Today I want to talk to you about spiritual intuition.
OK, turn over to 1st John chapter 4.
We'll start in verse one again. We are going to conclude what
what we've been discussing the last couple of weeks concerning
the seven spirits of God and it says this in first John chapter
4 verse one. Beloved, do not believe every
spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God.
Notice that there are more than one spirit.
Now this is not capitalized, so we know this is not referencing
the Spirit of God or the Holy Spirit or God as a spirit.
But there are other spirits. In fact, you yourself, you are a
spirit. On the inside is the spirit of
man. Everyone here has a spirit, OK?
Then we have a soul realm. That's our mind, will and
intellect, OK, where our emotions are at all that sits
there and and your soul and your spirit are extremely connected.
OK, There's still two different aspects of you because the Bible
talks about our spirit, soul and body in Hebrews chapter 4 and
also in First Thessalonians chapter 5, that there is a
three-part to man. But again, we separate those for
the sake of teaching. We are not to disassociate them
with our lives. In fact, there's certain
ministers that are not from the circles of teaching that we are
from where we emphasize the spirit of man a lot.
And so they struggle a lot of times when it comes to the soul
of man because they do not understand when we sometimes say
we don't live by how we feel and because, you know, there's an
association with feeling. And I said, now all we're saying
is our first initial feeling is not how we're going to respond.
We first start with the Spirit, but the Spirit should change how
you feel. Why do we know this?
Because the Bible tells us that He'll turn your sorrow into
gladness. So you can be in a situation
that sorrow is the first feeling.
However, if you yield to the Spirit, you can turn that sorrow
into joy, and now your feeling is joy.
And that's an accurate place to yield to because the Spirit
turned it the same thing. You can be in chaos and all of a
sudden have peace beyond your understanding.
Now you feel peace. OK.
And the feeling of peace is what you're following because it
originated first from the Spirit.
And a lot of times we say, well, follow peace.
Well, peace is how you feel. And when you're in a chaotic
situation, you don't feel anything but peace.
But when you yield to the spirit of man, who would can speak to
the Holy Spirit in you hears from the Holy Spirit, then you
can put all one piece beyond your understanding and then
navigate. So then your emotion or soul
realm and your spirit realm come into alignment.
Then guess what, it will make your body subject, meaning
you're going to do what I say now.
OK, so again in relationships you feel that they are gorgeous
and you are very attractive, but then you hear that they are not
born of God. So what you do is you don't go
by how you feel and how you see. You realize they're disqualified
at this point in my life because I will not be in a relationship
with someone I am unequally yoked with.
Their spirit is cut off from God, mine is not.
And it is not my assignment to try to get them born again and
through a relationship because many ungodly spirits inside
vessels will come to church with a believer, Hallelujah and fake
a praise and an offering just to coerce you into the bed.
Say Amen anyway. All right.
And then once they've conquered you, they go on and you're like,
but I thought God said, well, if God's saying then function like
God, be a perfect peace and patience.
You don't have to push, manipulate, or have to get
involved to make sure that it turns out the way you want.
Amen. So with that being said, then
our spirit and soul, they should become aligned right to where
our feelings are not fake. Our feelings are by the spirit
and should transform and change, and then we put our body into
subjection. Well, there are spirits beyond
our spirit. There are angelic beings, there
are unclean spirits. There are familiar spirits.
There are demonic spirits. You understand there are other
realms where spirits exist. And 1st John, John the ride, the
apostle John, the writer of first John, says you need to
test everyone. Now, here's the thing.
If you do not know the Word, you cannot test them.
You're not qualified to give them a test.
In essence, you will fail every time because you cannot line
what the spirits are saying up to truth to the Word of God.
So he says, test every spirit to see whether they are from God.
Then you get down to verse 4. It says you are from God.
Say I'm from God, little children, and have overcome
them, because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the
world. Say Amen, so we have the greater
one on the inside. It is the reigning Spirit that
we possess, and the reigning Spirit is on assignment to us.
Again, Jesus did not introduce the reigning Spirit through His
gifts. When he first minute mentions
about the Holy Spirit, it was not about his gifts.
He said this is what the Spirit of truth is going to do.
It didn't say He's going to give you gifts so that you can
prophecy. He's going to give you gifts so
that you can raise the dead through the working of miracles
and the gifts of faith and the gifts of healing.
Then say that. Yet how many believers are only
seeking the Spirit, Holy Spirit for those areas.
The Holy Spirit he did not introduce and say now he's going
to give you profound insight into people's lives to where
you'll know what's going on in their life.
That's the first thing he's going to do.
That is not it. He introduced the Holy Spirit
this way. He's first words are John 14.
He will cause things to come to your remembrance that I have
said the number one thing the Holy Ghost is going to do is
remind you say remind you. So if you're coming and saying I
got a word from God, but you can't even hear him to remind
you to live by the fruits of the Spirit and keep your flesh under
control. I may question whether you've
heard him accurate or not. Do not be a gullible believer
that when someone says I heard from the Lord, he wants me to
tell you this. Well, first and foremost, could
you be someone who's not following God really well?
And God can utilize a person, that is true, but the majority
of the time He is not using that person to do those things if
they themselves cannot first hear Him according to the Word.
To live by the Word. Though, if you're around people
who habitually are living carnal and yet they act like they
always have a word from God, you need to start throwing a test
out. Hold it right now.
This is a test. This is only a test because I am
not obligated to receive what you're about to say to me.
Amen. Because Jesus introduced the
Holy Spirit by saying He's going to cause you to remember what I
said, which means you have to become a study of the Word to
give Him some things to remind you about, Amen.
Even in this dispensation under the age of grace where you are
born of the Spirit of God, we still have the same issues of
the old covenant and every dispensation before.
And that's called being a forgetful hearer.
Because if it wasn't prevalent in our lives, then the Holy
Spirit, the first thing Jesus would not, would not have said
to him about him was he's going to remind you lies.
He got to remind you because you're forgetting Hallelujah.
Then he says he's going to teach you all things.
Then he said concerning, He's going to guide you into all
truth. Then we get over to the gifts
where He will disclose things to come.
So if you're not having a relationship with the Holy
Spirit through remembrance, teaching, and truth, now many
can fake that. And I've been around plenty of
them because you understand, it's in the area of broadcasting
broadly. Well, you know, if you've got,
you know, I just said some people here just don't have
peace, Well, that's probably somebody in the room right now,
right? You know, I said somebody's
going, you know, having some issues with their body.
OK. I mean, that could happen any
day of the week, depends on which day I wake up, which issue
I'm dealing with, right? Or what I ate the day before,
right. So again, what it does, it tries
to put on the appearance that I'm hearing the Holy Ghost.
