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Now enjoy this message. All right, so John chapter 4,
verse 23 to 24 says this. But an hour is coming and now is
when the true worshippers say true worshippers say true
worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth.
For such people the Father what seeks to be his to be his what
God is spirit verse 24 And those who worship him must must
worship in spirit. And truth not, can, not, should,
but must. Amen.
Now who's talking in this passage of scripture?
Jesus is. And he's actually talking to a
woman that's obviously not living a very good life right
now. This particular woman has come
to get her some water from a well, and Jesus is hanging out
there while his disciples have gone to get him some food.
And so he's having a conversation with.
And what's brought this conversation to the point that
we're at is that, you know, he begins to engage her and he
technically in the natural should not because he is Jewish
and she's a Samaritan. So by all rights, he is
destroying A racial issue right here.
Not only is he speaking to a woman, but he's speaking to a
Samaritan woman. And so, you know, they have a
little bit of a discourse and he's basically letting her know
what he has because she's like, well, how you going to get some
water? He said whatever, woman, if you
knew who I was and you'd be asking me for the living water
and you would never thirst again, right.
So he ends up going in and telling her her life story a
little bit. Well, you have had five husbands
actually, right? And the one you would now is not
the one I see. You're a prophet, right?
So then she begets spiritual on him and starts talking about
worship, where to worship at and what the people are saying.
You know the religious will say a lot about worship.
There's a lot to say in religion about worship.
But then Jesus makes this statement here in John chapter 4
and he says in hours coming in is now when true worshippers,
which implies there are false ones.
All right, so if there's true worshippers, then there must be
false ones. Because again, Jesus saying true
is letting us know there are faults, which then tells us the
Bible must be able to reveal to us what false worship is.
Okay. If he reveals us there are true
ones. True worshippers will worship
the Father in spirit and truth. Not just in spirit, but in what
in truth. Which then tells us a false
worshipper will worship the Father in spirit and in false.
Because there are evil spirits, you can be led by an evil
spirit. You can be in the spirit with
the wrong spirits, with familiar spirits.
So you can worship the Father in the spirit, meaning your spirit
hearing from other spirits and it be false.
Hallelujah, OK, all right. God is spirit and those who
worship him must this is how we do it.
OK, we must worship him in spirit and true notice it
doesn't say worship him in soul. So whether you feel it or not,
whether you're emotionally attached is not necessary.
Because when you worship in spirit, you can actually do it
in an emotion opposite of how you feel once you engage in
worship. And if you'll do that, then the
actual soul realm can catch up to the spirit realm.
I don't worship him because I'm happy.
I don't worship him cause I'm glad.
I worship him in spirit and what's going on in my soul is
irrelevant and it will need to change to get in line with the
spirit. Hallelujah.
Are you hearing what I'm saying? Amen.
So I'm. I'm ministering out of this line
because there is false worship in the churches, OK?
And so I need to dress a little bit because there's a problem in
churches in general, OK? And it's really in religion.
Can I just say it that way? There's a problem in religion
because if you're religious, then words in the Bible have
religious meanings. But when you're in the Kingdom,
then words are defined according to the king.
Why do I say that? We've said this before in the.
Again, John 11 in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was
with God, and the Word was verse 14 of that same chapter one.
And the Word became what's his name, Jesus.
So Jesus is the Word. Well, if Jesus is the Word, he
is the author of all words, which means he has the right to
define them. So it's it's up to us to get in
scripture to see how God's defining words, not how man's
defining words, Because if man will define the word, the man
will define it religiously. And once you take one of God's
words and makes it a religious word, then it has no power.
But when you let the king define what he means by word, then you
get the full context. Like Lord, Lord is not a
religious word. It means supreme in authority.
So when we say Jesus Christ is Lord, that means He's supreme in
authority. What does that mean supreme in
authority? Who's the one in authority?
He is. And he is he the first one, the
supreme one. So then why are you making the
decisions without him? Now religion will let you
continue to do what you want to do and still call him Lord.
Because the only thing that he has supremacy over is keeping
you out of hell. Because he died on the cross,
his blood was shed for the forgiveness of your sins.
You called on the name of the Lord.
His name is Jesus and you were saved and he can do nothing else
for you, but he definitely keeps you out of hell and you get to
do your life like you want to. Cause by all rights religion has
defined grace as the the the unmerited favor of God that
allows you to continue to sin because you couldn't do anything
to get right. So you can't do anything to
stay, right? All right, I'm preaching better
than y'all saying Amen, but that's all right.
Hallelujah. You understand, some of y'all
been here for some decades, OK? And what you're failing to
recognize is that not everyone in the room has been here for
decades, which means some people in the room are like, I have
never heard this before in my life.
And your lack of enthusiasm makes them think you don't know
nothing either. That you're like, I've never
heard this before. Because, you know, when you
first started hearing things about the king and you became
speechless. But when you know something, you
should say Amen to it. When you're like, praise God,
yes, I remember that truth. That's awesome.
You should have some kind of engagement.
Hallelujah. So can we do a little bit
better? Amen.
Praise the Lord. I mean, no coach is gonna let
their team play flat. They finish a play, they walk
all right. Offense is in.
How many games do y'all play? Well, we played a lot of games.
Coach been doing this for a Little League.
Just just just tell us to play man, right?
I mean, if y'all watching Y'all's team do that, y'all be
screaming at the TV, throwing things at it, tearing your
shirts off, Find another team. I got to be around teams, got
passion. I mean, Pastor Mike totally did
repentance because of that. He was so sick and tired of the
mediocrity of Michigan. They says I'm going back to my
roots. Is that not true?
He said. I'm tired of mediocrity.
There's no passion in their game and I was born in Ohio anyway.
I'm going back to Ohio. And there he is.
Total repentance. That's repentance.
From Michigan to Ohio State. He has repented.
Are you? Hearing me now, he'll get to
heaven when he makes the Gators. His team?
I'm just kidding. We're in mediocrity.
I might be coming somewhere else myself.
My point is, is why do we get into mediocrity and services
when we're hearing truths, when we're hearing things?
Hallelujah. Because again, the more we
desire to know, the more we will know.
And The thing is, is that a religion can sneak in anywhere.
I said religion can sneak in anywhere.
Because religion starts to redefine God's word.
And that's what the devil did in the garden.
Well, God said it, but his deception, 'cause?
That's what religion is. Religion is the deception that
you're right with God, although you know something, right?
But you're doing what you're supposed to do religiously.
Hallelujah. But in the Kingdom, you have a
daddy who sits on the throne. He's the creator of heaven and
earth, and he's raised you up and seated you in heavenly
places in Christ Jesus, where you're on the throne with him.
