WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:04.671 (MUSIC) 00:04.671 --> 00:07.674 (ROARING) 00:07.679 --> 00:11.880 - GOOD EVENING, LORD OF HOSTS CHURCH. GOOD EVENING, LORD OF 00:11.880 --> 00:15.980 HOSTS CHURCH. I ALWAYS SAY THAT WEDNESDAY NIGHTS ARE FOR THE 00:15.980 --> 00:20.940 WILD AND THE DANGEROUS. NOT ONLY THAT, THESE ARE DEMON BUSTERS 00:20.940 --> 00:24.989 THAT ARE UP IN HERE. SOMEBODY NEEDS TO GIVE JESUS SOME PRAISE. 00:24.989 --> 00:29.161 SAY HALLELUJAH, SAY PRAISE THE KING OF KINGS AND THE 00:29.161 --> 00:32.365 LORD OF LORDS. COME ON, LET'S ENTER IN. 00:32.399 --> 00:36.569 (MUSIC) 00:36.585 --> 00:44.878 - WE LIFT UP THE NAME OF JESUS. THE MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS. 00:44.911 --> 00:49.249 (MUSIC) 00:49.281 --> 00:54.887 EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, EVERY TONGUE 00:54.887 --> 01:02.395 CONFESS THE NAME OF JESUS. 01:02.429 --> 01:07.200 (MUSIC) 01:07.233 --> 01:18.569 JESUS, JESUS, SAY THE NAME, SAY THE NAME, JESUS, 01:18.569 --> 01:31.859 JESUS. SAY THE NAME, SAY THE NAME, JESUS, JESUS. THERE'S 01:31.859 --> 01:38.097 POWER, THERE'S POWER IN THE NAME, JESUS, JESUS. 01:38.131 --> 01:42.234 (MUSIC) 01:42.268 --> 01:50.709 THERE IS POWER IN THE NAME OF JESUS. 01:50.709 --> 01:59.118 THERE IS POWER IN THE NAME OF JESUS. 01:59.118 --> 02:10.129 THERE IS POWER IN THE NAME OF JESUS. TO BREAK EVERY CHAIN. 07:10.930 --> 07:16.903 (MUSIC) 07:16.935 --> 07:19.773 - THERE IS AN ATMOSPHERE OF CHANGE COMING. 07:19.805 --> 07:23.810 (MUSIC) 07:23.843 --> 07:28.380 CHANGE IS IN THE AIR, CHANGE IS IN THE AIR 07:28.415 --> 07:32.252 (MUSIC) 07:32.285 --> 07:35.889 REVIVAL'S IN THE AIR 07:35.922 --> 07:45.632 (MUSIC) 11:48.532 --> 11:51.532 - WE WORSHIP YOU LORD! 11:51.577 --> 11:54.547 (MUSIC) 11:54.581 --> 11:58.217 YOU'RE THE GOD OF REVIVAL. 11:58.250 --> 12:29.749 (MUSIC) 12:29.783 --> 12:38.490 - POUR OUT YOUR SPIRIT. GOD OF... POUR IT OUT, POUR IT OUT 12:38.490 --> 12:49.769 POUR IT OUT, POUR IT OUT. POUR OUT YOUR SPIRIT ON US. 12:49.769 --> 12:55.174 POUR IT OUT, POUR IT OUT, POUR IT OUT. 12:55.174 --> 13:02.782 POUR IT OUT, POUR IT OUT, POUR IT OUT. POUR OUT YOUR SPIRIT ON 13:02.782 --> 13:10.123 US. COME ON, SING POUR IT OUT, POUR IT OUT, POUR IT OUT, 13:10.123 --> 13:17.630 POUR IT OUT, POUR OUT YOUR SPIRIT ON US. 13:17.630 --> 13:25.471 COME ON! POUR IT OUT, POUR IT OUT, POUR IT OUT, 13:25.471 --> 13:36.482 POUR IT OUT, POUR OUT YOUR SPIRIT ON US. OH! POUR IT OUT, 13:36.482 --> 13:41.321 POUR IT OUT, POUR IT OUT, POUR IT OUT, 13:41.321 --> 13:46.592 POUR OUT YOUR SPIRIT ON US. 13:46.592 --> 13:51.498 - WE ARE CRYING OUT FOR YOUR SPIRIT. WE ARE CRYING OUT FOR 13:51.498 --> 13:58.038 YOUR SPIRIT, O GOD. POUR OUT YOUR COMPASSION AND YOUR MERCY. 13:58.071 --> 14:00.974 (SPEAKING IN TONGUES) 14:01.006 --> 14:07.681 POUR OUT YOUR HEART OVER THE PEOPLE, O LORD. RELEASE YOUR 14:07.681 --> 14:13.352 SPIRIT IN ABUNDANCE OVER THE PEOPLE, OVER THE CITY, AND OVER 14:13.352 --> 14:18.524 THIS NATION, OH GOD. WE ARE CRYING OUT, NOT JUST FOR AN 14:18.524 --> 14:23.363 ENCOUNTER, NOT JUST FOR A VISITATION, BUT FOR A DWELLING 14:23.363 --> 14:28.306 OF YOUR PRESENCE, OH LORD. LET THIS BE THE HOUR OF 14:28.306 --> 14:34.206 YOUR DOMINION TAKE OVER. POUR IT OUT. 14:34.240 --> 14:39.778 (SPEAKING IN TONGUES) 14:39.812 --> 14:43.549 - WE COMMAND THE SPIRIT OF DELAY TO BE 14:43.549 --> 14:49.006 LOOSED OVER THE PEOPLE NOW. WE SAY THAT THIS IS PROPHESIED 14:49.044 --> 14:52.558 THE DECADE OF DIFFERENCE. SO WE ARE STEPPING INTO 14:52.558 --> 14:55.394 SOMETHING NEW. WE ARE STEPPING INTO 14:55.394 --> 15:00.032 SOMETHING NOW. NOW, NO MORE DELAY. WE SAY THAT 15:00.032 --> 15:03.145 THE PRAYERS OF PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, I FEEL THAT RIGHT NOW, THAT 15:03.145 --> 15:06.176 THERE ARE SOME OF YOU IN THIS ROOM AND THERE'S SOME OF YOU 15:06.176 --> 15:09.086 WATCHING ONLINE THAT YOU HAVE HAD PRAYERS, YOU'VE HAD THINGS 15:09.086 --> 15:12.025 YOU'VE BEEN BELIEVING FOR IN YOUR PERSONAL LIFE. YOU KNOW, 15:12.025 --> 15:15.775 WE'VE BEEN FIGHTING AS A NATION GOING BACK TO THE BEGINNING OF 15:15.775 --> 15:20.456 THIS DECADE, BUT IT WAS PROPHESIED FROM THIS MINISTRY 15:20.456 --> 15:23.696 THAT THIS WAS A DECADE OF DIFFERENCE. THAT MEANS NOT JUST 15:23.696 --> 15:29.005 IN AMERICA, BUT YOUR PERSONAL LIFE. CLAIM THAT RIGHT NOW. YOU 15:29.005 --> 15:35.696 KNOW, I WAS LED TO 2 CHRONICLES 20, WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT 15:35.696 --> 15:39.475 JEHOSHAPHAT AND THE ARMY. IT SAID, "IF THEY STOOD FIRM ON THE 15:39.475 --> 15:42.855 LORD THEIR GOD, WATCH WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO THEM." AND IT 15:42.855 --> 15:46.706 SAID, "BELIEVE YOUR PROPHETS." AND NOTICE WHAT HAPPENED WHEN 15:46.706 --> 15:50.096 THEY DECLARED AND THEY SANG, JUST LIKE WE WERE TALKING AND 15:50.096 --> 15:55.736 SINGING JUST NOW AND DECLARING THE DECLARATION. THE ARMY OF, IS 15:55.736 --> 15:58.975 IT AMMON AND MOAB, TURNED AGAINST EACH OTHER AND THEY 15:58.975 --> 16:02.461 KILLED EACH OTHER. GOD DELIVERED THE 16:02.461 --> 16:06.807 NATION, AMEN? GOD DELIVERED, ALL THEY 16:06.807 --> 16:11.005 HAD TO DO WAS DECLARE. THEY HAD TO SING. LOOK AT JERICHO, THEY 16:11.005 --> 16:17.096 MARCHED AROUND. SEVEN DAYS, BUT ONCE A DAY FOR SIX DAYS. YOU 16:17.096 --> 16:20.096 THINK THERE WERE SOME PEOPLE IN THERE LIKE, ARE WE IN THE LINE 16:20.096 --> 16:24.716 OF FIRE HERE? HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO ALSO SIT AROUND AND 16:24.716 --> 16:28.586 SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT, AM I IN THE LINE OF FIRE? THE BATTLE LOOKS 16:28.586 --> 16:32.125 TOUGH, BUT WE HAVE TO TRUST THE LORD. THOSE SOLDIERS PROBABLY 16:32.125 --> 16:34.855 THOUGHT, YOU KNOW WHAT, MAN, THEY MIGHT HAVE SPEARS, THEY 16:34.855 --> 16:38.275 MIGHT HAVE ARROWS, BUT THEY MARCHED AROUND, THEY TOOK THE 16:38.275 --> 16:43.003 RISK, THEY TRUSTED THE VOICE OF GOD. GOD MOVES IN INCREDIBLE 16:43.003 --> 16:47.035 WAYS, WE NEED TO LEARN TO TRUST HIS VOICE. SOMETIMES PROPHECY 16:47.035 --> 16:51.385 DOESN'T MAKE SENSE, BUT WHEN YOU STAND IN THE GAP AND SAY, "NO, 16:52.405 --> 16:56.635 I'M GONNA BELIEVE THE PROPHETS "AND THE WORDS OF THE PROPHETS." 16:57.655 --> 17:00.596 JUST LIKE JESUS DID IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE, HE 17:00.596 --> 17:06.625 BELIEVED WHAT ISAIAH 53 SAID. AT FIRST IT WAS, "LET THIS CUP PASS 17:06.625 --> 17:10.105 FROM ME "IF ALL POSSIBLE," BUT THEN HE SAID, "NO, NOT MY WILL 17:10.105 --> 17:14.365 BE DONE, YOUR WILL BE DONE." AND A NATION AND THE WORLD WAS 17:14.365 --> 17:18.924 SAVED, OKAY? WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND AMERICA WILL BE SAVED 17:18.924 --> 17:23.306 WHEN WE BELIEVE THE PROPHETS. WHEN WE START DECLARING OVER 17:23.306 --> 17:28.736 OURSELVES, GUESS WHAT, JUST LIKE IN 2 CHRONICLES 20, OH, DO YOU 17:28.736 --> 17:32.665 THINK MAYBE HELL COULD FIGHT AGAINST ITSELF? WHERE HELL, THE 17:32.665 --> 17:36.655 GATES OF HELL SHALL NOT PREVAIL. AND GUESS WHAT? WE CAN CONFUSE 17:36.655 --> 17:41.605 THE ENEMY'S CAMP WITH OUR DECLARATION. AMEN. AMEN, THAT'S 17:41.605 --> 17:46.105 WHY, YOU KNOW WHAT, SOMETIMES, DON'T PRAY IN ENGLISH, GET IN 17:46.105 --> 17:49.346 THE SPIRIT AND PRAY IN TONGUES. PRAY IN YOUR LANGUAGE. LET'S 17:49.346 --> 17:52.877 TAKE A SECOND, JUST PRAY IN THE SPIRIT TOGETHER. COME ON, 17:52.877 --> 17:55.826 THIS IS STRATEGIC, THIS IS STRATEGIC. 17:55.875 --> 18:10.390 (SPEAKING IN TONGUES) 18:10.435 --> 18:13.256 COME ON, YOUR PRAYERS ARE GETTING ANSWERED, I'M TELLING 18:13.256 --> 18:15.476 YOU, THERE'S SOME OF YOU THAT ARE STILL UNBELIEVING FOR YOUR 18:15.476 --> 18:20.036 VICTORY. GOING BACK TO 2020, YOUR VICTORY'S COMING, COME ON. 18:20.036 --> 18:22.320 PRAY IN THE SPIRIT, PRAY IN THE SPIRIT. 18:22.320 --> 18:38.084 (SPEAKING IN TONGUES) 18:38.117 --> 18:42.122 - CAN YOU GUYS PULL UP EXODUS 34:5-6? 18:42.154 --> 18:47.760 (SPEAKING IN TONGUES) 18:47.786 --> 18:51.715 THIS IS JUST A REMINDER. I FEEL LED TO REMIND PEOPLE. PASTOR 18:51.715 --> 18:54.476 MATT WAS TALKING ABOUT 2020 AND SOMETHING THAT WE TALKED ABOUT 18:54.476 --> 18:59.816 WAS, 2020 WAS AN INTERESTING YEAR BECAUSE MANY OF YOU LOST 18:59.816 --> 19:04.556 LOVED ONES. MAYBE YOU LOST A JOB OR A CAREER. MAYBE THERE WAS 19:04.556 --> 19:09.145 FRIENDS THAT YOU LOST. THERE WAS SOMETHING THAT SHIFTED AND IT 19:09.145 --> 19:14.875 WASN'T NECESSARILY GOOD. BUT SOMETHING HAPPENED AFTER 2020 AS 19:14.875 --> 19:17.455 WE'VE HEADED INTO SUBSEQUENT YEARS. AND I FEEL LIKE A LOT OF 19:17.455 --> 19:20.795 PEOPLE HAVE CARRIED A SPIRIT OF DOUBT, 19:20.795 --> 19:23.125 A SPIRIT OF, “WELL, HERE WE GO AGAIN.” 19:23.125 --> 19:24.596 - SAY THIS, COME ON. 19:24.596 --> 19:27.506 - A SPIRIT OF, “WELL, I HOPE SO." 19:27.506 --> 19:28.105 - YEAH. 19:28.105 --> 19:31.375 - SO I FELT LED TONIGHT WITH PASTOR MATT TO REMIND YOU OF WHO 19:31.375 --> 19:36.026 GOD IS. BECAUSE JUST A SIMPLE MESSAGE, FOR ALL OF YOU WHO ARE 19:36.026 --> 19:38.455 DEALING WITH SOMETHING, MAYBE YOU'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF A CYCLE 19:38.455 --> 19:43.195 THAT YOU ARE BELIEVING THAT IS GONNA BE BROKEN, AND IT IS. GOD 19:43.195 --> 19:51.596 LOVES YOU. HE'S FOR YOU. AND HE IS ALWAYS, ALWAYS WORKING ON 19:51.596 --> 19:55.121 YOUR BEHALF. EXODUS 34:5. "AND THE LORD DESCENDED IN THE 19:55.121 --> 19:56.195 CLOUD AND STOOD WITH HIM THERE AND 19:56.195 --> 19:58.046 PROCLAIMED THE NAME OF THE LORD." 19:58.046 --> 20:01.105 VERSE 6. "AND THE LORD PASSED BY BEFORE HIM AND PROCLAIMED, THE 20:01.105 --> 20:06.685 LORD, THE LORD GOD, MERCIFUL AND GRACIOUS." THE NLT SAYS, 20:06.685 --> 20:14.332 "YAHWEH, THE LORD, GOD OF COMPASSION AND MERCY. I AM SLOW 20:14.332 --> 20:20.662 TO ANGER AND FILLED WITH UNFAILING LOVE AND FAITHFULNESS 20:20.662 --> 20:25.912 FOR A THOUSAND GENERATIONS." THAT NUMBER 1,000, IT'S NOT JUST 20:25.912 --> 20:30.382 A NUMBER THAT YOU GLAZE OVER. WHAT IT REPRESENTS IS THE 20:30.382 --> 20:37.821 PERFECTED FULLNESS TO COMPLETION OF WHAT GOD SAYS. SO WHAT AM I 20:37.821 --> 20:43.642 SAYING? DON'T LOOK BACK AT 2020. SHIFT YOUR FRAME OF REFERENCE TO 20:43.642 --> 20:49.192 WHAT GOD HAS SAID IN EXODUS 34:5-6. AND RIGHT NOW, IN THE 20:49.192 --> 20:52.251 LAST COUPLE MINUTES WE HAVE HERE, I WANNA BE ABLE TO PRAY 20:52.251 --> 20:55.461 FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE JUST BELIEVING FOR A CYCLE TO BE 20:55.461 --> 20:58.672 BROKEN. MAYBE YOU'RE LIKE, YOU KNOW WHAT, PASTOR, THAT'S ME. 20:58.672 --> 21:01.551 I'VE HAD SOME THINGS THAT I'VE CARRIED WITH ME FROM 2020, SOME 21:01.551 --> 21:04.731 BITTERNESS, MAYBE SOME SORROW. COME DOWN TO THE FRONT, WE'LL 21:04.731 --> 21:08.211 PRAY FOR YOU REAL QUICK. BUT WE BELIEVE THAT GOD IS GONNA BREAK 21:08.211 --> 21:11.571 SOMETHING RIGHT NOW. DON'T BE SHY, COME ON, COME ON. 21:11.571 --> 21:13.011 (SPEAKING IN TONGUES) 21:13.011 --> 21:16.281 THIS IS YOUR MOMENT. EDDIE WAS JUST SINGING. SOMETHING IS 21:16.281 --> 21:22.083 SHIFTING IN THE ATMOSPHERE. IT'S SHIFTING, IT'S SHIFTING. 21:22.083 --> 21:26.061 BUT WE HAVE TO KNOW AND TRUST AND STOP QUESTIONING GOD'S 21:26.061 --> 21:28.791 CHARACTER, AMEN? PASTOR MATT, I'M GONNA GO PRAY DOWN 21:28.791 --> 21:32.061 THERE WITH THE PEOPLE. WOULD YOU MIND PRAYING OVER THE VIEWERS 21:32.061 --> 21:34.461 AND THE E-MEMBERS? 'CAUSE I FEEL THIS ONLINE TOO. 21:34.493 --> 21:35.761 (SPEAKING IN TONGUES) 21:35.781 --> 21:37.221 - COME ON, LET'S PRAY IN THE SPIRIT. 