1 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:14,480 Thanks for checking out the Anchor Faith Message podcast 2 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:15,880 from St. Augustine, FL. 3 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:25,520 Now enjoy this message. Well, we've been on a journey. 4 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:32,200 Talking about the ministry of the Holy Spirit, the ministry of 5 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:37,320 the Holy Spirit, and we've said this, a lot of people still do 6 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:41,600 not understand in the church today, the ministry of the Holy 7 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:44,600 Spirit. And it's actually the ministry 8 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:48,560 of the Holy Spirit who is the only one that's active in the 9 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:53,800 earth today. Jesus, we already know, finished 10 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:56,120 his assignment, right? We've said this. 11 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:59,960 This time and time again he said it is finished. 12 00:00:59,960 --> 00:01:04,440 He came to die, to raise, to put us back in a position. 13 00:01:04,440 --> 00:01:07,120 Amen. Of sons and daughters of the 14 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:10,440 King. Glory to God to bring redemption 15 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:13,720 to our life. And he's already fulfilled that 16 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:16,440 assignment and said it is finished. 17 00:01:16,690 --> 00:01:20,650 And we know that when he went, he said it's to your advantage 18 00:01:20,650 --> 00:01:24,330 that I go so that what he can come. 19 00:01:24,330 --> 00:01:28,410 Who was the he? He was talking about the person 20 00:01:28,410 --> 00:01:32,290 of the Holy Spirit, right. We've said this that the Holy 21 00:01:32,290 --> 00:01:37,690 Spirit is not a dove, It is the third person of the Godhead, and 22 00:01:37,690 --> 00:01:42,970 it's actually the Holy Spirit that is involved in our lives 23 00:01:42,970 --> 00:01:47,430 today, right? Hallelujah. 24 00:01:47,590 --> 00:01:50,870 And we know God the Father. He's already created the earth. 25 00:01:50,870 --> 00:01:54,150 He's already done everything he was going to do for mankind. 26 00:01:54,310 --> 00:01:56,350 He sent His Son. Amen. 27 00:01:56,870 --> 00:01:59,950 And he's done so. God the Father's done. 28 00:02:00,070 --> 00:02:02,670 Jesus Christ is sitting at His right hand. 29 00:02:02,830 --> 00:02:08,710 And it is the Holy Spirit whom we are connecting with in the 30 00:02:08,750 --> 00:02:12,910 earth today. The Holy Spirit is that person 31 00:02:12,910 --> 00:02:20,510 that we are in union with and. Communion with and communication 32 00:02:20,510 --> 00:02:23,790 with Amen. Hallelujah. 33 00:02:23,950 --> 00:02:27,350 And so I don't have time to go all the way back to the 34 00:02:27,350 --> 00:02:30,710 beginning because this is going on weeks and weeks of teaching. 35 00:02:30,710 --> 00:02:35,550 But I do encourage you that if you need to know more about the 36 00:02:35,550 --> 00:02:39,870 Holy Spirit, then you need to go back and listen to all this 37 00:02:39,870 --> 00:02:41,030 series. Amen. 38 00:02:41,030 --> 00:02:44,390 Because it is going to benefit your life. 39 00:02:45,130 --> 00:02:49,650 Amen. So last week we started dealing 40 00:02:49,650 --> 00:02:53,890 with, they're talking about the fact that there are many 41 00:02:53,890 --> 00:02:58,250 functions of the Holy Spirit. A lot of times people only when 42 00:02:58,250 --> 00:03:02,930 you hear about the Holy Spirit, only talk about the Holy Spirit 43 00:03:03,210 --> 00:03:07,570 through Pentecostalism, right through the Pentecost, the day 44 00:03:07,570 --> 00:03:10,170 of Pentecost. And a lot of times they only 45 00:03:10,170 --> 00:03:14,330 think about the Holy Spirit as one that will bring you power. 46 00:03:15,090 --> 00:03:17,770 And an anointing and give you chill bumps. 47 00:03:17,770 --> 00:03:23,610 And you know all these things, and they neglect the side of the 48 00:03:23,610 --> 00:03:27,890 Holy Spirit who is there to teach us. 49 00:03:28,860 --> 00:03:33,700 To guide us every day. To reveal things to us from the 50 00:03:33,700 --> 00:03:36,740 word every day, and then to what? 51 00:03:36,740 --> 00:03:42,500 Develop the nine, Get 9 gifts of the Spirit within our lives, the 52 00:03:42,500 --> 00:03:46,500 fruits of the Spirit, And to develop the characteristics and 53 00:03:46,500 --> 00:03:48,500 the nature of God within our life. 54 00:03:48,500 --> 00:03:51,260 It's not just about the Holy Ghost and power. 55 00:03:52,700 --> 00:03:54,900 Amen. And so a lot of people have 56 00:03:54,900 --> 00:04:00,650 gotten over on to that. Side of the Holy Ghost only OK, 57 00:04:01,210 --> 00:04:03,530 but we know. So there we have been talking 58 00:04:03,530 --> 00:04:06,530 about many functions of the Holy Spirit. 59 00:04:07,090 --> 00:04:11,130 And one of the functions of the Holy Spirit is what we would 60 00:04:11,130 --> 00:04:14,370 call the inner working of the Holy Spirit. 61 00:04:14,530 --> 00:04:18,730 And the inner working of the Holy Spirit is to help develop 62 00:04:18,730 --> 00:04:21,290 you mature. You develop the fruits of the 63 00:04:21,290 --> 00:04:25,050 Spirit within your life, and the characteristics and the nature 64 00:04:25,050 --> 00:04:28,530 of God within every. Believer's life. 65 00:04:29,970 --> 00:04:35,210 And so we started last week talking about that inner working 66 00:04:35,210 --> 00:04:39,650 or that function of the Holy Spirit within a believer's 67 00:04:39,650 --> 00:04:42,970 lives, in a believer's life, right? 68 00:04:43,930 --> 00:04:49,570 And talking about how important it is, is that we begin to yield 69 00:04:49,570 --> 00:04:54,610 to our inner man and the inner working of the Holy Spirit. 70 00:04:55,220 --> 00:04:59,900 Because that's how the Holy Spirit will communicate to us. 71 00:04:59,900 --> 00:05:02,700 Because he is Spirit John for right. 72 00:05:02,700 --> 00:05:06,180 We talked about that. And those who worship him will 73 00:05:06,180 --> 00:05:11,860 worship him in spirit and in truth, not just in truth, 74 00:05:11,860 --> 00:05:16,420 because there's some believers and denominations that only see 75 00:05:16,420 --> 00:05:22,290 him as the spirit of truth. Or the truth side, the word 76 00:05:22,290 --> 00:05:25,050 side. But they neglect the power side 77 00:05:25,050 --> 00:05:29,890 or the spirit of God's side for that inner working right. 78 00:05:30,730 --> 00:05:35,530 And so it's important that we recognize that he is spirit, and 79 00:05:35,530 --> 00:05:41,090 the way we connect with God is through our spirits, Through our 80 00:05:41,090 --> 00:05:46,610 spirits, right? And we read a couple of 81 00:05:46,610 --> 00:05:52,410 scriptures last week, but I want to start out by talking about 82 00:05:52,410 --> 00:05:57,970 how we said that in Proverbs 20. This is where I want to start 83 00:05:57,970 --> 00:06:00,490 today. Proverbs 2027. 84 00:06:00,490 --> 00:06:06,090 It says the spirit of the man is the lamp of the Lord and he's 85 00:06:06,090 --> 00:06:11,690 searching all the innermost parts of the being, so the 86 00:06:11,690 --> 00:06:15,830 spirit of the man. Is the candle of the Lord or the 87 00:06:15,830 --> 00:06:20,870 light of the Lord or the one that brings illumination and 88 00:06:20,870 --> 00:06:25,350 revelation? You see that because we talked 89 00:06:25,350 --> 00:06:30,310 about the Spirit, That is, the Holy Spirit is the only one that 90 00:06:30,310 --> 00:06:35,870 can reveal to us today who Jesus even is, right? 91 00:06:36,550 --> 00:06:40,590 It's the Spirit that brings that revelation to us. 92 00:06:40,970 --> 00:06:46,410 But he does that by the light that's on the inside of us or 93 00:06:46,410 --> 00:06:51,770 our spirit man, OK. And so we looked at that last 94 00:06:51,770 --> 00:06:56,410 week, and we started beginning to talk about the fact at a 95 00:06:56,410 --> 00:07:02,570 first Thessalonians 523. For us to totally grasp that 96 00:07:02,570 --> 00:07:06,810 inner working of the Holy Spirit, we have to recognize 97 00:07:07,130 --> 00:07:12,580 that. We are a threefold being, a 98 00:07:12,580 --> 00:07:16,060 threefold being. Just like there is the Trinity, 99 00:07:16,060 --> 00:07:19,500 God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. 100 00:07:19,580 --> 00:07:23,500 He is a threefold being, and we are a threefold being. 101 00:07:23,740 --> 00:07:28,860 Remember, we were created in His image and in His likeness, 102 00:07:28,860 --> 00:07:33,100 right? And so it's so important that we 103 00:07:33,100 --> 00:07:37,340 recognize. That in first Thessalonians 523 104 00:07:37,340 --> 00:07:42,380 it says this Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you 105 00:07:42,380 --> 00:07:45,780 entirely when you got born again. 106 00:07:47,060 --> 00:07:54,700 God's desire for his humanity, for His man, is that we would be 107 00:07:54,700 --> 00:07:59,100 complete again, completely restored. 108 00:08:00,180 --> 00:08:03,940 Back to the what? Same image. 109 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:08,680 Or likeness that he created man to be in the garden. 110 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:13,960 Amen. So when he saved us it he didn't 111 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:19,200 just save us so that our spirit man would be right before God. 112 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:22,480 Because this is important to recognize that a lot of people 113 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:26,720 just say that the only thing that's important is that we just 114 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:31,120 get people born again so that when they die they can go to 115 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:34,159 heaven. And that's their only focus. 116 00:08:35,010 --> 00:08:38,289 Well, that was not God's only desire. 117 00:08:38,970 --> 00:08:45,530 His desire was that we would be completely redeemed and restored 118 00:08:45,930 --> 00:08:51,690 spirit, soul and body. He wants everything redeemed, 119 00:08:52,490 --> 00:08:58,890 everything redeemed, and religion only will focus on the 120 00:08:58,890 --> 00:09:03,000 spirit of the man. And that's why there's so many 121 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:08,720 believers that are still acting like the world, yet they say 122 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:14,160 they're born again because they haven't learned how to bring 123 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:18,800 their body into subjection, which is their desires and their 124 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:21,210 flesh. And they continue to live 125 00:09:21,210 --> 00:09:24,010 cartel. And they haven't learned that 126 00:09:24,010 --> 00:09:28,370 the only way that we can save this soul round is by the 127 00:09:28,370 --> 00:09:31,930 renewing of our mind according to the word of God. 128 00:09:33,570 --> 00:09:41,170 OK, so we talked about the fact that we are a threefold nature 129 00:09:41,170 --> 00:09:46,050 man and he wants us to remain actually, he said, blameless, 130 00:09:47,090 --> 00:09:51,180 complete. Until the coming of the Lord 131 00:09:51,180 --> 00:09:54,500 Jesus Christ. So it's not good enough that we 132 00:09:54,500 --> 00:10:01,260 just get people born again for us to actually be the mature 133 00:10:01,260 --> 00:10:06,740 church, the church that he's coming back for without spot and 134 00:10:06,740 --> 00:10:10,580 without wrinkle. Come on, those that have learned 135 00:10:10,580 --> 00:10:15,820 to be fully matured and gross spiritually, he's looking for a 136 00:10:15,820 --> 00:10:22,280 complete man. Spirit, soul and body. 137 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:27,480 And so we said, I want to remind you that the soul realm is our 138 00:10:27,680 --> 00:10:34,920 will, our emotions, our reasonings and our thinking. 