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Second Timothy chapter 4, verse 
one through 5 Tonight we're 

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going to be talking about 
protect the brain. 

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You want to. 
We need to protect the brain. 

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Amen. 
Second Timothy four one through 

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5 says this. 
I solemnly charge you in the 

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presence of God and of Christ 
Jesus, who is the judge of the 

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living and the dead, and by his 
appearing and His Kingdom. 

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Preach the word. 
Be ready in season and out of 

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season. 
Approve, rebuke, exhort with 

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great patience and instruction 
for the time will come when they

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will not endure sound doctrine 
but wanting to have their ears 

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tickled. 
Just look at go touch your 

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neighbor and tickle their now 
the ones are like I'm not 

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married to you, what are you 
doing? 

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I'm just seeing what you would 
do anyway. 

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Well, the time will come when 
they will not endure sound 

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doctrine but wanting to have 
their ears tickled. 

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They will accumulate for 
themselves teachers in 

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accordance to their own desires,
and will turn away their ears 

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from the truth and will turn 
aside to myths. 

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But you, Paul, talking to 
Timothy, be sober in all things,

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endure hardship, do the work of 
the evangelist, fulfill your 

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ministry. 
So again, you know, we've been 

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talking about the reigning 
spirit this year and and many 

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times when we have been. 
Launching into something to 

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remind us that this is the year 
of the reigning spirit where 

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we're taking time to understand 
that the Holy Spirit is the 

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reigning Spirit is his voice who
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the King. 
His name is Jesus who sits at 

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the right hand of the Father 
who's only speaking on behalf of

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the Father. 
And we are to listen to that 

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voice and be empowered by that 
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But he is also. 
And we say, you know, in the 

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last days, some will fall away 
from the faith because they're 

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paying attention to doctrines of
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So here we we see that Paul in 
this conversation with Timothy 

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is letting us know that because 
of doctrines of demons and 

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seducing spirits, which means it
is not our battles never against

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flesh and blood. 
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preaching something accurate is 
who are they? 

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What spirit are they listening 
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A lot of times we attack the 
person that's speaking when 

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really they're just listening 
and it would be better to say, 

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Lord, we bond that spirit 
that's, you know, causing them 

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to say things or keeping a veil 
over their eyes is why Paul said

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pray that the eyes of their 
understanding would be 

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enlightened that they may know 
what is the hope of your calling

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right. 
They they would receive 

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revelation, knowledge or or 
spiritual. 

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Insight, right? 
And that we, you know. 

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But when you're around family 
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whatever the case may be, and 
there may be something that 

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they're seeing in scripture or 
saying in Scripture that's not 

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entirely accurate. 
Instead of attack, deal with the

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Spirit. 
OK, deal with the Spirit because

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know this, you, you need to be 
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And that is the Holy Spirit is 
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Everyone. 
If I didn't have that hope, I 

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would probably get out of 
ministry if I didn't have that 

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hope. 
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he does that, then I know and I 
know that the scripture says 

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that we'll all be without 
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And this, this particular 
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Christ, who is the judge of who?
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living, those that are in 
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again. 
So there is obviously a judgment

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seat that is associated with the
believer. 

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Now, again, that's not being 
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of fire. 
It is a, a judgment seat for 

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rewards for how you live this 
thing out in Christ, being led 

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by the Spirit, listening to the 
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Spirit and following him with 
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strength. 
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that judgment, but then there's 
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Throne judgment, which which is 
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Christ as Lord and and they'll 
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Cast into the Lake of Fire, 
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Death, but Jesus is going to 
judge on both accounts and so he

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admonishes us that we need to 
make sure that we are hearing 

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and the Holy Spirit is speaking 
to us all. 

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This is why the Bible says we're
without excuse. 

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You understand, the lost and the
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So again, you know as well as I 
do, especially parents, when you

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tell your children, you know, to
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back around to them and then 
they're like, oh, I didn't hear 

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that. 
And you know, your response is 

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like, you're lying. 
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Well, you know, a lot of times 
people act like they are not 

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hearing God, but he's talking. 
He is talking. 

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So there is no such thing as a 
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stand before Jesus one day and 
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It could never happen because 
the Scripture says He's talking 

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and he's clear. 
I mean, he's so clear that while

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you were dead in your 
transgressions and sin, he spoke

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to you to receive Jesus. 
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recognized it was of God in your
guilt and shame, and decided 

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you're no longer going to run 
and hide, but you're going to 

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yield. 
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you're going to make a 
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And you came out of the domain 
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his beloved Son. 
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And if you're lost and can hear 
the Holy Ghost, well, how much 

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more when you're born again in 
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and the Holy Ghost moves in on 
the inside and it's talking to 

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you Hallelujah. 
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The question is, are we 
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Right? 
So he's saying, listen, Jesus is

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going to judge things and he's 
telling Timothy, now you need to

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preach the word. 
Because what's going to happen 

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is there's going to come a time 
where those that are within the 

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church will not endure sound 
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That doesn't mean they're not 
hearing sermons, but sound 

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doctrine. 
So they're going to be here in 

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doctrine. 
It just happens to be, as he 

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wrote in another letter, 
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they're going to have scripture 
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But yet it's not really. 
And you say, man, this seems so 

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confusing. 
How would you ever know? 

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It's easy to know. 
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God has given you the Spirit of 
truth, so you should never be in

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fear that I could get confused. 
As long as you're yielded to 

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want to hear the Holy Spirit of 
which you can, He will only 

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guide you in paths of 
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So I have great confidence that 
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get off as long as I, excuse me,
remain in His word, to know His 

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word and hear His Spirit. 
Are you hearing me? 

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And then, you know, receive what
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So for those that you know 
choose not to anymore, then they

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pick who they listen to. 
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between First Corinthians 12/18.
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in the body where it pleases 
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Well, the ones that don't want 
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they'll want to be where they 
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So they start picking Are you 
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So they can hear what they want 
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hear. 
They want to hear things 

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according to their own desires, 
not according to the Bible, but 

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according to their own desires. 
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your own desire, you can make 
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support your desire, but the 
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support that. 
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Let's look at so verse 2. 
And again, my wife is reading 

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the book by Rodney Howard Browne
on the anointing and she read 

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this particular passage to me 
and and then he made a comment 

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concerning it and I'm. 
Like I've never seen it that 

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way. 
This is what I love about the 

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Bible, you know, men and women 
of God based upon how God has 

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gifted them, especially in the 
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They can there's ways that they 
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God built them to see it that 
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And so, you know, although yes, 
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me that earlier? 
Absolutely, but it just never 

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came across my mind that way. 
And then but when he stayed, I'm

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like, that is so true. 
Wow, that is so true. 

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I never saw it that way. 
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And so it's really powerful. 
This perspective he saw 

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concerning verse 2. 
Preach the Word. 

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Be ready. 
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reprove, rebuke, exhort with 
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for the time will come again 
that they will not endure sound 

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doctrine, but will want, wanting
to have their ears tickled and 

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accumulate to themselves 
teachers in accordance to their 

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own desires. 
They amplified in verse two and 

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three says it this way. 
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official messenger, which then 
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the word unofficially. 
Now that's true because we know 

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there's false prophets, false 
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OK. 
Be ready when the time is right 

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and even when it is not. 
Keep your sense of urgency. 

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Whether the opportunity seems 
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whether convenient or 
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unwelcoming. 
Correct those who are in error 

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and doctrine or behavior. 
Warn those who sin. 

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Exhort and encourage those who 
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maturity with inexhaustible 
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Verse 3. 
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people will not tolerate sound 
doctrine and accumulate an 

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accurate instruction that 
challenges them with God's 

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truth, but wanting to have their
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pleasing, they will accumulate 
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Many teachers, one after another
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own desires and the support of 
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Now. 
I say all this because we need 

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to protect the brain. 
I found out yesterday that the 

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Word of the Year, according to 
the Oxford Press in 2024, the 

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Word of the Year. 
This is the word of the year for

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2024. 
Are you ready? 

