1 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:05,560 Thanks for checking out the Anchor Faith Message podcast 2 00:00:05,560 --> 00:00:06,960 from St. Augustine, FL. 3 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:17,120 Now enjoy this message. Isaiah chapter 46 verse 10 says 4 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:21,200 this. Declaring the end from the 5 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:24,480 beginning. And from ancient times things 6 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:29,520 which have not been done, saying my purpose will be established 7 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:33,320 and I will accomplish all my good pleasure, so the. 8 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:37,240 Lord says from the end or declaring the end from the 9 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:42,800 beginning, which tells us when God speaks he's already seen its 10 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:46,880 completion. Now this is a very powerful 11 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:51,440 principle, because if God is truly talking to you about 12 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:56,720 something and speaks to you the minute He talks to you, you 13 00:00:56,720 --> 00:01:02,640 should consider it over, even though it's not in 14 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:06,080 manifestation, because God is not going to say something to 15 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:10,920 you at the beginning that he hasn't already seen its end. 16 00:01:14,960 --> 00:01:18,640 This is why when God gives a word to you and you take it by 17 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:23,680 faith, it will come to pass because He's declaring you in a 18 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:26,280 beginning of hearing something already finished. 19 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:30,600 Are you hearing me? You know as well as I do when we 20 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:34,040 when God began to speak to us concerning purchasing the mall, 21 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:37,960 I'll never forget that particular Camp Living Faith 22 00:01:37,960 --> 00:01:41,520 conference that Pastor Kenneth Estrada and Pastor Roddy 23 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:46,120 Schaefer were here and we had heard the Lord and so we decided 24 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:49,880 in that service based upon pastor preaching on moving 25 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:53,040 mountains. That and this was in 2015. 26 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:59,360 We didn't sign officially till 2021 that it became ours. 27 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:04,360 But in 2015, which would have been a January in 2015, US 3, we 28 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:06,840 came over here to this area, right here, and we began to 29 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:11,160 dance and shout like we had signed papers and it was 30 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:14,880 finished. So the day that I actually 31 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:17,960 signed, I didn't jump around and shout because I had done it six 32 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:19,920 years earlier. Come on, you hear what I'm 33 00:02:19,920 --> 00:02:23,960 saying. So that's how it is with God, 34 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:26,000 with you. If he says by his stripes you 35 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:28,200 were healed, well, then guess what? 36 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:31,720 You are. So that means your body must get 37 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:36,000 alignment as long as you fail not to believe. 38 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:39,320 Amen. Now, there may be some things in 39 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:42,800 the process between your belief and its manifestation that 40 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:48,520 you're going to do some things. That's not just God alone, OK? 41 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:51,800 Because God may have some different methods by which he 42 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:54,120 brings that healing to pass. And when I say that, I'm not 43 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:56,880 saying don't continue to hear God in the process. 44 00:02:57,040 --> 00:02:59,520 But you never abandoned. I can only be healed. 45 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:04,520 I have to walk in wholeness because again, Jesus, with some 46 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:10,480 that were didn't have the ability to see at a word they 47 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:14,360 saw, but with others he puts mud on their eyes and tells them to 48 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:19,840 go wash it off. With one he spoke to and I think 49 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:22,640 he may have spit in his eyes or did something, maybe just spoke 50 00:03:22,640 --> 00:03:25,040 to him or laid hands on him. And he opened his eyes and he 51 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:26,520 said, what do you see? He said, well, I see people that 52 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:29,320 look like trees, which means when he opened it wasn't 53 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:32,200 instantaneous. So the Lord laid hands on him 54 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:33,680 again. The next time he opened it was 55 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:37,120 crystal clear. Well, you understand that man 56 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:39,760 didn't get mad at God and say, well, how come I didn't get it 57 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:45,720 like blind man, Bartimaeus. The problem with believers is 58 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:49,640 sometimes they want their manifestation of healing to be 59 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:52,840 like somebody else's manifestation or their 60 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:56,560 manifestation of faith would be a better way, you know, like 61 00:03:56,560 --> 00:03:58,520 someone else got, which that's not the point. 62 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:01,440 Do you get the end result? I said, do you get the end 63 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:05,160 result? That's the issue as you want to 64 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:07,000 be able to stay with the end result. 65 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:09,920 So he says, he declares the end from the beginning. 66 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:12,480 He says, my purpose will be established. 67 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:15,640 I will accomplish all my good pleasure. 68 00:04:16,079 --> 00:04:19,800 So then we brought up this because we're talking about the 69 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:25,560 power of the will, OK, in God's Kingdom, OK, there's there's a 70 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:28,880 power contained within the will. In fact, God's creation has 71 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:33,480 within it a will of its own. We talked about this last week, 72 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:38,800 that there are created beings that are in God's Kingdom, that 73 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:42,920 he's given them a will and they can choose. 74 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:49,160 And God doesn't stop their choice, even though He may know 75 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:55,200 their choice will bring death. If you weren't here last week, I 76 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:57,920 encourage you to go online so you can see that even in the 77 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:03,480 realm of angels, there was the capacity or the ability for them 78 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:07,800 to think on their own. And one anointed cherub, he was 79 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:11,440 called the Morning Star in Isaiah chapter 14. 80 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:15,320 Because of his beauty. He got lifted up in pride and he 81 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:17,880 decided that of his own free will. 82 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:20,040 I'm going to take over the throne in heaven. 83 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:25,520 I'm going to take God, the Creator of all things. 84 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:27,640 I'm going to take him off his. Throne. 85 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:33,160 He made a choice. Now do you think God wanted him 86 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:36,120 to make that choice? Absolutely not. 87 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:40,400 But he allowed him and he and he received the consequences of 88 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:43,560 that choice, which means Jesus said, I saw Satan fall like. 89 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:45,720 Lightning out of heaven. Right. 90 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:48,440 I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. 91 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:51,480 Not only did he fall, but a third of the angels with him, 92 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:55,240 which means he was able to convince a third. 93 00:05:56,280 --> 00:06:03,000 I said a third to to exercise rebellion against the Creator of 94 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:07,080 all things, and they were convinced they could do it. 95 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:13,120 Then God said, let us make man in our image according to our 96 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:15,680 likeness. The minute he did that, he gave 97 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:19,200 you a will as well. So when he places man in the 98 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:20,920 garden, he said, Let us make man in our image. 99 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:23,840 Genesis 126 According to our likeness, let them have 100 00:06:23,840 --> 00:06:25,800 dominion. God has dominion, He has rules. 101 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:28,240 So he gave man rule and dominion on the earth. 102 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:31,600 He describes what it was on the earth that he had dominion over 103 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:35,960 and then he set a parameter for man to determine does man love 104 00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:38,240 me or not. Now man should love him because 105 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:40,920 he was creating the nature of God and God is love. 106 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:45,760 However, love is not known unless love is exercised. 107 00:06:46,520 --> 00:06:48,680 So he said you can eat from any tree of the garden, but of the 108 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:50,000 tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 109 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:51,480 You shout on to eat for the day you eat. 110 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:54,160 You will, surely. What do you think God's will? 111 00:06:54,160 --> 00:07:01,320 For Adam was to live, to never ever eat the fruit of the 112 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:03,480 knowledge of good and evil. Don't you believe that was His 113 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:05,160 will? Do you think the Lord was like, 114 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:08,560 I really want him to die? I'm going to put that tree here 115 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:10,080 because I really don't like him anyway. 116 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:13,800 No. We know it was his will for him 117 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:19,840 to live and be like him. However, Adam had the free will. 118 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:21,840 And you know what the Father didn't do? 119 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:24,440 The Father did not go against his will. 120 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:29,160 I said the Father did not go against his will. 121 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:33,080 He bore the consequence of his decision. 122 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:36,920 And love 'cause God is love. Put Adam out of the garden. 123 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:43,680 Put Adam out of the garden. Are you hearing me? 124 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:48,360 So when we hear this because again, why are we in this series 125 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:50,080 Again, just to help connect the dots, right? 126 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:53,600 We started this year out calling the reigning spirit because we 127 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:58,680 have the reigning spirit greater is he that is in you than he 128 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:00,920 that's in the world. If the same spirit that raised 129 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:05,120 Christ from the dead dwells, where in you we have the third 130 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:07,360 person of the Godhead, He is the Holy Spirit. 