I'm going to talk to you now about your Kingdom identity.
And so you need to become resolute.
You need to be a resolute me, all right, because we are now
February the 12th now. I do not do this, but maybe
someone here does. And that is every year you do a
New Year's resolution. So we are six weeks in to where
90% of all, all New Year's resolutions are being abandoned,
right? I mean, you know, the gym is not
as packed anymore because they made it the first four weeks
they realize they're sore and then they've decided, you know
what, that's not for me again, we'll wait till next year.
All right? So, you know, the gym is not as
crowded anymore because, you know, all those individuals have
kind of separated out, Amen. But this should not be with us.
We need to be resolute, Amen. We need to resolve that.
There are things about us that we are going to determine to do
period, Amen. So if you have your Bibles turn
over to Genesis chapter 1. Resolute by definite, by
definition means this marked by a firm determination.
So if you're going to be resolute, you're going to have
to have a firm determination concerning the things that God
speaks concerning you, Amen. It's very important for us to
realize this because God has brought us out of something into
something, not out of something. And we're in a waiting room
until we finally get to go to heaven.
That was never his intent. Amen.
Would you give a warm welcome
for Pastor Joshua and Pastor Hope?
They are with us from Alabama right here behind Pastor Marcy.
Amen. They, they have come down for
Valentine's Day and swung by to see us.
And so we are honored to have you with us today.
And God's doing awesome things in their church.
We went and ministered there once.
I think we're signed up to do it again this year.
And so they're such a blessing and have two awesome boys and
God's doing some great things. He officially transitioned as
the senior pastor of the church. They're over from his
grandfather. His grandfather, you know,
pioneered that church and was there for how many years?
4050 years, 30 years. OK, I was giving him a little
bit more age, 30 years. And so Joshua and Hope, you
know, they have taken that work and man, it's already expanding.
Amen. Well, there's vision, Amen?
And I, I'm excited to see those kinds of transition take place
because see, his grandfather is able to be kind of like a King
David where he could see his son on the throne now this office,
his grandson, but see him take something that originated in him
that God started and now they're continuing the work there, Amen?
So that's really exciting. So I know that I'll preach
really well today because they're going to be pulling on
me. How about you, Amen?
Because you understand when, when ministers are in the house
and they give all the time they want to receive.
So it's always easier in a, in a setting where there's a lot of
ministers if they're hungry, and I know these two, they are.
So you're going to get fed. Well, today they're going to,
they're going to help pull for you, Amen.
And so on to encourage him. In Genesis chapter one, verse 26
to 27, it says this. Then God said, let us make man
in our image according to our likeness, and let them rule over
the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, over the
cattle, over all the earth, over every creeping thing that creeps
on the earth. God created man in his own
image, in the image of God. He created him, male and female.
He created them. Then when we get over to Genesis
chapter 2, verses 15 to 17, it says this.
Then the Lord took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to
cultivate it and keep it. The Lord God commanded the man
saying, from any tree of the garden you may eat freely, but
from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not
eat. For in the day that you eat from
it, you will surely die. Now I'm going to be kind of
repetitive, but again, the Word of God is here to feed us, OK?
And, and many of you eat the same foods all the time, OK?
If you've had a hamburger once, you typically go after it again,
and sometimes you enjoy it as much the next time and the 15th
time and the 100th time, right? You typically are like, man,
I've had 100 hamburgers I don't want anymore.
Sometimes you're like, bro, I need another hamburger, right?
Well, the problem is in Christianity, if we don't watch
out, we'll be reading the same scripture and all of a sudden
we'll know whether we are moving from application to just he
knowledge base alone. Moving from a doer to one who's
only a hearer is if when the scripture pops up, you've heard
multiple times you're like, yeah, I know, Amen.
Now this is the word of God. It's alive and active.
It's here to feed us. Amen.
And so, you know, Pastor Josh and I were talking because we
ate before we came over today and he said the Lord spoke to
him and he says, is the Kingdom just as real to you today as the
first time you heard it? Because here's the thing, I was
Pastor Marcy and I, you know, last week we went over to a
particular conference and the minister, Keith Moore, who it
was, he said, here's the Israelites, they have God in his
glory all day in a cloud. We call it the glory cloud.
And yet they, they became so familiar with his glory cloud
and that it became common. Do you understand?
You can be under the supernatural power of God.
And if you don't watch out, the power of God and the things of
God will become common to you, Common to the point that you
would disobey, rebel, look for something different.
In fact, many of them decided we've seen the miracles that
delivered us. We watched our enemy die in the
Red Sea. We've seen the supernatural over
here. And we've seen how he's kept a
cloud over us during the day so that we do not get scorched and
a fire by night so that we do not freeze here in the in the
wilderness. And yet they at some point said,
let's go back and be slaves again because they became
familiar with the glory. Well, there's only one person
who can keep you from being familiar.
It's you. Just go ahead and point it
yourself. So say this, I will not become
familiar with any scripture or anything that the Lord has for
me. I will always be in awe.
You want to be in awe, you want to always appreciate.
Anytime you're hearing the word, you want to give it reverence,
you want to honor it. You want to be like, wow, God is
speaking to me. For me, these are reflection
moments that when I hear things, I'm like, wow, thank you, Lord,
I remember when you revealed that to me the first time.
You know, those kinds of things help propel me.
One reason why I go back to Rhema every year is to maintain
my gratefulness. In fact, it's Kirk in here.
OK, So you can tell him I talked about him.
