WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.200 BUILDING THAT NO MUSCLE THROUGH REPS. AND ONE OF THE WAYS YOU 00:00:06.300 --> 00:00:10.200 GET THE REPS IS BY SAYING, NO, I DON'T GET EVERYTHING I WANT. 00:00:10.300 --> 00:00:12.467 >> HEY GUYS. WELCOME BACK TO THE PODCAST. I AM JOINED TODAY 00:00:12.567 --> 00:00:14.366 WITH KEENAN CLARK. >> COME ON EVANGELIST. 00:00:14.466 --> 00:00:16.367 >> COME. >> ON YOUNG EVANGELIST. 00:00:16.467 --> 00:00:19.333 >> THANKS REBECCA. >> YOU GOT YOU GOT THAT LIKE 00:00:19.433 --> 00:00:22.266 FIRE IN YOU. >> YEAH I DO A LITTLE BIT. YEAH. 00:00:22.366 --> 00:00:25.167 >> IT'S LIKE SOMETIMES THE WHOLE LIKE FIRE IN MY BONES 00:00:25.267 --> 00:00:28.199 THING IS LIKE. YEAH I REALLY IDENTIFY WITH THAT. LIKE SOME 00:00:28.299 --> 00:00:29.499 PEOPLE ARE LIKE YOU YELL A LOT. I'M LIKE, I REALLY HAVE NO 00:00:29.599 --> 00:00:32.366 OTHER CHOICE. IT'S JUST IN THERE. 00:00:32.466 --> 00:00:35.433 >> YEAH, YEAH. NO, BUT YOU KNOW, WHAT'S INTERESTING IS THAT WITH 00:00:35.533 --> 00:00:38.433 I MEAN, YOU'RE NOT LIKE, SUPER YOUNG. I WOULD SAY YOU'RE LIKE, 00:00:38.533 --> 00:00:42.167 IN THE MIDDLE. YOU'RE 30. YEAH. AND SO YOU'VE BEEN IN MINISTRY 00:00:42.267 --> 00:00:45.166 FOR YOU HAVE SOME YEARS IN YOU AND YOU GREW UP IN MINISTRY. 00:00:45.266 --> 00:00:47.333 YEAH. SO YOU HAVE EXPERIENCE IN THAT AS WELL. BUT WHAT'S REALLY 00:00:47.433 --> 00:00:50.133 INTERESTING IS I JUST HAD JOSEPH Z HERE, AND HE WAS 00:00:50.233 --> 00:00:52.266 TALKING ABOUT HOW THE OLDER GENERATION NEEDS THE YOUNGER 00:00:52.366 --> 00:00:54.366 GENERATION, HOW THEY NEED TO COME TOGETHER HAND IN HAND 00:00:54.466 --> 00:00:57.433 BECAUSE THE OLDER GENERATION NEEDS THAT ENERGY AND THAT 00:00:58.199 --> 00:01:00.367 YOUTH AND THAT FIRE IN THE YOUNGER GENERATION NEEDS WISDOM 00:01:00.467 --> 00:01:03.367 AND GUIDANCE. AND IF WE CAN COME TOGETHER INSTEAD OF 00:01:03.467 --> 00:01:06.366 CLASHING AGAINST EACH OTHER, WHICH IS A HUGE PROBLEM IN THE 00:01:06.466 --> 00:01:08.466 CHURCH. YEAH, WE COULD MAKE SUCH A BETTER IMPACT FOR THE 00:01:08.566 --> 00:01:11.533 KINGDOM. >> BIG TIME. YOU KNOW, I LIKE 00:01:12.299 --> 00:01:15.267 TO SAY NEW NEW SCHOOL PLUS OLD SCHOOL EQUALS BEST SCHOOL. 00:01:15.367 --> 00:01:18.233 >> YEAH, I LOVE THAT. >> I THINK WE GOT TO HAVE THE 00:01:18.333 --> 00:01:19.600 OLD SCHOOL AND THE NEW SCHOOL. WE CAN ALL LEARN FROM EACH 00:01:19.700 --> 00:01:22.433 OTHER. >> AND SPEAKING OF OLD SCHOOL, 00:01:22.533 --> 00:01:25.467 WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT YOUR BOOK, CHANGE THE WORLD ON AN 00:01:25.567 --> 00:01:28.399 EMPTY STOMACH. THE REASON WHY I SAY OLD SCHOOL IS BECAUSE IT'S 00:01:28.499 --> 00:01:31.433 ABOUT FASTING. AND FASTING IS SUCH A LONG, OBVIOUSLY 00:01:31.533 --> 00:01:34.400 PRINCIPLE IN THE CHURCH. IT'S IN THE BIBLE. THOUSANDS OF 00:01:34.500 --> 00:01:37.233 YEARS PEOPLE HAVE BEEN FASTING, AND YET IN THE NEW SCHOOL IT'S 00:01:37.333 --> 00:01:39.299 BEEN KIND OF FORGOTTEN. BIG TIME, NOT REALLY BEING TALKED 00:01:39.399 --> 00:01:42.366 ABOUT. HONESTLY, IT'S NOT REALLY BEING TALKED ABOUT MUCH. 00:01:42.466 --> 00:01:45.400 >> YEAH. NO, I THINK IT'S LIKE IT'S KIND OF ONE OF THOSE 00:01:45.500 --> 00:01:49.366 THINGS THAT PEOPLE WANT TO POO POO IT. AND YEAH, IT KIND OF 00:01:49.466 --> 00:01:52.266 LIKE IT LITERALLY. AND LIKE I FEEL LIKE WE'RE GETTING A 00:01:52.366 --> 00:01:55.233 LITTLE DEEP QUICK, BUT I LIKE THAT IN THE ERA AND I'M ALL FOR 00:01:55.333 --> 00:01:58.166 THIS. BUT IN THE ERA THAT IT REALLY BEGAN, THE NARRATIVE 00:01:58.266 --> 00:02:01.499 BEGAN TO SHIFT OF, WELL, IT'S NOT ABOUT A RELIGION, IT'S 00:02:01.599 --> 00:02:06.299 ABOUT A RELATIONSHIP. ALL OF THE THINGS THAT MAKE A 00:02:06.399 --> 00:02:09.599 RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD LIKE HAPPEN. WE THREW OUT. SO LIKE 00:02:09.699 --> 00:02:13.300 READING OUR BIBLE, PRAYER, FASTING, ALL THESE THINGS ARE, 00:02:13.400 --> 00:02:17.300 OH, THAT'S RELIGIOUS. WE DON'T. IT'S JUST ABOUT BEING IN 00:02:17.400 --> 00:02:20.367 RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD. WELL, A RELATIONSHIP HAS LIKE BUILT IN 00:02:20.467 --> 00:02:23.433 THINGS WHERE YOU COME AROUND AND YOU'RE LIKE, HEY, THIS IS 00:02:23.533 --> 00:02:26.433 HOW WE SPEND TIME TOGETHER. THIS IS WHAT WE DO. THIS IS HOW 00:02:26.533 --> 00:02:30.466 WE FOSTER THAT RELATIONSHIP. AND I AGREE, LEGALISM AND THE 00:02:30.566 --> 00:02:34.267 LEAVEN OF RELIGION NEEDED TO GO. BUT THE THINGS THAT LIKE MAKE A 00:02:34.367 --> 00:02:38.300 RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD WORK AND TEACH US ABOUT GOD, I MEAN, 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:42.566 THEOLOGY, THE STUDY OF GOD. YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? IT SHOULD 00:02:42.666 --> 00:02:46.333 MATTER TO US AND LIKE US TAKING, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, A NEW 00:02:46.433 --> 00:02:49.399 GENERATION NEEDS, NEEDS, ANCIENT PRINCIPLES, ANCIENT 00:02:49.499 --> 00:02:52.433 TRUTH. THAT'S WHY I'M THANKFUL FOR THE SCRIPTURES. IN 200 00:02:52.533 --> 00:02:55.333 YEARS FROM NOW, SHOULD CHRIST TARRY AND NOT COME BACK IN OUR 00:02:55.433 --> 00:02:58.299 LIFETIME, WHICH I REALLY DO BELIEVE HE WILL. I BELIEVE WE 00:02:58.399 --> 00:03:01.400 WERE ON THE PRECIPICE OF THE RETURN OF CHRIST. THE BIBLE 00:03:01.500 --> 00:03:04.433 WILL STILL SAY WHAT IT SAYS. YEAH, REGARDLESS OF WHERE THE 00:03:04.533 --> 00:03:07.633 CULTURE IS AT. I MEAN, IF WE KEEP GOING IN THE WAY 00:03:07.733 --> 00:03:11.466 EVERYTHING'S TRENDING, WHO KNOWS WHAT KIND OF CULTURE WILL 00:03:11.566 --> 00:03:17.433 BE HERE IN 200 YEARS. BUT THE WORD OF GOD REMAINS TRUE, AND 00:03:17.533 --> 00:03:20.633 THE PRINCIPLES WILL ALWAYS WORK. AND, AND AND THE WORD HAS HAS 00:03:20.733 --> 00:03:24.400 BUILT IN PROMISES AND BUILT IN GUARANTEES. AND OUR PROBLEM IS 00:03:24.500 --> 00:03:26.599 WE JUST DON'T ENACT THEM. YOU KNOW, WE ALL WE JUST WANT LIKE, 00:03:26.699 --> 00:03:29.433 WELL, GIVE ME SOMETHING TO BELIEVE. GIVE ME SOMETHING TO 00:03:29.533 --> 00:03:32.433 REPEAT TO MYSELF IN THE MIRROR. AND IT'S LIKE, ACTUALLY YOU 00:03:32.533 --> 00:03:34.633 NEED SOMETHING YOU NEED. IT'S NOT WHAT YOU NEED TO REPEAT 00:03:34.733 --> 00:03:37.533 YOURSELF IN THE MIRROR. YOU NEED TO PUSH YOUR PLATE ASIDE 00:03:37.633 --> 00:03:40.333 AND SEEK THE LORD. YOU KNOW, THAT'S OUR PROBLEM. WE'RE SO 00:03:40.433 --> 00:03:42.633 ADDICTED WITH LOOKING AT OURSELVES IN THE MIRROR THAT WE 00:03:42.733 --> 00:03:46.800 NEVER HOLD THE MIRROR UP AND SEE LIKE, LORD, CHANGE ME. 00:03:46.900 --> 00:03:49.466 THAT'S THE WORD OF GOD IS. IT IS A MIRROR. IT SHOWS YOU, MAN, 00:03:49.566 --> 00:03:52.567 THIS IS WHERE I NEED YOU. LORD PRODUCES THAT. PSALM 51 LIKE A 00:03:52.667 --> 00:03:54.600 REPENTANT HEART THAT I THINK YOU KNOW, WE LACK A LOT OF THE 00:03:54.700 --> 00:03:57.700 TIME. >> YEAH. AND YOU TAPPED IN SUCH 00:03:57.800 --> 00:04:00.466 A GOOD POINT THAT WE NEED THAT ANCIENT TRUTH, THAT ANCIENT 00:04:00.566 --> 00:04:02.666 WISDOM THAT'S FOUND IN GOD'S WORD. AND, YOU KNOW, WE ARE 00:04:02.766 --> 00:04:05.833 PRODUCTS OF OUR CULTURE, WHETHER WE REALIZE IT OR NOT. 00:04:05.933 --> 00:04:09.433 FOR SURE. WE LIVE IN A VERY MUCH A MICROWAVE CULTURE. WE 00:04:09.533 --> 00:04:13.566 WANT PLEASURE. WE WANT THINGS QUICKLY. YEAH. INSTANT 00:04:13.666 --> 00:04:16.600 GRATIFICATION. YEAH. AND DENIAL OF SELF IS NOT POPULAR SPEAK, 00:04:16.700 --> 00:04:21.533 ESPECIALLY IN AMERICA, ESPECIALLY IN WESTERN CULTURE. 00:04:21.633 --> 00:04:24.733 AND SO THIS IS NOT GOING TO BE SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE IN THEIR 00:04:24.833 --> 00:04:28.566 FLESH WILL WANT TO HEAR. BUT I THINK YOU HIT SUCH AN IMPORTANT 00:04:28.666 --> 00:04:31.100 TOPIC, WHICH IS AND I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THIS, IS THAT PEOPLE 00:04:31.200 --> 00:04:33.500 SAY, WELL, IT'S NOT ABOUT RELIGION, IT'S ABOUT A 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:36.499 RELATIONSHIP. AND YOU SAID THIS IN ANOTHER INTERVIEW, WHICH IS, 00:04:36.599 --> 00:04:40.600 WELL, WHAT IS YOUR WHY? YEAH, BECAUSE I DON'T FAST TO BE 00:04:40.700 --> 00:04:44.400 SAVED. I'M SAVED BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS. BUT I FAST BECAUSE 00:04:44.500 --> 00:04:47.400 I'M A DISCIPLE OF JESUS. I'M A FOLLOWER OF JESUS. AND IF HE 00:04:47.500 --> 00:04:50.500 DID IT AND IT WAS IMPORTANT IN HIS LIFE AND HIS EARTHLY 00:04:50.600 --> 00:04:53.600 MINISTRY, HOW MUCH MORE SHOULD I AS A FOLLOWER DO IT AS WELL? 00:04:53.700 --> 00:04:57.433 AND WHY WOULDN'T I DENY MYSELF TO HAVE MORE OF HIM? AND SO WE 00:04:57.533 --> 00:05:00.566 TAP INTO WE'RE NOT SAVED BY WHAT WE DO, BUT AS DISCIPLES 00:05:00.666 --> 00:05:03.566 WE'RE CALLED TO FOLLOW SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES SO THAT 00:05:03.666 --> 00:05:06.733 WE'LL BE SPIRITUALLY FIT. YOU THINK ABOUT THE APOSTLE PAUL. 00:05:06.833 --> 00:05:09.733 HE SAYS, I TRAIN MY BODY LIKE AN ATHLETE, THAT I MIGHT RUN 00:05:09.833 --> 00:05:12.833 THE RACE AND FINISH IT, YOU KNOW, TO RECEIVE THAT PRIZE. 00:05:12.933 --> 00:05:16.566 AND SO WE ARE RUNNING A RACE, AND WE WILL STAND BEFORE GOD, 00:05:16.666 --> 00:05:19.667 AND GOD WANTS US TO BE WALKING IN THE FULLNESS OF HIM. HE 00:05:19.767 --> 00:05:23.733 WANTS US TO WALK IN VICTORY. AND FASTING IS A TOOL THAT HE 00:05:23.833 --> 00:05:28.700 HAS GIVEN US TO. LIKE YOU SAID, PUT YOUR FLESH INTO SUBMISSION 00:05:28.800 --> 00:05:30.699 TO HIS WILL AND TO RECEIVE MORE OF HIM. SO IT'S NOT RELIGIOUS. 00:05:30.799 --> 00:05:33.599 AND SO WE HAVE TO BREAK OFF THAT LIE. 00:05:33.699 --> 00:05:36.700 >> BIG TIME. YEAH. THERE'S A THERE'S A STIGMA THAT COMES 00:05:36.800 --> 00:05:39.633 WITH IT OF LIKE, YOU KNOW, IT'S ALMOST LIKE PEOPLE ARE LIKE, I 00:05:39.733 --> 00:05:42.633 DON'T WANT TO CATCH RELIGION, YOU KNOW? I MEAN, IT'S LIKE AS 00:05:42.733 --> 00:05:45.600 IF IT'S A BOOGEYMAN, YOU KNOW, OR SOMETHING. AND IF, IF I'M 00:05:45.700 --> 00:05:48.567 GIVEN THE OPTIONS HERE, LET'S SAY, LIKE, YOU KNOW, JUST DOING 00:05:48.667 --> 00:05:51.733 WHATEVER I WANT AND CLAIMING THE GRACE OF GOD WILL COVER IT 00:05:51.833 --> 00:05:54.667 IS OVER HERE. AND THEN STEPPING INTO A RELIGION IS ON THIS SIDE. 00:05:54.767 --> 00:05:57.766 I WOULD RATHER AIR CLOSER TO THIS SIDE BECAUSE I JUST THINK 00:05:57.866 --> 00:06:01.600 IT'S A IT'S A NOBLER FALL. YOU STILL GOT TO REPENT, GET BACK 00:06:01.700 --> 00:06:03.900 UP. BUT IT'S A NOBLER FALL TO FALL INTO. LIKE, OH, MAN, I'M 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:07.600 OPERATING IN A RELIGIOUS SPIRIT BECAUSE AT LEAST IT'S LIKE, 00:06:07.700 --> 00:06:10.733 LORD, I CARE ABOUT YOUR WORD. I'M TRYING. MAYBE I DID MAKE 00:06:10.833 --> 00:06:13.733 MAKE IT A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT RELIGION. I WAS, YOU KNOW, KIND 00:06:13.833 --> 00:06:16.699 OF LIKE PUTTING A HEAVY BURDEN ON MYSELF AND OTHERS. BUT AT 00:06:16.799 --> 00:06:19.733 LEAST I'M TRYING, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? AND SO I WOULD 00:06:19.833 --> 00:06:22.800 RATHER RUN THE RISK IF I'M GOING TO, TO ONE SIDE OR THE 00:06:22.900 --> 00:06:25.600 OTHER, I HAVE MADE THE DECISION. I WOULD RATHER RUN THE RISK OF 00:06:25.700 --> 00:06:27.800 SOMEBODY CALLING ME LEGALISTIC OR SOMEBODY CALLING ME, OH, 00:06:27.900 --> 00:06:31.566 YOU'RE JUST YOU'RE RELIGIOUS OR WHATEVER. THEN SOMEONE BEING 00:06:31.666 --> 00:06:33.600 LIKE, OH, THEN YOU'RE SORT OF LIKE TAKING THE GRACE OF GOD IN 00:06:33.700 --> 00:06:36.566 VAIN. >> LIKE TAKING IT FOR GRANTED. 00:06:36.666 --> 00:06:40.633 >> YEAH. TAKING IT FOR GRANTED. YOU KNOW, TITUS SAYS THAT 00:06:40.733 --> 00:06:44.699 CHAPTER TWO, HE SAYS IT IS THE GRACE OF GOD THAT TEACHES YOU 00:06:44.799 --> 00:06:48.866 TO SAY NO TO UNGODLINESS. THE GRACE WE HAVE BEEN TAUGHT 00:06:48.966 --> 00:06:52.733 TAUGHT US HOW TO SAY, I'M SORRY. NOT NO. THE REAL BIBLICAL GRACE 00:06:52.833 --> 00:06:56.533 TEACHES YOU HOW TO SAY NO. YOU SAY NO ON THE FRONT SIDE OF SIN. 00:06:56.633 --> 00:06:58.766 YOU SAY, I'M SORRY ON THE BACK SIDE. AND WE'VE GOT A LOT OF 00:06:58.866 --> 00:07:02.733 CHRISTIANS WHO ARE GOOD AT SAYING, I'M SORRY, AND THEN GO 00:07:02.833 --> 00:07:05.667 AND DO IT AGAIN. BUT, OH, I CAN SAY GRACE. SO I'M SAYING I'M 00:07:05.767 --> 00:07:08.767 SORRY AGAIN VERSUS STANDING UP AND SAYING, NO. THE GRACE OF 00:07:08.867 --> 00:07:11.867 GOD HAS CHANGED MY MIND THAT THIS IS A A BEHAVIOR THAT IS IN 00:07:11.967 --> 00:07:15.667 DISCORDANCE WITH WHO I AM AS A SON OF GOD. THIS IS IN 00:07:15.767 --> 00:07:21.666 DISCORDANCE WITH WHO I AM AS A BLOOD BOUGHT, COMPLETELY 00:07:21.766 --> 00:07:24.767 REGENERATED, MADE IN THE IMAGE SON OF GOD. AND YEAH, I NO 00:07:24.867 --> 00:07:28.666 LONGER WANT TO BEHAVE IN THAT WAY. AND DO I FALL AND DO I 00:07:28.766 --> 00:07:31.767 STILL? YES. BUT I ALSO DON'T THINK IT SHOULD BE THE SAME 00:07:31.867 --> 00:07:35.633 FLAVOR OF ERROR. THE REST OF YOUR LIFE. WE WILL ALL SIN. WE 00:07:35.733 --> 00:07:38.000 WILL STILL ALL NEED THE GRACE OF GOD. BUT IT SHOULD NOT BE 00:07:38.700 --> 00:07:41.733 LIKE, MAN. I'VE BEEN JUST DEALING WITH THIS SINCE, YOU 00:07:41.833 --> 00:07:44.867 KNOW, 95. IT'S LIKE, HAVE YOU EVER REALLY TOLD ANYBODY THEN 00:07:44.967 --> 00:07:47.966 ARE YOU REALLY WALKING IN THE LIGHT AS HE IS IN THE LIGHT? 00:07:48.066 --> 00:07:50.833 ARE YOU REALLY LIKE PEOPLE ARE LIKE, WELL THEN MAYBE THEY'RE 00:07:50.933 --> 00:07:54.700 LIKE, WE'RE GETTING DEEP QUICK, SORRY. BUT LIKE, PEOPLE ARE 00:07:54.800 --> 00:07:58.767 LIKE, MAN, I'M A ADDICTED TO THIS OR THAT ON MY PHONE. AND 00:07:58.867 --> 00:08:01.800 IT'S LIKE, DO YOU REALLY NEED A PHONE? WELL, YOU KNOW, LIKE 00:08:01.900 --> 00:08:04.933 EVERYBODY'S GOT A PHONE. REALLY? SOUNDS LIKE YOURS IS A HUGE 00:08:05.033 --> 00:08:08.766 STUMBLING BLOCK. LIKE, MAYBE YOU NEED TO HAVE LIKE, A FLIP 00:08:08.866 --> 00:08:11.967 PHONE OR RELY ON SOMEBODY ELSE THAT HAS A PHONE, BECAUSE TO ME, 00:08:12.067 --> 00:08:16.766 THE HIGHEST PRIORITY IS CHRIST LIKENESS. TO ME, THE HIGHEST 00:08:16.866 --> 00:08:21.733 PRIORITY IS OBEDIENCE, CONSECRATION, WALKING IN THE 00:08:21.833 --> 00:08:23.999 GRACE OF GOD. NOT AM I RELEVANT, IF THAT MAKES SENSE. AND SADLY, 00:08:24.099 --> 00:08:26.867 FASTING IS JUST NOT A VERY RELEVANT MESSAGE, SO THEREFORE 00:08:26.967 --> 00:08:29.833 IT DOESN'T GET TALKED ABOUT. >> YEAH, I THINK ABOUT PEOPLE 00:08:29.933 --> 00:08:32.100 THOUGH WHO DID TALK, WHO DO TALK ABOUT FASTING A LOT, AND 00:08:32.200 --> 00:08:34.867 THERE IS JUST SUCH AN ANOINTING ON THEIR MINISTRIES LIKE 00:08:34.967 --> 00:08:37.966 JENTEZEN FRANKLIN SOMETIME. COME ON. YEAH, HE'S HE WAS ONE 00:08:38.066 --> 00:08:41.733 OF YOU KNOW, HE WAS TALKING ABOUT FASTING FOR A REALLY, 00:08:41.833 --> 00:08:45.733 REALLY LONG TIME. VLAD SAVCHUK HE TALKS ABOUT FASTING A LOT. 00:08:45.833 --> 00:08:47.966 SO THERE IS SUCH AN ANOINTING AND POWER AND GRACE THAT COMES 00:08:48.066 --> 00:08:50.933 WITH FASTING, AND IT'S SO IMPORTANT. YOU KNOW, THE OTHER 00:08:51.033 --> 00:08:53.833 THING I WANTED TO SAY IS THAT BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE LIKE, OH, 00:08:53.933 --> 00:08:56.899 IT'S A RELATIONSHIP, IT'S NOT RELIGION, BUT IT'S LIKE IF YOU 00:08:56.999 --> 00:08:59.700 CARRIED THAT KIND OF ENERGY INTO AN ACTUAL RELATIONSHIP, 00:08:59.800 --> 00:09:02.966 LIKE, WE'RE BOTH MARRIED, RIGHT? IF WE TREATED OUR SPOUSE THAT 00:09:03.066 --> 00:09:05.933 WAY LIKE, OH, I CAN DO WHATEVER I WANT, YOU WOULD NEVER TREAT 00:09:06.033 --> 00:09:08.967 ANYONE THAT WAY. IF YOU LOVED THEM, YOU WOULD TAKE THE MOST 00:09:09.067 --> 00:09:11.900 CARE IN THAT RELATIONSHIP. I THINK ABOUT MY HUSBAND. I THINK 00:09:12.000 --> 00:09:15.000 ABOUT MY CHILDREN. I WOULD. YOU NEVER HAVE A FLIPPANT ATTITUDE. 