1 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:19,040 It's been stirring in me since, you know, the beginning of the 2 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:23,200 year around March time when we were reading this, and it just 3 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:24,520 stood out. Well, you know, I've read these 4 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:29,600 scriptures for 32 years all of my life, but that's what's so 5 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:34,640 good about our Heavenly Father. Things always will begin to jump 6 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:37,320 off the pages for you. Come on. 7 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:40,800 Because the Holy Spirit's always speaking. 8 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:44,320 And not only is He always speaking, not just what we need, 9 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:49,640 but preparing us for things to maybe to come that we don't even 10 00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:53,200 know about, right? But then not only that, you 11 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:58,360 know, showing us that His word is living and active, that it 12 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:00,360 is, it is alive, that it is not dead. 13 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:02,800 When I pick up this word, it's alive. 14 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:05,200 That means it will jump up off the pages. 15 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:09,520 To me, over 30 years of reading the scriptures, there's 16 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:15,560 something else to be discovered. OK. 17 00:01:16,320 --> 00:01:20,400 And so that's very important in where we're going with this. 18 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:25,640 And so it says, if any man have ears to hear, let him hear. 19 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:28,760 And he said unto them, take heed. 20 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:38,960 Say take heed what you hear, take heed what you hear. 21 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:44,120 With what measure you need it, it shall be measured to you and 22 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:49,400 unto you that hear shall more be given. 23 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:53,920 And we know Pastor was in the vein of faith and teaching out 24 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:58,680 of Romans because what faith comes by hearing and hearing 25 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:03,640 from the word of God? But then he also said anything 26 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:08,520 that we are doing and operating in comes through hearing, 27 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:13,280 period. It all comes through hearing. 28 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:18,640 So what are we giving our ears attention to? 29 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:22,880 Our ears? Why don't we say it like this? 30 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:28,920 Are your measuring cup OK? I should have brought my 31 00:02:28,920 --> 00:02:35,360 measuring cup up here. Our ears are a measuring cup. 32 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:41,200 And what are we feeling that measuring cup up with? 33 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:46,400 Are we filling it up with hearing from the word of God? 34 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:50,880 Or are we filling it up with other voices? 35 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:55,000 And what are we talking about? Other voices, other things that 36 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:58,520 we listen to, right? As Pastor said, you may be 37 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:03,080 listening right now. My TV is on 24/7 news because 38 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:06,480 that's all my dad wants to listen to right now as I'm 39 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:10,520 taking care of him. So guess what? 40 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:18,080 He's feeding on the news. His cup is overflowing with the 41 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:21,360 news, right? The news, the news, the news. 42 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:25,760 Well, you may be a person that all you feed on is music. 43 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:30,640 Well, what kind of music are you feeding on, right? 44 00:03:30,640 --> 00:03:34,680 You're filling your measuring cup up your ears. 45 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:41,400 Are your measuring cup OK? And so we know we should be 46 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:46,080 filling ourselves up with whatsoever things are pure, 47 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:51,040 holy, just, righteous. You know, the scripture tells us 48 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:54,680 and Peter, we should be meditating on these proper 49 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:57,320 things. And meditation has to do with 50 00:03:57,320 --> 00:04:02,800 hearing as well. OK, But he's saying listen with 51 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:06,520 what measure you meet. But he lets us know, listen, you 52 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:13,000 need to take heed what you hear because again, we know there's 53 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:17,279 plenty of voices speaking. And we know that in the last 54 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:21,480 days, there's going to be, we've talked about this since last 55 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:25,200 year, seducing spirits and doctrines of demons. 56 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:29,840 And not only that, there's going to be voices that are going to 57 00:04:29,840 --> 00:04:36,880 try to perpetuate lies within your life to get you off. 58 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:41,400 OK. And we need to recognize he's 59 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:44,240 telling us here. We need to be taking heed what 60 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:47,080 we're hearing. That means I'm not going to be 61 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:52,160 listening to everything that everybody has to say. 62 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:59,480 I'm going to take heed because I'm not going to fill up my 63 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:02,840 measuring cup with things I shouldn't be hearing. 64 00:05:03,840 --> 00:05:11,360 Isn't that what happened to Eve? She was seduced by what the 65 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:18,600 serpent said, which was the opposite of what God said. 66 00:05:20,280 --> 00:05:28,720 And so seduction, or you know, those seducing voices can come 67 00:05:28,840 --> 00:05:32,840 from right here in what you're filling your ears with. 68 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:39,920 And so This is why the Scripture warns us to take heed what you 69 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:42,280 hear. And we also know in Second 70 00:05:42,280 --> 00:05:45,800 Corinthians, you know, that he tells us we're actually 71 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:49,760 literally supposed to take every thought captive. 72 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:55,800 So how does a thought come? A thought comes a lot of times 73 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:58,400 from what you've allowed in your ear. 74 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:04,000 And you'll take on that thought and then you'll begin to 75 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:07,960 meditate on it because you heard something right? 76 00:06:08,840 --> 00:06:14,280 And so he's warning us, listen, we need to take heed what we 77 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:16,920 hear. So what does take heed mean? 78 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:21,520 What it means when we look it up in the Greek, it means this, to 79 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:27,760 beware, beware. So he's given us a warning. 