1 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:14,480 Thanks for checking out the Anchor Faith Message podcast 2 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:15,880 from St. Augustine, FL. 3 00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:23,680 Now enjoy this message. Thank you, Jesus. 4 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:27,000 First MD Chapter 4. Amen. 5 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:29,720 Y'all doing all right. Everybody doing good. 6 00:00:30,410 --> 00:00:32,810 Praise the Lord. And I'm telling you, I'm just 7 00:00:32,810 --> 00:00:35,450 blessed by, you know, who's still at the altar right now, 8 00:00:35,450 --> 00:00:38,090 just letting God minister them. This is what I'm talking about. 9 00:00:39,490 --> 00:00:41,650 I mean, here, God is ministering to someone. 10 00:00:42,970 --> 00:00:45,090 And you know what? They're not impeded and. 11 00:00:45,090 --> 00:00:49,130 Neither is it. The distraction, because God can 12 00:00:49,130 --> 00:00:53,250 do these things so that things flow in a way and it doesn't 13 00:00:53,250 --> 00:00:54,970 detract from one thing or the other. 14 00:00:56,130 --> 00:00:57,690 I'm telling you, it's amazing stuff. 15 00:00:58,460 --> 00:00:59,980 Hallelujah, First Empty, Chapter 4. 16 00:00:59,980 --> 00:01:04,540 This will be the last message in this particular series that will 17 00:01:04,540 --> 00:01:07,540 minister on this. We've given you enough ammo to 18 00:01:07,540 --> 00:01:10,540 arm yourself until the next time the Lord needs us to bring it 19 00:01:10,540 --> 00:01:12,540 up. But in First Timothy Chapter 4, 20 00:01:12,540 --> 00:01:16,780 verse one through one and two, the Passion translation says the 21 00:01:17,140 --> 00:01:19,660 Holy Spirit is explicitly revealed. 22 00:01:19,660 --> 00:01:23,860 At the end of the age, many will depart from the true faith one 23 00:01:23,860 --> 00:01:27,800 after another. Devoting themselves to spirits 24 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:30,600 of deception and following demon inspired revelations. 25 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:34,240 In theory, hypocritical liars will deceive many and their 26 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:36,520 conscience won't bother them at all. 27 00:01:37,320 --> 00:01:41,760 Are you hearing me? So the spirit of God says this 28 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:44,200 is going to happen. You can't stop it. 29 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:46,760 It's going to take place, period. 30 00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:49,680 I said it's going to take place period. 31 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:53,920 So you can't pray this away. You can't pray a revival in that 32 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:56,750 will stop this. This is going to happen. 33 00:01:57,470 --> 00:01:59,630 Are you hearing me? And what will happen? 34 00:01:59,630 --> 00:02:06,550 Many, not a few, Many will depart from the true faith, 35 00:02:06,790 --> 00:02:09,710 Meaning they were solid. Believe God. 36 00:02:09,830 --> 00:02:13,470 There was a time that they were allowing God to transform them. 37 00:02:14,410 --> 00:02:18,410 They were allowing God's word to to permeate every aspect of 38 00:02:18,410 --> 00:02:19,930 their being. And when I say that you 39 00:02:19,930 --> 00:02:23,970 understand there there are a lot of doctrines that only deal with 40 00:02:23,970 --> 00:02:29,930 the spirit of the man. Although we know the Bible talks 41 00:02:29,930 --> 00:02:32,810 about that we are to be blameless. 42 00:02:32,810 --> 00:02:35,050 Paul wrote this in the Thessalonian letter. 43 00:02:35,050 --> 00:02:39,130 He said that our spirit, soul and body are to remain blameless 44 00:02:40,610 --> 00:02:43,730 and so. What we could not do in the 45 00:02:43,730 --> 00:02:53,650 spirit Christ did for us, cause our spirit was dead, separated 46 00:02:53,650 --> 00:02:56,370 from God. Only Christ could pay a price 47 00:02:56,610 --> 00:03:01,890 that would cause the old rebellious spirit of man to die 48 00:03:01,890 --> 00:03:06,690 inside this skin suit that was attached to our will, emotion, 49 00:03:06,970 --> 00:03:12,240 our intellect and. And drive it out, calls it to 50 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:15,120 cease to not be inside us anymore. 51 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:18,720 When we call on the name of Jesus to be Lord of our lives, 52 00:03:18,920 --> 00:03:21,040 then he puts in us a new creature. 53 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:23,000 We become a new creature in Christ. 54 00:03:23,550 --> 00:03:26,270 The old passes away. Behold all things become new. 55 00:03:26,270 --> 00:03:29,670 We are a new creature in Christ and this spirit is in the 56 00:03:29,670 --> 00:03:34,310 righteousness of God. In Christ Christ is the King. 57 00:03:34,430 --> 00:03:39,470 So in essence your spirit man become comes alive and is like 58 00:03:39,630 --> 00:03:45,510 King Jesus himself. It's in right standing with God. 59 00:03:45,750 --> 00:03:50,710 It's nothing you did to get that to take place other than a 60 00:03:50,710 --> 00:03:52,550 confession of faith that Jesus is Lord. 61 00:03:53,540 --> 00:04:00,500 Repenting of your dead way of living and accepting the 62 00:04:00,500 --> 00:04:04,460 sacrifice of Jesus and he's now Lord of my life. 63 00:04:05,340 --> 00:04:09,540 So then we become born again. Our spirit man's alive. 64 00:04:09,580 --> 00:04:13,620 Then the Holy Spirit moves inside and bears witness with 65 00:04:13,620 --> 00:04:17,339 our. Spirit, His Holy Spirit, The 66 00:04:17,339 --> 00:04:20,660 third person of the Godhead bears witness with our spirit. 67 00:04:20,820 --> 00:04:23,220 That's not the old Spirit, but a new spirit. 68 00:04:23,530 --> 00:04:27,770 That's in Christ alive, that we are children of God, that we're 69 00:04:27,770 --> 00:04:31,490 in right standing with God. We are basically the DNA of God 70 00:04:31,490 --> 00:04:35,090 in the spirit. Now the problem is that will not 71 00:04:35,090 --> 00:04:38,850 manifest in the earth unless we renew our minds. 72 00:04:42,130 --> 00:04:45,410 Our minds have to change and Jesus let us know this was going 73 00:04:45,410 --> 00:04:47,850 to take place because he said repent. 74 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:50,680 For the Kingdom of heaven as a hand, the word repent means 75 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:53,520 change your thinking. It doesn't mean remove your old 76 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:56,240 spirit. I'm gonna say that again. 77 00:04:56,560 --> 00:04:59,680 Jesus didn't say you need a new spirit. 78 00:05:00,530 --> 00:05:04,570 For the Kingdom of God is at hand one time did he talk about 79 00:05:04,570 --> 00:05:07,210 this new spirit you would receive and that was about two 80 00:05:07,210 --> 00:05:09,650 or three o'clock in the morning And John, chapter 3. 81 00:05:09,850 --> 00:05:13,170 To a religious man by the name of Nicodemus that the for this 82 00:05:13,170 --> 00:05:15,530 thing for these things to really start functioning your life, 83 00:05:15,690 --> 00:05:18,050 you're going to have to be born from above is what that 84 00:05:18,050 --> 00:05:20,210 literally means. You're going to have to become a 85 00:05:20,210 --> 00:05:23,410 totally different person. The a totally different person 86 00:05:23,410 --> 00:05:25,970 needs to be carried on the inside of you. 87 00:05:26,490 --> 00:05:30,250 Now once that take place, then the renewing of the mind is 88 00:05:30,250 --> 00:05:34,770 available. Our Soul realm now has the 89 00:05:34,770 --> 00:05:38,170 ability we are to wash our mind with the word. 90 00:05:38,490 --> 00:05:42,490 So if anybody says you're being brainwashed, you said yes, I'm 91 00:05:42,490 --> 00:05:45,410 being washed with the word because everyone's being 92 00:05:45,410 --> 00:05:48,050 brainwashed. Just to let you know you're 93 00:05:48,050 --> 00:05:50,810 either being washed with the word or washed with the world. 94 00:05:51,330 --> 00:05:55,610 One or the other. One No one's holding their own 95 00:05:55,610 --> 00:05:58,130 thoughts. They're not a person on the 96 00:05:58,130 --> 00:06:01,810 planet that has a thought that's different or did not originate 97 00:06:01,810 --> 00:06:08,930 from God or the devil. So with that being said, then we 98 00:06:08,930 --> 00:06:13,050 are to renew our minds and we are to save our soul. 99 00:06:13,930 --> 00:06:19,140 Now that's our responsibility. But again, so many places want 100 00:06:19,140 --> 00:06:22,780 to focus only on what's happened in the to the spirit of the man. 101 00:06:22,980 --> 00:06:27,580 And they don't deal with the soul of man or the body of man, 102 00:06:29,580 --> 00:06:35,100 the body of man and Paul by auction of the Holy Ghost who 103 00:06:35,100 --> 00:06:38,300 had personal teaching from Jesus himself. 104 00:06:40,540 --> 00:06:44,140 So what Paul penned, Jesus actually said. 105 00:06:46,300 --> 00:06:50,220 I said what Paul penned is actually what Jesus said because 106 00:06:50,260 --> 00:06:53,260 Jesus himself personally gave him revelation. 107 00:06:55,260 --> 00:06:57,620 In essence, he's saying this is what I want you to write to my 108 00:06:57,620 --> 00:07:00,780 churches. So when Paul's writing these 109 00:07:00,780 --> 00:07:02,740 letters, these are not Paul's words. 110 00:07:04,020 --> 00:07:09,190 These are the Holy Ghost. Speaking to him and then through 111 00:07:09,310 --> 00:07:12,630 the teaching of Jesus himself. And you know Paul has been 112 00:07:12,630 --> 00:07:15,830 present before the Lord on on he's been had a personal 113 00:07:15,830 --> 00:07:18,110 encounter with Jesus on more than one occasion. 114 00:07:18,270 --> 00:07:22,230 We know on the road to Damascus he had a personal encounter with 115 00:07:22,270 --> 00:07:25,950 Jesus, heard his voice. He said it's it's Jesus, the one 116 00:07:25,950 --> 00:07:29,710 whom you persecuting. Then we know Paul said this I 117 00:07:29,710 --> 00:07:31,510 know a man whether in body or out of body. 118 00:07:32,870 --> 00:07:34,070 Who's called up to the 3rd heaven? 119 00:07:34,070 --> 00:07:36,750 Well, who is that man? It was him. 120 00:07:37,510 --> 00:07:42,350 He was that man okay and he was called up to the and he heard 121 00:07:42,350 --> 00:07:48,070 things unspeakable. But we also know that he was 122 00:07:48,070 --> 00:07:51,230 pulled away for a time, 14 years that he took time and was 123 00:07:51,230 --> 00:07:54,060 trained in. And he came and ended up talking 124 00:07:54,060 --> 00:07:56,900 to what the pillars of the church, Peter being won about 125 00:07:56,900 --> 00:07:59,780 these revelations. And they were like, that sounds 126 00:07:59,780 --> 00:08:01,580 like the king, that sounds like Jesus. 127 00:08:01,580 --> 00:08:03,260 That's exactly what Jesus would say. 128 00:08:04,100 --> 00:08:07,460 So when we read his letters, you might as well say Jesus said it, 129 00:08:08,620 --> 00:08:11,780 because Jesus said it. Are you hearing me? 130 00:08:12,500 --> 00:08:15,300 And Paul is obviously talking to Timothy, who's pastoring a. 131 00:08:15,300 --> 00:08:17,700 Church. That, he says. 132 00:08:17,700 --> 00:08:19,420 I've already seen into the future. 133 00:08:20,060 --> 00:08:21,900 In essence, he's been in our time. 134 00:08:22,490 --> 00:08:28,370 And he didn't live here. He in essence came to our time 135 00:08:28,370 --> 00:08:32,250 in the Spirit but didn't live here and said now this is what's 136 00:08:32,250 --> 00:08:35,730 going to happen, this is going to take place. 