1 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:21,680 Second, Peter, I just want to read that Simon Peter, a 2 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:25,320 bondservant, an apostle of Jesus Christ to those who have 3 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:31,440 received a faith of the same kind as ours, say the same kind 4 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:37,280 as ours, they received a faith at the same kind as theirs. 5 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:41,440 Come on. And it says here, this kind of 6 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:46,040 ours by the righteousness of God and our Savior Jesus Christ, 7 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:50,200 grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and 8 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:56,320 Jesus our Lord, seeing that His divine power has granted to us 9 00:00:56,360 --> 00:01:00,320 everything pertaining to life and godliness. 10 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:03,400 And I'm going to tell you, if you have not heard me break all 11 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:07,080 of this first part down, you need to go back on to the Eye 12 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:13,960 Podcast or whatever it is and listen to it. 13 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:17,360 They don't have it on video, but they do have it on recording. 14 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:21,600 You need to listen to it because it's going to stir you up. 15 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:25,320 Seeing that his divine power has granted to us everything 16 00:01:25,320 --> 00:01:27,880 pertaining to life and to godliness. 17 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:32,360 So the minute you got born again and you received faith, come on 18 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:36,680 from him, the same as the apostles, the same as everybody 19 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:39,360 in that book. Come on, is what saying you have 20 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:42,720 the same thing? And the minute you got born 21 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:46,880 again, that seed of faith was deposited on the inside of you. 22 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:53,720 Glory to God and now that faith in you, His divine, what His 23 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:59,800 divine power has granted to you by faith, everything that you 24 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:05,760 need as a believer to live a life in this earth with what 25 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:09,240 pertaining everything you need pertaining to life and 26 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:12,840 godliness. Everything, everything you need 27 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:15,440 in this life to live it out by faith. 28 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:20,000 God has already placed on the inside of you the seed that you 29 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:23,160 need. Hallelujah to be able to walk 30 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:24,640 through life. Haha. 31 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:28,440 Oh and walk in this divine power. 32 00:02:28,640 --> 00:02:30,960 And what did he say that divine power was? 33 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:35,400 Dunamis power, Dynamite power, power so that you could actually 34 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:43,800 live a dynamic spiritual life. Hallelujah, a dynamic spiritual 35 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:46,480 life. And he's already given it to us. 36 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:51,040 But not only a dynamic spiritual life, what else? 37 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:57,360 A godly life to walk in, the godliness that He actually wants 38 00:02:57,360 --> 00:02:59,240 us to walk in. Amen. 39 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:01,000 The holiness. And we're going to talk about 40 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,800 that tonight a little bit through the true knowledge of 41 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:07,920 Him who has called us by His own glory and excellence. 42 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:13,160 For these have been granted to us His precious and magnificent 43 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:18,280 promises, so that by them you may become partakers of His 44 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:22,480 divine nature. So not only did He put the seed 45 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:30,160 of faith in you, He put His nature in you, and it's divine. 46 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:35,480 You are a carrier of the divine nature of God. 47 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:39,760 Come on, how in the world can you be weighted down? 48 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:44,720 How in the world can you not walk in the freedom with this 49 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:54,480 power in your life, every day, every day glory to God. 50 00:03:55,840 --> 00:04:00,400 So we've been given this divine nature, having escaped the 51 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:08,360 corruption of this world by its lust, which could be a whole 52 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:12,600 nother teaching. Now, for this very reason also 53 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:16,000 applying all diligence in your faith. 54 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:20,560 And so we talked about this scripture here about applying 55 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:24,760 all diligence to your faith. You know, it's one thing to know 56 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:28,120 what faith is, it's another thing to know how faith comes. 57 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:33,000 But I'm telling you, there are some companions that brings a 58 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:34,920 supply. That's what it means, a 59 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:39,600 nourishment to your faith. And without these qualities and 60 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:44,440 without these ingredients and without these things operating 61 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:48,120 fully in your life, your faith is going to fail. 62 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:54,520 You can confess all day long, but if you do not have these 63 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:58,600 qualities, we said that adding to your faith or bringing a 64 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:02,360 supply, when you look it up to the in the Greek, it means to 65 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:06,440 bring nourishment or to minister to your faith. 66 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:12,080 And so people's faith is failing because they've not allowed 67 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:17,080 these ingredients to be brought to the fullness in their life 68 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:25,080 and developed in their life because all of these qualities, 69 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:29,640 all of these companions of faith, all of these ingredients 70 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:37,640 of faith have to be growing and increasing in your life. 71 00:05:38,960 --> 00:05:40,920 And we're going to see why in a minute. 72 00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:46,120 So anyway, he says, listen, it's time that we bring a supply to 73 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:48,840 our faith. We don't need to just confess 74 00:05:48,840 --> 00:05:51,040 it. We don't need to just hear it 75 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:54,160 because faith comes by hearing and hearing from the word of 76 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:57,360 God. And we don't need to just, you 77 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:01,760 know, know the hindrance of of faith, that love don't, you 78 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:04,800 know, faith isn't going to work outside of love. 79 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:11,920 And that's the one quality that I always hear taught by great 80 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:17,840 faith teachers, but I have not heard a lot of faith teachers 81 00:06:17,840 --> 00:06:22,240 teaching about these other qualities being added to their 82 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:26,400 faith because these faith qualities have to do with 83 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:31,880 character. These faith qualities have to do 84 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:39,080 with maturity. And so we hear all kinds of 85 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:41,280 faith teaching about your finances. 