1 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:17,520 Well, you can look in Ephesians chapter 5. 2 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:19,920 We're going to start there and just kind of lay some foundation 3 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:23,440 here. And in Ephesians the 5th chapter 4 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:26,800 and verse one and the new King James says therefore be 5 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:29,080 imitators of God as dear children. 6 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:33,840 Now Paul's writing to the church he says be imitators of God as 7 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:35,960 dear children. The amplified classic says it 8 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:38,760 this way. Therefore be imitators of God. 9 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:41,600 Copy him and follow his example as well. 10 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:43,480 Beloved children, imitate their father. 11 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:48,000 You know what Paul saying to the Church of Corinth, to the Church 12 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:50,840 of Ephesus. Here he's saying Christianity, 13 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:53,880 salvation, redemption, and your your commitment to the Lord does 14 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:59,480 not begin and end at the altar is not just a confession or a 15 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:02,000 commitment to to get to heaven, but praise God. 16 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:06,520 The Lord is calling us not just to become a child of God, but to 17 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:09,600 live that life and follow him, begin to make him our example 18 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:11,840 and imitate him in life. Amen. 19 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:14,240 Come on. We should be imitating though. 20 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:17,160 People should leave you and say, well, you, you know, they they 21 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:20,040 did this with the disciples. You know, Peter and him got to 22 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:21,240 talking and preaching and carrying on. 23 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:22,560 They said, well, they've been with Jesus. 24 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:24,800 Hallelujah. Well, I wonder why they said 25 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:26,160 this. Because they were acting like 26 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:28,720 him, talking like him, dealing with the situation like Jesus 27 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:29,400 did. Amen. 28 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:33,640 Imitate copy. Glory to God, follow the 29 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:36,480 example. And so however the Lord did it, 30 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:37,760 we should do it. Amen. 31 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:41,880 And you know, we, we, we, we come to the Lord, we become a 32 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:45,600 new creation in Christ Jesus. And then we set ourselves to 33 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:47,440 circle. Or somebody says, well, if I'm 34 00:01:47,440 --> 00:01:51,560 going to follow the Lord, if I'm going to copy him, imitate him 35 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:55,040 and live like him, then, then what are some of the keys that I 36 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:58,000 can do that in my life? Well, the first key you're going 37 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:00,520 to find out if you're going to imitate and follow the Lord, is 38 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:01,800 you're going to have to live the faith of life. 39 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:05,920 Amen. Hebrews 11/6 says, but without 40 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:07,680 faith, it's impossible to please him. 41 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:10,479 For he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that is 42 00:02:10,479 --> 00:02:12,640 a rewarder them that diligently seek him. 43 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:14,600 Amen. So I'm going to have to set 44 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:17,160 myself to get over into faith if I'm going to imitate God. 45 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:20,800 Amen. Because Hebrews 11/3 says we 46 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:23,640 understand that the world's refrained by the word of God, so 47 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:29,000 faith tells us how God operates. In fact, you can't even begin 48 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:31,640 your journey with the Lord without faith because Ephesians 49 00:02:31,640 --> 00:02:33,760 28 and nine says you're saved by grace. 50 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:37,200 What? Through faith, Hallelujah. 51 00:02:37,920 --> 00:02:40,720 So I get introduced to the Lord. How do I get introduced to the 52 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:43,400 Lord through faith? The Bible says in Romans 10 that 53 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:46,440 the Word of Faith doesn't talk about defeating failure. 54 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:48,920 But the Word of Faith speaks out the things of God. 55 00:02:48,920 --> 00:02:50,560 And he says, here's what you're supposed to say. 56 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:52,480 You got to believe that Jesus died for you. 57 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:55,040 God raised him from the dead and confess him as your Lord. 58 00:02:55,040 --> 00:02:56,960 And when you believe in your heart and confess with your 59 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:58,240 mouth, you get saved. Amen. 60 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:00,880 It's because you're releasing faith in him. 61 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:04,920 So we start our journey in faith with the Lord Jesus Christ. 62 00:03:04,920 --> 00:03:08,160 But Paul wrote to the Galatians in Galatians 311 and he said the 63 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:11,760 just shall live by faith. What's that mean? 64 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:14,040 Faith isn't a one time deal of the altar. 65 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:19,240 Faith is an everyday lifestyle. Copying, imitating and living 66 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:21,360 like God wants me to live. Hallelujah. 67 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:24,680 How many of you know the Lord Jesus was always in faith, even 68 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:29,920 when he went to sleep? Let me say, how do you say that 69 00:03:29,920 --> 00:03:32,640 he went to sleep in faith? Well, he was in the back of a 70 00:03:32,640 --> 00:03:33,960 boat. He told him to go to the other 71 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:35,120 side. Storm blew up. 72 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:39,840 They woke him up. He didn't go, Oh, my God. 73 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:45,480 He looked around, looked at the stop and said, what is wrong 74 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:46,800 with you? Why didn't you deal with this? 75 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:49,920 Why are you waking me up? And then he speaks to the storm, 76 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:51,400 steals it, goes by and goes to bed. 77 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:52,360 Amen. Praise God. 78 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:55,280 So he was he, you know, he started the trip in faith. 79 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:57,240 He went to bed in faith. He got up in faith. 80 00:03:57,240 --> 00:03:59,360 Yeah, come on. Come on. 81 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:02,320 You and I should live 24/7 in faith. 82 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:05,440 What is faith? It is having an assurance that 83 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:07,200 God is going to get you through this thing. 84 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:12,640 It is trusting God with all your heart is relying upon him to be 85 00:04:12,640 --> 00:04:15,600 that one that you need in that moment, and he will do it for 86 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:16,440 you. Praise God. 87 00:04:16,959 --> 00:04:19,800 But faith is more than just believing and and and having an 88 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:22,160 assurance in the Lord or trusting in the Lord. 89 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:26,120 It's also a conviction. Hey, Ben, if I'm going to live 90 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:27,920 in faith, I have to have a conviction. 91 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:30,680 What's the difference in a conviction with somebody with a 92 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:33,120 conviction and somebody else that has a a theory? 93 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:36,160 Well, you know, a theory. Once once something comes up and 94 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:37,720 somebody debates you, you'll back off. 95 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:40,320 But if I have a conviction, I'm not going to back off. 96 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:42,520 I'm not going to give up. I'm not going to surrender. 97 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:44,200 I'm standing for one. I believe. 