1 00:00:20,450 --> 00:00:22,610 I'm going to talk to you now about your Kingdom identity. 2 00:00:23,330 --> 00:00:26,370 And so you need to become resolute. 3 00:00:26,490 --> 00:00:30,650 You need to be a resolute me, all right, because we are now 4 00:00:30,650 --> 00:00:36,200 February the 12th now. I do not do this, but maybe 5 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:39,960 someone here does. And that is every year you do a 6 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:45,920 New Year's resolution. So we are six weeks in to where 7 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:54,800 90% of all, all New Year's resolutions are being abandoned, 8 00:00:56,240 --> 00:00:59,680 right? I mean, you know, the gym is not 9 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:04,840 as packed anymore because they made it the first four weeks 10 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:08,640 they realize they're sore and then they've decided, you know 11 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:11,320 what, that's not for me again, we'll wait till next year. 12 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:14,000 All right? So, you know, the gym is not as 13 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:17,760 crowded anymore because, you know, all those individuals have 14 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:22,680 kind of separated out, Amen. But this should not be with us. 15 00:01:23,320 --> 00:01:27,440 We need to be resolute, Amen. We need to resolve that. 16 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:31,240 There are things about us that we are going to determine to do 17 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:34,040 period, Amen. So if you have your Bibles turn 18 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:37,960 over to Genesis chapter 1. Resolute by definite, by 19 00:01:37,960 --> 00:01:41,320 definition means this marked by a firm determination. 20 00:01:41,960 --> 00:01:43,840 So if you're going to be resolute, you're going to have 21 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:48,160 to have a firm determination concerning the things that God 22 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:51,800 speaks concerning you, Amen. It's very important for us to 23 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:55,360 realize this because God has brought us out of something into 24 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:59,600 something, not out of something. And we're in a waiting room 25 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:03,640 until we finally get to go to heaven. 26 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:06,480 That was never his intent. Amen. 27 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:08,600 Amen. Would you give a warm welcome 28 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:10,880 for Pastor Joshua and Pastor Hope? 29 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:13,800 They are with us from Alabama right here behind Pastor Marcy. 30 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:18,160 Amen. They, they have come down for 31 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:22,760 Valentine's Day and swung by to see us. 32 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:26,560 And so we are honored to have you with us today. 33 00:02:26,920 --> 00:02:29,480 And God's doing awesome things in their church. 34 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:30,880 We went and ministered there once. 35 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:33,040 I think we're signed up to do it again this year. 36 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:38,840 And so they're such a blessing and have two awesome boys and 37 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:43,080 God's doing some great things. He officially transitioned as 38 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:45,520 the senior pastor of the church. They're over from his 39 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:48,240 grandfather. His grandfather, you know, 40 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:50,960 pioneered that church and was there for how many years? 41 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:54,080 4050 years, 30 years. OK, I was giving him a little 42 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:58,000 bit more age, 30 years. And so Joshua and Hope, you 43 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:02,000 know, they have taken that work and man, it's already expanding. 44 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:05,560 Amen. Well, there's vision, Amen? 45 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:09,960 And I, I'm excited to see those kinds of transition take place 46 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:13,440 because see, his grandfather is able to be kind of like a King 47 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:16,440 David where he could see his son on the throne now this office, 48 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:21,320 his grandson, but see him take something that originated in him 49 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:24,400 that God started and now they're continuing the work there, Amen? 50 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:27,920 So that's really exciting. So I know that I'll preach 51 00:03:27,920 --> 00:03:29,760 really well today because they're going to be pulling on 52 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:32,000 me. How about you, Amen? 53 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:34,640 Because you understand when, when ministers are in the house 54 00:03:34,640 --> 00:03:37,600 and they give all the time they want to receive. 55 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:41,600 So it's always easier in a, in a setting where there's a lot of 56 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:45,440 ministers if they're hungry, and I know these two, they are. 57 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:48,200 So you're going to get fed. Well, today they're going to, 58 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:50,880 they're going to help pull for you, Amen. 59 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:54,480 And so on to encourage him. In Genesis chapter one, verse 26 60 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:57,000 to 27, it says this. Then God said, let us make man 61 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,680 in our image according to our likeness, and let them rule over 62 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:03,160 the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, over the 63 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:05,520 cattle, over all the earth, over every creeping thing that creeps 64 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:07,560 on the earth. God created man in his own 65 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:11,040 image, in the image of God. He created him, male and female. 66 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:14,080 He created them. Then when we get over to Genesis 67 00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:18,360 chapter 2, verses 15 to 17, it says this. 68 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:21,720 Then the Lord took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to 69 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:24,960 cultivate it and keep it. The Lord God commanded the man 70 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:27,800 saying, from any tree of the garden you may eat freely, but 71 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:30,040 from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not 72 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:31,840 eat. For in the day that you eat from 73 00:04:31,840 --> 00:04:34,360 it, you will surely die. Now I'm going to be kind of 74 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:39,280 repetitive, but again, the Word of God is here to feed us, OK? 75 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:44,000 And, and many of you eat the same foods all the time, OK? 76 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:47,800 If you've had a hamburger once, you typically go after it again, 77 00:04:48,280 --> 00:04:53,400 and sometimes you enjoy it as much the next time and the 15th 78 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:57,320 time and the 100th time, right? You typically are like, man, 79 00:04:57,320 --> 00:04:59,320 I've had 100 hamburgers I don't want anymore. 80 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:02,440 Sometimes you're like, bro, I need another hamburger, right? 81 00:05:02,840 --> 00:05:06,040 Well, the problem is in Christianity, if we don't watch 82 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:09,880 out, we'll be reading the same scripture and all of a sudden 83 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:17,640 we'll know whether we are moving from application to just he 84 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:24,600 knowledge base alone. Moving from a doer to one who's 85 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:28,200 only a hearer is if when the scripture pops up, you've heard 86 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:32,080 multiple times you're like, yeah, I know, Amen. 87 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:35,960 Now this is the word of God. It's alive and active. 88 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:38,600 It's here to feed us. Amen. 89 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:41,560 And so, you know, Pastor Josh and I were talking because we 90 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:44,560 ate before we came over today and he said the Lord spoke to 91 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:48,800 him and he says, is the Kingdom just as real to you today as the 92 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:54,960 first time you heard it? Because here's the thing, I was 93 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:57,920 Pastor Marcy and I, you know, last week we went over to a 94 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:02,440 particular conference and the minister, Keith Moore, who it 95 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:06,760 was, he said, here's the Israelites, they have God in his 96 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:10,680 glory all day in a cloud. We call it the glory cloud. 97 00:06:11,280 --> 00:06:14,920 And yet they, they became so familiar with his glory cloud 98 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:19,120 and that it became common. Do you understand? 99 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:21,920 You can be under the supernatural power of God. 100 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:26,680 And if you don't watch out, the power of God and the things of 101 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:30,800 God will become common to you, Common to the point that you 102 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:37,640 would disobey, rebel, look for something different. 103 00:06:37,840 --> 00:06:42,080 In fact, many of them decided we've seen the miracles that 104 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:45,400 delivered us. We watched our enemy die in the 105 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:48,120 Red Sea. We've seen the supernatural over 106 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:50,160 here. And we've seen how he's kept a 107 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:54,040 cloud over us during the day so that we do not get scorched and 108 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:58,000 a fire by night so that we do not freeze here in the in the 109 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:01,000 wilderness. And yet they at some point said, 110 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:05,320 let's go back and be slaves again because they became 111 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:09,120 familiar with the glory. Well, there's only one person 112 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:11,800 who can keep you from being familiar. 113 00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:15,160 It's you. Just go ahead and point it 114 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:19,040 yourself. So say this, I will not become 115 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:25,240 familiar with any scripture or anything that the Lord has for 116 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:28,440 me. I will always be in awe. 117 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:37,160 You want to be in awe, you want to always appreciate. 