86 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:47,880 We hear all kinds of faith teaching about your healing, but 87 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:50,000 not a whole lot about your character. 88 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:57,640 So he's saying, listen, when you look that word up, supply in the 89 00:06:57,640 --> 00:07:01,720 Greek, he's saying we need to bring a supply of character to 90 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:07,320 our faith, to our faith. And what else does he say? 91 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:10,360 So he says supply, moral excellence. 92 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:12,080 And we've already went through that point. 93 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:16,560 What was moral excellent, Right living, right living. 94 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:20,320 And we could go on and on and on about that right living. 95 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:23,120 They say they have faith, but they're shaking up with 96 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:26,120 somebody. They say they have faith, but 97 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:28,560 they're gossiping and slandering somebody else. 98 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:30,480 They say they have faith. Come on. 99 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:38,520 But they're cheating their job. No integrity skating and and 100 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:41,200 cheating and doing little sly things. 101 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:46,200 OK, so moral excellence is right. 102 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:49,520 Living is righteousness. We've been given that 103 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:53,000 righteousness, but now we are to live it out morally. 104 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:56,560 And this is what this is talking about, moral excellence. 105 00:07:56,800 --> 00:07:59,040 And with moral excellence is knowledge. 106 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:03,040 What was knowledge? Knowledge and wisdom that comes 107 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:10,040 from him that is being applied to our life, meaning we must be 108 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:14,200 people that are in the word, renewing our mind and growing in 109 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:16,920 the word. And there is never a time that 110 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:21,640 we can back away from that because I'm going to tell you it 111 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:25,600 will keep us straight. It will keep us straight. 112 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:31,280 And so then he goes on to say self-control, which we stopped 113 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:35,600 on last week, which had to do with. 114 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:39,880 We'll get into it in a minute. Let me just finish reading this 115 00:08:39,880 --> 00:08:41,960 and then I'll remind you of what they are. 116 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:49,920 Self-control, perseverance, godliness, godliness, brotherly 117 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:52,760 kindness, brotherly kindness and love. 118 00:08:53,160 --> 00:08:56,360 And then he goes on to say this in context. 119 00:08:56,360 --> 00:09:02,400 For if these qualities are yours, not just yours, but are 120 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:06,800 what? Increasing, increasing, growing? 121 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:10,480 Come on. If they are growing, if they are 122 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:13,440 increasing, they render you neither. 123 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:17,880 If they are not good, if OK, sorry, qualities are yours and 124 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:23,120 are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful. 125 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:26,640 Right in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 126 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:31,120 For he who lacks these qualities, What qualities? 127 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:33,880 The list of the seven qualities he just spoke about. 128 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:42,680 He who lacks them is what? Blind and short sighted and 129 00:09:42,680 --> 00:09:47,840 having forgotten his purification from his former 130 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:51,120 sins. Therefore, brethren, be more 131 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:56,760 diligent to make certain about his calling and choosing you for 132 00:09:56,760 --> 00:09:59,040 as long as you practice these things. 133 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:02,400 What things, those qualities, those seven things, you practice 134 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:04,920 them. You live them out every day of 135 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:08,560 your life and growing and maturing and, and, and putting 136 00:10:08,560 --> 00:10:12,400 them as the forefront of your walk with Christ. 137 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:15,480 Christ, what does it say? You will never stumble, You'll 138 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:18,960 never error, you'll never fall, you'll never slip. 139 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:21,920 You'll never make a mistake. That's what that means. 140 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:26,960 You'll never stumble. You'll never stumble. 141 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:33,640 For in this way, the entrance into eternal the eternal Kingdom 142 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:38,600 of the Lord Jesus Christ will be abundantly supplied to you. 143 00:10:39,560 --> 00:10:43,920 So these qualities let me read this one scripture out of the 144 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:48,600 amplified verse 10 of that. Therefore, believers be all the 145 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:51,840 more diligent to make certain about his calling and his 146 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:54,400 choosing you did he choose any of you in here. 147 00:10:59,560 --> 00:11:02,680 Be sure this is what the amplified says, that your 148 00:11:02,680 --> 00:11:11,800 behavior reflects and confirms your relationship with God. 149 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:15,520 So many people walk around, yeah, I have a relationship with 150 00:11:15,520 --> 00:11:17,840 the Lord, Yeah, yeah, I'm born again. 151 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:23,240 But I don't see that in their behavior and in these list of 152 00:11:23,240 --> 00:11:29,680 qualities, actually. And he's saying that this is 153 00:11:29,680 --> 00:11:34,960 also proof that you actually are a child of God and that you 154 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:39,920 actually are a believer and that you actually are operating in 155 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:42,560 faith. Amen. 156 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:46,920 That's what it says, is it not? What it says. 157 00:11:47,280 --> 00:11:52,320 It confirms your relationship with God, for by doing these 158 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:57,720 things, actively developing these virtues, you will never 159 00:11:57,720 --> 00:12:05,240 stumble in your spiritual growth and will live a life that leads 160 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:12,120 others away from sin. Are you allowing as a believer 161 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:17,200 others to lead you to sin? Are you actually a believer that 162 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:22,360 has allowed these qualities to be so entrenched within you that 163 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:26,720 when people see you, it is pulling them away from sin? 164 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:32,320 We ought to be ashamed of ourselves that call ourselves 165 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:36,720 believers, and yet we're allowing ourselves to let others 166 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:41,040 that are sinners lead us into the place that we once were. 167 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:45,880 When he says a person that's been adding these qualities to 168 