1 00:00:13,120 --> 00:00:15,000 Turn over to Philippians chapter 3. 2 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:19,880 Philippians chapter 3. We're going to go from verses 12 3 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:22,040 to 17. Don't know how long we'll go 4 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:23,360 tonight. You know, I hope I can keep a 5 00:00:23,360 --> 00:00:25,960 little bit smaller since you stayed up all night. 6 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:30,680 Don't want you to fall asleep on me, but in Philippians chapter 7 00:00:30,680 --> 00:00:36,480 3, verse 12 through 17, Paul is the writer here speaking to the 8 00:00:36,480 --> 00:00:38,240 church. He says this. 9 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:41,600 He said, not that I've already obtained it or have already 10 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:46,800 become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that 11 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:52,320 for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. 12 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:56,200 Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet, 13 00:00:56,880 --> 00:01:01,800 but one thing I do forgetting what lies behind and reaching 14 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:08,320 forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the 15 00:01:08,320 --> 00:01:12,080 prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. 16 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:16,920 He said. Let us therefore, as any as are 17 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:20,200 perfect, and we'll see this in another passage, another 18 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:25,920 translation, have this attitude. And if and if in anything you 19 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:29,960 have a different attitude, God will reveal this also to you. 20 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:33,920 Verse 16. However, let us keep living by 21 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:36,920 the same standard to which we have attained. 22 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:41,680 Brethren, join and following my example and observe those who 23 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:45,920 walk according to the pattern you have in US. 24 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:49,960 And so here Paul is obviously writing to the church and he's 25 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:55,360 giving them some really great insight concerning life. 26 00:01:55,720 --> 00:01:59,000 OK, this is not for the fivefold minister. 27 00:01:59,880 --> 00:02:05,360 This is for the believer and some fivefold ministries. 28 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:10,880 Paul being within the office of the apostle, they that gift 29 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:14,760 itself and we'll talk more about it this coming year is that they 30 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:18,680 are always moving forward because they are trying to take 31 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:22,080 territory and we'll define that at A at a later service. 32 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:26,640 But Paul, although this is a part of his particular life, he 33 00:02:26,640 --> 00:02:31,800 lets us know in verse 17 that P that the brethren notice he 34 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:35,920 said, brethren, he didn't say, now all those who are like me 35 00:02:35,920 --> 00:02:42,760 are, are just apostles. He says, brethren, join in 36 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:46,680 following my example and observe those who walk according to the 37 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:48,560 pattern there. So there's some things that he's 38 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:52,520 doing that he's telling the church, you need to follow this 39 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:55,360 example. OK, we need to follow this 40 00:02:55,360 --> 00:02:58,440 example. So let's go back up to the top 41 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:01,480 verse 12 and let's kind of dissect a little bit this 42 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:05,040 passage of Scripture and, and what he's saying is not not that 43 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:08,520 I've already obtained it right, that I'm perfect, but I press on 44 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:12,200 that I made laid hold of that which I've been laid hold of. 45 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:15,560 Now the first challenge you're going to have if you're going to 46 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:20,320 press on is that if you do not know why you were laid hold of, 47 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:25,640 then you're not going to be able to be running in a way to lay 48 00:03:25,640 --> 00:03:30,880 hold of something. So Paul's running or his aim was 49 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:34,840 based upon an apprehension. Amen. 50 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:38,800 This is why Doctor Miles Monroe says it's more important to know 51 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:47,720 why you were born than that you were born and you were not born 52 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:52,040 so that you could find out about Jesus to be born again, so that 53 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:54,800 you could just wait till you die to go to heaven. 54 00:03:56,160 --> 00:03:58,400 There is a reason why you are here. 55 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:03,840 There is a purpose for every one of us, and we need to know why. 56 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:05,960 What? Why God has apprehended. 57 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:12,040 Why did God die on the cross and be raised from the dead and then 58 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:16,120 called you into his family? Because they didn't call you in 59 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:19,519 to retire. He didn't call you in to just, 60 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:24,520 you know, hold on until you either die or he comes. 61 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:28,800 There is a plan. And so Paul was apprehended. 62 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:30,600 He was going a course of life himself. 63 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:33,640 Then he encountered Jesus. And in that encounter his whole 64 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:40,440 life was changed and his only pursuit was that which God had 65 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:43,560 called him. And he would not let anyone stop 66 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:47,720 him from accomplishing that task. 67 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:50,880 So he's he's communicating, he said. 68 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:53,680 Now listen, not that I've obtained it yet, not that I am 69 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:56,440 perfect. And this word perfect here is, 70 00:04:56,440 --> 00:05:00,560 is actually an athletic term, and it means it. 71 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:04,600 It's in context with a race. And it's not that because back 72 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:08,600 in those days, he's using a term that was very clear to the 73 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:10,320 culture that he was ministering to. 74 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:14,440 He says you understand that when when you're in a race, the 75 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:18,040 athletes all run, but not everyone wins. 76 00:05:18,840 --> 00:05:23,520 OK, So when you first get out of the gate, all the athletes have 77 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:27,720 the ability to win the prize. So he said not that I've already 78 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:33,320 obtained it or I have received the prize, which they all knew 79 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:39,280 was this crown that was made out of leaves that they would put on 80 00:05:39,280 --> 00:05:41,960 the victor. And so everyone's running for 81 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:46,320 the victor's crown, everyone. However, not everyone's going to 82 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:49,080 get there. Later on he talks again about 83 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:53,160 not that I've perfected because what happened same term, but 84 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:58,520 once the athlete won, then the judge who would issue that 85 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:03,440 reward would make an announcement that this is the 86 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:08,840 perfect athlete because this one had reached perfect, it beat 87 00:06:08,840 --> 00:06:12,000 everyone else. So the declaration, this is the 88 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:19,480 perfect athlete today and they are crowned with a crown and 89 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:25,080 based upon certain athletic competitions and how well they 90 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:28,520 did, the crowns would actually be adorned with different things 91 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:33,360 based upon how well they did. Not all crowns were the same. 92 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:42,920 OK, so Paul is saying, just like a natural man runs in a race to 93 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:47,400 obtain a prize, I'm running because God has put me in a 94 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:50,080 race. He has given me a life's 95 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:57,280 assignment and I am running that race to win that race and not 96 00:06:57,280 --> 00:07:03,520 that I finished yet but there's but I am pressing towards that 97 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:06,520 goal. OK 1st 13 he gives he again, he 98 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:08,800 said brother. Not that I have regard myself as 99 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:12,800 having laid hold of it yet, but one thing I do, I'm forgetting 100 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:16,960 what lies behind and I'm reaching forward to what lies 101 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:19,120 ahead. Are you hearing me? 102 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:24,520 So what is Paul doing? Paul is giving us an indication. 103 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:28,480 In order for you to move forward, you have to learn how 104 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:34,120 to forget. There is no forward. 105 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:39,560 If you cannot forget now isn't amazing. 106 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:41,840 Sometimes you can get around some people that are like, man, 107 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:44,120 I just can't remember, can't remember, but they can remember 108 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:50,240 every wrong. They can remember every time you 109 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:52,800 blew it, every time you messed up. 110 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:55,040 You know, come on, husbands, you know how we are. 111 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:57,840 We'll get it, honey, I forgot. But then we can like, let me 112 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:01,240 tell you what you've been doing for the last five years Now. 113 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:04,720 How can we keep that list? But we can't seem to keep, you 114 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:07,720 know, our to our honey, do lists, so to speak. 