1 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:05,560 Thanks for checking out the Anchor Faith Message podcast 2 00:00:05,560 --> 00:00:06,920 from St. Augustine, FL. 3 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:17,200 Now enjoy this message. First Timothy chapter 4, verse 4 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:20,440 one says, but the spirit explicitly says that in latter 5 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:24,000 times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to 6 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:26,000 deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons. 7 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:31,600 Ma, Ma, ma. So again, the Spirit, the Holy 8 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:33,120 Spirit says this is going to happen. 9 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:35,800 You cannot pray this away. It's going to take place and 10 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:38,640 it's going to take place. Not with the lost or those that 11 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:40,800 are outside of God's Kingdom. They're already out of God's 12 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:42,320 Kingdom. They're already falling away. 13 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:44,880 They're not connected with God. These are people that are of the 14 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:49,480 faith, and the cause of them to fall away is what they pay 15 00:00:49,480 --> 00:00:51,560 attention to. And here's the thing. 16 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:53,640 If you're not paying attention to the words, you're going to 17 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:58,360 pay attention to something else. So we let me run through some 18 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:01,000 things pretty quick with Scripture so that we can get 19 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:03,160 ahead. First, John 41 says this 20 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:05,560 delightfully love. Friends do. 21 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:10,240 Don't trust every spirit, but carefully examine what they say 22 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:14,040 to determine if they are of God. Because many false prophets have 23 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:17,560 mingled into the world. Now there are us. 24 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:19,840 There is a spirit realm. God is a spirit. 25 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:24,320 But God is not the only Spirit. I say God's not the only Spirit. 26 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:27,800 You said there are more spirits. Well, just look at yourself in 27 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:30,080 the mirror. You are a spirit. 28 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:35,440 I said you are a spirit. Inside you is a spirit. 29 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:37,600 Now the spirit in you is one of two things. 30 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:42,560 It's either dead to Christ and your Father is the devil who is 31 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:45,640 the father of lies, and everything you touch will 32 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:48,360 eventually die. Turn into shambles. 33 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:51,440 No matter how much you pursue, you cannot find peace. 34 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:57,400 You cannot cure this emptiness within you, no matter how much 35 00:01:57,400 --> 00:02:01,000 you fill it with things that make you feel good or you are 36 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:03,440 alive to Christ because you've made Jesus the Lord of your 37 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:05,720 life. You're born again, and now the 38 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:09,360 Spirit in you is in Christ. And you have the third person of 39 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:12,040 the Godhead called the Holy Spirit, who comes and lives on 40 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:15,040 the inside of you and bears witness that you are child of 41 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:16,280 God. Can I get an Amen? 42 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:20,560 So we ourselves, our spirit. But then there's angels. 43 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:25,280 There are fallen angels. There's a fallen, anointed 44 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:27,560 cherub that is called the devil or Satan. 45 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:30,080 So there are those out there. Again. 46 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:35,360 When people always put God as he's doing everything, God 47 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:39,520 always does his word. But the devil comes to kill, 48 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:43,080 steal and destroy. People are giving God credit for 49 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:45,560 things. That's that Satan is doing. 50 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:49,920 Period. And anytime you get over in 51 00:02:49,920 --> 00:02:52,920 Satan's territory, you're authorizing him. 52 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:56,800 Now, if you're not born again, you're on his territory. 53 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:00,880 You are his family member. He is an abusive father. 54 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:04,840 I mean, he's extremely abusive. He will verbally abuse you, 55 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:07,800 physically abuse you, sexually abuse you. 56 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:09,880 I mean, he will whip you, tear you down. 57 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:12,880 He will build you up only to strip you naked. 58 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:17,920 He don't care about you. He exploits you and uses you, 59 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:20,840 that's who. That's your daddy. 60 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:24,520 But if you're born of God, then you have a different father. 61 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:27,360 He's a heavenly father. He's a good father. 62 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:30,480 He's a righteous father. He will provide for you. 63 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:33,440 Amen. So if you're over on the devil's 64 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:37,680 side, then you court him, 'cause the wages of sin is death. 65 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:41,560 So every time you're doing sin, then you're allowing you've 66 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:45,120 you've got an open door for death and destruction to show 67 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:47,480 up. And God's not bringing that, 68 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:54,400 God's not bringing that. But when you're born of God, you 69 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:59,440 can shut the door to death, you can shut the door to the law of 70 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:04,000 sin and death, and you can move over into life and life more 71 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:08,000 abundantly then God. And when the enemy attacks you, 72 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:09,760 guess what? Your Father will come and 73 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:14,160 protect you if you fail. Not in your belief. 74 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:18,680 Are you hearing me? So we have to examine every 75 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:20,760 spirit. And so we need to have an 76 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:23,640 accurate examination. Because the problem in 77 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:28,120 Christianity is that believers aren't accurately examining 78 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:32,480 because the spirit realm is something we don't see. 79 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:35,040 And don't tell me you don't believe something you can't see. 80 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:38,360 That's a lie, because none of us see the oxygen in the room right 81 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:44,560 now. We don't see it, but you're sure 82 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:46,800 breathing it. But I don't believe it's here. 83 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:47,880 Hold your breath. Then. 84 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:51,880 Go ahead and hold your. Breath. 85 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:55,360 Come on, let's do it. Everybody hold your breath. 86 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:57,640 I want you to go at least 20 seconds. 87 00:04:57,640 --> 00:04:59,040 Ready. One, 88 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:25,600 they'll do good. 20 seconds. Wow, I'm impressed. 89 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:32,720 Now, if we try 6 minutes, I don't know what the world record 90 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:35,520 is, but it's long, right? They've conditioned their body 91 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:37,520 to be at a handle, you know that. 92 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:40,840 But the majority of us, if I put us to 60 seconds, some of y'all 93 00:05:40,840 --> 00:05:48,320 be be shaking, right? Right. 24 minutes. 94 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:51,600 Glory to God, wow, that's a long time. 95 00:05:52,280 --> 00:05:56,560 I almost passed out saying that word. 24 minutes, right? 96 00:05:57,440 --> 00:06:00,040 I mean, you're like holding on. You go to, I mean, most of them 97 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:03,560 probably, probably almost nobody in this room could go 2 minutes. 98 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:05,920 I mean, you just like shaking can bold, you know, like feel 99 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:08,160 like your insides about to explode, right? 100 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:10,120 But we don't believe in oxygen because we can't see it. 101 00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:13,280 No, we have the effects. Of it. 102 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:17,440 There are plenty of things that are in the atmosphere right now 103 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:22,200 and other gases that are existing in this room right now 104 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:26,280 that we don't see. But they exist, right? 105 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:30,440 I mean, how many of you see my voice right now, but you're 106 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:32,480 hearing it, And how are you hearing it? 107 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:33,880 You know, because you're educated people. 108 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:38,040 It's called sound waves. In fact, if everyone of you 109 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:42,160 pulled your phone out right now, went to your Pandora and hit 110 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:46,560 play, whatever you music you got you have on it would tune into 111 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:49,960 that and all of a sudden all kinds of different voices would 112 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:54,440 begin to manifest in this room. We wouldn't see them, don't know 113 00:06:54,440 --> 00:07:00,080 how they got here, other than we tuned in to a frequency that 114 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:04,520 allowed us to access something in the air and pull it in that 115 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:10,360 now it hits one of our senses called hearing, although we do 116 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:14,120 not see it Well, the same thing is with the Spirit. 