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:50,360 their life, it will lead others away from sin because you're 169 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:57,520 actually proving your faith. Because we said faith is 170 00:12:57,520 --> 00:13:00,800 tangible. It should be seen in your life. 171 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:04,000 Amen. It should be seen in your life, 172 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:09,800 and it will be seen if we're diligent about adding these 173 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:14,080 qualities to our faith, making sure that these things are 174 00:13:14,080 --> 00:13:18,320 developing in our life. Not just coming to church, 175 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:23,200 singing a praise song and going out and doing whatever you want 176 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:25,760 to do, living however you want to live. 177 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:30,840 Come on saying whatever you want to say. 178 00:13:33,160 --> 00:13:37,520 Hallelujah. He's given us everything we need 179 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:42,920 and he expects these things to be operating in our life, 180 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:50,320 operating in our life. So you know, so we started on 181 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:55,560 this journey talking about these seven ingredients, moral 182 00:13:55,560 --> 00:13:58,880 excellence, knowledge, self-control, perseverance, 183 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:02,520 godliness. What was moral excellence? 184 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:08,080 I want to remind you, aligning your thoughts, your feelings, 185 00:14:08,280 --> 00:14:13,280 and your actions with the righteousness of God. 186 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:17,920 So it goes beyond you just praying a little prayer that 187 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:21,520 when you know that Jesus died on the cross and you asked him to 188 00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:24,200 come into your heart, and one day you get to go to heaven and 189 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:27,960 you're good to go. No, He expects everything about 190 00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:31,400 us, right? What we say, spirit, soul and 191 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:33,360 body. And when you break that moral 192 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:37,120 excellence down in the Greek, you can see he breaks it out 193 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:42,880 into all three areas, spirit, soul, and body. 194 00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:46,480 First Thessalonians 523. He wants us to remain what? 195 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:52,040 Blameless in all of these areas for the coming of the Lord. 196 00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:55,800 So we are to align when we're walking in moral excellence. 197 00:14:55,800 --> 00:15:00,800 That means we are aligning everything about who we are with 198 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:04,480 the way He thinks and what is right and what He calls right 199 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:07,280 and what He calls good. Come on, we do not. 200 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:12,320 We are not supposed to be calling what is evil good. 201 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:18,600 Don't care who you are, and I'm going to say it as a Christian, 202 00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:26,360 I do not know how in the world that you can approve of abortion 203 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:39,320 because he calls it evil. How can you call yourself in 204 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:45,680 alignment with Scripture as as a believer and in righteousness 205 00:15:45,880 --> 00:15:50,480 when you think it's OK to murder life? 206 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:55,520 It's not See this. So this is what we're saying in 207 00:15:55,520 --> 00:15:58,680 all of our thinking and all of everything. 208 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:03,440 We're aligning to what the Scripture says, right? 209 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:10,440 How as you as a Christian can say that a male is a female if 210 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:15,320 they want to be? It goes against righteousness. 211 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:20,360 It goes against scripture. Amen. 212 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:22,840 And this is what we're talking about. 213 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:32,480 But I know tons of Christians love is love and have put them 214 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:35,920 in the pulpits. Now come on. 215 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:43,680 No, I choose to align my thoughts, my thinking. 216 00:16:44,080 --> 00:16:49,960 I choose to align my actions, my behavior, and the way I operate 217 00:16:49,960 --> 00:16:56,320 in life with Scripture. With Scripture, period. 218 00:16:56,720 --> 00:16:59,840 Choosing His way of doing things instead of ours. 219 00:16:59,840 --> 00:17:02,800 This is what's called practicing righteousness. 220 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:06,520 We've been made righteous, but we have to practice it. 221 00:17:07,040 --> 00:17:09,720 We have to live it out. And you know what he calls that 222 00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:12,359 fruits of righteousness? Right living. 223 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:15,000 That's simply what it is, right living. 224 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:18,680 OK, then we talked about knowledge, moral wisdom, 225 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:24,480 application of God's word, such as seeing in right living 226 00:17:24,599 --> 00:17:28,000 righteousness, right? So we're going to understand, 227 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:29,800 we're going to have wisdom and we're going to have the 228 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:32,920 knowledge of His Word so that we can actually walk this 229 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:38,480 righteousness out because we know right from wrong, good from 230 00:17:38,480 --> 00:17:45,240 evil, right Hallelujah. So as a believer, you need the 231 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:48,760 bread of life every day. You need the word every day. 232 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:51,000 And I'm going to tell you, you're going to need the word 233 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:54,360 more and more every day as we see the day drawing more and 234 00:17:54,360 --> 00:17:59,000 more near because of the full blown deception that's going to 235 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:03,760 be rampant in our world at the coming of the Lord. 236 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:10,040 Many, many he says, will be deceived and fall away from the 237 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:12,160 faith. But we're talking about reigning 238 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:15,160 faith so that we don't have to be in that category. 239 00:18:17,120 --> 00:18:18,960 I don't want to be in that category. 240 00:18:20,840 --> 00:18:24,000 And if I don't keep my mind right and in alignment with the 241 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:28,920 word, come on, it's easy. I don't care how long you been 242 00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:36,200 living it, it's easy to want to pick up a thought and say it 243 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:41,480 ain't worth it. Even for somebody that's lived 244 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:44,680 it for 36 years and seen the goodness of the Lord and the 245 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:51,200 land of the living #3 self-control. 246 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:52,840 We already. This is where we finish 247 00:18:52,840 --> 00:18:57,400 self-control or one translation. Or we can say temperance, which 248 00:18:57,400 --> 00:19:03,240 means it is the virtue of one who has mastered his own 249 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:10,920 desires, his own passions, basically your own will, right? 250 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:19,760 And sensual appetites, your flesh and what your flesh wants 251 00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:23,720 to do and how your flesh wants to respond in a situation or a 252 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:27,680 circumstance or whatever the case may be, or in any of your 253 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:32,600 dealings, right? Because you want the best 254 00:19:32,640 --> 00:19:35,400 outcome. That's a sensual appetite. 