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Now enjoy this message. I want to talk to you.
What's behind the curtain? OK, so in first Sam in chapter
16 verse seven, in first Sam in 16 seven it says this.
But the Lord said to Samuel, do not look at his appearance or at
the height of his stature, because I have rejected him.
For God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward
appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.
Now this word heart is not the physical organ, because I could
rip your physical organ out of your chest and see it.
What he's saying is he sees in the unseen, and so we want to
get behind the curtain, in essence, pull back the veil.
Because there's another realm, spirit realm out there that is
unseen to our eyes and our senses, but yet it exists.
And since we're diving into the things that are behind the veil
so that we can become adequately trained that way in this season,
that most likely is the acceleration of the latter days,
where the spirit explicitly says in latter days, that's the last
of the last days. There will be many will fall
away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits
and doctrines of demons. Seducing spirits and doctrines
of demons are not seen. They are things in the unseen
that show up in our ears. They show up in our eyes and
they create a doctrine or a thought process that we begin to
ascribe to and believe. And we believe, people believe
that we're of God, that these evil things are actually right
now instead of what God says. And it's because they are
looking like man and not like God.
Because the unseen realm of the spirit that the devil functions
in, he's always there to touch your sense, which means he's
there to identify with what you already can easily identify.
With the one particular pastor I met from Marion County, he said
pastor again. He's quite a bit more tan than I
am, he said. Pastor, he's a Bishop, he said.
He said my congregation only filters God through tragedy.
They only believe they can touch God through tribulation and
tragedy. They don't.
No matter how much I'm trying. That's why I need to bring you
in, because I don't care how the light bulb comes on along.
They won't take kingship because everything we've been trained
and taught, our whole society, my whole culture has been taught
to only see God through tragedy, which ultimately means we're the
victim in everything and it needs to change because they're
not Kingdom, I said. I understand now.
I don't understand his level, but I do understand because I've
been around, you know more than me, OK, And so you know this is
the problem because the minute you've had an issue and someone
starts talking about your issue, you can identify.
Are you hearing me? So this the spirit realm, What's
behind the current in the realm of the demonic or the devil is
to get you to identify with things you already felt, right?
So you can jump on it, because you can.
You can. You felt that you've experienced
that. And so it becomes more real
because of your experience instead of it real because God
says it. And if God says that, that's
actually more real than the experience you have, because
maybe the experience you have, God never intended, and the
experience you had actually came from the devil.
And God wants to deliver you from the devil's demonic attack,
so he needs you to get over to his word and experience it.
But because you want to keep identifying with your experience
and make God identify with you through your experience, then
God's like, I can't identify with you.
Because here's the thing. God himself, other than through
Christ the Father, has never failed.
Jesus himself has never experienced death walking in the
earth. He was tempted to sin, but never
sin. The wage of sin is that now he
became sin. So at that point there's an
experience because he took on you, although he himself didn't
do it, and Jesus did not take on you to identify with you.
This is the problem. Jesus didn't become like us to
identify with us. Jesus became like us because the
first Adam had the dominion. So it requires God to be a man
to gain back dominion. He's not here to identify with
us, although he can't identify with our temptations, he said.
God, if anyone understands, you have a high priest who can
sympathize with you, right? Because he was tempted on all
accounts yet never sinned. So he can say, I know what it's
like for the enemy to come after you.
Yet I'm the one who was victorious and never succumbed,
So I was never the victim. I was always the victor.
So what I need you to is identify with me.
I need you to identify with me, 'cause when you identify with
me, then you'll identify in Christ, which is in the king.
And when you identify there, then you'll quit looking at how
you feel or how you felt or how you went through.
You'll start throwing that junk away and you'll only focus on on
who he is and who you've been made.
Then you'll actually see like God, because the minute you
navigate towards people that look like you, you're already
being ungodly because man does not look on the outward
appearance, period. And the New Covenant says we are
not to regard man in the flesh. So I don't regard you based upon
your paint job, 'cause it's just a paint job.
And you've heard us say this before, that if you go out to
the parking lot right now, those are vehicles.
