1 00:00:02,280 --> 00:00:04,840 Thanks for checking out the Anchor Faith Message podcast 2 00:00:04,840 --> 00:00:06,200 from St. Augustine, FL. 3 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:17,800 Now enjoy this message. Oh man, settle down. 4 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:19,760 I hadn't even said anything yet. Right? 5 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:23,120 Happy to be here. You guys know I'm not from 6 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:27,360 Florida because I obey the speed limit, but anyway, I've still 7 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:29,770 got here on time. I think that speed limit is more 8 00:00:29,770 --> 00:00:35,610 of a suggestion for y'all. But anyway, glad to be here. 9 00:00:35,610 --> 00:00:37,050 What a privilege it is to be here, man. 10 00:00:37,050 --> 00:00:39,090 You guys have church on Wednesday night and y'all don't 11 00:00:39,090 --> 00:00:40,850 just come together for something little, man. 12 00:00:40,850 --> 00:00:44,250 You guys have full blown church, you know? 13 00:00:44,250 --> 00:00:46,010 And you guys have. I mean that's normal to y'all, 14 00:00:46,010 --> 00:00:48,330 but that's not normal. We travel a lot. 15 00:00:48,330 --> 00:00:49,890 We go to different churches all the time. 16 00:00:49,890 --> 00:00:52,410 And man, that's awesome. Just to be able to come 17 00:00:52,410 --> 00:00:54,090 somewhere like this. I mean that's you guys are 18 00:00:54,090 --> 00:00:56,450 blessed, you know we've known your pastors. 19 00:00:56,450 --> 00:00:58,780 Yeah, give something to have. Hallelujah. 20 00:01:01,420 --> 00:01:03,100 You guys are blessed. I've known your pastors for 21 00:01:03,100 --> 00:01:04,540 years and man, they're awesome people. 22 00:01:04,900 --> 00:01:07,140 Just what a wonderful place to be able to come here. 23 00:01:07,500 --> 00:01:10,100 But you know, as Kara said, we're going to, we're going to 24 00:01:10,100 --> 00:01:12,780 get into some of this tonight. Go to Matthew Chapter 9. 25 00:01:13,340 --> 00:01:14,860 That's we're turning there. I'll share a couple of things 26 00:01:14,860 --> 00:01:17,780 with you. The book, Simplify soul winning. 27 00:01:17,780 --> 00:01:20,020 You hear that You know you know, maybe a little confusing. 28 00:01:20,020 --> 00:01:23,820 What that is, is just a real simple book with simple 29 00:01:23,820 --> 00:01:26,460 principles that will help you share your faith with someone 30 00:01:26,460 --> 00:01:28,150 else in your life. Right. 31 00:01:28,150 --> 00:01:29,630 This is not. We have a mutual friend, Roddy 32 00:01:29,630 --> 00:01:30,910 Schaefer. You got he's probably ministered 33 00:01:30,910 --> 00:01:32,030 here before. You know he's a crusade 34 00:01:32,030 --> 00:01:34,150 evangelist man. I try to do a crusade one time 35 00:01:34,150 --> 00:01:37,230 and failed miserably. So I'm not a crusade evangelist. 36 00:01:37,230 --> 00:01:38,990 This. This book is not about that. 37 00:01:39,390 --> 00:01:41,470 But this book will help you to share your faith. 38 00:01:41,470 --> 00:01:43,590 Sure. Jesus, with those in your life, 39 00:01:43,590 --> 00:01:45,310 those that you have contact with. 40 00:01:46,350 --> 00:01:48,630 And so I encourage you to get a copy of that. 41 00:01:48,870 --> 00:01:51,870 Again, I apologize we missed our shipment by an hour and a half. 42 00:01:51,950 --> 00:01:54,070 Spent two hours on the phone with UPS trying to get him to 43 00:01:54,070 --> 00:01:55,390 let me come pick it up and they wouldn't. 44 00:01:55,750 --> 00:01:57,870 So anyway. But you know, we can get the. 45 00:01:58,030 --> 00:02:00,150 Books shipped to you. But if you'd like an E copy of 46 00:02:00,150 --> 00:02:02,790 the book, if you'll give us your your e-mail address, I'll send 47 00:02:02,790 --> 00:02:05,470 you a free E copy of it or be on PDF and you can read it on your 48 00:02:05,470 --> 00:02:07,710 phone or your tablet or computer or anything. 49 00:02:07,750 --> 00:02:09,590 But our goal is just to get the word out there. 50 00:02:09,590 --> 00:02:11,550 Amen. Just to get the word in there. 51 00:02:11,550 --> 00:02:14,870 As as we shared earlier, you know, our mission that God kind 52 00:02:14,870 --> 00:02:17,390 of gave us several years ago was to harvest harvesters. 53 00:02:17,590 --> 00:02:20,550 And that's what we want to do. Amen is harvest is plentiful 54 00:02:20,550 --> 00:02:22,230 here in Saint Augustine. Guess what? 55 00:02:22,230 --> 00:02:24,110 I'll only be here for a couple days. 56 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:27,160 So it doesn't really help St. Augustine for me to know how to 57 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:29,840 win souls, right? But he's got a whole bunch of 58 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:32,440 people that are crazy enough about Jesus to come out to 59 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:35,120 church on a Wednesday night. Hallelujah. 60 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:38,250 Hey man. But so grab you a grab you a 61 00:02:38,250 --> 00:02:40,250 copy of that book. As Kara said, we're looking to 62 00:02:40,250 --> 00:02:43,530 double our partnership. And So what that means is we 63 00:02:43,530 --> 00:02:46,690 need to raise an additional $100,000 per year in support and 64 00:02:46,690 --> 00:02:48,370 an additional 100 partners per month. 65 00:02:48,370 --> 00:02:51,330 So if one person wants to write a check for 100,000, make my job 66 00:02:51,330 --> 00:02:53,570 much easier. But if you can't do that, we say 67 00:02:53,570 --> 00:02:56,770 for as little as $10 a month you can help feed hungry children in 68 00:02:56,770 --> 00:02:59,090 France. Mine, I have three boys and they 69 00:02:59,090 --> 00:03:01,090 eat all the time and they keep growing. 70 00:03:01,090 --> 00:03:03,050 I got to buy them clothes. So if y'all wouldn't eat so much 71 00:03:03,050 --> 00:03:04,810 and grow so much, I wanted to raise so much money. 72 00:03:06,670 --> 00:03:08,590 And Europe is expensive. That's the other thing. 73 00:03:08,590 --> 00:03:10,270 I talked to other missionaries and they tell me their budget 74 00:03:10,270 --> 00:03:13,190 was like, you couldn't rent a car over there for that much. 75 00:03:13,870 --> 00:03:17,110 And But anyway, God, I said this Sunday morning, I said, you 76 00:03:17,110 --> 00:03:19,270 know, in the Old Testament, one time the Lord said, is my arm 77 00:03:19,270 --> 00:03:21,390 too short? I mean, you know what I'm 78 00:03:21,390 --> 00:03:22,630 saying? His arm will reach all the way 79 00:03:22,630 --> 00:03:24,350 over there to France. His arm will reach wherever 80 00:03:24,350 --> 00:03:26,030 you're at in Saint Augustine. Amen. 81 00:03:26,310 --> 00:03:28,150 Hallelujah. God is good. 82 00:03:28,940 --> 00:03:31,420 Amen. So let's see. 83 00:03:31,420 --> 00:03:32,180 Yeah, we got that. All right. 84 00:03:32,180 --> 00:03:35,020 So sign up to partner, sign up to get our newsletter and find 85 00:03:35,020 --> 00:03:37,380 out what's going on with us. You know, as European 86 00:03:37,380 --> 00:03:40,380 missionaries, a lot of times what our job when we're here in 87 00:03:40,380 --> 00:03:43,540 the States is to kind of educate people as people say, Europe, 88 00:03:43,820 --> 00:03:45,020 you're you're a missionary to Europe. 89 00:03:45,020 --> 00:03:46,900 That's kind of weird because I thought that's where the gospel 90 00:03:46,900 --> 00:03:48,380 came to America. It was. 91 00:03:48,860 --> 00:03:51,460 But if you've ever heard the phrase, America is only one 92 00:03:51,460 --> 00:03:54,060 generation away from being a godless society. 93 00:03:54,180 --> 00:03:56,140 You can get on a plane and go with me to Europe and I'll show 94 00:03:56,140 --> 00:03:58,200 you first hand. Amen. 95 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:02,440 It really is. Europe as a whole is about 3% 96 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:05,840 born again. France one of the less that the 97 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:08,840 least at 1%, less than 1% born again. 98 00:04:09,470 --> 00:04:11,510 And really, as we began to step into France, you know, our heart 99 00:04:11,510 --> 00:04:14,030 began to, as we began to pray and we began to research and 100 00:04:14,030 --> 00:04:16,550 take steps and go in and administer and pray and kind of 101 00:04:16,550 --> 00:04:20,070 spy it out, our hearts went to the towns and villages because 102 00:04:20,070 --> 00:04:22,029 we found out that's where nobody wanted to go, that's where none 103 00:04:22,029 --> 00:04:23,710 of the ministers wanted to go is and where none of the 104 00:04:23,710 --> 00:04:25,950 missionaries wanted to go. And we said let's go. 105 00:04:26,030 --> 00:04:29,830 And so, you know, we went. God led us and helped us to, you 106 00:04:29,830 --> 00:04:32,070 know, at by, at Rama. They told us if you're going to 107 00:04:32,070 --> 00:04:34,710 do something you've never done before, go find somebody else 108 00:04:34,710 --> 00:04:35,830 that's doing it and work with them. 109 00:04:36,110 --> 00:04:38,360 It's great. There's nobody doing that in 110 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:41,520 France. So we said, Lord, what are we 111 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:42,880 supposed to do? We said, well, let's go to 112 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:44,520 language school. And the Lord said no. 113 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:46,240 And I said, Lord, this is not a good idea. 114 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:49,680 We'll do it. If I don't know how hard it was 115 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:51,560 going to be, I probably would have said no. 116 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:54,400 We're asked for another a transfer. 