117 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:17,880 We give God credit for stuff that God's not doing. 118 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:21,120 I'm talking about good things. Well, wow. 119 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:22,160 You know what? I got a job. 120 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:24,040 Promotion. God, He so blessed me. 121 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:26,680 The devil promote you. The devil promote you. 122 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:29,840 Right out of church, right out of your call, right out of your 123 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:32,240 marriage. He'll promote you. 124 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:34,960 He'll absolutely bless you to destroy you. 125 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:38,080 No doubt about it. And all the while you're giving 126 00:07:38,080 --> 00:07:40,880 God credit and he is stripping you from behind and you don't 127 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:45,400 even know it because we have to learn how to examine accurate, 128 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:47,160 accurate examination. Amen. 129 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:51,560 Prophets 14515 says it this way. A gullible person will believe 130 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:57,000 anything, but a sensible person will confirm the facts. 131 00:07:57,560 --> 00:07:59,280 Amen. And even the Bible says let 132 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:02,640 everything be confirmed by two or three witnesses. 133 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:05,840 Amen. It goes on to say in Proverbs 134 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:10,880 2712, the amplified A prudent man sees evil and hides himself 135 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:15,000 and avoids it. But the naive, who are easily 136 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:18,960 misled, continue on and are punished by suffering the 137 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:22,760 consequences of sin. Another translation of Proverbs 138 00:08:22,760 --> 00:08:25,880 2712 says it this way. Wise people see trouble coming 139 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:29,280 and get out of its way, but fools go straight to the trouble 140 00:08:29,480 --> 00:08:33,720 and suffer for it. The writer of Hebrews chapter 5, 141 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:37,039 verse 11 says it this way. Going down to verse 14 he says 142 00:08:37,039 --> 00:08:40,320 concerning him I have much to say, I have much to say, but 143 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:44,600 it's hard to explain since you have become dull of hearing. 144 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:48,040 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have 145 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:52,440 need again of someone to teach you the elementary principles of 146 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:57,960 the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid 147 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:00,320 food. For everyone who partakes only, 148 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:04,080 say only of milk is not accustomed to the word of 149 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:07,120 righteousness, for he is a what an infant. 150 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:11,920 But solid food is for the mature, say mature, who, because 151 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:16,240 of practice, say practice, say practice, have their senses 152 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:20,240 trained to discern good and evil. 153 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:25,240 Are you hearing what I'm saying? So we see here that we need to 154 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:27,400 have an accurate examination, he said. 155 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:30,760 We are to examine the spirits. We are to test them, We are to 156 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:34,680 examine them and we. And if you haven't been trained 157 00:09:34,680 --> 00:09:37,920 or taught, then you are in essence naive. 158 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:42,840 And you and being naive you will listen to any spirit and any 159 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:47,280 spirit can manipulate you to think it's God. 160 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:51,440 In fact, even the Bible says it's no wonder, for even Satan 161 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:58,760 comes as an Angel of life. He will slap quote scripture If 162 00:09:58,760 --> 00:10:04,040 he quoted scripture with Jesus. He'll absolutely quote scripture 163 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:11,040 with you and give you an arsenal of scripture to keep your 164 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:15,200 thoughts of how you want this thing to be. 165 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:23,480 The essence of idolatry is you creating the image of God, the 166 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:26,880 essence of idolatry. In fact, Jesus said repent, for 167 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:28,280 the Kingdom of heaven is at hand. 168 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:31,600 That means change your thinking. One translation says, side with 169 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:33,720 my party. And Jesus is saying this. 170 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:36,560 Listen, you don't think like us. You can't even respond like us. 171 00:10:36,560 --> 00:10:38,240 You don't know nothing about us because you're dead. 172 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:40,160 You separated. Your daddy is a liar. 173 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:42,760 He's been live with you. He's been abusing you, he's been 174 00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:45,000 exploiting you, he's been using you. 175 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:47,320 But I want to get you over, over to my Kingdom, because this was 176 00:10:47,320 --> 00:10:50,120 never how the Father intended. And I can get you out of that 177 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:51,200 mess. But if you going to get out of 178 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:53,560 that mess, I got to change who you are. 179 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:56,640 But then I'm going to have to renew your mind so you'll know 180 00:10:56,640 --> 00:10:59,880 exactly what my voice is so that he don't dupe you. 181 00:10:59,960 --> 00:11:03,640 Because when Jesus was tempted of the devil, his first defense 182 00:11:03,640 --> 00:11:05,800 against his attack was it is written. 183 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:08,480 So the devil comes back and the next one and says what the 184 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:14,000 scripture says. And if you want to keep your 185 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:17,400 flesh, your feelings, you can find scripture to help support 186 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:24,040 it and it's idolatry. But if you want to be like God, 187 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:26,200 then he will clearly. Show you the word. 188 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:28,040 You'll have to change your thinking. 189 00:11:28,040 --> 00:11:32,040 You're not changing gods. And then you'll find the image 190 00:11:32,040 --> 00:11:35,240 of God of which is worthy of worship. 191 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:38,280 Are you hearing me? But here in Hebrews, he said 192 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:39,800 consider him. I have much to say. 193 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:42,520 It's hard to explain since you've become dole of hearing. 194 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:46,680 In essence, they can't examine properly because they are not 195 00:11:46,680 --> 00:11:49,320 listening. Now let's talk about examination 196 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:51,320 real quick. How many? 197 00:11:51,320 --> 00:11:55,640 Of you, without going having any training, feel extremely 198 00:11:55,640 --> 00:11:58,280 confident to perform brain surgery. 199 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:04,240 Any of us could examine a body, OK? 200 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:07,640 Any of us could perform an examination. 201 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:10,000 Put on the gloves. Got our mask on. 202 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:14,720 Well, let's see how your heart's doing. 203 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:16,600 Got the stethoscope. You know, breathe. 204 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:19,600 I mean, I've been done that enough that I could mimic this. 205 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:25,000 Hold in, breathe out. Hold in, Breathe out, hold in, 206 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:27,440 breathe out. I have gone to my chiropractor 207 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:29,440 enough. Now I know when I'm breathing 208 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:32,920 all the way out so he can pop me and when I'm holding that breath 209 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:36,520 in. So if my wife wanted me to, I 210 00:12:36,520 --> 00:12:38,840 could, I could, I could say, well, let me do an examination. 211 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:41,960 I can put my hands all up and down on her, you know, spine. 212 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:44,640 And then I know when I get to this part, I remember my 213 00:12:44,640 --> 00:12:48,800 Carpenter says hold in now, hold it right. 214 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:52,360 And then he goes up like an inch or two and he says, now hold, 215 00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:53,480 take a deep breath. And I hold it. 216 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:54,720 He's sitting. I put it all the way out and I 217 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:59,400 go right now. That's the table making that 218 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:05,120 sound, not my spine. So I could act like, But would I 219 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:08,480 accurately examine? No. 220 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:12,040 And this is the problem. Believers think just because 221 00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:17,000 they're born again, they can all of a sudden have accurate 222 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:21,200 examination. But the Bible tells us here in 223 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:24,880 Hebrews, you cannot, he said. I got more things to say, but I 224 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:27,360 can't say them. In fact, right now you ought to 225 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:30,720 be a teacher. You should have graduated and 226 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:36,000 been well versed on how to accurately, rightly divide the 227 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:38,880 word of truth, know and discern good. 228 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:42,240 But because you're not listening, you're not allowing 229 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:45,640 the word to transform you. In fact, we know, James says, be 230 00:13:45,680 --> 00:13:48,920 a doer of the word and not a hearer only. 231 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:53,320 Because when you only hear, you will be deceived. 