1 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:18,640 In the words of Peter, where would I go? 2 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:24,080 They have words of life. Hey man, First Timothy, chapter 3 00:00:24,080 --> 00:00:27,800 3, verse 14 to 15, it says this, and I'm writing these things to 4 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:30,920 you, Paul, writing to Timothy, hoping to come to you before 5 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:32,680 long. But in case I am delayed, I 6 00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:37,040 write so that you will know how one ought to conduct himself in 7 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:40,520 the household of God, which is the Church of the living God, 8 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:44,640 the pillar and support of the truth. 9 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:47,600 Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank you for the engrafted word 10 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:49,160 of God which is able to save our soul. 11 00:00:49,160 --> 00:00:53,560 Holy Spirit, breathe on us now that we may receive this word it 12 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:57,040 and apply it to our lives. Father, we thank you that the 13 00:00:57,040 --> 00:01:02,880 Church of Jesus Christ is alive and well and will be an 14 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:07,240 immovable force on your planet. And so, Father, we thank you 15 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:10,520 that we will be encouraged, strengthened, and to know that 16 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:13,560 you have given us a Kingdom that cannot be shaken, that the 17 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:16,760 church is the most powerful thing on the planet and you are 18 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:21,560 coming back for the reigning church in Jesus name, Amen. 19 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:24,840 Doctor Miles Monroe said. We're purpose is not known, 20 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:29,880 abuses are inevitable. We're a purpose is not known. 21 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:34,040 Abuses are inevitable. Do you understand just because 22 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:37,880 an organization is called something or is something 23 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:41,080 doesn't mean it stays in its original purpose. 24 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:43,720 We could even say this with the planet. 25 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:46,880 Planet Earth is not as God originally designed. 26 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:50,880 It's not functioning as he originally designed it. 27 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:54,240 Now that's not God's fault. It's the one who whom he gave 28 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:58,480 authority to, to keep the earth in this particular state that he 29 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:01,440 originally. But Adam fell from dominion. 30 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:05,680 He let go of that rulership. He gave it over to the enemy or 31 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:08,160 the devil, the one who comes to kill, steal and destroy. 32 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:10,800 And the systems that we have in the earth are not operating by 33 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:13,280 God because God is not in control of those systems. 34 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:17,480 God is in control of His Word and so the earth itself is not 35 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:20,160 functioning. However, we have, if you have 36 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:23,760 read the back of the book, as many of us here at Anchor Fade 37 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:26,280 Church has done, because when you get to the last chapter, 38 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:29,960 last verse, Revelation 2221, you'll see that there's a new 39 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:33,240 heaven and a new earth. And the earth got originally 40 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:36,680 designed and how he wanted it to function will function again, 41 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:41,040 except this time it will function in another way, meaning 42 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:43,760 that God will be just a little bit closer. 43 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:50,920 Instead of him just residing in heaven, He brings the city down 44 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:54,720 and moves on the planet. Hallelujah. 45 00:02:55,360 --> 00:02:57,840 Amen. Because he always wanted heaven 46 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:01,720 and earth to be be the exact same environment. 47 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:04,400 You understand this happens in companies all the time. 48 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:06,560 Companies will start with a particular purpose, have a 49 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:08,520 vision go through and then through US growth and 50 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:10,680 development. All of a sudden it's models will 51 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:12,800 change and they'll find themselves saying, you know 52 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:14,480 what? We're not doing things like we 53 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:20,200 originally intended and had to go back and do a refocus of how 54 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:24,040 they've done things. We understand the church is not, 55 00:03:26,640 --> 00:03:29,960 how can I say it? It's subject to the same 56 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:35,040 challenges because in the earth traditions come, things can 57 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:38,200 happen, and all of a sudden we can pick up ideas that the 58 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:42,520 church is because we're not intent in the Word to maintain 59 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:46,200 what God says about a thing. And all of a sudden we develop 60 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:51,240 traditions about things and then we change the model of stuff. 61 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:55,320 Yet we keep the same title. Well, this is church, however, 62 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:57,480 doesn't match the Church of the Bible. 63 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:02,000 Amen. Doesn't match the Church of the 64 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:04,200 Bible. And there are a lot of truths 65 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:08,720 out in that are within the Scripture, but God never 66 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:11,520 intended for the church to focus solely on one, right? 67 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:19,279 That's true on a truth, a truth. Now, one truth we know for sure 68 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:24,640 is that unless you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord, you cannot 69 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:28,800 be born again. In essence, the lost, we would 70 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:33,080 say, needs to be saved. And I have probably heard this 71 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:36,680 statement so many times, you know, and again, it didn't 72 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:41,280 technically bother me until I kept going to Scripture. 73 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:44,320 And when you go to Scripture, you can't help but say, is that 74 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:47,920 so? So when I hear the only thing 75 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:51,520 that matters and the the the purpose of the church or the 76 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:56,760 role of the church is to win the lost, well, does the Bible say 77 00:04:56,760 --> 00:05:00,360 that should the church win the lost? 78 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:03,280 Yes. But is it the only thing it 79 00:05:03,280 --> 00:05:05,920 should do? Because if it's the only thing 80 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:09,320 it does, well, then a lot of people are not going to be 81 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:12,920 discipled and a lot of things concerning God are not going to 82 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:15,360 be spoken about. And I've heard even minister say 83 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:18,760 this many times, you know, well, you know that all be figured out 84 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:24,680 in the end. Well, God sent the church to 85 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:29,360 disciple Saints so that they could grow in the Word, which 86 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:32,280 means, what are the other truths out there? 