1 00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:26,320 The title of the message tonight is Curing a Burdened Heart and 2 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:29,520 and, and my subtitle is sowing to the spirit. 3 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:34,120 When I was asking the Lord, you know, what direction to go in 4 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:37,800 tonight, knowing that I was ministering it, it seemed right. 5 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:42,240 And it and knowing, you know, obviously I'm familiar somewhat 6 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:46,480 with things in people's lives, but just sense that that there 7 00:00:46,480 --> 00:00:52,760 there is an overall numbing and burdening happening in this last 8 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:58,280 day that's weighing people down. Whether it's reports that we've 9 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:02,600 gotten or things that are happening in our personal lives 10 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:08,280 or in our families, these things come to to weigh us down and to 11 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:11,520 to burden us. But the Lord doesn't want us to 12 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:15,360 be burdened. He wants us to know that we have 13 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:18,960 the victory and that the greater 1 is on the inside of us. 14 00:01:18,960 --> 00:01:23,000 So let's jump in because I want you to leave here tonight with 15 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:26,520 just a another little pep in your step. 16 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:30,120 I want you to leave here tonight where you're just walking just a 17 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:33,200 little bit higher. I wore my tennis shoes just in 18 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:36,920 case I needed to kick or run or do something. 19 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:40,720 But I just want you to be quickened and strengthen and, 20 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:43,640 and lay everything down tonight. Amen. 21 00:01:44,320 --> 00:01:48,040 So let's start in Romans chapter 13 and I'm going to start with 22 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:51,720 verse 8. It says, oh, no one anything 23 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:57,280 except to love one another. For he who loves another has 24 00:01:57,280 --> 00:02:00,080 fulfilled the law for the commandments. 25 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:03,240 You shall not commit adultery. You should not murder, you shall 26 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:05,600 not steal. You should not bear false 27 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:07,760 witness. You shall not covet and if 28 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:11,720 there's any other commandment are all summed up in this 29 00:02:11,920 --> 00:02:15,840 saying, namely you shall love your neighbor as yourself. 30 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:20,640 Love does no harm to a neighbor and therefore love is the 31 00:02:20,640 --> 00:02:23,880 fulfillment of the law. And then it goes on to say in 32 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:30,720 verse 11, and do this knowing the time now I want you to to 33 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:36,320 heed that and do this knowing the time that now it is high 34 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:38,840 time. Look at your neighbor and say it 35 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:44,560 is high time. It is high time to awake out of 36 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:49,000 sleep. For now our salvation is nearer 37 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:53,280 than when we first believed. The night is far spent. 38 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:57,280 The day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the 39 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:00,920 works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. 40 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:05,120 Let us walk properly as in the day, not in revelry and 41 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:09,440 drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, and not in strife and 42 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:15,760 envy, But verse 14, put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no 43 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:19,120 provision for the flesh to fulfill its lust. 44 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:23,040 Make no provision, none. And we'll talk about that in 45 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:24,920 just a minute. But when it says awake out of 46 00:03:24,920 --> 00:03:30,800 sleep, that word sleep means the slumbering state of your soul, 47 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:34,800 the slumbering state of your soul. 48 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:39,200 And so we're going to talk about how not to get in and stay in 49 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:44,080 that slumbering state of our soul, soul, and how to sow to 50 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:47,000 the spirit. Because if you're sowing to the 51 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:50,360 spirit, you're going to have peace and you're going to have 52 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:52,880 joy. And nothing's going to move you 53 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:57,640 off or out or off of your solid place because you know where 54 00:03:57,640 --> 00:03:59,800 you're at, you know where you're seated. 55 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:04,200 So I'm asking you tonight, are you slumbered in your soul? 56 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:06,960 Are you dull? Are you heavy? 57 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:11,960 Are you clouded? Do we make provisions sometimes 58 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:15,400 for the flesh? And when I say that that can 59 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:21,320 mean carnality in your thinking, it can mean just consistently 60 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:26,280 sowing to natural thinking, just consistently being in what's 61 00:04:26,280 --> 00:04:30,520 happening in your everyday life without acknowledging Him first. 62 00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:35,320 So let's increase in our sowing to the Spirit and let's come out 63 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:38,480 tonight of any heaviness that we may have. 64 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:43,000 So the scripture that we just read said understand the time, 65 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:49,600 the pressure, the last days. Let's go to Luke chapter 21. 66 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:53,720 And if you read in Luke chapter 21, I'm not going to read it 67 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:57,920 all, but it talks about the signs of the end times, the last 68 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:00,080 days. And it talks about nation 69 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:05,160 against nation, family against family, natural disasters, 70 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:09,080 airplane crashes, talks about all kinds of stuff. 71 00:05:09,280 --> 00:05:16,040 I threw that one in there. Verse 16 in in Luke 21 says you 72 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:21,480 will be betrayed even by parents and brothers, relatives and 73 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:25,640 friends, and they will put some of you to death and you'll be 74 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:30,160 hated by all for my namesake, but not a hair on your head will 75 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:32,400 be lost. So let me ask you this, you we, 76 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:35,000 I read that to you and and it may make you want to kind of 77 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:39,040 shrink down in your seat, but the scripture in multiple places 78 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:42,840 when he's warning us and telling us about the late last days, 79 00:05:42,840 --> 00:05:47,440 he's saying, don't you worry, don't you lose heart. 80 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:50,160 Don't you be troubled not one bit. 81 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:54,280 So in the midst of all this that he just told us, and I didn't 82 00:05:54,280 --> 00:05:59,400 even read all all of it, verse 19 says, and in your patience 83 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:04,160 possess ye your soul. Now is that not interesting? 84 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:08,680 I'm not going to highlight that for the majority of the message, 85 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:12,400 but is that not interesting that everything that he says that's 86 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:16,760 going to go down in these last days, he says now just right 87 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:20,320 smack dab in the middle of it now in your steadfastness, 88 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:23,040 because that's what that word, that word, patience is not a 89 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:27,400 passive word. It means in your steadfastness, 90 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:31,000 in your fight, you possess your soul. 91 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:34,880 Nobody's going to do it for you. You got to do it. 92 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:37,840 You got to possess your soul in the middle of all this. 93 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:41,960 It's your soul that is either going to keep you alive and in 94 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:46,880 peace or not. And it's up to you, your mind, 95 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:52,040 your will to make decisions and your emotions, your feelings. 96 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:56,360 And it's OK to have emotions. We have them, we all have them, 97 00:06:56,800 --> 00:06:59,600 but they should not sit up on the throne. 