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First MD Chapter 4. Amen.
Y'all doing all right. Everybody doing good.
Praise the Lord. And I'm telling you, I'm just
blessed by, you know, who's still at the altar right now,
just letting God minister them. This is what I'm talking about.
I mean, here, God is ministering to someone.
And you know what? They're not impeded and.
Neither is it. The distraction, because God can
do these things so that things flow in a way and it doesn't
detract from one thing or the other.
I'm telling you, it's amazing stuff.
Hallelujah, First Empty, Chapter 4.
This will be the last message in this particular series that will
minister on this. We've given you enough ammo to
arm yourself until the next time the Lord needs us to bring it
up. But in First Timothy Chapter 4,
verse one through one and two, the Passion translation says the
Holy Spirit is explicitly revealed.
At the end of the age, many will depart from the true faith one
after another. Devoting themselves to spirits
of deception and following demon inspired revelations.
In theory, hypocritical liars will deceive many and their
conscience won't bother them at all.
Are you hearing me? So the spirit of God says this
is going to happen. You can't stop it.
It's going to take place, period.
I said it's going to take place period.
So you can't pray this away. You can't pray a revival in that
will stop this. This is going to happen.
Are you hearing me? And what will happen?
Many, not a few, Many will depart from the true faith,
Meaning they were solid. Believe God.
There was a time that they were allowing God to transform them.
They were allowing God's word to to permeate every aspect of
their being. And when I say that you
understand there there are a lot of doctrines that only deal with
the spirit of the man. Although we know the Bible talks
about that we are to be blameless.
Paul wrote this in the Thessalonian letter.
He said that our spirit, soul and body are to remain blameless
and so. What we could not do in the
spirit Christ did for us, cause our spirit was dead, separated
from God. Only Christ could pay a price
that would cause the old rebellious spirit of man to die
inside this skin suit that was attached to our will, emotion,
our intellect and. And drive it out, calls it to
cease to not be inside us anymore.
When we call on the name of Jesus to be Lord of our lives,
then he puts in us a new creature.
We become a new creature in Christ.
The old passes away. Behold all things become new.
We are a new creature in Christ and this spirit is in the
righteousness of God. In Christ Christ is the King.
So in essence your spirit man become comes alive and is like
King Jesus himself. It's in right standing with God.
It's nothing you did to get that to take place other than a
confession of faith that Jesus is Lord.
Repenting of your dead way of living and accepting the
sacrifice of Jesus and he's now Lord of my life.
So then we become born again. Our spirit man's alive.
Then the Holy Spirit moves inside and bears witness with
our. Spirit, His Holy Spirit, The
third person of the Godhead bears witness with our spirit.
That's not the old Spirit, but a new spirit.
That's in Christ alive, that we are children of God, that we're
in right standing with God. We are basically the DNA of God
in the spirit. Now the problem is that will not
manifest in the earth unless we renew our minds.
Our minds have to change and Jesus let us know this was going
to take place because he said repent.
For the Kingdom of heaven as a hand, the word repent means
change your thinking. It doesn't mean remove your old
spirit. I'm gonna say that again.
Jesus didn't say you need a new spirit.
For the Kingdom of God is at hand one time did he talk about
this new spirit you would receive and that was about two
or three o'clock in the morning And John, chapter 3.
To a religious man by the name of Nicodemus that the for this
thing for these things to really start functioning your life,
you're going to have to be born from above is what that
literally means. You're going to have to become a
totally different person. The a totally different person
needs to be carried on the inside of you.
Now once that take place, then the renewing of the mind is
available. Our Soul realm now has the
ability we are to wash our mind with the word.
So if anybody says you're being brainwashed, you said yes, I'm
being washed with the word because everyone's being
brainwashed. Just to let you know you're
either being washed with the word or washed with the world.
One or the other. One No one's holding their own
thoughts. They're not a person on the
planet that has a thought that's different or did not originate
from God or the devil. So with that being said, then we
are to renew our minds and we are to save our soul.
Now that's our responsibility. But again, so many places want
to focus only on what's happened in the to the spirit of the man.
And they don't deal with the soul of man or the body of man,
the body of man and Paul by auction of the Holy Ghost who
had personal teaching from Jesus himself.
So what Paul penned, Jesus actually said.
I said what Paul penned is actually what Jesus said because
Jesus himself personally gave him revelation.
In essence, he's saying this is what I want you to write to my
churches. So when Paul's writing these
letters, these are not Paul's words.
These are the Holy Ghost. Speaking to him and then through
the teaching of Jesus himself. And you know Paul has been
present before the Lord on on he's been had a personal
encounter with Jesus on more than one occasion.
We know on the road to Damascus he had a personal encounter with
Jesus, heard his voice. He said it's it's Jesus, the one
whom you persecuting. Then we know Paul said this I
know a man whether in body or out of body.
Who's called up to the 3rd heaven?
Well, who is that man? It was him.
He was that man okay and he was called up to the and he heard
things unspeakable. But we also know that he was
pulled away for a time, 14 years that he took time and was
trained in. And he came and ended up talking
to what the pillars of the church, Peter being won about
these revelations. And they were like, that sounds
like the king, that sounds like Jesus.
That's exactly what Jesus would say.
So when we read his letters, you might as well say Jesus said it,
because Jesus said it. Are you hearing me?
And Paul is obviously talking to Timothy, who's pastoring a.
Church. That, he says.
I've already seen into the future.
In essence, he's been in our time.
