1 00:00:02,240 --> 00:00:04,760 Thanks for checking out the Anchor Faith Message Podcast 2 00:00:04,760 --> 00:00:06,160 from St. Augustine, FL. 3 00:00:06,680 --> 00:00:16,200 Now enjoy this message we. Tied out our message. 4 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:19,320 You know, cloudy with a chance of rain because the Lord's 5 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,840 coming back in a cloud. Now, I do want to preface this 6 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:28,160 last week. I had no intention of explaining 7 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:34,600 to you of the passages I used of which one is the coming of 8 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:38,880 Christ for the catching away the Church and the coming of Christ 9 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:41,800 where he's going to put his foot down and reign for 1000 years. 10 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:46,160 I know I use both passages. The point of the message was 11 00:00:46,160 --> 00:00:51,480 that when he comes in the cloud, either occasion, it is a scene 12 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:53,880 event. That was the point. 13 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:56,720 That was the point. The point was that, you know, I. 14 00:00:56,880 --> 00:01:00,000 So again, you know, I understand how it can be, especially people 15 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:04,280 who, you know are studying last day at eschatology events. 16 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:06,880 There's always that little thing, you know, OK, Is this 17 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:11,040 because people debate whether there's a mid post pre Trib, a 18 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:14,600 post a mid Trib and a post Trib? Well, the Bible is very clear 19 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:17,480 about a pre Trib, extremely clear. 20 00:01:17,960 --> 00:01:21,680 But it's also cleared about a mid Trib because the two 21 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:25,120 witnesses will be in the middle and they'll be called up. 22 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:29,480 The two will. So there is one. 23 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:32,120 It's just not a mass exodus, all right. 24 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:34,640 And then there's going to be things that have take place in 25 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:37,440 the end before he comes down. Amen. 26 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:39,320 Right when he comes and puts his foot down. 27 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:41,840 But that was not our comments for there. 28 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:45,000 We wanted to just go through the scripture because we've all, 29 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:49,720 most of us are. The popular stance is that when 30 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:52,840 the catch in the way of the church happens, it's going to 31 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:56,000 happen and we're just going to vanish and no one's going to 32 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:59,440 know where we're at. But we saw yesterday, last week 33 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:03,120 that the Scripture doesn't actually support that thought 34 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:07,160 process. It actually is an event that is 35 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:11,080 globally known. You have an opportunity to share 36 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:15,840 once you're changed the Bible. The only quick deal is that you 37 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:17,960 are changed in the moment in the twinkling of an eye. 38 00:02:18,640 --> 00:02:20,960 OK? And again, even some of the 39 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:23,920 words associated with change is like violent. 40 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:28,120 It's like a, a, a casting off. I mean, you don't understand if 41 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:30,400 your clothes were on fire, how fast you think you'd get rid of 42 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:33,320 them. So again, you know, the fact 43 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:38,160 that you change like violently, you violently throw off 44 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:42,880 immortality or mortality and put on immortality. 45 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:45,800 You understand what I'm saying? That still doesn't say you're 46 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:48,800 leaving just as fast. Now I'm not going to. 47 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:53,000 I'm not saying that once you start to ascend, it's not quick. 48 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:58,160 I happen to use a hot air balloon, you know, last week. 49 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:00,640 And, you know, and through my conversation, I'm like, I'm 50 00:03:00,640 --> 00:03:04,040 going to change that and let them know we on the coast of 51 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:06,320 Florida have the Kennedy Space Center. 52 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:08,720 Have you ever seen the Kennedy Space Center now? 53 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:13,160 Have you ever, on a clear day when a rocket goes off, been 54 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:16,800 able to stand on the East Coast, way up here in Saint Augustine 55 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:22,800 and see the rocket ascend? Yeah, Now is that like getting 56 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:26,840 out of the planet? I mean rockets are like getting 57 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:29,160 out of the planet. They are taking off. 58 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:32,760 I mean that's not like low speed, that's not like helium 59 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:36,520 balloon stuff. I mean it is blasting off, yet 60 00:03:36,640 --> 00:03:44,400 we watched the cloud of smoke behind it and watch it and as 61 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:46,680 fast as it's going, we can still see it. 62 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:51,080 Hallelujah. So better illustration there. 63 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:53,600 Amen. But with that being said then 64 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:56,360 you know again, we're, we call this cloudy with a chance of 65 00:03:56,360 --> 00:03:58,400 rain because you're like, what do you mean a chance? 66 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:02,000 Well, again, there's popular teaching. 67 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:04,960 And just because popular teaching is out there, it 68 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:07,960 depends on what lens you're looking at. 69 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:12,240 And again, we, the reason why we wrote the book The Forest is 70 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:16,560 because we've said a lot of times people lose the Bible 71 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:21,000 because they get very specific in their tree doctrine. 72 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:25,680 Salvation is a tree in the forest. 73 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:31,240 Healing is a tree in the forest. Deliverance is a tree in the 74 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:34,000 forest. Forgiveness is a tree in the 75 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:35,480 forest. Mercy. 76 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:40,400 All of those trees we could study and we would never exhaust 77 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:44,120 how much we could pull out of those trees in the lifetime that 78 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:47,560 we are on the Earth. But the Bible's not just about 79 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:51,920 salvation, it's not just about salvation. 80 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:56,320 So if we only look through the tree of salvation, then we only 81 00:04:56,320 --> 00:05:00,560 see the salvation parts and we miss the other stuff. 82 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:04,800 Amen. And so as the, you know, saying 83 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:07,480 is they miss the forest for the trees. 84 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:11,120 A lot of churches sometimes miss the forest for the trees, which 85 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:14,520 means then some of the things that, you know, we're all asking 86 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:16,720 questions. Well, Lord, what does this mean? 87 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:19,360 How's this going to be? What does that look like? 88 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:23,320 Well, if we're only looking at through the revelation that we 89 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:27,200 currently have, we could find that maybe some of the things we 90 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:30,400 thought aren't actually as it is thought. 91 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:35,240 But once you expand and begin to see the bigger picture, then 92 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:38,840 things start to open up a little bit more and we want to be able 93 00:05:38,840 --> 00:05:41,600 to address those. So in Matthew chapter 15, verse 94 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:44,120 three, we'll start with this scripture again and he answered 95 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:46,360 and said to them, why do yourselves transgress the 96 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:48,680 command of God for the sake of your tradition? 97 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:53,200 Now Jesus is obviously talking to people who have access to his 98 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:55,840 word. That's who he's talking to here. 99 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:59,280 He's talking to the scribes and the priests, the Pharisees. 100 00:05:59,280 --> 00:06:03,360 These are people who have the scrolls, they have the Torah, 101 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:07,840 they have the 1st 5 writings of Moses, They have the Prophets, 102 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:10,480 they have the Psalms, they have all these writings. 103 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:15,280 And in their office as priests, they have an anointing to come 104 00:06:15,280 --> 00:06:17,760 upon them 'cause in the old covenant, the anointing would 105 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:19,880 come upon the Prophet, priest and King. 106 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:24,400 And so there's an anointing that comes upon them so that they can 107 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:29,000 know what the word says. It doesn't matter that their 108 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:32,080 spirit man is dead. Doesn't matter. 109 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:34,640 I'm going to say that again, it doesn't matter. 110 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:37,960 Because if someone tried to conclude, well, you know, all 111 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:41,000 these people weren't born again. Well, Abraham wasn't born again, 112 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:45,000 yet he wasn't in he was in paradise. 113 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:47,160 He wasn't in the grave where he couldn't be redeemed. 114 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:51,400 That man lived by faith, and when he died and went to the 115 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:54,720 grave, he was in a place that allowed him to be able to be 116 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:59,520 redeemed or pulled out of, because he was believing for the 117 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:02,560 day that the Messiah would come. Amen. 118 00:07:03,280 --> 00:07:08,000 So Abraham was never born again of the Spirit. 119 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:12,520 Yet because he was a prophet, the Holy Spirit would come upon 120 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:17,160 him and give him enough insight and revelation that he could 121 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:21,440 live by faith. Are you hearing me? 122 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:26,800 OK, so again, we can't discredit everything because none of these 123 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:29,200 people were born. Again, people have the 124 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:33,440 responsibility of what they knew and the revelation by which God 125 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:36,760 brought it. And this particular group Jesus 126 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:41,320 is talking to saying, I know that the Spirit has revealed to 127 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:46,480 you my truth. You're choosing to not do it. 128 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:50,800 You like your way of doing it better. 129 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:57,480 In essence, you want to serve God on your terms and not on 130 00:07:57,480 --> 00:08:02,600 God's terms. OK, so with that being said, 131 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:06,480 let's look at a couple things. We ended with this passage of 132 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:11,480 scripture last week, Luke 21, verses 27 to 28, it says this. 133 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:14,280 And they shall see the Son of Man again. 134 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:18,600 They shall what it's going to see, see the Son of Man coming 135 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:21,560 in a cloud with power and great glory. 136 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:24,000 Again, I'm not here to tell you which one that is. 137 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:28,640 That's not the point. Because the point is verse 28. 