1 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:13,160 I want to talk about the importance of words. 2 00:00:13,920 --> 00:00:16,880 Words are actually the most valuable, important commodity, 3 00:00:17,080 --> 00:00:19,400 not just in the Earth, but in the whole universe. 4 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:24,960 Words. That's why I don't I don't 5 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:27,960 believe that it's by accident that the Holy Spirit who 6 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:32,159 breathed on men and inspired the scripture and breathed on Ezra 7 00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:34,920 to canonize the Old Testament put the book of beginnings, 8 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:38,120 Genesis 1st and Genesis chapter one first. 9 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:42,680 We just read Genesis 126, but it starts out and God was in the 10 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:44,760 beginning. But the first thing we find out 11 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:49,760 about him is that one, he's a creator and two, he talks, so he 12 00:00:49,760 --> 00:00:54,280 says, then God said the first thing we find out about God is 13 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:59,760 he's a creator that speaks. And from that moment in the 14 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:03,520 history that we have of our beginnings, God continues that 15 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:07,440 theme of speaking and placing immense value on words. 16 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:11,840 Words are what shape our beliefs, our worldview. 17 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:14,480 They're actually what shape our circumstance when we're in the 18 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:17,400 middle of it. Think about it. 19 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:20,200 Your experience doesn't trump words because we can all 20 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:23,400 experience the same thing, but the words that are spoken in our 21 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:26,800 hearts and spoken to us in that experience will actually be what 22 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:28,920 shaped the result of the experience. 23 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:32,080 I couldn't help but thinking to my kids, you know what? 24 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:34,160 Has anybody in here that's raised young children has? 25 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:36,320 Have you ever had a kid that had to scrape their knee? 26 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:40,160 You realize all of us have done it. 27 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:42,840 We've all, we've all scraped our knee at some point in our life. 28 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:44,000 We've all had a child scrape the knee. 29 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:46,840 And you realize it's not the experience of scraping the knee 30 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:49,080 that will shape their memory of that. 31 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:51,920 It's going to be the words spoken over them when that 32 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:54,080 happens. Because you know, when whenever 33 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:57,120 one of my kids goes and scrapes the knee, I could go, oh, no, oh 34 00:01:57,120 --> 00:02:00,000 God, what are we going to do? Oh, well, this is so bad. 35 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:01,240 It's so bad. What can we do? 36 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:02,360 And there's some parents that do that. 37 00:02:02,360 --> 00:02:03,960 I've seen some Mamas. You're like, chill. 38 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:08,639 It's just a scraped knee. It's a little bit of blood, but 39 00:02:08,639 --> 00:02:13,040 there's some parents that say what my brother over here say, 40 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:18,360 hey, you're OK, get up. Same experience, two different 41 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:24,920 responses with words, and those words shape the outcome of that 42 00:02:24,920 --> 00:02:27,040 situation. Is there stress undue in the 43 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:29,040 life of this child because they're wondering, am I going to 44 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:33,000 be OK or do they have the confidence hearing the voice of 45 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:35,720 their parents saying you'll be all right, whatever this is, 46 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:38,560 you're going to be OK. Those words spoken over that 47 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:44,440 circumstance change the outcome internally saying I grew up and 48 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:46,160 that's what I heard. You going to be all right. 49 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:49,360 Remember one time I, you know, I don't know if this is not going 50 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:52,480 to be sent to the federal government, but I, I cut my 51 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:55,160 finger almost all the way off, jumping on the bed with my 52 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:56,560 brother. We're bouncing back and forth 53 00:02:56,840 --> 00:02:58,640 and I hit, I had a flashlight in my hand. 54 00:02:58,640 --> 00:03:00,600 I broke the glass Dome on the ceiling fan. 55 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:03,280 And I remember my dad told my brother, hey, go get a popsicle. 56 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:06,760 He goes there and in one bite, bam, eats that popsicle, snaps 57 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:09,440 it in half and puts 2 butterfly bandages on it and puts the 58 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:10,800 popsicle and wraps it up in tape. 59 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:13,320 And that's as close as I ever got to the hospital with an 60 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:14,560 injury. That's it. 61 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:16,960 I remember it. He's like, it's called a splint, 62 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:19,840 son. I was like, OK, it's orange. 63 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:23,040 It smells like orange. I don't know. 64 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:26,760 But in that moment there was no stress. 65 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:30,680 There was no breathing weird. It was it was the the words that 66 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:32,840 were spoken in their calm to that situation. 67 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:37,160 Any situation you deal with, what parent are you going to 68 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:39,200 listen to in the midst of that situation? 69 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:41,160 Are you going to let the world parent you? 70 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:42,680 Are you going to let politics parent you? 71 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:45,000 Are you going to go to your heavenly Father and say, what do 72 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:46,680 you have to say over me here right now? 73 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:51,000 Words matter. So, you know, words matter. 74 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:55,800 Whenever you all sudden you get a sore throat, you can go to 75 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:58,520 somebody that's anointed in the medical field like Miss Karen. 76 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:00,160 You can go and say, hey, I got a sore throat. 77 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:02,400 And she's probably going to say, listen, just pray over it. 78 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:03,920 Drink you some hot tea. You'll be OK. 79 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:08,200 And that gives you hope. But if you go to Web MD, you're 80 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:11,880 going to find some words. Could be throat cancer, probably 81 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:15,920 going to die and we can laugh. This is funny. 82 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:18,600 But you know, there's people that have real turmoil right 83 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:21,160 here because of that. There's people that read those 84 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:23,840 words and those words get stuck in there and they can't get rid 85 00:04:23,840 --> 00:04:24,880 of them. And all the sudden they're 86 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:28,440 laying in bed at night wondering just feel swollen off. 87 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:30,360 It's a tumor. And they're, they're running 88 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:32,480 through a scenario in their minds because they've heard 89 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:40,960 words, because words matter so much that God says, listen, hear 90 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:44,160 my voice so much that Jesus when he was here, he said, I don't 91 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:46,840 even just speak and whatever I want to say, I'm careful to only 92 00:04:46,840 --> 00:04:52,080 speak what my father tells me. In fact, there's only one thing 93 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:53,440 we know. We all sing about the name of 94 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:55,400 Jesus. We know Jesus's name is above 95 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:58,320 every other name, but there's one thing God honors above his 96 00:04:58,320 --> 00:04:59,400 name. What is it? 97 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:04,720 His words, what he has spoken, what he has said. 98 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:06,480 Why is this? Because in a Kingdom, when we 99 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:11,080 read Genesis 126, God's original design was dominion on the 100 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:14,800 earth, that man would dominate and rule this Kingdom here on 101 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:16,680 earth, just like God rules in heaven. 102 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:22,800 And when a king speaks something, it becomes law and it 103 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:26,680 becomes definite in its territory and unchangeable. 104 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:32,720 So think about it. God says let us make man in our 105 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:36,440 image according to our likeness and let them rule. 106 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:41,600 But the first thing we learn about God every day of creation 107 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:47,040 before he says this statement is that God says let there be, and 108 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:53,840 then what happens? Then there is God says let there 109 00:05:53,840 --> 00:05:58,360 be and then it happens. Then when we get to Genesis 126, 110 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:01,680 he says, and we've not listened. We've not exhausted the depth of 111 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:04,880 the first page of the Bible. OK, Whenever we come in together 112 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:06,600 and we hear this and we're like, oh, turn to Genesis 1. 113 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:08,200 Everybody's like, Oh my God, what are we going to talk about? 