87 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:38,760 But Paul who had the revelation of the church, OK, says to 88 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:43,880 Timothy, who is pastoring a very large church in Ephesus, he says 89 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:46,840 to him, the one that Paul himself planted in Ephesus, he 90 00:05:46,840 --> 00:05:50,520 says, now listen, if I delay, I want you, I'm writing to you so 91 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:52,240 you'll know. Put that verse back up. 92 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:54,360 First Timothy chapter 3, verse 15. 93 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:59,360 Know how one ought to conduct himself in the household of God, 94 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:01,960 which is the Church of the living God. 95 00:06:02,280 --> 00:06:07,080 And here it is the pillar and support of the truth. 96 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:09,920 Now this word pillar is a column. 97 00:06:10,280 --> 00:06:15,040 It means it it, it can symbolize a person of authority. 98 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:19,240 Paul himself said, I went to the pillars of the church. 99 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:22,320 He talked about a some of the apostles, the apostle James, the 100 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:25,240 apostle Peter. He said they were pillars, 101 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:28,160 meaning they were people of authority. 102 00:06:28,280 --> 00:06:30,840 Why were they pillars? Because they had a firm 103 00:06:30,840 --> 00:06:36,000 foundation of the things the king has said, spoken his 104 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:40,080 character, his way of conducting the Kingdom on the earth. 105 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:44,760 So they were considered pillars. But a pillar also is the support 106 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:48,760 of true doctrine. And when we say doctrine, a lot 107 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:51,480 of times when we think we're the pillar on support of truth, a 108 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:55,360 lot of times we fall back into this idea of just truth 109 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:59,800 concerning things of God or things concerning his church. 110 00:06:59,880 --> 00:07:02,360 It's just God based. It's not world based. 111 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:05,720 We understand God can tell you the truth about what happened 112 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:10,120 back in, you know, 2020 money or what happened with, you know, 113 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:14,800 World War 2 or what happened with someone's life because a 114 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:19,600 word of knowledge can manifest so that you can know exactly 115 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:22,800 what took place and what's the truth about a situation. 116 00:07:23,640 --> 00:07:29,040 So truth is not limited in one sense to just biblical things. 117 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:32,720 You know, you can have the factual truth concerning 118 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:36,000 situations. I know a lot of times there are 119 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:38,320 things that happen. I'm like, Lord, why in the world 120 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:40,440 I'm what I'm doing is I'm looking for truth. 121 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:44,280 Now, that doesn't mean he's going to give me the authority 122 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:50,000 to communicate why someone died. And anybody ever had that 123 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:51,520 thought? Well, why did they die? 124 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:54,880 You know what, there can be a reason for that. 125 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:57,600 And you know what? God actually knows that reason 126 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:02,480 and if we now God may not be God's not obligated to tell you 127 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:06,280 all the time, but if he if you see Kim, you're going to have a 128 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:10,760 better chance of the opportunity for him to say let me tell you 129 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:14,600 the truth about this matter. Are you hearing me? 130 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:18,480 But the Bible talks about the church being the pillar in 131 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:20,120 support of truth. So we are a column. 132 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:24,800 We are support of true things. In fact, the world should be 133 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:28,000 coming to the church for answers, not the church going to 134 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:34,280 the world for answers. But the minute the world, the 135 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:37,159 church decides that we don't care about the world. 136 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:39,960 Now we say we do well, we want to win the law, but we really 137 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:42,760 don't care because we don't want to know truth. 138 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:48,520 In order to know truth, you're going to have to change your 139 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:50,680 thinking. You're going to have to change 140 00:08:50,680 --> 00:08:54,040 the way you think because God's ways are higher than our ways. 141 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:56,760 His thoughts are higher than our thoughts, and God will start 142 00:08:56,760 --> 00:08:58,040 talking to you about some things of truth. 143 00:08:58,040 --> 00:09:01,200 Let me ask this question. Is the word truth OK? 144 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:06,680 Jesus said you are to love me. Is that true with all your 145 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:08,760 you're finishing it for me. Great. 146 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:11,720 Most people stop there. Lord, I've given you my heart, 147 00:09:12,560 --> 00:09:16,320 but does he stop there? He says you are to love the Lord 148 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:22,440 thy God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, all 149 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:25,720 your you know what? That's your whole being, that 150 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:30,880 spirit, soul and body, which means the truth of God's word 151 00:09:30,880 --> 00:09:36,840 is, is that as a believer, the the 4050 sixty hours during the 152 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:40,400 week that you are out being a light to the world should not 153 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:44,480 get your physical exertion so much that you cannot make it to 154 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:49,760 church on Sunday. Because if you would say, well, 155 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:55,760 I'm too tired, then you have given your physical body to the 156 00:09:55,760 --> 00:10:00,040 world and not to the Lord. Amen. 157 00:10:01,560 --> 00:10:03,640 Same in anyway. OK. 158 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:05,960 And parents, you know, I know how parents are. 159 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:08,480 I was a parent as well. You know, our children would go 160 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:12,080 to school all day long and then we would after they've gotten up 161 00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:16,040 early, been in class all day, studied, you know, mentally 162 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:17,920 they're exhausted. And we'll say, well, you're 163 00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:21,200 going to practice now and then we'll put them through a 164 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:23,600 physical practice routine. Because if you're going to be a 165 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:28,800 part of the team, you're going to do extra travel hours to a 166 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:31,400 game on a weekend. They don't get off. 167 00:10:33,560 --> 00:10:36,000 But then sometimes, you know, as parents, they'll be like, well, 168 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:37,840 I worked all week. Surely you understand. 169 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:46,880 OK, so a pillar is that which supports or has authority. 170 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:49,320 The word support means foundation or ground. 171 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:53,240 So I'm going to read verse 5 again because we're going to 172 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:56,400 kind of backtrack because it says, he said, now in case I'm 173 00:10:56,400 --> 00:10:59,440 delayed, I'm writing to you so you'll know how one ought to, 174 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:03,720 which tells us you may not. This is how you ought to. 175 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:07,600 There's a way you ought to. That doesn't mean everyone going 176 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:12,280 to church is doing it that way, but this is how it ought to be. 177 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:16,760 Which tells us that the Bible has an expectation. 