118 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:40,520 Anytime you're hearing the word, you want to give it reverence, 119 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:43,960 you want to honor it. You want to be like, wow, God is 120 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:46,640 speaking to me. For me, these are reflection 121 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:50,240 moments that when I hear things, I'm like, wow, thank you, Lord, 122 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:53,360 I remember when you revealed that to me the first time. 123 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:56,440 You know, those kinds of things help propel me. 124 00:07:56,440 --> 00:08:00,640 One reason why I go back to Rhema every year is to maintain 125 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:04,840 my gratefulness. In fact, it's Kirk in here. 126 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:08,160 OK, So you can tell him I talked about him. 127 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:11,920 So Kirk is a Kansas City Chiefs fan. 128 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:19,600 You know this, right? I mean, he came out, right? 129 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:21,840 I text him, I said, you doing OK? 130 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:27,360 Do you need someone to talk to? But here's the thing. 131 00:08:29,640 --> 00:08:32,679 Patrick Mahomes, before the game, was being interviewed by 132 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:36,240 Tom Brady, who has seven Super Bowl rings. 133 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:38,240 OK. And he said, what is it going to 134 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:41,520 be like for you? Imagine that if you win this 135 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:44,880 game, you'll be the first quarterback to ever win three 136 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:48,560 straight Super Bowls. If there's one word to describe 137 00:08:48,560 --> 00:08:51,040 it, what would you say? Now? 138 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:56,760 The word I thought was grateful 'cause just to make it to the 139 00:08:56,760 --> 00:09:02,200 game is a feat by itself. To win it is a whole nother ball 140 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:05,480 game. But then the win repeatedly is 141 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:08,880 just something else. But he used this word started 142 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:16,840 with AG greatness. Interesting, right? 143 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:20,360 Do you understand? I go back to Rhema. 144 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:25,200 It doesn't matter what success I've had in the Lord, because I 145 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:28,280 have followed Him with all my heart, all my soul, all my mind, 146 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:31,280 and all my strength. I go back because I want to 147 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:36,880 maintain gratefulness. I'm grateful 'cause when I 148 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:41,120 didn't know nothing concerning Scripture, I mean, I thought I 149 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:43,760 knew something. I mean, I knew based upon what I 150 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:46,280 knew. You know, I was ministering 151 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:48,960 based upon the revelation I had at the time. 152 00:09:49,160 --> 00:09:52,240 But man, when I sit in that class at Rhema, I was like, I 153 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:55,520 don't even know the Bible. Then I had preached a revival. 154 00:09:55,920 --> 00:10:01,520 Now, what I preached was a subject and it was accurate, but 155 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:04,960 there were so much more about God I didn't even know. 156 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:10,160 And I'm sitting in church now. The number one issue with that 157 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:13,160 was is that I wasn't hungry enough. 158 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:17,200 I did the proverbial thing that most believers fail in and that 159 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:21,800 is let me just hear what pastor's saying because I'll 160 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:25,680 just receive from him and him only or her whichever, whatever 161 00:10:25,680 --> 00:10:29,760 minister's ministering meaning you don't type time to seek the 162 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:32,840 Scripture yourself to make it your own. 163 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:35,320 So it becomes your own personal belief system. 164 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:39,200 Nor seek God to determine is there anything else He needs you 165 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:42,360 to discover because He can reveal things to you when you 166 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:45,360 seek Him. But when all you're seeking is 167 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:49,520 when service is here, and then you listen while it's here, and 168 00:10:49,520 --> 00:10:51,960 then you never pick it up again until you come back. 169 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:54,560 When you come back, well, you understand you're not going to 170 00:10:54,560 --> 00:10:59,000 have appreciation, nor will you grow at the level God intended 171 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:01,960 you to grow. So I'm always thankful and 172 00:11:01,960 --> 00:11:04,080 grateful for what God has taught me. 173 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:07,400 And here's the thing, if anything we preach, you think, 174 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:12,000 man, I've already heard that you are running the risk of 175 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:17,200 developing this familiarity, that ultimately you are stifling 176 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:23,440 your own personal growth and your passion for your Lord. 177 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:28,120 Because again, Jesus did not die on the cross and shed his blood 178 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:33,040 for your sin, your wrongdoing, so that you would just be here 179 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:36,000 trying to figure it out on your own and really just hanging out 180 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:37,840 waiting to die so you can be with him in heaven. 181 00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:42,040 That was never His intent. But you know why this message 182 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:45,920 prevails is because people weren't hungry to know more. 183 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:48,280 They just wanted the bare minimum. 184 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:51,760 I just really don't want to go to hell when I die. 185 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:54,480 Well, that's not why we make Jesus Lord. 186 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:58,840 We make Jesus Lord because He loved us first. 187 00:11:59,680 --> 00:12:03,280 He paid the price for us and He wants to put us back in the 188 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:06,400 original design that He always had for us in the 1st place. 189 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:09,120 Amen. So we know in Genesis 11, it 190 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:10,840 said in the beginning God created the heavens and the 191 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:12,000 earth. Is it this earth? 192 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:14,880 Same planet? Planet has not changed. 193 00:12:14,880 --> 00:12:17,600 There's not another planet. OK, same planet. 194 00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:21,160 And so the Lord then says to that man would have dominion. 195 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:23,720 We know this, but don't that stir you up? 196 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:28,160 I mean, I, I just, I can't hear that enough that my God wants me 197 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:33,000 to reign with him. How awesome is that? 198 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:37,360 Just to stop and think about that for a moment, God wants me 199 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:44,560 to reign with Him. I'm not just serving him as a 200 00:12:44,560 --> 00:12:47,840 servant. I'm not serving him as a slave. 201 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:54,320 I am part of the family business where Jesus is the King of 202 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:56,320 Kings. Wow. 203 00:12:56,680 --> 00:13:01,160 And He has given us power because of His name and His 204 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:04,440 death, burial and resurrection that we can walk in today. 205 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:07,560 The term that is used in the earth is called power of 206 00:13:07,560 --> 00:13:09,440 attorney. He has given us power of 207 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:13,000 attorney because He's given us the authorized us to use His 208 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:16,960 name in the earth. And His name is above every 209 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:20,040 name. Cancer doesn't matter, Christ is 210 00:13:20,040 --> 00:13:22,640 above it. Lack doesn't matter, God is 211 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:25,360 above it. Depression doesn't matter, God 212 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:27,560 is above. That's why the joy of the Lord 213 00:13:27,560 --> 00:13:31,160 is your stream, because you don't have to stay somewhere. 214 00:13:31,280 --> 00:13:35,760 He's caused you to be raised up. But in Genesis 2, he says to 215 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:37,800 Adam, you can eat from any tree of the garden, but of the tree 216 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:39,320 of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat. 217 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:43,480 For the day you eat, you'll die. So we've asked this question, If 218 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:46,160 Adam had never eaten the fruit, where would he be today? 219 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:49,440 He'd be here. And now here's something really 220 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:52,640 powerful about this and the reason why I'm kind of moving in 221 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:57,280 this direction. Because man has fallen. 222 00:13:57,880 --> 00:14:08,400 We have failed to see man as God originally had man because Adam 223 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:12,840 was made in the image of God. He breathed into his nostrils 224 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:16,360 the breath of life. His spirit was that of God, the 225 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:19,760 DNA of God. OK, he's God's son. 226 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:22,480 If you read 1 of the gospels and they do the genealogies, you'll 227 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:25,920 see it says Adam the Son of God. Now he's not the Son of God, 228 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:29,280 Jesus, which is God in the flesh, but he is still God's 229 00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:33,480 son, OK? He is a man that is God's Son 230 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:41,040 and his spirit is without sin. But not only that, his soul, his 231 00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:47,400 mind, his intellect, his emotions only know an alive 232 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:54,280 spirit. His soul, his mental capacities 233 00:14:54,760 --> 00:15:00,400 are not affected by sin. His decision making never comes 234 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:04,680 from envy, strife, bitterness, unforgettable. 235 00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:10,440 He has no, he has no concept of any of those things at all. 236 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:17,360 Then the body he is in that is like the one we're in, except 237 00:15:17,880 --> 00:15:20,760 his. There's no sin about his makeup, 238 00:15:20,880 --> 00:15:24,760 which means if he had not eaten the fruit, he could still be in 239 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:29,320 the earth today in that body that would have had no sickness, 240 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:32,080 no disease. Come on it. 241 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:35,080 It would, it would. He would still be the same. 242 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:42,080 I mean, we're talking thousands of years and and some scholars 243 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:45,880 believe that, you know, not not based upon evolution teaching, 244 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:48,080 but based upon biblical teaching. 