1 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:21,360 First Timothy 3:15 it says, But in case I am delayed, Paul says 2 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:26,640 the apostle I write so that you will know Say no, so you will 3 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:32,640 know how 1 ought to conduct himself in the household of God, 4 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:39,640 say household of God, which is the Church of the living God, 5 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:44,760 the pillar and support of the truth. 6 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:48,120 Lot it lot to unpacking this one verse and we won't unpack 7 00:00:48,120 --> 00:00:51,880 everything because of where we're going, but we see here 8 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:56,120 that the apostle Paul is saying to Timothy, who's pastoring the 9 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:59,640 church at Ephesus, the one whom he planted, he said, now listen, 10 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:05,720 there is a way to conduct yourself in the household, which 11 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:10,520 is the Church of the living God, which is the pillar and support 12 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:12,240 of truth. This is why from this scripture 13 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:16,160 I realized that the the role of the church is not to win the 14 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:21,120 lost alone. The role of the church is to be 15 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:24,440 the pillar and support of the truth and the truth is 1 must be 16 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:27,200 born again. But that's not the only truth 17 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:31,080 that the church possesses. And when you decide that the 18 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:33,920 only thing that the church is here is to tell people that 19 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:36,560 Jesus died on the cross and rose from the grave, then you are 20 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:41,360 ignoring multiple and many facets of truth that God has for 21 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:45,200 the believer that you're unwilling to communicate. 22 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:50,320 Which is why the household of God has so much dysfunction 23 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:54,560 because they don't know how they ought to conduct themselves. 24 00:01:56,480 --> 00:01:59,480 Let me just say it this way. When you walked into this 25 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:03,040 building, you did not walk into the United States of America, 26 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:06,360 the Constitution of the United States of America. 27 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:10,240 The only part that applies to you is the freedom of worship 28 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:14,160 outside of that. And even then is really 29 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:16,880 irrelevant because when you walked in here, you moved into 30 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:20,560 the Kingdom of God, and that culture's different. 31 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:25,120 So in the United States, you may have this belief, I do whatever 32 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:26,760 I want to do. I'm free to do what I want. 33 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:29,400 I'm free to express what I want. Not in the Kingdom. 34 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:34,000 So we're not in the US in this building. 35 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:36,920 We're in the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of heaven. 36 00:02:36,920 --> 00:02:41,440 There's a way you ought to conduct yourself. 37 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:45,520 I said you ought to. Now the new American standard 38 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:47,240 says ought. But if you break down this word 39 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:50,680 ought, it actually has a little firmer meaning to it. 40 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:53,280 Now I believe that they use ought, because at the end of the 41 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:56,040 day, God cannot make you do anything. 42 00:02:57,160 --> 00:03:01,120 He doesn't make you do anything. In fact, God, because of His 43 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:05,960 love towards you will let you do whatever you want to do, but He 44 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:09,280 will hold you accountable to whatever you do. 45 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:15,240 And there will come a time that there isn't a reckoning cause 46 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:20,040 whatever a man soweth, sows he will, he's going to reap. 47 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:23,920 And they whether it's in the this lifetime that you're 48 00:03:23,920 --> 00:03:29,480 walking in at some point, everyone is accountable to what 49 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:37,880 they're doing in God's Kingdom. Nothing is being get gotten away 50 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:39,240 with. And I don't think I'm saying 51 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:45,080 that exactly right, but it sounds good in the South, no one 52 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:48,560 is getting away with anything in the Kingdom of God. 53 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:54,560 No one are you hearing me? So if you think somebody's 54 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:59,200 getting away with something, you're, you're mistaken because 55 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:03,840 God sees it all and will. And you know what, sometimes 56 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:07,520 when people aren't receiving the action that you're like, man 57 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:11,880 they deserve, it's because God's merciful and, and giving them a 58 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:17,240 pathway of repentance before he has to act 'cause he will act 59 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:20,160 unless repentance comes. Are you hearing me? 60 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:24,240 I said, are you hearing me? And that's the power of God's 61 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:28,000 grace, actually. All right. 62 00:04:28,840 --> 00:04:31,560 Another translation would say it this way. 63 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:36,040 A faithful version is what it's called in this context where we 64 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:39,360 take this statement so that you will know how one ought to 65 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:41,120 conduct himself in the household of God. 66 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:45,760 It would sound like this. So you may know how one is 67 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:51,120 obligated to conduct oneself in the House of God, how one is 68 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:52,880 obligated. Say obligated. 69 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:57,360 Say I have an obligation. Come on, say it again, I have an 70 00:04:57,360 --> 00:05:00,720 obligation. Say I'm obligated. 71 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:05,240 Now see, that's more than ought. Well, ought to. 72 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:10,080 And the apostle Paul and the ones who translated here realize 73 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:13,600 that, you know, people don't have to conduct themselves the 74 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:16,160 proper way in the household of God, but they ought to. 75 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:19,160 But this translation says you're obligated. 76 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:26,000 Actually, you keep giving yourself a pass, but God's not. 77 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:32,480 And just because He's not bringing something that lets you 78 00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:38,000 know outside of just His Word that is wrong and you're not 79 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:43,000 feeling the pain any other way per SE, doesn't mean He's 80 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:45,400 pleased and He's accepting your behavior. 81 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:51,760 It's not doing it. Let's look at another one. 82 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:55,680 The Berean Standard Bible says it this way so that you will 83 00:05:55,680 --> 00:06:00,480 know how each one must conduct himself in God's household. 84 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:05,320 Say must say obligated. All got quiet all of a sudden. 85 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:07,360 Do we want to sing and dance a little bit again? 86 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:13,800 You know, this lets me know we still have AUS culture in US and 87 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:18,040 that we don't we do not really understand what Jesus has done 88 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:20,240 so that we can be alive like we are. 89 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:24,720 And we definitely do not understand the Kingdom that when 90 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:30,440 we get really quiet about obligations and musts and we 91 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:34,640 don't like, I don't know if I like that, that that 92 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:36,640 independence is scratching you again. 93 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:41,520 The enemy's saying you're not going to die. 94 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:48,560 You don't really have to live that way. 95 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:59,680 All right, another version says this, that you may know how it 96 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:03,680 is required to conduct yourself in the House of God. 97 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:07,800 Now, I don't think I have any parents here that probably would 98 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:09,720 disagree with this thought process. 99 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:12,880 But you know, when you have a house and you're the parent, you 100 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:15,920 have children, You know, you may have on more than one occasion 101 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:18,880 said this. You're going to do what I say in 102 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:22,760 my house. Now, that isn't always 103 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:24,760 applicable in today's generation. 