WEBVTT 00:00.333 --> 00:04.471 (MUSIC) 00:05.205 --> 00:12.406 LORD OF HOSTS CHURCH, THIS IS YOUR PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT 00:13.740 --> 00:20.969 THAT THE ENEMY IS DEFEATED. HE'S STILL DEFEATED, AND HE WILL 00:20.969 --> 00:25.190 CONTINUE TO BE DEFEATED. ARE YOU READY TO RAISE 00:25.190 --> 00:27.827 IT UP TONIGHT IN VICTORY? LET'S GO. 00:30.163 --> 01:00.460 (MUSIC) 01:17.576 --> 01:18.210 COME ON, CHURCH. 03:01.354 --> 03:02.514 COME ON, WE'RE GOING TO PROPHESY THIS AGAIN. 03:02.615 --> 03:03.949 ONE MORE TIME, COME ON. 03:20.409 --> 07:30.182 (MUSIC) 07:37.199 --> 07:41.550 I FEEL THE SPIRIT OF GOD JUST POURING OUT OVER YOU RIGHT NOW. 07:41.550 --> 07:48.180 JUST RAISE YOUR HANDS AND RECEIVE HIS LOVE. IF YOU HAVEN'T 07:48.180 --> 07:51.029 DONE THIS IN A WHILE, THIS IS YOUR TIME TO TELL THE LORD, "I 07:51.029 --> 07:59.399 TRUST YOU. I SURRENDER TO YOU." LORD, THIS IS NO LONGER ABOUT 07:59.399 --> 08:04.860 YOU BEING WHERE I AM, BUT GOD, I DESIRE TO BE WHERE YOU NEED ME. 08:09.089 --> 08:15.360 STEP INTO ANOTHER LEVEL OF SURRENDER IN HIM TONIGHT. FOR 08:15.360 --> 08:18.360 SOME OF YOU, THIS IS A DIVINE MOMENT WHERE THERE IS A SHIFTING 08:20.639 --> 08:24.540 AND A BREAKING OF THE THINGS THAT HAVE HELD YOU IN A PLACE OF 08:24.540 --> 08:28.507 DELAY. NO MORE, SAYS THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD. 08:30.610 --> 08:36.716 CAUSE YOU RULE IN RAIN. YOU RULE IN RAIN. 08:49.195 --> 11:01.628 (MUSIC) 15:05.772 --> 15:23.756 YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE. AND YOU HAVE CHOSEN US BECAUSE WE 15:24.889 --> 15:53.269 HAVE CHOSEN YOU. AND TODAY IS OUR DAY. MMM, LORD, LIKE NO 15:53.269 --> 16:04.610 OTHER DAY, LET IT BE TODAY THAT MY HEART IS OPEN, MY HEART IS 16:04.610 --> 16:16.220 OPEN TO YOUR WAYS, THAT I HEAR YOUR VOICE AND I RECEIVE A 16:16.220 --> 16:33.288 FULLNESS OF YOUR PLAN FOR ME. TODAY, TODAY IS MY DAY. TODAY. 16:38.840 --> 16:45.679 LET HIM BE GOD OVER YOU TODAY. LET HIM BE THE ONE WHO BLESSES 16:45.679 --> 16:50.210 YOU WITH EVERY SPIRITUAL BLESSING IN HEAVEN, THEY PLACE 16:50.210 --> 17:00.710 US IN CHRIST JESUS. THIS MAY SEEM AND SOUND A LITTLE STRANGE, 17:00.710 --> 17:06.799 BUT YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND SOMETHING, GOD JUST DOES WHAT HE 17:06.799 --> 17:14.210 WANTS TO DO. AND TONIGHT HE WANTS TO BLESS YOU ESPECIALLY. 17:15.920 --> 17:22.190 AND FOR SOME REASON HE HAS CHOSEN A PARTICULAR WAY FOR 17:22.190 --> 17:29.930 PARTICULAR PEOPLE. SO IF YOU'RE WEARING BROWN TONIGHT, GET UP 17:29.930 --> 17:44.240 HERE. IF YOU'RE WEARING GRAY TONIGHT, GET UP HERE. IF YOU'RE 17:44.240 --> 17:59.329 WEARING TURQUOISE TONIGHT, GET UP HERE. SOMEONE SAYS, "I DON'T 17:59.329 --> 18:01.849 UNDERSTAND THAT." I DON'T EITHER, 'CAUSE I'M HALF 18:01.849 --> 18:08.089 COLORBLIND, SO I COULDN'T TELL YOU WHAT YOU WAS WEARING. SHADES 18:08.089 --> 18:15.079 OF COLOR MEAN VERY LITTLE TO ME. SO I GUESS THAT'S WHY GOD DOES 18:15.079 --> 18:22.670 IT SOMETIMES. SO I DIDN'T PICK YOU. GOD DID. 18:24.203 --> 18:28.670 (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING) 18:28.670 --> 18:36.890 KNOW THAT GOD DID. WELL, WHAT'S HE GOING TO DO? I DON'T KNOW. I 18:36.890 --> 18:47.119 DON'T KNOW. BUT MY JOB IS TO RELEASE THE EMPOWERMENT OF GOD 18:47.119 --> 18:56.690 TO DO WHAT HE WANTS TO DO. YOUR JOB IS SIMPLY TO SAY, "I 18:56.690 --> 19:04.039 RECEIVE." THAT'S IT. DON'T TRY AND FIGURE IT OUT. DON'T TRY AND 19:04.039 --> 19:10.333 ANALYZE IT. DON'T TRY AND MAKE ANYTHING OUT OF IT. JUST 19:10.333 --> 19:21.470 RECEIVE. SO TAKE A BREATH AND GET READY. PASTOR ANTHONY, I'M 19:21.470 --> 19:23.720 GOING TO HAVE YOU COME OUT HERE. I WANT YOU TO PRAY FOR THE 19:23.720 --> 19:26.960 PEOPLE. THEY MIGHT BE OUT ONLINE. AND IF YOU'VE GOT THE 19:26.960 --> 19:32.599 SAME COLORS, BELIEVE WITH IT. HE'S GOING TO DECLARE A BLESSING 19:32.599 --> 19:37.940 OVER YOU, EVEN OUT ONLINE. AND YOU CAN RECEIVE IT AS THESE 19:37.940 --> 19:45.222 PEOPLE RECEIVE IT RIGHT NOW. - RIGHT NOW IN THE NAME OF JESUS. 19:47.779 --> 19:51.470 HEAVENLY FATHER, WE THANK YOU THAT THIS IS THE SEASON OF 19:51.470 --> 19:58.369 ABUNDANT HARVEST, FRUITFUL SEASONS. WHERE THERE HAS BEEN 19:58.369 --> 20:03.920 LACK, WE SPEAK INCREASE. WHERE THERE HAS BEEN DROUGHT, WE SPEAK 20:03.920 --> 20:08.420 FLOODING AND ABUNDANCE OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD HIMSELF. AND WHERE 20:08.420 --> 20:12.646 THERE HAS BEEN DRYNESS, WE THANK YOU FOR THE DEPTHS AND THE 20:12.646 --> 20:17.420 UNMEASURABLE RELEASE OF THE PRESENCE OF GOD HIMSELF THAT 20:17.420 --> 20:22.361 SHALL SHAKE AND SHAKE AND SHAKE ALL THAT CAN BE SHAKEN IN YOUR 20:22.361 --> 20:27.671 LIFE UNTIL THERE'S NOTHING LEFT OTHER THAN THE PERFECT WILL AND 20:27.671 --> 20:32.500 PROMISE OF THE MANIFESTATION OF THE FRUITFUL SEASONS THAT GOD 20:32.500 --> 20:37.601 HAS DECLARED SINCE BEFORE YOU WERE BORN. I DECLARE AND DEMAND 20:37.601 --> 20:43.361 NOW SEVENFOLD FOR WHAT THE ENEMY HAS STOLEN PLUS INTEREST. I 20:43.361 --> 20:46.691 DECREE AND DECLARE THAT THERE SHALL BE NOTHING MISSING, 20:46.691 --> 20:51.250 NOTHING BROKEN, NOTHING WRONG, EVERYTHING RIGHT AND PERFECT 20:51.250 --> 20:54.571 WHOLENESS FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY IN JESUS' MIGHTY NAME. 20:58.540 --> 21:07.121 GLORY TO GOD. IF YOU'RE OUT THERE, SAY, "I RECEIVE." NOW 21:07.121 --> 21:14.951 I'LL DECLARE THIS OVER EVERYBODY. FATHER GOD, BY THE 21:14.951 --> 21:22.000 POWER INVESTED IN ME, IN THE NAME OF JESUS OF NAZARETH, I 21:22.000 --> 21:30.520 RELEASE THE POWER OF YOUR PRESENCE TO RESTORE AND BRING 21:30.520 --> 21:39.760 LIFE INTO EVERY HEART THAT WILL RECEIVE RIGHT NOW. AND EVERYBODY 21:39.760 --> 21:49.308 SAID, "AMEN." AS PASTOR MARK COMES. GREET ONE ANOTHER. 21:56.298 --> 22:12.836 (MUSIC) 22:21.941 --> 22:29.375 WELL, GLORY TO GOD, IT IS OFFERING TIME HERE AT LOH ON A 22:29.378 --> 22:33.641 WEDNESDAY NIGHT. CAN WE SHOUT HALLELUJAH TO THE LORD GOD 22:33.641 --> 22:39.161 ALMIGHTY WHO RULES AND REIGNS AND BLESSES THOSE WHO WEAR ANY 22:39.161 --> 22:45.161 NUMBER OF COLORS. AMEN, AMEN. SOME OF YOU MAY KNOW, PROBABLY 22:45.161 --> 22:49.060 MANY OF YOU DON'T, THAT A LOT OF MY BACKGROUND OUTSIDE OF THE 22:49.060 --> 22:54.461 MINISTRY IS IN THE FIELD OF SALES. AND IN SALES, WE OFTEN 22:54.461 --> 22:59.621 TALK A LOT ABOUT OBJECTIONS AND HOW TO HANDLE THOSE. AND MORE 22:59.621 --> 23:04.451 OFTEN THAN NOT, AN OBJECTION IS JUST VERY SIMPLY A STATEMENT. 