1 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:22,920 Hallelujah, glory to God. Well, we've been starting a 2 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:25,720 journey on talking about reigning faith. 3 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:28,040 How many of you were here last Wednesday? 4 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:34,200 Amen. And we started out of second 5 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:41,840 Peter chapter 1 and verse 11 or one through 11. 6 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:45,560 Hallelujah, the Lord is good. Amen. 7 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:50,680 Haha y'all need to get a smile on your face. 8 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:57,280 Everybody just smile. Don't turn your head. 9 00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:01,640 Smile. Smile on a brother and a sister. 10 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:06,200 Look to somebody else and smile. Amen. 11 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:11,200 Hallelujah. There's nothing to be sad about. 12 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:18,520 Not when we know what he's given us, Amen. 13 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:21,880 Hallelujah. Not when we know and we have to 14 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:24,200 remind ourselves of these things. 15 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:27,640 Amen. And so just as Paul was 16 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:34,120 reminding them in second Peter, was it Peter or Paul that 17 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:38,720 reminded them Anyway? One of them reminded them, said, 18 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:42,080 it doesn't bother me to remind you of these things. 19 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:45,120 Amen. We have to be reminded of things 20 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:49,320 so that we don't forget what's been given to us. 21 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:54,560 Amen, What's been given to us because there's there's times 22 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:58,120 that, you know, things talk so loud that those things start 23 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:02,880 getting real and you have to start reminding yourself, wait a 24 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:06,000 minute here. We don't have to deal with this 25 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:10,199 because we know who we are in Christ. 26 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:13,680 Amen. Hallelujah in second Peter 27 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:16,800 chapter 1. I want to read it and we're 28 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:19,960 going to remind you of some things we talked about. 29 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:24,240 You know, if we are going to be a reigning church, then we're 30 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:28,920 going to have to operate, operate in reigning faith. 31 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:33,480 And so in Second Peter chapter one, it says this Simon Peter, a 32 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:37,840 bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ to those who have 33 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:44,160 received a faith of the same kind of ours, say the same kind 34 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:49,200 of faith. Any person that's born again, 35 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:53,480 come on, who's called on the name of Jesus Christ will have 36 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:59,880 the same kind of faith. And so he said, you've received 37 00:02:59,880 --> 00:03:02,320 a faith of the same kind of ours. 38 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:05,720 By what? The righteousness of our God and 39 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:12,200 Savior Jesus Christ. Grace and peace be multiplied to 40 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:17,080 you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. 41 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:20,520 Verse 3. Seeing that His divine power has 42 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:24,840 granted to us everything pertaining to life and 43 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:28,600 godliness, Amen. And we said that last week. 44 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:33,600 This divine power that's been granted to us is dunamis, 45 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:39,120 Dunamis working power, which is where they get the word dynamite 46 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:42,920 from, right? And so this dunamis working 47 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:48,000 power's been granted to us, this dunamis power, and it literally 48 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:51,760 means absolutely everything necessary. 49 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:58,040 You need to live a dynamic spiritual life in him. 50 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:03,600 Hallelujah, everything. The minute you got born again, 51 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:09,760 you received the same faith, come on, the faith of God, and 52 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:12,400 you've been given the measure of faith. 53 00:04:12,640 --> 00:04:15,480 Every single one of us that got born again. 54 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:21,360 And when we got born again, everything, everything that we 55 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:27,000 would ever need in this life, come on to live in this life and 56 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:31,040 to live a godly life. I don't want to just live life. 57 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:36,640 I want to live a godly life. It's already been put inside of 58 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:43,000 you to be able to do with His divine power and His divine 59 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:51,480 nature that He put within us everything to be successful, to 60 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:54,160 do exactly what He wants us to do. 61 00:04:54,440 --> 00:05:00,360 We began a journey with Him and He put everything in us to be 62 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:05,840 able to walk it out according to Scripture, according to 63 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:08,200 godliness. Amen. 64 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:11,360 Hallelujah. He put it in and said, He put it 65 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:14,480 in me. Oh, He put it in me. 66 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:19,640 Say He put it in me. Hallelujah. 67 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:24,120 Don't let me get Mama on you. You know when you tell your 68 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:29,120 child to say something and they now you say what I just said and 69 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:36,800 then they and then you say no, say it again. 70 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:45,840 So I know you heard me. That wasn't good enough. 3 * a 71 00:05:45,840 --> 00:05:50,200 charm always. You get 3 strikes, that's it, 72 00:05:51,280 --> 00:05:53,840 right? Hallelujah. 73 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:59,600 So remember, we're engaging our faith as we sit here to hear. 74 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:02,840 Amen. Say hearing is good for me. 75 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:08,520 Yes, it's good for me. So everything he's already put 76 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:14,080 within us that we're going to need to walk out this dynamic 77 00:06:14,280 --> 00:06:18,200 spiritual life in him. And we've been given dynamite 78 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:21,400 power. Come on, supernatural ability. 