131 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:12,360 He is the reigning spirit and all other spirits are subject to 132 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:15,680 him, right? And if we have the reigning 133 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:18,440 spirit, then why are we listening to other voices? 134 00:08:20,080 --> 00:08:26,040 OK, because and because of this whole context, we came out of 135 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:29,000 Timothy. When Paul wrote to Timothy and 136 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:31,960 he said now listen. In the last of the last days or 137 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:34,840 in the latter times, he said the spirit explicitly says meaning 138 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:36,480 the spirit is saying this is going to happen. 139 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:39,039 You can't pray away. You can't fast and pray that 140 00:08:39,039 --> 00:08:41,000 it's gone. This is going to take place, he 141 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:43,720 said. In the last days, he said, some 142 00:08:43,720 --> 00:08:48,000 will fall away from the faith, paying attention to doctrines of 143 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:53,240 demons and seducing spirits. So then, it's going to behoove 144 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:58,520 us to understand the realm of the spirit this year, but also 145 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:03,160 understand how we need to keep ourselves connected to the 146 00:09:03,160 --> 00:09:08,200 reigning spirit and then attack certain things that are being 147 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:12,040 spoken in the in our circles. When I say our service, I'm 148 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:15,360 talking those who call themselves believers that we 149 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:20,080 need to deal with the cliche statements that have a form of 150 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:23,040 godliness. But it actually lacks power. 151 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:28,600 And not only does it lack power, but it actually has a seduction 152 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:31,720 to it. And if you take hold of certain 153 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:35,240 aspects of things that are just flippantly being said, without 154 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:39,000 you examining it yourself to determine its truth, then it can 155 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:42,400 take you down a road to deception. 156 00:09:42,640 --> 00:09:46,680 That you'll begin to view scripture through a clouded lens 157 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:58,760 and be firmly persuaded that you love God and you are doing his 158 00:09:58,760 --> 00:10:00,840 intention. All the while, the devil has 159 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:05,280 made you powerless and have no significant. 160 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:08,520 Effect on the earth. Amen. 161 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:13,160 So we. Are dealing with the power of 162 00:10:13,160 --> 00:10:15,680 the way. It is the most powerful force 163 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:20,320 God created. So powerful that He doesn't 164 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:25,800 violate yours. He does not violate your will, 165 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:34,320 but He will hold your will against His, and ultimately His 166 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:40,360 will wins. Now, He does this not because 167 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:45,640 He's making you. He does this because His will is 168 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:49,360 His word and His word is life, and he's giving you the 169 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:55,080 opportunity to submit to life. In fact, Joshua said it this 170 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:58,840 way, which was really powerful and it just resonates all 171 00:10:58,840 --> 00:10:59,960 throughout Scripture. He said. 172 00:10:59,960 --> 00:11:03,720 I set before you life and. Choose. 173 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:08,440 Choose life. But who gets to choose it? 174 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:13,200 Who does? OK, so if we have the reigning 175 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:16,360 spirit, you have to understand the reigning spirit is not 176 00:11:16,360 --> 00:11:21,240 making you do something. And since he's not making you do 177 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:25,480 something, 'cause if God made people do stuff, don't you think 178 00:11:25,480 --> 00:11:28,000 he would have made Adam not eat the fruit? 179 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:37,560 Could God had closed his mouth. I mean we know this happened in 180 00:11:37,560 --> 00:11:42,000 the Gospels with was it Zechariah? 181 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:46,200 Is that his name That was, you know, the husband of Martha. 182 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:50,040 And he's like, how in the world my wife going to have a kid now 183 00:11:50,240 --> 00:11:52,720 And the angel's like, bro, you didn't believe my word. 184 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:55,120 You know, that's Pastor Earl's paraphrase. 185 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:59,840 And he said because of that you are not going to be able to open 186 00:11:59,840 --> 00:12:01,560 your mouth. Now he can open his mouth and 187 00:12:01,560 --> 00:12:05,440 eat, but he could not talk, which means the Lord caught tied 188 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:09,360 up his vocal cords. That doesn't mean Zechariah 189 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:11,040 couldn't communicate because he could write. 190 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:14,080 He could carry on whole conversations right now. 191 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:16,120 I'm not saying that he started sign language. 192 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:20,520 I'm just saying he could write ultimately. 193 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:24,120 But when he acknowledged that his son after he was born with 194 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:28,520 his name would be John, then Lord loosed his vocal cords and 195 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:31,080 he began to speak again. Well, don't you know that God 196 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:33,640 can shut mouths? Well, we know he actually can 197 00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:36,800 shut physical mouths so they don't open up when he did what 198 00:12:36,800 --> 00:12:40,080 he what he did for Daniel and the lions den because you know, 199 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:45,240 those those lions were hungry. I don't believe the the lions 200 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:49,000 were satisfied where they had no hunger, pain. 201 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:53,480 I believe the Lord made them more hungry all night long. 202 00:12:53,640 --> 00:12:58,680 In fact, I surmise that when Daniel laid down with the lion 203 00:12:58,880 --> 00:13:03,360 that could not eat him but his stomach was grumbling. 204 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:08,120 It's much like you having one of these beds today that that that 205 00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:11,280 will massage you while you're sleeping. 206 00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:19,320 So he was being massaged by the rumbles of the lion's stomachs 207 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:24,240 and went to sleep and slept great because the minute they 208 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:28,640 pulled Daniel out and he threw the ones who came against Daniel 209 00:13:28,640 --> 00:13:31,320 in, they couldn't even hit the ground. 210 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:35,600 And those lions said about time we get to eat, we were we were 211 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:41,360 held 24 hours. My point is, if God is in 212 00:13:41,480 --> 00:13:47,440 control like people say, then why did he not shut Adam's mouth 213 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:55,080 or wither his hand? Oh, OK, come on now. 214 00:13:56,240 --> 00:14:02,280 'Cause we know it's God's will, that he doesn't eat it, and we 215 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:07,600 know he's all powerful. But he doesn't stop. 216 00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:16,640 He doesn't stop him. You know, God sees it when he 217 00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:24,640 eats, Because when God comes down and says, Adam, where are 218 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:26,320 you? It's not because he was blind. 219 00:14:27,680 --> 00:14:33,040 It's not because Adam was a good hider, right? 220 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:36,160 No, he's like, you're out of position. 221 00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:41,520 He's just trying to get him to take responsibility for his 222 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:44,800 action. Have you eaten the fruit? 223 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:50,560 I told you not to. So we need to be careful when we 224 00:14:50,560 --> 00:14:54,480 say God's in control because we can mislead people. 225 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:57,520 In fact, I'll just be honest with you, there was a whole 226 00:14:57,520 --> 00:15:00,560 article written by someone at one juncture who was having a 227 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:04,040 hard time with God and Jesus because they had heard the 228 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:07,080 statement God's in control so much that says, well, if God's 229 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:10,280 in control, he's doing a really horrible job right now because 230 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:12,680 why are there famines? Why are there women being raped? 231 00:15:12,680 --> 00:15:16,360 Why is there inequality and unjustice in nations? 232 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:18,840 Why are there this? If this is God, then I don't 233 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:22,240 want to serve him. And the reality is God is not, 234 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:26,960 you know, wanting famine. God is not wanting people to 235 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:29,280 kill each other. God is not wanting women rape. 236 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:34,560 That is not his will, so he's not the author of those actions. 237 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:39,960 Yet we, in our illiteracy of Scripture and the knowledge of 238 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:45,120 rightly divine the truth, will begin to give God a power he 239 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:50,680 himself doesn't even possess, to try to justify him as if He's 240 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:53,920 greater because his ways are higher than our ways and his 241 00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:55,200 thoughts are higher than our thoughts. 242 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:58,200 And if God wants a woman to be raped to teach her something, 243 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:00,800 then that's on God and they ought to just accept it. 244 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:09,160 He is not unjust like that. He's not, because really the 245 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:11,200 word control means to have power over. 246 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:14,160 Well, does he have power over? Ultimately, his word has power 247 00:16:14,160 --> 00:16:17,640 over Does he exercise, restraining or directing 248 00:16:17,640 --> 00:16:20,680 influence over? I would say he definitely gives 249 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:23,880 influence. How did he control Adam? 250 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:26,680 The most he could control Adam was this Adam. 251 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:30,920 See all the trees? You can eat from any of them. 252 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:36,000 Now see this tree right here? Don't eat for the day you eat, 253 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:38,800 you're going to die. And that's all the control he 254 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:42,560 had over Adam. He was trying to. 255 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:44,280 Influence him because what did he say? 256 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:46,960 This fruit, what did he tell him? 257 00:16:47,160 --> 00:16:50,480 Don't eat it. He told him what to do. 258 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:53,960 Don't eat it. He told him what to do. 259 00:16:54,360 --> 00:16:57,760 Don't eat it. He told him what to do. 260 00:16:58,440 --> 00:17:02,800 Don't eat it. Because the day you do, you'll 261 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:06,319 die. So did God. 262 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:16,800 Make Adam eat the fruit. No, Adam chose, although he had 263 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:22,040 the answer to not. So we've got to be. 264 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:25,920 Careful when we start saying, well, God's in control. 265 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:30,240 He doesn't control. In fact, let me just go ahead 266 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:32,520 and drive on a little bit so I can prove this to you. 267 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:35,560 Some things. Again, God cannot force anyone 268 00:17:35,560 --> 00:17:39,400 against their will, but only influences it by giving them the 269 00:17:39,400 --> 00:17:44,000 right answer. But ultimately, you decide, OK, 270 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:46,720 go ahead and look at your name and say I decide, don't be 271 00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:48,440 blaming God for all your mistakes. 