178 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:24,520 God has an expectation for how you live after you're born 179 00:11:24,520 --> 00:11:30,560 again. So this is how you ought to 180 00:11:30,560 --> 00:11:36,360 conduct himself in the household of God, which is the Church of 181 00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:38,840 the living God, the pillar and support of truth. 182 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:42,360 If you do not have the pillar and the support of truth as the 183 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:46,720 part of the church, then God, the living God, is not going to 184 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:54,760 be obligated to be at your assembly, nor are you 185 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:57,560 technically going to be functioning as the household of 186 00:11:57,560 --> 00:11:59,200 God. Now, I'm going to prove that out 187 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:04,480 here in the next 20 minutes. The pillar in support of truth 188 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:06,440 is a big deal when it comes to the church. 189 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:09,720 And I'm going to be honest with you, as John George says, 190 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:13,800 listen, we are living in the last of the last days. 191 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:15,640 And this is not hypothetical hype. 192 00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:17,560 This is not trying to get you afraid. 193 00:12:17,560 --> 00:12:20,080 I'm not here to get you afraid. I'm here to get you pumped up, 194 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:22,520 excited, because the greatest days of the church are ahead of 195 00:12:22,520 --> 00:12:24,240 us. It's an amazing time. 196 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:26,200 Do you understand this amazing time? 197 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:28,280 I mean, this is like the Super Bowl. 198 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:30,680 This is a championship for the church. 199 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:34,600 I mean, the whole season started on the book of Acts and it's 200 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:37,720 been the season of the church aid to where now we're getting 201 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:41,160 to the championship, to where the church is going to mature. 202 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:43,640 It's going to be full of power. It's going to have the greatest 203 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:47,080 demonstrations of God. But again, we have to make sure 204 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:50,800 that we are right in line with what God's saying in his plan 205 00:12:50,920 --> 00:12:53,880 because he warns now in the last of the last days, there's going 206 00:12:53,880 --> 00:12:55,840 to be issues. People are going to fall away. 207 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:58,160 Why? Because they have failed to 208 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:02,240 recognize through my word exactly what I intended from the 209 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:04,320 beginning. And you cannot win a 210 00:13:04,320 --> 00:13:08,920 championship if you don't get back to the fundamentals or the 211 00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:12,880 foundation. Which means then as we have 212 00:13:12,880 --> 00:13:16,480 grown as a church, we kept saying, well, I know people are 213 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:20,360 or I've heard that, but what does the Bible say? 214 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:30,200 My bedrock belief is not on the traditions of man, but on what 215 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:35,520 does the Word say? And if Jesus Christ is building 216 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:40,760 his church, which he is, then we must say what is the church he's 217 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:44,640 building and the church he's building is built on the as a 218 00:13:44,640 --> 00:13:48,120 pillar and support of the truth and truth. 219 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:50,840 There are a lot of truths within scripture. 220 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:54,040 Jesus said this in John chapter 18 verse 38. 221 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:56,520 It said Pilate said therefore answered him. 222 00:13:56,720 --> 00:13:59,000 Then then you are king and Jesus answered. 223 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:08,360 Now I'm reading out of the a oh what is this version AFVI can't 224 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:11,640 remember what be a faithful version says this. 225 00:14:11,920 --> 00:14:15,040 Then you are king. Jesus said as you say, I am king 226 00:14:15,040 --> 00:14:20,280 for this purpose, say for this purpose, for this purpose I was 227 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:23,880 born and for this reason I came into the world that I may bear 228 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:28,680 witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth 229 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:31,680 hears my voice. You know, the only reason, just 230 00:14:31,680 --> 00:14:34,000 to come off what Reverend John George said, the only reason why 231 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:36,520 a person would listen to another voice is because they don't want 232 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:40,360 to hear truth anymore. They want to hear a lie. 233 00:14:40,360 --> 00:14:45,160 And let me tell you, in our society today, people want to 234 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:48,280 hear a lie. Now, I can tell you first hand, 235 00:14:48,280 --> 00:14:52,000 when we had the governor, there was a particular situation that 236 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:57,120 occurred that I, I was not personally present, but I could 237 00:14:57,120 --> 00:15:00,120 bring the people who were personally present of how they 238 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:06,520 addressed an individual that showed up and the meeting. 239 00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:12,760 OK, didn't, didn't, could not continue to attend the meeting. 240 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:20,680 So they got on social media and communicated why they were not 241 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:25,320 allowed to be at the meeting. And I'm here to tell you it is 242 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:30,120 an utter lie. What they put out an utter lie. 243 00:15:32,680 --> 00:15:36,160 Every word spoken is not reality, right? 244 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:45,000 That's right, But their audience, who has an ear to 245 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:47,320 them? One asked the question, well, 246 00:15:47,320 --> 00:15:51,080 why did they put you out? And the next answer was a 247 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:59,960 complete lie Completely. That is not how the situation 248 00:15:59,960 --> 00:16:04,680 went down at all. 0 did not happen. 249 00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:12,200 So what takes place here is that individuals following has 250 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:15,960 created something that they say had occurred in the meeting that 251 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:25,680 I was at, that never happened and at Anchor Fate Church, the 252 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:29,600 ones who attended, they could all bear witness. 253 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:36,360 That never occurred. That never occurred. 254 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:44,040 So I can tell you the truth about that situation literally. 255 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:47,480 Do you understand? God is in every situation. 256 00:16:48,560 --> 00:16:52,280 There's nowhere God is not Hallelujah. 257 00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:54,640 He's everywhere. So you post what you want to 258 00:16:54,640 --> 00:16:55,920 post. God was there. 259 00:16:56,680 --> 00:17:00,000 God knows exactly what went down, what was spoken, how it 260 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:05,119 was handled, what took place, and God ultimately is going to 261 00:17:05,119 --> 00:17:08,800 judge those situations. I said he is going to judge 262 00:17:08,960 --> 00:17:12,079 because I can tell you when the when you stand before Christ, 263 00:17:12,160 --> 00:17:17,119 he'll pull up all your social media stuff and that's not being 264 00:17:17,480 --> 00:17:20,280 funny. That's real because those that 265 00:17:20,280 --> 00:17:22,400 are go before the great White Throne judgment. 266 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:24,560 He opens up books. What do you think are in those 267 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:26,880 books? It's every posting, it's every 268 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:28,240 word. It's every idle word. 269 00:17:28,319 --> 00:17:30,760 Even with a believer, when you stand before the Bema seat of 270 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:33,760 Christ, you're going to be judged on every idle word. 271 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:40,000 Now not to get into heaven or to be in in in eternally with God, 272 00:17:40,120 --> 00:17:44,720 but for the rewards associated with how you function as a 273 00:17:44,720 --> 00:17:47,160 believer once you became in Christ. 