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Thanks for checking out the 
Anchor Faith Message podcast 

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from St. 
Augustine, FL. 

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Now enjoy this message. 
All right, if you have your 

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Bibles turned over to Matthew 
24, Matthew 24 and verse 35, 

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Matthew 24 and verse 35 say 
doing my part, say doing my 

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part. 
Now, the couple weeks ago, we 

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started the message that we are 
currently in concerning the 

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power of a person's will. 
It is the most. 

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Powerful thing that God gave all
of His creation, His will, 

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willpower. 
And so we've already taken the 

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time to show that all of God's 
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God's creation, He's given the 
power of will. 

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We saw this in the realm of what
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or the Angelic realm. 
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there's Cherubims, seraphim. 
There are archangels, right? 

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And so, based upon the class of 
angels that there are, they have

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a will. 
So much so that one was able to 

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decide that they wanted to take 
over God the Creator's throne. 

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So they were not programmed 
created beings. 

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That were forced. 
So let me say it this way. 

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The angels that are flying 
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holy, Holy is the Lord are not 
forced to do so. 

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They choose to do so, and they 
choose to stay on the same song.

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They're not made to do it. 
They choose to do it because 

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they choose to do what they were
created to do. 

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Are you hear me? 
They've not been programmed. 

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He created them, and they chose 
not to abandon where God created

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them to be. 
They thrive in their purpose, I 

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said they thrive. 
Dr. Miles Monroe said this 

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concerning refrigerators. 
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refrigerator never designed it 
to be a coffin. 

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However, if you notice if one is
out on the side of the road, the

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majority of time they're taking 
the doors off because kids 

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inadvertently have gotten into 
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When they were set outside to be
discarded or just in someone's 

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yard, that was it not in use and
they saw it as a good hiding 

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spot and in return they died or 
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And that was never God, never 
the designer of the refrigerator

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or deep freezer. 
It was never their design for it

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to be a ultimately A coffin. 
What do you understand? 

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If you do not function as the 
manufacturer designed the 

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product, it can create death. 
So when the creator creates 

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every realm and every creature, 
he creates them with a ability 

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to thrive in the environment and
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A lion can swim, but you drop a 
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Pacific Ocean, it will 
eventually die because it cannot

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sustain swimming long enough to 
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It wasn't designed for water, 
although it can get in water. 

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Are you hearing me? 
So again, it's not God's fault 

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if a lion drowns, if he keeps 
his head underwater. 

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Because if the lion decides I 
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mean, I'm the king of the land, 
I want to become the king of the

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ocean and I'm going to go find 
me an orca and kill it. 

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Well, is it going to happen? 
No, because he's leaving his 

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domain. 
He's leaving where he was 

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designed to be and it's not what
God wants, but admit he does 

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this, then he violates the will 
of God for his life, although he

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could choose to do so. 
Are you hearing me? 

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So the same thing is with 
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God get built, made us in his 
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According to his design we are a
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In essence, we were given 
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like God did in the earth and on
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like God rules his realm in 
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And the minute we get out of 
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Yet God allows us the choice. 
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This is why God is just because 
God will let you do whatever you

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want to do, but he'll hold you 
accountable to the only thing 

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that has life, and it is His 
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You can choose life or and the 
obvious answer is should be, 

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should be obvious. 
However, God doesn't make us do 

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death, so we've been dealing 
with because it's the reigning 

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spirit. 
It's the year we want to talk 

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about the reigning spirit, and 
in order for us to be able to 

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function with the reigning 
spirit, which is greater is he 

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that's in me than he that's in 
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If you're going to have the 
reigning spirit dictate you to 

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have a reign to reign in life, 
you are going to have to yield 

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your will to the will of the 
Holy Spirit, of which the will 

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of the Holy Spirit is the will 
of Jesus and the will of Jesus 

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is the will of his Father. 
Now Jesus has a will that he 

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chooses to not accept above his 
own fathers, just like the Holy 

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Spirit has a will that he 
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Jesus. 
Are you hearing me? 

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So as a result of that they are 
always in unison because they 

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know the will of the Father is 
where life exists and we want to

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maintain life, Not only life, 
but like everything that is good

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is there. 
We saw last week that in Him 

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there is no darkness. 
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evil because God is not evil. 
There's not a yin and Yang about

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our Father. 
Our Father is only good, only 

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light, only just. 
Are you hearing me? 

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So because of this, we've talked
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Because in the last of the last 
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that there will many, some will 
fall away from the faith, giving

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heed or paying attention to the 
doctrines of demons and seducing

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spirits. 
And so we're kind of knocking or

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dealing with a demonic thought, 
which is God is in control, OK? 

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And the reason we're dealing 
with this is because God 

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controls what God controls. 
But God does not control 

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everything because we are giving
God credit for stuff God's not 

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even involved in. 
In fact, He's worked everything 

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out so that you don't have to 
get involved in that, nor does 

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it have to happen. 
God is in control of His word. 

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Now if we would take a step back
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which simply means to have power
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or, here it is directing 
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Over. 
Most people when we say God is 

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in control, we say it's the ACT 
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Like God is actually controlling
every situation going on which 

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means if bad happens, God 
controlled that or we say it 

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this way he allowed it. 
In essence, God is authorizing 

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it. 
God is wants it to take place in

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your life because we use this as
such a blanket statement. 

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However, if we use the word 
control as influence, now God 

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does do that. 
He is trying to influence you so

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that you'll choose life. 
I said you'll choose life 

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because God in his creation, 
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although he communicated how 
things would grow, reproduce and

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all that in the in the context 
of those who have free will, He 

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allows you to have free will 
even at the expense of you going

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against what he. 
Says. 

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And what's so awesome about the 
love of God is even though he 

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knows you will go against it, he
provided the way for you to get 

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back in to obeying. 
But if you don't get back into 

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obeying, then you'll reap the 
consequences of disobedience and

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rebellion. 
And it's not because he 

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controlled you to do that or He 
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You chose so when someone. 
Says I can't believe a loving 

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God would put people in hell. 
He doesn't. 

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They all choose to go because 
they chose not to accept Jesus 

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as Lord. 
They chose to be God themselves.

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And he said there will be no 
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So I'm obligated to my word, 
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telling me what to do, that 
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Because I am the source of life.
That's again the clay telling 

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the Potter. 
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All right? 
So God is not controlling 

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everything on the planet. 
What he controls is his word. 

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He always does his word. 
His word always comes to pass. 

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Again, how can God be 
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And we read Luke Chapter 8. 
It mean controlling everything. 

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Luke chapter 8, verse 11 through
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Let me read the Matthew. 
I'm sorry I never read that. 

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Matthew 2435 says this. 
Heaven and earth will pass away,

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but my words will not pass away.
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Because he does his word. 
I said he does his word. 

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Now with that being said, Luke 
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it says Now the parable is this,
The seed is the word of God. 

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And heaven and earth will pass 
away, but his Word will not pass

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away. 
I said It will not pass away. 

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So the seed is the word of God, 
the Word of God which God 

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controls and makes sure comes 
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Pass. 
He goes on and says Those beside

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the road are those who have 
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Then the devil comes and takes 
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so that they will not believe 
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Verse 13. 
Those on the rocky soul are 

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those who, when they hear, 
receive the word with joy, and 

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these have no firm root. 
They believe for a while, say a 

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while, and in time of temptation
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Away. 
The seed which fell among the 

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thorns. 
These are the ones who have 

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heard, and as they go on their 
way, they are choked with 

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worries and riches and pleasures
of this life and bring no fruit,

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say no fruit, no fruit to 
maturity doesn't mean they don't

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bear fruit. 
It just has no maturity, which 

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means it doesn't reach the place
that you can taste and see that 

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it's good. 
It reminds me of one time when I

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peeled a banana off one of my 
banana trees because, you know, 

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it wasn't turning yellow and I 
didn't. 

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I hadn't studied how to harvest 
the bananas. 

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And so I end up pulling them 
off, right? 

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And I'm like, OK, well, let me 
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And so I bit into this banana 
and there was no, no moisture in

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this banana. 
It sucked the moisture out of my

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mouth. 
I thought I was going to swallow

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my tongue. 
It was the most bitter, sticky, 

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icky thing I've ever tasted in 
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It was a banana. 
I could peel it, I could bite 

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into it, but it was not mature 
and it made me spit it out. 

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It was a banana off a banana 
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I knew it by its fruit, but it's
fruit was nasty and I spit it 

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out. 
Didn't want nothing to do with 

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the rest of the fruit on that 
whatever that's called when it 

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produces that little thing, you 
know, I'm like they're the. 

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I'm not even trying another one.
Get thee behind me, Satan type 

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stuff, right? 
I mean, this is nasty. 

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But it's because it's not 
brought to what maturity now. 

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I learned later on how to do 
that and that same tree. 