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Brain rot, Brain rot is the word
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Now they this is something they 
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These are things that people, 
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used word, and this word, brain 
rot, is the word of the year for

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2024. 
Let me give you the definition 

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of brain rot because it's not a 
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It's been out before. 
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here in a second, but brain rot 
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means this. 
The supposed deterioration of a 

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person's mental or intellectual 
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result of overconsumption of 
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online content considered to be 
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So it also means cognitive 
decline attributed to excessive 

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exposure to mindless social 
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They Amen. 
Now, the ones who use this term 

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the most are the youngest 
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most. 
It is there. 

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They use it. 
This is their vernacular. 

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And this is coming off from, you
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Obviously, anyone who's on 
Instagram, you're old. 

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If you're Facebook, you are 
ancient, OK? 

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TikTok is the deal with the 
younger ones. 

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And there's even some other 
stuff that I have to get around 

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our youth pastors now and figure
out what that even is. 

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With that being said, they. 
And you do this. 

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Let's just be it. 
Let's admit, right. 

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You'll start watching the reels 
and then you flip how many have 

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gone through reels and found 
yourself an hour later? 

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Come on, Raise your hand up 
high. 

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Yeah, it's easy. 
You're going through hours gone.

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Yeah. 
You could be sitting and reading

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Scripture and 15 minutes, man, 
and you'd be like you slapping 

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yourself right now. 
I got to go get a cup of coffee.

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Well, it's amazing how those 
visual stimuli because again, 

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let's just go with Pinterest 
where you're just looking at 

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pictures, man. 
You I mean there's so many 

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pictures and it's like, what's 
the what? 

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For me the most addictive is 
what's the next set because it 

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like never ends now. 
At least the YouTube. 

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Mine, I don't know about mine 
ends so you know when I flip on 

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you because I have a what are 
the little red things? 

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The notifications. 
I have a notification problem. 

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I do not like seeing the little 
red notification right Well, 

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it's like get it off. 
I don't know why my brains wire 

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it's like get it off. 
You know you got three 

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notifications on Instagram. 
What's this about? 

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So let's get rid of it. 
You know some of y'all have 

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texts that have like thousands 
of right? 

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It's like Nah man, just delete 
all right there, delete all. 

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So I'll get on to the YouTube 
because you know the my 

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subscriptions, you know, because
I rang the bell to let me know 

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when something's coming in. 
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one, and now I'm on it. 
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So I scroll all the way to the 
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And it's like, there's something
about wanting to get to the end.

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Yet when I read, it's a totally 
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you're getting into a chapter 
and I'll look ahead like how 

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many more pages is this chapter?
How many do that? 

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Yeah, like how many more pages? 
And if it's like beyond what you

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think you can handle, you'll be 
like, I'll stop here at because 

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the paragraph starts on the next
page. 

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I'll just consider it like a new
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What's the difference between 
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One is rotting my brain, the 
other is causing my brain to 

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think and be engaged and to be 
engaged. 

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You know, 'cause you have to ask
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I do because I ask myself 
constantly questions concerning 

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Scripture, especially when it 
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I'm like, how can we have a 
church that Jesus is going to 

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come back for that's going to be
mature and be like this 

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powerhouse that's never been 
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before? 
Because the latter rain is going

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to be greater than the former 
rain, yet people are going to 

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fall away. 
People are going to be wanting 

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to hear things that they want to
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What what happens in society 
that would cause believers to 

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fall away, to not be interested,
to lack and it brain rot, brain 

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rot. 
I mean, you understand we talk 

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about things to the attention 
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What in order to gain an 
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train it. 
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someone earlier, I don't 
remember who it was, but I was 

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saying unfortunately the 
fivefold Ministry of teaching 

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teachers have done a disservice 
to the body when they do not 

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follow up like Brother Hagin did
when he would make statements 

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like this. 
Now there are 9 gifts of the 

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Spirit. 
We separate them for the sake of

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teaching. 
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The teacher who was lined upon 
line, precept upon precept will 

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take something like spirit, soul
and body because the Scripture 

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shows and they say, what do we 
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We are spirit, we have a soul 
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Well, you understand the minute 
you teach and and then you start

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to focus on your spirit man, 
because that's the real you. 

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Well, your body carries you, the
real you and the body's pretty 

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important because if the pot 
body's not working, then your 

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spirits in trouble now it may 
not be in trouble of of of not 

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of going, you know, to the lake 
of fire. 

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I'm not saying that. 
I'm just saying staying within 

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the purpose and intent and, and 
on the earth as long as God 

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wanted you on the earth. 
Because again, in communion this

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past Sunday, we saw that some 
sleep early because they didn't 

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judge themselves rightly, which 
means then their body got 

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diseased, took them out and the 
Lord's basically, you know, 

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Peter's at the pearly gate using
a joke, you know, kind of 

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analogy, like what are you doing
here? 

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You're early. 
So again, we separate. 

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But The thing is, is we have to 
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together. 
So it's important for us to grow

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not only our spirit, but our 
soul and our bodies. 

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Because it doesn't matter how 
saved or intelligent you are if 

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your body doesn't allow you to 
accomplish the purpose and plan 

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of God. 
Though we should. 

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Even though we separate things 
through teaching gifts, we 

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always need to maintain big 
picture and recognize that these

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things are really important for 
us. 

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But the thing that I that Rodney
Howard Browne had made the 

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statement that I thought was 
pretty powerful and here in 

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verse 2 going back to new 
American standard says preach 

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the word. 
OK. 

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And when he says preach the 
word, he's obviously meaning 

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based upon what he said in verse
3, sound doctrine, preach sound 

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doctrine. 
OK Preach the word, preach sound

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doctrine. 
Be ready in season out, meaning 

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whether the ones you're 
preaching to want to hear you or

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not. 
Preach the sound doctrine 

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period, because there's season 
everybody wants to hear and then

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there's season nobody wants to 
hear. 

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In fact, in this room right now,
there are probably some that 

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love are excited about me 
preaching right now and others 

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are like, you know, I would get 
up and leave and that's OK. 

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You understand we all have stuff
going on in life and we don't 

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come. 
You know all. 

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Let's do it right. 
You have to put down your flesh.

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That's all I'm saying. 
I mean, I put down my flesh 

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coming to church sometimes 
myself, and I'm preaching like, 

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do I call audible, you know, and
I have a message. 

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But he's like, maybe I'll call 
Pastor Mike, say surprise, you 

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have it tonight. 
I'm not coming in, right. 

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Do you think I never think about
not coming? 

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Sure. 
That thought comes. 

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I just have to be good at 
casting it down because of 

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responsibility. 
Call and all that. 

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OK. 
Then he goes on. 

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Here it is, reprove, rebuke, 
exhort. 

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Now those three are done by the 
next statement. 

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With great patience and 
instruction. 

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So reproving comes with 
instruction or teaching. 

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One translation says rebuke 
comes with teaching or 

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instruction, and exhortation 
comes with teaching or 

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instruction. 
And we do all three with great 

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patience. 
But notice of the three reprove,

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rebuke and exhort, 2/3 are 
correcting. 

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Now let me do a little Brother 
Hagen for our brother Hagenites 

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out here. 
Brother Hagen would say in Mark 

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Chapter 11 verses 23, he would 
say about speaking to the 

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mountain. 
He said believe you receive when

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you pray, you know, and then 
whatever you say is going to 

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come to pass. 
You're going to have whatever 

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you say. 
He said, notice that you believe

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once, but you say 3 times more 
Now that hearing it like that, 

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we're all like, praise the Lord.
So what do we do? 

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We I believe and we're 
confessing more. 

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We have no, you know what we're 
going to confess more. 

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We have to believe once, but our
speaking is going to be we're 

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going to be in confessing 
because we confess more than we 

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believe. 
Once you believe, you know you 

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have it and then you're 
confessing. 

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So you're going to say three 
times more than you're going to 

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believe, right? 
We have no. 

