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Now enjoy this message. First Timothy chapter 4 verse
one says this. Now the Spirit explicitly says
that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving
heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons.
You know, we started out this year utilizing this passage of
Scripture to to let us know that we have the reigning spirit.
And in the last of the last days, the Spirit is telling us
there's going to be great conflict.
But in that the Spirit of God expressly says, meaning this is
going to happen. You cannot stop it.
There are those who will fall away from the faith, meaning
they are sitting in church just like you are right now.
They are professing that they know Jesus Christ as their Lord,
as you are. Yet they'll fall away because
they have not trained their ears to hear properly or they have
not crucified things within their soul realm that is going
to hinder them. They've not renewed their minds
so that they function as they are born of God.
Once they made Jesus the Lord of their life.
So there are deceiving spirits. One translation says seducing
spirits and doctrines of demons. OK, so the spirits are there to
seduce you, and seduction is there in order to cause you to
go after something that seems really good.
No one would ever be seduced if it was showing you you're going
to die. Amen.
In fact, Proverbs talks about the young guy that's walking and
the woman's out and she begins to seduce him and he says he has
no idea that he's going into the place of death.
Right. My husband's gone, she says.
He's taking a lot of money with him.
I have prepared my bed so that you and I can have a love feast
all night long. And all the while that young boy
is going in there thinking he's having the time of his life, but
he's his whole life is being brought down to hell.
So seduction is very attractive. Very attractive.
So it came to my attention. My wife and I, when we were away
with a couple of our grandkids this past week, reminded me of a
message that I've never ministered at Anchor Bay Church.
Never. Now, Pastor Vanessa would know
this particular one. OK?
She would know it because she was single at the time when I
was at a church in Starke, FL and we had a revival in 1997 and
in that revival during the summer it was 12 week long
revival. In fact, my wife had been
praying in the Spirit, spending quite a bit of time in prayer
and by unction of the Spirit she got a word from the Lord that
our church was going to move into.
When I say our church, I was not the pastor, senior pastor of the
church. I youth pastored for this
particular church. I work full time in the Florida
Army National Guard and so it was volunteer that I served as
the youth pastor and man, we had an awesome thing going.
With that being said, she got my own chin of the Spirit.
We would go into a revival during the summer and that I
would preach that revival and that he would confirm that to
the pastor in three days. Well, she went over to the
pastor's house, told the pastor's wife and you know,
apparently it bore witness with her.
So much so that I was actually working with Pastor Vanessa's
father cutting some lawns that day and and they come flying up
to the house. We were cutting grass and begin
to tell us, well, I'll be honest with you, it didn't bear witness
to me. It was a shock.
I was like, what? You know?
Well, three days later, sure enough, Pastor Wade came and
said we're going to do revival and you'll minister, I'll do
Sundays. We were going to take off on
Saturday. We did Monday through Friday.
We did six days of church and we did those five nights for seven
straight weeks and then the last five weeks.
So I think we did, we did like a Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
So we had Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and it
basically finished out the summer, man.
We saw miracles, people born again, people filled with the
Holy Ghost. And I was so young in the faith,
OK, I had not been to Rhema. I had just recently, two years
prior to that baptizing the Holy Ghost.
I've been raised in the Baptist Church all my life and I was
hungry for more. And so in my searching for
hunger, God had this Assembly of God minister come by knock on
our doors, who had great recently graduated from Rhema
himself. And next thing you know, we're
attending his church. I got filled with the Holy
Ghost. He asked me to work with his
children's because he knew I was called to ministry.
I said I would rather do youth if that's OK.
He said fine. We had one and before we left
the church ran 150 people total, of which 75 of them were youth.
It was awesome. We had an off campus ministry.
We had two prison systems, juvenile prison systems coming
to us and man those people get born again all the time.
It was awesome, but I just didn't know the word.
Like I know the word today, but knowing the word still doesn't
change the position I was in because I'm still in that
position today. And man, I would work all day
long because I worked Monday through Friday, except every
other Monday, the National Guard, we were off and so we
worked these 9-10 hour days, something like that, I can't
remember, but every other Monday I was off and so I had to go to
work. But I'm preaching that night,
and so my brakes would be in Scripture.
My lunchtime would be in Scripture because I'm like, what
in the world are we saying tonight?
And I remember many times, especially in the last few
weeks, that I would show up and Pastor Marcy can testify and I
would go into a little room right beside the the platform
and praise and worship would be going on.
And I have nothing. And I'm like, Lord, you better
give me something or I'm not going out there.
I mean, it, it was the fear of the Lord.
I did not want to preach something that that wasn't from
the throne room. Again, I mean, this was revival.
And so out of that came this message.
And I don't know why I've never ministered it here, but it seems
right in the Holy Ghost for me to minister here today.
Amen. So you understand, it's not an
old message, it's a message now. I can guarantee you it has
nothing like I preached it in Stark except for the scriptures.
Because how I preached back then and how I preached today and the
knowledge and revelation I have today opens the door for more
things. But the central truth never
changed. Out of all these years, that
central truth is still there. And I title the message the
Choke conspiracy. So turn over to Mark chapter 13
and Mark chapter 13 starting in verse three.
You know it well, it says this. It says, And he spoke many
things to them in parables, saying, Behold, the sower went
out to sow, and as he sowed, some seeds fell beside the road,
and the birds came and ate them up.
