1 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:05,560 Thanks for checking out the Anchor Faith Message Podcast 2 00:00:05,560 --> 00:00:06,960 from St. Augustine, FL. 3 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:16,239 Now enjoy this message. But this goes along with our 4 00:00:16,239 --> 00:00:19,440 message today because naturally, first look at First Corinthians 5 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:21,360 chapter 15, verse 46. I love today. 6 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:24,840 I love today so much. I love today #1 because no one's 7 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:26,000 going to complain. It's cold. 8 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:30,760 No one's going to be upset about the lights in your eyes. 9 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:33,400 I see many people not having to wear sunglasses right now. 10 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:35,560 And I'm not saying those are complaining people. 11 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:37,320 Lights are an issue. I get that. 12 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:39,320 I'm just saying we don't have that today. 13 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:41,760 My point is, is it's not necessary. 14 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:49,320 Again, it's not necessary that I have to put the scriptures up. 15 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:52,360 It's not necessary. We have to put the word. 16 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:55,720 It'd be nice to actually learn them so you can sing them 17 00:00:55,720 --> 00:00:58,560 yourself. I mean, we've turned into a 18 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:01,400 karaoke generation. I can't even do worship unless I 19 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:05,600 see the words. Come on, are you hearing me 20 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:07,760 'cause it's not actually in your spirit. 21 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:14,720 Amen. How you going to be able to take 22 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:16,760 notes today? I mean, you should be. 23 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:22,200 There's so much content. But in First Corinthians 1546 it 24 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:25,480 says this. However, the spiritual is not 25 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:31,960 first, but the natural, then the spiritual. 26 00:01:32,960 --> 00:01:35,920 Wow, I'm going to say that again. 27 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:42,400 However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, then the 28 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:47,280 spiritual. We have become a society that 29 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:54,200 has disconnected from the natural and we think we're 30 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:59,520 spiritual. Hallelujah. 31 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:02,280 Now the context of this particular verse is about a 32 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:06,040 resurrection. OK, but it is talking about a 33 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:08,440 natural body and it says and let. 34 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:10,639 If you want a spiritual body you're going to have to 1st sow 35 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:14,480 a natural one because it says the first Adam was earthly, the 36 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:17,880 last Adam was of heavenly and you're not going to get over 37 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:22,600 into heavenly until you deal with the natural because God 38 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:29,200 made man natural First Genesis chapter one verse 26 and 27 39 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:30,720 says. Then God said let us make man in 40 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:33,000 our image according to our likeness and let them rule Over 41 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:34,720 the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, over the 42 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:36,760 cattle, over all the earth, over every creeping thing that creeps 43 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:38,600 on the earth. God created man in his own 44 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:41,520 image, in the image of God he created them male and female, He 45 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:48,720 created them well man came from the spirit but before man came 46 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:51,200 to earth. Look what happens in Genesis 27, 47 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:54,760 says Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground. 48 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:58,280 What did he do? Formed man from the dust of the 49 00:02:58,280 --> 00:02:59,560 ground. What did He do? 50 00:02:59,880 --> 00:03:02,960 Formed man from something natural. 51 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:09,960 Then once the natural was first, he breathed into that natural 52 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:14,400 dust suit and he became the breath of life and the man 53 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:18,320 became a living soul. Natural was first, then 54 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:22,520 spiritual, because he had to create a natural body to carry 55 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:26,080 the Spirit. Jesus Christ has to come in the 56 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:30,200 form of a man, so he must put him in a natural suit. 57 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:34,480 And that natural suit was woven in the womb. 58 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:41,040 Now, before we were ever in our mother's womb, God knew us. 59 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:45,280 He knew about us before the foundations of the world. 60 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:49,840 So in the realm of the Spirit we exist, but we do not manifest 61 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:56,160 till the natural shows up First, the natural will cause the 62 00:03:56,160 --> 00:04:01,560 spiritual to get into play. Are you hearing me? 63 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:10,600 So with that being said, notice natural spiritual example. 64 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:15,760 Now let me just say this, you can naturally do things and it 65 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:21,440 not be spiritual to a degree. Now that I just said that it 66 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:25,120 came out of my mouth. We may adjust that everything 67 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:28,480 you're doing natural is impacting something spiritual. 68 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:36,440 Let's say it that way. Everything you're doing natural 69 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:42,480 is impacting a spiritual realm. Adam is made in the image of 70 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:45,280 God, both male and female. Him, Adam and Eve. 71 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:48,840 They were in the nature of God, like God, the DNA of God. 72 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:55,440 They thought like God responded like God had dominion, like God 73 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:57,320 on the earth. They were supposed to function 74 00:04:57,320 --> 00:04:59,760 this way. Or you hear what I'm saying. 75 00:05:00,280 --> 00:05:04,960 Within the confines of the natural realm by which they were 76 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:07,640 to have dominion over which means. 77 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:10,920 Then when they exercise the spiritual dominion they have 78 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:14,320 through the natural, then it would manifest on the planet. 79 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:22,200 It would be when it was released from the natural into the 80 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:25,120 spirit. Are you hearing me? 81 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:29,680 So then we have Adam and Eve in the garden with God. 82 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:35,680 Perfect world, no sin. It's amazing this supernatural 83 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:40,720 man contained within a natural body doing natural things. 84 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:43,600 Look what it says in Genesis chapter 2, starting in verse 15 85 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:44,960 said. Then the Lord God took the man, 86 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:47,640 put him in the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it. 87 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:52,680 That is a natural assignment. But that natural assignment will 88 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:56,520 produce spiritual things, he then says. 89 00:05:56,520 --> 00:05:59,120 Then the Lord God commanded the man, saying, from any tree of 90 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:02,960 the garden you may eat what freely, but from the tree of the 91 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:05,320 knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, For on the day 92 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:09,240 that you eat from it you will surely die. 93 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:13,400 So here's Adam, who was naturally, when naturally 94 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:19,120 hungry, going to any tree other than the tree of life, and when 95 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:23,000 they pick from it, eat from it, it still contains life. 96 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:27,720 Their environment stays life. Their personal life stays life. 97 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:29,720 Their connection with God stays life. 98 00:06:29,840 --> 00:06:32,400 God can walk in the cool of the day and spend time with them, 99 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:35,280 and there's no hindrance, No Fear, no issue. 100 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:37,160 It's oneness. It's amazing. 101 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:43,600 Every time they pick from a tree, whatever tree, wherever 102 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:49,720 except one, Life goes on in the garden, dominion goes on, 103 00:06:49,840 --> 00:06:53,360 spiritual authority goes on, power goes on. 104 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:57,240 Their dominion goes on. Because every time they function 105 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:01,320 naturally in the will of God, it releases the spiritual. 106 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:08,760 But. A serpent comes in. 107 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:14,840 Are you hearing me? And he says to the woman, has 108 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:23,200 God not said that you can't eat from any tree, so that isn't it 109 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:28,240 just one? And he says to her. 110 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:32,560 You're not going to die. Now notice he needs to hear the 111 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:35,440 word of the king, because in order to hear the word of the 112 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:39,400 King, I must know truth in order to start a lie. 113 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:48,280 But notice saying a lie doesn't change the spiritual just 114 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:54,680 because he introduced a concept foreign to Adam's thinking. 