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Now enjoy this message. Pastor has been talking about
this is the year of the what the reigning spirit say.
I have a reigning spirit. Say it again like you mean it.
Maybe one more time. That sounds good.
So if you're born again, we know
that we have been given a reigning spirit, a spirit that
can always win. Come on.
A spirit that can always conquer Amen.
A spirit that is always in victory, no matter what it seems
like. Amen.
And so Pastor talked about that last week and I don't have time
to go through all of that, but you need to go back and listen
to the last few services on the reigning spirit because we are
going to have to realize that we.
Have. To walk in that reigning spirit,
for us to be able to navigate in this life to come, Amen.
In everything that's going on in the world, we need to know that
we have the victory no matter what's going on.
We have the victory because we have the reigning spirit.
Amen. Hallelujah.
And in Romans Chapter 5, I want to start, I want to talk to this
morning about how to maintain a reigning spirit.
We've been given a reigning spirit, but how do we maintain
that reigning spirit? Every day, every day we come and
we encounter circumstances, right?
We know that in this life we're going to have what?
Trials and tribulations. But what does he say about that?
Be of good cheer. Why?
Because you have already overcome.
Amen. Because you've already overcome.
So be of good cheer. So what does that mean?
That we can maintain a A rating spirit and be cheerful no matter
what we're going on, what's going on around us, what's
happening in the world. You know, the sky could be
falling and you know what? We could be in a place of
victory. We we we're not, you know, we're
not oblivious of what's going on, but we're saying we're going
to maintain the right spirit in what we do see going on.
Because we don't live by what sight.
We live by faith. We live by faith.
And so again, how? Do we maintain the reigning
spirit? Well, I already gave you one
point which wasn't in the notes. It just came up by the Holy
Ghost as we were worshipping the Lord, right?
We're going to have to build ourselves up on our most holy
faith. Praying in the spirit.
That's one way you can maintain a reigning spirit by making sure
that your spirit is remaining strong.
Your spirit is strong. Do you have a strong spirit?
Amen.
And one way to do that is by praying in the Holy Spirit.
And we are a spirit filled church for some of you that may
be new and visiting. We believe in the Acts chapter
one. Acts chapter two.
We believe in the outpouring of the Holy Spirit and that you
should receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you.
And evidence of that would be that you would speak in tongues.
Amen. Hallelujah.
And so if you need scriptures, you know you can see anybody
here that's been here, and they can take you through the
Scriptures to show you that what we are doing is actually in the
word of God. Amen.
And it hasn't been done away with.
And it's not fanaticism. Come on.
And it's not excitement. No, I pray in the Holy Ghost
when nobody's around and everything is quiet.
Not just when I'm in a service and getting hyped up like people
say. No, we're not here to hype you
up, but we are here to fill you up, to fill you up so that you
can walk full. Come on.
And at the new flow of the Holy Ghost is a flow of fullness.
A flow of fullness with a supply that will never run dry.
With a supply that will never run dry.
Hallelujah. Glory to God.
So Romans chapter 5 this is the scripture one of the scriptures
that Pastor used and I'm only well I did use two that he
brought up. But anyway, Romans chapter 5,
verse 17 it says for if by the transgression of one death reign
through the one much more those who receive the abundance of
grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign.
What in life? He expects his children to reign
in life. Amen.
As a Kingdom citizen we know that we are in a Kingdom and in
a Kingdom King's reign. Amen.
They reign and he expects. Us.
The King of Kings expects us to reign in life.
That means we don't have to fall in the traps of everybody else
in the world and what we see them doing.
Right. And how they're behaving because
we can reign over those things. Amen.
When you know who you are in Christ, you will be able to
reign. Amen.
So in First John, he did come out of this scripture in chapter
4. And this is where I actually
want to base the rest of my sermon from in First John,
chapter 4, verses one through 21, so that you can read it in
full context, Amen. Yourself as well.
If you're taking notes, and you should be taking notes, Amen.
He tells us that we are disciples and disciples are
students or studiers of the word Amen.
So when you go home again, if we're going to reign, we're
going to have to actually read the word Amen.
We're going to have to read the word for ourselves.
Look over our notes, look over these things and study the
scriptures out. Amen.
As a disciple and a student and a pupil of the word, we're here
to equip you and train you how to be disciples and students of
the word. So in first John chapter 4
verses one through 21 it says this Beloved do not believe
every spirit what but test the spirits to see whether they are
from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the
world and by this you know the spirit of God.
Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the
flesh is from God. And every spirit that does not
confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of Antichrist
and of which you have heard that is coming and now it is already
in the world. You are from God, little
children, and have overcome them.
Because what Pastor Red, this greater is he who is in you than
he that is in the world. They are from the world,
therefore they speak as from the world and the world listens to
them. In this, Pastor explained this
so wonderfully, right? Because he said out of Timothy
that in the last days many are going to what we've been
studying this, and this is part of what we're going to be
talking about this year, that in the last days, many are what
going to fall away from the faith.
Because they're listening to what doctrines of demons,
deceitful spirits, right, and all of these false things.
But he lets us know here the key to maintain a reigning spirit
and being able to hear the difference between what's real
and what's false. Right here he says this we are
from God, and he who knows God listens to us.
He who is not from God does not listen to us by this say.
By this we know the Spirit of truth and the Spirit of.
Error. If we are going to walk and
maintain a reigning spirit, we must get proficient and knowing
who. The Spirit of truth.
Is and the spirit of error is right and he lets us know.
The key for us that know God is that we will know the.
Spirit of Truth, The Spirit of truth.
Say I know the spirit of truth. Hallelujah.
Then if you drop down to verse 7, this is the second.
The first point is we must know the truth.
We must know the truth. The second point is, and
hopefully we'll be able to cover both, is that we must know that
love is from God and that we're born of Him.
It said, beloved, let us love one another, for love is from
God and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
Now we know it says this, let us love one another for love is
from God. Say love is from God.
Love is not from this world and their opinions of what love is.
Love is from God. Love is from God, not what the
world is saying Love is. Amen.
So his love is a pure love. Amen.
His love is what we call agape love, and it's from him.
And those who are born of him know this love.
And this love is the truth. It is not figuring out your own
truth. No, this love is truth.
It's not determining your own truth.
His love is truth. His love is truth.
And if we're going to have a reigning spirit and maintain
that spirit and know the difference between the spirit of
God, the truth, and the spirit of error, and we've got to be
able to recognize it. And if you don't, you're going
to see. This is why the Church has even
fallen into the. Trap.
Isn't it sad? That even the church is starting
to believe their own truth other than what God said truth is Come
on. So he said, Beloved, let us love
one another, for love is from God, and everyone who loves is
born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does
not know God, for God is love. And by this the love of God was
manifested in us, that God sent his only begotten Son into the
world so that he that we might live through him.
And in this love, not that we love God, but that he loved us
and sent his Son to be a perpetuation for our sins.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
We can still love people the way God says to love them without
accepting their truth. This is not about that, But it's
good, right? And then he goes on to say, no
one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God
abides in US and his love is perfected in US.
And by this we know that we abide in Him and he in us,
because he has given us of His what spirit He's given us his
spirit. And his spirit is a spirit of
truth and a spirit of love. And if we are going to not fall
into doctrines of demons and deceitful right spirits and all
these things, false prophets and all these things that are going
to be rampant and are rampant right now in this last day.
And you can see it because it's already infiltrated in the
church. But that goes to show you how
ignorant Christians are of the truth.
And it's sad. It's very sad, right?
Because they were not able to see the difference between the
spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
But we have a reigning spirit, and our spirit is the spirit of
truth, right? And our spirit is a spirit of
love because we know Romans 55 says when you get born again,
the Holy Spirit what his love is, what shed abroad in our
hearts. So pure love is shed abroad in
our hearts. But not only that, we know that
Corinthian tells us that when we get born again.
And pastors quoted this last Sunday, the Holy Ghost comes and
what dwells and takes up his abode on the inside of us.
So we have the Spirit of Truth, which is the Holy Ghost, which
we're going to show you. And we have the proper, you
know, definition of the love of God already in our hearts.
So we can't buy the lies which we know.
Who is the father of lies? Satan.
Amen. So we must be people that want
no truth and walk in that truth and not decide we're going to
change the truth to fit what we want.
And then we must be people that actually know him and his love.
That is not perverted because we know that the enemy's number one
goal is to come in and pervert and twist everything that God
has said and everything that God has done.
And he did it from the very beginning.
In Genesis. He twisted God's word and
manipulated it, right? And he's been doing that every
since. And that's how that the church
and Christians have even bought the lie because it's been
twisted and manipulated and you didn't realize.
Or know the truth even though he's in you.
You can be born again, but if you don't know the truth, if you
don't, study out the. Truth, you can get caught in a a
lie, you can get caught up in a lie.
And so as believers that's why we say in this church and we
challenge everyone with the Bible reading plan.