137 00:08:36,650 --> 00:08:39,850 I said this is going to take place, but he talks about 138 00:08:39,850 --> 00:08:42,289 getting your body together. Somebody talks to the Corinthian 139 00:08:42,289 --> 00:08:44,010 church, he says. How come you sleeping around 140 00:08:44,010 --> 00:08:46,930 with everybody? Don't you know that if you give 141 00:08:46,930 --> 00:08:50,250 your body to something this is a problem? 142 00:08:50,730 --> 00:08:52,290 Again, you got to keep your temple holy. 143 00:08:52,690 --> 00:08:58,010 So Paul dealt with the threefold nature of man, of which Jesus 144 00:08:58,010 --> 00:09:01,890 himself was restoring us to that the cool thing about our our 145 00:09:01,890 --> 00:09:05,130 soul realm is that we can get it so close to our spirit. 146 00:09:06,730 --> 00:09:09,410 Now our body is decaying, although we can work on that 147 00:09:09,410 --> 00:09:13,090 thing to be as healthy as it can prior to us departing, but we're 148 00:09:13,090 --> 00:09:16,770 never going to get on glorified body until either Jesus. 149 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:20,160 The trumpet sounds, and it happens here. 150 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:22,440 Other than that, it manifests at a different time. 151 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:25,520 Are you hearing me? But your mind can get really 152 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:28,560 mature. Your emotions can get really 153 00:09:28,560 --> 00:09:30,160 mature. What I mean by that, it has the 154 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:34,120 capacity to always yield with your spirit that's alive unto 155 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:36,000 God who's listening to the Holy Ghost. 156 00:09:36,920 --> 00:09:39,720 And it helps you live a life free. 157 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:43,840 From sin? From the entanglements of sin. 158 00:09:44,550 --> 00:09:45,990 Praise the Lord. Now what if I blow it? 159 00:09:45,990 --> 00:09:47,990 It's okay, you have an advocate with a father. 160 00:09:47,990 --> 00:09:51,270 Repent quickly. Change your thinking, ask God to 161 00:09:51,270 --> 00:09:54,350 forgive you, and then get up. Let's keep moving forward. 162 00:09:55,950 --> 00:09:58,710 Are you hearing me? And God is a merciful God. 163 00:09:59,190 --> 00:10:02,230 But unfortunately, because people are only dealing with 164 00:10:02,230 --> 00:10:05,310 well, my spirit man's right and they don't do anything with 165 00:10:05,310 --> 00:10:08,390 their soul and put their body into subjection. 166 00:10:08,950 --> 00:10:13,110 In essence, they live of a life that Paul actually corrected in 167 00:10:13,110 --> 00:10:15,110 the Corinthian letter. He says, man, I can't even talk 168 00:10:15,110 --> 00:10:18,230 to you as spiritual people. You're just carnal now. 169 00:10:18,230 --> 00:10:20,750 The word carnal means you're acting like mere men. 170 00:10:20,750 --> 00:10:23,750 I mean, when I talk to you, it's like I'm talking to the world. 171 00:10:24,230 --> 00:10:26,830 But you're actually in right standing with God. 172 00:10:27,070 --> 00:10:29,110 And don't just sit there and tell me you're in right standing 173 00:10:29,110 --> 00:10:31,590 with God. Because your behavior and your 174 00:10:31,590 --> 00:10:35,630 soul and your ability to take control of your body should be a 175 00:10:35,630 --> 00:10:39,470 manifestation of this new spiritual life that you have. 176 00:10:40,510 --> 00:10:44,390 But if we neglect those areas, especially the discipleship 177 00:10:44,390 --> 00:10:51,590 side, because God never called us to conversion, He called us 178 00:10:51,590 --> 00:10:54,670 to discipleship. Which means we have to become 179 00:10:54,670 --> 00:10:59,110 studiers of the Word. That's what keeps us living the 180 00:10:59,110 --> 00:11:03,070 life we are on the inside, and not cut our lives short nor 181 00:11:03,070 --> 00:11:07,830 forfeit our purposes. Amen again, this is not just 182 00:11:07,830 --> 00:11:10,790 about going to heaven. This is about the Kingdom 183 00:11:10,790 --> 00:11:14,550 manifesting through you today. Are you hearing me? 184 00:11:15,430 --> 00:11:19,750 Well, praise the Lord, but unfortunately because they get. 185 00:11:20,230 --> 00:11:24,150 One sided in the In the dichotomy of man. 186 00:11:24,510 --> 00:11:30,550 Many will depart from the true faith and then they'll devote 187 00:11:30,550 --> 00:11:35,830 themselves to spirits of deception and following demon 188 00:11:35,830 --> 00:11:37,430 inspired revelations and theories. 189 00:11:37,710 --> 00:11:39,670 I just want to say if you're first time guests with us, you 190 00:11:39,670 --> 00:11:41,230 can't experience Anchor Faith Church in one service. 191 00:11:41,230 --> 00:11:44,880 You got to come back at least. Five times if this if you have 192 00:11:44,880 --> 00:11:47,120 popping to pop into this listen I can't. 193 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:49,960 I don't control when I minister messages. 194 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:52,760 So at the end of the day you may come in on some like wow. 195 00:11:52,760 --> 00:11:55,000 But you know what God obviously sent you during this time. 196 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:58,160 You decided to come. Now maybe the Lord asked you to 197 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:00,320 come a long time ago and you just hadn't done it. 198 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:01,760 But you showed up when we talk start. 199 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:06,880 Talking about pride, we preach on more than pride here. 200 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:09,640 We preach on the whole Bible, actually. 201 00:12:10,300 --> 00:12:12,380 You know, but I only have so many hours with you. 202 00:12:13,780 --> 00:12:16,540 So it takes a little time to go through all the things we can 203 00:12:16,540 --> 00:12:19,100 minister on. But when we're in something, 204 00:12:19,100 --> 00:12:23,860 it's because God's emphasizing it for a reason, and so we can 205 00:12:23,860 --> 00:12:25,660 grow by it. Amen. 206 00:12:26,060 --> 00:12:30,540 We grow not only by knowing the blessings of God, but we also 207 00:12:30,540 --> 00:12:32,540 grow by knowing the warnings of God. 208 00:12:34,180 --> 00:12:37,260 We grow not only by knowing what we've overcome. 209 00:12:37,670 --> 00:12:38,310 And what? How? 210 00:12:38,310 --> 00:12:41,790 We are overcomers, but we know also grow by knowing what we 211 00:12:41,790 --> 00:12:46,630 don't need to be ensnared with. Again, this is how we become 212 00:12:46,630 --> 00:12:48,830 stronger. This how we become better. 213 00:12:49,710 --> 00:12:53,270 This is how we don't develop fantasies concerning things of 214 00:12:53,270 --> 00:12:57,390 God that are not founded in truth because we only want to 215 00:12:57,390 --> 00:13:00,870 hear one aspect. I was talking with someone. 216 00:13:00,870 --> 00:13:02,190 I'm going to leave it very vague. 217 00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:05,160 That attends a particular meeting where they have to do 218 00:13:05,160 --> 00:13:08,440 this acknowledgements kind of a ritual that they do and then one 219 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:11,760 of them is that they give their life to a really to God. 220 00:13:11,760 --> 00:13:13,400 But you know they say higher power. 221 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:17,080 So obviously this one particular testimony of this individual but 222 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:19,680 based upon their particular lifestyle, the things that they 223 00:13:19,680 --> 00:13:22,680 were doing said they had a problem with this particular 224 00:13:22,680 --> 00:13:26,640 step And so you know at the end of the day they had to go find 225 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:28,160 one that. Fit their life. 226 00:13:30,220 --> 00:13:34,540 In essence I will find a God that create that that fits and 227 00:13:34,540 --> 00:13:38,540 accepts what I am now. Well you understand who the God 228 00:13:38,540 --> 00:13:45,820 is, is self but God is God. And we are to conform our 229 00:13:45,820 --> 00:13:48,580 thinking to His, because His words are life. 230 00:13:49,460 --> 00:13:51,540 Amen. But many will depart. 231 00:13:52,130 --> 00:13:53,650 And then they'll go after other things. 232 00:13:53,650 --> 00:13:56,650 Why? Because of the the issues that 233 00:13:56,650 --> 00:13:59,410 we'll see here in James Chapter One before we get to James 234 00:13:59,410 --> 00:14:01,130 Chapter One, I said this last week. 235 00:14:01,290 --> 00:14:05,930 That we can in in order to make sure that you don't become one 236 00:14:05,930 --> 00:14:08,580 of the many. There are some things that the 237 00:14:08,580 --> 00:14:11,820 Bible is very clear about, OK? And I'm not doing an exhaustive 238 00:14:11,820 --> 00:14:13,780 study. OK, that's not my intent. 239 00:14:13,780 --> 00:14:16,740 God's not asking me because the first of all, I'm not a fivefold 240 00:14:16,740 --> 00:14:19,180 minister teacher. I'm not a lineup online precept 241 00:14:19,180 --> 00:14:20,660 upon precept. Although I use a lot of 242 00:14:20,660 --> 00:14:24,540 scripture, I tend to be way more big picture and concepts, OK? 243 00:14:24,700 --> 00:14:26,860 And then I allow the teaching gifts to come back up at 244 00:14:26,860 --> 00:14:29,380 different times and they can deal with things that somebody 245 00:14:29,380 --> 00:14:31,460 else will come back up here probably on Wednesday, and deal 246 00:14:31,460 --> 00:14:33,780 with the doctrines of demons and they can just lay them. 247 00:14:33,820 --> 00:14:36,340 All out to you that are out there so that you won't be 248 00:14:36,340 --> 00:14:39,700 misled. But there are a couple things 249 00:14:39,700 --> 00:14:42,940 you can do to keep yourself. One is found in Ephesians when 250 00:14:42,940 --> 00:14:45,180 it says that God gave gifts unto men. 251 00:14:45,260 --> 00:14:47,500 Five of those gifts are the fivefold ministry. 252 00:14:47,500 --> 00:14:49,940 They're there to equip the Saints for the work of ministry. 253 00:14:49,940 --> 00:14:52,540 This is an Ephesian chapter 4 starting in verse 11. 254 00:14:52,700 --> 00:14:59,380 And through that they will grow up the body of Christ so that 255 00:14:59,380 --> 00:15:04,060 they will no longer say, no longer no longer be tossed to 256 00:15:04,060 --> 00:15:07,960 and fro by every wind and. Doctrine. 257 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:11,640 But they will become what grounded. 258 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:15,960 They will become mature, they will unify in the faith. 259 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:18,280 They will become the fullness of God. 260 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:23,920 Every part will come together, they will feed each other, and 261 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:25,440 the whole church will become greater. 262 00:15:25,440 --> 00:15:29,680 Which tells us, if you stay connected to the body, quit 263 00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:32,480 seeing yourself as a singular individual that has a 264 00:15:32,480 --> 00:15:35,600 relationship with God, and I'm going to heaven when I die. 265 00:15:37,690 --> 00:15:40,210 I can go wherever I want to do. I mean, the church is not a 266 00:15:40,210 --> 00:15:41,290 building. It's not a building. 