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Now, enjoy this message. Jeremiah 23 verses 23 to 24
who's on the Bible, reading plan, who's up to date, you know
you just read this them. All right we just had this last
week. In fact we had last week what
Pastor Ramon preached about which it was like bam that was a
super Holy Ghost verse that's reminding me of our parenting
conference that's coming up in September that when he said your
been disobedient because you've been practicing Disobedience.
Since you were youth, I'm like my gosh I was ready to preach
that message. Right?
Then I was like, that went off in me.
I'm like, that's the problem, man, of Paris can just get that,
don't teach their kids to be disobedient.
He said, I don't teach my child to be disobedient.
You do what you don't hold them accountable, when there's no
consequences for their action, because there are always
consequences for our actions. In the Lord, we can eliminate
certain consequences by repenting.
Say, Amen. Anyway, okay, I'll push you to
excitement today. Amen.
Jeremiah 23. 23 and 24 says, this am IA.
God, who is near declares the Lord and not a god far off.
Now, he's saying this in the old Covenant.
Can a man hide himself in hiding places.
So I do not see him declares the Lord.
Do I not fill the heavens plural and the Earth declares the Lord,
and this is in the old Covenant, in the New Covenant.
Where's the holy spirit of God at right on the inside of you?
Not only is he on the inside of you, he came upon the Earth he's
moving and flowing through the Earth.
Right now Jesus says, is to your advantage that I go.
So that he may come, he only came down on prophets priests
and But now that Jesus has died on the cross and rose from the
dead. He's poured out his blood on The
Mercy Seat of God in heaven. And when we call on the name of
the Lord, to be saved, we become a new creature in Christ.
The old passes away, behold All Things become new, then the
third person of the godhead who is in the Earth.
Moving around, is now taken up residence on the inside of us,
then he'll come upon us with power, will speak in the
language of the Kingdom. Give us power to function
throughout who the gifts and do Supernatural things and be a
powerful witness for God. Now, how far is God now?
Just lookin. All you got to do is look in and
there is. But in the old Covenant he is
saying. He said, am I God who was near
or and I'm not a God who is far off yet to them because they
were lost without God, the regular citizen in the Covenant
of God's Nation, did not have the spirit of God in him, nor
did he come upon him but yet God had an expression of himself to
his Prophet priest and King in such a way that he still
considered himself near. Oh, that's good.
And how much more near is he now in our covenant in this new and
better Covenant, there is an equivalent verse to Jeremiah
found in Hebrews in the New Covenant.
It says it this way in Hebrews 4:13 he says and there is no
creature hidden from his sight but all things are open and laid
bare to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
Do you see that I said do you see that?
Amen, I just got some little function here.
I need to move over my own Bible out real quick.
I want to look at this myself. Do some other translations that
I did not put there and that I want to just kind of read them
for the Amplified says that this way and I and not a creature
exists. That is concealed from his side.
All things are open and exposed naked and defenseless to the
eyes of him with whom we have to do.
Do you hear that Said to hear that.
Hallelujah. The new English translation.
Says, and no creature is hidden from God, but everything is
naked and exposed to us to the eyes of him with whom, we must
render an account, right? The passion says, there is not
one person who can hide their thoughts from God for nothing
that we do remains a secret and nothing created is concealed,
but everything is exposed in defenseless before his eyes to
whom we must render and Count. Now when you hear that, these
two verses you're receiving. These two versus one way or the
other. The first way that people
receive it. Unfortunately they do.
Is that. Oh, God's watching me. now that
sounds a little who God's watching me like He's watching
me. I'm doing something wrong, he
sees it, right. But you know if you're not bent
to do wrong then that's not the way we should look at it.
I look at it this way, man. He seeing me.
He sees me, he knows what's going on.
There's nothing I'm doing in Christ.
He don't see. Much means of we reward is being
rendered. I'm not operating in faith and
he doesn't see it. I'm not praying according to his
word and he's not here. It.
I mean there's nothing hidden from him.
It's not lie. I can be in faith with God and
he like, oh sorry I missed that Pastor Earle.
We tend to only look at it from all you blew it.
I didn't miss that but God equally sees it every time we're
doing it right and I choose to stay on the right side because
I've been made right and I'll exercise that, right?
But in either case God Is Watching.
I said he's always watching, he's always watching.
So in order to get some context about this because again, I want
to encourage you today based upon everything we've heard this
past week and things. These will continue here, moving
forward, is that you need to know that your daddy is always
watching, and that is good news to the believer who is
passionately wanting to serve him.
But you know what else to do? Is also good news to help, keep
you from, from the Temptation that will show up in your life,
because if you knew that God was watching, If you know he's
listening then there's certain things you wouldn't be moving
towards. Are you would say man I'm
resistant Echoes gods in the room, right?
God's in the room wouldn't be doing this.
If God was sitting on the sofa right now.
Are you hearing me? Hey Luce.
I don't be washed that much. That you do because he rewards.
He's a rewarder. I said he's a rewarder.
Praise the Lord. So in order to get some context
here, we're going to go back to Hebrews chapter 2 and we're
going to read a little bit because this is what I love
about. God, always watching me, it puts
me at rest I said it puts me at rest, all right, and Hebrews
chapter 2 will start in verse 1. It says this, for this reason we
must pay much closer, attention to what we have.
What now what do we know about hearing?
Faith comes by hearing and hearing from the word of God,
faith comes by hearing periods or whatever you're here.
And you're going to develop Yep, a belief system you need to make
sure you're hearing is connected to the word of God.
If there's 168 hours in a week and you sleep 8 hours a day
that's 56 hours that you're sleeping.
You - that from 168 and we're down to a hundred and twelve
hours that you are conscious. What are you hearing?
because if you're listening to the news channel, more social
media more, Secular music more. I mean everywhere.
All words are communicating all words are communicating and
developing a belief system. All of it is.
