1 00:00:20,530 --> 00:00:24,490 Turn over, if you would, to Isaiah Chapter 7, verse 9. 2 00:00:24,490 --> 00:00:27,570 We're going to get the very latter part of this verse and 3 00:00:27,570 --> 00:00:32,650 I'm reading out the Legacy Standard Bible, which is the New 4 00:00:32,650 --> 00:00:37,760 American Standard 1995 that they have redone. 5 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:42,000 I like the the New American Standard. 6 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:47,560 I have heard through various sources that is one of the most 7 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:52,280 accurate translations trying to adhere to the original Hebrew 8 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:54,840 and Greek. Although I use a lot of 9 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:59,280 translations because a lot of other translations get it right 10 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:04,280 and communicate it in some terms that we can understand, you 11 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:09,000 know, so, But this one came out and I like the way it had read. 12 00:01:10,320 --> 00:01:12,600 And so I'm reading it during my Bible reading plan this year. 13 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:14,560 Anyway, the latter part says this. 14 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:20,360 If you do not establish your faith in Yahweh, you surely 15 00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:27,200 shall not be established. And that struck me today when I 16 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:30,600 saw that. And I want to talk to you about 17 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:33,560 Anchor Faith now. I'm not talking about the 18 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:40,240 church, I'm talking about faith that is anchored and we're 19 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:44,880 talking anchor faith. All right, because our faith 20 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:50,960 should be firm. It should hold and we need to 21 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:54,040 have that. I know when we fir when the Lord 22 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:59,960 first spoke to me about a church plant that we were going to come 23 00:01:59,960 --> 00:02:05,520 here and that you know, the Lord was telling me you need to go. 24 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:09,759 At that point I asked him a series of questions because 25 00:02:09,759 --> 00:02:11,920 again, as you've heard me say, I'm the Abraham type. 26 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:15,320 Get up and go to where you're going to show me and he can talk 27 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:17,640 to me and route. I will pack the bags and go. 28 00:02:17,640 --> 00:02:19,640 I don't need the plan. I just give me a word. 29 00:02:19,640 --> 00:02:23,240 Now that's a heading for me. I'm out, OK, I'm not Moses. 30 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:26,880 Moses like give me the plan. I'm on a plan here, you know, 31 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:28,520 and you know what? God has no problem with either 32 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:30,560 type of leader. Both of them were awesome 33 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:36,160 leaders, OK. However, I knew my pastor, and I 34 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:38,240 love my pastor, Pastor David Emma. 35 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:40,640 I love him. I have the distinct privilege 36 00:02:40,640 --> 00:02:44,200 right now of being able to reprint his books, of which we 37 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:46,680 are working on them. I love him. 38 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:50,520 He has left a legacy and his voice needs to remain because he 39 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:55,760 was a great teacher of the Word, you know, And so my honoring him 40 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:59,680 and his life is that, you know, I've done a couple things. 41 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:04,400 One, I've picked up a missionary that he supported in Albania and 42 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:10,000 I have right now calling us a pastor in Africa, Kenya 43 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,520 actually, and is pretty persistent. 44 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:19,080 And I'm asking the Lord, do I need to continue on with what 45 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:22,320 Pastor David started because he's not in the earth anymore. 46 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:26,480 And I'm asking that question because, you know, God wants 47 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:29,200 something to be completed. Even if you're not here, 48 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:30,800 somebody's going to pick it up and keep on. 49 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:33,000 If you finish your course, you're going to pass a baton and 50 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:34,480 somebody's going to continue the course. 51 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:42,360 OK, so anyway, knowing my pastor honored that he heard God to 52 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:47,520 hire me and, and I wanted to honor him at all cost. 53 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:51,320 And so I, he knew I was going to pastor one day. 54 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:57,320 He trained me and for such. And so when I realized I was 55 00:03:57,320 --> 00:04:01,040 going to go and I knew I needed to meet with him, I knew I 56 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:04,600 couldn't just go and say, hey, the Lord, I could have. 57 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:08,120 But at the end of the day, knowing him, I'm like, I want to 58 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:11,600 give him what I know how he operates. 59 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:15,680 And so I said, Lord, you know, Pastor David is visual. 60 00:04:16,399 --> 00:04:19,360 He likes to see things and read things. 61 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:23,560 I would leave, I would tell him and leave with no instruction. 62 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:27,880 Lord, you know that. But I'm asking you for His sake 63 00:04:28,280 --> 00:04:31,920 because I want Him to know. I've heard from God and I need 64 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:35,040 it to be in His gifting to receive it. 65 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:38,840 So would you give me the plan of which He did? 66 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:42,960 And He gave me some phases. The first 3 phases that we still 67 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:44,960 carry today, the 1st 2 are basically done. 68 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:47,040 And we even say that when we do vision partners. 69 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:50,480 Ship. And so I typed it all out. 70 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:54,320 I created my own logo because I was in Corel Draw and used to do 71 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:56,520 graphic designs myself as a youth pastor. 72 00:04:56,760 --> 00:04:59,520 And so there was an Anchor Faith logo that no one's ever seen. 73 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:05,000 My first draft to give him, it never made it past Oklahoma. 74 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:08,760 When we launched, it turned into something different. 75 00:05:08,840 --> 00:05:14,800 However, I sat down and when I communicated to him and then I 76 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:21,000 gave him that he was able to read on paper the words that God 77 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:24,840 had given me, which then I knew that plan was anointed and he 78 00:05:24,840 --> 00:05:30,440 would sense that anointing. OK, of which he did and he was a 79 00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:35,120 major blessing to my life. But as I was talking about to 80 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:39,600 the Lord Lord, what do you want to call the church, you know, 81 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:41,920 and I dialogue with him. I said, now I'm going into a 82 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:43,320 community. It's going to be a coastal 83 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:46,440 community, you know, be awesome if we could have some name that 84 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:48,400 even though we're new, it seems like we've been there for a 85 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:52,680 while. And through that anchor, faith 86 00:05:53,280 --> 00:05:57,400 came into my spirit. You know, I just since I knew 87 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:01,480 that we live by faith, faith just seemed I was a byproduct of 88 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:06,160 faith, the Word of Faith. And as a result of that, Faith 89 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:09,360 made the cut. Must be in a coastal town. 90 00:06:09,840 --> 00:06:13,880 Anchor showed up, which is obviously pretty easy with 91 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:16,360 coastal communities. And so here we are. 92 00:06:16,360 --> 00:06:18,320 We're anchor faith. Now there are a lot of people 93 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:22,040 still say we're Anchor of faith, anchor faith, Anchor of Faith 94 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:24,240 Baptist Church. We are none of those names. 95 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:30,160 Just to let you know, we are anchor faith no of even in 96 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:38,520 Spanish. No Angela de Fey OK Oh no dos 97 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:44,120 dress OK anyway, so our faith should be anchored, right? 