21:37.262 --> 21:42.469 (SPEAKING IN TONGUES) 21:42.501 --> 21:46.071 WE DECLARE RIGHT NOW, THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING ONLINE, WE 21:46.071 --> 21:50.152 SAY A SUPERNATURAL GRACE. WE SAY YOUR PRAYERS ARE ANSWERED. WE 21:50.152 --> 21:54.021 SAY MOUNTAINS MOVE IN YOUR LIFE. THE SPIRIT OF DELAY IS OVER. WE 21:54.021 --> 21:57.442 SAY YOU'RE STEPPING INTO THE NEW SEASON, THE DECADE OF DIFFERENCE 21:57.442 --> 22:01.521 THAT WAS PROPHESIED. GOD HAS NOT FORGOTTEN YOU. SO RIGHT NOW, 22:01.521 --> 22:04.132 WHEREVER YOU ARE WATCHING, STRETCH FORTH YOUR HAND AND 22:04.132 --> 22:10.041 CLAIM, CLAIM, CLAIM, CLAIM THE NEW SEASON, THE NEW, THE NEW, 22:10.041 --> 22:13.342 THE NEW, THE NEW, THE NEW OVER YOUR LIFE. MOUNTAINS ARE MOVING 22:13.342 --> 22:17.422 IN YOUR LIFE. I SAY FAMILY MEMBERS COME TO THE LORD. I SAY 22:17.422 --> 22:22.612 PRODIGALS COME BACK. I SAY THOSE THAT ARE STEPPING INTO NEW JOBS, 22:22.612 --> 22:26.632 INCREASE WEALTH. WE SAY LORD THAT, THAT THOSE THAT HAVE BEEN 22:26.632 --> 22:30.412 FAR FROM YOU, THAT HAVE, HAVE HEALTH CONCERNS, THINGS LORD, 22:30.412 --> 22:34.162 THAT IN THEIR BODIES LORD ARE BOTHERING THEM. WE SAY HEALING, 22:34.162 --> 22:38.271 SPIRIT, SOUL AND BODY NOW. WE SAY THOSE THAT ARE DEALING WITH 22:38.271 --> 22:42.561 MENTAL DISEASE OR DEPRESSION, WE SAY A SUPERNATURAL HEALING COMES 22:42.561 --> 22:45.922 OVER YOU FOR YOU HAVE THE MIND OF CHRIST AND WE SPEAK IT OVER 22:45.922 --> 22:51.321 YOU NOW IN JESUS NAME. THE DAYS ARE OLD, THOSE OLD DAYS, DON'T 22:51.321 --> 22:54.741 LOOK BACK FOR YOU'RE STEPPING INTO SOMETHING BRAND NEW IN YOUR 22:54.741 --> 22:58.281 LIFE. GOD HAS NOT FORGOTTEN YOU, GOD HAS NOT FORGOTTEN YOU, YOU 22:58.281 --> 23:01.162 KEEP FIGHTING, YOU KEEP FIGHTING, YOU KEEP FIGHTING. AND 23:01.162 --> 23:05.571 WE SAY FIRE UPON THE ENEMY'S CAMP, WE SAY FIRE UPON THE 23:05.571 --> 23:10.251 ENEMY'S CAMP AND A VICTORY OVER YOU IN JESUS' NAME. 23:10.251 --> 23:12.558 (SPEAKING IN TONGUES) 23:12.592 --> 23:13.674 THANK YOU, JESUS. 23:13.674 --> 23:15.412 (SPEAKING IN TONGUES) 23:15.412 --> 23:21.592 - SO JUST REMEMBER, YAHWEH, THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, GOD OF 23:21.592 --> 23:27.201 COMPASSION, MERCY, LOVING KINDNESS, AND FAITHFULNESS FOR A 23:27.201 --> 23:31.281 THOUSAND GENERATIONS. THIS IS YOUR NEW BEGINNING. NO MORE 23:31.281 --> 23:35.231 LOOKING BACK. IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN? AMEN. 23:35.231 --> 23:38.063 - AMEN, AMEN, AMEN. WELL, GREET SOMEONE 23:38.063 --> 23:41.301 IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD TONIGHT, AMEN. TELL 23:41.301 --> 23:43.460 SOMEONE YOU LOVE THEM, AND YOU'RE GLAD THAT 23:43.460 --> 23:45.592 THEY ARE HERE IN THE HOUSE OF GOD. AMEN? 23:45.625 --> 24:17.022 (MUSIC) 24:17.057 --> 24:19.912 - WELL, GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY. ARE WE 24:19.912 --> 24:24.741 READY TO SEE A FEW MORE CHAINS GET BROKEN? ARE WE READY TO 24:24.741 --> 24:30.112 CONTINUE TO LEARN WHAT THE LORD HAS FOR US? THAT'S A YES OR NO 24:30.112 --> 24:34.311 QUESTION. YES, YES. WELL, I'M GOING TO SHARE A LITTLE BIT WITH 24:34.311 --> 24:36.922 YOU ABOUT GIVING. THIS IS TONIGHT'S OFFERING MESSAGE AND 24:36.922 --> 24:39.832 I'M JUST GOING TO SHARE THREE SIMPLE SCRIPTURES, BUT I THINK 24:39.832 --> 24:41.872 THERE'S PROBABLY PEOPLE IN THIS ROOM AND THERE MIGHT EVEN BE 24:41.872 --> 24:45.471 PEOPLE ONLINE THAT LIKE ME IN THE PAST HAVE TRIED TO FIGURE 24:45.471 --> 24:49.821 EVERYTHING OUT. AND THERE'S SOME THINGS ABOUT THE KINGDOM OF GOD 24:49.821 --> 24:53.781 AND HOW HIS WORD WORKS, THAT ONLY THE HOLY SPIRIT CAN UNLOCK 24:53.781 --> 24:56.541 THOSE TRUTHS. SO WE'RE GOING TO DO THAT TONIGHT. AND YOU'RE 24:56.541 --> 25:00.592 READY TO HAVE SOME FUN. LET'S HAVE SOME FUN WITH THIS. I'M 25:00.592 --> 25:02.902 GOING TO SHARE A SCRIPTURE FROM NEHEMIAH, I'M NOT GOING TO GO 25:02.902 --> 25:05.872 INTO TOO MUCH DETAIL ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THIS SCRIPTURE. BUT 25:05.872 --> 25:08.481 THIS IS WHEN NEHEMIAH I THINK IN THE LAST YEAR OR PROBABLY THE 25:08.481 --> 25:11.602 LAST THREE OR FOUR YEARS, WE'VE LEARNED A LOT ABOUT NEHEMIAH AND 25:11.602 --> 25:14.481 HIM REBUILDING THE WALL AND HOW THAT PARALLELS WHAT'S GOING ON 25:14.481 --> 25:18.531 IN OUR COUNTRY AND AROUND OUR WORLD. THE JOY OF THE LORD IS 25:18.531 --> 25:21.261 OUR STRENGTH IS HOW THIS SCRIPTURE ENDS. AND I JUST WANT 25:21.261 --> 25:24.352 TO READ IT REAL BRIEFLY. "AND NEHEMIAH CONTINUED," IN NEHEMIAH 25:24.352 --> 25:29.422 8:10, "GO AND CELEBRATE WITH THE FEAST OF RICH FOODS AND SWEET 25:29.422 --> 25:32.902 DRINKS AND SHARE THE GIFTS OF FOOD WITH PEOPLE WHO HAVE 25:32.902 --> 25:36.943 NOTHING PREPARED." THERE'S A SERMON IN THAT RIGHT THERE. 25:36.943 --> 25:40.078 "THIS IS A SACRED DAY BEFORE THE LORD," THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT, 25:40.078 --> 25:44.443 THIS LAST PART. "DON'T BE DEJECTED AND SAD, FOR THE JOY 25:44.443 --> 25:46.880 OF THE LORD IS YOUR STRENGTH." THE JOY OF 25:46.880 --> 25:48.446 THE LORD. WE'RE GOING TO GET INTO JOY 25:48.446 --> 25:51.951 IN A FEW SECONDS. I WANT TO TIE ANOTHER CONCEPT TO 25:51.951 --> 25:56.451 THIS, AND IT'S CHILDLIKE FAITH. LIKE I SAID, WHEN I STARTED, FOR 25:56.451 --> 25:59.932 ME PERSONALLY, OVER THE YEARS, WHEN LIFE WAS BUSY, AND I WAS 25:59.932 --> 26:02.422 TRYING TO CLIMB THE CORPORATE LADDER, AND I HAD CHILDREN IN 26:02.422 --> 26:06.412 SCHOOL, TASHA AND I WERE RAISING OUR KIDS, I LET THE BUSYNESS OF 26:06.412 --> 26:10.672 LIFE TAKE OVER MY BRAIN. AND I HAD TO FIGURE EVERYTHING OUT. 26:10.672 --> 26:17.662 CHILDLIKE FAITH FROM MATTHEW 18:1-4, EXCUSE ME. “ABOUT THAT 26:17.662 --> 26:21.951 TIME, THE DISCIPLES CAME TO JESUS AND ASKED, WHO IS GREATEST 26:21.951 --> 26:24.471 IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN? SO JESUS IS SITTING WITH HIS 26:24.471 --> 26:27.442 DISCIPLES, AND THEY ASKED HIM THAT QUESTION. WE'VE PROBABLY 26:27.442 --> 26:30.622 ALL HEARD THAT, BUT I WANNA BRING THAT BACK RIGHT NOW. JESUS 26:30.622 --> 26:34.551 CALLED A LITTLE CHILD TO HIM AND PUT THE CHILD AMONG THEM.” SO 26:34.551 --> 26:37.852 PICTURE THAT IN YOUR MIND. HERE'S JESUS, OUR SAVIOR, OUR 26:37.852 --> 26:42.442 LORD, AND HIS 12 CHOSEN PEOPLE, HIS 12 CHOSEN APOSTLES, 26:42.442 --> 26:46.672 DISCIPLES, EXCUSE ME. AND JESUS GRABS A SMALL CHILD TO MAKE A 26:46.672 --> 26:51.531 POINT. THEN JESUS SAID TO THEM, I TELL YOU THE TRUTH, UNLESS YOU 26:51.531 --> 26:55.672 TURN FROM YOUR SINS AND BECOME LIKE LITTLE CHILDREN, YOU WILL 26:55.672 --> 27:00.051 NEVER GET INTO THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. CHILDLIKE FAITH. MY 27:00.051 --> 27:02.182 BRAIN SAYS YOU DON'T HAVE TO HAVE IT ALL FIGURED OUT. THOSE 27:02.182 --> 27:04.971 LITTLE CHILDREN, WE'VE GOT SOME SMALL CHILDREN IN THIS ROOM. 27:04.971 --> 27:07.791 THERE MIGHT EVEN BE SOME SMALL CHILDREN ONLINE THAT ARE SITTING 27:07.791 --> 27:11.541 THERE WITH YOU. SO ANYONE WHO BECOMES, JESUS CONTINUED, SO 27:11.541 --> 27:15.501 ANYONE WHO BECOMES AS HUMBLE AS THIS LITTLE CHILD IS THE 27:15.501 --> 27:19.402 GREATEST IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. I'M GONNA PLAY A BRIEF 27:19.402 --> 27:22.521 VIDEO FOR YOU. WE'RE GONNA HAVE SOME JOY IN THE ROOM AND I'M 27:22.521 --> 27:24.088 GONNA TIE THIS ALL TOGETHER WITH THE 27:24.088 --> 27:25.461 LAST SCRIPTURE. PLEASE PLAY THE VIDEO. 27:26.313 --> 27:31.402 - THIS MORNING WE HAVE ACCEPTED CHRIST AS HIS SAVIOR AND AS HIS 27:31.402 --> 27:36.261 LORD AND HE WILL DEMONSTRATE HIS FAITH IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST 27:36.261 --> 27:40.011 BY WILLINGLY BEING BAPTIZED THIS MORNING. HE'S BEEN WAITING ON 27:40.011 --> 27:45.291 THIS DAY A LONG TIME. AND SO, JORDAN, UPON THE PROFESSION OF 27:45.291 --> 27:50.001 YOUR FAITH IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, I NOW BAPTIZE YOU IN THE 27:50.001 --> 27:52.672 NAME OF THE FATHER AND OF THE SON. 27:52.672 --> 27:53.940 - I'LL DO IT! 27:53.940 --> 27:55.241 - AND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 27:55.275 --> 28:03.983 (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 28:04.017 --> 28:09.016 - SO I DON'T THINK JORDAN COULD HAVE MADE MORE CLEAR WHAT 28:09.021 --> 28:13.731 CHILDLIKE FAITH IS ALL ABOUT. AND LITERALLY JUST GIVING IT TO 28:13.731 --> 28:17.481 GOD. IF YOU COULDN'T HEAR HIM AS THE PASTOR WAS ABOUT TO BAPTIZE 28:17.481 --> 28:24.003 HIM, HE SAID, "I'LL DO IT." AND HE DOVE RIGHT IN. WITH THE 28:24.021 --> 28:26.392 OFFERING INFORMATION ON THE SCREEN AND THE USHERS IN THE 28:26.392 --> 28:29.481 AISLE, I'M JUST GONNA READ THIS LAST SCRIPTURE, IT WON'T BE UP 28:29.481 --> 28:35.781 ON THE BOARD. GOD LOVES A CHEERFUL GIVER. SO LET'S TIE ALL 28:35.781 --> 28:39.051 THIS TOGETHER TONIGHT. LET'S BREAK CHAINS ACROSS THIS ROOM 28:39.051 --> 28:43.162 AND ACROSS THE GLOBE AS YOU'RE LISTENING TO THIS MESSAGE. 2 28:43.162 --> 28:47.301 CORINTHIANS 9:7 SAYS, "YOU MUST EACH DECIDE IN YOUR HEART HOW TO 28:47.301 --> 28:51.382 GIVE." HOW MUCH TO GIVE, EXCUSE ME. "AND DON'T GIVE RELUCTANTLY 28:51.382 --> 28:55.701 OR IN RESPONSE TO ANY PRESSURE, FOR GOD LOVES A PERSON WHO 28:55.701 --> 28:59.751 CHEERFULLY GIVES." THAT'S TONIGHT'S MESSAGE. REMEMBER 28:59.751 --> 29:03.832 JORDAN IN YOUR FAITH. REMEMBER TO LIVE LIKE THAT SMALL CHILD 29:03.832 --> 29:08.842 AND JUST TRUST GOD. I'M GONNA LIFT US UP IN PRAYER RIGHT NOW. 29:08.842 --> 29:11.632 LORD, I THANK YOU FOR EVERY SINGLE PERSON WITHIN THE SOUND 29:11.632 --> 29:14.961 OF MY VOICE. GOD, AND I THANK YOU FOR YOUR HOLY SPIRIT AND 29:14.961 --> 29:18.622 YOUR ANOINTING THAT DESTROYS EVERY YOKE. FOR EVERY PERSON OUT 29:18.622 --> 29:22.251 THERE, LORD, THAT STRIVES TO FIGURE IT OUT, I PRAY THAT THIS 29:22.251 --> 29:26.991 SIMPLE VIDEO AND THIS LITTLE BOY, JORDAN, WHO DOVE INTO THAT 29:26.991 --> 29:31.551 BAPTISMAL, LORD, WILL BE A CONSTANT REMINDER TO US TO HAVE 29:31.551 --> 29:36.771 CHILDLIKE FAITH AND THAT THE WORDS OF JESUS TO HIS DISCIPLES, 29:36.771 --> 29:40.491 BUT AT THINKING AND BELIEVING AS A CHILD, WE CAN BECOME THE 29:40.491 --> 29:43.071 GREATEST IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. LORD, I ASK YOU TO 29:43.071 --> 29:47.872 MULTIPLY THIS OFFERING. LORD, MULTIPLY IT BACK TO PEOPLE A 29:47.872 --> 29:51.892 HUNDREDFOLD AS THEY GIVE TO YOU AND GIVE UNTO YOUR KINGDOM. 29:51.892 --> 29:54.412 LORD, WE THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE HERE TONIGHT. 29:54.412 --> 29:57.862 WE THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO GIVE, LORD, AND WE ASK THAT 29:57.862 --> 30:01.132 YOU WOULD RETURN THAT TO US RIGHT NOW IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. 