1 00:00:20,350 --> 00:00:22,830 So anyway, I appreciate Pastor Marshy ministering the word 2 00:00:22,830 --> 00:00:24,510 while we're gone. Amen. 3 00:00:24,670 --> 00:00:27,030 And I know you received, obviously, it's always good to 4 00:00:27,030 --> 00:00:29,270 hear the good testimonies, but it's good to be back in the 5 00:00:29,270 --> 00:00:32,830 house today with you. And so today I'm going to 6 00:00:32,830 --> 00:00:35,350 continue on our the reigning church theme. 7 00:00:36,480 --> 00:00:38,720 I'm going to probably bring this in multiple times. 8 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:40,960 There's going to be a lot of messages that are centered 9 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:44,640 around the church because the reality is there is nothing 10 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:51,480 outside the church. And until we we understand that, 11 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:56,120 then you're never going to be as successful as God intended you 12 00:00:56,120 --> 00:01:00,200 to be. That's like saying I can live 13 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:06,880 for God without him. You can't do that. 14 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:10,360 All right. And so, you know, that's like 15 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:12,720 saying I can live for with God without the church. 16 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:18,680 Well, you can't do that. I said you cannot do that again, 17 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:21,920 The world tries to live for God without being born again. 18 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:24,800 They do. They have an attempt. 19 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:28,400 And for most they feel like they're doing a really good job 20 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:30,640 because the Bible says there's a way that seems right to a man. 21 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:34,240 But the end is and they think some of them think I'm doing a 22 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:40,520 better job then the church. I remember 1 pastor in this 23 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:42,240 community. I don't believe they're here 24 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:44,200 anymore. But I was at a little pastors 25 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:47,720 meeting and he had made this statement that just shocked me. 26 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:50,520 You know when I say shocked, I mean I'm not shocked but I was 27 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:59,000 just like really. He had some, some, some, some 28 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:04,720 people in his church that were in a sexual sin, OK? 29 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:08,120 They were in a sexual sin. And he knew they were in a 30 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:10,639 sexual sin, OK. And then you know what? 31 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:12,920 People come to church that are in sexual sin. 32 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:15,720 I get that. Because people have got to grow. 33 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:18,040 You said, Pastor Earl, would you not let people come here? 34 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:21,400 They have sexual sin, They can come because eventually they're 35 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:24,080 going to repent and move on with God. 36 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:25,760 If they don't repent, they're not going to be able to stay 37 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:29,520 anyway, OK, because you're going, you're, you have to rise 38 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:33,280 up to the level and behavior of the Kingdom by the Spirit 39 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:35,480 because our spirit man wants to live that way. 40 00:02:35,920 --> 00:02:43,360 But they were in sexual sin, OK. And and so he talked about the 41 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:47,760 this couple that he had in sexual sin, knowing they're in 42 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:53,520 sexual sin, but they helped serve the church, let them serve 43 00:02:53,920 --> 00:02:57,600 and said they serve better than the ones that were born again. 44 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:03,880 Now what they were doing is they were putting forth a committed 45 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:09,520 effort and they were doing things externally that the 46 00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:16,360 Church should do from an inward position because they weren't 47 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:22,240 obviously serving better than the Saints because it's 48 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:27,040 impossible for them to do so because if you're instinct 49 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:30,640 because they were not born again, the sexual sin they were 50 00:03:30,640 --> 00:03:36,520 in, they were not born again. However he looks to that 51 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:41,440 external and this is what can happen as a believer is we can 52 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:46,960 neglect the precious gift we have and someone who doesn't 53 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:50,480 have it but isn't to them they're like, well, the Bible 54 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:53,400 says you should serve. The Bible says, and then they 55 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:56,520 are in their own efforts are doing a more committed effort 56 00:03:57,160 --> 00:03:59,880 than the Saint that has accepted Jesus Christ our Lord and 57 00:03:59,880 --> 00:04:02,920 Savior. But because they do not value 58 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:11,360 the church, they only value their personal salvation, not 59 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:13,920 the Church of which Jesus values. 60 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:16,720 OK. And so we need to value the 61 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:19,440 church because the church is amazing. 62 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:21,959 Look at this in Matthew chapter 16 verse 18. 63 00:04:21,959 --> 00:04:26,880 You know it, it says this and Jesus says, I say also to you 64 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:29,320 that you are Peter. And on this rock I will what 65 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:37,280 build come on my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail 66 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:44,160 against it, right? So who's building the church? 67 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:48,200 Jesus. Not pastor, not apostle, not 68 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:51,280 prophet, not teacher, not evangelist. 69 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:55,160 It's not happening. Now, if one of those five fold 70 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:57,960 ministries is acting like they're doing it, they're off. 71 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:02,280 But there are those that are under that five fold ministry 72 00:05:02,280 --> 00:05:04,680 recognize I'm not doing this. It is the Lord. 73 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:08,080 I'm just doing my part, OK? And I understand there's a 74 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:10,480 plethora of churches out there and there's plenty of them that 75 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:14,160 have challenges and issues. In fact, Jesus himself addresses 76 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:17,800 seven of them in the Book of Revelation that he says where he 77 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:20,760 is. And seven of his churches, of 78 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:25,040 those five had problems, some serious problems of which the 79 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:29,560 head of the church was correcting in grace. 80 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:34,120 Under the grace dispensation. He was correcting those 81 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:38,360 churches, and he was even warning them that if they do not 82 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:42,760 make these corrections, that he would pull their lamp. 83 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:47,960 That's right. Now, in this dispensation, the 84 00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:54,520 head of the church, he is micromanaging the body. 85 00:05:54,520 --> 00:06:01,320 I'm going to say that again. Jesus Christ is micromanaging 86 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:03,960 the body. Now, how do we know this? 87 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:07,440 Because not one idle word goes unnoticed. 88 00:06:09,320 --> 00:06:15,160 Everything you're doing and everything you're thinking, He's 89 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:18,080 taking note of. Now that should get you excited 90 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:21,080 and I'm going to deal with your negative mindset soon enough 91 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:25,120 because unfortunately, everybody defaults to I'm in trouble 92 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:29,360 mindset instead of glory to God. God gave me some information 93 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:34,680 that releases who I really am. This is exciting because it is. 94 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:37,840 I'm glad that there's nothing that goes without his notice 95 00:06:37,840 --> 00:06:40,040 because he'll never miss my faith. 96 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:44,880 He'll never miss it, which means that he'll never not double 97 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:49,280 negative. He will not withhold from me the 98 00:06:49,280 --> 00:06:55,000 blessing 'cause he sees it all. It does not escape his notice. 99 00:06:55,960 --> 00:06:59,480 And I'm glad he's micromanaging my life so much so that he's 100 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:01,920 like, whoa, hold on, son, you don't want to do that. 101 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:05,000 It really it it, it can hinder your potential. 102 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:07,400 You're greater than that, man. I put much greater things in 103 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:11,240 you. I'm so glad he's so detailed. 