232 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:57,240 Now why does that take place? Because the minute God speaks to 233 00:13:57,240 --> 00:14:01,160 you about something and then you begin to justify why you don't 234 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:06,680 have to do it that way, you immediately move into deception. 235 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:09,720 Well, now, Lord, you know I. Do that but. 236 00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:11,760 You're starting to, you're starting. 237 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:13,200 You're starting down the path of deception. 238 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:15,320 You've heard it, but you're not going to apply it. 239 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:16,400 You're not going to do what he says. 240 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:20,400 You're going to do what you say. Now that believer is deceived 241 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:23,280 and this writer is saying, listen, I can't even talk to you 242 00:14:23,280 --> 00:14:24,600 about spiritual stuff. Really. 243 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:27,800 I can't even do more because at this point I do not see the 244 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:33,040 fruit of someone mature. So he goes born and says listen 245 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:35,960 at this juncture I've got to give you elementary stuff, 246 00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:39,560 elementary stuff. Put that scripture back up 247 00:14:39,880 --> 00:14:41,800 'cause look what it says here in verse 13. 248 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:46,400 Everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to the 249 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:51,360 word of righteousness. So milk is elementary teachings. 250 00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:56,760 So if all you're ever hearing is elementary teachings, the next 251 00:14:56,760 --> 00:15:01,240 verse, verse 14, is telling you it's not solid food teaching. 252 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:05,680 There is a distinct difference between milk and solid food. 253 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:07,440 One translation says milk and meat. 254 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:13,600 Are you hearing me? So not every church is serving 255 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:15,920 the same meal. That's what I'm saying. 256 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:18,760 Not every church is serving the same meal. 257 00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:21,880 And be and listen, we don't even do this in our preschool. 258 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:26,360 I don't serve the same meal in our preschool to our infants 259 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:30,080 milk. And when they're a little bit 260 00:15:30,080 --> 00:15:36,320 older, maybe some really mushy something, it's called baby 261 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:38,600 food. We all call it that. 262 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:41,640 In fact, you call your applesauce today, not adult 263 00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:44,400 food. Are you eating baby food? 264 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:48,720 Because you associate mush with, which means somebody had to 265 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:52,920 grind this down so much so that it can actually get into you. 266 00:15:52,920 --> 00:15:55,560 Because if you were having to do that apple on your own, you 267 00:15:55,560 --> 00:16:05,440 choke and you choke and die. So there is a a, a ministering 268 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:10,200 or teachings within the body that only leaves you as an 269 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:13,160 infant. OK, I'm going to go over here. 270 00:16:13,440 --> 00:16:19,640 It only leaves you as an infant. And if you don't recognize what 271 00:16:19,640 --> 00:16:23,520 those teachings are and all you want to do is hear those 272 00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:27,400 teachings, then you run the risk of verse 14. 273 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:32,040 Verse 14 says, but solid food is for the because you understand 274 00:16:32,160 --> 00:16:35,040 being in church 30 years doesn't make you mature. 275 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:39,080 There's no such thing as a union Christian. 276 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:42,320 Well, I've been in the church, bless God for 30 years. 277 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:48,160 Well, you may be the oldest infant we have, and I'm quite 278 00:16:48,160 --> 00:16:53,600 frankly tired of changing your diapers because this is awkward. 279 00:16:54,440 --> 00:16:55,760 When you were one. No problem. 280 00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:58,920 Two. OK, but you're 55 now and you 281 00:16:58,920 --> 00:17:03,200 want me to change you. That's absolutely abnormal. 282 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:09,640 Are you hearing me? OK, so solid food is for the 283 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:14,839 mature who, because of what practice, have their senses 284 00:17:14,839 --> 00:17:18,160 trained to discern good name. Do you want to know what the 285 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:19,920 elementary teachings are? Come on. 286 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:21,160 Does anybody want to know what they are? 287 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:23,200 I mean, don't what you want to know if you were stuck in 288 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:28,000 infancy. Amen. 289 00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:29,800 Now, this ain't going to feel real. 290 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:35,440 Well to everyone, but that's OK. We'll get you past it in the 291 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:37,880 name of Jesus. So this is. 292 00:17:37,880 --> 00:17:42,160 Hebrews chapter one, five, verse 14. 293 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:46,440 You understand translators put chapters and verses. 294 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:52,480 Paul had a letter, so the next paragraph, which happens to be 295 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:57,560 chapter 6, verse one, is continuing the thought. 296 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:02,160 So let's put up Hebrews chapter 6, verse one. 297 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:03,800 I didn't give it to you guys, but we're going to do it and 298 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:09,760 we'll probably take it all the way to verse 03. 299 00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:14,720 Verse three, it says this and they've get it up ready, 300 00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:19,560 therefore leaving, say, leaving. So again, should we stay there? 301 00:18:20,080 --> 00:18:23,040 Now that doesn't mean we do not go back to them. 302 00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:24,520 We will. In fact, this verse will even 303 00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:27,320 say that. But we're not supposed to stay 304 00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:29,720 there. Here here is teaching in the 305 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:33,280 church that keeps everyone a an infant. 306 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:39,400 Therefore leaving the elementary teachings about the Christ, let 307 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:43,400 us press on the maturity, not laying again a foundation of 308 00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:46,360 repentance from dead works and faith towards God. 309 00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:49,600 That is simply called the salvation message. 310 00:18:51,720 --> 00:18:55,280 If all you ever hear every Sunday is how someone can be 311 00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:59,920 born again and the message is always turned where its emphasis 312 00:18:59,920 --> 00:19:03,680 is just about being born again, then that is a preschool church 313 00:19:07,560 --> 00:19:11,520 verse two of instructions about washings and laying on of hands. 314 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:14,440 Washings are elementary teachings. 315 00:19:15,360 --> 00:19:18,680 Being baptized, we're going to baptize people today that are 316 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:20,600 born again. Should they want to follow in 317 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:22,760 water baptism, we will baptize them then. 318 00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:26,160 That is an elementary teaching. That is an outward expression of 319 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:28,960 an inward act. To be water baptized. 320 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:32,560 Another one is the washing of the water of the Word. 321 00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:36,520 That's a washing. That's an elementary teaching 322 00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:38,240 that you should let the Word renew your mind. 323 00:19:38,240 --> 00:19:42,200 That's elementary. You know what else is the 324 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:45,400 baptism of the Holy Spirit? To be baptized in the Holy 325 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:47,880 Spirit, whatever is speaking in tongues is an elementary 326 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:51,880 principle. Paul in Acts chapter 19 got him 327 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:55,360 born again and he he said now when you got born again, did you 328 00:19:55,360 --> 00:19:57,280 get filled with the Holy Ghost? Whatever is Speaking of tongue 329 00:19:57,280 --> 00:20:00,880 at the same time, this is not you don't get filled with the 330 00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:02,600 Holy Ghost, whatever is Speaking of tongues because you're 331 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:04,520 mature. It is baby stuff. 332 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:09,720 That's baby stuff. OK, he goes on and says this and 333 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:14,000 the resurrection of the dead and eternal judgement. 334 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:17,240 Now, oh, let's do the laying on hands. 335 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:19,760 Laying on hands is healing the sick. 336 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:23,280 Or again, you could receive the baptism of Holy Spirit through 337 00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:26,080 the laying on of hands. That's elementary. 338 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:30,680 Period. These are elementary. 339 00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:34,800 And if all we preached, then I would have a preschool. 340 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:38,440 And you know what that means. I'm guaranteeing that you cannot 341 00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:44,200 discern between good and evil, which really means that I'm 342 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:46,280 keeping you dependent on my ability. 343 00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:56,440 Now, I didn't say this, This is the Bible. 344 00:20:57,160 --> 00:20:59,360 That's funny. You know, there's times that we 345 00:20:59,360 --> 00:21:01,520 really love the Bible. We say that's what the Bible 346 00:21:01,520 --> 00:21:04,640 says until it starts to encroach on things in our life. 347 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:07,320 They realize, wait a minute, that's me now, that's what the 348 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:08,720 Bible says. I'm not saying this. 349 00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:12,000 Now the resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment. 350 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:16,280 This is anyone who's preaching that if you do not make Jesus 351 00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:19,160 the Lord of your life, you will be eternally judged. 