I have known Christians that have set in denominational
churches and have been in it for 2025, thirty years and never
opened the word of God themselves to read it.
I know them. They've admitted it.
What does that tell you? That they're illiterate of
truth. And This is why many of those
denominations now have accepted a new kind of love.
OK, so this is how we're going to know.
The difference is we have to be two people of truth.
We'll tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth,
so help us. Amen.
Hallelujah. So the love of God, the truth of
God are two things that we must understand to maintain the
Spirit. Let me finish reading because I
didn't finish reading all of those scriptures in John.
It says by this we know that we abide in Him and He and us
because He has given us of His Spirit.
We have seen and testified that the Father has sent the Son to
be the Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is
the Son of God, God abides in Him, and he in God we come to
know and believe the love which God has for.
Us You see that? We will come to know and believe
the love of God to us. So just because you get born
again does not mean that you actually fully know the love of
God. That means we have to grow in
the knowledge of His love. We have to grow in the knowledge
of His truth so that we have complete understanding of His
love and of His truth. Amen, because it doesn't just
happen the minute you get born again.
Jesus had to grow and discover who He was, he said.
When he was reading the What scrolls, he began to what see
himself in it, Discover himself. And we know Corinthians tells us
that we're to behold the word of God so that we can what?
Look in the mirror and see the reflection of who God is and who
he wants us to be. So this is a process.
Amen. This is a process of truly
discovering who we are in Christ and knowing Him.
It says we have come to know and believe the love which God has
for us. God is love, and the one who
abides in love abides in God and God abides in Him.
By this love is perfected with us.
You see that love is perfected. That means it's maturing.
That's what that means. It doesn't mean you're perfect.
It means that you're maturing when that love can mature in
you. When that love can grow in you.
OK, It says this so that we may have confidence in the Day of
judgment, because as he is, so also are we in this world.
There is No Fear in love. There's No Fear in love, but
perfect love cast out fear because fear involves
punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love.
I don't have time to teach my love class.
So it says we love because he first what loved us.
If someone says I love God and hates his brother, what is he?
Say it again. God's God will call you a liar
straight to your face. Because you're beholding the
word, and when I behold it, my face is in it, and he called me
a liar. If I don't, you see that you
need to start calling things a lie.
Because if you don't, you'll start believing it.
You'll start believing it. And the reason you'll believe it
is because you're not in the truth and you're not receiving
the truth. Because you can read the truth
and not receive the truth. You can hear the truth and not
receive the truth. You can have a deaf ear to what
the Spirit really is saying to you and to the churches, because
you don't want to hear that. Amen.
So he says we love because he first loved us.
If someone says I love God and hates his brother, he is a liar.
For the one who does not love his brother, whom he has seen,
cannot love God whom he has not seen.
And this commandment we have from him that the one who loves
God should love his brother. He commanded us to love one
another. A brother is a brother in the
church we're not talking about. We're commanded to love those in
the world, though we do because we are of God and we love
people. We love humanity.
But the number one thing is here is that we are commanded to love
the brethren one another in the body.
And it's not a suggestion, right.
We've said this before, it's not a suggestion.
It's not a well, you don't know what they said about me or you
don't know what they did to me or you know, blah, blah, blah,
blah, blah. No, it's a command.
And I think it interesting and we've said this before, it's a
command because he knows we are not going to want to do it.
So he says I command. You to do it.
Amen. I command you to do it.
Command is a little bit different.
You know when you're talking to your kids and you suggest, well,
maybe you want to? This is the new philosophy with
parenting, right? Mine were commands at all times.
Well, maybe if you feel like it today that you might want to do,
you know, go and make up your bed.
Or maybe you know if you might have a little bit of time in
between all your ball games that you might want to do your
homework. They give them all these
suggestions instead of get in your room and do your homework
instead of get in your room and make up your bed instead of get
out there. And take out the trash.
Sometimes they need a command, not a suggestion.
Most of the time, the first time you suggest it and they know
that it's a suggestion, What are they going to say?
I don't want to do that when they're little.
I don't want to. That's their first response.
So then what? I don't care if you don't want
to. This is what parents should be
saying. I command you to get in your
room and you got 3 seconds to do it.
Or. There's going to be a punishment
unto death? No.
But come on, they should be responding.
In your first command. Because isn't that how you want
them to respond to God? I don't want my kids.
Well, they're grown now. I don't want my grandkids.
I want them that when they hear what God says that they say,
yes, Lord, you're my commander and my chief.