104 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:15,640 I mean, again, we have no problem with this when it comes 105 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:21,240 to athletics, when it comes to jobs, when it comes to your own 106 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:27,040 personal budgets, you will have every bit of your money down to 107 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:32,080 a penny. You will allow some send your 108 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:36,600 child to some sports program where they will analyze even 109 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:40,760 their stance and their nutrition. 110 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:45,240 I mean talking about having someone control your life. 111 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:50,400 Yet we subject ourselves, we'll have professionals come into our 112 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:52,720 businesses and critique for what? 113 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:56,560 So we can make more money. Please tell me what I'm doing 114 00:07:56,560 --> 00:07:58,720 wrong. And we don't say like, don't you 115 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:00,480 come up in here and tell me what I'm doing wrong? 116 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:04,200 No, please show me what I'm doing wrong so I can make more. 117 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:07,360 And I'm like, Lord, come and show me what I'm doing wrong. 118 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:11,440 So I'll show more glory. Show me what I'm doing wrong so 119 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:14,720 that I can release more me. Amen. 120 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:18,880 So really, Saints already do this and everything else. 121 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:20,840 Let's get over here and do it in the church. 122 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:22,920 I said, let's do it in the church. 123 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:27,680 Praise the Lord. So Jesus is building his church 124 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:35,799 and the gates of hell shall not prevail against what the church. 125 00:08:35,919 --> 00:08:41,320 Now, the first thing we need to get rewired on and that is this 126 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:46,120 individualistic mindset of I am the church. 127 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:52,360 You are not the church, you are in the church, you are a part of 128 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:56,240 the church. There is no individual that is 129 00:08:56,240 --> 00:08:59,040 the church. So when this scripture says the 130 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:03,320 gates of hell will not prevail against, that's not speaking to 131 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:08,080 you personally, it's speaking to you in the church. 132 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:14,000 This is why I say Jesus Christ did not come for humans as much 133 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:16,000 as He came to fulfill God's word. 134 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:18,240 And when He fulfills God's word, guess what? 135 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:23,480 It includes humanity. Now He came to die for every 136 00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:25,640 human being. Why 'cause I'm here to actually 137 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:30,440 fulfill the vision God had. I was sent for this purpose, 138 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:34,600 which means it includes you. However, if you reject me, 139 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:39,400 you're not getting in. So I'll do the vision whether 140 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:42,440 you accept me or not. So it's really not about you 141 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:45,640 personally as much as it is about fulfilling the will of 142 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:48,480 their Father. But it does include you. 143 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:51,000 So when the gates of hell will not prevail against the church, 144 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:57,640 if you're in it, then the gates of hell can't prevail. 145 00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:01,880 It cannot prevail. It cannot prevail. 146 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:07,760 Hallelujah. We need to see ourselves in the 147 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:11,440 church, and this is not technically popular preaching. 148 00:10:11,880 --> 00:10:13,680 I get that, but it doesn't matter. 149 00:10:13,680 --> 00:10:16,400 I love the Word and I'm just going to stay with the Word. 150 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:18,840 I don't care what's going on in the culture. 151 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:22,320 I'm in a different culture. It's the Kingdom of God. 152 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:26,280 I am not compromising this word for that purpose. 153 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:30,440 I'm not going to do that. So we are the church because all 154 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:34,920 of us are together. And when you're together and you 155 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:38,600 see yourself not independent of someone, but I'm fully 156 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:40,880 dependent. I'm an individual, I have my 157 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:44,320 purpose. God has something just designed 158 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:47,680 for me for the purpose of connecting with someone else in 159 00:10:47,680 --> 00:10:49,400 the whole body. That's why. 160 00:10:49,520 --> 00:10:52,160 And when you are releasing that, then guess what? 161 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:56,560 There's a hedge of protection around you that no weapon formed 162 00:10:56,560 --> 00:11:00,720 against you could prosper. Can't happen, I said. 163 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:03,560 It can't happen again. The Passion translation gets 164 00:11:03,560 --> 00:11:05,840 this right, he says. I give you the name Peter, a 165 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:09,640 stone, and this truth of who I am will be the bedrock 166 00:11:09,640 --> 00:11:13,880 foundation on which I will build my church, my legislative 167 00:11:13,880 --> 00:11:17,920 assembly, and the power of death will not be able to overpower 168 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:20,680 it. The the rock that Jesus builds 169 00:11:20,680 --> 00:11:24,600 his church is the revelation. He is the king, He's the Christ 170 00:11:25,040 --> 00:11:30,240 and he is King of the Kingdom of which I am a child of The king. 171 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:40,360 He's the king of not the king of a king, He's the king of kings. 172 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:43,360 And so we are jointed and fitted together to do something 173 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:44,520 amazing. Look what it says in John 174 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:48,480 chapter 10 verse 27 to 30. We can preach 3 hours since the 175 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:49,440 food trucks are going to be here. 176 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:52,160 So I'm really excited he says this. 177 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:54,880 And John, no, I'm just kidding John, because some of you had 178 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:57,480 already checked out and I can, I can lose you in one verse as it 179 00:11:57,480 --> 00:12:00,000 is. So you know, I need you to stay 180 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:04,200 focused. John chapter 10, Amen. 27 to 30 181 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:08,840 says this. My sheep hear my voice, and I 182 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:12,840 know he does not have a flock of one. 183 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:18,040 I said he does not have a flock of one. 184 00:12:18,760 --> 00:12:23,680 All right, He says, I know them and they follow me and I give 185 00:12:23,680 --> 00:12:29,840 eternal life to them and they will never perish and no one, no 186 00:12:29,840 --> 00:12:32,400 one will snatch them out of my hand. 187 00:12:33,680 --> 00:12:38,160 My Father who has given them to me is greater than all, and no 188 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:41,200 one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand. 189 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:47,520 I am the father are one. Now this verse here has been so 190 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:50,520 mistranslated on so many occasions because the ones who 191 00:12:50,520 --> 00:12:54,480 mistranslate this one preaches this other passage of Scripture, 192 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:57,880 OK? And so we need to make sure that 193 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:01,120 we are moving in the right direction, OK? 194 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:04,840 Are you ready for this? The Kingdom of heaven is like 195 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:14,440 this shepherd who has 99 He won, leaves. 196 00:13:15,520 --> 00:13:24,760 He goes after leaves the 99. He goes to get the one and 197 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:32,240 brings them back. When he finds the one we 198 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:36,920 rejoice. OK, notice in this past says no 199 00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:39,680 one would be able to snatch you out of Jesus's hand or the 200 00:13:39,680 --> 00:13:43,520 Father. How did 1 sheep leave the 99? 201 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:50,240 Come on let's preach this thing. How did the one if if it can 202 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:53,120 never be snatched out of Jesus's or the Father hand? 203 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:58,080 How in the world did that shepherd lose 1? 204 00:13:59,960 --> 00:14:04,360 Well, he didn't lose it, it wandered off itself. 205 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:12,800 So make no mistake about it God, God is not letting go of you, 206 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:17,960 not a devil in hell, a trial, a tribulation, a famine. 207 00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:21,400 Anything in this world can pull you away from the love of God or 208 00:14:21,400 --> 00:14:24,880 his hand. But you slap, can walk yourself 209 00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:30,520 wandering away. You can stretch yourself right 210 00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:37,520 back into the world. I'm done with this church stuff. 