104 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:29,440 Just let you know. I understand that, but God gave 105 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:37,160 parents the authority to train children, which means then the 106 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:43,560 train, the trainee shouldn't tell the trainer come on. 107 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:47,240 I mean, why would you spend $100.00 an hour for a trainer to 108 00:07:47,240 --> 00:07:51,040 help you out to, to get in shape to eat right and all these 109 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:53,480 things and then not do what they say? 110 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:59,160 When I go to my chiropractor, if I have some issue of something 111 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:03,000 going on, I ask the question and when they say do this, I can 112 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:05,600 say, well, I'm not doing it. And then if I go back and say, 113 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:07,000 was it still hurting? Yes, what did you do? 114 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:11,240 What I say? No, well, why would I ask the 115 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:18,040 one who understands the body trained in it to help keep me in 116 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:20,160 alignment. And then I just want to so, 117 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:21,960 well, you know, I think I'm going to do something different. 118 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:30,080 I have found that if I actually do the exercise, they say it 119 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:34,039 works. I let the trainer train me. 120 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:38,240 I don't tell the trainer what to do yet. 121 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:41,919 We have plenty of parents who are letting their children tell 122 00:08:41,919 --> 00:08:45,760 them what they're going to eat, what they're going to wear, when 123 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:50,080 they going to sleep, how they going to talk, who they going to 124 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:55,000 go out with, right. But yeah, there was a time, you 125 00:08:55,000 --> 00:09:00,560 know, back in the day when we would be like, as long as you 126 00:09:00,560 --> 00:09:06,360 and my house under my roof. And I love you and I want your 127 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:08,880 participation. But we're a family. 128 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:13,200 And I am here to give you instruction so that when you're 129 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:18,680 out on your own, when you get out on your own, you'll be able 130 00:09:18,680 --> 00:09:21,880 to have the authority to make those choices and decisions. 131 00:09:22,280 --> 00:09:24,920 And I pray that you'll always submit to God as we have. 132 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:27,760 And anytime we didn't submit to God, right with a training of 133 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:30,440 our children, we repented. Ask them to forgive us. 134 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:33,960 And God, we weren't perfect parents, but we were mature. 135 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:40,080 We were consistent. If we grounded them, they were 136 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:44,320 grounded. There was no, there was no 137 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:49,320 parole, there was no release on good behavior because I wasn't 138 00:09:49,320 --> 00:09:52,520 giving them that long of a term. I mean, I as parents cave after 139 00:09:52,520 --> 00:09:54,840 a week. They can't even do a week, 2 140 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:56,160 days and they're like, well, you're off. 141 00:09:56,880 --> 00:10:02,240 And most of the time we're off because it's inconvenient for us 142 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:06,400 to continue to keep the exercise of discipline over their lives. 143 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:09,880 If you don't watch out, then they manipulate you with good 144 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:13,160 behavior, which means they're good behavior is actually bad 145 00:10:13,160 --> 00:10:19,240 behavior. Cause Pharisees use scripture 146 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:24,000 wrong. Hallelujah say Amen anyway. 147 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:29,120 So there's a way we ought to say ought to you know, we're 148 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:33,800 obligated say obligated say we must say it's required. 149 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:42,880 It's required how many people truly believe right now that 150 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:45,720 everything you're doing right now you can continue to do when 151 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:50,120 you go to heaven? Oh, yeah, that's what I thought. 152 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:56,680 You already know that attitude, holding that unforgiveness, 153 00:10:57,280 --> 00:11:01,080 walking in that you know way, doing whatever it is that you're 154 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:03,640 like, I have no record that that's in heaven. 155 00:11:11,520 --> 00:11:13,640 Now, I'm not going to preach Raphael's message, but I'm going 156 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:16,600 to use an excerpt because I believe he probably will. 157 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:19,680 I'll let him minister again and he'll probably release this. 158 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:22,960 It's really powerful. So when I say it, don't get 159 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:26,080 scared, OK? Because he'd be like, oh man, 160 00:11:26,080 --> 00:11:29,440 he's going. But it was really powerful how 161 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:33,320 he ministered last night. But there's a way we're 162 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:36,880 required, obligated, and we must conduct ourselves in the 163 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:40,320 household of God. It's called freedom, it's called 164 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:44,880 liberty, it's called life, and anything contrary to His word, 165 00:11:45,280 --> 00:11:48,640 you have deceived yourself that it's OK and it is not. 166 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:53,400 And it doesn't matter that you're a child of God, it is not 167 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:58,680 OK at all. And God never expected you to 168 00:11:58,680 --> 00:12:03,480 come into His house continuing to live that way, not when He 169 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:07,960 made you new, and not when He gave you the Holy Spirit because 170 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:09,600 He wants you to be a reigning church. 171 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:16,440 The church is the household of God and in the household of God, 172 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:19,200 just like in your own house. People can make mistakes. 173 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:24,520 They can, but you understand, I do not find it joyful when I was 174 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:29,200 parenting and my children were there to see them mess up so 175 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:31,360 that I could have the joy of forgiving them. 176 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:36,560 OK, must say that again. I didn't wake up every day and 177 00:12:36,560 --> 00:12:38,840 say, man, I sure hope Pastor Chase blows it. 178 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:42,520 I hope he blows it today. I sure hope he blows it. 179 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:46,160 I hope he does wrong. I hope he goes against my word. 180 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:48,360 I hope he does something I don't want him to do. 181 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:51,720 Man, I hope he does. Oh glory to God, I hope he does. 182 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:54,920 Why? So that I can later forgive him. 183 00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:04,960 We act like forgiveness is God's greatest attribute and the 184 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:08,160 problem that the reason this is listen, I'll give it to you. 185 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:11,680 The reason isn't because this is how you got to hear him again. 186 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:17,760 This was your first invitation back into the family is he's 187 00:13:17,760 --> 00:13:25,440 like your conduct, behavior and nature is all wrong and it's not 188 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:30,600 good enough to be in my house. It's filthy rags. 189 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:33,280 It's worthless. It doesn't matter how much you 190 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:36,960 try. It's a stench and I would never 191 00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:40,960 let that in my house. I'm going to say that again. 192 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:44,840 I would never let that in my house. 193 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:50,040 You understand when we say that I'm not saying that a person 194 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:53,160 lost can't come to church. You understand, I would I can 195 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:56,280 bring a homeless person into my home and feed them, but that 196 00:13:56,280 --> 00:13:59,320 doesn't make them a part of my my house. 197 00:14:01,560 --> 00:14:05,880 So when he Jesus is saying, when the father is saying that's not 198 00:14:05,880 --> 00:14:07,960 coming up in my house. That mean when you're in my 199 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:10,080 house, that means you have access all the time. 200 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:13,800 That means you can come in, come, you can go, you can move 201 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:16,080 around and each when I say go, I'm not talking about going out 202 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:18,160 back in the world. I'm saying you got free access 203 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:20,840 to the house. You can sleep here, you can eat 204 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:22,760 here. Everything's provided for you 205 00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:24,280 here. But if you're going to stay at 206 00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:28,720 the house, there is a way that you're going to have to live. 207 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:31,640 And in order for that, when you get to the door, which is called 208 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:36,120 the cross, that spirit of man that was dead, separated and had 209 00:14:36,120 --> 00:14:39,680 no access as a child of God is evicted from your skin. 210 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:42,480 So you become a child of God. Then you're able to come into 211 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:45,200 the House of which he immediately with the Holy Spirit 212 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:48,720 says, now this is how you are obligated to behave. 213 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:55,600 This is how you must act. And again, with any parent, we 214 00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:59,000 don't teach all of our children everything at the beginning 215 00:14:59,160 --> 00:15:01,880 because when they're obeyed, there's only so much work 216 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:06,200 teaching them initially. And the same thing is you may 217 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:09,880 bring things in, but it's not going to it's going to show up 218 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:12,600 that God's going to say that doesn't happen in this house. 