1 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:09,520 Thanks for checking out the Anchor Faith Message podcast 2 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:10,920 from St. Augustine, FL. 3 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:32,940 Now enjoy this message. Your Bible's out. 4 00:00:34,020 --> 00:00:37,820 I hope you brought your Bible. Nowadays it's, you know, 5 00:00:37,820 --> 00:00:40,020 electronic devices and everything else. 6 00:00:40,300 --> 00:00:41,900 I just kind of stick with the paper. 7 00:00:41,900 --> 00:00:43,500 Anybody bring a paper Bible tonight? 8 00:00:46,060 --> 00:00:47,940 Yeah, I got it. You know those paper Bibles are 9 00:00:48,220 --> 00:00:51,620 fabulous, especially when your battery is dead on your phone. 10 00:00:53,370 --> 00:00:56,530 Amen. Hallelujah. 11 00:00:57,650 --> 00:01:00,610 This evening I am going to be sharing with you some saying. 12 00:01:00,610 --> 00:01:04,489 I'm going to give you a little background about myself when it 13 00:01:04,489 --> 00:01:08,330 comes to the right time for illustration of some things. 14 00:01:08,330 --> 00:01:12,610 But tonight I am going to be discussing with you Kingdom 15 00:01:12,730 --> 00:01:18,330 Standards and I I kind of wanted to start it out because there's 16 00:01:18,330 --> 00:01:20,810 a particular administration in the United States. 17 00:01:21,250 --> 00:01:25,930 That I've had a particular interest in, I guess and a 18 00:01:25,930 --> 00:01:28,930 following if you would say. And it really affected the the 19 00:01:28,930 --> 00:01:32,730 career that I got involved in early and in Melanie and I's 20 00:01:32,730 --> 00:01:36,690 marriage and you may have heard of it, it's the Occupational 21 00:01:36,690 --> 00:01:38,730 Safety and Health Administration, everybody, 22 00:01:38,810 --> 00:01:40,690 everybody familiar that you ever heard of it? 23 00:01:41,290 --> 00:01:43,850 Few hands. We in the Midwest, we call it 24 00:01:43,850 --> 00:01:47,010 OSHA, all right. And I don't know where the how 25 00:01:47,090 --> 00:01:50,130 why we call it OSHA because it all almost ought to be OSHA. 26 00:01:51,030 --> 00:01:55,830 Because occupational it starts with an AH, not an O right, but 27 00:01:55,830 --> 00:01:59,150 we call it OSHA. And OSHA is responsible for 28 00:01:59,150 --> 00:02:04,430 keeping the employment workplace, a place of safety, a 29 00:02:04,430 --> 00:02:07,270 place of health. And they have what they call 30 00:02:07,270 --> 00:02:11,270 regulations and one of the the the things that they have 31 00:02:11,270 --> 00:02:14,910 published and it is massive, it is not just one volume, it is 32 00:02:14,910 --> 00:02:18,710 multiple volumes of what they call the CFR which is the Code 33 00:02:18,710 --> 00:02:22,990 of Federal Regulations. And if you are an employer or 34 00:02:22,990 --> 00:02:26,990 you're someone that is employing people, it, it behooves you to 35 00:02:26,990 --> 00:02:30,590 be able to be familiar with a little thing, a little, a few 36 00:02:30,590 --> 00:02:34,670 little things in that code that they have so that you can stay 37 00:02:34,670 --> 00:02:36,910 safe. Your people can stay safe, all 38 00:02:36,910 --> 00:02:37,510 right. And. 39 00:02:37,510 --> 00:02:40,750 And it's designed for that. But one of the things that I 40 00:02:40,750 --> 00:02:45,110 found out that there is an institute and it's called the 41 00:02:45,110 --> 00:02:47,910 American National Standards Institute. 42 00:02:48,370 --> 00:02:53,770 And they are the ones that regulate the funniest things. 43 00:02:53,770 --> 00:02:57,090 For instance, one of the one of the things that I found out and 44 00:02:57,090 --> 00:03:00,650 in Oklahoma, I have a company that manufacturers OSHA 45 00:03:00,650 --> 00:03:04,450 regulated safety signs. The Lord dealt with me early on 46 00:03:04,450 --> 00:03:07,250 and he said, do you want to print a sign that, you know 47 00:03:07,250 --> 00:03:09,730 maybe somebody will buy? Or do you want to print a sign 48 00:03:09,730 --> 00:03:11,610 that the government makes you buy? 49 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:17,480 And I found this out that in business, you know the more you 50 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:20,600 can sell of one thing is better than trying to sell one thing, 51 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:23,640 you know, multiple times. All right. 52 00:03:23,640 --> 00:03:26,880 And so I I found out that you know how many of you all have 53 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:32,360 seen a danger high voltage sign, you seen that has a red Oval, 54 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:35,280 right. And the word danger in there is 55 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:38,570 in white. That's regulated by ANTSY, or 56 00:03:38,570 --> 00:03:41,850 the American Standards and National Standards Institute. 57 00:03:42,050 --> 00:03:45,770 They tell you not only what the shape of Oval needs to be, but 58 00:03:45,770 --> 00:03:49,570 they also tell you what size the letter needs to be in there, 59 00:03:49,570 --> 00:03:53,090 what the stroke of the font needs to be, what the sign is 60 00:03:53,090 --> 00:03:56,210 supposed to look like. They had a change just a few 61 00:03:56,210 --> 00:04:00,050 years ago, which I loved it because everybody had to buy a 62 00:04:00,050 --> 00:04:06,430 brand new signs. And so you know when when I was, 63 00:04:06,590 --> 00:04:10,070 I was meditating on the standards of the Kingdom that we 64 00:04:10,070 --> 00:04:14,910 do have a volume that we can take a look at and I am going to 65 00:04:14,910 --> 00:04:18,709 go over some standards tonight. They come from the word of God 66 00:04:18,709 --> 00:04:21,550 that will impact your life. And if you listen to me and take 67 00:04:21,550 --> 00:04:24,950 a few notes, I think that I can help you if you're struggling in 68 00:04:25,030 --> 00:04:28,230 any of the areas of standards that I communicate tonight. 69 00:04:28,270 --> 00:04:30,790 Is that alright? I'm going to start with the very 70 00:04:30,790 --> 00:04:33,590 first one, the very first set of standards that we have. 71 00:04:33,590 --> 00:04:37,310 It's found in Exodus chapter 20, verses 3 through 17. 72 00:04:37,310 --> 00:04:39,030 They're going to put it up on the board and I'm going to go 73 00:04:39,030 --> 00:04:44,110 through these and I want you, I want you to know that when God 74 00:04:44,110 --> 00:04:48,310 decided that he wanted a people to himself cut covenant with 75 00:04:48,310 --> 00:04:51,910 Abraham, and then, you know, the Lord told Abraham, he said, 76 00:04:51,910 --> 00:04:53,790 listen, your people are going to go down to Egypt and they're 77 00:04:53,790 --> 00:04:55,830 going to be in bondage for 400 years. 78 00:04:56,220 --> 00:04:59,460 And then I'm going to bring them out by a very, very strong arm, 79 00:04:59,780 --> 00:05:01,340 and they are going to be my people. 80 00:05:01,820 --> 00:05:04,820 Well, he gets them out. And in the 20th chapter he 81 00:05:04,820 --> 00:05:07,580 brings what is commonly called the 10 commandments. 82 00:05:07,580 --> 00:05:10,260 Everybody familiar with that? Have you ever heard one of them? 83 00:05:10,260 --> 00:05:13,100 At least one of them, Right. OK, let's take a look. 84 00:05:13,100 --> 00:05:15,060 That first one is in verse three. 85 00:05:15,060 --> 00:05:17,500 It says this. Thou shall have no other gods 86 00:05:17,500 --> 00:05:20,460 before me. So God in the very beginning, is 87 00:05:20,460 --> 00:05:24,380 letting them know I am God. And do you remember that? 88 00:05:24,380 --> 00:05:28,220 Do you remember the account when Moses asking me said, hey, I'm 89 00:05:28,220 --> 00:05:30,460 going to go, you want me to go? And I thought, I think it's 90 00:05:30,460 --> 00:05:32,460 funny. And pastors alluded it to it so 91 00:05:32,460 --> 00:05:35,380 many times. When he has said that, you know, 92 00:05:35,540 --> 00:05:39,100 he goes up and has the burning Bush experience and he said, 93 00:05:39,100 --> 00:05:41,060 hey, they're going to ask me your name, what do I tell him? 94 00:05:41,540 --> 00:05:43,340 And he said, well, you're going to tell him I am. 95 00:05:44,180 --> 00:05:46,140 I am what? That's what I've been my 96 00:05:46,140 --> 00:05:47,300 question. I am. 97 00:05:47,300 --> 00:05:51,400 I am what he is. And he tells him, he said, that 98 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:54,480 you'll have no other gods, because I am God. 99 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:56,720 You have no other gods before me. 100 00:05:57,120 --> 00:06:01,040 Verse four, he said, you shall not make unto you any graven 101 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:03,760 image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above 102 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:06,880 the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 103 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:10,560 So he's telling them not only are you not going to have but a 104 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:13,400 commandment that I'm giving you. Here's another standard. 105 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:16,920 The standard is you are not going to make any graven image. 106 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:20,120 All right. And and the word graven in the 107 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:24,920 Hebrew is the word carved. You're not going to carve an 108 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:26,600 image. You know what I found funny? 109 00:06:26,840 --> 00:06:28,600 Does anybody know how they print money? 110 00:06:31,480 --> 00:06:36,760 It's carved plates, engraved plates. 111 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:40,440 And I thought, well, that's interesting because Jesus said 112 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:45,930 you can't serve God and money. Right, so he says in here, this 113 00:06:45,930 --> 00:06:48,890 is one of the rules. This is the top ten list. 114 00:06:50,250 --> 00:06:52,050 All right, Now notice what he said. 115 00:06:52,290 --> 00:06:56,010 He said, and he tells him you'll not make a graven image. 116 00:06:56,010 --> 00:06:58,210 He said you'll not bow down yourself to them, You'll not 117 00:06:58,210 --> 00:07:00,570 serve them. For I am the Lord God. 118 00:07:00,570 --> 00:07:03,250 I am a jealous God visiting the iniquity of the fathers unto the 119 00:07:03,250 --> 00:07:06,010 children, and the 3rd and 4th generation of them that hate me, 120 00:07:06,370 --> 00:07:10,850 and showing mercy to thousands of them that love me and keep my 121 00:07:10,850 --> 00:07:13,570 commandments. Another word for commandment is 122 00:07:13,570 --> 00:07:16,130 the standard. All right, but notice verse 123 00:07:16,130 --> 00:07:18,050 seven, he said. And you will not take the Lord 124 00:07:18,050 --> 00:07:22,130 thy God, the name of the Lord thy God, in vain, For the Lord 125 00:07:22,130 --> 00:07:24,930 will not hold him guiltless that takes his name in vain. 126 00:07:25,570 --> 00:07:29,760 Now, I've taught this for years. And any of you that have said in 127 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:33,480 any of my classes, when we talk about the fact that that in 128 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:38,760 Hebrews 11 verse six it said it is impossible for is impossible 129 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:41,840 to please God without faith. Without faith it's impossible to 130 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:45,320 please him because he that comes to God must believe that he is. 131 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:50,480 And I often ask question what is you if I must believe you is. 132 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:53,040 And I know most scholars do agree that he's talking. 133 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:56,480 He's talking about you must believe that I exist. 134 00:07:57,230 --> 00:07:59,870 OK, and I'll go for that. But The thing is he's not 135 00:07:59,870 --> 00:08:04,390 writing to Hebrew and believers. He's writing to believers that 136 00:08:04,390 --> 00:08:07,790 were Hebrew. And he said in there he tells 137 00:08:07,790 --> 00:08:10,110 him he said he he let he lets him know. 138 00:08:10,110 --> 00:08:13,230 You must believe that it is so. It would behoove us or or it 139 00:08:13,230 --> 00:08:17,990 that's that's King James behoove us all right to be able to find 140 00:08:17,990 --> 00:08:21,190 out all that we can about who God is. 141 00:08:22,100 --> 00:08:25,860 Well here's interesting because the word that we need to 142 00:08:25,860 --> 00:08:30,220 understand when he says you'll not take my name in vain and a 143 00:08:30,220 --> 00:08:32,580 lot of people read they they think that's about cussing. 144 00:08:33,460 --> 00:08:34,980 You know. And you hear people all the 145 00:08:34,980 --> 00:08:38,460 time, they'll God blank this, God blank that, you know and and 146 00:08:38,460 --> 00:08:40,059 they're upset about something and you'll hear it. 147 00:08:40,299 --> 00:08:43,940 And and I've been in situations in in the in the business arena 148 00:08:44,220 --> 00:08:46,900 and people just go off to cussing and stuff like that and 149 00:08:46,900 --> 00:08:49,060 I just don't let it phase me. And they go, doesn't that bother 150 00:08:49,060 --> 00:08:50,220 you? They're taking the Lord's name 151 00:08:50,220 --> 00:08:52,470 in vain. I said, well, here's what you 152 00:08:52,470 --> 00:08:54,230 need to understand about that verse. 153 00:08:55,230 --> 00:09:00,310 Gives me an opportunity. I said, one God's not his name. 154 00:09:01,630 --> 00:09:05,670 God is what he is. He's a species called God. 155 00:09:06,990 --> 00:09:10,430 All right, So we don't go around, you know, calling each 156 00:09:10,430 --> 00:09:14,190 other, Hey, human, I see you going down the hall. 157 00:09:14,190 --> 00:09:16,430 Hey, human, everybody's going to turn around. 158 00:09:17,590 --> 00:09:21,180 That's why we were given names. All right, so when I say 159 00:09:21,180 --> 00:09:25,660 Brandon, Brandon turns around but he tells us he said you do 160 00:09:25,660 --> 00:09:28,700 not take the Lord thy God's name in vain. 161 00:09:28,740 --> 00:09:30,980 Here's what you need to understand about the word vein 162 00:09:32,020 --> 00:09:35,020 in the Greek and the Hebrew both they had the same meaning. 