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When I learned what I was 
supposed to do, I ended up 

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peeling that banana off. 
Man, it was the man they were 

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so. 
Sweet. 

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They were amazing. 
So it wasn't the trees fault in 

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and of itself. 
When when I say that it was 

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because I mean I the part I 
needed to play with it, our 

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understanding what needed to 
take place right in that because

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I didn't do my part then it 
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And this is the problem we have 
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God will do His part. 
The question is, will you do 

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yours? 
Verse 15 says, But the seed in 

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the good soil, These are the 
ones who have heard the word in 

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an honest and good heart. 
And hold fast, hold it fast, 

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bear fruit with perseverance. 
So there's nothing wrong with 

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the sower, because the sower has
sown seed. 

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Some fell to the wayside, some 
among rocky soil, some among 

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thorns, and some in good ground.
There's nothing wrong with the 

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sower. 
There's nothing wrong with the 

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sea 'cause the same seed he was 
pulling out, or she was pulling 

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out of the bag and sowing, went 
into the good soil and produced 

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good fruit. 
The problem was, was this the 

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soil or what received the word? 
And this is how it is with 

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belief. 
God's not in control of how 

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you're receiving it. 
You're in control of how you're 

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receiving it. 
You know, sometimes people can 

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come here and not receive 
anything that's happening 

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because they're offended with me
personally, and offences can 

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happen in multiple ways. 
One, they could be through 

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familiarity, not because I've 
actually done anything. 

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They just hurt me for so long. 
They just treat me like I'm 

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anybody else. 
And you know, the minute I start

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saying something that they've 
already heard, they're checking 

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out, they're spending too much 
time doing this on their phone, 

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They're distracted by all these 
particular things and they're 

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not listening anything. 
I'm saying it could be that, you

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know, a correction had to be 
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they didn't particularly move in
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that I'm aware of it. 
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it and reconciled it, the enemy 
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oh, but they keep remembering 
oh, you know, they're still 

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treating you this way, you know,
and and and lying to them. 

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And as a result of that, they're
not receiving anything. 

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I'm saying and it's not because 
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life changing. 
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church, you know, I had people 
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my age now at 53 or a little bit
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when I started a great church I 
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because of how young I was. 
They despise my youthfulness and

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it was nothing wrong with the 
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It was their ability to receive 
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It couldn't bear fruit. 
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years that when we were so 
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wanted me to be the last 
minister that they felt the move

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of God in that they were trying 
to put me in the image of that 

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last pastor instead of letting 
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And when I wouldn't put together
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God they were in. 
Because it's been so long since 

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they've been in church, It 
wasn't there was nothing wrong 

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with the seed, nothing wrong 
with the sower. 

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It was the person receiving. 
Are you hearing me? 

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So then, if God's in control, 
don't you think he could make a 

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tree bear fruit among thorns? 
Or that he can make a tree bear 

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fruit among the rocks? 
Because we say, well, God can do

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anything, so even if it's in the
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bit, God can still do it. 
God doesn't violate his word and

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God doesn't violate your heart. 
God doesn't violate your 

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hearing. 
Although the seeds there for you

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to grow develop, but it's up to 
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service, some are going to leave
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that was so powerful. 
Oh, it changed my life. 

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It was so good. 
Others would be like, whatever, 

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whatever. 
It's true. 

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This is why when pastors ask me 
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church, I think it's the 
stupidest question on the face 

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of the planet. 
Because my question is, is how 

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many people are actually 
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That's the real question, 
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there's five people or 100,000 
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If I have 5 people and all five 
of them are applying it, I would

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rather have 5 people and then 
all five apply than 100,000 that

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none of them. 
Because we changed the world. 

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With five doers, we can just 
look like we're doing something 

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with 100 million. 
No, They're known by their 

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fruit, and their fruit is known 
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Are you hearing me? 
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enough. 
If it's not matured and it 

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tastes, and it actually tastes 
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Are you hearing me? 
So God cannot force anyone 

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against his will, but only 
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And that's what he does. 
So the will is the power to 

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control one's own actions and 
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manifested as desiring, 
choosing, or intending to 

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determine by an act of choice. 
And everyone in this room has a 

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choice, determines and every one
of us. 

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This will is always being 
bombarded, always. 

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Thoughts are always coming and 
attacking it, talking to it. 

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Speaking to it always. 
I mean, you know, you have to 

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will to not check your Instagram
in here. 

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You have to will. 
To do that. 

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Because the minute you're 
looking at your Bible on your 

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electronic device and a 
notification pops up, you have 

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to be intentional to not look at
it. 

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If you look at it. 
Did it make you just 'cause it 

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notified you? 
Didn't mean it was telling you? 

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You better check me. 
In fact, the notification 

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doesn't move your Bible screen 
off and put it on and say you're

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looking at me now, 'cause if 
that was the case, you'd never 

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find your Bible app. 
So many notifications would be 

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running through your phone that 
you'd be constantly seeing all 

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your notifications. 
You know, I have this little, 

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I'm a little. 
In a in a term known in the 

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world, OCDI don't like the 
little red dot, you know, circle

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that tells me I need to deal 
with something, right? 

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I mean, I want to eliminate the 
red dot, even if I have no 

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interest. 
I just don't show me that I got 

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something, get rid of the thing.
Let's go on. 

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Right. 
So that's why I don't follow a 

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whole lot of people, because I 
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where I got to. 
Go on and deal with stuff. 

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Amen. 
But you're having to make a 

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choice. 
I said you have to make a 

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choice. 
You know, you have to make a 

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choice to be intentional, to 
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worked a third shift job, you 
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well, I'm here, Arne. 
Look at all these people here. 

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Ain't none of them work all 
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Only a handful in this room. 
They don't know what I've been 

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suffering. 
You know what if I was a nap a 

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little bit in class? 
I mean, God, I'm here, Arne. 

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I mean, I did show up. 
I mean, are you going to receive

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anything with that attitude? 
No. 

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You have to be intentional. 
So I had to be intentional. 

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I had to say I got to get up. 
I'm going to have to go stand up

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in the back of class. 
If I just keep sitting here, I'm

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going to fall asleep. 
I'm just. 

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And much as I'm fighting it and 
you know what the ugliest faces 

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in the planet are? 
The one who's falling asleep and

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trying not. 
To. 

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You know, I mean videotape your 
spouse falling asleep but trying

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to stay awake. 
I mean, do it here in service 

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because it's happening. 
And then you just say see what 

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you look like in service today. 
You say pastor sees me. 

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Honestly, I don't see you 
because I don't really pay that 

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much. 
Attention to your face. 

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Because if I did, I wouldn't 
preach. 

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I would assume you all are 
offended because I don't have a 

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bunch of people going. 
This is amazing. 

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I love this. 
Come on, preach to me, pastor. 

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I love this. 
No, you're not looking like 

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that. 
OK, I'll preach this anyway. 

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And the more your face gets like
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Because when you're plowing 
ground and it gets rocky, man, 

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you come with hammers, you come 
with chisels, you come with 

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pounding. 
You know if it's flowing easy 

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and it is easy. 
If it gets hard, just know 

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somebody has got some hardness 
kicking in service. 

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We need to pray for them. 
We need to get them some 

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breakthroughs so Patrick can 
move on to some lighter things. 

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Hallelujah. 
First Thessalonians that preach 

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fast, so thank you. 
Get participation now. 

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All right. 
First Thessalonians 523 says now

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may the God of peace himself 
sanctify you entirely, and may 

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your spirit, soul and body be 
preserved complete without 

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blame, at the coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ. 

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Again, just because you can 
control, because again, you are 

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deciding what you decide. 
God can influence you with the 

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right choice, but you ultimately
choose. 

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And you may in your three-part 
being have something really 

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well, but in the other two parts
not. 

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Again, some people know how to 
yield to the Spirit really good 

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in service when they get among 
other believers and the worship 

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begins to go and they begin to 
tap into God and they'll sing 

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and shout and run and dance man 
and they'll be in church and 

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they'll Amen everything. 
But then the minute they leave 

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and get outside the church body,
because they don't know how to 

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make their will get their soul 
together, then if they hear bad 

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news, their emotions will over 
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Everything they know in the 
spirit. 

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They'll begin to speak, hurt, 
speak doubt, speak, worry. 

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They'll begin to cry over 
situations. 

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They'll let situations devastate
them emotionally, even though 

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emotionally they will be 
distraught. 

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But if you talk to them, they're
like, I know God's going to take

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care and I know it well. 
Then why are you crying so much?

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Why are we whining? 
Why do I hear this emotional 

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response from your soul, 
although you're telling me from 

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your spirit God's got it? 
How come your soul is not lining

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up with your spirit? 
Well, OK, we may have a control 

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here in the spirit realm, but we
do not have willpower in our 

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soul. 
Then we need to have willpower 

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in our body. 
Lord, I need you to heal me. 

