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Being the lover of our soul. That was great.
Pastor Marcus. He was totally being led by the
spirit because he didn't know I was Ministering and again
tonight, Pastor actually was going to minister but then he
said you just go ahead and keep on.
I think you've got some more in there.
So we going to dig out some more amen.
And and so, how many of you love the word?
Amen. We need to be people.
That love the word of God. Amen.
Because it's his word that's going to remain forever, heaven
and earth going to pass away, but it's his word that will
remain through it all through it.
All, it's his word that's going to remain.
So we must be people that are full of his word that love his
word, amen. So that we can continue to
remain until the very end because we've been talking about
the fact that talking concerning Scripture and the fact of what
he said, it's going to be like, in the last days.
Do you know? We don't have to be ignorant
about what's going on in the Earth today.
He didn't leave us here so that we did would not understand or
be able to discern properly what is happening in the earth and
what he said, it's going to look like in the last days and I
believe we're in the last of the last days.
Amen. Hallelujah.
According to prophecy. I see according to the greatest
prophecy that there ever is been spoken or written.
This is the greatest prophecy ever.
Written. Amen.
And it is being fulfilled every single day, every single day.
And so the closer we get to the end, we have to recognize, we
cannot be a church. That is illiterate of what is
happening. In the earth.
Amen we have to Lies. What's going on.
And so we began talking about what he said concerning the last
days and we were coming out of the scripture of Jude.
And how many of you went home and did your homework?
Thank you. Alex, come up here.
I think he needs to get a reward.
I don't have any money in my pocket but Pastor might so we'll
get his money because he's always getting mine.
So, I think you need a reward. Thank you for being diligent.
Amen. And so you can be seated.
He's just the first hand I saw go up so I like to pick on
people. But anyway, I encouraged you to
go back and read the only chapter that's in the book of
Jude, which is Jude chapter 1, a very easy read.
And he begins to talk about some things in the last days.
But this stuck out to me out of Jude 1 20 and 25, it says, but
you beloved building yourself up on your Most Holy Faith.
Praying in the Holy Spirit and verse 21 is what I really began
to key in on is keep yourselves. In the love of God, waiting
anxiously for the mercy of the Lord Jesus Christ to eternal
life and have mercy on some who are doubting save, other
snatching them out of the fire and on some have mercy with fear
hating, even the Garment polluted by the flesh.
Now to him, who is able to keep you from stumbling Do you know
the Lord can keep you from stumbling?
We do not have to be Christians that fall.
Or fail. Amen.
And he says that if we do fall of a righteous man might fall
what 7 times but he what gets back up.
He gets back up. Amen, he's going to help you get
back up. He doesn't want you to be in a
fallen State. Amen.
He never wanted man to be in a fallen State.
Actually, you can go back to Genesis and see that when man
fell come on from Dominion, God Made A Plan of Redemption.
N to get him back up. Amen.
And so, we need to be people that recognize that we shouldn't
be people that are in a fallen State.
No matter what situations going on, we can get back up as long
as there's another day and as long as there's mercy and it all
is, there's Grace, we can get back up.
If we go to the one that can help us.
Amen. Anyway, that's a side note.
And he goes on to say and to make you stand in the presence
of his glory blameless with great joy to Only God our savior
through Jesus Christ. Our Lord be glory Majesty
dominion and Authority before all time and now forevermore.
Amen. But we keyed on the scripture in
Twin verse 21 where it says to keep yourselves in the love of
God. And the thing that we began to
discuss is that He said that in the last days, there's going to
be a lot of things going on. He actually said, there's gonna
be lawlessness, right? He actually said, there's going
to be mockers and scoffers and all kinds of people.
And so, the first time we talked about this, we really focused in
on the fact that there's going to be all kinds of stuff
happening with people, but our battle is not against the
people, it's not against flesh and blood but against what
principalities and Powers these things that are operating in
those of darkness and those that are not of Christ, right?
And so we need to realize that we can't get caught up and what
they're saying, we have to understand what the spirit is
being motivated behind them, right?
And not take it personal. You don't have to take it
personal when you understand where it's coming from, but if
you're in, Cure, and you're still have an inferiority
complex, you will take it personal, but he's looking for
people that know who they are in Christ.
Come on and know what the enemy and the strategies and the plans
of the devil is in the last days so that we don't have to take a
tax personal. We don't have to look at what's
going on and take it personal and get caught up in opinions
and pop. Politics and, and spewing hatred
about people because they're not of the spirit of God.
And so, when we recognize that, then whatever people say don't
have to offend us, right? It doesn't have to offend us
because we actually understand where it's coming from and
that's very important. But he said, listen that they're
all these things were happening in Jude and he said there's
mockers scoffers there's going to be all kinds of things going
on, but also Actually, I never read the verse before 20.
So I want to go up there tonight.
Verses 18 and 19. It says they told you beforehand
that in the last days in the end times there will be scoffers who
seek to gratify their own Unholy desires following after their
own ungodly passions. It is these who are agitators.
You see that, I'm reading out of the Amplified, classic setting
up distinctions and causing division.
See when, you know, the spirit, see anything that causes
division even among people groups is not of the spirit of
God. And the spirit of love because
love will always unite to the best of its ability and will
always bring peace with all men to the best of its ability.