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Problem with that. 
Well, guess what? 

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When you come to church, you're 
going to hear correction more 

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than you are exhortation. 
The Amen anyway. 

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I mean, again, this is the 
Scripture. 

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It says to reprove, it says to 
rebuke, and it says to exhort, 

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which means that when you're 
sitting in a service that's 

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preaching sound doctrine, maybe 
2/3 of the time you're like, 

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man, I might have to. 
I might have to make an 

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adjustment there, which means 
that's positive. 

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That is not negative. 
Seem like every time I go out, 

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there's something else I've got 
to adjust. 

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Hallelujah. 
You're being perfected. 

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Amen. 
Yeah. 

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Make it hurt, drill Sergeant. 
Make it hurt. 

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That's what they used to tell 
us. 

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Now again, the intent is not 
we're not talking about being 

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abusive or or we're just saying 
that when the preaching of the 

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word comes, if all we did was 
exhort. 

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Now pastor, Pastor Darrell told 
me this obviously because he he 

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helps me grow as a leader. 
He said that the Lord spoke to 

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him one time concerning his 
church that it wasn't growing at

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the level that he was expecting 
is like, Lord, how come? 

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And he says, well, and he took 
him to this passage of Scripture

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and he says, he says you're not 
doing this Scripture. 

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He said, what do you mean? 
He said, all you do is exhort, 

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but you don't do the reprove and
rebuke and you're not going to 

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grow without those. 
Now again, when correction 

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comes, it is not there for the 
purpose of saying you're wrong. 

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When correction or reprove or 
rebuke comes, it's there to say 

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this is what God says, change 
your thinking. 

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So you're here to protect the 
brain. 

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The reprove and the rebuke is 
there to help protect your 

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brain. 
Revelations 319, which again, if

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you want to take your own time 
to go through the seven churches

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of Revelation, five of them have
this term in it. 

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Repent, repent, OK, in this 
particular church, look what the

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Lord Jesus says, he says those 
whom I I want. 

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So if I love someone, I'm not 
just going to encourage them, 

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only I'm not going to just 
minister in such a way or even 

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just in conversation when we're 
just talking. 

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If something that is said or 
done doesn't line up with this 

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Kingdom or scripture or behavior
somewhere doesn't line up with 

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who we are now in Christ, well, 
I won't just always be an 

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encourager. 
Sometimes you're like, we don't 

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do that. 
You know, I wouldn't say that 

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you know what the Bible says. 
Now again, that's not being 

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condescending mean or anything. 
It's to pull us up to life, 

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right? 
But again, because we come out 

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of sin where we held on to 
guilt, shame and all that and we

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knew we were wrong. 
But even God, God called you not

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because he was there to pull. 
In fact, if we, if we're being 

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biblical, the you're born again 
because of his kindness, because

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of his kindness, however, he is 
letting you know that to be in 

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the Kingdom, you're going to 
have to repent. 

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You're going to have to repent. 
So those whom I love, what does 

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he do? 
I reprove and discipline. 

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Therefore be zealous. 
And now that's something we 

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should want say Amen. 
We should want to be zealous. 

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So our attitude anytime we're in
scripture or we're hearing the 

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word that we have a zeal that 
Lord, if there's anything that 

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I'm reading and when I'm 
spending time with you that you 

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need me to change, I'm going to 
I have a zeal to do it. 

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I want to do it because again, 
that's was one of the qualities 

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of David is he was quick to 
repent when he was confronted, 

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when he was rebuked or reproved,
he would be quick to change his 

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thinking and get things right 
with the Lord because of his 

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fear of the Lord because he 
wanted to be in right standing 

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with God. 
Well, how much more us in this 

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new covenant that we're in, 
Amen. 

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And there's no one in this room 
that does. 

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Not all of us are reproved and 
rebuked and. 

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Exhorted. 
All of us, Hallelujah, Amen. 

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But he says the ones I love, I 
reprove, I discipline. 

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Therefore be zealous and repent.
So repent's a really important 

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thing. 
Jesus went on to talk about 

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changing your thinking because 
this protects your brain, OK? 

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It'll protect your brain because
it's in the sole realm that you 

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are making choices. 
It's in the sole realm that 

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you're deciding whether you're 
going to side with the flesh or 

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side with the spirit. 
Because both are talking. 

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I said both are talking. 
Hallelujah. 

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Jesus said in Matthew 417, you 
know it. 

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From that time Jesus began to 
preach, say and say repent, for 

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the Kingdom of heaven is at 
hand. 

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So that means change your 
thinking, right? 

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In fact, let me just go ahead 
and read that definition of, of,

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of from the Thayers. 
It means to change one's mind 

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for the better. 
You know, I was, you know, I 

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because of social media and it's
already being communicated 

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concerning the younger 
generation is that they have 

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lost their ability to critically
think. 

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They have no critical thing. 
This is why Washington was so 

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important for us, because we 
needed to develop people with 

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critical thinking to be able to 
think. 

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Because when you build a society
that doesn't think, then they 

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are easily manipulated to 
follow. 

454
00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:16,200
And when I say follow, I'm 
talking about following evil 

455
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:21,320
because you are to be a follower
of the Holy Ghost and following 

456
00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:26,760
him as life. 
So we're following either way, 

457
00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:33,960
but to follow God's way, your 
mind becomes something amazing. 

458
00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:38,800
If you follow the devil's path, 
you know, you could, you'll be 

459
00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:42,560
on autopilot. 
So what happens is, is we have 

460
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:51,040
set in now society that that the
millennials, you know, are 

461
00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:53,880
probably attributed to this some
because, you know, they were 

462
00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:58,000
diagnosed with ADHD and then 
they were given drugs associated

463
00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:00,120
with that particular situation, 
right? 

464
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:03,840
So then you get on into the next
generation and it's just as a 

465
00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:07,960
progression of brain rot, right?
Because again, we are overly 

466
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:11,320
stimulated, right? 
This is why, you know, you've 

467
00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:13,880
heard me say in the past when we
this used to be a theater used 

468
00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:17,080
to sitting here for two or three
hours and watch a movie. 

469
00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:19,840
So really it's no big deal for 
us to preach for a little while.

470
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:23,960
Well, it only is a big. 
Deal because it requires you to 

471
00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:29,320
exercise your brain. 
You have to discipline yourself.

472
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:35,360
Now again, can you go find 
places that it is will do 

473
00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:37,560
nothing to challenge your 
thinking? 

474
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:42,680
Yes, absolutely. 
Myself, as a pastor, I have to 

475
00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:47,600
make a decision. 
Do I want a congregation fool of

476
00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:51,760
brain wrought people that have 
no critical thinking? 

477
00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:55,320
They can't think critically, 
they only side with the flesh 

478
00:31:55,320 --> 00:32:00,880
immediately, period. 
And, and, and, and you have to 

479
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:05,280
entertain and you have to be 
short because you can't keep 

480
00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:08,640
their attention. 
Or do you say, no, I, I'm going 

481
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:13,920
to choose to trust the Holy 
Ghost in people and go after 

482
00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:16,040
them. 
The ones that want to have zeal 

483
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:22,040
and have their brains stimulated
because based upon the 

484
00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:26,760
assignment that he says here is 
that we are to do endure 

485
00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:29,600
doctrine. 
We are to minister, I mean sound

486
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:31,560
doctrine. 
We are to preach the word. 

487
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:37,680
We are to reprove, rebuke and 
exhort with great patience. 

488
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:43,680
Thank God for the fruit of the 
Spirit, for the fruit of the 

489
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:45,920
Spirit with great patience, 
right? 

490
00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:49,240
Because again, you know, 
long-suffering is another fruit 

491
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:51,480
of the Spirit. 
You know, a lot of times as 

492
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:53,200
parents, you know you're 
long-suffering with your 

493
00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:55,160
children. 
You're very patient with your 

494
00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:57,520
children, right? 
And you're like wish that they 

495
00:32:57,520 --> 00:32:58,960
would be patient with you that 
way. 