Others fell on rocky places where they did not have much
soil. And immediately they sprang up
because they had no because they immediately they sprang up,
because they had no depth of soul.
But when the sun had risen they were scorched.
Because they had no root. They withered away.
Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns came up and
choked them out. Say choked them out, and others
fell on good soil and yielded a crop, some a hundredfold, some
60, some 30. He who has ears, let him hear.
Now He explains this parable starting in the 18th verse of
the same chapter, Matthew 1318. It says Now hear them.
The parable of the sower. When anyone hears the word of
the Kingdom, say the word of the Kingdom.
So other Tran other passages both over in the Mark 4 count
and the Luke 8 account, you know, say the silver seats, the
seed is the word. Well, we know that word is
specifically is the word of the Kingdom because when Jesus
speaks, it's the word of the king and where the word of the
king is there is there's power. So he says that the parable that
here if anyone hears the word of the Kingdom and does not
understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has
been sown where not in his head in his heart.
You know what that tells us? That tells us that the minute
the revelation of the Kingdom comes to you, if you do not
desire to know, then the devil will come and put out that
revelation 'cause he sure wants to keep you in religion.
The minute the revelation of the Kingdom comes on in you, if you
do not pursue to understand, then you're giving the devil
access to keep you blinded in demonic doctrine or a form of
religion. So we're not talking about a
casual conversation that I'm someone's preaching on the
Kingdom and you don't get the revelation of it.
No, this person has revelation because the devil steals it away
from their heart, not from their head.
OK, then it goes on and says this.
This is the one whom the seed was sown by the roadside, the
one whom seed was sown on the rocky places.
This is the man who hears the word and immediately receives it
with joy. Yet he has no firm root in
himself, but is only temporary. And when affliction or
persecution arises because of the word, immediately he falls
away. There are many that we see in
the in the churches today that come to a church.
They receive Jesus as their Lord.
They we receive salvation with joy, but because they are not
coming to be discipled, they're only coming to be converted.
They just want to know they're going to go to heaven when they
die. They have no real interest in
Jesus as Lord. They have great interest in
Jesus as Savior. They do not want to go to hell
for their own doing. They are condemned, they are
guilty, they have shame because of it.
And when they hear of the good news that Jesus has forgiven
them of all their own doing, they jump at the occasion to be
pardoned, to be forgiven, but with no aspirations to follow
Him all the days of their life. And it proves out because when
trials come and they have no commitment, they come to an
altar in tears and and they come to the altar knowing full well
they need Jesus to save their lives.
But they never come back to the church again.
They pop in sporadically. They may show up at an Easter
service or at a Christmas cantata, some type of thing.
They may periodically show up because Mama manipulated them to
come to church on Mother's Day. Yet when all the issues of life
come, there's no root in them and they fall away.
They live life like they're not even born again.
Verse 22 goes on then to say because they are verse 21, they
had no firm root, only temporary.
When affliction of persecution arises because of the word,
immediately he falls away and there's many that do not handle
the persecution that comes because you are a child of God.
You much rather blend into society, then stand out and
shine. Verse 22, the one of whom the
seed was sown among the thorns. This is the man who hears the
word and the worry of the world and the deceitfulness of wealth.
Choke the word and it becomes unfruitful.
We'll come back to that. And the one whom seed was sown
on the good soul. This is the man who hears the
word, understands it, and indeed bears fruit and brings forth
some a hundredfold, some 60 and some 30.
So verse 22 says those at the sea fell among the thorns.
This is the man who hears the word.
He hears the word and the worry of the world and the
deceitfulness of wealth. Choke the word and it becomes
unfruitful. Now it's important for us to go
to the other two gospels that have this same parable that
Jesus speaks. They're both ones in Mark and
the other ones in Luke. Let's look at the Mark chapter 4
account. It starts in verse 18 concerning
the one sown among the thorns. It says this.
The others are the ones of whom seed was sown among the thorns.
These are the ones who have heard the word.
Have you heard the word? Come on, have you heard the
word? Now notice there's a progression
here. There is the progression of seed
falling to the wayside and it never gets in any ground at all.
Birds pull it out it had. It never changes, never
converts. It stays in seed form is what
I'm saying. The second one is one that comes
among the rocks and conversion takes place, meaning it's no
longer a seed but a plant. Plant is a conversion, OK, but
again, the seed is to convert itself.
In essence, it dies and it releases what's within it, and
what's within it is a plant. But we do not have plants for
plants sake where they're there to bear fruit.
Because again, the parable is about a farmer, and a farmer is
not just planting plants, he's looking for fruit.
So conversion takes place, it becomes a plant.
It's no longer in seed form. It has all capacity to produce
fruit. But because it does not have a
good root system, see, people like to look at the plant, but a
plant doesn't stay thriving if the roots are dying.
So you can come looking polished, but it doesn't take
long to determine if you're dying because we can hear it in
your mouth. We can see it in your walk, in
your talk. We can see it in the attendance.
We can see it in your actions of whether your root system is
pulling on the water of the word so that you can grow by it.
My wife, before we went on this camping trip with our Grant,
Grant couple of our grandchildren, there's a
particular hibiscus that we had planted and she had put some
additional fertilizer on it. Well, I thought I had turned the
sprinklers on. I had not.
And because I did not, that plant did not make it because it
did not have the fertilizer watered in.
The fertilizer burned it, killed it, dried it up.
So my wife was transplanting some hibiscus.