You're a child of the king, and dad says that he looks for those
who will worship him and they'll be true worshippers.
OK, so in the majority of churches based upon religion,
and I say this, I'm not just eliminated to the United States.
When we hear worship, we typically think of singing
because we have a phrase, we say praise.
And why do we say this? See, we really don't even
question ourselves half the time.
And it's habit we get into habit.
Well, we're having. Well, we're doing a praise and
worship service. Well, praise can include
worship, but worship doesn't always include praise.
Hallelujah. It doesn't always include it.
So when Jesus is saying here, he's looking for true
worshippers, what he's not saying and what a lot of people
will say, and you've probably heard this in your religious
circles, we were created to worship.
Now when they say that, you know, they saying we gonna sing.
And what's bad is if you were created to worship, how come you
sing so bad? Why would God create someone
who's supposed to sing all the time?
They Can't Sing a lick. I mean, that's cruel and unusual
for dad to say. I want you to sing to me.
You are created to worship me, to worship and meaning singing.
And you Can't Sing and you're like Dad loves him.
Better listen to that voice and here's mine.
But it's amazing we say this. We're creating worship.
We just can't wait to get there. Now, are we going to sing?
Yes. But were we created to sing?
No, no. Genesis 126 tells us what we
were created to do. Let us make man in our image
according to our likeness and let them have a good voice who
can sing to me all the time, praises to my name only and
sing, sing, sing. They going to worship me,
worship me, worship me. So it can't be that worship is
singing and it's not slow songs praise and so we're praising him
when it's fast. We are worshipping him when it's
slow. Or we went to the worship set,
went to the worship set. Right, went to the worship, said
Oh, I just really love to worship God.
And here's the thing, what brought this conversation to me
as a 23 year old minister in Moundville, AL And he was about
to introduce me and he says my generation, all they want to do
is getting praise services. They love to sing.
He said, but singing along won't change them permanently.
And then he uses a scripture for that.
And I'm like, that's good, that's good.
Because what happens is when we are religious then we will begin
to worship aspects of God are things that can you can do
towards God. Ask the only thing.
The reason why we wrote the Force was because we tend to
find places that we want to stop and hug, and God never intended
us to have an expression to stop us, and all we want to do is
that. Period.
We are going. To let the word define what
worship is so you can understand what a true worshipper is.
Then are you hearing me? Because the king is looking for
true. In fact, he seeks them.
I said he seeks them. I said he seeks them.
And we're going to see how he sought after one and what it
really means to worship which. Can include singing All right
Y'all with me now, okay. So man was created in God's
image, in the image of God. According to Genesis 126, to
have dominion or rule, man was to have dominion, to have
rulership ruling can require him to sing to the supreme ruler.
No problem there But it does not mean that's all they do.
In fact, if we see let us make man in our image, turn it, put
it up there real quick guys. Genesis 126 and let's find the
singing in it. OK?
Genesis 126. Then God said, let us make man
in our image according to our license, and let them rule over
the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, over the
cattle, over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that
creeps on the earth. God next verse God created man
right in his image, both male and female.
He created them so both male and female has dominion.
He tells them to be fruitful. To multiply, to subdue.
To keep five things he mentions to them on the 28th verse for
them to do. Never does he say man was
created to worship. Where worship means singing, it
doesn't say. Let us make men in our image
corner our lives and let them sing to the fish, sing to the
birds, sing to the cattle. Now you sing all you want to to
your pets. I don't care.
But you weren't created right. Nowhere in there does it say
that our sole reason for existing if we're defining
worship as. Singing is the sing doesn't say
that at all. So you understand why a lot of
people sometimes don't want to make a relationship with Jesus
because number one, they Can't Sing #2.
It just doesn't make sense to them that they would sing for
eternity. You understand?
God has taken care of the singing for eternity.
He has created beings. They are not humans that are
around his throne and they have one song they sing what not like
this that we do up here. One song they singing, they
singing one song and they have not worn out that song nor has
that song gotten worn out in the ears of the Lord.
They are singing holy, holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty
come on. And they keep singing it and
they keep singing it and they keep singing it cause they were
created to sing that song around the throne.
But man was not created to go around the throne singing.
So religions got people believing that they accept Jesus
into their heart so they die. They can go to heaven where he
currently resides to sing for eternity.
To him it is one massive choir, right?
But the Bible doesn't say that religion does Hallelujah.
Which means then if you are saying and all you're trying to
do is be in praise services, again, according to their
definition, praise and worship. I just love praise and worship
services. Oh, I just love to be in praise
and worship. I just love to get in the
presence of God and praise and worship.
I just love to be. That's all I want to do is be in
the praise and worship service. Well, they can't be a true.
They'll start running themselves to becoming a false worshipper.
Are you hearing me? So let's see what happens when
music plays first time in chapter 16, verse 14 to 23.
Yeah, I know. Now y'all going to have to let
me explain a couple things. OK, y'all going to be all right
with me. Because the minute we read this
first couple verses, they're very problematic.
But again, This is why you have to read the Bible in context.
This is again, This is why we say at Anchor Faith Church you
need to read it from. Cover to cover Genesis 11 to
Revelations 2221 because and again you have to interpret it
based upon the covenants we're in, OK, the dispensations we're
in because we're in a new and better covenant now in a
different dispensation that things that were happening in
this particular time don't have to happen like that.
And you can't be act like it's still happening that way when
you're born of God. OK now it says now the spirit of
the Lord departed from Saul. He was king of Israel and an
evil spirit from the Lord terrorized him.
Saul servants then said to him, Behold, now an evil spirit from
God is terrorizing you now. Is this is problematic because
at this point you would have to conclude reading that, that God
has evil spirits on his payroll, And that's troubling, right?
This is troubling. So again, this is one of those
verses that typically everybody wants to stay away from because
we're like can't explain that one.
Well, we can when we go to job. But when we go to Job because
you understand there's a spiritual world out there.
Besides God's heavenly spirits are righteous ones, there is
another realm of spirit or fallen spirits.
We can find this in Isaiah chapter 14 in Ezekiel.
We are aware and we know of Satan himself.
But you understand Satan's not alone.
The Bible tells us that a third of the heavenly hosts were cast
down. Right now.
I'm not going to get into some other debates concerning some
other context where people talk about it Preadamic race and that
because of that, there's some things there of some disembodied
spirits out of humans. That is subjective and there's
not enough evidence for you to build doctrines on.
But when you don't know it entirely, you should keep
yourself open to be able to be taught.
That's all I'm saying. We do know there is a devil.
We do know there are evil spirits.
The Bible tells we know there are unclean spirits.
