1 00:00:20,270 --> 00:00:25,470 Thank you Lord, say by faith, say by faith. 2 00:00:26,390 --> 00:00:29,830 You know a lot of times in the in in the church, especially the 3 00:00:29,830 --> 00:00:35,790 modern day Church of the in the United States, faith when spoken 4 00:00:35,790 --> 00:00:38,990 of is spoken of typically in two categories. 5 00:00:39,190 --> 00:00:42,960 Faith to be born again, filled with the Holy Ghost. 6 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:48,280 Again, that's elementary, very beginning teachings of the Word 7 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:50,960 of God. But then it seems to jump over 8 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:56,600 into personal benefits. Where is faith to receive? 9 00:00:56,720 --> 00:01:00,120 Whether that's prosperity, prospering in your own life, 10 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:04,720 whether it's promotion homes, whatever that may be, or health, 11 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:09,960 faith, Those are the categories that we hear it in most. 12 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:13,680 However, you understand there are many situations. 13 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:19,760 In fact, your whole life is to be LED by faith, which means any 14 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:24,320 situation you find yourself in, you should be able to go live it 15 00:01:24,320 --> 00:01:28,440 by faith. Meaning say, and the Bible does 16 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:33,400 tell us because Jesus told us he says in this life you just might 17 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:38,080 on occasions once you're born again is not as common. 18 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:46,800 No, no, you will have trials and tribulation, which means when 19 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:51,400 you then enter a trial, you in turn then confined scriptures 20 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:55,560 and trust God in that word to overcome that trial. 21 00:01:56,440 --> 00:02:01,800 And this is not just for personal, it's for the nation, 22 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:06,680 is for your local government, it's for, you know, our national 23 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:08,919 government, it's for things going on in the world. 24 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:12,920 We can literally any situation going on in life, we can get 25 00:02:12,920 --> 00:02:16,160 into the word and say, OK, according to the word by faith, 26 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:20,120 Lord, we believe you'll do this because you said you would do 27 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:22,400 this. Amen. 28 00:02:22,920 --> 00:02:27,040 So when things are speaking contrary to your word, you said 29 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:28,920 you would do this. And we're believing we're going 30 00:02:28,920 --> 00:02:33,080 to see that come to pass, even if it's not a direct benefit to 31 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:37,480 us, but because of what's going on in the world, Hallelujah. 32 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:42,000 You know, the Bible, we should be believing that the church, 33 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:44,720 the latter church, is going to be greater than the former 34 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:48,760 church. It should be a perpetual belief 35 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:52,120 system that when we wake up, we should be like, man, the Church 36 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:55,920 of Jesus Christ on planet earth is going to be greater in these 37 00:02:55,920 --> 00:03:02,080 last days than in the days of Pentecost because why not? 38 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:05,600 Because we're hope it's that way, wishes that way. 39 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:09,400 No, he said it will be that way. And so we're saying now, Lord, 40 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:11,160 you said it would look like this. 41 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:14,800 So when I go into scripture and I start seeing where the Bible 42 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:19,760 tells us that we are one faith, 1 spirit in unity, I'm like, I 43 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:25,040 believe I'm going to see that. I'm going to see that group of 44 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:29,120 believers that they're going to be unified, come together. 45 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:34,480 They're of one mind, 1 accord, no selfishness, no selfish 46 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:38,080 ambition, no, you know, personal pursuits. 47 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:42,560 It's all going to be for him, His Kingdom, working together, 48 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:47,240 causing things to come. We can believe God for that and 49 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:51,240 see it manifest in our life. Amen. 50 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:55,880 Which means God would allow will navigate us so that we can see 51 00:03:55,880 --> 00:03:58,640 the things in Scripture come to pass. 52 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:03,760 I am am firmly persuaded that we are definitely in the generation 53 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:06,840 we know we're in the generation that's closest to the return of 54 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:10,320 Christ than ever before. No one's ever been there closer 55 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:12,600 than us. But you start looking at the 56 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:17,240 signs of the time you could, you could almost conclude it would 57 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:21,440 be highly probable that it's in our generation. 58 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:25,720 It can be highly probable. I mean, you would not be missing 59 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:30,600 the mark to be able to say, I believe, Lord, I am the 60 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:35,520 generation that will be transformed in the moment, in 61 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:38,960 the twinkling of an eye that I'm going to put on immortality, 62 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:41,200 that I'm not going to go into the grave. 63 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:44,400 I'm going to be caught up together with you in the sky. 64 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:49,360 I mean, some generations going to be that and the things that 65 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:53,680 have happened just in the last 50 years shows us the 66 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:57,200 acceleration of this timeline. Hallelujah. 67 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:01,480 Now if he tarries, OK, but you know what, somebody needs to 68 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:03,720 stand around and believe that they're in that. 69 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:07,560 I'm going to be the one that can believe that and stand that way. 70 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:10,640 Amen. But in Ephesians chapter 6 verse 71 00:05:10,640 --> 00:05:18,480 10, it says finally be strong in the Lord and in the strength of 72 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:20,520 his mic. Now I'm reading now the new 73 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:24,800 American standard translation. Then he goes on in verse 11, Put 74 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:28,240 on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand 75 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:31,440 for firm against the schemes of the devil. 76 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:40,800 For our struggle is not say is not say is not say is not say is 77 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:45,400 not against flesh and blood. So that means you cannot look at 78 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:46,720 your neighbor and say it's your fault. 79 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:48,320 I'm not doing what I should be doing. 80 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:53,680 I mean, honestly, you can blame no person on the planet. 81 00:05:56,720 --> 00:06:00,280 You cannot blame a person on the planet for why you're not 82 00:06:00,280 --> 00:06:04,920 accomplishing something. Our battle is not against flesh 83 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:07,160 and blood. It's not against flesh and 84 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:09,880 blood, is against principalities and powers. 85 00:06:09,880 --> 00:06:13,440 Now what I am not advocating or teaching is that there is a 86 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:17,040 little demon in every little corner of nook and cranny of 87 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:18,360 the. I'm not saying that. 88 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:21,440 I am not saying that. Now I don't have time to teach 89 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:26,800 on demonology today, but I will give a little insight #1 Satan 90 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:29,720 is not the opposite of God in power. 91 00:06:31,480 --> 00:06:36,480 He is not. He is not all knowing like God, 92 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:41,720 which means for many people in this room, he doesn't even know 93 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:51,240 you exist. He doesn't know you've not even 94 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:57,920 popped on his radar. It says he roams the earth like 95 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:00,240 a roaring lion seeking someone to devour. 