138 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:32,679 Now, when these things begin to happen, that is not relating to 139 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:35,159 verse 27. It's relating to the things that 140 00:08:35,159 --> 00:08:39,120 have been said prior to that. But you understand the context 141 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:42,559 was what's when we going to know that the kingdom's coming, 142 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:45,200 You're going to set it up. That's what we're talking about 143 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:47,280 here. And so he begins to give him a 144 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:51,200 whole list of different signs, things that they can be able to 145 00:08:51,560 --> 00:08:55,000 see, discern, to know the signs of the times. 146 00:08:55,480 --> 00:08:58,080 And he mentions this particular one, that you'll see the Son of 147 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:00,280 Man coming in cloud with power and great glory, he said. 148 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:05,000 Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your 149 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:07,160 heads because your redemption draws nigh. 150 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:10,400 And I said to you last week, most of the time in that 151 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:14,240 particular passage of Scripture, we tend to kind of look at that 152 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:18,880 in the context of, you know, all the things we're seeing that at 153 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:21,040 anytime Jesus may come. And that is true. 154 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:25,400 But is it also, could it be a context that when we do actually 155 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:28,120 look up and see him and we're changing the moment of a 156 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:31,440 twinkling eye that we're fixing to move into a seven-year 157 00:09:32,040 --> 00:09:35,320 process with the Lord before we return and we're going to be 158 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:37,520 getting assignments while we're with Him. 159 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:40,400 So when we return to Earth with him in the millennial reign, 160 00:09:40,520 --> 00:09:44,120 we'll know where God has given us dominion to rule on the 161 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:47,600 planet with Him during that particular rain. 162 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:51,760 And that we can say our redemption or this thing's about 163 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:53,880 to close. We're going up to get our 164 00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:57,080 marching orders for the next age. 165 00:09:57,440 --> 00:09:58,800 Are you hearing me? Now? 166 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:03,120 This word look up means this. It comes from a Greek word that 167 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:06,840 means to raise up. That's pretty obvious, right, 168 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:08,720 because it says look up or to raise up. 169 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:12,240 But it comes from a root Greek word which means to bow the 170 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:14,320 head. Now you say, well how can you 171 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:17,680 look up and bow the head? Well, the root part is bow the 172 00:10:17,680 --> 00:10:20,120 head. When you add the prefix of the 173 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:22,880 Greek word, then it makes it the opposite. 174 00:10:23,280 --> 00:10:27,200 So if you're bowing your head, then the opposite of that would 175 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:31,920 be what to look up. But this root word, it's base 176 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:41,600 meaning, or this, this, this particular what is that suffix 177 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:47,040 word has a base, which means it comes from another word, which 178 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:50,840 is the root of which this next, this word we just said, which 179 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:52,200 means to bow your head, comes from. 180 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:58,000 It means this. A wave or of impulse and 181 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:03,680 restless men tossed to and fro by their raging desires or 182 00:11:03,680 --> 00:11:07,880 passions. Now, when you know it that way, 183 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:11,320 put that verse back up. In essence, he's saying this. 184 00:11:11,560 --> 00:11:19,760 When all these things begin to happen, you need to quit running 185 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:25,000 around to and fro with your fleshly passions. 186 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:31,360 It's time to get rid of that and get yourself in the position 187 00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:37,680 God's created you in. In essence, look up, do the 188 00:11:37,680 --> 00:11:43,040 opposite of being this person. That is like the wave of the sea 189 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:46,440 that James talked about. He says, OK, if any man lacks 190 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:49,760 wisdom, let him ask God, right? And James and he says, you know. 191 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:53,080 But when he asks, he must ask in faith, not doubting, because if 192 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:55,360 he doubts, he's like a man tossed in the sea. 193 00:11:55,480 --> 00:11:57,280 That man should expect to receive. 194 00:11:58,280 --> 00:12:02,000 Now that's a righteous man in covenant with God, but he won't 195 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:07,920 receive because he has doubt. That's a righteous man that's 196 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:13,880 been born by in a new covenant, by the blood of Jesus, a child 197 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:16,680 of God. But they can expect to receive 198 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:23,200 nothing because of doubt. So in essence he's saying quit 199 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:28,240 doubting, quit running after your flesh get up and then he 200 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:29,880 goes on and says and lift up your heads. 201 00:12:29,880 --> 00:12:32,800 Now when you break that word heads down, it goes down to the 202 00:12:32,800 --> 00:12:37,600 Christ Lord of the of the husband or the church. 203 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:41,520 So in essence he's saying look up, get rid of all your little 204 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:44,880 worldly passions. Don't let anything of the world 205 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:48,160 hold on to you anymore. You better get rid of that stuff 206 00:12:48,560 --> 00:12:50,800 and you better put on the mind of Christ. 207 00:12:51,640 --> 00:12:55,960 What you need to do is you need to start thinking like you are 208 00:12:56,040 --> 00:13:02,480 in Christ because your redemption is drawing not are 209 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:07,120 you hearing me? So we then need to understand a 210 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:09,560 couple of things. Because again, Jesus tells the 211 00:13:10,560 --> 00:13:16,160 the Pharisees, the the, the scribes, these that have access 212 00:13:16,560 --> 00:13:20,480 to the anointing in order to be to have revelation of the word 213 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:23,760 in that age to where they could walk in it by faith. 214 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:30,920 And they in turn were deciding how they were going to follow 215 00:13:30,920 --> 00:13:33,280 God. And then God must be pleased 216 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:35,880 with it. We're going to do it our way. 217 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:40,280 We're going to tell you how you should interpret your own word. 218 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:44,880 Are you hearing me? OK, we have the same problem 219 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:51,160 today because again, we must let God define how he wants us to 220 00:13:51,160 --> 00:13:57,960 interact with Him, right? And again, any church that 221 00:13:57,960 --> 00:14:00,360 believes Jesus Christ died on the cross and rose from the 222 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:05,960 grave, any of them, they're all going to conclude our only way 223 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:08,320 to have a relationship with the Father is to believe in our 224 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:09,520 heart and confess with our mouth. 225 00:14:09,560 --> 00:14:12,480 Jesus Christ as Lord. That is the way. 226 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:15,560 And there's not a alternative. Correct. 227 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:19,280 There's not a. So that's God defining to us. 228 00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:21,840 This is how you have the relationship. 229 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:25,240 That's not us telling God. This is how I'm going to have 230 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:30,240 the relationship, OK? And that is generally easily 231 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:35,360 accepted. However, how to love God is not 232 00:14:37,040 --> 00:14:42,680 that is not generally accepted because although Jesus clearly 233 00:14:42,680 --> 00:14:47,680 defines how to love him, the church is basically after 234 00:14:47,680 --> 00:14:50,640 they're born again. Say now I'm going to tell you 235 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:53,120 how I will love you and you should just accept it. 236 00:14:55,320 --> 00:14:58,120 All right. Hallelujah. 237 00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:09,120 I thought y'all were ready for today because it has not got 238 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:12,440 tough yet. Hallelujah. 239 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:17,000 Amen. Praise the Lord. 240 00:15:17,520 --> 00:15:24,720 Say I'm ready to receive from the Lord by the Spirit what the 241 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:30,760 word has to say, and my tradition has got to go. 242 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:39,920 All right, So Jesus in Mark chapter 12, verse 30 says this. 243 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:41,880 And you? Who's you? 244 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:45,240 That's us. And you shall love the Lord your 245 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:48,680 God. How with all your heart, comma, 246 00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:54,480 and with all your soul, comma, And with all your mind, comma, 247 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:58,840 and with all your strength. This is how you're going to love 248 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:01,680 him. So you cannot say you love God 249 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:04,240 and stop at your heart. Well, the Lord knows my heart. 250 00:16:04,240 --> 00:16:05,640 He knows I love him. He said. 251 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:09,960 Well, what about your soul? What about your mind? 252 00:16:10,920 --> 00:16:13,080 And when he say soul, you understand what well you know? 253 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:15,320 Do you love him with all your emotions? 254 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:21,520 Do you subject your emotions to him that when situations happen, 255 00:16:21,520 --> 00:16:24,960 you love him so much that when the Holy Ghost in you says don't 256 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:28,320 get angry about that, you submit your emotions? 257 00:16:32,520 --> 00:16:34,800 Well, now he understands. You know my family. 258 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:37,200 He's like, excuse me, I thought you were in my family. 259 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:41,000 Yes. Last I checked, you were under 260 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:42,240 the blood. That's a new family. 261 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:44,480 I don't care about your natural bloodline anymore. 262 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:53,240 You're in a spiritual bloodline. OK, With all your mind. 263 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:56,840 Is that what you think on is that what you move towards is 264 00:16:56,840 --> 00:16:59,040 all your thought processes towards the Lord? 265 00:16:59,160 --> 00:17:02,400 If everything you do is it based upon, are you doing it the way 266 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:03,640 God? And then with all your strength? 267 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:06,040 Meaning you get my strength first? 268 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:09,680 Yes, that's right. And you know what I love about 269 00:17:09,680 --> 00:17:11,079 God when it comes to your strength? 270 00:17:11,079 --> 00:17:15,480 First, that's means physically present to participate in his 271 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:19,000 local body in the fit that he's designed for you. 272 00:17:19,359 --> 00:17:22,920 That when you really accumulate the 168 hours that you are 273 00:17:22,920 --> 00:17:26,520 functioning in a week, that God's really not asking a whole 274 00:17:26,520 --> 00:17:30,280 lot of you. And when you take that time and 275 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:33,680 compare it to other time, it's really a a small amount. 276 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:37,800 But what it does for all your other time if you'll just submit 277 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:39,880 to it. Are you hearing me? 278 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:44,280 So we are to love God, basically our spirit, soul and body. 279 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:47,560 Everything about us is his. Are you hearing me? 280 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:51,280 So again, if I love him with all my strength or with my body. 281 00:17:51,360 --> 00:17:54,480 So how can a believer be fornicating with someone else? 282 00:17:55,840 --> 00:17:58,960 Well, the Lord knows I love them and I love them too. 283 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:00,200 Would And why are you shaking up? 284 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:07,200 Just say Amen anyway. All right. 285 00:18:07,360 --> 00:18:11,200 You have the ability to keep your body under subjection. 