1 00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:19,680 First Thessalonians chapter 5, verse 23. 2 00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:23,320 It says this. Now may the God of peace, is he 3 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:29,760 a God of peace himself Sanctify. You say sanctify set, set you 4 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:35,720 apart means make you in a way so that you look nothing like the 5 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:37,400 world. All right. 6 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:40,720 Sanctify you how, though? Entirely. 7 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:44,360 Thou may the God of peace himself. 8 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:47,200 So who's doing this? God himself. 9 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:50,720 May the God of peace himself sanctify you. 10 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:55,280 How entirely? And may your spirit and soul and 11 00:00:55,280 --> 00:01:00,920 body be preserved, complete without blame at the coming of 12 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:03,480 our Lord Jesus Christ. Do you believe Jesus is coming? 13 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:07,320 Do you believe Jesus is coming? Could he come tomorrow? 14 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:09,440 He could. Some people believe He just 15 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:11,480 might. He's coming though. 16 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:16,000 I said he's coming. The new English translation says 17 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:18,400 that this way. Now may the God of peace himself 18 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:23,240 make you completely holy, and may your spirit, soul, and body 19 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:29,200 be kept entirely blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus 20 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:31,120 Christ. Now, I love this passage of 21 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:35,520 scripture because this passive scripture communicates how man 22 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:41,600 is made man being in, having three aspects of man. 23 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:44,560 I heard one minister say it this way, which I thought was really 24 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:46,560 awesome when he talked, when he talked about the Trinity, 25 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:49,680 because a lot of times we say Trinity, we say 3 and one, 26 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:51,200 right? And three and one. 27 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:53,520 You know, you're trying to figure out how 3 become one. 28 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:55,440 But when they said really, when you're talking about the 29 00:01:55,440 --> 00:02:01,760 Trinity, you're talking 1 * 1 * 1 because 1 * 1 * 1 equals not 1 30 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:04,440 + 1 + 1 = 1 because that doesn't work. 31 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:09,039 But 1 * 1 * 1 does because the Father times the Son times the 32 00:02:09,039 --> 00:02:14,560 Holy Spirit makes God. Now we have a spirit. 33 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:18,720 Now a lot of times we say we are spirit, and I don't technically 34 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:21,160 have a problem with that. But again, I do want to say 35 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:26,760 this, just because we know there are layers doesn't mean things 36 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:31,360 are supposed to remain separate. Brother Hagin would say this 37 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:34,520 when ministering on the gifts of the Spirit out of First 38 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:36,960 Corinthians chapter 12. He said we separate the gifts 39 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:41,200 for the sake of teaching. However, the greatest gift is 40 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:47,400 the one needed at the time. We tend to emphasize specifics, 41 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:50,680 but God only sees things as a whole. 42 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:53,160 And one day I'm going to minister a message on that 43 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:56,560 because, you know, the the problem with understanding 44 00:02:56,560 --> 00:03:00,400 specifics is we can forget that it's actually connected to 45 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:03,680 something and there's nothing in the planet today that's not 46 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:06,720 connected to something. If you develop if the systems 47 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:10,320 that are within our society, when I say I'm talking like the 48 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:16,320 water system evaporation, you know, precipitation, although 49 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:20,880 that whole little water cycle, if you pull that system out, it 50 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:26,440 will affect every other system. In fact, if you pull one element 51 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:31,880 out, it can hinder or even cause the death of every other thing. 52 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:36,600 So God never intended for us when we talk, teach the word 53 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:40,320 about anything to just hold on to 1 aspect. 54 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:42,800 He always wants to know these are all connected. 55 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:46,200 So when we say we are spirit, we have a soul, we live in a body, 56 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:52,560 that does not mean that we are different, because the reality 57 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:57,600 is, in the end, you'll still have a body, you'll just have a 58 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:02,400 glorified one. You'll still have a soul and you 59 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:06,680 still will be a spirit. And so they are connected. 60 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:12,360 So if we emphasize just the spirit of the man, we can hinder 61 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:16,240 the soul and body of a man, and those two aspects can affect the 62 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:19,200 spirit of the man. Can't do so. 63 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:22,920 That's why First Thessalonians 523 is really powerful, because 64 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:25,120 it's the God of peace. Did he bring you peace? 65 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:29,120 Did he bring you Jesus? Did Jesus die and and be raised 66 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:31,040 from the dead so that you can have life and life more 67 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:33,400 abundantly, that you have a new spirit in you? 68 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:36,440 You're a new creature in Christ. Yeah, sure. 69 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:39,000 But here's the thing. He's not here just to give you a 70 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:42,400 new spirit. He's not here just to set your 71 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:47,080 spirit apart. The God of peace himself is 72 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:52,160 working on every aspect of you. And so the spirit that you have, 73 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:55,200 that's changed, only God could do that. 74 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:58,680 You cannot get your spirit right. 75 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:01,040 You cannot make it right with God. 76 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:04,360 We all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. 77 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:07,000 Our our spirit man was cut off from God. 78 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:10,560 We were spiritually dead, although breathing, thinking, 79 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:15,840 filtering emotions, navigating in a world within our bodies and 80 00:05:15,840 --> 00:05:19,240 going through life fulfilling the lust of the flesh, the lust 81 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:22,040 of the eyes, the pride of life where we're doing it all. 82 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:24,480 But we were dead in our trespasses and sin, and it 83 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:25,920 didn't matter if we tried to do it. 84 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:29,880 It didn't matter if we try to follow God on the inside. 85 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:32,600 We were empty, bankrupt, could not do it. 86 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:36,120 We're filthy rags. But God, while we were yet 87 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:40,120 sinners, died for us, right? He died on the cross. 