1 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:05,560 Thanks for checking out the Anchor Faith Message podcast 2 00:00:05,560 --> 00:00:06,920 from St. Augustine, FL. 3 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:16,160 Now enjoy this message. I want to talk to you. 4 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:21,080 What's behind the curtain? OK, so in first Sam in chapter 5 00:00:21,080 --> 00:00:25,040 16 verse seven, in first Sam in 16 seven it says this. 6 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:29,360 But the Lord said to Samuel, do not look at his appearance or at 7 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:33,160 the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. 8 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:40,440 For God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward 9 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:44,600 appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart. 10 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:52,080 Now this word heart is not the physical organ, because I could 11 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:55,320 rip your physical organ out of your chest and see it. 12 00:00:56,840 --> 00:01:02,840 What he's saying is he sees in the unseen, and so we want to 13 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:05,640 get behind the curtain, in essence, pull back the veil. 14 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:13,240 Because there's another realm, spirit realm out there that is 15 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:18,880 unseen to our eyes and our senses, but yet it exists. 16 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:24,280 And since we're diving into the things that are behind the veil 17 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:29,280 so that we can become adequately trained that way in this season, 18 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:36,600 that most likely is the acceleration of the latter days, 19 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:40,360 where the spirit explicitly says in latter days, that's the last 20 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:43,760 of the last days. There will be many will fall 21 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:47,840 away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits 22 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:51,040 and doctrines of demons. Seducing spirits and doctrines 23 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:54,360 of demons are not seen. They are things in the unseen 24 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:58,360 that show up in our ears. They show up in our eyes and 25 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:02,000 they create a doctrine or a thought process that we begin to 26 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:06,440 ascribe to and believe. And we believe, people believe 27 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:11,440 that we're of God, that these evil things are actually right 28 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:15,640 now instead of what God says. And it's because they are 29 00:02:15,640 --> 00:02:18,880 looking like man and not like God. 30 00:02:19,640 --> 00:02:24,160 Because the unseen realm of the spirit that the devil functions 31 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:29,400 in, he's always there to touch your sense, which means he's 32 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:33,720 there to identify with what you already can easily identify. 33 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:41,000 With the one particular pastor I met from Marion County, he said 34 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:45,280 pastor again. He's quite a bit more tan than I 35 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:50,000 am, he said. Pastor, he's a Bishop, he said. 36 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:55,960 He said my congregation only filters God through tragedy. 37 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:02,240 They only believe they can touch God through tribulation and 38 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:05,960 tragedy. They don't. 39 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:09,520 No matter how much I'm trying. That's why I need to bring you 40 00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:12,080 in, because I don't care how the light bulb comes on along. 41 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:18,680 They won't take kingship because everything we've been trained 42 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:24,000 and taught, our whole society, my whole culture has been taught 43 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:31,000 to only see God through tragedy, which ultimately means we're the 44 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:38,320 victim in everything and it needs to change because they're 45 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:42,120 not Kingdom, I said. I understand now. 46 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:45,840 I don't understand his level, but I do understand because I've 47 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:50,840 been around, you know more than me, OK, And so you know this is 48 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:55,480 the problem because the minute you've had an issue and someone 49 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:58,720 starts talking about your issue, you can identify. 50 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:03,160 Are you hearing me? So this the spirit realm, What's 51 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:07,400 behind the current in the realm of the demonic or the devil is 52 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:15,160 to get you to identify with things you already felt, right? 53 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:18,560 So you can jump on it, because you can. 54 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:21,800 You can. You felt that you've experienced 55 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:24,360 that. And so it becomes more real 56 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:28,640 because of your experience instead of it real because God 57 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:31,160 says it. And if God says that, that's 58 00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:33,640 actually more real than the experience you have, because 59 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:36,440 maybe the experience you have, God never intended, and the 60 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:38,240 experience you had actually came from the devil. 61 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:41,360 And God wants to deliver you from the devil's demonic attack, 62 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:44,560 so he needs you to get over to his word and experience it. 63 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:47,200 But because you want to keep identifying with your experience 64 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:50,280 and make God identify with you through your experience, then 65 00:04:50,280 --> 00:04:51,800 God's like, I can't identify with you. 66 00:04:53,840 --> 00:04:58,080 Because here's the thing. God himself, other than through 67 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:03,560 Christ the Father, has never failed. 68 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:13,120 Jesus himself has never experienced death walking in the 69 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:16,920 earth. He was tempted to sin, but never 70 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:18,800 sin. The wage of sin is that now he 71 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:21,840 became sin. So at that point there's an 72 00:05:21,840 --> 00:05:28,360 experience because he took on you, although he himself didn't 73 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:33,480 do it, and Jesus did not take on you to identify with you. 74 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:38,080 This is the problem. Jesus didn't become like us to 75 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:41,880 identify with us. Jesus became like us because the 76 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:46,680 first Adam had the dominion. So it requires God to be a man 77 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:50,040 to gain back dominion. He's not here to identify with 78 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:54,560 us, although he can't identify with our temptations, he said. 79 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:58,800 God, if anyone understands, you have a high priest who can 80 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:03,000 sympathize with you, right? Because he was tempted on all 81 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:09,320 accounts yet never sinned. So he can say, I know what it's 82 00:06:09,320 --> 00:06:11,640 like for the enemy to come after you. 83 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:17,400 Yet I'm the one who was victorious and never succumbed, 84 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:21,960 So I was never the victim. I was always the victor. 85 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:25,240 So what I need you to is identify with me. 86 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:29,640 I need you to identify with me, 'cause when you identify with 87 00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:32,120 me, then you'll identify in Christ, which is in the king. 88 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:36,080 And when you identify there, then you'll quit looking at how 89 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:38,560 you feel or how you felt or how you went through. 90 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:42,240 You'll start throwing that junk away and you'll only focus on on 91 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:44,520 who he is and who you've been made. 92 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:50,760 Then you'll actually see like God, because the minute you 93 00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:54,240 navigate towards people that look like you, you're already 94 00:06:54,240 --> 00:07:01,720 being ungodly because man does not look on the outward 95 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:06,200 appearance, period. And the New Covenant says we are 96 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:11,440 not to regard man in the flesh. So I don't regard you based upon 97 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:16,320 your paint job, 'cause it's just a paint job. 98 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:19,600 And you've heard us say this before, that if you go out to 99 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:22,640 the parking lot right now, those are vehicles. 