219 00:15:19,750 --> 00:15:22,590 Matthew chapter 12, verse 48 and 50. 220 00:15:22,590 --> 00:15:27,920 But Jesus answered the one who was telling him who said and he 221 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:37,880 said, because Jesus is preaching and Mama Mary, I did not do this 222 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:40,640 for Raphael last night, but we laughed because Pastor Joshua 223 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:41,440 had this. He would. 224 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:45,600 Pastor Joshua can be very quick witted and sometimes his wit is 225 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:47,880 not very funny. It's just kind of stupid. 226 00:15:48,840 --> 00:15:52,560 You know some of his puns, but this one was really good. 227 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:59,520 So Raphael's minister and he said Jesus was born of the 228 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:03,160 virgin. Born of a virgin, he said, and 229 00:16:03,160 --> 00:16:05,320 none of us have been born of a virgin. 230 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:09,160 Night. That ain't nobody in here born 231 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:12,880 of a virgin. You know, Eloise, would you 232 00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:18,440 stand up? See this lady right here? 233 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:27,720 Eloise was born of a virgin. Eloise, would your Mama please 234 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:31,760 stand up? Let me introduce you to virgin 235 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:41,680 now. Just so you know, Virgin was not 236 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:45,960 a virgin when she gave birth to Eloise, but her name is Virgin. 237 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:53,760 So I almost said that at the end, but I'm like, I'll stay 238 00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:56,000 away from that. Ain't that fun? 239 00:16:56,680 --> 00:16:59,440 Hallelujah. But this is really important. 240 00:16:59,960 --> 00:17:03,320 Jesus bombs there, Mary, his brothers and sisters, and 241 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:05,760 they're like, hey, can you tell Jesus that mom wants to talk to 242 00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:07,880 him? And while Jesus is preaching and 243 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:10,599 say Jesus kind of interrupted him, say your mom, your mom's 244 00:17:10,599 --> 00:17:13,200 out here, your mom's out here, She wants to talk to you. 245 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:16,280 And then Jesus looks at the crowd and he says this, who is 246 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:19,440 my Mama? Who's my mother and who are my 247 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:22,599 brothers? It's a very powerful statement 248 00:17:22,839 --> 00:17:28,720 because Jesus cannot lie and Jesus has taken an opportunity 249 00:17:29,240 --> 00:17:34,760 to establish Kingdom culture. He goes on and stretching out 250 00:17:34,760 --> 00:17:42,280 his hand towards what? Not His converts towards His 251 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:46,800 disciples, those who are studiers of His Word, to obey 252 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:51,000 Him at His word. He said, Behold my mother and my 253 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:53,240 brothers. Then he goes on and says this, 254 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:55,720 and then gives the qualification, just so you know 255 00:17:55,720 --> 00:17:57,520 that there's no doubt of who he's talking about. 256 00:17:58,320 --> 00:18:03,400 He said Whoever are you, a whoever for whoever does, 257 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:11,840 whoever what, hears, thinks about, comes to a place where 258 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:25,280 it's spoken about. Does it 50% of the time. 75% of 259 00:18:25,280 --> 00:18:32,920 the time. Whoever does the will of of who? 260 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:38,480 Whoever does the will of themselves, Whoever does what 261 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:43,360 they want to do, when they want to do it how they want to do it. 262 00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:49,600 Whoever does the will of my father, just so you know, it's 263 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:52,160 not Joseph on planet earth who is in heaven. 264 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:58,360 He is my brother and sister and mother. 265 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:04,000 So he says you are obligated, you must and required to conduct 266 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:08,280 yourself in my household, which is the Church of the living God. 267 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:11,120 Now you can call it church and it not be the living God's 268 00:19:11,120 --> 00:19:14,320 church. So let's just know that because 269 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:17,360 the church is ekklesia, it's a it's a assembly. 270 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:20,440 And so there's plenty of people who can assemble. 271 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:22,920 And it's not the one he's building, but the one he's 272 00:19:22,920 --> 00:19:24,880 built. He has a household and the 273 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:28,320 household are those who are his mother, brother and sisters and 274 00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:32,080 mothers, brothers and sisters are those who do the will of his 275 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:36,760 father who are in heaven. That is qualifier that is not 276 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:41,200 debatable, subject to your debate or subject to your 277 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:44,760 personal thinking or the culture of the nation that you're 278 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:50,800 naturally in. In fact, Jesus's first message 279 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:54,720 is repent for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand. 280 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:57,760 Change your thinking. Jesus is not changing his 281 00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:01,960 thinking to be relatable to you so that He can get you into his 282 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:05,280 house, and he is not compromising his house so that 283 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:08,000 you can be in his house. He's telling you how to be in 284 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:11,000 his house and what qualifies you to be in his house. 285 00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:18,600 Because as we were talking a lot of stuff out of prison in the 286 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:22,040 Kingdom of God, double jeopardy does exist. 287 00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:35,400 Because if sin is what kept you out of a relationship with God, 288 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:40,360 you can commit another sin after you're born of God and get out. 289 00:20:40,360 --> 00:20:47,440 Now, this is a rough deal with a lot of religious feathers here 290 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:49,160 because, you know, people think once they're saved, they're 291 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:57,760 always saved. No, Adam never knew sin and 292 00:20:57,760 --> 00:21:03,680 sinned. And there's no such then there's 293 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:08,320 no way the blasphemy of the Holy Ghost can be an impartable sin 294 00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:12,640 if the believer could never lose it. 295 00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:17,200 And what they do is I say, well, the Bible says, you know what 296 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:19,080 can take you? It's not talk. 297 00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:22,640 It's saying famines, It's saying pestilence, it's saying 298 00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:26,200 circumstances or situations cannot pull you from the love of 299 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:29,160 God, but you can leave the love of God if you want to. 300 00:21:30,120 --> 00:21:33,440 You still have a free will even after salvation. 301 00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:38,480 Because if you didn't, then the houses of God would be full. 302 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:42,720 There would never be a debate of what to do, when to do it, 303 00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:45,960 because you would automatically be right in line with scripture. 304 00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:49,520 We'd be in one mind, 1 accord in unity, everybody doing their 305 00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:51,360 gift and fit. No one would be arguing. 306 00:21:51,360 --> 00:21:55,040 There be no gossip, no strife, no nothing if all of a sudden 307 00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:59,600 you're free will left, there would be no believer being 308 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:02,840 offended, no believer walking in unforgiveness, no believer 309 00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:05,920 slandering, no believer gossiping, no believer getting 310 00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:09,440 in outbursts of anger, no believer walking in the flesh. 311 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:13,320 But yet they still do that Why Paul called him carnal because 312 00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:16,080 you still have a will. You can still determine, but God 313 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:18,600 is saying now you ought to live a different way in my house. 