272 00:17:50,440 --> 00:18:02,950 Don't think God willed it, OK, no, I'm not going to go there. 273 00:18:03,230 --> 00:18:06,430 God will let you do anything you want to do, but we'll hold you 274 00:18:06,430 --> 00:18:10,630 accountable to whatever you do according to His will. 275 00:18:11,990 --> 00:18:13,710 Because at the end of the day, what is will? 276 00:18:13,910 --> 00:18:15,710 Will is the. Decision to do. 277 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:20,800 An action something. And at the end of the day, who 278 00:18:20,840 --> 00:18:23,320 has the ultimate say so in anything? 279 00:18:25,120 --> 00:18:29,200 OK, now you say we do. You have the ultimate ability to 280 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:33,160 do anything you want. To but the ultimate say so is 281 00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:36,400 the Lord's. And if you choose not to do it, 282 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:38,720 you get the consequences of not doing it. 283 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:42,720 But it was still your choice, because he sure didn't make you 284 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:50,760 right. How many of you felt forced by 285 00:18:50,760 --> 00:18:55,040 the Lord to be here today? How many of you did the Holy 286 00:18:55,040 --> 00:19:02,160 Spirit come up out your body, snatched your sheets off your 287 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:04,880 bed this morning? Threw you out of bed. 288 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:08,280 You're like, what? Get dressed. 289 00:19:08,360 --> 00:19:09,600 And I I don't feel like going today. 290 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:11,360 And he picked your arm. You put your jacket on. 291 00:19:11,360 --> 00:19:13,280 You're like, I don't want you. And he's brushing your teeth. 292 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:14,280 I don't. Want it done. 293 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:16,920 I don't want to go. He hits you and spit the stuff 294 00:19:16,920 --> 00:19:20,640 out, and he throws you in the car and he drives for you while 295 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:24,880 you're sitting there hitting the brake, and then he makes you 296 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:30,440 come in today. Did he do that? 297 00:19:31,360 --> 00:19:37,800 So why are you here now? Does God want you here? 298 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:42,880 How do you know that? Because it's in his word, do not 299 00:19:42,880 --> 00:19:44,640 forsake the assembling of yourself together. 300 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:48,960 And all the more as the day draws near, as some do, they 301 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:50,360 forsake it. So don't do that. 302 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:53,040 And all the more as the day approaches, What day? 303 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:55,080 The day we're waiting on. The day when the trumpet sounds, 304 00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:57,560 The day that we are changing The moment in the twinkling of an 305 00:19:57,560 --> 00:19:59,560 eye and we jump up out of this place. 306 00:19:59,680 --> 00:20:02,280 Yeah, all the more. And if there's ever a day that 307 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:05,880 that day is, it's today. We're closer than ever. 308 00:20:06,120 --> 00:20:09,960 We should be the best perfect attendance people on the planet. 309 00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:15,680 But that comes by free will, and that's not religion, That's 310 00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:22,520 choice. Hallelujah. 311 00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:30,160 So will is the power to control one's own actions and emotions. 312 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:36,080 Mental powers manifested as wishing, desiring, choosing, or 313 00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:41,760 intending to determine by an act of choice. 314 00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:47,480 And we all have this. I had a choice today of what to 315 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:51,520 put on. The Lord did not talk to me and 316 00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:53,480 say, put this on. Now if the Lord told me what to 317 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:55,000 wear, I would put that outfit on. 318 00:20:56,120 --> 00:20:59,120 I would do that. But if He didn't, He did tell me 319 00:20:59,120 --> 00:21:02,600 this though, to put on an outfit in a general sense. 320 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:04,040 Why? Because he said that I need to 321 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:06,960 be modest. So coming in here naked would be 322 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:11,640 pretty embarrassing, right? I mean, that wouldn't be God's 323 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:16,080 will for me to say I'm free. I'm free. 324 00:21:16,360 --> 00:21:20,120 I'm back in the garden, people. I'm free. 325 00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:24,360 No, no. I mean, I'm not building a 326 00:21:24,360 --> 00:21:27,520 doctrine on nudity. Right? 327 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:29,640 Come on now. Now we're all free. 328 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:32,000 We bat like the original Adam. We in the garden. 329 00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:35,560 We just have a nudist church. I can see it now. 330 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:38,600 I can see them now. Getting off that bad. 331 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:41,080 I'm not attended people I am not attended. 332 00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:43,200 I have. I have never heard of any nudist 333 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:44,480 colony that the people look good. 334 00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:47,120 Anyway just to let you know funny story. 335 00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:50,360 Funny story. So I have a pastor, a friend of 336 00:21:50,360 --> 00:21:52,760 mine who used to be a district director for Rhema out in the 337 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:57,200 Tampa area and he had a person in his church said hey, my mom 338 00:21:57,200 --> 00:21:58,240 or my father. One of those. 339 00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:00,120 I think it was my mom or father. I think it was father. 340 00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:02,760 You know, he's sick and he needs. 341 00:22:03,120 --> 00:22:04,640 Would you go by his house and pray for him? 342 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:06,720 He's like, sure, because, you know, pastors pray for people. 343 00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:11,760 A person, a friend of someone, OK, So he's sure he got the 344 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:14,280 address right. He was ignorant of the address. 345 00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:16,960 And he followed the address, got there, showed up at a gate 346 00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:18,480 because there was a gated community. 347 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:20,600 You know plenty of gated communities, right? 348 00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:23,920 In Florida, for sure. And so anyway, drives up. 349 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:27,120 Well, all of a sudden, you know, he, you know, says you know what 350 00:22:27,120 --> 00:22:30,160 he needs to do. And then the guard who worked 351 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:35,920 for the place said a guy drives up, rides up on a bike naked. 352 00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:40,160 So it was a nudist colony. He said, oh, I know where he 353 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:46,160 lives, just follow me. So he said here I am following a 354 00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:51,760 guy on a bike, naked. He said his. 355 00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:55,600 Pastor. He's like he, you know, I kept 356 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:57,760 my word, he said. I just felt like I had blinders 357 00:22:57,760 --> 00:22:59,560 on the whole time, he said. I didn't look to the right or to 358 00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:03,840 the left, man. I just got to the house, prayed 359 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:09,720 for the person looking in their eyes and then left the 360 00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:11,120 neighborhood as quickly as I could. 361 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:14,800 Right. No, but you understand people 362 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:20,200 are goofy. I'm telling you, people are 363 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:23,320 goofy because they do not rightly divide the word of 364 00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:25,760 truth. I mean, you understand, I could 365 00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:29,320 sell you all kind of false stuff in Scripture. 366 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:31,680 Well, if we're back in the original purpose of man and 367 00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:35,040 man's in the garden, then we're in the garden and we were free. 368 00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:36,600 But no, and they weren't wearing any clothes. 369 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:38,680 We were unashamed. So we can all come here together 370 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:41,880 unashamed. Yeah, right. 371 00:23:42,120 --> 00:23:43,960 It's not true. Come on. 372 00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:45,480 It's not true. Quit looking at people. 373 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:47,480 Stop it. Stop it. 374 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:52,880 Right, and don't listen to that. If you're ever going to do 375 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:54,720 public speaking, just imagine everybody naked. 376 00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:56,240 Don't do that. That's that's worse. 377 00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:58,200 It's like I can't even preach now. 378 00:24:00,120 --> 00:24:03,640 Are you hearing me? But it's will you decide. 379 00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:12,040 Say I decide. You are in control, so no one 380 00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:20,120 can control you. You're in control now. 381 00:24:20,120 --> 00:24:27,800 You can be in places where they limit your ability to do, and 382 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:32,920 most of those places that are really tight is called prison. 383 00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:43,280 Now, in prison, they tell you what to wear, what to eat and 384 00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:47,480 when their movement. But even in prison, there's some 385 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:51,160 liberty. But again, a prisoner can still 386 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:55,040 choose to either be in the general population, or they can 387 00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:59,760 even rebel against what layers of boundaries are set there and 388 00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:02,200 find themselves in solitary confinement. 389 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:05,360 They didn't have to be in solitary confinement, but 390 00:25:05,360 --> 00:25:08,000 because they will not get along well with the general 391 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:12,800 population, so there's still a matter of choice, even in 392 00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:15,240 prison. But if you're not in prison, you 393 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:18,320 understand your job doesn't control you, 'cause you could 394 00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:24,000 quit. Your spouse doesn't control you. 395 00:25:24,120 --> 00:25:27,760 You could get a divorce, You could. 396 00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:33,640 Are you hearing me? Getting pregnant doesn't even 397 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:36,920 control you. There are people who make 398 00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:38,840 choices to not be pregnant anymore. 