So Kirk is a Kansas City Chiefs fan.
You know this, right? I mean, he came out, right?
I text him, I said, you doing OK?
Do you need someone to talk to? But here's the thing.
Patrick Mahomes, before the game, was being interviewed by
Tom Brady, who has seven Super Bowl rings.
OK. And he said, what is it going to
be like for you? Imagine that if you win this
game, you'll be the first quarterback to ever win three
straight Super Bowls. If there's one word to describe
it, what would you say? Now?
The word I thought was grateful 'cause just to make it to the
game is a feat by itself. To win it is a whole nother ball
game. But then the win repeatedly is
just something else. But he used this word started
with AG greatness. Interesting, right?
Do you understand? I go back to Rhema.
It doesn't matter what success I've had in the Lord, because I
have followed Him with all my heart, all my soul, all my mind,
and all my strength. I go back because I want to
maintain gratefulness. I'm grateful 'cause when I
didn't know nothing concerning Scripture, I mean, I thought I
knew something. I mean, I knew based upon what I
knew. You know, I was ministering
based upon the revelation I had at the time.
But man, when I sit in that class at Rhema, I was like, I
don't even know the Bible. Then I had preached a revival.
Now, what I preached was a subject and it was accurate, but
there were so much more about God I didn't even know.
And I'm sitting in church now. The number one issue with that
was is that I wasn't hungry enough.
I did the proverbial thing that most believers fail in and that
is let me just hear what pastor's saying because I'll
just receive from him and him only or her whichever, whatever
minister's ministering meaning you don't type time to seek the
Scripture yourself to make it your own.
So it becomes your own personal belief system.
Nor seek God to determine is there anything else He needs you
to discover because He can reveal things to you when you
seek Him. But when all you're seeking is
when service is here, and then you listen while it's here, and
then you never pick it up again until you come back.
When you come back, well, you understand you're not going to
have appreciation, nor will you grow at the level God intended
you to grow. So I'm always thankful and
grateful for what God has taught me.
And here's the thing, if anything we preach, you think,
man, I've already heard that you are running the risk of
developing this familiarity, that ultimately you are stifling
your own personal growth and your passion for your Lord.
Because again, Jesus did not die on the cross and shed his blood
for your sin, your wrongdoing, so that you would just be here
trying to figure it out on your own and really just hanging out
waiting to die so you can be with him in heaven.
That was never His intent. But you know why this message
prevails is because people weren't hungry to know more.
They just wanted the bare minimum.
I just really don't want to go to hell when I die.
Well, that's not why we make Jesus Lord.
We make Jesus Lord because He loved us first.
He paid the price for us and He wants to put us back in the
original design that He always had for us in the 1st place.
Amen. So we know in Genesis 11, it
said in the beginning God created the heavens and the
earth. Is it this earth?
Same planet? Planet has not changed.
There's not another planet. OK, same planet.
And so the Lord then says to that man would have dominion.
We know this, but don't that stir you up?
I mean, I, I just, I can't hear that enough that my God wants me
to reign with him. How awesome is that?
Just to stop and think about that for a moment, God wants me
to reign with Him. I'm not just serving him as a
servant. I'm not serving him as a slave.
I am part of the family business where Jesus is the King of
Kings. Wow.
And He has given us power because of His name and His
death, burial and resurrection that we can walk in today.
The term that is used in the earth is called power of
attorney. He has given us power of
attorney because He's given us the authorized us to use His
name in the earth. And His name is above every
name. Cancer doesn't matter, Christ is
above it. Lack doesn't matter, God is
above it. Depression doesn't matter, God
is above. That's why the joy of the Lord
is your stream, because you don't have to stay somewhere.
He's caused you to be raised up. But in Genesis 2, he says to
Adam, you can eat from any tree of the garden, but of the tree
of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat.
For the day you eat, you'll die. So we've asked this question, If
Adam had never eaten the fruit, where would he be today?
He'd be here. And now here's something really
powerful about this and the reason why I'm kind of moving in
this direction. Because man has fallen.
We have failed to see man as God originally had man because Adam
was made in the image of God. He breathed into his nostrils
the breath of life. His spirit was that of God, the
DNA of God. OK, he's God's son.
If you read 1 of the gospels and they do the genealogies, you'll
see it says Adam the Son of God. Now he's not the Son of God,
Jesus, which is God in the flesh, but he is still God's
son, OK? He is a man that is God's Son
and his spirit is without sin. But not only that, his soul, his
mind, his intellect, his emotions only know an alive
spirit. His soul, his mental capacities
are not affected by sin. His decision making never comes
from envy, strife, bitterness, unforgettable.
He has no, he has no concept of any of those things at all.
Then the body he is in that is like the one we're in, except
his. There's no sin about his makeup,
which means if he had not eaten the fruit, he could still be in
the earth today in that body that would have had no sickness,
no disease. Come on it.
It would, it would. He would still be the same.
I mean, we're talking thousands of years and and some scholars
believe that, you know, not not based upon evolution teaching,
but based upon biblical teaching.
When you start actually adding up numbers within the Scripture,
it's more than likely that the planet is in that six thousandth
year. Now that's mind blowing when
you've been taught forever that it's millions of years old.
OK, but as far as from the creation of man in Genesis one,
we are 6000 in OK, so just over and we're going to be getting
into a 7th 7000 year, which is going to kick off into a
millennial reign of Christ, Glory to God, Amen.
