Reigning Faith p.1 with Ap. Marci Glisson

So I want to go to Second Peter, Second Peter Chapter 1.

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Are you ready to receive the word?

Aren't you thankful for the word Hallelujah, the engrafted word

of God which is able to save our souls?

Aren't you thankful that your soul has been saved?

Your mind, your will, and your crazy emotions, they need

saving. Amen.

Hallelujah. Because if you start thinking

like this world, you're going to start looking like the world

gone crazy, right? But we don't have to look like

that. Act like that because we are

people that receive the engrafted word of God Hallelujah

renewing our mind to the word of God and what the word of God

says So tonight in second Peter chapter 1 we're going to talk

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about reigning faith reigning faith Hallelujah reigning faith

and I want to stir you up concerning faith in a different

thought process you know because we have taught faith for years

but how many of you know we've got to do continually being what

hearing because faith comes from hearing and hearing from the the

word of God. It doesn't come from having

heard, but it comes from hearing Amen.

So do you know that there is a continual flow of the word come

on that we need and different areas that we need to stir

ourselves up in? But I call this reigning faith

because really actually we're going to look here in second

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Peter chapter 1 and I want to actually read one through 11 in

context. And I'm going to teach tonight

because it just started flowing line upon line, precept upon

precept, OK. And we're just going to see

where the Holy Spirit takes us. But I do have notes, so don't be

concerned. But you know, y'all like me when

I don't stay on my notes because I get a little crazy.

So, but anyway, so let's read starting in verse one and

actually second Peter. You know, we just read this

around Thanksgiving. I think it was November 29th in

our Bible reading plan. And you know, that's what's so

awesome about the Word is that every time you read it,

something else jumps out. And so this jumped out and I

said, you know, this is a good, good reminder and something we

need to remind ourselves of. So Simon Peter, a bond servant

and the apostle of Jesus Christ to those who received a faith,

say a faith of the same kind of ours, by the righteousness of

our God and Savior Jesus Christ, aren't you thankful that we have

received this same type of faith?

Amen. Just as they received it, we

received it, Hallelujah. And then verse 2, grace and

peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of

Jesus our Lord, seeing that his divine power, say divine power

has granted to us everything pertaining to life and

godliness, everything we've been given, divine power that's been

given, granted us to us for everything that pertains to life

and godliness. OK, camp on that verse for a

minute as I continue reading. And then it says through the

true knowledge of him who called us, didn't we talk?

He chose us. He called us by His own glory

and excellence. Verse 4 For by these He has

granted to us His precious and magnificent promises.

Aren't you thankful that He granted us His precious and

magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of

His divine nature? Hallelujah, the divine nature of

God. We are now able to partake of

that the minute we called on the name of the Lord by faith.

Come on. And we received His finished

work. Glory to God then, we now come

on, have His divine nature, His divine nature, the divine nature

of God having escaped the corruption that is in this world

by lust. Now for this very reason also

applying all diligence in your faith, in your faith, we are

going to focus on one through 4:00 tonight.

Now let's see applying all diligence in your faith supply

moral excellence, and in your moral excellence knowledge, and

in your knowledge self-control, and in yourself control

perseverance, and in your perseverance godliness, and in

your godliness brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly

brotherly kindness love. For if these qualities are yours

and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor

unfruitful in the true knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.

For he who lacks these qualities that have been added to their

faith. See, it's not just about faith,

no, it's about also adding some things to our faith that is

necessary for our faith to actually work and come to the

fullness of what it means to, we're going to see live by

faith, to live by faith. So he says, if for if these

qualities are yours and they are increasing, they will render you

neither useless or unfruitful in the true knowledge of the Lord

Jesus Christ. See, because again, I'm moving

over to another scripture that I don't have, but it just came up

in the Spirit. Lord, Lord, didn't we prophecy

in your name? Didn't we speak of tongues, of

angels? Do all these things come on, we

do it. We're the faith teachers.

But yet how many people are not operating in all of these other

qualities? And he says if they are in you

and are what? Increasing?