And he didn't live here. He in essence came to our time
in the Spirit but didn't live here and said now this is what's
going to happen, this is going to take place.
I said this is going to take place, but he talks about
getting your body together. Somebody talks to the Corinthian
church, he says. How come you sleeping around
with everybody? Don't you know that if you give
your body to something this is a problem?
Again, you got to keep your temple holy.
So Paul dealt with the threefold nature of man, of which Jesus
himself was restoring us to that the cool thing about our our
soul realm is that we can get it so close to our spirit.
Now our body is decaying, although we can work on that
thing to be as healthy as it can prior to us departing, but we're
never going to get on glorified body until either Jesus.
The trumpet sounds, and it happens here.
Other than that, it manifests at a different time.
Are you hearing me? But your mind can get really
mature. Your emotions can get really
mature. What I mean by that, it has the
capacity to always yield with your spirit that's alive unto
God who's listening to the Holy Ghost.
And it helps you live a life free.
From sin? From the entanglements of sin.
Praise the Lord. Now what if I blow it?
It's okay, you have an advocate with a father.
Repent quickly. Change your thinking, ask God to
forgive you, and then get up. Let's keep moving forward.
Are you hearing me? And God is a merciful God.
But unfortunately, because people are only dealing with
well, my spirit man's right and they don't do anything with
their soul and put their body into subjection.
In essence, they live of a life that Paul actually corrected in
the Corinthian letter. He says, man, I can't even talk
to you as spiritual people. You're just carnal now.
The word carnal means you're acting like mere men.
I mean, when I talk to you, it's like I'm talking to the world.
But you're actually in right standing with God.
And don't just sit there and tell me you're in right standing
with God. Because your behavior and your
soul and your ability to take control of your body should be a
manifestation of this new spiritual life that you have.
But if we neglect those areas, especially the discipleship
side, because God never called us to conversion, He called us
to discipleship. Which means we have to become
studiers of the Word. That's what keeps us living the
life we are on the inside, and not cut our lives short nor
forfeit our purposes. Amen again, this is not just
about going to heaven. This is about the Kingdom
manifesting through you today. Are you hearing me?
Well, praise the Lord, but unfortunately because they get.
One sided in the In the dichotomy of man.
Many will depart from the true faith and then they'll devote
themselves to spirits of deception and following demon
inspired revelations and theories.
I just want to say if you're first time guests with us, you
can't experience Anchor Faith Church in one service.
You got to come back at least. Five times if this if you have
popping to pop into this listen I can't.
I don't control when I minister messages.
So at the end of the day you may come in on some like wow.
But you know what God obviously sent you during this time.
You decided to come. Now maybe the Lord asked you to
come a long time ago and you just hadn't done it.
But you showed up when we talk start.
Talking about pride, we preach on more than pride here.
We preach on the whole Bible, actually.
You know, but I only have so many hours with you.
So it takes a little time to go through all the things we can
minister on. But when we're in something,
it's because God's emphasizing it for a reason, and so we can
grow by it. Amen.
We grow not only by knowing the blessings of God, but we also
grow by knowing the warnings of God.
We grow not only by knowing what we've overcome.
And what? How?
We are overcomers, but we know also grow by knowing what we
don't need to be ensnared with. Again, this is how we become
stronger. This how we become better.
This is how we don't develop fantasies concerning things of
God that are not founded in truth because we only want to
hear one aspect. I was talking with someone.
I'm going to leave it very vague.
That attends a particular meeting where they have to do
this acknowledgements kind of a ritual that they do and then one
of them is that they give their life to a really to God.
But you know they say higher power.
So obviously this one particular testimony of this individual but
based upon their particular lifestyle, the things that they
were doing said they had a problem with this particular
step And so you know at the end of the day they had to go find
one that. Fit their life.
In essence I will find a God that create that that fits and
accepts what I am now. Well you understand who the God
is, is self but God is God. And we are to conform our
thinking to His, because His words are life.
Amen. But many will depart.
And then they'll go after other things.
Why? Because of the the issues that
we'll see here in James Chapter One before we get to James
Chapter One, I said this last week.
That we can in in order to make sure that you don't become one
of the many. There are some things that the
Bible is very clear about, OK? And I'm not doing an exhaustive
study. OK, that's not my intent.
God's not asking me because the first of all, I'm not a fivefold
minister teacher. I'm not a lineup online precept
upon precept. Although I use a lot of
scripture, I tend to be way more big picture and concepts, OK?
And then I allow the teaching gifts to come back up at
different times and they can deal with things that somebody
else will come back up here probably on Wednesday, and deal
with the doctrines of demons and they can just lay them.
All out to you that are out there so that you won't be
misled. But there are a couple things
you can do to keep yourself. One is found in Ephesians when
it says that God gave gifts unto men.
Five of those gifts are the fivefold ministry.
They're there to equip the Saints for the work of ministry.
This is an Ephesian chapter 4 starting in verse 11.
And through that they will grow up the body of Christ so that
they will no longer say, no longer no longer be tossed to
and fro by every wind and. Doctrine.
But they will become what grounded.
They will become mature, they will unify in the faith.
They will become the fullness of God.
Every part will come together, they will feed each other, and
the whole church will become greater.
Which tells us, if you stay connected to the body, quit
seeing yourself as a singular individual that has a
relationship with God, and I'm going to heaven when I die.
I can go wherever I want to do. I mean, the church is not a
building. It's not a building.