352 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:24,920 So when people say, well, if God was such a loving God, I cannot. 353 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:26,240 Believe he would throw people in hell. 354 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:28,560 He does not. He never will. 355 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:33,080 He doesn't do that. What does he do? 356 00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:36,120 He gives you what you want. And for those who don't want 357 00:21:36,120 --> 00:21:41,040 God, they get the lake of fire. So those that are going to hell 358 00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:44,680 are, the Bible clearly calls it the second death or the lake of 359 00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:49,760 fire. They are choosing to go because, 360 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:52,160 again, God will let you do. Whatever you want to do. 361 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:56,520 But he'll hold you accountable for whatever you do because he 362 00:21:56,520 --> 00:22:02,240 is life and if you do not do life, then you get what you 363 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:04,920 want, death. And he will give it to you 364 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:10,520 though grieving that you rejected him because he never 365 00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:14,000 wanted you to go there. So for everyone cast into the 366 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:16,560 lake of fire, he has a testimony. 367 00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:19,680 I never wanted them there. I did everything I could to keep 368 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:22,080 them from there. I laid down my own life so they 369 00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:24,720 wouldn't have. And yet in all that, they still 370 00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:27,600 said I don't want you. I'm going to do what I want to 371 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:34,200 do. That is an elementary print 372 00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:36,160 teaching. He says, and this will do if God 373 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:38,360 permits, Meaning will review the foundation. 374 00:22:39,120 --> 00:22:42,680 I have no problem with coming and doing remedial training, but 375 00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:45,960 if that's all we're discussing, then what we do is we are not 376 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:48,960 getting to solid food. We are not having conversations 377 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:51,080 to maturity. We are not giving you things to 378 00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:54,040 practice because at the end of the day, if you're going to be a 379 00:22:54,040 --> 00:23:00,400 champion, you're going to practice, OK, You know, the 380 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:03,520 Flagler girls had a game of women had a game on Saturday. 381 00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:07,760 They won Hallelujah and but again they practice. 382 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:14,000 Now, I'm going to tell you right now I can play basketball, but 383 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:19,920 horribly. Right now, I'm just going to be 384 00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:21,360 honest with you. Stay with me, OK? 385 00:23:21,360 --> 00:23:25,720 Please do not check out with me. In our society today, I could 386 00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:31,040 identify as one of them, enroll in Flagler and decide to play. 387 00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:32,840 Now they don't want me on the team. 388 00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:34,720 I'm just. Going to say that. 389 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:37,720 But I could do that because I can dribble the ball. 390 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:40,520 I've made lay UPS before. I've made some pretty incredible 391 00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:42,800 shots. But at the end of the day, when 392 00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:45,880 I get out there, I'm not I I'm not practice. 393 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:51,360 At best they're going to say please, can this person get off 394 00:23:51,360 --> 00:23:55,040 the court because they are hindering us? 395 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:02,800 Right. And again, the reason why a lot 396 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:04,600 of times the world don't want to get on our. 397 00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:06,120 Team oh y'all don't want to hear this. 398 00:24:07,120 --> 00:24:10,800 Because Christianity's act like a bunch of Divas that don't go 399 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:15,680 to practice and they just won't show up on game day, but they 400 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:18,240 can't perform on game day because they ain't gonna. 401 00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:21,000 Practice. They don't know the plays, They 402 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:22,240 don't know what the enemy's going to do. 403 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:26,360 They don't know strategy. They ain't watch the film and 404 00:24:26,360 --> 00:24:28,680 you go like, Oh well, just because they put me on the team, 405 00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:32,040 I mean, seriously, I do not believe that the Flagler women's 406 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:35,520 team would say, you know what, we're OK with someone coming up, 407 00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:38,400 being recruited, coming to our college, being enrolled. 408 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:42,200 We've they, the school has accepted them and we've accepted 409 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:44,680 them as a player. But they never hang out with the 410 00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:46,240 team. They never show up except for 411 00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:48,280 game day. And they're saying, put me in, 412 00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:52,800 be like, what? And then when they're they're 413 00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:55,760 messing up the plays and doing everything, they'd be like, 414 00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:57,560 what's wrong with you? Well, they know what's wrong 415 00:24:57,560 --> 00:25:00,440 with them. You're not practicing. 416 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:03,360 You've not been trained how to handle the team. 417 00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:05,480 We knew they were going to get in the post that way. 418 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:07,000 We knew that this was their start. 419 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:11,160 We knew we needed to go to to, you know, either a zone or man 420 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:13,120 to man. But they don't know why because 421 00:25:13,120 --> 00:25:15,880 they've been laying up and they're saying I got my uniform, 422 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:19,640 I'm on the team, I'll just show up when I show up, and then and 423 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:22,000 then half the time we don't even show up for church. 424 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:24,000 Oh, you. Only want to hear that it's 425 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:26,800 fine. I'll pick which games I want to 426 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:29,520 be. At you're going to. 427 00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:33,920 Pick which games you want to be at and you want the Lord to say, 428 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:37,760 yeah, I want to use you. He's like, you just sit right 429 00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:39,680 here. Now I'm putting the mature 430 00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:42,600 people in the game. I mean, we've created a society 431 00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:44,080 where everybody's got to participate. 432 00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:46,920 I'm telling what, God, he's not putting everybody in 433 00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:49,520 participation. He's like you're on the team but 434 00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:52,400 you're never getting in the game till you get somewhere where you 435 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:55,320 can actually handle the enemy. Until then, stay on the sideline 436 00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:57,680 and learn from these that are well equipped. 437 00:25:58,000 --> 00:25:59,960 But if I put you in, you going to give it to the team. 438 00:26:00,120 --> 00:26:02,840 I mean, they would be so susceptible that they get the 439 00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:06,920 ball in right and they slap. I mean like what, 25 seconds 440 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:09,960 left and here's, you know, the play, all they got to do is 441 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:12,600 inbounded to their team. But one of the other players go 442 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:14,560 give it to me and they hand it to him. 443 00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:20,320 Because they're not trained, Said That sounds ludicrous. 444 00:26:20,360 --> 00:26:22,800 I mean a Christianity. Some people do some ludicrous 445 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:25,600 stuff totally outside the will of God. 446 00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:30,040 Just say Amen anyway. Well, the Lord, you know, I just 447 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:31,640 really believed that he was the one. 448 00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:33,920 And I moved in with him, you know, And we were sleeping 449 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:38,120 around before we ever got married, you know, And you're 450 00:26:38,120 --> 00:26:43,760 born again. Where did it? 451 00:26:44,120 --> 00:26:46,640 Where? Would God have ever given you 452 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:49,160 that instruction? He never would have you were. 453 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:58,800 Listening to the wrong voice, honey, our gentlemen, I mean, we 454 00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:02,280 we had this conversation with someone when we were eating one 455 00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:04,280 day. It's the only negative thing of 456 00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:06,640 being a pastor. Known that people will show up 457 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:10,640 sometimes and then just regurgitate what's going on in 458 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:16,600 your life because and I'm smiling, I'm generally 459 00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:18,160 concerned. But in my mind I'm thinking, 460 00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:21,880 Lord, do I tell them what they need to hear or do I just like, 461 00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:24,320 they ain't going to listen, So I'm just going to listen. 