114 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:09,840 Creation dominion? We're going to talk. 115 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:13,560 We've not exhausted the depths because when God said let us 116 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:22,360 make man in our image, in our likeness, he meant let us make 117 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:30,120 man operate like we do. So from the very start we find 118 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:37,120 God is a speaking spirit and creates man to be the same. 119 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:43,040 From the very start we see God is high King of heaven. 120 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:47,400 He rules in the heavens. Again in Anchor Faith Church we 121 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:49,800 read Psalm 1/15/16. The highest heavens are the 122 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:53,400 Lords, but the earth he has given to man. 123 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:56,880 So as God rules heaven, man was meant to dominate and rule 124 00:06:56,880 --> 00:07:00,240 earth. The as God rules heaven, man was 125 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:03,600 meant to rule and dominate earth as God rules heaven. 126 00:07:04,280 --> 00:07:07,640 The way God rules the way God operates. 127 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:09,840 We were designed to operate that way. 128 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:16,240 How does he operate? By honoring the Word and by 129 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:19,840 speaking and creating through words. 130 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:24,480 So James gives us some insight into this and this will be the 131 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:27,880 key text that we use throughout the rest of this this month. 132 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:31,120 But if we look at James chapter 3, verse 4, because again, God 133 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:35,080 has set us on this epic quest, this voyage to a destination. 134 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:36,880 He knows the whole plane. He didn't give you the whole 135 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:40,040 map, but I promise you, he gave you a bunch of waypoints to try 136 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:44,840 to find your path to the end. Then what he also did was he set 137 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:46,640 you to be the pilot of your own ship. 138 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:49,560 But if we look at what James says, he gives us some insight 139 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:51,120 into our words and the value of words. 140 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:54,680 He says look at ships also, though, as they are so great and 141 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:58,680 are driven by strong winds, they are still directed by a very 142 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:02,400 small rudder wherever the inclination of the pilot 143 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:08,240 desires. So also the tongue is a small 144 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:11,200 part of the body and yet it boasts of great things. 145 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:15,840 Has anybody ever been on a ship before, A sailboat or a ship? 146 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:16,800 Have you ever been on one of those? 147 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:18,920 I know here at Anchor Faith Church, for the sake of those 148 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:20,920 who are listening to the recording, we are a coastal town 149 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:23,360 and we have multiple ship captains that come to our 150 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:24,320 church. So they're going to be back 151 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:25,760 there aiming at the loudest, I hope. 152 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:29,360 But whenever a ship gets on the water, you understand, it can 153 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:33,159 have wind, it can have a great headwind, it can have the the 154 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:34,919 current flowing in the right direction. 155 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:39,320 But what determines the absolute direction of that boat is the 156 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:44,440 rudder that's in the water. That compass does not determine 157 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:48,080 the direction. The compass that a captain holds 158 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:50,440 or a pilot holds only tells it where it should go. 159 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:54,280 The wind doesn't determine the direction. 160 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:58,240 The current doesn't determine the direction. 161 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:01,920 Those things can either help or hinder the journey, but in the 162 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:06,440 end, that final destination hinges on the pilot steering the 163 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:11,200 rudder in the right direction. So why would we have believers 164 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:13,120 that say, oh, I'm trying to do what God wants? 165 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:16,440 But it seems like they're always finding themselves washed up on 166 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:19,920 foreign shores. They're washing themselves up on 167 00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:22,320 the shores of addiction. How'd you get here? 168 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:24,880 That's that's not where the king sent you. 169 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:28,360 That's not where you were supposed to steer. 170 00:09:29,240 --> 00:09:31,640 They show up on the shores of heartbreaking relationships, 171 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:33,200 going from person to person to person. 172 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:35,640 That is not who God intended. How did you get there? 173 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:40,240 That's because God can set you on the journey, but he doesn't 174 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:42,240 say, hey, just jump on my boat with me. 175 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:44,760 He says I've given you everything you need to steer 176 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:49,520 yourself in the right direction. But I found the problem is a lot 177 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:53,400 of people shipwreck their life because they don't know how to 178 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:58,720 control their mouth. If a king was designed to decree 179 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:01,680 something and it become law and it become visible because they 180 00:10:01,680 --> 00:10:04,920 create with their words. Oh my gosh, what have you 181 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:13,160 created with your words lately? The tongue is a small thing, but 182 00:10:13,160 --> 00:10:14,880 it steers the direction of your life. 183 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:21,040 I'm telling you that that as the pilot or the captain, you can 184 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:24,440 you can steer in the direction, but the rudder itself is what's 185 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:26,360 going to carry you to your destination. 186 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:32,400 If you're writing things down, which I, I highly encourage you 187 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:34,920 to write things down tonight. Listen, I'm sorry I didn't have 188 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:37,280 you stretch before, but you know, you can take a second and 189 00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:42,560 go like this because we're it's only getting faster, but our 190 00:10:42,560 --> 00:10:45,400 lives move in the direction of our mouth. 191 00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:49,440 Think about it. You're like, OK, well, you know 192 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:55,280 what about salvation? You can't be born again unless 193 00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:59,440 your mouth gets involved. You didn't come into this 194 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:01,480 Kingdom without opening your mouth. 195 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:05,640 Romans 10/9 and 10 says how to be born again. 196 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:09,520 It says, listen, if you confess with your mouth and believe in 197 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:11,520 your heart, it doesn't say just believe. 198 00:11:13,680 --> 00:11:17,000 In fact, you'll find that belief will result in confession. 199 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:20,800 Belief always results in confession. 200 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:25,680 You will say what you believe if you don't think words are 201 00:11:25,680 --> 00:11:31,640 important. Let's look at let's look at John 202 00:11:31,640 --> 00:11:34,400 chapter one, verse one. Let me give you, Let me, let me, 203 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:37,640 let me give us a few more to set the stage for how important your 204 00:11:37,640 --> 00:11:38,960 words are. Because what I want you to do is 205 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:40,880 leave here. And the next time you just go to 206 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:43,680 say whatever comes to your mind, I want you to check it. 207 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:50,360 I want you to say, am I honoring God? 208 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:55,400 Am I honoring my dominion? John 11 says in the beginning 209 00:11:55,400 --> 00:12:01,520 was the what the Word? In the beginning was the Word 210 00:12:01,680 --> 00:12:05,160 and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 211 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:07,960 Then verse 14 of the same passage says the Word became 212 00:12:08,040 --> 00:12:12,320 flesh and dwelt among us. Jesus Christ is identified as 213 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:17,040 the Word becoming flesh. Is Jesus powerful? 214 00:12:19,160 --> 00:12:22,520 Does God never fail? We just sang the song. 215 00:12:22,520 --> 00:12:24,000 Oh my gosh. I figured somebody be like, 216 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,320 yeah, God never fails. He's never failed ever. 217 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:27,760 He's never gone into a battle and lost. 218 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:30,200 He's never showed up in a situation and his word fell 219 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:32,760 apart. No, every time God shows up, he 220 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:34,800 he succeeds. He's victorious. 221 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:35,720 He conquers. Why? 222 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:38,520 Because the word of God is what he is. 223 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:42,280 The word in your situation is what causes you to overcome and 224 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:45,840 conquer. OK, it'll get better. 