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Now enjoy this message. Relations, Chapter 2.
It's going to be a minute before I get there because the Lord.
When I woke up this morning, he he added some things to this
message. So that means I'm going to have
to eliminate some other things out of the other message.
I didn't know what your song set was going to be, Marcus.
I I didn't know Pastor didn't know.
I didn't tell him what I was going to minister on.
But the song that we sang, I am who I am.
Because the I am tells me who I am.
I'd like to change that I am who I am because the I am already
told me who I am. Now.
I'm not saying he doesn't stop telling you, but he already told
you and a lot of people are are still waiting on God to tell him
something he already told you. He told you through his word,
and he continues to talk to you, but you're too busy on your
device to hear him. You're too busy with your
entertainment to hear him. Now none of you would do that.
Just the people watching haven't helped anybody yet.
So before you post that, because they're they're going to, before
you put that up, I want you to listen to this because they're
going to, they're going to cheat.
That is really a nice a nice graphic.
But as I told the parents, we're staying in a hotel this week
where they're having a mini Comic Con 100%.
Last night when we went back to the hotel, I dropped Darlene off
the door and I had to park out because the parking lot is just
packed and I get in in a in a Gandalf walked by me.
And and and and then right behind him was Satan, and then
right behind him were, you know. The Three Bears, I mean, it was
it was it's an identity crisis convention.
These are grown people. They're in costume and their
hair and the whole thing and their makeup and all that.
And I'm talking about grown men. What we got on the elevator
today, We're the only ones dressed up on Sunday, you know,
And I wanted to say we identify with Christ, but I was nice.
I didn't say. But what I want to talk to you
about is. Today is our identification with
Christ. Say that with me.
Our identification with Christ. Say with Christ.
Not just in Christ. With Christ.
That's why I like the fact that y'all change.
That chorus instead of God is working for us.
God's working with. Us because that's scriptural.
He's working with us. You know too much of the body of
crisis into. Things like, well, I know God's
able. Is that really the question?
God's ability? Is that really in question?
My Bible says he's more than able, He's more than enough.
So his ability is never in question.
Or if God's willing, that's never the question.
It is His will. So.
Regarding our identification with Christ, this is what the
world gave me this morning. I put it in my phone.
Our identity. Mindedness versus image
mindedness. You see, the world today is
consumed with image. What do I look like?
And I I'm not even talking about the world.
It's crept into the church. I see pastors all the time.
And I mean, they post a selfie every day.
Really. I'm not talking about family
photos. I'm not talking about grandkids.
I'm not talking about, you know, stuff to do with ministry.
I'm talking about a picture of themselves every day.
And there's some with their shirts off and their wife is
not. I mean, if you're on the beach,
that's a different thing, but how much you're on the beach,
especially where in my area you got to go a long way to find the
beach, but yet their clothes are hanging off and there's a church
in our town that they, I was telling pastors that they very
image conscious. Derek's family used to attend
that Church of very image conscious and and they their
men's ministry was BYOB and that.
It doesn't mean Bible. Bring your own bottle to the
men's ministry. How's that going to work?
Well, that pastor's now gone. Why?
Because the church got so carnal.
I'm talking about breast augmentations and all kinds of
things. Because everybody's image and
therefore there was multiple adulteries even in the staff,
multiple adultery. And why does that happen?
How does that happen to a church, a socalled spirit field
church? How does that happen?
Because your image conscious instead of identity conscious.
You're so concerned about how you look and and please take a
bath. Please take a shower.
Please put on some smell good. Please do that.
Brush your toothpaste. That's what my son said as a
little boy. So I still say that that's 40
years ago. I still remember that, so please
be clean and modest and but come on.
Be more concerned about your identity of who you are in
Christ and who he's made you to be.
Then who you want man to perceive you as being.
That's your image, and we're going to get to the right kind
of image in scripture today. But if he's just 612 says this
you can put it up for we. And this is the amplified We are
not wrestling with flesh and blood.
Contending only with physical opponents, Wrestling.
That means contending fighting. We're in a fight, we're in a
warfare, I said to the families yesterday.
We're in spiritual combat. But a lot of church.
The church didn't get the memo and so that is real casual.
And they're Christianity. I love Jesus.
I love him so much. I love Jesus.
Yes, I do. I love Jesus.
How about you? And they're kind of cheerleaders
for Jesus instead of in the army of Christ.
You know, I, I don't know if you realize it, but your pastors are
stinking, spiritually militant. And I'm, I don't mean that in a
negative connotation whatsoever. So we wrestle not against flesh
and but so we're in a fight. This is New Testament, right?
This is out of the book of Ephesians, which I shared with
the people yesterday. But the the book of Ephesians is
a it is an authority book every single chapter.
