1 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:20,800 All right, turn over to John chapter 16, verse 33. 2 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:22,920 And as you're turning, I just want you to take a deep breath 3 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:24,480 through your nostrils. Go like this. 4 00:00:26,240 --> 00:00:27,040 All right? Let it out. 5 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:29,520 Let's do it again. Deep breath in. 6 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:34,160 Let it out. I should have the chiropractor 7 00:00:34,160 --> 00:00:35,920 come up do this because he sounds so much better. 8 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:40,760 Every time he pops me, he says breathe in, hold it. 9 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:47,040 And then he cracks me, right. And then the next time he says 10 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:50,600 breathe in now let it out. And you, you don't know when 11 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:52,560 he's going to do it, but when you get somewhere to the end. 12 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:57,200 Wow, there it is. And so take another deep breath 13 00:00:57,200 --> 00:00:59,360 in, all right? You know what you're smelling. 14 00:00:59,880 --> 00:01:03,520 It's victory. That's the smell of victory. 15 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:06,280 All right, so we're going to talk about that tonight, John, 16 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:08,360 Chapter 16, verse 33. You know what? 17 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:10,120 The Amplified Classic says it this way. 18 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:14,320 I have told you these things so that in me you may have perfect 19 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:17,960 peace and confidence. I can stop there and preach the 20 00:01:17,960 --> 00:01:21,400 rest of the night, but I won't. In the world you have what? 21 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:25,400 Tribulations and trials and distresses and frustrations. 22 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:32,640 But be of what that means. Don't go to work and and being 23 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:34,840 sad and disgruntled like everybody else. 24 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:39,000 All right, you when you go to work here to be of what good 25 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:42,880 cheer and it doesn't matter that there are tribulations, trials, 26 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:45,880 distresses and frustration when you show up, people are should 27 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:48,200 be saying why are you so happy all the time? 28 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:52,080 Why you have such a a peaceful disposition? 29 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:55,360 How come it is when you walk in the room and all that's going 30 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:58,040 on, you act different. That's what we're supposed to 31 00:01:58,040 --> 00:01:59,800 right? For those that are born of God, 32 00:01:59,880 --> 00:02:03,360 he says be of good cheer, take courage, be confident, certain, 33 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:06,120 undaunted. I like that, which means you 34 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:09,639 understand the victory we walk in is certain. 35 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:13,440 That means we are undaunted by the things that are going on in 36 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:18,680 the world that are going on in in the lives of unbelievers that 37 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:22,760 are in a domain that God really wants them to come out of right. 38 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:26,080 And so he says be take courage, be confident, certain, 39 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:28,440 undaunted. For Jesus says this. 40 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:31,720 He says I have overcome the world. 41 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:34,280 Look what he says here, the amplified classic. 42 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:39,160 I have deprived it of power to harm you and have conquered it 43 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:41,360 for you. Can I get an Amen? 44 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:45,360 That's good stuff right there. Now, that doesn't mean Jesus is 45 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:48,920 not saying when you're in this world that is not in its 46 00:02:48,920 --> 00:02:53,520 original state, He is not saying you're not going to have 47 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:58,520 challenges the minute you get born again is not the red carpet 48 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:01,520 and all of a sudden nothing comes around you. 49 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:04,240 No, it still can come around you. 50 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:07,880 In fact, a lot of times when it comes, it is like the valley of 51 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:11,960 the shadow of but it's a valley and it's a shadow. 52 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:14,960 And if you'll stay with the Lord, you'll go through it 53 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:17,400 because his rod and his staff comfort you and you'll get on 54 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:21,240 the other side because ultimately death cannot take you 55 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:23,520 when you stay in steps with the Lord. 56 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:26,840 All right. And so here he's saying, listen, 57 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:29,960 I know you're going to have challenges because this world 58 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:33,560 doesn't look like what Dad intended in the beginning. 59 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:36,480 Now we know in Genesis chapter 1, God created the heavens and 60 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:40,120 the earth and man, this planet at one time recorded in our 61 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:44,360 Bible, was an amazing place. It was God, Adam and Eve in the 62 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:48,200 garden, no sin planet earth was amazing. 63 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:52,400 And God said in in Genesis 126, he said, let us make man in our 64 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:55,280 image according to our likeness and let him have what dominion 65 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:57,440 or rule over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, 66 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:00,200 over all the earth, over every creepy theme that creeps on the 67 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:01,560 earth and over all the cattle, right. 68 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:05,320 And so man was to have dominion. In essence, man was to rule in 69 00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:09,320 this realm as God rules in the heaven realm under his 70 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:12,600 authority, and he had that rulership. 71 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:16,120 That was amazing. That was our design, which means 72 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:20,440 everything we did was victorious because God the Father has never 73 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:23,840 lost a battle. He's never been defeated. 74 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:28,920 He's never been conquered even when one of his created anointed 75 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:33,320 cherubs tried to tried to overthrow his throne in heaven, 76 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:35,960 he cast him out. In fact Jesus accounts the 77 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:38,880 recounts this in Matthew. I believe it's chapter 10 when 78 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:41,600 he said I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. 79 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:45,960 That's how fast that rebellion was dismissed from his realm 80 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:54,000 when he took the time to try to deceive other angelic beings to 81 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:59,480 come in and rebel against the crown of heaven, God and his 82 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:03,080 authority, which is final. Cast him out at a word. 83 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:05,960 I said at a word and cast him down. 84 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:10,040 Now obviously we know in Genesis 3 that this, you know, anointed 85 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:14,920 cherub now comes in looking like a serpent and he begins to have 86 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:18,640 the humans that are in the dominion that God gave them and 87 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:23,800 he they're in his likeness to question the God that created 88 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:26,560 them. And so he asked some question. 89 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:29,920 He said, Hey, he said, can you eat any fruit from the tree? 90 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:33,120 And you know, they Eve corrected him and said, no, we can eat 91 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:35,160 from any tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of 92 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:36,680 good and evil. We shall not eat for the day we 93 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:38,400 eat, we will what? Die. 94 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:40,760 Now, die doesn't mean just physical death. 95 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:44,080 What it means is separation. Death just means separation. 