So anything that's causing divisiveness strife division,
it's from a wrong spirit and we need to wake up.
And realize that right agitator setting up distinctions and
causing divisions merely sensual creatures, carnal worldly minded
people, devoid of the spirit and destitute of any higher
spiritual life. So he let us know that this is
how some of these people are in the last days.
And, you know, we talked about We are responsible to keep
ourselves in the love of God, that we must go back to our
first love. We registered several
scriptures, concerning that same passionate about our love
relationship with the Lord. That's where it starts.
Because if you're not passionate about your relationship and how
much you love the Lord, then there is no way.
You're going to be able to continue to keep yourself in the
love of God in these last days when there will be nothing, but
hatred and lies, Lies and manipulation and all kinds of
things happening in the world. And we talked about how
important it is that he said in Revelations, what happened to
the church? That was busy doing but they
lost what their first love. So we talked about that, I don't
have time to go back, but we are responsible in the last days to
keep ourselves in a position of love, and it is.
So vitally important. That we recognize that, this
must be our number one priority, that our love relationship with
the Lord, is on fire and that our love relationship with one
another, the Brethren is there that we cannot have offense with
one another that we can't have anything because we're going to
read the scripture in a minute. That lets us know how we truly
the world will truly know that we are truly his disciples.
Right. And so anyway, I quoted a lot of
scriptures about the last days but I want to actually read the
scripture because as again, I told you that Jesus did not
leave us in the world for such a time as this for.
We are those that are right here.
Ready to brusher in, come on, the second coming of Christ, he
left the best. For last, he left the best for
last. Amen.
So what he is not going to leave us ignorant, he's not going to
leave us in a place that we would be, you know, taken back.
Know if we are people of the word and studiers of the word
every day, not just the pastors. But, you know, we in this
church, we have our Bible reading plan and we read our
Bible through from Genesis to Revelations.
Every year. And this is why you need to be
full of the word of God. Because if you're not full of
the word, you'll be full of the world.
And it's philosophies, it's agendas its opinions and none of
them matter to me. The only opinion that matters to
me is the word of God. Amen.
No matter what. So it's very tidily important
that we recognize. Anyway so I quoted a lot and I
ran out of Matthew 24 37 through 39, because this is another
scripture that Pastor touched on a couple of Sundays ago and it
stood out to Me and he started talking.
Remember about that in the last days, it's going to look like
the days of Noah. Right?
And so I quoted it, but I didn't really read it.
So I want to read it because I want your eyes on it.
I want you to not be ignorant. What scripture says that it will
look like in the last days. It says this, it says as were
the days of Noah so will be the coming of the son of man for
just, as in those days before the flood, they were eating
drinking men marrying women being given into marriage until
the very day when Noah went into the ark and they did not know or
understand. They didn't know or understand
what was getting ready to happen.
He did warn them, there is no way that Noah did not warn them
of what was to come, but they did not want to understand.
And they did not want to know anything about what was getting
ready to happen. And we talked about this, the
second Wednesday that I ministered is what will happen
is, We get so caught up in the things of this world, that it
begins to choke us out. And so, that's, what was
happening in the days of Noah. They were given to marriage.
They were doing Mary, drinking doing all these things.
Having their parties doing, whatever living life, fully
distracted, with the things of the world that they did.
Not discern and understand or know what was getting ready to
happen, but not this Church. We are not going to be ignorant
about what is getting ready to happen.
Amen. So, he lets us know.
But we can see this all the way, this is actually the scripture
that Pastor read a few weeks ago.
Concerning this in Genesis chapter 6, 5 & 6, it says, then
the Lord saw, this is what it was like in the days of Noah,
the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the Earth.
and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only
evil, what continually there are some evil thoughts continually
happening in our Earth right now.
There are agendas of wickedness and evil being pushed in our
society right now. Continually.
Continually and he says this and the Lord was what sorry that he
had made man on the earth and it grieved and he was grieved in
his heart. So this is what the picture
looked like that men were just so he's wicked and evil
continually with all kinds of thoughts of evil.
And we see that happening today when they're wanting little
children to be able to pick their identity, giving them
drugs and In surgeries at a little age, all of the
homosexual perversion. That's happening, continual evil
and wickedness, being spewed in our Earth today and other
things, greed, manipulation and politics.
I mean, it's just evil Right, evil is prevailing right.
If you don't see that, you need to wake up.
You need to wake up, we're not going to have a church.
That's asleep. I'll go by every chair in wake
you up. Hallelujah, somebody asked me
Pastor Marcy. Do you know, remember you used
to could name every person? It was Mr. Mackey, years ago
when I would get up on a Wednesday night and preach and I
could name every person in the sanctuary and he said do you
think you could still do that? I said no I said no there's too
many for me to remember you only have one person to remember.
Anyway, I don't know why I thought about that.
But anyway, Let me read at a second, Timothy chapter 3 1
through 5. Timothy also gives us a good
picture of what it will look like.
In the last days he says understand this I love the way
he says that understand it. Remember because he said, in the
days of Noah they didn't understand.
But here, he lets us know, listen, understand this, that in
the last days will come and will set in, it will be set in
perilous times. Let me tell you.
It is set in perilous times, right?
