You're listening to the Anchor Faith Church message podcast
with our senior pastor Earle glisten, enjoy the message.
I want to let you know that we are continuing this series or
this context of love, you know, not everything in the Bible is
as large and it's information or context.
What do I mean by that? You know, we wrote a book years
ago called the forest and what we release the kingdom of God.
In fact, we're about to have we're going to put in print.
Second edition of that particular book, we've gone back
through it, you know, modified a few things said, a few things
and so way to get be a reprint, but to be a second version of
that particular book and we've said that too, often many people
are they miss the forest for the trees?
Meaning, there's a truth within God's word and it is a truth,
but they love that one truth so much.
They miss the rest of the trees that are located in the forest.
So what I mean by that is that you could You know, go and be
around a Healing Tree in the force and always stay in a
context of healing. But miss things like
forgiveness, miss things like and again, sometimes healing
will be hindered if you don't cooperate and forgiveness when I
say sometimes, I mean it will it you can be healed and have
unforgiveness because of the gift of the spirit and operation
concern and God's, you know, showing his goodness to you, but
you won't maintain that. Healing, unless you deal with
unforgiveness in your heart. Now if you don't go over to that
subject as we call it, then you're not learning about that
subject, okay? So there's a lot of trees in the
Kingdom. The whole Forest is the kingdom
of God, because he lands, and the kingdom forgiveness is in
the kingdom deliverances in the kingdom prosperities in the
Kingdom. Okay?
Well, there's another aspect of God's word.
That's very large, okay, that all the trees grow out of and
that's God's love. So, when we talk about the
kingdom, you can't separate the Kinkos Kingdom, just simply
means Kings Dominion, and God is King.
All right, he's the ruler of all he's supreme authority.
He has all Dominion, amen, but you can't separate his kingdom
from his nature because the nature of God is reflected in
his kingdom. See, we have a big fallacy in
the United States. And it's huge and we've even
adopted it in the church. And that is a separation of
church and state. You understand, the nature of
man cannot be taken out of government period.
So if you're not following God, your policies will reflect your
nature. If you're following God, your
policy should, if it does not then your yielding to a
different nature. Okay.
And God doesn't look at his government separate separate
from his nature. So, you know, when I saw some
pillars in the faith, concerning the kingdom of God, I had one
say, well, you know, when you preach the kingdom to actually
says, you definitely want to be able to minister on God's love
because the minute you deal with the kingdom in and of itself,
people can receive it or perceive it as being legalistic.
Though, there are legalities in the kingdom and you better be
sure. You want legalities in the
Kingdom, you do? Because again, if you do not
have a righteous judge who will make sure the law of his kingdom
does not come to pass. Then I'm telling you right now,
people can do anything they want to and get away with it, but you
can't get away with things in the Kingdom.
Are you hearing what I'm saying? Because love will not allow it.
Law. Love enforces.
The law of the Kingdom. Hallelujah.
And so you know, love is one of these in exhaustive
opportunities that we have because it's so large it
encompasses. All these other subjects within
the word of God is what I'm saying.
With that being said, it seemed right with me in the Holy Ghost
that we continue along these lines on Wednesday, so Monday, I
believe It's Monday or Tuesday. They will release Wednesday's
message online on a video. We are actually filming our
Wednesday night services, as long as I'm in this particular
God's love. Okay.
So you'll be receiving two if you are subscriber to us on
YouTube and so that also lets me know that I encourage you to be
here on Wednesday night because I will not review Wednesday,
night stuff on Sunday. So there will be an element of
God's love. That you will not have heard, by
the time you come to the next service.
You understand what I'm saying? So again, if you weren't here
Wednesday, you don't know what we said.
Good news is, I actually did a review so that, you know, you
wouldn't be entirely behind for today's service.
It gives me this service to communicate be here on
Wednesdays, okay? But if you were here on
Wednesday night, you know, our review added new stuff.
So it's not like it's just saying the same things for the
last three Sundays, Days. We actually Incorporated some
new things even within the review itself.
All right, because God's word is, there's so much truth to it.
Hey man, it's alive, does same em.
Okay, with that being said, let's jump right into this
morning says this. WOW.
Matthew 15:13. I just three.
I just saw what time it was and I thought, geez, that's not
enough time. Matthew, 15 3 says this and he
answered and said to them, why do you yourselves transgress the
Commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?
You might have tea. A little bit today, probably not
going to run around a whole lot. Okay, I'm gonna kind of Step
into the office of the teacher this morning, all right.
And so I please don't check out because I'm not, you know, where
I got bangs kicking. I'm an I'm not saying I won't,
I'm gonna, you know, try to teach this morning, I believe I
need to teach this morning because what I'm talking about
today is really important and he answered and said to them, not
that it's not all important. I'm just there's a lot of
confusion Fusion here. And I'm not even in the toughest
spot yet and he answered his said to them, why do you
yourselves transgress the Commandment of God for the sake
of your tradition? All right.
We have developed Traditions, even in the church, because what
we've done is we've tried to fit our life experiences and try to
have God adjust to them. We try to take God's word and
get, you know, basically gain understanding all Why this
happened in my life? And a lot of times, we can
create a tradition out of that. Sometimes we can actually hear
from God, and God, really speak to us.
And then, because of the lack of seeking him, we only looked see
him the way we first experienced him.