163 00:09:35,300 --> 00:09:41,140 It means to render something empty idol, nonproductive. 164 00:09:43,220 --> 00:09:45,180 Now I've got several other definition. 165 00:09:45,180 --> 00:09:51,270 It says in here empty idol. Fruitless, useless, powerless, 166 00:09:51,430 --> 00:09:56,670 lacking truth, and worthless. God said you will not take my 167 00:09:56,670 --> 00:10:00,550 name and render it that way. Well, what is it? 168 00:10:00,550 --> 00:10:02,390 What? What is his name that we need to 169 00:10:02,390 --> 00:10:04,110 be aware of? I'm going to give just a couple 170 00:10:04,110 --> 00:10:09,910 of them because God's name being Jehovah, He has given us also a 171 00:10:09,950 --> 00:10:13,710 few descriptions of what all Jehovah includes. 172 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:15,960 And here's the first one, he said. 173 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:19,720 You know, when we talk about Jehovah. 174 00:10:19,920 --> 00:10:21,680 Jehovah what? Well, Jehovah. 175 00:10:21,680 --> 00:10:24,480 How about Jira? All right. 176 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:30,560 And in Jehovah Jira, we find out that when he was on the mountain 177 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:33,760 at Abraham, when he was on the Mount Moriah, getting ready to 178 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:35,880 sacrifice Isaac, you remember that? 179 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:40,040 And it says that just as he was about to lift the knife. 180 00:10:42,140 --> 00:10:47,580 He Angel said hold it, stop. And he said he named that 181 00:10:47,580 --> 00:10:54,740 mountain Jehovah Jira. And the definition of Jira is 182 00:10:54,900 --> 00:10:59,460 the Lord that sees. But really if you break it down, 183 00:10:59,460 --> 00:11:04,780 it is the Lord that sees to it and provides what happened. 184 00:11:04,780 --> 00:11:08,260 Remember, as soon as he as soon as the Lord, the Angel told him, 185 00:11:08,460 --> 00:11:11,590 don't harm the boy. All of a sudden they heard it, 186 00:11:11,590 --> 00:11:15,150 man. And they turned around and 187 00:11:15,150 --> 00:11:18,670 looked and in the thicket there was a ram for the sacrifice. 188 00:11:19,510 --> 00:11:22,030 So he's telling us, and I think it's interesting because I've 189 00:11:22,030 --> 00:11:26,550 read after some scholars that basically talk about the fact 190 00:11:26,550 --> 00:11:32,150 that Mount Moriah is also in the regions of Calvary where Jesus 191 00:11:32,150 --> 00:11:35,670 was crucified. Now I I see God doing that, that 192 00:11:35,670 --> 00:11:38,190 that good. He's that good that he could 193 00:11:38,190 --> 00:11:39,710 make that mountain. Same mountain. 194 00:11:40,310 --> 00:11:43,030 That Isaac was going to be sacrificed And the Isaac that 195 00:11:43,110 --> 00:11:47,310 Jesus was sacrificed on. All right now as we as we take a 196 00:11:47,310 --> 00:11:51,110 look and and you know what's another one let's take a look He 197 00:11:51,110 --> 00:11:56,470 said I'm Jehovah Rotha and and that's found in Exodus chapter 198 00:11:56,470 --> 00:11:59,270 15, verse 26. And he lets him know. 199 00:11:59,270 --> 00:12:02,030 Listen if you will harken diligently into the voice of 200 00:12:02,030 --> 00:12:04,790 your Lord, your God. And I observed to do all that is 201 00:12:04,790 --> 00:12:06,910 written there in you don't turn to the right, to the left. 202 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:10,760 He said I will not allow any of these diseases that have come up 203 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:15,080 upon the Egyptians, for I am the Lord that he live the Jehovah 204 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:19,600 Ratha. So he tells us in there as far 205 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:23,160 as that name. Here's the problem that people 206 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:26,600 sometimes take his name in vain and they don't even realize what 207 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:28,840 they're doing. Because if you've ever said, I 208 00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:31,000 don't know how I'm going to get over this sickness. 209 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:35,840 I mean, he said that he was the healer. 210 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:44,320 So again, I think it'd be to our benefit to not talk contrary to 211 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:48,080 what he said he was. If he said I'll provide for you, 212 00:12:48,080 --> 00:12:50,120 he'll provide for you. If he said I'll give you peace 213 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:52,240 in a time of trouble, he's going to give you peace. 214 00:12:53,160 --> 00:12:55,760 Don't be somebody that's that close to taking his name in 215 00:12:55,760 --> 00:12:58,080 vain. All right, let's look at the 216 00:12:58,080 --> 00:13:01,320 next one. It said chapter. 217 00:13:03,060 --> 00:13:05,780 Chapter 8, verse eight. He said remember the Sabbath day 218 00:13:05,780 --> 00:13:08,340 and keep it holy. I I think a lot. 219 00:13:08,340 --> 00:13:11,140 There's really I think there's really 11 commandments because 220 00:13:11,140 --> 00:13:14,900 the next one is a thou shalt also look at it six days thou 221 00:13:14,900 --> 00:13:17,740 shalt labor. I think we let. 222 00:13:17,740 --> 00:13:21,420 We just skipped over that one didn't we And do all thy work 223 00:13:21,940 --> 00:13:25,660 and and one time I was writing an article called The Secret of 224 00:13:25,660 --> 00:13:30,300 the 6th Day because in America we've been trained that we work. 225 00:13:31,110 --> 00:13:33,310 Five days and we take two days off. 226 00:13:33,910 --> 00:13:37,150 That wasn't so under the covenant or the standard of the 227 00:13:37,150 --> 00:13:42,110 Lord in the Old Testament. 6 days you would work and then the 228 00:13:42,110 --> 00:13:44,470 Sabbath day you would take off and you would make it holy. 229 00:13:44,470 --> 00:13:46,150 What were we making it holy about? 230 00:13:46,430 --> 00:13:49,830 We were making a holy as a day of reflection and rest on the 231 00:13:49,830 --> 00:13:52,910 goodness of the Lord. All right. 232 00:13:53,460 --> 00:13:55,980 He said the 7th day is a Sabbath of the Lord. 233 00:13:56,620 --> 00:14:00,420 At verse 10 he said that thy God in it you'll do no work neither 234 00:14:00,420 --> 00:14:02,620 your son, your daughter, your man serving your maid serving 235 00:14:02,620 --> 00:14:05,620 your cattle, nor your stranger within your gate. 6 days of Lord 236 00:14:05,620 --> 00:14:08,220 made heaven and earth and all them that is in it. 237 00:14:08,220 --> 00:14:11,220 And he said he rested the 7th day, where for the Lord blessed 238 00:14:11,220 --> 00:14:15,220 the 7th day and hallowed it. All right, so he tells us, Well, 239 00:14:15,220 --> 00:14:17,860 you know we have it. We have a day also that we're 240 00:14:17,860 --> 00:14:19,940 supposed to hallow and we call a Sunday. 241 00:14:19,940 --> 00:14:22,990 It changed in the New Testament. As far as they called it, the 242 00:14:22,990 --> 00:14:25,270 first day of the week, it was the day that Jesus was risen 243 00:14:25,270 --> 00:14:26,910 from the dead. All right. 244 00:14:26,910 --> 00:14:28,950 He he went through the Sabbath. They tried it. 245 00:14:28,950 --> 00:14:31,150 They had to get him off that three days and three nights in 246 00:14:31,150 --> 00:14:34,670 the grave. He was, he was risen on the 247 00:14:34,670 --> 00:14:37,990 first day of the week, which was Sunday on the Jewish calendar. 248 00:14:38,190 --> 00:14:39,950 So he tells us in there that, that. 249 00:14:40,190 --> 00:14:44,150 And they said that's when the church began to start meeting, 250 00:14:44,430 --> 00:14:45,790 was on the first day of the week. 251 00:14:45,990 --> 00:14:48,390 All right. And so the thing we need to 252 00:14:48,390 --> 00:14:52,350 realize is that. I think it's interesting that 253 00:14:52,350 --> 00:14:55,630 most of the trouble that Jesus got into was the days he went to 254 00:14:55,630 --> 00:15:01,310 church. How many times do we read that 255 00:15:01,310 --> 00:15:04,510 he was in the temple? How many times we read he was 256 00:15:04,510 --> 00:15:05,910 working when he was in the temple? 257 00:15:06,710 --> 00:15:09,190 How many of you are being accused of working in the 258 00:15:09,190 --> 00:15:13,550 temple? A lot of you with the kids. 259 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:18,040 And the different parking lot and the different things that we 260 00:15:18,040 --> 00:15:23,160 serve the Lord in the temple. All right, now let's go on to 261 00:15:23,160 --> 00:15:25,600 the next one. It says honor thy father and 262 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:28,520 mother, that the days may be long upon the land which the 263 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:31,760 Lord thy God has given you. And any visions they talk about. 264 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:35,160 It is the first commandment with a promise that you may live long 265 00:15:35,160 --> 00:15:38,080 on the earth. So he tells us how important. 266 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:41,280 Now the word, the word in there for honor basically is very 267 00:15:41,280 --> 00:15:43,920 simple. It means to Revere respect. 268 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:48,080 All right, Revere, respect the the parents. 269 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:51,320 All right. And so that here's the next 113, 270 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:53,040 verse 13. You shall not kill. 271 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:55,720 That is not necessarily going to war. 272 00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:59,840 That is the word murder that you will not take innocent blood. 273 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:03,320 Then he said, you'll not commit adultery, You will not steal. 274 00:16:03,520 --> 00:16:06,080 You will not bear false witness against our neighbor. 275 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:08,440 Some translations say you shall not lie. 276 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:11,920 Shall not lie. All right. 277 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:15,200 And then he said, and you will not covet your neighbor's house 278 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:16,720 or anything. That is their neighbor, the 279 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:19,480 wife, the manserving all of his livestock. 280 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:24,520 I think it's interesting. This word in the Hebrew is the 281 00:16:24,520 --> 00:16:30,680 same word in Genesis chapter 3, when Eve was standing there 282 00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:37,480 looking at the tree. It it is a word that means to 283 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:41,120 delight in or to desire, or to lust after. 284 00:16:42,180 --> 00:16:45,620 In the Hebrew it is the same word when they said and a tree 285 00:16:45,620 --> 00:16:50,580 to be desired to make one wise is the same word covet here. 286 00:16:51,780 --> 00:16:57,340 So she was coveting that tree. She was wanting, she saw, she 287 00:16:57,340 --> 00:16:59,780 looked at it. It was it was something to be 288 00:16:59,780 --> 00:17:03,420 desired. And so when we we see that. 289 00:17:03,420 --> 00:17:05,940 Now here's what we need to know about this set. 290 00:17:06,569 --> 00:17:11,050 This set of standards that God gave, he wrote them, it says, 291 00:17:11,050 --> 00:17:15,089 with his finger in two tablets of stone back in front. 292 00:17:16,170 --> 00:17:19,089 And what's interesting about that is that four of them, the 293 00:17:19,089 --> 00:17:23,210 first four, have to do with your relationship to God. 294 00:17:24,490 --> 00:17:28,810 The last six have to do with your relationship with each 295 00:17:28,810 --> 00:17:32,850 other. So there's 60%. 296 00:17:33,930 --> 00:17:37,330 That shows us how we are supposed to conduct ourselves by 297 00:17:37,330 --> 00:17:40,330 the standards of God in the earth with each other. 298 00:17:40,410 --> 00:17:44,210 While there is the four that he gave us is basically we need to, 299 00:17:44,450 --> 00:17:47,850 we need to understand. Jesus wrapped it up in the 22nd 300 00:17:47,850 --> 00:17:53,410 chapter of Matthew when he said you will love the Lord your God 301 00:17:53,410 --> 00:17:55,610 with all your heart, your soul, your mind and your strength. 302 00:17:55,610 --> 00:17:58,930 And you will love your neighbor as you love yourself. 303 00:17:59,690 --> 00:18:02,930 So everything is wrapped up in those two laws. 304 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:07,840 And so, you know, as as I was, I was looking at that and seeing, 305 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:10,680 I wanted to say, Lord, you know, when you introduced us to the 306 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:14,000 Kingdom, what are the, what are some of the standards that we 307 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:15,320 have? I've got 4 tonight. 308 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:18,360 I got a whole lot more, but I'm going over for tonight because I 309 00:18:18,360 --> 00:18:26,320 do not have that two hour anointing preaching gift I have 310 00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:32,130 been specifically trained to give you about. 50 minutes. 311 00:18:32,130 --> 00:18:35,210 And I might be able to stretch it to an hour, so you got to 312 00:18:35,210 --> 00:18:36,050 hold on. All right. 313 00:18:36,730 --> 00:18:38,810 All right, let's take a look at some Kingdom standards in the 314 00:18:38,810 --> 00:18:42,770 New Testament, and I want you to jot this down and listen. 