274 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:55,560 OK, so Jesus's purpose was because he was a king. 275 00:17:56,320 --> 00:18:00,200 Because again, the original function of the planet was that 276 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:04,720 man would operate in dominion like God. 277 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:06,960 Let us make man in our image according to our likeness, and 278 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:10,560 let him have what dominion he was to rule over the earth. 279 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:14,840 God never intended or never wanted the devil to rule over 280 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:16,880 the planet or to be the God of this world. 281 00:18:17,120 --> 00:18:20,360 Adam gave it away because God gave it to Adam. 282 00:18:20,960 --> 00:18:23,960 So in order for God to receive it back, he must come as a man 283 00:18:24,080 --> 00:18:28,360 because it's man's right to have dominion on the earth. 284 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:31,640 Hallelujah. And so Jesus says, I come back 285 00:18:31,640 --> 00:18:36,320 as a king because Adam was to rule the first one he fell. 286 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:39,800 I'm the second or last Adam, I will rule. 287 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:44,160 I'll take back from the devil what he took from when he says 288 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:48,240 took was given to him by Adam. I will take it back. 289 00:18:48,960 --> 00:18:51,840 And he did. I said Annie did. 290 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:55,360 And Jesus bears witness to truth. 291 00:18:56,160 --> 00:18:59,440 Matthew chapter 16, verse 18. The Passion says it this way. 292 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:03,200 And I will give you the name Peter a stone. 293 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:07,720 And this truth of who I am, say who I am will be the bedrock 294 00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:13,640 foundation on which I build my church, my legislative assembly. 295 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:18,040 And the power of death will not be able to overpower it. 296 00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:21,480 You know, we are learning some really amazing things by the 297 00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:24,960 unction of the Holy Ghost of how the Bible's about a king, his 298 00:19:24,960 --> 00:19:27,840 Kingdom and his royal offspring. Because you understand the 299 00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:30,520 suffering servant is not coming back to the earth. 300 00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:34,560 The the lamb that was slain has been slain, but the king is 301 00:19:34,560 --> 00:19:38,040 returning and the King's going to return with an iron rod. 302 00:19:38,120 --> 00:19:41,480 The King's going to come back and put down his Kingdom on the 303 00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:43,600 earth. There is a government that he 304 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:49,760 has and and Christianity church does not fit his government 305 00:19:49,760 --> 00:19:55,480 Kingdom. And so it's very important for 306 00:19:55,480 --> 00:19:58,880 us to say, God, what are you saying about these things and 307 00:19:58,880 --> 00:20:01,360 how does the church supposed to function and operate? 308 00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:05,040 Because when you dive into actual Scripture. 309 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:10,640 As the Passion translated it accurately, it says legislative 310 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:14,080 Assembly calls the church and are we the reigning church? 311 00:20:14,520 --> 00:20:18,040 Come on, are we the reigning church is a legislative assembly 312 00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:20,880 of called out ones. We are all ambassadors for 313 00:20:20,880 --> 00:20:24,520 Christ. We come into what is like an an 314 00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:28,080 embassy where we hear from the home country in order to 315 00:20:28,080 --> 00:20:31,640 communicate the policies of the Kingdom of God out into the 316 00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:35,480 world. Hallelujah, we are now citizens 317 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:41,600 of God's Kingdom and so Jesus said now on this revelation or 318 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:46,400 the truth of who I am, I will build my church. 319 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:49,440 Well if we jumped up a verse or so and we will hear in a minute. 320 00:20:49,760 --> 00:20:53,160 He asked them to question in the verse 15th verse, he said, but 321 00:20:53,160 --> 00:21:02,520 who do you say that I am now God named himself I am. 322 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:07,560 Remember when Moses said, well, who do I tell him that you know 323 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:09,600 sent me? He said tell him I am sent you. 324 00:21:10,360 --> 00:21:14,800 You know when Jesus said when he was being brought before the 325 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:19,040 high priest, He said I am man. When he said that remember when 326 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:21,720 they came to him at the garden and they said, you know, are you 327 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:23,160 that? He said I am many. 328 00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:30,440 I mean, he was that was God and they fell to the ground under 329 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:36,760 under the power of him saying I am Hallelujah because the Son of 330 00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:42,520 man is the Son of God. So then if Jesus is saying, but 331 00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:44,800 who do you say that I am? And Peter says you're the 332 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:48,720 Christ. Jesus says upon this truth that 333 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:51,760 I am the Christ, I'll build my church. 334 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:57,520 That is the bedrock of this legislative assembly, and the 335 00:21:57,520 --> 00:21:59,880 Christ is the King of the Kingdom. 336 00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:05,080 So the church was always intended to be built on a 337 00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:12,360 government, not a religion. And there are truths within this 338 00:22:12,360 --> 00:22:17,560 government that we are to learn from, not just how. 339 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:23,600 Where do we go when we die? That was never the message of 340 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:26,760 Jesus, never the message of Jesus. 341 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:32,120 In John chapter 14 verse 6, we alluded to it here earlier. 342 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:38,760 Jesus said I am the way, the truth, the life and no one comes 343 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:42,000 to the Father but but through me. 344 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:48,080 Well, if I if he says who do, who do you say I am? 345 00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:49,880 And Peter says you are the Christ. 346 00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:55,560 We could say I am is the Christ. Well if I am is the Christ, it 347 00:22:55,560 --> 00:23:00,280 would read this way. The Christ is the way, the 348 00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:06,160 Christ is the truth. The Christ is the life and that 349 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:09,520 is the King because Jesus is the truth. 350 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:16,120 Hallelujah, Jesus. So how can you build a church 351 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:26,080 and not preach the Word? How can the Word not take center 352 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:30,080 stage of everything we do in life? 353 00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:33,600 If he says this is how you ought to conduct yourself in the 354 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:37,600 household of God, which is the the Church of the living God, 355 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:40,560 the pillar and support of truth. The pillar, support of truth is 356 00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:44,400 built on the Christ the King in the beginning was the Word and 357 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:46,600 the Word was with God and then the Word was God. 358 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:50,560 So the church has to be built solely on the Word, which means 359 00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:53,080 we are looking to it, not to the commentaries. 360 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:57,880 We are looking to to, to rightly dividing it from Genesis 11 to 361 00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:03,080 Revelations 2221. We are to be asking questions. 362 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:10,320 Are there things inside our church, our household, that is a 363 00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:14,480 tradition and not a foundation of truth? 