115 00:07:56,840 --> 00:08:01,600 It doesn't change. The atmosphere doesn't change. 116 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:07,840 It 'cause spiritual life is still in operation. 117 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:13,680 But we understand if they're eating fruit it must mean they 118 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:21,160 were hungry, 'cause you all know we're really not eating if we're 119 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:23,760 not hungry. Now I understand sometimes we 120 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:26,960 just eat because we're bored. But they didn't have a boredom 121 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:29,440 problem. I'm at the house. 122 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:31,160 I'm bored. Let me go grab something because 123 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:33,120 I you know I need to. Right. 124 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:35,080 That's a different issue we're going to talk about a little bit 125 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:39,200 later today. OK, that wasn't their reason. 126 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:41,120 They're like, oh, I'm bored. Let me go grab something. 127 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:46,560 No, they were natural beings. They were supernatural spirits 128 00:08:46,560 --> 00:08:49,520 in a natural body. Are you hearing me? 129 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:55,800 So as a result of that, they then hear, but it doesn't change 130 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:59,480 the spirit realm. What changes the realm of the 131 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:05,560 spirit? Natural first, the minute Eve 132 00:09:05,560 --> 00:09:11,320 takes the fruit, eats it according to Genesis 3/8 right 133 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:15,240 and then or six hands it to her husband. 134 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:20,360 Then he eats a natural bite. Oh y'all, don't want to hear 135 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:20,920 this. Fine. 136 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:26,440 A natural bite had a spiritual implication. 137 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:30,800 So much so, it's still in the earth today. 138 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:38,080 A natural bite has a spiritual implication. 139 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:46,000 And now it's in the earth today. Still there, still there, still 140 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:51,160 here, still in the earth. Because one man's transgression. 141 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:54,080 What was his transgression? He disobeyed God. 142 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:57,840 We could even say it this way. He disobeyed God in his heart 143 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:03,480 before he ever ate it, but it wasn't till he actually ate it 144 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:10,000 that the environment. No Eve eats and his eyes aren't 145 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:19,640 different, nor hers. Are you hearing me? 146 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:25,000 He's already considering eating because he's watching her. 147 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:30,320 If he wasn't considering, he'd say don't eat that. 148 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:34,440 You know what the king said? Who you talking to? 149 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:38,360 My wife right now. You better get up out of here, 150 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:40,840 'cause that's against the king. That's against our Kingdom. 151 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:45,240 That is not what the king says. This is his. 152 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:50,520 We don't touch this, we don't eat, We do not eat this. 153 00:10:53,160 --> 00:10:56,160 And if he would have stayed with that thought, but because it 154 00:10:56,160 --> 00:11:00,480 resonated in the inside, for him to but it did not come to the 155 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:05,720 earth until he ate. And the. 156 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:09,120 Minute. He sunk his teeth in, began to 157 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:13,280 chew. I'm going to go as far as, say, 158 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:14,920 a swallow, because it's pretty specific. 159 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:20,880 You got to eat it. Then everything changed because 160 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:27,120 of a natural action. We have disregarded our natural 161 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:31,400 so much that we act like the spirits release beyond without 162 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:39,560 our natural involvement. We have made the things of God 163 00:11:39,560 --> 00:11:47,680 so really demonic in response instead of how God intended. 164 00:11:53,160 --> 00:11:57,200 Well, it's naturally it's first because what I am a natural 165 00:11:57,200 --> 00:12:00,520 being natural. I'm in a natural realm, and the 166 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:03,720 only way the spirit can be released is through my natural 167 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:09,160 responses to the Spirit. I don't speak in tongues without 168 00:12:09,160 --> 00:12:14,960 my own tongue. And you'll never speak in 169 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:18,440 tongues if you don't let your natural tongue voice what it's 170 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:27,280 hearing on the inside. You're not born again until 171 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:29,280 you're doing something in the natural. 172 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:36,040 The natural brings for the IT is a layer of communication. 173 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:39,320 OK, let me preface that because again, what if a person can't 174 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:42,160 speak? However they communicate is 175 00:12:42,160 --> 00:12:47,480 their confession, and it is still an open confession that 176 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:51,080 identifies their heart, what they are intending to do by 177 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:53,560 faith. And that natural first opens up 178 00:12:53,560 --> 00:12:58,640 the Spirit. So a verse that we tend to 179 00:12:58,640 --> 00:13:02,520 overlook most of the time is First Thessalonians 523. 180 00:13:02,520 --> 00:13:07,000 It says Now may the God of Peace himself sanctify you entirely. 181 00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:11,160 Entirely. Say entirely, say entirely. 182 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:16,520 Look at your neighbor, say entirely, OK, not partially. 183 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:21,760 If we don't watch out, we want a partial change. 184 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:24,160 We just want to be changed in our spirit. 185 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:30,680 But he wants an entire entirely be sanctified. 186 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:35,120 Sanctification is to have an entire impact on you. 187 00:13:35,920 --> 00:13:40,040 Come on, y'all doing all right. Yeah, glory to God, he goes on 188 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:47,120 and says this, he says. And may your spirit and soul and 189 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:53,120 body be what preserve, complete without blame at the coming of 190 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:55,720 Our Lord. How in the world can you keep 191 00:13:55,720 --> 00:13:59,400 your body complete when it's mortal? 192 00:14:03,520 --> 00:14:07,880 How is it that your body can be complete when you know you're 193 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:13,280 getting a glorified 1? Now when it comes to the new 194 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:16,520 birth, we know that our our spirit was dead without Christ. 195 00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:19,520 And when we confess Jesus as Lord, we became a new creature 196 00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:21,200 in Christ. The old passed away. 197 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:23,600 Behold, all things become new in our Spirit. 198 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:27,600 Inside what you can't see, the real you became in Christ a 199 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:31,160 spirit alive to God. Who wants to hear God? 200 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:34,600 Who wants to obey God? Because that's all it really it 201 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:37,000 knows to do. It wants to stay connected to 202 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:39,760 life, and it can hear the Holy Spirit that comes and lives on 203 00:14:39,760 --> 00:14:42,120 the inside of you. It bears witness with you that 204 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:45,400 you are a child of God and it wants to release this on the 205 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:47,640 inside. The problem is, there's two 206 00:14:47,640 --> 00:14:51,680 areas of you that are natural and that you've lived in those 207 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:54,600 natural places. Because when Adam fell from 208 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:59,880 dominion, not heaven, he resorted to living naturally 209 00:14:59,880 --> 00:15:04,440 only in the context that he could not go to the spirit of 210 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:09,560 God, but he had to ignite. He's now limited to his Spirit's 211 00:15:09,560 --> 00:15:12,800 dead cut off from God, and he's limited to live only by what he 212 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:17,000 sees and by what he sees. He'll respond that way based 213 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:20,920 upon feeling, emotions, and the new nature that he is, which 214 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:25,440 then his natural responses now usher in the spirit of death. 215 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:27,560 This is why people cheat on their wives. 216 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:29,720 This is why people fornicate. This is why people are in 217 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:31,800 pornography. This is why people, you know, 218 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:34,880 don't do right with their money. This is why people why 'cause 219 00:15:34,880 --> 00:15:39,280 they're connected to a dead spirit and they always model it 220 00:15:39,440 --> 00:15:41,440 in their natural that's why they gossip. 