115 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:11,120 You know what I'm saying? I mean, it's amazing how we can 116 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:15,800 retain certain information, but then there's other information. 117 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:19,160 We, you know, expect people to give us a pass for our 118 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:21,760 forgetting. Say Amen. 119 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:23,400 Anyway, I know it's first of the year. 120 00:08:23,640 --> 00:08:25,640 This is really a positive message if you'll receive it 121 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:27,600 that way. I'm going to fix your mind this 122 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:28,680 year. OK. 123 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:32,600 And so he said, now listen, this is what not that I've laid hold, 124 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:36,400 but this is what I am doing. I am forgetting what lies 125 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:38,400 behind. Now, when he says forget, 126 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:40,840 there's a few things we need to understand about forgetting. 127 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:44,600 Forgetting is that this is the obvious. 128 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:51,360 We have to forget sin that you have to do. 129 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:55,000 I mean, that's the the number one thing you have to do when it 130 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:56,760 comes to forgetting. If you're going to continue to 131 00:08:56,760 --> 00:08:59,800 move forward, you're going to have to forget your past. 132 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:05,840 You have to forget it because again, the day you said Jesus, I 133 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:08,480 believe that you died on the cross and rose from the grave. 134 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:11,800 You were born of the Virgin. You paid the price for my sin. 135 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:14,000 I could not have done it on my own. 136 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:17,600 I could never get you on my own. You are the sacrifice for me. 137 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:20,280 I call you Lord of my life. I give you my life. 138 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:23,240 I call you Lord, right? The Bible says when you call on 139 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:24,440 the name of the Lord, you'll be saved. 140 00:09:24,680 --> 00:09:28,040 So then you pass from the domain of darkness into the Kingdom of 141 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:30,680 His beloved Son. The spirit of the man that was 142 00:09:30,680 --> 00:09:41,000 dead is pulled out of your skin. Suit that spirit within you that 143 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:48,440 ruled your mind and your body. They were all three in agreement 144 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:51,560 and you were very good at sinning and rebelling against 145 00:09:51,560 --> 00:09:55,440 God. And God snatched the root 146 00:09:55,520 --> 00:09:58,320 problem out that you could not do yourself. 147 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:01,760 I'm saying snatch the root problem. 148 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:06,480 All of your excuses for wrongdoing is snatched out of 149 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:12,480 your B. It has passed away, right? 150 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:15,560 It's passed away. I don't know why we want to drag 151 00:10:15,560 --> 00:10:20,040 this dead thing around with us like it still has ownership with 152 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:22,440 us. It is dead. 153 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:25,400 It does not exist in us. Then He puts in us. 154 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:29,080 We cross through the threshold, through the cross into the 155 00:10:29,080 --> 00:10:33,600 doorway of the Kingdom, and then we have a new spirit on the 156 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:36,880 inside that's made in the likeness of God, and then the 157 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:44,960 Holy Ghost himself moves inside. Our suit speaks to our spirit, 158 00:10:45,240 --> 00:10:48,480 that we can hear that conversation in our mind. 159 00:10:50,320 --> 00:10:53,680 Because when the Holy Spirit's talking to my spirit, it's not 160 00:10:53,680 --> 00:10:57,720 that my mind's not hearing it. I'm going to say that again. 161 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:03,040 When the Holy Spirit is speaking to my spirit, it's in my mind 162 00:11:03,040 --> 00:11:09,400 that I'm hearing it. Hallelujah. 163 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:12,600 Now again, we're going to kind of deal with these things this 164 00:11:12,600 --> 00:11:20,240 year because I have learned through observation and fruit 165 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:30,520 examination, we can examine fruit that the body of Christ in 166 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:35,000 a general sense has been Hanford. 167 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:41,880 When we tree hug a subject, we hug on it. 168 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:48,680 In fact, David and I were having a conversation concerning a 169 00:11:48,680 --> 00:11:53,120 thought that Brother Hagin made went towards the end of his life 170 00:11:53,120 --> 00:11:56,240 and he said if you do not teach the things of the Spirit to the 171 00:11:56,240 --> 00:12:00,440 next generation, then you'll lose a move of the Spirit within 172 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:05,640 that generation. And sometimes because of 173 00:12:05,640 --> 00:12:13,240 teachers, they will explain a move of the Spirit as the move 174 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:19,840 of the Spirit. And then a move that is 175 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:26,880 predominantly around a ministry is communicated that that is a 176 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:29,200 manifestation or the manifestation. 177 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:34,560 So then it implies if that's not happening, then he's not moving, 178 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:41,360 but it's a manifestation. It's not the only manifestation 179 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:46,080 and what has happened is the church, which is why we wrote 180 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:50,600 the book for the force, is that the church is kind of at large 181 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:56,440 lost big picture and become really good at funneling in. 182 00:12:56,440 --> 00:12:59,840 And you understand a lot of times this is only happening 183 00:12:59,840 --> 00:13:03,520 because these spirits, that's why we talked about reigning 184 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:05,800 spirit last year, are in the earth. 185 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:10,600 David, would you stand up? David, how old are you? 186 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:12,520 You don't mind me using your age, right? 187 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:13,440 OK. How old are you? 188 00:13:14,440 --> 00:13:17,600 OK, David, you're 68 year old. When you were young and went to 189 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:23,320 a doctor back then the doctors knew really everything and 190 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:25,560 treated you for anything in your body, correct? 191 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:30,040 OK. But then all of a sudden, 192 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:34,120 because we are so educated and we needed more colleges that 193 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:39,840 doctors instead of doing being a General practitioner, that when 194 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:43,520 he would go to doctor, if your throat, foot, whatever, they 195 00:13:43,520 --> 00:13:45,080 could take care of your whole body. 196 00:13:45,560 --> 00:13:48,720 Thank you, Dave. You'd be seated today if you got 197 00:13:48,720 --> 00:13:53,920 a problem with your foot. What are they called? 198 00:13:54,920 --> 00:13:58,440 A specialist, right. You're giving me the literal 199 00:13:58,440 --> 00:13:59,160 name. Thank you. 200 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:02,280 Thank you. That was really good. 201 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:04,040 I mean, you, you're a teacher at Washington. 202 00:14:04,040 --> 00:14:05,280 I expect you to know these things. 203 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:11,760 So you got the foot doctor, you got the hand doctor, you have 204 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:13,960 the eye doctor. Now, here's the thing. 205 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:18,640 You can have something going on in that very specific area, but 206 00:14:18,640 --> 00:14:21,520 the reason you're having it in that area could be another 207 00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:25,000 reason. Now, a lot of times, what are 208 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:32,480 those doctors do if they begin to realize, I perceive that 209 00:14:32,680 --> 00:14:39,680 what's hurting in you is not where the source is, So what do 210 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:43,120 they do? They send you to another. 211 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:49,960 So you can't get taken care of in one location because that's 212 00:14:49,960 --> 00:14:57,080 not my field of expertise. So because, and again, in the 213 00:14:57,080 --> 00:15:00,480 spirit of the world, it is to kind of keep things hidden. 214 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:05,120 So then you train yourself to only know certain truths, but 215 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:08,200 when you only know certain aspects, you're already at a 216 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:13,640 disadvantage of other things. And so one area that the the 217 00:15:13,640 --> 00:15:17,160 body has been challenged and, and Brother Hagin did a 218 00:15:17,160 --> 00:15:23,400 phenomenal job in communicating and in practice, but it didn't 219 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:25,880 always, it did not translate through. 220 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:30,680 And there's one gift within the fivefold ministry that has to do 221 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:35,160 this the most, which is why God always intended the body, the 222 00:15:35,160 --> 00:15:38,000 church, to have all 5 fivefold ministers. 