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 --> 00:00:17,160 Now enjoy this message. OK, in Luke chapter 12 verse 31 4 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:21,240 to 32 it says this. But seek his Kingdom and these 5 00:00:21,240 --> 00:00:24,760 things will be added to you. Do not be afraid, little flock, 6 00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:31,680 for your father has chosen what gladly to give you the Kingdom. 7 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:36,480 He's pumped about it, excited, and he's not waiting to give it. 8 00:00:36,480 --> 00:00:40,040 So the Kingdom is not heaven. The kingdom's in heaven and the 9 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:42,800 kingdom's in earth, but the kingdom's not heaven. 10 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:46,040 So God has chosen gladly to give you the Kingdom that you can 11 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:48,400 walk in today. Right. 12 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:52,680 And it's he's excited to give you this Kingdom because in this 13 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:55,200 Kingdom is life, love, prosperity all kinds of great 14 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:56,760 things that are associated with it. 15 00:00:56,760 --> 00:00:59,320 OK. And he says don't be afraid. 16 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:03,160 So we should have No Fear. Amen. 17 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:07,080 I I feel like I need to preach a message just kind of came up one 18 00:01:07,080 --> 00:01:09,600 day and I started this thought process. 19 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:14,200 All the do nots that God said because people act like, well 20 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:16,120 it's a relationship. It's not it's not about do's and 21 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:19,560 don'ts. Oh yeah, it is, it is. 22 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:24,800 He says do not be afraid. So if you're afraid, you're 23 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:26,120 going against something God said. 24 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:29,440 He said don't worry. He said do not worry. 25 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:35,280 So why are you worrying? He said that do not worry. 26 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:40,000 Hallelujah. So there are some things in the 27 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:41,800 New Covenant that is they do not. 28 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:51,440 And that's not that's not legalism, that's called life, 29 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:56,440 it's called Kingdom life because God wants you in a place that 30 00:01:56,440 --> 00:02:00,520 brings life. One of the greatest causes of 31 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:07,840 diseases is stress and anxiety and the Lord says don't be 32 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:11,360 anxious for anything but in all things through prayer and 33 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:14,920 supplication. So if you're anxious, you're in 34 00:02:14,920 --> 00:02:19,760 a position God told you not to be and under the new covenant 35 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:24,640 you can function stress free. I'm not saying that it won't 36 00:02:24,640 --> 00:02:28,080 show up at your door knock and ask if it can come in. 37 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:31,920 You just got to say you're not welcome here because I'm not 38 00:02:31,920 --> 00:02:36,600 going to stress over this because my God, I said, my God, 39 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:40,440 he's well able. Amen. 40 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:44,920 So I'm not anxious, not worried, and I'm not afraid because the 41 00:02:44,920 --> 00:02:47,240 Father has chosen gladly to give me the Kingdom. 42 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:50,560 Amen. Hebrews chapter 12, verse 28 43 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:52,880 goes on and says this. Therefore, since we receive a 44 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:56,080 Kingdom which cannot be shaken and isn't that amazing? 45 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:00,040 It cannot be shaken. So again, why would we have 46 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:02,400 fear? Fear of man, fear of 47 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:04,600 circumstances of life, fear of anything. 48 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:08,240 When we have the Kingdom he goes on to say, let us show 49 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:10,520 gratitude. Because again, when you 50 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:13,960 understand that you have a Kingdom that can't be shaken and 51 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:16,880 that God's for you and not against you, and that God will 52 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:19,720 add things to you as you seek his Kingdom, that everybody else 53 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:25,280 is running around crazy, full of anxiety and worry, stress, 54 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:30,240 issues of life, and they just show up at your door because you 55 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:35,000 seek the king, then you should show gratitude by which we may 56 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:37,640 offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe. 57 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:42,320 In fact, I'm just in awe of the things God brings to me because 58 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:47,000 I just pursue Him. It's amazing and it's a stress 59 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:49,800 free life. Even when situations show up 60 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:53,600 that seems stressful, just like, well, the Lord's got it. 61 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:56,080 What do you need me to say, Lord? 62 00:03:56,320 --> 00:03:59,600 How do you want me to respond? Because I'm in a different 63 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:01,840 culture. Are you hearing me? 64 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:06,520 Colossians 113 to 14 says. For he rescued us from the 65 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:09,160 domain of darkness and transferred us into what? 66 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:11,680 The Kingdom of his beloved servant? 67 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:15,120 When did the transfer happen because of kingdom's heaven? 68 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:18,200 Well then you ain't been transferred 'cause you're still 69 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:23,280 on the earth. So again, Kingdom's not heaven. 70 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:27,880 Kingdom is the government of God, where he's the King and the 71 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:32,920 domain that he overseas is the earth, but specifically those 72 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:34,960 who've made Jesus Christ his Lord. 73 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:38,160 Amen. So he's rescued us from the 74 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:42,240 domain, the authority of darkness, where the devil has 75 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:45,760 power and authority based upon what he received from Adam. 76 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:49,080 Although Jesus has stripped him of his authority, he still has 77 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:51,560 children. I said the devil still has 78 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:52,840 children. He said. 79 00:04:52,840 --> 00:04:54,880 Wait a minute, I thought we were all God's loving children. 80 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:58,480 Well, we're not all God's loving children because many are in the 81 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:02,720 likeness of Adam at the fall. And when Adam fell, he's no 82 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:08,000 longer in the image of God, for he's lost the spirit and he's 83 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:10,760 lost his dominion. Because Jesus said to the 84 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:14,520 religious people you are of your you are like your father, the 85 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:17,920 devil, and he was talking to humans. 86 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:24,280 Now, humanity originally was created in the image of God, and 87 00:05:24,280 --> 00:05:27,160 we should always have hope that they can get back in that 88 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:31,000 position. So we do honor humans and we 89 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:35,920 always want to have love, believing the best, where you're 90 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:38,040 like, you know what, they don't have to be like that. 91 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:42,440 But if I'm honest, if they're not born again, I could say your 92 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:46,240 daddy's the devil, not gods. But you could change households. 93 00:05:47,280 --> 00:05:50,200 I said you could change households and it's really up to 94 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:52,320 you. Nothing's stopping if it's you 95 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:54,560 because Jesus has already paved the way. 96 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:58,120 And if you'll accept Jesus as Lord, there's a transfer. 97 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:00,880 Your transfer papers go in. Are you hearing me? 98 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:03,640 And let me tell you how fast It's a lot faster than the US 99 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:05,680 government. It will be transfer you so 100 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:09,360 quick. I mean, it's so fast that your 101 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:14,080 spirit man that was dead, you don't even see it leave And a 102 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:16,040 new one gets on the inside of you. 103 00:06:16,280 --> 00:06:18,000 And you're like, I'm in a different house. 104 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:21,240 I'm of a different species of being. 105 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:25,760 I'm a new creature in cry. I have a different dad, I have 106 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:30,960 my daddy back, the one who had me in mind before the foundation 107 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:33,040 of the world. So again, we see here in 108 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:35,080 Colossians. It says he rescued us from the 109 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:39,040 domain of darkness and transferred us into the Kingdom 110 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:43,800 of His beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness 111 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:49,360 of sin. So Jesus tells us in Luke to 112 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:54,320 seek the Kingdom and that the Father is is excited, ecstatic, 113 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:57,280 full of great joy to give us this Kingdom. 114 00:06:57,520 --> 00:07:00,560 This Kingdom, Hebrews tells us, can't even be shaken. 