All right, I like how Brother Hagin learned and I'm going to
be ministering on how the anointing works, how to flow in
it. He would say, well, I'm going to
put, I'm putting up my spiritual antenna.
And usually when he was putting up his spiritual antenna, it
wasn't so much that he was trying to say vague things to
get people's visual expressions. Oh, Yellow, come on, help me out
here. I mean, if I say, you know, you
know, maybe it's somewhere the, the from here in your body,
somewhere from here down to here on the backside.
And then somebody like, look. Ah, OK, now I'm because I can
see someone's response, which lets me talk.
But Brother Hagin didn't do those things.
He would begin. Let's pray in the spirit because
he wanted to get it tuned here before he released it there.
If he if he felt it was too vague, he would hold on.
He was tracking. OK, somebody's got some issues
with their body. OK, I got it.
OK, where at? Now give me something more
specific. Well, because again, the gifts
and the word of knowledge and those gifts, which we're going
to be teaching on those next month.
And the one who's going to teach it doesn't even know yet, but
they'll find out today. So with that being said, I mean,
I've known this for a few days. I've just yet to reveal this to
them. With that being said, you know
those gifts get in operation for specifics.
Now, I have been a resistor sometimes of gifts because I'm
passionate about you loving the Word.
I have God's story, meaning God's biblical account of His
walk in the earth where He was constantly trying to get the
people to take Him at His Word. And when they did not, it shut
down gifts. And I've told my staff for
years. Well, when those, when that day
comes that we're flowing and all those types of Are you ready for
the season to maybe pack up and shut down Anchor Faith Church in
Saint Augustine? They, I'm different than most
pastors. I'm just going to be honest with
you because I go beyond just natural talking points.
I mean, I'm a seeker and we stop where most want to stop because
they have their own ambitions. But I realize there is a by
product of when the miraculous starts to happen in the church
where the blind eyes are seeing the miraculous arms are growing
out, the deaf ears are opening up and it's becoming where every
service, these things are happening that all of a sudden
the climate changes from wanting to hear the word to wanting to
see the sign. And Jesus was like, I won't even
do a miracle in that city anymore.
And I'm like, I'd really like to hang out at Saint Augustine a
little bit longer than get to the place of ministry.
We're like, well, the ministry of Angravey Church in Saint
Augustine is done because I cannot come here anymore as a
pastor, an apostle and preach the word because all they want
is a son. How do we keep that from
happening? You must be hungry for the Word.
And here's the thing, the more you know the Word, the less
gifts have to be in operation. And the ones that are in
operation are more for those who are unlearned than it is for the
learned or the mature. Because God speaks to us
primarily through the Spirit. Who had a gift of the Spirit
that spoke to Jesus about it? A couple, a couple.
And when was that? When he was just a child.
They brought him to the temple and the first guy began to
prophecy over Jesus. Do I think Jesus retained that
information at 8 days old? Can't tell you that.
Can I tell you that? I cannot tell you that at 8, You
know, because again, they were coming to circumcising and then
all of a sudden he's being prophesied over.
I said he's being prophesied over.
Amen. Where did Jesus learn most of
the prophetic utterances from concerning himself?
Thank you. Then there was a lady same day,
same age who spoke over him. Are you hearing me?
My point is, is if you're living life looking for someone to use
the gifts to speak to you by the spirit, that shows your
immaturity. All right, shows your
immaturity. So we want to grow in the word.
That doesn't mean we cannot use the gifts.
We are to earnestly desire the gifts honestly and and that's
what the word says. So I have to make adjustments
myself. I just have to say, as I
earnestly desire the gift, I also more desire the
understanding of the word, because there's more Scripture
that talks about people rightly dividing the Word, seeking first
the Kingdom, having understanding of that Word, then
earnestly desiring spiritual gifts.
But when they're necessary, we want them to be necessary.
Amen, I said. Amen.
In fact, I had someone who moves through the gifts here at our
church been extremely accurate about some words of wisdoms and
gave me one concerning the move of miracles.
But it would come through a very specific occurrence of a move of
the gift. And now I have to wait to see if
they'll respond, because I really don't doubt the word.
My point is, is everyone in this room, no matter who you are, if
you sense that you have something by the Spirit, then
we're going to encourage you to respond.
But we do it decent and in order.
You say, well, what if I have something, I'm back there.
Well, then you come down and talk to the usher, of which the
usher will either let my wife know or myself know.
At that point, we're going to determine based upon that
encounter of whether God wants to release you or we take what
you have and release it. Amen.
OK.
And know this, when you're learning to flow in the Spirit,
you might not get it right. In fact, many hear the Spirit of
God for their personal change. But here's the thing that you
usually fail in. They assume because I need it,
someone else does. So they immediately say, well,
if the Lord's speaking to me about this, I'm surely he's
speaking to someone else. And it's so strong on me.
Well, it's strong on you because God is trying to convict you in
order to correct something to be able to get you to another level
because he may have been doing it subtle and now the
environment has been you need to get it right and it's
reverbiating in your spirit. Who's so strong going to be?
I can hardly Yep, you're right, You're right and it is for you.
So don't be offended if I say that's for you.
Don't be offended, but on the other side, don't equally, don't
be offended if I missed it. I mean, when you got everything
going, everybody's trying to hear Hallelujah and sometimes
people have missed it because they delayed too long.
I've had many come to me and it was the last worship song we
finished, but we've moved on, which means now that moment has
passed. They were right.
I've even had others come and give me something.
I'm like, that's not for today because I know what I'm doing
next week. Bring that to me next week.
That's next week. Are you hearing me?
All right, so the Holy Spirit's really powerful Revelations 1/4
through 7 says this John to the seven churches that were in
Asia, grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and
who is to come. And from the seven spirits who
are before his throne. And from Jesus Christ the
faithful witness, the first born of the dead, the ruler of the
kings of the earth, to him who loves us and released us from
our sins by His blood. And he made us to be a Kingdom
priest of his God and Father. To him be the glory and dominion
forever and ever. Amen.
Notice there are 7 spheres before his throne.
Revelations 5-6 says, And I saw between the throne with the four
living creatures, the elder and the elders, a lamb standing as
if slain, having 7 horns and seven eyes, which are the seven
spirits of the Lord sent out into all the earth.
Now the seven spirits here, the seven spirits of God are not 7
different spirits. It is one spirit called the Holy
Spirit. But the reason they use the word
7, especially in Revelations 5-6, use 7 horns, 7 eyes.
Horns represent governments, OK? And the Kingdom is a government.
We are not in a religion. We are in a government called
the Kingdom of God. The Bible is about a king, his
Kingdom, and his royal offspring.
It's always been about that. It has never not been about
that. But since the fall of man in
Revelation chapter 3, and they preach from there only to
Revelation chapter 20, they miss the Kingdom of God because they
only associate the Kingdom of God with heaven.