88 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:43,120 He raised from the dead on the third day, poured his blood out 89 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:45,840 on the mercy seat of God in heaven. 90 00:05:45,960 --> 00:05:48,920 And when we call on the name of the Lord, we are saved. 91 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:53,240 The old spirit is evicted out of this skin suit and we become a 92 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:58,200 new creature in Christ. The old pass of the way. 93 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:01,760 All things become new. And what's even better, the Holy 94 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:05,720 Spirit then comes and dwells on the inside of us to bear witness 95 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:07,720 with our spirit. We are children of God and only 96 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:11,240 God could do that. But the reason he does it is He 97 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:16,640 needs your spirit alive so that you can take construction in 98 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:22,080 order to now have your mind sanctified and your body 99 00:06:22,280 --> 00:06:26,480 sanctified. So now the Bible tells us that 100 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:30,800 we are to work out our salvation with fear and trembling. 101 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:32,800 Now that doesn't mean we work salvation. 102 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:35,280 Salvation is a work of grace through faith. 103 00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:38,760 But what we are working is the renewing of our mind. 104 00:06:39,280 --> 00:06:42,160 And Pastor Joshua talked about renewing your mind some last 105 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:44,040 week and you understand it's important. 106 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:48,040 That's our responsibility because we now are alive to God. 107 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:51,960 We can go into the scripture and have the teacher on the inside 108 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:55,120 of us to give us instruction. He's given us the five fold 109 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:59,840 ministry in the church to equip us so that we can grow in the 110 00:06:59,840 --> 00:07:02,800 things of God and develop the mind of Christ. 111 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:05,080 So we have the renewing of the mind. 112 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:08,920 That is our responsibility as believers that are alive unto 113 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:13,120 God. And He wants our mind, our soul. 114 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:15,080 And we're going to talk about that here in a minute. 115 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:20,920 Entirely sanctified, set apart. He wants you to be, to have a 116 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:25,160 mindset that can always go to the Word of God and not go to 117 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:32,280 the world that has the power to take captive thoughts. 118 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:36,440 You can work your mind muscle, your soul realm so strong that 119 00:07:36,440 --> 00:07:39,280 anything that tries to infiltrate it that's contrary to 120 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:43,840 the word, it will shut it down. It's kind of like an antivirus 121 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:47,000 to your whole body and your spirit. 122 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:51,360 It will attack it when you get filled up with the Word and it 123 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:53,400 renews your mind. Then when another thought comes, 124 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:56,320 you'll go and attack that thing. You are not kind to it. 125 00:07:56,400 --> 00:07:58,600 You don't stroke it. You don't pet it. 126 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:01,880 You're like, you're out of here. Because the Bible says that we 127 00:08:01,880 --> 00:08:04,240 are to take our thoughts captive, and that is in the 128 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:10,160 context of crucifying. Then we are to crucify the 129 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:13,680 flesh, which means our body, its desires that are attached to the 130 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:15,720 world. We can put it under our 131 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:21,200 submission to where it no longer rules us, but yet we rule it 132 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:23,920 now. We will not have a glorified 133 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:27,360 body in this life. It will come, but it's a hope we 134 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:30,840 can have. But until then, by the stripes 135 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:33,919 of Jesus, this body can maintain health. 136 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:37,080 It cannot stop from breaking down. 137 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:41,159 Being born again does not give you immortality in your skin 138 00:08:41,159 --> 00:08:45,360 suit, but it does give you the healthcare system of the Kingdom 139 00:08:45,560 --> 00:08:49,080 so that you can walk in health and healing for the purpose of 140 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:51,360 caring. Bring out God's plan for your 141 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:56,200 life and when symptoms come and when sickness comes, then you 142 00:08:56,200 --> 00:09:00,640 can stand on the Word of God and receive healing through God and 143 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:03,640 by His power to be able to walk in divine healing. 144 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:07,240 Amen And that mean does not mean that at times when you have 145 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:09,200 symptoms that you don't need to go to a doctor. 146 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:11,240 You definitely should go to a doctor if you don't, if 147 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:14,840 nothing's changing so you can find out what's going on so that 148 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:17,600 you can then get it under the blood and get it under the Word 149 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:21,640 and begin to move forward because God wants you healthy so 150 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:24,440 that you can walk around doing what God's called you to do. 151 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:27,160 Amen. So again, he says to sanctify 152 00:09:27,160 --> 00:09:32,480 you entirely, say entirely. So salvation was never designed 153 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:38,800 to leave your soul and body out. It was never designed. 154 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:44,520 In fact, he says at the coming of the Lord, he wants your whole 155 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:48,400 man to be blameless, say your whole man. 156 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:51,200 All right, so let's look at Mark chapter 12. 157 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:55,240 The reason why this is important because Jesus makes a demand on 158 00:09:55,240 --> 00:09:57,840 it. It says one of the scribes came 159 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:00,600 and heard them arguing and recognizing that he had answered 160 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:03,880 them well, asked him. This is Jesus. 161 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:06,360 What commandment is the foremost of all. 162 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:09,680 Now you know that they came to Jesus on more than one occasion. 163 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:13,520 The lawyers describes the Sadducees, the Pharisees, not 164 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:16,240 because they wanted to know something is because they were 165 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:19,280 trying to catch him in something so they could accuse him and 166 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:22,600 have him killed. They did not like Jesus, all 167 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:24,640 right. And Jesus had more problem with 168 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:26,800 the religious than he ever had with anyone else. 169 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:28,520 He didn't even have this kind of problem with the Roman 170 00:10:28,520 --> 00:10:32,960 government, OK. However, this one particular 171 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:37,600 person recognizing that Jesus is well equipped to answer 172 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:41,200 questions, he says this which is the foremost commandment. 173 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:45,480 Jesus answered the foremost here, O Israel, the Lord of God, 174 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:50,120 the Lord God is 1. The Lord our God is 1 Lord. 175 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:53,680 Now you understand, he says commandments, There's 176 00:10:53,680 --> 00:10:59,800 technically more than 10. There's more than 10 actual 177 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:01,560 commandments. We just quote 10. 