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And sometimes the Lord's like, 
quit eating this or that. 

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Lord, I have this and he's like,
well, you're going to need to 

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control how you're eating this. 
Amen. 

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You can say God can heal you of 
cancer, but if you're smoking 

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cigarettes, how's this again? 
Well, God's in control. 

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If he wants me to be healed of 
cancer and emphysema, he'll do 

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it. 
He'll do it all the while you 

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get to enjoy your cancer at 
sucking your nicotine. 

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I mean, you see what kind of, 
say, control God has. 

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Yet God's not overriding your 
will to continue to put 

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contaminants in your body that 
hinders the natural order of 

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your body. 
And let me tell you, God's 

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already doing a lot for you 
because he's already said if you

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take any deadly poison, it won't
harm you. 

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I mean, there's a lot of stuff 
that's in our United States, the

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way we do food that's harmful 
enough. 

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And thank God that he put that 
in there to help us along the 

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way. 
And when our spirits alive, it 

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can do a lot for our body, it 
can permeate through, but we 

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still have to choose how much 
we're putting in here, what 

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we're putting in here and how 
often we're putting in here. 

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And that's not God's in control.
That's now, nobody wants to talk

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about this, but that's all 
right. 

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I'm the pastor that will. 
I have no problem with this 

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because he wants to sustain you 
with a long life. 

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See, here's another thought 
process. 

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Well, you're going to live as 
long as you want to live. 

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That's not true. 
Well, God's got your days. 

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Well, he actually said through 
Paul in the Corinthian letter. 

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He says some sleep early, which 
means they shouldn't be in the 

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grave. 
It wasn't God's ordained time. 

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Well, you know, when you go, you
go. 

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No, you can accelerate that 
process. 

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In fact, there are many that 
stand before the Lord. 

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And he's like, what are you 
doing here now? 

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It's not that he didn't know you
were coming. 

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It's more like you shouldn't be 
here. 

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What? 
You shouldn't be here. 

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But I called on your name. 
Well, yes, you're born again, 

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but you shouldn't be here. 
You're early. 

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You're early. 
What do you mean I'm early? 

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I thought you. 
You know you. 

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I thought it was my time. 
You were in control. 

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I wasn't in control of your 
date. 

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You were OK. 
I mean, that's how the scripture

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talks. 
We can lengthen our days and we 

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can get them shortened based 
upon how we respond. 

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You want long life? 
It says obey your parents. 

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What's it imply? 
If you're rebellious, you 

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shorten your days and that's not
God, that's you controlling your

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calendar on the planet. 
You're controlling it. 

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You know some parents are out 
living their kids. 

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Could it be that the reason 
you're out living your kids is 

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because your kids have been so 
rebellious they can't have? 

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The promise of long life. 
Oh, I'm preaching good now, but 

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that's all right. 
Because why? 

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We take certain thoughts to such
an extreme that it begins to 

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apply across so many areas. 
And demonic spirits have picked 

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up and have convinced the Church
of all kinds of things that 

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aren't even reality. 
No, this is a Berean church. 

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We go search the scripture for 
ourselves to see it. 

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So we're not letting anybody. 
I don't care who it is. 

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I mean, Paul was so adamant 
about this. 

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He said, now listen, if I come 
back and preach to you a 

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different Jesus, I am accursed 
in essence, don't ever, just 

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because I was rightly dividing 
at any time of my ministry, 

449
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assume I am still doing the same
thing. 

450
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:11,320
You better judge this thing. 
You better study this. 

451
00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:13,320
You better get in the scripture 
of yourself. 

452
00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:18,200
You better make sure the Holy 
Ghost is saying that right. 

453
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:22,520
But most people sit in churches 
and believe everything the 

454
00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:28,360
person on the platform says 
because they say the Lord 

455
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:29,080
showed. 
Me. 

456
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:32,920
Well, they know more know how to
hear the Lord than you do. 

457
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:37,200
That's why you assume they're 
right and you want them to be 

458
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:40,240
right because you want to hear 
from God, but you won't take the

459
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:41,960
time to do it. 
You want someone else to put 

460
00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:47,400
forth the effort now, not you. 
But you understand all right. 

461
00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:54,920
So again, we have the willpower 
for our whole life. 

462
00:29:56,760 --> 00:30:02,640
How well you are in life is only
dependent on you. 

463
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:12,720
So this eliminates your ability 
to say, well, I can't be or I 

464
00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:21,160
couldn't because of that does 
not exist in the Bible, Whatever

465
00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:27,800
God destined you to be, no. 
One can stop you, but you no 

466
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:34,320
one, no one, even if you have a 
tyrannical leader, can't stop 

467
00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:39,320
you. 
Even if you have was brought up 

468
00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:41,800
in the worst environment, can't 
stop you. 

469
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:46,960
Doesn't matter if the devil 
personally comes to your house 

470
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:58,120
daily, rings your doorbell, 
doesn't stop you, don't stop 

471
00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:01,520
you. 
There's no excuse for you not to

472
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:04,440
fulfill God's plan for your 
life, except for you. 

473
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:06,640
Will you be wronged in this 
life? 

474
00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:08,640
Yes. 
Will the devil come after you? 

475
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:11,880
Maybe. 
Maybe 'cause he ain't coming 

476
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:13,200
after everybody. 
Cause #1. 

477
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:16,240
He's not omnipresent, which 
means most of the people he's 

478
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:18,120
not coming after, 'cause they 
haven't even conquered the 

479
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:19,440
flesh. 
And there's no reason to even 

480
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:25,160
show up at your house. 
There is no Satan showing up at 

481
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:28,480
your house when you've not 
learned how to rule your own 

482
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:32,520
flesh if you haven't learned how
to rule you. 

483
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:40,040
He doesn't have to come if 
you're already making excuses. 

484
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:43,600
He doesn't have to show up. 
So y'all need to go out there 

485
00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:45,640
and read Kyle's Crows and 
constellations. 

486
00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:47,920
You need to go buy the book. 
If you hadn't read it, you need 

487
00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:49,480
to go get it. 
If you've read it, you need to 

488
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:52,000
obviously read it again. 
If you start thinking, Oh well, 

489
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:54,680
you know, so and so did I, and I
can't believe and now I can't. 

490
00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:56,240
Many. 
You say I can't then that and 

491
00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:58,080
you're associated because of 
someone else. 

492
00:31:59,880 --> 00:32:02,200
Now someone can stop a process. 
For a bit. 

493
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:07,560
Someone can try to delay in 
effect, that can happen, but 

494
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:13,120
they can't overcome you or the 
purpose God has for you, ever. 

495
00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:18,200
Because if you're doing the word
God told you to do, it's going 

496
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:21,720
to come to pass. 
Galatians chapter 5, verse 16 

497
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:24,120
through 25 says this. 
We said this last week. 

498
00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:25,480
I'm going to expand a little bit
more. 

499
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:27,520
Let me just read it and then 
we'll come back. 

500
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:29,960
But I say, walk by the Spirit 
and you will not carry out the 

501
00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:32,160
desires of the flesh. 
For the flesh sets its desires 

502
00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:33,840
against the Spirit and the 
Spirit against the flesh. 

503
00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:36,240
For these are in opposition to 
one another, so that you may not

504
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:38,760
do the things that you please, 
but if you are led by the 

505
00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:40,080
Spirit, you are not under the 
law. 

506
00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:42,840
Now the deeds of the flesh are 
evident, which are immorality, 

507
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:46,400
impurity, sensuality, idolatry, 
sorcery, enmity, strife, 

508
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:50,840
jealousy, outbursts of anger, 
disputes, dissensions, factions,

509
00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:54,960
envying, drunkenness, carousing,
and things like these. 

510
00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:58,880
Of which I forewarned you, just 
as I have forewarned you that 

511
00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:02,280
those who practice, they 
practice, practice such things 

512
00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:07,760
will not inherit the Kingdom of 
God, but the fruit of the 

513
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:10,840
Spirit. 
Is Lovejoy peace, patience, 

514
00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:13,760
kindness, goodness, gentleness, 
faithfulness, gentleness, 

515
00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:17,680
self-control, self-control? 
What? 

516
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:23,520
self-control? 
Against such there things there 

517
00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:26,920
is no law. 
Now those who belong to Christ 

518
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:31,040
Jesus have crucified the flesh 
with his passions and desires. 

519
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:38,120
If we live by the Spirit, let us
also walk by the Spirit. 

520
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:43,000
So we see here in Galatians that
it starts out. 

521
00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:46,280
I say walk by the Spirit and you
will not. 

522
00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:50,080
Who's responsible to walk by the
Spirit? 

523
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:52,880
Is God making you walk by the 
Spirit? 

524
00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:56,400
Is God behind you? 
Come here, Rick. 

525
00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:57,000
Come on. 
Come here. 

526
00:33:57,160 --> 00:33:59,280
Come here. 
This is what people are at. 