315 00:18:42,770 --> 00:18:46,370 Here's the first one. The word of the Kingdom must be 316 00:18:46,370 --> 00:18:51,610 approached from a student perspective, not from a passive 317 00:18:51,610 --> 00:18:56,370 reader perspective. Some people seem to think that 318 00:18:56,370 --> 00:19:02,880 their walk in the Kingdom is OK. If they just read their Bible 319 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:06,800 occasionally. Now pastors told us we have our 320 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:11,000 Bible reading program. You know, Melanie, I and I don't 321 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:16,120 miss a day, not one day. We don't get up and get around 322 00:19:16,120 --> 00:19:17,440 until we've had our time in the Word. 323 00:19:17,440 --> 00:19:19,600 Period. It's it's that much. 324 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:21,720 And I'm going to tell you how we got there, Okay. 325 00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:25,200 But here's what we need to understand the call. 326 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:31,840 The standard is to be a student. And it's found in Matthew 327 00:19:31,840 --> 00:19:34,480 chapter 28. You're going to find out. 328 00:19:35,120 --> 00:19:39,080 Jesus set this standard. Now notice what he says. 329 00:19:39,080 --> 00:19:41,840 Go you there for and teach all nations. 330 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:44,080 Baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son of the Holy 331 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:46,200 Ghost. Teaching them to observe all say 332 00:19:46,240 --> 00:19:48,920 all things whatsoever. I've commanded you and lo, I'm 333 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:50,840 with you always. Even to the end of the world or 334 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:55,640 the age, right. So Jesus gave A and we call this 335 00:19:55,640 --> 00:20:01,350 what the Great Commission. And he says in there go you 336 00:20:01,350 --> 00:20:03,550 there for and teach most translations. 337 00:20:03,550 --> 00:20:08,190 Now more more modern translation say go and make disciples. 338 00:20:08,190 --> 00:20:13,150 That is the accurate translation of that word in the original 339 00:20:13,150 --> 00:20:17,350 language Methy 2O. Methy 2O is the word that it 340 00:20:17,350 --> 00:20:19,950 comes from Methy taste, which is the word disciple. 341 00:20:20,070 --> 00:20:22,670 You need to know that because why? 342 00:20:22,790 --> 00:20:25,030 He said. You need to go into all the 343 00:20:25,030 --> 00:20:32,160 world and enroll them. As students, not converts, not 344 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:34,760 somebody changing from this religion to that religion or 345 00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:37,240 this particular denomination to that denomination. 346 00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:42,280 We are designed and he has planned, and his standard was 347 00:20:42,360 --> 00:20:45,640 discipleship. He proved it through his 348 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:48,400 ministry. He didn't just want to say you 349 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:53,800 know, if y'all want to follow me, grab a scroll, you know read 350 00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:57,500 it every now and then and see what the Lord will do for you. 351 00:20:58,660 --> 00:21:02,060 He didn't do that. He enrolled them as students. 352 00:21:02,060 --> 00:21:05,220 Now when you look at verse 20, he said teaching them to observe 353 00:21:05,220 --> 00:21:08,580 all thing that is the actual word give instruction. 354 00:21:09,660 --> 00:21:13,660 So once you have come into the Kingdom of God, you have got to 355 00:21:13,660 --> 00:21:16,940 come again from the perspective of student and you've got to 356 00:21:16,940 --> 00:21:20,100 come from the perspective that you are now ready to be 357 00:21:20,100 --> 00:21:23,380 instructed. Pastor had just taught before he 358 00:21:23,380 --> 00:21:27,560 left and got on the boat to the Bermuda Triangle. 359 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:35,720 He taught us you must remain teachable. 360 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:41,960 There's none of us to know everything, so we have to remain 361 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:42,680 teachable. Why? 362 00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:45,920 Because discipleship is lifelong. 363 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:50,080 You'll never get to a place that you just can't learn anymore. 364 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:55,080 The day that you say I've heard that before and you write it off 365 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:58,120 or there's a class offered and you thought I've I've heard that 366 00:21:58,120 --> 00:22:03,160 before you're you're you are you are walking so close to 367 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:07,840 deception that Jesus even said, He said in the last days. 368 00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:11,200 They said, Jesus, show us a sign of your coming. 369 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:12,920 What? When will these things take 370 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:14,680 place? What will be the sign of your 371 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:16,240 coming? When will be the end of the 372 00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:18,040 world. And the very first thing Jesus 373 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:21,200 said, he said, Take heed that no man deceive you. 374 00:22:22,780 --> 00:22:27,300 So deceptions number one thing on Jesus mind, pastor. 375 00:22:27,300 --> 00:22:30,580 Read it the other day talking about in in Paul's writing to 376 00:22:30,580 --> 00:22:34,020 Timothy that in the last days many will depart from the faith 377 00:22:34,020 --> 00:22:37,340 giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils. 378 00:22:38,460 --> 00:22:40,620 It's going to happen. Didn't say that they, you know, 379 00:22:40,620 --> 00:22:45,780 he said many. We don't want to be the many. 380 00:22:46,660 --> 00:22:49,240 All right. So when he tells us that, that 381 00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:52,000 it what is so important to us. Now let me give you a 382 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:55,200 background. I've always had, I've always had 383 00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:58,120 an interest in the Bible. I remember when I was 4th and 384 00:22:58,120 --> 00:23:02,360 5th grade when you graduated to go into 6th grade, they gave you 385 00:23:02,360 --> 00:23:04,520 a Bible. I have a copy of that Bible at 386 00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:08,320 the house and it has a little shield on it and we used to play 387 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:11,320 a game called the Bible Sword Drill. 388 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:13,800 We really need to bring that back. 389 00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:18,400 But the teacher would ask a scripture, and the first one to 390 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:22,680 find it in the Bible would you'd raise your hand and you got to 391 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:24,880 read it to the class. And then they give you, they 392 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:29,280 give you a prize, all right. So you know, you know who won to 393 00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:35,090 win all the time. And so you know when you know in 394 00:23:35,090 --> 00:23:38,850 growing up in that. Well, when I turned, I turned 395 00:23:38,970 --> 00:23:41,650 717. I was going to 18I graduated 396 00:23:41,650 --> 00:23:44,450 from high school in 1979. I had an aunt that was a 397 00:23:44,450 --> 00:23:47,250 missionary. She was stationed on the island 398 00:23:47,250 --> 00:23:51,730 of Crete and she came back home and introduced me to a gentleman 399 00:23:52,410 --> 00:23:54,410 that had a Bible study in his home. 400 00:23:54,410 --> 00:23:58,050 When I showed up, he'd already had this Bible study going in 401 00:23:58,050 --> 00:24:01,620 his house. He was a doctor and he study and 402 00:24:01,620 --> 00:24:03,100 gave. He was the first man that I've 403 00:24:03,140 --> 00:24:08,500 ever heard that had. It was was teaching from from 404 00:24:08,580 --> 00:24:12,060 the Bible without a quarterly. Does anybody know what a 405 00:24:12,060 --> 00:24:14,980 quarterly is? I was raised Southern Baptist 406 00:24:15,540 --> 00:24:19,740 and every quarter they gave you a little study guide that you 407 00:24:19,740 --> 00:24:22,940 were supposed to read the night before and hopefully you had a 408 00:24:22,940 --> 00:24:25,220 teacher that read there's the night before. 409 00:24:27,620 --> 00:24:36,260 Now that is that I truly, truly, I'm saying unto you and and so, 410 00:24:36,260 --> 00:24:38,500 you know, we just, if you didn't have a quarterly, you just 411 00:24:38,500 --> 00:24:40,460 really didn't have any knowledge of the Bible. 412 00:24:41,220 --> 00:24:44,460 I mean they didn't encourage you to read the Bible and try to 413 00:24:44,460 --> 00:24:45,980 figure out what the Lord's trying to tell you. 414 00:24:45,980 --> 00:24:49,780 We had a quarterly and it was, it was done by a convention and 415 00:24:49,780 --> 00:24:52,460 some doctors and theologians and everybody got together and they 416 00:24:52,460 --> 00:24:54,580 printed all this stuff for us. And every quarter we got our 417 00:24:54,580 --> 00:24:57,660 quarterly. Well, this guy was the first guy 418 00:24:57,660 --> 00:24:59,860 I'd ever heard that didn't use a quarterly. 419 00:24:59,860 --> 00:25:02,420 I'm looking where's his quarterly? 420 00:25:04,700 --> 00:25:06,820 And he started talking about things. 421 00:25:07,020 --> 00:25:10,340 He said, you know, the Bible was originally in the New Testament, 422 00:25:10,340 --> 00:25:14,660 was written in in, in the Greek language and he would teach us 423 00:25:14,660 --> 00:25:17,980 Greek words. That was that he would pull out. 424 00:25:18,750 --> 00:25:22,270 And man, I I absolutely fell in love with this man. 425 00:25:22,830 --> 00:25:25,070 And I went up to him. First night went up to him. 426 00:25:25,070 --> 00:25:27,270 I said, what kind of Bible do you have? 427 00:25:29,030 --> 00:25:31,390 Because my Bible don't have any of that in it. 428 00:25:33,110 --> 00:25:35,350 I mean, you're talking about these Greek words and Hebrew 429 00:25:35,350 --> 00:25:38,790 words and they brought such a a clarity to what you were talking 430 00:25:38,790 --> 00:25:40,310 about. I said, is that real? 431 00:25:40,990 --> 00:25:43,830 Is that true? And he showed me his Bible. 432 00:25:43,830 --> 00:25:45,670 And you know what? I went and bought one of them 433 00:25:45,670 --> 00:25:49,680 Bibles and we talked about it for at four it was called a 434 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:52,560 Dakes Annotated Reference Bible. Still there as a matter of fact 435 00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:55,960 had an opportunity not too long ago to talk to Dennis Dennings. 436 00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:59,560 Dennis Jennings Dake is the guy that met that printed this 437 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:02,440 Bible. He did it the year I was born, 438 00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:05,320 1961. He came out with this work. 439 00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:11,840 He spent over 100,000 hours in 4343 years compiling this work. 440 00:26:13,340 --> 00:26:15,500 It is full of Greek. It is full of Hebrew. 441 00:26:15,780 --> 00:26:18,020 I devoured that. You ought to see. 442 00:26:18,020 --> 00:26:23,180 I still have the original copy. It is in shreds, pages 443 00:26:23,180 --> 00:26:25,060 everywhere. I got pages stuck where pages 444 00:26:25,060 --> 00:26:28,300 don't go trying to hold this thing together. 445 00:26:28,500 --> 00:26:31,860 It was one of my it was one of my prized possessions. 446 00:26:31,860 --> 00:26:35,740 I have another one and I and I inherited another one and I had 447 00:26:35,740 --> 00:26:37,220 them. And every now and then I'll go 448 00:26:37,220 --> 00:26:41,140 back to him. Because in in 4043 years, 449 00:26:41,340 --> 00:26:45,540 100,000 hours if you run your math, I calculated it was 6 450 00:26:45,540 --> 00:26:48,780 hours a day for 43 years. No vacation, no time off. 451 00:26:51,620 --> 00:26:56,840 They said that when he spoke, he could quote whole chapters by 452 00:26:56,840 --> 00:27:03,920 memory, Books by memory, I mean, I think so after 100,000 hours, 453 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:05,600 you ought to be able to do something with your memory, 454 00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:08,920 right? But a phenomenal phenomenal work 455 00:27:09,620 --> 00:27:13,980 and I I had an opportunity and and and to visit with doctor 456 00:27:13,980 --> 00:27:15,500 Harmon and I asked him a question. 457 00:27:15,780 --> 00:27:19,820 I said I know you you go from place to place little ladies 458 00:27:19,820 --> 00:27:22,060 groups and and garden clubs and stuff. 459 00:27:22,060 --> 00:27:23,660 They ask you to come and speak and stuff. 460 00:27:23,660 --> 00:27:27,460 I said when you go who who duplicates your tapes And he had 461 00:27:27,460 --> 00:27:31,180 a one tape duplicator cassette tape anybody remember them 462 00:27:31,620 --> 00:27:32,620 cassette. OK. 463 00:27:33,750 --> 00:27:37,350 And and I said, I will go with you if you allow me to come with 464 00:27:37,350 --> 00:27:40,110 you and I'll duplicate the tapes so you can keep talking to the 465 00:27:40,110 --> 00:27:41,630 people. All right. 466 00:27:41,630 --> 00:27:43,950 And the ladies and answering questions and stuff like that. 467 00:27:43,950 --> 00:27:45,830 Because I said who does it? He said I have to do it. 468 00:27:45,950 --> 00:27:48,110 I said I'm going to do it. And I traveled with him and I 469 00:27:48,110 --> 00:27:51,510 went everywhere in town that he went and and and duplicated 470 00:27:51,510 --> 00:27:54,270 those tapes. When Melanie and I met Okay, I 471 00:27:54,270 --> 00:27:58,830 was still going there. That was 1981 when we started 472 00:27:58,830 --> 00:28:01,510 dating. And we end up, we went to Doctor 473 00:28:01,510 --> 00:28:06,420 Harmon's every Monday night until Dr. Harmon decided to move 474 00:28:06,420 --> 00:28:11,540 to Connecticut. It's kind of like the disciples. 475 00:28:12,060 --> 00:28:15,100 Where are you going to go? I mean, you know, you're going 476 00:28:15,100 --> 00:28:16,500 to Connecticut. Where's Connecticut? 