225 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:51,360 Psalm 33 six. Psalm 33, six says, by the word 226 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:54,560 of the Lord the heavens were made, and by the breath of his 227 00:12:54,560 --> 00:12:59,560 mouth all of their lights, by the word of the Lord the heavens 228 00:12:59,560 --> 00:13:01,880 were made, and by the breath of his mouth you understand God 229 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:06,640 breathed into Adam in the beginning, in that thing He 230 00:13:06,640 --> 00:13:10,640 formed man out of the dust of the earth, and then he breathed 231 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:13,680 his life into Adam. And whenever he commissioned 232 00:13:13,680 --> 00:13:17,600 Adam to go forth and be multiplied, be fruitful, He also 233 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:19,360 gave him a mandate of what to speak. 234 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:24,040 In fact, the first thing that God did with Adam is he spoke to 235 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:28,680 him words. And then we find the enemies in 236 00:13:28,680 --> 00:13:31,120 the garden walking around looking to looking for somebody 237 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:33,000 to usurp their throne. Since he already couldn't do 238 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:37,560 that in heaven, which we see in Isaiah 14, he tried to usurp the 239 00:13:37,560 --> 00:13:39,640 throne in heaven. He got kicked down real fast. 240 00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:44,120 Then he's looking around in the garden and he's like, man, these 241 00:13:44,120 --> 00:13:48,400 people operate like God. I recognize a speaking spirit 242 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:52,160 when I see it. So when he shows up in Genesis 243 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:56,000 chapter 2, notice that the serpent didn't attack the woman, 244 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:06,040 he attacked the Word. The first massive failure of 245 00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:12,800 humankind was a battle of words. It was an allegiance. 246 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:17,880 To whose words do you believe the first thing he asks? 247 00:14:17,880 --> 00:14:21,000 He says, hey, what did God say? That's a trap. 248 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:27,080 That's a trap. What did God say? 249 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:28,600 Why? Because the enemy went for the 250 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:31,520 most powerful thing. He his first attack, his most 251 00:14:31,520 --> 00:14:34,200 potent attack, had to be on the most powerful entity in the 252 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:37,160 world, in the universe, which is the words of God. 253 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:39,600 So he goes, what did God say? Then he was like, oh, here's 254 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:41,280 what God said. Then what is his very next 255 00:14:41,280 --> 00:14:44,280 statement? Listen, she said, yeah, we'll if 256 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:45,920 we eat of the fruit or touch the tree, we'll die. 257 00:14:45,920 --> 00:14:48,080 And he said you surely won't die. 258 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:54,720 The only attack that he had was to come in and say the powerful 259 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:58,520 word of God is incorrect, don't trust it. 260 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:08,680 Twisted it from there. She believed his words operated 261 00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:12,680 on and and and applied those words and in doing so forfeited. 262 00:15:12,680 --> 00:15:16,640 Dominion. Forfeited or dominion. 263 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:29,280 Wow. Know this, the heaven and earth 264 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:37,240 both respond to verbal command and your dominion is dependent 265 00:15:37,280 --> 00:15:43,320 on your dialogue. Adam was born to rule but lost 266 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:45,120 that rulership. Is God good? 267 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:46,680 Yes. Did God want him to rule? 268 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:48,560 Yes. Then why didn't he keep it? 269 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:52,960 Because God gave him the free will and the choice to choose 270 00:15:53,120 --> 00:15:55,920 whose words will use. Not only believe, but whose 271 00:15:55,920 --> 00:15:58,240 words will you obey and whose words will you speak? 272 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:01,800 And I'll tell you, this is going to be the pattern for us for the 273 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:04,160 rest of our lives. I'm going to say it again. 274 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:08,240 Whose words will you believe? Whose words will you obey and 275 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:11,720 whose words will you speak? That will determine the type of 276 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:15,760 person that you are. That will determine whether or 277 00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:18,560 not you find this God-given purpose that He gave you in this 278 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:20,240 earth. That'll determine whether or not 279 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:22,720 you find your destiny and begin to operate in it. 280 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:30,800 Whose words do you believe? Whose words do you obey, and 281 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:41,200 whose words do you speak? When a king speaks, it becomes 282 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:43,600 law. God has this universal thing, 283 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:50,200 and this goes for all mankind, that what you say is what you'll 284 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:53,160 have. It's not just for believers. 285 00:16:53,160 --> 00:16:56,320 This is what we would call an eternal law, just like sowing 286 00:16:56,320 --> 00:17:00,080 and reaping. Just like sowing and reaping, 287 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:02,960 there's an eternal law that happens whatsoever a man sows 288 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:05,640 that shall he also reap. But we also understand whatever 289 00:17:05,640 --> 00:17:10,319 you say as a speaking spirit created by God to be an entity 290 00:17:10,319 --> 00:17:16,960 on planet Earth that says and then has what they say that 291 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:21,560 doesn't go away. That's why if words again, if 292 00:17:21,560 --> 00:17:24,319 words aren't important, why does it say at the very end when he 293 00:17:24,319 --> 00:17:26,920 gathers us all together after the after the catching away, 294 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:30,040 after all these things take place, He says he will, we will 295 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:33,760 give an account for every idle word we've spoken. 296 00:17:36,760 --> 00:17:38,760 That's not just meaning like, oh, he's going to have a whole 297 00:17:38,760 --> 00:17:40,040 list of all the cuss words you said. 298 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:47,320 Idle words are declarations that you made that you didn't honor, 299 00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:53,920 declarations that you made that affected people's lives in your 300 00:17:53,920 --> 00:18:00,520 influence that weren't his. It matters. 301 00:18:03,360 --> 00:18:05,080 What comes out of our mouth matters. 302 00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:13,200 Since we were made to be speaking spirits, I want to kind 303 00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:15,080 of like give some insight into this. 304 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:18,040 I had done some studies several years back and read this book. 305 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:20,960 It was a secular book, but it was a scientific book talking 306 00:18:20,960 --> 00:18:24,840 about the origin of species. And I know that specific phrase 307 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:27,240 there, you know, people that owns a place in people's minds. 308 00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:30,040 But whenever they looked across and begin to study in the mid 309 00:18:30,040 --> 00:18:33,920 1800s other the animal Kingdom and, and how it correlates with 310 00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:38,280 mankind, they found that there's something that distinguishes us 311 00:18:38,280 --> 00:18:41,560 from the animal Kingdom. And it's not poseable thumbs. 312 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:43,960 Because if you've ever had one of those little black and white, 313 00:18:44,120 --> 00:18:50,160 you know, trash pandas, they can open lids, you can put, you can 314 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:51,720 put weights on top of your trash cans. 315 00:18:51,720 --> 00:18:53,640 They'll figure out how to do it because they also have poseable 316 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:55,160 thumbs. We also know in the primate 317 00:18:55,160 --> 00:18:57,320 world, they're in there, they got poseable, they got 4 318 00:18:57,320 --> 00:18:58,600 poseable thumbs. How'd that happen? 319 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:02,800 You know, I can't, I've got, I can't peel a banana with my 320 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:06,080 feet. So that's not what distinguishes 321 00:19:06,120 --> 00:19:07,480 either. No, when they went through and 322 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:09,960 searched the entire animal Kingdom scientifically, they 323 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:13,640 found the distinguishing factor of human beings from the animal 324 00:19:13,640 --> 00:19:17,880 Kingdom is actually speech. That there's actually only, I 325 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:19,560 believe it's a handful. I'm not going to give a direct 326 00:19:19,560 --> 00:19:23,320 number, but it's like a handful of primate species that have a 327 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:25,720 language amongst themselves where they can make a noise. 328 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:28,240 And that noise means snake, or that noise means danger, or that 329 00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:30,920 noise means food, or they have a certain call that means like 330 00:19:31,040 --> 00:19:34,240 they're calling a mate. But even in the midst of their 331 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:36,840 primitive layer of speech, they've never figured out how to 332 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:38,320 write it down for the next generation. 333 00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:48,000 So we didn't evolve in speech. If in the very beginning it says 334 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:56,240 in the beginning God created, then it says and God said speech 335 00:19:56,240 --> 00:20:00,920 was in the beginning that didn't come because of haphazardly a 336 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:04,120 bunch of cells started forming and and going to no speech was 337 00:20:04,120 --> 00:20:06,760 there with the first man Adam that we have recorded in our 338 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:10,480 beginnings that Adam God says to Adam gives him words and you 339 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:16,160 know what Adam did understood language God established in the 340 00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:18,400 very beginning because he knew it would be the most potent 341 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:20,360 thing that would last for all of eternity. 342 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:23,480 See, he says. Listen, heaven and earth will 343 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:30,280 pass away, but what stays? He said my words will remain how 344 00:20:30,280 --> 00:20:31,840 long? Forever. 345 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:35,640 The word always lasts. So no, when you speak something, 346 00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:38,120 it lasts. There's a lasting effect. 