So again, we would see Adam is 6000, you know, maybe 6950 years
old. He could be and he would look
good because there be there's no effective sin.
See the wages of sin is but he hasn't sinned so that he would
not have died. Amen.
So man, although he is a spirit, the spirit of the man is always
attached to the soul and was not intended to be detached from the
body. It was not intended to be
detached from the body because if Adam had never eaten the
fruit, he'd still be here. Now look at this.
You you know it in Hebrews chapter 4 verse 12 he says for
the word of God is living an active sharper than any 2 edged
sword and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit and
of both joints and marrow. Now that is what we call the
three fold nature of man, spirit, soul and body, OK,
spirit, soul and body. So the word of God is living an
actor sharper than any 2 edged sword.
It pierces meaning. The only thing that can separate
your spirit man and your soul realm from each other is the
Word. So if you do not have the word,
you cannot split or see the separation between spirit and
soul. And here's the thing, without
the word, you're going to side with your soul every time, all
right? Your mind will and emotions,
you're going to respond based upon how you feel.
All right. But then it says both join
Samara and it's this. This word is able to judge the
thoughts and intentions of the heart.
But the verse that I want to focus on tonight is First
Thessalonians 523. First Thessalonians 523 says it
this way. Now may the God of peace
himself, the God of peace himself.
Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you entirely.
You what? You what entirely?
Which means there's more than just one aspect of you all
right. And may your here it is spirit
and soul and body what be preserved complete without blame
at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Now we're going to be ministering on the fivefold
ministry gifts that God has given to the body out of
Ephesians chapter 4. Here is a challenge that has
occurred through the five fold ministry gift of teaching, OK
teaching or teachers. They are line upon line, precept
upon precept, all right, which means they are subject driven.
And that means a teacher can come in and teach on the subject
of righteousness, teach on the subject of of healing, teach on
the subject of the threefold nature of man, teach on the
subject of how to be led by the Spirit, teach on the subject of
in Christ realities or faith. OK.
The problem is, is that sometimes teachers will become
so deep. When I say deep, I'm talking
line upon line. They're layering it.
They just keep going on the same subject line it to the point
that it they have turned the church into what the medical
profession has become. There was a time in the medical
profession, David just were general practitioners, which
means the doctors needed to know everything about you.
But now we have specialized doctors.
Right, Specialized, you know, when I went to the optometrist,
which you know, for your eyes, when I went to that particular
doctor, they checked my eyes to determine how well I can see
either close up in that far. But then they would, you know,
put a, a light in me and look at, you know, my retina and then
the nerve and all these things that are going on in my eyes.
However, if something wasn't right, that doctor will not
perform surgery on me. They will refer me to the
specialist, which means you could have a doctor that knows
nothing about feet and everything about eyes.
Are you hearing me? So when the medical profession
to some degree abandoned the concept of the entirety of the
body for the sake of specializing, then you
understand they can treat something going on in one part
of your body that they're specialized, but the source of
that is somewhere else in the body that they have to engage
someone else to figure out. And if they do not do that, even
if they treat this one area they specialized in, you could go a
year or two down the road and that area is no longer bothering
you. But you actually haven't found
the root of your problem. OK, Kenny.
Kenny, would you stand up real quick back here on the back?
Kenny Rothshaw. Kenny.
OK, Kenny, this happened with Kenny.
Kenny had this issue in his. It was in your neck, was it?
Or your shoulder? It was just shoulder.
OK. And so I said, I'm gonna pray
for you. So Kenny came down, and I prayed
for his shoulder. Now he had a doctor's
appointment. I said, Kenny, still go to the
doctor. Well, guess what?
We prayed for the shoulder, but the shoulder wasn't the problem.
The shoulder is well is where the pain manifested.
The problem was in his neck, correct?
So because we found out where the real problem was, again, you
laying hands on an area that is just having a symptom but isn't
the problem. You're like, man, my shoulder
hurts. Thank Kenny.
You can sit down, call my shoulder hurts so bad, you know,
because you know, Kenny helps me with golf.
So obviously when it affected his swing and he's like, man,
what's going on? What's going on?
You know, my shoulders hurt, my shoulders hurting.
And plus he works in concrete. He's throwing cinder blocks all
the time. I mean, he could probably
outwork, you know, most of our 3040 year old guys in here,
honestly, from what he does. The point is, is that you're
asking for prayer for something that ultimately isn't the
problem. So what happens is, is that we,
through the teaching gift, has specialized in the spirit of
man, so much so that we say it this way.
We are a spirit, we have a soul, and we live in a body.
But I don't believe that's how the Lord intended us to identify
ourselves ever, because we are now assuming that we can exist
without our soul and body. But the Scripture is not putting
us in a position that in Revelation 22 that we are
without a body. That's right, that's right,
that's good. So when man, God made man in His
image. The entirety of man is spirit,
soul and body. It is spirit, soul and body.
Amen. Now when Adam ate the fruit and
disobedience, his spirit died. But that when his spirit died,
guess what? It affected his soul and his
body. Because where he would have
never been sick, now he's subject to sickness.
Where he never would have had a wrong thought, now he has wrong
thoughts. But yet we are we if we don't
watch out, we are only focusing on the spirit of man.
This is why a lot of times the teachings are in places can be
all that matters is have you made Jesus the Lord of your
life? Have you confessed him as your
Lord so that you'll know when you die you'll go to heaven?
Jesus never came back to the planet for only your spirit man
to be right. Never.