It's a collection of people together who happen to meet in
the building. Unless we were in another
country, you might meet somewhere else.
But the reality is we are to come together.
And what's amazing because I've gone to quite a few countries,
is that the ones who are, who legally can assemble, work very
hard to assemble at the risk of their lives.
And in the countries where you can assemble, they work very
hard to stay home. So the devil's deceived the
American church that you don't have to actually get together to
be in it and we don't need each other.
But you know, this is what happens when you only believe
the Bible's about going to heaven anyway, which it's not.
It's about a king, his Kingdom, and his royal.
Offspring Hallelujah. And we preach the whole Bible
here. So staying with the church where
the fivefold ministry are in operation puts you in the
greatest place that when a wind and doctrine shows up, you'll
say, I don't accept that that's not truth.
Hallelujah. The 2nd way to keep yourself
from deceptions in James chapter one.
James chapter one, verse 22 says this.
You already buckle up because we're going to run now says but
be doers of the word and not hears only.
Be doers of the word and not hears deceiving yourself.
The New American Standard says it this way, but prove yourself
doers of the word, and not merely hears who delude
themselves. The Amplified Classic says it
this way. But be doers of the word.
Obey the message and not merely listeners to it, betraying
yourselves into deception by reasoning contrary to the truth.
So this tells us that people in this congregation, right here in
this building, I don't even have to talk about other places.
But in this one can hear the word of God rightly divided, and
whether it actually works in their life is not a result of
the one teaching but the one hearing.
Because once they hear, will they actually do it?
Which means I have to apply that word.
Pastor Marsha is going to be ministering on the fruits of the
Spirit on Wednesday night because she's in the series on
the on the Holy Spirit. And here's the thing about the
fruits of spirit. The fruits of the Spirit does
require patience. It's a fruit, which means you'll
be in a situation where you don't want to be patient.
So how are you adore the word you, actually?
Become patient so you can't say I'm I'm an impatient person, but
yet I'm still right with God. Now you may be righteous in your
spirit, but you're not a doer of the word, which tells me you may
be righteous in your spirit and when you die you go to heaven,
but you're living a deceived life in the arena that you can
be impatient in God's OK with it, because the minute you do
that, then the devil finds you. All kind of stuff that you'll be
OK with. Selfcontrol is one of the fruits
of the spirit. You can't control your body.
That's why you hunting all the time.
You can't control your body. That's why you keep ingesting
stuff all the time. You can't control your emotions.
That's why you get angry fast and then blame your heritage.
Are you hearing me? Because James said.
Be quick to, slow to and slow to to get mad.
So you can't say, well, you know, we just all have tempers
in our family. Not in Jesus's family.
I thought you were in his family.
Now you in the wrong tree. That's the problem.
You you're running down the wrong ancestry.com.
You supposed to go back to the tree called the Cross.
You supposed to go back to the blood.
You supposed to go to that family.
And in that family, I'm telling you, Can that family get mad?
Oh yeah, And when Daddy gets mad.
It is not good when the wrath of Dad shows up.
Somebody ain't staying on the planet, I said.
Somebody ain't staying on the planet.
But that wrath is long-suffering, and if Dad has
long-suffering, can put up with it.
Guess what? You can, but the minute you
don't apply, you're deceiving. Yourself so.
You got to be a doer, I said. You got to be a doer.
You have to be a doer. If you can't forgive your
brother, you're not a doer. I'm gonna keep piggybacking off
my wife. If you have church hurt, it's
your problem. Because it sure ain't the
church's problem because the church has a way to handle your
hurt. It's called forgive.
And besides that these people who hurt you are growing
themselves. That's if they actually hit,
actually hurt you. They may have just hurt your
flesh. The thing you're not willing to
let go of could be that. And here's the thing, I'm a
pastor. I'm an apostle.
I'm talking to the church. This is not an outreach.
Now if you're here and you don't know the Lord of Savior, we can
help get you in the Kingdom. But I'm talking to his kids.
And half the time you would get in the Kingdom quicker if the
kids would just act like the Kingdom.
And in this house we going to act like the Kingdom, we going
to have the culture of the Kingdom.
We going to go ahead and talk about everything needs to be
talked about so that we walk out here and not making excuses but
actually being doers of the word.
Hallelujah. So the New Living Translation
says it this way. But don't just listen to God's
word. You must do what it says,
otherwise you're only fooling yourself.
So if the Bible says, don't. Worry then.
Why are you worrying about that bill?
Well, I love the Lord, but why are you worrying?
Well, the Lord's got me, but you're worrying.
Well, I mean, God understands I'm God understands you're
human. He understands you're in a human
suit. But he says, I fixed that.
I put a supernatural being on the inside, that you're not
limited to your human tendencies anymore.
Just because I'm human doesn't mean I'm limited to my humanity.
In fact, I'm not to be identified by my humanity alone.
I'm to be identified by my spirit man who's alive unto God
and from a different world, right?
So otherwise you are only fooling yourself if you're not
doing it. So say I'm a doer that separates
the deceivers from everybody. Now here's the thing.
James cannot be talking to the Lost.
Because people who are outside God's Kingdom and their spirit
man is still dead to God cannot do the word because it's a
naturally appraised word by them.
It's not spiritually discerned. So they can't have revelation of
how to live for God. They can hear God's word and
they put their own interpretation.
That's called it. That's called religion.