117 00:04:55,280 --> 00:04:58,120 But praise God, we got there. We learned a lot the last six 118 00:04:58,120 --> 00:04:59,560 years. And, you know, but we couldn't 119 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:01,280 have done it without partner churches like you guys. 120 00:05:01,280 --> 00:05:03,480 I mean, just seriously, there's there's no other way. 121 00:05:04,140 --> 00:05:06,860 You know, as missionaries there were totally dependent upon 122 00:05:06,860 --> 00:05:09,460 support and so we can't, you know, can't work over there. 123 00:05:09,460 --> 00:05:11,620 I don't have any skills anyway, other than looking good and 124 00:05:11,620 --> 00:05:14,340 preaching and those don't pay a lot in France. 125 00:05:15,180 --> 00:05:18,380 So anyway, let's go to Matthew, Chapter 9, as I already told 126 00:05:18,380 --> 00:05:19,980 you, and we'll get into the word here tonight. 127 00:05:19,980 --> 00:05:21,740 You got something? I'm only here with you for a few 128 00:05:21,740 --> 00:05:24,740 moments, but I've got something that these things that I'm going 129 00:05:24,740 --> 00:05:26,620 to share with you tonight. I didn't read them on in a book. 130 00:05:26,620 --> 00:05:29,780 I didn't find them on somebody's blog or find a video on YouTube. 131 00:05:29,780 --> 00:05:31,860 This is stuff I walked out myself and it'll help you. 132 00:05:32,430 --> 00:05:34,070 Amen. I believe some of the things 133 00:05:34,070 --> 00:05:36,670 that I faced and overcome the last three or four years, that 134 00:05:36,670 --> 00:05:38,750 I'm not the only one in the body of Christ that are dealing with 135 00:05:38,750 --> 00:05:40,630 some of these things. Amen. 136 00:05:40,630 --> 00:05:42,670 And so I trust some of these things will be a blessing to you 137 00:05:42,670 --> 00:05:44,790 tonight. But let's pray, Father, we just 138 00:05:44,790 --> 00:05:47,350 thank you so much for the privilege of being here tonight. 139 00:05:47,350 --> 00:05:49,350 Father was such precious and wonderful people. 140 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:51,920 Father, what a privilege it is to be here in St. 141 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:53,840 Augustine with Pastor Earl and Marcy and their wonderful, 142 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:56,640 wonderful congregation. We thank you tonight, Father, 143 00:05:56,640 --> 00:05:58,720 for the Holy Spirit. We think that he's giving 144 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:01,520 revelation to each and everyone that's here or watching online, 145 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:04,360 or we're listening later on. Father, We thank you, Lord, that 146 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:06,480 you're opening our eyes. It would see wondrous things 147 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:08,920 from your law opening our ears to hear what your word would 148 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:11,840 saying to us, giving us wisdom, understanding and revelation of 149 00:06:11,840 --> 00:06:12,560 your word. Father. 150 00:06:13,140 --> 00:06:16,500 Helping us, Lord God, to have peace and freedom in our lives 151 00:06:16,660 --> 00:06:19,740 so that we can get our eyes off of ourselves and look to the 152 00:06:19,740 --> 00:06:21,700 harvest that's plentiful all around us. 153 00:06:21,700 --> 00:06:23,420 Father. You've given us a mission, 154 00:06:23,420 --> 00:06:25,540 Father, But it's. Hard to do that mission when 155 00:06:25,540 --> 00:06:27,420 we're dealing with so much junk ourselves. 156 00:06:27,900 --> 00:06:29,860 And so, Father, I thank you, Lord God, that you've given us 157 00:06:29,860 --> 00:06:31,580 the tools. And I thank you, Lord, that 158 00:06:31,580 --> 00:06:33,500 you're showing us how to use those tools, Father, 159 00:06:33,660 --> 00:06:35,300 effectively, efficiently, so we can. 160 00:06:35,300 --> 00:06:37,880 Run our race. So that we can reach the law. 161 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:41,880 So we can bring in the harvest and see Jesus come back and take 162 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:45,040 away a glorious church and be get to be a part of it. 163 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:47,360 What a privilege, Lord God to Live Today. 164 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:49,120 And so, Father, we thank you for that. 165 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:50,480 Tonight we thank you for your word. 166 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:53,240 We place a demand upon the anointing and just draw out of 167 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:56,120 that exactly what you have for us to receive tonight. 168 00:06:56,360 --> 00:06:58,520 In Jesus name we pray. Amen. 169 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:01,760 We'll talk to you tonight. Tonight about 3 words talked 170 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:04,120 about mission, position and condition. 171 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:06,590 All right. So the first thing we're going 172 00:07:06,590 --> 00:07:08,630 to see here, well, the first thing I'm just going to kind of 173 00:07:08,630 --> 00:07:10,150 introduce and I thought out there, we're not going to spend 174 00:07:10,150 --> 00:07:13,550 much time on it because I know that y'all got a special treat 175 00:07:13,550 --> 00:07:14,510 for y'all. It's right outside. 176 00:07:14,510 --> 00:07:18,110 But anyway, the first thing we're talking about is our 177 00:07:18,110 --> 00:07:21,470 position when we receive Christ, When we come into the Kingdom of 178 00:07:21,470 --> 00:07:24,830 God, we all have the same position that make sense. 179 00:07:25,030 --> 00:07:27,830 So when we're in Christed as the way Mark Hankin said, I love 180 00:07:27,830 --> 00:07:30,990 that phrase in Christed. When we get in Christed or Born 181 00:07:30,990 --> 00:07:33,110 again, we are right with the Father. 182 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:37,840 Same position as Jesus. I can't improve that position. 183 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:40,080 I can't, you know, work extra or earn extra. 184 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:41,920 Do anything else to change that position. 185 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:44,080 That position is fixed. I'm born again. 186 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:46,760 I'm righteous once I get filled with the Spirit of God. 187 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:49,080 I've got you've got the same spirit if you've been filled 188 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:50,440 with the Holy Spirit that the pastor. 189 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:53,040 Earl and I get with the same one, you know, we don't have a 190 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:55,280 different spirit because we got to sit under Brother Hagan, You 191 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:56,560 know what I'm saying? It's not like the Lord said, 192 00:07:56,560 --> 00:07:58,080 hey, you got to sit under Brother Hagan. 193 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:00,960 So here's a little difference. No, it's the same Holy Ghost. 194 00:08:01,430 --> 00:08:03,870 Same position, all right. You and I've. 195 00:08:03,870 --> 00:08:08,230 Got the same promises for us. In the word of God, there's not 196 00:08:08,230 --> 00:08:10,390 a separate book. For for ministers, there's not a 197 00:08:10,390 --> 00:08:11,990 separate book. You know, for one. 198 00:08:12,390 --> 00:08:14,550 We've all got the same promises. Amen. 199 00:08:14,990 --> 00:08:17,030 Now we've got different assignments. 200 00:08:18,030 --> 00:08:21,070 And we may have specifically different missions in our lives. 201 00:08:21,070 --> 00:08:22,710 You may not be called to go to France. 202 00:08:22,910 --> 00:08:24,350 I'm not called the pastor here in St. 203 00:08:24,350 --> 00:08:27,110 Augustine or go all the places that your pastor goes. 204 00:08:27,390 --> 00:08:30,790 But so we may have different assignments, But the basic 205 00:08:30,790 --> 00:08:33,150 mission, which is the second thing we're gonna spend a little 206 00:08:33,150 --> 00:08:35,470 time talking about, we all have the same thing. 207 00:08:35,470 --> 00:08:37,950 And that's. Harvest What do mean we? 208 00:08:38,190 --> 00:08:41,710 Sharing the love of God with those around us. 209 00:08:42,179 --> 00:08:44,660 They meant harvest. So let's look my lovely wife 210 00:08:44,660 --> 00:08:47,540 already talked about John 435 and I love when she when she 211 00:08:47,540 --> 00:08:49,940 shares that, you know you got to get your eyes off of yourself. 