00:09:15.100 --> 00:09:17.867 YOU'RE FINE. IT'S GONNA BE NO, NO. AND SO IT'S LIKE, WHY WOULD 00:09:17.967 --> 00:09:19.900 YOU APPLY THAT LOGIC TO YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS, WHICH 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:23.033 IS YOUR MOST IMPORTANT RELATIONSHIP? IT'S NOT JUST 00:09:23.133 --> 00:09:26.733 ABOUT. AND I REMEMBER I HEARD THIS REALLY GREAT SERMON, AND I 00:09:26.833 --> 00:09:29.933 REMEMBER HE SAID, YOU HAVE TO TAKE A SHIFT AS A BELIEVER. A 00:09:30.033 --> 00:09:32.966 LOT OF TIMES WHEN WE GET SAVED, WE LOVE GOD FOR OUR OWN SAKES, 00:09:33.066 --> 00:09:36.000 LIKE, SAVE ME, FORGIVE ME FOR MY SINS AND ALL THAT'S VALID. 00:09:36.100 --> 00:09:39.266 BUT HE SAYS, YOU HAVE TO SHIFT INTO LOVING CHRIST FOR HIS SAKE, 00:09:39.366 --> 00:09:42.767 AND THAT IS, WILL YOU SUFFER FOR THE SAKE OF THE GOSPEL? 00:09:42.867 --> 00:09:44.900 THAT IS SO BEAUTIFUL. YEAH. AND SO THERE HAS TO BE THAT SHIFT. 00:09:45.000 --> 00:09:47.867 WILL YOU OBEY? WILL YOU SACRIFICE? YOU KNOW, AND THIS 00:09:47.967 --> 00:09:50.866 IS ALL COMMON THEMES THAT WE SEE IN SCRIPTURE AND EVEN JUST 00:09:50.966 --> 00:09:53.866 THE OTHER DAY, YOU KNOW, JUST CONTEMPLATING ON THE SUFFERING 00:09:53.966 --> 00:09:56.867 OF JESUS AND HOW IT SAYS IN ISAIAH THAT HE WAS A MAN OF 00:09:56.967 --> 00:09:59.999 SORROWS, SORROWS, ACQUAINTED WITH GRIEF. AND I WAS LIKE, I 00:10:00.099 --> 00:10:03.767 DIDN'T REALIZE HOW MUCH HE SUFFERED, HOW MUCH HE SUFFERED. 00:10:03.867 --> 00:10:06.767 LIKE WE FOCUS ON LIKE THE CROSS. AND OF COURSE, OBVIOUSLY WE 00:10:06.867 --> 00:10:08.967 SHOULD FOCUS ON THE CROSS. BUT I'M SAYING NOT JUST LIKE THE 00:10:09.067 --> 00:10:11.767 PHYSICAL SUFFERING, BUT THE EMOTIONAL SUFFERING, THE MENTAL 00:10:11.867 --> 00:10:14.933 SUFFERING. IT'S LIKE I NEVER REALLY CONTEMPLATED HOW MUCH HE 00:10:15.033 --> 00:10:17.100 SUFFERED FOR US FOR OUR SAKES. AND HE'S CALLING US, LIKE IT 00:10:17.200 --> 00:10:20.800 SAYS IN PHILIPPIANS, INTO THE FELLOWSHIP OF HIS SUFFERINGS. 00:10:20.900 --> 00:10:23.933 >> YEAH, YOU THINK ABOUT CHRIST. I MEAN, WE WE THINK ABOUT, OF 00:10:24.033 --> 00:10:26.733 COURSE, WE JUST THE WHEN WE THINK ABOUT CHRIST SUFFERING, 00:10:26.833 --> 00:10:29.033 WE GO TO THE CRUCIFIXION, WHICH RIGHTFULLY SO. I MEAN, LIKE YOU. 00:10:29.133 --> 00:10:32.733 PINNACLE OF PINNACLE OF OUR FAITH AND THE PINNACLE OF HUMAN 00:10:32.833 --> 00:10:37.900 SUFFERING. YEAH. IT'S TRUE, BUT WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT ON A 00:10:38.000 --> 00:10:40.767 MORE MINUTE LEVEL, LIKE THERE IS NOT ONE LEVEL OR ONE THING 00:10:40.867 --> 00:10:43.733 YOU CAN WALK THROUGH ON PLANET EARTH THAT CHRIST IS NOT 00:10:43.833 --> 00:10:45.866 ALREADY WALKED THROUGH. I MEAN, YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT ONE OF 00:10:45.966 --> 00:10:47.933 THE BIGGEST PAIN POINTS I'M SEEING FOR PEOPLE IS THIS 00:10:48.033 --> 00:10:50.733 INNATE FEELING THAT THEY ARE MISUNDERSTOOD. JUST 00:10:50.833 --> 00:10:53.799 MISUNDERSTOOD. PEOPLE JUST DON'T GET ME. THEY DON'T 00:10:53.899 --> 00:10:57.867 UNDERSTAND ME. YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT BEING MISUNDERSTOOD? 00:10:57.967 --> 00:10:58.800 THERE IS NO ONE WHO HAS BEEN MORE MISUNDERSTOOD THAN CHRIST 00:10:58.900 --> 00:11:02.833 JESUS. >> THAT'S SO TRUE. 00:11:02.933 --> 00:11:08.033 >> THE MOST MISUNDERSTOOD MAN IN HUMAN HISTORY, THE SACRIFICE, 00:11:08.133 --> 00:11:12.833 THE PROPITIATION FOR YOUR SINS. YET YOU HAVE THE AUDACITY TO 00:11:12.933 --> 00:11:16.833 REJECT HIM. TALK ABOUT A MISUNDERSTANDING HERE. TALK 00:11:16.933 --> 00:11:20.066 ABOUT ACTING LIKE HE'S NOT WORTHY OF YOUR LITTLE 80 YEARS 00:11:20.166 --> 00:11:23.800 YOU'VE BEEN GIFTED ON THIS PLANET, IF THAT. LIKE YOU WANT 00:11:23.900 --> 00:11:25.833 TO TALK ABOUT SOMEBODY WHO'S BEEN MISUNDERSTOOD. YOU ARE. WE 00:11:25.933 --> 00:11:27.900 ARE FOLLOWING THE MOST MISUNDERSTOOD MAN. 00:11:28.000 --> 00:11:34.800 >> WHO HAS MISUNDERSTOOD. >> STILL TO THIS DAY. 00:11:34.900 --> 00:11:36.000 >> AND STILL BEING. WHAT'S THE WORD? HE'S BEING. PEOPLE TWIST. 00:11:36.100 --> 00:11:38.800 >> MISREPRESENTED, MISS. >> YEAH. THEY MISREPRESENT HIM 00:11:38.900 --> 00:11:41.100 TO FIT THEIR OWN PERSONAL AGENDAS. HE'S THE MOST 00:11:41.200 --> 00:11:43.933 MISREPRESENTED PERSON BECAUSE, I MEAN, EVEN OTHER FAITHS ARE 00:11:44.033 --> 00:11:47.800 LIKE, WE BELIEVE IN THIS KIND OF VERSION OF JESUS. 00:11:47.900 --> 00:11:50.000 >> WELL, MY JESUS, YEAH, I'M LIKE, I DIDN'T KNOW YOU HAD A 00:11:50.100 --> 00:11:52.966 JESUS. YEAH, I THOUGHT THE SCRIPTURES HAD A JESUS, YOU 00:11:53.066 --> 00:11:56.000 KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? AND THE JESUS OF THE SCRIPTURES. YEAH. 00:11:56.100 --> 00:11:58.966 IS THE JESUS I WORSHIP. YEAH. PEOPLE WANT TO MAKE A JESUS IN 00:11:59.066 --> 00:12:01.233 THEIR OWN IMAGE AND TOTALLY. >> YEAH. I MEAN, EVERYONE'S 00:12:01.333 --> 00:12:03.899 TRYING TO TWIST. IT'S CRAZY. SO THERE'S A LOT OF 00:12:03.999 --> 00:12:05.899 MISREPRESENTATION. HE IS A HE WAS THE MOST MISUNDERSTOOD 00:12:05.999 --> 00:12:08.067 PERSON. >> YEAH. AND I JUST THINK HE'S 00:12:08.167 --> 00:12:10.967 ACQUAINTED WITH THAT SUFFERING. HE'S ACQUAINTED WITH BETRAYAL. 00:12:11.067 --> 00:12:12.500 I MEAN, TALK ABOUT BETRAYAL. BETRAYAL, JUDAS. BUT LET'S GET 00:12:12.533 --> 00:12:15.733 EVEN DEEPER, PETER. YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? LIKE EVERY 00:12:15.833 --> 00:12:19.533 DISCIPLE RAN, IT WAS ONLY THE APOSTLE JOHN WHO COULD BE FOUND 00:12:19.633 --> 00:12:21.700 AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS. MOST SCHOLARS WOULD PUT JOHN AT 00:12:21.800 --> 00:12:24.733 MAYBE 14 YEARS OLD. SO, LIKE LARRY. 00:12:24.833 --> 00:12:28.433 >> I ALWAYS FORGET HOW YOUNG THEY ARE. THEY WERE SO YOUNG. 00:12:28.533 --> 00:12:31.600 >> ONLY PETER WOULD HAVE BEEN PROBABLY OVER THE AGE OF 20, 00:12:31.700 --> 00:12:34.666 BECAUSE JESUS SAYS TO PETER, GO TO THE FISH, GRAB THE COIN, PAY 00:12:34.766 --> 00:12:37.600 OUR TEMPLE TAX, WHICH WOULD HAVE WHICH JUST IMPLIES THAT 00:12:37.700 --> 00:12:40.766 THE OTHER DISCIPLES WEREN'T OLD ENOUGH TO BE REQUIRED A TEMPLE 00:12:40.866 --> 00:12:43.800 TAX OF. YEAH, SO IT WOULD JUST BE JESUS AND PETER. THAT'S WHY 00:12:43.900 --> 00:12:44.833 WE GET THE IDEA THAT PETER'S THE OLDEST. 00:12:44.933 --> 00:12:47.433 >> THEY JUST ALWAYS. DEBATE THOSE GOSPELS. 00:12:47.533 --> 00:12:49.600 >> THEY'RE SO. MUCH OLDER. THINK ABOUT THE LAST. THE 00:12:49.700 --> 00:12:52.733 PICTURE OF THE LAST SUPPER. YEAH, THEY'RE ALL OLD MEN. 00:12:52.833 --> 00:12:55.700 >> YEAH. AND THEY'RE ALL WHITE. >> NO. YEAH. FOR SURE. AND THAT 00:12:55.800 --> 00:12:58.633 JUST WASN'T THE CASE, YOU KNOW? >> ANYWAYS. OKAY. SORRY. THAT 00:12:58.733 --> 00:13:02.567 WAS A FUN LITTLE LAUGH FOR ME. OKAY, GOOD. SWITCHING BACK TO 00:13:02.667 --> 00:13:05.700 SO FASTING. SO WHERE DID THIS CONVICTION IN THIS DESIRE TO 00:13:05.800 --> 00:13:09.533 SHARE AND TEACH FASTING TO THE CHURCH. WHERE DID IT COME FROM? 00:13:09.633 --> 00:13:13.766 >> YEAH, IT WAS HONESTLY BIRTHED NUMBER ONE OUT OF A, A 00:13:13.866 --> 00:13:17.533 PERSONAL REVELATION OF THE FACT THAT FASTING, IT CHANGES YOUR 00:13:17.633 --> 00:13:20.600 WORLD LIKE IT CHANGES FIRST AND FOREMOST BEFORE IT CHANGES 00:13:20.700 --> 00:13:24.600 ANYTHING EXTERNALLY. IT CHANGES THINGS INTERNALLY. LIKE IT. IT 00:13:24.700 --> 00:13:27.566 MAKES ME GO TOE TO TOE WITH ME. DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? LIKE, 00:13:27.666 --> 00:13:30.767 IT'S LIKE IT MAKES ME REALIZE LIKE, YO, THESE ARE SOME PLACES 00:13:30.867 --> 00:13:34.500 I NEED TO INVITE THE SPIRIT OF GOD TO COME AND HANDLE THIS 00:13:34.600 --> 00:13:36.700 BECAUSE LIKE I OUTSIDE OF HIM, I CAN'T DO IT. YOU KNOW WHAT I 00:13:36.800 --> 00:13:39.600 KNOW, THE GREAT EIGHT MEAN? I MEAN, ROMANS EIGHT, YOU 00:13:39.700 --> 00:13:42.633 THEOLOGIANS CALL IT. IT'S ALL ABOUT NOT WALKING IN THE FLESH 00:13:42.733 --> 00:13:45.567 AND TRYING TO WALK IN THE SPIRIT. AND ONE OF THE WAYS WE 00:13:45.667 --> 00:13:47.733 ITS HEAD. BECAUSE SOMETIMES THE CAUSE OUR FLESH TO, LIKE, SHOW 00:13:47.833 --> 00:13:50.766 FLESH LIKES TO HIDE, AND SOMETIMES THE FLESH. FLESH 00:13:50.866 --> 00:13:53.767 LIKES TO ACT AS THOUGH, LIKE, OH, IT AIN'T THAT BAD. OH, THAT 00:13:53.867 --> 00:13:56.733 THING IS A COVERT OPERATIVE. LIKE OF OF HELL ITSELF. NO, YOU 00:13:56.833 --> 00:14:00.899 DON'T WANT TO BE IN AGREEMENT WITH YOUR FLESH. NO, BUT. ONE 00:14:00.999 --> 00:14:02.833 DEATH, RIGHT? BUT ONE OF THE WAYS WE CAUSE IT TO REAR ITS 00:14:02.933 --> 00:14:05.667 HEAD IS BY STARVING IT, QUITE LITERALLY, BY DEPRIVING 00:14:05.767 --> 00:14:08.900 OURSELVES OF FOOD, YOU WILL CAUSE YOURSELF, YOUR FLESH TO 00:14:09.700 --> 00:14:12.700 FLARE UP. AND THAT'S WHENEVER YOU GET TO ALLOW THE SPIRIT MAN 00:14:12.800 --> 00:14:15.733 TO JUMP IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT AND SAY, NO, I'M NOT GOING TO 00:14:15.833 --> 00:14:18.833 LIVE BY BREAD ALONE, BUT I'M GOING TO LIVE BY EVERY WORD 00:14:18.933 --> 00:14:21.933 THAT PROCEEDS FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD. WE GET TO BE CHRIST LIKE 00:14:22.666 --> 00:14:26.600 WHEN WE FAST. I MEAN, THAT'S LITERALLY I'M BORROWING FROM 00:14:26.700 --> 00:14:29.733 JESUS IN MATTHEW FOUR WHERE HE SAID THAT TO SATAN, BUT I JUST 00:14:29.833 --> 00:14:32.800 THINK IT CAUSES US TO IT CAUSES THAT FLESHLY PART OF US TO REAR 00:14:32.900 --> 00:14:35.933 ITS HEAD. AND THEN WE GET TO, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE WANT TO BE 00:14:36.033 --> 00:14:39.666 LIKE, OH, YOU NEED TO CAST OUT DEMONS. YOU CAST OUT DEMONS, 00:14:39.766 --> 00:14:42.666 BUT YOU CRUCIFY THE FLESH. YOU CAN'T CAST YOUR FLESH OUT. YOU 00:14:42.766 --> 00:14:46.566 CAN'T HAVE SOMEBODY LAY THEIR HANDS ON YOU AND SAY, FLESH BE 00:14:46.666 --> 00:14:49.800 GONE. YEAH, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? YOU CRUCIFY THE FLESH. 00:14:49.900 --> 00:14:52.800 AND ONE OF THE WAYS THAT WE DO THAT IS THROUGH THE DISCIPLINE 00:14:52.900 --> 00:14:56.633 OF OF FASTING, SAYING NO. YOU KNOW, I'M A BIG BELIEVER THAT 00:14:56.733 --> 00:14:59.667 IF YOU WILL BE GOOD AT SAYING NO TO THINGS THAT AREN'T SIN 00:14:59.767 --> 00:15:02.899 BECAUSE YOU WANT GOD MORE, YOU WILL BE GOOD AT SAYING NO TO 00:15:02.999 --> 00:15:06.733 THINGS THAT ARE SIN BECAUSE YOU WANT GOD MORE. AND SO MANY 00:15:06.833 --> 00:15:10.767 PEOPLE STRUGGLE IN THIS PLACE OF LIKE, LET'S BE HONEST, 00:15:10.867 --> 00:15:13.833 SEXUAL SIN BECAUSE THEY AREN'T, BECAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO 00:15:13.933 --> 00:15:16.666 SAY NO TO THEMSELVES. THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO SAY NO TO A 00:15:16.766 --> 00:15:18.833 CRAVING. >> IF THAT'S SUCH A GOOD POINT, 00:15:18.933 --> 00:15:22.733 ESPECIALLY BECAUSE SO MANY TIMES THAT THAT STARTS SO YOUNG 00:15:22.833 --> 00:15:26.666 IN PEOPLE AND THEN THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO BREAK OUT OF IT. 00:15:26.766 --> 00:15:29.733 >> YEAH. BIG TIME. AND YOU HAVE TO I CALL IT THE IN THE, IN THE 00:15:29.833 --> 00:15:31.866 BOOK, I CALL IT THE NO MUSCLE. NOBODY WANTS NO MUSCLE. BUT YOU 00:15:31.966 --> 00:15:34.967 HAVE A MUSCLE THAT'S CALLED THE NO MUSCLE AND. 00:15:35.067 --> 00:15:38.667 >> A GOOD MUSCLE TO DEVELOP. >> AND YOU GET GOOD AT BUILDING 00:15:38.767 --> 00:15:41.666 THAT NO MUSCLE THROUGH REPS. AND ONE OF THE WAYS YOU GET THE 00:15:41.766 --> 00:15:44.733 REPS IS BY SAYING, NO, I DON'T GET EVERYTHING I WANT. THAT'S 00:15:44.833 --> 00:15:48.667 THE PROBLEM IS BECAUSE WE HAVE RAISED RAGED AGAINST LEGALISM. 00:15:48.767 --> 00:15:51.633 AND AGAIN, I WANT TO ALWAYS SAY I'M NOT HERE TO BE A LEGALIST. 00:15:51.733 --> 00:15:54.899 I'M NOT HERE TO PREACH LEGALISM, BUT BECAUSE WE'VE WE'VE ACTED 00:15:54.999 --> 00:15:58.900 AS THOUGH LEGALISM IS THE ULTIMATE EVIL, WE'VE NOW LEFT 00:15:59.000 --> 00:16:03.800 THE DOOR OPEN TO HEDONISM AND HEDONISM IS THIS PHILOSOPHY 00:16:03.900 --> 00:16:08.767 THAT PLEASURE IS THE HIGHEST GOAL? PLEASURE GIVING MY BODY 00:16:08.867 --> 00:16:11.800 WHAT MY BODY DESIRES RIGHT NOW, IN THIS MOMENT? HOW MIGHT I DO 00:16:11.900 --> 00:16:15.100 THAT? WHO CAN I EXPLOIT IN ORDER TO GET THAT PLEASURE? 00:16:15.833 --> 00:16:19.800 WHETHER IT'S A MALE OR A FEMALE? NOW EVEN PEOPLE ARE LIKE, EVEN 00:16:19.900 --> 00:16:22.833 IF IT'S AN ANIMAL, IF I CAN GET PLEASURE OUT OF IT, WELL, A 00:16:22.933 --> 00:16:26.000 HEDONISTIC LIFESTYLE WOULD SAY, THEN GO FOR IT, SLUGGER. AND 00:16:26.100 --> 00:16:29.900 ONE OF THE WAYS WE MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE NOT GIVING INTO THE 00:16:30.000 --> 00:16:32.733 SIN OF HEDONISM IS BY SAYING, YOU KNOW WHAT? I'M NOT GOING TO 00:16:32.833 --> 00:16:35.766 LIVE FOR PLEASURE. I'M NOT GOING TO LIVE FOR JUST LIKE 00:16:35.866 --> 00:16:40.733 WHAT MIGHT FEEL GOOD TO GIVE MY ENDORPHINS AND MY EVEN MY 00:16:40.833 --> 00:16:43.733 STOMACH AND MY SEXUALITY, MY CRAVINGS, MY, YOU KNOW, 00:16:43.833 --> 00:16:46.833 IMAGINATIONS. I'M NOT GOING TO I'M NOT GOING TO SERVE THAT 00:16:46.933 --> 00:16:49.966 MASTER. JESUS SAYS NO ONE CAN SERVE TWO MASTERS. HE WILL LOVE 00:16:50.066 --> 00:16:54.900 ONE AND HATE THE OTHER. YEAH, AND WHEN WE SERVE PLEASURE, AND 00:16:55.000 --> 00:16:58.866 THERE'S AT THE LITERALLY PSALMS SAYS, AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD, 00:16:58.966 --> 00:17:02.100 THERE ARE PLEASURES FOREVERMORE. NOT JUST PLEASURES HERE AND NOW, 00:17:02.200 --> 00:17:04.999 NOT THE ONE THAT'S KIND OF LIKE FEELS GOOD IN THE MOMENT. BUT 00:17:05.099 --> 00:17:08.833 THEN AS SOON AS IT'S OVER, INSTANT REGRET COMES UPON YOU. 00:17:08.933 --> 00:17:12.933 HE SAYS. AT YOUR RIGHT HAND ARE PLEASURES FOREVERMORE. WHICH TO 00:17:13.033 --> 00:17:16.300 ME I THINK IS IS A PICTURE OF CHRIST, BECAUSE WE KNOW WHO WHO 00:17:16.400 --> 00:17:20.866 IS SEATED AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER. YEAH, CHRIST. 