Of great stress and trouble. I mean, you know, at people are
so stressed out about gas prices and food shortages and, you
know, all of these things, great stressed.
Level hard to deal with and hard to bear for people will be
lovers of self and utterly self-centered.
And I'm going to tell you, there's a generation that is so
self-centered right now that we have self-care self-help, self
fees, self everything. Everything everything is about
self and the comfort of self, right?
And what makes them feel good about them self.
And it all started with years ago, probably 10-15 years ago
when everybody had to get a trophy for playing a game.
Because nobody wanted to feel bad for them self.
It's just real. Lovers of money.
Oh man, corrupt. I mean are we not seeing this
greed? Aroused by greedy desires for
wealth proud. Arrogant content.
I mean so arrogant that you're going to act like you can change
the DNA of a man that was created by God.
That's arrogance to the highest level, right?
And pride to the highest level, that man thinks that they can
change the very image of what God created man and woman to be
the highest level of Pride. And so he goes on to say they
will be abusive have oh man Blasphemous here.
It is scoffing disobedient to parents.
Oh my Work in the preschool for one day.
I want to go whip some little high knees.
In our preschool. But DCF would lock me up.
What anybody pale me out. Would you come bust down the
jail cell or do I just need to pray like Paul and Silas and the
Midnight Hour and call my own angels to get Unholy profane
ungrateful. They'll be without natural
human, affection callous callous to be able to sit and watch a
human baby being a boarded Callous.
Hard-hearted I ain't this is callousness of your heart.
See, what's happening? So he goes on to say, Relentless
admitting of no truce or appeasement, they will be
slanderers, false accusers troublemakers.
There are paid people, literally, that go out and calls
all of this trouble and riots, and all of this chaos, Come on,
we do not have to be ignorant about these things guys.
For real. And then he goes on to say.
In temperament, with loose morals, conduct uncontrolled,
fears haters of good, haters of good, they will be treacherous
betrayers rash inflated with self-conceit, they will be
lovers of sensual pleasures and vein of amusements, more than
rather than lovers of God for, although Hold a form of
religion. What do they do?
They deny and reject and are strangers. ^.
It their conduct beliles belies, the genuineness of their
profession. This is talking about Believers.
This is not talking about the Lost Sinner's in the world.
This is written to the church who have as a form of God.
Godliness. And we wonder why we see all of
these things. Even in the church, when we see
people in the church, that will vote for abortion, I'm calling
it out. This is what we're talking
about. Denying the power of God that
actually can transform their life.
They want to be religious and yet we see him saying avoid
listen to what he says. Avoid such people turn away from
them, avoid these people when you recognize it your to avoid
them. Amen.
Hallelujah. So here we have seen full.
Oh, let me read this when I didn't read this.
Second Peter 3, 3, 3 4. You just let the word speak for
itself. You don't have to have a
doctorate to figure it out. Amen.
He says this know, you can have the wisdom of God, you can have
the mind of Christ and you can see clearly through scripture
what he's talking about. It says, in second Peter 3, 3, 3
4, it says, no, this first of all, that, in the last days
mockers will come with their mocking following after their
own lusts and saying, where is the promise of his coming?
There are people today that once believed in the return of Christ
that were Believers, that no longer believe that he's going
to return. This is a thing across the
church world. This is this is happening guys.
Alright we're seeing it unfold. He I didn't even read the
scripture where he says, many will fall away from the faith in
the last days. Will he even find faith in the
earth? He says many are going to fall
away and we are seeing that on an everyday basis people that
once served the Lord wants were in church.
Once said they love, God are no longer serving Him and actually
deny him now. We're seeing this happen, right?
So, he's letting us know that we must be people that are aware
and awake of what is happening. See what the signs of the times
are saying and recognize that we and the last day because all of
this is going to be happening in the world.
And in the church that we must be people that keep ourselves in
the love of God so that we can continue to keep our hearts,
right? People that we see in the church
that fall away and not take it personal and not get mad at
them, right? I mean, we don't have to agree
with what they're doing but we must be people that are grieved
in our hearts of what we're seeing and keep our hearts in a
place that we are making sure that we are loving and not
hating and that we are in a place of Of keeping our hearts
often not callous, when we see these things happen on a day in
and day, in basis, day in and day out basis, because we can
become callous. Right.
So he lets us know, listen, we're going to have to be people
that are going to keep ourselves in the love of God.
Now let me go back up to verse 20.
There it says, but you beloved building yourself up on your
Most. Holy Faith.
This is what I want to talk about tonight that they're all
the way that we are going to keep ourselves in the love of
God. We talked about one way was not
getting distracted with the things of this world but this is
a must that if we Going to keep ourselves in love that we must
be people that build ourselves up in our faith in our faith.
Now, he said that when we are born again, right Romans, 5:5
says this now, hope does not disappoint because the love of
God has been poured out in our hearts, by make the connection.
By the Holy Spirit, right? Who is given to us.
So, the minute we got born again, the love of God.
One translation says, was shed abroad in our hearts.
It was poured out or shed abroad.
King James says, it was shed abroad in our hearts.
