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Now enjoy this message. All right, if you have your
models, turn to 2nd Corinthians, chapter 4, 2nd Corinthians
chapter 4, verses 16 to 18, when we get to verse 18, it'd be
pretty common scripture, as you know, that you've heard from the
platform multiple times. But I want to kind of set some
context with it tonight, because this year, you know, we've been
talking about the reigning spirit, right?
And the the spirit that we have it, it reigns supreme.
There is not one above it. We have the conquering spirit,
the spirit that's above any other spirit, and there is a
spirit world out there. You know, I was actually going
back a little bit on, you know, because we've done some
travelling here at the front of the year.
There's some gaps in my sermon folders.
You know, I usually go over and look at my month and then look
at my and I say, OK, what have I done on the last few Wednesdays?
I'm like, and I don't have a whole lot of Wednesdays out
there because I'd been out of town.
But, you know, I looking back at some things that we've taught
already this year, I saw where we spent some time talking about
willpower, the power of will. And we have to understand the
context that all God's created spirits have a will.
Amen. It's going to be really
important as we continue to go and talk about things that are
beyond the veil. When I say beyond the veil,
beyond what you see with your natural eyes, OK.
And so as we embark on some of these teachings, we need to, you
know, put ourselves in remembrance of some things that
we've taught. Why do I say that again?
If you just came to Anchorage Church, you should go back to
the beginning of the year and catch up because we are building
context. The sermons we preach are not
just because, well, what do we want to do?
You know, I got my got a board up there in my office.
I got a, you know, like a dart board, right?
And I got my, my little dart. And I'm like, OK, I can preach
on healing, prosperity. I can talk about forgiveness,
you know, yadda yadda, not just close my eyes, toe and say, oh,
the Lord wants me to do this, and then we just preach on it.
No. When I preach, I have cohesion.
The majority of the time that I minister, most of the stuff is
building to something else. And so, you know, willpower.
When the Lord began to speak to me, I realized, oh, this is
really important for us to understand.
When we start getting into the things of the Spirit, we start
talking about angels and demons and things that are out there in
the realm. Because again, what prompted
this? The Bible said in the last of
the last days. Some will fall away and they
will give attention to or heed. They'll listen to seducing
spirits and doctrines of demons, and there is a realm out.
There, that you know it isn't commonly taught.
There is teaching on it, and I'll be honest with you, some of
the teaching is just as spooky as the things that we think they
look. Like because it's not really
grounded in the word, is what I'm saying.
So with that being said, you know, we want to come from a
very biblical perspective where we're letting God define these
things. We're not adding our own sci-fi
or fantasy. To the spirit world, OK, and so.
But we have to understand that in the realm of the spirit, they
have a will and and and and for us to get beyond the veil, then,
you know, we needed to deal with that subject.
So we've kind of continued to move forward in this thought
process. So I realized because Pastor
Marsh and I were talking some of the context that I will teach
this year, I've never taught now.
Some of you have been with us for quite some time, but you
know, Sunday morning, we have a quite a few people that have not
been with us. Sunday typically is their
service. They're not, you know, yet
developed and grown enough to where they see the necessity of
the midweek. And, you know, so typically your
midweek is people who, you know, have established themselves to a
degree that, you know, I got to be where God's talking and I'm
going to be in the house where he's talking.
So it would be easier to navigate some subjects on a
Wednesday night. However, I believe they would be
at such a timely teaching that I did not want to limit it to
audio only. So we've, we've intentionally
started to film now on Wednesday nights like we do on Sundays.
OK. And So what happens on Sundays,
happening now on Wednesday that when we get into the subject
matters, we can release those as well.
Because I do want to release things that are operating in the
spirit realm, rightly divided. You know, people tend to like to
watch what they're hearing more than just listening.
OK. So with that being said, because
we are at home and typically, you know, we're such a large
family Wednesday, we haven't had to think about cameras.
You need to think about cameras because every time you need to
go use the bathroom, make sure you're not in front of the
camera. That's what I'm saying.
Do everything you can. Now we understand if you're up
here, you're like, what am I going to do?
There's a camera behind me. How?
How do I get out? Don't do this.
Roll out and roll low. Crawl.
Don't do that. OK.
Yes, It may be that no one sees you, but you will, it will be
very, I will have to pull the crowd back in.
The congregation will be distracted by that action.
OK. We do have multiple cameras.
So typically when one pops up, what they do is they'll flip to
another camera anyway and we can do, you know, post editing.
We're just wanting you to be aware, obviously you don't run
around the front. We have a camera right here.
And so again, if you look where it's at, you say, OK, how do I
can go to the restroom potentially so that I don't
you're just in the line. I saw the line of one.
It is what it is. So you know Coach Hurley, you
know don't raise your hands too high because you'll take my
shots out. So you get now if you get super
excited about what I appreciate, you want to jump up and shout, I
don't mind, we'll move, we'll we'll do in post.
So please jump and shout. I just don't want you to be
going like that. And then all of a sudden they're
like, I can't see it. There's a hand.
And that's why you understand we almost painted a line here so
Pastor Marcy wouldn't quit worshipping over here.
But she's learned her side. And you know, 'cause it's like
Pastor Marcy's in the camera. Can you tell her to move?
You tell her to move. That's what they're doing, you
know? And then all of a sudden, Usher
come down, your your wife's in the camera.
Pastor Marcy, get over. Nobody wants to tell her that.
OK, all right, all right, OK, here we go.
Second Corinthians, chapter 4, verses 16 to 18.
Therefore we do not lose heart. But though our outward man is
decaying, yet our inward man is being renewed day by day.
For momentary light affliction is producing for us an eternal
weight of glory far beyond all comparison, while we look not at
the things which are seen, but at the things which are not
seen. For the things which are seen
are temporal, but the things that are not seen are eternal.
Now you've heard me, minister, on this verse 18 multiple times.
But the context that I like here, starting in verse 16, is
that we are not to lose heart. Though our outward man is
decaying, our inward man is being renewed day by day.
Now in the realm of the Spirit, we are extremely strong, and as
we renew our minds with the word of God and and then in
fellowship with the Spirit of God through prayer and praying
in the Spirit, we are building up our inner man.
We are to grow up. I know.
So let me say this The minute you're born again, everything
that God placed in your spirit is there.
You cannot be any more righteous, OK?
But you have to understand your spirit is like a natural babe
when giving birth. That's why Paul said that they
were babes in Christ. In essence, your kingship is
still like a babe. In fact, he went on in another
letter and he said now a child of a king and the servant of a
king, if they're both born, they can grow up together.