399 00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:45,080 Are you hearing me? If you are speeding in the 400 00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:49,120 police officers, you can choose to either pull over or keep 401 00:25:49,120 --> 00:25:56,440 driving faster, right? So it's kind of crazy when 402 00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:59,040 people are always acting like people are trying to control my 403 00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:03,800 life and then begin to get on social media and talk about the 404 00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:08,440 abuses that are happening in the workplace or, you know, among 405 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:10,760 their family. Especially when it comes to 406 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:12,360 church. You know, because you know, 407 00:26:12,360 --> 00:26:14,520 pastors are the most controlling people on the face of the 408 00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:17,160 planet, apparently. But the reality is no one's 409 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:19,280 controlling you. You control your own life. 410 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:26,360 Even right now. I don't control you listening, 411 00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:32,280 'cause don't think. There's not been plenty of 412 00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:35,080 people that while I'm preaching, some are like praise the Lord, 413 00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:38,080 thank you Lord, and are receiving the engrafted word and 414 00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:39,720 renewing their mind. And others like I don't believe 415 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:44,320 that I'm not going to do that, but yet smiling the whole time, 416 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:49,480 Hallelujah. And there are some that even run 417 00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:52,760 down and shout, but then on Monday, cuss. 418 00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:56,440 What happened to Sunday? You. 419 00:26:57,240 --> 00:27:02,520 Where's the Sunday person? It's your choice. 420 00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:04,960 Well, you know, at work, you know, they made me. 421 00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:09,240 Nobody's making you. I said nobody's making you, 422 00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:12,440 nobody's making you. And you know, in the United 423 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:16,040 States you really have no say. So it's not like you're in these 424 00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:18,480 dictator countries and. Even then, the dictator 425 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:21,240 countries, there's still the ability to choose because you 426 00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:23,760 could choose to go against the dictator and just leave the 427 00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:28,600 planet quicker. Right. 428 00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:32,240 I mean, you could do that. Just say Amen. 429 00:27:33,360 --> 00:27:37,320 But why do people want to put the control card on others? 430 00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:42,600 It's because they don't want to take the responsibility of their 431 00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:46,320 own choice. They want to accept the lie. 432 00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:50,440 And you know what? It came from the believer saying 433 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:56,000 God is in control. Because if God can do something 434 00:27:56,000 --> 00:28:03,240 to me that I don't want, if God forces, if God's making the 435 00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:06,560 choices in my life and I'm basically walking down those 436 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:12,000 paths, period, well then you understand it's easy to put that 437 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:18,360 on anyone else. Well, the reality is, God lets 438 00:28:18,360 --> 00:28:20,880 you take your own path. Now how do we know this? 439 00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:23,760 Let's, let's destroy a little little false doctrine here 440 00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:25,280 first. John 15 says this. 441 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:29,480 This is the message we have heard from him and announced to 442 00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:34,120 you that God is what light. And in him there is what there 443 00:28:34,120 --> 00:28:39,920 is what there is what. No darkness at No darkness at, 444 00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:48,080 No darkness at So God is what now Colossians says that he 445 00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:53,320 redeemed us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into 446 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:57,680 the Kingdom of his of the Son of light, his beloved Son, or the 447 00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:01,080 Son of Light. So darkness is associated with 448 00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:04,840 evil and disobedience and rebellion and light is 449 00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:09,080 associated with life. And he says there's no rebellion 450 00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:15,760 in God, There's no evil in God. In fact, Jesus said it this way 451 00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:18,640 in John 1430. He said, I will not speak much 452 00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:22,600 more with you, for the ruler of this of the world is coming and 453 00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:27,840 he has nothing in me. He has what? 454 00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:31,760 Nothing. So you understand one particular 455 00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:33,920 thing we see all the time is the yin and the Yang. 456 00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:36,440 The yin and the Yang. You know, it stands that in 457 00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:39,680 everything evil there's a little bit of good and everything good 458 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:42,440 there's a little bit of evil. And so we actually think God's 459 00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:48,520 all good, but yet he can dabble in darkness if he chooses, 460 00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:51,960 because he's in control and his ways are higher than your ways. 461 00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:56,000 And we've accepted that as truth. 462 00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:59,840 But that's conflicting, because how can a holy God and a just 463 00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:04,200 God play with the devil? In fact, how can he employ him 464 00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:09,920 if if the devil's on his payroll? 465 00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:23,080 Come on, he's on his payroll. Are you hearing me now? 466 00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:27,160 Again, let me read James 1st, and then I'm going to deal with 467 00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:28,800 you. Job and false doctrine. 468 00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:34,760 James 112 to 15 says this blessed is a man who perseveres. 469 00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:37,600 Under what? Under trial. 470 00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:41,800 What's he do? He perseveres under trial, for 471 00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:45,520 once he has been approved, he will receive what the crown of 472 00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:51,280 life which the Lord has promised to those who what, Let no one 473 00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:56,560 say when he is what? Tempted I am being tempted by 474 00:30:56,560 --> 00:31:03,480 God for God, What cannot be tempted by evil? 475 00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:08,640 Well, if he can't be tempted by evil, and in him is no darkness. 476 00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:11,040 And the God of this world, or the rule of this world has 477 00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:13,920 nothing in him. So there's nothing in God that 478 00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:22,440 uses evil to teach you a lesson. I don't know why the Lord let me 479 00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:25,200 get in a wreck. The Lord didn't let you get in a 480 00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:28,280 wreck. The Lord was not the author of 481 00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:34,640 your wreck. There's a devil that comes to 482 00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:36,880 still. It's amazing. 483 00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:42,200 We want to give all the devil's weapons and his warfare 484 00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:45,920 attributed to God. I know, we know that God is 485 00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:49,760 ultimately the source of authority and his will reigns 486 00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:52,800 supreme. But there are other forces and 487 00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:56,160 there's other humans that are functioning of their own free 488 00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:59,880 will and they're trying to thwart and come against God's 489 00:31:59,920 --> 00:32:03,560 ultimate will. And God can take the will of 490 00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:06,360 someone against him that can come against you. 491 00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:10,560 So in essence, what the devil meant for bad, God can turn for 492 00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:13,680 good. But he wasn't the author of what 493 00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:20,360 the devil brought. Let no one say when he's tempted 494 00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:22,920 I'm tempted by God. For God cannot tempt by evil, 495 00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:25,720 for he himself does not tempt anyone. 496 00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:27,720 Now notice this comes off of verse 12. 497 00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:30,680 Blessed are the man who perseveres under trial. 498 00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:40,040 I mean, this is how powerful God's word is. 499 00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:42,720 The minute he makes you known the answer. 500 00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:46,640 He doesn't care if something comes against you, because he's 501 00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:50,160 already giving you the power to overcome God. 502 00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:51,920 Never. Told Adam. 503 00:32:53,240 --> 00:33:00,680 Hey, son, we tide. And you know I love you, right? 504 00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:02,440 Look at all this fruit I've given you. 505 00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:04,360 It's pretty awesome, right? And you know you can't eat this 506 00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:05,720 tree. This tree right here, son. 507 00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:07,360 You don't eat it, right? I've told you that. 508 00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:08,560 Don't eat this tree. You'll die. 509 00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:11,200 I've said this to you. Every time I come to the garden, 510 00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:12,240 I tell you that I just remind you. 511 00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:16,720 But listen, where your daddy lives. 512 00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:22,960 I had a problem. Now I take care of problems, but 513 00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:25,880 I cast one of these creative beings. 514 00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:28,800 I head out and I'll be honest with you. 515 00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:36,000 I think he's coming to see you. I just want you to know that way 516 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:38,640 when he shows up, you'll be ready. 517 00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:42,880 He never told him that. Never. 518 00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:48,080 Never. You think why in the world would 519 00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:52,280 the father not warn his son? Well, how in the world can Adam 520 00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:55,720 die no matter who shows up? There's only one way to die for 521 00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:58,000 Adam. It's to eat the fruit. 522 00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:02,160 Tempting. Being tempted won't kill him. 523 00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:09,000 Being tempted won't kill him because Jesus was tempted on all 524 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:12,159 accounts like us. But he didn't sin now. 525 00:34:12,159 --> 00:34:16,400 He became sin. He didn't willfully divulge in 526 00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:21,880 rebellion. He took on what he resisted his 527 00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:24,840 whole existence because he did the will of his father. 528 00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:27,679 So he didn't ever warn him that he was coming. 529 00:34:27,679 --> 00:34:30,880 He just said don't eat this tree so you understand why the devil 530 00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:33,000 comes in. It's like I got to figure out 531 00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:37,440 what God said. Because his will is what he 532 00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:41,159 supports, and if you go against his will, then you get the 533 00:34:41,159 --> 00:34:43,360 alternative. And so I got to find out what 534 00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:45,320 his will is. I need to know what his will is. 535 00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:47,360 Let me ask Eve. Let me just ask Eve. 536 00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:50,679 Let me see if I can get it out of her and she lets him. 537 00:34:50,679 --> 00:34:52,159 No, no. We can eat from any tree of the 538 00:34:52,159 --> 00:34:54,120 garden, bro. Just this tree right here. 539 00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:55,840 We can't eat because the day we eat we going to die. 540 00:34:56,239 --> 00:34:58,040 And he's like, that's it, that's it, that's it. 541 00:34:58,040 --> 00:34:59,800 OK, OK. I'm going to tempt them with 542 00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:02,120 what evil? I am going to tempt them. 543 00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:08,920 Not the God. And God didn't send him the same 544 00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:11,720 power that God had Adam possessed in the earth. 