What do they do, carry you? That's this assignment to take
you somewhere. You're not your car, you're in
it. Well, you're not your outward
suit, you're a spirit man in it. And the black cars don't park
together, the white cars don't park together, the yellow cars
don't park together. The red cars don't park
together. The blue cars don't park
together. I mean, they just park.
I've never seen a black car get by a white car and say, what are
you doing here? I've never seen it pull out of
its space when you're not in it and move somewhere else.
It's never happened. Hallelujah.
So don't care about your paint job because God, God is not
colorblind. Because he's too creative to let
us all be the same color. He's too creative.
I mean, there's not one green, there's not one red, there's not
one yellow or orange. I mean, we look at the trees,
the bark on trees. Different.
God's way too creative. This is why I personally can't
have tattoos, because I would be completely tattooed.
I would it would never stop because I'd be like, oh, that's
cool. But then it's one.
And I like more stuff. I like to be more creative so it
would expand. So instead of me just turning
into one big tattoo, I choose not to put on any odd.
Are you hearing me, 'cause I know I will have a problem.
Now if I did temporary ones where I could wash it off and do
it, then that would be good for me because then I'd be like, I'm
bored with that, right? OK, God's too creative.
Yet the devil has used it for division and he said Samuel
straight and says you're looking at the guy.
Now. In this case, it wasn't
technically a color issue, it was a statute issue.
It's he compared him with the Last King.
Well, he looks like the last guy, so he must be it, since
that was how God picked the first.
Well, God didn't pick the 1st. I'm going to say that again, God
didn't pick the first. God gave the king the people
wanted, and he knew what they wanted because they were
eyeballing the rest. And they're like, they looking
for a giant, somebody big and strong.
You know, because if they look big and strong, then they must
be strong, right? And so he's like, they still
ain't strong enough. So I'm gonna help him out and
put an anointing on them, Let him know that really how weak
they are even and how big they are and if they'll yield to me
it'd be awesome. But if they don't, he told King
Saw. He said if you'll.
Do what I say. There will not be in your family
line a king that doesn't sit on the throne.
Which tells me if he'd had done that, Jesus would have came
through Saul's blood lung. But because Saul wouldn't and he
didn't, he said, well, I go looking like I go look for
because Saul's man's pick that I anointed to try to help out.
But he didn't want it because he had selfish ambition anyway,
because men are only selfish. So for me to go find someone
that can be king, that I can anoint and stay within it, I
need to find somebody after my own heart, right.
So he says, you know, look, I don't look at the outward
appearance, I'm looking at the heart.
So God is is never captivated with what we see.
He's already he, he effects what we see.
Experience touched through our five senses from a behind the
curtain perspective, and the devil does the same thing, all
right. Proverbs 1412 says there is a
way which seems right to a man, but his end is a way of death.
So there's something he's seeing.
He's making his judgments based upon it and based upon that
without God being a part of the process.
It just ends in death, right? Luke 1615 says it this way.
And he said to them, you are those who justly justify
yourself in the sight of men. But God knows, your heart for
that which is highly esteemed among men, is what detestable in
the sight of God. So there's something going down
with these individuals that in the natural realm, seeing and
hearing men are like, wow, how awesome that guy is.
So awesome. That woman is so amazing, yet
God behind the curtain is saying this is disgusting.
So while a lot of men praise, God, gives no praise to, and we
need to figure out what God's giving praise to, not what man's
giving praise. To.
We need to be able to discern this because both of them are
being affected from things behind the curtain, and the
devil behind the curtain is getting you to only focus on
what you can see. Where God behind the curtain
says, focus on what's behind the curtain and it will affect what
you see. You hear me?
This is what Paul said in Second Corinthians chapter 4, verse 16
through 18. He said, Therefore we do not
lose heart. But though our outward man is
decaying, yet our inward man is being renewed day by day, which
means there's a conflict. You see me maybe getting older.
You see me maybe, you know my body's not in the same peak
performance as it was at one point.
But know this on the inside that you can't see It is stronger.
In this suit that's not as strong as it was at one time.
It is even stronger. And the older I get, the
stronger on the inside I'll be. Are you hearing me?
Then He goes on to say, For the momentary light affliction is
producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all
comparison, while we look not at the things which are seen, but
at the things which are not seen.