30:03.862 --> 30:08.781 - THANK YOU SO MUCH, BOB, AMEN, AMEN. MAN, I LOVE SEEING VIDEOS 30:08.781 --> 30:11.632 LIKE THAT WITH LITTLE KIDS HUNGRY IN THE SPIRIT, AMEN. THAT 30:11.632 --> 30:15.231 CHILDLIKE FAITH, YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO HAVE THAT. BUT SPEAKING 30:15.231 --> 30:19.342 OF THAT, YOU KNOW, HOW MANY OF YOU ARE READY FOR OTH THIS 30:19.342 --> 30:24.407 COMING SEPTEMBER? COME ON, COME ON, COME ON. I THINK WE CAN DO 30:24.407 --> 30:29.116 ANOTHER ONE. ARE YOU EXCITED FOR OTH? THERE YOU GO, THAT'S 30:29.116 --> 30:33.616 BETTER. AND IF YOU'RE WATCHING ONLINE AND YOU HAVE REGISTERED, 30:33.616 --> 30:38.747 PLEASE COMMENT. IF YOU HAVE NOT, THIS IS THE TIME. AND SHARE THAT 30:38.747 --> 30:41.657 WITH SOMEBODY TOO. GUYS, YOU KNOW, PASTORS SEND THEIR 30:41.657 --> 30:46.487 GREETINGS, BUT HERE'S THE THING. I TRULY BELIEVE THAT THIS OTH IS 30:46.487 --> 30:50.596 GONNA BE A PIVOTAL THING FOR US, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE WE HAVE WORKED 30:50.596 --> 30:56.897 AND PRAYED SO HARD FOR THE SHIFTING, THE CHANGE, OKAY, THE 30:56.897 --> 31:02.057 NEW REGIME CHANGE, OKAY, GETTING PRESIDENT TRUMP BACK IN OFFICE, 31:02.057 --> 31:06.917 BUT IT DOESN'T JUST STOP THERE, OKAY. COMPLACENCY SEASON'S OVER, 31:06.917 --> 31:10.518 GUYS, OKAY. IF THIS IS THE DECADE OF DIFFERENCE, LISTEN, 31:10.518 --> 31:15.798 2025 IS ONLY HALFWAY THROUGH. LAST I CHECKED. I DON'T LIKE 31:15.798 --> 31:19.278 MATH, BUT THAT'S THE LAST I CHECKED, IS 2025 IS HALFWAY 31:19.278 --> 31:24.977 THROUGH. BUT LET ME TELL YOU THIS. PASTORS WANTED ME TO TELL 31:24.977 --> 31:27.798 YOU GUYS THAT THEY'RE GONNA REALLY MINISTER IN HEALING, AND 31:27.798 --> 31:33.497 THAT'S NOT JUST FOR THIS NATION, BUT FOR THOSE IN THE ROOM, YOU 31:33.497 --> 31:36.257 AND YOUR PERSONAL LIVES, WATCHING ACROSS THE WORLD IN 31:36.257 --> 31:41.596 THIS ROOM, OKAY? WE HAVE BEEN FIGHTING A BATTLE. THAT'S WHY 31:41.596 --> 31:45.076 WHAT WE JUST DID UP HERE IN THAT TRANSITION, PASTOR ANTHONY, 31:45.076 --> 31:49.217 THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT THE PRAYERS OF A NATION AND THE 31:49.217 --> 31:53.657 PRAYERS OF A PEOPLE THAT WE'VE BEEN FIGHTING FOR FOR A WHILE 31:53.657 --> 32:02.567 NOW. 2019, 2020, OKAY? HERE'S THE THING. DON'T LOOK BACK AT 32:02.567 --> 32:06.018 THE OLD TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS, BUT ALSO DON'T FORGET YOUR 32:06.018 --> 32:08.928 PRAYERS AND THE THINGS YOU'RE STANDING FOR, AND LOSE HOPE AND 32:08.928 --> 32:13.157 LOSE FAITH, OKAY? AND I BELIEVE HEALING IS COMING TO THIS 32:13.157 --> 32:17.626 NATION, AND I BELIEVE HEALING IS COMING TO YOU PERSONALLY. AND WE 32:17.626 --> 32:22.576 NEED TO SORT OF GRADUATE NOW TO LISTEN. HOW BAD DO WE WANT THE 32:22.576 --> 32:27.198 NEXT MOVE OF GOD, OKAY? I DON'T WANNA BE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL 32:27.198 --> 32:30.288 WHERE I JUST STOPPED AFTER THE RED SEA AND I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT 32:30.288 --> 32:36.977 TO DO FOR 40 YEARS. AND I JUST STAYED IN NEUTRAL, KINDA JUST 32:36.977 --> 32:42.467 HAD GENERATIONS COME AND GO, BE LOST. THAT SOUNDS LIKE A CYCLE 32:42.467 --> 32:49.007 TO ME. AND I BELIEVE THAT OTH 2025, SEPTEMBER 11TH THROUGH THE 32:49.007 --> 32:53.326 14TH IS GONNA SHIFT SOMETHING AND START BREAKING CYCLES IN 32:53.326 --> 32:58.606 THIS NATION AND IN YOUR LIFE. AMEN. SO IF YOU ARE NOT, LET ME 32:58.606 --> 33:01.428 SEE A SHOW OF HANDS. HOW MANY OF YOU ARE REGISTERED? HOW MANY OF 33:01.428 --> 33:05.116 YOU ARE REGISTERED? OKAY, IF YOU'RE NOT REGISTERED, NOW IS 33:05.116 --> 33:08.387 THE TIME. AND I'M GONNA BEG THE QUESTION TO YOU IN THIS ROOM 33:08.387 --> 33:11.657 THAT DIDN'T RAISE YOUR HANDS AND THOSE ONLINE THAT MAYBE YOU 33:11.657 --> 33:14.477 HAVEN'T COMMENTED OR YOU HAVEN'T REGISTERED, 'CAUSE I MENTIONED 33:14.477 --> 33:18.257 EARLIER, IF YOU HAVE REGISTERED, COMMENT. SO IF YOUR COMMENTS 33:18.257 --> 33:21.557 AREN'T THERE, WE'RE WATCHING YOU. BUT I WANTED TO SAY TO YOU 33:21.557 --> 33:25.788 GUYS, THIS IS THE QUESTION I'M GONNA LEAVE YOU WITH BEFORE 33:25.788 --> 33:29.207 PASTOR DOUG COMES. MY QUESTION TO YOU GUYS IN THIS ROOM AND 33:29.207 --> 33:33.106 THOSE ONLINE IS HOW BAD DO YOU WANT IT? HOW BAD DO YOU WANT THE 33:33.106 --> 33:35.987 PRESENCE OF GOD AND THOSE THINGS YOU'VE BEEN STANDING FOR THAT 33:35.987 --> 33:41.326 JUST MAYBE HAVEN'T COME QUITE YET, BUT IT'S RIGHT THERE. AND 33:41.326 --> 33:44.207 YOU CAN SEE THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL. YOU'VE BEEN 33:44.207 --> 33:49.096 STANDING FOR THE LAST FOUR OR FIVE YEARS NOW AND YOU WANT THAT 33:49.096 --> 33:52.463 SHIFT. HOW BAD DO YOU WANT IT? GET REGISTERED 33:52.463 --> 33:55.336 TODAY AND WE'LL SEE YOU AT THE ARENA, AMEN. 33:55.336 --> 33:58.188 (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING) 33:58.188 --> 33:58.907 - THANK YOU, PASTOR MATT. 33:58.907 --> 33:59.596 - ABSOLUTELY. 33:59.596 --> 34:05.596 - YES, GOD BLESS YOU. HALLELUJAH. GOD IS GOOD. 34:07.314 --> 34:11.628 OH, I GOT A TABLE TONIGHT. I CAN, I THINK I'M GONNA HAVE 34:11.628 --> 34:16.878 DINNER HERE TONIGHT WHILE WE'RE, THANK YOU, LES. YEAH, I'VE GOT 34:16.878 --> 34:20.748 DINNER AND LET'S SEE, WE GOT ALL KINDS OF GOOD STUFF TONIGHT, SO 34:20.748 --> 34:22.907 WE'LL JUST SEE WHAT WE CAN PULL OUT OF THE BAG THERE TONIGHT. 34:25.097 --> 34:27.677 YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES YOU JUST GOTTA DO THINGS A LITTLE 34:27.677 --> 34:30.438 DIFFERENT. IT'S OKAY TO CHANGE IT UP, RIGHT? 34:30.438 --> 34:31.608 - YEAH. 34:31.608 --> 34:34.878 - AND YOU GUYS ARE THE SELECT FEW THAT CHOSE TO COME SEE, AND 34:34.878 --> 34:38.088 IT MAY BE A FLOP AND IT MAY WORK, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? THANK 34:38.088 --> 34:43.938 YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT ANYWAY IN ADVANCE. PRAISE GOD. WELL, LAST 34:43.938 --> 34:48.016 WEEK WE TALKED ABOUT, OH, I JUST WANTED TO SAY THIS, PASTORS ARE 34:48.016 --> 34:52.007 HAVING A GREAT TIME ON VACATION, AND THANK YOU FOR JUST PRAYING 34:52.007 --> 34:58.427 FOR THEM AND BEING WITH THEM HERE TO SUPPORT THIS MINISTRY 34:58.427 --> 35:01.338 WHILE THEY'RE OUT, BECAUSE THEY DESERVE A BREAK. I MEAN, IF YOU 35:01.338 --> 35:06.648 THINK ABOUT ALL THE THINGS THEY DO, THE PROGRAMMING, THE PULLS 35:06.648 --> 35:10.067 ON THEM, THE PULLS THAT WE DON'T EVEN ALWAYS KNOW ABOUT THAT COME 35:10.067 --> 35:15.737 IN THE NIGHT AND OFF HOURS, AND IT'S CONTINUAL. SO THANK YOU FOR 35:15.737 --> 35:18.797 YOUR PRAYERS. THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING THEM THE GRACE TO BE 35:18.797 --> 35:21.648 ABLE TO HAVE THAT BREAK, 'CAUSE I KNOW THEY'RE ENJOYING THAT, 35:21.648 --> 35:25.277 AND THEY JUST NEED THAT EXTENDED TIME SOMETIMES TO DO IT. 35:25.277 --> 35:28.097 SOMETIMES YOU TAKE A WEEK OF VACATION. HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW 35:28.097 --> 35:30.827 YOU TAKE A WEEK, AND ABOUT THE TIME YOU KIND OF GET RELAXED AND 35:30.827 --> 35:35.478 READY, THEN IT'S GONE AND YOU'RE BACK. SO GIVING THEM THAT PERIOD 35:35.478 --> 35:38.927 OF TIME, A LOT OF DENOMINATIONS OFFER THEIR PASTORS A SABBATICAL 35:38.927 --> 35:43.637 TIME WHERE THEY ACTUALLY GO AWAY FOR, I DON'T KNOW, A FEW MONTHS 35:43.637 --> 35:47.777 SOMETIMES, AND JUST TO GET WITH THE LORD, SO I THINK, AND BE 35:47.777 --> 35:50.867 REFRESHED, SO THANK YOU. I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT. BUT LAST 35:50.867 --> 35:56.418 WEEK WE TALKED ABOUT ZECHARIAH 4:6. WE DISCUSSED THE VISION 35:56.418 --> 36:02.148 THAT ZECHARIAH HAD AND HE PASSED THAT ON TO ZERUBBABEL TO HELP 36:02.148 --> 36:06.858 HIM IN BUILDING OR REBUILDING THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM. AND IT 36:06.858 --> 36:11.117 WAS A BIG FEAT AND IT WAS A DISCOURAGING TASK FOR HIM AND 36:11.117 --> 36:16.577 ISRAEL, THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL. SO IT WAS A TREMENDOUS VISION AND 36:16.577 --> 36:21.947 PROPHETIC WORD AND THAT WAS NOT BY MIGHT NOR BY POWER BUT BY MY 36:21.947 --> 36:27.286 SPIRIT, SAYS THE LORD. SO THE LORD OF HOSTS THAT IS ACTUALLY. 36:27.286 --> 36:30.797 SO YOU KNOW WHAT THE POINT WE WERE TRYING TO MAKE IN FROM THAT 36:30.797 --> 36:35.838 WHOLE SCRIPTURE WAS THAT ANY WORK OF ETERNAL VALUE IS DONE BY 36:35.838 --> 36:40.248 THE SPIRIT OF GOD AND THROUGH THE SPIRIT OF GOD AND IT CANNOT 36:40.248 --> 36:43.547 BE ACCOMPLISHED BY HUMAN STRENGTH OR HUMAN RESOURCES 36:43.547 --> 36:49.157 ALONE. SO WE CONCLUDED LAST WEEK BY TALKING ABOUT THREE WAYS TO 36:49.157 --> 36:53.777 PUT ZECHARIAH 4:6 INTO PRACTICE IN OUR LIFE. WE TALKED ABOUT 36:53.777 --> 36:58.516 ACTIVELY PURSUING FELLOWSHIP AND COMMUNION WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT, 36:58.516 --> 37:02.898 ALLOWING THE HOLY SPIRIT ACCESS IN YOUR LIFE, AND THEN SEEKING 37:02.898 --> 37:06.978 GOD'S WILL, THE INVOLVEMENT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND HIS WISDOM 37:06.978 --> 37:10.338 CONTINUOUSLY. SO TONIGHT'S MESSAGE, I'M GOING TO CONTINUE 37:10.338 --> 37:14.717 ON IN THE THEME OF THE POWER OF DEPENDENCY ON THE HOLY SPIRIT 37:14.717 --> 37:18.708 AND CALL THIS PART TWO, IF YOU'RE TAKING NOTES. SO I'M 37:18.708 --> 37:21.641 GOING TO STICK WITH THAT THEME, BUT I FELT THE UNCTION TO KIND 37:21.641 --> 37:26.987 OF GO BACKWARDS AND LAY SOME FOUNDATION AND BASICS CONCERNING 37:26.987 --> 37:31.277 THE HOLY SPIRIT IN OUR LIVES AND GAIN SOME UNDERSTANDING OF HOW 37:31.277 --> 37:36.047 GOD CREATED US IN THE BEGINNING, WHY THE SPIRIT OF MAN THAT'S 37:36.047 --> 37:40.577 WITHIN US IS KEY TO OUR CONNECTION TO THE HOLY GHOST. 37:40.577 --> 37:43.427 AND WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT SOME OF THESE ELEMENTAL AND MORE 37:43.427 --> 37:47.597 FOUNDATIONAL THINGS, BASIC TEACHING. BUT YOU KNOW, WE 37:47.597 --> 37:50.117 DEVELOP FAITH BY HEARING AND HEARING AND HEARING. SO 37:50.117 --> 37:53.117 SOMETIMES IT'S GOOD TO GO BACK AND TALK ABOUT THINGS THAT YOU 37:53.117 --> 37:56.507 ALREADY KNOW. AND MANY OF YOU PROBABLY WILL SAY, I'VE HEARD 37:56.507 --> 38:01.577 THIS BEFORE, BUT THE WORD OF GOD NEVER GETS OLD. SO SOMETIMES YOU 38:01.577 --> 38:07.786 HAVE TO GO BACKWARDS IN ORDER TO GO FORWARDS OR FORWARD. AND I'M 38:07.786 --> 38:12.407 GONNA GO BACK TO BASICS TONIGHT. YOU KNOW, MY WIFE, EILEEN, 38:12.407 --> 38:17.177 THINKS SOMETIMES THAT I GO TOO SLOW IN CERTAIN THINGS. AND SHE 38:17.177 --> 38:21.527 SAY, HURRY UP. YOU NEED TO HURRY UP AND GET THIS DONE. BUT 38:21.527 --> 38:25.547 SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO GO SLOW TO GO FAST. BECAUSE IF YOU GO TOO 38:25.547 --> 38:30.197 FAST AND MESS UP AND HAVE TO DO IT AGAIN, THEN YOU'RE GOING 38:30.197 --> 38:33.527 SLOWER THAN YOU WOULD'VE IF YOU'D JUST GONE SLOW AND DID IT 38:33.527 --> 38:35.867 METHODICALLY. AND I'M A VERY METHODICAL PERSON. I THINK SHE 38:35.867 --> 38:38.387 GETS TIRED OF THAT A LITTLE BIT SOMETIMES BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, 38:38.387 --> 38:41.507 LIKE IF I'M PUTTING SOMETHING TOGETHER, I'M READING THE WHOLE 38:41.507 --> 38:45.827 INSTRUCTION MANUAL FIRST, I'LL READ IT ALL, AND THEN I'LL GO 38:45.827 --> 38:49.427 BACK STEP BY STEP AND DO IT 'CAUSE I DON'T WANNA MISS A 38:49.427 --> 38:53.567 POINT WHERE SOME PEOPLE WILL JUST POUR THE PARTS OUT AND JUST 38:53.567 --> 38:59.027 START, THEY DON'T EVEN LOOK AT THE INSTRUCTIONS. SO THAT'S JUST 38:59.027 --> 39:02.838 THE DIFFERENCE THERE. THE ENGLISH AUTHOR LEWIS CARROLL 39:02.838 --> 39:10.637 SAID THIS, "THE HURRIER I GO, THE BEHINDER I GET." SO, WE'RE 39:10.637 --> 39:14.688 GONNA TAKE TIME TO GO BACK AND REVIEW SOME THINGS THAT YOU'VE 39:14.688 --> 39:18.556 LEARNED BEFORE PROBABLY, MAYBE EVEN RIGHT AS YOU BECAME A NEW 39:18.556 --> 39:21.556 CHRISTIAN. BUT IT'S PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THE 39:21.556 --> 39:24.797 NATURE OF MAN AND HOW WE ARE CREATED AND THE DIFFERENCE 39:24.797 --> 39:28.097 BETWEEN THE SOUL OF MAN AND THE SPIRIT OF MAN. SO I WANNA TALK 39:28.097 --> 39:32.717 ABOUT THOSE POINTS A LITTLE