79 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:24,800 Come on. That power is residing on the 80 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:26,960 inside of us. Amen. 81 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:32,520 It's residing on the inside of us, and all we have to do is 82 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:38,600 pull it up. Hallelujah, you are a well. 83 00:06:39,840 --> 00:06:43,320 Just think of yourself, as does any does. 84 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:48,800 Y'all new school people in here know what a real well was where 85 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:51,960 they had to go out in the freezing cold water with snow on 86 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:59,080 the ground and pump up the well to get water to boil to put in a 87 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:02,840 hot tub. Does anybody know what I'm 88 00:07:02,840 --> 00:07:04,560 talking about? Raise your hand. 89 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:10,480 Now, if you've never seen one, raise your hand, all right? 90 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:15,720 See, there's a few people that's never seen one anyway, you have 91 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:18,840 to go out there and prime that. What? 92 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:23,080 That pump, You have to prime it. You have to. 93 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:26,480 There's water in there somewhere. 94 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:35,000 Come on, There's power in you somewhere, inherent power, and 95 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:41,560 we have to go prime that pop to pull up the whale of power so 96 00:07:41,560 --> 00:07:45,680 that it can flow. And the more you pop it, what 97 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:48,560 happens? The more it will flow. 98 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:51,880 You let it sit. What happens if you let that 99 00:07:51,880 --> 00:07:53,800 sit? Even in the natural with a 100 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:59,000 whale, it could what, dry up? Come on. 101 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:06,720 So we have to constantly prime the pump of the on the inside of 102 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:12,960 us with the power that is dwelling within Hallelujah, so 103 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:19,600 that we can walk out this dynamic life of faith. 104 00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:22,680 This is what we're calling reigning faith. 105 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:27,320 Reigning faith. If we're going to reign in life, 106 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:32,720 if we're going to reign over circumstances, over situations, 107 00:08:32,720 --> 00:08:37,200 over our problems, over our finances, over our rebellious 108 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:41,840 teenagers, oh, come on. If we're going to rub, you know, 109 00:08:42,039 --> 00:08:45,880 reign over these things, then we're going to have to realize 110 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:49,560 that we're going to have to reign in our faith. 111 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:54,840 Hallelujah. We're going to have to reign in 112 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:58,800 our faith. We cannot do this without faith. 113 00:08:59,560 --> 00:09:04,280 We cannot do it and fall back. Who so easily bewitched you? 114 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:08,840 You started this thing out by the Spirit, but you've gone back 115 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:13,840 to the what flesh, the works, trying to work it out yourself. 116 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:18,040 And believers can't do that. And so you have to remind 117 00:09:18,040 --> 00:09:22,840 yourself, wait a minute, I have the Spirit of God, the power of 118 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:26,960 God on the inside of me, and I'm going to have to pump and prime 119 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:31,640 that well. Come on to be able to overcome 120 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:35,520 these situations and circumstances that we are 121 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:38,400 encountering. And then he lets us know that 122 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:42,800 we've been given this divine life of God. 123 00:09:43,520 --> 00:09:47,520 Zoway life flows through your veins. 124 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:55,040 Amen Zoway life, eternal life. And so in that it will produce 125 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:58,840 everything that we need. There is a full supply. 126 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:06,440 None of us who are born again and spirit filled are lacking 127 00:10:06,560 --> 00:10:10,840 anything. We're not lacking anything. 128 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:15,920 We may not have knowledge of some things, but guess what? 129 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:18,440 He lets us know. We're supposed to get knowledge. 130 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:24,080 You may not know what all belong, what all is on the 131 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:31,080 inside of you yet, but He's always going to lead you to 132 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:36,200 where you will discover those things and you'll discover them. 133 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:41,720 If you're hungry, He says what those that hunger and thirst 134 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:44,840 after righteousness will be what? 135 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:49,200 Filled or satisfied. If you're not satisfied with 136 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:54,800 your wall, go get in. Come on, go get in to the 137 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:59,920 knowledge of God's Word, Amen. Go get into the knowledge of 138 00:10:59,920 --> 00:11:04,200 God's word. And so we talked about faith. 139 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:06,480 You know, we have been taught faith. 140 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:12,920 I mean, there are some we set up underneath the best faith 141 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:20,040 teachers in our lifetime, in my lifetime, and I've heard a lot 142 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:26,320 of faith teaching, but I don't believe there's been very much 143 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:31,480 faith teaching in the direction of Second Peter. 144 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:43,640 There's lots of faith teaching in confession for what finances 145 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:50,160 believing God for this and for that, for that. 146 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:57,520 But I don't hear much faith teaching talking about adding to 147 00:11:57,520 --> 00:12:03,280 our faith, the principles and qualities of character. 148 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:09,640 The only one character that I ever hear preached about with 149 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:16,480 great faith teachers is love, because see, your faith won't 150 00:12:16,480 --> 00:12:21,040 work outside of love. But do you know there's other 151 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:25,480 things that this scripture says that are to be a supply to our 152 00:12:25,480 --> 00:12:28,920 faith? And this is what we're talking 153 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:33,360 about today. We know that faith is a firm 154 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:36,240 persuasion, a confident expectation. 