96 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:02,640 Well, if he knew who to devour, he wouldn't have to seek. 97 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:08,440 He he just show up. No, he's having to look for the 98 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:14,920 things that give him access. Now he knows his own kids 99 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:18,760 because they're of his nature, right? 100 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:21,000 And we know there are people of his nature. 101 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:25,560 For Jesus himself said you are of your Father, and it wasn't 102 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:29,160 God, he said. So we said we're all God's 103 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:32,320 loving people. We were all originally created 104 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:37,840 in the image of God. But after Adam fell, a new 105 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:44,720 nature of a different being came and death entered the earth and 106 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:50,680 the spirit of the devil became part of man in the context that 107 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:57,800 he was in full rebellion to God. And Jesus clearly stated to 108 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:00,920 religious people, we're talking people who could quote 109 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:04,880 scripture, you are of your father the devil. 110 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:08,520 Now you have to understand everyone on the planet while 111 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:14,960 Jesus was ministering Father was the devil because no one has yet 112 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:17,360 born again. Are you hearing me? 113 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:20,320 I'm not saying that some were not righteous because you 114 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:24,360 obviously could live righteous concerning what you knew in the 115 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:27,400 word and that allowed you to be able to go into what we call 116 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:29,640 paradise. Abrahams bosom. 117 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:33,679 They were the righteous dead awaiting for the blood of Jesus. 118 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:37,640 Glory to God, because when Jesus died he went down to paradise. 119 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:40,799 What did he tell the thief? He said today you will be with 120 00:08:40,799 --> 00:08:46,000 me in paradise and in paradise there's a gulf of fix between 121 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:50,720 paradise and Sheol or the grave where there's great torment. 122 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:55,000 And those are the dead who never lived in any form of 123 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:57,160 righteousness and had redemption. 124 00:08:57,480 --> 00:09:01,920 They had total rejection of God. Jesus leads captivity, captive 125 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:04,440 at at his death, burial and then resurrection. 126 00:09:04,560 --> 00:09:07,240 So paradise does not exist today. 127 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:10,920 Today, if you are born again and you're leaving your body, you do 128 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:13,840 not go to paradise. You go straight to where he is 129 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:18,280 and he is currently residing at the right hand of the Father in 130 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:22,800 heaven. However, he is making plans to 131 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:26,760 come back. Hallelujah, I said, He's coming 132 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:33,520 back and we will be with him. Glory to God, so so spirits have 133 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:38,680 to roam around and and and look at scenarios and situations and 134 00:09:38,680 --> 00:09:41,080 circumstances. You understand that. 135 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:45,920 But with that being said, he's telling us we need to be strong 136 00:09:46,680 --> 00:09:51,480 in the Lord and our battle is not against flesh and blood. 137 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:57,000 But there are things that behind the scenes are moving to either 138 00:09:57,200 --> 00:10:03,360 keep you one in your flesh. These are what they're doing. 139 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:05,400 The principalities and powers are doing a few things. 140 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:09,480 One's they're trying to maintain a veil over the lost. 141 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:13,320 They want to keep them blind in darkness. 142 00:10:13,680 --> 00:10:19,120 They're constantly trying to shield the light from being able 143 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:22,360 to penetrate them. But if the light penetrates and 144 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:25,600 you become born again, that doesn't mean they leave you 145 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:28,320 alone. That just means they try to pull 146 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:33,440 on your carnality the the areas of you that you've not renewed 147 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:35,400 to the word and submitted to the word. 148 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:39,000 Now your spirit man's alive in Christ when you're born again. 149 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:42,520 Are you hearing what I'm saying? You become a new creature. 150 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:46,200 How in Christ, and we know Christ is not a last name. 151 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:49,360 It's title. It's the title of Jesus. 152 00:10:49,560 --> 00:10:53,280 Jesus is the Messiah in the Hebrew, in the Greek he's called 153 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:57,120 the Christ, which translates to the anointed 1 and his 154 00:10:57,120 --> 00:10:58,520 anointing. Well, what is that? 155 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:01,680 That's the King. Jesus is the King. 156 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:07,840 The King came to save the world from their sin, their treason, 157 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:12,120 their rebellion against the throne of God. 158 00:11:12,440 --> 00:11:17,640 And when he died without sin, pouring out his blood on the 159 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:21,800 mercy seat, in essence, it paid all the penalty for everything 160 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:26,280 we've ever done wrong. And when we call on his name, 161 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:30,800 that spirit man that was no longer, that was dead to God is 162 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:35,960 evicted out of this skin suit. And he plants in us a brand new 163 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:39,160 spirit. But not only that, there's more. 164 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:43,440 He puts the Holy Ghost, the third person of the Godhead, on 165 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:47,360 the inside of us, and he bears witness with our spirit that we 166 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:52,040 are children of God. Can I get an Amen at that point? 167 00:11:52,040 --> 00:11:53,800 He says. Now I have given you the 168 00:11:53,800 --> 00:12:01,480 teacher, the instructor of Kingdom affairs, and he will 169 00:12:01,560 --> 00:12:07,440 renew your mind to think royalty, to think like a king, 170 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:10,880 to think in this new nature that you are in. 171 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:16,840 Christ Jesus restored us to the same position that the first 172 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:20,000 Adam had, which is in Genesis chapter one verse 26. 173 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:22,680 Then God said, let us make man in our image according to our 174 00:12:22,680 --> 00:12:26,080 likeness, and let them rule or have dominion over the fish of 175 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:28,720 the sea, over the birds of the sky, over all the cattle, over 176 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:30,800 every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and over all the 177 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:32,760 earth. So man was always to have a 178 00:12:32,760 --> 00:12:38,200 position of rulership with God. God ruled all of mankind, of 179 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:43,160 which mankind ruled in his sphere or assignment in the 180 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:46,560 earth. So he, by all rights, Jesus, is 181 00:12:46,560 --> 00:12:49,720 the king of. And who are those kings? 182 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:54,400 We are those kings. And so in order to function as a 183 00:12:54,400 --> 00:12:56,960 king, though, you're going to have to think like one. 184 00:12:57,680 --> 00:13:01,560 And our old thinking is not kingly thinking. 185 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:06,080 That's why He tells us that we are to renew our minds, to have 186 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:09,960 our minds transformed by the renewing of our mind, so that we 187 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:13,160 will know the will of God, that we can walk out God's perfect 188 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:16,640 will, that we can side with the Spirit. 