245 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:52,120 When you start actually adding up numbers within the Scripture, 246 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:57,160 it's more than likely that the planet is in that six thousandth 247 00:15:57,160 --> 00:16:00,040 year. Now that's mind blowing when 248 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:02,960 you've been taught forever that it's millions of years old. 249 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:06,680 OK, but as far as from the creation of man in Genesis one, 250 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:11,920 we are 6000 in OK, so just over and we're going to be getting 251 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:16,120 into a 7th 7000 year, which is going to kick off into a 252 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:18,480 millennial reign of Christ, Glory to God, Amen. 253 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:24,960 So again, we would see Adam is 6000, you know, maybe 6950 years 254 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:28,440 old. He could be and he would look 255 00:16:28,440 --> 00:16:32,040 good because there be there's no effective sin. 256 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:39,080 See the wages of sin is but he hasn't sinned so that he would 257 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:41,240 not have died. Amen. 258 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:49,120 So man, although he is a spirit, the spirit of the man is always 259 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:58,240 attached to the soul and was not intended to be detached from the 260 00:16:58,240 --> 00:17:02,720 body. It was not intended to be 261 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:07,960 detached from the body because if Adam had never eaten the 262 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:10,599 fruit, he'd still be here. Now look at this. 263 00:17:10,640 --> 00:17:14,640 You you know it in Hebrews chapter 4 verse 12 he says for 264 00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:17,160 the word of God is living an active sharper than any 2 edged 265 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:22,319 sword and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit and 266 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:25,319 of both joints and marrow. Now that is what we call the 267 00:17:25,319 --> 00:17:32,440 three fold nature of man, spirit, soul and body, OK, 268 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:35,440 spirit, soul and body. So the word of God is living an 269 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:36,920 actor sharper than any 2 edged sword. 270 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:40,400 It pierces meaning. The only thing that can separate 271 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:47,440 your spirit man and your soul realm from each other is the 272 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:51,480 Word. So if you do not have the word, 273 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:57,640 you cannot split or see the separation between spirit and 274 00:17:57,640 --> 00:18:00,000 soul. And here's the thing, without 275 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:07,440 the word, you're going to side with your soul every time, all 276 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:08,760 right? Your mind will and emotions, 277 00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:10,920 you're going to respond based upon how you feel. 278 00:18:12,920 --> 00:18:14,520 All right. But then it says both join 279 00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:17,440 Samara and it's this. This word is able to judge the 280 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:19,280 thoughts and intentions of the heart. 281 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:22,320 But the verse that I want to focus on tonight is First 282 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:26,640 Thessalonians 523. First Thessalonians 523 says it 283 00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:28,960 this way. Now may the God of peace 284 00:18:29,440 --> 00:18:33,440 himself, the God of peace himself. 285 00:18:34,080 --> 00:18:40,720 Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you entirely. 286 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:46,240 You what? You what entirely? 287 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:50,320 Which means there's more than just one aspect of you all 288 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:52,720 right. And may your here it is spirit 289 00:18:53,080 --> 00:19:00,360 and soul and body what be preserved complete without blame 290 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:02,560 at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 291 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:06,000 Now we're going to be ministering on the fivefold 292 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:08,800 ministry gifts that God has given to the body out of 293 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:12,440 Ephesians chapter 4. Here is a challenge that has 294 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:17,320 occurred through the five fold ministry gift of teaching, OK 295 00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:22,280 teaching or teachers. They are line upon line, precept 296 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:26,840 upon precept, all right, which means they are subject driven. 297 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:30,920 And that means a teacher can come in and teach on the subject 298 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:35,680 of righteousness, teach on the subject of of healing, teach on 299 00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:40,000 the subject of the threefold nature of man, teach on the 300 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:45,840 subject of how to be led by the Spirit, teach on the subject of 301 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:50,360 in Christ realities or faith. OK. 302 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:55,400 The problem is, is that sometimes teachers will become 303 00:19:55,400 --> 00:20:00,000 so deep. When I say deep, I'm talking 304 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:02,040 line upon line. They're layering it. 305 00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:05,440 They just keep going on the same subject line it to the point 306 00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:09,640 that it they have turned the church into what the medical 307 00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:12,560 profession has become. There was a time in the medical 308 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:16,800 profession, David just were general practitioners, which 309 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:19,520 means the doctors needed to know everything about you. 310 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:22,720 But now we have specialized doctors. 311 00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:26,800 Right, Specialized, you know, when I went to the optometrist, 312 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:30,040 which you know, for your eyes, when I went to that particular 313 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:36,040 doctor, they checked my eyes to determine how well I can see 314 00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:38,600 either close up in that far. But then they would, you know, 315 00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:41,800 put a, a light in me and look at, you know, my retina and then 316 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:45,080 the nerve and all these things that are going on in my eyes. 317 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:49,560 However, if something wasn't right, that doctor will not 318 00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:56,120 perform surgery on me. They will refer me to the 319 00:20:56,120 --> 00:20:59,640 specialist, which means you could have a doctor that knows 320 00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:03,160 nothing about feet and everything about eyes. 321 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:08,120 Are you hearing me? So when the medical profession 322 00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:13,800 to some degree abandoned the concept of the entirety of the 323 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:18,640 body for the sake of specializing, then you 324 00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:22,600 understand they can treat something going on in one part 325 00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:25,760 of your body that they're specialized, but the source of 326 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:29,760 that is somewhere else in the body that they have to engage 327 00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:34,280 someone else to figure out. And if they do not do that, even 328 00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:38,800 if they treat this one area they specialized in, you could go a 329 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:44,360 year or two down the road and that area is no longer bothering 330 00:21:44,360 --> 00:21:46,360 you. But you actually haven't found 331 00:21:46,360 --> 00:21:49,640 the root of your problem. OK, Kenny. 332 00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:51,840 Kenny, would you stand up real quick back here on the back? 333 00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:53,200 Kenny Rothshaw. Kenny. 334 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:55,120 OK, Kenny, this happened with Kenny. 335 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:59,440 Kenny had this issue in his. It was in your neck, was it? 336 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:01,280 Or your shoulder? It was just shoulder. 337 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:03,360 OK. And so I said, I'm gonna pray 338 00:22:03,360 --> 00:22:06,280 for you. So Kenny came down, and I prayed 339 00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:08,360 for his shoulder. Now he had a doctor's 340 00:22:08,360 --> 00:22:10,440 appointment. I said, Kenny, still go to the 341 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:11,800 doctor. Well, guess what? 342 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:15,960 We prayed for the shoulder, but the shoulder wasn't the problem. 343 00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:19,960 The shoulder is well is where the pain manifested. 344 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:23,000 The problem was in his neck, correct? 345 00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:27,800 So because we found out where the real problem was, again, you 346 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:31,800 laying hands on an area that is just having a symptom but isn't 347 00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:34,480 the problem. You're like, man, my shoulder 348 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:35,080 hurts. Thank Kenny. 349 00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:37,400 You can sit down, call my shoulder hurts so bad, you know, 350 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:38,920 because you know, Kenny helps me with golf. 351 00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:41,600 So obviously when it affected his swing and he's like, man, 352 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:43,000 what's going on? What's going on? 353 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:45,120 You know, my shoulders hurt, my shoulders hurting. 354 00:22:45,120 --> 00:22:47,440 And plus he works in concrete. He's throwing cinder blocks all 355 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:49,320 the time. I mean, he could probably 356 00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:53,000 outwork, you know, most of our 3040 year old guys in here, 357 00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:57,200 honestly, from what he does. The point is, is that you're 358 00:22:57,200 --> 00:23:00,320 asking for prayer for something that ultimately isn't the 359 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:04,560 problem. So what happens is, is that we, 360 00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:09,320 through the teaching gift, has specialized in the spirit of 361 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:14,680 man, so much so that we say it this way. 362 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:21,080 We are a spirit, we have a soul, and we live in a body. 363 00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:26,080 But I don't believe that's how the Lord intended us to identify 364 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:32,680 ourselves ever, because we are now assuming that we can exist 365 00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:40,240 without our soul and body. But the Scripture is not putting 366 00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:45,800 us in a position that in Revelation 22 that we are 367 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:47,000 without a body. That's right, that's right, 368 00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:51,960 that's good. So when man, God made man in His 369 00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:55,440 image. The entirety of man is spirit, 370 00:23:55,440 --> 00:24:00,120 soul and body. It is spirit, soul and body. 371 00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:04,160 Amen. Now when Adam ate the fruit and 372 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:10,040 disobedience, his spirit died. But that when his spirit died, 373 00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:14,000 guess what? It affected his soul and his 374 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:16,640 body. Because where he would have 375 00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:19,480 never been sick, now he's subject to sickness. 