286 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:14,320 Let's go on to the next one. John, Chapter 14, verse 15. 287 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:16,880 She's very clear here. This is in red red letter stuff. 288 00:18:16,880 --> 00:18:19,560 If you have a red letter Bible, Jesus says if, that's 289 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:21,760 conditional statement, so do you meet the condition? 290 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:27,800 If you love me, that's an emphatic answer. 291 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:34,480 If you love me, if you love who, Jesus, you will keep my 292 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:38,680 commandment. So to say, I love him and not 293 00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:41,200 keep his commandment or his word. 294 00:18:43,120 --> 00:18:46,720 Who's lying now? Can I truly be able to say I 295 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:50,280 love Jesus? And yet Jesus says Bull, why 296 00:18:50,280 --> 00:18:54,320 don't you keep my word? So Jesus's definition of loving 297 00:18:54,320 --> 00:18:57,320 him and my definition could be different. 298 00:18:57,960 --> 00:18:59,760 Now who do you think he's going to follow? 299 00:18:59,880 --> 00:19:07,040 Your definition of love or his? OK, jump on down to verse 21. 300 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:10,280 He says it this way. He says He who has my 301 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:15,400 commandments and what keeps them is the one who loves me. 302 00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:20,560 And he who loves me will be loved by my father, and I will 303 00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:24,960 love him and disclose myself to him. 304 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:31,360 Hallelujah. So it's very clear then that 305 00:19:31,360 --> 00:19:37,040 Jesus defines this term and that we are to love Him with all of 306 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:38,720 our heart, soul, mind, and strength. 307 00:19:39,160 --> 00:19:43,000 In essence, anything He's telling us, both in a general 308 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:46,240 sense, in the word that covers every one of us, and then in a 309 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:49,760 specific sense based upon our purpose and our personal 310 00:19:49,760 --> 00:19:53,360 relationship with Him. If we're demonstrating love, we 311 00:19:53,360 --> 00:19:58,360 are obeying it because that is really loving Jesus. 312 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:05,200 Anything else is a counterfeit. It is a counterfeit. 313 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:11,000 And you can say I love you all day long, but that doesn't make 314 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:13,320 God come off the throne and go, well, we're going to take you. 315 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:15,680 You know what? I I understand you're busy. 316 00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:17,960 I get it. I see all the problems you have. 317 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:20,720 I get it. You know you're doing the best 318 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:22,840 you can. That's not what he says. 319 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:25,200 Because for he's like, I see all the problems. 320 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:26,240 That's why I'm going to give you my word. 321 00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:29,720 You'll overcome everything, right? 322 00:20:30,560 --> 00:20:32,560 I gave you my nature. This is going to be easy. 323 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:34,400 I said. It's going to be easy. 324 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:37,160 In fact, he said it was easy. He said my yoke is easy. 325 00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:39,680 My burden is light. We got this. 326 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:42,080 He said be a good cheer, man. You going to have some trials 327 00:20:42,080 --> 00:20:43,280 and tribulations? That's all Good. 328 00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:44,960 I've already conquered this bad boy. 329 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:48,880 So you understand, if I've done all this, the least you can do 330 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:52,080 is do what I say. But it's not the least. 331 00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:55,880 It's what's required. I said it's what's required. 332 00:20:56,880 --> 00:21:01,240 This is not fantasy. This is the reality of 333 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:04,760 Scripture. And we also know that the 334 00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:07,240 Scripture tells us that we are to live by faith. 335 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:11,920 Are you hearing me? So let me throw out a thought 336 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:13,280 process. Are you ready? 337 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:17,720 Oh, I hope so. Hallelujah. 338 00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:23,480 Does it require faith to be born again? 339 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:26,480 OK, let me step. Take a step back. 340 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:32,520 Has Jesus come in? Has Jesus? 341 00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:50,930 Has Jesus been to the earth, born of the flesh, died on the 342 00:21:50,930 --> 00:21:58,410 cross, and rose from the dead? Has the action of his blood 343 00:21:58,410 --> 00:22:04,770 being put on the mercy seat enough payment to deal with 344 00:22:05,050 --> 00:22:06,650 every sin that's ever been committed? 345 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:09,640 Has it been finished once and for all? 346 00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:22,810 So from a blood perspective, sin has no power For who? 347 00:22:24,770 --> 00:22:28,490 Everyone? For everyone. 348 00:22:31,850 --> 00:22:38,610 So whether a person is born again or not, payments made, is 349 00:22:38,610 --> 00:22:43,720 it not, He doesn't go up to the mercy seat when a person comes 350 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:46,840 down and says I'm going to receive Jesus as Lord, OK, go 351 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:48,640 ahead and cut me. Let me pour a little blood out 352 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:50,400 for them. Does he do that? 353 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:52,240 No. You said that's already been 354 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:55,480 applauded. It's already been there. 355 00:22:55,720 --> 00:23:01,680 It's done right. So then, in the spirit realm, or 356 00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:12,480 in the realm of God? No one technically, or everyone 357 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:17,080 trying to see how I can say this from the perspective of the 358 00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:23,200 blood, they're all saved, but we know not everyone's saved. 359 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:30,880 What's required for them to receive salvation? 360 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:35,160 Faith. Believe in your heart. 361 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:38,160 Confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord. 362 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:44,160 Faith is what brings it to pass. It's the grace of God through 363 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:49,200 faith, right? So even though in the realm of 364 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:55,320 the blood so to speak, is finished yet it doesn't actually 365 00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:59,440 apply to a person in the realm of receiving until faith's 366 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:02,040 there. So they can't have it till they 367 00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:09,760 have faith in it, right? OK, so we know then that when 368 00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:13,920 people receive Jesus as Lord, is faith required. 369 00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:17,560 From then on it says the righteous shall. 370 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:27,120 OK, so a born again person that's in Christ, in Christ, 371 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:30,720 they in God's eyes they are his child. 372 00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:36,000 Period. Are there other benefits they 373 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:41,200 could have? OK, one of those benefits is 374 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:43,320 baptism of the Holy Ghost, right? 375 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:47,880 To be in do with power. Are there believers on the 376 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:53,480 planet today that are born again but not baptized in the Spirit? 377 00:24:54,200 --> 00:25:00,720 Why 'cause they haven't exercised faith, so it's 378 00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:04,440 available, but yet they're not walking in it because they 379 00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:09,600 haven't received it. How, by faith, Hallelujah, 380 00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:18,440 healing is it for today? But how many are born again by 381 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:23,680 faith, even endued with power? By faith, where the evidence of 382 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:25,400 that power they've received it is? 383 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:26,880 They speak in the language of the Kingdom. 384 00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:31,800 It's called an unknown tongue. Yet they themselves stay sick. 385 00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:44,120 Why? For some they have no faith at 386 00:25:44,120 --> 00:25:48,360 all. There's not faith concerning it. 387 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:53,200 Look at Hebrews chapter 4. I want to read this scripture 388 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:56,520 real quick, just so you understand, says for indeed we 389 00:25:56,520 --> 00:26:00,320 have had good news preached to us, just as they also. 390 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:04,720 But the word they heard did not what profit them. 391 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:08,520 Why? Because it was not united by 392 00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:16,640 faith in those who heard. Those who heard. 393 00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:24,160 Can we receive anything from God without faith? 394 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:28,720 OK, that's not entirely it is true. 395 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:33,680 But yet it's, you know, there's a little we need to talk about 396 00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:36,560 this. I can literally have no faith, 397 00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:38,960 and yet God can do something for me. 398 00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:45,000 He can. But it's through somebody else's 399 00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:47,560 thank you. It's through somebody else's 400 00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:50,840 faith, OK? Because again, the gifts of the 401 00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:56,720 Spirit can function in someone who believes that they've heard 402 00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:59,040 the Spirit in a particular area, let's say the working of 403 00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:00,240 miracles. OK? 404 00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:03,440 And because of that yielding to it. 405 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:07,880 Then they go by faith to a person who has no faith at all, 406 00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:10,880 that they will be delivered and have a miracle happen in their 407 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:14,960 life, a physical miracle. Yet they lay hands on them and 408 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:18,440 the miracle works. Are you hearing me now? 409 00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:20,560 Does God want us to live that way? 410 00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:24,560 Obviously not, because Jesus had this issue with the guy that was 411 00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:27,240 carrying had his mat and he went to him and he says do you want 412 00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:29,960 to be healed, You know, And he ended up telling him, He said, 413 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:32,120 well you know, basically he healed him. 414 00:27:32,120 --> 00:27:33,640 He didn't even know who Jesus was. 415 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:36,480 He said take up your mat and go. Then when Jesus found him later, 416 00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:43,840 he says go and sin no more so that nothing worse will come on 417 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:46,680 you. Because again, here's the thing 418 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:49,480 that a lot of believers have this messed up mindset about, 419 00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:54,440 and I don't know why that is, is that because we have the ability 420 00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:58,040 to have health in our bodies, that doesn't mean we're going to 421 00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:03,240 be immortal, that we'll live forever again. 422 00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:05,960 And I'm going to say this, the Bible says this. 423 00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:13,280 It's been appointed once for man to die, OK? 424 00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:20,160 As people get older, we never want them to leave. 425 00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:31,360 But there comes a time when they're appointed and there are 426 00:28:31,360 --> 00:28:34,440 many that are believing God that he's going to heal them when the 427 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:40,520 reality is it's appointed. And they themselves are ready to 428 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:46,680 go and they're allowing the symptoms to be the catalyst. 