545 00:35:11,720 --> 00:35:18,440 He could have cast the devil out of his realm, but instead he 546 00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:23,560 chose to rebel against his own father. 547 00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:26,320 It was his choice. That's why Romans 5 says it's 548 00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:30,200 through one man's transgression, not because of the temptation, 549 00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:35,920 but because of the choice. So when we get over into then 550 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:37,800 and let's go on, he said. But the one who is tempted is 551 00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:40,440 carried away and enticed by his own lust. 552 00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:44,040 So there was something that fabricated in 'cause you 553 00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:45,680 understand? When God created the anointed 554 00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:49,280 cherub that we call Satan today, he didn't put any evil in him. 555 00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:54,360 He conceived that himself he'd started to lust. 556 00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:59,160 And then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to 557 00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:01,160 sin. And when sin is accomplished, it 558 00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:03,160 brings forth what? Death. 559 00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:09,000 So when Adam, he began to lust for power that was never his, 560 00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:16,600 and he made the choice to act on it because he thought he could 561 00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:18,560 get it. But in turn he just gave his 562 00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:24,400 authority over to the devil. The devil usurped in essence 563 00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:29,440 through deception was able to receive freely from Adam. 564 00:36:29,720 --> 00:36:33,640 Not stealing, but receive freely through manipulation and 565 00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:37,240 deception. The power of dominion over the 566 00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:39,640 earth. That's why he was called these 567 00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:42,520 is called the God of this world or the systems that are on it. 568 00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:44,800 That's why Jesus called him the ruler of this world. 569 00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:46,760 It's not the earth, it's the systems. 570 00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:49,560 In essence, he is functioning in the systems. 571 00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:52,720 He's established those systems because he's Lord. 572 00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:55,840 He's king over them. But I've come to destroy the 573 00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:56,760 works of the devil. Get. 574 00:36:56,760 --> 00:37:00,200 Can I get an Amen? He wants to bring God's Kingdom 575 00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:03,680 back. So if you jump back over into 576 00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:07,200 Job and you can study this for yourself when you're reading the 577 00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:10,920 account and you read these other accounts, you have to know then 578 00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:14,640 God himself is not wanting to destroy Job. 579 00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:19,960 It's not God's will that he loses his kids, loses his 580 00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:24,280 livestock. The enemy comes to the Lord in 581 00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:26,960 the heaven realm because he is the God of the world. 582 00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:30,960 And the Lord says, have you considered my servant Job? 583 00:37:31,240 --> 00:37:35,360 He's a righteous guy. The devil did. 584 00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:42,360 Satan did. And he begins to say, yeah, he's 585 00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:46,240 blessed all right, you sure are blessing him. 586 00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:49,880 But if you take the things you've given him Now, what gave 587 00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:52,320 the devil rights anyway? Well, what was Job doing? 588 00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:56,480 He was very concerned that his kids may sin against God, so he 589 00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:59,280 was doing sacrifices for them. Oh, thank you, Jesus. 590 00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:04,080 He was doing sacrifices for them in hopes that in the event that 591 00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:07,040 their kids did something and they died, that they could make 592 00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:10,920 it into God or be with God. In essence, he was trying to be 593 00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:14,200 the sacrifice for his own kids, but his kids had opened the door 594 00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:19,760 themselves and so it gave him, gave him the right and it said 595 00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:26,920 he feared this. He was afraid, very concerned 596 00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:29,200 that his kids weren't living according to the will of God, 597 00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:30,680 the known will of God. At the time. 598 00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:34,280 It gave an open door for the devil to come and kill his kids, 599 00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:37,400 kill what they were responsible for, which was his livestock. 600 00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:39,920 They oversaw a lot of his stuff. They were response. 601 00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:44,080 He was able to destroy all that stuff in hopes that he would 602 00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:47,240 begin to think God as a bad person. 603 00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:55,480 Now he never called God evil and it was obvious he did not have 604 00:38:55,480 --> 00:39:03,160 any context of Satan like we do. We've been given letters and 605 00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:07,800 context of Satan, which is why he said the Lord gives, the Lord 606 00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:08,720 takes away. Why? 607 00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:13,440 Because he is not aware of the entity or the person. 608 00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:16,120 Called the Devil. But we are not ignorant of him. 609 00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:18,840 Again, You understand somebody can do something for you and 610 00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:24,600 you're unaware of it. I mean, I've gone to 611 00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:26,080 restaurants, somebody pay for my meal. 612 00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:29,480 I have no idea who did it. Now I could just say, well, the 613 00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:31,520 Lord blessed me, the Lord paid for it. 614 00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:34,880 Well, the Lord ultimately did in one sense, but he did it through 615 00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:39,320 a human being, right? So again, when he's making the 616 00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:42,600 statement, it's in ignorance. The whole book of Job is him 617 00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:46,480 trying to understand why all this befell but would befall him 618 00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:50,280 when he's been living righteous in the 1st place, you say? 619 00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:53,440 Well what about the sickness? Man was made out of the dust of 620 00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:58,520 the and Adam had a a dominion over all thee. 621 00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:02,320 So when he says if you touch the man's skin, if you get sickness 622 00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:04,160 on him, he'll curse you to your face. 623 00:40:05,240 --> 00:40:08,680 And what did God say? He's within your power. 624 00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:14,440 Both times he said that he's within your power meaning. 625 00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:19,000 But he he limited what he could do to Job's suit, he said. 626 00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:22,960 Because he's righteous, you can't put a sickness on him that 627 00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:25,680 he would die where his spirit would have to leave. 628 00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:30,800 He's done nothing deserving of physical death, so you cannot 629 00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:34,200 put anything on him that would cause him to die. 630 00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:41,640 So God limited what the tempter could do because of the 631 00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:52,040 righteousness of Job. And we say God's in control. 632 00:40:56,720 --> 00:40:59,920 Now again, when the scripture in Job says you've tempted me to 633 00:40:59,920 --> 00:41:03,240 move upon my servant Job, all he's saying is, is you're trying 634 00:41:03,240 --> 00:41:04,760 to have me come against him, but I'm not. 635 00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:10,800 He's within your power, but I'll still protect him because you've 636 00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:15,680 given the condition, Satan, that based upon what's in your power. 637 00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:19,160 If you come to kill, steal and destroy it, he will curse me. 638 00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:22,480 I don't believe he'll curse me. He's a righteous man. 639 00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:27,360 Just like I don't want Adam to eat the fruit, but it still will 640 00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:28,840 be Job's choice. But you know what? 641 00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:32,680 Job always chose to maintain righteousness and everything. 642 00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:35,280 The three friends came and said he rebuked them. 643 00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:37,880 Fact they had to do a sacrifice and get Job to pray for them. 644 00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:41,680 But after it was all said and done, what did God do to Job 645 00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:44,200 because of the trouble the devil brought? 646 00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:46,720 I'm giving you double for your trouble. 647 00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:52,080 He got double the kids, meaning he got the same amount on earth 648 00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:53,560 because the other three had already died. 649 00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:56,480 Which means then there was something that happened in the 650 00:41:56,480 --> 00:41:59,280 process, that they were still a candidate to be with the Lord. 651 00:42:00,240 --> 00:42:03,120 I can't tell you what that is. All right. 652 00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:05,880 So with that being said. Turn over to Romans Chapter 9. 653 00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:09,560 I'm going to have to start in verse one and I didn't. 654 00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:13,920 I put this I I put this technically as just Roman 9 655 00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:17,720 because there are verses in here I need to go to and even this 656 00:42:17,720 --> 00:42:19,960 morning I'm like Lord, I need some clarity here because I need 657 00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:21,640 to be able to explain this with clarity. 658 00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:24,680 I need to explain this with clarity because this is the 659 00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:26,440 issue. This is the chapter everybody 660 00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:29,480 goes to and says God's in control, God's in control. 661 00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:31,560 God's in well, God is in control of His word. 662 00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:35,000 He will control His word because His word is Him. 663 00:42:35,240 --> 00:42:37,720 It's who he is, and it's the highest word, period. 664 00:42:37,720 --> 00:42:39,560 But we get to choose whether or not we get to do it. 665 00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:41,960 And if you don't choose God's word, you get the alternative. 666 00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:45,000 His word is life. So if you don't choose His word, 667 00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:46,680 what do you get? Death. 668 00:42:47,160 --> 00:42:50,360 And who decides death. Who decides death? 