96 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:47,040 You know, us in the natural, we think, oh, someone passed away. 97 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:51,080 You know, Apostle Marcy's father passed away, and now we do not 98 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:53,600 see him on the earth. But really, he's just been 99 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:56,600 separated from us. His spirit and soul is separated 100 00:05:56,600 --> 00:06:00,440 from his body now. OK, I actually still have his 101 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:02,840 body at the house. We're going to do a ceremony 102 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:05,520 later on. I had to get all the family and 103 00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:12,080 then we're going to, you know, now not his whole body, OK? 104 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:15,600 His ashes. That's that would be morbid. 105 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:21,400 OK, Just do you want to clearly explain that we have his ashes 106 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:25,480 by which when you know, her brother quits traveling and you 107 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:28,720 know other loved ones can come in in November, we're going to 108 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:32,440 do a ceremony for him, OK. But even though I have his 109 00:06:32,440 --> 00:06:37,320 ashes, he's not there. He's separated. 110 00:06:37,320 --> 00:06:41,400 That's death, separation. OK, Now when God says to Adam, 111 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:44,120 you know Adam, you can eat from any tree of the garden, but of 112 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:45,960 the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not 113 00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:47,080 eat, for the day you eat you will. 114 00:06:47,080 --> 00:06:50,880 Surely that just means you'll become separated from me because 115 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:53,880 the minute you do things that are contrary to God's worth, 116 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:56,720 that is death. I said that's death. 117 00:06:57,200 --> 00:07:01,520 God is life, and to do things opposite of of his word is 118 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:03,760 death. Now God gives you the choice. 119 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:05,240 Why? Because he wants you to love 120 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:06,960 him, because you want to love him. 121 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:11,520 He doesn't make you do what he says, but to not do what he says 122 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:15,240 is death. And so you know, here Adam and 123 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:18,640 Eve are in the garden in this anointed cherub who's been cast 124 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:21,800 out of heaven, tried to rebel. God's never lost, He's never 125 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:24,560 been conquered. He's always victorious, cast him 126 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:27,400 down and he's already given his son Adam a word. 127 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:29,800 He said, Adam, eat from any tree, but not this one. 128 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:33,000 So that's enough for him to conquer this enemy who has come 129 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:35,840 into the garden. He did not have to come down and 130 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:39,040 say, Adam, hey, Adam, listen, I just want you to know there was 131 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:43,720 a guy that I created in heaven. And, you know, he just didn't 132 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:46,840 sit right, had some problems, some issues, right? 133 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:49,160 He had some mental health stuff. And I'm not making fun of that. 134 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:50,800 But you know, he was not thinking, right? 135 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:55,280 And as a result of that, he rebelled and I kicked him out 136 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:58,080 because I'm victorious. You cannot overcome me. 137 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:01,640 I am life. And he became what death is. 138 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:04,520 So you need to be on watch for him. 139 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:08,080 He didn't have to do that. He already gave him a word. 140 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:12,280 Do you not eat the fruit? So really what Adam should have 141 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:14,680 done when this whole thing occurred is he should have 142 00:08:14,680 --> 00:08:17,520 walked up to that serpent and says, listen, I don't know why 143 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:19,360 you're talking to my wife, but the things you're saying to her 144 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:20,840 are contrary to what my father has said. 145 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:24,400 You know, he created me and he gave me all this, you know, and 146 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:26,840 the reality is what you're saying is contrary to him, and 147 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:27,880 I'm not going to have a part of that. 148 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:29,080 So you need to shut up and get out. 149 00:08:29,640 --> 00:08:32,600 And he had the authority to do that because he had authority 150 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:36,240 over all the animals. Are you hearing me? 151 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:41,320 But unfortunately, he listened, he entertained, he himself 152 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:45,280 decided, because we say this here, often the most dangerous 153 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:47,240 word in a Kingdom is independence. 154 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:49,880 And so all of a sudden, you know, Adam wanted to be 155 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:53,760 independent of God, which then led him into rebellion. 156 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:58,360 His wife eats, then he eats and sin enters the world. 157 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:00,480 And this is what we all call the fall. 158 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:04,440 And for anyone who's been to church, you know that the all of 159 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:06,760 us have fallen and fallen short of the glory of God. 160 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:10,040 It is now sin in the earth, which means the planet we're in 161 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:12,520 today is still the same planet he created, but the way it 162 00:09:12,520 --> 00:09:15,640 functions is not how God designed it. 163 00:09:16,160 --> 00:09:19,040 So again, when Jesus says you're going to have trials and 164 00:09:19,040 --> 00:09:22,200 tribulations in this world, he's really not even saying planet 165 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:24,880 earth. What are you saying here? 166 00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:28,760 Again, this is that Greek word which means systems within the 167 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:31,960 earth according to the systems that are in operation. 168 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:34,960 Because again, you know as well as I do that Luke chapter 4 in 169 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:38,440 the temptation of Christ, when Jesus was tempted of the devil 170 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:40,440 and he took him to a high pinnacle and showed him all the 171 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:42,000 kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. 172 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:44,560 And he said all these kingdoms, I'll give you if you'll just bow 173 00:09:44,560 --> 00:09:46,280 down and worship me. Because the devil knows the 174 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:48,360 Bible's about a king, his Kingdom and his royal offspring, 175 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:53,000 right? And so as a result of that, he 176 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:57,480 says for this domain, this dominion has been handed over to 177 00:09:57,480 --> 00:09:59,880 me, and we know he received that from Adam. 178 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:04,120 So the devil is called the God of this world according to 179 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:08,280 Second Corinthians 44, and he is using all the systems. 180 00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:11,600 So in order for you to get out of those systems, you have to 181 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:15,280 become born again. That way you can see into those 182 00:10:15,280 --> 00:10:19,240 systems that are corrupt, but you can live parallel to those 183 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:24,160 systems in a different system called the Kingdom of God and be 184 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:26,360 righteous. Do you understand we can we can 185 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:31,120 align ourselves in the in education, in government, in 186 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:36,000 business that follow Kingdom principles in this earth that's 187 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:40,360 not of the world. We can do things according to 188 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:44,040 the Scripture and the Kingdom of heaven because the Father said, 189 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:46,040 hey, when you pray, pray this way, our Father who art in 190 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:50,440 heaven, hallowed be your name, your Kingdom, your will be on as 191 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:53,160 it is. So his will in heaven can happen 192 00:10:53,160 --> 00:10:55,240 on the earth. And So what do we do? 193 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:58,600 We hear his word, we act on that word, whether it's in education, 194 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:03,360 government, business, family, every sector of society. 