Just because someone is doing something that God said that's
not in the Kingdom of God better in action than someone who is,
doesn't mean that they're more righteous because they're hard
hit, right? Paul said.
You want to talk about doing the word?
I was the guy, but when confronted with Jesus, I
realized I stunk the high. Heaven.
I mean I dominated in actions. The problem is my heart was far
from God. It was wretched.
It was it was sinful. It was had personal and selfish
ambition. It's a God.
It stunk all the end down you. I'm actually doing his word but
I can't actually do it how he wants me to cuz my spirit man's
cut off. But the minute you get born
again you know what stinks to high heaven.
Is not doing what you're capable of now.
And when I say you're capable, it's cause.
God's empowered you now to be able to do so.
And you can hear God, and you can yield, and you can control
your own life's existence. You can take captive every
thought. You can determine what you're
saying. You can determine where you're
going. You can do it.
Say I can do it. The plain English version says
it this way. And don't just listen to that
word from God, but you have to do everything it says too.
If you don't do the thing it says, you will just trick
yourself. Unfortunately we are living in a
society to where we want quick fixes.
That's why heaven is such a phenomenal option for many.
Because again, I don't want to change.
I just want to go somewhere. When I die.
Jesus says I don't want you to come somewhere when you die.
I want to be with you now and change you now and make an
impact now. And if we are true studiers of
the world, we see that God always came down because when he
made Adam and Eve didn't say come to heaven, he said, I'll
see you daily. I'll come hang out with you
because this environment your ends awesome.
Now with that being said, Proverbs 1618 said pride goes
before destruction and a haughty spirit before fall.
The passion says that this way you're boast becomes a prophecy
of future failure. The higher you lift up yourself
in pride, the harder you'll fall in disgrace.
So pride manifested first with environments that were without
sin. Therefore the fall is not the
cause of pride, but pride is the cause of the fall.
And again, just for real quickly, you can go back and
listen to our messages on this, but it bears repeating because
I'm going to close this thing down today that there was an
anointed cherub by all. Rights.
We know him today as Satan, but before he was cast down as Jesus
said, I saw Satan, Paul light, lightning.
He was in a perfect environment, no sin, but he got in pride in a
sinless environment. Adam is placed in an earth that
God said is very good after his creation.
And Adam was made in the image of God.
Both Adam and Eve were both in the image of God.
They were copies of him in the realm of the Spirit.
They had his DNA, they had his nature.
Do. You hear that, Andrew?
They had his nature. So because they had his nature,
they had his thoughts till someone else gave him another
thought. Then Adam brought pride.
In in an environment without sin, because sin did not enter
the world until one man's transgression took place, Satan
did not bring sin in. And when I say that, I don't
mean that he didn't demonstrates what sin is because sin is
simply disobeying God. A thought itself is not sin, it
is the temptation to. So Satan brought in the
environment so that sin could manifest or death.
If he would have never taken that thought, then we wouldn't
have this problem. When one does not, And here's
the thing, when that conversation took place, we saw
this. God has told Adam you can eat
from any tree of the garment. If the tree of the knowledge is
good, and even Sean and eat for the day you eat, you'll surely
die. When Adams, when the devil says
you're not going to die for God knows that you'll be like him,
in fact. It's amazing how people just
blow my mind because they they just won't read scripture.
They only read scripture to justify their points.
When Satan said you'll be like God, God had already said you're
like me, so being like God did not originate with Satan.
That was not the temptation that he gave Adam was to be like God.
God said let us make man in our image according to our likeness.
You can't be any more like God than Adam and Eve when they were
first created because he breathed in them the breath of
life. What he said, If you'll keep
reading what Satan was actually trying to do, is say you'll be
like God knowing good and evil because you know God in the
realm of good. And yes, God knows another deal
because I am the author of it. But he didn't warn you about me.
He didn't tell you why I was coming, and he didn't have to,
because he gave him a word that would eliminate when he showed
up. Keep the garden.
Don't eat the fruit. That was it.
That's all you had to do. Don't eat the fruit.
You're telling me the fruit? He said don't eat the fruit, but
you're telling me to eat the fruit, He said don't eat it.
You say I can eat it won't die. He says I'd eat it.
We die. Why didn't he say God, come into
the guard? Let's have a conversation with
this serpent here and let's figure out who's telling the
truth. But when one does not want to
consult with the originator of the conversation, they are
already on the road to rebellion.
Why does Adam not bring God into the garden when Satan's talking?
Because he wanted to believe what?
Satan was saying, But who lied? The devil lied because the devil
knew. Eat it and I get what you have,
because the devil told Jesus when he showed up.
That's the last Adam, he says. I'll give you all this domain,
all these kingdoms in a moment of time.
You just got to do one thing. Bow down and worship me.
Why will I give them to you? Because they've been handed over
to me. Read the Luke chapter four
account of the of the Temptation of Christ.
He says They were handed over to me.
He got them from. He didn't steal them.
Adam abdicated his throne of authority.
Are you hearing me? So?
Because pride is the issue that opens up the door for deception.
Look what it says here in Proverbs 2124, says proud hottie
scoffer at are his names whose acts are whose acts with
insolent pride. Proud hottie scoffer, I want you
to key on that word scoffer here, because we're going to see
this second, Peter 33 says. If knowing this first that
scoffers, scoffers, knowing this first that there will come in
the. Last day scoffers walking after
their own lust scoffers. Proverbs 9-7 and eight says that
he who corrects A scoffer gets dishonor for himself.