23:04.451 --> 23:08.590 IT'S A QUESTION IN THE FORM OF A STATEMENT. AND IT'S SEEKING MORE 23:08.590 --> 23:13.901 INFORMATION. IT'S LOOKING FOR AN ANSWER. NOW TO EFFECTIVELY 23:13.901 --> 23:18.790 OVERCOME THE OBJECTION, THE ANSWER SHOULD BE ONE THAT 23:18.790 --> 23:24.790 EDUCATES, CONVINCES, AND FULLY PERSUADES. NOW IN THE MINISTRY, 23:24.790 --> 23:29.471 WE OFTEN HEAR PEOPLE STATING VARIOUS REASONS IN DIFFERENT 23:29.471 --> 23:35.141 FORMS FOR NOT GIVING AND FOR NOT PARTICIPATING IN THIS TIME RIGHT 23:35.141 --> 23:38.800 HERE, THE OFFERING. AND THEY'RE STATING THEIR OBJECTIONS. 23:38.800 --> 23:42.371 THEY'RE MAKING A STATEMENT, BUT THERE'S A QUESTION BURIED IN 23:42.371 --> 23:46.361 THERE. AND IT OCCURS TO ME THAT WHEN IT COMES TO THE COMMON 23:46.361 --> 23:50.740 OBJECTIONS THAT WE OFTEN HEAR ABOUT WHY PEOPLE AREN'T GIVING, 23:50.740 --> 23:54.641 THE BEST AND EASIEST WAY TO HANDLE THEM IS SIMPLY TO ANSWER 23:54.641 --> 23:59.050 THEM WITH SCRIPTURE. AFTER ALL, AS WE'RE TOLD IN PSALM 119:89, 24:00.611 --> 24:05.651 GOD'S WORD IS FOREVER SETTLED IN THE HEAVENS, STANDING FIRM AND 24:05.651 --> 24:10.661 UNCHANGEABLE. SO TONIGHT, WE'RE GONNA QUICKLY LOOK AT FIVE 24:10.661 --> 24:15.101 COMMON OBJECTIONS TO GIVING AND OFFER SCRIPTURAL RESPONSES TO 24:15.101 --> 24:19.661 THEM, AMEN? NOW, THE FIRST OBJECTION WE'RE GONNA LOOK AT, 24:19.661 --> 24:22.480 IT TAKES A LOT OF DIFFERENT FORMS, AND IT GOES SOMETHING 24:22.480 --> 24:27.911 LIKE THIS. HEY, I WORK HARD FOR MY MONEY, I EARN IT, IT'S MINE. 24:27.911 --> 24:31.300 I'M NOT LOOKING TO SHARE IT, I'M NOT LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO GIVE 24:31.300 --> 24:35.351 IT AWAY, I PLAN TO HOLD ON TO IT. NOW THE WORD CONTAINS 24:35.351 --> 24:39.371 ANSWERS TO THIS QUESTION OF HOW TO ACCUMULATE WEALTH AND DEALS 24:39.371 --> 24:42.611 WITH THAT ISSUE OF SELF-CENTEREDNESS IN MANY 24:42.611 --> 24:47.290 DIFFERENT SCRIPTURES. SO THERE'S MORE THAN ONE ANSWER HERE, BUT 24:47.290 --> 24:55.238 ONE OF THEM IS IN PROVERBS 11:24, 25, AND 28. I'M GOING TO 24:55.238 --> 24:58.391 READ THAT FROM THE AMPLIFIED, AND IT GOES LIKE THIS, "THERE IS 24:58.391 --> 25:02.830 ONE WHO GENEROUSLY SCATTERS ABROAD AND YET INCREASES ALL THE 25:02.830 --> 25:07.990 MORE. AND THERE IS THE ONE WHO WITHHOLDS WHAT IS JUSTLY DUE, 25:07.990 --> 25:13.961 BUT IT RESULTS ONLY IN WANT AND POVERTY. THE GENEROUS MAN IS A 25:13.961 --> 25:18.191 SOURCE OF BLESSING AND SHALL BE PROSPEROUS AND ENRICHED. AND HE 25:18.191 --> 25:22.300 WHO WATERS WILL HIMSELF BE WATERED, REAPING THE GENEROSITY 25:22.300 --> 25:29.320 HE HAS SOWN. HE WHO LEANS ON AND TRUSTS IN AND IS CONFIDENT IN 25:29.320 --> 25:33.971 HIS RICHES WILL FALL, BUT THE RIGHTEOUS WHO TRUST IN GOD'S 25:33.971 --> 25:40.780 PROVISION WILL FLOURISH LIKE A GREEN LEAF. OBJECTION NUMBER TWO 25:40.780 --> 25:45.340 WE HEAR A LOT. I CAN'T GIVE TO THE CHURCH. I LIKE MY TOYS TOO 25:45.340 --> 25:49.300 MUCH. I'M TOO FOND OF MY POSSESSIONS. I NEED TO SUPPORT 25:49.300 --> 25:53.651 MY HOBBIES AND MY ACTIVITIES OR SOME VARIANT THEREOF. WELL, ONE 25:53.651 --> 25:59.288 RESPONSE TO THIS MIGHT COME IN HEBREWS 13:5. AND AGAIN, THIS IS 25:59.288 --> 26:02.830 AN AMPLIFIED CLASSIC, BUT HE SAYS HERE, "LET YOUR CHARACTER 26:02.830 --> 26:07.121 OR MORAL DISPOSITION BE FREE FROM LOVE OF MONEY, INCLUDING 26:07.121 --> 26:11.590 GREED, AVARICE, LUST, AND CRAVING FOR EARTHLY POSSESSIONS. 26:12.671 --> 26:16.721 AND BE SATISFIED WITH YOUR PRESENT CIRCUMSTANCES AND WITH 26:16.721 --> 26:21.131 WHAT YOU HAVE, FOR HE, GOD HIMSELF, HAS SAID, "I WILL NOT 26:21.131 --> 26:27.490 IN ANY WAY FAIL YOU, NOR GIVE YOU UP, NOR LEAVE YOU WITHOUT 26:27.490 --> 26:33.161 SUPPORT. I WILL NOT, I WILL NOT, I WILL NOT IN ANY DEGREE LEAVE 26:33.161 --> 26:38.141 YOU HELPLESS, NOR FORSAKE, NOR LET YOU DOWN, OR RELAX MY HOLD 26:38.141 --> 26:46.780 ON YOU. ASSUREDLY NOT. ANOTHER VERY COMMON OBJECTION IS THIS, I 26:46.780 --> 26:50.921 DON'T HAVE A LOT. IF I GIVE TO THE CHURCH, I MAY NOT BE ABLE TO 26:50.921 --> 26:55.421 PAY MY BILLS, OR I MAY NOT BE ABLE TO PROVIDE FOR MY FAMILY 26:55.421 --> 27:01.931 ADEQUATELY. MATTHEW 6:24-31 CAN HELP US ANSWER THIS QUESTION 27:01.931 --> 27:06.070 THAT'S ROOTED IN FEAR. HE SAYS HERE, "NO ONE CAN SERVE TWO 27:06.070 --> 27:10.421 MASTERS, FOR YOU WILL HATE ONE AND LOVE THE OTHER. YOU WILL BE 27:10.421 --> 27:16.030 DEVOTED TO ONE AND DESPISE THE OTHER. YOU CANNOT SERVE BOTH GOD 27:16.030 --> 27:20.411 AND MONEY. THAT IS WHY I TELL YOU NOT TO WORRY ABOUT EVERYDAY 27:20.411 --> 27:24.070 LIFE, WHETHER YOU HAVE ENOUGH FOOD AND DRINK OR ENOUGH CLOTHES 27:24.070 --> 27:28.030 TO WEAR. ISN'T LIFE MORE THAN FOOD AND YOUR BODY MORE THAN 27:28.030 --> 27:33.010 CLOTHING? LOOK AT THE BIRDS. THEY DON'T PLANT OR HARVEST OR 27:33.010 --> 27:37.151 STORE FOOD IN BARNS, FOR YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER FEEDS THEM. AND 27:37.151 --> 27:41.441 AREN'T YOU FAR MORE VALUABLE TO HIM THAN THEY ARE? CAN ALL YOUR 27:41.441 --> 27:45.701 WORRIES ADD A SINGLE MOMENT TO YOUR LIFE? AND WHY WORRY ABOUT 27:45.701 --> 27:48.221 YOUR CLOTHING? LOOK AT THE LILIES OF THE FIELD AND HOW THEY 27:48.221 --> 27:52.540 GROW. THEY DON'T WORK OR MAKE THEIR CLOTHING. YET SOLOMON IN 27:52.540 --> 27:56.230 ALL HIS GLORY WAS NOT DRESSED AS BEAUTIFULLY AS THEY ARE. AND IF 27:56.230 --> 27:59.651 GOD CARES SO WONDERFULLY FOR WILDFLOWERS THAT ARE HERE TODAY 27:59.651 --> 28:02.891 AND THROWN INTO THE FIRE TOMORROW, HE WILL CERTAINLY CARE 28:02.891 --> 28:06.820 FOR YOU. WHY DO YOU HAVE SO LITTLE FAITH? SO DON'T WORRY 28:06.820 --> 28:10.121 ABOUT THESE THINGS, SAYING, "WHAT WILL WE EAT? WHAT WILL WE 28:10.121 --> 28:20.861 DRINK? WHAT WILL WE WEAR?" OKAY, THAT STUCK RIGHT THERE. "THESE 28:20.861 --> 28:25.211 THINGS DOMINATE THE THOUGHTS OF UNBELIEVERS, BUT YOUR HEAVENLY 28:25.211 --> 28:35.711 FATHER ALREADY KNOWS ALL YOUR NEEDS. SEEK THE KINGDOM OF GOD 28:35.711 --> 28:38.711 ABOVE ALL ELSE AND LIVE RIGHTEOUSLY AND HE WILL GIVE YOU 28:38.711 --> 28:43.601 EVERYTHING YOU NEED. NOW HERE'S ONE, NUMBER FOUR, IS ONE YOU'RE 28:43.601 --> 28:46.721 PROBABLY ALL FAMILIAR WITH. I DON'T LIKE FEELING PRESSURED TO 28:46.721 --> 28:51.431 GIVE. IT FEELS LIKE THE CHURCH IS PUSHING ME AND ALWAYS ASKING 28:51.431 --> 28:55.510 FOR MORE. YOU'VE HEARD THIS. WELL, WE'RE ON RESPONSE TO THIS 28:55.510 --> 29:00.431 OBJECTION IN 2 CORINTHIANS 9:6-8. IT SAYS HERE, "NOW 29:00.431 --> 29:04.721 REMEMBER THIS, HE WHO SOWS SPARINGLY WILL ALSO REAP 29:04.721 --> 29:08.411 SPARINGLY, AND HE WHO SOWS GENEROUSLY THAT BLESSINGS MAY 29:08.411 --> 29:13.540 COME TO OTHERS WILL ALSO REAP GENEROUSLY AND BE BLESSED. LET 29:13.540 --> 29:18.881 EACH ONE GIVE THOUGHTFULLY WITH