1 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:05,600 Thanks for checking out the Anchor Faith Message podcast 2 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:06,920 from St. Augustine, FL. 3 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:12,320 Now enjoy this message. Turn over to 1st John chapter 4 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:15,160 four. First John chapter 4, we're 5 00:00:15,160 --> 00:00:16,960 going to talk about some spiritual insight. 6 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:18,760 Anybody wants some spiritual insight? 7 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:22,200 Wouldn't you love to have some spiritual insight? 8 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:25,640 I'm talking accurate spiritual insight, right? 9 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:28,760 Some spiritual insights. So we're going to deal with some 10 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:32,240 Kingdom discernment today. And 1st John chapter 4, starting 11 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:34,960 in verse one, it says, beloved, do not believe every spirit, but 12 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:38,880 test the spirits to see whether they are from God, OK? 13 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:42,040 And we've been dealing with some thought processes here because 14 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:44,800 again this year God spoke to us about the reigning spirit. 15 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:47,840 We have the Holy Ghost, He is the reigning spirit, but there 16 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:52,600 are other spirits, OK? And so John communicates this in 17 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:59,160 his first letter here concerning that when you're hearing things, 18 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:02,240 you need to test because everything talking to you isn't 19 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:06,080 necessarily from God. Just because you're born again 20 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:10,200 doesn't mean the devil cannot talk to you nor those that are 21 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:15,320 with him, which would be unclean spirits, right? 22 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:20,680 All kinds of different spirits that are in that area of his 23 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:26,680 influence, domain of darkness. So you have to test it, which 24 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:29,880 means think about that word test for a moment. 25 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:34,960 No one wants to take a test without having the information 26 00:01:34,960 --> 00:01:40,160 to pass it, which tells us if you're not studying, you will 27 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:46,920 fail the test. OK, so when he says test the 28 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:51,240 Spirit, you need to be a studier of the word, rightly dividing 29 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:56,040 the word of truth so that you can pass the test to know that's 30 00:01:56,040 --> 00:01:59,560 not from God. That's not a thought from God, 31 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:03,520 because the devil comes as an Angel in life. 32 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:11,000 The devil uses Scripture right and some a lot of babes in 33 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:14,160 Christ. OK carnal Christians are babes 34 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:17,520 in Christ. They're very susceptible to 35 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:24,360 other spirits when they lead with Scripture are terms that 36 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:27,800 are associated with God. Again, this is laughable, but 37 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:30,760 I'd always like to tell it when I was a youth pastor in Starke, 38 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:34,320 FL, actually, you know, we had a little praise and worship team 39 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:36,720 and we ministered to a bunch of teenagers and I had some 40 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:40,480 teenagers come in from school one day and and it was at 41 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:44,680 service and was like Pastor Earl, we want to do a new want 42 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:46,760 you to do a new praise and worship song, you know, and I 43 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:48,520 said, what's that? It's called heaven let your 44 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:51,320 light shine down. This was a secular song by 45 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:54,640 Active Soul. Well, bless their darling 46 00:02:54,640 --> 00:02:58,280 hearts, they were, you know, babes and cries, but they heard 47 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:02,160 heaven and they were assuming we're talking about the same 48 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:06,200 place, right? We're not talking about the same 49 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:09,680 place at all. And we're not singing that song 50 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:13,400 in service. Okay, so with that being said, 51 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:18,480 there's a few secular groups that had references, you know, 52 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:21,760 to have a says just like, you know, I definitely wouldn't sing 53 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:25,560 Highway to Hell either, but there's a highway to hell. 54 00:03:26,640 --> 00:03:28,880 Are you hearing me? But I'm not going to make it my 55 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:32,960 worship song. All right, we reference hell 56 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:38,480 today anyway, so we have to test the spirits and you know, the 57 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:42,080 spirits will come like light. But when you know Scripture, 58 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:44,960 then you can say not sure that's the Lord. 59 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:49,040 So the implication here is if when you find that they're not 60 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:52,280 from God, then you should disregard their messaging. 61 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:55,640 I said you should disregard their messaging. 62 00:03:56,320 --> 00:04:00,440 Hallelujah in relationships, spirits talking about lustful 63 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:02,680 ones. OK, They'll come to a born again 64 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:06,360 believer and convince them to get in a relationship with an 65 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:11,200 unbeliever, that that you as a believer are going to change 66 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:15,080 their life. Yet the scripture says do not be 67 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:18,040 unequally yoked with unbelievers. 68 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:21,519 And that lustful spirit will convince them that the only way 69 00:04:21,519 --> 00:04:23,720 they're going to get right is if you go ahead and marry them, 70 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:25,960 that you need to be around them full time and you're going to 71 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:28,560 take them to church. There's no guarantee. 72 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:31,760 In fact, Scripture lets us know. In fact, if you believe that 73 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:35,600 they can change, let them change first before you say I do. 74 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:39,560 But now that means you got to put down your feelings and your 75 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:42,240 emotions, right? And again, then what happens? 76 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:44,920 Believers say, well, how could it be wrong if it feels so 77 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:46,320 right? I think that's a country song, 78 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:49,320 actually. With that being said, you know, 79 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:52,680 but they live this way by their feelings by sight. 80 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:54,880 You're not testing the spirits correctly, OK. 81 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:56,880 And so we need to test the spirits Now. 82 00:04:56,880 --> 00:04:58,880 Why is this important today? Because you say, well, I'm 83 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:01,560 mature, I hear. Listen, in the last of the last 84 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:04,360 days, there's going to be seducing spirits and doctrines 85 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:07,600 of demons. And it said some will fall away 86 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:09,400 from the faith. So there are believers that are 87 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:11,360 functioning and flowing with God. 88 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:18,400 And if by all rights have had seasons of maturity, because 89 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:21,160 just because you've had a season of maturity doesn't mean you 90 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:26,120 cannot slide, you can't fall out of maturity. 91 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:30,280 OK, it's like my natural body. I can't go back to pre 92 00:05:30,280 --> 00:05:32,560 adolescence. That won't ever happen. 93 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:37,800 But in the spirit it can happen. I mean, you can go slap all the 94 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:42,200 way back to infancy because we know the Bible says on both Paul 95 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:46,880 and Peter writing says, listen, I can't I can't even talk to 96 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:49,040 you, a spiritual. I've got to go back because 97 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:53,960 you're acting like a baby, Amen. So never think you've arrived. 98 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:58,000 You can know whether you've reached maturity, but man, then 99 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:02,160 you've got to maintain maturity and maintaining maturity is a 100 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:04,720 serious business, serious business. 101 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:06,760 So we jump down to verse four says this. 102 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:09,200 You are from God, little children and have overcome them 103 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:12,240 because greater is he who is in you than he that's in the world. 104 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:15,240 Isn't that good news? So again, you have within you 105 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:20,520 the ability to test the spirits of whether or not they are from 106 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:23,760 God, because you have the reigning spirit not only on the 107 00:06:23,760 --> 00:06:28,040 inside of you if you're born again, but if you believe God 108 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:30,840 for the endowment of power. He has come upon you and He's 109 00:06:30,840 --> 00:06:35,000 resting on you, not coming upon you and leaving. 110 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:39,560 He is resting on you with His power because He has given you 111 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:43,040 the same anointing that Jesus had, and that's the anointing of 112 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:44,360 a king. Hallelujah. 113 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:49,400 You have the Spirit of the Lord upon you, which is the spirit of 114 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:54,640 his government, which is the the ability to hear from your king 115 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:58,200 and accurately move into the places we're going to talk about 116 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:00,800 today, which is Kingdom discernment. 117 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:04,840 All right, Kingdom discernment. I have learned through the 118 00:07:04,840 --> 00:07:09,760 years, it is very important for me to never assume I know and 119 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:11,440 always keep myself in a position. 120 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:15,520 Lord, what am I hearing? I think one of the greatest 121 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:19,840 failures of a mature believer is to assume they net will never 122 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:22,600 get it wrong. And so they don't keep a 123 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:26,200 dependency on hearing accurately from God. 124 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:30,320 And we need to always keep a dependency on hearing accurately 125 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:32,560 from God. So Revelation chapter one, verse 126 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:36,040 4 through 6 says this John to the seven churches which are in 127 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:40,280 Asia, grace to you peace from him who is and who was and who 128 00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:41,680 is to come. Is he coming? 129 00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:45,600 I said, is he coming? The King's coming, and from the 130 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:51,200 seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ, 131 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:53,600 the faithful witness, the first born of the dead, the ruler of 132 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:55,520 the kings of the earth. Who are those kings? 