429 00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:48,320 OK. And I like what Prophet John 430 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:50,440 Todd said. He said, look if you want to go 431 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:53,960 on to be the Lord, get healed first and then just go, OK. 432 00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:55,640 But I'm going to be honest with you. 433 00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:58,360 There's most of are not going to do that. 434 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:00,240 You can. Everyone in this room can 435 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,720 because we know God. But I just want to, you know, 436 00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:06,120 even be more candid. Let's just believe for the the 437 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:08,640 catching away. Let's just be changed. 438 00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:10,280 Amen. Let's go out that way. 439 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:12,760 And man, I think we could. All right. 440 00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:22,160 My point is, is that a person in covenant does not receive from 441 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:29,680 God without faith. So then if faith is required for 442 00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:32,440 God to be a part of our life, and anything he says he's going 443 00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:34,480 to do, did God say he's coming back? 444 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:43,280 Why do we think just because we're born again that we can get 445 00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:44,840 something from God without faith? 446 00:29:51,180 --> 00:29:53,460 Let me read this passage before I make the next statement. 447 00:29:54,140 --> 00:29:57,100 Hebrews Chapter 11. This is the Champions of faith. 448 00:29:59,020 --> 00:30:02,660 All right now, faith comes by what. 449 00:30:03,380 --> 00:30:06,340 Faith comes by what. Faith comes by what. 450 00:30:06,820 --> 00:30:08,420 And hearing from the word of Christ. 451 00:30:08,580 --> 00:30:10,540 Faith comes by hearing. So you can hear something, not 452 00:30:10,540 --> 00:30:14,980 God, and believe it. Faith just comes by hearing. 453 00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:19,000 Paul's letting us know your faith, your hearing should be 454 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:20,960 connected to the word of Christ because that's what you should 455 00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:22,360 believe. Period. 456 00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:26,520 OK, Faith comes by hearing. So when we begin to read 457 00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:31,120 Ephesians Chapter 11, then when it says by faith it means they 458 00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:35,880 must have heard something. Verse 5. 459 00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:46,520 By faith, Enoch was taken up so that he would not see death. 460 00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:55,120 By what faith? Which means if Enoch's in faith, 461 00:30:55,520 --> 00:31:00,080 he must have heard something and God apparently said something to 462 00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:04,920 Enoch, he must have said something to him to say, well, 463 00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:14,140 you could just come now. Oh, OK. 464 00:31:15,980 --> 00:31:19,640 There was some conversation God had with Enoch that he believed 465 00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:31,240 it so much that he was taken up. Now, for me, I would conclude 466 00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:33,720 it's the big plan. It's the purpose. 467 00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:38,520 It's the purpose of Enoch. OK, And I'm not the only one who 468 00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:40,640 believes this. OK? 469 00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:43,640 I'm going to throw a name out just so you'll know that I'm not 470 00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:46,960 the only one who believes this. Perry Stone, who studies in 471 00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:48,680 times. He believes this as well. 472 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:53,520 Not everyone believes this, but I think it's very difficult to 473 00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:56,520 not conclude it. There's only two people that 474 00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:59,160 have ever been on the planet that left the planet without 475 00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:04,320 physically leaving their bodies. There are two witnesses that 476 00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:06,320 will come back during the tribulation time. 477 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:11,760 It is the E brothers, Enoch and Elijah. 478 00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:19,080 Then they will die in the street and everybody's going to see 479 00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:22,360 him. Hallelujah. 480 00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:27,000 But in three days they're going to get up and then they're going 481 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:31,080 to watch him go up. So I I have to conclude the 482 00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:37,400 Lord's like Enoch. I got a plan and he must have 483 00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:43,080 conversed with him concerning this deal because Jude talks a 484 00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:46,120 little bit about Enoch and Enoch having some conversations about 485 00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:47,440 what was going to happen in the end. 486 00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:51,200 So Enoch obviously had a conversation with the Lord that 487 00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:56,000 Lord's like Enoch, I want to use you, I want to bring you back. 488 00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:00,800 In order to do that, I need you to come now. 489 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:14,280 So by faith Enoch believed that he could go without dying, and 490 00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:17,640 he was not found because God took him. 491 00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:22,760 For he obtained the witness that before his being taken up, he 492 00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:26,680 was what? Pleasing to the Father? 493 00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:29,000 Well, if you're pleasing to the Father, then what are you? 494 00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:33,160 You're living by faith. The Father's pleased when you're 495 00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:34,520 by faith called the very next verse. 496 00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:37,880 We always read verse 6, but not in context of verse 5. 497 00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:42,600 And without faith it's what impossible to please him. 498 00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:48,240 For he who comes to God must believe that he is that's God is 499 00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:52,560 God, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek Him. 500 00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:55,840 So Enoch heard something from God. 501 00:33:56,560 --> 00:34:01,360 He had faith to be taken up. And if faith is required for us 502 00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:05,160 to receive salvation and faith is required for us to receive 503 00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:08,320 the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and faith is received for us to 504 00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:11,880 walk in perpetual healing, and faith is required for us to walk 505 00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:15,639 in joy and faith is required, then why do we think we get 506 00:34:15,639 --> 00:34:23,320 caught up without faith? Come on, come on, come on. 507 00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:27,400 Why have we accepted that we'll all hear the trumpet? 508 00:34:35,389 --> 00:34:40,710 Because there's many that are in covenant with God and love God, 509 00:34:42,230 --> 00:34:47,510 but die early because they don't judge themselves rightly. 510 00:34:55,679 --> 00:34:59,080 We have made the catching away of the church as if automatic. 511 00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:02,600 All that's required is that you're born again. 512 00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:04,160 Well, you know what all this required for you to be healed 513 00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:05,000 is? That you're born again. 514 00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:08,720 I mean to walk in it. For you to prosper is to be born 515 00:35:08,720 --> 00:35:11,000 again. For you to have, you know, 516 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:12,840 fullness of joy is to walk in it. 517 00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:15,120 Right. All you got to do is believe 518 00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:17,960 God, believe to have wisdom. I got to just believe God. 519 00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:20,320 I mean, we have heaven on earth, right? 520 00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:24,120 What stops God from pouring out everything he has for us? 521 00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:28,440 Our faith. Hallelujah. 522 00:35:30,240 --> 00:35:34,120 Amen. OK, so let's back up a chapter 523 00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:38,800 in that Hebrews chapter 10, Hebrews chapter 10 to get us in 524 00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:42,320 context. All right, he says this in 525 00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:44,440 Hebrews 10. Starting in verse 19. 526 00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:46,200 We're going to read a little bit, OK? 527 00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:50,360 But again, for us to dissect this cloudy with the chance of 528 00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:54,440 rain, then we have to get into Scripture. 529 00:35:55,560 --> 00:36:00,760 All right, I'm not here to do talking points based upon oral 530 00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:05,840 tradition. Therefore, brethren, since we 531 00:36:07,240 --> 00:36:09,840 have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of 532 00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:15,360 Jesus, by new and living way, which he inaugurated for us 533 00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:18,160 through the veil that is his flesh, and since we have a great 534 00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:22,280 high priest over the House of God, let us draw near with a 535 00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:26,360 sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts 536 00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:29,800 sprinkled clean from an evil conscience, and our bodies 537 00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:34,040 washed with pure water. Let us hold the confession of 538 00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:37,960 our hope without waving. For he who promised is man. 539 00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:43,000 He's faithful, full. And let us consider how to 540 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:48,080 stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking 541 00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:51,560 our own assembling together, as is the habit of son, but 542 00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:55,120 encouraging one another. And all the more as you see the 543 00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:58,280 day drawing near, as you see the day. 544 00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:02,160 What day are we talking about? We're talking about the catching 545 00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:06,320 away of the church as you begin to see that day drawing near. 546 00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:09,800 And are we near? Are we the nearest people to it? 547 00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:12,400 I mean, has anyone been more near than us? 548 00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:15,800 No, We are the nearest at this juncture. 549 00:37:16,240 --> 00:37:19,440 OK. And so because we're the nearer, 550 00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:27,280 what should we do all the more? Assemble and encourage one 551 00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:30,720 another. Assemble and encourage one 552 00:37:30,720 --> 00:37:33,960 another. Assemble and encourage one 553 00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:37,000 another. And he literally says don't do. 554 00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:41,600 Like the habit of some. Now, who's he talking to? 555 00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:45,160 Plus 'cause if you go back to the very verse 19, it says 556 00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:48,320 therefore brethren. So he's not talking to lost 557 00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:52,200 people here, he's talking to people who are in covenant with 558 00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:54,000 God. They are children of God. 559 00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:57,480 They are in the new covenant, a new and better covenant. 560 00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:01,720 And he's telling them now listen, verse 23, that they are 561 00:38:01,720 --> 00:38:05,440 to hold fast, which tells us you can let go. 562 00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:08,840 That's right. They are to hold fast the 563 00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:11,480 confession of our hope. King James says the profession 564 00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:15,080 of our faith cause. A confession of hope or hope is 565 00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:18,680 a confident expectation. If you're speaking what you 566 00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:22,840 confidently expect, by all rights you're in faith, 'cause 567 00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:27,200 you're calling those things that be not as though they were. 568 00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:32,040 Are you hearing me, 'cause? He says he's faithful, who has 569 00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:34,840 promised right? And then he goes on and says, 570 00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:39,160 Now listen, as that day gets closer, you need to not forsake 571 00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:40,640 the assembling of yourselves together. 