347 00:20:38,120 --> 00:20:39,120 We know. We've heard the statements 348 00:20:39,120 --> 00:20:40,840 before, like sticks and stones break my bones. 349 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:44,840 Listen, we, we. I've counseled many a person 350 00:20:45,120 --> 00:20:47,600 that sticks and stones have absolutely wrecked their lives. 351 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:52,720 I've talked with many a middle-aged man that still is 352 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:55,360 recalling and remembering things his parents said to him when he 353 00:20:55,360 --> 00:20:59,760 was a child. You don't think words matter? 354 00:20:59,760 --> 00:21:02,080 OK, If if one of my kids came up here and they were standing on 355 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:04,400 the stage with me and they they tripped and fell, if I was like, 356 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:06,480 hey, that's OK, listen, walk with me. 357 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:07,800 You'll be all right. You'd be like, wow, what a good 358 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:09,200 dad. But if they tripped and fell and 359 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:11,440 I was like, hey, loser, get up, idiot. 360 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:13,080 God, I wish you weren't up here on the stage. 361 00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:19,320 Do my words matter? Do you think they'll remember 362 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:24,760 that yet? How often do we flippantly speak 363 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:30,400 what's on our minds? Because what you can't do is say 364 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:31,880 something, then I'll bring it back. 365 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:39,000 What you say matters. It plants seeds in people's 366 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:40,440 hearts, in their minds and their ears. 367 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:42,600 When Jesus spoke, he said, I don't speak anything on my own 368 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:44,600 initiative. I just say what the Father says. 369 00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:46,840 Then we got Christians running around going, oh, I just speak 370 00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:48,280 my mind. I just say whatever comes to my 371 00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:51,960 mind, and that's my personality. Danger, danger, danger. 372 00:21:55,120 --> 00:21:57,240 And you're shipwrecked over here and we're trying to help bail 373 00:21:57,240 --> 00:22:00,320 you out. Oh, it's just my personality. 374 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:03,000 I don't have a filter. Find one quick. 375 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:08,600 James tells us. Listen, the the tongue is a 376 00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:11,000 small thing, but it determines your direction. 377 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:12,280 So if you can't control your tongue. 378 00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:16,000 He also says the person who perfects their mouth is a 379 00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:19,320 perfect person. There's no perfect people. 380 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:22,720 Well, that statement proves it. You're not one. 381 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:28,640 No perfection means maturity or somebody that has their life has 382 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:33,000 come together and become whole, mature, developed. 383 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:37,320 You cannot be a mature believer and be a believer that just says 384 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:40,480 whatever you want to say. Mature believers know what the 385 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:43,280 word says and they echo God's words in this planet. 386 00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:47,280 Pastor Chase ministered a message, I think it was a couple 387 00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:48,720 years ago. It's called the empty echo of a 388 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:52,320 quiet king, powerful. It's also the longest sermon 389 00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:56,680 title that he's ever had. But in that you realize as kings 390 00:22:56,680 --> 00:23:00,400 we were destined to give voice, and our voice would echo into 391 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:04,280 eternity and make waves and change and move things because 392 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:06,760 we said it. It's not arrogance, it's not 393 00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:09,280 pride, it's understanding. That's how God established the 394 00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:12,280 world to work. When you speak, creation stops 395 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:18,160 and says, yes, Sir, what is it? Yeah, we get loose in our in our 396 00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:20,080 conversations. We get loose with our friends. 397 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:22,880 We get loose in what we're saying and start to begin to sow 398 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:25,680 out there stuff that we don't want to reap a harvest of later 399 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:27,360 and then wonder why we're frustrated. 400 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:35,920 For us to be made in God's image means, which includes 401 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:41,240 communication. They say, well, you know, I'll 402 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:42,280 just let other people speak for them. 403 00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:43,960 Oh, I've got a unspoken prayer request. 404 00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:46,440 I don't want to speak. No, get Don't let the enemy 405 00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:50,720 quelch the most powerful weapon in your arsenal, which is your 406 00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:55,120 mouth. When a circumstance hits you, 407 00:23:55,120 --> 00:23:56,920 you'd understand everything screaming at you. 408 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:02,440 Why would we stand silently and let the doctors tell us 409 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:04,000 everything that they they want to say? 410 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,680 And yet we don't get to let the Kingdom declare something over 411 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:09,640 our situation. Why would we let financial 412 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:12,160 advisors come in and tell us how much we don't have or how much 413 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:15,120 we're going to owe or how much we're going to have to file for, 414 00:24:15,120 --> 00:24:17,600 and then all the sudden we don't let the Kingdom get something on 415 00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:23,680 it with some declaration? If anybody's ever been on a 416 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:25,680 boat, and you know how that rudder works, you realize just 417 00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:32,400 one degree, just one degree adjustment changes the entire 418 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:37,400 destination. If anybody's ever driven a car, 419 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:42,840 has anybody ever driven a car? Have you ever gotten in your car 420 00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:46,920 and turned it on and set back with the wheel and just let it 421 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:48,320 take you wherever it's going to take you? 422 00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:51,360 Yeah. And all the Tesla owners are 423 00:24:51,360 --> 00:24:56,960 like, yeah, sure not listen, No, when you're steering even in a 424 00:24:56,960 --> 00:25:01,280 straight direction on US1 or a straight direction on 95, you're 425 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:04,360 making small adjustments the whole time to make sure you stay 426 00:25:04,360 --> 00:25:09,080 on that right path. Yet whenever James compares our 427 00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:11,960 mouth and our confession in the words we say to a rudder of a 428 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:14,840 ship, you understand even more. So how many small, fine 429 00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:16,880 adjustments should you be making sure you're making the whole 430 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:19,160 time so you don't drift into a different place? 431 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:23,200 We find our lives drifting into frustration, Our lives, because 432 00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:26,560 a ship is built to withstand storms. 433 00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:29,840 Your life is built to withstand storms. 434 00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:33,760 Jesus didn't die so that you would fall apart every time 435 00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:35,480 trials came. In fact, he said trials and 436 00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:37,640 tribulations are going to come. It's going to happen in your 437 00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:40,400 life. And he had enough confidence in 438 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:43,440 what he gave you that he said, listen, you're going to overcome 439 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:48,240 because I overcome. Yet whenever we have those 440 00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:50,760 trials happen, the winds and the waves are beating against the 441 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:52,360 ship and they're trying to get us off course. 442 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:56,080 Our mouth in the midst of the storm can determine the 443 00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:58,320 direction we are come out on the other side. 444 00:26:01,360 --> 00:26:04,120 Jesus gave us this whole this whole entire, you know, 445 00:26:04,120 --> 00:26:06,920 historical account of him walking, being out on the the 446 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:09,600 waves with his disciples. And he's out there in the boat 447 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:13,120 asleep and the winds and waves are going up and down. 448 00:26:13,120 --> 00:26:14,480 These people are professional fishermen. 449 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:17,440 They've seen high water before. They've seen rain before. 450 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:20,800 And something about what they saw made them think we're going 451 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:23,280 to die. This is dangerous. 452 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:28,640 And yet Jesus was asleep. So whenever he got up and said, 453 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:31,120 hey, this is crazy, you could die. 454 00:26:31,120 --> 00:26:32,760 This is you know what, what are you saying? 455 00:26:33,360 --> 00:26:35,200 He gets out there and looks at it and what does he do? 456 00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:46,880 He says something to it. Even in physical danger, Jesus 457 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:50,360 stands up and says, peace be still. 