100 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:26,000 What do they do, carry you? That's this assignment to take 101 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:29,560 you somewhere. You're not your car, you're in 102 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:31,400 it. Well, you're not your outward 103 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:36,040 suit, you're a spirit man in it. And the black cars don't park 104 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:39,160 together, the white cars don't park together, the yellow cars 105 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:41,320 don't park together. The red cars don't park 106 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:43,000 together. The blue cars don't park 107 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:44,560 together. I mean, they just park. 108 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:48,120 I've never seen a black car get by a white car and say, what are 109 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:52,480 you doing here? I've never seen it pull out of 110 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:57,200 its space when you're not in it and move somewhere else. 111 00:07:59,960 --> 00:08:09,160 It's never happened. Hallelujah. 112 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:13,080 So don't care about your paint job because God, God is not 113 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:16,960 colorblind. Because he's too creative to let 114 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:21,200 us all be the same color. He's too creative. 115 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:26,680 I mean, there's not one green, there's not one red, there's not 116 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:29,480 one yellow or orange. I mean, we look at the trees, 117 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:31,400 the bark on trees. Different. 118 00:08:31,880 --> 00:08:34,600 God's way too creative. This is why I personally can't 119 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:37,880 have tattoos, because I would be completely tattooed. 120 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:43,520 I would it would never stop because I'd be like, oh, that's 121 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:45,800 cool. But then it's one. 122 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:49,600 And I like more stuff. I like to be more creative so it 123 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:52,800 would expand. So instead of me just turning 124 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:57,160 into one big tattoo, I choose not to put on any odd. 125 00:08:57,800 --> 00:09:01,600 Are you hearing me, 'cause I know I will have a problem. 126 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:04,400 Now if I did temporary ones where I could wash it off and do 127 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:06,760 it, then that would be good for me because then I'd be like, I'm 128 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:12,440 bored with that, right? OK, God's too creative. 129 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:17,080 Yet the devil has used it for division and he said Samuel 130 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:19,720 straight and says you're looking at the guy. 131 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:22,080 Now. In this case, it wasn't 132 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:26,040 technically a color issue, it was a statute issue. 133 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:28,680 It's he compared him with the Last King. 134 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:33,800 Well, he looks like the last guy, so he must be it, since 135 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:35,240 that was how God picked the first. 136 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:39,000 Well, God didn't pick the 1st. I'm going to say that again, God 137 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:43,080 didn't pick the first. God gave the king the people 138 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:46,000 wanted, and he knew what they wanted because they were 139 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:49,560 eyeballing the rest. And they're like, they looking 140 00:09:49,560 --> 00:09:52,680 for a giant, somebody big and strong. 141 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:55,520 You know, because if they look big and strong, then they must 142 00:09:55,520 --> 00:09:59,720 be strong, right? And so he's like, they still 143 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:01,200 ain't strong enough. So I'm gonna help him out and 144 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:04,120 put an anointing on them, Let him know that really how weak 145 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:08,400 they are even and how big they are and if they'll yield to me 146 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:10,600 it'd be awesome. But if they don't, he told King 147 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:11,440 Saw. He said if you'll. 148 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:17,080 Do what I say. There will not be in your family 149 00:10:17,080 --> 00:10:19,840 line a king that doesn't sit on the throne. 150 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:23,400 Which tells me if he'd had done that, Jesus would have came 151 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:29,320 through Saul's blood lung. But because Saul wouldn't and he 152 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:33,400 didn't, he said, well, I go looking like I go look for 153 00:10:33,560 --> 00:10:37,560 because Saul's man's pick that I anointed to try to help out. 154 00:10:37,560 --> 00:10:40,160 But he didn't want it because he had selfish ambition anyway, 155 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:44,720 because men are only selfish. So for me to go find someone 156 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:48,360 that can be king, that I can anoint and stay within it, I 157 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:53,120 need to find somebody after my own heart, right. 158 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:55,720 So he says, you know, look, I don't look at the outward 159 00:10:55,720 --> 00:10:58,120 appearance, I'm looking at the heart. 160 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:04,680 So God is is never captivated with what we see. 161 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:09,280 He's already he, he effects what we see. 162 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:13,880 Experience touched through our five senses from a behind the 163 00:11:13,880 --> 00:11:21,080 curtain perspective, and the devil does the same thing, all 164 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:23,960 right. Proverbs 1412 says there is a 165 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:28,840 way which seems right to a man, but his end is a way of death. 166 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:31,240 So there's something he's seeing. 167 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:34,400 He's making his judgments based upon it and based upon that 168 00:11:34,560 --> 00:11:37,920 without God being a part of the process. 169 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:42,240 It just ends in death, right? Luke 1615 says it this way. 170 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:47,000 And he said to them, you are those who justly justify 171 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:53,640 yourself in the sight of men. But God knows, your heart for 172 00:11:53,640 --> 00:12:00,560 that which is highly esteemed among men, is what detestable in 173 00:12:00,560 --> 00:12:03,440 the sight of God. So there's something going down 174 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:08,280 with these individuals that in the natural realm, seeing and 175 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:12,720 hearing men are like, wow, how awesome that guy is. 176 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:15,880 So awesome. That woman is so amazing, yet 177 00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:19,280 God behind the curtain is saying this is disgusting. 178 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:28,600 So while a lot of men praise, God, gives no praise to, and we 179 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:31,400 need to figure out what God's giving praise to, not what man's 180 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:32,320 giving praise. To. 181 00:12:35,560 --> 00:12:39,680 We need to be able to discern this because both of them are 182 00:12:39,680 --> 00:12:44,240 being affected from things behind the curtain, and the 183 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:47,280 devil behind the curtain is getting you to only focus on 184 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:50,760 what you can see. Where God behind the curtain 185 00:12:50,880 --> 00:12:54,000 says, focus on what's behind the curtain and it will affect what 186 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:58,120 you see. You hear me? 187 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:01,000 This is what Paul said in Second Corinthians chapter 4, verse 16 188 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:03,400 through 18. He said, Therefore we do not 189 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:06,440 lose heart. But though our outward man is 190 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:09,960 decaying, yet our inward man is being renewed day by day, which 191 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:14,080 means there's a conflict. You see me maybe getting older. 192 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:17,080 You see me maybe, you know my body's not in the same peak 193 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:18,960 performance as it was at one point. 194 00:13:19,160 --> 00:13:23,640 But know this on the inside that you can't see It is stronger. 