462 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:27,640 And then I just like, I pray for you because I got to pray. 463 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:29,480 You get revelation because my answer is not going to work 464 00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:30,720 because you ain't going to do what I want to do. 465 00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:32,360 Because you sure ain't been doing what God wants to do. 466 00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:36,320 Amen. And your life's a mess now 467 00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:40,400 because you listened to the wrong voice, Because you've not 468 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:43,200 been in the Bible, You've not been trained. 469 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:46,080 You've not been in church? When I'm going to heaven. 470 00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:47,680 When I die. This ain't about going to 471 00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:51,600 heaven, It's about becoming a child of God now, all right? 472 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:57,360 I told Mr. Brown because he told me today he was going to go 45 473 00:27:57,360 --> 00:27:58,680 minutes. I said no problem, I'm going 474 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:03,680 three hours anyway. However, he did not go 45 475 00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:06,080 minutes, so I'm going to have to probably pull back a little bit. 476 00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:08,520 So we better drive on 1st Corinthians 3. 477 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:11,240 One through 3 says this, and I, brethren, could not speak to you 478 00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:15,520 as a spiritual man, but as men of flesh, as the infants in 479 00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:17,120 Christ. I gave you milk to drink, not 480 00:28:17,120 --> 00:28:20,120 solid food for you. You were not yet able to receive 481 00:28:20,120 --> 00:28:22,200 it. Indeed, even now you're not able 482 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:26,120 to receive it, for you are still what if you're fleshly, you 483 00:28:26,120 --> 00:28:30,160 can't receive it. Is that God's fault? 484 00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:33,640 It's not. It's not God's fault. 485 00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:46,080 It's your laziness to be trained right got to be trained got and 486 00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:48,560 you got to start somewhere. Let's say you got to start 487 00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:53,760 somewhere, he goes on to say. For since there is jealousy and 488 00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:55,560 strife among you, are you not fleshly? 489 00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:57,600 Are you not walking like mere men? 490 00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:01,360 In essence saying you have the Spirit of God in you, you have 491 00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:03,680 the reigning spirit in you, bearing witness with your 492 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:05,280 spirit. You're a child of God and yet 493 00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:06,720 you act like the rest of the world. 494 00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:12,320 So what does this tell us? Being born again alone does not 495 00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:14,920 automatically mean you can know the difference between good and 496 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:18,720 evil. You can be born of God and have 497 00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:21,800 the Holy Spirit in you and still listen to the wrong voices. 498 00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:26,160 And it creates great confusion to the world. 499 00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:30,600 Because when they want, then when they get hungry to know 500 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:33,960 God, they can't really see him because you're listening to 501 00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:35,560 other stuff. Because you're not submitting 502 00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:38,760 yourself to the training that the Bible clearly communicates 503 00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:42,240 that you should enlist in that you're being recruited to. 504 00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:44,720 So that you can be a champion. And win every time. 505 00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:47,120 Amen. I mean, I love. 506 00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:49,480 Those one commercials, I don't know which which one it is now 507 00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:51,560 and y'all can tell me when you see it, but you know, it's like 508 00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:54,160 Charles Barkley's there and he's like, it's as easy as that, 509 00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:55,720 right? And he got the little kids and 510 00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:58,320 the kids like I picked Charles Barkley, you. 511 00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:00,600 Seen that one and he's like, yeah, right. 512 00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:04,040 It's like this is easy as that. I mean, who's not going to pick, 513 00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:06,760 you know, the the, the guy that's going to slam on all of 514 00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:09,600 the four foot people? This is easy. 515 00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:11,680 Throw it up to the guy. Well, you understand when you 516 00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:14,160 get in the Kingdom of God, you want to get around people that 517 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:16,920 are the obvious ones who's mature, the one who can handle 518 00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:19,200 adversity, the one who's not led by their emotion, the one who 519 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:21,440 gets trained in it. Because in that case, you're 520 00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:25,920 like, I want you on my team, I want you. 521 00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:30,160 So he goes on to say in Galatians chapter one starting 522 00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:32,760 in verse 6. I'll read out the Amplified real 523 00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:33,560 quick. It says yes. 524 00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:36,520 I'm surprised, Paul said and astonished that you were. 525 00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:41,840 You are so quickly turning renegade and deserting Him Who 526 00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:45,920 invent, who invited and called you by the grace unmerited favor 527 00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:48,840 of Christ the Messiah, and that you are transferring your 528 00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:53,600 allegiance to a different, even an opposed gospel, opposition 529 00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:58,200 gospel. Not that there is or could be 530 00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:01,760 any other genuine gospel, but there are obviously some who are 531 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,520 troubling and disturbing and bewildering you with a different 532 00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:09,400 kind of teaching, which which they offer as a gospel and want 533 00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:12,480 to pervert and distort the gospel of Christ into something 534 00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:17,080 which it is absolutely not. But even if we are an Angel, 535 00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:19,400 look what Paul says. But even if we are, an Angel 536 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:23,120 from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to and 537 00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:25,160 different from that which we preach to you. 538 00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:29,720 Let him be accursed, doomed to destruction, devoted to 539 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:34,240 destruction, punishment, eternal punishment, as we said before. 540 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:37,600 So I say now again, if anyone preaching to you a gospel 541 00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:41,960 different from or contrary. To that which you received, let 542 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:45,200 him be accursed. So he's Paul's letting him know 543 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:47,560 you're a church. We preach to you. 544 00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:50,960 You made Jesus the Lord of your life, and now all of a sudden, 545 00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:54,480 because later on he goes into chapter 3 and he says this to 546 00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:59,240 the church, who has bewitched you or who has cast a spell? 547 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:06,600 You have the Holy Ghost, a reigning spirit, and you're 548 00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:09,680 listening to totally different voices. 549 00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:16,120 He wouldn't just say, well at least you're going to go to 550 00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:17,320 heaven when you die. Praise God. 551 00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:20,720 You know how many churches say, well, you know all that stuff 552 00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:22,680 doesn't really matter. All that matters is that you've 553 00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:25,720 asked Jesus into your heart. That is a lie. 554 00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:29,280 In fact, that is a doctrine of demons. 555 00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:33,880 How do I know that? Where in the world would God 556 00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:37,840 ever say you don't need to know me beyond salvation? 557 00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:44,600 Only the Devil would set up the church for that. 558 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:48,040 Oh, by the way, you actually don't need to know your father. 559 00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:50,200 That's right. Preach it. 560 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:54,280 Yeah, yet the very first message Jesus publicly preaches this 561 00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:57,360 repent. And repent is not a religious 562 00:32:57,360 --> 00:33:00,520 word. It literally means change your 563 00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:03,800 thinking and you understand there's a lot we got to change. 564 00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:09,040 There's a lot of subjects, there's a lot of life issues 565 00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:11,880 that we may have. We are going to have to change. 566 00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:15,240 And God, through His word, will give us the answer to 567 00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:18,000 everything. He'll say, look at relationships 568 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:20,520 this way now, and look at this this way and look at employment 569 00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:22,640 this way and look at this. Because when you get it from the 570 00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:25,160 Kingdom perspective, everything changes. 571 00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:29,840 How you function in your natural family, you'll change it how you 572 00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:32,240 function among marriages, You'll change how you do it with your 573 00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:34,120 children. You'll change it how you work, 574 00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:39,600 how you pursue life. You'll change when you get it in 575 00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:40,680 the Kingdom. Perspective. 