133 00:07:55,880 --> 00:07:59,600 Come on, who are those king? To him who loves us and released 134 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:03,800 us from our sins by his blood, and he made us to be a Kingdom, 135 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:06,960 say Kingdom priest to his God and Father. 136 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:09,400 To Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. 137 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:11,280 Amen. Notice there are 7 spirits 138 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:14,800 before his throne. Revelations 5-6 says yes. 139 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:18,000 And I saw between the throne with the four living creatures 140 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:22,440 and and the elder elders of the Lamb standing as if slain, 141 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:25,960 having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven 142 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:28,720 spirits of God sent out into all the earth. 143 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:34,679 And we said this, that horns represented, they represented 144 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:39,320 rule and authority in, in Revelations, when you hear about 145 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:41,720 a horn, it's basically a Kingdom, a realm. 146 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:44,280 There's another type and shadow that they use concerning 147 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:46,280 government power. That's a mountain. 148 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:48,000 OK. And then when it says eyes, that 149 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:52,000 means and, and they use the term 7 because seven is the, is the 150 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:54,680 number of completion or fullness. 151 00:08:54,760 --> 00:09:00,560 So Jesus Christ is the fullness of all government and the 152 00:09:00,560 --> 00:09:04,840 fullness and authority and fullness of all insight or 153 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:07,760 wisdom or knowledge. OK. 154 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:12,680 And then he goes on and says the seven spirits of God. 155 00:09:12,680 --> 00:09:16,320 So obviously we're taking time to break down the seven spirits 156 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:18,360 of God. But although it's not 7 157 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:21,920 individual spirits, it is one spirit which is the Holy Spirit, 158 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:26,360 but he contains within him seven spirits or there's attributes or 159 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:29,560 characteristics of him. We find these in Isaiah Chapter 160 00:09:29,560 --> 00:09:32,960 11 verse two. It says the Spirit of the Lord 161 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:36,240 will rest on in him the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the 162 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:39,160 spirit of counsel and strength, the spirit of knowledge and the 163 00:09:39,160 --> 00:09:41,800 fear of the Lord. Those are the seven spirits that 164 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:44,240 are before the Lord. So when we talk about the Holy 165 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:46,840 Spirit, he is the spirit of the Lord, of the Spirit of 166 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:49,200 government. So the Holy Spirit will only 167 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:52,960 talk to you about the Kingdom. That's his assignment. 168 00:09:53,520 --> 00:09:57,760 He only says what he hears from the Son, and the Son is only 169 00:09:57,760 --> 00:10:01,800 speaking on behalf of the Father because the Father, Son, and the 170 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:04,480 Holy Spirit are one and they're always in agreement. 171 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:09,120 They are never, never are they in disagreement. 172 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:14,880 In fact, Jesus's greatest moment of submission was not doing what 173 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:17,200 the Father said because he disagreed. 174 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:23,400 It was doing what the Father said because he was going to get 175 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:27,000 in agreement with his Father and put his flesh down and his way 176 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:29,160 down. OK, so there's a little term 177 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:32,080 that goes around, you know, when it comes to if you know you're 178 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:34,440 not really submitted. If you agree with someone, that 179 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:37,960 is a lie. That is a seducing spirit. 180 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:43,040 Because for you to believe that you're only submitted when you 181 00:10:43,040 --> 00:10:46,240 do something, though you disagree with someone that is a 182 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:50,880 rebellious person doing something that is not God does 183 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:55,640 not have rebellious people. You can't have a rebellion at 184 00:10:55,640 --> 00:10:57,840 heart and yet have an obedient action. 185 00:10:57,840 --> 00:11:03,360 Oh, you're not listening to me. You cannot have a a rebellious 186 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:08,320 heart and an obedient action because now your action is in 187 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:12,360 rebellion too. Because he says they confess me 188 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:15,160 with their list, but their heart is far from me. 189 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:18,400 And here is the rich young ruler saying, look, what do I need to 190 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:20,240 do to get eternal life? And he says, just keep the 191 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:22,800 commandments. And he says, I've done it since 192 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:25,960 I was a child, right? Which means he did it, but he 193 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:29,920 did it based upon his heart, not based upon the actual lordship 194 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:32,320 of Jesus submitted to him. Because if he was truly 195 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:34,920 submitted to the one who spoke it, then when he said, sell 196 00:11:34,920 --> 00:11:36,880 everything you have, give to the poor and come follow me. 197 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:41,200 And he said done. But instead he's like, no, I do 198 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:42,920 it on. I don't really agree with you, 199 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:45,880 but you hear this eternal life. So I'm going to do it anyway. 200 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:51,800 So Paul totally capitalizes on this concept in First 201 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:55,000 Corinthians Chapter 7. He says, I wanted to do right, 202 00:11:57,120 --> 00:12:01,680 but I found whatever I was doing was still wrong. 203 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:05,480 He said, what a wretched man am I. 204 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:09,440 I mean, he said, he said, if you put me up against the Pharisees, 205 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:12,680 I was without blame. I was far beyond my 206 00:12:12,680 --> 00:12:14,760 contemporaries. I had zeal. 207 00:12:14,880 --> 00:12:19,400 I mean when it came to the law found blameless, yet he had a 208 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:23,320 rebellious heart and did righteous actions, meaning 209 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:28,040 obedient actions, but to God it was all rebellion. 210 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:34,240 So again, we pick up these human terms, pull them into the church 211 00:12:34,440 --> 00:12:39,120 and at like now the greatest submission is when we disagree, 212 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:44,800 but do it anyway. No, Jesus showed the greatest 213 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:48,520 submission is father. If there any other way, because 214 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:51,880 I sure won't rebel from you, I would prefer not to go. 215 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:54,520 And really the only reason why Jesus asked that question is 216 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:57,600 because there was a ram in the thicket with Abraham. 217 00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:01,600 When Abraham was called to get rid of his only son, God had a 218 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:05,080 ram in the thicket and he was saying, Father, have we come to 219 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:08,040 this point because I'm like Abraham? 220 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:13,040 He was willing to sacrifice him and said God must be able to 221 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:14,680 raise the dead. And could he? 222 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:15,920 Yes. Does he? 223 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:17,640 Yes. Was he going to do Isaac? 224 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:20,040 No, because he was always going to have a ram. 225 00:13:20,160 --> 00:13:23,360 And what was God saying? It won't require a man to give 226 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:25,080 his son. I'm won't give mine. 227 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:28,360 But he tells him in the garden, son, there's not a ram. 228 00:13:28,680 --> 00:13:32,280 You're it. But remember, I'll raise the 229 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:35,320 dead because he had been saying in three days I'm coming up, in 230 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:38,120 three days I'm coming up, in three days I'm coming up. 231 00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:40,960 Hallelujah. So what Jesus did said, I'm 232 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:44,280 going to get fully persuaded because again, how can you have 233 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:48,040 faith in God and be in rebellion with God at the same time? 234 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:51,360 How can you say you're a doer of the word, but in your heart you 235 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:54,520 hate what you're doing? Well, I'll go to church, but I 236 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:56,840 don't like it. I'm just submitted to God. 237 00:13:58,240 --> 00:14:00,880 Well, you're not submitted to God and you're in church, but 238 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:06,840 you're a rebellion in church. Come on, come on. 239 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:09,400 Right. No, the greatest submission is 240 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:13,160 when you are fully persuaded that God's way is the only way 241 00:14:13,240 --> 00:14:16,160 and I get in alignment with and I believe it with all my heart. 242 00:14:16,320 --> 00:14:18,200 There is no other way and I'm doing so. 243 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:21,960 I'm in full agreement. So when people say the greatest 244 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:25,640 submission is to not agree and still do it is seducing Spirit 245 00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:31,240 Salah. The greatest submission is a 246 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:36,000 green changing your will for the will of the one who has the real 247 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:37,640 authority and saying I'm here to do it. 248 00:14:37,640 --> 00:14:40,800 I fully submit to it and I'm in agreement with you. 249 00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:46,520 Say I'm in agreement, say I'm in agreement, man, you better be in 250 00:14:46,520 --> 00:14:52,360 agreement with God because the devil slick, he's slick, 251 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:55,080 especially when it comes to natural things. 252 00:14:55,960 --> 00:14:57,480 Do you understand? The Bible says what good is it a 253 00:14:57,480 --> 00:14:59,880 man to gain the whole world? You don't understand, the devil 254 00:14:59,880 --> 00:15:03,640 has an economy. He has a pathway of promotion. 255 00:15:03,960 --> 00:15:08,000 He always promotes the rebellious, which means if you 256 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:11,400 have a rebellious heart with a confession in your mouth and 257 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:14,280 then all of a sudden you get what you confess, God didn't 258 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:17,400 give it to you. The devil accommodated this fake 259 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:22,240 belief he's putting you in. I'm preaching better than you're 260 00:15:22,240 --> 00:15:25,360 saying, but that's all right. Because here's the thing we're 261 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:29,480 going to learn today about this spirit of understanding man 262 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:33,400 Hallelujah. God knows, you know, you've 263 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:35,840 heard me say this before. When people say, well, the Lord 264 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:38,520 knows my heart. You bet He does. 265 00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:43,040 And not one time have you out. Have you faked him out? 266 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:50,120 Not one time. Never have you faked him out. 267 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:54,000 Never have. You know, I heard one minister 268 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:56,320 say it this way. You can fake a praise, but you 269 00:15:56,320 --> 00:15:58,920 can't fake an offering. You know that's not true. 270 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:04,200 You can fake an offering. You sure can. 271 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:08,880 Jesus is watching the money come in and the rich people gave out 272 00:16:08,880 --> 00:16:11,160 of their surplus and was faking an offering. 