Yes, Lord, I'm going to do it so that they don't have to go
through and have consequences of disobedience and go through the
pain and the suffering, right? Because how many of us said,
well, if you just would have done what I, then you wouldn't
have had this result. Amen.
I don't know how we got on that. Oh, commandment.
Yes, commandments. So he commands us to love.
So let's look at a couple of things.
We have to know Truth, right? Who is Truth?
Is the world's opinions. Truth.
Come on. Is is Hollywood Truth is a
movie. You watch Truth.
How about this one? Is social media truth?
Give me a break and even. If they try to throw a little
truth out, you know you shouldn't believe it.
You actually should go and investigate it.
Which is what we're supposed to do with the word.
Hey man, we're supposed to search the scriptures out, not
just believe what we hear. Like a bird with our mouth wide
open and and listening to everything.
Come on. So he says we're to no truth.
If we're going to maintain that reigning spirit and know the
difference between his spirit and the spirit of error.
Let's go to John chapter 844. It says you are of your father
the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father.
He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in
what truth. There is no truth.
In him, whenever he speaks, it is a lie.
It's a lie straight from the pit of hell.
It's a lie. He is a liar and he is number
one goal we heard last week is to come steal, kill and destroy
your life. And it starts by you buying a
lie. That is the opposite of the
truth buying the lie. He speaks from his own nature,
for he is a liar and the father of lies, and he knows that he
can get Christians off if they are ignorant.
My people what perish due to what lack of knowledge or truth
of God's word. And he knows if he can keep you
out of the truth and start listening to the truths of this
world. And by he can get you to hook.
Into one little lie, one little bitty, right?
It's the little foxes that spoil the if he can get you to hook
into one. Philosophy of a thought of the
lying systems of this world. He can get you off because it
doesn't start out blatant. Remember, he comes as a what?
Angel of light. So he can get you twisted and
hooked up on one little thought or one little truth of this
world or one little opinion. It's the the, you know,
philosophies of this world and the imaginations of this world.
One and John, he talks about the courses of this world, are
swayed, are swayed. What are they swayed by the lies
of the enemy. And so you must always back it
up with truth. That's why he says in
Corinthians that we're to what take every thought captive and
what line it up to the truth, to the word of God.
We are to line it up with truth. Because I I take every thought
captive because you know what? There are some good.
Thoughts that come my way. They're not all evil, but is
that good thought? A God thought.
It sounds good. It makes my flesh feel good and
easy. Oh well, that would be easy.
Why am I working? Why am I serving the Lord so
much when all these other people get to listen to their own truth
and decide when they want to serve and when they don't?
See that one? If he can get me hooked.
On that he can take me down a road that is not in his.
Truth. Come on, it's the little things.
It's the little things, because he's a liar and he wants to get
you off of the truth. Of God's Word, John 1417 That is
the Spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive.
This is talking of the Holy Spirit because it does not see
Him or know him. But you know him because he what
abides with you and will be in you the working of the Holy
Spirit. That's why he said it was more
advantageous for him to go read John 14/16/17.
I don't have time to teach on the Holy Spirit, but I have a
good over a month worth of teaching on line that you could
go and listen to on the Holy Spirit will help you become
familiar with Him and know Him as a.
Person. Not as a thing.
We'll help you know him as who he is instead of how you feel.
Oh, I don't feel the Holy Ghost. Well, you don't have to feel him
because he's in you, right? So he is the Spirit of what
truth and he where he lives what in us?
He said it's more advantageous for me to go.
Jesus said so that he, the Spirit of truth, may come wise,
so that he can live in you, the Spirit of truth, so that you no
longer have to listen to the lies of the enemy, and so that
you can discern between the Spirit of truth and the Spirit
of error. And in these last days we must
get into the truth of God's word first.
John 519 through 20 It says we know that we are of God and that
the whole world. This was the scripture I was
quoting earlier. The whole world lies in the
power of the evil 1 The whole world.
Lies in the power of the evil 1. All this world's systems, these
world's philosophies, these world's teachings, they all are
rooted from the Father of. Lies.
Amen. And so we have to be wise and
know that I'm not going to listen.
To this person, just because they're a psychologist and I'm
not going to listen to this person on social media because
they have a certificate that was emailed into them and call
themselves prophetess or and call themselves this or that.
You ought to know the truth better than that as a believer.
And I'm not going to listen to you know this person about you
know, self help and self-care when they're not even a believer
because they have their own truth.
We're not saying that everything, but listen to what
the Holy Spirit is saying above everything.