115 00:07:00,840 --> 00:07:04,600 And we were transferred into this Kingdom the day we got born 116 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:08,320 again. Which tells us then if we're in 117 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:10,160 a Kingdom, then we're in a culture. 118 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:17,360 And there was a culture we were in called the domain of 119 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:20,240 Darkness. Now we're in a new culture. 120 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:24,160 In fact, the the in the realm of culture. 121 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:29,680 Culture is a set of shared attitudes, values, morals and 122 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:32,600 practices that characterize an organization. 123 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:39,080 Are you hearing me? It is also culture. 124 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:44,960 Culture is the behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a 125 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:48,200 particular social, ethnic or group. 126 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:52,560 It's moral principles of right and wrong behavior conforming to 127 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:54,320 a standard. And who's the standard? 128 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:58,360 Jesus is The word is the standard. 129 00:07:58,840 --> 00:08:03,400 So we have come into the Kingdom of his beloved Son, where Jesus 130 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:06,720 Christ is king and He is the standard. 131 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:12,800 So he defines our culture, our behavior, our values, our 132 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:17,160 morals. We left the domain of darkness 133 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:22,640 where the devil was defining. That's right, the culture and 134 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:26,880 his culture is anti God. Whatever. 135 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:29,000 God says, he wants to do the opposite. 136 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:32,799 Now here's the thing about that sounds super awesome and bold 137 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:36,240 and like, whoa, I'm free and I'm rebelling against the standard. 138 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:39,000 Well, really what you're saying is I'm choosing death all the 139 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:41,720 time. I'm choosing heartache. 140 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:48,640 I'm choosing brokenness. I want to stay a victim forever, 141 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:53,960 but I'm being victimized only because I choose to be, because 142 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:57,840 Jesus took the prize so that we could come over and be a victor. 143 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:01,360 So instead of settling where the devil's saying you're a poor, 144 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:06,040 pitiful thing, in essence he's the one terrorizing you, 145 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:10,680 promising you everything, and all the while stripping you. 146 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:15,360 Yeah, the Lord's like I'll free you and have paid the price to 147 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:18,520 free you. But when you get over here, 148 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:22,560 there's a set of values. And here's the cool thing. 149 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:27,120 You could not live these values before you were born again or 150 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:29,120 born from above. But now that you're born from 151 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:35,160 above, these values are in you. These behaviors, these mindsets, 152 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:38,000 they are ever present within your spirit. 153 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:42,280 And if you'll act on it, you'll have that culture manifest. 154 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:46,560 Because Jesus said now when you pray, pray this way. 155 00:09:46,560 --> 00:09:47,920 Our Father. Whose Father? 156 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:51,560 That's your daddy too. And he is your daddy. 157 00:09:51,560 --> 00:09:55,280 If you're born again, our Father, who art in heaven, 158 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:58,560 hallowed be your name. Your Kingdom come, your will be 159 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:03,560 on like it is. So that means what's happening 160 00:10:03,560 --> 00:10:08,480 in heaven can manifest in your life if you'll bring that same 161 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:15,240 culture. I have heaven on earth in my 162 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:21,240 immediate life, even though around me is an opposite 163 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:26,480 culture. Now how do we know this? 164 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:29,240 What did Jesus say in John chapter 15 verse 19? 165 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:34,280 He said if you were of the world, the world will love its 166 00:10:34,280 --> 00:10:37,320 own. But because you are not of the 167 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:42,600 world but I chose you What? Out of the world because of 168 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:45,320 this? The world, they hate you. 169 00:10:45,560 --> 00:10:48,160 Now, this word world is not planet Earth. 170 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:55,680 So again, you can't say if you were of the planet, those on the 171 00:10:55,680 --> 00:10:58,000 planet will love you. But because you're not of the 172 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:01,920 planet, well, you are of the planet and you're still on the 173 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:05,720 planet, right. And he said I chose you out of 174 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:07,120 the planet. Well, we're not out of the 175 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:08,320 planet. We're in the planet. 176 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:15,320 So this word world is systems, behaviors, cultures, ways of 177 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:22,240 living, functioning, behaving, dressing, eating. 178 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:28,080 The moral, the moral, the morality of how When I say 179 00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:32,840 morality, it's the immorality of how man is outside of God's 180 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:35,000 Kingdom. And again, I just want to stress 181 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:39,280 this to you. The Bible says whom the sun sets 182 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:45,000 what is in OK, now pitch your freedom. 183 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:51,280 Most people can't although they quote this because the men are 184 00:11:51,280 --> 00:11:54,640 like, well, if I make Jesus the Lord of my life, then my life is 185 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:58,760 this podium top man I this is all I can do. 186 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:01,400 I mean this is it. I'm. 187 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:04,920 I can't. I can't do nothing, you know. 188 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:07,440 Can't party anymore. I can't. 189 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:09,680 Da, da, da. All the cants, all the cants of 190 00:12:09,680 --> 00:12:11,240 the, you know, Kingdom of darkness. 191 00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:13,240 And we act like it's way out. It's out here. 192 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:16,240 It's like all out here. And then we're like stuck in 193 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:18,600 here. But G said whom? 194 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:21,400 The sunsets. How are you being out here? 195 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:24,680 And he frees you from a bigger space and puts you in a confined 196 00:12:24,680 --> 00:12:29,240 space. I mean, when we release people 197 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:31,920 from prison, we're not releasing them from an open field. 198 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:38,200 We're releasing them from a confined space. 199 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:41,760 So the reality is, when you're not born of God, you're in 200 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:44,720 prison, you're stuck in a confined space. 201 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:50,800 It gives you the appearance that all these things you can do. 202 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:53,240 I can sleep with whomever I want to. 203 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:58,880 Oh, you're stuck in jail. Yeah, Yeah, That's what you are. 204 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:01,760 All this. I can do whatever I want to. 205 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:05,800 That's a prison cell called When Jesus sets you for you're out 206 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:09,080 here. I said you're out here. 207 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:12,840 And then the things that are free to enjoy that were God 208 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:20,680 created, where all those things produce life is out here and the 209 00:13:20,680 --> 00:13:22,360 rest of the world is stuck in here. 210 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:24,720 Now. We're not of this world, which 211 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:26,680 means we don't behave this way anymore. 212 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:33,000 But that only comes because we choose to renew our minds to the 213 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:38,200 word of God. We yield our will to our Lord 214 00:13:38,920 --> 00:13:43,000 because again, to be born again, you must call on the name of the 215 00:13:43,280 --> 00:13:46,720 Lord and you'll be saved. Lord is not a religious word. 216 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:48,880 It literally means supreme and authority. 217 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:52,120 So again, when you got born again, you did not. 218 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:54,880 When you became born again, you did not. 219 00:13:55,280 --> 00:14:01,280 You're not born again just so you can go to heaven, right? 220 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:04,880 Amen. Amen. 221 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:09,200 You'll still think away, but you have within you now a spirit who 222 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:14,080 can hear God and wants to. And the Holy Spirit who now 223 00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:17,120 comes inside bears witness with your spirit, your child of God, 224 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:20,760 and then will renew your mind. That's why Jesus said repent, 225 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:24,880 for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand. 226 00:14:25,280 --> 00:14:29,280 Now There is some really horrible teaching in the church, 227 00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:31,040 especially in the USA church today. 228 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:33,680 It's because people don't want to read the whole Bible. 229 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:36,400 They only want to stay in certain verses and then build 230 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:39,920 their theology by what we would call cherry picking. 