496
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:03,320
Like you keep giving them 
opportunities, you correct them,

497
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:07,200
you ground them, you take their 
phone and then you give it back 

498
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:09,520
and then you're doing all right.
But then a minute you do 

499
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:11,280
something. 
They have no patience for you. 

500
00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:16,920
You're like, why am I not 
reciprocating what I extend you?

501
00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:20,200
Amen. 
Well, the same thing happens in 

502
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:24,200
the church because again, we get
around the brethren and you 

503
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:26,600
know, you get in relationships 
and there's a lot of patience, 

504
00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:29,080
long-suffering, you know, for 
people to grow up. 

505
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:32,200
But then, you know, all of a 
sudden someone does something 

506
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:33,480
that you're like, I can't 
believe that. 

507
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:37,120
And we have no patience for it. 
But we all have the fruit, 

508
00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:40,760
correct? 
So it's to change one's mind for

509
00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:44,240
the better. 
OK, Joseph Benson commentary 

510
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:47,360
said it this way. 
For repentance not only implies 

511
00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:52,640
sorrow of sin or since sincerely
wishing it undone, but a change 

512
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:58,040
of mind and a reformation of 
life, the Reformation of life. 

513
00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:00,440
So again, if we're going to 
protect our brains, since the 

514
00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:03,160
word of the year is brain 
wrought, well, we don't want to 

515
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:08,120
be that part of that culture. 
You know, we want to be people 

516
00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:12,159
who can like Paul said, Paul was
never intimidated with a 

517
00:34:12,159 --> 00:34:18,440
studier, never. 
In fact, he he acknowledged 

518
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:20,960
them. 
He said now the Bereans, they're

519
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:25,199
a different group because they 
searched the scripture to see if

520
00:34:25,199 --> 00:34:32,920
it's So what I say period. 
Amen. 

521
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:37,120
See, when you have a heart to 
know, then you'll study and 

522
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:41,159
you'll ask questions so that you
can continue to grow in the 

523
00:34:41,159 --> 00:34:44,960
knowledge of this. 
And you'll ask questions because

524
00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:48,600
again, when we were outside the 
Kingdom, we were jacked up and 

525
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:50,719
our thinking was never in line 
with God. 

526
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:53,080
Why? 
And the Bible is very clear that

527
00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:55,600
we're born again. 
Our spirit man has been made 

528
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:58,800
righteous. 
It is, it cannot be any more 

529
00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:00,800
righteous than it is when you 
get born again. 

530
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:04,320
Now it can be developed, but it 
cannot be any more righteous. 

531
00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:08,360
It you are in Christ, your 
spirit man is alive. 

532
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:12,880
In fact, the spirit, your spirit
man does not want to sin at all.

533
00:35:14,240 --> 00:35:18,200
But then we have to, excuse me, 
save our soul. 

534
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:22,680
Now there's a saving of the 
soul. 

535
00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:25,600
And again we get so focused on 
the spirit. 

536
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:28,320
Well, you can. 
You cannot even follow the 

537
00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:34,000
spirit if you do not have soul 
renewal effectively. 

538
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:39,160
Now you can, you know, so 
haphazardly per SE, you know, 

539
00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:41,040
get it right here, maybe miss it
here. 

540
00:35:41,720 --> 00:35:45,600
But if you want to be able to 
get where you're always being 

541
00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:48,000
able to make sure you're hearing
it right, well, that's where 

542
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:49,560
you're going to have to get into
mine renewal. 

543
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:52,760
And the Bible's very clear about
us renewing our minds. 

544
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,560
But to renew our minds, then we 
have to then challenge 

545
00:35:55,560 --> 00:36:00,720
everything we think. 
So you I would say it this way 

546
00:36:00,720 --> 00:36:03,280
and again I'm not. 
Please take let. 

547
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:09,560
Me smile when I say it. 
Do you you want to know your 

548
00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:12,600
father? 
Paul said. 

549
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:16,840
I want to know him. 
That doesn't mean I want to see 

550
00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:19,560
him when I die. 
That's not what he was talking 

551
00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:20,800
about. 
He's like, I want to know him. 

552
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:22,880
I want to know his. 
I want to know everything about 

553
00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:24,520
him. 
I want to know his word. 

554
00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:26,520
I want to know his ways. 
I want to know how he would 

555
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:29,760
handle the situation. 
I want to know him. 

556
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:34,400
I want to be intimately 
acquainted with him because I am

557
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:38,400
representing him down here. 
And how can I represent him if 

558
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:42,320
I'm not around him and asking 
questions and then allowing him 

559
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:44,560
to say I don't think like you're
thinking right now. 

560
00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:47,360
I would never handle that 
situation the way you're doing 

561
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:49,800
it right now. 
You need to not do what you're 

562
00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:54,040
doing right now because that is 
not what I do and we have to say

563
00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:58,680
yes, Lord, thank you for letting
me know and I will change my 

564
00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:01,600
mind. 
I help continue. 

565
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:06,320
Help me think like you think 
right? 

566
00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:11,240
Because if all you resolve 
yourself as a St. or a believer 

567
00:37:11,240 --> 00:37:14,800
is, I don't care. 
I asked Jesus into my heart to 

568
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:17,360
save me and when I die, I'm 
going to go to heaven. 

569
00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:21,520
And if that's all you care 
about, well, you'll have a 

570
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:27,160
spiritually brain rotten or a 
brain rot and be spiritually 

571
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:30,680
alive. 
And that's not what God intended

572
00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:33,280
for us. 
We know this because he called 

573
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:38,240
the body number one to be 
equipped and to mature and to 

574
00:37:38,240 --> 00:37:41,040
grow. 
Well, that takes effort. 

575
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:50,200
Hallelujah, you know, and, and 
you know, I hate it that places 

576
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:53,960
have raised up and been in in 
places that have have kept it at

577
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:56,320
a particular level and and never
pushed it. 

578
00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:59,920
I mean, again, these these, 
these types of teachers will 

579
00:37:59,920 --> 00:38:03,560
exist and then the only way 
you'll know what they are is 

580
00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:05,880
when you're trained in 
righteousness to be able to 

581
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:09,320
discern discernment is not 
automatic just because you're 

582
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:16,200
born again. 
So we want to protect our brain 

583
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:20,920
by subjecting ourselves to the 
word of God and saying and here 

584
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:25,040
even all the more as the day 
draws near because deception is 

585
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:29,760
going to be greater in the end. 
Now what I'm saying is not like,

586
00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:32,200
I mean, I understand you've 
heard mine renewal. 

587
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:37,480
But what I'm saying today is 
very profound for what we're in,

588
00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:44,120
because there will come another 
time of deception during the 

589
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:47,720
tribulation that the Lord 
himself says if I had not 

590
00:38:47,720 --> 00:38:56,000
shortened it, it if possible, 
not saying that it would, but if

591
00:38:56,160 --> 00:39:01,520
there's a possibility that that 
even the elect would be 

592
00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:04,440
deceived. 
So when I hear that, I'm like, 

593
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:08,040
Lord, I need to protect the 
brain and I need to protect the 

594
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:09,720
brain. 
And here's the thing, You've 

595
00:39:09,720 --> 00:39:12,880
equipped me with everything I 
need to be able to do that. 

596
00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:15,200
You've made my spirit alive unto
you. 

597
00:39:15,240 --> 00:39:18,680
It's righteous and it hears from
God and can hear from God. 

598
00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:21,080
My spirit is alive now. 
It's not dead. 

599
00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:24,000
It's not separated from God. 
It can literally hear. 

600
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:29,200
I am on the same frequency, OK, 
in my spirit and then the Holy 

601
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:33,800
Spirit is inside me speaking to 
my spirit and he is doing the 

602
00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:35,400
things that Jesus said he would 
do. 

603
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:37,120
He's causing things to come to 
my remembrance. 

604
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:39,400
Thank God He causes things to 
come to my remembrance. 