98 00:04:44,280 --> 00:04:47,880 Amen. So we're told if we're going to 99 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:50,920 imitate God, we're going to have to live this life of faith that 100 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:53,200 God's calling us to live. We're going to have to follow 101 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:55,200 him in our actions. We're going to have to follow 102 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:57,720 him in our words. We're going to follow him in in 103 00:04:57,720 --> 00:04:59,080 in what we're believing. Amen. 104 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:02,720 And every day we just get up and we just trust that no matter 105 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:06,160 what comes today, greater is he that's in me than he that's 106 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:08,760 against me. Amen. 107 00:05:08,760 --> 00:05:10,960 We've got all kinds of scripture to build our faith on. 108 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:13,240 Because over in Colossians one he says that we're to give 109 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:17,240 thanks to the Father who has delivered us from the authority, 110 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:19,720 the dominion, the power of of darkness, and has brought us 111 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:21,520 over into the Kingdom of the Son of his love. 112 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:24,520 Amen. And made us heirs of the things 113 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:27,480 of God and and qualified us to partake of all the blessings. 114 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:29,760 Praise God. So I've got God's word on the 115 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:36,000 situation because when I got born again, I got taken out of 116 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:38,600 the Kingdom of darkness and taken out from under the 117 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:42,200 authority of the devil and sin. And I got placed over into the 118 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:45,040 Kingdom of God and put under the authority of the lordship of 119 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:48,920 Jesus Christ. I went from darkness to light. 120 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:51,560 I went from without to with everything. 121 00:05:53,760 --> 00:05:57,240 Amen. I went from one who hated me and 122 00:05:57,240 --> 00:06:00,040 wanted to use me, to one who loved me and wanted to bless me. 123 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:03,320 Praise God. And he said he would never leave 124 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:05,200 me nor forsake me. So praise God. 125 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:08,440 When Paul's writing to the the the church here, he's writing to 126 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:10,800 believers. He's saying now that you're in 127 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:13,000 Christ, now that you've given your heart to the Lord. 128 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:17,080 Now that you understand these things, now say yourself every 129 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:19,320 day of your life. I'm going to imitate God today. 130 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:22,440 I'm going to be like Jesus. Hallelujah. 131 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:24,960 Amen. I'm going to do my life the way 132 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:27,040 the Lord did his. I'm going to get in the Word, 133 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:29,880 find out what God wants me to do, and I'm going to follow the 134 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:32,520 Lord. Now, how many of you know or 135 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:34,440 have found out? And if you haven't, you will 136 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:37,960 find out that when you make your decision that you're going to 137 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:39,720 serve the Lord, live for the Lord. 138 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:44,280 Walk in faith does not mean that the devil's not going to try 139 00:06:44,280 --> 00:06:48,760 your faith. See, we get this religious 140 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:51,320 concept, and I did that. When we get born again, the 141 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:52,880 devil goes, oh, excuse me, you're saved. 142 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:58,640 Now go right ahead. But that's unscriptural. 143 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:01,880 Amen. Even in Mark 4, Jesus over there 144 00:07:01,880 --> 00:07:04,800 begins in verse 14 teaching on the parable of the sower. 145 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:06,880 And he says, the sower soweth the word. 146 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:09,360 The very next verse says. And these are they by the 147 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:11,840 wayside who, when they have heard the word, Satan comes 148 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:13,600 immediately to steal the word out of their heart. 149 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:15,920 He doesn't wait till you get home. 150 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:21,800 Amen. He's working on you before you 151 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:26,400 get off the parking lot. Somebody's kid runs by and 152 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:28,400 knocks coffee all over you. He's working on you before you 153 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:29,640 get out of the building. How they look. 154 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:34,120 But the thing comes down to us this. 155 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:38,440 We are going to have tests and trials with our faith but we 156 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:41,960 that should not deter us from living our life in a way that's 157 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:45,040 pleasing to God and us acting like and taking on the 158 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:47,440 principles God and living our faith life. 159 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:50,200 Amen. See James chapter one over there 160 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:55,280 in verse three says that the trying of your faith works your 161 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:59,000 patience. See the testing of your faith. 162 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:01,560 And then you went on down in James 113 and says now when you 163 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:04,440 get tempted and tested and tried, don't stand there and say 164 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:07,520 God is doing this, 'cause God does not tempt you, test you, or 165 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:12,280 try you with bad or evil things. So if it's not God that's 166 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:15,360 putting the test to your faith, then it must be the devil that's 167 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:18,960 coming to steal, kill and destroy and test your faith and 168 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:22,160 try you to see if he can stop you from having what God says 169 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:24,840 you can have. Amen. 170 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:30,000 In Hebrews chapter 4 and verse 15, the Bible says that the Lord 171 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:33,240 Jesus Christ, when he was here on this earth, went through 172 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:37,840 every temptation, every test, every trial, everything that you 173 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:42,640 and I would go through. But he didn't fail one of them. 174 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:46,720 Why did he have to go through all this? 175 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:48,960 Because he emptied himself, laid aside Jesus. 176 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:50,280 You see, you got to understand this. 177 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:54,000 You not only study the teachings of Jesus, study his life and how 178 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:57,960 he handled things. If I'm going to imitate him, I 179 00:08:57,960 --> 00:08:59,400 need to see how he dealt with it. 180 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:02,200 Amen. And then however he dealt with 181 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:04,000 the situations, how I need to deal with it. 182 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:06,840 And he says he went through all these things yet without sin. 183 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:09,440 You know what I mean? Jesus has faced everything you 184 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:11,560 and I will ever face. But he conquered it. 185 00:09:11,560 --> 00:09:15,240 It didn't stop him. And you know, the great thing 186 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:18,120 about it is this. Now he's the high priest for us. 187 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:20,600 And if we'll hook up with him, he can help us. 188 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:23,720 So that when we find ourselves in a test or a trials trying to 189 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:27,480 stop us from imitating following God, He's there to help us to do 190 00:09:27,480 --> 00:09:30,440 what he did, so we can get the same results he got. 191 00:09:32,560 --> 00:09:35,080 Amen. And you know what James says 192 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:36,880 over there? If we went back and just started 193 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:39,600 quoting something. James, when you let your faith 194 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:43,360 and your persistence, your consistency, I refuse to stop 195 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:45,520 acting like a child of God. I stopped. 196 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:49,960 You know, I I refuse to start acting like I used to be before 197 00:09:49,960 --> 00:09:53,680 I made Jesus my Lord. When I make the decision, let my 198 00:09:53,680 --> 00:09:55,640 patience have his perfect work. You know what? 199 00:09:55,640 --> 00:09:58,760 James went on and said, you will come out of that thing entire 200 00:09:58,760 --> 00:10:00,800 and wanting nothing. Glory to God. 201 00:10:01,560 --> 00:10:05,280 Woo, Glory to God. In other words, you'll use your 202 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:10,120 test as a stepping stone to mature your walk with God and 203 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:13,840 also to cause your trust in him to be that much more secure. 