178 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:04,680 We speak about those 10. All right, There's actually more 179 00:11:04,680 --> 00:11:06,920 commandments than that. And this individual is saying 180 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:09,160 which one? And he is going to summarize 181 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:14,080 them in a statement. Now this one obviously is #1 182 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:19,160 we're to love the Lord by God, but Jesus goes and breaks this 183 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:22,240 down. Now, Jesus has had the habit 184 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:25,920 when preaching to tell the religious, you're saying 185 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:30,080 something, but you're not having my father's interpretation. 186 00:11:30,200 --> 00:11:32,800 And I'm going to bring clarity. This is why a Sermon on the 187 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:34,680 Mount said this. You've heard the ancient, you've 188 00:11:34,680 --> 00:11:39,760 heard them say the ancient said thou shalt not commit murder, 189 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:41,840 right? And did the father say that? 190 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:44,600 Absolutely. But then he gets to the heart of 191 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:47,360 it, he said, because what you're doing is you're only defining 192 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:50,800 murder from an external perspective of actually killing. 193 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:54,560 But I'm going to tell you that if you hate your brother, well, 194 00:11:54,560 --> 00:11:58,360 now this jacks you up because there was a lot of hatred among 195 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:02,720 the religious. And they really hated Jesus. 196 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:06,680 I mean, they hated him. They wanted to kill him, but 197 00:12:06,680 --> 00:12:09,120 they weren't going to do it themselves because, you know, 198 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:10,680 the law says thou shalt not murder. 199 00:12:10,680 --> 00:12:12,880 So I'm not going to kill him. But Bull, we're going to do what 200 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:14,280 we can to get someone to kill him. 201 00:12:14,280 --> 00:12:18,040 He said, now, if that's in your heart, you're already a 202 00:12:18,040 --> 00:12:20,640 murderer. And then the one that jacked 203 00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:22,240 them up the most was the next one. 204 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:24,040 You've heard it say, thou shalt not commit adultery. 205 00:12:24,040 --> 00:12:27,120 But I say, if you lust after a woman in your own heart, you've 206 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:30,920 committed the sin of adultery. Now the sin of adultery again, 207 00:12:30,920 --> 00:12:36,080 that the, the, the law said that when this took place that you 208 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:40,000 were to stone the individual. So these guys dealt with that 209 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:44,080 subject through Jesus's ministry, kept bringing this one 210 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:48,120 conversation up about adultery. It was very problematic to them, 211 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:52,840 all right, but Jesus was what? Going back to the heart, What 212 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:56,000 you're doing is just doing this external thought process. 213 00:12:56,160 --> 00:12:59,680 But none of the things that you can do externally will ever make 214 00:12:59,680 --> 00:13:02,520 you right with God because it's a nature issue. 215 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:09,400 Jesus comes in and begins to communicate that if you're going 216 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:12,240 to love God, this is the way to do it. 217 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:17,080 Now, I'm not saying this. Jesus is saying this. 218 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:22,280 Are we to obey Jesus? Is Jesus the one we're 219 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:25,000 following? Are we followers of Jesus? 220 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:29,960 OK, so this is what Jesus said. Jesus says you shall love the 221 00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:34,200 Lord your God with. What's the next word and what 222 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:36,800 does all mean? If you look it up in the 223 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:39,480 original Greek, it means it means all. 224 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:45,640 Now all is all. All is not halfway, not half 225 00:13:45,640 --> 00:13:54,040 hearted, not 85%, it's not 90, it's all. 226 00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:59,960 And yet if we don't watch out in our modern day Christianity, we 227 00:13:59,960 --> 00:14:02,440 stop. We don't make that a comma, we 228 00:14:02,440 --> 00:14:05,280 make it a period and we exclude the next statements. 229 00:14:05,920 --> 00:14:07,560 Well, you know, I love the Lord with all my heart. 230 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:11,160 God knows my heart. I love the Lord with all my 231 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:13,480 heart. Well, you're that's one point. 232 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:15,320 You need to love him with your whole heart. 233 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:19,960 However, there's more. And this word heart, if we were 234 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:22,520 to use it over into the Old Testament and sometimes in the 235 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:26,480 New Testament, if it doesn't clarify, heart can be the spirit 236 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:28,200 of the man and the soul of a man. 237 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:30,240 It can be both aspects. Why? 238 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:33,120 Because the spirit and the soul are extremely close. 239 00:14:33,560 --> 00:14:37,400 I mean, and they are two separate things, but they 240 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:42,120 function so much together. There's only one thing that 241 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:45,720 brings its division and that's found in Hebrews chapter 4 verse 242 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:48,680 12. In Hebrews chapter 4 verse 12, 243 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:51,560 it says this. It says for the Word of God is 244 00:14:51,560 --> 00:14:54,840 living inactive, sharper than any 2 edged sword and piercing 245 00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:59,760 as far as the division of soul and spirit of both joints of 246 00:14:59,760 --> 00:15:03,120 marrow, which is the body. So that's spirit, soul and body 247 00:15:03,280 --> 00:15:06,960 and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. 248 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:10,800 So again it's the Word of God that lets you know what's of the 249 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:13,680 Spirit of God and then what's of the soul of man. 250 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:19,240 And what it does is it can cut you to where it can determine is 251 00:15:19,240 --> 00:15:24,000 your spirit man functioning from the soul of man or by the Spirit 252 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:26,320 of God. Are you hearing me? 253 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:31,120 Because again, we can do accolades to God, but God really 254 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:33,280 knows what's going on. Amen. 255 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:35,320 And again, when people say, well, the Lord knows my heart, 256 00:15:35,520 --> 00:15:39,800 it's easy to say yes, he does because He does. 257 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:41,360 And we know this about Scripture. 258 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:46,440 God is not mocked. Whatever man soweth that he'll 259 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:49,080 reap. So you again, you know, I heard 260 00:15:49,080 --> 00:15:52,680 one person say this, you can fake a praise, but you can't 261 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:55,280 fake an offering. Now, unfortunately, you can't 262 00:15:55,280 --> 00:15:59,280 fake an offering And, and I can show you that in Scripture. 263 00:15:59,280 --> 00:16:03,840 That's the the two mics with the woman because the wealthy gave 264 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:07,120 out of their surplus, which means that's a pretty large 265 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:11,080 amount to try to get attention of the teacher. 266 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:13,720 But the woman who gave 2 gave all she had. 267 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:17,240 So she gave a real offering and they just gave something that 268 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:20,080 didn't even affect them. But man, in modern day people, 269 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:23,560 if they would have saw the wealth wealthy give that number, 270 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:25,480 they'd be inviting them to dinners. 