189 00:13:16,640 --> 00:13:19,920 And then it also allows our minds to be able to keep our 190 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:25,320 bodies in subjection so that it doesn't get to do what it feels 191 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:29,080 like wanting to do our in our minds or our soul realm, our 192 00:13:29,080 --> 00:13:32,160 emotions. We don't side with how we feel 193 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:34,720 about something. We say, wait a minute, what is 194 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:39,240 God saying? Because when we we were dead in 195 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:42,800 our trespasses of sin, we can only live by how we felt. 196 00:13:44,560 --> 00:13:46,680 You treated me wrong. I'm going to treat you wrong 197 00:13:46,680 --> 00:13:47,960 because that's how I feel about it. 198 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:53,000 But when I get over here into the Kingdom, well now I don't 199 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:57,000 respond to you how I feel like I respond to you how God leads me 200 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:03,760 to and he, the way he leads me is always righteous and just. 201 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:07,720 Hallelujah. And so in order for us to 202 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:11,680 function like that as a believer, we have to renew our 203 00:14:11,680 --> 00:14:14,760 minds. And that is what the Bible calls 204 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:21,160 the saving of the soul. That is our responsibility to 205 00:14:21,160 --> 00:14:27,920 yield, to allow it to be saved. God cannot force us to change 206 00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:31,400 our thinking. We can't change our spirit. 207 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:35,600 Only God could do that. God has now empowered us to have 208 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:39,440 our minds change because he's put in us the third person of 209 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:43,800 the Godhead, a spirit that wants to obey God and not sin and 210 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:47,760 rebel against him. So these two are very powerful 211 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:51,760 that should be able to say convince your mind, hey, get it 212 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:57,480 together upstairs, right? Get it together upstairs. 213 00:14:57,960 --> 00:15:00,400 It didn't work too good for you before you came in here. 214 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:04,240 You might want to do it our way. Yeah, but it feels so, so 215 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:06,280 awkward. I understand it feels awkward, 216 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:09,560 but it's what's right. It's what's holy. 217 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:12,760 It's what's just. It's what the Father says. 218 00:15:12,760 --> 00:15:16,720 Jesus says. I don't do anything on my own 219 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:22,240 initiative, but only what? The Father has told me to do and 220 00:15:22,240 --> 00:15:26,640 if Jesus would not communicate, respond or act in any situation 221 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:30,760 till he's heard from heaven by the Holy Ghost, why do we think 222 00:15:30,760 --> 00:15:36,720 we don't have to do the same? Why do we think that is not 223 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:39,440 required of us? Well, it's obviously required of 224 00:15:39,440 --> 00:15:41,920 us because we are to live life in the earth as he did. 225 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:45,000 But he said, finally be strong in the Lord in the strength of 226 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:47,680 his might. Put on the full armor of God, so 227 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:50,280 that you'll be able to stand firm against the schemes of the 228 00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:51,840 devil. For our show was not against 229 00:15:51,840 --> 00:15:54,920 flesh and blood, but against rulers, against powers, against 230 00:15:54,920 --> 00:16:02,240 world forces of this darkness, against spiritual forces of 231 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:07,400 wickedness in heavenly places. Let me go ahead and hit verse 13 232 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:09,160 as well. Therefore, take up the full 233 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:14,000 armor of God so that you may be able to resist in the evil day. 234 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:18,480 And having done everything to stand, we know the next verse 235 00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:22,080 starts, goes on and says stand, right? 236 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:28,440 So in this passage of Scripture, what's really important about 237 00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:30,360 this element? Because this is where many 238 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:34,840 people launch out of here to talk about spiritual warfare. 239 00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:38,320 OK, I'm going to say one thing real quick about spiritual world 240 00:16:38,320 --> 00:16:42,640 warfare. Christ has already conquered 241 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:50,440 these principalities and powers. It's, it's a defeated realm. 242 00:16:53,920 --> 00:16:57,520 Excuse me? So you're not, you're not 243 00:16:57,880 --> 00:17:04,560 directly fighting them because you're having to defeat them. 244 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:08,760 The only way you engage them is with the word. 245 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:14,599 Now notice when Jesus dealt with the realm he did, he wasn't 246 00:17:14,599 --> 00:17:19,920 carrying on conversations. I mean, you get into some 247 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:23,560 places, they'll name every spirit, they'll talk about their 248 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:27,560 origins and all. And I'm like, man, I mean, you 249 00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:31,720 can get over into some crazy stuff trying to make yourself 250 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:35,200 seem like you're so intelligent about which honestly, many 251 00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:38,560 people who may have that information have probably 252 00:17:38,560 --> 00:17:41,160 stepped over into a different realm that they should have 253 00:17:41,160 --> 00:17:45,320 never been so deep into to have that much information. 254 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:49,520 Because when we see Jesus's encounter, he's like, it is 255 00:17:49,520 --> 00:17:54,440 written. When he talked to the chief 256 00:17:57,480 --> 00:18:02,280 bells above himself, King James called him Lucifer. 257 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:08,600 The Bible calls him Satan, the Prince of the power of the air. 258 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:13,040 And when he speaks to him, he said it is written. 259 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:19,200 He only quoted the word to him. He did not say, well, where did 260 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:24,120 you come from, right? He didn't do that. 261 00:18:25,400 --> 00:18:27,680 He didn't engage that kind of conversation. 262 00:18:28,560 --> 00:18:32,200 He just said it is written. And through every temptation, 263 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:35,320 everything that he came, we obviously have 3 instances 264 00:18:35,320 --> 00:18:39,000 recorded in Scripture that he always came back with. 265 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:45,680 It is written Now we know according to the Luke account of 266 00:18:45,760 --> 00:18:50,200 Jesus's temptation of Christ, that the devil knows what this 267 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:53,320 is about. And many places do not know what 268 00:18:53,320 --> 00:18:56,320 this is about because then again, they think it's just 269 00:18:56,320 --> 00:18:59,800 about you being forgiven of your sin so that when you die you'll 270 00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:02,560 go to heaven. However, the devil knows what 271 00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:05,160 it's about because that's why I said, Jesus, let me take you up 272 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:09,880 here. Let me show you all the kingdoms 273 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:13,280 because this what you want, right? 274 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:15,480 He said. I'll give them all to you 275 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:17,240 because they've been handed over to me. 276 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:20,880 Luke chapter 4 he said they've been handed over to me. 277 00:19:21,360 --> 00:19:23,960 See a lot of times we say it this way will the devil stole 278 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:25,440 it. The devil did not steal. 279 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:32,280 Adam abdicated his authority as having dominion over all the 280 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:41,240 earth and gave it to Satan. He gave away what God legally 281 00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:44,360 gave him. This is why God could not come 282 00:19:44,360 --> 00:19:52,360 to the garden and take it from Satan as God only. 283 00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:57,480 He said let's make man in our image according to our likeness 284 00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:00,280 and let him have dominion on the earth. 