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You know, cloudy with a chance of rain because the Lord's
coming back in a cloud. Now, I do want to preface this
last week. I had no intention of explaining
to you of the passages I used of which one is the coming of
Christ for the catching away the Church and the coming of Christ
where he's going to put his foot down and reign for 1000 years.
I know I use both passages. The point of the message was
that when he comes in the cloud, either occasion, it is a scene
event. That was the point.
The point was that, you know, I.
So again, you know, I understand how it can be, especially people
who, you know are studying last day at eschatology events.
There's always that little thing, you know, OK, Is this
because people debate whether there's a mid post pre Trib, a
post a mid Trib and a post Trib? Well, the Bible is very clear
about a pre Trib, extremely clear.
But it's also cleared about a mid Trib because the two
witnesses will be in the middle and they'll be called up.
The two will. So there is one.
It's just not a mass exodus, all right.
And then there's going to be things that have take place in
the end before he comes down. Amen.
Right when he comes and puts his foot down.
But that was not our comments for there.
We wanted to just go through the scripture because we've all,
most of us are. The popular stance is that when
the catch in the way of the church happens, it's going to
happen and we're just going to vanish and no one's going to
know where we're at. But we saw yesterday, last week
that the Scripture doesn't actually support that thought
process. It actually is an event that is
globally known. You have an opportunity to share
once you're changed the Bible. The only quick deal is that you
are changed in the moment in the twinkling of an eye.
OK? And again, even some of the
words associated with change is like violent.
It's like a, a, a casting off. I mean, you don't understand if
your clothes were on fire, how fast you think you'd get rid of
them. So again, you know, the fact
that you change like violently, you violently throw off
immortality or mortality and put on immortality.
You understand what I'm saying? That still doesn't say you're
leaving just as fast. Now I'm not going to.
I'm not saying that once you start to ascend, it's not quick.
I happen to use a hot air balloon, you know, last week.
And, you know, and through my conversation, I'm like, I'm
going to change that and let them know we on the coast of
Florida have the Kennedy Space Center.
Have you ever seen the Kennedy Space Center now?
Have you ever, on a clear day when a rocket goes off, been
able to stand on the East Coast, way up here in Saint Augustine
and see the rocket ascend? Yeah, Now is that like getting
out of the planet? I mean rockets are like getting
out of the planet. They are taking off.
I mean that's not like low speed, that's not like helium
balloon stuff. I mean it is blasting off, yet
we watched the cloud of smoke behind it and watch it and as
fast as it's going, we can still see it.
Hallelujah. So better illustration there.
Amen. But with that being said then
you know again, we're, we call this cloudy with a chance of
rain because you're like, what do you mean a chance?
Well, again, there's popular teaching.
And just because popular teaching is out there, it
depends on what lens you're looking at.
And again, we, the reason why we wrote the book The Forest is
because we've said a lot of times people lose the Bible
because they get very specific in their tree doctrine.
Salvation is a tree in the forest.
Healing is a tree in the forest. Deliverance is a tree in the
forest. Forgiveness is a tree in the
forest. Mercy.
All of those trees we could study and we would never exhaust
how much we could pull out of those trees in the lifetime that
we are on the Earth. But the Bible's not just about
salvation, it's not just about salvation.
So if we only look through the tree of salvation, then we only
see the salvation parts and we miss the other stuff.
Amen. And so as the, you know, saying
is they miss the forest for the trees.
A lot of churches sometimes miss the forest for the trees, which
means then some of the things that, you know, we're all asking
questions. Well, Lord, what does this mean?
How's this going to be? What does that look like?
Well, if we're only looking at through the revelation that we
currently have, we could find that maybe some of the things we
thought aren't actually as it is thought.
But once you expand and begin to see the bigger picture, then
things start to open up a little bit more and we want to be able
to address those. So in Matthew chapter 15, verse
three, we'll start with this scripture again and he answered
and said to them, why do yourselves transgress the
command of God for the sake of your tradition?
Now Jesus is obviously talking to people who have access to his
word. That's who he's talking to here.
He's talking to the scribes and the priests, the Pharisees.
These are people who have the scrolls, they have the Torah,
they have the 1st 5 writings of Moses, They have the Prophets,
they have the Psalms, they have all these writings.
And in their office as priests, they have an anointing to come
upon them 'cause in the old covenant, the anointing would
come upon the Prophet, priest and King.
And so there's an anointing that comes upon them so that they can
know what the word says. It doesn't matter that their
spirit man is dead. Doesn't matter.
I'm going to say that again, it doesn't matter.
Because if someone tried to conclude, well, you know, all
these people weren't born again. Well, Abraham wasn't born again,
yet he wasn't in he was in paradise.
He wasn't in the grave where he couldn't be redeemed.
That man lived by faith, and when he died and went to the
grave, he was in a place that allowed him to be able to be
redeemed or pulled out of, because he was believing for the
day that the Messiah would come. Amen.
So Abraham was never born again of the Spirit.
Yet because he was a prophet, the Holy Spirit would come upon
him and give him enough insight and revelation that he could
live by faith. Are you hearing me?
OK, so again, we can't discredit everything because none of these
people were born. Again, people have the
responsibility of what they knew and the revelation by which God
brought it. And this particular group Jesus
is talking to saying, I know that the Spirit has revealed to
you my truth. You're choosing to not do it.
You like your way of doing it better.
In essence, you want to serve God on your terms and not on
God's terms. OK, so with that being said,
let's look at a couple things. We ended with this passage of
scripture last week, Luke 21, verses 27 to 28, it says this.
And they shall see the Son of Man again.
They shall what it's going to see, see the Son of Man coming
in a cloud with power and great glory.
Again, I'm not here to tell you which one that is.
That's not the point. Because the point is verse 28.
Now, when these things begin to happen, that is not relating to
verse 27. It's relating to the things that
have been said prior to that. But you understand the context
was what's when we going to know that the kingdom's coming,
You're going to set it up. That's what we're talking about
here. And so he begins to give him a
whole list of different signs, things that they can be able to
see, discern, to know the signs of the times.
And he mentions this particular one, that you'll see the Son of
Man coming in cloud with power and great glory, he said.
Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your
heads because your redemption draws nigh.
And I said to you last week, most of the time in that
particular passage of Scripture, we tend to kind of look at that
in the context of, you know, all the things we're seeing that at
anytime Jesus may come. And that is true.
