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Well, I'm really excited about today and where we're going to
go for the next three Sundays starting today.
And so I really want to encourage you to make sure you
hear you're in attendance of what God wants to say and do in
our lives. You understand we started out
our this year calling it talking about the reigning spirit.
We have the reigning spirit. You know it's really kind of
it's truth but unfortunately in a lot of believers mouths it's
more cliche than it is reality and that is greater is he that's
in me than he that's in the world.
That's easy to say. It's another thing to yield, I
said. It's another thing to yield to
that because the Holy Spirit is greater.
And when the Holy Spirit's working on behalf of the king,
he's going to tell you what the king is saying and how you're
supposed to respond. But you've got to do something.
Amen. And if you do something, then
it'll come to pass. But if you don't, I said, if you
don't, he's not going to make it happen.
I said it's just not going to happen.
Amen. And so we need to learn these
things because in the last of the last days, we know there's
some trials and tribulations, some troubles are going to come
on an accelerated and more powerful level.
But we will be ready for it. Amen.
And we will be equipped to overcome.
Come on, say Amen. So let's receive the engrafted
word of God, which is able to save our soul.
Amen. You know, as it says in Matthew
15. Three, he says, Why do you
transgress the commandments of God?
For the sake of your traditions? And maybe I'll come back and
touch on that a little bit more. But again, we want to know what
God's saying, not what we're thinking.
Because when we do that, things that change.
So if you have your Bibles turn to Genesis chapter one, verse
one, we're going to start reading here and we'll go
through the whole Bible today. No, I'm just kidding.
Amen. This is a.
Theater. We used to watch 2 1/2 three
hour movies here, so just buckle up.
In Genesis chapter one, verse one, it says this In the
beginning. God created the heavens and the
earth. In the beginning, so before the
heavens and the earth, God was. Now, obviously this document we
call the Holy Bible is a reference to our beginning, But
that doesn't mean there wasn't something before our beginning.
All right. But we could say there's God in
the beginning. So in the beginning, before the
beginning, God was He creates the heavens and the earth.
And we understand heavens is plural.
It's not just one. So we're not just talking about
where He lives and resides. There are more than one heaven.
In fact, Paul said this. I knew a man in body or out of
body. I do not know.
Caught up to the what? 3rd heaven.
Which if it's their 3rd heaven, then there must be a first and
2nd. And God created all three,
right? But then he also created this
planet. I said he created this planet.
Amen. How did this come to pass?
Well, Hebrews elevens threes gives us some insight of how
this happens, and it says it this way By faith.
Say by faith, come on, say by faith.
By faith we understand that the world's were prepared by the
word of God so that what is seen was not made out of things which
are visible. Now I'm using this scripture in
a context that's not contextually in this particular
passage. All right.
In this particular passage, this word world is not earth, nor is
it planet systems. It is how our environment is
shaped around us is based upon faith.
So he said, by faith we understand that the world's were
prepared by the word of God. So the Word of God is
interjected inside in society and people's worlds, how they
live are functioned by that word, which means they have the
capacity to call those things that be not as though they were.
We're not limited to what we see now.
If we go back to the Book of Beginnings though in Genesis 11,
then we have to understand in the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth. Verse two says then God said so
God speaks according to his word.
Now let's go over to Romans chapter 10 verse 17.
So we can kind of tie this together.
So faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of Christ.
So we've established this is that faith comes by hearing
really period not so much comma but period.
Everybody, even the lost, the people cut off from God, have
faith. It's just that their faith is
based upon what they're hearing, what they're hearing.
And, you know, a lot of times we hear by our eyes, we hear by our
eyes. You know, somebody come by and
they, you know, throw their nose up or they look at you a certain
way and all of a sudden you hear that they're miffed at you,
aggravated with you, you know, not well with you.
And you begin to talk to yourself about them.
And they haven't even said anything to you.
In fact, most of the time they didn't even know you were even
on in the hallway. But we done picked up an offense
by our eyes because our eyes heard something, right?
So if faith in comes by hearing, he's establishing our hearing.
Our hearing should be connected to the word of Christ or the
word of the King or the Word of God.
That's where we should build our faith from.
Our faith could come from God because God's word spoken comes
to pass. So in the beginning God created
the heavens and the air. So out of nothing God spoke and
creation was made. Hebrews again 11/3 gives us the
insight that because we were creating the image of God, we
were to speak ours into existence as well.
How we live, how we function, we can actually have God's realm,
this unspeak. If we could pull back the veil
into the Spirit, we can pull heaven over into earth because
we can create things with our words.
God creates with words. And I know I'm not saying
anything new unless, you know, you haven't been here very long.
But we're going to see some things because I'm going to talk
to you about the most powerful thing, period.
The most powerful thing, period. Now look at what it says in
Jeremiah 112. Jeremiah 112 says.
If then the Lord said to me, you have seen well, for I am what?
Watching over my, over my what? Over my what word to perform it.
So what's the Lord doing? He's watching over his word.
What's he watching over? What's he watching over his
children, his church, the lost. He's watching over his word to
perform it. Look over Isaiah 5511, Isaiah
5511, he says. So will my word be, which goes
forth from my mouth. It will not.
Say, will not. Come on, say, will not.
It will not return to me empty, without accomplishing what I
desire and without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.
Why, 'cause He's watching over His word to perform it.
Why? Because in the beginning God
created the heavens and the earth with a word.
Let there be and there was. And then God said, let there be,
and there was. And then God said, let there be,
and there was. And then God said, let there be.