212 00:08:49,940 --> 00:08:52,500 We were teaching one time in England when we first got in 213 00:08:52,500 --> 00:08:57,220 there on on harvest and the Lord said the 1st wall we have to 214 00:08:57,220 --> 00:08:59,700 overcome to share the gospel with someone is the wall we've 215 00:08:59,700 --> 00:09:02,900 built around ourselves. So again, we got to get our eyes 216 00:09:02,900 --> 00:09:05,830 off of ourself. Right, so Matthew Chapter 9. 217 00:09:05,830 --> 00:09:09,350 Let's look here real quickly. Matthew Chapter 9, verse 35 says 218 00:09:09,390 --> 00:09:11,790 Jesus went about all the cities and villages teaching in their 219 00:09:11,790 --> 00:09:14,350 synagogues and preaching the gospel of the Kingdom and 220 00:09:14,350 --> 00:09:16,470 healing every sickness and every disease among the people. 221 00:09:16,830 --> 00:09:20,150 But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on 222 00:09:20,150 --> 00:09:22,150 them. Because they were, they fainted 223 00:09:22,150 --> 00:09:25,070 and were scattered abroad, a sheep having no shepherd that 224 00:09:25,070 --> 00:09:28,350 says he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but 225 00:09:28,350 --> 00:09:31,910 the laborers are few. Now, three times Jesus uses this 226 00:09:31,910 --> 00:09:33,910 phrase. The first one is in John 435, 227 00:09:34,150 --> 00:09:36,750 the second one here is Matthew here in Matthew Chapter 9, verse 228 00:09:36,750 --> 00:09:38,670 37. And the third one is over in 229 00:09:38,670 --> 00:09:41,390 Luke chapter 10, verse two. Same thing, he says. 230 00:09:41,550 --> 00:09:43,310 Anybody y'all ever told your kids something? 231 00:09:43,310 --> 00:09:45,550 Three times? Everybody kids, me. 232 00:09:45,550 --> 00:09:47,870 Are you growing up and your parents ever told you something? 233 00:09:47,870 --> 00:09:49,350 Three times where I grew up in Louisiana. 234 00:09:49,430 --> 00:09:51,670 But the third time, if I've not done what I've been asked to do, 235 00:09:51,670 --> 00:09:53,150 there's usually a whooping that went along with it. 236 00:09:53,150 --> 00:09:54,390 So I don't know if y'all can do that in St. 237 00:09:54,390 --> 00:09:56,950 Augustine or not anymore, but. They could in Louisiana in the 238 00:09:56,950 --> 00:10:01,160 80s, I'll tell you that. And so three times, Jesus makes 239 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:04,200 the same statement. Now he's using an agricultural, 240 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:08,160 a growing, a garden. You know, an agricultural 241 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:11,880 analogy here, but we know, you know, I farmed. 242 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:12,960 I grew. Up way out in the country, 243 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:14,920 Louisiana. And I farmed just enough as a 244 00:10:14,920 --> 00:10:17,200 kid to know I didn't want to farm, didn't like it. 245 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:19,430 Didn't have fun. During COVID, you know, we were 246 00:10:19,430 --> 00:10:21,510 locked down there in France and we had a lot of time on our 247 00:10:21,510 --> 00:10:22,990 hands. And so I said, you know what, 248 00:10:22,990 --> 00:10:24,670 I'm going to grow a garden. And so I went and bought some 249 00:10:24,670 --> 00:10:29,070 seeds and I killed some lettuce. I killed some, I think radishes 250 00:10:29,070 --> 00:10:31,670 and cucumbers. Brian's not a farmer. 251 00:10:31,670 --> 00:10:34,830 Brian doesn't grow a garden. Brian will eat the vegetables, 252 00:10:34,830 --> 00:10:37,710 but Brian doesn't grow. But even from my limited 253 00:10:37,710 --> 00:10:41,670 agricultural experience, I know enough to know that it's not 254 00:10:41,670 --> 00:10:43,470 just harvest, that there's other steps. 255 00:10:44,030 --> 00:10:46,790 Right, but that's not what Jesus said was plentiful. 256 00:10:47,410 --> 00:10:50,090 He said harvest is plentiful. What does that mean? 257 00:10:50,090 --> 00:10:53,650 That means when we're out there, our mission is harvest to bring 258 00:10:53,650 --> 00:10:55,810 him in. You know, when I was talking to 259 00:10:55,810 --> 00:10:57,890 Karen and I looked out there and I saw Isaac, I'd already talked 260 00:10:57,890 --> 00:11:00,130 to Isaac a couple times, tried to bring him in. 261 00:11:00,130 --> 00:11:02,410 It was it quite right yet? And the Kara said that's a 262 00:11:02,410 --> 00:11:04,810 divine appointment. She said go out there. 263 00:11:04,810 --> 00:11:07,090 So I was able to go out there and bring him in next time I saw 264 00:11:07,090 --> 00:11:08,810 him, was able to get him filled with the Holy Ghost. 265 00:11:09,130 --> 00:11:10,010 Right? What am I saying? 266 00:11:10,010 --> 00:11:12,690 We're out there to harvest. That's the mission, all right. 267 00:11:13,090 --> 00:11:15,490 But but look here, Let's look the first thing Jesus said to 268 00:11:15,490 --> 00:11:17,080 do. So this is. 269 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:20,520 All of our mission, mine, yours, pastorals, Pastor Marcy's cares. 270 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:24,400 Anybody that's a Christian God wants to use them to reach 271 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:26,840 theirs, those that are in their neighborhood, those that are in 272 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:28,800 around them. Amen. 273 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:30,920 For some of you, it may be going to a neighbor. 274 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:34,240 For others it may be just God. Just just learning how to hear 275 00:11:34,240 --> 00:11:36,520 the spirit of God when God says go talk to that person. 276 00:11:37,110 --> 00:11:39,710 Remember with Phillip, Phillip over there, the book of Acts. 277 00:11:39,710 --> 00:11:41,230 We don't have time to look there this evening. 278 00:11:41,230 --> 00:11:43,670 But you know, I loved because Phillip goes and he preaches to 279 00:11:43,670 --> 00:11:45,270 them. You know, I'm saying he goes and 280 00:11:45,270 --> 00:11:48,630 he gets a whole city born again, I mean, and then and then they 281 00:11:48,630 --> 00:11:50,630 send Peter and John down there and all the stuff, this cool 282 00:11:50,630 --> 00:11:52,350 stuff happens. So he goes to them. 283 00:11:52,510 --> 00:11:56,950 But then the spirit of God says go to him, sends him to one guy. 284 00:11:57,310 --> 00:11:59,310 He says go join yourself to that chair. 285 00:11:59,310 --> 00:12:01,710 Not just any chariot, he's not just up there knocking on 286 00:12:01,710 --> 00:12:03,350 chariot doors. Hey you, anybody ready to get 287 00:12:03,350 --> 00:12:05,590 born if you say go to that chariot? 288 00:12:06,150 --> 00:12:09,630 I said divine appointment. He goes to that chariot, and the 289 00:12:09,630 --> 00:12:12,350 guy in that chariot was reading from Isaiah. 290 00:12:13,510 --> 00:12:16,230 See, this guy's ready. If you read over there in John 291 00:12:16,230 --> 00:12:19,470 Ford, Jesus actually says heart. He He says lift up your eyes and 292 00:12:19,470 --> 00:12:23,390 sees harvest is plentiful. I've sent you to reap that for 293 00:12:23,390 --> 00:12:26,990 which you've not even labored. But in order to reap that for 294 00:12:26,990 --> 00:12:30,070 which we've not even labored, we're going to have to First off 295 00:12:30,070 --> 00:12:32,820 realize harvest is plentiful. Secondly, we're going to have to 296 00:12:32,820 --> 00:12:35,140 begin to pray. That's the the very next thing 297 00:12:35,140 --> 00:12:38,060 Jesus says here in verse 38. Pray ye therefore the Lord of 298 00:12:38,060 --> 00:12:41,420 the harvest that he would send forth laborers into his harvest. 299 00:12:42,260 --> 00:12:43,300 Now we're going to keep reading here. 300 00:12:43,300 --> 00:12:46,460 Matthew chapter 10, Matthew chapter 10 and many translations 301 00:12:46,460 --> 00:12:49,060 starts with an and and joins 2 things together. 302 00:12:49,060 --> 00:12:52,020 So this is the continuation here, but I'm going to read it 303 00:12:52,020 --> 00:12:53,820 from the message. The message. 304 00:12:53,820 --> 00:12:59,140 Version here if I can find it. Yeah, Matthew 10 verse one. 305 00:12:59,140 --> 00:13:02,460 It says the prayer was no sooner prayed than it was answered. 306 00:13:03,820 --> 00:13:06,780 Jesus tells him to pray and then it says he answers the prayer 307 00:13:06,860 --> 00:13:10,180 how he called. Twelve of his followers and sent 308 00:13:10,180 --> 00:13:12,580 them into the right fields. He gave them power to kick out 309 00:13:12,580 --> 00:13:15,380 evil spirits and to tenderly care for the bruised and hurt. 310 00:13:15,940 --> 00:13:18,590 So we're talking about mission. Mission. 311 00:13:18,590 --> 00:13:20,630 We've all got the same mission, all right. 312 00:13:20,870 --> 00:13:23,030 We've all got the same position. We come into Christ. 313 00:13:23,150 --> 00:13:25,590 Same position. Now, me walking in the mission 314 00:13:25,590 --> 00:13:27,590 does not improve my condition. My positions. 315 00:13:27,590 --> 00:13:29,870 That makes sense because, all right, here, here, Brown, 316 00:13:29,870 --> 00:13:32,350 there's an extra little Gold Star for you there, you know? 317 00:13:32,510 --> 00:13:34,630 No, it does. We're still, we've got the same 318 00:13:34,630 --> 00:13:35,390 position. All right. 319 00:13:35,710 --> 00:13:36,390 OK. Submission. 