Else. Above everything else, that's
what I weigh my decisions upon my thinking upon.
Well, what does the word? Really say about that before I
just take it hook line and what sinker sinker?
Because that is a sinker. It's a stinker and it's going to
sink you and your walk. With the Lord.
Amen. Hallelujah.
This is the truth. Say.
It's the truth. Say it's the truth.
Say I want to receive the truth. Hallelujah.
You want to have ears to hear the truth, no matter how hard it
may sound. I want to know the truth.
And you know, one of the worst things I hate is when people lie
to me. That's what I hated.
With my children lied to me. They, you know, just don't.
Just don't lie to me because your father is not the devil.
You can do some crazy things, but don't you lie to me.
You should hate lying that bad. Don't you lie to me and you
going to get double If you lie, you think you going to get some
whooping. You lie to me and see what's
coming double for your. Trouble.
Don't lie to me. Don't lie because we don't want
anything to do with lying. A lying spirit because it comes
from the devil, the father of lies.
And as a believer, you ought to hold to your word, and you
ought. To not be lying to people, Lying
to people and you going to lie to yourself.
And that's how you become deceived because you lie to
yourself. OK, so where were we at?
What scripture were we on? Did anybody take a note?
Did I finish it? No.
Verse 20. And we know that the Son of God
has come and has given us understanding so that we may
know him who is what. True.
Aren't you thankful? That you are not bound by Satan
anymore, and that you don't live according to the courses of his
directions. That you actually heard the
truth. You came to the truth, and you
should continually embrace the truth and be thankful for the
truth. Oh, I'm so thankful for the
truth of God's word. Where would we be if God had not
arrested us with His truth? Think about your life and where
you would be if God had not put the Spirit of Truth on the
inside of you. You would still be buying those
old stinking lies that you were unworthy, that everybody hates
you, that you were rejected, that you're a victim of your
reality. Come on, That no man wants you.
Hallelujah. And that every man abuses you.
And come on, all the lies that he told us before we actually
knew the. Truth about who we really are.
Hallelujah. And that he has a purpose and a
plan for our life. And that we weren't just a
mistake. Come on.
And that you don't have a daddy
in your life, so you ain't going to be no good to nobody else.
Come on. All the lies that the enemy told
us, we. Bought them all.
We bought them all, but thank God.
For the truth of God's word that we know the truth it says and.
We are in him who is true in his Son Jesus Christ.
This is the true God and eternal life.
What did Jesus say about himself in John 1416?
It said, Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the
life. No one comes to the Father
except through me. Hallelujah.
Glory to God. Now let me just keep reading
these because they're good. You just need to hear it, John
1837. Therefore Pilate said to him, So
you are a king. That's right, we serve a king.
And Jesus answered and said, you say correctly that I am king and
for this reason I have been born and for this I have come into
the world. What did he come into this world
for? To testify to truth, to say here
I am, the father said he was going to send me come on to
redeem the world, and I'm here as a testimony and to testify to
the truth of God's word that he is true and every man is a liar.
Hallelujah. He came to testify the truth to
let you say, to let the devil know.
No longer do the people have to buy your life.
Because I am truth. I am truth.
I'm. Truth Hallelujah.
He came to testify of truth and listen what he said.
Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice.
You want to not stop listening to truth because you're locking
up his voice in your life and some.
Of you have. Listened to lies.
And you're wondering why you're having a hard time hearing him.
Because you've locked up listening to truth.
You've locked him up. You're not listening.
You're not hearing him. Come on.
I don't ever want to be in a place where I can't hear his
voice. And hear his truth.
But if you quit listening to truth?
You won't hear him. You won't hear him.
I don't care that he lives in you.
You've closed your ears off to him, and your heart has locked
up to him because you don't want to receive the truth any longer.
Hallelujah. John 424 says God is spirit and
those who worship him will worship him.
In what spirit and truth? Because you can't have the
Spirit of God without the truth of God.
You can't have the Spirit of God without the truth of God.
They are inseparable, inseparable, and they work hand
in hand. Amen.
Now John 1526 says this when the helper comes, said, I have a
helper whom I will send to you from the Father.
That is the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father.
He will what testify of me? You see that we have the Father
who is truth. We have the Son who is truth and
testifies the truth, and then we have the Holy Spirit come on,
That is truth. And all three, all three are
going to be in agreement. All three are going to be in
agreement that I am. Truth.
This is truth. This is the word.
I don't care what you're hearing.
I don't care what that person said.