98 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:03,280 They should not be the thing that are that is guiding you. 99 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:07,920 The Scripture says that the sons of God should be led by the 100 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:13,440 Spirit of God, by the Holy Ghost, by the unction on the 101 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:16,880 inside, not by our circumstances, not by our 102 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:21,360 feelings, not by our emotions, not by our disappointments, not 103 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:24,280 by anything else, but just by the Holy Ghost and the Word of 104 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:27,920 God. So in your patience, in your 105 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:32,080 steadfastness, in your active, constant endurance, we've got to 106 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:36,440 take possession of our soul. And then Luke 21 goes on to say 107 00:07:36,440 --> 00:07:41,880 in verse 34, But take heed to yourselves and be on your guard 108 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:48,840 lest your hearts be overburdened and depressed, weighed down with 109 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:54,040 the giddiness and headache and nausea of self indulgence, 110 00:07:54,440 --> 00:08:00,160 drunkenness and worldly worries and cares pertaining to the 111 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:03,920 busyness of this life. And lest that day come upon you 112 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:09,160 suddenly like a trap or a noose. Look at how he says do not let 113 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:12,760 your hearts be overburdened and depressed with the giddiness and 114 00:08:12,760 --> 00:08:17,040 headache of the nausea of self indulgence, drunkenness and the 115 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:23,360 worries and cares of life. How he how he groups that with 116 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:28,400 drunkenness and other things. Did you know that drunkenness 117 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:31,120 and worry have the same effect on your heart? 118 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:40,200 Drunkenness and partying and sin and worry as a believer have the 119 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:45,160 same effect on your body, the same effect on your heart, no 120 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:47,920 different. And he's he's put them together 121 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:52,000 here so he can say to you, do not let your heart be burdened 122 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:55,200 down. Do not let it be troubled. 123 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:58,800 I want to read it to you in the in the 21st century, King James, 124 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:02,240 just verse 34. And take heed to yourselves, 125 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:08,640 lest at any time your hearts be overcharged, overcharged. 126 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:13,000 That means burdened, heavy, overloaded. 127 00:09:13,680 --> 00:09:19,720 And the Scripture admonishes us to wake up, wake up out of the 128 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:24,000 slumber, out of the fog, out of the weighing down the things 129 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:28,320 that weigh us down every day. If the enemy can get you weighed 130 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:32,320 down, if he can keep you burdened and keep your heart 131 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:35,680 overwhelmed, then he can keep you out of peace. 132 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:39,040 He can keep you out of joy. And essentially, you're not in 133 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:42,040 faith. And if you're not in faith, then 134 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:45,920 no mountains are going to be moving in your life. 135 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:48,960 And see, we got to make sure that our hearts are not 136 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:54,840 overburdened and overcharged and worrying and anxious about many 137 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:56,960 things. The Bible says we're not 138 00:09:56,960 --> 00:09:58,920 ignorant of the devil's devices, right? 139 00:09:59,560 --> 00:10:03,600 But even though we're not ignorant, are we resisting his 140 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:07,720 devices? You may know what they are, you 141 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:10,560 may be able to recognize what, you might be able to talk about 142 00:10:10,560 --> 00:10:15,000 what they are, but that's way different than you actually 143 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:17,640 resisting them. Way different. 144 00:10:17,960 --> 00:10:22,200 And the Bible says that you can extinguish all the fiery darts 145 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:24,280 of the evil 1. All of them. 146 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:28,240 Not just some of them, but all of them, if you're dressed 147 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:33,720 properly, if you have on the full armor of God. 148 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:38,400 I ran out of the house when I was younger without my shirt on. 149 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:43,560 And I'll never forget it because I was probably four or five, but 150 00:10:43,560 --> 00:10:46,040 I ran out. I ran out and I forgot to put my 151 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:48,640 shirt on. And I noticed that I didn't have 152 00:10:48,640 --> 00:10:52,640 a shirt on. And I'd screamed and I cried and 153 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:56,760 I ran back into the house and I was just four or five, but I was 154 00:10:56,760 --> 00:10:59,080 naked. I was naked. 155 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:02,200 To me, I was naked. And you know, a lot of believers 156 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:06,760 are leaving the house naked. And I'm not talking about naked 157 00:11:06,760 --> 00:11:10,440 spiritually where you're just burying your heart before God. 158 00:11:10,560 --> 00:11:13,160 I'm talking about naked because we're not putting on the full 159 00:11:13,160 --> 00:11:18,520 armor of God, naked because we're not putting on Christ. 160 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:22,720 We're not putting on who we are every single day. 161 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:24,320 Don't run out of the house naked. 162 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:31,400 Tell your neighbor that. Tell him good job, good job. 163 00:11:31,560 --> 00:11:35,440 So he tells us to be on guard about this. 164 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:37,920 Now get the get, get it, Get that picture out of your mind. 165 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:42,320 Get it out. He tells us to be on guard about 166 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:45,240 this. He tells us that our heart will 167 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:51,840 be overwhelmed and overcharged if we don't take heed our own 168 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:55,200 heart. Take heed self indulgence. 169 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:59,280 And you know, do we live in this Society of self promotion? 170 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:02,640 And it's all about me and it's all about I. 171 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:06,080 And the Bible says that in the last days, people are believers 172 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:09,240 are going to become lovers of their own selves. 173 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:15,680 And there's a whole lot of that going on, whether it's on social 174 00:12:15,680 --> 00:12:19,440 media, whether it's in the platform, whether it's in your 175 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:23,000 daily lives. Feeling this need to promote 176 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:28,120 ourselves and, and let everybody know what we're doing that that 177 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:32,360 is a work of the flesh. It's a work of the flesh. 178 00:12:32,560 --> 00:12:37,240 So any addiction, drunkenness, any addiction or consistent 179 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:41,840 yielding of your life, of your mind to the flesh is going to 180 00:12:41,840 --> 00:12:44,920 weary you. It's going to burden you. 181 00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:49,000 Too much flesh activity, too much natural thinking, it will 182 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:54,160 suppress you and depress you. The cares of life, worry, 183 00:12:54,160 --> 00:12:58,200 anxiety, losing their peace and joy. 184 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:01,960 You know, you can look at somebody, you can look out at 185 00:13:01,960 --> 00:13:05,760 your neighbor and you can tell when somebody is not in faith, 186 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:10,360 when somebody is heavy, when somebody's overburdened because 187 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:16,080 there's no peace and there's no joy and there's no lightness of 188 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:20,480 their step about them. But they're heavy and they're 189 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:23,880 carrying the weight of it. And I'm just telling you, God 190 00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:28,200 wants to set you free. But it's not a, it's not a thing 191 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:32,040 where you can just come up in here and just go, OK, Lord, 192 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:35,640 deliver me while I'm at church and go back home and live the 193 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:39,960 same way. And I'm always reminded how Saul 194 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:44,640 came, you know, was tormented and, you know, David came and 195 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:48,880 played for him and he got some relief and he got some victory. 196 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:52,360 And then when David would leave, he would just go right back into 197 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:54,640 that torment state that he was in. 198 00:13:55,480 --> 00:13:59,400 And sometimes we do that. We, we sow to the flesh, we sow 199 00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:03,480 to the natural, we sow to to our everyday lives. 200 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:08,640 And then we come up in here depleted and we want, you know, 201 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:12,400 just a fresh touch. And then we go out and we sow to 202 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:16,080 the flesh all week again. And we're not living in the 203 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:18,680 victory that God wants us to live in. 204 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:23,520 We're not living in this overcoming the greater 1 lives 205 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:26,840 on the inside of you. Everything's under your feet. 206 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:29,880 Nothing should be taking you down life. 207 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:35,320 But that needs to change for us. No matter what you're walking 208 00:14:35,320 --> 00:14:38,920 through, no matter what you see, no matter what report comes 209 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:42,160 before you, whose report are we going to believe? 