1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:06,760 Speaker 1: I want you to turn with me two romans twelve, 2 00:00:06,840 --> 00:00:10,840 Speaker 1: two romans twelve two turn there with me. If you're 3 00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:15,640 Speaker 1: watching Welcome, this is the Adala Shuttlesworth podcast. Somebody probably 4 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:17,440 Speaker 1: turned you on because they're like, is this a crazy 5 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:20,360 Speaker 1: Puerto Rican? You don't know what she's gonna say. She 6 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:23,560 Speaker 1: loves Jesus. You should listen to her. And here you 7 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:28,440 Speaker 1: are taking the advice. Thank you for being here. And 8 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:31,240 Speaker 1: then we've got the people that have been with us 9 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:35,720 Speaker 1: for so long. Thank you. Also, I love you. You're 10 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:38,519 Speaker 1: supposed to do the other half? Come meet me at 11 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:44,800 Speaker 1: the screen. There it is. So there's that, let's get 12 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:47,480 Speaker 1: into it. I had a beautiful question in class today 13 00:00:48,479 --> 00:00:55,880 Speaker 1: and the girl was like, how do I how do 14 00:00:55,920 --> 00:01:01,960 Speaker 1: I believe for things without there being a hesitation with 15 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:05,319 Speaker 1: my brain? How do I how do I engage fully 16 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:09,840 Speaker 1: believe and not have What is that? God? Bless you, 17 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:13,600 Speaker 1: my little pooky pants. Oh my gosh, give me that fork. 18 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:17,280 Speaker 1: I just want to say thank you for the salad 19 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:24,120 Speaker 1: board and thank you for Olivia because she made this salad. Somehow, 20 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:28,480 Speaker 1: she had a part to play in creating this salad. 21 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:30,399 Speaker 1: In Jesus same, I'm not gonna eat this in front 22 00:01:30,440 --> 00:01:34,120 Speaker 1: of you. Yes, I am how are we kidding? So 23 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:42,320 Speaker 1: as I wish I had the other the other salad dressing, 24 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:46,160 Speaker 1: because that other one was not pink, it was white. Yes, 25 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:49,920 Speaker 1: so whenever they package this up, they're not giving you 26 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:53,320 Speaker 1: the one that like is incredible. This is good though. 27 00:01:55,560 --> 00:01:59,120 Speaker 1: So she asked this question and she's like, uh, yeah, 28 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:01,760 Speaker 1: so I want to believe, but it seems like I 29 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 1: can talk myself out of it, and I want you 30 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:07,160 Speaker 1: to see with clarity what the scriptures say. So if 31 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:09,560 Speaker 1: you can put it up in the Amplified Classic, that 32 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:11,640 Speaker 1: would be great. Is anybody back there to do that? 33 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:16,880 Speaker 1: If not, I'll move on with my life. Okay. Romans 34 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:26,600 Speaker 1: twelve two, what's it say? Not written in the New 35 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 1: King James Georgia. It says, and do not be conformed 36 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:37,399 Speaker 1: to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of 37 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:41,919 Speaker 1: your mind, that you may prove what is that good 38 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:45,840 Speaker 1: and acceptable and perfect will of God. Okay, here it 39 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:48,639 Speaker 1: is in the amplified Let me see it in the 40 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:58,280 Speaker 1: amplified adam no, amplified, Oh my gosh, that's all. Do 41 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:02,280 Speaker 1: not be conformed to this world, this age fashioned after 42 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:09,440 Speaker 1: and adapted to its external superficial customs, but be transformed, 43 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:15,440 Speaker 1: changed by the entire renewal of your mind, by its 44 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:19,880 Speaker 1: new ideals and its new attitude, so that you may 45 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:23,400 Speaker 1: prove for yourself what is the good and acceptable and 46 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:26,440 Speaker 1: perfect will of God, even the thing which is good 47 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 1: and acceptable and perfect in His sight for you. Let 48 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:34,519 Speaker 1: me tell you this is such a powerful thing, because 49 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:37,640 Speaker 1: what people don't understand is that everything. When this Bible 50 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:41,600 Speaker 1: talks about not lacking anything, you lack no good thing. 51 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:50,720 Speaker 1: You are perfectly perfect in the spirit. Okay, there is nothing. 52 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:53,440 Speaker 1: There's no deficit in the spirit with you and I, 53 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 1: everything inside of us, everything that's attributed to God, which 54 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:02,160 Speaker 1: is our spirit, man and woman, is perfect. And so 55 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:08,240 Speaker 1: in our spirit we understand that that perfect will of God, 56 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:12,200 Speaker 1: everything he has in store for you, has already been given. 57 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:16,799 Speaker 1: That's why we don't have to beg God to heal 58 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:21,279 Speaker 1: us and beg God to forgive us. Upon receiving Jesus, 59 00:04:21,760 --> 00:04:25,719 Speaker 1: there was a born again experience that happened, and so 60 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:31,400 Speaker 1: we understand from Genesis that when Adam and Eveson, something died, 61 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:36,120 Speaker 1: and that death was the spirit person, and that spirit 62 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:42,239 Speaker 1: person was their direct connection to God right, all power, 63 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:46,359 Speaker 1: all dominion, all authority. It shifted right back into the 64 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:51,440 Speaker 1: hands or into the hands of the devil. And so 65 00:04:52,839 --> 00:04:57,040 Speaker 1: the second Adam came in Jesus, the last atom came 66 00:04:57,080 --> 00:05:02,440 Speaker 1: in Jesus, and he wrecked fight everything right. So he 67 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:06,920 Speaker 1: paid the penalty and he made it so that now 68 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:13,120 Speaker 1: we hold the keys of authority. But the thing is, 69 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:18,080 Speaker 1: just because we're saved does not mean that we are 70 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:24,880 Speaker 1: walking the way Jesus would walk this earth. Just because 71 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:28,120 Speaker 1: we're saved doesn't mean that we are laying hands on 72 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:32,040 Speaker 1: people and seeing them recover. Very few people do that. 73 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:35,360 Speaker 1: Just because we are born again doesn't mean that all 74 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:38,320 Speaker 1: of a sudden we could fish in a gold coin 75 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:40,120 Speaker 1: is going to be there to pay for your taxes 76 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:45,120 Speaker 1: and those things. So why why haven't those things happened? 