285 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:05,680 So in order for God to have that dominion. 286 00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:12,280 Being restored back to man, a man must come and get it. 287 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:15,080 This is why Jesus has to be born. 288 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:23,520 He has to send a son. Hallelujah, because the first 289 00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:26,200 Adam lost dominion in the garden. 290 00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:31,280 The last Adam gained it in the garden because he said Lord not 291 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:34,600 my will, but your will be done. Send me to the cross. 292 00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:38,520 Aren't you glad he went to the cross, man, Thank God he went to 293 00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:41,280 the cross. He suffered all that for us. 294 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:44,800 And man, we do not want to cheapen that gift. 295 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:48,240 We do not want to downplay it. We do not want to act like, oh, 296 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:49,760 it's just something. Well, that was nothing. 297 00:20:49,760 --> 00:20:52,280 Well, yeah, because for us. Lord, forgive me. 298 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:56,320 I'm so I repent of everything I've done wrong. 299 00:20:56,320 --> 00:20:59,120 I mean, you truly mean it. Lord, save me. 300 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:02,080 You know, I thank you for gave me of all my sin. 301 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:05,080 I call you as Lord and you knew the day you became born again 302 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:10,080 and what seemed like such a easy action for you was a 303 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:16,360 tremendously troubling, difficult, nobody could ever 304 00:21:16,360 --> 00:21:20,600 handle moment but God in the flesh name Jesus. 305 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:28,920 So what we call free was at great cost. 306 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:37,360 So never see free as flip it, because the greatest value is 307 00:21:37,360 --> 00:21:39,720 the blood of Jesus. All right. 308 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:46,360 And so when when the Lucifer, you know, Satan shows him all 309 00:21:46,360 --> 00:21:48,320 the kingdoms and all and said all these they've been handed 310 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:50,680 over me and I can give it to whomever I wish. 311 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:52,400 So this is all that's got to happen. 312 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:57,720 If you'll just bow down and worship me, I'll give it to you. 313 00:21:58,240 --> 00:21:59,800 That's what you came for anyway, right? 314 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:11,200 And what did Jesus say? It is written there's only a 315 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:15,560 couple of other places that Jesus when engaging the demonic 316 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:21,080 realm, which are of the lesser power than Satan himself, that 317 00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:25,200 there was another word and that was with the Mad Men of Ghaderi. 318 00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:28,400 And he said to him, what is your name? 319 00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:33,760 Outside of that, there was no other dialogue. 320 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:41,440 Because at a word go, come out, they were coming. 321 00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:46,880 I said they were coming because they obey. 322 00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:53,960 I said they obey. They obey. 323 00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:03,560 It's only us humans today that he is in these times saying you 324 00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:08,280 choose, it's up to you. I'm not going to force you 325 00:23:08,360 --> 00:23:11,720 either way. But what I'm going to say is if 326 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:14,560 you'll choose me, you'll have life. 327 00:23:15,360 --> 00:23:18,800 But if you don't choose me, you're going to have death. 328 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:23,040 Either way. You'll have what I say, but I 329 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:26,960 want you to choose life because I never destined you to 330 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:31,120 experience death anyway. Hallelujah. 331 00:23:32,120 --> 00:23:34,920 So again, our struggle is not against flesh and blood. 332 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:39,920 There are forces out there. And so the last place we want to 333 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:43,360 do is is be in in contention with one another when there's 334 00:23:43,360 --> 00:23:45,440 something bigger. But he says finally be strong in 335 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:47,280 the Lord and the and the strength of his might. 336 00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:48,800 What's really powerful about this? 337 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:55,440 It says this Oh, excuse me, it says it says. 338 00:23:56,400 --> 00:24:00,120 In this detailed teaching of when again spiritual warfare, it 339 00:24:00,120 --> 00:24:04,200 presents 2 essential elements. First, you must be strong in the 340 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:05,920 Lord and in the power of His might. 341 00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:08,920 Then you must put on the full armor of God. 342 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:13,440 The two are essential. Much teaching on Christian 343 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:19,760 combat neglects the first we. But if we take a weak man who 344 00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:23,840 can barely stand and put the best armor on him, he will be 345 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:27,520 ineffective soldier and be easily beaten. 346 00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:29,960 And it doesn't matter. He has the best equipment. 347 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:35,240 Doesn't matter. OK so you must first be strong 348 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:37,840 in the Lord. When I was in the military they 349 00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:39,240 are. They send everybody through 350 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:44,240 basic training and the majority of basic training is not weapons 351 00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:47,920 qualification, it's physical education. 352 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:53,160 I mean, you get to do that day one, right? 353 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:55,960 Beat your face. I mean, we beat our face all the 354 00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:57,800 time. Now for those that are just 355 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:00,840 civilian and don't know that term, we were not doing this all 356 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:04,160 day. We were doing push ups all the 357 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:07,560 time. Now it's amazing how strong you 358 00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:12,720 can get just doing push ups, how much endurance you can have and 359 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:15,320 then you would run and you do sit ups and there's different 360 00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:17,880 activities. They had us doing that man 361 00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:22,160 within an 8 week period. I mean, you can totally be 362 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:26,760 transformed now. I was a small guy when I went 363 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:29,400 into the service myself personally, you know, I was 364 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:31,560 really small so I was hoping to get bigger. 365 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:37,680 I think when I joined I might have been 120 something pounds, 366 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:44,840 maybe 125 when I went in. So I was, you know, I was 367 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:46,800 ripped. Can I say it that way? 368 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:53,880 I was ripped. So you know, I ran some before 369 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:57,320 but not a whole lot. And I didn't do a whole lot of 370 00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:01,720 PT per SE before I went to basic, although I did go through 371 00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:05,240 a pre basic with the Army National Guard before they sent 372 00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:08,480 me off to Fort Jackson. And so, but when I got there, I 373 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:13,400 had to take my first PT test. I was actually shocked that I 374 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:19,040 almost did not meet the minimum in sit ups for two minutes 375 00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:23,760 because for my age, I was 21 when I went in 20, I was 20. 376 00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:26,240 I turned 21. No, I was 19. 377 00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:30,280 I turned 20 in basic and so I was 19 years old and I'm doing 378 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:34,160 these sit ups that I needed to do 52 in 2 minutes. 