So in the thought and imagination of God, He spoke and
it came to be and He watched over it to perform it, which
means when He spoke, those things happened.
That's pretty powerful. Then we go over to John chapter
8, starting at verse 31. He says, So Jesus was saying to
those Jews who had believed him. If say, if if you continue in my
word, then you are truly disciples of mine and you will
what? Know the truth, and the truth
will make you free. I said the truth will make you
free. That's if you know it.
I said that's if you know it. So he says if that's a
conditional statement. If you continue in my word.
Now what does God do with His word?
He watches over it to perform it.
When He speaks it, it won't return unto him, boy, but it
shall accomplish that which it was set to do, right.
So His word is a very powerful thing.
In fact, we could almost call it the most powerful thing,
couldn't we? We could almost say it's the
most powerful thing. But I want you to understand
there's something connected to his word and we need to discuss
this today. In fact, he goes on.
If you drop down to the 51st verse, it says this truly,
truly, I say to you if say if, if anyone keeps.
My word. He.
Will what? He'll never see death.
Wow. What a statement that God is
watching over to what to perform.
But notice in the 31st verse and the 51st verse there's this two
letter word called if and if is what's considered a conditional
statement, which means if you don't meet the condition, then
you don't get what the condition creates.
So if if you are my disciple, you'll continue in my word.
If you continue my word, then you are a truly a disciple of
mine. So if you're not continuing in
the Word, you may call yourself a disciple, but God would not.
Call you one. Now we know this.
Matthew chapter 6 Again Jesus. Now when you pray, pray this
way. Our Father who art in heaven,
hallowed be your name, your Kingdom.
Your. What your what your what now?
What is always done, His word. So his word is His is his will.
It's his will. I said it's his will.
And God himself doesn't go against his will.
That's why he exalts his word even above all of his name.
Oh my goodness. But so, with this being said,
we're going to have to have a conversation about a doctrine of
demons. And here it is.
God is in. Now, if you define control
properly, you might be able to say that.
But if you've been around any believer that's immature in the
things of God, you know that literally is meaning to them.
That God is literally carving out their path, that they can't
deviate from whatever he wants done for them is going to happen
regardless of anything because he's in.
Even if you get in a car accident, he controlled that
because he's trying to teach you something because you understand
his ways are higher than your ways and his thoughts are.
So they take scripture out of context to justify because the
devil takes scripture out of context to help justify his
doctrine. Well does God control something?
His word, Because his word is his will.
Yep. Yet he states in John, If, well,
how in the world can you go against?
It then. If he's in control, everything.
The word control, by definition of the Merriam Webster
definition, as far as a verb, means to have power over to
exercise, restraining, or directing.
Influence over the noun is to act or or an instance of
controlling. Have you ever heard that word,
man? You're just being controlling.
Right. And again, we hear this term,
people's receiving this in the definition of they're making me
and forcing me. I see nowhere in Scripture that
God forces because if God was in total control, well, it's his
ways the best. Then why are people going to
hell? Which is why a lot of people
have fallen away from the faith because they have a hard time
siding God's in control with all the sin going on in the world.
And if God's all controlling and powerful, why is he letting the
devil do what he does? Since you're thinking Because if
we're going to understand the reigning spirit and be able to
overcome in life, we've got to deal with this thing first, and
it's called will power, willpower.
Now here's the thing you've got to understand.
God's creation has within it a will of its own.
I'm going to say that again, God's creation has within it a
will of its own, because God is not the only one with a with a
will. And God never violates the will
of another. God cannot Force One against
their will, but only influence. It.
But you understand this is happening all.
Over the place. My wife influences me all the
time concerning what to wear. Yeah, sometimes I come out of
that closet feeling like Superman.
And she said you better get back in there, Clark Kent, I don't
know what you were thinking when you put that together.
Now, ultimately she can't control me, right?
I remember one time I'm like, I'm wearing it anyway and did
and somebody had the audacity on social media to talk about my
clothes and my wife came back and said, see, she can't control
me, but she can bring influence. But I have the ultimate.
Willpower Oh y'all, don't want to hear this.
I have the ultimate willpower. I decide whether I'm going to do
this or not. And so God has a will, but when
there's places, layers within his creation, that has a will as
well and he doesn't override it, even if they go against his.
We've said this before, but I'm going to say it again.
God will let you do anything you want to do, but will hold you
accountable to whatever you do to.
His will I'm. Going to say that again and let
me just say this, it couldn't be any other way.
God could not be a God of justice if he didn't give you
the free will. To do something else.
And he did this in his creation before God even spoke anything,
he said. The minute I speak, I'm life.
And when I create elements, Heavenly host, we're going to
talk about Heavenly host today. We'll talk more about man next
week, OK? That he gave them the power of
will because the minute he sets the condition of life and if you
want to be with him, to truly love him.
You have to of your own free will, and God will not violate
your will even though He is life and love.
This is the most powerful thing. Will is the most powerful thing.
This is why Jesus said again said in Matthew he said why do
you transgress the commandment of God for the sake of your So
you have a saying that you're saying is your will about this
concerning God. But God has a saying concerning
him, and you've chosen to hear your side, and God didn't stop
you. Now that doesn't mean he didn't
try to influence you. He didn't try to send his word
by you. He didn't try to say, hey, I
said before, you lie, fan, choose.
But you have to now. Just because God knows his will
for your life doesn't mean he's going to be guaranteed you'll
you'll do it. The word will means this again
to, according to the Merriam Webster dictionary, the power to
control one's own actions and emotions.
