they might repent if the Lord would give them the 923 01:05:34,440 --> 01:05:39,880 ability to. Because you even as a new 924 01:05:39,880 --> 01:05:43,760 covenant believer, if you keep resisting the reproof and 925 01:05:43,760 --> 01:05:50,920 correction of God, then God himself stops talking except for 926 01:05:50,920 --> 01:05:53,640 judgment. And judgment just simply means 927 01:05:53,760 --> 01:05:59,280 you'll sleep early, you're going to go to sleep early. 928 01:06:02,240 --> 01:06:05,080 Proverbs 1531, couple more verses and we're done. 929 01:06:06,560 --> 01:06:10,520 Let's be positive. Let's embrace correction. 930 01:06:11,320 --> 01:06:14,360 Let's quit seeing that when something comes through because 931 01:06:14,360 --> 01:06:18,120 again, I mean you, you just have to go to another church if all 932 01:06:18,120 --> 01:06:24,840 you want is never hearing things that you need to change. 933 01:06:25,800 --> 01:06:32,640 That's not a person equipping Saints have to bring correction 934 01:06:33,240 --> 01:06:35,200 and it's not personal. It's not like I'm personally 935 01:06:35,200 --> 01:06:38,840 coming and saying now, Pastor Vanessa, you need I'm not. 936 01:06:38,960 --> 01:06:42,560 But God's general word will come and expose thing and we're like, 937 01:06:42,560 --> 01:06:44,880 man, I got to change that. And you're like, you're talking 938 01:06:44,880 --> 01:06:46,320 right to me. You know how many people like 939 01:06:46,320 --> 01:06:48,400 man you're you know, when people were first born again, they were 940 01:06:48,400 --> 01:06:50,760 like excited that God was talking to them about things 941 01:06:50,760 --> 01:06:55,160 they need to change. Where did we get so holy and 942 01:06:55,160 --> 01:06:58,400 self-righteous that we no longer wanted to be corrected? 943 01:07:02,520 --> 01:07:06,960 Proverbs 15 and correction is not opinions. 944 01:07:07,960 --> 01:07:14,000 I don't like the way you put your shoe on correction. 945 01:07:14,000 --> 01:07:24,280 Is righteousness sin? OK, Proverbs 1531 to 32. 946 01:07:24,280 --> 01:07:29,880 He who here who he whose ear listens to the life giving 947 01:07:29,880 --> 01:07:32,440 reproof, will dwell among the wise. 948 01:07:33,800 --> 01:07:37,560 He who neglects discipline despises himself, but he who 949 01:07:37,560 --> 01:07:41,760 listens to reproof require acquires understanding. 950 01:07:42,040 --> 01:07:44,240 So I'm like, thank you, Lord, change my thinking. 951 01:07:44,240 --> 01:07:45,720 How do you want me to handle this? 952 01:07:45,720 --> 01:07:48,040 What do you want me to say here? What do you want me to do here? 953 01:07:48,080 --> 01:07:49,520 How do you want me to respond here? 954 01:07:49,800 --> 01:07:51,200 How do you want me to do something? 955 01:07:51,200 --> 01:07:53,080 Because at the end of the day, can I say this? 956 01:07:53,080 --> 01:07:55,080 Because I like to say that. And he said, you can't say that. 957 01:07:55,080 --> 01:08:01,760 OK, then I won't say that. Isaiah 55 last passage of 958 01:08:01,760 --> 01:08:06,920 Scripture says this verse 3 incline your ear and come to me. 959 01:08:06,920 --> 01:08:12,520 Listen that you may what So why are we listening that we may 960 01:08:12,520 --> 01:08:15,120 live. Why are we listening that we may 961 01:08:15,160 --> 01:08:18,080 you know what this service, this sermon I'm preaching right now. 962 01:08:18,439 --> 01:08:21,520 If you really understood the Holy Ghost impact, you would be 963 01:08:21,520 --> 01:08:25,040 jumping up and running. This is we have become so 964 01:08:25,439 --> 01:08:32,680 conditioned that unless it's you know, we sing joy. 965 01:08:33,680 --> 01:08:40,359 That's when we run. I'm amazed at how we have dumbed 966 01:08:40,359 --> 01:08:46,120 down the body of Christ. I mean they are so conditioned 967 01:08:46,120 --> 01:08:51,760 to do responses based upon specific little buzz things 968 01:08:52,160 --> 01:08:55,439 instead of just recognizing when God. 969 01:08:55,439 --> 01:08:57,520 Man, that's good news. Wow this is great. 970 01:08:57,600 --> 01:08:59,439 I should rejoice. I should jump up and say 971 01:08:59,439 --> 01:09:05,080 Hallelujah, thank you, Jesus, because you understand even when 972 01:09:05,080 --> 01:09:08,120 corrections come in, it's a time to shout for joy. 973 01:09:10,160 --> 01:09:12,760 Now I understand there are times you're taking it in. 974 01:09:12,760 --> 01:09:17,760 I get that, I understand that. But once you recognize, ma'am, 975 01:09:17,760 --> 01:09:21,560 this is helping me, then you, you have the ability to move it 976 01:09:21,560 --> 01:09:24,520 over into joy yourself. And you don't have to wait for 977 01:09:24,520 --> 01:09:29,520 somebody. The Holy Ghost did not just 978 01:09:29,520 --> 01:09:32,399 moving when we sing, you know, look what the Lord has done. 979 01:09:34,439 --> 01:09:37,279 He healed my body. Oh, OK, now we get to run. 980 01:09:37,279 --> 01:09:39,200 There's the song. Now we can do this. 981 01:09:41,600 --> 01:09:44,479 Or when someone starts laughing, now we can all laugh. 