155 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:42,360 According to Hebrews 11, right now, faith is the substance of 156 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:45,760 things. What hope for the evidence of 157 00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:50,320 things not seen. And we'll quote that scripture 158 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:54,120 all day long for our bill to be paid. 159 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:02,640 Come on now. We'll quote that scripture all 160 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:08,960 day long for that vehicle, that jet, that house, all the things. 161 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:13,960 But I don't hear a lot of people quoting that scripture for them 162 00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:25,110 to have self-control, for them to have perseverance, for hit 163 00:13:25,110 --> 00:13:27,670 them to actually have knowledge and wisdom. 164 00:13:27,670 --> 00:13:34,960 According to scripture, for all the other qualities, there's 165 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:40,760 seven qualities that he talks about here in second Peter, one 166 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:45,120 through 11. Let's look at these because I 167 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:51,360 believe that we're going to have to take our faith and shift it 168 00:13:52,280 --> 00:13:57,400 to these qualities that are going to be a supply to my faith 169 00:13:57,760 --> 00:14:02,720 so that when I'm having to stand to believe God for something, 170 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:05,320 self-control is going to be there. 171 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:09,000 Perseverance is going to be there. 172 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:18,360 Knowledge is going to be there on how to believe for and call 173 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:23,560 those things. OK, and so much of this is 174 00:14:23,560 --> 00:14:30,240 lacking here and we see that we're going to have to get some 175 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:35,600 adjustments here because again, the scripture says when I when 176 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:39,120 he returns, will he find faith in the earth. 177 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:45,160 So how in the world US that's been taught through the Word of 178 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:49,880 Faith and been taught by great faith teachers, think to myself, 179 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:54,400 how in the world would he not return and find faith in the 180 00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:58,440 world because they've not supplied their faith with the 181 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:03,200 qualities of the character that's going to keep them in 182 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:10,630 faith? We're talking about reigning 183 00:15:10,630 --> 00:15:16,510 faith, reigning faith. And I came up with this because 184 00:15:16,510 --> 00:15:20,750 of what I've, I was reminding myself of what I was taught 185 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:26,080 faith was from one of our faith instructors. 186 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:32,160 And he said this, that faith is a what firm persuasion, a 187 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:37,600 confident expectation, but not just a confident expectation. 188 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:45,520 It is a confident expectation that is acted upon because 189 00:15:45,520 --> 00:15:50,240 without action, you can say it all day long, but it's not your 190 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:54,640 reality unless you act upon it. That means you're going to have 191 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:58,120 to step out when you see nothing. 192 00:15:58,760 --> 00:16:02,920 You're going to have to believe God when you see that your 193 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:06,000 marriage is on the verge of divorce. 194 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:12,560 Why don't you call those things that be not Come on and use your 195 00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:19,320 confession to create your reality of what you want 196 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:26,040 according to the word of God. You see what I'm saying, Amen. 197 00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:30,000 And so I like to read it like this. 198 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:33,680 Reigning faith is the substance or the assurance. 199 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:38,200 And we've heard it said the title deed of the things hoped 200 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:44,840 for and the evidence of proof or conviction of the reality of 201 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:50,120 things not seen by the physical senses, the title deed. 202 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:52,640 We've been taught that faith is the title deed. 203 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:59,360 It's as if you already own it. It's already yours. 204 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:05,920 A person that is in faith knows that it already belongs to me. 205 00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:11,599 If I'll stay in a position, come on, of calling those things that 206 00:17:11,599 --> 00:17:16,200 be not as though they if I'll stay firmly persuaded, if I'll 207 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:21,040 stay in a position and act upon what it is that I'm hearing by 208 00:17:21,040 --> 00:17:29,040 faith, come on, it will be done. It will be done. 209 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:34,120 Hallelujah. OK, here's a good one. 210 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:38,480 You need to write this down. Y'all should be taking notes. 211 00:17:38,480 --> 00:17:45,240 I don't even know. Reigning faith anchors itself in 212 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:54,160 God's reliable promises, not circumstances, making it a 213 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:58,920 powerful force to manifest the unseen. 214 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:07,400 Remember, we said faith is the currency of the Kingdom, and 215 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:13,520 it's faith that brings what the unseen into the scene. 216 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:22,080 So remember, faith is to be that tangible reality in your life. 217 00:18:22,520 --> 00:18:26,840 That means you're going to you're going to see what he says 218 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:29,880 in his word come to pass in your life. 219 00:18:30,120 --> 00:18:35,120 If you'll stay in a position firmly sweat persuaded, come on, 220 00:18:35,920 --> 00:18:38,920 you'll see it come to pass in your life. 221 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:43,600 So let me read that again because I saw some of you taking 222 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:48,520 a note. I mean, I went back and read my 223 00:18:48,520 --> 00:18:55,760 notes from 20 years ago. Come on. 224 00:18:56,600 --> 00:19:03,000 This is reality to me. This is what I live by and this 225 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:08,400 is what God wants everyone that has his faith to live by. 226 00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:17,200 He says the righteous say what? Live by faith and we're to go 227 00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:25,760 from faith to faith. So it's perpetual, perpetual 228 00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:32,920 faith, perpetual reigning faith. Come on to reign over. 229 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:36,000 Let me read it again. Reigning faith anchors, aren't 230 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:38,960 you thankful that we have anchor faith? 