211 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:40,240 I made Jesus the Lord of my life. 212 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:44,320 I don't need that junk no more. I'm going to go do my own thing, 213 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:50,480 my own ministry, my own stuff out all by yourself. 214 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:53,720 Amen. Now she's filming right here. 215 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:57,040 So if we can't get the angle, we can get hers and we can crop it 216 00:14:57,040 --> 00:15:02,840 into our YouTube. Hallelujah. 217 00:15:03,280 --> 00:15:07,800 Are you hearing what I'm saying? You can walk out of the church 218 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:13,720 and try to claim you are it. Now notice in today's theology, 219 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:20,840 you would think that Jesus prefers to leave the 99 and go 220 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:27,280 hang out with the one with as much stuff out there attacking 221 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:33,560 the church. There's so much information out 222 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:37,360 there attacking the church, the institution of the church, the 223 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:41,400 assembling of the church. There's so much attack. 224 00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:44,520 And obviously the enemy would attack because why? 225 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:52,240 If he can get you off by yourself, then the wolves can 226 00:15:52,240 --> 00:16:01,200 begin to corral you right Now, what I love about the 99 that we 227 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:04,400 don't preach on enough is that apparently there's enough 228 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:10,600 strength in the 99 that the shepherd can leave them in a 229 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:17,280 field by themselves and go look for the One. 230 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:22,600 Which tells me that when the shepherd leaves the 99, the 231 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:27,480 unification of the 99 is so powerful that a wolf won't even 232 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:31,200 try to come into the fuck. When the shepherd's gone, glory 233 00:16:32,640 --> 00:16:34,320 to God. Why? 234 00:16:34,440 --> 00:16:39,840 Because when the 99 are unified, they are like the shepherd. 235 00:16:44,360 --> 00:16:47,360 Whoo glory to God man, we need to unify. 236 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:51,760 We need to be jointed and fitted together. 237 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:56,040 This should be your most exciting time of the week when 238 00:16:56,040 --> 00:17:02,520 you come here, not laying up on your couch watching your TV or 239 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:06,240 even watching your YouTube of your favorite person who 240 00:17:06,240 --> 00:17:16,119 preaches Get me to the 99. Come on, get me to the 99. 241 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:20,240 Because there is power in the flock. 242 00:17:21,520 --> 00:17:24,680 I said there's power in the flock. 243 00:17:24,839 --> 00:17:30,240 But notice when the the shepherd goes after the one, we rejoice. 244 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:34,360 Why? Because if it stays out there, 245 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:44,800 it will surely die. It will surely die, surely die. 246 00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:53,880 And so he picks up that sheep and he brings it back to the 247 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:57,240 flock. There's no implication that when 248 00:17:57,240 --> 00:18:00,680 he finds it, he's like, I didn't like the 99 either. 249 00:18:05,440 --> 00:18:08,960 I'm so glad you left. I was ready to leave myself. 250 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:11,720 You just gave me a reason to live. 251 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:14,040 Leave now just sing to me a little bit. 252 00:18:14,040 --> 00:18:21,720 You know, just me and you like like all up in your house and 253 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:24,760 you don't you aren't actively involved in a local body church 254 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:27,280 and connected to other believers like you worshipping God by 255 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:29,360 yourself and you think he's up there just thinking this is 256 00:18:29,360 --> 00:18:32,200 amazing. Know what he's saying is well, 257 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:33,880 that sounds good. It sound better if you were in 258 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:37,520 the church, sound better if you get ahead and get get together 259 00:18:37,520 --> 00:18:40,440 with a local bot with another flock, get with a flock. 260 00:18:42,960 --> 00:18:47,040 It would be even greater because all the while the Good Shepherd, 261 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:50,200 the great shepherd, the chief chef, the chief shepherd is only 262 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:54,480 doing this. Get back in church. 263 00:18:56,200 --> 00:19:02,160 Get back in church, Hallelujah. Come on, say Hallelujah in 264 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:08,280 Isaiah 5417. The context of Isaiah 54 is not 265 00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:13,320 to an individual, it is to the nation of Israel. 266 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:20,200 So when he says you, he's not saying to one person, he's 267 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:24,960 saying to the nation. So this says no weapon that is 268 00:19:24,960 --> 00:19:31,840 formed against Israel or the nation or Zion will prosper. 269 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:36,880 Every tongue that accuses the church in judgment you will 270 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:39,960 condemn. This is the heritage of the 271 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:43,680 servants, plural of the Lord, and their vindication is from 272 00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:46,840 me, declares the Lord. Do you want God to clear your 273 00:19:46,840 --> 00:19:48,160 name? Be in church. 274 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:52,880 You want to be in the place where no weapon formed against 275 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:57,280 you will prosper? Notice it doesn't say in church 276 00:19:57,360 --> 00:19:59,720 you'll never have a weapon formed against you. 277 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:03,400 Never says that in life you're going to have weapons formed 278 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:06,320 against you the minute you leave the domain of darkness. 279 00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:09,360 And coming to the Kingdom of his beloved son, the devil only 280 00:20:09,360 --> 00:20:13,520 wants to drag you back. He only comes for one purpose, 281 00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:17,920 to kill, steal and destroy. Now you may be out of His 282 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:22,280 Kingdom, but he sure does do not, does not want you to know 283 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:26,440 who you are in Christ with a group of people unified in a 284 00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:31,000 community that then you would run down His gates of hell. 285 00:20:31,120 --> 00:20:36,400 You would storm darkness as a group and change a community. 286 00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:40,120 He don't want that. He wants disunity. 287 00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:43,200 He wants your carnal minds to fight with each other. 288 00:20:43,280 --> 00:20:47,240 He wants you to gossip back, bite, get offended, not walk in 289 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:49,920 forgiveness. He wants you to drag in all of 290 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:53,760 your junk into the church when all the wild gods trying to 291 00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:57,280 strip that out of your mind so you can walk in unity as a 292 00:20:57,280 --> 00:21:01,080 believer. And he does this because all the 293 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:05,840 while he is constantly forming some weapon to try to take you 294 00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:07,640 out. But when you stay with the 295 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:14,600 church, it will not prosper. I said it will not prosper. 296 00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:16,640 And I can tell you right now, there are people in this room 297 00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:20,480 right now that you've had seasons away from the church and 298 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:24,400 you know that it is not profitable. 299 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:28,600 It was not. And all the while on the inside, 300 00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:31,320 all those years, you kept hearing, man, I should get back 301 00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:33,560 in church. But then the devil wants the 302 00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:35,920 weapon he formed against you. Well, you know, there's really 303 00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:39,480 no church out there. They're all just a bunch of 304 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:42,760 liars. You can't really find one. 305 00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:46,400 Da, da, da. All these excuses just to keep 306 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:48,760 you out. Well, you're imperfect. 307 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:54,760 Why is it that everyone should accept your imperfections in 308 00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:58,680 church, yet you can't accept anyone else's imperfection as 309 00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:02,120 we're working them out? I mean, all of us are like 310 00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:06,240 wrinkled clothes, right? Amen. 311 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:08,080 Our minds are like wrinkled clothes. 312 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:11,880 I mean, God's Word is like the iron got the steam and it's 313 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:13,640 working out those wrinkles, right? 