98 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:47,520 And this scripture did this phrase did not come because, you 99 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:50,120 know, we do not use the heat. The Hebrew scripture that says 100 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:54,520 he's an anchor of our soul, although he is OK. 101 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:58,040 We use it in context of faith that our faith is firm, 102 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:01,320 established. It holds, it does not. 103 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:04,280 We do not get pulled away and no matter what. 104 00:07:04,280 --> 00:07:06,840 Current is happening in life no matter what. 105 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:11,000 The currents are doing no matter what storms our anchor holds, 106 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:14,480 because the Word never fails. Amen. 107 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:19,560 OK so with that being said again in Isaiah 79 he says to them, if 108 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:22,560 you do not establish your faith in Yahweh and that is God, you 109 00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:26,840 surely shall not be established. Now I love this because this 110 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:30,240 scripture lets us know. That you can establish your 111 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:35,640 faith in something else. You can establish your faith in 112 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:39,400 something else. Faith is not a religious word. 113 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:45,320 Actually, when you define faith, it just means a firm persuasion. 114 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:49,280 Well, you know, the world is firmly persuaded about things. 115 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:53,640 So when we say faith, we think church or religion. 116 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:57,200 But the reality is when when God says faith, he's not thinking 117 00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:00,680 religion. You know, religion, he's 118 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:05,720 thinking a firm persuasion and he's actually talking to a 119 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:08,640 couple of his tribes that listen, they were putting their 120 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:12,400 faith in things that other nations were doing and other 121 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:18,800 religious expressions or gods they were doing instead of 122 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:23,640 keeping their focus on the Lord. You understand what I'm saying? 123 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:30,480 So this is really important that we establish our faith in God. 124 00:08:33,799 --> 00:08:36,440 He needs to be our firm persuasion because if we have 125 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:41,679 not established our faith in God, then we are not established 126 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:50,960 because what you actually firmly are persuaded in will fall away. 127 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:56,240 It's temporary. It's not going to stand forever. 128 00:08:57,480 --> 00:09:03,000 It is. It can be shaken, but God's word 129 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:06,120 stands forever. It is eternal. 130 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:11,160 They Amen. So Isaiah is obviously the 131 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:13,200 prophet warning you got. You need to get your faith 132 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:15,640 established in God. Now, why is this important? 133 00:09:15,640 --> 00:09:18,640 You start coming into today. When I say today, I'm talking 134 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:22,680 about tomorrow, a day that we haven't even arrived at that 135 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:26,520 that Luke gives an account of something that is said 136 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:29,640 concerning Jesus. And Jesus having this 137 00:09:29,640 --> 00:09:34,040 conversation is that there's going to come a day that he's 138 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:36,280 going to show up. Now he gives a parable 139 00:09:36,280 --> 00:09:39,840 concerning this particular woman who goes before an unrighteous 140 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:45,840 judge and is as looking for justice and she is so persistent 141 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:49,400 at coming to him even though he does not fear God or man. 142 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:53,800 He gives her what she wants. He concludes here in Luke 143 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:58,440 chapter 18 verses 7 and 8. I move that guys Luke chapter 144 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:04,800 18-7 and eight and it says this now God say now will not God 145 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:08,520 bring about justice for his elect who cried to him day and 146 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:11,040 night and will he delay long over them? 147 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:14,440 Verse 8, I tell you that he will bring about justice for them 148 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:17,640 quickly. However, when the Son of Man 149 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:23,640 comes, will he find faith on the earth? 150 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:26,000 Now what faith are we talking about? 151 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:29,600 We're talking about faith established in God. 152 00:10:30,680 --> 00:10:36,120 So there's a day that's beyond us that the Son of Man is coming 153 00:10:36,840 --> 00:10:41,520 back to the earth and will he find faith in it? 154 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:46,000 Now, it's important for us to define faith here because again, 155 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:50,400 faith is not a religious term. So it's not like will he find 156 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:58,360 religion here. We have to ask the question what 157 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:01,680 is faith? Well faith by definition we know 158 00:11:01,680 --> 00:11:05,360 is a firm persuasion. Now faith according to Hebrews 159 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:08,800 Chapter 11 verse. Now faith is the substance of 160 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:12,040 things hoped for, the evidence of things what not seen it says 161 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:19,080 Abraham and and Romans chapter 4 that he was firmly persuaded 162 00:11:19,560 --> 00:11:23,280 that what God had said he was able to perform. 163 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:29,200 So he believed God even when the evidence in the natural was it 164 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:32,480 cannot occur. Now when I say that, that 165 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:35,840 doesn't mean there's something in the natural that cannot occur 166 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:39,360 and he's convincing God to do something he wants. 167 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:43,360 Well, this can't occur. So I'm going to believe God that 168 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:46,480 he can do it anyway. But if God's not authorizing, 169 00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:48,960 you're not convincing him to do something he's not doing. 170 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:52,840 However, if something's away and God's like that's not really how 171 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:53,840 it is. It's this way. 172 00:11:53,960 --> 00:11:59,000 Well, now you can believe, and when you do that, then whatever 173 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:03,000 situation you're in, in the context of Abraham, his wife 174 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:05,800 could not have any children. She was barren, but yet he 175 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:09,760 believed God, she's going to have a baby and he acted on 176 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:12,640 that. She did not have an Immaculate 177 00:12:12,640 --> 00:12:16,200 Conception. I'm going to say that again. 178 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:19,240 She did not have an Immaculate Conception. 179 00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:22,560 So when God says your wife's going to have a child, he didn't 180 00:12:22,560 --> 00:12:24,120 say, well, I can't wait till it happens. 181 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:25,400 And they never slept with his wife. 182 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:33,720 He slept with his wife believing that at any time his sperm was 183 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:36,520 going to going to impregnate an egg. 184 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:40,960 And she was it was going to get it to the walls of her uterus 185 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:42,400 and it was going to come to pass. 186 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:46,560 I'm in with adults here. OK, All right. 187 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:51,720 He was believing this would occur because even though he had 188 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:55,440 years, decades of evidence, it's not so. 189 00:12:56,320 --> 00:13:00,400 But God has now spoken. So now he's firmly persuaded. 190 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:03,360 OK, well, how did he get firmly persuaded? 191 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:08,440 Because faith is firm. Persuasion has to arrive 192 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:12,360 somehow. OK, so God is going to ask the 193 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:17,640 question, is there going to be faith in the earth yet? 194 00:13:17,960 --> 00:13:22,680 Romans 117 says this for it. For in it the righteousness of 195 00:13:22,680 --> 00:13:26,080 God is revealed from faith to faith as it is written. 196 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:34,960 But the righteous shall live by faith Now in our dispensation, 197 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:37,960 what we're in now current the age of grace or the age of the 198 00:13:37,960 --> 00:13:41,160 church. We are righteous, been made 199 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:44,160 righteous because of the death, burial, resurrection of Jesus 200 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:45,840 and we called on the name of the Lord. 201 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:47,560 We became a new creature in Christ. 