267 00:15:41,290 --> 00:15:43,770 It's a collection of people together who happen to meet in 268 00:15:43,770 --> 00:15:45,410 the building. Unless we were in another 269 00:15:45,410 --> 00:15:47,250 country, you might meet somewhere else. 270 00:15:47,970 --> 00:15:49,890 But the reality is we are to come together. 271 00:15:50,010 --> 00:15:52,610 And what's amazing because I've gone to quite a few countries, 272 00:15:52,730 --> 00:15:56,810 is that the ones who are, who legally can assemble, work very 273 00:15:56,810 --> 00:15:59,250 hard to assemble at the risk of their lives. 274 00:15:59,370 --> 00:16:02,410 And in the countries where you can assemble, they work very 275 00:16:02,410 --> 00:16:11,630 hard to stay home. So the devil's deceived the 276 00:16:11,630 --> 00:16:15,230 American church that you don't have to actually get together to 277 00:16:15,230 --> 00:16:19,710 be in it and we don't need each other. 278 00:16:20,670 --> 00:16:22,710 But you know, this is what happens when you only believe 279 00:16:22,710 --> 00:16:26,470 the Bible's about going to heaven anyway, which it's not. 280 00:16:26,830 --> 00:16:28,670 It's about a king, his Kingdom, and his royal. 281 00:16:28,670 --> 00:16:32,990 Offspring Hallelujah. And we preach the whole Bible 282 00:16:32,990 --> 00:16:37,890 here. So staying with the church where 283 00:16:37,890 --> 00:16:41,970 the fivefold ministry are in operation puts you in the 284 00:16:41,970 --> 00:16:46,730 greatest place that when a wind and doctrine shows up, you'll 285 00:16:46,730 --> 00:16:49,930 say, I don't accept that that's not truth. 286 00:16:50,890 --> 00:16:53,610 Hallelujah. The 2nd way to keep yourself 287 00:16:53,610 --> 00:16:55,130 from deceptions in James chapter one. 288 00:16:55,130 --> 00:16:56,810 James chapter one, verse 22 says this. 289 00:16:56,810 --> 00:16:59,610 You already buckle up because we're going to run now says but 290 00:16:59,610 --> 00:17:02,570 be doers of the word and not hears only. 291 00:17:04,220 --> 00:17:09,220 Be doers of the word and not hears deceiving yourself. 292 00:17:09,780 --> 00:17:12,980 The New American Standard says it this way, but prove yourself 293 00:17:12,980 --> 00:17:17,180 doers of the word, and not merely hears who delude 294 00:17:17,180 --> 00:17:20,339 themselves. The Amplified Classic says it 295 00:17:20,339 --> 00:17:22,660 this way. But be doers of the word. 296 00:17:22,660 --> 00:17:27,579 Obey the message and not merely listeners to it, betraying 297 00:17:27,579 --> 00:17:31,380 yourselves into deception by reasoning contrary to the truth. 298 00:17:36,030 --> 00:17:40,470 So this tells us that people in this congregation, right here in 299 00:17:40,470 --> 00:17:42,950 this building, I don't even have to talk about other places. 300 00:17:43,230 --> 00:17:48,670 But in this one can hear the word of God rightly divided, and 301 00:17:48,670 --> 00:17:52,950 whether it actually works in their life is not a result of 302 00:17:52,950 --> 00:17:56,070 the one teaching but the one hearing. 303 00:17:56,510 --> 00:18:00,630 Because once they hear, will they actually do it? 304 00:18:04,770 --> 00:18:07,570 Which means I have to apply that word. 305 00:18:10,850 --> 00:18:12,770 Pastor Marsha is going to be ministering on the fruits of the 306 00:18:12,770 --> 00:18:15,090 Spirit on Wednesday night because she's in the series on 307 00:18:15,090 --> 00:18:18,090 the on the Holy Spirit. And here's the thing about the 308 00:18:18,090 --> 00:18:20,170 fruits of spirit. The fruits of the Spirit does 309 00:18:20,170 --> 00:18:23,570 require patience. It's a fruit, which means you'll 310 00:18:23,570 --> 00:18:25,770 be in a situation where you don't want to be patient. 311 00:18:26,330 --> 00:18:29,690 So how are you adore the word you, actually? 312 00:18:30,390 --> 00:18:37,870 Become patient so you can't say I'm I'm an impatient person, but 313 00:18:37,870 --> 00:18:41,550 yet I'm still right with God. Now you may be righteous in your 314 00:18:41,550 --> 00:18:47,590 spirit, but you're not a doer of the word, which tells me you may 315 00:18:47,590 --> 00:18:50,350 be righteous in your spirit and when you die you go to heaven, 316 00:18:50,350 --> 00:18:53,830 but you're living a deceived life in the arena that you can 317 00:18:53,830 --> 00:18:57,070 be impatient in God's OK with it, because the minute you do 318 00:18:57,070 --> 00:18:59,310 that, then the devil finds you. All kind of stuff that you'll be 319 00:18:59,310 --> 00:19:03,790 OK with. Selfcontrol is one of the fruits 320 00:19:03,790 --> 00:19:06,110 of the spirit. You can't control your body. 321 00:19:06,110 --> 00:19:07,670 That's why you hunting all the time. 322 00:19:10,110 --> 00:19:12,830 You can't control your body. That's why you keep ingesting 323 00:19:12,830 --> 00:19:17,350 stuff all the time. You can't control your emotions. 324 00:19:17,350 --> 00:19:22,670 That's why you get angry fast and then blame your heritage. 325 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:29,440 Are you hearing me? Because James said. 326 00:19:29,560 --> 00:19:35,680 Be quick to, slow to and slow to to get mad. 327 00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:37,720 So you can't say, well, you know, we just all have tempers 328 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:39,880 in our family. Not in Jesus's family. 329 00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:41,760 I thought you were in his family. 330 00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:44,560 Now you in the wrong tree. That's the problem. 331 00:19:45,070 --> 00:19:48,030 You you're running down the wrong ancestry.com. 332 00:19:48,150 --> 00:19:50,630 You supposed to go back to the tree called the Cross. 333 00:19:50,750 --> 00:19:52,350 You supposed to go back to the blood. 334 00:19:52,430 --> 00:19:53,910 You supposed to go to that family. 335 00:19:54,070 --> 00:19:57,990 And in that family, I'm telling you, Can that family get mad? 336 00:19:58,270 --> 00:20:01,150 Oh yeah, And when Daddy gets mad. 337 00:20:01,270 --> 00:20:06,150 It is not good when the wrath of Dad shows up. 338 00:20:07,510 --> 00:20:10,510 Somebody ain't staying on the planet, I said. 339 00:20:10,510 --> 00:20:11,990 Somebody ain't staying on the planet. 340 00:20:12,930 --> 00:20:18,570 But that wrath is long-suffering, and if Dad has 341 00:20:18,570 --> 00:20:20,370 long-suffering, can put up with it. 342 00:20:20,490 --> 00:20:22,890 Guess what? You can, but the minute you 343 00:20:22,890 --> 00:20:26,130 don't apply, you're deceiving. Yourself so. 344 00:20:27,570 --> 00:20:30,330 You got to be a doer, I said. You got to be a doer. 345 00:20:30,850 --> 00:20:34,570 You have to be a doer. If you can't forgive your 346 00:20:34,570 --> 00:20:38,730 brother, you're not a doer. I'm gonna keep piggybacking off 347 00:20:38,730 --> 00:20:41,370 my wife. If you have church hurt, it's 348 00:20:41,370 --> 00:20:43,530 your problem. Because it sure ain't the 349 00:20:43,530 --> 00:20:47,170 church's problem because the church has a way to handle your 350 00:20:47,170 --> 00:20:49,010 hurt. It's called forgive. 351 00:20:51,610 --> 00:20:54,890 And besides that these people who hurt you are growing 352 00:20:54,890 --> 00:20:57,610 themselves. That's if they actually hit, 353 00:20:57,650 --> 00:21:00,170 actually hurt you. They may have just hurt your 354 00:21:00,170 --> 00:21:02,010 flesh. The thing you're not willing to 355 00:21:02,010 --> 00:21:06,930 let go of could be that. And here's the thing, I'm a 356 00:21:06,930 --> 00:21:08,370 pastor. I'm an apostle. 357 00:21:08,370 --> 00:21:10,490 I'm talking to the church. This is not an outreach. 358 00:21:12,860 --> 00:21:15,820 Now if you're here and you don't know the Lord of Savior, we can 359 00:21:15,820 --> 00:21:18,820 help get you in the Kingdom. But I'm talking to his kids. 360 00:21:19,300 --> 00:21:22,460 And half the time you would get in the Kingdom quicker if the 361 00:21:22,460 --> 00:21:24,300 kids would just act like the Kingdom. 362 00:21:26,460 --> 00:21:28,940 And in this house we going to act like the Kingdom, we going 363 00:21:28,940 --> 00:21:30,180 to have the culture of the Kingdom. 364 00:21:30,500 --> 00:21:32,460 We going to go ahead and talk about everything needs to be 365 00:21:32,460 --> 00:21:37,900 talked about so that we walk out here and not making excuses but 366 00:21:37,900 --> 00:21:39,500 actually being doers of the word. 367 00:21:42,030 --> 00:21:45,830 Hallelujah. So the New Living Translation 368 00:21:45,830 --> 00:21:48,270 says it this way. But don't just listen to God's 369 00:21:48,270 --> 00:21:51,750 word. You must do what it says, 370 00:21:52,870 --> 00:21:55,710 otherwise you're only fooling yourself. 371 00:21:58,150 --> 00:22:01,950 So if the Bible says, don't. Worry then. 372 00:22:01,950 --> 00:22:04,030 Why are you worrying about that bill? 373 00:22:06,630 --> 00:22:08,630 Well, I love the Lord, but why are you worrying? 374 00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:11,600 Well, the Lord's got me, but you're worrying. 375 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:16,880 Well, I mean, God understands I'm God understands you're 376 00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:18,880 human. He understands you're in a human 377 00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:20,640 suit. But he says, I fixed that. 378 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:23,760 I put a supernatural being on the inside, that you're not 379 00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:26,360 limited to your human tendencies anymore. 380 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:33,080 Just because I'm human doesn't mean I'm limited to my humanity. 381 00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:37,000 In fact, I'm not to be identified by my humanity alone. 382 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:40,800 I'm to be identified by my spirit man who's alive unto God 383 00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:44,440 and from a different world, right? 384 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:48,440 So otherwise you are only fooling yourself if you're not 385 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:54,680 doing it. So say I'm a doer that separates 386 00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:59,320 the deceivers from everybody. Now here's the thing. 387 00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:01,960 James cannot be talking to the Lost. 388 00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:06,320 Because people who are outside God's Kingdom and their spirit 389 00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:12,160 man is still dead to God cannot do the word because it's a 390 00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:15,280 naturally appraised word by them. 391 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:18,720 It's not spiritually discerned. So they can't have revelation of 392 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:21,640 how to live for God. They can hear God's word and 393 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:23,320 they put their own interpretation. 394 00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:25,160 That's called it. That's called religion. 