BIT TONIGHT AND HOW THAT WILL BRING 39:32.717 --> 39:37.067 US TO SOME DIRECTION FROM THE HOLY SPIRIT IN OUR LIVES. SO, 39:37.067 --> 39:43.550 MAN WAS CREATED BY GOD IN THREE PARTS, A BODY, A SOUL, AND A 39:43.550 --> 39:50.387 SPIRIT. IN FACT, 1 THESSALONIANS 5:23 IS A VERSE WHERE PAUL 39:50.387 --> 39:56.208 ADDRESSES THESE THREE PARTS OF MAN. HE SAYS, "NOW MAY THE GOD 39:56.208 --> 40:01.847 OF PEACE MAKE YOU HOLY IN EVERY WAY, AND MAY YOUR WHOLE SPIRIT 40:01.847 --> 40:07.458 AND SOUL AND BODY," THREE PARTS, SPIRIT, SOUL, AND BODY, "BE KEPT 40:07.458 --> 40:12.407 BLAMELESS UNTIL OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST COMES AGAIN." NOW, HE 40:12.407 --> 40:18.168 ADDRESSES THOSE THREE PARTS. BUT PRIMARILY, MAN IS AN ETERNAL 40:18.168 --> 40:23.567 SPIRIT BEING. THE BIBLE TEACHES THAT WE POSSESS A SOUL AND LIVE 40:23.567 --> 40:27.766 WITHIN A BODY. AND IF YOU PUT UP THE NEXT SLIDE THERE, THAT KIND 40:27.766 --> 40:32.237 OF ILLUSTRATES 1 THESSALONIANS 5:23 THERE. WE SEE THE BODY, 40:32.237 --> 40:38.297 WHICH IS FLESH AND BLOOD AND BONE. AND THEN WE SEE THE SOUL, 40:38.297 --> 40:42.327 WHICH IS OUR MIND, WILL, AND EMOTION. AND THIRDLY, THE SPIRIT 40:42.327 --> 40:47.608 MAN, WHICH IS WHAT PART OF US THAT ACTUALLY COMMUNICATES OR 40:47.608 --> 40:50.818 CONNECTS WITH THE SPIRIT REALM, WITH GOD. AND THEN THE 40:50.818 --> 40:55.768 CONSCIENCE AND THE INTUITION OR THE LEADING OF GOD. PEOPLE SAY, 40:55.768 --> 40:59.188 "I FEEL LED BY MY HEART "OR I BELIEVE IN MY HEART TO DO 40:59.188 --> 41:02.907 SOMETHING." THAT'S INTUITION AND COMES FROM THE SPIRIT MAN. IT'S 41:02.907 --> 41:05.818 EASY TO DISTINGUISH OUR BODY FROM THE SPIRIT. IT'S EASY TO 41:05.818 --> 41:09.117 DISTINGUISH OUR BODY FROM OUR SOUL BECAUSE THAT'S OUR PHYSICAL 41:09.117 --> 41:14.157 PART THAT WE CAN TOUCH AND FEEL. THE BODY HAS CONTACT WITH OUR 41:14.157 --> 41:22.197 PHYSICAL, TANGIBLE REALM OF EXISTENCE. BUT THE BODY IS THE 41:22.197 --> 41:26.338 THING THAT MOST PEOPLE SPEND TIME TAKING CARE OF. THE AVERAGE 41:26.338 --> 41:31.557 PERSON IS SPENDING TIME WORKING OUT, EATING RIGHT, TAKING 41:31.557 --> 41:34.737 NUTRITION, GETTING THEIR HAIR DONE, GETTING THEIR NAILS DONE, 41:34.737 --> 41:38.487 WHATEVER THEY HAVE TO DO TO TAKE CARE OF THEIR BODY. MANY PEOPLE 41:38.487 --> 41:41.577 ARE FAIRLY GOOD AT TAKING CARE OF THEIR SOUL, THAT OTHER 41:41.577 --> 41:45.748 NON-MATERIAL PART THAT WE ARE CREATED WITH. THAT'S THE MIND, 41:45.748 --> 41:50.038 WILL, AND EMOTIONS. YOU CAN LEARN AND EDUCATE YOURSELF AND 41:50.038 --> 41:53.307 EXPAND YOUR MIND, AND YOU CAN MAKE SURE YOU HAVE GOOD 41:53.307 --> 41:57.208 EMOTIONAL HEALTH. YOU CAN TAKE CARE OF THAT. AND WE USE OUR 41:57.208 --> 42:00.987 SOULS TO CONNECT WITH THAT INTELLECTUAL AND EMOTIONAL REALM 42:00.987 --> 42:05.038 OF OUR EXISTENCE. WITH OUR SPIRIT, WHICH THE BIBLE ALSO 42:05.038 --> 42:09.867 CALLS THE HEART, WE CONNECT WITH THE SPIRITUAL REALM. SO THIS 42:09.867 --> 42:13.378 DIAGRAM THAT THEY'RE GONNA PUT UP NEXT KIND OF EXPLAINS THAT 42:15.027 --> 42:18.057 DIFFERENTIATION ON THE THREE PARTS OF MAN IN A LITTLE 42:18.057 --> 42:22.467 DIFFERENT WAY. YOU SEE THE BODY THERE WITH THE BRAIN, THE CELLS, 42:22.467 --> 42:26.128 OUR MINDS, THE ORGANS, NERVES, LIMBS, BONES, ALL THAT. AND THEN 42:26.128 --> 42:29.217 THE ORANGE PART BEING THE SOUL, THAT'S A CONSCIOUS MIND AND A 42:29.217 --> 42:34.648 SUBCONSCIOUS MIND. AND THE SPIRIT, WHICH IS RENEWED WHEN WE 42:34.648 --> 42:38.128 ARE SAVED. THE SPIRIT MAN COMES ALIVE, WE'RE GONNA LOOK AT A 42:38.128 --> 42:41.967 SCRIPTURE ABOUT THAT, WHEN A MAN IS SAVED OR A WOMAN IS SAVED, 42:41.967 --> 42:46.677 THAT SPIRIT MAN IS DEAD UNTIL THEY ACCEPT CHRIST AS SAVIOR AND 42:46.677 --> 42:50.007 THEN IT BECOMES ALIVE. AND THEN THAT'S OUR WAY OF COMMUNICATING 42:50.007 --> 42:52.858 WITH GOD. SO I JUST WANTED YOU TO SEE THAT IN A DIFFERENT WAY. 42:52.858 --> 42:57.358 OUR SPIRIT AS A BELIEVER IS WHERE GOD AS THE SPIRIT DWELLS. 42:57.358 --> 43:01.677 OUR SOUL IS WHERE OUR MIND, WILL, AND EMOTIONS DWELL. AND 43:01.677 --> 43:05.398 OUR BODIES IS WHERE OUR PHYSICAL SENSES DWELL. NOW, THROUGHOUT 43:05.398 --> 43:07.768 BOTH THE OLD AND THE NEW TESTAMENT, SCRIPTURES REVEAL 43:07.768 --> 43:11.487 THAT MAN HAS BEEN CREATED WITH THOSE THREE BASIC PARTS. 43:11.487 --> 43:16.737 THEOLOGIANS REFER TO THAT MAKEUP AS A TRICHOTOMOUS MAKEUP, OR 43:16.737 --> 43:20.367 DESIGN OF MAN. THE TERM TRICHOTOMOUS REFERS TO SOMETHING 43:20.367 --> 43:24.657 THAT'S DIVIDED INTO THREE PARTS. AND WE SEE THIS IN GOD'S WORD 43:24.657 --> 43:27.717 EVEN FROM THE MOMENT OF MAN'S CREATION. LET'S LOOK AT GENESIS 43:27.717 --> 43:33.597 1:26-27. GOD SAID, "LET US MAKE MAN IN OUR IMAGE, "ACCORDING TO 43:33.597 --> 43:37.047 OUR LIKENESS. "LET THEM HAVE DOMINION OVER THE FISH OF THE 43:37.047 --> 43:39.597 SEA, "OVER THE BIRDS OF THE AIR, AND OVER THE CATTLE, "OVER ALL 43:39.597 --> 43:43.557 THE EARTH, AND OVER EVERY CREEPING THING "THAT CREEPS ON 43:43.557 --> 43:48.507 THE EARTH." SO GOD CREATED MAN IN HIS OWN IMAGE. IN THE IMAGE 43:48.507 --> 43:53.038 OF GOD, HE CREATED HIM, MALE AND FEMALE, HE CREATED THEM. SO HERE 43:53.038 --> 43:56.907 WE CAN SEE THAT GOD CREATED THE FIRST MAN AFTER HIS IMAGE AND 43:56.907 --> 44:02.847 LIKENESS. NOW, IN THIS HOUSE, THIS GROUP OF BELIEVERS, THIS 44:02.847 --> 44:07.228 CHURCH, WE BELIEVE IN THE TRINITY OF GOD. IT'S CENTRAL AND 44:07.228 --> 44:11.547 FOUNDATIONAL DOCTRINE TO OUR FAITH. GOD IS ONE BEING BUT 44:11.547 --> 44:16.797 EXISTS IN THREE CO-EQUAL, CO-ETERNAL PERSONS, THE FATHER, 44:16.797 --> 44:20.128 THE SON, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT. AND THOSE THREE PERSONS OF THE 44:20.128 --> 44:25.947 TRINITY ARE DISTINCT, BUT THEY'RE INSEPARABLE. THEY SHARE 44:25.947 --> 44:29.967 ONE DIVINE NATURE. THE TRINITY IS NOT A BELIEF IN THREE GODS, 44:29.967 --> 44:34.887 BUT RATHER ONE GOD IN THREE CO-EQUAL AND CO-ETERNAL PERSONS, 44:34.887 --> 44:38.518 EACH FULLY GOD. ONE OF THE BEST EXAMPLES THAT I CAN GIVE YOU ON 44:38.518 --> 44:43.827 THAT IS A PIECE OF COMMERCIAL ROPE. WE HAVE A ROPE HERE. IT'S 44:43.827 --> 44:47.847 A VERY STRONG PIECE OF ROPE. THE REASON THIS IS STRONG IS BECAUSE 44:47.847 --> 44:53.068 THIS COMMERCIAL PIECE OF ROPE HAS THREE STRANDS. MOST GOOD 44:53.068 --> 44:58.047 SOLID ROPES HAVE THREE STRANDS. AND THAT'S A GOOD EXAMPLE OF 44:58.047 --> 45:04.557 GOD, THE FATHER, THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND THE SON, ALL THREE 45:04.557 --> 45:08.487 IN ONE, WORKING TOGETHER. AND THEN WE HAVE A FULLY FUNCTIONAL 45:08.487 --> 45:12.117 PIECE OF ROPE BECAUSE ALL THREE STRANDS ARE DOING THEIR JOB. AND 45:12.117 --> 45:14.547 THE SAME THING IS TRUE ON THE HUMAN BODY, THE WAY WE WERE 45:14.547 --> 45:19.797 CREATED, BODY, SOUL, AND SPIRIT. WE'RE A TRICHOTOMOUS BEING, 45:19.797 --> 45:23.818 BODY, SOUL, AND SPIRIT. BUT WE'RE ALL TOGETHER IN ONE 45:23.818 --> 45:27.208 FUNCTION, WORKING TOGETHER IN THAT BODY, THROUGH THAT BODY, TO 45:27.208 --> 45:31.554 ACCOMPLISH WHAT GOD'S CALLED US TO DO. FIRST DEMONSTRATION'S 45:31.554 --> 45:36.358 OVER. YOU CAN BE THANKFUL FOR THAT. WE GOT ONE MORE. 45:39.237 --> 45:44.367 HALLELUJAH. SO GENESIS 2:7, WE CAN SEE HOW MAN WAS CREATED. 45:44.367 --> 45:47.697 "AND THE LORD GOD FORMED MAN OF THE DUST OF THE GROUND AND 45:47.697 --> 45:51.777 BREATHED INTO HIS NOSTRILS THE BREATH OF LIFE. AND MAN BECAME A 45:51.777 --> 45:56.007 LIVING SOUL." SO GOD FORMED MAN WITH THE DUST OF THE GROUND. 45:56.007 --> 46:01.197 THAT WAS THE ACT OF HIM, GOD, CREATING OUR PHYSICAL BODIES. 46:01.197 --> 46:04.018 AND THEN THE VERSE CONTINUES, "AND HE BREATHED INTO HIS 46:04.018 --> 46:08.487 NOSTRILS THE BREATH OF LIFE." BREATH IS DERIVED FROM THE 46:08.487 --> 46:13.677 HEBREW WORD “NESHAMA,” WHICH IS THE SAME WORD TRANSLATED AS 46:13.677 --> 46:18.237 SPIRIT IN PROVERBS 20:27. LET'S LOOK AT PROVERBS 20:27 REAL 46:18.237 --> 46:22.677 QUICK. "THE SPIRIT OF MAN IS THE CANDLE OF THE LORD, "SEARCHING 46:22.677 --> 46:26.152 ALL THE INWARD PARTS OF THE BELLY." SO THE SPIRIT OR THE 46:26.152 --> 46:30.807 NESHAMA OF MAN IS THE CANDLE OR THE LAMP OF THE LORD. SO WE CAN 46:30.807 --> 46:35.518 CONCLUDE THAT GOD'S BREATHING INTO MAN, THIS BREATH OF LIFE, 46:35.518 --> 46:39.597 WAS HOW GOD INSERTED HIS SPIRIT INTO MAN, INTO THE PHYSICAL 46:39.597 --> 46:44.277 BODY. GENESIS 2:7 CONCLUDES, "AND MAN BECAME A LIVING SOUL." 46:44.277 --> 46:48.657 THERE'S THE THIRD PART RIGHT THERE. THE SPIRIT OF MAN IS THE 46:48.657 --> 46:52.588 MOST FUNDAMENTAL PART OF WHO WE ARE. MOST PEOPLE ON EARTH, LIKE 46:52.588 --> 46:55.978 I SAID, FOCUS THEIR TIME TAKING CARE OF EVERY OTHER AREA OF 46:55.978 --> 47:00.538 THEIR LIFE, BUT THEY NEGLECT THE SPIRIT MAN, THE ETERNAL ONE. OUR 47:00.538 --> 47:04.018 BODIES AGE, AND THEY'LL EVENTUALLY DIE. BUT THE SPIRIT 47:04.018 --> 47:09.628 MAN IS ETERNAL. IT'LL NEVER DIE. THERE'S A SPIRITUAL BEING INSIDE 47:09.628 --> 47:12.777 EVERY PERSON. WE WERE CREATED IN GOD'S IMAGE AND LIKENESS 47:12.777 --> 47:17.398 ACCORDING TO GENESIS 1:26. AND BECAUSE OF WRONG TEACHING OR 47:17.398 --> 47:20.427 MAYBE NO TEACHING AT ALL, MANY CHRISTIANS DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE 47:20.427 --> 47:23.788 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE SOUL AND THE SPIRIT. SO WE WANT TO TALK 47:23.788 --> 47:27.327 ABOUT THAT A LITTLE BIT TONIGHT. THE FIRST THING A SINNER NEEDS 47:28.737 --> 47:31.887 IS A SPIRITUAL RESURRECTION. WHEN AN UNBELIEVER PUTS THEIR 47:31.887 --> 47:35.728 FAITH IN CHRIST, THAT DEAD SPIRIT INSIDE OF THEM IS 47:35.728 --> 47:40.288 RESURRECTED OR MADE ALIVE. WHEN A BELIEVER IS BAPTIZED IN WATER, 47:40.288 --> 47:44.967 LIKE WE SAW TONIGHT ON THE VIDEO, THAT'S A DECLARATION THAT 47:44.967 --> 47:48.987 THIS TRANSFORMATION HAS HAPPENED IN THEIR SPIRIT. THEIR SPIRIT 47:48.987 --> 47:53.818 WAS DEAD IN SIN, BUT IT'S NOW BEEN RESURRECTED TO LIFE. IN 47:53.818 --> 47:57.927 ROMANS 6:4 SAYS, "THEREFORE, WE WERE BURIED WITH HIM THROUGH 47:57.927 --> 48:01.827 BAPTISM INTO DEATH, THAT JUST AS CHRIST WAS RAISED FROM THE DEAD 48:01.827 --> 48:05.907 BY THE GLORY OF THE FATHER, EVEN SO ALSO SHOULD WE WALK IN THE 48:05.907 --> 48:09.628 NEWNESS OF LIFE. SO WATER BAPTISM, BY IMMERSION BY THE 48:09.628 --> 48:13.827 WAY, NOT SPRINKLING, BECAUSE BAPTISM ACTUALLY COMES FROM THE 48:13.827 --> 48:18.568 GREEK WORD BAPTIZO, WHICH MEANS IMMERSION, THAT SIGNIFIES THAT 48:18.568 --> 48:21.657 THE BELIEVER HAS DIED TO THEIR OLD LIFE OF SIN AND BEEN 48:21.657 --> 48:26.487 RESURRECTED TO THAT NEW LIFE IN CHRIST. AND THE ACT OF BAPTISM 48:26.487 --> 48:31.137 IS AN OUTWARD EXPRESSION OF AN INWARD TRANSFORMATION THAT'S 48:31.137 --> 48:33.568 TAKEN PLACE IN THAT PERSON'S LIFE, LIKE THAT LITTLE BOY THAT 48:33.568 --> 48:38.637 WE SAW TONIGHT. AND THAT'S A PLUG FOR BAPTISM. BY THE WAY, ON 48:38.637 --> 48:42.538 AUGUST 24TH, WE HAVE ANOTHER BAPTISM COMING UP. SO IF YOU 48:42.538 --> 48:47.217 HAVEN'T BEEN BAPTIZED BY IMMERSION, THE BIBLICAL WAY, OR 48:47.217 --> 48:50.697 YOU'VE BEEN RECENTLY SAVED AND YOU HAVEN'T BEEN BAPTIZED, PLAN 48:50.697 --> 48:53.637 ON AUGUST 24TH. LET US KNOW. WE'VE HAD PEOPLE FLY IN FROM 48:53.637 --> 48:56.608 OTHER STATES THAT ARE E-MEMBERS OR WATCHING US JUST TO BE 48:56.608 --> 49:00.507 BAPTIZED HERE. AND I DON'T MEAN JUST AS IT'S INSIGNIFICANT, BUT 49:00.507 --> 49:04.288 I MEAN THEY MADE THE EFFORT TO DO IT. I THINK ONE FAMILY, IT 49:04.288 --> 49:09.838 WAS LIKE SIX PEOPLE THAT CAME AND DID THAT. SO IT'S IMPORTANT. 