204 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:19,080 But to do that, I need to know how I can do it. 205 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:22,960 Amen. Faith isn't just knowing what 206 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:24,880 God says. Faith is knowing how to get it. 207 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:31,760 Amen. So if I'm going to have this, 208 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:34,880 this eternal life, this blessed life that the Lord wants me to 209 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:39,880 have and walk in this, then the best thing I could do is go find 210 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:42,880 an example where the Lord Jesus had to deal with something like 211 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:48,080 that, find out how he dealt with it, make that my example, and do 212 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:50,720 it the same way he did. Amen. 213 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:53,640 So to do that, let's look in Mark's Gospel of the 11th 214 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:57,680 chapter, Mark, Chapter 11. Everybody wants to turn 215 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:00,600 immediately to verse 22 and verse 23. 216 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:02,240 But we're going to back up a little bit. 217 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:04,120 We're going to go back up to verse 12. 218 00:11:05,040 --> 00:11:08,400 Now this 11th chapter of Mark is is real powerful Jesus in the 219 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:12,320 first, you know, 11 verses, there is his triumph and entry. 220 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:14,600 That's what we call Palm Sunday. He sends them over. 221 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:17,640 They get the the, the donkey, and he comes in, He rides in, 222 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:20,840 they're celebrating, rejoicing. And by the time that's all done, 223 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:23,360 it says here that the evening came and Jesus goes out to 224 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:26,640 Bethany, out into the area, and and he he goes to bed. 225 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:29,040 He's he's sleepy. OK, the day's over. 226 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:32,200 He can't do anything else. But the Lord has a purpose, OK? 227 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:35,280 This is his his entry into revealing who he is. 228 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:37,760 And the next day he's got a purpose. 229 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:41,000 He's going to get up the next morning, go back into Jerusalem 230 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:44,360 and clean the temple out. Amen. 231 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:48,560 Get rid of the sin, turn it back into a House of prayer and and 232 00:11:48,560 --> 00:11:51,400 and bring worship and healing and ministry back into the House 233 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:52,280 of God. Amen. 234 00:11:52,680 --> 00:11:54,520 So the next morning he's going to get up. 235 00:11:54,520 --> 00:11:56,520 He already knows what the plan of God is. 236 00:11:56,520 --> 00:11:58,320 He knows what his purpose is that day. 237 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:02,320 He knows what his, his, his, his, his direction is for that 238 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:02,960 day. Amen. 239 00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:06,480 And he's gets up. And now he's heading to 240 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:10,320 Jerusalem to fulfil what God has told him to do. 241 00:12:10,440 --> 00:12:13,000 Amen. So let's pick it up in verse 12. 242 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:17,480 Now, the next day, when they had come out from Bethany, he was 243 00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:19,280 hungry. Anybody here ever get up in the 244 00:12:19,280 --> 00:12:23,520 morning and be hungry? Gee, Jesus got up that morning 245 00:12:23,520 --> 00:12:28,400 and he was hungry. Hadn't had any breakfast, no 246 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:32,200 coffee. Not a good place to deal with 247 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:33,160 him right now. Amen. 248 00:12:33,160 --> 00:12:37,240 Something So the Lord is heading back into bed and and and you 249 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:38,880 know he got up that morning, he's hungry. 250 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:42,320 He's heading back into town, going to do what his heavenly 251 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:44,480 Father has taught him to do that day. 252 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:47,400 Amen. Going to fulfill God's will in 253 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:50,200 his life. Verse 13. 254 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:54,560 And seeing from afar A fig tree having leaves, he went to see if 255 00:12:54,560 --> 00:12:56,440 perhaps he would find something on it. 256 00:12:56,800 --> 00:12:59,320 When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was 257 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:01,840 not yet the season of figs. Now, now, let me tell you 258 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:03,680 something. When when Mark brings it out, 259 00:13:03,680 --> 00:13:06,320 and I like looking at it here, because Mark brings out this 260 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:08,160 tree wasn't right beside the path. 261 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:11,800 It was a far off. That means it was, you know, 262 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:16,200 over here in a field maybe. And so for the Lord to get to 263 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:19,240 that fig tree, he had to not just take a few steps off his 264 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:23,280 path, he actually had to go for a good little walk to get to it. 265 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:27,760 Amen. Now he sees it and he goes to 266 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:30,320 this fig tree. Because during that time, if a 267 00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:33,280 tree had leaves, then it's supposed to have figs. 268 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:37,000 So the Lord is hungry. He's natural. 269 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:39,160 He's dealing with things that you and I have to deal with. 270 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:42,360 He knows what his purpose is, but the same time his his 271 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:44,520 belly's growling. And so he's going, you know. 272 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:49,520 Yes, there's a fig tree over there. 273 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:51,760 I can see leaves on it. Breakfast. 274 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:55,640 Come on guys, let's go get us some breakfast. 275 00:13:56,040 --> 00:13:58,560 So the Lord goes over there and he looks at the tree and there's 276 00:13:58,560 --> 00:14:00,720 and he starts looking and he says surely there's figs. 277 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:04,360 I mean this tree's, you know, it's it's advertised to me all 278 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:07,520 the way down the path. Every time I looked at it, it 279 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:11,560 was telling me it had figs because it's got leaves and it 280 00:14:11,560 --> 00:14:15,160 goes through the entire tree and he finds nothing. 281 00:14:16,560 --> 00:14:18,480 Look at the next part. Here's a response. 282 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:21,720 Here is something you and I are going to have to learn. 283 00:14:21,720 --> 00:14:26,000 This is a lesson Jesus teaches us on following God and not 284 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:32,200 getting distracted, discouraged, defeated, upset, or whatever. 285 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:36,520 Now Can you imagine? Jesus has laid aside his eternal 286 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:38,000 glory. Remember Philippians 2? 287 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:40,800 Paul says that he's taken upon himself the form of flesh and 288 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:42,920 blood. He's he's tempted, test and try 289 00:14:42,920 --> 00:14:44,400 with every kind of test he faced. 290 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:47,560 Everything you and I face. Jesus is hungry. 291 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:54,720 He's walked all the way off over here to this place, to where the 292 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:56,680 tree is. He's found it. 293 00:14:56,680 --> 00:14:59,360 Now there's no fruit on the tree. 294 00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:03,000 It's a wasted trip over to this tree. 295 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:08,400 If it's 200 yards off the path, he could have been 200 yards on 296 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:11,720 down the road toward fulfilling God's purpose for him that 297 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:15,520 morning. But he thought he would take a 298 00:15:15,520 --> 00:15:18,680 moment and take care of a situation, a personal situation. 299 00:15:18,680 --> 00:15:21,200 I'm hungry. Amen. 300 00:15:21,520 --> 00:15:24,200 He's not in sin. He's not. 301 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:26,360 It's not like he's got to be there right now. 302 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:31,680 He knows he's going to get this thing done, but on the way he 303 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:33,960 makes a little detour in what he's doing. 304 00:15:34,160 --> 00:15:38,520 And now here he is with a tree that has nothing on it. 305 00:15:38,520 --> 00:15:43,880 Look what it says, verse 14. In response Jesus said to it, 306 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:48,040 The King James says. And Jesus answered it and said, 307 00:15:50,040 --> 00:15:53,320 if you answer something or you respond to something, that means 308 00:15:53,320 --> 00:16:00,280 it initiated it. If you ask me something, I 309 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:04,080 respond to you. If you say something to me, I 310 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:06,120 respond to you. If you have given me a question, 311 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:07,600 I answer it. Amen. 312 00:16:07,880 --> 00:16:09,840 I didn't initiate the conversation. 313 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:14,600 I responded to it. That tree was talking to Jesus 314 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:19,120 from the time he saw it. The tree's over here in the 315 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:22,440 distance going, hey, Jesus, I got breakfast. 