221 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:44,120 That's why they lie. Nobody told you to lie, but you 222 00:15:44,120 --> 00:15:49,520 open your mouth. There is no such thing as gossip 223 00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:55,840 if you're not talking. But they're talking, so they're 224 00:15:55,840 --> 00:16:02,080 natural releases the spirit realm they're connected to. 225 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:06,200 If Adam had never eaten the fruit, then we only would have 226 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:09,760 been connected to the spirit of life, and our natural would have 227 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:12,480 only released the life of the spirit. 228 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:16,240 But now that we are actually raised in a society where we've 229 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:21,120 all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, then we now 230 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:24,400 are so connected to death. We speak of it, we feel from it, 231 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:27,280 we respond by it. We we've lived by it. 232 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:30,720 But God, being rich in his mercy, He died for us, gave us a 233 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:34,040 new spirit to reconnect us with the spirit realm of the Kingdom. 234 00:16:34,040 --> 00:16:37,400 But in order for us to pull that realm in, we've got to get our 235 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:43,920 natural side together 'cause our natural side is what short 236 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:47,040 circuits are spiritual. This is why Paul said I can't 237 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:49,720 even come and speak to you as spiritual people. 238 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:54,440 Why 'cause your naturals in the way you're carnal. 239 00:16:56,880 --> 00:17:00,120 You're not allowing the spirit in you to be released through 240 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:05,920 your natural you're arguing, you're fighting, you're 241 00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:11,440 comparing. You got jealousy that's not from 242 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:13,839 your spirit. That's a part of your Nat. 243 00:17:13,839 --> 00:17:17,440 You got to repent, change your thinking. 244 00:17:17,480 --> 00:17:19,960 You got to renew your mind to the Kingdom. 245 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:22,599 Guess who's in control of mind renewal? 246 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:29,880 You are God does not open your head up, snatch your brain out, 247 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:33,320 pop you another one in, and you're instantly thinking, 248 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:37,240 right. You have to renew your mind. 249 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:40,640 How do you do it? Through your body. 250 00:17:43,920 --> 00:17:45,640 How do you renew it? Through your body. 251 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:49,320 You have to sit and look at the scripture. 252 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:52,920 You have to then meditate on. You have to do. 253 00:17:53,120 --> 00:17:57,600 You have to put your body into subjection to so that your soul 254 00:17:57,600 --> 00:18:00,480 realm can get into a place to be renewed. 255 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:03,600 But if your body controls you, then you'll never renew your 256 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:08,920 mind. So This is why he says in First 257 00:18:08,920 --> 00:18:12,120 Thessalonians 523 that if you're going to have a spiritual 258 00:18:12,120 --> 00:18:15,240 impact, you're going to have to have your sanctification 259 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:21,640 happening in your soul and body realm, 'cause I have seen the 260 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:27,640 body has become the greatest prison of most people, 'cause 261 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:31,320 they cannot control their body. They're stuck in prison. 262 00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:35,200 Now look what it says in Romans chapter 8. 263 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:37,920 Hallelujah. I mean, do we want to change 264 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:39,960 Saint Johns County and Saint Augustine? 265 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:42,280 We want to continue to increase. Guess what? 266 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:45,480 We're going to do some natural things like naturally build a 267 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:52,800 bigger building, right? I mean, this is a test in 268 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:55,920 putting your flesh down right now, and you're doing a great 269 00:18:55,920 --> 00:18:58,840 job. We can do this. 270 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:02,440 I I've come to find out. This is why I've kept myself in 271 00:19:02,440 --> 00:19:05,480 certain places and I make myself do certain things. 272 00:19:05,480 --> 00:19:06,960 Why? Because I want to stay 273 00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:08,880 conditioned in certain environments. 274 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:12,160 I've said this before, I would hate to get to a nation and 275 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:14,920 there is an unreached people group on a mountain, and I 276 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:17,880 couldn't get there because I wasn't physically conditioned 277 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:23,280 enough to go, because I let myself go so bad that God 278 00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:27,560 couldn't even use me. I'm carrying a message that I 279 00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:35,960 can't even carry. Now look what it says in Romans 280 00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:37,360 812 through 14. It says. 281 00:19:37,360 --> 00:19:41,680 So then, brethren, we are under obligation not to the flesh to 282 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:44,760 live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the 283 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:48,520 flesh, you must die. But if by the Spirit you are 284 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:55,400 putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live for all 285 00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:58,200 who are being what led by the Spirit of God. 286 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:01,680 These are the sons of God. How do we know a person's LED. 287 00:20:01,880 --> 00:20:07,160 It shows up in their natural, their natural releases, the 288 00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:11,000 spirit in the earth. How do I know you're being 289 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:13,280 spirit LED? Because it shows up in your 290 00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:18,520 natural it manifests, it comes to pass. 291 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:23,080 It shows up based upon you obeying the word of the Lord. 292 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:29,440 It is a pudding to death, the flesh or the deeds of the body. 293 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:34,960 Meaning things stuck to a natural world only and 294 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:39,440 responding through what we see only that's actually connected 295 00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:45,560 to a spirit realm called death. Are you hearing me? 296 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:53,400 You're close, but I'm keeping my jacket on, Galatians 220 says 297 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:55,720 this. I've been crucified with Christ. 298 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:58,840 It's no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me and the life 299 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:02,200 that I live now. Are you hearing me? 300 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:06,320 I live now in the flesh. I live how? 301 00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:12,720 By faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for 302 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:18,120 me. So there's this thing that God 303 00:21:18,120 --> 00:21:22,160 wants us as Saints to do, and that is to live entirely 304 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:25,640 sanctified in every part of our being. 305 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:30,120 As we've said, we are spirit, we have a soul and we live in a 306 00:21:30,120 --> 00:21:32,640 body. Notice we're keeping them all. 307 00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:36,560 Now when I say keep them, we'll still keep a body to just be 308 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:42,240 glorified. Our mind is being renewed daily. 309 00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:45,840 But you understand when you get out of this confines of sin, 310 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:48,240 when that's stripped off and you get in your glorified body, your 311 00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:50,960 mind's really going to open up. I mean, we are not even open up 312 00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:53,960 our minds, not even functioning at the capacity that the first 313 00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:56,360 Adam functioned when he was first here. 314 00:21:56,840 --> 00:22:00,240 But again, listen, we won't even be limited to natural only, 315 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:04,080 because we'll actually have a glorified body, something that 316 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:08,840 Adam himself didn't even have. Are you hearing me? 317 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:13,400 So with that being said, we still, because of the power of 318 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:17,880 the Spirit, is able now to affect the other two parts of 319 00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:26,840 our being so that they stay in alignment with God's Word that 320 00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:33,320 now my mind doesn't control me, nor the abuses put upon it. 321 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:40,720 My body doesn't control me, nor based upon the abuses put upon 322 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:45,040 it or the self indulgences that have been put upon it. 323 00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:50,920 And if we want to release the spirit in everything we're 324 00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:53,840 doing, we need to entirely get it all together. 325 00:22:53,960 --> 00:23:00,800 Because I'm telling you, you are a walking billboard, You are a 326 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:05,440 walking billboard. And people will determine the 327 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:09,760 Kingdom first by looking at you naturally. 328 00:23:15,970 --> 00:23:21,250 If you naturally get aggravated, everything, meaning you 329 00:23:21,250 --> 00:23:29,010 demonstrate frustration, people be like, well, 'cause. 330 00:23:29,010 --> 00:23:31,370 It's different when you get around a person who exercises 331 00:23:31,570 --> 00:23:36,730 great patience, long-suffering, who knows how to hold their 332 00:23:36,730 --> 00:23:42,960 tongue. And you only hold your tongue 333 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:47,080 because you make your body shut up, because your mind's like, 334 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:54,600 say it, say it, say it, say it, say it, then hit him, hit him 335 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:57,080 first, then say it. Right. 