231 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:47,760 Hallelujah. I'm anchored in my faith, 232 00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:51,480 Hallelujah. It is my anchor and my anchor 233 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:55,200 holds. Come on when the winds and the 234 00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:59,600 waves and the everything's blowing and and going against, 235 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:04,480 you know, my anchor is holding because I have faith, 236 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:12,400 Hallelujah, in the word of God and who he is, His anchor holds 237 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:17,000 and he is the anchor of my soul. Hebrews. 238 00:20:18,760 --> 00:20:21,760 It's the anchor of my soul. You better have an anchor on 239 00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:27,920 your soul or either your soul's going to go everywhere, and 240 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:34,240 that's what the word will do. It will keep you anchored when 241 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:38,160 all the world's going crazy. No, I have an anchor. 242 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:41,680 I have faith. Hallelujah. 243 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:49,480 So reigning faith anchors itself in God's reliable promises, not 244 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:55,160 circumstances, making it a powerful force to manifest the 245 00:20:55,160 --> 00:21:02,320 unseen, Hallelujah, to manifest the unseen in your life. 246 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:05,440 So we're supposed to live by this faith, Amen. 247 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:10,080 We are supposed to be people that know how to operate in 248 00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:13,360 faith and have a reigning faith. Amen. 249 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:16,240 If we are going to be the reigning church. 250 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:26,960 Now let's go to back to the qualities of the scripture that 251 00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:31,360 he's talking about here that needs to be added to our faith. 252 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:36,360 I hear a lot of people talk about Romans. 253 00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:41,640 Faith comes from what hearing and from hearing from the word 254 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:46,480 of God and and you won't have faith outside of the word, but 255 00:21:47,360 --> 00:21:56,640 faith alone is not just all that is going to get you over outside 256 00:21:56,640 --> 00:22:01,040 of these qualities that he talks about here in second Peter 257 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:02,720 chapter 2. So let's read them. 258 00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:07,280 It says this now verse 5 for this very reason. 259 00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:14,440 Also apply all diligence in your what faith? 260 00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:20,280 He doesn't say. Now just sit there and confess 261 00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:23,600 and confess and confess and confess and confess. 262 00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:28,240 No, there's some things that need to be added to your faith 263 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:37,160 that needs to be put together with your firm persuasion, your 264 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:43,160 confident expectation. So this word add says applying 265 00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:45,480 all diligence. First, let me tell you what 266 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:48,480 diligence is. Diligence is something. 267 00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:52,480 Diligence is something that you make an effort to do. 268 00:22:55,320 --> 00:23:01,360 To be diligent, then you are making an effort to supply my 269 00:23:01,360 --> 00:23:05,200 faith with some things. I'm going to make an effort, 270 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:06,800 right? I'm going to. 271 00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:11,440 It also means to exert oneself. That means it's going to take 272 00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:14,520 you putting the effort or putting the work in. 273 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:18,400 Just like we hear teachers tell their students, you need to be 274 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:22,360 diligent to do this and to do that to get your homework done. 275 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:26,760 You're not being diligent. You're not putting any effort in 276 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:29,960 it. And he says, listen, you are 277 00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:35,440 going to have to be diligent by applying some things to your 278 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:40,120 faith, not just your confession, not just reading the word cause 279 00:23:40,120 --> 00:23:45,560 faith comes from hearing. But actually he says here, exert 280 00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:51,400 yourself also strive after make an effort endeavor. 281 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:56,280 It also means this to be diligent to be prompt to study, 282 00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:01,720 to be prompt to study, and to labor. 283 00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:05,520 See, everybody just thinks faith just happens. 284 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:09,600 No, it doesn't. The only way it just happens is 285 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:11,960 when you call on the name of the Lord, faith. 286 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:16,960 The mustard seed of faith gets deposited within your spirit and 287 00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:22,440 from there it's up to you if it will remain just a little bitty 288 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:28,200 seed or if that seed is going to grow and going to blossom and 289 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:32,200 going to come to its fullness. Come on, it's up to you. 290 00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:39,200 It's up to you if you are going to be like the centurion that 291 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:42,920 says just speak the word only and my servant will be healed. 292 00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:50,800 And Jesus, what he marveled at his what great faith, his great 293 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:56,080 faith. And so to walk into great faith, 294 00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:59,480 reigning faith, there's going to be some things that we are going 295 00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:04,160 to have to be diligent to put to work in our life. 296 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:09,520 Amen. And so he says, add this to your 297 00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:11,320 faith. What does it mean to add? 298 00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:15,200 It says applying all diligence in your faith. 299 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:17,880 One translation says add to your faith. 300 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:22,440 One translation says supply your faith. 301 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:28,640 So all of these have that same context, context that we are 302 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:33,120 going to have to bring something to supply to our faith. 