If you want to learn of who you are in Christ, first of all read
Romans. And then get over to Ephesians
as fast as you can. Find out your positional
authority and how you're supposed to be dressing.
Because you can't fight very well when you're naked, so
contending only with physical. So we're not contending only
with physical opponents, but against despotism.
Against the powers against They are powers against the master
spirits. We're not just fighting little
Sissy demons now some Christians.
All it takes is a Sissy demon to get them off track.
We're we're fighting against master spirits who are.
The world rulers in this present darkness, of this present
darkness. Now they're operating on earth,
but primarily they're in the high places, the heavenly
places, not in heaven. They got evicted umpteen million
years ago, or however long it was.
We don't really know. We don't have a calendar for
when the devil got kicked out of heaven.
There's no date that that depicts that.
That's the only rebellion that there's ever been in the 3rd
Heaven. But the other rebellion is still
going on in the Heavenlies. That's why John the only First
Baptist. John said repent, for the
Kingdom of heaven is at hand, not the 3rd heaven, not a
capital H, not where God resides.
He's talking about the Heavenlies.
Repent. Change the way you think the
word repent in the New Testament.
Is not a holy term. It was a commonly used term in
the Greek that depicts changing the way you think, In other
words, have a paradigm shift in the way you think about things.
And he's appealing to the religious people of the day.
These are all Jews he's preaching to.
Not even Gentiles. They're all Jews.
You're going to have to change the way you're thinking.
You're no longer going to be able to serve God like you used
to. There's a new sheriff come to
town. He's greater than I I'm not even
able to tie his shoelaces. I'm not.
Even able to carry his sandals, I don't even come close to him.
What does Jesus say about John, the only First Baptist?
He says the greatest man whoever lived coming from Jesus.
That's that's. I mean, Jesus knows all things.
And he said that about John, the only First Baptist.
When I played the Friday night light school, it's Odessa, TX,
West, TX. And there was even an 11th
Baptist Church. There's so many splits.
I mean, do you proudly go to the 11th Baptist Church?
I mean, come on. So John said, Repent ye for the
Kingdom of heaven as a hand. And we know that Jesus showed up
in the next chapter. That's Matthew 3, Matthew 4.
Jesus showed up desiring to be baptized by John and the river
Jordan. He was not only water baptized,
he was Spirit baptized in that river where the Holy Spirit
descended upon him like a dove and gave him the Spirit without
measure. What was his first message?
Repent. For the Kingdom of heaven is
ahead. He plagiarized John the Baddest,
and people talk about us. Well, that's just Kenneth Hagan
message. You're just copying Kenneth
Hagan. Jesus, copy John the baddest.
So shut up. No, don't teach your children to
say shut up. Teach them not to say shut up.
But. It was the same message Jesus
had that John the Baptist had. Same Holy Ghost, same plan of
God. For the Kingdom of heaven is a
hand. In other words, what's he
saying? The Kingdom of the heavenlies is
now open. It's an open heaven.
It's now open and you're going to have to learn to operate.
In the heavens, you're going to have to learn to take your
authority to a new degree and to a new level.
It's going to It's going to have to be against these
principalities and powers. In other words, your rituals are
no longer going to be able to worship God like we did in the
Old Covenant. The New Covenant is different.
Now let's put that back. Back up guys, if you would.
So we we we fight. We war.
We wrestle against the rulers. In this present darkness, be a
good title of a book. OK, some of you don't know that.
All right. Against the spirit forces, say
spirit forces. What are they?
Forces of wickedness and the heavenly or the supernatural
sphere? They're everywhere.
They're at Walmart. They used to be at Ponce de Leon
Mall, but they they got. They got evicted.
So this is what the Spirit of God said to me this morning.
He gave me that scripture. But he said the gravitational
forces of this fallen world are continually warring against
mankind to recruit us to join their ranks.
Their purpose? To join the spiritually
rebellious entities against Christ and his Kingdom,
ultimately to take you to hell, but they have zero authority,
say 0 authority to do so without your consent and cooperation
either through outright rebellion or.
This is the danger thing here for any church or will, for
willful ignorance of the church in the church.
There are people in this room watching, listening, that are
willfully ignorant of the truth, willfully ignorant of who they
are in Christ. How do you know that?
I've heard them. Talk you don't have the right
language. You don't have the language of
faith. You don't have the language of
authority. You're the language of a victim.
It's a common language today. Everybody's against me.
Life is so unfair. What scripture says life is
fair? Where is that found?
Their efforts are totally futile, talking about the
spirits. Their their efforts are totally
futile against believers who know their position in Christ's
Kingdom and are growing in their positional authority in Him.
I want to repeat it again. Their efforts, these spirits,
these forces, these powers, these despotisms, these master
spirits, these world rulers in the present darkness their their
efforts are futile. Against the believers who know
their position in Christ's Kingdom and who are growing,
say, growing, not resting, not plateauing, who are growing.