Heaven is not the Kingdom of God.
Heaven is a location. It is a place where God dwells.
Earth is a location where we dwell and the Kingdom of God can
be in heaven and in the earth. He said, says, he said when you
pray, pray this way, our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be
your name, your Kingdom come, your will be done on as it is.
So Kingdom cannot be heaven because heaven is heaven and
earth is earth. But Kingdom can be in both,
which is God's dominion, the King's dominion and authority in
both locations. Hallelujah.
We see this naturally in our nation, in the world right now,
every nation that has AUS embassy, the land that that
embassy is on, although it, the soil is attached to another
nation, the boundaries of another nation.
But when you walk through the gate or the wall that surrounds
that embassy, that dirt is considered US soil.
Are you hearing me? And so that particular soil now,
although it's in Nicaragua or in China or in, you know,
Afghanistan or in whatever, doesn't matter.
That piece of dirt. The laws of the United States
are what applies on that plot of land.
Well, guess what? We are ambassadors for Christ.
And this suit is dirt. Wherever this suit goes, the
Kingdom goes, Amen. Wherever I am, the Kingdom is
Hallelujah. And so the Kingdom functions and
flows through me, the government of God flows through us and this
church the property. This is why the devil fights
churches for land, because not only are we God's property, but
this the the land we purchase is God's property.
In fact, when people walk onto 2121 US One South, they walked
into the Kingdom realm where heaven has access of influence.
This is why many times people walk through our doors of the
church and say something's different here.
That's right. We've made a demand on another
government, another influence, another culture that is alive
and well in the earth today to those who choose to believe and
live according to its design by their own free will.
Amen. So 7 is government, 7 horns.
That's government horns eyes are knowledge inside that means he
and seven in the Bible is considered the number of
completion are perfect. So God is so he's saying this
the seven spirits, which means it's the perfect spirit.
It has the perfect government and the perfect knowledge or
wisdom or insight. Perfect means God never gets the
case wrong. I'm going to say that again, God
never gets a case wrong. It's impossible.
Now these both of these passive scriptures and Revelations 1:00
and 5:00 and we knew there was another one, Revelations 3.
I just choose not to read it. We did it in the first week come
from the prophet Isaiah when he prophesied concerning the Holy
Spirit to come. And it says this in Isaiah 11 to
the Spirit of the Lord number one, that's the first one will
rest on him, not come upon him and then leave like it did in
the other dispensation. It's there.
It will rest on him. And remember we said this
according to Isaiah 9/6, that the government will what?
Rest on His shoulders, which means the Holy Spirit is not
coming on and off us, He's in US.
And when He comes upon us and anoints us as kings of the king
in the earth to represent His Kingdom, it is upon, It is
rested on us. It's in the church.
Now you have the Spirit of God with a measure, and you have the
Spirit of God with a measure, and you have the Spirit of God
with a measure, and so do I. But collectively, as the church,
we have the full measure of the It's why you need me and I need
you. This is why you can't take the
religious doctrine of Jesus Christ in the United States,
which is I can come to church when I want to do what I want to
do. I can continue to be
independent. The church is not a building.
Church is the assembling of yourself together.
It doesn't have to be in a building, but it is very it is a
lot more comfortable than being outside in the parking lot,
right? I mean, can we take this outside
right now? And I preach I'll probably lose
my jacket at some juncture. Some of you going to want to
take your shirts off. We're going to say please don't.
But the Spirit of the Lord's one, the second one, this is the
spirit of wisdom, the third understanding, the 4th, the
spirit of counsel, the 5th, the spirit of strength, the 6th, the
spirit of knowledge, and the 7th, 1 is the spirit of the fear
of the Lord. All these characteristics or
attributes are contained within the Holy Spirit.
And we've already taken the time to talk about the Spirit of the
Lord, which is the government of God.
That's the spirit of government because Lord is not a religious
word. Lord means supreme in authority,
supreme in authority and if you are to if you call on the name
of the Lord to be saved, you're saying I am yielding to your
throne, your way of doing it. You dictate my life.
You're the one in supreme authority and I willfully submit
to it. Hallelujah.
But most people in our, you know, nation's culture
concerning Jesus, love Savior, He saved me of all my sins,
saved me from going to hell. I mean, this song we just sang
today, we changed it because again, it originally said, you
know, when hell still knows hell is not the devil's.
The devil doesn't hold own hell. He doesn't own it.
The Lord is the keeper of hell because the Lord is over the
prison system of His Kingdom. There has to be a place by which
those who rebel and willfully choose to not make him Lord, he
will assign. But the devil still knows that
the work is finished. I said he still knows that Jesus
has conquered death, hell in the grave and has the keys.
Hallelujah, boy. He still knows it and he knows
his time is short, shorter than ever before.
That's why the world's gone mad, because deceiving spirits are
moving, seducing spirits are moving and deceiving and
seducing all that they can outside and inside the church.
Amen. So when it comes to the seven
spirits of the Lord in the expository Bible, this
particular commentary, I want to read this.
I read 1 sentence when we first started, but I want to read this
again. So you get the full weight of
this concept of the seven spirits of the Lord.
The spirits of the Lord mentioned by Isaiah are
prevailing. Put that scripture back up 11
two. So when I read this, they
conceal are prevailingly intellectual.
Gregory of Tours expressly declared the Holy Spirit as the
God of the intellect more than the heart.
Now that doesn't mean he doesn't know your spirit, but let me
tell you what the Holy Spirit didn't come to do, give you a
new one. Jesus did that.
Jesus died and rose so that when you make him Lord, He gave you
the new Spirit. You have a new spirit in not in
the Holy Ghost in Christ because God by His nature can reveal the
heart of man. The Holy Ghost assignment is to
change your thinking and deal with your intellect.
Now He will reveal your heart and when He reveals your heart,
your heart area, meaning anything, which really once
you're born of God, your spirits made new, it is complete,
perfect. It cannot be any more righteous
than it is at that moment. So the Holy Spirit is only
dealing with the junk in your brain.
So He really is more of the spirit of intellect than of the
heart. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
So he goes on to say all councils were opened by a Mass
to the Holy Spirit and few who were examined with care.
The windows of medieval churches will have failed to be struck
with a frequency with which the dove is seen descending upon the
heads of miraculously learned persons are presiding at
discussions are hovering over groups of figures representing
the sciences meaning when they did the churches in the medieval
times that the spirit of God was hovering over those who were
intelligent or was able to tap into what we call science.
You understand for them to understand the stars and and and
biology. Those things were opened up by
who made the plants, who spoke them into existence.
Which means God knows everything about photosynthesis, He knows
everything about how biology works, and he by his Spirit
opens the intellect of man to discover things they never would
have known. So again, we get resistant when
sometimes we need to say what's the science behind this Holy
Ghost? Because the Church has
disconnected itself from intellect.