303 00:25:33,120 --> 00:25:36,960 And when you look up that word supply in the Greek, it means to 304 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:50,820 furnish, oh, I love this, to minister to, to minister, 305 00:25:51,140 --> 00:25:59,760 nourishment to. So your faith needs minister to 306 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:02,840 and nourished. Wow. 307 00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:11,360 So when he's saying you be diligent to minister, bring 308 00:26:11,360 --> 00:26:17,760 nourishment to your faith, furnish, it means to furnish 309 00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:20,720 your faith. Hallelujah. 310 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:26,080 So he's saying there's this. Listen, your faith needs to be 311 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:28,800 nourished. It needs to be ministered to. 312 00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:33,120 And what did he say here? Number one, there were 7 313 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:37,560 qualities that he listed here, Godly qualities. 314 00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:41,440 And let me just make this before we get into the qualities, I 315 00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:44,680 want to talk about what he said. When you continue to read that 316 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:52,320 verse, If we will add and do all these things that He tells us to 317 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:57,600 do, and he tells us that it should be, these things should 318 00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:04,240 be growing and increasing in our life #1 He says that they will 319 00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:07,640 keep you from being idle and fruitless. 320 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:14,240 So people that are fruitless, maybe it's because they've not 321 00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:20,720 nourished their faith, people that are idle, maybe it's 322 00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:25,480 because they haven't nourished their faith, they haven't 323 00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:29,560 brought a supply to their faith in these qualities in their 324 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:34,920 life. So it says this it, it will keep 325 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:38,600 them from stumbling. We talked about this. 326 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:40,560 Oh, you just think you never make a mistake. 327 00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:42,840 Oh, you just think you're better than everybody. 328 00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:48,160 No, I actually believe the Scripture that if I'll increase 329 00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:53,600 in some qualities that God listed here, I can be assured 330 00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:57,440 that I will never stumble. That's not prideful, that's not 331 00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:00,040 arrogant. That's actually having faith, 332 00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:06,160 trusting, relying in God's Word, that if he said that if I do 333 00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:10,920 these things and that to my faith and continue to grow and 334 00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:15,520 increase these qualities in my life, that I can be assured I 335 00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:20,680 will never stumble. What does this word stumble 336 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:22,720 mean? When you look it up in the 337 00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:28,040 Greek, it means to error. It means to make a mistake. 338 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:32,040 Yeah, I never have to make a mistake. 339 00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:38,280 I'm not saying that I can do it, but me adding to my faith, doing 340 00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:42,440 what the word says, Come on, then I can be assured that I'm 341 00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:45,360 not going to make a mistake. I'm not going to error. 342 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:48,440 I'm not going to stumble. It means to fall. 343 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:53,640 I'm not going to fall. It means to, you know, fall into 344 00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:56,680 sin. I'm not going to fall into sin. 345 00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:05,040 Amen. That's what it means. 346 00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:12,080 Look it up, dare ya. It also means listen to this, 347 00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:18,720 which I believe is one of the greatest things, that it's not 348 00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:31,020 going to cause me to offend someone else to sin, because 349 00:29:31,020 --> 00:29:37,520 what we do matters. What we say matters, how we live 350 00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:41,720 matters. And I don't care. 351 00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:44,480 You can say you have faith to move these mountains and faith 352 00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:47,200 to do all these things. And yet I've seen people that 353 00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:50,560 fall on their face because they have not brought a supply of 354 00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:53,960 nourishment to these qualities and this character in their life 355 00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:57,320 and they're falling left and right. 356 00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:07,280 So, oh, and if you actually, I'll get over onto the side 357 00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:10,240 note, if you actually look up that word stumble, it brings you 358 00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:16,240 over to James where he actually talks about if you've matured 359 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:23,080 enough to where your words, you don't stumble by your words. 360 00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:30,640 So God's concerned actually about every idle word. 361 00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:35,200 He's concerned about every word and he don't want you even 362 00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:43,640 stumbling there. But I'll move on. 363 00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:49,200 So he says 7 qualities that he wants us to. 364 00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:53,320 I'm glad I have another week to teach this. 365 00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:56,160 Not this Wednesday but the next one when we come back from the 366 00:30:56,160 --> 00:31:02,720 holidays. He says this supply moral 367 00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:06,000 excellence. What is moral excellence or one 368 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:10,440 translation virtue? Right virtue means moral 369 00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:12,040 excellence. What are we doing? 370 00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:18,000 This literally is talking about aligning your thoughts, your 371 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:24,440 feelings, and your actions with the righteousness of God or 372 00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:32,040 right living. So we are supposed to supply our 373 00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:40,440 faith in our thoughts, our actions, our behaviors, our 374 00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:43,720 emotions. All of those need to be in 375 00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:51,120 alignment with righteousness. Moral excellence, right? 