And the only way to grow is to change your mind to repent.
You know that you develop we as humanoids.
We develop bad habits very quickly.
Only takes seven days to build a bad habit into your routine.
Seven days, that's all. Takes 21 days to break it, and
that's aggressively 21 days breaking.
It so we we easily pick up all kinds of goofy things because
maybe be Pastor Frank for a moment.
Because we have too many voices that we lend our ears to even
supposed Christian voices. The great man is from the South,
is now in heaven. He did a masterful work at
getting people born again and baptized and set free and master
teacher. And he's a closet charismatic
reason I know that is because I have a friend who's spoken to, a
staffer, a great man of prayer and honor and integrity, but
he's in heaven now. But they.
Have a series that's going on right now on his television show
where they they're just replaying those things and it's
talking about how God uses adversity to position you.
Well, I was interested in it. What's he going to say here?
And he used Paul thorn in the flesh, and he was saying that
God gave that thorn in the flesh to the Apostle Paul.
To grow him. To change him.
Here's the problem with that. The Bible says turn your.
Never say. The Bible says that the thorn in
the flesh was a messenger from Satan.
So God and the devil are working in cahoots to to position you.
I think not. But yet he's a good Baptist and
therefore a good Baptist has to interject that stuff that's in
their doctrines. It's scary.
Have you found Galatians too yet?
I've been waiting on you. Galatians is right after Second
Corinthians. Most of us can quote this out of
the King Jimmy and says I am crucified with Christ.
Nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ live within me and
the life that I now which I now live in the flesh.
I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave
himself for me. But let's look at the screen
amplifies a bit different. I have been say I have been.
Now it says in the King James I am.
But actually it's a mistranslation because the
original Greek says I was past tense was have been right.
So I have been crucified with Christ in him.
I shared his crucifixion. How did I share his crucifixion?
I wasn't there. I I wasn't there physically.
You know, I I watched Passion of the Christ.
I've seen all these other movies about the crucifixion, but I
wasn't there. I just watched it.
I wasn't there. How did I share?
Whose sin was it? It was your sin.
It was my sin. Jesus never sinned.
It says that sector of Christmas 521 and him he who knew no sin
became sin, was made to be sinned, that through him we
might become the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.
He never knew sin, he never sinned, but he suffered as if he
did. He never sinned even.
When he ran the money changers out of the temple and turned
over the tables, he even made his own whip.
It was a premeditated weapon, and he didn't repent one time.
God, I know I'm thinking these. Wrong thoughts about this
weapon. I'm weaving it, making it.
Oh oh, I need some teeth and I need some bone.
I need some metal. That's what the whips were made
out of back there. I don't need the right kind of
Oh my God, I oh, just please forgive me for making it, but I
really need some other. He made it himself.
He took the time to find the components and weave it.
And he still didn't send doing that.
Why? Well, didn't he love all those
money changers? You mean those people that were
lying and cheating and deceitful and ripping off all the people
that were coming in for the sacrifice?
And they didn't have their own spotless lamb, and so they were
providing them a spotless lamb, supposedly for an exorbitantly
outrageous price. They were taking advantage of
these people. And Jesus was protecting them.
This is supposed to be a House of prayer, and you've made it.
Identities, you bunch of losers. Well, that's not very nice,
It's. Militant, wasn't it?
I said it was militant. You know who you love more?
The people that are being ripped off, the disadvantaged.
Hello. The people being cheated and
lied to. That's who we love more, but
even more so. You know who he loved the most?
He loved the word, and he loved God.
And he wasn't going to allow the House of God to be soiled.
Hello. It's time for the church to
stand up like Jesus. It's time for the church to stop
being mamsy Pamsy. I'm not talking about making a
whip. Don't make one ordered on
Amazon. I'm kidding.
No, don't make a whip. We're not.
We're not.
We're not wrestling against flesh and blood.
But Jesus didn't know the scripture was going to come
later. No, he did.
He's the one who orchestrated this.
He's the word. But we can't be operating just
from a fleshly motivation. Jesus wasn't operating from a
fleshly motivation at the temple.
He was operating by from a spiritual motivation.
It's just like, you know, I don't go to many football games
and sit in the stands. If I can't stand on the
sidelines or the side and get down there where the action is,
I probably won't go. Because I played there.
I played at these stadiums in these high level places.
As a high school and a college athlete.
I played in every pro stadium in Texas and every major college
stadium in Texas and even in the Southwest and all over the
country, played in many, many stadiums.
So I didn't play up in the bleachers.
I was down on the field. So even now, I I probably won't
buy a ticket because I want to be where the action is.
I I want to be able to smell that sweat.