202 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:50,760 Behold all things became new which our spirit man now, not 203 00:13:50,760 --> 00:13:52,800 the old one that was dead and separated from God. 204 00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:58,160 It has been taken out of our bodies and he has replaced it 205 00:13:58,160 --> 00:14:01,920 with a brand new spirit that is in the likeness of Christ. 206 00:14:01,920 --> 00:14:10,200 It has made righteous and it wants to and can hear the voice 207 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:16,440 of God and it and this spirit that he gave us wants to obey 208 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:21,760 whatever God says and to just make sure that that spirit gets 209 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:24,960 it. He puts his own spirit inside 210 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:28,520 our body to bear with this, with this new spirit that we are a 211 00:14:28,520 --> 00:14:32,240 child of God and we've been made righteous. 212 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:42,800 Now the righteous are to live not by your job, not by your 213 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:48,680 kids. Your life is not revolved around 214 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:52,720 natural. It is revolved around faith. 215 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:56,040 Now, that doesn't mean you're not going to interact with your 216 00:14:56,040 --> 00:14:59,280 children and your spouse and you're going to have employment 217 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:01,440 somewhere or own a business. I'm not saying that. 218 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:06,840 What I'm saying is all of those things are are being, are are 219 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:12,120 you're functioning in those relationships through faith. 220 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:18,120 We should be raising our children by faith. 221 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:26,920 We should be doing our jobs, our businesses by faith. 222 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:32,000 Everything we do should be by faith. 223 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:37,760 And what faith does is it does not lean on its own 224 00:15:37,760 --> 00:15:40,600 understanding. Now, when I say faith, I mean we 225 00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:43,960 the Bible tells us that we are to not lean on our own 226 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:45,560 understanding, but in all our ways. 227 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:49,680 What do we do? Acknowledge and He will because 228 00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:52,600 when you acknowledge God then He'll give you His Word, which 229 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:54,760 that's how faith comes is from hearing Him. 230 00:15:54,760 --> 00:15:58,800 And when you apply it, then you will live by the word of God in 231 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:00,880 that situation that you've encountered. 232 00:16:01,880 --> 00:16:03,080 That's how we're supposed to live. 233 00:16:03,640 --> 00:16:08,600 My living is not my occupation. My living is the word of God. 234 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:11,240 I just happen to be employed or I happen to own a business or 235 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:14,080 whatever the case may be. I'm, I just happen to be a, a 236 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:17,040 husband to a wife. I just happen to be a father to 237 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:18,640 children. I just happen to be a 238 00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:21,520 grandfather, great grandfather. I just happen to be in whatever 239 00:16:21,520 --> 00:16:24,520 relationship. But all of those are by faith, 240 00:16:24,520 --> 00:16:29,320 because the righteous are to live by faith. 241 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:36,320 And that's what we're in now. And yet Jesus says, will I find 242 00:16:36,320 --> 00:16:43,120 it here? So how could it be that there 243 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:49,840 could be a planet of righteous people that Jesus is questioning 244 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:57,800 when he returns? Will he even find them living by 245 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:02,640 it? Amen. 246 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:06,800 Hallelujah. The good news is it says the 247 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:09,680 righteous will live by faith, which tells us righteous people 248 00:17:09,680 --> 00:17:12,359 can live by faith. Living by faith is obtainable. 249 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:16,760 Now the enemy would try to convince you that you couldn't 250 00:17:16,760 --> 00:17:22,240 live by faith, that you have to do certain things like everyone 251 00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:24,720 else. You know, you don't have to do 252 00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:28,920 anything like anyone else. Now let me just pref it. 253 00:17:28,920 --> 00:17:31,760 Let me just explain that a little bit. 254 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:34,680 God is not giving you something that no one else is doing. 255 00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:38,360 What he's giving you is in context to his word, OK? 256 00:17:38,360 --> 00:17:42,080 What I'm saying is, is everybody is doing it this way. 257 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:44,240 And we're even talking the lost. Well, you know, if the lost is 258 00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:46,120 doing it. I mean, talking about those 259 00:17:46,120 --> 00:17:49,320 outside of covenant, the unrighteous, if they are 260 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:54,440 amassing wealth or are are going after education a certain way 261 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:57,600 and there's a whole plan, that doesn't mean that's. 262 00:17:57,600 --> 00:18:02,000 God's way. It could actually mean it's not 263 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:08,640 because the enemy, the devil, who has been whipped and 264 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:13,320 stripped of his power. OK, let's say that again. 265 00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:16,480 Who has been whipped and stripped of his power? 266 00:18:17,520 --> 00:18:24,000 Amen still has systems in the earth, and His systems are very 267 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:29,920 profitable to those who follow. Now, when I say profitable, 268 00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:38,280 they're profitable to keep them in bondage because what 269 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:42,200 whichever way He knows to keep you in bondage, meaning keeping 270 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:46,640 you from fulfilling God's Word or wanting to do God's Word, 271 00:18:46,840 --> 00:18:50,920 He'll put you on that path. And that could be that he strips 272 00:18:50,920 --> 00:18:54,920 you of all your resources and you have nothing and puts you on 273 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:58,800 drugs and you're and you're just living this horrific life of 274 00:18:58,800 --> 00:19:01,880 destitute. Or whether he's given you the 275 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:08,880 palaces, he knows the pathway to keep you so that you'll continue 276 00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:16,120 to curse God because they're both there to kill, steal, and 277 00:19:16,120 --> 00:19:19,840 destroy from 1. You know he stripped them of 278 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:22,480 everything and they curse God because they have nothing. 279 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:25,360 But on the other side, he's given them everything, and they 280 00:19:25,360 --> 00:19:27,520 curse God because they think they are God. 281 00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:33,880 And in both ways, he wins. Amen. 282 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:39,000 Because some people are just made by God in the womb to do 283 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:40,240 certain things that the devil knows. 284 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:42,960 I couldn't strip all this. Those people would just get up 285 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:45,680 and keep coming. He can see it in your 286 00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:47,520 personality. He can see it in the way you're 287 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:50,920 bit a little bit. I mean, he is a master of 288 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:54,480 discovery of you and he knows your flesh. 289 00:19:55,840 --> 00:20:00,040 I said he knows your flesh. I mean, we have these tools in 290 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:02,760 the natural where their personalities, you know, and 291 00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:05,120 there's four common personalities that have 292 00:20:05,120 --> 00:20:07,240 strengths and weaknesses. And then when you take that 293 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:10,160 test, you know, you can really identify a person in the flesh. 294 00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:12,040 Every time I have one of our staff take it, I said. 295 00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:13,880 I listen. Act like you're in the flesh. 296 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:17,000 When you answer some of the questions in the strengths, you 297 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:18,960 can get in the spirit, you're like, oh, yeah, that's me. 298 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:20,840 I'm this, I'm that. But then when you get after the 299 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:24,320 weaknesses, you know, like you you're angry or you're 300 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:25,960 impatient, you're like, oh, no, I'm not. 301 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:29,640 So yes, in the spirit, you overcome those things. 302 00:20:29,760 --> 00:20:31,120 But let's say you were in the flesh. 303 00:20:31,120 --> 00:20:33,800 What would be your response? That's how you need to answer 304 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:36,400 those questions, right? If I was in the flesh, which one 305 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:38,200 would come up first? I would definitely do that one. 306 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:39,880 OK. But I'm sanctified. 