376 00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:56,560 It means choosing His way of doing things instead of ours. 377 00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:03,480 So if someone does you wrong and you want to lash out, what are 378 00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:06,880 you going to do? I'm going to choose to do it his 379 00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:09,480 way. I'm going to choose to let them 380 00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:15,800 slap me in the face and turn the cheek. 7 * 70 So see, that's 381 00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:21,560 choosing his way of doing it, His moral excellencies, no 382 00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:26,360 matter what people are saying, you choose to do it his way, 383 00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:29,760 right? Because these qualities matter 384 00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:35,640 to my faith and I'm not going to be able to operate fully in the 385 00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:40,640 faith of God that he tells us to have in Mark 1123 and 24. 386 00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:45,960 Because I do still teach faith out of Mark 1123 and 24, Have 387 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:51,160 faith in God or what translation and have the God kind of faith. 388 00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:55,160 And I'm not going to have the God kind of faith outside of 389 00:32:55,160 --> 00:33:00,600 these qualities operating in my life and adding a supply to my 390 00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:04,920 faith, right? So I'm going to choose his way 391 00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:07,440 of doing things instead of my ways. 392 00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:13,160 And it means to actually practice living by what the Word 393 00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:18,160 says instead of how you want to do things or how you feel about 394 00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:22,640 things. Because it all has to do about 395 00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:27,560 your thoughts, your actions, your emotions, all your be, all 396 00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:31,200 of these things. And he wants them all in 397 00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:36,200 alignment to the way he responds and the way he does things. 398 00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:43,120 And that's going to bring a supply or nourishment to my 399 00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:46,240 faith. Hallelujah. 400 00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:52,480 Look at Second Peter chapter 3 and verse 14 and then in verse 401 00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:55,760 18 it says this. So beloved, since you are 402 00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:58,480 looking forward to these things, be diligent. 403 00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:01,640 Here's that word again. And make every effort to be 404 00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:07,640 found in Him at His return, spotless and blameless in peace. 405 00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:11,719 That is the inward calm with a sense of spiritual well-being 406 00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:20,800 and confidence, having lived a life of obedience to Him, but 407 00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:31,120 grow spiritually and mature in the grace and the knowledge of 408 00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:33,520 our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 409 00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:38,159 To Him be the glory, honor, majesty, splendor, but now, both 410 00:34:38,159 --> 00:34:41,719 now and to the day of eternity. Amen. 411 00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:48,760 And this should be our our motto as well, that we want to live in 412 00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:50,280 such a way. Come on. 413 00:34:50,639 --> 00:34:53,639 That we are spotless and blameless. 414 00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:57,520 Hallelujah. And confidence that I have lived 415 00:34:57,520 --> 00:35:03,880 a life of obedience to His word and I have allowed myself to 416 00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:08,720 grow spiritually and mature. Remember, he says, if these 417 00:35:08,720 --> 00:35:14,240 things grow and increase in you and that word is active when 418 00:35:14,240 --> 00:35:19,360 they are actively growing, when they are actively increasing in 419 00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:24,720 you, come on, then that is going to bring a nourishment to your 420 00:35:24,720 --> 00:35:28,040 faith, a confidence to your faith. 421 00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:30,680 Amen. Philippians chapter 2 and verse 422 00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:33,040 12. So then, my dear ones, just if 423 00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:36,640 you have always obeyed my instructions with enthusiasm, 424 00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:41,320 not only in my presence but now much more in my absence, 425 00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:44,360 continue to work out your salvation. 426 00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:48,480 Remember, the minute you get born again doesn't mean you are 427 00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:52,800 fully mature. No, there's things that you have 428 00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:58,120 to grow in your faith. You have to grow in your faith. 429 00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:00,160 You have to increase in your faith. 430 00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:03,440 You have to mature as a believer. 431 00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:07,440 You are the one that has to work out your salvation. 432 00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:12,040 You are the one that are are are now responsible for the journey 433 00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:14,360 that you are following through with him. 434 00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:18,720 Not in your own effort, only by the grace and the knowledge of 435 00:36:18,720 --> 00:36:19,680 God. Come on. 436 00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:27,560 But there is an effort. There is an effort, but it's not 437 00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:29,840 the effort for me to be born again. 438 00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:33,280 I'm already born again, but there is an effort for me to 439 00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:39,920 work out my salvation and to add to my faith and to mature and to 440 00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:42,120 grow. What does it mean here in the 441 00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:44,680 amplified? Work out your salvation that is 442 00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:49,080 cultivated. Bring it to full effect. 443 00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:53,800 That means it's a baby seed in you and you have to be the one 444 00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:56,040 now to nourish it. Feed it. 445 00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:59,000 Come on you feed your what faith. 446 00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:03,400 How do you feed your faith on the Word of God, but not just on 447 00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:06,640 the Word, just hearing the Word, but also what? 448 00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:12,960 Doing the Word, walking it out, practicing it, that's what 449 00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:16,200 cultivates it. Bring it to full effect. 450 00:37:16,240 --> 00:37:21,320 Actively pursue spiritual maturity with fear and 451 00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:28,200 trembling, using serious caution and critical self evaluation. 