576 00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:43,120 But you've got to say, what's your will, Lord, what do you 577 00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:44,040 say? How do you do it? 578 00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:46,600 Because your life Are you hearing me? 579 00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:48,760 So first, Thessalonians 521 says. 580 00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:50,040 But examine everything carefully. 581 00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:52,760 Hold to that which is fast and good Again, If you're not 582 00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:55,320 trained in it, you can't hold to something that you can't 583 00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:58,520 discern. Now I get it. 584 00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:02,240 You're trying. But trying is not going to keep 585 00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:08,760 the devil from destroying you. Not when God's given a clear. 586 00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:13,560 Path of how you can overcome and know the difference between good 587 00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:14,400 and evil. He's telling you. 588 00:34:14,639 --> 00:34:19,600 You got to get to solid food. You have to get to line upon 589 00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:22,480 line, precept upon pre. You have to know the Father. 590 00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:23,800 You got to. Seek him. 591 00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:27,159 Jesus even said seek first the Kingdom of God. 592 00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:30,120 The Kingdom of God is not a one way ticket to heaven. 593 00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:36,800 It can't be heaven because then Jesus would be a liar because he 594 00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:42,159 makes a distinguishment between the two and we all know the 595 00:34:42,159 --> 00:34:45,239 prayer our Father. Come on, say it with me. 596 00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:48,719 Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be your name. 597 00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:55,800 Your Kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in well, 598 00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:58,320 If the Kingdom can be on the earth like it's in heaven, then 599 00:34:58,320 --> 00:35:05,360 Kingdom can't be heaven. So when we say seek first, the 600 00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:07,280 Kingdom that's not seek first getting saved. 601 00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:11,640 And going to heaven, Noah is seeking the Kingdom, and the 602 00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:13,280 Kingdom can have involvement right now. 603 00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:16,440 In fact, if you actually study the scripture, it's always been 604 00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:21,080 about God being here. Even when Adam, who had no sin, 605 00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:25,720 was in a perfect world with no sin, him and and Eve God came 606 00:35:25,720 --> 00:35:29,480 down in the garden. There's no indication that he 607 00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:36,200 ever called Adam up to heaven. He didn't need to because their 608 00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:42,400 worlds were the same. Their words were the same. 609 00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:44,760 Now, I'm not saying that when you die, you don't go to heaven. 610 00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:47,200 You're obviously going to go to heaven when you die, because the 611 00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:49,800 Bible is very clear. To be absent from the body is to 612 00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:53,720 be present. Where is the Lord presently at? 613 00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:56,680 But is he staying there? He is not. 614 00:35:56,680 --> 00:36:00,760 If you've read the back of the book, if you've actually read 615 00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:02,280 the back of the book. And I'm not talking about that 616 00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:04,640 religious statement of the back. I've read the back of the book 617 00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:05,880 and we win. They don't even know what they 618 00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:07,520 won because they don't even know what they won now. 619 00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:11,640 They don't know what they've won now, much less what they win 620 00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:13,960 back then because they're going to have a hard time when Jesus 621 00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:18,200 shows up, puts his foot down, rules on the on this planet for 622 00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:21,880 1000 years, everybody thinks when the rapture of the churches 623 00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:23,840 we'll be in heaven forever. It doesn't say that, said we 624 00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:27,680 coming back then he's going to bring his new Jerusalem down out 625 00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:31,320 of heaven to the earth. Glory to God. 626 00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:33,640 Why? Because this is a global 627 00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:38,040 takeover of the Kingdom of God. It is the greatest government 628 00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:41,720 ever and we are citizens of it. We are ambassadors in it. 629 00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:45,240 This thing that I'm presenting is not a get out of hell free 630 00:36:45,240 --> 00:36:47,680 card. This is about becoming a child 631 00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:51,800 of the king where you have access to his whole realm right 632 00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:55,040 now in the earth and it will take care of all your trouble. 633 00:36:56,000 --> 00:37:03,720 Wow, I'm sick of religion too. But I examine. 634 00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:07,680 Jesus said this in John 1613. Help me, Lord. 635 00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:10,480 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you 636 00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:12,240 into all truth. He will not speak of his own 637 00:37:12,240 --> 00:37:14,600 initiative, but whatever he hears, he will speak, and he 638 00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:16,000 will disclose you what is to come. 639 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:19,160 He will He will glorify me, for he will take of mind and 640 00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:23,120 disclose to you. Notice that Jesus was only 641 00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:26,280 communicating in the earth what he heard from the realm of 642 00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:28,920 heaven. In essence, he was submitted to 643 00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:31,440 his Father and he says, I am showing you these things. 644 00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:33,560 Listen, if you're going to change your thinking, I'm going 645 00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:35,920 to have to talk to you. And I'm not telling you what I 646 00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:37,680 want to tell you. This is not my opinion on the 647 00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:40,240 matter. I'm telling you what dad says. 648 00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:44,320 I'm telling you what God says, and I'm showing you how God 649 00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:47,160 wants to talk to you and how he wants you to function in the 650 00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:49,440 earth. Are you hearing me? 651 00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:56,600 So how is it if Jesus said, now listen, I don't speak of my own 652 00:37:56,600 --> 00:38:00,320 initiative, but whatever I hear, the Holy Ghost, whatever he 653 00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:02,840 hears, he speaks because the spirit of truth that's in you, 654 00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:05,520 that is the reigning spirit. He only tells you what Jesus 655 00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:07,120 says. Jesus himself said, I don't 656 00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:09,040 speak of my own initiative. Then he said when the Holy Ghost 657 00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:11,120 comes, he's only going to speak on his own initiative, right? 658 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:14,400 And as a result of that, you're going to be hearing from heaven 659 00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:17,760 on how to function in the earth because this Kingdom is going to 660 00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:19,840 come, and it can come spiritually. 661 00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:24,400 Now, everything associated with that that's necessary for you to 662 00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:28,480 fulfill your purpose is available to you as you believe 663 00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:31,800 God and and listen to only the reigning spirit. 664 00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:34,600 Because the reigning spirit is not saying, well, let me tell 665 00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:38,760 you what I I mean, you know from heaven, they're saying, but I'm 666 00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:40,400 with you, man. I I know how you feel. 667 00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:45,480 The Holy Ghost is never going to side with your feelings or even 668 00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:50,320 your way of handling it. He's going to say this is life 669 00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:51,760 to handle. This is how we do it. 670 00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:53,680 This is what Heaven says about it. 671 00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:57,280 OK, so he's going to speak to you. 672 00:38:57,280 --> 00:39:00,120 But there's another way that he helps train you, because he 673 00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:04,720 doesn't just do it by himself, because he knows you have a 674 00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:06,960 deficit. What do I mean by that? 675 00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:09,440 You've lived. In the natural so long that 676 00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:16,360 you've made so many decisions based upon 5 senses. 677 00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:19,160 Now think about this for a moment, because again, we're 678 00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:20,560 talking about believe in things we don't see. 679 00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:24,520 Why is it that we can wake up one day and feel really elated, 680 00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:28,720 happy, excited, but then another day wake up and feel like we 681 00:39:28,720 --> 00:39:29,920 don't even want to get out of bed? 682 00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:32,240 What? In what? 683 00:39:32,240 --> 00:39:35,440 We don't even see it. But in our mind, we we have this 684 00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:40,120 like my body's the same. I mean, we don't we're not 685 00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:43,040 suffering some sickness. We're just one day. 686 00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:44,640 You all of a sudden you feel depressed. 