Mental powers manifested as wishing, desiring, choosing, or
intending to determine by an act of choice.
Now think about if we drop this will down to a the simplicity.
This is why you can't separate will from word.
OK, you can't separate will from word because will is the sum
total of word and when you are deciding, you're deciding based
upon some word. The question is, is the word
you're siding with to make it your will, the supreme word and
the word that has life? Because God will let you side
with whatever word you want to side with.
And he even allowed this with heavenly hopes.
And he can't stop it because he's a God of justice and mercy
and love. And he wants you to love him
because you want to love him, not because he's forced you.
He stripped you of your ability to choose.
Because his way is right, Because his way is, oh man, his
way is life. I mean, it's love.
It's everything. It's perfection.
It's awesome. It's the existence of love and
life. It's that we can't even fathom
it. It's so awesome we can't even
look into the face yet. We can choose another word.
That's good. That's why in First Timothy 4/1
it says this. But the Spirit explicitly says
that in the latter, at the time, some would fall away from the
faith. And why did they fall away?
Paying attention. This is why I said in
Corinthians chapter 10 tells us we are to take every Oh my gosh,
because God's like, listen, I at the end of the day it's in your
power. I've said my word of delivery
but it's in your power. You have the power to take the
thought captive, but if you don't, you can have your will
but. Ultimately, in the end, it's my
will that's going to be done and you really want to side with his
will. Because it's the Creator.
He knows more about you and for you and better for you than you
know about yourself. And I love that word that came
up today that you know through the unction of the Spirit, it'd
be by all rights, in First Corinthians chapter 12, the gift
of prophecy, where the Lord wanted to give you a
encouraging, edifying word that God's faithful and that many.
If you don't watch out, you're trying to view the things that
are happening around you through your own broken mirror, your
experiences, instead of, let me just let God define how to
handle this deal. How to look at this?
How to view this? Let me get my let me yield.
Because you understand, you don't put your will on the
table. You get your will assigned to
his. That's why Jesus said he said,
Lord, if there's any way for this cup to pass yet, not mine,
because at the end of the day I'm siding, I will side with
your will. I will side with your will.
So if there's a different will of yours that keeps this thing
from happening, it's tell me. Let me know so that I don't have
to be separated from you. I don't have to go to the cross.
I don't have to bear all this in.
But if that's is the only way, if this is life, if this is how
redemption must come, then I give my will to your will.
And my will becomes your will because your Will's live and I
do it with all my heart. No reservations.
I'm not holding back. It is all me totally committed
to your way of doing it. Because Jesus had the power in
the suit to say no. Wow.
They're paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines
of demons. Even in the heavenly host, a
will was available. Isaiah chapter 14, Isaiah
chapter 14. Now again, most scholars believe
this action occurred prior to the creation of the earth we're
in today. As far as how the earth is
functioning today, there are many scholars that believe that
this account took place prior to this.
But in Isaiah chapter 14 verse 12 it says this all or how you
have fallen from heaven. All Star of the Morning, Son of
Dawn, you have been cut down to the earth.
You have weakened the nations, but you said in your heart.
In essence, this is his will. I will ascend to heaven.
I will raise my throne above the stars of God.
I will sit on the mount of the Assembly in the recesses of the
north. I will ascend above the heights
of the clouds. I will make myself like the Most
High Revelations gives us a little inside of some things
that are happening in the realm of the spirit Revelations. 12.
Seven through 9 it says. And there was a war in heaven.
Michael and his angels raging war with the dragon, and the
dragon and his angels waged war, and they were not strong enough
and there was no longer a place for them in heaven.
And the great dragon was thrown down.
The serpent of old who was called the devil and Satan who
deceives the world, whole world. He was thrown down to the earth
and his angels were thrown down with him.
Now get this. God creates the heavens and the
earth. He is perfection, love, no sin.
He said there's no darkness in him.
He's not a man that he shall lie.
In fact Jesus said when he goes to the God of this world or the
tempter of the devil, he said he has no part in me.
There's nothing about me that we are connected together.
So in God it is life, love, perfection, it's everything.
And he creates in his heavenly realm a heavenly host of cherubs
and Seraphims and angels and archangels A heavenly host.
Yet they had the choice in a realm of perfection before any
type of alternative thought manifested.
The anointed Cherub himself, because of will, because of
willpower, corrupted himself in perfection.
I mean, the tempter wasn't tempted.
No one's up there tempting him because the minute the Creator
creates beyond himself the capacity and free will is to
choose an alternative even though it's not written.
Now with that being said, I can't tell you what was spoken
in that realm. If I was to go with the
character of God, that is, that is spoken within the context of
the Bible, I might conclude God gave the capacity of choice, and
most likely did because we see with another creation that God
gave the power of. So there must have been
something that took place in the heaven realm to where pride gets
lifted up in this anointed cherub and his will was so
powerful that God couldn't stop it.
Oh y'all, don't want to hear that.
Nobody wants to ever hear that. Why?
Because we think God is all power.
He is according to his word, but he wasn't.
He's not all powerful at the point that he can stop someone
from not choosing him when he's given them the power to not
choose and he gives that choice. This is why she had never have
sympathy for the Satan or for any fallen Angel.
Are you hearing me? What did Jesus say in Luke
10/18? He said.
Then he said to them I was watching Satan fall like
lightning from heaven. And why does Satan fall?
Because God didn't like him. Because God was on a power trip.
Because God sits up in the heavens is like, I'm so awesome.
I'm so cool. I'm a narcissist.