Because God himself knows man is not just the spirit, he has a
soul. It's where he can think, it's
where he can process information is where his will is.
You understand when we, when we get the account of Abraham's
bosom where Abraham has died, others have died there in what
is called paradise, because Jesus looked at the one thief
and said today you'll be with me in paradise, not in heaven, in
paradise, because paradise is not heaven.
Paradise was the grave, but in the grave there were two places.
There was paradise which was called the righteous dead.
They were awaiting payment because the wages of sin is
death. They are separated from God, but
they believe that the King is coming and that he was going to
lay down his life and he was going to make that payment.
And they accepted him as their Lord prior to him dying, raising
from the dead and pouring his blood out on the mercy seat in
heaven where we have salvation made available to us.
But there was another place in the grave is where torment
existed. Now there was a Jesus given this
account said there was a rich man that when he looked up he
saw Abraham and then he saw a guy named Lazarus who used to
sit at his table. Notice in his soul realm his
body was not with him but his soul and spirit.
That he could recall the relationship he had with someone
when he was alive in his body on the earth.
So when we leave our body, our spirit and soul leave.
But yet our spirit and soul is not ever is not going to
continually be disconnected from a body because we all know that
we're going to put on another body, a body that would be
imperishable, right? No longer will be.
Mortals will have immortality. Amen.
So God designed us so that all three parts of our being would
be blameless, be preserved. Now let's look at that Scripture
one more time. It says this.
Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you.
How entirely So you we have to decide that you know what?
It's not good enough that my spirit man is alive to God
because he came to do more than that.
He came to sanctify me entirely. And I'm not just my spirit.
I have a soul and I'm in this body and he's come to sanctify
me entirely. Amen.
So that may your spirit, soul
and body so their keys communicating the entirety of
who we are would be preserved, complete without blame at the
coming of the Lord Jesus. Sanctify by definition means
this. It means to separate from
profane things and dedicated to God to to purify internally and
externally to make here it is holy.
Now this is powerful because we know first Peter chapter one
verse 14 through 16 says as obedient children.
This means you've made Jesus the Lord of your life as obedient
children. Do not be conformed to the
former lusts which were yours in your ignorance, but like the
Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your
behavior has to do with your soul realm, not your spirit.
Your spirit man, has been made in the likeness of Christ.
We'll see that here in a minute. But then it should affect your
soul realm so that your behavior will line up with your spirit
that is in Christ, of which the Holy Spirit lives in you and is
giving you instruction. Amen.
The Holy Spirit is not in their only say, is not in their
saying. Hold on.
I know it's bad, but you're going to be with God when you
die. Yeah.
This stinks. Nothing we can do about it.
Just hold on. I'm only here for your spirit.
No, no, no.
Then it goes on verse 16. Because it is written.
Say it is written. It is written.
Well, who wrote it? Who wrote this?
The Lord. Are we supposed to obey what He
has said, What is written in His word?
Well, look what His word said. You shall be, for I am.
Which means not only are we holy in our spirit man, separated
unto God, and by definition separated from the profane
things. Our spirit man was dead.
We were lost in our transgression and sin.
We were all trying to, to some degree, have God look at us with
favor that he could accept us. But no matter what we did, it
mounted to nothing. It it, it's just filthy rags.
We cannot attain to the place to where God could look at us and
say, that's good enough, that's good enough.
No, not without God, not without God, but God being rich in his
mercy while we were yet sinners. Christ, he died for us, so he
wants us wholly in all of our behavior.
In essence, he says, I want not only your spirit to be separated
from profane things, I want your soul separated from profane
thing and I want your body separated from profane things.
Remember Paul said when it came to the body, he said, listen,
how can you be a child of God and sleep around?
Don't you know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit?
He no longer dwells in buildings.
He doesn't have to come down on a building or temple that only a
high priest can go in who's the only one anointed and at a very
specific time go into the holy of the holy.
And he can be in there only if he has done everything required
so that he doesn't drop dead behind the veil because God is
holy, Amen. There's no sin any no darkness,
any glory to God. But we also know this God has
body parts. In fact, Moses said, Lord, I
want to see your glory. He said, Son, no man can look
onto my face and live. He said this is what I'll do,
I'm gonna put you in the cleft of the rock.
That is a prophecy of the soon coming Christ.
He is the rock and we are in Christ, so he puts us in Him.
He said I'm gonna put you and put my hand on you as I pass by,
then I'll release my hand and you can look at my back parts.
Well, if he didn't have a body, you couldn't see his back, nor
could his finger show up in a King's castle one day and right
on the wall. Hallelujah.
No, he has a body. He has legs, arms, chest, a
head, eyes, nose, mouth, ears. God the Father.
He's not just a beam of light, although he's light.
And we know Jesus definitely has a body because he left and put
himself in a man's suit that is obviously glorified his flesh
and bone, and he will be in that forever.
But he's glorified that body, even though it's flesh and bone.
He can walk through walls. That's pretty amazing.
With that body, you can walk through things.
That's pretty amazing that I mean, that's one of the first
things I really want to do, right?
Because when we're changing the moment of the twinkling of an
eye, should we be the generation that's called up and somebody's
going to get called up? Why not us, right?
So let's just say we are, let's say the, the, the shout came
from heaven right now. And all of a sudden all of us
are changed in the moment, in the twinkling of an eye, we put
on our glorified body. Then the Lord catches it.
Guess what? He doesn't have to send a storm
and RIP the roof off. We can go straight through it.