195 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:07,680 And when we do that, then we are in a world we're not of because 196 00:11:07,680 --> 00:11:09,880 we actually function from a different world. 197 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:16,080 So Jesus says, now in this world that's not mine, you're going to 198 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:20,320 have tribulation, but be of good cheer, this trouble out there 199 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:23,320 and all these sectors of society, I'll overcome. 200 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:31,080 This is why you're not subject to those ungodly pathways of 201 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:34,160 sectors of society, because you're in a Kingdom. 202 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:38,160 You've been transferred out of the domain of darkness and 203 00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:40,320 transferred into the Kingdom of his beloved Son. 204 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:47,400 So we have victory in all accounts and so the enemy has 205 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:51,480 created things in the earth because he has dominion in the 206 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:55,480 domain of darkness and he manipulates and deceives people 207 00:11:55,480 --> 00:11:59,080 to function because you and I all know that while we were 208 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:02,040 sinners, Christ died and we've all been separated from God and 209 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:04,680 lived lives that were like man, it were bankrupt. 210 00:12:04,680 --> 00:12:07,280 It didn't work. I was trying some of us even 211 00:12:07,280 --> 00:12:10,080 trying to get to God through through the things of the world 212 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:11,760 and realize it's just not going to happen. 213 00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:18,000 But God, come on, but God, all right, So John first, John 5, 214 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:20,320 four and five says this. For whatever is born of God, are 215 00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:23,680 you born of God? For whatever is born of God, are 216 00:12:23,680 --> 00:12:28,360 you born of God? OK, overcomes the world. 217 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:30,840 Are the systems of the world same thing? 218 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:34,000 It's not Earth because God still loves planet Earth. 219 00:12:34,440 --> 00:12:36,960 I mean, if you get to the back of the book of Revelations, we 220 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:39,440 know there'll be a new heaven and a new right. 221 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:42,120 So again, God is not finished with planet earth. 222 00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:47,240 He's going to revitalize it. He'll burn it with fire and then 223 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:49,320 there'll be a new earth. Hallelujah. 224 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:51,800 OK, and then new heaven. So whatever is born of God 225 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:55,160 overcomes the world or the systems, and this is the victory 226 00:12:55,160 --> 00:12:59,080 that overcomes the world. Our faith, faith comes by 227 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:02,560 hearing and hearing from the word of God or the word of 228 00:13:02,560 --> 00:13:06,640 Christ or the word of the King. And so when we hear from Jesus, 229 00:13:06,640 --> 00:13:10,680 who was Lord of all, and we apply that word firmly, 230 00:13:10,680 --> 00:13:14,120 persuaded that what our king says is going to take place, 231 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:18,160 then we overcome the systems of the world, Hallelujah. 232 00:13:18,560 --> 00:13:23,600 And we're not subject to them like the rest of those who are 233 00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:25,600 in the world. Again, what did Jesus say? 234 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:30,200 He said, Lord, don't take them out of the planet, right? 235 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:33,760 He said they're in the world, but they're not of the world. 236 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:36,000 We're not of the world because we're born again. 237 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:40,560 We are children of God. So this is the victory or 238 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:43,560 whatever is born of God overcomes the world. 239 00:13:43,560 --> 00:13:45,560 And what overcomes the world is our faith. 240 00:13:45,560 --> 00:13:49,280 Verse 5, Who is the one who overcomes the world? 241 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:51,880 But he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God, do you 242 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:54,560 believe he's the Son of God? Come on, is he Lord of your 243 00:13:54,560 --> 00:13:56,520 life? Hallelujah. 244 00:13:56,720 --> 00:13:59,800 So we need to understand this, and we've said this before, 245 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:04,520 faith in God is not for self preservation but for self 246 00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:07,480 revelation. Because the minute I became a 247 00:14:07,480 --> 00:14:11,840 child of God, God's spirit came and lived on the inside of me. 248 00:14:11,840 --> 00:14:14,400 He bears witness now with this new spirit that I am. 249 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:16,720 The Bible says that I'm a new creature in Christ. 250 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:19,480 That spirit that was dead, did not know God, could not get to 251 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:22,600 God, no matter how much it tried to, it was always in rebellion 252 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:24,720 to God. It was taken out of this skin 253 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:27,280 suit. A new spirit was placed in me in 254 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:30,480 the likeness of God and the Holy Ghost now bears witness with my 255 00:14:30,480 --> 00:14:32,760 spirit. I am a what child of God, which 256 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:35,040 means I'm no longer a Sinner saved by grace. 257 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:37,120 I was a Sinner. I'm saved by grace. 258 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:43,000 Now I'm a believer, a child of God and have access to him by 259 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:46,520 his Holy Spirit. Glory to God, that is awesome. 260 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:51,240 So the Holy Spirit now one of his assignment is to teach me 261 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:53,400 who I am. Now in Christ. 262 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:56,800 He gives me this new identity. He said, now this is who you 263 00:14:56,800 --> 00:14:59,280 are. Now and again on Sunday we refer 264 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:00,880 to this. If you weren't here Sunday, I 265 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:03,880 encourage you to go online and listen to the message focus 266 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:07,320 because as a believer, I do not focus on what the Scripture 267 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:11,680 calls the old man. I focus on the new man because 268 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:15,680 the new man is anointed by the Spirit of God. 269 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:18,040 The old man will separate it from God. 270 00:15:18,200 --> 00:15:22,640 So I don't do the deeds of the old man because I'm not subject 271 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:26,760 to that old man anymore. He has left me in the Spirit, 272 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:30,480 but in the realm of the being born again. 273 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:32,400 I'm a new creature in Christ now. 274 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:36,560 I'm a new man. And now I'm, I subject myself to 275 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:38,800 the voice of God, 'cause now I can hear God. 276 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:43,600 And as a result of that I can live an anointed life above and 277 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:48,120 beyond and out of the things of this world, the things that pull 278 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:51,360 us down and can put us in, in death and destruction. 279 00:15:51,480 --> 00:15:55,240 So faith in God is not about where are you going to go when 280 00:15:55,240 --> 00:15:58,800 you die? Jesus never preached it that 281 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:01,480 way. It was never to be pushed as the 282 00:16:01,480 --> 00:16:02,800 gospel. Where are you going to go when 283 00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:05,280 you die? Because all religions preach 284 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:10,040 that Jesus is was. You need to know why you were 285 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:13,240 originally made. And because of what I'll do, I 286 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:15,120 can get you back there. Hallelujah. 287 00:16:15,520 --> 00:16:18,400 So again, salvation is not about destination. 288 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:22,120 Salvation is about destiny. It's about identity. 289 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:25,600 It's about being who you are now while you're in the earth 290 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:28,480 because yes, there is another place to be. 291 00:16:28,480 --> 00:16:31,400 There is a present with the Lord for sure. 292 00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:35,880 There is a lifetime with Christ. But yet God did not leave us 293 00:16:35,880 --> 00:16:39,760 down here, broke, disgusted, barely getting along and just 294 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:41,920 hanging on till we could get to heaven when we die. 295 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:44,320 No, we have the life of God in us. 296 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:48,280 We're different species of being now and we acknowledge it 297 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:52,000 because Christ is our Lord. So faith is not about self self 298 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:54,200 preservation, but but for self revelation. 