572 00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:46,120 I mean, everybody's like, I want Jesus to come back, yet they're 573 00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:51,920 not assembled. Hallelujah. 574 00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:57,200 I said Hallelujah, because most of them think it's going to come 575 00:38:57,200 --> 00:39:05,080 whether I believe it or not. James. 576 00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:10,000 OK, I'll do that. James says you believe God, you 577 00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:13,280 do well. But even the demons believe and 578 00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:17,120 shudder. So believing that you could be 579 00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:23,080 caught away isn't the same as having faith cause faith is a 580 00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:29,160 corresponding action. I said it's a corresponding 581 00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:32,200 action, which means there's something that you need to do. 582 00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:35,880 In fact, if you read James, he said, look, faith without works 583 00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:40,240 or a corresponding action is dead, period. 584 00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:43,520 Like the spirit, like the body is dead without the spirit, so 585 00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:45,600 is your faith. You can tell me all day long, I 586 00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:48,040 believe, I believe. But if your lifestyle is not a 587 00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:52,760 corresponding action, then by all rights it's a dead faith, 588 00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:59,200 which means you actually do have a hearing. 589 00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:03,760 But you're actually not mixing faith with it. 590 00:40:04,240 --> 00:40:07,960 And when you don't mix faith with it, it won't profit you. 591 00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:13,120 So hearing the word enough to hearing the word is not enough 592 00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:20,920 for you to be active in faith. All right, let's go on verse 593 00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:28,000 262626, he says. For if we go on sinning 594 00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:32,080 willfully after receiving the knowledge of truth, there is no 595 00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:35,680 longer remains A sacrifice for sin, but a terrifying 596 00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:39,280 expectation of judgment and the fury of a fire which will 597 00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:43,400 consume the adversaries. Anyone who has set aside the Law 598 00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:47,680 of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three 599 00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:52,480 witnesses. How much severe punishment do 600 00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:57,440 you think he will deserve, who has trampled under foot the Son 601 00:40:57,440 --> 00:41:01,320 of God, and has regarded as unclean the blood of the 602 00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:06,440 covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the 603 00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:11,560 Spirit of grace? For we know him who says 604 00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:16,720 vengeance is mine, I will repay, and again the Lord will judge 605 00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:21,720 his people. It is a terrifying thing to fall 606 00:41:21,720 --> 00:41:25,360 into the hands of the living God now. 607 00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:32,880 Verse 26 for if who? Who's he talking to? 608 00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:41,840 He's talking to covenant kids. He's not talking to the lost. 609 00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:48,360 This verse has nothing to do with the Lost, he says. 610 00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:54,880 If we go on, if we go on sinning willfully, after we've received 611 00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:57,280 the knowledge of the truth, we have revelation. 612 00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:01,040 We know what we're supposed to do and how we're supposed to 613 00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:03,400 act. It's been revealed to us by the 614 00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:09,880 Spirit, yet we're choosing to not put down the passions of the 615 00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:15,600 flesh. This is problematic. 616 00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:20,680 Now, when you read this, your first thought is that obviously 617 00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:24,600 because of verse 27, we always go to hell. 618 00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:28,600 But you know what? Hell is not just the fury of 619 00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:36,120 fire. If we go on and he says this 620 00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:38,280 again, 28 is a covenant statement. 621 00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:41,200 He who sets aside the law of Moses, which means they are 622 00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:43,560 under the law of Moses. They were constrained within 623 00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:45,760 that they're supposed to do, and if they disregard it, they'll 624 00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:51,360 die without mercy. Then he says, now it would be 625 00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:52,760 worse for us. Why? 626 00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:56,400 Because and those under the law of Moses are on the covenant, 627 00:42:56,560 --> 00:43:00,200 the old covenant, where God revealed to them how to live. 628 00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:04,440 And let me say, you could have lived under that law, righteous 629 00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:08,320 enough for redemption. It doesn't make you right with 630 00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:10,560 God, so that the blood's not necessary. 631 00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:15,840 But there were plenty who lived under it in faith that it it 632 00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:21,040 allowed them to go to Paradise or Abraham's Bosom once they 633 00:43:21,240 --> 00:43:25,200 left the planet. So how much more severe 634 00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:28,160 punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled under 635 00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:30,960 the foot of Jesus? Meaning you're born again, you 636 00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:33,640 have the third person of the Godhead on the inside of you, 637 00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:36,640 and you're going to go on and willfully sin. 638 00:43:39,880 --> 00:43:42,160 And I love this because he goes on and says you're going to 639 00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:45,360 insult the spirit of grace. And then it interesting that 640 00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:48,320 Hebrews says that because Hebrew, the writer of Hebrew, 641 00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:53,760 knew that people would take the the doctrine of grace which and 642 00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:57,120 turned it to lasciviousness and what they would do is they would 643 00:43:57,120 --> 00:43:59,080 say, oh, you didn't do anything to deserve it. 644 00:43:59,240 --> 00:44:02,600 There's nothing you're doing to keep it when the reality is 645 00:44:02,720 --> 00:44:06,680 faith got you. The grace faith continues to 646 00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:09,840 move you forward. Obedience has always been in 647 00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:13,120 play and will never not be in play, because obedience is how 648 00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:15,440 we actually demonstrate we love God. 649 00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:19,760 And the thing about this is like you're insulting the spirit of 650 00:44:19,760 --> 00:44:23,160 grace, saying seriously, you're acting like you don't have 651 00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:27,600 dominion over sin, you're acting like you're subject to it. 652 00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:30,080 Still. This is why Romans says, shall 653 00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:34,160 we continue to sin So that grace may abound, may it never cause 654 00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:38,320 the grace that brought you into the Kingdom was transformed into 655 00:44:38,320 --> 00:44:41,560 the grace that Jesus had. And Jesus had an empowering 656 00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:45,320 grace which allowed him to avoid to overcome every temptation of 657 00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:48,640 sin so that he himself would no longer be subject or would not 658 00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:53,880 be subject to sin. But if someone goes on we act 659 00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:56,840 like that there's not a challenge. 660 00:44:57,360 --> 00:45:00,160 Cause verse 30 says God says vengeance is mine. 661 00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:06,960 I will repay the Lord will judge who whose people He's not 662 00:45:06,960 --> 00:45:12,520 talking about the world. So again, the Lord is always 663 00:45:12,520 --> 00:45:19,000 examining us in Christ. That's right. 664 00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:21,720 Hallelujah. Hallelujah. 665 00:45:22,240 --> 00:45:24,400 Now let me just make this statement real quick so we can 666 00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:26,960 get rid of this, you know, thought that people are 667 00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:33,360 struggling with even now. Nowhere am I saying that if you 668 00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:36,960 do not, if you're not in the catching away of the church, 669 00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:40,320 that that means if you're a covenant child and you were left 670 00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:45,320 behind, that by all rights, if you died in the tribulation, 671 00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:50,280 that you wouldn't be in heaven. I never said that, never said 672 00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:55,560 that. Obviously if you die in the 673 00:45:55,560 --> 00:45:58,560 tribulation, you're going to be up underneath the throne. 674 00:45:58,560 --> 00:46:03,840 A lot of people are going to die in the tribulation a lot, OK? 675 00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:05,880 They're going to be martyred. It's going to happen. 676 00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:11,440 OK. So I'm just saying again, a 677 00:46:11,440 --> 00:46:14,480 person can be in the planet today, as many of you have 678 00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:16,640 experienced, is that man, I'm born again. 679 00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:19,480 I'm filled with power. I walk in healing God's prosper 680 00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:21,040 me. Everything I touch prospers. 681 00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:22,720 I mean, we're just moving and going, yeah. 682 00:46:22,720 --> 00:46:24,680 Do I have trial? But, man, I'm at perfect peace. 683 00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:27,080 I'm at rest. I mean, God's moving in my life. 684 00:46:27,200 --> 00:46:30,160 It's just amazing. And then you go with him. 685 00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:32,800 Yeah. There's others that have already 686 00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:35,160 died before you. OK. 687 00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:37,440 That when they get before the Lord, the Lord's going to say 688 00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:41,760 you could have been healed, you could have prospered. 689 00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:44,960 They're going to realize there was so much I could have had 690 00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:48,120 that I didn't. It's not like the Lord's going 691 00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:50,240 to say, well, I didn't want you to have anything anyway. 692 00:46:50,240 --> 00:46:51,600 You really weren't my favorite child. 693 00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:55,080 You're really, you're just lucky I got you in. 694 00:46:55,080 --> 00:46:56,440 No, that that's not what he's saying. 695 00:46:56,720 --> 00:47:00,400 He's going to say, you know, at the all of this was available 696 00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:07,000 for you there, right? So again, it doesn't mean 697 00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:11,760 they're not going to heaven, but it does mean the quality of life 698 00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:18,680 here is severely different because of their their inability 699 00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:21,680 to believe their unbelief period. 700 00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:26,320 Could everyone of the Israelites gone into the promised land? 701 00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:31,800 Why did they now enter unbelief? Were they his covenant kids? 702 00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:44,400 So did God judge his people? You're you're my covenant kid. 703 00:47:44,520 --> 00:47:48,600 You just can't get in because unbelief, well, you can't do 704 00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:50,400 something contrary to God's word. 705 00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:53,240 And God say OK, don't worry about it. 706 00:47:53,240 --> 00:47:56,480 It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. 707 00:47:58,440 --> 00:48:03,600 Are you hearing me? OK, let's go on verse 32. 