376 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:25,000 Where he never would have had a wrong thought, now he has wrong 377 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:28,560 thoughts. But yet we are we if we don't 378 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:31,840 watch out, we are only focusing on the spirit of man. 379 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:37,680 This is why a lot of times the teachings are in places can be 380 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:40,840 all that matters is have you made Jesus the Lord of your 381 00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:43,360 life? Have you confessed him as your 382 00:24:43,360 --> 00:24:46,560 Lord so that you'll know when you die you'll go to heaven? 383 00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:50,720 Jesus never came back to the planet for only your spirit man 384 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:54,760 to be right. Never. 385 00:24:54,760 --> 00:25:02,720 Because God himself knows man is not just the spirit, he has a 386 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:05,840 soul. It's where he can think, it's 387 00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:08,840 where he can process information is where his will is. 388 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:12,520 You understand when we, when we get the account of Abraham's 389 00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:16,880 bosom where Abraham has died, others have died there in what 390 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:21,360 is called paradise, because Jesus looked at the one thief 391 00:25:21,360 --> 00:25:24,200 and said today you'll be with me in paradise, not in heaven, in 392 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:26,080 paradise, because paradise is not heaven. 393 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:30,880 Paradise was the grave, but in the grave there were two places. 394 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:34,440 There was paradise which was called the righteous dead. 395 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:41,240 They were awaiting payment because the wages of sin is 396 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:44,200 death. They are separated from God, but 397 00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:47,480 they believe that the King is coming and that he was going to 398 00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:50,280 lay down his life and he was going to make that payment. 399 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:56,040 And they accepted him as their Lord prior to him dying, raising 400 00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:58,680 from the dead and pouring his blood out on the mercy seat in 401 00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:01,720 heaven where we have salvation made available to us. 402 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:05,600 But there was another place in the grave is where torment 403 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:09,600 existed. Now there was a Jesus given this 404 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:12,040 account said there was a rich man that when he looked up he 405 00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:15,840 saw Abraham and then he saw a guy named Lazarus who used to 406 00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:19,800 sit at his table. Notice in his soul realm his 407 00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:22,800 body was not with him but his soul and spirit. 408 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:26,760 That he could recall the relationship he had with someone 409 00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:31,000 when he was alive in his body on the earth. 410 00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:35,080 So when we leave our body, our spirit and soul leave. 411 00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:38,440 But yet our spirit and soul is not ever is not going to 412 00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:42,440 continually be disconnected from a body because we all know that 413 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:46,840 we're going to put on another body, a body that would be 414 00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:50,880 imperishable, right? No longer will be. 415 00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:53,920 Mortals will have immortality. Amen. 416 00:26:54,320 --> 00:27:01,480 So God designed us so that all three parts of our being would 417 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:07,240 be blameless, be preserved. Now let's look at that Scripture 418 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:08,200 one more time. It says this. 419 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:11,200 Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you. 420 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:17,400 How entirely So you we have to decide that you know what? 421 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:20,520 It's not good enough that my spirit man is alive to God 422 00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:23,320 because he came to do more than that. 423 00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:30,000 He came to sanctify me entirely. And I'm not just my spirit. 424 00:27:30,360 --> 00:27:35,200 I have a soul and I'm in this body and he's come to sanctify 425 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:39,440 me entirely. Amen. 426 00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:43,720 Amen. So that may your spirit, soul 427 00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:46,840 and body so their keys communicating the entirety of 428 00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:50,600 who we are would be preserved, complete without blame at the 429 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:53,320 coming of the Lord Jesus. Sanctify by definition means 430 00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:55,480 this. It means to separate from 431 00:27:55,480 --> 00:28:03,280 profane things and dedicated to God to to purify internally and 432 00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:07,920 externally to make here it is holy. 433 00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:11,760 Now this is powerful because we know first Peter chapter one 434 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:14,440 verse 14 through 16 says as obedient children. 435 00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:17,080 This means you've made Jesus the Lord of your life as obedient 436 00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:18,800 children. Do not be conformed to the 437 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:22,760 former lusts which were yours in your ignorance, but like the 438 00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:29,320 Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your 439 00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:34,000 behavior has to do with your soul realm, not your spirit. 440 00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:37,600 Your spirit man, has been made in the likeness of Christ. 441 00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:40,280 We'll see that here in a minute. But then it should affect your 442 00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:45,120 soul realm so that your behavior will line up with your spirit 443 00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:49,880 that is in Christ, of which the Holy Spirit lives in you and is 444 00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:52,880 giving you instruction. Amen. 445 00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:56,880 The Holy Spirit is not in their only say, is not in their 446 00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:58,240 saying. Hold on. 447 00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:01,840 I know it's bad, but you're going to be with God when you 448 00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:03,320 die. Yeah. 449 00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:05,200 This stinks. Nothing we can do about it. 450 00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:08,840 Just hold on. I'm only here for your spirit. 451 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:15,640 I'm only here for your spirit. No, no, no. 452 00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:17,840 Then it goes on verse 16. Because it is written. 453 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:20,080 Say it is written. It is written. 454 00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:23,480 Well, who wrote it? Who wrote this? 455 00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:26,920 The Lord. Are we supposed to obey what He 456 00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:30,120 has said, What is written in His word? 457 00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:35,240 Well, look what His word said. You shall be, for I am. 458 00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:40,480 Which means not only are we holy in our spirit man, separated 459 00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:46,000 unto God, and by definition separated from the profane 460 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,400 things. Our spirit man was dead. 461 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:50,480 We were lost in our transgression and sin. 462 00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:58,920 We were all trying to, to some degree, have God look at us with 463 00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:03,360 favor that he could accept us. But no matter what we did, it 464 00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:06,240 mounted to nothing. It it, it's just filthy rags. 465 00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:10,600 We cannot attain to the place to where God could look at us and 466 00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:13,560 say, that's good enough, that's good enough. 467 00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:21,000 No, not without God, not without God, but God being rich in his 468 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:26,400 mercy while we were yet sinners. Christ, he died for us, so he 469 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:29,160 wants us wholly in all of our behavior. 470 00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:33,160 In essence, he says, I want not only your spirit to be separated 471 00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:36,760 from profane things, I want your soul separated from profane 472 00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:40,160 thing and I want your body separated from profane things. 473 00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:44,520 Remember Paul said when it came to the body, he said, listen, 474 00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:47,080 how can you be a child of God and sleep around? 475 00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:52,840 Don't you know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit? 476 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:55,520 He no longer dwells in buildings. 477 00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:58,920 He doesn't have to come down on a building or temple that only a 478 00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:02,560 high priest can go in who's the only one anointed and at a very 479 00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:05,080 specific time go into the holy of the holy. 480 00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:09,760 And he can be in there only if he has done everything required 481 00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:15,800 so that he doesn't drop dead behind the veil because God is 482 00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:19,320 holy, Amen. There's no sin any no darkness, 483 00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:23,200 any glory to God. But we also know this God has 484 00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:26,880 body parts. In fact, Moses said, Lord, I 485 00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:29,480 want to see your glory. He said, Son, no man can look 486 00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:32,960 onto my face and live. He said this is what I'll do, 487 00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:34,720 I'm gonna put you in the cleft of the rock. 488 00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:39,240 That is a prophecy of the soon coming Christ. 