231 00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:43,800 Meaning, you know, I like this. You know, in essence, you go do 232 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:47,680 what we called a topical study. A topical study is where, like 233 00:14:47,680 --> 00:14:49,560 you take a word like grace, right? 234 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:51,920 And then you go find all the scriptures that say grace, but 235 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:53,720 you don't even set them in a context. 236 00:14:54,040 --> 00:14:56,360 Nor do you set the context of God's nature. 237 00:14:56,360 --> 00:14:58,640 When it comes to a word in a context, either. 238 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:01,680 You just go and pick a few words that have that there, and then 239 00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:04,760 you build your own personal doctrine around it based upon 240 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:07,440 your personal experience or really how you want God to be 241 00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:09,520 for you. Because what we've done is we've 242 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:12,360 manipulated this statement and it called he's our personal 243 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:15,920 saviour to where we made him personally what we want him to 244 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:21,520 be. Come on, come on, come on. 245 00:15:21,520 --> 00:15:24,560 Because most people's Jesus is not the Jesus of the Bible. 246 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:29,160 Now back in the day when I was in high school, there was a 247 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:32,680 group called Depeche Mode and they had a song called Personal 248 00:15:32,680 --> 00:15:36,560 Jesus, right? And you know what? 249 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:40,520 There's in the church a lot of personal Jesuses that do not 250 00:15:40,520 --> 00:15:42,240 line up with the Jesus of the Bible. 251 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:46,960 In essence, I have come to realize more and more when I 252 00:15:46,960 --> 00:15:52,200 hear people talk about God. Like, you know what? 253 00:15:52,520 --> 00:15:54,800 You know, I just think things are meant to, you know, where 254 00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:57,080 you know, things were just meant to be, you know, if it's just 255 00:15:57,080 --> 00:16:02,400 meant to be, you know, I mean his ways are higher than ours. 256 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:05,560 You know, I I just think, I just think, you know, God would just 257 00:16:05,560 --> 00:16:08,800 work it out. I mean we use these general 258 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:10,360 statements. You know, he's going to do what 259 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:12,800 he wants to do. Well, you know what that sounds 260 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:15,720 like a lot of the idols that are worshipped in other countries 261 00:16:15,720 --> 00:16:18,760 because they can't talk and they don't know. 262 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:21,040 So they're like having the same hope that they're going to do 263 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:24,080 something too. And they basically applied 264 00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:29,520 idolatry type worship to Jesus because we don't know what he's 265 00:16:29,520 --> 00:16:34,640 doing and that is not the Jesus of the Bible. 266 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:44,120 Hallelujah. Now unless you take time every 267 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:46,720 year to go cover to cover, you're already missing 268 00:16:46,720 --> 00:16:51,840 something. And I'm glad that we go through 269 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:55,800 the Bible, Genesis 11, to Revelations 2221 every year so 270 00:16:55,800 --> 00:16:59,560 that we can always keep context and discover more and more about 271 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:02,440 our king. Because the God of the Old 272 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:05,040 Covenant is not different in the new. 273 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:14,640 His character's the same. OK, so one of these teachings 274 00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:18,319 that are out there is that you're no longer under the law. 275 00:17:18,920 --> 00:17:25,560 Well, what does that mean? And the problem is people don't 276 00:17:25,560 --> 00:17:27,800 know. Now I'm going to help you out a 277 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:31,160 little bit because people say, well, we're not under the law 278 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:33,600 anymore. Well, what does that mean? 279 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:37,720 Because let's talk about a couple of 10 commandments and 280 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:43,040 let's ask if they can be violated in the new one. 281 00:17:43,040 --> 00:17:50,760 Under grace, the first commandment is you are to 282 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:54,920 worship the Lord God and him alone in the new covenant. 283 00:17:54,920 --> 00:18:01,000 Can we worship other gods now? Well, then, how can that be done 284 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:05,120 away with, right? Come on. 285 00:18:05,120 --> 00:18:11,600 OK, now stay with me. We got there's hard issues here 286 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:13,200 we going to deal with. All right. 287 00:18:13,360 --> 00:18:18,080 I'm just saying on a surface one of the 10 commandments says 288 00:18:18,080 --> 00:18:20,960 this. Thou shalt not commit adultery. 289 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:27,360 Is it permissible now under grace, to have multiple 290 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:32,280 relationships while in marriage? So how can we say we're not 291 00:18:32,280 --> 00:18:36,400 under the law? Thou shalt not covet. 292 00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:40,720 Can we now freely covet under grace? 293 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:47,600 Thou shalt not steal. Can we now freely determine what 294 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:51,480 we want to take when we want to take it under grace? 295 00:18:55,680 --> 00:18:57,640 So what does it mean? We're not under the law. 296 00:18:58,120 --> 00:19:02,560 What it literally means, if you read it correctly, is that the 297 00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:07,560 law was given to let man know who was living previous to this, 298 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:12,440 specifically that they did whatever's right in their own 299 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:17,960 eyes, 'cause there was nothing telling them what is the 300 00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:22,600 standard. Yet death was still manifesting 301 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:25,920 because there's a way that seems right to a man, and in the end 302 00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:30,680 is it's death, right? So God wanted to show the world 303 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:36,880 that he's the king, He made a covenant with a nation and he 304 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:40,600 says, now if you'll obey these things, then though all the 305 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:43,520 nations will see you're blessed. But here's the thing. 306 00:19:43,760 --> 00:19:49,960 The law exposed their inability to do it of themselves. 307 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:54,880 In essence, I can do God's word good enough that God has to 308 00:19:54,880 --> 00:20:00,280 accept me and the law revealed can't do it. 309 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:03,160 That's why Paul said in Corinthian letter he said I'm 310 00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:05,280 just a wretched God. The thing I don't want to do, I 311 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:08,640 find myself doing. Now that didn't mean that Paul 312 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:12,400 was committing adultery and that Paul was stealing, but how did 313 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:14,880 Jesus come? He said oh, in essence it really 314 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:15,480 means this. He said. 315 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:18,160 I didn't come to abolish the law I came to. 316 00:20:18,880 --> 00:20:21,000 Fulfill it, which means tighten it up, right? 317 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:22,360 And you know I'm not going to show you. 318 00:20:22,360 --> 00:20:26,000 But if I, that means taking my belt and going one more strap. 319 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:29,880 So in essence, Jesus said this. You've heard the ancient say, 320 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:32,360 which is his daddy. You've heard the ancient say 321 00:20:32,360 --> 00:20:36,640 Thou shalt not commit adultery. Well, should we commit adultery? 322 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:38,560 No. But he said, now if you lust 323 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:40,600 after a woman in your own heart, you've already committed that 324 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:45,000 sin, which the penalty for that sin is you were to be stoned. 325 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:50,000 So now all the Pharisees are jacked up because they've had it 326 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:52,440 in their heart to want to do something although they 327 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:57,840 physically never did something. So what Jesus does is the law 328 00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:02,440 reveals your heart and your inability because your nature 329 00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:05,480 has been separated from God because of the fall. 330 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:10,320 And no matter how hard you try to lift his standard in it of 331 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:14,560 yourself, I can do it, God, I can do it. 332 00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:20,760 That person is dead. Can't do it. 333 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:25,960 Can't do it. But now that we're in a new and 334 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:29,200 better covenant, the new and better covenant has actually put 335 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:32,600 a spirit in us that lives like Jesus. 336 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:35,800 And Jesus didn't commit adultery, First of all, because 337 00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:38,320 he never got married. Secondly, he did not commit 338 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:43,640 fornication. He did not sleep with Mary 339 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:46,160 Magdalene and they have a child. Never happened. 340 00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:52,400 Never happened, OK, He never fornicated. 