You can't tell them apart, but the tutor helps the one he he's
like a child. But then eventually the tutor
develops him so that when he's older, he can take his kingship.
All right, he can function as a king because he's been trained
in it. So when a child is birthed,
everything that child's going to be is in there.
But there's a development. You have to grow.
So even though your spirit man has been made righteous, you are
royal and holy. If you do not allow that spirit
to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit that's in you and
get your mind to think like that from the spirit, you can be a
reigning king that never develops, period.
So you can grow spiritually. All you're doing is releasing
everything God put it in you at the new birth, but it is a
growth none the less. All right, So when people act
like, they basically act like God's giving birth to full blown
mature Christians. He is not.
The Bible is very clear about babes.
Both Peter and Paul reference babes, and Paul says that you
need to desire the sincere milk of the word so that you may
grow. OK, now the the greatest place
that you grow will be in your soul realm, in the renewing of
your mind, so that you will think, respond and behave like
your spirit is created to do and wants to do and loves to do.
That's all somebody post. On Instagram.
So it's probably somebody in this room even maybe I don't
know but posted something about working out you know and instead
of seeing working out like it's you know, I I work out so that I
lose weight. No.
I work out because. It it's it strengthens my body.
Instead of looking at it as a something I have to do, it's
something I get to do. So your mindset of why you do
something is very significant most of the time because we came
from a lost and existence. Being dead to Christ, we come
from a very negative perspective anyway, and then we pull that
same perspective over into the Kingdom of God to where we
always look at the negative. 1st instead of it looking it through
a positive lens. So again I see the cup half
empty, you could see it half full.
It's the same cup, same measure, but it's the attitude, attitude
behind it. So a person's like hush, I got
to get up and go work out is going to be more prone to I'm
staying in. But a person says what a
privilege to be able to keep my body in a position so that I'll
be strong when I'm and I get I get to do it.
I'm not. It has to submit to me.
Well, that person is going to be more disciplined to continue to
do so. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
So if you don't change your thinking about things, then the
reality is you're going to get the sum of what you're thinking
and you're going to live that lifestyle.
But I also want us to look at it from this because though our
outward man is decaying, our inward man is being being
renewed day by day. Verse 17 says, for momentary
light, affliction is producing for us a eternal weight of glory
far beyond all comparison. Then Paul gets into what we're
seeing. You could almost conclude that
Paul is saying look, don't lose heart.
So the outward is decaying. And are we not looking at a
world that is outwardly decaying, but the Kingdom we
serve is renewed day by day? In fact, because we know the
scripture says that once the rock that is made without hands
crushes, hits the planet okay, it's going to grow into a great
mountain, It's going to ultimately take over.
So the Kingdom we're in, once it's in, it doesn't leave.
And the Kingdom of God will never leave.
I said it will never leave the planet.
It is. It is the most dominant
government in the planet today. It's behind the veil, in the
realm of it, spiritually speaking.
It's functioning. We can't physically see it.
It will physically manifest one day, but it can manifest by the
spirit in the natural, through us and by faith.
And it is growing at an enormous rate.
I said it's growing at an enormous rate.
It's already taking over nations and they don't even know it, OK.
And so we have more that are with us in power than the number
of people that think they have power.
Now our numbers may not be as much as being reported as far as
the plan is concerned, but the power of 1, the power of two
has, does a lot. I mean, one sends 1000 anyway, 2
will send 10,000. I mean, we exponentially are
greater in numbers. And God has proven this with his
nation. You know when he took Gideon, he
said give me 300 guys, man, at the end of the day we gonna
reduce this to 300 'cause they meet the character and
qualifications of what I need to be able to demonstrate my power.
So they won't take credit. So the nation won't take credit.
And they wiped out just by turning lights on an amount of
people that they say you weren't counting them.
Now, we counted how many were on the hill or, you know, on the
mountain, but we weren't counting how many were down in
the valley. And all they had to do is turn
the light on, right? So we are the most powerful
force on the planet. We really are.
So again, I while we don't look at what we're seeing and it's
decaying because we have something that is powerful in
this momentary light affliction. So the trials of life, you have
to change your thinking and say this is light.
I don't care what report you get, it's light 'cause there's
no name greater than the name of Jesus.
I don't care what report you could get from the world.
I don't care what decaying report you have life in you.
You have the word of the king about any particular thing that
can overcome any situation, right?
So This is why Paul referenced then, why we look not at the
things that are seen. So we don't want to get so
fixated in our minds or with our eyes on the same realm more than
what's in the unseen. Because there's more there than
here. I said there's more there than
here. So we need to learn how to see
the unseen. We need to learn how to see the
unseen to where we're so good at seeing the unseen that we pay no
attention to the scene. Amen.
Pay no attention, because this
temporal it will change to what we are viewing in the unseen.
OK, but the question we have to ask ourselves is how do we view
it? Because First Corinthians 12
verses 1st Corinthians 2. Excuse me?
First Corinthians 212 through 14 says now we have not.
Well, now we have not received, excuse me, now we have received
not the spirit of the world. But the Spirit who is from God?
So that we may know say no, the things freely given to us by
God, which things we also speak, not in words taught by human
wisdom. So you're not going to learn
this at the university, but in those taught by the Spirit,
combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words.
But a natural man, say, natural man does not say, does not, does
not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are
foolishness to him. He cannot understand them
because they are spiritually appraised.
One translation says spiritually discerned.
So again, notice in verse 12 we do not have the spirit of the
world, OK, but we have the Spirit who is from God.
So that we may know, which means there's something that we can
know, something we can see that is of God.
But it's because we have the Spirit of God in the natural.
You're not gonna see, right? That's right.
So you're gonna have to get over in the Spirit.
And again, when you don't know how to view the Spirit, you'll
make things up. When you can't see something you
imagine. But God's letting you know.
I'll let you know what's on the other side.
It's not guesswork. It's the ability to see into the
unseen, and you cannot do it outside of the Spirit.
See, Christianity in our nation has been reduced to where you go
when you die in the majority of congregations.
And they're not discipling new believers babes in Christ on how
to see the unseen. That's right, they're not doing
it. And as a result of that, they're
born again. But they still live by what they
see, and then they behave by how they see, and they make
decisions by what they see. Yet the Lord's like, I want to
raise up your view. I want to pull the veil back for
you. But you can only do this by the
spirit, can only do it by the spirit.
Yet most people don't want to know nothing about the spirit
realm. They only want to know about
where am I going to go when I die.
Because it really doesn't matter what's going on in the spirit
realm. Well, the minute you take that
conclusion, then the spirit realm can dominate you because
God's not the only one in the spirit realm.