527
00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:01,400
God's in control. 
Does God love Rick? 

528
00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:04,440
Does he love him? 
Does he only want what's best 

529
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:06,720
for him? 
Does he want him to thrive in 

530
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:09,480
life? 
OK, now we get to the other 

531
00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:11,760
side. 
Everything here going forward is

532
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:14,520
going to produce life for you, 
and God wants you to have it. 

533
00:34:14,679 --> 00:34:16,440
Now, how's he going to get 
there? 

534
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:23,080
We think that God's doing this 
'cause he's in control. 

535
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:26,080
Now come back and resist me a 
little bit, because everybody's 

536
00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:27,120
always resisting the Lord. 
Ready. 

537
00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:29,040
Go. 
That this is what God's doing. 

538
00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:30,800
Oh 'cause he's stronger than I 
am. 

539
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:32,400
Go ahead and try a little bit 
better than that, you know? 

540
00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:34,360
There you go. 
That's what I'm saying. 

541
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:35,520
Because that's what they're 
really doing. 

542
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:38,480
And we're like doing this right?
And that God's going to make 

543
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:41,199
because he's in control, you're 
going to get the blessing. 

544
00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:46,679
My God, you're going to get the 
blessing, right. 

545
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:54,440
Come here. 
Or we think it looks like this, 

546
00:34:54,639 --> 00:35:02,960
that the Lord takes us and puts 
us there. 

547
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:05,560
Why? 
Because we listen to the lie of 

548
00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:09,600
the little poem that God's 
footprints are the only ones in 

549
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:15,120
the sand. 
And then when He picked us up 

550
00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:23,120
and carried us. 
OK, come here. 

551
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:27,520
You want you want to know why 
there's one footprint in the 

552
00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:31,960
sand is because his foot is my 
foot. 

553
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:37,960
He don't step except in the 
place I've already stepped there

554
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:41,360
should have never been to. 
So why do we think there's two 

555
00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:49,440
during the good times? 
And we have built false 

556
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:57,800
doctrines off that poem because 
Jesus said we are in Christ. 

557
00:35:57,800 --> 00:36:02,960
We are one, we're one bot. 
There is no such thing as an 

558
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:05,400
army of us running with our own 
little footyprints. 

559
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:11,480
So he is to be LED. 
You want to go to life? 

560
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:16,880
And follow me. 
Right. 

561
00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:24,040
And he has to do this with his 
own free will. 

562
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:31,080
I'm not making you I can you 
still back there? 

563
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:34,360
We still coming? 
Because I'm leading you in the 

564
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:40,240
paths of righteousness. 
You can be seated. 

565
00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:44,920
You see what I'm saying? 
Yet all the while we have given 

566
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:50,800
God this power that he doesn't 
have because he gave you power, 

567
00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:55,400
because he wants to know you 
love him. 

568
00:37:03,670 --> 00:37:12,550
Does your phone love you? 
I mean to tell you some of 

569
00:37:12,550 --> 00:37:14,590
y'all, even programmed. 
Some of you say, hey Siri, who's

570
00:37:14,590 --> 00:37:16,190
the most important person on the
planet? 

571
00:37:16,190 --> 00:37:19,910
It says your name. 
I mean you can program it to say

572
00:37:19,910 --> 00:37:23,710
that. 
But you know, you put it in in 

573
00:37:23,710 --> 00:37:25,870
order for you to reciprocate the
response. 

574
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:35,960
But yet we want to be like that 
to God, where we're forced to do

575
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:41,840
whatever he makes us. 
Well, that's not love, Love 

576
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:43,560
said. 
I'm going to make. 

577
00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:50,000
Them I'll give them a will and 
let them choose me or reject me.

578
00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:54,440
But I am life. 
And if they do what I say, it's 

579
00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:58,400
always life. 
Because I'm life, I'm light, I'm

580
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:02,040
love. 
But if they don't, then I'm just

581
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:06,160
because they chose not to love 
me. 

582
00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:12,240
And I know it. 
I know it by their actions, 

583
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:16,960
their behaviors. 
So if we walk by the Spirit, we 

584
00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:19,040
will not carry out the desires 
of the flesh. 

585
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:22,800
Well, that's why you can't, oh 
Lord, take away all this stuff, 

586
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:24,520
this temptation. 
He's not doing it. 

587
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:27,360
He doesn't have to do it because
he put the greater one on the 

588
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:29,720
inside of you. 
He's already giving you the 

589
00:38:29,720 --> 00:38:31,760
greatest spirit, the reigning 
spirit. 

590
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:34,760
But you have to choose to say 
not my will. 

591
00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:39,240
What do you say, Holy Ghost? 
So when it comes to immorality, 

592
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:42,960
impurity, sensuality, idolatry, 
sorcery, when it comes to 

593
00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:45,320
jealousy, outbursts of angers, 
when it comes to envy and 

594
00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:49,840
drunkenness and carousing these 
things that you could do it in 

595
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:51,720
any. 
Believer at any time that's born

596
00:38:51,720 --> 00:38:54,120
again, filled with the Holy 
Ghost speaking in tongues, 

597
00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:57,600
casting devils out, raising the 
dead. 

598
00:38:58,720 --> 00:39:05,960
Any at any time can say I'll 
choose the flesh absolutely. 

599
00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:09,840
And the only reason why people 
aren't fleshly is not because 

600
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:15,000
God made them not fleshly is 
that they chose to not side with

601
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:17,560
the flesh that the reigning 
spirit on the inside is saying 

602
00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:21,200
to your new spirit. 
Who can hear from God say, yeah,

603
00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:25,560
we don't do that anymore. 
You don't have, you're not 

604
00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:27,840
forced. 
It's not your nature. 

605
00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:35,160
You can choose otherwise you 
have the power to do life. 

606
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:37,560
So I'm I'm gonna encourage you 
to do it. 

607
00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:41,760
I'm gonna encourage you to do 
it. 

608
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:46,840
So one of the fruits of the 
Spirit is self-control, 

609
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:55,360
Self-control self. 
Control. 

610
00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:04,560
So if the fruit of the Spirit 
that's by the Holy Ghost can 

611
00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:08,640
give you self-control, then how 
can anyone be controlling you? 

612
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:17,080
How can any circumstance be 
controlling you 'cause God 

613
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:19,080
himself? 
God's giving you a piece of him 

614
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:21,520
which. 
Is I control myself? 

615
00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:24,720
You know why God never goes to 
evil? 

616
00:40:24,720 --> 00:40:26,680
Because he's always under 
control. 

617
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:33,240
He controls himself. 
In fact, some scholars believe 

618
00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:38,960
that the reason why the devil is
still trying to do what he's 

619
00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:45,240
doing today is because he's 
convinced himself that he can 

620
00:40:45,240 --> 00:40:51,080
make it so bad down here that he
can get God in his wrath to the 

621
00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:57,960
point that he steps over his own
righteous line and acts in anger

622
00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:00,920
because of what he's doing to 
people. 

623
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:10,720
He's convinced that if I can 
just get him to fail in his own 

624
00:41:10,720 --> 00:41:16,520
fruit then he can't be just and 
I can win. 

625
00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:19,840
Because he's already been 
defeated by Jesus, he's already 

626
00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:21,800
been stripped of his authority 
and power. 

627
00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:28,280
Yet he's convinced I can create 
such habit that it takes God 

628
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:32,720
even out of his own nature. 
Because of his compassion for 

629
00:41:32,720 --> 00:41:39,200
humanity, I'll move him to 
action beyond justice. 

630
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:53,040
Many believers try to step into 
situations because they're mad 

631
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:56,880
at something being done wrong, 
and it is something being done 

632
00:41:56,880 --> 00:42:00,840
wrong, but they move in without 
the legal authority. 

633
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:10,520
I just can't take it no more. 
And that's what the devil's 

634
00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:16,280
convinced will happen with God. 
The good news is he will not 

635
00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:26,200
lose self-control. 
Proverbs 2528 says this like a 

636
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:31,000
city that is broken into and 
without walls, is a man who has 

637
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:40,560
no control over his spirit. 
This this message is like so 

638
00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:47,640
liberating to me to know that 
God innately through creation, 

639
00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:55,160
put within me Now from the 
beginning, although Adam fell, 

640
00:42:55,160 --> 00:42:57,920
we all sinned. 
But now that I've made Jesus my 

641
00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:05,480
Lord, that will, that that 
caused me to denounce Satan, 

642
00:43:07,680 --> 00:43:13,040
same will, this will that was 
doomed to destruction that never

643
00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:14,760
went after God. 
No one goes after God. 

644
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:17,600
No, not one for all of sin and 
fallen short of the glory of 

645
00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:19,880
God. 
Yet within this capacity of 

646
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:27,920
will, I'm able to hear from 
heaven of a Savior that loved me

647
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:33,880
so much to keep His word about 
my original design that he was 

648
00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:38,280
willing to empty himself from 
His realm, get into my suit 

649
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:42,800
because that was legal interest 
to the earth, and take on my 

650
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:44,960
sin. 
So that I would have the 

651
00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:48,160
opportunity to be back in the 
Dominion. 