336 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:01,400 David Mackey would say the old man would, because he knew what 337 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:02,880 the old man was. Let's talk about that. 338 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:04,480 Romans chapter 6, starting in verse four. 339 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:06,400 He says. Therefore we have been buried 340 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:09,680 with him through baptism and to death, so that as Christ was 341 00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:14,000 raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too 342 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:20,480 might walk in newness of life. We might, we might what? 343 00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:25,440 Walk now to be born again. You are new born of God. 344 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:28,080 Your spirit man cannot get any more like God. 345 00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:30,680 We just trying to release what you already are. 346 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:34,000 But you're not going to release who you are until you get the 347 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:39,080 other two areas under control, and now you're strong enough to 348 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:40,800 do it. Not only you yourself in the 349 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:45,040 spirit, your spirit man, but the Holy Spirit living in you will 350 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:50,280 strengthen you to do it as well. Hallelujah. 351 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:55,040 Are you hearing me? But we might walk in newness of 352 00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:57,520 life if we get the other two under control. 353 00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:03,320 For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His 354 00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:06,240 death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His 355 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:09,560 resurrection, Knowing this, that our old self was crucified with 356 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:13,680 Him in order that our what body of sin might be done away with, 357 00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:16,120 so that we would no longer be slaves to sin. 358 00:25:16,120 --> 00:25:21,400 Notice that something doesn't say our spirit of sin, but our 359 00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:27,480 body of sin. The reason we were so proficient 360 00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:31,200 and sinning is because our natural dictated our decisions 361 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:34,080 all the time. If it felt good, we did it. 362 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:41,200 It was our natural responses alone because and it always 363 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:44,800 produced the death. But that body of sin is dead, 364 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:48,280 meaning you don't dictate how I respond. 365 00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:51,440 Now you're not. It's no longer left alone to 366 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:54,480 your decision making. I have a spirit in me that's 367 00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:56,760 alive to God, and I got the Holy Spirit in me too. 368 00:25:56,920 --> 00:25:58,960 So you're now subject to something different. 369 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:03,280 You don't control me anymore. You don't own me anymore, you 370 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:06,320 don't tell me what. In fact, I'll decide if you go 371 00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:09,200 over there or not. And if you go over there, how 372 00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:12,080 you respond, I'll decide the real side. 373 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:15,400 And then when I decide how to do it, it will release the Spirit 374 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:21,480 in that situation, he said. For he who has died is free from 375 00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:27,160 sin, so you have no excuse. Well, you know I can't. 376 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:28,920 Yes, you can. I can't help it. 377 00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:30,160 I just know. Yeah, you can. 378 00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:36,200 You're choosing to let the other two aspects of your existence to 379 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:42,200 be unsanctified. You're choosing to live unruly. 380 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:45,520 You're choosing to live against the nature you are. 381 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:50,160 You're choosing to not release the spirit of life through your 382 00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:55,720 natural Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall 383 00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:58,080 also live with him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from 384 00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:01,320 the dead is never to die again. Death no longer is master over 385 00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:03,600 him, for the death he died he died to sin. 386 00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:12,240 He died to sin, not for sin to sin. 387 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:17,680 Now he died so that our sin would not be accredited to our 388 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:20,840 account. But notice that he died two sin 389 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:23,840 once and for all. Why is that? 390 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:28,640 Because no matter what sin comes after his death, he's paid that. 391 00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:31,240 Why? He's already taken care of that 392 00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:36,400 and sin no longer has a right over you should you become a 393 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:39,960 child of God and let naturally first release the Spirit. 394 00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:45,040 He goes on and says this. He died to sin once and for all, 395 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:47,160 but the life he lives he lives to God. 396 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:51,200 Even so verse 11, consider yourself dead to sin. 397 00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:54,200 You have to consider this. Paul is writing. 398 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:58,240 Paul knows righteousness. Paul is the master at writing 399 00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:01,720 the subject of righteousness. That you are the righteousness 400 00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:04,400 of God in Christ. Yet he tells the righteousness 401 00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:07,400 of God in Christ to consider to not sin. 402 00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:09,640 And that's what he's saying. Just 'cause you've been made 403 00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:13,120 righteous doesn't mean you can't go back to living in sin. 404 00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:16,600 Doesn't say that yes, you've been made righteous. 405 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:18,960 Now let the righteousness manifest. 406 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:21,360 But in order for it to manifest, you're going to have to get 407 00:28:21,360 --> 00:28:25,400 control of the other two realms, those natural realms. 408 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:28,480 And once you subject those natural realms to what's going 409 00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:31,560 on in the spirit, then those natural realms will release the 410 00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:36,760 spirit. Come on, you're hearing me, he 411 00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:38,400 said. Even so, consider yourself to be 412 00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:40,600 dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ. 413 00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:44,120 I mean, the 1st 10 verses of this chapter is saying that 414 00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:47,080 you're dead to sin, dead to sin. If you've made Jesus the Lord of 415 00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:49,120 your life, you're dead to sin because of grace. 416 00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:50,960 Shall we continue to sin so that grace may abound? 417 00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:53,280 May it never be? How can you live to sin when 418 00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:55,000 you're dead? If you're dead with Christ, then 419 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:56,880 you're dead as well. He says all this, and then he 420 00:28:56,880 --> 00:29:01,520 said, now consider it. Which means you're going to have 421 00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:05,000 to change your thinking on how you respond to things of death 422 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:08,880 or the spiritual side of death. And the only way you're going to 423 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:11,880 do that is by getting control of the other two realms. 424 00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:16,160 Verse 12. Therefore, do not let sin. 425 00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:19,040 Do not let it. This is the person that's made 426 00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:22,200 righteous. Now that you've been made 427 00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:28,080 righteous, it says do not let sin reign in your mortal body so 428 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:32,200 that you obey its lust. I mean you're born again, 429 00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:37,800 sanctified, redeemed, set apart unto God in the spirit. 430 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:42,400 And he said don't let sin reign in your body. 431 00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:48,760 So if sin's reigning in your body, is it God's fault, whose 432 00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:51,840 fault is it? Because we're not controlling 433 00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:56,400 our natural we're not subjecting it entirely through 434 00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:59,640 sanctification. We're letting it tell us how 435 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:05,600 we're going to do verse 13. And do not go on presenting the 436 00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:08,760 members of your body descend as an instrument of 437 00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:12,400 unrighteousness, but present yourself to God as those alive 438 00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:16,120 from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness 439 00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:22,640 to God. Wow, why is this important? 