And as a result of that that in and of itself, becomes a
tradition, I mean, I give you a multiple examples in the Old
Testament, this taken place, you know, when I get He and
delivered everybody, you know, as a judge from the midianites
will eventually, you know, they began to worship His ephod, his
little whatever he had on, right?
Same thing, Moses is staff that had the snake on it, it became
an object of worship at some point.
That one, king cut it up, got rid of it.
Okay, they he got rid of something, what we would
consider historical or Geology, you know, we love in our world
to hold onto archaeological pass some of these things.
We should tear down, grind up, and get rid of Because it's a
distraction to God, I don't care.
How beautiful is made, it's ungodly.
And here's a thing that was an object that actually God told
them to make and healing manifested as a result of it.
But then they began to worship the object instead of the word
spoken, instead, we're going to see these are key things that
take place. A lot of times we want to.
I mean, it's why people come in and want to have a worship
experience once they were Skip seeing you know because they
experienced God at some point, you know?
But they missed it wasn't the singing.
That's not what, what what God says is?
What's the most important thing? You know, whether he speaks it
in a song, whether he speaks it through the gifts of the Spirit,
whether he speaks it through, you know, manifestation of his
healing, whether he speaks it through, whatever, you know,
some complete, stranger coming up to you write all these
particular things. You know, people get stuck on
what What the object was that brought the word instead of the
word itself and this is where the failure comes into play and
so we can develop these Traditions along these lines.
So we want to be able to, you know, stay with the command of
God. Right?
He said, why do you forsake the command of God?
Why you keep forsaken what I'm saying?
Because you love what? I may have said through
something more than what I'm saying.
Y'all get them. All right, so today we're going
to talk about. Love works.
Look at your neighbor and say, love works.
You know, love works. It works.
Okay, now when I say love works, you know, I think most of you
received that statement as love, gets it done right?
I mean love doesn't fail, right? Love Never Felt love works
right? The love of God works.
Yeah but I mean it more like love is working like it's on the
job. Love is not some passive, sit
down, you know, feeling that flows through a service.
Love is employed, love is deployed.
Love is doing things to manifest things and love doesn't manifest
unless it's working. Alleluia.
So we see here in Galatians, why is this important for us to
understand God's love? Because your whole life on
planet Earth and for eternity depends on it, but more in this.
Dispensation, I mean, cause we're in it.
It's the one we're in, okay, Galatians 5:6 says, is for in
Christ? Jesus, neither circumcision nor
uncircumcision means anything but Faith, what?
Working through love. Now you say Pastor Earle faiths
working, not loves working. Okay, let's keep reading in
Amplified, classic translation, says it this way.
If for if we are in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor
uncircumcision counts for anything but only Faith,
activated and energized and expressed and working again.
How through love. Now, let's look at the youngs
literal translation. All Alright, because I like this
one because this one really puts it in a great context.
Look at this for in Christ, neither circumcision availeth,
anything nor uncircumcision but Faith through love.
Now that's how it works. Faith, how through love and what
are they doing? They're working.
Jesus said, don't you know, I'm about my father's.
I'm working, I'm working now, the problem is, I'm using a word
that has become an absolute heresy word in the church.
And that's because they fail to truly read.
The Bible. When you fail to read the Bible,
cover to cover and desire to understand it, then you will
allow others to dupe you into laziness and because of that,
you will end up finding yourself not arriving to God's greatest
expression of himself. Because you're waiting for him
to do everything while you do nothing.
All right. Again, you had to do something
in order to be born again in the first place.
Now, what did you do? You did not get your life
together. You did not clean yourself up,
you did not circumcise yourself. What you did is you heard God
say believe that Jesus Christ came that he died on the cross.
For your sin, repent of your wickedness.
I'm going to call it that. Because again, we say sin and
people don't recognize its wickedness, repent of your
wicked sin. Right and call Jesus Christ,
your lord ass receive, the Forgiveness he has done for you.
Now I said this on Wednesday, night is very important that we
mentioned this one more time, okay?
Has and I'm again, when I make these statements, I am, they're
loaded. So don't be quick.
Listen C'est, la, think on these things has God forgiven, every
sin. Chew on that for a moment.
Okay. Because that statement is not
true. Now that hooks that messes with
us a little bit and am I being semantic?
Very much so because we have taken thoughts and we run them
in a course that is not in connection with the love of God
has God forgiven all sin. This is where you're going in
your mind. Already know your lip.
Wait a minute now, says that he poured out his blood once and
for all for all sin, that's true.
His blood has And made available so that all sin.
Can be forgiven. If he has already forgiven all
sin and sin, no longer is there. Then there's no way there can be
a great white Throne judgment. So blood is on The Mercy Seat in
heaven, and it has power to forgive any and every sin ever
committed. But until you call on Jesus,
Lord, it does not come off the mercy seat and laid to your
account. So that your name can be written
in another book because at the great white Throne judgment,
they'll pull out a book called the Lamb's Book of Life and
they'll find people's names not in it.
So they'll close that book. Then they'll open up some other
books and what are in these books.
It is all the sins that reason the rebellion of all those
individuals that he will be at a justify and just lie to cause
them to be cast into the Lake of Fire.
Although the Blood On The Mercy Seat was enough.
To forgive them of all that transgression.