379 00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:36,320 I mean, I think I did 54. It was horrible. 380 00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:41,520 I was I was concerned I was in the high 40s thinking am I going 381 00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:44,400 to be able to punch this out now? 382 00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:46,440 They would have not got gotten rid of me. 383 00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:48,760 I just you know, they would have known where I was at. 384 00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:52,040 Like, bro, we going to work on you push ups. 385 00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:54,160 You know, I think I did maybe 60. 386 00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:57,640 I was already upper 50s, sixties. 80 is the high point 387 00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:02,480 for my age. 92 was the high point for sit ups. 388 00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:06,680 And then the run I think was like 10 something. 389 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:10,160 You had to run it in 10-30 something and you had a perfect 390 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:10,920 score. OK. 391 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:14,600 And so I always said to myself, if I get the push ups, I'll make 392 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:17,800 myself run that 2 miles as fast as you're supposed to. 393 00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:22,120 The most sit ups I ever did though in 2 minutes was 87 and 394 00:27:22,120 --> 00:27:25,280 never hit 90. I mean, I, I didn't matter how 395 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:27,640 much I try to crank those things out, I just couldn't. 396 00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:32,440 But in one minute I could do 80 pushups and I'd be up, I'd be 397 00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:37,480 done like we're, we're done. So when you're in basic, you 398 00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:39,520 know, when you're starting, all my military guys are laughing 399 00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:43,000 because you're like, you're having flashbacks right now that 400 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:46,360 the drill Sergeant drops you down, at least in the Army. 401 00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:49,600 And so they have this thing, you can't smoke a rock because they 402 00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:51,180 are the rock. I mean, they do so many push 403 00:27:51,180 --> 00:27:52,400 ups, you know, they do them in their sleep. 404 00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:54,760 So when we first start, you're going to muscle failure. 405 00:27:54,760 --> 00:28:00,400 And there's nothing more humiliating of the human body 406 00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:04,840 than to watch a person go to muscle failure with a push up. 407 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,880 OK, I'll just give you an example what that looks like. 408 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:13,880 All right, So you're down like this and you'll start shaking 409 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:18,560 all crazy like this. I mean, as much as you want to 410 00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:25,840 get up, you have met your muscle exhaustion and it's humiliating 411 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:30,200 looking, looking at all these guys flopping around like fish 412 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:32,200 out of water. You know, the drill starts like 413 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:34,000 can't smoke a rock, can't smoke a rock. 414 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:38,440 And you just like you. I mean, they RIP you down first 415 00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:40,920 two weeks 'cause they don't want you. 416 00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:45,560 They want the team, they want the unit, they want the platoon, 417 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:48,680 they want the camaraderie, they want the oneness. 418 00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:58,120 OK so with that being said, by the time in a basic they had to 419 00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:02,800 then trick us because when 1 jumped down, you know the one 420 00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:05,880 that always started out doing that, you're like try me. 421 00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:09,720 I mean we were like try me, I will smoke you. 422 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:13,680 I mean you were like you knew you had it in you and then they 423 00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:16,400 would get up and switch the next one then it would come out can't 424 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:20,520 smoke or I like sure you got 70 push ups on us right now. 425 00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:22,280 I mean, we have 70 push ups on you. 426 00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:26,120 The point is it's amazing how strong it really exercises your 427 00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:28,800 whole body. And the reason they do that is 428 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:31,560 so that when you do get into weapons qualification or 429 00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:34,240 whatever you're doing, you are fit. 430 00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:39,960 But believers just want to suit up. 431 00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:45,640 You want to get born again and then suit up. 432 00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:49,960 And I like you're going to get on a frontline like whoa, bro, 433 00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:52,440 love you. I want you on the frontline too. 434 00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:54,160 But we going to do some push ups first. 435 00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:56,920 I just want to know, can you come to morning prayer at 6:00 436 00:29:56,920 --> 00:29:59,280 AM? Me. 437 00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:01,080 Can you come to morning prayer at 6:00 AM? 438 00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:04,960 Because you not really ready to get out there and say you going 439 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:08,000 to fight the principalities and pull down the strongholds that 440 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:11,760 are all over, You know, Saint Augustine back in the back, you 441 00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:14,760 know when they first came over, you know, and all the things you 442 00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:16,880 ain't. You are not going to the beach 443 00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:19,920 doing any of that. If you can't make simple morning 444 00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:24,600 prayer or be committed to a local body church, be committed 445 00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:28,520 to a unit, be committed to a body of believers that you can 446 00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:31,680 March in unison together. Come on, don't make me do 447 00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:34,760 arcanas again. You hear what I'm saying? 448 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:40,240 I mean, if we want to be with the full armor, we got to get 449 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:46,480 finally be strong in the Lord and you're not going to be 450 00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:49,840 strong in the Lord if you're not reading the Bible daily, you're 451 00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:53,040 not spending time in the word, you're not praying in the 452 00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:55,600 spirit, building up your most holy faith. 453 00:30:56,560 --> 00:30:59,880 And then we going to go try to fight, you know, a principality 454 00:30:59,880 --> 00:31:02,240 and power. I mean, we struggle with 455 00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:05,920 carnality, our own personal flesh, like putting down, you 456 00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:08,120 know, it's raining today, probably won't go to church, 457 00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:13,600 right? I mean, those types of things, 458 00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:15,800 you know, can become problematic. 459 00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:19,040 Now, why do I preach like this? Because it's the anointing in my 460 00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:22,680 life. I'm here to inspire you to 461 00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:24,880 continue to step out and do because you know what? 462 00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:27,440 I'm going to continue to do my marching orders. 463 00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:29,560 I'm going to do exactly what God's called me to do. 464 00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:34,280 And then when the enemy comes, like he's comes and he cycles 465 00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:36,400 through. And as you continue to grow and 466 00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:40,520 develop as a believer, things are different in each stage of 467 00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:44,040 your growth and development, and especially within the body that 468 00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:46,560 you're assigned to. Because don't think the devil 469 00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:48,280 just leaves the church unchecked. 