477 00:28:19,100 --> 00:28:20,980 Well, the way I'm going, you can't go. 478 00:28:22,500 --> 00:28:27,540 OK All right. So I'm thinking, man, Lord, 479 00:28:27,540 --> 00:28:29,540 what? But, you know I began to 480 00:28:29,540 --> 00:28:33,460 continue my studies in the Greek language and and and as best as 481 00:28:33,460 --> 00:28:38,740 I knew how and I made-up my mind that I was going to become a 482 00:28:38,740 --> 00:28:42,580 student of the word of God. Even I had no desire to go to 483 00:28:42,580 --> 00:28:45,180 Bible school. I had no desire to go into the 484 00:28:45,180 --> 00:28:48,620 ministry full time. I I had a skill that I, you 485 00:28:48,620 --> 00:28:50,740 know, felt like the Lord was going to have me use. 486 00:28:51,140 --> 00:28:55,300 And and I just I but there was that desire to become a 487 00:28:55,300 --> 00:28:57,300 disciple. Now you think that's strange, 488 00:28:57,300 --> 00:29:00,620 but I think it's strange that we forgot about the story. 489 00:29:01,100 --> 00:29:05,100 Are the account in John chapter one of John and Andrew. 490 00:29:07,740 --> 00:29:12,900 In John chapter one we have a an account where John the Baptist 491 00:29:13,020 --> 00:29:16,980 sees Jesus and two of his disciples were standing right 492 00:29:16,980 --> 00:29:19,740 there with him. Disciples called them disciples, 493 00:29:19,740 --> 00:29:22,700 Methetas, learners, pupils, students. 494 00:29:23,340 --> 00:29:24,980 And he said, there goes the Lamb of God. 495 00:29:26,260 --> 00:29:30,840 And he said those two disciples of his went and followed them. 496 00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:34,000 And I don't know if they were talking or whatever, but Jesus 497 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:37,440 turned around and looked at him and said, what are you all 498 00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:41,160 looking for? And I guess they were shocked 499 00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:44,200 because they go, where do you live? 500 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:50,560 And he said, come and see. And they hung out with Jesus the 501 00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:54,760 whole day. Well, the thing was, he 502 00:29:54,760 --> 00:30:00,230 identified those two John when he he identified one was Andrew, 503 00:30:00,910 --> 00:30:04,550 Peter's brother, and the other one had to be in him because he 504 00:30:04,550 --> 00:30:08,390 never identified himself. So he said the other disciple, 505 00:30:08,390 --> 00:30:11,390 he always called himself the other disciple until he got to 506 00:30:11,390 --> 00:30:16,710 the end and he said the disciple Jesus loved, he wrote that about 507 00:30:16,710 --> 00:30:18,790 himself, right? He did. 508 00:30:20,470 --> 00:30:24,910 So the thing, the question that I had was, wait a second, you 509 00:30:24,910 --> 00:30:29,870 two boys was in business. When did you have time to follow 510 00:30:30,070 --> 00:30:37,070 the prophet around to be able to learn the things concerning the 511 00:30:37,070 --> 00:30:38,470 Kingdom? Because what did John the 512 00:30:38,470 --> 00:30:42,630 Baptist preach? He said repent, for the Kingdom 513 00:30:42,630 --> 00:30:44,630 of heaven is now within your reach. 514 00:30:45,230 --> 00:30:47,870 So these guys are following him. Well, you know how they did it 515 00:30:49,270 --> 00:30:56,180 tells us they were on the night shift in that what Peter said, 516 00:30:56,180 --> 00:30:59,900 Lord, we fished all night. So those guys were on the night 517 00:30:59,900 --> 00:31:02,380 shift. So during the day, they had the 518 00:31:02,380 --> 00:31:05,420 opportunity to follow John around, listen to his teaching 519 00:31:05,500 --> 00:31:06,820 and involved. Really. 520 00:31:06,820 --> 00:31:12,900 I think probably they got together with John about 4:30 in 521 00:31:12,900 --> 00:31:16,620 the afternoon on Sunday till about 8:45. 522 00:31:17,060 --> 00:31:19,420 What do you think of that? Does that sound familiar? 523 00:31:21,660 --> 00:31:24,280 There's a big group going through that kind of 524 00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:28,400 discipleship right now on Sunday evenings, intense teaching. 525 00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:34,080 But yet they found the they found that they wanted to be 526 00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:37,320 disciples, even though they had a career. 527 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:39,240 I was going to be the same thing. 528 00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:41,680 I said, you know, I'm not going to be moved by everybody wanting 529 00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:44,200 to send me to seminary and Bible college and everything else. 530 00:31:44,510 --> 00:31:46,910 I said I'm going to do what I feel like the Lord wants me to 531 00:31:46,910 --> 00:31:50,430 do, but I am not going to neglect the discipleship factor 532 00:31:50,430 --> 00:31:52,430 in my life. It is a standard in the Kingdom 533 00:31:52,430 --> 00:31:54,150 of God. And if you're doing anything 534 00:31:54,150 --> 00:31:57,270 less, I I hate to tell you you're missing it. 535 00:31:58,590 --> 00:32:01,790 OK, Let me give you another illustration of what Jesus said, 536 00:32:01,790 --> 00:32:04,990 John 831 through 32, Listen to this. 537 00:32:05,310 --> 00:32:08,590 Jesus said to those Jews that believed on him, OK, that was a 538 00:32:08,590 --> 00:32:11,910 good day in Jesus ministry. He finally had somebody 539 00:32:11,910 --> 00:32:15,240 believing, didn't want to, you know, take him, push him off a 540 00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:19,520 Cliff, or stoning him to death. That was a good day, he said to 541 00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:22,840 those Jews that believed on him. And he said, if you continue in 542 00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:25,800 my word, then are you my disciples? 543 00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:29,800 Indeed, he said, you will know the truth and the truth shall 544 00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:33,440 make you free. Now when he said in there the 545 00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:36,920 word the word continue in the Greek is the word mayno. 546 00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:41,600 And the word mayno mainly basically paints the picture of 547 00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:44,160 dwelling somewhere, sitting down, staying. 548 00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:48,840 He said, if you continue now notice what he said in my word, 549 00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:52,680 then are you a disciple? That makes sense because what is 550 00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:54,000 a disciple again, it's a student. 551 00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:57,160 A student of what? Of the words that Jesus spoke. 552 00:32:58,030 --> 00:33:00,150 And then he says in there, And you will know the truth. 553 00:33:00,150 --> 00:33:01,350 And the truth shall set you free. 554 00:33:01,350 --> 00:33:03,710 I've said this for years. It's not the truth that sets you 555 00:33:03,710 --> 00:33:08,630 free. It's the truth you know that 556 00:33:08,630 --> 00:33:13,230 sets you free. The only way you can get to know 557 00:33:13,230 --> 00:33:17,630 the truth is spend time in it. All right. 558 00:33:18,470 --> 00:33:22,630 You know, if you're confused like Pilot was, He said what is 559 00:33:22,630 --> 00:33:24,350 truth? What Jesus told us. 560 00:33:24,350 --> 00:33:29,300 John 1717 All right, John 1717 says this. 561 00:33:29,420 --> 00:33:34,780 Sanctify them by thy truth. Thy word is truth. 562 00:33:36,380 --> 00:33:40,020 It's an absolute. It's not situational. 563 00:33:41,620 --> 00:33:45,700 All right, he tells us in there. Matthew 1025. 564 00:33:45,700 --> 00:33:49,820 I think it's interesting because one of the things that Jesus 565 00:33:49,820 --> 00:33:53,340 tells he said this. He said it is enough that the 566 00:33:53,340 --> 00:33:59,010 disciple be as his master and that the servant be as his Lord. 567 00:34:00,250 --> 00:34:08,449 So we haven't done enough. If we are not like Jesus, we are 568 00:34:08,449 --> 00:34:13,090 not and we have not done enough if those that the Lord is placed 569 00:34:13,090 --> 00:34:16,690 over our lives, that we have done everything we can to serve 570 00:34:16,690 --> 00:34:20,850 them and take care of them. It says it is enough when you've 571 00:34:20,850 --> 00:34:22,969 accomplished that. Some of us are still in the 572 00:34:22,969 --> 00:34:27,170 process and we'll always be in the process of doing what Being 573 00:34:27,170 --> 00:34:31,090 like our masters, being like, you know, the to teach the 574 00:34:31,090 --> 00:34:35,170 Kingdom of God. When we came down here, I, the 575 00:34:35,170 --> 00:34:40,730 Lord told me in 2007 during a Black Friday, never forget it. 576 00:34:41,250 --> 00:34:43,969 And I was sitting before the Lord and I usually spent time 577 00:34:43,969 --> 00:34:45,889 during that time because everybody's out shopping or 578 00:34:45,889 --> 00:34:47,850 they're sleeping because they was out all night shopping. 579 00:34:49,929 --> 00:34:52,210 And I just get with the Lord and I say, hey man, I got a month 580 00:34:52,210 --> 00:34:55,460 left, 30 days. I said, what have I missed? 581 00:34:55,739 --> 00:34:57,980 What can you help me with? Where do I need to be by the 582 00:34:57,980 --> 00:35:01,140 time we wrap this year, end up. And the Lord spoke to me and he 583 00:35:01,140 --> 00:35:03,860 told me two things. He said, number one, he said, 584 00:35:03,940 --> 00:35:05,580 you're not king to mind it enough. 585 00:35:08,340 --> 00:35:11,540 What does that mean? And and I'm sitting there 586 00:35:11,540 --> 00:35:13,860 waiting, you know, hoping I'm going to get something else. 587 00:35:15,060 --> 00:35:18,860 And I didn't get nothing else except, he said, And I'm going 588 00:35:18,860 --> 00:35:20,660 to increase your teaching ministry. 589 00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:25,080 No sooner did he say that the next few weeks, all the areas 590 00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:27,840 that I was teaching, they dismantled those classes. 591 00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:32,000 I said, what him? Was I listening? 592 00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:36,040 Was I paying attention? But the thing was, he had me. 593 00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:41,160 He had me on a path. And as a disciple, you got to 594 00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:48,240 stay on the path. And I come down here in 2009 and 595 00:35:48,240 --> 00:35:50,440 I'm still trying to figure out this Kingdom thing. 596 00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:53,360 I started studying the Kingdom. I looked up every scripture on 597 00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:55,800 the Kingdom. Pastor David E my taught had 598 00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:57,600 told me, I'm going to give you 2 Wednesday nights. 599 00:35:57,600 --> 00:35:58,760 You're going to teach on the Kingdom. 600 00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:01,640 And I had no idea what I was talking about. 601 00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:06,160 It was it was amazing how and and and that's it. 602 00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:11,400 That's the interesting part of the of the word revelation in 603 00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:14,420 the Greek. It is the word apacalupto, OK? 604 00:36:14,420 --> 00:36:17,820 And it means an unveiling or pulling back a curtain. 605 00:36:18,660 --> 00:36:20,140 Can't see if the curtains closed. 606 00:36:21,260 --> 00:36:24,420 And here I am doing all this study, trying to get it the best 607 00:36:24,420 --> 00:36:27,180 I can. And it wasn't until I got down 608 00:36:27,180 --> 00:36:32,380 here May of 2009. We got here Tuesday at about, 609 00:36:32,380 --> 00:36:35,980 what, 3:00 in the morning, and I'm supposed to go with Pastor 610 00:36:35,980 --> 00:36:41,140 Earl and Marcy to a conference in North SC, one of them 611 00:36:41,140 --> 00:36:45,140 Carolinas. And by the time we got here, I 612 00:36:45,140 --> 00:36:46,660 was so exhausted. He looked at me. 613 00:36:46,660 --> 00:36:47,940 He said, you're not going nowhere. 614 00:36:48,700 --> 00:36:53,100 He said you need to recover. I said, man, if it wasn't for 615 00:36:53,100 --> 00:36:56,700 them dogs that we had to bring down, man, we'd been down here 616 00:36:56,700 --> 00:36:57,780 sooner. I promise. 617 00:36:58,460 --> 00:37:03,940 I said we had two dogs and a cat and and good Lord, we get here 618 00:37:03,940 --> 00:37:08,020 and I didn't get to go that weekend, that end of the week. 619 00:37:08,260 --> 00:37:11,980 That's when pastor heard the message of the Kingdom for the 620 00:37:11,980 --> 00:37:20,400 first time and I missed it. It was, I couldn't believe it 621 00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:25,160 and to see where we are because he taught us for a month, you 622 00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:30,400 know, on the unseen principle. And then he unloads One Sunday 623 00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:38,490 morning, June the 7th, 2009, the message of the Kingdom and I I 624 00:37:38,490 --> 00:37:41,130 am not kidding. I mean it was life changing. 625 00:37:41,130 --> 00:37:43,730 The light came on, ripped the curtain in half. 626 00:37:45,370 --> 00:37:48,890 Seems to be a habit with the Lord ripping them curtains in 627 00:37:48,890 --> 00:37:54,370 half, right? And man, we haven't been the 628 00:37:54,370 --> 00:37:56,290 same since. Melanie looked over at me after 629 00:37:56,290 --> 00:37:59,850 that and she goes, I have waited my whole life to hear this 630 00:37:59,850 --> 00:38:02,330 message. Do me a favor brother and 631 00:38:02,330 --> 00:38:04,370 sister. Don't take that message for 632 00:38:04,370 --> 00:38:08,040 granted. You know, pastors teaching on 633 00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:14,640 the Kingdom, do not thou shalt not take that message for 634 00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:17,080 granted. You ought to be every time he 635 00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:19,600 talks about it. It ought to be resonate in you 636 00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:21,960 and continue to build and to grow in you. 637 00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:25,240 That it is just it. It comes out of you so freely 638 00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:30,120 because it is what is missing in the earth today. 