314 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:16,560 He's pressing us. He's trying to get us nice and 315 00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:18,880 sharp looking. Well, all of us have got a 316 00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:22,600 wrinkle somewhere that the iron of the Word just hasn't come 317 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:26,280 over and pressed that thing out. Amen. 318 00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:30,200 Well, let him work on all of us. When you find somebody's 319 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:31,360 wrinkle, go. Oh, OK. 320 00:22:31,360 --> 00:22:32,600 Well, let me pray for that. Lord. 321 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:38,600 I think of the steam's coming. I'll be patient because I know 322 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:40,280 you are. Man, you sure worked that 323 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:43,400 wrinkle out in my life. I said you worked that wrinkle 324 00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:45,320 out in my life. Amen. 325 00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:48,880 So there's no weapon formed against the church that is going 326 00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:50,560 to prosper. Look what it says in Deuteronomy 327 00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:53,960 28, because again, I'm using these examples because again, 328 00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:55,720 people say, wait a minute, now you're in the old covenant. 329 00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:59,960 Listen, the Bible's about a king, his Kingdom and his royal 330 00:22:59,960 --> 00:23:01,520 offspring, and that hasn't changed. 331 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:06,760 This is why I love the passions actual translation because if we 332 00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:11,120 translated it as the original Greek has church or ecclesia 333 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:15,080 then we would see it is a legislative assembly. 334 00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:18,120 Because we are in a government not a religion. 335 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:21,360 The government will rest on his shoulders. 336 00:23:21,360 --> 00:23:26,480 Isaiah chapter 96 says not the religion of Christianity, but 337 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:30,160 the Kingdom of God, of which we are citizens of that Kingdom. 338 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:34,360 So the reality is, is whether I'm in the old covenant or the 339 00:23:34,360 --> 00:23:39,400 new, it is a national emphasis. We are dealing with a nation. 340 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:43,640 We are a holy nation in the new covenant. 341 00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:51,600 The church is like the embassy of God's Kingdom where his 342 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:55,040 ambassadors collect upon the same place to receive 343 00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:58,720 instruction from the home country of heaven that we are to 344 00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:04,680 legislate our our to our to demonstrate and communicate down 345 00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:10,280 here in the earth. OK, so in Deuteronomy 28, again 346 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:14,920 in the realm of national, he says this now if now it shall be 347 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:17,400 if you diligently obey the Lord your God. 348 00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:19,480 Are we supposed to obey God in the new covenant? 349 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:24,840 Yes, under grace doesn't mean you do not obey the Lord 350 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:29,640 Actually under grace means you in your spirit can and wants to 351 00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:34,480 wants to your spirit's like we can do this. 352 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:38,120 Your Spirit's like screaming at you by like, come on, man, we 353 00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:45,120 can do this, We can do this. Quit holding me back. 354 00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:48,320 Let me do this. Release me. 355 00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:54,360 All right. So now it shall be if you 356 00:24:54,360 --> 00:24:57,280 diligently obey the Lord your God, being careful to do all his 357 00:24:57,280 --> 00:24:58,760 commandments which I command you today. 358 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:00,840 The Lord your God will set you what? 359 00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:03,200 How? Above all the nations of the 360 00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:04,760 earth is the church above it all. 361 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:07,840 He's coming back for the church. OK. 362 00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:13,240 All these blessings will overtake you and will come upon 363 00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:16,720 you and overtake you if conditional statement you obey 364 00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:19,400 the Lord your God. Now jump down to verse 6. 365 00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:23,440 Blessed you shall be when you come in, and blessed shall you 366 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:26,520 be when you go out. And that doesn't matter what's 367 00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:29,640 coming against you when you come in, or what's coming against you 368 00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:37,320 when you go out. I don't care what attacks 369 00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:40,520 happened this week before you came in, you're blessed. 370 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:43,960 I don't care what attacks waiting for you when you go out, 371 00:25:44,120 --> 00:25:45,480 you're blessed. Why? 372 00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:50,000 Because verse 7, the Lord shall cause your enemies who rise up 373 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:55,240 against you to be defeated. What before you? 374 00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:59,800 You're going to watch it. You're going to see them fall 375 00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:01,120 apart. Now. 376 00:26:01,120 --> 00:26:05,080 It's not because you want it to happen or you're like please let 377 00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:08,000 it happen. You're praying that it doesn't 378 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:09,800 happen because you pray for your enemies. 379 00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:15,120 However, if they do not relent to pursue you, to destroy you, 380 00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:18,240 then God will defeat your enemy before you. 381 00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:21,160 They will come out against you. What one way? 382 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:27,200 And they will flee before you, cause no weapon formed against 383 00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:34,800 the church will prosper. He sets a table before you in 384 00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:39,280 the presence of your enemies. Everything the enemy says you 385 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:44,160 cannot have and cannot do. God sets the table and says, oh, 386 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:46,640 you don't think they can? Are you talking that they won't? 387 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:48,440 Are you trying to scheme so they can't? 388 00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:50,720 Are you trying to devise plans so you hinder it? 389 00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:52,640 Let me just go ahead and pull out the tablecloth. 390 00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:55,520 All right? Let me pull some plates in. 391 00:26:56,120 --> 00:26:58,640 Let me bring out the goblets. All right, I'm gonna start 392 00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:00,560 pulling in the food. What'd you say they couldn't 393 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:01,760 have? Here's healing. 394 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:04,080 Here's prosperity. Here's joy. 395 00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:05,800 Here's happiness. Here. 396 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:09,200 Here's the fruits of the spirit. Here's the miraculous. 397 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,680 And you're sitting there eating while they're watching 398 00:27:16,120 --> 00:27:20,000 Hallelujah. Because no weapon formed against 399 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:23,800 the church is going to prosper. Can you say Amen? 400 00:27:24,120 --> 00:27:26,440 Look at Second Corinthians chapter 2, verse 11. 401 00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:31,720 We're doing good this morning so that no advantage would be taken 402 00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:37,680 of us by Satan. We are not ignorant of his 403 00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:41,040 schemes. God no longer wants you to be 404 00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:45,720 taken advantage of at all. I said He doesn't want you to be 405 00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:49,680 taken advantage of. Now if we got strict in context 406 00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:58,040 here within this thing, that passage is talking about the the 407 00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:04,400 attack of a fence and he's like, don't be ignorant of him 408 00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:06,160 attacking you to get offended with someone. 409 00:28:06,360 --> 00:28:08,680 So I previously thought you're going to forgive people because 410 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:13,000 you were forgiven. Don't you bite hold of that trap 411 00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:17,520 because it take you out again. The enemy just wants to once you 412 00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:22,880 get offended because see, when you start getting offended, the 413 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:26,280 person you become offended by, there's nothing they can do that 414 00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:29,640 you don't see something wrong. Look at the way they're looking 415 00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:33,160 and they don't even know you're in the room, right? 416 00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:36,520 Get that smirk. I know what they're thinking. 