1 00:00:17,960 --> 00:00:20,240 You have your Bibles turn to Ephesians chapter 4. 2 00:00:20,240 --> 00:00:23,320 We're going to talk about actively press and actively 3 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:27,400 press. We are living in a society, 4 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:31,600 especially in the United States, that is rebellious to the things 5 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:35,840 I'll speak about today. And I say that because of the 6 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:43,400 word press by itself, OK? Our culture through technology 7 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:46,800 has put us in the position where we want to do less. 8 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:53,400 We have we have taken this idea of, you know, doing less so that 9 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:55,560 we can enjoy more of our own life. 10 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:59,280 Well, when I made Jesus the Lord of my life, my life cease to 11 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:02,720 exist. So if I'm trying to do anything 12 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:07,360 for my own life, I'm already in heir for John the Baptist said I 13 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:10,000 must decrease and he must increase. 14 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:12,400 And Paul said I've been crucified with Christ. 15 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:18,720 It's no longer I who live. It's no longer I. 16 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:25,160 It's no longer I who live, it's no longer I who live, but the 17 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:28,240 life I live in the flesh, meaning this new created being 18 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:30,960 that I am in Christ. I live for one purpose and 19 00:01:30,960 --> 00:01:33,280 that's to follow Him. Amen. 20 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:38,920 And you know what? Who I follow will train me to be 21 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:42,240 able to go at His pace. That's the whole point of a 22 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:48,600 pacesetter is that they're there to pace you so that you can run 23 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:52,680 your race. The problem is, is we are trying 24 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:56,240 to tell the Lord of glory, the Creator of heaven and earth, of 25 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:59,920 how we want to pace our own lives when he's like, no, you're 26 00:01:59,920 --> 00:02:01,360 going to have to kick it up a notch. 27 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:06,200 Now here's the thing, He created you and He knows what's in you. 28 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:11,120 And again, as I've already used Coach Hurley this this morning, 29 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:14,080 you know, a lot of times when you're around players and you're 30 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:17,240 around them and you begin to see them develop and grow, you 31 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:20,120 bigot, you, you, you can learn pretty quick whether they're 32 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:24,160 giving their all or not. You know, when a player shows up 33 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:26,400 in your life, they're not, they're not just they're not, 34 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:29,240 they don't have it today. Now, it's not because they don't 35 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:31,520 physically have it. They're not mentally having it. 36 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:35,040 And So what you have to do as a coach is get them past their 37 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:38,800 mental fatigue. Are you hearing me now? 38 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:41,360 Again, in that sector of society, we have no problem 39 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:44,000 because it is one of the greatest idols we have in the 40 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:46,800 United States. And that is the realm of sports, 41 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:49,840 OK? Because there are tons of men. 42 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:54,760 I'm talking what what we call men, right? 43 00:02:54,760 --> 00:03:01,360 Burly men that they will get absolutely indignified in what 44 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:05,840 they look like at a game when their team is winning or is 45 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:08,120 coming from behind or does something great. 46 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:09,920 They will get in. They will. 47 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:13,480 They will even get more indignified than this when the 48 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:18,480 ref makes a call that they do not agree with and it is costing 49 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:23,520 their team to gain. And they are not short of words. 50 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:30,200 Are you hearing me? If they win the championship, 51 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:34,000 they will cry with joy at the release of the pressure of all 52 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:35,720 that they've done. Have you seen some of these 53 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:38,040 greatest athletes win that championship? 54 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:40,760 When they hold to that trophy, it's a trophy now. 55 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:46,400 Then all of a sudden they'll breakdown and cry because what? 56 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:53,640 What are they releasing? All of the sacrifice to finally 57 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:56,200 obtain this and winning is not it. 58 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:03,360 It is continually going for the goal because if winning was just 59 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:05,600 enough, then the minute you won, you would stop. 60 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:08,560 But it's not enough. That's why they chase 61 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:11,280 championships. Are you hearing me? 62 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:16,480 And so we find ourselves in a culture where in the United 63 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:19,600 States specifically, and the United States has a great 64 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:23,560 influence on the rest of the world of where, you know, we're 65 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:28,640 trying to do less. Trying to figure out how we can 66 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:34,120 kind of get out of when there's a press that has to take place 67 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:38,680 and there's a pacesetter in your race that knows you've got more 68 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:41,080 in you. And if you'll get outside of 69 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:44,720 your mind and get into the mind of Christ, you'll find yourself 70 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:47,040 doing some amazing things. Amen. 71 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:50,960 All right, everybody, all right, in Ephesians you talk to me, it 72 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:53,920 helps me. Ephesians 411 to 16 says this, 73 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:56,960 and he gave some as apostle summers, prophets, summers 74 00:04:56,960 --> 00:04:58,800 evanges summers, pastors and teachers. 75 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:01,120 Why? Verse 4 four. 76 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:04,080 Verse 12. Excuse me for the equipment of 77 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:06,840 the Saints, for the work of service to the building up of 78 00:05:06,840 --> 00:05:08,960 the body of Christ. All right. 79 00:05:09,280 --> 00:05:13,160 Verse 13 until we all attain to the unity of of the faith of the 80 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:16,200 knowledge of the Son of God to a mature man, to the measure of 81 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:18,800 the statue which belongs to the fullness of Christ. 82 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:22,000 As a result, we are no longer to be children tossed here and 83 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:25,000 thereby waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by 84 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:27,200 the trickery of men, by craftiness and deceitful 85 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:29,280 scheming, But speaking the truth and love. 86 00:05:29,280 --> 00:05:33,200 We are to grow up, say grow up in all aspects into him who was 87 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:36,560 the head, even Christ, from whom the whole body being fitted and 88 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:40,040 held together, say, held together by what every joint 89 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:44,640 supply, say I have a supply according to the proper working 90 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:49,000 of each individual part causes the gross a growth of the body 91 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:51,520 for the building up of itself in love. 92 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:54,560 Now we know here, according to this passive Scripture, we've 93 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:57,960 written a book concerning being equipped that God never intended 94 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:02,680 for the church to only educate. We do not have the system of the 95 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:05,240 world of education. We have the system of the 96 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:08,880 Kingdom which is equipping, and in order for you to be equipped, 97 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:11,000 education is a part of the process. 98 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:14,240 But it doesn't stop there, because if all you ever do is 99 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:16,440 educate the body, the best you can produce. 100 00:06:16,440 --> 00:06:19,880 As a Pharisee, what we want to do is we want to be an equipped 101 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:22,480 body. We are ready for the work of 102 00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:26,920 ministry to have the endurance and longevity to accomplish 103 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:32,200 everything God has assigned to every one of us individually, 104 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:43,600 but as a team, as a team. And so your individual gift was 105 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:50,320 never for you and God alone, and it's to be deployed as a whole. 