Look at me. No, He's the embodiment of love,
right? Well, we go pick on somebody
today. See, that's through the fragment
of sin that we look at. That when the reality is, as
long as you have a will and you always will, then you can always
choose. I can't believe that Pastor's
controlling my Sundays service at 10:30.
I would much rather be here at 11:45.
Well, I'm not actually controlling you, am I?
Because you made a choice to come within the boundaries that
have been set. I'm telling you, if you're
hanging your hat on stuff in your life based upon what
someone's done to you. The Lord wants to liberate you
in this series because the minute you get liberated from
that and you realize the power of your will, then it does never
matter. 'Cause you can always choose his
word. Always.
This is what I love about the power of will, that it didn't
matter what happened to me, what life, whatever.
Even if I was still in the perfect environment, I can
choose. I get to choose.
What does Jude say? Jude says this, Jude chapter
one, which is only one chapter, verses 5 to 6.
The Passion says this, he says. I need to remind you, even
though you are familiar with it, that the Lord Jesus saved his
people out of Egypt, but subsequentially destroyed those
who were guilty of unbelief. What we'll talk about this more,
I mean, he delivers them, yet because of their will, because
of their will, they don't get to the promised land.
Verse six, though, is where we want to, you know, focus on
because we're talking about the heavenly hosts, he says.
In the same way there were heavenly messengers in rebellion
who went outside their what rightful domain of authority,
and abandoned their appointed realms.
God bound them, and everlasting chain is in key, and is keeping
them in the dark of dark abyss of the netherworld until the
judgment of the great day. Which means then this heavenly
host had the willpower to leave what was assigned to them, where
life existed. God through His Word, created
the boundaries of life for this heavenly host, and the minute
they chose to come out, then the effect of His Word concerning
going against His Word goes into play.
It goes into play because not because God wanted this, not
because God desires it, but because the power of will has
now made it mandatory. God can't be in sin, so the
minute you choose to go against his will cause again sin, simply
defined, is disobeying God's word, and God can't be in the
presence of that. That's nothing to do.
He can't be in darkness. So you choose darkness not
because God wants you to choose it, but you choose it.
And he'll let you have that choice.
But he'll give you the consequence of that choice, that
you won't be able to blame God because you always have the
power. See, the power of will can
overcome any circumstance. It doesn't matter.
That we're in a fallen state now.
But before we get you to fallen state, let's trickle over a
little bit this morning into the realm of man Genesis 126.
Come on, you see, in this God is love and life, and every part of
His creation wants to be with Him, will be with Him of their
own free will and those who do not.
Will not of their own free will, and he will not violate their
will. He did not do this with the
heavenly host, and he certainly will not do this with those
created in his image, because at the end of the day for him to be
a God of justice. See, it's such an error for us
to take this so well. God's in control.
He's controlling everything. He won't let this happen, this,
that, and the other. You understand.
God will not let you be tempted beyond what you're able to
handle, which means he will help influence things.
But at the end of the day, if you accept the temptations that
you are able to handle, then additional temptations are going
to show up. So He won't let you be tempted
beyond what you're able. Which and what are you able
what? He's already empowered you with
his will, which is his word, to overcome that thought.
But if you don't overcome it, guess what?
More temptations are coming and you end up going down the road.
He never intended you to be because he gave you the power to
overcome it here, but you didn't choose it.
You chose to go a different direction.
And it's not God's fault. It's your fault for not
choosing, because you never lose personal responsibility, even in
grace. Grace does not 'cause your will
to be exempt. You got into grace because of
your will. You received the grace of God
because of your will. Why?
Because you made a choice by faith to believe God in his
word, and that Jesus Christ died and that he rose from the dead.
And you called on his name to be Lord of your life, and it caused
the grace of God to show up. But when Grace moved in, your
will didn't move out. Steal your will, and what's
really awesome is Grace actually empowers you to be able to have
without issues anymore. He's able to clean up all the
broken places. He's able to make the glass
completely clear. He's able to pull the veil back.
He's able to show you a great clarity.
Because he's giving you the teacher on the inside, to say
this is my word, this is my will, this is my word, this is
my will, Get your will with my will.
And there's nothing that'd be impossible with you.
But at any time, even in deliverance, you can side with
the wrong party. You can side with the wrong
party. And that's not God's fault.
That's God saying I'm not going to force you.
See, there's a day that comes called judgment.
He's spoken it. He's spoken it.
But you know what else He's spoken how?
You don't get it. So when the judgment comes, if
it's coming to you, it's not because he didn't give you his
word or his will on the matter for you to submit your will to
and want it to be your will too, so that when he judges you,
he'll say I'm giving you what you wanted.
Now you understand. Liars lie then.
Oh, Daddy, what I wanted, Lord, he's like, really?
Let me just go ahead and show you your heart.
Oh my gosh, the Lord knows my heart.
You bet he does. This is why Jesus came and
started ripping on the will. Are you hearing me?
He said. You've heard it said.
Thou shalt not commit murder. But I say unto you, you didn't
kill the guy, but on the inside you wanted to kill the guy.
You wish that you could get away with it.
You wanted to do it so bad. If there was any way that you
could will it this way, you would have done it.
And you rehearsed it in your. Mind 100 times and every time
you saw them, you're like, I wish they were dead.
Although I won't do it because I'm holy.
Are you hearing me? And Genesis 126th?
And God said, let us make man in our image according to our
likeness. Well, if he's in your image and
in his likeness, God has a will. Guess what you have.
Yeah, and let them. So what's the will of the
Father? For man to rule.
Over the fish of the sea, Over the birds of the sky.