But is it also, could it be a context that when we do actually
look up and see him and we're changing the moment of a
twinkling eye that we're fixing to move into a seven-year
process with the Lord before we return and we're going to be
getting assignments while we're with Him.
So when we return to Earth with him in the millennial reign,
we'll know where God has given us dominion to rule on the
planet with Him during that particular rain.
And that we can say our redemption or this thing's about
to close. We're going up to get our
marching orders for the next age.
Are you hearing me? Now?
This word look up means this. It comes from a Greek word that
means to raise up. That's pretty obvious, right,
because it says look up or to raise up.
But it comes from a root Greek word which means to bow the
head. Now you say, well how can you
look up and bow the head? Well, the root part is bow the
head. When you add the prefix of the
Greek word, then it makes it the opposite.
So if you're bowing your head, then the opposite of that would
be what to look up. But this root word, it's base
meaning, or this, this, this particular what is that suffix
word has a base, which means it comes from another word, which
is the root of which this next, this word we just said, which
means to bow your head, comes from.
It means this. A wave or of impulse and
restless men tossed to and fro by their raging desires or
passions. Now, when you know it that way,
put that verse back up. In essence, he's saying this.
When all these things begin to happen, you need to quit running
around to and fro with your fleshly passions.
It's time to get rid of that and get yourself in the position
God's created you in. In essence, look up, do the
opposite of being this person. That is like the wave of the sea
that James talked about. He says, OK, if any man lacks
wisdom, let him ask God, right? And James and he says, you know.
But when he asks, he must ask in faith, not doubting, because if
he doubts, he's like a man tossed in the sea.
That man should expect to receive.
Now that's a righteous man in covenant with God, but he won't
receive because he has doubt. That's a righteous man that's
been born by in a new covenant, by the blood of Jesus, a child
of God. But they can expect to receive
nothing because of doubt. So in essence he's saying quit
doubting, quit running after your flesh get up and then he
goes on and says and lift up your heads.
Now when you break that word heads down, it goes down to the
Christ Lord of the of the husband or the church.
So in essence he's saying look up, get rid of all your little
worldly passions. Don't let anything of the world
hold on to you anymore. You better get rid of that stuff
and you better put on the mind of Christ.
What you need to do is you need to start thinking like you are
in Christ because your redemption is drawing not are
you hearing me? So we then need to understand a
couple of things. Because again, Jesus tells the
the Pharisees, the the, the scribes, these that have access
to the anointing in order to be to have revelation of the word
in that age to where they could walk in it by faith.
And they in turn were deciding how they were going to follow
God. And then God must be pleased
with it. We're going to do it our way.
We're going to tell you how you should interpret your own word.
Are you hearing me? OK, we have the same problem
today because again, we must let God define how he wants us to
interact with Him, right? And again, any church that
believes Jesus Christ died on the cross and rose from the
grave, any of them, they're all going to conclude our only way
to have a relationship with the Father is to believe in our
heart and confess with our mouth.
Jesus Christ as Lord. That is the way.
And there's not a alternative. Correct.
There's not a. So that's God defining to us.
This is how you have the relationship.
That's not us telling God. This is how I'm going to have
the relationship, OK? And that is generally easily
accepted. However, how to love God is not
that is not generally accepted because although Jesus clearly
defines how to love him, the church is basically after
they're born again. Say now I'm going to tell you
how I will love you and you should just accept it.
All right. Hallelujah.
I thought y'all were ready for today because it has not got
tough yet. Hallelujah.
Amen. Praise the Lord.
Say I'm ready to receive from the Lord by the Spirit what the
word has to say, and my tradition has got to go.
All right, So Jesus in Mark chapter 12, verse 30 says this.
And you? Who's you?
That's us. And you shall love the Lord your
God. How with all your heart, comma,
and with all your soul, comma, And with all your mind, comma,
and with all your strength. This is how you're going to love
him. So you cannot say you love God
and stop at your heart. Well, the Lord knows my heart.
He knows I love him. He said.
Well, what about your soul? What about your mind?
And when he say soul, you understand what well you know?
Do you love him with all your emotions?
Do you subject your emotions to him that when situations happen,
you love him so much that when the Holy Ghost in you says don't
get angry about that, you submit your emotions?
Well, now he understands. You know my family.
He's like, excuse me, I thought you were in my family.
Yes. Last I checked, you were under
the blood. That's a new family.
I don't care about your natural bloodline anymore.
You're in a spiritual bloodline. OK, With all your mind.
Is that what you think on is that what you move towards is
all your thought processes towards the Lord?
If everything you do is it based upon, are you doing it the way
God? And then with all your strength?
Meaning you get my strength first?
Yes, that's right. And you know what I love about
God when it comes to your strength?
First, that's means physically present to participate in his
local body in the fit that he's designed for you.
That when you really accumulate the 168 hours that you are
functioning in a week, that God's really not asking a whole
lot of you. And when you take that time and
compare it to other time, it's really a a small amount.
But what it does for all your other time if you'll just submit
to it. Are you hearing me?
So we are to love God, basically our spirit, soul and body.
Everything about us is his. Are you hearing me?
So again, if I love him with all my strength or with my body.
So how can a believer be fornicating with someone else?
Well, the Lord knows I love them and I love them too.
Would And why are you shaking up?
Just say Amen anyway. All right.
You have the ability to keep your body under subjection.
Let's go on to the next one. John, Chapter 14, verse 15.
She's very clear here. This is in red red letter stuff.
If you have a red letter Bible, Jesus says if, that's
conditional statement, so do you meet the condition?
If you love me, that's an emphatic answer.
If you love me, if you love who, Jesus, you will keep my
commandment. So to say, I love him and not
keep his commandment or his word.
Who's lying now? Can I truly be able to say I
love Jesus? And yet Jesus says Bull, why
don't you keep my word? So Jesus's definition of loving
him and my definition could be different.
Now who do you think he's going to follow?
Your definition of love or his? OK, jump on down to verse 21.
He says it this way. He says He who has my
commandments and what keeps them is the one who loves me.
And he who loves me will be loved by my father, and I will
love him and disclose myself to him.
Hallelujah. So it's very clear then that
Jesus defines this term and that we are to love Him with all of
our heart, soul, mind, and strength.
In essence, anything He's telling us, both in a general
sense, in the word that covers every one of us, and then in a
specific sense based upon our purpose and our personal
relationship with Him. If we're demonstrating love, we
are obeying it because that is really loving Jesus.