320 00:13:36,390 --> 00:13:38,110 All right. Skip down to verse five. 321 00:13:38,110 --> 00:13:40,190 It says Jesus gives some further instructions. 322 00:13:40,190 --> 00:13:43,230 He says Jesus sent his 12 harvest hands out with this 323 00:13:43,230 --> 00:13:45,670 charge. Don't begin by traveling to some 324 00:13:45,670 --> 00:13:47,710 far off place to convert unbelievers. 325 00:13:48,270 --> 00:13:50,870 Don't try to be dramatic by tackling some Public Enemy. 326 00:13:51,230 --> 00:13:54,030 Go to the lost, confused people right here in the neighborhood. 327 00:13:54,390 --> 00:13:56,150 Tell them that the Kingdom is here. 328 00:13:56,670 --> 00:13:58,390 Bring health to the sick. Raise the dead. 329 00:13:58,390 --> 00:14:00,270 Touch the untouchables. Kick out the demons. 330 00:14:00,430 --> 00:14:03,190 You've been treated generously, so live generously. 331 00:14:03,830 --> 00:14:06,190 Don't think you have to put on a fundraising campaign before you 332 00:14:06,190 --> 00:14:07,550 start. You don't need a lot of 333 00:14:07,550 --> 00:14:09,550 equipment. You are the equipment. 334 00:14:10,500 --> 00:14:12,660 He says and all you need to keep going is 3 meals a day travel 335 00:14:12,660 --> 00:14:14,140 light right? So here we go. 336 00:14:14,260 --> 00:14:17,900 Jesus says harvest is plentiful. He says pray and then he says go 337 00:14:18,620 --> 00:14:21,100 to to put that in the redneck version he would say, Jesus 338 00:14:21,100 --> 00:14:23,340 said. Y'all pray and then y'all go 339 00:14:24,220 --> 00:14:25,580 Amen. Kind of reminds me of a boss I 340 00:14:25,580 --> 00:14:27,980 had in Texas when I first started working for this guy. 341 00:14:28,220 --> 00:14:30,860 He would say, Brian, do you want to go clean the stockroom? 342 00:14:30,900 --> 00:14:34,460 And I would say Nope. Little bit later he'd say, Brian 343 00:14:34,460 --> 00:14:36,460 go clean the stockroom, so. Finally I learned. 344 00:14:37,020 --> 00:14:40,300 That when he said we or he said do you want to? 345 00:14:40,300 --> 00:14:43,420 That meant yes, I did want to. It's kind of like a woman and my 346 00:14:43,420 --> 00:14:44,620 wife says, do you want to do this? 347 00:14:44,620 --> 00:14:46,980 Well, I didn't want to stop for coffee, but I will now. 348 00:14:47,580 --> 00:14:49,260 Evidently I just had that desire. 349 00:14:49,260 --> 00:14:52,100 I'm going to stop and get a cup of coffee for you. 350 00:14:52,580 --> 00:14:54,260 I drank my own coffee. I don't like to pay for coffee. 351 00:14:56,300 --> 00:14:58,420 So Jesus said, y'all pray and then y'all go all right. 352 00:14:58,420 --> 00:15:01,610 That's the mission. See, the assignment may be 353 00:15:01,610 --> 00:15:03,130 different. Whether you call the pastor, 354 00:15:03,130 --> 00:15:04,530 whether you're called to be a missionary, whether you're 355 00:15:04,530 --> 00:15:06,970 called to be an auto mechanic or a bus driver, whatever we're 356 00:15:06,970 --> 00:15:09,050 called to do, we've got the same mission. 357 00:15:09,570 --> 00:15:12,130 Okay. But here's the problem that I 358 00:15:12,130 --> 00:15:13,490 ran into. Maybe you don't have this 359 00:15:13,490 --> 00:15:17,330 problem, but I ran into this problem that my condition was 360 00:15:17,330 --> 00:15:21,080 messed up. Said Lord gave me this example. 361 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:24,240 Say you're not like to run and so, but imagine that I wake up 362 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:28,160 tomorrow and I haven't run, you know, for 30 years and I just 363 00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:30,560 wake up one morning and say as a 48 year old man, I'm going to go 364 00:15:30,560 --> 00:15:33,640 out and run a marathon. Well, if you've got any sense, 365 00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:35,120 the first thing you see that's a mission. 366 00:15:35,560 --> 00:15:37,800 You got a mission, You want to run a marathon, that's 26.2 367 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:39,120 miles for those of y'all that don't know. 368 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:41,360 So you say I want to run a marathon. 369 00:15:41,560 --> 00:15:43,560 If you got any sense, the first thing you do is you go to the. 370 00:15:43,560 --> 00:15:47,880 Doctor to find out if you're. Have the right position, OK. 371 00:15:48,460 --> 00:15:49,740 Go, the doctor said. Hey, I want to make sure my 372 00:15:49,740 --> 00:15:52,660 heart's not going to explode at mile three or four or five or 10 373 00:15:52,660 --> 00:15:56,420 or 19 or 20 or 21 or 22 or 20. It's 26 point. 374 00:15:56,420 --> 00:15:59,580 That's a lot of miles. Y'all the longest I've run is 14 375 00:15:59,580 --> 00:16:02,420 miles and I only did that because I did my route wrong. 376 00:16:02,620 --> 00:16:05,220 And when I got to 12, which was supposed to been a 12 mile run, 377 00:16:05,380 --> 00:16:07,220 I still had two miles to go to the motorcycle. 378 00:16:07,820 --> 00:16:10,340 So when nobody coming to pick me up, there's no Ubers in the 379 00:16:10,340 --> 00:16:15,060 middle of nowhere in France, so. So anyway, so you know, you go 380 00:16:15,060 --> 00:16:16,580 to the doctor and the doctor checks you out and says all 381 00:16:16,580 --> 00:16:18,940 right, you got the you've got the seal of approval, you can go 382 00:16:18,940 --> 00:16:20,340 and do it. So you've got a mission now 383 00:16:20,340 --> 00:16:23,300 you've got a position you can do it. #3 though what we got to 384 00:16:23,300 --> 00:16:26,860 work on is the condition I. Could run 10 miles tonight. 385 00:16:26,860 --> 00:16:28,540 I can run the first three in my cowboy boots. 386 00:16:28,540 --> 00:16:31,100 I couldn't run 26.2 tonight. Why? 387 00:16:31,100 --> 00:16:32,660 Because I'm not in the right condition. 388 00:16:32,660 --> 00:16:34,180 All right. So this is what we're going to 389 00:16:34,180 --> 00:16:35,820 talk about here, all right? We're going to fly. 390 00:16:35,820 --> 00:16:38,020 By Luke Chapter 10. Just so I can just so we can 391 00:16:38,020 --> 00:16:40,700 show it to you. Luke chapter 10 verse one. 392 00:16:41,590 --> 00:16:44,310 So we got Jesus and John 435 says harvest is plentiful over 393 00:16:44,310 --> 00:16:45,870 here. Luke, Matthew 9. 394 00:16:45,870 --> 00:16:48,710 He says he says the same thing to the 12 sends them out. 395 00:16:48,710 --> 00:16:50,350 Now here again he's going to say the same thing. 396 00:16:50,350 --> 00:16:53,470 And Luke chapter 10 verse one. After these things the Lord 397 00:16:53,470 --> 00:16:56,150 appointed 70 others also and sent them two by two before his 398 00:16:56,150 --> 00:16:58,350 face into every city and place whether he himself would come. 399 00:16:58,870 --> 00:17:01,390 Therefore he said to them, harvest truly is great. 400 00:17:01,390 --> 00:17:04,270 Third time, third time. The head of the church has made 401 00:17:04,270 --> 00:17:06,710 this statement. Harvest truly is plentiful. 402 00:17:07,150 --> 00:17:10,030 And the reason I've been labored this point is a lot of times we 403 00:17:10,030 --> 00:17:12,270 take a scripture and we kind of misquote it and we say, well, 404 00:17:12,430 --> 00:17:14,589 you know, I just like to plant seeds and somebody else waters. 405 00:17:14,829 --> 00:17:17,310 That's not the context of that scripture. 406 00:17:17,310 --> 00:17:19,869 That scripture is Paul talking to the church in Corinth. 407 00:17:20,030 --> 00:17:23,069 And what that's saying is, hey, as a pastor, Paul laid a 408 00:17:23,069 --> 00:17:26,270 foundation and he said Apollos came in and watered it or built 409 00:17:26,270 --> 00:17:27,869 on it. He said he's planted seeds. 410 00:17:27,869 --> 00:17:30,310 So your pastors have planted seeds that I as a traveling 411 00:17:30,310 --> 00:17:32,150 minister and watering, that's the context of that. 412 00:17:32,850 --> 00:17:34,330 Why do I say that? Because when we're out there, 413 00:17:34,330 --> 00:17:36,010 we're there to harvest. Why? 414 00:17:36,010 --> 00:17:37,530 Because somebody's killed going to hell. 415 00:17:38,450 --> 00:17:41,090 Until they receive Jesus, until they've been harvested, until 416 00:17:41,090 --> 00:17:42,610 they've been brought in, they're still going to hell. 417 00:17:42,970 --> 00:17:45,050 That's why I spend a little bit of time belaboring that point. 418 00:17:45,050 --> 00:17:55,120 But let's get to Romans chapter 12, Romans chapter 12. 419 00:17:56,210 --> 00:17:58,450 As we're getting here, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm, I'm I'm a 420 00:17:58,450 --> 00:18:00,090 little vulnerable when I preach and I'll talk about other 421 00:18:00,090 --> 00:18:01,690 people, I'll talk about myself. Aren't you glad I don't talk 422 00:18:01,690 --> 00:18:05,690 about you looking up your Facebook and stalking you? 423 00:18:05,730 --> 00:18:07,730 And hey, did you know that Bill's been over? 424 00:18:07,890 --> 00:18:12,170 I'm just kidding, all right? So here we are three years ago. 425 00:18:12,170 --> 00:18:15,530 We come up to, you know, with Covet Hit and man just, I mean, 426 00:18:15,570 --> 00:18:18,730 I remember calling Tad Greg Rich and I was like, if y'all said 427 00:18:18,730 --> 00:18:21,010 what to do, that's the Dean of Raymond there in the States. 