So you have to say, Okay, I need to make sure I'm maximizing some
hearing time when it comes to the Lord, whether sleep personal
meditation, whether it's through your own Bible reading, whether
it's hearing someone who actually rightly divide the word
of truth because sometimes it better listen to a secular song
than to listen to some ministers.
All right, because I can easily identify with some secular stuff
with that's just fleshly. Amen.
Some ministers are get messy, a doctrine of.
Alright. So again, he says, we should pay
closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift
away from it. Say, I can drift every one of us
can drift. None of us are excluded from
drift. You've heard me say this before
when I used to take my children to the beach, when we were
younger, because it was very inexpensive to go to the beach.
And so I would be out there with my children, my why?
My wife was working on her Tan Lines, we would be out in the
water. Me, and my kids will be played
play fighting at two boys. So we play fight a lot.
My daughter, you know, she would you know hang around a little
bit with that but not too much and we would end up doing
something different. A lot of times we would sit and
she would act like she's cutting my hair, you know.
So she would dunk my head and then she'd have pretend scissors
and cut my hair so you know, we would do things in the water but
every once in a while I would come out and I would let my
older Sons you know, out there player, my daughter as well and
I would give them a boundary because the currents always
moving. And so they would be playing and
not paying attention. And the tide would cause them to
drift and they would have to look up.
And I would look up and say, hey, I'd go out.
There's I said, did not tell you that every once in a while you
need to stop and look at the shore because you're drifting.
Yes sir. Yes, sir.
Now let's go get back over here, right?
I'll give you freedom but stay within the boundaries because if
you get in a rip current, It's not good.
I think it was Briana and Brooks her cousin.
One time, got stuck in a rip current, AL to A1A Frank Butler,
Frank Butler. If y'all how many go to Frank
Butler, there's a rip current, a Frank Butler, just let y'all
know that. If you ever go to Frank Butler,
there seems to be one always showing up there so just be
conscientious of that are conscious of that, okay?
With that being said, we were there, they got on a raft and it
started to pull them out. Out.
So I went swimming after them, all right, because you can get
out of one, you just have to, you know, how to get out.
So I went, you know, and so I was grabbing them, they had, and
we kept pushing, I kept going to the side trying to get out of
that. Rip, current kept going to us.
I mean, it was worse being on the having that float.
I was almost like a bless abandon this thing, come on,
because being on top of regardless, we got out, I was
quite exhausted after the fact. But you know, that's why we set
Andris in order to save their lives.
We as Believers can drift and we drift, it's because of what
we're not being careful. Did here, you know, like, well,
I've been in church for a while, you know?
So you go back to the 80s. Okay.
I grew up in the 80s man or some 80 songs out there, you know?
And you can be tempted, you know?
Well, let me just go back, listen to some childhood songs.
Next thing, you know, you'll start drifting, because you'll
think you're above it now because you're a child of God
and it don't affect you the same way.
No words, still affect you. They'll still affect you.
Now, I'm not saying you're going to hell.
Cause you listen to stuff and you parte.
I'm saying you have to maintain. You have to pay attention to
what you're hearing and you got to recognize, you know what I've
had too much intake of things that aren't built in my spirit
because how do you know you're drifting?
Well, you'll start responding more fleshly quicker.
You won't handle the situations. It is written.
You'll start trying to handle the situations your way.
You'll start doing it your way, so he warns us that we need to
pay attention verse 2 says, for if the word spoken through
Angels proved unalterable and every transgression and
Disobedience received a just penalty.
How will we escape if we neglect?
So great a Salvation after it was at first spoken through the
Lord, it was confirmed To Us by those who heard.
So notice he said, now, listen in the realm of the Angels, man.
When they got out of what God's saying he didn't change, he kept
his word truth and there are that there are beings that were
in a Heavenly realm. In that Eternal realm.
That when they fell, they are never to be redeemed.
He says, now who are we to neglect?
Such a great salvation that the Lord really preach to us.
When I say that, even though I may say it, it's not me that
Actually saves you at all. It's the words of God that were
saying that then the spirit of God makes it alive in you that
then when you act on it. So it's really the Lord that's
bringing salvation to your life. And when the Lord reveals to
you, your need for a savior, how would we neglect it?
Why would we neglect it? And the only way neglect
happens, because here's the thing, I agree.
The person truly born again, is not intentionally saying.
I don't want to do. Because if they're saying that
the minute, they pray a Prayer of Salvation to get into the
kingdom of God. Then I would say you're actually
not saved. You are not saved period, man.
If you need to go listen to Pastor Mark, when we put it out
online, his teaching on what it means to be born again because a
born-again Believer is always associated with seeing and
entering the kingdom. And if you're not seeing an
entering the kingdom, then, Has good, cause to question your
salvation. Are you hearing me a behavior
should follow? If there is not a change that
takes place with you, you are not born again.
You have a religion, you have a religion.
Amen. So there should be a change and
he's telling a do not neglect. So good at Salvation and a
Believer can drift. If they do not take heed what
they're hearing. And they begin to neglect it.
Alright, verse for God also testify with them both by signs
and wonders and by various Miracles and buy the gifts of
the holy spirit. According to his own will many
of us have come into the kingdom, and we have experienced
these things. We've seen signs, and wonders,
we've seen various Miracles we've seen the gifts of the
Spirit in operation and have been used even in the gifts.
And how could we neglect that? Why would we drift from this?
Well, it's because we're not taking heed what we hear.
We're not taking heed what we hear.
Jump down to verse 17 verse 17. This chapter says, therefore he
had to be made like his brethren in all things so that he might
become a merciful and faithful high priest in all things
pertaining to God, to make perpetuation for the sins of his
people. For since we, he himself was
what tempted in that which he has suffered.
He is able to come to the aid of those who are, he's there too?
Into the a so there's nothing that you're facing in your mind.
That God has not had it in his. So here's the thing, you can't
go to Jesus and say, you don't know what I'm going through, you
don't know what I'm feeling. You can't do that.