Anything else is a counterfeit. It is a counterfeit.
And you can say I love you all day long, but that doesn't make
God come off the throne and go, well, we're going to take you.
You know what? I I understand you're busy.
I get it. I see all the problems you have.
I get it. You know you're doing the best
you can. That's not what he says.
Because for he's like, I see all the problems.
That's why I'm going to give you my word.
You'll overcome everything, right?
I gave you my nature. This is going to be easy.
I said. It's going to be easy.
In fact, he said it was easy. He said my yoke is easy.
My burden is light. We got this.
He said be a good cheer, man. You going to have some trials
and tribulations? That's all Good.
I've already conquered this bad boy.
So you understand, if I've done all this, the least you can do
is do what I say. But it's not the least.
It's what's required. I said it's what's required.
This is not fantasy. This is the reality of
Scripture. And we also know that the
Scripture tells us that we are to live by faith.
Are you hearing me? So let me throw out a thought
process. Are you ready?
Oh, I hope so. Hallelujah.
Does it require faith to be born again?
OK, let me step. Take a step back.
Has Jesus come in? Has Jesus?
Has Jesus been to the earth, born of the flesh, died on the
cross, and rose from the dead? Has the action of his blood
being put on the mercy seat enough payment to deal with
every sin that's ever been committed?
Has it been finished once and for all?
So from a blood perspective, sin has no power For who?
Everyone? For everyone.
So whether a person is born again or not, payments made, is
it not, He doesn't go up to the mercy seat when a person comes
down and says I'm going to receive Jesus as Lord, OK, go
ahead and cut me. Let me pour a little blood out
for them. Does he do that?
No. You said that's already been
applauded. It's already been there.
It's done right. So then, in the spirit realm, or
in the realm of God? No one technically, or everyone
trying to see how I can say this from the perspective of the
blood, they're all saved, but we know not everyone's saved.
What's required for them to receive salvation?
Faith. Believe in your heart.
Confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord.
Faith is what brings it to pass. It's the grace of God through
faith, right? So even though in the realm of
the blood so to speak, is finished yet it doesn't actually
apply to a person in the realm of receiving until faith's
there. So they can't have it till they
have faith in it, right? OK, so we know then that when
people receive Jesus as Lord, is faith required.
From then on it says the righteous shall.
OK, so a born again person that's in Christ, in Christ,
they in God's eyes they are his child.
Period. Are there other benefits they
could have? OK, one of those benefits is
baptism of the Holy Ghost, right?
To be in do with power. Are there believers on the
planet today that are born again but not baptized in the Spirit?
Why 'cause they haven't exercised faith, so it's
available, but yet they're not walking in it because they
haven't received it. How, by faith, Hallelujah,
healing is it for today? But how many are born again by
faith, even endued with power? By faith, where the evidence of
that power they've received it is?
They speak in the language of the Kingdom.
It's called an unknown tongue. Yet they themselves stay sick.
Why? For some they have no faith at
all. There's not faith concerning it.
Look at Hebrews chapter 4. I want to read this scripture
real quick, just so you understand, says for indeed we
have had good news preached to us, just as they also.
But the word they heard did not what profit them.
Why? Because it was not united by
faith in those who heard. Those who heard.
Can we receive anything from God without faith?
OK, that's not entirely it is true.
But yet it's, you know, there's a little we need to talk about
this. I can literally have no faith,
and yet God can do something for me.
He can. But it's through somebody else's
thank you. It's through somebody else's
faith, OK? Because again, the gifts of the
Spirit can function in someone who believes that they've heard
the Spirit in a particular area, let's say the working of
miracles. OK?
And because of that yielding to it.
Then they go by faith to a person who has no faith at all,
that they will be delivered and have a miracle happen in their
life, a physical miracle. Yet they lay hands on them and
the miracle works. Are you hearing me now?
Does God want us to live that way?
Obviously not, because Jesus had this issue with the guy that was
carrying had his mat and he went to him and he says do you want
to be healed, You know, And he ended up telling him, He said,
well you know, basically he healed him.
He didn't even know who Jesus was.
He said take up your mat and go. Then when Jesus found him later,
he says go and sin no more so that nothing worse will come on
you. Because again, here's the thing
that a lot of believers have this messed up mindset about,
and I don't know why that is, is that because we have the ability
to have health in our bodies, that doesn't mean we're going to
be immortal, that we'll live forever again.
And I'm going to say this, the Bible says this.
It's been appointed once for man to die, OK?
As people get older, we never want them to leave.
But there comes a time when they're appointed and there are
many that are believing God that he's going to heal them when the
reality is it's appointed. And they themselves are ready to
go and they're allowing the symptoms to be the catalyst.
OK. And I like what Prophet John
Todd said. He said, look if you want to go
on to be the Lord, get healed first and then just go, OK.
But I'm going to be honest with you.
There's most of are not going to do that.
You can. Everyone in this room can
because we know God. But I just want to, you know,
even be more candid. Let's just believe for the the
catching away. Let's just be changed.
Amen. Let's go out that way.
And man, I think we could. All right.
My point is, is that a person in covenant does not receive from
God without faith. So then if faith is required for
God to be a part of our life, and anything he says he's going
to do, did God say he's coming back?
Why do we think just because we're born again that we can get
something from God without faith?
Let me read this passage before I make the next statement.
Hebrews Chapter 11. This is the Champions of faith.
All right now, faith comes by what.
Faith comes by what. Faith comes by what.
And hearing from the word of Christ.
Faith comes by hearing. So you can hear something, not
God, and believe it. Faith just comes by hearing.
Paul's letting us know your faith, your hearing should be
connected to the word of Christ because that's what you should
believe. Period.
OK, Faith comes by hearing. So when we begin to read
Ephesians Chapter 11, then when it says by faith it means they
must have heard something. Verse 5.
By faith, Enoch was taken up so that he would not see death.
By what faith? Which means if Enoch's in faith,
he must have heard something and God apparently said something to
Enoch, he must have said something to him to say, well,
you could just come now. Oh, OK.
There was some conversation God had with Enoch that he believed
it so much that he was taken up. Now, for me, I would conclude
it's the big plan. It's the purpose.
It's the purpose of Enoch. OK, And I'm not the only one who
believes this. OK?