255 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:38,880 That is a desire that you want for your situation. 256 00:19:39,120 --> 00:19:41,440 Come on. But you have to learn how to 257 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:44,800 master it. These passions, these desires, 258 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:48,920 your own will, these appetites that you may have. 259 00:19:49,120 --> 00:19:55,320 And if we can't reign and have dominion over our own bodies, 260 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:02,280 how in the world do we think we're going to be able to, you 261 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:05,200 know, have great faith and walk around? 262 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:12,360 We could pretend all day long. We can pretend all day long, but 263 00:20:12,360 --> 00:20:14,520 I choose. I'm not going to be a pretender. 264 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:18,920 I'm actually going to have self-control and temperance. 265 00:20:19,120 --> 00:20:21,600 That means when I want to say something, I'm going to keep my 266 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:26,640 mouth shut. When I want to retaliate, I'm 267 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:31,720 not going to right that that means all kinds of things. 268 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:40,440 OK, when I want to go do whatever I want to do, but yet 269 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:43,760 there's a calling of God saying, but I need you to do this. 270 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:52,560 So we have to learn how to master our own self. 271 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:58,080 And do you know what we said? It doesn't have to be by our own 272 00:20:58,080 --> 00:21:01,920 willpower. This is not willpower because 273 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:07,800 many people can do it by willpower or religious religious 274 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:11,120 exercises. No, he doesn't ask us to do it 275 00:21:11,120 --> 00:21:13,840 by willpower. He actually lets us know. 276 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:18,400 I've given you divine power. I've given you grace. 277 00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:21,200 I've empowered you. Come on. 278 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:24,600 To be able to be self controlled, to be able to be 279 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:28,960 temperate, to be able to be disciplined in the things. 280 00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:35,240 I am no longer a slave to the passions and the desires of the 281 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:37,440 flesh. I am not obligated. 282 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:41,720 Romans is where we land ended last week. 283 00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:44,640 Romans. I encourage you all to read 284 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:51,760 Romans chapter. What was that 8 where we ended 285 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:55,600 and talking about the yeah, Romans chapter 8. 286 00:21:55,960 --> 00:21:59,240 I encourage you go read it. He lets you know you're no 287 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:04,360 longer obligated to the appetites of this flesh, to the 288 00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:08,560 desires of this flesh, to those things that this flesh wants. 289 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:12,360 You're no longer a slave to it when you're born again. 290 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:15,320 But you know what you're supposed to be a slave to? 291 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:20,840 Scripture says a slave to righteousness, a slave to 292 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:26,640 righteousness, right, Living, moral excellence, that's what 293 00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:31,200 we're to be a slave to. So I'm sorry if I actually live 294 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:42,000 right because I'm a slave to it. I can't do anything else but 295 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,640 live right because I'm a slave to it. 296 00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:49,800 I'm obligated to it. Hallelujah. 297 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:52,480 So the next point is where we want to start today, 298 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:56,280 Perseverance. Because I'm telling you, without 299 00:22:56,480 --> 00:23:02,080 perseverance being added to your faith, you will quit on God. 300 00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:06,680 You'll abandoned your faith in the midst of the battle. 301 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:11,240 You'll back away. You'll shrink back if these 302 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:16,840 things have not been allowed to fully mature and develop within 303 00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:20,080 you. And This is why we see many fall 304 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:22,640 away. I'm going to tell you it's not 305 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:25,600 really because of this great deception. 306 00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:29,680 It's actually because they've not built these qualities to 307 00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:34,920 their faith to keep them grounded in the midst of things 308 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:38,640 that they are to persevere through while we're walking in 309 00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:41,360 this world. Listen, James said that you're 310 00:23:41,360 --> 00:23:45,000 going to have trials, you're going to have tribulations, 311 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:48,040 you're going to have all these things in the world world 312 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:51,200 because it's still falling. But what does he say? 313 00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:54,480 Be of good cheer. But I'm going to tell you, so 314 00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:58,880 many people fall away from God or think that God couldn't or 315 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:06,040 they didn't have enough faith to when all it was is they did not 316 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:10,720 continue to allow these qualities to be developed within 317 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:13,240 them. Because when we'll see, it means 318 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:20,400 to be fully matured. And so many people bail when 319 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:24,160 they have, especially the generation that we're living in 320 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:30,440 today have no perseverance, can't even persevere through the 321 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:35,240 rain to get to church. No perseverance. 322 00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:37,680 We're finding this in the workplace. 323 00:24:38,120 --> 00:24:41,240 They have to have a mental health day because they can't 324 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:44,640 even function one day with something going on in their 325 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:51,280 life. Seriously, right? 326 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:57,400 And So what these these qualities of perseverance or 327 00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:00,280 another word is called endurance. 328 00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:03,720 Because remember, we're going to read the scripture where it says 329 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:12,920 those who endure until the end. And if you have not allowed 330 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:18,480 perseverance and divert and endurance to develop in your 331 00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:24,800 life, then your faith is going to fail because it's not had a 332 00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:30,080 supply of endurance added to it. It's not had a supply of 333 00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:33,520 perseverance added to it. That means when you feel like 334 00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:38,320 quit and you don't quit, you get up, come on, you get up and you 335 00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:45,400 do it again because everything in you wants you to quit. 336 00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:49,200 This is what we're talking about with perseverance. 