195 00:13:23,640 --> 00:13:28,120 In this suit that's not as strong as it was at one time. 196 00:13:28,240 --> 00:13:31,880 It is even stronger. And the older I get, the 197 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:35,360 stronger on the inside I'll be. Are you hearing me? 198 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:39,400 Then He goes on to say, For the momentary light affliction is 199 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:42,360 producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all 200 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:47,920 comparison, while we look not at the things which are seen, but 201 00:13:47,920 --> 00:13:49,160 at the things which are not seen. 202 00:13:49,160 --> 00:13:51,400 For the things which are seen are temporal or temporary, but 203 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:56,160 the things which are not seen are eternal, Unseen things Are 204 00:13:56,160 --> 00:13:59,280 not seen things. Now that doesn't mean you can't 205 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:03,240 perceive it. You can't sense it. 206 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:08,200 In fact, you can become so aware of what's not seen that it's 207 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:10,720 more real to you than what you do see. 208 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:15,200 Amen. When we were believing God for 209 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:19,320 them all it was more real to us. And I know I can testify for 210 00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:23,200 myself and I believe this for most of you every day we came on 211 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:26,760 the property and we were thank you Lord for 2121 US one no 212 00:14:26,760 --> 00:14:29,200 matter what we were hearing And I was here a little bit more 213 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:31,760 than y'all but what we are, no matter what we're hearing I 214 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:38,160 we're convinced this is our mall and us having mall 2121 and us 215 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:45,320 remodeling is irrelevant to us. We are convinced that it's ours, 216 00:14:45,320 --> 00:14:48,720 even though in the natural I can't see it and maybe even in 217 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:51,280 my hearing I'm hearing it ain't going to come to pass. 218 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:57,560 But I'm so convinced in my spirit that that unseen reality 219 00:14:58,120 --> 00:14:59,880 is going to change this scene reality. 220 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:02,440 And it did. Come on, can I get an Amen? 221 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:04,760 I remember the first time my wife and I bought a house. 222 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:07,000 We had never bought a house before, rented our whole time 223 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:08,760 till we moved to Saint Augustine, gotten our purpose. 224 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:11,520 And so not that we couldn't have bought one before, we just 225 00:15:11,520 --> 00:15:13,760 didn't. And so we got here and it's time 226 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:15,960 to buy. My wife ended up finding a home 227 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:19,480 that was a lease for, you know, lease to purchase type deal. 228 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:22,160 And so we went in on it. And so we're going. 229 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:24,640 And at this point, you know, we're starting to. 230 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:27,280 Look. For someone to finance us to buy 231 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:28,680 the house. OK. 232 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:31,800 And at the end of the day, you know, I was getting some letters 233 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:33,960 based upon me just moving into the state, Hadn't been here that 234 00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:35,640 long. Although I'm saying that I've 235 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:38,600 been a pastor for, you know, multiple years and that whole, 236 00:15:38,640 --> 00:15:40,160 you know, career has carried through. 237 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:42,840 I just happened to be in this location for less, you know, 238 00:15:42,840 --> 00:15:46,200 just over a year. And so I started getting letters 239 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:49,640 in the mail that had rejected me for financing. 240 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:54,960 Well, you know, when you read that, it can, it's, it's in the 241 00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:58,240 scene. It's telling you you've been 242 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:02,800 denied, right? Well, that's coming. 243 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:06,480 Well, there was a particular plant in our front yard that was 244 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:09,760 holding moisture and caused one section to kind of rot out a 245 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:12,400 piece of trim. And my wife didn't like it, so I 246 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:15,160 went out to cut thing down. She said, what are you doing? 247 00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:18,480 I said, I'm getting rid of this, you know, we're going to cut it 248 00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:20,480 on out. She said this isn't our house 249 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:21,920 yet. Now she was just talking. 250 00:16:21,920 --> 00:16:25,840 She wasn't being not in faith, She was just stating the facts. 251 00:16:27,080 --> 00:16:32,600 Me on the other hand, OK, it was my moment of faith declaration. 252 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:36,160 I said this is my house. It will only be my high. 253 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:38,720 And again, I'm not saying my wife was in unbelief. 254 00:16:38,720 --> 00:16:41,280 She'd not at all. She believed God with me. 255 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:46,440 I'm just saying at she was like shocked at my violent response 256 00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:49,000 to the tree. Right. 257 00:16:50,520 --> 00:16:52,920 I am hacking on this deal. You're coming out. 258 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:55,360 You know we're at the roots, people. 259 00:16:55,600 --> 00:16:57,600 I'm not cutting. I mean, I am digging out. 260 00:16:57,600 --> 00:16:59,640 I'm finding I'm cut, I'm chopping. 261 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:03,400 I mean, I'm getting swollen with my muscles type stuff and we are 262 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:05,760 tearing this thing out, this in our house. 263 00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:10,079 What if the owner, I said it's my house, I'm tearing. 264 00:17:10,079 --> 00:17:11,599 I ripped it. I threw it halfway across the 265 00:17:11,599 --> 00:17:17,839 front yard, right, 'cause I was so convinced of the unseen being 266 00:17:17,839 --> 00:17:24,160 more real than the scene. Now it was my moment, my moment 267 00:17:24,160 --> 00:17:28,720 to do that was my way of saying I don't believe these letters. 268 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:33,560 You're lying to me. And ultimately they were lies. 269 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:35,520 And bought the house and we lived in it for 13 years. 270 00:17:36,040 --> 00:17:40,000 Are you hearing me now? Paul knows this more than anyone 271 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:44,720 because he knows what it means to live the life of only making 272 00:17:44,720 --> 00:17:46,880 decisions based upon what you can do. 273 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:49,960 And this is outline of Philippians chapter 3. 274 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:53,240 Amen. In Philippians chapter 3 verses 275 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:54,840 3 through AM, we'll read out of the Passion. 276 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:58,880 It says this for we have already experienced heart circumcision 277 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:01,920 and we worship God in the power and freedom of the Holy Spirit, 278 00:18:01,920 --> 00:18:03,960 not in laws and religious duties. 279 00:18:04,600 --> 00:18:09,280 We are those who boast in what Jesus Christ has done and not in 280 00:18:09,280 --> 00:18:11,760 what we can accomplish in our own strength. 281 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:17,440 It's true that I once relied on all that I had become. 282 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:22,040 I had a reason to boast and impress people with my 283 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:26,720 accomplishments more than others, for my pedigree was 284 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:29,960 impeccable. I was born a true Hebrew of the 285 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:33,480 heritage of Israel, of the sons of a Jewish man from the tribe 286 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:36,520 of Benjamin. I was circumcised 8 days after 287 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:39,920 my birth, and was raised in the strict tradition of Orthodox 288 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:43,680 Judaism, living a separated and devoted life as a Pharisee. 289 00:18:43,680 --> 00:18:47,880 And concerning the righteousness of the Torah, no one surpassed 290 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:49,760 me. I was without a peer. 291 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:55,080 Furthermore, as a fiery defender of the truth, I persecuted the 292 00:18:55,080 --> 00:18:58,920 messianic believers with religious zeal. 293 00:18:59,120 --> 00:19:03,040 Yet all of these, the accomplishments that I once took 294 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:07,800 credit for, I've now forsaken them and regard it all as 295 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:10,880 nothing compared to the delightful delight of 296 00:19:10,880 --> 00:19:13,760 experiencing Jesus Christ as my Lord. 297 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:19,200 To truly know He meant he let. He meant letting go of 298 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:23,760 everything from my past and throwing all my boasting on the 299 00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:26,720 garbage. He it's like a pile of manure to 300 00:19:26,720 --> 00:19:31,680 me now so that I may be enriched in the reality of knowing Jesus 301 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:35,320 Christ and embrace him as Lord in all of his greatness. 