106 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:55,480 So we know that he gave gifts. Those are the fivefold ministry 107 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:58,800 to help pull those things out. As I was saying to someone 108 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:06,760 before service, the most unused and misused gift in the church 109 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:11,920 is the ministry gifts. Now the church loves the gifts 110 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:15,800 of the Spirit because the gifts of the Spirit, when we open them 111 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:18,960 up, when we yield to them, it's the Holy Spirit coming upon you 112 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:23,400 as He wills, where He'll bring 9 gifts that can flow through you 113 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:24,840 and man. We desire those. 114 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:26,680 In fact, we are to earnestly desire those. 115 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:32,800 But again, a gift is only good if you open it and if you're not 116 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:36,480 yielding to the gifts of the Spirit, even though He may move 117 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:39,600 on you to give a tongue, an interpretation of tongue, a word 118 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:43,400 of knowledge, give you the gift of faith for something or the 119 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:46,720 working of miracles. If you do not act on it, it is a 120 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:49,480 gift that's come upon you, been presented to you, but you never 121 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:54,320 open. The same thing is with the 122 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:58,840 ministry gifts because in the church the ministry gifts is to 123 00:07:58,840 --> 00:08:03,320 equip you to help you understand that you are a new creature in 124 00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:06,280 Christ and the Holy Ghost lives in you and you can hear the 125 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:08,400 Spirit of God. And you are to be led by the 126 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:12,200 Spirit of God and to train you on how to be led by His Spirit 127 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:16,920 and then to train you how to discern between good and evil. 128 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:20,600 But what happens is, is once the process starts, then all of a 129 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:23,920 sudden the Saint decides I don't need the gifts anymore. 130 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:28,400 The ministry gifts, I can hear God on my well, you understand, 131 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:30,280 this is the problem that happened with Miriam. 132 00:08:30,440 --> 00:08:32,440 This is the problem that happened with others in the 133 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:33,840 wilderness. They're like, we can hear God 134 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:37,520 for ourselves and they want to discredit Moses. 135 00:08:37,799 --> 00:08:41,760 Well, that was a problem. Say that's a problem again. 136 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:43,559 The ministry gifts cannot control you. 137 00:08:43,559 --> 00:08:47,280 They are there to assist you and to equip you. 138 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:50,880 And there's some things you will not be equipped in if you do not 139 00:08:50,880 --> 00:08:56,640 open the gifts. A lot of times people are coming 140 00:08:56,640 --> 00:08:59,320 and telling the gift. This is what God told me without 141 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:04,360 asking the gift since I've been assigned here. 142 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:11,440 Am I hearing right? Because if we're all pursuing 143 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:14,080 unity, we'll come to the same conclusion. 144 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:17,760 Say Amen. The remedy. 145 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:21,160 Verse 13 says this because this is what I want to key in on 146 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:26,680 today until we all reach true unity of heart, methods, motives 147 00:09:26,680 --> 00:09:31,000 and principles in harmony with the knowledge of God as revealed 148 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:37,600 in Jesus and become say mature, mature and develop Christ like 149 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:42,160 character. Another translation of verse 13, 150 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:47,560 the ISV says it this way until all of us are united in the 151 00:09:47,560 --> 00:09:52,840 faith and in the full knowledge, say full knowledge, the full 152 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:59,160 knowledge of God's Son, and until we attain mature adulthood 153 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:05,000 and the full standard of development in the Messiah. 154 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:09,960 One more of verse 13, it's the amplified. 155 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:16,080 It says it this way until we all reach oneness in the faith and 156 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:20,200 in the knowledge of the Son of God, growing spiritually to 157 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:23,960 become a mature believer, reaching to the measure of the 158 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:29,120 fullness of Christ, manifesting His spiritual completeness, and 159 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:35,040 exercising our spiritual gifts in unity. 160 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:39,640 Hallelujah. What I want to talk to you today 161 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:48,600 about is maturity, because salvation alone is not maturity. 162 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:56,360 And these verse 13 tells us that we are to come to the full 163 00:10:56,360 --> 00:10:58,800 knowledge of God's Son. You know what? 164 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:03,560 There's something else to know about Jesus besides that He died 165 00:11:03,560 --> 00:11:07,240 on the cross. He rose from the grave, that the 166 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:10,840 blood he shed and put on the mercy seat in heaven forgave us 167 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:14,000 of all of our sin, and that if we call on his name, we'll be 168 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:16,400 saved. You know, there's more about Him 169 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:21,280 than that. And if that's all, you know, you 170 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:25,600 are a babe. In fact, if we were to go on 171 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:29,800 into verse 14, which we won't, other translations say leaving 172 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:32,560 immaturity. So when it says leaving, you 173 00:11:32,560 --> 00:11:37,640 know, child being a child, it's in in essence, it's saying we 174 00:11:37,640 --> 00:11:44,120 are not to stay immature because verse 14 tells us what happens 175 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:49,800 to immature believers. They're tossed to and fro. 176 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:55,200 They are easily deceived. They jump with every wind of 177 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:57,760 doctrine. Now, why are they this way? 178 00:11:57,760 --> 00:12:01,960 Because they're not allowing themselves to grow, say grow. 179 00:12:03,680 --> 00:12:08,200 God never intended when Jesus Christ died and rose from the 180 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:15,280 grave that we as a church in the earth would only be concerned 181 00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:20,000 about the salvation of man. He never intended that. 182 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:25,520 In fact, there is no context of Scripture that that is the sole 183 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:31,080 responsibility of His church. In fact, in Matthew chapter 16, 184 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:36,280 as you know, Jesus said I will build my church, which means he 185 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:40,560 did not delegate church building to the apostle, the prophet, the 186 00:12:40,560 --> 00:12:42,800 pastor, the teacher and the evangelist. 187 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:45,320 They have a part to play with him. 188 00:12:45,320 --> 00:12:50,080 We are Co laborers with Christ. He's building the church and if 189 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:53,840 he's building the church, the church he's building has the 190 00:12:53,840 --> 00:13:00,320 pathway to maturity. It is not a pathway to salvation 191 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:03,720 alone. It is not just accepting Jesus 192 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:06,360 as your Lord and Savior. So you know, or you'll go when 193 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:09,040 you die. In fact, Jesus never once said 194 00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:11,320 go into all the world and make converts. 195 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:15,800 He said go into all the world and make. 196 00:13:16,560 --> 00:13:21,520 Now a disciple by definition is to enroll as a student. 197 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:28,160 A student is to learn, to grow, to be equipped, not educated 198 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:34,480 alone, so that they can have the completeness character of Christ 199 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:38,680 in whom they've been created in. Can I get an Amen? 200 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:40,800 Oh, I'm going to roam a little bit more. 201 00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:46,800 So we see here that God always intended that the church would 202 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:51,080 mature. In fact, He's coming back for a 203 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:53,800 mature church. Now, I don't have time to preach 204 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:55,680 on this, but I do want to give you a little insight. 