PURPOSE, JUST AS HE HAS DECIDED 29:18.881 --> 29:23.201 IN HIS HEART, NOT GRUDGINGLY OR UNDER COMPULSION. "FOR GOD LOVES 29:23.201 --> 29:27.340 A CHEERFUL GIVER AND DELIGHTS IN THE ONE WHOSE HEART IS IN HIS 29:27.340 --> 29:32.320 GIFT. AND GOD IS ABLE TO MAKE ALL GRACE, EVERY FAVOR AND 29:32.320 --> 29:35.530 EARTHLY BLESSING COME IN ABUNDANCE TO YOU SO THAT YOU MAY 29:35.530 --> 29:39.911 ALWAYS, UNDER ALL CIRCUMSTANCES, REGARDLESS OF THE NEED, HAVE 29:39.911 --> 29:43.480 COMPLETE SUFFICIENCY IN EVERYTHING, BEING COMPLETELY 29:43.480 --> 29:47.500 SELF-SUFFICIENT IN HIM AND HAVE AN ABUNDANCE FOR EVERY GOOD WORK 29:47.500 --> 29:51.911 AND ACT OF CHARITY. AND THEN LASTLY, NUMBER FIVE, WE'RE GOING 29:51.911 --> 29:55.871 TO DEAL WITH, IT'S THE OLD CLASSIC, "HEY, I'VE TRIED THAT 29:55.871 --> 30:00.671 GIVING THING, IT JUST DOESN'T WORK FOR ME." BUT GALATIANS 6, 30:00.671 --> 30:04.840 VERSES 7 THROUGH 9 IS A SCRIPTURE THAT DEALS ADEQUATELY 30:04.840 --> 30:09.040 WITH THIS. EXCUSE ME. IT SAYS, "DO NOT BE DECEIVED. GOD IS NOT 30:09.040 --> 30:13.451 MOCKED. HE WILL NOT ALLOW HIMSELF TO BE RIDICULED, NOR 30:13.451 --> 30:17.320 TREATED WITH CONTEMPT, NOR ALLOW HIS PRECEPTS TO BE SCORNFULLY 30:17.320 --> 30:21.576 SET ASIDE. FOR WHATEVER A MAN SOWS, THIS AND THIS ONLY IS WHAT 30:21.576 --> 30:26.196 HE WILL REAP. FOR THE ONE WHO SOWS TO HIS FLESH, HIS SINFUL 30:26.196 --> 30:29.676 CAPACITY, HIS WORLDLINESS, HIS DISGRACEFUL IMPULSES WILL REAP 30:29.676 --> 30:32.886 FROM THE FLESH, RUIN AND DESTRUCTION. BUT THE ONE WHO 30:32.886 --> 30:37.777 SOWS TO THE SPIRIT WILL FROM THE SPIRIT REAP ETERNAL LIFE. LET US 30:37.777 --> 30:41.497 NOT GROW WEARY OR BECOME DISCOURAGED IN DOING GOOD, FOR 30:41.497 --> 30:48.666 AT THE PROPER TIME WE WILL REAP IF WE DO NOT GIVE IN. I'LL JUST 30:48.666 --> 30:53.346 FINISH WITH THIS. CURRENT SALES RESEARCH SHOWS THAT THE MAJORITY 30:53.346 --> 30:59.136 OF PEOPLE RAISE FOUR OBJECTIONS OR SAY NO FOUR TIMES BEFORE THEY 30:59.136 --> 31:04.477 SAY YES. SO BY NOW, HAVING JUST HANDLED FIVE OBJECTIONS BY MY 31:04.477 --> 31:08.707 COUNT, BY MY ESTIMATION, WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO MARK EVERYONE 31:08.707 --> 31:12.757 DOWN AS A YES WHEN IT COMES TO GIVING GENEROUSLY HERE TONIGHT. 31:13.957 --> 31:16.747 AND IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO GIVE GENEROUSLY THIS 31:16.747 --> 31:20.646 EVENING, I JUST WANT TO REMIND FOLKS THAT THIS SATURDAY, JULY 31:20.646 --> 31:25.057 25TH, FROM 9 TO 12, 9 A.M. TO 12 P.M., RIGHT HERE AT LORD OF 31:25.057 --> 31:28.626 HOSTS CHURCH, IS OUR BACK-TO-SCHOOL SUPPLY DRIVE. 31:28.626 --> 31:33.096 WE'VE GOT OVER 1,000 BACKPACKS THAT ARE GOING TO BE GIVEN AWAY. 31:33.096 --> 31:37.596 WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A FIRE TRUCK AND A POLICE CRUISER AND KONA 31:37.596 --> 31:41.257 ICE AND ALL KINDS OF OTHER COOL THINGS FOR THE KIDS THAT ATTEND. 31:41.257 --> 31:43.656 BUT WE NEED YOUR HELP WITH THIS. IF YOU'RE LOOKING TO GIVE 31:43.656 --> 31:48.037 GENEROUSLY THIS EVENING, IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO GIVE INTO THIS A 31:48.037 --> 31:52.866 GREAT, GREAT PROGRAM TO BLESS THE CHILDREN. AND I HOPE THAT 31:52.866 --> 31:55.987 YOU WILL DO THAT. AND IF THEY WILL PUT THE GIVING INFORMATION 31:55.987 --> 32:03.426 UP ON THE SCREENS. IF YOU'RE GIVEN BY ENVELOPE, YOU OUT THERE 32:03.426 --> 32:05.797 ONLINE, I'M SURE THAT'S THE WAY YOU'RE GIVEN. AND WE WANT TO 32:05.797 --> 32:08.406 TAKE A MOMENT AND JUST THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND LET YOU KNOW HOW 32:08.406 --> 32:12.247 MUCH WE APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT. WITHOUT YOU, WE COULD NOT DO 32:12.247 --> 32:15.366 HALF OF WHAT WE DO HERE IN THIS MINISTRY. WE WANT TO ALWAYS 32:15.366 --> 32:20.017 THANK YOU AND APPRECIATE YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT. YOU CAN GET 32:20.017 --> 32:25.978 THROUGH THE WEBSITE, MOBILE APP, TEXT TO GIVE, SCAN THE QR CODE. 32:27.817 --> 32:32.497 IF YOU CAN'T FIGURE OUT A WAY, WE CAN SET YOU UP WITH PASTOR 32:32.497 --> 32:44.586 ANTHONY'S PERSONAL CELL PHONE AND HE'LL GET YOU. IF EVERYONE 32:44.586 --> 32:47.977 IS READY, THE USHERS ARE ALL FINISHED SERVING EVERYBODY, 32:49.057 --> 32:52.416 LET'S HOLD UP OUR OFFERINGS OR IF YOU'RE LIKE ME, HOLD UP YOUR 32:52.416 --> 32:56.076 DEVICE WHERE YOU'VE TEXTED TO GIVE AND I'LL PRAY A BRIEF 32:56.076 --> 32:59.977 BLESSING OVER ALL OF YOUR GIFTS. FATHER IN THE NAME OF JESUS, WE 32:59.977 --> 33:03.217 THANK YOU FOR THE GENEROSITY THAT WILL BE DISPLAYED BY 33:03.217 --> 33:06.757 EVERYONE'S GIVING HERE TONIGHT AND I ASK YOU TO BLESS THEM AND 33:06.757 --> 33:09.571 THEY'RE COMING AND THEN THEY'RE GOING AND THEY'RE WAKING AND 33:09.571 --> 33:12.817 THEN THEY'RE LYING DOWN. KEEP THEM ALWAYS IN GOOD HEALTH AND 33:12.817 --> 33:16.537 IN PERFECT PEACE. FATHER, RE PROSPER THEM IN EVERY WAY AND 33:16.537 --> 33:20.346 MAKE THEM BENEFICIARIES OF THE ABUNDANT HARVEST TO COME IN THE 33:20.346 --> 33:24.247 MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS. AMEN. AND NOW LET'S WELCOME BACK TO THE 33:24.247 --> 33:28.747 PULPIT PASTOR KEITH. HE'S GOING TO SHARE WITH US EXACTLY HOW TO 33:30.007 --> 33:31.957 BOLSTER THOSE FUTURE HARVESTS. 33:34.280 --> 33:34.881 AMEN. 33:48.336 --> 33:56.767 BEFORE I BEGIN, I HAVE THIS MESSAGE. I'M GOING TO SHARE A 33:56.767 --> 34:06.517 WRITTEN AUTHOR'S FIRST PUBLISHED WORK. JUST A LITTLE TIDBIT OF 34:06.517 --> 34:15.847 IT, BUT WELL. ANYWAY, LISTEN CAREFULLY. RALPH, WITH A BALL IN 34:15.847 --> 34:19.686 HIS LEFT HAND, SWINGING THE BAT WITH THE OTHER, HEADED THROUGH 34:19.686 --> 34:26.887 THE PART OF THE HOUSE THAT WAS, IN HIS MIND, THE JUNGLE. THIS 34:26.887 --> 34:32.286 WAS PART OF THE HOUSE WHERE MOST OF MOM'S PLANTS WERE. THIS ROOM 34:32.286 --> 34:37.806 WAS DANGEROUS. IT WAS ALSO THE PART OF THE HOUSE IN WHICH HE 34:37.806 --> 34:44.887 WAS WALKING RIGHT NOW, SWINGING HIS BAT. HE ALWAYS FELT LIKE 34:44.887 --> 34:49.177 RAMBO WHEN HE WENT THROUGH THIS PART OF THE HOUSE. AND NOW HE 34:49.177 --> 34:54.606 RAISED HIS BAT LIKE A MACHINE GUN. AS IT CAME UP, IT HIT ONE 34:54.606 --> 35:00.246 OF THE CHROMATIC POTS AND SHATTERED. HIS STOMACH FELL 35:00.246 --> 35:10.106 SICK. HE KNEW HOW HIS MOM LOVED THESE PLANTS. RALPH, YEAH MOM? 35:12.036 --> 35:24.666 WHAT WAS THAT NOISE? NOTHING? NO REPLY. SHE BOUGHT IT. SHE WAS 35:24.666 --> 35:30.967 ALMOST DONE DOING THE DISHES AND HE KNEW WHAT HE NEEDED TO DO. HE 35:30.967 --> 35:36.666 HAD TO WAIT FOR HER TO LEAVE THE KITCHEN, GRAB THE DUST BUSTER 35:36.666 --> 35:41.137 AND ANOTHER CHROMATIC POT. NOW SHE WAS HEADED DOWNSTAIRS TO THE 35:41.137 --> 35:45.817 LAUNDRY. RALPH GOT THE DUST BUSTER AND THE POT AND HE RAN 35:45.817 --> 35:51.492 QUIETLY AS POSSIBLE BACK TO THE LIVING ROOM. HE PUT THE PLANT IN 35:51.492 --> 35:55.746 THE POT AND THREW AS MUCH DIRT IN IT AS HE COULD PICK UP AND 35:55.746 --> 36:00.547 THEN VACUUMED UP THE DIRT AROUND IT. HE RAN BACK TO THE KITCHEN 36:00.547 --> 36:05.706 TO PUT THE DUSTBUSTER AWAY. HIS MOM, COMING UP THE STAIRS WITH 36:05.706 --> 36:11.538 CLEAN CLOTHES, AND AS SHE PASSED HIM, SHE ASKED, 36:13.005 --> 36:14.507 "DID YOU GET IT CLEANED UP?” 36:19.846 --> 36:31.804 NOW, YOU HAVE MY PERMISSION, IF YOU ENJOYED THAT, TO TELL MY SON 36:34.177 --> 36:44.556 THAT YOU APPRECIATED HIS FIRST ARTICLE. AND BUG HIM ABOUT IT 36:44.556 --> 36:50.646 GOOD, BECAUSE A WHILE BACK HE TOLD EVERYONE ABOUT MY BIRTHDAY. 