307 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:41,200 I'm set free. I don't. 308 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:45,440 But if I was right, OK, but that's how we take those tests 309 00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:48,400 because they always get messed up when they're always checking 310 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:49,640 them by the fruits of the Spirit. 311 00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:51,120 Oh, I don't do that. None of these apply. 312 00:20:51,120 --> 00:20:53,080 Pastor Earl, what do you mean I would do none of these. 313 00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:57,440 I understand in the Spirit. I get it. 314 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:01,520 You've overcome. However, we need to fine tune 315 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:05,840 because your personality actually allows us to and you to 316 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:09,640 understand how you process. And this is how you become 317 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:11,760 patient with people when you understand how they process. 318 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:15,800 Because God made us different. He didn't make us all the same. 319 00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:18,400 The problem is, is each personality thinks we are of the 320 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:20,200 best and we want everybody to be ours. 321 00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:23,960 Right. I mean. 322 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:27,800 If I gave you a personality test, you will find how many 323 00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:31,360 people you gravitate that are like you and process like you. 324 00:21:31,360 --> 00:21:33,120 And you're like they know. See, they get it. 325 00:21:33,120 --> 00:21:35,640 How come you don't get it? Well, because they process it 326 00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:38,920 like you do. That's all. 327 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:43,880 Are you hearing me? OK, so the enemy knows and then 328 00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:48,640 he will move your life accordingly. 329 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:54,000 But the righteous live by faith, and the faith they live is 330 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:57,160 established in God, not in the world. 331 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:01,760 So is there anything wrong with going to a university? 332 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:07,040 No, but did the Lord tell you? Does your purpose require it? 333 00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:12,320 And if it does not, more people could be damaged going to a path 334 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:17,720 that the rest do but yet cannot handle the actual environment 335 00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:23,000 they're being thrust into. Many believers have left the 336 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:28,040 faith when they went to college because number one, they set in 337 00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:32,680 the churches not growing, but mom and dad bring me here. 338 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:35,160 And they took none of their own personal responsibility. 339 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:38,200 See, parents, that's why you got to raise your children by faith, 340 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:40,920 because you need to look at them and say, I know you're 341 00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:44,160 graduating, but you should wait a couple years before you go to 342 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:46,800 college. And recognize whether they are 343 00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:49,440 mature enough to even how have they walked enough in their 344 00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:52,400 faith to be able to withstand an onslaught? 345 00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:56,400 You know, because sometimes in parenting, we protect our 346 00:22:56,400 --> 00:23:01,360 children to the extreme that they don't even encounter. 347 00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:08,240 And we're giving them the, the ability to navigate situations. 348 00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:13,520 You're you're a safety net. You're recovering, but you're 349 00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:20,200 allowing them to process how now you're not throwing them to the 350 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:23,160 wolves. I'm not telling you that, but 351 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:29,480 you're having conversations that allow them to realize I'm making 352 00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:34,520 a choice either for God or not. And when you're training that in 353 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:39,960 the home, then when they get. Out it becomes a little more 354 00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:42,440 successful. Let me say it that way. 355 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:46,360 The chances of success are better because they've already 356 00:23:46,360 --> 00:23:48,880 done it under your covering. Because when they step out, they 357 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:52,240 do what they want to do and they can get full blown rebellion. 358 00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:56,600 And you're like, I don't even know who my child is, but God 359 00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:59,080 and you're praying for him, believing God and doing all that 360 00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:00,840 now I'm not. Some are, some are. 361 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:03,280 Some has developed enough that they can be released. 362 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:06,920 I get it. This is why it's all by faith. 363 00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:11,280 It's not cookie cutter is hearing the voice of God for 364 00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:18,280 your situation, but the truths are going to be across the board 365 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:21,280 from the scripture. It's not a different word that 366 00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:23,520 we've never seen in the context of Scripture, is what I'm 367 00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:26,160 saying. OK, so the righteous will live 368 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:28,200 How? What are righteous? 369 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:31,120 Righteous are those. This is by definition of this 370 00:24:31,120 --> 00:24:34,400 particular word. It means observing divine laws. 371 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:38,080 It means, in a wine sense, upright, righteous, virtuous. 372 00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:40,120 We love those words. When we talk about righteous, 373 00:24:40,120 --> 00:24:43,120 but this word righteous has these two contexts as well, 374 00:24:43,120 --> 00:24:46,680 observing divine laws and keeping the commands of God. 375 00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:50,960 So God made you righteous and right standing with God. 376 00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:55,360 He gave you the spirit that says I'll obey God. 377 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:59,160 I want to that's what it means to be righteous and that's why 378 00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:00,360 we say it's not a religious word. 379 00:25:00,360 --> 00:25:02,640 It just means right standing with the governing authority. 380 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:06,280 You could not in your with your other spirit man ever get in 381 00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:10,280 right standing with God because you were born in the sin. 382 00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:12,840 You were a Sinner. Your nature was cut off from 383 00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:15,120 God. But God being rich in his mercy 384 00:25:15,120 --> 00:25:17,360 while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 385 00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:20,320 And when we called on his name, he gave us this new spirit that 386 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:22,280 is now in the righteousness of God. 387 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:25,600 It's in right standing. We didn't do it, He did it. 388 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:29,840 Now he's placed it US and that spirit wants to keep the 389 00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:36,680 commands wants to he wants to. Now your mind does it. 390 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:39,600 Your soul realm still has challenges. 391 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:43,800 That's why the Bible tells us that we are to wash our mind 392 00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:46,240 with the word because once you're born again, the Holy 393 00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:49,360 Spirit becomes your great teacher and says guess what is 394 00:25:49,360 --> 00:25:51,600 yours? Oh can't wait to take you to 395 00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:53,520 class today. There are so many awesome 396 00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:55,320 things. Now when I say class you 397 00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:57,800 understand unfortunately we default to classroom 398 00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:01,400 environments even like right here we default to this. 399 00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:05,200 Now it'd be different if I was like, hey, we're all going on a 400 00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:09,160 cruise tonight so let me give you what we're going to be in 401 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:11,480 enjoying. Now y'all have a totally 402 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:15,360 different demeanor right now we're going to be doing some 403 00:26:15,360 --> 00:26:18,000 excursions. All right, Sharon, you and 404 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,560 Steve, we got an excursion for you all right, it's it's worth 405 00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:25,200 $5000 already paid for. You see, I'm even like praise 406 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:27,400 God, don't even worry about tips. 407 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:30,920 It's all taken care of. All the food is all you can eat. 408 00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:34,360 This is the Lord. These are the things the Lord 409 00:26:34,360 --> 00:26:37,400 has given us in his word. But when we sit in here, we're 410 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:39,320 thinking, oh, we're in class, we're taking instruction and 411 00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:41,880 we're taking it as knowledge when we're really getting the 412 00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:44,720 benefits package of who we are in Christ. 