If they're increasing in you, then what will happen?

He says this, you won't be unuseful, you won't be

unfruitful. And he says this for he who

lacks these qualities is blind, short sighted, and having

forgotten what the purification from his former sins see.

All of these qualities have to do with what character.

So you can say you have faith all day long, but you could be

lacking in a lot of these qualities.

And if you're lacking in all of these qualities, your faith is

going to be rendered what, useless and unfruitful.

So what fruit are you really acting as if you're producing,

saying, yeah, I'm AI have faith. I can move mountains, I can

speak to this, I can do this, I can believe God, and yet you're

lacking all these qualities. So let's read on.

You've become blind or short sighted, haven't forgotten his

purification from former sins. Therefore, brethren, be all the

more. What does he say?

Diligent to make certain about his calling and His choosing you

Hallelujah. Are you thankful He chose you

for as long as you practice these things, not practice your

confession. I believe I receive name it,

claim it, blab it, grab it. What we've you know, been called

right? Come on.

This is reality. But he says if you're diligent

to make sure certain and practice these things, you will

never stumble. Do you mean that we can walk

through this life and never stumble?

We're a sorry Sinner. We're going to sin.

You know, people have said, well, why are you acting like

you've never sinned? Or why are you acting like you

don't ever do anything wrong? Well, because I practice

qualities and if I practice qualities and add them to my

faith and supply my faith with them, then I he says you will

never stumble. Hallelujah.

That is pretty emphatic that a believer who is adding to his

faith these qualities that were just listed can be assured that

they will never stumble. Well, isn't that prideful to

think you can never make a mistake?

Well, I mean, I'm believing what the scripture says.

I mean, do I believe the word and the words that are on the

page? So he says in verse 11.

For in this way, the entrance into his eternal Kingdom of our

Lord Jesus Christ and Savior will abundantly be supplied to

you. Well, that's pretty arrogant

that you can think you can walk through this life and never make

a mistake and never stumble. Well, I can't by myself, but I

can through. Come on, the one on the inside

who strengthens me. And as long as I am adding to my

faith these qualities, then I can be assured that I will never

stumble. I didn't say it, the scripture

said it. Amen.

We will never stumble and be can be assured entrance into the

eternal Kingdom. Let's read this out of the

amplified verse 10, verse 10. I want to read out of the

amplified. I have it here.

Sorry. I have a couple of other things

I wanted to say. Therefore, believers, be all the

more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing

you. Be sure that your behavior

reflects and confirms your relationship with God.

For by doing these things, what does it say?

Actively developing these virtues, you will never stumble

in your spiritual growth and will live a life that leads

others away from sin. Hallelujah.

So if I am actually adding some things to my faith, my firm

persuasion, my confident expectation, and living by faith

that Hebrews tells us to do that the righteous what shall live by

faith. And I can do that by adding all

of this characters to my faith and I can be assured that I will

never stumble. And I actually will lead people

to a place that they won't stumble or sin.

And in that the life of Christ, Hallelujah, Hallelujah,

Hallelujah. So I don't have to expect that

I'm going to fall into sin. And I don't have, if I'm adding

these qualities, act actively, diligently, right, adhering,

trusting, relying in the word of God and putting it to practice

in my everyday life, then I can be assured that I don't have to

stumble into something. Amen.

Hallelujah. So faith if what you know, we've

been talking about the reigning church this year and we've been

talking about us walking in the dominion that actually God gave

us as his children to walk into and reigning in some every area

of our life. Faith, this reigning faith has

to be supplied. Faith has to be supplied to you

can't just say, well, I have faith and I'm going to believe

God for this, this, this and you are not adding anything to it in

your behavior, your character, come on, all these other things.

And So what is faith? We know faith is the substance

of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.