639 00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:32,880 Now let me give you a couple other scriptures going to come. 640 00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:34,280 We're going to have to move on. All right? 641 00:38:35,720 --> 00:38:42,670 OK said act 1711. This this particular passage 642 00:38:42,670 --> 00:38:44,510 listened to it. It said these were more noble 643 00:38:44,510 --> 00:38:47,590 than those in so that's all the NICA in that they received the 644 00:38:47,590 --> 00:38:50,150 word with all readiness of nine and searched the scriptures 645 00:38:50,150 --> 00:38:51,910 daily whether those things were so. 646 00:38:53,310 --> 00:38:57,950 A disciple will search the scriptures daily. 647 00:38:58,790 --> 00:39:00,110 How many times this pastor said it? 648 00:39:00,110 --> 00:39:03,110 I have said it. I said this before pastor. 649 00:39:03,230 --> 00:39:07,910 I even met Pastor, I said. You do not have to listen to a 650 00:39:07,910 --> 00:39:11,150 word I say, and I encourage you don't. 651 00:39:12,270 --> 00:39:15,070 If you hear something that strikes a chord, go search it 652 00:39:15,070 --> 00:39:17,640 out. Prove it to yourself. 653 00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:23,280 The word in their search in the original language is anacrino. 654 00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:28,480 Anacrino in its in its simplest it means to scrutinize, to 655 00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:33,120 investigate, to interrogate, to ask, to question, to examine, to 656 00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:36,840 discern. The picture is a of an attorney 657 00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:40,400 cross examining. So, you know, when an attorney 658 00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:43,200 has you give your testimony, then there's going to be another 659 00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:45,760 attorney to make sure your story is the same. 660 00:39:46,910 --> 00:39:50,030 You want to make sure your story's the same when you're 661 00:39:50,030 --> 00:39:52,270 talking about the word of God. You want your story. 662 00:39:52,270 --> 00:39:55,790 You want your accuracy the same as the Bible. 663 00:39:57,190 --> 00:40:00,990 That's what I'm teaching Titus and the grandkids right now know 664 00:40:01,150 --> 00:40:04,230 what you're talking about when it comes to the Bible. 665 00:40:04,510 --> 00:40:08,390 All right, now here's the sad part of of my education. 666 00:40:08,390 --> 00:40:12,670 I felt like I was at a lull. Biblically and the studying that 667 00:40:12,670 --> 00:40:16,230 I was doing and I just knew that there was more to being able to 668 00:40:16,230 --> 00:40:18,470 understand the original languages of the Bible. 669 00:40:18,630 --> 00:40:23,830 And in 1988 I met somebody else. His name is Rick Renner. 670 00:40:25,030 --> 00:40:28,790 Pastor quotes him often. I absolutely fell in love with 671 00:40:28,790 --> 00:40:33,390 Rick. I'm sitting there thinking when 672 00:40:33,390 --> 00:40:36,150 he began to breakdown the Greek and the and the different things 673 00:40:36,150 --> 00:40:41,040 there and I thought I found him and he and he he was he was kind 674 00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:44,680 of he was kind of funny because he the first thing he did when 675 00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:47,720 he got up on stage his first time we met he goes look at here 676 00:40:47,720 --> 00:40:50,120 and he pulled up both Panth legs and he had two different colors 677 00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:53,320 of socks on. Well he's my kind of guy 678 00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:58,320 seriously. And so I and so you know, and 679 00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:02,240 and guess what I did after he got done, I did the same thing 680 00:41:02,240 --> 00:41:05,880 to him than I did to Doctor Harmon, Can I see your Bible? 681 00:41:08,430 --> 00:41:10,750 And I said he goes, yeah, he goes, you can see this over 682 00:41:10,750 --> 00:41:13,750 there in front row. And I sat down and I opened that 683 00:41:13,750 --> 00:41:20,310 Bible and it was like, and I looked inside his Bible and it 684 00:41:20,310 --> 00:41:24,430 was written down all the Greek that you could bathe in. 685 00:41:26,830 --> 00:41:30,150 And and I said, and and I looked at it and I said, oh, this is a 686 00:41:30,150 --> 00:41:32,430 wide margin Bible. He's written all this stuff. 687 00:41:32,430 --> 00:41:35,590 I went and got me a wide margin Bible. 688 00:41:36,910 --> 00:41:41,310 Remember that scripture? It is enough that a disciple be 689 00:41:41,310 --> 00:41:45,790 as his master. And I began to write little. 690 00:41:45,790 --> 00:41:48,550 I can write real small and you give me a sharp pencil. 691 00:41:49,230 --> 00:41:51,910 I can write real little. And I started taking Greek notes 692 00:41:51,910 --> 00:41:54,350 and and Hebrew notes and I started going there. 693 00:41:54,350 --> 00:41:57,430 Pastor David E My was well versed in in a lot of that type 694 00:41:57,430 --> 00:41:59,150 of teaching and I was just writing and did. 695 00:41:59,390 --> 00:42:04,860 And then I had an opportunity to go to Africa and I was 17 days 696 00:42:04,860 --> 00:42:07,780 in Africa and the Lord told me, he said, he said you might want 697 00:42:07,780 --> 00:42:12,180 to make some copies of some of them pages that you prize so 698 00:42:12,180 --> 00:42:14,860 much because you're going to leave that Bible in Africa. 699 00:42:16,140 --> 00:42:20,180 What? Man, I found me a copier, right? 700 00:42:20,180 --> 00:42:22,060 I was going to make copies of these notes, right? 701 00:42:22,420 --> 00:42:24,020 And I did. I left it in Africa. 702 00:42:24,460 --> 00:42:27,380 I was getting ready to get on the plane the 4th day and we 703 00:42:27,380 --> 00:42:29,380 were there 17 days. And I was getting ready to get 704 00:42:29,380 --> 00:42:31,300 on the plane and the Lord says that's the guy. 705 00:42:31,780 --> 00:42:36,290 And I'm thinking to myself, man, I got like 13 days left. 706 00:42:37,450 --> 00:42:41,450 I didn't bring a spare. I had pictured in my mind, I'm 707 00:42:41,450 --> 00:42:44,450 going to get on the plane leaving, coming back to home and 708 00:42:44,450 --> 00:42:46,890 I'm going to leave it with some brother, you know. 709 00:42:46,890 --> 00:42:50,330 And and the Lord said he's the guy. 710 00:42:50,330 --> 00:42:53,970 And I looked at him and he was carrying a Gideon Pocket Bible, 711 00:42:54,450 --> 00:42:58,690 New Testament. And I said, is that what you 712 00:42:58,690 --> 00:43:00,970 preach from when you have your congregation? 713 00:43:00,970 --> 00:43:02,210 Is that, he said. That's all I have. 714 00:43:06,140 --> 00:43:08,820 Not anymore. And as a matter of fact, I came 715 00:43:08,820 --> 00:43:11,660 back from that trip and bought every one of those pastors of 716 00:43:11,660 --> 00:43:16,460 Greek Hebrew Study Bible. Now the the freight alone was 717 00:43:16,460 --> 00:43:19,020 more expensive than the books because they were all hard back 718 00:43:19,020 --> 00:43:23,860 and heavy. But I wanted them to have it 719 00:43:23,860 --> 00:43:25,820 because they they loved that teaching. 720 00:43:25,820 --> 00:43:30,160 Getting back to the original language, the Holy Spirit, you 721 00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:33,800 know, made sure that he had recorded for us to understand. 722 00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:35,720 See the what I learned from Rick. 723 00:43:35,720 --> 00:43:39,160 And this was interesting because I began to follow Rick and and 724 00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:42,240 get his teaching tapes and he had a tape table like everybody 725 00:43:42,240 --> 00:43:43,680 else. I bought everything. 726 00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:46,320 I own every book he has. I have them all in hardback. 727 00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:51,960 I have a complete shrine set up with Rick Renner stuff on it. 728 00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:55,920 All right. And he did a series on tape and 729 00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:57,920 I couldn't go. And there again, I'm 730 00:43:57,920 --> 00:44:00,620 disappointed, right? And he did it, understanding the 731 00:44:00,620 --> 00:44:03,220 Greek New Testament. And he did a seminar at a hotel 732 00:44:03,420 --> 00:44:06,220 for two nights and I didn't get to go. 733 00:44:06,820 --> 00:44:09,500 But thank you, Jesus. I got the VH S's. 734 00:44:11,660 --> 00:44:13,260 And I've been through those VH S's. 735 00:44:13,260 --> 00:44:16,340 I went through a minimum, minimum, all four, eight hours, 736 00:44:16,540 --> 00:44:20,540 10 times minimum. And I began and I and I had the 737 00:44:20,540 --> 00:44:23,340 opportunity to begin to teach the same thing he was teaching 738 00:44:23,620 --> 00:44:26,660 in in our school in Oklahoma called School of Life. 739 00:44:27,370 --> 00:44:30,250 Now the thing was, though, I get to about the third week of class 740 00:44:30,250 --> 00:44:33,890 and they start talking ugly about me because it's not easy, 741 00:44:34,410 --> 00:44:36,730 you know, to get that. But this is just the simple 742 00:44:36,730 --> 00:44:39,170 stuff. It was recognizing words and how 743 00:44:39,170 --> 00:44:40,370 that. But one of the things that Rick 744 00:44:40,370 --> 00:44:43,010 said about the Greek New Testament, he said it is the 745 00:44:43,010 --> 00:44:47,250 most picturesque language man has ever been involved with and 746 00:44:47,250 --> 00:44:51,530 that we translate one word. But there's a whole picture that 747 00:44:51,530 --> 00:44:54,450 it paints and you can't do it in just one word. 748 00:44:54,810 --> 00:44:56,410 Let me give you an example real quick. 749 00:44:58,220 --> 00:45:02,860 In Evisions, chapter 4, verses 11 and 12, I don't have it. 750 00:45:02,860 --> 00:45:08,060 In my notes 11 and 12 it says that he gave some apostles, 751 00:45:08,060 --> 00:45:11,260 prophets, evangelists, pastors, teachers for the equipping of 752 00:45:11,260 --> 00:45:13,500 the Saints for the work of the ministry and the edifying of the 753 00:45:13,500 --> 00:45:15,940 body of Christ. That's what it says, the word 754 00:45:15,940 --> 00:45:18,100 equipping in there. All right. 755 00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:22,440 And and, and, and You have to understand that some of these 756 00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:26,880 words came not from deity, but came from the culture. 757 00:45:27,240 --> 00:45:30,920 The word in the Greek is the word catartismos. 758 00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:35,040 And the word catartismos means the setting of a bone. 759 00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:40,040 It is a medical term. So when he gave the fivefold 760 00:45:40,040 --> 00:45:43,560 ministry, what was their job? Number one is to put us in the 761 00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:51,110 body, in the right place. Then he's gonna let us know that 762 00:45:51,110 --> 00:45:59,230 if you're a bicep, you get to work, If your legs, you got to 763 00:45:59,630 --> 00:46:04,110 walk around, just don't sit on your blessed assurance all the 764 00:46:04,110 --> 00:46:09,790 time. But see, you don't get that from 765 00:46:09,790 --> 00:46:13,190 the word equipping. What do you think? 766 00:46:13,190 --> 00:46:17,240 Equipping. You know get a backpack or you 767 00:46:17,240 --> 00:46:20,320 know get your tools ready for the job site. 768 00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:24,080 No, he said. The setting of a bone, he's 769 00:46:24,080 --> 00:46:26,120 going to place you. He is given that fivefold 770 00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:28,800 ministry to be able to get you in the place you need to be so 771 00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:32,240 that the body can function without pain. 772 00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:35,520 All right. So when we take a look at said 773 00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:38,600 the last, the last scripture I have for this section and this 774 00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:41,480 particular standard, remember it's it's the study of the word 775 00:46:41,480 --> 00:46:44,110 of God. It's not just the reading of it, 776 00:46:44,110 --> 00:46:45,670 the passive reading of the word of God. 777 00:46:45,830 --> 00:46:47,830 But you got to be a reader. If you don't read it, you're not 778 00:46:47,830 --> 00:46:50,550 going to want to study it. All right. 779 00:46:50,750 --> 00:46:55,950 But what is second Timothy 215 Tell us study to show yourself 780 00:46:55,950 --> 00:46:58,310 approved unto God a Workman that need not be ashamed, rightly 781 00:46:58,310 --> 00:47:02,270 dividing the word of truth that word study. 782 00:47:02,270 --> 00:47:06,150 And I'm I'm I'm glad they translated it like that. 783 00:47:06,150 --> 00:47:08,750 But the word study is the word spude in the Greek. 784 00:47:08,750 --> 00:47:14,840 And what it means is to be quick and and and fast and 785 00:47:14,840 --> 00:47:20,720 businesslike, taking whatever you're doing extremely serious 786 00:47:21,240 --> 00:47:24,320 but being quick about it. And and then it goes on and it 787 00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:27,200 says do what? Be quick about making yourself 788 00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:30,040 approved unto God. See, you don't have it. 789 00:47:30,040 --> 00:47:33,760 And and and Ki students, listen. You're not trying to impress us 790 00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:36,680 as instructors. You're trying to impress the 791 00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:38,600 Lord. You want him. 792 00:47:38,640 --> 00:47:40,880 You want his stamp of approval on your life. 793 00:47:41,890 --> 00:47:42,690 And I love that. I was. 794 00:47:42,730 --> 00:47:44,370 I visited right before pastor left. 795 00:47:44,370 --> 00:47:48,370 I said I I learned something. The Greek word docky Moss is the 796 00:47:48,370 --> 00:47:52,050 word approved. And it was basically a banking 797 00:47:52,050 --> 00:47:57,410 term and it is how they rated coins back then. 798 00:47:57,530 --> 00:48:01,370 And a Docky Moss was somebody that was at the highest level of 799 00:48:01,370 --> 00:48:04,250 integrity when it came to their coinage. 