458 00:26:52,120 --> 00:26:54,840 Then it says the disciples marveled at him and they said, 459 00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:58,920 who is this? You've been with them a while, 460 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:01,040 you've seen some stuff and then all of a sudden with this one, 461 00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:06,600 they're like, who is this guy? If it was, if it was modern day, 462 00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:10,320 they'd be like, surely is he not the goat, right? 463 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:12,920 But they looked at like, who is this? 464 00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:15,120 That even the winds and waves obey his voice. 465 00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:19,000 The winds and waves obey his voice. 466 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:22,720 What Jesus said, even creation stopped and said, what is it? 467 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:25,640 That's why we don't just use the name of Jesus just flippantly. 468 00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:28,880 You understand when you say in the name of Jesus and you begin 469 00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:32,400 to declare something in this Kingdom realm, creation has to 470 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:38,920 stop and await command. Did you know your body is made 471 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:45,440 out of dirt? Now you can put whatever in the 472 00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:50,160 dirt that you want. That should be a disclaimer 473 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:52,320 because some people are unhealthy because they have 474 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:54,800 personal responsibility of what to do to take care of their 475 00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:58,480 bodies. But there are times when through 476 00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:01,320 the fall of man and the the world we live in that sin comes 477 00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:02,360 in. There can be some physical 478 00:28:02,360 --> 00:28:05,520 ailments that try to hit you and some some symptoms that can come 479 00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:06,560 on your body. But you know what? 480 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:11,240 You can say, Hey, in the name of Jesus, I will live and not die, 481 00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:15,360 and your body has to hear it and respond to it. 482 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:21,080 A person who knows the word of God, who knows their authority 483 00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:23,560 in the word of God, also knows the responsibility of their 484 00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:31,400 voice with their authority. That's good, that's good. 485 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:39,390 Hmm. Hallelujah, Hallelujah. 2nd 486 00:28:39,390 --> 00:28:45,430 Corinthians chapter 4, verse 13. We've got a long voyage ahead of 487 00:28:45,430 --> 00:28:52,230 us for the next three weeks. Let's look at 2nd Corinthians 488 00:28:52,230 --> 00:28:55,350 chapter 4, verse 13. It says but having this the same 489 00:28:55,350 --> 00:29:00,520 spirit of faith according to what is written, I have believed 490 00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:06,880 and therefore I what spoke and we also believe, therefore we 491 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:11,800 speak find it interesting that when we would consider ourselves 492 00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:14,200 people of faith. Where does faith come from? 493 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:16,880 We know this all all the people that have been here for a while. 494 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:20,200 Where does faith come from? Hearing what? 495 00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:24,280 You can't hear a word that hasn't been spoken. 496 00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:31,080 So our faith hinges on words we've heard. 497 00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:34,720 In fact, your faith is determined. 498 00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:37,720 See, everybody can say they have faith. 499 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:39,520 Everybody does. Every other religion, in fact, 500 00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:41,160 people that say they're atheists, everybody in the 501 00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:43,440 medical field, everybody in your, your sphere of influence, 502 00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:46,200 they all have faith. Faith is just a firm persuasion 503 00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:50,120 based on something they have heard, based on a word somebody 504 00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:52,000 says. Social media is full of it. 505 00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:54,840 Somebody hears a word, they go out and they film themselves 506 00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:57,080 repeating this word. Right or wrong, they're saying 507 00:29:57,080 --> 00:29:59,240 it because they're fully convinced that what they heard 508 00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:03,200 was right. Then they begin just spewing 509 00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:05,760 their opinions because what they heard, whether it was right or 510 00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:08,400 wrong, they just want to echo what someone else said. 511 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:14,080 Whereas believers, we don't just have faith because we just 512 00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:16,560 believe whatever is God was pretty clear. 513 00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:18,320 You need to have the faith of God. 514 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:21,960 What does God put his faith in his words. 515 00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:24,520 Heaven and earth will pass away, but His word will remain forever 516 00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:26,840 His His. His name is the highest of all 517 00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:30,520 names, but He exalts His own word above His name. 518 00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:34,200 So for us to have the same faith God has, we have to put our firm 519 00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:36,640 persuasion on the same word. God has. 520 00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:42,400 We tracking that. So then when we have our faith 521 00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:45,880 manifest put that verse back up. Says, but having the same spirit 522 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:49,480 of faith, if we want the same spirit of faith, not only that's 523 00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:52,440 in God himself, that was in Jesus Christ, but that was also 524 00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:55,840 in the patriarchs, also in the disciples, also in all the 525 00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:57,920 people that led in the early church up until now. 526 00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:03,840 If we don't have the same spirit of faith, he says, I believe, 527 00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:06,520 therefore I spoke so we also believe. 528 00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:09,760 Do you believe? Are you missing the second part? 529 00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:15,440 Raise your hand. Do you believe? 530 00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:20,080 Then I would say the proof of your belief is in your 531 00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:25,640 confession. It's the proof. 532 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:30,320 You can tell a lot about a person when they open their 533 00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:34,520 mouth. In fact, you can tell a lot 534 00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:35,600 about them by what they're saying. 535 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:38,240 Even if what they're saying isn't what you know to be true. 536 00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:40,960 Just think about the value of words. 537 00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:43,960 That words are so important that God had to put in His top ten 538 00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:48,560 list that he gave Moses to the whole first covenant people of 539 00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:50,840 the the nation of Israel hid in this top ten list. 540 00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:57,000 He said you shall not lie. Then we find throughout Psalms 541 00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:00,040 and Proverbs there's this pattern where God hates and it 542 00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:04,200 says he abhors, which is this deep hatred of a lying tongue. 543 00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:09,560 Can't stand it. The penalty for breaking the law 544 00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:11,280 in the Old Testament was being stoned to death. 545 00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:13,920 You understand one of those laws was don't tell a lie. 546 00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:23,120 Why would a lie be a big deal? Because it's a manipulation of 547 00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:29,520 true authority and true power. If the most powerful entity in 548 00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:33,040 the universe is the word of God and it is you speaking out his 549 00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:36,120 word, then why would the enemy not want to attack that the most 550 00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:43,360 some people would boast me like, oh, I'm I'm pretty good at 551 00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:45,360 lying. Listen, be better at truth and 552 00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:49,000 be better at speaking what God says. 553 00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:56,960 That's where true power lies. Lies manipulate people, but you 554 00:32:56,960 --> 00:33:00,440 understand that truth manipulates creation to God's 555 00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:10,360 will. Your faith is brought to 556 00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:12,560 completion and proof through your speech. 557 00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:16,320 Belief without confession is incomplete. 558 00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:21,040 Just like at the end of service, we're going to have the 559 00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:22,880 opportunity to take up an offering to worship the Lord 560 00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:24,400 with our giving. And at Anchor Faith Church, we 561 00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:27,680 always put up on the screen, we do a giving confession. 562 00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:30,600 Why do we do that? So we can all chant together 563 00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:33,880 like Gregorian monks. No, that's not why we do that. 564 00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:35,840 Because there's this principle. It's not just enough to just be 565 00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:38,240 like, oh, I'm just going to sow money into the Kingdom and then 566 00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:41,160 just, you know, let it be. No, declare something over it. 567 00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:44,120 If you look at what we say, there's scriptures that go along 568 00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:46,440 with the giving confession that tell you where it's rooted in 569 00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:48,640 truth. So as we all declare together, 570 00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:51,440 no wonder God's doing mighty things in Anchor Faith Church. 