364 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:22,440 Because in his church you do not act any way you want to. 365 00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:29,960 He defines the behavior because the behavior is a result of the 366 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:33,520 righteousness. And if you are a child of God, 367 00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:37,200 then this is how you act. All the epistles that that Paul 368 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:41,840 were writing was the conduct around the believer. 369 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:46,640 Now this is how you want to do now this is a bit you used to 370 00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:49,000 live this way, act this way, but now we live this way. 371 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:51,200 Why? Because there's a way to live 372 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:54,240 now that you're in the Kingdom of God and what you could never 373 00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:57,400 have done by your spirit because it was dead and separated from 374 00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:00,080 God. Christ did when he died on the 375 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:03,520 cross, rose from the grave, poured out his blood on the 376 00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:07,840 mercy seat, covered all of your transgression so that when you 377 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:11,880 ask, when you repent and ask for God's forgiveness, he will 378 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:14,520 remove that spirit. Man put a new spirit in you 379 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:16,800 that's created in the likeness of God. 380 00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:21,440 And then the counselor, the teacher will come and live in 381 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:22,920 you. Bear witness to your spirit. 382 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:25,040 You're a child of God. And then it's time to go to 383 00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:31,560 class because that's now you're a pupil in the Kingdom of God to 384 00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:35,640 learn your sonship, your daughtership, on who you are now 385 00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:39,720 in Christ, in the King. And the foundation of all you do 386 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:41,320 has to say. What does the word say? 387 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:45,200 How I feel about this doesn't matter. 388 00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:48,480 What's the word say? What's the word say? 389 00:25:49,120 --> 00:25:53,520 What's the word say? And so for me to train you as a 390 00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:57,800 pastor, if I am not caught, if our interactions do not get 391 00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:00,840 centered around when there's things saying, well, what's the 392 00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:07,520 word say about that, then I'm destroying the foundation by 393 00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:15,160 which the church is built. I can't sympathize with you. 394 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:18,920 Meaning, man, that's really bad deal. 395 00:26:19,360 --> 00:26:23,080 How do you feel about it? What do you think you should do? 396 00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:31,240 But don't you see what happened? But what does the word say? 397 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:36,760 But what does the word say? And that's not for the faint of 398 00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:38,480 heart. I get it. 399 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:41,000 But that's who you are in Christ. 400 00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:45,840 And so when you establish that the church is the pillar in 401 00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:49,520 support of truth, meaning we are going to go into this thing and 402 00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:54,000 learn what is God saying about everything, about how to live, 403 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:56,840 how to move. And Paul said in him, we live 404 00:26:56,840 --> 00:27:00,000 and move and have our being. You understand church is not 405 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:01,680 something you do, it's who you are. 406 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:08,600 This is not a time in your life, it is your life and until you 407 00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:13,280 get that, then you know what church is just a tradition and 408 00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:17,760 the foundation you're living on is your truth mixed with his 409 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:20,800 truth, which at the end of the day is not going to get the 410 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:24,600 results that God wants. And, and he'll also be 411 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:29,680 constantly pointing back to you to get to the word Hallelu 412 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:31,600 rightly divided by the Spirit of God. 413 00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:35,480 When you allow the word of God to be the pillar and support of 414 00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:40,800 all of your life, then what you, what you have done is you've 415 00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:44,200 allowed yourself to be in the place where the living God is. 416 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:46,680 Yeah, that's right. Now, why do I say that? 417 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:50,480 Because in the beginning was the and the word was with God in the 418 00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:53,680 word. So the living God is in the 419 00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:55,160 word. And I'm not talking a word 420 00:27:55,160 --> 00:28:00,080 preached by a religious person. I'm talking about The Word Alive 421 00:28:00,360 --> 00:28:06,440 on those who act on it. So Matthew 1616 again Peter 422 00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:11,480 answer says you are the Christ, the Son of the living God. 423 00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:17,200 So notice because he recognized he was the Christ, the King, the 424 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:20,800 word, the foundation, that of which Jesus goes on and said, 425 00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:24,800 now this is the bedrock of belief that I'm the king. 426 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:29,320 Do you understand? Most of us believe that Jesus is 427 00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:34,280 just Savior. Savior is what he did. 428 00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:39,040 King is who he is. He is Lord, supreme authority. 429 00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:43,440 If Adam had never eaten the fruit, Jesus would never have 430 00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:44,960 had to save us. That's right. 431 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:49,240 That's right. We never would have known him as 432 00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:54,120 the lamb slain. There would have been no need 433 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:58,800 for blood. But he still would rule. 434 00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:02,560 Amen. He would still be ruling. 435 00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:08,080 He would still be the Lord, He would still be the Lord of all. 436 00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:14,520 Hallelujah, Hallelujah. So when you recognize that the 437 00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:17,800 Christ is connected to the living God, look at what it says 438 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:21,120 in John 669. It says also, we have come to 439 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:25,720 believe and to know that you are the Christ again, the Son of the 440 00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:29,880 living God. So understanding God's kingship 441 00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:35,560 is synonymous, yes, with recognizing the living God. 442 00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:45,120 It's synonymous. And we see this because if you 443 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:49,440 if you went over to the book of Acts chapter 19 and this is 444 00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:52,160 verse 21 to 20 to 41, we are not going to read them. 445 00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:54,320 I'm just going to communicate. And the reason I'm going to use 446 00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:59,760 Acts chapter 19 is because Paul in his writing to Timothy is 447 00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:03,640 about the church at Ephesus. And Paul has been to assistant 448 00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:06,360 had a little challenge once. And you can read about in Acts 449 00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:10,200 chapter 19 verses 21 to 41 that there was a particular 450 00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:14,720 blacksmith that was highly upset that Paul was in town because 451 00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:19,080 every town he ever went to, the idols of those towns started to 452 00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:23,120 become destroyed. And the manufacturing industry 453 00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:26,480 of those idols went from money to nothing. 