428 00:18:21,010 --> 00:18:23,730 I said if Y'all said what to do if the whole world loses its 429 00:18:23,730 --> 00:18:27,170 ever loving mind. I was absent that day because I 430 00:18:27,170 --> 00:18:30,290 don't know, you know, so Covet hit and it was just crazy. 431 00:18:30,290 --> 00:18:32,290 And that when we began to see it as missionaries, you know, we 432 00:18:32,290 --> 00:18:34,410 began to see missionaries all over the world were recalled 433 00:18:34,410 --> 00:18:36,730 from the field. The whole organizations were 434 00:18:36,730 --> 00:18:37,970 pulling their people off the field. 435 00:18:37,970 --> 00:18:39,730 And so we said, Lord. What do we do? 436 00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:42,760 And he said, stay. And again I said, Lord, I don't 437 00:18:42,760 --> 00:18:45,480 think this is a good idea, but I'll do it. 438 00:18:45,760 --> 00:18:47,520 So. So we stayed. 439 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:50,480 But during this time, our first lockdown, we could only go 1 440 00:18:50,480 --> 00:18:52,960 kilometer outside of our home. All right. 441 00:18:53,240 --> 00:18:55,720 For those of y'all that don't speak kilometers, that's eight 442 00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:59,840 tenths of a mile We could go outside of our home Now. 443 00:18:59,840 --> 00:19:02,160 Thank God we lived in the country 8 tenths of a mile from 444 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:03,480 my house. I can be in the woods. 445 00:19:03,760 --> 00:19:05,680 Because if I'd had to do lockdown like that in Paris, I'd 446 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:07,560 have killed somebody. So I'd have been starting a 447 00:19:07,560 --> 00:19:14,110 prison ministry in France. Jesus, so we're there. 448 00:19:14,110 --> 00:19:16,070 We got a lot of time on our hands already told you I tried 449 00:19:16,070 --> 00:19:18,950 to grow a garden and realized you know, I can't garden either. 450 00:19:19,310 --> 00:19:22,990 And so, but during this time now prior to this. 451 00:19:23,270 --> 00:19:24,870 I. Had been dealing with stuff in 452 00:19:24,870 --> 00:19:27,270 in my heart, in my, in my soul, in my mind. 453 00:19:27,990 --> 00:19:30,750 One of them was anxiety. When we stepped out to be 454 00:19:30,750 --> 00:19:34,590 missionaries, man, anxiety, like a person, just was constant with 455 00:19:34,590 --> 00:19:36,270 me. Every time we'd have to go do 456 00:19:36,270 --> 00:19:38,670 something with the government or apply for something. 457 00:19:38,670 --> 00:19:41,550 I mean, I was a nervous wreck. And the problem with that is not 458 00:19:41,550 --> 00:19:43,830 only how it affected me, but how it affected my family and those 459 00:19:43,830 --> 00:19:46,670 around me. Anxiety was one, depression was 460 00:19:46,670 --> 00:19:48,830 another one. I mean, just going through bouts 461 00:19:48,830 --> 00:19:51,110 of depression because, you know, we'd go in and we'd come in with 462 00:19:51,110 --> 00:19:52,030 a great vision. We're coming. 463 00:19:52,030 --> 00:19:54,310 We're going to change France and we get there and see how hard it 464 00:19:54,310 --> 00:19:58,830 is and see betrayals and see false brethren. 465 00:19:59,250 --> 00:20:01,210 The longer my missionary, the more I understand the Apostle 466 00:20:01,210 --> 00:20:03,650 Paul when he writes stuff. For instance, you ever read over 467 00:20:03,650 --> 00:20:05,570 there where he said we've we've been in fastings often. 468 00:20:05,570 --> 00:20:09,250 That don't mean he's spiritual. That means the money ran out and 469 00:20:09,250 --> 00:20:13,490 they didn't have an ATM card. There was no Venmo or PayPal or 470 00:20:13,490 --> 00:20:15,770 any of this stuff like that. They just said, what are we 471 00:20:15,770 --> 00:20:18,170 eating tonight boys? Nothing we're going to. 472 00:20:18,170 --> 00:20:20,930 Fast tonight, all right. I understand a lot of these 473 00:20:20,930 --> 00:20:23,170 things, so we deal with all the stuff in it and I would just get 474 00:20:23,170 --> 00:20:25,530 depressed. And again, how it affects me is 475 00:20:25,530 --> 00:20:27,530 one thing, but how it affects my family, those around me is 476 00:20:27,530 --> 00:20:29,870 another thing. Here's the other thing too. 477 00:20:29,870 --> 00:20:32,870 All of this that I'm dealing with looking down at myself as 478 00:20:32,870 --> 00:20:36,470 affecting my mission. See, my assignment is called to 479 00:20:36,470 --> 00:20:38,830 go to France, to harvest harvesters, to win souls, to 480 00:20:38,830 --> 00:20:41,190 bring people into the Kingdom. But I'm not doing a very good 481 00:20:41,190 --> 00:20:44,220 job. Now assignment wise, I'm I'm 482 00:20:44,220 --> 00:20:46,380 living the dream I've I've lived you know in two different 483 00:20:46,380 --> 00:20:48,780 countries. I'm traveling I'm, I'm you know 484 00:20:48,780 --> 00:20:51,260 I'm pastoring at the time getting to preach in French only 485 00:20:51,260 --> 00:20:53,180 because I had to because our translators quit. 486 00:20:54,620 --> 00:20:56,220 Did it again. I said Lord this is not a good 487 00:20:56,220 --> 00:21:00,140 idea but I'll go do it. So so I'm dealing with all of 488 00:21:00,140 --> 00:21:03,980 this stuff and now over the years guys I tried everything 489 00:21:03,980 --> 00:21:06,500 that every, every preacher I've ever heard talk about you know 490 00:21:06,500 --> 00:21:08,980 try to get rid of this stuff. I had tried all kind of things 491 00:21:08,980 --> 00:21:11,670 and and it didn't work to the point that I just got to the 492 00:21:11,670 --> 00:21:13,630 place where I said, I guess this is the way it'll always be. 493 00:21:14,310 --> 00:21:16,110 Just kind of resigned myself to this. 494 00:21:17,390 --> 00:21:20,150 And during COVID, you know, I mean, like I said, it was just a 495 00:21:20,150 --> 00:21:21,630 crazy time. We had so much time on our 496 00:21:21,630 --> 00:21:23,310 hands. And I just said, Lord, I just 497 00:21:23,310 --> 00:21:24,750 want some more of you during this time. 498 00:21:25,350 --> 00:21:27,310 But during this time I was already reading my Bible, you 499 00:21:27,310 --> 00:21:28,630 know, and doing it devotional every day. 500 00:21:28,630 --> 00:21:30,430 And you know, I was getting things from God and I was 501 00:21:30,430 --> 00:21:32,790 preaching, you know, and and doing things. 502 00:21:32,790 --> 00:21:36,110 But I just said I want some more of you now as a missionary 503 00:21:36,110 --> 00:21:38,670 living overseas. I fast tacos. 504 00:21:38,670 --> 00:21:42,000 Every day of my life. So fasting food, not really that 505 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:43,400 big a deal for me, you know what I'm saying? 506 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:46,560 And I fast Culvers. Anybody discovered Culvers and 507 00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:49,440 custard? Oh, Jesus, there's going to be 508 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:51,040 custard in heaven, I can tell you that. 509 00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:54,800 But anyway, we don't have that stuff in France, so fasting food 510 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:56,040 was not it. But I said, Lord, what I'm going 511 00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:58,040 to do during this time is I like to read fiction books. 512 00:21:58,040 --> 00:22:00,320 And I said what I'm going to do is I'm just go fast fiction 513 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:02,680 during this time. I said instead of reading the, 514 00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:04,360 you know, instead of reading a book, I'm just gonna read the 515 00:22:04,360 --> 00:22:06,200 Bible. I'm just gonna start, you know, 516 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:08,000 I just started over there. I love to read about David and 517 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:10,120 the old, you know, on the the stories of the Kings and all 518 00:22:10,120 --> 00:22:11,240 those. I just started reading over 519 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:13,240 there. Now again, I've already told you 520 00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:14,360 I'm a runner. I like to run. 521 00:22:15,010 --> 00:22:17,570 So for years as a runner when I would be out and when I run, I 522 00:22:17,570 --> 00:22:19,730 don't want to be around anybody. I don't want to run with 523 00:22:19,730 --> 00:22:20,490 anybody. I want to. 524 00:22:20,570 --> 00:22:23,250 The only man made thing I want to hear is my footsteps. 525 00:22:23,250 --> 00:22:25,010 You know, I'm saying I like to run in the woods, I like to run 526 00:22:25,010 --> 00:22:27,050 by the river. And so when I would be out 527 00:22:27,050 --> 00:22:30,010 running though the whole time I'm running, I'm fighting 528 00:22:30,010 --> 00:22:32,450 thoughts, I've got stuff coming in where there's anxiety, where 529 00:22:32,450 --> 00:22:34,130 there's depression, whether it's this out or the other. 530 00:22:34,330 --> 00:22:35,970 And the whole time I'd be running, I'd be praying in 531 00:22:35,970 --> 00:22:37,970 tongues and be bind and loosened trying to do all this stuff, 532 00:22:37,970 --> 00:22:40,210 putting on worship music. And again, nothing worked. 