The Bible tells us this. We understand that these demonic
spirits, they can possess people.
We know this. This is clear doctrine.
In scripture across the board and we know that the devil,
Satan is what Jesus called him is the Prince of the power of
the air. Now why is he?
That is because he held dominion.
Where did he get the dominion from Luke chapter 4 in the
Temptation of Christ. Remember he takes Jesus up to
high Pentacle, shows him all the kingdoms in a moment of time,
not religions. But all kingdoms.
And he says all these domains, that means the territory that I
have authority over, I'll give to you, he said.
All these domains I'll give to you.
Cause they've been what? Hand it over to me.
Where did the devil gain the possession of rulership at Adam?
Because God told Adam, don't eat the fruit of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil, for the day you eat you will surely.
Died when Adam ate the fruit based upon the words of Satan
through the serpent who deceived his wife.
He heard that conversation, watched her eat, then took it
himself bit into the fruit. The Bible says he immediately
died and a transfer of power. Now Paul says in 2nd 2nd
Corinthians 4 four that he is the God of this world.
He doesn't own planet Earth, but he has dominion over systems
that function on the planet, and up until the time of Jesus he
was controlling it all. Now he still has control based
upon the fall and sin nature of man.
There are kids that are still apart associated with him.
Because remember Jesus said you are of your father the devil.
So again, everyone on planet earth is not God's loving
children. In fact, just to let you know,
all of us are the minority because more are with the devil
than with God. There are more unbelievers than
there are believers. There are more children of the
devil or children of darkness, children of wrath.
Then there are children of light, children of God, children
of righteousness. Because they've not come through
the blood. Are you hearing me?
So this is King Saul, this is the old covenant, this is before
the death bear on resurrection of Jesus.
And Joe gives us an insight of how the devil was trying to
determine what did he get from Adam.
So when he goes up before the Lord, cause he's the accuser of
the brethren because again, he can devour you if you are in his
territory. And his territory is where he
steals, kills and destroy is death.
It is sin. His territory is anything that's
disobedient. Adam got underneath the devil's
authority the minute he disobeyed God.
He became a slave to the devil. The day he just the the second
he disobeyed God, right? Which made him supreme in
authority on the earth. Now God has given man dominion
and he can't take it from the devil because, again, God can do
whatever he wants to do. That's what religion says.
Well, if that's the case, why didn't God come down the
gardens? Slap the serpent?
Take this invisible dominion that we can't see anyway?
And give it and say I forgive you Adam.
And give it back to Adam because the King's bound by his word.
So when God the Father says, Let man have dominion on the earth
to rule now it requires a man to come back and get the dominion.
This is why God has to come as a man.
He has to put himself in a flesh suit.
Because it's legal entry. And God is a legal God.
He does not go against his own word.
And when Adam sinned, death came.
And death has a price. Sin has a price.
It's called death. It has to be paid.
The wages of sin is well did Jesus pay that price?
Yes he did. He died and his blood was more
precious than silver and gold, which paid a debt.
That's why we're called redeemed.
So the Death Bear on resurrection of Jesus is a
financial transaction between two kingdoms where the Lord now
has the legal right. To deliver anyone who will call
him Lord because he's paid the price for them, but now He will
not deliver them unless they acknowledge him although he's
already paid the price which means they have to denounce the
Devil is Lord supreme authority telling me what to do, and now
Jesus is supreme authority who I yield to and tells me what to do
because His words are love in life anyway, you do not keep
following this one. Expecting to go to heaven with
that one. Are you hearing me?
So the devil goes up and the Lord says, have you considered
my servant job you. He said.
What? He asked first.
First thing he says to me, he says, he said Where you been?
He said, well, you know, just roaming the earth.
Why is he roaming the earth? That's where his kingship is.
You're not in your kingship if you're not where Within the
territory of your domain. President Biden is the president
of the United States. He is not the president of
China. Oh, y'all want to hear this?
He can go to China all day long, but he has no authority in
China. The only authority he has in
China is what's in the home country.
He only has protection from a land that he's not in.
But at the end of the day, could China take him mean?
I mean, capture him. He could.
It could happen. I mean, plenty of presidents
have been taken over before. He could go in for a summit and
they capture him, throw him in prison, hold him ransom.
Now, what takes place then? Anybody.
Well, you assume war number one. What happens is the vice
president assumes the role. That's what happens.
Kamala Harris becomes president while he's in jail to negotiate
with the country, to determine how they going to try to get him
out, whether that's by brute force or through some form of
negotiation or whatever. But she'll become.
That's how that works. No problem.
That's just how that works. My point is, is that the devil
is not going to heaven to take dominion.
The devil went up to heaven in the realm of the Spirit, you
understand in the heavenlies and the Lord's like what do you been
doing? Well, I'm roaming my domain
because they all my people down there, he said.
Why have you considered my servant Joe?
Because ain't nobody like him. He's righteous now.
He's righteous based upon the knowledge that's available of
God on the earth that day at that time, and based upon what
is known about God at that time. He is living righteous.
And so he says, well, it's only cause you got him protected.
Well, guess what God does to the righteous?
He protects them. But then he says this, he says.
Now listen, you take his stuff, he would curse you.
In essence, He's only righteous because of the benefits that
come with righteousness. If trouble actually came to him,
ain't know what the Lord says. He says, well, he's in your
power, which means he's already in your authority.
It wasn't God authorizing Satan. It was him saying, well, his
stuff is already in your authority because you have
dominion over cattle. You all don't want to hear this
you. Have dominion over the cattle.
You have the dominion over his stuff.
Now obviously he can't appeal to me, but in the end, you do have
dominion over this. You're the God of this world and
the kids that came from his loins.
How was man made out of the dust of the earth?
Now here's the problem. Daddy is doing sacrifices for
kids because he's concerned that every night they having a party.
They may be doing things and saying stuff that is not
righteous to the king, and keeping themselves in the edge
of protection of which apparently they were not.
Because the Satan was able to do something to their skin suits
which was of the earth. And they all died.
They died, the cattle died, the plants died.
It was his dominion. Did he curse him?
No. So he shows back up, which,
well, I'm just roaming my domain, He said.
Well, you you're still thinking about Job.
There ain't nobody, right? Just like the guy.
And he did not do what you said he would do.
Because again, when the Bible says you move me to go against
him, basically all he is saying is you moved.
To take his stuff that was technically near your dominion,
but by right of righteousness I could defend him, he says.
Well, you touch the man's skin, he's going to curse you.
And guess what God does? He says, well, he's in your
power. Meaning your is is true.