302 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:39,960 Wow, isn't that amazing? But we need to understand this. 303 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:44,160 With every new natural way to accomplish an event or task, the 304 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:48,040 less dependent the believer will rely on the spirit of God and 305 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:50,880 faith. Smith Wigglesworth said this The 306 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:55,360 further medical science gets, the less people will believe God 307 00:19:55,360 --> 00:19:58,560 to be healed. Why? 308 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:04,720 Because they can see the medication naturally. 309 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:07,960 Take it. Period. 310 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:10,600 Now that is not to say you can't take medicine. 311 00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:14,280 I'm not saying that. So know that because if the Lord 312 00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:16,400 talks to you about taking something, take it. 313 00:20:17,360 --> 00:20:20,520 Period. Because in some sentences 314 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:27,440 instances, for those who based upon what it is, there may be 315 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:31,240 some things that God wants you to do in a natural sense anyway. 316 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:36,040 For some people who have some challenges physically, it is a 317 00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:40,400 natural issue. Because diet itself can change 318 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:43,840 things. Exercise can change things, 319 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:47,400 right? Not everything that God's doing 320 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:50,800 has to be supernatural because he designed our body in a 321 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:54,680 natural way. However, if what we do is look 322 00:20:54,680 --> 00:20:58,640 to the shelf 1st and not to the word first, then we're failing. 323 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:06,560 And that's the difference, OK? You know, a lot of times people, 324 00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:09,600 in fact I know of one particular individual had a situation and 325 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:13,680 it came out of their mouth. I don't have time to believe 326 00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:15,640 God. I'll just go ahead and do this. 327 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:20,040 Well, that's a problem because now you're allowing what medical 328 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:23,440 science can can do, can do, and you're not even consulting God. 329 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:28,240 Now God may say go ahead and do something, especially when it 330 00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:32,680 comes to surgery, because even the scripture gives an occasion 331 00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:36,880 for that when he says if your eye offends you, what now we 332 00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:41,640 know. Now in a literal sense, if you 333 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:44,960 can't keep your eyes from lusting, he's being real. 334 00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:48,680 It'd be better for you not to see it and go on and stay 335 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:53,480 righteous with God instead of forfeit your soul and your walk 336 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:55,400 with God. Because you can't. 337 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:58,640 You won't allow the fruit of the spirit of self-control to 338 00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:03,480 function as gross as that and gruesome as that sound in 339 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:05,480 comparison. It's better to gouge your 340 00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:08,840 eyeballs out. But what I'm saying is, there 341 00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:12,120 can be things happening in your body that God says remove it. 342 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:14,560 So again, what if you have cancer? 343 00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:17,040 Can God cure it? Can he eliminate it 344 00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:18,040 supernaturally? Sure. 345 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:20,720 But what if he says have it removed? 346 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:28,000 Well, what's the problem? Cut it out, because cancer is 347 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:32,520 offensive to your body. But consult God, is what I'm 348 00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:36,280 saying. That's what I'm talking about, 349 00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:39,920 all right. But we have to make sure that we 350 00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:43,640 don't put ourselves in a position to where we 'cause we 351 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:50,160 can in our natural body look behind the veil of the spirit 352 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:54,000 realm, but then close the curtain and stay in the natural. 353 00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:59,200 And the reason why that is because there's always a 354 00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:02,640 conversation happening and I'm going to use this Luke 1720 and 355 00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:07,200 21 account because this is the challenge that comes, it says 356 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:09,280 now having been questioned by the Pharisees, that's when the 357 00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:11,840 Kingdom of God was coming, he answered and said to them, the 358 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:15,320 Kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed, nor 359 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:17,240 will they say, look, here it is or there it is. 360 00:23:17,360 --> 00:23:20,000 For behold, the Kingdom of God is in your midst. 361 00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:23,360 Now again, the reason why the religious people are asking this 362 00:23:23,360 --> 00:23:27,000 is because they could see kingdoms, they could see the 363 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:30,640 castle so to speak. They could see the throne that 364 00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:33,120 Caesar would sit on if they were in Rome. 365 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:35,920 In this case, they could definitely see the throne that 366 00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:40,000 King Herod set on, right. So they could see the. 367 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:44,520 So they're like when we going to see it because when you're 368 00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:48,600 around things that can be seen, you can make a demand on seeing 369 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:52,160 it. When you're inundated with your 370 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:56,360 senses, you can begin to make a demand on being able to see it 371 00:23:56,360 --> 00:24:00,440 first before you actually believe it exists. 372 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:02,840 And that's what this conversation is about. 373 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:06,440 Well, it can happen even in the new covenant where we start 374 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:11,800 things out recognizing I can't be have a relationship with God. 375 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:13,640 There's nothing I can do in the natural to have that 376 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:18,160 relationship. I I I just know in the unseen 377 00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:20,720 that Jesus Christ died. Rose. 378 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:23,360 His blood is on the mercy seat, though I do not see it. 379 00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:26,120 It's behind a curtain that I cannot see right now. 380 00:24:26,120 --> 00:24:28,600 But I know it exists. I know it's flowing. 381 00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:31,720 I know forgiveness is there. I believe that I'm firmly 382 00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:33,280 persuaded. So I'm going to call on the name 383 00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:34,840 of the Lord. I'm going to be saved. 384 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:38,040 And then we don't see it, but we, the spirit of the man that 385 00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:41,480 was dead, law, separated from God, gets evicted from this 386 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:45,880 suit, although we do not see it. Leave our body, and a new spirit 387 00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:48,160 comes in, which is in the likeness of God. 388 00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:52,160 Then we don't see it, but we know the Holy Ghost is in us 389 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:55,760 because he bears witness with our spirit that we can't see in 390 00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:59,280 that dimension. Yet we know it. 391 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:04,000 We're convinced of it. We're firmly persuaded of it. 392 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:08,760 We know we're alive to God, and then we can start looking 393 00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:11,360 natural again. Paul dealt with the Church of 394 00:25:11,360 --> 00:25:15,680 Galatia concerning this. I'll read it out of the message 395 00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:19,040 Bible Galatians chapter 3 verses one through 4, he says. 396 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:21,400 You crazy Galatians because it's crazy. 397 00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:26,880 It's what I like to call a freak of nature. 398 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:30,600 Your spirit man is alive and the Holy Ghost lives in you and 399 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:37,000 you're going to perform like you don't have God, he said. 400 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:39,760 You crazy Galatians? Did someone put a hex on you? 401 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:42,320 Have you taken leave of your senses? 