299 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:57,800 I'm always discovering who I am in Christ and what God, what 300 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:01,080 Christ is the price He paid for me so that I could live out of 301 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:04,079 victorious life for Him in the earth. 302 00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:08,560 Faith also is not a coping mechanism but a conquering 303 00:17:08,560 --> 00:17:10,839 mechanism. You know, we're not in the 304 00:17:10,839 --> 00:17:13,079 church 'cause we're just trying to cope with life. 305 00:17:13,839 --> 00:17:16,800 You know, life's so tough. I just go to church to just 306 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:19,520 cope. It's not a coping mechanism. 307 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:23,079 It's a conquering. We conquer, we overcome. 308 00:17:23,079 --> 00:17:27,160 And again, it's not us, but it's Christ in us, the life we now 309 00:17:27,160 --> 00:17:31,000 live, not by the flesh, but by the Spirit, overcome because 310 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:33,760 Jesus, when he was on the planet, he was not conquered. 311 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:40,480 He was never destroyed. He willfully gave himself up 312 00:17:41,840 --> 00:17:45,240 because even when they took him to the cross, he had to say it's 313 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:48,320 finished. Hallelujah. 314 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:54,280 So He willfully let go of His spirit because the reality is he 315 00:17:54,280 --> 00:17:57,120 had never sinned. Sin brings death. 316 00:17:57,440 --> 00:18:00,240 Jesus had not sinned, and if the devil never would have messed 317 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:02,000 with him, he'd still be on the planet today. 318 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:09,080 However, he let go of His spirit and God took our position. 319 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:13,080 He took on our wrongdoing. He paid the price of our 320 00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:16,160 penalty. What we could not do, He did. 321 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:18,800 Hallelujah. Aren't you excited about that 322 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:21,200 and thankful? So this faith that we have in 323 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:24,600 God is not coping to get through till we, you know, die and get 324 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:27,680 to heaven one day. It's about conquering now and 325 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:29,440 then we have the hope of heaven later. 326 00:18:29,920 --> 00:18:33,160 Isn't that amazing? So cope just means to deal with 327 00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:35,560 an attempt to overcome problems and difficulties. 328 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:38,480 Well, it's an attempt to, but you understand when you're in 329 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:40,680 Christ, He says you will overcome. 330 00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:45,240 You are to be undaunted. You are to be certain, you are 331 00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:47,840 to be confident. And again, it's not a confidence 332 00:18:47,840 --> 00:18:49,520 in me. It's a confidence in the one who 333 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:52,680 died for me, who left his word for me. 334 00:18:52,840 --> 00:18:56,560 That is, that is the authority of God that I can stand on. 335 00:18:56,560 --> 00:19:01,000 All right and so the passion translation says it this way you 336 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:04,480 see every child of God overcomes the world for our faith is the 337 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:07,080 victorious power that triumphs over the world. 338 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:10,720 So who are the world conquerors defeating its power? 339 00:19:10,880 --> 00:19:13,440 Those who believe that Jesus is the son of God. 340 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:17,320 So overcome means to conquer, Vanquish, subdue, prevail, to 341 00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:21,600 come off superior in a judicial cause to get the victory. 342 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:23,880 We get the victory. Amen. 343 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:29,240 So when trouble comes, no one's denying that there's issues 344 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:34,680 factual, there's problems. But I take a step back through 345 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:37,680 prayer in the reading of the Word and say, Lord, how do you 346 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:40,720 want me to move forward in this situation? 347 00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:44,000 And when you get that word from God and then begin to speak His 348 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:47,080 word, that word will come to pass in your life. 349 00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:51,120 I mean, anyone that's been in church for any time knowing the 350 00:19:51,120 --> 00:19:56,480 salvation comes through Christ, that if someone tonight stepped 351 00:19:56,480 --> 00:19:59,040 out and came down and said, I want to give my life to the 352 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:00,520 Lord. I believe that he came and died 353 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:01,800 on the cross and rose from the grave. 354 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:06,200 I acknowledge him as the one that paid the price for my 355 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:09,280 wrongdoing and I call him Lord, which is not a religious word 356 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:10,600 that means supreme and authority. 357 00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:13,080 OK. And so I, I call him Lord of my 358 00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:14,720 life. I am going to be submitted to 359 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:17,960 him and his way of living. I accept him. 360 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:22,080 As my Lord, well, nobody here, although they'll leave with the 361 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:25,160 same clothes on, have the same face, hair's going to be the 362 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:29,600 same, OK, But all of us will say they're born again, even though 363 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:34,120 we cannot see that old spirit leave and a new one come in and 364 00:20:34,120 --> 00:20:37,360 the Holy Ghost come in with him. We never see that, but we 365 00:20:37,360 --> 00:20:40,120 believe according to the word. That's what the word says. 366 00:20:40,120 --> 00:20:44,040 All who call on the name of the Lord will be so we rejoice with 367 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:46,240 the angels, say well glory to God, they're saved. 368 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:49,240 Hallelujah. Like water baptism on Sunday. 369 00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:52,160 We baptized 4 people. I believe it was those people 370 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:54,360 made a profession of faith that Christ was Lord. 371 00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:57,920 I can't see that spirit inside them, but I said, have you 372 00:20:57,920 --> 00:20:59,560 called on Jesus? They said yes. 373 00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:02,040 I said according to your confession of faith, I baptize 374 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:04,720 you in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. 375 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:07,360 We baptize them, Amen. And they're believers now, 376 00:21:07,360 --> 00:21:10,320 they're children of God, but they're outside suit looks the 377 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:14,200 same, but we are related. But which means now that they 378 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:17,720 are, they can conquer, they can subdue, they can prevail, and 379 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:21,640 they can come off superior to any trial that happens in the 380 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:22,960 earth. Hallelujah. 381 00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:25,360 Aren't you glad we've been given a great king? 382 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:30,280 So Colossians 26 to 8. The good word translation says 383 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:33,720 it this way or God's word, it says you received Jesus Christ 384 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:36,720 the Lord. So continue to live in as Christ 385 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:40,160 people, sink your roots in Him and build on Him. 386 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:44,480 Be strengthened by the faith you that you were taught and 387 00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:49,080 overflow with Thanksgiving. Be careful not to let anyone rob 388 00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:53,120 you of this faith through a shallow and misleading 389 00:21:53,120 --> 00:21:55,480 philosophy. Such a person. 390 00:21:57,240 --> 00:22:02,880 Such a person follows human traditions and the world's ways. 391 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:06,440 What world's way of doing things rather than following Christ? 392 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:10,520 When you're born again, you have to make sure you do not allow 393 00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:16,520 yourself to go back into the way the world functioned, because we 394 00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:18,840 now can overcome the world's way. 395 00:22:19,120 --> 00:22:22,400 Prior to that, I could not. No matter how much you tried to 396 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:27,040 stop things, you found yourself doing it right, you know, And 397 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:29,360 then you tried to find peace and all kinds of things, 398 00:22:29,360 --> 00:22:33,760 relationships, substance, jobs, all kinds of stuff, right? 