And when you're adding to your faith the supply of moral

excellent, the supply of knowledge, the supply of the

list of brotherly kindness of love, because we know we've been

taught faith doesn't work outside of what love come on, it

doesn't work. So all of these other things are

to be a supply to our faith and and listen, even that you're not

going to be able to see because you're calling those things that

what be not as though they are when you're having to walk

things out when he's speaking to you of in the Scripture about

qualities that need to adjust according to the word, you're

having to do that. What by faith, you're having to

do it by faith. You're having to make those

adjustments by faith. You're having to call those

things that be listen, we have relegated faith to just things,

houses, boats, airplanes, jets come on and and finances and God

wants us all to have more than enough for every good work right

Come on, he wants that. But I still see that there's

things that are lacking in qualities that are Christ like

and those things have to continue to be developed to

bring a supply to our faith. So, and if we're going to have

reigning faith, and I like to say that faith is divine, it's

divine. So we've all been given the

measure of faith for us to continue to develop our faith.

And all of these qualities are going to add to our faith.

All right, So let's look at a couple of things.

Listen, I want to say this because we we said that faith is

the substance of things what hoped for and the evidence of

things not seen. Is that right?

Did I say it right? Sometimes I get it backwards.

Yeah. And the thing about it is, is we

know, we know that when we are people believing God for

something, we're not going to see it immediately.

Sometimes it's a process. And it, and I'm going to say

this why? Because development of the the

character and the list of the qualities that he just listed

takes time, takes time. And so you're going to have to

be continually even calling those things.

You don't have any problem calling in finances, but you

might have a problem calling in that you can walk more and more

in depths and links and heights and love with people.

Are you calling those things? Are you calling those things?

Come on, because I'm going to tell you that ought to be the

number one thing you're calling because none of the other faith

is going to work. Amen.

And, you know, I want to say this, that faith, you know, so

many times people think, oh, yeah, I have faith.

You know, yes, I I believe there's a God.

Like when you say faith, people think, yeah, I believe there's a

God. I have faith that there's a God

and it's so obscure, you know, it's like it's out there

somewhere. Faith is like out there

somewhere. Faith is tangible.

Faith can be seen. It's supposed to come into

existence. And so therefore these qualities

then would come into existence in your life as you are walking

by faith to add. These qualities to you, Amen.

So faith can is tangible and can be seen and we can't forget that

when it comes to these other things, not just oh, can you see

the car I believed for? How about can you see that I am

a person of self-control? Can you see, come on, that I am

a person that knows how to persevere when the going gets

tough. I know how to push through.

Can you see that quality? It should be tangible in our

lives. Amen.

It should be tangible. And, and, and we know that all

of this, all of this is going to happen by faith, by faith.

These qualities that have to grow and develop and be changed

within our life. It all has to happen by faith.

And so it's the same way that we say we're believing God for this

and we're believing God for that.

Well, I'm believing God for these qualities to be developed

more and more strongly in my life.

Right? Hallelujah, glory to God.

Hallelujah. So I quoted the fact that

Hebrews 1038 says that the righteous shall what?

Live by faith. We're to live by faith and to

live by faith means that faith has to be supplied.

We know one way that it's supplied is what we already

quoted. Faith comes from hearing and

hearing from the word of God. But this is saying that our

faith can be supplied with our qualities.

Isn't that what it's saying? Let's break that down in the

Greek. In the Greek where it says that

our faith is to be supplied. Actually, I have gotten way

ahead of myself. Let's don't go there.

Let's go back up to let's look at this here, that we've

received faith, the same kind by the righteousness of God, our

Lord Jesus Christ. Let's look at verse 3, Seeing

that his divine power has granted to us everything that is

pertaining to life and godliness.

So where he says later on our faith is to be added to, what is

he saying here? The life and godliness.

This is that those qualities that are to be added to our

faith, the life and godliness. But he says here in verse three

that we have divine power and it has been granted to us.

Why is that so important that we recognize that we've been given

divine power? Because the divine power that we

have been given is the very thing that it's going to take

for us. Come on, to be able to walk in

all of these qualities that he tells us where to walk into.

So we're going to need that divine power, all right, to walk

into what it is that he is asking us to walk into.

And let me tell you what that means in the Greek divine power.

It means this absolutely everything necessary for a

dynamic spiritual life, for a dynamic spiritual life.