For the things which are seen are temporal or temporary, but
the things which are not seen are eternal, Unseen things Are
not seen things. Now that doesn't mean you can't
perceive it. You can't sense it.
In fact, you can become so aware of what's not seen that it's
more real to you than what you do see.
Amen. When we were believing God for
them all it was more real to us. And I know I can testify for
myself and I believe this for most of you every day we came on
the property and we were thank you Lord for 2121 US one no
matter what we were hearing And I was here a little bit more
than y'all but what we are, no matter what we're hearing I
we're convinced this is our mall and us having mall 2121 and us
remodeling is irrelevant to us. We are convinced that it's ours,
even though in the natural I can't see it and maybe even in
my hearing I'm hearing it ain't going to come to pass.
But I'm so convinced in my spirit that that unseen reality
is going to change this scene reality.
And it did. Come on, can I get an Amen?
I remember the first time my wife and I bought a house.
We had never bought a house before, rented our whole time
till we moved to Saint Augustine, gotten our purpose.
And so not that we couldn't have bought one before, we just
didn't. And so we got here and it's time
to buy. My wife ended up finding a home
that was a lease for, you know, lease to purchase type deal.
And so we went in on it. And so we're going.
And at this point, you know, we're starting to.
Look. For someone to finance us to buy
the house. OK.
And at the end of the day, you know, I was getting some letters
based upon me just moving into the state, Hadn't been here that
long. Although I'm saying that I've
been a pastor for, you know, multiple years and that whole,
you know, career has carried through.
I just happened to be in this location for less, you know,
just over a year. And so I started getting letters
in the mail that had rejected me for financing.
Well, you know, when you read that, it can, it's, it's in the
scene. It's telling you you've been
denied, right? Well, that's coming.
Well, there was a particular plant in our front yard that was
holding moisture and caused one section to kind of rot out a
piece of trim. And my wife didn't like it, so I
went out to cut thing down. She said, what are you doing?
I said, I'm getting rid of this, you know, we're going to cut it
on out. She said this isn't our house
yet. Now she was just talking.
She wasn't being not in faith, She was just stating the facts.
Me on the other hand, OK, it was my moment of faith declaration.
I said this is my house. It will only be my high.
And again, I'm not saying my wife was in unbelief.
She'd not at all. She believed God with me.
I'm just saying at she was like shocked at my violent response
to the tree. Right.
I am hacking on this deal. You're coming out.
You know we're at the roots, people.
I'm not cutting. I mean, I am digging out.
I'm finding I'm cut, I'm chopping.
I mean, I'm getting swollen with my muscles type stuff and we are
tearing this thing out, this in our house.
What if the owner, I said it's my house, I'm tearing.
I ripped it. I threw it halfway across the
front yard, right, 'cause I was so convinced of the unseen being
more real than the scene. Now it was my moment, my moment
to do that was my way of saying I don't believe these letters.
You're lying to me. And ultimately they were lies.
And bought the house and we lived in it for 13 years.
Are you hearing me now? Paul knows this more than anyone
because he knows what it means to live the life of only making
decisions based upon what you can do.
And this is outline of Philippians chapter 3.
Amen. In Philippians chapter 3 verses
3 through AM, we'll read out of the Passion.
It says this for we have already experienced heart circumcision
and we worship God in the power and freedom of the Holy Spirit,
not in laws and religious duties.
We are those who boast in what Jesus Christ has done and not in
what we can accomplish in our own strength.
It's true that I once relied on all that I had become.
I had a reason to boast and impress people with my
accomplishments more than others, for my pedigree was
impeccable. I was born a true Hebrew of the
heritage of Israel, of the sons of a Jewish man from the tribe
of Benjamin. I was circumcised 8 days after
my birth, and was raised in the strict tradition of Orthodox
Judaism, living a separated and devoted life as a Pharisee.
And concerning the righteousness of the Torah, no one surpassed
me. I was without a peer.
Furthermore, as a fiery defender of the truth, I persecuted the
messianic believers with religious zeal.
Yet all of these, the accomplishments that I once took
credit for, I've now forsaken them and regard it all as
nothing compared to the delightful delight of
experiencing Jesus Christ as my Lord.