This is what's so awesome about our God that is seeing
everything when he sees you goes through.
Something's I know how you feel. Yeah, I experienced that myself.
And I would submit to you, Jesus experienced it on a greater
level on a greater level wha because you're one person
experiencing it. Jesus experienced it for all of
mankind. I said of, of aught for all of
mankind, so he has been tempted yet.
He's able now to come to the aid of those who are tempted as
well. Hallelujah.
So again, the Lord recognizes that if Don't give heed to what
you're hearing. Then you're going to run the
risk of drifting and then you can neglect that which you have
received and, you know, that you have it because there's blend
been many attesting signs to it. Right and God himself when he's
paying attention to us when he's watching over us, when he's
looking at us because he wants his word to be performed in our
lives. He is merciful at that time but
he's also faithful which means them most of the time he's not
coming to you and saying Rick your jerk man.
I understand why you did that. That would not come out of Jesus
Jesus, but Rick. I understand how you feel.
I know exactly how that makes you feel.
I get it. I get it, but there's a better
way. Now, let me give you my word.
Right. That's how he comes to us, in
these moments. Why?
Because he really just wants us to enter into a place called
rest. Now, with that being said, flip
to the next chapter in Hebrews, chapter 3, starting in verse 7.
Jesus then begins to warn, because if you, if you neglect
or the writer of Hebrews, if we're neglecting, what we hear,
you know, we're not taking heed to what we hear.
When we begin to drift that then puts us in a place where we are
starting to neglect. And notice the lore says, do
you. I think you're going to be an
escape. If you neglect this salvation,
which already tells me. Don't have a thought process.
Once saved, always saved. Or let's least don't do this.
Let's don't think I can do anything.
And there's no consequence now that I'm born again.
At minimum, you have to believe that.
At minimum that if you neglect, so great.
Don't think you're going to escape Escape, what escape the
ramifications of what that looks like?
And it's not because God wants you there.
That's why the second chapter concludes with, I know how you
feel. I know what you're going
through, I've had the same issue.
Whatever the issue guys, whatever it is.
I've had the same issue but I know this my father's faithful.
His word always works. Just stay with me, just stay
with me. So then Hebrews 37 says is
therefore just as the holy spirit says today if you hear
his voice, they hear his voice say, here is voice.
You got to not only hear his voice, but do his voice?
Be a doer of his voice? Today, if you hear his voice, do
not Harden your hearts, as when they provoked, me as in the day
of trial in the wilderness. So when you hear his voice, what
should you not do? What should you not do?
Who's in control of hardening? The heart?
Now this should give you a little insight to the Book of
Exodus because again when you read the book of Exodus and it's
in the English, people take a wrong interpretation because it
says that God hardened, the heart of pharaoh.
Well God didn't hard the heart of Pharaoh Pharaoh chose not to
hear. Moses came and said, God said,
let my people go. That's that's the voice of God.
In fact, God said you will be God to pharaoh and Aaron will be
your profit. So the minute I say this, but he
says I know that he's not going to listen.
He said that the Lord tells Moses, I know he's not going to
listen. So in turn then when the writer
says God hardened, his heart it's because he resisted what he
heard from God. This is why it's so important
for you. Always to be sensitive to what
God is saying and not Harden your heart.
It's you that says I'm not doing it.
As Kiki testified today, the Lord says, there's something I
want to do and you but I need you to do first.
Oh man, what a powerful testimony that he talks to her
and do you know what he's saying?
He's saying, I know how you feel.
I know how you feel. I've been wronged.
I have been wronged, right? They sold me girl I've been
wronged. They have lied about me.
They have cheated about me. They beat me up.
I mean they killed me. I mean I've been wrong.
I know exactly how you feel right now but For me to do some
things I want to do and you I need you to go forgive this
person. And I'm glad she heard and
didn't hardened her heart. Now she was honest, she said it
to me, couple took me about a day, you know, have to okay,
okay. And I guess you're working
through emotions, you're working through the whole scenario,
you're working through the response, you're doing all that,
but the Lord was with of the whole time and strengthen her,
because she kept staying sensitive to want to do what she
heard and God brought it to pass.
Now again, we didn't get the rest of the story on whether
this person exceed received it or not.
But she's free and now gosh, she has given her God permission to
clean up. Anything on the inside of her
that's been hurting. He'll be at am in that.
Strengthen that treated in a way.
That is like she never experienced it in our life.
Wow. Because she didn't hardened her
heart yet. You know, people like I know
people that the minute they heard it, they hardened.
They resisted, amen. Hallelujah.
They resisted. Now Bishop garraway said this
when he was here he said, you can fake a praise, but you can't
fake an offering. But you know, he's only saying
that you can only fake appraised to people.
You can actually fake an offering because ananias and
Sapphira did but in both cases the praise and the offering is
known by the Lord, God knows whether you actually have a
praise or whether you putting on a show because you're covering
up stuff that he's told you to do and you harden your heart and
your singing now won't change that.
You're Dancin won't change that. Same in any way.
All right, so he says today if you hear his voice, do not
Harden your hearts as well as when they provoked me as in the
day of Trials where your father's tried Me by testing me
and saw my works for 40 years. Therefore, I was angry with this
generation and said they always go astray in their heart and
they did not know my ways as I swore in my wrath, they shall
not enter my My rest, they'll not enter my what my wrist verse
12. Take care.
Take heed, take care Brethren that there not be in any one of
you and evil, unbelieving, heart that falls away from the Living
God. Well, how could someone and he
says, take care Brethren now. Say it, take care sinner.
He's talking to people who are born because of the born again,
because of the blood said, take care.
Brethren that not, not, that they're not be in any one of you
and Eve. How can you have an evil heart
if you're born again? Well, if you have an
unbelieving, if you start to harden yourself from hearing,
What God Says and acting on that, because an unbelieving
heart will fall away from the Living God, in essence, it will
become a Traitor. verse 13 but encourage one, another how How
often? How often this is?