Come on, do we have a dynamic spiritual life in him?

It actually is the word dunamis power, divine, godly dunamis

power. And that's where the word

dynamite comes from, dunamis. So we've been given divine,

divine God power. That is dunamis or dynamite.

So we've been given this divine power by God.

That is dynamite. I could say it away and I don't

know if y'all would remember an old school, old school show

dynamite. Any of y'all know about that?

It's so funny that I'm that old. I mean, really, when I think

about it, wow, that was it really an old show.

Anyway, this is what it is. It is Dynamite power.

His power is like dynamite. What can dynamite do?

Blow up anything and everything that it needs to come on.

And it says He's granted us this power so that we can live an

absolute, come on, dynamic spiritual life.

Dynamite means it means dynamite.

It means strength. That's why the joy of the Lord

is our strength, because you know why?

We've have divine power on the inside of us.

Those that are born again, come on.

Those that are filled with the Holy Ghost, with evidence of

speaking, we have been given divine dynamite power on the

inside of us to live and be strengthened and be powerful

people in the earth. Not pitiful people, but powerful

dynamic people. Full of His power, full of His

strength. Come on, full of ability.

That's what Dunamis means, full of ability.

So that means there is nothing that I can't do.

I can what? Do all things through Christ to

what? Because I have dynamite power on

the inside of me. I have divine godly power that

enables me the ability, come on, to do anything, to walk through

anything, to push back mountains, actually to blow them

up. Come on, we got to get this if

we are going to be the reigning church, come on, those that are

taking Dominion and walking it out, we have to remember what is

all the inside And he chose us and he granted us to be able to

walk in it. Hallelujah, Dunamis power, glory

to God, strength, ability, inherent power.

It's our inheritance belongs to me.

Ephesians 120. I know I have this probably down

somewhere. What's it say?

The same power, dunamis, dynamite power that raised Jesus

from the grave. Where does it live in US?

And this is what we're talking about, reigning faith.

This power is living on the inside of us.

Hallelujah. It's residing on the inside of

us. It is his nature.

It is his ability. It's his strength, it's his

power, come on, that can flow and operate.

You know what else it is? It's miracle working power.

When you look it up in the Greek, it says miracle working

power. Miracle working power on the

inside of you. Who needs a miracle?

Come on, Miracle working power dwells on the inside of you.

Hallelujah. Miracle working power.

Power residing in you by virtue of its nature, Moral power.

So this is where this qualities come into play, moral power that

we no longer have to be people that practice sin, come on, who

stumble, who fall. No, we have moral power, and it

actually means moral excellence of soul.

So he's talking about in the mental realm, dynamite power.

Come on, for you to be able to have moral clarity, godliness,

life and God, godliness, to be able to clean your stinking

thinking up, right, wrong thinking to get it cleaned up

because there's enough power to be able to do that.

That's what dynamite power can do.

It's the power and influence. Also listen to what it says in

the Greek. That belongs to your riches and

wealth. Dynamite, power to bring in

riches and wealth. Provision, provision,

Hallelujah, resources, power resting within you and upon you.

Dynamite divine power resting and living and and and dwelling

within you. Come on, glory to God.

Think about that. Listen, we are not, we are not

pitiful people. We're not pitiful people.

We are not pitiful people. We're not broke down.

We're not beat down. We're not in a place that we

don't know what we're going to do, how we're going to overcome,

how we're going to get out of this mess.

What? No.

Come on. I have the power on the inside

of me to be able to overcome any, every situation that I can

encounter. I have enough power on the

inside if I tap into it. Come on, if you know how to tap

into it, then you'll be able to overcome it.

Now, I do want to read Ephesians chapter 119 through 23 because I

had that down. So let's read it.

It says and what is the surpassing greatness of His

power towards us who believe surpassing greatness of His

power to our us towards us who believe Hallelujah.

Or do you believe these are in accordance with His working of

strength? Here it is of His strength and

of His might, which He brought about in Christ, when He raised

him from the dead, and seated him at His right hand in

heavenly places, far above all rule, and a power, and

authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is

named, not only in this age, but also in the one to come.