77 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:50,479 Speaker 1: And the problem is is that you have to align 78 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:53,760 Speaker 1: your mind to the perfect will found in the Word 79 00:05:53,760 --> 00:05:58,280 Speaker 1: of God. And once you begin to allow the Word 80 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:05,520 Speaker 1: of God to permeate your heart, your mind, everything about you, 81 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:08,200 Speaker 1: once you become one with the Word, then you can 82 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:13,080 Speaker 1: start to believe for X y Z. Right now, you 83 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:20,080 Speaker 1: go from identifying the fact that, okay, maybe it's possible 84 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:25,839 Speaker 1: to it's possible to I now have to activate it 85 00:06:25,880 --> 00:06:29,679 Speaker 1: by my faith. So it's not just about saying maybe 86 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:32,680 Speaker 1: it is or yeah, the word of God says it is. 87 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:36,359 Speaker 1: Now you're stepping into the realm of activating it and 88 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:40,640 Speaker 1: proving it for yourself, like walking it out, stepping into 89 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:43,600 Speaker 1: it and coming to the realization that when it comes 90 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:48,000 Speaker 1: to faith, I am responsible to see these things come 91 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:51,360 Speaker 1: into play. And for a lot of you, you've had 92 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:56,080 Speaker 1: like kind of like a you scapegoat a lot you 93 00:06:56,640 --> 00:07:02,560 Speaker 1: allow for certain individuals to take responsibility. Well, once this happens, 94 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:05,440 Speaker 1: once he hires me, then I know that it's God's will. 95 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:07,719 Speaker 1: Know if God has given you a word, and for 96 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:09,680 Speaker 1: some of you it might be a prophetic word. You're 97 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:12,320 Speaker 1: waiting around for that prophetic word to happen. And that's 98 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:15,920 Speaker 1: not how that works. First of all, if somebody speaks 99 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:19,560 Speaker 1: something to you prophetically, it should already have registered in 100 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:23,440 Speaker 1: your spirit. It shouldn't be breaking news. It should be 101 00:07:23,640 --> 00:07:29,560 Speaker 1: news that already there's knowledge of it. And you're like, oh, 102 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:33,760 Speaker 1: that bears that bears witness in my spirit. That's what 103 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:36,520 Speaker 1: the old timers would say. That's just a fancy way 104 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:39,480 Speaker 1: of saying, like that hit Because I've been feeling that 105 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:43,280 Speaker 1: like it's not out of you know, left field. I 106 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:45,559 Speaker 1: know that that came from the heart of God because 107 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:47,840 Speaker 1: it was already in there. Okay. So then now, what 108 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:50,400 Speaker 1: with the prophetic word and all that kind of stuff. 109 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:53,080 Speaker 1: Do we just well, it was prophesied back in nineteen 110 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:56,120 Speaker 1: eighty four that I was gonna be x y Z 111 00:07:56,320 --> 00:08:00,840 Speaker 1: and nothing's happened. Do you think that is God's responsibility? No, 112 00:08:02,520 --> 00:08:06,560 Speaker 1: it is our responsibility to get into the Word and 113 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:12,520 Speaker 1: have the Word of God break us free from that mold. Okay. 114 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:15,400 Speaker 1: I want you to see put that scripture back up 115 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:20,160 Speaker 1: here in the amplified about that word conform, okay, and 116 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:24,000 Speaker 1: it says, uh, do not be conformed to this world 117 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:28,160 Speaker 1: this age. So look at what you have to break 118 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:30,080 Speaker 1: out of after you get saved. And I'm telling you 119 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:34,160 Speaker 1: this is this is all about salvation after salvation. Okay. 120 00:08:35,040 --> 00:08:37,200 Speaker 1: So if you think just getting saved is gonna cut it, 121 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:41,360 Speaker 1: it's not. That's the first step. Hallelujah, You're going to heaven. 122 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:45,280 Speaker 1: But if you want to live a supernatural life, there 123 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:49,280 Speaker 1: is something that's required of you to live this way. 124 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:56,280 Speaker 1: And this word conformed means that it's it's it's a mold. 125 00:08:56,360 --> 00:08:58,000 Speaker 1: Let me, let me, let me read it to you. 126 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:02,959 Speaker 1: In the Greek to the the word conforms means cis cometaso. 127 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:07,880 Speaker 1: I don't think that's the way you say, meaning to 128 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:13,200 Speaker 1: shape one's behavior according to a pattern or a mold. 129 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:18,000 Speaker 1: So now we've got to break free from this mold, 130 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:23,280 Speaker 1: from this system. That's where uh, that word cist cometaso 131 00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:29,280 Speaker 1: mixed cometas probably comes from the systematic ways that you 132 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:33,960 Speaker 1: are stuck. Why, because of your upbringing, because of culture, 133 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:38,160 Speaker 1: because of media, and you've allowed those things to tell 134 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:42,160 Speaker 1: you who you are. You've allowed those things to speak 135 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:45,240 Speaker 1: to you, and now you're believing it, and now you 136 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:48,200 Speaker 1: feel trapped and you feel like I can't progress, I 137 00:09:48,280 --> 00:09:50,760 Speaker 1: can't move on. I'll tell you a story. I know 138 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:57,160 Speaker 1: this guy and he's in the prison ministry and he's 139 00:09:57,200 --> 00:10:00,520 Speaker 1: he's he was an ex he's an ex addict. But 140 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:03,920 Speaker 1: in his mind AA has instructed him to identify with 141 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:06,440 Speaker 1: the fact that he will always be an addict and 142 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:09,200 Speaker 1: he'll never break free from that kind of addiction. And 143 00:10:09,280 --> 00:10:13,480 Speaker 1: when you introduce yourself to the group, you say, Hi, 144 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:19,520 Speaker 1: my name is Zadalus. I am an addict. Well that's 145 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:22,560 Speaker 1: not really gonna work in this line. This isn't gonna 146 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:27,079 Speaker 1: really work with Christianity because we are told to actually 147 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:30,640 Speaker 1: break out of that mold. I can't identify with the 148 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:34,079 Speaker 1: old because according to the Word of God, the Bible 149 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:38,320 Speaker 1: says that I've crucified my old man. That person is 150 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:41,040 Speaker 1: dead and buried. And in fact, the Bible even says 151 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:45,080 Speaker 1: look that up for me, Olivia, about nailing our sins 152 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:48,760 Speaker 1: to the cross of Jesus. Put that scripture up when 153 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:52,120 Speaker 1: you get it, let me know. So we are quite 154 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:56,320 Speaker 1: literally to identify with our elder brother Jesus in his 155 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:01,280 Speaker 1: death and say, whatever happened back there, that's where my 156 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:05,960 Speaker 1: sin went too. I can't identify my with with my sin. 157 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:08,240 Speaker 1: I can't identify with the addiction. I can't do that 158 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:13,280 Speaker 1: any longer. That person anger, jealousy, quarreling, backbiting. I got 159 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:17,120 Speaker 1: to put that to death once and for all. And 160 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:22,760 Speaker 1: when I do, then I can break free from that system. 