I want to be able to high five and chest bump those guys coming
off the field when they make a great play.
But you know what I what I I've had to be reeled in on.
When I see a dirty play and the officials refused to throw a
flag, I'm talking about tackling somebody out of bounds, punching
them under the pile, that kind of stuff, kicking them, gouging
them in the eyeballs. I've seen it on the sidelines
and the officials don't see it. That's where I kind of come
unglued. Why?
Because I'm in created in the image of Christ and he doesn't
like unfair life. That's my motivation now.
And so I said some things, not ugly, not me.
I said, Sir, did you not see? Did you not see that?
Did you not see? He just gouged him in the eyes.
I mean, his eyes are bleeding. Did you not see that?
But don't look at me in that tone of voice.
Angie knows this. Our son played basketball at
Raymond, and during those three years, Pastor Hagan always had
me sit beside him. I couldn't get the seat right
next to him because I get elbowed.
But there's a seat down. I saw him take off his glasses,
try to hand them to the officials.
Here you need this more than. I do.
So don't look at me in that tone of voice.
He's from Texas, too. Why?
Because we don't like unfairness.
We don't like cheating. We don't like the the underdog
getting ripped off and cheated. We don't.
We don't like the disadvantage being taken advantage of.
Come on. And that riled up Jesus.
So here we are. We shared in this crucifixion
because it was our sin. It said it's no longer I who
live, but Christ. The Messiah lives in me.
So some of that, some of that whipping is in us, some of that
fight is in us and it needs. To be We've been too passive.
The church has been silent. We're called the Silent witness
or the Silent majority, Silent Witness.
Those words don't even go together.
That's like saying jumbo shrimp. Excuse me, that doesn't go
together. And the life that I now live,
say I now live. The life that I now live in the
body or in the flesh, I live differently.
In other words, I live by faith. Say by faith.
Here's our problem. This is our problem.
Most of us have some type of device like this.
This is not really just a. Phone and a camera.
This is a computer that has a phone and a camera.
It's really a computer. There's more technology in this
than what they sent Man in the Moon with in 1969.
I never forget that night. We see it on TV.
We run outside, look up there at that man, my brother and I, Wow,
they're up there. I think I see him.
Something shiny up there. We run inside, man.
They just jumped off the ladder. They're running around kicking
that dust. Well, this set up the American
flag. You think we can see it?
We got some. But doctors, we of course, we
can't see it. But man, was it.
Anybody remember that night? Wow, it was so cool.
Well, that was just down on a sound stage in Los Angeles.
No, it wasn't all these conspiracy there.
Come on, get a life. 9/11 was an inside job.
It really didn't happen. Come on.
I was there three weeks after I had a friend that lost eleven.
Buddies at the Pentagon went to all their funerals.
Don't tell me it was the inside that wasn't the plane that hit
the Pentagon. Come on.
The Internet has something stupid in it every moment.
Don't buy the don't buy the lies.
Come on. Hello.
If it's in the media, most of it's not true.
I know that's a shock to some people, so, but this is what we
do with these these devices we have.
All of us have this. If you got a tablet, whatever,
you got all these apps on there, right?
I got page after page after page of apps applications, right?
Do you have to have those applications for your phone to
work? No.
But those apps have to have an 0 S or an operating system to
work. This is what we've.
Done in the church, and many preachers are fought for this.
We've made faith an app. Just to meet our needs instead
of living by it. Instead of walking by faith.
We're we just. Well, I'm sick, so I better we
try everything else. Let's just try faith.
You don't try faith, darling. This is what it says.
You stick with it. You adhere to it.
You don't try. You stick to it.
You never leave it. You rely on it.
And you have complete trust in faith.
This is not an up. This is not an application.
It's an operating system. And we're all commanded.
The just shall live by faith not, might live not.
Well, why don't you try it for a while, see if it's for you.
A lot of your fleshly, flaky, funky religious friends, I just
say spiritual religious friends say, well, I've tried that faith
and I'm just so glad it worked for you, but it just didn't work
for me. Well, God's a liar then, isn't
he? And they're smarter than God.
We've got to live by faith. It's necessary.
You cannot ever gain your true identity and who you are in
Christ, and what He's already made you to be, And what are we
already He is identified to you. And told you you are if you
don't want by faith. If you don't live by faith.
Faith is not optional for a believer.
You mean it's come to that the believer should actually
believe? That's pretty scary thought.
You see those wicked forces that we read about Ephesians 6?
Those wicked forces are working overtime today and trying to
reidentify and reconstitute what's in the word.
They're trying to change what's there.
You got these preachers that say, well, the Bible is obsolete
today. It's not modern, it's.
Old school. It's not old school.
It's eternal. There's only one school,
darling, and that's his way. The way.