He and he who reproves a wicked man gets insults for himself.
Did you just hear what I said? Verse 8.
Do not reprove A scoffer or he will hate you.
Reprove a wise man and he will love you.
So this tells me every time you correct a scoffer, which who's a
scoffer really a person in pride?
The minute you correct them, guess what?
You're going to get Dishonored. They're no longer going to honor
you or treat you honorable. The second thing is they will
insult you, but someone who actually has wisdom will say.
Thank you for pointing that out, man.
I don't want to live that way. Thank you for bringing that to
my attention, man. That was.
That is not my intent, and I'm going to make an adjustment.
Right now I'm a doer of the word.
Say Hallelujah. OK, Yeah.
You want me to do that? I'll go over there.
OK. I can go over there.
Proverbs 2210. Drive out the scoffer and
contention will go out. Even strife and dishonor will
cease. What?
What's to say to do to him? What do you do?
Come on, what do you do now? You can't get rid of your wife.
You can't get rid of your husband.
You need to pray for them. But we're talking in reference
to the community. Okay.
Drive them out. Because here's the thing.
What are they always bringing? Contention.
What are they always bringing Strife.
What are they always bringing dishonor?
Now they'll be honorable to your face while they're dishonoring
you behind your back. But this is what's just going to
happen in the last days. Are you hearing me?
Are you hearing me now? I didn't give them.
The Lord just told me that you need to say this.
So I will turn over to Hebrews real quick.
I'll look it up myself. Hebrews probably chapter 12.
Yes, Hebrews, chapter 12 will start in verse three.
Let's start in verse three. Amen.
I could do that. Let's see.
See, right now, again, I'm just being led by the Spirit.
I didn't make room. This is just what I do.
And the Holy Ghost said, you need to say this.
I'll say okay, I'll say this. All right.
Because you're telling me to say it.
I'm going to say this. Praise the Lord.
Okay. Yeah, I'll do that.
Yeah. Just aggravates them.
That's great. Okay, he says, his firstly for
consider him who has endured such.
Hostility by sinners against himself scoffers as.
Jesus, has some scoffers come? Hebrews 12/3 OK And y'all this
why you need to bring your own Bible, your own electronic
device? Because I may need to pull some
things up that our media team can't get there quick enough and
I don't have want to have to slow down, he goes this he says,
For consider who has endured such hostility by sinners
against himself, so that you will not grow weary and lose
heart. He said you have not resisted
the point of shedding of blood and the striving against sin.
And you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed
to you as what sons? As what sons?
As what sons, my son, do not regard lightly the discipline of
the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him.
For those whom the Lord loves he disciplines, and he scourges
every son whom he receives. It is for discipline that you
endure. God deals with you as with sons.
For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
But if you are without discipline, of which all have
become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not
sons. Furthermore, we had earthly
fathers to discipline us, and we respected them.
Shall we not much rather be subject to the father of
spirits? And live for they discipline us
for a short time, as seems best to them, But he that is God the
Father disciplines us for our good, so that we may share in
His Holiness. All discipline at the moment
seems not for to be joyful, but sorrowful.
Yet to those who have been what trained by it, afterwards, say,
afterwards, say, afterwards, say, afterwards, say afterwards.
Say afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness
if you don't let God train you in correcting.
You. Then you can't have it
afterwards. That's good.
And if you won't let God train you through discipline, meaning
instruction. Now take this off.
Let go of that. Now your spirit man's alive.
So here's the thing. Don't let any limitations happen
in your soul and your body anymore.
I'm going to plug this out, your brain, this thinking out, your
way, this emotion away from you to be siding with how the world
thinks. I'm going to get you to side
with the spirit emotionally about this situation.
Why you acting like that cause that happened.
Well, don't you know that happened?
I mean, this is horrible, he said.
But I'll deal with this. You just take this position.
I can't do nothing. You better do nothing.
Because if you don't do, if you do something, then I can't do
something. Vengeance says mine, says the
Lord. I will repay.
But you're doing the repaying. So at the end of the day, I
can't get involved. But who doesn't want to receive
instruction or correction? The scoffer.
OK, look, I asked you to come into my heart and save me.
So when I die, go to heaven. But don't tell me about my
thinking. Don't talk to me about that.
You don't know what I've been through.
Come on, Are you hearing yourself talk when you do that?
So it's obvious that we don't want to be scoffer kids.
Because if we're scoffer kids, meaning we're always against
correction. Then at the end of the day, it's
not the pastor who put you down the road, it's the Lord taking
you away from the family because you don't want to listen.
Anyway, now that doesn't mean you're not in his family.
He just will separate you from the community.
Oh y'all, don't. OK, that's fine.
Well, because everybody likes to preach and that's inclusive.
The Kingdom of God is not inclusive.
It allows everyone to be included, but it's not
inclusive. It requires you to change.
You have to change. I said you have to change.
Hallelujah. So Second Timothy Chapter 3,
Second Timothy chapter 3. Paul's writing to Timothy will
close with this whole passage of scripture. 14 verses.
OK don't want to give you hope, false hope here.
I was the last one, yeah, 14 verses of it with commentary.
Now you would have to go back into chapter 2 to be able to
continue to get some context. But this particular chapter,
Paul is letting Timothy know in the world people are definitely
going to be like this. But he's also implies.
There are people who were among us that are going to turn to
this because he's already let him know.