316 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:26,200 I know you're hungry. It's early. 317 00:16:28,040 --> 00:16:29,720 Come on over, I'll take care of you. 318 00:16:31,280 --> 00:16:34,880 So Jesus is listening to this tree, talking to him, saying 319 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:36,240 come on over. It's going to be great. 320 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:38,640 You're going to enjoy this. You're going to have figs and 321 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:39,800 you're going to have a great breakfast. 322 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:43,640 Then you can go in there and run those people out and Jesus goes 323 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:45,560 over there because that tree's been talking to him. 324 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:52,400 And now Jesus is faced with a decision. 325 00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:59,440 How do I respond to the tree? How many of us have had our 326 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:01,680 purpose laid out? We know what we're going to 327 00:17:01,680 --> 00:17:03,560 believe God for. We're in ourselves. 328 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:07,359 We're going after it, and something pops up that distracts 329 00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:11,680 us and pulls us away from them. And we thought it was going to 330 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:14,960 be a good thing, but it turns out to be a negative thing, a 331 00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:17,599 bad thing, a hindrance instead of a blessing. 332 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:21,200 What is your response in that moment? 333 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:23,960 Because your response at that moment's going to determine 334 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:26,560 whether you get to fulfilled the big thing. 335 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:33,760 Are you hearing me? Because you see it's not the big 336 00:17:33,760 --> 00:17:36,440 things that usually defeat us. It's the little things the devil 337 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:39,280 throws in the way before we get to the big thing that keeps us 338 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:41,200 from being able to even be there to deal with it. 339 00:17:43,480 --> 00:17:45,560 So the Lord now and and I'm going to tell you something he 340 00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:48,160 says he was in Hebrews 4. Says he was tempted with every 341 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:51,000 temptation. You know his flesh right now is 342 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:54,400 aggravated. Why do you say that, Brother 343 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:56,320 Uben? Because my flesh right now would 344 00:17:56,320 --> 00:18:02,840 be aggravated. What would you do at this 345 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:04,640 moment? You don't want to hear what I 346 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:06,320 would think about doing at this moment. 347 00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:11,760 But what does the Lord Jesus do in this moment, in this moment 348 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:15,240 of frustration, in this moment when you realize you've been 349 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:22,240 lied to, you've been deceived, and it was just there to keep 350 00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:24,800 you from fulfilling what God said you can have. 351 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:28,040 It's there to stop you from imitating your heavenly Father 352 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:29,920 and doing what he would have you to do. 353 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:33,440 What are you going to do? And Jesus in response said to 354 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:37,280 it, let no one eat fruit from ever after again. 355 00:18:37,840 --> 00:18:45,280 And his disciples heard it. Jesus didn't say Peter. 356 00:18:45,280 --> 00:18:48,240 I cannot believe you didn't stop me from coming over here. 357 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:54,080 He didn't blame the disciples. One of you could have been 358 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:56,880 spiritual enough to know that there's no figs on that tree. 359 00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:05,520 He didn't stand there and say, you stupid tree, Amen. 360 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:07,280 He didn't stomp and storm around. 361 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:10,440 He didn't sit down and twiddle his son, say, my God, now what 362 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:14,400 am I going to eat? You know what the Lord Jesus did 363 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:18,400 in that moment? He responded from his spirit, 364 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:22,280 not from his flesh. He's showing us how to deal with 365 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:25,240 disappointments and things that are coming up to distract you 366 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:28,560 and to discourage you to keep you from having what God said 367 00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:32,800 you can have. He's allowing himself to go 368 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:36,600 through this so that he can show you and me exactly how we in 369 00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:40,200 need to deal with our fig tree. What fig tree? 370 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:43,160 Brother Hubman, the bad report when you was expecting a good 371 00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:50,000 one. Amen. 372 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:54,200 We just heard that we prayed for a person and they had gotten a 373 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:56,080 great report. They went in and got checked and 374 00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:57,640 there was no cancer. Then they went back and they 375 00:19:57,640 --> 00:20:00,320 checked and they said we think it's back and got a bad report 376 00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:02,240 and they stood their ground. When they went back in, they 377 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:03,440 couldn't find it. Hallelujah. 378 00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:05,760 Why? Because they dealt with their 379 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:07,800 fig tree the way Jesus dealt with his fig tree. 380 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:10,600 They refused to stay there and let it have any place in their 381 00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:11,320 life. Amen. 382 00:20:13,800 --> 00:20:16,040 We're all going to face tests. We're all going to face trials. 383 00:20:16,040 --> 00:20:17,400 We're all going to face disappointments. 384 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:18,760 We're going to get some bad reports. 385 00:20:18,880 --> 00:20:21,840 What do you do when you're a fig tree, gets you off the path and 386 00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:24,640 get you over there, then leaves you disappointed and and and 387 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:26,760 what am I going to do now? I'll tell you what you're going 388 00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:28,600 to do. You're going to speak to it. 389 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:33,000 Not about it. And you're going to tell it. 390 00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:35,680 You are dead. You will never do this again. 391 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:37,480 I'm. I'm making this a learning 392 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:39,560 lesson. I will never be deceived by you. 393 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:41,800 In fact, not only you're not going to ever do it to me again. 394 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:44,600 You're not going to do it to anybody again because I break 395 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:47,160 you now in the name of Jesus. I'm going to act like my Lord. 396 00:20:47,360 --> 00:20:50,000 I'm going to imitate my God. I'm just going to praise God. 397 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:52,280 This is this just took a little bit of my time out. 398 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:56,120 But it has no more. See, because your flesh has a 399 00:20:56,120 --> 00:20:59,200 tendency is even if you deal with it, you want to talk about 400 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:02,840 it all day. Jesus never talked about it ever 401 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:09,160 again. He deals with the problem, deals 402 00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:12,360 with the distraction, deals with the disappointment, and goes 403 00:21:12,360 --> 00:21:15,280 right back, gets on the path, goes down in Jerusalem, cleans 404 00:21:15,280 --> 00:21:18,120 out the temple, does exactly what his Heavenly Father wanted, 405 00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:20,760 and then had a healing service and set people free. 406 00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:23,800 If he'd have stayed up there frustrated because of some silly 407 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:26,400 fig, then those people wouldn't have been healed. 408 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:28,720 They would have been delivered. God couldn't have done his will, 409 00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:31,360 and it would have been Jesus ensuring it's the wrong way to 410 00:21:31,360 --> 00:21:34,600 do something and the devil would have won. 411 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:41,720 But Jesus says don't let some little thing dominate your time 412 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:45,800 or deter you from doing the big thing that God wants you to do. 413 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:47,920 Let me tell you something, folks. 