489 00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:43,200 He is the rock and we are in Christ, so he puts us in Him. 490 00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:46,880 He said I'm gonna put you and put my hand on you as I pass by, 491 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:49,640 then I'll release my hand and you can look at my back parts. 492 00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:55,240 Well, if he didn't have a body, you couldn't see his back, nor 493 00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:59,920 could his finger show up in a King's castle one day and right 494 00:31:59,920 --> 00:32:03,240 on the wall. Hallelujah. 495 00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:11,080 No, he has a body. He has legs, arms, chest, a 496 00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:15,880 head, eyes, nose, mouth, ears. God the Father. 497 00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:19,840 He's not just a beam of light, although he's light. 498 00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:24,640 And we know Jesus definitely has a body because he left and put 499 00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:29,240 himself in a man's suit that is obviously glorified his flesh 500 00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:31,960 and bone, and he will be in that forever. 501 00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:37,320 But he's glorified that body, even though it's flesh and bone. 502 00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:41,640 He can walk through walls. That's pretty amazing. 503 00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:46,680 With that body, you can walk through things. 504 00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:49,440 That's pretty amazing that I mean, that's one of the first 505 00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:51,720 things I really want to do, right? 506 00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:54,160 Because when we're changing the moment of the twinkling of an 507 00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:56,840 eye, should we be the generation that's called up and somebody's 508 00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:59,040 going to get called up? Why not us, right? 509 00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:04,240 So let's just say we are, let's say the, the, the shout came 510 00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:06,520 from heaven right now. And all of a sudden all of us 511 00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:09,640 are changed in the moment, in the twinkling of an eye, we put 512 00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:14,320 on our glorified body. Then the Lord catches it. 513 00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:16,560 Guess what? He doesn't have to send a storm 514 00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:18,680 and RIP the roof off. We can go straight through it. 515 00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:22,400 Amen. Now, I don't think we'll 516 00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:25,240 probably go through the roof. I think he was going to give us 517 00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:26,840 time. If you look at Scripture to 518 00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:29,600 actually talk to people on the planet and say don't take the 519 00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:32,400 mark. I told you, you understand, 520 00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:35,240 'cause he's leaving, no doubt with those individuals during 521 00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:40,120 the wrath of God, period. OK, So we have to determine, as 522 00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:42,680 the word resolute means we have to be marked by a firm 523 00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:47,160 determination that we are going to take care of our entirety, 524 00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:55,120 our entirety. So no longer do we accept that 525 00:33:55,120 --> 00:34:02,000 the other parts of our nature are not important, that they're 526 00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:06,120 all important and they are all important, Amen. 527 00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:09,280 Now you're not going to get your soul realm right, nor your body 528 00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:14,520 right to the capacity of it being complete unless you're 529 00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:18,320 born again, Amen. Because plenty of people are 530 00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:21,400 filling their minds and work it out and eaten right with their 531 00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:24,360 bodies, but they still find themselves in with cancer. 532 00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:26,679 I mean, you know how many times we've heard people say they were 533 00:34:26,679 --> 00:34:28,480 in such great shape? How did this happen? 534 00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:32,480 Well, the wages of sin is and a spirit man separated from God is 535 00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:37,440 living in death and it attracts those things. 536 00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:42,760 All right, OK. But the Lord says we need to do 537 00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:44,800 something else. So we're going to be holy as he 538 00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:47,159 told us to be. So back to First Thessalonians 539 00:34:47,159 --> 00:34:48,440 523. Y'all doing all right? 540 00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:51,840 It says. Now may the God of peace himself 541 00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:54,560 sanctify you entirely. God is personally working on 542 00:34:54,560 --> 00:35:00,240 you. So we can't take this. 543 00:35:00,240 --> 00:35:02,160 Well, the Lord don't care about my body. 544 00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:04,920 Oh, yes, he does. If he didn't care about your 545 00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:07,320 body, then there'd be no reason for him to take all stripes on 546 00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:13,840 his back. I mean, he could afford go the 547 00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:16,440 the scourging. Yeah. 548 00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:20,520 You know what, we're not going to do The scourging because you 549 00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:21,840 know, Lord, where I'm in the garden. 550 00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:23,480 Is there any other way? There's not another way. 551 00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:26,320 Now listen, the scourging though, because really doesn't 552 00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:31,120 matter. I mean, we going to give them a 553 00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:34,720 glorified body anyway at the end of the day, right? 554 00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:38,000 Well, all that really matters is I'm going to go to the cross, 555 00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:41,320 I'm going to lay down my life. My blood's going to be shed for 556 00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:46,840 them and I can bleed without being scourged, right? 557 00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:52,480 So at the end of the day, all that really matters is that they 558 00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:55,160 asked me to come into their heart and save them so that when 559 00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:57,800 they die, they come to heaven. And whether they go out by 560 00:35:57,800 --> 00:35:59,800 sickness and diseases and what, who cares? 561 00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:07,600 See, it's amazing if we don't watch out is that things that 562 00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:13,280 are given to us freely, if we do not understand the cost that 563 00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:18,160 Jesus took to give to us freely, then we won't value what's 564 00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:22,400 available to us, nor will we be in faith by it. 565 00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:27,800 Because I mean, if you watch the Mel Gibson the passion movie and 566 00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:32,840 watch him getting beat, which is one of the best examples Now, I, 567 00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:39,680 I still think it pales to show it all, but it was better than 568 00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:43,520 the little crown and these little couple, you know, read 569 00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:47,240 things. I mean, skin and muscle is being 570 00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:54,360 ripped out people of his body. I mean, he took on all of those 571 00:36:54,360 --> 00:37:04,600 stripes, 39 stripes so that your body could be complete, not 572 00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:08,200 glorified, but complete for the assignment he has for you and 573 00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:09,920 the earth. Amen. 574 00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:16,400 So sickness and disease should just make us mad because my, my 575 00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:23,680 Jesus is sanctifying me. He has separated me from the 576 00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:27,680 profane thing of cancer, leukemia. 577 00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:32,920 I mean, we could just list all of the diseases because he wants 578 00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:37,240 even my body to be complete. Now, that doesn't mean your body 579 00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:39,560 is saved. You'll never save your body. 580 00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:42,840 You're going to get a new one. No problem. 581 00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:50,720 All right, so the word entirely means complete in all respects, 582 00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:55,360 Amen. So you, we need to take time to 583 00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:58,760 say, OK, 'cause this 2025, I know, you know, some of you may 584 00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:01,800 have done New Year's resolution, some of you may have not, but 585 00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:05,560 just resolved, Lord, no matter what part of me you're talking 586 00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:12,320 about, in my spirit, my soul or my body, I'll obey because I 587 00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:18,120 know you wanted all, all parts to be complete, all aspects. 588 00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:23,720 OK, Preserve means this means to attend to carefully, to guard, 589 00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:26,720 to watch over, to keep in a condition. 590 00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:30,000 Well, that's good to keep in a condition. 591 00:38:30,240 --> 00:38:32,600 You know, the Lord wants to keep you on perpetual health. 592 00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:36,440 He wants to keep you with a sound mind. 593 00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:38,800 Amen. Hallelujah. 594 00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:44,760 He wants to keep your spirit from being contaminated 'cause 595 00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:50,800 you can contaminate the spirit realm because of what you allow 596 00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:56,480 through your soul. All right then, the word 597 00:38:56,480 --> 00:39:01,720 complete means this. Complete in all its parts, in no 598 00:39:01,720 --> 00:39:06,440 part wanting or unsound. Now I'm going to give you an 599 00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:07,600 example. Obviously, we're going to be 600 00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:10,080 minister on the church here starting Sunday, finding your 601 00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:13,800 fit. Do you understand that for me to 602 00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:18,480 be up here today, the entirety of my body is functioning. 