I form man out of the dust of the and you have dominion over
all the so you can put sickness on him, but you can't put a
sickness that will cause his spirit to leave his body because
he's done nothing deserving of death, so he limits how much
sickness can be on him. Cause it's it's in your power
now. You can't go.
Well, I guess the Lord's letting the devil mess with my body
today, because it's no, he's not in your power.
He's been stripped and whipped of his power in this covenant.
He has been whipped of his by the stripes of Jesus Christ.
You've been healed. You don't have to wait one
moment. You don't have to take one
symptom because you're a child of the king.
And the healthcare system of the king, is it by his stripes he
were healed. So you don't put up with that.
So you can't be pulling job over here.
Job is even before the law, OK, just so we're clear, so, he
says. It's in your power now what
happens? He still doesn't curse him and
in the end most scholars believe that was about a nine month
period. The the Max is 18 months.
Most say it's probably about nine months that the Lord says
he did not do what you said. He maintained his righteousness
and I have the legal right I do because of what he knows about
me. He's following by faith.
I always deliver the righteous out of all their trouble, so
don't touch him no more. And when he couldn't touch him,
what happened? He got double for his.
Double the flock, double the farms, double the kids.
Now he didn't have 14 kids on the planet.
He had seven more because the other seven were with the Lord.
Are you hearing me? Okay, y'all doing.
All right. So then when we say an evil
spirit from the Lord, then you have to understand, according to
the scripture says, that the devil is the accuser of the
brethren. In essence, Satan has come up at
the time of King Saw and he says, you know, I got a legal
right to this man. You know he didn't do what you.
That's right, that's. Right.
You know he was disobedient and you've put the anointing that
was on him on somebody else already.
And I I'm going to torment him. And the Lord, he's in your
power, Okay. Just so we understand that this
is functioning now. It's not God doing it, It's the
devil going up. To that realm and saying I have
a legal right under this dispensation that he was in.
Now he can still do that with people that are that are #1
lost. Number two, he can do it to the
believer who is Baxlidden. Make no mistake about it.
You can't go out under grace and do a bunch of sin and the devil
can't touch you. No, he's knocking out your door
and he's letting the devil know I'll be talking to your son.
I'll be visiting your daughter's house this weekend.
And you tie his hands because you are living up underneath
that domain again. And you're crying for grace to
protect you. When grace that can't even be
activated unless you're in faith.
It's by grace through through what you know, how many people
aren't in faith. So then you're not in grace.
All right. Amen.
But religion lets you do the least instead of the Kingdom.
God clearly defines. This is what I can do and only I
can do. And this is what you do.
And when you do yours and I do mine, nobody can stop us.
That's how the Kingdom functions.
Are you hearing me? Because Adams without sin and
the Creator could not stop it. Oh y'all, He could not stop it.
All he could do was empower him to not do it.
And he did with the word son. Don't eat from the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil for the day you eat it, you will.
Surely he empowered him, but he couldn't stop him and some of
your parents if you don't watch out with you.
Why you need to come to our parenting conference is that you
are trying to stop things in your kids.
You can't stop it. All you can do is empower them
to make the right choices, and then hold them accountable to
make those choices all right. So do we understand where the
evil spirits come from now? They petitioned, they went to
the courtroom, they went up to the Kingdom and says, hey, I got
a write to this guy because he's in disobedience and you pulled
the annoying. Anyway, there's no protection on
that king. All right, he goes on and says
this verse 16, let the Lord now command your servant.
This is his servants now King Saul's servant saying to him,
let our Lord now command your servants who are before you.
Let them seek a man who was skillfully A skillful player on
the harp, and he shall come about when the evil spirit from
God again that legally went to God, says, I got a right to go
to terrorize this guy on is on you.
Then he shall play the heart with his hand and you will be
well. So Saul said to the servant,
provide me a man who can play well and bring him to me.
So there must have been something that it was known in
the land that when someone played evil spirits would get
off people. Are you hearing me?
Then one man, then one of them young men said, Behold, I know
the son of Jesse. Who is a skillful musician,
mighty man of valor, a warrior, one prudent speech, a handsome
man, and the Lord is with him. So Saul sent message, Jesse and
said, send me your son David, who was with the flock.
Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread and a jug of wine, cause
you do not come to a king empty handed, and a young goat, and
sent them to Saul by David his son.
Then David came to, saw and attended him, and David and Saul
loved him greatly. And he became his armor bearer.
Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David now stand before me, for
he has found favor of my sight. Verse 23 And and it came about
whenever, say whenever, whenever.
So that's not one time, it's whenever.
Whenever the evil spirit from God came to Saul, David would
play the harp and play it with what his hand, and Saul would be
what? Refreshed and be well and the
evil spirit would depart from him.
And when we religiously define worship as singing, what happens
is is the devil will accommodate environments.
So you come to church, you're oppressed from the whole week,
heavy burdened, and you just want to worship him.
I mean, you want to dance before him.
I mean, you want to give him your all.
You're going to dance like David Dance.
You're going to sing like David saying.
You're going to just pour it all out every time and the you sense
the president and all that heavyweight and it lifts and
you're like, I wish they would let us do praise longer.
I wish they would let it go longer.
I just wish we could have more, You know, I just worship all the
time in my house. I've got music.
Going 24/7 all the time. I'm just singing praises all the
time. Why?
Because it lifts. And yet the Bible does say it'll
lift. But you know what?
That's not permanent, because why are those same people having
to come in to get stuff off? Because whenever I said
whenever, which means apparently the evil spirit had access.
So what was going on in Saul's life obviously, or what's going
on on these Christians lives, that there's always a heaviness
that shows up that they need to get somewhere and sing to get it
off. They got to get in the praise
service. They got to go to the Hillsong
concert or to the Gateway concert or to the Elevation
concert, or they got to go down to the amphitheater or some
other kind of Christian concert. They got to go to all these
performances and get up and into all this music because why would
it pulled up all my impression and it will for season, but it's
not permanent and this is what that 23 old minister of
Moundsville said. He said that my generation, the
guys my age, all they want to do is get in the singing, in the
worship conferences and all that.
And he says it's no permanent change because David's music did
not permanently change Saul. I don't care how much Pastor
Marcus is worshipping up here, jumping, dancing, pouring his
heart out towards the Lord, that is not permanent change going to
happen for you. Will this environment lift the
room? Yes.
Will it be able to pull things off you?
Yes. And why is it designed so that
you can become a true worshipper?
Because when it's lifted, you're supposed to then move into what
causes you to be a tree worshipper.
And it's has nothing to do with singing, although it may require
it. At Tom's.
You know how many people are obsessed?
They are worshipping, singing to the Lord.
They worship the music. They worship it so much they
don't even listen to the context.