605
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:43,720
I don't always hear him right 
and I don't I, I miss his voice 

606
00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:47,760
and I miss his voice sometimes 
just in the day-to-day stuff. 

607
00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:50,440
The other day I missed his 
voice. 

608
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:54,040
I'll be honest with you, I I 
was, it was Sunday, actually. 

609
00:39:54,240 --> 00:39:57,720
I came into the living room. 
I had taken the chair off the 

610
00:39:57,720 --> 00:40:06,880
couch because I have a dog 
that's a diva and she knows that

611
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:16,360
the couch is not hers. 
She knows he needs to get. 

612
00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:18,160
Saved. 
I mean really, he needs to get 

613
00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:22,040
saved. 
But I said it right at the end 

614
00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:24,320
of the chase. 
Normally I put it out by the 

615
00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:29,040
fire, my my little fireplace, 
which is electric fireplace. 

616
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:32,280
And I said it out there. 
But I said it and you know, it 

617
00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:35,080
came in my mind. 
I should put the chair on it 

618
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:37,800
just because I've been there. 
But I was like. 

619
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:45,640
Marcy, you get it. 
Well, my wife ended up you want 

620
00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:49,640
something else and because it 
was in another place left. 

621
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:56,920
We come home hours later. 
He's not on the couch, but 

622
00:40:56,920 --> 00:41:04,040
there's evidence. 
And she knows. 

623
00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:07,000
And and she knows. 
You know when you know. 

624
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:15,040
Oh, she knows. 
You're like, did you get on my 

625
00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:15,800
couch? 
Like and. 

626
00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:19,320
You know, yeah, you got on my 
couch. 

627
00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:21,040
I cannot. 
But, I mean, she's gotten 

628
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:22,200
sneaky. 
Just the other day. 

629
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:23,840
I mean, she got on with the 
chairs. 

630
00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:26,440
I mean, you got to be strategic 
with this stuff, all right? 

631
00:41:26,720 --> 00:41:29,560
The day's coming when there'll 
be no more chairs on my couch. 

632
00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:33,960
And you'll know why not because 
I help the process. 

633
00:41:34,240 --> 00:41:37,640
It's just a process that's going
to happen one day, you know? 

634
00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:40,480
Unless the Lord. 
Which that's the whole other 

635
00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:41,760
subject. 
I'm not even going to get into 

636
00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:43,720
that. 
I don't want to get into that 

637
00:41:43,720 --> 00:41:47,720
because some of y'all might cry.
Anyway, with that being said, 

638
00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:52,480
you know, looking back, I'm 
like, you know, that's probably 

639
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:54,880
the Holy Ghost telling me to put
that up there. 

640
00:41:55,680 --> 00:42:00,560
You know, he didn't say, you 
know, Matthew chapter 6 Earl put

641
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:04,360
Dallas the chair on the couch. 
If I didn't read that. 

642
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:06,040
But it was it really, it was his
voice. 

643
00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:08,280
And I'm like, that's my problem,
you know? 

644
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:11,400
So now I'm going to have to, you
know, take care of the couch 

645
00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:14,000
with more joy because it's my 
fault. 

646
00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:20,120
They say, Amen. 
OK, so Jesus says to repent. 

647
00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:22,040
That means to change your 
thinking. 

648
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:25,440
And again, this change of 
thinking does turn into a 

649
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:28,960
lifestyle. 
That's why Matthew 3/8, which 

650
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:32,280
again is John the Baptist prior 
to Jesus being baptized in the 

651
00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:35,560
water and coming out, he says to
religious people, he said 

652
00:42:35,560 --> 00:42:37,880
therefore bear fruit in keeping 
with repentance. 

653
00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:40,840
So a change of mind will change 
you. 

654
00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:43,840
Now, there are plenty of 
teachings out there because 

655
00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:47,480
again, we've separated, 
especially in the world, because

656
00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:51,000
the world. 
Can only deal with the body and 

657
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:53,080
the soul. 
Even though they have a spirit, 

658
00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:55,360
their spirits cut off from God 
and it's dead. 

659
00:42:55,480 --> 00:43:00,840
OK, so it's soul will only run. 
Towards, you know, death 

660
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:02,600
ultimately, because there's a 
way that seems right to a man, 

661
00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:04,320
but in the end lies death. 
OK. 

662
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:06,960
But they want to do everything 
they can to train their mind. 

663
00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:10,440
And you know, the mind is very 
powerful, so much so that if you

664
00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:15,160
get your mind locked in, even 
being lost, you can do some 

665
00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:17,080
pretty amazing things that even 
God will. 

666
00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:21,240
Say, that's pretty amazing. 
How do we know this truth? 

667
00:43:21,240 --> 00:43:23,840
The Tower of Babel, none of 
those people are born again. 

668
00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:28,200
They're pagans, no covenant with
God, and they're going to build 

669
00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:31,600
them a tower. 
OK, and the Lord comes down, 

670
00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:33,920
sees what they're doing. 
He says they are in one mind 1 

671
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:38,280
accord. 
What they have set out to do, 

672
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:41,560
they will accomplish. 
The problem is that plan goes 

673
00:43:41,560 --> 00:43:45,160
against my plan. 
So he stopped it by changing 

674
00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:48,760
their language. 
OK, so there's the minds 

675
00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:50,720
powerful. 
That's why you can watch all 

676
00:43:50,720 --> 00:43:52,840
kinds of video on positive 
thinking. 

677
00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:55,320
You can watch all kinds of 
because the mind in love itself 

678
00:43:55,320 --> 00:44:01,800
is extremely powerful. 
However, any mind that doesn't 

679
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:06,240
have God alive, the Bible talks 
about they have dark sayings. 

680
00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:10,160
So it's still not where it can 
be when it's disconnected from 

681
00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:12,920
the life of God, but we have the
life of God. 

682
00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:18,400
Why do why is it that believers,
you know, again, just generally 

683
00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:22,200
speaking, because we all know 
people that become extremely 

684
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:26,720
satisfied with destination 
theology, meaning I know where 

685
00:44:26,720 --> 00:44:31,040
I'm going to go when I die and 
they have no desire to study. 

686
00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:36,280
And again, the Bible never said 
make a convert so that they'll 

687
00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:37,640
know where they're going to go 
when they die. 

688
00:44:37,920 --> 00:44:40,800
It never says that. 
It says go make disciples. 

689
00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:45,600
That means be a student of the 
word and list as a pupil. 

690
00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:48,600
Now, again, what is our society 
taught us? 

691
00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:51,760
We go and we're in preschool and
they go to kindergarten and then

692
00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:54,040
we get out with, you know, 
elementary, middle school, 

693
00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:56,800
graduate from high school 
potentially. 

694
00:44:56,800 --> 00:44:59,280
We go on to college or whatever.
And at the end of the day, you 

695
00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:02,880
know, we finish our education 
and we're really not growing 

696
00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:05,280
anymore. 
But even today's education, we 

697
00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:07,960
don't even really have to learn 
because with AI today, I mean, 

698
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:10,200
they're having to have to get 
creative because you don't even 

699
00:45:10,200 --> 00:45:14,920
need to write your own papers. 
You can plug all the information

700
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:17,480
in and it's doing, I mean, in 
the workplace, this is happening

701
00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:19,960
all the time now. 
The people don't have to think 

702
00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:23,560
how to write something up for a 
job or article. 

703
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:27,080
They're using AI, so it's doing 
the work. 

704
00:45:27,080 --> 00:45:28,680
Well, what's happening to your 
mind? 

705
00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:33,720
So our whole society is being 
built so that we don't have to 

706
00:45:33,720 --> 00:45:37,400
think. 
And the devil loves this. 

707
00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:40,920
And, you know, all the while 
he's convincing that we are a 

708
00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:44,240
more intelligent society because
of all this technology. 

709
00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:50,440
Isn't that amazing? 
But we need to repent. 

710
00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:54,880
But he said Matthew again, 3/8 
says, oh Hallelujah, I got this 

711
00:45:54,880 --> 00:45:55,800
end. 
Thank you. 