223 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:42,320 He never intended for a church to have one. 224 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:48,200 I'm going to say that again. He never intended that a local 225 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:55,160 church would only have one ministry gift because if a 226 00:15:55,360 --> 00:16:03,800 church has the ministry gift of pastor teacher then it's highly 227 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:12,240 probable that they will become specialized ministers and lose 228 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:20,120 big picture. I mean, the chances are 99% is 229 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:23,840 high because they're gifted to go line upon line. 230 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:28,320 They get so focused on a subject and they can tear that down that 231 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:31,960 they can lose how it's actually placed within the context. 232 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:39,640 Now as an apostle, big picture, I mean, the the majority of 233 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:42,640 messages I preach are on a big picture context. 234 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:45,720 But guess what? We have teachers here that I can 235 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:48,280 say what subject you what, what do you want me to minister, you 236 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:49,680 know, minister on this or a minute. 237 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:52,320 And man, they get up here and they go line upon line preset. 238 00:16:52,440 --> 00:16:56,160 But they have they have me apostatically keeping big 239 00:16:56,160 --> 00:16:59,880 picture so that they don't get so funneled that they lose 240 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:03,080 perspective. Because the only way you can 241 00:17:03,080 --> 00:17:07,440 come up with doctrines that aren't accurate is because you 242 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:11,000 stay focused in very specific areas. 243 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:15,720 And look it in that vein only because I could bring people up 244 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:19,520 here who could minister on the subject of grace correctly, 245 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:23,160 concerning you've done nothing to deserve this. 246 00:17:25,920 --> 00:17:29,160 And that would be truth. But then they would carry that 247 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:33,480 over into your life as a believer, that now we're getting 248 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:39,320 off because the saving grace, since it's multifaceted, it's 249 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:44,280 not one-dimensional anyway. The saving grace that is 250 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:50,400 unmerited to for you is appropriated to you through 251 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:52,480 faith. And that once you're born again, 252 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:56,880 you receive the grace Jesus had, which was not unmerited favor. 253 00:17:56,880 --> 00:18:00,080 Because what in the world did Jesus do on planet earth that he 254 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:05,720 didn't deserve the grace he had? So that definition of for grace 255 00:18:05,720 --> 00:18:10,840 doesn't work across the board because Jesus was full of grace. 256 00:18:11,160 --> 00:18:16,720 And if we only define grace as God's power on you that you did 257 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:19,760 not deserve, Jesus was a man without sin. 258 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:26,560 He deserves everything. Well, the grace Jesus had is 259 00:18:26,560 --> 00:18:29,360 called empowering grace. You know what's awesome about 260 00:18:29,360 --> 00:18:33,240 empowering grace? Empowering grace is the ability 261 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:39,400 to resist temptation so that when you're tempted to sin like 262 00:18:39,520 --> 00:18:44,200 Jesus was, he was tempted on all accounts, like we were, yet 263 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:50,720 without sin. But if you are taught only that 264 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:54,480 the first grace you received and it is true saving grace which is 265 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:57,960 unmerited favorite, you did not deserve this. 266 00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:02,600 What you deserve was to be justly judged and thrown into 267 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:04,520 the lake of fire, which is a second death. 268 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:09,680 That's what you deserve. But God being rich in not love, 269 00:19:09,840 --> 00:19:17,920 mercy, He extended this unmerited favor towards you that 270 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:22,840 when you acted on it, it you received it, that then once the 271 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:25,280 Holy Ghost comes in, he said, now I got another grace for your 272 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:28,600 life because you've been redeemed now from the law of sin 273 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:29,960 and death. And I'm going to give you the 274 00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:33,840 same grace Jesus had so that every time temptation comes no 275 00:19:33,840 --> 00:19:36,360 longer. Do you think I can you know, if 276 00:19:36,360 --> 00:19:39,760 I mess up, if I, I couldn't do nothing to get in, I can't do 277 00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:43,120 nothing to stay. Oh, you can do you do stuff to 278 00:19:43,120 --> 00:19:45,120 stay because you can do stuff to get out. 279 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:54,560 However, same thing works. Works is a word that you can 280 00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:58,120 teach in a vein that it is absolutely true. 281 00:19:58,360 --> 00:20:03,200 It is not of your own works. You telling God what I'm doing 282 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:08,240 is acceptable and you need to accept what I'm calling good and 283 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:12,200 you need to accept me. Well, that's those works don't 284 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:19,360 work and you can stay in that vein so much that then you you 285 00:20:19,360 --> 00:20:21,480 hear people all they're they're talking works. 286 00:20:22,520 --> 00:20:26,200 And every time those people say that oh, works, that's a bad 287 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:29,000 word. Well, this is problem because 288 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:32,360 Jesus said that he did the work of the Father. 289 00:20:33,360 --> 00:20:37,640 He's doing some kind of work. Then he ends up telling Paul in 290 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:41,360 the book of Ephesians when he talks about it's not of any 291 00:20:41,360 --> 00:20:43,000 works, lest any man should boast. 292 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:46,760 It's by grace through faith. The next verse says that you 293 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:53,360 were saved for good. Well, this is problem because 294 00:20:53,360 --> 00:20:56,320 I'm not supposed to work. If I say works, then I'm saying 295 00:20:56,320 --> 00:20:59,320 I'm of the law. No, we're not saying that. 296 00:20:59,960 --> 00:21:02,280 We're saying we have a work of faith. 297 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:08,960 But again, if you don't maintain big picture, then you get 298 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:11,600 isolated. Same thing happens with spirit, 299 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:14,720 soul and body. But Brother Hagin used to say 300 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:17,040 when it came to the gifts of Spirit, he says, now I'm 301 00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:19,720 separating these for the sake of teaching. 302 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:25,680 And his implication was they are not to be separated, nor to 303 00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:31,280 covet just one, nor to teach just one because of what one 304 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:34,320 produces. So you were never just supposed 305 00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:38,680 to love the power gifts of the Holy Ghost more than the 306 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:42,920 utterance. And neither were you to say, oh 307 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:44,600 man, I just wish we could see miracles. 308 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:47,360 And then someone has a tongue and someone interprets it and we 309 00:21:47,360 --> 00:21:50,160 walk away like God didn't move 'cause we didn't see an arm grow 310 00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:56,960 out. Hallelujah. 311 00:21:57,760 --> 00:22:02,280 And again, in the context of, of, of, of traditional thought, 312 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:05,880 you know, I love the services where the Holy Ghost comes down 313 00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:09,720 and, and we get into laughter and we get into dancing and we 314 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:13,000 get into running. And then inevitably someone 315 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:15,680 says, ma'am, we had, we had church today. 316 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:17,760 The Holy Ghost fell. Well, the Holy Ghost didn't fall 317 00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:20,040 when we did the teaching of the word and he revealed the truth 318 00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:22,240 to you because you couldn't have a truth revealed unless the Holy 319 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:26,000 Ghost did that, which means he moved in the revealing of truth 320 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:29,280 just as much as he moved. And someone yielding and dancing 321 00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:35,960 and one is not more powerful than the other, but the carnal 322 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:45,880 man and those that get in very strict, you know, things miss 323 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:51,080 these. All right, so we I said all that 324 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:57,040 because Paul says I need to press on to this higher calling. 325 00:22:57,920 --> 00:23:00,080 And the thing we have to forget is sin. 326 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:05,720 And sin is everything we did prior to coming in, which means 327 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:09,840 that man's dead. We need to forget that and quit 328 00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:16,840 going back to that or referring to it as if we cannot move 329 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:21,480 forward. And here's the thing, your past 330 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:29,200 has a voice. It's the one in your head and 331 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:32,920 then your acquaintances from your past. 332 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:35,440 I remember going to one of my high school reunions. 333 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:37,200 I think it was 20 or 30 years. I can't remember now. 334 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:39,080 Maybe the 20 year ones. Probably the last one I went to 335 00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:44,280 20 years, you know, and you show up and they're talking to you 336 00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:47,880 like we were at school yesterday. 