And He put all things in subjection under his feet, and

gave him his head over all things.

To the what? To the church.

Are you the Church of the living God?

Hallelujah. His body, the fullness of him

who feels all and all glory to God.

So that same power, that surpassing greatness, he gave to

us, and it's there for us to walk into and to walk it out by

faith. And we will be able to do that

as long as we tap into his divine power.

And what's so awesome is, is that he gave us everything that

we need. He gave us everything that we

need so that we don't quit, we don't back down, we don't shrink

back because he said, my righteous ones don't shrink

back. We don't shrink back, we don't

pull back, we don't abandoned our faith.

Come on. We are not going to be those

that in the last days are going to apostasize from the faith.

Because see, if we are continually adding the supply

that we need, which we're going to get into to our faith, then

we can be assured we're not going to be those ones that when

I come to the earth, am I going to find faith because everyone

has apostasized, fallen what away from the faith?

How many of you know, just in the short time that you've been

a believer or maybe a long that you've seen people denounce

their relationship with the Lord?

Have you seen it with your very eyes?

I have. And what we need to say is we're

not going to be one of those because we're going to actually

add to our faith. We're going to add to our faith

these qualities so that we can be assured that we're never

going to stumble, we're never going to fall.

We're never going to shrink back.

We're never going to fall away. Come on from the faith.

But we will see. And I'm going to tell you the

reason why people have falling away from the faith is because

they never took the time to add to their faith.

Oh, yeah, they came up to an altar one day and said I, yeah,

come into my heart. And they never stayed in a

church. Come on.

Never added to their faith a foundation with qualities come

on and behaviours that actually prove, as we read in the

Amplified, that they're really a believer.

Amen. So we're here to constantly just

as Paul was. If you continue reading on in

second Peter pass verse 11, he he tells you, listen, this is

not burdensome for me. I'm writing this to remind you.

I'm reminding you these things and we remind when we minister

the word. We're reminding people of things

so that you won't. It's not a burden for us to

remind you that if we're going to have a faith that's going to

rain in these last days, we're going to have to get on adding

to these qualities, pushing a supply to our faith.

Because we've all been taught faith, but I see a lot of faith

that don't have qualities. OK, so let's go back up to

second how we're doing. Let's go back up to second

Peter. Second Peter one and and verse

30. Let me see what that says. 30,

not 30. That's not right.

Second Peter one. OK, three, sorry, it just has a

zero added to it. Three, seeing that his divine

power we talked about and broke out what that divine power

looked like has been granted to us everything pertaining to life

and godliness. What is this life and godliness?

When you look up that word life, it is literally Zoe life, Zoway,

which is what the life of God, God breathe Zoway life dwelling

on the inside of you. So not only do we see that we

have God's power that's been granted to us, we see that that

power's coming from zoway life, right?

Because nothing can flow and function outside of life.

So why? Because life is the life, what

source and the supply. And this will be important later

on in a couple more Wednesdays when we get in more to our

teaching. So zowe life is what?

The life of God, the breath of God, This is what.

Listen to what zowe life means. Absolute fullness, Absolute

absolute fullness. Does does anyone feel so full

come on of the life of God and so spiritually alive and

dynamic? Are you actually one that can

sing that you have a fire on the inside?

Come on, can't put it out. Or are you struggling to keep

the fire burning and lit and full?

Because remember, he tells us, we need to keep our lamps.

What full of oil? We don't want to be caught

without the oil. We don't want to be people that

have let our oil run dry because I'm going to tell you and the

reason why the oil runs dry is because the life is being sucked

out of you, the life of God, the source, the source of God.

And if we're not staying what connected to the vine where that

flow of nourishment and life is bringing forth come on the fresh

breath and of God, then we're going to allow the oil because

the life affects the oil and the oil affects the life because

they're working together just like the bread of life.

We can't go without the bread. We cannot go without the oil.

It it's like, Lord, were you just mocking me because he knows

that bread is my kryptonite. I'm just joking.