414 00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:50,080 In our lives, we're going to have all kinds of little fig 415 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:54,600 trees come along. I mean, I've had every kind of 416 00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:58,200 negative report you could hear while I was believing God to do 417 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:01,600 stuff. And the Lord took me to this 418 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:04,280 thing and I had a situation come up and the Lord took me over 419 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:07,000 here to mark 11 and he said, and I thought, OK, Lord, read verse 420 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:09,000 22. He said, no, go back. 421 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:13,200 How did I handle the fig tree? I'd never seen this, he said. 422 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:16,240 And I read my King James. And Jesus answering said, he 423 00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:17,680 said, did you notice I answered it. 424 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:22,120 He said, Son, the devil's going to talk to you. 425 00:22:22,120 --> 00:22:24,400 Problem's going to talk to you. The enemy's going to talk to 426 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:25,520 you. It's how you answer it. 427 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:28,200 It's going to determine whether you win or lose that situation. 428 00:22:30,360 --> 00:22:33,880 It's how you respond. What did James say? 429 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:36,160 He said, when you fall into chess and trials, count it all 430 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:38,280 joy, that's the way you get the victory. 431 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:41,480 If you fuss about it and why me, Lord, then you lose. 432 00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:46,280 Amen. Jesus is teaching us here that 433 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:47,560 you're going to have tests and trials. 434 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:50,320 I had tests and trials. I went through these to show you 435 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:52,920 how to handle them. And Jesus just deals with. 436 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:55,120 And you know what? He wasn't silent about it. 437 00:22:56,880 --> 00:23:00,360 The disciples were there and they heard him say that to them. 438 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:04,920 Meaning what? Jesus was delivered by from 439 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:06,720 everybody else's opinion about him. 440 00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:12,360 Your faith isn't going to work. If you're concerned about what 441 00:23:12,360 --> 00:23:15,480 people don't think about you. Amen. 442 00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:19,400 See, in First Timothy 612, he says we're to fight the good 443 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:22,640 fight of faith and we're to lay hold of eternal life. 444 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:27,760 Are you hearing me? And he says, and keep the good 445 00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:30,760 confession that you've confessed before many witnesses. 446 00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:33,360 You know what Paul says. You don't just fight the good 447 00:23:33,360 --> 00:23:35,840 fight of faith when you're by yourself or when you're around 448 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:37,880 Christians. You you fight the good fight of 449 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:41,040 faith and lay hold of the life of God in front of everybody. 450 00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:46,720 Years ago, I was playing some basketball at the YMCA there in 451 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:48,520 Huntington. We I'd go over and that's I'd 452 00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:51,200 get my exercise in. And so I I played ball coming 453 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:53,120 up. So I'm over there playing ball 454 00:23:53,360 --> 00:23:55,560 and we our team If you won, you stayed up. 455 00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:59,360 And so we were in the small gym and so we'd won three games in a 456 00:23:59,360 --> 00:24:00,960 row. And man, I'm tell you what, just 457 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:03,560 going along and we go back out to play the 4th game. 458 00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:06,600 About halfway through it I went up and came down on the guy's 459 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:10,960 foot and my ankle turned and it popped and I hit the floor. 460 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:17,080 Now I'm in shorts, T-shirts, tennis shoes, sweating, and my 461 00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:21,840 ankle is laying there and everybody's like, one minute one 462 00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:23,600 was the doctor and said we're going to have to deal with that. 463 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:27,040 And so before any I could even think, I said, if you can 464 00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:31,000 believe God, turn toward me. If this is totally awkward to 465 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:34,880 you and you can't believe God, turn away from me because I 466 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:37,560 don't have time to explain to you right now what I'm about to 467 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:39,880 do. I'm going to lay hands on my 468 00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:41,920 ankle and I'm going to pray. And the Lord's going to heal my 469 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:45,160 ankle right here because I can't afford to walk around here in 470 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:47,200 the next six weeks in crutches or whatever. 471 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:49,480 And so if you can believe God with me, watch. 472 00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:52,240 If you're curious, watch. But if you're totally opposite 473 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:55,640 of this, turn away because I got to deal with this now. 474 00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:01,480 I lay hands on my ankle, prayed over it, prayed in tongues. 475 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:04,400 You pray somebody to get offended? 476 00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:10,160 No, it's my ankle. I'm not preaching to them. 477 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:13,640 I'm getting my ankle bits. Jesus isn't preaching to the 478 00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:15,440 disciples. He's dealing with an obstacle. 479 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:16,840 He's dealing with the distraction. 480 00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:19,240 He's dealing with something that's trying to stop him from 481 00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:24,200 doing what God called him to do. So some of them turned away, 482 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:26,760 some watched. I prayed, lay hands. 483 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:29,240 God touched it. I got up, walked around a little 484 00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:31,560 bit and said, guys, I'm finished for the day, 'cause it did, you 485 00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:33,600 know, get darkened and all this good stuff. 486 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:35,760 It goes with that. But it didn't hinder me from 487 00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:37,880 going about my daily business. Amen. 488 00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:40,240 I thought, well, I didn't do it for them. 489 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:44,440 I did it for me. But a lady in our church came to 490 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:47,960 me about a month later and she started working in this doctor's 491 00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:50,760 office and she came to me and she said, pastor, did you have a 492 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:52,320 problem with your ankle? And the why? 493 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:56,440 About a month or so ago I said, well, why she goes, well, the 494 00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:58,800 guy I'm working for is a doctor and said he was playing 495 00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:02,800 basketball over here at the gym with you and you came down. 496 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:04,880 He was just sure that your ankle was broken. 497 00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:07,800 It was a mess and he said you told everybody to either look or 498 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:09,720 turn away. And he said you prayed in some 499 00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:14,960 language. Then you switched it over to 500 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:17,400 English and prayed for your ankle and got up and walked 501 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:20,480 around. He said it's a it's a he said. 502 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:23,440 I'm still dumbfounded about it. He said what goes on in Y'all's 503 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:28,480 church, but you know what that was used to but this to him. 504 00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:31,840 Praise God. But I didn't do it to witness to 505 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:34,600 him. I dealt with it to stop the 506 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:37,240 enemy from hindering me, from going about doing what God's 507 00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:38,360 called me to do. Amen. 508 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:41,800 I didn't sin to cause my ankle to get turned. 509 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:45,480 I was actually enjoying life. Jesus didn't sin to get in a 510 00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:48,240 distressful situation with this. See, you got to understand. 511 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:50,800 Hebrews 12 says that we are to follow the Lord, keep our eyes 512 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:53,320 on Him, and then he says we're to lay aside every weight and 513 00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:55,320 sin. Well, you see, they're a waste. 