We call it salad row because the deer that come out of the
preserve come down that part of our driveway and they eat their
hibiscus salad as they go. Those hibiscus cannot make it
over there on that side of the house.
It is salad row. All right, so if we had a
camera, we could set it up. There's no telling how many are
coming by. All right, But there's a
particular hibiscus they do not touch.
So we purchased that particular one and she pulled up the
hibiscus salads, put in the other ones, and she was going to
take one of those and plant it over there.
Well, she couldn't dig out the old one, OK?
Even though it was dead, it had a far enough root system that
she couldn't pull it out. It was going to require my
muscular strength. She needed Herman to show up.
All right. OK.
But Herman did not do this before we went camping.
So she took her other hibiscus that was beautiful and green,
put it in a pot, watered it, and we left.
When we came home, that plant was yellow because there was no
additional watering. And you understand, when you
pull a plant from its environment where it's been
growing, it's at risk because it needs to get planted and it
needs to be watered often. You can't just water it once and
think it's going to be OK. Thank you, Lord, the Lord just
said. That's like many of my
believers. They uproot from one church and
then they go to another and they think they get a little bit of
water and then they don't show up for about a month or two or
so and they're wondering why they're all yellow and brown and
they're hindering and they can't seem to get no fruit.
It's because they don't get planted and get somewhere.
They're watered. If you've been out of church for
a while, you shouldn't think one time's enough.
You should be committed to every service.
She should be anyway, but that's how you thrive.
With that being said, you know, it looked a little rough.
It looked rough. Well, again, there are believers
that aren't getting planted water.
They're allowing their root system to develop so they can be
somewhere. All right.
But then we know when they get into good ground, ground where
it's being when. When we say good soil, we're not
talking about just the soil itself.
We're talking about the environment by which all the
nutrients are being released, which means that irrigation is
happening. The the farmer is making sure
it's being irrigated. The farmer's making sure there's
no pestilence. The farmer's making sure no
weeds are coming up around it. He is caring for it so that it
can produce and bear what fruit. Again, the latter three are all
some form have a conversion process because they're no
longer in the seed. They are plants.
So the one that is sown among the thorns is no longer a seed,
but it is a plant in it of itself, because the Bible tells
us here, look at this in Mark four, the others that are among
the thorn, they heard the word. But the worries of the world,
the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires of other things
enter in and choke the word and it becomes what?
Unfruitful. Well, if you're still in seed
form, there's no way you're going to bear fruit.
But if you're in plant form, fruit is expected.
So as the plant grows, guess what else grew around it?
Thorns. And the thorns began to invade
and choked it so that it could not produce the fruit.
But I like what this one says in verse 19.
It says but because the other one said the worries are the
cares of life and the deceitfulness of riches.
But this one goes one more further and it says and the
desires for other things. So it's not just worrying the
worries of the world. It's not just the worries of the
world. It's not just simple worrying.
It's the worries of the world. You know, many people are in
anxiety because of wars going on right now.
That is a worry of the world. You know, how many people are in
anxiety or worried because of financial things right now?
You know, people are worried about food or worried about
there's many things going on, Worried about whether they're
going to, you know, be able to maintain their job or get a
better job or whether they'll get into school, worried about,
you know, how their kids are going to be.
I mean, it's the worries of the world.
OK. Then you have the deceitfulness
of riches, meaning this desire to be rich begins to seduce you.
But not just that then just desires that you have on your,
which is where many believers have taken the scripture out of
context. God will give me the desires of
my heart. Well again, God will give you
the desires of your heart. God gives you the desires that
he puts in your heart that then you can have, but you're not
creating your own desire and saying you're going to give me
what I want. You're saying, Lord, I want what
you want from me. And he says this is what I want
for you, and you say, OK, I'll have what you want from me.
So there are desires that are coming from seeing the things of
the world, seeing the comforts associated with this world
system, the pleasures that are associated with it, and it will
cause other desires to pop into you, so much so that what it
does, it chokes the word and it becomes what?
Unfruitful. Now look at Luke chapter 8.
Luke chapter 8, verse 14. It says the seed fell among the
thorns. These are the ones whom have
heard, and as they go on their way, they are choked with
worries and riches and pleasures of this life and bring no fruit
to now. I like this one 'cause this one
lets us know what takes place on the plant.
This one confirms that it's not seed, but that it is a plant.
So it has been converted and this person sits and hears the
word, so much so that fruit actually begins to manifest.
But just because fruit is on a plant doesn't mean it's matured
or it's time to harvest. You've heard me tell the story
of the banana tree I had in my one of my other residents before
I move where I'm at today. And so we had these nice little
cute ones. They were little bitty ones.
I don't know what, you know, what type it was OK.
But it was just, you know, these small ones and they're green.
And I'm looking at them and I'm like, waiting.
I did not Google to determine when they're ready to harvest.
They had been like that for a while.
The ones up top started looking pretty nasty looking, you know,
like they weren't. So I'm like, surely this is it.
I've learned since when to cut it off for it to write.
But prior I did not know. And in my ignorance, OK, because
I've been to Publix more than one time and seen green bananas
that when I brought them to the house they ripened.
OK, so I cut that whole thing off and I cut off one of those
bananas and I waited for it to change some color.
Well, it eventually changed a little bit.
I peeled that thing back. I put it in my mouth.
You understand? Everything in my mind was
thinking of every store bought banana I ever have eaten, I've
ever eaten, you hear me? And here I am biting into this
fruitful banana. But much to my surprise, it was
not mature. It was fake because I had
harvested before maturity and when I put bit into it, there
was no moisture. It was sticky.