712
00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:59,520
Jesus. 
Therefore bear fruit in keeping 

713
00:45:59,520 --> 00:46:01,240
with repentance. 
I'm going to go through a few 

714
00:46:01,240 --> 00:46:03,280
translations. 
The new living translation says 

715
00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:07,600
this prove by the way you live 
that you have repented of your 

716
00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:12,000
sins and turn to God. 
OK, the contemporary English 

717
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:15,480
version says do something to 
show that you have really given 

718
00:46:15,480 --> 00:46:18,440
up your sins. 
So again, it's not just a 

719
00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:20,640
confession and then you we live 
like we want to. 

720
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:25,680
It's a constant renewal in our 
mind, OK, the God's Word says, 

721
00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:28,840
do those things that prove you 
have turned to God and have 

722
00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:31,600
changed the way you think and 
act amplifies that. 

723
00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:33,840
So produce fruit that is 
consistent with repentance, 

724
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:37,200
demonstrating new behavior that 
proves a change of heart and a 

725
00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:39,560
conscious decision to turn away 
from sin. 

726
00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:41,240
Now, let me just say it this 
way. 

727
00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:49,800
You have to constantly work your
mind because the Bible tells us 

728
00:46:49,800 --> 00:46:55,360
in Galatians chapter 5 that our 
spirit and our flesh battle 

729
00:46:55,360 --> 00:46:57,640
daily and we're never free from 
this conflict. 

730
00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:02,880
One translation says, have you? 
I'm not asking you to do this, 

731
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:07,040
but have you noticed that when 
you've gotten away from the Word

732
00:47:07,040 --> 00:47:09,280
because you've gotten busy in 
life and all of us have done 

733
00:47:09,280 --> 00:47:12,160
this, you haven't spent as much 
time in prayer. 

734
00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:15,200
You've gotten out of reading the
Word. 

735
00:47:15,720 --> 00:47:17,920
You're not even really listening
to anything. 

736
00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:19,920
You're just kind of going 
through that. 

737
00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:23,240
All of a sudden your flesh shows
up. 

738
00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:27,240
What? 
You used to have extreme 

739
00:47:27,240 --> 00:47:31,000
patience, or you could forgive 
that in a moment's notice and 

740
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:33,320
you would never say something 
about someone. 

741
00:47:34,440 --> 00:47:40,600
Then all of a sudden you're. 
Doing it, and I don't care if 

742
00:47:40,600 --> 00:47:44,040
you've been in church 30 years, 
40 years, 50 years, doesn't 

743
00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:51,840
matter because if you do not 
keep your mind in the word, it 

744
00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:57,800
will shift over to behaving like
you're not even born again. 

745
00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:07,700
And you know, so there is no 
time on this when we're on the 

746
00:48:07,700 --> 00:48:14,500
planet that we could ever coast.
See, this is one of the negative

747
00:48:14,500 --> 00:48:22,240
things of classes in general, 
because the minute you finish a 

748
00:48:22,240 --> 00:48:26,680
class, well, you usually say, 
well, we took that like anchor 

749
00:48:26,680 --> 00:48:29,120
faith live classes. 
Well, I, I, we had, they had a 

750
00:48:29,120 --> 00:48:30,360
faith class. 
I took that one. 

751
00:48:31,040 --> 00:48:32,720
Well, you don't think there's 
more about faith? 

752
00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:41,640
I mean, Kingdom Institute 
students, they graduate. 

753
00:48:42,240 --> 00:48:44,760
What did we learn? 
What was the purpose? 

754
00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:46,800
I mean, I do this with the Rhema
graduates. 

755
00:48:46,960 --> 00:48:49,800
I'm like, you go through all 
that time and because at Rhema 

756
00:48:49,800 --> 00:48:52,800
you got to go there. 
I mean, there is no online at 

757
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:55,240
Rhema. 
You get up, you go, unless you 

758
00:48:55,240 --> 00:48:59,360
live in the community, you're 
going there and you're in faith 

759
00:48:59,360 --> 00:49:02,520
for a home, a job, all kinds of 
stuff. 

760
00:49:02,720 --> 00:49:05,320
Then you go through school, you 
go through their rigors, you 

761
00:49:05,320 --> 00:49:08,080
learn all this stuff. 
You having to, you know, crucify

762
00:49:08,080 --> 00:49:10,920
your flesh constantly, and then 
you come out for what? 

763
00:49:12,560 --> 00:49:18,160
To never use it or to go back 
into the world, that is mind 

764
00:49:18,160 --> 00:49:21,480
blowing to me. 
But it's only because they're 

765
00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:26,760
not staying in principles and 
then saying, obviously, Raymond,

766
00:49:26,760 --> 00:49:31,080
no school could teach you 
everything anyway. 

767
00:49:32,160 --> 00:49:36,760
Only schools can teach you to 
have a zeal to want to know 

768
00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:44,480
more, so hearing what I already 
know helps keep me strong. 

769
00:49:44,920 --> 00:49:48,960
If I eat spinach today, it does 
something for me naturally. 

770
00:49:50,120 --> 00:49:52,280
Does that mean I should never 
eat spinach again? 

771
00:49:53,160 --> 00:49:55,560
Means the next time I eat 
spinach, it does nothing for me?

772
00:49:56,080 --> 00:49:58,640
Every time I eat spinach, it 
does something for me every 

773
00:49:58,640 --> 00:50:01,640
time. 
So even if I preach from Matthew

774
00:50:01,640 --> 00:50:05,800
633, every service you're 
getting fed something. 

775
00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:12,240
It's doing something if you're 
allowing yourself to have a mind

776
00:50:12,240 --> 00:50:18,400
change. 
Right, so Romans 12/2 amplified 

777
00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:20,160
says it this way. 
Do not be conformed to this 

778
00:50:20,160 --> 00:50:24,720
world any longer with its 
superficial values and customs, 

779
00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:27,320
and be transformed and 
progressively changed as you 

780
00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:31,640
mature spiritually by the 
renewing of your mind, focusing 

781
00:50:31,640 --> 00:50:37,800
on godly values and ethical 
attitudes, so that you may prove

782
00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:41,040
for yourself what the will of 
God is, that which is good and 

783
00:50:41,040 --> 00:50:44,080
acceptable and perfect in His 
plan and purpose for you. 

784
00:50:44,080 --> 00:50:45,880
Man, that is such a good. 
Believe that up there isn't 

785
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:46,600
that. 
Powerful. 

786
00:50:46,960 --> 00:50:48,840
So first of all says do not be 
conformed. 

787
00:50:48,840 --> 00:50:53,160
Now this is powerful because 
what he is saying in this, in 

788
00:50:53,160 --> 00:50:59,360
this passage is that from your 
spirit man perspective, you're 

789
00:50:59,400 --> 00:51:06,200
already out of the world. 
You're not of this world. 

790
00:51:07,120 --> 00:51:11,640
From the spirit man perspective,
your spirit doesn't think this 

791
00:51:11,640 --> 00:51:13,400
way. 
Your spirit doesn't want to 

792
00:51:13,400 --> 00:51:15,640
engage in this. 
Your spirit's been recreated in 

793
00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:19,240
the likeness of Christ. 
Christ is light and in him is no

794
00:51:19,240 --> 00:51:21,520
darkness. 
And your spirit should be light 

795
00:51:21,680 --> 00:51:24,680
because if you're born again, it
is light and in there is no 

796
00:51:24,680 --> 00:51:27,880
darkness in your spirit man. 
There's no desire for the flesh.

797
00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:31,360
There's no desire to lust. 
There's no desire to to break 

798
00:51:31,360 --> 00:51:34,840
off from the commandments of God
or the behaviors of God. 

799
00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:38,200
And then you're the Holy Spirit 
is speaking to your spirit. 

800
00:51:38,280 --> 00:51:42,600
He's saying do not be conformed.
Conform means you mean go back 

801
00:51:42,600 --> 00:51:45,520
or to conform to something in 
the Spirit. 