514 00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:57,600 This tree was a weight. It wasn't a sin. 515 00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:02,680 It was a distraction, bad reports, something that happened 516 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:06,960 that you weren't planning on. And what's the Lord say? 517 00:27:07,120 --> 00:27:11,160 He tells him he down here, let's go on, Jesus speaks. 518 00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:13,560 So they hear it. And then in verse 20. 519 00:27:14,120 --> 00:27:17,600 Now in the morning as they pass by, they saw the fig tree dried 520 00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:20,640 up from the roots. And Peter remembering, said to 521 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:23,400 him, Rabbi, look, the fig tree which you cursed us, withered 522 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:25,840 away. So Jesus answered and said to 523 00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:30,840 them, have faith in God. Oh no. 524 00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:33,360 So Lord didn't even respond to Peter talking about the fig 525 00:27:33,360 --> 00:27:34,760 tree. Why? 526 00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:36,600 Because once it was done, it was done. 527 00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:41,040 Amen. See, here's the thing, folks. 528 00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:44,480 You get up and you're going to work and you come up to the 529 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:48,320 stoplight, it turns green and somebody goes blowing through 530 00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:51,280 about the time you pull out and they're blowing their horn at 531 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:52,640 you, acting like you're the ones wrong. 532 00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:58,400 Now I know that doesn't frustrate or 'cause anybody here 533 00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:03,120 would be aggravated because I can see the Halo around you and 534 00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:08,320 but for me, I've had tendencies to get aggravated. 535 00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:13,720 OK, but here's what we do. If you deal with it right, then 536 00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:17,760 you should let it go. That was a fig tree experience. 537 00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:20,640 All it's doing is trying to disrupt and and and aggravate 538 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:23,120 you for the rest of the day and stop you from enjoying life. 539 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:28,400 So what do you do? You say, Lord, I thank you that 540 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:30,720 that nut didn't hit me. Hallelujah. 541 00:28:31,120 --> 00:28:33,360 And I pray for him that he'll not run through another light 542 00:28:33,360 --> 00:28:34,760 and somebody else will run through a light. 543 00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:38,080 And I put it in your hands and I thank you that I'm going to have 544 00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:39,840 a great day in the name of the Lord Jesus. 545 00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:41,800 Hallelujah. And you know, you go and you 546 00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:47,160 never bring it up again. And what if you do something and 547 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:49,160 you missed it? Maybe you, you made a turn. 548 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:51,560 You're going to, you're going to take a shortcut. 549 00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:55,120 You saying you just turn down the road and you know this will 550 00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:56,960 give me 5 minutes. I can get there 5 minutes 551 00:28:56,960 --> 00:28:59,680 quicker. And you turn, you go around the 552 00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:01,800 curve and they got the road blocked off. 553 00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:07,320 Well, they're literally doing their work, but they didn't have 554 00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:09,320 a sign telling you that the road was closed. 555 00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:13,600 Now you're either going to sit there and throw a fit because 556 00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:17,080 they're fixing a road, but either way, you know what you 557 00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:18,560 have to do. You have to back up, turn around 558 00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:20,760 and go back out and get on the main path and get on to where 559 00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:23,840 you was gone. But here's what the devil wants 560 00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:25,560 you to do. He wants you to get so upset 561 00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:29,600 because your plan was thwarted by something you weren't ready 562 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:32,040 for. He wants you to just talk about 563 00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:34,560 the hindrance that they were to you all day long. 564 00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:39,160 Break rolls around and you telling them about how they're 565 00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:40,640 fixing that road and didn't put the signs out. 566 00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:44,240 Lunch rolls around, you say it cost me 5 extra minutes. 567 00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:48,640 You get home, you say, Honey, you know what happened to me 568 00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:49,240 today? No. 569 00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:55,640 And I don't want to. I don't want, I don't want to 570 00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:57,960 know what happened you today. I want to know what did you do 571 00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:00,680 today in your walking plan with God? 572 00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:04,240 Because you see, the Lord is not going to even let the apostles 573 00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:09,680 bring up the fig tree. They're trying to direct him 574 00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:12,640 back to a hindrance. And he says no, no, no, no, no. 575 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:16,640 Have faith in God. Don't think about the tree. 576 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:19,600 Think about God. Put your trust in God. 577 00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:21,200 Walk with God. Stay in faith. 578 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:23,320 Don't get caught out. Don't be pulled away. 579 00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:26,040 Stay in faith. Because God has great things for 580 00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:29,320 you and that's only there to just to hinder you and to cause 581 00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:31,400 you to not get the great things God wants you to have. 582 00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:34,480 Amen. And then the Lord tells them 583 00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:37,240 exactly what they need to do with their faith in verse 23. 584 00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:40,400 For surely, I say to you, whoever says that this mountain 585 00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:42,840 be removed, be cast into the scene does not doubt in his 586 00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:45,960 heart, but believes that those things he says will be done. 587 00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:48,200 He will have whatever he says. Isn't that amazing? 588 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:51,440 The Lord took something that the devil meant for bad to disrupt 589 00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:54,520 and and hinder him and turns it around and makes it a teaching 590 00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:57,360 moment to help the apostles to grow in their faith, to move 591 00:30:57,360 --> 00:31:01,080 things out of their life. So what am I preaching you this 592 00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:02,360 morning? We're all going to have tests. 593 00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:04,480 We're all have trials. But the Lord told us that we're 594 00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:06,760 to imitate him, copy him, and live like he lives. 595 00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:09,160 Amen. So therefore, I need to find out 596 00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:11,400 how the Lord dealt with that. And if that's the way he dealt 597 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:13,240 with it, then that's the way I should deal with it. 598 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:16,600 And I should stay focused on what God has called me to do and 599 00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:19,440 what he said I can do and keep that as the main focus. 600 00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:22,480 My faith walk with God is more important than some little 601 00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:25,640 disappointment that tried to stop me from having a good day. 602 00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:29,760 Amen. And while I'm preaching this to 603 00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:32,480 you, what's going on? You're thinking about all kinds 604 00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:35,280 of little fig trees that the the enemy's been planting all around 605 00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:40,640 your house, in your neighborhood, on the job site. 606 00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:42,440 What are you going to do with them? 607 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:47,800 Deal with it and go on. But what if I missed it? 608 00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:52,200 Deal with it and go on. Bonnie and I were down in 609 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:56,840 Virginia and I at the time. I had when the Mustangs came out 610 00:31:56,840 --> 00:32:04,120 it was a Ford Mustang Cobra OK. It was pretty nice little car. 611 00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:07,640 It wouldn't move. We're driving along. 