452 00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:36,840 Isn't that interesting? We have to allow the Lord to 453 00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:41,160 critically evaluate you. A critic, What does he say? 454 00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:44,240 I mean, you've heard Pastor Angie say it for years. 455 00:37:44,240 --> 00:37:48,880 Judge my heart, Lord. See if there is anything unclean 456 00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:53,080 within me. That's what we're saying. 457 00:37:53,720 --> 00:38:00,000 Allow him to critically look at you and say, hey, you need to 458 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:05,120 tweak this and then be willing and obedient to do it. 459 00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:08,000 And that's when it's real to you. 460 00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:12,320 But if you resist it and you don't do it, it's not you, 461 00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:16,480 you're not it's not for you. You're not going to grow, you're 462 00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:21,880 not going to mature, you're not going to fully have effect of 463 00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:25,520 this spiritual life, right? Hallelujah. 464 00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:30,120 Critical self evaluation to avoid anything that might offend 465 00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:33,920 God or discredit his name in Christ. 466 00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:37,880 Amen. And I read Philippians 48 to 467 00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:42,720 you, right? Finally, brethren, whatsoever is 468 00:38:42,720 --> 00:38:46,440 true, remember all these things you're to think on. 469 00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:49,440 This is what we are to meditate on. 470 00:38:49,720 --> 00:38:53,120 And when we are thinking on these things and meditating on 471 00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:57,040 these things, and when we are acting these things in and 472 00:38:57,040 --> 00:39:01,840 pursuing these things and acting them out in our life by faith, 473 00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:05,160 come on then. It is bringing a nourishment to 474 00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:07,560 our faith. It is supplying our faith. 475 00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:12,160 We are able to grow in our faith. 476 00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:14,400 Amen. Hallelujah. 477 00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:18,680 Kim, do you have time for one more and then we can do the rest 478 00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:22,560 the next time we come together? What was the next thing he said 479 00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:28,640 that we need to add to our faith or nourish our faith or minister 480 00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:36,280 to our faith with knowledge, knowledge, knowledge or moral 481 00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:41,240 wisdom and application of God's Word, right. 482 00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:45,960 So outside of His Word, if you're not a person that reads 483 00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:49,920 the word every day, then guess what's not being applied, 484 00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:54,560 supplied to your faith? And we wonder why so many 485 00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:57,920 believers are anorexic. They are not reading the Word. 486 00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:00,360 They're not meditating in the Word day and night. 487 00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:02,840 They're not spending time. Come on. 488 00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:10,040 Feeding their faith, supplying their faith with the nourishment 489 00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:14,400 that it needs, and then when something happens, you see them 490 00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:16,880 fall apart. Why do they fall apart? 491 00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:23,040 Because they have not fed their faith with the proper nutrients 492 00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:27,440 that they need. The knowledge of God's word, 493 00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:31,000 right? The moral wisdom and application 494 00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:32,920 of God's Word. Hallelujah. 495 00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:38,000 And it means this, that not word knowledge means moral wisdom, 496 00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:43,640 application of God's Word such as is seen in right living. 497 00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:47,960 Every one of these qualities, the seven that we're going to 498 00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:53,320 discuss, must be seen and evident in a person's life. 499 00:40:55,240 --> 00:40:59,440 Every time you read it and look it up in the Greek, it's about 500 00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:07,800 it being what there is going to be fruit in your life, there's 501 00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:13,480 going to be fruit in your life. And I've seen some stinking 502 00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:18,280 fruit in people's lives that say they're full of faith. 503 00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:25,640 But the the fruit that I want to see that will become tangible 504 00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:29,240 and evident in their life are these qualities. 505 00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:38,360 I don't care if they have a jet, but they have come on no moral 506 00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:48,080 excellence or they don't live right. 507 00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:52,920 They smoke a cigar and drink bourbon. 508 00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:05,160 Right. So again, these are things that 509 00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:09,120 when he talks about knowledge, he's talking about the wisdom 510 00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:13,640 and the application of God's Word being applied to your life 511 00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:18,800 in such a way that it can be seen and right living, or what 512 00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:25,440 we like to call the fruits of what righteousness, the fruits 513 00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:29,920 of righteousness should be able to be seen in your life. 514 00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:34,040 If you're applying these qualities and you're living this 515 00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:39,880 out according to His word, not your own opinions, not your own 516 00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:42,960 thoughts about what the Scripture says, know what his 517 00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:55,320 word clearly states, right? And so it's not hard, say it's 518 00:42:55,320 --> 00:43:01,600 not hard 2 scriptures and we'll close Colossians 1 to align with 519 00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:05,800 this knowledge. Colossians 1 and 9. 