417 00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:39,000 Have you noticed how they got they have people now that you 418 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:42,160 watch on news they are they are able to describe people's body 419 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:43,720 language. I mean, that's pretty 420 00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:49,760 presumptuous. No one knows the mind of the man 421 00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:53,920 except the mind of the man. Now unless God literally gives 422 00:28:53,920 --> 00:29:01,360 you insight by the Spirit, it's easy for us to misinterpret body 423 00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:04,840 language. And here's the thing, if they 424 00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:10,240 are a born again child of God and you're seeing you're trying 425 00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:14,120 to put something on your brother that you should be just praying 426 00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:17,040 for them, you're of the wrong spirit. 427 00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:22,000 When we're doing that. However, in a general sense, no 428 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:25,800 advantage would be taken of us, of Satan, for we are not 429 00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:30,440 ignorant of his schemes, plural. He has more than one scheme of 430 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:33,280 trying to have to get you offended. 431 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:36,520 OK, the amplified classic, I'm going to do a few translations, 432 00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:40,240 says it this way to keep Satan from getting the advantage over 433 00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:42,840 us. We are not ignorant of his Wiles 434 00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:48,400 and intentions. The easy standard version says 435 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:52,160 this or English standard version says this so that we would not 436 00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:57,840 be outwitted by Satan for we are not ignorant of his designs. 437 00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:00,360 Another translation instead of saying outwitted says 438 00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:04,760 outsmarted. So we are to not be outsmarted 439 00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:09,680 by Satan. He he has been around way longer 440 00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:12,440 than us. He is well versed in his 441 00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:15,840 tactics. But when you yield to God and 442 00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:19,880 know his word, then it will divulge the plans of the devil. 443 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:28,240 You'll be able to understand intentions because sometimes the 444 00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:32,240 devil will try to pull you out through prosperity. 445 00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:40,520 Your company comes to you and says, man, you have been doing 446 00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:42,200 such an awesome job. You know what we want? 447 00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:45,280 We want to transfer you. We want to take you to another 448 00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:47,400 another part in the nation. And we're going to give you a 449 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:51,360 big raise because you're amazing. 450 00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:53,560 And if you don't watch out, you don't understand the intention 451 00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:57,760 behind that, that the devil will give you prosperity to take you 452 00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:00,200 out of the church. And there are many Saints that 453 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:05,440 take promotion and and and there's no church to go to. 454 00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:10,560 You understand, the US, we make high assumptions anyway. 455 00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:14,240 And the assumptions are I've got my Congo sweat on. 456 00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:23,120 We make high assumptions that because again, we live our 457 00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:27,200 church life so individualistic or really independent. 458 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:30,040 Well, you know what, I can find a church anywhere. 459 00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:37,800 Can you? We're going to be preaching on 460 00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:40,040 finding your fit more. We'll address that question 461 00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:44,600 because again, God can prosper you from any location. 462 00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:50,120 Now, that doesn't mean anyone who moves is wrong. 463 00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:53,160 I'm not saying that. I'm just saying if you're moving 464 00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:57,880 without understanding the body you are to be planted in and you 465 00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:01,440 see that you're a part of that actual vision, not it will 466 00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:05,080 accommodate us so that we can be promoted and make more money. 467 00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:15,400 All right, Hallelujah. I'm not of this world, so I 468 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:18,840 preach this way because I'm not of this world, you know, so 469 00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:21,720 there's nothing that this world can offer me that would Take Me 470 00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:24,160 Out of the plan and purpose of God or the place He's planted 471 00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:27,760 me. Praise the Lord because he's too 472 00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:30,160 big, so I'm not outsmarted by the devil. 473 00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:37,160 Praise the Lord. I mean, the devil, when he first 474 00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:43,480 tempted Jesus, appealed to his flesh to something that would 475 00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:47,600 help Jesus feel better. Bro, you must be hungry. 476 00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:52,440 You must be hungry. Yeah, I'm hungry. 477 00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:54,760 I'm with you. You know what? 478 00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:57,440 It's obviously that your Father cares for you. 479 00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:04,120 I mean, we already know that the Scripture says that you can turn 480 00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:06,680 stuff. Why don't you turn that bread, 481 00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:09,960 this rock into a bread man? Feed yourself. 482 00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:12,520 I mean, obviously your daddy would want to feed you. 483 00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:17,720 What do you think Jesus says? Do you think that if, if a son 484 00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:24,840 asked for a loaf of bread, would he give him a right? 485 00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:27,760 Like we got something going on different here. 486 00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:34,880 He's appealing to things that he can identify with and the devil 487 00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:39,160 will try to identify with your humanity just to pull you off 488 00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:43,880 Hallelujah. Yes, good word. 489 00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:50,240 The good news Bible says it this way in order to keep Satan from 490 00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:55,360 getting the upper hand over us for we know what his plans are. 491 00:33:57,640 --> 00:33:59,600 Amen. I mean, when it, you know, when 492 00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:01,840 people testify, bless them. I understand. 493 00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:07,040 And again, I'm, I'm not, I am addressing things. 494 00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:11,480 The, the role of the fivefold ministry is to equip the Saints 495 00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:14,679 man. If we can't address things, then 496 00:34:14,679 --> 00:34:16,840 we have become extremely handicapped. 497 00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:20,639 And again, I am here to help you. 498 00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:27,480 And so in order to help you, you're, you have to involve your 499 00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:31,719 mind. You, you do not need to believe 500 00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:33,880 anything I say because I say it. You need to search the scripture 501 00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:36,120 for yourself. I mean, we really have to 502 00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:40,040 continue to address things for us to grow as a body, because 503 00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:45,520 you understand if we do not the the the independent thinking is 504 00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:47,159 just ashes into my heart and save me. 505 00:34:47,159 --> 00:34:49,000 And when I die, I go to heaven. The rest of the stuff works 506 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:51,080 itself out. And then you never really mature 507 00:34:51,159 --> 00:34:53,000 and the devil whips you all the time. 508 00:34:53,159 --> 00:34:56,000 Now, yes, you can go to heaven. I get that, but that's not the 509 00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:57,560 point. That's not the point of the 510 00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:00,120 Bible. The point of the Bible is to 511 00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:03,200 help us grow, develop and strengthen us. 512 00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:07,600 OK, so at times, you know, I have to address certain things 513 00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:12,280 in order for us to, you know, overcome stuff, you know, so 514 00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:14,320 when people are like, man, the devil, you know, he's just 515 00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:19,520 running me down, right? Well, yes, he's run trying to 516 00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:24,160 run everyone down. The The thing is, is find out 517 00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:28,760 what His plan is. How do you find out what His 518 00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:30,640 plan is? You don't talk to Him. 519 00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:34,040 Now, Devil, what you think you're doing to me, I demand to 520 00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:36,680 know I have authority over you. You're not supposed to talk to 521 00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:38,040 him. Just shut up and come out. 522 00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:40,200 Shut up and come out. OK? 523 00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:44,080 Jesus is not asking you to get into a conversation with Him at 524 00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:45,200 all. OK? 525 00:35:45,720 --> 00:35:49,680 You ask your heavenly Father what's what is going on here? 526 00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:53,440 Is there something behind the scenes I'm missing? 