612 00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:11,000 I come off the exit ramp, go down and the moment I did I 613 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:17,040 realized I was 1 exit too quick and then we'd go down about I 614 00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:21,320 guess 4th of a mile and it goes into two lanes and it runs into 615 00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:23,680 a dead end and it you have to go right or left. 616 00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:25,560 And Bonnie says what are you going to do now? 617 00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:29,280 Because we're supposed to be up there and this is 1/2 mile down 618 00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:32,840 to the next exit. I looked at her and I said hold 619 00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:36,680 on she goes why? And I turned the wheels put in 620 00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:41,360 first, revved it up, light turned and when the light turned 621 00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:45,880 I turned. I did a full donut in the road, 622 00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:49,320 spun it around and headed back out towards the Interstate, 623 00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:52,880 shifting gears while the tires are still speeding and she's 624 00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:56,000 over pinned up against the wall of the car. 625 00:32:57,400 --> 00:32:59,400 She was. Do that again. 626 00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:02,920 Tell me first, I said. Hold on. 627 00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:06,480 What? I wasn't going to let that fig 628 00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:08,600 tree stop me from enjoying my trip. 629 00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:11,920 Hallelujah. So I just turned it into a an 630 00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:17,400 opportunity to show everybody what my car could do. 631 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:18,880 Hallelujah. Amen. 632 00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:23,960 And I'm going to tell you something, folks. 633 00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:27,040 There are people that are watching to see how we're going 634 00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:30,680 to deal with something that the enemies try to throw at us. 635 00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:33,720 What are you going to say? How they going to respond? 636 00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:34,920 What's going to be their expression? 637 00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:36,840 How they going? Because we're going to find out 638 00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:41,080 if they're really Christian. Now come on, we're going to find 639 00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:42,800 out if they really believe and what they believe. 640 00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:46,560 And so you can either let it defeat you or you can grab a 641 00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:48,720 hold of God's word, and you would do. 642 00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:50,840 The Lord said. And the Amplified says, have 643 00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:54,240 faith in God constantly. You know what that means? 644 00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:55,920 Always. In every situation. 645 00:33:57,280 --> 00:34:00,600 Even when you thought you was going to get breakfast and you 646 00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:03,640 didn't. Now you know why the Lord was so 647 00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:05,640 tough on those people when he showed up at the temple. 648 00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:07,400 Amen. Hallelujah. 649 00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:11,800 Bless God. You stop me from having 650 00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:13,040 breakfast. I'll show you. 651 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:22,120 No, I had no difference. But this is thing. 652 00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:26,040 He went on about his business and never brought it up again. 653 00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:28,920 I don't know what disappointments the enemies 654 00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:32,320 tried to throw at you. You know what you need to do. 655 00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:34,719 Deal with them like Jesus did. So no more. 656 00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:36,000 I'm not going to listen to another thought. 657 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:37,719 I'm not going to listen to another word. 658 00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:39,880 I'm not going to think about it. You're done. 659 00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:40,960 You're dead. You're not. 660 00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:42,760 Not only my life. I don't want to hear it. 661 00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:44,679 My family. I don't want to hear it with my 662 00:34:44,679 --> 00:34:46,360 friends. It's never going to be brought 663 00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:50,840 up again. In Jesus name, you say, Lord, I 664 00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:52,760 thank you, that I am not distracted. 665 00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:54,480 I am committed. I am. 666 00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:57,240 I'm focused and I'm going to fulfil what you called me to do. 667 00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:01,360 This little fox is not going to keep me from having the great 668 00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:02,960 blessing that you promised in my life. 669 00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:09,520 Amen. Come on, Even if I got a little 670 00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:12,880 misled, I'm going to get right back on the right path and I'm 671 00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:15,600 not going to fuss at myself, condemn myself, or think that 672 00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:18,080 I'm unworthy because I turned the wrong turn. 673 00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:23,440 Amen. Jesus made a wrong turn, went in 674 00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:26,000 and cleaned out the temple and brought holiness back in and set 675 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,720 people free. Why? 676 00:35:28,720 --> 00:35:31,840 Because he refused to let his wrong turn turn into a sin. 677 00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:38,640 Are you hearing me? And he stayed committed. 678 00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:41,840 And when he realized it wasn't right, he fixed it and went 679 00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:43,200 right back to doing what was right. 680 00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:46,840 Hallelujah. I saw this one time when in the 681 00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:49,880 early days. Well, it was early days of my 682 00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:52,120 ministry, 1980, that's a few years ago. 683 00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:58,360 But we had a young lady come in, and she did praise and worship 684 00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:01,720 and sang and ministered. And she was actually from Pastor 685 00:36:01,720 --> 00:36:05,480 John Osteen's church. And so we'd had her come in. 686 00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:08,920 Of course we were all somewhat young in those days, but, you 687 00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:12,280 know, but she's up there on a Sunday morning and she's playing 688 00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:15,360 the piano and she's doing this song and she had a really pretty 689 00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:18,720 voice and she taught with it and she, she used all and so she's 690 00:36:18,720 --> 00:36:20,160 doing it and it had a key change. 691 00:36:20,720 --> 00:36:23,240 So she go, no, no, no. And she hits and goes, she just 692 00:36:23,240 --> 00:36:27,360 stopped. She goes, I changed to the wrong 693 00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:31,640 key. I'm, I Can't Sing of that key. 694 00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:36,000 It's the wrong key. She looks around, she goes, and 695 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:38,680 this was probably the best teaching moment and it ties 696 00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:42,120 right in. Lord took me back to this, she 697 00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:43,520 said. Now I could get embarrassed. 698 00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:50,320 I could quit, I could lose the anointing and I could just sit 699 00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:52,480 here and think, why did I do that? 700 00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:57,040 She said. Or I can go, no, no, no, there 701 00:36:57,040 --> 00:36:58,720 it is. I can go to the right key and 702 00:36:58,720 --> 00:37:00,600 just keep going. I'm going to go to the right key 703 00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:02,160 and keep going. And she hits the notes and just 704 00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:04,880 kept singing her song and finish your song. 705 00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:08,520 I said it's the best Bible lesson on staying committed to 706 00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:10,800 the pion of God that I'd heard anybody do. 707 00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:12,080 And she did it with the music song. 708 00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:15,000 She didn't sin. She hit the wrong key. 709 00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:18,720 So instead of staying in the wrong key. 710 00:37:18,720 --> 00:37:20,800 I've seen people that pastor stay in the wrong key. 711 00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:23,880 Well, you got oh, I got all these leaves from that tree. 712 00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:26,760 If I was going to go that far I'm going to get something. 713 00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:29,720 Well, the leaves aren't going to help you silly. 714 00:37:29,720 --> 00:37:33,160 Hey, man. No. 715 00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:37,080 Get back on the course. Get back on the course. 