00:17:20.966 --> 00:17:23.933 INTIMACY WITH HIM, UNION WITH HIM, ONENESS WITH HIM, 00:17:24.033 --> 00:17:28.000 OBEDIENCE TO HIM. THAT'S OUR PLEASURE FOREVERMORE. AND IT'S 00:17:28.100 --> 00:17:31.933 LEARNING HOW TO FIND PLEASURE IN OBEDIENCE AND KNOWING THAT 00:17:32.033 --> 00:17:36.933 I'M IN THE WILL OF GOD. AND EVEN RECOGNIZING FASTING IS ONE 00:17:37.033 --> 00:17:40.800 OF THE WAYS YOU COME TO KNOW THE WILL OF GOD. I MEAN, ROMANS 00:17:40.900 --> 00:17:44.966 CHAPTER 12, VERSE ONE SAYS, I BESEECH YOU, BROTHERS, IN VIEW 00:17:45.066 --> 00:17:49.033 OF GOD AND IN VIEW OF THE MERCY OF GOD, TO OFFER YOUR BODIES AS 00:17:49.133 --> 00:17:51.933 A LIVING SACRIFICE, THEN IT GOES ON TO VERSE TWO, WHICH 00:17:52.033 --> 00:17:54.800 GETS QUOTED ALL THE TIME. AND DON'T BE CONFORMED TO THE 00:17:54.900 --> 00:17:58.800 PATTERNS OF THIS WORLD, BUT BE TRANSFORMED BY THE RENEWING OF 00:17:58.900 --> 00:18:02.167 YOUR MIND. THEN YOU WILL KNOW AND BE ABLE TO TEST AND APPROVE 00:18:02.267 --> 00:18:05.967 THE PERFECT, PLEASING WILL OF GOD. HE SAYS, VERSE ONE AND 00:18:06.067 --> 00:18:08.099 VERSE TWO GO TOGETHER. IT'S OFFER YOUR BODIES AS A LIVING 00:18:08.199 --> 00:18:10.200 SACRIFICE. THEN YOU WON'T BE CONFORMED TO THE PATTERNS OF 00:18:10.300 --> 00:18:14.000 THIS WORLD. YOU'LL BE TRANSFORMED BY THE RENEWING OF 00:18:14.100 --> 00:18:17.233 YOUR MIND. THEN THE WILL OF GOD IS MADE KNOWN. ONE OF THE WAYS 00:18:17.333 --> 00:18:19.899 WE OFFER OUR BODIES AS A LIVING SACRIFICE IS THROUGH IS THROUGH 00:18:19.999 --> 00:18:22.100 PRAYER AND FASTING. >> YEAH. AND I THINK ALSO IT'S 00:18:22.200 --> 00:18:25.166 JUST LIKE REALLY IMPORTANT TO POINT OUT BECAUSE IT'S LIKE, 00:18:25.266 --> 00:18:27.933 WELL, WE DON'T WANT TO BE LEGALISTIC, BUT LEGALISTIC 00:18:28.033 --> 00:18:31.000 ISN'T ABOUT ACTIONS. LIKE WE SAID. IT'S ABOUT IT'S HARD. 00:18:31.100 --> 00:18:34.033 YEAH, IT'S HARD. IT'S INTENTION. IT FOR ME, THIS IS WHERE THIS 00:18:34.133 --> 00:18:37.033 IS WHAT THE LORD TAUGHT ME. HE ACTUALLY TAUGHT ME THIS WHEN I 00:18:37.133 --> 00:18:39.866 WAS PREGNANT. I JUST HAD MY DAUGHTER AND I ACTUALLY TALK 00:18:39.966 --> 00:18:43.866 ABOUT ALL THE TIME ON THIS PODCAST BECAUSE HE SHOWED ME 00:18:43.966 --> 00:18:46.900 JEREMIAH 17 AND IT SAYS, CURSED IS THE PERSON WHO TRUSTS IN MAN, 00:18:47.000 --> 00:18:50.033 AND THAT CAN EVEN BE YOURSELF UNLESS IT IS THE PERSON YOU 00:18:50.133 --> 00:18:53.133 TRUST IN THE LORD. SO IT'S NOT ABOUT ACTIONS, IT'S ABOUT ARE 00:18:53.233 --> 00:18:57.000 YOU SELF-SUFFICIENT? LIKE, OH, I'M GOING TO READ MY BIBLE. I'M 00:18:57.100 --> 00:19:00.100 GOING TO DO IT ALL ON MY OWN. ARE YOU ABIDING IN HIM? BUT IF 00:19:00.200 --> 00:19:03.100 YOU'RE ABIDING IN HIM, YOU'RE GOING TO BE LIVING IN A LIFE OF 00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:06.133 COMMUNION WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND YOU'RE GOING TO BE LED BY 00:19:06.233 --> 00:19:07.100 HIS SPIRIT DAILY, AND YOU'RE GOING TO FILL YOUR LIFE WITH 00:19:08.000 --> 00:19:09.933 DISCIPLINES. >> AMEN. 00:19:10.033 --> 00:19:10.967 >> BECAUSE I ACTUALLY READ IN BIBLE SCHOOL THIS BOOK BY 00:19:11.067 --> 00:19:13.899 DALLAS WILLARD. >> YEAH. 00:19:13.999 --> 00:19:16.133 >> GOOD STUFF. YEAH. AND SO HE HAS THAT BOOK ON SPIRITUAL 00:19:16.233 --> 00:19:19.133 DISCIPLINES. AND I THOUGHT HE ACTUALLY HE USES THIS ANALOGY 00:19:19.233 --> 00:19:22.166 AND I THOUGHT IT WAS THE BEST WAY TO DESCRIBE IT. HE SAYS 00:19:23.033 --> 00:19:24.233 SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES. AND HE LISTS A LOT OF THEM. HE TALKS 00:19:25.000 --> 00:19:27.133 ABOUT STEWARDSHIP. HE TALKS ABOUT FASTING. HE TALKS ABOUT 00:19:27.233 --> 00:19:30.900 PRAYER. HE TALKS ABOUT OTHER ONES AS WELL. BUT HE SAYS THAT 00:19:31.000 --> 00:19:34.033 SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES ARE LIKE A PROFESSIONAL SPORTS PLAYER 00:19:34.133 --> 00:19:39.000 PRACTICING. YOU HAVE TO PRACTICE EVERY DAY, ALL THE 00:19:39.100 --> 00:19:42.933 TIME, HE SAYS. AND THEN IN THE MOMENT, THAT'S WHEN THE HOME 00:19:43.033 --> 00:19:46.033 RUN COMES. THAT'S WHEN THE GRAND SLAM COMES. BUT HE SAYS, 00:19:46.133 --> 00:19:48.166 THE WAY YOU'RE PREPARED FOR THOSE BIG MOMENTS IN MINISTRY 00:19:48.266 --> 00:19:51.133 IS THROUGH DOING THESE SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES EVERY 00:19:51.233 --> 00:19:52.066 SINGLE DAY. THAT'S WHAT GETS YOU TO OPERATE ON THAT HIGHER 00:19:52.166 --> 00:19:55.033 LEVEL. >> ABSOLUTELY. 00:19:55.133 --> 00:19:58.166 >> SO IT SHOULD BE A NORMAL PART OF ALL OF OUR LIVES 00:19:58.266 --> 00:20:01.100 BECAUSE ALL OF US ARE CALLED. ALL OF US ARE CALLED TO SPREAD 00:20:01.200 --> 00:20:03.933 THE KINGDOM OF GOD, RIGHT? NOT JUST PEOPLE IN FULL TIME 00:20:04.033 --> 00:20:06.999 MINISTRY, YOU KNOW, WHETHER WHATEVER, LIKE WHATEVER PLACE 00:20:07.099 --> 00:20:10.000 YOU'RE OCCUPYING FOR THE KINGDOM. AND SO ALL OF US 00:20:10.100 --> 00:20:12.266 SHOULD BE OPERATING ON THIS LEVEL. AND OF COURSE, IT TALKS 00:20:13.033 --> 00:20:15.966 ABOUT, YOU KNOW, IN EPHESIANS, IT'S LIKE US COMING TO FULL 00:20:16.066 --> 00:20:18.933 MATURITY IN CHRIST. AND SO THIS IS PART OF THAT. SO IT'S VERY 00:20:19.033 --> 00:20:21.933 IMPORTANT. AND LIKE YOU SAID, AND I THINK JUST AS A PARENT, 00:20:22.033 --> 00:20:25.066 I'M THINKING ABOUT MYSELF AND MY KIDS, EVEN AS I GET OLDER, 00:20:25.166 --> 00:20:28.000 AS AN ADULT, HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO LEARN TO SAY NO TO YOUR 00:20:28.100 --> 00:20:31.133 FLESH. YEAH. IN LIFE, TO BE EVEN JUST SUCCESSFUL OR LIKE, 00:20:31.233 --> 00:20:34.133 YES, BETTER FOR YOUR KIDS OR IN ANYTHING. LIKE IF YOU LIVE YOUR 00:20:34.233 --> 00:20:36.900 LIFE ACCORDING TO YOUR BELLY, YOU'RE GOING TO BE MISERABLE 00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:40.100 AND YOU'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE ANYTHING FRUITFUL OR PRODUCTIVE 00:20:40.200 --> 00:20:43.900 IN YOUR LIFE. SO YOU DON'T WANT TO BE A SLAVE. LIKE IT SAYS IN 00:20:44.000 --> 00:20:47.266 GALATIANS, FOR CHRIST HAS SET US FREE. SO NOW BE NO LONGER 00:20:47.366 --> 00:20:51.000 BOUND TO THE YOKE OF SLAVERY, OF SIN. SO BASICALLY, IT'S LIKE 00:20:51.100 --> 00:20:55.000 YOU DON'T GET SAVED AND FREE IN CHRIST TO GO BACK TO THIS. NO, 00:20:55.100 --> 00:20:57.866 IT'S LIKE YOU'RE NOW LIVING FOR HIM. AND PAUL USES SOME STRONG 00:20:57.966 --> 00:21:00.266 IMAGERY. HE SAYS, I'M A BOND SERVANT OF CHRIST. I'M A 00:21:00.366 --> 00:21:03.100 LABORER OF CHRIST. I'M A PRISONER FOR THE LORD. AND SO 00:21:03.200 --> 00:21:06.333 PAUL KIND OF PAINTS THIS PICTURE LIKE I'M LIVING FULLY 00:21:06.433 --> 00:21:09.266 FOR GOD AND I DON'T YOU EVEN FEEL LIKE JUST FOLLOWING THE 00:21:09.366 --> 00:21:12.266 HOLY SPIRIT, LIKE THAT'S EVEN A CONSTANT THING OF LEARNING TO 00:21:12.366 --> 00:21:16.000 SAY NO OF WHAT YOU WANT TO DO SOMETIMES IN THE MOMENT, 00:21:16.100 --> 00:21:19.167 BECAUSE THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL BE LIKE, NO, GO OVER HERE AND DO 00:21:19.267 --> 00:21:22.067 THIS OR NO, YOU DON'T NEED TO DO THIS. GO DO THIS INSTEAD. 00:21:22.167 --> 00:21:25.033 AND YOU HAVE TO BE FLEXIBLE AND LIKE, FOLLOW HIS LEADING. IT'S 00:21:25.133 --> 00:21:27.033 NOT LIKE THAT FOR EVERY MOMENT OF EVERY DAY. BUT THERE'LL BE 00:21:27.133 --> 00:21:29.300 MOMENTS WHERE HE DOES THAT WITH ME. 00:21:29.400 --> 00:21:32.133 >> YEAH. BIG TIME. >> AND IF I DON'T FOLLOW THAT, 00:21:32.233 --> 00:21:36.033 LIKE, SOMETIMES I'LL BE LIKE, OH, THAT WASN'T THE LORD, YOU 00:21:36.133 --> 00:21:38.166 KNOW, AND I. AND THEN LATER ON I WAS LIKE, THAT WAS HIM. AND I 00:21:38.266 --> 00:21:40.566 SHOULD HAVE LISTENED, YOU KNOW. >> ABSOLUTELY. I MEAN, 00:21:40.666 --> 00:21:43.233 FOLLOWING, FOLLOWING THE LEADING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IS 00:21:43.333 --> 00:21:46.199 THE WAY YOU BUILD AN INCREDIBLE LEGACY. YOU LEAVE AN IMPACT YOU 00:21:46.299 --> 00:21:49.000 HAVE. YOU KNOW, IT SAID IT WAS SAID OF DAVID THAT HE 00:21:49.100 --> 00:21:51.066 FULFILLED THE WILL OF GOD IN HIS GENERATION. HE 00:21:51.166 --> 00:21:53.967 FULFILLED HIS ASSIGNMENT IN HIS GENERATION. YOU WANT TO 00:21:54.067 --> 00:21:56.033 KNOW HOW YOU DO THAT? YOU DO IT BY FOLLOWING THE 00:21:56.133 --> 00:21:58.033 LEADING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. BUT THE LAST THING 00:21:58.133 --> 00:22:01.233 FOLLOWING THE LEADING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IS IS 00:22:01.333 --> 00:22:02.433 COMFORTABLE. AND THAT IS WHY THE HOLY. THAT'S WHY 00:22:02.533 --> 00:22:04.433 THE HOLY SPIRIT IS CALLED THE COMFORTER. YEAH, 00:22:04.533 --> 00:22:06.300 BECAUSE THE COMFORTER WILL LEAD YOU TO UNCOMFORTABLE 00:22:06.400 --> 00:22:09.233 PLACES. THAT'S WHY YOU NEED A COMFORTER. 00:22:09.333 --> 00:22:11.666 >> THAT'S SUCH A GOOD WORD. >> YOU NEED THE COMFORTER 00:22:11.766 --> 00:22:14.300 BECAUSE HE IS. IT'S LIKE, YO, IT'S WRITTEN. IT'S LIKE 00:22:14.400 --> 00:22:17.200 IT KIND OF SELF EXPLAINED. YOU'RE GONNA NEED ME. 00:22:17.300 --> 00:22:19.433 YOU'RE GONNA NEED A COMFORTER WHERE I WILL LEAD 00:22:19.533 --> 00:22:22.366 YOU BECAUSE I WILL LEAD YOU TO UNCOMFORTABLE PLACES. 00:22:23.166 --> 00:22:26.266 THINK OF JESUS, LED BY THE SPIRIT, INTO THE WILDERNESS 00:22:26.366 --> 00:22:28.266 TO BE TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL. THAT'S THE WAY THE TEXT 00:22:28.366 --> 00:22:31.567 READS. TO BE TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL. 00:22:31.667 --> 00:22:33.200 >> AND THE HOLY SPIRIT LED HIM OUT THERE PRETTY LIKE 00:22:33.300 --> 00:22:36.233 IMMEDIATELY. >> YEAH, IMMEDIATELY. HE WAS 00:22:36.333 --> 00:22:40.066 DRIVEN, YOU KNOW, TO THOSE PLACES, WATER, YOU KNOW, ALL 00:22:40.166 --> 00:22:43.333 THOSE ALL THOSE THINGS. SO IT'S JUST ONE OF THOSE THINGS, YOU 00:22:43.433 --> 00:22:46.099 KNOW, AND THERE'S NOT A SINGLE ONE OF US. AND I KNOW, LIKE, 00:22:46.199 --> 00:22:49.233 SOME OF THIS LANGUAGE THAT WE'RE USING IS VERY STRONG AND 00:22:49.333 --> 00:22:52.300 EMPHATIC. AND IT'S BECAUSE IT'S TRUTH. BUT I NEVER WANT IT TO 00:22:52.400 --> 00:22:55.433 ACT LIKE I'M BAT A THOUSAND AT THIS. I NEVER WANT TO ACT LIKE, 00:22:55.533 --> 00:22:59.533 YO, I'M JUST THE EXPERT HERE. I JUST DO THIS PERFECTLY. Y'ALL 00:22:59.633 --> 00:23:02.867 GET ON MY LEVEL. THAT IS NEVER HOW I WANT TO COME ACROSS. EVEN 00:23:02.967 --> 00:23:06.366 THOUGH I WANT TO. I WANT TO, LIKE, SHARE THIS WITH THE 00:23:06.466 --> 00:23:10.233 URGENCY. AND I THINK THAT THE EMPHASIS IT DESERVES. BUT WE'RE 00:23:10.333 --> 00:23:13.233 ALL STILL TRYING TO FIGURE THIS THING OUT. BUT THE POINT IS 00:23:13.333 --> 00:23:16.300 THAT EVEN THOUGH WE STUMBLE, WE ARE STUMBLING FORWARD. I'M 00:23:16.400 --> 00:23:19.366 TRYING TO DO BETTER. THERE'S THERE ARE TIMES ALL THE TIME I 00:23:19.466 --> 00:23:23.233 MISS THE LEADING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, OR JUST STRAIGHT UP 00:23:23.333 --> 00:23:26.333 IGNORE THE LEADING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT STILL TO THIS DAY. AND 00:23:26.433 --> 00:23:30.166 THAT'S WHEN I HAVE TO JUST SAY, LORD, FORGIVE ME. LIKE LORD. 00:23:30.266 --> 00:23:33.233 YOU KNOW, THE OTHER DAY I WAS WALKING AND I. I FELT THE LORD 00:23:33.333 --> 00:23:38.266 TELLING ME TO STOP AND TALK TO SOMEBODY. AND I MOVED ON AND I 00:23:38.366 --> 00:23:42.100 JUST DIDN'T DO IT. AND I SAID, LORD, IF THAT WAS YOU, GIVE ME 00:23:42.200 --> 00:23:45.466 ANOTHER SHOT. I'M SORRY. GIVE ME ANOTHER SHOT. IF I SEE THAT 00:23:45.566 --> 00:23:48.200 PERSON AGAIN, I WILL DO IT. AND I SAW HIM AGAIN AND I DID IT. 00:23:48.300 --> 00:23:51.333 AND THERE ARE, THERE'S, THERE'S THERE'S TIMES WHERE IT'S LIKE, 00:23:51.433 --> 00:23:55.100 LORD, I KNOW I MISSED IT. IF IF AT ALL POSSIBLE, CAN I HAVE 00:23:55.200 --> 00:23:58.233 ANOTHER SHOT AT THAT SAME THING? BUT IF NOT, WOULD YOU HELP ME 00:23:58.333 --> 00:24:02.233 TO HAVE THE FAITH TO SAY YES TO YOU THE NEXT TIME AN 00:24:02.333 --> 00:24:06.500 OPPORTUNITY LIKE THAT ROLLS AROUND? I HEARD A STORY A LONG 00:24:07.300 --> 00:24:11.400 TIME AGO OF THIS GUY WHO FELT LIKE THE LORD GAVE HIM THIS 00:24:11.500 --> 00:24:15.200 IDEA TO SEND A MAILER, USE MONEY GIVEN TO HIS MINISTRY 00:24:15.300 --> 00:24:20.200 PARTNERS, HAD GIVEN MONEY, AND TO SEND A MAILER GOSPEL MAILER 00:24:20.300 --> 00:24:24.300 TO EVERY KNOWN ADDRESS ON EARTH, EVERY KNOWN ADDRESS ON EARTH. 00:24:24.400 --> 00:24:28.200 GOD GAVE HIM THIS IDEA AND HE WAS LIKE, THANK YOU, LORD, THIS 00:24:28.300 --> 00:24:31.200 IS BRILLIANT. I CAN'T BELIEVE LIKE YOU WOULD GIVE ME THIS. 00:24:31.300 --> 00:24:34.300 AND HE FELT LIKE THE HOLY SPIRIT TOLD HIM, YOU'RE THE 00:24:34.400 --> 00:24:37.333 THIRD PERSON I'VE ASKED TO DO THIS. THE OTHER PEOPLE JUST 00:24:37.433 --> 00:24:41.233 DIDN'T DO IT. SO NOW I'M HAVING TO TAP YOU ON THE 00:24:41.333 --> 00:24:44.299 SHOULDER. I DON'T WANT THE LORD TO TAP SOMEBODY ELSE 00:24:44.399 --> 00:24:47.266 ON THE SHOULDER, BECAUSE KEENAN CLARK WOULD NOT DO 00:24:47.366 --> 00:24:49.367 WHAT HE ASKED ME TO DO. I DON'T WANT ANYBODY ELSE 00:24:49.467 --> 00:24:52.333 RUNNING MY VICTORY LAP IN HEAVEN. I DON'T WANT 00:24:52.433 --> 00:24:54.233 ANYBODY ELSE GETTING THE JEWEL THAT BELONGED TO MY 00:24:54.333 --> 00:24:57.199 CROWN. THAT ULTIMATELY I WILL TAKE THAT CROWN AND 00:24:57.299 --> 00:24:59.233 THROW IT AT THE FEET OF JESUS. BUT I DON'T WANT 00:24:59.333 --> 00:25:02.300 ANYONE ELSE THROWING MORE JEWELS AT JESUS THAN ME. 00:25:02.400 --> 00:25:05.400 YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? LIKE THE ONES THAT I'M SUPPOSED 00:25:05.500 --> 00:25:08.533 TO THROW AT HIM. I WANT TO BE ABLE TO THROW AT HIM. 00:25:08.633 --> 00:25:10.633 AND WE DO THAT WHEN WE STAY. SUBMITTED, YIELDED GET OUT 00:25:10.733 --> 00:25:13.333 OF OUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED. YOU KNOW, IT'S ALMOST LIKE 00:25:13.433 --> 00:25:16.266 EVERYONE'S IN THEIR OWN LITTLE SIMULATION. I'M IN 00:25:16.366 --> 00:25:19.400 AIRPORTS ALMOST EVERY DAY OF MY LIFE, AND IF YOU JUST 00:25:19.500 --> 00:25:21.633 SIT THERE, IF I GET OFF MY PHONE AND I SIT THERE AND I 00:25:21.733 --> 00:25:25.333 WATCH, IT'S ALMOST LIKE EVERYBODY'S IN THEIR OWN 00:25:25.433 --> 00:25:28.333 WORLD, LIKE WE'RE ALL HERE, BUT WE'RE NOT ALL HERE, AND NO 00:25:28.433 --> 00:25:31.267 ONE'S EVEN, LIKE LOOKING AT ANYONE, YOU KNOW? NO ONE'S. NO 00:25:31.367 --> 00:25:34.266 ONE'S RECOGNIZING IT. AND IF YOU DO, YOU'RE YOU'RE WEIRD. IF 00:25:34.366 --> 00:25:37.267 YOU DO, LIKE, ACKNOWLEDGE SOMEONE'S EXISTENCE, IT'S LIKE, 00:25:37.367 --> 00:25:40.267 WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU? YEAH. WHY ARE YOU SPEAKING TO ME? WHY 00:25:40.367 --> 00:25:42.433 ARE YOU LOOKING AT ME? YEAH. YOU KNOW, IT'S LIKE WE'RE JUST 00:25:42.533 --> 00:25:45.433 ALL IN OUR OWN LITTLE SIMULATION, AND IT'S LIKE, YO, 00:25:45.533 --> 00:25:48.433 IF YOU WILL COME OUT OF YOUR OWN LITTLE WORLD, YOUR OWN 00:25:48.533 --> 00:25:51.233 LITTLE SIMULATION, GOD CAN THEN USE YOU. AND I'M SPEAKING AS 00:25:51.333 --> 00:25:53.599 I'M SPEAKING OUT OF SOMETHING GOD IS CHALLENGING ME WITH 00:25:53.699 --> 00:25:56.399 SOMETHING I'VE MASTERED. THIS RIGHT NOW. THIS IS NOT 00:25:56.499 --> 00:25:57.533 IS SOMETHING I AM TRYING TO YIELD MORE AND MORE TO EVERY 00:25:57.633 --> 00:25:58.499 DAY. >> HIS LEADING. 00:25:58.599 --> 00:26:02.600 >> YES. >> YEAH. 00:26:02.700 --> 00:26:05.533 >> I MEAN, IN THE IN THE MUNDANE, YOU KNOW, THE MUNDANE. 00:26:05.633 --> 00:26:08.533 MONDAY WHEN NO ONE'S EXPECTING KEENAN TO MINISTER, NO ONE'S 00:26:08.633 --> 00:26:11.433 EXPECTING A WORD. IT WOULDN'T BE AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE I'M 00:26:11.533 --> 00:26:13.499 GOING TO GET A. WOW. I CAN'T BELIEVE HOW YOU 00:26:13.599 --> 00:26:15.433 EXECUTED THAT TEXT. I'VE NEVER THOUGHT OF IT THAT 00:26:15.533 --> 00:26:17.433 WAY. NEVER MADE THE CORRELATION AND THE 00:26:17.533 --> 00:26:20.433 CONNECTION BETWEEN THOSE VERSES. NO ONE'S GOING TO 00:26:20.533 --> 00:26:23.366 GIVE A DARN, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? BUT THE LORD IS 00:26:23.466 --> 00:26:25.500 SAYING NO. STEP OUT, BE BOLD. OFF CAMERA. YOU AND I 00:26:25.600 --> 00:26:29.333 WERE TALKING ABOUT WE ENJOY WATCHING STREET PREACHERS. YEAH, 00:26:29.433 --> 00:26:32.500 YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? I DO LIKE I'M NOT GONNA LIE. I DO FEEL 00:26:32.600 --> 00:26:35.500 LIKE THIS. LIKE I FEEL LIKE THE LORD'S KIND OF POKING ME, LIKE, 00:26:35.600 --> 00:26:39.367 YO, LIKE, MAYBE YOU NEED TO GO AND, LIKE, DO SOME OF THAT. 00:26:39.467 --> 00:26:42.500 >> DO IT. AND NOW WE CAN HAVE A RECORDED THING THAT WE. YOU 00:26:42.600 --> 00:26:44.633 HEARD IT HERE FIRST. >> I DO. COME ON. I DO FEEL 00:26:44.733 --> 00:26:48.333 LIKE THE LORD HAS CHALLENGED ME BECAUSE LIKE, I REMEMBER LIKE 00:26:48.433 --> 00:26:51.366 WHEN I WAS A STUDENT AT CHRIST FOR THE NATIONS, WE DID SEVERAL 00:26:51.466 --> 00:26:54.367 OUTREACHES TO MARDI GRAS, WHERE WE WENT TO THIS WAS LIKE OVER 00:26:54.467 --> 00:26:57.299 TEN YEARS AGO. WE WENT TO MARDI GRAS. WE JUST WOULD TAKE THE 00:26:57.399 --> 00:26:59.500 STREETS AND JUST LIKE, STOP PEOPLE AND TALK TO THEM AND 00:26:59.600 --> 00:27:01.667 LIKE, TRY TO SHARE THE LOVE OF CHRIST WITH THEM. 00:27:01.767 --> 00:27:03.766 >> AND WHAT'S YOUR HESITATION? IS IT LOGISTICS? 