In fact, it pulled every piece of saliva away from my mouth to
the banana. I could barely open my mouth.
I had no moisture. It was the most horrific
experience in my life, period. Now it was a plant.
It had fruit, but it was bitter. I said it was bitter.
It was no good. It was only good to discard.
Now anybody walking by with say, wow, look at the fruit, but the
fruits no good. It's not brought to maturity.
I pulled it off before maturity came.
I have a citrus tree now and you know this is like it's 3rd, 3rd
or 4th year. Maybe third?
4th we're just kind of waiting because for it to develop a
little differently because it's not had grapefruit yet.
We're waiting. For it to develop better tasting
fruit, to get it to mature. Every year there's a boatload on
it, but they never mature. I never have been able to yet
harvest off that tree. So there are a lot of believers
that go to church, hear the word, start showing fruit, but
they never allow their fruit to get to maturity.
This is very. Important.
Because. Mature maturity is is the
expectation of our Father. Maturity.
Is the expectation of our Father.
Hallelujah. This is why the church he'll
come back for will be without spot or wrinkle.
Do you understand we were in the greatest time ever?
I mean, think about it in. The beginning they had the Holy
Spirit poured out upon. They had power.
There were every miracle signs and wonders were happening.
Miracle signs and wonders are happening even now in this age,
right now, in this time frame of the age of the Church.
But you know what the early Church did not have?
It did not have the combination of all the writings put together
in such a way that they had such ease of access.
To the sacred. Writings, I mean what we have
available for us right now plus the multiplying of the Spirit.
We are of no excuse not to mature in the fruits of the
Spirit and flow with the gifts of the Spirit.
We are without excuse. In fact, Jesus makes a demand
that we function that way and we are.
But in order to, we must avoid the choke conspiracy in the last
days. So it.
Says that they heard the word, but because of worries, riches
and pleasures of this life, no fruit was brought to maturity.
Now has. Jesus ever experienced this con
this? This.
Conspiracy to pull him out of his assignment through being
choked. Absolutely.
We find it in Matthew chapter four, starts in verse eight in
Matthew chapter 4. This was the devil's seduction.
Here's where the. Devil tried to seduce Jesus.
Cause. Cause.
In what he knew what Jesus was coming for.
And he wanted him to. Have it.
On his terms. On his terms.
Again, the devil took him up on an exceeding high mountain.
This is the temptation of Jesus and showed him.
I find this interesting because two chapters, a few you know, in
the same book. Later on, when he gives the
parable, Jesus has knowledge of this conspiracy, of this ability
to choke you. So when he talks his.
Peril. He's talking from experience.
This has happened to me. He says.
The devil took him to exceeding High mountain and showed him all
the kingdoms of the world and their glory.
And he said all these things I will give you if you fall down
and worship me. Now if we were in the Luke
account of this temptation, we know that he says this.
He says all this domain has been handed over to me, and I can
give it to whomever I want. Who gave him the dominion?
Adam did We know in Genesis 126 that God gave man dominion, and
when Adam ate the fruit, he gave his dominion to the devil.
Adam was the God of this world. God is the God of all creation.
He delegated his authority to man to rule over the earth.
But man abdicated his throne and gave it to the devil.
And now the devil wasn't is known as the God of this world
or the systems of this world. It was handed to him.
He has it because he seduced Adam.
Into thinking he could. Have all that God offered him on
his terms. He says I'll give all.
This to you if you'll just fall down and worship me and Jesus
said away with you Satan for it is what?
You shall. Worship the Lord your God and
and him only you shall serve. How does why does Jesus know
this? Jesus knows this in Matthew
chapter 6 verse 24. No one can serve 2 masters.
For he will. For either he will hate the one
and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one who
despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.
Now, that doesn't mean you cannot have wealth.
We're going to. This is the great conspiracy
because everything the devil is offering you through worry,
through seduction of riches and your own personal pleasures.
In essence, he's. Saying if he's keeping you from
what's rightfully yours. By.
Seducing you to have it his way. This is the great.
Conspiracy and he's convinced many believers that they can't
prosper. They can't have anything so he
keeps them in low level living then others he'll get them over
into I'll give you the wealth, I'll give you the prestige, I'll
give you the popularity. I'll give you all this.
He'll hand you the world. The Bible says what good is it a
man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul because he only
be continues to be a slave to the one who's no longer his
father? In essence, the.
Devil convinces you. God doesn't want you to have
anything. God doesn't care about this
earth. God doesn't care about your
life. All he cares about is you go to
heaven. And you know what?
You've made that. You've done that.
You've asked him. That's good.
Now you just come on over here and I'll take care of you.
I'll give it to. You.
Convince you. Through one of his doctrines
that the grace that's been applied to your life now it's
got you covered. You can live with me again, live
for me again, live like me again, but because of the grace
you covered all right, he. Says for this.
Reason I say to you verse 25, do not worry.
About your life. As to what you eat or what
you're going to drink, but no, for your body is what you're
going to put on. Is not life more than food in
the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air.
The they do not sow nor reap or nor gather in the barns, yet
your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than
they are? And who are you being worried
can add a single hour to his life?