So when someone says Jesus Christ has forgiven, everybody
of all their sin, Jesus Christ, blood has made atonement and has
the power to forgive all sin and has done it once and for all,
but it does not come to you until Until?
And this one statement can mess up a lot of people.
Hallelujah. So Faith through love working
because love has died and risen. But Faith through love, working
causes the salvation of man to take place.
Are you with me? Okay, so if we're going to talk
about faith through love working then let's deal with works
period. Can we do that for a moment?
Let's deal with Works in general.
So Romans 3:21, Romans 3:21 y'all.
Ryan. I mean I feel like I'm having
I'm seeing Peters out there and the spirit you know you got
locked up on me. You're locking up on me, don't
lock up. You know Jesus said I'm gonna
die, Peter's like emotionally involved and he's locked up.
He won't listen to nothing else in Jesus like right after that,
but I'm going to be raised from the dead.
They're going to kill me. And Peter stops says, it ain't
going to happen. I won't let it happen and he
missed it, amen. So you know stay let's stay with
the word. Let's study it out for
ourselves. Amen.
Okay. Romans 3:21 231 says this.
But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been
manifested being witnessed by the law and the prophets.
Most people miss this whole thing about the law.
Because again, the Old Testament is not a null and void thought
process because there's more to the Old Testament in just the
law of Moses, there's the law and the prophets.
So there were things that were said outside of Moses, writing
things for a nation that God desired people to obey.
Okay. Alright says even the
righteousness of God, what through faith in Jesus Christ
for all, who believe there is no distinction for all, have sinned
and fall short of the glory of God.
So sin hinders the Manifest weight of God's presence.
Because God resides in his word in the beginning was the word
and the Word was with God and the Word was God.
God. Okay, so you can't separate God
from his word because God is his word.
Are you hearing what I'm saying? So, when you obey his word, then
God's there, if you are sinning, meaning you're not obeying God's
word, then Glory, you're falling short.
Of God's presence being there with you.
Alright, verse 24, being justified as a gift by his
grace, through the Redemption which is in Christ, Jesus whom
God displayed publicly as a perpetuation in his blood
through faith. Now, catch that through his as
perpetuation in his blood, how through faith again, Jesus is
only shedding blood because Dad says to We've already clearly
communicated this in previous times together that the highest
form of experiencing God's love is obedience and Jesus says, I
don't do anything on my own initiative, but only what I hear
I do and he talks with his father in a garden said that
there's any other way for this cup to pass pass.
If we this cup can pass. If there's any other way, let it
pass. But not my will, your will being
done. So again, it's not the cross.
That's the most important thing. It is the obedience to go there.
That is the most important thing.
Are you hearing what I'm saying? Because if there was another
form of execution in the time that Jesus was on the earth,
then he would have used that one.
Again, the many have died on a cross.
But Jesus went willingly in obedience not just obediently
going, he willfully obediently went.
Okay, there's a difference there.
Alright, so again this blood that he's a perpetuation that he
displayed publicly was dad told me to go here.
Are you hearing what I'm saying? This was the dead to demonstrate
his righteousness, because in the forbearance of God, he
passed over the sins previously committed.
So this demonstration Jesus demonstrated the highest love of
the father because he was always in obedience to God the Father.
All right, okay. So, 25 goes on to say this in
26, for the demonstration, I say of his righteousness, at the
present time. I'm so that he would be just and
the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
So as Jesus believe, God, we can believe Jesus.
Okay, verse 27, where then is boasting, is it excluded?
But what kind of law of Works? No, but by a what's that word,
what is it? What is it by a law of?
So faith is law. So again traditionally what do
we say the law has been done away with.
There is a lot of laws from the kingdom still in play today.
So the minute you pick up this thought, I'm not under the law.
Well you better be under the law of Faith.
You better be under the law of spirit and life in Christ.
Jesus. So please don't hold to these
falsehoods. That people are putting out
there that Nest that puts you in a position.
Where it hinders you from experiencing God's greatest.
Love because you feel like you're incapable of living by
faith. Faith faith has a law associated
with it, which means god is legally obligated.
Legally obligated. To cause his word to come to
pass but his word does not come to pass outside of his love.
This is very important because this is where we miss this law
done away with idea. We miss this, look at verse 28
for. We maintain that a man is
Justified, how by faith apart from the works of the law.
So what is he literally saying? Here?
There was a time that man hurt God's word.
But he did not do God's word because God was saying it, he
was doing God's word based upon how he wanted to do it.
If you hear something about God say well, I'm going to do that.
Because I'm just gonna do it now.
I'll give you a case some point. Some people have said, you know
what, the Lord spoke to me and told me to give, you know, my
car to someone. And that's a true statement then
because they obeyed. God gave their car at a
different time frame because they sewed that seed in
obedience to God. What God told them to do,
someone gave them another vehicle.
That was better than the one. They so.
So then they testify here's the testimony, you know what?
God spoke to me and told me to give away this car and I sow
that seed and then God calls someone to give me this vehicle
and it was better and everybody hears it gets excited.
And then what do they do? I'm going to go get my car away.
Now. Did God tell you?
That's the proxy. You're working a long now that
is still in play, but not because God said, so it's not by
faith Because unless God tells you to give the car away even
though he could do that, Are you hear what I'm saying?
So, if we don't watch out what we'll do is, we'll go into the
word, there's all these principles, but we're never
actually seeking the Voice. Who speaks it.