I'm going to throw a name out just so you'll know that I'm not
the only one who believes this. Perry Stone, who studies in
times. He believes this as well.
Not everyone believes this, but I think it's very difficult to
not conclude it. There's only two people that
have ever been on the planet that left the planet without
physically leaving their bodies. There are two witnesses that
will come back during the tribulation time.
It is the E brothers, Enoch and Elijah.
Then they will die in the street and everybody's going to see
him. Hallelujah.
But in three days they're going to get up and then they're going
to watch him go up. So I I have to conclude the
Lord's like Enoch. I got a plan and he must have
conversed with him concerning this deal because Jude talks a
little bit about Enoch and Enoch having some conversations about
what was going to happen in the end.
So Enoch obviously had a conversation with the Lord that
Lord's like Enoch, I want to use you, I want to bring you back.
In order to do that, I need you to come now.
So by faith Enoch believed that he could go without dying, and
he was not found because God took him.
For he obtained the witness that before his being taken up, he
was what? Pleasing to the Father?
Well, if you're pleasing to the Father, then what are you?
You're living by faith. The Father's pleased when you're
by faith called the very next verse.
We always read verse 6, but not in context of verse 5.
And without faith it's what impossible to please him.
For he who comes to God must believe that he is that's God is
God, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek Him.
So Enoch heard something from God.
He had faith to be taken up. And if faith is required for us
to receive salvation and faith is required for us to receive
the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and faith is received for us to
walk in perpetual healing, and faith is required for us to walk
in joy and faith is required, then why do we think we get
caught up without faith? Come on, come on, come on.
Why have we accepted that we'll all hear the trumpet?
Because there's many that are in covenant with God and love God,
but die early because they don't judge themselves rightly.
We have made the catching away of the church as if automatic.
All that's required is that you're born again.
Well, you know what all this required for you to be healed
is? That you're born again.
I mean to walk in it. For you to prosper is to be born
again. For you to have, you know,
fullness of joy is to walk in it.
Right. All you got to do is believe
God, believe to have wisdom. I got to just believe God.
I mean, we have heaven on earth, right?
What stops God from pouring out everything he has for us?
Our faith. Hallelujah.
Amen. OK, so let's back up a chapter
in that Hebrews chapter 10, Hebrews chapter 10 to get us in
context. All right, he says this in
Hebrews 10. Starting in verse 19.
We're going to read a little bit, OK?
But again, for us to dissect this cloudy with the chance of
rain, then we have to get into Scripture.
All right, I'm not here to do talking points based upon oral
tradition. Therefore, brethren, since we
have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of
Jesus, by new and living way, which he inaugurated for us
through the veil that is his flesh, and since we have a great
high priest over the House of God, let us draw near with a
sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts
sprinkled clean from an evil conscience, and our bodies
washed with pure water. Let us hold the confession of
our hope without waving. For he who promised is man.
He's faithful, full. And let us consider how to
stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking
our own assembling together, as is the habit of son, but
encouraging one another. And all the more as you see the
day drawing near, as you see the day.
What day are we talking about? We're talking about the catching
away of the church as you begin to see that day drawing near.
And are we near? Are we the nearest people to it?
I mean, has anyone been more near than us?
No, We are the nearest at this juncture.
OK. And so because we're the nearer,
what should we do all the more? Assemble and encourage one
another. Assemble and encourage one
another. And he literally says don't do.
Like the habit of some. Now, who's he talking to?
Plus 'cause if you go back to the very verse 19, it says
therefore brethren. So he's not talking to lost
people here, he's talking to people who are in covenant with
God. They are children of God.
They are in the new covenant, a new and better covenant.
And he's telling them now listen, verse 23, that they are
to hold fast, which tells us you can let go.
That's right. They are to hold fast the
confession of our hope. King James says the profession
of our faith cause. A confession of hope or hope is
a confident expectation. If you're speaking what you
confidently expect, by all rights you're in faith, 'cause
you're calling those things that be not as though they were.
Are you hearing me, 'cause? He says he's faithful, who has
promised right? And then he goes on and says,
Now listen, as that day gets closer, you need to not forsake
the assembling of yourselves together.
I mean, everybody's like, I want Jesus to come back, yet they're
not assembled. Hallelujah.
I said Hallelujah, because most of them think it's going to come
whether I believe it or not. James.
OK, I'll do that. James says you believe God, you
do well. But even the demons believe and
shudder. So believing that you could be
caught away isn't the same as having faith cause faith is a
corresponding action. I said it's a corresponding
action, which means there's something that you need to do.
In fact, if you read James, he said, look, faith without works
or a corresponding action is dead, period.
Like the spirit, like the body is dead without the spirit, so
is your faith. You can tell me all day long, I
believe, I believe. But if your lifestyle is not a
corresponding action, then by all rights it's a dead faith,
which means you actually do have a hearing.
But you're actually not mixing faith with it.
And when you don't mix faith with it, it won't profit you.
So hearing the word enough to hearing the word is not enough
for you to be active in faith. All right, let's go on verse
262626, he says. For if we go on sinning
willfully after receiving the knowledge of truth, there is no
longer remains A sacrifice for sin, but a terrifying
expectation of judgment and the fury of a fire which will
consume the adversaries. Anyone who has set aside the Law
of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three
witnesses. How much severe punishment do
you think he will deserve, who has trampled under foot the Son
of God, and has regarded as unclean the blood of the
covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the
Spirit of grace? For we know him who says
vengeance is mine, I will repay, and again the Lord will judge
his people. It is a terrifying thing to fall
into the hands of the living God now.
Verse 26 for if who? Who's he talking to?
He's talking to covenant kids. He's not talking to the lost.
This verse has nothing to do with the Lost, he says.
If we go on, if we go on sinning willfully, after we've received
the knowledge of the truth, we have revelation.
We know what we're supposed to do and how we're supposed to
act. It's been revealed to us by the
Spirit, yet we're choosing to not put down the passions of the
flesh. This is problematic.
Now, when you read this, your first thought is that obviously
because of verse 27, we always go to hell.
But you know what? Hell is not just the fury of
fire. If we go on and he says this
again, 28 is a covenant statement.
He who sets aside the law of Moses, which means they are
under the law of Moses. They were constrained within
that they're supposed to do, and if they disregard it, they'll
die without mercy. Then he says, now it would be
worse for us. Why?
Because and those under the law of Moses are on the covenant,
the old covenant, where God revealed to them how to live.