To truly know He meant he let. He meant letting go of
everything from my past and throwing all my boasting on the
garbage. He it's like a pile of manure to
me now so that I may be enriched in the reality of knowing Jesus
Christ and embrace him as Lord in all of his greatness.
Wow, isn't that amazing? But we need to understand this.
With every new natural way to accomplish an event or task, the
less dependent the believer will rely on the spirit of God and
faith. Smith Wigglesworth said this The
further medical science gets, the less people will believe God
to be healed. Why?
Because they can see the medication naturally.
Take it. Period.
Now that is not to say you can't take medicine.
I'm not saying that. So know that because if the Lord
talks to you about taking something, take it.
Period. Because in some sentences
instances, for those who based upon what it is, there may be
some things that God wants you to do in a natural sense anyway.
For some people who have some challenges physically, it is a
natural issue. Because diet itself can change
things. Exercise can change things,
right? Not everything that God's doing
has to be supernatural because he designed our body in a
natural way. However, if what we do is look
to the shelf 1st and not to the word first, then we're failing.
And that's the difference, OK? You know, a lot of times people,
in fact I know of one particular individual had a situation and
it came out of their mouth. I don't have time to believe
God. I'll just go ahead and do this.
Well, that's a problem because now you're allowing what medical
science can can do, can do, and you're not even consulting God.
Now God may say go ahead and do something, especially when it
comes to surgery, because even the scripture gives an occasion
for that when he says if your eye offends you, what now we
know. Now in a literal sense, if you
can't keep your eyes from lusting, he's being real.
It'd be better for you not to see it and go on and stay
righteous with God instead of forfeit your soul and your walk
with God. Because you can't.
You won't allow the fruit of the spirit of self-control to
function as gross as that and gruesome as that sound in
comparison. It's better to gouge your
eyeballs out. But what I'm saying is, there
can be things happening in your body that God says remove it.
So again, what if you have cancer?
Can God cure it? Can he eliminate it
supernaturally? Sure.
But what if he says have it removed?
Well, what's the problem? Cut it out, because cancer is
offensive to your body. But consult God, is what I'm
saying. That's what I'm talking about,
all right. But we have to make sure that we
don't put ourselves in a position to where we 'cause we
can in our natural body look behind the veil of the spirit
realm, but then close the curtain and stay in the natural.
And the reason why that is because there's always a
conversation happening and I'm going to use this Luke 1720 and
21 account because this is the challenge that comes, it says
now having been questioned by the Pharisees, that's when the
Kingdom of God was coming, he answered and said to them, the
Kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed, nor
will they say, look, here it is or there it is.
For behold, the Kingdom of God is in your midst.
Now again, the reason why the religious people are asking this
is because they could see kingdoms, they could see the
castle so to speak. They could see the throne that
Caesar would sit on if they were in Rome.
In this case, they could definitely see the throne that
King Herod set on, right. So they could see the.
So they're like when we going to see it because when you're
around things that can be seen, you can make a demand on seeing
it. When you're inundated with your
senses, you can begin to make a demand on being able to see it
first before you actually believe it exists.
And that's what this conversation is about.
Well, it can happen even in the new covenant where we start
things out recognizing I can't be have a relationship with God.
There's nothing I can do in the natural to have that
relationship. I I I just know in the unseen
that Jesus Christ died. Rose.
His blood is on the mercy seat, though I do not see it.
It's behind a curtain that I cannot see right now.
But I know it exists. I know it's flowing.
I know forgiveness is there. I believe that I'm firmly
persuaded. So I'm going to call on the name
of the Lord. I'm going to be saved.
And then we don't see it, but we, the spirit of the man that
was dead, law, separated from God, gets evicted from this
suit, although we do not see it. Leave our body, and a new spirit
comes in, which is in the likeness of God.
Then we don't see it, but we know the Holy Ghost is in us
because he bears witness with our spirit that we can't see in
that dimension. Yet we know it.
We're convinced of it. We're firmly persuaded of it.
We know we're alive to God, and then we can start looking
natural again. Paul dealt with the Church of
Galatia concerning this. I'll read it out of the message
Bible Galatians chapter 3 verses one through 4, he says.
You crazy Galatians because it's crazy.