527 00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:59,160 And He will reveal to you that plan instead of us just 528 00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:01,760 accepting that we're being ran after. 529 00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:06,600 We know we're being ran after because first Peter 5/8 tells us 530 00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:12,120 Hallelujah. Be of what sober spirit, be on 531 00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:16,320 the alert for your adversary. The devil prowls around like a 532 00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:20,880 roaring lion seeking someone to devour. 533 00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:25,200 So know this, the day you made Jesus the Lord of your life, it 534 00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:27,960 did not stop the devil from wanting to destroy you. 535 00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:36,720 In fact, the devil's Wiles or schemes are so tactical that I 536 00:36:36,720 --> 00:36:43,240 perceive that he gets into a layer of joy even if you get 537 00:36:43,240 --> 00:36:49,120 born again because he to him he won't see it so much as lost as 538 00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:53,480 a tactical advantage to get you off later. 539 00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:57,240 I perceived because he's not omnipresent that once you get 540 00:36:57,240 --> 00:37:01,120 born again he leaves you for sure. 541 00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:03,800 And I'm not even saying he was around the day you've got born 542 00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:04,960 again. You understand. 543 00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:08,960 It's not like he's just following you people out like, 544 00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:12,240 you know, some of y'all, some people out like they have a 545 00:37:12,240 --> 00:37:15,880 personal attachment to Satan that he like follows them. 546 00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:22,560 It's like always there. No, he's one being that cannot 547 00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:30,840 be everywhere and brand new believers are not raising the 548 00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:35,160 gates of hell, not trying to knock them down, they just 549 00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:38,760 excited they're born again. OK, is he, could he, can he be 550 00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:41,400 aware through the communication of his principalities and 551 00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:42,240 powers? Yes. 552 00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:49,960 However, I would surmise he's like, leave him alone and let 553 00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:54,720 you grow so that he can come attack later. 554 00:37:57,320 --> 00:38:00,040 Because once you start telling everybody how you're different 555 00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:03,720 because you are and the joy you have and you're insured because 556 00:38:03,720 --> 00:38:06,440 you know how many people in the world have this testimony of 557 00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:07,920 believers? Oh, well, just wait. 558 00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:11,040 They'll get out of it. It's just a matter of Tom, you 559 00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:13,480 know how many people have been here that went to church? 560 00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:16,200 They're not even going anymore. They'll be the same. 561 00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:17,800 So your zeal means nothing to them. 562 00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:20,960 Your zeal doesn't even make an impression in their life because 563 00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:23,920 they've had too many be zealous like that once they were born 564 00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:26,120 again. But only at the first trial. 565 00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:28,040 And how do we know there's going to be a trial? 566 00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:30,440 Because of the seed of the word, The seed of the word. 567 00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:33,080 The parable of the seed of the sower is that it goes into the 568 00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:35,320 ground. That seed turns into a plant. 569 00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:40,000 That's called conversion. But because it has, it's on the 570 00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:44,440 rocks and has no firm root to itself, right? 571 00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:47,880 Or to the wayside, which wayside is the one that he grabs 572 00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:50,440 immediately? There's no firm root in that 573 00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:51,760 plant. What happens? 574 00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:58,520 It gets plucked out When the first trial and tribulation they 575 00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:03,040 abandoned their walk. But in the abandoning of their 576 00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:07,600 walk, they have reinforced in others why they should not 577 00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:15,200 follow Jesus. But if you pass the first trial, 578 00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:17,760 then he will go after you with the second. 579 00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:25,600 And the second is prosperity, the deceitfulness of riches, the 580 00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:28,080 cares of life. Man, you're doing so much for 581 00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:30,000 the church. My gosh, you served there all 582 00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:31,080 the time. You've been doing this for 10 583 00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:32,600 years. Don't you think you need a 584 00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:35,480 break? Let somebody else do this. 585 00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:38,600 I mean, pat yourself on the back. 586 00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:46,480 Seriously, go ahead and deny planning center and tell them 587 00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:50,120 you know you want to go back to less because you know you got 588 00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:54,040 other things going on now. Oh, don't shout me down. 589 00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:00,160 Amen. Now again, the only person who 590 00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:02,720 gets offended with that statement is someone who is 591 00:40:02,720 --> 00:40:06,120 dealing with this challenge. I'm saying this to encourage you 592 00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:10,040 don't get caught in that walls. Stay connected with the flock 593 00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:13,680 because no weapon formed against the and the church has two 594 00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:16,400 things they do. The church has an inward 595 00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:21,000 function and an external function, an inward function and 596 00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:23,440 an external function. And if the inward function is 597 00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:26,520 not properly, then the external 1 is not functioning right at 598 00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:29,560 all. In fact, if you do not have an 599 00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:33,680 internal function, I would liken you to a person who is a 600 00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:36,880 fornicator and is getting people pregnant all the time. 601 00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:39,760 But you won't take the responsibility to father the 602 00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:41,840 children that you're getting pregnant. 603 00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:49,040 You just want somebody to be born and then you abandon them 604 00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:51,200 and go on. And you're like, well, the Lord, 605 00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:53,520 the Lord is supposed to bring on. 606 00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:55,240 He wants you to bring them to church. 607 00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:58,760 They're supposed to become disciples, not converts. 608 00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:04,840 Go into all the world and make disciples, not converted babies. 609 00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:09,960 Amen. I would say it this way. 610 00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:15,600 Don't whore around with God's Word, Connor. 611 00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:22,880 Do not use that as a real. Hallelujah. 612 00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:26,000 You're not going to see that as a real, it's not going to 613 00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:30,320 happen, Amen. The most of the stuff I say is 614 00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:34,800 for us as a church, you know, and I'm, I'm, I'm excited about 615 00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:36,760 that because you're the most important people on the face of 616 00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:41,040 the planet to me is who God gave to me to help oversee for him. 617 00:41:41,720 --> 00:41:43,400 Amen. But man, the enemy's out there. 618 00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:46,040 And the good news is it doesn't matter. 619 00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:50,560 I said it doesn't matter. Isn't that amazing? 620 00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:53,720 God's not intimidated with an anointed cherub that he kicks 621 00:41:53,720 --> 00:41:55,880 out of heaven. He and he doesn't even tell. 622 00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:59,760 He doesn't even tell Adam. He just says Adam, don't eat the 623 00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:04,440 fruit, keep the garden. That is enough for him to 624 00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:09,280 overcome the Wiles of the devil. That's enough. 