Amen. Now, I don't think we'll
probably go through the roof. I think he was going to give us
time. If you look at Scripture to
actually talk to people on the planet and say don't take the
mark. I told you, you understand,
'cause he's leaving, no doubt with those individuals during
the wrath of God, period. OK, So we have to determine, as
the word resolute means we have to be marked by a firm
determination that we are going to take care of our entirety,
our entirety. So no longer do we accept that
the other parts of our nature are not important, that they're
all important and they are all important, Amen.
Now you're not going to get your soul realm right, nor your body
right to the capacity of it being complete unless you're
born again, Amen. Because plenty of people are
filling their minds and work it out and eaten right with their
bodies, but they still find themselves in with cancer.
I mean, you know how many times we've heard people say they were
in such great shape? How did this happen?
Well, the wages of sin is and a spirit man separated from God is
living in death and it attracts those things.
All right, OK. But the Lord says we need to do
something else. So we're going to be holy as he
told us to be. So back to First Thessalonians
523. Y'all doing all right?
It says. Now may the God of peace himself
sanctify you entirely. God is personally working on
you. So we can't take this.
Well, the Lord don't care about my body.
Oh, yes, he does. If he didn't care about your
body, then there'd be no reason for him to take all stripes on
his back. I mean, he could afford go the
the scourging. Yeah.
You know what, we're not going to do The scourging because you
know, Lord, where I'm in the garden.
Is there any other way? There's not another way.
Now listen, the scourging though, because really doesn't
matter. I mean, we going to give them a
glorified body anyway at the end of the day, right?
Well, all that really matters is I'm going to go to the cross,
I'm going to lay down my life. My blood's going to be shed for
them and I can bleed without being scourged, right?
So at the end of the day, all that really matters is that they
asked me to come into their heart and save them so that when
they die, they come to heaven. And whether they go out by
sickness and diseases and what, who cares?
See, it's amazing if we don't watch out is that things that
are given to us freely, if we do not understand the cost that
Jesus took to give to us freely, then we won't value what's
available to us, nor will we be in faith by it.
Because I mean, if you watch the Mel Gibson the passion movie and
watch him getting beat, which is one of the best examples Now, I,
I still think it pales to show it all, but it was better than
the little crown and these little couple, you know, read
things. I mean, skin and muscle is being
ripped out people of his body. I mean, he took on all of those
stripes, 39 stripes so that your body could be complete, not
glorified, but complete for the assignment he has for you and
the earth. Amen.
So sickness and disease should just make us mad because my, my
Jesus is sanctifying me. He has separated me from the
profane thing of cancer, leukemia.
I mean, we could just list all of the diseases because he wants
even my body to be complete. Now, that doesn't mean your body
is saved. You'll never save your body.
You're going to get a new one. No problem.
All right, so the word entirely means complete in all respects,
Amen. So you, we need to take time to
say, OK, 'cause this 2025, I know, you know, some of you may
have done New Year's resolution, some of you may have not, but
just resolved, Lord, no matter what part of me you're talking
about, in my spirit, my soul or my body, I'll obey because I
know you wanted all, all parts to be complete, all aspects.
OK, Preserve means this means to attend to carefully, to guard,
to watch over, to keep in a condition.
Well, that's good to keep in a condition.
You know, the Lord wants to keep you on perpetual health.
He wants to keep you with a sound mind.
Amen. Hallelujah.
He wants to keep your spirit from being contaminated 'cause
you can contaminate the spirit realm because of what you allow
through your soul. All right then, the word
complete means this. Complete in all its parts, in no
part wanting or unsound. Now I'm going to give you an
example. Obviously, we're going to be
minister on the church here starting Sunday, finding your
fit. Do you understand that for me to
be up here today, the entirety of my body is functioning.
It's functioning. And if there was a part that was
unsound, it could be creating me, creating such pain that it
could hinder me from actually being up here, right, Right.
Marissa, she had a surgery on your neck or shoulder, right?
Again, there was a challenge there.
The Lord spoke to her about surgery.
Obviously, she was standing on the word period.
And you understand, because she stood on that and did what she
needed to do. God, you know, supernaturally
brought her through this process where there's really wasn't even
any pain because she didn't take any pain medication.
However, there was still a mending.
And during the mending process, that area wasn't complete.
It's better that it's complete, right?
I mean, you don't want to walk around and swing the rest of
your life, now, could we? Sure you could.
You could walk around with a sling in your life.
In fact, most people can adapt to allow something that's not
sound on their body to still continue the course.
And I understand the whole grand scheme of things.
I get it. But if God says I want it all
complete, then we then in faith can say God wanted me complete.
He wants the body part of me complete.
So I'm going to know what God says about what He's done for my
body. I'll be in faith so that my
whole body can be sound. Glory to God can be sound.
All right, look at what it says again, we're just going to look
at the three different parts real quick.
Second Corinthians 517 says this concerning our spirit man.
Once we made Jesus Lord, he said, therefore, if anyone is in
Christ, he has a new creature. The old things passed away.
Behold, new things have come, which means our spirit man that
was dead separated from God because of sin.
And even though we may have been trying to get God to acknowledge
us, we kept falling flat on our face.
Again, Paul said I was doing the things I didn't even want to do,
and when I was trying not to do the things that were wrong, I
found myself doing them anyway. I was a wretched man, a Sinner,
wretched who's going to save me from this life of sin.