161 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:27,280 Speaker 1: And it says it's it's according. It shapes your behavior 162 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:34,440 Speaker 1: according to a pattern or a mold. Turn with me 163 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:38,280 Speaker 1: back there in media Colossians two fourteen, and let me 164 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:45,439 Speaker 1: see it in the amp. That's kind of tight blotting 165 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:54,920 Speaker 1: out the handwritten of ordinances amplified, having canceled out the 166 00:11:55,040 --> 00:11:59,960 Speaker 1: certificate of debt consisting of legal demands which were in 167 00:12:00,679 --> 00:12:04,839 Speaker 1: against us and which rehostile to us. And this certificate 168 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:08,600 Speaker 1: he has set aside and completely removed by nailing it 169 00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:10,240 Speaker 1: to the cross. Let me see it in the New 170 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:18,160 Speaker 1: Living translation, because I don't think that's it. He canceled 171 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:21,000 Speaker 1: the record of the charges against us and took it 172 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:23,400 Speaker 1: away by nailing it to the cross. There it is. 173 00:12:23,679 --> 00:12:27,320 Speaker 1: That's a little bit clearer. He canceled the record of 174 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:30,959 Speaker 1: the charges against us, and he took it away by 175 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:36,760 Speaker 1: nailing it to the cross Olivia cross reference Colossians two fourteen, 176 00:12:36,800 --> 00:12:40,559 Speaker 1: with any other scriptures out there that might be pertinent 177 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:45,000 Speaker 1: to that. So look at that. We have to identify 178 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:48,600 Speaker 1: the weakness and the sin and the things of yesterday 179 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:51,720 Speaker 1: as dead and buried. See, because that's what's going to 180 00:12:51,760 --> 00:12:55,120 Speaker 1: continue to be the blockage in your life from really 181 00:12:55,640 --> 00:12:58,839 Speaker 1: achieving everything God has in store for you. Turn with 182 00:12:58,880 --> 00:13:01,160 Speaker 1: me again to Romance twelve to two, and you can 183 00:13:01,240 --> 00:13:06,200 Speaker 1: see it there, right right there, right in front of you. 184 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:11,160 Speaker 1: It says, do not be conformed to the ways of 185 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:16,160 Speaker 1: this world. Don't copy the behaviors of the world any 186 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:20,680 Speaker 1: longer with its superficial values in customs. So this is 187 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:24,960 Speaker 1: the problem when it comes to us going back here 188 00:13:25,520 --> 00:13:30,079 Speaker 1: to the acceptable and perfect will for our lives, we 189 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:34,679 Speaker 1: are not going to be able to accept that perfect 190 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:38,240 Speaker 1: will for God's life. We cannot walk it out until 191 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:42,359 Speaker 1: we first do what get rid of us being conformed 192 00:13:42,559 --> 00:13:46,880 Speaker 1: to the systems of the world. It's superficial values and 193 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:55,120 Speaker 1: it's dumb customs. So this is what we do. So 194 00:13:55,160 --> 00:13:58,440 Speaker 1: how do I get to this place pastor allis where 195 00:13:58,480 --> 00:14:00,800 Speaker 1: I could just believe for a thing, receive it and 196 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:04,120 Speaker 1: not allow my mind to doubt it by reading the 197 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:07,440 Speaker 1: word and I feel I mean, I've said it a 198 00:14:07,559 --> 00:14:11,760 Speaker 1: zillion times on this podcast and people still play. That's 199 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:13,439 Speaker 1: why when when if you want to be a part 200 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:17,280 Speaker 1: of the menstorship program, I wish you would so females only. 201 00:14:17,679 --> 00:14:22,160 Speaker 1: It's a women's mentorship program that we have and we've 202 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:27,600 Speaker 1: got almost fifteen hundred subscribers to it and one of 203 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:31,360 Speaker 1: the things that we are working on. And I just 204 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:35,080 Speaker 1: this is the reason why, especially if you're in the 205 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:37,480 Speaker 1: mentorship program. If you're not in the mentorship program, I'll 206 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:39,640 Speaker 1: have a little bit more grace for you. But if 207 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:42,080 Speaker 1: you're a part of the Mensorship program and you really 208 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:45,680 Speaker 1: want to change, if you really want to step it 209 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:49,560 Speaker 1: up in all kinds of levels in your life and 210 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:52,360 Speaker 1: your business and your marriage and your personal life and 211 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:56,360 Speaker 1: your finances, whatever it might be, I'm gonna. I'm gonna 212 00:14:56,440 --> 00:15:00,200 Speaker 1: hold your behind to the fire. I'm gonna hold it 213 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:04,480 Speaker 1: there and and it's kinna hurt, and it's you're gonna, 214 00:15:04,560 --> 00:15:10,360 Speaker 1: You're gonna this is this is the thing I am 215 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:15,320 Speaker 1: giving of myself. I am I am pouring out an 216 00:15:15,360 --> 00:15:20,200 Speaker 1: offering of myself to these individuals, right and it's up 217 00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:21,920 Speaker 1: to them to listen to what I have to say 218 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:24,000 Speaker 1: or not. And that's okay, you can take it, you 219 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:27,160 Speaker 1: can leave it whatever. But if you want to continue 220 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:33,240 Speaker 1: in and and in this and then ask questions and uh, 221 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:37,280 Speaker 1: you know, complain about certain things that aren't working in 222 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:39,280 Speaker 1: your life, I'm gonna I'm gonna call you out every 223 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:43,120 Speaker 1: single time. There is a requirement when it comes to 224 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:47,080 Speaker 1: stepping into this program, and there wasn't before. But you 225 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:49,800 Speaker 1: know what, I'm at the point, I'm forty years old. Now, 226 00:15:50,040 --> 00:15:52,280 Speaker 1: my fuse is this big. It used to be this 227 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:55,640 Speaker 1: big now it's this big, and so I can't tolerate 228 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:59,240 Speaker 1: people wasting my time and people love that. People love 229 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:05,520 Speaker 1: to waste time because they say they desire change, but 230 00:16:05,560 --> 00:16:08,160 Speaker 1: they don't. You might say it out of your mouth, 231 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:12,880 Speaker 1: but your actions prove differently. And so what do we 232 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:16,360 Speaker 1: do well? We do first things first? And so I've 233 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:21,000 Speaker 1: required prayer, I've required Bible reading, I've required exercise, I've 234 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:23,840 Speaker 1: required you writing your goals and looking at them. What 235 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:35,160 Speaker 1: else have I required? Tie? Then attend church? Those are 236 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:39,040 Speaker 1: like basic fundamental things that if you're not doing the 237 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:44,960 Speaker 1: basic things, why are you freaking out? Like you should 238 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:49,320 Speaker 1: understand that if you're not doing the basic things, there's 239 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:54,640 Speaker 1: going to be repercussions to that. If I quit eating forever, 240 00:16:55,240 --> 00:16:58,840 Speaker 1: I am going to grow very weak. I am going 241 00:16:58,920 --> 00:17:01,760 Speaker 1: to be my bone will be brittle. I'm not gonna 242 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:05,760 Speaker 1: have energy why because I didn't eat? So what is 243 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:08,840 Speaker 1: the remedy? And this is what people don't understand. It's 244 00:17:08,840 --> 00:17:13,000 Speaker 1: like I'm so weak, I'm brittle, I'm broken, I'm tired, 245 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:18,040 Speaker 1: I can't get out of bed, I'm emaciated. What do 246 00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:22,359 Speaker 1: I do? And all I'm saying is eat? But but 247 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:24,520 Speaker 1: there's gotta be Can you just pray for me. No 248 00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:26,680 Speaker 1: and no one can pray you out of this situation. 