The church just wants to know where they're going to go when
they die. I mean, this is the difference
at Washington, at Washington, our private school, we are here
to by the Holy Ghost to get them intellectually in a place by the
Spirit that they are 10 times better than anybody else.
So I do not apologize when your child comes home and a brain
hurts. So when they come and complain
about the work, say son, daughter, it's so you will be 10
times more intellectual than anyone else in the world, right?
He goes on and says to the medieval church, because this
was, you know, information back then.
The Holy Spirit was the author of the intellect more especially
listen to this of the governing and political intellect.
And there can be little doubt after a study of the various
variations of this doctrine, that the 1st 5 verses of the
11th of Isaiah formed upon it the classical text of appeal.
Meaning that if you study those five, you understand the Holy
Spirit was there for governing and political issues.
Meaning the legislation to govern, govern man.
But we've made the church religious.
We made Jesus a religious idol. We only want to see His Savior
attributes and do not want to talk about His kingship.
It goes on to say that the that to Christians we have been
accustomed by the word, the use of the word comforter, to
associate the Spirit only with gentle, consoling influences of
heaven. It may seem strange to find his
energy identified with the stern rigor of the magistrate.
We want Him to comfort us when we're in trouble.
In fact, someone texted me before I came up on the platform
and said this. Some people only seek God during
calamity. God wants us to seek Him during
all times of life. And that's true.
Why? Because we want the comforter
instead of Lord. Give me wisdom and intellect.
Give me knowledge and insight. Give me things even in the
natural so that I can I can confound the wise and their
teaching and their dark sayings that come from other spirits.
Let us rise above all. This is why Daniel rose.
This is why Mordecai rose. This is why Joseph rose to
prominence, because they didn't deny the intellect.
I mean, again, some of you in business you are not at a
disadvantage if you'll quit looking at the Holy Ghost only
as a comforter, but begin seeking Him through the
intellectual side. But it is pract.
But in its practical, intelligent, and reasonable use,
this doctrine is greatly to be preferred, on grounds both of
Scripture and common sense, to the two comparatively modern
corruptions of it, one of which emphasizes the Spirit's
influence in the exclusive operation of the grace of
orders, and the other, driving to a opposite extreme,
dissipates it into the vaguest religiosity.
Oh, well, I don't know what the Lord wants to do.
His ways are higher than our ways.
His thoughts are higher than our thoughts.
You know how many believers say that they get to an end?
Well, you know, they just want Lord's will to be done because,
you know, we don't know. Well, the Bible says you have
the mind of Christ. New Testament.
But religious people use this all the time.
But you know, I know where I'm going to go when I die.
And when you start talking to them about the Holy Ghost, do
more, they get offended. I mean, I've never seen such
people want to stay dumb. It's amazing to me how quick a
person lost dead in their trespasses of sin and know that
they're going to be eternally judged, full of guilt and shame,
see the love of God on the cross and what he paid to change their
lives and to redeem them from the wrongdoing and will give
them life and life eternal. Except that and then immediately
tell the Holy Ghost. Don't talk to me, don't tell me
anything else. All I care about is I know where
I'm going to go and I die and any other changing on my mind is
irrelevant. I've never seen a new creature
become so passionate to stay ignorant, and that's a miserable
thing. I said That's a miserable thing.
But it says one of the curiosities of Christian
theology, that a divine influence asserted by Scripture
and believed by the early Church is manifest to manifest itself
in the successful conduct of civil offices.
And the fullness of intellectual learning should in these latter
days be so often set in a sort of supernatural opposition to
practical wisdom and the result of science.
In essence, the minute you start talking about having your mind
changed and renewed and you can become wise, smart, intelligent,
far above even academically, a resistance happens because we've
accepted Savior theology and not Kingdom Lordship.
Are you hearing me? OK, so with that being said,
let's look at the last three spirits of the Lord here.
It's the spirit of counsel, the spirit of strength, and the
spirit of knowledge. If you weren't here for any of
the other ones, you can go online.
We have those available for you. They are very powerful and you
should go back. In fact, everyone of you should
read it our to be a lot larger than the numbers we have.
Listen, YouTube's going to suppress us anyway because
they're going to try to keep us out of their algorithm so that
we do not get traffic. I mean we ought to at least be
going back and listening. You know some of y'all are
listening to other ministers and don't even re listen to your own
pastor who's feeding you. You'll give me an Amen in
service, but then you won't go back.
Go through it again and listen to it again so you can actually
get it in your spirit and begin to walk in it.
You'll go listen to somebody else.
So you know, we should. Be the most trafficked viewing
that you have because God assigns you here and the things
I minister are to grow you in the things of God and you need
to go more than three seconds. Hallelujah, Amen.
We release an Anchor Faith Church worship moment, which
we're fixing to release one for our new song Holy.
Those things will hit the thousands easy.
Oh, don't. Just just shout Amen.
Just shout it again. I mean, we'll listen to a song
in repetition, which is why we have to make sure we sing them
right. But we will not wear out.
A sermon. We need to be wearing out some.
Sermons and we need to wear out the sermon that's feeding you in
your house. Hallelujah.
Then if it's changed you so much, why do I not see you
posting it on social media and trying to get it influenced to
your friends? Now I don't follow all of you.
Because I don't have time to go check all your stuff, right?
To go make sure that I'm following everybody.
No, I'm that's not my purpose. However, if you are following
Anchor Bay Church and a real comes out, it should be
something you've sent. I don't understand how.
People can call something theirs and then are resistant to it at
the same time. Oh, that's such a good word,
Pastor. Well, then tell somebody about
it. Send it out.
Brag on it, tell them how much they need to hear it.
Because you're not promoting me, you're promoting the word being
preached. Hallelujah.
I don't need promotion. I was promoted the day I said,
yes, Lord, I'll serve you. I mean, the King knows my name.
He knows my name. I mean, I don't care who knows
me. God knows me.
I'm known. I am known by Jesus.
I'm so glad I'm known by Jesus. Counsel.
In Proverbs 15 it says this. A wise man will hear an increase
in learning, and a man of understanding will acquire wise
counsel. OK, I do not have time.
Listen, if you just take a word study, meaning you go to one of
these Bible apps that you have or you get a paper book Bible
that has a concordance that's great.
And you look up this one word, there's going to be tons of
scripture that's going to have this word counsel.
Or it could be some translations use other terms, but we're
staying with counsel through the new American Standard.
And if you look at that, there's tons, there's plenty of
scripture that I will not be able to get into that.
Those who resist counsel, what devastating effects take place?
OK. We're just trying to stay
focused on the things that are positive.
And it says this in the definition of this word.
Counsel means the gift of forming right conclusions.