80 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:33,400 Isn't that what beware means? Beware of what you're hearing, 81 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:36,720 beware of. To see. 82 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:43,360 This is interesting to see, to look, to discern. 83 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:47,240 So now my eyes are involved. But guess what? 84 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:51,920 It's not. It's my eyes of the Spirit. 85 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:59,240 Because this has to do with discernment and perception and 86 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:09,160 perceiving. So what I hear I can see by the 87 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:17,440 Spirit if I discern properly, and if I can see through the 88 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:24,840 Spirit and perceive is what I'm hearing from God or not. 89 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:28,520 And this is important. And so it goes. 90 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:35,440 It says to discern with your eye, to perceive by your senses, 91 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:42,400 and to see with the mind's eye. You see that with the mind's 92 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:47,560 eye, and to have the power of understanding, to discern 93 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:53,880 mentally, to observe, to discover, and to understand. 94 00:07:53,880 --> 00:08:02,160 So he's telling us that we need to understand, discern, see, 95 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:09,320 perceive with our senses and beware of what we are hearing, 96 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:16,800 of what we're hearing. It also means to turn your 97 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:22,320 thoughts because what you hear again will turn into that 98 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:28,240 thought and meditation. So it means to turn the thought, 99 00:08:29,640 --> 00:08:38,159 and in that what the devil did to Eve turn the thought through 100 00:08:38,159 --> 00:08:43,840 deception because of what she heard him say. 101 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:50,120 So he turned the thought. It means to direct the mind to a 102 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:57,200 thing to consider, to contemplate, to look at, to 103 00:08:57,200 --> 00:09:02,000 weigh, say, weigh. So when he tells me to take 104 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:05,760 heed, he's also saying you need to weigh this thing. 105 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:09,200 What are we going to weigh this thing towards? 106 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:15,040 Or another word is judge it. So he's telling us that what we 107 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:20,160 hear, we better weigh, we better discern, we better judge. 108 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:23,400 And what are we judging it to the word? 109 00:09:23,680 --> 00:09:26,600 What are we weighing it to the word? 110 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:30,520 I don't know about that because I'm hearing something that I 111 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:32,920 don't think lines up with the word. 112 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:36,480 I've weighed it. I've I've actually weighed it 113 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:40,160 towards the word and it don't line up what you're saying. 114 00:09:40,560 --> 00:09:43,640 So you know what? I'm going to take heed what I'm 115 00:09:43,640 --> 00:09:46,040 hearing. I'm going to beware and I'm 116 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:49,280 going to eradicate that out of my ears. 117 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:57,320 I'm going to clean my ears out. Sometimes you need that deep 118 00:09:57,320 --> 00:10:01,320 clean in your ears. You know, they pour that the 119 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:08,840 candle and all this stuff wax anyway. 120 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:14,440 So he's saying to carefully examine. 121 00:10:14,560 --> 00:10:20,640 It also means so to weigh, to judge, to carefully examine. 122 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:26,160 This is what that word take heed means to what you're hearing and 123 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:29,000 it's a warning. It's saying listen, don't listen 124 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:32,560 to everything you're hearing. Don't take it. 125 00:10:32,560 --> 00:10:38,480 I'd like to say hook, line and sinker, No, It needs to be 126 00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:41,840 weighed. It needs to be examined. 127 00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:45,400 It needs to be judged. And the thing that I'm going to 128 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:49,440 weigh it and judge it towards is the word of God, the word of 129 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:51,440 God. And if it don't line up with the 130 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:55,360 word, it ain't right and it ain't coming in my ears. 131 00:10:57,160 --> 00:11:03,960 It's not coming in my ears, OK. And So what this means is a 132 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:13,520 person that will take heed is wide awake because you do not 133 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:16,040 want to be a person that is heedless. 134 00:11:17,520 --> 00:11:20,840 That's heedless. That means you just listen to 135 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:25,000 whatever and you take no thought in anything that you're hearing. 136 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:30,000 And you just let your ears be open to everything and you take 137 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:34,080 no thought to it. Do you know there's people that 138 00:11:34,080 --> 00:11:38,200 sit in the in the churches that hear the word because this is 139 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:43,480 what we're going to get to and put no thought towards it. 140 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:46,120 They're heedless. And you know why they put no 141 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:49,360 thought or how you know, they don't put thought to it is 142 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:53,360 because their actions, their behaviors don't line up to what 143 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:59,800 they're hearing. It don't line up to what they're 144 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:03,240 hearing. And so therefore they have been 145 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:08,080 heedless. They've not heeded the word of 146 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:10,440 God. They've not right. 147 00:12:10,440 --> 00:12:14,080 They've not judged it. They've not looked and, and, 148 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:17,000 and, and put themselves towards it. 149 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:20,360 They've not gotten understanding to it. 150 00:12:20,560 --> 00:12:24,360 They've not contemplated it. They've not considered it. 151 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:28,720 Plenty of people just sit and let it go in what it What's this 152 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:33,720 term in one ear? And that's a thoughtless, 153 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:39,560 heedless person. And he's letting us know we 154 00:12:39,560 --> 00:12:42,320 better take heed to what we're hearing. 155 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:46,520 We better consider what we're hearing. 156 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:50,000 We better contemplate what we're hearing. 157 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:54,000 We better discern what we're hearing. 