399 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:37,800 Careers, education, whatever the case may be. 400 00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:41,560 But the reality is without Christ is always a dead end. 401 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:43,880 You're faced with yourself. You can't get rid of the guilt 402 00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:45,720 and shame of different things you've done wrong. 403 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:47,440 But in Christ you can do something. 404 00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:50,880 But now once you're born again, you have to stay focused there 405 00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:58,320 and not entertain things that are worldly in thought. 406 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:04,480 OK, So what does the faith, what is our faith in God's Word looks 407 00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:06,800 like in the world now? This is really powerful. 408 00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:08,600 This is the passage I wanted to get to tonight. 409 00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:12,840 Second Corinthians chapter 2, verses 14 to 17. 410 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:14,560 I'm gonna read out the new American standard. 411 00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:17,080 It says it this way. But thanks be to God, who always 412 00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:20,400 leads us in triumph in Christ. You see that? 413 00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:23,200 But thanks be to God, who? What? 414 00:23:24,360 --> 00:23:26,920 How many times? Come on, how many times? 415 00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:31,680 How many times always leads us in triumph? 416 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:36,080 Now, if you're not following, this may be the reason why 417 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:40,360 you're not in victory. Triumphing in Christ comes by 418 00:23:40,360 --> 00:23:46,120 following. It's not because you are born 419 00:23:46,120 --> 00:23:48,360 again. Now being born again gives you 420 00:23:48,360 --> 00:23:54,800 the triumph over death, right? Eternal separation or damnation, 421 00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:57,520 or what is called the second death, the lake of fire. 422 00:23:57,640 --> 00:24:01,480 However, in this life, you have to allow the leading of the 423 00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:04,840 Spirit to cause you to overcome everything going on in the 424 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:08,040 world, and that's through His leading. 425 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:11,320 This is how you triumph in every situation. 426 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:14,880 Because when things are telling you, it cannot be, when you have 427 00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:17,840 a word of God, the word of the King, you're like, no, this is 428 00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:20,240 what he said to me. I'm staying with it. 429 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:23,600 And when you stay on it and allow that to lead you, then 430 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:27,640 you're going to be triumphant in whatever it is you're standing 431 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:30,160 and believing. But it goes on and says this and 432 00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:35,120 manifests through us. The sweet aroma you smell, the 433 00:24:35,120 --> 00:24:39,920 victory, the sweet aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place. 434 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:45,160 Look at this verse 15. For we are a fragrance of Christ 435 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:48,720 to God among those who are being saved and among those who are 436 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:52,840 perishing. Oh man, this is good to the one, 437 00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:56,280 an aroma from death to death to another, an aroma from life to 438 00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:58,360 life. And who is adequate of these 439 00:24:58,360 --> 00:25:00,320 things? Verse 17, it says, For we are 440 00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:03,920 not like many peddling the word of God, but as from a sincerity, 441 00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:08,040 but as from God. We speak in Christ in the sight 442 00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:09,680 of God. Let me read this out of the 443 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:12,240 Passion translation and then I'm going to make a few comments. 444 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:17,160 God always makes His grace visible in Christ, who includes 445 00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:21,040 us as partners of His endless triumph through our yielded 446 00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:23,280 lives. He spreads the fragrance of the 447 00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:25,200 knowledge of God everywhere we go. 448 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:28,960 In essence, when you're in Christ and staying connected to 449 00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:31,400 Christ, you're putting on the Kingdom. 450 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:37,640 Cologne or perfume right now. I mean, I have some colognes 451 00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:39,600 that I like, you know, specifically. 452 00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:43,240 And you know, I've worn them enough that honestly, I only 453 00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:46,320 smell them when they're coming out of the bottle and hitting my 454 00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:48,840 clothes. Outside of that, I don't smell 455 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:50,000 them. But every once in a while, I'll 456 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:54,160 come across somebody that they'll catch a whiff of my 457 00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:58,880 fragrance and they'll say hi. I really like that Cologne. 458 00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:01,480 Right now. They like the Cologne, but you 459 00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:03,520 understand, I'm carrying another fragrance. 460 00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:07,760 Hallelujah. I remember my wife and I, we 461 00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:12,480 were walking in Charleston, WV in a mall cuz you know, we 462 00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:15,000 purchased this mall. So I was in another mall and it 463 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:17,280 looked worse than our mall when we bought the mall, right? 464 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:22,120 I mean it was like 3 stories and there are so many people not in 465 00:26:22,120 --> 00:26:23,720 that mall. I mean, you know, there's so 466 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:25,480 many stores. And I was just, you know, 467 00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:27,040 dreaming a little bit. You know how I am. 468 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:30,200 I'm like, you know, what could you do in this place right here, 469 00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:32,880 right. But my wife and I were holding 470 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:34,640 hands walking. All of a sudden this lady came 471 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:36,840 up. She goes, wow, you, you are such 472 00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:40,240 a beautiful couple. I mean, I know where now I'd 473 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:43,480 like to think that I'm GQ, but you know, I know better than 474 00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:48,160 that and I know I'm married up. I understand that as well, but I 475 00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:50,360 sense my wife and I both says, you know what? 476 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:54,320 It's the fragrance of God. It's the godliness about our 477 00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:58,080 lives that all of a sudden is radiating and developing A 478 00:26:58,080 --> 00:26:59,160 fragrance. And you know what? 479 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:02,680 The word supports that thought. So let's go on and keep reading 480 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:04,960 this passage of Scripture. It says this verse 15. 481 00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:09,840 For we have become the unmistakable aroma of the 482 00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:15,880 victory of the anointed one to God, a perfume of life to those 483 00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:18,880 being saved, and the odor of death to those who are 484 00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:22,840 perishing. The unbelievers smell a deadly 485 00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:26,600 stint that leads to death. But believer smell the life 486 00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:29,000 giving aroma that leads to abundant life. 487 00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:32,000 And who of us can rise to this challenge? 488 00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:37,000 Verse 17 says for unlike us so many, we are not peddlers of 489 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:38,920 God's word who watered down the message. 490 00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:42,640 We are those sent from God with pure motives who speak in the 491 00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:45,320 sight of God from our union, union with Christ. 492 00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:49,280 When you are impurity really just want to serve God because 493 00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:51,400 you love him and that's all that matters. 