210 00:14:43,640 --> 00:14:47,280 The report of the Lord? And it's your choice when you 211 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:51,200 wake up every day to go, which report am I going to believe 212 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:54,680 today? The Bible says, I've said 213 00:14:54,680 --> 00:15:00,720 before, you life and death, choose life so that you can live 214 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:04,640 and prosper and be in health, or you can choose death. 215 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:08,400 And it doesn't mean you're going to die physically, but it means 216 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:11,440 you're going to be heavy. It means things are going to 217 00:15:11,440 --> 00:15:14,960 take longer for you. It means things are going to be 218 00:15:14,960 --> 00:15:19,960 more burdensome in your life. God doesn't want us to live that 219 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:22,000 way. Let's go to Second Timothy 220 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:25,640 chapter 3. Take heed, take heed to 221 00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:28,880 yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing and 222 00:15:28,880 --> 00:15:32,360 drunkenness in the cares of life, Second Timothy 3 says. 223 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:37,720 But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come, 224 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:41,840 for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, 225 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:47,400 boasters, proud blasphemers, disobedient to parents, 226 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:52,640 unthankful and holy. That was self-control. 227 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:56,000 For me to move past disobedience to parents, I'm thankful. 228 00:15:56,440 --> 00:16:04,520 Unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanders without self-control, 229 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:09,920 brutal despisers of good traitors, headstrong, haughty 230 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:16,240 lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God having a form of 231 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:23,400 godliness but denying its power. Do you know how many people in 232 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:28,840 the church world have a form of godliness but deny the power 233 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:32,520 thereof? And I'm talking about they know 234 00:16:32,520 --> 00:16:35,280 how to come to church. They know how to lift their 235 00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:38,600 hands, but don't know how to allow the life changing, 236 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:43,040 transforming power of God to work in their everyday lives 237 00:16:44,760 --> 00:16:47,520 because everybody feels good when they leave a church 238 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:50,280 service. You're in the corporate 239 00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:54,440 anointing, you're getting the Word, you're getting to worship 240 00:16:54,440 --> 00:16:57,200 the Lord. But it's what you do when you 241 00:16:57,200 --> 00:17:01,920 walk outside. It's what you do right here in 242 00:17:01,920 --> 00:17:07,200 your mind, in your soul realm. So it goes on to say, just 243 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:10,720 continue in what you know. If you keep reading in Second 244 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:13,720 Timothy 3, if you just continue in what you know and you've been 245 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:17,880 taught the word of God, it's inspired, it's alive, and it'll 246 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:20,800 deliver you. It'll set you free. 247 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:25,440 So take heed to yourself. It's high time that we take heed 248 00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:27,920 to ourselves. Proverbs 4/23. 249 00:17:29,120 --> 00:17:31,320 Proverbs 423. I'm going to read it to you in 250 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:37,200 three different translations. It says above every charge keep 251 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:42,960 thy heart, for out of it are the outgoings of life. 252 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:46,000 I want to read it in the new Living translation. 253 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:51,920 It says guard your heart above all else, for it determines your 254 00:17:51,920 --> 00:17:55,760 course of life. And the amplified says keep your 255 00:17:55,760 --> 00:18:01,360 heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of 256 00:18:01,360 --> 00:18:04,120 life. So the scripture is telling us 257 00:18:04,360 --> 00:18:09,640 here, above everything else you do guard your heart. 258 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:14,600 Above everything else you do guard your heart. 259 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:20,680 It ought to be something that you do every day, all the time, 260 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:27,000 consistently. Lord, search me, God, you see 261 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:30,760 me, you, you see my heart, You see my thoughts. 262 00:18:30,760 --> 00:18:34,880 Search me and know me. See if there's any offensive way 263 00:18:34,880 --> 00:18:38,720 in me, there's any anxious way in me, and lead me in the way 264 00:18:38,720 --> 00:18:43,120 everlasting. That's what we do as believers, 265 00:18:43,120 --> 00:18:48,480 always keeping your heart with all diligence, because out of it 266 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:51,080 are the issues of life. So it's saying, keep your heart 267 00:18:51,080 --> 00:18:56,800 above anything, above your money, above your attention to 268 00:18:56,800 --> 00:19:02,400 your job, above your the uncertainties of life, the 269 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:05,880 disappointments of life above all else. 270 00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:10,560 Keep your heart with all diligence because out of it are 271 00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:15,000 the issues of life. Out of your heart is the source 272 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:19,920 of what your life will be. What if your, what your life 273 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:23,800 will look like if we go to the parable of the sower, and I'm 274 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:28,560 not going to read all of it, but I do want to read just the, the, 275 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:31,960 the part about the, the, the ground with thorns. 276 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:35,720 But you know, it talks about a wayside ground, a Stony ground, 277 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:37,840 a thorny ground and a good ground. 278 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:46,200 There's only one ground that's going to produce fruit. 75% of 279 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:52,360 the ground gets no results. So that would mean not to burst 280 00:19:52,360 --> 00:19:57,760 your bubble, but that would mean that 75% of us may not be 281 00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:03,200 getting results. So instead of you going, man, 282 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:06,080 that's me, go, that is not going to be me. 283 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:10,240 This is your life and death moment right here. 284 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:14,640 That is not going to be me. I'm going to be that good 285 00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:18,520 ground. So the Scripture in Mark 419 286 00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:22,600 says now these are the ones that are sown among the thorns. 287 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:27,040 They're the ones who hear the word and the cares of this 288 00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:32,840 world, the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other 289 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:37,960 things entering in choke the Word and it becomes unfruitful. 290 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:40,160 I want to read it to you in Luke 814. 291 00:20:41,360 --> 00:20:44,680 Now the ones that fell among the thorns are those who, when 292 00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:48,640 they've heard, they go out, and they're choked with cares, 293 00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:53,240 riches, and the pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to 294 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:56,000 maturity. But the ones that fell on the 295 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:59,200 good ground are those who, having heard the Word with a 296 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:05,480 noble and good heart, keep it and bear fruit with patience. 297 00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:09,560 So the ones that didn't bear fruit, I'm specifically talking 298 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:14,120 about the thorny ground, are the ones that just allowed the cares 299 00:21:14,120 --> 00:21:18,280 of life to come in. And we know the Word of God is 300 00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:22,040 all powerful, but this is the one thing that the Bible says 301 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:30,360 will choke the word out. Worry cares of life, being 302 00:21:30,360 --> 00:21:33,280 anxious about things. It's the one thing that's going 303 00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:37,120 to squash the power of the word of God in your life. 304 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:44,400 You might ought to do a little jig or something and go, OK, I'm 305 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:49,400 listening because I don't want anything to choke the word out 306 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:53,960 of my life. You ought to have such 307 00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:58,680 discernment in your heart that when worry tries to come to you 308 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:03,760 that you're able to go, no, no, no, no, no. 309 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:08,520 I know where that comes from. I'm not going to be anxious 310 00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:15,320 about nothing. Not one thing, not anything. 311 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:17,720 You got to have this fight in you. 312 00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:22,000 It doesn't matter if you played sports or not. 313 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:24,760 It doesn't matter what you did growing up. 314 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:27,440 Doesn't matter if you were I I don't can't think of a good 315 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:31,480 example, but it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. 316 00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:36,080 You have the fight and the the, the tenacity of God, the 317 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:38,160 strength of God on the inside of you. 318 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:43,960 The Bible says the righteous are as bold as a lion, and that's 319 00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:48,720 you, and that's me. There's something in you that's 320 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:51,680 got to go. I am not going to allow worry. 