Over the cattle. Over all the earth.
Over every creepy thing that creeps on the earth.
God created man in his own image.
In the image of God, He created him male and female.
He created them, he said. You're like me.
You can speak things in existence if you'll just hear
what I say. You have your will side with my
will. You can speak life.
You can call those things that be not as though they were.
You can live by faith. The whole world will function at
your word according and it will build life.
It will build life. It will build life according to
your word. It will build life, just like
me. But if you choose other, then
your words will build death. And out of your own mouth you
build death. Because life and death are in
the because the tongue is expressing the will of the words
you have sided with, that you've kept in constant repetition in
your mind. And it wasn't God.
I can't believe God put me through this.
God ain't put you through nothing.
Your will put you through a lot. Are you hearing me now?
We live in a sin state, which means people's will can get on
you. Are you hearing me?
And people can violate you, but you still have your will on how
to respond. And nobody can stop that.
I can't believe you forgave them.
I mean, how could you forgive them for what they did to you?
Well, because the Creator of life said his will is to
forgive. And he sure forgave me and his
will said, well, if I've forgiven you, then you need to
forgive. So I'm going to side with him
and I'm just going to forget. Now that doesn't mean
consequences, but that just means I forgive.
I'm not holding this account against you.
So really, if we're talking control, you want to know who's
in control. Just stare at yourself in the
mirror. Just stare at yourself for a
while when you're complaining about how things are going down
because trials and tribulations are coming.
Yeah, they may be outside of what you would have wanted, but
yet you can change them. You can turn it what the devil
meant for bad. God will empower you to turn it
for good. But if you don't stay with his
side in the midst of the storm, if you don't take control, then
it will ultimately influence you and you will take control of
that thought as well and let that thought happen.
I refuse to be a puppet to anyone's strings.
Amen. Genesis 215 to 17.
You've heard us say this says Then God took the man and put
him in the garden of Eden and cultivated it and kept it.
And the Lord God commanded the man saying, from any tree of the
garden you may eat freely, but from the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil you shall not eat.
From the day you eat, you will, surely I can't tell you how many
times I've had people have conversation.
Well, if God knew he was going to eat it, why'd he put it there
in the 1st place? Because man, God can't know if
you love him. God doesn't want anyone with him
because he's made them. Yeah.
That's good. And the power of choice is what
makes you decide you'll be with him.
So God having this condition in the guard, in a perfect
environment, no sin, no sin. God clean that up.
No sin. And yet, man, all he has to do
is say I choose to have my will be his will, and I have that
power, which means Adam had the power, which is true authority.
God really gave him some authority here, the power of his
will that God can't control, he can't influence.
If that's all we're going to use the word for control with, he
can do that. But he cannot make because in
the end, do you want it? Then you make the choice to want
it. And now you're free.
You won't with God. Not 'cause you have to.
Then you say, well, that seems kind of bad, though.
I mean, I have to really, 'cause if I don't, it's death, OK?
I didn't even make sense that you would choose death, because
really what you're saying is my idea of life is higher than
God's idea of life. So again, now we've just moved
down to the simplicity of words. So basically you're saying your
way would be actually better than God's way.
And you know what? You can do that.
But here's the thing. God's way is the highest way
because before any of us existed, God, before the
heavenly host God, before sin God.
So at the end of the day, the argument is, is that you want
God to actually submit to you and your will.
And God does not yield to any other God, not even his own
creation. He doesn't do it.
He just lets you choose. And he's giving you.
That power. See, This is why we're without
excuse. We're with that excuse.
We're with that excuse, right? Think about it.
You could read the Bible as often as you want.
You can pray in the Spirit as often as you want or not.
You have the choice. Now I get it.
Because again, well, that's not true.
I mean, in life, you know, we have to do well.
Again, all of you are going to go to work tomorrow and guess
who's choosing what time you show up.
But you know what? You actually don't have to show
up. So they're really not
controlling your time. What they're doing is they're
saying we have determined that this is success business and
this is the type of workers we want.
Now of your own free will, you can be a part of that or not.
Now, we'll reward you to these levels if you do it our way, but
at the end, and any environment that's technically having a
forced agenda in one sense you understand, is coming from the
devil's side. Because really all the devil is
doing is doing everything he can.
Because here's the thing. Even if they threw you in prison
today and beat you daily and gave you just enough so you
could. Survive.
You could keep your will intact. You could still love your the
ones who beat you. You can still pray for them.
They can't break your they may break your body, they may abuse
you, they may do, but they can't break you.
And you choosing to stay with the nature of God.
And God says, I don't care what happens to you, I'll still
reward you. And when you take the account of
that kind of life, even if it was their whole time on the
planet, what will that be compared to Eternity.
It's not even like a dust. Yet the majority of humanity is
not going to live under that kind of condition.
So what we do is we take extremes to try to justify our
will and how we're doing it, how we want God to associate with
us. And you know what?
And God won't stop you from that thinking, although that thinking
will bring death to you, because God has no.
Power over your will. He can influence, I'm not
saying, and he does trust me, he influences.
He's the greatest influencer. In fact, he's the chief
influencer because he can influence you with his spirit,
with other people. And again, he's given before you
live and he's just telling you, choose it, choose it, choose it.
But at the end of the day, you have to.
You have to choose it. So when people say from the
statement God's in control of God's such a loving God, then
why is he throwing people in hell?
He's not. They choose to go of their own
free because your will is always free, even if you're caged.