It's what I like to call a freak of nature.
Your spirit man is alive and the Holy Ghost lives in you and
you're going to perform like you don't have God, he said.
You crazy Galatians? Did someone put a hex on you?
Have you taken leave of your senses?
Something crazy has happened, for it's obvious that you no
longer have the crucified Jesus in clear focus in your lives.
His sacrifice on the cross was certainly set before you clearly
enough. Let me begin with this question.
How did your new life begin? Was it by working your heads off
to please God? Or was it by responding to God's
message to you? Are you going to continue this
craziness? For only crazy people would
think they could complete by their own efforts what God
begun. What was begun by God?
If you weren't smart enough or strong enough to begin it, how
do you suppose you could perfect it?
Did you go through this whole painful learning process for
nothing? It is not yet a total loss, but
it certainly will be if you keep this up.
And so if we don't watch out, and we do know that the Bible
tells us in the last of the last days, the Spirit explicitly says
in the last days many will fall away.
Or some, excuse me, will fall away from the faith, paying
attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons.
In essence, they'll get captivated here that what's
behind the curtain will convince them that this is more real than
what's behind the curtain. Yet God says, let me get you
behind the curtain, because this is more real than what you see.
And if you keep your focus behind the curtain, then it'll
change what you see here. So the demonic realm is using
the scene realm to worsen your scene realm, and they're
manipulating you behind the curtain where God wants you
behind the curtain so that your scene realm will line up to God.
Amen. One convinces you that this is
as good as it gets and your thinking is the best thinking.
Again, I'm going to say this because I want to safeguard you
when it when it comes to ministers to date and I don't
know everybody. Trust me, I do not.
And my my interaction with pastors are limited.
But of all the pastors that I've interacted with, of those that
became avid readers of material other than the scripture, all
have gotten off but one. Meaning they'll bring in
secularism, new way, all kinds of stuff because they're reading
from people that basically are not purists and because their
peak, they will begin to take these thoughts, patterns.
And and I'm talking people that are considered Christian books
that they are reading their have dove into these authors so much
so that it becomes the meat of their study instead of the
scripture and they all get off. I only know of 1, and that's
Apostle Scales out of Columbus, OH.
He's the only one that I know is a well read man of other
material, but he is so well read in scripture that he never lets
those books influence that core belief.
He's the only one I know to date.
You don't have that problem with me because I spend a lot of time
in scripture. Don't spend a whole lot of time
and other stuff because honestly, I don't even have time
now. I always read people's stuff
that the Lord directs me to, and when he does that, then I'm
looking at it through the lens of scripture.
I'm not there to believe everything they say.
I'm there to read it and believe what's in context of Scripture.
And that and that alone. OK, But with that being said,
what if we don't watch out? We will do this.
And again, there's 168 hours in a day, right?
You come to church twice, maybe. I think y'all, most of y'all
come to church twice. At least some of y'all more
times because the Kingdom Institute and 318I understand
that. But you actually sit through and
I preach longer than most intentionally.
OK, because I'm competing with the world because this used to
be two theaters that if we were running theaters again, you're
watching 2-3 hour movies and holding it till the movie's
done. Not like what I see on the
camera. We we clicking.
Y'all. I'm start getting a count.
Seth, you were out of your seat three times a day.
No, I'm kidding. Hey man, you know 'cause
sometimes we just get kind of LAX and we're not hanging on,
but God wants to give us life, right?
So again, you know, in that context you're if if you're not
deliberately taking up your other space with very
intentional things of God, and you're just letting other stuff
come in, the doctrine of Fox News will dominate the doctrine
of the Bible. The doctrine of CNN will
dominate the doctrine of the Bible.
The doctrine of the cubicle or the workspace doctrine will
dominate the doctrine of the Bible.
It'll do it because you're hearing it more right.
So you have to be very intentional.
OK, so there is this realm that we have to understand exists
behind a curtain that we need to make more real in our lives.
So again, by stirring you up by way of reminder, I'm probably
going to end with this one tonight, that the unseen exists,
period. And as easy as that sounds, and
we can all agree with that, living from that realm is not as
easy. It's not.
It has to become intentional, 'cause it's easier to live
natural. You understand?