And first Timothy chapter four, that there will be those who
depart from the faith, and if they depart from the faith and
they're following after deceiving spirits and doctrines
of demons. Then they're going to obviously
be fall, having a form of godliness, but denying the
actual Holy Ghost, who has the power to transform their minds
and get them to line up with the word.
Amen, okay. So there's two people that we're
talking to here. It's easy to see that it's those
outside the Kingdom of God, but it can be those within the
Kingdom of God who have fallen away and are not allowing God to
correct them. They've developed pride
concerning something. And again we said simply that
pride by definition is you have a thought and God has a thought
concerning the same thing. You take your thought and let it
and be a doer of your thought over God's.
You exalt your thought over God's thought.
Now your thought may not originated with you.
Someone may have planted that seed, and then you made that
your own, and now you act on it. But God says this.
And the minute you do the other, you're in pride.
That's pride. Pride is not doing God's word
his way. Cuz again, why you say is this
control? It's not control.
It's called life. You got to understand this is
not about control. God's not controlling you.
God is not controlling you. God is giving you the
opportunity every time to choose.
Life and it never stops. Even when you're born again, you
still have to choose life. You have to choose the life's
way of handling it. And cool thing about being born
again when you get the choice from God when he reveals it to
you by the spirit, is that your spirit man actually wants to can
and it would have activate the grace of God so that the power
of God can cause that environment atmosphere to
actually manifest in your life where you don't come to church
mad, you come to church happy right?
You don't deal with depression because you can always have joy.
I mean, there's all kinds of things.
You're not living in continual brokenness, but you're living in
wholeness because he binds up. He never wants you to stay
somewhere. Your testimony is not your
greatest. The testimony of your life, the
greatest part of your testimony is not what God got you out of,
It's what God has caused you to maintain in.
I mean, we act like the greatest testimony is everybody on the
planet has blown it, been beat up, been treated wrong, has
treated someone wrong, been lied to, cheated to everybody, has
that common personality. They were wretched, no good.
And God delivers them out of that environment.
Everybody has that. But not every believer has the
testimony of I don't go back. I I've never gone back.
I don't go back to that. I don't do that.
I don't. Because the power gods kept me
here. The power gods kept me here.
I yielded to him.
I took his word. I followed his advice.
I acted like he wanted me to act.
I've responded like he wanted me to respond.
That's awesome testimony, but it's like the great what the
greatest testimony is how bad we were.
And then God forgave us for giving us His part.
But it's not the greatest testimony.
It's like, you know what? The devil came after me and I
punched him in the mouth with the words of my authority in the
name of Jesus. And it worked.
I resisted. He and he fled, and it were I
submitted to God. Resist the devil and he fled.
It worked. You know, I believe God for
this, that and the other. You know what?
It came to pass. Why?
Because I declared it. I decreed it because I only
spoke what God told me to speak. And I stood when I shouldn't
have supposed to stand. And I just stayed on it.
And I never came off. And I had all these thoughts and
everybody telling me, but I didn't yield one bit.
I hung on that work. And you know what?
It came to pass. God brought it to pass.
When everybody says it was over, it only came to pass.
Amen. Let's have those testimonies.
Because when you have that testimony, the world would be
like, I want to get your Kingdom because it actually works,
because you keep talking about how you.
Fell, messed up and blew it and did all wrong and you were drunk
like me on Saturday night and went worship God, I'm a praise
him. Anyway I could rewrite that
song. I actually rewrote it in my my
parking, my my driveway this past weekend.
You know, I praise him anyway. I praise him when I'm happy,
praise him when I'm sad. I'm like, why are you staying
sad? I mean, anybody can praise at
anything, you know? And most of them are praising
him when he's drunk. Praise him when they're
fornicating. Praise him.
No matter what they do, They're going to praise him anyway.
I'm just going to praise you anyway.
I praise the Lord, hold my soul. No matter what I'm doing, I'm
just going to praise him. Well, why don't you just stay
holy? Let's praise the man.
Our holiness. This church is going to preach
those things because you're separated under God.
Holiness is just means I'm separated under God, man.
You understand what I'm saying? I just do what God tells me to
do. I'm separated from the world.
I'm just going to do what God says, and that makes you holy.
That's holiness, I said. That's why it's nothing to be
afraid of. It's like to embrace.
Praise the Lord. In fact, the Lord says be holy
as I am. I mean, when did Jesus go to the
clubs? Before he went to the synagogue?
Did he tell the woman with the alabaster box?
Hey, listen, when I get out of this meeting because I'm full of
grace, girl. I'm full of grace girl.
Ain't nobody on this planet had more grace than I got right now.
All right. Amen.
It's easy to justify when you want to not bring God into the
conversation because they're already on the road to
rebellion. But Daddy is say no.
You need to cut them off. You know it's time for you to
lay that down, you know, because it isn't the not drinking that
made you holy. He made you holy.
And you're like this is. This is by product because that
plant don't tell me what to do anymore.
The idle of my phone doesn't tell me what I go look at on it
anymore. All right.
Second Timothy Y'all doing all right.
Can we do it in 10 minutes? I don't know.
Let's find out. Second Timothy Chapter 3 verses
one through 14, it says this. But you need to be.
Aware that in the final days, the culture of society will
become extremely fierce and difficult for the people of God.
All right, So please stop. Stop.
Stop being depressed about all the news.
Just say what's? Happening over there.
Well, that's confirming scripture, right?
Wow. I mean, the Lord said this would
happen. I said, the Lord said this would
happen. Right, we get stuck.