271 00:16:25,760 --> 00:16:29,040 They would be asking them to support their projects because 272 00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:30,880 they would say, well, you can't fake an offering. 273 00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:35,480 Well, they may have faked an offering and got all around you 274 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:40,480 with your with their money to be able to sit at your table so 275 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:45,880 that you can, you know, continue to talk to them about financing 276 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:48,960 your ministry when the one who gave the most was the woman who 277 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:52,360 had two mites. Sounds good. 278 00:16:53,680 --> 00:16:57,800 It's not scriptural. So you can fake a praise, you 279 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:00,640 can fake an offering, you can fake a lot, but you don't fake 280 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:02,880 God. That's what I'm saying. 281 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:07,280 God does know your heart, but there is a difference between 282 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:09,079 your heart and sphere. So the Lord says you're the love 283 00:17:09,079 --> 00:17:10,680 the Lord your God with all your heart. 284 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:14,880 Then he goes on back over to Mark chapter 12 and verse 30. 285 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:16,680 You say I love the Lord your God with all your heart. 286 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:20,400 Here we go with all your soul, all your mind and all your 287 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:22,119 strength. I want to stay here on verse 30 288 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:25,839 for just a bit. In this one we see there are 4 289 00:17:25,839 --> 00:17:27,880 aspects that God is dealing with us. 290 00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:32,280 Now when I say 4/2 are in the same place, so it's it's the 291 00:17:32,560 --> 00:17:36,040 entirety of man. In essence, God wants to 292 00:17:36,040 --> 00:17:38,800 sanctify you. He wants you once you're born 293 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:43,840 again, he wants all aspect of you to be wholly set apart for 294 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:47,720 him. He gives you the spirit that now 295 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:50,840 has the ability to hear God and run with God. 296 00:17:51,080 --> 00:17:56,680 It's through that spirit you now have to say soul, you're going 297 00:17:56,680 --> 00:18:01,680 to get it together and body. You're not going to tell me what 298 00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:05,760 to do. You now have to take the 299 00:18:05,760 --> 00:18:10,160 responsibility as a believer because God has now empowered 300 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:17,960 you to be able to sanctify with Him the rest of who you are. 301 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:22,160 So you're no longer this sorry Sinner saved by grace. 302 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:25,680 You were a Sinner. You've been saved by grace 303 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:28,120 through faith. Now you are a believer, a child 304 00:18:28,120 --> 00:18:31,840 of God, who has the third person of the Godhead on the inside who 305 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:35,040 speaks to your Spirit, who will reveal Scripture to you so you 306 00:18:35,040 --> 00:18:38,480 can renew your mind. You are to study, to show 307 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:41,880 yourself approved unto God, a Workman who needeth not be 308 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:43,960 ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. 309 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:48,240 God will not put His Scripture in you without you taking the 310 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:52,120 time to feed on it. Man, wouldn't it be awesome if 311 00:18:52,120 --> 00:18:55,240 we just got it by osmosis? That would be great if we were 312 00:18:55,240 --> 00:18:58,080 born again a boom immediately our whole he took a brain out. 313 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:00,600 He's changed our whole body. It'd be amazing. 314 00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:04,520 But that's not how it works now you say, why is that? 315 00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:08,640 Well, you understand God wants to know that He knows that He 316 00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:12,600 knows that you're his because you understand this. 317 00:19:13,120 --> 00:19:17,080 It was God's original intent that your whole all of you were 318 00:19:17,080 --> 00:19:21,360 to be would glorify him. How did God made man originally 319 00:19:21,520 --> 00:19:25,520 in Genesis chapter one verse 26, he said let us make man in our 320 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:29,920 image according to our likeness and let them have what dominion 321 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:32,520 or rule over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, 322 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:36,200 over all the cattle, over all all the earth and over every 323 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:37,560 creeping thing that creeps on the earth. 324 00:19:37,560 --> 00:19:42,240 So he made both male and female. They both had to me or rule. 325 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:46,320 And so Adam and Eve are in a garden without sin, on a planet 326 00:19:46,320 --> 00:19:48,600 without sin that mirrored heaven. 327 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:51,480 And the glory of God would come down in the cool of the day and 328 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:54,400 begin to converse with him. And he was to love God. 329 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:58,000 All he had to do to demonstrate that love was to not eat of the 330 00:19:58,000 --> 00:19:59,400 tree of the knowledge of good and Evil. 331 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:04,520 So his spirit was alive unto God, no sin. 332 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:07,440 His mind was not corrupted by sin at all. 333 00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:10,360 His body was glorified and would live forever. 334 00:20:10,360 --> 00:20:13,720 For God said, if don't eat the fruit of the tree of the 335 00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:16,440 knowledge of good and evil, for the day you eat you will surely. 336 00:20:16,880 --> 00:20:21,600 So if Adam had never eaten the fruit, he'd still be here today. 337 00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:25,840 However, he was tempted. His wife was tempted by the 338 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:27,280 tempter. She was deceived. 339 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:31,720 Adam rebels against God and eats of the fruit. 340 00:20:31,880 --> 00:20:35,920 At that point his body starts to take decay, although it took 903 341 00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:37,440 years for it to get into the grave. 342 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:42,840 His his mind immediately got disconnected from the Spirit of 343 00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:48,560 God, where now he had to live life by his five senses in the 344 00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:50,560 soul realm. That's where that exists. 345 00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:55,600 So he lived by what he saw. He lived by what he tasted, what 346 00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:58,960 he heard, and what he smelled and what he could touch. 347 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:04,360 He lived by his senses, natural. We were never to live by what we 348 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:06,680 see. We were to live by faith, which 349 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:09,480 is we are to live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth 350 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:10,960 of our king. Can I get an Amen? 351 00:21:12,120 --> 00:21:14,480 So he's saying, now listen, you're not just going to love me 352 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:18,000 with your spirit. You need to love me in your 353 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:21,120 soul, but not just your soul, your mind. 354 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:24,520 So what he's doing is there's two aspects of the soul and 355 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:28,320 Jesus clearly identifies here. The soul aspect is the seat of 356 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:32,960 your emotions. So so your emotions are never 357 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:38,200 supposed to rule your decisions. That just makes me so mad. 358 00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:41,120 I'm going to That's not how you make a decision. 