652
00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:51,280
The first Adam lost. 
And I could have enough 

653
00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:56,120
willpower to say you're the 
wrong dad. 

654
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:01,240
You've been deceiving me my 
whole life. 

655
00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:04,640
You've ran me down and I've been
in bondage. 

656
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:10,280
I it's been dark the whole time.
All the relationships, all the 

657
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:14,360
sex, all the drugs, all the 
pursuit of my own happiness. 

658
00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:18,120
The pursuit of wealth, The 
pursuit of everything, the the 

659
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:20,520
the lust of the eyes, the lust 
of the flesh and the pride of 

660
00:44:20,520 --> 00:44:24,600
life. 
All of it is vanity but God. 

661
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:31,680
And though I'm shackled and 
chained and a word with my own 

662
00:44:31,680 --> 00:44:40,360
will, I can say Jesus, I 
believe, and his finished work 

663
00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:46,400
that he had to do was able to 
come and meet my will and my 

664
00:44:46,400 --> 00:44:52,200
faith and break those chains 
off, shove that spirit man that 

665
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:56,960
was dead in me out of my skin 
suit and put in me a new spirit.

666
00:44:57,080 --> 00:45:00,080
And then have the reigning 
spirit move in with me and say, 

667
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:03,360
now let's get your mind cleaned 
up, let's get your body under 

668
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:07,680
control. 
You know, when I talk about the 

669
00:45:07,680 --> 00:45:10,360
body being preserved blameless, 
you know how many Christians are

670
00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:16,520
fornicating how many Christians 
are committing adultery? 

671
00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:20,000
It's We don't even have to talk 
about a food issue. 

672
00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:26,760
Let's talk about a sex issue. 
They're living like the rest of 

673
00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:30,440
the world trying to figure out, 
'cause I love them. 

674
00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:33,400
Well, you know, if I die, I can 
go to hell. 

675
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:39,160
If I can't keep their body in 
it, 'cause they don't have the 

676
00:45:39,160 --> 00:45:44,080
willpower to say I got to go. 
Home girl, I got to go home. 

677
00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:47,080
Quit playing that stuff. 
Don't play that song. 

678
00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:49,400
Do not play that song around me 
when I'm with you. 

679
00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:55,280
Because that is just faith being
built in my body. 

680
00:45:56,560 --> 00:45:58,320
Come on, you hear what I'm have.
You listen. 

681
00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:00,320
Y'all listen to secular music. 
Don't act like y'all don't 

682
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:05,240
listen. 
My wife and I went to Cracker 

683
00:46:05,240 --> 00:46:09,320
Barrel yesterday. 
I like Cracker Barrel. 

684
00:46:09,320 --> 00:46:12,440
I love the breakfast. 
Right, right. 

685
00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:13,880
Mary John. 
Yeah. 

686
00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:20,680
However, they play country 
music, it's not my favorite at 

687
00:46:20,680 --> 00:46:24,080
all. 
OK, I like songs without words, 

688
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:31,280
but my wife and I were listening
to this country song and I we 

689
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:36,040
thought, my God, this is 
horrible. 

690
00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:40,360
Now, what's bad is I'm fixing to
tell some of you, 'cause you 

691
00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:42,800
already know it, 'cause you've 
listened to it already. 

692
00:46:44,240 --> 00:46:46,640
It was the first time my 
virgineers heard this song. 

693
00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:55,080
The whole song is about a guy 
and a girl hooking up because 

694
00:46:55,080 --> 00:47:03,920
they're trying to forget their 
exes, 'cause they both got 

695
00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:06,000
dumped, so they gonna get 
together. 

696
00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:13,920
I don't remember all the words. 
That's the gist. 

697
00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:17,360
And so I've never heard, but 
you've probably heard. 

698
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:19,800
You listen. 
It's getting in whether you're 

699
00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:22,480
trying to pay full attention, 
but you are paying attention 

700
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:27,520
more than you think or you hear 
what I'm saying so at. 

701
00:47:27,520 --> 00:47:34,080
The end of the day, I'm like, we
put stuff around us and then 

702
00:47:34,080 --> 00:47:36,160
we're like, I don't know why I 
acted like that. 

703
00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:43,600
What, 'cause you feeding? 
I said you're feeding. 

704
00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:50,040
We act like it's archaic when 
it's really just trying to live.

705
00:47:50,040 --> 00:47:54,560
Holy, 'cause our spearman's well
able to overcome sexual 

706
00:47:54,560 --> 00:47:57,440
temptation. 
But bro, don't. 

707
00:47:57,440 --> 00:48:01,840
Your body is not And if you feed
the fire. 

708
00:48:02,240 --> 00:48:06,000
Proverbs said how can a man take
fire in his chest and not get 

709
00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:08,200
burned? 
Well, I guess the Lord wanted us

710
00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:11,840
to sleep together before we got 
married or this wouldn't have 

711
00:48:11,840 --> 00:48:13,400
happened because God's in 
control. 

712
00:48:19,540 --> 00:48:24,220
All right. 
Proverbs 2528 again says like a 

713
00:48:24,220 --> 00:48:28,220
city that is broken into two and
without walls is a man who has 

714
00:48:28,220 --> 00:48:33,660
no control over his spirit. 
If you're born again, you have 

715
00:48:33,660 --> 00:48:43,560
no excuse. 
None. 

716
00:48:44,680 --> 00:48:51,520
No excuse to not thrive. 
None. 

717
00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:53,760
No excuse. 
You have none. 

718
00:48:55,520 --> 00:48:57,880
And don't Thank God You're going
to look at God one day and say, 

719
00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:00,360
Lord, it was just so hard. 
God's going to be like what? 

720
00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:02,880
How? 
How? 

721
00:49:03,920 --> 00:49:05,760
It was not. 
It was only hard because you 

722
00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:09,320
wanted it to be hard. 
You wanted it to be. 

723
00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:10,040
I. 
Mean. 

724
00:49:10,040 --> 00:49:11,400
The Lord was very clear when he 
said. 

725
00:49:12,080 --> 00:49:21,320
Take my yoke for it's easy. 
Now, I'm not going to say that 

726
00:49:21,320 --> 00:49:22,560
there's not trials and 
tribulation. 

727
00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:24,720
But those trials and tribulation
are not hard. 

728
00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:27,200
In fact, anytime I get under 
pressure, well, this ain't hard.

729
00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:29,240
I just say what God says about 
it. 

730
00:49:29,240 --> 00:49:32,200
This is not hard. 
There's the number one way of 

731
00:49:32,200 --> 00:49:34,120
escape. 
There's a way to do this. 

732
00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:36,720
This too shall pass. 
Because it wasn't here 

733
00:49:36,720 --> 00:49:39,360
yesterday. 
Didn't have this conflict 

734
00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:42,920
yesterday, but now here it is. 
But this too will pass. 

735
00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:47,600
I just got to find the way 
because I got a reign in spirit 

736
00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:52,040
and I'm going to will myself to 
his will because when I do his 

737
00:49:52,040 --> 00:50:00,200
will, his word Proverbs 1632 
says this he who is slow to. 

738
00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:04,840
Anger is better than the mighty,
and he who rules his spirit is 

739
00:50:04,840 --> 00:50:07,560
better than he who. 
Takes the city. 

740
00:50:08,520 --> 00:50:13,160
Joseph Benson said it this way. 
For the conquest of ourselves 

741
00:50:13,280 --> 00:50:19,080
and of our unruly passions 
requires more true conduct and 

742
00:50:19,080 --> 00:50:23,200
more steady, constant, and 
regular management than the 

743
00:50:23,200 --> 00:50:26,440
obtaining of a victory over the 
forces of an enemy. 

744
00:50:26,440 --> 00:50:32,120
I'm going to say that again, for
the conquest of ourselves and 

745
00:50:32,120 --> 00:50:37,840
our own unruly passions require 
more true conduct and more 

746
00:50:37,840 --> 00:50:42,600
steady, constant, and regular 
management than the obtaining of

747
00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:44,520
a victory over the forces of an 
enemy. 

748
00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:47,640
And I realize, you know what, I 
have to deal with me way more 

749
00:50:47,640 --> 00:50:53,800
than I have to deal with trials 
and tribulations, And out of the

750
00:50:53,800 --> 00:50:58,000
whole time I've been following 
God, I'm still not sure that the

751
00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:00,800
devil has shown up and tried to 
find me. 

752
00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:08,240
Do I think he has sent a few of 
his, you know, cohorts? 

753
00:51:08,240 --> 00:51:13,280
Yes, absolutely. 
But has he himself shown up? 