And it's critical that we join forces with what he has already
done. Get the mentality out of your
brain. Well, I know what Sunday.
God's going to do something for me.
He's already done it. Jesus is not going to cross
again. He's not going to be at the
whipping post again. He's not going to the pit of
hell and and the pit of the earth again.
He's risen. And that same resurrection power
lives on the inside of us as believers.
So what are we doing as the church?
We're playing church, not this church.
Some of you are new and you're just coming into this and you've
already recognized. Wow.
These people are wow. They actually sing the song
instead of just watching the concert.
You. May ask the question, what does
identification with Christ actually mean?
It's a good question. Simply stated, it's complete
union with him. It's not, it's not this.
It's not just hanging around him.
Complete union with him in him. Over 175 verses in the epistles,
which when I got born again, I thought those were the apostles
wives, but I was young and ignorant.
I didn't know who. I didn't know anything
spiritually. I I wasn't raised in church.
I didn't know what the epistles were.
And I I I played like I knew what they were.
When people say, well, turn to the epistle of it and I'm going,
I'll just look around and see what everybody else is doing,
because I don't know what that means.
Epistle of what it means. Letters.
So if you hadn't been in church, you don't know these
terminologies. So identification with Christ
simply means complete union with him.
It's our identification who and who he's made us to be.
Turn over to Romans. Oh, if you get into Romans, it's
hard to get out. You need to read Romans on a
regular basis. Romans is a treasure trove.
It's filled with revelation of who we used to be and what he's
made us into. Now our redemption is all
through Romans. It's not just something to beat
somebody up to get them saved and tell them how.
For all the fallen, short of the glory of God, there is none
righteous, no, no one. That's not the end of those
chapters. Keep reading.
Yes, we we were unrighteous at one time.
Yes, we we. We we all fell short of the
glory God. But no more.
As a believer, I'll prove it to you in a minute, Roman chapter 6
verse six says Knowing this. Say what?
Knowing. Not knowing about it.
You need to know this. There's the problem.
Most of the body of Christ doesn't know the word.
They don't know who they are. Because if you don't know the
word, you don't know who you are.
And that goes for every teenager in this room.
You need to know who you are. If you can read, you need to
read your Bible. And you need to make your
bedroom a Bible. School and then instead of an
entertainment complex, parents need to pull the plug.
So knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, say
with him. See it's with him that the body
of sin might be destroyed that hits forth.
We should not serve sin. Look at this and the amplified
it says we know. Again, we're not guessing.
Here's the problem with most of the church world.
Well, I hope so. I hope I'm going to happen.
I hope. I'm saying it, it's just like I
was at Doctor Mark Barclays Church back in the spring at 175
Minute a men's conference. But he held me over and did
Sunday. And as is the case with a lot of
these hotels, the weekends are full of either partiers.
Or teams this this was full of baseball teams girls softball
teams and boy was noisy and but I noticed that I was getting
ready the next morning was Saturday morning because we had
Saturday morning sessions noticed getting ready outside
the hall even though the IT was a room full of girls next door.
How do I know? Because it was giggling until
2:00 AM. Just giggling and Sissy and and.
And and boys knocking on the door to check them out, you
know. But the next morning I heard the
coach out in the hallway, which I had not seen.
And so there's a baseball player out there with him, and I didn't
see him either. But there's full baseball teams
at the junior college school and they were having a tournament.
And so there's lots of teams staying in this hotel.
And so I hear the coach, Are you ready to take the ball today?
Meaning he's going to be the pitcher and the player says, I
hope so. That's the last thing a coach
wants to hear. You're going to have the ball in
your hand every single play when we're in the field and you hope
so. Take your jock off and go back
and get your diaper on. That's why my coaches would have
said or worse. I can't, I can't repeat it now.
Now listen to me. When I heard that, the Lord
spoke to me. Lord speaks to me in all kinds
of funny places. The Lord spoke to me and said
that's most of the church. I hope so.
Hope I'm going to heaven. I hope everything's going to
turn around. I hope I can get my healing.
I hope. I hope my ship's coming in.
We're so wussified, and I don't anchor faith.
Church has taught better than that.
But there's probably still some in here and you get a great big
W on your chest. And that doesn't mean Wonder
Woman. And I don't mean that ugly.
I mean that to shock you into reality.
Of what you've got to do. We're supposed to have a warrior
mentality, be a good name for a mascot.
We're supposed to have a militant mentality.
We are. We are the soldiers of Jesus
Christ. Supposed to be the good soldiers
of Jesus Christ. You know what?
Bad soldiers look like my our oldest 2 grandsons are soldiers.
One of them's in Harm Way today in Asia.
I can't tell you where he is because I'd have to shoot you.