359 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:44,080 Oh, they are so gorgeous. They look so good. 360 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:47,520 I just feel like I want. Feelings are not why you're 361 00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:50,680 going towards someone. Amen. 362 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:52,800 I just don't feel like I love them anymore. 363 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:54,520 Feelings is not why you're divorcing. 364 00:21:56,640 --> 00:21:59,600 Feelings are not an indicator to make decisions. 365 00:21:59,960 --> 00:22:04,920 But the Lord is saying your feelings should be mine. 366 00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:07,760 You should love me with your feelings. 367 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:11,160 You should cause your feelings to submit to me. 368 00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:15,840 Are you hearing me? So what I rejoice in, you should 369 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:19,280 rejoice in. What I'm grieved in you should 370 00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:22,760 be grieved in. Amen. 371 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:26,560 And so we have to make sure that our emotions are in line. 372 00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:28,600 The next thing is mine. Mine is intellect. 373 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:32,080 God never intended for us to be born again and then act like we 374 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:36,080 don't need to discover him. He said, I want your whole mind. 375 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:39,320 I want you to discover me. In essence, the Lord's like, 376 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:41,120 let's have an intellectual debate. 377 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:48,080 Ask me, come talk to me. I mean, I'm only the creator of 378 00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:50,960 heaven and earth. You want to talk about 379 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:53,800 photosynthesis? I created it out of word. 380 00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:56,840 You want to know how everything went, Just come talk to me. 381 00:22:56,880 --> 00:23:01,560 The most intelligent being ever is God, and God doesn't want us 382 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:03,400 to follow him without intelligence. 383 00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:07,080 He wants us to discover His wisdom, his knowledge, his 384 00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:09,880 understanding. He wants to have an intellectual 385 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:12,280 conversation. I mean, some of my greatest 386 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:16,280 times in prayer is like, Lord, can you talk to me about this? 387 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:20,400 God wants me intellectually engaged. 388 00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:24,200 Now my faith is not based on intellect, but man, because I 389 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:26,640 have faith, He will change my intellect. 390 00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:29,800 He'll change my mind. He'll give me the mind of 391 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:31,800 Christ. He'll give me ideas. 392 00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:34,360 Listen, I'll give you a case in point, Jacob. 393 00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:36,440 The Lord says, look, you need to go back home. 394 00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:39,280 But before you go back home, I need you to give you the wages 395 00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:42,360 that your uncle stole from you. So I'm going to give you an 396 00:23:42,360 --> 00:23:47,080 intellectual idea on how to transfer the wealth of Laban to 397 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:49,960 you. And that was a natural thing 398 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:57,320 that he did with these the what are his sub branches? 399 00:23:57,320 --> 00:24:00,640 He stripped it down, you know, and had them, you know, taking 400 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:03,880 care of where all of a sudden he gets these big sheep out of the 401 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:06,320 deal and layman gets all the weak ones. 402 00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:08,640 That's because God has do you understand? 403 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:11,200 God will give you intellect in your businesses. 404 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:14,400 But see, if all you're doing is following with your heart, then 405 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:17,800 you've cut off the business ideas. 406 00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:20,840 If all you're doing is following with your heart and you don't 407 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:23,800 allow your emotions to be restrained, well, guess what? 408 00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:27,760 God can be speaking to your heart and He knows you love Him 409 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:30,960 from the Spirit, but He needs your love from you, the the 410 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:34,600 emotions and the intellect. He needs you to come to Him. 411 00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:38,160 And then the last is with all your strength. 412 00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:40,040 Now this one's tough. OK? 413 00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:43,520 So please go ahead and pick your feet up off the ground. 414 00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:45,440 That way you don't think I'm stepping on your toes. 415 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:55,840 But this is he says seek first. The Kingdom church should not be 416 00:24:55,840 --> 00:25:00,240 the last thing you're thinking about because Jesus is the head 417 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:04,360 of the church. Yet we will give our strength to 418 00:25:04,360 --> 00:25:07,520 business. We'll give our strength to our 419 00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:12,280 families and yet when it comes to the assembling of ourselves 420 00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:16,720 together and do what God's asked us to do as a corporate body to 421 00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:23,360 really bring an influence to the community, we're too tired to 422 00:25:23,360 --> 00:25:27,880 accomplish that yet, he says I'm supposed to have all your 423 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:31,280 strength. It would be more fitting for you 424 00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:36,800 to say, I cannot do that because it will affect what God's asked 425 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:42,040 me to do in His church. It would be better for you to 426 00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:44,840 let go of other things. If all of these other things are 427 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:47,280 running you racket, you need to say wait a minute. 428 00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:52,120 God gets my best first and the rest of these come as a as 429 00:25:52,120 --> 00:25:56,040 something after I have done what God's asked me to do first. 430 00:25:56,320 --> 00:25:59,240 Now this also has to do with your physical body keeping it 431 00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:04,360 under so that you're not getting into immorality because your 432 00:26:04,360 --> 00:26:07,120 body talked to you and try to get it to do things that will 433 00:26:07,120 --> 00:26:09,640 bring sin against your body and he doesn't want that. 434 00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:12,840 OK y'all doing all right all right let's press on real quick. 435 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:17,680 He goes on and says this them so he says the second is this you 436 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:19,440 shall love your neighbor as yourself. 437 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:21,240 There is no other commandment greater than these. 438 00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:24,920 So again, when you give yourself entirely to God's your spirit, 439 00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:29,680 soul and body, then you can actually radiate the glory of 440 00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:34,320 God to your neighbors and your neighbors are going to be more 441 00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:36,920 drawn to you when you are doing that. 442 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:38,880 They're like, how do you keep How do you do this? 443 00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:42,240 How come you're never sick? How come I don't see this happen 444 00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:44,280 with you? And how come your mind's always 445 00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:45,720 together? How come you never you're not 446 00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:48,720 falling apart over what just took place in our nation And how 447 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:52,080 come you you're like, man, I'm just following the Lord. 448 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:56,120 He has me entirely. You begin to radiate his glory 449 00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:59,680 and then you can really be it have an effect to your neighbor. 