413 00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:46,720 He's an essence. Say, let me give you your all 414 00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:51,280 inclusive trip that you now have in the earth and let me give you 415 00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:53,560 all your benefits that you get to walk in. 416 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:56,640 Now. This is what these sessions 417 00:26:56,640 --> 00:27:00,680 really are. These training sessions are now 418 00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:03,680 again when we're navigating whether we're going on a cruise 419 00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:05,680 and we're getting into some foreign territory. 420 00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:11,160 There's some places you should avoid, but if you get in 421 00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:14,760 trouble, we can rescue you, right? 422 00:27:15,360 --> 00:27:19,080 So when we look at this this way instead, then we're like, OK, 423 00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:22,680 the Holy Ghost in US is telling us all the great things that we 424 00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:26,680 can enjoy and the things that are given to us to overcome 425 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:29,760 adversity. Let me get in and hear what the 426 00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:34,120 Lord has for me and let me change the way I think to line 427 00:27:34,120 --> 00:27:39,080 up with who I now am in Christ. So the righteous will live How 428 00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:42,120 how they going to live? How are you going to live? 429 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:44,480 How are you going to live in 2025? 430 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:48,280 By faith. Let it be the best by faith year 431 00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:50,480 ever. Amen. 432 00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:56,760 OK, so how do we get faith? Since we're living by faith, how 433 00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:59,000 do we get it? Romans 10/17. 434 00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:07,680 So faith comes by and by and as you heard me say, because Isaiah 435 00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:11,280 obviously kind of points this out, is that if your faith is 436 00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:13,840 not established in God, then you're not established. 437 00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:16,720 So you can have faith established somewhere else. 438 00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:21,000 This scripture says. So faith comes by hearing and 439 00:28:21,360 --> 00:28:25,080 and what Paul is saying is you're hearing in essence should 440 00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:27,600 be from the word of Christ. He's making a general state. 441 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:31,440 Faith comes by hearing. All of us get firmly persuaded 442 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:32,720 because of something we've heard. 443 00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:37,280 Some of you don't eat things because you became firmly 444 00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:41,720 persuaded that it's not good for you and when it's offered. 445 00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:44,520 No, no, no, thank you. No, go ahead, it's delicious. 446 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:47,760 No, I'm fine. You've become. 447 00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:50,640 Firmly persuaded that you will resist. 448 00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:54,320 Yes, that's right. Come on. 449 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:55,840 Right. Someone will tell all. 450 00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:58,040 Don't even worry. You see in that movie, you 451 00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:00,360 become firmly persuaded by them. You shouldn't see it. 452 00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:04,640 And this happens all the time. You go to the doctor and they'll 453 00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:06,560 and you're firmly persuaded what they said about you. 454 00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:09,720 You have that condition and you so firmly persuaded that you 455 00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:12,160 take your prescription. They give you, you go down to a 456 00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:16,520 drug store that someone you don't know fills it with the 457 00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:19,720 things that he said to fill it with and you have no idea what 458 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:22,360 it actually looks like. So you just trust that what they 459 00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:25,760 put on the label and the pills in it are the exact thing that 460 00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:28,720 they're saying and you have no concept of that or what 461 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:32,360 laboratory And there was no issues. 462 00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:36,160 And it's not a messed up order from that laboratory. 463 00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:40,440 I mean, I could take this a whole, but we just grab it and 464 00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:44,440 we're like, oh, man, based almost like a praise God, I'm 465 00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:46,120 fixing, I'm about to feel better. 466 00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:48,600 And we put it in our mouth and we suck it and put it. 467 00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:55,200 It could be, you know, arsenic, but you're firmly persuaded. 468 00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:59,840 It is what the doctor said you needed to get better and you 469 00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:08,040 don't even vet it. So firm persuasion or faith is 470 00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:13,520 easy. Actually it's really easy 471 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:17,800 because again, the world is really good at them operating in 472 00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:21,880 their faith. They're firmly persuaded, firmly 473 00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:24,600 persuaded. There are people that are firmly 474 00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:28,760 persuaded still today that wearing a mask protects them 475 00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:33,520 still today. Now I don't have an issue with 476 00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:36,960 that, but they wear them because of that reason. 477 00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:41,640 They are firmly persuaded. How do we know they're? 478 00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:44,640 Acting on it. Because a firm persuasion is an 479 00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:46,200 action. But how did they get there? 480 00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:50,640 They heard someone that they did not know personally stand up on 481 00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:53,800 TV and say this is a way to protect you. 482 00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:59,360 Anybody ever met Doctor Fauci personally shook his hand? 483 00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:04,160 Anyone. Anyone ever go into the college 484 00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:06,880 that he graduated from and see how many, how his grades were? 485 00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:15,400 Anyone seen his personal degree? Any know anybody know anything 486 00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:17,120 about his character, his lifestyle? 487 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,920 But now the Bible tells us the character and lifestyle of 488 00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:31,080 Jesus, his educational experience. 489 00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:39,680 I mean he only made the planet. Yeah, he has a really good 490 00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:47,640 resume. I mean, he was, is and is to 491 00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:53,040 come. And then we are like when the 492 00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:55,520 Lord says. And we're like, man, I don't 493 00:31:55,520 --> 00:32:04,200 know, but the world is easier to believe just because they heard. 494 00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:06,800 But what Paul is saying, faith comes by hearing. 495 00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:10,440 And listen, our hearing should be by the word of Christ. 496 00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:14,640 So faith comes by hearing. So what we hear produces a firm 497 00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:17,600 persuasion, and our firm persuasion should come by the 498 00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:20,680 word of Christ. Because of Romans 10/17 we could 499 00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:26,160 interpret. Romans 117 of the statement but 500 00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:29,320 the just or but the righteous live by faith. 