321 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:56,520 I'm not going to allow stress. I'm not going to allow anxiety 322 00:22:56,520 --> 00:22:58,880 to come to me. I'm not going to let my heart be 323 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:04,080 burdened, not for one second, not for one minute. 324 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:09,160 And if you're watching social media and if you're watching the 325 00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:12,600 news, if you're watching any of those things right now, it might 326 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:15,800 be easy for your heart to get a little heavy. 327 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:20,160 And so you got to be able to to turn that off. 328 00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:23,640 It's OK to get an update, but turn that thing off and make 329 00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:27,200 sure you're getting more of the word of God and more sowing to 330 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:29,480 the spirit, which we're going to talk about. 331 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:34,600 So, so worry we'll choke it. Be careful for nothing. 332 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:37,440 Philippians chapter 4, I want to read it to you in the amplified, 333 00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:39,240 even though I just quoted part of it. 334 00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:46,360 Rejoice in the Lord always, not sometimes, not just when you 335 00:23:46,360 --> 00:23:49,240 come to church and you like the little song they're playing. 336 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:57,600 Rejoice in the Lord always. Delight in and take pleasure in 337 00:23:57,600 --> 00:24:00,040 him. And again I'm going to say 338 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:03,360 rejoice. Rejoice in the Lord always. 339 00:24:03,360 --> 00:24:07,800 And again I say, rejoice. Let your gentle spirit, your 340 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:11,960 graciousness, unselfishness, mercy, tolerance, and patience 341 00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:16,880 be known to all people. The Lord is near, the Lord is 342 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:23,600 near, Say the Lord is near. Do not be anxious or worried 343 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:30,560 about anything, anything, but in everything, every circumstance 344 00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:35,920 and situation, by prayer and petition with Thanksgiving. 345 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:39,880 Continue to make your specific request. 346 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:44,960 Your specific request. Does he care about every hair on 347 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:48,600 your head? Does he know how many are there? 348 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:51,640 Yes, he does. Do you think he cares about your 349 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:54,960 finances? Do you think he cares about the 350 00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:58,360 little struggles that you have on a daily basis? 351 00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:01,200 Do you think he cares about your marriage? 352 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:04,560 Do you think he cares about your children and your jobs? 353 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:10,760 He does and the Scripture says in everything with prayer and 354 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:14,520 petition, with Thanksgiving, continue to make your specific 355 00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:19,240 request known to God. And then the peace of God that 356 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:23,280 that peace that reassures the heart, that peace which 357 00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:27,960 transcends all understanding, that peace which stands guard 358 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:32,240 over your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus is yours. 359 00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:36,920 It's yours. Finally, believers, whatever is 360 00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:40,680 true, whatever is honorable, worthy of respect, whatever is 361 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:45,440 right and confirmed by God's Word, whatever is pure and 362 00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:49,280 wholesome, whatever is lovely and brings peace, whatever is 363 00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:51,600 admirable and have a good repute. 364 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:54,880 If there's anything excellent, if there's anything worthy of 365 00:25:54,880 --> 00:26:00,880 praise, think continually on these things, center your mind 366 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:03,960 on them and implant them in your heart. 367 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:08,120 The things which you have learned and received and heard 368 00:26:08,120 --> 00:26:12,520 and seen in me, practice these things in daily life and the God 369 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:16,280 who is the source of peace and well-being will be with you. 370 00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:20,720 Rejoice always. Somebody needs to get in faith 371 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:25,640 and let go of fear tonight. Somebody needs to recognize I 372 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:30,920 have allowed a spirit of fear. I have allowed that and and I'm 373 00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:33,240 not supposed to allow a spirit of fear in my life. 374 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:41,640 God did not give me or you a spirit of fear, but of power and 375 00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:46,200 of love and of a sound mind. And something came up in me when 376 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:52,240 I was studying and I just since it would apply to probably a lot 377 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:57,080 of us that some of us don't, don't let ourselves get to that 378 00:26:57,080 --> 00:27:01,200 place in the spirit where we can even get the victory because 379 00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:04,200 we're too quick to take on the care. 380 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:08,920 And we're too quick to just begin meditating on and thinking 381 00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:13,840 on what's going wrong. And we haven't tried the word 382 00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:16,280 out. We haven't done those things in 383 00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:18,960 our life. Once you taste, the Bible says 384 00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:23,880 once you taste and see that the Lord is good, Oh, man, once you 385 00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:26,720 taste, then you don't ever want to go back. 386 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:29,040 And so you start understanding that. 387 00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:33,360 OK, yeah, I see that this mountain is trying to, to get a 388 00:27:33,360 --> 00:27:35,880 hedge here. I see that there's a a worry 389 00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:38,440 trying to get in here, but I've already tasted. 390 00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:43,080 I already know what God will do. I already know how how he's 391 00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:45,640 delivered me. I already know how he set me 392 00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:47,600 free. I already know how he spent my 393 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:50,120 feet on solid rock. I already know that no matter 394 00:27:50,120 --> 00:27:53,240 what I face, I have the victory. I already know that. 395 00:27:53,360 --> 00:27:57,720 So it's easy for me. It's easy for me to just go. 396 00:27:58,120 --> 00:28:02,560 Thank you, Lord, I got this, we got this. 397 00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:06,840 It's easy for my husband and I to hook arms and and and grab 398 00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:09,440 hands and say we've got the victory. 399 00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:11,200 We're not going to worry one bit. 400 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:14,080 We're going to pray for our enemies or pray for this 401 00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:17,560 situation, pray over this deal. And we know we've got the 402 00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:20,760 victory. And once you do it and what had 403 00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:25,040 come up in me as as you want to do it, but you haven't quite 404 00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:28,080 tasted it yet. And so you're just still in this 405 00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:32,440 habit of going to the flesh and sowing to the flesh, and you're 406 00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:35,560 not sowing to the Spirit. So you're not ever getting that 407 00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:38,560 victory. And God wants you to get to the 408 00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:41,720 victory. So I'm just daring you tonight 409 00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:46,360 to whatever you're facing right now, whatever, whatever 410 00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:50,400 situation pops up in you tomorrow that you just go, OK, 411 00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:52,480 I'm going to, I'm going to do this. 412 00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:55,200 I'm going to trust God. What does the Bible say about 413 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:57,880 it? Let me let Pastor Angie said 414 00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:02,720 this works, so let me do this and just go ahead and step out 415 00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:05,760 in faith and watch God do something for you. 416 00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:11,680 Give him place instead of the Bible says give no place to the 417 00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:16,200 devil, give no foothold to the enemy. 418 00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:21,160 Sometimes we give Him place because we worry and we fret 419 00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:26,240 about many things. Psalm 5522, the battle is in 420 00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:33,480 your mind, battles in your mind. Psalm 5522 says cast your burden 421 00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:37,160 on the Lord and He shall sustain you. 422 00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:41,160 He will never permit the righteous to be moved. 