341 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:55,360 But even more, he didn't even lust after one. 342 00:21:56,480 --> 00:22:00,000 So when the woman's wiping his feet with her tears, he ain't 343 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:03,560 thinking, Man, I wish I could get with this lady right here. 344 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:06,480 Jeez, called. What kind of woman was she? 345 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:10,320 I said. What kind of woman was she now? 346 00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:12,880 The Pharisees jacked up, You know, the religious guy comes 347 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:15,760 into the house, He's like, man, if he is a prophet, he know what 348 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:17,440 kind of woman this is. How come you know what kind of 349 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:21,800 woman this is? Now? 350 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:23,560 It could be that she's on the street. 351 00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:27,040 It doesn't take long to figure out somebody's prostituting OK 352 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:33,600 without lusting after them. However, there's some setups 353 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:36,520 going on with the Pharisees. We caught this woman in the act. 354 00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:38,160 Well, why were you looking through the window? 355 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:44,360 And how did you know this was going to occur? 356 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:51,360 And what were you doing during the ACT before you'd find out? 357 00:22:51,360 --> 00:22:54,640 OK, now let's get her and take her to Jesus. 358 00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:56,920 Go. What was their heart for Jesus? 359 00:22:57,080 --> 00:23:00,160 Let's kill him. Well, what heart's that? 360 00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:03,520 How can you say you love your brother yet you hate your 361 00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:05,440 brother? He said thou shalt not commit 362 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:06,720 murder. But I say if you hate your 363 00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:08,560 brother, well they definitely hated Jesus. 364 00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:10,840 So that's he says y'all a bunch of murderers. 365 00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:14,240 You should die. So they're freaking out because 366 00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:16,920 they naturally haven't done any of these things. 367 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:21,240 But she's like you trying to do this with no faith on your own 368 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:23,200 and thinking God's all pleased with it. 369 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:27,280 So that's what it means when it says we no longer live according 370 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:30,640 to the law, but we live now by the Spirit. 371 00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:31,720 What? What does that mean? 372 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:34,840 We actually do what the Spirit says. 373 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:39,760 And here's the crazy thing. Romans tells us that we've been 374 00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:45,120 redeemed from the law of sin and death, but we get moved to a 375 00:23:45,120 --> 00:23:49,880 different wall and it's the law of the spirit of life in Christ 376 00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:55,160 Jesus. In fact, another scripture, 377 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:57,280 which I won't show you today, you can look it up for yourself, 378 00:23:57,480 --> 00:24:02,280 talks about the law of faith and we're supposed to live by faith 379 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:04,880 that is communicating in the new covenant. 380 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:09,360 It's a law. Now law's not a bad term because 381 00:24:09,360 --> 00:24:13,120 law's actually a good term because law means legal. 382 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:17,800 And you want to come before the king legally to be able to say, 383 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:24,240 now I have a legal right. Law's not not bad when you can 384 00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:29,240 enact it righteously. Paul did this when they grabbed 385 00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:33,440 him one time and they were going to scourge him and he says, so 386 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:37,880 I'm a Roman. And they freaked out Why 'cause 387 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:42,960 there's a law that you don't touch a Roman. 388 00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:46,920 Like they already touched him and then they were struggling. 389 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:49,280 And the one's like, how are you a Roman? 390 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:52,440 I mean, I paid a lot of money for me to become a citizen of 391 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:54,920 Rome, he said. Actually, I was born one. 392 00:24:56,720 --> 00:25:00,480 But how did Paul? Because he knew his legal right. 393 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:04,840 And believers don't know their legal rights in the Kingdom, 394 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:09,760 which actually propels their faith because they're like God 395 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:14,760 has to do what he says. Because God will always do what 396 00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:18,680 he says because he's the king and his word will never return 397 00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:21,480 unto him void, but it shall accomplish that which it was 398 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:24,120 sent to do. And when you have faith that his 399 00:25:24,120 --> 00:25:30,360 word is legal and binding in this covenant, then you're like, 400 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:33,480 thank God I'm under the law of the spirit of life in Christ 401 00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:37,120 Jesus, that I have a legal right to go to the devil and say you 402 00:25:37,120 --> 00:25:41,520 don't own me. You know how many believers talk 403 00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:43,320 about how the devil's running them down? 404 00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:44,840 Or the devil, She'll put one on me. 405 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:46,520 Why? He has no legal right. 406 00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:54,680 He has no control over your life, no legal right to you. 407 00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:59,520 Yet we act like he can do whatever, but we're hoping God's 408 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:02,480 going to step in. God's like stepped in, took care 409 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:04,520 of it. Waiting for you to come to me 410 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:10,360 and present your case out like a child of God, out like a child 411 00:26:10,360 --> 00:26:13,720 of king. Begin to begin to decree and 412 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:17,040 declare a thing. Hallelujah. 413 00:26:18,360 --> 00:26:22,440 So we're we're not of this world. 414 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:26,280 If we were of this world, it would love us so you understand. 415 00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:29,800 I have peace with the world as far as I can. 416 00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:34,440 I get along with a lot of people in this world that I'm not of. 417 00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:42,240 However, if it comes down to it, I know they actually hate me and 418 00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:45,960 they don't hate just me. They really hate my king, 'cause 419 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:51,840 that's who I'm serving anyway. And many believers have 420 00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:56,160 compromised because they want to stay friends with the world and 421 00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:57,240 that culture. Yeah, that's right. 422 00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:03,560 Instead of wanting to stay immersed in the culture of the 423 00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:06,200 Kingdom, which Jesus did. That's right, Jesus did. 424 00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:17,520 Jesus never had to compromise his culture in order to win 425 00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:22,480 somebody. That's right. 426 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:24,640 Here's another little myth. Let's go ahead and destroy real 427 00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:28,760 quick with culture fraud. Get into your laws and that is 428 00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:33,160 people say this. Well, unless you've gone through 429 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:36,960 what I've gone through, then you really can't help me, 'cause you 430 00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:41,560 don't know. OK, we'll never pray to Jesus 431 00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:44,440 then. Don't ever do it. 432 00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:48,320 Show me where Jesus was. A drug addict strung out on 433 00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:51,920 drugs. Show me where Jesus killed 434 00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:56,760 somebody or or stole from someone or, you know, had a 435 00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:59,960 marriage that fell apart, a relationship that was just 436 00:27:59,960 --> 00:28:03,640 horrible. Show me where Jesus fell out in 437 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:07,200 the gutter and came back up. It's not there. 438 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:10,840 You know what qualifies Jesus to be able to speak to you? 439 00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:18,600 He was tempted on every account, but never sinned. 440 00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:22,760 And what we do is we want if we're alcoholic, we only want to 441 00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:26,320 be able to talk to a former alcoholic who used to be strung 442 00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:28,840 out and controlled by alcohol like we were. 443 00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:31,600 Now that they're born again and worshiping God, oh brother, I 444 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:33,760 can identify. I know we've been in the same 445 00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:36,160 gutter. Oh, praise God, you can help me. 446 00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:37,640 You know what I've been through? Jesus. 447 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:39,640 Like, I was tempted to get drunk but didn't. 448 00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:46,240 Which means when this one failed and they could fail again, I 449 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:52,000 never failed. Never did it. 450 00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:56,640 So really, the ones you want to get around or who hadn't blown 451 00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:58,400 it. Now, I'm not saying someone who 452 00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:02,720 has blown it and been forgiven and have come out of it and is 453 00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:04,840 never going to go back, and they're not going back. 454 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:06,880 Can they help you? Yes, but they're not the most 455 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:10,600 qualified. They're not the most qualified. 