501 00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:32,920 It could read this way, but the righteous will live by hearing 502 00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:37,200 the word of Christ and that would be accurate. 503 00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:43,520 But the righteous will live by hearing the word of Christ. 504 00:32:48,860 --> 00:32:52,620 I'm hearing what Christ said. Well, what? 505 00:32:52,820 --> 00:32:56,800 What does the Lord say? You know, and there's nothing 506 00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:59,600 wrong with you being in a situation that you can take a 507 00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:02,720 step back. Now, what I love about doctors, 508 00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:08,640 because we have one here, is that our doctor actually listens 509 00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:15,360 to the Holy Ghost. And so when she's examining feet 510 00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:20,880 is Debbie, she's like, she's listening now. 511 00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:25,720 Her natural training is there, but yet she can listen to the 512 00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:31,840 spirit and determine is the symptom in your foot only foot 513 00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:33,800 related or is there somewhere else? 514 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:40,440 This is what's so amazing about spirit LED people is because 515 00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:44,520 again, they they're living not by their book learning. 516 00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:50,880 They're living by what the word of God is saying. 517 00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:55,320 In this moment, at this time, are you hearing what I'm saying? 518 00:33:55,840 --> 00:34:00,240 OK, with that being said, then turn to James 122. 519 00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:01,840 James 122. Wow. 520 00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:03,520 Hallelujah. I better drive on. 521 00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:08,600 James 122 says this. But be what doers of the word, 522 00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:14,320 and not only so Paul says faith comes by hearing. 523 00:34:14,639 --> 00:34:16,760 So hearing creates a firm persuasion. 524 00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:21,840 However, if all you do is hear, you could have a deceived firm 525 00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:30,360 persuasion, James implies. Even if you hear God's Word, if 526 00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:41,600 you don't do it, you can have faith that has come from the 527 00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:45,239 Word, yet you're deceived in your application. 528 00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:55,120 And I have experienced these moments with with individuals 529 00:34:55,560 --> 00:35:00,200 and I have checked myself to determine am I there? 530 00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:08,960 I remember 1 very candid was purchasing them all and you 531 00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:13,080 know, money is to go down. Are we supposed to do this? 532 00:35:13,720 --> 00:35:17,000 Everybody's telling me do it. We I've already know. 533 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:20,640 I know the Lord wants us to, but you know, this is like real 534 00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:24,280 deal. And I'm like, OK, I mean, I'm 535 00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:28,680 all called up at the end of the day, but I need to, I need to 536 00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:34,520 get something in my spirit about this more so because I'm ready 537 00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:36,680 to act. And I do not want to act on 538 00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:43,080 deception because my ACT, my acting outside of God's Word and 539 00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:49,520 timing can get me into deception. 540 00:35:50,720 --> 00:35:53,440 So, you know, I went down the road praying about it and the 541 00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:56,040 Lord gave me a little scenario and through that the Lord said, 542 00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:57,280 don't you think I can get you them all? 543 00:35:57,280 --> 00:36:00,680 And that right there was my firm persuasion that at that point I 544 00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:05,080 stayed on course period. Because the last thing I want to 545 00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:07,240 do is think I've heard something. 546 00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:10,840 It sounds like God. I've seen God do it with others, 547 00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:14,440 but I need to make sure that's exactly what God is saying to 548 00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:17,440 me. I mean, during the time of, you 549 00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:20,880 know, when I would say the air of prosperity message, you know, 550 00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:24,080 people would give a car away and then they would God would give 551 00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:27,240 them a better car. They hear this testimony. 552 00:36:27,240 --> 00:36:29,200 You know what? People just started giving cars 553 00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:33,080 away, then they don't. They don't have a car. 554 00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:36,680 And then they have to get a car that's not as good as the one 555 00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:40,360 they gave away. And now they're upset at God 556 00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:42,320 because they're saying faith didn't work. 557 00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:45,000 Well, first of all, God never told that person to give a car 558 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:48,760 You're trying to. You coveted the blessing that 559 00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:51,360 God gave to someone else when God told them to give a. 560 00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:55,280 Car. Not you, but what we what do we 561 00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:57,280 do? We try to make faith a formula. 562 00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:04,240 The only formula about faith is what is God said to you that's 563 00:37:04,240 --> 00:37:08,720 in line with his word and it is his word and you are to act on 564 00:37:08,720 --> 00:37:10,600 it. That's the only formula about 565 00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:11,560 it. And then you stay firmly 566 00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:14,600 persuaded till it comes to pass. Outside of that, I cannot say, 567 00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:19,760 well, you know this word for, you know, Stacy with her 568 00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:22,560 business and you know, because she did, I'm going to do it that 569 00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:24,440 way. Well, God may have her do this 570 00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:29,000 business a different way. It's about you hearing God for 571 00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:31,760 you and your situation. Now, the end results may be the 572 00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:35,480 same successful business, but you may have gone about it 2 573 00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:39,720 totally different ways just because people have a pattern. 574 00:37:39,720 --> 00:37:43,200 Pastors fall in this huge when it comes to churches. 575 00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:45,040 Oh, they go to church, look how they're doing it. 576 00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:46,640 They go back home. They try to apply that. 577 00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:48,920 God never told them to apply that. 578 00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:51,760 Then they get upset because they're not getting the same 579 00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:53,920 results. Then they get down on 580 00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:55,560 themselves. I must not be a good leader. 581 00:37:55,720 --> 00:38:00,560 Well, you're not a good hearer. Most. 582 00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:03,240 Most. All of us is not that we aren't 583 00:38:03,240 --> 00:38:05,760 good leaders. Sometimes we're just not good 584 00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:11,120 listeners because we're applying stuff that someone else has 585 00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:16,560 heard God do, but God has not spoken to us, OK? 586 00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:19,440 So he says be a doer. Of the Word, not hearers, only 587 00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:21,680 deceiving yourself. The new American standard of 588 00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:23,800 this particular passage says it this way. 589 00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:27,440 But prove yourself doers of the Word, and not merely hearers who 590 00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:29,680 delude themselves. You understand coming to church, 591 00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:31,360 hearing the Word, and coming to church all the time. 592 00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:34,800 Hearing the word doesn't make you a successful faith person. 