49:09.838 --> 49:12.628 GO TO THE INFORMATION CENTER AND SIGN UP IF YOU NEED THAT 49:12.628 --> 49:15.927 INFORMATION. AUGUST 24TH, THAT'S COMING UP. AND WE DO A LITTLE 49:15.927 --> 49:19.318 CLASS THAT MORNING AFTER THE OFFERING IS RECEIVED AND THE 49:19.318 --> 49:23.577 MAIN SERVICE WILL DISMISS YOU. AND THEN YOU CAN GO BE BAPTIZED 49:23.577 --> 49:26.577 THAT DAY. AND WE DO THAT UP IN THE SOUTH AUDITORIUM. BUT THE 49:26.577 --> 49:29.728 BIBLE TELLS US THAT UNBELIEVERS COME ALIVE IN THEIR SPIRIT WHEN 49:29.728 --> 49:33.657 THEY BECOME BELIEVERS IN CHRIST. LET'S LOOK AT THAT SCRIPTURE 49:33.657 --> 49:38.728 REALLY QUICK HERE. EPHESIANS 2:1-2. IT SAYS, I'M GONNA READ 49:38.728 --> 49:41.847 THIS OUT OF THE AMPLIFIED TONIGHT BECAUSE I THINK IT'S A 49:41.847 --> 49:44.757 VERY GOOD WAY TO REALLY UNDERSTAND THIS. AND IT SAYS, 49:44.757 --> 49:49.467 "AND YOU, HE MADE ALIVE "WHEN YOU WERE SPIRITUALLY DEAD "AND 49:49.467 --> 49:54.507 SEPARATED FROM HIM BECAUSE "OF YOUR TRANSGRESSION AND SINS. "IN 49:54.507 --> 49:57.898 WHICH YOU ONCE WALKED, "YOU WERE FOLLOWING THE WAYS OF THIS 49:57.898 --> 50:01.498 WORLD, "INFLUENCED BY THIS PRESENT AGE, "IN ACCORDANCE WITH 50:01.498 --> 50:04.797 THE PRINCE OF POWER OF THE AIR, SATAN, "THE SPIRIT WHO IS NOW AT 50:04.797 --> 50:08.847 WORK IN THE DISOBEDIENT, "THE UNBELIEVING, WHO FIGHT AGAINST 50:08.847 --> 50:12.208 THE PURPOSES OF GOD." SO THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT WHEN WE COME 50:12.208 --> 50:16.797 TO CHRIST, WE RECEIVE SALVATION, WE BECOME A NEW PERSON IN THE 50:16.797 --> 50:22.077 SPIRIT. HE MAKES US ALIVE WHEN WE WERE PREVIOUSLY SPIRITUALLY 50:22.077 --> 50:26.878 DEAD. NOW WE WERE ALL BORN INTO THIS WORLD AS SINNERS. WE ALL 50:26.878 --> 50:32.818 HAVE THE SIN NATURE. OUR SPIRIT MAN BECAME NEW AND IS TOTALLY 50:32.818 --> 50:37.438 BROUGHT TO LIFE WHEN WE ACCEPT CHRIST. AND WE SEE THIS ALSO 50:37.438 --> 50:41.697 EXPLAINED IN 2 CORINTHIANS 5:17. IT SAYS, "THEREFORE, IF ANYONE 50:41.697 --> 50:44.987 IS IN CHRIST, HE'S A NEW CREATION. OLD THINGS HAVE PASSED 50:44.987 --> 50:49.068 AWAY. BEHOLD, ALL THINGS HAVE BECOME NEW." ANOTHER PROOF THAT 50:49.068 --> 50:54.018 YOUR SPIRIT HAS BECOME NEW AND ALIVE. THIS ISN'T TALKING ABOUT 50:54.018 --> 50:57.288 YOUR BODY. THAT'S WHY I WANTED TO LAY A FOUNDATION AND KIND OF 50:57.288 --> 51:01.701 SHOW THOSE THREE PARTS OF HOW MAN WAS CREATED. IF YOU WERE A 51:01.701 --> 51:04.818 MAN OR A WOMAN BEFORE YOU ACCEPTED CHRIST, YOU'RE STILL A 51:04.818 --> 51:08.447 MAN OR A WOMAN. YOUR BODY REMAINED THE SAME. JANET, BEFORE 51:08.447 --> 51:12.768 YOU WERE SAVED, YOU WERE A WOMAN AND YOU'RE STILL A WOMAN. 51:12.768 --> 51:16.967 DOESN'T MATTER WHAT THE TRANSGENDER PUSHERS ARE SAYING 51:16.967 --> 51:21.137 ABOUT CHANGING YOUR SEX. IF YOU WERE BORN WITH MALE PARTS, EVEN 51:21.137 --> 51:25.697 AFTER YOU GOT SAVED, YOU STILL HAVE THOSE SAME MALE PARTS. SAME 51:25.697 --> 51:30.827 THING IS TRUE WITH A WOMAN. YOU STILL HAVE THAT SAME BODY. YOUR 51:30.827 --> 51:35.597 BODY DIDN'T CHANGE. GOD'S WORD SAID HE CREATED THEM MALE AND 51:35.597 --> 51:39.347 FEMALE. THERE'S NO IN-BETWEENS. IT'S ONE OR THE OTHER. 51:40.697 --> 51:42.043 HALLELUJAH. THAT WASN'T EVEN IN MY 51:42.043 --> 51:43.188 NOTES, EILEEN, BUT I THREW IT IN. 51:43.188 --> 51:45.737 (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 51:45.737 --> 51:48.588 I'M ALWAYS DOING THAT, IT SEEMS LIKE. BUT WE HAVE TO REALIZE OUR 51:48.588 --> 51:52.097 SOUL, WHICH IS THE MENTAL, EMOTIONAL PART OF US, OUR MIND, 51:52.097 --> 51:55.217 WILL, AND EMOTIONS, AGAIN, DIDN'T AUTOMATICALLY CHANGE 51:55.217 --> 52:00.168 EITHER. OUR SPIRIT WAS MADE ALIVE WHEN WE ACCEPTED JESUS 52:00.168 --> 52:04.668 CHRIST AS LORD AND SAVIOR. IT BECAME NEW. BUT THAT DID NOT 52:04.668 --> 52:08.568 CHANGE OUR SOUL. THAT'S WHY I WANT YOU TO UNDERSTAND THE 52:08.568 --> 52:11.327 DIFFERENCE, BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THAT IN A MINUTE. 52:11.327 --> 52:14.688 A LOT OF PEOPLE TALK ABOUT SOUL AND SPIRIT AS INTERCHANGEABLE. 52:14.688 --> 52:18.557 THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND THERE'S A DIFFERENCE IN THOSE. SO YOUR 52:18.557 --> 52:23.657 SOUL IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE. WE MUST RENEW OUR MINDS TO 52:23.657 --> 52:26.688 EXPERIENCE THAT CHANGE IN THE SOUL. THE MIND, WILL, AND 52:26.688 --> 52:30.197 EMOTIONS HAVE TO BE RENEWED. WE CAN LEARN TO FOLLOW THE HOLY 52:30.197 --> 52:34.427 SPIRIT'S LEADING IN OUR SPIRIT MAN BY CONTINUALLY RENEWING OUR 52:34.427 --> 52:39.378 MINDS WITH THE WORD OF GOD. ROMANS 12:2 SAYS, "AND BE NOT 52:39.378 --> 52:43.458 CONFORMED TO THIS WORLD, BUT YE BE TRANSFORMED BY THE RENEWING 52:43.458 --> 52:48.797 OF YOUR MIND, THAT YE MAY PROVE WHAT IS THAT GOOD AND ACCEPTABLE 52:48.797 --> 52:53.507 AND PERFECT WILL OF GOD." WHEN OUR MINDS ARE BEING RENEWED WITH 52:53.507 --> 52:56.657 THE WORD, WE BECOME MORE SENSITIVE TO GOD AND THE THINGS 52:56.657 --> 53:01.038 OF GOD. GOD CHANGES OUR NATURE WHEN WE'RE BORN AGAIN. EVERY 53:01.038 --> 53:04.878 BORN AGAIN BELIEVER HAS A BUILT IN DESIRE TO LIVE HOLY. IT'S 53:04.878 --> 53:08.177 PART OF US WHEN YOU ACCEPT CHRIST AS YOUR LORD, IT CHANGES 53:08.177 --> 53:11.418 YOUR NATURE. YOU HAVE A DESIRE THEN TO LIVE HOLY. YOU MAY NOT 53:11.418 --> 53:16.547 KNOW EXACTLY HOW TO DO IT. YOU MAY NOT AUTOMATICALLY DO IT 53:16.547 --> 53:19.277 QUICKLY. IT MAY TAKE A PERIOD OF TIME. WE'RE ALL AT DIFFERENT 53:19.277 --> 53:23.447 STAGES. BUT YOU HAVE A DESIRE. LET'S LOOK AT 1 JOHN 3:3 AND 53:23.447 --> 53:27.617 AMPLIFIED AGAIN. IT SAYS, "AND EVERYONE WHO HAS THIS HOPE 53:27.617 --> 53:31.998 CONFIDENTLY PLACED IN HIM PURIFIES HIMSELF JUST AS HE IS 53:31.998 --> 53:36.708 PURE, HOLY, UNDEFILED, AND GUILTLESS." SATAN IS THE ONE 53:36.708 --> 53:41.748 THAT ATTACKS AND USES DECEIT AND ANY TACTICS THAT HE CAN TO LIE 53:41.748 --> 53:46.007 TO US, CONVINCE US THAT WE SHOULD MOVE INTO SIN. SATAN'S 53:46.007 --> 53:49.157 DESIRE IS TO BRING DEATH INTO YOUR LIFE ANY WAY HE CAN. 53:49.157 --> 53:53.657 SICKNESS, DISEASE, POVERTY, SHAME, DEPRESSION, 53:53.657 --> 53:57.797 DISCOURAGEMENT, ALL SORTS OF NASTY THINGS COME ABOUT BECAUSE 53:57.797 --> 54:02.927 SATAN IS COMING TO ATTACK AND DECEIVE AND HE'S THE ONE THAT 54:02.927 --> 54:08.688 JOHN 10:10 HAS BEEN ASSIGNED TO KILL, STEAL, AND DESTROY. BUT WE 54:08.688 --> 54:11.987 ARE DISCERNERS OF THE TRUTH AND WE'RE NOT GONNA GIVE THE DEVIL 54:11.987 --> 54:14.568 ANY OPPORTUNITY TO COME AGAINST US. WE'RE CLOSING THOSE DOORS 54:14.568 --> 54:20.117 RIGHT NOW, AMEN? NO DOORS ARE OPEN FOR THE DEVIL IN OUR LIVES, 54:20.117 --> 54:25.668 AMEN. SO BEFORE WE WERE SAVED, OUR OLD SIN NATURE PROGRAMMED 54:25.668 --> 54:29.447 OUR MINDS ON HOW TO BE SELFISH, HOW TO BE BITTER, HOW TO BE 54:29.447 --> 54:33.827 ANGRY, RESENTFUL, HOW TO MOVE INTO LUST. YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T 54:33.827 --> 54:40.007 HAVE TO TEACH A TWO-YEAR-OLD HOW TO BE SELFISH. HOW MANY OF YOU 54:40.007 --> 54:43.907 HERE HAVE A TWO-YEAR-OLD IN YOUR HOME? THEY JUST KNOW IF IT'S 54:43.907 --> 54:48.954 THEIR TOY THEY DON'T WANT ANYONE ELSE TO PLAY WITH IT. ALL OF A 54:48.954 --> 54:51.829 SUDDEN IT BECOMES VERY PRECIOUS IF YOU TRY AND TAKE IT AWAY. 54:55.248 --> 54:58.547 WHEN WE'RE BORN AGAIN ACCORDING TO JOHN 3:3 WE BECOME TOTALLY 54:58.547 --> 55:02.327 NEW IN OUR SPIRIT. PAUL CALLED THAT THE RESURRECTION LIFE. IN 55:02.327 --> 55:05.688 ROMANS 6:5-6 HE SAID THIS, I'M GONNA READ THIS OUT OF THE NEW 55:05.688 --> 55:09.347 LIVING. “SINCE WE HAVE BEEN UNITED WITH HIM IN DEATH, WE 55:09.347 --> 55:14.777 WILL ALSO BE RAISED TO LIFE AS HE WAS. WE KNOW THAT OUR OLD 55:14.777 --> 55:18.648 SINFUL SELVES WERE CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST SO THAT SIN MIGHT 55:18.648 --> 55:24.228 LOSE ITS POWER IN OUR LIVES. WE ARE NO LONGER SLAVES TO SIN.” HE 55:24.228 --> 55:29.777 MENTIONS IN THE PASSAGE THAT OUR OLD MAN IS CRUCIFIED IN CHRIST. 55:29.777 --> 55:34.818 OUR SIN NATURE'S DEAD, BUT IT LEFT BEHIND A BODY, AND THAT 55:34.818 --> 55:39.288 BODY INCLUDES THE CARNAL MIND, THE SOUL. THE SOUL, OUR MIND, 55:39.288 --> 55:43.307 WILL AND EMOTION STILL FUNCTION AS IT WAS PROGRAMMED UNTIL WE 55:43.307 --> 55:47.387 REPROGRAM IT, WHAT THE BIBLE CALLS RENEWING THE MIND. WE JUST 55:47.387 --> 55:50.688 READ THAT SCRIPTURE. OUR MINDS OR OUR SOULS CAN BE COMPARED TO 55:50.688 --> 55:55.577 COMPUTERS. JARED, YOU'LL LIKE THIS ONE. JARED'S OUR COMPUTER 55:55.577 --> 56:00.918 MAN HERE. HE KNOWS EVERYTHING ABOUT COMPUTERS. BUT THEY CAN BE 56:00.918 --> 56:06.557 PROGRAMMED. AND WE GET SAVED, WE HAVE TO REPROGRAM OUR MIND, OUR 56:06.557 --> 56:10.307 WILL, AND OUR EMOTIONS. AGAIN, ROMANS 12:2, I'M GOING TO READ 56:10.307 --> 56:13.458 IT TO YOU AGAIN. "BE NOT CONFORMED TO THIS WORLD, BUT BE 56:13.458 --> 56:17.538 TRANSFERRED BY THE RENEWING OF YOUR MIND THAT YOU MAY PROVE 56:17.538 --> 56:21.347 WHAT IS GOOD AND ACCEPTABLE AND PERFECT WILL OF GOD. OUR LIVES 56:21.347 --> 56:26.088 ARE TRANSFORMED BY THE RENEWING OF OUR MINDS. AND VICTORY IN THE 56:26.088 --> 56:30.228 CHRISTIAN LIFE COMES TO US AS WE RENEW OUR MINDS AND WE 56:30.228 --> 56:33.978 UNDERSTAND WHAT CHRIST HAS REALLY DONE FOR US, WE RECEIVE 56:33.978 --> 56:37.547 IT, AND THEN WE BEGIN TO MANIFEST THE CHANGES IN OUR 56:37.547 --> 56:42.557 ACTIONS AND OUR LIVES AS WE RESPOND TO WHAT WE'RE LEARNING 56:42.557 --> 56:46.757 AND RENEWING OUR MIND WITH. THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT THEN BECOMES 56:46.757 --> 56:52.818 EVIDENT IN OUR LIVES WHEN WE SEE WHO WE ARE IN CHRIST. WE BECOME 56:52.818 --> 56:57.858 LIKE HIM. SO TONIGHT, WE'VE COVERED SOME GROUND, SO I WANT 56:57.858 --> 57:01.248 TO REVIEW IT QUICKLY. I'M GOING TO PUT A SLIDE UP HERE. LET'S DO 57:01.248 --> 57:06.708 A LITTLE REVIEW. THREE PARTS OF THE CREATED MAN, BODY, SOUL, AND 57:06.708 --> 57:10.608 SPIRIT. THE SPIRIT MAN IS ETERNAL. THE SPIRIT OF MAN COMES 57:10.608 --> 57:15.347 ALIVE WHEN WE BECOME A BELIEVER. NUMBER FOUR, GOD CHANGES OUR 57:15.347 --> 57:19.338 NATURE. THE OLD MAN IS CRUCIFIED WHEN WE ACCEPT CHRIST AS SAVIOR. 57:19.338 --> 57:22.668 AND NUMBER FIVE, THE SOUL NEEDS TO EXPERIENCE CHANGE OR BE 57:22.668 --> 57:27.858 REPROGRAMMED OR HAVE OUR MINDS RENEWED TO EXPERIENCE A CHANGE 57:27.858 --> 57:31.608 IN THAT MIND, WILL, AND EMOTION OF OUR LIFE. NOW, I WANT TO 57:31.608 --> 57:34.547 FOCUS THE REMAINING TIME ON UNDERSTANDING THE DIFFERENCE 57:34.547 --> 57:39.947 BETWEEN THE HUMAN SPIRIT AND THE HUMAN SOUL. I PROMISE YOU I'LL 57:39.947 --> 57:42.168 GET YOU OUT OF HERE BEFORE 10 O'CLOCK. THIS WON'T TAKE THAT 57:42.168 --> 57:47.447 LONG. THIS WILL HELP US IN OUR DEPENDENCY IN THE SPIRIT. IT'LL 57:47.447 --> 57:52.878 HELP US TO DISCERN THE VOICE OF GOD SPEAKING TO OUR SPIRIT. AT 57:52.878 --> 57:55.878 TIMES, WE'VE ALL HAD THE PROBLEM OF DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN THE 57:55.878 --> 58:00.827 VOICE OF OUR RECREATED SPIRIT AND THE VOICE OF OUR SOUL, THE 58:00.827 --> 58:04.307 MIND, WILL, AND EMOTIONS. THE SPIRIT AND THE SOUL, AS I SAID, 58:04.307 --> 58:07.398 ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS. THEY'RE TWO DIFFERENT ENTITIES. 