533 00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:44,000 So here we are about three years ago during COVID and I said I'm 534 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:46,680 a fast fiction, so I started reading maybe six or seven 535 00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:50,760 chapters from the Old Testament. Just I wasn't studying it in 536 00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:52,000 depth. I wasn't looking up the Hebrew, 537 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:53,840 you know what I mean? Just reading it. 538 00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:56,760 And after about 3 weeks go by and I was out on the run. 539 00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:58,520 Never forget it. I was out running through a 540 00:22:58,520 --> 00:22:59,720 vineyard. There's vineyards everywhere in 541 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:01,320 France. I was running through a vineyard 542 00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:04,520 about by our by our town and I was running along. 543 00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:05,840 I've been running for 45 minutes. 544 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:09,320 I will send it down to me. I've not had one single anxious 545 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:13,740 thought. For 45 minutes, I've not had one 546 00:23:13,740 --> 00:23:15,420 single. I've not had to buy anything or 547 00:23:15,420 --> 00:23:16,620 loose anything or do anything else. 548 00:23:17,300 --> 00:23:18,740 And I'm like, what? What's going on? 549 00:23:19,340 --> 00:23:21,380 I've described it like this. Imagine you had a jackhammer 550 00:23:21,380 --> 00:23:24,220 operating outside your bedroom window or your office window for 551 00:23:24,220 --> 00:23:25,980 40 years. Some of this stuff I've been 552 00:23:25,980 --> 00:23:28,860 dealing with for 40 years. And all of a sudden, one day it 553 00:23:28,860 --> 00:23:31,020 stopped it taking a while to figure out what's going on. 554 00:23:31,140 --> 00:23:33,100 You know, I'm saying it just what's different? 555 00:23:33,100 --> 00:23:34,900 What's changed? And I said, what has changed? 556 00:23:35,820 --> 00:23:38,380 I began to have a piece of the freedom that I'd only had in 557 00:23:38,380 --> 00:23:40,960 small moments. Of my life. 558 00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:43,760 Never been able to reproduce it. Never been able to find out how 559 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:45,520 I got there. Does it make sense? 560 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:48,360 Like little glimpses of it. And I began to have a peace and 561 00:23:48,360 --> 00:23:49,760 a freedom. I went and I went. 562 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:51,400 Lord, the only thing I've changed. 563 00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:53,360 I'm still praying in tongues. I'm still living over here 564 00:23:53,360 --> 00:23:55,360 fasting tacos and fasting custard. 565 00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:57,240 You know I mean, nothing else has changed. 566 00:23:57,240 --> 00:24:00,520 The only thing that's changed is I I'm reading more the word. 567 00:24:01,360 --> 00:24:04,580 Just reading more the word. Almost Chapter 12, verse one, 568 00:24:05,020 --> 00:24:07,260 since I beseech you there for brethren, by the mercies of God, 569 00:24:07,260 --> 00:24:10,060 that you present your bodies and living sacrifice, holding 570 00:24:10,060 --> 00:24:12,980 acceptable and unto God, which is your reasonable service. 571 00:24:13,420 --> 00:24:15,700 We see something here. Just with a few moments we've 572 00:24:15,700 --> 00:24:17,420 got left. We see the Apostle Paul telling 573 00:24:17,420 --> 00:24:19,500 us we're going to have to do something with our bodies, with 574 00:24:19,500 --> 00:24:21,220 ourself. We're going to have to lay aside 575 00:24:21,220 --> 00:24:22,700 the negative. So that makes sense. 576 00:24:22,700 --> 00:24:24,220 We're going to leave the negative on this side of the 577 00:24:24,220 --> 00:24:26,980 pulpit. OK, but how? 578 00:24:28,340 --> 00:24:30,820 How? How do we, chapter 2 or verse 2, 579 00:24:31,140 --> 00:24:33,820 be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the 580 00:24:33,820 --> 00:24:35,540 renewing of your mind that you may prove? 581 00:24:35,540 --> 00:24:38,340 What is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God? 582 00:24:39,180 --> 00:24:41,140 All right, let's flip over to Ephesians chapter 4. 583 00:24:42,260 --> 00:24:44,140 We can go to four places real fast. 584 00:24:44,140 --> 00:24:46,420 You know, there's two different types of people from the South. 585 00:24:46,420 --> 00:24:49,820 There's ones that talk real slow and there's me, I'm the fast 586 00:24:49,820 --> 00:24:52,060 talking one. So like Mark Hankin says, if you 587 00:24:52,060 --> 00:24:55,100 can listen fast, I can talk fast and we can get the rest of this 588 00:24:55,100 --> 00:24:58,150 out. Ephesians Chapter 4, verse 21. 589 00:24:59,510 --> 00:25:01,790 If so be that you have heard him and been taught by him, as the 590 00:25:01,790 --> 00:25:05,550 truth is in Jesus that you put off concerning the former 591 00:25:05,550 --> 00:25:07,550 conversation. The old man, which is corrupt, 592 00:25:08,070 --> 00:25:10,190 anxiety, depression. That's part of the old man. 593 00:25:11,030 --> 00:25:12,030 That's not part of the new package. 594 00:25:12,030 --> 00:25:14,670 I'm just going to tell you like that if we come into Christ and 595 00:25:14,670 --> 00:25:16,830 we're dealing with some of this junk or other junk like that, 596 00:25:17,030 --> 00:25:19,590 that's not part of the new package, we're supposed to lay 597 00:25:19,590 --> 00:25:23,870 that aside. And I tried for years some stuff 598 00:25:23,870 --> 00:25:26,310 for decades. Couldn't do it. 599 00:25:27,550 --> 00:25:29,630 Couldn't do it. All right, let's see here it 600 00:25:29,630 --> 00:25:32,630 says verse 22 that. You put off concerning the 601 00:25:32,630 --> 00:25:34,990 former conversation, the old man which is corrupt according to 602 00:25:34,990 --> 00:25:38,030 the deceitful lust, and be renewed in the spirit of your 603 00:25:38,030 --> 00:25:39,550 mind. And then here's the new man. 604 00:25:39,550 --> 00:25:42,950 Then we put on the new man, which after God has created in 605 00:25:42,950 --> 00:25:46,790 righteousness and true holiness. So I began to read 678 chapters 606 00:25:46,790 --> 00:25:50,110 extra in the Word, and I said, Lord, I had tears in my eyes. 607 00:25:50,110 --> 00:25:54,070 I want to look God, I said. Lord, I've tried for years. 608 00:25:54,770 --> 00:25:57,570 To get this level of peace and freedom that I'm walking in 609 00:25:57,570 --> 00:26:00,650 these last few weeks, the only thing I've changed is I've read 610 00:26:00,650 --> 00:26:02,450 more the word. Are you telling me it was that 611 00:26:02,450 --> 00:26:04,170 simple all along? And he said yes. 612 00:26:05,370 --> 00:26:08,970 And I said, Lord, I've fasted, I've prayed in tongues, I've 613 00:26:08,970 --> 00:26:11,250 listened to preaching, I've worshiped, I've had hands laid 614 00:26:11,250 --> 00:26:12,290 on me. You can tell I've had a lot of 615 00:26:12,290 --> 00:26:15,930 hands laid on my head. But none of that. 616 00:26:15,970 --> 00:26:19,650 Worked with this as far as this goes these problems. 617 00:26:20,700 --> 00:26:22,300 Are you telling me all I had to do was read more of the words? 618 00:26:22,300 --> 00:26:23,860 And he said yes. And I said, why? 619 00:26:23,980 --> 00:26:26,180 Why didn't all the other things that I did fix that? 620 00:26:26,180 --> 00:26:28,140 Why didn't anything else change my condition? 621 00:26:28,620 --> 00:26:31,740 And he said you were trying to do with other good spiritual 622 00:26:31,740 --> 00:26:34,220 things would only mind renewal will do. 623 00:26:35,940 --> 00:26:38,500 And he, he gave me this example. I like to watch those survival 624 00:26:38,500 --> 00:26:40,380 shows, you know, on TV where they drop somebody off and they 625 00:26:40,380 --> 00:26:41,580 got to go. So I don't like the ones where 626 00:26:41,580 --> 00:26:43,540 they're naked, but the ones where their clothes are normal. 627 00:26:43,540 --> 00:26:46,660 You know what I'm saying? You got to clarify that, so. 628 00:26:46,820 --> 00:26:49,860 But you when you watch these shows, there's four different 629 00:26:49,980 --> 00:26:51,220 needs. Really. 630 00:26:51,220 --> 00:26:53,500 Five there. Four or five different needs 631 00:26:53,500 --> 00:26:56,060 that every human being, no matter who we voted for in the 632 00:26:56,060 --> 00:26:59,020 election, no matter who we root for on Saturday at the the 633 00:26:59,020 --> 00:27:01,700 football game, nothing, no matter our color or race or 634 00:27:01,700 --> 00:27:05,380 creed, we all as human beings have to have four basic needs 635 00:27:05,380 --> 00:27:08,900 met or we die as human. That's a pretty big problem. 636 00:27:08,900 --> 00:27:10,420 Dying's a pretty big problem as a human being. 637 00:27:11,060 --> 00:27:15,070 So the first one is oxygen. Got to have oxygen? 638 00:27:15,190 --> 00:27:16,630 Take the oxygen away. We're dead moments. 639 00:27:16,630 --> 00:27:18,910 The 2nd is water. Depending on conditions we can 640 00:27:18,910 --> 00:27:21,070 make it days or maybe a week or two with no water. 