Why I struggle with those who have a hard time, just attending
church twice a week. Because we really are to have a
day after day, encouragement concerning the things of God.
Because there's so many voices out there and those voices are
getting through your ears and they're making an impression on
your heart. So if you're if you're not
taking captive thoughts, and again you can't even take
captive of thought unless you're hearing God because that's only
God's word that can take captive of thought, we are to take
captive every imagination that sets itself up again.
The word of God. If you don't know the word of
God, you don't know that thought sets itself against it.
So you have no capacity to actually guard your heart by
arresting thoughts in your mind without first.
Having heard the word. But we are to encourage one
another day after day, as long as it is still called today.
So that none of you will be what hardened by the deceitfulness of
sin for. We have become partakers of
Christ. If We Hold Fast, if that's a
conditional statement, it doesn't happen because you're a
partaker of Christ. Okay, Hallelujah.
Anchor Faith Church will never preach.
The absence of responsibility among the children of God
because the Bible doesn't teach that.
Jesus Christ. Did not come and save you from
being responsible. The Salvation you receive from
Jesus Christ. Did not allow you to be
irresponsible. It allow it.
Made you responsible. Irresponsibility will send you
straight to hell. He gave you a capacity to be
responsible in your decision-making.
Now called before you were just stuck of of the devil and had to
make choices that way. But now that you're born again,
you have the responsibility to hold fast these things.
You've Here, If We Hold Fast, the beginning of our Assurance
firm until the end. So what we hear God?
Saying, no matter what's going on in our lives.
As long as we hold fast. Hallelujah, say Amen.
Say Amen, again, same in one more time.
Say, Amen, louder. Just stand up right now.
Everybody, stand up. Just stand up.
Hallelujah, let's stand up. While I read Hebrews chapter 3
verses 18 and 19 says take and to whom did he swear that they
would not enter his rest, but to those who were what, what were
they, what were Were they they were disobedient.
So we see that they were not able to enter Because Of
unbelief. Unbelief will cause you to not
enter into a kingdom, rest. And even though you're born
again, born of God, you will wrestle your whole life.
You will still actually be living by your own Works.
Instead of resting in the work she labor with Christ.
Now you're going to work period. That is not an ugly word.
Because before sin even came into the planet, Adam had to
work. So religion has taught you to
not do any work and to be lazy. But the kingdom teaches you
responsibility, with working with Christ and you'll have
Victory and actually walk and rest.
It's the greatest life ever. But again, God is saying, you'll
never rest in this life, if you're going to continue to have
unbelievable. Leaf and unbelief is a result of
a hardened heart. A hardened heart is a result of
a Believer hearing God's word illuminated to him by the spirit
and saying I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it.
So every time you're in church or either building a wall gifts,
God are your pulled in walls down so that you can freely move
with God. Can I get an amen.
Amen. So we are to make sure that we
stay connected with the word with a cheerful heart.
Ready. And eager to receive God's word.
Amen. You can be seated.
Praise the Lord. Amen.
Well you did really good by standing up.
I mean, I didn't actually have to come out and pick you up and
you understand hearing God is that simple. because when you
think about hearing you, think about doing what I heard, You
heard me say stand up and you acted on it, you know you didn't
you didn't doubt that your feet would do it.
In fact, some of you probably had go through your mind.
Why is it trying to stand up? But you did it anyway because
you didn't want to be in the only one in the room.
That was still seated. Say, hallelujah.
And if you were to stay seated, you to bend the one with a hard
heart, You'd have been the known rebellious one even though you
think you're more relaxed? Oh I'm preaching now, I'm
seated. No, you're not seated.
You bet you're getting kicked off The Throne right now.
Are you hearing me? No staying seated in Christ is
doing what he says with a willing heart.
Eager now, all we got to do is the next time.
I say it. See who can get up the fastest,
because that's really how your yeah.
Yes, Lord. I mean that's the kind of
sensitivity. Yes.
Well got it done. Yeah.
Oh man, yeah. Now when I say that, it's not,
because we're trying to be competitive with one another,
it's just that we realize all that God has done for us and
when the minute dad says, hey suck.
Yeah, Dad, that's how our hearts are eager.
Our spirit man is that alive is like, yeah, Dad?
What, because whatever you say is life and it's awesome.
Amen, instead of be there in a minute, I'm busy.
I'm busy. I'll just say Amen.
So tournament over because again, this is a continuation.
When we hit Hebrews 2 3 and 4, he's kind of keeping a main
thing. So he says that, you know, they
were not able to enter in because of unbelief.
So V fluid flow on into chapter 4, Hebrews 4 starting in verse
1. It says therefore let us fear if
while a promise remains of entering his rest Any one of you
may see, seeing to have come short of it, do you know?
There's a lot of Believers that will die.
Leave their bodies be present with the Lord and realize how
short they were. I'm not talking to a statue.
I'm talking in not exercising, all the promises of God.
They're like, man, I could have had that on Earth.
I could have done that on Earth. That was for me on Earth I could
have accomplished that on Earth. Wow.
This amazing. So we've got to make sure there
were like man, my heart. I don't want to leave nothing on
the planet that I was destined to do because I hard myself from
doing it. And I've seen it and I just tell
you the longer we live with God, the more at risk.
We are to quit God. Now I don't mean quit loving him
in the context that we're going to quit being a believer in.
We're just gonna live like we're in the world again.
I'm not talking about, I'm just talking about resting on our
accomplishments, which is a false reality.
T like, oh, I've done enough. I'm going to retire.
Let the Next Generation do it. No, I got stuff to do till I'm
gone. Now, I want the Next Generation
to come along and do some things but you just going to come with
me, we go, I'm going to be to Caleb type, you know, I'm going
to help you conquer yours while I and then I'll go get mine at
the end. Because at the end of the day,
I've been here longer than you, I've conquered more things.
I've held myself together longer than you have, and then I'll
help you get yours while. I still get my long before I
leave, and then when everybody else is gone, I'll be the last
man standing. That's what Caleb was Coleman.