58:07.398 --> 58:11.478 BUT TONIGHT, WE'RE GOING TO SEE THAT GOD'S WORD CAN SEPARATE 58:11.478 --> 58:15.438 THOSE TWO ENTITIES IN OUR LIFE. AS WE BEGIN RENEWING OUR MINDS 58:15.438 --> 58:20.088 WITH GOD'S WORD, WE'LL POSITION OURSELVES TO FOLLOW OUR SPIRITS 58:20.088 --> 58:24.407 WITH CONFIDENCE IN EVERY SITUATION OF LIFE. UNDERSTANDING 58:24.407 --> 58:28.757 THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE SOUL MAN AND THE SPIRIT MAN IS KEY TO 58:28.757 --> 58:31.637 LIVING LIFE ON THIS EARTH AND REALLY FULFILLING WHAT GOD'S 58:31.637 --> 58:35.597 CALLED US TO DO. JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE A CHRISTIAN DOESN'T MEAN 58:35.597 --> 58:38.807 THAT YOU WILL SUCCESSFULLY FULFILL GOD'S PLAN FOR YOUR 58:38.807 --> 58:42.438 LIFE. IT DOES AUTOMATICALLY HAPPEN. JUST BECAUSE SOMEONE 58:42.438 --> 58:45.422 GETS SAVED DOESN'T MEAN THEY'RE GONNA FULFILL THEIR DESTINY. 58:46.697 --> 58:49.878 IT'S A CHOICE YOU HAVE TO MAKE TO MOVE ON IN THE THINGS OF GOD. 58:49.878 --> 58:52.998 IF YOU HAVE ACCEPTED JESUS CHRIST AS YOUR SAVIOR AND MADE 58:52.998 --> 58:56.327 HIM THE LORD OF YOUR LIFE AND CONTINUE TO FOLLOW HIM, THE SIN 58:56.327 --> 59:01.518 QUESTION HAS BEEN ANSWERED. IT'S SETTLED AND YOU'LL GO TO HEAVEN 59:01.518 --> 59:05.507 ONE DAY. HOWEVER, IT'S POSSIBLE, AND MANY CHRISTIANS DO THIS, TO 59:05.507 --> 59:10.398 LIVE THEIR ENTIRE LIVES WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING OR FOLLOWING GOD'S 59:10.398 --> 59:16.217 DIRECTION OR HIS PLAN FOR THEIR LIFE, AND THEY MISS THE FULL 59:16.217 --> 59:18.887 PLAN THAT GOD HAS FOR THEM. AND THERE'S PROBABLY NOTHING MORE 59:18.887 --> 59:24.588 IMPORTANT THAN FINDING OUT WHAT GOD HAS FOR YOU TO DO WHILE 59:24.588 --> 59:29.478 YOU'RE ON THIS EARTH, UNDERSTAND THAT PLAN AND MOVE INTO IT. YOU 59:29.478 --> 59:33.047 HAVE A LIMITED SPACE OF TIME ON THIS EARTH. WE ALL HAVE A 59:33.047 --> 59:36.228 CERTAIN NUMBER OF DAYS THAT WE HAVE TO LIVE. AND IF WE DON'T 59:36.228 --> 59:40.253 WALK OUT THE PLAN OF THE DESTINY THAT GOD HAS FOR US AND WE MISS 59:40.253 --> 59:44.777 THAT ALTOGETHER, WHAT GOOD HAVE WE BEEN? THE MOST IMPORTANT 59:44.777 --> 59:47.748 THING YOU CAN DO IS TO HEAR THE VOICE OF GOD. HEAR THE SPIRIT OF 59:47.748 --> 59:50.898 GOD AND MOVE IN THE DIRECTION AND THE DESTINY THAT YOU'RE 59:50.898 --> 59:55.007 CALLED TO ACHIEVE. WHATEVER THAT MIGHT BE. AND IT'S DIFFERENT FOR 59:55.007 --> 59:59.717 EACH ONE OF US. WHATEVER YOU'RE CALLED TO DO IS JUST AS 59:59.717 --> 01:00:02.027 IMPORTANT AS WHAT PASTOR HANK AND PASTOR BRENDA ARE CALLED TO 01:00:02.027 --> 01:00:06.228 DO. WE ALL HAVE A PART. WE'RE MOVING TOGETHER IN THIS EARTH TO 01:00:06.228 --> 01:00:13.398 ACCOMPLISH GOD'S WILL. OKAY. WE MENTIONED EARLIER THAT SCRIPTURE 01:00:13.398 --> 01:00:19.157 USES THE HEART AS A METAPHOR FOR THE NON-PHYSICAL SPIRIT PART OF 01:00:19.157 --> 01:00:22.277 A PERSON. IN OTHER WORDS, LOOK AT MATTHEW 5:8, YOU DON'T HAVE 01:00:22.277 --> 01:00:24.588 TO ACTUALLY LOOK AT IT, BUT IT SAYS, "BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN 01:00:24.588 --> 01:00:28.007 HEART, FOR THEY SHALL SEE GOD." WELL, WE UNDERSTAND WHEN IT 01:00:28.007 --> 01:00:31.277 SAYS, "BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART," IT'S NOT REFERRING TO 01:00:31.277 --> 01:00:37.307 THE PHYSICAL ORGAN IN YOUR BODY THAT'S PUMPING BLOOD. IN FACT, 01:00:37.307 --> 01:00:40.907 THERE ARE MORE THAN 800 REFERENCES IN THE BIBLE TO A 01:00:40.907 --> 01:00:45.498 MAN'S HEART. AND VERY FEW OF THEM REFER TO THE PHYSICAL HEART 01:00:45.498 --> 01:00:49.097 IN THE BODY. MOST OF THE REFERENCES IN THE HEART THAT ARE 01:00:49.097 --> 01:00:53.297 IN THE BIBLE REFER TO THE UNSEEN CENTER OF MAN'S BEING, THE 01:00:53.297 --> 01:00:58.329 INWARD SPIRIT OR THE SPIRIT MAN. AND SO WHEN WE SAY, "LISTEN TO 01:00:58.329 --> 01:01:07.719 YOUR HEART," OR, "WHAT HEART ARE WE TALKING ABOUT?" EVEN IN THE 01:01:07.719 --> 01:01:10.748 WORLD, PEOPLE SOMETIMES SAY, "I MEAN IT FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY 01:01:10.748 --> 01:01:14.318 HEART." YOU'VE HEARD THAT. OR YOU'LL SAY, "THAT MAN HAS A BIG 01:01:14.318 --> 01:01:18.789 HEART." WELL, YOU'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT THE ORGAN THAT'S PUMPING 01:01:18.789 --> 01:01:24.938 BLOOD. WHEN WE TALK ABOUT "LISTEN TO YOUR HEART," WE'RE 01:01:24.938 --> 01:01:29.438 REFERRING TO LISTENING TO OUR SPIRIT, THE INWARD MAN. WHAT I'M 01:01:29.438 --> 01:01:31.958 TALKING ABOUT TONIGHT IS LISTENING TO OUR HEART OR OUR 01:01:31.958 --> 01:01:37.028 SPIRIT. AND IT IS ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT IN CRITICAL SITUATIONS 01:01:37.028 --> 01:01:39.818 FOR WHICH THERE MAY BE NO SOLUTION IN THE NATURAL OR IN 01:01:39.818 --> 01:01:44.108 THE PHYSICAL. OUR PHYSICAL SENSES MIGHT TELL US, RUN FROM 01:01:44.108 --> 01:01:49.688 THAT PROBLEM. OR OUR MINDS MIGHT SAY, THERE'S NO WAY OUT. IT'S IN 01:01:49.688 --> 01:01:52.509 THOSE KIND OF SITUATIONS THAT WE NEED TO RECEIVE THE GUIDANCE 01:01:52.509 --> 01:01:56.679 FROM THE HOLY SPIRIT, HIS DIRECTION TO STAND ON GOD'S WORD 01:01:56.679 --> 01:02:01.239 WITHOUT WAVERING. SUCCESSFULLY FOLLOWING GOD'S PLAN FOR YOUR 01:02:01.239 --> 01:02:05.259 LIFE DEPENDS ON WHAT WE CHOOSE TO LISTEN TO AND WE HAVE A 01:02:05.259 --> 01:02:09.039 CHOICE TO WHAT WE CAN LISTEN TO. WE CAN LISTEN TO OUR PHYSICAL 01:02:09.039 --> 01:02:12.579 SENSES OR WE CAN LISTEN TO THE WORD OF GOD AND THE LEADING OF 01:02:12.579 --> 01:02:16.688 THE HOLY SPIRIT. I MEAN, IF YOUR BACK IS BOTHERING YOU AND ACHING 01:02:16.688 --> 01:02:21.699 AND YOU HAVE PAIN, YOU CAN LISTEN TO THAT AND SAY, OH, 01:02:21.699 --> 01:02:25.148 PASTOR ANTHONY, MY BACK IS REALLY KILLING ME TODAY. I CAN 01:02:25.148 --> 01:02:29.559 SAY THAT, OR I CAN CHOOSE TO SAY, I AM HEALED BY THE STRIPES 01:02:29.559 --> 01:02:35.619 OF JESUS. I RECEIVE MY HEALING. MY BACK IS HEALED. HE'S 01:02:35.619 --> 01:02:39.188 QUICKENED MY MORTAL BODY, JUST AS HE QUICKENED JESUS CHRIST TO 01:02:39.188 --> 01:02:44.438 RAISE HIM FROM THE DEAD. BY THE STRIPES OF JESUS, I AM HEALED. 01:02:44.438 --> 01:02:54.969 AND WHAT YOU SPEAK AND WHAT YOU CONFESS WILL BE WHAT YOU ARE. IF 01:02:54.969 --> 01:02:58.478 WE ONLY LISTEN TO OUR PHYSICAL SENSES OR OUR MINDS, WE'LL 01:02:58.478 --> 01:03:02.199 EVENTUALLY LOSE OUR PEACE AND OUR JOY. THEN WE CAN MISS THE 01:03:02.199 --> 01:03:06.458 VICTORIES THAT GOD INTENDS FOR US. FOR INSTANCE, IF WE ONLY 01:03:06.458 --> 01:03:10.418 FOCUS OUR ATTENTION ON WHAT WE HEAR ON THE NEWS, WE CAN REALLY 01:03:10.418 --> 01:03:14.289 QUICKLY BECOME DEPRESSED ABOUT ALL THE PROBLEMS IN THE WORLD. 01:03:15.489 --> 01:03:19.119 IT'D BE EASY TO WONDER, ARE WE GOING TO EVER MAKE IT THROUGH 01:03:19.119 --> 01:03:22.778 THIS? BUT IT REALLY DOESN'T MATTER WHAT OUR MIND OR OUR 01:03:22.778 --> 01:03:26.708 PHYSICAL SENSES TELL US. IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT FOX NEWS OR 01:03:26.708 --> 01:03:31.599 THE COMMUNIST NEWS NETWORK SAYS. REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE 01:03:31.599 --> 01:03:37.059 CIRCUMSTANCES LOOK LIKE, THE WORD OF GOD IS STILL TRUE. ONCE 01:03:37.059 --> 01:03:40.719 WE DETERMINE TO GET QUIET ON THE INSIDE AND BEGIN LISTENING TO 01:03:40.719 --> 01:03:43.568 WHAT OUR HEART OR SPIRIT IS SAYING, THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL 01:03:43.568 --> 01:03:46.568 MINISTER THE TRUTH OF GOD'S WORD TO US. I THINK BROTHER ROBERTS 01:03:46.568 --> 01:03:49.898 SAID IT SUNDAY ABOUT, HE WAS TALKING ABOUT A MAN IN DALLAS, I 01:03:49.898 --> 01:03:53.438 BELIEVE, JANET, THAT HE SAID, PRAYS FOR A HALF AN HOUR IN THE 01:03:53.438 --> 01:03:57.338 SPIRIT, AND THEN HE LISTENS FOR A HALF AN HOUR AND JUST TO SEE 01:03:57.338 --> 01:04:02.858 WHAT GOD'S SAYING. SO HOW DO WE DISTINGUISH OUR SPIRIT, OR WHAT 01:04:02.858 --> 01:04:06.429 THE BIBLE MANY TIMES REFERS TO AS OUR HEART, FROM OUR SOUL? 01:04:06.429 --> 01:04:10.659 THAT'S THE QUESTION. SOME DENOMINATIONS, LIKE I MENTIONED, 01:04:10.659 --> 01:04:13.028 BELIEVE THE SOUL AND THE SPIRIT ARE THE SAME, AND THEY GET ALL 01:04:13.028 --> 01:04:16.929 CONFUSED ON THAT, AND TALK ABOUT THE SOUL AND THE SPIRIT LIKE 01:04:16.929 --> 01:04:20.889 THEY'RE INTERCHANGEABLE, AND THEY'RE NOT. THE BIBLE MAKES A 01:04:20.889 --> 01:04:24.188 CLEAR DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE TWO. WHY WOULD THE BIBLE SAY 01:04:24.188 --> 01:04:28.809 THAT OUR BODIES ARE MADE OF SPIRIT, THAT SOUL AND BODY, OR 01:04:28.809 --> 01:04:35.498 THAT HUMANS EXIST IN THOSE THREE AREAS, THREE EXISTENCES COME 01:04:35.498 --> 01:04:41.168 TOGETHER IN ONE, IF THE SPIRIT AND THE SOUL WERE THE SAME, IT 01:04:41.168 --> 01:04:45.938 WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN EXPLAINED THAT WAY TO US. IT'S NOT. MANY 01:04:45.938 --> 01:04:48.789 PEOPLE USE THE WORD SOUL INTERCHANGEABLY WITH THE WORD 01:04:48.789 --> 01:04:52.148 SPIRIT. THEY DON'T KNOW THE DIFFERENCE. IT'S A COMMON THING 01:04:52.148 --> 01:04:54.398 FOR THE WORLD TO TALK ABOUT SELLING THEIR SOUL, 01:04:55.568 --> 01:04:58.688 BUT MOST LIKELY THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY'RE SAYING. 01:04:58.688 --> 01:05:01.208 THERE WAS A MAN IN THE STATE OF WASHINGTON THAT USED AN INTERNET 01:05:01.208 --> 01:05:04.778 AUCTION SITE. YOU CAN PUT UP THE PICTURE THERE. HE WAS TRYING TO 01:05:04.778 --> 01:05:09.039 SELL HIS SOUL TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER, AND AS IT TURNED OUT, 01:05:09.039 --> 01:05:13.748 THE TOP OFFER THAT HE GOT WAS $400. AND SINCE THE SOUL IS NOT 01:05:13.748 --> 01:05:16.688 PHYSICAL, IT CAN'T BE EXTRACTED FROM THE BODY LIKE A PHYSICAL 01:05:16.688 --> 01:05:21.099 ORGAN SUCH AS THE HEART, THE MAN HAD TO ADMIT, "I DON'T THINK THE 01:05:21.099 --> 01:05:27.099 HIGH BIDDER IS GONNA BE ABLE TO COLLECT ON MY SOUL." REMEMBER, 01:05:27.099 --> 01:05:29.588 WE LOOKED AT THE APOSTLE PAUL'S WORDS IN 1 THESSALONIANS 5:23, 01:05:31.509 --> 01:05:36.159 "MAY YOUR WHOLE SPIRIT AND SOUL AND BODY BE KEPT BLAMELESS UNTIL 01:05:36.159 --> 01:05:41.018 OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST RETURNS." HE DESCRIBED THREE PARTS OF MAN 01:05:41.018 --> 01:05:44.048 IN THAT VERSE. IT'S VITALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE LEARN HOW TO 01:05:44.048 --> 01:05:47.469 CORRECTLY DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THE SPIRIT AND THE SOUL. IF WE 01:05:47.469 --> 01:05:53.498 DON'T, WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN LISTENING TO OUR 01:05:53.498 --> 01:05:59.228 SPIRIT OR OUR HEART AND TO BE LED IN THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF LIFE 01:05:59.228 --> 01:06:02.708 THAT WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH. SOME CHRISTIANS HAVE DIFFICULTY 01:06:02.708 --> 01:06:08.259 DISCERNING BETWEEN A SOULISH EMOTION AND SPIRITUAL STIRRING. 