641 00:27:21,310 --> 00:27:22,750 The third though is lack of food. 642 00:27:22,950 --> 00:27:24,990 We take the food away. Again, depending on the 643 00:27:24,990 --> 00:27:27,470 condition, I've got a little bit of extra, you know, margin here 644 00:27:27,710 --> 00:27:29,670 and some of you people might, some might be able to last a 645 00:27:29,670 --> 00:27:33,390 little bit longer, but still, you know, weeks, no food, we're 646 00:27:33,390 --> 00:27:36,350 dead. But the 4th would be protection 647 00:27:36,350 --> 00:27:38,720 from the elements. You know, again, if I wear this 648 00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:41,400 light shirt and just these cowboy boots and I go up on Mont 649 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:44,040 Blanc, the highest point in Europe in a snowstorm, I'm dead 650 00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:46,880 in hours saying then the fifth one would be rest. 651 00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:51,160 And the Lord said, you can't substitute one for the other. 652 00:27:52,490 --> 00:27:54,890 That's what I've done for years is I just tried to worship and I 653 00:27:54,890 --> 00:27:57,330 tried to pray and I tried to fast and I tried to do all of 654 00:27:57,330 --> 00:28:00,250 these other things that are good things, that are necessary 655 00:28:00,250 --> 00:28:03,090 things, but they don't renew my mind. 656 00:28:03,570 --> 00:28:08,210 They don't enact or enable transformational power in my 657 00:28:08,210 --> 00:28:13,570 life that I desperately needed. I was ready to quit, was living 658 00:28:13,570 --> 00:28:14,570 the. I had the dream of the 659 00:28:14,570 --> 00:28:17,570 assignment that I wanted and and and wanted for years, but I 660 00:28:17,570 --> 00:28:20,850 disdained it because of my condition. 661 00:28:20,970 --> 00:28:23,470 Didn't want to do it anymore. So, Lord, I can't do this. 662 00:28:23,470 --> 00:28:24,950 I can't do it. I can't do it. 663 00:28:25,150 --> 00:28:27,590 And again using this, you know that using analogy, there's 664 00:28:27,710 --> 00:28:31,110 oxygen in this water. But if there's no oxygen in this 665 00:28:31,110 --> 00:28:33,150 room, we're dead because we can't get it out of there. 666 00:28:33,390 --> 00:28:35,190 So it makes sense. You can't substitute one for the 667 00:28:35,190 --> 00:28:37,350 other. Let me show you two more 668 00:28:37,350 --> 00:28:39,470 scriptures. So as I began to do this, as I 669 00:28:39,470 --> 00:28:42,830 saw that as I increased, just taken in the word, just reading 670 00:28:42,830 --> 00:28:45,670 the Bible. Continue to do the other things 671 00:28:45,670 --> 00:28:49,230 but could but increasing my word intake, I began to walk in a 672 00:28:49,230 --> 00:28:51,350 level of peace and freedom. It began to increase. 673 00:28:51,350 --> 00:28:53,830 Not only that, the negative was gone. 674 00:28:53,830 --> 00:28:56,030 Does that make sense? I found that if I read 8 675 00:28:56,030 --> 00:28:59,030 chapters a day, at least minimum, the negative was was 676 00:28:59,030 --> 00:29:00,510 they had no power and that's great. 677 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:04,400 But the greatest thing, gosh, was the revelation that began to 678 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:07,120 flow. The understanding, the things 679 00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:10,040 that God began to illuminate to me, to get things that God began 680 00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:12,480 to speak to me. Other things that he began to be 681 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:15,960 able to do in my life because I was renewing my mind, Because I 682 00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:17,320 was. See, here's the thing the Lord 683 00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:19,000 said. We've been caught up fighting 684 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:23,560 unnecessary battles and carrying unnecessary burdens, and the 685 00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:25,880 devil keeps us distracted fighting with all of this junk 686 00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:28,640 and doing all these other things that that don't work. 687 00:29:29,550 --> 00:29:30,950 All right, so I've just got a couple minutes left. 688 00:29:30,950 --> 00:29:35,150 Let's let's look real quickly over here to to James, Chapter 689 00:29:35,150 --> 00:29:36,030 one. Same thing. 690 00:29:36,030 --> 00:29:37,910 We're going to see this. We see this over and over and 691 00:29:37,910 --> 00:29:40,550 over again. This affects my condition, not 692 00:29:40,550 --> 00:29:42,190 my position. Makes sense. 693 00:29:42,190 --> 00:29:45,990 My my position doesn't change. God doesn't love me more now 694 00:29:45,990 --> 00:29:49,350 that I've walked in without of walked in victory over this 695 00:29:49,350 --> 00:29:53,770 stuff than he did before. Yeah, you understand. 696 00:29:54,050 --> 00:29:55,770 It's not. It's not that it's now. 697 00:29:55,770 --> 00:30:00,130 I've affected my condition, and I am the only person on the 698 00:30:00,130 --> 00:30:03,250 planet or in the universe that can affect my condition. 699 00:30:04,570 --> 00:30:06,690 Jesus can't do it for me, man. I wish it. 700 00:30:06,810 --> 00:30:08,530 I wish we could do this by laying on hands. 701 00:30:08,730 --> 00:30:12,010 Man, I sure do, but it doesn't happen that way. 702 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:15,240 But it's simple. Not easy, but it's simple. 703 00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:18,320 So James chapter one, verse 21 says we're for lay apart all 704 00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:20,280 filthiness and superfluidive naughtiness. 705 00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:22,280 We got that on this on over here. 706 00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:25,880 Then he says, receive with meekness the engrafted word 707 00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:28,360 which is able to save your souls. 708 00:30:28,750 --> 00:30:31,350 The word save is not talking about our eternal preservation, 709 00:30:31,470 --> 00:30:34,750 but it's talking about like like we would restore an old car or 710 00:30:34,750 --> 00:30:37,430 an old house or something, an old piece of furniture. 711 00:30:37,430 --> 00:30:39,950 That's that's that type of restored restoration. 712 00:30:40,110 --> 00:30:43,430 So it restores my soul, my mind, my will and my emotions. 713 00:30:43,910 --> 00:30:46,790 See, those problems I was facing was in my flesh and in my soul. 714 00:30:47,030 --> 00:30:49,750 Not in my spirit, but in my flesh and in my soul. 715 00:30:49,910 --> 00:30:54,190 And as I began to renew my mind and keep it renewed, keep it 716 00:30:54,190 --> 00:30:58,170 renewed, then transformation began to happen and it began to 717 00:30:58,170 --> 00:31:02,370 affect those around me and it began to affect my mission. 718 00:31:03,050 --> 00:31:04,090 Amen. Last one. 719 00:31:04,370 --> 00:31:07,290 First Peter, First Peter, Chapter 2. 720 00:31:07,570 --> 00:31:10,290 And just just to kind of give you a tool here that we've got 721 00:31:10,290 --> 00:31:12,930 available for you for free on our book table back there. 722 00:31:13,890 --> 00:31:16,650 I just did a little research and I found this very simple Bible 723 00:31:16,650 --> 00:31:20,670 reading system where you read from 10 different places in the 724 00:31:20,670 --> 00:31:23,630 Bible, 10 different lists. It's not a plan where it's not 725 00:31:23,630 --> 00:31:25,030 based on date or anything like that. 726 00:31:25,030 --> 00:31:27,350 You know, I'm saying you just, you read one that you can see my 727 00:31:27,350 --> 00:31:29,030 ribbons there. That my ribbons that's from my 728 00:31:29,230 --> 00:31:31,630 different places that I read. You finish one list and you just 729 00:31:31,830 --> 00:31:35,390 start over and you so every day I'm reading 10 different places. 730 00:31:35,390 --> 00:31:38,710 When I began to do this again, the negative continued to fall 731 00:31:38,710 --> 00:31:40,830 away. And the positive I began to grow 732 00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:43,680 in ways that I had tried for years and years and years and 733 00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:45,160 years. So we've got this available for 734 00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:47,400 you if you want to pick up one of those in our table or if you 735 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:49,720 want to look it up. It's called the Professor Grant 736 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:53,640 Horner Bible Reading System. There's nothing magical about 737 00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:55,880 it, but man, it's a great tool. When I began to do this, the 738 00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:57,720 coolest thing about this is what me. 739 00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:00,120 There's there's tons of cool things, but what's so awesome is 740 00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:01,880 see the Holy Ghost. So show me something here in the 741 00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:04,160 first list and then I'll show it to me in the second list and the 742 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:06,200 third list. And by the time I'm done, he'll 743 00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:08,040 have showed me the same thing 10 times. 