And why are you worried? About clothing, observe how the
lilies of the field grow. They do not toll, nor do they
spend. Yet I say to you that not even
Solomon and all this glory clothe themselves like one of
these. But if God so clothed the grass
of the field which is alive today and tomorrow's thrown into
the furnace, how much more will he clothe you, you of little,
little faith? Notice now in these two contexts
here he's talking about birds and he's then he's talking which
is dealing with food, and then he talks about plant flowers.
When he's talking about your clothing, in essence, he's
saying, listen, I created the birds, so I'll provide for the
birds. That's the lesson there.
Well, if God created us, then what's he saying?
I'll provide for you. The second thing he says is look
at the lilies, he said. It's in their DNA to look like
that. 'Cause if.
They only do what they were designed to do, then they're
always covered. And if you will.
Only do what you are purposed to do, what you were created to do.
You're always going to be covered.
You're taken care. Of it is a guarantee by the
king. Guaranteed.
Guaranteed by the king. Hallelujah.
It's amazing how much comfort we put in a paycheck.
Yeah, your daddy owns the planet.
That we put our. Worth and how much we filed on
our taxes. Instead of the.
Worth that we are in the Kingdom.
Verse 30. One he says, do not worry then
saying, what will we eat or what will we drink, or and what we
will wear for clothing? For the Gentiles eagerly seek
all these things. Your heavenly Father knows that
you need all these, but what? Seek first his and His, and all
these things shall be added to you.
Shall be added to. You now the Luke chapter 12
account of this same passage of Matthew has another tag at the
end when it says in verse chapter 12 starting in verse 31
but seek his Kingdom and the things these things will be
added to you. Then he goes on and tells us in
verse 32, Do not be what? Little.
Flock in essence, don't worry, don't be anxious, have no
concern, live carefree. For.
Your father has chosen what gladly to give you the Kingdom,
so the devil wants to give you wealth.
Riches. Fame pleasures, but at the
expense of your life. Your Heavenly Father wants to
give you wealth, notoriety in his Kingdom cause fame's a whole
nother ball game. Significance full provision.
He's he's glad to give you. He's not withholding wealth from
you. He's not withholding from you a
good life. 'Cause there are.
Certain things in the Kingdom that have greater value.
He said the. Kingdom of God is not meat or
drink, meaning natural substance, but it's
righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.
Well if you have righteousness then it's going to open up a
whole thing for you. Things that the devil can give
you on credit. What do I mean by that?
He will seduce you in to working for him.
He'll give you. Bonuses, promotions, no fame.
He'll give you national prominence.
Get your name out everywhere only to crush you.
He only comes. To steal, kill and destroy.
And he will prop you up in order for you to decimate other
people's lives. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
He'll do these things. OK.
And so we have to understand there's a conspiracy that is
taking place within the church that all of a sudden you really
can't, cannot get along or, or really go somewhere if you're
going to follow God. You're not going to get.
Ahead, if you really stay loyal to him.
Look what it says in second. Timothy chapter 2, starting in
verse four, says no soldier in active service entangles himself
in the affairs of everyday life so that he may please the one
who enlisted him as a soldier. Also.
If anyone competes as an athlete, he does not win the
prize unless he competes according to the rules.
The hard working farmer. We started this out.
We're talking about sowing seed from the farm.
The hard working farmer ought to be what ought.
To be the. What the What 1st to receive his
share of the crops. Notice the farmer sows, knowing
it's not all for me. You don't want to hear that.
That's fine. The farmer knows I'm sowing not
all for me. It's not just for me.
There are others that this is going to bless, nourish, help.
I'm not living life just for me. I'm not doing that.
And he says the farmer ought to receive first.
So understand when you're giving your life to Jesus, Jesus say,
well, I'll take care of you. OK, well, when is it?
When am I going to get my time? Are you doing for the Lord?
God is thinking. About you first.
In what you're. Doing.
But here's the thing, you are not to entangle yourselves.
With the affairs of the. World.
And there are more. Believers that understand more
about stock markets today, economic trends.
I'm not saying you shouldn't know things, and I'm not saying
that God couldn't lead you to do things.
Brother Hagin. Knew a particular gentleman who
had wealth and he invested his money, but he said I I never
lost on an investment. He said when I invested in one
of his books, he said he would go to his prayer closet because
this is how believers they seek first.
He heard of. An opportunity to invest and he
would ask the king, do you want me to put my money there?
Because again. Even Jesus understood of natural
markets for increase because he reprimanded one of his servants
because they did not take the talent he left them and put it
at least in a bank to earn interest.
Because God always. Expects increase because God
always will have increase because God's always increasing.
But he. Prayed and and the what some
markets that everyone was getting into.
He did not, and the ones everyone was not getting into,
he would invest in, he said. I never lost.
Once. Because I only invested, as the
Lord said. But you know what?
Most people aren't listening to the Lord, They're only listening
to the market. Many of us.
If we don't watch out, we will learn the world system and it
has a system, and that system will bring prosperity.
But it brings a whole. Lot of other stuff with it too.
Whereas if we'll. Seek first the Kingdom.
God will tell us how to engage different things within this
world so that we are not at loss.
Yet He Himself has some systems in play, period, that are not of
this world. Tithing is not of this world.
Giving offerings to the Lord is not of this world.
There are certain markets he has that he's always talked about a
return on, and they are foolproof if they are
accompanied with your faith. Yet we will learn other markets.
We will invest thousands of dollars to go to other seminars.
And yet spend. Very little time in the
scripture. It's a choke.
Conspiracy. Because.