249 00:17:27,080 --> 00:17:31,399 Speaker 1: Just eat the food. You know what I'm saying. And 250 00:17:32,280 --> 00:17:35,520 Speaker 1: I'm trying to paint the spiritual picture here because that's 251 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:38,200 Speaker 1: what a lot of people do. They're trying to go. 252 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:42,919 Speaker 1: If the pastor could just hear my story and just 253 00:17:43,040 --> 00:17:47,920 Speaker 1: give me a word and then what, it's so much 254 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:53,200 Speaker 1: better finding it yourself, figuring it out yourself, and you 255 00:17:53,280 --> 00:17:56,800 Speaker 1: can do it. That's the brilliance of it all. You 256 00:17:56,880 --> 00:17:59,200 Speaker 1: can do it right now. All you need to do 257 00:17:59,840 --> 00:18:04,040 Speaker 1: is train your mind to what your spirit already knows 258 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:08,160 Speaker 1: to be true. So you need to access the spiritual things. 259 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:11,800 Speaker 1: You need to access perfection. And it can't be with 260 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:15,560 Speaker 1: your mind. You have to be You have to allow 261 00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:21,879 Speaker 1: yourself to change and the change happens, that transformation, that 262 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:28,119 Speaker 1: change happens through the word of God. Do not stay 263 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:32,000 Speaker 1: in that mold you were born into, that mold, you 264 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:35,480 Speaker 1: grew up in that mold. That mold is no longer 265 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:40,879 Speaker 1: going to work because you are now a Christian. And 266 00:18:40,960 --> 00:18:44,639 Speaker 1: if you're a Christian, then God is expecting you to 267 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:50,000 Speaker 1: do something good. Maybe you didn't know that, now you 268 00:18:50,040 --> 00:18:54,600 Speaker 1: know God expects you after you get saved, to feed 269 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:59,080 Speaker 1: the hungry, to clothe the sick, to make disciples, to 270 00:18:59,240 --> 00:19:01,800 Speaker 1: preach the world of God, to be the head and 271 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:05,199 Speaker 1: never the tail, to be blessed when you're coming in 272 00:19:05,240 --> 00:19:08,000 Speaker 1: and when you're going out, that no sickness would come 273 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:11,119 Speaker 1: upon you. Why because you're the salt of the earth. 274 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:14,960 Speaker 1: So you are the light beam, you are the goodness, 275 00:19:15,119 --> 00:19:18,719 Speaker 1: you are the positivity this world needs. That's the whole reason. 276 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:21,879 Speaker 1: And so if you're not exuding that, if you're not 277 00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:26,000 Speaker 1: walking that out, it's because you have not identified the 278 00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:29,879 Speaker 1: problem in your life. And ninety nine percent of the 279 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:35,119 Speaker 1: problems that we face in our lives is a knowledge problem. 280 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:39,679 Speaker 1: Very few times is it the devil himself, you know, 281 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:46,160 Speaker 1: coming against you. It's a word problem. And so put 282 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:50,080 Speaker 1: that scripture back Romans twelfth two. Don't be conformed to 283 00:19:50,119 --> 00:19:54,720 Speaker 1: this world, but be transformed. Let the renewing of God's 284 00:19:54,760 --> 00:20:02,280 Speaker 1: Word transform your life. Romans twelve two. Changed by the 285 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:08,080 Speaker 1: entire renewal of your mind. Okay, so I'm now how 286 00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:10,080 Speaker 1: do I find this renewal. It's found in the Word 287 00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:14,159 Speaker 1: of God, and you're doing it every single day. Because 288 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:18,280 Speaker 1: when you do it every single day, there's power inconsistency, 289 00:20:18,320 --> 00:20:21,320 Speaker 1: and when you do it every single day, it changes 290 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:25,400 Speaker 1: your mindset. And now by its new ideals and its 291 00:20:25,560 --> 00:20:30,320 Speaker 1: new attitudes, I can now prove for myself what is 292 00:20:30,359 --> 00:20:35,520 Speaker 1: the good and acceptable, perfect will of God? Even the 293 00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:40,719 Speaker 1: things which is good and acceptable and perfect mitahkab. So 294 00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:44,960 Speaker 1: I can do all of that simply buy reading the word. 295 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:50,160 Speaker 1: This is so easy, hey, people think it so hard. 296 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:52,560 Speaker 1: And that's why I was like, you can miss me 297 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:55,400 Speaker 1: on asking questions and complaining all all all the time, 298 00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:58,200 Speaker 1: miss me on that when you can't even do basic 299 00:20:58,359 --> 00:21:07,080 Speaker 1: fundamental things. You can't. I you don't go to church 300 00:21:07,119 --> 00:21:10,479 Speaker 1: on Sunday and you're wondering why your house is a mess. 301 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:18,840 Speaker 1: You can't be serious. You're asking the same question. You've 302 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:22,720 Speaker 1: been asking that same question for fifteen years now. Why 303 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:25,520 Speaker 1: has nothing changed. It's not because the Word of God 304 00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:28,320 Speaker 1: has changed and you're trying to get new sources. No, 305 00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:31,600 Speaker 1: you know what to do, you haven't done it. So 306 00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:33,639 Speaker 1: I don't know what to tell you. I don't know 307 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:36,280 Speaker 1: what to tell you. Some people just want to be coddled. 308 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:40,600 Speaker 1: People just want to say I've indeto. I see that 309 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:43,160 Speaker 1: you're going through some things, and what a difficult thing. 310 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:46,679 Speaker 1: It is. And you know what, God, have mercy on you. 311 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:50,119 Speaker 1: You're not going to get that here your husband left you. Okay, 312 00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:54,359 Speaker 1: all right, let's move forward from this. Are you going 313 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:56,959 Speaker 1: to wallow in defeat and be depressed your entire life 314 00:21:57,200 --> 00:22:01,000 Speaker 1: while your babies are around you watching you like a fool? 315 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:04,359 Speaker 1: Is that where we're at right now? And I know 316 00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:06,600 Speaker 1: it hurts. I know that it's painful to have to 317 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:13,880 Speaker 1: walk that out. I see it. I can identify how 318 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:17,000 Speaker 1: much that sucks in your life. But what sucks even 319 00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:20,639 Speaker 1: more is that you've allowed the enemy to succeed in 320 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:22,399 Speaker 1: his planned for your life and for the lives of 321 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:25,959 Speaker 1: your children. So what do I do? I identify with the 322 00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:31,119 Speaker 1: fact that everything starts with me. The responsibility for my 323 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:36,240 Speaker 1: breakthrough starts with me. I have to identify the problem, 324 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:39,879 Speaker 1: attack it with the word of God, and wrap my 325 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:43,960 Speaker 1: faith around that situation. To trust God to take me 326 00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:47,240 Speaker 1: into a place where it's gonna be good and everything's 327 00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:49,640 Speaker 1: gonna be great. In fact, it'll be better than before. 328 00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:55,199 Speaker 1: That takes faith. So this isn't for everybody. I understand that. 329 00:22:56,760 --> 00:23:00,399 Speaker 1: I understand that, I understand that life can get hard. 330 00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:04,120 Speaker 1: I understand that and people like to live right there 331 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:06,480 Speaker 1: and they want to camp out there and trust and believe. 