744 00:32:09,220 --> 00:32:10,900 I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, but if you show me 745 00:32:10,900 --> 00:32:13,140 something 10 times, I'll eventually get it. 746 00:32:13,860 --> 00:32:15,100 Does that? Does that make sense? 747 00:32:15,620 --> 00:32:17,460 So man, I can't tell you enough about this. 748 00:32:17,460 --> 00:32:19,380 I highly, highly, highly encourage you to do this, but 749 00:32:19,380 --> 00:32:22,020 let's let's look at the first Peter chapter 2 verse one. 750 00:32:22,500 --> 00:32:25,860 Therefore, laying aside all malice, guile hypocrisies, 751 00:32:25,860 --> 00:32:30,140 envies, and evil speakings, as newborn babes, desire the 752 00:32:30,140 --> 00:32:35,260 sincere milk of Pret, and tox desire the sincere milk of 753 00:32:35,260 --> 00:32:39,710 worship. Desire, the sincere milk of the 754 00:32:39,710 --> 00:32:42,790 word. I had three babies and I watched 755 00:32:42,790 --> 00:32:44,270 him. And, man, when it was time to 756 00:32:44,270 --> 00:32:48,190 eat, it was not like a casual thing, you know, The baby was 757 00:32:48,190 --> 00:32:50,430 not like, well, mom, I don't know what you've got prepared 758 00:32:50,430 --> 00:32:52,310 tonight. You know, it's well, I could 759 00:32:52,310 --> 00:32:54,150 eat. No, it was like, get out of the 760 00:32:54,150 --> 00:32:55,830 way. I mean, you know, I'm saying. 761 00:32:55,830 --> 00:32:57,630 And it wasn't like, just well today. 762 00:32:57,630 --> 00:33:00,390 I'm not very hungry. No, it was Hey, I two hours ago. 763 00:33:00,390 --> 00:33:01,750 And guess what? I'm gonna eat again in two 764 00:33:01,750 --> 00:33:03,900 hours. So what I'll do with the word is 765 00:33:03,900 --> 00:33:05,820 I'll take some in in the morning and I'll take some more and 766 00:33:05,820 --> 00:33:07,940 maybe in the middle of the day, and I take some more at night 767 00:33:07,940 --> 00:33:09,980 before I go to bed. Amen. 768 00:33:10,420 --> 00:33:12,260 That. So as newborn babes desire the 769 00:33:12,260 --> 00:33:14,940 sincere milk of the word that you may what grow thereby 770 00:33:15,340 --> 00:33:17,580 because there's things that we need to grow ourselves out of 771 00:33:17,580 --> 00:33:21,780 that we never will if we don't do this again. 26 years of 772 00:33:21,780 --> 00:33:24,620 ministry at the time when I when I stumbled into these things. 23 773 00:33:24,620 --> 00:33:27,060 years of ministry. Been a missionary for seven 774 00:33:27,060 --> 00:33:29,620 years at the time, been to Bible school, done all of these 775 00:33:29,620 --> 00:33:31,700 things, but I was struggling with stuff that I didn't have to 776 00:33:31,700 --> 00:33:35,500 struggle with. Hey man, I just had to make some 777 00:33:35,500 --> 00:33:37,700 changes in my own life. Let me just put let me just 778 00:33:37,700 --> 00:33:38,980 throw this out here. I'm going to, I'm going to turn 779 00:33:38,980 --> 00:33:40,820 it over to Pastor Earl here in just a second. 780 00:33:40,860 --> 00:33:46,500 It takes an average of 4 minutes to read most Bible chapters. 781 00:33:47,220 --> 00:33:49,340 So if I read 10 chapters, that takes 40 minutes. 782 00:33:49,660 --> 00:33:51,460 That's one episode of Swamp People. 783 00:33:53,740 --> 00:33:55,940 I mean, I can give up in it, but I like swamp people. 784 00:33:55,940 --> 00:33:58,540 Chew them. You know, I like Swamp People, 785 00:33:59,260 --> 00:34:01,420 but I've never watched an episode of Swamp People that 786 00:34:01,420 --> 00:34:05,430 changed my life. I mean, you understand what I'm 787 00:34:05,430 --> 00:34:07,950 saying? It's worth giving some of these 788 00:34:07,950 --> 00:34:09,190 things. It's worth doing whatever we've 789 00:34:09,190 --> 00:34:10,550 got to do. And here's something. 790 00:34:10,590 --> 00:34:14,590 Here's something the Holy Ghost told me as I stumbled into these 791 00:34:14,590 --> 00:34:15,590 things. I mean, I literally did. 792 00:34:15,590 --> 00:34:18,460 I stumbled into him. And as I begin to enact a man, 793 00:34:18,460 --> 00:34:19,940 I've seen transformation in my life. 794 00:34:20,179 --> 00:34:21,780 I've seen man. I've got renewed mission. 795 00:34:21,780 --> 00:34:24,500 I've got renewed vision. I don't want to quit the 796 00:34:24,500 --> 00:34:26,100 ministry anymore. I don't want to quit being a 797 00:34:26,100 --> 00:34:28,060 missionary anymore. I want to go back and win more 798 00:34:28,060 --> 00:34:29,500 souls for Christ. Amen. 799 00:34:29,500 --> 00:34:31,940 I want to go back and harvest more harvesters in France. 800 00:34:31,940 --> 00:34:33,739 I'm going to get back over there and pick a fight. 801 00:34:34,340 --> 00:34:35,260 Amen. With the devil. 802 00:34:35,980 --> 00:34:37,980 Hallelujah. But here's the thing, the Lord 803 00:34:37,980 --> 00:34:41,420 said, Brian, if they'll do on purpose what you did on 804 00:34:41,420 --> 00:34:44,500 accident, I'll do what I did and they'll experience the same 805 00:34:44,500 --> 00:34:48,219 thing you did. And again, I'd love to just say, 806 00:34:48,219 --> 00:34:49,820 hey, if you'll come down here, I'll lay hands on you right now 807 00:34:49,820 --> 00:34:50,940 and this will all happen. It won't. 808 00:34:52,260 --> 00:34:53,900 Doesn't happen that way. There's other things that we 809 00:34:53,900 --> 00:34:56,179 received like that. But man, I'm, I'm telling you, I 810 00:34:56,179 --> 00:34:57,700 encourage you try this for three weeks. 811 00:34:57,980 --> 00:34:59,900 I shared this with the pastor in Alabama that was about ready to 812 00:34:59,900 --> 00:35:02,300 quit the ministry. He had tears in his eyes as we 813 00:35:02,300 --> 00:35:03,540 sat there. We were eating and I was sharing 814 00:35:03,540 --> 00:35:06,100 some of these things with him. And he said, Brian, I've needed 815 00:35:06,100 --> 00:35:08,180 this. I've not been doing this. 816 00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:11,640 And then I just so happened he was leading a minister's group 817 00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:13,120 and I I was there. He didn't know I was going to be 818 00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:14,400 there. And he said, Lord, what am I 819 00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:15,680 supposed to share with these ministers? 820 00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:18,160 And he said, what's changed your life the last couple of months? 821 00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:20,440 And he said this. They got it out and shared him 822 00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:21,800 with the ministers. Didn't know I was going to be 823 00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:23,680 there that morning. I just challenge you. 824 00:35:23,720 --> 00:35:25,120 What do you got to? You got nothing to lose. 825 00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:26,320 I don't even charge you for this. 826 00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:27,760 I mean, you know, you already got a Bible. 827 00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:29,960 They don't got to be special. Just take a Bible and start 828 00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:33,680 reading it like this and and send me an e-mail in three weeks 829 00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:35,080 and tell me. Tell me if it doesn't work. 830 00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:39,150 Amen. I'd love to stay longer, but I 831 00:35:39,150 --> 00:35:41,310 I've got to go. So y'all stand up. 832 00:35:41,310 --> 00:35:43,190 Let me pray over and I'll just turn it over to Pastor Earl. 833 00:35:44,070 --> 00:35:46,070 Father, what a privilege it is to be here with these wonderful 834 00:35:46,070 --> 00:35:49,950 people and Saint Augustine, Father and Lord, my hearts cry. 835 00:35:49,950 --> 00:35:52,550 Lord God is that if there's anybody that are dealing with 836 00:35:52,550 --> 00:35:55,230 some of the stuff that I was dealing with, unnecessary 837 00:35:55,230 --> 00:35:59,630 burdens and unnecessary battles. Father God that I challenge 838 00:35:59,630 --> 00:36:02,470 them, Holy Spirit, that you would resonate this in their 839 00:36:02,470 --> 00:36:04,970 hearts tonight. That they'll make some changes 840 00:36:04,970 --> 00:36:08,090 in their life and see the victory, see the negative laid 841 00:36:08,090 --> 00:36:11,490 aside and see them be able to put on the Newman and run their 842 00:36:11,490 --> 00:36:15,650 race and reach their assignment and reach the mission to reach 843 00:36:15,650 --> 00:36:17,850 those around them father in Jesus. 844 00:36:18,210 --> 00:36:25,390 Name. Thank you so much for listening 845 00:36:25,390 --> 00:36:27,830 to this message. If you want more, subscribe to 846 00:36:27,830 --> 00:36:31,190 our Message podcast on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, and 847 00:36:31,190 --> 00:36:33,230 SoundCloud. Rating and leaving a comment 848 00:36:33,230 --> 00:36:35,350 will go a long way with helping our messages get better 849 00:36:35,350 --> 00:36:37,670 circulation. 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