No, I'm kidding. I know generally where he is,
but I'm going to find out exactly where he is later
because he can't even tell his own, his his own mom.
He can't tell him where he is and we know where he was and
where he where he flew into into Japan and Okinaw and those kinds
of things. But but that's real general.
But he's a Marine, so he's on a ship and they have to stay in
the belly of that ship. Sometimes they don't even know
where they're going till they dump them out on a beach
somewhere because of Marines. And they're they've seen
bloodshed. It's not in the news, but
neither are the Marines in Syria in the news.
But we got, we got a a battalion of Marines in Syria right now.
We we got Marines in Ukraine. And nobody's telling us that.
Why? Because the media is complicit
with the lies. But you've been around bad
soldiers and this is what he's telling me along with Doctor
Barkley, who's a former Marine as well combat vet and rent
combat missions in Vietnam. Have any former Marines here?
Hooyah, hoorah, Army. Look at all the Army, Navy.
Thank you, Air Force. No Air Force?
Well, how? How'd the rest of Y'all get
around? You needed transportation.
Our oldest grandson's Air Force, and so he's been in harm's way.
But one of the most devastating things?
When he was home for Christmas, he lost two buddies to suicide.
Back at this base in California, he's had scores of suicides in
his own platoon or, excuse me, his own battalion scores.
Doctor Barkley told me he has a relationship with Oliver North.
It's very difficult to find worthy soldiers today because
they're so soft, because their parents have never told them no.
Well, you get in the military, you're going to hear a lot of
nose and a whole lot of adjectives that go on the nose.
Front of the no, behind the no, over the top of the no.
Now, I got to hurry. But what I want you to see is
look at this scripture again. We need to know this, that our
old, unrenewed self was nailed to the cross with Him.
This is all about being with Him.
It was our sin on the cross with Him, and in order that our body,
our flesh, which is the instrument of sin, might be made
ineffective. Jesus did that to make sin
ineffective in your. So stop calling yourself a
Sinner. You're no longer a Sinner.
If you're a believer, you're a believer.
You're the righteous. You're no longer a Sinner.
Sin is dead to you. If you call yourself a Sinner,
you've never read the book of Romans, Never read Romans 5,
Romans 6. He goes on and says that the sin
might be made ineffective and inactive for evil, That we might
no longer be the slaves of sin. Everybody thinks America created
slavery. You don't know history.
Slavery started in the Garden of Eden.
And those weren't white people. Those were not Europeans.
They were Middle Eastern. Hello.
Come on, you don't know your history.
It's one of my minors in college and I I still read a lot of
history. Why?
Because it always repeats itself.
And slavery is. Horrible in every facet.
It's straight from hell. It is of the devil, and he
revealed it in the Garden of Eden, and he's been doing it
ever since. Now the greatest slaveries are
taking place in China and the secondly, Africa.
And it's not by white people in Africa.
It's my black people. Africa.
Not, not, not African American Africans in the Congo, Rwanda,
Rwanda and all Burundi, all these places.
It's evil. What's taking place?
It's of the devil. What is it?
It's people that have yielded their feel to the devil.
And he grew a crop in it. So sin.
Is the greatest amount of slavery in the universe, and it
puts you into bondage. And know what slavery is about?
It's about bondage. So sin puts you into bondage.
But we've been delivered. Look at Romans chapter 8, Romans
chapter 8, and I wind down Romans chapter 8, verse 29.
Am I helping anybody yet, You know, have you, while you're
turning there, you know how many know about Alexa and then Siri,
You know, you've been kind of concerned about what you say in
front of them because then you start getting all these popups
and ads of your discussions, right?
Well, they, they come up with a new one called Charlie.
It's male dominated because you can say anything you want to in
front of Charlie because men don't listen to anything.
So every wife should have said Amen on that one.
OK Have you found Romans 8? Look at verse 29.
What does read it out the amplified.
It says for those whom HE4 knew pastor or got in this this
morning in the baby dedication. I didn't know what he was going
to share. He didn't know what I was going
to share. So whom HE4 knew, of whom he was
aware and love beforehand. In other words, God was made
aware of you long before, not only you or you before.
There was even parents that recreated you, procreated you,
and even before there was even a planet or even a Milky Way or a
solar system, God knew you beforehand and he also destined
from the beginning. Again, the beginning is not on a
calendar. Our finite minds can't
understand what beginning is. We we couldn't comprehend it.
Our minds was talk about shut down, they blow up.
So he destined from the beginning for ordaining them or
giving them a purpose Don't get into the predestination extreme
doctrine because it's not it's not true.
In other words you have moral, free moral agency.
You can choose whatever you want to do, but we're supposed to be
discovering what he's for, ordained for us.
Because how did he know me before where there's a planet
Because you were first spiritually made.
You are a spirit being. You're creating his image.