314 00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:24,480 Same in anyway. So Jesus is saying I have a 315 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:30,920 house and these are who is look and Jesus listen, Jesus and the 316 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:33,280 Father are never asking you to do something that they're not 317 00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:36,600 doing themselves. John chapter 5 verse 30 says it 318 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:39,720 this way. He says I can do nothing on my 319 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:43,320 own initiative as I hear I judge and my judgment is just because 320 00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:46,280 I do not seek my own will, but the will of him who sent me. 321 00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:50,000 This is Jesus Christ our Lord. And if Jesus Christ, our Lord, 322 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:53,240 only did the will of his Father on earth, why do we think we 323 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:59,440 have an option in the household of God if we're truly born 324 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:01,800 again? And we have said, Jesus, I 325 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:04,240 believe you died on the cross, that you rose from the grave, 326 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:07,920 and that your blood was perfect and paid the price for all my 327 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:12,120 transgression, all of my sin. I accept you as my Lord and 328 00:23:12,120 --> 00:23:14,000 Savior because you've always been Lord. 329 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:17,640 And now I acknowledge your lordship in my life so that life 330 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:19,560 can come, because you're still Lord. 331 00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:23,080 And if I resist you as you, you being supreme in authority will 332 00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:26,960 cast me into the lake of fire. Accepting Jesus or not doesn't 333 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:31,480 change his Lordship. It changes his lordship towards 334 00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:37,960 you, 'cause he's Lord, and he will judge the living and the 335 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:44,160 dead, 'cause he's Lord. Whether you make him Lord or 336 00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:49,200 not, he's Lord. Whether you make him Lord or 337 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:53,600 not, he's Lord. John chapter 12 verse 49 says 338 00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:56,960 Jesus said, for I do not speak on my own initiative, but the 339 00:23:56,960 --> 00:23:59,840 Father himself who sent me has given me a command as what to 340 00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:02,640 speak and or what to say and what to speak. 341 00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:06,200 So Jesus, anything Jesus did is because he was led by the 342 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:09,440 Spirit. Jesus did not show man what God 343 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:11,960 can do. Jesus showed man what man can 344 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:13,080 do. Anointed of God. 345 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:20,120 In essence, Jesus is saying this is how you're obligated to live 346 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:22,600 now. Again, when you're lost, you 347 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:26,600 can't live this way. But when you're born of God, now 348 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:28,800 you have access to this type of life. 349 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:33,440 Now you can stay in sin consciousness and see yourself 350 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:36,160 as a sorry Sinner saved by grace that you never ever going to 351 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:38,320 measure up, can't do anything. Well, that's really just the 352 00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:40,720 devil talking in your ear because he never wants you to 353 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:43,400 reach your potential. Because if you find out that 354 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:45,880 you're a child of the living God, that you're the child of a 355 00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:48,800 king, that you've been given authority and the name of Jesus, 356 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:51,680 that you can heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out devils, 357 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:55,000 that you have the power of God and all of God's powerful 358 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:56,960 Kingdom can function and flow through you. 359 00:24:57,080 --> 00:25:00,320 That wherever you all, if you'll speak the words of the king, 360 00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:03,080 then it has to come to pass. Because when the word of God and 361 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:05,680 the Spirit of God are connected, it always produces. 362 00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:08,200 And He never wants you to discover that because he would 363 00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:12,160 continually be losing people from His domain into our domain, 364 00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:15,600 because you would be a representative of Jesus himself 365 00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:19,840 and the Kingdom of heaven. So we can convince you, just be 366 00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:31,400 happy. I mean, there are so many people 367 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:35,040 even in this room right now that are holding on to past hurts 368 00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:38,680 that Christ has already paid the price for and you're keeping old 369 00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:41,480 behaviors that He has eradicated through the blood. 370 00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:46,440 You're holding on the thoughts, opinions, attitudes, actions 371 00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:49,440 towards others, towards your kids, towards your spouse that 372 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:52,160 God's literally talking to you through scripture and say quit 373 00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:54,480 doing that. Be more patient, yield yourself 374 00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:56,760 to them. Let them make that decision. 375 00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:58,840 Quit trying to make the decisions all the time. 376 00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:04,680 Hallelujah. And I give you freedom right 377 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:06,080 now. If that's you, say man, he's 378 00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:07,680 talking the Lord speaking to me right now. 379 00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:11,120 Get up, come down, pray, repent, say Lord, forgive me, and then 380 00:26:11,120 --> 00:26:13,600 go back to your seat. Be somebody that's a leader. 381 00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:15,840 Show somebody that you know what he is, right? 382 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:17,960 And you know what, we ought to conduct ourselves this way. 383 00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:19,320 You know what, we should live for God. 384 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:20,840 You know what? I don't really care about y'all 385 00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:23,160 as much as I care about him, but I actually do care about y'all. 386 00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:25,240 Because if I'm going to care about you, then I need to be 387 00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:27,200 right with him. And I can't be a right example 388 00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:28,920 to you if I'm not right with him. 389 00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:31,680 So let me go get right with Him so that I can really care about 390 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:35,040 you instead of being prideful because you're concerned what 391 00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:36,680 they think. Well, if you're concerned what 392 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:39,000 they think, get right with God. Then when they see you, all they 393 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:40,800 can think is that you're right with God. 394 00:26:46,750 --> 00:26:48,190 And that's what leadership looks like. 395 00:26:50,710 --> 00:26:54,670 Hallelujah. Because I said again, it's like 396 00:26:54,670 --> 00:27:01,310 we are wanting God to be so excited about forgiving us. 397 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:08,240 We just wake up every day looking for an opportunity to do 398 00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:10,000 something wrong so that we can say, you know what? 399 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:12,920 I'm just so thankful he forgives me for that today. 400 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:17,440 God is such a good God. He forgave me and he is a 401 00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:19,000 forgiving God. Don't get me wrong. 402 00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:25,960 But there's a higher way to live beyond seeking perpetual daily 403 00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:34,720 forgiveness. Raphael mentioned this passive 404 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:36,240 scripture. I'm not going to go into his 405 00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:39,120 details through his angle, but this is really powerful 406 00:27:39,120 --> 00:27:42,000 statement. Samuel, who's the prophet of 407 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:46,520 God, stands before King Saul and he instructs him the course of 408 00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:51,560 God to conquer each nation. And Saul has obeyed up to this 409 00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:54,840 particular nation, this particular nation. 410 00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:58,360 The Lord gave an instruction to eliminate everything, period. 411 00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:05,480 Saul, however, chose to respond to that nation like he had 412 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:09,800 responded by God's voice, the ones previous. 413 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:14,160 If it had not, if this had been a day earlier, a week earlier, 414 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:17,000 the nation before, we wouldn't have a problem. 415 00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:21,440 And you know what? So many people are living on 416 00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:26,000 yesterday's word of God, but he's got a word for you now, and 417 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:29,320 you can't apply yesterday's word that caused you to overcome one 418 00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:32,760 way where you didn't have to do a particular thing or or deny a 419 00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:35,880 particular deal or make an adjustment a particular way. 420 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,800 Now he may be saying something else and you're like, well, I'll 421 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:40,400 just keep doing it the way I've been doing it. 422 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:43,080 And then the Lord's like, well, we have a problem. 423 00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:48,840 And so Samuel shows up and King Saul has the audacity, which is 424 00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:53,320 what most believers do when they're in disobedience. 425 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:56,160 Honestly. Well, you know, I'm doing what 426 00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:58,600 God says. The Lord knows my heart. 427 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:03,720 Yeah, you're right, He does. And the prophet speaking to you 428 00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:07,600 right now and he's saying, why am I hearing the sheep bleat in 429 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:10,600 the background? Why do I keep hearing stuff 430 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:15,080 bleeping in your life that should not be making a sound 431 00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:20,320 anymore? Why do I keep hearing this in 432 00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:22,080 your life? That should not be making a 433 00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:24,760 sound anymore. This should have been destroyed. 