139 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:39,280 That's the soul of the man, right? 140 00:10:40,520 --> 00:10:45,040 Then we see our body. Our body is our flesh. 141 00:10:45,710 --> 00:10:49,230 This is that flesh. This is that nature. 142 00:10:49,470 --> 00:10:54,310 And we know that it is called a carnal nature because it is not 143 00:10:54,310 --> 00:10:59,630 redeemed yet, and the flesh will not be completely redeemed until 144 00:10:59,630 --> 00:11:05,750 we take on the glorified body. So we know and Paul even tells 145 00:11:05,750 --> 00:11:10,830 us and we're going to look at these scriptures that this body 146 00:11:10,830 --> 00:11:14,150 we're going to have to bring it into subjection. 147 00:11:15,990 --> 00:11:19,910 We are going to have to, Paul called it, crucify the flesh, 148 00:11:19,910 --> 00:11:25,630 What, daily. And so in talking about the 149 00:11:25,630 --> 00:11:30,270 ministry of the Holy Spirit, the ministry, one ministry of the 150 00:11:30,270 --> 00:11:38,350 Holy Spirit is to get all three areas of our life into a perfect 151 00:11:38,350 --> 00:11:43,150 man. And that's the working of the 152 00:11:43,150 --> 00:11:47,350 Holy Spirit. To bring our soul, our mind, our 153 00:11:47,350 --> 00:11:52,990 emotions, our our will to get it into an alignment with the word 154 00:11:52,990 --> 00:11:57,470 of God and then to get this body into alignment to the word of 155 00:11:57,470 --> 00:11:59,790 God. Amen. 156 00:12:00,350 --> 00:12:06,070 So this is very important if we are going to mature or grow up. 157 00:12:06,390 --> 00:12:12,030 First Corinthians talks about from babes into a what a man, a 158 00:12:12,030 --> 00:12:15,920 mature man. So that we no longer are only 159 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:20,280 wanting to suck on the bottle or the milk of the word, but we're 160 00:12:20,280 --> 00:12:24,160 actually getting to a place that we can move over into the 161 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:27,360 teachings of righteousness Hebrews talks about. 162 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:33,080 Because even the baptism of the Holy Spirit, us being born 163 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:39,160 again, those are baby teachings and most churches haven't even 164 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:43,440 got to that, according to Hebrews. 165 00:12:43,710 --> 00:12:48,990 I don't have it in my notes. According to Hebrews, being 166 00:12:48,990 --> 00:12:51,390 filled with the Holy Ghost is a baby. 167 00:12:51,390 --> 00:12:58,390 Teaching is infantile, and yet most churches aren't even 168 00:12:58,390 --> 00:13:03,310 teaching on it. Amen. 169 00:13:04,310 --> 00:13:06,750 So they're staying on what? Milk. 170 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:11,600 They're staying in milk and they've not even been able to 171 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:16,800 move over into places of actually righteousness teaching. 172 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:21,800 Which is right living, because you're still a baby. 173 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:24,760 We expect babies to not want to live, right? 174 00:13:25,390 --> 00:13:28,790 But those that have learned how to move over into some 175 00:13:28,790 --> 00:13:32,070 righteousness understand that it's more about us. 176 00:13:32,070 --> 00:13:36,150 Living right, Living holy. Come on before God. 177 00:13:36,390 --> 00:13:40,470 In the word of God we can see Amen. 178 00:13:41,150 --> 00:13:43,430 Hallelujah. That's why we know this church 179 00:13:43,430 --> 00:13:47,120 is not for everybody. So if you want to go to a church 180 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:50,760 that's only preaching on milk, that's where you need to be 181 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:54,520 because we going to move you on over into some maturity of 182 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:58,520 righteousness. That means we're going to teach 183 00:13:58,520 --> 00:14:02,120 that what sin is and that believers shouldn't be drinking 184 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:09,480 and and whoring around. Come on, this is what 185 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:15,350 righteousness is talking about. We shouldn't be committing 186 00:14:15,350 --> 00:14:17,470 adultery. We shouldn't be letting all 187 00:14:17,470 --> 00:14:21,030 kinds of gossip and slander going on in church. 188 00:14:23,270 --> 00:14:28,670 This is called righteousness. Moses was a preacher of 189 00:14:28,670 --> 00:14:32,430 righteousness. I want to be in line with him. 190 00:14:33,910 --> 00:14:35,670 And what did he get for doing it? 191 00:14:36,750 --> 00:14:41,990 He got mocked, right? But. 192 00:14:42,380 --> 00:14:47,180 Somebody's got to do it because we see where the Church has 193 00:14:47,180 --> 00:14:51,700 fallen. We've seen where the church has 194 00:14:51,700 --> 00:14:56,100 fallen. So he is very interested in us 195 00:14:56,100 --> 00:15:03,340 growing spiritually, completely, Spirit, soul and body. 196 00:15:03,660 --> 00:15:05,700 Amen. Hallelujah. 197 00:15:05,700 --> 00:15:10,820 And that is the working that is the job of the inner working of 198 00:15:10,820 --> 00:15:16,620 the Holy Spirit, is to bring us into a place of what we would 199 00:15:16,620 --> 00:15:23,580 call sanctification. The Holy Spirit's job is to 200 00:15:23,580 --> 00:15:27,700 bring us into a place of holiness and sanctification. 201 00:15:28,130 --> 00:15:33,850 Because once we get born again, our spirit man now is alive unto 202 00:15:34,130 --> 00:15:36,090 unto God. Amen. 203 00:15:36,570 --> 00:15:40,770 And then he says I'm gonna write my laws within their heart. 204 00:15:41,050 --> 00:15:44,930 So now we have his word that's supposed to have been written 205 00:15:44,930 --> 00:15:49,930 within our heart to where now our spirit man now wants to do 206 00:15:49,930 --> 00:15:53,930 what the Holy Spirit is engaging us to do. 207 00:15:55,650 --> 00:16:00,170 Amen. And so the working of the Holy 208 00:16:00,170 --> 00:16:05,930 Spirit is going to then begin to move within our lives and show 209 00:16:05,930 --> 00:16:09,890 us those things that are going to help us grow and help us 210 00:16:09,890 --> 00:16:15,330 mature as a believer and develop the character of God within our 211 00:16:15,330 --> 00:16:19,050 life and develop the fruits of the Spirit within our life to 212 00:16:19,050 --> 00:16:22,050 mature us and to grow us. And you know what? 213 00:16:22,370 --> 00:16:28,060 That will not stop. We will be in a continual 214 00:16:28,060 --> 00:16:31,900 process of growing. We said that once you get born 215 00:16:31,900 --> 00:16:34,100 again, you just begin the journey. 216 00:16:34,780 --> 00:16:39,620 It is not a end to a mean. It is not the final destination. 217 00:16:39,620 --> 00:16:42,900 I'm born again. I'm good to go so I can live 218 00:16:42,900 --> 00:16:45,780 however I want to do. I can have the American Dream. 219 00:16:45,780 --> 00:16:47,700 I can do everything the world does. 220 00:16:47,940 --> 00:16:52,420 No, that is not what Kingdom living is about. 221 00:16:53,180 --> 00:16:57,500 Amen. And so it's very important that 222 00:16:57,500 --> 00:17:01,700 we see some scriptures here because I want to talk about how 223 00:17:01,700 --> 00:17:06,420 the Holy Spirit talks about the inner man or the spirit of the 224 00:17:06,420 --> 00:17:12,260 man. Look here at first John 413, 225 00:17:12,260 --> 00:17:18,780 first John 413, it says this. By this we come to know, and I'm 226 00:17:18,780 --> 00:17:21,460 reading it out of the Amplified because this is a good 227 00:17:21,460 --> 00:17:23,579 description that the Amplified gives it. 228 00:17:24,010 --> 00:17:30,170 When it says by this we've come to know, perceive, recognize and 229 00:17:30,170 --> 00:17:33,770 understand. Because we said that the Holy 230 00:17:33,770 --> 00:17:37,650 Spirit is there working on the inside of us. 231 00:17:37,650 --> 00:17:44,530 But we have to learn how to perceive, recognize and know how 232 00:17:44,530 --> 00:17:48,850 the Holy Spirit works. We have to understand how the 233 00:17:48,850 --> 00:17:52,130 Holy Spirit is working on the inside of us. 234 00:17:53,130 --> 00:17:56,410 Amen. It says that we abide and live 235 00:17:56,410 --> 00:18:02,770 and remain in Him and he and us, because he has given or imparted 236 00:18:02,770 --> 00:18:07,350 to us. His Spirit or the Holy Spirit? 237 00:18:07,350 --> 00:18:10,830 That's why we're saying if you the minute you get born again, 238 00:18:10,830 --> 00:18:15,310 the Holy Spirit comes to what make His abode within you, the 239 00:18:15,310 --> 00:18:18,870 scripture says or His dwelling within you, right? 240 00:18:19,230 --> 00:18:24,350 But when he's now living on the inside of you or the inner man, 241 00:18:25,110 --> 00:18:28,830 he is now speaking to your spirit. 242 00:18:30,750 --> 00:18:37,340 You don't have the Holy Spirit. And your spirit becomes the Holy 243 00:18:37,340 --> 00:18:39,340 Spirit. You understand what I'm saying? 244 00:18:39,940 --> 00:18:44,420 You are a spirit being. You have a spirit. 245 00:18:44,660 --> 00:18:49,380 But then when you get born again, the Holy Spirit begins to 246 00:18:49,380 --> 00:18:54,500 move in into your spirit. So it's two separate things, but 247 00:18:54,500 --> 00:18:59,420 one, they're in union together. You understand that? 248 00:18:59,900 --> 00:19:02,260 Because some people think, well, it's just the spirit that's 249 00:19:02,260 --> 00:19:07,380 living within me. And you know, and his spirit is 250 00:19:07,380 --> 00:19:10,540 the only spirit. No, you have a spirit. 251 00:19:10,540 --> 00:19:13,340 You are a spirit. We've already laid out all of 252 00:19:13,340 --> 00:19:17,410 those scriptures, right? But it's His, the Holy Spirit 253 00:19:17,410 --> 00:19:20,970 that now moves on in on the inside of you. 254 00:19:21,210 --> 00:19:25,090 And it's your Spirit that the Holy Spirit is in union with. 255 00:19:25,090 --> 00:19:29,610 Talking to, remember we said in Philippians in partnership with, 256 00:19:30,530 --> 00:19:37,130 communion with, fellowship with So now you are in partnership in 257 00:19:37,130 --> 00:19:43,370 union as one, letting the Holy Spirit work within you. 258 00:19:43,850 --> 00:19:49,460 You understand that? And we have to learn how to 259 00:19:49,460 --> 00:19:54,700 recognize and understand the Holy Spirit on the inside and 260 00:19:54,700 --> 00:19:59,060 how he is working. Now look at 2nd Corinthians 261 00:19:59,060 --> 00:20:02,660 chapter 4, verse 16. It says this. 262 00:20:02,660 --> 00:20:07,700 Therefore we do not lose heart, but through our though our outer 263 00:20:07,700 --> 00:20:12,460 man is decaying, our inner man. See, the Scripture calls it our 264 00:20:12,460 --> 00:20:16,950 inward inner man. King James calls it your inward 265 00:20:16,950 --> 00:20:20,150 man. So inner man, inward man, spirit 266 00:20:20,150 --> 00:20:22,630 of the man. All of these are talking about 267 00:20:22,630 --> 00:20:26,150 the same thing when you see these in scriptures. 