669 00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:54,880 And this is in any situation in your life. 670 00:42:56,360 --> 00:42:58,880 You decided. You decided OK. 671 00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:04,040 But let's start in verse one, because verse one sets context. 672 00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:11,200 I said verse one sets context. Paul says this. 673 00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:13,520 Look what Paul says. He says. 674 00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:15,680 I am telling the truth in Christ. 675 00:43:15,720 --> 00:43:19,680 I am not lying. My conscience testifies with me 676 00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:24,160 in the Holy Spirit verse 2. That I have great sorrow and 677 00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:29,120 unceasing grief in my heart. Next verse for. 678 00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:36,800 I could wish that I myself were cursed, separated from Christ, 679 00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:40,680 for the sake of my brethren, my kins, kinsmen according to the 680 00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:45,560 flesh, who are Israelites, to whom belong the adoption as sons 681 00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:49,520 and the glory and the covenants and the giving of the law and 682 00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:55,600 the temple service and the promises whose are the fathers 683 00:43:55,600 --> 00:44:00,320 and from whom in the in is in Christ according to the flesh 684 00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:03,600 who is over all God bless forever. 685 00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:07,960 Amen. Verse 6. 686 00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:14,640 But it is not as though the word of God has failed, and I'll stop 687 00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:17,200 right there. Now what's important about this 688 00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:18,840 passage? So leave it up so I can kind of 689 00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:23,240 go to it. What sets context of Chapter 9 690 00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:27,000 is Paul's opening statement. He is saying. 691 00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:37,680 If I could take the responsibility of the choice of 692 00:44:37,720 --> 00:44:43,760 every one of my kinsmen, that I could bear that responsibility 693 00:44:44,320 --> 00:44:49,840 and their some of their choices, so that it's me who will be 694 00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:52,040 eternally separated from Christ forever. 695 00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:58,160 And by doing that, although it was their choice, I'm taking 696 00:44:58,160 --> 00:45:01,160 that choice. And if that could have happened, 697 00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:04,000 I would gladly do it. So all of them could be with 698 00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:12,680 Christ. If I could be their will. 699 00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:19,120 If I could just somehow be the one who took on all of their 700 00:45:19,120 --> 00:45:24,120 choices and got accounted their choices to me so that the 701 00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:28,960 choices they make aren't accounted to them, then I do it 702 00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:33,840 because I have this grief. I want them to be in Christ. 703 00:45:34,720 --> 00:45:38,040 But what does he conclude? You can't. 704 00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:43,240 If there was a way possible that the will of man could be 705 00:45:43,240 --> 00:45:48,160 overturned and they could be with Christ independent of their 706 00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:51,440 choices, I'd be the first one to take it on. 707 00:45:56,160 --> 00:45:57,440 And he said, why would he do that? 708 00:45:57,680 --> 00:46:01,200 Well, he's really demonstrating the heart of Jesus in one sense 709 00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:05,880 because Jesus, although he can't take on your choice, he can take 710 00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:10,680 on your sin, which by all right is your choice, meaning he took 711 00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:14,800 on your wrongdoing. He's paid the price for death so 712 00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:18,320 that you can now, being born of God, born of him and the 713 00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:22,040 reigning spirit lives in. You can always choose the side 714 00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:26,080 with God's word, live the life that has life, and no longer 715 00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:29,480 longer make the choice of wrong. But you still have to make the 716 00:46:29,480 --> 00:46:36,040 choice. So what Jesus could do for us, 717 00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:38,000 He did. Which means I will pay the 718 00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:40,200 payment for the sum of all your choices. 719 00:46:40,440 --> 00:46:49,840 However, you still have to choose me, because here's the 720 00:46:49,840 --> 00:46:51,920 thing. Has Jesus died for the sin of 721 00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:54,880 all humanity? Has he done it once and for all? 722 00:46:55,120 --> 00:46:56,880 Does he ever have to go back to the cross? 723 00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:00,960 No, he's done it so before we were ever thought of in a womb. 724 00:47:01,160 --> 00:47:04,360 In the natural, God already paid for the sum total of all of our 725 00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:06,440 sins that we would ever commit while we were on the planet. 726 00:47:07,240 --> 00:47:12,560 Yet we cannot be born again. Although the blood has been 727 00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:17,440 applied to our sin, it is forever settled in heaven. 728 00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:21,960 How is it that we get the blood applied to our account so that 729 00:47:21,960 --> 00:47:24,480 we can become a new creature in Christ? 730 00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:31,160 We choose of our own free will to accept Jesus Christ as our 731 00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:34,800 Lord and the substitute of our payment, the one who paid the 732 00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:38,200 price of all of our wrongdoing. And when we make that choice, we 733 00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:42,520 become born again. At that point, we begin to do 734 00:47:42,520 --> 00:47:44,960 everything in life still based upon choice. 735 00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:48,360 It's just now we're attached to life and our spirit man is no 736 00:47:48,360 --> 00:47:50,960 longer dead. Separated from God who the some 737 00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:53,800 choices of a spirit separated from God is only death. 738 00:47:53,800 --> 00:47:56,200 Because we're we are eternally rebellious. 739 00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:04,000 Now we've been empowered with the choice of life and we can 740 00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:06,720 choose life. I said we can choose life. 741 00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:10,400 We can choose life. Now the reason why this is 742 00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:14,680 important, if you jump down to verse 13 as he begins to deal 743 00:48:14,680 --> 00:48:16,600 with some things that says this, and it was written. 744 00:48:16,600 --> 00:48:22,040 Jacob I love, but Esau I hated. What shall we say then? 745 00:48:22,240 --> 00:48:25,120 There is no injustice with God, is there? 746 00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:29,520 Paul answers it. May it never be. 747 00:48:30,720 --> 00:48:32,120 I love Jacob. Hate Esau. 748 00:48:35,320 --> 00:48:39,120 OK. So I have problems with the 749 00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:41,280 stupid billboards that say God's not mad at you. 750 00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:47,920 God hates sin, God hates rebellion. 751 00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:53,360 God's giving you a way out. But if you keep doing it, wrath 752 00:48:53,400 --> 00:48:56,280 is being stored up for those in disobedience. 753 00:48:56,840 --> 00:49:00,440 So to give the world this idea that God's happy with them, come 754 00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:12,240 on, we have bought this lie that if we don't tell them what's 755 00:49:12,240 --> 00:49:15,480 wrong, then inevitably the wrong just disappears. 756 00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:22,360 Again, Robert can go to the doctor and he can say I found 757 00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:24,320 this. Well that doesn't move the 758 00:49:24,320 --> 00:49:27,160 covenant child, thank you for letting me know. 759 00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:29,360 Now that I know I can speak to and do something. 760 00:49:29,360 --> 00:49:32,080 Because if I was ignorant of it, it could have taken over My 761 00:49:32,080 --> 00:49:35,600 whole body, brought me, took me out and I all the while I'm like 762 00:49:35,600 --> 00:49:39,200 I didn't know again if the Doctor. 763 00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:42,600 Said. Well, Robert, you know, I feel 764 00:49:42,600 --> 00:49:45,360 like he's a little bit older and you know, he's probably lived a 765 00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:47,240 good enough life. We'll just, I don't want him to 766 00:49:47,240 --> 00:49:48,800 have a hard time the rest of his life. 767 00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:51,600 You know, I'm just not going to tell him, Robert, you know, you 768 00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:54,400 got some high blood pressure. That's, you know, we'll we'll 769 00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:56,720 deal with that and deal with different symptoms and don't 770 00:49:56,720 --> 00:50:02,080 even tell him what's going on. Man, you're looking good today, 771 00:50:02,080 --> 00:50:07,160 all the while knowing he's got cancer and we're telling the 772 00:50:07,160 --> 00:50:11,360 world God's not mad at you, God's mad at sin. 773 00:50:11,680 --> 00:50:14,640 God hates sin. God hates the Sinner. 774 00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:18,720 It's like we've tried to separate the spirit of a person 775 00:50:18,720 --> 00:50:24,200 from themselves. I mean, a Sinner functions in 776 00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:33,880 sin. I mean, a person dead, separated 777 00:50:33,880 --> 00:50:38,680 from God is a Sinner. In fact, Jesus called them their 778 00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:44,240 father was the devil, not him. Now their original risk creation 779 00:50:44,240 --> 00:50:48,040 was in the image of God, but the minute they sinned, they fell 780 00:50:48,040 --> 00:50:50,360 from that dominion. They no longer have the life of 781 00:50:50,360 --> 00:50:54,200 God and their father by All right is the devil, and God does 782 00:50:54,200 --> 00:51:02,120 not love the devil. And that's not being mean. 783 00:51:02,720 --> 00:51:07,720 That's saying we have an answer. We have an answer. 784 00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:10,840 Well, you think you're better than me. 785 00:51:11,200 --> 00:51:12,360 I don't think I'm better than you. 786 00:51:12,440 --> 00:51:16,320 I'm alive and you're dying. Period. 787 00:51:16,560 --> 00:51:22,280 I just saw one minister do this. He took a a a goldfish bowl, put 788 00:51:22,280 --> 00:51:25,760 it on the sanctuary on a stage, and he took the one of the fish 789 00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:30,200 out and put it on the table and walked away and it started 790 00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:32,960 flapping and it fell off the table and they gasp. 791 00:51:33,280 --> 00:51:35,760 He picked it back up and stuck it back on the table. 792 00:51:36,680 --> 00:51:42,360 And he says this fish is dying right now and everybody's just 793 00:51:42,360 --> 00:51:45,640 shocked. And then he picks it up and 794 00:51:45,640 --> 00:51:47,000 throws it back. And he says you're more 795 00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:49,720 concerned about this fish dying than your neighbor who's dying. 796 00:51:59,040 --> 00:52:00,680 If they're not born again, they're done. 797 00:52:00,680 --> 00:52:03,920 If they're not born again, God is going to his wraths being 798 00:52:03,920 --> 00:52:05,960 stored up from them. And you have the answer to get 799 00:52:05,960 --> 00:52:07,920 them out of it. But yet you don't want to offend 800 00:52:07,920 --> 00:52:11,000 them. We don't even want to give them 801 00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:13,480 a right diagnosis. We don't even want to give them 802 00:52:13,480 --> 00:52:15,960 an opportunity. Look, if Robert chews, I don't 803 00:52:15,960 --> 00:52:17,520 care. I'm going out this way. 804 00:52:17,520 --> 00:52:21,000 God can't even stop it. God can't stop it. 805 00:52:21,960 --> 00:52:28,160 God won't stop it, but at least he now has the He wasn't robbed 806 00:52:28,160 --> 00:52:30,880 of the choice. We shouldn't rob people of the 807 00:52:30,880 --> 00:52:36,560 choice to get over into life. But he goes on and says this OK, 808 00:52:37,160 --> 00:52:39,840 Jacob Babla Esau hated. Why shall we say then Is there 809 00:52:39,840 --> 00:52:44,480 no injustice what God is there may it never be for he who for 810 00:52:44,480 --> 00:52:47,040 he says to Moses I will have mercy on who I have mercy on. 811 00:52:47,040 --> 00:52:48,800 I'll have compassion who I have compassion. 