In essence, the spirit of counsel means that the Spirit or
the Holy Spirit is the one qualified to give advice.
Now let me help you. Jesus said I do not say anything
on my own. I only say what I.
And he was baptized by the Holy Spirit.
He had the Spirit upon him without measure rested on him,
which means everything he heard by the Spirit of counsel
qualified him to give the correct advice and.
We have many. Things where they would bring a
woman caught in adultery. But he had.
The counsel. Right, he can get in A room.
And say your sins are forgiven and then talk to the negative
crowd and give the right counsel.
Then he can also be in a situation where they will attack
him about his authority and he'll have the right counsel by
asking another question that they that he knows they won't
answer. And when they don't answer, he
said, well, if you won't answer mine, I'm not going to answer
yours because now I. Have to prove to you.
That I'm wiser than you. Amen.
Which tells me if you're giving advice.
Did it originate from the? Holy Ghost, because some of you
your lips flap way too fast. We are in a society.
That we love to offer our opinion on the matter and have
multiple platforms to do so. We want to make sure everyone
knows our thoughts on the subject, yet we have not even
consulted with the Holy Ghost about it.
And the church honestly sometimes is the worst because
you know you're limited in your information, yet you will talk
as if you were in the room with everyone present.
Which means anything you're saying.
About a situation, you are not in the room with everyone
present. You're not actually qualified to
talk about it. And I've been in that situation.
Someone come and talk to me about something going on with
someone. You know what my counsel is?
Let's talk about you because I can give you wise counsel on how
you deal with you. Because what you and I and I
will usually say it this way. If everything you are telling me
if the other person was here is correct, this is your response.
Because the word says it's not my opinion in the matter.
But I preface if. And I'll tell them because you
know, they're not here. I'm not talking to.
Them about what you're saying there is their side.
But don't come to me and. Expect me to jump on 100% of
your side. It's never going to happen now
I. Can get on 100.
Percent. I'm always on 100% side.
It's called righteousness. It's the word.
That's where I'm at always, period.
That's where I stay. Amen.
And anyone else says other, they're a liar.
All right. Psalms, 3311.
The counsel of the Lord stands forever the plans of his heart
from generation to generation. He is the only one.
Who actually has the right intuition?
And when he's this, he is the counselor.
I mean, we say counsel. We're talking like from a a
legal term. This is what a lawyer is in our
modern vernacular. What you need to go and list a
counselor or a lawyer. You need someone who is well
acquainted with the law. There's a particular.
Situation concerning them all that I needed to seek legal
counsel and so they went to look up what could be done.
And so they say in this case, Pastor Earl, you would actually
need to sue them or take them to court.
In essence, you're saying court. We need you to render a decision
on this matter. But based upon case.
Law. I cannot tell you today that
they will emphatically rule in your favor.
I can argue this case for you, but I could equally argue it for
them. So I knew going in it's a 5050
shot. So for me, guess what, I do take
a step back in the spirit and say, do you want me to pursue
this? Because if you know the judgment
the judge will render and it's for me, then I'll go forward.
Now he's not answered me. On that.
So you know what I'm doing now? Nothing I don't have to pursue.
But the Lord, He knows. His word, He knows.
It inside. And out.
And he's the one who renders right judgment.
Now why is this? Important because the Bible says
that. Do you not know that you will
judge angels? Welcome.
Just so you know. Welcome to the millennial reign.
Attorneys at large. This is who we are.
We will judge angels. But here's the thing.
Because I do not have on my office wall.
A piece of paper. That has proves that I have
passed the Florida Bar Association and I can legally
function as a natural lawyer. When I render judgments from the
word, believers do not take it as final.
Though in some cases I'm like I. Don't even want to meet with you
anymore because you don't treat us as the judge to render the
case final according to the word.
But this is the spirit we actually.
Have this the whole There's a whole scripture where God says
St. Is taking St.
To court shouldn't even be yet what?
Happens when. Saints get underneath the
leadership of the church that that is their task.
Come on, help me. Moses was tasked to render what
judgment? Then he gave it to 70 because
his father-in-law says, son, your office is full.
You have way too many clients. I mean, you going to be wore out
here, son, because what would Moses do?
I mean, I wish that I could walk out and the glory of God was
shine on my face. So you would take my counsel,
but it's on the inside of me. It's not glowing, but it's there
nonetheless. And if you were actually
listening to the spirit of counsel in your spirit, then you
would know what I said was according to God, and you would
change your thinking and crucify your emotions and flesh.
Because this is not about me. Being right, you being right,
the Lord is right, He's right, and that's what we're seeking
so. Moses.
Gives it to 70 and he says you can take care of these cases,
but anything further comes to the Supreme Court.
Hallelujah. And here we have dispute settled
in the New Covenant. We have dispute settled.
They had this issue with feeding Hellenistic Jews widows.
And what did they Did they go to the court of law?
No, they went to the apostles, and they rendered a final
judgment. Because we have a spirit of.
But what do we want To be comforted?
We don't want the. Rigors of the Magistrate.
I can't tell you how many times my.
Staff's come to me about situation.
I said, well, I don't care. I don't know enough about it.
I just don't talk to me. You're getting too emotionally
attached to this. Shut it down.
I've told them more than one time, I understand, but I'm not
moved by anything. But I'll hear the Lord, and then
I'll move. Because I need.
Real counsel I need the advocate.
Are you hearing? Me.
All right, let me. Drive on Proverbs 1921 says this
many plans are in the man's heart, but the counsel of the
Lord will will stand the counsel of the Lord will stand the
counsel of the Lord will stand and this what this tells me with
this next verse look go ahead and let's look at Ephesians
chapter one verse 11. It says also we have obtained an
inheritance, having been predestined according to his
purpose, who works all things after the counsel of his will.
That tells me that. Everyone in this room.
Anyone listening online? When the true.
Holy Spirit, counsel comes on your situation, you know.
That it was thus saith the Lord. And that doesn't mean you
follow, but you know, and in the words of my wife on Wednesday
night, the struggle's real. There's a real struggle with
your. Emotions because again, most of
us come to Council. Because there's a way that
seems. Right to you.
Because a lot of times we are. Judging situations with
inaccurate information or steeped in personal emotions.
And the worst is selfish ambition.
And it exists because Paul talked about them.
I can only send you Timothy. The rest of these man, they seek
their own interest. And the person who seeks their
own interest will not receive counsel from God because they
only want one Counsel what? They want their interest, not
God's, and they will not hear it.
They will not hear it and they will cuss God and his
messengers. I mean like literally cuss and
yet stand in the service and praise Hallelujah.
So this, the Holy Spirit's a big deal.
That's why I love that the Lord spoke to me about you're going
to deal with the seven spirits this year because again, we've
come to a customer, we're too comfortable with the comforter
when the Holy Ghost has way more assigned to him.