And let me say, you could have lived under that law, righteous
enough for redemption. It doesn't make you right with
God, so that the blood's not necessary.
But there were plenty who lived under it in faith that it it
allowed them to go to Paradise or Abraham's Bosom once they
left the planet. So how much more severe
punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled under
the foot of Jesus? Meaning you're born again, you
have the third person of the Godhead on the inside of you,
and you're going to go on and willfully sin.
And I love this because he goes on and says you're going to
insult the spirit of grace. And then it interesting that
Hebrews says that because Hebrew, the writer of Hebrew,
knew that people would take the the doctrine of grace which and
turned it to lasciviousness and what they would do is they would
say, oh, you didn't do anything to deserve it.
There's nothing you're doing to keep it when the reality is
faith got you. The grace faith continues to
move you forward. Obedience has always been in
play and will never not be in play, because obedience is how
we actually demonstrate we love God.
And the thing about this is like you're insulting the spirit of
grace, saying seriously, you're acting like you don't have
dominion over sin, you're acting like you're subject to it.
Still. This is why Romans says, shall
we continue to sin So that grace may abound, may it never cause
the grace that brought you into the Kingdom was transformed into
the grace that Jesus had. And Jesus had an empowering
grace which allowed him to avoid to overcome every temptation of
sin so that he himself would no longer be subject or would not
be subject to sin. But if someone goes on we act
like that there's not a challenge.
Cause verse 30 says God says vengeance is mine.
I will repay the Lord will judge who whose people He's not
talking about the world. So again, the Lord is always
examining us in Christ. That's right.
Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
Now let me just make this statement real quick so we can
get rid of this, you know, thought that people are
struggling with even now. Nowhere am I saying that if you
do not, if you're not in the catching away of the church,
that that means if you're a covenant child and you were left
behind, that by all rights, if you died in the tribulation,
that you wouldn't be in heaven. I never said that, never said
that. Obviously if you die in the
tribulation, you're going to be up underneath the throne.
A lot of people are going to die in the tribulation a lot, OK?
They're going to be martyred. It's going to happen.
OK. So I'm just saying again, a
person can be in the planet today, as many of you have
experienced, is that man, I'm born again.
I'm filled with power. I walk in healing God's prosper
me. Everything I touch prospers.
I mean, we're just moving and going, yeah.
Do I have trial? But, man, I'm at perfect peace.
I'm at rest. I mean, God's moving in my life.
It's just amazing. And then you go with him.
Yeah. There's others that have already
died before you. OK.
That when they get before the Lord, the Lord's going to say
you could have been healed, you could have prospered.
They're going to realize there was so much I could have had
that I didn't. It's not like the Lord's going
to say, well, I didn't want you to have anything anyway.
You really weren't my favorite child.
You're really, you're just lucky I got you in.
No, that that's not what he's saying.
He's going to say, you know, at the all of this was available
for you there, right? So again, it doesn't mean
they're not going to heaven, but it does mean the quality of life
here is severely different because of their their inability
to believe their unbelief period.
Could everyone of the Israelites gone into the promised land?
Why did they now enter unbelief? Were they his covenant kids?
So did God judge his people? You're you're my covenant kid.
You just can't get in because unbelief, well, you can't do
something contrary to God's word.
And God say OK, don't worry about it.
It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.
Are you hearing me? OK, let's go on verse 32.
But remember the former days, when, after being enlightened,
you endured a great conflict of suffering, partly by being made
a public spectacle through the reproaches and tribulations, and
partly becoming sharers with those who were so treated for
you, showed sympathy to the prisoners, accepted joyfully the
seizure of your property, knowing that you have for
yourself a better possession and a lasting one.
Therefore do not throw away, implies you can.
Do not throw away your confidence, which has great
reward, for you have need of endurance.
Why? So that when you have done the
will of God, you may receive what is promised for.
Yet in a very little while he who is what coming will come and
will not delay. He's coming, verse 2038 then.
But my righteous ones shall live by faith, and if he shrinks
back, my soul has no pleasure, he said.
But we're not of those who shrink back to destruction, but
to those who have faith, to the preserving of the soul.
So in essence, he says now we gonna stay in faith so that when
the day comes that's right, we're not the ones that are left
behind, 'cause we don't shrink back, we don't turn back and go
willfully sinning. We don't openly insult the
spirit of grace. We don't live like the world and
the world watch us live like them, and then we disappear.
Well, how we lived was no different than how they lived,
but we did. Ashley's in our heart and save
us. Say Hallelujah.
Amen. Mark chapter 13.
But of that day.
Now what day we talking about? We talking about the day Jesus
is coming. But on that day of that day or
hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son
but the Father alone. Take heed, keep on alert, for
you do not know when the appointed time will come.
It is like a man away on a journey, who, upon leaving his
house and putting his slaves in charge of signing to each one
his task, also commanded the doorkeeper to stay on alert.
Therefore, be on alert. For you do not know when the
master of the house is coming, whether in the evening or at
midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning, in
case he should come suddenly and find you asleep.
What I say to you, I say to all be on the alert.
Now why in the world is Jesus Christ telling us to take heed
and be on alert? If it's automatic, that when he
comes we go, why is Jesus Christ ahead of the church instructing
them? Now you're going to have to keep
watch. You have to be on alert.
Hallelujah. Amen.
You got to be on alert. You got to take heed.
Now notice it says. But in that day or hour, notice
what it doesn't say. It doesn't say that year.
It doesn't even say that month. In fact, the scriptures are more
conclude more that we can know that it's imminent as opposed to
I have no idea 'cause how can you take heed for something you
don't know? OK, we'll go to others.
This word is sleep in verse 36. And in case he would come
suddenly and find you what? Asleep.
This word of sleep comes from a Greek word that means this to
yield to sloth or sin. It means to be indifferent to
one's salvation. Oh my goodness is right.
You know how many born again covenant people are indifferent
to their salvation? Whether they come to church
doesn't matter. Whether they read the Bible
doesn't matter. I'm only going to converse with
him when I'm in trouble anyway. And their whole thought process
of God is in their way of processing God, not in his way
of them to process God. They've created the image of God
themselves using his scripture and he goes on said Now, in case
he finds you suddenly asleep, meaning you are being slothful,
you maybe, as Hebrew says, are going on willfully sinning.
Let me say the Lord's not giving rewards to rebellion.