337 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:53,880 All hell is breaking loose in your life and instead of 338 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:58,120 learning how to persevere through it with God and His 339 00:25:58,120 --> 00:26:03,480 divine grace and His empowering, come on, you want to back up and 340 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:05,920 you don't want to go through the vulnerability. 341 00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:07,840 You don't want to go through the stripping. 342 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:10,240 You don't want to go through the testing. 343 00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:14,880 You don't want to go through it, so you back up and you don't 344 00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:18,880 endure. And so endurance is not 345 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:22,120 developed and matured within you. 346 00:26:22,360 --> 00:26:24,720 And I'm going to tell you, this is where a lot of people are 347 00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:29,840 bailing and quitting on God. Oh, I've been serving him for so 348 00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:32,480 long. Well, why are you in the same 349 00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:36,440 condition? Something has not been allowed 350 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:46,520 to have It's perfect work in you that when everything around you 351 00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:51,560 is telling you to quit, to give up, it's not worth it. 352 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:55,440 I hate this life. I hate this Christians. 353 00:26:55,960 --> 00:27:01,280 They've been given the Kingdom of God and his inheritance. 354 00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:05,600 And they talk like that, think their life is miserable. 355 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:10,800 Come on. And it's because they've not 356 00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:16,000 allowed God to develop these things in their walk, because it 357 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:19,760 takes work. You don't have to work it by 358 00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:23,880 yourself, I'm telling you. And those who are trying to work 359 00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:34,200 it by themselves are miserable. But it's the grace of God heaped 360 00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:42,160 upon grace, grace heaped upon grace, and His grace is 361 00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:44,440 sufficient. What does it mean? 362 00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:51,200 It is more than enough for you to walk in reigning faith. 363 00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:57,320 Come on, for you to walk in overcoming whatever it is going 364 00:27:57,320 --> 00:27:59,880 on in your situation, in your circumstance. 365 00:27:59,880 --> 00:28:02,160 So perseverance means steadfastness. 366 00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:06,920 That means you keep moving forward when everything is 367 00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:08,920 telling you don't take another step. 368 00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:13,240 You're steadfast. No, I'm looking straight ahead. 369 00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:17,960 That's why he says fix your eyes on the prize, keep being 370 00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:23,120 steadfast, keep moving forward. Come on, persevere in the midst 371 00:28:23,120 --> 00:28:24,440 of it. You know what else it means? 372 00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:27,320 Consistency. Are you a person that is 373 00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:31,480 inconsistent in your walk with the Lord for a few months, 374 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:34,200 you're in the church and then you're you don't, we don't see 375 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:38,080 you for a few months and then you decide you're inconsistent. 376 00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:44,320 God is not inconsistent. So that means you are not 377 00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:52,200 walking in, you are not walking in His divine nature, because 378 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:57,600 His divine nature perseveres. His divine nature is steadfast. 379 00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:01,520 His divine nature is consistent in all things. 380 00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:08,840 His divine nature is faithful. Even when you feel like we are 381 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:18,040 faithless, you stay steady, you stay consistent. 382 00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:22,280 I can tell you people that know me, I, I want that to be a 383 00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:27,040 testimony of my life that through 36 years of her saying 384 00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:29,640 she's lived for the Lord. The one thing I can tell you is 385 00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:38,280 she was consistent, not backing up. 386 00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:43,200 I'm moving forward, persevering. I'm going to go through it. 387 00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:45,400 Come on, I'm going to be steadfast. 388 00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:48,320 I'm going to be consistent. And do you know what that means? 389 00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:52,480 You have to be patient in your endurance. 390 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:56,120 Patient endurance is what it also means. 391 00:29:56,920 --> 00:30:00,640 You're going to have to be patient in the midst when you 392 00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:04,440 want everything done and over with. 393 00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:09,680 You just want it to be fixed. You just want it to be over. 394 00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:12,760 You just want it to be done. Come on. 395 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:20,440 But that's where what patience is required, patient endurance. 396 00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:24,960 And these are the ones that are going to have reigning faith in 397 00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:28,120 the day where he says many are going to fall away. 398 00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:33,840 Many are not going to endure till the end because they've not 399 00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:37,520 stayed consistent. They've not learned to 400 00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:41,840 persevere. It is the characteristic, listen 401 00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:46,080 to what it says, to mean to persevere, to be steadfast, to 402 00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:49,320 be consistent, and to have patient endurance. 403 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:58,240 It is the characteristic of a man who is not swerved from his 404 00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:05,800 deliberate purpose and his loyalty to faith by even the 405 00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:13,400 greatest trials or sufferings. That is what it means to be a 406 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:19,000 person of perseverance, that in the midst of your greatest 407 00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:24,080 trials, come on, you are going to be deliberate about the 408 00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:29,360 purpose that God has for you and about your loyalty to faith. 409 00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:36,320 We're going to have to have these qualities developed in our 410 00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:38,400 life if we're going to stay true to God. 411 00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:46,400 We're going to have to have it. Look what Romans 51 and five 412 00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:49,280 says it says. Therefore, since we have been 413 00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:52,480 justified, that is, acquitted of our sin, declared blameless 414 00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:57,120 before God by faith, let us grasp the fact that we have 415 00:31:57,120 --> 00:32:00,800 peace with God and joy of reconciliation with Him. 416 00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:04,640 You know, again, I've been ministering to you, some of you 417 00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:08,880 guys, for years and I've always wanted to just have a sweet 418 00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:13,480 little voice as I minister, but I get so pumped up and full of 419 00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:16,680 the anointing that it comes out like this. 420 00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:24,320 I've tried to restrain myself. I'm serious. 