395 00:23:28,890 --> 00:23:34,490 Just because someone is doing something that God said that's 396 00:23:34,490 --> 00:23:39,650 not in the Kingdom of God better in action than someone who is, 397 00:23:40,050 --> 00:23:45,370 doesn't mean that they're more righteous because they're hard 398 00:23:45,370 --> 00:23:48,090 hit, right? Paul said. 399 00:23:48,130 --> 00:23:50,210 You want to talk about doing the word? 400 00:23:50,890 --> 00:23:55,450 I was the guy, but when confronted with Jesus, I 401 00:23:55,450 --> 00:23:57,930 realized I stunk the high. Heaven. 402 00:24:00,940 --> 00:24:06,340 I mean I dominated in actions. The problem is my heart was far 403 00:24:06,340 --> 00:24:07,620 from God. It was wretched. 404 00:24:07,620 --> 00:24:11,420 It was it was sinful. It was had personal and selfish 405 00:24:11,420 --> 00:24:12,940 ambition. It's a God. 406 00:24:12,940 --> 00:24:16,780 It stunk all the end down you. I'm actually doing his word but 407 00:24:16,780 --> 00:24:20,460 I can't actually do it how he wants me to cuz my spirit man's 408 00:24:20,460 --> 00:24:22,860 cut off. But the minute you get born 409 00:24:22,860 --> 00:24:26,140 again you know what stinks to high heaven. 410 00:24:26,930 --> 00:24:29,690 Is not doing what you're capable of now. 411 00:24:30,690 --> 00:24:32,290 And when I say you're capable, it's cause. 412 00:24:32,290 --> 00:24:35,610 God's empowered you now to be able to do so. 413 00:24:35,930 --> 00:24:40,170 And you can hear God, and you can yield, and you can control 414 00:24:40,290 --> 00:24:45,330 your own life's existence. You can take captive every 415 00:24:45,330 --> 00:24:51,450 thought. You can determine what you're 416 00:24:51,450 --> 00:24:54,570 saying. You can determine where you're 417 00:24:54,570 --> 00:24:56,920 going. You can do it. 418 00:24:56,920 --> 00:25:04,160 Say I can do it. The plain English version says 419 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:06,760 it this way. And don't just listen to that 420 00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:10,480 word from God, but you have to do everything it says too. 421 00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:14,680 If you don't do the thing it says, you will just trick 422 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:20,520 yourself. Unfortunately we are living in a 423 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:25,040 society to where we want quick fixes. 424 00:25:25,540 --> 00:25:27,980 That's why heaven is such a phenomenal option for many. 425 00:25:28,580 --> 00:25:30,540 Because again, I don't want to change. 426 00:25:30,700 --> 00:25:32,740 I just want to go somewhere. When I die. 427 00:25:33,700 --> 00:25:36,300 Jesus says I don't want you to come somewhere when you die. 428 00:25:36,540 --> 00:25:39,340 I want to be with you now and change you now and make an 429 00:25:39,340 --> 00:25:44,220 impact now. And if we are true studiers of 430 00:25:44,220 --> 00:25:48,700 the world, we see that God always came down because when he 431 00:25:48,700 --> 00:25:52,700 made Adam and Eve didn't say come to heaven, he said, I'll 432 00:25:52,700 --> 00:25:55,480 see you daily. I'll come hang out with you 433 00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:57,400 because this environment your ends awesome. 434 00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:02,000 Now with that being said, Proverbs 1618 said pride goes 435 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:04,480 before destruction and a haughty spirit before fall. 436 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:07,440 The passion says that this way you're boast becomes a prophecy 437 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:11,360 of future failure. The higher you lift up yourself 438 00:26:11,360 --> 00:26:14,080 in pride, the harder you'll fall in disgrace. 439 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:17,960 So pride manifested first with environments that were without 440 00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:20,000 sin. Therefore the fall is not the 441 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:23,240 cause of pride, but pride is the cause of the fall. 442 00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:26,400 And again, just for real quickly, you can go back and 443 00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:29,840 listen to our messages on this, but it bears repeating because 444 00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:33,000 I'm going to close this thing down today that there was an 445 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:36,200 anointed cherub by all. Rights. 446 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:41,360 We know him today as Satan, but before he was cast down as Jesus 447 00:26:41,360 --> 00:26:42,920 said, I saw Satan, Paul light, lightning. 448 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:48,960 He was in a perfect environment, no sin, but he got in pride in a 449 00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:57,900 sinless environment. Adam is placed in an earth that 450 00:26:57,900 --> 00:27:00,780 God said is very good after his creation. 451 00:27:01,100 --> 00:27:03,340 And Adam was made in the image of God. 452 00:27:03,660 --> 00:27:06,340 Both Adam and Eve were both in the image of God. 453 00:27:06,340 --> 00:27:09,540 They were copies of him in the realm of the Spirit. 454 00:27:09,900 --> 00:27:12,700 They had his DNA, they had his nature. 455 00:27:12,700 --> 00:27:16,020 Do. You hear that, Andrew? 456 00:27:16,020 --> 00:27:23,980 They had his nature. So because they had his nature, 457 00:27:23,980 --> 00:27:27,900 they had his thoughts till someone else gave him another 458 00:27:27,900 --> 00:27:33,020 thought. Then Adam brought pride. 459 00:27:33,020 --> 00:27:40,220 In in an environment without sin, because sin did not enter 460 00:27:40,220 --> 00:27:45,540 the world until one man's transgression took place, Satan 461 00:27:45,540 --> 00:27:49,250 did not bring sin in. And when I say that, I don't 462 00:27:49,250 --> 00:27:52,450 mean that he didn't demonstrates what sin is because sin is 463 00:27:52,450 --> 00:27:56,330 simply disobeying God. A thought itself is not sin, it 464 00:27:56,330 --> 00:28:01,250 is the temptation to. So Satan brought in the 465 00:28:01,250 --> 00:28:04,810 environment so that sin could manifest or death. 466 00:28:06,130 --> 00:28:10,290 If he would have never taken that thought, then we wouldn't 467 00:28:10,290 --> 00:28:14,410 have this problem. When one does not, And here's 468 00:28:14,410 --> 00:28:16,370 the thing, when that conversation took place, we saw 469 00:28:16,410 --> 00:28:18,880 this. God has told Adam you can eat 470 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:20,560 from any tree of the garment. If the tree of the knowledge is 471 00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:22,440 good, and even Sean and eat for the day you eat, you'll surely 472 00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:25,240 die. When Adams, when the devil says 473 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:27,440 you're not going to die for God knows that you'll be like him, 474 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:30,120 in fact. It's amazing how people just 475 00:28:30,120 --> 00:28:32,400 blow my mind because they they just won't read scripture. 476 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:34,800 They only read scripture to justify their points. 477 00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:39,960 When Satan said you'll be like God, God had already said you're 478 00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:44,440 like me, so being like God did not originate with Satan. 479 00:28:45,810 --> 00:28:51,330 That was not the temptation that he gave Adam was to be like God. 480 00:28:51,330 --> 00:28:54,850 God said let us make man in our image according to our likeness. 481 00:28:54,930 --> 00:28:58,570 You can't be any more like God than Adam and Eve when they were 482 00:28:58,570 --> 00:29:00,730 first created because he breathed in them the breath of 483 00:29:00,730 --> 00:29:02,970 life. What he said, If you'll keep 484 00:29:02,970 --> 00:29:05,890 reading what Satan was actually trying to do, is say you'll be 485 00:29:05,890 --> 00:29:10,770 like God knowing good and evil because you know God in the 486 00:29:10,770 --> 00:29:16,840 realm of good. And yes, God knows another deal 487 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:24,760 because I am the author of it. But he didn't warn you about me. 488 00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:28,720 He didn't tell you why I was coming, and he didn't have to, 489 00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:32,200 because he gave him a word that would eliminate when he showed 490 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:33,680 up. Keep the garden. 491 00:29:34,570 --> 00:29:36,050 Don't eat the fruit. That was it. 492 00:29:36,130 --> 00:29:37,730 That's all you had to do. Don't eat the fruit. 493 00:29:37,730 --> 00:29:39,730 You're telling me the fruit? He said don't eat the fruit, but 494 00:29:39,730 --> 00:29:41,370 you're telling me to eat the fruit, He said don't eat it. 495 00:29:41,530 --> 00:29:43,650 You say I can eat it won't die. He says I'd eat it. 496 00:29:43,650 --> 00:29:45,650 We die. Why didn't he say God, come into 497 00:29:45,650 --> 00:29:47,130 the guard? Let's have a conversation with 498 00:29:47,130 --> 00:29:49,490 this serpent here and let's figure out who's telling the 499 00:29:49,490 --> 00:29:55,170 truth. But when one does not want to 500 00:29:55,170 --> 00:29:57,970 consult with the originator of the conversation, they are 501 00:29:57,970 --> 00:29:59,770 already on the road to rebellion. 502 00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:04,000 Why does Adam not bring God into the garden when Satan's talking? 503 00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:07,480 Because he wanted to believe what? 504 00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:15,960 Satan was saying, But who lied? The devil lied because the devil 505 00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:18,800 knew. Eat it and I get what you have, 506 00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:23,800 because the devil told Jesus when he showed up. 507 00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:26,800 That's the last Adam, he says. I'll give you all this domain, 508 00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:29,000 all these kingdoms in a moment of time. 509 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:32,190 You just got to do one thing. Bow down and worship me. 510 00:30:32,470 --> 00:30:34,390 Why will I give them to you? Because they've been handed over 511 00:30:34,390 --> 00:30:35,830 to me. Read the Luke chapter four 512 00:30:35,830 --> 00:30:38,630 account of the of the Temptation of Christ. 513 00:30:39,110 --> 00:30:41,310 He says They were handed over to me. 514 00:30:42,190 --> 00:30:44,070 He got them from. He didn't steal them. 515 00:30:45,870 --> 00:30:49,750 Adam abdicated his throne of authority. 516 00:30:51,230 --> 00:30:53,510 Are you hearing me? So? 517 00:30:53,510 --> 00:30:57,550 Because pride is the issue that opens up the door for deception. 