I mean, you're going to have to prove you love him with all your
soul, all your mind, all your heart, your heart, soul, mind.
You got to you're going to prove that.
And he's made it available for you to do that.
But you have to prove it. And you prove it through obeying
him, because that means you love him.
You reckon I love you? I couldn't even do this without
you. I I wouldn't be able to make
these choices without you. I couldn't yield to the Spirit
and resist the Devil if it wasn't for you.
But I'm doing it. I'm the one doing it.
And he's empowering me to do it, 'cause my new spirit can hear
the Holy Ghost and I can resist the Devil.
But if I'm not resisting and I'm just running in the world and
saying, my gosh, I ask Jesus into my heart and save me, and I
can live like the rest of the world, but I'm safe.
I mean, the blood's been applied to me because it doesn't really
matter what I do. It doesn't matter what you do
now. Well, how in the world are you
in a better position than the first Adam?
Because the first Adam had no sin.
He was perfection. And he ate fruit and died cut
off from God. I know we have an advocate with
a father, and I understand he's always interceding for us.
What's he doing? Make the right choice.
Do what I'm saying. Just follow me.
Sure, he's doing that. But at the end of the day, he
still ain't gonna make you. Now, you were rebellious for you
knew him. Sure, your nature wasn't there.
But you know, you can be rebellious after you know him.
I mean, if that's not the case, then why do we have these altar
calls where people rededicate their lives?
And I was like, you know, I'm just not living.
Why do you feel that way? Well, because you get convicted
by the Holy Ghost, he says. What are you doing?
Don't you know your lifestyle is condemning you right now because
you're living like the world? You need to get right, bro.
This ain't you. This ain't your nature.
Need to get it together. Always trying to draw you.
Always trying to draw you.
My gosh, he's so long-suffering and merciful.
He's always full of compassion. But at the end of the day, you
can go your own way. And he says I might show up and
you'd be asleep. Is being asleep a problem?
Oh, it's a problem. Go back to Luke, chapter 21.
Luke 21. Let's go to verse 34.
Luke 2134 says this. Be on guard so that your hearts
will not be weighed. Downward disputation.
You know how it is. Thank you.
And drunkenness and the worries of life.
And that day, what day we talking about the return of the
King where he's going to catch away.
The church will not come on you suddenly like a now how in the
world. Let me even finish reading.
For it will come upon all those who dwell on the face of all the
earth but keep on alert at all times, praying that you may have
the strength to escape all these things that are about to take
place and to stand before the Son of God.
My gosh, I mean, he says be on guard.
Why you got to be on guard if it's autumn.
Dramatic deal. And here's number verse 36.
He said to keep on alert at all times, praying that you may have
strength to escape, which apparently you have a part of
the exit strategy. You have a part to play.
He tells you to guard your heart so that it's not weighed down.
Why? That you're not drunk on the
things of the world. You're intoxicated with the
world's way of doing it. You're carried away by the cares
of life. The thorns of life have pulled
you in and choking the word out of you.
You're in essence, you're unfruitful and not showing
anything that demonstrates that you're the child of a king.
And he says then that day can suddenly come upon you.
Like a what? Not like a time of rejoicing,
but like a trap. Like now.
What's a trap? I'm caught.
Hallelujah, aren't you glad
Christmas tis the season to be jolly?
I mean, this message is only weighty to those who are in
trouble, but to those who are not, you're like, praise God.
I know what I'm doing. I'm following God with all my
heart, all my soul, all my mind, all my strength.
I got him first in my life. I do what he says.
I crucify the flesh. I'm following him.
Thank you for letting me know. I'm a candidate for the day he
come, 'cause I'm assembling, I'm encouraging.
I'm staying with the word. Simple, Pretty simple.
But if you want to go try it on your own, go ahead.
Because I could be waving and singing this song to you as you
go. Ba ba ba, this word escape in
the Greek. Got to get y'all laughing
somewhere. It's heavy in here.
This word escape means to flee or to escape.
Again, it comes from. The suffix of this word means
or. The prefix of this word means
out of or away from. And the suffix of this word
means seek safety by flight to escape safely out of danger, to
vanish. Everybody believes we're going
to vanish. We're just talking about how,
how, how that event actually looks.
We are going to escape by literal flight.
Can I get an Amen? So this word actually is talking
about the catching away and he tells us put that back up there
verse 36 that you have to pray that you have strength to get up
out of here. Now why is this important?
Because the Bible lets us know Jesus said.
Now when I return, will I find faith in the earth?
Because he says the love of many, and that's God's love.
In the hearts of his covenant, kids will grow cold, which means
they'll become indifferent to their salvation.
They'll get caught up in the things of the world.
They'll be more running after the things of the world, doing
like the things of the world. And they've kind of got this
little thought in their head that when the time comes,
whether I'm in church or not in church, whether I'm reading the
Bible or not read, whether I'm living perfect or not, I'm
going. But they have no connection to
the head at all, other than a former confession of faith.
Now, I would love to be entirely wrong on this subject matter
right now, because it'd be great if it just poof, we're all gone
if you did it one time. But there's unfortunately too
many scriptures that do not conclude or support that.
And I'd be doing you a disservice if I'm saying, well,
let's just hope it's the other when I have no support of
scripture to say that when this scripture is literally telling
me I got to be on guard. I got to make sure I don't let
the cares of this life and the things going on in this world
and the things that we trying to do to get ahead, you know, so we
have this awesome life down here because that was the whole thing
about the Hebrews, like these people, man.
They had their seizure of their property.
They were, they were not trying to make a life down here.
They were staying connected. They just want to stay
connected. They want to stay in faith.
And it didn't matter what it cost them because they knew
there's something better at the end of the day.
So again, we can't we can't take on the things of the world.
And again it says you got to keep on alert at how many times.
That's why I come to church. Help keep you on alert.
Encourage one another because you're seeing so much out there.
To be easy for us to get mad, to get aggravated, I'm I must to
get judgmental. I mean, the world's going to
sin. And he said gross darkness is
going to cover the earth. So the more you hear about it,
like, my gosh, don't seem like nothing's working.
You know what God's working. His word works.
He's still delivering. He's still saving.
It doesn't matter what the world's doing.
God is still forgive him. He'll still save him.
He'll still bring him into the Kingdom.
No problem. Just live the Kingdom in front
of them so they'll have a hope when they see you.
Don't live like them under grace because you give them no hope.