423 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:45,480 Do you believe that? Let me read it again. 424 00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:50,000 Cast your burden on the Lord and He will sustain you. 425 00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:56,880 He will never, He will never permit the righteous to be 426 00:29:56,880 --> 00:30:00,600 moved. You don't ever have to be moved. 427 00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:06,520 You don't ever have to have total failure and disappointment 428 00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:10,120 and things consistently stay in your life. 429 00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:18,680 You don't ever have to be moved. Psalm 27 verse 13 and 14 says I 430 00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:21,760 would have lost heart. I would have. 431 00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:26,800 I would have lost heart unless I had believed that I would see 432 00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:29,760 the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. 433 00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:32,160 Do you know this is the land of the living? 434 00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:36,280 I would have lost heart unless I had believed that I would see 435 00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:38,360 the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. 436 00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:44,480 Wait on the Lord, Be of good courage and He will strengthen 437 00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:52,160 your heart. Wait, I say on the Lord, I would 438 00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:56,560 have lost heart if I hadn't believed that I'd see the 439 00:30:56,560 --> 00:30:59,200 goodness. Do you believe do you believe 440 00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:02,320 that you're gonna and that you are seeing the goodness of the 441 00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:05,920 Lord in the land of the living. Listen, you guys have been 442 00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:08,200 delivered and set free most of us in here. 443 00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:11,600 God has transferred you out of the domain of darkness and 444 00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:15,400 you're in the Kingdom of his Son and and you can acknowledge that 445 00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:18,880 and you can say I, I've been delivered and I thank God for 446 00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:23,400 that, but also the galactic, and this is the warning that we get 447 00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:30,480 is, O foolish Galatians, how come you started this thing out 448 00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:34,920 in the spirit and now you've just reverted back to the flesh 449 00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:38,720 because we're all in danger of that. 450 00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:44,440 So you got, you ought to not be that, O foolish Galatian, that 451 00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:48,120 you're going to, you're going to stay in the spirit, maintain 452 00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:51,680 your spirit man, strengthen your spirit man. 453 00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:55,920 You understand when you're born again, you get a, you're a brand 454 00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:59,160 new creature in Christ. You get a brand new spirit and 455 00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:02,080 the Holy Ghost comes the living on the inside of your spirit. 456 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:06,720 But your spirit is either yielding to the word and the 457 00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:10,720 Holy Ghost or not. And the Bible says the strong 458 00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:16,800 spirit of a man can can overcome in Cygnus, sustain in Cygnus, 459 00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:21,360 can take down a wall, can conquer a mountain, whatever the 460 00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:25,800 strong spirit of the man. And so you've got to yield and 461 00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:32,720 learn as a believer to be led by the Holy Ghost, yield to him on 462 00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:36,480 the inside. James chapter 5, verses 7 463 00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:38,320 through 11. It says. 464 00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:43,080 Therefore be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. 465 00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:46,800 See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, 466 00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:51,520 waiting patiently for it until it receives the early and latter 467 00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:54,040 rain. You also be patient. 468 00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:56,760 And this right here is the part I want you to get. 469 00:32:57,080 --> 00:33:01,640 Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand. 470 00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:05,080 Establish your heart. That means make your heart 471 00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:09,240 stable. Make sure your heart is fixed 472 00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:14,320 and your mind is set, because the coming of the Lord is at 473 00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:16,360 hand. And if you keep reading, it 474 00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:20,560 says, do not grumble against one another, brethren, lest you be 475 00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:23,600 condemned. Behold, the judge is standing at 476 00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:26,440 the door. My brethren, take the prophets 477 00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:29,160 who spoke in the name of the Lord as an example of suffering 478 00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:32,920 and patience. Indeed we count them blessed to 479 00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:36,080 endure. One translation says, Indeed, we 480 00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:41,560 count them happy who persevere. If you want to be blessed and 481 00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:45,360 you want to be happy, you've got to learn to persevere. 482 00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:49,280 You've got to learn to establish your heart. 483 00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:53,000 So how do we keep our hearts from being weighed down and our 484 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:58,200 soul from staying in this weighed down slumber that we 485 00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:01,320 tend to get in? Make no provision for the flesh. 486 00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:06,520 Make no provision. So do the Spirit and and the 487 00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:09,159 scripture we read at the beginning says, but put on the 488 00:34:09,159 --> 00:34:13,800 Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh to 489 00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:18,159 fulfill its lust. No provision means I'm not even 490 00:34:18,159 --> 00:34:22,719 going to consider it. I'm not even going to give my 491 00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:26,600 flesh a chance. I'm not even going to give it a 492 00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:29,920 thought. What my flesh is desiring. 493 00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:32,120 I'm going to make no provision for it. 494 00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:36,600 And that doesn't just mean outward fleshly actions. 495 00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:42,280 That means carnal thinking. I'm not even going to give any 496 00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:46,560 provision for just carnal natural thinking. 497 00:34:46,679 --> 00:34:50,360 But I'm going to sow to the Spirit consistently, 498 00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:55,040 consistently put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no 499 00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:59,200 provision for the flesh. So it says to fulfill. 500 00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:01,760 It's less. And that word less means any 501 00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:05,720 craving or longing. Can this happen in your mind? 502 00:35:05,720 --> 00:35:09,680 Can there be a craving or a longing or a desiring or 503 00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:14,800 something that's overtaking you or dominating you or or ruling 504 00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:19,320 your life, controlling you, Something you feel like you 505 00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:23,880 can't live without? And one day years ago, the Lord 506 00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:26,280 told me to to take a break from peanut butter. 507 00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:27,960 And that was a very sad day for me. 508 00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:32,320 And that was a very sad day for my flesh because I love peanut 509 00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:36,160 butter and I love to lick, lick peanut butter off a spoon 510 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:42,880 anytime, all the time at night, in the morning, every time I 511 00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:44,960 praise the Lord, I want to lick a peanut butter. 512 00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:50,720 So, so back in the day, I don't remember what day it was, but 513 00:35:51,240 --> 00:35:55,160 but I remember the Lord prompted me to take a little break from 514 00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:57,280 peanut butter. And I was like, I don't 515 00:35:57,280 --> 00:36:02,120 understand that. And what, what is the deal? 516 00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:05,200 What, what, what is that going to do for me? 517 00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:07,760 Like that's not going to do anything for me. 518 00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:11,640 And it didn't matter what my justification was or my thought 519 00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:14,240 process was about it. I needed to obey. 520 00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:18,080 And so I did. And can I say what happened from 521 00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:19,840 doing that? I can't really. 