How can the madman of Gadarean who had a legion of demons still
be able to find himself when God showed up that they abused his
body, controlled him? I mean manipulated Ki mean
that's how the devil functioned, yet that willpower of that guy,
that human spirit was able to run towards God fall.
Down then the other. Started to manifest.
Have you come to torment us before our time?
And he delivered the man. Are you hearing me?
Wow, the power of the human will.
So again, God says to him, if you don't eat the fruit, you're
going to live forever. If you eat the fruit, you're
going to what? You're going to die.
So was it God's fault that he put the tree?
Because you understand what people do like we holier than
God. Well, God should put a tree
there. It's your fault.
No, no, Genesis 3 one through 5 says now
the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the
Lord God had made. And he said to the woman,
indeed, as God said, has God what?
Why does he want to know what God says?
Because what God says is his will and his word.
You shall not eat from any tree of the garden.
But the woman said to the serpent, from the fruit of the
tree of the garden we may eat, but from the fruit of the tree
which is in the middle of the garden, God said, you shall not
eat or touch it, or you will die.
And the serpent said to the woman.
And the serpent what serpent What said?
He's. Trying to control her, which
means he's just trying to influence her.
'Cause he actually can't control her, it is impossible to
control. Her.
This is really powerful. Adam and Eve are in the nature
of God, and when you're in the nature of God, it's impossible
for the enemy to control you. That's why the New Covenant
we're in 'cause it's a new and better covenant.
We are born in Christ, we are born again.
Our spirit man is alive to God, and the Holy Ghost lives on the
inside of us and bears witness with our spirit that we're child
of God. That's why the Scripture says
this. The devil roams around the earth
roaring like a lion, seeking whom he can get permission of
those who are in covenant whom he may devour Devil has no power
over you. If you're in a new covenant,
you're born again unless you yield it.
And how do you yield it? The same way these before sin
ever entered the earth. How did was it abdicated or
yielded to him? Through a word, a thought, they
align their will to his. Saying.
And let me tell you, it's not too opposing.
It's not. The devil is the author of
death. Death manifests the minute life
is spoken. What do I mean by that?
The minute you take the alternative.
And anyone could have awoken. Caused that to wake up.
Could have caused that to wake up OK.
Anyone of free will could choose to rebel in the heavenly host
realm. It was an only cherub in the
human realm. It was Adam.
I said it was Adam. So.
Sin on the earth is not God's problem.
It was willpower, but God has the power of the will.
And he says, Nah, I'm going to establish a condition that I'll
come myself in the form of a man and get it back.
And here's the condition. If they call on my name and they
willfully want to stay with me in covenant, the minute they get
in covenant and never deviate, then they'll never taste death.
The power of will, the power of will.
Man ate the fruit and God came down verse 9.
Then the Lord God called the man and said, where are?
You. And he's still asking that
question today, not only of those outside of his Kingdom,
but even those in his Kingdom. Where are you?
Where are your thoughts right now?
What are you entertaining? What are you thinking?
What are you allowing to start influencing your willpower?
What are you meditating and churning and letting get in your
mind? Is it?
It is written. It is written.
Or is it?
I can't believe they did that. I can't believe that happened.
I can't believe our history. That's good.
You know, we, I've never been a my whole family.
We've never I've. Always had this?
Yes, that's good. What are you chewing on?
And it will manifest in your willpower cause out of the
abundance of the heart and it's what you're meditating on.
It's what you keep churning around.
And This is why in this covenant we're in.
He's like, I know your mind's broken.
I know it's all jacked up. I know junks happened to you.
But I've given you a willpower to come out.
When I brought my word by. And not only did I save you, not
only did I give you a new spirit.
Not only have I made your spirit alive.
I put myself in you. And now, if you'll continue in
my word. If you'll take the willpower to
continue in my word, my word is going to be truth.
It's going to set you free. And you'll be my disciple.
And if you'll keep my word, you'll never taste death.
But it's you got to get your willpower to be my will.
You got to align your will to my will To my will.
I don't care that what is God saying?
Truly free people are like, doesn't matter.
What does the word say? They stole my money.
What if they did? That's all right.
I got a God in heaven that says he'll supply all my needs
according to his riches and glory, and I'm fine.
There's not a situation I can't overcome 'cause I have the power
to believe God, and you can't stop it, and nobody can stop
you. Ain't that amazing that the
Creator of heaven and earth has given you the power?
To maintain your righteousness, to live holy and blameless, To
to display the nature of God. If.
You'll continue in his word, because his word is his will,
and he watches over his word to perform it and will never
return. A damn boy, but it shall
accomplish that which it was sent to do.
Isn't that amazing? Which means if I can have joy in
the Holy Ghost, then when my whole world makes me want to
cry, I can choose by the power of my own will.
To say, I'll just take. Some joy in the Holy Ghost.
I can get over in the Spirit. I can pray in the Holy Ghost.
I can begin to laugh. In the Spirit, I can begin to
build up my most holy faith. But again, if you're talking
about what's going on and the problem that's happening and the
issues that are going, guess what?
Your will is siding with your. And God didn't do that.
He sent His word to heal you, to deliver you, to redeem you, to
set you free. But you have to choose.
It all comes down to this. The personal responsibility to
choose because a loving God lets you choose.
Period. No excuse, man.
How liberating is this? This is I mean if you're because
again, right now if you're if you're just thinking on what you
want to think on and you're like, yeah, but I feel like I I
mean I'm I'm entitled, OK now. I mean now see if you go there,
I shoot. I I get it.
God can't stop you from going there.
I mean if you want to debate with God about your entitlement
or if you want to go over to God's side.