This is truth. Because the Father said it, the
Son testified of it, and the Spirit of God is the Spirit of
truth. Hallelujah.
So we have them all. Three, glory to God to maintain
a reigning spirit. Now look at this in First
Timothy chapter 3 and verse 15 says this.
But in case I am delayed, I write so that you will know how
one ought to conduct himself in the House of God, the household
of God. Do you know this is a house?
We're a family. Come on, we're family.
We're part of one another. We're one with one another.
And he lets us know how we ought to act in the household of God.
And he says this which is what The Church of the living God the
pillar and what support. Of that was the Church's
assignment to be a pillar of truth in this world that is full
of lies. And to be what?
One that would support truth. And what has the Church done?
Not been a pillar of truth, backed off of being of support
of what God's word really said because they want to please man.
And that was the church's goal, not to win the lost.
The Church's number one assignment is to uphold truth in
a world full of lies, and the church has failed tremendously.
Of in whole, in a whole, not this Church.
A pillar and a support of truth. That means my responsibility as
pastors and those that are equipping the Saints is to
always speak the truth to you, even when you don't want to hear
it. Because I am responsible.
You are responsible as the Church to uphold truth at all
cost, at all cost, no matter how bad it hurts your little
feelings. In a counseling session, I can
only speak the truth in. Love.
But that truth we know, will What set you free if you receive
it. If you don't, it's on you.
It's on you. But we are to uphold and be a
pillar. A pillar is something that's
strong, just like this pole here, you know, this lovely pole
that we've had for now, what how many years we've been in this
facility, maybe what, 15 years in this theater.
And believe me, we wanted to take this big pillar.
Out. But it was going to cost a.
Lot of money to take one little pillar out to reinforce it, but
what it's. Upholding this, this roof, it's
upholding it. It's strong.
I mean, it's not going anywhere, right?
Come try to bounce up against it.
It's not like you going to knock it over.
No, it's there. It's a support.
It's upholding. Come on.
And that's what that we are to do as the Church of the living
God. We are supposed to be a pillar
of truth in a world that is full of lies.
And when people come to us and say, well, you know, I really
want to be in this relationship, but they're a female.
I'm sorry, the truth of God's word is that he loves you, but
that will not be acceptable in his Kingdom.
And you know what? He can take that away from you
if you just yield. We're upholding the truth of
God's word when somebody comes and says, you know, I, I I want
to be with this other woman and I'm married.
Oh, well, truth of God's word is not to be committing adultery.
Come on. So when you have to make those
hard calls, you know, people don't like to hear it all the
time and they have talked bad about.
You, you know, slander You. Why?
Because all you're trying to do is uphold truth so that they
won't buy the lie and be in a place of destruction in their
life. Because we all know that it
leads to destruction. Amen.
So the church was to be the pillar and the support of God's
word, God's truth, no matter what is relevant.
For today, no matter what, we're going to uphold truth.
Amen. So look what he says about this
truth. Listened.
He says this in John 1613, but when he, the spirit of truth
comes, what's he going to do? He's going to guide you into all
truth. For he won't speak on his own
initiative, or what is that his own opinion or what he thinks
about the situation? No.
He's going to guide you into all truth and but whatever he hears,
he will speak and then he will disclose it to you.
What is to come? Aren't you thankful that the
spirit of Truth lives on the inside of you so that he can
begin to lead you and guide you into what?
All truth, the whole truth, Nothing but the truth, so help
us. We want the truth of God's Word.
Look what happens when you receive the truth of God's Word
in John 1717 through 19 Sanctify them in Thy truth.
Your Word is truth for their sakes.
I sanctified myself that they themselves also may be
sanctified. In what?
Truth sanctification comes to your life by actually being in
the word of God and the truth of God's Word.
And not only that, what receiving it you've there's
there's multiple ways for you to say that.
I'm a doer of the word. You've got to hear it.
You've got to receive it. You've got to believe it, Come
on. And then you've got to do it.
That's when it's actually a part of your life.
That's when truth is revealed. And a part of your life is when
you're actually walking in it, because you can hear it all day
long. And there's people in this room
right now. I heard by the Spirit saying I
disagree with that. Well, I don't care that you
disagree with it. The Word of God says it.
So you can. Do whatever you want with your
disagreement. Just know you're listening to a
lie and you are listening to the Father of lies.
Amen. So he says this.
The Word will sanctify us. John 11 In the beginning was the
Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God and the
Word. What made flesh and dwelt among
us and we? Beheld his glory, the glory of
his only begotten of the Father. Full of what?