273 00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:18,280 And today's ministers would be applauding the wealthy and 274 00:16:18,280 --> 00:16:24,080 taking no thought to the one with two pennies, 'cause her 275 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:31,160 heart demonstrated her offering, 'cause you can fake one. 276 00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:35,680 You can drop $10,000 to someone to try to get into their sphere 277 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:38,080 of influence. Oh, you don't want to hear this, 278 00:16:39,200 --> 00:16:41,000 but they'll say it. You can fake a praise, but you 279 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:42,680 can't fake an offering. Oh, yeah, you can. 280 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:46,280 You can fake it all the way into influence and manipulation. 281 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:52,960 Yeah, you sure can. This is why the Lord says judges 282 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:58,240 don't take a bribe. Back in the Old coven, what? 283 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:00,760 They were getting an offering from someone. 284 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:04,319 This is called special interest today. 285 00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:09,240 Hallelujah. It's called special interest. 286 00:17:10,079 --> 00:17:13,040 Special interest to get all kind of laws passed. 287 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:16,200 Amen. They're fat, man. 288 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:17,720 We know. We really appreciate you. 289 00:17:17,720 --> 00:17:19,240 We want to sow into your campaign. 290 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:20,400 We vow. No, you don't. 291 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:24,480 You're faking an offering. You're looking for people. 292 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:28,720 Do it in the church. All right, I'll. 293 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:29,880 I'll deal with all of them. Amen. 294 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:30,320 Amen. Come on. 295 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:35,800 Thank you, Jesus. So today we're going to deal 296 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:38,040 with three of these spirits. Last time we dealt with the 297 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:39,600 spirit of the Lord. I'm going to deal with three 298 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:45,520 today and so I'm going to take them, you know, one, they say 299 00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:47,920 that they're kind of in pairs. The last ones after the Spirit 300 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:49,360 of the Lord, that you have the spirit of wisdom and 301 00:17:49,360 --> 00:17:51,680 understanding, counsel and strength, knowledge and the fear 302 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:53,120 of the Lord. But I'm going to pull the fear 303 00:17:53,120 --> 00:17:56,640 of the Lord by itself and then jump into the wisdom and 304 00:17:56,640 --> 00:17:59,400 understanding. And This is why in Psalms 111 305 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:02,240 verse 10, it says this. The fear of the Lord is the 306 00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:05,880 beginning of wisdom, a good understanding. 307 00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:11,320 Have all those who do His commandments, His praise endures 308 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:14,360 forever. So notice the beginning of 309 00:18:14,360 --> 00:18:19,960 wisdom is the fear of the Lord. So the fear of the Lord is very 310 00:18:19,960 --> 00:18:22,560 important. And when you were born again and 311 00:18:22,560 --> 00:18:25,520 have the Spirit rest upon you, you've been given this spirit. 312 00:18:26,120 --> 00:18:30,040 OK, we do have the Holy Spirit with measure, unlike Jesus 313 00:18:30,040 --> 00:18:31,920 without measure. And when we all come together, 314 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:33,520 we have it all. But that doesn't mean you're not 315 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:36,080 having access to the seven characteristics of the Holy 316 00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:39,120 Ghost upon your life. And you need to carry the fear 317 00:18:39,120 --> 00:18:42,680 of the Lord, which tells me the Spirit of God has it. 318 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:47,840 So then you should yield to it and have it in your in your own 319 00:18:47,840 --> 00:18:49,360 spirit. When I say your own spirit, I'm 320 00:18:49,360 --> 00:18:52,880 talking about the spirit of man that's been created in Christ. 321 00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:58,280 OK Proverbs 1533 says the fear of the Lord is the instruction 322 00:18:58,280 --> 00:19:04,240 for wisdom. OK, and before honor Tom's 323 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:06,560 humility now let me explain humility real quick. 324 00:19:06,560 --> 00:19:10,960 Humility is not what most churches are ministering on 325 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:13,120 humidity. All they're just so humble, you 326 00:19:13,120 --> 00:19:15,440 know, not going to take credit for anything, you know let's 327 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:17,760 just give God, you know, I'm no good. 328 00:19:17,760 --> 00:19:19,360 I don't deserve anything. I'm not. 329 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:23,480 Oh, I'm just so thank you know, there's a there's A and 330 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:26,440 arrogance and pride actually of those statements because a lot 331 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:28,960 of those people who do that aren't technically even in 332 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:30,800 faith. They're not even believing God. 333 00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:33,960 You know, they're always just trying to make you think they're 334 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:39,080 not as self-righteous as a lot of times they are. 335 00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:41,880 OK, because that's not the definition of humility. 336 00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:47,040 The definition of humility is I submit my will to his will. 337 00:19:47,520 --> 00:19:50,600 That is humility. To humble yourself before the 338 00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:53,320 Lord is to not my will. Your will be done. 339 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:55,800 That's humility. And so we see here in this 340 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:58,320 passage that the fear of the Lord is the instruction for 341 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:00,960 wisdom, right? Well, if you receive 342 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:03,960 instruction. What are you doing? 343 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:07,160 Which is the wisdom gives you instruction. 344 00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:10,640 What does that mean? Then you're going to yield or 345 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:15,760 humble yourself to function, believe, act that way, and guess 346 00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:17,760 what? It will bring honor into your 347 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:21,840 life. I mean, Gay Gideon wasn't even 348 00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:27,320 known as a human being other than his family, yet God's had 349 00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:31,280 it, saw something in him and showed up and called him things 350 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:33,200 that he didn't even believe himself. 351 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:39,240 But what caused his name to rise among the ranks in his own 352 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:43,360 nation, where he was the the least family in the least tribe, 353 00:20:44,360 --> 00:20:46,800 of which he himself was the least in his own family? 354 00:20:48,120 --> 00:20:51,480 It's because he humbled himself. Whatever you say I'm going to 355 00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:54,360 do, OK. And so when we do this, it's 356 00:20:54,360 --> 00:20:56,360 important. So the fear of the Lord is the 357 00:20:56,360 --> 00:20:58,680 instruction for wisdom. So we need to understand about 358 00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:01,040 the fear of the Lord if we're going to understand the spirit 359 00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:02,560 of wisdom and spirit of understanding. 360 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:07,400 So turn over to Isaiah 33 six. Isaiah 33 six says this, and he 361 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:11,800 will be the stability of your times. 362 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:13,200 Now this is talking about the king. 363 00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:16,560 Again, Isaiah has a lot to say about King Jesus, right? 364 00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:21,280 And so Isaiah's prophesying of, of the King's coming, and I 365 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:25,320 don't mean the last one specifically where he sets his 366 00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:27,600 foot down and he does the millennial reign and they you, 367 00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:30,040 you never take him out of the planet physically anymore. 368 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:32,280 I'm talking about when he comes, period. 369 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:35,360 Says he'll be the stability of your times, a wealth of 370 00:21:35,360 --> 00:21:39,800 salvation, wisdom and knowledge. The fear of the Lord is his 371 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:45,480 treasure. Now if Jesus treasures 372 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:52,000 something, should you treasure it? 373 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:53,680 Come on. If Jesus considers the fear of 374 00:21:53,680 --> 00:22:01,720 the Lord where his values, what he finds valuable is, you know, 375 00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:03,960 understand a treasure is something that we have 376 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:06,360 considered valuable. It's our treasure. 377 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:09,080 I mean, you know, again, there were treasure boxes, people with 378 00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:13,680 high, it has great value. So what was Jesus's greatest 379 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:17,360 value? The fear of the Lord, the fear 380 00:22:17,360 --> 00:22:22,120 of the Lord now the fear of the Lord is not God is going to kill 381 00:22:22,120 --> 00:22:23,720 me the minute I do something wrong. 382 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:25,000 He just waiting for me to blow it. 383 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:26,560 That is not the fear of the Lord. 384 00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:32,120 Okay, that's that's a seducing spirit, a doctrine of demons 385 00:22:32,120 --> 00:22:35,360 trying to, you know, convinced and whole denominations have 386 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:39,640 changed this whole thing of how to live for God day in and day 387 00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:44,560 out because they're so in fear are not the reverential fear, 388 00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:48,400 but this fear that God's about to knock me down and pull me out 389 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:50,160 of salve. I could lose it at any time. 390 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:54,760 It's so so, you know, fragile this relationship that I have 391 00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:57,760 with God, right. If I look at the wrong thing, Oh 392 00:22:57,760 --> 00:23:00,680 my gosh, you know, I mean, it's that's not the fear of the Lord. 393 00:23:01,120 --> 00:23:04,240 OK, it's not the fear of the Lord, but this is a treasure. 394 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:07,960 So by definition, a few scholars have said it this way. 395 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:12,400 The fear of the Lord is this is Jesus willful will willingly 396 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:18,760 kept himself in the in a place of submission, respect and honor 397 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:22,320 to God the Father. Now that's key. 398 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:31,760 Jesus willingly did this, not forced, not controlled by. 399 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:39,280 Jesus had a will and we see it clearly in Scripture. 400 00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:44,240 In the garment he says Lord not my will, but your will be done. 401 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:49,120 And he said on multiple counts, I don't speak anything on my 402 00:23:49,120 --> 00:23:52,320 initiative, but only what I've heard from the Father, which 403 00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:57,360 means he could have spoke on his own thoughts, but he did not. 404 00:23:57,880 --> 00:23:59,800 He yielded to the thoughts of his Father. 405 00:23:59,920 --> 00:24:07,200 He was always in this place of submission, respect, and honor 406 00:24:07,360 --> 00:24:10,480 to God the Father. That's what the fear of the Lord 407 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:15,840 are you in a place of submission, respect, and honor 408 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:18,600 to God the Father? If you are, then you're 409 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:21,200 functioning under the spirit of the fear of the Lord. 410 00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:23,040 The fear of the Lord also means this. 411 00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:30,320 It means reverential awe, which prompts to obedience, which 412 00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:33,520 prompts to obedience. And in my own personal life, I 413 00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:36,560 mean, I have been, I stay up underneath this. 414 00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:41,400 I can't tell you how many times in conflict that at the end of 415 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:45,320 the day, I know what my flesh is saying, I know what I want to 416 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:49,720 say. I know how what's gone down, but 417 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:59,960 I just need to stay in a place of obedience, period. 