I mean, whatever happens, I just go to God's.
I'm like, let me just let me get a vision of the cross real
quick. Lord, just give me a vision of
the cross. I sometimes it's just good to go
read the crucifixion again. Why?
Because I can say OK. Let me see that crown of thorns
on your head. Let me let me imagine right now.
Maybe I should just watch the Passion of Christ.
And even though that's G rated compared to what really happened
to Jesus, let me just imagine as I read these scriptures of them
putting a crown of thorns on your head and stripping the
flesh off your back. Let me just get this imagination
of them taking and punching you in the face and ripping your
beard. Let me and taking that staff and
punching you in the top of the head.
Let me just envision this thing that you laid out in front of
everyone completely naked and you're taking on my sin.
Let me just imagine. You're doing this willfully so
that I can align my will to your will.
So before I feel like I have an injustice done before, I feel
like, man, there's something here.
Let me just take all this real quick.
Let me just think on. Let me just meditate on this and
let me move. Because at the end of the day,
if there's anything out there that ain't right, you're going
to deal with that. You're going to vindicate me.
You're going to bring vengeance for me.
You're going to do those things. You're going to make it right by
me. You're going to do these things.
You, you, you're. In fact, there are times that
the Lord has said just go ahead and bless your enemy, man.
It's like, I don't feel like it, but you all going to take your
will on this deal. The enemy said walk a mile, I'm
a walk 2 with them. They don't deserve for me to
walk through. They don't even deserve for me
to acknowledge they exist. But I'm a walk two mile because
the will of the Father is for me to go 2 miles now and I'm going
to go 2 miles because I'm free. I'm free.
From what they did, I'm free. From what they did, I'm free.
From how they act, I'm free. From this circumstance.
I'm free from this situation because he took all that on so I
could be free. Free.
Indeed, I'm free. My gosh, I'm free.
I'm free. I'm free.
I'm free to prosper. I'm free to have joy.
I'm free to run. I'm free to laugh.
I'm free to dance. I'm free to shout.
I'm free to overcome my emotions.
I'm free. I'm free to act like God.
I'm free to be full of life, To be full of joy, To be full of
peace. In the midst of the storm.
I'm free. You can't stop me from acting
like God. From responding like God.
From being like God. From having joy like God.
From being redeemed. From my past, From having my
mind renewed. You can't stop my progression.
That's true freedom, I said. That's freedom.
You can't stop the crowns that God wants to throw down at me
for my reward of being faithful. Can't stop it.
I'm free And whom the Son is set.
Free Free indeed. Free indeed.
Free indeed.
Free indeed free indeed. I'm free.
I'm free.
I have the power of my own will
to get with the will of God and have God's stuff come into my
life. Woo man.
That's true freedom. That's freedom.
That's freedom, yeah. In this life you go have trials
and tribulation. Jesus said that, he said.
But be of good, for I've overcome the what if that's his
will to overcome the world and be happy, Then I'm happy.
I choose happy. I choose it 'cause really.
Half the stuff that we're choosing to side with isn't even
as. Bad as the enemy is puffing it
up to be Woo. I'm free.
Come on.
Anybody free in this place? Yeah.
God has given you power. Even though you can choose
against it. Still your choice.
That's why we're out. Excuse.
What's awesome is I'm alive to God and I just choose life.
I choose life. I choose life.
Devil can't stop me. Demons can't stop me.
Temptation can't stop me because I want to love God.
I want to do His word. I want to live according to His
word and His will. I want it to manifest in my
life. I want heaven to show up in the.
Earth through me and through you and through His church.
Wow, what a powerful. How powerful is your will?
It determines your destination. God will guide your steps, but
will not drag you there, not drag you there.
We'll talk more because there's a lot that that.
God's in control. It's taken a lot of Scripture
out of context that we're going to have to talk about.
We're going to talk about. Are you hearing me, Father?
We love you and we honor you. We thank you.
You're the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.
We thank you for willpower that you gave creation.
So we choose. We choose you.
We choose life. We choose you.
Oh, we choose you. Whatever head bow and every eye
closed. No one's looking around.
We're going to do communion here in a second.
But in order to have communion, you must be born again, and it's
your choice. See, God through the act of
Jesus Christ has conquered every wrongdoing and has given an
opportunity for you to choose. Look at me real quick.
Look at me even if. Jesus is not Lord of your life.
And you by your spirit, which is dead and separated from from
God, has to sin. It's its nature.
Yet your. Willpower is strong enough to
tell that dead spirit you're not staying in me any longer.
I'm going to accept Jesus. Listen, your dead spirit that
cannot go after God, that God at him at his word to speak to you
and let you know that Jesus died on the cross.
For all your sin, all your wrongdoing, everything you've
ever done wrong, whatever, it doesn't matter.
God Forgives you. All you got to do is make him
supreme in authority, Lord of your life.
He will take his blood, apply to your account, He'll make you a
new person, and you have the willpower even in as a lost
person. To make that choice with all
your heart and confess with your mouth.
Jesus is Lord, and God will take that spirit according to your
will that was dead, snatch it out of you, and put a new one on
the inside of you that's alive to God.
That's the power you have right now, but it's up to you.
Because he will not remove a dead spirit from you if you
choose to remain dead, but if you want life, he'll do it now.
If you're a believer today, sometimes we choose death.
We entertain thoughts that bring division and strife to us.
Anxiety and our eyes are being filled and our ears are being
filled to support it as the reality of life.
But God, I said but God and today if you are believing you
say man I know I'm meditating and my will in a particular area
is is set against the will of the father.