402 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:48,080 Something crazy has happened, for it's obvious that you no 403 00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:51,960 longer have the crucified Jesus in clear focus in your lives. 404 00:25:52,120 --> 00:25:55,760 His sacrifice on the cross was certainly set before you clearly 405 00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:58,120 enough. Let me begin with this question. 406 00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:02,640 How did your new life begin? Was it by working your heads off 407 00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:05,720 to please God? Or was it by responding to God's 408 00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:08,560 message to you? Are you going to continue this 409 00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:11,520 craziness? For only crazy people would 410 00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:17,680 think they could complete by their own efforts what God 411 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:21,800 begun. What was begun by God? 412 00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:25,720 If you weren't smart enough or strong enough to begin it, how 413 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:27,920 do you suppose you could perfect it? 414 00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:32,280 Did you go through this whole painful learning process for 415 00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:36,040 nothing? It is not yet a total loss, but 416 00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:38,760 it certainly will be if you keep this up. 417 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:43,200 And so if we don't watch out, and we do know that the Bible 418 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:46,640 tells us in the last of the last days, the Spirit explicitly says 419 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:49,480 in the last days many will fall away. 420 00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:52,600 Or some, excuse me, will fall away from the faith, paying 421 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:55,840 attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons. 422 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:59,760 In essence, they'll get captivated here that what's 423 00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:02,720 behind the curtain will convince them that this is more real than 424 00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:05,160 what's behind the curtain. Yet God says, let me get you 425 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:07,600 behind the curtain, because this is more real than what you see. 426 00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:09,800 And if you keep your focus behind the curtain, then it'll 427 00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:14,960 change what you see here. So the demonic realm is using 428 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:21,800 the scene realm to worsen your scene realm, and they're 429 00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:24,840 manipulating you behind the curtain where God wants you 430 00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:28,480 behind the curtain so that your scene realm will line up to God. 431 00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:33,800 Amen. One convinces you that this is 432 00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:36,680 as good as it gets and your thinking is the best thinking. 433 00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:40,600 Again, I'm going to say this because I want to safeguard you 434 00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:47,600 when it when it comes to ministers to date and I don't 435 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:50,240 know everybody. Trust me, I do not. 436 00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:55,840 And my my interaction with pastors are limited. 437 00:27:56,280 --> 00:28:01,360 But of all the pastors that I've interacted with, of those that 438 00:28:01,360 --> 00:28:10,840 became avid readers of material other than the scripture, all 439 00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:16,160 have gotten off but one. Meaning they'll bring in 440 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:21,240 secularism, new way, all kinds of stuff because they're reading 441 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:27,200 from people that basically are not purists and because their 442 00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:30,360 peak, they will begin to take these thoughts, patterns. 443 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:33,120 And and I'm talking people that are considered Christian books 444 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:38,960 that they are reading their have dove into these authors so much 445 00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:43,040 so that it becomes the meat of their study instead of the 446 00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:45,920 scripture and they all get off. I only know of 1, and that's 447 00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:49,520 Apostle Scales out of Columbus, OH. 448 00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:53,360 He's the only one that I know is a well read man of other 449 00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:57,320 material, but he is so well read in scripture that he never lets 450 00:28:57,320 --> 00:28:59,400 those books influence that core belief. 451 00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:02,840 He's the only one I know to date. 452 00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:06,920 You don't have that problem with me because I spend a lot of time 453 00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:09,120 in scripture. Don't spend a whole lot of time 454 00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:11,640 and other stuff because honestly, I don't even have time 455 00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:15,640 now. I always read people's stuff 456 00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:19,240 that the Lord directs me to, and when he does that, then I'm 457 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:21,400 looking at it through the lens of scripture. 458 00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:23,120 I'm not there to believe everything they say. 459 00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:26,240 I'm there to read it and believe what's in context of Scripture. 460 00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:30,360 And that and that alone. OK, But with that being said, 461 00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:33,920 what if we don't watch out? We will do this. 462 00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:37,600 And again, there's 168 hours in a day, right? 463 00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:44,680 You come to church twice, maybe. I think y'all, most of y'all 464 00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:47,760 come to church twice. At least some of y'all more 465 00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:51,600 times because the Kingdom Institute and 318I understand 466 00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:53,840 that. But you actually sit through and 467 00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:58,440 I preach longer than most intentionally. 468 00:29:59,960 --> 00:30:04,960 OK, because I'm competing with the world because this used to 469 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:09,360 be two theaters that if we were running theaters again, you're 470 00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:14,920 watching 2-3 hour movies and holding it till the movie's 471 00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:20,800 done. Not like what I see on the 472 00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:24,240 camera. We we clicking. 473 00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:27,320 Y'all. I'm start getting a count. 474 00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:29,320 Seth, you were out of your seat three times a day. 475 00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:36,720 No, I'm kidding. Hey man, you know 'cause 476 00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:39,440 sometimes we just get kind of LAX and we're not hanging on, 477 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:42,120 but God wants to give us life, right? 478 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:48,400 So again, you know, in that context you're if if you're not 479 00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:54,280 deliberately taking up your other space with very 480 00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:58,280 intentional things of God, and you're just letting other stuff 481 00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:03,040 come in, the doctrine of Fox News will dominate the doctrine 482 00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:07,360 of the Bible. The doctrine of CNN will 483 00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:09,280 dominate the doctrine of the Bible. 484 00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:14,280 The doctrine of the cubicle or the workspace doctrine will 485 00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:16,520 dominate the doctrine of the Bible. 486 00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:24,480 It'll do it because you're hearing it more right. 487 00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:26,920 So you have to be very intentional. 488 00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:31,360 OK, so there is this realm that we have to understand exists 489 00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:34,440 behind a curtain that we need to make more real in our lives. 490 00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:38,120 So again, by stirring you up by way of reminder, I'm probably 491 00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:41,680 going to end with this one tonight, that the unseen exists, 492 00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:47,160 period. And as easy as that sounds, and 493 00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:51,000 we can all agree with that, living from that realm is not as 494 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:54,480 easy. It's not. 495 00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:59,040 It has to become intentional, 'cause it's easier to live 496 00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:00,800 natural. You understand? 