454 00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:31,840 And so his economics was in play and so he assembled. 455 00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:36,840 Acts 19 says, and if you looked up that word assembly in Acts 456 00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:43,560 19, it is the same word as Matthew 1618 that we define 457 00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:49,800 church is ekklesia. 19 does not communicate it as the church. 458 00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:52,720 They communicate it as an assembly, but it's the exact 459 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:56,920 same Greek word. See, we've made church like it's 460 00:30:56,920 --> 00:31:00,120 only religion. But church in its original 461 00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:03,280 intent, which is ekklesia, is legislative assembly. 462 00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:09,080 It is a group of people coming together to discuss legal 463 00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:13,000 affairs concerning the country they represent. 464 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:21,680 And so they this guy pulls in an assembly to discuss with all 465 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:27,720 those in town concerning the trade of an idol called Diana 466 00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:30,880 one translation Artemis the another. 467 00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:34,560 And so they getting a huge uproar about this thing 468 00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:40,480 concerning Here's the thing. And if you if you take it for 469 00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:44,800 context in Acts 19 when they assemble for two hours, they 470 00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:51,920 shouted great is the goddess Diana for two out. 471 00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:53,920 I've never come to Anchor Faith Church. 472 00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:57,440 I have never in 21 years come to Anchor Faith Church. 473 00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:03,000 And praise took off to where we shouted for two hours. 474 00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:15,760 Jesus Christ is Lord. That has never happened, but a 475 00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:21,880 group of people that are separated from God but had more 476 00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:29,280 loyalty to the God of Mammon shouted for two hours straight 477 00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:39,040 concerning a God that is dead. The point of this is, is that 478 00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:45,440 when truth, because their whole religion is built on a lie and 479 00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:50,680 you can assemble and worship your God, but it was a dead God. 480 00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:55,440 It was not the living God. Acts chapter 1921 to 41 is a 481 00:32:55,480 --> 00:33:01,160 church service. It is another church in Ephesus 482 00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:07,520 beside the one Paul planted and they had a worship session for 483 00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:12,800 two hours for a God that was dead. 484 00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:20,920 But when you have the pillar in support of truth, that is the 485 00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:24,240 Christ, you begin to pray. Well, then you'll, you'll move 486 00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:29,080 into the, the, the, the church that has the living God, the 487 00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:36,520 living God, where he will be present among you, the living 488 00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:39,880 God. Now you can take the Diana, but 489 00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:42,920 I'm going to tell you right now. Look at this and second Timothy 490 00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:45,760 35. The amplifier says it this way. 491 00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:50,160 Holding to a form of outward godliness or religion, although 492 00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:54,400 they have denied its power for their conduct, nullifies their 493 00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:59,600 claim of faith. Avoid such people and keep far 494 00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:03,960 away from them. Put that back up there again. 495 00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:08,520 Holding to a form of God, outward godliness. 496 00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:15,800 So from the outside, oh man, they're right with God just by 497 00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:21,080 how they talk. But they're denying the power of 498 00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:25,239 the Holy Ghost because their actual conducts nullifies their 499 00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:30,159 claims of faith. They are not handling situations 500 00:34:30,199 --> 00:34:33,679 as it is written. They're not walking through life 501 00:34:33,679 --> 00:34:36,520 as as it is written. They're making an excuse of why 502 00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:39,560 they can continue to do what they do, how they do, yet then 503 00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:40,920 they'll get a USA. Don't talk about. 504 00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:44,880 I know God, God knows my man. They always say that. 505 00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:49,960 And you know what I like to say? Yes, he does because he knows 506 00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:52,960 what spirit you're of right now. He knows why you're doing what 507 00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:54,880 you're doing. He knows what's going on in your 508 00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:56,239 heart. He knows what he's talked to you 509 00:34:56,239 --> 00:34:58,920 about about repenting. He knows the mercy he's extended 510 00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:02,000 towards you because if you don't allow the transfer me forming 511 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:06,560 power of his word through the Spirit to renew your mind, then 512 00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:09,920 you're the all you're going to be is religious, which means you 513 00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:16,240 can even say Jesus and not be in a church with the living God. 514 00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:20,240 You say, how can that be pastor? Well, what did Jesus say on that 515 00:35:20,240 --> 00:35:24,360 day? They'll say, Lord, Lord didn't 516 00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:28,400 we? And he'll say, depart from me. 517 00:35:29,720 --> 00:35:35,720 I never knew you, I never knew you. 518 00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:39,080 So how do you know you're functioning in a church where 519 00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:42,120 the living God is #1 the word is being preached there. 520 00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:45,800 The reigning church is going to have the word rightly divided 521 00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:50,920 and it's constantly going to be looking into the Scripture on 522 00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:55,720 every aspect of life. From there it is the atmosphere 523 00:35:55,720 --> 00:36:01,560 by which the living God will inhabit and then it will produce 524 00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:04,880 the household of God. In Hebrews chapter 3 verse six 525 00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:09,120 that says this, but Christ was faithful as a son over His 526 00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:14,120 house, whose house we are. If we hold fast our confidence 527 00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:17,120 and the boast of our hope firm until the end. 528 00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:23,280 If conditional statement, we hold fast our confidence and the 529 00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:26,000 boast of our hope firm until the end. 530 00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:30,040 You understand you can be in his house and leave his house. 531 00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:35,240 That is the prodigal son. The prodigal son was in the 532 00:36:35,240 --> 00:36:41,240 house but left the house. And whose responsibility was it 533 00:36:41,240 --> 00:36:45,200 to come back to the house? It was the son's responsibility 534 00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:47,800 because the father did not leave the house. 535 00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:54,640 All right, So just because you've been in church and then 536 00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:59,360 you get out of church doesn't mean you're still in it. 537 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:05,800 OK. Matthew chapter 12 verse 46 to 538 00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:10,000 48 or 50 says this. He said while he was still 539 00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,280 speaking to the crowds, because again we're talking a household. 