593 00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:40,080 It can actually make you worse because if God speaks to you out 594 00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:45,280 doing something and you do not do it, you know, then at the end 595 00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:47,400 of the day, you're going to get yourself called up. 596 00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:50,560 And really what you'll do is you'll move over into religion 597 00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:54,560 to where you're going to do God's word your way on your 598 00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:56,640 terms and you expect God to honor you. 599 00:38:57,920 --> 00:39:01,320 That's what religion is, and that's what is what they say, 600 00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:05,840 the works of the law, meaning you're going to hear God's word 601 00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:08,560 and you're going to say of my own merit I can do it. 602 00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:12,600 And when I do it, you have to honor me, bless me, and accept 603 00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:15,320 me. But you can't do it because your 604 00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:20,840 nature's off, and no religion can do it outside of faith in 605 00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:25,640 the Word to perform in you. OK, so another translation says 606 00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:28,760 this. Keep on obeying, keep on being 607 00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:32,880 obedient to the word and not merely being hearers who deceive 608 00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:36,280 themselves. Because what happens is, is 609 00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:41,840 that, you know, in our sphere, there's a lot of great teaching, 610 00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:48,440 which means then you acquire knowledge, you acquire 611 00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:51,280 revelation knowledge, and you apply it and it changes your 612 00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:52,640 life and you have the fruit of it. 613 00:39:54,240 --> 00:39:57,880 But if you get into a place where again, because you're not 614 00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:01,960 the only one in the room, this is a body, right? 615 00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:04,720 I mean, Steve, how many times have you heard these verses? 616 00:40:04,720 --> 00:40:09,640 I'm preaching right now, bro. Hot thousands, I would venture 617 00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:12,760 to say thousands of times, right Yet. 618 00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:17,040 There's probably some foods you've eaten thousands of times, 619 00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:25,280 like a good steak, a hamburger. Fish thousands of times you're 620 00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:30,960 not like I've had that yet in and when it comes to the Saints 621 00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:34,800 with the scripture, we do that. I've heard that, well, the 622 00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:39,120 minute you push the plate like that, because somebody in the 623 00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:42,840 room had had that plate yet and they're like, what? 624 00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:45,840 I've never smelled it. This is amazing. 625 00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:48,320 Oh my gosh, I've never. And we're like, we're needing to 626 00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:50,080 serve this. And you know, it's a good plate 627 00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:52,640 because when you first had it, you loved it and you've loved it 628 00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:53,840 enough. You've come to it multiple 629 00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:55,160 times. But then all of a sudden the 630 00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:57,960 minute you're like, push the plate, well, guess what? 631 00:40:57,960 --> 00:40:59,880 You do. You have the knowledge of the 632 00:40:59,880 --> 00:41:02,680 scripture and you can go tell anyone, but you've lost. 633 00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:06,120 Revelation of it. The minute you lose revelation 634 00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:08,320 of it, even though you have knowledge, then this is what 635 00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:10,280 they sound like. You know, Well, I'm having these 636 00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:12,800 challenges with finance. I'm having this challenge with 637 00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:15,400 my body, you know, but I know the Lord heals me and I'm 638 00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:18,760 believe, but there's a lot of butts. 639 00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:22,520 Again, talk to me factually, no problem. 640 00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:25,360 But once you give me the facts, all I should ever hear out of 641 00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:27,400 your mouth from them. I am the healed of the Lord. 642 00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:30,360 I am the righteousness of God. I am this, I am that. 643 00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:33,280 And if you're having a bad day, you should have some great faith 644 00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:36,880 friends that you can call and say, tell me how I'm healed. 645 00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:39,720 Not this is how I'm feeling today. 646 00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:42,400 I'm just having a moment. I know you're having moments. 647 00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:44,440 We all have moments. But it'd be better for us to get 648 00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:48,040 off talking about our moments and get to someone who you 649 00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:50,560 you're not in my moment. I need you to talk about how I'm 650 00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:53,320 out of my moment because I can't talk about it today. 651 00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:59,120 So get neutral or keep the switch of faith on by not saying 652 00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:02,280 how you feel and let somebody talk to you about how you feel 653 00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:05,320 till you can start saying how you feel like they're telling 654 00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:09,840 you. So people know they're shield of 655 00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:13,040 the Lord or they know that God's called them the project or they 656 00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:18,520 know that he has given them joy yet. 657 00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:25,320 And when you try to and you recognize and you try to tell 658 00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:27,880 them the word, then they kind of put up this wall. 659 00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:31,360 Oh yeah, I know. Oh, yeah, I know. 660 00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:34,400 Oh, yeah. No, no. 661 00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:37,200 What you should be doing is, oh, thank God, I'm pulling up the 662 00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:38,400 table. Bring that plate over here. 663 00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:41,320 I need to eat some of this right here instead of. 664 00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:45,400 Oh, I know. Well, that person probably 665 00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:49,800 sliding over into this, a deceived life. 666 00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:53,840 They're quoting what to do, but it's not manifesting. 667 00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:58,120 In their life. They've heard it, but they're 668 00:42:58,120 --> 00:42:59,480 not a doer. They've not proven it. 669 00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:04,080 So again, because of Romans 117, I'm winding down now. 670 00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:10,480 Romans 117 we could say this concerning, but the righteous 671 00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:15,800 will live by faith. If you take this verse with 672 00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:20,040 Romans 10/17, it would sound like this, but the righteous 673 00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:22,200 will live by being obedient to the. 674 00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:24,040 Word they have heard from Christ. 675 00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:28,120 And that's how the righteous live. 676 00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:33,480 Well, I'm righteous. Well then, are you living by 677 00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:38,480 being obedient to the word that you've heard from Christ? 678 00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:44,240 Is that how you're living? Because you know what, we we all 679 00:43:44,240 --> 00:43:48,120 can explain and justify our positions a lot. 680 00:43:49,080 --> 00:43:51,280 We could. And again, we all go through 681 00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:53,320 challenges. Don't get me wrong, we all go 682 00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:56,960 through, we can all justify a lot of stuff, but I've been 683 00:43:56,960 --> 00:43:59,560 justified. I've been made righteous. 684 00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:04,640 So if I'm going to walk in my righteousness, then there's a 685 00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:09,080 lifestyle or a way I am to live. And that is by faith or by 686 00:44:10,240 --> 00:44:18,600 obeying the word that I've heard from Christ, which is the King, 687 00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:26,120 because the King loves me so much that he wants to give me a 688 00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:30,680 word. That has to come to pass. 689 00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:35,120 Hallelujah. Isn't that good news? 690 00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:42,440 So Matthew 2121, Matthew 2121 and we'll go down to verse 22. 691 00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:45,560 I'll probably be using this a little bit more than Mark 11 692 00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:48,320 only because the Lord spoke to me about this verse. 693 00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:52,400 Matthew 2121. We live at we are our facility 694 00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:56,760 is at 2121 US One South and remember we came on the property 695 00:44:56,760 --> 00:44:58,080 and we were speaking to our mountain. 696 00:44:58,640 --> 00:45:02,280 OK and didn't realize this was a 2121 verse in Matthew. 