603 00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:23,640 It's functioning. And if there was a part that was 604 00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:28,960 unsound, it could be creating me, creating such pain that it 605 00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:32,120 could hinder me from actually being up here, right, Right. 606 00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:36,840 Marissa, she had a surgery on your neck or shoulder, right? 607 00:39:37,240 --> 00:39:40,160 Again, there was a challenge there. 608 00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:42,600 The Lord spoke to her about surgery. 609 00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:44,720 Obviously, she was standing on the word period. 610 00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:48,200 And you understand, because she stood on that and did what she 611 00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:51,920 needed to do. God, you know, supernaturally 612 00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:53,960 brought her through this process where there's really wasn't even 613 00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:57,120 any pain because she didn't take any pain medication. 614 00:39:57,280 --> 00:39:59,440 However, there was still a mending. 615 00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:05,680 And during the mending process, that area wasn't complete. 616 00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:09,960 It's better that it's complete, right? 617 00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:12,280 I mean, you don't want to walk around and swing the rest of 618 00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:17,600 your life, now, could we? Sure you could. 619 00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:20,120 You could walk around with a sling in your life. 620 00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:25,760 In fact, most people can adapt to allow something that's not 621 00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:28,480 sound on their body to still continue the course. 622 00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:31,160 And I understand the whole grand scheme of things. 623 00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:34,320 I get it. But if God says I want it all 624 00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:42,680 complete, then we then in faith can say God wanted me complete. 625 00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:45,160 He wants the body part of me complete. 626 00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:48,880 So I'm going to know what God says about what He's done for my 627 00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:51,160 body. I'll be in faith so that my 628 00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:57,440 whole body can be sound. Glory to God can be sound. 629 00:40:58,040 --> 00:41:01,320 All right, look at what it says again, we're just going to look 630 00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:02,880 at the three different parts real quick. 631 00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:06,640 Second Corinthians 517 says this concerning our spirit man. 632 00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:09,200 Once we made Jesus Lord, he said, therefore, if anyone is in 633 00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:11,280 Christ, he has a new creature. The old things passed away. 634 00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:14,800 Behold, new things have come, which means our spirit man that 635 00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:18,320 was dead separated from God because of sin. 636 00:41:18,720 --> 00:41:22,440 And even though we may have been trying to get God to acknowledge 637 00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:24,840 us, we kept falling flat on our face. 638 00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:27,840 Again, Paul said I was doing the things I didn't even want to do, 639 00:41:28,240 --> 00:41:30,440 and when I was trying not to do the things that were wrong, I 640 00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:33,840 found myself doing them anyway. I was a wretched man, a Sinner, 641 00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:36,480 wretched who's going to save me from this life of sin. 642 00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:40,040 But thanks be to God, right? Because what I could not do 643 00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:45,240 myself through my soul and body realm to try to jump start or 644 00:41:45,240 --> 00:41:47,920 make my spirit alive to God, it didn't work. 645 00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:50,080 It can't work. Only God can do that. 646 00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:54,880 So Christ died for our sin, our transgression, everything that 647 00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:56,400 was wrong in the realm of the Spirit. 648 00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:59,960 And when we call on His name, that old spirit passed me, it's 649 00:41:59,960 --> 00:42:06,200 evicted from this body and we get a new spirit, not a remodel, 650 00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:10,240 but a brand new spirit that is in Christ and is alive to God 651 00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:13,920 and can hear the Spirit of God that comes and dwells on the 652 00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:17,360 inside of us and tells us, tells our spirit, you're a child of 653 00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:19,000 God. That's why when you call on the 654 00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:21,640 name of the Lord and you finish that with all your heart, you're 655 00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:24,960 like, I know I'm born again. I know I'm a child of God. 656 00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:29,200 I, you had have such an assurance that man, if I did 657 00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:32,160 leave my body today, I'd be present with the Lord no 658 00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:33,920 problem. I know that I don't. 659 00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:36,320 It's not even faith anymore, it's reality. 660 00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:40,840 I am born of God and I know it in my spirit. 661 00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:44,520 I know it so. Verse 21 of this same chapter 662 00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:47,160 says this. It says He made him who knew no 663 00:42:47,160 --> 00:42:51,480 sin to be sin on our behalf so that we might become the 664 00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:54,200 righteousness of God in him. How do you become the 665 00:42:54,200 --> 00:42:56,840 righteousness of God in Him? You call on the name of the Lord 666 00:42:56,840 --> 00:42:59,960 to be saved, and then you are made righteous. 667 00:42:59,960 --> 00:43:05,120 Where? In the Spirit, but not in the 668 00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:11,920 soul nor in your body. Those are two other aspects of 669 00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:18,640 you that then God gives you the authority to change and effect. 670 00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:23,800 Hallelujah. Now he's done the work, but your 671 00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:26,200 faith does the change in those other two areas. 672 00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:29,360 Are you understanding me? So Romans chapter 5, verse 17 673 00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:31,440 says this. For if by the transgression of 674 00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:35,840 one death reigned through the one, much more those who 675 00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:40,520 received the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness 676 00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:45,920 will reign where that's this life that's not heaven, that's 677 00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:50,040 now you'll reign in life through the one Jesus Christ. 678 00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:52,800 And here's where you'll reign. You'll reign in your spirit. 679 00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:57,880 You can reign in your soul and you can reign in your body. 680 00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:01,720 Now you can tell your body, no, you're not going to go after 681 00:44:01,720 --> 00:44:06,480 that flesh. No, you're not. 682 00:44:09,240 --> 00:44:12,760 Now you have within you the power to say, I'm no longer 683 00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:17,320 going to listen to that thought. I'm going to insert another one 684 00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:18,960 and it comes from the word of God. 685 00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:23,600 Now I 'cause my spirit man has been made alive to God, my 686 00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:27,320 spirit tells my soul, don't take that thought that didn't come 687 00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:30,160 from Dad, that didn't come from heaven, that didn't come from 688 00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:32,160 the throne room. That's not what the Father has 689 00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:35,640 said saying about you or what he says about you or how you should 690 00:44:35,640 --> 00:44:38,480 handle this. You take captive that thought. 691 00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:43,600 Then say God takes captive the thought. 692 00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:47,160 You take captive the thought and what do you do? 693 00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:50,240 You take that thought. You bring the word to it and 694 00:44:50,240 --> 00:44:51,920 say, does this line up with the word? 695 00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:55,320 No, that isn't what God says. So you cast it down. 696 00:44:55,320 --> 00:44:57,960 You say, I'll never think or dwell on you again. 697 00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:02,680 I'll only think on what God say. Amen. 698 00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:05,240 So when the thought comes, we'll look how they treated you. 699 00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:09,000 They done you so wrong. Now you know they done your own. 700 00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:10,480 You're like, yeah, I know they done me wrong. 701 00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:12,800 But then the Lord says, yeah, but just forgive them. 702 00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:16,920 Well, they're not asking for it. Doesn't matter if they're asking 703 00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:20,000 you just go ahead and be in the position of forgiveness. 704 00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:26,120 You do that. But what do people do? 705 00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:29,880 They'll play the scenario through their mind. 706 00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:32,920 How do you know you're free from those things when you can see 707 00:45:32,920 --> 00:45:36,240 them and you're not playing it in your mind? 708 00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:38,800 You take cap to the thought. That doesn't mean that 709 00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:41,480 everything's restored, doesn't mean everything's perfect, 710 00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:43,840 doesn't mean the relationship's been reconciled. 711 00:45:43,960 --> 00:45:47,960 But you're in the posture that I'm holding on and I'm going to 712 00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:50,240 do it God's way. God's going to do. 713 00:45:50,320 --> 00:45:51,960 I'm going to do what God's told me to do. 714 00:45:52,240 --> 00:45:55,600 There have been times when I've had situations in relationships 715 00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:57,280 that the Lord said just go to them. 716 00:45:57,480 --> 00:46:01,600 I remember 1 particular lady, I, it was a perceived offense, got 717 00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:04,440 offended over something that didn't actually occur. 