He doesn't have a physical body just because we do.
We identify everything with that.
But he made you as a spirit being, and he saw you in the
spirit realm, and he invested everything necessary into your
spirit realm. Come on.
So you could access it by. Faith, it doesn't come by
osmosis, doesn't come from just coming to church.
It doesn't come from the giving ties and paying ties.
It doesn't come from just being kind.
I just think because I'm kind, I should know what I need to know
from God and and I could go to heaven because I'm really nice.
Sorry nice people are in hell today.
Moral people are in hell today. That's not the prerequisite.
So he goes on and says he for ordained them to be molded into
the image of his son and share inwardly in his likeness.
We're supposed to look like and be like Jesus.
Not Mike, not Grandma, not Grandpa Paul, Not Papa John, not
Nana. We're supposed to be molded to
the image of Christ and share inwardly, spiritually in his
likeness. Molded, formed.
That means we got some changing to do.
Because here's the problem. Too many Christians are trying
to mold Christ into their form, doing whatever we want to do and
asking God to bless it. That's not submitting to Christ.
That's requiring him to submit to me won't work.
So he says, molded into the image of his son, and share
inwardly in his likeness, that he might become the first born
among many brethren. And he did, He was the first one
born again. And it goes on and says, And
those whom he thus for ordained, that's us he also called.
And those who he called he also what he justified.
Next screen, he justified. What does that mean?
Justified never sin. But it's even much deeper than
that. It means acquitted.
That means absolved. All charges erased like they
never existed. That's why you're no longer a
Sinner. He acquitted you.
All charges are dropped like they were never there.
So it doesn't matter what the devil tries to lay on you.
About says he's ever. He's always accusing you to God,
and Jesus is at the right hand of the throne of God ever making
intercession. He is your advocate, He is your
attorney, and he's not some cheesy billboard ambulance
chaser attorney. He's the real deal.
He's your defense attorney. And he's saying, father, that's
a lie. They are in me.
They are victorious. They are more than conquerors.
They are not victims. They're victors.
That's who he made you to be. That's your identity.
So stop acting like a loser. Stop acting like a victim.
And it's not just a matter of changing your vocabulary in your
vernacular. It's a matter of changing your
heart and renewing your mind to what the word says you are.
The very things you're seeing around here, the very things
you're you're, You're taught and preached.
It says, So what shall we? Well, let's finish the rest of
the So not only were we justified, those he justified he
glorified. So that kind of eradicates
Romans. Chapter 3.
That's still Book of Romans, right?
Romans chapter 3. For all of a sudden falling
shore of the glory of God. That's who we used to be.
Now we've been glorified, I said.
Now we've been glorified so much, so, so much so that as you
walk in the light, you're walking around in the light and
darkness acknowledges you. Three Sunday nights ago in San
Diego, CA, we had a the pastor wanted to have a Sunday night
healing service. So we had Sunday morning.
I talked on some something similar to this on Sunday
morning and part of Sunday night.
So we wanted to have a healing service.
So their church is about as wide as these three sections right
here, and not quite maybe just 2 1/2 of these.
And so with a prayer line fill the front double, triple people
visitors that never come before because they had their friends
in the church invite them for healing, whatever.
And so there's some ladies over here.
I prayed for 1st and I said, now you stay here, I'm going to pray
for the rest of these, but you stay here.
And I have something from the Lord for you and I I had a few
words of knowledge for a couple of ladies and then I got to this
third one. Her name was Norma, which is my
mom's name. So it's easy to remember, and we
got this on video by the spirit of God I just shared with her.
You've been the enemies tried to isolate you, separate you for
the purpose of devouring you, like a lion does its prey to
separate from the rest of the herd.
You know that's what he does to all of us.
So that's a general statement, and I told everybody that every,
every one of us can take this, But I said, but you in
particular, Norma, you've overcome that to date, but now
that you've heard this teaching, you can stand up again.
And as soon as I got to that point, a demon manifested in
her. I had a had her by the hand with
both of my hands up front, and this is a pretty Hispanic lady
and she got ugly, really fast hair, stood up on my arms and
the people around me later asked, did did y'all sense that?
Oh yeah, I got goosebumps. It's the same goosebumps you get
when that spooky movie comes, even the commercial.
Why? Because it's a demon.
And this is spooky movie season. We're coming up into October.
Hell's not. You know what they're calling
Detroit Devil's Night? That's what happens in Detroit.
Much of Detroit's burned out because of that.
It's they're getting some smarter people in and getting
rid of that junk. But they burned down a lot of
these cities on October 31st, and so he manifested in her with
this ugly male nasty voice. And I won't get into detail
because there are children in here, but she pulled her hands
back and she snarled and just contorted her face at me.