And what you don't know about that spirit realm because you're
not willing to access it, the way God can train you to access
it can kill you, He says My people perish due to lack of and
God says, now I'll show you things of the spirit By the
spirit I want you to know some stuff so God wants us to know.
Now, with that being said, that doesn't mean you know that I
want to become proficient in demonology.
But that doesn't mean I don't. I can't know by the Scripture
and by the through the Spirit how that how evil spirits work
and function, how they talk, how they try to engage you,
manipulate you, 'cause there's plenty of things in there that
lets us know that way. When we say, well, the Lord
said, we actually know the Lord said instead of someone else
saying all right. So we have to conclude we cannot
even begin to deal with spirit realm stuff if we do not know
how to 1st be led. By the Spirit.
So being led by the Spirit is imperative to understand the
spirit. The problem is, people want to
learn about the spirit realm only from a natural perspective.
I don't care if you know there's demons, nor do demons care that
you know they exist. And demons don't even care that
you know Jesus's name they have to submit to.
They don't care that you know. In fact, they hope that you will
take that knowledge and apply it without revelation.
Because they'll do to you what they did to the seven sons of
Skiva. Seven sons of Skiva knew they
were demonic realm out there, knew that people were demon
possessed, obviously saw Paul do it.
That's the reason why they went and found one and said we rebuke
you in the name of Jesus, the one whom Paul preaches about.
We were in his meeting. It was amazing.
We wanted to do that. They had knowledge in the
natural number one. They were not led by the spirit
to go run down a demon possessed guy.
That was their own selfish ambition to try to look
powerful. These seven guys were really no
different than Simon the sorcerer who wanted to pay Peter
and John for the laying on a hand so that people can receive
the baptism of Holy Ghost. You're like, wow man, this is a
man. He was born again.
He received the he believed what Paul or Philip was preaching and
saw the miracles of healings that were taken with Philip.
But yet then when Peter and John came down and started laying
hands on people and they got baptized in the Holy Ghost.
And how did he know? Because it says he saw they were
speaking in other tongues and he's like man let that in
essence because he was sort of, that's a good trick.
I would pay to have knowledge on how that works.
And man, did he get rebuked. So it's amazing because here's
the thing, everybody wants to be spiritual.
Everybody. This is why we love fantasy
movies. Some of you are saying I don't
like them. That's not true.
Everybody likes to be spiritual, and there's a there's a point in
time in your life now, Some of you grew up enough, like, you
know that stuff is wizardy, you know where that realm comes
from. But at a child you didn't think
that way. You just enjoyed watching
because we wanted the power to be able to throw someone against
the wall or pick somebody up or, you know, those types of things.
We want that kind of, you know, that's why we get enthralled
about superheroes, because it's supernatural power.
The whole world wants this. But the problem is when they
just try to naturally engage, there is a spirit realm that
will accommodate the Lord. Saying to you, I want you to see
the unseen, but in order for you to do that, you're going to have
to be in the Spirit, which is why Romans 814 says for all who
are being led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God.
So the sons of God are not, are not identified by their
knowledge of God. I'm going to say that again,
they're not only identified or they're not identified by their
knowledge of God, they are identified by the leading of the
Spirit. That's a very important point
because we do know the Bible says that if any man call on the
name of the Lord, he is saved. We hear that and then we know
that the Bible says that the minute you the action of being
caught calling on the name of the Lord means you become a new
creature in Christ. The old pass away, Behold, all
things become new. Then we know another scripture
says that your that his spirit bears witness, which we'll read
it here in a minute, testifies that we are children of God.
Once that confession takes place, a union happens with the
Lord. But what is the evidence that
you are opera or that's occurred?
Is that a real son? Who by all right is a son
because he has made Jesus Lord supreme in authority?
I follow you. So we have to carry on the
conversation and say sons of God follow the Spirit, yet most just
want to be a son of God through a confession and never follow.
This is a problem you're not carrying on your sonship 'cause
God expects that sons follow the Spirit.
In fact, the Greek of this sentence is actually reversed.
It should read this way, for as many as by the Spirit of God are
being LED. They are sons of God.
Are you hearing me? So it puts the Holy Spirit at
the first of the verse and we are placed behind him.
Our picture of response. It's our picture of
responsibility as children of God to follow the leader.
It also carries this idea Romans 814.
Following the leadership of the Holy Spirit is one of the
privileges of being a son of God, although it may be
agonizing to learn how to defer to him and to really let him be
your leader. Now the word lead.
In Romans 814, the Greek word means this.
It means to simply lead. It means to gently to be gently
LED about and. Was the same word used to
describe a man leading his cow about on a rope.
The farmer is a leader. The cow is merely the follower.
The cow doesn't argue with the farmer.
The animal simply trusts and follows.
Are you hearing me? So Rick Renner says this.
He says the leading of the Holy Spirit is often subtle, taking
the form of impressions or nudging in our hearts to do
something. So again, taking the picture of
the farmer, he's got the rope around the cow and he's leading
it out right, he's And typically what do they do?
You know if he wants it to go one way, he'll nudge it, turn
his head, and it begins to follow that path.
He can turn the head another way.
Follow that path is just sitting there.
He can pull, which would pull his head forward.
It's a nudge and now we're moving.
Are you hearing me? So again, the leaning, it's like
a nudge in your spirit. It's not a dragging, it's not a
picking you up on their shoulders.
So they're carrying you like footprints in the sand.
Says are you hearing me? See, Most believers say, well,
if the Holy Ghost wants me to do something, then he just needs to
make me do it. Demons make you do stuff.
God leads you well. The Lord made me do it.
The Lord did not make you do anything.
The devil made me do it. The devil will put way more
pressure, but you still will consent.
At the end of the day, you're consensual.
In both cases, one's just more violent than the other.
Are you hearing me? I said one's more violent.
So again, the devil made me do it.
Yeah, 'cause he's violently pursuing you, he's trying to
destroy your life and he is pushing you around and you're
letting him 'cause you actually have authority over him.
Hallelujah. But the Lord will say, well,
come on. And if you don't want to come,
we'll come on. Well, if that's.
What you want to do? But I'm over here, Lord, come
help me Lord. Lord, I need some help.
Lord, Lord, would you do something?
Lord's like I'm talking. To you, I've given you a nudge.
I need you to move. Hallelujah.
Hallelujah, all right, he said. Goes on, goes on to say.
However, his leaning can be more dramatic, as though through a
prophecy, a dream, or a vision, or simply through a voice
speaking clearly to our spirit. The truth is, learning to know
the voice of the Holy Spirit and being led by him should be one
of your primary concerns as a growing, maturing child of God.