718 00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:07,920 But again, at this point it's kind of like beyond trying to 719 00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:10,360 explain. So the Lord said just ask her to 720 00:46:10,360 --> 00:46:14,360 forgive you. He said I know you didn't do it, 721 00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:20,040 but it's an issue. So I said, you know, whatever 722 00:46:20,040 --> 00:46:25,680 was said, please forgive me. I did not mean it and I don't 723 00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:28,880 even know what I'm really saying this about, but I'm saying it 724 00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:33,000 because God told me to do that. So because I did it, they 725 00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:36,240 forgave and the cancer came off their body. 726 00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:41,920 Hallelujah, come on, say Hallelujah because they were no 727 00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:45,680 longer holding an offense and I didn't have to prove I was 728 00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:47,600 right. I just had to do what God said. 729 00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:50,640 But now there's other times the Lord says give them what they 730 00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:53,680 want. I've heard him say other times 731 00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:57,440 he said just let it go and he gave me the picture of the 732 00:46:57,440 --> 00:47:01,000 prodigal son leaving. He says you don't go after him. 733 00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:05,640 Oh, you don't want to hear some of y'all need to push that 99 734 00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:09,960 clip that's on Instagram around you know, he'll leave the 99 to 735 00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:13,000 go to the one because the 99 is very powerful by themselves 736 00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:15,480 because they've learned from the shepherd. 737 00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:18,320 Amen. All right, but you understand 738 00:47:18,320 --> 00:47:21,400 this. There are some that wander that 739 00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:25,280 the shepherd doesn't go to the father didn't leave the house. 740 00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:30,720 So what we do is we again, as a teacher, if you don't watch out, 741 00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:33,800 you'll take one thought and then you'll think it's applicable 742 00:47:33,800 --> 00:47:38,040 everywhere, but it's not always applicable everywhere that you 743 00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:39,720 know. I'm not leaving 99 to go after 744 00:47:39,720 --> 00:47:42,800 the one because in this case, you're leaving. 745 00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:47,120 I'm giving you what you want. You can go and if this thing's 746 00:47:47,120 --> 00:47:52,160 going to turn around, you're coming back here because the 747 00:47:52,160 --> 00:47:56,040 father did not run him down in the towns, didn't keep tabs to 748 00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:57,520 find out whether he had money or not. 749 00:47:57,520 --> 00:48:00,200 Now, that doesn't mean that it didn't get back to the father. 750 00:48:00,200 --> 00:48:02,080 I'm not saying that. I'm not saying that people 751 00:48:02,080 --> 00:48:04,000 didn't come. Say, man, I saw your son with a 752 00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:08,360 bunch of harlots, man. Well, and as much as he wants 753 00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:11,360 him not to live that life, that was his choice. 754 00:48:11,600 --> 00:48:16,840 But I'm still at my house and he can come home If he'll just want 755 00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:20,160 to come home, if I can just have him, if he, if he just come 756 00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:23,800 back, it's on him. Well, you know what, I, I saw 757 00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:28,480 your son working for, you know, this particular farmer and, and 758 00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:30,880 was feeding their pigs. Wow. 759 00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:38,240 Well, he can come home 'cause in this case, it wasn't going 760 00:48:38,240 --> 00:48:44,680 after, it was staying. Sometimes you can go after 761 00:48:44,680 --> 00:48:50,320 someone that is not going to repent and all you do is 762 00:48:50,320 --> 00:48:52,840 reinforce the hardness of the heart every time you show up and 763 00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:58,080 try to help. But see, you got to be led by 764 00:48:58,080 --> 00:49:00,560 the Spirit in that. Now in order to be led by the 765 00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:04,840 Spirit, you also have to renew your mind because if you don't 766 00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:09,200 get your mind right, then the emotions of your loved one doing 767 00:49:09,200 --> 00:49:11,520 something wrong and you want to be their Savior, which you 768 00:49:11,520 --> 00:49:18,160 cannot be, only Jesus can. You have to be able to hear, you 769 00:49:18,160 --> 00:49:19,800 know what I'm talking about right now, right? 770 00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:23,960 You know what I'm saying? You have to hear God because God 771 00:49:24,040 --> 00:49:26,520 knows the best pathway to repentance. 772 00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:32,680 Oh my goodness. So God desired for us to reign 773 00:49:32,680 --> 00:49:37,040 in this life, and that is in every part of our body, our 774 00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:40,560 being, should, I should say our being, our spirit, our soul, and 775 00:49:40,560 --> 00:49:42,480 our body. We should reign in it all. 776 00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:46,360 Amen. Now, if you're not raining in 777 00:49:46,360 --> 00:49:48,760 one particular area, good news you can. 778 00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:51,080 This is what's good news you can. 779 00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:54,520 OK, We're all improving. We're all growing. 780 00:49:54,640 --> 00:49:59,200 Now my spirit man is alive. I, I cannot improve on my spirit 781 00:49:59,480 --> 00:50:03,640 because God did that, but because my spirit is alive and 782 00:50:03,640 --> 00:50:06,520 I'm allowing my spirit to hear the Holy Spirit in me. 783 00:50:06,720 --> 00:50:10,560 Now we can do something with our minds, our will, our emotions. 784 00:50:10,560 --> 00:50:13,520 We can make sure it stays in line with the Spirit of God and 785 00:50:13,520 --> 00:50:16,760 what God is saying in His Word. And then we can also grab hold 786 00:50:16,760 --> 00:50:18,920 of our bodies and say, no, we're not doing that anymore. 787 00:50:19,600 --> 00:50:22,800 And make certain choices that what you used to do, you don't 788 00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:26,560 even do anymore because now you reign over your body and you 789 00:50:26,560 --> 00:50:30,280 reign over your mind. You're not subject to them 790 00:50:30,280 --> 00:50:33,880 anymore. You've decided to stay subject 791 00:50:33,880 --> 00:50:35,960 to the Spirit. Glory to God. 792 00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:40,640 OK, so in Romans chapter 12, verse one, one through 1 and 2, 793 00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:44,240 it says this amplified classic. I appeal to you, therefore, 794 00:50:44,440 --> 00:50:48,040 brethren, and beg you, in view of all the mercies of God, to 795 00:50:48,040 --> 00:50:52,040 make a decisive dedication of your bodies, presenting all your 796 00:50:52,040 --> 00:50:55,320 members and faculties as living sacrifice, wholly devoted, 797 00:50:55,320 --> 00:50:58,720 consecrated and well pleasing to God, which is your reasonable, 798 00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:02,360 rational, intelligent service and spiritual worship. 799 00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:04,760 You should tell your body, no, you're going to church today 800 00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:11,160 because your body tell you on Saturday night, man, don't get 801 00:51:11,160 --> 00:51:13,000 up, don't you? It's Sunday morning. 802 00:51:13,400 --> 00:51:15,840 I mean, while you're shaving. Well, your body said, why don't 803 00:51:15,840 --> 00:51:18,680 you just get back into bed? You're saved. 804 00:51:19,280 --> 00:51:27,520 You can get this online. Oh, I'm preaching verse 2. 805 00:51:27,520 --> 00:51:30,840 Do not be conformed to this world, this age, fashioned after 806 00:51:30,840 --> 00:51:35,760 and adapted to his external superficial customs, but be 807 00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:40,320 transformed, changed by the entire renewal of your mind, by 808 00:51:40,320 --> 00:51:43,720 its new ideal ideals and it's new attitudes. 809 00:51:43,720 --> 00:51:45,840 So that you may prove for yourself what is a good, 810 00:51:45,840 --> 00:51:48,400 acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is 811 00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:51,280 good and acceptable and perfect in His sight for you. 812 00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:56,440 So we have now been given the ability to reign over every area 813 00:51:56,440 --> 00:51:59,680 of our life. This is what's so awesome. 814 00:51:59,880 --> 00:52:02,640 When you become a resolute me, you're marked with 815 00:52:02,640 --> 00:52:04,320 determination. You decide. 816 00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:09,680 I have determined to have my whole body, my whole being, 817 00:52:09,760 --> 00:52:16,120 spirit, soul and body to be blameless or or perfectly 818 00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:22,320 complete sanctified entirely until Jesus comes. 819 00:52:23,200 --> 00:52:25,480 Amen. Now we can do this. 820 00:52:26,320 --> 00:52:31,520 I said we can do this. God has given us the power to do 821 00:52:31,520 --> 00:52:34,320 this. Now it all starts with this 822 00:52:34,320 --> 00:52:38,880 simple thing, forgiveness. Once we have received God's 823 00:52:38,880 --> 00:52:42,800 forgiveness for our sin and make Him Lord, our spirit man comes 824 00:52:42,800 --> 00:52:44,480 alive. Then once our spirit man comes 825 00:52:44,480 --> 00:52:46,840 alive, the Holy Ghost comes and lives in US and becomes the 826 00:52:46,840 --> 00:52:49,200 great teacher. And then at that point he says, 827 00:52:49,200 --> 00:52:51,080 now we're going to work on your mind. 828 00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:53,840 And he says, now in order for me to work on your mind, I need you 829 00:52:54,040 --> 00:53:01,120 to tell your body stay awake while I read the word. 830 00:53:06,360 --> 00:53:09,240 Are you hearing me? Because you understand you could 831 00:53:09,240 --> 00:53:12,720 be sitting down on your couch or chair reading the word. 832 00:53:12,720 --> 00:53:14,600 Because the word renews your mind. 833 00:53:14,600 --> 00:53:17,800 It gets you to think like the king you are because you're no 834 00:53:17,800 --> 00:53:20,720 longer a sorry Sinner saved by grace. 835 00:53:20,720 --> 00:53:22,640 You're not that you were a Sinner. 836 00:53:22,640 --> 00:53:24,040 You've been saved by grace through faith. 837 00:53:24,040 --> 00:53:26,280 Now you are a believer. You're the child of a king. 838 00:53:26,360 --> 00:53:30,160 You're royalty. And we haven't been trained to 839 00:53:30,160 --> 00:53:32,960 think royal, to think in line with the Kingdom. 840 00:53:33,040 --> 00:53:36,120 We haven't done that and we are not there yet because I'm going 841 00:53:36,120 --> 00:53:39,920 to tell you right now it's easy to not. 842 00:53:39,920 --> 00:53:46,680 I'm going to tell you why living a life as a believer to attain 843 00:53:46,680 --> 00:53:51,320 to 1st Thessalonians 523 takes determination. 844 00:53:53,920 --> 00:54:00,280 It takes determination, but yet God's empowered us to be 845 00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:03,880 resolute. I will be everything God has 846 00:54:03,880 --> 00:54:06,320 said I am. He says I'm healed. 847 00:54:06,320 --> 00:54:09,520 I will be healed. He says I have a sound mind. 848 00:54:09,520 --> 00:54:12,520 I will have a sound mind. I will have the mind of Christ. 849 00:54:15,560 --> 00:54:19,640 I'm going to have that because here's the thing, in order for 850 00:54:19,640 --> 00:54:25,280 this to occur, you have to do something intentional, resolute 851 00:54:26,840 --> 00:54:31,520 every day is called crucify the flesh. 852 00:54:35,200 --> 00:54:38,720 You have to crucify the flesh. Now notice they use the term 853 00:54:38,920 --> 00:54:45,320 crucify. Crucify is a violent term, which 854 00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:52,040 means it's not normal or casual. In essence, once you made Jesus 855 00:54:52,040 --> 00:54:54,800 the Lord of your life, you're not just falling into something. 856 00:54:57,320 --> 00:55:01,520 You're intentional to make sure those two areas of your being, 857 00:55:01,680 --> 00:55:05,320 the soul and the body, stay in subjection. 858 00:55:06,520 --> 00:55:08,760 And you do it by crucifying the flesh. 859 00:55:10,320 --> 00:55:13,760 You've heard us say this for years, that we are not a flesh 860 00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:20,200 friendly church. OK, That means that if you want 861 00:55:20,200 --> 00:55:25,280 to live according to your flesh or carnally, you're going to 862 00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:29,160 feel a little more challenged here because you're surrounded 863 00:55:29,160 --> 00:55:31,120 by people who crucify that daily. 