36:57.186 --> 37:05.916 PAYBACK. SO WHAT DID THAT HAVE TO DO WITH TODAY'S MESSAGE? 37:05.916 --> 37:12.726 WELL, NOTHING IN A WAY, BUT IT IS ABOUT PLANS. AND I WANTED TO 37:12.726 --> 37:20.797 START TODAY BY LOOKING AT THE BOOK OF MARK, THE FOURTH 37:20.797 --> 37:31.927 CHAPTER, THE 26TH VERSE. BECAUSE THIS VERSE AND THIS CHAPTER, I 37:31.927 --> 37:36.126 MEAN THIS SECTION, I GUESS, I DON'T KNOW, I DON'T THINK I'VE 37:36.126 --> 37:46.717 EVER HEARD ANYONE PREACH ON BEFORE. IT'S KIND OF ONE OF 37:46.717 --> 37:51.666 THOSE OFF THE SIDE VERSES THAT JUST DOESN'T GET PREACHED ON 37:51.666 --> 38:01.237 VERY OFTEN. AND I WANT TO START WITH IT AND EXPAND. VERSE 26, 38:01.237 --> 38:06.786 "THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS AS IF A MAN SHOULD SCATTER SEED ON THE 38:06.786 --> 38:12.217 GROUND AND SHOULD SLEEP BY NIGHT AND RISE UP IN THE DAY, AND THE 38:12.217 --> 38:19.657 SEED SHOULD SPROUT AND GROW. HE HIMSELF DOES NOT KNOW HOW. FOR 38:19.657 --> 38:26.286 THE EARTH YIELDS CROPS BY ITSELF. FIRST THE BLADE, THEN 38:26.286 --> 38:31.806 THE HEAD, AND AFTER THAT THE FULL GRAIN IN THE YEAR. BUT WHEN 38:31.806 --> 38:35.797 THE GRAIN RIPENS, IMMEDIATELY HE PUTS IN THE SICKLE BECAUSE THE 38:35.797 --> 38:43.056 HARVEST HAS COME." SOUNDS PRETTY SIMPLE. YOU REMEMBER WHEN THE 38:43.056 --> 38:46.567 KIDS WERE SMALL, AND I THINK MAYBE SOMEBODY STILL DOES THAT, 38:46.567 --> 38:51.581 THEY TAKE THESE LITTLE CUPS AND THEY PUT A DOME FULL OF DIRT AND 38:51.581 --> 38:55.806 THEY TAKE IT IN THERE AND TELL THE CHILD, PUT A SEED IN THERE, 38:55.806 --> 39:02.740 WE'LL WATCH. THEY PUT THE SEED IN THAT LITTLE PILE OF DIRT AND 39:02.740 --> 39:12.637 AFTER A LITTLE TIME, IT BEGINS TO SPROUT. AND IT SENDS OUT ITS 39:12.637 --> 39:19.146 ROOT SYSTEM, AND IT SENDS OUT THE PLANT THAT BEGINS TO GROW, 39:19.146 --> 39:27.306 AND THEY GET TO WATCH THIS MIRACLE OF LIFE. AND THAT SOUNDS 39:27.306 --> 39:32.706 SO SIMPLE TO US. SEE, THAT'S WHY FARM FOLKS, WE UNDERSTAND THIS. 39:33.876 --> 39:38.677 OKAY? WE UNDERSTAND SEED DONE. WE UNDERSTAND SOWING. WE 39:38.677 --> 39:45.217 UNDERSTAND WHAT THE SEED DOES AND WHAT THE SEED IS. AND IT'S 39:45.217 --> 39:50.226 PRETTY PLAIN. I MEAN, IT'S PRETTY IN YOUR FACE. JESUS JUST 39:50.226 --> 39:52.867 LAID IT OUT. YOU PUT IT IN THE GROUND. YOU DON'T EVEN 39:52.867 --> 39:55.567 UNDERSTAND NECESSARILY ALL THE THINGS THAT TAKE PLACE AND HOW 39:55.567 --> 39:57.851 IT HAPPENS AND HOW IT BREAKS DOWN AND HOW IT DISSOLVES AND 39:57.851 --> 40:01.130 HOW IT TURNS IT ON AND HOW IT TAKES NUTRIENTS OUT OF THIS AND 40:01.130 --> 40:04.146 NUTRIENTS OUT OF THAT, AND YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND IT ALL, YOU 40:04.146 --> 40:08.737 DON'T SEE IT, BUT YOU KNOW THE PRINCIPLE OF HOW IT WORKS. AND 40:08.737 --> 40:21.996 YOU PUT IT TO WORK. AND IT'S THAT SIMPLE, IT SEEMS TO BE. AND 40:21.996 --> 40:26.467 THINKING ABOUT THAT, THEN I ALSO READ A SCRIPTURE IN ROMANS 40:26.467 --> 40:36.202 CHAPTER 10. AND THIS SCRIPTURE IS KIND OF ALWAYS KIND OF, HMM, 40:36.202 --> 40:54.576 HOW? WHAT? SO FAITH COMES. SO FAITH COMES. FAITH COMES BY 40:57.757 --> 41:16.762 HEARING. HEARING COMES BY THE WORD. I THOUGHT THE WORD 41:18.952 --> 41:34.851 PRODUCED FAITH. NOT ACCORDING TO ROMANS CHAPTER 10:17. SO THEN I 41:34.851 --> 41:41.181 GOT TO THINKING ABOUT THAT. AND THEN I GO BACK TO MARK CHAPTER 41:41.181 --> 41:57.382 4. AND IN MARK CHAPTER 4, JUST GOING BACK A FEW VERSES, IN 41:57.382 --> 42:05.271 VERSE 14, AND I'M LOOKING AT THIS FROM THE LIVING BIBLE, 42:06.351 --> 42:10.791 BECAUSE I WANTED TO GET A LITTLE BIT OF A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE 42:10.791 --> 42:18.442 OF IT. THE FARMER I TALKED ABOUT IS IN ANY WAY BRINGS GOD'S 42:18.442 --> 42:23.632 MESSAGE TO OTHERS, TRYING TO PLANT GOD'S SEED WITHIN THEIR 42:23.632 --> 42:30.681 LIVES. THE HARD PATH WHERE SOME OF THE SEED FELL REPRESENTS THE 42:30.681 --> 42:38.121 HARD HEARTS OF SOME OF THOSE WHO HEAR GOD'S MESSAGE. SO WE KNOW 42:38.121 --> 42:43.791 AND RECOGNIZE THOSE. AND THEN HE GOES ON ABOUT SATAN COMING AND 42:43.791 --> 42:48.442 STEALING IT. AND THEN HE SAYS AGAIN, THE ROCKY SOIL REPRESENTS 42:48.442 --> 42:58.762 THE HEARTS OF THOSE WHO HEAR THE MESSAGE WITH JOY. WHO HEAR 43:00.472 --> 43:12.112 WHERE? IN THE HEART. THEN AGAIN, HE SAYS LATER ON IN THE 18TH 43:12.112 --> 43:17.481 VERSE, "THE THORNY GROUND REPRESENTS THE HEARTS OF PEOPLE 43:17.481 --> 43:27.231 WHO LISTENED TO THE GOOD NEWS AND RECEIVE IT." BUT IT QUICKLY 43:27.231 --> 43:32.211 IS DONE AWAY WITH AND WE KNOW THE STORY. WE'LL GO OVER SOME OF 43:32.211 --> 43:37.851 IT LATER, BUT GET MY POINT HERE. THE LAST ONE HE SAYS IN VERSE 43:37.851 --> 43:43.552 20, HE SAYS, "BUT THE GOOD SOIL REPRESENTS THE HEARTS. IT 43:43.552 --> 43:48.952 REPRESENTS THE HEARTS OF THOSE WHO TRULY ACCEPT GOD'S MESSAGE 43:48.952 --> 43:57.711 AND PRODUCE." NOW, LET'S UNDERSTAND. JESUS USES A PARABLE 43:57.711 --> 44:03.112 TO GIVE US UNDERSTANDING OF SPIRITUAL REALITY, OF WHAT'S 44:03.112 --> 44:13.731 TAKING PLACE THROUGH AND IN US. AND SO IF WE UNDERSTAND THIS 44:13.731 --> 44:21.831 CONCEPT AS A FARMER, I CAN LOOK AT IT AND SAY, OH, I GET IT. YOU 44:21.831 --> 44:29.751 SEE, A FARMER DOESN'T HAVE TOO MUCH TO DO WITH THE SEED. HE 44:29.751 --> 44:36.742 SIMPLY PICKS IT OUT, CHOOSES THE BEST PRODUCT HE CAN FIND FOR THE 44:36.742 --> 44:43.251 PRICE HE CAN PAY, AND TAKES THAT SEED, WHICH WILL DO WHAT IT'S 44:43.251 --> 44:53.722 DESIGNED TO DO. DO WHAT? PRODUCE A PLANT. WHICH WILL, IN THE 44:53.722 --> 45:00.981 PROCESS, THEN PRODUCE A FRUIT. DOESN'T MATTER WHAT THE PLANT 45:00.981 --> 45:06.442 MIGHT BE. IN THIS COUNTRY, WE CAN JUST DRIVE AROUND AND SEE 45:06.442 --> 45:14.534 CORN, CORN, CORN. BUT THERE'S ALL KINDS OF DIFFERENT PLANTS. 