What does that mean? So the love of God, we're
talking about Agape, the very nature of God who he is, was
poured out. His Spirit was poured out in our
heart, his lungs. Of was poured out in our heart
that day we got born again. So every single one of us that's
called on the name of the Lord, has the love of God in their
hearts. God is not going to make you
love because he says you are to keep yourselves in love, he's
not going to make you do it. He actually commands you to do
it because he knows that man has a choice.
To choose whether or not because we're free will moral agents,
even though we're born again, he's put his love in us.
He's not gonna make us love. Anybody, we have to choose to
love. We have to choose to keep this
love in our hearts and keep ourselves in a place that we
are. Keeping love activated in our
lives, right? We are the ones responsible for
that but You see here, he says that love was poured out in our
hearts, by the holy spirit. So back again, in verse 20, it
says building yourself up on your Most.
Holy Faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, building yourself up on
your Most, Holy Faith, and praying in.
The Holy Spirit is the key to keeping yourselves in the love
of God. It's the key to keeping
yourselves in. The love of God because Romans
10:17 says this. Let's go there.
So then faith comes by what hearing.
So, if we're going to keep ourselves in faith, if we're
going to build ourselves up in faith here, he's letting us
know. Faith comes from what hearing
and hearing from the word of God.
So, if we're going to build ourselves up on our Most, Holy
Faith, Then we're going to have to be people that are
continually in the word of God hearing it and hearing it and
hearing it. A lot of people have heard the
word but he doesn't say, faith comes by what you've heard.
He said, faith comes by what you hear, what you are hearing.
So are you putting yourself in a position every day where he says
man should not live on bread alone but what Every word that
proceeds out of the mouth of God.
Amen. So daily, we are to what
meditate in his word take his word so that Faith Can arise for
the day. Not that we don't have faith as
foundation and Lane. I'm not saying that, but I'm
going to tell you, you can be a forgetful hearer.
The Bible talks about that, you can forget what you've heard and
many people do. Many people do you can forget
what you've heard. How many of you even remember
what you heard on Sunday? See.
So every day we need to be people as he said that we are to
live by his word every day daily bread, right?
Daily Bread is his word so that then faith can be built up in
our lives. So that faith can be built up by
the word of God. It says, faith comes by hearing
and hearing by the word of God. Where it says to build yourself
up up on your Most. Holy Faith.
It means this to build yourself up up on the foundation of the
word, when you look it up in the Greek up on the foundation of
the word. So you need to make sure that
you are in a place that you're keeping your foundation in a
place that it doesn't get cracks.
How many of, you know, after a year you're fat, after years,
your foundation Saddles, and sometimes can get What cracks in
it. Start seeing a little crack in
the wall or whatever. What do you know that can happen
in your life if you just settle and get comfortable when the
winds and the waves and things of Life come and you're just
settled, you're comfortable. You think you've heard the word,
but you're not in the word on a daily basis.
Guess what? Can happen because of the
settlement? You can start getting cracks in
your foundation. So that's why we must be people
that are continually building ourselves up on the foundation
of the word and when it says to build up it means to make
progress. This is why we say in the Bible.
He says that we must be people that are continually in a
process of growing. He desires that we were to grow,
right? We shouldn't be babes on the
Milk of the word, but we ought to grow there by the word.
So that You can start ingesting some of the meat of the word at,
right? So he's showing us here that we
should be continually building ourselves up growing and making
progress in our faith. In our faith.
Can you believe God better today than you've ever believed him
before? You ought to be progressing in
your growth, in your relationship with the Lord.
Progressing in the word of God, come on, knowing the word more
today than you've ever known before, believing the word
because not knowing it is just good enough.
You must believe that and what be doers of it, I don't care how
much knowledge you have of the word but if you are not applying
it to your everyday life, Guess what?
It's inactive. So he tells us in James that we
must be doers of the word, not hearers only deceiving ourselves
right. Going back to the hearing
process. So you can be a person that
hears the word, but if you are not actually applying it and
doing it in your everyday life, come on, then you're deceived
that you're in faith, when you're really not, You see that?
So that's what he's talking about here that we must be
making progress. It means to rise like an edifice
higher and higher. Building ourselves up on our
Most Holy Faith. It means to rise like an edifice
Higher and Higher. And to be honest, I didn't know
what edifice meant. So I had to go to good old
Webster's Dictionary. How many you may know what
edifice meant? But I didn't.
It is a large substantial building.
How about like that? The towers.
The Twin Towers. It's the stanshall you could
recognize it anywhere and that's what this means.
An edifice, a large building that stands out anywhere because
you've made, you've built yourself up.
Come on and yours in such progress and you are so large
and capacity. Come on with the knowledge of
God's word and faith, and who he is.
And who You are that everybody can recognize how much and how
large you are. How much, you know, concerning
his word? How much you live at out every
day you are to rise like an F Ascent, edifice, Higher, and
Higher. And I thought it interesting
that when I looked up the Webster dictionary, they
actually used, you know, how they'll give a sentence
structure of the word being used in a sentence and it literally
meant a complex system of beliefs.
A complex system of beliefs are your beliefs come on in the word
of God. Come on your belief system.
We've talked about this years ago, your belief system ought to
be so strong. So builds up come on.
So much full of progress in your relationship with the Lord
growing and Faith. Amen.
Hallelujah. 1st Corinthians, 14 4 says this.
One, who speaks? Now, we're going to go back to
the second point. The first point is, we have to
be built up in our Most. Holy Faith, right?