571 00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:53,640 We're not just looking for God to do something. 572 00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:55,480 He's already doing powerful things. 573 00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:57,240 I'm just honored to participate in it. 574 00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:01,400 But that's because we have such a foundation of the Word, a such 575 00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:04,120 a foundation of confession. That's why you can't be at 576 00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:06,160 Anchor Faith Church long or hang out with somebody at their house 577 00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:07,960 long without saying something squarely and then being like, 578 00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:11,239 hey, I wouldn't say that. Why do you care so much about 579 00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:15,320 what I'm saying? There's many testimonies. 580 00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:17,800 Remember there was a gentleman that came in years ago and he 581 00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:20,120 had lived as an alcoholic for so long. 582 00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:23,679 Apostle Earl's testified of of his story many times from the 583 00:34:23,679 --> 00:34:26,320 platform, but he lived as an alcoholic for the longest time. 584 00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:28,920 He came in and said, pastor, pray for me, I'm an alcoholic. 585 00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:31,679 That's all he knew to say. And God, God showed up in that 586 00:34:31,679 --> 00:34:34,960 prayer, showed up in that moment and empowered him to throw away 587 00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:37,960 his alcohol and not touch it again for decades. 588 00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:41,360 Come on. But I remember on my side of 589 00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:44,719 that story, I was here and I remember the next time that we 590 00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:47,000 saw him, he said, hey, brother, the Lord, the, you know, the 591 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:48,560 Lord's doing work on me. I'm an alcoholic. 592 00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:52,320 I said, no, you're not. Don't ever say that again. 593 00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:55,360 Why would you identify with something you're not? 594 00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:59,200 Did the Lord deliver you? In fact, some people come in, 595 00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:00,480 they've got vices, they've got addictions. 596 00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:01,800 They go, oh, you know, I'm just a smoker. 597 00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:07,880 Well, are you smoking right now? So since you put the last one 598 00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:11,560 out, you've been a non-smoker. Don't be a smoker again. 599 00:35:13,720 --> 00:35:15,480 If God's put that in your heart and you're saying, man, I wish I 600 00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:16,640 could be free of this financially. 601 00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:19,120 I know there was a guy that that came for a long time, he was a 602 00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:21,160 chain smoker and he's like, Lord, do you need to deliver me? 603 00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:23,680 Because it's expensive. And this guy took his cash that 604 00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:25,880 he would get out of his paycheck and buy cigarettes with the Lord 605 00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:27,800 delivered him of it. He was able to go take it and 606 00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:29,920 within one month he bought a laptop computer. 607 00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:37,760 What are we doing able to change his whole life, but in his case 608 00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:40,880 as well, he's begin to identify. I'm not a smoker anymore. 609 00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:42,440 When somebody you a smoker. No. 610 00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:45,120 Why? Because his words begin to 611 00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:47,400 dictate the direction of his life. 612 00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:51,200 That's why of all the nice things that I'm sure Alcoholics 613 00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:54,320 Anonymous has done, the only major problem that it can still 614 00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:58,960 contains is it makes you identify and say and confess 615 00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:03,760 God, something that's not God. See, that's why. 616 00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:05,320 But but yeah. And you're like, oh, Alcoholics, 617 00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:07,320 not a lot of churches are have this problem too. 618 00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:09,600 They just say, I'm just say sorry, Sinner. 619 00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:14,000 Saved by grace. You have no idea what grace even 620 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:17,640 is. Grace doesn't save you to keep 621 00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:21,840 you where you were. If you've been saved by grace, 622 00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:26,160 God has empowered you to now be something and say something 623 00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:29,600 else. If you talk like you did before 624 00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:32,800 you got born again, the change hasn't fully manifested yet. 625 00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:39,920 Somebody needs to write that down. 626 00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:42,080 I don't know who it is. I don't know somebody, somebody, 627 00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:45,880 somewhere. The spirit of faith is a vocal 628 00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:52,320 spirit. Mark Chapter 11, verse 23. 629 00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:55,600 Speaking of faith. Come on, are we people of faith? 630 00:36:56,640 --> 00:37:00,480 That means we have heard a word that we fully believed. 631 00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:04,160 We adhere our lives to it, but it's not enough just to believe. 632 00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:06,000 Mark 1123. We all know this. 633 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:08,440 It's a faith scripture that we've heard for a long time. 634 00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:12,480 It says truly. I say to you, whoever says to 635 00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:17,000 this mountain be taken up and be thrown into the sea and does not 636 00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:21,920 doubt in his heart but believes that what he says is going to 637 00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:24,400 happen. It will be granted to him. 638 00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:29,680 So we can sing songs about mountain moving faith. 639 00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:34,320 We can sing songs about how God's able to move them out. 640 00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:36,400 Our faith can move mountains. But you understand there's an 641 00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:40,360 ingredient with your faith that that mountain won't budget until 642 00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:43,160 you mix them both together. And what is that? 643 00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:52,680 That whoever says to this mountain be thou removed, be 644 00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:55,760 cast into the sea and has not doubted but believed in his 645 00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:59,240 heart he that what he says is going to happen. 646 00:37:59,240 --> 00:38:03,720 It will be granted to him. Jesus ties the outcome to the 647 00:38:03,720 --> 00:38:09,480 conversation. He ties your outcome to your 648 00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:13,600 conversation. Again, if we're look at another 649 00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:15,120 example, sometimes you get up here like that. 650 00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:16,600 Just I've read the Bible a bunch of times. 651 00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:18,360 OK, so like I've got a lot of these stories that are in here 652 00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:21,320 another, but Jesus at one point walks by and is looking, he's 653 00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:22,600 hungry and he looks at this tree. 654 00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:24,440 He's like, man, I need some figs. 655 00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:26,360 I don't know if you've ever had figs before. 656 00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:27,480 I've never had them right off the tree. 657 00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:29,280 But apparently Jesus in this day didn't either. 658 00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:32,760 There weren't any on there. And he goes, he's like cursed 659 00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:35,280 are you? No one will eat from you again 660 00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:39,400 and walks away. And his disciples are like, OK, 661 00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:42,720 Then later on their journey when they come back by, that tree had 662 00:38:42,720 --> 00:38:46,840 withered up. It didn't just not have figs. 663 00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:48,320 It didn't just have the leaves fall up. 664 00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:50,080 It says it withered at its roots. 665 00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:55,760 The disciples were like, isn't that what the tree Jesus like, 666 00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:58,440 spoke to? Like people, Are you paying 667 00:38:58,440 --> 00:38:59,880 attention? How much stuff is he done? 668 00:38:59,880 --> 00:39:01,880 He's open blind eyes. He's got raised people from the 669 00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:03,600 dead. We got him speaking the winds 670 00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:06,080 and waves, and they're like, blown away that a tree's dead. 671 00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:09,480 They should come to my house. They'd be blown away at all the 672 00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:12,680 plants. Listen, my wife does the best 673 00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:14,520 she can. We're trying as hard as we can. 674 00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:16,880 But the green thumb was not something that just came second 675 00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:17,840 nature to us. OK? 676 00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:20,920 We are plant Hospice. This is where plants come. 677 00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:22,760 You bring them. We will ease their passing. 678 00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:27,960 You would think we're walking around cursing all the plants in 679 00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:28,680 the house. You're cursed. 