We are determining how to apply it ourselves and the many you do
that. You're working alone.
All You're working alone and that's why when he laid out the
law, most of the law, Moses was not ungodly.
It came from the father. What he was letting them,
they'll know in the old Covenant is that your spirit man is not
alive to be able to want to hear this voice and follow it.
But I'm gonna bring a new one. Better Covenant.
The new and better, Covenant doesn't eliminate a law in its
entirety. What it does is it strengthens
and ability in you to be any here, God himself for yourself
to do what he says by faith because you love him and he
loves you and when you act on it, work that because you love
God, how would I not do? What you said, Dad.
Then you'll have those things, very important.
So he goes on and says this. In verse 28, for we again have
maintained that man is justified by faith.
Apart from the works of law or is God, the god of Jews.
Only is he not the god of Gentiles also?
Yes, of Gentiles. Also, since indeed God who will
justify the circumcised by faith because Again, if there was a by
faith with his own Nation, they're going to live righteous.
If they are doing it by faith, Abraham is the father of Faith,
the father of us, all, what did he do?
He believed God at his word and acted on it, that's why he was
made righteous and that's before I law come down from Moses ever
showed up. Okay, so again, we do not say
I'm going to determine how to do this, and God is going to have
to accept me because if I do his word, like, how can he argue
with me about doing it? He can always argue.
If you're doing it for yourself on your own terms, this is the
whole context of the Rich Young Ruler.
Great teacher. What must I do to inherit
eternal life? He says, keep the Commandments.
As he said, I've done that since my youth.
He said, yeah, but there's one thing, you lack, in essence,
you're wealthy and you're choosing how to do the word.
You're not actually following the one who wrote it, because if
you were, I'm going to put the test to you right now.
Sell everything you have give to the poor and come follow me.
Now, was that law the king required him to attend this
discipleship? He this is the 13th disciple.
I said it's the 13th disciple. It is the call he gave to Peter
J. Andrew and John he said come
follow me and what did they do? They left since sell everything
you have give it to the poor and come follow me.
Now if he would have by faith obeyed that word we probably
would have hurt. There might even be a book that
has his name on it. He may have touched Nations but
what did he do? And said no, I'm going to, I'm
going to do what Adam did the first Adam, when he fell.
I'm going to make a demand that God has to accept me the way I
am stew using him to accept me and I'm going to use his own
words against him. It doesn't work, it doesn't
work. See the Pharisees had the
biggest challenge with Jesus, not because they didn't know the
word, but because they turn the word to benefit themselves only.
They were working the word themselves, instead of obeying
the word and working it, it's difference.
It's a difference, that's why your hearts involved.
It's why your hearts involved. Amen.
Okay. Let's go on.
He says this. He says Cindy God who will
justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through
faith is one, do we know nullify the law through faith Y'all look
at it. Now, I'm not saying this and
these are the scriptures that people stay away from that
Priests of the law is done away with that were under a Grace and
we don't have to do nothing. We are under grace that empowers
us to hear God and do God's word, that's what we're under,
and it's awesome. And I don't understand why this
is such a big hang-up to be honest with you because, you
know, I'm so excited that I can actually hear God.
I mean, we have a living God, we get to here.
I mean how exciting Ting. Is this that you're like, God
just spoke to me. I mean, that is so awesome.
I'm like, wow, God, just talk to me.
He just asked me to participate. It is so amazing, right.
The only time there's odds is, if I want to hold to myself, the
only time there's an odd, but I feel like I don't want to
forgive and God speaks to us and gives us his word in a
particular situation or moment. Amen.
You know, because you can do a checklist and get it right.
But never hear God. So do we then nullify the law
through faith. What's the next four words?
Say it. Say it, everybody say it may it
never be. Now, am I putting you in the old
Covenant know? I'm bringing you into a new and
better Covenant, because what listen Les would have died in
the wilderness. If their Spirit man had been
changed if they would have went through the Red Sea and they too
became a new creature in Christ. They would not debated with God
as much now, I say that, but why are we in this new and better?
Covenant still debating. We God.
May it never be on the contrary we establish.
So what is he saying? Faith is stablish.
Has that whatever the king says there's power Faith has
established that the King has spoken has decreed.
And we believe and therefore, we receive because we're an
obedience to that word. It's not what I'm doing.
It's what he says I should do, and I willfully and obediently
do that expression and I get the results of what that is even
when I can't see it. I know his word can't fail and
then if I step out and do what he says, I'll have what he says
and I do it because I love him, I keep his command because
again, what we've done is we've relegated everything God's ever
said here. In the word.
Now, the word of God the printed pages is what allows us to
discern what we hear in our spirit Because, you know, God is
Not the Only Spirit out there, there are other spirits that
first John, which is a good chapter, a whole book on God's
love says, test the spirits that there is a spirit of are out
there. So the reason why he lives a
hard copy of context of his nature, his ability his way of
doing it, so that when he speaks to you about a very specific
situation, You're in and lead you on how to do it.
You'll be able to go back and do a case study of others that have
been tempted in that account, went through that particular
account, may be experienced something of a like similar and
how God delivered them out of all their trouble.
Hallelujah. So, again, we relegated, while
we got to do this, do this, we are to do the word.
But you understand there are certain aspects of taking
territory today, that aren't Actually, in these pages, but
there's principles that I applied.