But thanks be to God, right? Because what I could not do
myself through my soul and body realm to try to jump start or
make my spirit alive to God, it didn't work.
It can't work. Only God can do that.
So Christ died for our sin, our transgression, everything that
was wrong in the realm of the Spirit.
And when we call on His name, that old spirit passed me, it's
evicted from this body and we get a new spirit, not a remodel,
but a brand new spirit that is in Christ and is alive to God
and can hear the Spirit of God that comes and dwells on the
inside of us and tells us, tells our spirit, you're a child of
God. That's why when you call on the
name of the Lord and you finish that with all your heart, you're
like, I know I'm born again. I know I'm a child of God.
I, you had have such an assurance that man, if I did
leave my body today, I'd be present with the Lord no
problem. I know that I don't.
It's not even faith anymore, it's reality.
I am born of God and I know it in my spirit.
I know it so. Verse 21 of this same chapter
says this. It says He made him who knew no
sin to be sin on our behalf so that we might become the
righteousness of God in him. How do you become the
righteousness of God in Him? You call on the name of the Lord
to be saved, and then you are made righteous.
Where? In the Spirit, but not in the
soul nor in your body. Those are two other aspects of
you that then God gives you the authority to change and effect.
Hallelujah. Now he's done the work, but your
faith does the change in those other two areas.
Are you understanding me? So Romans chapter 5, verse 17
says this. For if by the transgression of
one death reigned through the one, much more those who
received the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness
will reign where that's this life that's not heaven, that's
now you'll reign in life through the one Jesus Christ.
And here's where you'll reign. You'll reign in your spirit.
You can reign in your soul and you can reign in your body.
Now you can tell your body, no, you're not going to go after
that flesh. No, you're not.
Now you have within you the power to say, I'm no longer
going to listen to that thought. I'm going to insert another one
and it comes from the word of God.
Now I 'cause my spirit man has been made alive to God, my
spirit tells my soul, don't take that thought that didn't come
from Dad, that didn't come from heaven, that didn't come from
the throne room. That's not what the Father has
said saying about you or what he says about you or how you should
handle this. You take captive that thought.
Then say God takes captive the thought.
You take captive the thought and what do you do?
You take that thought. You bring the word to it and
say, does this line up with the word?
No, that isn't what God says. So you cast it down.
You say, I'll never think or dwell on you again.
I'll only think on what God say. Amen.
So when the thought comes, we'll look how they treated you.
They done you so wrong. Now you know they done your own.
You're like, yeah, I know they done me wrong.
But then the Lord says, yeah, but just forgive them.
Well, they're not asking for it. Doesn't matter if they're asking
you just go ahead and be in the position of forgiveness.
You do that. But what do people do?
They'll play the scenario through their mind.
How do you know you're free from those things when you can see
them and you're not playing it in your mind?
You take cap to the thought. That doesn't mean that
everything's restored, doesn't mean everything's perfect,
doesn't mean the relationship's been reconciled.
But you're in the posture that I'm holding on and I'm going to
do it God's way. God's going to do.
I'm going to do what God's told me to do.
There have been times when I've had situations in relationships
that the Lord said just go to them.
I remember 1 particular lady, I, it was a perceived offense, got
offended over something that didn't actually occur.
But again, at this point it's kind of like beyond trying to
explain. So the Lord said just ask her to
forgive you. He said I know you didn't do it,
but it's an issue. So I said, you know, whatever
was said, please forgive me. I did not mean it and I don't
even know what I'm really saying this about, but I'm saying it
because God told me to do that. So because I did it, they
forgave and the cancer came off their body.
Hallelujah, come on, say Hallelujah because they were no
longer holding an offense and I didn't have to prove I was
right. I just had to do what God said.
But now there's other times the Lord says give them what they
want. I've heard him say other times
he said just let it go and he gave me the picture of the
prodigal son leaving. He says you don't go after him.
Oh, you don't want to hear some of y'all need to push that 99
clip that's on Instagram around you know, he'll leave the 99 to
go to the one because the 99 is very powerful by themselves
because they've learned from the shepherd.
Amen. All right, but you understand
this. There are some that wander that
the shepherd doesn't go to the father didn't leave the house.
So what we do is we again, as a teacher, if you don't watch out,
you'll take one thought and then you'll think it's applicable
everywhere, but it's not always applicable everywhere that you
know. I'm not leaving 99 to go after
the one because in this case, you're leaving.
I'm giving you what you want. You can go and if this thing's
going to turn around, you're coming back here because the
father did not run him down in the towns, didn't keep tabs to
find out whether he had money or not.
Now, that doesn't mean that it didn't get back to the father.
I'm not saying that. I'm not saying that people
didn't come. Say, man, I saw your son with a
bunch of harlots, man. Well, and as much as he wants
him not to live that life, that was his choice.
But I'm still at my house and he can come home If he'll just want
to come home, if I can just have him, if he, if he just come
back, it's on him. Well, you know what, I, I saw
your son working for, you know, this particular farmer and, and
was feeding their pigs. Wow.
Well, he can come home 'cause in this case, it wasn't going
after, it was staying. Sometimes you can go after
someone that is not going to repent and all you do is
reinforce the hardness of the heart every time you show up and
try to help. But see, you got to be led by
the Spirit in that. Now in order to be led by the
Spirit, you also have to renew your mind because if you don't
get your mind right, then the emotions of your loved one doing
something wrong and you want to be their Savior, which you
cannot be, only Jesus can. You have to be able to hear, you
know what I'm talking about right now, right?