158 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:57,320 Why should we discern it? So that we can make the 159 00:12:57,320 --> 00:13:03,040 adjustments that are necessary. And that's how we know that we 160 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:06,680 have taken heed. That means I take heed to what 161 00:13:06,680 --> 00:13:10,880 the Word is that's being spoken and I'm going to align myself up 162 00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:12,560 with it. You see that? 163 00:13:12,880 --> 00:13:17,880 Because I'm going to be awake and I am going to be a person 164 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:21,880 that's going to discern what the Spirit is saying, and I'm not 165 00:13:21,880 --> 00:13:26,480 going to allow myself to just be open to anything that I'm 166 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:30,320 hearing. That's why we have to be careful 167 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:33,960 and we're going to see later on, which I'll do that anyway. 168 00:13:33,960 --> 00:13:36,680 So let's go over to, I won't go there right now. 169 00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:39,840 Let's go to Mark 4. Let's look at this. 170 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:42,440 Mark 4 though. I want you to see that was in 171 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:47,000 context. Actually, Mark 4IN context is 172 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:52,960 talking about the parable of the sower, the seed of the seed of 173 00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:55,880 the word that's being sown into the heart. 174 00:13:55,880 --> 00:14:00,520 And you know there was different, you know, soils of 175 00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:03,160 the heart that the seed was being sown in. 176 00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:05,840 And so that's a whole nother lesson. 177 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:11,840 But what I want you to see here is when you go up to mark 11411 178 00:14:11,920 --> 00:14:17,040 through 12, it says this. And he said unto them, unto you, 179 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:22,120 it has been given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God. 180 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:28,360 Here he was teaching the disciples about the parable of 181 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:31,400 the seed. And he's saying you've been 182 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:37,160 given the mystery. I'm allowing you to hear it, 183 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:42,200 perceive it, discern it, and grab hold of it. 184 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:47,680 I'm allowing you to do that because then he goes on and you 185 00:14:47,680 --> 00:14:51,560 look, what does he say? He says, I'm giving you the 186 00:14:51,560 --> 00:14:55,280 mystery of the Kingdom of God. It says, but unto them that are 187 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:58,840 without, all these things are done in parables, seeing that 188 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:02,680 they may see and not perceive, and hearing that they may not 189 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:05,640 hear and understand. Do you see what he's talking 190 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:07,880 about here? This is where he's talking about 191 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:12,840 being able to perceive, being able to discern, being taken 192 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:16,760 heed need of what is being said. And he's saying listen, lest 193 00:15:16,760 --> 00:15:20,800 anytime they should be converted and their sins should be 194 00:15:21,320 --> 00:15:23,720 forgiven. So he says and hearing, they may 195 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:28,440 hear, but he's saying listen. But you've been granted this 196 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:31,400 mystery. You've been granted the fact 197 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:35,920 that you get to discern what the Scripture is saying. 198 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:41,400 And do you know every one of us as a believer, because of the 199 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:46,480 Holy Ghost that's living on the inside of us now, get to discern 200 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:53,560 His Word when we hear it. And we get to be able to put it 201 00:15:53,560 --> 00:15:56,960 in, in activation within our life. 202 00:15:56,960 --> 00:16:00,760 If we will take heed to it, if we will see what the Scripture 203 00:16:00,760 --> 00:16:04,520 is saying, if we'll ask for understanding and discernment, 204 00:16:04,520 --> 00:16:08,280 all of these things, when we hear the Word, that should be 205 00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:12,440 part of our participation and what it is that we're hearing, 206 00:16:12,760 --> 00:16:14,560 because that means we're taking heed. 207 00:16:14,560 --> 00:16:19,280 We're giving our ear, so to speak, to the Word. 208 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:24,480 We're taking heed. We're we're going to understand 209 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:27,560 it, we're going to perceive it, we're going to contemplate it. 210 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:29,880 We're going to spend time meditating on it. 211 00:16:30,080 --> 00:16:32,840 We're going to receive it in our ear. 212 00:16:32,840 --> 00:16:37,920 And you know what? We can put within our ears as 213 00:16:37,920 --> 00:16:42,840 much word as we want. Nobody's stopping you. 214 00:16:45,520 --> 00:16:47,760 So that goes back to that measure. 215 00:16:47,920 --> 00:16:51,160 How much do you want? And this you're going to see is 216 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:53,920 important in a, in a few more scriptures that we read. 217 00:16:54,240 --> 00:16:58,200 So this is what he's saying. A, a heedless person gives no 218 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:02,400 thought to what they're hearing. I don't ever want to sit in this 219 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:06,560 seat and sit up underneath God's word and give no thought to what 220 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:09,119 it is that he is saying through his word. 221 00:17:10,079 --> 00:17:12,880 I don't want to be a heedless person. 222 00:17:17,520 --> 00:17:20,920 We need to be honoring the word of God that's feeding our 223 00:17:20,920 --> 00:17:26,319 spirit, right, so that we can walk in the things that He has 224 00:17:26,319 --> 00:17:30,800 promised us to walk into. Now look at Luke 8 and 18 out of 225 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:35,240 the amplified. So here it is another word that 226 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:38,800 He lets us know about taking heed, He says. 227 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:45,600 So be careful how you listen. So now he's talking about how 228 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:52,560 you're listening, how your ears are being attentive to what is 229 00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:55,720 being said. Do you know he cares about how 230 00:17:55,720 --> 00:17:59,880 you're listening to His word? Are you listening to His word 231 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:05,160 to, you know, come against it like the Pharisees and the 232 00:18:05,160 --> 00:18:11,560 religious people were? Are you listening to the word to 233 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:15,000 justify your behaviors? Are you listening to the word 234 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:17,520 because you want to grow, because you want to discern, 235 00:18:17,520 --> 00:18:20,880 because you want to understand, because you want the word to, 236 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:25,320 you know, change your life. And so he says this. 237 00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:30,840 So be careful how you listen for whoever has a what a teachable 238 00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:34,360 heart. So your heart is connected to 239 00:18:34,360 --> 00:18:40,200 your ears. So we could do the what's that 240 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:46,280 song? The hair bone, your ear bone? 241 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:52,880 What's that song? I don't know how it goes but 242 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:54,480 y'all know what I'm talking about. 