45:16.101 --> 45:20.572 SOME PLANTS COME UP QUICKLY, SOME PLANTS COME SLOWLY, IT 45:20.572 --> 45:31.251 DOESN'T MATTER. BUT IT TAKES THE PLANT TO HAVE THE PRODUCT. AND 45:31.251 --> 45:36.442 QUITE FRANKLY, A FARMER CAN'T DO MUCH ABOUT THE SEED OTHER THAN 45:36.442 --> 45:45.021 PICK OUT THE SEED AND THEN PLANT IT. BUT THE FARMER HAS THE 45:45.021 --> 46:01.311 ABILITY TO AFFECT THE SOIL. HE KNOWS IF THE SOIL GETS HARD, 46:02.512 --> 46:09.742 THAT IT HAS TO BE SOFTENED. HE KNOWS IF THERE'S ROCKS OR PLACES 46:09.742 --> 46:14.961 LIKE THAT, THAT MANY TIMES OVER THE YEARS, PEOPLE HAVE TAKEN 46:14.961 --> 46:19.791 ROCKS OUT OF THEIR FIELD YEAR AFTER YEAR AFTER YEAR TO GET THE 46:19.791 --> 46:25.012 SOIL SO THAT IT WILL COOPERATE, IT WILL WORK. HE KNOWS WHEN 46:25.012 --> 46:29.213 THERE'S WEEDS IN THE FIELD, HE HAS TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THEM. 46:31.672 --> 46:36.112 I'VE BEEN THERE. BACK IN THE DAYS WHEN WE DIDN'T USE 46:36.112 --> 46:46.521 CHEMICALS FOR EVERYTHING. WHEN THE WEEDS WERE THIS HIGH AND THE 46:46.521 --> 46:57.411 BEANS WERE THIS HIGH AND YOU WERE CUTTING THEM OFF. SO HE 46:57.411 --> 47:05.961 KNOWS THAT HE HAS TO DO SOMETHING WITH THE SOIL BECAUSE 47:05.961 --> 47:13.762 HE CAN'T AFFECT THE END HARVEST BY GOING JUST BY WHAT THE SEED 47:13.762 --> 47:20.242 WILL DO, BUT HE CAN AFFECT THE SOIL. NOW JESUS GIVES THIS 47:20.242 --> 47:25.402 EXAMPLE AND HE SAYS TO US, AND HE STARTS OUT GIVING US THE 47:25.402 --> 47:32.422 EXAMPLE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE SOWER SOWING THE WORD. AND HE 47:32.422 --> 47:37.942 LEAVES US WITH THIS CONCEPT. THE SEED DOES WHAT IT'S SUPPOSED TO 47:37.942 --> 47:46.882 DO. SO IT'S NEVER THE SEED'S PROBLEM. SO NEVER BLAME THE 47:46.882 --> 47:58.851 SEED. NEVER BLAME THE TRUTH. NEVER BLAME THE LIFE. NEVER 47:58.851 --> 48:07.311 BLAME THE DNA OF THE SEED. THE SEED WORKS. SO WHAT DO WE HAVE 48:07.311 --> 48:22.342 TO LOOK AT? THE SOIL. AND WHAT'S THE SOIL? THE HEART. A MAN HERE 48:22.342 --> 48:26.422 ALWAYS TELLS ME I TALK ABOUT THE HEART A LOT. NOW YOU KNOW WHY. 48:28.851 --> 48:37.702 THE HEART. BECAUSE THAT'S MY PART. I LITERALLY CAN'T DO 48:37.702 --> 48:45.351 ANYTHING ABOUT THE SEED, BUT JUST RECEIVE. AND I LITERALLY 48:45.351 --> 48:54.052 CAN'T MAKE THE SEED PRODUCE THE END RESULT, BUT I CAN AFFECT THE 48:54.052 --> 49:04.222 PLANT. I HAVE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF HOW I AFFECT THE PLANT. AND 49:04.222 --> 49:18.532 THE PLANT IS THE PROCESS OF HEARING. HEARING. HEARING. AND 49:18.532 --> 49:22.132 YOU'VE GOT TO GET TO THE PLACE WHERE YOU REALIZE IT'S NOT ABOUT 49:22.132 --> 49:28.342 WHAT GOES IN THIS YEAR AND COMES OUT THIS YEAR. IT'S NOT ABOUT 49:28.342 --> 49:39.472 THAT KIND OF HEARING. THAT'S JUST ON THE SURFACE. I LIKE IT, 49:39.472 --> 49:48.771 ANYBODY THAT'S RAISED TEENAGERS KNOWS, SOMEWHERE ALONG THE LINE, 49:48.771 --> 49:56.362 YOU HAVE SAID, "CLEAN THAT ROOM." AND SIX HOURS LATER, YOU 49:56.362 --> 50:01.911 HAVE SAID, "CLEAN THAT ROOM." AND TWO HOURS LATER, YOU'RE 50:01.911 --> 50:14.481 SAYING, "DID YOU HEAR ME?" YOU GET IT? IT'S NOT JUST WHAT GOES 50:14.481 --> 50:25.101 IN THE EAR, IT'S THE ACTIVITY OF THE RECEIVING HEART. BECAUSE THE 50:25.101 --> 50:30.981 WAY YOU HEAR IT IS THE WAY IT WILL BE MEASURED BACK TO YOU. 50:35.987 --> 50:44.237 YOU CHOOSE WHAT YOUR HEART IS GOING TO DO WITH THE PLANT, THE 50:44.237 --> 50:52.188 HEARING. JESUS SAID THERE'S SOME FOLKS, THEY'RE SO WORLDLY AND 50:52.188 --> 50:56.838 THEY'RE SO ALLOWING THE WORLD TO RUN OVER THEIR TERRITORY. THAT'S 50:56.838 --> 51:01.878 WHAT THE PATH WAS ALL ABOUT. THE WORLD JUST KEPT WALKING ON THEIR 51:01.878 --> 51:05.717 TERRITORY, WALKED OVER IT SO MANY TIMES THAT IT TRAMPLED IT 51:05.717 --> 51:14.358 DOWN. AND IT GOT SO HARD THAT IT COULDN'T ACCEPT THE SEED BECAUSE 51:14.358 --> 51:22.998 WORLD IDEOLOGY HAD WALKED ON IT SO MUCH. BECAUSE WHY? BECAUSE HE 51:22.998 --> 51:29.943 DIDN'T PROTECT IT. THEN YOU CAN TURN TO PROVERBS CHAPTER FOUR. 51:32.592 --> 51:35.507 IN PROVERBS CHAPTER FOUR, HE LAYS IT OUT. MY SON, GIVE 51:35.507 --> 51:42.858 ATTENTION TO MY WORDS AND CLIMB YOUR EAR TO MY SAYINGS. DO NOT 51:42.858 --> 51:47.987 LET THEM DEPART BEFORE YOUR EYES. KEEP THEM IN THE MIDST OF 51:47.987 --> 51:56.507 YOUR HEART. FOR THEY ARE LIFE TO THOSE WHO FIND THEM, AND HEALTH 51:56.507 --> 52:06.527 TO ALL THEIR FLESH. KEEP YOUR HEART WITH ALL DILIGENCE, FOR 52:06.527 --> 52:11.117 OUT OF IT SPRING THE ISSUES OF LIFE. LIFE COMES OUT OF THE 52:11.117 --> 52:15.407 HEART. THE AFFAIRS OF WHAT YOU DO COMES OUT OF YOUR HEART. WHAT 52:15.407 --> 52:19.579 YOU DO IS PROCESSED BY YOUR HEART. JESUS SAID, "SO OUT OF A 52:19.579 --> 52:22.547 GOOD MAN'S TREASURY, GOOD THINGS COME TO PASS. OUT OF AN EVIL 52:22.547 --> 52:27.347 MAN'S TREASURY, EVIL THINGS COME TO PASS. FOR IT'S OUT OF THE 52:27.347 --> 52:38.387 HEART THAT MAN RELEASES THE POWER." SO PROTECT YOUR HEART. 52:39.498 --> 52:44.027 KEEP YOUR HEART. PUT AWAY FROM YOU A DECEITFUL MOUTH AND 52:44.027 --> 52:48.438 PERVERSE LIPS FAR FROM YOU. THERE'S THREE THINGS THAT YOU 52:48.438 --> 52:53.237 CAN DO TO KEEP YOUR HEART. IT'S WHAT YOU HEAR, AND WHAT YOU HEAR 52:53.237 --> 52:56.268 IS NOT WHAT, IT'S NOT JUST TALKING ABOUT THE OUTSIDE 52:56.268 --> 53:01.878 SOURCES LIKE WE SAID, IT'S WHAT YOU CHOOSE TO RECEIVE AND ACT 53:01.878 --> 53:14.088 UPON. FUNCTION. YOU PROVIDE THE FUNCTION, THE ACTION WHICH 53:14.088 --> 53:22.157 RECEIVES THE TRUTH OF THE WORD. WHAT YOU SEE, WHAT YOU ALLOW TO 53:22.157 --> 53:32.027 CREATE AN IMAGE IN YOUR THINKING AND IN YOUR PROCESS OF ACTION 53:32.027 --> 53:36.257 BECAUSE AS ACTIONS COME ABOUT, YOU BEGIN TO SEE AND YOU BEGIN 53:36.257 --> 53:41.777 TO ENVISION THINGS OUT OF THE HEART AND IN THE HEART. AND 53:41.777 --> 53:47.358 THOSE THINGS PROGRESS TILL THEY TAKE YOU OVER. AND THEN HE SAID, 53:47.358 --> 53:52.338 "A DECEITFUL MOUTH DOESN'T LET YOUR MOUTH COOPERATE WITH THAT 53:52.338 --> 54:00.077 WHICH IS NOT OF GOD." BECAUSE THE WORDS OF YOUR MOUTH HAVE 54:00.077 --> 54:09.197 MORE STRENGTH IN YOUR HEART THAN ANYBODY'S WORDS. SO YOU ARE 54:09.197 --> 54:16.157 RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT YOU SEE, HEAR, AND SAY INTO YOUR HEART. 