802
00:51:45,520 --> 00:51:47,760
You're already a child of the 
king. 

803
00:51:47,760 --> 00:51:50,040
You've been redeemed. 
You've been set free. 

804
00:51:50,160 --> 00:51:53,040
You're the most powerful thing 
on the planet because you will 

805
00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:58,240
have the life of God in you. 
So don't let your mind stay 

806
00:51:58,240 --> 00:52:03,280
where it's at. 
Don't do it. 

807
00:52:05,520 --> 00:52:12,840
And again, in the world, it's 
not easy, Not easy. 

808
00:52:15,400 --> 00:52:17,480
I'll give it a quick testimony, 
Brother Hagin, and then we'll 

809
00:52:17,480 --> 00:52:19,440
hit a couple more verses and 
we'll be gone. 

810
00:52:19,480 --> 00:52:21,240
Turn over to Acts 17 while I'm 
saying it. 

811
00:52:21,240 --> 00:52:24,200
Brother Hagin said this to his 
wife one time back, you know, 

812
00:52:25,160 --> 00:52:27,760
when basically the depression 
hit and they were still 

813
00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:30,240
ministering, didn't have 
nothing, went to a minister's 

814
00:52:30,240 --> 00:52:33,440
house who quit ministering and 
decided to start working in the 

815
00:52:33,440 --> 00:52:37,160
city and was making plenty of 
money based upon what was going 

816
00:52:37,160 --> 00:52:41,480
on in that time frame. 
And the wife had all kind of 

817
00:52:41,480 --> 00:52:46,720
dresses, you know, in her closet
and, you know, he had suits and 

818
00:52:46,720 --> 00:52:48,880
they have, you know, plenty at 
the table. 

819
00:52:48,880 --> 00:52:53,400
All that they they couldn't even
afford to stay at a hotel. 

820
00:52:53,560 --> 00:52:56,040
Brother Hagin and his wife 
Aretha, when they came to this 

821
00:52:56,040 --> 00:52:58,760
particular conference. 
And because he had had had a 

822
00:52:58,760 --> 00:53:02,120
relationship with this guy and 
came across him while he was 

823
00:53:02,120 --> 00:53:04,160
there, he said, hey, have you 
gotten a place? 

824
00:53:04,160 --> 00:53:07,240
Why don't you stay with us? 
Which was really God providing 

825
00:53:07,240 --> 00:53:09,040
for them because they were 
trusting God. 

826
00:53:09,240 --> 00:53:10,920
So again, you don't have to own 
anything. 

827
00:53:10,920 --> 00:53:13,520
You just have to have access. 
At the end of the day, he ended 

828
00:53:13,520 --> 00:53:15,600
up getting in his house and he 
says his wife sat on the end of 

829
00:53:15,600 --> 00:53:20,880
bed and she was feeling sad. 
And he knew he's looking at all 

830
00:53:20,880 --> 00:53:23,840
this stuff and here we are 
living for the Lord and we have 

831
00:53:23,840 --> 00:53:29,600
nothing. 
And they used to pastor, but 

832
00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:32,840
they quit. 
Now they've got the world's 

833
00:53:32,840 --> 00:53:35,480
goods. 
And he said, he sat on the bed 

834
00:53:35,480 --> 00:53:39,400
by his wife and he says, honey, 
I know, he said, but stick with 

835
00:53:39,400 --> 00:53:41,760
me. 
It won't always be like this. 

836
00:53:41,760 --> 00:53:49,160
God is faithful and man, God 
ended up prospering him. 

837
00:53:49,760 --> 00:53:52,800
I mean that man when he would 
walk out on the platform, he 

838
00:53:52,800 --> 00:53:55,520
didn't show off, show this off. 
But when he walked down on the 

839
00:53:55,520 --> 00:54:00,760
platform, he, he could have 
$10,000 in clothing on most of 

840
00:54:00,760 --> 00:54:04,840
what people gave him, but they 
were faithful with the Lord. 

841
00:54:05,800 --> 00:54:07,120
I say they were faithful with 
the Lord. 

842
00:54:08,240 --> 00:54:12,680
Amen. 
I mean, I myself, I'm like man, 

843
00:54:12,680 --> 00:54:15,960
just following God has put me in
a great place. 

844
00:54:16,560 --> 00:54:18,160
I've been able to travel the 
world. 

845
00:54:19,360 --> 00:54:24,400
I mean, in my mind, I could have
just done, you know, something 

846
00:54:24,400 --> 00:54:26,400
in the world. 
I mean, I was actually, you 

847
00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:28,560
know, going to go into computer 
programming in Atlanta. 

848
00:54:28,560 --> 00:54:31,960
I mean I was set up. 
For that world's success. 

849
00:54:32,440 --> 00:54:34,800
But God and he had to make a 
choice. 

850
00:54:34,920 --> 00:54:37,080
And during the process of 
following God, there had been 

851
00:54:37,080 --> 00:54:42,880
many of times I'm like, I'm done
many a times because again, 

852
00:54:42,880 --> 00:54:44,840
you're looking around everybody 
else, you're like, man, I'm 

853
00:54:44,840 --> 00:54:48,000
giving my life for you. 
And but you know what, stay, 

854
00:54:48,160 --> 00:54:51,160
just stay, just stay. 
Just stay with it. 

855
00:54:51,360 --> 00:54:53,760
And you stay with it. 
You know what God end up taking.

856
00:54:53,840 --> 00:54:56,000
And again, I'm not, we're not 
trying to be like it. 

857
00:54:56,000 --> 00:54:59,440
We just want to be the best us. 
But I'm not lacking one bit. 

858
00:54:59,920 --> 00:55:03,320
God is so faithful. 
He's so good because following 

859
00:55:03,320 --> 00:55:07,360
him is the best thing ever. 
But I had to renew my mind every

860
00:55:07,360 --> 00:55:12,880
day I have to turn stuff off and
make sure I keep God on and it's

861
00:55:12,880 --> 00:55:14,560
worth it. 
I wouldn't want to lose the 

862
00:55:14,560 --> 00:55:19,720
wisdom and insight I have today 
and throw it away and the peace 

863
00:55:19,720 --> 00:55:23,080
that I walk in. 
Now, don't get me wrong. 

864
00:55:23,080 --> 00:55:25,360
I mean, Paul told him to endure 
hardship. 

865
00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:30,360
And as a minister, you know, we 
you endure hardship, we endure 

866
00:55:30,360 --> 00:55:34,000
hardship. 
But he's talking to Timothy 

867
00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:37,720
about enduring hardship, not 
because of personal trials, but 

868
00:55:37,720 --> 00:55:43,600
because he's overseeing a flock 
that is not wanting to grow in 

869
00:55:43,600 --> 00:55:47,040
their thinking. 
And so he's saying, you keep 

870
00:55:47,040 --> 00:55:48,520
preaching to them. 
You're just going to have to 

871
00:55:48,520 --> 00:55:50,480
endure the heart. 
That's why I said when you're 

872
00:55:50,960 --> 00:55:55,600
reproving, you're exhorting and 
you're rebuking. 

873
00:55:56,240 --> 00:56:00,600
Do it with patience. 
The Bible talks about when 

874
00:56:00,600 --> 00:56:03,920
you're walking in patients, 
you'll you'll develop endurance 

875
00:56:04,240 --> 00:56:06,000
and he's telling you're just 
going to have to endure the 

876
00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:10,560
hardship. 
Just keep correcting. 

877
00:56:13,760 --> 00:56:19,520
Now for me, I was a great test 
taker personally and honestly, I

878
00:56:19,520 --> 00:56:22,920
only want to take a test once 
and I applied that spiritually. 

879
00:56:25,280 --> 00:56:27,400
I do not want to take a 
spiritual test twice. 

880
00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:34,640
So, you know, I pull out 
everything that will crucify my 

881
00:56:34,640 --> 00:56:36,440
flesh. 
I'll pull it out. 