421 00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:26,800 I'm like, can't I just read it nicely? 422 00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:40,440 But I'm consistent. I'm a lover of the Word. 423 00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:43,360 I'm a lover of the Spirit of God. 424 00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:46,600 I'm passionate because I want you to be passionate. 425 00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:48,680 I want you to be a lover of the Word. 426 00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:50,960 I want you to be a lover of righteousness. 427 00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:53,560 Come on. I want you to be able to reign 428 00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:58,080 in faith and I want you to be able to endure till the end and 429 00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:01,400 not be 1. I don't want not one of anchor, 430 00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:07,320 faith, peace, not enduring till the end and backing away and 431 00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:13,000 shrinking back. Hallelujah. 432 00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:17,240 I just want to look pretty when I preach and nice. 433 00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:24,160 The anointing just don't flow like that. 434 00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:27,640 I'm telling you, the anointing is not pretty and nice. 435 00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:36,840 It's, it's fire, all right. Through Him we also have access 436 00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:43,080 by faith into His remarkable state of grace in which we 437 00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:46,920 firmly and safely and securely stand. 438 00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:51,320 Let us rejoice in our hope and the confident assurance of 439 00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:55,960 experiencing and enjoying the glory of our great God, the 440 00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:59,680 manifestation of His excellence and power. 441 00:33:59,960 --> 00:34:05,600 And not only this, but with joy let us exalt in our sufferings 442 00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:13,639 and rejoice in our hardships, knowing that hardship distress, 443 00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:23,760 pressure, the weight, pressure the weight, come on, trouble, 444 00:34:24,159 --> 00:34:30,480 what does it do? It produces patient endurance, 445 00:34:30,679 --> 00:34:34,440 but people that will not persevere with God and will not 446 00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:38,080 go through what he's trying to teach them in the midst of the 447 00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:42,280 trouble, the pressure, the weight, the circumstance, the 448 00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:45,159 trial, they just want to act like it's not there. 449 00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:47,679 They want to go on. They're not real with God. 450 00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:49,679 Come on. They're not opened up and saying 451 00:34:49,679 --> 00:34:51,639 God, what is going on? What can we? 452 00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:57,080 What do I need to come on? Give me the word that I need so 453 00:34:57,080 --> 00:34:59,520 that I'll be able to walk through this and be able to 454 00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:02,800 persevere and endure. And so that I won't abandoned my 455 00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:06,920 faith, that I won't quit, that I won't back down, but that I will 456 00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:10,720 stay focused on the purpose and the calling and the things that 457 00:35:10,720 --> 00:35:14,680 you have for my life, right? The family that you said I could 458 00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:20,560 have come on, the healing that you said I could have persevere 459 00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:26,680 to, knowing that the word says by his stripes you were healed. 460 00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:29,280 Come on. So I'm going to walk in divine 461 00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:31,480 healing. I'm going to walk in divine 462 00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:34,200 health. I'm going to walk in a full 463 00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:38,040 supply of having more than enough for every good work that 464 00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:45,840 he wants me to put my hand to. Come on, whatever it may be, I'm 465 00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:51,720 going to walk through it and persevere so that endurance can 466 00:35:51,720 --> 00:35:55,960 What does it do? Prove character. 467 00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:01,880 Prove your character in the midst of the battle. 468 00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:05,800 Prove who you really are in the midst of the battle. 469 00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:11,000 Prove your character. Prove your integrity to God. 470 00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:18,640 Because anybody can whine and cry and not allow God to do what 471 00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:22,600 he wants to do or whatever the situation, or say, why me, 472 00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:25,440 What's going on? What have I done? 473 00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:32,760 But instead of saying, Lord, search my heart, come on, search 474 00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:35,560 my heart. If there's anything in me that I 475 00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:38,640 need to adjust, that I need to change that I need to grow in 476 00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:42,440 show me so that when I'm walking through this, come on, some 477 00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:45,160 things are being developed within me because I don't want 478 00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:47,600 to go through a trial. I don't want to go through a 479 00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:49,440 battle. I don't want to go through the 480 00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:51,680 pain. I don't want to go through that 481 00:36:51,680 --> 00:37:01,160 for no purpose. But I want him to prove my 482 00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:02,640 character. What does it mean? 483 00:37:02,720 --> 00:37:06,840 Spiritual maturity? We're talking about a reigning 484 00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:10,200 church. We're talking about reigning 485 00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:15,240 faith, and there's some things that God needs to develop within 486 00:37:15,240 --> 00:37:19,160 our life and add to our faith. Come on, if we're going to 487 00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:23,600 actually mature spiritually and have proven character and the 488 00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:27,880 way it gets proven is I persevere and I endure through 489 00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:30,360 it all. And I don't quit on God. 490 00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:35,320 I don't bail on what He said, but I'll stay true and faithful 491 00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:39,840 to Him because He is faithful to me. 492 00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:44,240 Hallelujah, glory to God. So a reigning faith. 493 00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:47,760 This is a good quote and you should write it down and share 494 00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:51,240 it. Reigning faith does not abandon 495 00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:58,160 the hard places. There are hard places that you 496 00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:00,080 are going to walk through. I don't care. 497 00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:04,680 God did not guarantee us that we would not have things that we 498 00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:07,640 had to walk through while we're still in this earth. 