337 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:57,040 Now I kind of looked like I was there, except bigger, healthier. 338 00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:00,280 I had as the cheese at commercial. 339 00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:04,800 I had aged you well because I looked at some of my friends. 340 00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:08,840 I'm like, thank you, Jesus. Well, I know what half of it 341 00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:13,400 happened, you know, because they were having all kinds of sins, 342 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:17,320 one substances that they were putting in their body and it was 343 00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:20,560 really breaking down their flesh faster than mine was, right? 344 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:23,280 The glory is good. God keeps you good looking, 345 00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:26,640 right? I mean at least age as you will, 346 00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:30,440 right? Amen and so, but anyway, I mean 347 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:32,800 they would talk to you then they would even treat me. 348 00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:38,640 I mean, I took my wife OK and again, I wasn't living for the 349 00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:43,600 Lord in high school. I know that all right and I'm 350 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:48,840 not here to relish because I forget my past, but I was senior 351 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:54,720 class biggest flirt. That is a true statement and the 352 00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:59,960 girl who was the senior plat class biggest flirt was at the 353 00:24:59,960 --> 00:25:07,480 20 year reunion. Now she was already 3 sheets to 354 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:11,800 the wind. Y'all know what that expression 355 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:13,280 is? That's pretty old expression. 356 00:25:14,360 --> 00:25:20,720 She was tipsy. She was drunk, as you supposed, 357 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:28,720 right in the parking lot, which made her bold. 358 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:37,240 OK, Well, she came over to me in front of my wife and touched my 359 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:41,480 chest. Now, in high school, that was 360 00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:44,960 permissible. You understand? 361 00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:49,000 I'm not happy about that. I am delivered. 362 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:53,960 Hallelujah. But yet she was like we were. 363 00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:57,560 We were coming to school for a football game. 364 00:25:58,280 --> 00:25:59,920 Then I would have been on the field anyway. 365 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:03,840 With that being said, you know, my wife's kind of like, you 366 00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:05,320 know, and you just kind of keep navigating. 367 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:07,400 You just kind of keep moving, right? 368 00:26:08,360 --> 00:26:09,960 But you have to forget your past. 369 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:11,400 It's it's obvious that they can't. 370 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:14,720 And it was crazy. Those girls would get around my 371 00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:17,280 wife. And you know what they it's, it 372 00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:22,320 was they had to, they had to tell her about me in high 373 00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:25,840 school. They couldn't say, well, how's 374 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:29,600 everything been? What are you and Earl doing now? 375 00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:36,000 Do y'all have any kids? Grandkids, which would have been 376 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:38,440 shocking to them anyway. And it was when I said I had, 377 00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:50,240 but you understand, But no past. But I forgot that I've let that 378 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:54,920 go, OK, I have forgot that I have forgotten it. 379 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:58,320 It is not what I'm doing. And I'm going on the second 380 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:00,000 thing that Paul says that we need to forget. 381 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,040 Let me read this scripture before I give you the next thing 382 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:05,240 that you have to forget. And that is in Luke Chapter 9, 383 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:09,200 verse 62, it says, but Jesus said to him, to him, no one 384 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:11,960 after putting his hand to the plow and looking back as fit for 385 00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:18,800 the Kingdom of God, OK, no one. So you have to forget your past. 386 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:24,920 You've been redeemed. Don't equate yourself as a 387 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:29,120 Sinner and going into 2025, you can't go back to 2020. 388 00:27:29,120 --> 00:27:32,720 Don't go back into 2024 and say, man, I really made a mess last 389 00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:34,080 year. It's gone. 390 00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:39,440 Yeah, it's gone. And if you want to go forward in 391 00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:42,680 this new year, then let's forget it now. 392 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:47,840 Forgetting doesn't work without repentance when it comes to sin 393 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:53,400 because your sin will surely find you out. 394 00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:56,800 So you cannot say I just forget that I just sinned. 395 00:27:57,320 --> 00:28:02,120 No, cuz sin will be like you can forget but here I am and you did 396 00:28:02,120 --> 00:28:04,360 it again. So here's my buddy and he did it 397 00:28:04,360 --> 00:28:06,680 again and here's my next buddy and here it again. 398 00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:09,160 We've got a whole family here with you because you know none 399 00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:14,320 of this is under the blood and we're following you around 400 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:18,400 because you have created sin. You've done the sin and 401 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:22,160 eventually we have a paycheck we're going to bring to a area 402 00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:23,800 of your life. It's called death. 403 00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:32,920 So forgetting sin means you repented and now you're 404 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:36,840 authorized to forget it. The Lord says, listen, I removed 405 00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:40,240 your sin as far as the east is from the West, which means I've 406 00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:42,520 forgotten about it. One of the most powerful 407 00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:47,400 statements that he says in his love session of teaching in 408 00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:51,080 First Corinthians chapter 13 is that love does not take an 409 00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:58,760 account a suffered wrong because once it's under the blood, it 410 00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:01,240 doesn't exist. Amen. 411 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:05,720 So we have to forget our sins, and then we also have to forget 412 00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:11,120 the sins of those who have done something to us. 413 00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:15,640 You have to forget that now a person can have done something 414 00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:18,280 to you. They've not asked you to forgive 415 00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:22,880 them, but you're already forgiven them. 416 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:26,200 You're just waiting to release it. 417 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:29,960 Do you understand that? Because this is a concept that 418 00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:36,360 is not everyone understands. Jesus Christ has paid the price 419 00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:43,920 once and for all. Jesus has literally forgiven 420 00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:47,480 everyone's sin. You know who's sin He has 421 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:52,280 forgiven? The rich man written by Jesus 422 00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:58,080 who was not in Abraham's bosom or paradise, but was eternally 423 00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:03,840 waiting for eternal judgment or eternal damnation for Abraham, 424 00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:07,360 said there's a gulf fix between us, you can't come here, we 425 00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:09,880 can't go there. And he was already in a place of 426 00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:12,880 torment. But it's not, it's not complete 427 00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:16,760 in the torment because there is a later judgment to come that 428 00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:19,440 then he will be cast into the lake of fire, which is the 429 00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:23,040 second death. Yet he has been forgiven. 430 00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:29,680 If he's been forgiven, how could he go to the lake of fire 431 00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:35,120 because he never received what he has already been forgiven 432 00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:37,960 for. So when someone does you wrong, 433 00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:42,920 you need to forgive. But them coming to you and 434 00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:49,600 asking you to forgive them is when you can release it. 435 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:57,160 This is very important because again, the relationship will 436 00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:03,640 never be restored. OK, the relationship will never 437 00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:09,680 be restored until they do the repentance. 438 00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:15,400 Jesus has already forgiven mankind, but the relationship 439 00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:21,240 cannot be restored till they ask for His forgiveness through 440 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:25,920 repentance. So in the natural, the Bible 441 00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:27,840 says we need to forgive one another, right? 442 00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:31,080 And again, I'll forgive you, I'll forgive you no problem. 