754
00:51:13,360 --> 00:51:17,320
Not sure. 
But if he ever does, I have a 

755
00:51:17,320 --> 00:51:19,600
word for him. 
It is written. 

756
00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:23,320
Are you hearing me? 
Because it's the same word that 

757
00:51:23,360 --> 00:51:26,720
Jesus used against him. 
Now, I'm not asking him to show 

758
00:51:26,720 --> 00:51:31,320
up, but I am saying this. 
I do know that he's working with

759
00:51:31,320 --> 00:51:34,680
cohorts to try to destroy this 
church because he's trying to 

760
00:51:34,680 --> 00:51:36,240
bring weapons against this 
church. 

761
00:51:36,360 --> 00:51:40,520
But what do I say? 
It is written No weapon formed 

762
00:51:40,640 --> 00:51:45,000
against the church will prosper.
The devil is not the Church's 

763
00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:46,600
problem. 
You are. 

764
00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:54,920
You are when you do not submit 
your will and control it to go 

765
00:51:54,920 --> 00:51:59,360
to His will. 
The only reason why the Church 

766
00:51:59,360 --> 00:52:01,480
has a problem. 
This is why the Lord said I 

767
00:52:01,480 --> 00:52:04,560
command you to love one another.
Now they love one another means 

768
00:52:04,560 --> 00:52:07,680
to keep each other in the word 
and be doers of the word. 

769
00:52:08,240 --> 00:52:10,240
Not saying I love you. 
I love you. 

770
00:52:10,240 --> 00:52:11,560
I love you. 
I love you. 

771
00:52:11,560 --> 00:52:12,600
I love you. 
I love you. 

772
00:52:12,640 --> 00:52:13,920
I love you. 
I love you. 

773
00:52:14,160 --> 00:52:19,400
That's not what he's saying. 
That's not what he's saying. 

774
00:52:20,320 --> 00:52:22,760
Nor is he saying to love one 
another, which means accept 

775
00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:26,960
everyone that's a brother but 
still practices sin and lives 

776
00:52:26,960 --> 00:52:29,320
sinly and acts like it's no big 
deal. 

777
00:52:29,440 --> 00:52:31,920
No, that's not how we're 
supposed to love that brother. 

778
00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:37,480
Bible has another way to love 
that brother, and that love is 

779
00:52:37,480 --> 00:52:43,080
to put them out. 
It's what it says that's loving 

780
00:52:43,080 --> 00:52:47,360
them and anyone can come back 
repenting. 

781
00:52:49,640 --> 00:52:54,520
Hallelujah, James, Chapter one, 
verse 19 to 22 Therefore my 

782
00:52:54,520 --> 00:52:58,400
beloved brother Y'all doing all 
right, let every man be swift to

783
00:52:58,400 --> 00:53:02,880
hear, slow to speak, and slow to
wrath, for the wrath of man does

784
00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:05,520
not work out the righteousness 
of God. 

785
00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:11,200
Therefore, putting aside all 
filthiness and overflowing of 

786
00:53:11,200 --> 00:53:15,560
evil, receive and meekness the 
implanted word which is able to 

787
00:53:15,560 --> 00:53:22,280
save your souls, but becoming, 
but become doers of the word and

788
00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:25,160
not hearers, only deceiving our 
own selves. 

789
00:53:25,640 --> 00:53:29,080
I love this and the reason I use
this context, because Proverbs 

790
00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:34,320
1632 said he who is slow to 
anger is better than the mighty,

791
00:53:34,320 --> 00:53:37,920
and he who rules his spirit is 
better than one who takes the 

792
00:53:37,920 --> 00:53:39,560
city. 
And most of the time we read 

793
00:53:39,560 --> 00:53:42,560
James and we say Beloved 
Brethren, verse 19, Let every 

794
00:53:42,560 --> 00:53:44,680
man be swift to hear and slow to
speaking, slow to wrath. 

795
00:53:44,680 --> 00:53:48,080
We stop there or we go on to the
next one and we say, you know 

796
00:53:48,160 --> 00:53:51,160
that for the wrath, man does not
work out the righteous of God. 

797
00:53:51,320 --> 00:53:55,720
Because when you're angry, when 
you are basically determining 

798
00:53:55,720 --> 00:53:59,360
I'm going to do what I want to 
do, then you can't hear what he 

799
00:53:59,360 --> 00:54:03,880
wants to do. 
That's why the wrath of man OK, 

800
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:07,160
does not work out the 
righteousness of God because I'm

801
00:54:07,160 --> 00:54:08,920
going to do it. 
This is how I feel about. 

802
00:54:08,960 --> 00:54:12,800
That's just how it. 
Is that's what I feel about 

803
00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:16,000
them, period. 
No, I'm not. 

804
00:54:16,680 --> 00:54:19,000
I mean, seriously, have you not 
had that conversation with the 

805
00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:20,600
Lord when he starts talking? 
I'm. 

806
00:54:20,600 --> 00:54:22,040
No, I'm not. 
No. 

807
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:25,080
I mean, you get kind of mad 
about it. 

808
00:54:25,080 --> 00:54:28,920
Like, really? 
Really. 

809
00:54:29,840 --> 00:54:36,360
You're going to make me do what 
I got apologize to her? 

810
00:54:37,320 --> 00:54:49,320
My wife, my husband, my kids, my
employer, my Mama, my sibling, 

811
00:54:50,520 --> 00:54:53,360
whatever. 
But if you're not then in 

812
00:54:53,360 --> 00:54:55,720
essence you can't work out the 
right and then it goes on and 

813
00:54:55,720 --> 00:54:59,240
says this therefore putting 
aside because when anger you're 

814
00:54:59,240 --> 00:55:05,040
going to if you don't deal with 
yourself will that is feeding 

815
00:55:05,040 --> 00:55:08,760
the emotions of the current 
situation you're in. 

816
00:55:08,800 --> 00:55:12,480
It's amazing how many born again
spirit filled run around the 

817
00:55:12,480 --> 00:55:16,240
church Hallelujah glorify God 
people that the minute someone 

818
00:55:16,240 --> 00:55:24,920
attacks your kids you go 
unrighteous, someone say 

819
00:55:24,920 --> 00:55:27,160
something about you personally 
you go off. 

820
00:55:28,120 --> 00:55:31,840
It's amazing how quick a 
person's emotional response 

821
00:55:32,440 --> 00:55:35,600
kicks in and he's like, if you 
would deal with this, then you 

822
00:55:35,600 --> 00:55:38,560
would put aside all filthiness 
and overflowing of evil. 

823
00:55:39,280 --> 00:55:41,240
Because here's the thing, if 
someone is actually doing you 

824
00:55:41,240 --> 00:55:45,240
wrong, the Bible tells you not 
to pay repay evil with evil. 

825
00:55:47,120 --> 00:55:49,000
Which means your forced response
shouldn't be like. 

826
00:55:49,800 --> 00:55:50,400
Ah, Bush. 
What? 

827
00:55:52,920 --> 00:55:54,360
I mean, we're like moving ahead 
like. 

828
00:55:54,360 --> 00:55:55,800
I'll take care of this. 
Stand out of the way. 

829
00:55:55,800 --> 00:55:58,320
Holy go. 
I got this, bro. 

830
00:55:58,320 --> 00:56:02,400
I got this one. 
No need for you to get involved.

831
00:56:03,200 --> 00:56:05,520
I know enough of your word that 
I don't need you to tell me 

832
00:56:05,520 --> 00:56:07,440
right now. 
I'll enact it on my own. 

833
00:56:09,520 --> 00:56:12,800
That's when you get into law. 
It's you interpreting the word 

834
00:56:12,800 --> 00:56:18,080
on your own merits? 
But he goes, look, receive in 

835
00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:23,520
meekness the implanted word 
which is able to what get your 

836
00:56:23,520 --> 00:56:24,960
emotions. 
Under control. 

837
00:56:25,480 --> 00:56:29,120
Hold on a minute. 
Holy goes whoosh, give me that 

838
00:56:29,120 --> 00:56:30,920
self-control real quick. 
Come on, give it to give it to 

839
00:56:30,920 --> 00:56:34,280
me. 
Just eat the fruit up. 

840
00:56:34,720 --> 00:56:37,680
I got this, I got this, I got 
this. 

841
00:56:38,120 --> 00:56:41,320
And the minute you yield to 
self-control, then now you're 

842
00:56:41,320 --> 00:56:44,440
obligating the Holy Ghost say 
I'll fulfill self-control, I'll 

843
00:56:44,440 --> 00:56:46,880
help you. 
And then when he gives you the 

844
00:56:46,880 --> 00:56:48,400
word to do, he said. 
Now I'm going to put the grace 

845
00:56:48,400 --> 00:56:49,440
in there. 
We going to get this done. 

846
00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:55,280
This is going to be amazing. 
And again, if it's not happening

847
00:56:55,280 --> 00:56:58,920
that way, it's nobody's fault 
but yours. 