I know that wasn't that was not a spirit of are telling me that
that's the Holy Ghost. Well, I heard the Lord say that
so-and-so was going to be my spouse and they're not even born
again. Well, the Holy Ghost didn't say
that because he says, do not be unequally yoked with
unbelievers. So, two things are going to
happen than either one you missed.
It's the spirit of are trying to get you off.
Or number two, you're going to have to wait around until they
actually get born again and they just let you know that they're
going to come and Into the kingdom but you don't get Todd
to them it with an I do until they manifest what you heard.
But why do we do a lot of times? We get ahead of the game.
A lot of times are, we've missed it entirely and then we apply,
but God loves people. And he accepts people, you know,
and I believe that they're going to make it and love bellezza
baptized in here, you are working the word without the
voice of the Holy Ghost. Now you're being under a law.
That's not even God, although he said it but you're doing it for
your own personal self game. Now, who's really being
legalistic? No, the freedom comes.
What did the king say? What do you say today?
This is why we have to seek him so while we have to seeking, so
while we have to seek him everyday, seeking talk to him,
spend time with him, pray in the Holy Ghost, a lot.
Yeah, pray in the Holy Ghost a lot, amen.
Okay, so again, this is the law were talking about when he says
faith is not nullify. The law faith has actually
established it because what faith did is what, What you
couldn't do in an old Covenant, we can do in a New Covenant.
We can hear God. We don't need someone to go up
the mountain for us. He came down and lived in US.
Amen. For some of you I think you want
the fire smoke to come down a mountain.
Oh I'm preaching because don't think in this dispensation
people ain't hungry. They desire, they are so
Desiring. Oh Covenant manifestation.
Oh, I just want to see the glory.
That was old, Covenant manifestation, but we want it to
happen here. I just want the smoke to fill
the Tim. That's old Covenant
manifestation. Oh, I wish God would just have a
lie. I was I went by the church and
there was like a fire. I mean, you don't need that
stuff in this new covenant. Now if it manifests fine, But
there's nothing greater than this still, Small Voice on the
inside of me, telling me I'm the child of the king.
And when he whispers to me in these intimate places, I can
attach my whole being to that, we do greater exploits.
If we quit trying to get it, calling me legalistic.
But then we want to wear in a miracle where, you know, y'all
workers and then people aren't even in faith.
Well, God is going to do what he does.
Anyway, Well, if that's true then why isn't everybody saved?
Why are people going to the Lake of Fire?
Man, I'm grieved in my spirit, man.
And I've been struggling for a lot a little while.
Now honestly. Because you know, I'm just I got
grief in me. Now, when I say that, it's not
me personally, it's just the condition of the world and then
also of the church, because of the lack of knowledge and
revelation. I give you a homework
assignment. I'll give it to you now because
I'm gonna have to quit. You need to read psalms one
night 119 and I encourage you to the passion translation.
He's the greatest worship song I've ever heard in my life. it's
a very, very daunting task for in now, because of the
superficial and the Soul connecting of God.
No spiritual connection. Site driven instead of Faith
driven. And I want to get us to another
level as a church. But I'll be honest with you, I
don't know if everybody's going to go I mean, I realize that not
everybody goes. You know, so don't be that one.
That don't go. Go.
Let's go together. Let's obey.
All right. Romans 9, 32, 33.
So what shall we say, then Gentiles who did not pursue
righteousness attain righteousness.
Even the righteousness, which is by faith.
So, again, an 8, a group of people who didn't even have the
law was able to attain right standing with God, how cause
whatever God was saying, they did.
I mean, that's the key here. But Israel pursuing a law of
righteousness, did not arrive at the law.
Why? Because they did not pursue it
by faith. They did not seek the one who
spoke it. They wanted him to stay away.
In fact, they told Moses, we don't even want to, we don't
want to hear him. You go and talk to him for us?
That's why the grace message, and it's Error is so appealing
to people because Pastor, you go to him for us and you're calling
us legalistic. When that's real legalism that's
old Covenant living Pastor, you going get that word because I'm
under grace, I don't have to do anything.
Because there's nothing I can do enough.
I didn't do anything to get what I'm in and I can't do anything
to be where I'm at. Well, why is God even talking
then? So you seek Him, you deliver and
I'm going to go and live life know when I die, go to heaven.
Become guilty and under condemnation because the worst
trying to elevate you to obedience.
The we want to be in the cycle of for fail and forgive this.
Get out of it right, okay, why? Because they did not pursue it
by faith as though it were by works, they stumbled Over The
Stumbling Stone. You see what it was.
That's very, I mean, I hope this is clear.
God did speak it. It had power but they didn't
seek the voice of what was written the person they like
just stay away from us will do this without you.
Well, you're not capable of doing his word without him.
The many you do you do a work of his word without him and that's
faith without love. Faith through love working.
It's an epidemic. I mean, people are in churches,
they shouldn't even be a part of.
Well, I go to the church because it provides something for my
children. I don't get anything out of it,
but, you know. So you want your kids to be
entertained? While you die spiritually
because you think the pastor has the ability to train up your
child the way they should go. So they don't depart from it yet
that's actually your responsibility. and so, when
your kids come out and be twice, a son of hell, Instead of going
to a place that figs your spirit so you could be led by the
spirit. now, that being said, we minister to your children to
their Spirit here, We definitely don't entertain their flesh.