800 00:48:05,100 --> 00:48:08,340 They didn't have clipped edges that they would try to clip the 801 00:48:08,380 --> 00:48:10,340 edges. So nobody'd noticed and they'd 802 00:48:10,340 --> 00:48:13,380 hang on and they'd gather that up and they would have more 803 00:48:13,380 --> 00:48:16,140 money, but they would give him a coin for a specific, a specific 804 00:48:16,140 --> 00:48:19,700 amount. A documos was a person that was 805 00:48:19,700 --> 00:48:24,940 noted for their honesty and for the trueness of their trade. 806 00:48:25,700 --> 00:48:29,420 That is what he says in there. We need to be approved under God 807 00:48:29,420 --> 00:48:34,010 as what the real deal. Now notice what he said a 808 00:48:34,010 --> 00:48:36,050 Workman that need not be ashamed. 809 00:48:36,850 --> 00:48:39,330 And I one day I asked the Lord, I said, well how is a Workman is 810 00:48:39,330 --> 00:48:43,330 shaved And he began to he began to give me an illustration. 811 00:48:43,330 --> 00:48:47,490 The illustration was he said you can take it in any trade, let's 812 00:48:47,490 --> 00:48:49,890 say air conditioning or electricians. 813 00:48:50,450 --> 00:48:54,210 You know, if you're an electrician, you probably got a 814 00:48:54,210 --> 00:48:58,130 pair of wire cutters, A screwdriver and A and A and a 815 00:48:58,530 --> 00:49:02,140 spool of wire, and you got a trade, and they're supposed to 816 00:49:02,140 --> 00:49:03,540 train you and you're supposed to do it. 817 00:49:03,740 --> 00:49:06,260 But then if they let you out solo to do something and you 818 00:49:06,260 --> 00:49:08,940 mess it all up, you're going to be ashamed. 819 00:49:10,380 --> 00:49:12,220 Well, you know, we have Christians, and they have a 820 00:49:12,220 --> 00:49:14,860 pencil in their pocket and the Bible in one hand, a notebook in 821 00:49:14,860 --> 00:49:18,820 another hand, and somebody comes up and asks them, how come you 822 00:49:18,820 --> 00:49:20,540 believe in the baptism of the Holy Ghost? 823 00:49:23,100 --> 00:49:29,860 Well, because my church does, and you cannot show them in 824 00:49:29,860 --> 00:49:33,980 Scripture why you believe in the baptism, the Holy Spirit with 825 00:49:33,980 --> 00:49:35,540 the evidence, and speaking in tongues. 826 00:49:36,180 --> 00:49:41,940 You need to be ashamed and any other question that someone has 827 00:49:42,140 --> 00:49:44,300 about why you believe what you believe. 828 00:49:44,300 --> 00:49:48,700 If you cannot tell them in Scripture, you need to be a what 829 00:49:48,700 --> 00:49:50,380 you you. You need to be ashamed of 830 00:49:50,380 --> 00:49:53,340 yourself. But then he says, rightly 831 00:49:53,340 --> 00:49:55,750 dividing the word of truth. Why does that? 832 00:49:55,750 --> 00:49:56,870 Why is that? What does that mean? 833 00:49:56,870 --> 00:50:00,070 And why is that important? Because it can be. 834 00:50:00,070 --> 00:50:02,830 And Pastor said this has taught us this before, that it can be 835 00:50:02,830 --> 00:50:04,190 wrongly. It's implied. 836 00:50:04,710 --> 00:50:08,470 It could be wrongly divided. You know, I mean there's And 837 00:50:08,470 --> 00:50:10,350 here's how you know. Jot this down if you're taking 838 00:50:10,350 --> 00:50:12,510 notes. I I teach this all the time. 839 00:50:13,070 --> 00:50:14,590 All right? Everything. 840 00:50:14,590 --> 00:50:17,990 I learned this years ago when I first got tapped into the Word 841 00:50:17,990 --> 00:50:21,630 of Faith. Okay, one of the the guys that I 842 00:50:21,630 --> 00:50:23,990 followed as far as out of California. 843 00:50:24,230 --> 00:50:28,630 He taught camp meeting for years and he said this never, never 844 00:50:28,630 --> 00:50:30,990 forgot it. And this is what he said. 845 00:50:31,190 --> 00:50:36,790 Everything in the Bible is truly stated, but not everything in 846 00:50:36,790 --> 00:50:39,110 the Bible is a statement of truth. 847 00:50:40,150 --> 00:50:44,590 And I said he's a heretic. And then he explained it. 848 00:50:45,750 --> 00:50:48,150 He said everything in the Bible is truly stated. 849 00:50:48,150 --> 00:50:52,190 In other words, it was completely recorded the way it 850 00:50:52,190 --> 00:50:55,590 happened. But not everything in the Bible 851 00:50:55,590 --> 00:50:57,310 is a statement of truth. What does that mean? 852 00:50:57,510 --> 00:51:00,150 That means that the Bible was recorded exactly. 853 00:51:00,150 --> 00:51:01,670 It happened. And some of the people that said 854 00:51:01,670 --> 00:51:04,190 stuff in the Bible were not inspired by God. 855 00:51:04,190 --> 00:51:10,670 To say it in order you've got to be able to rightly divide and 856 00:51:10,670 --> 00:51:13,470 and one of the greatest illustrations is the the 12 857 00:51:13,470 --> 00:51:15,910 spies that went into the promised land. 858 00:51:17,270 --> 00:51:19,150 And when they came out they gave a report. 859 00:51:20,830 --> 00:51:23,830 I can promise you they were not inspired by God to give that 860 00:51:23,830 --> 00:51:28,630 report but it was recorded exactly the way they said it and 861 00:51:28,630 --> 00:51:34,110 it said the people cried all night, said God called it evil. 862 00:51:35,070 --> 00:51:37,430 Why was it evil? Because it was contrary to his 863 00:51:37,430 --> 00:51:41,010 report. His report said go search out 864 00:51:41,010 --> 00:51:43,130 the land which I give. I've already given it to you. 865 00:51:43,570 --> 00:51:46,370 You can go check it out. And they came back and said 866 00:51:46,370 --> 00:51:48,650 we're not able to do it, man, they're giants there. 867 00:51:49,850 --> 00:51:52,530 Only two guys made it. My sons. 868 00:52:02,050 --> 00:52:05,530 Why do you think I named him Joshua and Caleb? 869 00:52:05,970 --> 00:52:08,130 You think that was by chance? It just sounded good. 870 00:52:10,090 --> 00:52:13,650 No? If names mean anything and they 871 00:52:13,650 --> 00:52:17,330 mean a lot, I'm giving them a head start. 872 00:52:22,410 --> 00:52:24,570 So you think about it. Those two guys made it. 873 00:52:24,570 --> 00:52:27,050 Why? Because they immediately said we 874 00:52:27,050 --> 00:52:29,610 are well able to go up and possess this land. 875 00:52:30,890 --> 00:52:35,820 Let us go up at once and possess it, for they are bred for us. 876 00:52:35,820 --> 00:52:42,900 And everybody said now majority rules and and you know what I 877 00:52:42,900 --> 00:52:50,340 just, I love them two guys and my sons too, because they had to 878 00:52:50,340 --> 00:52:54,380 take the punishment and live through the punishment of 40 879 00:52:54,380 --> 00:52:58,020 years. And they were both in their 40s 880 00:52:58,020 --> 00:53:01,380 when this whole deal started because Caleb came up to Joshua 881 00:53:01,380 --> 00:53:04,980 and said, I'm 85 and I'm as strong as a day that we went and 882 00:53:04,980 --> 00:53:08,660 searched out the land so God was able to preserve him. 883 00:53:09,580 --> 00:53:11,860 But they still had to put up with all that murmuring and 884 00:53:11,860 --> 00:53:17,540 complaining and continuing on. You know, I mean, if a triune 885 00:53:17,540 --> 00:53:20,820 would have had the vote, if God told him, he said step out of 886 00:53:20,820 --> 00:53:28,900 the way, I'm gonna smote him and I'm gonna start over. 887 00:53:29,540 --> 00:53:32,360 And he said, now I can't do it, Lord, you know, every time they 888 00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:36,320 messed up you, you look. And Moses is on his face, always 889 00:53:36,320 --> 00:53:38,480 on his face, interceding for them. 890 00:53:39,040 --> 00:53:40,360 Always. All right. 891 00:53:40,360 --> 00:53:43,680 So when we we talk about, we talk about the study, we have 892 00:53:43,680 --> 00:53:45,840 got to, we have got to take that perspective. 893 00:53:46,280 --> 00:53:49,320 Brothers, sisters, we've got to become more than casual readers. 894 00:53:50,520 --> 00:53:52,600 We have got to make up our mind. I don't care what your 895 00:53:52,760 --> 00:53:54,480 occupation is. I don't care that you're never 896 00:53:54,480 --> 00:53:56,920 going to be in the ministry. The only thing that matters, 897 00:53:56,920 --> 00:54:00,400 what did Jesus say? Heaven and earth will pass away, 898 00:54:01,310 --> 00:54:04,150 but my word will abide. It will be here forever. 899 00:54:05,030 --> 00:54:06,590 It'd be a good idea to get to know it. 900 00:54:06,590 --> 00:54:10,590 You believe that? All right, here we go, 835 Ooh, 901 00:54:11,510 --> 00:54:13,510 all right. Standard #2. 902 00:54:13,790 --> 00:54:15,830 I got 4 standards here, and we're not going to make it. 903 00:54:19,590 --> 00:54:21,230 And I still don't feel that annoying. 904 00:54:21,230 --> 00:54:26,790 So listen to this. Here's the second standard for 905 00:54:26,790 --> 00:54:31,510 the Kingdom of God. Faith is the only currency that 906 00:54:31,510 --> 00:54:35,230 is accepted when needing to bring something from the unseen 907 00:54:35,230 --> 00:54:40,750 realm to the scene realm. Your need will not bring it. 908 00:54:42,270 --> 00:54:48,430 You crying, you worrying, you being distraught, getting 909 00:54:48,430 --> 00:54:54,150 argumentative, being touchy, being freckful will not bring 910 00:54:55,390 --> 00:54:58,790 what you need. God's not moved by none of that. 911 00:54:59,980 --> 00:55:02,940 In fact, he's kind of probably surprised you're all up in that. 912 00:55:06,220 --> 00:55:07,740 But let me give you the Greek word. 913 00:55:08,300 --> 00:55:12,860 That's all right. The Greek word for faith is very 914 00:55:12,860 --> 00:55:15,500 well known. There's no misunderstanding. 915 00:55:15,500 --> 00:55:21,140 It is the word pistis, PISTIS. And here's the definition. 916 00:55:22,620 --> 00:55:26,920 It is a firm persuasion or a conviction, and if you did 917 00:55:26,960 --> 00:55:30,320 really, really deep into that, you'll find out that it 918 00:55:30,320 --> 00:55:33,640 basically deals with the subject of hearing. 919 00:55:35,760 --> 00:55:40,440 So basically you can say that faith is, is, is is related to 920 00:55:40,440 --> 00:55:46,040 the fact of something that you hear and something that you hear 921 00:55:46,040 --> 00:55:49,160 that you are firmly convinced and firmly persuaded. 922 00:55:49,320 --> 00:55:50,880 Another definition I love is this. 923 00:55:50,880 --> 00:55:54,480 Complete and total trust in God and His word. 924 00:55:55,990 --> 00:56:00,590 Complete and total. Not hope. 925 00:56:00,590 --> 00:56:03,990 So not. I really wish this would happen. 926 00:56:05,590 --> 00:56:09,590 You have got to understand that when God deals in faith, it is 927 00:56:09,590 --> 00:56:16,150 going to be based upon the fact that he never lies, right Mark 928 00:56:16,150 --> 00:56:21,310 11/24 put it up. Well let's start in 22. 929 00:56:21,430 --> 00:56:27,020 You know, you know the account the county is. 930 00:56:27,060 --> 00:56:36,900 Jesus is headed to a town and he's hungry and he sees a fig 931 00:56:36,900 --> 00:56:41,420 tree far off, has leaves on it, and he's thinking, I wonder if 932 00:56:41,420 --> 00:56:43,420 there's figs on that walks up to it. 933 00:56:44,500 --> 00:56:48,620 And I've often said if I was a fig tree and I saw my creator 934 00:56:49,420 --> 00:56:55,080 headed my direction, I'd be popping figs quickly. 935 00:56:56,240 --> 00:57:00,440 In fact, anybody ever seen The Wizard of Oz, the movie? 936 00:57:00,880 --> 00:57:03,600 And then trees take him apples and start throwing them out. 937 00:57:04,000 --> 00:57:05,400 I'd have been throwing them figs. 938 00:57:07,560 --> 00:57:10,120 Jesus comes up to the tree. Very curious word. 939 00:57:12,480 --> 00:57:15,800 He answered the tree and say it right. 940 00:57:15,800 --> 00:57:17,240 It's not in it, not on the board yet. 941 00:57:17,920 --> 00:57:20,720 All right, he said. Answered the tree and said, No 942 00:57:20,720 --> 00:57:22,880 man eat fruit of you here after forever. 943 00:57:23,760 --> 00:57:25,400 And he says and the disciples hurt it. 944 00:57:26,920 --> 00:57:30,720 So Jesus cursed this fig tree for not taking care of his 945 00:57:30,720 --> 00:57:34,280 needs. And I thought it was interesting 946 00:57:34,280 --> 00:57:36,160 he answered it. So it must have said something 947 00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:42,600 other than I ain't none here, because the the response that 948 00:57:42,720 --> 00:57:46,000 Jesus gave that tree was total annihilation. 949 00:57:46,920 --> 00:57:49,930 Next day they come through, they noticed the tree had been 950 00:57:49,930 --> 00:57:52,810 withered at the root. Verse 22. 951 00:57:53,730 --> 00:57:56,570 All right, well 21. Peter says muster. 952 00:57:56,810 --> 00:57:59,730 Look at the tree you cursed. Is that it's withered away from 953 00:57:59,730 --> 00:58:01,010 the root. Verse 22. 954 00:58:01,010 --> 00:58:05,810 Then Jesus said have faith in God, right? 955 00:58:05,810 --> 00:58:12,010 Well, better translation. And I, and I've confirmed this, 956 00:58:12,050 --> 00:58:18,020 it's true because the word God is is a possessive, is in its 957 00:58:18,020 --> 00:58:21,300 possessive form, and it means he owns it. 958 00:58:22,060 --> 00:58:24,420 And it says have the faith of God. 959 00:58:26,220 --> 00:58:30,620 So we need to understand God must have some faith, and it 960 00:58:30,620 --> 00:58:36,660 would be to our benefit again if we were able to find out what 961 00:58:36,660 --> 00:58:38,380 that faith is and begin to live in it. 962 00:58:39,260 --> 00:58:42,470 And he tells us what it is in the next verse, verse 23. 