It's all part of the lifelong pursuit to know him, the power
of his resurrection. As you press towards the mark of
his high word calling, the Lord can use other options.
He could speak with a loud voice, there's no doubt about
that. Again, he can do dreams, he can
do visions, He can do open visions, he can do it through
prophecy of someone else. And it is the Spirit of the Lord
speaking to you which gains your attention.
But in all cases you still have to consent.
Are you hearing me? So Romans 814 really means those
who follow the leadership of the Holy Spirit.
They are the sons of God, right? So again, Romans 816 two verses
later, the Spirit himself testifies with our Spirit that
we are children of God. The Passion says it this way,
for the Holy Spirit makes God's fatherhood real to us as he
whispers into our innermost being.
You are God's beloved child and the Holy Spirit when announced
by Jesus in his prayer in the Book of John, when he's talking,
first they've heard that he's coming and that that he's going
to bring some fire because he's going to burn away some stuff.
But when Jesus talks about him, he says this, He said, Now when
he comes, that is the spirit of truth.
First thing he's going to do, he's going to remind you.
What I said. So guess what he's going to do
first, talk, then he's going to teach you all things.
Guess what's the second thing he's going to do?
He's going to talk. Then he's going to guide you
into all truth. Now that you've learned a voice,
he's going to give directions so that you can begin to yield and
navigate. Then he'll disclose which is
still talking, things to come. So it's very important that we
learn the voice of the Spirit. And so many believers today are
just all I care about is I know where I'm going to go when I
die. Most have no discernment of the
Spirit and because they have no discernment of the Spirit.
In fact, a scripture in Hebrews literally tells us that unless
you're trained in righteousness, which is a form of getting over
into maturity, then you cannot discern good and evil because
evil will sound good and nice and to your benefit, but it
still be from the devil. And if you're not doing the
things necessary to rightly understand the voice of God
because we start getting over into angels, you understand.
The challenge here is that I'll introduce you to a realm that
you could try to worship. And there's plenty of Scripture
says don't do it. In fact, the Angel say don't
worship me. Or because you become aware of
it through knowledge, then the devil can show up as an Angel of
light and totally mislead you. So we get into the subjects of
angels. Or you know, evil spirits,
right? Don't be lusting to know this.
Want to know it because you want to be at a see into the unseen
so that you can navigate that realm effectively.
In the New Covenant 'cause you understand the Old Covenant,
there was a a way that realm operated, and it does operate
that way in part still. But in the New Covenant there's
some things different. Do you understand?
I'll just say this real quick, 'cause we talk about again.
Daniel. Lord, I need an answer now.
Daniel's in the Old Covenant. He is a prophet.
But the prophets have the Holy Spirit come upon them.
He didn't live on them. Means he would come upon and
then he would go. Come upon and go.
Why he? Why can't he stay 'cause he's
sinful. He's sinful, man.
His spirit man's not alive unto God now.
He can be living by faith, doing the principles of God, and
righteous based upon the knowledge of God.
That's in that dispensation. But by all rights he's still a
sinful man that he's going to go to the grave.
He'll be in Abraham's bosom because he's got to wait for the
blood of Jesus, so he doesn't have a direct connect to the
throne except when the spirit comes down.
Will God use other messengers during the Old Covenant as well?
So he asks. And because the spirit of God is
not readily in him, God sends an Angel that gets detained because
the devil still has authority. I mean, he has the dominion in
Daniel's day of this realm. Don't let it through.
But God's realm is obviously more powerful than the dominion
that he's will throwing. Wielding.
That's the word I just want to say.
Wielding. Right?
And then Michael comes down, holds him.
What happens 21 days later? Daniel gets his answer.
And what's what's the Angel say? The Lord sent me on the 1st day.
You know what we do in the new covenant.
You know, it may take 21 days. OK, I'm not telling you that.
It may not take time. And it's not taking time because
we're waiting for an Angel. Because you now have the Holy
Ghost in you. You don't have to wait for an
Angel to get through. God just may be wanting to spend
time with you. It's part of the seek in the
relationship. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
So again, what we do when we start talking about angels, we
it's just like the new. We got to keep the Old Testament
in light of the New Testament, and that is the spirit realm as
well. The spirit realm as well.
In Malachi it says if you'll bring the tithe in and the
offerings to the storehouse, that God would rebuke the
devourer. In the new covenant, you get to
rebuke him. The Lord doesn't have to rebuke
him. That's your assignment.
Now. Submit to God.
Resist the devil. God didn't have to resist the
devil. You have to resist the devil
because you've been given authority over him, right?
You can't say, Lord, I wish you rebuke the devil for me.
Rebuke. He's like you.
Say something. OK, so there's things that we
get to do in the spirit because we now have a connection to the
throne by the spirit. OK, Y'all doing.
All right, OK, now why is all this important?
Because man always was originally designed to have the
spirit in bath. In Genesis 126 and 29 it says.
Then God said. Let us make man in our image
according to our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of
sea, over the birds of the sky, over the cattle, over all the
earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.
God created man in his own image.
In the image of God, He created him, male and female, He created
them. Then we get over to chapter.
Two. And we know that he forms man
out of the dust of the earth, and he breathes into his
nostrils. The what?
Breath of life. So his spirit man was alive to
God. The Holy Spirit was in Adam.
He was a carrier of the Holy Spirit.
Why is this? In this way human beings were
created by God to live from the inside out.
The very spirit of the King himself was given a humanity.
Human beings were made in the image and likeness of the King
with his own personal presence living within them.
Human beings were designed to function like their creator
King. It is soon it assured that they
would be able to rule on earth as he rules in the heavenly
Kingdom, having the very nature of love, mercy, kindness and
forgiveness. Are you hearing me?
The Holy Spirit, as a governor of the human spirit, was
humanity's bridge to the home country.
We're in the Kingdom. The bottle's about a king, his
Kingdom, and his royal offspring.
So it was the presence of the Holy Spirit within the human
beings that gave them the authority and ability to have
dominion over their environment. They were to exercise dominion
over the earth under the direction of the spirit of the
King. Are you hearing me?
In every person's search for power and meaning in life is
this. They are actually seeking the
return of the King's spirit. I'm gonna say that again.
In every person's search for power and the meaning in life is
this. They are actually seeking the
return of the King's spirit. A human being without the King
spirit is dysfunctional because he's never complete.
His very purpose requires the presence of the Holy Spirit.
And when the Holy Spirit shows up, he tells you who you are.
Amen. Because he comes from the
Creator, the Potter. Well, this is what type of
vessel you are. This is why you're here.