You're trying to sell them a God that doesn't exist.
He don't care what you do, just ask him to forgive you.
He does care. In fact, he cares so much.
He's like, I'm going to have to pay the price so they can get
out of this stuff, 'cause if he didn't care at all, then when we
have the new heaven and new earth sinning in heaven wouldn't
be a problem. OK, y'all, don't want to hear
that. That's all right 'cause it's
fantasy, thinking God is never well with disobedience, never
will. OK, so with that being said,
turn to Matthew, chapter seven. We doing all right?
Let's move. We got to move a little quicker
now. Matthew 721 to 23, it says.
Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord will enter the
Kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who
is in heaven, will enter. Many will say to me on that day,
what day? It's that day, the day of the
catching away the Church. Lord, Lord, did we not prophecy
on your name, and in your name cast out demons, and in your
name perform miracles? And then I will declare to him I
never knew you. Now we got a problem with this,
because again we hear this word, never knew, and we already
conclude as somebody not in the Kingdom.
Depart from me, You who practice.
There's the key with you who practice lawlessness.
Now the word new here, I never knew.
The word new comes from the Greek word which means to become
acquainted with. Are you ready for this?
To know is in this context, sexual intercourse between a man
and a woman. In essence, he's saying I was
never intimately acquainted with you.
In essence, he's saying you received me as savior, were born
again, and you got my name. You come into the marriage, you
come down the aisle. Because let me tell you what
Jesus is not doing, sleeping with you before you come down.
So you get rid of that thought. You ain't never slept with Jesus
before. Marriage ain't never happened.
Jesus was not shaking up with you and getting it on with you
before the wedding day. So when you came into the
Kingdom, it's like you were getting married to Jesus, the
head of the church, the bride of Christ.
You said I do. Jesus, I love you.
I want you to be my man. And then when the honeymoon
came, you didn't show up. You have his legal name and all
that goes with his name, but she never consummated the marriage.
You never became one with him, and you went around in his name
that you got a legal right to 'cause you were born again in
Christ. This is why they're going to
prophecy on his name. They're going to cast out devils
in his name. They're going to perform
miracles in his name. And he's going to say, I was
never intimately acquainted with you.
We never consummated this thing. Oh, you've seen them.
They've come down to church. They got born again.
Never see them again. Never, never come to a church
again. Yet they'll say, Oh yeah, I'm
born again. And they'll pray to him, and
they'll invoke his name. And God out of his mercy will
say I love you. I mean, he'll still give to you.
So you're my. Come on.
Come, come. Come to the bed, man.
Get here. Let's get this thing.
Let's get together. Let's become one here.
Quit just using my name. And you were using my name for
your own self. And then you want to come up out
of what's happening. And you live like the rest.
Matthew 24, verse 36. Are y'all all right?
OK, he said. But the but on but of that day,
say that day an hour no one knows, not even the angels of
heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.
For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of
Noah. For as in those days before the
flood they were eating and drinking and marrying and giving
in marriage until the day that Noah entered the ark, and they
did not understand until the flood came and took them all
away, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.
Then there will be two men in the field, One will be taken,
and 1:00 will be left. Two women will be grinding at
the mill. One will be taken, one will be
left. Therefore, be on.
Be on alert, for you do not know which day your Lord is coming.
But be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known what
time of night the thief was was coming, he would have been on
the alert and would not have allowed his house house to be
broken in. For this reason you also must be
ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour when you do
not think he will. Whoever then is the faithful and
sensible slave whom his master put in charge of his household
to give them their food at the proper time, blessed is that
slave whom his master finds so doing when he comes.
Truly, I say to you that he will put him in charge of all of his
possessions. But if that evil slave says in
his heart, my master's not coming for a long time, my
master is not coming for a long time, and begins to beat his
fellow slaves and eat and drink with drunkards, the master of
that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him in
an hour which he does not know, and will cut him in pieces and
assign him a place with hypocrites in that place where
there is weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Shadaba Satah, are you hearing me?
So he says, listen, the day's coming and hours coming, Nobody
knows. The angels don't know.
The Son don't know, but the father knows.
Again, it's not a year. It's not a month.
We can get this thing pretty tight, he said.
But this day is going to be like Noah.
And in Noah, everybody's going to be running around doing their
own thing. The world's going to be going,
They're going to not want anything to do with God.
And if you don't watch up, you can get caught up with it.
I didn't use Noah as a catching away type, but Noah is
considered a catching away type because Noah never actually
leaves playing Earth. He's just caught up.
Aren't you glad he was in the boat that day?
Because he didn't know when the father was going to shut the
door. Oh y'all, don't want to hear
this, cousin. Father shuts the door on the
ark. Well, there's another door that
gets shut. It's with the 10 virgins.
But I don't have time to preach on the 10 virgins today.
I'm sorry. My point is, is that he's
saying, look, don't you get caught up in everything going on
in the world, because if you don't watch out, he's going to
show up and you are not going to be ready for this.
Now again, we conclude that two are in a place, one's gone,
one's left. We automatically assume it's
only people who are lost that are staying back.
Yet the Scripture lets us know that if you are behaving in a
way that is not in in keeping with the covenant of God, you
are at risk. That's right, of not escaping.
Now again you if you get stuck in a tribulation and make sure
that you never take the mark and maintain a confession of faith
in Jesus, you're gonna go to heaven.
But you're living in a time frame you were not supposed to
be in. And again, you say, I can't
believe this. I mean, that's why you got to
read the Bible. God is not schizophrenic.
Scott did. God did not do something in the
Old Covenant. He's not doing a new covenant.
I mean, his character's the same.
So you understand he had covenant kids in the Old
Covenant that his wrath showed up on, 'cause his wrath showed
up for the purpose of them to repent.
But it didn't come to the ones that were in righteousness.
He protected them. Same thing in the New Covenant.
If you're gonna and how much more severe, 'cause we're alive
to God, we have the Holy Ghost in us, and then we're gonna mock
God and live like the rest of the world and expect that Trump
is going to blow and we're going to blow out of here with having
no thought process about it, he says.
You got to be on alert and he tells us he says we don't know
they are, but notice he concludes in this he said, Now
listen, if you know and he says now listen, you got to be ready.
Because if he says if you knew when the thief was coming, then
you would not let him be broken in.
So he's concluding. You don't know the day or hour,
but you can know he's coming and be ready and you're not going to
be taken like a trap. And then he goes on and gives a
clear example which reinforces love.