You know what I mean? We you know what I mean?
Songs we change. I can't even sing have to stuff
this out there. It's full of doubt, unbelief,
old covenant doctrine that it has no place in the new
Covenant. But you know what it is, it's
emotions. So what it is, is create an
environment where they're worshipping him and again cause
they define worship as singing in soul and scripture.
That's how I'm gonna say it. Cause just cause you're using
scripture don't mean you're speaking truth.
Oh, you don't hear this. You can use scripture to
manipulate. You can use scripture to bring a
false doctrine. I mean even the devil quoted
scripture with Jesus. So just cause they're using
scripture in their song doesn't mean it's scripts role or it's
truth. The Lord giveth and the Lord
taketh away If you read Job. God took nothing from Job.
The devil did. So why are we singing Job's
misunderstanding? Because he has no context
concerning the devil. You understand Job doesn't have
our Bible. God himself didn't even tell
Adam about the devil. He comes down the cooler day.
That's how he communicates with him in the garden.
He didn't say, Son, I just want you to know where I'm living.
We had a little problem. I mean, it didn't take long
because your daddy's powerful, you know?
So I had this creative being that I had.
He went rogue, got about 1/3 of some angels to go with him, you
know. So they came against the Kingdom
up there and came against Michael.
Man. They were fighting some stuff,
but I took care of that with the word right.
Jesus said I saw Satan fall like Latin from heaven, so I've sent
him down here. You need to be looking out for
him. His name is never said that.
He gave him one word that it doesn't matter if the devil
showed up, walked around. Don't eat the fruit, son.
You need everything else. Don't eat the fruit.
So we're assuming Job has this context of the devil and Satan
and what he's doing mean. Scholars believe that is
Genesis. I think up to chapter 22, the
whole book of Job is there is considered the oldest book of
the Bible because it's the complete book before Genesis.
He actually finishes being pinned of its history.
So Joe doesn't have the the the five, the Torah.
He didn't have this. He has the conversations and
testimonies of things that God has done.
There's some knowledge that has been passed on through Adam
somehow in the earth and his son somehow.
Something's through to some degree that Job is able to have
some context of God. Although we do know that Romans
themselves says just through creation, God's invisible people
are without excuse. No, there's a God.
So there's something that he knew that kept him in this
position of righteousness with the Lord, but he has no contest
and everyone knows that God's all powerful.
So at the end of the day, he's assuming then well, God, who am
I to complain if God takes away what I have because I'm just
going to worship him anyway? You know we should just worship
him anyway, But God's giving us a whole scripture lets us know
that's not my character. If something's being stripped
from you and I'm a cause, it's cause you're in gross
disobedience and I've done a lot to try to talk you out of the
stuff you're in. I'm going to say that again, if
the. Lord is personally involved.
With the dismantling of stuff that you have, it's because
you're in gross disobedience and he has been extremely
long-suffering to talk you out of what you're in.
So people want to just come to the singing stuff.
I mean, most churches, the singing is longer than the
preaching. Well, let's just feel better
when they're really worshipping because of their definition of
worship in soul and scriptures. That's how it makes them feel.
And the more the song makes them feel good.
Look, you know as well as I do, I could throw out some secular
stuff. Right now, I'm talking stuff
that's straight from the pit of hell.
I'm talking stuff that. I mean, if I would have been in
high school with some of the songs that come out today, man,
it had been rough. Deal.
It'd been rough. I mean, lyrically, there was
some stuff in when I was in high school anyway.
I mean, but it's become mainstream pop stuff.
I mean, it's very descriptive. I remember when I was youth
pastor. Now you understand this was 20
something years ago. And this guy by the name of
Nellie. Anybody know who Nellie is?
OK, it got hot in here. I mean, you know that song.
OK, some of y'all. Now you understand what happens
when it gets hot. There is no way I wouldn't be
going out and playing that with a girl in the car with the
heater on. It's getting hot here.
And I bet you there's a lot of girls that did that song.
But I'm saying right now, you don't have to hear the words,
but this, the beat starts going, you can't help but I see y'all
y'all at the stadium. You'll be at the mall somewhere,
you know, out and about. And if something's playing you
can't be be like. Catching yourself working, that
thing. UNICEF So Christian music, I'm
talking about your shoulders. Working your shoulders.
We are no longer at Nelly's song, so get your mind right.
Y'all should be able to recover faster now.
We're in church, people. But I'm just saying, I mean you,
you can't help but be like you. I mean, we participate.
We have no problem with moving with rhythm.
I mean, OK, that is debatable, that is.
Some do, but they still try, is what I'm saying.
You know, you can't watch some of the people clap.
You know you can't. You're like, I can't even sing
this song now, but it's soul. And emotionally, I mean, you're
screaming, you got veins popping, you're sweating, you're
putting your whole soul in it. But your spirit may not even be
close. In fact, most it's not.
In fact, with some of the lyrics, it can't be.
It can't even be. Again, I had teenagers before
the Depot when I was in Florida that came to me and wanted me to
sing a song with the worship team called Heaven Let Your
Light Shine down by Collective Soul.
Collective Soul, Is that what? Yeah, Collective Soul.
It's secular. But why they want me to sing it?
Because they have the word heaven in it.
Yeah. Pastor Vanessa's youth group.
I think she was the one who suggested it.
Are you going to say it's Jimmy James?
I see how it is. You're going to throw him.
I saw Vanessa be over there. Yeah, I'm like, no, we are.
No, no. Just cause it says heaven don't
mean it's heaven. I mean it could be the first or
second heaven where there's principalities out.
But we ain't talking about the 3rd heaven people.
Then I found out later that the guy wrote the song while in a
strip bar and while I was watching the girl dance.
This came to his mind. OK, just so y'all know, my point
is, is that the enemy's doing a good job of keeping you in your
soul realm and not in your spirit because he's redefined
worship as singing and he wants you to be emotionally all in.
Because he even knows that music has the potential and you can't
get in atmospheres where it can pull things off.
But here's the problem. If you do not do what's
necessary, then even that environment.
Will fail. And again we minister that you
can get into worship and and things that are on you can begin
to lift and they will. And I believe that you can come
in Anchor Faith Church and we can do stuff here and things
begin to rise. And it will rise.
But the reason it's coming up off you is because of what you
need to do to become a true worshipper.
Because if you don't then you get First Samuel chapter 18.
First time in chapter 18, verse 10 says this.
Now it came about on the next day that an evil spirit from
God, and we've already explained this, was mightily upon saw and
he raved in the midst of the house while David was what
playing the harp. And remember, whenever it came
on, he played the harp and what took place.
It would go away. He would be refreshed.
He was playing the harp with his hands as.