243 00:18:55,480 --> 00:19:04,440 So he's letting us know that our ears are connected here to what? 244 00:19:05,080 --> 00:19:08,000 Our heart, because He's letting us know. 245 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:12,360 Be careful how you listen. For whoever has a teachable 246 00:19:12,360 --> 00:19:18,640 heart to him, more understanding will come. 247 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:21,720 If you don't have a teachable heart, guess what? 248 00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:24,720 He's not obligated to give you more. 249 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:29,960 If you're not teachable and you're not even hearing what 250 00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:34,840 he's already said and doing what he's already said today, or not 251 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:40,040 today but every day to do in your life, then guess what? 252 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:42,480 He's not obligated to give you more. 253 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:47,120 He's not. And maybe you sit and you're 254 00:19:47,120 --> 00:19:50,200 hearing the word and thinking, I've seen no change in my life. 255 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:53,080 Well, maybe you need to go back to the last word you actually 256 00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:56,280 heard and submitted to because it has to do with being 257 00:19:56,280 --> 00:20:00,040 teachable, has to do with being teachable. 258 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:03,440 But our ears are connected to our heart. 259 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:06,200 Our ears are connected to our heart. 260 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:10,600 It says to him, more understanding will be given. 261 00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:14,400 And whoever does not have a listen to this. 262 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:24,920 A longing for the truth. Whoever does not have a longing 263 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:30,040 for the truth. A desire, a hunger. 264 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:37,920 Those who hunger and thirst, see there it goes back to this. 265 00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:42,800 So it's also connected to your stomach, right? 266 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:46,560 Whoever's hungry for the word, whoever desires the word, 267 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:54,880 whoever longs for truth. Do you long for truth more than 268 00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:59,520 you long for listening to the lies that the world perpetuates? 269 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:05,120 Because the devil is the God of this world and he is nothing but 270 00:21:05,120 --> 00:21:10,880 a liar. So do you long for truth? 271 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:17,200 That ought to be the desire and the hunger and the passion that 272 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:20,280 we had. We want to be people that desire 273 00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:25,600 and long for truth. Not for fables Scripture talks 274 00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:29,800 about, not for foolish reasonings. 275 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:36,840 But do you long for truth? Truth in the midst of your 276 00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:39,800 heart. And he goes on to say even what 277 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:44,360 he thinks he has will be taken away from him. 278 00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:48,440 So if you don't desire the truth, guess what? 279 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:50,480 He's not going to give it to you. 280 00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:54,040 And in what you do have can be taken away. 281 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:56,080 Isn't that what the scripture says? 282 00:21:57,680 --> 00:22:00,160 I didn't say that. The scripture said it. 283 00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:06,680 It can be taken away to where you get caught up into so many 284 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:15,960 lies in your life because you've actually rejected truth that you 285 00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:20,840 can just buy the lies and get so caught up in lies of the enemy. 286 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:26,560 It be taken from you because you don't want truth, you don't long 287 00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:28,880 for truth, you don't desire truth. 288 00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:36,240 You've actually rejected truth. That's a that's, that's what's 289 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:41,480 so awesome about our God is he lets us know of the things that 290 00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:46,400 we could fall into danger with. I'm glad there's a big danger 291 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:52,000 sign out here that says danger, take heed. 292 00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:55,640 If you don't do these things as a believer, it's not guaranteed 293 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:58,160 that you can't fall into the lies. 294 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:02,240 And we know in the last days, many are going to fall away from 295 00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:04,800 the truth. Fall away from the what? 296 00:23:10,180 --> 00:23:14,980 The truth because they got caught up in the lives, they 297 00:23:14,980 --> 00:23:18,060 rejected truth, they didn't hunger for it, they didn't 298 00:23:18,060 --> 00:23:21,420 desire it any longer. And So what little bit of truth 299 00:23:21,420 --> 00:23:25,340 they did had, it was taken away. And now they're completely 300 00:23:25,500 --> 00:23:29,300 deceived. And this is how people are going 301 00:23:29,300 --> 00:23:33,020 to fall away from the truth because they're going to get 302 00:23:33,020 --> 00:23:38,280 caught up in the deceitfulness of lies. 303 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:45,880 Now look again, you know, in First Timothy chapter 4, this is 304 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:48,600 good guys. Y'all want me to laugh? 305 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:52,160 I don't know, tell a funny joke, You know, really, I don't have 306 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:57,160 anything funny to say. I actually feel like crying. 307 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:05,760 But at the anointing upon my life is what I walk by. 308 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:10,640 The anointing upon my life is what I walk by. 309 00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:13,480 And I walk by faith. And I don't walk by sight. 310 00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:17,800 And I live by faith and I don't live by how I feel and what come 311 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:22,560 on, what's going on in my life? Because I could give you a list, 312 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:24,600 but I would spare you. OK. 313 00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:29,920 So anyway, in First Timothy chapter 4, that makes me laugh. 314 00:24:30,120 --> 00:24:36,480 Hallelujah chapter 4 and verses one through 2 says this, but the 315 00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:42,320 Holy Spirit explicitly and unmistakably declares that in 316 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:46,400 the latter time some will turn away from the faith, paying 317 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:50,800 attention instead to deceitful and seductive spirits and 318 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:57,560 doctrines of demons misled by hypocrisy of liars. 