Oh, but when you take a fresh baked piece of bread and dip it

in some Greek, Greek, real olive oil from the Mediterranean, Oh

my, my, my, there is nothing like it, nothing like it.

Whoo, so good, so good, so good to me, man.

But yeah, absolute fullness. But that's what the bread and

oil should be doing for the life supply.

Come on to always be in a full state because he says his Zoway

life is absolute fullness. So let's close our eyes a minute

because I want you to think about this like close your eyes,

don't look around, don't write, don't listen.

I mean don't make a noise, please listen.

But just think about, can you, for those that have called on

the name of the Lord, can you go back to the day that you called

on the name of the Lord and remember where it was, what your

life was like and what happened. The moment you know that he

came, the Spirit of God right, the old man left, and the

newness of life was there and how that felt.

I believe it was like dynamite. I mean, just a surge on the

inside of you of so much peace, joy, love, freedom.

No guilt, no shame. Come on.

I mean just nothing but pure life.

So much peace, so much joy. Amen.

You were full and so excited that you had just encountered

the presence of Almighty God to come and dwell on the inside of

your heart, your spirit, and you were satisfied.

The longing, the fulfillment, everything that you were looking

for, you were finally fulfilled and satisfied.

And I'm going to tell you, we have to remember that.

We have to go back to that moment because in that moment

there was complete fullness of everything that He imparted

within you. Hallelujah, everything Zoway

life, the fullness of life that belongs to God, that's never

ending. It's eternal life and nothing

can ever feel that or replace that.

Amen. The life of God Zoway life,

absolute fullness of the life of God dwelling on the inside of

you. When you read where it's in in

the Greek where it says absolute fullness of life that belongs to

God, eternal life. Listen to what it says.

When I read it out, it says a life real and genuine, a life

active and vigorous, devoted to God, blessed in the portion,

even in this world of those who put their trust in Christ, but

after the resurrection to be consummated by new and among

them a more perfect body and to last forever.

Eternal life was put on the inside of you, the fullness of

God Zoway life Hallelujah. And we have to remember that in

moments that listen he's given us.

He chose us to be partakers of this divine power and the

treasure. He says we've been given a

treasure in earthen vessels. And it's not just the Holy

Spirit. It's the divine power of the

life of God and the Holy Spirit that's dwelling on the inside of

us and the power of Almighty God that will help us walk out this

life of faith in the earth and be able for us to receive and

accomplish by faith everything that pertains to this life and

to living it godly and not stumbling, Not stumbling, Amen.

This is a powerful thing. We are powerful people.

We have to remember that we walk around as carriers, carriers of

a precious thing that God granted to us, and He wants us

to live and reign in this life, operating in the fullness of His

life, in the abundance of His life, in every area of our life,

every area of our life, every area, right.

We know He didn't just come being concerned about our spirit

being right with him. No, First Thessalonians 523 says

what he wants the whole spirit, soul and body to remain what?

Blameless before the coming of the Lord.

And the only way we're we can remain blameless before him.

Yeah, we've been made righteous, but how are we going to keep the

contaminations from this world from corrupting us again is by

adding these qualities to our faith.

Not just saying I'm a faith person, but actually having the

qualities to back it up and to walk it out every day.

And that when people see my life, they see those qualities

in it as I'm operating in the faith of God to produce, come

on, the Kingdom life everywhere I go, operating up underneath

the power of God, Hallelujah. And the life of God, that is my

life source. It's in my life source.

So I'm sorry if I get around people and I want to talk about

the word because it's my life source.

It's my life source. I don't want to talk about Mama

so and so and all the ailments and I don't want to talk about.

I want to talk about a result. I want to talk about an answer.

I want to talk about, come on, solving a problem that only

Christ can solve. Only Christ can solve these

problems, Amen. Nothing else in this world can

give you the answers but the word of God, the source of God,

the life of God, the power of God, Amen.

That we all need it. We all need it.

And we have to remember that we all needed him.

We still need him. We need him more today than

we've ever needed him. We need Him.

We need everything. He has everything so that we can

walk in perpetual reigning faith in the earth.