268 00:20:26,630 --> 00:20:29,710 So it says your outer man is decaying. 269 00:20:29,910 --> 00:20:36,870 Yet our inner man what is it doing being renewed day by day. 270 00:20:36,870 --> 00:20:41,950 So this means that your spirit man, your spirit, can grow 271 00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:48,760 stronger and stronger every day. You ought to have a strong 272 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:53,760 spirit within you, a strong spirit. 273 00:20:54,210 --> 00:20:59,210 And the way we're going to have a strong spirit within us is 274 00:20:59,210 --> 00:21:04,850 allowing ourselves to meditate on the word day and night. 275 00:21:04,930 --> 00:21:09,210 When we begin to meditate on the Word, when we begin to read the 276 00:21:09,210 --> 00:21:14,090 word of God, the word of God then is alive, right by the 277 00:21:14,090 --> 00:21:16,810 Spirit. We already proved that weeks ago 278 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:22,320 the Word of God is alive, and the Spirit of God now begins to 279 00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:27,360 speak to you through the Word. It becomes alive to you on the 280 00:21:27,360 --> 00:21:30,480 inside. And when that happens and you 281 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:34,960 begin to actually yield to the word or to the spirit of what 282 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:38,960 the spirit of the Word is saying to you and make start making 283 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:43,400 your decisions based upon the word of God, your spirit man now 284 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:48,270 will grow. It will grow, or we can say it 285 00:21:48,270 --> 00:21:54,150 will begin to mature. So when we saw about growing up 286 00:21:54,150 --> 00:21:57,990 spiritually, we're actually talking about maturing into a 287 00:21:58,110 --> 00:22:03,910 perfect man, into the fullness of the man that God desired or 288 00:22:03,910 --> 00:22:06,510 the woman that God desired for us to be. 289 00:22:07,590 --> 00:22:11,470 Amen. But we said this last week, we 290 00:22:11,470 --> 00:22:17,950 are responsible to yield because you can read the word all day 291 00:22:17,950 --> 00:22:21,830 long. I know people that read the word 292 00:22:21,830 --> 00:22:25,070 more than I do, and yet they're still a mess. 293 00:22:26,550 --> 00:22:29,310 You know why? Because they read it without 294 00:22:29,310 --> 00:22:36,670 actually doing it. They continue to not yield to 295 00:22:36,670 --> 00:22:41,980 what the spirit of the word is saying for them to do and there 296 00:22:41,980 --> 00:22:44,540 will be no growth. And that's why you can see 297 00:22:44,540 --> 00:22:48,660 people sitting in your same church hearing these same 298 00:22:48,660 --> 00:22:52,460 messages come on. And actually people that are 299 00:22:52,460 --> 00:22:56,860 grabbing hold of it, doing it in their everyday life, they are 300 00:22:56,860 --> 00:22:58,980 growing. They're going from faith to 301 00:22:58,980 --> 00:23:02,900 faith, glory to glory. Every year there, every year 302 00:23:02,900 --> 00:23:05,060 looks different than the last year. 303 00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:10,440 They're conquering, they've they have the victory, come on, all 304 00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:11,640 of these things. Why? 305 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:14,760 Because their spirit man is growing. 306 00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:17,840 It's producing, it's flourishing, It's being 307 00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:25,000 strengthened day by day. Outside of the word, it will not 308 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:31,880 happen. Outside of you daily feasting on 309 00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:36,760 the bread of Life, the word of God, you will not grow. 310 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:41,280 So it doesn't matter if you come to church every Sunday and 311 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:45,600 Wednesday and serve in the nursery with the babies, which 312 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:48,880 is, you know, the worst thing people think that they would 313 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:53,840 have to do to serve in a church. Y'all know I'm telling the 314 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:56,360 truth. You know what? 315 00:23:56,360 --> 00:24:02,760 That's where I started actually. I started cleaning the church, 316 00:24:03,980 --> 00:24:10,500 then I progressed to the babies, then I progressed to Sunday 317 00:24:10,500 --> 00:24:19,780 school teacher for missionettes. It's a progression and a journey 318 00:24:20,980 --> 00:24:28,820 and a leading daily every day yielding to what the Holy Spirit 319 00:24:28,820 --> 00:24:32,100 is asking of you and talking to you about. 320 00:24:32,340 --> 00:24:38,260 And guess who he'll talk to you through your pastors as well as 321 00:24:38,260 --> 00:24:40,860 just your word. Amen. 322 00:24:42,140 --> 00:24:46,500 Hallelujah. So renewed. 323 00:24:46,820 --> 00:24:53,030 Your inner man can be stronger today than it's ever been, and 324 00:24:53,030 --> 00:24:58,430 you ought to be like we know Caleb and Joshua were at 80 325 00:24:58,430 --> 00:25:05,240 something years old, he said. I am just as strong as when the 326 00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:07,600 day I walked into the Promised Land. 327 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:10,320 I'm just as strong to conquer that mountain. 328 00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:14,040 You know why he was that strong? Because he meditated on the word 329 00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:16,760 day and night. He didn't let it depart from his 330 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:18,760 eyes. He didn't let it depart from his 331 00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:21,520 ears. He meditated on a day and night, 332 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:25,600 and he observed it. The Scripture says he observed 333 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:26,640 it. You know what that meant. 334 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:30,380 He did it. He lived by it. 335 00:25:30,580 --> 00:25:32,740 And that's how come he was strong. 336 00:25:32,740 --> 00:25:35,620 In his old age, his spirit was strong. 337 00:25:35,860 --> 00:25:39,300 And when your spirit is strong, your body can get into 338 00:25:39,300 --> 00:25:44,100 alignment. If you don't have a strong 339 00:25:44,100 --> 00:25:47,580 spirit, then guess what? Is already on the decline, 340 00:25:47,580 --> 00:25:50,060 because we know this body is decaying. 341 00:25:51,020 --> 00:25:54,900 But if you would start tapping into developing a strong spirit 342 00:25:55,060 --> 00:25:59,440 your body come on, we'll get into alignment and you'll be 343 00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:02,520 better today than when you were in your 20s. 344 00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:05,480 I just told my husband that just the other day. 345 00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:08,320 I said I just felt like a 20 year old. 346 00:26:08,360 --> 00:26:18,160 I said glory to God, Hallelujah. Because I have a strong spirit. 347 00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:27,520 So we're being renewed day by day, the inner man. 348 00:26:28,530 --> 00:26:35,450 Amen, Hallelujah. Now go to John 7, John 7 and 349 00:26:35,450 --> 00:26:40,890 this is verses 38 through 3938 through 39. 350 00:26:41,170 --> 00:26:44,970 And I'm reading it out of the amplified classic He who 351 00:26:44,970 --> 00:26:49,810 believes in Me, who cleaves to and trust in and relies on me, 352 00:26:50,250 --> 00:26:55,450 as the Scripture has said, from his innermost being. 353 00:26:56,210 --> 00:27:00,490 Here again he calls it your innermost being shall flow, say 354 00:27:00,490 --> 00:27:10,370 continuously springs and rivers of living water continuously. 355 00:27:12,130 --> 00:27:17,450 Actually the King James Version says out of your belly shall 356 00:27:17,450 --> 00:27:20,290 flow rivers. And this is Speaking of the 357 00:27:20,290 --> 00:27:24,380 spirit. But this is supposed to be as 358 00:27:24,380 --> 00:27:33,620 continuous flow day by day, keeping that spring flowing, 359 00:27:34,420 --> 00:27:36,460 right? That river running. 360 00:27:36,460 --> 00:27:41,540 Because what happens when the river doesn't flow? 361 00:27:43,060 --> 00:27:49,180 It gets stagnant. Eventually, it can also dry up. 362 00:27:50,630 --> 00:27:55,470 So there's plenty of people that are born again, but they don't 363 00:27:55,470 --> 00:27:58,670 let that river flow in their innermost being. 364 00:27:58,950 --> 00:28:03,510 They're not keeping it renewed in a continuous cycle with the 365 00:28:03,510 --> 00:28:06,870 Holy Spirit on the inside of me. They're dry. 366 00:28:07,030 --> 00:28:11,070 They're prunes. They're, you know, come on, 367 00:28:11,070 --> 00:28:13,390 you've seen them. You're a Christian and act like 368 00:28:13,390 --> 00:28:21,970 you don't have any life. That means that river is not 369 00:28:21,970 --> 00:28:27,690 flowing. You have got it damned up. 370 00:28:31,010 --> 00:28:38,090 Yeah, that will preach because you will eventually. 371 00:28:38,210 --> 00:28:41,330 If you don't let it flow, you will be damned. 372 00:28:44,810 --> 00:28:49,580 That's the only thing it can lead to, right? 373 00:28:50,740 --> 00:28:53,220 There's scripture for that, but I don't have time to preach on 374 00:28:53,220 --> 00:28:57,020 that. So there should be a continuous 375 00:28:57,660 --> 00:29:02,980 river or springs flowing right on the inside, it says, But he 376 00:29:02,980 --> 00:29:08,660 was speaking here of the Spirit, So out of your belly, out of 377 00:29:08,660 --> 00:29:12,740 your innermost being will flow rivers. 378 00:29:12,900 --> 00:29:16,580 This is Speaking of the Holy Spirit, whom those believe 379 00:29:16,580 --> 00:29:20,800 trusted, had faith in him, were afterward to receive. 380 00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:25,560 For the Holy Spirit had not yet been given because Jesus had not 381 00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:28,840 yet been raised or glorified, right? 382 00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:35,280 So he was talking about that there was going to be a river 383 00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:38,840 that was going to begin to flow in those that got born again. 384 00:29:39,530 --> 00:29:44,210 That was you becoming alive unto God, the Holy Spirit, there, 385 00:29:44,690 --> 00:29:48,690 living on the inside of you. A continuous flow. 386 00:29:49,970 --> 00:29:53,850 Continuous flow, say a continuous flow. 387 00:29:54,730 --> 00:30:04,650 This is why I know when people, right, are not excited about 388 00:30:04,650 --> 00:30:07,330 their relationship with the Lord anymore. 389 00:30:08,670 --> 00:30:11,510 You know they've walked backwards. 