443 00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:34,800 But I cannot give you the forgiveness that is already 444 00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:41,760 stored up for you if you do not come and ask for it. 445 00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:46,760 And when you do, it's like, man, I am so excited that this day 446 00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:51,960 has come, which means if I'm engaging you and you're not 447 00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:57,320 asking, you've not received my forgiveness. 448 00:31:57,320 --> 00:32:01,120 Even though I have forgiven you, we still have an issue. 449 00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:05,920 Do you see that? Because Jesus is engaging the 450 00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:11,640 world and he still has an issue in the relationship. 451 00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:14,240 Although for him, he's like, I've already forgiven you. 452 00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:16,760 All you got to do is ask. And you know what? 453 00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:22,440 He's kind to them, but the relationship's not restored. 454 00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:26,640 Why is he kind to him? Because the kindness of God 455 00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:33,760 draws men to. So an act of kindness in a 456 00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:37,040 relationship with someone doesn't mean the relationship's 457 00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:45,560 restored. It's only in restoration when 458 00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:50,080 both parties, which in Jesus case obviously he didn't have 459 00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:56,920 to, but if it is a both party or one party needs to ask for that 460 00:32:56,920 --> 00:33:00,840 forgiveness that the other one is not going to withhold. 461 00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:04,600 If they're living like God, they're really just waiting for 462 00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:09,080 the day for this relationship to be completely restored. 463 00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:14,480 Are you hearing me? So we have to forgive our own 464 00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:17,440 failures. We have to forget what people 465 00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:19,440 have done to us. Walk in love. 466 00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:21,120 I do not take an account of suffer wrong. 467 00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:23,480 I am. I have already forgiven. 468 00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:27,160 And I'm ready to release that forgiveness once they repent. 469 00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:29,040 And I'll be kind to them, talk to them. 470 00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:31,920 They would think that I'm already there. 471 00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:34,720 But until that happens, it's not there. 472 00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:41,360 OK. Hey, ma'am. 473 00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:46,440 So but then the next thing concerning forgetting is this. 474 00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:55,120 We have to forget the good, the accomplishments. 475 00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:01,800 When I was studying today, my thoughts went to, oh, I'm going 476 00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:04,480 to use Sarah, you know, because if there's anything you can 477 00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:08,199 remember, let's just remember. And then it hit me. 478 00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:13,880 She's looking at faithfulness. She's still not looking at past. 479 00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:21,239 These are trophies. Basically, they are memorials of 480 00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:25,080 the faithfulness of His Word, the faithfulness of His word, 481 00:34:25,679 --> 00:34:29,440 the faithfulness of His word. She's not looking back at the 482 00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:32,199 good she has done being in faith. 483 00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:37,040 The reason he says it this way is because as a runner, if we 484 00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:46,320 have a 26.2 mile marathon and we get to mile 25, we could stop 485 00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:51,520 with 1.2 miles left and go, man, look what I have done. 486 00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:55,280 This is awesome. I've got 25. 487 00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:59,680 I'm like at record pay speed. Let me just stop here for a 488 00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:02,400 moment and think about. Let me just look back. 489 00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:05,440 Look at all those runners way back there and if you just stop 490 00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:09,040 and meditate and stay there, then the next racer is going to 491 00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:19,600 come and pass you by. Are you hearing what I'm saying? 492 00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:24,760 Paul is saying, listen, even what I've accomplished, I'm 493 00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:27,800 forgetting and moving now. That doesn't mean I don't. 494 00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:29,800 I've taken account God's faithfulness. 495 00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:34,280 These are these are trophies that I have on my shelf that 496 00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:38,920 shows that when I did God's word, God calls his word to come 497 00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:41,360 to pass. So this next thing I'm in right 498 00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:46,800 now with God, no problem because I have evidence that he's always 499 00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:50,320 come through. No issue here, but I'm not going 500 00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:54,680 to stop. I am moving. 501 00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:57,960 I am always in a forward process. 502 00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:00,600 I would even say it this way when the Bible says when you've 503 00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:07,520 done all to stand, this is this is what you're standing looks 504 00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:12,560 like it it is a you may have fought, you're fighting and you 505 00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:14,360 don't know where else to go. And he said, look, and you 506 00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:15,400 should fight the good fight of faith. 507 00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:16,960 When you've done all the stands stand. 508 00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:19,640 Obviously he's saying the devil and you've got some challenge 509 00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:21,920 and it seemed like you're not making progress, but you 510 00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:24,920 understand and you're being beat against, but you're standing, 511 00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:27,480 you're standing your ground. You're not giving up ground, but 512 00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:32,040 that standing is with a lien because at some point I'm going 513 00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:38,760 to be stepping forward again because I'm not retreating. 514 00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:42,600 I'm not pulling back. Are you hearing me? 515 00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:47,480 With that being said, look at here in Hebrews, Hebrews chapter 516 00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:53,480 10 verses 3839, it says But my righteous one shall live by and 517 00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:56,320 if he shrinks back my soul has no pleasure in him. 518 00:36:57,120 --> 00:37:00,960 He said, but we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, 519 00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:04,200 but of those who have faith to the preserving of our soul. 520 00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:08,400 Now this scripture is not just saying that you don't shrink 521 00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:12,200 back to worldliness. This is not just worldliness 522 00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:17,080 because the Bible says the just shall live by and we go from 523 00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:21,040 faith to and I got this revelation honestly guys, just a 524 00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:26,640 few years ago, just a few years ago, because I had been pretty 525 00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:29,840 motivated by a particular prophetic word that was given to 526 00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:31,680 us. But within six months of 527 00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:34,760 starting Anchor Faith Church, that I needed to strike the 528 00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:39,840 ground. And when that word came through 529 00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:43,840 tongues and interpretation of tongues concerning Anchor Faith 530 00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:47,320 Church as a ministry saying just keep striking the ground, the 531 00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:50,840 Lord took me to where the prophet said strike the ground 532 00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:53,640 concerning destroying the enemy. And they struck it three times. 533 00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:58,360 And the prophet got really mad and said, man, if you'd have 534 00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:01,080 done it like six or seven times, you would have routed your enemy 535 00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:02,560 completely. But because you stopped at 536 00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:06,720 three, you're only going to defeat them three times and then 537 00:38:06,720 --> 00:38:09,360 they're going to be a problem for you, right? 538 00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:14,480 And I thought, and I knew what the prophecy was about, about 539 00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:19,280 faith, about moving forward. And I was, I mean, you hit one 540 00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:22,640 project and that thing's coming, come really out of completion. 