332 00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:08,600 Speaker 1: I've wanted to do the same exact thing. I want 333 00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:10,920 Speaker 1: to camp out right there in that place of hardship, 334 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:13,560 Speaker 1: in that place because I felt like that was mine. 335 00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:17,400 Speaker 1: I identified with that, because this is a hard thing 336 00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:20,600 Speaker 1: that I have to go through, and I want to 337 00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:25,600 Speaker 1: soak in this because you didn't. And everybody moves on 338 00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:28,280 Speaker 1: with their life and I'm stuck here in this place 339 00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:34,200 Speaker 1: of defeat, of torment and security, you name it. I'm 340 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:37,080 Speaker 1: right here, but this is mine. And see, until we 341 00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:40,680 Speaker 1: can identify ourselves out of that situation, I don't want 342 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:42,159 Speaker 1: to be in this place. I don't want to be 343 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:47,199 Speaker 1: identified as XYZ. I don't want to have people saying like, 344 00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:50,280 Speaker 1: oh poor thing, sympathize with me. No, I want them 345 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:53,440 Speaker 1: to look at me and see the grace of God. 346 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:56,240 Speaker 1: I want to see them look at me and see 347 00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:59,600 Speaker 1: a joyful person, a powerful person, a person that's blessed, 348 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:04,119 Speaker 1: a person that's going places. Wouldn't you rather identify with that? 349 00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:07,119 Speaker 1: But until you until you see that for yourself, you 350 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:08,640 Speaker 1: are not gonna be able to get out of that pit. 351 00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:12,639 Speaker 1: You won't because you like it right here, and so 352 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:16,360 Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what anybody tells you or how much prayer. 353 00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:22,040 Speaker 1: If you are set to be offended, that's just where 354 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:24,320 Speaker 1: you're gonna camp out the rest of your life. And 355 00:24:24,359 --> 00:24:28,359 Speaker 1: it doesn't matter who tries to consult you out of it, 356 00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:31,040 Speaker 1: counsel you out of it. If you've made up your 357 00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:34,679 Speaker 1: mind this is mine. My husband cheated on me, and 358 00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:38,520 Speaker 1: I'm offended with a with a congregant at church. If 359 00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:41,440 Speaker 1: that's you, you're gonna wallow in that, in that bitterness 360 00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:43,919 Speaker 1: your entire life, and it doesn't matter who counsels it, 361 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:47,720 Speaker 1: because ultimately you've made up your mind to be bitter 362 00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:51,480 Speaker 1: and jaded about it. You ought to not be. What 363 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:56,199 Speaker 1: kind of life is that to live? I hate the 364 00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:59,280 Speaker 1: devil and maybe that's that's maybe that's the difference there, 365 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:02,080 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Billion I hate him and 366 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:06,679 Speaker 1: I recognize that everything of failure and defeat and fear 367 00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:10,840 Speaker 1: comes from his hands, and I push against it. I 368 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:14,040 Speaker 1: fight against it with every fiber of my being. To 369 00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:17,880 Speaker 1: be connected to that idiot, I fight it. I don't 370 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:20,520 Speaker 1: want bitterness, I don't want hatred. I don't want anger. 371 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:23,919 Speaker 1: I don't want jealousy. I don't like that around me 372 00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:29,000 Speaker 1: because I know who it stems from. I don't like 373 00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:32,199 Speaker 1: that individual. Have you ever been around somebody you just 374 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:35,960 Speaker 1: don't like and you're like, Oh, is that person gonna 375 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:40,320 Speaker 1: be there? I'm not going or is it just me? 376 00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:47,520 Speaker 1: I don't like that individual? I'm out. Well, the devil's 377 00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:48,680 Speaker 1: like that for me. You know what I'm saying. I 378 00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:52,000 Speaker 1: don't want to have anything to do with him. And 379 00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:56,280 Speaker 1: yet here we are some people and we've we've the 380 00:25:56,440 --> 00:26:00,840 Speaker 1: enemies come in. Because the enemy is the adverse. He's 381 00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:02,879 Speaker 1: the one that comes to steal, kill, and destroy you. 382 00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:07,480 Speaker 1: Or did we forget? And now we're just gonna wallow 383 00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:11,040 Speaker 1: in this defeat and this sadness, in this jadedness. God 384 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:14,200 Speaker 1: isn't real God, this doesn't really work od I believed 385 00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:17,040 Speaker 1: and it didn't happen. Okay, that's exactly where the devil 386 00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:20,960 Speaker 1: wants you to be. Congratulations, you're making his dream come true. 387 00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:25,240 Speaker 1: Or you can step out and say, hey, I'm not 388 00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:28,359 Speaker 1: gonna be conformed to the system anymore. I'm gonna break 389 00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:30,760 Speaker 1: out of it and I'm going to look at what 390 00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:33,560 Speaker 1: the Word of God declares for my life, and I'm 391 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:36,800 Speaker 1: going to live it. Out every single day. It's gonna 392 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:39,119 Speaker 1: be a part of who I am. And then through 393 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:42,280 Speaker 1: the new belief, I am going to prove it for 394 00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:45,679 Speaker 1: myself that God is good, that you know what his 395 00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:47,880 Speaker 1: plans are for my life. I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm 396 00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:51,000 Speaker 1: gonna know it for myself. I don't need my pastor, 397 00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:54,240 Speaker 1: I don't need the prophet, I don't need anybody. I 398 00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:57,760 Speaker 1: could actually look this up by myself and see it 399 00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:05,440 Speaker 1: for myself. I was gonna, like, holde a scripture, go 400 00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:13,160 Speaker 1: with me to that scripture that says far above everything 401 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:29,280 Speaker 1: we could hope for or imagine. Second Peter, First Peter, Ephesians, 402 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:44,920 Speaker 1: some of the really Ephesians three, What okay, you guys 403 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:50,000 Speaker 1: gonna put it up back there? Or what now? To 404 00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:54,200 Speaker 1: him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all 405 00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:57,520 Speaker 1: that we ask or think. And this is where it 406 00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:01,600 Speaker 1: stops in the Christian world, in the religious order of things. 407 00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:12,320 Speaker 1: Now God is abel hallelujah. He will do the impossible. 