440 00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:28,120 You know what the spiritual life is embedded in the ability for 441 00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:35,240 you to control your natural realm, and most of us abandoned 442 00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:37,440 the natural realm, acting like we're spiritual. 443 00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:44,440 However, your spiritual side is not going to manifest until you 444 00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:49,880 control your natural, because it's through your natural that 445 00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:54,320 your true spiritual realm shows which ones having the rule or 446 00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:57,160 reign. Are you hearing me? 447 00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:03,960 Are you hearing what I'm saying? So unless you control that by 448 00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:08,600 your spirit and make those two areas, the soul and the body, 449 00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:14,600 submitted to your spirit, then it will still rule you even 450 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:17,240 though you have a reigning spirit on the inside. 451 00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:21,600 Wow, she's beautiful. Wow. 452 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:25,280 Had to come see the baby. I hadn't seen her yet. 453 00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:29,000 No cameras. I can do what I want to do 454 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:36,880 today. So I am going to give you some 455 00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:40,920 practical thought processes. And these practical or more than 456 00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:45,600 practical, they are spiritually charged because the minute you 457 00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:50,400 can evaluate yourself in the realm of natural things, you're 458 00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:52,680 going to know where you are on spiritual things. 459 00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:59,720 I had some people come over from other churches, quite a few, 460 00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:01,560 actually. Quite a few other churches that 461 00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:07,600 have come over and have asked my staff, is it required to be in 462 00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:14,760 great shape to work? For the ministry, yeah. 463 00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:18,840 They required. Well, it's not a requirement, 464 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:24,840 but I have learned that when I subject myself to certain, in 465 00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:28,520 essence there are certain things I do in to my body to tell it 466 00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:33,400 you don't own me. The Bible says this physical 467 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:38,880 exercise profits what's it? Comparing it to spiritual 468 00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:42,640 things. But it's not never saying forget 469 00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:46,680 your physical exercise, it's a waste of your time. 470 00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:51,120 Doesn't say that. It's saying if I was comparing 471 00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:57,520 the effect of natural exercise to spiritual exercise, it's not 472 00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:02,280 even comparable. But I would tell you this, it's 473 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:08,200 really on a matter of intensity. What do I mean? 474 00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:12,480 I mean, if you go, Wayne, where you at? 475 00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:14,800 Wayne, come here, Wayne. Go to the front. 476 00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:18,560 OK, go all the way to the front, Wayne, so everybody can see you. 477 00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:21,600 Wayne, how much weight have you lost? 478 00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:33,180 67 lbs. Now you think that you know this 479 00:33:33,180 --> 00:33:38,420 is? Don't get offended, just go 480 00:33:38,420 --> 00:33:44,500 ahead and drop your fence now. Wayne had some serious health 481 00:33:44,500 --> 00:33:48,840 challenges. In the form of cancer that he 482 00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:54,080 was dealing with the staff, we were praying with him, taking 483 00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:55,320 time with him. You know what? 484 00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:57,800 And God did some very supernatural things in his life. 485 00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:04,840 But some things that happen in your body is a byproduct of just 486 00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:15,199 your body, OK. And so we said, Wayne, you need 487 00:34:15,199 --> 00:34:19,280 to exercise. So Pastor Marcy put him on his 488 00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:22,040 exercise regiment. You know what it was? 489 00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:24,440 This is it. This is where? 490 00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:29,000 Where he lost 67 pounds. Are you ready for this? 491 00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:34,480 Every day after work, he walked around the mall. 492 00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:38,679 How many times? Seven times inside, four times 493 00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:40,320 outside. Four times outside he did. 494 00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:45,239 What's that about a mile? One mile after work. 495 00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:53,360 That's all he did. Then he made some adjustments in 496 00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:58,200 what he was ingesting. Obviously I'm saying £67 left 497 00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:00,920 not because he went. And where people get it in their 498 00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:03,440 mind that if you go work out, you got to look like Pastor 499 00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:04,920 Mike. That is not the case. 500 00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:07,080 Not everybody has to look like Pastor Mike. 501 00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:09,360 Not everybody aspires to look like Pastor Mike. 502 00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:12,600 Not everybody has to be. You just need to be your fit 503 00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:17,600 'cause you have a fit and you can answer the question right 504 00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:19,200 now. Are you at your fit? 505 00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:22,840 Thank you. You can sit down, Wayne. 506 00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:27,000 Thank you, Wayne. 'S now Wayne. 507 00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:30,720 Wayne, as you're going, Were there days you did not want to 508 00:35:30,720 --> 00:35:35,520 walk where there are multiple days? 509 00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:40,800 Did you walk? Anyway, You know what Wayne did 510 00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:43,120 that day? You don't control me, I control 511 00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:48,080 you. Now, why is this so powerful? 512 00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:56,800 Because if you can't control what you can see, then I'm 513 00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:59,200 telling you right now, you have a hard time controlling what you 514 00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:06,400 can't see. Coach Hurley, we condition those 515 00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:10,360 boys naturally because it gives them longevity towards 516 00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:12,200 championships. I'm fixing to read that thing. 517 00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:15,320 That means they submit to Y'all's program. 518 00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:20,840 Do they feel like it? Probably never. 519 00:36:21,240 --> 00:36:25,040 Any day, right? I mean, we lied to the drill 520 00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:27,560 Sergeant because the drill Sergeant made us lie. 521 00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:29,960 He said come on in the cadence, make it hurt. 522 00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:31,120 Drill Sergeant, make it hurt. Right. 523 00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:33,400 We would say that we didn't really mean that we didn't want 524 00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:39,440 it to hurt, you know, But we said it, you know, Are we done? 525 00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:40,800 Give us another one, drill Sergeant. 526 00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:42,320 Give us a nut like we want. We're dead. 527 00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:43,840 I mean, we're already a muscle failure, man. 528 00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:47,040 Our whole body's shaking like, please, can I just go get a 529 00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:49,560 drink of water? Right. 530 00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:52,960 But they were conditioning us for a fight bigger than us. 531 00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:56,480 Because what happens? What you don't understand is 532 00:36:56,480 --> 00:37:01,520 when you attack the body, you begin to actually strengthen the 533 00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:09,320 mind. People think that mind renewal 534 00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:14,720 or the sole realm is solely in the area of knowledge. 535 00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:19,240 Meaning the minute you read the word, you know it, you're going 536 00:37:19,240 --> 00:37:22,400 to do it. Most people do not do what they 537 00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:26,280 know in their mind because they can't keep their body in 538 00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:33,080 submission, can't do it, even though they know in their mind 539 00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:36,440 not to respond that way because they've not conditioned, they've 540 00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:39,480 not taken dominion in their natural realm. 541 00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:42,320 Says no, you're not going to make me do that today. 542 00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:49,000 And I'm going to beat you today. I'm going to beat you today. 