456 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:13,680 In fact, they're only qualified because God forgave them. 457 00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:15,320 Clean them up. Come on. 458 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:19,840 Stripped the junk off. Made them a new person. 459 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:23,160 Renewed their minds so they don't go back to an old habit. 460 00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:27,800 Because Jesus knew how to never do it. 461 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:32,360 Ever. As a man anointed of God. 462 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:39,080 Hallelujah. So because you know, we we're 463 00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:41,160 not of this world, you need to understand that. 464 00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:44,120 And I'm not going to give you every law, OK. 465 00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:49,160 I'm just going to give you a few that we have. 466 00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:52,720 And when I say law, I'm just saying it's a legal right we 467 00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:57,120 have in the Kingdom, OK, things we can tap into. 468 00:29:57,440 --> 00:30:02,080 Now some of the, you understand, the world can tap into some. 469 00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:04,800 If they'll tap into some, then they'll move into some others, 470 00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:06,280 right. Especially this first one. 471 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:11,040 And it is the law of repentance. You have to change your thinking 472 00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:15,200 when you get into Kingdom. And here's the crazy thing, it's 473 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:21,120 very crazy to me, is that all of us who pursued a relationship 474 00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:27,240 with Jesus or God trying to, you know, have some kind of peace, 475 00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:31,080 get free from our guilt and shame, all the junk that we did 476 00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:34,760 to try to figure it out, and then only come to a place where 477 00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:37,680 someone tells us that Jesus Christ paid the price for us. 478 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:41,160 He took on all of our sin. That if we would repent, ask 479 00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:44,840 Jesus to be Lord of our lives, ask him to forgive us of our 480 00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:47,480 sins, he would save us, We would become a whole new person. 481 00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:50,760 And we finally, like, threw up our hands, threw up our way of 482 00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:53,120 doing it, says, man, we're just going to go Jesus way. 483 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:57,360 And then we do that. We're like this is the life and 484 00:30:57,360 --> 00:31:00,280 you know you're different and you know you've been set free 485 00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:03,080 and you know the guilt and shame's gone and it's amazing. 486 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:07,280 However and and you did everything your mind could think 487 00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:10,840 then Jesus is like well let me keep changing your thinking. 488 00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:12,640 We're like, no, you need to change yours. 489 00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:17,120 It's like once we get born again, we don't want to change 490 00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:23,400 anything else. Like all of a sudden just 491 00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:27,720 because we're born again, we're instantly perfect in our mind. 492 00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:32,080 The Bible doesn't say that. The Bible says we are to be 493 00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:35,920 renewed in our mind. Your spirit man is not a 494 00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:39,440 remodel. It's a brand new spirit. 495 00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:42,320 The old is evicted from your skin suit. 496 00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:46,080 But when it comes to your mind, it's renovation. 497 00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:51,400 It's renovation. I know about renovation. 498 00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:56,400 Become very proficient at renovation. 499 00:31:57,160 --> 00:32:01,800 Are you hearing me right now? Today, my master bathroom is 500 00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:06,040 looking pretty rough. I have already ripped most of 501 00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:10,800 the walls up down to the studs because I'm fixing to put in new 502 00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:12,520 tile. I'm going to put in my My wife's 503 00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:17,280 going to get a tub downstairs. Hallelujah. 504 00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:20,240 She don't have to go upstairs anymore to take a bath. 505 00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:23,080 She right here, right there in the bedroom. 506 00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:27,560 And then I saw I just got to slide my shower over, right? 507 00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:29,080 So now I'm going to have a tub in the shower. 508 00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:31,480 It's not going to be a tub shower, It's going to be a tub 509 00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:35,160 and a shower, which means I don't have to drain for that. 510 00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:40,360 So I'm doing a remodel. So I got to cut down into the 511 00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:45,760 foundation because I can move a a water head pretty easy. 512 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:49,080 Turn on the water and let it run all over the tile and then 513 00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:51,160 where's it going? Because I have no drain. 514 00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:56,040 So in order for me to get a new drain, I got to get to through 515 00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:58,640 the foundation. I'm remodeled. 516 00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:02,760 I got to tear this thing down only to build it back up. 517 00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:06,880 Are you hearing me? So that has to happen to your 518 00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:09,640 mind once you're born again. It's like beginning. 519 00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:14,160 It's the process. Yet because so many people were 520 00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:18,720 introduced to a Jesus that would only take the Him take them to 521 00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:22,800 heaven, they never deal with their mind. 522 00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:29,360 And that's why their Jesus is more like an idol than it is 523 00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:34,520 like a king At Anchor Bay Church. 524 00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:39,760 We serve the king and he talks Hallelujah. 525 00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:45,440 He speaks to his his brothers and sisters because his Father 526 00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:52,400 is our father, and he lets us know what is ours by birthright. 527 00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:59,800 And we walk in it because what God says he does. 528 00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:02,120 But that's through the law of repentance. 529 00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:05,720 You must change your thinking. Matthew 417 says it this way. 530 00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:08,960 From that this time Jesus began to preach and say what? 531 00:34:09,199 --> 00:34:13,560 Repent, change your thinking. For the Kingdom of heaven is a 532 00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:15,719 ham. The Kingdom is nothing like you 533 00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:18,480 see. In essence, he says you live off 534 00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:20,880 the principle of living by sight. 535 00:34:21,639 --> 00:34:27,280 I have to move, get you to start thinking to live by faith and 536 00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:31,159 not by sight. Because when sight says you 537 00:34:31,159 --> 00:34:35,199 better worry about this, Faith says. 538 00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:37,719 I ain't worried one bit. I don't. 539 00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:41,000 I have heard from Dad. I've heard from the king. 540 00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:44,600 He has given his word on this thing and it's going to be no 541 00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:48,440 other way than what he said. Are you hearing me? 542 00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:50,239 There's another law that we get into. 543 00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:52,040 It's called the law of righteousness. 544 00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:55,360 He makes us righteous. Righteous is not a religious 545 00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:57,200 word. It means right standing with the 546 00:34:57,200 --> 00:34:59,720 governing authority. This is why when the scripture 547 00:34:59,720 --> 00:35:03,640 says he did not call the righteous but sinners to 548 00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:07,960 repentance, well, obviously if you're righteous you don't have 549 00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:11,880 to change your thinking. But how do we read this? 550 00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:15,240 We read this as if somebody is saved or right with God. 551 00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:18,880 What we're saying is not a not a salvation issue. 552 00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:22,560 We're saying if you're thinking is like God, then he don't have 553 00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:27,120 to change it. A Sinner is someone who doesn't 554 00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:33,640 think like God, he says. So I've come to call sinners to 555 00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:40,160 repentance because the the culture they're in will never 556 00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:45,040 allow them to be in the Kingdom. It's not going to happen. 557 00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:48,000 And he lists this. Paul lists this when he writes 558 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:52,440 the churches, These, this type of lifestyle will never inherit 559 00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:55,320 the Kingdom of God. It's not going to get there. 560 00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:57,560 Not going to happen. Not going to happen. 561 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:01,760 I don't care how many people say I can be like this and still go 562 00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:02,960 to heaven, It's not going to happen. 