It's easy to be carnal. Extremely easy.
It takes no effort to be born again, but live fleshly because
you've been trained in it and most of the people around you
are fleshly because most of them are lost and they live according
to their flesh. So you know, I was talking to
Marissa before service. She said, you know, her company
just had a massive layoff, just had a massive 1.
But they told back in November, was it that they were saying
it's coming? So, you know, obviously her
immediate supervisor was like, you know, now if y'all need to
have some anxiety classes, you know, to help deal with all
this, yeah, yeah, this is. Corporate world people, I mean,
this is her corporate, global world she's in because what
she's in is global, OK? And so, you know, they're like,
you know, we understand if you need to take some time to have
some, you know, go to attend some anxiety classes, right.
So they end up you know? The boss or her supervisor end
up talked to her and says, you know, you know, whatever you
need. And she's like, I'm fine, no
problem. I'm going to be here anyway.
Well, you sure are confident in yourself.
Well, the the God told me I would.
I would stay. OK, All right.
Well, they had layoffs. Everybody in her department's
gone but her now on one side. She was like, cut me loose,
Lord, I'll go, I'm out of here. Am I done?
The Lord told her, backing up, you're not done.
So her supervisor says, well, seems like what you believed
happened. She said, well, I believed it
because the Lord told me. And they said, you know, I'd
probably like to talk more of you about that because they
realized she was never anxious in the last two months.
Because she's from a different world, people.
Aren't you glad we're from a different world?
I said. Aren't you glad we're from a
different world? Amen.
Because here's the thing, even if she had been cut, she's
wasn't anxious anyway. In fact, she was excited about
the opportunity of where is God planning me next?
Because they don't know that an ambassador's about to show up,
and they're going to pay me to be an ambassador for the Kingdom
in the workplace. Right.
But that so happened the Lord let her know she wasn't being
cut. So she's in it to win it, right?
And you know what? It could be for this person.
For all we know, it could just be that she's testifying, this
person. And they may never accept God,
but when they stand before the Lord one day he said, I sent
you, Marissa. She walked it in front of you
and you knew it. And you even said you won't talk
about it. But then we got down to it.
You didn't want to hear it. So don't tell me you didn't
know. Because, you know, you know, now
depart from me, you worker of iniquity.
I'm not saying they're going to do that.
I'm just saying or you hear me. We must be intentional to know
that what we're constantly seeing.
Because I live just like you. I mean, actually I don't live
just like you. Most of you I don't live like at
all because most of you only are dealing with the things that are
at your home address. So I deal with my home address
and I deal with this address and then I deal with the 83
employees that are part of this address and their addresses.
And then I deal with the community because of the
influence we have through this, the outreaches and businesses
that we have to connect them, you know, So just like a major
stuff we're dealing with constantly, OK.
And I have to keep my focus on the fact that this is temporal
and this is changed by what I keep my eyes connected to this
unseen realm because it exists. It is more real than this
because that environment that's behind the curtain of God will
come to the forefront naturally, to where it's the only
environment that exists in both the seen and unseen realms.
It will squeeze everything else out, and everything contrary to
will be confined to a place called the Lake of Fire.
It will be confined. It will be stuck in a set of
boundaries. No freedom.
There's no freedom. It will be bound.
It'll be in one location, all of it, period.
But the rest of us will be free, just as we're free now.
Are you hearing me? Because whom the Son sets free
is free indeed. So let me run through a few of
these scriptures and we'll close, says this in Romans
chapter one, verse 20. Again, to remind you, this
unseen realm is more real than what we see now.
OK, Romans 120 says this for since the creation of the world
his what? Invisible.
What is translation is this? Where are you at?
OK, I'm in verse 20. They are they.
They jumped up in 18. I'm just reading 20.
It says this for since the creation of the world, His
invisible attributes, his eternal power and divine nature
have been clearly seen. Now this is crazy.
Because of His invisible attributes, it makes an effect
on His divine nature. So what we see as a result of
what He is doing from an unseen realm.
This is why the discoverers of the DNA strand, those who
discovered the DNA strand, then once they discovered it, they
immediately knew evolutions off the charts.
It can't be plausible for us. I abandoned that theory.