The minute you start bringing it in, I know what believers do.
They hear the word, Oh the Lord bless me.
Did he? Because the devil can.
Give you good stuff too. That's how he seduces.
You have to know in your spirit I'm doing the will of God in
this action. And if you don't know that.
In your spirit, then you're just doing natural, and you may
prosper, but that natural may become seductive.
Man, you can go make. A lot of money, You know, there
are a lot of believers right now that are in marijuana farms.
Hey, I'm a preach. It's a plant.
An illegal one at. That for a long time, but you
know, the government needed another revenue to tax.
I mean, it's easy to. Change a drug from being illegal
to legal. Just go to Portland.
They did that experiment and it didn't work very well.
Decided that. All these particular drugs are
not illegal. And there and society just
continued to plummet. Hallelujah.
It really shouldn't be that quiet here.
But people like the. Way it makes them feel right.
Amen, say. Well, I'm using it.
For municipal. Yeah.
That. Well.
Prescription drugs are used for that, but do you want to live on
them? Because I don't see too.
Many I'm trying to come off of it.
And why is it not? Regulated.
OK, it's a conspiracy. All these things are to try to,
you know, all the things of the world are to try.
There's conspiracies to try to give you a false sense of peace.
Take. Off the pressures of you know
how many people are avid drinkers or smokers because they
say it calms them? They say that.
You saw How do you know? Because I had a father who said
that who was an alcoholic who could not go a day without
drinking. Calm his.
Nerves. Well, it just slowed down his
judgment. Didn't bring him.
Peace, because the same problems were there the next morning.
It gave him no answer. So the enemy's.
Constantly trying to give you this illusion of what the Father
chooses to give you gladly through his Kingdom, but it's on
his terms. And he wants.
To bless you, in fact, let's look at this.
Look at Psalms 3527. This is powerful.
It says let them shout for joy. Let them shout for.
Joy and be what? Who?
Favor my righteous cause. What do we see in Matthew 633?
He says, seek first the Kingdom and his righteousness.
That's his way of doing things. He said, you can shout for joy,
you'll be glad who favor my righteous call.
Let and let them say continually let the Lord be magnified.
Who, who's who? The Father is who?
Who is who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servants?
So God does not have pleasure in your poverty.
He has. Pleasure in your prosperity, but
prosperity is a direct result of you knowing His righteous cause,
'cause when you seek His Kingdom and seek His righteousness, then
wealth has to follow, because God owns it all anyway.
The silver. And gold is not the devil's.
Nowhere in scripture does it say the silver and gold is the
devil's. He has access.
Is he using it? Yes, but it says the silver and
gold are mine, says the Lord. He's the one who put it in the
earth in the 1st place. He says I own all the cattle on
1000 Hills. He's the one who actually owns
the planet. He's just looking for his kids
to prosper his way. And.
Not get caught in the conspiracy of the great promotion, the
great fame, the great, you know, bonuses, the great new salary
that sucks you out of your your place in the church, keeps you
working constant hours. But man, you're buying your boat
now. You're buying your bigger house
now, but your family's falling apart, your kids are falling
apart. And all the while you're saying
God's bless me all the while, all the while, yeah, the Lord's
like I got things for you. And he has great.
Joy. And many have.
Fallen away from the faith because they're just tired of
being broke. So it's.
Easier to accept that I'll go to heaven when I die.
Well, I am going to work, I'm going to get a job, I'm going to
make money. I'm not going to live like that
while I'm here and I'm going to enjoy this life while I'm here.
And they? Compromise.
They're fit in the church. To pursue.
It. Great.
Wealth is laid up for those who'll seek the Kingdom.
Great wealth. Actually, great wealth.
Great wealth. In fact, the Bible even talks
about that the wealth of the wicked.
Is being laid up. For the righteous problem is, is
that we have personal desires that we want to see fulfilled
now. More than we.
Want the desire to please him daily?
Look at this proverbs. 18 Proverbs 8 this is powerful.
Look at this Proverbs 8 starting verse 17 and this whole you
should read the whole chapter because it's talking about
wisdom. OK, verse 17 says I love those
who love me. And those.
Who diligently seek me will will find me see you have to seek
first the. Kingdom.
I mean, there are people. That are diligent.
Diligent. At following every billionaire
and learning of their ways. It's.
True, it's good all. The while compromising their
purpose to choke conspiracy. 'Cause they really don't.
Believe that God wants them to have everything they need for
their purpose. Because for some of us, when I
say some, I'm talking about general, in general, is that we
imagine a life for ourselves that doesn't mirror the purpose
by which we were designed. And we are trying to tell God we
love our image of our life better than your image of our
life. But he's the one who made.
You. He's the one who knew you before
you and your mother's womb. The greatest thing you could
ever do is discover why you're here.
Hallelujah, you got to ask yourself the.
Question why is the Lord giving you riches to pay off all your
stuff? So that you can have.
More stuff, look what it says here.
I love those who love me, and those who diligent, seek me will
find me. Riches and honor are with me.
Enduring wealth. Riches and honor.
Are with me enduring wealth and righteousness.
This is amazing, he says. My fruit is better than gold,
even pure gold, and my yield better than the choice of
silver. I.
I walk in the way of righteousness in the midst of
the paths of justice to endow those who love me with.
With wealth. That I may feel their
treasuries. Now here's the thing.
About the wealth from God, it looks nothing like the world.
Nothing the way to obtain. It is totally different.