708 00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:09,680 But remember the former days, when, after being enlightened, 709 00:48:09,680 --> 00:48:13,680 you endured a great conflict of suffering, partly by being made 710 00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:16,960 a public spectacle through the reproaches and tribulations, and 711 00:48:16,960 --> 00:48:22,000 partly becoming sharers with those who were so treated for 712 00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:24,840 you, showed sympathy to the prisoners, accepted joyfully the 713 00:48:24,840 --> 00:48:27,640 seizure of your property, knowing that you have for 714 00:48:27,640 --> 00:48:29,880 yourself a better possession and a lasting one. 715 00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:33,520 Therefore do not throw away, implies you can. 716 00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:39,000 Do not throw away your confidence, which has great 717 00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:42,720 reward, for you have need of endurance. 718 00:48:43,160 --> 00:48:46,800 Why? So that when you have done the 719 00:48:46,800 --> 00:48:49,160 will of God, you may receive what is promised for. 720 00:48:49,160 --> 00:48:56,120 Yet in a very little while he who is what coming will come and 721 00:48:56,120 --> 00:49:00,800 will not delay. He's coming, verse 2038 then. 722 00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:05,120 But my righteous ones shall live by faith, and if he shrinks 723 00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:08,840 back, my soul has no pleasure, he said. 724 00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:12,240 But we're not of those who shrink back to destruction, but 725 00:49:12,240 --> 00:49:17,880 to those who have faith, to the preserving of the soul. 726 00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:22,000 So in essence, he says now we gonna stay in faith so that when 727 00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:27,840 the day comes that's right, we're not the ones that are left 728 00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:33,920 behind, 'cause we don't shrink back, we don't turn back and go 729 00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:39,960 willfully sinning. We don't openly insult the 730 00:49:39,960 --> 00:49:44,640 spirit of grace. We don't live like the world and 731 00:49:44,640 --> 00:49:48,280 the world watch us live like them, and then we disappear. 732 00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:58,160 Well, how we lived was no different than how they lived, 733 00:49:58,400 --> 00:49:59,960 but we did. Ashley's in our heart and save 734 00:49:59,960 --> 00:50:06,840 us. Say Hallelujah. 735 00:50:08,400 --> 00:50:12,320 Amen. Mark chapter 13. 736 00:50:14,120 --> 00:50:18,840 Mark chapter 13. But of that day. 737 00:50:19,320 --> 00:50:22,600 Now what day we talking about? We talking about the day Jesus 738 00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:26,720 is coming. But on that day of that day or 739 00:50:26,720 --> 00:50:31,400 hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son 740 00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:35,920 but the Father alone. Take heed, keep on alert, for 741 00:50:35,920 --> 00:50:38,080 you do not know when the appointed time will come. 742 00:50:38,080 --> 00:50:41,400 It is like a man away on a journey, who, upon leaving his 743 00:50:41,400 --> 00:50:44,920 house and putting his slaves in charge of signing to each one 744 00:50:44,920 --> 00:50:48,760 his task, also commanded the doorkeeper to stay on alert. 745 00:50:48,760 --> 00:50:51,160 Therefore, be on alert. For you do not know when the 746 00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:54,000 master of the house is coming, whether in the evening or at 747 00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:57,480 midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning, in 748 00:50:57,480 --> 00:51:01,280 case he should come suddenly and find you asleep. 749 00:51:02,240 --> 00:51:05,840 What I say to you, I say to all be on the alert. 750 00:51:06,040 --> 00:51:11,600 Now why in the world is Jesus Christ telling us to take heed 751 00:51:11,720 --> 00:51:14,880 and be on alert? If it's automatic, that when he 752 00:51:14,880 --> 00:51:24,640 comes we go, why is Jesus Christ ahead of the church instructing 753 00:51:24,640 --> 00:51:26,720 them? Now you're going to have to keep 754 00:51:26,720 --> 00:51:30,920 watch. You have to be on alert. 755 00:51:35,000 --> 00:51:38,240 Hallelujah. Amen. 756 00:51:40,600 --> 00:51:43,640 You got to be on alert. You got to take heed. 757 00:51:44,600 --> 00:51:47,480 Now notice it says. But in that day or hour, notice 758 00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:49,880 what it doesn't say. It doesn't say that year. 759 00:51:53,720 --> 00:52:02,760 It doesn't even say that month. In fact, the scriptures are more 760 00:52:03,120 --> 00:52:10,640 conclude more that we can know that it's imminent as opposed to 761 00:52:10,720 --> 00:52:17,480 I have no idea 'cause how can you take heed for something you 762 00:52:17,480 --> 00:52:21,920 don't know? OK, we'll go to others. 763 00:52:22,160 --> 00:52:25,480 This word is sleep in verse 36. And in case he would come 764 00:52:25,480 --> 00:52:29,080 suddenly and find you what? Asleep. 765 00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:32,600 This word of sleep comes from a Greek word that means this to 766 00:52:32,600 --> 00:52:39,800 yield to sloth or sin. It means to be indifferent to 767 00:52:39,800 --> 00:52:47,690 one's salvation. Oh my goodness is right. 768 00:52:48,330 --> 00:52:51,450 You know how many born again covenant people are indifferent 769 00:52:51,450 --> 00:52:55,170 to their salvation? Whether they come to church 770 00:52:55,170 --> 00:52:57,170 doesn't matter. Whether they read the Bible 771 00:52:57,170 --> 00:52:58,850 doesn't matter. I'm only going to converse with 772 00:52:58,850 --> 00:53:05,920 him when I'm in trouble anyway. And their whole thought process 773 00:53:05,920 --> 00:53:10,120 of God is in their way of processing God, not in his way 774 00:53:10,120 --> 00:53:15,000 of them to process God. They've created the image of God 775 00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:22,480 themselves using his scripture and he goes on said Now, in case 776 00:53:22,480 --> 00:53:26,920 he finds you suddenly asleep, meaning you are being slothful, 777 00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:31,320 you maybe, as Hebrew says, are going on willfully sinning. 778 00:53:39,840 --> 00:53:42,760 Let me say the Lord's not giving rewards to rebellion. 779 00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:48,280 I mean, you're going to have to prove you love him with all your 780 00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:53,240 soul, all your mind, all your heart, your heart, soul, mind. 781 00:53:53,280 --> 00:53:55,000 You got to you're going to prove that. 782 00:53:55,600 --> 00:53:58,040 And he's made it available for you to do that. 783 00:53:58,040 --> 00:54:04,880 But you have to prove it. And you prove it through obeying 784 00:54:04,880 --> 00:54:06,680 him, because that means you love him. 785 00:54:07,880 --> 00:54:10,120 You reckon I love you? I couldn't even do this without 786 00:54:10,120 --> 00:54:12,080 you. I I wouldn't be able to make 787 00:54:12,080 --> 00:54:16,760 these choices without you. I couldn't yield to the Spirit 788 00:54:16,800 --> 00:54:19,240 and resist the Devil if it wasn't for you. 789 00:54:19,320 --> 00:54:22,080 But I'm doing it. I'm the one doing it. 790 00:54:22,640 --> 00:54:26,520 And he's empowering me to do it, 'cause my new spirit can hear 791 00:54:26,520 --> 00:54:28,880 the Holy Ghost and I can resist the Devil. 792 00:54:30,040 --> 00:54:32,880 But if I'm not resisting and I'm just running in the world and 793 00:54:32,880 --> 00:54:35,880 saying, my gosh, I ask Jesus into my heart and save me, and I 794 00:54:35,880 --> 00:54:37,720 can live like the rest of the world, but I'm safe. 795 00:54:37,840 --> 00:54:40,080 I mean, the blood's been applied to me because it doesn't really 796 00:54:40,080 --> 00:54:42,240 matter what I do. It doesn't matter what you do 797 00:54:42,240 --> 00:54:46,160 now. Well, how in the world are you 798 00:54:46,160 --> 00:54:48,080 in a better position than the first Adam? 799 00:54:50,880 --> 00:54:53,360 Because the first Adam had no sin. 800 00:54:54,640 --> 00:55:01,120 He was perfection. And he ate fruit and died cut 801 00:55:01,120 --> 00:55:09,520 off from God. I know we have an advocate with 802 00:55:09,520 --> 00:55:12,360 a father, and I understand he's always interceding for us. 803 00:55:12,360 --> 00:55:14,320 What's he doing? Make the right choice. 804 00:55:14,720 --> 00:55:16,840 Do what I'm saying. Just follow me. 805 00:55:17,120 --> 00:55:19,360 Sure, he's doing that. But at the end of the day, he 806 00:55:19,360 --> 00:55:25,320 still ain't gonna make you. Now, you were rebellious for you 807 00:55:25,320 --> 00:55:27,360 knew him. Sure, your nature wasn't there. 808 00:55:27,360 --> 00:55:29,360 But you know, you can be rebellious after you know him. 809 00:55:33,200 --> 00:55:35,520 I mean, if that's not the case, then why do we have these altar 810 00:55:35,520 --> 00:55:37,480 calls where people rededicate their lives? 811 00:55:38,120 --> 00:55:39,600 And I was like, you know, I'm just not living. 812 00:55:39,680 --> 00:55:45,560 Why do you feel that way? Well, because you get convicted 813 00:55:45,560 --> 00:55:47,680 by the Holy Ghost, he says. What are you doing? 814 00:55:47,680 --> 00:55:51,720 Don't you know your lifestyle is condemning you right now because 815 00:55:51,720 --> 00:55:54,320 you're living like the world? You need to get right, bro. 816 00:55:54,320 --> 00:55:55,760 This ain't you. This ain't your nature. 817 00:55:56,400 --> 00:55:59,760 Need to get it together. Always trying to draw you. 818 00:55:59,760 --> 00:56:01,640 Always trying to draw you. Always trying to draw you. 819 00:56:01,760 --> 00:56:04,000 My gosh, he's so long-suffering and merciful. 820 00:56:04,120 --> 00:56:07,360 He's always full of compassion. But at the end of the day, you 821 00:56:07,360 --> 00:56:16,480 can go your own way. And he says I might show up and 822 00:56:16,480 --> 00:56:23,040 you'd be asleep. Is being asleep a problem? 823 00:56:23,960 --> 00:56:27,360 Oh, it's a problem. Go back to Luke, chapter 21. 824 00:56:28,360 --> 00:56:31,080 Luke 21. Let's go to verse 34. 825 00:56:31,680 --> 00:56:38,680 Luke 2134 says this. Be on guard so that your hearts 826 00:56:39,160 --> 00:56:43,360 will not be weighed. Downward disputation. 827 00:56:44,120 --> 00:56:45,880 You know how it is. Thank you. 828 00:56:46,280 --> 00:56:49,880 And drunkenness and the worries of life. 829 00:56:50,760 --> 00:56:54,440 And that day, what day we talking about the return of the 830 00:56:54,440 --> 00:56:56,360 King where he's going to catch away. 831 00:56:56,360 --> 00:57:01,120 The church will not come on you suddenly like a now how in the 832 00:57:01,120 --> 00:57:02,440 world. Let me even finish reading. 833 00:57:02,600 --> 00:57:07,400 For it will come upon all those who dwell on the face of all the 834 00:57:07,440 --> 00:57:10,880 earth but keep on alert at all times, praying that you may have 835 00:57:10,880 --> 00:57:14,880 the strength to escape all these things that are about to take 836 00:57:14,880 --> 00:57:17,000 place and to stand before the Son of God. 837 00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:19,280 My gosh, I mean, he says be on guard. 838 00:57:19,280 --> 00:57:20,680 Why you got to be on guard if it's autumn. 839 00:57:20,760 --> 00:57:22,880 Dramatic deal. And here's number verse 36. 840 00:57:22,880 --> 00:57:26,480 He said to keep on alert at all times, praying that you may have 841 00:57:26,480 --> 00:57:32,640 strength to escape, which apparently you have a part of 842 00:57:32,640 --> 00:57:40,080 the exit strategy. You have a part to play. 843 00:57:42,360 --> 00:57:45,720 He tells you to guard your heart so that it's not weighed down. 844 00:57:45,720 --> 00:57:47,840 Why? That you're not drunk on the 845 00:57:47,840 --> 00:57:52,560 things of the world. You're intoxicated with the 846 00:57:52,560 --> 00:57:55,640 world's way of doing it. You're carried away by the cares 847 00:57:55,640 --> 00:57:58,080 of life. The thorns of life have pulled 848 00:57:58,080 --> 00:57:59,760 you in and choking the word out of you. 849 00:57:59,880 --> 00:58:03,040 You're in essence, you're unfruitful and not showing 850 00:58:03,040 --> 00:58:05,920 anything that demonstrates that you're the child of a king. 851 00:58:08,800 --> 00:58:11,360 And he says then that day can suddenly come upon you. 852 00:58:11,360 --> 00:58:14,080 Like a what? Not like a time of rejoicing, 853 00:58:14,680 --> 00:58:17,000 but like a trap. Like now. 854 00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:18,800 What's a trap? I'm caught. 855 00:58:22,920 --> 00:58:31,240 I'm caught. Hallelujah, aren't you glad 856 00:58:31,240 --> 00:58:36,800 Christmas tis the season to be jolly? 857 00:58:40,520 --> 00:58:42,720 I mean, this message is only weighty to those who are in 858 00:58:42,720 --> 00:58:46,640 trouble, but to those who are not, you're like, praise God. 859 00:58:46,880 --> 00:58:50,000 I know what I'm doing. I'm following God with all my 860 00:58:50,000 --> 00:58:52,920 heart, all my soul, all my mind, all my strength. 861 00:58:53,000 --> 00:58:55,880 I got him first in my life. I do what he says. 862 00:58:55,960 --> 00:58:58,680 I crucify the flesh. I'm following him. 863 00:58:59,480 --> 00:59:02,560 Thank you for letting me know. I'm a candidate for the day he 864 00:59:02,560 --> 00:59:05,520 come, 'cause I'm assembling, I'm encouraging. 865 00:59:05,640 --> 00:59:10,720 I'm staying with the word. Simple, Pretty simple. 866 00:59:12,440 --> 00:59:14,520 But if you want to go try it on your own, go ahead. 867 00:59:17,200 --> 00:59:19,920 Because I could be waving and singing this song to you as you 868 00:59:19,920 --> 00:59:30,160 go. Ba ba ba, this word escape in 869 00:59:30,160 --> 00:59:32,440 the Greek. Got to get y'all laughing 870 00:59:32,440 --> 00:59:34,080 somewhere. It's heavy in here. 871 00:59:35,160 --> 00:59:38,800 This word escape means to flee or to escape. 872 00:59:39,560 --> 00:59:42,840 Again, it comes from. The suffix of this word means 873 00:59:42,840 --> 00:59:44,320 or. The prefix of this word means 874 00:59:44,320 --> 00:59:48,080 out of or away from. And the suffix of this word 875 00:59:48,080 --> 00:59:54,640 means seek safety by flight to escape safely out of danger, to 876 00:59:54,640 --> 00:59:59,160 vanish. Everybody believes we're going 877 00:59:59,160 --> 01:00:01,320 to vanish. We're just talking about how, 878 01:00:01,600 --> 01:00:03,640 how, how that event actually looks. 879 01:00:04,360 --> 01:00:06,720 We are going to escape by literal flight. 880 01:00:07,920 --> 01:00:11,920 Can I get an Amen? So this word actually is talking 881 01:00:11,920 --> 01:00:15,000 about the catching away and he tells us put that back up there 882 01:00:15,000 --> 01:00:22,680 verse 36 that you have to pray that you have strength to get up 883 01:00:22,680 --> 01:00:29,200 out of here. Now why is this important? 884 01:00:29,600 --> 01:00:32,280 Because the Bible lets us know Jesus said. 885 01:00:32,280 --> 01:00:36,080 Now when I return, will I find faith in the earth? 