Joshua left Caleb was still around.
Are you hearing me? Because K is like I'm not done
until I'm done. So again, I'm not like handing
this off to another generation. I'm handing you your stuff but
I'm still doing non because there's only as there's breath
in my lungs. I got work to do, I got a God to
serve a Jesus and a king to hear and listen to him respond to.
That's what I've got to do and I'm gonna do it.
And I'm not going to retire and go find a private island with my
wife and wait for him to catch me up one day.
Day, what I'm gonna do is be purposeful.
So you want to run, get in line. Let's go.
Let's do this thing because there's so much to do.
Still, Hallelujah, man in their training, churches, where's your
successor? Who you what me successor?
I mean there is no succession plan.
I'm here to the Lord says you're not the guy and then when he
says that then I give it to the guy or woman that it is until
then I'm going to be young strong.
When I say young, compared to Eternity at 120.
I'm still gonna be looking good. Amen.
Cuz my confession says, I get better with age.
You know, Pastor Marcy does too, she's got a birthday coming up.
I will not tell you how young she is.
You don't do that but we are the same age.
So if you know, mine you're good.
So you guys better with age, I'll tell her, I said maybe you
get better with age. Why?
Cause we do we do now my skin on my face may not be as tight as
it was when I came out as a baby.
I get it. But that's all right.
Amen. That's not the qualification for
being amazing. The qualification for being
amazing, is, how was your spirit man?
How much is it shining through how much glory?
Is it showing because you'll make a person on a magazine look
like a trap when you get around a Godly person.
All right, I'll just say it anyway.
Therefore, let us fear. If while promises remain of
entering his rest, any one of you may seem to have come short
of it for indeed we have good news preached to us just as they
also but the word they Her did not profit them because it was
not United by faith. In those who heard do you
understand? You can be in this room and
still miss. What's being said, if you don't
receive it by faith. Now, by faith is not a religious
word. It's not a cliché is statement.
Faith is a firm persuasion which means I believe that I believe
will, you know, a firm persuasion is, is you sitting in
the chair? I saw.
Nobody today, no one come in and say, hmm.
I don't know, man. You hold my stuff for a second.
Nothing on my way, type, I'm not sure.
Yeah. Wow, that's nice.
It held me. Praise the Lord, praise the
Lord. Help me.
No, no you did that now you just went like this.
I me, Jumpin Jumpin, Jumpin it you fall into the thing, right?
That's why I'm kind of glad we have these because we had him
already down, you'd be like, fall down in it.
Now some of those on those chairs are y'all better be
careful. Are you hearing?
But if you don't even look at you just jump in it.
We do this with so many things. This is what faith is firm.
A? I'm firmly persuaded that.
How it was made. It will perform God's word will
be performed as he says. And I am firmly persuaded of
that period And I don't doubt that one bit.
I don't allowed out to come so that I don't Harden my heart.
And even though what he says, may go against everything that
I'm Seeing and feeling right now.
I'm just going to believe him at his word because the minute we
hear you can do in your life and I can't believe that.
Guess what you heard a word, you're not mixing with faith,
which means it will not come to pass in your life and guess
what? You can't do, you can't rest.
So when Pastor rod and I'm gonna repeat what he says, and my God
shall supply, all your needs, now, if you can't see all as all
Yours. As yours needs as whatever.
That is met. Then you're going to question
when you need something and it's not there yet.
But to the here who's like God said this so it's gonna happen.
Now, there may be a follow-up question.
How's that happen? Lord.
What do is there anything else I need to do for my needs to be
met like you said because he may say well do this and then it
comes in do that and it comes because it's all about obeying.
Why it's about a relationship with a?
We talked about relationship with the Lord but most of
believers who say they have a relationship with the Lord, It's
to a Lord that doesn't talk. And the only talking in the
relationship is them. There's no two-way
communication, how do we know that they don't read their
Bible, when they pray, they're only asking for their stuff.
He may have said, Lord, what do you want?
You know what we don't do that because well you're God, you
have everything. What could you want?
What he wants your praise. I know he wants that.
He said he actually seeks. Those de Praise Him, worshippers
that will, that will worship Him in spirit and Truth.
Now, worshiper is not a singer, it's those who bow down and do
bow down, their will to his will.
So sometimes he say what you're saying to me, just go ahead and
wash up a little bit. Go ahead and sing a little bit
and that praise could bring in your provision.
But we're so concerned about a provision that we don't have
time to praise. He can say, well, just go ahead
and pay for so and so Zoe's I have my own stuff.
I didn't ask that. Oh, a man.
Please do not have Kingdom rise. Hangover Right?
You got a unite everything you here with faith and then asked
on it because if you don't they, he'd already told them.
I'm giving you the promised land Shores.
I've given it to you now, I'm giving I've given it.
It's yours now. Go get it.
Go give us yours. I say go get what's yours?
If I took your car keys right now and then you need to leave
you gonna come. Get what's yours?
No, I'm keeping it. You'd be like, that's Earl.
You better give me my keys. Now, some of you say, you got a
fight on your hand, right? I'll be like, try No, y'all
weren't intimidated. I didn't think so.
You're a little guy. Okay, you're right.
Okay. But my point is, is that there's
a fight, whether you physically fight me for more weather, you
through legal means fight me for it.
You're gonna get yours. Well, guess what?
That's what we call. The fight of faith.
The enemy's going to say you can't have it.
It's not, you know you can't have it.
No, it's mine. No, it is Mom and I'll get it.
I'll fight you for it. I'll fight you for it.
The good thing is in the realm of physical, I wanted to
physically beat anybody of all I have to do is cause my power is
laid up with principalities and Powers.
I deal with that realm and then it comes to pass because at the
end of the day, I'm going to get what's mine because God gave it
to me already and they didn't enter into the They 12 Spies
entered in but came out Stan crying because they hardened
their heart from what God Said even though they had these cite
evidence that the lamb was exactly as God said.