563 00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:07,360 Because again, if you're born again, you throw off that. 564 00:36:08,720 --> 00:36:11,360 You renew your mind. You only want to do the will of 565 00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:18,080 God. You change your thinking and you 566 00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:20,320 respond that way. What's it say in Matthew 633? 567 00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:25,360 But seek first his Kingdom and his 'cause. 568 00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:31,120 God's way of doing it is life, and he's bound to what he says. 569 00:36:31,720 --> 00:36:34,760 Oh man. That's why he will exalt his 570 00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:40,600 word, even above all his names. All through the Bible, we will 571 00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:45,400 reach this conclusion. God will do what he says. 572 00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:47,960 He wants everything he's ever created. 573 00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:52,120 No. My integrity is in my word, and 574 00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:57,160 I do it and I do it. I always do it. 575 00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:03,200 Hallelujah. Then there's this other law in 576 00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:06,640 play for the believer, it's called the law of return. 577 00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:09,920 Now this is also for an unbeliever, 'cause this is in 578 00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:12,960 the earth. It's the law of return, or what? 579 00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:18,880 We could say whatever a man sews, this is, this is, this 580 00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:20,560 happens. Look what it says in Galatians 581 00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:23,320 6-7 and eight. It says do not be deceived. 582 00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:26,040 He's talking to the church now. Don't be deceived. 583 00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:32,040 God is not mocked. What for? 584 00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:35,160 Whatever a man sows this, he will also reap. 585 00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:39,320 Do not be deceived. God is not mocked. 586 00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:45,880 So you can't say I have grace and sow to the flesh and reap of 587 00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:49,680 the spirit. That's right. 588 00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:52,360 You can't do it. You can't do it. 589 00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:56,240 You can't do it. You cannot under grace sow to 590 00:37:56,360 --> 00:38:00,400 the flesh but reap of the spirit, can't do it. 591 00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:05,400 He literally says if you sow of the flesh, you'll reap of the 592 00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:10,440 flesh destruction, but if you sow to the spirit, you'll reap 593 00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:17,680 of the spirit life. Don't be deceived, don't be 594 00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:23,240 deceived. So outside the Kingdom, what 595 00:38:23,240 --> 00:38:29,520 people are sowing to, they're reaping, they're reaping. 596 00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:34,760 And in the Kingdom, whatever you sow to, you're reaping. 597 00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:37,080 Cause here's the thing though, in the Kingdom you have the 598 00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:41,320 ability to sow to the spirit 'cause you are of the spirit 599 00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:44,960 you're born of the spirit. Hallelujah. 600 00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,680 And that Good news, see, this is our culture. 601 00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:51,680 He goes on to say this verse 8 For the one who sews to his own 602 00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:53,920 flesh will of the flesh reap corruption. 603 00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:58,560 But the one who sews to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap 604 00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:00,320 eternal life. This is a law. 605 00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:05,000 I'll say This is a law. This takes place. 606 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:09,600 This is part of our culture, OK? And we do this by faith. 607 00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:12,840 I do this, not my work. I'm like, I believe God, and I 608 00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:16,760 act on that. I'm believing God's word will do 609 00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:19,800 what God's word said. So again, you understand there 610 00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:22,600 is a work we are doing. It's called the work of faith. 611 00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:24,880 James says you're going to tell me you have faith and have no 612 00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:31,840 works. Ha, it's not happening, he said. 613 00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:35,320 Faith without works is dead. Works means corresponding 614 00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:38,440 action. Again, if God says act this way, 615 00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:43,440 even though you don't see it, feel it, you still respond that 616 00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:46,200 way. And it's by faith that that word 617 00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:49,920 will produce what he said. And when you do that, you're 618 00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:56,480 living by faith, but you're acting on that word and it is a 619 00:39:56,520 --> 00:39:59,040 work. It's not a sitting around 620 00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:03,480 waiting. It is a stepping out doing. 621 00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:06,480 That's why James said you got to be a doer of the word and not a 622 00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:11,000 hear only cause those who hear and it's amazing, many believers 623 00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:14,720 will go to church and will hear, but they will not act on 624 00:40:14,720 --> 00:40:18,000 anything they hear. And the Bible says that person 625 00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:21,960 is deceived. A believer deceived. 626 00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:27,440 And that their faith is actually dead, because there's no 627 00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:30,880 corresponding action. None. 628 00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:35,680 We know a word, but we have unbelief, right? 629 00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:39,440 Right. We have fear, whatever else 630 00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:41,920 attached to it. Because we're led by sight. 631 00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:44,640 We're led by our hearing what we hear someone say. 632 00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:47,240 It messes with our emotions. Next thing you know, we're 633 00:40:47,240 --> 00:40:49,480 responding that way. Yet we have a word in our 634 00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:50,000 spirit. Yes. 635 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:56,880 Come on. And I only sow to the word in my 636 00:40:56,880 --> 00:41:00,080 spirit, not everything else around me. 637 00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:04,160 When I do, it reaps life. You know, there's another law in 638 00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:06,720 play in our culture is called the law of representation. 639 00:41:07,720 --> 00:41:09,400 I feel like I'm a Baptist pastor right now. 640 00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:14,640 I'm throwing all these Rs out the law of representation. 641 00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:20,040 Are you an ambassador? The Bible tells the first. 642 00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:22,200 Paul said this in First Corinthians 11/1. 643 00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:27,040 He said be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ. 644 00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:31,640 We are to represent Christ, not ourselves. 645 00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:35,720 Well, if you're going to, first of all, you cannot represent 646 00:41:35,720 --> 00:41:44,040 someone you're not around. OK, Are you ready for this? 647 00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:52,920 Being born again doesn't make you around Jesus being born 648 00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:59,720 again does mean that the Holy Spirit lives in you, but that's 649 00:41:59,720 --> 00:42:08,760 not Jesus, OK, Jesus said, now when he comes, that is the 650 00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:10,760 spirit of truth, the Holy Spirit. 651 00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:14,800 He's going to cause things to come to your remembrance that I 652 00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:17,600 said, he's going to guide you into all truth. 653 00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:18,640 He's going to teach you all things. 654 00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:20,320 He's going to disclose things to come. 655 00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:24,000 He's not going to speak of his own will, but only disclose you. 656 00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:29,200 What I'm saying, in essence, the Holy Spirit is to reveal Christ, 657 00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:32,200 not even himself. That's right. 658 00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:35,520 That's right. So he's a revealer of Christ. 659 00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:40,400 How can the Holy Spirit reveal Christ to you if you're not 660 00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:44,040 around him? We'll say, well, how can I be 661 00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:45,360 around him? He's not in the earth. 662 00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:49,680 He is in the earth. He's in the earth where he first 663 00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:54,320 was, right? We know him as Jesus, as a 664 00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:57,560 person who became flesh. But prior to that, we know John 665 00:42:57,560 --> 00:43:01,320 11 in the beginning was the the Word, and the Word was with God, 666 00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:03,720 and the Word was God. Then later on, the Word became 667 00:43:03,720 --> 00:43:05,440 flesh. So you want to be around Jesus? 668 00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:08,400 You're going to be in the Word. So you know I, you know it. 669 00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:11,720 To me, it's just like, what's wrong with them? 670 00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:13,640 Oh, I just want to be in the presence of God. 671 00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:21,920 Well, read your Bible. Now, don't get me wrong. 672 00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:24,840 Coming to church, getting in a corporate anointing. 673 00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:29,400 There can be an increase of of of the tangible presence and 674 00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:35,480 glory of God in another form. But He's already present within 675 00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:40,160 you. Do you not sense his presence? 