886 01:00:36,640 --> 01:00:41,520 Because he says the love of many, and that's God's love. 887 01:00:41,520 --> 01:00:47,280 In the hearts of his covenant, kids will grow cold, which means 888 01:00:47,280 --> 01:00:50,640 they'll become indifferent to their salvation. 889 01:00:50,840 --> 01:00:52,960 They'll get caught up in the things of the world. 890 01:00:53,080 --> 01:00:56,080 They'll be more running after the things of the world, doing 891 01:00:56,080 --> 01:00:58,760 like the things of the world. And they've kind of got this 892 01:00:58,760 --> 01:01:01,480 little thought in their head that when the time comes, 893 01:01:01,560 --> 01:01:04,120 whether I'm in church or not in church, whether I'm reading the 894 01:01:04,120 --> 01:01:07,440 Bible or not read, whether I'm living perfect or not, I'm 895 01:01:07,440 --> 01:01:09,400 going. But they have no connection to 896 01:01:09,400 --> 01:01:14,440 the head at all, other than a former confession of faith. 897 01:01:20,480 --> 01:01:23,760 Now, I would love to be entirely wrong on this subject matter 898 01:01:23,760 --> 01:01:30,080 right now, because it'd be great if it just poof, we're all gone 899 01:01:30,280 --> 01:01:34,040 if you did it one time. But there's unfortunately too 900 01:01:34,040 --> 01:01:38,240 many scriptures that do not conclude or support that. 901 01:01:40,000 --> 01:01:43,240 And I'd be doing you a disservice if I'm saying, well, 902 01:01:43,240 --> 01:01:46,720 let's just hope it's the other when I have no support of 903 01:01:46,720 --> 01:01:49,520 scripture to say that when this scripture is literally telling 904 01:01:49,520 --> 01:01:53,520 me I got to be on guard. I got to make sure I don't let 905 01:01:53,520 --> 01:01:55,760 the cares of this life and the things going on in this world 906 01:01:55,760 --> 01:01:58,720 and the things that we trying to do to get ahead, you know, so we 907 01:01:58,720 --> 01:02:01,920 have this awesome life down here because that was the whole thing 908 01:02:01,920 --> 01:02:03,360 about the Hebrews, like these people, man. 909 01:02:03,360 --> 01:02:04,560 They had their seizure of their property. 910 01:02:04,720 --> 01:02:07,040 They were, they were not trying to make a life down here. 911 01:02:08,320 --> 01:02:11,280 They were staying connected. They just want to stay 912 01:02:11,280 --> 01:02:12,240 connected. They want to stay in faith. 913 01:02:12,240 --> 01:02:15,160 And it didn't matter what it cost them because they knew 914 01:02:15,160 --> 01:02:17,760 there's something better at the end of the day. 915 01:02:18,520 --> 01:02:21,160 So again, we can't we can't take on the things of the world. 916 01:02:21,160 --> 01:02:24,920 And again it says you got to keep on alert at how many times. 917 01:02:26,000 --> 01:02:27,840 That's why I come to church. Help keep you on alert. 918 01:02:30,320 --> 01:02:33,960 Encourage one another because you're seeing so much out there. 919 01:02:33,960 --> 01:02:39,200 To be easy for us to get mad, to get aggravated, I'm I must to 920 01:02:39,200 --> 01:02:43,720 get judgmental. I mean, the world's going to 921 01:02:43,720 --> 01:02:46,120 sin. And he said gross darkness is 922 01:02:46,120 --> 01:02:48,360 going to cover the earth. So the more you hear about it, 923 01:02:48,360 --> 01:02:50,520 like, my gosh, don't seem like nothing's working. 924 01:02:50,520 --> 01:02:52,360 You know what God's working. His word works. 925 01:02:52,440 --> 01:02:54,240 He's still delivering. He's still saving. 926 01:02:54,320 --> 01:02:55,640 It doesn't matter what the world's doing. 927 01:02:55,640 --> 01:02:57,520 God is still forgive him. He'll still save him. 928 01:02:57,600 --> 01:02:59,080 He'll still bring him into the Kingdom. 929 01:02:59,080 --> 01:03:01,480 No problem. Just live the Kingdom in front 930 01:03:01,480 --> 01:03:03,840 of them so they'll have a hope when they see you. 931 01:03:04,680 --> 01:03:10,120 Don't live like them under grace because you give them no hope. 932 01:03:12,920 --> 01:03:16,000 You're trying to sell them a God that doesn't exist. 933 01:03:16,920 --> 01:03:19,480 He don't care what you do, just ask him to forgive you. 934 01:03:20,080 --> 01:03:23,240 He does care. In fact, he cares so much. 935 01:03:23,240 --> 01:03:25,960 He's like, I'm going to have to pay the price so they can get 936 01:03:25,960 --> 01:03:29,720 out of this stuff, 'cause if he didn't care at all, then when we 937 01:03:29,720 --> 01:03:32,160 have the new heaven and new earth sinning in heaven wouldn't 938 01:03:32,160 --> 01:03:35,400 be a problem. OK, y'all, don't want to hear 939 01:03:35,400 --> 01:03:36,840 that. That's all right 'cause it's 940 01:03:36,840 --> 01:03:44,080 fantasy, thinking God is never well with disobedience, never 941 01:03:44,080 --> 01:03:48,600 will. OK, so with that being said, 942 01:03:48,600 --> 01:03:50,960 turn to Matthew, chapter seven. We doing all right? 943 01:03:52,040 --> 01:03:53,600 Let's move. We got to move a little quicker 944 01:03:53,600 --> 01:03:56,520 now. Matthew 721 to 23, it says. 945 01:03:56,520 --> 01:04:00,040 Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord will enter the 946 01:04:00,040 --> 01:04:04,440 Kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who 947 01:04:04,440 --> 01:04:07,560 is in heaven, will enter. Many will say to me on that day, 948 01:04:08,040 --> 01:04:12,320 what day? It's that day, the day of the 949 01:04:12,320 --> 01:04:14,560 catching away the Church. Lord, Lord, did we not prophecy 950 01:04:14,560 --> 01:04:17,760 on your name, and in your name cast out demons, and in your 951 01:04:17,760 --> 01:04:21,440 name perform miracles? And then I will declare to him I 952 01:04:21,960 --> 01:04:24,080 never knew you. Now we got a problem with this, 953 01:04:24,080 --> 01:04:27,360 because again we hear this word, never knew, and we already 954 01:04:27,360 --> 01:04:29,520 conclude as somebody not in the Kingdom. 955 01:04:30,600 --> 01:04:33,640 Depart from me, You who practice. 956 01:04:35,080 --> 01:04:41,120 There's the key with you who practice lawlessness. 957 01:04:41,320 --> 01:04:45,880 Now the word new here, I never knew. 958 01:04:45,880 --> 01:04:49,040 The word new comes from the Greek word which means to become 959 01:04:49,040 --> 01:04:53,040 acquainted with. Are you ready for this? 960 01:04:54,640 --> 01:05:00,320 To know is in this context, sexual intercourse between a man 961 01:05:00,320 --> 01:05:04,480 and a woman. In essence, he's saying I was 962 01:05:04,480 --> 01:05:06,680 never intimately acquainted with you. 963 01:05:06,680 --> 01:05:13,600 In essence, he's saying you received me as savior, were born 964 01:05:13,600 --> 01:05:20,240 again, and you got my name. You come into the marriage, you 965 01:05:20,240 --> 01:05:23,800 come down the aisle. Because let me tell you what 966 01:05:23,800 --> 01:05:26,200 Jesus is not doing, sleeping with you before you come down. 967 01:05:26,440 --> 01:05:31,080 So you get rid of that thought. You ain't never slept with Jesus 968 01:05:31,080 --> 01:05:33,960 before. Marriage ain't never happened. 969 01:05:34,720 --> 01:05:37,520 Jesus was not shaking up with you and getting it on with you 970 01:05:37,640 --> 01:05:41,240 before the wedding day. So when you came into the 971 01:05:41,240 --> 01:05:45,160 Kingdom, it's like you were getting married to Jesus, the 972 01:05:45,160 --> 01:05:47,760 head of the church, the bride of Christ. 973 01:05:47,920 --> 01:05:51,360 You said I do. Jesus, I love you. 974 01:05:51,560 --> 01:05:56,000 I want you to be my man. And then when the honeymoon 975 01:05:56,000 --> 01:06:01,480 came, you didn't show up. You have his legal name and all 976 01:06:01,560 --> 01:06:05,520 that goes with his name, but she never consummated the marriage. 977 01:06:08,400 --> 01:06:15,840 You never became one with him, and you went around in his name 978 01:06:17,200 --> 01:06:20,800 that you got a legal right to 'cause you were born again in 979 01:06:21,440 --> 01:06:24,840 Christ. This is why they're going to 980 01:06:24,840 --> 01:06:28,240 prophecy on his name. They're going to cast out devils 981 01:06:28,240 --> 01:06:29,640 in his name. They're going to perform 982 01:06:29,640 --> 01:06:31,960 miracles in his name. And he's going to say, I was 983 01:06:31,960 --> 01:06:33,600 never intimately acquainted with you. 984 01:06:34,000 --> 01:06:38,360 We never consummated this thing. Oh, you've seen them. 985 01:06:38,840 --> 01:06:40,800 They've come down to church. They got born again. 986 01:06:40,840 --> 01:06:47,240 Never see them again. Never, never come to a church 987 01:06:47,240 --> 01:06:48,800 again. Yet they'll say, Oh yeah, I'm 988 01:06:48,800 --> 01:06:51,040 born again. And they'll pray to him, and 989 01:06:51,680 --> 01:06:54,800 they'll invoke his name. And God out of his mercy will 990 01:06:54,800 --> 01:07:00,320 say I love you. I mean, he'll still give to you. 991 01:07:00,320 --> 01:07:01,520 So you're my. Come on. 992 01:07:01,800 --> 01:07:03,720 Come, come. Come to the bed, man. 993 01:07:03,800 --> 01:07:05,080 Get here. Let's get this thing. 994 01:07:05,080 --> 01:07:06,880 Let's get together. Let's become one here. 995 01:07:07,840 --> 01:07:14,640 Quit just using my name. And you were using my name for 996 01:07:14,640 --> 01:07:17,400 your own self. And then you want to come up out 997 01:07:17,400 --> 01:07:19,360 of what's happening. And you live like the rest. 998 01:07:23,200 --> 01:07:28,560 Matthew 24, verse 36. Are y'all all right? 999 01:07:30,400 --> 01:07:34,040 OK, he said. But the but on but of that day, 1000 01:07:34,040 --> 01:07:38,320 say that day an hour no one knows, not even the angels of 1001 01:07:38,320 --> 01:07:41,080 heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone. 1002 01:07:41,400 --> 01:07:44,600 For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of 1003 01:07:44,600 --> 01:07:50,440 Noah. For as in those days before the 1004 01:07:50,440 --> 01:07:53,360 flood they were eating and drinking and marrying and giving 1005 01:07:53,360 --> 01:07:57,280 in marriage until the day that Noah entered the ark, and they 1006 01:07:57,280 --> 01:08:00,080 did not understand until the flood came and took them all 1007 01:08:00,080 --> 01:08:03,520 away, so will the coming of the Son of Man be. 1008 01:08:03,800 --> 01:08:06,840 Then there will be two men in the field, One will be taken, 1009 01:08:06,840 --> 01:08:09,360 and 1:00 will be left. Two women will be grinding at 1010 01:08:09,360 --> 01:08:10,920 the mill. One will be taken, one will be 1011 01:08:10,920 --> 01:08:12,560 left. Therefore, be on. 1012 01:08:13,680 --> 01:08:18,279 Be on alert, for you do not know which day your Lord is coming. 1013 01:08:18,439 --> 01:08:23,359 But be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known what 1014 01:08:23,359 --> 01:08:27,240 time of night the thief was was coming, he would have been on 1015 01:08:27,240 --> 01:08:30,160 the alert and would not have allowed his house house to be 1016 01:08:30,160 --> 01:08:33,920 broken in. For this reason you also must be 1017 01:08:33,920 --> 01:08:37,960 ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour when you do 1018 01:08:37,960 --> 01:08:43,200 not think he will. Whoever then is the faithful and 1019 01:08:43,200 --> 01:08:46,880 sensible slave whom his master put in charge of his household 1020 01:08:46,880 --> 01:08:50,000 to give them their food at the proper time, blessed is that 1021 01:08:50,000 --> 01:08:53,800 slave whom his master finds so doing when he comes. 1022 01:08:54,640 --> 01:08:58,720 Truly, I say to you that he will put him in charge of all of his 1023 01:08:58,720 --> 01:09:02,319 possessions. But if that evil slave says in 1024 01:09:02,319 --> 01:09:06,760 his heart, my master's not coming for a long time, my 1025 01:09:06,760 --> 01:09:10,520 master is not coming for a long time, and begins to beat his 1026 01:09:10,520 --> 01:09:13,680 fellow slaves and eat and drink with drunkards, the master of 1027 01:09:13,680 --> 01:09:16,720 that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him in 1028 01:09:16,720 --> 01:09:21,160 an hour which he does not know, and will cut him in pieces and 1029 01:09:21,160 --> 01:09:26,479 assign him a place with hypocrites in that place where 1030 01:09:26,479 --> 01:09:29,880 there is weeping and gnashing of teeth. 1031 01:09:31,840 --> 01:09:35,000 Shadaba Satah, are you hearing me? 1032 01:09:35,720 --> 01:09:39,040 So he says, listen, the day's coming and hours coming, Nobody 1033 01:09:39,040 --> 01:09:40,000 knows. The angels don't know. 1034 01:09:40,000 --> 01:09:41,720 The Son don't know, but the father knows. 1035 01:09:41,840 --> 01:09:43,359 Again, it's not a year. It's not a month. 1036 01:09:43,439 --> 01:09:45,279 We can get this thing pretty tight, he said. 1037 01:09:45,279 --> 01:09:46,960 But this day is going to be like Noah. 1038 01:09:47,040 --> 01:09:49,439 And in Noah, everybody's going to be running around doing their 1039 01:09:49,439 --> 01:09:51,279 own thing. The world's going to be going, 1040 01:09:51,399 --> 01:09:53,359 They're going to not want anything to do with God. 1041 01:09:53,439 --> 01:09:55,680 And if you don't watch up, you can get caught up with it. 1042 01:09:56,360 --> 01:09:59,760 I didn't use Noah as a catching away type, but Noah is 1043 01:09:59,760 --> 01:10:02,640 considered a catching away type because Noah never actually 1044 01:10:02,640 --> 01:10:04,200 leaves playing Earth. He's just caught up. 1045 01:10:07,200 --> 01:10:09,280 Aren't you glad he was in the boat that day? 1046 01:10:11,280 --> 01:10:13,840 Because he didn't know when the father was going to shut the 1047 01:10:13,840 --> 01:10:15,360 door. Oh y'all, don't want to hear 1048 01:10:15,360 --> 01:10:18,840 this, cousin. Father shuts the door on the 1049 01:10:18,880 --> 01:10:20,760 ark. Well, there's another door that 1050 01:10:20,760 --> 01:10:23,360 gets shut. It's with the 10 virgins. 1051 01:10:23,360 --> 01:10:25,400 But I don't have time to preach on the 10 virgins today. 1052 01:10:25,400 --> 01:10:28,960 I'm sorry. My point is, is that he's 1053 01:10:28,960 --> 01:10:32,320 saying, look, don't you get caught up in everything going on 1054 01:10:32,320 --> 01:10:34,960 in the world, because if you don't watch out, he's going to 1055 01:10:34,960 --> 01:10:37,560 show up and you are not going to be ready for this. 1056 01:10:39,080 --> 01:10:43,760 Now again, we conclude that two are in a place, one's gone, 1057 01:10:43,880 --> 01:10:45,960 one's left. We automatically assume it's 1058 01:10:46,000 --> 01:10:48,600 only people who are lost that are staying back. 1059 01:10:49,880 --> 01:10:55,200 Yet the Scripture lets us know that if you are behaving in a 1060 01:10:55,200 --> 01:11:00,040 way that is not in in keeping with the covenant of God, you 1061 01:11:00,040 --> 01:11:05,840 are at risk. That's right, of not escaping. 1062 01:11:08,000 --> 01:11:12,240 Now again you if you get stuck in a tribulation and make sure 1063 01:11:12,240 --> 01:11:16,560 that you never take the mark and maintain a confession of faith 1064 01:11:16,560 --> 01:11:18,560 in Jesus, you're gonna go to heaven. 1065 01:11:19,000 --> 01:11:23,160 But you're living in a time frame you were not supposed to 1066 01:11:23,160 --> 01:11:25,760 be in. And again, you say, I can't 1067 01:11:25,760 --> 01:11:27,760 believe this. I mean, that's why you got to 1068 01:11:27,760 --> 01:11:30,600 read the Bible. God is not schizophrenic. 