205 00:13:55,880 --> 00:14:00,080 The Bible talks about the former rain and the latter rain, and 206 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:04,120 that is a farming scenario that has to do with the Holy Ghost or 207 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:06,920 the outpouring of His Spirit in the last days. 208 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:11,680 The former rain happened on the day of Pentecost when the Holy 209 00:14:11,680 --> 00:14:15,000 Spirit was poured out and the sons and the daughters began to 210 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:17,920 prophecy. All of us became the temple of 211 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:21,760 the Holy Ghost. Glory to God, it's no longer God 212 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:25,760 up there and we are trying to do something in our own self to 213 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:28,960 maintain some layer of righteousness until Jesus pays 214 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:31,880 the pride. No, it's Christ in us, the hope 215 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:33,360 of glory. Our spirit. 216 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:35,800 Man has been recreated in the likeness of God. 217 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:40,680 The Holy Ghost now lives in us. He came down to dwell with man. 218 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:47,080 Wow, how awesome is that? And now in these last days, he 219 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:50,920 poured out his spirit on all flesh. 220 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:54,960 And what a day it was. But the latter rain, say the 221 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:59,000 latter rain, is even more than the former rain. 222 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:06,720 But in the realm of agricultural terms, a farmer plants a seed. 223 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:14,160 The farmer doesn't want the seed, the farmer wants what's 224 00:15:14,160 --> 00:15:19,040 within the seed. So in order for a farmer to have 225 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:24,000 what's in the seed, the seed needs to be water, needs a early 226 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:29,320 rain, 'cause then when the Holy Ghost comes upon that which is a 227 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:34,000 seed or that needs to die, it says unless a seed dies. 228 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:38,320 Jesus said unless a kernel of wheat falls into the ground and 229 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:45,520 dies, it will not produce. So in essence, the early rain 230 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:50,120 was all the seed of the Word placed within the disciples and 231 00:15:50,360 --> 00:15:53,880 humans, humanity of the Word of God, that when the Holy Ghost 232 00:15:53,880 --> 00:15:57,040 came, it called that seed to finally die. 233 00:15:57,080 --> 00:16:00,720 Where we died, we broke forth and we produced the plant. 234 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:03,400 We became a plant, we became in Christ. 235 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:07,400 That's conversion. When you see a plant come up out 236 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:10,760 of the ground, it's no longer a seed, although it has the 237 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:15,960 potential to bear seed now. Are you hearing me now? 238 00:16:16,040 --> 00:16:23,800 The farmer doesn't want the plant because a plant without 239 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:28,640 fruit is failure. What farmer wants to plant in 240 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:31,640 Hastings? A bunch of potatoes and have a 241 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:35,640 bunch, a lot of green, lush green foliage. 242 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:40,080 But everyone they pull up, there's no potatoes on the roots 243 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:44,560 or have all these stalks, but no corn ever shows up. 244 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:49,520 It may be beautiful and green and wave when the wind blows 245 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:53,120 through it and everybody drive by and go, my gosh, look how big 246 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:55,680 this field. There's so much corn in there. 247 00:16:55,680 --> 00:16:58,760 We don't even call it a plant. We call it by its fruit. 248 00:16:59,600 --> 00:17:01,480 However, we don't even see the fruit. 249 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:06,119 And the farmer, when he goes to harvest, he's not there to get a 250 00:17:06,119 --> 00:17:12,319 plant, he's there to pick the. So the latter rain is for the 251 00:17:12,319 --> 00:17:17,599 maturing of the crop. It's so that the fruit that's 252 00:17:17,599 --> 00:17:23,400 being produced can be ripened, because what good is corn if you 253 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:27,040 pull it before it's ripe? What good is any fruit for that 254 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:31,080 matter, if you pluck it before it's time to eat? 255 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:37,040 Because if you pluck a fruit too early, it's bitter, it doesn't 256 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:42,480 produce what it or it doesn't produce more seed so that they 257 00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:46,400 can go on generationally. So the latter rain that we are 258 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:50,360 looking for, although it will have a harvest of the lost, the 259 00:17:50,360 --> 00:17:54,360 intent is more for his church. I'm going to say that again, 260 00:17:55,360 --> 00:18:01,560 this latter rain has more of an intention, not for the lost, 261 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:05,200 although they will have a benefit from it, but it's for 262 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:08,360 the church. And it's so that there'll be a 263 00:18:08,360 --> 00:18:13,960 reigning church, a church that matures, that walks in unity, 264 00:18:14,040 --> 00:18:17,760 where all the gifts come together in harmony as a mature 265 00:18:17,760 --> 00:18:21,680 man and man, when we do this, when could the lost come in and 266 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:25,800 find us backbiting, gossiping, slandering. 267 00:18:25,960 --> 00:18:28,200 They're trying to get us. And you're like, I can't find 268 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:31,200 one person to say something bad about another person. 269 00:18:31,360 --> 00:18:35,240 I can't get anybody to go crawl. I can't see anyone getting 270 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:36,840 offended. And man, I could have been 271 00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:39,320 offended this service, but nobody is getting offended. 272 00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:41,120 Everybody's walking in forgiveness. 273 00:18:41,280 --> 00:18:45,040 Everybody's walking in love. Everybody is producing the 274 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:48,200 fruits of the spirit. My gosh, I mean, I'm trying to 275 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:50,760 get this thing to Jack up, but I can't do it. 276 00:18:50,760 --> 00:18:56,160 Why, 'cause they've matured the world at that poem must say 277 00:18:56,160 --> 00:19:01,320 there must be a God. There must be a God if who I am 278 00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:05,320 as a human can put down their flesh at that level. 279 00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:11,040 Amen. And honestly, my assignment as 280 00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:20,240 an apostle is to put the demand on maturity as one guest came 281 00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:24,160 one time, attends a different church, met with them one time 282 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:28,600 for coffee because the things we are doing in government really 283 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:30,360 excites them. And they were looking for that 284 00:19:30,360 --> 00:19:31,640 church. They just happen to go to a 285 00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:35,320 different one that they thought was in that vein, but not like 286 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:37,640 we're in that vein. And so they were, you know, 287 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:41,160 conflicted and said, you know, do you mind if I come on 288 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:44,080 Wednesdays? I said, let me just say this. 289 00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:50,360 You can come on Wednesday. However, you're going to have to 290 00:19:50,360 --> 00:19:53,640 choose because you cannot serve in two visions. 291 00:19:56,440 --> 00:20:00,240 Can't do it. God is assigning you to a local 292 00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:04,480 vision that you need to be loyal and run with. 293 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:08,520 So you may come some, but at the end of the day, you're going to 294 00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:10,840 have to answer that question. They're not here, so. 295 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:13,960 They're assigned to the other as far as I'm concerned, and praise 296 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:15,560 God for it, have no problem with that. 297 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:18,280 Why? Because who's assigned here is 298 00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:20,760 assigned here. Who's assigned somewhere else is 299 00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:23,120 assigned somewhere else. For those who are assigned here 300 00:20:23,120 --> 00:20:25,080 going somewhere else, they'll never produce the fruit. 301 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:29,600 They should hear. For those that are that are here 302 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:31,760 but are assigned somewhere else, you're never going to produce 303 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:33,560 the fruit and that's why you get frustrated. 304 00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:35,880 So just go ahead and pack your bags and get to the place you're 305 00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:40,080 supposed to be. You're not you're not affecting 306 00:20:40,080 --> 00:20:41,880 me. You're affecting yourself if 307 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:46,600 you're not where God placed you because again, you've already 308 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:49,600 made the mistake in your American gospel that you get to 309 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:56,080 pick church when we know First Corinthians 12/18 says and God 310 00:20:56,800 --> 00:21:02,600 has placed you in the body as it pleases him, each individual 311 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:04,800 member. And if he knows how much hair is 312 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:07,480 on your head and he knew you before you were in your mother's 313 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:10,800 womb, then he sure don't get it wrong at what body he wants to 314 00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:12,960 plant you in so that you can grow. 315 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:18,280 He doesn't. We just have to be confident 316 00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:23,440 enough to say you I yield control. 