This is your function. This is what you are to do.
You're not to look at what others do and want to do what
they do. You're only to hear from inside,
from the spirit of the King, who will tell you what the Creator
designed you to do. Because that's the question
everyone's asking. Why am I here?
You can only find out when the Spirit's there.
And he wants to talk to you. So we've got to get our
Americanized conversations gone. I'm going to ask a question.
I want to know. Answer.
Period. Right.
Amen. We just finished a marriage
conference. We know, men, that your wives in
the realm of romance is not fast.
Yet we want it fast. It don't work like that.
God built them different. Are you hearing what I'm saying
yet? We want to tell God you're going
to talk to me the way I want you to talk.
He's like, you don't even understand relationship.
You've been cut off. I'm going to teach you
relationship. So we come to our relationship
with God with our own preconceived ideas.
Yet the Lord's the one who says you need to change your
thinking, right? The restoration of the King's
spirit to humanity is the scent is central to the restoration of
his Kingdom on earth. So here you got to understand.
When Adam fell from dominion, when he ate the fruit of the
tree of the knowledge of good and evil, his spirit died and he
was led only by his soul, his mind, emotions.
His will then made decisions based upon his mind emotions, So
he's and his body how he felt. So he his.
All of a sudden all of his decision making got reduced to
his five senses. And humanity is proficient at
making decisions on their five senses.
That's why the Lord says, But you don't live by sight, you
live by faith. And what is faith and how does
it come? Faith comes by hearing and
hearing from the word of God. So we are to hear God's word
through the Spirit of the King that lives within us, and we are
to make the decisions based upon that, not based.
Upon the soul realm. So Adam's decision making got
reduced to only the soul. Are you hearing me?
AW Tozer said this. If the Holy Spirit was withdrawn
from churches today, 95% of what they do would go on and no one
would know the difference, he said.
Though if the Holy Spirit had been withdrawn from the New
Testament church, that means the Book of Acts, 95% of what they
did would stop and everybody would know the difference.
Now here's the. Kicker.
The latter church, the the church that Jesus is coming
back, is going to be greater than the former.
And if it's going to be greater than, we must know the realm of
the Spirit. And we are going to know it
because we know the Spirit King. Come on, are you hearing me?
We need to know the Holy Spirit because a lot of times we're not
taking the time we do a really good.
I mean, most of you are really good at getting me information
through Google and you become very knowledgeable in the
natural well, where we're going, we're going to go here.
Well, now I'll look it up and you get direction.
You know what you're not showing me.
You're not showing me the accident that will occur in the
future that Google doesn't show that is there at now the
traffic's going, but you know who can the spirit say don't
take that route and he don't have to tell you why, but he
can't tell you. I mean, he could or he doesn't
just say don't take that one, take this one.
But that one is 15 minutes longer.
So what do we do in the natural? I don't want to go 15 or 30
minutes longer. Yet the Holy Spirit knows an
accident's going to occur on the one that's 30 minutes faster,
which is going to make it 2 hours longer.
Oh. You don't want to hear me?
We've become so proficient in this and even Smith,
Wigglesworth communicated. The more science or or natural
things become a a a prevailing option to the things of the
spirit. People will not turn to the
spirit for an answer. So he said it this way.
He said the more medical science advances, more and more people
will not trust God for their healing.
They'll just go to medicine. In fact, most believers today go
to medicine 1st, and the only time they're talking to God is
when medicine says or they're talking to God while taking the
medicine, but they're more firmly persuaded in the medicine
they're taking. Then God heals them.
They just throw the tag on, Well, I'm just believing God I'm
healed, but they're really believing that that pill is
going to do it. Now at the end of the day, if
you put your faith in the pill and God uses the pill to do it
because again, God has used natural things in order to be
able to do stuff. But ultimately, he wants you to
know his word is the ultimate source.
I'm not saying for you to abandon your medication.
I am saying make sure you start with the spirit first.
I know a particular lady who's not with us today.
She was older, got diagnosed with cancer.
And so they. Ran her through chemotherapy, I
think it was. And she did awesome.
She was prayed up, believing God physically.
She handled it amazing. It's awesome.
I heard that. They're like, you know, it took
an effect. We want to do another round just
to make sure we got everything, I literally told her on the
phone Don't do that. Wait, your body needs more time
to recover. You don't have to rush this.
Don't do it. The daughter came in, convinced
her to do it. She died 'cause it was too hard.
Cancer didn't kill her. The effects of the chemo did,
because they rushed it. But by the spirit we knew, it
can work. Less weight.
No rush. They already think they've
tackled it. This is for in the abundance of
caution, Yeah. And she fought till the end.
I'm telling you, she fought the best she could, but it was
really, it was too much on her body.
It's like, what? Come on, Lord, thank you.
I see his face. I need his name.
Jim Hockaday. Jim Hockaday said this when he
was doing the prayer and healing school.
He says. You know, it's never too far for
God, but sometimes. It's too far for them because by
the time their mind can get connected, to actually get in
firm persuasion, their body don't have the time to be able
to do it. And here's the next thing,
sometimes they can get the body so far that they didn't medicate
you and then you can't keep your mind to fight the good fight of
faith. So I wasn't there that day, but
they put me on the phone to the person's ear and I said to them,
it's going to be all right. You can go see Jesus.
We got it here. We'll take care of it. 10
seconds later she was gone. 10 seconds later, I'll see her in
heaven. See, sometimes when we don't
listen to the Spirit, it can cost us our lives.
And God was warning us, But there's our voices out there and
we're going to see that it's impossible to worship God from
your soul, although many people are doing it.
Lot of soulish praises going on. Very emotional, very exciting,
but hadn't touched the spirit of God once.
I'm telling you, seeing someone cry, seeing someone run and jump
and shout, does not indicate that that's the spirit.
It can be the spirit. I'm not saying that it sure can
be, but I can tell you there's plenty of times it's not.
And when you learn to know how to see into the unseen, you'll
know if that worship service was spiritual or if it was just the
soul, if that display that just took place was spiritual.
Or was it just the soul? I'm going to tell you right now,
Brother Hagan said this. He said, you know, I've come off
the platform in the flesh, meaning in the natural.
I I felt nothing of the Spirit, but it was a by faith.
And he said, when I hit the ground, I was in the Spirit.
So from here there was a calculated soul realm that was
trying to connect to the spirit, but I had not entered it yet.
But I perceived that if I acted on what I had not yet
experienced, by the time I get there, I'll be in it.
And he did that. That's different than someone
just out of their soul crying out to God, giving a bunch of
emotional expressions, trying to get, in essence, conjure up God
to notice them. It's not going to happen.