Faith comes from hearing and hearing from the word of God.
The second point was, is that it's in correlation and
connection with the Holy Spirit, right?
Because he begins to say what praying in the Holy Spirit, keep
yourselves in the love of God. So First Corinthians 14, Or says
this, the one who speaks in a tongue edifies himself.
There's that word. Edified, edified means to build
up to strengthen. So you see the connection, we
need the word and we need the spirit, and we need them
operating and flowing together. So that when you not only have
the word of God as your foundation, you now are praying
in the Holy Spirit. And when you're praying in the
Holy Spirit, you're at, Defying yourself, you're building
yourself up here in strength. It means to strengthen.
It says, so one who speaks in tongues edifies himself but the
one who prophesies edifies the church, you see that one
translation does said one who speaks in a tongue builds
himself up. And then also one who speaks in
a tongue strengthens himself. So the only outcome of you being
in the word, hearing the word and praying in the Holy Spirit.
The only outcome can be what that you're built up that your
strengthened. That's the only outcome.
So why are we not doing it more? Why are we not taking advantage
of what he says? We must do to keep ourselves in
a position of love. Right?
Why are we not in the word? Why are we not praying in the
Holy Ghost because I'm tired of seeing worn-out.
Come on, broke down, barely getting along Christians that
are spirit filled when the spirit, is there to build you up
to edify you to strengthen you. What is he going to edify you?
He's going to edify you. According to what the word is,
that has been being put in your heart because the Holy Spirit
and the word are inseparable. They can't speak separate
things. There one, right?
So when you begin to read the word, it's going to strengthen
you. It's going to encourage you.
But then when you begin to pray in the holy spirit it's going to
begin to strengthen you and encourage you, with the word
that's been put in you, how many have you ever been praying in
the Holy Ghost? And all of a sudden scriptures
are starting to come up scriptures, right?
He's calling to your remembrance those things.
That you've put in your heart. Amen.
And that encourages you write it.
Strengthens you. It edifies you.
So, if we're going to keep ourselves in the love of God, we
have to make that connection that we must be built up in the
word and be people that are hearing the word continually,
but not hearing it and not doing it, but doing it and hearing it.
And then we also must be people that are praying in the spirit.
Rohit. Hallelujah Colossians. 27 says
this that we are to be rooted and built up in him and
established in the faith. Right?
As you have been taught abounding in it with
Thanksgiving, beware, lest anyone cheat you through
philosophy and empty, deceit. According to the traditions of
men and according to the basic principles of the world and not
according to Christ, This is why it's so important that we know
what we believe that we know what the word says from Genesis
to Revelations because he said in the last day, they Is going
to be what false prophets, there's going to be false
teachers. There's going to be people that
are set by the enemy, to get you off and deceive you.
And he says, listen that if we are people of the word and we
are built up in the spirit than we will be able to rightly
discern what is happening. And we won't have to get caught
up in philosophies and opinions of this world and what they
think. Come on we don't have to get
caught up into that and by the lies, I mean, all these people
that are listening to tick tock and Twitter and and people on
Instagram for one minute and they have all this knowledge yet
how and they say they're Christians but half of them
don't go to church and you listen to their crap.
You listen to it. You believe what they say and
you don't even know what you don't even know how they live
half of them. You don't even know if they're
born again or not. So many Christians are getting
caught up in all of these things.
Pie little Snippets of what people put out.
And I've seen a mini, a good Christians in solid churches
being swayed away. So it's important what we're
hearing. It's important what we're
hearing because what you put in is going to come out.
And if you put more time on Tick, Tock Twitter, Instagram,
listening to their opinions, and all this kind of stuff, you're
putting it in and guess, what's going to come out?
Because the Bible says, and I said this last week that we were
what to guard. Our hearts Proverbs says, with
all diligence because out of it flows, the issues of life.
We are to guard our hearts and one way, we guard our hearts is
to not let everything opinion everything said go through our
ears especially if you are not solid on a foundation.
I love what brother Hagin used to say about books.
You know everybody. I mean you don't even know how
many books people, you know, want to read and and and give to
you about. I mean, you don't even know who
these people are and I don't read just anything.
If I don't know him, I don't read it.
Why am I saying that brother? Hagin said this.
Well you can read it right? And Pastor said this before,
just what is that saying? Eat the hay and throw out the
sticks. But then I heard dr.
Bill Winston said this well what happens if a stick gets lodged
in your throat? Because when donkeys go to eat
the hay, sometimes they're eating away eating away because
they just eating the hey and then all of a sudden, something
begins to be wrong with them, then they don't want to eat
anymore. They don't want to eat anymore.
So you know one guys like well why my donkey eating anymore?
He's shriveling up. Not eating.
He got a stick lodged in his throat. and if you don't have a
complex belief system, This build upon the unadulterated
word of God for yourself. I've seen a mini a good
Christians, get sticks lodged in their throat, And have fallen
off. So I'm just saying, I don't
listen to everybody, I don't read everything.
I am led by the spirit of God, on the inside.
To what I need to be reading who I need to be listening to
because I will not get a stick lodged in my throat.
It's Not Innocent, especially in these last days when he says
many are going to be carried away.