Usual. And a spear was in Saul's hand.
Saul hurled the spear, for he thought, I will pin David to the
wall, But David escaped from his presence.
Twice. So this time, when singing went
instead of them Saul come being refreshed, Saul got more angry.
This is important because again, if you don't do what you need to
do to become a true worshipper, then all the worship of Anchor
Faith Church is going to do is make you mad because that's why
you'll stand in the back like this.
And Pastor Mars said, well lift your hands and you're hurling
Spears in your mind because you're saying this is stupid.
I wish they'd go on. Man, so dumb.
I don't understand why there's people up there acting like
that. It's just so idiotic, which they
just shut up, sit down and let them preach.
Well, the preacher is doing nothing for you, although it
would do something for you if you actually would listen.
Because there is a time to raise your hand.
There's a time to dance. There's a time to shout.
There's a time. I get it.
There's there's a time when it's time to praise.
Let's praise him, let's praise him, Let's lift our hands, let's
clap. Let's do it all.
I mean, the scripture says we should praise the Lord.
But if you're having a hard time praising us because you've got
more souls at. Because when things were lifted,
you didn't do what you supposed to do to be a tree worshipper,
and now you're mad in it. And it's ain't the only
occasion. First Same year, chapter 19.
Very next chapter, Chapter 9, a verse 9 and 10.
Now there was an evil spear from the Lord on Saul as he was
sitting in his house and his spear was in his hand.
And Dave was playing the harp with his hand.
And Saul tried to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he
slipped out of the Saul's presence so that he stuck the
spear into the wall. And David fled and escaped that
night, that night because in this account, he sent the guys
over to his house because at this point now he's married to
his daughter, the first one. He wasn't married to his
daughter. So he sends him off to the
Philistines to get killed. And the reason he said, I'll let
you know, you need to marry my daughter.
And he said, look, I'm just a guy from the, you know, out in
the field. I I have nothing to be able to
do a dowry for your daughter. I can't even, you know, he's
already rejected being his son once.
Now he's like, what do you, what do I do?
He said. Look, you just kill me.
It's 100 Philistines and you know, basically circus size them
and bring that, that, that, that piece of skin back.
And David did it. He was hoping that David was
going to die, but he did. And when David came to town
after that one, they said Saul kills his thousands and David is
10s of thousands and the worship service didn't lift him anymore.
In fact, he was never in another musical session with David ever
again because music could soothe him no more.
And there's a lot of people in churches that music does not
soothe them anymore. And now we're at a problem
because you've been told religiously you were created to
worship and you can't. In fact, that makes you mad.
I'm preaching better than you're saying.
Amen. But I appreciate the 1:00
because we are in a culture right now that our praise and
worship has gone so secular. I can name bands right now and
y'all listening to them. You're watching them on YouTube.
You're singing to the top of your lungs, and most of you're
not even examining whether or not what they're saying is
scriptural at all. Now, I'm not telling you to
abandon singing. Please do not, please sing.
I'm not telling you to never listen to anyone.
I'm not saying that. I'm just saying be more
understanding. As you grow.
There's probably some things that you were singing you're
probably not going to sing. And if the Lord's not dealt with
you about a. Particular song Sing Away.
But the minute you begin to realize, man, I don't know if
that's right, then you need to make an adjustment because God
wants you to be accurate. Are you hearing me Now?
How can we determine what a true worshipper is?
Well, we picked up this whole context about David showing up
in first time. You're 16 in the 14th verse.
If we go back to that chapter, verse seven, it says.
But the Lord said to Samuel, do not look at his appearance or at
the height of his statue, because I have rejected him.
For God sees not as man sees, but man looks at the outward
appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.
What kind of heart is God going? After he tells us 3 chapters
earlier in First Samuel 13 go to First Samuel 13 versus 13 to 14
Samuel said to Saul, You have acted foolishly.
You have not. What?
Oh, come on. You have not kept the
commandment of the Lord your God, which you which he
commanded you. For now the Lord would have
established your Kingdom over Israel forever.
But now your Kingdom shall not endure, for the Lord has sought.
He's looking now. Sought out for himself a man
after his own heart, and the man and the Lord has appointed him
as ruler over his people, because you have what not kept
what the Lord commanded. You.
Now what took place here? This here.
The Lord said, hey, Samuel said show up.
We're going to do a sacrifice. I'll be there to do the
sacrifice. The people started to leave, so
he wanted to please the people. Samuel's not there.
He's not being patient. He doesn't do what Samuel says
that the Lord said, so he doesn't sacrifice himself.
And now the Lord says you didn't know, baby.
Now he did a sacrifice to the Lord.
But the Lord didn't say him to do the sacrifice, the prophets
coming to do the sacrifice. So the Lord says I'm looking for
somebody, but he gives him another opportunity or at least
he again tries to come back to him and say, listen, if you're
going to be a true worshipper, this how it works.
So we go to the 15th chapter for Samuel, and he says now, so
you're going to go into battle and this group of people right
here, you keeping nothing? You destroy it all.
You're not. You don't keep a thing.
I understand that these past battles, you guys have taken the
best. You've done a sacrifice.
You've honored me with that because I helped you win the
battle You've done. But with this group right here,
I've already judged them. None of them are good.
No one will ever be good out of this breed.
No one will ever be good. God knows the end from the
beginning. They'll nobody will ever turn to
me out of this race here, this nation of people.
Destroy it all. He kills everyone but keeps the
best. And the Lord says I regret.
I regret that I have made Sal king.
And so Samuel all night contends with the Lord about this deal
shows up and he says what in the world, John?
He said I only obeyed the command of God and I love
Samuel's response. Then what is the sound of sheep
that I'm hearing right now? So he goes on and says, look, I
mean, I did what God said we could have, But you know what?
At the end of the day, some people came to me and we talked
about how we should go ahead and sacrifice to God for this great
win. And so we kept the best stuff to
do a sacrifice. And here it comes in the 22nd
verse of First Samuel. 15 Samuel said, has the Lord as much
delight and burn, offerings and sacrifice as in obeying the
voice of the Lord. Behold, to obey is better.
Then sacrifice and to heed. Then the fat of Rams.
For rebellion is is as the sin of divination and insombornation
is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the
word of the Lord, He has also rejected you from being king.
A true worshipper. Bible definition of worship.
Worship means obey God. If the Lord says give obey,
that's worship. If the Lord says run obey,
that's worship. If the Lord says be quiet, obey,
that's worship. If the Lord says read the word
obey, that's worship. If the Lord says pray, pray,
that's worship. The Lord says forgive your
brother, forgive him. That's worship.