497 00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:04,360 It's easy to be carnal. Extremely easy. 498 00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:11,000 It takes no effort to be born again, but live fleshly because 499 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:14,680 you've been trained in it and most of the people around you 500 00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:17,560 are fleshly because most of them are lost and they live according 501 00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:21,000 to their flesh. So you know, I was talking to 502 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:23,240 Marissa before service. She said, you know, her company 503 00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:25,920 just had a massive layoff, just had a massive 1. 504 00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:28,240 But they told back in November, was it that they were saying 505 00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:30,760 it's coming? So, you know, obviously her 506 00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:33,320 immediate supervisor was like, you know, now if y'all need to 507 00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:36,120 have some anxiety classes, you know, to help deal with all 508 00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:40,760 this, yeah, yeah, this is. Corporate world people, I mean, 509 00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:43,360 this is her corporate, global world she's in because what 510 00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:47,000 she's in is global, OK? And so, you know, they're like, 511 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:49,400 you know, we understand if you need to take some time to have 512 00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:52,640 some, you know, go to attend some anxiety classes, right. 513 00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:56,160 So they end up you know? The boss or her supervisor end 514 00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:58,720 up talked to her and says, you know, you know, whatever you 515 00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:01,560 need. And she's like, I'm fine, no 516 00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:02,920 problem. I'm going to be here anyway. 517 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:05,040 Well, you sure are confident in yourself. 518 00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:06,960 Well, the the God told me I would. 519 00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:13,600 I would stay. OK, All right. 520 00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:18,920 Well, they had layoffs. Everybody in her department's 521 00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:27,400 gone but her now on one side. She was like, cut me loose, 522 00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:31,080 Lord, I'll go, I'm out of here. Am I done? 523 00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:32,880 The Lord told her, backing up, you're not done. 524 00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:39,600 So her supervisor says, well, seems like what you believed 525 00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:42,440 happened. She said, well, I believed it 526 00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:45,720 because the Lord told me. And they said, you know, I'd 527 00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:47,720 probably like to talk more of you about that because they 528 00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:52,400 realized she was never anxious in the last two months. 529 00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:54,160 Because she's from a different world, people. 530 00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:57,560 Aren't you glad we're from a different world? 531 00:33:58,160 --> 00:33:59,120 I said. Aren't you glad we're from a 532 00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:01,200 different world? Amen. 533 00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:03,960 Because here's the thing, even if she had been cut, she's 534 00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:06,960 wasn't anxious anyway. In fact, she was excited about 535 00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:10,040 the opportunity of where is God planning me next? 536 00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:13,679 Because they don't know that an ambassador's about to show up, 537 00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:17,600 and they're going to pay me to be an ambassador for the Kingdom 538 00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:19,520 in the workplace. Right. 539 00:34:19,679 --> 00:34:22,159 But that so happened the Lord let her know she wasn't being 540 00:34:22,159 --> 00:34:24,679 cut. So she's in it to win it, right? 541 00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:27,000 And you know what? It could be for this person. 542 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:29,560 For all we know, it could just be that she's testifying, this 543 00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:31,639 person. And they may never accept God, 544 00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:34,280 but when they stand before the Lord one day he said, I sent 545 00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:38,800 you, Marissa. She walked it in front of you 546 00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:42,560 and you knew it. And you even said you won't talk 547 00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:44,199 about it. But then we got down to it. 548 00:34:44,199 --> 00:34:47,120 You didn't want to hear it. So don't tell me you didn't 549 00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:51,040 know. Because, you know, you know, now 550 00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:54,800 depart from me, you worker of iniquity. 551 00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:56,400 I'm not saying they're going to do that. 552 00:34:56,400 --> 00:35:06,440 I'm just saying or you hear me. We must be intentional to know 553 00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:08,480 that what we're constantly seeing. 554 00:35:09,240 --> 00:35:16,680 Because I live just like you. I mean, actually I don't live 555 00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:18,440 just like you. Most of you I don't live like at 556 00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:20,920 all because most of you only are dealing with the things that are 557 00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:25,880 at your home address. So I deal with my home address 558 00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:28,640 and I deal with this address and then I deal with the 83 559 00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:31,440 employees that are part of this address and their addresses. 560 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:34,200 And then I deal with the community because of the 561 00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:37,920 influence we have through this, the outreaches and businesses 562 00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:42,240 that we have to connect them, you know, So just like a major 563 00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:44,920 stuff we're dealing with constantly, OK. 564 00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:49,480 And I have to keep my focus on the fact that this is temporal 565 00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:54,400 and this is changed by what I keep my eyes connected to this 566 00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:59,280 unseen realm because it exists. It is more real than this 567 00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:04,160 because that environment that's behind the curtain of God will 568 00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:08,800 come to the forefront naturally, to where it's the only 569 00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:11,880 environment that exists in both the seen and unseen realms. 570 00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:17,280 It will squeeze everything else out, and everything contrary to 571 00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:20,600 will be confined to a place called the Lake of Fire. 572 00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:23,760 It will be confined. It will be stuck in a set of 573 00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:25,920 boundaries. No freedom. 574 00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:29,680 There's no freedom. It will be bound. 575 00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:33,440 It'll be in one location, all of it, period. 576 00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:37,040 But the rest of us will be free, just as we're free now. 577 00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:39,080 Are you hearing me? Because whom the Son sets free 578 00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:40,680 is free indeed. So let me run through a few of 579 00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:42,840 these scriptures and we'll close, says this in Romans 580 00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:45,280 chapter one, verse 20. Again, to remind you, this 581 00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:49,400 unseen realm is more real than what we see now. 582 00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:53,360 OK, Romans 120 says this for since the creation of the world 583 00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:55,840 his what? Invisible. 584 00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:59,720 What is translation is this? Where are you at? 585 00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:03,200 OK, I'm in verse 20. They are they. 586 00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:06,640 They jumped up in 18. I'm just reading 20. 587 00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:10,240 It says this for since the creation of the world, His 588 00:37:10,240 --> 00:37:13,320 invisible attributes, his eternal power and divine nature 589 00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:15,920 have been clearly seen. Now this is crazy. 590 00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:21,200 Because of His invisible attributes, it makes an effect 591 00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:26,160 on His divine nature. So what we see as a result of 592 00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:28,480 what He is doing from an unseen realm. 