01:06:08.259 --> 01:06:12.039 THE EXCITEMENT OF A BIG CROWD CAN FEEL SPIRITUAL WHEN REALLY 01:06:12.039 --> 01:06:16.449 IT'S NOTHING MORE THAN SOULISH ENTHUSIASM. GO TO A FOOTBALL 01:06:16.449 --> 01:06:19.809 GAME. PEOPLE GET ALL EXCITED AND JUMPING UP AND DOWN AND THEY'RE 01:06:19.809 --> 01:06:25.418 VERY ENTHUSIASTIC. IS THAT SPIRITUAL? NO. HOW ABOUT A 01:06:25.418 --> 01:06:30.039 TEAR-JERKING STORY? SOMETIMES IT CAN FEEL SPIRITUAL. A WELL-DONE 01:06:30.039 --> 01:06:33.878 SONG CAN STIR EMOTIONS WHEN NOTHING SPIRITUAL IS ACTUALLY 01:06:33.878 --> 01:06:37.929 HAPPENING. A CARNAL CHRISTIAN CAN EASILY INTERPRET THOSE 01:06:37.929 --> 01:06:42.548 THINGS AS SOMETHING SPIRITUAL. NOW, I'M NOT SAYING THOSE THINGS 01:06:42.548 --> 01:06:45.639 ARE WRONG. I'M JUST SAYING WE HAVE TO LEARN TO DISTINGUISH 01:06:45.639 --> 01:06:50.978 SOULISH EXCITEMENT FROM SPIRITUAL EDIFICATION. AND IT'S 01:06:50.978 --> 01:06:55.119 NOT ALWAYS EASY TO DO. THE DISCERNMENT BEGINS WITH SIMPLY 01:06:55.119 --> 01:06:59.228 RECOGNIZING THAT THERE IS A DIFFERENCE. AND YOU HAVE AN EDGE 01:06:59.228 --> 01:07:01.298 TONIGHT BECAUSE NOW YOU KNOW THERE'S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE 01:07:01.298 --> 01:07:05.259 SOUL AND THE SPIRIT. YOU ALREADY KNEW THAT, I'M SURE. BUT MAYBE 01:07:05.259 --> 01:07:07.268 THERE'S SOMEONE ONLINE, MAYBE THERE'S A NEW CHRISTIAN, YOU 01:07:07.268 --> 01:07:10.838 DIDN'T KNOW THAT. SO HOPEFULLY THIS IS REVELATION TO YOU. WE'RE 01:07:10.838 --> 01:07:13.929 DEPENDENT ON BIBLICAL REVELATION TO TEACH US THE DIFFERENCE 01:07:13.929 --> 01:07:17.858 BETWEEN THE SOUL AND THE SPIRIT. HEBREWS 4:12 SAYS THIS, THIS IS 01:07:17.858 --> 01:07:21.579 A KEY SCRIPTURE TONIGHT, I WANNA READ THIS. FOR THE WORD OF GOD 01:07:21.579 --> 01:07:25.568 IS QUICK AND POWERFUL AND SHARPER THAN ANY TWO-EDGED 01:07:25.568 --> 01:07:29.949 SWORD, PIERCING EVEN TO THE DIVIDING ASUNDER," LISTEN TO 01:07:29.949 --> 01:07:36.068 THIS, "THE DIVIDING ASUNDER OF THE SOUL AND THE SPIRIT AND THE 01:07:36.068 --> 01:07:39.458 JOINTS AND THE MARROW." AND IT'S A DISCERNER OF THE THOUGHTS AND 01:07:39.458 --> 01:07:42.849 THE INTENTS OF THE HEART. BIBLICAL REVELATION, THE WORD OF 01:07:42.849 --> 01:07:47.438 GOD, RIGHTLY DIVIDES OUR SOUL AND OUR SPIRIT. REPEAT THIS WITH 01:07:47.438 --> 01:07:55.838 ME, BIBLICAL REVELATION, RIGHTLY DIVIDES MY SOUL AND MY SPIRIT. 01:07:55.838 --> 01:07:59.469 WE NEED THIS UNDERSTANDING. THIS VERSE EXPLAINS THAT THE SPIRIT 01:07:59.469 --> 01:08:02.648 AND THE SOUL ARE SEPARATE ENTITIES AND THAT THEY CAN BE 01:08:02.648 --> 01:08:07.389 DIVIDED OR DISTINGUISHED FROM ONE ANOTHER. THE WORD OF GOD 01:08:07.389 --> 01:08:11.708 DIVIDES ASUNDER OR SEPARATES THE SOUL AND THE SPIRIT OF MAN 01:08:11.708 --> 01:08:15.818 BECAUSE THEY'RE TWO SEPARATE, DISTINCT ENTITIES. THE NEW 01:08:15.818 --> 01:08:19.689 LIVING TRANSLATION CALLS IT CUTTING BETWEEN THE SOUL AND THE 01:08:19.689 --> 01:08:23.168 SPIRIT. HEBREWS 4:12 IN THE NEW LIVING TRANSLATION SAYS, "FOR 01:08:23.168 --> 01:08:25.899 THE WORD OF GOD IS ALIVE AND POWERFUL, IT'S SHARPER THAN THE 01:08:25.899 --> 01:08:30.578 SHARPEST TWO-EDGED SWORD, CUTTING BETWEEN THE SOUL AND THE 01:08:30.578 --> 01:08:33.639 SPIRIT." I WANT YOU TO SEE THAT IN YOUR MIND. IT'S CUTTING 01:08:33.639 --> 01:08:38.408 BETWEEN THE SOUL AND DIVIDING IT. AMEN. THERE'D BE NO NEED TO 01:08:38.408 --> 01:08:40.929 DIVIDE THEM IF THEY WERE THE SAME. YOU CAN'T SEPARATE 01:08:40.929 --> 01:08:45.429 SOMETHING FROM ITSELF. THE WORD OF GOD TEACHES US THAT THE SOUL 01:08:45.429 --> 01:08:48.219 AND THE SPIRIT BEING TWO DISTINCT ENTITIES CAN BE 01:08:48.219 --> 01:08:53.019 SEPARATED. SO LET ME DEMONSTRATE ILLUSTRATION NUMBER TWO TONIGHT. 01:08:53.019 --> 01:08:56.588 LET'S HAVE SOME FUN. WE PRETEND YOU'RE BACK IN HIGH SCHOOL AND 01:08:56.588 --> 01:09:00.668 WE'RE JUST DOING A SCIENCE ILLUSTRATION HERE. BUT IT'S 01:09:00.668 --> 01:09:02.769 GONNA BE A LITTLE DIFFERENT THAN THAT BECAUSE THIS HAS ETERNAL 01:09:02.769 --> 01:09:11.588 VALUE. SO WHAT I HAVE HERE TONIGHT IS A PICTURE OF BLUE 01:09:11.588 --> 01:09:19.929 OCEAN WATER. IT'S REALLY NOT OCEAN WATER, IT'S JUST WATER 01:09:19.929 --> 01:09:22.899 THAT'S COLORED BLUE, BUT I WANTED YOU TO BE ABLE TO SEE IT. 01:09:22.899 --> 01:09:29.559 WE DIDN'T REALLY IMPORT IT FROM THE PACIFIC. I ALSO HAVE SOME 01:09:29.559 --> 01:09:38.529 GRAVEL HERE. AND THIS IS SPECIAL PEA GRAVEL IN HERE. SO, THIS 01:09:38.529 --> 01:09:42.548 ROCK OR THIS PEA GRAVEL I WANT YOU TO PRETEND IS YOUR SOUL. 01:09:42.548 --> 01:09:48.759 THIS IS YOUR SOUL. THIS GLASS IS YOUR BODY. THIS IS THE THING 01:09:48.759 --> 01:09:53.378 THAT HOLDS YOUR SOUL AND YOUR SPIRIT. SO TONIGHT, IF I POUR 01:09:53.378 --> 01:09:57.519 SOME SPIRIT, WHICH IS THE WATER, LET'S PUT SOME SPIRIT IN THAT 01:09:57.519 --> 01:10:03.338 BODY. YOU'RE CREATED WITH THE SPIRIT. SO WE HAVE A NICE 01:10:03.338 --> 01:10:07.809 CONTAINER OF BODY AND SPIRIT HERE. CAN YOU SEE THAT? OKAY, 01:10:07.809 --> 01:10:11.139 THAT'S GOOD, IT'S SHOWING UP GOOD. AND THEN WE'RE GONNA ADD 01:10:11.139 --> 01:10:14.859 OUR SOUL TO THIS. THAT'S THE INDICATION OF THE ROCK HERE. 01:10:14.859 --> 01:10:19.628 WE'RE JUST GONNA PRETEND THAT THIS ROCK IS OUR SOUL. NOW WE'RE 01:10:19.628 --> 01:10:27.368 GONNA MIX THOSE TOGETHER. AND HERE WE HAVE BODY, SOUL, AND 01:10:27.368 --> 01:10:32.288 SPIRIT ALL IN ONE CONTAINER. HERE'S THE KEY THOUGH. HERE'S 01:10:32.288 --> 01:10:38.259 THE KEY TO THIS. THE WORD OF GOD, WHICH IS MY STRAINER, THIS 01:10:38.259 --> 01:10:45.488 IS THE WORD OF GOD, CAN BE A SEPARATOR. SO I CAN SEPARATE MY 01:10:45.488 --> 01:10:55.418 SOUL AND MY SPIRIT. HERE WE GO. I HAVE SPIRIT AND I HAVE SOUL. 01:10:55.418 --> 01:11:02.958 THEY'RE SEPARATED NOW. WHAT DID IT? THE WORD OF GOD. THE WORD OF 01:11:02.958 --> 01:11:07.309 GOD SEPARATED IT BECAUSE THERE'S TWO DIFFERENT ELEMENTS, THE 01:11:07.309 --> 01:11:10.878 SOUL, THE BLUE WATER, AND YOUR SPIRIT, THE ROCKS. THEY CAN BE 01:11:10.878 --> 01:11:15.679 DIVIDED OR CUT ASUNDER BY THE WORD OF GOD. WHEN ROCKS AND 01:11:15.679 --> 01:11:22.849 WATER ARE MIXED TOGETHER LIKE I DID THERE, IN THAT ONE BODY, 01:11:22.849 --> 01:11:26.269 THEY'RE ALL TOGETHER, WORKING TOGETHER AS OUR BODIES DO, OUR 01:11:26.269 --> 01:11:30.649 HUMAN BODY, SOUL, AND SPIRIT WORKING TOGETHER. BUT THEY CAN 01:11:30.649 --> 01:11:34.998 BE SEPARATED. THE WORD OF GOD IS QUICK AND POWERFUL AND SHARPER 01:11:34.998 --> 01:11:38.389 THAN ANY TWO-EDGED SWORD, PIERCING EVEN TO THE DIVIDING 01:11:38.389 --> 01:11:43.279 ASUNDER OR THE CUTTING APART OF THE SOUL AND THE SPIRIT. SO EVEN 01:11:43.279 --> 01:11:45.649 THOUGH THE SOUL AND THE SPIRIT ARE INTERTWINED WITHIN THE 01:11:45.649 --> 01:11:49.279 NATURE OF EVERY PERSON, JUST LIKE THE WATER AND ROCKS WERE 01:11:49.279 --> 01:11:53.929 MIXED, THEY ARE TWO SEPARATE ENTITIES. THEY CAN BE SEPARATED 01:11:53.929 --> 01:11:57.408 BY THE WORD OF GOD. BY RENEWING OUR MINDS WITH THE WORD OF GOD, 01:11:57.408 --> 01:12:01.819 WE CAN LEARN TO FOLLOW THE HOLY SPIRIT'S LEADING IN OUR LIVES. 01:12:01.819 --> 01:12:05.809 THAT'S WHAT I WANTED YOU TO SEE TONIGHT. ROMANS 12:2 AGAIN. “BE 01:12:05.809 --> 01:12:09.109 NOT CONFORMED TO THIS WORLD, BUT BE TRANSFORMED BY THE RENEWING 01:12:09.109 --> 01:12:12.378 OF YOUR MIND THAT YOU MAY PROVE WHAT IS GOOD AND ACCEPTABLE AND 01:12:12.378 --> 01:12:16.721 THE PERFECT WILL OF GOD.” WE BECOME MORE SENSITIVE TO GOD AND 01:12:16.721 --> 01:12:20.779 THE THINGS OF GOD WHEN OUR MINDS ARE RENEWED WITH THE WORD. SO IN 01:12:20.779 --> 01:12:23.658 CLOSING TONIGHT, EDDIE, YOU CAN COME. WE'RE GONNA BE DONE BY 01:12:23.658 --> 01:12:28.399 ABOUT 8:15, I BELIEVE. REMEMBER, WEDNESDAY'S ICE CREAM NIGHT, SO 01:12:28.399 --> 01:12:32.988 YOU DON'T WANNA BE TOO LATE. PASTOR MATT TOLD ME HE WANTS AN 01:12:32.988 --> 01:12:40.158 ICE CREAM CONE TONIGHT, SO WE GOTTA GET HIM OUTTA HERE. THERE. 01:12:42.109 --> 01:12:45.229 BUT I WANNA GIVE YOU THREE METHODS IN CLOSING TONIGHT 01:12:45.229 --> 01:12:48.798 THAT'LL HELP YOU CONTINUALLY FILL YOUR MIND WITH GOD'S WORD 01:12:48.798 --> 01:12:53.479 SO THAT YOU CAN DIVIDE YOUR SOUL AND YOUR SPIRIT SO THAT YOU CAN 01:12:53.479 --> 01:12:57.798 COME TO A POINT WHEN YOU CAN DISCERN THE VOICE OF THE SPIRIT 01:12:57.798 --> 01:13:00.828 IN A GREATER WAY. HOW MANY OF YOU WANNA HEAR THE VOICE OF GOD 01:13:00.828 --> 01:13:05.628 IN A CLEARER WAY? YOU DO THAT BY RENEWING YOUR MIND WITH THE WORD 01:13:05.628 --> 01:13:10.458 OF GOD. IT SENSITIZES YOUR SPIRIT TO BE ABLE TO RECEIVE AND 01:13:10.458 --> 01:13:15.588 UNDERSTAND AND DISCERN. SO I WANNA COVER THOSE THREE SIMPLE 01:13:15.588 --> 01:13:19.128 THINGS. HOW TO FILL YOUR MIND WITH THE WORD OF GOD. READING OR 01:13:19.128 --> 01:13:25.609 HEARING THE WORD. JUST SPEND TIME READING. TURN ON, IS RUDY 01:13:25.609 --> 01:13:29.899 HERE TONIGHT? I DON'T SEE RUDY, HE MUST BE HOME. BUT HE WAS 01:13:29.899 --> 01:13:32.088 TELLING ME, HE JUST SENT ME A TEXT THIS WEEK AND HE SAYS, "I'M 01:13:33.168 --> 01:13:36.708 LISTENING TO THE NEW LIVING TRANSLATION OF THE NEW 01:13:36.708 --> 01:13:39.618 TESTAMENT EVERYWHERE I GO. I JUST HAVE IT PLAYING AND I'M 01:13:39.618 --> 01:13:42.349 LEARNING AND HEARING." SO HEARING AND HEARING IS GOOD. 01:13:42.349 --> 01:13:48.798 THEN MEDITATE, MEDITATE OR CHEW ON GOD'S WORD. YOU KNOW, THERE'S 01:13:48.798 --> 01:13:51.765 MORE THAN JUST, IN FACT, LET'S PUT UP THAT NEXT SCRIPTURE, 01:13:51.765 --> 01:13:55.015 2 CORINTHIANS 5:17 IN THE AMPLIFIED. THAT WAS THE NEXT ONE 01:13:55.015 --> 01:14:00.048 I WAS GONNA GO TO. BUT IF YOU'RE GONNA CHEW ON A SCRIPTURE AND 01:14:00.048 --> 01:14:03.889 MEDITATE ON IT, YOU WANNA JUST NOT READ IT. THEREFORE, AS 01:14:03.889 --> 01:14:06.259 ANYONE IN CHRIST THAT IS GRAFTED IN, JOINED TO HIM BY FAITH, YOU 01:14:06.259 --> 01:14:09.618 KNOW, YOU HEAR IT, BUT LET'S TAKE SOME TIME TO CHEW ON IT, 01:14:09.618 --> 01:14:14.059 DISCERN IT. YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU TAKE FOOD INTO YOUR BODY SO THAT 01:14:14.059 --> 01:14:18.259 YOU CAN DIGEST IT BETTER, IT FIRST GOES THROUGH THAT PART OF 01:14:18.259 --> 01:14:20.838 THE MOUTH THAT ALLOWS YOU TO CHEW WITH YOUR TEETH, DOESN'T 01:14:20.838 --> 01:14:25.368 IT? YOU'RE BREAKING IT UP, YOU'RE UNDERSTANDING IT BETTER, 01:14:25.368 --> 01:14:29.689 THE SAME WAY IS TRUE AS YOU LOOK AT THE WORD. THEREFORE, IF 01:14:29.689 --> 01:14:35.238 ANYONE IS IN CHRIST, OH, SO THAT IS SPEAKING TO ANYONE THAT IS IN 01:14:35.238 --> 01:14:38.988 CHRIST. THAT MEANS SOMEONE THAT'S BORN AGAIN, THAT'S SAVED. 01:14:38.988 --> 01:14:42.859 IN OTHER WORDS, HE'S GRAFTED IN. HE'S JOINED TO HIM BY FAITH. OH, 01:14:42.859 --> 01:14:48.078 OKAY, SO THAT MEANS IT MUST TAKE FAITH FOR ME TO RECEIVE CHRIST. 