982 01:09:49,359 --> 01:09:51,840 Come on, let's get a personal response. 983 01:09:52,920 --> 01:09:56,360 Let's get a personal response. I mean, are we connected? 984 01:09:56,360 --> 01:10:00,480 Are we just being lectured to? But if you come and say, Lord, 985 01:10:00,480 --> 01:10:03,520 teach me something today, Lord, I want to be in your presence. 986 01:10:06,440 --> 01:10:08,240 And I know if I'm in your presence, you're going to expose 987 01:10:08,240 --> 01:10:10,080 something because I'm not a perfect person. 988 01:10:11,520 --> 01:10:13,800 And Lord, whatever you need me to deal with today, I'm going to 989 01:10:13,800 --> 01:10:15,840 deal with it. I'm going to deal with. 990 01:10:15,840 --> 01:10:18,040 Because God's not going to give you something you can't handle 991 01:10:18,320 --> 01:10:21,640 nor you can't overcome, but He's going to keep strengthening you 992 01:10:21,640 --> 01:10:24,120 along the way. And yeah, sometimes it's just 993 01:10:24,120 --> 01:10:26,040 going to be a celebration. I get it. 994 01:10:26,200 --> 01:10:30,200 But the celebrations are not better services than a full 995 01:10:30,200 --> 01:10:40,400 blown reproof service. Those are like, yes, bring it. 996 01:10:40,400 --> 01:10:43,600 He's growing me, man. I'm getting rid of this stuff. 997 01:10:44,480 --> 01:10:50,120 Whoa, it's leg day on Sunday for those who go to gym. 998 01:10:50,120 --> 01:10:54,600 You understand that joke all right, Incline your ear and come 999 01:10:54,600 --> 01:10:57,160 to me. Listen that you may live, and I 1000 01:10:57,160 --> 01:11:00,080 will make an everlasting covenant with you according to 1001 01:11:00,080 --> 01:11:02,160 the faithful mercy shown to David. 1002 01:11:02,160 --> 01:11:05,800 Jump down to verse 6. He says, seek the Lord while you 1003 01:11:05,800 --> 01:11:09,240 may be found. Call upon him while he is near. 1004 01:11:09,400 --> 01:11:13,760 Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his 1005 01:11:14,400 --> 01:11:18,720 thoughts and let him what? This is the whole point. 1006 01:11:18,840 --> 01:11:24,720 We're returning to original intent when God blew the 1007 01:11:24,720 --> 01:11:27,800 exposure of the light of Jesus Christ into our hearts. 1008 01:11:27,880 --> 01:11:33,360 He's like, this is who you were created to do, to be in the 1st 1009 01:11:33,360 --> 01:11:39,560 place, to have dominion, to rule and reign, to have the nature of 1010 01:11:39,560 --> 01:11:43,640 God and the thoughts of God. So let's return to the Lord and 1011 01:11:43,640 --> 01:11:47,600 he'll have compassion on him and to, to and to our God. 1012 01:11:47,640 --> 01:11:57,040 He will abundantly pardon for my are not your, nor my your, 1013 01:11:57,920 --> 01:12:02,240 declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher 1014 01:12:02,240 --> 01:12:04,920 than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my 1015 01:12:04,920 --> 01:12:09,640 thoughts than your thoughts. And so I'm like, Lord, give me 1016 01:12:09,640 --> 01:12:14,000 your thoughts, teach me your thoughts, change my thinking, 1017 01:12:14,000 --> 01:12:18,240 reprove me, correct me, and then give me the instruction on how I 1018 01:12:18,240 --> 01:12:21,280 can carry this out consistently in my life. 1019 01:12:21,960 --> 01:12:27,400 Expose every dark place, cause the negative in me to show up as 1020 01:12:27,440 --> 01:12:31,200 a positive. Full blown picture that every 1021 01:12:31,200 --> 01:12:35,840 detail of who I am in Christ is clearly seen to the world, 1022 01:12:37,360 --> 01:12:40,720 clearly seen to the world. And every time I come into 1023 01:12:40,720 --> 01:12:46,400 service, I'm like, thank you, Lord, Holy Spirit, teach me, 1024 01:12:47,200 --> 01:12:56,800 train me, instruct me, release me in my mind, strengthen me to 1025 01:12:56,800 --> 01:13:01,720 get rid of this stinking thinking, to cast down these low 1026 01:13:01,720 --> 01:13:07,560 level thoughts and give me the highest standard of who I am in 1027 01:13:07,560 --> 01:13:10,360 Christ. That I can walk that thing out 1028 01:13:10,360 --> 01:13:12,680 in the world. That I can lay hands on the 1029 01:13:12,680 --> 01:13:14,640 sick. I can pray for people. 1030 01:13:14,640 --> 01:13:18,200 I can walk into me. I can overcome temptation. 1031 01:13:19,680 --> 01:13:24,800 I can walk in love, forgiveness. I guard my mouth because my 1032 01:13:24,800 --> 01:13:33,080 mind's guarded. For me, church is the most 1033 01:13:33,080 --> 01:13:38,840 positive place to be, even when it's the hardest messages 1034 01:13:39,200 --> 01:13:43,080 because they're really not hard. They're beneficial. 1035 01:13:43,840 --> 01:13:47,120 The only thing hard about a message is me resisting. 1036 01:13:48,680 --> 01:13:52,360 If you leave and say man that's hard, it's only because you 1037 01:13:52,360 --> 01:13:53,400 don't want to change your thinking.