499 00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:13,600 But He did promise that He gave us everything we need that 500 00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:19,120 pertains to life and godliness and a full supply of His power 501 00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:25,240 and His grace and His ability to walk through it and overcome it 502 00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:31,240 and not slip, not fail, not stumble. 503 00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:38,400 Come on, not make a mistake. I'm not I'm not saying that 504 00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:43,000 we're perfect and we're never going to make mistakes because 505 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:47,600 you know why? All of these qualities should be 506 00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:53,680 continuing. Growth should be constant. 507 00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:59,520 And every year I look in the word, which is the mirror of my 508 00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:02,360 life, I realize there's more things. 509 00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:12,600 There's more things to grow in, to develop in, to deal with, but 510 00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:17,040 when you think you've arrived and you are not teachable any 511 00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:26,120 longer, come on, you're at risk. So reigning faith will not 512 00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:30,920 abandon the hard places or the difficult seasons of life or the 513 00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:37,920 challenges that come. A reigning faith is always 514 00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:43,960 faithful, always steadfast, always persevering and moving 515 00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:47,840 forward, always consistent. Amen. 516 00:39:48,720 --> 00:39:54,520 In the midst of the things that we are going through. 517 00:39:55,000 --> 00:40:00,000 So it is meaning this, this perseverance and this 518 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:03,640 steadfastness, this consistency is the quality of being 519 00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:13,040 resolute. Firm and unwavering, immovable. 520 00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:19,720 I'm not moving off my position. I'm not getting off the seat 521 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:29,360 that I've been put in, which is seated in heavenly places in 522 00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:33,960 Christ Jesus. I refuse to get up off my seat. 523 00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:41,040 No, I'm going to have authority. I'm going to walk in it. 524 00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:44,720 I'm going to reign in my faith. I'm going to choose to be 525 00:40:44,720 --> 00:40:47,440 resolute. I'm going to choose to be firm. 526 00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:49,640 I'm going to choose to be unwavering. 527 00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:55,440 Amen. That's what being persevering 528 00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:58,760 and consistent means. Hallelujah. 529 00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:01,680 Do you have time for the last one or do we want to go to next 530 00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:06,640 Wednesday? Hallelujah, glory to God. 531 00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:11,200 Let's read what first Peter chapter 5 and verse six through 532 00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:14,040 10 has to say this. Let's just read this scripture 533 00:41:14,040 --> 00:41:17,080 about endurance. It says, therefore humble 534 00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:19,320 yourselves under the mighty hand of God. 535 00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:27,680 Set aside yourself righteous pride so that He may exalt you 536 00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:31,760 to a place of honor in His service and at the appropriate 537 00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:33,440 time. What does he say? 538 00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:36,720 Cast all your cares. And that what we talked about, 539 00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:38,760 the freedom that you're to walk into. 540 00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:42,720 This is what April said tonight was encouraging. 541 00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:49,000 Cast all your cares, all your anxieties, all your worries and 542 00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:51,800 all your concerns once and for all on him. 543 00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:55,560 For he cares about you with the deepest affection and he watches 544 00:41:55,560 --> 00:42:01,240 over you very carefully. Be sober, well balanced, self 545 00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:07,760 disciplined, Be alert and cautious at all times that your 546 00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:12,360 enemy, the enemy of yours, the devil, prowls around like a 547 00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:17,240 roaring lion, fiercely hungry, seeking someone to devour. 548 00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:18,800 What does he say? Verse 9? 549 00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:24,320 But resist him. Be firm in your faith against 550 00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:28,000 his attack, rooted and established. 551 00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:34,920 And what immovable, immovable, established, immovable. 552 00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:39,920 You get established when you allow these qualities to be 553 00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:45,640 added to your faith. This is how you'll be a person 554 00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:50,000 that knows how to endure every trial, every situation, every 555 00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:52,960 circumstance and not be moved by any of it. 556 00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:57,800 Not moving off my position, not getting up out of my seat 557 00:42:59,880 --> 00:43:03,120 because I've learned how to just cast those cares on the Lord. 558 00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:05,000 Come on, that's what he's saying. 559 00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:09,360 I've learned how to be and resist him and be firm in my 560 00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:14,920 faith against his attacks because I'm rooted and I am 561 00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:19,600 established and I am immovable knowing that the same 562 00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:25,160 experiences of sufferings are what being experienced by other 563 00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:27,280 brothers and sisters throughout the world. 564 00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:31,760 World, you do not suffer alone. After you have suffered for a 565 00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:37,480 little while, the God of all grace who imparts His blessing 566 00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:42,520 and favor, who called you to His own eternal glory in Christ 567 00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:49,240 Himself will what complete, confirm, strengthen and 568 00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:54,640 establish you, making you what you ought to be. 569 00:43:57,480 --> 00:44:01,480 He wants us established and actually, you know, pastor, let 570 00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:03,600 me know. We just was listening. 571 00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:06,760 You know how every year ministers usually have a word 572 00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:09,920 for the Lord? And Rodney Howers Brown, His 573 00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:13,080 word for this year was that things will be established. 574 00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:18,720 And I'm telling you, if you'll start getting serious about 575 00:44:18,720 --> 00:44:23,640 adding these qualities to your faith, you'll finally walk into 576 00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:27,720 being established in your relationship with the Lord that 577 00:44:27,720 --> 00:44:29,680 nothing's going to get you off of it. 578 00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:32,360 Nothing's going to pull you away. 579 00:44:32,560 --> 00:44:38,840 Nothing, come on, nothing is going to move you off of who you 580 00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:48,400 know you are in Christ Jesus. You will be firmly established 581 00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:56,360 in 2025. I know one of the scriptures 582 00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:59,880 that the Lord gave me at the beginning of the year is he who 583 00:44:59,880 --> 00:45:12,880 started a good work in you will bring it to completion, firmly 584 00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:17,200 establish you. He'll bring it to completion if 585 00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:22,200 you don't bail, if you'll learn how to persevere, if you'll 586 00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:24,640 learn how to endure. Establish. 