408 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:19,360 Speaker 1: He's exceeding. He is exceedingly, he will exceedingly beyond all 409 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:22,159 Speaker 1: we could ever ask or think. God is God, is 410 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:27,280 Speaker 1: that good, abundantly above all we could ever think, or ask, 411 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:32,040 Speaker 1: But then what then? Then then nobody mentions this part 412 00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:36,960 Speaker 1: right here, According to the power that's at that works 413 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:41,680 Speaker 1: in us, let me see it in the amplified. Okay, 414 00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:47,120 Speaker 1: Now to him who, by in consequence of the action 415 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:50,040 Speaker 1: of his power that is at work within us, is 416 00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:54,400 Speaker 1: able to carry out his purpose and do super abundantly 417 00:28:54,720 --> 00:29:00,600 Speaker 1: far above what, far above and above all that we 418 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:06,640 Speaker 1: dare ask or think, infinitely beyond our highest prayer, desires, thoughts, 419 00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:16,320 Speaker 1: hopes and dreams. Next to him be the glory in 420 00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:19,360 Speaker 1: the Church, in Christ Jesus, throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen, 421 00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:22,000 Speaker 1: go back to twenty, it says here in the beginning, 422 00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:25,280 Speaker 1: Now to him who, by in consequence of the action 423 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:29,080 Speaker 1: of His power that is at work within us. So 424 00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:32,600 Speaker 1: look at we see the consequences of the actions of 425 00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:40,680 Speaker 1: his power that are at work within the believer. And 426 00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:47,440 Speaker 1: that's when you're able to see God's supernatural, super abundant 427 00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:52,600 Speaker 1: far over and above all that we dare ask, infinitely 428 00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:57,440 Speaker 1: beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes, and dreams. Look 429 00:29:57,480 --> 00:29:59,880 Speaker 1: at all of this back the back end of the 430 00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:05,440 Speaker 1: This scripture comes with first the understanding that that power 431 00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:12,280 Speaker 1: is at work within us, within you. So in order 432 00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:16,320 Speaker 1: for you to activate that power, there is something we 433 00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:20,840 Speaker 1: must know. And let me tell you. Your spirit person is perfect. 434 00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:23,880 Speaker 1: It lacks nothing. We lack no good thing. Look that 435 00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:28,840 Speaker 1: scripture up for me, Olivia. You lack no good thing. 436 00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:33,560 Speaker 1: You're perfect right now. But what gets in the way 437 00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:36,760 Speaker 1: your mind. Your mind wants to convince you out of 438 00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:41,120 Speaker 1: this understanding and put you back into that mold where 439 00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:46,000 Speaker 1: society tells you to be. The young lion lacks food 440 00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:50,040 Speaker 1: and suffers hunger. But they who inquire of and require 441 00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:53,240 Speaker 1: the Lord, by the right of their need and on 442 00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:55,960 Speaker 1: the authority is the word, none of them shall lack 443 00:30:56,080 --> 00:31:01,920 Speaker 1: any beneficial thing. That's not it. Maybe put it on 444 00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:08,680 Speaker 1: the NLT. But those who seek the Lord shall lack 445 00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:22,160 Speaker 1: no good thing. You are perfect, you are complete. So 446 00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:23,959 Speaker 1: then why do you say that I need this and 447 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:26,680 Speaker 1: I need that, and I need no. It's it's it's 448 00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:33,000 Speaker 1: you have not identified. Oops, you haven't identified what the 449 00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:37,880 Speaker 1: true issue is. It's it's not that you're depressed. It's 450 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:42,800 Speaker 1: not that you're an addict. There's a spiritual rot and 451 00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:45,880 Speaker 1: we got to figure that out. Okay, why is there 452 00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:48,080 Speaker 1: a spiritual rot with when it came to that kid 453 00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:51,080 Speaker 1: that thinks he's an addict and has to like identify 454 00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:54,240 Speaker 1: with that, he doesn't identify the true nature of an 455 00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:58,720 Speaker 1: individual after salvation, that we can't identify with the things 456 00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:01,760 Speaker 1: of the world anymore. So if we can't identify with 457 00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:05,640 Speaker 1: the things of the world, I have to abstain. I 458 00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:11,520 Speaker 1: think it's in Ephesians five or Galatians five, gotta get better. 459 00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:16,959 Speaker 1: We see that you can't be at wild parties, you 460 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:20,640 Speaker 1: can't be drunk. You gotta live holy right, So now 461 00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:24,360 Speaker 1: that I understand. Aha, okay, so that's a wisdom problem. 462 00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:28,200 Speaker 1: So you get be saved. But until you recognize through 463 00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:32,000 Speaker 1: the Word that I cannot abstain in wild parties. I 464 00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:35,440 Speaker 1: cannot be drunk with wine. I have to be sober minded. 465 00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:38,719 Speaker 1: I cannot be jealous. I can't have bursts of anger. 466 00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:45,000 Speaker 1: I can't walk around with bitterness and hatred in my life. Okay, 467 00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:50,520 Speaker 1: So the Bible map set out so clearly clearly defines it. 468 00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:53,600 Speaker 1: And what do I do. I have to make sure 469 00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:57,800 Speaker 1: that I don't allow myself to walk in that. Jesus 470 00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:00,000 Speaker 1: can't do that for you. And I know some people 471 00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:04,560 Speaker 1: might think, like, oh, it's a hallelujah. Experience, experiment, experience, 472 00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:09,400 Speaker 1: and and the Holy Ghost will descend on me like 473 00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:13,560 Speaker 1: a dove, and he will just make me not smoke again. 474 00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:16,680 Speaker 1: He's gonna make me not go to that party. He's 475 00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:20,160 Speaker 1: gonna make me not sleep with my ex again. And 476 00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:26,400 Speaker 1: that's simply not the case. We stop it. The Bible 477 00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:28,320 Speaker 1: says he hasn't given you a spirit of fear, but 478 00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:30,720 Speaker 1: of power, love and control over your thoughts, which means 479 00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:33,760 Speaker 1: I don't have to do that. There's a way out. 480 00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:38,320 Speaker 1: There is no temptation that has overtaken you. No, there's no, 481 00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:42,920 Speaker 1: it's not. It's all the same for everybody. Everybody faces 482 00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:45,400 Speaker 1: the same temptation. But the good thing about being a 483 00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:47,480 Speaker 1: Christian is God shows you the way out through the 484 00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:51,400 Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. Now we can take the way out, or 485 00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:54,720 Speaker 1: we could just sit there and be like but but 486 00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:59,400 Speaker 1: I guess one last smoke wouldn't her, one last beer 487 00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:04,280 Speaker 1: wouldn't her, one more one night stan wouldn't hurt. And 488 00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:07,040 Speaker 1: then and then there you go, You zap your conscience 489 00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:10,719 Speaker 1: and then the next time it happens, it's weak because 490 00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:13,040 Speaker 1: you didn't listen to it before. You know what I'm saying, 491 00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:15,719 Speaker 1: this is this is how this works. This is Christianity 492 00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:18,719 Speaker 1: is not that complicated. There is something that we have 493 