That's why not all teenagers. Come here.
Because pizzas an idol. Man, you see how many people we
had here? We brought a bunch of pizza and
brought them all in. Well, they led by the spirit.
Or did you give them God's word and say now you keep it by
yourself, you don't need to hear the voice to keep it.
Okay. Just as it is written behold I
lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.
Sorry that things broke up there and he who believes in him will
not be disappointed. Reason you won't be disappointed
because you'll be pleasing to God if you believe him at his
word, Galatians 2:16, 2:20 says, nevertheless.
Knowing that a man is not justified by The Works of the
law, but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in
Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified.
Divided by faith in Christ and not by The Works of the law of
since we Since By The Works of the law.
No flesh will be justified. But if while seeking to be
justified in Christ we ourselves have also been found.
Sinners is Christ, then a minister of sin may it never be
for if I rebuild what I once destroyed.
I proved myself to be a transgressor.
Meaning you in this dispensation can apply God's word without
him. And be found a sinner.
This is very important because I'm a tell you where you do it
the most You love believes the best in this situation that
love. Does it take in account the
suffered wrong? And then Contra, man because of
that are not that you love believes the best, at the time,
that love does not rejoice in unrighteousness. so, we continue
to rejoice in a place because we have that word When God's
actually saying I'm not laughing.
The reason why I love has so many elements to us because God
is speaking to people on. So did so many different levels.
I mean, this is not like that's the problem with working the law
yourself. It's not a cookie cutter
response. God knows what's been going on
with people. I mean if you've been at anchor
Faith Church for more than you know, five or six years and you
have partnered with the vision. Gone, through support of
ministry, been a part of some form of leadership.
And through the, you know, accountability that's associated
with that. And the meetings that come with
that you've gotten involved with one of the call her blessed book
clubs and gone through more than one maybe or you're a gentleman
and you've gone through the Mighty Men 318, you've become a
kingdom Institute student and graduated.
And if you expect me to apply love in your life, when you are
walking and send the same, I would for a person who just
first comes in the door. You are sadly mistaken.
I am obligated by the king. to minister to you at the level you
attain to So when you try to come at me and say well how come
you letting that go, what about well how come you're not doing
what? You know?
How come you're not living by faith?
How come you're not putting your flesh down?
How come I'm begging you to come to knowledge, Junior and serve.
I mean, everybody wants to grow to spiritual maturity.
But you understand when you get to a place God doesn't tolerate
certain things. How can Moses hit a rock twice
after all the mercy? He's demonstrating stood in the
Gap when God himself wanted to move in a different posture of
Wrath, which was love. And God says, you're not getting
in. Let go let Joshua go.
May it never be verse 19 for the for through the law.
I died to the law so that I might live to God.
Now, in the reason I brought this in all that because here's
context. Now, here's verse 21 and verse
20 say I have been crucified. So before Paul, which we use the
scripture all the time, we all know, you know, Galatians 2:20
right for. I've been crucified with Christ
is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me and the life,
which I Live Now in This skin suit, the flesh.
I live how by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave
himself up for me. He loved me why.
Cuz he, oh, he through obedience went to the cross and died for
me. So, the reason why I Paul who
live the law and according to the law found blameless, but
when I got around the voice, And realize I supposed to follow the
voice of that law. When I heard the voice of the
law, speak to me on the road to Damascus, all of a sudden, it
upended everything. I thought I knew about God and
it made me change my position and realize I'll do whatever you
say when you say it. So I Gotta Die to self cause
don't think that I'm going to be like, I know enough about God's
word that I don't need God around to do it.
And there are many Believers today, that think they got
enough a God's word around them that they are good going to
heaven. Now, I'm not saying they're not
going to heaven. I'm just saying they're not
living to the full Glory of what God wanted his church to
express. Because we're not daily living.
By being led by the spirit. Now, how are you being led by
the spirit? The spirit is talking to you
based upon what he hears. You see how it all ties
together, all right, James chapter 2, James chapter 2 will
try to close this down because I need to move into prayer.
He said, what then what use is it?
My brethren talking to the church.
Now, we're not talking to the Lost.
Okay. You hear what?
I said? What use is it?
My brethren? If someone says he has Faith but
he has no works. All right.
So quit Association. The word, work to Old, Covenant.
There's always been a work is called obedience.
All God did through all of his dispensation was lay a word out
so that man could obey it and it even happened in the garden with
Adam. I laid my word out so he could
obey it. and again, obedience to God means that it inevitably a
choice is going to have to manifest That's why he gave him
everything in the garden. That was good and put one choice
to do wrong. Because I want you to love me.
I want you to love me, like, I love you.
Because God does not by late as on Word.
Can Faith. Save him?
That's the question. If a brother or sister is
without clothing, he gives a natural example and in need of
daily food. And one of you says to him, go
in peace, be warm and be filled and yet, do not give them.
What is necessary for their body.
What use is that here? It is.
Ready. Ready?
Here's a tradition. Well, you know, I was going to
do this for you. I was going to get.
I was but you know, it's the thought that counts.
I thought not acted on. The demonstrate love is useless.
Now, there are some thoughts you should never act on because
their ungodly you should take them captive and cast them down.
But if there is a true brother in need, now this is not a
generic statement. You can't take this one
statement. Again, this is where we fell.
This is where you'll go back to the law.
Aw look what it says in my brothers in need, I gotta do it.