470 00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:52,800 He's afraid of us. I said he's afraid of us. 471 00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:58,800 Listen, not every branch is created equal. 472 00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:01,960 Come on. Air Force, stand up. 473 00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:06,600 Stand up. Air Force, those in the Air 474 00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:09,120 Force stand up. Anybody. 475 00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:10,800 I know I had some Air Force guys. 476 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:17,840 Air's not here. OK, well, they eat the best. 477 00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:21,920 I just want y'all to know they have the best food ever. 478 00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:25,400 They really do. Anybody that's fair. 479 00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:28,440 It's true. I mean, when we get Mr. ES, they 480 00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:30,520 got steaks. We're like, what's happening? 481 00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:33,920 You know, way more controlled climate environments for them. 482 00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:37,400 You know their PT rigor was not the same. 483 00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:41,760 Not the same at all, right? How many Marines I have in here? 484 00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:43,880 Come on, stand up. I need a Marines now. 485 00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:48,320 Did y'all do 12 weeks basic 1313? 486 00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:57,760 OK, do 100. Oh, OK, OK, OK, OK, OK. 487 00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:01,800 OK. Now now we you want to come up 488 00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:09,320 here, you and I both will be cramping everybody laughing at 489 00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:14,600 us right? Be like 10 OK y'all had to do 490 00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:23,200 100 before you could be done. Now the pull ups is interesting. 491 00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:26,040 I was at Six Flags with the youth crew. 492 00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:28,080 I was a youth pastor in Oklahoma. 493 00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:30,560 And so the Marines were there with the pull ups. 494 00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:33,520 OK. And so they, you know, wanted to 495 00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:35,880 give you a T-shirt if you could do 20. 496 00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:37,640 Wait, we're looking for new recruits. 497 00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:40,200 And I was like, with the youth, I'm like, I'll do that. 498 00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:43,880 So I jumped up there. I snatched out 20 and dropped me 499 00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:46,880 goes, why did you quit? I said, well, that's all that 500 00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:51,120 was required to get the T-shirt. You didn't tell me that we were 501 00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:54,400 competing, which I wish they would have known because you 502 00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:56,240 know, then they posted somebody at 25. 503 00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:59,960 I'm like bro, I could have beat that anyway. 504 00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:07,400 But pull ups and chin ups are a serious deal and all branches 505 00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:13,520 should do that for sure. OK, but not all branches are the 506 00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:24,560 same, nor within the branch. There are some again in the Army 507 00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:28,520 we have the Green Berets, but then we have this other group 508 00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:35,960 called Rangers right now. At the end of the day, I was 509 00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:40,199 neither of those, right? I was telecommunication. 510 00:34:40,199 --> 00:34:46,080 I was in a Conex air condition, Coke and Little Debbie Cakes 511 00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:50,520 working on radios and then they would come in and they are all 512 00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:53,320 sweating and stuff, you know, looking like tough guys, like 513 00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:55,000 wow, what's going on? Y'all doing all right? 514 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:57,200 Is it hot out there? What happened to you? 515 00:34:57,200 --> 00:34:59,040 Ready. Yeah, bro, here we got you. 516 00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:02,720 You know, we're one unit now don't get me wrong because at 517 00:35:02,720 --> 00:35:05,640 the end of the day I want them there. 518 00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:11,720 And I'll be the first one to say if I was standing, I have no 519 00:35:11,720 --> 00:35:14,560 qualms saying that's the man right there. 520 00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:20,160 And I have no problem saying that I have not put in the work 521 00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:25,600 to be that soldier. Now we've all put in the basic 522 00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:28,360 training in the Army, everybody is infantry. 523 00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:31,800 Even if you have a different MOS, you're all infantry. 524 00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:34,800 Because at the end of the day, if you need to take a weapon and 525 00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:38,640 go to a line, everybody can take a weapon and go to the line. 526 00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:44,920 However, there are some that are more skilled because they are 527 00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:49,800 well trained to be able to do things and I do not have their 528 00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:54,040 skill set. So I don't even pretend, right? 529 00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:57,840 Don't even pretend. Well, you have to ask yourself 530 00:35:57,840 --> 00:35:59,760 the question, what unit do you want to be on? 531 00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:03,720 I had to ask the question, Lord, what church are you building and 532 00:36:03,720 --> 00:36:06,000 which unit am I putting together? 533 00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:17,200 Because you know, the other service trying to think of that 534 00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:18,800 elite group, what are they called? 535 00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:23,440 Navy Seals, thank you. The Seals, OK. 536 00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:28,600 I mean those boys, they go, but man, they will tap out. 537 00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:32,880 They get, I mean, there's many that try, but they do not 538 00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:43,240 maintain the mental with resolve to be that elite of a soldier. 539 00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:47,480 Debbie, did you see many Navy Seals when you were in? 540 00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:49,840 No, Really. Never popped through. 541 00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:52,640 Never had a foot problem, huh? That's too bad. 542 00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:56,280 That's been kind of neat. So what happened to your foot? 543 00:36:56,280 --> 00:37:01,560 Where were you at? OK, anyway, you know, not 544 00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:04,640 everybody passes these things, OK? 545 00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:12,600 But in God's Kingdom, if you want to be elite, now you can 546 00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:14,040 be. And the only thing that stops 547 00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:19,840 you from being elite is your mental toughness is your ability 548 00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:25,400 to renew your mind, to get so locked into this word that you 549 00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:29,800 are going to find yourself strong in the Lord. 550 00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:35,400 Because use like I, I'm not going to let my carnal fleshly 551 00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:40,880 self stay because my carnal fleshly self can't do this. 552 00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:48,760 I have to be strong in the Lord. So I got to die to self so that 553 00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:53,320 I can live to Him. I've got to crucify self so that 554 00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:56,080 I can live to Him. I got a deke. 555 00:37:56,080 --> 00:38:01,680 I have to decrease so that he will increase. 556 00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:06,360 And when I'm weak, I acknowledge Him and his word, and He will 557 00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:16,800 then make me strong. And in these last days, God 558 00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:21,640 definitely wants us to be strong in the Lord and in the power of 559 00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:24,760 His might. Because when it comes to put it 560 00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:30,320 on the full armor of God, the whole armor is designed for one 561 00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:37,080 thing, to advance. If you read it, you're going to 562 00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:39,440 gird your loins with truth. You're going to put on the 563 00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:41,640 breastplate of righteousness, you're going to shod your feet 564 00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:43,160 with the preparation of the gospel of the peace. 