In fact, his first assignment is to.
Retain your thinking. Get your intellect to think like
a king and function like God to get sound judgement, because his
counsel stands forever. And again, I don't have time to
go through the negatives of those who resist it.
Because there's plenty in. Scripture that those that are
undisciplined or do not like the discipline of the Lord will will
refute or or resist his counsel, which tells us they know what
he's saying, but they will not yield because it says they don't
want the discipline of the they they being they are being
corrected. They're being corrected.
And again, it's not a negative, it's God saying I love you so
much that that thinking is not of God.
It's not my thinking. It's not how I live.
It's not how life produces it. It's not the way we flow and
move and function. It's not how the Kingdom is.
You're going to be tainted. In essence, what did God say
concerning people who received bribes as judges?
It clouded their judgment. It clouded their judgment.
And as a result of clouded judgment, they would render
final says with personal pursuits.
And let me tell you, the Lord records those cases.
He's recording every case. Be honest with you.
He's recording them all because every case is going to come
before the Supreme Court. Every case.
What do you think the FEMA seat is?
You're going before the bar. It's not about whether you go to
heaven or not, it's about what were the decisions you were
making on my behalf in the earth.
The spirit of counsel is real deal.
Amen. And everyone of us have access
and all of us can know and he does talk to us.
This is really. Not a God talking.
Problem. It's a US listening problem.
That's why I said be quick to slow to.
He did that one first. Why?
Because your mouth is releasing what you know, not what he
knows. Your mouth is you trying to
convince God to do it your way and not His way, and He will not
do it your way. He'll let you do it your way.
But then you'll get your result, and your right is death, his
right is life. The next one is the spirit of.
Strength. One translation calls it the
Spirit of Might, Psalm 3739. But the the salvation of the
righteous is from the Lord. He is their strength in the time
of trouble. Man is he your strength?
Aren't you glad for strength? Strength or might by definition
means this, the ability to carry out counsel with energy.
That's pretty impressive that we need to have that thought before
I move to the next. Because that means the minute
you hear God's counsel on it, you will be strengthened to
stand in it and nothing will be able to stop His counsel.
You'll have the strength to pursue.
I love what Stacey said today when she had that unction by the
Spirit of God got talking to her this week concerning what we
were going to be singing and that she says, listen, I get it.
Sometimes I even struggle. Meaning I have a thought
sometimes, am I really as good I can take on my mistakes more
than what God says about me and that's reality.
But what does she conclude I'll get rid of that thought because
I'm going to take the counsel of God.
The Spirit of counsel has told me I am the righteousness of
God. I didn't cry.
I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
I am destined by God. I'm a child of the king.
And she stands on that. It gives her the energy and the
strength to stay in that position.
Yeah, that's what that means. You know, Pastor Marcy's been
blessing the socks off of you on Wednesday night, letting you
know the things that we stood in in faith because you know you.
Come to this. Conclusion at this point where
we're at, where the ministry is and the blessings that God has
done on us in our lives because of our faithfulness to his word
and you can conclude that we it's just been a walk in a park
for us. But but it's not been a walk in
the park. It has been a walk in the park
after I knew what he said because once I knew what he
said, then I had the strength to go through.
I could come to this property for five straight years and say
thank you Lord for 2121 US One South and not be moved.
I have the strength to carry out the command.
This place is yours. I had the strength that when.
The first house we ever bought over office Segovia and the Lord
told my wife, this is it. I agreed.
We got an agreement and we went to buy the house and people were
denying us a mortgage because I hadn't been here that long,
although my field of work had been for years.
You know, I understand the banks don't like pastors anyway
because the world doesn't like pastors anyway.
With that being said, we would get letters saying or in
ministries, you know, here you go, you're denied, you're
denied, you're denied, right. So my statement of faith was
tearing a Bush out that belonged to another man at the time
because I was renting this house, but I was in faith saying
I've heard from the Lord, I have gotten counsel we are going to
have this house and by faith I'm ripping this thing out now.
And I did. And it's still not there today
because the roots were gone. I mean, I snatched it out and.
Threw it. Right now I.
Wasn't throwing it at my wife, I was.
Throwing it at the devil. Letting.
Him know you're a liar. All your words mean nothing to
me. I've had the counsel of God and
his counsel stands. And we bought the house, lived
there for 13 years. Right and the.
Person who helped me get the loan later on, I gave that
particular lead or that person's name to another person, said
man, this person was the easiest person to work with.
You know that they said that their, you know, you know,
father was, you know, in ministry too.
And, and man, that was so easy. I mean, I had hardly any work to
do. And anytime I got a denial and
went, they said, don't worry about it, we've got this, you
will have it. And when I sent it to this other
person, they called them up, asked for them by name.
They said nobody at that by that name has ever worked here.
So the Lord was involved in my. Process.
Hallelujah. I said, are you hear what I'm
saying? Glory to God.
So it gives us the ability to carry out his word.
You get strengthened. This is why we, in the words of
Pastor Hagen, I will not, I cannot be defeated and I will
not quit because I have the I have the final judgment on this
thing. The spirit of counsel has spoken
to me. It also means the strength of
heart and purpose which enables a man to meet difficulties, to
encounter danger, to be bold, open and fearless in the
discharge of His duties. Jesus was all that He did not
question who He was. He knew who He was.
The only time He questioned was going to the cross in the
garden. And again, I've already let you
know the only reason He questioned that is not because
He was not willing, is that He wanted to know, is there a ram
in the thicket? Because you wanted Abraham to
kill his promised child. And when he got up there with
all intentions to do it, and you knew he was going to do it, you
stopped the action and you had another way.
And Abraham did not know there was another way.
So I'm asking you, Isaac did not know there was another way.
Is there another way? And the Lord said, son, there's
not another way. So Abraham, trying to be like
the father, believed God must be able to raise the dead.
God knows I'm able to raise the dead, Son.
I've told you in three days I'll come get you.
Hallelujah. And did he get him?
I said, did he get him praise? The Lord.
All right, Psalms. 28 seven, says the Lord is my strength and
my shield my heart. Trust in Him, and I am helped.
Therefore my heart exalts, and with my song I shall thank Him.
Now again, the strength is not so that you can go through
difficulty alone, though you can experience difficulty.
Because when God renders final judgment, make no mistake about
it, the enemy will attack that judgment, that counsel.
Moses went to the king Pharaoh himself and said God has
rendered counsel. Let my people go.
And the very next response. After he sent him off says let's
do an action that will work will cause all the people that Moses
has gone to and told this that his words are actually a lie and
it can't come to pass and made their lives more difficult.
And when everyone then concluded that, Moses, you're a jerk and
we hate that you came and now it's worse, you should pack your
bags and go back across the river and leave us.