317 00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:29,520 I know of many church plants right now and startups that I 318 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:33,480 know that I know people are called to throughout the United 319 00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:36,680 States, but they don't go because they evaluate how does 320 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:40,840 it affect their family When if you would go, then you would 321 00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:42,480 help release what they don't have. 322 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:46,520 Well, they don't have this for my child. 323 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:53,400 Well, maybe you're the one to release it, but we want instant 324 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:57,200 gratification, instant spiritual maturity. 325 00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:02,320 There is no such thing as instant spiritual maturity. 326 00:22:03,360 --> 00:22:05,680 But in the last days you can mature quicker. 327 00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:09,200 I will say that. But that's not without the tests 328 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:11,960 necessary to mature you. Are you hearing me? 329 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:14,760 So salvation is not maturity. Let's look at Philippians 330 00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:16,480 chapter 3, verse 12. Y'all doing all right? 331 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:20,920 Amen says this, Paul saying this, not that I've already 332 00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:25,840 obtained it. OK, now this is Paul when he 333 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:29,160 wrote the Philippian letter. This is not Paul when he's 334 00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:33,200 writing to Timothy and he says I've poured out my life. 335 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:38,800 See, I got to help the process because what happens is the 336 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:43,680 Saints will jump on certain scriptures and then live in that 337 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:45,960 and not take full context of the scripture. 338 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:49,560 So what Paul is saying, I'm going to go ahead and let you in 339 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:56,400 on the secret. He he arrived, I'm just going to 340 00:22:56,400 --> 00:23:01,520 tell you that he arrived because when he told Timothy, I have 341 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:08,040 fought the good fight, I have run my race, I have finished my 342 00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:12,880 course. What he has not obtained yet he 343 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:16,400 does obtain which allows him to release because it's the exact 344 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:20,040 same letter that he says this. I am betwixt between two places, 345 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:24,880 whether to go on and be with the Lord or to remain here with you. 346 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:30,200 And he realized I have not done all that I need to do. 347 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:34,440 And why is he at this place? Because of the circumstance. 348 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:38,520 It's weighing on his mind because it's weighing on his 349 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:39,920 body. See, he's in jail. 350 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:44,480 In fact, if you read the scholar Rick Renner in the his Greek 351 00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:47,880 account of Paul's Philippian imprisonment, he will tell you 352 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:51,120 that he was in the lower part of the prison where all of the 353 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:56,360 bowel movements of the other prisoners rolled down into. 354 00:23:56,360 --> 00:24:01,360 Do you like that? PG131 there, All right. 355 00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:06,840 And he was chained on a wall. And tradition happened, has it 356 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:10,520 that it could get so deep that those prisoners could be waist 357 00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:15,560 high. Rats would be running through. 358 00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:22,240 And because they're in a place where there's no sunlight, that 359 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:26,640 the walls are claiming clammy and that the iron bars are 360 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:28,480 rusty. And the next thing you know, 361 00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:31,240 because they were chained to it, then they would develop sores 362 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:35,080 and the rats would find them at night, begin to eat on their 363 00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:39,240 sores and you'd hear scream. Now that's pretty. 364 00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:41,320 And now if that was happening to you, you might want to go on and 365 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:44,880 be with the Lord too, right? You understand, Like Lord Jesus, 366 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:48,280 take me now. Right now, Paul is at this place 367 00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:50,480 because of what's going on in his life. 368 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:57,040 Yet the prisoner guard says, Paul, come here, you got a 369 00:24:57,040 --> 00:25:00,440 letter. And he receives this letter from 370 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:03,240 this church that he planted with money. 371 00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:07,000 And they said, when you get out, come see us. 372 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:15,200 We're praying for you. So every thought he's having is 373 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:18,880 in this condition he's in. You understand? 374 00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:21,400 You know, the enemy's like son, what good was it? 375 00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:24,840 Do you planted that church? Come on, you just got you in 376 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:27,400 trouble with the authorities. Now you're thrown in prison. 377 00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:30,760 What's it good to follow the name of Jesus? 378 00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:33,840 Look what you're in now. You should just quit. 379 00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:37,480 You should just stop. You should just give up. 380 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:40,760 This church plant and stuff is crazy. 381 00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:44,320 Don't even think about it. And man, it weighed so much. 382 00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:46,560 He said I am stuck between these two place. 383 00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:51,360 The only thing that got him over was the thought of someone 384 00:25:51,360 --> 00:25:55,120 beyond himself. Oh, you don't that he actually 385 00:25:55,120 --> 00:26:02,600 had to overcome his comfort because there may be another 386 00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:06,440 human, although they may betray me, I still should get in front 387 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:12,440 of are you hearing me? Oh my gosh, so he's saying here 388 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:15,440 he says now this verse 12, not that I've already obtained it. 389 00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:20,200 This goal of being Christ like or I have already been made 390 00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:25,800 perfect, but I here it is actively press on so that I may 391 00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:30,120 take hold of that perfection for which Christ Jesus took hold of 392 00:26:30,120 --> 00:26:33,040 me and made me his own. Now before I finish reading, 393 00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:38,280 know this that Paul is making a decision in this same letter 394 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:43,600 that you know what I realize I'm not all that God needs me to be 395 00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:49,920 yet and this this thing that I'm in is actually helping train me 396 00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:53,840 to become who I should be. Now in the Spirit, he's in 397 00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:56,160 Christ. He's the righteousness of God in 398 00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:58,440 Christ his spirit man's perfection. 399 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:03,560 However, his spirit man is having to continue to grow. 400 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:08,920 Now we're talking about a Paul who has already been set apart 401 00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:13,160 for 14 years, and Jesus Christ was a personal mentor to the 402 00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:16,320 mysteries that he's about to unload on everyone. 403 00:27:16,360 --> 00:27:19,960 That nobody has this revelation and thinks he's a crazy guy 404 00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:23,680 because he's preaching doctrine they've never heard before. 405 00:27:27,360 --> 00:27:30,840 Yet because of that encounter with Jesus, he knew that he was 406 00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:34,280 preaching true doctrine. But here he is. 407 00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:37,880 He wants in his soul. He wants in his whole nature of 408 00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:43,200 man to reflect a Christ likeness, maturity. 409 00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:45,000 So he says, not that I've been made perfect. 410 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:47,560 That's the same Greek word for mature. 411 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:50,680 So when we hear perfect because we've been stuck in the King 412 00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:53,040 James a lot of time, well, you know, you just can't be perfect. 413 00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:54,960 The Bible's not asking you to be perfect. 414 00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:56,920 The Bible's asking you to be mature. 415 00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:00,800 So wherever you see perfect in your Bible, quit seeing it as 416 00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:05,840 perfection, see it as mature. And maturity is a requirement. 