450 00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:04,080 So he goes on and says, right teacher, let me see verse 32. 451 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:07,440 He says the scribe said to him, Right teacher, you have truly 452 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:10,160 stated he is the one and there is no one else beside him. 453 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:11,960 And to love him with all your heart, with all your 454 00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:14,280 understanding, with all your strength, and to loved one's 455 00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:18,240 neighbor as himself, he goes on to say, is much more than all 456 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:20,680 burnt offerings and sacrifice. And if you were here Wednesday 457 00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:26,080 night, you know that 100% obedience is better than 85% 458 00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:30,280 obedience and a sacrifice. In fact, you know, we said this 459 00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:32,680 when we make these statements. Well, it's better to ask for 460 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:35,280 forgiveness than permission. Jesus doesn't say. 461 00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:38,680 He said it's better just obey. Because this had to do with King 462 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:40,840 Saul. He did not follow the word of 463 00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:42,520 the Lord concerning a particular nation. 464 00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:46,840 He he conquered about 80, destroyed about 85% of it, but 465 00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:50,000 left about 15% of it. And that is not the word of the 466 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:53,480 Lord. And God calls the anointing to 467 00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:57,240 leave him as a result of not repenting. 468 00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:02,200 So God wants entirely say entirely. 469 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:05,320 So again, it's not about doing wrong so we can be forgiven, 470 00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:08,640 although we are forgiven now that we are new creatures in 471 00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:12,360 crisis about becoming those who entirely want to always be in a 472 00:28:12,360 --> 00:28:14,960 state of obedience. Can you make make a mistake? 473 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:16,720 Yes. Will God forgive you? 474 00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:19,560 Yes. But I don't live trying to, you 475 00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:20,600 know. Well, I'll just get him. 476 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:22,960 I'll just ask him if I know I shouldn't, but I'm going to do 477 00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:28,160 and I'll just ask God to forget. No, He loves obedience more than 478 00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:31,040 burnt offerings and sacrifice, so let's just obey. 479 00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:33,600 Amen. Then he says, when Jesus saw 480 00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:36,800 that He had answered intelligently, He said to him, 481 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:38,680 you are not far from the Kingdom of God. 482 00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:41,680 After that, no one would venture to ask him anymore. 483 00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:44,280 Now this statement that Jesus said comes from Deuteronomy 484 00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:46,960 chapter 6, verses 5 through 9. It says this. 485 00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:50,280 He said, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and 486 00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:51,840 with all your soul and with all your might. 487 00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:55,160 These words which I'm commanding you today shall be on your 488 00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:57,680 heart. Verse 7 you shall teach them 489 00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:02,000 diligently to your sons and, and, and shall talk of them when 490 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:04,640 you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you 491 00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:08,360 lie down and when you rise up, you shall bind them as a sign on 492 00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:10,800 your hand and they will be on your on the frontals of your 493 00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:12,640 forehead. You shall write them on the 494 00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:15,520 doorpost of your house and on your gate gates. 495 00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:18,120 Notice how important this is in Deuteronomy. 496 00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:19,840 And this is before they could be born again. 497 00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:22,200 He's like loving with all your heart, your soul and your might. 498 00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:24,960 Everything we do is to be centered around God and you need 499 00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:26,920 to teach them. Know what's awesome is when 500 00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:29,200 families are demonstrating to their children, we're going to 501 00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:33,000 church, we're following God, we're going to not forsake the 502 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,520 assembly of ourselves together. We're going to be a part of that 503 00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:37,160 outreach. We're going to come and help, 504 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:39,200 you know, do demo. We're going to do this because 505 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:41,640 God speaking to me to help. And when you're doing that, what 506 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:46,120 you're doing is you're teaching them that not only is your heart 507 00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:48,600 right, that you go to heaven when you die, because most 508 00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:51,640 people just live that existence. You're saying everything about 509 00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:55,640 us is to fulfill what God has asked us to do in the earth 510 00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:59,200 today through his church so that people can see the Kingdom of 511 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:01,120 God and people can come into the Kingdom. 512 00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:03,280 Amen. Because again, there are 513 00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:08,360 students right now at Osceola that are are wanting, you know, 514 00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:13,160 and there and the and the school system's even asking can a bus 515 00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:16,600 again, you bring somebody to help influence our students. 516 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:19,520 I mean, how do we deny that opportunity? 517 00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:22,520 Now, I'm only one person. I can only do so much and God 518 00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:24,160 doesn't want me to be everywhere. 519 00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:28,000 That's why he sent you. But I'm telling you there is not 520 00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:31,520 we are not lacking for opportunities that when we 521 00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:34,440 again, spirit, soul and body say, you know, we're going to do 522 00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:38,440 something for the Kingdom of God, then it's going to cause 523 00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:41,440 you to have to move and navigate and some things that are where 524 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:44,320 you're just not thinking about yourself, but you're recognized. 525 00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:48,240 And those are examples to your children because again, parents, 526 00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:50,040 you know, if you're, if your children are let's go to church 527 00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:55,160 and like, well, I'm tired. I mean, that's where you just 528 00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:58,520 put the flesh down. In fact, I just heard someone 529 00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:00,360 not too long ago give that testimony. 530 00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:02,160 They didn't want to come, but their child wanted to. 531 00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:03,840 And they came. And then God ended up doing 532 00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:06,800 something real amazing in their life, that particular service. 