697 00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:05,920 OK, but it goes on and says in Jesus answer and said to them 698 00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:11,600 truly I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt OK so you 699 00:45:11,600 --> 00:45:15,480 can have faith. And you can have doubt and he 700 00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:18,520 said, how's that possible? You can have faith, meaning you 701 00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:24,760 can have heard and in even in past times been a doer. 702 00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:29,480 But in this particular situation where you can look back on the 703 00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:32,920 faithfulness of God, of how He healed you last time, how He 704 00:45:33,200 --> 00:45:36,560 brought the finances last time, how He restored the relationship 705 00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:39,760 last time, whatever the case may be, in this particular 706 00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:43,200 situation, you begin to doubt. Because of the size of it. 707 00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:49,120 So I said, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only 708 00:45:49,120 --> 00:45:53,320 do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to 709 00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:56,840 this mountain be taken up, cast into the sea, it will happen. 710 00:45:57,120 --> 00:46:00,280 And all things you ask in prayer, believing that's having 711 00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:07,720 faith firmly persuaded anchor faith you will receive you what 712 00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:13,400 not maybe not could be not if it's God's will. 713 00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:15,440 We already know if it's God's will because you're not even in 714 00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:18,240 faith. Faith comes from hearing him. 715 00:46:18,920 --> 00:46:22,200 You don't it you've already answered the will question when 716 00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:24,800 you're in faith. You've not answered the will 717 00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:27,400 question. If you're asking Lord, if is is 718 00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:30,480 this your will not There's no problem with that question, 719 00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:31,920 Lord. Now, is this your will for me? 720 00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:35,720 To take this job, marry this person, whatever the case may 721 00:46:35,720 --> 00:46:40,080 be, right? Well, once you hear Him, now you 722 00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:43,040 know His will, and now you're in faith, because faith comes by. 723 00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:45,240 I've heard, and I'm acting on it. 724 00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:49,640 I'm going to do it. And it doesn't matter what storm 725 00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:52,720 comes against that word. Now I said it doesn't matter 726 00:46:54,040 --> 00:46:56,600 because we're going to have it. And when do I have it? 727 00:46:56,600 --> 00:46:59,720 The minute I prayed, which means now I'm just thanking Him for 728 00:46:59,720 --> 00:47:02,480 it. And again, how do we know if 729 00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:07,680 somebody is firmly persuaded in faith and they're obeying it or 730 00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:11,440 keeping it is because they're thanking all the time after 731 00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:13,800 they've received well, how are you doing today? 732 00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:15,960 Thank the Lord, I am the healed of the Lord. 733 00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:17,920 I'm so thankful that God has healed my body. 734 00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:20,920 Now you may be a wreck on the inside, but you're calling it 735 00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:24,720 that and you're thanking him. You're not really saying I 736 00:47:24,720 --> 00:47:30,200 believe I have it and I'm thankful I have I have it. 737 00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:33,800 Now, that doesn't mean you don't check on yourself or you checked 738 00:47:33,800 --> 00:47:36,080 yourself along the way. Because again, when you're in 739 00:47:36,080 --> 00:47:39,360 the process of certain things, you know you always want to make 740 00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:40,880 sure nothing's getting out of alignment. 741 00:47:40,960 --> 00:47:44,120 No doubt is what jumped in. Nothing's delaying anything that 742 00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:49,720 needs to be delayed. There's check UPS but you're 743 00:47:49,720 --> 00:47:52,080 staying firmly persuaded on the words you heard. 744 00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:56,920 There's been a couple situations I've been in the last couple 745 00:47:56,920 --> 00:48:00,240 years that I've heard very specific the word the Lord say 746 00:48:00,240 --> 00:48:04,080 to me, a very specific phrase, very specific. 747 00:48:05,120 --> 00:48:09,920 And anytime I've come back to that situation, I ask him and 748 00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:17,280 he's in both situations. He was quiet and he was quiet 749 00:48:17,280 --> 00:48:19,000 because he's already given me the word. 750 00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:24,160 The last thing I heard is the only thing he is saying, which 751 00:48:24,160 --> 00:48:27,480 means keep your course, keep your course. 752 00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:32,360 I know with the mall, you know, right before we know we went to 753 00:48:32,360 --> 00:48:34,080 buy it, There was a little bit of challenge trying to get back 754 00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:36,040 to the owner after we raised the down payment. 755 00:48:36,040 --> 00:48:39,120 And I was like, man, OK, you know, do we need to go another 756 00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:40,240 direction? Do we need to do something 757 00:48:40,240 --> 00:48:41,520 different? You know, I mean, have we gotten 758 00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:43,000 in here? Is there another process? 759 00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:44,680 Did I miss something? I'm always checking, you know, 760 00:48:44,680 --> 00:48:46,360 you know, I'm firmly persuaded on this thing. 761 00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:48,320 But you know what? It's not an idol to me to the 762 00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:51,040 point that if you tell me to go purchase some other land, I 763 00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:53,560 would do it Da, da, da, da, da, you know, because obviously I 764 00:48:53,560 --> 00:48:55,040 had only heard we were going to have it. 765 00:48:55,040 --> 00:48:57,560 And I'll never forget during that particular conversation, 766 00:48:57,560 --> 00:48:59,760 the Lord said, son, you can do whatever you want to do. 767 00:49:01,160 --> 00:49:03,360 Well, I knew what he was saying because I've not changed my mind 768 00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:07,920 on what I said. And then he proceeded to go on 769 00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:09,800 and say, 'cause you do what you want to do. 770 00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:12,680 My plan hadn't changed. Which means I'll send a man or 771 00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:15,360 woman to God that will believe for this property and put on 772 00:49:15,360 --> 00:49:17,400 this property exactly what I want on this property. 773 00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:20,120 And you'll be in this community driving by and saying it could 774 00:49:20,120 --> 00:49:23,840 have been me. Well, I was like, forget that. 775 00:49:26,520 --> 00:49:30,640 Why would you forfeit what you've been called to do, right? 776 00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:32,960 Why would you do that? Especially when God is assuring 777 00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:34,800 you? Look, if you want to pass this 778 00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:38,440 up, you can. But that doesn't change me. 779 00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:44,160 Well, let me just stay with you. You know, a lot of times people 780 00:49:44,160 --> 00:49:51,040 pass up and then it comes through someone else. 781 00:49:51,200 --> 00:49:53,400 And some people don't even realize that some things you've 782 00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:55,680 had in your heart, you're seeing other people do it actually was 783 00:49:55,680 --> 00:50:00,680 yours because God let you do something else. 784 00:50:00,680 --> 00:50:08,440 Come on, that's good. Ecclesiastes 84 where the word 785 00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:13,800 of the king is, where the word of the king is authority and 786 00:50:14,520 --> 00:50:20,400 power, we have anchor faith, faith that is firmly planted 787 00:50:21,640 --> 00:50:26,240 because we are righteous people who keep His word word. 788 00:50:26,240 --> 00:50:30,280 We stay obedient to it, that which we've heard, because where 789 00:50:30,280 --> 00:50:35,080 the word of our King is, there's authority and power. 790 00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:40,240 And no matter how much I've grown in the things of God, I 791 00:50:40,240 --> 00:50:42,280 know this without a shadow of a doubt. 792 00:50:43,440 --> 00:50:49,880 I'm ever dependent on hearing him, ever dependent because, you 793 00:50:49,880 --> 00:50:51,880 know, I've read through the Scripture enough now that I can 794 00:50:51,880 --> 00:50:55,280 quote scripture to him. But the question is, is that the 795 00:50:55,280 --> 00:50:57,800 scripture I'm supposed to be using for this situation? 796 00:51:03,920 --> 00:51:06,480 I can navigate situation now your word says, your word says 797 00:51:06,480 --> 00:51:08,960 your word says and what I'm doing is I'm not telling him. 798 00:51:08,960 --> 00:51:11,160 You better do that. I'm saying this is what your 799 00:51:11,160 --> 00:51:13,800 word says. So in my situation, I know 800 00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:18,720 there's a victorious in which one are you talking to me about? 801 00:51:18,840 --> 00:51:23,400 Which one am I hearing you say so that it's my word. 802 00:51:23,920 --> 00:51:28,160 And again, sometimes he's saying not chapter verse, but it's the 803 00:51:28,160 --> 00:51:36,600 concept of. A scripture and at that point 804 00:51:36,600 --> 00:51:42,720 you're like, got it, I'm doing it and you never come off and it 805 00:51:42,720 --> 00:51:43,440 comes to pass.