418 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:01,880 I need to stay in the place of obedience. 419 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:05,760 So what does that look like? And most of the time, it's 420 00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:08,400 crucify the flesh. Don't say that. 421 00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:11,680 Don't respond that way. Don't come back that way. 422 00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:15,600 Don't attack that way. Yeah. 423 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:18,080 And you know, the minute you yield that way, then the other 424 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:20,320 spirits are saying you're going to look like this, this, this. 425 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:21,520 And you know what? You look like that. 426 00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:24,920 I get it. You look like it. 427 00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:30,520 I understand, but the reverential fear, it prompts me 428 00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:33,040 to obedience. I'm just going to have to do 429 00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:37,400 what God says here. It's isn't about me. 430 00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:41,120 It's not about because if God can't take care of my character, 431 00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:44,720 if he can't take care of my reputation. 432 00:25:45,120 --> 00:25:48,480 I mean, do you understand is all that's going on in the body of 433 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:54,360 Christ today, especially in the realm of of of infants, carnal 434 00:25:54,360 --> 00:25:58,160 Christians, wolves. I mean, there's so many things 435 00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:01,080 that attack Jesus Christ is still building his church and 436 00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:05,880 there is a pure, I would say a pure bloodline of his church in 437 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:10,200 the planet still today. You understand, don't equate the 438 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:13,920 fact that things are happening that God is well with it. 439 00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:18,840 He's just very merciful. He's very merciful and 440 00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:24,680 long-suffering. But in the end, the purity of 441 00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:27,640 everyone who followed is going to rise to the top. 442 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:31,640 It's just going to happen. I said it's just going to 443 00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:34,280 happen. That's why Jesus, when he is at 444 00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:37,320 the time of his greatest leadership, I mean, they're 445 00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:39,440 beating him, pulling out his beard. 446 00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:41,200 I mean, they put a crown of thorns. 447 00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:45,480 They're saying stuff. He's not even talking, are 448 00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:55,120 defending himself. They're railing against him and 449 00:26:55,120 --> 00:26:58,680 he's like this. I mean, Herod, King Herod was 450 00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:04,320 one of the worst, railed at him and Jesus was like, Jesus didn't 451 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:05,920 even give him the plan of salvation. 452 00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:09,000 I don't even want to hear that, but that's fine. 453 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:14,240 Wouldn't even talk to him about how he could get right. 454 00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:18,160 He was silent before the king the whole time. 455 00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:24,680 Wow. Which means his fear of the Lord 456 00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:27,960 prompted him not to. You know who I am now. 457 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:31,400 I'm going to tell you right now, if you find yourself having 458 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:36,480 these kinds of conversations, you need to stop and say, wait a 459 00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:39,080 minute, I need to have the fear of the Lord. 460 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:42,760 That's why the Lord says vintage, says mine. 461 00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:44,560 Thus saith the Lord. I will repay. 462 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:47,160 I'll repay. That's right. 463 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:49,880 I'll do it. I'd much rather have God defend 464 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:53,800 me than me defend me. Amen. 465 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:59,360 You know, and I may feel like I have a great defense, but you 466 00:27:59,360 --> 00:28:02,440 understand when you're talking to the blind, I don't care how 467 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:10,120 great the defense is. All right, so the fear of the 468 00:28:10,120 --> 00:28:15,080 Lord is also a fear of reverence, a care to please him 469 00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:23,360 and aversion to A to offend him. Now that's a big deal because 470 00:28:23,360 --> 00:28:27,840 you understand when you know Scripture, like I know a lot at 471 00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:30,480 Anchor Faith Church knows, then you understand. 472 00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:34,240 It's very important when you're underneath the spirit of the 473 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:39,760 fear of the Lord that you make sure your tone, your words, your 474 00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:43,800 actions are not being offending him. 475 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:48,680 Now, how do you offend Him? By not doing what the Spirit is 476 00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:51,160 telling you to do in the circumstance? 477 00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:59,040 Because again, without faith, it's impossible to please Him. 478 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:01,080 He says you have a care to please Him, which means you have 479 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:03,840 a care to live by faith. And you cannot live by faith if 480 00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:06,960 you're not first hearing His word, because faith comes by 481 00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:10,440 hearing His Word. And if you're hearing His word, 482 00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:14,120 then faith can come, but then you have to agree with it, be 483 00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:17,280 submitted to it, be prompt to obey it. 484 00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:24,080 OK, submit, yield to it. And as a result of that, then 485 00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:27,240 you're not offending Him because you're doing it His way. 486 00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:31,240 You're doing it his way. Hallelujah. 487 00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:33,880 I've, I've been in multiple places. 488 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:37,720 And again, these are in multiple places throughout the world, OK, 489 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:42,800 where I've been talking in a particular situation, we have 490 00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:45,160 the Holy Spirit. Everyone in the room is in 491 00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:47,320 agreement. But when they leave the room, 492 00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:49,760 not everybody follows the agreement of the Spirit. 493 00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:54,040 At that point, I have to stay with what the Spirit said 494 00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:58,600 because once I've done that, no matter what happens, I'm going 495 00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:01,000 to stay with what the Spirit of the God of the Lord said. 496 00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:06,960 Because if I'm doing that, then God will make His word come to 497 00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:10,880 pass. But if I go to defense, if I go 498 00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:14,800 against what he has declared for me to do after that meeting, 499 00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:18,280 then you know what? I I run the risk of offending 500 00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:22,640 the Lord, offending my father, and I do not want to do that. 501 00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:25,120 Look what it says here in Proverbs 16 six. 502 00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:27,520 It says, my loving kindness and truth. 503 00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:32,240 Iniquity is atoned for and by the fear of the Lord. 1 Keeps 504 00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:40,160 away from evil so #1 indicator If someone cannot seem to keep 505 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:44,600 themselves away from evil, they keep falling into it. 506 00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:49,600 They're not yielding to the greater one on the inside of 507 00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:54,000 them and who has come upon them and are exercising the fear of 508 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:59,200 the Lord, because the fear of the Lord will keep you away from 509 00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:02,320 evil. That's powerful. 510 00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:05,840 The fear of the Lord will keep you. 511 00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:11,040 So again, another seducing spirit or doctrine of demon 512 00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:13,880 that's in churches. I'm just a Sinner saved by 513 00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:18,680 grace, you know, I mean, I sin just like you. 514 00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:21,840 I mean, I sin every day. But I've asked God to save me. 515 00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:26,840 His grace is upon me. That is not what God has said. 516 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:30,880 That is not from the Holy Spirit, because the fear of the 517 00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:35,880 Lord will keep you, say keep it will keep you. 518 00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:42,160 Grace has now empowered you to resist the temptation to sin so 519 00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:46,480 that you now have risen above it and you're no longer subject or 520 00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:49,080 yield to the law of sin and death. 521 00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:52,680 Period. And if you find yourself 522 00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:55,880 yielding to something you know is contrary to Scripture, you 523 00:31:55,880 --> 00:32:02,000 need to say, Lord, teach me. Are you hearing me? 524 00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:06,040 Teach me so that I can walk in the fear of the Lord. 525 00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:10,720 Proverbs 2317 says, do not let your heart envy sinners. 526 00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:16,400 You know how many believers are envious of those in the world? 527 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:17,880 And I wish I could do what they could do. 528 00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:21,760 I wish I could. They're they're died, they're in 529 00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:26,200 death. It's fake happiness. 530 00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:33,800 It's not real joy or peace. Have you forgotten where you 531 00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:37,360 came out of? He says. 532 00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:39,440 But live in the fear of the Lord. 533 00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:42,720 How often? Come on, how often, come on, how 534 00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:45,160 often? So that means you cannot live in 535 00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:50,200 the fear of the Lord from 10:30 AM to 12:30 or one whenever we 536 00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:56,280 close today and that's it. You don't live in it in service, 537 00:32:57,040 --> 00:33:00,560 You don't live in it only during you know, when you're around 538 00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:09,680 people, right, all around other believers, you live it always. 539 00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:13,040 It's always dictating your response. 