518 00:30:58,230 --> 00:31:01,990 Look what it says here in Proverbs 2124, says proud hottie 519 00:31:01,990 --> 00:31:07,750 scoffer at are his names whose acts are whose acts with 520 00:31:07,750 --> 00:31:11,510 insolent pride. Proud hottie scoffer, I want you 521 00:31:11,510 --> 00:31:13,510 to key on that word scoffer here, because we're going to see 522 00:31:13,510 --> 00:31:16,710 this second, Peter 33 says. If knowing this first that 523 00:31:16,710 --> 00:31:22,430 scoffers, scoffers, knowing this first that there will come in 524 00:31:22,430 --> 00:31:25,190 the. Last day scoffers walking after 525 00:31:25,190 --> 00:31:28,950 their own lust scoffers. Proverbs 9-7 and eight says that 526 00:31:28,950 --> 00:31:33,190 he who corrects A scoffer gets dishonor for himself. 527 00:31:34,630 --> 00:31:38,910 He and he who reproves a wicked man gets insults for himself. 528 00:31:38,910 --> 00:31:41,510 Did you just hear what I said? Verse 8. 529 00:31:41,870 --> 00:31:45,030 Do not reprove A scoffer or he will hate you. 530 00:31:45,230 --> 00:31:47,310 Reprove a wise man and he will love you. 531 00:31:47,550 --> 00:31:54,750 So this tells me every time you correct a scoffer, which who's a 532 00:31:54,750 --> 00:31:56,750 scoffer really a person in pride? 533 00:31:57,460 --> 00:31:59,060 The minute you correct them, guess what? 534 00:31:59,060 --> 00:32:02,420 You're going to get Dishonored. They're no longer going to honor 535 00:32:02,420 --> 00:32:06,980 you or treat you honorable. The second thing is they will 536 00:32:06,980 --> 00:32:15,380 insult you, but someone who actually has wisdom will say. 537 00:32:15,380 --> 00:32:16,660 Thank you for pointing that out, man. 538 00:32:16,660 --> 00:32:19,900 I don't want to live that way. Thank you for bringing that to 539 00:32:19,900 --> 00:32:21,060 my attention, man. That was. 540 00:32:21,060 --> 00:32:23,220 That is not my intent, and I'm going to make an adjustment. 541 00:32:23,220 --> 00:32:24,260 Right now I'm a doer of the word. 542 00:32:29,190 --> 00:32:31,470 Say Hallelujah. OK, Yeah. 543 00:32:31,470 --> 00:32:32,910 You want me to do that? I'll go over there. 544 00:32:32,950 --> 00:32:33,950 OK. I can go over there. 545 00:32:34,470 --> 00:32:39,910 Proverbs 2210. Drive out the scoffer and 546 00:32:39,910 --> 00:32:44,390 contention will go out. Even strife and dishonor will 547 00:32:44,390 --> 00:32:46,590 cease. What? 548 00:32:47,270 --> 00:32:50,110 What's to say to do to him? What do you do? 549 00:32:50,750 --> 00:32:53,630 Come on, what do you do now? You can't get rid of your wife. 550 00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:57,480 You can't get rid of your husband. 551 00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:00,640 You need to pray for them. But we're talking in reference 552 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:04,200 to the community. Okay. 553 00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:07,320 Drive them out. Because here's the thing. 554 00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:09,120 What are they always bringing? Contention. 555 00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:10,760 What are they always bringing Strife. 556 00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:13,000 What are they always bringing dishonor? 557 00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:16,880 Now they'll be honorable to your face while they're dishonoring 558 00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:19,720 you behind your back. But this is what's just going to 559 00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:22,120 happen in the last days. Are you hearing me? 560 00:33:23,070 --> 00:33:24,830 Are you hearing me now? I didn't give them. 561 00:33:24,830 --> 00:33:26,630 The Lord just told me that you need to say this. 562 00:33:26,630 --> 00:33:28,910 So I will turn over to Hebrews real quick. 563 00:33:29,390 --> 00:33:33,790 I'll look it up myself. Hebrews probably chapter 12. 564 00:33:34,630 --> 00:33:40,390 Yes, Hebrews, chapter 12 will start in verse three. 565 00:33:40,550 --> 00:33:42,830 Let's start in verse three. Amen. 566 00:33:45,070 --> 00:33:46,670 I could do that. Let's see. 567 00:33:50,630 --> 00:33:53,110 See, right now, again, I'm just being led by the Spirit. 568 00:33:53,670 --> 00:33:55,710 I didn't make room. This is just what I do. 569 00:33:56,550 --> 00:33:58,510 And the Holy Ghost said, you need to say this. 570 00:33:58,830 --> 00:34:00,870 I'll say okay, I'll say this. All right. 571 00:34:00,870 --> 00:34:01,790 Because you're telling me to say it. 572 00:34:01,790 --> 00:34:04,470 I'm going to say this. Praise the Lord. 573 00:34:06,670 --> 00:34:08,190 Okay. Yeah, I'll do that. 574 00:34:09,030 --> 00:34:10,030 Yeah. Just aggravates them. 575 00:34:10,230 --> 00:34:12,870 That's great. Okay, he says, his firstly for 576 00:34:12,870 --> 00:34:14,590 consider him who has endured such. 577 00:34:14,590 --> 00:34:17,550 Hostility by sinners against himself scoffers as. 578 00:34:18,230 --> 00:34:25,110 Jesus, has some scoffers come? Hebrews 12/3 OK And y'all this 579 00:34:25,110 --> 00:34:26,949 why you need to bring your own Bible, your own electronic 580 00:34:26,949 --> 00:34:28,469 device? Because I may need to pull some 581 00:34:28,469 --> 00:34:31,630 things up that our media team can't get there quick enough and 582 00:34:31,630 --> 00:34:34,310 I don't have want to have to slow down, he goes this he says, 583 00:34:34,310 --> 00:34:37,070 For consider who has endured such hostility by sinners 584 00:34:37,070 --> 00:34:39,710 against himself, so that you will not grow weary and lose 585 00:34:39,710 --> 00:34:42,270 heart. He said you have not resisted 586 00:34:42,270 --> 00:34:44,510 the point of shedding of blood and the striving against sin. 587 00:34:45,190 --> 00:34:48,870 And you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed 588 00:34:48,870 --> 00:34:52,429 to you as what sons? As what sons? 589 00:34:52,429 --> 00:34:57,430 As what sons, my son, do not regard lightly the discipline of 590 00:34:57,430 --> 00:35:00,670 the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him. 591 00:35:02,670 --> 00:35:09,590 For those whom the Lord loves he disciplines, and he scourges 592 00:35:09,590 --> 00:35:14,180 every son whom he receives. It is for discipline that you 593 00:35:14,220 --> 00:35:16,700 endure. God deals with you as with sons. 594 00:35:16,900 --> 00:35:21,060 For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? 595 00:35:22,100 --> 00:35:25,180 But if you are without discipline, of which all have 596 00:35:25,180 --> 00:35:29,980 become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not 597 00:35:29,980 --> 00:35:34,410 sons. Furthermore, we had earthly 598 00:35:34,410 --> 00:35:36,810 fathers to discipline us, and we respected them. 599 00:35:37,290 --> 00:35:40,930 Shall we not much rather be subject to the father of 600 00:35:40,930 --> 00:35:45,740 spirits? And live for they discipline us 601 00:35:45,820 --> 00:35:49,380 for a short time, as seems best to them, But he that is God the 602 00:35:49,380 --> 00:35:54,420 Father disciplines us for our good, so that we may share in 603 00:35:54,420 --> 00:35:57,700 His Holiness. All discipline at the moment 604 00:35:57,700 --> 00:36:01,540 seems not for to be joyful, but sorrowful. 605 00:36:01,820 --> 00:36:07,460 Yet to those who have been what trained by it, afterwards, say, 606 00:36:07,460 --> 00:36:12,460 afterwards, say, afterwards, say, afterwards, say afterwards. 607 00:36:12,780 --> 00:36:17,900 Say afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness 608 00:36:18,100 --> 00:36:22,700 if you don't let God train you in correcting. 609 00:36:22,700 --> 00:36:24,780 You. Then you can't have it 610 00:36:24,780 --> 00:36:25,940 afterwards. That's good. 611 00:36:29,430 --> 00:36:33,910 And if you won't let God train you through discipline, meaning 612 00:36:33,990 --> 00:36:36,470 instruction. Now take this off. 613 00:36:36,470 --> 00:36:39,070 Let go of that. Now your spirit man's alive. 614 00:36:39,190 --> 00:36:41,510 So here's the thing. Don't let any limitations happen 615 00:36:41,510 --> 00:36:43,030 in your soul and your body anymore. 616 00:36:43,150 --> 00:36:45,350 I'm going to plug this out, your brain, this thinking out, your 617 00:36:45,350 --> 00:36:48,790 way, this emotion away from you to be siding with how the world 618 00:36:48,790 --> 00:36:49,910 thinks. I'm going to get you to side 619 00:36:49,910 --> 00:36:52,350 with the spirit emotionally about this situation. 620 00:36:54,150 --> 00:36:55,950 Why you acting like that cause that happened. 621 00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:58,600 Well, don't you know that happened? 622 00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:00,200 I mean, this is horrible, he said. 623 00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:03,400 But I'll deal with this. You just take this position. 624 00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:05,920 I can't do nothing. You better do nothing. 625 00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:08,680 Because if you don't do, if you do something, then I can't do 626 00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:11,760 something. Vengeance says mine, says the 627 00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:13,440 Lord. I will repay. 628 00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:15,640 But you're doing the repaying. So at the end of the day, I 629 00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:19,680 can't get involved. But who doesn't want to receive 630 00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:22,680 instruction or correction? The scoffer. 631 00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:26,360 OK, look, I asked you to come into my heart and save me. 632 00:37:26,820 --> 00:37:29,260 So when I die, go to heaven. But don't tell me about my 633 00:37:29,260 --> 00:37:31,220 thinking. Don't talk to me about that. 634 00:37:32,340 --> 00:37:33,460 You don't know what I've been through. 635 00:37:35,980 --> 00:37:38,500 Come on, Are you hearing yourself talk when you do that? 636 00:37:40,340 --> 00:37:44,860 So it's obvious that we don't want to be scoffer kids. 637 00:37:47,260 --> 00:37:53,180 Because if we're scoffer kids, meaning we're always against 638 00:37:54,180 --> 00:37:59,660 correction. Then at the end of the day, it's 639 00:37:59,660 --> 00:38:05,820 not the pastor who put you down the road, it's the Lord taking 640 00:38:05,820 --> 00:38:08,140 you away from the family because you don't want to listen. 641 00:38:08,140 --> 00:38:11,340 Anyway, now that doesn't mean you're not in his family. 642 00:38:11,340 --> 00:38:13,420 He just will separate you from the community. 643 00:38:16,260 --> 00:38:17,500 Oh y'all, don't. OK, that's fine. 644 00:38:19,100 --> 00:38:22,100 Well, because everybody likes to preach and that's inclusive. 645 00:38:23,100 --> 00:38:24,860 The Kingdom of God is not inclusive. 646 00:38:25,590 --> 00:38:30,190 It allows everyone to be included, but it's not 647 00:38:30,190 --> 00:38:34,990 inclusive. It requires you to change. 648 00:38:35,750 --> 00:38:38,390 You have to change. I said you have to change. 649 00:38:40,350 --> 00:38:43,550 Hallelujah. So Second Timothy Chapter 3, 650 00:38:43,550 --> 00:38:46,550 Second Timothy chapter 3. Paul's writing to Timothy will 651 00:38:46,550 --> 00:38:49,750 close with this whole passage of scripture. 14 verses. 652 00:38:49,750 --> 00:38:54,430 OK don't want to give you hope, false hope here. 653 00:38:56,440 --> 00:39:00,040 I was the last one, yeah, 14 verses of it with commentary. 