390 00:30:11,510 --> 00:30:14,150 Were what people call back Slidin. 391 00:30:14,510 --> 00:30:19,150 What have they done? They have stopped up that flow, 392 00:30:19,310 --> 00:30:23,390 that river. They've not allowed it to 393 00:30:23,390 --> 00:30:28,270 continue day by day. And the way that we do that is 394 00:30:28,270 --> 00:30:34,190 by simply acknowledging the working of the Holy Spirit in 395 00:30:34,190 --> 00:30:38,210 your life. Every day when I get up, I thank 396 00:30:38,290 --> 00:30:39,810 Father. I thank you. 397 00:30:41,210 --> 00:30:46,570 I thank you that you saved me. And I thank you for the Holy 398 00:30:46,570 --> 00:30:49,010 Ghost that today he's going to lead me. 399 00:30:49,170 --> 00:30:52,210 He's going to guide me. He's going to give me wisdom. 400 00:30:52,330 --> 00:30:55,050 He's going to give me everything I need today. 401 00:30:55,130 --> 00:30:59,780 What does that mean? I'm acknowledging the working of 402 00:30:59,780 --> 00:31:03,820 the Holy Spirit within my life. And the people that don't 403 00:31:03,820 --> 00:31:07,700 acknowledge the Holy Spirit or don't have understanding of the 404 00:31:07,700 --> 00:31:13,640 Holy Spirit and how he works will live a defeated life even 405 00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:16,720 though they're born again. Because they haven't learned how 406 00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:22,760 to know, perceive, acknowledge and yield to the Holy Spirit on 407 00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:25,880 the inside. And so that river is damned, 408 00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:29,720 even though it's there, ready. It's wanting to burst open the 409 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:35,440 dam. It's wanting to flow, but if you 410 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:41,290 don't acknowledge it then it won't flow because the Holy 411 00:31:41,290 --> 00:31:45,530 Spirit, unlike a lot of teaching, is not going to come 412 00:31:45,530 --> 00:31:49,930 on you and control you and make you do things that you don't 413 00:31:49,930 --> 00:31:53,210 want to do. He is a gentleman. 414 00:31:55,260 --> 00:31:59,900 He can nudge you, he can prompt you, he can lead you. 415 00:32:00,180 --> 00:32:04,340 But ultimately, if it's gonna work, if you're gonna allow it 416 00:32:04,340 --> 00:32:08,660 to work in your life, you have to acknowledge and yield to it. 417 00:32:09,180 --> 00:32:11,500 I shared a little bit about my testimony. 418 00:32:11,500 --> 00:32:17,540 Some things on and off last week, but I remember when Pastor 419 00:32:17,540 --> 00:32:21,660 Earl and I first got married. We'll be celebrating 32 years in 420 00:32:21,660 --> 00:32:25,550 September and I can't wait to go on my cruise. 421 00:32:26,590 --> 00:32:28,670 I've never been ready for that cruise. 422 00:32:29,030 --> 00:32:32,150 More than anything, I'm telling you, because tomorrow we're 423 00:32:32,150 --> 00:32:36,990 leaving for Alabama or Friday, not tomorrow anyway. 424 00:32:39,030 --> 00:32:42,590 So 32 years. But when we first got married, 425 00:32:42,590 --> 00:32:49,270 y'all know I was a hot mess, OK? And just learning how to 426 00:32:49,270 --> 00:32:58,890 navigate my life in Christ and you know, and so I pretty much 427 00:32:59,210 --> 00:33:05,330 had a mouth on me. Now I've learned how to tame it, 428 00:33:05,650 --> 00:33:07,890 even though y'all might not think it's tamed. 429 00:33:07,890 --> 00:33:14,250 It is way Tang, way bridled compared to what it was. 430 00:33:15,250 --> 00:33:19,980 And so when we first got married, you know, I would just 431 00:33:19,980 --> 00:33:21,820 tell him what I thought all the time. 432 00:33:21,820 --> 00:33:28,140 Anytime I wanted to, whatever I thought I said and made him pay. 433 00:33:31,500 --> 00:33:33,660 And I know nobody in here ever did that. 434 00:33:36,260 --> 00:33:40,740 I'm just the one honest about it because I got set free from it. 435 00:33:41,220 --> 00:33:43,380 You won't be set free from anything. 436 00:33:43,380 --> 00:33:46,690 You're not honest about about yourself. 437 00:33:47,370 --> 00:33:51,650 And the holy goes to try to get you honest because he's not a 438 00:33:51,650 --> 00:33:56,410 liar and he can only speak the truth to you. 439 00:33:57,290 --> 00:33:59,650 And he knows you better than you know yourself. 440 00:34:01,410 --> 00:34:05,810 Amen. And so you know you may have 441 00:34:05,810 --> 00:34:08,050 heard. I I mean, you know, he would 442 00:34:08,050 --> 00:34:10,929 come in from work or whatever and say something and I would 443 00:34:10,929 --> 00:34:14,170 pop off, you know, telling what I thought. 444 00:34:14,570 --> 00:34:17,409 I mean, I've been here taking care of these kids all day and 445 00:34:17,409 --> 00:34:20,810 you gonna come in here and, you know, whatever, I don't know. 446 00:34:21,290 --> 00:34:26,489 And, you know, and then another thing I would say constantly, 447 00:34:27,770 --> 00:34:31,330 you know, because I wasn't going to let a man, you know, tell me 448 00:34:31,330 --> 00:34:33,929 what I needed to do and how I needed to do it. 449 00:34:33,969 --> 00:34:37,170 And, you know, had didn't have a submission. 450 00:34:37,449 --> 00:34:39,810 I didn't submit. I couldn't submit to a man. 451 00:34:40,850 --> 00:34:45,449 That's just the truth. And so you know, that was God 452 00:34:45,449 --> 00:34:50,370 beginning to work within my life and and so you know, I'd say if 453 00:34:50,370 --> 00:34:53,090 you don't like it, hit the road, Jack, and don't come back. 454 00:34:53,090 --> 00:34:55,889 I don't need no man. You know, those types of things 455 00:34:55,889 --> 00:34:58,370 and you know you don't like what I said. 456 00:34:58,370 --> 00:35:01,530 Then there's the door, you know, whatever. 457 00:35:02,050 --> 00:35:08,680 And just being a smart Alec. And you would think I would have 458 00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:11,680 learned my lesson when I popped off at my mom and she gave me 459 00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:13,440 the pop in the mouth. But I didn't. 460 00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:22,200 And anyway, so here I am, married now and doing the same 461 00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:29,190 thing. And you know, I Remember Me, I 462 00:35:29,190 --> 00:35:32,710 was at a point in my life, you know, that God was working in 463 00:35:32,710 --> 00:35:34,510 me. And I was, you know, we were 464 00:35:34,510 --> 00:35:37,350 going to church and doing all these things. 465 00:35:37,350 --> 00:35:42,230 And I was standing there at the sink washing dishes when, you 466 00:35:42,230 --> 00:35:47,710 know, said something. And the Holy Ghost on the inside 467 00:35:48,510 --> 00:35:53,310 said you need to learn to keep your mouth shut. 468 00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:02,320 I mean, I'm just minding my business washing dishes after I 469 00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:08,520 had already told him what I thought, you know, going on 470 00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:15,400 about my business. But then the Holy Ghost said you 471 00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:17,680 need to learn how to keep your mouth shut. 472 00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:21,000 Well, I didn't know how to do that. 473 00:36:22,890 --> 00:36:24,730 And so you know what? I I did. 474 00:36:24,730 --> 00:36:29,370 I acknowledged the Holy Ghost. How did I? 475 00:36:29,370 --> 00:36:33,090 I said, OK, I'm saying all this under my breath as I'm washing 476 00:36:33,090 --> 00:36:35,170 dishes and they're doing whatever they're doing. 477 00:36:35,810 --> 00:36:43,330 And I I said, OK, you're right. I acknowledged that I was wrong 478 00:36:45,570 --> 00:36:49,330 and that I needed to adjust. But you know what? 479 00:36:49,330 --> 00:36:52,250 I said. Well then you're going to have 480 00:36:52,250 --> 00:36:56,370 to help me, Holy Ghost. Because he is the what? 481 00:36:57,170 --> 00:37:00,250 The helper. You're going to have to help me. 482 00:37:01,370 --> 00:37:05,650 You're going to have to help me. So if I never would have and I 483 00:37:05,650 --> 00:37:08,930 learned my lesson, was it immediate? 484 00:37:09,050 --> 00:37:11,770 No. Because when I'd say you'd have 485 00:37:11,770 --> 00:37:15,460 to help me, what did that mean? The next time some situation 486 00:37:15,460 --> 00:37:18,940 took place, or the next time something happened and I felt 487 00:37:18,940 --> 00:37:21,740 like I had an opinion and wanted to say what I thought. 488 00:37:22,500 --> 00:37:25,260 That's when the Holy Ghost on the inside would say. 489 00:37:25,420 --> 00:37:30,580 Remember what we talked about? We're going to keep your mouth 490 00:37:30,580 --> 00:37:34,500 shut, right? Bite your tongue. 491 00:37:35,740 --> 00:37:39,540 And I remember multiple times, many years of biting of the 492 00:37:39,540 --> 00:37:40,940 tongue. I didn't think I had a tongue 493 00:37:40,940 --> 00:37:49,840 left right every time yielding when the Holy Ghost you said you 494 00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:52,480 wanted my help. So then every time he would show 495 00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:56,240 me in what situations that I needed to keep my mouth shut. 496 00:37:56,960 --> 00:37:57,960 What was that? Learning. 497 00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:00,000 Learning how to submit to the Holy Ghost. 498 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:04,160 But learning how to submit to my husband which is a whole another 499 00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:10,620 subject but anyway, so yielding, I had to acknowledge yes you're 500 00:38:10,620 --> 00:38:16,980 right and I need to change that If I would have, not if I would 501 00:38:16,980 --> 00:38:20,820 have overrode. Well you don't know how he's 502 00:38:20,820 --> 00:38:23,620 treating me and you don't know what he's saying. 503 00:38:23,620 --> 00:38:29,420 And you know all of these excuses and justified my action 504 00:38:29,420 --> 00:38:32,900 to the Holy Ghost. Guess what would happen? 505 00:38:33,780 --> 00:38:38,360 Nothing. And I never would have become 506 00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:43,120 the woman that God needed me to become, because I would have 507 00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:46,800 rejected the instruction of the Holy Ghost. 508 00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:57,400 And so how many times is the Holy Ghost instructing us daily 509 00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:02,400 about things within our lives that we need to adjust? 510 00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:06,920 We need to change because he knows what we need to get us to 511 00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:11,240 Another place of growth, another place of development, another 512 00:39:11,240 --> 00:39:13,960 place. At that time in my life, I had 513 00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:18,760 no idea that I would be standing and and building a church and 514 00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:22,600 doing all the things, going into ministry and doing all the 515 00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:26,600 things that we're doing today. I had no idea that that was his 516 00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:29,000 plan for my life at those moments. 