540 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:17,400 Amen. So don't envy sinners shouldn't 541 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:20,200 envy them at all. And if anything, you should have 542 00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:24,640 compassion for them, right? You're like, man, that's that's 543 00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:27,080 just, this is tough. The life they're in, that's 544 00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:33,160 horrible, man. And some of the the richest ones 545 00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:36,160 that believers try to run after are the ones to be the most 546 00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:40,240 pitied actually, because you said it's hard. 547 00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:46,880 It's hard for a rich man who's put all this trust in his wealth 548 00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:50,480 to get into the Kingdom. So when they got all those 549 00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:53,280 yachts and they're flying and jet set now, you should be like, 550 00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:58,080 oh Lord, I pray there be a way because I know for them it's 551 00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:04,800 hard. But what do we do? 552 00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:09,960 We want it. And we hear a spirit say, man, 553 00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:11,480 get it. You'll be more effective for 554 00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:14,280 God. Well, if that's your motivation 555 00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:20,719 for getting it, you're already off because I'm pleasing to God 556 00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:24,880 with what I already possess and as he adds to me, I'll just keep 557 00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:26,679 doing what's already my character. 558 00:34:26,679 --> 00:34:28,800 It doesn't show up after I get it. 559 00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:33,679 Amen. Proverbs 22 four says this. 560 00:34:33,679 --> 00:34:40,560 The reward of humility and the fear of the Lord are what are 561 00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:42,960 they? Riches, honor, life. 562 00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:45,320 This is less hilarious. So when one scripture, you're 563 00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:49,080 like, don't be envious because if you're envying them, you're 564 00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:50,719 not functioning in the fear of the Lord. 565 00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:57,480 But if you're functioning in the fear of the Lord, Rick, because 566 00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:00,960 if I need you on their yacht to take you around the world, I can 567 00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:02,200 get you there. Oh, you don't want to. 568 00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:07,680 I mean, God is not limited. This was so amazing and being 569 00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:13,240 able to navigate resources, even the unrighteous resource to the 570 00:35:13,240 --> 00:35:16,560 righteous. So again, the reward of humbling 571 00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:19,280 yourself or saying Lord, not my will, your will be done and the 572 00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:24,160 fear of the Lord, I want to I respect you, I honor you. 573 00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:27,920 In no way do I want to do anything that's displeasing to 574 00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:29,520 you. I only want to please you and I 575 00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:32,240 want to be always an obedient to your word. 576 00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:40,600 Never do I want to offend you because some of our offense to 577 00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:42,840 God is through our actions with others. 578 00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:49,240 I mean, I'll never forget this and it was you know, I was just 579 00:35:49,240 --> 00:35:53,800 a babe in Christ, man, honestly, I was a babe in Christ, OK, I 580 00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:55,560 was a baby in Christ. I had not mature. 581 00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:59,160 I had very little information and revelation concerning. 582 00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:01,320 I knew I was born again. I was filled with the Holy 583 00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:05,640 Ghost, but I had no context of what I had none, you know, and I 584 00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:08,040 had been raised in a denomination church was was just 585 00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:13,200 get people saved, you know, So again, the this, this spirit of 586 00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:16,280 the world talked to the church about you need to be relevant to 587 00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:18,200 the world. The world doesn't understand 588 00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:21,280 you. So you need to be relevant. 589 00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:25,440 You know, you need to act like it, you know, because if you act 590 00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:27,280 like them, you know, then you can kind of break down the 591 00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:29,040 walls. You can share because again, it 592 00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:34,920 is Jesus in your heart or not. I mean, this is how they 593 00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:37,160 function. Now, I'm gonna give you a case 594 00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:38,760 in point, right? I'm telling myself. 595 00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:45,400 I used to dip tobacco. My dad smoked. 596 00:36:46,240 --> 00:36:51,880 I did not smoke, But the same nicotine that was around my dad 597 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:54,920 showed up at me in another form. OK. 598 00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:56,960 And that's when I was in high school, started it. 599 00:36:57,320 --> 00:36:59,600 And then after I got out of school, well, I had a friend of 600 00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:03,000 mine that was not living for God at all. 601 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:06,800 I had married my wife. We had dedicated our lives to 602 00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:08,520 God. We were still in the Baptist 603 00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:10,840 Church. Yeah, we were still in the 604 00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:12,160 Baptist Church. I wouldn't fill with the Holy 605 00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:14,160 Ghost, actually. So scratch that. 606 00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:17,400 All I am is born again. So I'm like real infant here, 607 00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:19,440 OK. And so I wanted to make an 608 00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:22,520 impression on my friend. You know, I was trying to open 609 00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:26,920 up the course of the code. We used to drink and do all 610 00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:30,200 kinds of stuff at one time. And again, I was born again at 611 00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:35,000 9:00. So I'm not living for God. 612 00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:41,760 I'm living to, you know, American gospel people, not the 613 00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:48,040 Bible gospel. And he was merciful and 614 00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:54,800 long-suffering with me, OK. But I had quit, you know, 615 00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:59,160 dipping all together because again, our life was different. 616 00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:03,160 Well, I started picking it up again because he did. 617 00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:07,120 So I go down to seeing where he worked and, you know, he 618 00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:09,440 offered. And instead of act like I'm more 619 00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:14,440 holy than him, Oh sure, 'cause you know I'm not going to go to 620 00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:16,720 hell, 'cause I take a dip. I know this. 621 00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:26,480 However, my unwillingness to just do the right lifestyle, 622 00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:35,400 period, I was offending God because he didn't send me down 623 00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:40,400 there to make so that he can think we look alike because if 624 00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:42,640 we look alike, why does he need a change? 625 00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:49,520 And today's modern American Christianity, they'll go to the 626 00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:52,440 clubs with them, they'll go to the bars with them. 627 00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:55,280 They'll do everything. And then, you know, oh, we're 628 00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:57,040 not showing them a different life. 629 00:38:57,560 --> 00:39:00,040 And I, we've got people here that were Alcoholics. 630 00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:03,720 They were bound to alcohol. And the last thing they need is 631 00:39:03,720 --> 00:39:09,520 a preacher to come drink one with them because that's called 632 00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:12,880 confusing. It's like, well, you know, 633 00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:18,120 basically all we're saying is our God is able to save us from 634 00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:20,600 a place called hell, which is his anyway. 635 00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:26,200 The hell is not the devil's. The devil doesn't own hell. 636 00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:31,480 God because sin existed, because the devil was cast out, there 637 00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:35,760 was a lake of fire destined for him that became a by product of 638 00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:38,280 God's Kingdom called a prison system. 639 00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:42,600 So God's in control of that place. 640 00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:48,520 God's in control of the lake of fire because once you're in 641 00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:53,520 there is no parole God will seek. 642 00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:58,440 There is no such thing as a lake of fire break, a prison break. 643 00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:03,640 Now they made for all eternity try to figure out how they can 644 00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:08,840 get out, but it will be only a failed attempt because God has 645 00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:11,360 that thing on lockdown. Hallelujah. 646 00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:13,480 We really should sing that song instead of hell lost another 647 00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:17,320 one, we say God pardon another one and I am free, right? 648 00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:20,160 Because at the end of the day, you deserve to be there and God 649 00:40:20,160 --> 00:40:23,600 can pardon you. From yourself, glory to God. 650 00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:29,720 OK, my point is, is that that is offensive to God because even in 651 00:40:29,720 --> 00:40:32,040 my immaturity, I had already made decision. 652 00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:35,880 I should stop this. I mean, I mean, it created other 653 00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:40,080 sin where I I go home and my wife doesn't even know. 654 00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:48,960 And we'll get to that one. I didn't think. 655 00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:51,080 Now she was born again and filled with a Holy Ghost. 656 00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:54,680 So she had access to things I wasn't even operating in at the 657 00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:58,040 time. So she was merciful to me too. 658 00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:05,160 Amen. Thank you Jesus, so again the 659 00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:09,400 reward of humility and the fear of the Lord are riches, honor 660 00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:11,680 and life. Could it be that some of the 661 00:41:11,680 --> 00:41:14,520 transfer of the wealth of the wicked is not coming to the 662 00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:17,480 church quicker is because we really do not have the fear of 663 00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:21,080 the Lord in our lives? How do you know a fear of the 664 00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:22,560 Lord can manifest? Are you in church? 665 00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:26,120 Every time the door opens I'm preaching because that is the 666 00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:28,800 obedience of God's word. Do not forsake the assembling of 667 00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:32,440 yourself together as is the habit of some and all the more 668 00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:35,920 as you see the day drawing near you should this your number one 669 00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:40,000 thought process is what can I do for his church that He's planted 670 00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:42,160 me with? It's my number one priority and 671 00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:46,160 everything else is just an outlay or a byproduct of this 672 00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:48,960 existence. Period. 673 00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:53,000 And we have confused ourselves again through wrong spirits. 674 00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:55,000 Well, the pastor gets paid. That's his job. 675 00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:58,320 This is not my job. There are criteria where the 676 00:41:58,320 --> 00:42:01,560 Lord does say because of the assignment, you'll be able to 677 00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:04,400 receive it from the the church itself. 