And the Lord says I'm looking
for true worshippers. I'm looking for people who obey
me. And if the Lord says sing, sing.
If he says shout, shout. But he did not take every town
with a shout. Why do we go to churches and we
want to shout every service? God didn't take every city with
a shout. So it doesn't mean that we
should have to shout every service.
God didn't have expressions of joy in everything, so that that
mean every service you got to be laughing and rolling on the
floor. What you have to do is obey some
of God's most powerful services, like.
But because we're religiously worse.
Oh Lord God, oh God, God, everybody else is quiet and
you're screaming and Lord, I love you, Lord, Lord.
And we're like God's not in your song at all.
You are emotionally responding right now because if you were in
the spirit, obedience would be be quiet.
But now if everybody is like, glory to God, glory to God, and
you're like, you're definitely not in the spirit.
But I don't feel like shouting. But he says to shout.
And I am do it by the Spirit, not by my emotions anyway.
Because again, we all those little religious Christians,
what do they do? Well, you know, we're supposed
to be led by faith, but I don't feel like, well, you're not
supposed to feel faith, right? You're just supposed to obey
God. I don't feel like singing.
Who cares? Sing and there.
And since you're not created to sing all of us forever in
eternity, although we will sing, you can make a joyful noise.
So God did include. You right.
So again, it should be easy. If people are truly worshipping,
they come to church. Because he said, oh, forsake the
assembly and you can't, you cannot interpret that any other
way. And they are trying, but they
are already. I mean, it's like they, you
know, you don't have to go to church.
They use this scripture all the time, assemble.
But they didn't actually go to church that they assembled.
They did assemble, and God says assemble and you can't assemble
by yourself. Can't happen.
I mean, it's just crazy doctrine out there, but it's because the
devil's really good at keeping people separated and not true
worshippers. Are you hearing me?
Well, How relevant is this to today?
Well, Mark chapter 12. Mark chapter 12, verse 28 to 34.
One of the scribes came and heard them argue, and
recognizing that he had answered them well, asked him what
commandment is the foremost of all.
Jesus said the foremost is here. Sing to the Lord.
Sing to the Lord with all your heart.
Sing, sing, sing because you were created to worship.
Now if you define worship like God, then you could say we were
created to worship because I was created to always obey my
Father. So it is true we were created to
worship when worship means to obey God whatever he says.
So if God says sing, I worship him singing because I obey.
If God says to lay down and be still, I worship him.
If the Lord says go to this place and pay for this person's
meal, I go do it. I'm worshipping him.
You know you can worship God that way.
We say worship God with your giving.
Well the reason we worship God with the giving because he says
give worship then means not because we're singing it out of
our hands, but it's because we're obeying the command of
God. So Jesus says, well, they asked
what's the form? Jesus answered the foremost.
It says here on Israel, the Lord our God is 1 Lord, and you shall
love the Lord with all your there's your spirit, all your
there's your soul Round that's your mind, will, emotion.
And with all your mind that's your intellect and with all your
that's your body. Your body's not your.
OK, the 2nd is this. You shall love your neighbor as
yourself. There is no other commandment
greater than these, the scribe said to him.
Right, Teacher, you have truly stated that he is 1 and there is
no one else beside him. Now look where this guy goes,
and that you shall love him with all your heart, with all your
understanding, with all your strength, and love your
neighbors and himself in so much more, is much more than all
burnt offerings and sacrifices. Didn't we just read this that
Samuel tells Saul you get no more Kingdom God stripping you
of your King's anointing because you are coming and giving a
sacrifice of praise? Oh, you don't want to hear this.
That's fine. You going to come and bring a
sacrifice of praise, but you're not going to actually obey me.
I mean, you gonna sweat more than anybody.
You gonna dance more than anybody.
You gonna shout more than anybody.
You gonna run more than anybody. Unless you in the house that
teaches this stuff and then you don't move at all.
But then you go to places that nobody knows you and you're all
over the place and he says all that burn off rings.
The second he said when Jesus saw, look what he says.
When Jesus saw that he answered intelligent.
Look what he responds, he said to him, look what he said.
You are not far from you want to get into Kingdom.
You got to obey. It's not you're not singing your
way in. You're singing is not making you
more Kingdom. Your obedience is what makes you
Kingdom, and sometimes the Kingdom says you need to sing, I
said you need to sing, you need to sing.
Because if the Lord tells me just to dance, or if He tells me
to run, I'll run if he tells. Me to shout, I'll shout and you
understand. I'll praise period.
And a lot of times, you know, you get in some places where
there's a lot of ministers. They don't do nothing, but I get
around a lot of Saints that all they do is sing and they ain't
obedient, which means they're not a true worshipper because
they don't put down the flesh, they don't crucify it, they
don't walk wholly, meaning they don't keep themselves separated
unto God. All right, it's getting getting
nice and loud up in this place right here who love it.
Well then we got to define love, right?
Because if God's looking for true worshippers and worship
means to obey him, he said Now like he seeks.
What was he seeking when he went after David?
A man after his own heart. And what was David?
A man who obeyed? There are only three accounts.
I believe it is 3 accounts of David of his failures.
But yet we act like, you know, they're right there.
Especially the you know the Bathsheba one right there.
You know what? He did so many more obedient
things. I mean, it just compels in
comparison his obedience to God compared to his three documented
disobedient things. He was a man after Gaza.
This wasn't. And most people say a man after
Gaza. Heart is a man who's quick to
repent. God was after his after this
guy, before he ever became king. So his repentance to Nathan
didn't mean it was a man after his own heart.
It was because he was already a guy that recognized worship is
obeying God. And since you've called me out
and you're right, who am I to kill the prophet?
Because other kings did that to make them continue to look good,
he said. I'm going to obey God because
that's what a true worshipper does.
They obey. And you can't obey God in spirit
and in truth unless you're connected to truth.
Hallelujah. Cause worship means you love
him. How do we know this?
John 1415 says it this way if you love me.
Who's saying this? So you can't just sing?
I love you, I love you. I love you.
I mean we sing these songs about how much we love God, but he's
like, I don't care you're, I mean, you know, half this half.
So many people are married and they're here and I love you.
And most don't believe it because it's a word without
action. And you know you're not duping
the Lord. The Lord's not a man that he
should lie, number one, nor is the Lord mocked.
So you can't say out of your mouth, I love you.
And he don't know in your heart that it's a lot to your actions
if you love me. Jesus the King defines how he
knows you love him. Oh my gosh.
Guys, I've already told you this in the bears repeating today.
God creates Adam in his image. He's just like God, no sin.
But how does God even know Adam loves him?
He's made his image. Why would he not know that Adam
loves him? He can only know one way.