812 00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:53,280 So it does not depend on the man who wills are the man who runs, 813 00:52:53,280 --> 00:52:57,160 but on God who has mercy. That is really kind of unclear 814 00:52:57,160 --> 00:52:59,960 man when you first read it. But again, we're talking in 815 00:52:59,960 --> 00:53:05,160 context of Paul saying now if I could take on all their choices 816 00:53:05,160 --> 00:53:08,840 so that when they make their choices, it doesn't matter and 817 00:53:08,840 --> 00:53:12,320 they get to be with God because I'm the choice, I take the 818 00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:15,520 choices. But he's like, I can't do it. 819 00:53:15,520 --> 00:53:16,880 They have to make their own choice. 820 00:53:17,840 --> 00:53:22,960 In essence what he is saying is, is that God knows some things. 821 00:53:26,200 --> 00:53:28,200 And this is the problem. That's why I titled the message 822 00:53:28,200 --> 00:53:33,240 Known, not made. Just because God has knowledge 823 00:53:33,960 --> 00:53:35,440 doesn't mean he's going to make you. 824 00:53:40,080 --> 00:53:43,480 Because God actually already knows the sum choices, sum total 825 00:53:43,480 --> 00:53:47,480 of all your choices. But they're still your choices. 826 00:53:49,040 --> 00:53:52,040 And God's word's going to come to pass because God's eternal, 827 00:53:52,040 --> 00:53:56,600 He's very patient, which means God can say, I'll wait till a 828 00:53:56,600 --> 00:54:00,560 spirit raises up that will obey me so that that objective can be 829 00:54:00,560 --> 00:54:04,000 accomplished in the earth. And if there's a generation of 830 00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:07,040 nobody obeying, he'll wait till one comes around where someone 831 00:54:07,040 --> 00:54:10,080 will of their own three will say I'll choose to obey God and it 832 00:54:10,080 --> 00:54:14,800 keep moving his plan forward. God is on an eternal timeline. 833 00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:17,520 So at the end of the day, what God says going to come to pass. 834 00:54:17,680 --> 00:54:21,960 He is patient for a spirit that he is placed in the womb in the 835 00:54:21,960 --> 00:54:24,800 ark to be able to fully be persuaded that his word is his 836 00:54:24,800 --> 00:54:29,400 word and he'll use that person to continue propel his word 837 00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:32,640 forward. Although it's not God making 838 00:54:32,640 --> 00:54:36,720 them do it, it is God knowing that it is their choice to do it 839 00:54:36,760 --> 00:54:40,280 and he's influenced them to make the choice and of their free 840 00:54:40,280 --> 00:54:43,040 will. They do it so just because God 841 00:54:43,040 --> 00:54:46,720 can prophecy about a John the Baptist before he ever shows up, 842 00:54:46,840 --> 00:54:48,720 there's a voice crying in the wilderness. 843 00:54:48,720 --> 00:54:52,760 Isaiah said he knew that when the opportunity that I 844 00:54:52,760 --> 00:54:56,240 influenced this guy, this child that's going to come into the 845 00:54:56,240 --> 00:55:00,400 womb of Martha, when that spirit hits him, he will of his own 846 00:55:00,400 --> 00:55:05,600 free will, will do my will, but it's still him. 847 00:55:08,800 --> 00:55:11,320 So he goes on and says so. Then that doesn't depend on the 848 00:55:11,320 --> 00:55:14,600 will of man, which means this God is saying, it's that my 849 00:55:14,600 --> 00:55:18,240 word. Things are coming to pass, and 850 00:55:18,240 --> 00:55:20,760 it's not by a man's will. By himself. 851 00:55:20,840 --> 00:55:26,000 It's a man submitting his. Will to God's will for the 852 00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:30,280 Scripture says to Pharaoh for this look at this. 853 00:55:30,840 --> 00:55:32,840 Very purpose. I raised you up to demonstrate 854 00:55:32,840 --> 00:55:36,080 my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed through 855 00:55:36,080 --> 00:55:41,600 the whole earth. So then he has mercy on whom He 856 00:55:41,600 --> 00:55:44,080 desires and he hardens whom He desires. 857 00:55:44,480 --> 00:55:46,920 That's misleading when you just read it by itself. 858 00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:50,800 If you don't know what He's saying, you will say to them why 859 00:55:50,800 --> 00:55:55,320 does he still find fault? Who can resist his will? 860 00:55:55,320 --> 00:55:59,360 Well, you understand that that's a very good question, because if 861 00:55:59,360 --> 00:56:05,120 God's in control, well then how could he find fault if he makes 862 00:56:05,120 --> 00:56:11,760 you do wrong, if he makes someone else do wrong by you? 863 00:56:15,960 --> 00:56:19,360 So he's trying to set context here in essence. 864 00:56:19,360 --> 00:56:21,880 In fact, when it comes to Pharaoh, you'll read it if you 865 00:56:21,880 --> 00:56:27,760 go over to Exodus that says then a Pharaoh rose up that did not 866 00:56:27,760 --> 00:56:30,520 know Joseph. Now that's very powerful 867 00:56:30,520 --> 00:56:32,200 statement that we gloss over all the time. 868 00:56:32,320 --> 00:56:35,840 What it's saying there is that all the exploits of Joseph and 869 00:56:35,840 --> 00:56:39,200 how it was herald from that Pharaoh that brought Joseph on 870 00:56:39,200 --> 00:56:41,800 that saved Egypt and acknowledged that his God was 871 00:56:41,800 --> 00:56:44,880 God. Although they didn't quit 872 00:56:44,880 --> 00:56:48,640 serving gods, but they understood the God of Joseph. 873 00:56:48,640 --> 00:56:51,560 There was still something in the land about the God of Joseph. 874 00:56:51,720 --> 00:56:55,200 Finally a pharaoh came up that had no testimony of that and had 875 00:56:55,200 --> 00:56:57,960 no concern. And in fact he was so dedicated 876 00:56:57,960 --> 00:57:02,360 to his gods and so resistant and then began to pressure the 877 00:57:02,360 --> 00:57:07,880 Israelites, made him a slave, had his own self-interest. 878 00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:09,480 Why did he make them slaves anyway? 879 00:57:09,480 --> 00:57:13,720 They were productive without it. They were bringing a blessing to 880 00:57:13,720 --> 00:57:16,720 the nation without it, No, he didn't want them to side with 881 00:57:16,720 --> 00:57:19,600 another Kingdom and come up and overthrow his Kingdom. 882 00:57:19,600 --> 00:57:25,240 So through selfish ambition and self preservation, he made them 883 00:57:25,240 --> 00:57:27,480 slaves. He forced that. 884 00:57:27,480 --> 00:57:29,840 He controlled them the best he could. 885 00:57:29,960 --> 00:57:32,600 Now again he may control their movement, but he doesn't control 886 00:57:32,600 --> 00:57:35,600 their mind. They have to give that I got. 887 00:57:35,600 --> 00:57:36,880 I got to go on. I got to go on. 888 00:57:37,240 --> 00:57:41,800 So my point is, is that when Moses shows up, he says I'll 889 00:57:41,800 --> 00:57:44,200 harden his heart. Well, how did God do that? 890 00:57:45,120 --> 00:57:47,920 If you just understand scripture, how's he going to 891 00:57:47,920 --> 00:57:51,600 harden Pharaoh's heart? There's one way hearts are 892 00:57:51,600 --> 00:57:53,600 hardened. He's very consistent in 893 00:57:53,600 --> 00:57:56,840 Scripture. It is when the word is spoken to 894 00:57:56,840 --> 00:57:58,840 you and you resist. It you harden your heart, come. 895 00:58:03,920 --> 00:58:10,800 On even right now in this room, you can harden your heart by 896 00:58:10,800 --> 00:58:16,160 what I'm saying, and that word can either soften you so that 897 00:58:16,160 --> 00:58:18,600 you get your mind renewed to it, you begin to let the life of 898 00:58:18,600 --> 00:58:21,880 God, or you can keep entertaining your own will and 899 00:58:21,880 --> 00:58:25,560 your own thoughts of what you want it to be through the lenses 900 00:58:25,560 --> 00:58:28,440 you want it. And when I say something that 901 00:58:28,440 --> 00:58:31,680 can set you free from your own thought pattern, but you love it 902 00:58:31,680 --> 00:58:34,640 more than God's as the the prophetic word came forth, you 903 00:58:34,640 --> 00:58:41,880 like that throne more then all of a sudden. 904 00:58:42,280 --> 00:58:45,120 You harden your heart. How did he harden? 905 00:58:45,200 --> 00:58:47,000 He said go to Pharaoh and tell him God's. 906 00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:50,000 The Lord said, let my people go, He said. 907 00:58:50,000 --> 00:58:51,280 Let my people go. And what would Pharaoh say? 908 00:58:51,280 --> 00:58:52,840 I don't even know your God. That's right. 909 00:58:54,560 --> 00:58:56,960 Come. On he didn't say, well, I got 910 00:58:56,960 --> 00:58:59,680 quite a few gods myself. Who's yours since you're telling 911 00:58:59,680 --> 00:59:04,720 me he said something, right? I mean, the guy's got a lot of 912 00:59:04,720 --> 00:59:07,200 gods anyway, pretty confused. So you know what's another one? 913 00:59:08,560 --> 00:59:11,960 But then he he is so adamant against it he when Moses leaves 914 00:59:11,960 --> 00:59:14,000 he says you make it worse on those guys. 915 00:59:14,160 --> 00:59:17,280 So that what this guy has just told me to them they'll think 916 00:59:17,280 --> 00:59:20,800 it's a lie and that's what deception will do. 917 00:59:21,400 --> 00:59:25,760 Reception tries to make what truth is a lie in the hearer's 918 00:59:25,760 --> 00:59:28,640 voice And Moses already went to the nation of Israel and say the 919 00:59:28,640 --> 00:59:30,560 Lord has sent me he wants to deliver you. 920 00:59:30,560 --> 00:59:33,240 We going to come up out of Egypt and they're like woo you the man 921 00:59:33,240 --> 00:59:36,560 Moses we love you Moses go tell Pharaoh go kicky man let's do 922 00:59:36,560 --> 00:59:39,600 this thing right. Moses came back and he said what 923 00:59:39,600 --> 00:59:41,280 he say. Well, he said he wasn't going to 924 00:59:41,280 --> 00:59:42,760 let y'all go. And then they end up having to 925 00:59:42,760 --> 00:59:44,920 do it worse, labor. And now they're mad at Moses. 926 00:59:44,920 --> 00:59:46,920 Like you need to take yourself back to your sheep, bro. 927 00:59:47,960 --> 00:59:52,160 Just you need to leave town. But Moses like Nah I'll just do 928 00:59:52,160 --> 00:59:54,520 the will of God anyway so he keeps showing up. 929 00:59:55,880 --> 00:59:58,080 Every time he shows up, the fairy says, the Lord said. 930 00:59:58,080 --> 00:59:59,880 Every time he comes, this fairy says, the Lord said. 931 01:00:00,040 --> 01:00:01,680 Every time he comes, the Pharaoh says, the Lord said. 932 01:00:01,840 --> 01:00:03,160 How do we know there's a hardening of heart? 933 01:00:03,160 --> 01:00:04,880 What did the Lord say about the Israelites when they're 934 01:00:04,880 --> 01:00:06,600 wandering in the wilderness? He said. 935 01:00:06,600 --> 01:00:08,640 Why are they stiff neck and heart of heart? 936 01:00:08,760 --> 01:00:11,040 Every time I tell them what I'm going to do, they don't do it. 937 01:00:12,560 --> 01:00:15,920 So you understand, some of the places where it's the most 938 01:00:16,400 --> 01:00:28,600 difficult is church, because the minute you decide, you take 939 01:00:28,600 --> 01:00:35,160 everything I say personal and not examining it. 940 01:00:35,160 --> 01:00:39,480 As the word of God. Come on. 941 01:00:39,480 --> 01:00:41,760 Oh man, Last week at Rhema man, I was. 942 01:00:42,360 --> 01:00:46,880 I was sliced bread. I mean, they just don't know. 943 01:00:49,360 --> 01:00:51,960 Oh, that's Pastor Earl Glisten. Oh, I heard you were in town. 944 01:00:51,960 --> 01:00:54,800 I came to listen. Well, they, I told them. 945 01:00:54,800 --> 01:00:56,480 I told the class. I said everybody loves me till I 946 01:00:56,480 --> 01:01:00,760 correct them. But in the words you're going to 947 01:01:00,760 --> 01:01:03,480 correct people. You know, and as long as I 948 01:01:03,480 --> 01:01:06,000 travel around and don't correct. And I just tell them how who 949 01:01:06,000 --> 01:01:08,480 they are in Christ and how they walk in the Kingdom and give 950 01:01:08,480 --> 01:01:10,280 them these great words, they're like, wow, they're so amazing. 951 01:01:10,360 --> 01:01:14,600 They're so great, right? Then you're awesome. 952 01:01:15,200 --> 01:01:17,440 When you hit, people get healed through your ministry, whatever 953 01:01:17,440 --> 01:01:18,840 the case, which is God doing it all. 954 01:01:18,840 --> 01:01:22,120 But you know, they equate you. But then to make you crack 955 01:01:22,120 --> 01:01:31,200 somebody, now all of a sudden they're waiting for you to blow 956 01:01:31,200 --> 01:01:34,880 it, because they want you to blow it now so they can tell 957 01:01:34,880 --> 01:01:38,080 everybody you've blown it and everything you're saying to set 958 01:01:38,080 --> 01:01:39,400 them free, they just harden their heart. 959 01:01:40,600 --> 01:01:45,600 More and more and more. And it's not God doing it, It's 960 01:01:45,600 --> 01:01:49,520 you doing it by resisting His word. 961 01:01:54,200 --> 01:01:58,560 So when he is talking about these particular things, he is 962 01:01:58,560 --> 01:02:02,560 saying, I've raised up a pharaoh to show my power, 'cause I just 963 01:02:02,560 --> 01:02:07,440 happen to know that every time my word comes he's going to 964 01:02:07,440 --> 01:02:11,640 resist it. And I'm coming now to deliver my 965 01:02:11,640 --> 01:02:16,000 people, because they have got accustomed to the gods of Egypt 966 01:02:16,840 --> 01:02:19,560 and they know I'm out there. They've started crying out to 967 01:02:19,560 --> 01:02:21,400 me. And so I'm going to demonstrate 968 01:02:21,400 --> 01:02:23,320 to them, because if they're going to be firmly persuaded to 969 01:02:23,320 --> 01:02:25,840 me, they got to know that that I'm greater than the God of Raw, 970 01:02:27,000 --> 01:02:30,440 the God of the sun, and all the other gods that they worshipped 971 01:02:30,440 --> 01:02:32,520 in Egypt. That's why the plagues 972 01:02:32,640 --> 01:02:36,040 personally attacked what those gods were known for. 973 01:02:37,760 --> 01:02:41,240 It was God declaring to his nation I am supreme. 974 01:02:44,120 --> 01:02:47,000 And it's not that I didn't give the guy an opportunity to let 975 01:02:47,000 --> 01:02:52,440 you go at my word, but when you resist my word, I have no 976 01:02:52,440 --> 01:02:55,480 problem giving you the alternative. 977 01:02:57,040 --> 01:03:06,000 So Pharaoh brought destruction to his nation through the sum 978 01:03:06,000 --> 01:03:08,240 total of his choices. That's why his people let her, 979 01:03:08,240 --> 01:03:10,200 Own said. Man, let him go, bro. 980 01:03:11,040 --> 01:03:15,120 Let them go. Y'all all right. 981 01:03:17,040 --> 01:03:18,920 With that being said, look at Hebrews chapter 4. 