So worship can only produce religion.
So Adam could only all humanity now can only worship God from
the realm of soul. And that's not worshipping.
That's why they have false gods. That's why religion shows up.
Don't you know? Religion was in full swing when
Elijah showed up to the prophets of Baal, he said.
Let's find out who has the real God, right?
You go first. Now.
They had a praise service going on.
They were dancing, shouting, screaming, cutting themselves.
I mean, it was the most, you know, passionate display.
Passion doesn't necessarily mean it was connected to the spirit.
Then Elijah dig a ditch. Put water on it.
Do it again. Do it again.
Right. And then he's like, Lord boom,
there's the fire, right? God move without him having to
do all that. But then his passion really
manifested because I've been on that mountain where that event
took place in Israel and the. Brook that he killed all those
prophets. It's not right here.
It's a pretty good, pretty good walk, and with his passion in
the spirit, he was able to rally and take them against their will
down a long mountain to a brook and kill them.
Have them killed because of the zeal of the Lord because God
hates. Idol worship Loving God hates.
You worshipping other gods? He's jealous.
He's the only one who deserves that, and to him it shouldn't
even be in the earth. Especially if it takes people
off course from me because I'm life.
Their worship only leads to death.
That's why the Bible says there's a way that seems right
to a man, but in the end lies. That's why we got to live life
beyond just seeming what's right.
We need to have a Holy Ghost knowing what's right.
Because the time we hear the word seem in the book of Acts,
James said it this way. It seems right to us and the
Holy Ghost, not just to us. And the Holy Ghost.
We believe we've heard the voice
of the Holy Spirit about this particular issue.
This is what we're going to do. Are you hearing me?
So, Adam's first sole response. Was to cover himself with leaves
so he could be in the presence of God when he heard him coming
in the cool today. Did it work?
No. But look at this in Luke 2.
This is why it's so important for us to understand the things
of the Spirit. Because we were always destined
to know the home country, to be able to connect to the Kingdom
in heaven, to bring that realm into this realm.
But it's only done by the Spirit.
We have to be able to get into the unseen, see the unseen, in
order for us to be able to access what's in that realm.
So we have to take the leading of the Spirit, a very serious
business, to our growth and development.
We cannot get complacent in just knowing where we're going to go
when we die and the end's going to work itself out.
Well, it's going to work out according to what God said.
The question is where you'll be out?
Where are you going to be at in the working of it?
Come on, 'cause some people are assuming they're going to be in
places that the Bible says. You're not going to be in that
place. All right.
That's good. Hey man.
But Luke 2 four, verse 40 and then verse 52, verse 40 says,
and the child, this is Jesus grew and became strong in
spirit, filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was on him.
Look at verse 52. And Jesus increased in wisdom
and statute and in favor with God and man.
Jesus is first recognized for his wisdom.
See, he's strong in spirit. Why he was filled with wisdom.
So Jesus is first recognized for his wisdom in scripture before
his supernatural miracles. So when we talk about the spirit
realm, most of the time people are thinking about the
miraculous. I don't know why it got so
quiet. I mean, y'all want me to pop a
vein or something. Here I mean.
What we got to do here? What's going on?
I mean, you know, Arnell, when Vanessa and Arnell were in
Puerto Rico, it was it was horrible.
I mean I see the man standing in the pulpit, line upon line,
precept upon precept. And he would say, you know, Luke
240 And the child grew and came strong in spirit, filled with
wisdom. And they would all come to the
service at Anchor Faith there, and they would look at him and
say, we've never heard this teaching, this is amazing, but
they wouldn't stay. Why?
Because he didn't scream and yell like all the other pastors
that were on the island. Now at the end of the day, I
don't care if it's part of your gifting to scream and yell.
I do it myself. However, if it's not attached to
the Spirit, then all you're doing is screaming and yelling,
and there are congregations full, especially in Latin
American countries that think they have the spirit there and
all they have is a soulless service, very emotional.
All right, it's fine. Jesus is the greatest example of
hearing the Spirit because he was well equipped to rightly
divide and discern the word. This is why Jesus first preached
repent which means change your thinking.
Jesus did not first preach you need the Holy Ghost power for
the Kingdom of heaven is at hand.
He did not say that you need the power so that you can cast out
devils for the Kingdom of. No, that's not what he said.
He said repent, for the Kingdom of heaven has at hand.
You got to change your thinking. And when you change your
thinking, you'll hear the spirit right.
And guess what? You'll cast out devils.
He's a man if I. Cast out devils.
By the finger of God, that's a little thing.
Yeah, we make it the big thing. Psalms 14310.
The New Living Translation says that this way teach me to do
your will, for you are my God. May your gracious Spirit lead me
towards a firm footing. So how do you become proficient
at following the Holy Spirit? You become well equipped at
rightly dividing the Word of Truth.
Are you ready for this, John? 423 to 24 says this, but an
hour's coming. But an hour's coming.
And now, yeah, so that hour's here been there when true
worship say what? Which implies false ones.
So not every congregation has true worship.
OK, when true worshippers will worship the Father in and and
and truth, not just in spirit. So you get fanaticals that have
been in expressions of true spirit LED services that they
want that. This is what I loved about
Pastor Rotti Kingdom Rise of Valdosta.
When we were celebrating in the Spirit, we did a demonstration
of just by Scripture and and his encouragement and monishment and
showing things in Scripture. Then we acted on it.
And you know what? Many of them acted, not feeling
it, but they in faith believed what he said.
And the Spirit got called up in the praise, the dance, the the
running, the shouting. And it manifested so much that
without giving an altar call, people started running and
saying I want to get born again without even doing an officer
call. It was literally this Acts
Chapter 2, what must we do? Moment in Valdosta and Roddy's
like what is happening and he would pray with the one and hug
him and he was so excited. Then all of a sudden I wanted,
oh, and then he prayed for next to you.
Seven people later, no obstacle. We're just, I mean, it's like
the if you weren't used to that, you'd be like, what is going on
in here? But the Holy Ghost was drawing
lost people in that environment, 'cause it was a spiritual
experience. It was not natural or soulless
or we're just conjuring up something.
Now I'm just going to be blunt, honest.
The gifts of the Spirit are as he wills, not as I will.
So if a minister has the exact same expression of the Spirit in
every service they do, you might want to question whether it's
actually the Holy Ghost. Brother Hagen literally dealt
with a minister in the times of the healing revival that he said
you need to repent and stay with the Lord because you are coming
to the service, because he could give words and knowledge, he
could do operating the gifts. And he says, you're in one
service, you're yielding to the Holy Spirit, the next service
you're yielding to familiar spirits.