Adam has to obey to show love. That's why he says you can eat
of any tree. But if the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil you shall not eat for the day you eat, you
die. I just want to know.
Adam, do you love me? It's the only way.
Saying I love you doesn't mean it.
And Jesus reaffirms this now. If you love me, you sometimes,
but not always, because you understand this is grace.
Anyway, you don't have to Jack. You will.
Keep my commandments and there's so many people religiously
worship in Jesus right now as false worshippers crying out.
This is why I'll never forget I was in at a particular
conference and I just teenagers were on this wall just wailing,
wailing in a in a praise session just, I mean crying everything.
And I'm like, wow man, these teens are going after it.
And the Lord told me he said no, they're not.
He says I don't even hear them. I'm like Lord, he said none of
them are connected to me in the spirit at all.
Now that doesn't mean God is not compassionate.
That doesn't mean that God isn't trying to move them somewhere to
get them somewhere. See, here's the thing.
Don't be so arrogant to think God's got accept how I'm doing
it. I mean, that's the I I I cried
out and cried out. He had.
God doesn't have to do anything but what His word says.
And if you'll do his word, then he has to do that.
That's why Jesus can be in a crowd.
It's why people are so crazy and they say, well, if I just get in
the presence of God, just get in the presence.
God has been in the presence of all kind of people and did
nothing. It did not change them
permanent. You know what miracles sound?
If we could just get the miracles back, can we just get
the miracles back? Miracle Signs and Wonders does
not. Mean permanent change in people
because Jesus did miracle signs and wanders 3 years into as
many. She said I ain't doing no more
miracles in this town. All you do is seek a sign.
You are a perverse and evil generation.
All you do is seek a sign. I'm so sick and tired of all the
signs that are testifying in me. If you if you believe the signs,
then you would obey me. But you're not obeying me, so
I'm not going to perform for you.
So you can't come and make me do what you want, nor can you make
me respond to you in your flesh. That's good.
I'm not going to be in your service just because you're
crying and you got a problem. But I'll be in your presence if
you'll make a demand on my word and I'll show up.
I'll show out. I'll stand up, I'll do it and
I'll deliver you like nobody else.
But you're crying doesn't do nothing for me.
He can say I got a whole book of criers that I did nothing.
Are you hearing me? Because this is how good God is.
You can be doing so much in the flesh and God to send you a
spirit man or woman to come by and say no.
Honey, I can show you some things that help move God, but
if you want to worship God your way religiously, then you'll get
that God Well, but he's done stuff for me.
He's done stuff for the people praying for you while you stay
ignorant. That's the problem.
Did God get you out of that? Yeah, but it wasn't your
prayers. It was someone who knew how to
tap God on your behalf. There was a Moses in your life
that was standing up while you were stiff, stubborn and
hardhearted doing it. Your way and somebody was in the
gap still for you. And yeah, it was God, but it was
nothing. You were snotting out.
Just say Amen. Anyway, this is true deliverance
right here, people, because this how you tap into God and become
a true worshipper, because you're like, I'll find out what
God says. Because he said now if you love
me, you'll keep my word. Then he goes on down in the 21st
chat verse of the same chapter and he says he who had, who has
my commandments and keeps them, is the one who loves me.
And he who loves me will be loved by my father, and I will
love him and will disclose myself to him.
But what is it that shows that we love him, we have His
commandments and we keep them? Then he goes down to 23rd verse.
In case you're confused, he says Jesus answer said that him if
anyone loves me, he will keep my word and my father will love
him. Which then implies if you don't
keep my word, Dad is definitely displeased.
OK. And we will come to him and make
our abode with him he who does not.
Love me now. How do we know who doesn't love
you? Doesn't keep my word.
Well, I love the Lord. Where you keeping his word?
Well, I mean, when you're going to church.
Well, I go when I want to. But the Lord says don't forsake
the assembly yourself together. You're supposed to get up
underneath the pastor man. Become part of a body, you know,
share, pray. I mean, you know.
Well, you know, someone so hurt me, I got church her.
Well, you're just offended, you know?
Get over it. Forgive.
Let's go. Well, you don't know what I've
been. OK, so you don't love him.
Then? Don't tell me I don't love hell.
You don't judge me. I'm not judging you.
The scripture said if you're not keeping his words, you don't
love him. What do you want me to say?
I'm not going to believe you're lie.
I mean you want me to believe you over the word who is saying
verse 24. He who does not love me does not
keep. My words and the word which you
hear is not mine, but the father who sent me and that's what he's
saying now. I'm not saying this.
Daddy told me to say this so you don't do what I'm saying and.
Then you have like you right with dad and your dad are tight.
I'll go on over to 1st John just so we have no confusion today
before we leave because God's seeking true worshippers that
are those listen. This is why heaven will be
nothing but worshippers. Because everyone who is with God
in heaven for the time frame we are before we come back to new
heaven, new earth. At the end of the day they will
be worshippers because we will obey dad.
We love to. I mean we just love to obey dad
because he's life, he's love, he's existence and his ways.
The only way, and we're so good with that, because it makes us
discover who we are and all that we can be.
First John Chapter 2, verse 3 through 6 is this.
By this we know that we have come to know him.
By this we know that we have come to know him notice.
It doesn't say experience him because you can experience
something about someone without knowing something.
I've been in plenty of sports or concert experiences or political
experiences for that and don't know the people.
But I've been in an experience and I've walked down and go,
wow, that was some experience and it touched me, it moved me.
But I don't have a personal relationship with that which
moved me. But this we know that if we have
come to know him, if we keep his commands, the one who says I
have come to know him and does not keep his commandments, is a.
Is a what? It's a liar and the so God
seeking after true worshippers and the and he seeks after them.
Who worship him in spirit. And so if you don't keep his
word, then you're a liar and the truth's not with you.
So that means you're really not a true worshipper.
So you're manipulating God's scripture to worship him the way
you want to, but he don't hear you.
But now he wants to be able to have the relationship, but you
have to have it on his terms. Jesus said I am the way, the
truth in life. We we don't get in this
relationship our way. Why do we think then we get to
love him our way. Okay.
So I have come to know him. If if one says I have come to
know him and does not keep his commandments, he's a liar.
The truth is not in him. But whoever keeps his word in
him, the love of God has truly been perfected by this.
We know that we are in him. How do we know?
Because we come to church and sing and we are the most
passionate singer. We sing more than anyone else.
Longer. Harder.
No. By this we know that we are in
him. The one who says he abides in
him ought himself to walk in the same manner as he walked.
And Jesus did not love his will even unto death.
Not my will, Father, but your will be done.
I'm only going to do what you say because I'm a true
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