In fact, I would say this, when the Lord allows you to utilize
some of the systems in the world today, it's because He's
transferring that wealth of the wicked to you.
But your. Wealth is not tied up in only
the wicked's wealth. There is new wealth to.
Come. To that you can have based upon
God himself, and some of these things are ideas.
Things that haven't. Even come to the planet yet, but
God just wants to foster the idea in you.
That you create. Your own wealth.
But these come. Because you seek and this word.
Seek is not a casual word. If we only.
Pursued God like we pursued the world's way of getting wealthy.
And in the. Last days great seduction.
Great seduction. In fact, I'll even prophecy
right now. I believe I have the ear of the
Spirit, he says in that scripture that says the wealth
of the wicked is laid up for the righteous.
Many of that wealth is coming from those who used to be with
me, and I'll transfer it from them back to my house.
Yet they'll. Say that they were blessing me.
Because you understand a. Person that's deceived in
religion believes they're doing everything for the Lord.
Come on now. Let me get out of the get out of
the Christianity for a minute. Anyone that is following
Muhammad believes they are doing that for the Lord, for God, and
those actions are honoring God. They are convinced of.
That until life changes them, they're convinced of that.
There are many people that are praying to Mary today because
they are convinced that she is the doorway to the Father.
They are convinced of that and they are doing the work of the
Lord when they pray to her. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
And they are. Blessed, you know, praise the
Lord. God bless you.
They're saying these things. Yet those who are.
Discerning realized. Not so.
And there are some who. Will fall away from the faith,
only to give back into the faith because the Lord says, well
that's mine anyway. And you went out.
Of order in order to obtain it. Hallelujah so.
We understand then if we just stay with the Kingdom, then
riches, honor and enduring wealth.
Hallelujah right now. You're just like me.
You're like Lord. We need to crack that
revelation. More so, more so.
We need to crack that revelation how that works.
I still believe we're only scratching the surface of how
that functions, and mainly it's because we're not technically
seeking him to determine it. Now with that.
Being said, you have to honor your heart.
This passage is not seeking wealth.
This passage is. Seeking him.
So you always have to. Examine yourself when you're
going in, said, Oh Lord, I'm coming to seek you because I've
already concluded I am completely taken care of.
I'm in your Kingdom. I am the wealthiest person on
the planet and it doesn't have to be in my account.
Hallelujah. But I do have access.
Hallelujah. And you're going to give me the.
Idea You're going to give me the wisdom, you're going to tell me
how to navigate. You're going to help me, you're
going to show me, and I'm going to seek you.
And I am not going to look at the world's ways to determine,
in fact, Abraham. Abraham.
Turned away. The world's way.
Literally, God made him. Exceedingly wealthy.
Which means, again, let me say Jacob real quick so we can get
over to Communion. Remember Jacob?
Jacob had been working for Laban for 10 years.
He changed his wage constantly. Now the Lord's like you got to
go. I've changed his ways 10 times.
He worked in 20 years. He's going to leave now.
And so he goes lame and says, look, I'm going to, I need to
take care of my own family. It's time for me to go back
home. He said, OK, name your price.
He said, look, I I'm not asking you to do anything.
Why does he do that 'cause you're not an honest guy and the
world system is not honest. All markets are manipulated.
They are driven by fear. Everything, everything.
It's the spirit of fear. So as a result of that, he says,
I don't need you to do anything. I just want every sheep that is
spotted, right? They have spots on them now when
Laban looks out at his flock. There are very few spotted
sheep. So he's like.
It's great deal. What he doesn't know is that God
gave him a business plan in his dream, in a dream where he had
to bring some reeds to the watering through.
A thing that is. Not happening anywhere.
And based upon that method he transferred all the wealth and
strength of the flock to produce nothing but spotted sheep.
So much so that Laban looks out one day or he gets a report from
his guys that there are way more spotted sheep and they're a lot
stronger than your feeble looking plain ones.
And what did he want? To do still again, because
that's what the system does. You weren't for me.
You make me wealth and I'll steal from you.
But Jacob. 'S life it's time to go packed
the family up and they were gone right Abraham had gotten had
received God ideas on his wealth with his livestock.
Then he received divine favor from kings that gave him wealth.
Then when he went to go conquer some kings because his nephew
and his family had been seized. The King.
Of Sodom, who was a extremely unrighteous king.
Horrible community that did not make it in the planet.
Out of. Appreciation.
Says to him. You can keep the spoils.
And what does Abram say to that king system?
He says, I'm taking nothing from you.
This is powerful. See, this is no a person who has
heard the voice of God, who doesn't conclude all the wealth
of the wicked laid up for the righteous, just 'cause I know
the Scripture, I'm taking it. It may not be applicable.
In this case, it was not applicable.
And he says no, I'm taking nothing from you because I know
you. I've been given an inside track
of your character and you'll go around and tell everyone that
the prosperity that I have, you're the one who gave it to
me. You going to take credit for it.
So I'm taking nothing from you. Now the guys who came with me,
they get to replenish anything they use, but for me, I get
nothing. Only one person is going to be
known that they brought me wealth is it's the Lord.
It's the Lord which tells me maybe some who are getting great
gains and stocks should never talk about it.
Well, the stock market. Made you wealth?
No, I was in a closet and the Lord told me to invest in that.
But the world won't believe. That it's a choke conspiracy.
We close with this third John. The second verse says this.