522 00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:26,120 But what I can't say is that it made me strong in the Lord 523 00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:33,760 because I was learning in my, in my early days of following God 524 00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:37,000 and learning how to listen to the Holy Ghost, I was learning 525 00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:42,280 to just yield to the promptings, just yield to the Spirit of God. 526 00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:46,240 And, and when that happens in you, when you get that, that 527 00:36:46,240 --> 00:36:50,400 little witness on the inside, quit thinking that it's just 528 00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:54,800 you. Quit thinking that I just don't 529 00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:59,000 have to do that and justifying it in your mind. 530 00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:04,560 It's life and it's peace to you to actually yield to those 531 00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:06,240 things. And I could tell you many 532 00:37:06,240 --> 00:37:09,560 stories and many things over the years that the Lord has said, 533 00:37:09,720 --> 00:37:12,800 OK, I want you to take a break from that, or I want you to do 534 00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:16,040 this. Things that my flesh didn't want 535 00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:20,000 to do, things that were hard for me to do, things that my 536 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:23,920 emotions didn't want to do. Why do you think the Lord tells 537 00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:29,960 you to pray for your enemies? Because you think it just, well, 538 00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:34,880 I'm just doing them such a favor because I am making power 539 00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:38,040 available for them and they should, they really owe me a 540 00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:40,920 whole lot for that. That's not why he does it. 541 00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:45,400 You are making power available by praying for them, but he does 542 00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:49,920 it for your heart. Because if you haven't noticed, 543 00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:51,840 and maybe you haven't, because maybe you've never prayed for 544 00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:55,440 one of your enemies, but you ought to start and, and your 545 00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:58,640 enemy can be anybody that you have a conflict with. 546 00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:03,440 The minute you start praying for them, the minute your heart 547 00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:08,080 begins to soften. And I've used this example many 548 00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:12,800 times when we've taught on, you know, marriage and different 549 00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:15,080 stuff. But in the first years of our 550 00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:20,200 marriage, I probably was not the most spiritual gal and pretty 551 00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:22,760 carnal. I was born again and I was 552 00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:26,680 filled the Holy Ghost, but I had a lot of emotions and still some 553 00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:30,560 baggage that I was carrying. And so when I would get mad at 554 00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:36,520 Pastor Mike, I wanted to be mad. And I and I knew how to hold on 555 00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:39,680 to that for a little bit, you know, make him feel bad, rub it 556 00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:44,920 in just a little bit. And, and he was not moved by me. 557 00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:51,920 And so he would, he would, you know, come sit by me and, you 558 00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:54,880 know, reach his hand out to hold my hand. 559 00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:59,640 And I would give him my pinky and, you know, I'm like this, 560 00:38:59,880 --> 00:39:04,760 you know, like being so carnal. And then and then after he would 561 00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:07,560 start praying, I'd give him a few fingers. 562 00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:11,920 And then when he continued to pray, the Bible says in Song of 563 00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:16,160 Solomon, her bowels were moved. Has anybody ever had their 564 00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:20,240 bowels move? OK, so, so when your when your 565 00:39:20,240 --> 00:39:25,680 bowels move, what that means is the softening of, you know, 566 00:39:25,680 --> 00:39:28,320 there's a difference. Let me not talk about bowels, 567 00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:31,640 but but let's talk about your heart. 568 00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:38,440 OK, Let's talk about your heart. Your heart can be softened and, 569 00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:43,640 and moved and, and when he would just love me and pray for me and 570 00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:49,280 not be moved, my heart would soften and I'd be like, fine. 571 00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:53,760 And, and he that's how he always operated and it and that's how 572 00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:56,880 it works with your enemies. You start praying for them and 573 00:39:56,880 --> 00:39:59,560 your heart will be softened. And next thing you know, you're 574 00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:03,120 going to want to hug them. You're going to want to bless 575 00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:04,600 them. You're going to want to do 576 00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:07,000 something for them. I'm not sure why I got off on 577 00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:09,960 that, but somebody has an enemy in here. 578 00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:14,760 I'm sure of it. So make no provision for the 579 00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:15,720 flesh. None. 580 00:40:15,720 --> 00:40:21,240 Let's get back to this. No provision, no thinking, 581 00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:26,680 thinking about your money more, your lack, your husband, your 582 00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:30,680 wife can't stop thinking about a frustration, can't stop thinking 583 00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:34,040 about, you know, a disappointment in my life. 584 00:40:34,240 --> 00:40:37,240 No, we've got to sow to the spirit. 585 00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:42,320 So it takes says take heed that you don't yield or sow to the 586 00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:45,200 flesh. Take heed that you don't do 587 00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:47,440 that. You're either, just so you know, 588 00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:51,400 you're either sowing to the flesh or the spirit daily, all 589 00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:57,120 the time, all the time. I believe many are so entangled 590 00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:01,040 with the cares of life that we're not hearing the Spirit of 591 00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:07,200 God, that we're not yielding to the Holy Ghost, that we're not 592 00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:10,120 building ourselves up in our most holy faith. 593 00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:15,160 Let's go to Romans chapter 13 and I'm going to read verses 11 594 00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:18,440 through 14. Romans chapter 13, verses 11 595 00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:22,680 through 14 says, but make sure that you don't get so absorbed 596 00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:28,480 and exhausted in taking care of all your day by day obligations. 597 00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:33,160 Did somebody hear that? Make sure that you don't get so 598 00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:36,400 absorbed and exhausted and taking care of your day by day 599 00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:40,440 obligations that you lose track of the time and doze off. 600 00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:44,040 Oblivious to God. And I put in here oblivious to 601 00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:48,680 the Spirit of God. Oblivious to the Spirit of God. 602 00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:53,040 The night is about over, dawn is about to break. 603 00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:56,680 Be up and awake to what God is doing. 604 00:41:57,360 --> 00:42:00,360 God is putting the finishing touches on the salvation work He 605 00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:04,520 began when we first believed. We can't afford to waste a 606 00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:09,200 minute, must not squander these precious daylight hours in 607 00:42:09,240 --> 00:42:13,320 frivolity and indulgence, in sleeping around, in dissipation, 608 00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:17,760 in bickering and grabbing everything inside. 609 00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:23,200 Get out of bed and get dressed. Get out of bed and get dressed. 610 00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:26,800 Don't loiter and linger waiting until the very last minute. 611 00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:29,640 Dress yourselves in Christ and be up and about. 612 00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:33,440 Let me just remind you that says don't let all these things weigh 613 00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:37,360 you down to where you are oblivious to the Spirit of God. 614 00:42:37,720 --> 00:42:41,120 You know, the Bible says that the Holy Ghost can be quenched, 615 00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:48,920 that the Holy Ghost can be grieved, that he can be lied to. 616 00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:54,360 You do not want to be in a position where you're grieving 617 00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:59,360 the Spirit of God where he's talking to you and he's 618 00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:02,880 prompting you. And he's and I could just go to 619 00:43:03,080 --> 00:43:08,280 the promptings of you need to get in church, you need to get 620 00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:13,040 in that class, you need to spend more time in prayer. 621 00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:18,840 Those promptings that he's doing, if we ignore those 622 00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:24,600 promptings, our conscience becomes seared and it becomes 623 00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:28,440 harder for us to hear what God is saying. 624 00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:32,120 You know, in, in Scripture, I, I, there's something about 625 00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:37,320 Romans chapter one that that always ignites me for some 626 00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:39,560 reason. But in Romans chapter 1, it 627 00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:44,720 talks about although they knew God, do we know God in here? 628 00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:49,240 Although they knew God, they didn't honor him as God. 629 00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:53,600 And we can say they didn't honor the, the, the Holy Ghost. 