680 00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:29,320 You can look. You look. 681 00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:35,960 Miracles everywhere. No, but again, Jesus speaks to a 682 00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:39,360 tree and the earth, the tree, this thing of the planet 683 00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:43,520 responded to His voice, responded to his authority. 684 00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:46,600 He didn't just look at it and hope that it would. 685 00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:52,600 When God wanted to create the whole world, he didn't hope it 686 00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:56,560 into existence. He didn't just think it into 687 00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:58,920 existence. He had a thought. 688 00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:03,720 But then he declared and spoke over his world. 689 00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:08,360 I'm glad that we get to have three weeks together because 690 00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:09,840 that means this week you can go home. 691 00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:11,800 I'm not going to give you an assignment like Apostle Marcy 692 00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:13,640 always dutifully does. I'm not going to give you a 693 00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:15,200 reading assignment, but your assignment. 694 00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:19,560 Would be internal and say look at your life and look at where 695 00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:24,680 you are and what have you said that brought you here, positive 696 00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:28,480 or negative? Because we'll see next week. 697 00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:33,760 Life and death are both in the power of your mouth. 698 00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:37,840 Both. See, we think that we have 699 00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:40,360 neutral gear in the Kingdom. We don't have a neutral gear. 700 00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:44,480 People are like, oh, it's, it's there's there's three options. 701 00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:46,720 I can do what God says. I can do what I say or I can do 702 00:40:46,720 --> 00:40:48,800 what the enemy says. You know, I'm not going to 703 00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:50,920 choose the enemy, but sometimes it's just going to do me. 704 00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:55,920 No, that's neutral gear. We don't have that with your 705 00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:57,040 confession. You're like, oh, you know, 706 00:40:57,040 --> 00:40:59,080 sometimes it's just, I'm just saying stuff and you know, I 707 00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:03,560 don't really mean it. Be weary of somebody who says, 708 00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:07,320 oh, I don't really mean it. Be weary because whether they 709 00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:08,480 mean it or not, they're saying it. 710 00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:10,960 And if they're saying it, it's going to happen. 711 00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:16,000 Now, I guess I should give the disclaimer here. 712 00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:18,640 If somebody's saying something over you, they don't have 713 00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:23,840 authority over your life. That's why God was able to tell 714 00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:26,720 Abraham. He said, listen, I will bless 715 00:41:26,720 --> 00:41:30,320 those who bless you and I'll curse those who curse you. 716 00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:35,800 Just because somebody's cursing you doesn't mean you have to 717 00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:39,120 receive it. You're going to, you direct your 718 00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:42,440 own ship. Somebody can bring their own, 719 00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:45,000 their own, their ship all up alongside you and try to ram 720 00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:47,480 into your ship, but in the end, you direct your own. 721 00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:52,040 But I think too often we let other people guide the direction 722 00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:53,840 of our lives. Again, if, if a parent says 723 00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:56,040 something at a young age, if you were told when you were a child, 724 00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:57,760 you know you're never going to amount to anything. 725 00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:01,280 You came into the Kingdom and got in your own boat. 726 00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:04,880 The king gave you a brand new heading. 727 00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:11,920 You got to let that one go. If somebody came in and told 728 00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:14,280 you, man, you're just stupid. You just you, you, it's like you 729 00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:15,480 can't understand what's happening. 730 00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:17,360 You were told that as a child. Listen, I'm telling you your 731 00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:19,320 your heavenly Father didn't say that. 732 00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:25,840 But too often the enemy wants you to put faith in those words 733 00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:28,520 that were spoken negatively over and you be firmly persuaded that 734 00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:31,640 you are that person when you need to be firmly persuaded of 735 00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:35,840 what God says about you. You can tell someone's self 736 00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:41,480 worth by how they talk. That's why humor, it's a it's a 737 00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:43,320 dangerous, it's a slippery slope. 738 00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:48,000 I saw a a meme the other day that I sent to my mother that we 739 00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:50,360 both found hilarious. He says, wow, you're so funny. 740 00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:52,600 And the guy was like, thanks. My parents used to meet about 741 00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:57,000 what to do with me. You'll get that later, I guess. 742 00:42:57,240 --> 00:43:00,120 But self deprecating humor, you can find people that they're 743 00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:02,240 always making jokes and always making jokes about themselves. 744 00:43:02,240 --> 00:43:06,880 And if you listen a little bit longer, maybe they believe in 745 00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:10,080 that about themselves too. Maybe they're concerned that 746 00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:12,640 whenever they start making jokes about themselves that they'll 747 00:43:12,640 --> 00:43:15,240 make so much fun of themselves that you won't because they're 748 00:43:15,240 --> 00:43:18,240 afraid you will see them the way they see themselves. 749 00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:28,240 Most people aren't. Most people aren't just what 750 00:43:28,240 --> 00:43:29,800 they are and what they think they are. 751 00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:32,240 Most people are what they think others think they are. 752 00:43:32,240 --> 00:43:38,000 Does that make sense? Most people are and believe 753 00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:45,120 about themselves, what they think others think of them, what 754 00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:46,680 other people have said about them. 755 00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:51,880 It's why in the Kingdom we've got to hear the word of the 756 00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:53,440 Lord. We've got to be people of the 757 00:43:53,440 --> 00:43:54,840 Word. We've got to be people that read 758 00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:56,760 our Bible. I'm telling you, you can't make 759 00:43:56,760 --> 00:43:57,960 it. I'm going to tell you right now 760 00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:01,200 how good God is, how great your purpose is, how powerful this 761 00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:03,520 Kingdom is. You won't make it if you don't 762 00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:07,080 get in the Word. If the most powerful thing in 763 00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:10,800 the universe is the word of God, how can you make it without it? 764 00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:13,680 Somebody's like, oh, I've read enough of the Bible. 765 00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:15,600 I get, I get the gist of it. Like, I've got it. 766 00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:18,440 Yeah. And your life looks like you 767 00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:24,320 kind of got some of it. Come on. 768 00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:27,200 True victory is going to come from us hearing the word of God. 769 00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:30,440 Faith comes by hearing. Hearing is a perpetual thing. 770 00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:34,440 It says ING in every translation. 771 00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:38,560 It doesn't say as as my father used to say, all grown up. 772 00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:41,640 Faith doesn't come from having heard, comes from hearing a 773 00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:43,480 perpetual hearing, staying in the word of God. 774 00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:45,400 What is God saying? What does the Scripture tell me 775 00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:47,400 about me? What does the Scripture say 776 00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:49,320 about my circumstance? What should I declare? 777 00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:54,680 If the doctor says you're going to die, don't just repeat like a 778 00:44:54,680 --> 00:44:58,560 parrot, I'm going to die. Then everybody go, well, they 779 00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:00,400 were such a strong man and woman of God. 780 00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:03,800 Listen, I've been in this thing for a while. 781 00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:06,880 I've seen people come and go. I've seen people have ailments 782 00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:09,480 that were healed and whole of stuff that was incurable and 783 00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:11,400 I've seen people die of stuff that was incurable. 784 00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:14,440 I've seen people that said I believe in God, I believe in 785 00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:15,680 him. I trust him at His word. 786 00:45:15,680 --> 00:45:17,560 He's my healer. But you know what I didn't get 787 00:45:17,560 --> 00:45:18,840 to see? I didn't get to see what they 788 00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:20,880 were whispering in their bedroom when the lights went out and 789 00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:23,320 they were in pain. I didn't get to see that. 790 00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:27,600 But I know how things work. I know that life and death are 791 00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:30,520 in the power of your tongue. I know that God is the healer. 