417 00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:11,760 It is considered something to be obtained to and you are actually 418 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:20,160 without excuse to obtain to it. In God's eyes, maturity is a by 419 00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:24,000 product of your salvation. Should you give to the training, 420 00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:28,200 it can't help but show up just like the right now. 421 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:33,640 A minister friend of mine, Josh and and Hope Wyatt gave birth to 422 00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:38,240 twins and in those boys that they gave, she gave birth to 423 00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:43,480 last night is in them naturally to mature the manhood. 424 00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:50,560 It's going to happen, but now their soul and their spirit, 425 00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:52,760 that's a whole nother part of their being that's got to be 426 00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:54,640 dealt with. Are you hearing what I'm saying? 427 00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:58,640 Once you're in Christ and your spirit is made alive, it is just 428 00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:02,480 natural for it, if you will allow it to retrain your mind to 429 00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:06,720 grow to maturity. But if you suppress it, you 430 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:16,680 create an abnormal thank you abnormality in its manifestation 431 00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:20,240 of something that just wants to supernaturally mature. 432 00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:28,720 So Paul says, look, I actively press, which means this is not 433 00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:30,840 something I get just because I was saved. 434 00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:37,880 I have I have the ability to attain to it because I am saved. 435 00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:40,760 But if I don't do my part, I'm not going to get there. 436 00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:44,040 He goes on and says, brothers and sisters, I do not consider 437 00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:49,520 that I have it all, that I have made it my own yet. 438 00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:52,360 But one thing I do forgetting what lies behind and reaching 439 00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:55,240 forward to what lies behind. Notice these words actively 440 00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:57,960 press reaching forward. You know, 10 today. 441 00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:01,240 Everybody's like, oh, they just push and push and push and push 442 00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:02,760 and push. You understand, if you're a 443 00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:05,400 believer, you should be doing that on your own. 444 00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:10,960 That's actually a believer's philosophy, a way of living no 445 00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:13,400 different than Coach Hurley when he's like, OK, let's do another 446 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:14,760 round. All right, let's hit it and let 447 00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:17,720 me throw you 10 more balls for you to hit. 448 00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:19,720 Let's here's some more grounders. 449 00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:21,880 How many times I got to do a coach? 450 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:26,280 I know how to feel the ball. And you just keep doing it and 451 00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:28,680 you just keep doing it and you just keep doing it. 452 00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:30,360 Why? Because you're trying to get to 453 00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:33,360 the place. Like Mick here, who played 454 00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:38,240 baseball with the major leagues. I mean, he attained to a place. 455 00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:41,480 Why? Because of training, right? 456 00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:44,360 Training, training, training, training. 457 00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:47,720 Not everybody in the room can. Just like Coach Hurley got you 458 00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:51,800 the majors. Just like right here got you the 459 00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:56,440 majors. Because of practice. 460 00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:02,520 Jake. Yes, I came to the area. 461 00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:05,760 Jake didn't look like he wanted me to call his name out. 462 00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:08,400 You know, he kind of like, so I was being sensitive. 463 00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:13,320 But since my wife ratted you out, Jake, Jake's a little more 464 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:17,600 shy than the rest. And I know that about Jake. 465 00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:20,800 You know, Jake's not here to please don't ask for his 466 00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:24,080 autograph, all right? Although he could have given 467 00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:28,360 them out. My point is, is that there was a 468 00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:31,600 time they realized if I'm going to get there, I'm going to have 469 00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:35,240 to do more because it's within them. 470 00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:40,640 Well, you're a believer and don't bother lie. 471 00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:43,000 This is why the immature accepts. 472 00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:45,160 Oh, well, don't. I don't have to do anything. 473 00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:47,200 You know I don't. I shouldn't have to be pushed so 474 00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:48,680 hard. I shouldn't have to do that. 475 00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:51,120 I shouldn't have to do nothing. I mean, Jesus did law. 476 00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:54,720 Jesus did everything so you could qualify to be able to come 477 00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:56,760 into the Kingdom. Now, once you're there, he 478 00:31:56,760 --> 00:32:00,600 expects you to do what he did and that is to actively move 479 00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:07,480 towards maturity and press on. I mean, why does Paul have to 480 00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:13,240 press and you don't? Why do we think the five fold 481 00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:16,160 ministry has to press but the Saints get a free ride? 482 00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:18,840 Like I supposed to come and just bring grapes while you sit in 483 00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:21,280 these comfortable chairs. Tony, let me give you a grape. 484 00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:30,680 Can I massage your feet? I don't want you to do a thing, 485 00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:34,520 bro. I mean, we've picked up this 486 00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:39,600 idea and then the enemy's winning because the church stays 487 00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:42,960 immature and has is not threatened by it. 488 00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:47,040 He's not threatened with your soulless praise. 489 00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:52,120 He's not threatened with your daily devotion that you don't 490 00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:54,400 actually apply. He's not intimidated by those 491 00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:57,240 things and he sure isn't intimidated by your cry because 492 00:32:57,240 --> 00:32:59,800 even the Lord has plenty of scripture that when people 493 00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:02,120 ignore to grow. He's like, I hear him crying, 494 00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:05,640 but I'm not coming. And those are part of scriptures 495 00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:08,440 too. Now, I don't know when it is 496 00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:12,800 that God makes certain shifts, but all I know is he expects us 497 00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:16,360 to move forward. He goes on and Paul says again, 498 00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:18,080 verse 14, Nick, look at this word. 499 00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:25,000 He says I press on towards the goal to win the heavenly prize 500 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:29,080 of the upward calling of God in Christ Jesus man. 501 00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:32,520 You see these words actively press reach forward. 502 00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:38,000 I press verse 15. He says all of us who are who 503 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:41,320 are what say it louder, say it louder. 504 00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:45,560 Now the amplified qualifies. What mature is in the next 505 00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:50,720 statement, all of us who are pursuing spiritual perfection or 506 00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:54,560 maturity. So maybe I'm not talking to 507 00:33:54,560 --> 00:34:02,080 everybody in the room right now because those who do not want to 508 00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:06,600 press are saying I want to be immature. 509 00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:11,040 They're acknowledging their immaturity. 510 00:34:11,679 --> 00:34:13,360 Don't tell me what to do. Don't tell me how many times I 511 00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:15,120 got to be here. Don't tell me I have to study. 512 00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:17,800 Don't tell me that I always want you to be up at the church. 513 00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:19,080 I always want you to be up at the church. 514 00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:20,360 I always want you to be up at the church. 515 00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:21,639 I always want you to be up at the church. 516 00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:23,159 I don't want you to be up at the church. 517 00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:26,760 I want you to be with a head of the church, and the head of the 518 00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:30,320 church has a church, and it is a physical manifestation of people 519 00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:35,159 assembling together that are jointed and fitted together. 