You know what I'm saying? You have to hear God because God
knows the best pathway to repentance.
Oh my goodness. So God desired for us to reign
in this life, and that is in every part of our body, our
being, should, I should say our being, our spirit, our soul, and
our body. We should reign in it all.
Amen. Now, if you're not raining in
one particular area, good news you can.
This is what's good news you can.
OK, We're all improving. We're all growing.
Now my spirit man is alive. I, I cannot improve on my spirit
because God did that, but because my spirit is alive and
I'm allowing my spirit to hear the Holy Spirit in me.
Now we can do something with our minds, our will, our emotions.
We can make sure it stays in line with the Spirit of God and
what God is saying in His Word. And then we can also grab hold
of our bodies and say, no, we're not doing that anymore.
And make certain choices that what you used to do, you don't
even do anymore because now you reign over your body and you
reign over your mind. You're not subject to them
anymore. You've decided to stay subject
to the Spirit. Glory to God.
OK, so in Romans chapter 12, verse one, one through 1 and 2,
it says this amplified classic. I appeal to you, therefore,
brethren, and beg you, in view of all the mercies of God, to
make a decisive dedication of your bodies, presenting all your
members and faculties as living sacrifice, wholly devoted,
consecrated and well pleasing to God, which is your reasonable,
rational, intelligent service and spiritual worship.
You should tell your body, no, you're going to church today
because your body tell you on Saturday night, man, don't get
up, don't you? It's Sunday morning.
I mean, while you're shaving. Well, your body said, why don't
you just get back into bed? You're saved.
You can get this online. Oh, I'm preaching verse 2.
Do not be conformed to this world, this age, fashioned after
and adapted to his external superficial customs, but be
transformed, changed by the entire renewal of your mind, by
its new ideal ideals and it's new attitudes.
So that you may prove for yourself what is a good,
acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is
good and acceptable and perfect in His sight for you.
So we have now been given the ability to reign over every area
of our life. This is what's so awesome.
When you become a resolute me, you're marked with
determination. You decide.
I have determined to have my whole body, my whole being,
spirit, soul and body to be blameless or or perfectly
complete sanctified entirely until Jesus comes.
Amen. Now we can do this.
I said we can do this. God has given us the power to do
this. Now it all starts with this
simple thing, forgiveness. Once we have received God's
forgiveness for our sin and make Him Lord, our spirit man comes
alive. Then once our spirit man comes
alive, the Holy Ghost comes and lives in US and becomes the
great teacher. And then at that point he says,
now we're going to work on your mind.
And he says, now in order for me to work on your mind, I need you
to tell your body stay awake while I read the word.
Are you hearing me? Because you understand you could
be sitting down on your couch or chair reading the word.
Because the word renews your mind.
It gets you to think like the king you are because you're no
longer a sorry Sinner saved by grace.
You're not that you were a Sinner.
You've been saved by grace through faith.
Now you are a believer. You're the child of a king.
You're royalty. And we haven't been trained to
think royal, to think in line with the Kingdom.
We haven't done that and we are not there yet because I'm going
to tell you right now it's easy to not.
I'm going to tell you why living a life as a believer to attain
to 1st Thessalonians 523 takes determination.
It takes determination, but yet God's empowered us to be
resolute. I will be everything God has
said I am. He says I'm healed.
I will be healed. He says I have a sound mind.
I will have a sound mind. I will have the mind of Christ.
I'm going to have that because here's the thing, in order for
this to occur, you have to do something intentional, resolute
every day is called crucify the flesh.
You have to crucify the flesh. Now notice they use the term
crucify. Crucify is a violent term, which
means it's not normal or casual. In essence, once you made Jesus
the Lord of your life, you're not just falling into something.
You're intentional to make sure those two areas of your being,
the soul and the body, stay in subjection.
And you do it by crucifying the flesh.
You've heard us say this for years, that we are not a flesh
friendly church. OK, That means that if you want
to live according to your flesh or carnally, you're going to
feel a little more challenged here because you're surrounded
by people who crucify that daily.
Daily they don't let themselves get over into Molly grubs and if
they get over there, they get out as quick as they can nor
they don't get offended when someone says you're into Molly
grubs. You know what you're right.
I need to get out instead of who you talking to?
Because here's the thing I've seen it happen.
People come up underneath the environment of individuals
within the body that are joining and fended together says we have
determined we are resolute we will crucify the flesh daily.
We're going to live spiritual being lives and we're going to
be intentional and you understand you have to have no
intention to live by the flesh don't even have to work at it.
The Bible says that in in Galatians 5/17 that our spirit
and our flesh by battle day. Have you noticed the more you
know about God that if you just break away for a few weeks from
church and the word how all of a sudden your attitude will start
sounding and acting like somebody that has been dead a
long time. Now, here's the thing, when you
are every day under pressure, oh, I could preach, man and I
need to stop. We tell our Washington parents,
listen, we're helping your child cultivate the difference between
acting fleshly and spiritual. The public school system is not
doing that for your students. So you think your child's always
in trouble. They're not.
But they are everyday dealing with their flesh of which we are
helping to navigate them to make spiritual choices.
So when they come home and cry, 'cause it's hard, 'cause again,
you could go to a number of churches that have no
requirement of spiritual growth and let you live carnally.
You can do it. And you know what?
Living carnal is so easy. It takes no effort.
We just act like the world and then say we're saved.
I mean, it's the easiest thing to do.