533 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:09,600 And they were like, thank God that I listened to my child, but 534 00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:12,600 they themselves still had #1 the authority to say no. 535 00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:16,440 But number 2, they submitted to the thought of coming to church, 536 00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:19,280 put down their flesh, said, I'm not going to be so tired. 537 00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:23,360 I'm not going to come. And they came same in anyway. 538 00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:30,200 All right, so Matthew Chapter 7, verse 12 through 14 says this 539 00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:32,480 and everything. Therefore treat people with the 540 00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:36,680 same way you want to treat them to treat you for this is the law 541 00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:39,160 and the prophets. Notice the other two, He said 542 00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:42,280 all of the prophet, all the law was summarized in these two 543 00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:46,200 statements. If you give God you entirely and 544 00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:50,720 then you love your neighbor, meaning you're going to do this, 545 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:52,560 you're going to treat them as you would want to be treated. 546 00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:55,960 Now, Jesus elevated the love your neighbor's yourself 547 00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:59,120 commandment in John chapter 15, he said, I give you a new 548 00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:02,200 commandment. You're to love one another as I 549 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:06,880 love you, man. Now, how did Jesus love us? 550 00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:12,760 Jesus doesn't even let a physical beat and say, yeah, I 551 00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:14,520 don't think I'm going to be able to go to cross right now. 552 00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:19,400 I'm just not feeling it, right? Like when he was in the garden, 553 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:21,920 everybody's sleeping. It's like I'm tired too, you 554 00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:23,200 know, I think I'm gonna take a nap too. 555 00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:26,560 At his most pivotal moment, right? 556 00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:29,960 No. Jesus stayed submitted to the 557 00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:35,280 will of the Father for us. And he said, now this is how I 558 00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:37,640 loved you. You can love this way as well. 559 00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:40,000 Amen. You understand, anytime you obey 560 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:43,560 God, there's always reward. It's worth it. 561 00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:46,960 So in everything, therefore, treat people the same way you 562 00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:49,040 want them to treat you for this of the law and the province. 563 00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:51,480 I find this interesting. This is what we call the Golden 564 00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:54,120 rule, but it's just above these two verses. 565 00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:57,120 The next two verses says this. Look what it says. 566 00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:01,880 Enter through the narrow gate, for the gate is wide and the way 567 00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:04,920 is broad. That leads to destruction, and 568 00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:06,600 there are many who enter through it. 569 00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:10,200 Now we know that's not a good place, but then he says verse 570 00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:13,560 14, but the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to 571 00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:22,000 life and there are few who find it, which tells us are we we 572 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:27,080 need to ask the question, Are we not reflecting God enough to our 573 00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:39,480 neighbors that there's only few finding because again, you may 574 00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:43,400 have a spirit right with God, but you forfeiting your soul, 575 00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:48,040 your mind and your body where your conversation, the way you 576 00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:51,320 handle things and the way you go around around with your body 577 00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:52,680 looks like the rest of the world. 578 00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:54,600 And they didn't realize you were right with God. 579 00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:58,360 They didn't have a clear understanding that you weren't 580 00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:07,780 of this world. Hallelujah. 581 00:34:09,179 --> 00:34:11,699 So we need to make sure in these last days that we are 582 00:34:11,699 --> 00:34:16,639 exemplifying the entirety of a sanctified life. 583 00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:19,800 I got my mind together. I got my emotions up underneath 584 00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:21,960 the word. I've got my body in submission. 585 00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:24,440 It doesn't tell me what to do. I tell it what to do. 586 00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:26,719 I keep it together. I'm moving forward. 587 00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:29,280 I'm going to do the plan of purpose of God until he returns. 588 00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:31,719 And man, he may come in our lifetime that we're changing a 589 00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:33,480 moment in the twinkling of an eye. 590 00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:37,280 Hallelujah. So with that being said, we'll 591 00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:40,880 close with this passage and Proverbs chapter 3. 592 00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:45,239 We'll start in verse 5. Trust in the Lord with all your 593 00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:48,120 heart. Now there's that word again. 594 00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:50,719 If you're going to love the Lord your God with all your heart, 595 00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:53,080 your soul, your mind, and your strength, you're going to need 596 00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:56,679 to trust Him because again, His ways are higher than our ways 597 00:34:56,679 --> 00:34:58,360 and His thoughts are higher than our thoughts. 598 00:34:58,720 --> 00:35:01,200 He's the creator. We are the created. 599 00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:04,800 We don't go to God and negotiate how to live this life. 600 00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:10,440 We say, how do I live this life? You gave me life, Now how do I 601 00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:12,520 live it? How do I live as an ambassador 602 00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:15,000 for you in the earth so that people can see you? 603 00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:22,480 Well, you have to trust in the Lord from your spirit, but not 604 00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:24,160 only from your spirit, from your soul realm. 605 00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:26,000 And do not lean on your own understanding. 606 00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:29,920 And many of us, you know, we're born again, but we'll try to 607 00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:32,720 navigate in our own understanding how we can make 608 00:35:32,720 --> 00:35:35,840 more money and how we can take care of this or take care of 609 00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:37,160 that. And we don't even take time to 610 00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:38,400 say, Lord, what do you want us to do? 611 00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:40,880 Command the Lord, Do some crazy stuff. 612 00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:44,120 Now I say crazy. It's not crazy to him. 613 00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:46,440 It's only crazy to us. And it's only crazy to us 614 00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:49,840 because it falls in the impossible category, man. 615 00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:51,600 Well, if I did that, that's impossible. 616 00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:54,440 The Lord's like with man, it's impossible. 617 00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:57,960 But with me, all things are possible, Especially when I say 618 00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:01,640 it, because when I say it, I do it, Hallelujah. 