587 00:45:24,640 --> 00:45:27,920 He wants us established. I'm telling you, He wants us 588 00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:30,280 established in every area of our life. 589 00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:34,560 This is where a full, mature, spiritually mature church 590 00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:36,640 because that's what He's coming back for. 591 00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:43,800 It's when we all attain Ephesians right to the fullness 592 00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:48,520 of God and each and every one of us, he wants us to walk into the 593 00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:52,360 fullness of God. And it's then where the body of 594 00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:55,520 Christ is being built up. It's then where the body of 595 00:45:55,520 --> 00:46:04,480 Christ is actually acting like Jesus mature in the fullness 596 00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:10,280 established, come on, reigning and ruling in all areas of their 597 00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:13,200 life. Remember the mental area. 598 00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:18,040 Come on the moral character, the whole man, all your emotions, 599 00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:20,320 your body, you've got it disciplined. 600 00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:24,280 Listen, God is not an undisciplined God. 601 00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:28,240 So if there's things that you still deal with, with being 602 00:46:28,240 --> 00:46:35,080 undisciplined in your life, you need to tap into this 603 00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:41,520 self-control and this temperance and start meditating on those 604 00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:44,680 scriptures and building that within your character. 605 00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:48,080 Because God is not a God of chaos. 606 00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:52,640 He's not a God of confusion. I'm going to tell you this God 607 00:46:52,640 --> 00:46:59,680 is not a sloppy God. So if your house is sloppy, it's 608 00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:02,880 a result of something that's undisciplined in your life. 609 00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:08,360 Because he is not a sloppy God. He is not an undisciplined God. 610 00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:13,080 He is meticulous. He is very every T, every dot. 611 00:47:13,080 --> 00:47:15,400 Sorry, that is melancholy personality. 612 00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:17,600 Guess what? God is all personality. 613 00:47:21,960 --> 00:47:28,280 I mean, people that don't wash their car, we were somewhere the 614 00:47:28,280 --> 00:47:31,480 other day and there was a car going by. 615 00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:38,080 And I mean that car had black mold on it, all over it. 616 00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:41,360 I said I don't even see how they're breathing inside. 617 00:47:43,920 --> 00:47:52,320 How in the world can you see? Come on, God is not a, a, a 618 00:47:52,360 --> 00:47:56,000 sloppy God. He's not an undisciplined God 619 00:47:56,440 --> 00:47:59,800 because he put everything in its place. 620 00:48:01,720 --> 00:48:07,120 He set the order. And so I'm telling you, he wants 621 00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:10,040 to work on every area of our life. 622 00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:12,440 You have a problem cleaning your house? 623 00:48:12,720 --> 00:48:14,720 Get some qualities built within you. 624 00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:22,960 You have a problem, you know, come on with a sloppy car. 625 00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:27,280 You open your car door and trash is all in it and clothes are all 626 00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:30,440 in it. My husband says I'm just saying 627 00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:41,190 God is not a dirty God. If you need help learning how to 628 00:48:41,190 --> 00:48:44,150 do something, I will be the first one to help you. 629 00:48:45,150 --> 00:48:47,870 I know how to organize. I know how to clean. 630 00:48:48,070 --> 00:48:50,310 I know how to make a place for everything. 631 00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:54,480 And if you put it back in its place, you won't have the chaos. 632 00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:56,480 Because that's what God did for us. 633 00:48:56,480 --> 00:49:01,920 He put us back in our place because we were out of control. 634 00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:08,400 Come on. Didn't he, Scott? 635 00:49:08,480 --> 00:49:11,320 He did it. Yes, He did it. 636 00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:17,880 Come on, He did it in every area of our life because the outside 637 00:49:17,880 --> 00:49:21,520 is a result of what's going on in the inside. 638 00:49:23,880 --> 00:49:28,000 It is a law. It's a spiritual law. 639 00:49:29,640 --> 00:49:31,880 It's a spiritual law. So he wants us. 640 00:49:32,080 --> 00:49:35,120 Listen, if you're still out of control with your emotions and 641 00:49:35,120 --> 00:49:37,720 you've been born again for 30 years, but you still let your 642 00:49:37,720 --> 00:49:41,320 emotions control your life, you've not put some qualities 643 00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:46,000 within you because God is not out of control emotionally. 644 00:49:48,720 --> 00:49:52,040 See what I'm saying? I mean, every area of our life, 645 00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:59,520 He wants us to live the good life, the best life, Amen. 646 00:49:59,840 --> 00:50:04,080 And that comes with us putting these attributes, these 647 00:50:04,080 --> 00:50:08,120 characteristics and these ingredients, adding them to our 648 00:50:08,120 --> 00:50:13,720 faith so that we can see these things get into place. 649 00:50:13,720 --> 00:50:15,920 Amen. Last scripture and we'll close 650 00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:19,760 James chapter 1-2 and four, it says, consider it nothing but 651 00:50:19,760 --> 00:50:21,880 joy. My brother and sisters, whenever 652 00:50:21,880 --> 00:50:25,400 you fall into various trials, be assured that the testing of your 653 00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:32,400 faith through experience. Every single believer is going 654 00:50:32,400 --> 00:50:35,720 to experience the testing of their faith. 655 00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:41,440 That means what does that mean? What you see in God's word that 656 00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:46,200 He says that you can obtain by faith, and when you begin to 657 00:50:46,240 --> 00:50:49,080 believe it, guess what's going to happen? 658 00:50:50,560 --> 00:50:54,000 The enemy's going to test whether or not you really 659 00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:59,720 believe it or not that God can do it, buddy. 660 00:50:59,880 --> 00:51:02,560 Did he do it? Can he do it? 661 00:51:03,360 --> 00:51:07,160 Yes, he can. If we'll have faith and if we'll 662 00:51:07,160 --> 00:51:12,720 allow our faith come on to have these qualities built within it. 663 00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:15,640 So it says, be assured that the testing of your faith through 664 00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:21,680 the experience produces endurance leading to spiritual 665 00:51:21,880 --> 00:51:28,240 maturity and inner peace. So and let endurance have its 666 00:51:28,240 --> 00:51:34,360 perfect result and do a thorough work. 667 00:51:36,680 --> 00:51:43,160 So many people are right here and This is why they're in the 668 00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:50,120 same situation every year because they have not let him do 669 00:51:50,120 --> 00:51:57,120 a thorough work and been able to learn how to persevere through 670 00:51:57,120 --> 00:52:02,200 it and actually overcome it because and develop spiritual 671 00:52:02,200 --> 00:52:05,880 maturity. Your spiritual maturity is not 672 00:52:06,440 --> 00:52:13,160 full grown or developed if you do not actually let Him have 673 00:52:13,240 --> 00:52:19,560 have his thorough work within you during the hardest times of 674 00:52:19,560 --> 00:52:20,200 your life.