543 00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:52,520 You're going to do what I say. I can tell you every time. 544 00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:59,120 I mean probably at least 25. Only 25% of the time has it been 545 00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:01,760 like, I want to go. I love to go. 546 00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:06,400 It was amazing. The rest was I heard don't go 547 00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:11,760 you're tired you shouldn't. But every time, every time 548 00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:16,720 except for 5% do I leave saying thank God I went. 549 00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:21,960 The other 5% is not thank it. It is a thank God. 550 00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:24,520 But it's more like this stinks cause I've been out. 551 00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:28,480 Gosh, and that hurt. I wish I wouldn't have quit. 552 00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:31,760 I wish I would have stayed consistent. 553 00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:37,640 This is the thing about you becoming a spiritual force is 554 00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:40,560 that you need to learn how to dominate your natural 555 00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:45,760 consistently. Ministries are not popped up 556 00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:47,960 overnight. They are consistent. 557 00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:52,320 They pound, they go, they do the intangible, they do the 558 00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:55,360 fundamentals. Championships are won because we 559 00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:58,720 do the fundamentals, we do the fundamentals. 560 00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:01,640 If you're failing in the fundamentals, we go back to it 561 00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:04,880 because we're not trying to get you on the top ten highlight of 562 00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:06,840 ESPN. We're just trying to get you to 563 00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:08,720 do the fundamentals. Because if you'll stay 564 00:39:08,720 --> 00:39:11,760 consistent and if you'll consistently tell your body no, 565 00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:13,440 you're going to get up and pray. Today. 566 00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:16,000 How many of you are like, I just need to get up earlier and pray, 567 00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:18,760 and then you don't do it. Why? 568 00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:25,040 Because your body says, And what do we do? 569 00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:29,920 We justify. Well next time, well next time, 570 00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:33,000 well next time. What I'm saying is the Bible's 571 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:35,840 very clear. If you want a spiritual impact, 572 00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:38,160 you're going to have to dominate the natural first. 573 00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:44,520 You're going to have to do that period. 574 00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:49,680 Now at the end of the day, if everybody was in shape, your 575 00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:51,960 shape, we're still not going to look the same. 576 00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:54,320 We're all going to look different. 577 00:39:54,720 --> 00:39:56,840 We're all going to be different. And it depends on what you're 578 00:39:56,840 --> 00:40:05,480 training for. And we're all in a training. 579 00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:07,640 Look what it says here in First Corinthians Chapter 9. 580 00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:10,640 I'm going to go 24 through 27 and I'm going to read out the 581 00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:14,320 passion it says. Isn't it obvious that all 582 00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:17,920 runners on the racetrack keep? Long running to win, but only 583 00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:21,920 one received the victor's prize. Yet each one of you must run the 584 00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:24,360 race to be victorious. You're going to have to run. 585 00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:26,800 You're not victorious just because you're born again. 586 00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:38,000 A true athlete, which implies a false 1A faker, A wannabe, a 587 00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:42,800 true athlete will be disciplined in every aspect, practicing 588 00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:46,280 constant self-control in order to win a Laurel reef that 589 00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:50,040 quickly Withers. But we run our race to win a 590 00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:52,960 victor's crown that will last forever. 591 00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:56,360 I mean, true athletes, they can't just go to the gym. 592 00:40:56,520 --> 00:40:59,840 They got to watch what they're eating, their diet, their their 593 00:40:59,840 --> 00:41:02,520 sleep, their who they hang out with. 594 00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:12,000 I mean, how many athletes have gotten in trouble 'cause they 595 00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:14,920 hung out with those who were boozing, running to the club. 596 00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:17,600 Now they're paying child supporting the people they don't 597 00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:20,600 even one night, you know, or they got in trouble, you know, 598 00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:22,800 there was that one Gator that was a tight end. 599 00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:25,840 I'm trying to think of his name. I've seen right now that, God, 600 00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:28,280 what was his name? Hernandez. 601 00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:36,360 I mean, what talent but couldn't control his mind got caught up 602 00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:43,880 in killing somebody. So God is saying to us as 603 00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:46,120 believers, you want to be spiritual? 604 00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:51,480 Well then let me see your whole life, Get it together, 'cause 605 00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:53,800 what we can't control, that we can see. 606 00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:57,160 I'm telling you, you're going to have a hard time in the spirit 607 00:41:59,720 --> 00:42:02,120 pop. Jesus literally says to Tim, to 608 00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:07,520 Thomas Thomas you needed to see me right in order to believe 609 00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:10,000 said bless those who without seeing can believe. 610 00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:15,280 We have taken that to a context that we act like we don't need 611 00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:19,160 anything naturally occurring yet. 612 00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:29,080 But how do you see God now? The word manifests in someone 613 00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:40,720 cause the word always becomes visible and the reality is I 614 00:42:40,720 --> 00:42:49,760 believe what I hear, then I have to act on it. 615 00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:54,560 Which means now I'm going to have to deal with the natural to 616 00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:57,080 release what inside is being spoken. 617 00:42:58,520 --> 00:42:59,840 I got to realize, man, I'm training. 618 00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:04,840 There's a race to win. There's people's lives to touch, 619 00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:13,760 to impact, to see overcome. People that can. 620 00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:18,240 This is why people that already have a natural discipline when 621 00:43:18,240 --> 00:43:20,840 they really make Jesus Lord can excel so well. 622 00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:22,800 Why? Because they've they've already 623 00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:26,720 conditioned themselves to be able to overcome. 624 00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:30,800 I cannot tell you it was the will of God for me to go on the 625 00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:32,280 army. I cannot tell you that. 626 00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:36,360 I mean, really it was kind of out of frustration, you know, 627 00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:39,120 angry at my mom. And it really, it was grief. 628 00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:43,560 My dad died and I had gone to school for that year extremely 629 00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:50,160 unfocused, you know, And you know, it was just a a process. 630 00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:52,680 Long story short, I'm like, I'm, I'm done. 631 00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:54,360 I'm going to go, I'll just join the army. 632 00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:56,760 And my brother-in-law convinced me to go into the National Guard 633 00:43:56,760 --> 00:43:59,520 because if I don't like it, it's only a weekend drill. 634 00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:01,480 If I love it, I can go in full time. 635 00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:04,800 I had options, right? So I took the advice, you know, 636 00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:09,000 just to run. But I will tell you this, the 637 00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:20,200 discipline was amazing for me because by by nature, prior to 638 00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:25,880 that, in what I did, I was pretty gifted with not much 639 00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:31,040 effort, especially in my mind in academics. 640 00:44:31,800 --> 00:44:35,400 I was not the smartest person, but I was not dumb. 641 00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:38,280 I would have been the smartest person if I would have actually 642 00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:42,160 exercised it more in the realm of the natural. 643 00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:45,960 I was already learning that because I did athletics and I 644 00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:49,760 had won some championships and it required me to condition. 645 00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:52,320 I was already learning how to keep my body down, especially 646 00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:55,000 when I had to make weight for weightlifting and I was 647 00:44:55,000 --> 00:45:00,520 overweight. All right, because I was too 648 00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:05,200 fat. I was 125 and I need to be 1/23 649 00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:09,760 and 1/4. So I was just this fat guy that 650 00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:16,320 had to lose a pound and a half. See, fat's relative OK is what 651 00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:19,680 I'm saying. I need to get down into the 123 652 00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:22,600 LB class and 1:25 HE. Would say you're too fat. 653 00:45:23,160 --> 00:45:24,680 They would. You're too heavy. 