434 00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:32,000 Why is this same cycle keep speaking in your life? 435 00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:35,320 It should be. It should have no voice. 436 00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:41,520 The only reason has a voice is because you decided what to 437 00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:45,960 eliminate and what to keep and what you kept. 438 00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:49,440 Now you're going to determine what's the best of that, and 439 00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:51,920 you're going to sacrifice that to the Lord. 440 00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:03,840 First Samuel 15 or 1522, Samuel said has the Lord as much 441 00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:08,120 delight and burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the 442 00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:14,600 voice of the Lord. Behold to obey is what is what 443 00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:19,720 is what is what is what. Come on out like your team just 444 00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:21,720 scored a winning touchdown is what. 445 00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:26,360 Thank you is better than sacrifice. 446 00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:32,080 You know obedience is better than getting forgiveness because 447 00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:34,240 if you just obey God then he doesn't have to forgive you. 448 00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:39,800 If Adam had never eaten the fruit then Jesus would not had 449 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:43,040 to have come die to give us all forgiveness. 450 00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:49,280 If we just obey, then God doesn't have to move into 451 00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:56,520 sacrificing something because sacrifice is not your sacrifice, 452 00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:01,080 it's His sacrifice. Every time you disobey, it's his 453 00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:06,080 sacrifice for your disobedience. And we want his forgiveness. 454 00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:09,480 So basically we're saying go to the cross again, Just go to the 455 00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:11,880 cross again, just go to the cross again. 456 00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:14,080 Why don't you just go to the cross again? 457 00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:19,400 When the Lord's like, I made you a new creature in Christ, I gave 458 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:22,600 you the Holy Ghost, I've given you the word, I've given you the 459 00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:25,360 teacher, the counselor, the instructor. 460 00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:28,080 Now you can obey. You can obey me. 461 00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:30,880 You can cast that thought down. You can take that thought 462 00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:34,240 captive you don't have. You can make your body get into 463 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:37,120 submission. You can yield to my spirit. 464 00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:40,560 You can walk by my spirit. You can speak by my spirit. 465 00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:44,240 Why are you wanting me to sacrifice again? 466 00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:47,920 Because you were wanting to fail to obey. 467 00:31:56,070 --> 00:31:59,190 It's better to walk in obedience than to ask for forgiveness. 468 00:31:59,870 --> 00:32:07,390 Let me give you the modern day statement of King Saul. 469 00:32:08,470 --> 00:32:11,990 Well, now, sometimes it's better to ask for forgiveness than 470 00:32:11,990 --> 00:32:17,630 permission. Now we'll just ask for 471 00:32:17,630 --> 00:32:20,560 forgiveness instead of permission. 472 00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:24,760 And what is that? What you're doing is you're 473 00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:27,040 abusing the nature of the forgiver. 474 00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:38,700 Yes, that's good because you choose to not obey, not because 475 00:32:38,700 --> 00:32:40,580 you can't. Child of God. 476 00:32:42,300 --> 00:32:45,740 People who are outside the household can't. 477 00:32:47,580 --> 00:32:53,800 People in the house, can they choose not to? 478 00:32:53,840 --> 00:33:03,910 And the reason this has creeped into the church is because we've 479 00:33:03,910 --> 00:33:07,150 allowed all kinds of little labels to get around 480 00:33:07,150 --> 00:33:11,590 dysfunctional behavior. I mean, I could start naming 481 00:33:11,590 --> 00:33:14,150 stuff, but, you know, it'd be pretty Dang controversial right 482 00:33:14,150 --> 00:33:15,510 now. So I'm going to stay away from 483 00:33:15,510 --> 00:33:18,990 it because, I mean, you're quiet already as it is. 484 00:33:21,150 --> 00:33:24,720 But there's these orders that start getting labeled on people, 485 00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:29,000 and that means your behavior is acceptable because you're this. 486 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:32,240 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Come on now. 487 00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:37,360 Yeah. Well, I have a new nature, and 488 00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:41,280 my new nature changes my behavior because when I had no 489 00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:44,640 self-control, I was given the Holy Ghost that one of his 490 00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:47,920 fruits is, oh, y'all don't want to hear this? 491 00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:51,200 So how as a believer can I say, well, I just can't control 492 00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:56,120 myself when I have the one who raised Christ from the dead 493 00:33:56,120 --> 00:34:03,480 living on the inside of me because I let the Spirit 494 00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:09,719 dominate my mind, my thinking, my body, and I'm like, I'm going 495 00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:15,400 to obey because my Father is pleased when I obey him. 496 00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:18,199 In fact, he wakes up every day and said, man, I can't wait for 497 00:34:18,199 --> 00:34:20,760 Tony to obey me today. I'm ready to bless him and that 498 00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:22,480 obedience. I'm ready to give him everything 499 00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:24,520 of that obedience, everything he obeys me in. 500 00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:29,159 I'm ready to lavish upon him life a provision, abundance, 501 00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:33,800 peace, security, protection. I mean, I'm ready just to pour 502 00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:36,040 it out because he's such an obedient child. 503 00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:41,560 Hallelujah. I said Hallelujah and even in 504 00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:44,679 the midst of your obedience, when it looks like all hell has 505 00:34:44,679 --> 00:34:48,040 broken loose, don't think God doesn't see your obedience. 506 00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:52,239 Listen, don't you be one big concerned if you get stuck in a 507 00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:55,480 joke moment where you're being righteous, you're living it 508 00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:57,000 right. You're doing everything you can 509 00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:59,760 to be right, but all of a sudden attack comes and makes it look 510 00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:03,080 like you are not doing nothing God's told you to do and 511 00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:07,120 everybody is blaming you and saying you're not who you think 512 00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:12,800 you are. But Job stayed true to God and 513 00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:17,440 after a process of time, God let everybody know this man was 514 00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:21,720 faithful, this man was righteous and I'm going to bless him with 515 00:35:21,720 --> 00:35:28,200 double then what was taken because he was an obedient man 516 00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:31,080 the whole while. And the ones that talk bad about 517 00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:35,600 him, he said, you better go ask Job to pray for you. 518 00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:44,360 Good, good. When he came started talking to 519 00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:47,920 them, they got said you better go get Joe to pray for you. 520 00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:53,440 The one that you just ran down, talked about slandered, said 521 00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:55,120 there's no way you living like that. 522 00:35:56,160 --> 00:35:58,520 And you know what it showed Job's love walk when he says, 523 00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:04,280 yeah, I'll pray for you. That just proves Job was 524 00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:06,840 righteous the whole time because they're like, I'll pray for you. 525 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:09,280 I mean, who am I to hold what you just did that you were 526 00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:10,880 totally wrong. I mean, I was telling you I was 527 00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:13,080 like, that isn't it? But at the end of the day, you 528 00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:18,200 want to believe what you want to believe, but God, but God, he 529 00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:20,240 showed up. He showed out. 530 00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:25,600 John 1415 says this, If you love me, Jesus is talking. 