00:27:03.866 --> 00:27:06.599 IS IT PERSONAL? >> I THINK LATELY IT'S JUST 00:27:06.699 --> 00:27:09.433 BEEN MORE LOGISTICS. IT'S LIKE, MAN, THE SCHEDULE IS 00:27:09.533 --> 00:27:11.733 SO BUSY. AND THEN WHEN I'M LIKE, WHEN I'M AT HOME, I 00:27:11.833 --> 00:27:14.599 WANT TO BE DAD AND HUSBAND AND LIKE HAVE FAMILY TIME 00:27:14.699 --> 00:27:16.700 AND TRY TO HAVE A COMMUNITY, YOU KNOW, AND LIKE ALL 00:27:16.800 --> 00:27:19.633 THOSE THINGS AND LIKE SOME DISCIPLINES THAT LIKE, IT'S 00:27:19.733 --> 00:27:22.766 HARD TO KEEP ON THE ROAD, THAT THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN 00:27:23.566 --> 00:27:24.666 IT'S TIME TO GO ON THE ROAD AGAIN, YOU KNOW, AND, AND 00:27:24.766 --> 00:27:25.866 GO AND GO PREACH, WHICH I DO FEEL LIKE I'M FULFILLING 00:27:25.966 --> 00:27:26.999 THE ASSIGNMENT THAT'S ON MY LIFE IN THE SEASON. BUT I 00:27:27.099 --> 00:27:28.133 DO FEEL LIKE THERE'S THIS PLACE THAT'S LIKE, MAN, I 00:27:28.233 --> 00:27:29.266 LOVE THAT ONE ON ONE MINISTRY. AND I GET SO MUCH 00:27:29.366 --> 00:27:30.433 OF IT. LIKE, I, I'M A BIG ALTAR CALL GUY. LIKE, YOU 00:27:30.533 --> 00:27:32.666 KNOW, THERE ARE SOME PLACES I'VE GONE AND I'VE GIVEN 00:27:32.766 --> 00:27:35.566 ALTAR CALLS THAT I'M LIKE, YO, I DON'T THINK THEY'VE EVER 00:27:35.666 --> 00:27:38.499 HAD AN ALTAR CALL HERE, YOU KNOW? I MEAN, IT'S NOT THEIR 00:27:38.599 --> 00:27:40.699 M.O. IT'S NOT THEIR M.O. >> YEAH. AND THEN THEY DON'T 00:27:40.799 --> 00:27:44.633 KNOW WHAT TO DO. >> YEAH. AND THEY'RE LIKE, YO. 00:27:44.733 --> 00:27:46.533 AND I'M LIKE, HEY, CAN WE GET SOME ALTAR MINISTRY? LIKE SOME 00:27:46.633 --> 00:27:49.633 ALTAR WORKERS? THEY'RE LIKE, WHAT ARE THOSE? YOU KNOW WHAT I 00:27:49.733 --> 00:27:52.500 MEAN? LIKE, NO ONE'S READY FOR THAT THE OTHER DAY. YOU WANT TO 00:27:52.600 --> 00:27:54.833 TALK ABOUT CAUSING TROUBLE? THE OTHER DAY, RUSSELL JOHNSON AND 00:27:54.933 --> 00:27:57.700 I WERE AT THIS CONFERENCE PREACHING TOGETHER IN MISSOURI, 00:27:57.800 --> 00:27:59.433 WENT TO A NAZARENE CHURCH. BOTH OF US GOT INVITED TO NAZARENE 00:27:59.533 --> 00:28:01.633 CHURCH. REVIVAL HIT THAT NAZARENE CHURCH. 00:28:01.733 --> 00:28:03.833 >> THAT'S AWESOME. >> PEOPLE LIKE, I DON'T KNOW 00:28:03.933 --> 00:28:06.800 HOW EVERYBODY FEELS ABOUT THIS, BUT THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED. 00:28:06.900 --> 00:28:09.666 PEOPLE WERE FALLING OUT UNDER THE POWER OF GOD. THE CURRENT 00:28:09.766 --> 00:28:12.633 PASTOR OF THAT NAZARENE CHURCH AND THE FORMER PASTOR OF THAT 00:28:12.733 --> 00:28:15.733 NAZARENE CHURCH, BOTH FELL OUT FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME. YEAH. 00:28:15.833 --> 00:28:18.600 UNDER THE POWER OF GOD, WHICH, I MEAN, WE COULD WE COULD WE 00:28:18.700 --> 00:28:21.667 COULD SWAP SCRIPTURE ON WHAT PEOPLE THINK THAT THAT'S NOT, 00:28:21.767 --> 00:28:25.666 YOU KNOW, A GODLY RESPONSE. I HAVE FELT THAT KIND OF GLORY 00:28:25.766 --> 00:28:29.533 HIT MY BODY. NOW, I DON'T GIVE NO COURTESY DROPS. I DON'T I'M 00:28:29.633 --> 00:28:30.567 NOT GOING DOWN TO, LIKE, MAKE SOME GUY FEEL LIKE A MAN OF GOD. 00:28:30.667 --> 00:28:32.766 >> NO. >> BUT IF. 00:28:32.866 --> 00:28:35.600 >> THE LORD ONCE, I'VE DONE IT ONCE. 00:28:35.700 --> 00:28:38.700 >> YEAH. IF THE LORD HITS ME. JOHN THE REVELATOR SAYS, WHEN 00:28:38.800 --> 00:28:41.466 HE SAW CHRIST, HE FELL LIKE A DEAD MAN. THAT'S THE LARRY WHAT 00:28:41.566 --> 00:28:43.600 REVELATION SAYS. AND SO IT'S ONE OF THOSE THINGS, BUT 00:28:43.700 --> 00:28:45.666 LITERALLY THAT DOESN'T THAT STUFF DOES NOT HAPPEN IN A 00:28:45.766 --> 00:28:47.833 NAZARENE CHURCH. BUT GOD DECIDED TO VISIT THAT 00:28:47.933 --> 00:28:50.533 NAZARENE CHURCH. AND SO I'M JUST THINKING, MAN, LIKE, 00:28:50.633 --> 00:28:51.800 WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE GET OUT OF OUR JUST OUR 00:28:51.900 --> 00:28:54.633 REGULARLY SCHEDULED PROGRAMS? AND WE'RE LIKE, 00:28:54.733 --> 00:28:57.533 LORD, HOWEVER YOU WANT TO MOVE, IF YOU WANT TO CHANGE 00:28:57.633 --> 00:29:00.600 MY SERMON LAST MINUTE, YOU WANT ME TO GO HIT THE 00:29:00.700 --> 00:29:03.666 STREETS. YOU WANT ME NOT TO. JUST, LIKE, TRY TO GET TO 00:29:03.766 --> 00:29:05.699 MY GATE ON TIME, BUT, YOU KNOW, TRY TO MINISTER TO 00:29:05.799 --> 00:29:07.566 THIS. THESE GUYS, YOU KNOW, LIKE, WHAT IF WE WERE 00:29:07.666 --> 00:29:09.733 AVAILABLE? >> THAT'S THE THING, THOUGH, 00:29:09.833 --> 00:29:12.600 WE NEED TO BE AVAILABLE. AND I THINK SOMETIMES I 00:29:12.700 --> 00:29:16.500 HONESTLY FELT LIKE BECAUSE EVEN THE OTHER DAY THIS LIKE AND A 00:29:16.600 --> 00:29:19.566 LOT OF TIMES GOD WILL HAVE ME DO THINGS AND IT HAS NOTHING TO 00:29:19.666 --> 00:29:22.566 DO WITH LIKE LIKE HE HAS ME TALK TO PEOPLE AND PRAY FOR 00:29:22.666 --> 00:29:25.766 PEOPLE. BUT A LOT OF TIMES HE'LL TELL ME LIKE, DON'T GO 00:29:25.866 --> 00:29:29.500 HERE, YOU NEED TO STAY HERE AND DO THIS. OR LIKE THE OTHER DAY, 00:29:29.600 --> 00:29:31.766 HE'S LIKE, YOU NEED TO GO PUT THAT BACK. I KNOW IT SOUNDS 00:29:31.866 --> 00:29:34.666 SILLY, AND SOMETIMES I JUST FEEL LIKE GOD IS MAKING SURE 00:29:34.766 --> 00:29:37.767 THAT I'M NOT LIKE IN THIS MINDSET, BECAUSE IT'S ACTUALLY 00:29:37.867 --> 00:29:41.500 VERY EASY TO BE LIKE, OKAY, I'M MY OWN, I'M MY OWN MASTER, AND 00:29:41.600 --> 00:29:45.466 I'M GOING TO DO THIS, THIS AND THIS AND THIS. I THINK IT'S 00:29:45.566 --> 00:29:47.666 EASY. I THINK AS A MOM TO, LIKE, I GOT TO GET THIS DONE AND THIS 00:29:47.766 --> 00:29:48.866 DONE AND WE GET SO CAUGHT UP IN LIKE THE BUSYNESS AND THE DAY 00:29:48.966 --> 00:29:50.200 TO DAY. AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT AT ANY MOMENT, 00:29:50.300 --> 00:29:51.400 THE HOLY SPIRIT CAN DISRUPT MY PLANS AND THAT I'M GOING TO BE 00:29:51.500 --> 00:29:52.733 OBEDIENT AND DO WHAT HE SAYS AND THAT I STAY FLEXIBLE. 00:29:52.833 --> 00:29:56.500 >> YEAH. >> THAT'S ACTUALLY THAT'S 00:29:56.600 --> 00:29:59.900 ACTUALLY THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LEGALISM. AND YOU HAVE LIKE 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:02.633 TOTAL CHAOS OVER HERE. AND THEN LEGALISM IS COMPLETE RIGIDNESS. 00:30:02.733 --> 00:30:06.100 AND THAT'S WHAT YOU DEAL WITH RELIGIOUS PEOPLE IS LIKE, THIS 00:30:06.200 --> 00:30:08.767 IS THE WAY WE ALWAYS DO THINGS. BUT IT'S LIKE, RIGHT, YOU HAVE 00:30:08.867 --> 00:30:12.667 TO BE LIKE MALLEABLE IN YOUR HANDS TO LIKE, AS HE SAYS, HE'S 00:30:12.767 --> 00:30:14.866 THE POTTER AND WE'RE THE CLAY. WE HAVE TO LET HIM FORM US INTO 00:30:14.966 --> 00:30:17.767 WHAT HE WANTS FOR US. >> THOUSAND PERCENT. I MEAN, 00:30:17.867 --> 00:30:18.999 THAT'S WHERE OUR LIFE IS LIVED, I MEAN, AND THAT THAT'S THE 00:30:19.066 --> 00:30:21.866 TENSION. I WAS TALKING TO SOMEBODY THE OTHER DAY, YOU 00:30:21.966 --> 00:30:24.100 KNOW, THERE'S THAT ACTS TEN. YOU KNOW, IT'S THE WHERE THE 00:30:24.200 --> 00:30:26.167 HOLY SPIRIT IS POURED OUT ON THE GENTILES. YEAH. WHERE 00:30:26.267 --> 00:30:29.966 CORNELIUS, THE FIRST GENTILE CONVERT. YEAH. WHERE, YOU KNOW, 00:30:30.066 --> 00:30:33.033 I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'RE IN ANY WAY JEWISH. I'M NOT. OKAY. BUT 00:30:33.133 --> 00:30:36.967 YOU KNOW, WHERE MY PEOPLE, LIKE THOSE OF US WHO WERE NOT, HAD 00:30:37.067 --> 00:30:38.933 NO BUSINESS STEPPING INTO SALVATION? WELL, MAN, I'M 00:30:39.033 --> 00:30:41.033 GETTING TEARY EYED. WE'RE INVITED IN. 00:30:41.133 --> 00:30:43.966 >> YEAH. >> BY THE GRACE OF GOD. BUT 00:30:44.066 --> 00:30:47.100 THEN PETER SEES THIS SHEET BEING LET DOWN WITH ALL THESE 00:30:47.200 --> 00:30:50.833 UNCLEAN ANIMALS IN IT, AND THE SPIRIT SAYS TO HIM, RISE, PETER, 00:30:50.933 --> 00:30:54.100 KILL AND EAT. AND I WAS TALKING TO SOMEBODY THE OTHER DAY. I'M 00:30:54.900 --> 00:30:57.899 LIKE, IF THE LORD SHOWED ME A BUNCH OF STUFF I HAD ABSTAINED 00:30:57.999 --> 00:31:02.000 FROM MY WHOLE LIFE AND SAID, YO, KEENAN, PARTAKE. I'D BE LIKE, I 00:31:02.100 --> 00:31:05.233 DON'T KNOW IF I CAN DO THAT. YEAH, EVEN THOUGH THE LORD JUST 00:31:05.333 --> 00:31:08.100 TOLD ME TO, I KNOW IT'D BE LIKE, BUT I JUST DON'T DO THAT, YOU 00:31:08.200 --> 00:31:10.966 KNOW WHAT I MEAN? AND LIKE, THAT'S THE TENSION. LIKE, 00:31:11.066 --> 00:31:13.300 THAT'S THE TENSION PETER WOULD HAVE FELT IN THAT MOMENT. HE'S 00:31:13.400 --> 00:31:16.300 LIKE ALL THESE UNCLEAN ANIMALS. LIKE, MY WHOLE LIFE, I'VE NEVER 00:31:16.400 --> 00:31:19.100 PARTAKEN OF ANY OF THAT STUFF. AND THEN THE LORD SAYS WHAT 00:31:19.200 --> 00:31:22.100 I'VE CALLED CLEAN, DON'T CALL UNCLEAN. AND IT'S IT'S ONE OF 00:31:22.200 --> 00:31:24.933 THOSE THINGS THAT, LIKE, MAN, WHEN THE LORD DECIDES TO SPEAK. 00:31:25.033 --> 00:31:27.066 AND OF COURSE, I'M TALKING ANYTHING HE SAYS TO YOU, IT 00:31:27.166 --> 00:31:30.066 BETTER BE BACKED UP BY SCRIPTURE. YOU KNOW HE WILL 00:31:30.166 --> 00:31:33.100 NEVER VIOLATE HIS WORD. HE WILL NEVER VIOLATE THOSE 66 BOOKS. 00:31:33.200 --> 00:31:36.066 YES, THAT'S I WANT TO MAKE THAT CERTAIN. I WANT TO MAKE THAT 00:31:36.166 --> 00:31:38.933 CLEAR. ANYTHING YOU HEAR FROM THE LORD, IT SHOULD BE ECHOED 00:31:39.033 --> 00:31:40.933 IN SCRIPTURE, AND ALSO BE ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT YOUR 00:31:41.033 --> 00:31:44.166 SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP, THE AUTHORITY IN YOUR LIFE, WOULD 00:31:44.266 --> 00:31:47.933 SAY YES AND AMEN. THIS IS A GOOD THING, BUT CAN YOU STAY 00:31:48.033 --> 00:31:52.066 MORE COMMITTED TO HIS TENDER VOICE THAN YOU ARE TRADITION? 00:31:52.166 --> 00:31:55.933 AND THAT'S A VERY TOUGH THAT'S A TENSION RIGHT THERE. IT'S A 00:31:56.033 --> 00:31:58.233 TENSION. WE WANT TO JUST GO ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. IT'S LIKE NO 00:31:58.333 --> 00:32:00.499 TRADITION OR HANG ON TO THE TRADITION. IT'S LIKE THERE'S 00:32:01.099 --> 00:32:04.166 SOME PLACES WHERE OUR TRADITIONS ARE SERVING GOD'S 00:32:04.266 --> 00:32:08.033 PURPOSES. BUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THEY DON'T ANYMORE? CAN WE 00:32:08.133 --> 00:32:12.033 STILL STAY SUBMITTED TO THE LORD OR WE MAKE WILL WE MAKE A 00:32:12.133 --> 00:32:15.233 SACRED COW OUT OF THOSE PLACES? >> EXACTLY. YEAH. YEAH, THAT'S 00:32:15.333 --> 00:32:18.233 SUCH A GOOD WORD. AND SOMETIMES PEOPLE CAN BE CRITICAL OF LIKE, 00:32:18.333 --> 00:32:21.033 THEY'RE DOING IT THIS WAY OVER HERE AT THIS CHURCH. THEY'RE 00:32:21.133 --> 00:32:23.166 DOING THIS WAY. AND I'M LIKE, IF IT'S BIBLICAL AND IT'S 00:32:23.266 --> 00:32:26.033 WITHIN THE WORD AND IT'S MINISTERING TO PEOPLE. YEAH. 00:32:26.133 --> 00:32:29.033 WHO ARE WE TO LOOK DOWN ON SOMETHING JUST BECAUSE IT'S 00:32:29.133 --> 00:32:31.233 DIFFERENT FROM OUR CHURCH? YEAH. IF IT'S BIBLICAL, I'M LIKE, AND 00:32:31.333 --> 00:32:34.200 GOD IS MOVING. YEAH. THAT'S IMPORTANT. WHAT I LOVE TOO, 00:32:34.300 --> 00:32:37.100 BECAUSE YOU WERE SAYING, LIKE, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW WHAT 00:32:37.200 --> 00:32:39.233 PEOPLE THINK ABOUT, LIKE BEING SLAIN IN THE SPIRIT AND ALL 00:32:39.333 --> 00:32:42.200 THIS KIND OF STUFF. BUT HONESTLY, WHEN YOU READ THE 00:32:42.300 --> 00:32:45.233 BIBLE, EVEN STUFF IN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND LIKE, OF COURSE, 00:32:45.333 --> 00:32:48.133 LIKE THE CHURCH AND THE, YOU KNOW, IN THE BOOK OF ACTS, EVEN 00:32:48.233 --> 00:32:51.000 THE CHURCH IN EPHESIANS, AND YOU KNOW, THESE IN THE NEW 00:32:51.100 --> 00:32:53.233 TESTAMENT AND THE EPISTLES, IT'S LIKE WHEN YOU REALLY JUST 00:32:53.333 --> 00:32:56.200 READ SCRIPTURE AND YOU WITNESS EVERYTHING THAT GOD WAS DOING. 00:32:56.300 --> 00:32:59.100 IT'S LIKE, WHY WOULD WE THINK THAT THIS IS EVEN WEIRD? IT'S 00:32:59.200 --> 00:33:02.233 JUST WEIRD TO PEOPLE BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE DIDN'T GROW UP WITH 00:33:02.333 --> 00:33:05.133 IT. ONCE YOU KIND OF GO BACK INTO LIKE TRADITION. YEAH, BUT 00:33:05.233 --> 00:33:08.100 JUST BECAUSE YOU'VE NEVER SEEN IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT IT'S NOT 00:33:08.200 --> 00:33:10.433 REAL. AND GOD'S NOT DOING IT. >> AND I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE 00:33:10.533 --> 00:33:13.267 REAL QUICK, RIGHT OFF THE BAT, THERE ARE PLACES WHERE THESE 00:33:14.167 --> 00:33:15.433 THINGS HAVE BEEN ABUSED. THERE ARE PLACES. PEOPLE GET YEAH, 00:33:15.533 --> 00:33:18.266 THERE ARE PLACES AND I MEAN LEGITIMATELY ABUSED. YEAH. LIKE 00:33:18.366 --> 00:33:21.266 SOME OF THESE THINGS HAVE BEEN EXPLOITED TO TRY TO MAKE A 00:33:21.366 --> 00:33:27.100 MINISTRY AND GET MORE MINISTRY PARTNERS AND LINE MY POCKETS. 00:33:27.200 --> 00:33:30.099 BUT THE, THE, THE, YOU KNOW, CORRUPT MISUSE DOES NOT NEGATE 00:33:30.199 --> 00:33:32.266 THE PROPER USE OF THESE GIFTS, OF THESE GENUINE 00:33:32.366 --> 00:33:36.200 EXPERIENCES. AND JUST BECAUSE SOMETHING HAS BEEN 00:33:36.300 --> 00:33:39.167 FAKED DOESN'T MEAN THAT EVERY SINGLE TIME THAT 00:33:39.267 --> 00:33:42.133 THAT'S WHAT'S HAPPENING. YEAH. AND SO, YEAH, I THINK 00:33:42.233 --> 00:33:44.366 WE GOT TO CALL OUT THE FAKE STUFF AND SAY, HEY, WE 00:33:44.466 --> 00:33:48.133 DON'T WANT ANY PART OF THAT FOOLISHNESS. YEAH, BUT THE 00:33:48.233 --> 00:33:51.266 THE GENUINE MOVE OF GOD, I MEAN, I, I DON'T WANT TO ON 00:33:51.366 --> 00:33:55.200 THE SIDE OR EVEN RUN THE RISK OF BLASPHEMING THE HOLY SPIRIT 00:33:55.300 --> 00:33:58.267 WHERE I SAY SOMETHING THAT IS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IS NOT THE 00:33:58.367 --> 00:34:01.366 HOLY SPIRIT. AND ALL THIS STUFF I DON'T EVEN WANT I DON'T WANT 00:34:01.466 --> 00:34:04.200 TO GRIEVE THE SPIRIT IN THAT MANNER. SO I WOULD JUST SAY, 00:34:04.300 --> 00:34:07.333 MAN LIKE, UNLESS SOMETHING IS LIKE, YO, THIS IS EXTREMELY 00:34:07.433 --> 00:34:08.266 UNBIBLICAL, THIS WOULD NEVER HAPPEN. IT'S LIKE, MAN, BEFORE 00:34:08.366 --> 00:34:10.600 PHILIP GOT TELEPORTED. >> I KNOW. 00:34:10.700 --> 00:34:13.266 >> NO ONE WOULD SAY GOD WOULD TELEPORT SOMEONE. 00:34:13.366 --> 00:34:15.399 >> YEAH. >> THEN GOD'S LIKE, YO, MY BOY 00:34:15.499 --> 00:34:18.466 PHILIP, I'M TELEPORTING YOU. YEAH, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? 00:34:18.566 --> 00:34:21.466 LIKE, AND IT'S LIKE, OH DANG, I GUESS GOD COULD TELEPORT 00:34:21.566 --> 00:34:24.366 SOMEBODY I KNOW. AND IT'S LIKE THE ONE TIME IN SCRIPTURE, LIKE, 00:34:24.466 --> 00:34:27.366 WHERE WE COULD SEE THAT, LIKE, HAPPEN, BUT IT'S LIKE GOD JUST 00:34:27.466 --> 00:34:30.333 KIND OF LIKE ALL THESE YEARS, YOU WOULD SAY GOD WOULD NEVER 00:34:30.433 --> 00:34:33.333 DO THAT. GOD WOULD NEVER DO THAT. GOD WOULD NEVER DO THAT. 00:34:33.433 --> 00:34:37.267 WE'VE NEVER SEEN GOD DO IT. GOD'S LIKE, BAM, I'M DOING IT. 00:34:37.367 --> 00:34:41.166 YEAH. AND IT'S LIKE, WHO ARE WE TO PUT GOD IN A BOX? GOD LIVED 00:34:41.266 --> 00:34:44.267 IN A BOX UNDER THE OLD COVENANT, AND HE DOESN'T WANT TO GO BACK 00:34:44.367 --> 00:34:48.200 IN. AND WE ARE SO DESPERATE TO TRY TO GET HIM TO GO BACK IN 00:34:48.300 --> 00:34:52.133 THAT BOX. AND ONE OF THE WAYS WE HELP HIM COME OUT OF THAT 00:34:52.233 --> 00:34:55.133 BOX, AND WE ALLOW HIM TO NOT BE IN A BOX, IS WHEN WE SUBMIT TO 00:34:55.233 --> 00:34:57.400 THINGS LIKE PRAYER, FASTING. AND I WILL SAY THIS ON THE ON 00:34:57.500 --> 00:35:00.400 ON THE SIDE OF FASTING. FASTING WITHOUT PRAYER IS STARVATION. 