654 00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:10,040 Now you would have to go back into chapter 2 to be able to 655 00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:13,680 continue to get some context. But this particular chapter, 656 00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:19,880 Paul is letting Timothy know in the world people are definitely 657 00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:23,520 going to be like this. But he's also implies. 658 00:39:24,100 --> 00:39:27,580 There are people who were among us that are going to turn to 659 00:39:27,580 --> 00:39:31,780 this because he's already let him know. 660 00:39:33,180 --> 00:39:36,340 And first Timothy chapter four, that there will be those who 661 00:39:36,340 --> 00:39:40,140 depart from the faith, and if they depart from the faith and 662 00:39:40,140 --> 00:39:43,900 they're following after deceiving spirits and doctrines 663 00:39:43,900 --> 00:39:46,190 of demons. Then they're going to obviously 664 00:39:46,190 --> 00:39:49,990 be fall, having a form of godliness, but denying the 665 00:39:49,990 --> 00:39:52,510 actual Holy Ghost, who has the power to transform their minds 666 00:39:52,510 --> 00:39:53,910 and get them to line up with the word. 667 00:39:56,110 --> 00:39:59,390 Amen, okay. So there's two people that we're 668 00:39:59,390 --> 00:40:01,630 talking to here. It's easy to see that it's those 669 00:40:01,630 --> 00:40:04,070 outside the Kingdom of God, but it can be those within the 670 00:40:04,070 --> 00:40:08,670 Kingdom of God who have fallen away and are not allowing God to 671 00:40:08,670 --> 00:40:11,510 correct them. They've developed pride 672 00:40:11,950 --> 00:40:15,300 concerning something. And again we said simply that 673 00:40:15,300 --> 00:40:21,020 pride by definition is you have a thought and God has a thought 674 00:40:21,180 --> 00:40:25,460 concerning the same thing. You take your thought and let it 675 00:40:25,540 --> 00:40:28,220 and be a doer of your thought over God's. 676 00:40:29,740 --> 00:40:33,180 You exalt your thought over God's thought. 677 00:40:33,180 --> 00:40:35,180 Now your thought may not originated with you. 678 00:40:35,180 --> 00:40:39,220 Someone may have planted that seed, and then you made that 679 00:40:39,220 --> 00:40:43,220 your own, and now you act on it. But God says this. 680 00:40:43,830 --> 00:40:46,430 And the minute you do the other, you're in pride. 681 00:40:47,430 --> 00:40:51,510 That's pride. Pride is not doing God's word 682 00:40:51,950 --> 00:40:54,350 his way. Cuz again, why you say is this 683 00:40:54,350 --> 00:40:55,630 control? It's not control. 684 00:40:55,630 --> 00:40:57,790 It's called life. You got to understand this is 685 00:40:57,790 --> 00:40:59,990 not about control. God's not controlling you. 686 00:41:01,230 --> 00:41:04,470 God is not controlling you. God is giving you the 687 00:41:04,470 --> 00:41:06,670 opportunity every time to choose. 688 00:41:06,870 --> 00:41:10,190 Life and it never stops. Even when you're born again, you 689 00:41:10,190 --> 00:41:14,600 still have to choose life. You have to choose the life's 690 00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:17,400 way of handling it. And cool thing about being born 691 00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:20,400 again when you get the choice from God when he reveals it to 692 00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:24,360 you by the spirit, is that your spirit man actually wants to can 693 00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:28,120 and it would have activate the grace of God so that the power 694 00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:30,520 of God can cause that environment atmosphere to 695 00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:35,000 actually manifest in your life where you don't come to church 696 00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:39,120 mad, you come to church happy right? 697 00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:42,080 You don't deal with depression because you can always have joy. 698 00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:44,640 I mean, there's all kinds of things. 699 00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:48,840 You're not living in continual brokenness, but you're living in 700 00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:54,720 wholeness because he binds up. He never wants you to stay 701 00:41:54,720 --> 00:41:57,240 somewhere. Your testimony is not your 702 00:41:57,240 --> 00:42:00,080 greatest. The testimony of your life, the 703 00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:03,000 greatest part of your testimony is not what God got you out of, 704 00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:06,840 It's what God has caused you to maintain in. 705 00:42:09,030 --> 00:42:12,310 I mean, we act like the greatest testimony is everybody on the 706 00:42:12,310 --> 00:42:18,270 planet has blown it, been beat up, been treated wrong, has 707 00:42:18,270 --> 00:42:22,550 treated someone wrong, been lied to, cheated to everybody, has 708 00:42:22,550 --> 00:42:26,250 that common personality. They were wretched, no good. 709 00:42:26,250 --> 00:42:28,770 And God delivers them out of that environment. 710 00:42:28,770 --> 00:42:31,650 Everybody has that. But not every believer has the 711 00:42:31,730 --> 00:42:35,250 testimony of I don't go back. I I've never gone back. 712 00:42:35,330 --> 00:42:37,450 I don't go back to that. I don't do that. 713 00:42:37,530 --> 00:42:39,290 I don't. Because the power gods kept me 714 00:42:39,290 --> 00:42:40,890 here. The power gods kept me here. 715 00:42:40,970 --> 00:42:44,610 The power gods kept me here. I yielded to him. 716 00:42:44,730 --> 00:42:47,010 I took his word. I followed his advice. 717 00:42:47,090 --> 00:42:48,890 I acted like he wanted me to act. 718 00:42:48,970 --> 00:42:51,250 I've responded like he wanted me to respond. 719 00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:58,760 That's awesome testimony, but it's like the great what the 720 00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:00,600 greatest testimony is how bad we were. 721 00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:06,760 And then God forgave us for giving us His part. 722 00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:09,400 But it's not the greatest testimony. 723 00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:11,560 It's like, you know what? The devil came after me and I 724 00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:13,880 punched him in the mouth with the words of my authority in the 725 00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:15,680 name of Jesus. And it worked. 726 00:43:16,140 --> 00:43:18,460 I resisted. He and he fled, and it were I 727 00:43:18,460 --> 00:43:20,420 submitted to God. Resist the devil and he fled. 728 00:43:20,420 --> 00:43:22,340 It worked. You know, I believe God for 729 00:43:22,340 --> 00:43:23,380 this, that and the other. You know what? 730 00:43:23,380 --> 00:43:24,300 It came to pass. Why? 731 00:43:24,420 --> 00:43:26,300 Because I declared it. I decreed it because I only 732 00:43:26,300 --> 00:43:28,540 spoke what God told me to speak. And I stood when I shouldn't 733 00:43:28,540 --> 00:43:30,860 have supposed to stand. And I just stayed on it. 734 00:43:30,940 --> 00:43:33,020 And I never came off. And I had all these thoughts and 735 00:43:33,020 --> 00:43:34,980 everybody telling me, but I didn't yield one bit. 736 00:43:35,100 --> 00:43:36,780 I hung on that work. And you know what? 737 00:43:36,780 --> 00:43:40,540 It came to pass. God brought it to pass. 738 00:43:41,340 --> 00:43:44,580 When everybody says it was over, it only came to pass. 739 00:43:46,700 --> 00:43:49,980 Amen. Let's have those testimonies. 740 00:43:50,220 --> 00:43:52,220 Because when you have that testimony, the world would be 741 00:43:52,220 --> 00:43:54,700 like, I want to get your Kingdom because it actually works, 742 00:43:55,420 --> 00:43:56,660 because you keep talking about how you. 743 00:43:56,660 --> 00:43:59,500 Fell, messed up and blew it and did all wrong and you were drunk 744 00:43:59,500 --> 00:44:01,940 like me on Saturday night and went worship God, I'm a praise 745 00:44:01,940 --> 00:44:03,820 him. Anyway I could rewrite that 746 00:44:03,820 --> 00:44:08,370 song. I actually rewrote it in my my 747 00:44:08,490 --> 00:44:11,850 parking, my my driveway this past weekend. 748 00:44:11,850 --> 00:44:14,330 You know, I praise him anyway. I praise him when I'm happy, 749 00:44:14,330 --> 00:44:16,370 praise him when I'm sad. I'm like, why are you staying 750 00:44:16,370 --> 00:44:19,890 sad? I mean, anybody can praise at 751 00:44:19,890 --> 00:44:21,850 anything, you know? And most of them are praising 752 00:44:21,850 --> 00:44:23,450 him when he's drunk. Praise him when they're 753 00:44:23,450 --> 00:44:24,490 fornicating. Praise him. 754 00:44:24,490 --> 00:44:28,170 No matter what they do, They're going to praise him anyway. 755 00:44:28,170 --> 00:44:29,290 I'm just going to praise you anyway. 756 00:44:30,650 --> 00:44:32,970 I praise the Lord, hold my soul. No matter what I'm doing, I'm 757 00:44:32,970 --> 00:44:34,490 just going to praise him. Well, why don't you just stay 758 00:44:34,490 --> 00:44:37,340 holy? Let's praise the man. 759 00:44:37,340 --> 00:44:41,700 Our holiness. This church is going to preach 760 00:44:41,700 --> 00:44:45,140 those things because you're separated under God. 761 00:44:45,140 --> 00:44:47,620 Holiness is just means I'm separated under God, man. 762 00:44:47,620 --> 00:44:50,220 You understand what I'm saying? I just do what God tells me to 763 00:44:50,220 --> 00:44:51,580 do. I'm separated from the world. 764 00:44:51,580 --> 00:44:53,660 I'm just going to do what God says, and that makes you holy. 765 00:44:54,540 --> 00:44:57,260 That's holiness, I said. That's why it's nothing to be 766 00:44:57,260 --> 00:44:58,940 afraid of. It's like to embrace. 767 00:44:59,420 --> 00:45:02,420 Praise the Lord. In fact, the Lord says be holy 768 00:45:02,420 --> 00:45:06,380 as I am. I mean, when did Jesus go to the 769 00:45:06,380 --> 00:45:08,020 clubs? Before he went to the synagogue? 770 00:45:12,700 --> 00:45:14,820 Did he tell the woman with the alabaster box? 771 00:45:15,340 --> 00:45:21,700 Hey, listen, when I get out of this meeting because I'm full of 772 00:45:21,700 --> 00:45:31,300 grace, girl. I'm full of grace girl. 773 00:45:31,620 --> 00:45:34,460 Ain't nobody on this planet had more grace than I got right now. 774 00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:40,760 All right. Amen. 775 00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:46,080 It's easy to justify when you want to not bring God into the 776 00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:48,720 conversation because they're already on the road to 777 00:45:48,720 --> 00:45:51,920 rebellion. But Daddy is say no. 778 00:45:52,160 --> 00:45:55,720 You need to cut them off. You know it's time for you to 779 00:45:55,720 --> 00:46:00,400 lay that down, you know, because it isn't the not drinking that 780 00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:02,720 made you holy. He made you holy. 781 00:46:02,720 --> 00:46:07,850 And you're like this is. This is by product because that 782 00:46:07,850 --> 00:46:09,730 plant don't tell me what to do anymore. 783 00:46:11,970 --> 00:46:15,210 The idle of my phone doesn't tell me what I go look at on it 784 00:46:15,210 --> 00:46:20,330 anymore. All right. 785 00:46:21,170 --> 00:46:22,370 Second Timothy Y'all doing all right. 