Now that doesn't mean they became believers in God himself.
They knew somebody started this. This is not through an
evolutionary chain, is not. Period.
There is a higher form of being that started this process.
They were convinced because again, his invisible attributes
again through his world. OK, Since the creation, his
eternal power and his divine nature have been clearly seen
being understood through what has been made so that they are
without excuse. Which means I don't care what
nation you go to on the planet, the minute they start looking at
the trees and animals, God is clearly being seen.
Period. Are you hearing me?
Because the unseen is being reflected in the natural
Colossian. But again, the natural is being
being affected because it first came from an unseen.
Again, where is the trees? Where is the fish?
Where are the animals? Where are the stars?
They're in the mind of the Father.
And then, but God, then God. So from his imagination,
someplace none of us could see, He spoke it and then it became,
do you understand? There's no situation you're
going in that His spoken word to you from his written written
word doesn't change it. So don't say, oh, we got a bill,
what are we going to do? Oh, my body's being attacked
with sickness. What am I going to do?
You got to tap in. I said you got to tap in.
Do you hear what's going on in the news?
You know, they they say we're going to have a a economic
collapse. Well, aren't you glad you're in
a different economy? They cannot collapse.
But have you invested in that economy?
Because you understand you can't lose stocks if you're not in
stocks. You can't lose on your 4O1K4O1B
or retirement fund if you don't have anything in it.
You can't lose Social Security if you're not in it.
But they taking it so you know what's in there for you.
OK. The point is, if you haven't put
something in it you can't expect, you can't be concerned
if it collapses. So when people during, you know,
2008 or especially during the Great Depression, you know it
was in those arenas that people lost that then eventually
affected other people in general.
But if you didn't have anything in it, then it didn't
technically affect you. Well, let me tell you something.
If you're not in God's economic system, you're already being
affected by the world system because you're not tapped into
one that's they can't be shaken because once you get into it,
this whole economy on the world can collapse and God still take.
Care of you. In fact, he will transfer
wealth. I'll say they'll transfer.
Amen. He'll do it.
I don't care if they only go to a digital currency, OK?
If they go to it to where you know your account is based upon
a number that you never see, that they can freeze and keep it
from you anyway, or erase it and then you don't have it because
you don't have anything tangible anyway.
But even if that happens, God can send birds to feed you
daily. And while the world is looking
for scraps, you hanging out waiting for your next Raven
cause a global collapse didn't kill the birds.
Amen. But again, unless you're in His
economy, then you're not going to reap the benefit.
So you need to get in this economy.
How do I get it? You tithe.
You give offerings. That's how you get in.
Amen. You trust God?
Oh, you just want my money. I don't want your money.
You want to put your money in the heavenly account, Jesus says
Store up for yourself treasures. Jesus said that he.
Can't lie. There must be a way you can
store it, 'cause God is not a man that he should.
Amen. And our book's about to come
out. We're about to finish the book
on economics. Hallelujah.
Amen. Colossians 115 to 16 It says,
For he is the image of the invisible God, the first born of
all creation. For by him all things were
created both in heaven and on earth, visible.
And that means there's things created invisible you don't see,
but they're visible to God. Whether Thrones or dominions or
rulers or authorities, all things have been created through
him and for him. So God creates the invisible and
the invisible. For us, the visible is only
visible, and the invisible we think don't exist.
But God says the invisible is just as visible as the visible.
It's invisible, yes, because to some it is, but to me it's not.
So from God's perspective he has the visible and visible, but
when he's talking to us, he says the visible and invisible.
Because what I see you don't Hallelujah, but when you tap
into God, then really everything's visible.
Because I see my faith, I know I'm firmly persuaded, and it
eventually produced that which I'm speaking and firmly
persuaded by the word of God. Are you hearing me?
Amen. First Timothy 117 says this, Now
to the King, eternal, immortal, invisible, and only God be honor
and glory forever and ever. Amen.
Well, I can't see God, so he doesn't exist.
Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
And again, we talked about this Sunday.
There's obviously oxygen in the room.
How do we know? Because you're not dead.
Because if the oxygen got sucked out of this room, no more was
coming in. It would get replaced with what
bit of oxygens in us with our carbon dioxide until it becomes
so toxic that we die and they come in and think we were a
cult, right? I knew they were a colt.