654 00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:27,200 That's saying in a nice way, you're too fat. 655 00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:29,760 To compete at this level, we have to go up a class. 656 00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:35,560 OK, so I know what it means to run in trash bags, to sit on a 657 00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:40,000 toilet, to release weight. I know what that means, Why I 658 00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:43,360 had to condition myself. I had to put my body down. 659 00:45:43,520 --> 00:45:45,960 But in order to be competitive, I actually had to put my body 660 00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:48,640 down to be able to do weight, you know, And Coach James was 661 00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:51,920 not a nice guy. He was not especially on the leg 662 00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:55,120 press, because when we push the leg press with the little 663 00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:57,520 plates, I'm talking about the universal type, he would say. 664 00:45:57,520 --> 00:46:01,000 Now you got to touch it like an egg could be in there. 665 00:46:01,240 --> 00:46:04,200 It's got to tap real easy and then come back up. 666 00:46:04,360 --> 00:46:06,840 If I put an egg in there and you break it, then you know it don't 667 00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:08,920 count. So you're like, OK, we're going 668 00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:19,760 to do 10 reps, ready? Go 123334555. 669 00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:23,680 I mean, I should have been done by now, but the clank, he makes 670 00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:25,400 me keep doing it and your legs are shaking. 671 00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:27,640 I mean, how do you get it quiet when your legs are shaking, 672 00:46:27,640 --> 00:46:34,400 going down, right? But you submit yourself to the 673 00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:37,040 natural to produce something else. 674 00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:43,000 And the body of Christ has become very lethargic. 675 00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:50,600 So I put myself in multiple environments, like what we're 676 00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:54,040 doing to you today. It'll condition you. 677 00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:58,960 Because right now Patricia and Eloise, who was 7-8 months 678 00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:04,840 pregnant at the time we went to Nicaragua, it was three times 679 00:47:04,840 --> 00:47:10,760 hotter than this right now. I mean, it was fiery furnace 680 00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:12,240 stuff. What in hell yet? 681 00:47:12,240 --> 00:47:14,720 But it was hotter. It was 7 times hotter than hot. 682 00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:19,680 Are you hearing me? I mean, the women did not 683 00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:23,400 perspire. They were sweating profusely, 684 00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:28,400 Profusely. There was sweat everywhere. 685 00:47:29,080 --> 00:47:32,560 They were sweating like crazy because it was hot. 686 00:47:32,720 --> 00:47:35,800 But you know what? You conditioned yourself and 687 00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:37,880 you're like, I remember when I did my first mission trip 688 00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:41,240 overseas and I had to come back. It was horrible. 689 00:47:41,960 --> 00:47:45,000 It wiped me out. It was the most horrible thing 690 00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:47,600 in jet lag. I've never had jet lag since 691 00:47:48,760 --> 00:47:50,720 because I said I'm going to eat different, I'm going to train 692 00:47:50,720 --> 00:47:54,200 different, I am not going to come back and be wiped out here. 693 00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:56,880 I am trying to make a spiritual impact, but I can't make it. 694 00:47:57,320 --> 00:48:00,760 I can't come back home and jump right into it because my body's 695 00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:07,280 all jacked up and we want to be spiritual at the expense of our 696 00:48:07,280 --> 00:48:14,490 natural. I got. 697 00:48:14,730 --> 00:48:18,440 I got ministers that are six years older than me fixing to be 698 00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:21,320 60, and they're talking about transition in their ministry. 699 00:48:21,320 --> 00:48:22,600 Why? Because they can't. 700 00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:24,840 They don't have the physical stamina to keep going. 701 00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:32,360 Why 'cause they disregarded the rest. 702 00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:36,200 You know what? It showed up in their services. 703 00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:38,680 Why 'cause they wouldn't take natural They wouldn't take 704 00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:40,760 risks. To grow. 705 00:48:40,840 --> 00:48:44,240 That means I'm going to have to naturally have more money. 706 00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:47,480 I'm going to naturally have to build, I'm going to naturally 707 00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:49,840 have to go through this process. I'm going to naturally have to 708 00:48:49,840 --> 00:48:51,720 do that. But in order for the spirit to 709 00:48:51,720 --> 00:48:55,040 show up in all those processes, I've got to start the process of 710 00:48:55,040 --> 00:48:58,440 the natural first. I don't need to see the money to 711 00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:01,800 have the money, but I got to start the process naturally. 712 00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:07,600 Because if we stay understanding the goal that we've heard in the 713 00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:10,960 Spirit and then begin to speak it out into the natural, the 714 00:49:10,960 --> 00:49:13,000 naturals first and the Spirit will follow. 715 00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:15,960 And we'll turn back and say, wow, look what God has done. 716 00:49:16,120 --> 00:49:19,800 But he didn't do it because we weren't naturally connected to 717 00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:22,240 the Spirit to release it into this realm. 718 00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:31,240 Nor did we not submit to what was necessary when I look out 719 00:49:31,240 --> 00:49:37,360 into this auditorium today. And I see. 720 00:49:37,360 --> 00:49:40,120 All who showed up knowing there was no air condition. 721 00:49:41,240 --> 00:49:44,200 I'm pretty excited. For those who didn't know it, 722 00:49:44,200 --> 00:49:48,920 Surprise. Right. 723 00:49:49,160 --> 00:50:01,880 Surprise, surprise. If we want to make a spiritual 724 00:50:01,880 --> 00:50:08,920 impact in government, Anila just gave me a statistic of the 725 00:50:08,920 --> 00:50:12,360 government officials that are representing us in Washington 726 00:50:12,960 --> 00:50:17,960 compared to the population of the United States, they make up 727 00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:25,760 .01%. Yep. 728 00:50:26,680 --> 00:50:30,920 Which tells us the greatest influence is the local 729 00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:35,040 government. And if the church really wanted 730 00:50:35,040 --> 00:50:38,040 to make a difference in their community, then they would 731 00:50:38,040 --> 00:50:41,760 naturally get in that sector of society to bring a spiritual 732 00:50:41,760 --> 00:50:44,800 effect. What do we do? 733 00:50:45,040 --> 00:50:49,840 Let's pray for our government. Now there's a natural side of 734 00:50:49,840 --> 00:50:53,360 that 'cause it takes you naturally, praying spiritually, 735 00:50:54,040 --> 00:50:56,560 But yet we think our government's going to change if 736 00:50:56,560 --> 00:51:05,920 we never take a seat. Yet God needs you to naturally 737 00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:14,040 run so that then your natural everyday sitting on the seat can 738 00:51:14,040 --> 00:51:18,520 make a change. Because you can say you would 739 00:51:18,520 --> 00:51:24,800 have wisdom to refute the stupidity and the the the things 740 00:51:24,800 --> 00:51:30,120 that are in error are from the enemy, the dark sayings that are 741 00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:34,640 only natural. As James says, they've become 742 00:51:34,640 --> 00:51:37,440 demonic and evil. You would have a voice why 743 00:51:37,440 --> 00:51:39,040 'cause you actually naturally ran. 744 00:51:39,040 --> 00:51:43,880 And I'm telling you, in the next five years I should have a 745 00:51:43,880 --> 00:51:46,520 county commissioner attending this church faithfully. 746 00:51:47,960 --> 00:51:50,360 Seriously, aggravate church should have that kind of 747 00:51:50,360 --> 00:51:53,880 influence. So someone needs to answer the 748 00:51:53,880 --> 00:52:01,480 call in our school boards if we're going to touch the sectors 749 00:52:01,480 --> 00:52:04,400 of society, we got to go there. Now the reason why family counts 750 00:52:04,400 --> 00:52:07,680 is they're they're begging us to do another class this year. 751 00:52:09,960 --> 00:52:14,200 But it create, it requires natural bodies to come and 752 00:52:14,200 --> 00:52:18,440 submit to the weeks, to condition themselves, to put 753 00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:22,160 down their TV and their own wants and desires, to be able to 754 00:52:22,160 --> 00:52:29,120 invest in someone else, to change their lives. 755 00:52:29,400 --> 00:52:32,480 We're not going to avoid this just by being spiritual. 756 00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:36,200 In fact, we're not even spiritual unless we're naturally 757 00:52:36,200 --> 00:52:41,320 motivated. We have to be able to say here I 758 00:52:41,320 --> 00:52:46,320 am, Lord, send me. God did not do things in the 759 00:52:46,360 --> 00:52:48,400 earth without a natural man or woman. 760 00:52:49,440 --> 00:52:54,160 And but when they went naturally underneath his authority and 761 00:52:54,160 --> 00:52:57,000 leadership, then he supernaturally showed up. 762 00:52:57,280 --> 00:52:59,920 In fact, if you look at Mozi like Lord, here we are. 763 00:52:59,920 --> 00:53:01,600 There's water. They're coming and going to try 764 00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:02,720 to kill us. What do you want me to do? 765 00:53:02,720 --> 00:53:04,040 He's like, why are you talking to me? 766 00:53:06,040 --> 00:53:08,360 I've already anointed you. I gave you the staff. 767 00:53:08,520 --> 00:53:11,160 You've been performing miracles with the thing lifted up, man. 768 00:53:13,080 --> 00:53:22,480 So he naturally first and then spiritually, the water obeyed 769 00:53:23,320 --> 00:53:27,320 and it parted, dried the ground and they walked through it. 770 00:53:31,280 --> 00:53:33,480 Oh, we're believing. God, finance, There's NASA. 771 00:53:33,480 --> 00:53:35,000 You got to naturally bring the money. 772 00:53:37,280 --> 00:53:39,240 Minister and spirits are out there doing their part, but you 773 00:53:39,240 --> 00:53:42,280 got to naturally go work. It says they had to go. 774 00:53:42,640 --> 00:53:46,600 He's giving you the power to get wealth, not give it to you while 775 00:53:46,600 --> 00:53:48,960 you lay on your couch and eat bonbons. 776 00:53:52,000 --> 00:53:53,360 Man don't work. A man don't eat. 777 00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:55,200 I don't care how much you praying in the spirit. 778 00:53:56,600 --> 00:53:58,880 You've got to get your hands out there and do something. 