540 00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:16,080 Jesus is the best over his own household over his own house. 541 00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:18,880 He says this while he was still speaking to the crowds. 542 00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:22,800 Behold his mother and brothers and and were standing outside 543 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:26,240 seeking to speak to him. Now this is his literal mother 544 00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:30,320 and his literal half brothers and sisters and with our half, 545 00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:34,120 because Mary was the only one who conceived by the Holy Ghost, 546 00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:38,160 Jesus, Joseph help with the rest of the family that was in the 547 00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:40,760 house. OK, verse 47, someone said to 548 00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:42,840 him, behold, your mother and your brothers are standing 549 00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:44,680 outside seeking to speak with you. 550 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:48,240 So what's Jesus his response? But Jesus answered the one who 551 00:37:48,240 --> 00:37:52,840 was telling him and he said, who is my mother and who are my 552 00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:55,200 brothers? Now was Jesus having an amnesia 553 00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:59,000 moment right? Do you think he forgot about 554 00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:01,600 Mary? Do you think he forgot about 555 00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:05,280 James? No, but he's here to make a 556 00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:10,640 point because again, one of the the things within the church is 557 00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:16,880 that God never intended for the people who came from my personal 558 00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:20,000 household to be my only household. 559 00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:26,440 That was never God's intent. And it says in stretching out 560 00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:32,000 his hand towards his, his what? Come on, we're almost done. 561 00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:34,640 His what? Disciples, He said, Behold my 562 00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:40,040 mother and my brothers. Now I can say you are my mother, 563 00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:43,040 my brothers, my sisters, right? I can say that. 564 00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:47,160 But it isn't just 'cause you're with me that makes you my 565 00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:52,520 family. Let's keep going, He said. 566 00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:58,000 Whoever for whoever does the will of my father. 567 00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:03,240 Now that tells me that if you are a disciple, then you must be 568 00:39:03,240 --> 00:39:05,360 a doer of the will of the Father. 569 00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:08,040 If you are not doing the will of the Father, then you are not a 570 00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:12,320 disciple because again, the Bible defines these terms. 571 00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:13,880 We don't get to define these terms. 572 00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:16,280 Having a class doesn't make you a disciple. 573 00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:19,480 Going to a church, taking a class does not make you a 574 00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:21,320 disciple. That's not what makes you a 575 00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:24,880 disciple. A disciple is someone who will 576 00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:27,360 be a doer of His word. Well, if you're going to be a 577 00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:30,160 doer of His word and understand all the truths that are 578 00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:33,040 associated in His Kingdom, then you're going to have to study 579 00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:35,360 the Word. And when He, when you hear it, 580 00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:38,800 you've got to let it change your thinking and then you act on it 581 00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:43,040 every time. Not sometimes, not 90% of the 582 00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:46,480 time, not 40% of the time, 100% of the time. 583 00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:49,800 If you fail to act on it, you repent and then you get back on 584 00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:53,840 acting on it. So Jesus is defining, if you're 585 00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:56,160 a disciple, then you're going to do the will of my Father. 586 00:39:56,920 --> 00:39:59,880 Well, is it the will of the Father that we assemble today? 587 00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:06,280 OK, that's just one truth. Whoever does the will of my 588 00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:10,040 Father who is in heaven, he is my brother and sister and. 589 00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:16,000 Mother for whoever, again, whoever, whoever. 590 00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:18,520 So he's looking at disciples. He's saying this family's bigger 591 00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:22,560 than this. So again, my family is not from 592 00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:29,760 my DNA as far as natural blood, but it is from the DNA of God. 593 00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:34,240 Hallelujah. And my brothers and sisters who 594 00:40:34,240 --> 00:40:37,320 love to do the will of God, it's easy to be around them. 595 00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:39,560 I mean, it's so fun to be around them. 596 00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:43,640 It is amazing to be around them because even if I do something 597 00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:47,520 wrong towards them, then they will forgive me, restore me, and 598 00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:51,040 we'll go on and vice versa. Because we never get offended, 599 00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:54,120 get hung up, never get into strife and those things that we 600 00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:55,200 allow it to stay. Why? 601 00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:58,360 Because we're too committed to doing the will of the Father. 602 00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:04,080 We're too passionate about doing His purpose and intent. 603 00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:08,920 We're too excited about waking up every day and saying, what 604 00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:10,840 does God want to do with me today? 605 00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:14,560 I can't wait to be around all these other people who just love 606 00:41:14,720 --> 00:41:20,600 to please the Father and live by faith that we eat, breathe and 607 00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:23,440 drink it. And it's not contained in the 608 00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:27,240 building, but it comes from this building because we assemble to 609 00:41:27,240 --> 00:41:31,480 do our part of what Dad asks us to do, and we passionately run 610 00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:37,000 and do it. Yeah, that is who Jesus is 611 00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:40,520 talking about. And you can have this household 612 00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:47,240 when you have the living God in your church, because the church 613 00:41:47,240 --> 00:41:51,000 is the pillar and supportive truth, not the place where 614 00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:56,040 opinions and cultural ideas are explored. 615 00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:07,040 One person said it this way. A household is a society marked 616 00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:12,280 by diversity in unity. Yeah, that's powerful. 617 00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:17,240 A household is a society marked by diversity in unity. 618 00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:21,960 And when I look out here and just in this sanctuary, I'm 619 00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:25,240 thankful. We're not the same, but our 620 00:42:25,240 --> 00:42:31,800 unity makes us unstoppable. What are we unified around doing 621 00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:34,880 The will of our father. Nothing personal. 622 00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:37,280 I got to do the will of my father. 