848
00:57:01,560 --> 00:57:04,720
But become doers of the Word. 
Not hearers, only this. 

849
00:57:04,720 --> 00:57:05,840
Well, you know what this tells 
me? 

850
00:57:06,600 --> 00:57:10,600
That the Holy Spirit is always 
telling us the right way to do 

851
00:57:10,600 --> 00:57:13,720
it. 
Always. 

852
00:57:14,920 --> 00:57:20,600
The question is, do we do it or 
do we not? 

853
00:57:21,200 --> 00:57:25,600
And the minute we don't, we're 
deceived and we use scripture to

854
00:57:25,600 --> 00:57:30,600
justify our behavior. 
I'm not doing that. 

855
00:57:31,720 --> 00:57:34,560
I'm not doing that. 
I'm not doing that. 

856
00:57:40,200 --> 00:57:43,320
Hallelujah. 
Oh man, do I have time for this?

857
00:57:45,920 --> 00:57:48,360
We have a water baptism. 
Y'all right. 

858
00:57:48,360 --> 00:57:49,720
I mean, I won't be here for a 
few weeks. 

859
00:57:49,720 --> 00:57:50,800
Can I preach a little bit 
longer? 

860
00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:52,600
Just a tad longer. 
I'll go quick. 

861
00:57:52,880 --> 00:57:56,280
Ephesians 5. 
Let me just read this. 

862
00:57:56,280 --> 00:57:57,760
It should be pretty 
self-explanatory. 

863
00:57:57,760 --> 00:58:01,120
OK, I will interject as I go 
quickly. 

864
00:58:01,600 --> 00:58:05,800
Ephesians 5, verse one. 
Therefore be imitators of God as

865
00:58:05,800 --> 00:58:07,600
beloved children. 
So who's responsible for 

866
00:58:07,600 --> 00:58:11,760
imitating God? 
Can't make you imitate him and 

867
00:58:11,760 --> 00:58:15,280
walk in love, just as Christ 
also loved you and gave himself 

868
00:58:15,360 --> 00:58:18,240
up for us. 
And offering and a sacrifice to 

869
00:58:18,240 --> 00:58:22,320
God as a fragrant aroma, which 
means God was always looking for

870
00:58:22,320 --> 00:58:26,080
the way that we can bring 
restoration even though judgment

871
00:58:26,080 --> 00:58:30,480
needs to come according to this 
situation, However, I can do an 

872
00:58:30,480 --> 00:58:33,720
amendment and act a way so that 
I can cover the injustice. 

873
00:58:33,840 --> 00:58:37,360
And if we operate in this way, 
the injustice can be covered, it

874
00:58:37,360 --> 00:58:40,040
can be dealt with, it can be 
paid for, and then we can open 

875
00:58:40,040 --> 00:58:43,920
up this lifeline. 
In that situation, let's imitate

876
00:58:43,920 --> 00:58:47,680
God to do that. 
So he goes on and says this, but

877
00:58:47,680 --> 00:58:51,160
immorality, right? 
But immorality or impurity or 

878
00:58:51,160 --> 00:58:53,840
greed must never be named among 
you, as it is proper among the 

879
00:58:53,840 --> 00:58:57,800
Saints. 
There must be no filthiness OK 

880
00:58:57,800 --> 00:59:00,360
and silly talk or coarse 
gesturing which is not fitting, 

881
00:59:00,360 --> 00:59:03,400
but rather given of thanks. 
For for this you know with 

882
00:59:03,400 --> 00:59:07,560
certainty that no immoral or 
imper person or covetous man who

883
00:59:07,560 --> 00:59:10,040
is an idolatry has an 
inheritance in the Kingdom of 

884
00:59:10,040 --> 00:59:12,400
Christ and God. 
So these things should not be 

885
00:59:12,400 --> 00:59:15,800
habits around persons that are 
Saints. 

886
00:59:15,960 --> 00:59:19,240
And if they are, the Bible says 
they don't inherit it. 

887
00:59:20,000 --> 00:59:22,400
So don't think once saved I'm 
always saved and I can live like

888
00:59:22,400 --> 00:59:23,760
a hell yet and God's good with 
it. 

889
00:59:23,760 --> 00:59:26,600
That is not a true statement. 
That is a doctrine of demons. 

890
00:59:28,080 --> 00:59:31,320
Let no one deceive you with 
empty words, for because of 

891
00:59:31,320 --> 00:59:34,240
these things the wrath of God 
comes upon the sons of 

892
00:59:34,240 --> 00:59:35,880
disobedience. 
So anyone who tells you can do 

893
00:59:35,880 --> 00:59:39,640
whatever you want to do under 
grace, they're deceiving you and

894
00:59:39,640 --> 00:59:41,240
God's saying wrath is showing 
up. 

895
00:59:41,240 --> 00:59:42,760
So anyone who said, well, God's 
not mad at you. 

896
00:59:42,760 --> 00:59:46,520
God is mad at every action that 
is disobedient and he's 

897
00:59:46,520 --> 00:59:48,600
actually. 
Getting more angry. 

898
00:59:49,640 --> 00:59:51,880
He's storing it up. 
Don't like that. 

899
00:59:52,400 --> 00:59:54,400
Don't like that. 
I don't like that. 

900
00:59:54,680 --> 00:59:56,720
That is an injustice. 
That's not my word. 

901
00:59:56,880 --> 00:59:58,040
That's going to have to be dealt
with. 

902
00:59:58,200 --> 01:00:00,480
I'm going to deal with that. 
Oh, I'm going to come and show. 

903
01:00:00,560 --> 01:00:02,400
I'll show up here. 
Yeah, that's going to happen. 

904
01:00:02,520 --> 01:00:03,640
Oh, yeah. 
Keep going that. 

905
01:00:03,640 --> 01:00:05,040
Yeah, it's coming. 
I'm going to show. 

906
01:00:05,040 --> 01:00:07,120
I'm going to show you who I am. 
I'm going to tell you that I'm 

907
01:00:07,120 --> 01:00:08,640
holy. 
You're not going to mock me. 

908
01:00:08,720 --> 01:00:10,200
You sure ain't going to 
blasphemy my name. 

909
01:00:10,320 --> 01:00:12,320
No, you're not going to do that.
Oh, it's coming. 

910
01:00:12,440 --> 01:00:14,560
Oh, it's coming. 
And all the while he's doing 

911
01:00:14,560 --> 01:00:17,840
this, mercy's going out saying 
repent, repent, repent. 

912
01:00:17,880 --> 01:00:19,440
Because if you don't repent 
wrap. 

913
01:00:19,800 --> 01:00:23,120
Is coming, and it's coming with 
justice and it's coming 

914
01:00:23,120 --> 01:00:28,520
righteous, and it's going to 
deal with the ungodly, because 

915
01:00:28,520 --> 01:00:33,040
God is not going to let the 
ungodly snub the righteous and 

916
01:00:33,040 --> 01:00:35,600
act like it's OK. 
And it's a free pass. 

917
01:00:37,960 --> 01:00:42,200
So therefore do not participate 
or be partakers with them. 

918
01:00:42,720 --> 01:00:45,520
For you were formerly darkness, 
but now you are light, and the 

919
01:00:45,520 --> 01:00:46,920
Lord walk as children of the 
light. 

920
01:00:46,920 --> 01:00:50,160
So it's your responsibility to 
walk as children of the light. 

921
01:00:50,600 --> 01:00:52,800
God can't make you walk it, you 
have to walk it. 

922
01:00:52,960 --> 01:00:55,600
For the fruit of the light 
consists in all goodness and 

923
01:00:55,600 --> 01:00:58,280
righteousness and truth. 
Try to learn what is pleasing to

924
01:00:58,280 --> 01:00:59,800
the Lord. 
Do not participate in the 

925
01:00:59,840 --> 01:01:02,840
unfruitful deeds of darkness, 
but instead even expose them. 

926
01:01:03,040 --> 01:01:05,760
For it is disgraceful even to 
speak of things which are done 

927
01:01:05,840 --> 01:01:09,120
by them in secret. 
But all things become visible 

928
01:01:09,120 --> 01:01:11,240
when they are exposed by the 
life or everything that becomes 

929
01:01:11,240 --> 01:01:13,720
visible as light. 
For this reason it says awake, 

930
01:01:13,720 --> 01:01:16,440
sleeper, and rise from the dead 
and Christ will shine in you. 

931
01:01:16,440 --> 01:01:21,760
Therefore, be careful how you 
walk, how who walks, who walks? 

932
01:01:22,320 --> 01:01:24,160
God's not. 
Picking you up and carrying you.

933
01:01:24,160 --> 01:01:26,400
He's not forcing you. 
He's not pushing you down the 

934
01:01:26,400 --> 01:01:30,160
paths of righteousness. 
You have to walk it. 