531 00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:32,480 You will keep my commandments because love obeys and again, we 532 00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:36,840 just throw love out so flippantly and that like you 533 00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:39,200 know, you can be in total rebellion and that means you 534 00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:44,760 still love me, Jesus, like I know you love me. 535 00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:46,200 Why? Because you keep my word. 536 00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:50,040 That's why I know because you're a doer of it. 537 00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:54,520 Come on now. John 1423 to 24 says Jesus 538 00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:57,240 answered, said to him, if anyone loves me, he will keep my word 539 00:36:57,560 --> 00:37:01,760 and my Father will love him and we will come to him and make our 540 00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:04,760 abode with him. What makes the Father and Jesus 541 00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:08,920 to hang out with you? Because you obey when you feel 542 00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:10,240 like man. It feels like the Lord is far 543 00:37:10,240 --> 00:37:10,920 away. Where's he at? 544 00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:15,160 Well, maybe you need to get back in obedience because they hang 545 00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:18,800 out around obedience. He who does not love me does 546 00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:25,840 not. Why is it that we want to debate 547 00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:29,200 these scriptures? We've become so psych 548 00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:41,900 psychological. He who does not love me does not 549 00:37:41,900 --> 00:37:46,420 keep my words. You're going to tell me you love 550 00:37:46,420 --> 00:37:47,860 God, but you don't do anything he says. 551 00:37:52,340 --> 00:37:54,260 So it's obvious. Then the Scripture is letting us 552 00:37:54,260 --> 00:37:58,100 know, saying I love you, Lord, is not loving God. 553 00:38:01,140 --> 00:38:03,100 Now, you may have convinced yourself that you can say that 554 00:38:03,100 --> 00:38:06,680 and that's what it means, but He's defining to us what it 555 00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:10,000 means to love him and what it means to not love him. 556 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,440 Hallelujah. And again, if you're a believer, 557 00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:19,640 guess what? This is easy for you to keep the 558 00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:22,200 word because he said my word is not burdensome. 559 00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:25,480 It's not burdensome. My yoke is light. 560 00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:28,160 It's easy keeping my words not burdensome. 561 00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:30,160 Why? Because I'm the one who's going 562 00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:34,880 to empower you to be able to do my word, Hallelujah, because 563 00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:37,720 I've given you the power that manifests the word all the time. 564 00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:40,640 Are you hearing me? First Corinthians chapter 12, 565 00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:43,560 verse 18 to 20 then says this. But now God has placed the 566 00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:46,080 members, each one of them, in the body just as He desired, 567 00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:50,720 which means then the one who picks the house is the one who's 568 00:38:50,720 --> 00:38:54,840 the head of the house. And so the very first thing that 569 00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:58,880 we get to do is to be able to hear from God of where He 570 00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:01,640 assigns us and what we're supposed to do in the body. 571 00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:05,280 Because in the next verse, verse 19 says if we were all one 572 00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:07,800 member, where would the body be? But now there are many members 573 00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:11,080 but one body. So we're even supposed to obey 574 00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:14,000 #1 where we're supposed to be connected, who we're supposed to 575 00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:16,480 be connected, what vision we're supposed to be connected with. 576 00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:18,920 And then do it with all the heart, soul, mind, and strength. 577 00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:25,360 It becomes our seat first because we love Him. 578 00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:29,960 And out of it the equipping of the Saints occurs so that you 579 00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:33,120 can do the work of the ministry to where you produce the fruit 580 00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:36,320 of the Kingdom of God in your sectors of society, and it 581 00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:38,880 changes your life. Acts chapter 20, verse 28 says 582 00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:41,520 that those may be on God for yourself and for all the flock 583 00:39:41,720 --> 00:39:44,280 among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers to shepherd 584 00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:46,560 the Church of God, which He purchased with His own blood. 585 00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:52,880 Did He purchase you? Does he own you? 586 00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:57,720 Yeah, He owns you. He sure does. 587 00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:01,120 And I'm OK with that because I want him to own me. 588 00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:04,720 I want him to own me. I want him to renovate me. 589 00:40:04,720 --> 00:40:08,120 I want him to renew my mind. I want him to remodel my life. 590 00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:10,320 He already made me a new creature in Christ. 591 00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:13,200 And I want him to have all access to me because I want to 592 00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:17,720 be the best version of me that he saw before the foundations of 593 00:40:17,720 --> 00:40:20,240 the world and before I was in my mother's womb. 594 00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:22,600 And I trust him because he's trustworthy. 595 00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:25,400 He is faithful. His way is better than my way 596 00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:26,840 his. His ways are higher than my 597 00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:30,160 ways, His thoughts are better than my thoughts, and his way is 598 00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:35,000 life. And he's the one I say yes, Sir, 599 00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:37,640 to. Yes, Daddy. 600 00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:44,360 Whatever you say, Dad. I love you Dad, and I know 601 00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:47,360 anything you say towards me is good for me. 602 00:40:47,720 --> 00:40:50,480 It's to my benefit. It's to cause me to be 603 00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:52,880 successful. It allows me to show you and 604 00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:56,000 glorify you because again, I'm not the center of the world. 605 00:40:56,000 --> 00:41:00,960 You are. I'm not the the God you are. 606 00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:08,400 You're God. When does the created tell the 607 00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:12,520 Creator? This is Isaiah's issue, when 608 00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:15,720 he's took the clay and threw it on the Potter's wheel and the 609 00:41:15,720 --> 00:41:18,760 Potter's mold in it, and the clay's like, don't touch me 610 00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:22,000 there. He's like, how does the clay 611 00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:27,400 tell the Potter? How can you tell God? 612 00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:30,360 You can't love something, you can't forgive something, you 613 00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:32,200 can't do this, you can't do that. 614 00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:35,280 When he's like, really, you can. You know what? 615 00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:41,680 You can do all things through Christ who strengthens you. 616 00:41:43,720 --> 00:41:48,240 Hallelujah. You can get up and dance even 617 00:41:48,240 --> 00:41:51,040 when your body and your life. I'm not really much of A dancer 618 00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:54,360 and I don't feel like it. Feelings irrelevant. 619 00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:59,880 Being sensitive enough to the spirit, being sensitive enough 620 00:41:59,880 --> 00:42:04,400 to that step. Brown's like I got him. 621 00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:06,560 If he falls, I am jumping out of the seat. 622 00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:12,520 I am going to catch him. Hallelujah, say Hallelujah. 623 00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:15,200 Now, this is really an exciting message. 624 00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:19,720 It really is. The problem is we're so 625 00:42:19,720 --> 00:42:23,160 conditioned that anytime instructions or corrections come 626 00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:25,280 in, you know, we got to act like, oh, whoa, whoa. 627 00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:27,360 When really you're like, glory to God. 628 00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:29,360 Yeah, that's what I was doing wrong. 629 00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:31,120 Awesome. I remember a time when I was in 630 00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:35,720 the Army and I was shooting the weapon for qualification and 631 00:42:35,720 --> 00:42:38,400 getting a foxhole and, you know, you're firing down range, man. 632 00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:41,880 And when I was in the foxhole, I was standing up and I have my my 633 00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:44,680 weapon on my sandbags and I'm boom, I'm popping. 634 00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:46,880 I am dropping targets 300 meters. 635 00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:48,440 Doesn't matter. I'm dropping off of them all. 636 00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:51,320 Then I get out in the prone unsupported position like this 637 00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:54,640 and now I'm down there fire and man, I'm missing everything. 638 00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:57,160 I can't hit. I can't even hit the 25 meter. 639 00:42:57,360 --> 00:42:58,840 I mean, it's like what is happening? 640 00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:01,240 And so we're zeroing in my weapon, you know, and I'm bared. 641 00:43:01,240 --> 00:43:05,040 I'm like, what is going on? And the next day's qualification 642 00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:08,760 and you have to get so many laying down to qualify. 643 00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:12,840 And I can't hit the broadside of a barn yet when I'm in the 644 00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:16,840 foxhole standing up, it's like, you don't want to come around me 645 00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:22,200 because you're going to die. And so I'm like, what is going 646 00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:25,000 on in my drill Sergeant? He was looking. 647 00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:27,000 He was looking. He was looking. 648 00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:28,960 He was looking because he's the expert. 649 00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:30,640 He's the one who's doing the training. 650 00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:34,520 And my gosh, I want to be right. I want to pass. 651 00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:37,480 I want to, you know, succeed. And so I'm down. 652 00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:42,680 And he noticed that I would pull my elbow up to get a little 653 00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:46,480 hype, which is not what I was doing in the foxhole. 