630 00:43:54,240 --> 00:43:57,600 They didn't honor the Spirit of God on the inside, nor were they 631 00:43:57,600 --> 00:44:02,720 thankful. Although they knew God, they 632 00:44:02,720 --> 00:44:05,000 didn't honor him, nor were they thankful. 633 00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:09,040 And so they were turned over to a depraved mind. 634 00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:14,960 And that that doesn't happen overnight when people are in 635 00:44:14,960 --> 00:44:17,800 failure, when things are happening in people's lives, 636 00:44:18,600 --> 00:44:21,560 most likely it didn't just happen overnight. 637 00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:28,280 Most of the time there was a prompting, there was a lack of 638 00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:32,920 yielding to the Holy Ghost. He was talking. 639 00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:36,760 We quenched it. We said we justified it. 640 00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:39,920 We said we don't want to listen. And we went about our way. 641 00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:47,120 And then we wonder why we're heavy, why we're broken, why 642 00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:50,240 there's lack. It's there's a big, big 643 00:44:50,240 --> 00:44:53,720 difference when a trial comes to you because you're in faith. 644 00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:57,480 When a mountain comes to you, but you're in faith and you're 645 00:44:57,480 --> 00:45:00,280 living in faith, then you can confidently look at that 646 00:45:00,280 --> 00:45:03,560 mountain and say it has to be moved, has to be moved. 647 00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:08,120 But there's another thing when, when people want to go around 648 00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:13,000 and say no weapon formed against me shall prosper, but yet they 649 00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:17,480 ain't live in it and he's not really Lord and they're not 650 00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:20,120 yielding and he had, they haven't done the thing that he 651 00:45:20,120 --> 00:45:23,760 told them to do 2 weeks ago, but they want to say no weapon 652 00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:27,520 formed against me shall prosper. It doesn't work like that. 653 00:45:29,120 --> 00:45:33,840 We've got to live this thing. So to the Spirit, make no 654 00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:38,840 provision for the flesh. Galatians chapter 6 verse 7 655 00:45:38,840 --> 00:45:43,960 says, Do not be deceived, for God is not mocked. 656 00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:49,360 He will not allow himself to be ridiculed, nor treated with 657 00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:53,360 contempt, nor allow his precepts to be scornfully set aside. 658 00:45:54,320 --> 00:45:59,320 For whatever a man sows, this and this only is what he will 659 00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:03,400 reap. For whatever a man sows, this, 660 00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:06,040 this and this only is what he will reap. 661 00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:11,520 For the one who sows to his flesh will reap from the flesh 662 00:46:11,520 --> 00:46:16,440 ruin and destruction, but the one who sows to the Spirit will 663 00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:19,920 from the Spirit reap eternal life. 664 00:46:20,680 --> 00:46:26,040 Let us not grow weary or become discouraged in doing good, for 665 00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:30,000 at the proper time we will reap if we do not give in. 666 00:46:30,160 --> 00:46:33,840 When it says reap eternal life, that's not just talking about 667 00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:38,200 you going to heaven, that's talking about the zoway life of 668 00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:42,200 God, life and peace And deliverance from a definition is 669 00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:44,600 deliverance from being molested from the enemy. 670 00:46:45,840 --> 00:46:49,760 Deliverance in every part of your life, in your mind, in your 671 00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:54,400 emotions, in your body and your finances, in every part of your 672 00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:55,760 body. Deliverance. 673 00:46:55,880 --> 00:47:00,360 If you sow to the Spirit, you will reap this eternal life. 674 00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:06,560 John 663 says it is the Spirit who gives life and the flesh 675 00:47:06,560 --> 00:47:10,400 profits nothing. The words that I speak to you, 676 00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:13,920 they are spirit and they are life. 677 00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:20,200 Zoe life, the absolute fullness of life, the glory of of God is 678 00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:23,560 what Zoe life is. First Corinthians chapter 316 679 00:47:23,560 --> 00:47:28,840 says, do you not know that you are the temple of God and that 680 00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:30,840 the Spirit of God dwells within you? 681 00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:36,320 Do we not know? In Psalm 139, we, we, we, a lot 682 00:47:36,320 --> 00:47:39,080 of us know that Psalm because it says you were fearfully and 683 00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:42,280 wonderfully made. But it also says, where can I go 684 00:47:42,280 --> 00:47:47,640 from your spirit and where could I flee from your presence? 685 00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:51,240 If I if I make my bed in hell, you're there. 686 00:47:51,240 --> 00:47:54,280 If I'm in heaven, you're there. Wherever where I go, there you 687 00:47:54,280 --> 00:47:57,800 are. Where can you go from the Holy 688 00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:01,680 Ghost? You know this is His time and 689 00:48:01,680 --> 00:48:06,280 His dispensation, and what He's called to do is not only live 690 00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:10,280 within you, but upon you and to be your Paraclete. 691 00:48:10,280 --> 00:48:15,320 You're the one that's called alongside you to help you, to 692 00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:21,080 help you in everything, to guide you in the truth, to lift you up 693 00:48:21,080 --> 00:48:24,640 out of the miry clay. That's what He does. 694 00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:29,320 That's what the Holy Ghost does. Romans 812 says. 695 00:48:29,320 --> 00:48:34,960 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors not to the flesh, to 696 00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:37,720 live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the 697 00:48:37,720 --> 00:48:41,280 flesh, you'll die. But if by the Spirit you put to 698 00:48:41,280 --> 00:48:45,640 death the deeds of the body, you will live for as many as are led 699 00:48:45,640 --> 00:48:49,400 by the Spirit of God. These are the sons of God. 700 00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:53,480 For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear. 701 00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:57,840 But you received the spirit of adoption, by whom we cry out, 702 00:48:57,840 --> 00:49:02,960 ABBA, Father, the Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit 703 00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:07,760 that we're children of God. And if children, then heirs, 704 00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:12,760 heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer 705 00:49:12,760 --> 00:49:17,400 with him, that we may also be glorified together with him. 706 00:49:17,880 --> 00:49:20,000 For you did not receive the spirit of bondage. 707 00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:23,720 Again to fear. The Bible says you are a Son of 708 00:49:23,720 --> 00:49:26,360 God if you're led by the Spirit of God. 709 00:49:27,480 --> 00:49:31,040 Solid food, the scripture says, is for the mature. 710 00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:33,600 And let me just throw this in real quick. 711 00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:38,720 In Galatians 516 it says if you walk in the spirit, you'll not 712 00:49:38,720 --> 00:49:43,280 fulfill the lust of the flesh. And the Bible distinguishes 713 00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:48,440 between a mature believer and a babe in Christ. 714 00:49:49,080 --> 00:49:55,840 And the Bible says a mature one is one who by reason of use have 715 00:49:55,840 --> 00:50:00,680 their senses exercised to discern good and evil. 716 00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:07,240 So a mature believer ought to be able to to, when something comes 717 00:50:07,240 --> 00:50:12,160 into their life, immediately discern this is good or this is 718 00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:20,360 evil and operate properly and deal with it properly, take 719 00:50:20,360 --> 00:50:24,400 authority of it. Recognize this is not a thought 720 00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:27,160 from God. I am taking it and putting it up 721 00:50:27,160 --> 00:50:29,200 underneath the obedience of Christ. 722 00:50:30,520 --> 00:50:32,560 That's what the mature people do. 723 00:50:33,560 --> 00:50:38,120 They're sowing to the Spirit on such a consistent basis that 724 00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:42,080 when things come, they're able to see it, recognize it, and not 725 00:50:42,080 --> 00:50:49,920 be moved, not be moved. Jude chapter 1 Jude here was, 726 00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:54,320 was going to talk about the elements of salvation when you 727 00:50:54,320 --> 00:50:56,400 started in the beginning of the chapter, he's like, I was going 728 00:50:56,400 --> 00:51:00,400 to talk to you about, you know, the, the salvation and those 729 00:51:00,400 --> 00:51:02,880 kind of things. But I, I, I'm, I'm feeling a 730 00:51:02,880 --> 00:51:06,320 warning to talk to you about the end day, end times and end days. 731 00:51:06,560 --> 00:51:08,960 And so he goes on to talk about the last days. 732 00:51:08,960 --> 00:51:14,880 But in verse 20 he says, but you beloved, building yourselves up 733 00:51:14,880 --> 00:51:20,360 on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep 734 00:51:20,360 --> 00:51:25,240 yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our 735 00:51:25,240 --> 00:51:27,720 Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. 736 00:51:28,240 --> 00:51:32,360 And on some have compassion making a distinction, but on 737 00:51:32,360 --> 00:51:35,960 others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire, hating 738 00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:39,920 even the garment defiled by the flesh. 