Because we came out of negative, we came out of brutality, we
came out of slavery. We came out of victim mentality,
right? And so every time something
bad's happening, we can easily identify because we came out of
it and we have a hard time going on to what else he says.
That's why we got to go to the 14th verse, because he's got
other things to say. But we get stuck in, man, it's
bad. This is horrible.
I wish Jesus would come and set up.
What? What am I going to do when all
this stuff, this stuff's taking place, right?
2. Verse two, people will be
self-centered, lovers of themselves and obsessed with
money. They will boast of great things
as they shroud, strut around in their arrogant pride and mock
all that is right. They will ignore their own
families. They will be ungrateful and
ungodly man. Ungratefulness is a sure sign
that you walking on the road of rebellion.
They will be become addicted to hateful and malicious slander,
slaves to their desires. They will be ferocious.
Bewildered haters or belligerent, Excuse me, haters
of what is good and right with brutal treachery, they will act
without restraint. Bigoted and wrapped in clouds of
their conceit, they will find their delight in the pleasures
of this world. They're always asking how much
can I be in the world and still be right with God?
More than the pleasures of loving God.
God's not asking to come out. There's not an environment I
won't go into. Period.
The Lord told me to go into a a bar.
I would go in it, but I wouldn't go in and drink with them to be
relevant. Are you hearing me?
I mean I would not. I'm not going into places to
assimilate to them. Jesus never sinned, so he can
never identify with us on what it means to act in sin.
Your savior has never sinned, Never.
Never got drunk, never did drugs, never slept around, never
hated his parents, never back bite, never gossip.
Are you hearing me? Never.
Yet he's the only one who can deliver you.
Praise the Lord. So when he goes into the world,
when he did, he didn't go. When acting like them, he
brought the Kingdom and they were like, mesmerized by how he
did. You understand, eating food with
a Sinner doesn't make Jesus a Sinner.
He just ate. Anybody can eat with someone.
That didn't mean he cussed with them, told dirty jokes with
them. He didn't behave like them.
First five they may pretend to have the respect for God, but in
reality they want nothing to do with God's power.
Stay away from people like these.
Now obviously this is the complex issue here.
It can't just be talking to people of the world because Paul
already corrected the Corinthian Church.
He said, listen, I told you to come out from among them and be
separate, but you can't, like, not be around.
I'm not saying you can't be with people that are in the world,
because at the end of the day, we're called to be lights to
them. You're going to interact with
them. What I'm saying is, is that you
don't go do what they do in the places they do.
They're not like your best buddies.
I mean, if your best buddies are those of the world, whoo,
there's a problem. The people you should have the
closest relation to with with are the people in your church.
That will help you change your doctrine.
What are you doing? Nobody says you can't go to go
eat with your coworkers. But if you rather hang out with
your coworkers and do anything that's going on at the church,
that's the problem because bad character corrupts good morals.
So obviously this has to do with some that are in the body of
Christ who are professing there something, but they're never
letting the God change them, He's saying.
Now those kind of people don't even hang.
In fact, the Lord says if they so call brother.
He said it in one of his churches.
If a so-called brothers act like his, he said have nothing to do
with him, have nothing to do with him.
But let me tell you what that so-called brothers going to do.
He's going to say how the church abandoning, how the church went
there when they failed, how the church broke away, how the
church hurt them, how the church wasn't there when they fell.
Listen, you were running away from the church the whole time
you were doing all your actions. You are already separating
yourself from the church. Then when all of a sudden the
church finds out because the scripture says your Sam will
surely find you out, and then they come and say you going to
have to repent. But we don't want to repent and
we want to make excuses of what's going on.
Well then at that point you're like, how am I going to help
you? Because I can only help bring
you to reconciliation and righteousness that comes through
repentance. And if you're not going to
repent, I can't help you. You've already left, although
you may be in the building. And that's just really a matter
of time. Because at some point
unrepentance has to be driven out.
And I'm talking from a believer perspective, but that's also
from unbelievers. I would not let unbelievers come
in and pass out and begin to share the way they live and act
like it's acceptable. With us?
If you read the Book of Revelation, God had problems in
those shirts, he said. I can't believe you've let the
spirit of Jezebel in here. I can't believe that you've
allowed the Nickelodeon doctrine to get up in this thing.
You better get rid of that stuff and get it out, he said.
With the Jezebel, he said. I gave her time to repent.
I gave her time, which means she's sitting around up in here
doing all her holler. Trees.
And got people siding with her, he said.
I gave her time to repent, but she didn't, so I put her out.
And all those who are following her.
They going to get on the same bed of sickness she's on?
He didn't say. Just let it go, bro, he said.
If you don't deal with this, I'll take your lamp.
That's New Testament. Say.
That's New Testament. Hallelujah.
This is good preaching. This is Savior.
This sets you free. Amen.
I mean, I understand there are abuses within church bodies, I
get that. But not every church bodies
having abuses. We can actually live this.
We're living here. Amen Verse 6, for they are the
ones who worm their way into the hearts of vulnerable women,
spending the night with those who are captured by their lust
and steeped in sin. Teach them Bible studies on
Sunday and sleep with them on Friday.
They are always learning, but never discover the revelation
knowledge of the truth. History has given us an example
of these with the Egyptian sorcerers who stood against
Moses in their arrogance. So it will be in the last days
with those who reject the faith with their corrupt minds and
arrogant heart standing against the truth of God.
But they will not advance, for everyone will see their madness.