We'll wait a minute. Why are they in?
Need there are conditions here. So there's other things we have
to ask besides just taken one scripture and all of a sudden
through that script to decide if I for hear anybody's in the I'm
Gonna do that thing. Well, God may say don't do
nothing for them. Because did the prodigal son
have a need? Did the father, go?
Run him down when he found. No, no.
So there are some that God can say, I know, they haven't eaten.
I appreciate That's why you got to listen to him.
This is the law of Faith. Oh Dad they don't have anything
now. Lord I know your word says that
if my brother sister has a need I need to meet that need and the
Lord said yeah but you're not the one to meet at so don't do
it. Or, you know, they've been in
Rebellion for so many years. Now, you're not going against
the word, he's telling you how to apply, because there's a
whole lot of other scriptures. I can show you.
That can cut you off from individuals and love does that.
Love gives people what they want.
Don't look at me like that. I just refuse to be driven by
law. In the context that I'm working
the law myself. So if somebody comes in here
with any and tells me about to cut off their house and they
bout to, you know, evict them, I'm not going to allow myself to
be emotionally moved by that. Because I don't live by the way,
I feel. My first inclination is I want
to do something, but I'm constrained because I'm led by
the spirit. But what do you do is you'll
hear that so-and-so came by the church and ask for something and
we didn't give it to him when I ever asking I wonder what God
was saying about that. But instead hon, hey don't do
the word a bunch of Hypocrites. They don't care about people
over there, they don't get nobody of Second Chance.
Bro, if you're not here, 50 billion chances, most likely
have already happened. We've gone through a plethora of
chances. A plethora.
So you go ahead and pull that person right up here in front of
the church, and let's have that conversation.
Alleluia. And some of y'all like Amen to
that. Because, you know, that's a true
statement. And the one who says going
piece, right? Okay.
Verse 17, even, so if it has no works, oh, excuse me, Allah.
Ya. First 17, even so if it has no
works is dead being by itself. But someone may say well you
have faith, you have faith and I have Works.
Show me your faith without the works and I'll show you my faith
by my works, you believe that God is one.
Now, this is really important here because again, context, you
Believe that means you have faith.
No one is questioning that faith has come.
Faith comes by hearing. So faith is present, but that
doesn't mean it's active. Right?
Because we could do a funeral today and a body can be present.
But they're dead and we can honestly say, so.
And so was a tanker pay church today?
Yeah, in a casket Now, some will say you have it, it really
wasn't him. It was a skin suit and that was
the name given to them on the in the earth.
And so they were there specifically all fit in physical
form and that is not a lie. But without their spirit is
dead. Which means you can have faith
hear God's word about it, but not be doing it based upon his
voice specifically. Or not acting on the voice, you
just heard he goes on and says, you believe that God is one you
do? Well, the demons believe, also
believe and shudder. Now, that's a sad indictment
right there. If you really let that soak in
in essence. What James says, I got a bunch
of demonic Faith among the Brethren.
They believe as much as demons do.
Demons believe God, but they can't act on it.
They know what God's word says and they have to obey that now
meaning obeying this point. No demon wants to leave a
person. But if a child of God full of
authority by being led by the spirit cast that demon out, it
has to go. Now the demon wanting in faith,
the demon was in response to the word of God because the demon
can never believe God for anything.
Yeah, but it is required to follow whatever was said.
And even demons know that God's real but they can't exercise
what they know about him. And there are people in the
church that have demon faith. I mean that's what the Bible
says, right? I mean all you do is like, that
is not me and is very easy for it.
Not to be you be a doer of the word, right?
Just be a doer of the word, no problem.
Alright, verse 20, he says but are you okay?
But are you willing to recognize you foolish fella that faith
without works? Is useless was not Abraham Our
Father justified by works when he offered up, Isaac his son on
the altar now why did he take Isaac in the first place?
God, daddy said it. I would submit to you that if he
had actually acted on it completely, His son would have
died. Because Abraham knew God said
this, this is your Covenant child.
Now, he tells me to sacrifice him so in the course of taking
him, he concluded. That God must be able to raise
the dead. Because how would he cancel out
that word with this? So in essence, as he's going up,
the hill, he has convinced himself that God will raise my
son up but God never said are our promised him a resurrection.
He never said it. You could conclude that that
sounds, right? And he put his entire trust that
I will do what he says, but I'm convinced he has to be able to
raise now. Can God raise the Dead?
Lutely. But did God promised Abraham
that he would resurrect his son. Did he speak?
It never did. So when God says in the moment
he's about to drive that knife down.
If God had not if When God says stop, if Abraham would have
said, I refuse to listen to anything.
But God, Then around would have been in a Thicket.
And he would have said, but God raised him from the dead and God
says, I never had that for him. You're believing something I
didn't say. In this situation, my word was
always for Ram. That's why you can't live by
what you heard. You got to live my what you're
hearing. And many of us have sacrificed.
and we felt like we were close to God about something because
again some of our first experiences with God was through
a sacrifice instead of understanding something higher
than sacrifices there and it's called obedience.
Aren't you glad Abraham listen though?
Aren't you? Glad that he was into, although
he had a thought and a belief system in him.
That Hebrew says he believed he was so convinced that what he
was believing more than killing his son, was that this is the
Covenant child. His faith resided in.