And the ushers were even like, whoa, we're not used to this
kind of catching. And I'm standing up here on a
step adminishing to her. And as soon as she pulled back
her arm and her hand like that and criled and snarled and said
stuff to me, can't hear it all on video.
But they all heard it. I heard it.
And I won't repeat what it was. It was.
The bottom line is you cannot have her.
She's mine. She doesn't want me out.
And so I said. Let's all have a Bible study and
let's pray in this spirit because we're really afraid.
The reason I made fun of that is because I've seen pastors do
that when a demon man. Bible says when we pray in
tongues, we're praying to God. We're not praying.
The devils don't speak in tongues to the devil.
You can pray in tongues but not in fear.
Not a scared tongues. People do it because they're
afraid, because they don't know who they are.
I just calmly pointed at her and she continued to back up in this
aisle, Didn't touch her. She backed up and I said, Devil,
you can't have her, you shut up. And then I said, Norma, Norma,
you got to right here, Norma. I'm talking to you.
You want to be free? Yes.
Then I went to lay hands on and
I didn't even get to her and the Holy Ghost and the power of God
threw her back on the floor. I did.
Ended up laying hands on her, but before I did it just threw
her back in the floor. Here's the problem with the
church. The Great Commission is found in
March 16th. Found in Matthews.
Found in a couple other places, he said.
Go in all the world and preach the gospel.
These signs to follow them to believe is verse 617.
The first sign is you shall cast out devils speak with Newtons
talking about tongues of the Holy Ghost.
And that's exactly what the denominational church speaks
against. There are no longer any demons
and tongues have been done away with.
Well, if you're going to do that, and then the next one, lay
hands on the sick and they shall recover.
Actually, that's after after the eat or drink.
Any deadly things should not hurt you.
Lay hands on the sick and they shall recover the Oh that's been
done away with. We just don't lay hands.
We don't have any prayer lines. We don't have any healing
because that's been done away with.
No one hasn't. If that's been done away with,
so is preaching the gospel. This is easy math, folks, to
help anybody with that. So we see this, he says.
We've been glorified. See the enemy.
The enemy is darkness. I've been in cities I've never
been in before, places have never been in before.
And had people hit the hood of my rental car and curse me and
speak in some language, was it was not human because they saw
the light on me. It's happened to some of you,
too. You've had complete strangers
cut you out and you don't even know them.
Why? Because they've yielded to
darkness. And you have light.
You are glorified. You have the power of light on
you. You don't fear that he goes on
and says he justified. He also glorified, raising them
to heavenly dignity and the condition and state of state of
being. That's not talking about going
to heaven. That's what he made us, that
here on this, on this planet right now.
And he goes on and says, what then shall we say to all this?
If God is for us, who can be against us?
Who can be our foe? If God is on our side?
Nobody. That's what it's inferring.
Nobody. No thing.
Amen. Didn't help anybody today.
And let me just read you in closing in this, this very
expensive Office Depot stationery, this is what he
said, he said. Your creator has a race for you
to run. Not one you choose, but one you
enter. See, there's a problem.
We're looking around a multiple choice.
We're trying to choose a race to run.
No, no, no, no, no, no. He's already put you in the race
you're supposed to be running in.
You've got to enter into it. Stop resisting the race he puts
you in. Stop resisting what he called
you to do and told you to do. Get in that race.
He went on and said he chooses a race we choose to obey.
Well, that's just not my cup of tea.
Pastor Faith is just not for me. I tried it.
What part of what part of these verses did we read that said
try? He went on to say this as
believers, our core identity is no longer rooted in earthly
identities. No longer rooted in the culture.
No. Longer rooted in our own
families. No longer rooted in our
ethnicities and races, No longer rooted in our gender.
Which one are you of the 52 today?
Which one did you choose? Uh, huh.
Doesn't bring anything but confusion in every evil word no
longer rooted in the language. I'm not talking about dialects.
I'm not talking about French or English or Spanish.
I'm talking about how people talk.
Your identity is no longer in that, no longer in your
socioeconomic status. It's no longer in any worldly
belief systems, but it's now found in a unique Ethnos, a new
group of people. It's what an Ethnos is, The
church. The Jesus culture.
With scriptural beliefs based upon the word, not based upon
ideologies, not based upon psychology or opinions or
experiences. It's based in this book.
It's based in the language of faith, the attitude of love.
It's a different ethnos. He has something new for you.
If you don't know who you are in Christ and you're not walking
and who he's made you to be, I want to pray for you.
Don't. Don't misunderstand my passion
for anger. Any anger I have, any animosity
I have, is that the devil, the tricks that he's, that he's
perpetrated upon the body of Christ.
God has something greater for you.
He has an identity for you that's victorious.
He has an identity for you that will put you over the top, that
will transform you. Not just change you transform
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