687 00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:48,240 You're like, what's? What's? 688 00:39:48,240 --> 00:39:51,000 Going on. And it's unseen and yet you'll 689 00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:54,400 yield to it. Tell people that you're feeling 690 00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:59,040 depressed or down. Sometimes you'll be angry and 691 00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:03,040 you'll be really mean to people that two days before you were 692 00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:07,080 laughing with, ignoring them, and these are unseen things that 693 00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:10,640 you're following. You're making choices. 694 00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:15,920 You're incapable of putting that down and doing the right thing. 695 00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:22,080 Well, the Holy Spirit will talk to you in a realm that's not 696 00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:26,000 seen and begin to talk to you and say if you do it this way, 697 00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:31,000 it bring life to it, It definitely deliver you. 698 00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:35,120 Are you hearing me? So because we've been in that 699 00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:38,160 realm for so long, he knows that we need help in this realm. 700 00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:41,880 That's why it says in Hebrews 1317 Amplified classic. 701 00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:44,360 He said obey your spiritual leaders and submit to them 702 00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:46,560 continually recognizing their authority over you. 703 00:40:47,720 --> 00:40:50,400 For they are constantly keeping watch over your souls and 704 00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:57,160 guarding your spiritual welfare as men and women who will have 705 00:40:57,160 --> 00:40:59,360 to render an account of their trust. 706 00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:04,360 Do your part too. Let them do this with gladness 707 00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:07,200 and not with signing and groaning, for that would not be 708 00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:11,120 profitable to you either. Another translation says obey 709 00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:13,640 your spiritual leaders. Recognize their authority, for 710 00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:16,920 they keep watch over your soul without resting, since they have 711 00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:20,160 to give an account to God for their work, so it will benefit 712 00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:23,000 you when you make their work at pleasure and not a heavy burden. 713 00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:26,280 Now again, I can always go to athletics. 714 00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:30,280 A coach is designed to bring the best out of the athlete. 715 00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:34,200 But the coach is going to say stuff that the athlete at the 716 00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:39,040 time are in the performing of whatever position they're in may 717 00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:43,760 not see deficits, different things, techniques, OK, you 718 00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:46,120 know, when it comes to fighting, someone said, man, you, you 719 00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:48,800 always drop your right hand, you're always dropping it, 720 00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:51,240 you're always dropping it. And they don't think they're 721 00:41:51,240 --> 00:41:53,200 dropping it. They don't feel like they're 722 00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:59,960 dropping it, but yet they're on the outside examining, watching 723 00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:02,080 and saying wait a minute, OK, come over you. 724 00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:05,160 You're dropping that. You know your golf swing. 725 00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:07,040 You're you're lifting your head up. 726 00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:08,600 You're picking up your shoulders. 727 00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:11,000 No, I'm not picking up my. You're picking up your show. 728 00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:12,840 No, I'm not. I mean, I'm telling you, no, 729 00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:14,920 you're messing up then. Good. 730 00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:17,280 Thank God for cameras now. And you know, you watch and we 731 00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:18,720 can go back. Film and say, yeah, you you did 732 00:42:18,720 --> 00:42:19,680 that. Yep, you're right. 733 00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:21,880 I did that. I did that right. 734 00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:24,600 And it exposes. And why does it expose? 735 00:42:24,720 --> 00:42:27,320 See, when Christians all of a sudden get exposure of things 736 00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:28,880 they're not doing right, we get angry. 737 00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:33,920 But that's what infants do. That's what infants do. 738 00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:39,320 They throw temper tantrums. They get mad because I want it. 739 00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:46,480 But you're not getting it. Because I know what's best 740 00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:49,000 because this right here ain't going to get you through in 741 00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:52,080 life. I'm I'm preparing you so that 742 00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:56,000 when you are by yourself and the enemy comes you going to be able 743 00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:59,240 to overcome. And again in our society we 744 00:42:59,240 --> 00:43:04,320 allow coaches to scream, yell at the AT our children and we even 745 00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:07,640 enforce them and back them. But then when it comes to your 746 00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:12,040 pastor, well, that lets us know whether you had infancy or not. 747 00:43:12,240 --> 00:43:16,000 I mean, I've lost quite a few preschoolers in my lifetime, but 748 00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:19,040 those that want to go on, I'm saying that's a whole another 749 00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:20,800 ball game. Why? 750 00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:23,360 Because it's like train me, come on, train me. 751 00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:28,920 And then they take self responsibility because they've 752 00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:32,680 learned how to be trained and how they can maintain and how. 753 00:43:32,680 --> 00:43:37,120 Because again, I am disciplined enough to do things in my life 754 00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:40,000 that I don't need anyone. But there are certain areas I 755 00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:44,280 cannot get stronger in unless someone's there to help me. 756 00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:48,280 I will always plateau in the weight room if I don't have a 757 00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:53,240 spotter, and the intent of a spotter is to help me when I get 758 00:43:53,240 --> 00:44:01,800 under a weight I cannot do and I'm not insecure to know it's 759 00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:04,480 not going to go up. Would you spot me? 760 00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:07,640 Well then why are you doing it? Why are you trying to do 761 00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:10,920 something you can't do? Well, if you spot me eventually 762 00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:12,760 this weight, I'll do without you. 763 00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:15,520 And we'll go on to greater things. 764 00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:18,520 Well, in the church, if you understand that your apostle and 765 00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:21,880 your pastor and your teacher and the prophet and the evangelist 766 00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:25,960 are equipping you so that you then can become the greatest 767 00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:31,040 mature individual as a church. And we can do way more together 768 00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:32,640 than we can ever do individually. 769 00:44:32,720 --> 00:44:35,960 And as a team, we impact people's lives because they can 770 00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:39,400 look at us and say, my gosh man, they always overcome. 771 00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:42,360 And get the victory. Well, you understand we are with 772 00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:43,960 an organization that is undefeated. 773 00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:48,080 Cause the true Church of God has never lost a battle. 774 00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:51,080 They're undefeated. They're only victorious. 775 00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:54,960 And you know in the world you hate the person that is always 776 00:44:54,960 --> 00:44:57,240 winning the championship. But if you're on the 777 00:44:57,240 --> 00:45:01,440 championship team, I mean, seriously, who goes and says, 778 00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:03,200 well, I really feel bad for them. 779 00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:08,240 We've won this championship 10 years in a row, hadn't lost yet. 780 00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:10,800 I know every, you know, I kind of feel bad. 781 00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:16,560 I got ten rings. Now I'm about to put them on my 782 00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:21,160 toes this year, right. I hate it. 783 00:45:21,720 --> 00:45:25,360 You know, let's just lose 1. No one does that. 784 00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:27,280 Not if you're on the winning team. 785 00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:28,760 I mean when you're on the street. 786 00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:32,520 That one coach at UConn, they won like what, 82 games or 787 00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:37,520 something undefeated. I'm like, you understand the the 788 00:45:37,520 --> 00:45:40,000 UConn team was saying? We don't want to be the one that 789 00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:43,880 loses. They didn't want to be the team 790 00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:49,240 that broke the streak. So for them, they weren't, like, 791 00:45:49,240 --> 00:45:51,480 feeling sorry for the teams that came in. 792 00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:53,600 They're like, let's keep this championship going. 793 00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:57,120 Well, you understand, the church were undefeated people because 794 00:45:57,120 --> 00:45:58,680 we have the greater one on the inside. 