By what deceitful men? False prophets and false
teachers. Amen.
So we don't have to be ignorant. This is so that, you know, what
you believe, according to the word of God, you've read it for
yourself. You know what the scripture
says, amen. And you can stand in this last
days because you have a pastor that actually feeding you come
on, and you don't have to be a dumb sheep.
Yeah, yeah, that you know that's what they call sheep.
They say they're so dumb. That's why they just fall off in
the thing. And you know, they have to have
a Shepherd to lead them and guide them.
And give them what they need to feed on, right?
So he says this that we need to be rooted and built up in him
and established in faith as you have been taught abounding and
Thanksgiving. We already said that so that
you're not called away through philosophy and empty, deceit.
And according to traditions of men, right?
Because many churches are caught up in Traditions of man.
Instead of the word of God, right?
Now, let's look at Ephesians chapter 3 verse 16 through 21.
It says this and I pray that we he would unveil within you the
unlimited Riches of his glory and favor until Supernatural
strength flood. Your innermost being with his
Divine might and explosive power, then by constantly using
your faith, I'm reading out of the pant, passion translation,
The Life of Christ will be Lise deep inside of you and the
resting place of his love will become the very source and root
of your life. Then you will be empowered to
discover what every holy what every holy one experiences, the
great magnitude of his astonishing Love Of Christ and
all of its Dimensions, How Deeply intimate and far-reaching
is his love, how enduring and inclusive.
It is Endless, Love beyond measurement, that transcends our
understanding. Are standing this extravagant
love pours into you until you are filled to overflowing with
the fullness of God. Never doubt, God's Mighty power
to work in, you and accomplish all of this.
He will achieve infinitely more than your greatest request.
Your most unbelievable dreams and exceed your wildest
imaginations. He will outdo them all for his
miraculous power. Instantly energizes you.
Now we offer up to God. All the Glorious, praise that
rises from every Church in every generation through Jesus Christ
and all that will yet be manifested through Time.
And Eternity Ephesians 3 obviously is talking about his
love but then you see that it's connected with the Inner Man and
the Spirit strengthening you and he says that we have to be what
rooted and grounded in it. One translation says in his
love, so I love to say this when I teach my love class in Kingdom
Institute that love is the floor.
Bed of the forest of the Kingdom.
Write everything out of it. Grows everything in the kingdom
of God. God is to grow up out of love.
Okay. Everything is to grow up out of
love in your life. That should be your number one
motivation. Is the love of God flowing and
operating in your life, the love of God flowing and operating in
your life. Amen.
And the love of God, that God has shed abroad in your heart.
We ought to get to a place to where what God has done in you
through his love through Deliverance.
Through, you know, you finding out who you are in Christ
through Redemption, through hit healing.
All of the things that belong To you that are promises.
That God says, in his word, everything that he's done in you
through his love should be the thing that's flowing out of you
to reach other people, and that's why he says, listen,
you've got to keep yourself in that love because in the last
days, there's going to be unlovable people.
But when you recognize, what Spirit thereof, you don't have
to take it personal. Right, that you can still be
people that are walking in. Love guarding your heart.
Not allowing yourself to get in a position that you are out of
love. Right?
So he tells us that if we are going to be people, we must be
built up in the word of God and the spirit of God, Romans, we
know says this 12:1 and 2. It says, I appeal to you,
therefore, Brethren and beg. You I'm reading out the
Amplified in view of all of his mercies of God to make a
decisive dedication of your body's presenting, all your
members and Pat faculties as a Living Sacrifice.
Wholly devoted consecrated and well pleasing to God, which is
your reasonable one translation says Service.
Rational intelligence, service and spiritual worship, do not be
what conformed to this world fashioned after an adapted to
its external superficial Customs, but be what transformed
Changed by your the entire renewal of your mind.
And by its new Diaz and it new attitude so that you'll prove
yourselves that which is good and acceptable and the perfect
will of God. Even the thing, which is good
and acceptable and perfect in his sight.
So, we must not just recognize that we're in.
We've been had the love of God shed abroad in our heart.
When were born again. Now, he's letting us know that
we must be people that transform our mind by the renewing of the
word of God. God.
And that we are responsible to renew our minds to the word so
that we don't think like this world.
We don't behave like this world. We don't act like this world.
We don't respond to people, like, people in the world.
We have to respond with the love of God, we have to respond as
people, that know. The word says, and what the word
can do. Amen.
And when we recognize that, because we've allowed the word
of God, to transform Our Minds. Come on.
Then we he says then we'll know what is the perfect will of God.
What is good and what is acceptable?
Not what the world has called Good and Evil and evil?
Good. No will know what is good?
Will know what his will is will know what his word says.
Because we've actually allowed our minds to be transformed by
the renewing of the word, not the things of this world.
Right. Not CNN Fox News and all these
news channels that just want to feed you a bunch of garbage.
Our mind should not be renewed by that stuff.
Our mind must be renewed by the word of God.
Amen. And these last days, it must be.
Joshua 1:8 says this. It says, I'm going to read it
out of the message and don't for a minute, let this book.
Of the Revelation, be out of mind, out of the mind, don't for
one minute. Let this book.
Be out of mind, Ponder, and meditate on it.