882
00:56:36,720 --> 00:56:39,720
I mean, I will pull it out 
because the last thing I want to

883
00:56:39,720 --> 00:56:45,320
do is handle this situation 
wrong and have to do a retest. 

884
00:56:48,320 --> 00:56:51,800
Don't want to do it. 
And you? 

885
00:56:51,800 --> 00:56:55,360
Crucify it. 
How do you want me to handle 

886
00:56:55,360 --> 00:56:56,160
this? 
I don't. 

887
00:56:56,160 --> 00:57:00,240
I have, I have. 
I don't care one bit of what it 

888
00:57:00,240 --> 00:57:02,760
makes me look like, what people 
say. 

889
00:57:03,600 --> 00:57:12,220
I'm going to do it your way 
because I'm going to pass it. 

890
00:57:12,300 --> 00:57:13,620
I want to pass the test first 
time. 

891
00:57:15,500 --> 00:57:17,580
Hallelujah. 
All right, Acts 17. 

892
00:57:17,620 --> 00:57:20,300
We need to get out of here. 
Acts 1730 says. 

893
00:57:20,300 --> 00:57:23,620
Therefore, having overlooked the
times of ignorance, God is now 

894
00:57:23,620 --> 00:57:29,200
declaring to men that demand 
that all people everywhere 

895
00:57:29,200 --> 00:57:31,360
should repent. 
God's word says it this way. 

896
00:57:31,360 --> 00:57:33,640
God overlooked the times when 
people didn't know any better, 

897
00:57:33,640 --> 00:57:39,920
but now command everyone 
everywhere to turn to him and 

898
00:57:39,920 --> 00:57:41,400
change the way they think and 
act. 

899
00:57:42,680 --> 00:57:46,400
You know, there was a time that 
we were in prior to Jesus that, 

900
00:57:46,440 --> 00:57:49,560
you know, there was a lot of 
ignorance going on and they 

901
00:57:49,560 --> 00:57:51,560
didn't even couldn't even be 
born again, couldn't have a 

902
00:57:51,560 --> 00:57:53,760
spirit alive unto God. 
I mean, there was a lot going, 

903
00:57:53,800 --> 00:57:58,120
but he's like, now's the time. 
No excuse. 

904
00:57:58,760 --> 00:58:02,200
I've paid the price. 
Everything's been settled. 

905
00:58:02,200 --> 00:58:04,800
All accounts are settled. 
There's no excuse. 

906
00:58:04,800 --> 00:58:06,400
Doesn't matter where you're at. 
I've paid it. 

907
00:58:06,840 --> 00:58:09,680
No matter what you've done, no 
matter what situation you're in,

908
00:58:09,720 --> 00:58:13,200
you're not so far that I have 
not already paid that price. 

909
00:58:14,400 --> 00:58:16,480
All you have to do is receive 
me. 

910
00:58:17,040 --> 00:58:19,280
All you have to do. 
And whether you received him for

911
00:58:19,280 --> 00:58:23,240
the first time to be born again 
or you're repenting of a wrong 

912
00:58:23,240 --> 00:58:27,280
you're doing as a child of God 
and saying I will sin, I didn't 

913
00:58:27,280 --> 00:58:28,840
do it your way. 
Lord forgive me. 

914
00:58:28,840 --> 00:58:32,080
He will be faithful and just to 
forgive you and cleanse you from

915
00:58:32,080 --> 00:58:34,240
all unright. 
And then speak to your mind and 

916
00:58:34,240 --> 00:58:35,880
say to this, how are we going to
handle it from here on out? 

917
00:58:36,760 --> 00:58:39,560
Amen. 
Ezekiel 1832 says it this way. 

918
00:58:39,560 --> 00:58:43,120
He says, for I have no pleasure 
in the death of anyone who dies,

919
00:58:43,120 --> 00:58:47,880
declares the Lord. 
Therefore repent and live. 

920
00:58:48,400 --> 00:58:50,600
Now again, when we read this, 
initially you're thinking, OK, 

921
00:58:50,600 --> 00:58:54,240
he doesn't want anyone to die. 
You know, like physically, but 

922
00:58:54,240 --> 00:58:56,920
you understand, my people 
perish. 

923
00:59:00,280 --> 00:59:02,120
So death is not just a physical 
death. 

924
00:59:02,640 --> 00:59:07,280
There can be death, and we are 
dying in situations only because

925
00:59:07,280 --> 00:59:14,840
we're not repenting. 
But this, it's not my job to 

926
00:59:14,840 --> 00:59:18,360
convince you. 
It's my job to communicate what 

927
00:59:18,360 --> 00:59:20,800
I hear by the spirit. 
You're going to do what you want

928
00:59:20,800 --> 00:59:23,360
to do because I'm going to do 
what I want to do. 

929
00:59:24,640 --> 00:59:26,600
And what I want to do is follow 
the Lord. 

930
00:59:27,920 --> 00:59:30,600
That's what I want to do. 
You know, that should be what we

931
00:59:30,600 --> 00:59:36,440
all want to do, because when we 
do that, we live. 

932
00:59:37,520 --> 00:59:42,560
And I've never been denied. 
Never. 

933
00:59:44,080 --> 00:59:46,240
You know, you've heard this 
statement before, and I'm a 

934
00:59:46,240 --> 00:59:49,400
close with this. 
The worshipping come, you know, 

935
00:59:49,400 --> 00:59:51,520
they say you know something 
doesn't happen. 

936
00:59:51,520 --> 00:59:53,640
This. 
It's not a denial. 

937
00:59:53,640 --> 00:59:56,960
It may be a delay. 
I don't even think the only way 

938
00:59:56,960 --> 01:00:02,840
you're in a delay is if you are 
wrong and you didn't repent. 

939
01:00:02,920 --> 01:00:04,800
Because the only reason why the 
Israelites were in the 

940
01:00:04,800 --> 01:00:08,320
wilderness delayed is because 
the hardness of their heart, the

941
01:00:08,320 --> 01:00:11,520
hard heart will delay somebody, 
OK? 

942
01:00:12,480 --> 01:00:17,680
However, if it's not like I 
think it should be, because I 

943
01:00:17,680 --> 01:00:23,080
sure thought I'd buy them all 
quicker than five years, but it 

944
01:00:23,080 --> 01:00:24,640
didn't. 
But did it come to pass? 

945
01:00:25,640 --> 01:00:28,360
I don't consider that delay. 
I just consider it perfect 

946
01:00:28,360 --> 01:00:32,880
timing. 
Perfect timing, because who 

947
01:00:32,880 --> 01:00:34,840
would have thought that we would
have? 

948
01:00:34,840 --> 01:00:37,560
And again, I'm not totally into 
numbers, but it's pretty amazing

949
01:00:38,440 --> 01:00:43,680
that we purchased it on the 21st
day of the 21st year of 

950
01:00:43,680 --> 01:00:49,200
December. 
That was pretty amazing to me. 

951
01:00:49,440 --> 01:00:50,840
I mean, that's only ones and 
twos. 

952
01:00:53,240 --> 01:00:56,800
And we're at mall 2121 that 
we're 2121 US One South. 

953
01:00:57,240 --> 01:01:01,680
It's pretty amazing. 
Hallelujah. 

954
01:01:02,360 --> 01:01:04,480
And we had been in the location 
for 12 years. 

955
01:01:05,360 --> 01:01:07,200
Isn't that crazy Now? 
It's not. 

956
01:01:07,200 --> 01:01:09,120
But you know what? 
I feel like God's just that 

957
01:01:09,120 --> 01:01:15,480
detailed because I never waver. 
We would have it. 

958
01:01:16,280 --> 01:01:18,280
It just didn't happen like I 
thought. 

959
01:01:18,280 --> 01:01:26,280
Maybe that's OK, as long as I 
stay with him, think like him. 

960
01:01:26,920 --> 01:01:27,920
Then we're going to live. 
Amen.