678 00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:08,240 But we all have a part to play and God's paying every one of 679 00:42:08,240 --> 00:42:13,960 us, every one of us, every one of us, right? 680 00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:15,200 But again, what's the Spirit say? 681 00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:16,880 Well, that pastor not going to control me. 682 00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:19,680 I don't control you anyway. I mean, that is the dumbest 683 00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:22,040 thing should be the easiest thing for you to cast off. 684 00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:26,040 Because if I was controlling you, I would come to your house, 685 00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:31,200 I'd come to your house, I'd drag you out. 686 00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:33,760 I'd have, I would be on your bank account. 687 00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:40,080 I'd be on your bank account. I would be a joint account 688 00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:43,200 holder. In fact, I might probably be 689 00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:45,760 primary, and I will give you an allowance. 690 00:42:47,240 --> 00:42:51,680 That way you then have what's leftover that you gave first to 691 00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:54,160 the Lord. But again, to do that, your 692 00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:56,320 heart's not in it. God doesn't do that. 693 00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:58,120 He wants you to love Him with all your heart. 694 00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:06,760 I'm not controlling you. I mean, if believers would just 695 00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:12,440 stop and think, but there's a lot of spirits talking 696 00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:17,000 religiously and the untrained and and the offended, let's put 697 00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:19,960 it that way, receive it. All right, Let's go to the 698 00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:22,600 Spirit of Wisdom. Spirit of Wisdom, y'all doing 699 00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:24,640 all right, Amen. I don't want to stop. 700 00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:26,120 I just want to drive on y'all, OK? 701 00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:28,800 I mean, it's still young, but we have water baptism. 702 00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:31,560 And I know that the Spirit of Wisdom, look what it says in 703 00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:37,880 Proverbs 319, it says the Lord say the Lord by wisdom founded 704 00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:42,400 the earth by understanding he established the heavens. 705 00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:48,240 Can that's pretty amazing that Wisdom founded the earth. 706 00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:51,880 I mean, we can. We still to this day have no 707 00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:57,640 concept of all of the order and intricacies that are involved 708 00:43:57,640 --> 00:44:04,240 with planet earth. Man is still dumbfounded by how 709 00:44:04,240 --> 00:44:09,520 this thing does all that by wisdom, everything is in motion 710 00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:15,480 and maintaining it's amazing. And by understanding the he 711 00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:17,600 established the heavens. Look what it says in first 712 00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:21,720 Corinthians 130. It says, but by his doing you 713 00:44:21,720 --> 00:44:27,520 are in Christ who became to us wisdom from God and 714 00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:30,000 righteousness and sanctification and redemption. 715 00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:33,400 So Jesus is wisdom already. Now I'm going to give my plug 716 00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:36,160 again because it's very important because again, in 717 00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:40,800 American Christianity, we don't we don't think that knowing 718 00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:43,840 Jesus other than I asked him to come into my heart and save me. 719 00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:46,760 That's all we need to know. And that makes us, you know, 720 00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:50,480 untouchable. All right, But it's in Christ by 721 00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:55,880 because he is wisdom. If you are not in the word, then 722 00:44:55,880 --> 00:45:01,520 you are not accessing wisdom. That's right, not wisdom that 723 00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:09,320 comes from above because there is some things that happened 724 00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:12,960 down in the earth that has knowledge about it. 725 00:45:13,720 --> 00:45:16,640 But James, maybe we'll pick it up when I get over to knowledge 726 00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:20,320 next week. It says it's it's earthly and 727 00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:22,840 it's demonic. If you stay within the realm of 728 00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:28,560 the natural and the spirit that does that you hear because 729 00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:35,120 you're not connected to the Word, then all you know is 730 00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:37,680 really demonic. But if you get over into the 731 00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:42,320 word because in Christ, because he is wisdom, I said he is 732 00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:45,360 wisdom. So you cannot even begin to 733 00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:49,200 function with the Spirit of wisdom outside of the revelation 734 00:45:51,240 --> 00:45:55,640 of of the Christ or His Word. Wisdom means this. 735 00:45:55,640 --> 00:45:59,960 Wisdom consists in the choice of the best means to secure the 736 00:45:59,960 --> 00:46:05,280 best ends. Wisdom consists in the choice of 737 00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:08,280 the best means to secure the best ends. 738 00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:11,560 You could say it this way. Wisdom is intellectual 739 00:46:13,040 --> 00:46:20,560 clearness, Intellectual clearness, intellectual 740 00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:24,760 clearness. Doctor Miles Monroe used to say 741 00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:26,520 this. He said the greatest tragedy in 742 00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:31,040 life is life without purpose, right? 743 00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:37,200 He said the greatest challenge in life is knowing what to do, 744 00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:43,320 and many believers do not have intellectual clearness. 745 00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:47,640 The number one reason they don't is because they do not spend 746 00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:51,280 time in the Word where wisdom is found. 747 00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:54,800 First of all, it's opened up because of the fear of the Lord. 748 00:46:55,480 --> 00:47:00,400 They don't even have the heart to just want to honor their 749 00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:05,840 Father and be quick to obey Him and never to offend Him. 750 00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:09,160 Which means the reason I'm in the Word is not so that I can 751 00:47:09,160 --> 00:47:13,640 look smart. My motive is not so I look 752 00:47:13,720 --> 00:47:17,720 smarter and more anointed than everyone else. 753 00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:22,160 My motive, it comes from the fear of the Lord. 754 00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:30,960 Father, I just want to know you. I just want to know you and I 755 00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:34,120 want to be quick to obey you because your life, where am I 756 00:47:34,120 --> 00:47:35,760 going to go? Your words are life. 757 00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:39,440 The last thing I want to do is behave in a way that is 758 00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:45,600 offensive to you or offends you. So show me your word. 759 00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:47,960 Now when you go in there, guess what? 760 00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:53,680 Wisdom begins to open up. Wisdom begins to open up. 761 00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:59,560 And again, God knows your heart or the why you're doing what 762 00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:02,160 you're doing. We're going to see that here in 763 00:48:02,160 --> 00:48:04,920 a minute. So it's intellectual clearness. 764 00:48:05,040 --> 00:48:11,000 It also means this. It means wisdom is the power of 765 00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:15,840 discerning the nature of things through the appearance. 766 00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:19,040 What I mean is there you're not discerning it based upon what 767 00:48:19,040 --> 00:48:22,400 you see. You're discerning it beyond what 768 00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:26,640 you see or, or you are. Yeah, you're discerning it 769 00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:32,160 beyond what you see. You're able to to recognize us. 770 00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:36,960 In essence, you can be in a situation, but yet you have 771 00:48:37,040 --> 00:48:42,560 God's Word, and wisdom allows you to navigate in a way that's 772 00:48:42,560 --> 00:48:45,760 contrary to what you see because you're already, you're through 773 00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:47,160 it. In essence, this, it's this 774 00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:48,800 salt. Yeah, though I walk through the 775 00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:54,320 valley of the shadow of death. I'm in what looks like death, 776 00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:58,480 but it's just a shadow, and I'm going to walk through it there. 777 00:48:58,840 --> 00:49:02,680 In fact, He is a lamp into my feet and a light into my path, 778 00:49:03,560 --> 00:49:07,320 Right. So in essence, I see things, but 779 00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:12,800 yet I go to Him, and wisdom now opens up, which allows me to go 780 00:49:12,800 --> 00:49:16,320 through the appearance of what I am, what I see, so that we can 781 00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:20,440 accomplish God's ultimate will. Are you hearing me well in 782 00:49:20,440 --> 00:49:22,880 Ephesians 117? And God wants you to have this. 783 00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:26,240 Look what it says here, that the God of the Lord Jesus Christ, 784 00:49:26,240 --> 00:49:29,920 the Father, glory may give to you a spirit of wisdom. 785 00:49:30,720 --> 00:49:33,520 Wisdom. Now we'll be able to use this 786 00:49:33,520 --> 00:49:35,760 again next week and the revelation of the knowledge of 787 00:49:35,760 --> 00:49:38,080 Him concerning the spirit of knowledge. 788 00:49:38,240 --> 00:49:41,320 But here God wants to give you a spirit of wisdom. 789 00:49:42,360 --> 00:49:46,560 But again, the spirit of wisdom, it opens up because of the 790 00:49:46,560 --> 00:49:50,120 spirit of the fear of the Lord. All right, so you got to make 791 00:49:50,120 --> 00:49:54,160 sure your heart's right so that then you can have access to 792 00:49:54,160 --> 00:49:58,600 wisdom that created the earth, founded the earth. 793 00:49:59,040 --> 00:50:01,240 Amazing stuff. This is what's so amazing about 794 00:50:01,240 --> 00:50:03,520 that statement. By wisdom He founded the earth, 795 00:50:03,520 --> 00:50:08,480 which means anything you got going on in this planet wisdom, 796 00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:11,160 which means if you get his, you can access it. 797 00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:14,560 I mean, you start, things can happen. 798 00:50:14,880 --> 00:50:16,760 It's amazing. Look what it says here in 799 00:50:16,760 --> 00:50:19,080 Proverbs 3. How blessed are the man who 800 00:50:19,080 --> 00:50:22,360 finds wisdom and the man who gains understanding for her 801 00:50:22,360 --> 00:50:24,000 profit is better than silver and gold. 802 00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:27,960 Thank you Jesus. And her her gain is better than 803 00:50:27,960 --> 00:50:30,400 fine gold. She is more precious than jewel, 804 00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:32,120 and nothing desire compares with her. 805 00:50:32,120 --> 00:50:36,320 Long life is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and 806 00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:38,720 honor. Her ways are pleasant ways and 807 00:50:38,720 --> 00:50:42,200 all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to those 808 00:50:42,200 --> 00:50:46,040 who take hold of her and happy are all who hold her. 809 00:50:46,040 --> 00:50:51,760 Fast man, let's do the last one real quick and we'll close. 810 00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:57,560 Psalms 119 verse 34 says Give me understanding that I may observe 811 00:50:57,560 --> 00:51:01,080 your law and keep it with all my heart. 