654 00:43:46,680 --> 00:43:49,080 So I was changing my line of sight. 655 00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:55,160 And when he saw that one thing, he said, private, this is what 656 00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:57,280 you're doing now. He wasn't very nice about it 657 00:43:57,360 --> 00:44:01,400 either. And I didn't get offended and 658 00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:04,320 then call my mom and cry and get a dishonorable discharge. 659 00:44:08,240 --> 00:44:11,560 But man, when he did it, then I started firing Bam, bam, bam, 660 00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:12,480 bam. I was hitting them all. 661 00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:16,000 I was like, Oh my gosh, I was like victory is mine. 662 00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:18,040 Why? Cuz what was wrong? 663 00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:22,400 You help me see it. I corrected it and it made me a 664 00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:25,080 sharpshooter. I mean, I was excellent. 665 00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:29,120 I was like 3 shots, two shots from being what they call a 666 00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:32,240 Hawkeye. I didn't get 4440. 667 00:44:32,240 --> 00:44:37,760 I was 38 out of 40. Bro, you today, you do not want 668 00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:40,120 to be coming across our parking lot during the apocalypse 669 00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:49,040 because I'm going to be up on if I was here, I'll be up on there. 670 00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:49,960 Come on, You know what I'm saying? 671 00:44:51,040 --> 00:44:57,680 And it's not good for you. It's seriously like a bicycle. 672 00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:01,880 And I got a little scope on mine with little red dot. 673 00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:07,920 I mean, I was hitting tennis balls over 100 yards away. 674 00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:10,080 Tennis balls. I'm like this is boring, let's 675 00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:12,920 pull out the pistols. I'm serious. 676 00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:17,000 Because I trained, all right? Because I don't want to have to 677 00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:19,360 fight you in my hands anyway. So I'd much rather take you that 678 00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:22,960 way long. Hallelujah if it came to that. 679 00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:25,120 All right, y'all doing all right? 680 00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:28,760 I said, you doing all right, Hallelujah. 681 00:45:29,720 --> 00:45:32,320 So God is speaking to us in the house. 682 00:45:33,920 --> 00:45:36,480 So let me cut this short, although I could expound on 683 00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:40,920 this, but I think I'm not first Peter chapter 4, let's actually 684 00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:48,720 just go down to verse 17. Yeah, maybe we'll start at 16. 685 00:45:48,720 --> 00:45:51,800 Let's do 16 start at the 16th verse. 686 00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:55,640 So but if anyone suffers as a Christian, he is not to be 687 00:45:55,640 --> 00:46:00,680 ashamed, but is the glory, but is to glorify God in in his 688 00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:01,680 name. OK. 689 00:46:01,680 --> 00:46:02,840 Is that what it said in his name? 690 00:46:03,520 --> 00:46:05,040 Yeah. In this, in this name. 691 00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:08,720 You understand when you're obeying God, people, you're 692 00:46:08,720 --> 00:46:12,480 going to suffer because the world is in disobedience. 693 00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:16,160 So it just comes with a territory when you start acting 694 00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:19,720 right. And I don't want I I I have no 695 00:46:19,720 --> 00:46:21,120 desire for anything of the world. 696 00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:24,320 I've been redeemed. I've been pulled out of that. 697 00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:28,840 I don't, I don't want anything to do with it because I get to 698 00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:34,360 enjoy life at a higher level. At a higher level. 699 00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:42,680 I don't miss out on a thing, period, except flesh, which 700 00:46:42,680 --> 00:46:45,160 kills me. And I'm glad to miss out on 701 00:46:45,160 --> 00:46:46,320 that. Amen. 702 00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:52,520 I'm never going back verse 17. For it is time for it is time 703 00:46:52,520 --> 00:47:00,360 for judgment to begin with. All right, see, we stay away 704 00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:04,440 from these verses today because, you know, you know, the churches 705 00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:07,000 don't want to talk about these verses today because it uses 706 00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:09,480 that word that starts with AJ and it's not Jesus. 707 00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:14,360 OK. What is the household of God, 708 00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:18,720 the Church of the living God? Well, we're not going to be 709 00:47:18,720 --> 00:47:20,840 judged. You're always being judged. 710 00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:25,440 Now, judge is not a bad thing because judge is also a good 711 00:47:25,440 --> 00:47:27,840 word. And this is the problem because 712 00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:31,240 of your sin consciousness and your desire to always be 713 00:47:31,240 --> 00:47:34,280 forgiven. You always hear these words this 714 00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:37,400 way, but you understand. I'm thankful for the judge 715 00:47:37,520 --> 00:47:40,760 because I remember one time when I was a weightlifter and I was 716 00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:45,360 in a a county competition and I'd lifted in the 132 LB class 717 00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:50,000 because I was nothing but muscle and dropped to the 123 LB class 718 00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:53,040 because I was only 127 at the start of the season. 719 00:47:53,160 --> 00:47:56,600 I dropped 4 lbs and I show up at the county meet, no one knew my 720 00:47:56,600 --> 00:47:58,680 name, had no idea of what I lifted. 721 00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:01,680 And I jumped into the meet and they're like, who's this kid 722 00:48:01,680 --> 00:48:06,760 from Newberry, right? And this is all the big schools 723 00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:13,080 that were in Alachua County. And so Santa Fe had this great 724 00:48:13,080 --> 00:48:15,720 athlete and Eastside had a great athlete as well. 725 00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:19,480 And so when we got to the bench, we, you know, when you get 726 00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:22,320 there, you put down what you're what you're going to bench, 727 00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:23,920 right? You give them your first number. 728 00:48:24,160 --> 00:48:28,680 Now if you, if 135 is being lifted and then it goes to 1:40 729 00:48:28,680 --> 00:48:31,000 and you're like, oh, I want to do 135 too late. 730 00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:34,040 You missed it. Once it passes away, it does not 731 00:48:34,040 --> 00:48:36,200 go back. So you got to pay attention to 732 00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:38,360 where it's at in the competition. 733 00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:42,000 And so, you know, when it got to the bench thing, I was in 3rd 734 00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:44,720 place. OK, my bench wasn't as good as 735 00:48:44,720 --> 00:48:47,200 some of these. In fact, one guy benched 225 lbs 736 00:48:47,200 --> 00:48:52,840 At 123 lbs, he and a bench legal is coming off holding it come 737 00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:55,040 down. You touch your chest and there 738 00:48:55,040 --> 00:49:00,320 are three judges and they have lights and so they get to click 739 00:49:00,320 --> 00:49:04,160 their light, but one of the judges will clap once you 740 00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:07,760 completely stop it on your chest and it's a full press. 741 00:49:07,760 --> 00:49:10,680 You can't bounce it. You can do it has to stop and 742 00:49:10,680 --> 00:49:13,880 then you push it, lock it out. Both arms have to lock out at 743 00:49:13,880 --> 00:49:16,760 the same time. Now you can go up like this, but 744 00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:19,840 you got to lock out at the same time and then they'll clap again 745 00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:23,000 and you get the racket and then the lights come on. 746 00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:25,400 And if you get 2 out of 3, it's a pass you can go on. 747 00:49:25,400 --> 00:49:28,960 That means it's a successful lift and you want to be rewarded 748 00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:32,320 for a good lift. There's something great about 749 00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:35,120 being judged. See what I'm saying? 750 00:49:35,120 --> 00:49:39,680 Well, when we got to the clean and jerk, well, it just so 751 00:49:39,680 --> 00:49:42,440 happened what I benched, I could do in clean and jerk. 752 00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:44,200 And that's typically not what happens. 753 00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:47,120 The bench is usually better for the athlete and the clean and 754 00:49:47,120 --> 00:49:49,800 jerk is a lot less. So all of a sudden this guy from 755 00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:52,400 East Side who's in second, he's like, hey, what are you going to 756 00:49:52,400 --> 00:49:54,200 go in on? I said no, I don't know yet why 757 00:49:54,240 --> 00:49:55,920 this competition. He's trying to mess with their 758 00:49:55,920 --> 00:49:57,480 mom. They don't even know who I am. 759 00:49:57,960 --> 00:50:00,960 Who's this, you know, beefed up, you know, super shredded kid 760 00:50:00,960 --> 00:50:03,640 from, you know, Newberry at 123 lbs. 761 00:50:03,640 --> 00:50:04,880 You know what I'm talking about, Trevor, right? 762 00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:07,160 You talking ripped. You know, the boys from Bellwood 763 00:50:07,160 --> 00:50:09,400 get scared about this stuff over there in Chiefland. 764 00:50:10,720 --> 00:50:14,160 And so. So what are you saying? 765 00:50:14,160 --> 00:50:22,600 Oh my God, come here, Raphael, since you're so vocal, I mean, 766 00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:25,920 I'm only talking about your weight class right now, right? 767 00:50:25,920 --> 00:50:29,520 I mean, you should be like yes, thank you, see, Amen. 768 00:50:29,520 --> 00:50:31,200 So give me an Amen. Amen. 769 00:50:31,200 --> 00:50:35,520 Thank you. All right, so this guy from East 770 00:50:35,520 --> 00:50:41,120 side, he does his 145 one 55160 because you can do a 10 LB jumps 771 00:50:41,120 --> 00:50:43,640 and then if you only do a 5 LB jump, then that's it. 772 00:50:43,640 --> 00:50:47,200 You can't go up again if you only do 5 lbs between lifts. 773 00:50:47,440 --> 00:50:52,760 So his last lifts 160 and I haven't even posted the guy from 774 00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:56,240 Alachua. I think he started at 165, then 775 00:50:56,240 --> 00:51:01,880 he went to 175 and I started at 175. 