935
01:01:30,760 --> 01:01:35,960
Walk as not as unwise but as 
wise, making the most of your 

936
01:01:35,960 --> 01:01:39,920
time because the days are evil. 
So then do not be foolish, but 

937
01:01:39,920 --> 01:01:42,040
understand what the will of God 
is. 

938
01:01:42,600 --> 01:01:47,080
See that, but don't be foolish. 
Understand what the will of God 

939
01:01:47,080 --> 01:01:50,120
is. 
Yield your will to His will, 

940
01:01:50,200 --> 01:01:52,920
because he will perform his will
and His will as life. 

941
01:01:53,320 --> 01:01:56,200
Do not get drunk with why for 
that is dispensation, but be 

942
01:01:56,200 --> 01:02:00,560
filled with the Spirit. 
Speak to one another with psalms

943
01:02:00,560 --> 01:02:03,880
and hymns and spiritual song, 
singing and making melodies with

944
01:02:03,880 --> 01:02:06,200
your hearts to God, always 
giving thanks to all things for 

945
01:02:06,200 --> 01:02:10,000
the name of the Lord, Jesus 
Christ, to God, even the Father.

946
01:02:10,000 --> 01:02:12,120
And be subject to one another in
the fear of the Lord. 

947
01:02:12,120 --> 01:02:15,840
I close with this passage Isaiah
55 starting in verse six. 

948
01:02:15,840 --> 01:02:17,480
Isaiah 55. 
We're going to put this in 

949
01:02:17,480 --> 01:02:18,480
context. 
Now. 

950
01:02:19,040 --> 01:02:20,880
Context. 
We preach this word all the 

951
01:02:20,880 --> 01:02:25,680
time, but here's the context. 
Seek the Lord while He may be, 

952
01:02:27,320 --> 01:02:31,240
which implies you can get to a 
place you can't find him. 

953
01:02:34,040 --> 01:02:40,440
Call upon him while he is Let 
the wicked forsake his way, and 

954
01:02:40,440 --> 01:02:44,640
let the unrighteous man his 
thoughts, And let the righteous 

955
01:02:44,640 --> 01:02:50,160
unrighteous man his, and the 
unrighteous man his, and the 

956
01:02:50,160 --> 01:02:54,120
unrighteous man his. 
And let him return to the Lord. 

957
01:02:54,120 --> 01:02:57,440
Verse 7. 
And he will have compassion on 

958
01:02:57,440 --> 01:03:03,080
him if he want forsakes his 
thoughts, and to our God, and he

959
01:03:03,080 --> 01:03:05,560
will abundantly pardon. 
Why verse 8. 

960
01:03:05,560 --> 01:03:11,120
Here it is. 
For my thoughts are not your and

961
01:03:11,120 --> 01:03:13,280
nor my your ways. 
My. 

962
01:03:13,880 --> 01:03:17,440
So what's he saying in context? 
Get rid of your thinking. 

963
01:03:17,520 --> 01:03:20,800
Get my thinking. 
Get rid of your will. 

964
01:03:20,840 --> 01:03:23,440
Get my will. 
This is not mystery. 

965
01:03:23,560 --> 01:03:25,480
Well, you know the. 
Lord's ways are higher than our 

966
01:03:25,480 --> 01:03:30,000
ways, brother. 
He's in control. 

967
01:03:30,120 --> 01:03:34,040
It always follows that first. 
Well, the Lord's ways are higher

968
01:03:34,040 --> 01:03:35,640
than our ways. 
His thoughts are higher than our

969
01:03:35,640 --> 01:03:37,200
thoughts. 
See, the Lord's in control. 

970
01:03:37,440 --> 01:03:41,160
We just don't know. 
He says in verse 6 abandoned 

971
01:03:41,160 --> 01:03:46,840
your thoughts go to the Lord, 
he's saying, Look, you want to 

972
01:03:46,840 --> 01:03:48,960
know what I'm thinking. 
You got to get rid of what you 

973
01:03:48,960 --> 01:03:57,480
thinking verse 10. 
And for as the heavens are 

974
01:03:57,480 --> 01:04:00,200
higher than the earth, so are my
ways, higher than your ways, my 

975
01:04:00,200 --> 01:04:04,600
thoughts, and your way thoughts.
For as the rain and the snow 

976
01:04:04,600 --> 01:04:07,840
come down from heaven, and do 
not return without watering the 

977
01:04:07,840 --> 01:04:11,640
earth, look at this, And making 
it bare, and sprout and furnish 

978
01:04:11,640 --> 01:04:16,360
sea to the sower, and bread to 
the eater, so will my word, 

979
01:04:16,400 --> 01:04:21,240
which goes forth from my mouth. 
It will not return to me empty 

980
01:04:21,440 --> 01:04:24,880
in essence, he says. 
I've given you the power to 

981
01:04:24,920 --> 01:04:28,280
will. 
And if your will will be my 

982
01:04:28,280 --> 01:04:32,920
will, if you're abandoned your 
thoughts and those actions and 

983
01:04:32,920 --> 01:04:37,040
take my thoughts and my actions,
then you put me in a position 

984
01:04:37,040 --> 01:04:41,000
where I will confirm that word 
in your life. 

985
01:04:41,200 --> 01:04:45,200
Always, forever and ever. 
Amen, forever. 

986
01:04:45,200 --> 01:04:46,840
Settled. 
It had come to pass. 

987
01:04:47,000 --> 01:04:50,240
Can't stop, won't stop. 
Will always be that way. 

988
01:04:50,360 --> 01:04:56,360
Because you control whether I 
can get in control of the word 

989
01:04:56,360 --> 01:05:03,120
in you. 
And if you'll get let me come 

990
01:05:03,120 --> 01:05:07,160
control what I control in your 
life, then it always. 

991
01:05:07,160 --> 01:05:08,680
Come to pass. 
Let's pray, Father. 

992
01:05:08,680 --> 01:05:10,000
We love you and we honor you. 
We thank you. 

993
01:05:10,000 --> 01:05:11,920
You're the King of Kings and the
Lord of Lords. 

994
01:05:12,920 --> 01:05:16,200
We praise you and we thank you 
for all that you're doing in and

995
01:05:16,200 --> 01:05:19,680
through the Church. 
And we thank you, Lord, that you

996
01:05:19,680 --> 01:05:22,720
do not violate the will even in 
the believer. 

997
01:05:25,200 --> 01:05:35,160
For Jesus says that there's one 
sin that cannot be pardoned, not

998
01:05:35,160 --> 01:05:37,120
only in this age, but the one to
come. 

999
01:05:37,120 --> 01:05:40,760
It's called blasphemy of the 
Holy Ghost, and blasphemy of the

1000
01:05:40,760 --> 01:05:47,240
Holy Ghost can only happen to a 
believer, which means a believer

1001
01:05:47,240 --> 01:05:52,880
can have a will to denounce 
Jesus after he's come through 

1002
01:05:52,880 --> 01:05:58,000
the cross. 
So what's going on in our lives?

1003
01:05:59,200 --> 01:06:06,720
Is because what we will it to 
happen and I will to just do his

1004
01:06:06,720 --> 01:06:13,720
will, and when I will to just do
his will, then I always have his

1005
01:06:13,720 --> 01:06:20,240
will for my life and he's not a 
respecter person. 

1006
01:06:20,920 --> 01:06:24,880
So everyone in this room right 
now can have the most fruitful 

1007
01:06:24,880 --> 01:06:29,080
life ever as you yield your 
thoughts to his thoughts. 

1008
01:06:30,160 --> 01:06:37,600
Don't ever let someone's 
thoughts or the enemy's thoughts

1009
01:06:38,400 --> 01:06:39,960
tell you. 
You can't. 

1010
01:06:42,120 --> 01:06:45,360
Because even when someone's 
thoughts and the enemy's 

1011
01:06:45,360 --> 01:06:49,120
thoughts come to your mind, they
still don't have the ultimate 

1012
01:06:49,120 --> 01:07:01,960
power you do. 
And our King gave us that. 

1013
01:07:03,560 --> 01:07:06,440
Which means His word is always 
going to work for my life, 

1014
01:07:06,800 --> 01:07:11,840
because I will to do His will no
matter what. 

1015
01:07:13,880 --> 01:07:17,200
I'm not going to let the 
emotions of the moment, the 

1016
01:07:17,200 --> 01:07:22,120
situation, the trial, the 
circumstance get me so 

1017
01:07:22,120 --> 01:07:29,360
distraught that I will not yield
to His will and make it mine. 

1018
01:07:30,680 --> 01:07:34,040
What you say is what I'll do, 
period. 

1019
01:07:35,840 --> 01:07:43,800
And God says I can work that 
because that's my word and I 

1020
01:07:43,840 --> 01:07:51,520
always do. 
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1021
01:07:51,520 --> 01:07:54,000
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