54:17.597 --> 54:28.757 YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE TO PROTECT IT, KEEP IT, HOLD TIGHT, BECAUSE 54:28.757 --> 54:36.168 OUT OF IT COME THE ISSUES. THE DECIDING FACTORS OF WHO YOU ARE. 54:39.737 --> 54:47.688 AND AS YOU DO THAT PROCESS, YOU'LL DISCOVER THAT SEE, YOU'RE 54:47.688 --> 54:55.878 TAKING CARE OF THE SOIL. YOU GOT TO TAKE CARE OF THE SOIL. YOU'RE 54:55.878 --> 55:00.047 RESPONSIBLE FOR IT. IF THERE'S STONES IN IT, YOU NEED TO GET 55:00.047 --> 55:05.177 THEM OUT. OH, I DON'T KNOW WHAT STONES YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT. 55:06.677 --> 55:09.557 WELL, THE BOOK OF HEBREWS SAYS YOU CAN HAVE A HARD HEART OF 55:09.557 --> 55:23.418 UNBELIEF. SEE, I ADD TO JESUS, JESUS GIVES US THE BASIC, BUT 55:23.418 --> 55:32.597 YOU CAN ADD TO IT. BECAUSE THE BASICS ARE, IT'S THE STONES THAT 55:32.597 --> 55:40.277 CAUSE THE HEART NOT TO BE ABLE TO HAVE WHAT IT NEEDS TO 55:40.277 --> 55:44.927 WITHSTAND THE STORMS, THE PROBLEMS, THE DIFFICULTIES, THE 55:44.927 --> 55:54.768 SITUATIONS. IT'S NOT THAT THE SITUATION IS STRONGER THAN THE 55:54.768 --> 56:03.648 WORD. IT'S THE HEART THAT HAS AN ISSUE THAT NEEDS TO BE DEALT 56:03.648 --> 56:11.177 WITH. JESUS KNEW THAT ABOUT US BECAUSE HE LOOKED AT THE MAN WHO 56:11.177 --> 56:18.047 COME TO HIM AND SAYS, "MY SON, HE KEEPS FALLING INTO THE FIRE 56:18.047 --> 56:23.777 AND HE KEEPS HAVING THESE EPISODES." AND IT'S JUST 56:23.777 --> 56:27.557 CONTINUED SINCE HE'S BEEN A BOY. AND HE SAID, "NOW, IF YOU CAN DO 56:27.557 --> 56:41.688 ANYTHING." I LOVE, JESUS WAS TOUGH, YOU KNOW THAT? THAT MAN 56:41.688 --> 56:51.137 TURNED AROUND AND SAID, "IF YOU CAN BELIEVE." AND THE MAN HAD 56:51.137 --> 56:58.427 ENOUGH MOXIE TO TURN AROUND AND SAY, "OKAY, I'LL BELIEVE. OH, 56:58.427 --> 57:08.268 HELP MY UNBELIEF." AND JESUS DID. AND HE WILL YOU TOO. SO 57:08.268 --> 57:10.697 WHEN THERE'S DOUBT, UNBELIEF, WHEN THERE'S FEAR, WHEN THE 57:10.697 --> 57:17.027 STORM COMES, WHEN THE HEAT GETS TURNED UP, HELP MY UNBELIEF. 57:21.257 --> 57:30.378 SHOW ME HOW. GIVE ME THE TRUTH. BREAK UP THE ROCKS, REMOVE THE 57:30.378 --> 57:42.588 STONES. GET THOSE THINGS OUT OF MY LIFE. AND HE SAID, WHEN THE 57:42.588 --> 57:52.427 WEEDS GROW UP, WHAT DO WE DO? WE GO AFTER THEM, TAKING CAPTIVE 57:52.427 --> 58:04.248 EVERY THOUGHT TO THE OBEDIENCE OF THE ANOINTING. BECAUSE THE 58:04.248 --> 58:13.277 WEEDS WILL TRY AND GET IN YOUR GARDEN. THEY JUST WILL. ALL OF 58:13.277 --> 58:18.257 US FARM BOYS KNOW THAT. WE'VE HAD TO HOE ENOUGH IN THE GARDEN, 58:18.257 --> 58:24.347 WE KNOW THAT. IF YOU'VE GOT A GARDEN, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO 58:24.347 --> 58:28.157 HOE IN IT. YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO KEEP THE WEEDS OUT BECAUSE 58:28.157 --> 58:34.518 THEY'RE GOING TO COME. AND THERE ARE PATCHES THAT GET WORSE THAN 58:34.518 --> 58:41.144 OTHER PIT LACES. BUT YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO WORK AT IT. OH, 58:41.144 --> 58:51.467 YOU MEAN I GOT A RESPONSIBILITY TO DO? YES. YES. YOU SEE, THE 58:51.467 --> 58:57.228 SOIL IS MY RESPONSIBILITY. THE HEART IS MY RESPONSIBILITY. I'M 58:57.228 --> 59:07.038 RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT HAPPENS TO THE PLANT. I THOUGHT GOD WOULD 59:07.038 --> 59:15.018 JUST DO IT. HE WILL. HE'S DOING IT. HE GAVE YOU THE SEED AND YOU 59:15.018 --> 59:22.818 DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW IT WORKS. ALL YOU GOTTA BE IS SMART ENOUGH 59:22.818 --> 59:32.538 TO PLANT IT AND KEEP IT AND TEND IT AND KEEP YOUR HEART OPEN. 59:35.688 --> 59:41.795 THAT'S ALL YOU GOTTA DO. YOU DON'T HAVE TO MAKE FAITH HAPPEN. 59:45.768 --> 59:51.797 YOU JUST HAVE TO PROTECT THE PLANT, THE HEARING. BECAUSE 59:51.797 --> 59:55.920 THAT'S WHAT THE DEVIL'S AFTER. HE CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT THE 59:55.920 --> 01:00:07.757 FAITH. HE CAN'T STOP IT. HE'S GOT TO STOP THE PLANT. HE'S GOT 01:00:07.757 --> 01:00:12.947 TO STOP THE SEED FROM PRODUCING THE PLANT, AND THAT TAKES PLACE 01:00:12.947 --> 01:00:26.597 IN MAN'S HEART. AND THAT'S WHERE THE FIGHT IS. THAT'S WHERE THE 01:00:26.597 --> 01:00:36.704 BATTLE'S AT. THAT'S WHERE THE STRUGGLE IS. THAT'S WHAT WE 01:00:36.704 --> 01:00:48.554 FACE. HOW DO WE DEAL WITH THE HEART? EVERY DAY. EVERY DAY 01:00:48.554 --> 01:00:52.184 YOU'LL FIND A NEW TERRITORY IN YOUR HEART WHERE THE WORLD'S 01:00:52.184 --> 01:01:00.014 TRYING TO WALK ON IT. SEE, THIS IS ANOTHER PART OF THAT PROCESS. 01:01:02.353 --> 01:01:09.643 HEAR WHAT HE SAYS, AND THIS IS OUT OF THE NEW KING JAMES 01:01:09.643 --> 01:01:22.753 VERSION, BUT WHAT IT SAYS ABOUT THIS SEED THAT COMES UP AND THE 01:01:22.753 --> 01:01:31.393 GOOD SEED. "FOR THESE ARE THE ONES SOWN ON GOOD GROUND, THOSE 01:01:31.393 --> 01:01:39.313 WHO HEAR THE WORD AND ACCEPT IT." MY TRANSLATION PUTS A 01:01:39.313 --> 01:01:50.923 LITTLE "T" BY THAT AND SAYS "RECEIVE IT." SEE, REAL 01:01:50.923 --> 01:02:00.643 RECEIVING IS REAL ACCEPTING. YOU CAN'T SAY YOU RECEIVE IT WITHOUT 01:02:00.643 --> 01:02:10.094 TRULY ACCEPTING IT. AND ACCEPTING IT MEANS YOU OCCUPY 01:02:10.094 --> 01:02:19.153 IT, YOU APPLY IT, YOU USE IT, YOU PUT IT IN ON PURPOSE. THAT'S 01:02:19.153 --> 01:02:26.804 WHY WHEN THE BIBLE SAYS, I BELIEVE, THEREFORE I SPEAK. I 01:02:26.804 --> 01:02:31.873 CHOOSE WHAT I BELIEVE IN MY HEART, AND I SPEAK IT, AND I 01:02:31.873 --> 01:02:37.454 SPEAK IT, AND I SPEAK IT, AND I SPEAK IT, AND I SPEAK IT, AND I 01:02:37.454 --> 01:02:43.724 SPEAK IT. WHAT I DO? I PROTECT THE WORD. I PROTECT IT, I KEEP 01:02:43.724 --> 01:02:52.034 IT. I KEEP IT, I RECEIVE IT, AND I ACCEPT IT. AND THEN IT BEARS 01:02:52.034 --> 01:03:02.594 FRUIT, IT PRODUCES. IT PRODUCES. BECAUSE OUT OF THE HEARING, AS 01:03:02.594 --> 01:03:09.164 HE EXPLAINED IN THE FIRST SCRIPTURES THAT WE READ, THE 01:03:09.164 --> 01:03:15.181 PLANT WILL NATURALLY PRODUCE WHAT IT'S MEANT TO PRODUCE. IT'S 01:03:15.181 --> 01:03:25.510 IN THE DNA. SO THE WORD OF GOD WILL NATURALLY PRODUCE FAITH. IT 01:03:25.510 --> 01:03:32.443 CAN'T DO ANYTHING ELSE. IT IS THE WORD OF FAITH. SO DON'T EVER 01:03:32.443 --> 01:03:41.503 BLAME IT. DISCOVER ANY ISSUE THAT IS HAVING A PROBLEM, 01:03:41.503 --> 01:03:48.434 ANYTHING THAT'S-- IT'S IN THE HEART. IT'S IN THE HEART. IT'S A 01:03:48.434 --> 01:03:57.554 HEART ISSUE. THAT'S WHAT JESUS EXPLAINED. WHETHER IT'S WEEDS, 01:03:57.554 --> 01:04:01.264 WHETHER IT'S STONES, WHETHER IT'S THE WORLD, DOESN'T MAKE ANY 01:04:01.264 --> 01:04:05.713 DIFFERENCE. BUT THEN HE SAYS, THERE'S GOOD GROUND. THERE'S 01:04:05.713 --> 01:04:10.724 GOOD SOIL. BUT IT'S INTERESTING. I'VE OFTEN THOUGHT-- I THOUGHT 01:04:10.724 --> 01:04:17.773 ABOUT THIS. HE SAYS, BUT SOME OF IT PRODUCES 30. SOME OF IT 01:04:17.773 --> 01:04:25.304 PRODUCES 60. BUT SOME OF IT WILL PRODUCE 100. AND I THOUGHT ABOUT 01:04:25.304 --> 01:04:33.554 THAT, AND I'M THINKING, FARM BOY. FARM BOY THINKING KICKS IN. 01:04:33.554 --> 01:04:38.893 I'VE BEEN IN THOSE FIELDS. THE FIELDS HAS GOT ROCKS OVER THERE 01:04:38.893 --> 01:04:48.914 IN THAT CORNER, WEEDS OVER IN THAT PATCH, AND A PATH SOMEPLACE 01:04:48.914 --> 01:04:55.664 THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF IT WHERE PEOPLE HAVE DRIVEN. BUT THERE'S 01:04:55.664 --> 01:05:02.954 GOOD SPOTS. BUT SOMETIMES THERE'S ONLY SO MUCH GOOD AND 01:05:02.954 --> 01:05:08.293 THE SEED ONLY HITS ON 30% SO IT ONLY PRODUCES ABOUT 30%. THERE'S 01:05:08.293 --> 01:05:12.673 OTHER PLACES WHERE IT CAN PRODUCE 60% BECAUSE THERE'S THAT 01:05:12.673 --> 01:05:17.414 MUCH GOOD GROUND. BUT THEN THERE'S PLACES WHERE THE ROCKS 01:05:17.414 --> 01:05:29.114 ARE PICKED UP, THE WEEDS ARE CUT DOWN, THE PATH IS SOFTENED, AND 01:05:29.114 --> 01:05:46.994 GUESS WHAT? YOU GET 100. WHERE ARE YOU AT? HOW DO I GET THERE? 