982 01:03:18,920 --> 01:03:23,400 We'll wind down a little bit so we can carry it into next week. 983 01:03:24,840 --> 01:03:31,000 He again fixes a certain day. Hebrews 47 He again fixes a 984 01:03:31,000 --> 01:03:36,400 certain day today, saying through David after so long a 985 01:03:36,480 --> 01:03:40,520 time, just as it has been said before today, if you hear His 986 01:03:40,520 --> 01:03:43,760 voice, and do not harden your hearts. 987 01:03:44,160 --> 01:03:50,200 For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken 988 01:03:50,240 --> 01:03:54,920 of another day after that. So there remains a Sabbath rest 989 01:03:55,000 --> 01:03:59,680 for the people of God, For the one who has entered his rest has 990 01:03:59,680 --> 01:04:02,720 himself also rested from his work, as God did his. 991 01:04:03,360 --> 01:04:08,080 From his Therefore, let us be diligent to enter that rest so 992 01:04:08,080 --> 01:04:12,240 that no one will fall through. Following the same examples of 993 01:04:12,240 --> 01:04:17,560 what disobedience. So we could, we could sum this 994 01:04:17,560 --> 01:04:22,480 up pretty quick in one statement, And that is you want 995 01:04:22,520 --> 01:04:26,440 a perpetual Sabbath. Always be doing the will of God. 996 01:04:27,560 --> 01:04:36,800 You'll constantly interest Jesus, was accused. 997 01:04:36,840 --> 01:04:41,160 Often of working on the Sabbath, the actual day. 998 01:04:42,120 --> 01:04:45,520 But he's like, look, the Sabbath was not set up for God. 999 01:04:45,520 --> 01:04:47,680 It was set up for man. And that's what puts you in, 1000 01:04:47,680 --> 01:04:50,520 remembers who's who's, who you supposed to be listening to. 1001 01:04:51,400 --> 01:04:53,320 And he says, my father's always working. 1002 01:04:53,960 --> 01:04:56,000 That's kind of crazy. I thought he's resting. 1003 01:04:56,520 --> 01:04:59,240 Well, he's working in the context that he's performing. 1004 01:04:59,240 --> 01:05:01,840 His word. And Jesus has said, I'm doing 1005 01:05:01,840 --> 01:05:03,400 the same thing. I'm here to do the Father's 1006 01:05:03,400 --> 01:05:04,840 will. And he was doing stuff on the 1007 01:05:04,840 --> 01:05:07,640 Sabbath day. Did he heal people? 1008 01:05:07,640 --> 01:05:13,520 They were miffed that on his Sabbath he had the audacity to 1009 01:05:13,520 --> 01:05:16,800 heal somebody. And there are churches right 1010 01:05:16,800 --> 01:05:19,120 now, people who are letting, well, you know, we're going to 1011 01:05:19,120 --> 01:05:28,480 take a Sabbath, Sabbath Sunday. I mean, you want to get 1012 01:05:28,480 --> 01:05:29,960 perpetual rest. Just obey. 1013 01:05:31,240 --> 01:05:33,440 Now, that doesn't mean you won't have a rest day, because if 1014 01:05:33,440 --> 01:05:36,360 you're following God, he'll say you need to take day off. 1015 01:05:37,040 --> 01:05:39,480 Your body needs the rest, whatever the case may be. 1016 01:05:40,520 --> 01:05:41,680 But I'm not going to get into all that. 1017 01:05:41,680 --> 01:05:44,640 Let's go on at verse 12, for the word of God is living in acts of 1018 01:05:44,640 --> 01:05:46,800 sharper than intuit, sort of piercing as far as the division 1019 01:05:46,800 --> 01:05:49,200 of soul and spirit of both joints and mayor, and able to 1020 01:05:49,200 --> 01:05:51,720 judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. 1021 01:05:52,280 --> 01:05:55,160 So what does this, The word? What does this the word? 1022 01:05:55,160 --> 01:05:58,680 What does the word do? It pierces, it pierces soul from 1023 01:05:58,680 --> 01:06:04,040 the Spirit and from both joints and marrow, That is spirit, soul 1024 01:06:04,040 --> 01:06:07,880 and body. What does it The word now turn 1025 01:06:07,880 --> 01:06:10,960 to 1st Thessalonians Chapter 5. First Thessalonians chapter 5, 1026 01:06:10,960 --> 01:06:15,040 verse 23 says it this way. Now may the God of peace Himself 1027 01:06:15,200 --> 01:06:19,440 sanctify you entirely, and may your spirit and soul and body be 1028 01:06:19,440 --> 01:06:24,240 preserved, complete without blame, at the coming of our Lord 1029 01:06:24,640 --> 01:06:33,360 Jesus Christ. The power for you on all three 1030 01:06:33,360 --> 01:06:39,520 levels of your being to be all that it can be rests in your 1031 01:06:39,520 --> 01:06:45,640 choice. And here's The thing is that we 1032 01:06:46,440 --> 01:06:54,240 can be very proficient at controlling an area of our life, 1033 01:06:55,120 --> 01:06:57,360 but yet not controlling the other areas. 1034 01:06:59,400 --> 01:07:02,000 There have been people that I've met that when you look at their 1035 01:07:02,000 --> 01:07:05,720 physical suit, they are disciplined, They control what 1036 01:07:05,720 --> 01:07:09,080 goes in their mouth, they control how often it goes in 1037 01:07:09,080 --> 01:07:13,640 their mouth, They control the regiment of their exercise. 1038 01:07:15,080 --> 01:07:18,160 Are you hearing me? And their body produces the 1039 01:07:18,160 --> 01:07:20,800 fruit of it. But in their soul realm, 1040 01:07:20,880 --> 01:07:25,840 emotionally they are whacked out, out of control. 1041 01:07:27,840 --> 01:07:31,400 Their bodies are as fit as they can be, but they're sleeping 1042 01:07:31,400 --> 01:07:39,400 with everything 'cause they have no control on their soul realm, 1043 01:07:42,920 --> 01:07:45,120 they're letting other things influence them. 1044 01:07:45,120 --> 01:07:47,520 Now when I say no control, they actually are controlling it. 1045 01:07:47,720 --> 01:07:50,520 They just haven't submitted it to God's will. 1046 01:07:52,840 --> 01:07:55,760 Here's the thing, most of us, we only want to submit our spirit 1047 01:07:55,760 --> 01:08:00,760 to God and not our soul. That's why there's a lot of 1048 01:08:00,760 --> 01:08:03,400 churches that know they're going to heaven, but they live like 1049 01:08:03,400 --> 01:08:08,040 hell on earth and then they act like God's allowing it to 1050 01:08:08,040 --> 01:08:14,320 happen, 'cause he's in control. He's in control of what your 1051 01:08:14,320 --> 01:08:16,000 body looks like. He's in control of your 1052 01:08:16,000 --> 01:08:18,279 emotional state. He's in control of the how 1053 01:08:18,279 --> 01:08:23,240 educated you are. He's controlling what all your 1054 01:08:23,240 --> 01:08:28,359 jobs are. But you know, at least I'm going 1055 01:08:28,359 --> 01:08:35,160 to heaven when I die. Yet it's our responsibility. 1056 01:08:36,640 --> 01:08:39,800 It says that God may appease, sanctify you entirely and may 1057 01:08:39,800 --> 01:08:43,200 your spirit be preserved complete well. 1058 01:08:43,200 --> 01:08:46,399 If God was in control, don't you think he would put all those 1059 01:08:47,120 --> 01:08:52,640 perfect None of us should have diabetes. 1060 01:08:52,640 --> 01:08:56,240 Come on, come on. None of us should have any 1061 01:08:56,560 --> 01:09:01,200 health issues. We should have no problems in 1062 01:09:01,200 --> 01:09:03,359 our emotional state or mental state at all. 1063 01:09:05,000 --> 01:09:14,810 Yet there are. We'll close with this scripture. 1064 01:09:14,890 --> 01:09:17,290 It got quiet. Well, everybody was happy. 1065 01:09:18,729 --> 01:09:20,490 We're doing good. I guess I should have stopped 30 1066 01:09:20,490 --> 01:09:36,490 minutes ago, Galatians 5 start verse 16, 1067 01:09:39,609 --> 01:09:41,850 Paul, riding under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, 1068 01:09:41,850 --> 01:09:45,250 says. But I say to the church, walk by 1069 01:09:45,250 --> 01:09:47,689 the Spirit and you will not carry out the desires of the 1070 01:09:47,689 --> 01:09:54,570 flesh who's in control 'cause if God is in control, how in the 1071 01:09:54,570 --> 01:09:57,570 world could you ever carry out the desires of the flesh? 1072 01:10:02,880 --> 01:10:04,280 And he's talking to born again people. 1073 01:10:04,280 --> 01:10:05,840 I mean, really, he's rebuking this whole church. 1074 01:10:05,840 --> 01:10:09,280 This is 1 rebuke letter. This whole letter is a rebuke 1075 01:10:09,280 --> 01:10:11,280 letter. I don't know that they ever 1076 01:10:11,280 --> 01:10:18,040 invited him back to preach. Just one big rebuke from chapter 1077 01:10:18,040 --> 01:10:19,680 one all the way through. He's rebuking. 1078 01:10:19,760 --> 01:10:21,920 Although he's, you know, giving instruction trying to tell him, 1079 01:10:21,920 --> 01:10:24,120 hey look, come on now guys, let's get this together, right? 1080 01:10:24,760 --> 01:10:28,520 But he said, Now if you walk by the Spirit, but I say walk. 1081 01:10:29,280 --> 01:10:31,400 In essence, that word walk is implication. 1082 01:10:31,400 --> 01:10:34,320 You've got to do it. Walk by the Spirit, and you will 1083 01:10:34,320 --> 01:10:37,400 not carry the desires of the flesh, For the flesh sets its 1084 01:10:37,400 --> 01:10:40,960 desire against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh, 1085 01:10:41,160 --> 01:10:44,800 for those are in opposition to one another, so that you may not 1086 01:10:44,800 --> 01:10:48,400 do the things that you please. Now again, you can do whatever 1087 01:10:48,400 --> 01:10:51,080 you want to do. It's the large If you walk by 1088 01:10:51,240 --> 01:10:55,080 the reigning spirit, in essence, if you'll yield your will to the 1089 01:10:55,080 --> 01:10:58,720 reigning spirits will, then you will not carry out the desires 1090 01:10:58,720 --> 01:11:00,720 of the flesh that wage war against your soul. 1091 01:11:02,360 --> 01:11:06,280 He goes on and says, But if you are LED, if you are, what if 1092 01:11:06,280 --> 01:11:08,480 it's a conditional statement? This is a born again, 1093 01:11:08,480 --> 01:11:11,320 sanctified, completely righteous, made in the likeness 1094 01:11:11,320 --> 01:11:13,480 of Christ, believer in the spirit. 1095 01:11:13,600 --> 01:11:19,480 Yet if you don't do this, then you get the alternative, and 1096 01:11:19,480 --> 01:11:24,640 it's not God's fault, because God is not controlling you. 1097 01:11:26,040 --> 01:11:30,120 God has empowered you. Verse 18. 1098 01:11:30,120 --> 01:11:33,360 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the 1099 01:11:33,360 --> 01:11:35,640 law. Now the deeds of the flesh are 1100 01:11:35,640 --> 01:11:39,040 evident, which are immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, 1101 01:11:39,040 --> 01:11:41,520 sorcery, enmity, strive, jealousy, outbursts of anger, 1102 01:11:41,520 --> 01:11:45,280 disputes, dissension, factions. In be in being, drunkenness, 1103 01:11:45,280 --> 01:11:47,960 carousing, and things of the like Of which I forewarned you, 1104 01:11:47,960 --> 01:11:51,640 just as I have forewarned you so that those who what practice, 1105 01:11:51,640 --> 01:11:54,800 those who what practice, those who what practice, those who 1106 01:11:54,800 --> 01:11:57,080 what practice, that means they're doing this. 1107 01:11:57,080 --> 01:11:58,720 They're doing it. You know what they're in 1108 01:11:58,720 --> 01:12:00,360 immorality. They're doing sensuality. 1109 01:12:00,360 --> 01:12:03,080 They're gossiping, have strive, they have outbursts of anger. 1110 01:12:03,080 --> 01:12:04,800 They're all this is just like part of their life. 1111 01:12:04,880 --> 01:12:07,280 This is how they live. I mean this is like common 1112 01:12:07,280 --> 01:12:11,520 occurrence with them, he says. Those who practice such things 1113 01:12:11,520 --> 01:12:15,160 will not inherit the Kingdom of God. 1114 01:12:20,680 --> 01:12:22,920 I mean, we are given massive passes. 1115 01:12:28,040 --> 01:12:30,240 Instead of saying are you born again? 1116 01:12:30,240 --> 01:12:33,360 Come on, come. On Well, yeah. 1117 01:12:34,320 --> 01:12:38,200 What are you doing? Well, don't judge me, bro. 1118 01:12:38,720 --> 01:12:43,120 That stuff don't get in the Kingdom, 'cause our God's not a 1119 01:12:43,120 --> 01:12:45,800 God of injustice. You don't get born again and 1120 01:12:45,800 --> 01:12:49,840 keep living like your old way. That's not God. 1121 01:12:49,840 --> 01:12:52,640 His ways are not higher in our ways, where he gives you the 1122 01:12:52,640 --> 01:12:57,320 ability to habitually sin yet still make it into the Kingdom. 1123 01:12:57,920 --> 01:13:02,480 His blood does not give you the right to be like the devil and 1124 01:13:02,480 --> 01:13:07,920 still make it to heaven. No, but if you're led by the 1125 01:13:07,920 --> 01:13:09,240 Spirit, you won't do any of those. 1126 01:13:10,120 --> 01:13:13,400 Which means the Spirit's going to say don't go to sleep with 1127 01:13:13,400 --> 01:13:21,080 them, Don't say that y'all ready for this, but the fruit of the 1128 01:13:21,080 --> 01:13:25,720 Spirit is. Come on, say, Lovejoy. 1129 01:13:26,400 --> 01:13:32,200 Peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 1130 01:13:32,360 --> 01:13:41,160 gentleness. Self, self, self, self, self, 1131 01:13:41,840 --> 01:13:44,760 self. It's a fruit of the Spirit. 1132 01:13:44,760 --> 01:13:47,440 You know what the Spirit says? He says I can't control you, but 1133 01:13:47,440 --> 01:13:53,720 I you can control yourself, he says. 1134 01:13:53,720 --> 01:13:55,160 You know what one of my fruits is? 1135 01:13:55,240 --> 01:13:58,520 Is I control myself. That's why I'm holy. 1136 01:13:58,880 --> 01:14:01,200 That's why I'm righteous. That's why I'm light. 1137 01:14:05,000 --> 01:14:07,480 I know how to control myself now I'm going to give you a piece of 1138 01:14:07,480 --> 01:14:09,160 my fruit. You control yourself. 1139 01:14:12,720 --> 01:14:16,320 Quit blaming people. I don't care where you're born, 1140 01:14:16,320 --> 01:14:18,520 what color you are, what track you were on. 1141 01:14:18,520 --> 01:14:21,800 I don't care how you came into existence. 1142 01:14:23,600 --> 01:14:25,760 He'll want to give you some self-control that you can live 1143 01:14:25,760 --> 01:14:27,480 the life of God. The best life ever. 1144 01:14:29,040 --> 01:14:30,600 But you've got to decide to do it. 1145 01:14:31,640 --> 01:14:34,320 You have to take the responsibility, I said. 1146 01:14:34,320 --> 01:14:35,520 You have to take the responsibility. 1147 01:14:35,520 --> 01:14:38,280 Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh 1148 01:14:39,320 --> 01:14:43,560 with his passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us 1149 01:14:43,560 --> 01:14:48,840 also walk. And who controls that? 1150 01:14:48,840 --> 01:14:53,960 We do. You do by your will. 1151 01:14:54,680 --> 01:15:05,600 Let's pray. Thank you so much for listening 1152 01:15:05,600 --> 01:15:08,040 to this message. If you want more, subscribe to 1153 01:15:08,040 --> 01:15:11,440 our message podcast on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, and 1154 01:15:11,440 --> 01:15:13,440 SoundCloud. 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