517 00:39:29,340 --> 00:39:32,420 But if I never would have yielded, if I never would have 518 00:39:32,420 --> 00:39:36,060 acknowledged the working, if I never would have done that well, 519 00:39:36,100 --> 00:39:43,660 I can tell you we would not be married today, would not be 520 00:39:43,660 --> 00:39:50,980 married today. The Holy Ghost will lead you 521 00:39:50,980 --> 00:39:57,790 into victory. The Holy Ghost will only do 522 00:39:57,790 --> 00:40:06,230 what's necessary to get you to a place of full maturity and 523 00:40:06,230 --> 00:40:11,470 growth and into the places that he designed and purpose for your 524 00:40:11,470 --> 00:40:14,390 life. If you just learn how to ignore, 525 00:40:14,390 --> 00:40:20,150 he will never lead you wrong. He is the best guide in your 526 00:40:20,150 --> 00:40:22,630 life. He's better than your Mama. 527 00:40:22,750 --> 00:40:25,070 He's better. Then your daddy, he's better 528 00:40:25,070 --> 00:40:28,150 than your pastor. He's better than your sister, 529 00:40:28,150 --> 00:40:30,750 your brother, your whatever homie. 530 00:40:30,910 --> 00:40:36,350 He is better. He's better cuz homie will lead 531 00:40:36,350 --> 00:40:45,030 you down some places that you best not go right? 532 00:40:46,310 --> 00:40:52,290 So we have to acknowledge the Holy Ghost on the inside if 533 00:40:52,290 --> 00:40:58,530 we're ever going to allow maturity and development within 534 00:40:58,690 --> 00:41:01,450 our lives. Go to 1st Corinthians chapter 2, 535 00:41:01,450 --> 00:41:05,890 verses 9 through 16, it says. But just as it is written 536 00:41:06,170 --> 00:41:09,490 things, this is it. Things which I has not seen. 537 00:41:09,530 --> 00:41:17,920 I did not see my life in any of this arena, but he had a plan. 538 00:41:18,720 --> 00:41:23,000 I just wanted to be married, have a happy little family, work 539 00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:27,080 the nine to five job, have the six figure income back in the 540 00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:30,760 day, have a husband that would come home, love me and love my 541 00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:33,840 children and have a white picket fence around my house. 542 00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:43,010 That was the vision for my life. But I had not seen come on, and 543 00:41:43,010 --> 00:41:47,290 ear had not heard, and which had not entered the heart of man. 544 00:41:47,330 --> 00:41:52,810 All that God has prepared for those who love him. 545 00:41:56,610 --> 00:42:00,690 For to us God revealed them through the Spirit. 546 00:42:01,050 --> 00:42:06,330 Again, everything is being revealed by the Spirit, for the 547 00:42:06,330 --> 00:42:10,930 Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. 548 00:42:10,930 --> 00:42:14,490 For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the 549 00:42:14,490 --> 00:42:18,260 spirit of the man which is in him? 550 00:42:18,740 --> 00:42:23,060 Even so, the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of 551 00:42:23,060 --> 00:42:26,100 God. Now we have received not the 552 00:42:26,100 --> 00:42:32,100 spirit of this world, but the Spirit who is what from God. 553 00:42:32,260 --> 00:42:40,200 So that we may know, say no, say no, the things freely given to 554 00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:45,320 us by God, which things we also speak, not in words taught by 555 00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:50,960 human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, combining 556 00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:53,960 spiritual thoughts with spiritual words. 557 00:42:54,240 --> 00:42:57,640 But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit 558 00:42:57,640 --> 00:43:03,220 of God, for they are foolishness to him here again, and he cannot 559 00:43:03,220 --> 00:43:05,580 understand them, because they are not. 560 00:43:05,580 --> 00:43:10,380 They are spiritually appraised. But he who is spiritual 561 00:43:10,580 --> 00:43:16,060 appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no one. 562 00:43:16,180 --> 00:43:20,980 For who has known the mind of the Lord that he will instruct 563 00:43:20,980 --> 00:43:25,300 him? But we have the mind of Christ. 564 00:43:26,540 --> 00:43:31,930 Say I have the mind of Christ, the mind of Christ. 565 00:43:33,170 --> 00:43:38,090 You have the mind of Christ because the Spirit of God lives 566 00:43:38,090 --> 00:43:42,850 on the inside of you. So you can now begin to know, 567 00:43:43,570 --> 00:43:49,770 perceive, recognize the spirit of the living God on the inside 568 00:43:49,770 --> 00:43:55,050 of you and begin to yield to the things that He knows better 569 00:43:55,090 --> 00:43:59,330 about you than you know about yourself and the things that 570 00:43:59,330 --> 00:44:03,570 need to be worked out for His purposes and His plans for your 571 00:44:03,570 --> 00:44:06,290 life. Hallelujah. 572 00:44:06,850 --> 00:44:12,170 And we have that advantage living on the inside of us. 573 00:44:12,210 --> 00:44:14,050 Amen. Hallelujah. 574 00:44:14,330 --> 00:44:19,080 Now look over at Hebrews I I mentioned this last week but I 575 00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:22,320 want to read the scripture Hebrews 4 and talking about the 576 00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:28,280 threefold nature of man again we see how important it is here in 577 00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:32,920 Hebrews chapter 4 and verse 12. It says this for the word of God 578 00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:37,800 is living and active, sharper than any two edged sword, 579 00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:44,680 piercing as far as the division again of soul and spirit and 580 00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:49,040 joint and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and the 581 00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:53,920 intentions of one's heart. Heart can be interchanged with 582 00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:58,160 the spirit of the man. OK, your heart. 583 00:44:58,280 --> 00:45:02,640 You're to love him with all your what heart, your soul, your 584 00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:06,370 mind, your strength. So when you see the spirit of 585 00:45:06,370 --> 00:45:11,450 the man, you can also say the heart, your heart, OK, and so 586 00:45:11,450 --> 00:45:15,490 that can be interchanged there. But listen to what it says. 587 00:45:15,490 --> 00:45:20,450 The word is the only thing that can bring the division of the 588 00:45:20,450 --> 00:45:23,890 soul and the spirit. The word. 589 00:45:23,890 --> 00:45:29,330 That's why we need the word of God within our lives, because we 590 00:45:29,330 --> 00:45:32,410 have to. Again, we're going to read it in 591 00:45:32,410 --> 00:45:36,200 a minute. Renew our mind to the word of 592 00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:38,560 God. We're going to have to allow the 593 00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:44,120 word of God to transform the way we think, because we've been 594 00:45:44,280 --> 00:45:49,120 thinking like our Father, the Devil when we were lost, right, 595 00:45:49,120 --> 00:45:51,720 and in darkness and in His Kingdom. 596 00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:59,000 But now that we're born again, we have to begin to renew or 597 00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:02,600 transform the way we think about everything. 598 00:46:03,430 --> 00:46:06,270 Everything in our life. Everything. 599 00:46:06,630 --> 00:46:10,350 I do not parent the way the world says you should parent. 600 00:46:10,550 --> 00:46:13,310 And I'm going to tell you, y'all need to be at this parenting 601 00:46:13,310 --> 00:46:17,910 conference that's coming up. I don't parent according to the 602 00:46:17,910 --> 00:46:20,070 world. I parent according to the word. 603 00:46:20,310 --> 00:46:23,750 That means I pull out the rod and whip the butt. 604 00:46:27,670 --> 00:46:31,550 I mean, I have seen craziness today. 605 00:46:32,730 --> 00:46:35,770 Kids just rolling all over their parents. 606 00:46:36,050 --> 00:46:39,410 No authority structure within their parents lives. 607 00:46:39,410 --> 00:46:42,410 Run all over them, Hit 'em, punch 'em. 608 00:46:42,650 --> 00:46:46,570 My kids would have never thought about putting a hand on me. 609 00:46:49,450 --> 00:46:53,770 I can tell you that right now, at one years old, when they 610 00:46:53,770 --> 00:46:57,890 start no, no and start popping at you, that's when it went on 611 00:46:57,890 --> 00:47:01,180 the butt. And if you didn't establish that 612 00:47:01,180 --> 00:47:04,260 at one and two years old, you can forget about it. 613 00:47:04,260 --> 00:47:08,020 So when your son gets 16 and tries to raise his fist to you, 614 00:47:09,580 --> 00:47:16,180 it's your fault because you didn't establish the authority 615 00:47:16,180 --> 00:47:20,580 from the very beginning. No kid ought to be laying a hand 616 00:47:20,580 --> 00:47:24,380 on their parent. I I am appalled at the things I 617 00:47:24,380 --> 00:47:29,730 see today. Kicking, screaming, punching at 618 00:47:29,730 --> 00:47:45,930 their moms and dads, hair brush, whatever it takes on the butt. 619 00:47:49,970 --> 00:47:52,770 I never would have thought about laying a hand on my mom. 620 00:47:56,510 --> 00:47:59,430 I mean, I know I already got what it took when I tried to 621 00:47:59,430 --> 00:48:08,390 back talk soap in the mouth. Do y'all ever even do that 622 00:48:08,390 --> 00:48:11,070 today? All the stuff these kids say 623 00:48:11,070 --> 00:48:12,990 today. Have y'all ever put a bar of 624 00:48:12,990 --> 00:48:20,350 soap in your kids mouth? I have wash their mouth out with 625 00:48:20,350 --> 00:48:22,830 soap talking like that. You know what? 626 00:48:22,830 --> 00:48:27,220 You never heard him say it again when the phone was bubbling out 627 00:48:27,220 --> 00:48:33,700 of their mouth like a dog that has rabies. 628 00:48:37,020 --> 00:48:40,180 Cuba. Cujo, come on. 629 00:48:41,580 --> 00:48:45,780 I'm serious. It is, it is appalling of what I 630 00:48:45,780 --> 00:48:50,980 see today with kids. I mean, it is gone crazy talking 631 00:48:50,980 --> 00:48:54,420 about girls gone wild. I mean, these children have gone 632 00:48:54,420 --> 00:49:00,940 wild, gone wild. And we're seeing the result of 633 00:49:00,940 --> 00:49:05,020 it in society. Amen. 634 00:49:07,740 --> 00:49:11,900 Anyway, let's get off that. Where was I at? 635 00:49:11,900 --> 00:49:14,180 Y'all remind me. So I'll stay out of trouble. 636 00:49:16,900 --> 00:49:24,940 Hebrews 12 He's here to, by the word of God, Pierce between the 637 00:49:24,940 --> 00:49:30,020 soul and the Spirit, and begin to judge the thoughts and the 638 00:49:30,020 --> 00:49:32,740 intentions of your heart. What does that mean? 639 00:49:32,740 --> 00:49:37,660 The word of God is going to begin to divide and show you 640 00:49:37,940 --> 00:49:41,580 that soulish thinking that needs to be changed. 641 00:49:44,540 --> 00:49:51,600 And he will begin to then also deal with the body and the 642 00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:53,240 spirit. Because you know what? 643 00:49:53,240 --> 00:49:57,320 We can have a wrong spirit. We can have a critical spirit, 644 00:49:58,360 --> 00:50:03,680 We can have an unforgiving spirit, We can have a resentful 645 00:50:03,680 --> 00:50:06,200 spirit. Even though we're born again. 