And he said this to Brother Hagen.
I have to because the people expect me to perform, because
familiar spirits can tell, give you by all rights in a
definition, a word of knowledge. For the word of knowledge is
something presently known or something in the past.
And you know what? Familiar spirits have been
around some people's families a lot knows what they are.
They wore on Tuesday because they've been leading them and
influencing them for generations.
So they can show up in a service and say, talk that person out,
tell them that their uncle was wearing a a denim shirt on
Tuesday. Then you can do it.
And they're like, why do you think sorcerer or card reading
and all that stuff, people actually go there.
So you know what? People have sent on to me
before. They're like, now listen, Pastor
Earl, if your daughter was kidnapped and was somewhere and
A and a fortune teller could tell you, wouldn't you use them?
I'm like, no, I don't need to consult the devil to tell me
where my daughter's at the minute.
I consult the devil to find out where my daughter's at.
By the time I get there, she's dead.
But when I consult the Holy Spirit, he can send an Angel
ahead, kill the person, translate her to me and I'm all
right, 'cause that's stuff that actually happens in the realm of
God's spirit. Go ahead and preach that.
Like all of a sudden just because they know you wouldn't,
I have the reigning spirit. I'm not going to give in to that
hypocrisy. So now is we'll worship the true
worship will worship the Father and spirit.
And true for such people, the Father seeks to be his
worshippers, which tells us if you have no seriousness about
becoming a disciple and rightly divided, you have no seriousness
in wanting to rightly divide the word of truth.
Daddy's not looking for you, doesn't mean he doesn't love
you, but he's not looking for you.
He's not seeking after you. God doesn't violate his word.
Well, I don't care what you do, I'll.
I'll come. Come see you anyway.
He's serious of and he gives us what to do.
He said. Look this, I want you to be a
true worshipper. I've given you the spirit of
truth. He's going to guide you in all
truth. He's going to teach you all
things. He's going to disciple you.
He's going to get you so that you can be trained and
righteous, so that you'll know how to function, flow, live in
the fruits of the spirit man. And then he'll give you access
to things that are beyond your He'll, he'll pull back the veil
of the unseen so you can see as you grow.
And then you can literally worship me because you'll be
tied to the Spirit and you'll know the word, so there'll be no
complication in hearing the right voice.
Man, I'm looking for you. He's telling us how to do it.
Then he says God is spirit, and those who worship him must
What's that word not maybe? So that tells me, if you're
singing songs and the church doesn't teach the word, then we
don't have true worship there. And I don't care what your best
intentions are. Let me tell you something.
A person who truly wants to seek God, God will move you out of a
congregation that is not seeking spirit and truth.
I know that for a fact because I was in them.
I got hungry for him, he said. It ain't here.
They've only spoke this truth. They're not going to give you
nothing else. Let me take you to another place
that's got more truth. They told me another place that
had more truth. Glory to God.
And we're not withholding any truth from you because about the
minute we receive the revelation of the truth, we're trying to
get it out. Except for the stuff you choke
on. It takes me a year to get out,
but we eventually get there because we've learned about
love. All right, John 10, four and
five says this. But when he puts forth all his
own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because
they know his a stranger they simply will not follow, but will
flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.
Now let me show you what it doesn't say.
Leave that up, the. Sheep hear his voice.
A stranger. They will simply not follow,
which implies strangers are talking.
It doesn't say in verse 5. The minute you hear the voice of
God, you'll never hear another voice.
Doesn't say that. In fact the devil and his whole
realm is always talking. They're that person.
When you get in the room, they talk and they won't let you
talk. This is why you got to tell them
to shut up and come out, right? Shut up, come out.
You're talking too much, right? You're talking way too much.
Amen. So they talk.
So a stranger, they simply will not follow.
Doesn't mean they won't hear a stranger.
Now how do they flee from a stranger?
When they hear what the stranger says, they take that 'cause that
thought come. You can't stop thoughts from
coming. You can stop them from being
entertained. OK.
So when the thought comes, because you're trained in truth,
you can say that thought doesn't line up with the word.
I take you captive. I I won't listen to that Next
voice comes that doesn't line up with the word.
I take that captive. I cast that down.
I won't entertain that. And all the while you're just
throwing down thoughts. And then all of a sudden one
comes and you're like, that's the word, that's the spirit.
Now I'm going there. And now that you're tuned in,
you can get so tuned in that things can be talking.
Because again, seriously, how many times are you not around
people and other people are talking, but you're talking to
them, which you're all these other voices around, but you
have. Tuned them out and you've given
your full attention to the one you're listening to.
Well, if you can do that in the natural, you absolutely can do
that in the spirit when you can see the unseen.
But if you don't see the unseen, then you won't be able to give
attention. Because, again, if my wife's
talking to me in the crowd, I can look at her, I can see her
mouth, you know, I hear her words, you know, and I give
great attention. I'm focusing all of my ability
to only hear her vocal cords, her frequency.
Well, how do I do this with Jesus that I can't see?
In the beginning was the and the Word was.
With God, the Word was and the Word became, and we call His
name. So how can you stare Jesus in
the face in the earth? You know, His word, and you get
so focused on that word that nothing else you're listening
to, 'cause you're looking at the face of Jesus, your king.
Wow. So the Lord would not let evil
spirit speak on his behalf. So don't use that realm to get
information about God 'cause they will tell you about him.
Paul himself by the Spirit shut up the advertising of someone
who was following a demonic spirit.
Because that girl who was a fortune teller was saying when
Paul was walking in town, he speaks from the Most High God
and that was truth. And the spirit that she listened
to was that. If the spirit said to Jesus,
remember. But the first time hit one of
his encounters when he was in the synagogue, he shows up
there, 'cause we I just read this in Mark earlier this week
and he shows up there and all of a sudden an unclean spirit, said
a man. And begins to say, what do we
have to do? We know who you are.
Shut up 'cause that spirit knows Jesus.
Shut up. It was telling the truth.
But don't you advertise for me? If if God would allow that
fortune teller to advertise for him when Paul left the city, and
they would have been convinced that what she said about Paul
was truth, what else does she say?
But you won't fall into this when you get trained in truth.
So how do we become proficient in being led by the Spirit?
We must be serious about being disciples of his word, doers of
it, acting, believing it. Then we become more proficient
at hearing his spirit, his nudges that we can't see.
It's a leading Most of the time it's here.
Sometimes it's a little more vocal, audible, a stronger
impression. Again, could be a dream, could
be a prophetic word that someone says something and you're like,
that's God. I know that is, I understand
that can take place, right? But you need to understand the
last of the last days. Brother Hagan Kenneth E Hagan
said it this way. He said.