623 00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:39,720 I love him so much. You know what? 624 00:42:39,720 --> 00:42:41,400 I'm going to love you through his eyes. 625 00:42:41,720 --> 00:42:44,840 And we're going to handle situations according to how Dad 626 00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:48,160 says to handle them. Because we love Dad and there's 627 00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:53,360 nothing that Dad hasn't can't help us overcome, nor has he not 628 00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:56,120 conquered. So it's easy for us. 629 00:42:57,600 --> 00:43:01,080 It's really easy for us. Then we're not like, OK Dad, 630 00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:05,600 let's do it your way. And I died a self and do his 631 00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:08,640 will is easy. And man, those people are the 632 00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:11,480 funnest to be around. And I just want you to know 633 00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:16,600 they're the only ones you're going to be around in eternity. 634 00:43:17,640 --> 00:43:21,400 No one is in the new Jerusalem and the new heaven and new 635 00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:25,200 earth. That's like, you know, this is 636 00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:30,120 pretty cool. I kind of miss. 637 00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:37,360 No, not at all. Not at all. 638 00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:43,440 Not at all. Let's close with this passage in 639 00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:45,480 Ephesians chapter 2. We're going to do water baptism. 640 00:43:45,880 --> 00:43:48,080 If you're going to be water baptized, I'm going to encourage 641 00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:50,920 you to step out now. Go ahead and change and then 642 00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:53,760 come back and get ready and we'll baptize you. 643 00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:57,760 Ephesians 218 to 22. It says For through Him we both 644 00:43:57,760 --> 00:44:01,000 have our access in one Spirit to the Father. 645 00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:05,280 So then we are no longer strangers and aliens, but you 646 00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:09,320 are fellow citizens with the Saints and you and are of God's 647 00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:13,440 household having been built on the on the foundation of the 648 00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:18,880 apostles and prophets, Christ himself being the cornerstone 649 00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:23,600 Christ Jesus himself. Christ is the Greek equivalent 650 00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:27,240 to the Hebrew word Messiah. What was the what was the church 651 00:44:27,240 --> 00:44:31,600 built on? That Jesus Christ is King, He's 652 00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:34,920 the King of the Kingdom, and we are a part of his Kingdom. 653 00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:38,560 We are citizens, fellow citizens, this one says in his 654 00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:42,680 Kingdom, and it makes us part of his household, in whom the whole 655 00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:46,880 body being fitted together is growing into a holy temple in 656 00:44:46,880 --> 00:44:51,320 the Lord, in whom also are being built together into a dwelling 657 00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:57,440 of God in the Spirit. And so we see here that who is 658 00:44:57,440 --> 00:45:00,920 in our household is those who do the will of the Father, your 659 00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:03,600 family. And there's nothing better than 660 00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:05,680 to be around. It's tough to be around someone 661 00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:09,920 who wants to rebel. And I'm going to do a little bit 662 00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:12,760 of a study on this because Reverend John George, I love 663 00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:16,400 being around people who like to talk the word right now, I can 664 00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:18,720 talk other stuff. Don't get me wrong. 665 00:45:18,720 --> 00:45:21,000 I can talk about football. I can talk about, you know, 666 00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:23,640 hockey. I can talk about, you know, 667 00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:26,000 other things. But I love to talk about the 668 00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:26,880 word. Word. 669 00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:28,880 And he said this, and he said, you know, there's a big 670 00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:31,160 difference between disobedience and rebellion. 671 00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:33,960 I'm like, oh, I need to preach that. 672 00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:38,440 That's good. Because I think some people 673 00:45:38,920 --> 00:45:41,480 think they're just disobeying when they're in downright 674 00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:46,640 rebellion. Those disobedience will lead you 675 00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:53,280 to the road of rebellion. But there's nothing. 676 00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:56,160 It's tough being around a believer that just doesn't want 677 00:45:56,160 --> 00:45:59,640 to do a word. Because it's like, I don't 678 00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:04,440 understand why are you not doing the work? 679 00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:06,760 I don't understand what's what's the problem? 680 00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:11,040 Why are you allowing your flesh to dominate, right? 681 00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:16,000 I don't understand you. You've been crucified with, I 682 00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:20,600 don't understand, but man, you get around those who have no 683 00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:23,680 problem. They're the funnest people to be 684 00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:25,840 with. You just love to hang out with 685 00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:27,480 them. You want to and you love the 686 00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:30,120 fact that they're not like you. They see things differently, but 687 00:46:30,120 --> 00:46:32,960 yet you're unified around that. We going to do what God says. 688 00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:35,560 We're going to fulfill God's plan. 689 00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:40,440 Now how are we going to do that? We say, what's the Bible say? 690 00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:46,960 What's the Bible say? I'm going to close with this 691 00:46:47,240 --> 00:46:49,360 again. John's been with us, Reverend 692 00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:52,280 John, for a little bit. And we talked about many things. 693 00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:56,480 And he would say, hey, in this situation, would you do this? 694 00:46:56,800 --> 00:47:00,120 And he gives me the word. I said, yeah, I know that's in 695 00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:02,560 the Word. I said I talked to the Lord 696 00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:05,560 about that. Is that your word for me in this 697 00:47:05,560 --> 00:47:09,200 situation? But He gave me this word 698 00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:13,080 instead, and according to this word, I'm doing this. 699 00:47:13,080 --> 00:47:16,760 Do you understand? Doing the will of the Father is 700 00:47:16,760 --> 00:47:20,640 not grabbing His word and deciding which one you want to 701 00:47:20,640 --> 00:47:30,000 apply, but it's seeking Him to find out which word He wants you 702 00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:33,920 to apply. Because when you apply the word 703 00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:37,160 He gives you, then you have the anointing of that word. 704 00:47:40,360 --> 00:47:44,800 You have the anointing of that word and situations. 705 00:47:44,920 --> 00:47:49,000 There are different applications by which the Father knows which 706 00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:53,760 to apply. He knows which to apply. 707 00:47:55,160 --> 00:47:57,960 For some, there's still more mercy, so he says stay here. 708 00:47:58,560 --> 00:48:02,000 But for others, he's like, you're going to say this, you're 709 00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:07,480 going to cut that off, but you have to have an ear to hear 710 00:48:07,480 --> 00:48:11,240 that, not you pick based upon how you feel about that 711 00:48:11,240 --> 00:48:12,760 situation. And now you're going to throw 712 00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:22,200 Scripture out there because God's living presence comes from 713 00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:25,760 the foundation that he's the pillar in support of truth. 714 00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:28,600 And he's like, the truth is about this situation. 715 00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:32,560 This is what I need you to do to get the best result. 716 00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:36,800 And sometimes the best result doesn't resolve it, but it's the 717 00:48:36,800 --> 00:48:42,000 best result for you. And then God moves on so he can 718 00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:45,240 do what He needs to do because you did what you did. 719 00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:47,000 Amen.