319 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:09,680 Hypocrisy of liars who consciences are what seared as 320 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:16,600 with a branding iron, leaving them incapable of ethical what 321 00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:25,240 functioning. I'm telling you, we need to take 322 00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:31,360 heed what we're hearing in these days and in this hours that we 323 00:25:31,360 --> 00:25:35,360 are living so that we are not going to be one that rejects 324 00:25:35,360 --> 00:25:40,840 truth and walks away from it because we are caught up in 325 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:47,000 listening to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons and 326 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:53,760 being led by hypocrisy of liars. And so he goes on to say, you 327 00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:57,880 know, and pastor, you know, we, we use this scripture for the 328 00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:01,760 past two year or the year before last about the reigning spirit. 329 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:05,360 And he came up out of this Scripture multiple times last 330 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:09,440 year. And so the reason why I bring 331 00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:15,200 this up is because if you go on down to first Timothy chapter 4 332 00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:21,200 and verse 16, let's go there, it says again in the King James 333 00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:32,560 Version, take heed unto thyself. So here he's telling us, take 334 00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:36,880 heed to what you hear in Mark 4. And now he's telling us, you 335 00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:43,960 need to take heed to yourself. You need to take heed to 336 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:50,560 yourself here, and you need to says this and unto the doctrine. 337 00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:55,120 So take heed to yourself, but then also unto the doctrine 338 00:26:55,120 --> 00:26:57,480 which we know. He's talking to Timothy, who was 339 00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:01,760 a minister, but obviously he's saying it to us as believers as 340 00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:05,200 well. Take heed to ourselves and unto 341 00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:08,040 the doctrine. Why is this doctrine so 342 00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:11,160 important? Because this doctrine is truth 343 00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:17,680 unto doctrine. When you say doctrine, it's 344 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:21,760 truth of God's word unto the truth. 345 00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:27,640 Continue, Say, continue, continue in them. 346 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:33,680 That means that we cannot continue in the doctrine or in 347 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:37,000 the truth. Why? 348 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:42,240 Because we take heed to seducing spirits, doctrines of demons, 349 00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:48,520 the hypocrisy of liars, that seducing spirit, that lying 350 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:57,880 spirit, and it will get us off. Just like it got Eve off of the 351 00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:02,520 truth. She had the truth God himself 352 00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:08,120 spoke right and she had it. So he's saying, listen, you need 353 00:28:08,120 --> 00:28:11,680 to be you need to take heed yourself and you need to stay 354 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:17,960 with truth and you need to what? Continue in it, For in doing 355 00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:28,960 this thou shalt both save thyself and them that hear, then 356 00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:34,400 thee that hear thee. See that it goes back to the 357 00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:38,600 hearing. What is it that you are saying? 358 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:42,800 What are people hearing from your life of faith? 359 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:47,680 What's your doctrine that you're spreading? 360 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:57,800 See that saying, Listen, take heed to yourself, take heed to 361 00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:03,080 the Word and you best continue in it so that you'll be saved 362 00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:10,680 yourself and those who hear it, those who hear it now look over 363 00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:13,840 in the amplified at this Scripture, First Timothy chapter 364 00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:17,360 4 and verse 16. Here we see another word they 365 00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:22,200 use in the amplified that continues to reiterate what this 366 00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:27,160 word take heed means. Pay close attention to yourself. 367 00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:30,640 You know, I thought I was only going to give have like 7 368 00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:33,640 scriptures that I was seeing that talked about taking heed, 369 00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:38,960 but I found 28. That's why we're going to do a 370 00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:43,440 few more Wednesdays. There was 28 scriptures that 371 00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:49,480 talked about taking heed. I thought only 7, but it was 28. 372 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:54,400 OK. So anyway, he says, listen, pay 373 00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:58,080 out of the amplified, pay close attention to yourself. 374 00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:03,720 Why are you worrying about everybody else and their and and 375 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:07,320 what's going on in their lives? You need to worry about 376 00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:10,520 yourself. I mean, I had to tell my kids 377 00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:14,120 that in school and growing up and and you know, people you 378 00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:17,800 work with and I what you, I don't care what they're doing. 379 00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:19,800 You shouldn't care what they're doing. 380 00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:23,920 You better take care of your own self, mind your own business. 381 00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:28,240 Take care of yourself. Pay attention to yourself. 382 00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:32,680 What are you doing? Why you worrying about everybody 383 00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:36,400 else? Pay attention to what you're 384 00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:41,800 doing, pay attention to yourself and what are you doing in the 385 00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:45,200 midst of all of these things? So he's saying, listen, you 386 00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:47,040 better pay close attention to yourself. 387 00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:51,600 Concentrate on your personal development. 388 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:56,320 I don't care where this persons at, I personally going to 389 00:30:56,320 --> 00:31:00,000 develop in truth. I'm personally going to take 390 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:03,720 heed what I'm hearing. I'm personally going to be one 391 00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:05,680 that is going to live this thing out. 392 00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:07,800 I'm going to hear what the Spirit is saying. 393 00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:09,640 I'm going to hear what the Word is saying. 