No, the oxygen got sucked out of the room, man.
We didn't know it at the time. We are culture though.
Amen. But again, God says he's
immortal, invisible, just because you don't seem to mean
he doesn't exist. There's angels in the room right
now. I said.
There's angels in the room. Amen.
And we could tell our angels we'll talk about it.
Even though you don't see them. They're listening.
They're waiting a command. We don't worship them.
And they'll tell you don't worship me, but just give me a
command because I'm here to help you.
Are you hearing me? Got two more scriptures And
we'll close Elisha in second Kings 615 to 17.
Now he's he's This is Old Covenant Guy.
All right, says now, when the attendant of the man of God had
risen early and gone out, behold, an army with horses and
Chariots was encircling the city.
And his servant said, Alas, my master, what shall I do?
What shall we do? So he answered, do not fear, for
those who are with us are more than those who are with them.
And the master went out and said, OK, I mean all these
people are with that army. It's you, me, it's two.
Let me go back out and count. I don't know.
You didn't sleep well. Did you eat something?
Because master, I counted 5 times and there's definitely
more of them than you and me in this tent.
So what's he saying? Verse 17.
Then Elisha prayed and said, oh Lord, I pray open his eyes.
What was he? A blind guy?
Obviously it wasn't, because then the first part of the
scripture doesn't work. He went out and saw right.
It says the attendant of the man of God, risen early, gone out
and behold, an army with Chariots.
And the servant said to him, Alas, my master, what shall we
do? In essence, how could he see it
if he was actually literally blonde?
He obviously wasn't blind. He could see naturally.
But yet Elijah's asking him to be able to have eyes open to
see. And it's not natural eyes.
It's pull back the curtain and the Lord opened the sermon's eye
in essence, he said. Because they were down at the
city and they were obviously in a valley and there was mountains
around them. So God started grabbing the
curtain at the top of the mountain and was pulling it
back. And when he pulled it back it
says this and behold, the mountain was full of horses and
Chariots of fire around Elijah. Glory to God.
So Elijah is aware I've had this army with me the whole time.
I said I've had this army with me the whole time because I'm
more aware of that realm and its existence.
So when these come, they don't move me.
And when you're aware of that, then no trial temptation or
test. Is going to move you because
you're very much aware of #1. I can't seem, but you understand
the greater ones on the inside of me.
So you're already at a deficit because you don't.
But I mean, I would love to take my shirt off right now and show
you the Holy Ghost. You hear what I'm saying?
I like to take the. Curtain off and you see God, but
I know he's there and I'm more aware of that.
Which means that I also am more aware of the fruits that he's
holding in his hand, Which means when someone attacks me, I can
be like hey may that patience. Go ahead and give me one of
those self-control ones while I'm there, right?
Because I'm more aware of that than what I'm seeing right now.
For me to respond I'm giving you practical stuff that's saved
your life. Romans 417 last scripture.
Is this because again the unseen exist?
The latter part in the new King James says it this way.
God who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do
not exist as though they did Amplified says this who gives
life to the dead and speaks of the non existent things that he
has foretold and promised as if already existed.
In essence, Abraham said I'm going to have a son.
I'm having a son with Sarah, period.
Because Sarah was wrong unfortunately and I should have
never slept with a woman. The Lord corrected that.
So at this point, this lady's going to have a child.
And it says he did not stagger in unbelief but grew strong in
faith because he's the father of faith, father of us all.
And God calls those things that be not as though they were.
And to the world they'll say it's dead, you're dead.
It ain't going to work. Ain't going to work.
No hope for you. This is it.
This is a problem. And they're showing you
everything in the natural. But you're like this realm, man
is real, this realms good subject to change.
Because I'm behind the curtain and we're not talking about the
Wizard of Oz here, people. You understand what I'm saying?
I'm not talking about the Wizard of Oz.
I'm talking about the King of Glory, the creator of Heaven and
Earth. He has a whole.
Host of invisible things visible to him that he wants you to be
able to see from this side and pull things over.
Let's pray, Father. We love you and we honor you.
We thank you. You're the king of.
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