716 00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:40,120 Do what God's called you to do. Stay with what the Lord's told 717 00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:41,160 you to stay with. Amen. 718 00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:45,320 And what am I going to do? I'm not going to let the fig 719 00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:48,240 tree, and I'm not going to let the problem determine what I 720 00:37:48,240 --> 00:37:50,640 believe. Amen. 721 00:37:51,720 --> 00:37:53,520 I'm not going to let it determine what I say. 722 00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:56,720 It's not going to determine my actions. 723 00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:01,480 My faith in God's going to determine what I say, what I 724 00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:04,200 believe, and my actions. I don't know what kind of 725 00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:05,640 mountain you're facing right now. 726 00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:08,440 The mountain should not be determining your confession. 727 00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:12,160 Your faith in God should be determining your confession. 728 00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:15,120 And you shouldn't be talking about the mountain. 729 00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:16,800 You should be talking to the mountain. 730 00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:21,280 You should be coming from a position of faith and power, not 731 00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:23,200 from a position of worry and doubt. 732 00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:26,800 Amen. But yeah, brother, what if I 733 00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:29,520 made a wrong decision getting to the mountain? 734 00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:32,880 Do what Jesus did. Deal with it, Curse it, get it 735 00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:34,160 out. Give it no place. 736 00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:38,000 Get right back on the path. Because see, here's the thing. 737 00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:39,880 If you don't deal with that little fig tree, when you 738 00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:43,800 finally do get to your mountain, that mount's going to remind you 739 00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:47,760 of your fig tree. That mount's going to say, if 740 00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:49,760 you couldn't deal with a little thing, how do you think you're 741 00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:50,880 going to deal with this big thing? 742 00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:54,280 And then that mount's going to say you're not worthy. 743 00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:58,760 Who do you think you are that you can say that and the enemy's 744 00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:00,640 immediately going. If you didn't get it out of 745 00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:03,360 completely out of your life, the enemy's going to just take you 746 00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:05,480 right back to your failure of getting figs. 747 00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:10,960 But if you dealt with it like Jesus dealt with it, even when 748 00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:13,640 somebody brings it up, you refuse to even for comment when 749 00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:15,720 they brought it up. Look the fig tree, you curse his 750 00:39:15,720 --> 00:39:17,160 drive. Jesus didn't even bring it. 751 00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:20,400 He didn't even comment on it. He just said have faith in God. 752 00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:23,680 He wouldn't join in the conversation. 753 00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:25,640 Why? Because in his eyes it's a dead 754 00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:27,920 deal. Amen. 755 00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:30,280 The moment you dealt with it, it's dead. 756 00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:31,840 It's gone. It's out of this thing. 757 00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:34,000 Hallelujah. It no longer has any part in 758 00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:35,160 this equation. Praise God. 759 00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:38,560 I am now in faith. God is moving, and I'm here and 760 00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:40,800 blessed be God. I don't do this because I'm 761 00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:42,600 perfect. I don't do this because I 762 00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:45,240 deserve it. I do this because God qualified 763 00:39:45,240 --> 00:39:48,640 me to operate in my inheritance with the Lord Jesus Christ, and 764 00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:51,120 it's in his name, under his authority, I deal with this. 765 00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:53,520 So, devil, you're going to have to deal with Jesus, not me. 766 00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:54,640 Hallelujah. Amen. 767 00:39:57,080 --> 00:39:59,440 And that's how we begin to imitate God. 768 00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:05,200 That's why he came to us in the flesh, because he knew we 769 00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:07,360 couldn't imitate him while he's sitting on the throne, because 770 00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:10,800 we aren't there. So when we couldn't get to him, 771 00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:13,040 he came to us and said, Now let me show you how to live this 772 00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:15,720 life. Let me show you how to deal with 773 00:40:15,720 --> 00:40:17,320 disappointments. Let me show you how to deal with 774 00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:19,960 situations. Let me show you how to stay in 775 00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:25,400 faith and operate in the power of the Kingdom of God, even when 776 00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:26,560 it doesn't look like you deserve. 777 00:40:28,240 --> 00:40:31,120 Amen. And what I need to do is this. 778 00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:34,360 I need to make Jesus high priest of my faith confession and let 779 00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:36,560 him determine what I'm going to say in every situation. 780 00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:40,160 Amen. And then I need to hold fast my 781 00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:43,080 confession. Don't know are you hearing me? 782 00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:46,600 Because in Mark 11/23 it that word there down at the bottom it 783 00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:48,240 says and you'll have what you're say. 784 00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:50,840 You shall have whatever he says. It's plural. 785 00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:54,600 The saith in the King James. That's a continuous action verb. 786 00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:57,360 You know what he's saying? He's saying just keep saying 787 00:40:57,360 --> 00:41:00,040 what God says about it and you'll have what God says about 788 00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:04,120 it. Well, I told that mountain to 789 00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:07,800 go, then just keep telling it. Amen. 790 00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:13,000 Praise God. I had a had a had a dog and we'd 791 00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:18,040 try to get him to go outside and we said, OK, you got to go. 792 00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:20,320 He'd walk over the door and look at me. 793 00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:22,480 OK, I'll walk over the door and open the door. 794 00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:24,240 You got to go. He'd walk out on the porch and 795 00:41:24,240 --> 00:41:27,000 said, not here, you got to go. And I keep on talking. 796 00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:28,920 You know what? I finally get him to the yard, 797 00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:32,360 whatever. And then I bring him back in. 798 00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:35,160 Hallelujah. You know, I didn't just say to 799 00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:37,360 him, you got to go out. One time. 800 00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:41,600 I walked him through it until I got what I said accomplished. 801 00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:44,040 Amen. And the Lord is saying, why 802 00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:46,960 would you look at the mountain, say something to it, and then go 803 00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:49,400 check and see if it's there? Jesus cursed that fig tree, 804 00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:51,440 turned around, went on in and did what God called him to do. 805 00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:54,440 And he said, I'll tell you what you do. 806 00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:57,400 You face that situation, you stand there without guilt, 807 00:41:57,400 --> 00:41:59,040 condemnation, doubt or inferiority. 808 00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:01,880 You say to it and then you just keep saying, I thank you, Lord, 809 00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:03,480 it's done. I thank you Lord, this thing's 810 00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:05,000 out of my life. I thank you, Lord, for the 811 00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:08,440 victory and just keep saying what God says, not what the 812 00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:10,920 problem says. Amen. 813 00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:14,640 And if your faith begins to waver, remember Romans 10/17, 814 00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:18,920 Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. 815 00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:21,800 So what do you do if your faith starts to waver? 816 00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:25,240 Go back into the Word and feed your faith the Word of God until 817 00:42:25,240 --> 00:42:28,040 it gets strong again and it empowers your confession to say 818 00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:30,200 what God says. Amen.