Now he can tell you exactly what's in the land and how it is
prosperous and blessed and land flowing with milk and honey.
But you know, as far as you get that he was kidding.
I mean, why do you think God did that?
Because he knew he wasn't in them and he's like, just so you
know that I'm right. This is what the land is going
to look like. So when I prove that out, it
should be easy for you understand?
We going with this deal, Joshua and Caleb saw that way.
I said Joshua, and Caleb saw it that way, and they did not left
40 Years of hearing wine bags. Affect their hearing.
They kept he'd, you know, they kept hearing when the Lord says,
I'll put you boys in there, but the rest of them, it's going to
be 40 years before we get there. And every, you know, when they
were, watch them, drop this at. But the Lord said we're going
in. We're going in, we're going in
the Lord said were going, and they kept hearing that we're
going in, we're going in will get it.
We're going in, then the day came Moses has gone.
Wow, Moses even gone, he's not even here.
Okay Joshua, you're the guy. What do we do?
The Lord said we going over, we going somewhere.
We've never been before, Kate was like, oh, I've been there
once but many And this is a different season.
Now, here we go. Kevin said I'll leave this whole
group. And he's double their age.
He's 80 and says let's get some come on.
Now he did pull his Dentures out and say that's it.
We're done. He is on the other side and go.
Y'all get that boys this. I wish we only could have done
that 40 years ago. Yummy Saints of already stopped
Well if it had just been named Eva, just been it's now because
faith is now Now's the Time to act now is the time to move now
is the time to do. All right, let's close it up
with this. He says for who for we who have
believed entered the rest just as he said as my as I swore in
my wrath they shall not enter my wrist.
Although his Works were finished from the foundations of the
world. Wow.
There's like, I mean, you're just finally coming into what
now good thing is that the writer says full, we who have
believed in ER that rest. Now this Riders not talking
about the promised land, he's talking about I'm living a rest
life in the Kingdom now. You want to retire, start doing
the word. And you'll quit working on your
own immediately, you'll still work, but you'll work with the
Lord, and it would be the best work ever.
It won't be free from conflict. It won't be free from trial and
tribulation, but you'll know, whatever I'm doing, whatever.
I'm put my hand to is going to prosper, it's going to turn out
to my benefit period. It's going to do it and you'll
have the greatest time ever, and you don't need a title.
From man to feel like something because God Gave You conferred
you on a title In Christ, there is no title higher than in
Christ and there is no rank higher than ambassador of the
Kingdom. So he gives that to the babes
And we are fighting and struggling and trying to figure
out what we need to do in the world.
And what people can address Us by what title by some
educational qualification, in the Lord's.
Like, when you got my kingdom, I Kings you, I put you in Christ
and then I gave you Ambassador ship.
I mean, I don't know what else, I mean, that's retirement.
All your needs are going to be mad.
I'm gonna take care. Everything you do.
You just do what I say it's done.
Any conflict we're going to win. Just don't let go just believe
what I say. We're gonna win.
We got this. I said we got this so Hebrews
jump down to verse 10 cause we're bringing it all around.
Now says this for the one who has entered his rest has himself
also rested from his works as God did from his.
Now, when we say rested from his works, that doesn't mean you do
nothing. When he says he's literally just
saying instead of you trying to do it to please God you're doing
what God wants you to do and it pleases God.
Cause hearing God, is how faith is accessed for you.
Your faith, your belief system, then your doer of that.
Because without faith, it's impossible to please him.
So you become instantly pleasing because you're doing the word,
he told you to do. And the work of that word comes
to pass because you labor with Christ.
Meaning, you do your part to hold on to believe to just stay
firm in that I'm resting and I will rest Right?
We seen that in. Your promise is my confidence.
Is your faithfulness, right? Well, he's faithful to his word.
So all you got to do is believe the word, and you can just sit
back and getting a rocking. Chair says going to come to
pass, it's gonna come down to work.
You still have to work your confession.
You have to say it. You have to take every thought,
captive that would say something else because all that is trying
to do is get you out of rest. Trying to get you to figure it
out. Get you to do man.
How am I gonna pay that bill? Humming gonna pay that bill.
We eat better, get a second job. What did Lord tell?
You get a second job. If I get a second job will be to
go to church on Sunday. I don't know if that's the Lord.
Amen. I mean, we just heard a testify
by Saji. He's like, man, I've been
working every Sunday and I was like, I'm done.
On the inside is like man this is too important for me to be in
service. He says you know what all I did
was ask He said I didn't have it cuz I didn't and in that of
scripture James says, you have not caused you but so many
people are afraid to ask because they see their job as their
Source. It's their Works, keeping the
food on the table and the mortgage being paid instead of
his finished work of you walking into his word.
Verse 11. Therefore let us be diligent to
enter that rest so that no one will fall through following the
same example of Disobedience. So he's telling us.
Listen, what you saw in the wilderness is applicable to the
New Covenant. They couldn't get in and enter
their rest and receive all the blessings and benefits that God
already have for them before. The foundation of the world, you
can have the same issue here. If you do not enter into Rest by
believe in God at his word, taking heed to what you hear and
be a doer. But listen I don't care what
kind of services we have. I don't care if we have a
shouting service, if we have a laughing service, if we have the
Holy Ghost comes in there by hits the ground service.
I don't care if we have a song service that the roof rips off.
And we actually see angels in manifestation, I don't care if
Jesus Christ himself, walks through this wall and visits US
service, it will always come back to you being a doer of the
word. It never changed from there.
The the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit in his eternal
Kingdom, that will never have an end that when heavens and earth
change. And then we get new heavens and
new earth, they will be people who are obedient to his word and
love to do his word. That's what it's going to be
that will never not happen. So the quicker we are willing to
say yes Lord to his word because all of his promises are yes and
amen in Christ and we're like bad.
Yes. Lord I want to do your word yes.