494 00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:54,760 Well, then all of a sudden it carries an aroma, and to those 495 00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:58,720 that are outside this Kingdom, when they get around you, all of 496 00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:05,880 a sudden they smell not you, but them, that the stench of their 497 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:09,400 life begins to come up. It reminds me of the testimony 498 00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:12,240 of the guy on the bus with Smith Wigglesworth when he was sitting 499 00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:13,720 there. And Smith Wigglesworth, you 500 00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:16,320 know, who was a powerful man of God, and God used him 501 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:19,320 tremendously in miracles, signs and wonders. 502 00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:21,600 And he was just sitting on the bus there in England. 503 00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:24,560 And that guy got up to get out and he goes, your mere presence 504 00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:28,840 convicts me of my sin. Well, it was a fragrance because 505 00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:31,680 he was godly. He was smelling himself. 506 00:28:32,360 --> 00:28:34,720 Are you hearing me? It reminds me of another story 507 00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:36,560 when I say story, a life account. 508 00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:40,800 When my father, he owned a painting company and we were 509 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:44,360 doing some hotel, a hotel. And so it was, you know, just 510 00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:46,680 doing some touch up work. They were at the point where 511 00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:49,880 some cleaning people were coming in to clean the windows and all 512 00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:52,600 this type of stuff. Well, you know, I was doing some 513 00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:54,000 touch up. I don't remember exactly 514 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:56,120 painting or maybe I was puttying something. 515 00:28:56,360 --> 00:29:00,560 But regardless, there was an individual that showed up in the 516 00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:04,040 room. Now they had a lot of perfume 517 00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:08,320 on, but the perfume was on to try to disguise the body odor 518 00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:11,920 which made the combination gaggable. 519 00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:18,320 And you understand the world is trying to put on a form of 520 00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:21,560 godliness but are denying the power thereof. 521 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:25,080 But when you come in with the true fragrance of God, 'cause 522 00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:27,760 you love him because He saved you, because He's changed you, 523 00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:31,440 because your lifestyle models the life of the king and this 524 00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:34,440 new life that you're in, well, all of a sudden those that are 525 00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:37,840 living subpar, that smell will come up in their lives. 526 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:40,920 This is why some people that you get come to work or family 527 00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:44,440 members you know, or people you encounter at various places that 528 00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:46,960 you show up and you say a couple things and they are all of a 529 00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:49,920 sudden aggravated and agitated at you. 530 00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:51,720 And you're almost like, what did I do? 531 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:57,320 You just walked in the room because for those that are 532 00:29:57,320 --> 00:30:02,720 dying, that stench of their own life starts to show up. 533 00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:06,320 Now the good news is if they would repent, it could be 534 00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:11,400 stripped. It would be stripped and it 535 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:17,320 doesn't matter how much self religion and and and self 536 00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:22,120 righteousness that you try to put your clone and perfume on 537 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:25,120 your smells there and God knows it. 538 00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:30,000 You're hearing what I'm saying. So you need to ask yourself, how 539 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:32,400 do I smell when I go into a room? 540 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:37,960 Because know this how you live for God, God knows. 541 00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:43,080 So God knows your smell. And do you have a smell of 542 00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:46,200 defeat and death or do you have the smell of victory? 543 00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:49,280 Come on, do you have the smell of victory, man? 544 00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:50,800 I'm going to have the smell of victory. 545 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:53,400 I want to be able to come into a room, man, and the smell of 546 00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:55,120 victory. And again, that's why you're 547 00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:58,480 going to have adverse reactions from people who want to see you 548 00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:02,440 fail, who want to see you fall, who want to see you not be 549 00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:05,640 successful, who want to see you sick and stuck in the hospital, 550 00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:08,320 who want to see tragedies come to your life, who want to see 551 00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:10,440 you fire all those things. Why? 552 00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:15,160 Because they are jealous of the godliness that you are. 553 00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:18,280 But you are praying for them that they could come out. 554 00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:19,840 You're there to help liberate them. 555 00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:23,560 So again, what is it that we have triumphed over in Christ? 556 00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:27,480 Now, I'm going to give you a list that comes out of Galatians 557 00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:31,600 5, Ephesians 5, and Philippians 2. 558 00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:34,480 All right, you can look these up for yourself. 559 00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:36,920 So I'm just doing some bullet points because you understand 560 00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:40,720 when you are born again, this is the victory that overcomes the 561 00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:45,240 world, our faith. And when we live according to 562 00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:48,320 the Word, then these are things we can triumph over. 563 00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:53,040 In essence, they no longer rule us or we're subject to them or 564 00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:57,480 we have to fall into them. We can resist them. 565 00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:03,720 Jesus was tempted on all accounts like we have been, yet 566 00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,840 without sin Now we've been recreated in His likeness. 567 00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:11,880 We have received His anointing with and when that occurs then 568 00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:15,760 we have the ability. That doesn't mean this list. 569 00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:22,240 You could not fail. You can, and if you did, God is 570 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:24,480 merciful. You can repent. 571 00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:27,720 Ask God to forgive you and He'll treat it like you've never done 572 00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:30,800 it. But yet if you know going in 573 00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:33,920 that you know what, if this starts to come, you know what? 574 00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:38,000 I can just resist. I can resist. 575 00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:41,240 So here's the list. This is what you have triumphed 576 00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:44,240 over in Christ. You have triumphed over sexual 577 00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:48,680 immorality, lustful thoughts, pornography, chasing after 578 00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:51,960 things instead of God, manipulating others, hatred of 579 00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:56,080 those who get in your way, senseless arguments, resentments 580 00:32:56,080 --> 00:33:00,520 when others are favored, temper tantrum, drug use, angry 581 00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:05,520 quarrels, jealousy, self promotion, selfless selfishness, 582 00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:09,480 pride filled opinions, being envious of the blessings of 583 00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:13,840 others, murder, uncontrolled addiction, wild party greed, 584 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:17,760 idolatry and obscenities and worthly insults. 585 00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:20,680 Hallelujah. You know, in the political 586 00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:23,400 season, for those that are born of God, you know they really 587 00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:26,840 have to do a very. They have to gain access to 588 00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:32,880 their mouth because you can give some unworthy insults, they can 589 00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:36,760 give you an advantage right and you know our whole again, that's 590 00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:39,480 the way of the world. Bash this one to elevate 591 00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:40,920 yourself, but you understand the Kingdom. 