676 00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:47,720 And why are you trying to sense his presence anyway, 'cause if 677 00:43:47,720 --> 00:43:50,880 you're wanting to get in the environment where you feel him 678 00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:54,880 to be closer, then you're actually being led by your 679 00:43:55,120 --> 00:43:59,960 feelings and not by faith now. And there's so many. 680 00:43:59,960 --> 00:44:02,040 Let's get together. Oh, I just want to be in his. 681 00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:03,400 I just want to feel his presence. 682 00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:05,760 I was like, that's going to make you stronger. 683 00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:08,440 Well, you're already weaker in your admission. 684 00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:13,320 You want it because you are wanting to live by a feeling and 685 00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:16,200 not by the fact that the Bible says you are the temple of the 686 00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:18,760 Holy Ghost. You are the temple of the Holy 687 00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:21,920 Ghost. I just wish I could feel God's 688 00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:22,800 presence. Why? 689 00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:25,560 Just look at yourself in the mirror and say I'm the temple of 690 00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:27,600 the Holy Ghost. Hey, Holy Ghost, I know you're 691 00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:29,720 in there. I know you're in there. 692 00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:34,840 I know you're in there, right? I'm going to go talk to Jesus 693 00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:37,160 for a minute, right? And you open up the Bible and 694 00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:41,120 you start reading the word. You're like, wow, talk to me, 695 00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:41,880 Jesus. Come on, talk. 696 00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:45,280 And the Holy Spirit will then reveal Jesus. 697 00:44:45,640 --> 00:44:47,800 Because Jesus, what did he do after his death, burial, 698 00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:49,600 resurrection. He's walking with some people. 699 00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:51,960 They don't realize who he is. They're like, why y'all so 700 00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:53,320 upset? What y'all talking about? 701 00:44:53,320 --> 00:44:57,240 He's like, bro, where you been? What'd you hear about Jesus? 702 00:44:57,240 --> 00:44:59,320 I mean, you the only person around these parts that don't 703 00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:02,040 know what's been going down. Obviously I'm paraphrasing. 704 00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:06,320 So Jesus, you know, go and he starts to explain to them in the 705 00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:08,200 scriptures things concerning himself. 706 00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:13,200 In essence he was revealing himself through the word. 707 00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:21,280 He was explaining to them through the law and shut up 708 00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:25,760 through the law and the prophets himself. 709 00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:34,120 Jesus is dead, risen in his glory and is using the law to 710 00:45:34,120 --> 00:45:45,400 show him and the prophets. Jesus used them after his 711 00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:49,680 resurrection to reveal himself. There's so much to be revealed 712 00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:52,680 about the Christ, but because you only stay in the New 713 00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:55,880 Testament and don't go back to the Old Testament in order to 714 00:45:55,880 --> 00:45:59,080 understand it in light of the New Testament, you're missing 715 00:45:59,080 --> 00:46:03,320 out on your Christ. Because Jesus even went back to 716 00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:06,480 the Law and the prophets to reveal himself, said this was 717 00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:08,360 me, this is me, this is my characters. 718 00:46:08,360 --> 00:46:09,920 What did you see this, what it's going to do? 719 00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:15,960 Spoken about me. Here I am, because the Old 720 00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:20,920 Testament's about a king. Anyway, obviously the Gospels 721 00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:24,520 present to us this king as a suffering servant. 722 00:46:24,520 --> 00:46:27,040 He's the lamb who takes away the sins of the world. 723 00:46:27,040 --> 00:46:31,440 In essence, he's the sacrifice. He's the sacrificial king. 724 00:46:32,560 --> 00:46:35,080 He's the king who dies for the nation. 725 00:46:35,200 --> 00:46:38,320 Instead of having the servants fight for him, he fights for the 726 00:46:38,320 --> 00:46:43,200 servants. He's the Pinnacle King, and he's 727 00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:46,920 the only one who has the royal bloodline to be able to pass it 728 00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:53,240 on. So he dies so that we can come 729 00:46:53,240 --> 00:46:55,200 in. Glory to God. 730 00:46:56,120 --> 00:46:58,320 So if you're going to, if he's going to be your, if you're 731 00:46:58,320 --> 00:47:01,560 going to be an ambassador to Christ, how can you be outside 732 00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:05,000 of reading the word, being a student of the word? 733 00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:07,240 And let me go, I'm going to go a little bit further. 734 00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:09,000 OK? Can I just stretch a little bit 735 00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:10,640 further? This ain't going to hurt Anchor 736 00:47:10,640 --> 00:47:13,760 Faith Church people, but anybody on Spotify right now going to be 737 00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:15,200 listening to me, he's going to have a problem. 738 00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:17,960 But at the end of the day, you act like you want to be around 739 00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:21,360 Jesus. Well then go to church because 740 00:47:21,360 --> 00:47:32,600 Jesus is the head of the church. Well, I don't have to go to 741 00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:34,320 church. Well that's not true. 742 00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:36,640 You're unscriptural. The minute you said that I don't 743 00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:37,960 need a pastor. I got the Holy Ghost. 744 00:47:38,160 --> 00:47:41,800 You're unscriptural. Cause First Corinthians says the 745 00:47:41,800 --> 00:47:44,000 hand can't say to the foot. I don't need you. 746 00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:46,800 You can't say you don't need me. You need the pastor. 747 00:47:47,240 --> 00:47:49,240 You need the pastor. Go ahead and say it. 748 00:47:49,240 --> 00:47:53,440 I need the pastor. Say I need the pastor. 749 00:47:53,680 --> 00:47:55,720 And guess what? I need you. 750 00:47:58,160 --> 00:48:03,000 We're depending upon each other. This is very important. 751 00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:06,720 So get off your high horse horse and just come on in and serve. 752 00:48:06,720 --> 00:48:09,720 Because we need each other. And I'm glad I'm around family 753 00:48:09,720 --> 00:48:12,640 that loves God, loves to serve one another. 754 00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:14,800 Glory to God. Amen. 755 00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:18,680 Amen. We just want to grow, develop, 756 00:48:18,800 --> 00:48:21,480 live for Jesus, serve his 'cause. 757 00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:24,240 We're at this is the embassy in the earth where all the 758 00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:29,240 ambassadors assemble and we've read the word individually, but 759 00:48:29,240 --> 00:48:32,480 then we hear it corporately, and God reveals by spirit because 760 00:48:32,480 --> 00:48:35,360 the fivefold ministry will equip you that you cannot do by 761 00:48:35,360 --> 00:48:36,920 yourself. And then all of a sudden that 762 00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:38,920 equipping takes place. And all of a sudden now we're 763 00:48:38,920 --> 00:48:41,600 scattering all these kings throughout our whole community, 764 00:48:41,720 --> 00:48:43,840 in our state, through our nation, through the world. 765 00:48:43,960 --> 00:48:46,240 And the Kingdom comes because we're doing it. 766 00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:49,720 The law of representation. Last one, is the law of 767 00:48:49,720 --> 00:48:53,080 resource. In this culture, there's a law 768 00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:58,680 of resource, and that is provision, both natural and 769 00:48:58,680 --> 00:49:03,360 supernatural. OK, Philippians 419. 770 00:49:03,840 --> 00:49:08,640 And my God, is he your God? He you know he's not yours by 771 00:49:08,640 --> 00:49:11,280 yourself, though now he's personal. 772 00:49:11,680 --> 00:49:14,480 He's yours. He knows exactly what you need 773 00:49:14,880 --> 00:49:18,920 before you even ask. But he knows what I need before 774 00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:20,560 I ask. He's your God. 775 00:49:20,560 --> 00:49:23,000 My God. But my God will not. 776 00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:25,840 Maybe. Well, I I sure hope God comes 777 00:49:25,840 --> 00:49:28,240 through. Well, that's an idol, Jesus. 778 00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:32,280 I mean, you might as well just go ahead and and get a picture 779 00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:34,320 of Jesus. Put it on the wall and kiss it. 780 00:49:38,640 --> 00:49:39,720 Get it. Put his name. 781 00:49:39,720 --> 00:49:41,760 Kiss it. Put a cross. 782 00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:44,000 Kiss it. Hug it. 783 00:49:44,640 --> 00:49:48,960 It's no different than some other idol, cause the painting's 784 00:49:48,960 --> 00:49:53,000 not talking to you. The cross itself is not speaking 785 00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:55,520 at you. God never intended for us to 786 00:49:55,520 --> 00:49:57,640 make little crosses and worship them. 787 00:50:04,240 --> 00:50:09,880 Crosses were the means of execution in the Roman Empire. 788 00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:15,200 If Jesus was alive today at a time in the US, it would have 789 00:50:15,200 --> 00:50:20,280 been the electric chair. And if that would have been the 790 00:50:20,280 --> 00:50:22,640 case, then we'd have been carrying around electric chairs. 791 00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:26,280 We'd had electric chairs on our platforms. 792 00:50:26,600 --> 00:50:30,120 We'd hung them on top of the, you know, Steeple electric 793 00:50:30,120 --> 00:50:36,320 chair. Now I have no problem with the 794 00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:38,760 cross. It identifies that he had to pay 795 00:50:38,800 --> 00:50:41,040 a price for us. And if that's what it keeps you 796 00:50:41,040 --> 00:50:46,240 in remembrance, so that you then will be always passionate about 797 00:50:46,240 --> 00:50:49,320 serving him because you know the price paid. 798 00:50:49,520 --> 00:50:53,640 But again, the cross to most people we have no context of the 799 00:50:53,640 --> 00:50:55,560 price go. Let me just say it this way. 800 00:50:55,840 --> 00:50:59,280 Most of you don't even understand all that you were 801 00:50:59,280 --> 00:51:06,120 actually damnable for. But Jesus didn't just take yours 802 00:51:06,120 --> 00:51:09,000 on everybody in the room. Everybody in the world 803 00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:11,920 currently, today, everyone who's ever been in the planet that's 804 00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:14,280 not even in the planet he took. Everyone's. 805 00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:18,960 We can't even comprehend what was put on him. 806 00:51:19,760 --> 00:51:22,480 So the cross does not paint the picture. 