795 00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:01,360 We have the reigning spirit. And when we train ourselves with 796 00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:04,760 the word of God, then we'll overcome everything, anything in 797 00:46:04,760 --> 00:46:06,480 life. And here's the thing, you can 798 00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:09,960 get on this team as a freshman, you can come on this team and 799 00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:12,760 maybe you ain't playing today, but just stay with the team, 800 00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:14,520 'cause we gonna give you some game time. 801 00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:16,880 We gonna train you. We will get you to understand 802 00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:18,400 not that wasn't the voice of God. 803 00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:21,200 No, that wasn't God. Don't cut if you don't get upset 804 00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:22,760 when I say God. Didn't say that to you. 805 00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:28,480 God didn't say that to you. That's not out of his playbook. 806 00:46:29,600 --> 00:46:33,680 I know it's playbook. And again now if you resist what 807 00:46:33,680 --> 00:46:35,560 I want to do my own thing, well, you're not the coach. 808 00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:40,920 You're the St. now. Once you develop, start 809 00:46:40,920 --> 00:46:43,640 developing some maturity, then God will say, you know what, go 810 00:46:43,640 --> 00:46:45,720 ahead and tell him this and coach will realize that's a 811 00:46:45,720 --> 00:46:49,600 great play. And that's happened on multiple 812 00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:52,920 occasions because why we only want to get the victory. 813 00:46:53,840 --> 00:46:55,320 Can I? Can I get an Amen? 814 00:46:55,840 --> 00:46:59,200 So we have to examine 1st Thessalonians 521 says. 815 00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:01,760 So let me close it down. But first Thessalonians 5 and 816 00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:04,640 we'll stop here. I have some more stuff, but 817 00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:08,160 we'll just come back later. He says this now to get context. 818 00:47:08,160 --> 00:47:11,320 If you don't say, examine things carefully, hold fast to that 819 00:47:11,320 --> 00:47:14,160 which is good. It's set in this context. 820 00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:16,240 First Thessalonians. We'll go back to verse 12 and 821 00:47:16,240 --> 00:47:17,680 I'm going to read out their passion. 822 00:47:17,680 --> 00:47:21,120 It says, dear brothers and sisters, make sure that you show 823 00:47:21,120 --> 00:47:24,960 your deep appreciation for those who cherish you and diligently 824 00:47:24,960 --> 00:47:28,360 work as ministers among you. For they are your leaders who 825 00:47:28,360 --> 00:47:30,920 care for you, teach you, and stand before the Lord on your 826 00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:33,960 behalf. You understand any correction or 827 00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:37,160 adjustments we're making in your life to get you to maturity is 828 00:47:37,160 --> 00:47:43,440 only because the chief, the great, the head of the church, 829 00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:45,880 is saying, I want my players doing this. 830 00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:48,880 I need you to go talk to so and so, because we're not going to 831 00:47:48,880 --> 00:47:50,840 be able to get them off the bench if they keep acting like 832 00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:55,440 that. Are you hearing me? 833 00:47:56,400 --> 00:48:00,000 He goes on and says this. He says they value you with 834 00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:02,320 great love because of their service to you. 835 00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:04,840 Let peace reign among yourselves. 836 00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:08,320 We appeal to you, dear brothers and sisters, to instruct those 837 00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:10,720 who are not in their place of battle. 838 00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:14,960 Be skilled at gently encouraging them who feel themselves 839 00:48:14,960 --> 00:48:18,080 inadequate. Be faithful to stand your 840 00:48:18,080 --> 00:48:20,480 ground. Help the weak to stand Again, be 841 00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:22,680 quick to demonstrate patience with everyone. 842 00:48:22,720 --> 00:48:25,240 Man, look at this. So again, all together we come 843 00:48:25,280 --> 00:48:27,640 together. We we instruct you out of place. 844 00:48:27,640 --> 00:48:30,960 You understand when you watch a team, whether it's basketball, 845 00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:33,200 volleyball, football, whatever. And one of the teammate 846 00:48:33,200 --> 00:48:35,600 realized. You got out of the You're in the 847 00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:38,280 wrong spot. I mean, I've seen defensive 848 00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:40,680 backs go back after somebody gets burned for it. 849 00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:44,760 He's like, you were supposed to be here before they ever make us 850 00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:48,520 to the sideline, to the coach. You blew the play. 851 00:48:49,800 --> 00:48:52,120 This was the play. You missed your assignment. 852 00:48:52,120 --> 00:48:54,400 You cost us. But that's all right. 853 00:48:54,480 --> 00:48:56,960 Let's get focused. We can come back because here 854 00:48:56,960 --> 00:48:58,000 with the church, it doesn't matter. 855 00:48:58,120 --> 00:49:01,600 A righteous man may fall seven times, but what he gets up, we 856 00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:03,840 rise up over your mistake. That's all right. 857 00:49:04,080 --> 00:49:08,560 But we go talk about it because we want to move on to maturity. 858 00:49:09,480 --> 00:49:14,400 Because if you do not do the training, you are going to 859 00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:17,960 entertain doctrines of demons and seducing spirits. 860 00:49:18,680 --> 00:49:23,760 It is guaranteed that if you stay in as an in an infant 861 00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:27,280 state. You will be deceived and you're 862 00:49:27,280 --> 00:49:29,680 going to entertain other thoughts because you can't 863 00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:33,800 determine the different voices. Are you hearing me? 864 00:49:34,480 --> 00:49:38,240 Verse 15 says resist revenge and make sure that no one pays back 865 00:49:38,240 --> 00:49:41,480 evil and place of evil, but always pursue doing what is 866 00:49:41,480 --> 00:49:44,320 beautiful to one another. And to all the unbelievers, let 867 00:49:44,320 --> 00:49:48,840 joy be your continual feast. Make your life a prayer, and in 868 00:49:48,840 --> 00:49:52,680 the midst of everything be always giving thanks, for this 869 00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:54,640 is God's perfect plan for you in Christ. 870 00:49:54,640 --> 00:49:58,240 Never restrain or put out the fire of the Holy Spirit. 871 00:49:58,760 --> 00:50:03,480 And don't be one who scorns prophecies, but be faithful to 872 00:50:03,480 --> 00:50:06,040 examine them by putting them to the test. 873 00:50:06,040 --> 00:50:11,360 And afterwards hold tightly to what has proved to be right. 874 00:50:12,280 --> 00:50:14,680 Because you can do that. Verse 22. 875 00:50:14,720 --> 00:50:20,480 Avoid every appearance of evil. There it is. 876 00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:24,640 Now you can recognize. Wait a minute, that ain't as 877 00:50:24,800 --> 00:50:29,040 good as it looks like. It's actually evil. 878 00:50:33,080 --> 00:50:36,720 Now may the God of peace and harmony set you apart, making 879 00:50:36,720 --> 00:50:39,480 you completely whole, and may your entire being, spirit, soul 880 00:50:39,480 --> 00:50:43,000 and body be kept completely flawless in the appearing of our 881 00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:46,800 Lord Jesus, the anointing one, the one who calls you by name is 882 00:50:46,800 --> 00:50:49,880 trustworthy and thoroughly complete for his work. 883 00:50:50,440 --> 00:50:56,280 I don't believe anyone who has been recruited to be on a 884 00:50:56,280 --> 00:51:00,680 athletic program or business, whatever wants to go to an 885 00:51:00,680 --> 00:51:04,600 organization that is basically saying, well, we're going to 886 00:51:04,600 --> 00:51:09,120 help you fail here. You know, we're going to hire 887 00:51:09,120 --> 00:51:12,800 you so that you lose all your money, become bankrupt and and 888 00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:16,280 and ultimately unemployed. In fact, our goal is to make you 889 00:51:16,280 --> 00:51:20,320 homeless, right? So we're offering you this 890 00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:24,400 position. Nobody does that, right? 891 00:51:25,920 --> 00:51:28,480 Nobody goes to an athletic program and say, listen, we're 892 00:51:28,760 --> 00:51:31,880 going to do our very best to win no games this year. 893 00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:35,240 So even when we win, we're going to do stuff to lose the game. 894 00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:41,840 OK, how many signed up for that? No, we're not. 895 00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:48,200 How much more than in the body of Christ should we not say, 896 00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:53,480 listen, I've come to win, I've come to win and live a life of 897 00:51:53,480 --> 00:51:56,840 winning because he won. He's already done the work. 898 00:51:57,200 --> 00:51:59,000 Then. What I mean by that is he's put 899 00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:04,440 in the price that gets us in to him so that now we can bear 900 00:52:04,440 --> 00:52:08,720 fruit of him. Because we train and because we 901 00:52:08,720 --> 00:52:12,480 train and we're studiers of the word rightly divided, then we 902 00:52:12,480 --> 00:52:17,520 know how to hear, We know how to respond because there's a lot 903 00:52:17,520 --> 00:52:19,440 going on in the world. And I would agree with a lot of 904 00:52:19,440 --> 00:52:21,760 stuff being said about misinformation. 905 00:52:22,320 --> 00:52:24,840 There's a lot of misinformation about Jesus Christ. 906 00:52:24,840 --> 00:52:27,840 That's right, a lot of misinformation about his church 907 00:52:28,520 --> 00:52:31,200 and a lot of people who are. Assuming Jesus is who he. 908 00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:35,400 Is or what he is because of what people are doing and acting and 909 00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:44,400 behaving right? But when you get hungry, God 910 00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:48,760 will show you him and he'll introduce you to a group of 911 00:52:48,760 --> 00:52:53,280 people that always win in life not. 912 00:52:53,280 --> 00:52:56,920 Free from challenges. Not free from challenges. 913 00:52:57,920 --> 00:52:59,760 We are the greatest. Come from behind people. 914 00:52:59,760 --> 00:53:02,960 On the face of the planet, it can look like we're being 915 00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:05,280 whipped and then we'd come back and dominate. 916 00:53:06,040 --> 00:53:09,320 And there's many games we just absolutely stomp them and they 917 00:53:09,320 --> 00:53:13,880 wish they never had gone right again. 918 00:53:13,880 --> 00:53:18,440 Who gets bored of that? What team would put in their 919 00:53:18,440 --> 00:53:23,600 second third string and say don't do the plays, just lay 920 00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:27,240 down? I mean, if their string is 921 00:53:27,240 --> 00:53:29,240 scoring every time, Oh, well, what? 922 00:53:29,280 --> 00:53:32,760 I mean, they ain't been playing. We're going to harness them now. 923 00:53:34,400 --> 00:53:36,080 Run it up, coach. Leave no doubt. 924 00:53:36,080 --> 00:53:38,080 That's how my God is. Run it up. 925 00:53:38,280 --> 00:53:43,080 Leave no doubt. That's who we play for, that's 926 00:53:43,080 --> 00:53:47,200 who we serve and by being trained, we're going to know the 927 00:53:47,200 --> 00:53:50,280 difference. But when you're not, you're 928 00:53:50,280 --> 00:53:58,720 guaranteed to be deceived. Thank you so much for listening 929 00:53:58,720 --> 00:54:01,160 to this message. 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