565 00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:44,960 You're going to take up the shield of faith. 566 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:46,800 You're going to have on the helmet of salvation and the 567 00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:49,040 sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. 568 00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:53,960 When you look at the armor which this was a Roman centurion that 569 00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:57,360 he was modeling, that was all what was on the front. 570 00:38:57,440 --> 00:38:59,080 We are not talking about what's on the back. 571 00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:02,000 Now the breastplate of righteousness obviously has a 572 00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:05,360 back to it because they put it on, but the emphasis is the 573 00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:12,400 battle was in the front of them. And in Romans mentality is that 574 00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:17,320 we're not retreating. We are advancing and anchor 575 00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:20,640 faith church. We are always advancing. 576 00:39:21,720 --> 00:39:25,120 So we are always in the position of moving forward. 577 00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:28,920 And here's the thing, it may because if you can just imagine, 578 00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:31,160 we're all here, we have our shield and this shield is not 579 00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:33,840 like Captain America stuff. I mean it cover it could cover 580 00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:36,600 your whole body. OK, you're going to come in and 581 00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:38,120 you're going to put that shield down. 582 00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:40,640 You're going to be behind it. You've got your sword, your 583 00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:43,680 helmet, your bread. I mean, you're covered up and 584 00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:48,320 and the enemy can't even really see your body because it's 585 00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:54,240 covered. You are covered in the word and 586 00:39:54,240 --> 00:39:56,720 the enemy's arrows can't even get past the word. 587 00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:04,120 So once you absorb his lies with the word 1st and it allows you 588 00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:09,080 to strike with the word. I mean, you got the word with 589 00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:10,800 the shield and the word with the sword. 590 00:40:12,720 --> 00:40:15,600 And it may be you're like standing here and here's the 591 00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:18,880 onslaught when you've done all the stand, stand. 592 00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:23,480 But it's not because I'm doing this and we're never doing that. 593 00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:29,080 I said we're never doing that. We're doing this, period. 594 00:40:29,080 --> 00:40:30,920 And I don't care what the barrage is. 595 00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:32,600 I don't care how bad the attack is. 596 00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:35,520 I don't care how many to the left or to the right seem like 597 00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:39,120 they're falling. The church is not retreating 598 00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:46,480 church and retreating. That elite group is steadfast 599 00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:50,240 standing and then at 1 moment they'll in unity because this 600 00:40:50,240 --> 00:40:54,520 last church will say March, boom boom, one step and we'll get 601 00:40:54,520 --> 00:40:58,440 momentum in seasons that we'll go take full territory. 602 00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:02,680 Why? Because the gates of hell cannot 603 00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:05,760 prevail against the church. So the only time that it seems 604 00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:08,920 like we're not advancing is because we are up against a 605 00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:14,160 principality. We're up against the gate and 606 00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:19,000 we're pressing on this gate now, and when you're pressing on that 607 00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:23,240 gate, then all of a sudden the enemies throwing everything down 608 00:41:23,240 --> 00:41:27,880 from the wall, trying to keep you off the gate, off the wall, 609 00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:32,000 But you just stand. You just keep pounding. 610 00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:36,000 You just stand there and you keep taking a step in unity and 611 00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:38,200 eventually the wall's coming down. 612 00:41:38,240 --> 00:41:41,640 We're going to go ahead and take that territory, take all that, 613 00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:46,920 and we'll go to the next gate. That's what it looks like. 614 00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:53,680 Amen. We don't retreat just because 615 00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:56,640 there's a challenge. And when there's heavier 616 00:41:56,640 --> 00:42:03,440 seasons, it's time to gird up, buckle down, pull your 617 00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:09,400 bootstraps and you find people who are not falling off you link 618 00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:12,000 arms, you like, let's get this thing. 619 00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:17,440 We going somewhere, we got somewhere to go, something to do 620 00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:29,120 cuz man, listen, you can start with a group of 33,000 and the 621 00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:32,240 Lord says, but the army's a lot larger than you. 622 00:42:32,240 --> 00:42:36,960 I mean 185,000 strong or 1:35 I think it is. 623 00:42:38,240 --> 00:42:40,240 And he says, well, we're not going to do 1:30. 624 00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:44,080 So let's find out because when it gets hot in battle, who's 625 00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:47,040 going to who's really just afraid to go in the 1st place. 626 00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:51,640 If you're scared, go home. 23,000 people like we out of 627 00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:55,000 here, bro, we gone. But I thought you were part of 628 00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:57,200 us. Now we, you know, I mean we are, 629 00:42:57,640 --> 00:43:01,720 but we're not that. I mean we are, but we not that. 630 00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:03,840 Well, you know, again, if you aren't, you aren't. 631 00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:08,720 I mean don't make don't make the the the 10,000 something less 632 00:43:08,720 --> 00:43:12,000 that you're not. Now, don't try to talk down the 633 00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:16,360 10,000 that didn't hear that 23,000 leave 10,000 like we 634 00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:19,400 gonna move on. And he's like, man, look a 635 00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:22,200 little large. They're looking large. 636 00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:25,760 I think we going to have to wean it out. 637 00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:28,440 Let's get let's get some drinking going on now. 638 00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:34,240 I'm not talking drinking. You know, we're sipping water. 639 00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:37,640 All right. And so what's he doing? 640 00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:40,320 He says I'm, I'm, we need to weed out all who have 641 00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:46,600 self-interest because the ones that put their face down have no 642 00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:48,680 concept of what's going on around them. 643 00:43:49,480 --> 00:43:52,520 Their only self preservation. I'm thirsty, I'm taking care of 644 00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:54,280 me. I don't care about you beside me 645 00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:56,520 and I'm going to get my water. You watch out for me. 646 00:43:57,960 --> 00:44:00,040 But the ones are like, I watch out. 647 00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:06,880 I got you, I got you back. 300, man, 300 became a mighty moving 648 00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:12,120 force because you get around 300 and link up right now. 649 00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:14,000 I don't say you're going to stay at 300. 650 00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:18,400 I mean you could be 5000. The issue is everyone has to be 651 00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:21,280 linked up. They have to decide that it's 652 00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:24,640 not about me, it's about us. It's about the whole thing. 