520 00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:10,680 For this reason, since this day we heard about it, we have not 521 00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:15,160 stopped praying for you, asking specifically that you would be 522 00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:19,840 filled with the knowledge of His what? 523 00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:22,240 His will. What is his will? 524 00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:26,920 The Word, the Word of God is His will for your life. 525 00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:37,280 It's His will and we call that His general will for every 526 00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:40,520 believers life. Is that we would align ourselves 527 00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:46,840 with the qualities of Scripture, the general will of God for 528 00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:51,320 every believer. And then then and only then as 529 00:43:51,320 --> 00:43:57,320 you are operating in the general will of God of his Word. 530 00:43:57,520 --> 00:44:04,280 He will begin to what speaks specific plans and purposes and 531 00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:10,040 pursuits that he has for you to fulfill his will for your life 532 00:44:10,040 --> 00:44:12,760 and so many people you still hear as believers. 533 00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:14,520 I don't know what God wants me to do. 534 00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:18,160 It tells me then you're not a person of the word. 535 00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:26,240 You cannot be in the word and not know the will of God can't 536 00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:31,400 won't happen, can't happen. It's not possible. 537 00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:36,840 You will know the will of God and many know the will of God 538 00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:44,560 and just choose not to do it. OK, so the knowledge of His 539 00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:51,080 will, what in all spiritual wisdom with insight into His 540 00:44:51,240 --> 00:44:56,720 purposes, you see that and an understanding of spiritual 541 00:44:56,720 --> 00:44:59,520 things. None of us should be ignorant of 542 00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:04,840 His Word and of spiritual things as a believer. 543 00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:10,040 Every single one of us should have the knowledge and wisdom of 544 00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:13,520 God's Word and God's will flowing and operating in our 545 00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:17,200 life if we are being students of the Word, if we are being true 546 00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:18,720 disciples. Amen. 547 00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:23,640 And last Scripture and we'll close Ephesians chapter 1, 548 00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:28,240 Ephesians chapter one, verse 17 and 18 out of the amplified. 549 00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:32,440 I always pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the 550 00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:38,360 Father of glory, would grant you a spirit of what wisdom and of 551 00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:44,760 revelation that gives you a deep and personal and intimate 552 00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:50,120 insight into the true knowledge of Him. 553 00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:53,240 For we know the Father through the Son. 554 00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:56,720 Verse 18. And I pray that the eyes of your 555 00:45:56,960 --> 00:46:02,600 heart or understanding, the very center and core of your being, 556 00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:06,680 would be enlightened and flooded with light by the Holy Spirit, 557 00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:12,640 so that you'll know and cherish the hope, the divine guarantee, 558 00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:17,960 Hallelujah, the confident expectation to which He has 559 00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:24,880 called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the 560 00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:28,760 Saints, God's people, Hallelujah. 561 00:46:29,080 --> 00:46:36,000 We have been given and granted come on divine power, the divine 562 00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:42,560 nature of God to live this life fully dynamic spiritual life and 563 00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:49,040 have a faith come on a faith that is raining and flourishing 564 00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:52,720 in our life. If every day and we will see 565 00:46:52,720 --> 00:46:59,400 that happen when we begin to add and bring a supply to our faith 566 00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:02,560 through these qualities in Second Peter. 567 00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:09,480 And the same way that we call those things that be not as 568 00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:13,880 though they are for the resources for our lives needs to 569 00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:18,720 be the same way you call those things that be not for these 570 00:47:18,720 --> 00:47:24,200 qualities to flow and to operate in your life every day. 571 00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:29,160 For moral excellence, Father, I thank you, I thank you. 572 00:47:29,160 --> 00:47:33,760 I thank you that you said, oh, that I could walk in moral 573 00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:39,160 excellence and virtue and in my thoughts and in my come on and 574 00:47:39,160 --> 00:47:44,000 in my actions and in my mind and in my will and in my emotions. 575 00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:47,960 I thank you, Father, that my thoughts will be your thoughts. 576 00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:51,560 And I thank you, Lord, that you said that I could take every 577 00:47:51,560 --> 00:47:57,040 thought captive and line it up to the word of God, to the will 578 00:47:57,040 --> 00:48:03,240 of God. And so listen, I call that, come 579 00:48:03,240 --> 00:48:09,160 on, are we being diligent to say, Father, I thank you that I 580 00:48:09,160 --> 00:48:15,880 have the knowledge of your will, that I have the mind of Christ, 581 00:48:16,520 --> 00:48:21,560 that I can know and have spiritual insight and revelation 582 00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:26,960 to the knowledge of your word, to apply it to my life, to line 583 00:48:26,960 --> 00:48:32,800 myself up to your will and your way of doing things so that I 584 00:48:32,800 --> 00:48:36,440 walk in the fruits of righteousness in my life to 585 00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:40,920 bring faith, bring a nourishment to my faith. 586 00:48:42,040 --> 00:48:49,320 Hallelujah, Hallelujah. And I'm telling you, our faith 587 00:48:49,560 --> 00:48:58,680 will begin to flourish if we'll nourish, if we'll nourish it 588 00:48:59,680 --> 00:49:06,640 with these qualities and be diligent to focus on some of 589 00:49:06,640 --> 00:49:12,760 these things in our lives. Our faith, Hallelujah, is going 590 00:49:12,760 --> 00:49:17,520 to go to another. Come on from faith to faith. 591 00:49:18,640 --> 00:49:24,840 And we're going to see us walking out a dynamic spiritual 592 00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:27,920 life. Oh, Hallelujah. 593 00:49:27,920 --> 00:49:34,960 Because I still believe that the best is yet to come and I'm 594 00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:38,360 going to be smack right dab in the middle of it. 595 00:49:38,760 --> 00:49:43,600 And I'm not going to let anything come on, pull my faith 596 00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:47,840 so that I, in these last days, would want to fall away from the 597 00:49:47,840 --> 00:49:51,480 faith. No, I'm going to be fully 598 00:49:51,480 --> 00:49:56,480 supplied and nourished in my faith to stay focused and 599 00:49:56,480 --> 00:49:59,200 diligent. Hallelujah. 600 00:49:59,200 --> 00:50:04,600 And I'm telling you, He wants every single one of us to 601 00:50:04,720 --> 00:50:09,120 evaluate where we really are, Hallelujah. 602 00:50:09,400 --> 00:50:15,040 So that we can bring another come on another bit and piece of 603 00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:18,120 nourishment so that we can have a reigning faith. 604 00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:18,560 Amen.