394 00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:13,360 I'm going to discern properly what's happening because I'm 395 00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:18,000 actually going to take personal responsibility for my life. 396 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:25,640 I'm not responsible for everyone else, you see that? 397 00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:31,600 I'm responsible to take heed what I'm hearing and then to 398 00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:35,560 live it out properly. But I'm not to take on everybody 399 00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:38,760 else and what they're doing and what they're not doing and blah, 400 00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:40,960 blah, blah. Because I'm going to tell you, 401 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:47,760 you will be ran ragged worrying about everybody else and what 402 00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:50,400 they're supposed to be doing and what they're not doing. 403 00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:52,280 And why are they? Who cares? 404 00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:56,720 Do you, right? Do you? 405 00:31:57,120 --> 00:32:01,520 So he goes on for your own personal development and to your 406 00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:05,360 teaching. Persevere in these things where 407 00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:07,720 he says continue in them. He's saying, listen, you're 408 00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:11,600 going to have to persevere in the truth in the word. 409 00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:15,960 You're going to have to persevere in it, in these 410 00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:17,280 things. You're going to have to be the 411 00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:20,480 one to hold on to them. The things that you've heard, 412 00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:24,360 the things that you've been taught, the truth of God's Word 413 00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:27,800 that you've been built your life upon, because we're going to 414 00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:30,440 talk about this, you need to hold on to Him. 415 00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:35,320 It says, for as you do this, you will ensure salvation both for 416 00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:37,440 yourself and for those who hear you. 417 00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:43,960 Amen. So the Scripture clearly says, 418 00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:47,440 listen, we are to take heed to ourselves. 419 00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:50,800 Ephesians chapter 4/11/15 says this. 420 00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:54,960 And he gave some apostles and prophets and evangelists and 421 00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:58,680 pastors and teachers for the perfecting of the Saints, for 422 00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:01,880 the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of 423 00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:05,240 Christ, until we all come to the unity of faith, the knowledge of 424 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:09,320 the Son of God. Unto what a perfect man This is 425 00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:12,680 that development. This is you personally allowing 426 00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:17,200 yourself to develop right to the measure and the stature of the 427 00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:20,040 fullness of Christ that we henceforth. 428 00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:24,360 This is why truth and the doctrine that you stand upon is 429 00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:28,960 so important, that you will no longer be a child tossed to and 430 00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:35,160 fro, carried about by every wave of doctrine right, every wind 431 00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:37,360 and sleight of men. Listen to what it says and 432 00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:43,840 cunning craftiness. This is that seducing lying 433 00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:48,160 spirit, cunning trying to get you off. 434 00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:59,400 It says whereby they lie to wait to deceive, trying to get you 435 00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:05,480 off, waiting to just get to you so that he can deceive you, to 436 00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:13,239 get you off of what you know. Truth is what you know. 437 00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:17,679 The word of God says it's black and white. 438 00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:21,679 There's no middle ground. You either see it and read it 439 00:34:21,679 --> 00:34:26,760 and do it or you don't. There's no middle ground in 440 00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:28,920 there. Very clear. 441 00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:35,159 You know what's so good about AI that I found? 442 00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:40,560 If you say AII did this, I have done this multiple times. 443 00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:49,800 Now that I've learned this whole AI thing, tell me what Matthew 444 00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:57,960 14 Seven means and it will clearly stay state exactly what 445 00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:01,120 the scripture means. I have not found one time that 446 00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:08,000 it has misrepresented what the word said straight up straight 447 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:09,080 on. You know why? 448 00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:15,800 Because it only takes from the Scripture, not traditions of 449 00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:20,880 men, not religious doctrines of men. 450 00:35:21,720 --> 00:35:27,400 It only bases it strictly from what the word says. 451 00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:33,360 Straight up black and white. When you read this chapter, this 452 00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:37,800 is what it means for what it is for what's it saying? 453 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:43,440 You know, that's how I've always read the word black and white. 454 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:46,880 I see it in the word it says. I'm not supposed to do that. 455 00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:48,480 Guess what? I'm not going to do it. 456 00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:53,360 Oh, that's really easy. It's not difficult. 457 00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:58,520 It's not difficult. It's black and white. 458 00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:02,520 Oh, the word says I should forgive. 459 00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:04,520 We're going to see. I should take heed. 460 00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:07,680 And being able to forgive people, oh, I'm going to forgive 461 00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:11,360 them. Easy as that. 462 00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:16,280 Black and white, very clear. You don't have to have a a 463 00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:19,760 theological degree to figure that out. 464 00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:24,240 You don't have to have all of your hermeneutics and hominetics 465 00:36:24,240 --> 00:36:27,720 and the pathetics and all these things. 466 00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:34,520 Seriously, you just read the word and do what it says and 467 00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:37,320 guess what? You'll have life. 468 00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:40,840 You'll live according to the word. 469 00:36:41,240 --> 00:36:47,400 It's that easy and AI gets it. AI gets it. 470 00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:55,560 We complicate it. We complicate it with our own 471 00:36:55,560 --> 00:37:00,920 desires, with our own thinking, with our own reasoning. 