Or this is where success is, he told Joshua?
He said listen you want to be prosperous and successful?
What do you do you meditate on my word?
You know how many Believers are trying to only be successful by
doing their own Works to get successful and they're really
trading their soul. Therefore fitting really great
Treasures because we at like what we do only last in this
lifetime. Now, I'm not against your 401k,
I'm not against your 401k be because there's things that do.
When Ministry, I'm not against your investments in the stock
market, none of that. I'm not against anything that
you do in order to be able to have your money work for you.
No problem. My question is, are you actually
saving for eternity? Because the reality is we have
dumbed down the message so much that we have accepted this whole
Bible as asked Jesus into my heart and save me.
So when I die and go to heaven and that's all that matters
because you take nothing with you that is not true.
You take your faith with you and I'm not talking to you.
I'm talking everything you did in hearing his word.
Not only do you receive a reward right now in the life you're
living. You'll Receive one in the age to
come and that Asia comes actually a millennial Reign.
Which means you want to know what you're doing in the
millennial Reign. You better be sewing for it.
We would act like God is a socialist.
When we get to heaven will be the same.
No, you will not. That is not in the Bible.
He didn't call his self a social State.
It's a kingdom and he rewards based upon your faith.
How many times did Jesus do things to people for people in
the earth? And he says, daughter according
to your faith. I've not seen such great faith.
No! Not in all of Israel because of
their faith. It's according to your faith.
You're not his faith. Their faith.
And your faith will carry over into the millennial Reign and
into the, the kingdom that has no sin ever associated with it.
Again, the divine order of God, it is totality, when all of sin
is thrown into the Lake of Fire, which is the second death and
you will reap Rewards. And continue to be promoted.
We had like if you're faithful little, you be faithful for much
stops in the planet. It's his word.
What did Peter say? He said when everybody was
leaving, Jesus, And Jesus turned to his 12 and he says are you
going to go to? He says, where we going to go,
you have words of life. He says your words are Eternal,
he has eternal And we got like these words are only for the
planet during sin. Yeah but we need to expand our
thinking it's because what we've done is we've actually said we
don't want to know about the end.
We just don't want to go to hell.
And that's not lordship. That's not kingdom kingdom is
he's Lord, his kingdom is coming.
We need to know how to function with the King because the king
is coming. The king is coming again, and
he's coming with his kingdom and he's reward.
He has his says, he has his reward with him.
He's opening up books about you and he's wanting to know their.
Did you do everything? I ask you to do?
Because I'm a reward. You not only in this life but in
the one to come, Jesus said, listen.
There ain't nobody who has left mother and father in essence,
there's nobody who has put that stuff.
Secondary to me that won't receive in this life and the
life to come. And he talked about material
possessions. So there may not be a U-Haul
with all my natural possessions going to the cemetery.
But make no mistake about it. There are houses and lands that
are awaiting me on the other side and I'm not talking about
in heaven, I'm talking about when I come back to the Earth.
You maybe this could this very well could still be at my
property when I show back up but not just about the whole city
could be the whole state and the Caribbean.
You might be looking at the governor of Florida, really, I'm
sure you might be looking at the governor of Florida in the
millennial reign as our old house Florida.
Doing it's doing just fine, sir. We have one standard.
Here's Kingdom. He said the US government won't
be there anymore. It's not going to look like the
same. I mean, it'd be around but
they'll be subject to the king. I said they'll be subject to the
king. I said, they'll be subject to
the king. You want to know who the next
great superpower is, it's the kingdom of God.
Let's finish this out. Therefore let us be diligent to
enter the rest so that we will. So no one will fail through
following. The same example of
Disobedience, verse 12 for the Word of God is living and active
sharper than any two-edged sword and piercing as far as the
division of Soul, and Spirit of both joint and Marrow and able
to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Oh, Glory to God. There's not a place in your
being that the word can't get can get to your physical man and
get to your soul man and a definitely impact your spirit
man. But here it is verse 13 and
there is no creature hidden from his sight but all things are
open and laid bare to the eyes of him with whom we have to do
therefore since we have a great High.
High priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the
son of God, let us hold, let who let, who let, who it's up to you
saying to God problem is she you problem?
Let us let us hold fast, our confession.
The king said, I have no opinion in the matter as an ambassador
of my king said, my king said, my king said, my king said, my
king said, I believe what Mike, King said.
I only believe what Jesus said. He's the savior of the world, he
died for me, he rose for me. He is the king of glory and
whatever. The king says, I believe it, I
said I'm holding fast to it. Why?
And he sees me, he knows I'm holding, he knows I'm holding.
He knows I'm in faith. He knows I'm not wavered.
He sees me. Take captive.
Every thought he knows that I believe him and I must have what
he said that I will have. He sees it, he sees it, but he
equally sees it if I'm faking it.
And I'm not a fake and you're not a fake.
So no, the rewards there just hold fast for, we do not have a
high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses,
but one who has been tempted in all things.
Here he goes, though, it goes further in this first.
As we are yet. Without Rebellion without
Disobedience without sin, which means when your life woge Lord,
you won't meet us believe. What you want me to say, what
you want me to do, what he says, I know how you feel.
I was in the same circumstances you but I did it.
The word it worked for you I actually didn't blow it so let
me just help you out because people like man if you ain't
going through what I'm going through then you can't help me.
Well then you can't listen to Jesus because Jesus has never
fornicated, he's never committed adultery.
He's never been in a homosexual relationship.
He's never, he's never done drugs.
He's never gotten drunk, he's never lied.
He's never cheated. He's never stolen.
He's never manipulated Back Body.
He's never gossiped, he was tempted to do all of it. but
resisted it, he is the most qualified because when you go
hang out with your old drunk buddy, who's now sober, And you
are sober and you thinking y'all know about stuff.
Jesus, like never got drunk a day in my life.
But I'm more equipped to talk to you about, not getting drunk,
then your buddy who used to get drunk.
Because they actually got drunk. And know this.