646 00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:09,000 We can allow them things to grab hold of us. 647 00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:11,880 Actually, he starts talking about getting a bitter root 648 00:50:11,880 --> 00:50:16,480 within us. Where do you think that is? 649 00:50:16,480 --> 00:50:20,750 It's in your heart. So we. 650 00:50:20,870 --> 00:50:22,870 And that's why he tells us we should. 651 00:50:22,870 --> 00:50:24,070 I don't even have this in the notes. 652 00:50:24,310 --> 00:50:27,870 That we should what? Guard our hearts with all 653 00:50:27,870 --> 00:50:33,230 diligence. So we have to not only allow the 654 00:50:33,230 --> 00:50:38,910 word of God to transform our spirit in our mind, but then to 655 00:50:38,910 --> 00:50:42,670 divide and show us things, even within our spirit, that is 656 00:50:42,670 --> 00:50:46,090 wrong. That we need to adjust and then 657 00:50:46,090 --> 00:50:49,690 also in dealing with our body, because you don't hear a lot of 658 00:50:49,690 --> 00:50:53,530 preaching about the body, but there is such things that the 659 00:50:53,530 --> 00:50:58,490 scripture says about gluttony, right and and different things. 660 00:50:58,490 --> 00:51:01,410 And the Holy Ghost will let you know you know what you're out of 661 00:51:01,410 --> 00:51:06,020 control in that area in your life and try to rein you in. 662 00:51:06,220 --> 00:51:10,300 Because a lot of things that are going on in our health and 663 00:51:10,300 --> 00:51:14,620 issues today, we're asking God to heal us with a supernatural 664 00:51:14,620 --> 00:51:18,420 gift when actually we just need to get ourselves in alignment 665 00:51:18,420 --> 00:51:23,340 with start eating properly and a lot of our health issues would 666 00:51:23,340 --> 00:51:30,220 diminish and have some self-discipline right and begin 667 00:51:30,220 --> 00:51:34,830 to exercise. We can't do, we can't escape the 668 00:51:34,830 --> 00:51:38,590 natural decay and live in this body. 669 00:51:38,590 --> 00:51:44,550 We are to present our body, soul and spirit blameless. 670 00:51:47,470 --> 00:51:51,110 Now a lot of people get unbalanced, but you know what 671 00:51:51,110 --> 00:51:54,590 when it comes to when you start talking about what you can eat 672 00:51:54,590 --> 00:51:57,070 and what you can't eat, I'm not talking about that. 673 00:51:57,270 --> 00:52:00,070 I'm talking about the Holy Ghost will let you know what you need 674 00:52:00,070 --> 00:52:05,080 to do on the inside for you, because he knows your body and 675 00:52:05,080 --> 00:52:08,440 what your body can handle and what your body can't and what 676 00:52:08,440 --> 00:52:11,560 your body needs and what it doesn't need. 677 00:52:12,520 --> 00:52:14,600 And that's a personal conviction. 678 00:52:14,600 --> 00:52:18,320 You're not to put your own convictions on other people's 679 00:52:18,320 --> 00:52:24,000 lives, right? But you can't neglect your 680 00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:31,660 temple and expect it to fulfill. Run the course and run the race 681 00:52:31,660 --> 00:52:37,380 that God has for you and neglect the body side and just think 682 00:52:37,380 --> 00:52:39,540 God's going to supernaturally heal you. 683 00:52:39,980 --> 00:52:45,180 When we know there are three things that we have to do to 684 00:52:45,180 --> 00:52:51,100 maintain a healthy body. Nutrition, exercise, right. 685 00:52:51,300 --> 00:52:57,100 And water and supplements the things that we need to keep it 686 00:52:58,600 --> 00:53:01,200 properly functioning. Amen. 687 00:53:02,040 --> 00:53:03,400 And there's nothing wrong with that. 688 00:53:04,440 --> 00:53:09,240 Doctors won't tell you that. I had to take my dad to the 689 00:53:09,240 --> 00:53:12,800 doctor Tuesday up in Jacksonville. 690 00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:20,310 And, you know, they were like, I didn't even know he was on all 691 00:53:20,310 --> 00:53:22,590 this medication. He's like, they were like, were 692 00:53:22,590 --> 00:53:24,510 you on this one still, Sir? Yeah. 693 00:53:24,630 --> 00:53:26,670 Are you on this one still, Sir? Yes. 694 00:53:26,670 --> 00:53:31,270 Are you on this one still, Sir? It was 12 different medications. 695 00:53:37,730 --> 00:53:42,730 12 different medications. Anyway, I won't get off on that. 696 00:53:43,010 --> 00:53:47,370 So the Holy Ghost is concerned though about your body so that 697 00:53:47,370 --> 00:53:52,000 you can fulfill the plans that God has for your life and 698 00:53:52,000 --> 00:53:57,560 represent him as you are to represent the Kingdom of God 699 00:53:57,560 --> 00:53:58,960 properly. Amen. 700 00:53:59,520 --> 00:54:03,680 Now look over at Romans. We did not read this last week, 701 00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:11,360 Romans Romans chapter 8 and I love the book of Romans. 702 00:54:12,480 --> 00:54:16,080 I would encourage y'all to read Romans chapter 8 this week. 703 00:54:16,080 --> 00:54:20,100 At some point we're going to read most of it, but you need to 704 00:54:20,100 --> 00:54:24,340 read it for yourself. I love the book of Romans. 705 00:54:25,020 --> 00:54:28,900 Romans says this in verse one of chapter 8. 706 00:54:28,900 --> 00:54:33,140 Therefore there is now no condemnation those for those who 707 00:54:33,140 --> 00:54:35,700 are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the spirit of 708 00:54:35,700 --> 00:54:39,580 life in Christ has set you free from the law of sin and death. 709 00:54:40,580 --> 00:54:45,140 For what the law could not do, weak as it was through the 710 00:54:45,140 --> 00:54:50,510 flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of a 711 00:54:50,510 --> 00:54:54,350 sinful flesh, and as an offering for sin. 712 00:54:54,550 --> 00:55:06,150 He sorry, condemn sin in the flesh, so that the requirement 713 00:55:06,150 --> 00:55:11,990 of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to 714 00:55:11,990 --> 00:55:13,990 the flesh. Say I don't walk according to 715 00:55:13,990 --> 00:55:19,360 the flesh, but according to the spirit. 716 00:55:20,120 --> 00:55:26,000 Say according to the Spirit. For those who are according to 717 00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:30,640 the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh. 718 00:55:30,640 --> 00:55:34,240 So if you're going to walk according to the flesh, you are 719 00:55:34,240 --> 00:55:36,960 going to set your mind on fleshly things. 720 00:55:37,920 --> 00:55:46,190 It cannot be the opposite. Flesh will only produce flesh in 721 00:55:46,550 --> 00:55:49,150 in your thinking and in your actions. 722 00:55:50,790 --> 00:55:54,950 Because we said that the Holy Spirit was the only one that was 723 00:55:54,950 --> 00:55:59,350 supposed to be the one that governs your life, and the word 724 00:55:59,350 --> 00:56:03,430 of God is to govern your life. When we talk about the Word of 725 00:56:03,430 --> 00:56:06,790 God and the Spirit of God governing your life is talking 726 00:56:06,790 --> 00:56:09,390 about the fact that it's going to govern. 727 00:56:09,390 --> 00:56:14,770 What is it govern? What you think, what you say and 728 00:56:14,770 --> 00:56:19,130 what you do. And this is your actions. 729 00:56:19,330 --> 00:56:23,450 This is your thoughts, right? What you think, your thoughts, 730 00:56:23,690 --> 00:56:31,450 what you do, your actions, what you say, your confession or what 731 00:56:31,450 --> 00:56:34,930 you speak. You speak one thing and out of 732 00:56:34,930 --> 00:56:37,610 one side of your mouth and then you speak another. 733 00:56:37,890 --> 00:56:43,240 I'm going to tell you the Holy Ghost is not working in you. 734 00:56:43,240 --> 00:56:47,840 If you are one day speaking fleshly and letting your mouth 735 00:56:47,840 --> 00:56:52,320 run off like anything else, and then oh, the next day you're 736 00:56:52,320 --> 00:56:54,960 going to act like, well, the Holy Ghost is telling me this 737 00:56:54,960 --> 00:57:01,920 and the Holy Ghost is telling you that No Sir, you can't speak 738 00:57:01,920 --> 00:57:05,040 out of the both sides of your mouth. 739 00:57:05,840 --> 00:57:08,720 There's only one Spirit that's going to be coming up. 740 00:57:11,840 --> 00:57:14,320 See that? Which I don't. 741 00:57:14,320 --> 00:57:16,600 I don't have that scripture down, but it isn't the Word. 742 00:57:16,760 --> 00:57:18,920 OK, what's what verse were we on? 743 00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:22,760 So we're going to walk up verse 5. 744 00:57:22,760 --> 00:57:25,960 For those who are, according to the flesh set their minds on the 745 00:57:25,960 --> 00:57:28,320 things of the flesh. But those who are according to 746 00:57:28,320 --> 00:57:30,800 the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. 747 00:57:30,800 --> 00:57:33,760 That means if you're set on the things of the Spirit, guess 748 00:57:33,760 --> 00:57:35,320 what? You're going to be speaking 749 00:57:35,600 --> 00:57:39,420 things of the Spirit, not of the flesh. 750 00:57:39,780 --> 00:57:42,300 For the mindset on the flesh is death. 751 00:57:42,660 --> 00:57:45,300 The flesh will only produce death. 752 00:57:45,380 --> 00:57:50,180 Even if you're born again, if you begin to operate in the 753 00:57:50,180 --> 00:57:56,970 flesh, it will only produce flesh death because you God is 754 00:57:56,970 --> 00:58:00,890 not mocked. Whatever you sow, you will reap. 755 00:58:00,930 --> 00:58:05,730 If you sow to the flesh, you'll reap destruction. 756 00:58:05,730 --> 00:58:12,890 If you sow to the Spirit, you'll reap life and of the Spirit. 757 00:58:13,730 --> 00:58:18,130 So flesh will only produce death within your life. 758 00:58:18,890 --> 00:58:25,250 Destruction, not physical, But it will produce death to your 759 00:58:25,250 --> 00:58:27,570 marriage. It can produce death in 760 00:58:27,570 --> 00:58:31,570 relationships with your how you talk to your children, how you 761 00:58:31,570 --> 00:58:35,890 talk to your spouse. You sow to the flesh. 762 00:58:35,890 --> 00:58:39,490 If I would have continued to sow to the flesh, meaning say 763 00:58:39,490 --> 00:58:43,690 whatever I wanted to say to my husband and act like a fool to 764 00:58:43,690 --> 00:58:46,130 him. If I would have continued to say 765 00:58:46,130 --> 00:58:49,490 that I know I said we would be divorced because I would have 766 00:58:49,490 --> 00:58:56,670 only produced death. Only produce death because 767 00:58:56,670 --> 00:59:00,430 that's all it can produce. You see that? 768 00:59:01,510 --> 00:59:06,590 So verse seven, it's Or verse six it says for the mindset on 769 00:59:06,590 --> 00:59:10,190 the flesh is death, but the mindset on the spirit is life 770 00:59:10,190 --> 00:59:13,310 and peace. You see what's what's being 771 00:59:13,310 --> 00:59:16,650 produced in your home. Is there peace or is there 772 00:59:16,650 --> 00:59:19,050 always turmoil? Is there always confusion? 773 00:59:19,050 --> 00:59:22,250 Is there, Always chaos is there, Always drama is there. 774 00:59:22,250 --> 00:59:27,650 Always yelling and screaming. You can look and see what is it 775 00:59:27,650 --> 00:59:32,890 that you've been saying, acting and doing in your responses. 776 00:59:33,330 --> 00:59:37,090 And if it's not producing life and peace, then you can be 777 00:59:37,090 --> 00:59:39,730 assured you have been in the flesh. 778 00:59:40,570 --> 00:59:44,250 You see what I'm saying? Because the mindset on the flesh 779 00:59:44,250 --> 00:59:49,450 is hostile towards God, for it does not subject itself. 