541 00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:25,200 Boom, you're into the next one. I'm like, strike the next one. 542 00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:26,640 What else? God, what do you want me to 543 00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:28,400 believe for God? Come on, what's the next one? 544 00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:30,840 And I want to go stop at three. I want I never stopped and said, 545 00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:32,760 OK, well, this is cool. Let's just kind of rest here for 546 00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:34,680 a little bit, man. We've been like believing God 547 00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:36,360 for a lot. Let's just don't believe God for 548 00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:40,840 nothing. No we were like boom boom boom. 549 00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:45,920 Then it hit me about 3 years ago, maybe 4 at Max. 550 00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:49,040 I'm reading we go from faith to faith and then the Lord says 551 00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:54,320 what is faith? I said well now faith is calling 552 00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:56,160 those things that be not as though they were. 553 00:38:56,160 --> 00:38:59,840 He said. Notice I said you go from faith 554 00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:08,480 to faith, which means before you leave one faith and see it, 555 00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:10,400 'cause once you see it, it's not faith. 556 00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:14,760 Faith is calling those things that be not as though they were. 557 00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:18,120 That's faith. So before you actually see the 558 00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:21,400 completion of what you're believing for, you need to start 559 00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:25,040 believing for something you don't see so that when that 560 00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:29,120 one's done, you're in, you're already in another that then you 561 00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:32,800 go to another one and you don't get to 1 because there's a thing 562 00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:34,680 that happens in the church. Well, we don't want to wear the 563 00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:44,200 people out. We're not wearing you out. 564 00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:48,480 We're doing scripture because when you're in faith, you're 565 00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:52,480 actually at rest because you're resting in God. 566 00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:56,840 Now there's a fight. Yes, I get it. 567 00:39:56,920 --> 00:39:58,920 There is a fight. But you know, if you've been 568 00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:02,120 around some champions, like watch Muhammad Ali and he got 569 00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:04,960 around, you know, you know, he was in a fight, but he was like. 570 00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:08,720 This is easy. And he would mock them. 571 00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:13,480 I mean, it's not like he didn't get a few hits, but when they 572 00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:16,720 hit, he was like, oh, there ain't no power in that punch. 573 00:40:18,240 --> 00:40:23,480 And instead of just taking the he would play with the enemy, he 574 00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:27,800 would dance, which you know, and his saying and he would dance 575 00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:30,720 around and dance around and then he would boom, boom. 576 00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:35,080 I mean, I believe he was intentional to not take him out 577 00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:38,760 immediately, unlike Mike Tyson, you know, he'd like you're down 578 00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:43,600 3 seconds, OK, next fighter. But he would go out, he would 579 00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:45,840 play around. He would hit just enough. 580 00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:48,400 Keep on your feet. Hold on, let's do a good show 581 00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:50,200 now, right? I mean, get the people here are 582 00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:53,040 watching. But he never had a doubt in his 583 00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:55,520 mind he was going to lose, especially after the first 584 00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:57,120 couple of punches from his opponent. 585 00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:00,440 And you understand, there's some things in faith. 586 00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:03,560 We're like, man, we got this thing right. 587 00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:06,360 You're at such rest. Even in the middle of the fight. 588 00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:10,160 Now there are some faith projects that you feel the 589 00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:13,640 strain. I get it, Which then the enemy 590 00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:16,760 says you ought to take a break. Well, He wants you to take a 591 00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:20,920 break because every time you get what you've been believing for, 592 00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:26,480 you keep tearing down his gates. You're taking over his 593 00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:33,560 territory, that which he received from Adam, that 594 00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:37,000 dominion and all that was associated with it and he's been 595 00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:41,040 robbing us from. He doesn't want you to get up in 596 00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:44,000 there because if you'll take a good enough rest and have 597 00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:47,680 nothing to believe God for where God's constantly showing himself 598 00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:51,640 faithful, then he can get into your mind and try to why don't 599 00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:56,160 you just do it the world's way and it can happen that way. 600 00:41:56,920 --> 00:42:00,320 So again, we don't shrink back, which means we stay even in 601 00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:01,920 faith. So let's go back to verse 15 602 00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:04,840 real quick again, verse 14 and 15 of Philippians 3. 603 00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:08,560 He says as I press on towards the goal for the prize of the 604 00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:11,320 upward call of God in Christ Jesus. 605 00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:20,440 So again, someone who knows why they are born and wants to 606 00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:24,360 please, please. Because the Bible says without 607 00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:28,400 faith it's impossible to. This is not whether God loves me 608 00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:31,840 or not. God loves me and I'm not trying 609 00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:35,000 to to find out what he loved me more. 610 00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:39,680 No, I want to be pleasing to him because the Scripture says I can 611 00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:45,800 be displeasing to Him because faith is what pleases Him. 612 00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:49,920 And so I always want to be a pleasure to my Father. 613 00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:52,400 So what is your word telling me to do? 614 00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:56,080 I want to act on that word. I want to be in faith in that 615 00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:58,360 word. And I want to press on to the 616 00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:00,920 next thing that you've laid hold of me. 617 00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:03,680 What else do you need me to do? What else do I need to believe 618 00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:05,360 God for? What else do I need to keep 619 00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:08,000 pressing on? And he says I press. 620 00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:13,600 Now, what's so cool about that? Is that in my weakness? 621 00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:19,080 Oh, this is what's amazing. There are times in the battle of 622 00:43:19,080 --> 00:43:23,760 faith that, man, I am extremely strong because you just got a 623 00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:25,160 word. Oh my gosh, I got a word. 624 00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:28,360 We can do this. Well, through faith and 625 00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:31,560 patience, you inherit. So it's in the patience part 626 00:43:31,680 --> 00:43:34,720 that weariness and fainting and fainting can show up. 627 00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:40,000 But even in my weakness, he'll make me strong as long as I do 628 00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:45,480 not abandon and I keep pressing. And for anyone who's done a 629 00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:48,120 natural race, you know, you're like, just keep moving. 630 00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:50,840 Just and you just keep the thing moving, right, Brittany? 631 00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:53,920 We're like, just keep moving. Brittany's fast. 632 00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:56,200 I remember the first gate river run we ran. 633 00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:59,680 She was in a she was in a more elite class. 634 00:44:00,920 --> 00:44:02,960 They ran faster. You know, I said which one? 635 00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:06,440 Oh, I'm up in this group. Oh, I guess I picked the wrong 636 00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:09,040 one. But in my mind, I thought, I'll 637 00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:15,040 run her down. No, number one, she's taller 638 00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:17,600 than I am. Her legs are double the my 639 00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:20,880 length. She takes one step and I'm 2. 640 00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:24,760 So here's Brittany, you know, because she has long legs. 641 00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:26,920 Boom, boom. And I look like this. 642 00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:35,160 Yeah, that's me. Like I'm going to get Brittany. 643 00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:39,600 She's like, where you at? Like a gazelle. 644 00:44:40,120 --> 00:44:41,640 Just go. There she goes. 645 00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:45,320 And I'm like, I never saw you. You know, she's like, where 646 00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:46,880 you've been. I've been here for an hour. 647 00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:52,280 OK. But we press on because there's 648 00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:57,960 something in front of us again. People who do not press have 649 00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:03,320 lost sight of the goal. If you don't press, that just 650 00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:04,760 tells me you've lost sight of the goal. 651 00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:06,360 And if you're telling, why are you working so hard? 652 00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:08,360 Why are you pushing so much? Why you keep doing this? 653 00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:11,400 I don't want to talk to people like that because I'm like, 654 00:45:11,720 --> 00:45:16,760 you've lost the goal. You've lost it because when you 655 00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:18,360 know what you're in. And here's the thing. 