776 00:51:03,920 --> 00:51:06,480 All right. So after I did my first 777 00:51:06,480 --> 00:51:08,800 successful lift, I'm the only person lifting now. 778 00:51:09,760 --> 00:51:13,240 Everybody else is finished. I think he did 180 maybe, and 779 00:51:13,240 --> 00:51:16,680 that was it. And Coach Bass looked at me and 780 00:51:16,680 --> 00:51:21,040 he said, Earl, if you do 195, you win. 781 00:51:22,160 --> 00:51:24,280 It's my second lift. I said, let's do it because the 782 00:51:24,280 --> 00:51:31,040 week before I had done 200. So I was extremely confident. 783 00:51:32,400 --> 00:51:35,120 So I got up underneath. I got my judges there, right? 784 00:51:35,560 --> 00:51:39,360 And I popped up like this. Now, most people don't clean and 785 00:51:39,360 --> 00:51:41,400 jerk that way. I wish they would have taught me 786 00:51:41,400 --> 00:51:43,840 the other squat technique because then my left leg would 787 00:51:43,840 --> 00:51:45,840 be as big as my right and it's not. 788 00:51:46,800 --> 00:51:50,440 And that's why. Anyway, so I popped up like this 789 00:51:50,680 --> 00:51:54,600 and man, I stuck that thing so hard that it actually got behind 790 00:51:54,600 --> 00:51:58,440 me. And so I had AI mean 791 00:51:58,880 --> 00:52:05,760 milliseconds decision. Do I try to get this or do I let 792 00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:07,880 it go? I just walked out. 793 00:52:09,160 --> 00:52:11,440 It hit the ground, Coach caught his side. 794 00:52:11,600 --> 00:52:15,560 My friend Chad was not paying attention as a good spotter, so 795 00:52:15,560 --> 00:52:21,040 Coach Bass got jerked across the mat and then he slapped Chad on 796 00:52:21,040 --> 00:52:23,880 the butt, basically spanked him and it wasn't his child. 797 00:52:23,880 --> 00:52:26,280 I'm just letting you know we did a lot more things back in the 798 00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:28,800 day then we you can get away with today. 799 00:52:29,760 --> 00:52:32,960 Anyway, he kind of ringed you pay attention. 800 00:52:33,360 --> 00:52:38,080 So now we're at the next lift. Well, my competitor who's in, 801 00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:41,800 who's in first, and we'll only be in second if I make this 802 00:52:41,800 --> 00:52:50,240 lift, decided to get up behind the middle judge, do one of 803 00:52:50,240 --> 00:52:52,120 these poses. You know what I'm talking about, 804 00:52:52,120 --> 00:52:53,360 Tony. You know how Florida does that 805 00:52:53,360 --> 00:52:56,200 to Florida State. I'm just kidding. 806 00:52:56,480 --> 00:52:59,920 I'm kidding, because that pose did nothing anyway. 807 00:53:00,480 --> 00:53:02,560 So I popped the first one, right? 808 00:53:02,560 --> 00:53:04,400 And if I'll get it here, bro, it's going up. 809 00:53:04,400 --> 00:53:06,720 There's no way I'm going to get out from underneath it. 810 00:53:07,360 --> 00:53:11,480 And there he is looking at me and I got my judges and I need 811 00:53:11,480 --> 00:53:14,040 my judges to judge correctly. And I'm excited about these 812 00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:15,560 judges because I'm going to get 3 lights. 813 00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:18,280 I'm so confident. I looked at him and I went. 814 00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:27,720 I stared him down, winked at him, and I won. 815 00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:30,640 Hallelujah. See, when you know who you are 816 00:53:30,640 --> 00:53:34,440 in Christ, you can wink at the enemy, you can weaken the one 817 00:53:34,440 --> 00:53:37,840 who wants to take you down from the top, because you know my 818 00:53:37,840 --> 00:53:42,040 judges are going to judge me rightly according to what I'm 819 00:53:42,040 --> 00:53:45,000 about to perform. And you, we know that God will 820 00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:48,800 judge me rightly when I am a doer of His word and I'm a 821 00:53:48,800 --> 00:53:52,240 keeper of His word. And when I do His word in His 822 00:53:52,240 --> 00:53:56,560 household, then He will openly reward me and make a table 823 00:53:56,640 --> 00:54:00,240 before me in the presence of my enemies. 824 00:54:03,680 --> 00:54:09,080 This is why it is good to be righteous. 825 00:54:10,120 --> 00:54:13,800 So I don't mind if judgment comes to the household because 826 00:54:13,800 --> 00:54:18,200 when it comes to us first, then that means we can be victorious. 827 00:54:18,360 --> 00:54:20,720 Because He said if judgment comes to the household, put that 828 00:54:20,720 --> 00:54:23,200 verse back up. What will be the outcome for 829 00:54:23,200 --> 00:54:28,000 those who do not obey the gospel of God? 830 00:54:29,560 --> 00:54:33,960 He goes on to say in verse 18. And if it is with difficulty 831 00:54:33,960 --> 00:54:38,200 that the righteous is saved, what will become the godless man 832 00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:40,000 and the Sinner? Now we say difficulty. 833 00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:41,680 We're not saying you're earning it. 834 00:54:41,960 --> 00:54:46,080 We're saying that you do have to fight the good fight of faith. 835 00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:47,920 You cannot succumb to this world. 836 00:54:48,040 --> 00:54:49,640 You can't just say, well, I'm born again. 837 00:54:49,640 --> 00:54:51,960 I live like I want to and God knows it's OK. 838 00:54:52,120 --> 00:54:54,200 And I'll just keep getting this forgiveness all the time. 839 00:54:54,200 --> 00:54:56,560 No, that's not how you do it. You're like, you know what, I'm 840 00:54:56,560 --> 00:54:57,920 going to crucify the flesh. You know what? 841 00:54:57,920 --> 00:54:59,480 I'm going to put that down. You know what, I'm going to be 842 00:54:59,560 --> 00:55:00,960 the obedient. You know, I don't really feel 843 00:55:00,960 --> 00:55:03,480 like doing that today, Lord, but you know what you owe me and 844 00:55:03,480 --> 00:55:05,880 that's OK because your life, your liberty, you know what, I 845 00:55:05,880 --> 00:55:07,720 am going to forgive them. You know what, I am going to 846 00:55:07,720 --> 00:55:09,200 walk in joy. You know what, I am going to 847 00:55:09,200 --> 00:55:10,400 dance. I am going to shout. 848 00:55:10,400 --> 00:55:11,720 You know I am going to give you praise. 849 00:55:11,720 --> 00:55:13,240 You know I am going to read my word. 850 00:55:13,320 --> 00:55:17,880 You know I am going to pray. You know I am going to and it's 851 00:55:17,880 --> 00:55:21,640 with difficulty, but the reality is I'm staying righteous, 852 00:55:21,640 --> 00:55:24,320 walking in the power of God. But what will become of the 853 00:55:24,320 --> 00:55:29,240 godless man or the Sinner? Verse 19 Therefore, those who 854 00:55:29,240 --> 00:55:32,760 have suffered according to the will of God shall entrust their 855 00:55:32,760 --> 00:55:38,560 souls to a faithful creator in doing what is right. 856 00:55:38,960 --> 00:55:41,320 Last two verses of this Galatians 610. 857 00:55:41,560 --> 00:55:46,160 So then why we have opportunity? Say I have an opportunity. 858 00:55:46,920 --> 00:55:50,880 I have an opportunity to be obligated, required, and must, 859 00:55:53,240 --> 00:55:57,880 while I have the opportunity to let us do good to all people and 860 00:55:58,600 --> 00:56:03,520 especially to those who are the household of faith. 861 00:56:03,560 --> 00:56:05,840 I have heard believers literally say this. 862 00:56:07,800 --> 00:56:09,680 You know, I get along with people in the world more than I 863 00:56:09,680 --> 00:56:16,540 do in the church. That's a problem. 864 00:56:19,140 --> 00:56:22,500 That's a big problem. There's 2 problems with that 865 00:56:22,500 --> 00:56:24,540 statement. Number one, why do you like the 866 00:56:24,540 --> 00:56:30,000 world so much that you can get along with them so good #2 are 867 00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:32,640 you not going to a good enough church where they're being 868 00:56:32,640 --> 00:56:34,520 discipled and trained and there's plenty of people who are 869 00:56:34,520 --> 00:56:36,160 actually living righteous and you can find them? 870 00:56:37,320 --> 00:56:38,880 Now, I'm not telling you everybody's perfect because 871 00:56:38,880 --> 00:56:40,960 we're not perfect. And perfection is not what we're 872 00:56:40,960 --> 00:56:45,560 here for. We're here for maturity and 873 00:56:45,560 --> 00:56:48,160 everybody ought to find a church that there's enough mature 874 00:56:48,160 --> 00:56:50,240 people that like, you know what, these people love God. 875 00:56:50,240 --> 00:56:51,720 They're living God. They're putting down their 876 00:56:51,720 --> 00:56:53,800 flesh, they're obeying. And I can count on this person 877 00:56:53,800 --> 00:56:55,320 to be obedient. They want to obey. 878 00:56:55,480 --> 00:56:57,280 Wow, they're look at them, they're just living the word. 879 00:56:57,400 --> 00:56:58,520 They're doing that. You know what? 880 00:56:58,720 --> 00:57:00,760 And those people are the greatest people to ever be 881 00:57:00,760 --> 00:57:02,040 around. You know what, they're better to 882 00:57:02,040 --> 00:57:06,840 be around the natural family. They actually you're like, this 883 00:57:06,840 --> 00:57:11,880 is my family and you'll actually experience family because again, 884 00:57:11,880 --> 00:57:14,120 I'm not doing what you want and you're not doing what I want. 885 00:57:14,120 --> 00:57:17,360 We're doing what he wants and this is really amazing. 886 00:57:17,360 --> 00:57:20,360 Last scriptures there second Peter chapter 3 verse 13. 887 00:57:20,440 --> 00:57:24,840 Come on, worship team says this. But according to His promise, we 888 00:57:24,840 --> 00:57:33,280 are looking for new heavens and a new in which in which 889 00:57:34,560 --> 00:57:38,960 righteousness dwells, which tells us in the new heavens and 890 00:57:38,960 --> 00:57:44,680 the new earth unrighteousness will not dwell. 891 00:57:46,960 --> 00:57:51,440 So as we said earlier today, if there's things in your life 892 00:57:51,440 --> 00:57:58,760 right now that you know this wouldn't make it in heaven, this 893 00:57:58,760 --> 00:58:04,640 attitude I have wouldn't make it in heaven, then why don't we get 894 00:58:04,640 --> 00:58:10,040 rid of it now? Don't be deceived. 895 00:58:11,840 --> 00:58:16,440 You can have a heaven experience even in the earth because Jesus 896 00:58:16,440 --> 00:58:18,320 is not a liar. He said when you pray, pray this 897 00:58:18,320 --> 00:58:22,120 way, our Father who art heaven hallowed be your name, your 898 00:58:22,120 --> 00:58:27,920 Kingdom come, your will be done on as it is in heaven. 899 00:58:28,400 --> 00:58:32,040 And we know in the new heavens and the new earth, there's not 900 00:58:32,040 --> 00:58:36,000 going to be backbiting, jealousy, slander, gossip, 901 00:58:36,600 --> 00:58:41,840 murder, lying, cheating, stealing, fornication, all 902 00:58:41,840 --> 00:58:44,760 sexual immorality. There's not going to be bad 903 00:58:44,760 --> 00:58:49,640 thinking, wrong thoughts. No, we're going to be righteous, 904 00:58:51,200 --> 00:58:56,240 obeying the word of the King with great joy, with all of our 905 00:58:56,240 --> 00:59:02,840 heart, mind and soul. May the Church rise today to 906 00:59:02,840 --> 00:59:09,160 desire that which you already have the ability to do because 907 00:59:09,160 --> 00:59:13,640 you're a child of God, a child of the King, a new creature in 908 00:59:13,640 --> 00:59:16,960 Christ, and you have the Holy Ghost living on the inside of 909 00:59:16,960 --> 00:59:19,440 you. And he's also come upon you if 910 00:59:19,440 --> 00:59:24,280 He has and empowered you to overcome every form of 911 00:59:24,280 --> 00:59:27,120 temptation and has redeemed you from the law of sin and death. 912 00:59:27,720 --> 00:59:30,200 Wow. Wow. 913 00:59:31,880 --> 00:59:35,720 We are truly without excuse. I don't need an excuse. 914 00:59:36,120 --> 00:59:37,240 I'm just going to live for the Lord.