780 00:59:50,490 --> 00:59:53,930 We are responsible, just like we said. 781 00:59:53,930 --> 00:59:58,610 We have to renew our mind. We have to feed our spirit so 782 00:59:58,610 --> 01:00:03,490 that it can grow. We have to bring this body into 783 01:00:03,490 --> 01:00:07,290 subjection, this flesh into subjection. 784 01:00:08,280 --> 01:00:12,840 And it will only happen when we yield to the word of God and to 785 01:00:12,840 --> 01:00:15,240 the Spirit of God and what He's telling us. 786 01:00:15,840 --> 01:00:20,160 And if we don't, we can still produce all kinds of things 787 01:00:20,160 --> 01:00:23,000 within our life, even as a believer. 788 01:00:23,200 --> 01:00:29,030 So he goes on to say it does not subject itself to the law of 789 01:00:29,030 --> 01:00:31,990 God, for it is not even able to do so. 790 01:00:31,990 --> 01:00:35,510 For those who are in the flesh cannot please God. 791 01:00:35,510 --> 01:00:39,190 You are not pleasing God when you're acting a fool, when 792 01:00:39,190 --> 01:00:42,710 you're acting in the flesh, when you're going off and and just 793 01:00:42,830 --> 01:00:47,430 having a piece of your mind, right? 794 01:00:48,870 --> 01:00:51,750 So it says In verse nine. However, you are not of the 795 01:00:51,750 --> 01:00:56,430 flesh, but in the Spirit. If indeed if you are saying that 796 01:00:56,430 --> 01:00:59,270 you have the Spirit of God living in the inside of you, 797 01:00:59,270 --> 01:01:02,190 that's what he's saying, If indeed the Spirit of God dwells 798 01:01:02,190 --> 01:01:04,990 in you. But if anyone does not have the 799 01:01:04,990 --> 01:01:07,150 Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to him. 800 01:01:07,150 --> 01:01:11,230 If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet 801 01:01:11,230 --> 01:01:14,990 the Spirit is alive because of righteousness. 802 01:01:15,410 --> 01:01:18,210 But if the Spirit of him who raised Christ from the dead 803 01:01:18,210 --> 01:01:23,490 dwells in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also 804 01:01:23,490 --> 01:01:29,050 give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in 805 01:01:29,050 --> 01:01:32,450 you. So what have you ever noticed? 806 01:01:32,690 --> 01:01:36,850 And I noticed this. I'll give this testimony years 807 01:01:36,850 --> 01:01:40,890 ago, back still, when we were over at 312 location. 808 01:01:41,770 --> 01:01:48,240 It was my husband's 20th year high school reunion. 809 01:01:48,800 --> 01:01:52,080 I think it was 20. Was it 20? 810 01:01:53,720 --> 01:01:58,160 Yeah, it was the 20th year. And avert or you know, whatever 811 01:01:58,520 --> 01:02:03,360 high school reunion, well, we had not may have been 10 years. 812 01:02:03,920 --> 01:02:06,440 Five. What are you saying? 813 01:02:12,490 --> 01:02:14,650 Well, whatever. You the one that graduated, not 814 01:02:14,650 --> 01:02:19,890 me. So you can say, huh? 815 01:02:24,650 --> 01:02:27,810 This is the truth. We shall not lie, huh? 816 01:02:30,050 --> 01:02:36,290 Anyway, whatever year it was, we had not, you know, we had 817 01:02:36,290 --> 01:02:41,090 disconnected to all of our past, all of our friends, all of these 818 01:02:41,090 --> 01:02:44,650 things when we got married. So we had not had any connection 819 01:02:44,650 --> 01:02:47,210 with any of these people. He had not. 820 01:02:47,210 --> 01:02:50,490 He he went to kindergarten and graduated with these people. 821 01:02:50,490 --> 01:02:54,210 So he had relationships with these people that we ended up, 822 01:02:54,490 --> 01:02:57,650 you know, cutting off because we, our life was going in a 823 01:02:57,650 --> 01:03:04,680 whole nother direction. So and anyway, so he decided, 824 01:03:04,680 --> 01:03:08,040 you know, we're going to go back to this high school reunion. 825 01:03:08,440 --> 01:03:17,360 And so we go back and I am like floored at how old these people 826 01:03:17,360 --> 01:03:23,200 looked. And we were grandparents at the 827 01:03:23,200 --> 01:03:28,120 time and all of them because they're lost and they all looked 828 01:03:28,120 --> 01:03:33,090 so old and we come in and they're like man, y'all looking 829 01:03:33,090 --> 01:03:36,090 good. Look, you know, cuz I got the 830 01:03:36,090 --> 01:03:38,970 life of God on the inside of me. We're glowing. 831 01:03:38,970 --> 01:03:42,530 We have the spirit of God. The glory is upon us. 832 01:03:43,650 --> 01:03:48,170 So people recognize the glory and they couldn't explain it, 833 01:03:48,250 --> 01:03:51,260 you know, and couldn't understand who this woman was 834 01:03:51,260 --> 01:03:54,540 that Earl ended up marrying because, you know, he was the 835 01:03:54,540 --> 01:03:57,980 most popular, you know, all that superlative stuff, the biggest 836 01:03:57,980 --> 01:04:05,060 flirt and all that stuff. Yeah, little 135 pound biggest 837 01:04:05,060 --> 01:04:08,460 flirt. He came in. 838 01:04:08,580 --> 01:04:14,500 Hey, I finally get to talk about him like he always does me when 839 01:04:14,500 --> 01:04:17,940 he preaches. Y'all know more about me than 840 01:04:17,940 --> 01:04:23,960 y'all know about him. Anyway, so you know, there are. 841 01:04:23,960 --> 01:04:28,000 I'm just like floored. These people look old, you know, 842 01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:33,400 They just look beat down. They look so unhappy, you know, 843 01:04:33,560 --> 01:04:36,400 And all these things. Anyway, it's because of the life 844 01:04:36,400 --> 01:04:38,600 of God. It's because of the spirit of 845 01:04:38,600 --> 01:04:39,840 God. That's what I'm saying. 846 01:04:40,080 --> 01:04:43,880 The life of God lives on the inside of us. 847 01:04:43,880 --> 01:04:47,960 And can what was I saying, quicken our mortal bodies? 848 01:04:49,160 --> 01:04:56,840 Our bodies can even be quickened and changed and strengthened and 849 01:04:56,840 --> 01:05:04,680 renewed by the life of God. Your mind can be restored if you 850 01:05:04,680 --> 01:05:08,840 were on drugs in the past. That's why I constantly say 851 01:05:08,960 --> 01:05:12,240 we're quick, we're sharp, we're bright, we're smart, we have the 852 01:05:12,240 --> 01:05:13,920 mind of Christ. Come on. 853 01:05:13,920 --> 01:05:16,280 We are full of wisdom and full of life. 854 01:05:16,480 --> 01:05:19,000 You have to speak those things over yourself. 855 01:05:19,200 --> 01:05:22,600 And when you get among some people, you'll recognize man the 856 01:05:24,920 --> 01:05:32,280 the Lord really has done a work. You can say but God, but God, 857 01:05:32,280 --> 01:05:37,080 and thank God for the Holy Ghost on the inside of you and the 858 01:05:37,080 --> 01:05:41,160 spirit of life, and you're no longer under the bondage of 859 01:05:41,160 --> 01:05:49,760 death and decay and destruction and depravity of mind and 860 01:05:49,760 --> 01:05:54,560 insanity. Come on. 861 01:05:55,600 --> 01:05:57,800 Because that's what the spirit of life can do. 862 01:05:59,320 --> 01:06:02,880 Quick and everything. Hallelujah. 863 01:06:03,480 --> 01:06:08,640 Quick and everything. So verse 12, it says. 864 01:06:08,640 --> 01:06:13,280 So then, brethren, we are no longer under obligation not to 865 01:06:13,280 --> 01:06:17,640 the flesh, but to live or to live according to the flesh. 866 01:06:17,880 --> 01:06:21,120 For if you live according to the flesh, you must die. 867 01:06:21,400 --> 01:06:26,520 But if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of 868 01:06:26,520 --> 01:06:31,890 the body, you will live. For this is verse 14, which is 869 01:06:31,890 --> 01:06:38,210 what I was wanting to get to. For all who are being led by the 870 01:06:38,210 --> 01:06:42,930 Spirit of God. These are the sons of God. 871 01:06:44,050 --> 01:06:48,650 These are the sons of God, the ones that are being led by the 872 01:06:48,650 --> 01:06:52,610 Spirit of God daily. The ones that are allowing the 873 01:06:52,610 --> 01:06:59,010 Holy Spirit to lead us and guide us into every area of our life, 874 01:06:59,450 --> 01:07:06,170 every every system that we have going on within our lives, in 875 01:07:06,170 --> 01:07:10,050 our jobs, in our marriages, raising our children, in our 876 01:07:10,050 --> 01:07:11,850 finances. Right. 877 01:07:12,090 --> 01:07:17,770 Everything should be subject in our mind, our will, our 878 01:07:17,770 --> 01:07:26,040 emotions, our flesh. Everything should be subject to 879 01:07:26,040 --> 01:07:31,840 the Holy Spirit and the leading and guiding of the Spirit of God 880 01:07:31,840 --> 01:07:37,160 on the inside of us every day. And when we begin to understand, 881 01:07:37,160 --> 01:07:41,280 recognize, perceive, that's the Holy Spirit speaking to me. 882 01:07:41,480 --> 01:07:47,000 We must obey it and yield to it. And again, I said this last 883 01:07:47,000 --> 01:07:48,920 week. A lot of times you may not 884 01:07:48,920 --> 01:07:54,320 understand then why you're having to do what he's asking 885 01:07:54,320 --> 01:08:00,520 you to do. But I can assure you, every time 886 01:08:00,600 --> 01:08:06,880 I without fail in 32 years of my life and this journey of being 887 01:08:06,880 --> 01:08:10,880 led by the spirit of God on the inside of me, every time I 888 01:08:10,880 --> 01:08:19,920 yielded, it only brought production or or growth and 889 01:08:19,920 --> 01:08:25,120 progress every time. And it was for my good. 890 01:08:26,720 --> 01:08:33,720 It was for victory in areas of my life to overcome every time. 891 01:08:33,920 --> 01:08:37,640 And the more you yield and the more you train. 892 01:08:37,640 --> 01:08:42,920 Brother Hagan says it this way. We have to train our spirits, 893 01:08:44,880 --> 01:08:49,790 and this is what we're talking about, training our spirit to 894 01:08:49,790 --> 01:08:56,390 yield, to subject, to do it. And when we do it and we 895 01:08:56,390 --> 01:08:59,950 actually yield to it, then growth can begin to happen. 896 01:09:00,470 --> 01:09:04,229 And the more we do it, the more we yield, the more we've learned 897 01:09:04,229 --> 01:09:07,069 how to recognize, perceive, understand that. 898 01:09:07,069 --> 01:09:10,069 This is the Holy Spirit speaking to me, and I'm going to 899 01:09:10,069 --> 01:09:12,029 acknowledge it. I'm going to yield to it. 900 01:09:12,189 --> 01:09:17,660 The more we do it, the more we can grow, The more that we can 901 01:09:17,660 --> 01:09:20,580 mature, the more that we can overcome. 902 01:09:20,899 --> 01:09:24,899 And what we call training is what we call practice. 903 01:09:24,979 --> 01:09:28,460 The more we practice it, the more we practice, yielding, 904 01:09:28,460 --> 01:09:35,180 guess what? The less you'll miss it and the 905 01:09:35,180 --> 01:09:41,550 less you'll find yourself in messes, Because a lot of messes 906 01:09:41,550 --> 01:09:45,990 that we get ourselves in is because the Holy Ghost all along 907 01:09:45,990 --> 01:09:49,350 was trying to tell us something and we rejected it. 908 01:09:49,470 --> 01:09:54,510 We denied it because we really wanted to do what it was telling 909 01:09:54,510 --> 01:09:58,910 us not to do. And it got us in trouble every 910 01:09:58,910 --> 01:10:07,280 time, every time it gets us in trouble when we choose not to 911 01:10:07,280 --> 01:10:10,720 yield to what the holy goes to saying and want to do it our way 912 01:10:10,840 --> 01:10:14,040 or wanting that, or we don't want to hear what the holy goes 913 01:10:14,040 --> 01:10:18,360 to saying because this, this, you know, could look a certain 914 01:10:18,360 --> 01:10:20,880 way. I mean, I'm going to tell you 915 01:10:21,040 --> 01:10:25,400 there's lots of things he's going to ask you to do, period, 916 01:10:25,400 --> 01:10:31,130 to try to get you to grow, to try to get you to where you need 917 01:10:31,130 --> 01:10:34,410 to be. I remember when, you know, we 918 01:10:34,410 --> 01:10:39,290 first got married or in that time and there was some 919 01:10:39,530 --> 01:10:42,970 relationships that we used to have with different people that 920 01:10:42,970 --> 01:10:45,410 always used to party and do all these things. 