Grace and truth? So he didn't just save you by
his wonderful, Amazing Grace. Come on.
He wants you to operate in truth as.
Well, and truth has to be received Hallelujah and acted
upon for you to actually do it. John 831 through 32 So Jesus was
saying to the Jews who had believed in him.
If you continue in my word, then you are truly disciples of Me,
and what happens you will know. The truth and the truth will set
you free, make you free, one translation says.
And Marcy's translation says, We'll keep you free, we'll keep
you free. It will set you free.
Come on, it will make you free. And it will keep you free.
If you remain in His word, if you allow His word to take first
place. Dominance in your heart, above
everybody else, above everybody else's opinion, above your
husband's opinion, Above your spouse's opinion.
Come on. Above your parents opinions of
what the word says. No, I want to hear the spirit of
truth. I hear what you saying.
But what's the spirit saying? Because it's the spirit of
truth. And many of women been taken out
of the church because they listen to the husband's doctrine
and vice versa. Instead of what did the Spirit
of truth and the word of truth say?
Come on, do you know him? Do you know him?
Yeah, all the time. It's happening.
And the number one reason is because we don't know the Spirit
of truth because we are not abiding in His truth, in His
word. His word is truth.
John 15-7 If you abide in me and my words abide in you, you shall
ask whatever you will and it shall be done for you.
So we must be people, students of the truth of God's Word.
We must continue to be people that put ourselves in a position
that we are studiers of the Word.
We're reading the Word. What did he say the Word would
be to our lives. Life, he said.
It was daily bread, Daily bread. It's our life source and if
we're not in the word and in Our Daily Bread, receiving the
truth. Then we are easily going to be
swayed in these last days, he said.
Many will fall away from the faith.
Many will be seduced, deceived by doctrines of demons.
Many. And we have to say we are going
to position ourselves to be in the word and be in truth, so
that we don't ever buy a lie of the enemy to get us off.
Amen. Hallelujah.
Because we want to be people of the word, students of the word,
hiding the word. Psalms 119.
Hiding the word in our hearts so that we won't sin against him.
Do you know when you deny truth, you sin against him.
So we want to hide the word of God in our hearts so that we
don't sin against him, so that we don't listen to a lie that is
not his truth. That's somebody else's truth.
Come on. We don't want to buy the lie.
We want to be those that know the word of God for ourselves.
Colossians 316 It says Let the word of Christ dwell in you
richly, richly. That's what you need to position
yourself to do this year. To say.
I'm going to put the word of God in me so that it dwells in me
richly what it just like I'm full of the Holy Spirit.
I build myself up praying in the Holy Spirit, and the Spirit of
Truth is speaking to me. But the Spirit of Truth cannot
remind you or reveal to you anything if you don't have the
word richly dwelling within you. The Word of God, Steve, you've
been a student of the Word for 32 years.
You ought to be full of the word that anytime a situation
happens, No, the Word says this. I don't even have to think about
that because that's so foolish. It's a lie because I have the
Word. And what is the word?
Many scriptures that can come up on the inside of me as the Holy
Spirit is what? Speaking to me, reminding me of
the word of the. Truth.
That's been put in my heart because I've hid it in there.
If you don't have anything hiding in there, then you're
going to believe every lie, you're going to believe it, and
then you're going to. What in the world have I been
doing if you ever come to? Come on, just that easy.
So Proverbs 4 says this and 20 my son, Attend to my words.
Incline thy ear to my sayings. Let them not depart from your
eyes and keep them where? In the midst of your heart.
Keep them in the midst of your heart so that truth can always
speak to you. Truth can always cause the word
to come up when a lie or a word from the enemy is there.
No, the truth is popping up because the Holy Ghost is truth
and he's reminded me of the truth that's in the word of God.
Amen. It's not just about feeling
goosebumps with the Holy Ghost. I'd much rather than have the
Spirit of truth living on the inside of me and feel nothing.
And feel nothing. But thank God.
We can sometimes feel the presence of God and that
tangible presence. That's awesome.
But I'd much rather have the Spirit of truth living on the
inside of me, and the word of God richly dwelling on the
inside of me. Come on, then.
Feeling a thing. I don't care if I don't run
around this building one more time, or if I don't shout one
more time. As long as I have the spirit of
Truth and the word of God richly dwelling on the inside of me, I
can be assured I will have a reigning spirit.
A reigning spirit. Hallelujah.
But guess. But guess what?
We can. Experience him and feel him.
But it's not all about that. And I when I.
See people, that's all about that.