656 00:45:19,120 --> 00:45:21,520 I mean, we only have so much time in this skin suit. 657 00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:26,760 There is a time that's going to be different. 658 00:45:26,960 --> 00:45:30,040 I'm not going to tell you it's a time that it is mythical 659 00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:31,960 thinking. We're with the Lord. 660 00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:35,520 Oh, here's our nice little hammock and the angels are 661 00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:39,800 coming by with coconut drinks. You know, they're ministering 662 00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:42,800 spirits. They are bringing us our stuff 663 00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:48,520 and the angels are massaging our glorified bodies, right? 664 00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:51,120 And the Lord comes by and the cool of the day and says, you 665 00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:54,480 enjoying your relaxation? You know, do you want to put a 666 00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:58,160 little saxophone on right now? You know, so you feel chilled. 667 00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:01,320 I'll get a little breeze to come through, you know, for all 668 00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:03,600 eternity. We are just like on vacation. 669 00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:10,760 Hallelujah. I think sometimes people think 670 00:46:10,760 --> 00:46:13,880 that, but we press on. But look at verse 15. 671 00:46:13,880 --> 00:46:17,320 I'm going to read it out of the Berean standard Bible. 672 00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:21,560 Verse 15 says this. Let all of us who are mature 673 00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:25,120 should embrace this point of view. 674 00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:28,680 And if you think differently about some issue, God will 675 00:46:28,680 --> 00:46:30,920 reveal this to you. Also, one translation says if 676 00:46:30,920 --> 00:46:34,920 you think different about pressing, God will reveal to 677 00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:39,600 you, you need to press. So in essence, he's not saying 678 00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:42,160 if you think different than how I do it, and that's OK. 679 00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:45,120 He's saying God's going to tell you that what I'm saying is what 680 00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:51,280 you should be doing. Hallelujah. 681 00:46:54,720 --> 00:46:58,200 Now we're watching. Anybody got the latest on the 682 00:46:58,200 --> 00:47:00,640 Ohio State Oregon game? Because man, it was like 34 to 683 00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:05,040 nothing at halftime. I mean, Ohio states, like just 684 00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:08,320 trouncing them. It's like, where you at, right, 685 00:47:08,720 --> 00:47:11,080 Pastor Mike? You pull up on ESPN, you catch 686 00:47:11,080 --> 00:47:18,920 the phone. 4121 No, it's not. It was 34 to nothing. 4141 OK, I 687 00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:22,240 thought you said 2121 Like, how can they have gone backwards? 688 00:47:23,080 --> 00:47:24,480 Did they forget they made touchdowns? 689 00:47:24,720 --> 00:47:29,600 4121 OK, All right, so there's a goal. 690 00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:42,600 Now you understand a coach has a goal and they are telling the 691 00:47:42,600 --> 00:47:48,160 players. It's amazing that any 692 00:47:48,160 --> 00:47:57,080 organization allows the leader to put pressure on the team to 693 00:47:57,080 --> 00:48:02,320 accomplish a goal. We see it in business with 694 00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:04,720 managers because again, what's the reward? 695 00:48:04,720 --> 00:48:06,640 You get a bonus or whatever. They let you know what we're 696 00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:07,560 going to do. This is what happens. 697 00:48:07,560 --> 00:48:09,080 We get here. We need to make it happen. 698 00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:13,960 And man, we sell all out. They sell out in politics. 699 00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:16,160 If you want to win an office, man, you are. 700 00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:19,800 You're pressing. I mean, you're door knocking. 701 00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:23,160 You're you're, you're, I mean, you're all that because this is 702 00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:28,400 the season because after the day that we vote, if you didn't make 703 00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:30,400 it and they're like, we're pushing to the finish. 704 00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:31,920 Didn't we hear this during the president? 705 00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:36,600 We're pushing all the way up to the finish line, which means all 706 00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:41,320 the ones running the, the, the, the campaigns we're pushing, 707 00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:44,360 calling, telling them, man, we hardly slap. 708 00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:46,760 You know what? Because they wanted their 709 00:48:46,760 --> 00:48:51,960 candidate to win, they let them talk to them that way. 710 00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:54,440 These people right now, the coaches are saying you're going 711 00:48:54,440 --> 00:48:56,440 to do this. I mean, I was shocked at the 712 00:48:56,560 --> 00:48:58,760 Arizona State. I mean, they were getting beat 713 00:48:58,760 --> 00:49:00,640 down by Texas. And next thing you know, we're 714 00:49:00,640 --> 00:49:03,600 in overtime. Is this actually happening right 715 00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:05,880 now? Which means the coach did 716 00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:08,520 something that says we're not out of it yet. 717 00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:11,880 Nobody, everybody thinks we're a Cinderella team anyway. 718 00:49:11,880 --> 00:49:15,520 Got them sold on this idea and these guys are pressing. 719 00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:23,560 No players like you're on the sideline, you're not out here 720 00:49:23,560 --> 00:49:32,010 tackling. But when it comes to the church 721 00:49:32,010 --> 00:49:33,330 in the past, like let's keep moving. 722 00:49:33,730 --> 00:49:35,850 Well, who's he think he is talking to us like that. 723 00:49:39,770 --> 00:49:46,370 Why is this the only organization that we have this 724 00:49:46,370 --> 00:49:51,560 much conflict? I mean, I know why and I'll tell 725 00:49:51,560 --> 00:49:52,880 you why. And then I'm going to train you 726 00:49:52,880 --> 00:49:57,080 how to overcome that because we're going to overcome that in 727 00:49:57,080 --> 00:50:00,960 2025. We will overcome that because I 728 00:50:00,960 --> 00:50:03,640 know what it looks like. I know exactly what it looks 729 00:50:03,640 --> 00:50:08,840 like to overcome because the minute it happens, if they do 730 00:50:08,840 --> 00:50:16,400 not press, they do not stay. And you don't want an athlete on 731 00:50:16,400 --> 00:50:21,640 your team that's dragging around trade on coach. 732 00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:23,600 They they're not doing any good anyway. 733 00:50:23,720 --> 00:50:25,800 In fact, John said, look, if they go, they weren't for you 734 00:50:25,800 --> 00:50:26,960 anyway. They weren't with you anyway. 735 00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:32,000 Are you hearing me? And Paul's like, look, we got to 736 00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:33,960 push press on. But like he says this, he said, 737 00:50:33,960 --> 00:50:37,880 now, if you've come to maturity, you need to embrace this point 738 00:50:37,880 --> 00:50:41,120 of view. So when you reach spiritual 739 00:50:41,120 --> 00:50:46,880 maturity, you're like, my whole life exists to accomplish why he 740 00:50:46,880 --> 00:50:50,480 saved me. And I'm going to get around 741 00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:53,240 people who that's their only goal. 742 00:51:00,860 --> 00:51:02,500 I mean, who wants to be around the team? 743 00:51:03,220 --> 00:51:05,780 Well, all we got is a bunch of two stars in here. 744 00:51:07,820 --> 00:51:10,980 We never win. Well, let's see what we can do 745 00:51:10,980 --> 00:51:15,020 at this game. We're probably going to lose, 746 00:51:15,900 --> 00:51:20,700 but let's try something. Who wants to be in that kind of 747 00:51:20,700 --> 00:51:22,840 culture? Who wants to play for that kind 748 00:51:22,840 --> 00:51:26,720 of team? I mean, even the, you know, they 749 00:51:26,720 --> 00:51:30,720 always do the David and Goliath analogy, which is always wrong 750 00:51:30,720 --> 00:51:32,880 because Goliath always was going to lose. 751 00:51:34,880 --> 00:51:40,640 But David, you know, this is the little team and can they do this 752 00:51:40,640 --> 00:51:43,160 and how can they pull this off? I mean, that's what it sounded 753 00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:45,440 like when they when Boise State was playing Penn State. 754 00:51:45,520 --> 00:51:47,480 Well, you know, if they don't do that, how can they even pull? 755 00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:51,240 And they their talk, but those guys on the field were not 756 00:51:51,240 --> 00:51:55,480 convinced until it's over, it's not over. 757 00:51:55,480 --> 00:51:58,720 And it was obviously that would Arizona State today because they 758 00:51:58,720 --> 00:52:01,920 got them into overtime. But you understand they're not 759 00:52:01,920 --> 00:52:04,360 in the locker. They are saying, you know what, 760 00:52:04,680 --> 00:52:06,920 we had a great season. We are, you know, Big 12 761 00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:08,440 champions. But at the end of the day, 762 00:52:08,440 --> 00:52:13,360 everyone in the locker room is not excited because the goal 763 00:52:13,360 --> 00:52:15,760 wasn't met. Now, a few days later, they'll 764 00:52:15,760 --> 00:52:17,680 be rejoicing in the championship they did have. 765 00:52:17,840 --> 00:52:24,960 But they'll live the rest of their lives knowing the rest of 766 00:52:24,960 --> 00:52:32,760 their lives, knowing the rest of their lives knowing, just like 767 00:52:32,760 --> 00:52:35,600 I've lived the rest of my life knowing that in the state 768 00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:39,720 semifinals, we got beat in a rodeo arena. 769 00:52:41,200 --> 00:52:47,560 The football field was inside a rodeo arena, and they let out 770 00:52:47,560 --> 00:52:54,520 the bulls and trampled us. And I live without forever 771 00:52:55,160 --> 00:52:57,040 because honestly, I wanted to win a state champion. 772 00:52:57,040 --> 00:53:00,960 Who doesn't, right? Ask my grandson, Asher. 773 00:53:01,040 --> 00:53:05,480 He went to the state championship game this year and 774 00:53:05,480 --> 00:53:09,760 was ahead by a couple of touchdown, maybe even 3, and 775 00:53:09,760 --> 00:53:19,160 lost. So when you're mature, you're 776 00:53:19,160 --> 00:53:22,520 like man, there's no other viewpoint and an essay says 777 00:53:22,520 --> 00:53:28,240 God's going to reveal to you that you need to mature up to 778 00:53:28,280 --> 00:53:30,960 apprehend while He's saved you in the 1st place. 779 00:53:31,320 --> 00:53:32,960 Amen. So let me give you these three 780 00:53:32,960 --> 00:53:34,040 more scriptures and we'll be out. 781 00:53:35,200 --> 00:53:37,600 Second Corinthians chapter 4, verse 1718. 