921 01:10:45,690 --> 01:10:47,610 And we would go over there and all this. 922 01:10:47,610 --> 01:10:50,570 And here we're trying to get our life on the right track and do 923 01:10:50,570 --> 01:10:54,170 what you know, what those times the Holy Ghost had to say? 924 01:10:54,410 --> 01:10:57,010 Don't go and hang out with them any longer. 925 01:10:57,910 --> 01:11:01,270 Cut that relationship off. If I would not have yielded 926 01:11:04,110 --> 01:11:07,230 because you, I mean, they were my best friend growing up or 927 01:11:07,230 --> 01:11:10,550 whatever the case, I'd still be smoking pot, drinking and 928 01:11:10,550 --> 01:11:12,670 divorce. Like every single one of them 929 01:11:12,670 --> 01:11:23,840 that have been. I'm just saying there's things 930 01:11:23,840 --> 01:11:27,400 he's going to ask you to do that at the time you don't want to 931 01:11:27,400 --> 01:11:32,620 do. But if you don't do it, it is 932 01:11:32,620 --> 01:11:35,900 only going to be to your destruction and your demise. 933 01:11:37,620 --> 01:11:40,660 That's just how it is. Amen. 934 01:11:40,900 --> 01:11:43,380 Because he's trying to get you to a different place. 935 01:11:43,620 --> 01:11:45,140 So. But those who were going to be 936 01:11:45,140 --> 01:11:48,260 led by the spirit of God, these are the sons of God. 937 01:11:48,900 --> 01:11:50,620 Amen. Hallelujah. 938 01:11:50,980 --> 01:11:55,060 The sons of God. Glory to God. 939 01:11:56,020 --> 01:12:00,010 Glory to God, Hallelujah. I want to read one more 940 01:12:00,170 --> 01:12:04,970 scripture or two more. Three more can y'all handle it. 941 01:12:10,050 --> 01:12:13,850 Look over here in James James chapter one. 942 01:12:15,730 --> 01:12:20,930 Remember, we're still dealing with spirit, soul and body, and 943 01:12:20,930 --> 01:12:26,310 submitting everyone of those areas to the Lord. 944 01:12:26,430 --> 01:12:31,190 James 12125 says this. Therefore, putting aside all 945 01:12:31,190 --> 01:12:35,070 filthiness and all that remains in wickedness and humility, 946 01:12:35,390 --> 01:12:42,550 receive the word implanted, which is able to save your 947 01:12:42,550 --> 01:12:45,570 souls. Receive the word that's 948 01:12:45,570 --> 01:12:49,690 implanted. King James says Receive the 949 01:12:49,690 --> 01:12:55,090 engrafted word of God, which is able to save your soul. 950 01:12:55,250 --> 01:13:00,890 Remember, we say your spirit man is the one that got born again. 951 01:13:01,560 --> 01:13:06,480 Now your soul has to be saved. Still you're saved, your spirit 952 01:13:06,480 --> 01:13:09,600 saved, but your soul has to now be saved. 953 01:13:09,800 --> 01:13:13,960 And the only thing that can save your soul again, back to Hebrews 954 01:13:13,960 --> 01:13:18,560 412 is the word of God is the word of God. 955 01:13:18,880 --> 01:13:23,520 And not just you reading the Word or sitting at church and 956 01:13:23,520 --> 01:13:26,400 hearing the word. No, you have to what? 957 01:13:26,560 --> 01:13:30,760 Receive the word meaning. You have to receive it in your 958 01:13:30,760 --> 01:13:33,400 heart, and you have to submit to it. 959 01:13:34,800 --> 01:13:38,200 You have to submit to it, whatever the word is saying to 960 01:13:38,200 --> 01:13:42,000 you that you need to do as a husband, as a coworker, as a 961 01:13:42,240 --> 01:13:45,720 friend, as a parent, as a spouse. 962 01:13:46,000 --> 01:13:48,980 Right. Whatever it is that you see in 963 01:13:48,980 --> 01:13:52,180 the word that the Holy Spirit is speaking to you and saying 964 01:13:52,180 --> 01:13:55,460 listen, this needs to tweak in your life to get you to another 965 01:13:55,460 --> 01:13:58,860 place. And if you hear it and and and 966 01:13:58,860 --> 01:14:04,220 see and recognize and the Holy Spirit reveals it to you again, 967 01:14:04,340 --> 01:14:09,300 you have to begin to do it. To do it. 968 01:14:10,100 --> 01:14:13,420 Because just hearing it, you will what? 969 01:14:13,420 --> 01:14:16,060 OK, it says. So we have to receive the word 970 01:14:16,930 --> 01:14:19,810 to transform our mind or to save our mind, it says. 971 01:14:19,810 --> 01:14:27,410 But prove yourselves to be what doers doers of the word, right, 972 01:14:27,650 --> 01:14:31,250 and not merely hearers. What happens when you just hear 973 01:14:31,250 --> 01:14:34,130 what you need to do and you don't do it? 974 01:14:34,130 --> 01:14:41,170 You become deluded or deceived. So you think just because you 975 01:14:41,170 --> 01:14:46,310 come to church, you're all good, yet the Holy Spirit, through the 976 01:14:46,310 --> 01:14:49,510 word of God has said no. But I need to work on this in 977 01:14:49,510 --> 01:14:53,190 your life, and you choose not to be a doer of it. 978 01:14:53,310 --> 01:15:00,590 You are deceived. You become deluded, thinking 979 01:15:00,590 --> 01:15:05,550 that you're OK when you're not. And that's why we see a lot of 980 01:15:05,550 --> 01:15:10,470 people in the church as believers that are still not OK. 981 01:15:11,620 --> 01:15:15,700 The bottom line is they're not doing what they're hearing the 982 01:15:15,700 --> 01:15:20,060 Holy Ghost say to do. Because I can tell you what the 983 01:15:20,060 --> 01:15:24,420 Holy Ghost is always speaking. Even when I didn't even know it 984 01:15:24,420 --> 01:15:27,540 was the Holy Ghost, he was speaking to me. 985 01:15:28,380 --> 01:15:33,060 How much more we who are being taught this is the Holy Ghost 986 01:15:33,060 --> 01:15:37,090 speaking to you. And if you don't yield to it, 987 01:15:37,090 --> 01:15:40,170 and you don't yield to it, and you don't do it, and you don't 988 01:15:40,170 --> 01:15:43,850 do it and you don't do it, then we know what we talked about in 989 01:15:43,850 --> 01:15:46,530 the weeks prior. That you can what? 990 01:15:46,610 --> 01:15:50,450 Reject. You can deny, and you can grieve 991 01:15:50,450 --> 01:15:52,050 the Holy Ghost. And guess what? 992 01:15:52,050 --> 01:15:55,410 He'll stop talking to you about that and you will become 993 01:15:55,410 --> 01:16:02,790 deceived, right? Because you've rejected the 994 01:16:02,790 --> 01:16:06,750 working of the Holy Ghost on the inside of you. 995 01:16:06,950 --> 01:16:10,830 You delude yourself. And the sad thing about that is 996 01:16:10,830 --> 01:16:14,270 many don't even under don't even know that they're deceived. 997 01:16:16,270 --> 01:16:19,470 And then when you try to let them know you are deluded, 998 01:16:19,470 --> 01:16:24,110 you're deceived. You know this is the reaction. 999 01:16:27,070 --> 01:16:33,660 There should be evidence and progress and pro and production 1000 01:16:33,900 --> 01:16:35,020 of. There's a word I'm trying to 1001 01:16:35,020 --> 01:16:37,020 think always, and that's not coming out. 1002 01:16:37,500 --> 01:16:43,340 There should be the evidence of the characteristics and the 1003 01:16:43,340 --> 01:16:47,740 nature of God in your life and the fruits of the Spirit that 1004 01:16:47,740 --> 01:16:49,780 have been developed within your life. 1005 01:16:50,020 --> 01:16:53,220 And your life should be going from faith to faith, glory to 1006 01:16:53,220 --> 01:16:55,700 glory. Your life should be growing 1007 01:16:55,700 --> 01:16:58,180 evident. People ought to be able to see 1008 01:16:58,300 --> 01:17:02,060 that you're walking in the word, that you're going from faith to 1009 01:17:02,060 --> 01:17:05,500 faith, that you're growing, that nothing's hindering you, that 1010 01:17:05,500 --> 01:17:08,260 your emotions still don't control you. 1011 01:17:08,500 --> 01:17:10,260 Why? Because you've learned how to 1012 01:17:11,140 --> 01:17:15,180 yield to the Holy Ghost. But if you don't see there's no 1013 01:17:15,300 --> 01:17:18,620 evidence in your life that faith is even there, you're not 1014 01:17:18,620 --> 01:17:22,060 producing not one thing that the word says that we should have 1015 01:17:22,060 --> 01:17:24,620 like the fruit of the spirit, which is bare minimum. 1016 01:17:27,340 --> 01:17:30,740 Then it's evident you are deluded and deceived. 1017 01:17:33,620 --> 01:17:39,860 You've deceived yourself. You see that because it says, 1018 01:17:39,860 --> 01:17:44,780 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a do or he is like 1019 01:17:44,780 --> 01:17:49,420 a man who looks in the natural face, as with the natural face 1020 01:17:49,420 --> 01:17:52,020 in a mirror. For once he has looked at 1021 01:17:52,020 --> 01:17:56,620 himself and gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind 1022 01:17:56,620 --> 01:18:01,480 of person he is. So the Holy Ghost is a mirror by 1023 01:18:01,480 --> 01:18:05,040 the word of God saying, this is what you should look like. 1024 01:18:05,240 --> 01:18:08,240 This is the mirror, this is the image, this is the 1025 01:18:08,240 --> 01:18:11,840 characteristics, This is the nature that as a believer you 1026 01:18:11,840 --> 01:18:15,360 should look like. But if you don't do it, you're 1027 01:18:15,360 --> 01:18:20,440 going to walk away. Come on, And not even be who he 1028 01:18:20,440 --> 01:18:29,640 said you were to be so, but the one who looks intently at the 1029 01:18:29,640 --> 01:18:34,840 perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having 1030 01:18:34,840 --> 01:18:41,720 become a forgetful hearer, but a effectual doer, this man will be 1031 01:18:41,720 --> 01:18:47,440 blessed in what he does. You should see the blessing of 1032 01:18:47,440 --> 01:18:51,480 the Lord upon your life. Hallelujah, Pastor Marcus, you 1033 01:18:51,480 --> 01:18:55,350 can come. You should see it because there 1034 01:18:55,350 --> 01:18:59,470 would be evidence of the fruit and the character being built 1035 01:18:59,470 --> 01:19:01,470 within your life by the Holy Ghost. 1036 01:19:02,590 --> 01:19:06,910 Because you're doing the word, you're becoming, you're being 1037 01:19:06,910 --> 01:19:12,910 transformed into the image that God created you to be. 1038 01:19:13,190 --> 01:19:17,870 Look at Romans 12/1 as they're coming up 12 Romans 12/1. 1039 01:19:18,030 --> 01:19:23,010 I want to read it out of the the Passion Translation, Beloved 1040 01:19:23,010 --> 01:19:26,450 friends, what should be our proper response to God's 1041 01:19:26,450 --> 01:19:31,090 marvelous mercies? To surrender yourselves to God 1042 01:19:31,570 --> 01:19:38,090 to be His sacred living sacrifice and live in holiness, 1043 01:19:38,250 --> 01:19:43,690 experiencing all the delights His the that delights His heart. 1044 01:19:44,110 --> 01:19:48,350 For this becomes your genuine expression of worship. 1045 01:19:48,550 --> 01:19:53,350 Stop imitating the ideals and opinions of the culture around 1046 01:19:53,350 --> 01:20:01,470 you, but inwardly, say inwardly, be transformed by the Holy 1047 01:20:01,470 --> 01:20:08,790 Spirit through a total reformation of how you think. 1048 01:20:10,910 --> 01:20:17,710 Hallelujah. This will empower you to discern 1049 01:20:17,710 --> 01:20:23,470 God's will as you live a beautiful life, satisfying and 1050 01:20:23,470 --> 01:20:28,670 perfect in his eyes. 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