You can fall off fast, but you got to be resolute to say
nobody. You don't tell me what to do
anymore. No, Sir, you do not control me.
Every man in this room can be at the beach and see a lady with
more cotton in the top of an aspirin bottle than is on their
skin. Did you get that right?
And it doesn't take long for you to figure out.
OK, that's the lady. Maybe I understand, I understand
it. There can be some debate today.
However, the remodel of the outside or by birth, whatever,
or you know, the modifications, a lot of modifications are going
on. And have you noticed that they
all have the same plastic surgeon?
Because they all tend to basically look the same at the
end of the day anyway. I've seen those lips on 100
women. Right.
OK, with that being said, you now have the ability to either
stare while holding your wife's hand.
What you're looking at nothing. Or you can be like, not going to
look there again. Father, I just think that you've
given me a wife that's better than silver and gold.
Hallelujah. 'Cause it's easy to slip into
watching, it's easy to slip into drinking, it's easy to slip into
smoking, it's easy to slip into a cussing.
When I say slip, I'm just saying, you know, I'm not going
to crucify myself. It's easy to go there, you know.
And here's the thing, when you've been crucifying your
flesh for as long as you have, and then you get this idea.
I'm just tired. How come it seemed like
everybody else is? We don't live our life based
upon what others are, what it seems like they're getting away
with. Because when you sow to the
flesh, you'll reap of the flesh. So I don't care that, you know,
a bunch of believers that say they love God, sing songs,
dance, but they do everything that the world does and it seems
like they're getting further ahead.
God is not mocked. Whatever a person sows, they're
going to reap. And you may not be around them
long enough to see the fruit of what they've been so into.
But man, when you've been crucifying the flesh and you're
like, I'm going to take, it's going to feel good the other
side, 'cause the flesh has a pleasure to it.
This is why Hebrews has said that Moses chose and he wasn't
even born again. This is the power of your mind
chose to suffer with the Hebrews instead of enjoying the
pleasures of sin that came if he would have stayed a Prince of
Egypt. He can't.
He said you know what, I'm just going to put it down.
And he did it through his soul and body realm without being
born again. Now that didn't make him
righteous with God. He needed the blood of Jesus
just like we all did. However, now we are in a new and
better covenant. Our spirit man is alive to God.
We are with less excuse to not crucify the flesh and not live
according to the flesh. If you're a child of God, you
are to be led by the by the Spirit and the Spirit is never
saying it's OK for you to be fleshly.
That's why God's grace is there. No, God's grace on you after
you've become born again will now empower you to resist the
flesh you can put on Christ. But you got to be resolute.
But if you don't watch out. You'll treat your relationship
with God like you do a New Year's resolution.
You'll do it for a season, and then you'll back off.
And yeah, you're still breathing.
Yeah, God still loves you. I get it.
I understand that. But is he pleased?
Because without faith, it's impossible to please God.
And you're not going to please God through carnality.
He's going to ultimately say, let's clean up your mind.
You, let's come on, submit yourself, train yourself, become
a disciple, study to show yourself approved.
Let's get this mind cleaned up. I got some awesome things I want
to show you and you can do it. Because again, if you're not,
it's not God's fault and it's definitely not the devil.
Humanity never had a devil problem or a Satan problem.
The only problem in the earth today is rebellious man.
That's the problem. Because man has always had the
power, even before being born again, man had the power to
follow God based upon what he had revealed.
Amen. So let's decide today with this
last scripture, First Corinthians chapter 15, because
again, at the end of the day, our spirit man has been raised
righteous. Now we are alive unto God.
We are children of the Kingdom. We've been transferred out of
the domain of darkness or the Kingdom of darkness, and we are
in the Kingdom of His beloved Son.
Our mind now is renewed as we wash it with the Word.
We study, we come to church, we submit ourselves to all that God
wants to teach and train us, and we take His thoughts.
We think on those things, we think on those things.
We think on those things, we think on those things, we take
captive of everything that doesn't line up with Scripture.
And then ultimately the Bible says for this perishable meaning
the body must put on the imperishable and the mortal must
put on immortality. But when the perishable will
have put on imperishable and this mortal will have put on
immortality, then it will come about the same that is written.
Death is swallowed up in victory.
So in the beginning of the book, let us make man in our image
according to our likeness. Let his Spirit be of my nature.
Let his mind be like my mind. Let his body be eternal like I
am. And now, Adam, don't eat the
fruit, because if you do, you're going to mess up your being.
But he did. But God, being rich in mercy and
because of his mandate for man to have dominion, has to send a
son, Jesus. Jesus has to come so that he can
be a man, because he gave the earth to man, gave man dominion,
so a man must take it back. And so Jesus comes as a man
anointed of the Holy Ghost, who kept his spirit, his soul and
his body free from contaminants until the day he went to the
cross. And that day he took everything
on. Physical, mental, emotional.
He took it all on. He took it all on.
He took every broken place in your mind, every emotional scar,
every tragedy you've ever gone through and you could replay in
your. He took it all on.
Then he took on your sin. He became sin.
Rick Rayner talks about how because he put on sin, in the
sin of all humanity, anyone whoever has lived and all who
were going to live, he brought it on himself, said that they
couldn't even recognize he's a man because the sin distorted
him so bad he didn't even look like a human anymore.
That's why we've not seen what happened on the cross.
And he did this so that he could sanctify you entirely, not just
your spirit, but your mind, will, emotions, and your body.
Hallelujah.