00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:21,480 Speaker 1: to do after salvation, and that's to get into the 494 00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:25,120 Speaker 1: word of God, get into the alignment and live according 495 00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:29,160 Speaker 1: to His word and his ways. That's what righteousness is, 496 00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:31,799 Speaker 1: when we have the righteousness of God, which we do 497 00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:35,799 Speaker 1: in Christ Jesus. Through Christ Jesus, we do it his 498 00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:38,839 Speaker 1: way every single time. But you got to know how 499 00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:41,200 Speaker 1: to do it. And it's right here, right in the Lord, 500 00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:46,120 Speaker 1: right is right there. You know what I'm saying. So 501 00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:48,120 Speaker 1: if you want to break out of that system, you 502 00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:50,080 Speaker 1: want to do something different with your life at the 503 00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:53,120 Speaker 1: tail end of this year, because it's the exact same 504 00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:57,399 Speaker 1: as it was year after year. And look at we're 505 00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:02,480 Speaker 1: already in in October to November. For Pete's sake, I say, 506 00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:07,520 Speaker 1: it's about done. This year's about done, and what have you? What? 507 00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:10,680 Speaker 1: What do you have to show forth that this year 508 00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:13,560 Speaker 1: is awesome, that things have changed and you've put in 509 00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:16,200 Speaker 1: the effort and you've put in the time. No that nothing, 510 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:20,359 Speaker 1: so like it's time to do something about it. And 511 00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:22,200 Speaker 1: that's the wonderful thing. Some of you guys are so 512 00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:25,400 Speaker 1: frustrated because you're like, I haven't heard God saying that 513 00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:32,160 Speaker 1: he's done answering my bra And God's like, uh, I 514 00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:36,360 Speaker 1: told you to do that. I told you want financial freedom. 515 00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:40,439 Speaker 1: I told you to give uh oh, and you didn't give. 516 00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:44,799 Speaker 1: You want a happy marriage, It's time to submit to 517 00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:47,400 Speaker 1: your husband. Oh, you don't want to do that because 518 00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:53,319 Speaker 1: it's hard. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. No, it's 519 00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:54,840 Speaker 1: I don't want to like it. When it comes to 520 00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:57,080 Speaker 1: that mentorship program, I'm like, you know what, some people 521 00:35:57,200 --> 00:36:00,920 Speaker 1: just want to air out their grievance and says and 522 00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:03,800 Speaker 1: then what and then what what do you want me 523 00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:07,600 Speaker 1: to say? I told you so what do you want 524 00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:09,960 Speaker 1: me to say? I'm sorry, you're not gonna hear that. 525 00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:12,759 Speaker 1: You're gonna say you missed it. You didn't do what 526 00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:16,680 Speaker 1: was required and that's your fault. And why is that 527 00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:20,560 Speaker 1: because you didn't spend time there? I mean, it's just 528 00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:25,040 Speaker 1: the basic fundamental things. So if you want to live 529 00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:30,680 Speaker 1: a supernatural life and you want acceleration on all areas 530 00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:33,920 Speaker 1: of your life, bro like right here, And I know 531 00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:37,799 Speaker 1: that sounds so stupid for the natural mind that you'd 532 00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:41,920 Speaker 1: have to just read this book and it affects everything. Yes, yes, 533 00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:46,360 Speaker 1: that's it. That's the only thing that's required is for 534 00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:51,200 Speaker 1: you to know this thing and live it out, because 535 00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:54,960 Speaker 1: this is a book full of supernatural things. You know, 536 00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:56,920 Speaker 1: I was teaching a class on the gifts of the Spirit. 537 00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:58,560 Speaker 1: That's for you and me. Maybe I should do a 538 00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:03,160 Speaker 1: podcast on the gifts of the spirits and the importance 539 00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:07,160 Speaker 1: of the gifts of the Spirit. And there's a word 540 00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:10,680 Speaker 1: chorus or something like that, and it comes from the 541 00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:15,560 Speaker 1: word charisma, and that's what we are, charismatics, right, so 542 00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:21,680 Speaker 1: we allow the Holy Spirit to do his work. We 543 00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:24,800 Speaker 1: believe that the Holy Spirit didn't die out with the 544 00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:29,240 Speaker 1: last Apostles, but that he's alive and he has given 545 00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:34,279 Speaker 1: gifts to his church. And these gifts we call the 546 00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:40,680 Speaker 1: gifts of the Spirit. And so these gifts are are 547 00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:45,880 Speaker 1: given to us for our betterment. And so that word 548 00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:51,319 Speaker 1: charisma chorus comes from the word grace. We're back in 549 00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:54,600 Speaker 1: the day these Greeks would say that you have chorus 550 00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:57,319 Speaker 1: or koro whatever it is. I don't know how to 551 00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:03,120 Speaker 1: say it. But this word ky whatever they would use 552 00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:07,799 Speaker 1: this word what is it, kado kado karas something like that, 553 00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:13,520 Speaker 1: and they would they would use that word to describe 554 00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:17,400 Speaker 1: somebody with a touch of God on their life. And 555 00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:21,000 Speaker 1: so when we talk about that word karus or kadi kay, 556 00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:24,000 Speaker 1: whatever it is, do we also look at the fact 557 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:26,720 Speaker 1: that it comes from that word a touch of God grace. 558 00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:32,239 Speaker 1: And we see the life of Paul and we see 559 00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:36,160 Speaker 1: these men in the New Testament that carried the grace 560 00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:38,640 Speaker 1: of God. You know, I just posted a tweet and 561 00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:42,960 Speaker 1: it says, Uh, whatever your deficiency is, don't worry about it, 562 00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:45,680 Speaker 1: because God will fill in the holes. And why is 563 00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:49,719 Speaker 1: that through the grace that's been given to us that 564 00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:53,280 Speaker 1: gives us supernatural ability. And some of you guys don't 565 00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:57,719 Speaker 1: know what you have. And it's so sad because it's 566 00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:00,720 Speaker 1: the reason why you're not doing what you're you're called 567 00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:03,879 Speaker 1: to do, because you think you gotta have it figured out. 568 00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:06,080 Speaker 1: You got to have your ducks in a row. I 569 00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:08,920 Speaker 1: have to make sure that I've studied the Bible seventeen 570 00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:11,640 Speaker 1: times and read it from cover to cover one hundred 571 00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:14,240 Speaker 1: and fifty times, and I've got to take these Bible 572 00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:16,600 Speaker 1: courts and like, wait, what, just read it, Just read 573 00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:19,719 Speaker 1: it and believe it. Pray in the Holy Ghost and 574 00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:23,560 Speaker 1: allow for him to buy his grace empower you and 575 00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:26,920 Speaker 1: give you the abilities that you need in order to 576 00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:29,319 Speaker 1: carry out the task at hand. That's as easy as 577 00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:32,279 Speaker 1: it comes. It's so easy. And when I see you 578 00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:35,520 Speaker 1: in heaven and you recognize how easy it is, I 579 00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:39,479 Speaker 1: pray that this message just starts playing in all heaven. 