He had the strength, the spirit of strength, the spirit of might
to finish the course, and he brought them out of Egypt.
Say Amen. Psalms 147 five Great is our
Lord, and abundant in strength. His understanding is infinite.
This is why it's perplexing to me that a believer quits.
That a believer quit church. Quit reading the Bible.
Quit praying in the Spirit. It blows my mind.
Because they have the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of strength.
You understand the Spirit of God will strengthen you to get up
out of your bed and get you in church.
He will bring His counsel of not forsaking the assembling of
yourself together so that you can get up and come.
He will give you the strength to serve, since He's called you to
serve one another. Well, you know, I've served the
church. For 10 years, you know I'm going
to retire. I don't have any more strength.
So you lost the Holy Ghost? I mean, I don't know.
How a believer when someone comes and asks them, hey, we
have a need, can you do this? Say Nah.
The first response it should. Be you know what, I will take it
under consideration. I mean, I understand not
everybody can do everything, but sometimes when there's a need
and we happen to hit a deficit in an area because of whatever
the case may be, we need a next man up.
And when it's time for the next man.
Up next woman up then you need to dig deep, get the spirit of
strength on you and say, you know what, I'm not called to it.
I understand this is not, but at this point because it's
necessary, I'll trust God He'll strengthen me to be at A7 in the
gap for this time period. Amen.
I mean, that's like second string quarterback sitting on
the bench, the first string goes down and they say you're going
in. I'm no, no.
You mean though you know I? Haven't got enough snaps.
In fact, if if you cared so much about me, I'd already be first.
You really don't value me anyway, boy.
I mean you know how many people are not serving a church right
now because they don't think they're valued?
You don't know who you are because God values you.
Your if your values coming from me.
That's the problem. You're a self seeker and there's
way more evil going on than what you want to believe.
I'm just saying man, when when someone goes down and you have a
talent OR ability, you should say man, here I am coach put me
in. It may not be long term, but I'm
here to serve during and. Then believe with us.
To get your replacement. Hallelujah.
So that's what strength will do. Ephesians 10/6 says this.
Finally, be strong in the Lord and the strength of His might,
which tells us no believer should be quitting because even
the Bible declares when I'm weak, he makes me strong.
So if you're still weak, you're resisting the one who makes you
strong. And one way that you may be.
Resisting him is that you're not praying in the Spirit enough,
building up your most holy faith so that you can get the joy of
the Lord, which is your the reason why many believers aren't
doing anything today because they have no joy.
They quit listening. To the magistrate, they said you
need to get a smile on your face.
You need to smile. You need to laugh a little bit.
You need to quit having the spirit of heaviness.
You know, let. Me slap you with.
All the gladness a little bit, right?
Can I? Can I just now?
Here's the thing. There are.
Some churches that think the Holy Ghost only moves when
people are laughing. And all they're doing is waiting
for that. Service so everybody can just
start laughing and go around and hit this person and they laugh
and hit that person and they laugh and hit that person.
You know, sometimes I'm like in some people's ministry, I'm
like, my gosh, they go to some of the weakest people ever that
they've constantly have to get them.
Enjoy. I told you I'm not.
I'm not like. Pastor, you know, people just
eat things. I'm like, how come every time
you're with a group that's supposed to be the most
spiritual all? We do is fall on the.
Floor and laugh all the time. Do you really believe that When?
Jesus walked the planet that his disciples were rolling around
laughing all the time. And I'm not against laughing
and. Rolling and having fun.
I mean I have rolled with the best.
I've laughed. I mean I'm a person who will get
in. I'll get in not feeling nothing,
jumping. I'll go test the waters people.
I mean I'm the Brother Hagin. I jumped off in the flesh, which
mean I by faith. That doesn't mean when Brother
Hagin said I jumped off in the flesh and I landed in the spirit
that he was being fleshly to do something fleshly.
What he was saying is I sensed in my spirit, but I didn't feel
it. It wasn't tangible, the
anointing. But when I jumped off, the
anointing hit me. And that becomes an actual
feeling because when the anointing gets on you to that
kind of measure, you get it, You know, it's different.
I. Get that and I'll.
And I'll ask we laughing today because if we are, I'm in it
but. If this is just because.
People are making the minister move.
And they're performing. Well, maybe I'm not.
Now Pastor Lynette Hagan. Taught us a lesson back in the
backroom, she said. Now you'll notice if I don't.
Think that they're flowing with. The Spirit, right?
I'll just stay seated. Whoo I'm.
Going to tell you right now, if I'm at Raymond, one of those
services and I'm getting a little check myself, I start to
eyeball what's Pastor Lynette doing right now because I've
never seen a couple in more integrity of wanting a true
authentic move of the Spirit. And Pastor Hagen and his wife,
Pastor Lynette? I've never seen one better.
Pastor Hagen. God love him, every year has to
come up to the platform and let them know that the services
should be different. They're probably going to be
different. And please do not associate one
style as the only way God moves. And I'm like, man, these are
Ramaphobe. Why are we having to explain so
much? Hallelujah.
All right, that's my little side note.
Let's go on so we can finish. The last one is knowledge.
Proverbs 17 says this. The fear of the Lord is the
beginning of knowledge. Bulls despise wisdom and
instruction. Well now we have 3, you know
four of them right there in this one sentence.
We have the spirit of the fear of the Lord, the spirit of
knowledge, the spirit of wisdom, the spirit of instruction, right
of counsel. OK, so we have this in this
passage. Now the fear of the Lord's a big
deal, because what does fear of the Lord does?
The fear of the Lord will cause you to yield.
First of all, when you have the spirit of the Lord, which means
you're supreme and authority, and I am not going to tell you
what to do, then you have the fear of the Lord.
I do not want to do anything to displease you.
Everything sandwiched in between becomes easy to yield to.
And then you're not actually. Manipulated either.
Are you hearing me OK? Knowledge is founded on the
fellowship of love. Very important.
OK, this is not. And when we say knowledge, we're
not talking facts. We're talking knowledge of the
attributes and plans. That's the mind and will of God
the Father. And we're talking knowledge.
Really, it's like what Paul said in the book of Philippians
chapter 3. He said I want to know him.
So these are not. Trivia.
Trivia knowledge, this is not, you know, what were the three
people in that were thrown into fiery furnace?
What were their names? What were their Hebrew names?
Did Adam have a belly button? Right.
OK, we're not talking about knowledge that way.
We're talking about knowing him. In fact, this word I want to
know him has this definition sexual intercourse between a man
and wife, which means intimacy. So.
Paul. Was saying I want to know him
intimately. I want to know how he thinks,
how he functions, how he moves, what he's thinking, how he's
acting, how he responds. I want to know his character so.
We're talking about the knowledge of God.
This. Is what we're talking about.