00:35:00.500 --> 00:35:03.300 GOD IS NOT CALLING YOU TO STARVATION. GOD IS NOT CALLING 00:35:03.400 --> 00:35:05.300 YOU TO JUST BEING MALNOURISHED. THE PLACE IT IS ONLY BECOMES. 00:35:05.400 --> 00:35:08.300 IT ONLY BECOMES SPIRITUALLY POWERFUL WHEN THE PRAYER 00:35:08.400 --> 00:35:11.399 COMPONENT KICKS IN. NOW, PRAYER SOMETIMES CALLS FOR FASTING. 00:35:11.499 --> 00:35:15.433 FASTING ALWAYS CALLS FOR PRAYER. >> THERE SHOULD. 00:35:15.533 --> 00:35:19.599 >> ALWAYS BE PRAYER ACCOMPANIED WITH NOT JUST, OH, I DIDN'T EAT 00:35:19.699 --> 00:35:23.300 TODAY, BUT DID YOU? DID YOU TAKE THE TIME YOU WOULD HAVE 00:35:23.400 --> 00:35:26.266 EATEN TO COMMUNE WITH THE LORD TO PRESS INTO THE THINGS OF GOD? 00:35:26.366 --> 00:35:29.333 WELL, NO. OKAY, WELL THEN YOU'RE JUST STARVING YOURSELF, 00:35:29.433 --> 00:35:31.333 YOU KNOW. DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? NO. IT'S ALWAYS WANT TO MAKE 00:35:31.433 --> 00:35:34.300 THAT DELINEATION. >> NO, YOU NEED TO. I'M 00:35:34.400 --> 00:35:36.466 ACTUALLY LIKE, AS YOU'RE SAYING THIS, I'M LIKE, OKAY, JUST IF 00:35:36.566 --> 00:35:39.366 SOMEONE KNEW NOTHING ABOUT FASTING, WE'RE THINKING LIKE 00:35:39.466 --> 00:35:41.267 SOMEONE WHO'S JUST NEVER DONE IT BEFORE, OR MAYBE A BABY 00:35:41.367 --> 00:35:43.433 CHRISTIAN LIKE FASTING GUIDE FOR DUMMIES. OKAY. 00:35:43.533 --> 00:35:46.333 >> YEAH, YEAH, YEAH. >> WHAT WOULD YOU SAY TO THAT 00:35:46.433 --> 00:35:49.300 PERSON? LIKE, IF YOU'RE SITTING ACROSS FROM THEM, YOU'RE LIKE, 00:35:49.400 --> 00:35:52.333 OKAY, HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED TO DO. HERE ARE MY POINTERS. THIS 00:35:52.433 --> 00:35:55.333 IS HOW YOU NEED TO. >> HANDLE IT. YEAH. AND A LOT 00:35:55.433 --> 00:35:57.466 OF THIS I TALK ABOUT IN THE BOOK, BUT THERE'S A WHOLE 00:35:57.566 --> 00:36:01.366 CHAPTER IN THE BOOK CALLED MANIPULATING GOD. AND BECAUSE I 00:36:01.466 --> 00:36:03.333 THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE IF AND THEY DO IT MAYBE EVEN 00:36:03.433 --> 00:36:06.533 ACCIDENTALLY, BUT THEY CAN TREAT FASTING AS THOUGH IT'S 00:36:06.633 --> 00:36:09.400 THIS WAY TO GET GOD ON MY SIDE, LIKE, I'M GONNA I'M GONNA FAST 00:36:09.500 --> 00:36:11.366 UNTIL GOD DOES WHAT I WANT. AND FASTING IS NOT THE 00:36:11.466 --> 00:36:13.499 SPIRITUAL EQUIVALENT OF GOING ON HUNGER STRIKE. 00:36:13.599 --> 00:36:16.333 IT'S NOT LIKE I'M JUST GONNA. OR, LIKE, HOLDING 00:36:16.433 --> 00:36:18.499 YOUR BREATH, YOU KNOW? LIKE, I DON'T THINK KIDS DO THIS 00:36:18.599 --> 00:36:20.666 ANYMORE, BUT, LIKE, OH. >> MY BREATH. AND TELL THEM 00:36:20.766 --> 00:36:22.533 DADDY DOES WHAT I WANT. HE'S LIKE, OKAY, OKAY. 00:36:22.633 --> 00:36:25.333 BREATHE, BREATHE. >> YOU KNOW, IT'S LIKE, 00:36:25.433 --> 00:36:27.599 IT'S NOT THAT. LIKE, IT'S NOT LIKE, WELL, I'M JUST 00:36:27.699 --> 00:36:30.299 NOT GONNA EAT UNTIL GOD DOES IT MY WAY. NO, FASTING 00:36:30.399 --> 00:36:32.499 DOESN'T CHANGE GOD'S PLAN. IT REVEALS GOD'S PLAN. IT 00:36:32.599 --> 00:36:34.399 DOESN'T CHANGE GOD'S HEART. IT GETS US IN ALIGNMENT 00:36:34.499 --> 00:36:37.367 WITH GOD'S HEART. AND THAT'S WHAT I'VE SEEN 00:36:37.467 --> 00:36:39.566 HAPPEN IN MY OWN LIFE. LIKE, THE MORE I HAVE FASTED, I 00:36:39.666 --> 00:36:42.333 DON'T. I DON'T CRAVE THE THINGS OF THIS WORLD I'M 00:36:42.433 --> 00:36:46.299 NOT CRAVING. IN FACT, IT CRUCIFIES THE CRAVINGS I 00:36:46.399 --> 00:36:51.400 USED TO HAVE AND IT GIVES ME A CRAVING FOR GOD, FOR THE 00:36:51.500 --> 00:36:55.500 THINGS THAT ARE ARE ABOVE, FOR ETERNAL THINGS. IT GETS ME OKAY 00:36:55.600 --> 00:36:58.633 WITH THE HERE AND NOW, BUT NOT COMFORTABLE IN THE HERE AND NOW 00:36:58.733 --> 00:37:02.400 TO WHERE I JUST WANT TO CAMP OUT HERE AND BE HERE FOREVER. 00:37:02.500 --> 00:37:05.566 IT'S IT KEEPS ME IN STEP WITH THE SPIRIT. I THINK THAT'S LIKE 00:37:05.666 --> 00:37:08.800 THE THEME OF WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IS JUST TRYING TO STAY IN 00:37:08.900 --> 00:37:11.633 STEP WITH THE SPIRIT. I MEAN, PAUL SAYS THIS, I BELIEVE IT'S 00:37:11.733 --> 00:37:15.466 IN THE BOOK OF GALATIANS. HE SAYS, WALK IN THE SPIRIT, AND 00:37:15.566 --> 00:37:18.633 YOU WILL NOT GRATIFY THE DESIRES OF THE FLESH. HE 00:37:18.733 --> 00:37:21.633 DOESN'T SAY, WALK IN THE SPIRIT AND DON'T GRATIFY THE DESIRES 00:37:21.733 --> 00:37:25.433 OF THE FLESH. HE SAYS, IF YOU'LL JUST FOCUS ON WALKING IN 00:37:25.533 --> 00:37:29.566 THE SPIRIT, YOU NATURALLY WILL NOT FULFILL THE DESIRES OF THE 00:37:29.666 --> 00:37:32.467 FLESH, BECAUSE THE SPIRIT AND THE FLESH ARE GOING IN OPPOSITE 00:37:32.567 --> 00:37:34.400 DIRECTIONS. SO IF YOU'RE WALKING IN THE SPIRIT, YOU ARE 00:37:34.500 --> 00:37:37.433 NATURALLY WALKING AWAY FROM THE FLESH. 00:37:37.533 --> 00:37:40.433 >> THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HE'S SAYING IN ROMANS EIGHT. AND 00:37:40.533 --> 00:37:43.533 WHAT'S INTERESTING IS A LOT OF PEOPLE, THIS IS KIND OF LIKE A 00:37:43.633 --> 00:37:46.400 PET PEEVE OF MINE. A LOT OF PEOPLE WILL QUOTE ROMANS SEVEN, 00:37:46.500 --> 00:37:49.500 AND THEN THEY THINK IT ENDS RIGHT THERE. AND THEY'RE LIKE, 00:37:49.600 --> 00:37:51.566 BECAUSE PAUL'S LIKE, I DO WHAT I DON'T WANT TO DO. AND HE'S 00:37:51.666 --> 00:37:54.533 BASICALLY TALKING ABOUT THE STRUGGLE OF LIKE, YOUR FLESH 00:37:54.633 --> 00:37:57.500 AND SIN AND ALL THIS KIND OF STUFF. BUT PAUL GIVES THE 00:37:57.600 --> 00:38:00.666 ANTIDOTE IN ROMANS EIGHT AND I'M LIKE, JUST GO ONE CHAPTER 00:38:00.766 --> 00:38:04.533 OVER BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE USE IT AS LIKE, OH, SEE, THIS IS AND 00:38:04.633 --> 00:38:06.700 I'M LIKE, NO, THAT IS A REALITY FOR US UNTIL, YOU KNOW, IT SAYS 00:38:06.800 --> 00:38:09.700 THERE'S NO CONDEMNATION FOR THOSE WHO ARE IN CHRIST JESUS. 00:38:09.800 --> 00:38:12.766 AND PAUL GOES INTO, YOU KNOW, SO NO LONGER IT'S LIKE NOW LIKE 00:38:12.866 --> 00:38:16.667 BEFALL THE SPIRIT, THOSE WHO ARE LED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD 00:38:16.767 --> 00:38:19.500 ARE SONS OF GOD. AND HE GOES THROUGH ALL OF THAT, RIGHT? YES. 00:38:19.600 --> 00:38:21.533 AND SO THE ANTIDOTE IS THERE. YES. AND SO I'M ALWAYS LIKE, 00:38:21.633 --> 00:38:24.633 CONNECT THE TWO CHAPTERS BECAUSE IT'S IMPORTANT. SO IF 00:38:24.733 --> 00:38:27.667 SOMEONE OKAY, SO WHEN IS A GOOD TIME TO FAST. YEAH. HOW DOES 00:38:27.767 --> 00:38:31.600 SOMEONE KNOW WHAT KIND OF FAST TO DO. AND ALSO I THINK YOU 00:38:31.700 --> 00:38:34.633 KNOW, I THINK A LOT OF TIMES IT'S LIKE WE NEED TO BE LED BY 00:38:34.733 --> 00:38:36.533 THE SPIRIT. BUT I ALSO THINK IT'S A TOOL THAT YOU CAN 00:38:36.633 --> 00:38:39.567 IMPLEMENT. >> YEAH. BIG TIME. YEAH. YOU 00:38:39.667 --> 00:38:42.633 OF THOSE THINGS LIKE SO MANY CAN DECIDE TO DO IT. IT'S ONE 00:38:42.733 --> 00:38:46.600 PEOPLE ARE LIKE, WELL, I JUST NEED GOD TO TELL ME WHEN I'M 00:38:46.700 --> 00:38:49.633 LIKE HE DID IN THE BIBLE, LIKE HE DID TELL YOU. JESUS SAYS IN 00:38:49.733 --> 00:38:53.433 MATTHEW SIX, AND WHEN YOU FAST, NOT IF IT'S WHEN. SO THIS WOULD 00:38:53.533 --> 00:38:56.433 MEAN JESUS EXPECTS EVERY FOLLOWER OF HIS TO FAST. 00:38:56.533 --> 00:38:59.567 THERE'S NO ONE EXEMPT FROM THIS, AND THAT'S THE MISNOMER THAT WE 00:38:59.667 --> 00:39:02.667 HAVE. WE THINK THAT FASTING IS JUST GOING TO BE FOR THE ELITE. 00:39:02.767 --> 00:39:05.666 IT'S GOING TO BE FOR THE SUPER CHRISTIAN. IT'S GOING TO BE FOR 00:39:05.766 --> 00:39:07.800 THE GUY WHO'S THE APOSTLE. >> THE PROPHET, THE PASTOR, 00:39:07.900 --> 00:39:10.533 TEACHER, EVANGELIST. >> LIKE ALL THOSE GUYS, 00:39:10.633 --> 00:39:12.633 THEY NEED TO FAST. AND I'M GONNA I'M GONNA EAT. THE 00:39:12.733 --> 00:39:14.600 ONLY FAST FOOD I KNOW IS THROUGH A DRIVE. 00:39:14.700 --> 00:39:17.500 >> THROUGH. >> YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? 00:39:17.600 --> 00:39:19.533 LIKE, THAT'S THAT'S, LIKE, KIND OF THEIR THING. AND SO, 00:39:19.633 --> 00:39:22.466 NO, JESUS EXPECTS ALL OF HIS FOLLOWERS BECAUSE HE 00:39:22.566 --> 00:39:25.600 SAYS, AND WHEN YOU DO THIS, LIKE, MEANING YOU WILL IF 00:39:25.700 --> 00:39:28.700 YOU STAY IN STEP. SO YOU CAN JUST DECIDE TO DO IT NOW. 00:39:28.800 --> 00:39:32.466 SOME OF THE GREAT TIMES TO GO ON A FAST ARE AROUND BIG 00:39:32.566 --> 00:39:35.500 DECISIONS, BIG DECISIONS, GREAT TIME. ONE OF THE KEY THINGS I 00:39:35.600 --> 00:39:38.966 THINK, NUMBER ONE, IT HELPS CLEAR YOUR YOUR OWN MOTIVES AND 00:39:38.966 --> 00:39:42.100 YOUR OWN REASONING FOR WHY YOU WOULD WANT TO MAKE A CERTAIN 00:39:42.200 --> 00:39:47.000 CHOICE OR THAT CHOICE, BUT IT CLEARS THE AIR. IT DISSIPATES 00:39:47.100 --> 00:39:50.933 THAT LIKE FLESHLY FOG OVER YOUR OWN HEART AND MIND. BUT THEN 00:39:51.033 --> 00:39:54.866 ALSO LET'S THINK ABOUT THIS. IT BUYS YOU TIME TO HEAR GOD 00:39:54.966 --> 00:39:57.933 ACCURATELY. YEAH, IF YOU SAY, I'M GOING TO FAST AND PRAY FOR 00:39:58.033 --> 00:40:01.066 THE NEXT THREE DAYS ABOUT THIS DECISION, THAT MEANS I DON'T 00:40:01.166 --> 00:40:04.000 HAVE TO MAKE THAT DECISION TODAY. I ALSO DON'T HAVE TO 00:40:04.100 --> 00:40:07.900 MAKE THAT DECISION TOMORROW. I ALSO DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE TO 00:40:08.000 --> 00:40:11.900 MAKE THAT DECISION UNTIL THAT THIRD DAY IS OVER. IT NOW BUYS 00:40:12.000 --> 00:40:15.866 ME TIME. TO WHERE I'M NOT IN A RUSH. YEAH, I'M NOT BEING LED 00:40:15.966 --> 00:40:19.133 BY HUSTLE CULTURE. I'M NOT BEING LED BY LIKE, WHAT'S THE 00:40:19.233 --> 00:40:22.933 MOST LUCRATIVE THING? WHAT'S THE WHAT'S GOING TO LOOK BEST, 00:40:23.033 --> 00:40:27.866 WHAT'S, YOU KNOW, IN IN ON BRAND. WITH MY LAST NAME, I'M 00:40:27.966 --> 00:40:30.766 ABLE TO SAY NO, I WANT TO HEAR THE LORD. AND THEN IF YOU WILL 00:40:30.833 --> 00:40:32.900 DO THAT, IF YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT GIVES ME PEACE 00:40:33.000 --> 00:40:36.067 ABOUT SOME OF THE DECISIONS I'VE MADE IN MY LIFE IS, I KNOW 00:40:36.167 --> 00:40:38.799 I SOUGHT GODLY COUNSEL. I'M IN AGREEMENT WITH MY WIFE. IT'S 00:40:38.899 --> 00:40:41.900 BACKED BY THE SCRIPTURES, LIKE THE SCRIPTURES WOULD NEVER 00:40:42.000 --> 00:40:45.767 CONDEMN THIS DECISION. YEAH, AND I KNOW I PRAYED AND FASTED. 00:40:45.867 --> 00:40:48.266 AND IF AT THE END OF THOSE THINGS, LIKE ALL THE 00:40:48.366 --> 00:40:50.866 AUTHORITATIVE VOICES IN YOUR LIFE, I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT 00:40:50.966 --> 00:40:53.933 YOUR ACOLYTES, I'M TALKING ABOUT AUTHORITATIVE VOICES, NOT 00:40:54.033 --> 00:40:56.900 PEOPLE YOU'VE ALREADY WON TO YOUR SIDE WHO ARE JUST LIKE 00:40:57.000 --> 00:40:59.199 YOUR MINIONS. YEAH, I'M TALKING YOU'RE A LITTLE YES MAN AND 00:40:59.299 --> 00:41:02.100 ABOUT PEOPLE WHO HAVE AUTHORITY. THEY KNOW THE SCRIPTURES BETTER 00:41:02.200 --> 00:41:04.900 THAN YOU. THEY'VE WALKED WITH GOD LONGER THAN YOU. THEY HAVE 00:41:05.000 --> 00:41:07.233 NO SKIN IN THIS GAME. LIKE THEY'RE NOT GETTING ANYTHING 00:41:07.333 --> 00:41:10.900 OUT OF YOU MAKING THIS DECISION. THEY'RE ABLE TO SEE ACCURATELY. 00:41:11.000 --> 00:41:13.866 NO, THIS IS STUPID. YOU DON'T NEED TO BE DOING THIS OR NO, 00:41:13.966 --> 00:41:15.900 THIS IS GODLY. YOU ABSOLUTELY NEED TO DO THIS. THIS IS A 00:41:16.000 --> 00:41:17.866 GREAT DECISION. THEY'RE ABLE TO SPEAK INTO THAT. 00:41:17.966 --> 00:41:19.966 SCRIPTURE SAYS THERE'S SAFETY IN A MULTITUDE OF 00:41:20.066 --> 00:41:22.900 COUNSELORS. YOU KNOW, I THINK IT'S HILARIOUS TO ME 00:41:23.000 --> 00:41:24.933 THAT PEOPLE ARE LIKE, OH, NO. YEAH. LIKE I HAVE A 00:41:25.033 --> 00:41:27.033 MULTITUDE OF COUNSELORS. IT'S LIKE, YOU HAVE ONE 00:41:27.133 --> 00:41:29.866 FRIEND AND YOU'RE CALLING THAT IF SOMEBODY INVITED ME 00:41:29.966 --> 00:41:32.833 TO PREACH, THEY'RE LIKE, KENAN, COME PREACH. YEAH, 00:41:32.933 --> 00:41:34.966 WE HAVE A MULTITUDE. AND I GET THERE AND THERE ARE TWO 00:41:35.066 --> 00:41:37.033 PEOPLE IN THE CROWD. I'LL BE LIKE, YOU LIE! 00:41:37.133 --> 00:41:39.833 >> YEAH. >> THIS IS NOT A MULTITUDE. 00:41:39.933 --> 00:41:43.000 BUT WE THINK, OH, A MULTITUDE IS LIKE JUST LIKE 00:41:43.100 --> 00:41:45.967 1 OR 2. NO, THIS IS LIKE A WIDE ARRAY OF MEN AND WOMEN 00:41:46.067 --> 00:41:51.000 OF GOD WHO ARE. I'M INVITING IN ON THIS 00:41:51.100 --> 00:41:54.567 DECISION. AND THEN IF I'VE PRAYED AND I FASTED, I KNOW, 00:41:54.633 --> 00:42:01.000 GOD, I GAVE YOU EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO SAY NO OR 00:42:01.333 --> 00:42:04.433 GOD. I GAVE YOU EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO SAY YES. AND 00:42:04.533 --> 00:42:08.166 THIS STILL IS WHERE MY SPIRIT IS LEANING. THIS FEELS I HAVE 00:42:08.266 --> 00:42:11.333 THE MOST PEACE ABOUT THIS. THIS FEELS RIGHT. WE'RE IN AGREEMENT, 00:42:11.433 --> 00:42:14.167 YOU KNOW, ACTS. I WANT TO SAY IT'S 16 BEFORE THE 00:42:14.267 --> 00:42:18.200 QUINTESSENTIAL MOMENT WHERE PAUL AND SILAS ARE IN PRISON. 00:42:18.300 --> 00:42:23.299 THERE'S A MOMENT WHERE IT COULD BE 15. IT'S LUKE WHO WRITES THE 00:42:23.399 --> 00:42:25.166 BOOK OF ACTS. HE SAID IT SEEMED GOOD TO US AND TO THE HOLY 00:42:25.266 --> 00:42:28.333 SPIRIT. >> YES, I REMEMBER THAT VERSE. 00:42:28.433 --> 00:42:31.233 >> YEAH. LIKE IT JUST IT SEEMED GOOD, YOU KNOW, LIKE, IT'S LIKE 00:42:31.333 --> 00:42:34.199 IT WASN'T A THUS SAITH THE LORD. IT WASN'T LIKE IT WAS 00:42:34.299 --> 00:42:37.133 SPELLED OUT IN THE CLOUDS. IT WASN'T LIKE I GOT LIKE 00:42:37.233 --> 00:42:40.133 SOME, LIKE, CRAZY REVELATION. IT JUST. MAN, 00:42:40.233 --> 00:42:42.433 THIS SEEMS RIGHT. YEP. TO US AND TO THE HOLY SPIRIT. 00:42:42.533 --> 00:42:45.166 SO WE DID IT. THERE ARE GOING TO BE THOSE MOMENTS 00:42:45.266 --> 00:42:47.366 WHERE, MAN, THIS JUST THIS REALLY SEEMS RIGHT. AND ONE 00:42:47.466 --> 00:42:50.366 OF THE WAYS YOU HAVE CONFIDENCE IS WHEN YOU KNOW, 00:42:50.466 --> 00:42:52.466 NO, I GAVE GOD THREE DAYS. I SUBMITTED TO A PRAYER AND 00:42:52.566 --> 00:42:54.299 FASTING. I'VE SUBMITTED THIS TO WISE COUNSEL. WE'RE 00:42:54.399 --> 00:42:57.099 GOING TO WALK IN THIS DIRECTION. 