520 00:34:35,159 --> 00:34:39,920 Now, if you want to be an amputee, go ahead, but that's 521 00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:45,239 your immaturity talking. All of us who are mature, 522 00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:48,320 pursuing spiritual perfection should have this attitude. 523 00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:51,560 So if you don't have that attitude, you're just 524 00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:53,159 confessing. You want to be immature. 525 00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:57,280 I'm not doing that. I want to press, man. 526 00:34:57,280 --> 00:35:00,120 I want to press. I want to keep pressing on. 527 00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:03,160 I want to keep moving forward. I want to keep striving for the 528 00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:05,000 goal. I want to accomplish all that 529 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,360 God has placed within me and discover the things I hadn't 530 00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:09,120 even discovered yet because I hadn't been faithful. 531 00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:10,960 What he's told me to be faithful with at this point. 532 00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:13,280 But once I get faithful there, then he'll give me another 533 00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:14,280 thing. Because if you're faithful with 534 00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:17,160 little, you can be faithful with, which means the assignment 535 00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:20,520 grows and the opportunity stretches you and the capacity 536 00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:25,080 expands. There is no such thing as 537 00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:31,160 vacation. There is rest, but man, I rest 538 00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:37,720 really well in the will of God. I do because I know when the 539 00:35:37,720 --> 00:35:40,640 Holy Ghost says, OK, I need you to press into praying in the 540 00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:42,080 Spirit because I need to recharge you. 541 00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:47,520 He'll tell me get 8 hours of sleep. 542 00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:53,880 OK, we'll get 8 hours. Why? 543 00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:56,080 Because he knows what I can take. 544 00:35:57,520 --> 00:36:01,120 A lot of us we if we don't watch out, it's our immaturity that 545 00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:03,960 says stop. That's too much. 546 00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:09,520 There's times I've looked at my wife and I'm like, I know. 547 00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:12,040 Yeah, I know. Yeah, I don't like it. 548 00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:16,120 I don't want to do this. I don't want to, man. 549 00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:20,360 I get it. But His grace is sufficient, and 550 00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:23,840 I know this about my King. He'll give this and He'll do 551 00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:26,600 this, and He's not asking me to do something that I can't. 552 00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:32,880 So let me not hear what the immature says. 553 00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:34,720 Well, there's a bunch of workaholics out there. 554 00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:38,280 Well, there are workaholics, tons of workaholics, people who 555 00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:42,120 work for not God's purposes. That's true. 556 00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:46,080 But I strive to only work for His purpose, and I'm not made 557 00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:47,160 His purpose. My God. 558 00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:56,240 He is my God, So His purpose is honoring Him because I know I 559 00:36:56,240 --> 00:36:58,800 can look at my wife and say the Lord said we're getting away. 560 00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:00,720 Yeah, but we have all this going on. 561 00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:01,840 Doesn't matter. He's building it. 562 00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:05,280 I'm out. It's his church. 563 00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:09,160 If this thing falls because I left for six months, which I'm 564 00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:11,960 not, but I'm just saying if it did, well, you know what, then 565 00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:13,440 he has that problem. I didn't have it. 566 00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:16,280 And if you fell apart because I wasn't here then that means you 567 00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:22,560 were following the wrong voice because you're not supposed to 568 00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:24,160 be here for me. You're supposed to be here for 569 00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:28,600 the assignment and whether I'm here or not see relevant because 570 00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:32,080 your assignments here because anchor Faith Church is not you 571 00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:35,960 doing the vision God gave me. It's you doing the vision God 572 00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:42,520 gave you and you show up. Are you hearing me verse 15. 573 00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:45,000 All of us who are mature, pursuing spiritual perfection 574 00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:49,080 should have this attitude. And if if in any respect you 575 00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:52,680 have a different attitude, that too God will make clear to you. 576 00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:55,680 Meaning if you don't have this attitude, God's going to say you 577 00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:58,760 need to get this attitude. He'll say, you know, you don't 578 00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:00,760 have this attitude. You've been a little lazy. 579 00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:03,480 You kind of want it your way. You want me to come and whine 580 00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:06,000 and dine you. You want me to wait on you hand 581 00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:08,280 and foot, which I've empowered you with my name to go do 582 00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:13,320 something again. The Bible says we are Co Say 583 00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:16,320 that again. Say it one more time. 584 00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:19,880 I don't know how you define labor, but labor's work. 585 00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:25,440 This is consistent with we equip the Saints for the not the 586 00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:32,040 retirement of service, not the vacation of service, not that I 587 00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:34,320 don't have to do anything now that I've been born again. 588 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:44,720 It's not Co relaxing, it's Co labor. 589 00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:49,760 And labor is not a dirty word. The only time work is a dirty 590 00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:53,480 word is when you're telling God how you're going to do it and he 591 00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:56,120 has to accept it. That's called works. 592 00:38:57,160 --> 00:39:00,320 But when God tells you how to do it and you obey it, that's 593 00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:06,040 called a work of faith. And that work is blessed because 594 00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:11,600 it's not you doing it as much as you obeying what He's asking to 595 00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:13,920 be done. And then He empowers you to do 596 00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:16,240 it. You do have a part to play, but 597 00:39:16,240 --> 00:39:19,000 it's under His grace, which means you do things that are 598 00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:23,560 beyond your capacity or your or your natural ability. 599 00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:27,240 And you look back and go, wow, but for the grace of God, yet 600 00:39:27,240 --> 00:39:30,760 you are part of the process because you actually showed up. 601 00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:37,600 Grace doesn't even work if faith isn't applaud, it is by grace. 602 00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:41,040 How through faith. If faith's not there, grace 603 00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:43,600 doesn't work. Well, I'm in grace. 604 00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:48,120 Well, are you in faith? Because faith is calling those 605 00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:50,120 things that be not as though they were and allowing it to 606 00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:52,920 govern your life and act a certain way, live a certain way. 607 00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:56,040 Come on y'all doing all right and I want to shut this down. 608 00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:59,040 Help me out. OK so he goes on and says all of 609 00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:00,480 us who mature we're going to have this attitude. 610 00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:05,120 Then he says in verse 16, this is very powerful verse only let 611 00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:08,440 us stay true to what we have already attained. 612 00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:16,560 Now this verse is very telling, which tells us that maturity has 613 00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:22,200 to be maintained. It doesn't just come and it 614 00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:27,760 stays without effort. Paul is letting us know now. 615 00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:31,120 I am pressing. I am actively pressing. 616 00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:35,200 I'm reaching for it. I press on to get to this mature 617 00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:40,200 state in Christ that I have the virtues, the the morals, the 618 00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:43,720 reflection, the attitude, the way Christ walked. 619 00:40:43,720 --> 00:40:49,040 I walk as he said, imitate me as I imitate Christ. 