What day and night. Making sure you practice not
just meditate on it day and night but make sure you practice
everything written in it. Then you'll what get where
you're going and be successful. We know what that other The
translation we've read it before your ways will be prosperous.
Right? And all that Proverbs 4:23 24,
says this, my son give attention to my words.
How much attention are we given to Instagram, influencers, come
on, Tik toks. Twitter's how much attention are
we giving to these things? You know, you can actually know
how much attention you're given to it.
Just Pop your phone and find out.
How many hours you're sitting on each app?
And I want to know. Are you putting that much time
in the word of God? Amen.
Because he lets us know that we are to give attention to his
words incline. Your ear back to hearing
inclined your ears, to my sayings.
Do not let them depart from your eyes, right?
Keep them in the midst where of thine heart.
Keep them in the midst of thine heart for, they are life to
those who find them and health to all of their flesh.
Keep your heart with all diligence for out of it Springs.
What the issues of life out of it Springs, the issues of life.
It's a clear evidence sign. What people are feeding on?
Because their life will be a reflection of it.
Always, always. So what you're feeding on, there
will be a reflection of that in your life.
So he lets us know that the word should be the number one thing
that we should feed on Amen. Now, I just have three
scriptures and will close. I'm just reading it John, 15:7
through 12 if you abide in me and my what words abide in you,
you will ask, whatever you desire and it shall be done for
you. By this, my father is glorified
that you bear much fruit. What fruit is he wanting you to
Bear? Love It's the first fruit that
shed abroad in your heart. We know the fruits of the
spirit. Love, patience.
What? Joy, peace, gentleness,
goodness, kindness, self-control Galatians, right?
Is the fruits of the spirit. But love was the first fruit
that was shed abroad in your heart.
And he says, listen, if my words abide in you and you abide in
me, ask whatever you desire, and it shall be done for you by
this. My father is glorified that.
Bear much fruit. So you will be my disciples as
the father loved me. I also have loved you abide in
my love. The only way that we are going
to keep love. The only way that we are going
to be able to do walk in the love of God a god Baal of the
only way we're going to be able to demonstrate those fruits in
the last days is that we must be people abiding in the vine
abiding in the vine right? He says if you keep my
Commandments, you will abide in my love just as I I have kept my
father's Commandments and abide in his love.
These things I have spoken to you, that your joy May remain in
you and that your joy would be full.
This is my commandment that you love one.
Another what as I have loved you.
As I have loved you. How did he love us, man?
He forgave us, didn't he? He redeemed us.
Hallelujah. So we're going to be have to be
people that are abiding in him on a continual basis.
And one way we abide in him, is in his word and praying in the
spirit to be able to keep this love.
In a place that we're not allowing these things of this
world, Shake us are get us off or Harden our hearts or become
callous. To what we see are going is
going on, right first. Our four seven and eight says
this, the end of all things is near therefore be of sound,
judgment, and sober spirit for the purpose of prayer.
Verse 8 above all, keep fervent in your love for one another
because love covers a multitude of sin.
We must keep fervent in the love of God for one another, We must
fight for one another. We must stay in a position that
we're not going to get offended with one another, that we're not
going to get upset with one another that they're not going
to bite back B against one another that we're not going to,
you know, talk and gossip about one another.
No, we're going to fight for love.
We're going to keep and be fervent in love, and he actually
says the love of God. Well, what keep you in?
Perfect Unity. And the love of God is there to
perfect the Saints. Amen.
To keep us in. Perfect actually, Unity.
I'll read it Colossians 3:14. It says bubble, beyond all
things, what put on love. Well, I mean God can't make me
laugh. I mean, God's love is in me
know. Once again, you're responsible
to keep yourself in love and you see another scripture that says
you're responsible to put it on, even though it's in you, you
have to put it on. You have to choose every day to
pick up love, that's on the inside of you and took one
translation in. The, NIV says to clothe yourself
in it, because there's going to be people every day that You
come in contact with that. You're not going to want.
Come on to respond in Love. No.
But if you put on your clothes everyday and please do it
reminds you every day that I have to put on the love of God,
even though it's in me, I'm responsible to put it on and I'm
a responsible to keep it active and to activate it.
Amen. And to put Put it on it says
which is the perfect Bond of unity when we all decide that
we're going to put on love that, we're going to keep ourselves in
the love of God. Come on then.
Guess what? We are going to protect the bond
of unity. Unity in the house of the Lord.
We're not going to be upset with people.
Right? Or what they say, or what they
don't say, or how they respond or how they don't respond.
No, we're going to love them. Right to what.
Protect the bond of unity First Corinthians 14:1 says this
pursue love Pursue love. So not only do you have to keep
your own self in love? You have to close yourself and
put on love. He lets us know that we must
pursue it. We must pursue the love of God.
Do you know what? Pursue means?
When you actually look it up in the Greek, it means to proceed
along the course of So if we want to protect the bond of
unity among the Brethren, because I'm going to read our
last scripture in a minute. Then we must be people that
recognize we must put on the love of God, but not only that
we must pursue it. Meaning, I'm gonna pursue the
course of love in every situation when I encounter an
individual or circumstance in my marriage with my children, with
my employer, With my spouse, whatever, with my friend, my
number one motivation, if I'm truly one, that's in the kingdom
of God, allowing the love of God, to be a part of my life.