00:42:57.199 --> 00:42:59.167 >> YOU KNOW WHAT'S SO COOL LIKE THAT? I'M GLEANING 00:42:59.267 --> 00:43:01.333 FROM THIS, LIKE, CONVERSATION. AND I'M JUST SO 00:43:01.433 --> 00:43:04.333 THANKFUL THAT YOU'RE HERE TALKING ABOUT THIS AND THAT. 00:43:04.433 --> 00:43:07.399 YOU WROTE THIS BOOK. IS THAT WHAT HIT ME? IS THAT IN THE 00:43:07.499 --> 00:43:11.233 PAST, FOR ME PERSONALLY, I WOULD ONLY FAST IF I FELT THE 00:43:11.333 --> 00:43:16.200 HOLY SPIRIT LEADING ME OR IF MY CHURCH WAS DOING IT RIGHT, 00:43:16.300 --> 00:43:20.266 CORPORATELY. RIGHT. BUT WHAT'S INTERESTING IS, WHAT HIT ME IN 00:43:20.366 --> 00:43:24.500 THIS INTERVIEW IS THAT YOU DON'T NEED GOD ALWAYS SAYING GO 00:43:24.600 --> 00:43:27.567 FAST, BECAUSE IT'S LIKE, I KNOW TO WORK OUT. I DON'T WORK OUT 00:43:27.667 --> 00:43:30.467 ALMOST EVERY DAY BECAUSE THE HOLY SPIRIT'S LIKE, GO WORK OUT. 00:43:30.567 --> 00:43:33.433 YOU KNOW, IT'S LIKE HE SHOWS THAT SOMETHING IS GOOD AND THEN 00:43:33.533 --> 00:43:37.167 YOU DO IT CONSISTENTLY BECAUSE YOU KNOW IT'S GOOD AND YOU KNOW 00:43:37.267 --> 00:43:38.466 IT HAS BENEFITS. AND I'M LIKE, WHY? WHY DO WE HAVE TO LIKE 00:43:38.566 --> 00:43:41.433 OVERSPIRITUALIZE SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES THAT IT ALWAYS HAS 00:43:41.533 --> 00:43:44.299 TO BE LIKE THIS CLEAR THING. YOU KNOW, IT'S LIKE THESE ARE 00:43:44.399 --> 00:43:47.433 JUST SHOULD BE HABITS OF OUR SPIRITUAL LIFE. JUST LIKE I 00:43:47.533 --> 00:43:50.333 DON'T NEED THE HOLY SPIRIT TO TELL ME TO READ MY BIBLE EVERY 00:43:50.433 --> 00:43:53.433 DAY. I JUST READ MY BIBLE. BUT WHAT'S INTERESTING IS THAT 00:43:53.533 --> 00:43:57.167 FASTING IS THE ONE THAT KIND OF GETS LEFT OUT BIG TIME. LIKE, 00:43:57.267 --> 00:43:59.433 OH WELL, I'LL READ MY BIBLE, I'LL PRAY, YOU KNOW, I'LL GO TO 00:43:59.533 --> 00:44:02.333 CHURCH. BUT FASTING IS SOMETHING IN THE WEST, LIKE WE 00:44:02.433 --> 00:44:05.333 REALLY HAVE LOST TOUCH WITH, AND IT'S SO IMPORTANT. AND 00:44:05.433 --> 00:44:06.533 THAT'S WHY I JUST LOVE THAT YOU'RE SAYING, LIKE, IF THIS IS 00:44:06.600 --> 00:44:08.867 A GOOD THING AND IT'S A SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINE, WE SHOULD 00:44:08.967 --> 00:44:11.866 JUST BE DOING IT. WE DON'T NEED TO BE WAITING FOR LIKE, A SIGN 00:44:11.966 --> 00:44:14.899 IN THE SKY. YEAH. AND HE'LL GIVE YOU THE GRACE TO DO IT. 00:44:14.999 --> 00:44:17.833 YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T DO IT IN YOUR OWN STRENGTH, BUT IT'S, 00:44:17.933 --> 00:44:20.833 YOU KNOW, THE CONVICTION THAT I'M SEEING IS LIKE, THIS SHOULD 00:44:20.933 --> 00:44:22.800 JUST BE A REGULAR PART OF MY LIFE. 00:44:22.900 --> 00:44:25.067 >> YEAH, YEAH. LIKE ONE OF THE THINGS. AND THIS WAS SO 00:44:25.167 --> 00:44:27.900 COOL WHEN I SAW IT. BUT THINK ABOUT THE PRODIGAL 00:44:28.000 --> 00:44:30.067 SON. THE PRODIGAL SON DOES WHAT HE DOES. HE'S OFF IN A 00:44:30.167 --> 00:44:33.000 FAR COUNTRY, WASTES HIS MONEY. FAMINE HITS THE LAND. 00:44:33.100 --> 00:44:35.933 TIMES ARE BAD. CAN'T GET A JOB. THE ONLY JOB HE CAN 00:44:36.033 --> 00:44:38.833 GET IS SLOPPING PIGS. WHICH THIS IS A JEWISH BOY. IN 00:44:38.933 --> 00:44:41.100 THE STORY, PIGS ARE UNCLEAN ANIMALS. SO THIS IS BY HIM 00:44:41.200 --> 00:44:43.833 ACCEPTING THIS JOB, HE'S NOW NOT ONLY TURNED HIS 00:44:43.933 --> 00:44:45.900 BACK ON HIS EARTHLY FATHER, HE HAS TURNED HIS BACK ON 00:44:46.000 --> 00:44:48.766 HIS HEAVENLY FATHER. BY ACCEPTING THIS JOB. HE'S 00:44:48.866 --> 00:44:51.000 SAYING, YO, I DON'T GIVE A DARN ABOUT ANY OF THIS 00:44:51.100 --> 00:44:53.833 STUFF. I'M LOOKING OUT FOR ME, MINE, AND THAT'S IT. 00:44:53.933 --> 00:44:56.766 AND ONE OF THE THINGS IN THE FINE PRINT OF THE 00:44:56.866 --> 00:44:58.933 CONTRACT WAS THAT HE COULD NOT EAT FROM THE SLOP OF 00:44:59.033 --> 00:45:00.999 THE PIGS, WHICH NO DOUBT, WHEN HE SIGNED THAT 00:45:01.099 --> 00:45:03.966 CONTRACT, HE THOUGHT, THERE'S NO WAY I'D EVER 00:45:04.066 --> 00:45:06.166 WANT TO EAT PIG SLOP. BUT THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN HE 00:45:06.266 --> 00:45:09.133 FINDS HIMSELF BEING ENTICED BY PIG SLOP BECAUSE HE'S SO 00:45:09.233 --> 00:45:11.033 HUNGRY. HE, LIKE, LITERALLY HE IS CRAVING THINGS HE 00:45:11.133 --> 00:45:12.133 NEVER WOULD HAVE IMAGINED HE WOULD CRAVE. HOW MANY 00:45:12.233 --> 00:45:14.899 PEOPLE ARE THAT? >> YEAH. 00:45:14.999 --> 00:45:17.166 >> CRAVING THINGS. AT ONE POINT YOU WOULD HAVE SWORN 00:45:17.966 --> 00:45:19.300 THERE'S NO WAY. THERE'S NO WAY. YOU KNOW WHY? IT'S 00:45:19.400 --> 00:45:21.066 BECAUSE IT'S BECAUSE IMPURITY AND PERVERSION 00:45:21.166 --> 00:45:24.033 KNOWS NO BOUNDS. ONE LEVEL OF PERVERSION BEGETS THE 00:45:24.133 --> 00:45:28.100 NEXT LEVEL OF PERVERSION. YEAH, NO ONE STARTS OFF DOING 00:45:28.200 --> 00:45:31.066 THESE LIKE I'M TALKING HEINOUS, RIDICULOUS THINGS THAT WE WOULD 00:45:31.166 --> 00:45:33.933 BE LIKE PAUL SAYS IN FIRST CORINTHIANS FIVE, THINGS NOT 00:45:34.033 --> 00:45:36.133 EVEN PAGANS ARE WILLING TO ENTERTAIN. YOU KNOW WHAT I'M 00:45:36.233 --> 00:45:39.066 SAYING? THAT'S WHAT HE SAYS ABOUT THIS ONE DUDE WHO'S 00:45:39.166 --> 00:45:42.200 SHACKING UP WITH HIS DAD'S WIFE IN THE CORINTHIAN CHURCH. ALL 00:45:42.300 --> 00:45:45.067 OF A SUDDEN, THIS PRODIGAL SON IN LUKE 15 IS BEING ENTICED BY 00:45:45.167 --> 00:45:48.866 SOMETHING HE WOULD HAVE SWORN HE'D NEVER EAT. BUT ALL OF A 00:45:48.966 --> 00:45:51.899 SUDDEN HE GOES TO EAT IT. AND WHEN HE CHOOSES THE BIBLE SAYS 00:45:51.999 --> 00:45:55.966 HE DIDN'T EAT FROM IT. HE ABSTAINED FROM THE FOOD THAT HE 00:45:56.066 --> 00:46:00.766 WANTED TO EAT, BUT HE DIDN'T. THE BIBLE SAID HE CAME TO HIS 00:46:00.800 --> 00:46:05.733 SENSES, I THINK. I DO BELIEVE THAT IS A NUGGET ON WHEN WE 00:46:05.833 --> 00:46:08.933 FASTING. WHEN WE ABSTAIN, IT LEADS TO A COMING OF OUR SENSES. 00:46:09.033 --> 00:46:12.700 AND HE CAME BACK HOME. THIS BOY WHO COULD NOT MAKE A RIGHT 00:46:12.800 --> 00:46:15.733 DECISION TO SAVE HIS LIFE, THIS BOY WHO SPAT IN HIS FATHER'S 00:46:15.833 --> 00:46:19.700 FACE TO SAY, GIVE ME MY INHERITANCE BEFORE MY FATHER IS 00:46:19.800 --> 00:46:22.700 DEAD IS ME SAYING, DAD, I WISH YOU WERE DEAD. AND 00:46:22.800 --> 00:46:23.933 UNFORTUNATELY YOUR HEALTHY AND I DON'T HAVE THE WHEREWITHAL TO 00:46:24.033 --> 00:46:27.767 WAIT UNTIL YOU DIE. >> YEAH. 00:46:27.867 --> 00:46:31.066 >> SO GIVE ME WHAT I'VE GOT COMING. AND THE DAD GAVE IT TO 00:46:31.166 --> 00:46:33.933 HIM. AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN, I MEAN, THE LITTLE LITERALLY, 00:46:34.033 --> 00:46:36.933 THE DUDE CAN'T MAKE A GOOD DECISION TO SAVE HIS LIFE. AND 00:46:37.033 --> 00:46:40.700 THEN ON THE OTHER SIDE OF SAYING, NO, I'M NOT GOING TO 00:46:40.800 --> 00:46:43.666 EAT THIS THING. I'VE BEEN I'VE BEEN ASKED NOT TO EAT. HE COMES 00:46:43.766 --> 00:46:46.667 TO HIS SENSES. I DO BELIEVE THAT GOD HID THAT NUGGET IN 00:46:46.767 --> 00:46:48.833 THERE ABOUT PRAYER AND FASTING. >> YEAH. AND I THINK ALSO IT 00:46:48.933 --> 00:46:52.233 KIND OF COMES BACK TO THE WISDOM IN SAYING. 00:46:52.333 --> 00:46:54.733 >> YES, SAYING NO. YEAH, WE GOT IT. LIKE I ALREADY TALKED ABOUT 00:46:54.833 --> 00:46:59.900 BUILDING THAT NO MUSCLE LIKE YOU. THERE ARE NECESSARY NO'S 00:47:00.000 --> 00:47:02.966 IN YOUR LIFE. AND WHATEVER YOU SAY NO TO, YOU'RE 00:47:03.066 --> 00:47:05.766 MAKING IT TO WHERE YOU CAN'T SAY YES TO SOME OTHER 00:47:05.866 --> 00:47:08.800 THINGS. AND THERE ARE THINGS GOD DESIRES YOU TO 00:47:08.900 --> 00:47:11.766 BE ABLE TO SAY YES TO. BUT BECAUSE YOU COULDN'T SAY NO 00:47:11.866 --> 00:47:14.800 TO THAT NOW, YOU CAN'T SAY YES TO THIS. AND AGAIN, I'M 00:47:14.900 --> 00:47:16.866 NOT TRYING TO ACT LIKE GOD IS NOT GRACIOUS. HE IS 00:47:16.966 --> 00:47:19.266 GRACIOUS. BUT THERE ARE SOME ASSIGNMENTS. CAN I 00:47:19.366 --> 00:47:22.766 JUST BE HONEST WITH YOU? THERE ARE SOME ASSIGNMENTS 00:47:22.866 --> 00:47:25.200 THAT COME WITH A SHELF LIFE. NOW, THE GIFT AND THE CALL 00:47:25.300 --> 00:47:26.899 OF GOD ARE WITHOUT REPENTANCE AND THEY ARE 00:47:26.999 --> 00:47:29.933 IRREVOCABLE. THAT'S WHAT ROMANS 1129 SAYS. THEY'RE 00:47:30.033 --> 00:47:31.899 IRREVOCABLE. BUT THERE ARE SOME UNIQUE ASSIGNMENTS 00:47:31.999 --> 00:47:34.833 THAT HAVE A SHELF LIFE. AND IF. 00:47:34.933 --> 00:47:37.733 >> YOU COMPLETELY AGREE. >> IF YOU DO NOT SAY YES, 00:47:37.833 --> 00:47:39.799 YOU KNOW, IT'S THAT OLD SAYING THE OPPORTUNITY OF A 00:47:39.899 --> 00:47:42.733 LIFETIME MUST BE SEIZED WITHIN THE LIFETIME OF THE 00:47:42.833 --> 00:47:44.900 OPPORTUNITY. AND THERE ARE SOME TIMES WHERE IT'S LIKE 00:47:45.000 --> 00:47:47.733 GOD IS GIVING YOU THE OPPORTUNITY OF A LIFETIME, 00:47:47.833 --> 00:47:49.900 BUT YOU'VE GOT TO SAY YES WITHIN THE LIFETIME OF THAT 00:47:50.000 --> 00:47:51.933 OPPORTUNITY. YEAH, BECAUSE IT WILL EXPIRE. AND GOD MAY 00:47:52.033 --> 00:47:54.933 BE FAITHFUL TO BRING SOMETHING ELSE AROUND, BUT 00:47:55.033 --> 00:47:58.066 IT COULD BE THAT LIKE, HEY, THE HAND OF GOD IS STILL ON 00:47:58.166 --> 00:48:01.833 YOU, STILL CALLED, BUT THAT DOOR IS NOW FOREVER CLOSED. 00:48:01.933 --> 00:48:05.933 YEAH, BECAUSE OF MY IGNORANCE AND MY INABILITY 00:48:06.033 --> 00:48:08.133 TO SEE. AND ULTIMATELY IN THOSE PLACES, IT'S MORE OF 00:48:08.233 --> 00:48:11.933 AN OUTRIGHT REJECTION. DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? RARELY IS 00:48:12.033 --> 00:48:14.033 IT LIKE, YO, I JUST REALLY DIDN'T KNOW GOD WILL GIVE 00:48:14.133 --> 00:48:16.166 OPPORTUNITIES YOU MISSED BECAUSE YOU WERE IGNORANT. 00:48:16.266 --> 00:48:18.866 GOD WILL MAKE SURE YOU GET AN OPPORTUNITY IN YOUR 00:48:18.966 --> 00:48:21.133 WISDOM TO HAVE THAT AGAIN. BUT I'M TALKING ABOUT 00:48:21.233 --> 00:48:23.833 MOMENTS WHEN YOU KNEW WHAT YOU WERE DOING AND YOU OUTRIGHT 00:48:23.933 --> 00:48:27.833 SAID NO. SOMETIMES THOSE THOSE EXPIRE. 00:48:27.933 --> 00:48:31.900 >> YEAH. AND ALSO I THINK IT'S JUST MAINTAINING LIKE BEING 00:48:32.000 --> 00:48:34.900 SENSITIVE TO HIS LEADING. AND I THINK YOU I THINK IT'S EASY TO 00:48:35.000 --> 00:48:38.800 GET INTO A PLACE WHERE YOUR HEART GETS HARDENED BECAUSE YOU 00:48:38.900 --> 00:48:41.833 START SAYING NO AND YOU START RESISTING HIS LEADING, AND WE 00:48:41.933 --> 00:48:43.800 HAVE TO MOVE BACK IN TO. THAT'S WHY REPENTANCE IS SO POOR. 00:48:43.900 --> 00:48:45.899 THAT'S WHY FASTING IS SO IMPORTANT, BECAUSE IT'S 00:48:45.999 --> 00:48:50.033 BRINGING THAT BACK INTO SUBMISSION TO HIM AND BEING 00:48:50.133 --> 00:48:53.933 SOFT, MALLEABLE, WILLING TO SUBMIT TO HIM. IT'S JUST SO 00:48:54.033 --> 00:48:56.999 IMPORTANT. FIGHT. CAN I HAVE MY PHONE? WE JUST KEEP THIS IN THE 00:48:57.099 --> 00:48:59.999 INTERVIEW. THEN YOU CAN LIKE, APPEAR IN THE PODCAST. 00:49:00.099 --> 00:49:03.167 >> COME ON. >> I WANT TO, AS YOU WERE 00:49:03.267 --> 00:49:07.000 SAYING THAT ABOUT THE SUN AND I WAS SAYING, NO, I'M THINKING 00:49:07.100 --> 00:49:10.999 I'M LIKE, IS THIS THE STORY OF CAIN? WHERE ARE YOU TALKING 00:49:11.099 --> 00:49:13.100 ABOUT WITH CAIN AND ABEL? >> IT'D BE LIKE GENESIS, LIKE 00:49:13.200 --> 00:49:18.000 THE END OF GENESIS, GENESIS FOUR. 00:49:18.100 --> 00:49:21.967 >> TO RULE OVER YOU. HE GOES AND WARNS CAIN, YEAH, YEAH. SO 00:49:22.067 --> 00:49:26.100 IT'S INTERESTING BECAUSE WE WERE TALKING ABOUT LIKE, SAY NO 00:49:26.200 --> 00:49:30.833 TO SIN. AND THEN WHAT CAME TO ME AS YOU WERE TALKING IS THAT 00:49:30.933 --> 00:49:33.967 VERSE WHERE BASICALLY THAT CAIN GETS JEALOUS OF ABEL. YEAH. SO 00:49:34.067 --> 00:49:37.100 THE LORD GOES TO CAIN. HE GOES, WHY ARE YOU ANGRY? AND WHY HAS 00:49:37.200 --> 00:49:40.867 YOUR FACE FALLEN? IF YOU DO WELL, WILL YOU NOT BE ACCEPTED? 00:49:40.967 --> 00:49:44.967 AND IF YOU DO NOT DO WELL, SIN IS CROUCHING AT THE DOOR, AND A 00:49:45.067 --> 00:49:46.800 DESIRE IS CONTRARY TO YOU, BUT YOU MUST RULE OVER IT. COME ON. 00:49:46.900 --> 00:49:50.933 AND SO HE'S TALKING. IT'S JUST SO INTERESTING BECAUSE HE'S 00:49:51.033 --> 00:49:53.866 TALKING ABOUT HOW IT SAYS IN ANOTHER VERSION. BUT IF YOU 00:49:53.966 --> 00:49:57.833 REFUSE TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT, THEN WATCH OUT. SIN IS 00:49:57.933 --> 00:49:59.866 CROUCHING AT THE DOOR, EAGER TO CONTROL YOU, BUT YOU MUST 00:49:59.966 --> 00:50:00.999 SUBDUE IT AND MUST BE ITS MASTER. COME ON. THIS IS 00:50:01.099 --> 00:50:04.067 TOTALLY WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT. 00:50:04.167 --> 00:50:06.200 >> YEAH. BIG TIME. I MEAN, YOU. >> KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO CAIN? 00:50:06.300 --> 00:50:09.867 HE DID NOT. >> HE BECAME THE FIRST MURDERER. 00:50:09.967 --> 00:50:11.900 >> THAT'S SUCH A CRAZY STORY. I MEAN, HE GIVES INTO IT FIRST 00:50:12.000 --> 00:50:15.099 MURDERER, AND THEN HE GOES AND CONFRONTS CAIN. 00:50:15.199 --> 00:50:15.866 >> ABOUT WHAT? HE GOT IRRITATED. HE WANTED TO OFFER A GRAIN 00:50:15.966 --> 00:50:19.900 OFFERING. >> YEAH. 00:50:20.000 --> 00:50:23.833 >> AND ABEL'S OFFERING THE FAT OF THE OF THE ANIMALS THAT HE 00:50:23.933 --> 00:50:28.900 HAS, LIKE, THE BEST OF THE BEST. IT'S THIS GUY WHO'S TRYING TO. 00:50:29.000 --> 00:50:31.867 HE'S TRYING TO CHINSE OUT ON OFFERING. GOD, I DON'T GOT TO 00:50:31.967 --> 00:50:34.966 GIVE GOD ALL THAT. I DON'T GOT TO GIVE GOD ALL THAT. THAT I 00:50:35.066 --> 00:50:38.066 DON'T GOT TO GIVE GOD ALL THAT LED TO MURDER. LET ME 00:50:38.166 --> 00:50:41.033 LITERALLY LET HIM TO LIKE, HEY, SIN IS CROUCHING AT 00:50:41.133 --> 00:50:43.933 THE DOOR IF YOU DO WHAT'S RIGHT. AND THIS WHOLE THING 00:50:44.033 --> 00:50:47.000 OF LIKE, WELL, I DON'T HAVE TO FAST. YEAH, I DON'T HAVE 00:50:47.100 --> 00:50:49.933 TO GO ALL THAT. I DON'T I DON'T HAVE TO LIKE IT. DOES 00:50:50.033 --> 00:50:52.899 IT REALLY TAKE ALL THAT? DOES IT REALLY LIKE I WOULD 00:50:52.999 --> 00:50:55.933 TAKE MY WALK WITH GOD OVER A PERSON LIKE THAT'S WALK WITH 00:50:56.033 --> 00:51:00.033 GOD ANY DAY. AND I'M NOT ACTING LIKE MY WALK WITH GOD IS 00:51:00.133 --> 00:51:04.133 PERFECT. I'M STILL TRYING TO STAY PLIABLE, MALLEABLE IN THE 00:51:04.233 --> 00:51:07.033 HANDS OF THE LORD. BUT I DON'T WANT TO BE THAT PERSON. I DON'T 00:51:07.133 --> 00:51:09.333 TAKE ALL THAT, YOU KNOW. >> YEAH, YOU DON'T WANT TO DO 00:51:09.433 --> 00:51:12.233 THE BARE MINIMUM FOR GOD. THAT'S LIKE, COMPLETELY MISSES 00:51:12.333 --> 00:51:16.000 THE HEART OF WORSHIP. AND HE WAS JEALOUS OF HIS BROTHER. BUT 00:51:16.100 --> 00:51:19.000 GOD IS LIKE, YOU CAN HAVE THIS TOO. LIKE, YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE 00:51:19.100 --> 00:51:21.900 JEALOUS, YOU KNOW? AND HE'S LIKE, DON'T GIVE IN. YOU KNOW, 00:51:22.000 --> 00:51:24.933 I THINK ABOUT THAT VERSE, IT SAYS, YOU KNOW, BE ANGRY, BUT 00:51:25.033 --> 00:51:28.033 SIN NOT. IT'S LIKE, DON'T LET YOU KNOW. DON'T OPEN THE DOOR 00:51:28.133 --> 00:51:30.133 AND LET THIS THING OVERTAKE YOU, BECAUSE THEN IT'S GOING TO LEAD 00:51:30.233 --> 00:51:32.900 TO SOMETHING EVEN WORSE. AND THEN THAT ACTION AFFECTED THE 00:51:33.000 --> 00:51:35.900 TRAJECTORY OF HIS LIFE AND THE GENERATIONS AFTER. LIKE, YOU 00:51:36.000 --> 00:51:39.000 KNOW, THE THING I THINK ABOUT NOW, WHICH I WAS NOT THINKING 00:51:39.100 --> 00:51:40.933 ABOUT TEN YEARS AGO, IS I THINK ABOUT HOW MY ACTIONS ARE GOING 00:51:41.033 --> 00:51:43.899 TO AFFECT MY CHILDREN. >> COME ON. 00:51:43.999 --> 00:51:47.066 >> BECAUSE YOU READ IN THE BIBLE LIKE YOU READ ABOUT THE 00:51:47.166 --> 00:51:50.999 OTHER DAY. I WAS READING ABOUT SOLOMON, AND ONE OF THE THINGS 00:51:51.099 --> 00:51:54.100 HE SAYS IS LIKE, I WON'T PUT THIS ON YOU BECAUSE OF YOUR 00:51:54.200 --> 00:51:57.166 FATHER'S FAITHFULNESS, BUT IT IS GOING TO AFFECT YOUR SONS. 00:51:57.266 --> 00:51:59.267 YEP. AND SO YOU SEE IN THE BIBLE, THERE'S THESE INSTANCES 00:51:59.367 --> 00:52:02.166 WHERE, YOU KNOW, OF COURSE, WHEN WE SEE GENERATIONAL 00:52:02.266 --> 00:52:05.267 INIQUITY, BUT IT'S LIKE THERE CAN BE BLESSINGS STORED UP FOR 00:52:05.367 --> 00:52:08.200 OUR CHILDREN OR CURSES BY OUR ACTIONS. AND SO I'M CHECKING 00:52:08.300 --> 00:52:11.099 MYSELF BECAUSE IT'S LIKE, I KNOW YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW. AND 00:52:11.199 --> 00:52:14.233 IT'S LIKE AS MUCH AS LIKE BECAUSE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT OUR 00:52:14.333 --> 00:52:17.266 FLESH. LIKE WHEN MY FLESH GETS HURT, I WANT TO LASH OUT AT THE 00:52:17.366 --> 00:52:20.100 PEOPLE WHO HURT ME. >> AND WITHOUT A DOUBT, YEAH. 00:52:20.200 --> 00:52:23.167 >> AND I HAVE TO CHECK MYSELF BECAUSE I'M LIKE, WHAT AM I 00:52:23.267 --> 00:52:26.200 SOWING? BECAUSE WHAT AM I GOING TO REAP BECAUSE OF WHAT I DO 00:52:26.300 --> 00:52:28.966 AND WHAT ARE MY CHILDREN GOING TO REAP? AND SO NOW I'M 00:52:29.066 --> 00:52:31.199 THINKING LIKE, EVEN BIGGER PICTURE BECAUSE IT'S LIKE SIN 00:52:31.299 --> 00:52:32.966 NEVER JUST AFFECTS YOU. IT AFFECTS ALL THE PEOPLE AROUND 00:52:33.066 --> 00:52:36.000 YOU. >> DEUTERONOMY 3019 SAYS, I 00:52:36.100 --> 00:52:39.000 HAVE LAID BEFORE YOU LIFE AND DEATH, BLESSINGS AND CURSES. I 00:52:39.100 --> 00:52:41.999 CALL ON ALL OF HEAVEN TO WITNESS THE CHOICE YOU WILL 00:52:42.099 --> 00:52:44.967 MAKE. PEOPLE WANT TO. PEOPLE WHO WANT TO TALK ABOUT, OH, 00:52:45.067 --> 00:52:48.033 LIKE THERE'S NO FREE WILL. LIKE WHAT DO YOU DO? DEUTERONOMY 00:52:48.133 --> 00:52:51.066 3019 LITERALLY GOD SAYS, I CALL ON ALL OF HEAVEN TO WITNESS THE 00:52:51.166 --> 00:52:54.166 CHOICE YOU WILL MAKE. NOT THAT I PREDESTINED YOU TO MAKE, AND 00:52:54.266 --> 00:52:58.000 YOU ARE A ROBOT AND YOU CAN'T, LIKE, MAKE YOUR OWN DECISIONS. 