812 00:51:02,600 --> 00:51:05,560 The only reason why the church has moved into the sways of the 813 00:51:05,560 --> 00:51:08,680 world and their writings and the way they craft things today is 814 00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:13,440 because number one, they have no value for the word of the king. 815 00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:18,600 And here the psalmist says look and the Psalms 119 is an amazing 816 00:51:18,600 --> 00:51:22,760 Psalms, OK, He said give me understanding that I'm and why 817 00:51:22,760 --> 00:51:25,040 do I want understanding? Not so that I'm smarter than 818 00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:27,800 everyone, so that I can tell people what to do. 819 00:51:28,480 --> 00:51:32,080 No, so that I may observe your law, which is His word. 820 00:51:32,280 --> 00:51:36,800 The word law is not immediately associated with Moses, although 821 00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:39,760 there is connections there. But again, even the law of Moses 822 00:51:39,760 --> 00:51:43,640 was perfect and blameless. It's just that our nature could 823 00:51:43,640 --> 00:51:47,720 not keep it, but Jesus did. He fulfilled it. 824 00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:51,720 Are you hearing me? It is to keep His word and to 825 00:51:51,720 --> 00:51:55,640 keep it with all my heart. So I want to keep His word with 826 00:51:55,640 --> 00:51:58,440 all my heart. Psalms 119 One O 4 says this. 827 00:51:58,840 --> 00:52:01,680 From your precepts, I get understanding, which means, 828 00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:05,880 again, if you're not in the Word, you're not receiving God's 829 00:52:05,960 --> 00:52:09,480 understanding or the spirit of understanding is not speaking to 830 00:52:09,480 --> 00:52:12,320 you. You cannot have this outside of 831 00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:16,720 a continual constant relationship with the reading of 832 00:52:16,720 --> 00:52:18,120 the Word. I'm not talking about you 833 00:52:18,120 --> 00:52:26,080 listening to YouTube preachers. I'm talking about you Again, let 834 00:52:26,080 --> 00:52:29,840 me give you the case in point. You cannot grow watching someone 835 00:52:29,840 --> 00:52:37,080 else eat, wow, that steak looks good. 836 00:52:37,080 --> 00:52:38,800 It's good man. And you know what? 837 00:52:38,800 --> 00:52:41,440 You're not getting nourished and there's so many believers that 838 00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:43,720 are watching everyone else and you're not getting nursed 839 00:52:43,720 --> 00:52:47,320 because you're really not trying to break it down to assimilate, 840 00:52:47,360 --> 00:52:50,160 studying it for yourself, making it your own. 841 00:52:50,360 --> 00:52:52,080 You're just Hallelujah, praise the Lord. 842 00:52:52,240 --> 00:52:54,600 Well, you know, I'm going to restaurant go, wow, that steak 843 00:52:54,600 --> 00:52:57,480 smells good. Wow, look how beautiful that is. 844 00:52:57,760 --> 00:52:59,640 I smell that. Oh, that smells good. 845 00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:05,040 I can get all the aroma of all the food and leave hungry and 846 00:53:05,040 --> 00:53:08,200 then I just, I can come in five times a day. 847 00:53:08,320 --> 00:53:12,720 I can see I can live in the restaurant and watch every meal 848 00:53:12,800 --> 00:53:18,480 that goes to every table and die because I'm unwilling to put it 849 00:53:18,480 --> 00:53:26,760 in my own mouth and chew on it. All right, so let's get to where 850 00:53:26,760 --> 00:53:28,080 we're chewing. Well, we are. 851 00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:31,200 I mean, I you understand, he says your precepts from your 852 00:53:31,200 --> 00:53:32,360 precept. I get understanding. 853 00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:35,800 Therefore I hate, say, hate every false way. 854 00:53:35,800 --> 00:53:37,520 You understand? As a believer, it's OK to hate 855 00:53:37,520 --> 00:53:40,000 some things. You know, man, there's a bunch 856 00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:41,480 of, you know, they hate. Yeah. 857 00:53:41,560 --> 00:53:43,880 Yeah, we do. And that's love. 858 00:53:44,320 --> 00:53:47,280 Love hates. Love can hate. 859 00:53:47,720 --> 00:53:50,360 No problem. There's no issue there. 860 00:53:50,480 --> 00:53:53,480 God has no problem with that. He wants you to hate some 861 00:53:53,480 --> 00:53:56,600 things, and he definitely wants you to hate evil, wants you to 862 00:53:56,600 --> 00:53:57,960 hate it. He don't want you to rub 863 00:53:57,960 --> 00:54:00,240 shoulders with it. He don't want you to caress it. 864 00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:02,240 He don't want you to take it to bed with you. 865 00:54:03,040 --> 00:54:06,200 He wants you to hate it. All right. 866 00:54:07,720 --> 00:54:12,720 So the definition of this is moral insight, OK? 867 00:54:13,440 --> 00:54:16,800 It means the power of discerning the differences of things in 868 00:54:16,800 --> 00:54:19,480 their appearance. Man, we're going to get touched 869 00:54:19,480 --> 00:54:24,120 on this a little bit more. Judgement resulting from wisdom 870 00:54:24,240 --> 00:54:28,320 by which we distinguish things or decide on their character. 871 00:54:28,640 --> 00:54:34,440 So if you're not pulling wisdom in, then you won't have the 872 00:54:34,440 --> 00:54:37,760 right judgement of the situation. 873 00:54:41,440 --> 00:54:43,880 And you know what is an epidemic in the church today? 874 00:54:44,080 --> 00:54:48,240 People thinking they know about something without knowing it at 875 00:54:48,240 --> 00:54:51,400 all. They have no understanding of 876 00:54:51,400 --> 00:54:53,320 the situation. But buddy, they are walking 877 00:54:53,320 --> 00:54:56,280 around judging it and talking to people. 878 00:54:57,040 --> 00:54:59,320 Except for the one who actually has the information. 879 00:54:59,960 --> 00:55:04,440 All right? It also means this idea of a 880 00:55:04,440 --> 00:55:08,360 sharp sense of smell. I love this one and I'm going to 881 00:55:08,360 --> 00:55:10,040 tell you this particular commentary's name. 882 00:55:10,040 --> 00:55:12,400 His name is Trap. Don't know his name other than 883 00:55:12,400 --> 00:55:14,720 that, that's all that was left by another commentary. 884 00:55:14,920 --> 00:55:19,560 But this is how this person framed understanding. 885 00:55:19,560 --> 00:55:24,360 It's amazing sharpness of judgment in smelling out a 886 00:55:24,360 --> 00:55:30,720 hypocrite. His sharp nose easily discerns 887 00:55:30,920 --> 00:55:34,560 and is offended with the stinking breath of the 888 00:55:34,560 --> 00:55:37,960 hypocrites. Hypocrites rotten lungs through 889 00:55:37,960 --> 00:55:44,000 his word, though his words be never so scented and perfumed 890 00:55:44,320 --> 00:55:51,280 with shows of holiness. In essence you got bad breath 891 00:55:51,280 --> 00:55:59,640 bro. This is why God knows your heart 892 00:56:00,840 --> 00:56:07,680 because your breath stinks it has no holiness in it. 893 00:56:07,720 --> 00:56:10,680 Oh man, this is so good and let me tell you, when you start 894 00:56:10,680 --> 00:56:15,120 functioning on the spirit of understanding, man it take you 895 00:56:15,120 --> 00:56:18,440 to the thing about functioning on the spirit of understanding 896 00:56:19,120 --> 00:56:21,200 is that it's going to give you access to things. 897 00:56:21,280 --> 00:56:25,080 And I'm talking about though again, this is not happening if 898 00:56:25,080 --> 00:56:30,200 you're not functioning under the fear of the Lord walking in 899 00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:34,240 wisdom. It gives you the position of 900 00:56:34,240 --> 00:56:37,840 understanding. If you're a haphazard Christian 901 00:56:37,840 --> 00:56:40,960 doing it, you know, kind of on your terms, then anything you 902 00:56:40,960 --> 00:56:42,920 think you've perceived you are wrong. 903 00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:49,680 This is a pure line. It's a pure line. 904 00:56:51,560 --> 00:56:56,400 Matthew 2218 says it this way. But Jesus perceived their malice 905 00:56:57,320 --> 00:57:02,880 and said, why are you testing me, you hypocrites? 906 00:57:07,240 --> 00:57:09,880 Right. Which means Jesus had the 907 00:57:09,880 --> 00:57:13,960 ability through the Spirit of understanding of their motives. 908 00:57:18,760 --> 00:57:22,280 OK, Don't, don't make me regret. Regret ending on understanding, 909 00:57:22,320 --> 00:57:27,760 OK, OK, All right, this isn't trying to bring everybody down, 910 00:57:27,760 --> 00:57:32,200 but this is sobering, OK? The thing is, is that nobody in 911 00:57:32,200 --> 00:57:34,400 the room, including me, is fooling God. 912 00:57:35,080 --> 00:57:38,360 It's not happening. And I think that's the biggest 913 00:57:38,360 --> 00:57:40,560 thing that motivates me in the fear of the Lord is because I 914 00:57:40,560 --> 00:57:48,720 know I am not fooling him, I'm not fooling him. 915 00:57:50,240 --> 00:57:53,680 Mark chapter 2, verse 8. Immediately Jesus aware in his 916 00:57:53,680 --> 00:57:57,080 spirit that they were reasoning that way within themselves. 917 00:57:57,080 --> 00:58:00,240 He he said to them, why are you reasoning about these things in 918 00:58:00,240 --> 00:58:03,120 your heart? He had the spirit of 919 00:58:03,120 --> 00:58:05,720 understanding. So he's in a room again. 920 00:58:06,040 --> 00:58:09,600 You know, we want unity and unity's powerful because when 921 00:58:09,600 --> 00:58:12,720 the church is in unity, it's good for us. 922 00:58:13,160 --> 00:58:16,040 It doesn't stop God. It's a lot of time. 923 00:58:16,040 --> 00:58:17,680 Well, God can't do if we don't get unity. 924 00:58:18,280 --> 00:58:21,760 God can move even if unity's not there. 925 00:58:22,200 --> 00:58:24,480 He just needs one person in faith. 926 00:58:25,360 --> 00:58:29,080 But it's better for us when we unify because we are actually 927 00:58:29,080 --> 00:58:34,800 stronger and a better witness to the world because we kind of 928 00:58:35,040 --> 00:58:38,640 hinder our witness when we're backbiters and we're not in 929 00:58:38,720 --> 00:58:42,360 unity with one another, our unity to the word and unified 930 00:58:42,360 --> 00:58:44,760 together. But God can function and still 931 00:58:44,760 --> 00:58:50,480 perform where this unity is present. 932 00:58:50,600 --> 00:58:53,240 And in this particular case, he's about, he's going to heal a 933 00:58:53,240 --> 00:58:54,880 guy. He says your sins are forgiven 934 00:58:55,040 --> 00:58:58,560 to when they rip the roof off and there's a group of Pharisees 935 00:58:58,920 --> 00:59:02,880 with their rotten lungs that were reasoning who this is 936 00:59:02,880 --> 00:59:05,560 blasphemy. Only God can forgive sin and he 937 00:59:05,560 --> 00:59:09,440 says why are you reasoning in essence, he told them about 938 00:59:09,440 --> 00:59:12,760 themselves yet in the corner they look like they the holy 939 00:59:12,760 --> 00:59:18,480 bunch that they're more holy than anyone else in the room. 940 00:59:23,080 --> 00:59:29,000 Hey man, so he calls them outlook at this Luke chapter 20 941 00:59:29,000 --> 00:59:31,720 verses 21 to 23. They questioned him saying, 942 00:59:31,720 --> 00:59:38,360 teacher, we know that you speak and teach correctly and you are 943 00:59:38,360 --> 00:59:42,480 not partial to any, but teach the way of God and truth. 944 00:59:42,800 --> 00:59:45,640 Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar or not? 945 00:59:45,840 --> 00:59:54,600 And he detected their trickery and said to them, So somebody 946 00:59:54,920 --> 01:00:01,160 talking to you all nicey nice doesn't mean they're nicey nice. 947 01:00:04,560 --> 01:00:08,440 This is the thing about the spirit of understanding, right? 948 01:00:09,200 --> 01:00:12,640 Again, I have personally been in situations where someone has 949 01:00:12,640 --> 01:00:16,240 come in, it's like, you know, your your word and you know, I 950 01:00:16,240 --> 01:00:18,520 mean, I remember one particular place I went and say like, wow, 951 01:00:18,520 --> 01:00:20,280 the anointing is in the room because I walked in the room. 952 01:00:20,280 --> 01:00:22,320 I was at a house and I'm like, that's odd, right? 953 01:00:22,360 --> 01:00:25,680 You know, my mind. I'm like, that's odd, but okay, 954 01:00:25,680 --> 01:00:28,040 whatever. Well, it's because that person 955 01:00:28,040 --> 01:00:30,680 had was out of a denominational church that didn't believe in 956 01:00:30,680 --> 01:00:33,520 the baptism of the Holy Ghost or the gifts of the Spirit. 957 01:00:33,760 --> 01:00:36,280 And they had discovered it and they were really excited and 958 01:00:36,320 --> 01:00:38,560 wanted to talk with me because I was right. 959 01:00:38,560 --> 01:00:40,000 Really, they were there to impress me. 960 01:00:40,800 --> 01:00:44,640 You know, I didn't discern it initially, but I did discern 961 01:00:44,640 --> 01:00:47,200 something necessarily right because it was a little over the 962 01:00:47,200 --> 01:00:48,840 top. And who are the anointings here? 963 01:00:49,240 --> 01:00:51,680 Right? OK, so apparently you discern 964 01:00:51,680 --> 01:00:53,000 when I walk in the room. I had an anointing. 965 01:00:53,000 --> 01:00:55,120 By the time we get done with the conversation, they said I was 966 01:00:55,120 --> 01:01:03,280 preaching false doctrine, like, well, what am I? 967 01:01:04,000 --> 01:01:06,360 Because you said something different when I walked in the 968 01:01:06,360 --> 01:01:10,600 room, right? Well, it's because, again, they 969 01:01:10,600 --> 01:01:13,040 didn't really believe in the baptism of Holy Spirit, whatever 970 01:01:13,040 --> 01:01:15,320 is Speaking of tongues, only tongues through the gifts. 971 01:01:15,520 --> 01:01:17,320 OK. And so when I started taking 972 01:01:17,320 --> 01:01:18,960 them through Scripture, they wanted to take me through the 973 01:01:18,960 --> 01:01:21,320 commentaries of their Bible. I said, I'm not. 974 01:01:21,960 --> 01:01:24,280 You're believing this guy's interpretation of this. 975 01:01:24,400 --> 01:01:27,160 Let's just stay with Scripture messing them up. 976 01:01:27,360 --> 01:01:29,240 So at that point, I'm like, you know what? 977 01:01:29,240 --> 01:01:31,320 Do you believe that Jesus died on the cross and rose from the 978 01:01:31,320 --> 01:01:31,800 grave? Yep. 979 01:01:32,040 --> 01:01:33,960 Do you believe if you ask him to be Lord, you be saved? 980 01:01:33,960 --> 01:01:35,120 Yep. Then let's just stay at that. 981 01:01:35,120 --> 01:01:36,720 So do I. I'm not having this 982 01:01:36,720 --> 01:01:40,400 conversation, right, because I've discerned that you do not 983 01:01:40,400 --> 01:01:42,720 have actual ears to hear. Right? 984 01:01:43,360 --> 01:01:46,320 OK, had another person come in and talk about the, the worship 985 01:01:46,320 --> 01:01:48,640 and the message and all this that and the other then only to 986 01:01:48,640 --> 01:01:50,240 tell me their self-proclaimed prophet. 987 01:01:50,440 --> 01:01:52,880 And, you know, they're going to start telling me what I need to 988 01:01:52,880 --> 01:01:54,640 tell the congregation. And they're so humble. 989 01:01:54,640 --> 01:01:56,480 They're going to stay in the back so that nobody knows them 990 01:01:56,480 --> 01:01:57,720 because they come in late anyway. 