We're not talking about a set of facts that you, the religious,
can shoot off at the mouth about.
We're talking about knowing him. Proverbs 810 says this.
Take my instruction and not silver and knowledge rather than
choice gold. This is why I said, look, so
many people are pursuing Mammon, but they don't even know who I
am. Again, all of.
US can go to a football game, and if anyone went to
Gainesville and watch that game that was a Gator fan, they left
sorely depressed. In fact, it.
Was so bad if I had still if I still had a Florida Gator tag on
my vehicle I would have ripped it off and drove here illegally.
That's how. Embarrassing, that was.
OK, that's how embarrassing that it is, coach hunting season for
the University of Florida. All right, with that being said,
don't get upset if that's a problem, you can come repent
later because I was born. In Gainesville.
You know, I used to bleed orange and blue.
I don't anymore because I'm I'm not a follower nor am I even a
fan. I'm just a casual acquaintance
and I will not express emotional energy at horrible play.
OK, so with that. Being said.
We pursue things. Are you hearing me?
We pursue things, yet the Lord's like come know me.
You know how many hours we will chase money and work for money
but will not do the same to know him?
And here's the thing, it's not a equal amount.
If I do 8 hours of work, I got to do 8 hours trying to seek God
for it to equate the same. That's not how it works.
When you go after God you can get things in a blip of a second
and download more than you could have done working 5 jobs 1000
hours a week. Which is impossible.
But you understand what I'm saying.
OK, Proverbs 12/1. Whoever loves discipline loves
knowledge. But the one who hates where
proof. Is is what you said it.
I didn't but. Actually, you didn't say it.
Who? Said it, the Lord said.
Are you calling me stupid? No, God is.
God is. Which?
Means if I meet with you. And I say you're stupid right
now. I could be speaking the voice.
Of God now you won't give the right counsel when you leave.
Patrick called me stupid, you know He called me stupid.
Did you call them stupid? I called them stupid.
You know why? Because they hated reproof.
I gave them solid. Counsel by the spirit of
counsel. And they hated the reproof.
Say Amen anyway. Hallelujah.
OK, that was good. Who said anyway?
Do you? Every time you're.
Literal Oh you're such a sweet guy.
Though whoever loves. Discipline loves.
Loves what? Which tells us this.
If you do not love discipline, guess what?
You're not receiving. You're not intimate with Him
because you can't be intimate with God without discipline
coming. What did the father say to?
Abraham, he said. Look.
Or to Moses, No one has ever seen me.
You came. See me?
You're going to die. What I'm going to do is I'm
going to put you in the cleft of this rock, right?
And then I'm going to pass by and see my back parts, OK?
Because he like, show me your glory, Lord, he said.
Bro, Nah, Nah. You get get close to me.
So much correction be going on in you.
You die. You know, this is really why
people have a. Hard time with a real church,
the church Jesus is building, you know it's.
Easy to go to a church that won't.
Ever correct you, but again, if you're really going to be in the
presence of God. Corrections coming.
You know. And at least the Army.
Convinced us make it hurt, drill Sergeant, make it hurt, right.
What's you know in my confession was like no leave me alone let
me get up right now you know and when we first started they'd be
down doing push ups, I'd be down put on push ups and they would
smoke us. They said you can't smoke a
rock, can't smoke a rock, can't smoke.
Come on how many of my army guys are here?
Stand up, can't smoke a rock, can't smoke a rock right stand
up. I said stand up.
Y'all knew how to take orders at one time apparently right?
How many times you like now you know as well as I do.
At the end of basic they started to trick us and they put 1 drill
Sergeant down and you're like oh here we go bro, I'm going to
smoke the rock because I got it in me right?
And then he would get up or she well if you were in the female,
you know, platoon I didn't have in AIT I had a female but I
didn't have one in basic anyway. Then they would throw the other
guy in who's fresh that would start.
Can't smoke around. I'm like, if you'd have been
down 60 push ups earlier, we'd be having another conversation
as I'm at 8085 now, still trying to pursue knocking you out.
Right? All right, don't be seated.
But we got stronger as we. Went Amen, but you had to like
discipline and it made. You intimate.
With the one who was bringing you the discipline.
Ephesians 117 says this that I that the God of our Lord Jesus
Christ, the Father of glory may give to you the spirit of what
we've talked about that one and of revelation in what the
knowledge of the knowledge of him man we need to know him.
I said we need to know him. Philippians 19 says it this way
and this. I pray that your love may abound
still more and more in in what real knowledge and in all
discernment that can, that implies there can be not real
knowledge. Really, it would just be trivia.
It would be like having a baseball card and you know the
facts. You know this player did this,
that and the other, but you don't know them.
They've never seen your face. You're wearing all their
apparel. You go to the game, you think
you would be that person's twin, but they don't even know you
exist. And you may have seen them face
to. Face and they may have said hey
to you, and they may have given you an autograph, but you don't
know them. And this is how we treat the
Lord. We want to get in His presence,
watch his game, but yet He doesn't know us.
But we really don't want to know.
Now He knows us, but we don't want to know Him.
Colossians 110 says so that you may walk in a manner what we're
the other Lord to please him in all respect, bearing fruit in
every good work, increasing, say increasing in the knowledge of
God. Man, we need to increase in
God's knowledge. Hallelujah.
And guess what? We have the Spirit of knowledge.
That means God has given us His Spirit that will let us become
intimate with Him. But we have to spend.
Time. You know I said this before our
last verse is John 1526, but you know that I said this before the
Lord spoke to me one time and he said, Son, if you spend as much
time with your wife as you do with me, you wouldn't be married
very long. I go to church.
I knew some things about God. But I wasn't with him and.
Again, it's not hour. For hour, minute, for minute,
but. When I'm with my wife, I want to
be with. My wife.
I want to cultivate the relationship.
I want to know her. I want to know everything about
her. And I can tell you stuff.
That I'm not, because I tell you too much now as it is.
But we should have even more knowledge of the.
Father in heaven and when you do.
Know him that way, how can you ever abandoned him?
How can he be like I'm? Not whatever you're like.
Running to be in his. Presence running to be in
fellowship. Last verse of John 1526.
Worship team, would you come? Now I'm going to say this
because. Jesus introduced the Holy Spirit
and this one phrase sums up the seven spirits of God and.
When the helper comes. Whom I will send to you from the
Father, that is the. Spirit of Truth.
You understand the Spirit of Truth is the sum total of all
seven of those spirits. When the Holy Spirit comes, he.
Is truth. He is truth.
He will proceed from the Father, and he will what testify about
me. He is the spirit of intellect.
He's here to renew your mind. He's here to change your
thinking. He's here to tell you that's not
right. You're not that person.
This is who you are and this is what you can do.
And he's waiting for you to say. Yes, Lord.
I'll accept that.