00:52:58.100 --> 00:53:00.267 I HAVE SET BEFORE YOU LIFE OR DEATH, BLESSING AND CURSING. 00:53:00.367 --> 00:53:05.067 BUT OH, THAT YOU WOULD CHOOSE LIFE, THAT YOU AND YOUR 00:53:05.167 --> 00:53:08.167 DESCENDANTS MIGHT LIVE. THAT'S WHAT THE WAY THE TEXT READS. 00:53:08.267 --> 00:53:11.166 YOU AND YOUR DESCENDANTS, YOUR ABILITY TO CHOOSE LIFE, WILL 00:53:11.266 --> 00:53:15.200 AFFECT YOUR DESCENDANTS. THE CHOICES YOU ARE MAKING RIGHT 00:53:15.300 --> 00:53:18.266 NOW, THEY WILL BLEED INTO THE NEXT, THEY WILL BLEED OR THEY 00:53:18.366 --> 00:53:22.066 WILL BLESS. AND YOU'VE GOT YOU'VE GOT TO CHOOSE AND ALL OF 00:53:22.166 --> 00:53:24.433 HEAVEN. THIS IS WHERE THE GREAT CLOUD OF WITNESSES IN HEBREWS 00:53:24.533 --> 00:53:28.167 CHAPTER 12 COMES IN. YEAH. I'M LIKE, MAN, THEY'RE THEY'RE 00:53:28.267 --> 00:53:33.066 CHEERING US ON. THAT WE MIGHT CONTEND THAT WE WOULD LIKE, 00:53:33.166 --> 00:53:36.166 HAVE HAVE LONG SUFFERING. WELL, THAT'S ONE OF THE WAYS I LIKE 00:53:36.266 --> 00:53:39.133 THAT SOME BIBLES TRANSLATE THAT FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT, SOME 00:53:39.233 --> 00:53:43.033 TRANSLATE IT PATIENCE. PATIENCE CAN OFTEN BE MISCONSTRUED OF 00:53:43.133 --> 00:53:47.067 TO DO WHAT I WANT. LONG I'M PATIENTLY WAITING FOR GOD 00:53:47.167 --> 00:53:50.067 SUFFERING IS LIKE I'M HOLDING ON TO HIM FOR DEAR LIFE, NO 00:53:50.167 --> 00:53:53.133 MATTER HOW LONG IT TAKES. YEAH, NO MATTER WHAT I WALK THROUGH. 00:53:53.233 --> 00:53:55.166 IT'S A LONG SUFFERING. >> I THINK IT'S A BETTER I LIKE 00:53:55.266 --> 00:53:57.433 THAT. >> I LIKE IT TOO. IT'S. IT'S A 00:53:57.533 --> 00:54:01.233 BETTER PICTURE OF WHAT TRUE PATIENCE ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE. 00:54:01.333 --> 00:54:04.233 IT'S LIKE. LORD, NO. NO MATTER WHAT I HAVE TO WALK THROUGH FOR 00:54:04.333 --> 00:54:06.400 THIS, IT WILL NEVER. IT WILL NEVER MATCH WHAT YOU WALKED 00:54:06.500 --> 00:54:09.299 THROUGH FOR ME. IT WILL NEVER MATCH. YOU KNOW WHAT I'M 00:54:09.399 --> 00:54:13.167 SAYING? IT'S WHEN I WAS FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO PREACH 00:54:13.267 --> 00:54:16.133 ON DAYSTAR AND WAS PREACHING ON REVELATION 00:54:16.233 --> 00:54:18.300 1211. IT SAYS THEY OVERCAME HIM BY THE BLOOD OF THE 00:54:18.400 --> 00:54:21.133 LAMB AND THE WORD OF THEIR TESTIMONY. WHAT A LOT OF 00:54:21.233 --> 00:54:23.500 PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE IS THAT WORD TESTIMONY. WE 00:54:23.600 --> 00:54:25.300 TRANSLATE IT TO THE ENGLISH WORD TESTIMONY. THE 00:54:25.400 --> 00:54:29.300 ORIGINAL WORD IS THE WORD MARTURIA. IN GREEK IT MEANS 00:54:29.400 --> 00:54:32.233 MARTYRDOM, THE WORD OF THEIR MARTYRDOM. WE THINK 00:54:32.333 --> 00:54:35.166 THE WORD OF THEIR TESTIMONY IS HOW GOD BAILED THEM OUT. 00:54:35.266 --> 00:54:37.200 AND THEY GOT SCOT FREE AND GOT BLESSED. AND THEY GOT 00:54:37.300 --> 00:54:40.133 LIKE, YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY WAS LIKE, WOW. LIKE THE 00:54:40.233 --> 00:54:42.367 HANDS OF THE LORD IS ON, YOU KNOW, THE WAY THEY 00:54:42.467 --> 00:54:45.200 OVERCAME THE ENEMY WAS BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB AND 00:54:45.300 --> 00:54:48.100 SAYING, I'M WILLING TO SPILL MY OWN BLOOD AND HOW 00:54:48.200 --> 00:54:50.199 CONFIDENT I AM IN THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB. THESE PEOPLE 00:54:50.299 --> 00:54:53.233 WHO OVERCAME SATAN DIED BECAUSE THEY WERE LIKE, YO, 00:54:54.166 --> 00:54:55.600 MY TREASURE IS NOT ON THIS SIDE. MY TREASURE IS NOT IN 00:54:55.700 --> 00:54:59.166 THE HERE AND NOW. JESUS SAYS, STORE UP FOR 00:54:59.266 --> 00:55:02.367 YOURSELVES TREASURES IN HEAVEN, WHERE MOTH AND RUST AND THIEVES 00:55:02.467 --> 00:55:06.233 CANNOT BREAK IN AND STEAL LIKE YOU KNOW WHERE. STORE UP FOR 00:55:06.333 --> 00:55:09.300 YOURSELVES. JESUS SAYS, YOU KNOW, DON'T FEAR HIM WHO CAN 00:55:09.400 --> 00:55:12.367 ONLY KILL THE BODY, BUT CANNOT KILL THE SOUL, BUT FEAR HIM WHO 00:55:12.367 --> 00:55:14.133 CAN KILL BOTH BODY AND SOUL IN HELL? 00:55:14.233 --> 00:55:18.933 >> YEAH. >> CONSTANTLY TRYING TO GET US 00:55:19.033 --> 00:55:21.933 OFF THIS PLANE, OFF THIS LIKE, HEY, IN THIS, YOU KNOW, LITTLE, 00:55:22.033 --> 00:55:24.033 LITTLE, LITTLE PLACE WE TRY TO LIVE OUR LIVES IN AND SAY, 00:55:24.133 --> 00:55:26.199 RECOGNIZE THERE'S A WHOLE NOTHER REALM. THERE'S A WHOLE 00:55:26.299 --> 00:55:29.967 NOTHER. THAT'S WHAT I LOVE ABOUT HEAVEN. HEAVEN IS GOING 00:55:30.067 --> 00:55:33.100 TO FEEL INFINITELY MORE REAL. HAVE YOU EVER WOKEN UP FROM, 00:55:33.200 --> 00:55:37.000 LIKE, A DREAM? AND WHEN YOU WAKE UP, YOU'RE LIKE, THAT FELT 00:55:37.100 --> 00:55:40.166 SO REAL WHILE I WAS IN IT. BUT NOW THAT I'M AWAKE, I'M LIKE, 00:55:40.266 --> 00:55:44.066 YO, WHY WAS I SCARED? THAT WAS SO WEIRD. LIKE, YOU KNOW, ALL 00:55:44.166 --> 00:55:47.067 OF A SUDDEN I WAS IN MY IN MY DREAM, I'M TALKING TO REBECCA. 00:55:47.167 --> 00:55:50.099 BUT THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN IT TURNS INTO RACHEL, AND THEN ALL 00:55:50.199 --> 00:55:53.033 OF A SUDDEN IT TURNS INTO MISS JONI, AND IT'S LIKE. BUT I 00:55:53.133 --> 00:55:55.866 NEVER QUESTIONED IT IN THE DREAM. YEAH, BUT NOW I'M LIKE, 00:55:55.966 --> 00:55:58.033 YO, THAT WAS WEIRD. LIKE, THAT'S NOT REAL. THAT'S HOW 00:55:58.133 --> 00:56:01.200 HEAVEN'S GONNA FEEL. WE'RE GONNA GET TO HEAVEN. BE LIKE, 00:56:01.300 --> 00:56:04.233 WHY WAS I EVER ANXIOUS? WHY WAS I EVER DEPRESSED? WHY DID I 00:56:04.333 --> 00:56:07.999 EVER THINK NONE OF THIS WAS GOING TO WORK OUT? THIS MY 00:56:08.099 --> 00:56:09.433 THE HE WHOSE EYES ARE A FIRE. HIS HAIR IS WHITE AS 00:56:09.533 --> 00:56:12.133 WOOL. HIS FEET ARE OF BURNISHED BRONZE. WAS 00:56:12.233 --> 00:56:15.000 ADVOCATING FOR ME, FOUGHT FOR ME, DIED FOR ME, FILLED 00:56:15.100 --> 00:56:17.300 ME WITH HIS SPIRIT. WHY WAS I EVER AFRAID? AND THAT'S 00:56:17.400 --> 00:56:20.066 WHAT HEAVEN'S GOING TO BE LIKE. WHEN WE STEP ON THE 00:56:20.166 --> 00:56:22.999 OTHER SIDE. WE'RE GONNA BE LIKE, MAN, THANK GOD I'M 00:56:23.099 --> 00:56:26.067 HERE. BUT WHY WAS I EVER AFRAID WHILE I WAS THERE? 00:56:26.167 --> 00:56:28.000 HE IS. >> WITH ME. IT'S SO TRUE. AND 00:56:28.100 --> 00:56:29.200 IT'S LIKE, CAN YOU. IT'S LIKE YOU HAVE TO RECEIVE THAT 00:56:29.300 --> 00:56:31.966 REVELATION AND LIVE OUT OF IT HERE. 00:56:32.066 --> 00:56:34.167 >> YOU DO. >> I LOVE THAT YOU'RE BEING 00:56:34.267 --> 00:56:37.100 MOVED. IT'S BECAUSE IT'S THE HOLY SPIRIT. YOU FEEL HIS 00:56:37.200 --> 00:56:40.000 PRESENCE IN THAT CONVICTION, IN HIS WORD. AND IT'S LIKE WE NEED 00:56:40.100 --> 00:56:41.000 TO LIVE. IT'S LIKE THE DISCIPLES LIVED OUT OF THAT 00:56:41.100 --> 00:56:43.266 HEAVENLY REVELATION. >> YES. 00:56:43.366 --> 00:56:46.233 >> AND IT'S LIKE I'M ALWAYS JUST LIKE, OKAY, THE BIBLE 00:56:46.333 --> 00:56:49.200 CONSTANTLY IS LIKE WE WALK BY FAITH AND NOT BY SIGHT. IT'S 00:56:49.300 --> 00:56:52.133 LIKE, PUT YOUR MIND ON THINGS ABOVE, LIKE IN HEAVEN WHERE 00:56:52.233 --> 00:56:55.167 CHRIST IS SEATED. AND SO WE NEED TO BE LIVING OUR LIVES 00:56:55.267 --> 00:56:58.233 MORE IN TUNE ALMOST WITH THAT. YEAH. THAN HERE. YOU KNOW, IT'S 00:56:58.333 --> 00:57:02.133 SO EASY TO BE FIXATED ON HERE AND NOW AND WHAT'S GOING ON. 00:57:02.233 --> 00:57:04.333 BUT WE HAVE A WHOLE ETERNITY IN FRONT OF US. AND WHAT WE DO 00:57:04.433 --> 00:57:08.200 HERE AFFECTS WHAT HAPPENS IN ETERNITY, BIG TIME, YOU KNOW, 00:57:08.300 --> 00:57:11.133 OR IT HAS AN IMPACT ON ETERNITY. AND SO IT'S LIKE I AM ALWAYS 00:57:11.233 --> 00:57:15.099 THINKING I WANT TO MAKE ETERNAL INVESTMENTS WITH MY LIFE. AND I 00:57:15.199 --> 00:57:17.300 THINK ABOUT YOU. IT'S LIKE YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, I WANT TO 00:57:17.400 --> 00:57:20.300 HAVE A CROWN TO LAY AT THE FEET OF JESUS. AND I'M ALWAYS LIKE, 00:57:20.400 --> 00:57:23.233 I DON'T. I KNOW I'M GOING TO STAND BEFORE HIM. I'M GOING TO 00:57:23.333 --> 00:57:25.499 BE JUDGED NOT BY MY SIN, BECAUSE I'VE BEEN FORGIVEN. 00:57:25.599 --> 00:57:28.199 YEAH, YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO THROUGH THAT JUDGMENT. SINNERS 00:57:28.299 --> 00:57:30.066 WILL HAVE TO WHICH YOU CAN'T EVEN THINK ABOUT THAT. 00:57:30.166 --> 00:57:33.166 >> THE GREAT, THE GREAT WHITE THRONE. 00:57:33.266 --> 00:57:35.199 >> BUT WE WILL BE JUDGED ON WHAT WE DID AND DID NOT DO. 00:57:35.299 --> 00:57:38.300 >> YEAH. >> AND OUR MOTIVATIONS WITHIN 00:57:38.400 --> 00:57:42.033 EVEN WHAT WE DID WILL BE JUDGED AS WELL. AND SO IT'S LIKE WHEN 00:57:42.133 --> 00:57:45.300 I STAND BEFORE GOD, I DON'T WANT I WANT TO KNOW THAT. I 00:57:45.400 --> 00:57:49.033 WANT TO KNOW THAT I DID A GOOD JOB. I REALLY DON'T WANT TO BE 00:57:49.133 --> 00:57:50.500 LIKE, WHY DIDN'T YOU OBEY ME ON THIS? YOU KNOW? AND SO I'M 00:57:50.600 --> 00:57:51.900 TRYING TO LIVE WITH THAT CONVICTION, KNOWING I'M GOING 00:57:52.000 --> 00:57:53.233 TO STAND BEFORE HIM ONE DAY AND THAT ULTIMATELY, LIKE YOU SAID, 00:57:53.333 --> 00:57:54.533 YOU DON'T FEAR ANYONE BUT GOD. THE ONE WHO CAN TAKE BODY AND 00:57:54.633 --> 00:57:55.866 SOUL, RIGHT? AND SO IT'S LIKE, OKAY, THE ONLY ONE I SHOULD 00:57:55.966 --> 00:57:58.033 FEAR IS HIM. I NEED TO LIVE MY LIFE TO PLEASE HIM. THAT'S THE 00:57:58.133 --> 00:58:01.233 MOST IMPORTANT THING. AND SO, YEAH. 00:58:01.333 --> 00:58:06.233 >> THAT'S A VERSE THAT'S BEEN HAUNTING ME RECENTLY. WHAT 00:58:06.333 --> 00:58:09.333 REVELATION 21. PEOPLE LOVE IT BECAUSE IT'S LIKE COMFORTING. 00:58:09.433 --> 00:58:15.200 YEAH, BUT IT'S HAUNTING ME BECAUSE IT SAYS IN REVELATION 00:58:15.300 --> 00:58:18.266 21, AND HE WILL WIPE AWAY EVERY TEAR FROM THEIR EYE. HE'S NOT 00:58:18.366 --> 00:58:21.300 TALKING ABOUT STUFF YOU CRIED ABOUT ON EARTH. WELL, THIS IS 00:58:21.400 --> 00:58:25.366 TALKING ABOUT LIKE WHEN WE ARE IN HEAVEN, WE'RE IN ETERNITY. 00:58:25.466 --> 00:58:29.133 THERE WILL BE TEARS IN ETERNITY. AND YOU KNOW WHY? IT'S BECAUSE 00:58:29.233 --> 00:58:32.333 REVELATION 21 COMES DIRECTLY AFTER REVELATION 20, THE LAST 00:58:32.433 --> 00:58:36.233 VERSE OF REVELATION 20. THE CHAPTER BEFORE IS. AND THEY 00:58:36.333 --> 00:58:39.233 WHOSE NAMES WERE NOT FOUND IN THE LAMB'S BOOK OF LIFE WERE 00:58:39.333 --> 00:58:44.200 THROWN INTO A LAKE OF FIRE. >> OH, WOW. 00:58:44.300 --> 00:58:44.733 >> AND THEN YOU GET INTO. AND HE WIPED AWAY EVERY TEAR FROM 00:58:44.833 --> 00:58:47.266 OUR EYE. >> OH. 00:58:47.366 --> 00:58:49.199 >> I, I'VE. >> NEVER HEARD ANYONE MAKE THAT 00:58:49.299 --> 00:58:52.267 CONNECTION. >> MAKES SENSE. I'VE BEEN 00:58:52.367 --> 00:58:55.266 READING REVELATION RECENTLY AND I SAW THAT AND I WAS LIKE, OH, 00:58:55.366 --> 00:58:58.367 WELL, THIS IS JUST KEENAN. I'M NOT SAYING THIS, BUT THE ORDER 00:58:58.467 --> 00:59:03.300 THAT THINGS COME IN LEAD ME TO BELIEVE. WILL WE HAVE TO WATCH? 00:59:03.400 --> 00:59:06.366 OH, GOD. AS PEOPLE, WE PASS BY, AS OUR NEIGHBOR, AS THE PERSON 00:59:06.466 --> 00:59:09.267 WE WERE LIKE, NO, I DON'T WANT TO SHARE JESUS WITH THEM. FIND 00:59:09.367 --> 00:59:12.333 THEIR PLACE IN A LAKE WHICH BURNS WITH FIRE BECAUSE THEIR 00:59:12.433 --> 00:59:15.233 NAME IS NOT FOUND IN THE LAMB'S BOOK OF LIFE. AND THANK GOD 00:59:15.333 --> 00:59:18.400 THAT GRIEF'S NOT FOREVER, BUT WILL WE MOMENTARILY FILL THAT 00:59:18.500 --> 00:59:22.133 GRIEF, THE GRIEF OF THE HEART OF GOD, WHERE THEY FIND THEIR 00:59:22.233 --> 00:59:25.200 PLACE IN ETERNAL DAMNATION, WHERE THE WORM DIETH NOT WHERE 00:59:25.300 --> 00:59:28.333 THERE IS WEEPING AND GNASHING OF TEETH, IS WHAT JESUS SAYS. 00:59:28.433 --> 00:59:31.200 AND WILL HE THEN COME WIPE AWAY EVERY TEAR FROM OUR EYE? WE 00:59:31.300 --> 00:59:34.133 WILL FORGET THE FORMER THINGS BECAUSE THEIR FORMER THINGS ARE 00:59:34.233 --> 00:59:37.166 BEHIND. DEATH IS NO MORE. DEATH AND HADES HAVE BEEN 00:59:37.266 --> 00:59:39.399 THROWN IN THE LAKE OF FIRE AS WELL AS WHAT IT SAYS. 00:59:39.499 --> 00:59:42.299 BUT THAT THAT VERSE HAUNTS ME OF WILL THERE BE TEARS 00:59:42.399 --> 00:59:45.267 IN OUR EYES BECAUSE OF THE PEOPLE WE HAVE TO WATCH 00:59:46.200 --> 00:59:47.300 FIND THEIR PLACE IN A LAKE WHICH BURNS WITH FIRE? I 00:59:47.400 --> 00:59:50.366 DON'T KNOW. >> THAT'S WHY I THINK, I 00:59:50.466 --> 00:59:53.400 THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE LIKE, I DON'T WANT TO THINK 00:59:53.500 --> 00:59:57.133 ABOUT THAT. THEY DON'T WANT NO ONE WANTS TO TALK ABOUT HELL, 00:59:57.233 --> 00:59:59.199 YOU KNOW? BUT I REMEMBER WHEN WE HAD THE GUY ON WHO, LIKE, 00:59:59.299 --> 01:00:02.233 SPENT 23 MINUTES IN HELL. >> OH, WOW. 01:00:02.333 --> 01:00:04.466 >> AND HE KNOWS THE BIBLE SO WELL. HE WILL JUST QUOTE HE 01:00:04.566 --> 01:00:07.233 KNOWS EVERY VERSE, I THINK MEMORIZED ABOUT HELL BECAUSE OF 01:00:07.333 --> 01:00:10.267 HIS OWN EXPERIENCE. AND HE'S JUST SO BIBLICALLY ACCURATE. 01:00:10.367 --> 01:00:13.166 BUT WHEN I HEARD HIS TESTIMONY, I WAS JUST LIKE, YOU FEEL THAT 01:00:13.266 --> 01:00:13.799 WEIGHT? AND I THINK YOU FEEL THAT WEIGHT TOO, AS AN 01:00:13.899 --> 01:00:16.433 EVANGELIST. >> YEAH. 01:00:16.533 --> 01:00:19.233 >> BIG TIME. IT'S LIKE YOU FEEL THE WEIGHT OF ETERNITY AND 01:00:19.333 --> 01:00:23.566 KNOWING THAT, LIKE, OUR OBEDIENCE IS JUST SO IMPORTANT 01:00:23.666 --> 01:00:26.133 BECAUSE IT DOES IMPACT OTHERS. AND I ALSO JUST THINK ABOUT I 01:00:26.233 --> 01:00:29.299 REMEMBER WHEN I WAS INTERVIEWING TIM TIMBERLAKE AND 01:00:29.399 --> 01:00:33.567 HE HAD A DREAM WHERE HE SAW BLOOD ON HIS HANDS, AND IT'S 01:00:33.667 --> 01:00:36.366 LIKE, YOU'LL BE BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS FOR YOUR DISOBEDIENCE, 01:00:36.466 --> 01:00:39.166 BASICALLY. AND IT'S LIKE, KIND OF LIKE THE DREAM THAT PIVOTED 01:00:39.266 --> 01:00:42.433 HIS WHOLE LIFE INTO MINISTRY BECAUSE HE WAS PUSHING AWAY 01:00:42.533 --> 01:00:44.433 FROM IT. WOW. AND SO IT'S LIKE WHAT? OUR OBEDIENCE DOES MATTER. 01:00:44.533 --> 01:00:47.366 AND OF COURSE, GOD IS A MERCIFUL AND GRACIOUS GOD, AND 01:00:47.466 --> 01:00:48.500 HE'S BIGGER THAN US. BUT IT'S LIKE WE NEED TO TAKE THIS 01:00:48.600 --> 01:00:51.333 SERIOUSLY. >> BIG TIME. 01:00:51.433 --> 01:00:54.267 >> AND THAT'S WHY EVEN LIKE WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, LIKE, 01:00:54.367 --> 01:00:57.333 THE GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT, IT'S LIKE, YOU KNOW, THE GIFTS OF 01:00:57.433 --> 01:01:00.366 THE SPIRIT AREN'T JUST FOR US. THE GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT REALLY 01:01:00.466 --> 01:01:03.333 ARE FOR THE EXPANSION OF THE KINGDOM BIG TIME. AND THAT'S 01:01:03.433 --> 01:01:06.300 WHY, LIKE, WE SHOULDN'T MAKE IT ABOUT LIKE A CHURCH, JUST LIKE 01:01:06.400 --> 01:01:08.433 A CHURCH SERVICE. NOT SAYING IT'S THAT'S NOT IMPORTANT, BUT 01:01:08.533 --> 01:01:11.600 IT'S LIKE IT'S FOR GOING OUTSIDE THE WALLS OF THE CHURCH 01:01:12.300 --> 01:01:14.599 AND REACHING THE LOST. AND ALL OF US SHOULD BE OPERATING THOSE 01:01:14.699 --> 01:01:17.566 GIFTS. IT'S NOT ABOUT, OH, LOOK, I CAN LIKE A WORD OF KNOWLEDGE, 01:01:17.666 --> 01:01:20.333 YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT A SHOW THING. IT'S NOTHING IS PROBABLY MORE 01:01:20.433 --> 01:01:23.233 IMPACTFUL THAN SHARING A WORD OF KNOWLEDGE WITH THE LOST 01:01:23.333 --> 01:01:26.200 PERSON. AND I WILL SAY THIS BECAUSE YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT 01:01:26.300 --> 01:01:29.199 WANTING TO MINISTER TO PEOPLE ON THE STREETS WHEN I HAD DALE 01:01:29.299 --> 01:01:31.367 MARSDEN. HE SAYS HE ALWAYS MAKES IT A POINT TO MINISTER TO 01:01:31.467 --> 01:01:32.400 PEOPLE OUTSIDE THE CHURCH BECAUSE HE SAYS IT KEEPS YOU 01:01:32.500 --> 01:01:35.367 GROUNDED. >> YEAH, YEAH. 01:01:35.467 --> 01:01:38.267 >> FOR SURE. NORMAL, BECAUSE PEOPLE IN THE CHURCH WILL KIND 01:01:38.367 --> 01:01:39.533 OF RIDE WITH YOU OR COURTESY FALL FOR YOU SOMETIMES, BUT NOT 01:01:40.266 --> 01:01:43.266 LOST PEOPLE. >> NO THEY DON'T. 01:01:43.366 --> 01:01:46.333 >> THEY WILL NOT. AND SO I THINK IT'S SO I THINK IT'S SO 01:01:46.433 --> 01:01:48.566 GOOD FOR ALL OF US TO GO OUTSIDE AND MINISTER TO THOSE 01:01:48.666 --> 01:01:51.467 WHO AREN'T IN THE CHURCH, BECAUSE THEY THINK IT HELPS 01:01:51.567 --> 01:01:54.600 KEEP US HUMBLE AND GROUNDED. >> YEAH, I THINK IT REMINDS YOU 01:01:54.700 --> 01:01:56.400 THAT LIKE, LIKE WE REALLY DO HAVE A HARVEST. YEAH. YOU KNOW 01:01:56.500 --> 01:01:59.333 WHAT I MEAN? LIKE, IT'S LIKE, NO. 01:01:59.433 --> 01:02:01.700 >> I'M NOT JUST CALLED TO >> IT'S YOUR EYES OFF YOURSELF. 