The master has his servants and he entrusts them.
And if we were to jump over to Matthew 25 and I don't have time
to go there today, I'm going to conclude here.
OK, Then in Matthew 25 he goes on and says to them, I give
151211 and he goes away. Is Jesus not with us today?
Where's Jesus at? He's seated in heavenly places.
Is he coming back? Yeah.
And when he comes back, we got to give an account.
That's what the Bible says. Said we give an account.
And so when he comes back, he wants to find us, so doing.
And when he comes back to the one he finds him doing, guess
what? He rejoices.
And he says to him, I give you all these possessions for you to
be in charge of. In essence, the catching away of
the church is where God goes through the resume of our life
and say, because you were faithful, obey here and faithful
here. And you didn't compromise here
and you didn't do this, When we go back to this planet, you're
going to have this territory and that territory.
And I have this assignment for you and this assignment for you.
And that's what you're going to do next.
But the one when he shows back is not doing it.
In fact, what are they doing? They are being slothful.
He calls them evil. And we think, well, that means
they're cut off. No, their master is the Lord.
They're evil because all covenant kids that don't obey
God, that's an evil action. The minute you don't obey God,
that's evil. So if he says in the heart my
master's not coming for a long time begins to beat his fellow
slaves. That's why we've been talking
about unity. You think you can talk about the
body of Christ like this, and God's all right with that?
You think you can beat down the body of Christ.
You can talk bad about one another.
You can have offences towards one another.
You cannot walk in forgiveness and love.
You think that you can pretend that you are not doing the same
thing. And we don't understand that you
ain't really repented yet, that you're masquerading.
Are you hearing me? He goes on to say.
And then they're going to eat and drink with drunkards,
meaning they're intoxicated with the world, he said.
When he comes back, he said. And then this verse 51 is really
important. He says he'll cut him in pieces,
assign him a place with the hypocrites.
There's only one group of people Jesus called hypocrites.
Let me tell you, they were not. They were not the lost.
He never called the lost hypocrites.
Now what do I mean by that? I understand in his time frame
nobody was born again. I get that.
What I'm saying is, is that who he called hypocrites were the
ones who had an anointing to be able to understand the word of
God. It was the Pharisees and
scribes. It was the priesthood.
He called them hypocrites because they knew how to live
different but chose not to. In essence, he is saying we can
say a hypocrite is this one who follows God on their own terms
and not on God's terms. And these priests are covenant.
These priests have been come down from the line of Aaron.
Are you hearing me? There's an anointing.
I mean, the high priest who who authorized the killing of Jesus
spoke under the anointing, He said.
You're a hypocrite. Weeping and gnashing of teeth is
not just hell. The tribulation will be weeping
and gnashing of teeth. What if he finds you not doing?
Does she look like the rest of the world?
Then he'll let you have the wrath that the world's having in
order for you to repent. He didn't have to get left
behind. It doesn't mean you won't go to
heaven, doesn't mean that. It just means you don't get to
leave, because the leaving that's catching away is for the
faithful. He's coming back for the church.
That's without spot or wrinkle. Those who are doing and it's and
it and this is not. Well, that's not fair.
How is it not fair? Every one of us that got born
again have the Holy Ghost living in US.
Every one of us that got born again became a new nature in
Christ. We actually have the nature of
the King. We are without excuse.
We have the written word that transforms our mind.
We are without excuse. We are in a time frame that
God's like, are you serious right now?
And let me tell you God has shown this throughout his pages.
Moses going to have this face to face encounter with God and then
disobey God by hitting a rock twice and God's like it doesn't
matter. I'm gonna let you take them in
any way. I forgive you.
And did Moses ask for forgiveness?
He did. He said, Lord, I'm sorry I did
that. I didn't mean it.
I didn't mean. And he talked to God all the
time about that. And finally the Lord said, look
out there, son. And he looked at he said, that's
the promise saying, he said, now listen, I have forgiven you for
disobeying, but it has stopped you from getting in, period.
You can't be this close to me and dishonor me like that and
think you're going to be able to finish your course, he said.
Don't talk to me again about it. And God was a forgiving God.
No. When we have the fear of the
Lord then we'll do something great.
I'll close with these two scriptures because I'm
seriously. I just have to say these
scriptures try to leave you on a high note.
Romans 6/6. I can conclude it like this,
knowing that our old self was crucified with him in order that
the our body of sin might be done away with so that we would
no longer be slaves to sin. Galatians 220 Is this.
This is it right here. Galatians 220 I've been
crucified with Christ. How can you be confident?
How do you be confident that you know what I'm gonna hear?
The trumpet. I'm ready.
I've been crucified with Christ.
In him. I have shared His crucifixion.
It is no longer I who live, but Christ.
The Messiah lives in me and the life I now live in the body.
I live by faith, by adherence to and reliance on and complete
trust in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for
me. In fact, Bible tells us in
Galatians 5 that our spirit and our flesh battle.
And you know who's getting caught up?
It's those who crucify the flesh, who walk by the Spirit,
who are led by the Spirit, who do the word of God that he will
come back and give them their reward.
Because we know God is a rewarder of those who diligently
seek Him. But for those who will not
crucify the flesh, who will not allow the spirit that's in them
that can dominate their flesh now in the spirit realm to
dominate that God say, why don't you just stay on the planet and
prove? To me that you will submit to
me, 'cause when I gave you the power to do it in the realm of
the spirit, You wouldn't. You wouldn't.
So now you're gonna have to prove it, 'cause I couldn't tell
by your walk. You love me?
Hallelujah. You're not working out your
salvation, but you are working out your exit strategy.
You're determining when you're going because if you want to be
born again and live like the world, God is not a man that he
should lie. And he's not mocked because
whatever a man soweth, that's what he'll read.
And for us that are born again, Dad's like, really?
I did that and you still can't obey me.
You still are indifferent with the salvation that I've given
you. You still want to try to
convince me of how you're living.
I'm supposed to accept. You're telling me it's OK to
keep drinking. You're telling me it's OK to
keep cussing? You're telling me it's OK 'cause
yeah, when you were doing it, that's what you were doing.
And I paid the price, so you don't have to do that no more.
And you're going to act like you can do.
And I'm supposed to just be OK? I'm not OK.
That's why the Holy Ghost keeps talking to you.
And when you renew your mind, you can't conquer everything.
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