786 00:46:22,690 --> 00:46:24,210 Can we do it in 10 minutes? I don't know. 787 00:46:24,210 --> 00:46:26,130 Let's find out. Second Timothy Chapter 3 verses 788 00:46:26,130 --> 00:46:29,460 one through 14, it says this. But you need to be. 789 00:46:29,460 --> 00:46:32,940 Aware that in the final days, the culture of society will 790 00:46:32,940 --> 00:46:36,740 become extremely fierce and difficult for the people of God. 791 00:46:38,620 --> 00:46:42,020 All right, So please stop. Stop. 792 00:46:43,460 --> 00:46:45,700 Stop being depressed about all the news. 793 00:46:46,860 --> 00:46:48,860 Just say what's? Happening over there. 794 00:46:49,380 --> 00:46:53,540 Well, that's confirming scripture, right? 795 00:46:53,580 --> 00:46:55,460 Wow. I mean, the Lord said this would 796 00:46:55,460 --> 00:46:57,460 happen. I said, the Lord said this would 797 00:46:57,460 --> 00:46:59,310 happen. Right, we get stuck. 798 00:46:59,310 --> 00:47:03,510 Because we came out of negative, we came out of brutality, we 799 00:47:03,510 --> 00:47:07,230 came out of slavery. We came out of victim mentality, 800 00:47:07,710 --> 00:47:09,310 right? And so every time something 801 00:47:09,310 --> 00:47:11,990 bad's happening, we can easily identify because we came out of 802 00:47:11,990 --> 00:47:15,430 it and we have a hard time going on to what else he says. 803 00:47:15,430 --> 00:47:17,350 That's why we got to go to the 14th verse, because he's got 804 00:47:17,350 --> 00:47:20,550 other things to say. But we get stuck in, man, it's 805 00:47:20,550 --> 00:47:21,630 bad. This is horrible. 806 00:47:21,630 --> 00:47:23,150 I wish Jesus would come and set up. 807 00:47:23,510 --> 00:47:24,830 What? What am I going to do when all 808 00:47:24,830 --> 00:47:26,630 this stuff, this stuff's taking place, right? 809 00:47:26,950 --> 00:47:29,990 2. Verse two, people will be 810 00:47:29,990 --> 00:47:32,630 self-centered, lovers of themselves and obsessed with 811 00:47:32,630 --> 00:47:34,990 money. They will boast of great things 812 00:47:34,990 --> 00:47:38,510 as they shroud, strut around in their arrogant pride and mock 813 00:47:38,510 --> 00:47:41,750 all that is right. They will ignore their own 814 00:47:41,750 --> 00:47:43,910 families. They will be ungrateful and 815 00:47:43,910 --> 00:47:47,070 ungodly man. Ungratefulness is a sure sign 816 00:47:47,070 --> 00:47:48,870 that you walking on the road of rebellion. 817 00:47:49,310 --> 00:47:53,150 They will be become addicted to hateful and malicious slander, 818 00:47:53,150 --> 00:47:56,110 slaves to their desires. They will be ferocious. 819 00:47:56,390 --> 00:48:00,830 Bewildered haters or belligerent, Excuse me, haters 820 00:48:00,830 --> 00:48:04,790 of what is good and right with brutal treachery, they will act 821 00:48:04,790 --> 00:48:08,950 without restraint. Bigoted and wrapped in clouds of 822 00:48:08,950 --> 00:48:11,670 their conceit, they will find their delight in the pleasures 823 00:48:11,670 --> 00:48:15,030 of this world. They're always asking how much 824 00:48:15,030 --> 00:48:17,870 can I be in the world and still be right with God? 825 00:48:20,150 --> 00:48:22,230 More than the pleasures of loving God. 826 00:48:22,550 --> 00:48:24,750 God's not asking to come out. There's not an environment I 827 00:48:24,750 --> 00:48:26,890 won't go into. Period. 828 00:48:26,890 --> 00:48:28,970 The Lord told me to go into a a bar. 829 00:48:28,970 --> 00:48:32,370 I would go in it, but I wouldn't go in and drink with them to be 830 00:48:32,370 --> 00:48:36,970 relevant. Are you hearing me? 831 00:48:39,890 --> 00:48:42,370 I mean I would not. I'm not going into places to 832 00:48:42,450 --> 00:48:49,930 assimilate to them. Jesus never sinned, so he can 833 00:48:49,930 --> 00:48:54,130 never identify with us on what it means to act in sin. 834 00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:59,800 Your savior has never sinned, Never. 835 00:49:00,680 --> 00:49:07,840 Never got drunk, never did drugs, never slept around, never 836 00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:11,200 hated his parents, never back bite, never gossip. 837 00:49:14,680 --> 00:49:16,480 Are you hearing me? Never. 838 00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:19,080 Yet he's the only one who can deliver you. 839 00:49:24,370 --> 00:49:34,000 Praise the Lord. So when he goes into the world, 840 00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:37,200 when he did, he didn't go. When acting like them, he 841 00:49:37,200 --> 00:49:40,080 brought the Kingdom and they were like, mesmerized by how he 842 00:49:40,080 --> 00:49:41,840 did. You understand, eating food with 843 00:49:41,840 --> 00:49:43,600 a Sinner doesn't make Jesus a Sinner. 844 00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:48,320 He just ate. Anybody can eat with someone. 845 00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:53,640 That didn't mean he cussed with them, told dirty jokes with 846 00:49:53,640 --> 00:49:57,520 them. He didn't behave like them. 847 00:50:02,230 --> 00:50:06,550 First five they may pretend to have the respect for God, but in 848 00:50:06,550 --> 00:50:08,870 reality they want nothing to do with God's power. 849 00:50:09,270 --> 00:50:10,950 Stay away from people like these. 850 00:50:11,270 --> 00:50:14,430 Now obviously this is the complex issue here. 851 00:50:15,610 --> 00:50:19,650 It can't just be talking to people of the world because Paul 852 00:50:19,650 --> 00:50:21,610 already corrected the Corinthian Church. 853 00:50:21,610 --> 00:50:24,410 He said, listen, I told you to come out from among them and be 854 00:50:24,410 --> 00:50:26,250 separate, but you can't, like, not be around. 855 00:50:26,250 --> 00:50:30,050 I'm not saying you can't be with people that are in the world, 856 00:50:30,210 --> 00:50:32,850 because at the end of the day, we're called to be lights to 857 00:50:32,850 --> 00:50:34,450 them. You're going to interact with 858 00:50:34,450 --> 00:50:36,250 them. What I'm saying is, is that you 859 00:50:36,250 --> 00:50:39,290 don't go do what they do in the places they do. 860 00:50:41,970 --> 00:50:44,050 They're not like your best buddies. 861 00:50:45,030 --> 00:50:48,590 I mean, if your best buddies are those of the world, whoo, 862 00:50:48,590 --> 00:50:55,510 there's a problem. The people you should have the 863 00:50:55,510 --> 00:50:59,350 closest relation to with with are the people in your church. 864 00:51:01,230 --> 00:51:04,430 That will help you change your doctrine. 865 00:51:07,230 --> 00:51:10,390 What are you doing? Nobody says you can't go to go 866 00:51:10,390 --> 00:51:13,920 eat with your coworkers. But if you rather hang out with 867 00:51:13,920 --> 00:51:16,400 your coworkers and do anything that's going on at the church, 868 00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:26,100 that's the problem because bad character corrupts good morals. 869 00:51:31,860 --> 00:51:35,300 So obviously this has to do with some that are in the body of 870 00:51:35,300 --> 00:51:37,700 Christ who are professing there something, but they're never 871 00:51:37,700 --> 00:51:39,620 letting the God change them, He's saying. 872 00:51:39,620 --> 00:51:41,860 Now those kind of people don't even hang. 873 00:51:41,860 --> 00:51:44,220 In fact, the Lord says if they so call brother. 874 00:51:48,360 --> 00:51:49,480 He said it in one of his churches. 875 00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:52,000 If a so-called brothers act like his, he said have nothing to do 876 00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:54,320 with him, have nothing to do with him. 877 00:51:54,640 --> 00:51:57,000 But let me tell you what that so-called brothers going to do. 878 00:51:57,120 --> 00:51:59,800 He's going to say how the church abandoning, how the church went 879 00:51:59,800 --> 00:52:02,400 there when they failed, how the church broke away, how the 880 00:52:02,400 --> 00:52:04,800 church hurt them, how the church wasn't there when they fell. 881 00:52:04,840 --> 00:52:07,680 Listen, you were running away from the church the whole time 882 00:52:07,680 --> 00:52:11,690 you were doing all your actions. You are already separating 883 00:52:11,690 --> 00:52:13,850 yourself from the church. Then when all of a sudden the 884 00:52:13,850 --> 00:52:16,770 church finds out because the scripture says your Sam will 885 00:52:16,770 --> 00:52:19,570 surely find you out, and then they come and say you going to 886 00:52:19,570 --> 00:52:21,450 have to repent. But we don't want to repent and 887 00:52:21,970 --> 00:52:24,010 we want to make excuses of what's going on. 888 00:52:24,210 --> 00:52:26,450 Well then at that point you're like, how am I going to help 889 00:52:26,450 --> 00:52:28,370 you? Because I can only help bring 890 00:52:28,370 --> 00:52:31,970 you to reconciliation and righteousness that comes through 891 00:52:31,970 --> 00:52:33,450 repentance. And if you're not going to 892 00:52:33,450 --> 00:52:37,970 repent, I can't help you. You've already left, although 893 00:52:37,970 --> 00:52:41,950 you may be in the building. And that's just really a matter 894 00:52:42,030 --> 00:52:48,110 of time. Because at some point 895 00:52:48,710 --> 00:52:50,790 unrepentance has to be driven out. 896 00:52:51,350 --> 00:52:54,670 And I'm talking from a believer perspective, but that's also 897 00:52:54,670 --> 00:52:57,630 from unbelievers. I would not let unbelievers come 898 00:52:57,630 --> 00:53:01,790 in and pass out and begin to share the way they live and act 899 00:53:01,790 --> 00:53:03,310 like it's acceptable. With us? 900 00:53:03,850 --> 00:53:07,050 If you read the Book of Revelation, God had problems in 901 00:53:07,050 --> 00:53:09,250 those shirts, he said. I can't believe you've let the 902 00:53:09,250 --> 00:53:11,530 spirit of Jezebel in here. I can't believe that you've 903 00:53:11,530 --> 00:53:14,090 allowed the Nickelodeon doctrine to get up in this thing. 904 00:53:14,210 --> 00:53:17,410 You better get rid of that stuff and get it out, he said. 905 00:53:17,410 --> 00:53:19,930 With the Jezebel, he said. I gave her time to repent. 906 00:53:21,770 --> 00:53:24,490 I gave her time, which means she's sitting around up in here 907 00:53:24,490 --> 00:53:25,730 doing all her holler. Trees. 908 00:53:27,650 --> 00:53:29,690 And got people siding with her, he said. 909 00:53:29,690 --> 00:53:32,930 I gave her time to repent, but she didn't, so I put her out. 910 00:53:33,460 --> 00:53:34,980 And all those who are following her. 911 00:53:35,100 --> 00:53:37,500 They going to get on the same bed of sickness she's on? 912 00:53:39,060 --> 00:53:43,980 He didn't say. Just let it go, bro, he said. 913 00:53:43,980 --> 00:53:45,580 If you don't deal with this, I'll take your lamp. 914 00:53:47,500 --> 00:53:49,780 That's New Testament. Say. 915 00:53:49,780 --> 00:53:52,820 That's New Testament. Hallelujah. 916 00:53:52,820 --> 00:53:57,380 This is good preaching. This is Savior. 917 00:53:57,780 --> 00:54:00,660 This sets you free. Amen. 918 00:54:02,280 --> 00:54:05,480 I mean, I understand there are abuses within church bodies, I 919 00:54:05,480 --> 00:54:07,200 get that. But not every church bodies 920 00:54:07,200 --> 00:54:11,200 having abuses. We can actually live this. 921 00:54:12,560 --> 00:54:16,960 We're living here. Amen Verse 6, for they are the 922 00:54:16,960 --> 00:54:20,480 ones who worm their way into the hearts of vulnerable women, 923 00:54:20,480 --> 00:54:23,680 spending the night with those who are captured by their lust 924 00:54:23,680 --> 00:54:26,520 and steeped in sin. Teach them Bible studies on 925 00:54:26,520 --> 00:54:28,360 Sunday and sleep with them on Friday. 