In this situation you can come and repent and get that right.
You can turn on a dime. You can become willing because
the Bible says it's the willing and which means you can obey
without being willing and you don't qualify.
That's called manipulating God's word on your condition.
And there's plenty of people that keep the word, but on their
condition needs to know the willing and the obedient.
We eat the good of the land. So whether you're born again and
you know there's an area in your life, you need to get under
God's will cause your mind is definitely not entertaining his
will. Or you've never made Jesus Lord
and you want to make Jesus Lord. Today I want you to be bold and
step out. I'm calling you out because at
the end of the day, it's a great exercise for you to show
yourself that my body doesn't control me.
They didn't do what I say, and I'm going down and getting right
with God. But you got to move.
If it's you, whether you're born again and you need to just
repent of something, or whether you are not right with God and
you want to be born, I got people to my right, left that
pray with you because I don't want you taking communion.
If you're not right with God, in fact, if you're right with God
and there's an issue that you're in right now, you know it.
And this is how I know, because the Spirit of truth is here to
liberate you. He's here to set you free.
And if you know God's word about it, but you're not choosing,
that's that's tough. Because when you take communion,
you'll start drinking judgment to yourself because you're
judging the situation according to how you want it done.
It's not what he has said. God is the only righteous judge,
and he'll work it out. Make no mistake about it.
There's no sin that's not going to be dealt with.
There's no situation that's not going to be dealt with.
None. I'm going to ask one more time.
Definitely not begging because God's worth running to because
that's mercy. God's mercy is saying just take
my will. Come choose life anyone, law,
anyone, law before we take communion.
Hallelujah. Well, let's have a seat.
If you did not get a communion elements, just lift your hand
our. Ushers are going to look around,
find you. And give it to you.
Amen. Oh my Mama.
God has given you the ability to believe him at his word.
You can do it with your willpower.
Oh, my Mama. You can do it with your
willpower. You can do it.
You can do it, my Mama. Thank you, Jesus.
Do you know there are people in the earth that have not done
wrong, but a wrong was done to them?
That has happened in prison right now.
There are some people in prison right now that did not do what
they've been accused, tried and sentenced, but the majority
have. The majority have, but how they
live on the inside is up to them.
In this sanctuary right now, there are people that were in
PCI. And you know what they did?
They chose to come to service. They didn't have to.
They weren't forced. But they made a choice.
And then they chose to entertain the words of God and live like
God in prison. And then when they got out, they
chose to stay with him. And every day they choose.
But there's others in that same prison that didn't take the
invite because if I had them stand up and say, did you invite
anybody to come to service? When?
Anchor Face showed up. I'm telling you, it'd be 100%
that they'll say I did. Was there some that didn't come?
They didn't. So of their own free will, a
place that spoke the word rightly divided, and could have
set them free. Of their own free will they
chose. But when they stand.
Before the Lord, the Lord would say.
Didn't I send you so and so? Didn't he invite you?
You had the power the whole time.
It wasn't the system. It wasn't your upbringing, It
wasn't your crime. Because even in prison I came to
you, there's not a place that God doesn't go to.
God was so meticulous with this guys that Romans one tells us.
By nature, people know that there's God.
Wow. The Bible tells us.
In the night in which Jesus was betrayed, he was with his
disciples at least eleven of them, because one left to betray
him, one took it upon himself to do the will of the devil and
betrayed Jesus for money. Yeah, Jesus didn't make him.
This is his choice. Even after the miracle signs and
wonders, he's still with his own willpower, chose to betray
Jesus. But the 11, he said this bread
represents my body. It's going to be broken for you
because ultimately it's going to enact a covenant of healing in
your life so that you can be healthy and whole in my Kingdom,
so that your body can stay healthy to house your spirit and
my spirit and your soul to fulfill the will of God for your
life. And then he raised the cup and
said, this cup is my blood. It represents the covenant of
and blood where I'm going to shed my blood for the remission
of sin. It's going to be the payment to
redeem you, because without the shedding of blood, there is no
forgiveness. I'm going to take on all your
sin. I'm going to take on all your
hurt. I'm going to take all on all
your injustice. I'm going to take it all on all
your problems. And in return, I'm going to give
you my righteousness. But you'll have to choose.
And so they broke the bread and they ate and they drank the cup.
And he says, And often, as you do this, do this in remembrance
of me of his death, the ultimate price that Jesus said, not my
will, but your will be done. And I'm so glad Jesus sided with
the Father, because he's given me life and he set me free.
Father, I thank you, Lord, for the communion today, for the
bread and for the cup, for the covenant of healing and the
covenant of salvation, the covenant of the Kingdom, that we
get all the benefits of the Kingdom.
That we can have the Kingdom manifest here because you want
your will to be done on the earth as it is in heaven and you
can't through us because you've given us the power to choose
life and we choose it in Jesus name.
Break the bread and take it and take the cup
if you don't learn anything today.
But this, when it comes to humanity, us creating the image
of God, is that the devil attacked man when he knew God
and was liking the most. He's never satisfied in any
covenant that you would side with his will, and he'll always
come after you, and he's always going to use things to try to
get your will to side with one of his thoughts, even if it
means using scripture out of context.
That's why doctrines of demons and seducing spirits are going
to prevail in the end, because people don't know the word, but
it will still be their power that does this.
If any thought brings division, you should cast it down, because
this is what Jesus is coming back for the Church.
And if anything's trying to get you out of the church, know that
that is not the voice of God, even if it's using scripture.
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