593 00:37:29,240 --> 00:37:34,480 This is why the discoverers of the DNA strand, those who 594 00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:39,120 discovered the DNA strand, then once they discovered it, they 595 00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:42,800 immediately knew evolutions off the charts. 596 00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:47,480 It can't be plausible for us. I abandoned that theory. 597 00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:51,880 Now that doesn't mean they became believers in God himself. 598 00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:57,680 They knew somebody started this. This is not through an 599 00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:01,320 evolutionary chain, is not. Period. 600 00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:04,360 There is a higher form of being that started this process. 601 00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:09,120 They were convinced because again, his invisible attributes 602 00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:14,920 again through his world. OK, Since the creation, his 603 00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:19,680 eternal power and his divine nature have been clearly seen 604 00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:23,080 being understood through what has been made so that they are 605 00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:27,360 without excuse. Which means I don't care what 606 00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:31,920 nation you go to on the planet, the minute they start looking at 607 00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:39,640 the trees and animals, God is clearly being seen. 608 00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:44,720 Period. Are you hearing me? 609 00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:48,520 Because the unseen is being reflected in the natural 610 00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:51,400 Colossian. But again, the natural is being 611 00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:56,160 being affected because it first came from an unseen. 612 00:38:56,320 --> 00:39:01,840 Again, where is the trees? Where is the fish? 613 00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:05,200 Where are the animals? Where are the stars? 614 00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:08,080 They're in the mind of the Father. 615 00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:15,200 And then, but God, then God. So from his imagination, 616 00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:21,360 someplace none of us could see, He spoke it and then it became, 617 00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:25,520 do you understand? There's no situation you're 618 00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:29,840 going in that His spoken word to you from his written written 619 00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:32,920 word doesn't change it. So don't say, oh, we got a bill, 620 00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:37,920 what are we going to do? Oh, my body's being attacked 621 00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:40,360 with sickness. What am I going to do? 622 00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:44,640 You got to tap in. I said you got to tap in. 623 00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:46,120 Do you hear what's going on in the news? 624 00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:48,560 You know, they they say we're going to have a a economic 625 00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:50,520 collapse. Well, aren't you glad you're in 626 00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:54,080 a different economy? They cannot collapse. 627 00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:57,280 But have you invested in that economy? 628 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:03,560 Because you understand you can't lose stocks if you're not in 629 00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:08,360 stocks. You can't lose on your 4O1K4O1B 630 00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:11,640 or retirement fund if you don't have anything in it. 631 00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:15,000 You can't lose Social Security if you're not in it. 632 00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:18,800 But they taking it so you know what's in there for you. 633 00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:22,400 OK. The point is, if you haven't put 634 00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:27,000 something in it you can't expect, you can't be concerned 635 00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:30,520 if it collapses. So when people during, you know, 636 00:40:30,720 --> 00:40:35,360 2008 or especially during the Great Depression, you know it 637 00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:39,840 was in those arenas that people lost that then eventually 638 00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:42,080 affected other people in general. 639 00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:44,800 But if you didn't have anything in it, then it didn't 640 00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:47,720 technically affect you. Well, let me tell you something. 641 00:40:47,720 --> 00:40:53,240 If you're not in God's economic system, you're already being 642 00:40:53,240 --> 00:40:55,680 affected by the world system because you're not tapped into 643 00:40:55,680 --> 00:40:58,840 one that's they can't be shaken because once you get into it, 644 00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:03,280 this whole economy on the world can collapse and God still take. 645 00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:06,040 Care of you. In fact, he will transfer 646 00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:08,400 wealth. I'll say they'll transfer. 647 00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:12,160 Amen. He'll do it. 648 00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:19,800 I don't care if they only go to a digital currency, OK? 649 00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:23,600 If they go to it to where you know your account is based upon 650 00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:25,720 a number that you never see, that they can freeze and keep it 651 00:41:25,720 --> 00:41:28,840 from you anyway, or erase it and then you don't have it because 652 00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:30,400 you don't have anything tangible anyway. 653 00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:37,440 But even if that happens, God can send birds to feed you 654 00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:39,840 daily. And while the world is looking 655 00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:43,400 for scraps, you hanging out waiting for your next Raven 656 00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:49,160 cause a global collapse didn't kill the birds. 657 00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:54,680 Amen. But again, unless you're in His 658 00:41:54,680 --> 00:41:58,920 economy, then you're not going to reap the benefit. 659 00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:00,600 So you need to get in this economy. 660 00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:01,680 How do I get it? You tithe. 661 00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:04,560 You give offerings. That's how you get in. 662 00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:06,240 Amen. You trust God? 663 00:42:06,240 --> 00:42:08,560 Oh, you just want my money. I don't want your money. 664 00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:17,800 You want to put your money in the heavenly account, Jesus says 665 00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:21,600 Store up for yourself treasures. Jesus said that he. 666 00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:24,160 Can't lie. There must be a way you can 667 00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:28,480 store it, 'cause God is not a man that he should. 668 00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:31,480 Amen. And our book's about to come 669 00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:32,840 out. We're about to finish the book 670 00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:34,800 on economics. Hallelujah. 671 00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:37,640 Amen. Colossians 115 to 16 It says, 672 00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:42,520 For he is the image of the invisible God, the first born of 673 00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:44,520 all creation. For by him all things were 674 00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:46,680 created both in heaven and on earth, visible. 675 00:42:46,680 --> 00:42:49,640 And that means there's things created invisible you don't see, 676 00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:53,520 but they're visible to God. Whether Thrones or dominions or 677 00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:55,880 rulers or authorities, all things have been created through 678 00:42:55,880 --> 00:42:59,400 him and for him. So God creates the invisible and 679 00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:02,440 the invisible. For us, the visible is only 680 00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:05,080 visible, and the invisible we think don't exist. 681 00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:07,960 But God says the invisible is just as visible as the visible. 682 00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:16,280 It's invisible, yes, because to some it is, but to me it's not. 683 00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:21,000 So from God's perspective he has the visible and visible, but 684 00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:23,320 when he's talking to us, he says the visible and invisible. 685 00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:29,800 Because what I see you don't Hallelujah, but when you tap 686 00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:31,800 into God, then really everything's visible. 687 00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:41,680 Because I see my faith, I know I'm firmly persuaded, and it 688 00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:45,240 eventually produced that which I'm speaking and firmly 689 00:43:45,240 --> 00:43:47,360 persuaded by the word of God. Are you hearing me? 690 00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:51,520 Amen. First Timothy 117 says this, Now 691 00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:56,000 to the King, eternal, immortal, invisible, and only God be honor 692 00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:57,800 and glory forever and ever. Amen. 693 00:43:57,800 --> 00:44:00,040 Well, I can't see God, so he doesn't exist. 