739 00:51:41,080 --> 00:51:43,840 Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling. 740 00:51:45,080 --> 00:51:48,520 So Jude goes through all these last day things that are going 741 00:51:48,520 --> 00:51:49,960 to be happening. He's saying, but you. 742 00:51:51,160 --> 00:51:54,880 But you, beloved, you build yourself up on your most holy 743 00:51:54,880 --> 00:51:57,920 faith. And he says, and now to him 744 00:51:57,920 --> 00:52:02,240 who's able to keep you from stumbling and to present you 745 00:52:02,240 --> 00:52:07,520 faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, 746 00:52:08,160 --> 00:52:10,440 can you say that you have exceeding joy right now? 747 00:52:11,880 --> 00:52:16,640 Oh wow, y'all thought I just fell out of the tree or 748 00:52:16,640 --> 00:52:19,480 something? I am looking at you. 749 00:52:19,960 --> 00:52:23,040 I am seeing your faces. And it doesn't mean that you 750 00:52:23,040 --> 00:52:27,040 need to be busting out laughing, you know, to to have joy, but 751 00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:32,040 you know, if you have joy on the inside and, and the Scripture 752 00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:36,160 says that he can present you if you'll sow to this, if you'll 753 00:52:36,160 --> 00:52:39,960 build yourself up, brethren, on your most holy faith, if you'll 754 00:52:39,960 --> 00:52:44,360 stay in the spirit, if you'll sow to the Spirit, then he can 755 00:52:44,360 --> 00:52:48,000 present you faultless and he can present you before his presence 756 00:52:48,120 --> 00:52:53,560 with exceeding joy, with exceeding joy. 757 00:52:53,800 --> 00:52:56,960 You know, some of you need to get up in the morning and say 758 00:52:57,160 --> 00:52:59,560 the joy of the Lord is my strength. 759 00:53:00,920 --> 00:53:05,720 Joy is not a an emotion, it's not a feeling, it's a power. 760 00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:11,160 It's a strength for your life. And it ought to be a confession 761 00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:16,000 of yours that that that joy that God gives you is the strength of 762 00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:19,640 your life. You ought to say that on a daily 763 00:53:19,640 --> 00:53:23,320 basis. John 423 says But the hour is 764 00:53:23,320 --> 00:53:29,320 coming and now is when the true worshippers we'll worship the 765 00:53:29,320 --> 00:53:33,600 Father in spirit and in truth, for the for the Father is 766 00:53:33,600 --> 00:53:40,000 seeking such to worship Him. God is spirit and those who 767 00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:45,440 worship Him must worship Him in spirit and truth. 768 00:53:45,680 --> 00:53:49,440 If there's true worshippers then there's false worshippers. 769 00:53:50,560 --> 00:53:53,760 If there's true worshippers, then there's non worshippers. 770 00:53:55,280 --> 00:53:58,720 The scripture says the hour is coming and now is when true 771 00:53:58,720 --> 00:54:02,440 worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. 772 00:54:02,760 --> 00:54:06,960 Does that mean just when you come to church that means it's a 773 00:54:06,960 --> 00:54:11,840 lifestyle? You live in the spirit, you sow 774 00:54:11,840 --> 00:54:15,680 to the spirit, you're staying in the spirit. 775 00:54:16,040 --> 00:54:19,680 It says you'll worship the Father in spirit and truth, for 776 00:54:19,680 --> 00:54:24,960 the Father is seeking such to worship Him. 777 00:54:25,440 --> 00:54:31,200 God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship Him in 778 00:54:31,200 --> 00:54:33,840 spirit and truth. We're not going to be like Saul. 779 00:54:35,680 --> 00:54:38,920 We're not going to be like Saul. We have to come up in here and 780 00:54:38,920 --> 00:54:42,840 get our joy. We've got to come up here and 781 00:54:42,840 --> 00:54:46,160 get our peace. We've got to, you know, talk to 782 00:54:46,160 --> 00:54:48,840 the pastor or come to church before we can get any kind of 783 00:54:48,840 --> 00:54:49,880 relief. No. 784 00:54:49,880 --> 00:54:56,560 We are true worshippers and we worship in spirit and in truth, 785 00:54:56,560 --> 00:55:04,600 and we sow to the Spirit daily. Romans chapter 8 says there is 786 00:55:04,600 --> 00:55:09,040 therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus 787 00:55:09,160 --> 00:55:16,320 who do what, who do not walk according to the flesh, but 788 00:55:16,320 --> 00:55:19,000 according to the Spirit. You want to not walk in 789 00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:22,280 condemnation? Then live in the Spirit. 790 00:55:23,720 --> 00:55:27,600 There'll be no guilt, there'll be no condemnation in your life, 791 00:55:27,680 --> 00:55:32,040 if you will live in the spirit, if you'll stay in the spirit. 792 00:55:32,200 --> 00:55:35,920 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the 793 00:55:35,920 --> 00:55:38,400 things of the flesh, but those who live according to the 794 00:55:38,400 --> 00:55:40,680 spirit, the things of the spirit. 795 00:55:41,200 --> 00:55:44,160 For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually 796 00:55:44,160 --> 00:55:49,840 minded is life and peace. To be spiritually minded is life 797 00:55:49,840 --> 00:55:53,440 and peace. So how do you not fulfill sowing 798 00:55:53,440 --> 00:55:55,960 to the flesh or the lusts of the flesh? 799 00:55:56,200 --> 00:56:01,680 You replace it immediately with sowing to the Spirit. 800 00:56:02,360 --> 00:56:05,320 And how do you do that on a daily basis? 801 00:56:05,760 --> 00:56:09,000 It is not hard. The Bible says get back to the 802 00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:14,160 simplicity of Christ. Get back to the simplicity of 803 00:56:14,160 --> 00:56:20,680 who you are, where He sat you, where He's put you at the right 804 00:56:20,680 --> 00:56:24,320 hand of the Father above all, rule and authority and power and 805 00:56:24,320 --> 00:56:29,640 dominion and every name that's named, know where you're seated. 806 00:56:29,800 --> 00:56:34,080 Get back to where you are and who you are, and it's as easy as 807 00:56:34,200 --> 00:56:37,360 just making a decision on a daily basis. 808 00:56:38,560 --> 00:56:43,080 It's that easy. And unfortunately, we allow 809 00:56:43,080 --> 00:56:48,960 these cares of life to come in to weigh us down. 810 00:56:49,240 --> 00:56:54,440 We get thinking about too much in the natural, our daily lists, 811 00:56:54,440 --> 00:56:58,200 our daily concerns, our household things. 812 00:56:58,360 --> 00:57:01,400 And we're not sowing in the Spirit. 813 00:57:02,160 --> 00:57:06,960 We're not sowing to the Spirit. I want to end with a couple of 814 00:57:06,960 --> 00:57:10,520 scriptures, Ephesians chapter 5. How do we do this? 815 00:57:11,040 --> 00:57:13,280 I want you to cast your care today. 816 00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:17,160 I want you to be able to lay it down here in a minute. 817 00:57:17,760 --> 00:57:23,760 Verse 15 says, See then that you walk circumspectly, not as 818 00:57:23,760 --> 00:57:28,600 fools, but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are 819 00:57:28,600 --> 00:57:33,080 evil. Therefore do not be unwise, but 820 00:57:33,080 --> 00:57:35,160 understand what the will of the Lord is. 821 00:57:35,280 --> 00:57:40,040 Lord is and do not be drunk with wine and which is dissipation, 822 00:57:40,400 --> 00:57:45,160 but be filled with the Spirit speaking to one another in 823 00:57:45,160 --> 00:57:50,880 psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody 824 00:57:50,880 --> 00:57:53,920 in your heart to the Lord. And if you've been here any 825 00:57:53,920 --> 00:57:56,520 length of time, you know, I love that part because it says that 826 00:57:56,520 --> 00:57:59,680 we speak to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual 827 00:57:59,680 --> 00:58:01,840 songs. And I just picture us all 828 00:58:01,840 --> 00:58:05,160 walking up to each other and saying, glory Hallelujah, I love 829 00:58:05,160 --> 00:58:07,160 you, How are you? What's happening? 830 00:58:07,360 --> 00:58:10,880 And just singing a Psalm? Or do we do that? 831 00:58:10,880 --> 00:58:13,160 We don't really. But one day I'm going to walk up 832 00:58:13,160 --> 00:58:14,800 to you and do that and you'll know. 833 00:58:14,800 --> 00:58:19,480 You'll understand why I did it. Giving thanks always. 834 00:58:21,280 --> 00:58:26,640 Somebody didn't hear that. Giving thanks always for all 835 00:58:26,640 --> 00:58:34,160 things, giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in 836 00:58:34,160 --> 00:58:36,360 the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. 837 00:58:36,560 --> 00:58:40,520 Submitting to one another in the fear of God. 838 00:58:40,680 --> 00:58:43,480 If you are filled worship team, you can come. 839 00:58:43,720 --> 00:58:49,360 If you are full of the Holy Ghost, if you are filled with 840 00:58:49,360 --> 00:58:53,720 the Spirit, you're going to be speaking, you're going to be 841 00:58:53,720 --> 00:58:58,000 saying something. So I want to end with first 842 00:58:58,000 --> 00:59:01,120 Peter chapter 5, verses 6 through 9. 843 00:59:01,120 --> 00:59:03,760 I want you to listen to this in the amplified. 844 00:59:04,520 --> 00:59:09,080 Therefore, humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, 845 00:59:09,520 --> 00:59:14,840 that in due time He may exalt you, casting the whole of your 846 00:59:14,840 --> 00:59:22,440 care, all your anxieties, all your worries, all your concerns, 847 00:59:23,080 --> 00:59:27,240 once and for all. Let me read that part again, 848 00:59:27,760 --> 00:59:32,440 casting the whole of your care, all your anxieties, all your 849 00:59:32,440 --> 00:59:38,240 worries, all your concerns, once and for all on Him, because He 850 00:59:38,240 --> 00:59:44,360 cares for you affectionately and He cares about you watchfully. 851 00:59:45,440 --> 00:59:49,760 Be well balanced, temperate, sober of mind. 852 00:59:50,800 --> 00:59:55,960 Be vigilant and cautious at all times, for that enemy of yours, 853 00:59:55,960 --> 01:00:00,320 that enemy of yours, the devil, he roams around like a roaring 854 01:00:00,320 --> 01:00:05,160 lion, the fierce hunger seeking someone to seize upon and 855 01:00:05,160 --> 01:00:08,560 devour. Withstand him. 856 01:00:09,520 --> 01:00:15,400 Be firm in the faith against his onset, rooted and established, 857 01:00:15,400 --> 01:00:19,200 and strong and immovable and determined. 858 01:00:19,760 --> 01:00:23,880 Knowing that the same identical sufferings are appointed to your 859 01:00:23,880 --> 01:00:27,080 brotherhood, the whole body of Christians throughout the world. 860 01:00:29,000 --> 01:00:34,560 It says Cast the whole of your care, all of it, all your 861 01:00:34,560 --> 01:00:40,720 anxieties, all your care, all your concerns once and for all 862 01:00:40,720 --> 01:00:44,360 because he cares about you affectionately and for you 863 01:00:44,360 --> 01:00:46,560 watchfully. And I, I want to share 864 01:00:46,920 --> 01:00:51,320 personally, the Lord has ministered to me in the past 865 01:00:52,080 --> 01:01:01,640 month or so about how in Zephaniah, it says that he sings 866 01:01:01,640 --> 01:01:06,480 over you, that God sings over you, that, you know, God has a, 867 01:01:06,480 --> 01:01:09,120 a soul. And the Bible talks about that 868 01:01:09,120 --> 01:01:12,920 he's, he's a spirit, but he, but he has a soul. 869 01:01:13,920 --> 01:01:18,440 That's why we have a soul. And the Bible says that he sings 870 01:01:18,440 --> 01:01:23,360 over you. And, and for me personally, I 871 01:01:23,400 --> 01:01:30,000 just caught this glimpse of God singing and I never really 872 01:01:30,000 --> 01:01:33,920 thought about it before. And for some reason in my 873 01:01:33,920 --> 01:01:37,280 personal life, it really spoke to me. 874 01:01:38,080 --> 01:01:44,440 It it really ministered to me that I could picture him singing 875 01:01:44,440 --> 01:01:49,040 over me with love, because that's what the scripture says.