Boy, you don't want to get in that place.
Again, you can run off at the mouth for a while.
But ultimately, the Lord's going to let everyone know your story
is wrong, your story's wrong, and you don't have to buy into
that story if you get the originator at a conversation to
show up in the conversation, he said.
But you, Timothy, come on, say but you, Timothy.
Have. Closely followed my example and
the truth that I have imparted to you.
What kind of arrogance is that? Obviously it's not arrogant, but
the scoffers will say so. Paul is like, listen, I know
there's people out there doing this.
I'm telling you how they're doing, but I'm not that guy.
Now, was Paul right? Because here's the thing.
The Holy Ghost will ultimately let everybody know whom the Lord
is with. He said.
But you, Timothy, have closely followed my example and the
truth that I've imparted to you. You have modeled your life after
the love and endurance I've demonstrated in my ministry by
not giving up the faith I have. You now have what I have Hunger
for in life now has become your come on longing as well, the
patience I have for others. Now you now demonstrate.
The same persecutions and difficulties I've endured, you
have also endured. Yes, you know all about what I
suffered while in Antioch and Iconium and Lystra.
You understand Timothy was a mentor of Paul.
But you know what? Probably the Church and Ephesus
did not know what Timothy knew about Paul's issues.
The ones who came after him, the difficulties, the persecution,
he confided in him. But he didn't go and say, let me
tell you what all is going on with Paul and who's going after
him? So there was a whole
congregation Timothy was over that did not know the same
details concerning the things going on in Paul's life.
He says you're aware of all the persecution I endured there yet.
The Lord delivered me from every single one of them.
For all who choose to live godly as worshippers of Jesus, they
know one will experience persecution.
Now here's the problem before I get to verse 13, the deceiver.
When they're corrected, they'll call that persecution when it's
really just correction. You can know the deceiver by
their mouth. You'll always know a deceiver by
their mouth. Because they will talk contrary
to Scripture. What do I mean by that?
They'll use scripture, but you'll hear things that you know
are contrary. Especially if they.
Begin to talk about people openly.
Gain access to conversations about people.
Speak about it like you know this is how it is and never want
to include them, especially those that are under their
authority. They'll begin to spew about
people that they're under authority.
It's amazing, but if you have ears to hear and you realize you
keep yourself righteous, you'll be like something ain't right
with that conversation and you can guard your heart.
This is not hard because the Holy Ghost lives in us all, he
said. But the evil men and sorcerers
will progress from bad to worse, deceived and deceiving as they
lead people further. From the truth.
Yet Timothy, you must say, must continue to advance and strength
with the truth wrapped around your heart, being assured by God
that he's the one who has truly taught you all things.
Now what's he saying? He's saying you followed my
example, you followed my teaching.
You saw my persecution, you saw my passenger people, everything
that I played before you. But the reality is, everything I
did, you realize that the Holy Ghost was saying what he's
saying is right. How he's acting right.
How he's handling that's right. How he's believing is right.
And you actually heard the Holy Ghost in all those things.
This is why. Paul could say in First Corinth
you said you want to follow Jesus.
Just follow me. Follow me as I follow Christ.
Now here's the thing, as you follow me as I follow Christ,
you may be limited on what I know and how I follow, but at
the end of the day you can follow the example.
You can discover it because in the last days there's going to
be conflict. But the good news is, I said,
the good news is that we have the Holy Ghost.
Within US. And if we are people who are not
of the scoffer, we do not recognize our associate
ourselves with that attitude. If you if there's something
isn't right, tell me, I'm fine. I just want to be holy.
I want to be blameless. I want my lifestyle to
demonstrate what I am on the inside.
In the inside. I'm right with God.
It's perfect. It's the can't improve this
thing. But I got to get that out.
And if there's anything I'm doing that was of an old nature
and you can tell, my gosh, say something about it.
And if it does bear with this, I'll be quick to let go because
I'm going to tell you right now. The deceiver ones are going to
say other things, but most of the things they say will allow
you to hold on to fleshly. Attitudes and behaviors, I had
one person say to me today. I realized when you come to
anchor Faith Church, two things are going to happen.
You're going to grow or go. And that's true because you
either grow in the things of God or you go because your flesh
won't let you sit here anymore. I understand.
And you said, well, gosh, doesn't that make you feel sad?
Sure, just as sad as Jesus. You know how many people Jesus
is going to look at, say, go to the lake of Fire, go to lake of
Fire, Go to lake of Fire, Go to lake of Fire, go to lake of
Fire. You don't think that bothers
him? In fact, the scripture tells us
he plans no pleasure and people Don.
Yet the king will sit on the throne at the Great White Throne
judgment. And those who could have been in
his house should have been in his house.
He wanted in their house, paid the price for them to be in his
house. He'll say, go to Lake of Fire,
Go to Lake of Fire, Go to Lake of Fire, go to the Lake of Fire,
because you chose the Lake of Fire.
And not me. And I'm giving you what you
want. Now they'll be kicking and
screaming the whole time saying no, no, no, Jesus, I didn't want
it. I didn't want it.
He said no, the evidence says go to Lake of Fire.
I do not. We do not keep people in Anchor,
faith, Church at all cost. We live righteousness at all
cost. And those who want to be
righteous love to stay. Those who don't will have
problems and they're not our problems because there's enough
power. For you to change so every time
God talks to you about anything. Just obey it.
Because when you do, you won't be deceived, and you'll never be
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