01:05:49.994 --> 01:06:00.403 KEEPING YOUR HEARTS SOFT. HOW DO I KEEP MY HEART SOFT? IT ALL 01:06:00.403 --> 01:06:06.733 BEGINS WITH THIS. WE'LL TURN TO THE BOOK OF JOHN, THE EIGHTH 01:06:06.733 --> 01:06:19.184 CHAPTER. JESUS WARNS THESE PEOPLE IN JOHN, THE EIGHTH 01:06:19.184 --> 01:06:33.014 CHAPTER, VERSES, VERSE 43. JESUS SAYS TO THE JEWS, "WHY DO YOU 01:06:33.014 --> 01:06:38.833 NOT UNDERSTAND MY SPEECH? BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT ABLE TO 01:06:38.833 --> 01:06:50.804 LISTEN TO MY WORDS." IN VERSE 47, HE SAYS, "HE WHO IS OF GOD 01:06:50.804 --> 01:06:57.043 HEARS GOD'S WORDS. THEREFORE, YOU DO NOT HEAR BECAUSE YOU ARE 01:06:57.043 --> 01:07:02.864 NOT OF GOD." AND YOU CAN READ THINGS LIKE THAT ALL THE WAY 01:07:02.864 --> 01:07:08.684 THROUGH CHAPTERS FIVE, SIX, SEVEN, AND EIGHT, AND NINE. BUT 01:07:08.684 --> 01:07:18.554 I WANT TO TURN TO CHAPTER SEVEN AND READ WHAT I THINK IS THE 01:07:18.554 --> 01:07:27.043 SYNOPSIS OF WHAT JESUS IS GETTING ACROSS. THE BEGINNING OF 01:07:27.043 --> 01:07:34.423 CHOOSING TO HEARING BEGINS WITH THIS. IN JOHN CHAPTER SEVEN, 01:07:34.423 --> 01:07:42.284 VERSE 16 AND 17, JESUS SAYS, "MY DOCTRINE IS NOT MINE, BUT HE WHO 01:07:42.284 --> 01:07:54.704 SENT ME. IF ANYONE WILLS TO DO HIS WILL, HE SHALL KNOW 01:07:54.704 --> 01:08:00.074 CONCERNING THE DOCTRINE, WHETHER IT IS FROM GOD OR WHETHER I 01:08:00.074 --> 01:08:04.664 SPEAK ON MY OWN AUTHORITY." IF YOU WANT TO KNOW AND KNOW HOW TO 01:08:04.664 --> 01:08:09.764 HEAR, THE FIRST THING YOU HAVE TO DO IS MAKE A DECISION. I WANT 01:08:09.764 --> 01:08:19.573 HIS WILL, NOT MINE. THAT'S THE FIRST STEP TO HEARING. YOU'LL 01:08:19.573 --> 01:08:22.514 NEVER HEAR, YOU'LL NEVER UNDERSTAND. THAT'S WHY PEOPLE, 01:08:22.514 --> 01:08:24.583 THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO CAN'T UNDERSTAND. I CAN'T UNDERSTAND 01:08:24.583 --> 01:08:32.444 HEALING. YOU PROBABLY NEVER WILL, BECAUSE YOU WOULDN'T WALK 01:08:32.444 --> 01:08:39.493 IN IT. YOU WOULDN'T PRACTICE IT. YOU WOULDN'T LIVE BY IT. YOU 01:08:39.493 --> 01:08:44.713 WOULDN'T BE MOTIVATED TO STEP OUT TO DO IT. YOU DON'T 01:08:44.713 --> 01:08:50.203 UNDERSTAND IT. SOME PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND FINANCE. LIKE PASTOR 01:08:50.203 --> 01:08:56.113 MIKE SAID, THEY FIND A REASON AND EXCUSE. WHY? BECAUSE THEY 01:08:56.113 --> 01:09:05.863 WON'T HEAR IT. THEY CAN'T HEAR IT BECAUSE THEY WON'T DO IT. THE 01:09:05.863 --> 01:09:12.764 FIRST STEP, THE FIRST STEP IS I GOT TO BE WILLING. FOR A FARMER, 01:09:12.764 --> 01:09:23.113 THE FIRST STEP, I GOT TO PUT THAT SEED IN THE GROUND. I GOT 01:09:23.113 --> 01:09:26.713 TO PUT THAT SEED IN THE GROUND. I GOT TO BE WILLING TO PUT THAT 01:09:26.713 --> 01:09:29.054 SEED IN THE GROUND. IF IT'S GOING TO GROW, IF IT'S GOING TO 01:09:29.054 --> 01:09:31.453 PRODUCE, I GOT TO BE WILLING TO GO OUT THERE AND PUT IT IN THE 01:09:31.453 --> 01:09:37.333 GROUND. AND THE NATURAL STATEMENT FOR ME IS, IF I'M 01:09:37.333 --> 01:09:40.966 GOING TO HEAR THIS WORD AND BELIEVE THIS WORD AND RECEIVE 01:09:40.966 --> 01:09:44.113 THIS WORD AND RECEIVE THE RESULTS OF THE PLANT THAT IT 01:09:44.113 --> 01:09:47.533 WILL PRODUCE, THE HEARING THAT IT WILL ACCOMPLISH, I HAVE TO 01:09:47.533 --> 01:09:53.283 RECEIVE IT. AND I HAVE TO BE WILLING TO LET IT BE HIS WILL, 01:09:54.764 --> 01:09:58.724 HIS WAY. AND I HAVE TO CHANGE HOW I ACT, HOW I THINK, HOW I 01:09:58.724 --> 01:10:05.594 TALK, HOW I AM. I HAVE TO CHANGE ME. NOT IN THE SENSE OF MY DOING 01:10:05.594 --> 01:10:14.264 IT, BUT MY YIELDING TO IT. HE'LL PRODUCE THE RESULTS, BUT I GOT 01:10:14.264 --> 01:10:20.984 TO YIELD. I GOT TO RECEIVE. I GOT TO RECEIVE. I GOT TO KEEP 01:10:20.984 --> 01:10:26.054 RECEIVING. THAT'S WHY THE CONCEPT OF THE HEARING, AS IT 01:10:26.054 --> 01:10:30.823 TALKS ABOUT, FAITH COMES BY HEARING. HEARING BY THE WORD OF 01:10:30.823 --> 01:10:34.425 GOD IS A CONTINUAL WORD. WHY IS THAT? BECAUSE THE PLANTS HAVE TO 01:10:34.425 --> 01:10:40.920 KEEP GROWING. THE PLANTS CAN NEVER STOP. WHEN THE PLANTS STOP 01:10:40.920 --> 01:10:44.039 PRODUCING, WHEN THE PLANTS AREN'T THERE, WHEN THERE ISN'T 01:10:44.039 --> 01:10:52.470 PLANTS GROWING, THERE'S NOT GONNA BE ANY HARVEST. SO YOU GOT 01:10:52.470 --> 01:10:57.119 THAT, YOU'RE NOT DONE JUST 'CAUSE YOU'VE HEARD IT ONCE, OR 01:10:57.119 --> 01:11:00.479 YOU'VE HEARD IT TWICE, OR YOU'VE HEARD IT BEFORE, OR YOU'VE HEARD 01:11:00.479 --> 01:11:04.109 IT, YOU GOTTA HEAR IT AGAIN, BECAUSE YOU GOTTA SEE THE PLANTS 01:11:04.109 --> 01:11:07.738 ARE STILL GROWING, THE SEEDS STILL PRODUCING, THE SEEDS GOTTA 01:11:07.738 --> 01:11:11.729 KEEP GOING, THE HEARING HAS TO CONTINUE, AND CONTINUE, AND GO 01:11:11.729 --> 01:11:15.000 ON, AND ON, AND ON. AND WE OUGHT TO BE ABLE TO SEE THAT IN THIS 01:11:15.000 --> 01:11:19.710 COUNTRY, BECAUSE WE WATCH THE CORN COME UP EVERY YEAR, AND THE 01:11:19.710 --> 01:11:23.909 BEANS, AND WHATEVER ELSE IS PLANTED OUT THERE. AND WE EXPECT 01:11:23.909 --> 01:11:32.443 THE HARVEST. BUT SOME HARVESTS TAKE YEARS, SOME TAKE MONTHS, 01:11:33.689 --> 01:11:43.604 SOME TAKES WEEKS. AND IT'S THE SAME WITH THE WORDS OF GOD. IN 01:11:43.604 --> 01:11:47.189 SOME SITUATIONS IT SEEMS LIKE IT HAPPENS THAT FAST, IN SOME 01:11:47.189 --> 01:11:53.430 SITUATIONS IT TAKES LONGER. DON'T YOU, CAN'T YOU TELL ME 01:11:53.430 --> 01:12:04.680 WHY? NO. I DON'T KNOW. I DON'T KNOW. I DON'T KNOW ALL THE 01:12:04.680 --> 01:12:10.920 INGREDIENTS THAT IT TAKES FOR THE SEED TO GROW. ALL THE 01:12:10.920 --> 01:12:14.880 NUTRIENTS AND ALL THE THINGS. I DON'T KNOW WHAT AT ALL IT TAKES 01:12:14.880 --> 01:12:24.060 