694 00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:04,600 Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. 695 00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:07,080 And again, we talked about this Sunday. 696 00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:09,280 There's obviously oxygen in the room. 697 00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:12,480 How do we know? Because you're not dead. 698 00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:18,400 Because if the oxygen got sucked out of this room, no more was 699 00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:21,400 coming in. It would get replaced with what 700 00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:25,280 bit of oxygens in us with our carbon dioxide until it becomes 701 00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:31,040 so toxic that we die and they come in and think we were a 702 00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:38,400 cult, right? I knew they were a colt. 703 00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:42,720 No, the oxygen got sucked out of the room, man. 704 00:44:42,720 --> 00:44:49,600 We didn't know it at the time. We are culture though. 705 00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:53,440 Amen. But again, God says he's 706 00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:56,040 immortal, invisible, just because you don't seem to mean 707 00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:57,840 he doesn't exist. There's angels in the room right 708 00:44:57,840 --> 00:44:59,000 now. I said. 709 00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:01,400 There's angels in the room. Amen. 710 00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:05,040 And we could tell our angels we'll talk about it. 711 00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:07,760 Even though you don't see them. They're listening. 712 00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:12,520 They're waiting a command. We don't worship them. 713 00:45:12,720 --> 00:45:16,880 And they'll tell you don't worship me, but just give me a 714 00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:20,280 command because I'm here to help you. 715 00:45:21,240 --> 00:45:24,240 Are you hearing me? Got two more scriptures And 716 00:45:24,240 --> 00:45:29,480 we'll close Elisha in second Kings 615 to 17. 717 00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:31,400 Now he's he's This is Old Covenant Guy. 718 00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:36,920 All right, says now, when the attendant of the man of God had 719 00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:39,720 risen early and gone out, behold, an army with horses and 720 00:45:39,720 --> 00:45:41,760 Chariots was encircling the city. 721 00:45:42,040 --> 00:45:44,960 And his servant said, Alas, my master, what shall I do? 722 00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:47,800 What shall we do? So he answered, do not fear, for 723 00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:50,040 those who are with us are more than those who are with them. 724 00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:59,120 And the master went out and said, OK, I mean all these 725 00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:05,040 people are with that army. It's you, me, it's two. 726 00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:09,280 Let me go back out and count. I don't know. 727 00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:11,840 You didn't sleep well. Did you eat something? 728 00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:17,000 Because master, I counted 5 times and there's definitely 729 00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:18,920 more of them than you and me in this tent. 730 00:46:20,040 --> 00:46:21,720 So what's he saying? Verse 17. 731 00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:25,960 Then Elisha prayed and said, oh Lord, I pray open his eyes. 732 00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:28,160 What was he? A blind guy? 733 00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:30,840 Obviously it wasn't, because then the first part of the 734 00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:34,640 scripture doesn't work. He went out and saw right. 735 00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:37,200 It says the attendant of the man of God, risen early, gone out 736 00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:38,560 and behold, an army with Chariots. 737 00:46:38,560 --> 00:46:41,120 And the servant said to him, Alas, my master, what shall we 738 00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:42,880 do? In essence, how could he see it 739 00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:44,400 if he was actually literally blonde? 740 00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:47,040 He obviously wasn't blind. He could see naturally. 741 00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:50,480 But yet Elijah's asking him to be able to have eyes open to 742 00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:52,440 see. And it's not natural eyes. 743 00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:57,720 It's pull back the curtain and the Lord opened the sermon's eye 744 00:46:57,760 --> 00:47:01,400 in essence, he said. Because they were down at the 745 00:47:01,400 --> 00:47:03,640 city and they were obviously in a valley and there was mountains 746 00:47:03,640 --> 00:47:05,240 around them. So God started grabbing the 747 00:47:05,240 --> 00:47:08,440 curtain at the top of the mountain and was pulling it 748 00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:10,800 back. And when he pulled it back it 749 00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:14,040 says this and behold, the mountain was full of horses and 750 00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:21,080 Chariots of fire around Elijah. Glory to God. 751 00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:26,040 So Elijah is aware I've had this army with me the whole time. 752 00:47:31,720 --> 00:47:35,320 I said I've had this army with me the whole time because I'm 753 00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:39,440 more aware of that realm and its existence. 754 00:47:39,960 --> 00:47:41,960 So when these come, they don't move me. 755 00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:46,640 And when you're aware of that, then no trial temptation or 756 00:47:46,640 --> 00:47:49,400 test. Is going to move you because 757 00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:53,320 you're very much aware of #1. I can't seem, but you understand 758 00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:54,800 the greater ones on the inside of me. 759 00:47:55,560 --> 00:47:59,400 So you're already at a deficit because you don't. 760 00:47:59,520 --> 00:48:06,600 But I mean, I would love to take my shirt off right now and show 761 00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:09,360 you the Holy Ghost. You hear what I'm saying? 762 00:48:09,520 --> 00:48:14,480 I like to take the. Curtain off and you see God, but 763 00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:17,760 I know he's there and I'm more aware of that. 764 00:48:18,200 --> 00:48:21,320 Which means that I also am more aware of the fruits that he's 765 00:48:21,320 --> 00:48:26,600 holding in his hand, Which means when someone attacks me, I can 766 00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:32,760 be like hey may that patience. Go ahead and give me one of 767 00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:38,440 those self-control ones while I'm there, right? 768 00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:44,000 Because I'm more aware of that than what I'm seeing right now. 769 00:48:44,720 --> 00:48:47,200 For me to respond I'm giving you practical stuff that's saved 770 00:48:47,200 --> 00:48:50,120 your life. Romans 417 last scripture. 771 00:48:50,120 --> 00:48:54,080 Is this because again the unseen exist? 772 00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:57,280 The latter part in the new King James says it this way. 773 00:48:57,480 --> 00:49:01,000 God who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do 774 00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:05,960 not exist as though they did Amplified says this who gives 775 00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:09,480 life to the dead and speaks of the non existent things that he 776 00:49:09,480 --> 00:49:13,920 has foretold and promised as if already existed. 777 00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:18,720 In essence, Abraham said I'm going to have a son. 778 00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:23,560 I'm having a son with Sarah, period. 779 00:49:25,040 --> 00:49:29,680 Because Sarah was wrong unfortunately and I should have 780 00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:32,080 never slept with a woman. The Lord corrected that. 781 00:49:32,360 --> 00:49:34,520 So at this point, this lady's going to have a child. 782 00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:38,240 And it says he did not stagger in unbelief but grew strong in 783 00:49:38,240 --> 00:49:41,800 faith because he's the father of faith, father of us all. 784 00:49:42,280 --> 00:49:45,720 And God calls those things that be not as though they were. 785 00:49:45,960 --> 00:49:48,320 And to the world they'll say it's dead, you're dead. 786 00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:49,600 It ain't going to work. Ain't going to work. 787 00:49:49,600 --> 00:49:50,960 No hope for you. This is it. 788 00:49:50,960 --> 00:49:52,240 This is a problem. And they're showing you 789 00:49:52,240 --> 00:49:55,960 everything in the natural. But you're like this realm, man 790 00:49:55,960 --> 00:49:58,800 is real, this realms good subject to change. 791 00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:01,600 Because I'm behind the curtain and we're not talking about the 792 00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:05,720 Wizard of Oz here, people. You understand what I'm saying? 793 00:50:05,720 --> 00:50:07,080 I'm not talking about the Wizard of Oz. 794 00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:12,400 I'm talking about the King of Glory, the creator of Heaven and 795 00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:14,840 Earth. He has a whole. 796 00:50:15,400 --> 00:50:19,280 Host of invisible things visible to him that he wants you to be 797 00:50:19,280 --> 00:50:22,400 able to see from this side and pull things over. 798 00:50:22,760 --> 00:50:24,360 Let's pray, Father. We love you and we honor you. 799 00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:25,360 We thank you. 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