864 00:55:34,640 --> 00:55:38,600 Daily they don't let themselves get over into Molly grubs and if 865 00:55:38,600 --> 00:55:41,400 they get over there, they get out as quick as they can nor 866 00:55:41,440 --> 00:55:43,400 they don't get offended when someone says you're into Molly 867 00:55:43,400 --> 00:55:44,600 grubs. You know what you're right. 868 00:55:44,600 --> 00:55:48,920 I need to get out instead of who you talking to? 869 00:55:51,640 --> 00:55:54,680 Because here's the thing I've seen it happen. 870 00:55:55,040 --> 00:55:58,040 People come up underneath the environment of individuals 871 00:55:58,040 --> 00:56:00,880 within the body that are joining and fended together says we have 872 00:56:00,880 --> 00:56:05,320 determined we are resolute we will crucify the flesh daily. 873 00:56:05,400 --> 00:56:08,240 We're going to live spiritual being lives and we're going to 874 00:56:08,240 --> 00:56:11,760 be intentional and you understand you have to have no 875 00:56:11,760 --> 00:56:15,400 intention to live by the flesh don't even have to work at it. 876 00:56:19,800 --> 00:56:23,720 The Bible says that in in Galatians 5/17 that our spirit 877 00:56:23,720 --> 00:56:27,000 and our flesh by battle day. Have you noticed the more you 878 00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:33,200 know about God that if you just break away for a few weeks from 879 00:56:33,200 --> 00:56:38,040 church and the word how all of a sudden your attitude will start 880 00:56:38,040 --> 00:56:43,520 sounding and acting like somebody that has been dead a 881 00:56:43,520 --> 00:56:50,120 long time. Now, here's the thing, when you 882 00:56:50,120 --> 00:56:54,440 are every day under pressure, oh, I could preach, man and I 883 00:56:54,440 --> 00:56:59,520 need to stop. We tell our Washington parents, 884 00:56:59,680 --> 00:57:05,760 listen, we're helping your child cultivate the difference between 885 00:57:05,960 --> 00:57:11,440 acting fleshly and spiritual. The public school system is not 886 00:57:11,440 --> 00:57:16,120 doing that for your students. So you think your child's always 887 00:57:16,120 --> 00:57:17,760 in trouble. They're not. 888 00:57:17,880 --> 00:57:21,320 But they are everyday dealing with their flesh of which we are 889 00:57:21,320 --> 00:57:26,200 helping to navigate them to make spiritual choices. 890 00:57:26,800 --> 00:57:39,160 So when they come home and cry, 'cause it's hard, 'cause again, 891 00:57:39,440 --> 00:57:41,880 you could go to a number of churches that have no 892 00:57:41,880 --> 00:57:44,960 requirement of spiritual growth and let you live carnally. 893 00:57:47,000 --> 00:57:48,360 You can do it. And you know what? 894 00:57:48,360 --> 00:57:52,800 Living carnal is so easy. It takes no effort. 895 00:57:53,640 --> 00:57:57,120 We just act like the world and then say we're saved. 896 00:57:57,480 --> 00:57:59,280 I mean, it's the easiest thing to do. 897 00:57:59,600 --> 00:58:07,640 You can fall off fast, but you got to be resolute to say 898 00:58:07,640 --> 00:58:09,360 nobody. You don't tell me what to do 899 00:58:09,360 --> 00:58:12,880 anymore. No, Sir, you do not control me. 900 00:58:14,040 --> 00:58:19,760 Every man in this room can be at the beach and see a lady with 901 00:58:19,960 --> 00:58:24,440 more cotton in the top of an aspirin bottle than is on their 902 00:58:24,440 --> 00:58:33,360 skin. Did you get that right? 903 00:58:33,520 --> 00:58:35,920 And it doesn't take long for you to figure out. 904 00:58:37,280 --> 00:58:49,000 OK, that's the lady. Maybe I understand, I understand 905 00:58:49,000 --> 00:58:51,160 it. There can be some debate today. 906 00:58:51,960 --> 00:58:59,000 However, the remodel of the outside or by birth, whatever, 907 00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:03,800 or you know, the modifications, a lot of modifications are going 908 00:59:03,800 --> 00:59:05,760 on. And have you noticed that they 909 00:59:05,760 --> 00:59:07,360 all have the same plastic surgeon? 910 00:59:07,360 --> 00:59:09,480 Because they all tend to basically look the same at the 911 00:59:09,480 --> 00:59:12,520 end of the day anyway. I've seen those lips on 100 912 00:59:12,520 --> 00:59:13,960 women. Right. 913 00:59:15,240 --> 00:59:23,160 OK, with that being said, you now have the ability to either 914 00:59:23,440 --> 00:59:28,000 stare while holding your wife's hand. 915 00:59:31,600 --> 00:59:36,480 What you're looking at nothing. Or you can be like, not going to 916 00:59:36,480 --> 00:59:38,920 look there again. Father, I just think that you've 917 00:59:38,920 --> 00:59:40,720 given me a wife that's better than silver and gold. 918 00:59:41,640 --> 00:59:50,560 Hallelujah. 'Cause it's easy to slip into 919 00:59:50,560 --> 00:59:55,200 watching, it's easy to slip into drinking, it's easy to slip into 920 00:59:55,200 --> 00:59:58,320 smoking, it's easy to slip into a cussing. 921 00:59:58,320 --> 01:00:00,560 When I say slip, I'm just saying, you know, I'm not going 922 01:00:00,560 --> 01:00:03,720 to crucify myself. It's easy to go there, you know. 923 01:00:03,760 --> 01:00:06,200 And here's the thing, when you've been crucifying your 924 01:00:06,200 --> 01:00:09,880 flesh for as long as you have, and then you get this idea. 925 01:00:10,200 --> 01:00:14,920 I'm just tired. How come it seemed like 926 01:00:14,920 --> 01:00:17,840 everybody else is? We don't live our life based 927 01:00:17,840 --> 01:00:22,280 upon what others are, what it seems like they're getting away 928 01:00:22,280 --> 01:00:26,560 with. Because when you sow to the 929 01:00:26,560 --> 01:00:30,960 flesh, you'll reap of the flesh. So I don't care that, you know, 930 01:00:30,960 --> 01:00:35,040 a bunch of believers that say they love God, sing songs, 931 01:00:35,040 --> 01:00:38,680 dance, but they do everything that the world does and it seems 932 01:00:38,680 --> 01:00:40,480 like they're getting further ahead. 933 01:00:40,680 --> 01:00:45,440 God is not mocked. Whatever a person sows, they're 934 01:00:45,440 --> 01:00:48,200 going to reap. And you may not be around them 935 01:00:48,200 --> 01:00:52,560 long enough to see the fruit of what they've been so into. 936 01:00:55,200 --> 01:00:58,360 But man, when you've been crucifying the flesh and you're 937 01:00:58,360 --> 01:01:01,680 like, I'm going to take, it's going to feel good the other 938 01:01:01,680 --> 01:01:06,400 side, 'cause the flesh has a pleasure to it. 939 01:01:06,880 --> 01:01:12,800 This is why Hebrews has said that Moses chose and he wasn't 940 01:01:12,800 --> 01:01:17,520 even born again. This is the power of your mind 941 01:01:19,000 --> 01:01:24,080 chose to suffer with the Hebrews instead of enjoying the 942 01:01:24,480 --> 01:01:29,560 pleasures of sin that came if he would have stayed a Prince of 943 01:01:29,560 --> 01:01:31,680 Egypt. He can't. 944 01:01:31,680 --> 01:01:33,640 He said you know what, I'm just going to put it down. 945 01:01:34,240 --> 01:01:38,960 And he did it through his soul and body realm without being 946 01:01:38,960 --> 01:01:41,520 born again. Now that didn't make him 947 01:01:41,640 --> 01:01:44,120 righteous with God. He needed the blood of Jesus 948 01:01:44,120 --> 01:01:47,120 just like we all did. However, now we are in a new and 949 01:01:47,120 --> 01:01:50,320 better covenant. Our spirit man is alive to God. 950 01:01:50,800 --> 01:01:55,880 We are with less excuse to not crucify the flesh and not live 951 01:01:55,880 --> 01:01:58,360 according to the flesh. If you're a child of God, you 952 01:01:58,360 --> 01:02:02,480 are to be led by the by the Spirit and the Spirit is never 953 01:02:02,480 --> 01:02:06,200 saying it's OK for you to be fleshly. 954 01:02:06,560 --> 01:02:10,520 That's why God's grace is there. No, God's grace on you after 955 01:02:10,520 --> 01:02:14,160 you've become born again will now empower you to resist the 956 01:02:14,160 --> 01:02:19,800 flesh you can put on Christ. But you got to be resolute. 957 01:02:20,440 --> 01:02:22,760 But if you don't watch out. You'll treat your relationship 958 01:02:22,760 --> 01:02:25,080 with God like you do a New Year's resolution. 959 01:02:25,480 --> 01:02:28,880 You'll do it for a season, and then you'll back off. 960 01:02:30,640 --> 01:02:32,000 And yeah, you're still breathing. 961 01:02:33,480 --> 01:02:36,720 Yeah, God still loves you. I get it. 962 01:02:37,480 --> 01:02:40,920 I understand that. But is he pleased? 963 01:02:42,000 --> 01:02:44,400 Because without faith, it's impossible to please God. 964 01:02:45,040 --> 01:02:47,840 And you're not going to please God through carnality. 965 01:02:49,200 --> 01:02:52,320 He's going to ultimately say, let's clean up your mind. 966 01:02:52,760 --> 01:02:58,200 You, let's come on, submit yourself, train yourself, become 967 01:02:58,200 --> 01:03:01,720 a disciple, study to show yourself approved. 968 01:03:01,880 --> 01:03:05,000 Let's get this mind cleaned up. I got some awesome things I want 969 01:03:05,000 --> 01:03:08,640 to show you and you can do it. Because again, if you're not, 970 01:03:08,800 --> 01:03:11,200 it's not God's fault and it's definitely not the devil. 971 01:03:11,880 --> 01:03:14,800 Humanity never had a devil problem or a Satan problem. 972 01:03:16,600 --> 01:03:19,000 The only problem in the earth today is rebellious man. 973 01:03:23,160 --> 01:03:26,280 That's the problem. Because man has always had the 974 01:03:26,280 --> 01:03:30,440 power, even before being born again, man had the power to 975 01:03:30,440 --> 01:03:32,440 follow God based upon what he had revealed. 976 01:03:35,920 --> 01:03:40,800 Amen. So let's decide today with this 977 01:03:40,800 --> 01:03:45,040 last scripture, First Corinthians chapter 15, because 978 01:03:45,040 --> 01:03:49,080 again, at the end of the day, our spirit man has been raised 979 01:03:49,080 --> 01:03:51,040 righteous. Now we are alive unto God. 980 01:03:51,040 --> 01:03:53,200 We are children of the Kingdom. We've been transferred out of 981 01:03:53,200 --> 01:03:55,520 the domain of darkness or the Kingdom of darkness, and we are 982 01:03:55,520 --> 01:03:57,040 in the Kingdom of His beloved Son. 983 01:03:57,440 --> 01:04:00,560 Our mind now is renewed as we wash it with the Word. 984 01:04:00,560 --> 01:04:04,480 We study, we come to church, we submit ourselves to all that God 985 01:04:04,480 --> 01:04:06,760 wants to teach and train us, and we take His thoughts. 986 01:04:06,880 --> 01:04:09,600 We think on those things, we think on those things. 987 01:04:09,600 --> 01:04:12,880 We think on those things, we think on those things, we take 988 01:04:12,880 --> 01:04:15,240 captive of everything that doesn't line up with Scripture. 989 01:04:15,440 --> 01:04:20,000 And then ultimately the Bible says for this perishable meaning 990 01:04:20,000 --> 01:04:22,720 the body must put on the imperishable and the mortal must 991 01:04:22,720 --> 01:04:25,040 put on immortality. But when the perishable will 992 01:04:25,040 --> 01:04:28,040 have put on imperishable and this mortal will have put on 993 01:04:28,040 --> 01:04:30,880 immortality, then it will come about the same that is written. 994 01:04:30,880 --> 01:04:34,440 Death is swallowed up in victory. 995 01:04:35,000 --> 01:04:38,720 So in the beginning of the book, let us make man in our image 996 01:04:39,240 --> 01:04:43,000 according to our likeness. Let his Spirit be of my nature. 997 01:04:43,520 --> 01:04:50,120 Let his mind be like my mind. Let his body be eternal like I 998 01:04:50,120 --> 01:04:53,280 am. And now, Adam, don't eat the 999 01:04:53,280 --> 01:04:58,400 fruit, because if you do, you're going to mess up your being. 1000 01:04:59,640 --> 01:05:03,840 But he did. But God, being rich in mercy and 1001 01:05:03,840 --> 01:05:07,840 because of his mandate for man to have dominion, has to send a 1002 01:05:07,840 --> 01:05:11,760 son, Jesus. Jesus has to come so that he can 1003 01:05:11,760 --> 01:05:15,480 be a man, because he gave the earth to man, gave man dominion, 1004 01:05:15,480 --> 01:05:19,280 so a man must take it back. And so Jesus comes as a man 1005 01:05:19,640 --> 01:05:24,720 anointed of the Holy Ghost, who kept his spirit, his soul and 1006 01:05:24,720 --> 01:05:29,120 his body free from contaminants until the day he went to the 1007 01:05:29,120 --> 01:05:32,760 cross. And that day he took everything 1008 01:05:32,760 --> 01:05:39,640 on. Physical, mental, emotional. 1009 01:05:41,600 --> 01:05:44,880 He took it all on. He took it all on. 1010 01:05:44,960 --> 01:05:50,000 He took every broken place in your mind, every emotional scar, 1011 01:05:51,400 --> 01:05:54,600 every tragedy you've ever gone through and you could replay in 1012 01:05:54,600 --> 01:05:55,800 your. He took it all on. 1013 01:05:56,160 --> 01:06:00,880 Then he took on your sin. He became sin. 1014 01:06:02,160 --> 01:06:05,080 Rick Rayner talks about how because he put on sin, in the 1015 01:06:05,280 --> 01:06:08,960 sin of all humanity, anyone whoever has lived and all who 1016 01:06:08,960 --> 01:06:11,600 were going to live, he brought it on himself, said that they 1017 01:06:11,600 --> 01:06:14,680 couldn't even recognize he's a man because the sin distorted 1018 01:06:14,680 --> 01:06:18,280 him so bad he didn't even look like a human anymore. 1019 01:06:18,800 --> 01:06:21,480 That's why we've not seen what happened on the cross. 1020 01:06:24,000 --> 01:06:31,200 And he did this so that he could sanctify you entirely, not just 1021 01:06:31,200 --> 01:06:35,800 your spirit, but your mind, will, emotions, and your body. 1022 01:06:36,280 --> 01:06:37,160 Hallelujah.