If they don't take heed, if they don't give her Nostalgia
tension, they'll drift away and found the bottle again, but I'll
never have looked to the bottle. I'll never go back and smoke.
Leviticus. You had to be in the conference
for that. Amen.
Are you hearing me? Jesus is the most qualified
verse 6. He therefore let us draw near
with what confidence to the throne of grace.
So that we may receive mercy and find Grace to help in time of
need grace empowers us to overcome to not submit to not
fail to not fall. Grace is not picking us up when
we fall mercies, picking us up. When we fall Mercy comes
running. When you're falling Grace keeps
you in something and Grace will keep you in it.
When you know I'll only do what the king says.
I'm going to get I'm going to live the life of Kingdom.
Rest on the earth. I'm fixing to just rest the rest
of my life because whatever God says, I'm doing it.
I'm putting it to my I'm getting it in my heart, I'm acting on
it. I'm going to hold fast to it,
and I know every thought them bars.
Me were the same. Thoughts have been barred.
Did Jesus. But Jesus Took captive those
thoughts and because I take heed to what I hear, I'll take
captive to those Falls and I'll have exactly what the word said.
I'll have period, no way else. That's the only way and I'm just
going to sit back here and rest in it.
And that's what God wants you to have.
So, no matter what we teach, no matter what we preach, you
should see yourself in a restful position.
I can do that, that way when the storms of life come, when the
storms of life come, I'll give you two last examples.
Jesus says to his disciples. Just go to the side.
It was enough in that word to go to the other side.
He'd have to say a storms coming but don't worry about it because
I'm telling you, we're going to go to the side.
He didn't say that he just said just go to uh side.
And he's tired because he'd been ministering to people and he's
any human suit. Like we are.
And he's like, man, I need a nap.
So he goes down the boat and he sleeps but then all of a sudden,
a storm hits and the for professional fishermen that are
on. It is look at are looking at
this storm and they know it's so bad.
That men have lost their lives and they can't get control.
Why? Cause they're working it
themselves, instead of working the word, instead of saying no,
we going to the other side. No, we're going to the other
side. No, we're going to the other
side. They didn't quit.
They didn't say that. They didn't hold fast.
That They're like my gosh man. Remember when such as a this
looks like the storm of, you know, whatever.
You know this the storm of you know, 2820 ad remember when I
had people lost their lives on the storm and so many, you know,
of our fishermen Community died and they were talking, the
conflict that eventually, they went down to Jenn, say Jesus.
How can you be sleeping? Aren't you concerned?
We're all going to die. Jesus gets up rebuked, some win,
some ways and then rebukes his disciples.
He said, why don't you have any faith?
You woke me up from my rest because you weren't in rest.
I should have been out of sleep, the whole trip.
But instead you woke me up because you don't believe me at
my word. Paul had a similar experience
but he couldn't be authorized to talk to the winds because he was
authorized to talk before the winds.
Gentlemen. I perceive we get on this boats
going to be a problem, so let's not get on this boat and they're
like, looking at the natural and they're like, nah, we going to
get on the boat. This ain't where we're staying.
We're going on. Peter can't say Paul couldn't.
Say I'm not going Paul can't say that Paul was like I'm a
prisoner, I got Ago. So we're fixing a problem.
I know what God Said, So what's he doing storm comes just like
he says, but he goes back to a word.
He goes back to work because the Lord told him before he ever
was, it was arrested by Prophet by the name of agabus.
He says you're going to go to this local Jerusalem.
You're going to have many things are going to attack you, but
you'll stand before, Caesar. So he's praying while he's
working with everyone else to lighten the ship in the middle
of the storm that everybody's losing, hope that now we going
to die and he's like, Lord, I can't dye hear what everybody
else cuz you said that I'd go back to Rome.
You said that I would speak to Caesar you said that.
So I cannot die here and I warned them on the shore and I
will not die on this ship and I know that but now that I know
that and I'm reminding you and I'm convinced.
Now, I'm going to go a little step further because the rest of
these, I warned in ain't living. Like I am.
And I'm asking you, for Mercy for their lives, Lord, give me
their lives. Give me.
They're ignorant, Lord, they don't know.
Like, I know, And and Lord I want them save Lord, please will
you allow them to be safe with me?
Because I'm not going to die out here and then Angel shows up.
It says Paul the Lord heard your prayer and what you've asked him
concerning you going to go to Caesar and he's also granted
your request. Nobody's going to die, but this
is how it's got to be done. So then Paul after he gets an
answered prayer, stands up to the three men that he talked to
on the shore and he says, gentlemen, you should have
followed my advice and a change of leadership took place and
they said, what do you say Paul? He says, listen.
We're going to lose the ship but there's an island.
We're going to go to and we're not going to die.
So take courage. We're going to get there.
And so they all start listening to Paul, we need to do this, do
that. And then the Centurion now is
falling apart all and then all of a sudden a couple guys like I
don't like Paul's way we gonna die, we're going to take this
little ship and we going to leave, we gonna get away from
this thing since it's going down, that's what they said.
And Paul said to the Centurion unless these men stay with his
ship, I can't guarantee their lives.
And so, they cut the boats away and they stayed.
And he said, now, y'all need to eat because we fixing to go get
in the water, and you're gonna need your strength to swim to
Shore. And then they hit.
And next thing, you know, he has saved their lives, they can see
the land and the soldiers that Paul's has prayed for to save
them, think to themselves. We going to kill the prisoners
now because if they escape, we will die and they were going to
kill him. But the sincere and said, don't
you're not killing. Nobody, we're all going to swim
if you can. I'm swam, if you can't get a
board and, and Float yourself there, and all 276, people live
that day because a man was resting.
And I'm going to Rome and now that God says your mind, if
you'll do what I say, I guarantee you're going to get to
the island and they all did. Now it wasn't free from conflict
but he was the man resting because he knows my God cannot
fail. And that's how our lives should
be. Be amen.
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