1069 01:11:31,080 --> 01:11:32,960 Scott did. God did not do something in the 1070 01:11:32,960 --> 01:11:34,520 Old Covenant. He's not doing a new covenant. 1071 01:11:35,400 --> 01:11:36,680 I mean, his character's the same. 1072 01:11:36,680 --> 01:11:39,000 So you understand he had covenant kids in the Old 1073 01:11:39,000 --> 01:11:45,440 Covenant that his wrath showed up on, 'cause his wrath showed 1074 01:11:45,440 --> 01:11:47,600 up for the purpose of them to repent. 1075 01:11:49,960 --> 01:11:52,360 But it didn't come to the ones that were in righteousness. 1076 01:11:52,360 --> 01:11:56,160 He protected them. Same thing in the New Covenant. 1077 01:11:56,400 --> 01:11:59,360 If you're gonna and how much more severe, 'cause we're alive 1078 01:11:59,360 --> 01:12:02,320 to God, we have the Holy Ghost in us, and then we're gonna mock 1079 01:12:02,320 --> 01:12:05,680 God and live like the rest of the world and expect that Trump 1080 01:12:05,680 --> 01:12:07,720 is going to blow and we're going to blow out of here with having 1081 01:12:07,720 --> 01:12:14,160 no thought process about it, he says. 1082 01:12:14,160 --> 01:12:17,640 You got to be on alert and he tells us he says we don't know 1083 01:12:17,640 --> 01:12:20,000 they are, but notice he concludes in this he said, Now 1084 01:12:20,000 --> 01:12:23,200 listen, if you know and he says now listen, you got to be ready. 1085 01:12:23,200 --> 01:12:27,800 Because if he says if you knew when the thief was coming, then 1086 01:12:27,800 --> 01:12:29,520 you would not let him be broken in. 1087 01:12:29,520 --> 01:12:32,280 So he's concluding. You don't know the day or hour, 1088 01:12:32,360 --> 01:12:39,640 but you can know he's coming and be ready and you're not going to 1089 01:12:39,640 --> 01:12:45,160 be taken like a trap. And then he goes on and gives a 1090 01:12:45,480 --> 01:12:49,840 clear example which reinforces love. 1091 01:12:51,000 --> 01:12:55,080 The master has his servants and he entrusts them. 1092 01:12:55,840 --> 01:12:58,360 And if we were to jump over to Matthew 25 and I don't have time 1093 01:12:58,360 --> 01:13:00,480 to go there today, I'm going to conclude here. 1094 01:13:01,480 --> 01:13:06,640 OK, Then in Matthew 25 he goes on and says to them, I give 1095 01:13:06,640 --> 01:13:11,320 151211 and he goes away. Is Jesus not with us today? 1096 01:13:11,560 --> 01:13:14,280 Where's Jesus at? He's seated in heavenly places. 1097 01:13:14,360 --> 01:13:15,720 Is he coming back? Yeah. 1098 01:13:15,720 --> 01:13:17,720 And when he comes back, we got to give an account. 1099 01:13:18,120 --> 01:13:19,880 That's what the Bible says. Said we give an account. 1100 01:13:21,760 --> 01:13:25,240 And so when he comes back, he wants to find us, so doing. 1101 01:13:25,240 --> 01:13:28,880 And when he comes back to the one he finds him doing, guess 1102 01:13:28,880 --> 01:13:29,960 what? He rejoices. 1103 01:13:29,960 --> 01:13:34,320 And he says to him, I give you all these possessions for you to 1104 01:13:34,320 --> 01:13:36,400 be in charge of. In essence, the catching away of 1105 01:13:36,400 --> 01:13:39,520 the church is where God goes through the resume of our life 1106 01:13:39,600 --> 01:13:41,440 and say, because you were faithful, obey here and faithful 1107 01:13:41,440 --> 01:13:42,680 here. And you didn't compromise here 1108 01:13:42,680 --> 01:13:46,600 and you didn't do this, When we go back to this planet, you're 1109 01:13:46,600 --> 01:13:48,320 going to have this territory and that territory. 1110 01:13:48,320 --> 01:13:50,280 And I have this assignment for you and this assignment for you. 1111 01:13:50,280 --> 01:13:53,120 And that's what you're going to do next. 1112 01:13:53,960 --> 01:13:56,360 But the one when he shows back is not doing it. 1113 01:13:56,360 --> 01:13:59,240 In fact, what are they doing? They are being slothful. 1114 01:13:59,400 --> 01:14:02,160 He calls them evil. And we think, well, that means 1115 01:14:02,160 --> 01:14:05,400 they're cut off. No, their master is the Lord. 1116 01:14:05,960 --> 01:14:09,520 They're evil because all covenant kids that don't obey 1117 01:14:09,520 --> 01:14:13,040 God, that's an evil action. The minute you don't obey God, 1118 01:14:13,040 --> 01:14:19,480 that's evil. So if he says in the heart my 1119 01:14:19,480 --> 01:14:22,080 master's not coming for a long time begins to beat his fellow 1120 01:14:22,080 --> 01:14:23,120 slaves. That's why we've been talking 1121 01:14:23,120 --> 01:14:24,840 about unity. You think you can talk about the 1122 01:14:24,840 --> 01:14:27,160 body of Christ like this, and God's all right with that? 1123 01:14:27,800 --> 01:14:30,200 You think you can beat down the body of Christ. 1124 01:14:30,600 --> 01:14:32,440 You can talk bad about one another. 1125 01:14:32,640 --> 01:14:34,800 You can have offences towards one another. 1126 01:14:35,040 --> 01:14:37,040 You cannot walk in forgiveness and love. 1127 01:14:37,200 --> 01:14:41,000 You think that you can pretend that you are not doing the same 1128 01:14:41,000 --> 01:14:42,640 thing. And we don't understand that you 1129 01:14:42,680 --> 01:14:46,120 ain't really repented yet, that you're masquerading. 1130 01:14:52,520 --> 01:14:55,800 Are you hearing me? He goes on to say. 1131 01:14:55,800 --> 01:14:57,560 And then they're going to eat and drink with drunkards, 1132 01:14:57,560 --> 01:15:03,520 meaning they're intoxicated with the world, he said. 1133 01:15:03,520 --> 01:15:05,960 When he comes back, he said. And then this verse 51 is really 1134 01:15:05,960 --> 01:15:07,680 important. He says he'll cut him in pieces, 1135 01:15:08,000 --> 01:15:09,960 assign him a place with the hypocrites. 1136 01:15:11,120 --> 01:15:14,000 There's only one group of people Jesus called hypocrites. 1137 01:15:14,000 --> 01:15:19,400 Let me tell you, they were not. They were not the lost. 1138 01:15:21,480 --> 01:15:24,200 He never called the lost hypocrites. 1139 01:15:25,760 --> 01:15:28,120 Now what do I mean by that? I understand in his time frame 1140 01:15:28,120 --> 01:15:29,760 nobody was born again. I get that. 1141 01:15:30,000 --> 01:15:33,480 What I'm saying is, is that who he called hypocrites were the 1142 01:15:33,480 --> 01:15:36,720 ones who had an anointing to be able to understand the word of 1143 01:15:36,720 --> 01:15:39,000 God. It was the Pharisees and 1144 01:15:39,000 --> 01:15:41,080 scribes. It was the priesthood. 1145 01:15:42,040 --> 01:15:46,240 He called them hypocrites because they knew how to live 1146 01:15:46,240 --> 01:15:51,760 different but chose not to. In essence, he is saying we can 1147 01:15:51,760 --> 01:15:55,480 say a hypocrite is this one who follows God on their own terms 1148 01:15:55,600 --> 01:16:02,800 and not on God's terms. And these priests are covenant. 1149 01:16:04,160 --> 01:16:07,480 These priests have been come down from the line of Aaron. 1150 01:16:09,520 --> 01:16:11,840 Are you hearing me? There's an anointing. 1151 01:16:12,760 --> 01:16:17,800 I mean, the high priest who who authorized the killing of Jesus 1152 01:16:18,000 --> 01:16:25,120 spoke under the anointing, He said. 1153 01:16:25,120 --> 01:16:28,760 You're a hypocrite. Weeping and gnashing of teeth is 1154 01:16:28,760 --> 01:16:33,080 not just hell. The tribulation will be weeping 1155 01:16:33,400 --> 01:16:43,680 and gnashing of teeth. What if he finds you not doing? 1156 01:16:45,400 --> 01:16:46,720 Does she look like the rest of the world? 1157 01:16:48,800 --> 01:16:53,560 Then he'll let you have the wrath that the world's having in 1158 01:16:53,560 --> 01:17:02,330 order for you to repent. He didn't have to get left 1159 01:17:02,330 --> 01:17:05,850 behind. It doesn't mean you won't go to 1160 01:17:05,850 --> 01:17:12,330 heaven, doesn't mean that. It just means you don't get to 1161 01:17:12,330 --> 01:17:16,450 leave, because the leaving that's catching away is for the 1162 01:17:16,450 --> 01:17:20,370 faithful. He's coming back for the church. 1163 01:17:20,690 --> 01:17:29,760 That's without spot or wrinkle. Those who are doing and it's and 1164 01:17:29,760 --> 01:17:31,800 it and this is not. Well, that's not fair. 1165 01:17:31,800 --> 01:17:33,880 How is it not fair? Every one of us that got born 1166 01:17:33,880 --> 01:17:35,840 again have the Holy Ghost living in US. 1167 01:17:36,520 --> 01:17:40,080 Every one of us that got born again became a new nature in 1168 01:17:40,080 --> 01:17:41,960 Christ. We actually have the nature of 1169 01:17:42,080 --> 01:17:46,040 the King. We are without excuse. 1170 01:17:47,040 --> 01:17:49,760 We have the written word that transforms our mind. 1171 01:17:51,680 --> 01:17:54,200 We are without excuse. We are in a time frame that 1172 01:17:54,200 --> 01:17:56,080 God's like, are you serious right now? 1173 01:17:56,080 --> 01:17:59,920 And let me tell you God has shown this throughout his pages. 1174 01:18:00,160 --> 01:18:02,800 Moses going to have this face to face encounter with God and then 1175 01:18:02,800 --> 01:18:05,760 disobey God by hitting a rock twice and God's like it doesn't 1176 01:18:05,760 --> 01:18:06,960 matter. I'm gonna let you take them in 1177 01:18:06,960 --> 01:18:08,160 any way. I forgive you. 1178 01:18:09,080 --> 01:18:11,560 And did Moses ask for forgiveness? 1179 01:18:11,960 --> 01:18:13,880 He did. He said, Lord, I'm sorry I did 1180 01:18:13,880 --> 01:18:14,680 that. I didn't mean it. 1181 01:18:14,840 --> 01:18:16,680 I didn't mean. And he talked to God all the 1182 01:18:16,680 --> 01:18:19,000 time about that. And finally the Lord said, look 1183 01:18:19,000 --> 01:18:20,600 out there, son. And he looked at he said, that's 1184 01:18:20,600 --> 01:18:23,200 the promise saying, he said, now listen, I have forgiven you for 1185 01:18:23,200 --> 01:18:26,960 disobeying, but it has stopped you from getting in, period. 1186 01:18:27,360 --> 01:18:32,400 You can't be this close to me and dishonor me like that and 1187 01:18:32,400 --> 01:18:37,800 think you're going to be able to finish your course, he said. 1188 01:18:37,800 --> 01:18:41,600 Don't talk to me again about it. And God was a forgiving God. 1189 01:18:47,200 --> 01:18:48,480 No. When we have the fear of the 1190 01:18:48,480 --> 01:18:51,520 Lord then we'll do something great. 1191 01:18:51,640 --> 01:18:53,600 I'll close with these two scriptures because I'm 1192 01:18:53,800 --> 01:18:54,840 seriously. I just have to say these 1193 01:18:54,840 --> 01:18:56,160 scriptures try to leave you on a high note. 1194 01:18:58,720 --> 01:19:00,800 Romans 6/6. I can conclude it like this, 1195 01:19:00,840 --> 01:19:03,400 knowing that our old self was crucified with him in order that 1196 01:19:03,400 --> 01:19:06,640 the our body of sin might be done away with so that we would 1197 01:19:06,640 --> 01:19:09,520 no longer be slaves to sin. Galatians 220 Is this. 1198 01:19:10,080 --> 01:19:12,240 This is it right here. Galatians 220 I've been 1199 01:19:12,240 --> 01:19:15,080 crucified with Christ. How can you be confident? 1200 01:19:15,080 --> 01:19:17,200 How do you be confident that you know what I'm gonna hear? 1201 01:19:17,200 --> 01:19:18,440 The trumpet. I'm ready. 1202 01:19:18,520 --> 01:19:20,720 I'm ready. I've been crucified with Christ. 1203 01:19:20,840 --> 01:19:22,640 In him. I have shared His crucifixion. 1204 01:19:22,640 --> 01:19:25,400 It is no longer I who live, but Christ. 1205 01:19:25,400 --> 01:19:28,880 The Messiah lives in me and the life I now live in the body. 1206 01:19:28,880 --> 01:19:32,640 I live by faith, by adherence to and reliance on and complete 1207 01:19:32,640 --> 01:19:35,760 trust in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for 1208 01:19:35,760 --> 01:19:37,360 me. In fact, Bible tells us in 1209 01:19:37,360 --> 01:19:39,920 Galatians 5 that our spirit and our flesh battle. 1210 01:19:40,120 --> 01:19:41,680 And you know who's getting caught up? 1211 01:19:41,760 --> 01:19:45,360 It's those who crucify the flesh, who walk by the Spirit, 1212 01:19:45,360 --> 01:19:48,960 who are led by the Spirit, who do the word of God that he will 1213 01:19:48,960 --> 01:19:51,080 come back and give them their reward. 1214 01:19:51,160 --> 01:19:55,760 Because we know God is a rewarder of those who diligently 1215 01:19:55,760 --> 01:19:58,280 seek Him. But for those who will not 1216 01:19:58,280 --> 01:20:02,040 crucify the flesh, who will not allow the spirit that's in them 1217 01:20:02,160 --> 01:20:06,440 that can dominate their flesh now in the spirit realm to 1218 01:20:06,480 --> 01:20:09,760 dominate that God say, why don't you just stay on the planet and 1219 01:20:09,760 --> 01:20:11,880 prove? To me that you will submit to 1220 01:20:11,880 --> 01:20:16,720 me, 'cause when I gave you the power to do it in the realm of 1221 01:20:16,720 --> 01:20:22,080 the spirit, You wouldn't. You wouldn't. 1222 01:20:26,760 --> 01:20:31,800 So now you're gonna have to prove it, 'cause I couldn't tell 1223 01:20:31,800 --> 01:20:33,680 by your walk. You love me? 1224 01:20:45,910 --> 01:20:49,510 Hallelujah. You're not working out your 1225 01:20:49,510 --> 01:20:53,990 salvation, but you are working out your exit strategy. 1226 01:20:58,430 --> 01:21:01,550 You're determining when you're going because if you want to be 1227 01:21:01,550 --> 01:21:05,190 born again and live like the world, God is not a man that he 1228 01:21:05,190 --> 01:21:07,350 should lie. And he's not mocked because 1229 01:21:07,350 --> 01:21:10,350 whatever a man soweth, that's what he'll read. 1230 01:21:13,280 --> 01:21:16,880 And for us that are born again, Dad's like, really? 1231 01:21:20,320 --> 01:21:23,600 I did that and you still can't obey me. 1232 01:21:24,320 --> 01:21:27,680 You still are indifferent with the salvation that I've given 1233 01:21:27,680 --> 01:21:31,920 you. You still want to try to 1234 01:21:31,920 --> 01:21:33,720 convince me of how you're living. 1235 01:21:33,720 --> 01:21:39,200 I'm supposed to accept. You're telling me it's OK to 1236 01:21:39,200 --> 01:21:42,000 keep drinking. You're telling me it's OK to 1237 01:21:42,000 --> 01:21:45,680 keep cussing? You're telling me it's OK 'cause 1238 01:21:45,960 --> 01:21:49,160 yeah, when you were doing it, that's what you were doing. 1239 01:21:49,160 --> 01:21:52,120 And I paid the price, so you don't have to do that no more. 1240 01:21:52,920 --> 01:21:54,160 And you're going to act like you can do. 1241 01:21:54,160 --> 01:21:58,440 And I'm supposed to just be OK? I'm not OK. 1242 01:21:59,440 --> 01:22:01,240 That's why the Holy Ghost keeps talking to you. 1243 01:22:03,920 --> 01:22:06,080 And when you renew your mind, you can't conquer everything. 1244 01:22:12,360 --> 01:22:14,520 Thank you so much for listening to this message. 1245 01:22:14,600 --> 01:22:17,960 If you want more, subscribe to our message podcast on iTunes, 1246 01:22:18,080 --> 01:22:20,120 Google Play, Spotify, and SoundCloud. 1247 01:22:20,280 --> 01:22:22,720 Rating and leaving a comment will go a long way with helping 1248 01:22:22,720 --> 01:22:24,440 our messages get better circulation. 1249 01:22:24,960 --> 01:22:27,240 If you'd enjoyed watching our weekend messages, visit 1250 01:22:27,240 --> 01:22:30,480 youtube.com/anchor Faith. We'd love it. 1251 01:22:30,480 --> 01:22:32,640 If you'd subscribe, leave a comment or a like on the 1252 01:22:32,640 --> 01:22:34,520 messages. 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