592 00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:44,440 That's not how we do that. I said that's not how we do that 593 00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:48,200 and and essence if we would follow the kingdom's way of 594 00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:50,600 doing it. The Bible says he who humbles 595 00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:55,200 himself will be oh man. And I'm telling you, if we 596 00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:58,960 follow his plan, then you can get into promotions that you 597 00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:01,720 never would have gotten into if you just try to do it the 598 00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:06,360 world's way, you know, talking about the other employee and and 599 00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:09,480 saying things about them, you know, to try to make you look 600 00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:11,360 better. Now, I'm not saying you don't 601 00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:14,280 have an honest report about someone's performance. 602 00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:17,239 No one is saying that. If you were, you know, in HR and 603 00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:20,199 you're evaluating someone and they're not performing, you're 604 00:34:20,199 --> 00:34:23,760 being honest, but you would also give a corrective action. 605 00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:27,400 And you know what, it's not wrong for you to say, you know 606 00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:30,159 what, you're not fitting the organization and we're going to 607 00:34:30,159 --> 00:34:32,400 have to let you go. And that's honesty. 608 00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:34,440 That doesn't mean you're trying to get above them. 609 00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:37,440 They didn't perform on their own free will. 610 00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:40,400 But if you're doing it so that you could take their position, 611 00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:45,760 are you hearing what I'm saying? Because again, these things that 612 00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:51,560 we say we are, you know, you can identify them in some of them as 613 00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:54,520 actions. Again, murders, pretty easy to 614 00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:57,160 see. However, remember what Jesus 615 00:34:57,160 --> 00:34:59,840 said. Jesus said, you've heard the 616 00:34:59,840 --> 00:35:06,040 ancients say are those of the past that came from my father in 617 00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:08,760 his writings, thou shalt not commit adultery. 618 00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:12,760 But I say unto you, if you've lusted after a woman in your own 619 00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:16,200 heart, you've committed that sin, which tells me you can. 620 00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:20,840 You may be faithful to your spouse physically, but 621 00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:24,800 emotionally you're already in an adulterous affair. 622 00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:28,400 And if God's looking at it, that's how he looks at it. 623 00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:33,080 So we may not always be able to identify a person's heart motive 624 00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:36,400 of why they're doing something, but God does. 625 00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:40,400 I said God does. And the good thing about being 626 00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:42,920 in Christ is God will speak to us and say, why are you doing 627 00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:47,800 that? Give you a check so that then 628 00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:51,880 you can lead the way. God would want you and you keep 629 00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:55,760 your smell of victory. Amen. 630 00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:59,840 Because let me tell you, nobody can take what God has ordained 631 00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:02,680 for you. Whatever door he opens, no man 632 00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:05,440 can shut, and whatever door he shuts, no man can open. 633 00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:08,280 So you're not threatened by anyone. 634 00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:11,040 You're not in competition with anyone. 635 00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:16,560 God designed you to do something specific for Him and His church, 636 00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:20,920 and when you follow Him, you can get any place He needs you to 637 00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:21,960 be. Hallelujah. 638 00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:25,200 So aren't you glad that you had the victory over these things? 639 00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:31,520 So this whole list, Paul finishes up and says it this 640 00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:33,080 way. Haven't I already warned you 641 00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:35,360 that those who use their freedom? 642 00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:39,240 So again, he's talking to people in the church that are saying by 643 00:36:39,240 --> 00:36:42,560 God's grace I'm saved. I didn't earn it, so I can still 644 00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:44,920 do what I want to do and be right with God. 645 00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:50,040 He is saying if they're using their freedom, he goes on and 646 00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:53,520 says for these things will not for these things will not 647 00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:55,160 inherit the Kingdom realm of God. 648 00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:59,200 So again, God did not save us out of something for us to stay 649 00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:04,600 participating in it, right? Because he's given us a new 650 00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:07,600 nature and then God himself lives in US. 651 00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:11,160 Wow, how amazing is that? So with that being said, first 652 00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:13,240 Peter chapter 2 verse 11 says it this way. 653 00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:17,160 He says, I appeal to you, my friends, as strangers and refuge 654 00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:21,440 in this world, do not give in to bodily passions, which are 655 00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:25,360 always at war against the soul. Those things that we mentioned, 656 00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:29,720 you know, in Scripture is fleshly things that are contrary 657 00:37:29,720 --> 00:37:33,200 to spiritual things. And we are to resist the flesh, 658 00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:36,880 when in fact we are to crucify the flesh and be led by the 659 00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:39,440 spirit. So the systems of this world, 660 00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:41,280 the way of this world, the things that you're doing at 661 00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:46,640 work, you've seen in maybe past relationships, maybe you have 662 00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:49,240 some friends that are in some relationships and the way they 663 00:37:49,240 --> 00:37:51,640 treat each other. You know, there may be business 664 00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:54,800 practices that are going on in the world, all kinds of things 665 00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:58,000 that are contrary to the Kingdom that you have to make sure it's 666 00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:01,120 waging to get war against your soul. 667 00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:02,920 And you have to say, you know what, I'm not going to do that. 668 00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:06,840 I'm not going to do that. I'll give you a case in point. 669 00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:10,440 This is very simple one, but Sunday when we playing flag 670 00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:14,320 football, Leo comes flying across the field out of nowhere 671 00:38:14,720 --> 00:38:17,160 and catches the ball and goes out. 672 00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:20,720 I happen to be on the sideline not in the game at that time 673 00:38:20,720 --> 00:38:23,400 because we playing four on four and we had five and they only 674 00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:28,640 had four and I saw it right now. The refs on that side said he 675 00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:34,480 didn't catch it, but I'm like, he caught it and he's not on my 676 00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:37,240 team. Because at the end of the day, 677 00:38:37,240 --> 00:38:40,760 if we're going to if we're going to win, I want to win honestly. 