01:02:01.800 --> 01:02:04.500 MANAGE CHRISTIANS. I'M CALLED TO MAKE CONVERTS AND DISCIPLES. 01:02:04.600 --> 01:02:07.466 RIGHT? YOU KNOW, LIKE I'M CALLED TO GO OUT AND CONVERT 01:02:07.566 --> 01:02:10.433 THE WORLD. YEAH. AND SO, YEAH, I THINK I THINK THAT'S AN 01:02:10.533 --> 01:02:13.667 IMPORTANT THING LIKE THAT. WE DON'T LOSE SIGHT OF THAT. AND I 01:02:13.767 --> 01:02:16.400 THINK IN MOMENTS OF MY LIFE I'VE BEEN GUILTY OF THAT, LIKE 01:02:16.500 --> 01:02:19.300 NOT BEING TENDER. >> SAME I THINK ALL OF US HAVE. 01:02:19.400 --> 01:02:21.533 >> WHERE IT'S JUST LIKE LIKE I REMEMBER ASKING MY PASTOR 01:02:21.633 --> 01:02:24.533 RECENTLY, I SAID, I'M BOTHERED THAT I'M NOT BOTHERED THAT 01:02:24.633 --> 01:02:28.300 PEOPLE ARE GOING TO HELL. LIKE, IT BOTHERS ME THAT IT DOESN'T 01:02:28.400 --> 01:02:31.300 BOTHER ME. AND I JUST HAD TO GET HONEST WITH HIM. LIKE I WAS 01:02:31.400 --> 01:02:33.500 FEELING LIKE, MAN, I JUST I'M NOT THAT MOVED OR GRIEVED BY 01:02:33.600 --> 01:02:37.366 THIS. AND I KNOW THAT'S NOT RIGHT. AND HE WAS VERY 01:02:37.466 --> 01:02:40.533 COMFORTING TO ME. HE REMINDED ME THAT LIKE, OF COURSE, LIKE 01:02:40.633 --> 01:02:43.533 THE LORD KNOWS YOU ARE A DAD, YOU ARE A HUSBAND. IF YOU WERE 01:02:44.333 --> 01:02:46.267 TO FEEL THE WEIGHT OF THAT NONSTOP, YOU WOULD BE TEMPTED 01:02:46.367 --> 01:02:49.267 TO SET ASIDE SOME OF THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF BEING A 01:02:49.367 --> 01:02:52.267 FATHER AND A HUSBAND, BECAUSE YOU GOT TO GO WIN SOULS, YOU 01:02:52.367 --> 01:02:56.266 KNOW WHAT I MEAN? BUT SINCE THEN, HE'S ENCOURAGED ME. ASK 01:02:56.366 --> 01:02:59.400 THE LORD FOR THAT BURDEN. YEAH. AND IT'S PROPER MEASURE FOR YOU. 01:02:59.500 --> 01:03:02.666 AND I BEGAN, THAT'S WISDOM. I ASKED THE LORD. LORD, GIVE ME A 01:03:02.766 --> 01:03:06.433 BURDEN FOR PEOPLE GOING TO HELL THAT IS RIGHT FOR ME LIKE THAT. 01:03:06.533 --> 01:03:11.366 THAT THAT IS THAT IS THE PROPER BURDEN, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? 01:03:11.466 --> 01:03:12.700 AND I CAN SAY THE LORD HAS BEEN DOING THAT. THE LORD HAS BEEN 01:03:12.800 --> 01:03:15.499 GRIEVING MY HEART. I REMEMBER SITTING ON AN AIRPLANE RECENTLY 01:03:15.599 --> 01:03:18.533 AND HAVING TO LOOK OUT THE WINDOW JUST BECAUSE, LIKE TEARS 01:03:18.633 --> 01:03:20.533 WERE COMING DOWN MY FACE AS I WAS THINKING ABOUT PEOPLE I 01:03:20.633 --> 01:03:23.366 KNOW PERSONALLY WHO MAY NOT MAKE IT. 01:03:23.466 --> 01:03:26.400 >> YEAH. >> LIKE THEY MAY NOT. THEY MAY 01:03:26.500 --> 01:03:29.366 GIVE LIKE THEY MAY HAVE RAISED A HALF MAST HAND TO HEAVEN. 01:03:29.466 --> 01:03:31.600 THEY MAY ACT LIKE, OH, I LOVE JESUS, BUT THEY LOVE THEIR 01:03:31.700 --> 01:03:34.600 JESUS. I DON'T KNOW THAT THEY LOVE THE JESUS OF THE 01:03:34.700 --> 01:03:37.399 SCRIPTURES. HE DOES NOT HAVE THE HIGHEST VOICE IN THEIR LIFE, 01:03:37.499 --> 01:03:40.433 THE FRUITS OF SALVATION. I DON'T NECESSARILY SEE THEM AND 01:03:40.533 --> 01:03:43.400 IT MAKES ME WONDER, LIKE, WOULD THEY MAKE IT LIKE, ARE THEY FOR 01:03:43.500 --> 01:03:46.400 REAL SAVED? I DON'T KNOW, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? YOU CAN 01:03:46.500 --> 01:03:49.367 YOU CAN HAVE ALL THE LITTLE PLEASANTRIES OF LIKE, OH, I DID 01:03:49.467 --> 01:03:51.566 THE LITTLE SONG AND DANCE OF, YOU KNOW, WALKING, YOU KNOW, 01:03:51.666 --> 01:03:53.566 PRAYING THE LITTLE PRAYER. >> YEAH. I'M LIKE PRAYING. THAT 01:03:53.666 --> 01:03:55.733 LITTLE PRAYER IS NOT THE ONLY THING, YOU. 01:03:55.833 --> 01:03:57.567 >> KNOW, LIKE DID. IS CHRIST REALLY YOUR LORD? 01:03:57.667 --> 01:04:00.566 >> YEAH. >> IS HE YOUR PORTION? 01:04:00.666 --> 01:04:03.567 >> ARE YOU SURRENDERED TO HIM? BECAUSE, I MEAN, THERE'S THAT. 01:04:03.667 --> 01:04:06.800 JESUS TELLS THAT PARABLE IN THE BIBLE OF THE SEEDS AND HOW, 01:04:06.900 --> 01:04:09.666 LIKE THE SEEDS, IT'S LIKE SOME GO INTO THE ROCKY SOIL, SOME 01:04:09.766 --> 01:04:12.733 ARE TAKEN UP BY THE BIRDS. AND IT'S BASICALLY SAYING LIKE 01:04:12.833 --> 01:04:15.533 PEOPLE WHO NEWLY GET SAVED, BUT THEN THEY GET SNATCHED OUT AND. 01:04:15.633 --> 01:04:17.766 >> CARES OF THIS WORLD. >> IT'S JUST THE FIRST STEP, 01:04:17.866 --> 01:04:20.833 YOU KNOW, TO A LIFE IN SUBMISSION. AND YOU'RE RIGHT. 01:04:20.933 --> 01:04:23.733 IT'S LIKE, IS HE YOUR LORD? YOU KNOW, LIKE, ARE YOU SUBMITTED 01:04:23.833 --> 01:04:26.600 TO HIM? IT'S SO TRUE. >> YEAH. I MEAN, THAT'S WHAT 01:04:26.700 --> 01:04:29.600 JAMES IS SAYING WHEN JAMES SAYS FAITH WITHOUT WORKS IS DEAD. 01:04:29.700 --> 01:04:33.633 YEAH, JAMES, YOU KNOW THEY'RE NOT. PEOPLE WANT TO BE LIKE PIT 01:04:33.733 --> 01:04:37.433 JAMES VERSUS PAUL, RIGHT? BUT JAMES IS NOT IN DISCORDANCE 01:04:37.533 --> 01:04:41.533 WITH PAUL. JAMES IS SAYING LIKE, HEY, YOU CAN'T PRETEND LIKE YOU 01:04:41.633 --> 01:04:44.499 HAVE FAITH AND NOT LET YOUR LIFE SHOW IT. LIKE YOU CAN'T 01:04:44.599 --> 01:04:47.533 PRETEND LIKE THAT, DUDE. LIKE THAT'S THAT'S THAT IS THAT 01:04:47.633 --> 01:04:49.600 FAITH WITHOUT WORKS IS DEAD. THAT FAITH YOU CLAIM TO HAVE, 01:04:49.700 --> 01:04:52.699 IT'S DEAD. LIKE YOU'RE NOT WILLING TO LIVE IT. 01:04:52.799 --> 01:04:55.766 >> BUT THAT GOES BACK INTO PEOPLE TRY TO MAKE THAT. WELL, 01:04:55.866 --> 01:04:58.399 THAT'S LEGALISTIC OR SOMETHING. AND JAMES IS NOT A LEGALISTIC 01:04:58.499 --> 01:05:01.533 BOOK AT ALL. IT'S WISDOM LITERATURE ACTUALLY. BUT ALL 01:05:01.633 --> 01:05:03.833 THAT BEING SAID, I ACTUALLY FINALLY UNDERSTOOD THAT VERSE, 01:05:04.599 --> 01:05:06.733 LIKE JUST RECENTLY. AND I REALIZED IF YOU ACTUALLY 01:05:06.833 --> 01:05:09.900 BELIEVE SOMETHING, IT WILL BE APPARENT IN YOUR ACTIONS BIG 01:05:10.000 --> 01:05:12.833 TIME. BECAUSE IF I BELIEVE IT'S RAINING OUTSIDE, THEN I'LL HAVE 01:05:12.933 --> 01:05:15.633 AN UMBRELLA OR I'LL RUN TO MY CAR IF I DON'T ACTUALLY BELIEVE 01:05:15.733 --> 01:05:18.700 IT'S RAINING, RIGHT, I'M NOT GOING TO CHANGE MY ACTIONS THEN 01:05:18.800 --> 01:05:21.766 IF IT WAS SUNNY. YEAH, SO IT'S THE SAME THING. IF YOU REALLY 01:05:21.866 --> 01:05:24.666 BELIEVE JESUS IS YOUR LORD AND SAVIOR. IF YOU REALLY BELIEVE 01:05:24.766 --> 01:05:26.766 THAT YOU FEAR GOD, IF YOU REALLY BELIEVE HELL IS A REAL 01:05:26.866 --> 01:05:29.500 PLACE, IT WILL SHOW IN YOUR ACTIONS. 01:05:29.600 --> 01:05:32.533 >> BIG TIME. >> AND SO THAT'S REALLY JUST A 01:05:32.633 --> 01:05:34.599 TRUE STATEMENT. BIG TIME. FAITH WITHOUT WORKS IS DEAD, AND 01:05:34.699 --> 01:05:38.533 WORKS ARE A FRUIT FROM YOUR FAITH. 01:05:38.633 --> 01:05:40.633 >> YEAH. BIG TIME. YEAH. NO, I DON'T GET ME ALL STARTED ON. 01:05:40.733 --> 01:05:44.533 YEAH, YEAH. >> NO, WE HAVE TO WRAP. WE'RE 01:05:44.633 --> 01:05:47.733 LIKE. THEY LIKE, CAME OVER HERE. HOW LONG HAVE WE BEEN GOING? 01:05:47.833 --> 01:05:48.800 >> IT HAS BEEN GREAT. NO, I COULD TALK TO YOU ALL DAY. THIS 01:05:48.900 --> 01:05:51.733 HAS BEEN. >> WELL. 01:05:51.833 --> 01:05:54.566 >> YOU'LL HAVE TO COME BACK. YOU'RE A KINDRED SPIRIT. I FEEL 01:05:54.666 --> 01:05:57.633 LIKE WE KIND OF BURN FOR THE SAME STUFF, SO. 01:05:57.733 --> 01:06:00.767 >> NO, HONESTLY, IT KIND OF. I WAS LIKE, THIS JUST IS LIKE A 01:06:00.867 --> 01:06:03.733 REALLY EASY CONVERSATION. AND I KIND OF JUST TURNED IT INTO, 01:06:03.833 --> 01:06:06.633 I'M GLAD WE'VE TALKED ABOUT FASTING. I FEEL LIKE WE DID HIT 01:06:06.733 --> 01:06:09.800 ON IT. WELL, NO. >> AND THERE'S SO MANY THINGS I 01:06:09.900 --> 01:06:12.733 TOLD YOU PRIOR TO THE PODCAST, I WAS LIKE, WE MAY TALK ABOUT 01:06:12.833 --> 01:06:15.600 FASTING, BUT WE'RE GOING TO GO WHERE THE SPIRIT LEADS LIKE WE 01:06:15.700 --> 01:06:17.933 DO NOT APPRECIATE. >> YOU KNOW? BUT I JUST, YOU 01:06:18.033 --> 01:06:20.866 KNOW, THERE'S SO MANY THINGS. I WAS LIKE, THERE'S LIKE FIVE 01:06:20.966 --> 01:06:22.700 MORE TRAILS. I HONESTLY WANT TO GO DOWN. BUT MY MIND IS LIKE, 01:06:22.800 --> 01:06:23.633 OKAY, YOU GOT TO START WRAPPING. >> YEAH. 01:06:23.733 --> 01:06:25.766 >> YOU HAVE. >> TO. 01:06:25.866 --> 01:06:28.633 >> LIKE YOU HAVE TO COME BACK THOUGH. 01:06:28.733 --> 01:06:29.900 >> I WOULD LOVE THAT. I'D BE HONORED TO COME BACK ON. THANK 01:06:30.000 --> 01:06:31.866 YOU FOR HAVING ME. >> YEAH. FOR SURE. IS THERE ANY, 01:06:31.966 --> 01:06:33.967 LIKE, FINAL ENCOURAGEMENT YOU JUST WANT TO SAY TO THE PERSON 01:06:34.067 --> 01:06:36.567 WHO'S WATCHING THAT, MAYBE WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS JUST STIRRING 01:06:36.667 --> 01:06:38.833 SOMETHING WITHIN THEIR SPIRIT. >> YEAH, I FEEL THE LORD SAYING 01:06:38.933 --> 01:06:41.666 THIS. IT'S TIME TO GO. ALL IN. AMEN. TIME TO GO ALL IN. NONE 01:06:41.766 --> 01:06:44.767 OF THIS HALFWAY HALF STUFF. THE DEVIL OWNS THE FENCE. IT'S TIME 01:06:44.867 --> 01:06:47.600 TO GO ALL THE WAY IN. WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO DO THIS LIFE OF 01:06:47.700 --> 01:06:51.766 FOLLOWING CHRIST? BUT THEN HALFWAY DO IT. YOU RECEIVE A 01:06:51.866 --> 01:06:55.566 HALFWAY BLESSING. YOU WANT THE FULL THING GO ALL THE WAY IN. 01:06:55.666 --> 01:06:58.566 AND THAT INCLUDES THE PRAYING AND THE FASTING. LIKE, YOU KNOW, 01:06:58.666 --> 01:07:00.800 I TOLD MY WIFE A WHILE BACK, LIKE, YO, IF WE'RE GOING TO 01:07:00.900 --> 01:07:02.700 DO THIS, WE'RE GONNA GO ALL THE WAY. YEAH, WE'RE JUST 01:07:02.800 --> 01:07:04.666 GONNA BELIEVE WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS. YEAH. IF LIKE, 01:07:04.766 --> 01:07:06.733 WE'RE GOING TO BE BIBLE PEOPLE, LET'S BE BIBLE 01:07:06.833 --> 01:07:08.766 PEOPLE. LET'S JUST COMMIT TO LIKE, I DON'T CARE WHO 01:07:08.866 --> 01:07:12.667 THINKS WE'RE CRAZY. I DON'T CARE WHO THINKS WE'RE 01:07:12.767 --> 01:07:15.933 WHATEVER. WE WE'RE WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE THE HALFWAY 01:07:16.033 --> 01:07:19.666 CHRISTIANS. AND I WOULD JUST ENCOURAGE SOMEBODY, 01:07:19.766 --> 01:07:22.699 TODAY IS A GREAT DAY TO GO ALL THE WAY. TODAY IS A 01:07:22.799 --> 01:07:25.667 GREAT DAY TO DO THE RIGHT DAY TO DO THE RIGHT THING. 01:07:25.767 --> 01:07:28.733 AND RIGHT NOW IS A GREAT MOMENT TO JUST SAY, LORD, I 01:07:28.833 --> 01:07:32.666 REALLY DO FEEL LIKE I'VE BEEN LIVING THIS, THIS 01:07:32.766 --> 01:07:34.833 LUKEWARM LIFE, THIS LAODICEAN LIFE. THAT WAS 01:07:34.933 --> 01:07:37.633 HIS REBUKE OF THE CHURCH OF LAODICEA IN THE BOOK OF 01:07:37.733 --> 01:07:41.066 REVELATIONS. REVELATION THREE, HE SAYS, I'LL SPEW 01:07:41.066 --> 01:07:43.833 YOU OUT OF MY MOUTH BECAUSE YOU'RE LUKEWARM. I DON'T 01:07:43.933 --> 01:07:46.033 WANT TO LIVE A LUKEWARM LIFE. AND I HAVE A REAL 01:07:46.133 --> 01:07:49.033 STRONG HUNCH THAT YOU DON'T EITHER. AND SO TODAY IS A 01:07:49.133 --> 01:07:51.100 DAY WHERE IT SAYS, GOD, I WANT TO GO ALL THE WAY. AND 01:07:51.200 --> 01:07:54.833 YES, THAT DOES MEAN THINGS YOU BELIEVE, BUT IT ALSO 01:07:54.933 --> 01:07:57.133 SHOWS UP IN THE POSTURES OF YOUR LIFE. IT SHOWS UP IN 01:07:57.233 --> 01:07:59.033 THE POSTURES OF YOUR ROUTINE. IT SHOWS UP IN THE 01:07:59.133 --> 01:08:02.067 POSTURES OF THE PLACES YOU'RE WILLING TO TAKE A 01:08:02.167 --> 01:08:06.133 STAND AND SAY, NO, I'M NOT BACKING DOWN ON THIS. LIKE 01:08:06.233 --> 01:08:09.933 WHOEVER THIS JESUS SAID THIS, WHO IS MY MOTHER? WHO ARE 01:08:10.033 --> 01:08:12.967 MY BROTHERS? THEY THAT DO THE WILL OF MY FATHER? THAT'S MY 01:08:13.067 --> 01:08:15.267 FAMILY. THAT'S KIND OF GANGSTER. YEAH. LIKE FOR JESUS TO SAY, 01:08:15.367 --> 01:08:18.066 HEY, YOUR MOTHER AND BROTHER OUTSIDE, THEY SAY THAT TO JESUS. 01:08:18.166 --> 01:08:21.100 AND JESUS GOES, WHO EVEN IS MY MOTHER? WHO EVEN ARE MY 01:08:21.200 --> 01:08:24.233 BROTHERS? THEY THAT DO THE WILL OF MY FATHER. THAT'S THE PLACE 01:08:24.333 --> 01:08:26.266 WE GOT TO GET. AND I'M NOT TRYING TO PLANT REBELLION 01:08:26.366 --> 01:08:28.366 IN THE HEARTS OF PEOPLE WHO SAY, MY MOM AND MY DAD, 01:08:28.466 --> 01:08:31.033 THEY'RE LIKE, NOT FULL BORE AFTER JESUS. THEY'RE NOT MY 01:08:31.133 --> 01:08:34.200 REAL PARENTS. YOU HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER, BUT 01:08:34.300 --> 01:08:38.933 AT THE SAME TIME, YOU HAVE THIS SOLD OUT, YOUR HIGHEST, 01:08:39.033 --> 01:08:43.033 YOUR HIGHEST LOYALTY AND ALLEGIANCE IS TO CHRIST. 01:08:43.133 --> 01:08:46.066 AND TODAY IS A GREAT DAY TO, FOR REAL, COMMIT TO LIVING 01:08:46.166 --> 01:08:49.000 IN LINE WITH HIS SPIRIT AND LIVING IN LINE WITH THE 01:08:49.100 --> 01:08:51.133 SCRIPTURES. YEAH, SO THAT'S WHY I'D LEAVE PEOPLE WITH. 01:08:51.233 --> 01:08:52.933 >> YEAH. CAN YOU JUST PRAY FOR THAT PERSON? YEAH. AND 01:08:53.033 --> 01:08:55.066 THEN WE'LL WRAP. >> YEAH. LET'S PRAY. LORD, 01:08:55.166 --> 01:08:58.000 I THANK YOU FOR THE PERSON ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE 01:08:58.100 --> 01:09:00.200 SCREEN. LORD, I THANK YOU THAT YOU LOVE THEM. LORD, 01:09:00.300 --> 01:09:03.100 THAT YOU SEE THEM, LORD, THAT THEY ARE NOT FAR FROM 01:09:03.200 --> 01:09:05.033 YOUR SIGHT. THEY'RE NOT FAR FROM YOUR MIND, LORD, THAT 01:09:05.133 --> 01:09:07.199 YOU DON'T HAVE SOME PLAN FOR THEIR LIFE THAT YOU 01:09:07.299 --> 01:09:10.067 SCRIBBLED ON A NAPKIN. LORD, THAT THE PLAN THAT YOU HAVE 01:09:10.167 --> 01:09:12.167 FOR THEIR LIFE WAS IT WAS WRITTEN AND FORMED AND 01:09:12.267 --> 01:09:15.066 KNOWN BY YOU BEFORE THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE WORLD 01:09:15.166 --> 01:09:17.933 HAD EVEN BEEN LAID. AND LORD, RIGHT NOW, IN THE 01:09:18.033 --> 01:09:21.133 MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS, I THANK YOU. I CANCEL THE 01:09:21.233 --> 01:09:23.200 ASSIGNMENT OF HELL ON THEIR LIFE. I TELL EVERY DEMONIC 01:09:23.300 --> 01:09:26.099 PRINCIPALITY, POWER, SPIRITUAL WICKEDNESS IN 01:09:26.199 --> 01:09:29.000 HIGH PLACES. I TELL YOU, YOU HAVE TO LEAVE NOW. IN 01:09:29.100 --> 01:09:31.066 JESUS MIGHTY NAME. I SILENCE THE VOICE OF THE 01:09:31.166 --> 01:09:34.967 ACCUSER. WE SPEAK CONDEMNATION BE GONE 01:09:35.067 --> 01:09:38.099 BECAUSE THEY BELONG TO CHRIST IN JESUS NAME. I'M 01:09:38.199 --> 01:09:41.033 ASKING FOR FAITH TO ARISE IN THEIR HEART. I'M ASKING 01:09:41.133 --> 01:09:43.300 FOR CLARITY TO BE GIVEN TO THEIR SPIRIT. I'M ASKING 01:09:43.400 --> 01:09:46.166 FOR THEM TO DESIRE THE THINGS OF THE WORD, DESIRE 01:09:46.266 --> 01:09:48.966 THE THINGS OF THE LORD AND LORD. I THANK YOU THAT AS 01:09:49.066 --> 01:09:52.900 THEY HUNGER AND THIRST FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS, THEY SHALL 01:09:53.000 --> 01:09:55.066 BE FILLED IN JESUS MIGHTY NAME, AMEN. 01:09:55.166 --> 01:10:03.467 >> AMEN. THANK YOU SO MUCH. >> ABSOLUTELY. THANK YOU FOR