580 00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:42,000 Speaker 1: It's so easy. 581 00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:45,239 Speaker 2: Oh you gotta do is read it and believe it. 582 00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:50,440 Speaker 2: And we've done a lot, but it's just the beginning. 583 00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:53,560 Speaker 2: And if I was to sit here. 584 00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:57,960 Speaker 1: Because I was like that and think about like the responsibilities, 585 00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:00,480 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, this is overwhelming. I can't. I can't. 586 00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:02,160 Speaker 1: I want to be able to do one more thing. 587 00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:04,759 Speaker 1: This is back in twenty seventeen. I can't do one 588 00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:07,680 Speaker 1: more thing. I'm swamped. And now I look back at 589 00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:09,640 Speaker 1: twenty seventeen and I was like, what were you doing 590 00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:14,280 Speaker 1: with your time? You had so much free time is unbelievable. 591 00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:17,520 Speaker 1: And now you're looking at it and all the things 592 00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:21,680 Speaker 1: that you can accomplish. And it's not by might, it's 593 00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:25,160 Speaker 1: not by power. It's by the Spirit of God. It's 594 00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:29,240 Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit and his touch on me, the grace 595 00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:31,560 Speaker 1: of God that's come on me so that I can 596 00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:34,680 Speaker 1: accomplish great and mighty things far above what I could 597 00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:39,000 Speaker 1: ever ask for, think of or imagine why the grace 598 00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:44,360 Speaker 1: of God. It's limitless in power, it's divine, it's so amazing, 599 00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:46,640 Speaker 1: it's so gorgious and lovely. Like I mean that would 600 00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:49,840 Speaker 1: say it's so gorgeous and lovely. She would say that 601 00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:55,600 Speaker 1: about macaroons, or in her words, macarcoons. So we do that. 602 00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:57,879 Speaker 1: All we need to do is just believe the word 603 00:40:57,920 --> 00:41:02,480 Speaker 1: of God, allow the Holy Spirit to do his job, 604 00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:05,879 Speaker 1: and then all yours to do is just obey. Yeah, 605 00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:09,320 Speaker 1: you want to step out of this situation, forgive them. 606 00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:12,440 Speaker 1: That's hard, Do it anyway and take the next step forward. 607 00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:16,080 Speaker 1: You want to get out of that financial deficit. Give 608 00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:18,279 Speaker 1: what He told you to give that you didn't give 609 00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:22,719 Speaker 1: because you convince yourself out of it. Do that, and 610 00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:27,719 Speaker 1: then when you step out into that faith, all of 611 00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:31,080 Speaker 1: a sudden, the Holy Ghost who he just fills in 612 00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:33,319 Speaker 1: the gaps for you. And then all of a sudden 613 00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:35,239 Speaker 1: you're thinking to yourself, what in the world, there's no 614 00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:36,680 Speaker 1: way that I did this, And you're like, no, I 615 00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:38,719 Speaker 1: did this with the help of the Holy Spirit. We 616 00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:41,319 Speaker 1: did it together, and look at what we've accomplished. And 617 00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:44,080 Speaker 1: that's for you, that's for me. Let's continue on in 618 00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:47,719 Speaker 1: that life of faith. So long as you understand the 619 00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:52,680 Speaker 1: Word of God. You need to learn this. You need 620 00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:55,480 Speaker 1: to identify with what's in there, and you need to 621 00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:58,880 Speaker 1: see yourself in it. That's your homework assignment, just like 622 00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:01,800 Speaker 1: it is with my answership group. I would that you 623 00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:04,200 Speaker 1: would start at five pages. I can't do five, then 624 00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:08,879 Speaker 1: do two? Can't do five pages? Get out of here? 625 00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:12,680 Speaker 1: You scroll? You sit in the toilet for forty five 626 00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:17,080 Speaker 1: minutes scrolling. Why can't you? Why can't you read some 627 00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:19,440 Speaker 1: scripture while you're in there instead of looking at what 628 00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:23,000 Speaker 1: p Diddy's doing? Miss me with Dad. You know what 629 00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:25,000 Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like you can do it. You could do 630 00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:27,520 Speaker 1: a little more like Daddy Dad says. We could always 631 00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:30,600 Speaker 1: do a little more. So, Father, in the name of Jesus, 632 00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:33,239 Speaker 1: I thank you for every person watching this, and I 633 00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:36,480 Speaker 1: ask you for this reality to come alive on the 634 00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:40,279 Speaker 1: inside of them that wouldn't let them understand that there 635 00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:44,120 Speaker 1: is a responsibility that they have to take in order 636 00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:48,600 Speaker 1: to live supernatural lives. And that responsibility is to get 637 00:42:48,680 --> 00:42:53,160 Speaker 1: in your word, to identify with what's in the scripture 638 00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:56,799 Speaker 1: and not just to see it and know it. But 639 00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:59,839 Speaker 1: to act on it. So Father, in the mighty name 640 00:42:59,880 --> 00:43:02,680 Speaker 1: of Jesus, I pray that they wouldn't conform to the 641 00:43:02,719 --> 00:43:06,439 Speaker 1: world's systems and the way they think and the way 642 00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:11,280 Speaker 1: they do things. Father, but they'd understand what your perfect 643 00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:14,600 Speaker 1: will is. And in understanding your will and the way 644 00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:19,040 Speaker 1: you would do things in your system in heaven. I 645 00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:22,319 Speaker 1: thank you that that begins to reflect on the way 646 00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:24,719 Speaker 1: they think, and then in the way they think. I 647 00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:27,160 Speaker 1: pray it reflects in the way they speak, and when 648 00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:29,680 Speaker 1: they speak, I pray that it reflects on the way 649 00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:34,680 Speaker 1: they act, changing every single thing about their lives. In 650 00:43:34,719 --> 00:43:37,520 Speaker 1: the mighty name of Jesus, we pray, we thank you 651 00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:40,600 Speaker 1: for your goodness. We thank you for your word and Jesus' name, 652 00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:42,200 Speaker 1: and all God's people say