807 00:51:28,080 --> 00:51:31,720 But we should be less concerned about the cross and more 808 00:51:31,720 --> 00:51:37,080 concerned about the throne and the crown because our king is 809 00:51:37,080 --> 00:51:41,040 actually risen, right? He's risen. 810 00:51:41,200 --> 00:51:43,880 And I really think we should get into a stone rolled away 811 00:51:43,880 --> 00:51:46,960 necklace. More so because he's alive. 812 00:51:46,960 --> 00:51:50,320 I mean why we keep putting our And here's the thing, because 813 00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:54,040 the theology is about keeping you in your sin thought. 814 00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:59,600 We're so accustomed to our sin thought instead sin 815 00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:03,080 consciousness instead of our righteousness consciousness. 816 00:52:04,920 --> 00:52:11,360 Because I'm the child of a king, I've been raised up, and I'm not 817 00:52:11,360 --> 00:52:16,320 even raised up yet, naturally. But the Bible says you've been 818 00:52:16,320 --> 00:52:20,360 raised up and seated. Seated that's past in seated 819 00:52:20,440 --> 00:52:23,040 together with him. In Christ. 820 00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:26,400 I'm already raised up, seated with him. 821 00:52:26,800 --> 00:52:31,120 He is right now physically on a throne that I am spiritually and 822 00:52:31,120 --> 00:52:35,800 in his mind on the same seat. Hallelujah. 823 00:52:36,520 --> 00:52:39,600 And when I understand these rights in this culture that I 824 00:52:39,600 --> 00:52:42,120 live in, then I'll not live this beat down. 825 00:52:42,120 --> 00:52:43,400 Broke down. Oh, sorry. 826 00:52:43,400 --> 00:52:45,960 Me can't wait to go to heaven. Only person. 827 00:52:46,120 --> 00:52:48,880 I mean, I want to go to heaven. Make no mistake about it. 828 00:52:49,080 --> 00:52:52,040 To be absent from the body and be present with the Lord is far 829 00:52:52,040 --> 00:52:53,400 better. I get it. 830 00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:58,440 But at the end of the day I do. Now can pull in heaven in my 831 00:52:58,440 --> 00:53:00,120 life. I can walk in joy. 832 00:53:00,240 --> 00:53:03,560 I talk with God now. I'm not waiting to be with him. 833 00:53:03,680 --> 00:53:05,600 He's in me now. He's with me now. 834 00:53:05,720 --> 00:53:08,040 He's with his church. He's full of power. 835 00:53:08,160 --> 00:53:11,160 His kingdom's advancing. It's never going to not be in 836 00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:15,120 the planet. It's awesome. 837 00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:21,560 I said it's awesome. So my God will supply all your 838 00:53:21,560 --> 00:53:22,840 needs. How many? 839 00:53:23,680 --> 00:53:28,960 So again, these are not just spiritual needs or they're not 840 00:53:28,960 --> 00:53:32,600 just natural needs. I mean, this context obviously 841 00:53:32,760 --> 00:53:35,520 was because he had received an offering from the Philippian 842 00:53:35,520 --> 00:53:38,440 Church. OK, so there is a literal 843 00:53:38,440 --> 00:53:42,080 context of financial provision here, literally. 844 00:53:42,520 --> 00:53:46,400 But he said, my God, we'll supply all your needs according 845 00:53:46,400 --> 00:53:48,680 to his riches and glory in Christ Jesus. 846 00:53:48,840 --> 00:53:52,280 He'll supply them all. There's not a need you have 847 00:53:52,280 --> 00:53:53,880 that. He won't bring a supply because 848 00:53:53,880 --> 00:54:01,200 there's a law of resource with the king, period, he said. 849 00:54:01,280 --> 00:54:04,960 I'll never leave you nor forsake you. 850 00:54:04,960 --> 00:54:06,960 He also says I won't leave you as an orphan. 851 00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:11,680 Most believers allow the resource to come from the devil 852 00:54:11,680 --> 00:54:17,600 and not Jesus, and they live as orphans. 853 00:54:18,920 --> 00:54:20,160 Well, I just can't wait to get heaven. 854 00:54:20,160 --> 00:54:22,200 And he's like man, I want to bring heaven down to you now. 855 00:54:23,120 --> 00:54:25,480 I'm your daddy. Quit looking to the world. 856 00:54:25,800 --> 00:54:27,920 I'm your daddy. Quit looking to the world. 857 00:54:28,120 --> 00:54:31,000 I'm your daddy. I didn't leave. 858 00:54:33,360 --> 00:54:36,200 I didn't leave. Jesus didn't leave in this 859 00:54:36,200 --> 00:54:37,960 context, he said I'll build my church. 860 00:54:38,640 --> 00:54:42,760 Jesus right here, building this church, in his word, building 861 00:54:42,760 --> 00:54:44,680 this church. That's what Jesus is active 862 00:54:44,680 --> 00:54:47,040 about right now. He said I will build my church 863 00:54:47,880 --> 00:54:50,840 is the church and the earth. Then Jesus is working it. 864 00:54:52,000 --> 00:54:55,360 So from his seat, he's very He is praying for Saints. 865 00:54:56,480 --> 00:54:59,400 He's interceding for us because you're like, get it, Just get 866 00:54:59,400 --> 00:55:01,120 it. Get the revelation, Holy Spirit, 867 00:55:01,120 --> 00:55:02,560 tell him this, Holy Spirit, tell him that. 868 00:55:02,680 --> 00:55:05,000 And here's the thing the Holy Spirit is actually telling us. 869 00:55:06,960 --> 00:55:08,600 The question is, are we just obeying? 870 00:55:09,720 --> 00:55:14,000 Are we allowing the law of repentance to take place time 871 00:55:14,000 --> 00:55:17,320 and time again to renew our minds to the things that are 872 00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:22,000 available to us in His word? And I know I'm using this word 873 00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:24,440 law that sometimes people can have a very hard time with. 874 00:55:24,440 --> 00:55:28,600 But you understand God's obligated, obligated to his own 875 00:55:28,600 --> 00:55:31,320 word. If he says to repent, then he 876 00:55:31,320 --> 00:55:36,680 has to have a pathway to repentance, a way for us to 877 00:55:36,680 --> 00:55:39,040 change our thinking. If he says renew your mind, then 878 00:55:39,040 --> 00:55:41,840 he has must have a pathway of mind renewal. 879 00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:44,800 So we say you have to renew my mind. 880 00:55:45,040 --> 00:55:47,880 Well, the minute I say that the Holy Spirit's like, that's why 881 00:55:47,880 --> 00:55:50,280 I'm in you. I'm the teacher. 882 00:55:50,680 --> 00:55:53,400 I'm the counselor. I'm here to guide you into all 883 00:55:53,400 --> 00:55:56,440 truth. Now when I say it, get rid of 884 00:55:56,440 --> 00:55:58,600 your thinking. Because he also said I'm going 885 00:55:58,600 --> 00:56:00,640 to empower you to take thoughts captive. 886 00:56:05,520 --> 00:56:10,720 Jesus said I've got the supply. You know how many people are not 887 00:56:10,720 --> 00:56:13,640 doing what God's asked because they don't have the resource 888 00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:15,360 yet. The Lord's like, I have it. 889 00:56:16,640 --> 00:56:19,600 Well, give it to me. We'll step out now. 890 00:56:19,600 --> 00:56:21,560 Give it to me now. You're not living by sight. 891 00:56:21,640 --> 00:56:25,800 Step out. Well, give it to me and I'll go. 892 00:56:25,800 --> 00:56:29,000 No, get out and I'll bring it when you need it. 893 00:56:32,560 --> 00:56:36,600 Elijah, your brook dried up. The Ravens still could have 894 00:56:36,600 --> 00:56:41,800 brought food, but he's like. But your water supply's gone, so 895 00:56:41,800 --> 00:56:45,320 I'm sending you to somebody's house now. 896 00:56:45,320 --> 00:56:47,080 What if Elijah would have just sat there? 897 00:56:47,080 --> 00:56:49,800 Come on. Well, bring her to me. 898 00:56:50,200 --> 00:56:51,600 Lord. Have been like starved to death. 899 00:56:51,600 --> 00:57:02,280 Then are you hearing me? Most people's personal Jesus is 900 00:57:02,280 --> 00:57:03,880 made him slave to them. That's right. 901 00:57:05,920 --> 00:57:09,200 Bring me this and bring me that. I'm not doing nothing. 902 00:57:09,200 --> 00:57:11,440 I'm going to sit right here. If you want it, you bring it. 903 00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:15,760 Lord's like I want it for you. Now get up and start. 904 00:57:17,040 --> 00:57:20,880 That's called living by faith. And so he by faith, by faith. 905 00:57:21,120 --> 00:57:23,640 Elijah's like, OK, I'm going to go to this woman's house, he 906 00:57:23,640 --> 00:57:25,320 said to a widow woman he don't even know. 907 00:57:25,440 --> 00:57:27,920 He knows where she's at, but he don't know who she is. 908 00:57:29,960 --> 00:57:32,560 He had to wait to get a perception by the spirit of who 909 00:57:32,560 --> 00:57:35,360 it was. And the one that he locked eyes 910 00:57:35,360 --> 00:57:39,160 on was picking up some twigs. And he's like, this is, it had a 911 00:57:39,160 --> 00:57:40,960 perception in his spirit. This is it. 912 00:57:40,960 --> 00:57:43,160 This is the one, he says, you know, what are you doing? 913 00:57:43,160 --> 00:57:48,760 Well, we I and making a cake for me and my son. 914 00:57:48,880 --> 00:57:51,120 So there she qualified herself as a widow. 915 00:57:51,640 --> 00:57:55,720 She's only with a child. We're going to eat this cake and 916 00:57:55,720 --> 00:57:58,440 then we going to die. The logic could have said, well, 917 00:57:58,440 --> 00:58:02,080 this ain't the right lady because the Lord said she was 918 00:58:02,080 --> 00:58:04,920 going to provide for me and this woman was ready to die. 919 00:58:04,920 --> 00:58:09,720 So I'm going on. But did he let her testimony 920 00:58:09,720 --> 00:58:13,040 change his perception of her that he perceived this as the 921 00:58:13,040 --> 00:58:15,240 one? He said, Well, this is what I 922 00:58:15,240 --> 00:58:17,880 need you to do. Oh, y'all ain't ready for this, 923 00:58:18,680 --> 00:58:19,880 right? That's what I need you. 924 00:58:19,960 --> 00:58:22,400 I need you to make that cake. But you're going to make one for 925 00:58:22,400 --> 00:58:25,360 me first. So instead of doing 2, make 3. 926 00:58:25,360 --> 00:58:30,280 Which means they're going to be a little smaller and make me one 927 00:58:30,280 --> 00:58:35,840 first, serve me, then make one for you and your son. 928 00:58:38,720 --> 00:58:42,560 And if you'll do that, he tells her, then you're never going to 929 00:58:42,560 --> 00:58:50,840 go without food, She could have said. 930 00:58:50,920 --> 00:58:53,960 Aren't you a preacher? All you do is want my money, 931 00:58:56,160 --> 00:58:59,400 because that's what the American Christianity sounds like. 932 00:58:59,400 --> 00:59:01,840 That is selfish and pompous and knows nothing about the Kingdom 933 00:59:01,840 --> 00:59:06,360 of God. Anyway, aren't you glad that she 934 00:59:06,360 --> 00:59:10,000 listened? And she says, I'll put my trust 935 00:59:10,000 --> 00:59:12,920 in that word. And she did. 936 00:59:14,200 --> 00:59:15,680 And he ate. And she ate. 937 00:59:15,680 --> 00:59:18,040 And her son ate. And the next time they got 938 00:59:18,040 --> 00:59:21,520 hungry, Guess what? My gosh, something was still 939 00:59:21,520 --> 00:59:23,200 there. And they ate. 940 00:59:23,200 --> 00:59:24,760 He ate. And she ate. 941 00:59:24,760 --> 00:59:26,720 And the child ate. And she got hungry again. 942 00:59:26,720 --> 00:59:30,160 And guess what? And this happened every day, 943 00:59:30,400 --> 00:59:35,320 every time they were hungry to eat until the famine was over 944 00:59:37,520 --> 00:59:41,560 because they went by word and not by circumstance. 945 00:59:42,480 --> 00:59:44,240 Let's pray, Father. We love you and we honor you. 946 00:59:44,240 --> 00:59:45,560 We thank you. You're the King of Kings and the 947 00:59:45,560 --> 00:59:47,040 Lord of Lords. 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