625 00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:13,040 You know what, you have enough word in you to overcome every 626 00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:17,360 scheme against you right now, every scheme. 627 00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:20,600 And you need to be more of a critical thinker when you make 628 00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:24,320 decisions in the spirit realm. You need to start actually 629 00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:27,400 examining these thought processes you have. 630 00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:31,120 It says you are to take captive every thought. 631 00:42:31,240 --> 00:42:34,960 We are raising up a generation of no one thinking. 632 00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:42,000 God did not save you to make your mind nothing. 633 00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:48,760 He saved you to actually give you a mind, Amen. 634 00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:52,040 So that now we can yield to the Spirit and overcome. 635 00:42:52,240 --> 00:42:54,640 All right, Psalms chapter 2, we're going to press on and be 636 00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:56,200 finished. Psalms chapter 2 is to look at 637 00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:57,560 verse one. This is good news. 638 00:42:57,560 --> 00:43:01,480 Say this is good news. It says, why are the nations so 639 00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:04,400 angry? Why do they waste their time 640 00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:07,080 with feudal plans? The kings of the earth prepare 641 00:43:07,080 --> 00:43:10,240 for battle. The rulers plot together against 642 00:43:10,240 --> 00:43:14,880 the Lord and against his anointed. 1 Let us break their 643 00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:18,720 chains, they cry, and free ourselves from slavery to God. 644 00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:23,040 Verse 4 But the one who rules in heaven laughs. 645 00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:28,400 The Lord scoffs at them. Then in anger he rebukes them, 646 00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:31,040 terrifying them with his fierce fury. 647 00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:35,360 For the Lord declares, I have placed my chosen king on the 648 00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:37,920 throne in Jerusalem, on my holy mountain. 649 00:43:38,240 --> 00:43:40,720 Hallelujah. The king proclaims the Lord's 650 00:43:40,720 --> 00:43:42,840 decree. The Lord said to me, You are my 651 00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:48,000 son today I have begotten you. Now before I read verse 8, know 652 00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:52,160 this, that Jesus Christ is that son and Jesus Christ is that 653 00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:54,360 king. But that king died for you and 654 00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:56,840 me and he laid his seed in the ground. 655 00:43:56,960 --> 00:44:00,440 And because he he died and went in the ground and his seed went 656 00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:03,040 in the ground, he's able to produce after his own cod. 657 00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:05,440 Which means now you are a child of God. 658 00:44:05,520 --> 00:44:09,280 You are the son of a king. You are the king of a king. 659 00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:12,520 He didn't die for himself, He died for you, and he didn't die 660 00:44:12,520 --> 00:44:14,600 for just you, he died for us all. 661 00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:19,560 So again, we are kings of the earth under the King the 662 00:44:19,560 --> 00:44:21,960 Anointing 1. And no matter what the nations 663 00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:27,720 are doing to form weapons against us, they will not 664 00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:31,520 prosper. Only ask and I'll give you the 665 00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:35,520 nations as your inheritance, the whole earth as your possession. 666 00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:39,080 You will break them with an iron rod and smash them like clay 667 00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:43,080 pots. Now then, you kings, that's us. 668 00:44:43,240 --> 00:44:46,360 Act wisely, right? These kings are not us. 669 00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:48,120 Excuse me. Now then you kings, that's the 670 00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:50,960 ones of the act wisely. Be warned, you rulers of the 671 00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:53,000 earth, meaning you scheming, you need to quit. 672 00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:56,600 Serve the Lord with reverential fear and joy. 673 00:44:56,720 --> 00:45:00,640 Rejoice with trembling. Submit to God's royal Son and He 674 00:45:00,640 --> 00:45:05,000 will or He will become angry and you will be destroyed in the 675 00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:08,680 midst of all your activities, for his anger flares up in an 676 00:45:08,680 --> 00:45:12,120 instant. But what joy for all those who 677 00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:14,880 take refuge in Him. Man, when you take refuge in 678 00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:16,600 Him, guess what? You have His protection. 679 00:45:16,920 --> 00:45:21,160 You come under the shadow of His wings, you run into His strong 680 00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:25,160 tower, and you are saved. Glory to God. 681 00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:29,800 Hallelujah that there's nothing going on in your life that God 682 00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:32,920 has not already caused you to triumph in. 683 00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:37,280 This is why the church is the triumphant church. 684 00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:40,960 The church that Jesus is building does not know what it 685 00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:44,920 means to be defeated. It does not know what it means 686 00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:47,680 to lose ground. It does not know what it means 687 00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:52,960 to be overtaken. It it it, it deals with trials. 688 00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:58,440 It suffers an onslaught of things to come after it, but it 689 00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:02,960 knows how to stay in the position of victory because we 690 00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:07,920 stay united together. I didn't have this verse, but 691 00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:10,560 put this one up. Ephesians chapter 4, verse 16. 692 00:46:10,760 --> 00:46:14,320 Ephesians chapter 4, verse 16. It's so important we see this 693 00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:18,240 before we jump over to the 6th chapter in closing, because man, 694 00:46:18,240 --> 00:46:23,240 when the church stays unified, it's a powerful force and Jesus 695 00:46:23,240 --> 00:46:24,800 Christ is coming back for the church. 696 00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:28,000 And this church is raining. It is not suffering. 697 00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:30,800 It's not beat down. It's not barely holding on. 698 00:46:30,920 --> 00:46:34,080 It is running. And the power of the Spirit, 699 00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:38,840 from whom the whole body, say whole body, being fitted and 700 00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:43,040 held together by what every joint supplies according to the 701 00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:46,560 proper working of each individual part, causes the 702 00:46:46,560 --> 00:46:51,240 growth of the body for the building up of itself in love. 703 00:46:51,520 --> 00:47:00,080 So, ma'am, when we stay with the flock, there's such power that 704 00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:02,360 He has given us. We are His Church. 705 00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:12,240 I never want to be the One. Let me just say this way, you 706 00:47:12,240 --> 00:47:17,240 know how selfish the one is that is willing to pull the shepherd 707 00:47:17,240 --> 00:47:24,440 away from the 99? Because it's not like you're 708 00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:27,000 going to be more in the Shepherd's presence. 709 00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:30,680 Oh, y'all don't want it? You're not more in the 710 00:47:30,680 --> 00:47:33,240 shepherd's present because you wander off. 711 00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:40,640 I remember Dean Hawk who was a youth pastor with Rhema and and 712 00:47:40,640 --> 00:47:43,240 he shared this particular, I believe it was him. 713 00:47:43,240 --> 00:47:45,000 It could have been Brent Bailey and Keith neighbors. 714 00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:47,200 So one of those youth pastors. So please forgive me. 715 00:47:47,200 --> 00:47:48,720 I don't know which one it is specifically. 716 00:47:48,720 --> 00:47:53,360 Now one of those former youth pastor of Rhema that is correct 717 00:47:55,520 --> 00:48:02,760 would send balloons to students at school when they miss service 718 00:48:04,720 --> 00:48:06,320 to remind them, hey, we missed you. 719 00:48:06,720 --> 00:48:09,080 They just wanted them to know, hey, we missed you. 720 00:48:10,720 --> 00:48:15,120 Then they stopped doing that after a season because they 721 00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:21,240 began to realize that students intentionally did not come 722 00:48:21,440 --> 00:48:29,320 because they wanted the individual attention when in the 723 00:48:29,320 --> 00:48:32,360 group they were investing in them. 724 00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:43,640 I mean, is God not ministering to you now? 725 00:48:46,920 --> 00:48:49,520 Now you're going to have a long time, don't get me wrong. 726 00:48:49,800 --> 00:48:53,160 But that alone time is not so that you only are alone. 727 00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:57,360 It's so you can bring your supply. 728 00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:02,120 I mean, if you're alone, to be alone, just to stay alone, to 729 00:49:02,120 --> 00:49:04,600 keep your own alone so that you can be filled up alone. 730 00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:10,560 The Bible never says for you to keep your supply, you're 731 00:49:10,560 --> 00:49:15,120 supposed to bring it. You're supposed to bring your 732 00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:18,640 supply, which means you should overflow that not only do you 733 00:49:18,640 --> 00:49:21,840 have enough, you have enough to give away glory to God. 734 00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:24,240 So be close with this passage of Scripture in Ephesians chapter 735 00:49:24,240 --> 00:49:26,360 6, verse 10 to 13, you're ready to shout. 