He can't really leave the Earth. But I'll do whatever God says
even though it doesn't make sense to me.
So he began to conclude God must be able to do some and even
though he can that was never what God spoke to him, God had a
different plan coming up the other side of the mountain at
the same time. Shot up by C Theta by, cos
Theta, and many of us are missing what's coming up the
other side of the mountain, because we live God's word,
according to how we want to live it.
And if you live by the law, you'll die by the law.
I live by faith, but faith is law because faith is hearing
God's word and then acting on it because my faith is not going to
be dead. All right, let's conclude with
this Hallelujah. He goes on and says where we at
verse 22, 22. You see that Faith was working
with his works and as a result of the works, Faith was
perfected. And the scripture was fulfilled
and says, Abraham believed God and it was reckoned to him as
righteousness and he was called the friend of God.
And you see that Man is justified by works and not by
faith alone in the same way, was not Rahab the Harlot.
Also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent
them out by another way, don't you think James who walked with
the Lord, as one of his own personal disciples if he is and
he's Jewish, you understand, our he's of the nation of Israel.
Don't you think that if he understood this revelation of
God's, Grace through faith that here he is.
Talking to the church. That we still do something.
If doing something. Was legalism.
Are ya legalism, right? You're trying to put me under
bondage. How can I put you under bondage?
Whatever Jesus says Freedom comes cause it's the truth that
sets you free. How can I ever put you under
bondage? If I says the word says the Lord
says, And if you act on that, then the power contained within
that word will come to pass when you crucify your flesh and live
my faith. He says, I'm so he uses to one.
That's not even Old Testament. I mean, in the context of old
Covenant, neither one of them are actually in the law, Moses.
So what's he doing? He's predating this whole
context. That you know what?
You don't live by what is written.
We do live by what is written and what is spoken.
We act on it. He says verse 26 for just as the
body without the spirit is dead. So also faith without works is
dead. Why?
Cause Faith through love working causes things to come to pass.
This is why so important for us to understand how does this all
tie together because the greatest expression of God's
love is obey man has word. Well, the minute you obey him at
his word, you heard it was. Faith is activated.
Faith comes by hearing Faith shows up and now you act on that
word. Now, it ain't whether you're
good enough to act on it. That's not the point although
you've been made righteous and you are good enough, right?
But it's not you doing it. Is you doing what he said and
his saying is, what does it? But it's not independent of you
acting on trusting that what he says is, got enough power in it.
You can't take your workout You can't take your part of the
equation out. It says that Jesus worked with
them confirming. The word didn't say Jesus work
for them while they got to enjoy watching him.
Do everything. They got in some pretty rough
spots. That if what they said didn't
manifest, they look like a bunch of idiots or they would die.
But God I said, but God will see the deliverer because he acted
with him. So with that being said,
LastPass is I close with this Philippians 2:12 through 16
says. So then my beloved such, as you
have always obeyed, not as in my presence only but now much more
in my absence work out your salvation with fear and
trembling Now, this is not salvation to be born again by
itself. You understand, God wants to
deliver you out of all your troubles.
So, salvation is not a born-again experience, only
salvation means to be safe from any problem, you encounter.
So how do you work it out? You go to God, you seek him
about what to do and then you say what he says, Say what he
says are you hearing what I'm saying, okay, so you work it out
with fear and trembling right, verse 13 for it is God, who is
at work? Who's working in you.
He's at work in you both to Will and to work for his good
pleasure. So you understand the Holy Ghost
in you is not there to make you feel good.
He's not in you to make you feel good to give you Goosebumps.
To make you want to pass out and get a vision, a dream, he's not
in you to catch you up to the third heaven, he's not in you so
that you can see angels. He's in you.
At work, for these two things, both to Will, and to work for
his good pleasure without faith. It's impossible to.
So he's in you to work faith. And him in you is love, cause
God is love. So Faith, through love working.
He says, do all things without grumbling are disputing.
Oh My My My wait till we get to Wednesday.
So that you will prove yourself to be blameless.
Wait a minute, I don't have to do nothing.
Really must be some kind of Amber Alert.
That's annoying. My service.
Hallelujah. So he says you all things about
so that you will prove yourself to be blameless and innocent
children of God, above reproach in the midst of a crooked and
perverse generation among whom you appear as lights to the
world. Notice, if you let Faith through
love working in your life, this is how the world will actually
begin to see God not because we just feed them.
Because the world can feed the poor.
The world can build houses, the world can pay off mortgages.
And people are in emotional AA and very thankful yet, God's not
in any of it, God's only in it, if God spoke it to be.
So and we acted on it. And as a result of acting on it,
then light will actually show up.
You can't do something of God in and of yourself and expect God's
likeness show up in only shows up when you do it in obedience
to his word. Holding fast the word of life,
so that in the day of Christ, I will have reason.
I will have reason. I will have reason to Glory
because I did not run in vain or toil in vain.
I think that's like my prayer to you.
Is that you would allow love to work in You by faith through
faith believing God seek any warning to raised to the highest
so that at the end of my life, I won't feel like I've laid my
life down for a congregation in a community for no reason.
Because God wants so much for you because he loved you so
much. He gave his son for the express
purpose. That you could be born of his
spirit and he could put his spirit in you.
So love could manifest in you and you could hear the voice of
love and act on it. Willingly.
I'm not going to neglect so great, a Salvation by staying
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