963 00:58:42,470 --> 00:58:45,590 For verily, I say unto you, that whoever else shall say to this 964 00:58:45,590 --> 00:58:48,230 mountain, be thou removed, be cast into the sea, and shall not 965 00:58:48,230 --> 00:58:51,150 doubt in his heart, but believe that those things which he says 966 00:58:51,150 --> 00:58:53,430 shall come to pass, he will have whatsoever he says. 967 00:58:54,390 --> 00:58:58,790 And then in verse 24 he says, verse that I love and I teach, 968 00:58:59,110 --> 00:59:04,190 and I used it to defeat cancer in my life. 969 00:59:04,190 --> 00:59:10,670 When the hospital introduced me to the end of life, counselor, 970 00:59:12,280 --> 00:59:15,320 and later admitted they knew that I was going to die. 971 00:59:16,960 --> 00:59:21,240 And I use this verse to get that cancer out. 972 00:59:21,960 --> 00:59:24,640 Because Jesus said this. He said, whosoever shall say to 973 00:59:24,640 --> 00:59:26,760 this mountain be thou removed and be cast in the sea. 974 00:59:26,920 --> 00:59:30,360 But notice the next phrase, pay attention to the next phrase, 975 00:59:30,800 --> 00:59:35,400 because he said and shall not doubt in his heart, but believe 976 00:59:35,400 --> 00:59:38,680 that the things he says shall come to pass. 977 00:59:38,800 --> 00:59:43,960 He'll have what he says. It didn't say, you know, believe 978 00:59:43,960 --> 00:59:48,560 in your heart that whatever God wants to do, he said use your 979 00:59:48,560 --> 00:59:51,920 mouth like God used his mouth to create all of eternity. 980 00:59:54,600 --> 00:59:57,080 So he said you've got to believe what you say. 981 00:59:57,080 --> 00:59:59,560 You know what the problem is? A lot of believers, they don't 982 00:59:59,560 --> 01:00:02,840 really believe what they say because they sometimes don't say 983 01:00:02,840 --> 01:00:06,160 the truth. I mean how you going to convince 984 01:00:06,160 --> 01:00:09,200 yourself when you're lying all the time or you're telling 985 01:00:09,200 --> 01:00:11,500 things that are false? Or you're talking about other 986 01:00:11,500 --> 01:00:14,180 people, things that are false. Yeah, it's going to be difficult 987 01:00:14,180 --> 01:00:17,620 for you to engage in this verse because it says you must believe 988 01:00:17,620 --> 01:00:19,540 the things that you say come to pass. 989 01:00:20,380 --> 01:00:22,620 Now notice what he said. Therefore I say unto you, what 990 01:00:22,620 --> 01:00:25,460 things so ever you desire. When you pray, believe that you 991 01:00:25,460 --> 01:00:26,980 receive them and you shall have them. 992 01:00:27,140 --> 01:00:30,220 I've never taught this verse without asking this question. 993 01:00:30,220 --> 01:00:32,500 Let me read it again, or I'll quote it. 994 01:00:34,020 --> 01:00:36,580 Therefore I say to you, what thinks soever you desire when 995 01:00:36,580 --> 01:00:38,900 you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have 996 01:00:38,900 --> 01:00:40,180 them. Here's the question. 997 01:00:40,300 --> 01:00:43,180 According to that verse, what did Jesus say you would have? 998 01:00:45,180 --> 01:00:48,620 Every time I ask that question, somebody answers what you 999 01:00:48,620 --> 01:00:51,180 desire. Well, looks like it. 1000 01:00:51,700 --> 01:00:54,460 What things soever you desire. Yeah, he said. 1001 01:00:54,860 --> 01:00:58,500 When you pray, when you whatever you pray for, he said. 1002 01:00:58,980 --> 01:01:02,860 Whatever you believe for anybody, can you get that out of 1003 01:01:02,860 --> 01:01:05,530 there? Let me give you what I have 1004 01:01:05,530 --> 01:01:07,970 quoted for years and it makes a difference between life and 1005 01:01:07,970 --> 01:01:11,610 death, he says in there. Therefore I say to you what 1006 01:01:11,610 --> 01:01:13,730 things so ever you desire. When you pray, believe you 1007 01:01:13,730 --> 01:01:15,210 receive them and you shall have them. 1008 01:01:15,410 --> 01:01:20,290 The only thing Jesus said in that verse that you will have is 1009 01:01:20,290 --> 01:01:22,570 what you believed you received at the time of asking. 1010 01:01:22,570 --> 01:01:31,370 A lot of people don't like that, but it's the truth. 1011 01:01:32,780 --> 01:01:35,540 It has saved my life because I didn't. 1012 01:01:35,540 --> 01:01:38,820 Here's the thing. I let pastor know you can have 1013 01:01:38,820 --> 01:01:41,260 all the prayer, prayer lines that you want to have, but I'm 1014 01:01:41,260 --> 01:01:42,980 not coming. I told him that. 1015 01:01:43,540 --> 01:01:46,260 I said I'm not coming, and the only time that I ever came to a 1016 01:01:46,260 --> 01:01:48,660 prayer line was he called me down and had a word for me. 1017 01:01:48,860 --> 01:01:50,300 And it was the next word I needed. 1018 01:01:51,100 --> 01:01:52,540 Every time. Every time. 1019 01:01:54,020 --> 01:01:55,220 But I wasn't coming down. Why? 1020 01:01:55,220 --> 01:01:56,660 Because I'd already made-up my mind. 1021 01:01:56,660 --> 01:01:58,620 I was healed. Even though the doctors tell me 1022 01:01:58,620 --> 01:02:02,690 you're dying, you look like you're dying. 1023 01:02:03,970 --> 01:02:08,290 You smell like you're dying. Everything about you says you're 1024 01:02:08,290 --> 01:02:11,890 dying. And when I got introduced to the 1025 01:02:11,890 --> 01:02:16,890 end of life, Counselor and Melanie's pushing me down the 1026 01:02:16,890 --> 01:02:20,410 hallway in a wheelchair and a body brace because the cancer 1027 01:02:20,410 --> 01:02:22,130 had eating up my spine and everything else. 1028 01:02:22,570 --> 01:02:24,170 She's bawling. She's crying. 1029 01:02:24,690 --> 01:02:26,570 I can't see her. I can't turn around and look at 1030 01:02:26,570 --> 01:02:28,770 her in the eye. I said what are you crying 1031 01:02:28,770 --> 01:02:30,800 about? And she said that was the worst 1032 01:02:30,800 --> 01:02:32,600 report that we had since we've been here. 1033 01:02:32,720 --> 01:02:35,280 I've been there, I've been in the hospital since August and 1034 01:02:35,280 --> 01:02:39,040 this was October. I and and I just finished chemo, 1035 01:02:39,520 --> 01:02:44,240 4 rounds of it back-to-back. And she said that was the worst 1036 01:02:44,240 --> 01:02:46,360 report. And I said, yeah, I know that 1037 01:02:46,360 --> 01:02:49,360 was bad, but I said but it this is how this is going to turn 1038 01:02:49,360 --> 01:02:54,960 out. Psalms 117, verse 18 says you 1039 01:02:54,960 --> 01:02:58,640 will not die, you will live and you will show the glory of God. 1040 01:02:59,770 --> 01:03:04,450 I said, honey, we keep coming back to every appointment until 1041 01:03:04,450 --> 01:03:06,250 their report lines up with my report. 1042 01:03:07,090 --> 01:03:09,850 End of it. They asked me did you ever 1043 01:03:09,850 --> 01:03:13,050 doubt? No, I did not doubt. 1044 01:03:13,410 --> 01:03:16,290 Why? Because James tells us in the 1045 01:03:16,290 --> 01:03:20,610 first chapter. He said if you doubt, you get to 1046 01:03:20,610 --> 01:03:24,570 start over. Man, I've been in this too long 1047 01:03:24,570 --> 01:03:26,570 hurting too bad to be starting over. 1048 01:03:29,540 --> 01:03:33,980 It's the truth on there. I, you know, I said no, I ain't 1049 01:03:33,980 --> 01:03:37,700 starting over. I said my report is what I'm 1050 01:03:37,700 --> 01:03:40,700 going on. And and and and was it was it? 1051 01:03:40,740 --> 01:03:44,180 It was it was a lot of pain. But I tell you what I asked 1052 01:03:44,180 --> 01:03:46,180 Melanie the other day. I said we didn't miss church. 1053 01:03:47,260 --> 01:03:49,620 I was in the back, right back there, in the very back. 1054 01:03:49,620 --> 01:03:52,820 I had my wheelchair tucked in there and they said, well, 1055 01:03:52,820 --> 01:03:54,540 couldn't you walk? Yeah, I could walk, but not real 1056 01:03:54,540 --> 01:03:57,100 fast. And when you got to go to the 1057 01:03:57,100 --> 01:04:01,000 bathroom, somebody decided to have a facility that had a 1058 01:04:01,000 --> 01:04:06,760 bathroom a mile down the hall. I wrote an article about it one 1059 01:04:06,760 --> 01:04:13,400 time, called It All Depends. I did because I was dependent 1060 01:04:15,400 --> 01:04:19,680 because then it just, man, I I go to Starbucks, the bell has 1061 01:04:19,720 --> 01:04:22,520 rung. I get, I get to Starbucks. 1062 01:04:22,680 --> 01:04:24,080 I get. I hit the handle. 1063 01:04:24,080 --> 01:04:27,630 It's locked. Wait yourself, just what 1064 01:04:27,630 --> 01:04:30,030 happens? Your mind just give up, you 1065 01:04:30,030 --> 01:04:31,910 know? But what is it? 1066 01:04:32,550 --> 01:04:35,670 Don't doubt. Jesus tells us right here the 1067 01:04:35,710 --> 01:04:40,670 only currency is the medium of exchange to get the unseen. 1068 01:04:40,790 --> 01:04:45,070 To come into the scene is faith. Total trust in God's word. 1069 01:04:45,070 --> 01:04:50,310 No doubt you can't doubt, right? So he he tells us in there that 1070 01:04:50,310 --> 01:04:53,190 the things that we desire when we pray, we've got to believe we 1071 01:04:53,190 --> 01:04:54,630 receive them. At the time of asking. 1072 01:04:55,060 --> 01:04:56,860 That's why I wasn't coming down to another prayer line, because 1073 01:04:56,860 --> 01:04:59,340 what was I telling the Lord? I didn't get it. 1074 01:05:03,860 --> 01:05:06,340 I didn't get it. Well, I'll tell you what, I got 1075 01:05:06,340 --> 01:05:10,180 it and I ain't letting go. I am not letting go. 1076 01:05:10,940 --> 01:05:15,660 And the fact that I'm and you know what, that was 2010, and 1077 01:05:15,660 --> 01:05:18,340 that year I was declared cancer free, they said we don't 1078 01:05:18,340 --> 01:05:21,460 understand it. We can't explain it, they said, 1079 01:05:21,460 --> 01:05:25,300 but there's not an there's not any cancer in your body. 1080 01:05:27,020 --> 01:05:29,900 And I and and he said chemotherapy doesn't do that. 1081 01:05:30,620 --> 01:05:34,020 I said, wish I'd have known that before the chemotherapy. 1082 01:05:35,180 --> 01:05:37,300 Wish you all have done a few more tests. 1083 01:05:39,420 --> 01:05:43,460 God's faithful, God's faithful. But faith is a standard. 1084 01:05:44,140 --> 01:05:46,580 Faith is a standard. It does not change. 1085 01:05:47,340 --> 01:05:49,300 His word does not change how much time we got left. 1086 01:05:50,380 --> 01:05:51,500 All right, I'm going to give you one more. 1087 01:05:53,860 --> 01:06:00,820 Number 30, Lord. All right, here we go. 1088 01:06:00,820 --> 01:06:03,420 Rapid fire. This is a this is a rapid ground 1089 01:06:03,420 --> 01:06:04,820 right here. OK. 1090 01:06:06,460 --> 01:06:11,780 Jesus himself gave us the standard for prayer. 1091 01:06:14,620 --> 01:06:16,220 You know, you have to ask you a question. 1092 01:06:17,580 --> 01:06:21,080 Jesus many times is recorded in the morning. 1093 01:06:21,200 --> 01:06:24,760 He'd get up early to go pray. You'd find him praying all 1094 01:06:24,760 --> 01:06:27,320 night, questioning what was he praying about? 1095 01:06:28,720 --> 01:06:30,800 I mean, Lord, we don't have rent money. 1096 01:06:32,320 --> 01:06:41,280 You know my donkey threw a shoe. I know Jesus was praying for. 1097 01:06:41,760 --> 01:06:45,040 He's praying for us and he's still praying for us. 1098 01:06:45,040 --> 01:06:47,720 Ever live it to make intercession for us? 1099 01:06:49,190 --> 01:06:52,990 Here's the standard Matthew chapter 69 through 13, and we're 1100 01:06:52,990 --> 01:06:54,950 going to wrap it up with it. And I'm just going to have to 1101 01:06:54,950 --> 01:06:56,470 beg. Pastor, let me keep going some 1102 01:06:56,470 --> 01:07:01,590 other time. Matthew 6, nine through 13, it's 1103 01:07:01,590 --> 01:07:04,110 very commonly called the Lord's Prayer. 1104 01:07:04,590 --> 01:07:10,070 Everybody familiar with it? OK, one of the things that I 1105 01:07:10,070 --> 01:07:14,270 need to let you know, the scholars agree that the Lord's 1106 01:07:14,270 --> 01:07:19,220 Prayer was not a prayer for us to memorize and say we've 1107 01:07:19,220 --> 01:07:24,500 prayed. It is a rabbinical outline. 1108 01:07:26,020 --> 01:07:30,660 So that means that God gave a skeleton that we need to flesh 1109 01:07:30,660 --> 01:07:36,100 out and Jesus taught that way. Many times a disciple said man, 1110 01:07:36,100 --> 01:07:38,380 we need a clue what you were talking about when he gave a 1111 01:07:38,380 --> 01:07:39,820 parable, he said, can you expound that? 1112 01:07:39,820 --> 01:07:42,700 He'd always expound it. He didn't want them in the dark. 1113 01:07:42,820 --> 01:07:45,940 He wanted them to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God 1114 01:07:46,100 --> 01:07:48,050 from the gospel. All right. 1115 01:07:48,490 --> 01:07:51,090 But this one here said after this manner, and we're going to 1116 01:07:51,090 --> 01:07:53,450 break this down as fast as I can after this manner. 1117 01:07:53,450 --> 01:07:55,810 Therefore, pray ye our Father, which are in heaven, how it be 1118 01:07:55,810 --> 01:07:58,530 thy name. All right, when we talk about 1119 01:07:58,530 --> 01:08:00,490 how it would be thy name, remember we went back and we 1120 01:08:00,490 --> 01:08:04,570 talked about a couple of those. The outline is this. 1121 01:08:04,570 --> 01:08:07,570 We just don't walk around saying how it'd be the name, how it'd 1122 01:08:07,570 --> 01:08:09,900 be the name. When you spend time with the 1123 01:08:09,900 --> 01:08:13,780 Lord, you want to remind him of his names. 1124 01:08:14,140 --> 01:08:17,779 Father, I thank you that you are Jehovah Jira. 1125 01:08:18,460 --> 01:08:21,220 I thank you that you are Jehovah Rafah. 1126 01:08:21,460 --> 01:08:24,220 I thank you that you are Jehovah Shalom, my peace. 1127 01:08:24,420 --> 01:08:28,859 Jehovah Niecy, my banner all through the Old Testament. 1128 01:08:28,859 --> 01:08:32,020 If you look up the word standard in the Old Testament, it's 1129 01:08:32,020 --> 01:08:36,950 always about a flag, he told them. 1130 01:08:36,950 --> 01:08:41,069 You will make a flag for each one of your tribes and post it 1131 01:08:41,390 --> 01:08:45,630 by your area so that you'll know where you're going. 1132 01:08:46,470 --> 01:08:51,790 Firstly, I'm sure, but it was a banner to let them know who they 1133 01:08:51,790 --> 01:08:53,990 belong to. Anybody seen the statue of Iwo 1134 01:08:54,029 --> 01:08:57,069 Jima? It's got the soldiers raising up 1135 01:08:57,069 --> 01:09:01,029 the American flag everywhere. The flag is is territory owned 1136 01:09:01,029 --> 01:09:04,720 by the United States. That's why they fly the flag 1137 01:09:04,720 --> 01:09:08,200 over embassies. Or the ambassador has control of 1138 01:09:08,200 --> 01:09:10,880 that flag. It's to let him know that 1139 01:09:10,880 --> 01:09:13,560 country owns it. It's the same thing. 