678 00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:43,600 And I get it. Some people can make a wrong 679 00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:48,480 call, but the reality is honesty is of the Kingdom lifestyle, 680 00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:51,240 right? And that's just a very simple, 681 00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:54,600 we get when you start getting into business, all kinds of 682 00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:57,600 things, you know, there's all kinds of ways that the world 683 00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:00,320 will attack your mind to say do it this way. 684 00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:03,720 Well, you nobody's going to know it's OK here. 685 00:39:03,720 --> 00:39:07,160 Da da, da, da, da, that wages war in your soul. 686 00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:08,160 And you have to say, you know what? 687 00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:12,320 I'm I'm not going to do it because I want to maintain the 688 00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:15,600 smell of victory in my life that when I walk around, I am the 689 00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:18,840 righteousness of God in Christ. I am a doer of his word. 690 00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:21,880 And man, when people see me, victory walks in the room, 691 00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:24,400 right? Victory walks in the room. 692 00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:27,800 So Galatians 522 to 23 says it this way. 693 00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:29,840 How can you be assured of these types of victory? 694 00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:33,560 Well, you have to be born again because those who are born again 695 00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:37,600 now have fruit from the Spirit of God, That's the Holy Spirit. 696 00:39:37,720 --> 00:39:40,440 Before I was born again, I did not have this fruit. 697 00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:46,600 OK, I may have tried to put on this fruit. 698 00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:50,240 I may have tried to demonstrate these practices. 699 00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:53,080 However, I had alternative motives. 700 00:39:53,240 --> 00:39:54,600 You know, a person can be patient. 701 00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:57,400 I'll give you a case in point. When I wasn't living for the 702 00:39:57,400 --> 00:40:00,640 Lord in high school, I was really patient with females. 703 00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:09,720 Until you get what you want, say Amen. 704 00:40:09,720 --> 00:40:12,280 Anyway, it's been a long time. I know. 705 00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:13,440 Are you shocked? I get it. 706 00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:16,440 You know, I was, I was a heathen. 707 00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:19,920 I was backslidden, not living for the Lord and living 708 00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:22,560 according to my flesh. And so, you know, there were 709 00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:24,400 things you're pursuing and you're patient. 710 00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:28,280 And for me, I was patient. And then I would be super kind 711 00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:36,360 to the parents because if the parents like me, I'm in, I'm in. 712 00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:43,560 And when I break up, the parents will blame the daughter. 713 00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:53,480 Crazy as that sound. Well, he was such a nice guy. 714 00:40:56,360 --> 00:41:00,160 See mode of it in there. It looks like you're kind. 715 00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:04,720 So again, not everyone kind is kind. 716 00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:08,360 That's why, you know, I'm cautious when I call good people 717 00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:11,640 good and bad people bad, you know, because not everybody that 718 00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:15,120 does supposedly good things are good people. 719 00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:19,040 So I say, well, they're acting nice for sure. 720 00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:21,440 That I know about them is they're nice, but I don't know 721 00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:23,880 them enough to determine, is that fruit good? 722 00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:26,720 Right anyway. But when you're born again, this 723 00:41:26,720 --> 00:41:31,400 comes by the Spirit and the fruits of the Spirit is Lovejoy, 724 00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:35,800 peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, right, 725 00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:41,600 gentleness and self-control. Which means then that whole list 726 00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:44,680 that we're talking about, how would I fall into sexual 727 00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:51,280 immorality? When the temptation comes, I 728 00:41:51,280 --> 00:41:54,440 pull out the fruit called self-control. 729 00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:58,680 Cause before I was born again, didn't have that, did not have 730 00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:02,160 that. Nope, did not have self-control. 731 00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:05,960 Did not have it. But now that I'm born again, I 732 00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:08,840 have self-control. I said I have self-control. 733 00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:11,560 Now, I've told this story before, my wife knows it, that 734 00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:16,080 when we were at Rhema, I worked at Bergen Brunswick, which was a 735 00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:19,440 pharmaceutical company. And you know, I sold everybody 736 00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:21,560 at class out by, you know, Bible college. 737 00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:24,600 I was a drug pusher because I pushed, you know, prescriptions 738 00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:27,800 down the line every night filling orders for pharmacies. 739 00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:29,880 What do you do for a living? Well, I'm a drug pusher. 740 00:42:31,720 --> 00:42:32,960 I was always a good talking point. 741 00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:37,360 Anyway, there was a lady that was over that area and one day 742 00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:39,200 we were staying a little late because you have to pull all the 743 00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:41,880 orders where we go. And she kind of caught me by 744 00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:45,200 myself and set up on the thing and started talking to me. 745 00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:49,400 And basically he was asking me don't go to my home, come to 746 00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:55,400 hers. And I was like, no, you don't 747 00:42:55,760 --> 00:43:00,400 really like me. What you need is Jesus. 748 00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:03,080 Now that ended that pretty quick. 749 00:43:03,080 --> 00:43:05,160 When I said that, she never approached me again. 750 00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:10,400 All right, when I said, you know, I'm not the man you want, 751 00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:13,400 the man you want is Jesus, the man, I said that she's like, OK, 752 00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:16,160 I got to go, right? But yeah, I mean, because again, 753 00:43:16,240 --> 00:43:19,840 she was not attracted to me. She was really smelling the 754 00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:23,840 victory. She wanted some victory, but she 755 00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:26,720 can't get victory that way. And so I was letting her know 756 00:43:26,720 --> 00:43:31,080 how you can have this smell is that you can have Jesus, right? 757 00:43:31,240 --> 00:43:34,240 Well, you understand self controls there, right there. 758 00:43:34,240 --> 00:43:35,640 You're like, no, there's no way. Why? 759 00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:39,520 Because I'm a child of the King now I operate in a fruit that no 760 00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:43,360 longer I'm subject to the world where I have to be this guy that 761 00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:46,560 always is being unfaithful to his spouse. 762 00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:51,240 I'm not that guy, I'm a child of the king. 763 00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:54,360 I'm faithful to one person and why can I do this? 764 00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:58,040 Closing scriptures this first John 4/4 come on, you know it. 765 00:43:58,240 --> 00:44:01,640 It says this, you are from God little children and have 766 00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:08,080 overcome them because greater is he who is in you than he who is 767 00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:11,800 in the world. Now you understand so many 768 00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:15,720 believers quote that but are not living that. 769 00:44:16,040 --> 00:44:21,760 How in the world can I say I have a the greater God in me, 770 00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:25,560 yet am always failing in the world? 771 00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:30,320 I'm always being subject and I'm I'm lying like everybody else, 772 00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:32,760 cheating like everybody else, swindling like everybody else, 773 00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:35,560 deceiving like everybody else, manipulating like everybody 774 00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:39,240 else, complaining like everyone else, gossiping like everybody 775 00:44:39,240 --> 00:44:41,360 else. No, I have the triumph over all 776 00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:45,440 those things because of God in me, and now I get to move this 777 00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:48,560 thing on in the life of God because Christ has set me free. 778 00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:52,760 Whoo, glory to God because the greater 1 is on the inside of 779 00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:54,840 me. Man, that's such good news. 780 00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:57,320 We are not of this world anymore. 781 00:44:58,040 --> 00:45:00,920 And when we walk in a room, people should say there's 782 00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:07,280 something different when they get around you eventually, what 783 00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:09,080 is it? And then it's going to come out. 784 00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:11,960 His name is Jesus.