472 00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:06,480 We complicate it when it's straight up black and white and 473 00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:08,920 easy. Hallelujah. 474 00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:12,160 Thank God. Thank God that we do not have to 475 00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:15,720 be deceived if we would just do what the Word says. 476 00:37:15,720 --> 00:37:19,120 Look at verse 15. But speaking the truth in love 477 00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:23,640 that you may grow up into all things, which is the head, even 478 00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:26,120 Christ. So the goal is, is that we are 479 00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:30,840 mature enough by growing and developing and taking heed to 480 00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:35,400 what the word of God has said in truth so that we're not going to 481 00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:45,920 get carried away by lies, by lies, by a lying spirit, a 482 00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:49,720 seducing spirit. And you know what a seducing 483 00:37:49,720 --> 00:37:53,400 spirit does? It always keeps it in ambiguity, 484 00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:59,840 suspicious. You can never know how it just 485 00:38:00,240 --> 00:38:10,120 you know it's how it is. So let's look on what he says 486 00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:14,080 here. The next thing we read and then 487 00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:16,360 we'll close. I know it's getting tight, but 488 00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:26,040 it's right. First Corinthians who praise the 489 00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:31,880 Lord chapter 3 verses 10. Now remember I, this has been 490 00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:38,200 brewing since long time ago, OK, First Corinthians chapter 3 and 491 00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:42,000 verse 10 says this. According to the grace of God, 492 00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:47,000 which is given unto me as a wise master builder, I have laid the 493 00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:48,920 foundation. What's the foundation? 494 00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:51,680 The word of God, the doctrine, the things that we were talking 495 00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:54,640 about, and another build is there on. 496 00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:58,400 But let every man what? Take heed. 497 00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:03,440 Now what is your responsibility as a man and a woman of God? 498 00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:11,560 You are to take heed how He buildeth there upon. 499 00:39:13,240 --> 00:39:17,920 You're to take heed of what you're allowing to be built 500 00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:22,440 within your life. You're the master builder as 501 00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:24,640 well. He's the master builder, but you 502 00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:28,000 also are a master builder because you're up underneath the 503 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:31,440 master. And what is it that you're 504 00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:38,640 building on in your life? What's your house built of? 505 00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:44,960 Are you built on lies? Are you built on your truth? 506 00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:49,960 Are you built on? Come on, your traditions? 507 00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:53,120 Are you built on your religious experiences? 508 00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:57,080 Or are you built on the word of God? 509 00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:01,480 Are you built on your family DNA? 510 00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:07,920 Come on. No, we are to be built upon the 511 00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:11,720 word of God. That is got to be, has to be, 512 00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:18,080 has to be our foundation. And it's so important that we 513 00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:22,480 recognize this because we're seeing believers fall off their 514 00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:28,200 rockers, OK, because they have not built properly. 515 00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:31,880 They've not built property properly. 516 00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:36,840 You know, when the Word of God comes, we've taught this before, 517 00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:42,800 It's either going to form a new belief within your life or it's 518 00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:45,400 going to strengthen a belief within your life. 519 00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:49,760 OK, we've taught this before. So when the Word of God comes 520 00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:55,200 and you actually take heed of it and begin to practice it and do 521 00:40:55,200 --> 00:41:00,720 it, then you're building a foundation within your life, 522 00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:04,360 right? You're building that in your 523 00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:08,640 life. And so maybe you had never heard 524 00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:11,880 that it's God's will for you to be healed, but you find out it 525 00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:17,640 is absolutely God's will for healing to be a part of my life 526 00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:22,840 in Christ, right? And so every time you hear a 527 00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:25,360 healing scripture, guess what it's doing? 528 00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:30,480 It's building another layer in the bedrock of your foundation, 529 00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:33,320 right, Building upon the foundation. 530 00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:37,200 Have you ever looked at the Grand Canyon and and you know 531 00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:41,760 that's billions and billions if years old and you know, you can 532 00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:48,720 see all the what is that called? Those lines, those layers, what 533 00:41:48,720 --> 00:41:51,360 are they called? Anybody knows sediment? 534 00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:55,200 That's but those lines are called something that you can 535 00:41:55,200 --> 00:42:00,000 see and this is how they know how many years it is and how 536 00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:02,080 old. Same with the tree trunk. 537 00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:05,400 If you cut it, you can see the different rings in it tells you 538 00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:09,920 how old it is. This is what's happening to us 539 00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:13,160 as believers. It should be when we've been 540 00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:16,720 sitting up underneath the word for years and we've actually 541 00:42:16,720 --> 00:42:21,600 took it in and heated it. All those things that we've been 542 00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:27,160 doing is building those layers upon layers upon layers. 543 00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:34,440 So that why so that you have an arsenal of a belief system here 544 00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:38,840 that when something comes, it's not going to rock your world, 545 00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:43,000 It's not going to knock you off your foundation. 546 00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:46,320 It's not going to knock you off your rocker, so to speak, 547 00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:50,000 because your, your life has been built. 