779 00:53:59,200 --> 00:54:01,720 Get connected. Get out there and in a pool, in 780 00:54:01,720 --> 00:54:08,440 a harvest. So don't ever reduce yourself to 781 00:54:08,440 --> 00:54:10,840 this. Oh, I'm spiritual and you have 782 00:54:10,840 --> 00:54:13,480 no natural connection to what's going on. 783 00:54:15,400 --> 00:54:20,800 Every one of us have a naturally first part to play, to be 784 00:54:20,800 --> 00:54:25,560 spiritual, and the first place starts with us just getting 785 00:54:25,560 --> 00:54:29,880 ourselves together every January. 786 00:54:29,880 --> 00:54:34,160 Many of you have said this year I am, and the only reason you 787 00:54:34,160 --> 00:54:38,120 didn't, it's because you let that part dominate you. 788 00:54:42,680 --> 00:54:44,720 Hey, I'll be the first to raise my hand. 789 00:54:44,880 --> 00:54:48,720 I've had many things in that I wanted to accomplish and the 790 00:54:48,720 --> 00:54:55,880 only reason I didn't is because I didn't because the only thing 791 00:54:55,880 --> 00:54:58,480 stopping it. Is me. 792 00:55:00,480 --> 00:55:02,560 We all go here. The Bible says the Spirit and 793 00:55:02,560 --> 00:55:04,440 the flesh battle daily. And when we say the spirit and 794 00:55:04,440 --> 00:55:07,080 the flesh, we think the flesh of just thoughts and things. 795 00:55:07,080 --> 00:55:10,040 No, it's you. I mean it's fleshly to let your 796 00:55:10,040 --> 00:55:16,880 body tell you not to get up. Now do you think the Holy Ghost 797 00:55:16,880 --> 00:55:20,480 can tell you you should rest and he will? 798 00:55:20,480 --> 00:55:23,360 No, he will. I mean your body can only take 799 00:55:23,360 --> 00:55:25,520 so much. Period. 800 00:55:27,240 --> 00:55:30,560 So there's no issue with rest. In fact the ground God says we 801 00:55:30,560 --> 00:55:33,360 going we going to cultivate this thing for 6th year like nothing 802 00:55:33,520 --> 00:55:39,160 but the 7th year don't let it rest so that the the nutrients 803 00:55:39,160 --> 00:55:42,360 the things and I got you back in the sixth year we going to have 804 00:55:42,360 --> 00:55:44,760 so much that it carry through the 7th year, 8th year before 805 00:55:44,760 --> 00:55:46,720 you start pulling the harvest off the 9th. 806 00:55:46,760 --> 00:55:48,960 Year. Right. 807 00:55:50,120 --> 00:55:53,200 So there will be a, but we're not even listening to the rest 808 00:55:53,200 --> 00:55:57,080 of the Lord. All we're doing is listen to our 809 00:55:57,080 --> 00:55:59,640 body every day. And let me tell you, it talks 810 00:55:59,640 --> 00:56:01,600 louder when you eat a lot of sugar. 811 00:56:02,320 --> 00:56:04,000 I will say that. Huh. 812 00:56:05,000 --> 00:56:07,160 I mean, I've gone to some restaurants, man, Have you gone 813 00:56:07,160 --> 00:56:09,120 there? You eat all the bread and the 814 00:56:09,200 --> 00:56:11,880 cupcakes and all that stuff and then you leave and then a few 815 00:56:11,880 --> 00:56:14,320 hours later you're like, I mean, you want to take a nap. 816 00:56:14,320 --> 00:56:18,400 So what do you do? We go get a cup of coffee. 817 00:56:18,840 --> 00:56:21,320 I mean, it's no different than a person taking drugs that are 818 00:56:21,320 --> 00:56:23,000 uppers and then they're doing Downers. 819 00:56:23,000 --> 00:56:24,880 Oh, y'all don't want to hear that. 820 00:56:24,880 --> 00:56:28,880 That's fine. I'm not dumb enough. 821 00:56:29,840 --> 00:56:33,280 I'm not so dumb that I don't realize what food has a part in 822 00:56:33,280 --> 00:56:35,880 the play. Now, I can't tell you what to 823 00:56:35,880 --> 00:56:37,800 eat. That's the Bible says that don't 824 00:56:37,800 --> 00:56:39,400 tell people what they should and shouldn't eat. 825 00:56:40,280 --> 00:56:41,760 You got to eat what's right for you. 826 00:56:42,720 --> 00:56:45,720 But what I am saying is you know when things affect you and how 827 00:56:45,720 --> 00:56:47,760 it affects you and you can say, you know what? 828 00:56:47,760 --> 00:56:50,560 I'm not doing that anymore. Or you know what? 829 00:56:50,560 --> 00:56:52,920 If I'm going to allow myself to have that, I'm not going to 830 00:56:52,920 --> 00:56:56,400 allow myself to have it at the expense that it derails all that 831 00:56:56,400 --> 00:57:01,680 I'm doing. And I'm telling you if you can't 832 00:57:01,680 --> 00:57:07,680 do it in the natural. You're not doing it in the 833 00:57:07,680 --> 00:57:11,440 spirit. It's not going to happen. 834 00:57:13,880 --> 00:57:17,440 So you need to say what are. Some things I can naturally do 835 00:57:17,440 --> 00:57:18,800 to Take Me Out of my comfort zone. 836 00:57:20,080 --> 00:57:27,320 And I choose to do them so that I let my body and my mind know. 837 00:57:27,760 --> 00:57:33,080 You take orders from the inside and then you'll condition that. 838 00:57:33,080 --> 00:57:36,480 Do you know what in this room, right there in this room today 839 00:57:36,480 --> 00:57:44,560 and I'm not being maybe maybe one today in this room 840 00:57:45,800 --> 00:57:51,320 currently, but I do believe that they could as well all of you 841 00:57:51,320 --> 00:57:55,040 could run a marathon. I'm not saying fast. 842 00:57:59,760 --> 00:58:01,200 Maybe I'm not even saying in one day. 843 00:58:05,120 --> 00:58:10,800 What I am saying is you could condition yourself because there 844 00:58:11,280 --> 00:58:15,880 there's there are people that are 8090, a hundred years old 845 00:58:15,880 --> 00:58:19,400 running and some of them didn't start till later. 846 00:58:20,320 --> 00:58:23,760 They were not lifelong runners. You know what they decided to 847 00:58:23,760 --> 00:58:25,080 do? I'm going to. 848 00:58:25,080 --> 00:58:28,360 And then they began to submit to it. 849 00:58:32,040 --> 00:58:35,800 You can write a book if you submit to it. 850 00:58:37,360 --> 00:58:40,320 You can write a song if you submit to it. 851 00:58:40,760 --> 00:58:43,440 You could read 15 other books this year. 852 00:58:43,960 --> 00:58:49,800 If you submit to it, you tell yourself what to do. 853 00:58:51,960 --> 00:58:54,240 Well, you know life. Life doesn't control you. 854 00:58:55,640 --> 00:59:02,240 You control life. It should be your goal to find 855 00:59:02,240 --> 00:59:04,840 something that's a little uncomfortable. 856 00:59:06,040 --> 00:59:08,280 And say I'm going to do this because I'm telling you, when 857 00:59:08,280 --> 00:59:11,360 you do it, it will impact your spiritual resolve. 858 00:59:11,880 --> 00:59:15,800 That way, when the attack comes, you'll be like, well, no, I'm 859 00:59:15,800 --> 00:59:19,560 not going to accept that word. And you'll actually do the fight 860 00:59:19,560 --> 00:59:21,440 of faith. You'll stay consistent. 861 00:59:21,440 --> 00:59:22,960 You'll stay with the word. You'll stay with your 862 00:59:22,960 --> 00:59:24,440 confession. You won't pull down. 863 00:59:24,440 --> 00:59:26,160 Why? Because you'll have something on 864 00:59:26,160 --> 00:59:29,840 the on the outside that you've already proven I dominate. 865 00:59:33,160 --> 00:59:36,880 So when he says prop exercise profits little, he's saying if 866 00:59:36,880 --> 00:59:40,040 you would just figure out how little that is, it will make 867 00:59:40,040 --> 00:59:46,080 huge spiritual implications. Because an hour workout, it 868 00:59:46,080 --> 00:59:47,920 takes you an hour to get that results. 869 00:59:47,960 --> 00:59:51,520 You can get stuff done in the spirit in extremely less time. 870 00:59:54,240 --> 00:59:58,800 What takes decades to build in muscle you can do in moments in 871 00:59:58,800 --> 01:00:04,880 the spirit in comparison. But both require the exercise. 872 01:00:07,320 --> 01:00:10,080 Both do. Are you hearing me? 873 01:00:10,760 --> 01:00:12,800 Let's pray, Father. We love you and we honor you. 874 01:00:13,400 --> 01:00:15,320 Think we. We're at our limit? 875 01:00:15,480 --> 01:00:26,480 We should be today, Father. They're natural things we have 876 01:00:26,480 --> 01:00:32,400 to do to build this church. Revival's not coming just 877 01:00:32,400 --> 01:00:37,080 because we say it is. Revival comes because we 878 01:00:37,080 --> 01:00:39,240 naturally come together in prayer. 879 01:00:40,400 --> 01:00:45,360 Revival comes to get comes because we naturally partner and 880 01:00:45,360 --> 01:00:48,200 get in different sectors of society and release the Kingdom 881 01:00:48,200 --> 01:00:53,240 of God. There are things that were done 882 01:00:53,320 --> 01:00:56,800 through the natural that affected the Spirit. 883 01:00:57,560 --> 01:01:03,160 For moves of God to come, the rain to come by the Spirit. 884 01:01:04,960 --> 01:01:09,240 There are things that you have on a timetable and you're 885 01:01:09,240 --> 01:01:12,120 wanting them to move, and they're always exceedingly, 886 01:01:12,120 --> 01:01:14,800 abundantly beyond what we did in the natural. 887 01:01:15,760 --> 01:01:21,560 But our natural released the overflow of the Spirit because 888 01:01:21,560 --> 01:01:23,800 it's not first the Spirit, then the natural. 889 01:01:24,200 --> 01:01:26,680 It's the natural first, then the Spirit. 890 01:01:31,160 --> 01:01:35,520 That's why sometimes the service Lord, you speak to their hearts 891 01:01:35,520 --> 01:01:38,320 and you say go down and worship me up front. 892 01:01:38,320 --> 01:01:44,520 And when they yield to that response by naturally moving and 893 01:01:44,520 --> 01:01:49,120 coming down, it has a spiritual effect in their life. 894 01:01:49,120 --> 01:01:51,640 But if they sit in their seat, they do not get the spiritual 895 01:01:51,640 --> 01:01:54,840 effect. That comes with the obedience of 896 01:01:54,840 --> 01:01:58,800 moving in the natural, moving their natural in connection with 897 01:01:58,800 --> 01:02:03,160 that word. If you tell us to dance, if you 898 01:02:03,160 --> 01:02:10,040 tell us to shout, if you tell us to be quiet and we have to 899 01:02:10,040 --> 01:02:16,160 control the natural, and when we respond to it correctly, it 900 01:02:16,160 --> 01:02:18,720 increases the spirit, it releases it. 901 01:02:19,680 --> 01:02:26,040 Just like when there's the call to salvation for someone to be 902 01:02:26,040 --> 01:02:28,880 born again, it's not because Jesus hadn't already paid the 903 01:02:28,880 --> 01:02:31,400 price. It's not because the blood 904 01:02:31,400 --> 01:02:34,880 hasn't already been shed. It's not because from his 905 01:02:34,880 --> 01:02:37,240 perspective, he's already forgiven you. 906 01:02:38,120 --> 01:02:43,040 It's you naturally responding to his message, then believing in 907 01:02:43,040 --> 01:02:45,520 your heart and confessing with your natural mouth. 908 01:02:45,600 --> 01:02:50,240 Jesus Christ is Lord, and then you're born of God. 909 01:02:53,720 --> 01:02:56,720 It's the same way when you get baptized in the Holy Ghost, you 910 01:02:57,400 --> 01:03:01,360 hear from heaven. You know you want the power you 911 01:03:01,360 --> 01:03:05,240 come to receive it, and sometimes it's administered 912 01:03:05,240 --> 01:03:11,800 through the natural laying on of hands, just like healing can be 913 01:03:12,080 --> 01:03:16,960 administered a spiritual power. That shows up. 914 01:03:17,280 --> 01:03:28,110 Through a natural touch, for Jesus naturally took stripes 915 01:03:28,110 --> 01:03:38,080 upon his back. For a spiritual healing plan, he 916 01:03:38,080 --> 01:03:43,280 took on a natural beating. So we could have physical. 917 01:03:43,280 --> 01:03:48,920 Healing to our natural body that came by the Spirit, the natural 918 01:03:48,920 --> 01:03:56,720 first, then the Spirit Father. May we not disregard the power 919 01:03:57,440 --> 01:04:01,600 that we possess when we subject our natural to what we're 920 01:04:01,600 --> 01:04:06,080 hearing in our inner man and when we act on it in obedience. 921 01:04:06,160 --> 01:04:11,160 That natural response to the Spirit in US will release a 922 01:04:11,160 --> 01:04:16,240 spiritual power is how your Kingdom shows up in the earth. 923 01:04:16,240 --> 01:04:20,520 Your Kingdom comes through our natural expression of what we've 924 01:04:20,520 --> 01:04:23,960 heard. 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