653 00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:28,600 And again, when we are going to advance with the armor of God, 654 00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:31,040 we're going to be strong in the Lord because first we are a 655 00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:35,280 complete unit that is unified to continue to March on. 656 00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:38,840 And we will only do what God says, even if it sounds as crazy 657 00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:43,520 as showing a light. You want me to do what? 658 00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:45,720 Just break. Just break it and blow a 659 00:44:45,720 --> 00:44:46,680 trumpet, man. That's it. 660 00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:49,800 OK, so I'm going to like, break this and blow. 661 00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:53,880 Yeah, but now there's 135,000 people down there. 662 00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:56,560 Yeah, I know. And you just want me to blow a 663 00:44:56,560 --> 00:44:57,680 trumpet? Don't move. 664 00:44:58,040 --> 00:44:59,640 Nope. OK, we got this. 665 00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:05,320 Now, it sounds illogical, but they trusted the word. 666 00:45:09,520 --> 00:45:14,000 Now in the scripture, they route themselves, but it's not like 667 00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:17,160 everyone dies because Gideon takes these boys and they go 668 00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:22,080 pursue and then they go conquer others themselves. 669 00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:26,440 They do become a part of the battle and conquer. 670 00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:32,640 And man, when you stay in the fight and get to the victory of 671 00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:35,600 your faith, there's nothing like getting around somebody saying, 672 00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:38,480 right, did we do it? Did we do it? 673 00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:40,640 Did we do it? And when I say we do it, did not 674 00:45:40,640 --> 00:45:44,880 God do what he said he would do? Did God not say what he he would 675 00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:48,280 do what he was going to do? Did we not just be in the most 676 00:45:48,280 --> 00:45:50,560 miraculous thing that's ever been a part of our life? 677 00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:54,400 I am so glad I experienced God with you in this moment. 678 00:45:56,360 --> 00:46:03,480 Wow, how powerful is that? So again, in these last days, 679 00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:06,040 our struggle is not against flesh and blood. 680 00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:13,760 It's not a people problem. There's other things that we 681 00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:17,240 need to contend with but if we're ever going to get into 682 00:46:17,240 --> 00:46:22,120 that kind of battle that we are not going to yield to their 683 00:46:22,120 --> 00:46:26,040 devices. The devil's divide to resist in 684 00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:29,800 the day of evil, then you're first going to have to be strong 685 00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:37,480 in the Lord and that is the simple everyday mundane, not 686 00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:40,040 flashy. Nobody even knows it's 687 00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:42,920 happening. No one even knows you exist. 688 00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:48,200 No one even knows the time you're putting in Tom that makes 689 00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:52,240 you the elite. I'm going to close with this 690 00:46:52,240 --> 00:46:56,280 thought I was listening to a coach talk to his team. 691 00:46:57,200 --> 00:46:59,080 We have a team rally coming up Friday. 692 00:46:59,320 --> 00:47:00,160 Hallelujah. You ready? 693 00:47:01,200 --> 00:47:04,920 And so this this college coach was talking to his team and he 694 00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:07,880 was talking about, you know, who's the greatest NBA player of 695 00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:10,160 all time. He said, now I'm Michael Jordan 696 00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:12,920 fan. He said he goes I never would 697 00:47:12,920 --> 00:47:17,080 have put Kobe Bryant there ever because when I watched his game, 698 00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:21,120 I considered him a ball hog. He was just a ball hog. 699 00:47:21,720 --> 00:47:23,440 You know, he always had the ball. 700 00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:26,080 He always took the shot, everything he said. 701 00:47:26,120 --> 00:47:29,920 So I just considered him a ball hog till I heard him in an 702 00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:37,800 interview one day and I thought I have misjudged him because in 703 00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:42,480 the interview he says he was it was a in a practice and he his 704 00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:45,760 teammate was like, why would you pass the ball to me more? 705 00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:49,400 He said, why would I pass you the ball in the crucial moment 706 00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:52,440 when you fall asleep and practice, you fall asleep in the 707 00:47:52,720 --> 00:47:55,760 in the film room that you don't come early and you don't stay 708 00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:57,480 late. You're not putting in any of the 709 00:47:57,480 --> 00:47:59,640 extra work. Why would I give you in the most 710 00:47:59,640 --> 00:48:04,200 crucial moment, the time to be able to make that shot when you 711 00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:08,000 don't put in the effort to be at the level to make that shot? 712 00:48:12,240 --> 00:48:15,320 He identified with his own teammates their inability to 713 00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:18,760 want to be greater of themselves. 714 00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:22,680 And I remember a personal interview itself where one of 715 00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:26,720 the guys that played with Kobe said that they had just lost a 716 00:48:26,720 --> 00:48:30,160 particular game, you know, and they and, or a series or 717 00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:32,120 whatever the case may be. And he's like, man, I'm going to 718 00:48:32,120 --> 00:48:34,280 get in early, you know, thinking about what Kobe does. 719 00:48:34,440 --> 00:48:37,360 And he said, I showed up two hours early before anybody was 720 00:48:37,360 --> 00:48:38,560 going to be there. I think I'm going to be the 721 00:48:38,560 --> 00:48:41,320 first one in. And he said, I walk in and 722 00:48:41,320 --> 00:48:44,120 there's Kobe with ice wrapped around his knees. 723 00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:52,000 And he was like, seriously? Because when I walked in early 724 00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:55,120 before everyone else to practice, before anyone else 725 00:48:55,120 --> 00:48:59,200 did, he had already finished practicing and was icing his 726 00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:04,360 knees. See, we love to watch 727 00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:12,920 Spectacular People, but we don't want to do. 728 00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:19,120 Everybody wants to be Elijah or Jet Paul, but we don't want to 729 00:49:19,120 --> 00:49:22,240 do. We just want to assume, well, 730 00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:24,600 Christ lives in me. I have the Holy Ghost too. 731 00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:36,440 It does not come just because. It comes because you submit 732 00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:43,280 yourself to seek Him. And what stops Anchor Faith 733 00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:44,800 Church? Nothing but us. 734 00:49:47,240 --> 00:49:49,480 And I would just submit. Nothing's going to stop us 735 00:49:50,840 --> 00:49:54,080 because we're going to be unstoppable because we're 736 00:49:54,080 --> 00:50:02,520 willing to do the extra. Hallelujah. 6:00 AM, Morning 737 00:50:02,520 --> 00:50:05,600 prayer. Come on, come get some. 738 00:50:06,720 --> 00:50:09,080 And if you want to get froggy and be here at 5, fine. 739 00:50:09,080 --> 00:50:11,240 You won't get in the building, but you can drive around the 740 00:50:11,240 --> 00:50:14,080 parking lot and pray. Hey, we don't have a problem 741 00:50:14,080 --> 00:50:15,120 with that. Amen. 742 00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:19,880 Put in the effort. Put in the hours of praying in 743 00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:26,480 the Spirit, Put in, put in the time of reading the Word. 744 00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:29,920 More than just a Bible study or checking the box of the daily 745 00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:33,000 Reading Bible plan. Read an extra book. 746 00:50:35,160 --> 00:50:37,640 We can do it. Amen. 747 00:50:38,880 --> 00:50:42,080 No one's making you. No one made Kobe do more. 748 00:50:42,240 --> 00:50:47,360 His coaches didn't. But because of the team he did 749 00:50:48,520 --> 00:50:52,480 when he lived beyond himself, he worked beyond himself. 750 00:50:55,520 --> 00:50:57,960 And he's saying to us, be strong in the Lord. 751 00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:02,280 Lord, just cry, children, come to me. 752 00:51:02,880 --> 00:51:11,240 Just come to me because the more you seeking, the more you're 753 00:51:11,240 --> 00:51:15,280 going to reflect him and that's an amazing thing to be. 754 00:51:15,280 --> 00:51:17,360 Amen. I want more too. 755 00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:18,920 Let's just do more.