548 00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:55,120 It's been built. And we know we can see that in 549 00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:59,040 scripture because you know, he talked about that in Matthew 550 00:42:59,040 --> 00:43:00,640 Chapter 7. Go over there. 551 00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:06,480 Matthew Chapter 7 in verse 24 through 27 says this. 552 00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:14,800 Therefore, whosoever heareth these sayings of mine and do 553 00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:19,800 with them, that's the key. Because just hearing alone, we 554 00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:21,680 know what James says. What happens? 555 00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:24,640 You deceive yourself. So many people sit and they 556 00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:32,560 hear. They don't take heed, and He 557 00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:39,440 lets us know this one that does. It will be likened unto Him, a 558 00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:46,000 wise man which built his house upon a rock, and when the rain 559 00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:50,000 descended and the floods came, because they will. 560 00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:57,160 No one is exempt from the floods, the rain, the wind, and 561 00:43:57,160 --> 00:44:03,120 the storms of life. No one, we all walk, are 562 00:44:03,120 --> 00:44:09,600 supposed to walk through them and come out on the other side. 563 00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:15,960 And so he says if your house has been built properly upon the 564 00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:20,360 rock, that when these rains come and these floods come and the 565 00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:25,440 winds blew and they build upon the house and it fell, what not? 566 00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:28,640 Your house should not be falling apart. 567 00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:34,560 Your marriage shouldn't be falling apart. 568 00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:37,240 Your children shouldn't be falling apart. 569 00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:39,640 Come on. Your finances shouldn't be 570 00:44:39,640 --> 00:44:43,080 filling, falling apart. Listen, attacks are going to 571 00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:44,680 come. Attacks are one thing. 572 00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:49,760 But if you're living in that, you have not built the structure 573 00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:54,720 properly. If you are living in it year 574 00:44:54,720 --> 00:44:57,480 after year after year, you've deceived yourself. 575 00:44:57,480 --> 00:44:59,880 And I'm afraid there's many that are deceived. 576 00:44:59,880 --> 00:45:03,080 You've not been a doer of the word. 577 00:45:03,200 --> 00:45:05,640 You have not been a person of faith. 578 00:45:06,680 --> 00:45:10,440 And that's just reality. And we have to listen in these 579 00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:14,320 last days. We have to take heed some of 580 00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:18,440 these things. We have to take heed some of it 581 00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:22,840 because I don't want to see people dropping like flies. 582 00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:28,600 And so verse 25 says this. And everyone that hears these 583 00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:34,880 sayings of mine and do with them not, will be likened unto a 584 00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:37,000 foolish man. And you know what he says about 585 00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:42,720 fools in the Scripture. We've been reading it time after 586 00:45:42,720 --> 00:45:44,560 time, all year long through Proverbs. 587 00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:52,560 Haven't we likened unto a foolish man where we at verse 588 00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:57,640 426? And he said, And everyone that 589 00:45:57,640 --> 00:46:00,640 here at these sayings of mine does not do them, shall be 590 00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:04,760 likened to the foolish man which built his house upon the sand. 591 00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:08,320 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew 592 00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:11,800 and beat upon the house, and it fell, and listened to how it 593 00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:15,880 fell. It didn't just fall, great was 594 00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:20,880 its fall, didn't just fall, it was a great fall. 595 00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:26,320 You see that now? You know, I was thinking of, you 596 00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:30,680 know, I live out off of A1A and I just read an article which I 597 00:46:30,680 --> 00:46:34,240 drive by these houses every day. There's about 7 houses that have 598 00:46:34,240 --> 00:46:39,960 been condemned now along A1A, going out towards marine land. 599 00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:43,920 On the left hand side where the ocean is, there's seven houses 600 00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:45,560 that you can't even get to anymore. 601 00:46:45,560 --> 00:46:49,360 The old A1A used to run along there and they built the houses 602 00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:51,080 there. Well, they built wrong, didn't 603 00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:55,680 they? They're all condemned, just 604 00:46:55,680 --> 00:46:57,960 standing there. Big, old, huge houses just 605 00:46:57,960 --> 00:47:05,160 there, just rotten away because they didn't build wisely. 606 00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:12,240 And we need to recognize, have we really built our lives 607 00:47:12,240 --> 00:47:18,040 wisely, our lives wisely on the right foundation and the word of 608 00:47:18,040 --> 00:47:19,840 God? And have we done it? 609 00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:24,080 Or are we deceived that we think we've done it, but really we 610 00:47:24,080 --> 00:47:26,040 haven't? We haven't. 611 00:47:26,040 --> 00:47:29,560 Now look at here. We'll close with this one. 612 00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:36,240 Luke 17334 I've given you 4 take Heeds so far. 613 00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:42,000 So far, So far, so far, four. And how many did I say there 614 00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:43,920 were? We're not going to go through 615 00:47:43,920 --> 00:47:47,040 all 28, but I'm just saying there were 28. 616 00:47:47,240 --> 00:47:50,640 But I've I've given you 4 tonight and we're going to close 617 00:47:50,640 --> 00:47:53,040 with this one. Luke 17, three and four. 618 00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:58,720 Take heed to yourselves. Once again take heed. 619 00:48:01,120 --> 00:48:05,520 And what's it say if your brother trespasses against thee, 620 00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:08,840 rebuke him, and if he repent, forgiving. 621 00:48:09,840 --> 00:48:14,040 And if he trespasses against thee 7 times a day and seven 622 00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:17,720 times a day, turn again and say I repent. 623 00:48:17,920 --> 00:48:23,600 What should you do? You know, this is what we do 624 00:48:23,600 --> 00:48:26,280 usually with our kids. I was home with mine and having 625 00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:28,240 to raise them. I mean, you know, I could have 626 00:48:28,240 --> 00:48:30,880 forgiven them like 15,000 times a day. 627 00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:33,720 Well, didn't I tell you not to do that? 628 00:48:33,720 --> 00:48:37,160 Yeah, OK, well, don't do it. And then they do it again and 629 00:48:37,160 --> 00:48:39,360 you, what do you do? You basically are forgiving them 630 00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:42,240 again and again and again and again and again and again and 631 00:48:42,240 --> 00:48:47,520 again and again and again. And he's saying, listen, if if 632 00:48:47,520 --> 00:48:51,880 they ask you to forgive them, forgive them.