926 00:54:29,210 --> 00:54:32,370 They are always learning, but never discover the revelation 927 00:54:32,370 --> 00:54:34,650 knowledge of the truth. History has given us an example 928 00:54:34,650 --> 00:54:38,890 of these with the Egyptian sorcerers who stood against 929 00:54:38,890 --> 00:54:42,210 Moses in their arrogance. So it will be in the last days 930 00:54:42,210 --> 00:54:45,290 with those who reject the faith with their corrupt minds and 931 00:54:45,290 --> 00:54:47,690 arrogant heart standing against the truth of God. 932 00:54:48,330 --> 00:54:52,170 But they will not advance, for everyone will see their madness. 933 00:54:52,170 --> 00:54:53,610 Boy, you don't want to get in that place. 934 00:54:54,530 --> 00:54:57,170 Again, you can run off at the mouth for a while. 935 00:54:59,130 --> 00:55:02,570 But ultimately, the Lord's going to let everyone know your story 936 00:55:02,570 --> 00:55:10,370 is wrong, your story's wrong, and you don't have to buy into 937 00:55:10,370 --> 00:55:13,410 that story if you get the originator at a conversation to 938 00:55:13,410 --> 00:55:17,290 show up in the conversation, he said. 939 00:55:17,290 --> 00:55:19,290 But you, Timothy, come on, say but you, Timothy. 940 00:55:20,840 --> 00:55:23,840 Have. Closely followed my example and 941 00:55:23,840 --> 00:55:25,600 the truth that I have imparted to you. 942 00:55:25,840 --> 00:55:39,640 What kind of arrogance is that? Obviously it's not arrogant, but 943 00:55:39,640 --> 00:55:45,480 the scoffers will say so. Paul is like, listen, I know 944 00:55:45,480 --> 00:55:46,760 there's people out there doing this. 945 00:55:46,760 --> 00:55:49,280 I'm telling you how they're doing, but I'm not that guy. 946 00:55:54,380 --> 00:55:57,380 Now, was Paul right? Because here's the thing. 947 00:55:57,380 --> 00:56:04,460 The Holy Ghost will ultimately let everybody know whom the Lord 948 00:56:05,380 --> 00:56:07,690 is with. He said. 949 00:56:07,690 --> 00:56:10,810 But you, Timothy, have closely followed my example and the 950 00:56:10,810 --> 00:56:14,570 truth that I've imparted to you. You have modeled your life after 951 00:56:14,570 --> 00:56:18,610 the love and endurance I've demonstrated in my ministry by 952 00:56:18,610 --> 00:56:23,570 not giving up the faith I have. You now have what I have Hunger 953 00:56:23,570 --> 00:56:28,690 for in life now has become your come on longing as well, the 954 00:56:28,690 --> 00:56:33,570 patience I have for others. Now you now demonstrate. 955 00:56:34,200 --> 00:56:38,240 The same persecutions and difficulties I've endured, you 956 00:56:38,240 --> 00:56:41,720 have also endured. Yes, you know all about what I 957 00:56:41,720 --> 00:56:45,400 suffered while in Antioch and Iconium and Lystra. 958 00:56:45,440 --> 00:56:48,840 You understand Timothy was a mentor of Paul. 959 00:56:48,880 --> 00:56:51,440 But you know what? Probably the Church and Ephesus 960 00:56:51,440 --> 00:56:55,080 did not know what Timothy knew about Paul's issues. 961 00:56:55,840 --> 00:56:59,440 The ones who came after him, the difficulties, the persecution, 962 00:56:59,520 --> 00:57:02,080 he confided in him. But he didn't go and say, let me 963 00:57:02,080 --> 00:57:04,280 tell you what all is going on with Paul and who's going after 964 00:57:04,280 --> 00:57:06,160 him? So there was a whole 965 00:57:06,160 --> 00:57:09,400 congregation Timothy was over that did not know the same 966 00:57:09,400 --> 00:57:15,280 details concerning the things going on in Paul's life. 967 00:57:15,640 --> 00:57:19,000 He says you're aware of all the persecution I endured there yet. 968 00:57:19,320 --> 00:57:22,480 The Lord delivered me from every single one of them. 969 00:57:23,610 --> 00:57:27,450 For all who choose to live godly as worshippers of Jesus, they 970 00:57:27,490 --> 00:57:30,770 know one will experience persecution. 971 00:57:32,690 --> 00:57:37,370 Now here's the problem before I get to verse 13, the deceiver. 972 00:57:37,530 --> 00:57:46,380 When they're corrected, they'll call that persecution when it's 973 00:57:46,380 --> 00:57:51,100 really just correction. You can know the deceiver by 974 00:57:51,100 --> 00:57:54,460 their mouth. You'll always know a deceiver by 975 00:57:54,460 --> 00:57:57,510 their mouth. Because they will talk contrary 976 00:57:57,510 --> 00:57:59,470 to Scripture. What do I mean by that? 977 00:57:59,470 --> 00:58:03,230 They'll use scripture, but you'll hear things that you know 978 00:58:03,230 --> 00:58:07,310 are contrary. Especially if they. 979 00:58:07,310 --> 00:58:09,670 Begin to talk about people openly. 980 00:58:10,430 --> 00:58:12,790 Gain access to conversations about people. 981 00:58:13,670 --> 00:58:17,150 Speak about it like you know this is how it is and never want 982 00:58:17,150 --> 00:58:21,590 to include them, especially those that are under their 983 00:58:21,590 --> 00:58:25,160 authority. They'll begin to spew about 984 00:58:25,160 --> 00:58:28,600 people that they're under authority. 985 00:58:30,680 --> 00:58:39,530 It's amazing, but if you have ears to hear and you realize you 986 00:58:39,530 --> 00:58:41,770 keep yourself righteous, you'll be like something ain't right 987 00:58:41,770 --> 00:58:44,930 with that conversation and you can guard your heart. 988 00:58:45,250 --> 00:58:49,170 This is not hard because the Holy Ghost lives in us all, he 989 00:58:49,170 --> 00:58:51,170 said. But the evil men and sorcerers 990 00:58:51,170 --> 00:58:55,370 will progress from bad to worse, deceived and deceiving as they 991 00:58:55,370 --> 00:58:57,870 lead people further. From the truth. 992 00:58:57,910 --> 00:59:03,510 Yet Timothy, you must say, must continue to advance and strength 993 00:59:03,510 --> 00:59:07,350 with the truth wrapped around your heart, being assured by God 994 00:59:07,350 --> 00:59:10,270 that he's the one who has truly taught you all things. 995 00:59:10,270 --> 00:59:12,550 Now what's he saying? He's saying you followed my 996 00:59:12,550 --> 00:59:14,230 example, you followed my teaching. 997 00:59:14,310 --> 00:59:17,110 You saw my persecution, you saw my passenger people, everything 998 00:59:17,110 --> 00:59:19,190 that I played before you. But the reality is, everything I 999 00:59:19,190 --> 00:59:21,870 did, you realize that the Holy Ghost was saying what he's 1000 00:59:21,870 --> 00:59:23,390 saying is right. How he's acting right. 1001 00:59:23,390 --> 00:59:25,790 How he's handling that's right. How he's believing is right. 1002 00:59:27,290 --> 00:59:29,610 And you actually heard the Holy Ghost in all those things. 1003 00:59:34,890 --> 00:59:36,410 This is why. Paul could say in First Corinth 1004 00:59:36,410 --> 00:59:37,850 you said you want to follow Jesus. 1005 00:59:38,290 --> 00:59:42,210 Just follow me. Follow me as I follow Christ. 1006 00:59:43,690 --> 00:59:46,410 Now here's the thing, as you follow me as I follow Christ, 1007 00:59:46,410 --> 00:59:53,050 you may be limited on what I know and how I follow, but at 1008 00:59:53,050 --> 00:59:54,850 the end of the day you can follow the example. 1009 00:59:57,000 --> 01:00:00,920 You can discover it because in the last days there's going to 1010 01:00:00,920 --> 01:00:04,680 be conflict. But the good news is, I said, 1011 01:00:04,680 --> 01:00:07,720 the good news is that we have the Holy Ghost. 1012 01:00:07,720 --> 01:00:10,880 Within US. And if we are people who are not 1013 01:00:10,880 --> 01:00:14,600 of the scoffer, we do not recognize our associate 1014 01:00:14,600 --> 01:00:17,480 ourselves with that attitude. If you if there's something 1015 01:00:17,480 --> 01:00:22,370 isn't right, tell me, I'm fine. I just want to be holy. 1016 01:00:22,530 --> 01:00:25,290 I want to be blameless. I want my lifestyle to 1017 01:00:25,290 --> 01:00:27,210 demonstrate what I am on the inside. 1018 01:00:27,410 --> 01:00:29,370 In the inside. I'm right with God. 1019 01:00:29,410 --> 01:00:31,930 It's perfect. It's the can't improve this 1020 01:00:31,930 --> 01:00:34,250 thing. But I got to get that out. 1021 01:00:34,250 --> 01:00:37,010 And if there's anything I'm doing that was of an old nature 1022 01:00:37,130 --> 01:00:40,570 and you can tell, my gosh, say something about it. 1023 01:00:40,570 --> 01:00:43,450 And if it does bear with this, I'll be quick to let go because 1024 01:00:43,450 --> 01:00:45,730 I'm going to tell you right now. The deceiver ones are going to 1025 01:00:45,730 --> 01:00:48,570 say other things, but most of the things they say will allow 1026 01:00:48,570 --> 01:00:55,250 you to hold on to fleshly. Attitudes and behaviors, I had 1027 01:00:55,250 --> 01:00:58,450 one person say to me today. I realized when you come to 1028 01:00:58,450 --> 01:01:00,250 anchor Faith Church, two things are going to happen. 1029 01:01:00,250 --> 01:01:07,050 You're going to grow or go. And that's true because you 1030 01:01:07,090 --> 01:01:10,370 either grow in the things of God or you go because your flesh 1031 01:01:10,370 --> 01:01:14,630 won't let you sit here anymore. I understand. 1032 01:01:14,670 --> 01:01:17,110 And you said, well, gosh, doesn't that make you feel sad? 1033 01:01:17,110 --> 01:01:20,550 Sure, just as sad as Jesus. You know how many people Jesus 1034 01:01:20,550 --> 01:01:26,110 is going to look at, say, go to the lake of Fire, go to lake of 1035 01:01:26,110 --> 01:01:31,870 Fire, Go to lake of Fire, Go to lake of Fire, go to lake of 1036 01:01:31,870 --> 01:01:33,750 Fire. You don't think that bothers 1037 01:01:33,750 --> 01:01:34,990 him? In fact, the scripture tells us 1038 01:01:35,150 --> 01:01:38,590 he plans no pleasure and people Don. 1039 01:01:39,300 --> 01:01:42,580 Yet the king will sit on the throne at the Great White Throne 1040 01:01:42,580 --> 01:01:44,580 judgment. And those who could have been in 1041 01:01:44,580 --> 01:01:46,460 his house should have been in his house. 1042 01:01:46,580 --> 01:01:49,460 He wanted in their house, paid the price for them to be in his 1043 01:01:49,460 --> 01:01:50,900 house. He'll say, go to Lake of Fire, 1044 01:01:51,540 --> 01:01:56,260 Go to Lake of Fire, Go to Lake of Fire, go to the Lake of Fire, 1045 01:01:57,180 --> 01:01:59,380 because you chose the Lake of Fire. 1046 01:02:00,180 --> 01:02:03,420 And not me. And I'm giving you what you 1047 01:02:03,420 --> 01:02:05,030 want. Now they'll be kicking and 1048 01:02:05,030 --> 01:02:07,150 screaming the whole time saying no, no, no, Jesus, I didn't want 1049 01:02:07,150 --> 01:02:07,750 it. I didn't want it. 1050 01:02:07,750 --> 01:02:11,790 He said no, the evidence says go to Lake of Fire. 1051 01:02:13,910 --> 01:02:19,460 I do not. We do not keep people in Anchor, 1052 01:02:19,460 --> 01:02:24,900 faith, Church at all cost. We live righteousness at all 1053 01:02:24,900 --> 01:02:27,540 cost. And those who want to be 1054 01:02:27,540 --> 01:02:31,460 righteous love to stay. Those who don't will have 1055 01:02:31,460 --> 01:02:36,060 problems and they're not our problems because there's enough 1056 01:02:36,060 --> 01:02:42,260 power. For you to change so every time 1057 01:02:42,260 --> 01:02:47,220 God talks to you about anything. Just obey it. 1058 01:02:48,860 --> 01:02:54,500 Because when you do, you won't be deceived, and you'll never be 1059 01:02:54,500 --> 01:03:03,490 one of the many that depart. Thank you so much for listening 1060 01:03:03,490 --> 01:03:05,930 to this message. If you want more, subscribe to 1061 01:03:05,930 --> 01:03:09,330 our Message podcast on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, and 1062 01:03:09,330 --> 01:03:11,330 SoundCloud. 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