Beloved, I pray that in all respects you may prosper and be
in good health. How?
Just as your soul prospers, so this is the three dimension of
man. Do you understand?
Number one, because we are born again.
Our spirit man is alive unto God.
We are made righteous. We are the righteous of God in
Christ. We have access to the throne
room of heaven. We have access to the throne of
grace. He will give us help and time of
need. We can boldly come before the
throne. We have access because the
Spirit of God living in us. He is our financial advisor and
He is extremely wise. Extremely.
Wise again, when you have that kind of financial advisor, you
can receive funds from anywhere. Jesus showed.
This because he was full of the Holy Ghost.
And he says, Peter. Go fishing and he gets tax money
without having to go all the way back and find Judas and get it
out of their account. He let the fish.
Go bring him wealth that day. He could pray.
Over the amount he has and it would multiply in front of him.
See again we. Want to have certain things yet?
The Lord's like, I'll take care of what's already in you.
You don't. You don't know how much rice you
actually have right now. Oh, you don't want to see
because the Kingdom system of wealth looks way different.
That you may be in a. Place that you're like, man,
we're going to have to eat here. The Lord's like you have no idea
how much is actually in your cupboard right now.
You have more than every stockroom in the nation right in
that one little jar. Oh, you're not you're not
hearing me. I mean, you got to get
revelation of this. You understand you have more
access than every Amazon warehouse right now.
You have more access than that that it could be in your
cupboard right now. That when the.
Worries of the world and recession and inflation and all
these things are happening and like, how are we going to pair
out you like we can always pay the house.
We're going to have the house paid off.
We're going to have this you're It's amazing what God can do
with what you have. God says.
You want to know who the wealthiest was today in the
offering? It wasn't the wealthy ones, it
was the one who gave everything she had.
And to you it seemed insignificant, but it opened up
the windows of heaven. And now that account will flow.
Every. Time.
Miracle. We we are all hungering and
thirsting for miracle signs and wonders, but the only ones we
want are blind eyes open, the lame walking, the deaf ears
coming up. And nobody wants a miracle of
you know what, honey? We may not have enough for
groceries. In fact, God spoke to me today
that I should give extra in the offering, which means we're not
going to buy groceries this week.
Oh. Y'all don't want to hear this?
At all. Why?
Because it's crazy thinking. We are going to.
Sew that. And every time.
Because I heard the Lord say there's more than enough rice.
So why? More than enough this week.
And every time you go, if it can happen for a widow woman back
then, it's the same word. Is this good yesterday, today
and forever? But we don't want to tap into
that because the deception, the seduction, the conspiracy is you
got to see your wealth. You got to feel your wealth.
You got to have access to your wealth all the time where you
can see it, check in on all your accounts, look at your
portfolio, know your net worth. Yeah, you walk into.
A cover and says Publix does not have as much rice stock today as
I do. Cause I've heard from.
The King. And that is not.
Lack. That is more than enough.
That's exceeding abundantly beyond what you could think or
imagine. See, we think exceedingly
abundantly are huge numbers. How in the world can I put gas
in my tank and it go 5 weeks? That's called.
Exceedingly abundantly beyond what you could ask or think,
'cause he just kept it in the tank.
Now, that doesn't mean you. Won't have material possessions
that you can't arrive to certain aspects of great wealth, sure,
as long as when you come to that place and the Lord says so that
100,000. That you're like.
Sure. Been waiting on you.
To ask. That's why it was there the
whole time. And yet we're teaching.
The church that you you barely are going to make it.
You're hardly going to make it. Just wait till you get to
heaven. The Lord's like there's not a
warehouse in the earth. That's right.
That's. Right 'cause I'm going to.
Tell you your greatest resource and I'm going to close with this
and we're going to do communion. So come on ushers, listen.
The wealthiest? Nations today are the ones
holding the oil, the ones holding the oil, the ones who
have a deep reservoir. What kind of?
Oil are you holding right now? What kind of oil is on the
inside of you? What?
Anointing. Do you have?
How? What?
Kind of oil reserve, are you carrying that you're not tapping
into? It's the wealthiest thing.
You just got to pull it up. Just got to pull it up.
Just pull it up, pull it up. And as you pull it up, praying
in the Spirit. Building up your.
Most holy faith. 'Cause with faith.
You can do anything. Pulling up the word.
Of the king pulling up wisdom, pulling up insight, shutting
down all the voices. You just keep drilling.
Pulling it up, pulling it up, pulling it up produce some
barrel after barrel after barrel after barrel after barrel after
barrel. And when all the natural oil
runs dry, the Holy Ghost lives forever.
You have an. Exhaustible supply of the Spirit
and. The devil wants to.
Seduce you with pleasurable desires that God says I would
gladly give you if you just seek my Kingdom.
Cause with me. You'll never be in.
Lack if you're here today and. You've never made Jesus, the
Lord of your life, come to the wealthiest place on the planet.
It's the Kingdom. It's the Kingdom and I do
believe in these last days, not only will things we have
multiply because God is just doing that to test our faith.
But we'll. Also just have and those who
have is because they know how to hear.
Because what they have. Doesn't have them, they're just
waiting to sow it. In essence, I'm just looking for
another good work to give it away.
I'm just going to give it away. I just need to give it away.
Because I just have. So much.
Because I have. The name of Jesus.
What else do I need? Because I can ask the.
Father anything in his. And he will do it.
According to his will, wow. Thank you so much.
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