782 00:53:37,600 --> 00:53:40,160 We'll be pretty quick. He says this for, you know this 783 00:53:40,160 --> 00:53:43,760 one for momentary light affliction is producing for us 784 00:53:43,760 --> 00:53:46,280 an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison. 785 00:53:46,720 --> 00:53:49,520 Listen guys, I cannot tell you how many times I've been around 786 00:53:49,520 --> 00:53:52,120 certain people. At times they're like, how come 787 00:53:52,120 --> 00:53:55,600 you're never content? I mean y'all got them all. 788 00:53:55,600 --> 00:53:57,040 What? Why do you keep pushing? 789 00:53:57,720 --> 00:54:04,680 OK, first of all, I am content with what I have, but I press on 790 00:54:05,040 --> 00:54:09,080 to what God wants. And it's not that I'm never 791 00:54:09,080 --> 00:54:11,680 satisfied. I'm satisfied when I wake up in 792 00:54:11,680 --> 00:54:14,080 the morning and breathe and praise my King. 793 00:54:15,160 --> 00:54:19,840 I'm full of satisfaction. But He has saved me for a reason 794 00:54:21,120 --> 00:54:27,320 and I was never to do it alone. So I rally those that were 795 00:54:27,320 --> 00:54:35,080 assigned to do the change. That's what we do, but for 796 00:54:35,080 --> 00:54:37,400 momentary light, affliction is producing for us an eternal 797 00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:40,560 weight of glory far beyond all comparison, while we look not at 798 00:54:40,560 --> 00:54:43,120 the things that are what seen, but the things that are not 799 00:54:43,120 --> 00:54:44,360 seen. For the things that are seen are 800 00:54:44,360 --> 00:54:46,240 temporary. That's why I don't get bogged 801 00:54:46,240 --> 00:54:50,240 down in the world. But the things which are for the 802 00:54:50,240 --> 00:54:51,600 things that are not seen are eternal. 803 00:54:51,640 --> 00:54:55,880 My eyes are already fixed on the eternal Kingdom, the rewards 804 00:54:55,880 --> 00:54:58,680 associated with it, and that's what I drive after. 805 00:54:58,760 --> 00:55:02,000 I do not have time to stop and determine how comfortable my 806 00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:07,240 life should be in the planet because my life is the best it 807 00:55:07,240 --> 00:55:09,920 could ever be. Because I'm known by the King. 808 00:55:11,760 --> 00:55:16,040 I have arrived and so have you. Your daddy owns the planet. 809 00:55:17,440 --> 00:55:21,040 A bigger house is not going to give you contentment or 810 00:55:21,040 --> 00:55:24,240 satisfaction or, you know, feel. I mean, unless you have selfish 811 00:55:24,240 --> 00:55:27,080 ambitions, those things will. But for those who know who they 812 00:55:27,080 --> 00:55:29,400 are in Christ, then at the end of the day, the day that you're 813 00:55:29,400 --> 00:55:32,120 in Christ, you're so excited and you're just excited. 814 00:55:32,120 --> 00:55:35,080 God, whatever you want me to do, because whatever you want me to 815 00:55:35,080 --> 00:55:37,520 do, the provision is already there for me to do it. 816 00:55:37,600 --> 00:55:39,200 All I got to do is obtain it by faith. 817 00:55:40,760 --> 00:55:43,440 I'm just the happiest guy in the world because I'm the wealthiest 818 00:55:43,440 --> 00:55:46,480 guy in the world because my daddy owns the planet just like 819 00:55:46,480 --> 00:55:48,760 you are. Amen. 820 00:55:49,720 --> 00:55:53,160 But we do not obtain, he said. I've given you the power to get 821 00:55:53,400 --> 00:55:56,040 wealth. And again, wealth is not for 822 00:55:56,040 --> 00:55:59,320 your own personal accumulation. It's wealth for you to 823 00:55:59,320 --> 00:56:02,960 accomplish the provision or the purpose that God's assigned you. 824 00:56:03,080 --> 00:56:05,800 And a lot if you were really wealthy, you would be trying to 825 00:56:05,800 --> 00:56:07,920 figure out how to give your wealth to other people. 826 00:56:10,760 --> 00:56:14,400 So because of this, I had this thought. 827 00:56:14,720 --> 00:56:17,440 Trials are the trails to triumph. 828 00:56:19,640 --> 00:56:22,000 Trials are just the trails to triumph. 829 00:56:24,160 --> 00:56:28,440 Adversary is the asphalt to advancement. 830 00:56:31,480 --> 00:56:35,600 So when adversity comes, thank you for paving my way to 831 00:56:35,600 --> 00:56:41,960 advance. Hallelujah, because this is a 832 00:56:41,960 --> 00:56:49,160 momentary light affliction, 'cause compress means you're 833 00:56:49,160 --> 00:56:54,480 having to go through something. You got to go through your own 834 00:56:54,480 --> 00:56:58,520 personal challenges and do not let them hinder you. 835 00:56:58,600 --> 00:57:02,200 So you got to do self examination all the while and 836 00:57:02,200 --> 00:57:04,440 while you're running, you understand you cannot start a 837 00:57:04,440 --> 00:57:07,360 race without refueling, especially if it's a long one. 838 00:57:07,440 --> 00:57:10,760 And this is a long one. It's your lifetime, which means 839 00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:13,280 you have to refuel. You have to know when to go 840 00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:17,440 along the way and stop and refuel to continue on. 841 00:57:17,520 --> 00:57:20,480 So you're always doing your own personal examination while 842 00:57:20,480 --> 00:57:22,120 you're pressing. And you're like, you know what? 843 00:57:22,120 --> 00:57:24,160 I'm going to get to that mark and I'm going to refuel there, 844 00:57:24,160 --> 00:57:27,960 but I'm pressing to that place to refuel so I can continue to 845 00:57:27,960 --> 00:57:30,160 press on. The reason I refuel is to move 846 00:57:30,160 --> 00:57:33,200 on. So you do personal examination, 847 00:57:33,200 --> 00:57:36,960 but you also press on because there are trials, there are 848 00:57:36,960 --> 00:57:39,760 adversities. You cannot be an overcomer 849 00:57:39,760 --> 00:57:43,120 unless there's something to overcome. 850 00:57:45,040 --> 00:57:47,440 All right? So trials are the trails to 851 00:57:47,440 --> 00:57:50,120 triumph, and adversity is the asphalt to advancement. 852 00:57:50,600 --> 00:57:53,600 And when you do this, then these last two verses is your life 853 00:57:53,600 --> 00:57:55,320 revelation. This is 2025. 854 00:57:56,280 --> 00:58:01,200 Let this be 2025 for us. He who overcomes, I will grant 855 00:58:01,200 --> 00:58:07,720 to Him to sit down with me on my throne as I also overcame and 856 00:58:07,720 --> 00:58:11,680 sat down with my Father on His throne. 857 00:58:12,120 --> 00:58:14,600 Thrones are in kingdoms, not religions. 858 00:58:14,920 --> 00:58:18,120 So I'm telling you right now, I do not get bogged down on 859 00:58:18,120 --> 00:58:21,680 worldly success or or or or accolades. 860 00:58:21,760 --> 00:58:28,000 I'm only focused on the seat assigned to me for eternity. 861 00:58:29,800 --> 00:58:34,560 And so I got a press and while I'm running, there's people from 862 00:58:34,560 --> 00:58:38,240 the crowd that are not even in the race telling me I won't make 863 00:58:38,240 --> 00:58:39,880 it. And they're telling you you 864 00:58:39,880 --> 00:58:43,920 won't make it, but it's 2025. You going to make this thing. 865 00:58:44,080 --> 00:58:47,520 You going to make it all the way to the end because God is giving 866 00:58:47,520 --> 00:58:51,120 you his Spirit and greater is that spirit in you than the one 867 00:58:51,120 --> 00:58:53,520 that's in the world. We're going to finish this 868 00:58:53,520 --> 00:58:54,400 course. Why? 869 00:58:54,520 --> 00:58:56,800 Because we're going to overcome. And he said, now if you 870 00:58:56,800 --> 00:59:03,680 overcome, you going to sit right down here on my throne, me Whoa, 871 00:59:04,120 --> 00:59:10,160 glory to God, Amen. And then it if it is that within 872 00:59:10,160 --> 00:59:18,600 our lifetime that the Lord is coming and most likely is, then 873 00:59:18,600 --> 00:59:21,200 your throne is about to be revealed. 874 00:59:23,960 --> 00:59:28,880 So press because the finish line is upon us. 875 00:59:29,640 --> 00:59:34,480 The last scripture is this Paul said this in second Timothy 487 876 00:59:34,480 --> 00:59:36,000 and eight concerning his own life. 877 00:59:36,000 --> 00:59:39,280 He said I have fought the good fight. 878 00:59:39,880 --> 00:59:46,920 I have one translation said fully completed, fully 879 00:59:46,920 --> 00:59:49,440 completed. Do you know you can finish a 880 00:59:49,440 --> 00:59:56,920 race but not finish the course? You can start a race and finish 881 00:59:56,920 --> 00:59:59,960 a race but not complete the course. 882 01:00:05,800 --> 01:00:11,920 It's a 10K. You start a 10K, it is a race 883 01:00:11,920 --> 01:00:21,320 that you're in and at 8K you stop the next day that race 884 01:00:21,320 --> 01:00:25,480 isn't there so you can't go back to the race. 885 01:00:26,440 --> 01:00:29,120 You started a race, you finished a race, but you didn't finish 886 01:00:29,120 --> 01:00:34,040 the course. You left 2 kilometers on the 887 01:00:34,040 --> 01:00:38,800 table. 2 kilometers do not allow you. 888 01:00:39,640 --> 01:00:45,840 You have the number, you have the time, you have the reward 889 01:00:45,840 --> 01:00:50,880 given you in the beginning, the T-shirt and the Cup that says 890 01:00:50,880 --> 01:00:55,960 you were in the race. But you don't get the medal in 891 01:00:55,960 --> 01:00:58,680 the end because everybody gets a medal when they run these 892 01:00:58,680 --> 01:01:00,400 things. And then some get these like 893 01:01:00,400 --> 01:01:05,760 victor's medals, right, because they're running to win. 894 01:01:05,960 --> 01:01:09,560 Most of us are running for recreation, all right, but let's 895 01:01:09,560 --> 01:01:10,960 don't run this life of recreation. 896 01:01:10,960 --> 01:01:13,320 Let's run to win, he said. I finished the course I have 897 01:01:13,320 --> 01:01:17,320 kept, which tells us if you don't keep the faith, you can't 898 01:01:17,320 --> 01:01:20,400 finish the course. All right. 899 01:01:20,400 --> 01:01:23,560 In the future, he says, is laid up for me here. 900 01:01:23,560 --> 01:01:27,880 It is the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, 901 01:01:27,880 --> 01:01:30,600 the righteous judge, will award to me on that day. 902 01:01:30,600 --> 01:01:36,760 And not only me, but also to, to who? 903 01:01:37,320 --> 01:01:39,560 To who? All who? 904 01:01:40,520 --> 01:01:44,400 Not all like the whole world, but all who have loved his 905 01:01:44,400 --> 01:01:46,560 appearing. Those who have kept the faith, 906 01:01:46,560 --> 01:01:48,800 those who have finished the course, those who fought the 907 01:01:48,800 --> 01:01:52,040 good fight For what the crown of rises he has for me. 908 01:01:52,080 --> 01:01:55,400 He has one for you. Will you finish the course? 909 01:01:55,520 --> 01:01:58,440 It's 2025. It's the first day of the year. 910 01:01:58,520 --> 01:02:00,520 You've not done it. You've done really good. 911 01:02:00,520 --> 01:02:02,600 You came to church on your first date. 912 01:02:03,680 --> 01:02:07,160 You made the Kingdom 1st instead of staying home. 913 01:02:07,320 --> 01:02:10,800 It was late last night and I watched the ball go down and all 914 01:02:10,840 --> 01:02:13,920 these people sing and I went to this restaurant and I didn't get 915 01:02:13,920 --> 01:02:17,000 in till 2:00 and it was so late. You know, I think I'll just stay 916 01:02:17,000 --> 01:02:19,200 home. No, you can't. 917 01:02:20,440 --> 01:02:25,240 You pressed on, you assembled, you did the plan. 918 01:02:25,320 --> 01:02:27,800 So then day 2 come. Did you read your Bible reading 919 01:02:27,800 --> 01:02:30,400 today? Then you're on a good start, 920 01:02:30,400 --> 01:02:35,040 people. You did some fueling for today. 921 01:02:35,120 --> 01:02:38,120 You got the word in. You prayed in the Holy Ghost. 922 01:02:38,280 --> 01:02:42,320 Now let's repeat tomorrow. Let's make every day count. 923 01:02:42,560 --> 01:02:45,120 Let's be strong. Let's finish this course. 924 01:02:45,120 --> 01:02:52,160 Let this be the year that we only move forward and never look 925 01:02:52,160 --> 01:02:52,520 back.