736 00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:28,840 You're ready to just go ahead and put your flesh down and jump 737 00:49:28,840 --> 00:49:31,320 up for joy. Anyway, when I was in when I was 738 00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:35,960 teaching on Kingdom economics to the school there in Congo, one 739 00:49:35,960 --> 00:49:38,240 particular session when I was dealing with faith is the 740 00:49:38,240 --> 00:49:43,040 currency of the Kingdom. OK, and they that my interpreter 741 00:49:43,040 --> 00:49:47,520 got so excited and and she was holding herself, unlike my my 742 00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:49,080 brother there. He was like when he got to 743 00:49:49,080 --> 00:49:54,200 Revelation, he'd go and then he'd release it. 744 00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:58,600 We couldn't film every woo. It was awesome. 745 00:49:59,120 --> 00:50:01,360 Amen. And so she was. 746 00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:04,560 She got so excited about what she had not seen before. 747 00:50:04,640 --> 00:50:06,600 Let me tell you, she was so excited. 748 00:50:06,880 --> 00:50:12,720 She came to me after in tears because she was the one who 749 00:50:12,720 --> 00:50:15,920 interpreted the forest in French for us. 750 00:50:18,880 --> 00:50:22,200 She came to me in tears and she said, Pastor Earl, will you 751 00:50:22,200 --> 00:50:25,360 forgive me? I was like, why? 752 00:50:26,360 --> 00:50:32,840 I was the one that was tasked with translating your book and I 753 00:50:32,840 --> 00:50:38,000 allow things to get in the way. And I delayed because I didn't 754 00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:40,600 bring it. I didn't have it quick enough to 755 00:50:40,600 --> 00:50:47,000 produce it, to take copies. And she realized that her 756 00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:55,800 tardiness cost that word in written form to be released into 757 00:50:55,800 --> 00:50:59,680 her nation. And she was in tears. 758 00:51:01,080 --> 00:51:06,720 She said, forgive me. I should have stayed diligent to 759 00:51:06,720 --> 00:51:10,120 get that thing accomplished. And I said, I forgive you. 760 00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:13,120 We're going to get it done, and we're going to get it sent here. 761 00:51:13,600 --> 00:51:17,440 It's coming to the Congo. It's coming, OK? 762 00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:20,880 Because you know what? We all have places that God 763 00:51:20,880 --> 00:51:23,480 wants to deploy what He's given us to others. 764 00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:27,520 It's not for me. It's not my understanding of 765 00:51:27,520 --> 00:51:31,640 God's word. It's for all that wants to hear. 766 00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:36,000 OK, so it's very important. And she got so excited. 767 00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:37,400 She said I just wanted to jump and shout. 768 00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:38,760 I said, well, go ahead and do it then. 769 00:51:39,800 --> 00:51:43,640 So she just went crazy on the platform and just began to 770 00:51:43,640 --> 00:51:44,880 shout. And everybody out there, 771 00:51:44,880 --> 00:51:47,600 students like, what in the world just happened, right? 772 00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:49,760 Because we were done. I mean, we had finished and we 773 00:51:49,760 --> 00:51:51,960 were on a break. And that's when she just let it 774 00:51:51,960 --> 00:51:54,440 go, shouted, danced, jumped around. 775 00:51:54,440 --> 00:51:58,200 I danced with her. Right now, I didn't have a 776 00:51:58,200 --> 00:52:01,280 dance, but I sure wasn't going to let an opportunity of someone 777 00:52:01,280 --> 00:52:03,760 who was doing something with the Lord to pass me by. 778 00:52:04,600 --> 00:52:08,920 So I just yielded anyway. Are you ready to yield on this 779 00:52:08,920 --> 00:52:11,440 last scripture together? Look at this in Ephesians 780 00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:13,760 chapter 6 verse 10 through 13. I'm going to read it out of a 781 00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:16,040 translation called The Remedy. This is awesome. 782 00:52:16,280 --> 00:52:21,240 Finally, stay strong. Are you hearing me? 783 00:52:22,120 --> 00:52:26,720 Now listen, we just read in first Peter chapter 5 that we 784 00:52:26,720 --> 00:52:31,000 are to stay sober in spirit. To stay sobered in spirit 785 00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:33,840 implies that you can get intoxicated in your spirit. 786 00:52:34,880 --> 00:52:39,280 The number one way that the devil intoxicates your spirit is 787 00:52:39,280 --> 00:52:43,480 that he convinces you to chase after many voices. 788 00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:51,280 Even in the church. Not every overseer is for your 789 00:52:51,280 --> 00:52:59,120 ears. There are powerful truths. 790 00:52:59,520 --> 00:53:03,880 In fact, I was had a conversation with some ministry 791 00:53:03,880 --> 00:53:09,760 leaders concerning prophecy and they said one reason why they 792 00:53:09,760 --> 00:53:13,760 did not release prophecies in their ministry is because a lot 793 00:53:13,760 --> 00:53:17,920 of times when that prophecy went, it was for the meeting 794 00:53:18,240 --> 00:53:25,520 they were in more than beyond. And they said you have to have 795 00:53:25,520 --> 00:53:30,600 discernment that is that prophecy something beyond. 796 00:53:32,400 --> 00:53:34,960 Again, when we hear stuff, a lot of times we just try to take it 797 00:53:34,960 --> 00:53:37,360 for us. And most of the time we take it 798 00:53:37,360 --> 00:53:41,240 without the examination. OK. 799 00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:46,880 The the the weapons the enemy uses are not just blatant sin 800 00:53:47,080 --> 00:53:48,840 where you're like, oh, that's obvious. 801 00:53:48,960 --> 00:53:51,920 You know, like for a man, you walk around the corner and some 802 00:53:51,920 --> 00:53:53,840 lady, you know, takes all their clothes off real quick. 803 00:53:53,840 --> 00:53:56,680 You know, well, that isn't God. That's going to be pretty 804 00:53:56,680 --> 00:53:59,040 obvious, right? OK. 805 00:53:59,880 --> 00:54:04,960 I mean, you would hope you would figure that out, you know, 806 00:54:05,440 --> 00:54:07,720 right. Or, you know, someone comes as 807 00:54:07,720 --> 00:54:10,320 the Lord told me to get you so we could go on this bank and rob 808 00:54:10,320 --> 00:54:11,600 it. You were going to help me today, 809 00:54:12,560 --> 00:54:15,120 right? I mean, surely you would know. 810 00:54:16,080 --> 00:54:20,720 Nah, that's not it. OK. 811 00:54:21,280 --> 00:54:24,640 No, the enemy comes in other ways and tactics to try to get 812 00:54:24,640 --> 00:54:29,040 you so saturated with voices, especially those that aren't 813 00:54:29,040 --> 00:54:33,160 even supposed to speak directly into your life in the season 814 00:54:33,160 --> 00:54:37,240 you're in. So you have to have some 815 00:54:37,240 --> 00:54:41,160 discernment there anyway. Finally, be strong in your 816 00:54:41,160 --> 00:54:44,200 connection and devotion to the Lord and His mighty power. 817 00:54:44,840 --> 00:54:47,920 Arm your minds with God's complete set of armor so that 818 00:54:47,920 --> 00:54:50,800 you can join the ranks of Christ's soldier and stand 819 00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:54,200 successfully in the face of the devil's schemes, right? 820 00:54:54,320 --> 00:54:57,560 You can stand successfully, right? 821 00:54:57,920 --> 00:55:03,720 Verse 4 For our struggle is not say, is not against flesh and 822 00:55:03,720 --> 00:55:08,440 blood. Do not be mad with another human 823 00:55:08,440 --> 00:55:15,720 being. Other human beings become tools 824 00:55:15,920 --> 00:55:22,480 by which the enemy uses to say things to you and even in the 825 00:55:22,480 --> 00:55:28,280 body. But they are not your problem. 826 00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:37,080 They have unfortunately entertained the wrong thought 827 00:55:37,760 --> 00:55:43,680 and are acting on it. Pray for them, forgive them, and 828 00:55:43,680 --> 00:55:51,560 you keep doing your assignment. Do it, because that can't stop 829 00:55:51,560 --> 00:55:55,520 you anyway. Can't stop you. 830 00:55:55,960 --> 00:55:59,880 It will if every time you see them you're mad. 831 00:56:06,180 --> 00:56:11,560 All right, our struggle is not against flesh and blood, with 832 00:56:11,560 --> 00:56:15,320 man made weapons, but against all individuals, entities and 833 00:56:15,320 --> 00:56:19,600 powers that misrepresent God and darkened minds, and against 834 00:56:19,600 --> 00:56:25,040 Satan, the originator of lies about God and his cohorts who 835 00:56:25,040 --> 00:56:28,480 have misrepresented God in the heavenly realms. 836 00:56:29,880 --> 00:56:33,760 Therefore, arm your mind with God's full set of armor so that 837 00:56:33,760 --> 00:56:38,120 when Satan's grand deception comes and it seems the heavens 838 00:56:38,160 --> 00:56:41,160 are about to fall, you are able to stand. 839 00:56:41,360 --> 00:56:45,400 And when you have done everything to present the truth 840 00:56:45,400 --> 00:56:48,720 and expose Satan's lies, don't falter. 841 00:56:49,120 --> 00:56:55,720 Stand, stand. You stand. 842 00:56:57,120 --> 00:57:02,240 You stand because no weapon formed against the Church can 843 00:57:02,240 --> 00:57:06,760 prosper. You present the truth, You stay 844 00:57:06,760 --> 00:57:09,800 with the truth. You don't come off the truth, 845 00:57:11,240 --> 00:57:14,600 and you stay with the flock. Woo. 846 00:57:16,280 --> 00:57:20,720 Nothing can defeat you cannot be defeated. 847 00:57:20,880 --> 00:57:25,040 We are stronger together than we'll ever be isolated. 848 00:57:25,440 --> 00:57:29,640 Can't happen, can't happen. Then again, for some you're 849 00:57:29,640 --> 00:57:32,560 going to be connected with some a little more than others in the 850 00:57:32,560 --> 00:57:35,000 body. Again, my shoulder sure hangs 851 00:57:35,000 --> 00:57:38,600 out with my collarbone a lot more than it does with my leg. 852 00:57:39,320 --> 00:57:42,280 Now it doesn't mean they don't meet because when I go over and 853 00:57:42,280 --> 00:57:49,240 stretch they get pretty close, but he hangs out here. 854 00:57:49,720 --> 00:57:52,000 But it doesn't say I hate my legs. 855 00:57:52,760 --> 00:57:55,360 No, they're like, thank God for the legs because the legs took 856 00:57:55,360 --> 00:57:58,560 us over to the cabinet so I could open up the cabinet and 857 00:57:58,560 --> 00:58:03,360 get some food. Hallelujah, Amen. 858 00:58:03,840 --> 00:58:08,560 So we need each other and all the more as we see the day 859 00:58:08,560 --> 00:58:11,520 approaching. So stay with the flock, stay 860 00:58:11,520 --> 00:58:16,040 with the church because it's not the individual that the gates of 861 00:58:16,040 --> 00:58:21,400 hell don't prevail against. It's the church which includes.