And I must recognize that I am responsible to pursue along the
course of love in every situation with anyone.
I come in contact with pursue along, that course I'm pursuing.
What does that That mean I am gonna what does love do in this
situation? Remember the old watches are not
watches the little bracelets. I think my grandkids still have
them. Wwjd what would Jesus do?
To pursue along the course of love means what would Jesus do
in every situation that I encounter, that must be our
number one motivation and goal. Wait a minute, it's not about
how I feel. I don't care how they did me
wrong. The Bible says to turn the other
cheek if I actually get slapped. The Bible says, I must forgive.
Right. So whatever the scenario is and
we all probably have scenarios popping up in our head with
people. Whatever that scenario is my
number one goal and motivation. If I'm truly going to be a
person that's walking out this Kingdom Life That's motivated by
love is I am going to pursue along the course of Love which
means there's should be unity and Relation in every situation.
No matter what it is. So, and so, ripped me off, I had
this Christian. Listen, you hear, I hear it all
the time. Pastor, I tried to get so-and-so
to do my lawn, because they were in the church, and they ripped
me off. What you going to do?
I choose to so that money I choose to proceed along the
course of love to forgive them and to so it that was seed that
I just sewed. You see what I'm saying?
That's what we're talking about here.
Truly being a disciple of Christ.
Is we are responsible for pursuing along the course of
love at all cost. Even when you have to, it's not
about me because love his love is not selfish.
It's not about me. John.
Last scripture, 13. 34 35 says this, a new commandment.
I give to you that you love one another even as I have loved you
that you also love one another. By this all men will know that
you're truly what my disciples if you have love for one another
the world is not going to care. A bit, if you can go up and cast
out a devil. Know what will really prove that
you're truly a disciple of Christ is the love that you have
for one another. Not that you can raise the dead,
not that you can cast out demons, which we all can not
that you can speak in new tongues.
Because he actually tells us, you can speak with tongues of
angels and have not and be a what gonging?
Clanging cymbal. You just full of a lot of noise.
And nobody's listening. But when you start out operating
in the true love of God, that's loving one another and pursuing
on all levels that love would abound still more and more that
we would grow to the depths and Heights and widths and lengths
of his love. More and more with one another
then you'll prove that you're truly his disciples because
listen nothing anyone does too, You can affect you.
Can't offend you to get you off. I mean, do you know how many
Christians have left churches because of nitpicky things?
When he actually tells us we must pursue love that there
ought to be nothing that can get you off of pursuing love with
people with his people with his people.
I could write you a list of people that's done me wrong.
But you know what? I counted as Dung.
Nothing because I choose to allow my heart to stay in a
position of Love of loving people.
God's people honoring God's people honoring God's people,
loving, God's people, no matter what they say, no matter what
they do. Cuz no one can affect your
heart. Unless you let them.
He lets us know that we must be people that are loving one.
Another forgiving one, another, letting things go.
Walking towards the pursuit of forgiveness and love with the
Brethren. And this is how the world's
actually, truly going to see that he's got a group of
disciples That know how to love one.
Another forgive one. Another aren't Petty with one
another, don't get upset with one another, just let things go.
Let the, why let it just roll off your back like the water on
a duck's back. You just don't take anything
personal. Amen.
You just let it go. Let It Go.
Right? I'm going to tell you this is
where he wants his church to be until we all attain into the
fullness of God, the fullness of God, we're all flowing and
operating and pursuing the love of God with everything that is
within us. And we're not letting any petty
little thing hinder us or stop us, right?
We're not letting anything. Our hearts hinder us from
walking in love with our spouses, with our children, with
our families, come on, with our feet, you have to forgive,
listen, you have to forgive your parents, they only were doing
what they thought they knew to do.
You have to let those things go. You have to forgive them even if
they're dead. You have to forgive them.
You have the responsibility to do that?
No matter what has happened in your life, you have the
responsibility to put on the love of God, and walk according
to his love. And he clearly defines what his
love looks like in his scripture.
Amen. No matter what we have to be
people that pursue love. I'm not going to let anything
hinder relationships with one another.
Right? We're just going to love, give
people time. Let it go.
That. Don't mean, you have to, you
know, do any. You just don't worry about it.
Just go on about your business and love them.
Anyway, no matter what they've said, what they've done, you
just do it. Amen.
Pursue it, put it on, keep yourself in the love of God.
Keep yourself in the love of God.
And I'm going to tell you every day is a must Because every day
you could have something arise that you have to make a decision
and a choice. You know what, I'm just going to
put on love there, you know? I'm just going to forgive him,
they're just must be having a bad day.
You know what, I'm just not even going to believe they really
meant what they said. Even though they chewed me out,
spit me out whatever. They just having a bad.
I don't even believe a word that's coming out of their
mouths because actually I know who I am and I'm not that
person. They just said You see what I'm
saying? I know who I am.
According to scripture, right? And so when you know who you are
in Christ, it doesn't matter what anybody says or what
anybody does. You can keep yourself in a place
of Love. Hallelujah.
And this is how the world is truly going to know that.
We're heads disciples, not how well we can preach not how well
we can teach not how well we can sing.
A worship team not how well come on we can cast out a demon know
how well can we love one another how well can we love one another
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