991 01:01:57,720 --> 01:02:00,480 And they leave early because God forbid that they act, you know, 992 01:02:00,560 --> 01:02:03,400 put on all this holiness that they are and they got to stay 993 01:02:03,400 --> 01:02:05,800 disconnected so they can hear from God because God forbid they 994 01:02:05,800 --> 01:02:07,320 get around you. I mean, Jesus was only the 995 01:02:07,320 --> 01:02:10,000 greatest prophet, but yet he was around people all the time. 996 01:02:10,720 --> 01:02:12,520 It seemed like being around people didn't corrupt his 997 01:02:12,520 --> 01:02:20,800 ability to be able to discern. So again, those are not from the 998 01:02:20,800 --> 01:02:23,760 Spirit of God. So the minute they taught, I 999 01:02:23,760 --> 01:02:26,440 said, I'm not doing that. You're not the Holy Ghost for 1000 01:02:26,440 --> 01:02:27,720 me. Pastor Angie was in that 1001 01:02:27,720 --> 01:02:29,800 meeting. So they're like, well, you know 1002 01:02:29,800 --> 01:02:31,000 what? I'll just come to worship and 1003 01:02:31,000 --> 01:02:32,800 leave. I said, well, if you're not 1004 01:02:32,800 --> 01:02:36,200 staying for the word that you said that the ministering of the 1005 01:02:36,200 --> 01:02:39,320 world was great and rightly divided, there's really no 1006 01:02:39,320 --> 01:02:43,360 reason for you to come. And they're like, are you 1007 01:02:43,360 --> 01:02:44,640 telling me I can't come to church? 1008 01:02:44,680 --> 01:02:48,680 I didn't say that what I said. And I had to repeat because 1009 01:02:48,680 --> 01:02:49,840 apparently they were hard of hearing. 1010 01:02:53,120 --> 01:02:55,120 And then they said, well, the Lord's released me from here. 1011 01:02:55,120 --> 01:02:59,280 I said, you're right. Now that is the Spirit of God. 1012 01:03:01,880 --> 01:03:07,720 He has released you from here because He never sent you except 1013 01:03:07,720 --> 01:03:11,960 for you to learn what He has taught us and to get you out of 1014 01:03:11,960 --> 01:03:14,560 your deception. But you like the voices you hear 1015 01:03:14,560 --> 01:03:16,120 more than you do the voice of God. 1016 01:03:17,280 --> 01:03:19,320 And this is the problem when people start picking up 1017 01:03:19,320 --> 01:03:22,800 deceiving spirits as they like the voices. 1018 01:03:24,160 --> 01:03:27,280 All right, Luke Chapter 9, verse 4648. 1019 01:03:27,280 --> 01:03:29,600 Got a couple more and then we'll move on. 1020 01:03:29,840 --> 01:03:34,040 He said an argument started among them as to which of them 1021 01:03:34,040 --> 01:03:37,400 might be the greatest. Jesus, knowing what they were 1022 01:03:37,400 --> 01:03:41,160 thinking in their heart, took a child and stood by his side and 1023 01:03:41,160 --> 01:03:44,360 said, whoever receives this child and my name receives me, 1024 01:03:44,360 --> 01:03:49,360 and whoever receives me, who sent me is the one who is least 1025 01:03:49,360 --> 01:03:52,320 among all of you. This is the one who is great. 1026 01:03:52,480 --> 01:03:55,880 So again, here's his own disciples having a challenge 1027 01:03:55,880 --> 01:03:58,640 about stuff and he has understanding. 1028 01:03:58,640 --> 01:04:01,760 He's discerned now it sounds good. 1029 01:04:01,840 --> 01:04:03,400 Who's going to be the greatest? Who's going to be? 1030 01:04:03,400 --> 01:04:05,400 But he's like, something ain't right. 1031 01:04:05,400 --> 01:04:12,280 With this conversation again, the Pharisees came to seem like, 1032 01:04:12,280 --> 01:04:15,080 oh, you're such a great teacher. We know you teach correctly. 1033 01:04:15,280 --> 01:04:18,040 You're just trying to trick me. You're just trying to get me to 1034 01:04:18,040 --> 01:04:19,520 say something so you can throw me. 1035 01:04:19,520 --> 01:04:23,520 I mean, you understand, I, I, I am probably you as well. 1036 01:04:23,520 --> 01:04:29,240 But I know I have had people come around only to try to get 1037 01:04:29,240 --> 01:04:32,760 me to mess up. Now, can I say this? 1038 01:04:33,400 --> 01:04:40,480 It is a really wrong place to be that when someone finds out 1039 01:04:40,560 --> 01:04:46,480 about you not doing right and you repent and get right, that 1040 01:04:46,480 --> 01:04:48,040 you all of a sudden take this thought. 1041 01:04:48,040 --> 01:04:50,960 You can't wait for the one that helped you to do wrong so you 1042 01:04:50,960 --> 01:05:06,440 can feel better about yourself. I say this every time in Vision 1043 01:05:06,440 --> 01:05:08,720 Partnership. I cannot tell you that people 1044 01:05:08,720 --> 01:05:11,000 won't talk about me. They talked about Jesus. 1045 01:05:11,000 --> 01:05:15,320 All I say is when they mention my name and things I'm doing and 1046 01:05:15,320 --> 01:05:19,040 I'm not there, would you please stop them and say, let's set a 1047 01:05:19,040 --> 01:05:22,480 meeting with Pastor Earl so he can be in the meeting to verify 1048 01:05:22,480 --> 01:05:31,960 what you're saying he did. Because I'll do it and have done 1049 01:05:31,960 --> 01:05:37,760 it because I hear stuff because I'm the pastor. 1050 01:05:39,600 --> 01:05:43,680 I hear some stuff by the Spirit. And those are the ones that I 1051 01:05:43,680 --> 01:05:46,000 don't try to address the quickest because they're the 1052 01:05:46,000 --> 01:05:49,960 most problematic. That's the Sarah moment. 1053 01:05:50,680 --> 01:05:53,240 She's laughing in the tent when Jesus says she's going to have a 1054 01:05:53,240 --> 01:05:55,960 baby next year. She comes out to give him some 1055 01:05:55,960 --> 01:05:57,320 food and he goes, why'd you laugh? 1056 01:05:58,600 --> 01:06:01,880 I didn't laugh. Now, if you were standing around 1057 01:06:01,880 --> 01:06:08,960 the tent as one of the helpers and Jesus said, no, you did 1058 01:06:08,960 --> 01:06:10,080 laugh. I didn't laugh. 1059 01:06:10,280 --> 01:06:12,520 Well, who you going to believe they could go in and say, Sarah, 1060 01:06:12,520 --> 01:06:15,320 I can't believe he called you a liar and said to you, I can't 1061 01:06:15,320 --> 01:06:19,080 believe that. Yeah, I mean, I I didn't laugh. 1062 01:06:20,080 --> 01:06:24,920 And then here she is selling a lie because we know Jesus is 1063 01:06:24,920 --> 01:06:29,520 right. Those are tough when you're 1064 01:06:29,520 --> 01:06:31,520 like, I know you're talking about me. 1065 01:06:33,040 --> 01:06:36,320 I know you're spreading rumors. No, I'm not. 1066 01:06:36,400 --> 01:06:38,680 Yeah, I know. Yeah, I do. 1067 01:06:38,720 --> 01:06:41,000 Those are hard. So, you know, I'm like, Lord, 1068 01:06:41,480 --> 01:06:43,360 you know, I'll do it if you tell me. 1069 01:06:43,360 --> 01:06:45,760 But I'd much rather have the smoking gun. 1070 01:06:46,560 --> 01:06:48,800 Well, smoking gun comes when they tell somebody else and then 1071 01:06:48,800 --> 01:06:50,640 someone tells me, and then I'm like, we'll set a meeting. 1072 01:06:50,800 --> 01:06:55,000 So and so said that you said. I mean, I've done this because, 1073 01:06:55,000 --> 01:06:56,600 again, the Bible says go to them in private. 1074 01:06:57,040 --> 01:06:59,560 Did this happen? No. 1075 01:06:59,640 --> 01:07:03,960 Well, I got the person who said it is right outside the door and 1076 01:07:03,960 --> 01:07:09,960 I'll bring them in right now because somebody is not honest. 1077 01:07:17,580 --> 01:07:23,340 Say Amen anyway, right. OK, discernment, Peter, discern 1078 01:07:23,340 --> 01:07:24,660 Simon the sorcerer. Man. 1079 01:07:24,660 --> 01:07:25,820 I want to pay some money to get that. 1080 01:07:26,340 --> 01:07:30,100 Your heart's not right, son. And he was like, and pray for me 1081 01:07:30,100 --> 01:07:32,100 that what you just said didn't happen because, again, he was a 1082 01:07:32,100 --> 01:07:33,980 babe in Christ. He just got born again. 1083 01:07:34,800 --> 01:07:38,400 He hadn't got rid of his sorcery ways completely in his mindset, 1084 01:07:38,800 --> 01:07:40,360 but his spirit man was born again. 1085 01:07:40,880 --> 01:07:42,920 Are you hearing me? We'll close with this one. 1086 01:07:42,920 --> 01:07:45,960 Luke Chapter 9, verses 51 to 55. Are you here? 1087 01:07:46,000 --> 01:07:49,000 Are you getting anything today? All right, I know we've gone 1088 01:07:49,000 --> 01:07:50,960 along, but hey, where else we going to go eat? 1089 01:07:57,560 --> 01:07:59,080 I mean, my wife had the record the other day. 1090 01:07:59,080 --> 01:08:00,920 I got to beat it again. I mean, that's how this works. 1091 01:08:02,360 --> 01:08:04,240 And Pastor Mike comes up and tries to beat mine. 1092 01:08:04,240 --> 01:08:06,440 Pastor Chase is probably going to try to beat us all because 1093 01:08:06,440 --> 01:08:08,320 he's younger. I'll be like, no, I'll come back 1094 01:08:08,320 --> 01:08:12,040 and get the title. I'm just kidding. 1095 01:08:12,880 --> 01:08:15,880 I mean, can we we can discern we you go to movies longer than 1096 01:08:15,880 --> 01:08:19,200 what I preach anyway. So, I mean, there's some that 1097 01:08:19,200 --> 01:08:20,600 I'm going to beat right now. OK. 1098 01:08:20,640 --> 01:08:25,040 When the days were approaching for his ascension, he was 1099 01:08:25,040 --> 01:08:28,560 determined to go to Jerusalem. And he sent messages on ahead 1100 01:08:29,160 --> 01:08:32,439 and they went and entered a village of the Samaritans to 1101 01:08:32,439 --> 01:08:34,840 make arrangement for him, but they did not receive him because 1102 01:08:34,840 --> 01:08:36,359 he was traveling towards Jerusalem. 1103 01:08:36,920 --> 01:08:40,160 When his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, 1104 01:08:40,560 --> 01:08:44,040 do you want us to command fire to come down from heaven and 1105 01:08:44,040 --> 01:08:49,319 consume them? Look what Jesus says. 1106 01:08:49,319 --> 01:08:54,000 But but he turned and what guys I really appreciate you love me 1107 01:08:54,000 --> 01:08:59,800 so much and I wish everybody that followed me had a heart 1108 01:08:59,800 --> 01:09:03,279 like you to want to defend me, care for me. 1109 01:09:05,040 --> 01:09:09,279 No, it's not what Jesus did. He rebuked them and said you do 1110 01:09:09,279 --> 01:09:11,120 not know what kind of spirit you are. 1111 01:09:11,120 --> 01:09:15,760 And this is James and John you, you ready for this. 1112 01:09:16,000 --> 01:09:21,120 There were three of the 12 that he spent more time with was on 1113 01:09:21,120 --> 01:09:25,160 the Mount of Transfiguration. And here's two of the three. 1114 01:09:26,920 --> 01:09:32,040 I mean they had access and yet they're still hearing the wrong 1115 01:09:32,920 --> 01:09:35,600 because here's the thing, the spirits only telling them 1116 01:09:35,600 --> 01:09:42,040 something that they know has occurred cause fire came down to 1117 01:09:42,040 --> 01:09:44,600 heaven with the prophet Elijah sure did. 1118 01:09:44,600 --> 01:09:46,359 And they were on the mountain when they saw him. 1119 01:09:50,960 --> 01:09:55,080 So just because you want to do a scripture that mean you're 1120 01:09:55,080 --> 01:10:00,920 hearing God in that this is really important. 1121 01:10:02,560 --> 01:10:06,280 So here's someone that's been around for a while, been 1122 01:10:06,280 --> 01:10:11,320 associated with Jesus in his inner circle, yet can get it 1123 01:10:11,320 --> 01:10:17,120 wrong. Are you hearing me? 1124 01:10:18,880 --> 01:10:20,840 So the spirit of understanding is really important because 1125 01:10:20,840 --> 01:10:23,840 here's the cool thing, because Jesus could discern those 1126 01:10:23,840 --> 01:10:26,880 situations, guess what? You have access to as well. 1127 01:10:28,400 --> 01:10:31,880 You do as well. And half the stuff going on in 1128 01:10:31,880 --> 01:10:34,200 the church would really not go on in the church. 1129 01:10:34,960 --> 01:10:37,920 If they had the fear of the Lord moved into the spirit of wisdom, 1130 01:10:38,120 --> 01:10:39,880 they would access the spirit of understanding. 1131 01:10:39,880 --> 01:10:42,000 And when someone started talking about someone and started doing 1132 01:10:42,000 --> 01:10:43,960 something, you'd be like, no, no, no, no, no. 1133 01:10:47,320 --> 01:10:50,560 Because typically what happens is a person comes to you and 1134 01:10:50,560 --> 01:10:54,440 just starts talking and then you give them the stiff arm, 1135 01:10:54,680 --> 01:10:58,120 spiritual stiff arm. I'm not listening to that. 1136 01:10:59,200 --> 01:11:02,400 So then they come back more crafty and they start to give 1137 01:11:02,400 --> 01:11:09,880 accolades about stuff or they start giving to you personally. 1138 01:11:11,000 --> 01:11:13,920 There's all kinds of ways to start working it if they're 1139 01:11:13,920 --> 01:11:14,920 going to have that kind of heart. 1140 01:11:14,920 --> 01:11:18,720 But you can discern every one of them, everyone. 1141 01:11:19,960 --> 01:11:23,880 This is why we are the least excused because we have access 1142 01:11:23,880 --> 01:11:26,600 to this kind of. I mean, you shouldn't be 1143 01:11:26,600 --> 01:11:28,960 delusional about ministers on YouTube. 1144 01:11:31,360 --> 01:11:34,440 Should be easy for you to say, yeah, I'm not going to listen 1145 01:11:34,440 --> 01:11:39,800 that that's not hooked up to the Spirit. 1146 01:11:39,800 --> 01:11:43,680 I am because I'm in the Word and they can't manipulate me. 1147 01:11:46,760 --> 01:11:49,440 At Anchor Faith Church, there's one thing you're going to get 1148 01:11:49,440 --> 01:11:54,400 here. It is a heavy diet of the Word. 1149 01:11:55,880 --> 01:12:01,680 It's going to happen because at the end of the day, I don't 1150 01:12:01,680 --> 01:12:05,320 control you. But God sure wants to lead you 1151 01:12:05,320 --> 01:12:10,560 and He definitely wants us to be in unity and brotherly love. 1152 01:12:11,320 --> 01:12:15,680 And that comes from knowing the Word and then wants us to be 1153 01:12:15,680 --> 01:12:21,760 very influential in our world. And that only comes from knowing 1154 01:12:21,760 --> 01:12:28,320 the will of the Father. Let me say it this way, God is 1155 01:12:28,320 --> 01:12:33,880 not a case law judge. He does not judge you based upon 1156 01:12:33,960 --> 01:12:39,080 your case. He has met the condition so that 1157 01:12:39,080 --> 01:12:44,400 everyone can take a pathway and it's all righteous, no 1158 01:12:44,400 --> 01:12:51,320 favoritism, none. He's paid the price and it's up 1159 01:12:51,320 --> 01:12:54,840 to you to follow his way. So you don't have a special case 1160 01:12:54,840 --> 01:12:58,120 with him. You have a corrected course by 1161 01:12:58,120 --> 01:13:01,240 him should you willfully want to follow. 1162 01:13:03,800 --> 01:13:09,440 Because he is just for all, for all. 1163 01:13:10,080 --> 01:13:16,640 Every tongue, every tribe, every nation, none or at a 1164 01:13:16,640 --> 01:13:20,600 disadvantage, and all are without excuse. 1165 01:13:25,040 --> 01:13:27,200 Thank you so much for listening to this message. 1166 01:13:27,320 --> 01:13:30,640 If you want more, subscribe to our message podcast on iTunes, 1167 01:13:30,800 --> 01:13:32,800 Google Play, Spotify, and SoundCloud. 1168 01:13:33,000 --> 01:13:35,440 Rating and leaving a comment will go a long way with helping 1169 01:13:35,440 --> 01:13:37,160 our messages get better circulation. 1170 01:13:37,680 --> 01:13:39,960 If you'd enjoy watching our weekend messages, visit 1171 01:13:39,960 --> 01:13:44,000 youtube.com/anchor Faith. 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