I guarantee you this as we move into the next wave of the
spirit. We're going to see more and more
excesses of fanaticism. Because there's always excesses
in any move of the Holy Spirit Now, not by the Holy Spirit, but
when the Spirit himself is moving, there are excesses, he
says. Because he says, you may as well
get ready for it. You'll not have any move of the
Spirit without excesses. Why, you may ask?
Because there will always be those in your midst who are
unlearned. They're unlearned.
Sunday had a powerful time from our praise singing to the Lord
all the way to water baptism. Powerful time.
Pastor Marcy obviously received a word concerning finances, and
we're already seeing evidence of that.
So you want to grab hold, so you'll be the next testimony.
All right. Anjali got got an impression by
the Spirit to speak concerning based upon the song we were
singing. You need to basically put
yourself in a Thanksgiving mode that what you've sought is
already done OK? Matt Hunt comes up to me because
the custom is, if you're in the sanctuary and you believe you've
got something by the spirit that may be released to the
congregation, there's an order to this.
So he came down and he spoke to me.
And what he spoke had a little more detail, but was primarily
the same thing that Anjali had already said.
And I had said to him, if you had been here first, you could
have released that, right? But you're hearing what the
Spirit's saying. Then I had Priscilla at Gilda
House come, and her sister Sophia interpreted for that.
And she had a context within the same thought process, a little
different detail, but yet it's still what the Spirit was
saying. But they had such an impression
in the Spirit that they were. Maybe this is beyond me.
Well, you understand what God was saying was making such an
impression in. People.
Because he was speaking very clearly to your spirit.
Audrey had a particular word that my wife spent some time
with. And you know what?
She seemed like it was something that needed it, had maybe missed
a moment or it was a different time frame.
Whatever the case, because sometimes you can guys can get
some things in the spirit they didn't for the service we're in.
Especially sometimes when I'm ministering, along the lines
that are going to go multiple weeks, you may actually have a
word for the third week. Are you hearing me?
Which means the word you have is not a word of knowledge as much
as it is a word of wisdom, because it's for two services
later, and I'll call you. I've had that happen before.
I'm like, you know what? I know where I'm going.
Next week, come get with me and I'll.
Let you release that. Then Josh Kitchens came up, had
a context again. Again, this He's having an an
encounter with the Holy Ghost. He's talking to him and it's so
strong that what are we doing We're we're training.
There's nothing wrong to move and ask.
Ultimately me being the overseer, I'm going to determine
what's literally released or not OK.
However this is part of the training exercise.
This is how we get equipped because and those 3 they were
basically had a another aspect of what Angie had Anjali had
said and as a result of that I would just encourage you're
hearing what the spirit say now honestly.
If they had moved. First, then they would have
released that first. Now the Bible is very clear on
the gifts of the Spirit. How many can function in a
service? Paul says two.
No more than three. Because we need to get to the
teaching of the work, because the teaching of the Word allows
us to become more proficient at the spirit of of God.
So again, you can do math on your own.
You're back there and we've had one person do a tongue and
interpretation tongue, and then somebody else give a prophetic
word, whether it's a word of knowledge, word of wisdom or
something. And then some other thing
happened with the gifts. You can be, well, that's three
times. We probably need to go on to the
teaching of the word. It's not.
Oh, I think I got something now you understand.
I mean, there's a guideline already set in place because
Paul was dealing with the church that was basically only trying
to function with the gifts, and he's like the spirit of God, and
his gifts will not compete with whom.
He is identifying you to cause the Holy Spirit's here to do one
thing to show you the king. OK, so there can be excesses.
And again you may hear something that ultimately we may say,
because I've had some come down and it is a word from God.
I had one person, one service come down.
They were shaking. It was obvious that something
was on them, that God was speaking to them.
It was clear as day. And they had never heard the
voice of God so clear in their life.
And because of that they concluded maybe it's for the
church Now came to me. And as I heard, I said I knew,
man, I heard it. That is for you.
And God is clearly wanting you to know it.
My and I applaud. I said, I am so excited that
you're hearing the spirit of God and what he's saying act on it.
I mean, it was a powerful word for them, for them, OK, So
sometimes that'll happen. I am always.
In expectation of the Gifts movie.
Right now, not every service. The gifts will move 'cause this
as he wills and Pastor Roddy. And that service says this at
the end. Now listen, you can't have this
kind of service, every service. In fact, this service is a
byproduct of all the good teaching you heard this week.
He literally says this. Most ministers that flow like
that never say that. They just want to get to that
moment so that you leave like that.
Great. We shouted and danced and
laughed and ran around, 'cause that's all we wanted to do.
I'm telling you, I know him. Roddy had the wisdom, the
insight to say, listen, this was my task.
It's what I was asked to do. It's what God wanted me to do.
But you don't do this in every service, he said.
You know, you may do them once a quarter now, he said.
Now if you never do them, that's a problem.
But this is not in every service moment.
So in conclusion, what the Lord is saying, I want you to become
proficient at seeing unseen things.
Because in the last of the last days, to avoid being some who
fall away, you're going to have to be serious about your
discipleship training in the word.
And then yield to his leading so that you'll recognize the nudges
and move with them. And when I say nudges, they're
not just you delivering a gift like a tongue or interpretation.
It may be the spirit nudges you and say go on down and you dance
before me tonight. Today I've never left my seat.
I don't care. Leave your seat.
Get down, 'cause there's something in that act of
obedience that God wants to do that He's not going to do in
your chair. You cannot conclude that every
time you come to service that you can get everything God wants
for you in the seat you picked. Cannot conclude that 'cause God
has the right to move you, He has the right to move you, and
you should obey. I said you should obey.
That may not happen every time, but when it happens, just as
Kenneth Estrada says now we don't always dance, you know,
but but when he says when it's right, it's right.
When it's Tom, it's time. We don't always shout.
But when it's time, when it's necessary, it's necessary.
It's not always necessary to shout, but when it's necessary,
it ain't always necessary to run, but when it's necessary, it
ain't always necessary to laugh. But when it's necessary, it's
it's not always necessary to be quiet but when it's necessary.
And this church is going to be proficient at pulling back the
veil. Because it's been prophesied in
these last days, we would flow. When the Spirit is natural as a
bird flies in the air, it only becomes because we're serious
about our discipleship, knowing the word, trained in
righteousness, conquering every obstacle.
We are not led by how we feel what we see.
We are only convinced that the Word of God rules and reigns,
and will never miss the voice of the Spirit when doing so.
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