01:14:48.078 --> 01:14:52.698 I'M UNDERSTANDING THAT. THAT MAKES SENSE. AS SAVIOR. HE'S A 01:14:52.698 --> 01:14:58.158 NEW CREATURE. OH, OKAY. THEN WHEN I CAME TO GOD, I GOT SAVED 01:14:58.158 --> 01:15:02.208 BY FAITH. I BECAME A NEW CREATURE. I WAS REBORN AND 01:15:02.208 --> 01:15:06.529 RENEWED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT. OH, AND THEN I SEE THE OLD THINGS, 01:15:06.529 --> 01:15:10.189 THE PREVIOUS MORAL AND SPIRITUAL CONDITION THAT I WAS IN, HAVE 01:15:10.189 --> 01:15:14.389 PASSED AWAY. OH, THAT'S INTERESTING. THAT'S CHANGED IN 01:15:14.389 --> 01:15:17.328 MY LIFE. SO I DON'T HAVE THE SAME DESIRES THAT I USED TO 01:15:17.328 --> 01:15:21.259 HAVE. I'M CHEWING ON THIS SCRIPTURE AS I GO. AND BEHOLD, 01:15:21.259 --> 01:15:25.519 NEW THINGS HAVE COME. OH, THAT MEANS I DON'T HAVE THE SAME 01:15:25.519 --> 01:15:29.828 DESIRES AS I HAD BEFORE. I'M LOOKING TO LIVE A NEW LIFE NOW. 01:15:31.219 --> 01:15:35.868 BECAUSE I'VE HAD A SPIRITUAL AWAKENING THAT BRINGS A NEW 01:15:35.868 --> 01:15:40.158 LIFE. HMM. THAT'S HOW YOU CHEW ON A SCRIPTURE. DON'T JUST READ 01:15:40.158 --> 01:15:43.519 IT OR HEAR IT AND THEN MOVE ON TO THE NEXT THING. YOU'RE BETTER 01:15:43.519 --> 01:15:47.418 OFF TAKING THAT SCRIPTURE AND SPENDING 10 OR 15 MINUTES ON IT, 01:15:47.418 --> 01:15:51.439 CHEWING ON IT, THAN YOU ARE TO READ 20 VERSES AND NOT GET 01:15:51.439 --> 01:15:55.189 ANYTHING OUT OF IT. NOT THAT YOU’LL, I DON'T WANT TO SAY IT 01:15:55.189 --> 01:16:00.618 THAT WAY, BECAUSE HEARING IS BUILDING FAITH. YOU'RE ALWAYS 01:16:00.618 --> 01:16:02.448 GOING TO GET SOMETHING OUT OF THE WORD OF GOD, BUT WHAT I'M 01:16:02.448 --> 01:16:05.599 SAYING IS YOU'RE GOING TO GO TO A DEEPER LEVEL IF YOU MEDITATE 01:16:05.599 --> 01:16:10.429 AND CHEW. DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? AND THEN FINALLY, NUMBER THREE, 01:16:10.429 --> 01:16:16.849 SPEAKING THE WORD. SPEAK IT. WHEN YOU DECLARE THE WORD, YOU 01:16:16.849 --> 01:16:21.918 BRING IT INTO BEING. SOMETHING THAT'S SPIRITUAL IS THEN 01:16:21.918 --> 01:16:24.889 BECOMING MANIFESTED IN THE NATURAL IN YOUR LIFE AS YOU 01:16:24.889 --> 01:16:28.488 SPEAK IT. AS YOU SAY, I AM HEALED BY THE STRIPES OF JESUS, 01:16:28.488 --> 01:16:32.719 THAT MANIFESTS THAT SPIRITUAL THING. WHEN YOU JUST READ IT OR 01:16:32.719 --> 01:16:37.279 YOU JUST HEAR IT, IT'S NOT THE SAME AS SPEAKING IT. AND I 01:16:37.279 --> 01:16:40.729 SUGGEST THE WAY TO RENEW YOUR MIND WITH THE WORD OF GOD IS 01:16:40.729 --> 01:16:43.609 WRITE DOWN FIVE SCRIPTURES AND PUT THEM ON NOTE CARDS IF YOU 01:16:43.609 --> 01:16:47.359 HAVE TO AND SPEAK THEM OVER YOURSELF. PEOPLE WILL THINK 01:16:47.359 --> 01:16:51.109 YOU'RE NUTS, BUT THAT'S THE WAY THAT YOU DO IT. THAT'S WHY 01:16:51.109 --> 01:16:54.889 PEOPLE CAN GO ON FOR YEARS AND NOT RECEIVE SOMETHING FOR GOD 01:16:54.889 --> 01:16:56.719 THAT THEY'RE BELIEVING FOR, WHETHER IT'S HEALING OR 01:16:56.719 --> 01:16:59.868 PROSPERITY OR WHATEVER IT IS, BECAUSE THEY NEVER SPEAK IT. 01:16:59.868 --> 01:17:04.458 THEY BELIEVE IT. THEY MAY KIND OF INTERNALIZE IT BECAUSE THEY 01:17:04.458 --> 01:17:09.798 UNDERSTAND IT, BUT THEY NEVER SPEAK IT OUT AND DECLARE IT. AND 01:17:09.798 --> 01:17:12.708 AGAIN, IF SOMETHING'S GOING ON IN YOUR LIFE, DON'T SPEAK THE 01:17:12.708 --> 01:17:18.649 PROBLEM, SPEAK THE WORD OVER IT. NEVER SPEAK THE PROBLEM. THE 01:17:18.649 --> 01:17:22.488 FACT IS I MAY HAVE CANCER IN MY BODY, BUT THE TRUTH IS I'M 01:17:22.488 --> 01:17:28.488 HEALED. THE TRUTH IS I'M HEALED BY THE STRIPES OF JESUS, SO I'M 01:17:28.488 --> 01:17:32.298 NOT GONNA SPEAK THAT I HAVE CANCER, EVEN IF I HAD IT. IT 01:17:32.298 --> 01:17:36.869 WOULDN'T COME OUT OF MY MOUTH. UNLESS BY ACCIDENT I MOVE INTO 01:17:37.998 --> 01:17:40.429 NEGLIGENCE AND JUST MOVE, YOU KNOW, AND THAT HAPPENS 01:17:40.429 --> 01:17:43.099 SOMETIMES. AND THEN YOU GOTTA SAY, "FATHER, FORGIVE ME. "I 01:17:43.099 --> 01:17:47.298 SHOULDN'T HAVE SAID THAT." TAKE THOSE WORDS BACK, AND YOU CLAW 01:17:47.298 --> 01:17:51.019 'EM BACK. YOU DON'T WANNA SPEAK THAT INTO YOUR RESISTANCE. THE 01:17:51.019 --> 01:18:00.048 THINGS THAT YOU SPEAK TODAY ARE SETTING UP YOUR FUTURE. IF 01:18:00.048 --> 01:18:02.809 YOU'RE A NEW BELIEVER, IT'S A NEW WAY OF THINKING. YOU NO 01:18:02.809 --> 01:18:06.185 LONGER THINK LIKE YOU DID BEFORE. AND LET'S LOOK AT 01:18:06.185 --> 01:18:09.078 2 CORINTHIANS 5:17 IN THE AMPLIFIED AS WE CLOSE HERE 01:18:09.078 --> 01:18:13.609 TONIGHT. THEREFORE, IF ANYONE IS IN CHRIST THAT IS GRAFTED IN, 01:18:13.609 --> 01:18:17.418 JOINED TO HIM BY FAITH, IN HIM AS SAVIOR, HE'S A NEW CREATURE, 01:18:17.418 --> 01:18:21.198 REBORN AND RENEWED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT. THE OLD THINGS, THE 01:18:21.198 --> 01:18:24.408 PREVIOUS MORAL AND SPIRITUAL CONDITION HAVE PASSED AWAY. 01:18:24.408 --> 01:18:28.279 BEHOLD, NEW THINGS HAVE COME, BECAUSE SPIRITUAL AWAKENING 01:18:28.279 --> 01:18:33.078 BRINGS A NEW LIFE. HALLELUJAH. AS WE LEARN TO STAY FAITHFUL AND 01:18:33.078 --> 01:18:36.168 RECEIVE THE WORD INTO OUR HEARTS AND MINDS, IT'LL BECOME EASIER 01:18:36.168 --> 01:18:41.389 AND EASIER TO LISTEN TO YOUR HEART OR YOUR SPIRIT MAN, IS 01:18:41.389 --> 01:18:46.324 WHAT I'M SAYING WHEN I SAY HEART, WITH CONFIDENCE. 01:18:47.658 --> 01:18:50.538 FOLLOWING THE HOLY SPIRIT'S LEADING IN ALL SITUATIONS AND 01:18:50.538 --> 01:18:54.948 CIRCUMSTANCES OF YOUR LIFE IS WHAT WE WANT TO GET TO. AND 01:18:54.948 --> 01:18:57.769 UNDERSTANDING THAT TRICHOTOMOUS BEING, I LIKE THAT WORD 01:18:57.769 --> 01:19:00.078 TRICHOTOMOUS. IF YOU DON'T LEARN ANYTHING ELSE TONIGHT, YOU CAN 01:19:00.078 --> 01:19:02.509 GO HOME TO YOUR FAMILY AND SAY, I LEARNED A NEW WORD, 01:19:02.509 --> 01:19:07.668 TRICHOTOMOUS. ALEC, YOU PROBABLY ALREADY KNEW THAT WORD, BUT SOME 01:19:07.668 --> 01:19:15.679 OF US DIDN'T. BUT IF WE'RE NOT RENEWING OUR MIND, WE CAN END UP 01:19:15.679 --> 01:19:18.618 RESPONDING TO SITUATIONS IN THE WAY THAT WE DID BEFORE 01:19:18.618 --> 01:19:24.259 SALVATION. THEN IT'S HARDER TO RESIST SIN. AND AS WE RENEW OUR 01:19:24.259 --> 01:19:28.099 MINDS WITH THE WORD, WE CAN SUCCESSFULLY FOLLOW GOD'S PLAN 01:19:28.099 --> 01:19:31.639 FOR OUR LIFE. A RENEWED MIND MAKES YOU MORE SENSITIVE TO THE 01:19:31.639 --> 01:19:36.708 THINGS OF GOD AND WILL ASSIST YOU IN HEARING GOD'S VOICE. AND 01:19:36.708 --> 01:19:43.279 THEN YOU'LL BE LESS LIKELY TO RESPOND TO CIRCUMSTANCES FROM 01:19:43.279 --> 01:19:49.668 YOUR EMOTIONS OR REASONING. JAMES 1, I’VE GOT ONE MORE 01:19:49.668 --> 01:19:52.099 SCRIPTURE. I TOLD YOU I WAS ON THE LAST ONE, BUT I DO HAVE ONE 01:19:52.099 --> 01:19:56.599 MORE, I GUESS, HERE. JAMES 1:21 SAYS, "GET RID OF ALL 01:19:56.599 --> 01:20:00.588 UNCLEANLINESS AND ALL THAT REMAINS OF WICKEDNESS. AND WITH 01:20:00.588 --> 01:20:03.738 A HUMBLE SPIRIT, RECEIVE THE WORD OF GOD, WHICH IS 01:20:03.738 --> 01:20:07.429 IMPLANTED," OR ACTUALLY, "ROOTED IN YOUR HEART, WHICH IS ABLE TO 01:20:07.429 --> 01:20:11.599 SAVE YOUR SOULS." THAT'S WHY IT'S IMPORTANT TO STUDY AND PRAY 01:20:11.599 --> 01:20:14.599 DAILY. SPEAK THE WORD OVER YOUR LIFE. KEEP CONNECTED WITH OTHER 01:20:14.599 --> 01:20:18.469 BELIEVERS. COME TO PRAYER TIMES. ASKED PRAYER IS IMPORTANT, 01:20:18.469 --> 01:20:22.009 RIGHT, JANET? IT'LL SHARPEN YOU AS YOU'RE AROUND OTHER BELIEVERS 01:20:22.009 --> 01:20:25.488 THAT PRAY WITH YOU. AND WHEN YOU ARE HEARING OTHERS PRAY, YOU'LL 01:20:25.488 --> 01:20:29.328 HEAR THE WORD OF GOD. SO THEN YOU'RE RECEIVING MORE, AND 01:20:29.328 --> 01:20:34.189 YOU'RE BUILDING YOUR FAITH. JOIN A 242 HOME GROUP IF YOU'RE PART 01:20:34.189 --> 01:20:37.309 OF THIS LOCAL CONGREGATION. IT'LL GIVE YOU THE OPPORTUNITY 01:20:37.309 --> 01:20:39.319 FOR FELLOWSHIP, BUT IT ALSO GIVES YOU SOME ADDITIONAL 01:20:39.319 --> 01:20:44.509 TEACHING THAT YOU WON'T GET ON SUNDAYS OR WEDNESDAYS. IT'S 01:20:44.509 --> 01:20:48.769 IMPORTANT. TAKE A LIFE EMPOWERMENT CLASS. WE HAVE THOSE 01:20:48.769 --> 01:20:52.248 GOING MOST THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. I MEAN, JUST ABOUT EVERY TIME OF 01:20:52.248 --> 01:20:55.548 THE YEAR. WE HAVE LITTLE BREAKS, BUT WE CONTINUE TO HAVE LIFE 01:20:55.548 --> 01:21:01.158 EMPOWERMENT CLASSES THAT WILL HELP SHARPEN YOU. DON'T FORSAKE 01:21:01.158 --> 01:21:06.259 YOUR ATTENDANCE ON SUNDAYS. IF YOU'RE WATCHING ONLINE, BE 01:21:06.259 --> 01:21:13.399 FAITHFUL. WHEN YOU'RE HOME AND YOU'RE TUNING IN, FOCUS ON THAT. 01:21:13.399 --> 01:21:17.685 RESERVE THAT TIME FOR GOD. DON'T TRY AND DO ALL YOUR HOUSEHOLD 01:21:17.685 --> 01:21:20.505 CHORES WHILE YOU'RE LISTENING. FOCUS ON IT JUST LIKE YOU WERE 01:21:20.505 --> 01:21:23.385 IN CHURCH. SOME OF YOU DON'T HAVE A LOCAL CHURCH TO ATTEND 01:21:23.385 --> 01:21:29.055 BECAUSE THERE'S NO ONE PREACHING TRUTH IN YOUR AREA. AND YOU NEED 01:21:29.055 --> 01:21:33.255 TO FOCUS IN ON WHAT WE HAVE HERE. JOIN THE CONFERENCE CALLS 01:21:33.255 --> 01:21:37.155 THAT ASK PRAYER HAS AND START HOOKING UP WITH OTHER BELIEVERS. 01:21:37.155 --> 01:21:41.625 DO WHAT YOU CAN WHERE YOU CAN TO BE AROUND THINGS THAT WILL 01:21:41.625 --> 01:21:45.164 STRENGTHEN YOU AND MOVE YOU FORWARD IN YOUR LIFE. BECAUSE IF 01:21:45.164 --> 01:21:49.755 YOU DETERMINE TO PUT YOUR SPIRIT MAN FIRST IN YOUR LIFE, IT'S THE 01:21:49.755 --> 01:21:54.854 VERY THING THAT CAN MAKE YOU THE MOST SUCCESSFUL IN YOUR LIFE 01:21:54.854 --> 01:21:58.725 ENDEAVOR, FULFILLING THE DESTINY OF GOD FOR YOU, AND THEN IT'S 01:21:58.725 --> 01:22:01.029 THE THING THAT WILL MAKE YOU MOST SUCCESSFUL ETERNALLY. 01:22:02.324 --> 01:22:05.385 BECAUSE THE REASON THAT GOD WILL SAY, WELL DONE, THOU GOOD AND 01:22:05.385 --> 01:22:11.265 FAITHFUL SERVANT, AND YOU'LL GET A REWARD IN HEAVEN, IS NOT JUST 01:22:11.265 --> 01:22:13.905 BECAUSE YOU ACCEPTED HIM AS CHRIST AND BECAME SAVED, IT'S 01:22:13.905 --> 01:22:18.015 BECAUSE YOU DID HIS WILL WHILE YOU WERE ON THE EARTH. AND 01:22:18.015 --> 01:22:22.574 THAT'S HOW YOU GET REWARDS, WHEN YOU FOLLOW HIS PLAN. BUT HOW ARE 01:22:22.574 --> 01:22:26.055 YOU GONNA FOLLOW HIS PLAN IF YOU CAN'T HEAR HIS VOICE? SO THAT'S 01:22:26.055 --> 01:22:30.074 WHY I WENT BACK TO BASICS TONIGHT, TO TALK ABOUT THE BODY, 01:22:30.074 --> 01:22:32.625 SOUL, AND SPIRIT, AND UNDERSTANDING THE DIVISION 01:22:32.625 --> 01:22:35.324 BETWEEN THEM, AND UNDERSTANDING HOW YOU CAN HEAR THE VOICE OF 01:22:35.324 --> 01:22:38.774 GOD. AND WE JUST KIND OF TOUCHED IT TONIGHT. THERE'S SO MUCH 01:22:38.774 --> 01:22:41.805 MORE. WE'LL PROBABLY GO INTO THAT AGAIN NEXT WEDNESDAY IN A 01:22:41.805 --> 01:22:46.095 DEEPER WAY, SO. WELL, THANK YOU FOR COMING TONIGHT. STAND WITH 01:22:46.095 --> 01:22:50.505 ME IF YOU WOULD. FATHER, I THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE IN 01:22:50.505 --> 01:22:53.204 YOUR HOUSE TONIGHT. WE THANK YOU, LORD, FOR THE MOVE OF THE 01:22:53.204 --> 01:22:56.985 HOLY SPIRIT. WE THANK YOU, LORD, FOR THE ANOINTING, THE GRACE, 01:22:56.985 --> 01:23:01.725 THE MERCY, ALL THAT YOU GIVE US. THANK YOU, LORD, THAT YOU HAD A 01:23:01.725 --> 01:23:04.994 DIVINE PLAN FOR US WHEN YOU CREATED US, BODY, SOUL, AND 01:23:04.994 --> 01:23:09.195 SPIRIT. AND NOW WE'VE HOPEFULLY REMEMBERED OR WE'VE LEARNED SOME 01:23:09.195 --> 01:23:12.524 THINGS FOR THE FIRST TIME, LORD, THAT WILL HELP US WHEN WE LOOK 01:23:12.524 --> 01:23:18.676 AT THE DIVISION OF THAT AND HOW WE CAN RECEIVE IN OUR SPIRIT MAN 01:23:18.676 --> 01:23:21.914 AND THE TRUTH OF GOD, THAT YOU GUIDE US AND YOU DIRECT US, YOU 01:23:21.914 --> 01:23:25.994 SPEAK TO US CONTINUOUSLY. WE JUST HAVE TO LEARN TO HEAR. AND 01:23:25.994 --> 01:23:31.574 WE WANT OUR MINDS RENEWED, LORD, SO WE COMMIT TO YOU TO HEAR YOUR 01:23:31.574 --> 01:23:34.875 WORD, STUDY YOUR WORD, MEDITATE ON YOUR WORD, CONFESS YOUR WORD, 01:23:34.875 --> 01:23:40.185 AND SPEAK YOUR WORD, SO THAT WE CAN BE SHARP AND WE CAN RECEIVE 01:23:40.185 --> 01:23:43.994 EVERYTHING THAT YOU WOULD HAVE FOR US. WE CAN UNDERSTAND THE 01:23:43.994 --> 01:23:48.614 UNCTIONS, THE VOICE OF GOD, THE DIRECTION, THE GUIDANCE THAT YOU 01:23:48.614 --> 01:23:51.735 GIVE US. EACH ONE OF US WANT THAT, LORD, BECAUSE THAT 01:23:51.735 --> 01:23:55.604 GUIDANCE, THAT DIRECTION, THAT WISDOM CAN HELP US TO AVERT 01:23:55.604 --> 01:24:00.524 ACCIDENTS, TRAGEDIES, CALAMITIES. ANYTHING THE DEVIL 01:24:00.524 --> 01:24:05.114 HAS INTENDED FOR US, YOU HAVE A WAY AROUND IT AND THROUGH IT. SO 01:24:05.114 --> 01:24:07.966 WE THANK YOU FOR THAT GUIDANCE AND THAT DIRECTION. WE RECEIVE 01:24:07.966 --> 01:24:14.176 IT TONIGHT IN THE MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS. AMEN. GOD BLESS YOU. 01:24:14.176 --> 01:24:18.735 THANK YOU FOR COMING. NEXT WEEK I PROBABLY WON'T DO THE SCIENCE 01:24:18.735 --> 01:24:22.155 EXPERIMENTS, BUT I THOUGHT WE'D DO IT FOR FUN TONIGHT. 01:24:22.155 --> 01:24:41.081 (MUSIC)