They're wacky, they're kooky, and they listen to deceiving
spirits and they get off. I'm telling you, I have seen it
now. For 32 years when they don't
have. The.
Word of God. To keep them balanced by the
spirit of truth, because that's what the Word will do.
The Word will pull you in and say, come on now, keep you
straight. All right, we're not going to
get to my love. My second point, but I want to
read this last scripture before we close.
Pastor did let me know that he's assigning me some Wednesday
nights in February, so maybe we'll finish this out second
Thessalonians 2/1 through. 12 Hallelujah, 2nd Thessalonians. 2
One through 12 says this now, brethren, concerning the coming
of the Lord Jesus Christ, and are gathering together in him,
We ask you not to soon shaken in your minds, or troubled either
by spirit, or by word, or by letter, as if from some of us,
as though the day of Christ had come.
Let no one deceive you by any means, for that day will not
come unless the falling away comes first.
This is Speaking of what Pastor was saying about the falling
away in Timothy, that many are going to fall away from the
faith. So this is what he's saying,
that great falling away will come first.
And the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, right?
Which is the Antichrist who opposes and exalts himself above
all, above all that is called God or that is worship, so that
he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is
God. Do you not remember that when I
was still with you I told you these things, and now you know
what is restraining that he may only is restraining that he may
be revealed in his own time. For the mystery of lawlessness
is already at work. Only he who now restrains will
do so, until he was taken out of the way.
And then the Lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will
consume with the breath of his mouth, and destroy with the
brightness of his coming. The coming of the Lawless One is
according to the working of who with all power signs, and what
lying wonders, and with all unrighteousness and deception.
Among those who perish, what happened because they did not
receive the love of the truth that they might be, And for this
reason God will send them strong delusion that they should
believe the what, that they all. May be condemned who did not
believe the truth, but had pleasure in what?
Hallelujah. Say thank you for the truth.
Aren't you thankful that you're sitting in a body that's
speaking the truth? Aren't you thankful that you are
receiving God's word and? Truth.
So that you're not one of them that's going to be condemned
because they did not love the truth, nor what believe the
truth means They didn't want to hear it.
They didn't want to hear the truth.
They were stubborn, stiff, necked against God, Hate God.
Come on. And there's people like that
right now in our world that hate God and hate when you even
mention Jesus Christ his name. They don't want to hear the
truth. And they're going to be
condemned for it. But we need to recognize that if
we're going to have a reigning spirit and be able to walk in
the rest of the time that we have still left on the earth,
then we are going to have to be people that love the truth.
Of God's Word. We are going to have to be
people that say yes, Lord, speak the truth to me, even if it
hurts. Speak the truth to me, even if I
have to radically change my whole life, my whole purpose, my
whole destiny. Because my truth is this is what
I wanted to do with my life. But I'm hearing you say, but
this is what you want me to do. And that means.
I would have to radically. So what are we going to do?
Are we going to deny truth and not do what it is we know the
truth of God's word is saying and be one of those no that
reject truth? No.
We want to always be a person that hears truth, receives
truth, understands truth, studies his truth and answers to
truth. Answers to truth.
What does that mean? Whatever he says, the truth is
my answer. It's my answer to people in the
world. It's my answer to you and the
body. It's my answer to me.
What is his truth to me? Hallelujah individually.
And so now is the time that if we're going to walk and maintain
this reigning spirit, we've got to be those that love.
Truth I was reminded of. Remember when they were stoning
Stephen? Anybody remember reading that
they were stoning Stephen and all he kept speaking forth was
what? The truth of God's word and what
happened? They wrenched their ears and
cover. They covered their ears and and
and gnawed at themselves because they just hated to hear truth.
Isn't that what it says? And we and he saw Jesus standing
up and looking over because you know what?
He was being a support and pillar of truth in the midst of
being stoned and killed for what he believed, for speaking the
truth. And they didn't want to hear it
one bit. But guess what?
It's the truth nonetheless. It's the truth nonetheless.
And we are living in a day and in an hour that we must be
people of truth, no matter what the cost, no matter what we're
facing, no matter what we're standing before we are going to
release truth into people's lives.
Because. You know what?
It's literally. The only thing that can set
people free. It's.
Literally the only thing that can set people free is the truth
of God's word. All the programs, there's tons
of programs to help people and their addictions, all kinds of
stuff in this. World psychologists have to
offer all these things, but it's the one thing that they need,
and that is truth, because it is the only thing that's going to
set them free from themselves. From themselves, Hallelujah.
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