619 00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:06,560 When I say it, I do it. So in all your ways, acknowledge 620 00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:10,600 Him. If you want straight paths, it 621 00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:13,520 requires you to trust in the Lord with all your heart and 622 00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:16,000 lean not on your own understanding, but in all your 623 00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:18,600 ways acknowledge Him and He'll make your path straight. 624 00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:22,520 They may be crooked today, but if you'll do the first part, 625 00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:26,280 then He'll make it straight. And that's just you waiting on 626 00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:30,080 the Lord and taking the time. And again, when you give him 627 00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:34,280 your soul, then the chaos you're in, your emotions don't get the 628 00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:36,560 best of you. Where you making choices that 629 00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:40,040 ultimately keep you away from God's blessing, but in essence 630 00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:42,760 you gain control of it and say I'm going to wait on the Lord so 631 00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:46,040 I hear from him. Then I'll step out and when you 632 00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:48,080 step out on the word of God, man, you'll never fail. 633 00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:50,480 Verse 7, do not be wise in your own eyes. 634 00:36:50,720 --> 00:36:53,920 Fear the Lord turn away from evil. 635 00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:56,960 It will be healing to your body and refreshment to your bones. 636 00:36:56,960 --> 00:37:00,240 Here it is honor the Lord from your wealth and from the first 637 00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:03,240 fruit. First of all, your produce so 638 00:37:03,240 --> 00:37:06,600 that your bars will be filled with plenty and your bats will 639 00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:09,760 overflow with new wine. This here, verse 9 and 10 is 640 00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:13,320 speaking about your strength. So you love the Lord your God 641 00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:17,600 with all your heart from your spirit, from your mind, your 642 00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:20,720 soul, that area. And then here when you're 643 00:37:20,720 --> 00:37:22,560 working and laboring, guess what? 644 00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:24,360 You're to honor God with that wealth. 645 00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:28,160 Meaning God is always in your mind that when you're out and 646 00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:31,840 about in society, it's not like you're not thinking about him 647 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:37,200 and bringing your physical body supply to the House of the Lord. 648 00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:41,760 Verse 11 My son, do not reject the discipline of the Lord or 649 00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:44,120 loathe his reproof. Because here's the thing, if 650 00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:46,280 you're going to love him with all your heart, all your soul, 651 00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:48,880 all your mind and all your strength, the minute he makes 652 00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:51,200 your spirit man alive to him man, it's perfect. 653 00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:54,600 It's ready to go and there's nothing else to do but allow it 654 00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:59,840 to grow, grow, grow. Meaning it has you let it grow 655 00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:02,920 so that it dominates your decision making. 656 00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:07,600 And as it grows, then it will cause your soul and your mind 657 00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:12,200 realm to change. You'll be conformed to the word 658 00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:15,440 and plan of God and then you won't, your body won't take you 659 00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:17,280 places anymore. You're like, I'm not doing that 660 00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:19,120 anymore. I'm not putting that in me 661 00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:21,680 anymore. You know, things don't tell me 662 00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:24,160 what to do. I don't let plants rule my life 663 00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:28,920 and tell me I have to ingest it. No, I'm free from that. 664 00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:33,480 And so you have to allow God to speak to you. 665 00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:39,480 He's going to correct you. In fact, because we were all 666 00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:42,520 sinners, there's a lot of correcting to do. 667 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:49,520 God affirms you when you're born of him, and He bears witness 668 00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:51,120 with your spirit. Now you're one of my children. 669 00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:55,360 That's affirmation. But since you're one of my kids, 670 00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:59,200 I have a right to correct you because you're thinking is not 671 00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:03,440 in line with the Kingdom. And don't give all your study to 672 00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:08,080 the world. Don't give all your thinking to 673 00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:13,760 philosophers, to all these other things, to all these little 674 00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:18,480 clips. I mean, we can get lost in 675 00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:21,400 Instagram clips and all kinds of things. 676 00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:24,840 And then and they're so small, they don't even give you 677 00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:28,120 context. And most people hear a little 678 00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:30,720 clip and then begin to talk about it like it's reality. 679 00:39:33,720 --> 00:39:35,880 Amen. Don't give yourself to that. 680 00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:39,920 Let God reprove you. For whom the Lord loves, He 681 00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:43,160 reproves, even as a father corrects the Son in whom he 682 00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:45,040 delights. So I'm always excited when the 683 00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:50,720 Lord's like, hey, since you're mine, let's talk about this. 684 00:39:52,240 --> 00:39:55,640 And I'm like, thank you, Dad, because my soul is yours. 685 00:39:56,000 --> 00:40:00,000 My mind is yours, man. I want to Lord's like, no, we're 686 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,320 not going to go there. We're not going to do that 687 00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:07,200 because you're mine and I love you and I just want you to have 688 00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:08,840 life. Now, I understand this doesn't 689 00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:11,000 feel good to your flesh, but that's OK because we're giving, 690 00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:16,200 we're giving occasion to the life and the Spirit of God so 691 00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:18,440 that you reflect the glory of God. 692 00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:21,040 Because if you do it my way, I'll take care of it. 693 00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:23,320 Not only does he take care of you, but he'll take care of your 694 00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:25,840 enemies. But if there are enemies out 695 00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:29,600 there and there are got to take care of that, you don't have to 696 00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:31,320 do it. You just follow the plan and 697 00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:33,560 purpose of God. You just allow your mind, your 698 00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:35,640 will and your emotions to stay submitted to him. 699 00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:38,560 And then you say, body, we going to do what God's called to do 700 00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:41,160 and we're going to run it at a in a way that allows us to 701 00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:44,920 accomplish your purpose. And in doing so, then the world 702 00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:51,040 can see that the Kingdom of God is near, that the Kingdom of God 703 00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:54,680 is near, because God's able to demonstrate his life through 704 00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:54,960 you. Amen.