792 00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:33,160 I know that he has given you free will that you can declare 793 00:45:33,160 --> 00:45:36,320 over your circumstance what you want. 794 00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:40,080 So if a believer says I'm believing God, I'm believing, 795 00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:42,160 all of a sudden you find out. Oh, so and so passed away. 796 00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:44,240 How could the Why did God let him down? 797 00:45:44,240 --> 00:45:46,520 No, no, no, no, no. What did they say? 798 00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:52,160 What did they say? What do they say when they're in 799 00:45:52,160 --> 00:45:53,880 the depths of their pain? They said, Lord, just take me. 800 00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:55,200 I just can't handle this anymore. 801 00:45:55,320 --> 00:45:59,680 That sentence matters. That's why you won't ever hear 802 00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:02,280 any, any of us going, oh, man, this is killing me. 803 00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:07,040 Half the stuff people say, oh, this is killing me about is like 804 00:46:07,040 --> 00:46:08,600 pitiful stuff. You want me to put that in your 805 00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:13,000 gravestone? My kids saying, Mama, Mama, 806 00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:15,000 Mama, it's killing me. I'm going to put that on your 807 00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:17,360 tombstone. Mama, Mama, Mama did me in. 808 00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:20,360 That's pitiful. You're you're a warrior. 809 00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:22,120 You got more you got more in you than that. 810 00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:25,280 Oh, man, it's 9:00 to 5:00. It's just killing me. 811 00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:29,640 There's been a lot of people die on the nine to five job. 812 00:46:31,840 --> 00:46:34,280 Don't say it. Watch your mouth. 813 00:46:39,520 --> 00:46:41,720 Even Jesus again, I'm forecasting some things for the 814 00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:43,760 for, for the future weeks that we'll really break into. 815 00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:49,120 But when Jesus goes to the centurion, he needed a miracle. 816 00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:54,120 And the centurion is like, listen, Jesus said, I'll come, 817 00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:57,160 I'll go there. You're like, who's going to deny 818 00:46:57,280 --> 00:47:00,640 Jesus? And the centurion had the guts 819 00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:02,240 to look at him and say, you don't have to. 820 00:47:03,240 --> 00:47:06,440 All I need you to do is give the most powerful thing that this 821 00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:11,560 earth has seen in 500 years. Jesus said the earth was dry and 822 00:47:11,560 --> 00:47:16,240 deprived of the word of God for 4 to 500 years before Jesus 823 00:47:16,240 --> 00:47:19,680 showed up. From the time the last prophet 824 00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:22,560 spoke to the time that John the Baptist was born, the earth was 825 00:47:22,560 --> 00:47:27,400 void of the word of God. It was only in memory. 826 00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:30,840 But then Jesus shows up. John the Baptist shows up and 827 00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:34,920 declares the Kingdom of God is at hand and quotes Old Testament 828 00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:37,520 prophets. Then Jesus shows up and begins 829 00:47:37,520 --> 00:47:40,160 to declare the word of God. He opens up the book of Isaiah 830 00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:42,760 and declares that word. So then the centurion has heard 831 00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:45,120 all of these things and he realizes where Jesus's true 832 00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:46,720 power was. It was in his mouth. 833 00:47:46,720 --> 00:47:50,320 That's when Jesus declared the word of God over something. 834 00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:53,480 Things happened. So he says just speak the word 835 00:47:53,480 --> 00:47:55,000 only and it'll be done for my servant. 836 00:47:55,000 --> 00:48:00,320 Jesus goes, I've never found so great a faith. 837 00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:04,400 Hallelujah. Great faith is directly 838 00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:12,520 connected to value of words. Great faith is directly 839 00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:15,160 connected to the value you have and the honor you have for 840 00:48:15,160 --> 00:48:19,920 words. So Jesus goes and declares the 841 00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:22,240 word of God over that that servant and that person was 842 00:48:22,240 --> 00:48:28,320 healed just by his words. The power of God rests in his 843 00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:29,920 words. So you understand, let me say 844 00:48:29,920 --> 00:48:32,240 this, and I've heard, I've heard this growing up in the, in the, 845 00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:35,760 you know, the, the circles we've been in, the ministers that 846 00:48:35,760 --> 00:48:37,080 we've had even come to this church. 847 00:48:37,240 --> 00:48:41,600 And this bears repeating that the word of God in Jesus's mouth 848 00:48:43,440 --> 00:48:45,840 has the same power as the word of God in your mouth. 849 00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:52,600 God's word does not diminish in its potency or its authority 850 00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:54,800 when you speak it from the time that Jesus spoke it. 851 00:48:58,520 --> 00:49:03,760 If Jesus says peace be still, and if you say peace be still, 852 00:49:04,600 --> 00:49:10,600 the same response should come. See, sometimes I think whenever 853 00:49:10,600 --> 00:49:13,080 we go to lay hands on people, Jesus said before he left, he's 854 00:49:13,080 --> 00:49:15,760 like, listen, I've done, you've seen the works I've done, but 855 00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:20,360 greater works will you do because I'm going to the Father. 856 00:49:20,360 --> 00:49:22,080 So greater things will you accomplish. 857 00:49:22,280 --> 00:49:24,840 If Jesus was able to speak to the winds and waves, he expects 858 00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:27,000 you would be able to. He people were healed because he 859 00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:31,040 said be made whole. Yeah, we come in and we think, 860 00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:34,040 man, if somebody's sick, I don't know, Lord, you know, what are 861 00:49:34,040 --> 00:49:35,560 we going to do? I need to have a very poetic 862 00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:37,400 prayer. Father God, with your bounty and 863 00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:40,160 your beautiful blessings, will you please come upon this 864 00:49:40,160 --> 00:49:42,640 person's life? God's just looking for you to 865 00:49:42,640 --> 00:49:45,040 declare something. It's just as impactful for me to 866 00:49:45,040 --> 00:49:47,440 come into Gabriel's, you know, hospital room and look at him 867 00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:50,760 and say in the name of Jesus, get up that it is for me to go. 868 00:49:50,760 --> 00:49:53,400 God, our heavenly Father, who art in heaven, let your healing 869 00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:55,440 be in this room. You don't have to do all that. 870 00:49:55,440 --> 00:50:02,360 Let your mouth do the faith, let your mouth declare the Word, and 871 00:50:02,360 --> 00:50:05,440 you'll find the end result is God is faithful and has never 872 00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:08,880 let His word go out and return void. 873 00:50:15,690 --> 00:50:16,890 We'll close with this passage here. 874 00:50:22,500 --> 00:50:25,860 Pick up here again next week too with Proverbs chapter 18, verse 875 00:50:25,860 --> 00:50:27,780 21. We quoted it before, but we're 876 00:50:27,780 --> 00:50:30,960 going to look at it together. There's a reason we put these 877 00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:33,440 words up on the screen so that you can see this isn't just 878 00:50:33,440 --> 00:50:35,120 something that's being said. You don't have to believe 879 00:50:35,160 --> 00:50:37,600 anything that somebody says in this, in this pulpit. 880 00:50:39,880 --> 00:50:42,400 What you have the obligation to do is go back and search the 881 00:50:42,400 --> 00:50:46,120 Scriptures, verify that what was said was true to Scripture, 882 00:50:46,360 --> 00:50:48,920 rightly divided, and then believe and place your whole 883 00:50:48,920 --> 00:50:51,320 trust and life value in the word of God. 884 00:50:52,120 --> 00:50:54,920 Don't leave and say, oh, because Pastor Josh said that ain't 885 00:50:54,920 --> 00:50:57,920 going to get you anywhere. But if you leave and say the 886 00:50:57,920 --> 00:51:00,920 word of God says that's going to be the most powerful thing you 887 00:51:00,920 --> 00:51:02,600 can do. So it says life and death are in 888 00:51:02,600 --> 00:51:05,640 the power of the tongue and those who love it will eat its 889 00:51:05,640 --> 00:51:10,040 fruit. Those who love it will eat its 890 00:51:10,040 --> 00:51:15,120 fruit. So again tonight I'm not going 891 00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:18,440 to lay hands on you because I can't give you a blessed a word 892 00:51:18,440 --> 00:51:20,640 blessing, a tongue blessing. Lord bless their tongue that it 893 00:51:20,640 --> 00:51:22,320 wouldn't cause any more problems in their life. 894 00:51:22,320 --> 00:51:24,120 But what I can do is just say you can make an eternal 895 00:51:24,120 --> 00:51:29,120 commitment and say, Lord, check me, Holy Ghost, do your job and 896 00:51:29,120 --> 00:51:31,880 be the the one who leads me and guides me into truth. 897 00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:35,160 That's my helper that comes alongside me and tells me, do I 898 00:51:35,160 --> 00:51:39,480 need to adjust my words? The Holy Ghost will come in. 899 00:51:39,480 --> 00:51:41,280 He'll start meddling in your life and he'll say, hey, the way 900 00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:42,480 you're talking to your wife ain't right. 901 00:51:45,600 --> 00:51:47,600 Maybe you argue all the time because your mouth is always 902 00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:48,760 saying that you're always arguing. 903 00:51:51,200 --> 00:51:52,720 Oh, Lord, you know those, those kids? 904 00:51:52,720 --> 00:51:55,720 I got their little little hellions, man. 905 00:51:56,960 --> 00:51:58,120 I don't know. I've been in this Kingdom thing 906 00:51:58,120 --> 00:51:59,480 a long time. But when somebody starts talking 907 00:51:59,480 --> 00:52:02,600 about their kids like that, you're like somebody goes, oh, 908 00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:04,720 you know what, I'm in. I'm in the terrible twos phase. 909 00:52:06,040 --> 00:52:07,600 You know what? I never confessed over my kids? 910 00:52:07,600 --> 00:52:08,840 They'd have terrible twos. You know what? 911 00:52:08,840 --> 00:52:10,800 They came two years old and became three years old and you 912 00:52:10,840 --> 00:52:12,240 know what? We never had terrible twos. 913 00:52:12,560 --> 00:52:19,680 It's amazing. It's like it works, but maybe 914 00:52:19,680 --> 00:52:24,680 you have what you have because you've been saying it, but it 915 00:52:24,680 --> 00:52:26,720 should be said, and I don't want to end tonight without saying 916 00:52:26,720 --> 00:52:28,400 this. All of these principles are for 917 00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:29,960 people that are in God's Kingdom. 918 00:52:30,720 --> 00:52:32,880 You can't confess right. You can't truly know God. 919 00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:36,120 You can't know what's right from wrong without the Spirit of God 920 00:52:36,120 --> 00:52:38,960 within you and being born again and coming into this Kingdom.