FOR IT TO WORK. I JUST KNOW IT WORKS. I JUST PUT THE SEED IN 01:12:24.060 --> 01:12:32.279 AND GO TO SLEEP, AND WAKE UP THE NEXT DAY EXPECTING THE SEED TO 01:12:32.279 --> 01:12:37.265 CONTINUE TO GROW. AND EVENTUALLY COMES THE PLANT, AND AS THE 01:12:37.265 --> 01:12:41.069 PLANT GROWS AND THE HEARING GROWS, AND THE UNDERSTANDING 01:12:41.069 --> 01:12:45.479 GROWS, AND THE POWER COMES, THEN IT EVENTUALLY, IT BEGINS TO 01:12:45.479 --> 01:12:51.000 PRODUCE, AND SUDDENLY, THE SUBSTANCE OF THE THING HOPED 01:12:51.000 --> 01:12:57.090 FOR. YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND, SEE, HEARING PRODUCES HOPE. 01:13:00.000 --> 01:13:04.319 'CAUSE WHEN YOU TRULY HEAR, YOU BEGIN TO GET A VISION FOR WHAT'S 01:13:04.319 --> 01:13:11.609 GOING TO BE. THAT'S WHAT THE FARMER SEES OUT THERE IN THE 01:13:11.609 --> 01:13:17.369 FIELD, YOU KNOW. HE'S NOW LOOKING OUT THERE IN THAT FIELD 01:13:17.369 --> 01:13:25.619 AND HE SEES HOPE. THE PLANTS ARE GROWING, THE PLANTS ARE TALL, 01:13:25.619 --> 01:13:33.988 THE STOCKS ARE STRONG. HE SEES HOPE. HE SEES THE VISION. 01:13:33.988 --> 01:13:40.859 THERE'S A HARVEST COMING. AND THEY'LL BE OUT THERE NOW GETTING 01:13:40.859 --> 01:13:48.801 ALL THEIR MACHINERY READY FOR THE HARVEST. THAT'S HOPE. WHAT'S 01:13:48.801 --> 01:13:55.170 YOUR EXPECTATION? YOUR EXPECTATION IS TIED TO YOUR 01:13:55.170 --> 01:13:59.579 HOPE. YOUR HOPE IS TIED TO YOUR VISION. YOUR VISION IS TIED TO 01:13:59.579 --> 01:14:09.840 HOW MUCH YOU HEAR. FOR WITH THE MEASURE YOU MEASURE IT. THAT'S 01:14:09.840 --> 01:14:21.407 HOW IT'S GOING TO COME. ARE YOU WILLING? ARE YOU FAITHFUL? WHAT 01:14:21.407 --> 01:14:26.069 DO YOU MEAN FAITHFUL? FAITHFUL TO THE SOIL. FAITHFUL TO PLANT 01:14:26.069 --> 01:14:31.050 THE SEED. FAITHFUL TO RECEIVE. FAITHFUL TO KEEP YOUR HEART 01:14:31.050 --> 01:14:36.750 OPEN. KEEP YOUR HEART RECEPTIVE. KEEP YOUR HEART ACTIVELY DEALING 01:14:36.750 --> 01:14:40.645 WITH THE CHALLENGES AND THE PROBLEMS AND THE SITUATIONS AND 01:14:40.645 --> 01:14:49.050 THE CIRCUMSTANCES. ACTIVELY LETTING GOD BE GOD. IT'S YOUR 01:14:49.050 --> 01:14:57.659 HEART. SEE, THIS IS WHAT THE DEVIL DON'T WANT. HE DON'T WANT 01:14:57.659 --> 01:15:07.020 YOU TO KNOW. IT'S YOU. I THOUGHT IT WAS UP TO GOD. NO, IT'S 01:15:07.020 --> 01:15:11.520 ALREADY BEEN UP TO HIM. HE'S ALREADY GIVEN HIS WORD. HE'S 01:15:11.520 --> 01:15:15.840 ALREADY DECLARED HIS TRUTH. HE'S ALREADY PLANTED THE SEED OF HIS 01:15:15.840 --> 01:15:19.979 SON. AND HE'S ALREADY GIVEN US THE WORD OF EXPECTATION AND THE 01:15:19.979 --> 01:15:24.329 WORD OF POWER. NOW IT'S UP TO THAT WORD TO DO ITS WORK IN US. 01:15:26.670 --> 01:15:30.600 AND IT'S OUR POSITION HOW MUCH OF IT WE GET, HOW MUCH OF IT WE 01:15:30.600 --> 01:15:44.970 DON'T. IT'S UP TO US. YOU MEAN GOD'S COUNTING ON ME? THAT'S 01:15:44.970 --> 01:15:55.560 WHERE HE SET UP THE SYSTEM. HE GAVE YOU THE HEART. AND THE 01:15:55.560 --> 01:16:01.979 HEART WILL PRODUCE THE SEED THAT IS IN IT. PLANT THE RIGHT SEED, 01:16:03.180 --> 01:16:07.171 KEEP IT IN YOUR HEART, PROTECT IT, AND IT'LL PRODUCE LIFE. 01:16:09.779 --> 01:16:14.970 IT'LL PRODUCE LIFE EVERY TIME. AND LIFE IS ALWAYS ATTACHED TO 01:16:14.970 --> 01:16:22.800 FAITH. BECAUSE WITHOUT FAITH YOU CAN'T PLEASE HIM. AND IT'LL 01:16:22.800 --> 01:16:37.454 PRODUCE THAT LIFE OF FAITH. FOR WE LIVE BY FAITH. I WANT YOU TO 01:16:37.454 --> 01:16:46.829 REALIZE IT'S SIMPLE. BUT I'VE BEEN A FARM BOY, AND FARMING IS 01:16:46.829 --> 01:16:58.140 NOT EASY. IT'S THE CHALLENGES OF DOING ALL THAT IT TAKES TO KEEP 01:16:58.140 --> 01:17:09.720 THE SOIL, TO WORK THE SOIL, AND TO BELIEVE FOR THE SOIL. BUT 01:17:09.720 --> 01:17:21.119 IT'S SIMPLE. PLANT A SEED FROM THE RIGHT SOURCE AND LET IT 01:17:21.119 --> 01:17:31.801 GROW. IT'S THAT SIMPLE AND THAT HARD ALL AT THE SAME TIME. 01:17:37.079 --> 01:17:43.890 FATHER, I THANK YOU THAT YOU HAVE GIVEN US THE KEYS TO THE 01:17:43.890 --> 01:17:50.939 KINGDOM, THE POWER TO UNDERSTAND THE REVELATION AND THE KNOWING 01:17:54.840 --> 01:18:00.270 OF WHAT WE CAN BE AS WE COME TO YOU, THE AUTHOR AND THE FINISHER 01:18:00.270 --> 01:18:09.270 OF OUR FAITH. I THANK YOU, FATHER, THAT AS THESE WORDS GO 01:18:09.270 --> 01:18:12.899 FORTH, THAT THEY WOULD BRING REVELATION AND UNDERSTANDING 01:18:12.899 --> 01:18:19.470 INTO THE HEARTS OF THE HEARERS, THAT AS THEY ARE RECEIVED, THAT 01:18:19.470 --> 01:18:23.130 YOUR PRESENCE AND YOUR POWER WILL PLACE YOUR ANOINTING UPON 01:18:23.130 --> 01:18:30.090 THEM. TO BRING A FRESH UNDERSTANDING AND A FRESH 01:18:30.090 --> 01:18:35.819 REVELATION SO THAT THEY CAN WALK IN THE POWER, WE CAN WALK IN 01:18:35.819 --> 01:18:45.810 THAT POWER OF POSITION, OF PRODUCING YOUR RESULTS, THE LIFE 01:18:45.810 --> 01:18:51.119 THAT YOU HAVE FOR US, THE LIFE OF VICTORY, THE LIFE OF POWER, 01:18:51.119 --> 01:18:58.229 THE LIFE OF GOOD. I ASK YOU, FATHER, BY THE SPIRIT OF 01:18:58.229 --> 01:19:06.238 REVELATION AND WISDOM, OPEN OUR EYES. I ASK YOU, FATHER, INSTILL 01:19:06.238 --> 01:19:11.850 IN US A DETERMINATION AND AN UNDERSTANDING OF HOW TO DEAL 01:19:11.850 --> 01:19:17.069 WITH THE PARTS OF OUR HEART THAT WE'VE SOMETIMES JUST IGNORED, 01:19:18.449 --> 01:19:23.340 ALLOWING DOUBTS OR FEARS OR UNCERTAINTIES OR WORRY OR 01:19:23.340 --> 01:19:28.560 WHATEVER IT MIGHT BE TO CAUSE PROBLEMS. REVEAL IT TO US, LORD, 01:19:28.560 --> 01:19:34.822 SO THAT WE CAN BE CLEANSED AND WE CAN BE OPEN VESSELS FOR YOU. 01:19:36.779 --> 01:19:42.600 THANK YOU LORD GOD THAT AS YOU TAKE THE TRUTH THAT YOU HAVE PUT 01:19:42.600 --> 01:19:49.829 BEFORE US, THAT YOU CAN REVEAL THE LIFE AND THE LIGHT OF THAT 01:19:49.829 --> 01:19:57.180 TRUTH INTO OUR LIVES SO WE CAN LIVE IT, NOT JUST BELIEVE IT AND 01:19:57.180 --> 01:20:01.529 LET IT GO, BUT WE CAN ACTUALLY BELIEVE IT IN THE SENSE OF DOING 01:20:01.529 --> 01:20:09.479 IT, THAT WE WILL BE DOERS OF THE WORD AND NOT HEARERS ONLY. I 01:20:09.479 --> 01:20:14.729 THANK YOU FOR IT, FATHER. I THANK YOU FOR YOUR GRACE AND 01:20:14.729 --> 01:20:22.738 YOUR POWER AND YOUR PRESENCE. STAND UP WITH ME. DECLARE THIS 01:20:22.738 --> 01:20:29.340 WITH ME. I BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD. AND I 01:20:29.340 --> 01:20:37.529 RECEIVE THAT POWER TO KNOW AND WALK IN HIS GOODNESS AND HIS 01:20:37.529 --> 01:20:44.640 REVELATION FOR MY LIFE SO THAT I CAN SEE THE POWER OF HIS WORD 01:20:45.659 --> 01:20:50.317 COME TO FRUITION, COMPLETING HIS GOOD 01:20:50.317 --> 01:20:54.020 WORK THAT HE HAS BEGUN IN ME. 01:20:54.979 --> 01:20:58.579 AND EVERYBODY SAID, AMEN. BE BLESSED. 01:20:59.025 --> 01:21:03.596 (APPLAUSE)