620 00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:53,160 But then he said, now we, we got to stay true to what we've 621 00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:54,680 already attained. You know, when I was in the 622 00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:56,600 Baptist Church, I sang Baptist songs. 623 00:40:58,640 --> 00:41:00,280 I sure sang them. And you know what? 624 00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:06,320 They were applicable based upon what I knew, based upon what I 625 00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:08,640 knew they were applicable and I sang them. 626 00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:12,200 I sang them well. Then I got filled with the Holy 627 00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:14,480 Ghost, whatever is Speaking of tongues and assembly God. 628 00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:18,320 Well, there became some new songs that I didn't sing when I 629 00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:20,920 was in the Baptist Church. I didn't sing about the power of 630 00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:23,680 the Holy Ghost, didn't sing about that. 631 00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:28,080 So I had a new song. Right now, if I just went back 632 00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:31,160 to the Baptist hymnal, I would never acknowledge the Holy Ghost 633 00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:33,360 in this power. I would never sing about it. 634 00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:37,440 In fact, if I didn't watch out, what I would do is I would begin 635 00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:41,120 to act like the Holy Ghost doesn't do what I experienced, 636 00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:45,360 so I can't go backwards. I got to keep well, then I went 637 00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:48,520 out to Bible college and found out that there's this authority 638 00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:51,440 that the believer has. Man, when I found out about the 639 00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:53,480 authority of the believer, I found out there was a lot of 640 00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:58,760 songs I could no longer sing because I had attained to a 641 00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:02,880 place that that song was only about my feelings. 642 00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:09,920 That was the song of someone who doesn't know that they have the 643 00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:14,920 name of Jesus and that demons tremble now that we walked in on 644 00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:18,600 the sea and that sickness and disease will bow. 645 00:42:18,720 --> 00:42:23,680 So there's a lot of songs that I had to cut out because and 646 00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:28,000 anytime we listen to anything that's popular, they're great 647 00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:31,880 for those churches because some of those churches are preaching 648 00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:34,960 A theology that is perfect for what they sing. 649 00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:39,560 But they can't make it to this house that way because I've 650 00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:43,200 attained to something now that doesn't say I'm better. 651 00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:48,040 What that says is this house is looking for the full counsel of 652 00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:52,040 God to move to maturity. And what I didn't know in one 653 00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:56,920 time, I now know now, God forbid I go back and sing about 654 00:42:56,920 --> 00:42:59,880 something that I now have. Revelation is different. 655 00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:04,640 So I have to change the one song we just sang today. 656 00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:15,760 I changed the word Hallelujah to the one who came in made a way. 657 00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:20,720 I'm like he didn't make a way, he made the way. 658 00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:25,160 Now I'm not you, you out last critical bro. 659 00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:28,120 I'm just letting you know right now, A&D are two different 660 00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:33,920 thoughts and somebody that's come to this church lost and 661 00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:37,680 think that there is more than one way and we're saying he made 662 00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:40,120 a way. Well, that reinforces there's 663 00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:45,440 more than one. So I went back, I said change A 664 00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:50,920 to V. The song's awesome. 665 00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:55,560 Love the song, but I'm like we can make it a little more clear 666 00:43:55,600 --> 00:43:57,160 because he didn't come and make a way. 667 00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:02,520 Now he made a way, but it's not like there's an others. 668 00:44:02,560 --> 00:44:07,920 He made the way. Jesus didn't say I am a truth, I 669 00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:12,480 am a life, I am away. He didn't say that. 670 00:44:13,240 --> 00:44:16,400 Now you know what the immature will do in this context. 671 00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:19,280 They'll act like in all you're just getting critical. 672 00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:23,160 No, I'm trying. I am working hard to rightly 673 00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:27,080 divide the word of truth because I don't want to be ignorant of 674 00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:31,600 the devil's devices and I don't because I've had experience with 675 00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:36,200 people who have been in the coexisting environment. 676 00:44:36,680 --> 00:44:40,920 I have been to India where I've looked at people in the face and 677 00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:44,960 told them about Jesus Christ as Lord and they are ready to 678 00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:48,280 accept him as Lord. But they're thinking is I will 679 00:44:48,280 --> 00:44:53,320 put Jesus on the shelf with the other thousand gods we worship 680 00:44:53,320 --> 00:44:58,720 here in India. That's why I have to say, would 681 00:44:58,720 --> 00:45:03,360 you put you in jail? I have to say, now listen, you 682 00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:08,480 have to denounce all other gods that are here in India because 683 00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:13,320 Jesus is the only God. He's the only God. 684 00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:16,440 And everyone else you have, you're not adding Jesus. 685 00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:20,360 Jesus is the only way you must denounce. 686 00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:23,040 And when I said this to one couple, the lady, her eyes 687 00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:26,840 rolled back and hit the ground. I had one of the nurses come up, 688 00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:28,800 you know, and I'm like no, no, because I knew something 689 00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:31,560 spiritual happened. A spirit had left her. 690 00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:38,920 In essence she had an N word. I denounced this and that spirit 691 00:45:38,920 --> 00:45:42,040 left. They confessed Jesus as Lord and 692 00:45:42,040 --> 00:45:45,320 her their daughter was crippled. Their daughter was crippled 693 00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:48,200 because of the spirits in her house. 694 00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:51,120 I looked at them. I said when you go home, I want 695 00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:53,280 you to find every idol God you have. 696 00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:54,800 I want you to take it out of the house. 697 00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:56,320 I want you to throw it away. I want you to. 698 00:45:56,320 --> 00:45:58,200 I don't don't give it to nobody. Burn it. 699 00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:02,000 The next year I came back. The child wasn't crippled 700 00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:08,160 anymore. Come on, say Amen. 701 00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:12,840 So, you know, you may scrutinize between A, A and AV, but I've 702 00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:16,360 been in a place that A&V are a whole world apart. 703 00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:21,920 Because when you attain to a place you are passionate about 704 00:46:22,120 --> 00:46:27,040 reflecting the true nature and calling of God, you don't make 705 00:46:27,040 --> 00:46:30,560 it semantics anymore. You make it purity of form. 706 00:46:32,080 --> 00:46:35,480 You're passionate about that because equipping the sanctions 707 00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:38,520 for that purpose. Paul went on to say this in the 708 00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:39,960 Hebrews. I'm gonna have to shut down. 709 00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:43,320 Maybe I won't even finish this today unless I do a speed round. 710 00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:46,960 Hebrews 511 says it's concerning him. 711 00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:49,840 We have much to say and it's hard to explain since you have 712 00:46:49,840 --> 00:46:52,560 become dull of hearing, which means you used to hear one time 713 00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:55,960 but now you don't for though by this time you ought to be 714 00:46:55,960 --> 00:46:58,440 teachers. You have need again of someone 715 00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:01,000 to teach you the elementary principles or oracles of God. 716 00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:03,120 You have come to need milk and not solid food. 717 00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:06,200 The Bible says to desire sensitive milk that you may grow 718 00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:09,120 by milk is for infants. So in essence he's saying you 719 00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:11,840 used to be mature. You should be serving steaks 720 00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:15,600 today, but you're not because you've lost the ability to to 721 00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:18,840 eat steak yourself. You yourself have gone back to 722 00:47:18,840 --> 00:47:20,800 maturity. This is why Paul said in the 723 00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:23,280 Philippian he said only stay true to what you've attained. 724 00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:28,040 I've seen many people, this is the danger. 