1140 01:09:13,920 --> 01:09:17,560 The standard that we have. The Lord owns us. 1141 01:09:18,520 --> 01:09:23,359 OK, We let we are owned by Him. So we spend a few minutes in our 1142 01:09:23,359 --> 01:09:27,080 prayer life with him on the holiness of His name. 1143 01:09:27,439 --> 01:09:29,920 All right. The next one thy Kingdom come, 1144 01:09:29,920 --> 01:09:32,520 thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 1145 01:09:33,279 --> 01:09:36,479 Couple of areas You want to spend time talking to the Lord 1146 01:09:36,479 --> 01:09:39,160 about the Kingdom coming. Number one is you. 1147 01:09:41,279 --> 01:09:45,560 You want to spend time letting the Lord know you are totally 1148 01:09:45,560 --> 01:09:48,800 submitted to him. You want to check yourself every 1149 01:09:48,800 --> 01:09:52,000 day to the submission of the lordship of Christ. 1150 01:09:52,000 --> 01:09:55,800 Luke 646 Jesus has the disciples a question. 1151 01:09:56,440 --> 01:10:00,200 He's still asking it today. He said, Why do you call me 1152 01:10:00,200 --> 01:10:07,800 Lord, Lord and do not the things that I say whoa and he's a sick. 1153 01:10:08,720 --> 01:10:10,680 You have no right to call me Lord if you're not going to do 1154 01:10:10,680 --> 01:10:14,520 what I tell you to do. Because Lord is the word curios 1155 01:10:14,520 --> 01:10:19,480 in the Greek and it means owner. He's owner by the right of 1156 01:10:19,480 --> 01:10:21,600 creation. But once you confess Jesus as 1157 01:10:21,600 --> 01:10:25,840 Lord, as the only way of getting in the Kingdom, it's not going 1158 01:10:25,840 --> 01:10:29,360 down front like I did when I was a little kid and I was 10 years 1159 01:10:29,360 --> 01:10:30,680 old. And I went down front and they 1160 01:10:30,680 --> 01:10:34,560 said pray this prayer with me. You know, ask God to forgive you 1161 01:10:34,560 --> 01:10:38,920 of your sins, ask Jesus to come into your heart and you'll be 1162 01:10:38,920 --> 01:10:41,960 saved. Guess what I found out None of 1163 01:10:41,960 --> 01:10:46,080 that's in the Bible. I hate to shock you, but there's 1164 01:10:46,080 --> 01:10:48,640 no place in Scripture where it says come down and confess all 1165 01:10:48,640 --> 01:10:51,920 your sins. Some people would be still doing 1166 01:10:51,920 --> 01:10:55,760 it. And who can remember them all? 1167 01:10:58,320 --> 01:11:01,240 And then he, what does he say? He goes on and tell you. 1168 01:11:01,240 --> 01:11:04,200 He says, and and he said, And then they said they they said, 1169 01:11:04,240 --> 01:11:06,280 well, you know, ask Jesus to come in your heart. 1170 01:11:06,280 --> 01:11:09,040 There is no place that you ask Jesus to come in your heart. 1171 01:11:09,040 --> 01:11:11,880 It is not in the Bible. There's one thing that you're 1172 01:11:11,880 --> 01:11:16,520 supposed to say with your mouth, and that is you are my Lord. 1173 01:11:17,200 --> 01:11:18,800 Period. That's the only way into the 1174 01:11:18,800 --> 01:11:20,400 Kingdom. The only way. 1175 01:11:21,310 --> 01:11:23,510 So when we see that we want to pray over ourselves, you want to 1176 01:11:23,510 --> 01:11:26,070 spend time asking the Kingdom come will be done in your 1177 01:11:26,070 --> 01:11:29,190 family, in our church. How about our pastors? 1178 01:11:30,750 --> 01:11:35,870 How about our city, state and nation, the world, all of our 1179 01:11:35,870 --> 01:11:39,790 missionaries? Do we not want the the, the, the 1180 01:11:39,790 --> 01:11:41,870 Kingdom of God to be produced in their life? 1181 01:11:41,910 --> 01:11:44,710 Absolutely we do. That is the time during that 1182 01:11:44,710 --> 01:11:47,350 part of your prayer to do that. Third thing, give us this day, 1183 01:11:47,350 --> 01:11:51,140 Our Daily Bread 2 Two types. One's your spiritual bread. 1184 01:11:51,460 --> 01:11:54,500 Father, what word am I going to need today to get me through 1185 01:11:54,500 --> 01:11:57,260 whatever's going to be coming? Jesus said it. 1186 01:11:57,260 --> 01:12:00,620 John 1633. He tells you right there. 1187 01:12:00,620 --> 01:12:02,740 He said, you know you're going to have tribulation, 1188 01:12:03,980 --> 01:12:07,140 tribulations coming, they said, but be of good cheer. 1189 01:12:07,140 --> 01:12:11,740 I have overcome the world, but what scriptures are you going to 1190 01:12:11,740 --> 01:12:14,020 need? I heard somebody say one time. 1191 01:12:14,020 --> 01:12:18,900 He said we're like coffee mugs and when somebody bumps your 1192 01:12:18,900 --> 01:12:23,760 mug, you'll find out what's inside because it's coming all 1193 01:12:23,760 --> 01:12:28,520 out all over you. He said we need to make sure 1194 01:12:28,520 --> 01:12:32,080 what's on the inside when trouble hits is the word of God. 1195 01:12:32,080 --> 01:12:33,640 You want to be a person of great faith. 1196 01:12:34,000 --> 01:12:36,760 The Bible tells us how to do it. Speak the word only. 1197 01:12:37,920 --> 01:12:39,280 That's how you become a person of great faith. 1198 01:12:39,280 --> 01:12:42,040 When trouble hits or something goes on or something, you get a 1199 01:12:42,040 --> 01:12:43,800 bad report. What is the first thing out of 1200 01:12:43,800 --> 01:12:45,000 your mouth? I hope it's not. 1201 01:12:45,000 --> 01:12:48,520 Oh God, what are we going to do? You better find a word. 1202 01:12:48,910 --> 01:12:51,430 Get the word on it. All right, give us a day. 1203 01:12:51,430 --> 01:12:52,830 Spiritual bread, then natural bread. 1204 01:12:52,830 --> 01:12:54,950 Father, I think either you've met every need that we have. 1205 01:12:55,910 --> 01:12:58,990 Every bill is paid in full. We all know, man, anything. 1206 01:12:58,990 --> 01:13:02,230 But to love them you got to you got to speak like that. 1207 01:13:02,790 --> 01:13:05,710 All right, The next one he says. And forgive us of our debts is 1208 01:13:05,710 --> 01:13:07,910 we forgive our debtors. Here's the thing. 1209 01:13:08,030 --> 01:13:09,990 Always examine yourself, especially after a 1210 01:13:09,990 --> 01:13:13,190 confrontation. Are you going to rehearse 1211 01:13:13,190 --> 01:13:20,630 everything they said over and over and over and tell it sows a 1212 01:13:20,630 --> 01:13:24,350 little seed of bitterness? Can't afford that. 1213 01:13:25,590 --> 01:13:29,790 That'll give you cancer. I know from experience. 1214 01:13:32,390 --> 01:13:34,870 But he tells us in there, he said always examine yourself. 1215 01:13:36,990 --> 01:13:40,390 1st Corinthians 1131 is it's. I don't have it up on the board, 1216 01:13:40,390 --> 01:13:43,030 but it it said judge yourself that you be not judged. 1217 01:13:44,070 --> 01:13:47,230 You need to take a look at you. You need to make sure you're 1218 01:13:47,230 --> 01:13:49,150 straight. You need to make sure you got 1219 01:13:49,150 --> 01:13:53,590 the log out of your eye, right. I had a I had it one time. 1220 01:13:53,590 --> 01:13:59,990 I taught a lesson on check your eyes for railroad ties before 1221 01:13:59,990 --> 01:14:01,350 you want to clean somebody else up. 1222 01:14:01,390 --> 01:14:06,310 Make sure you're clean, OK? And then I put in there. 1223 01:14:06,350 --> 01:14:08,470 You need to live in a spirit of forgiveness. 1224 01:14:09,310 --> 01:14:12,910 That is just continual. Jesus did it, Father. 1225 01:14:12,910 --> 01:14:14,390 Forgive them. They know not what they're 1226 01:14:14,390 --> 01:14:17,610 doing. My gosh people, all right, 1227 01:14:19,410 --> 01:14:24,410 Matthew verse 6 and and and verse 13 said lead us not into 1228 01:14:24,410 --> 01:14:26,250 temptation but deliver us from evil. 1229 01:14:27,570 --> 01:14:30,010 All right. Jesus told the disciples the 1230 01:14:30,010 --> 01:14:33,570 night that he was betrayed. In Matthew chapter 26, verse 41 1231 01:14:33,570 --> 01:14:37,050 he said watch and pray that you enter not into temptation. 1232 01:14:38,770 --> 01:14:40,850 So it's apparent to me temptations coming. 1233 01:14:42,570 --> 01:14:45,810 But the way we keep from entering into that temptation is 1234 01:14:45,810 --> 01:14:50,290 by watching and praying. Does that make sense? 1235 01:14:51,050 --> 01:14:53,450 So we always need to be we need to be watching. 1236 01:14:53,450 --> 01:14:55,290 We need to be praying. We need to be listening. 1237 01:14:55,850 --> 01:14:58,370 All right. And I think it's interesting 1238 01:14:58,450 --> 01:15:01,370 that when he said that, lead us not into temptation but deliver 1239 01:15:01,370 --> 01:15:03,930 us from evil. And the Greek bears out the evil 1240 01:15:03,930 --> 01:15:08,210 one. But Psalms 91, every morning I 1241 01:15:08,210 --> 01:15:10,690 can hear Melanie. She has memorized the whole 1242 01:15:10,690 --> 01:15:12,570 thing. And then I'll get. 1243 01:15:12,570 --> 01:15:15,690 I'll pick up wherever I wake up and listen, all right. 1244 01:15:15,690 --> 01:15:18,850 She she quotes the whole thing over our family, over everybody 1245 01:15:18,850 --> 01:15:21,170 in this church. She prays over the mall and 1246 01:15:21,170 --> 01:15:23,690 nobody's going to be tripping and falling and hurting 1247 01:15:23,690 --> 01:15:25,170 themselves. And we're not having any 1248 01:15:25,170 --> 01:15:26,010 accidents. We're not. 1249 01:15:26,210 --> 01:15:31,490 She praised Psalms 91. I I believe that is a part of 1250 01:15:31,490 --> 01:15:34,730 our prayer. God loves to hear you remind him 1251 01:15:34,730 --> 01:15:38,170 of his word. That's why Jesus said you're 1252 01:15:38,170 --> 01:15:41,490 going to worship me in spirit and in truth. 1253 01:15:42,330 --> 01:15:46,310 And when we come to Father the war, he says, you worship me and 1254 01:15:46,310 --> 01:15:49,870 worship me in spirit, which for us now is the ability to pray in 1255 01:15:49,870 --> 01:15:52,510 that unknown tongue. But he said, and truth what he 1256 01:15:52,510 --> 01:15:53,990 say. Truth was His word. 1257 01:15:54,950 --> 01:15:58,910 So we need to be bringing our His word to him, and then to 1258 01:15:58,910 --> 01:16:04,150 wrap it up. Isaiah 5417 in the arena. 1259 01:16:04,150 --> 01:16:08,710 Protection is no weapon formed against us will prosper, he 1260 01:16:08,710 --> 01:16:10,390 said. Every tongue that is shall rise 1261 01:16:10,390 --> 01:16:12,470 against you in judgment. You will condemn. 1262 01:16:13,030 --> 01:16:16,430 This is the heritage of better translation is this is an 1263 01:16:16,430 --> 01:16:19,670 inheritance. Everybody loves an inheritance. 1264 01:16:21,510 --> 01:16:25,590 And he said this is the inheritance of the servants of 1265 01:16:25,590 --> 01:16:27,670 the Lord. And their righteousness is of 1266 01:16:27,670 --> 01:16:30,510 me, says the Lord, It's an inheritance. 1267 01:16:31,310 --> 01:16:35,830 So hopefully we have discovered tonight. 1268 01:16:36,870 --> 01:16:40,870 And Marcus, you can go ahead and come that we've discovered 1269 01:16:40,870 --> 01:16:48,310 tonight a little bit of what God expects out of us as Kingdom 1270 01:16:48,310 --> 01:16:52,710 citizens, that he has the standards they're written, and 1271 01:16:52,710 --> 01:16:55,550 we shouldn't have any problem whatsoever adhering to him, 1272 01:16:55,550 --> 01:16:57,950 because God would never require anything out of us that we 1273 01:16:57,950 --> 01:17:01,230 couldn't do. But he's letting us know. 1274 01:17:01,230 --> 01:17:03,510 Hey, listen, I need you to become a disciple. 1275 01:17:04,270 --> 01:17:07,010 I need you to become a student, he said. 1276 01:17:07,010 --> 01:17:10,530 I need you to be, you know, a person that is walks in faith. 1277 01:17:10,530 --> 01:17:13,570 You believe what I said and you're going to show the world 1278 01:17:13,730 --> 01:17:17,330 that God will move on your behalf by your faith. 1279 01:17:19,770 --> 01:17:21,850 So, Father, we thank you and praise you for your word. 1280 01:17:22,610 --> 01:17:26,170 We thank you said it divides forever and we will be abiding 1281 01:17:26,170 --> 01:17:28,250 with it. For you said we'll know the 1282 01:17:28,250 --> 01:17:29,730 truth. The truth will make us free. 1283 01:17:30,570 --> 01:17:33,370 And Father God, we want to be people of the truth. 1284 01:17:33,370 --> 01:17:37,750 We want to be Kingdom citizens encouraging people to come to 1285 01:17:37,750 --> 01:17:40,750 our country. We want to praise you for that. 1286 01:17:41,070 --> 01:17:45,990 You know, this this evening you may and I was, I was going to, 1287 01:17:46,030 --> 01:17:49,030 you know, give the normal, you know, invitation, you know, and 1288 01:17:49,030 --> 01:17:52,230 I think it's interesting we call it an invitation where we ask 1289 01:17:52,230 --> 01:17:54,550 people, hey, if you've never made Jesus Lord of your life. 1290 01:17:54,750 --> 01:17:57,470 But did you know Jesus did not make an invitation? 1291 01:17:57,950 --> 01:18:01,350 In fact, God says that he wants winked at the sin of man, but 1292 01:18:01,350 --> 01:18:04,230 now he gives everyone a commandment. 1293 01:18:05,100 --> 01:18:07,940 It's not an invitation, it's a commandment. 1294 01:18:08,540 --> 01:18:12,300 Make me Lord. Make him Lord. 1295 01:18:12,660 --> 01:18:14,780 If you've never done that, I encourage you come down the 1296 01:18:14,780 --> 01:18:16,380 front. We've got people that that want 1297 01:18:16,380 --> 01:18:19,820 to minister to you. But the question that I've got 1298 01:18:19,820 --> 01:18:24,420 for you is that you may need to re up your commitment in your 1299 01:18:24,420 --> 01:18:28,460 arena of discipleship. You might need to re up your 1300 01:18:28,460 --> 01:18:31,980 commitment in your prayer life, in your faith talk. 1301 01:18:34,770 --> 01:18:37,970 You may have been running your mouth lately on things that are 1302 01:18:37,970 --> 01:18:40,730 nonprofitable to you, your family. 1303 01:18:41,690 --> 01:18:45,250 You know people that you know that you you know running your 1304 01:18:45,250 --> 01:18:47,170 mouth to people that they don't understand. 1305 01:18:47,170 --> 01:18:49,890 You know why you're you. You say you're all this and 1306 01:18:49,970 --> 01:18:51,890 Jesus and you have a great church and all this stuff, but 1307 01:18:51,890 --> 01:18:54,650 yet you you talk like somebody defeated. 1308 01:18:55,370 --> 01:18:59,570 Change that tonight. Repent. 1309 01:19:00,330 --> 01:19:03,330 Change your thinking and change your actions. 1310 01:19:03,860 --> 01:19:06,300 Can you do that? I encourage you to do that. 1311 01:19:11,540 --> 01:19:13,660 Thank you so much for listening to this message. 1312 01:19:13,740 --> 01:19:17,100 If you want more, subscribe to our message podcast on iTunes, 1313 01:19:17,220 --> 01:19:19,260 Google Play, Spotify, and SoundCloud. 1314 01:19:19,460 --> 01:19:21,860 Rating and leaving a comment will go a long way with helping 1315 01:19:21,860 --> 01:19:23,580 our messages get better circulation. 1316 01:19:24,140 --> 01:19:26,380 If you'd enjoy watching our weekend messages, visit 1317 01:19:26,380 --> 01:19:30,460 youtube.com/anchor Faith. 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