725 00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:31,040 This is a danger to come to Anchor Faith Church because I'm 726 00:47:31,040 --> 00:47:32,360 going to teach about being born again. 727 00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:35,120 I'm going to teach about the baptism, Holy Ghost, whatever, 728 00:47:35,120 --> 00:47:37,200 speak in the tongues. I'm going to teach about the 729 00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:39,360 healing power of God. I'm going to teach about the 730 00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:41,240 authority of the believer. I'm going to talk to you about 731 00:47:41,240 --> 00:47:43,800 the prosperity of God, but I'm almost also going to talk to you 732 00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:46,520 about the Kingdom of God. Not everybody's talking about 733 00:47:46,520 --> 00:47:48,000 that. And if you attain to the 734 00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:50,880 teaching of the Kingdom of God, which is what's who's coming 735 00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:52,400 back? The king suffering, servants not 736 00:47:52,400 --> 00:47:56,160 coming back, the King's coming. If you learn that and then you 737 00:47:56,160 --> 00:48:03,640 decide you want to go back to a non emphasis, you're going to 738 00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:08,280 become dull and hearing because you're not staying true to what 739 00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:10,960 you attain to. I've talked with some of our 740 00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:13,080 board members, he said. They said, I cannot believe 741 00:48:13,080 --> 00:48:14,440 someone could abandoned the message. 742 00:48:16,440 --> 00:48:19,960 Now that doesn't mean they don't love Jesus, but you can go from 743 00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:24,000 maturity to immaturity. You can die and go to heaven and 744 00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:26,440 mature. Although once you were mature, 745 00:48:31,520 --> 00:48:38,000 well, it's quiet in this Baptist Church now, he said 4 verse 14 746 00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:41,240 but solid food is for what? The mature. 747 00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:44,680 So you know what it's the most frustrating thing for a fivefold 748 00:48:44,680 --> 00:48:47,560 ministry is when the Saints demand meat and they know they 749 00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:53,200 can only take milk. I need something more solid. 750 00:48:53,240 --> 00:48:59,520 You're not even you're not even acting on the milk, right? 751 00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:06,920 Not even acting on the milk. Teens, I'm going to talk to you. 752 00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:10,400 You look at your parents. You want more responsibility, 753 00:49:10,600 --> 00:49:12,800 more things to do this, that and the other. 754 00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:15,680 Yet you struggle with just a simple basic principle of 755 00:49:15,680 --> 00:49:22,120 obeying your parents, of acknowledging them as your 756 00:49:22,240 --> 00:49:29,320 spiritual lead, that you can discover God without him. 757 00:49:32,120 --> 00:49:38,170 I can tell you right now there's some in our elementary and 758 00:49:38,170 --> 00:49:41,450 middle school that are chewing meat more than people in this 759 00:49:41,450 --> 00:49:44,930 sanctuary right now. And it doesn't matter about 760 00:49:44,930 --> 00:49:48,400 their bodies, their spirit man, they are obeying God and they 761 00:49:48,400 --> 00:49:50,640 talk to their parents. Well, how come such and such and 762 00:49:50,640 --> 00:49:53,320 why did this and how come this and how come the world's doing 763 00:49:53,320 --> 00:49:55,040 this? How come that person looks like 764 00:49:55,040 --> 00:49:57,200 that? Because they're already doing 765 00:49:57,200 --> 00:49:59,880 verse 14. They've they are actually had, 766 00:49:59,880 --> 00:50:02,520 they've already had their senses trained to discern good and 767 00:50:02,520 --> 00:50:04,960 evil. But those who drink milk can't 768 00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:08,000 do that. So there are plenty of believers 769 00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:11,520 who cannot discern between good and evil, even though their 770 00:50:11,520 --> 00:50:18,080 spirit man's been changed. This is why back to Ephesians 4, 771 00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:21,040 they're tossed to and fro, not because they're not alive to 772 00:50:21,040 --> 00:50:22,720 God, but it's because they're immature. 773 00:50:24,440 --> 00:50:27,840 So being born again doesn't make you spiritually discerning. 774 00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:31,400 It gives you the opportunity that only comes through training 775 00:50:31,840 --> 00:50:33,800 and then maintaining your training. 776 00:50:35,480 --> 00:50:39,000 Pastor Mike could tell you if you do not stay in it, you lose 777 00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:40,280 it. Period. 778 00:50:41,840 --> 00:50:44,040 This does it in the natural. It's definitely do it in the 779 00:50:44,040 --> 00:50:45,840 spiritual. The cool thing about the spirit 780 00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:51,320 is the spirit can work faster than the natural in building, 781 00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:55,240 but it works the same way. You can lose it faster. 782 00:50:55,240 --> 00:50:59,560 Oh, you don't want to hear that? You can lose it faster. 783 00:50:59,560 --> 00:51:02,000 If you can build spiritual muscles faster, guess what? 784 00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:06,400 You can lose them faster. Just take a week off from 785 00:51:06,400 --> 00:51:08,520 reading the Word and see how fast your flesh starts talking. 786 00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:14,200 James chapter 3 verse 2. James chapter 3 verse 2 says 787 00:51:14,200 --> 00:51:15,120 this. I'm going to give you these 788 00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:19,440 three and we're done for. We all make slip mini slips. 789 00:51:20,240 --> 00:51:25,400 If anyone never slips in his what speech he is a man of, he 790 00:51:25,400 --> 00:51:29,960 can control his whole body too. So the sign of spiritual 791 00:51:29,960 --> 00:51:34,120 maturity is your mouth. Come on now, come on now. 792 00:51:34,120 --> 00:51:36,600 It's your mouth. And James here, although he goes 793 00:51:36,600 --> 00:51:38,040 on and talks about taming the tongue. 794 00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:43,480 What are you saying is, is that unlike man who can tame beasts, 795 00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:49,360 I cannot tame your tongue. You have to tame it yourself. 796 00:51:50,360 --> 00:51:57,000 A man can tame other beasts, make them submit, but nobody can 797 00:51:57,000 --> 00:52:02,080 make your mouth submit but you. And he's saying the minute you 798 00:52:02,080 --> 00:52:08,240 get your mouth under control, then maturity will manifest. 799 00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:11,160 And that is not just saying nice things. 800 00:52:12,800 --> 00:52:15,440 That's refraining from saying things. 801 00:52:18,200 --> 00:52:20,840 It's not I'm mature. Look, I'm going to quote 802 00:52:20,840 --> 00:52:22,920 scripture. I'm believing God, yet you'll 803 00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:26,000 talk about somebody and run them down. 804 00:52:27,120 --> 00:52:29,600 That is an immature believer because the devil quotes 805 00:52:29,600 --> 00:52:32,120 Scripture. Your Scripture quoting doesn't 806 00:52:32,120 --> 00:52:36,480 mean you have a mature mouth. Your fruits of the Spirit and 807 00:52:36,480 --> 00:52:40,600 walking in love and then keeping your mouth right in every 808 00:52:40,600 --> 00:52:45,360 situation shows your maturity. Say Amen. 809 00:52:45,360 --> 00:52:51,080 Anyway, the minute you do that then you control it all because 810 00:52:51,080 --> 00:52:55,200 it doesn't matter what happens in God will vindicate the rest. 811 00:52:55,720 --> 00:53:00,280 Matthew 548 says this. Jesus, you therefore be perfect 812 00:53:00,280 --> 00:53:01,600 again. What's that word mean? 813 00:53:02,400 --> 00:53:04,360 It doesn't mean perfection. It means mature. 814 00:53:04,440 --> 00:53:08,680 Therefore we you therefore will be perfect. 815 00:53:08,680 --> 00:53:11,960 Growing into spiritual maturity both in mind and character. 816 00:53:11,960 --> 00:53:16,720 Actively integrating godly values into your daily life as 817 00:53:16,720 --> 00:53:22,680 your heavenly Father is perfect. Jesus says this. 818 00:53:23,440 --> 00:53:27,200 He says you are to mature like your daddy's mature. 819 00:53:28,320 --> 00:53:33,880 Say maturity is obtainable. Let's just mature, Amen. 820 00:53:33,880 --> 00:53:36,600 Let's be a church that matures. Let's do this. 821 00:53:36,800 --> 00:53:40,920 So don't cry when somebody is saying, hey, that's not 822 00:53:40,920 --> 00:53:44,640 necessarily a mature response. I want to be mature. 823 00:53:44,640 --> 00:53:48,800 Let me get that right. Are you hearing me, coach? 824 00:53:49,600 --> 00:53:52,480 Coach Hurley says that may be working in high school, but son, 825 00:53:52,560 --> 00:53:55,040 that pitch is never going to get you in college. 826 00:53:57,120 --> 00:53:58,280 Never going to get you in college. 827 00:53:58,680 --> 00:54:01,320 I'm glad that everybody thinks you all that, but unless you 828 00:54:01,320 --> 00:54:04,520 start doing this training and you start doing this and you let 829 00:54:04,520 --> 00:54:07,440 your arm mature and you let your muscle mature, then you'll 830 00:54:07,440 --> 00:54:10,200 finally get to this. I know you may want that pitch, 831 00:54:10,200 --> 00:54:12,600 but that pitch ain't for you today because we need to get you 832 00:54:12,600 --> 00:54:14,160 here. Because if you don't do it 833 00:54:14,160 --> 00:54:16,520 right, then you can hurt yourself so that you never get 834 00:54:16,520 --> 00:54:22,560 to the next level. Last verse is this Colossians 835 00:54:22,760 --> 00:54:26,600 chapter one verse 28 says this. We proclaim him warning and 836 00:54:26,600 --> 00:54:29,280 instructing everyone in all wisdom that is with 837 00:54:29,280 --> 00:54:33,080 comprehensive insight into the word and purposes of God so that 838 00:54:33,080 --> 00:54:36,880 we may present every person completing Christ mature, fully 839 00:54:36,880 --> 00:54:40,080 trained and perfect perfect in him the anointed. 840 00:54:40,320 --> 00:54:45,360 This is as Paul's heart writing to the church as the apostle of 841 00:54:45,360 --> 00:54:49,760 Anchor Faith Church and my wife Apostle Marcy, our job is to 842 00:54:49,760 --> 00:54:58,520 present you mature, not born again mature. 843 00:54:59,960 --> 00:55:04,960 That's our assignment is to mature you and that's why we can 844 00:55:04,960 --> 00:55:10,440 handle your crime, just like Coach Hurley does with his and 845 00:55:10,440 --> 00:55:14,960 Coach Jake and Coach Luke. They handle the whining and 846 00:55:15,680 --> 00:55:18,760 they're not moved by their crime because they're going after 847 00:55:18,760 --> 00:55:22,320 their potential. They want them to mature as an 848 00:55:22,320 --> 00:55:27,040 athlete and that's what we're doing to mature you.