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Plumb Line - Kingdom Character

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  1. Jeremiah 1/4 through 12 says this.

  2. Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Before I formed you

  3. in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I

  4. consecrated you. I have appointed you a prophet

  5. to the nation's. Verse 6.

  6. Then I said, Alas, Lord God, behold, I do not know how to

  7. speak, because I'm a youth. But the Lord said to me, do not

  8. say I'm a youth, because everywhere I send you, you shall

  9. go, and all that I command you, you shall speak.

  10. Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you,

  11. declares the Lord. Then the Lord stretched out my

  12. hand, or stretched out his hand and touched my mouth.

  13. And the Lord said to me, Behold, I have put my word in your

  14. mouth. Now you know most people today

  15. wish that's the same way that the Holy Spirit would just touch

  16. your mouth in this context, you know, and it's instantly there.

  17. Well in this in this dispensation even more so we are

  18. to study to show ourselves on approved unto God.

  19. If you want the Holy Spirit to put things in your mouth, you're

  20. going to have to be in the word of God.

  21. Hallelujah. Are you hearing me?

  22. This is not by osmosis or by some magic wand.

  23. It's by discipline and study because the teachers on the

  24. inside of you glory to God. Verse 10, He says, see, I have

  25. appointed you this day over the nations and over the kingdoms to

  26. pluck up the breakdown, to destroy, to overthrow, to build

  27. and to plant man. I could just camp on that one

  28. verse again. He's appointed you this day over

  29. the nations and over the kingdoms.

  30. What is he going to do? He's going to pluck up and to

  31. break down, which means every prophetic utterance is not

  32. always positive and the and the gift of the prophet is not just

  33. to bring you good news, but also to bring correction.

  34. It goes on to say to destroy and overthrow.

  35. Wow Hallelujah. But then to build into plant

  36. verse 11. The word of the Lord came to me

  37. saying now here it is very clear.

  38. He said, what do you see Jeremiah?

  39. And he says, I see a rod of an almond tree and then the Lord

  40. says this. Then the Lord said to me, you

  41. have seen what for? I am watching over my word to

  42. perform it. Now this is 1 particular case

  43. specifically. I'm going to give you another

  44. case here and that is with the gift of the prophet.

  45. There is a training of seeing and knowing.

  46. Jeremiah has this. God says what do you see?

  47. What is He doing? He's training him how to see in

  48. the Spirit. Just because he's put the word

  49. in his mouth doesn't mean he is trained enough to be sensitive

  50. to accurately interpret everything.

  51. And the Lord has done this with multiple prophets.

  52. He did this with Isaiah. He did this with Ezekiel.

  53. He says, what do you see? And he would ask that question

  54. and they would say, well, I see this.

  55. And he said, OK, you've seen correctly.

  56. You're perceiving right? You're getting what I you're

  57. you're you're peering into what I'm doing by the spirit.

  58. Now let me give you an interpretation of what that is.

  59. Are you hearing me? Another one is Amos.

  60. Amos Chapter 7 says this. Amos says this thus he showed

    Amos 7 chapter mention

  61. me, and behold, the Lord was standing by a vertical wall with

  62. a Plumb line in his hand. And the Lord said to me, What do

  63. you see, Amos, what do you see? And I said, IA Plumb line.

  64. Then the Lord said to him, Behold I am, I'm about to put a

  65. Plumb line in the midst of my people Israel, I will spare them

  66. no longer. Let me show you a Plumb line.

  67. So the Lord in the spirit had a Plumb line that Amos saw a Plumb

  68. line is what Masons used to be able to build a wall so that it

  69. would be straight. And so it's obviously waited the

  70. line here. And so when they build the

  71. foundation and have their footer, then they begin to stack

  72. the rocks up is to keep it straight.

  73. That way nothing can bulge out or come in, nor do we build it

  74. in a way that it would start to lean that when it got it gets

  75. taller, it's going to topple over.

  76. So in essence, this is true. This is straight.

  77. The wall doesn't dictate what straight is, the line does.

  78. Are you hearing me? Which means then when the Mason

  79. is working, if, and again, we're talking about rocks here, not

  80. just brick, but let's talk about rocks as they begin to do that.

  81. If one of the rocks bowls out too much, then they will carve

  82. that off because if they want it flat and straight to the Plumb

  83. line, there's going to be things they have to remove.

  84. They have to adjust. They have to constantly be

  85. coming back and looking at the line.

  86. Are you hearing me? And the line doesn't lie.

  87. The line doesn't lie. The line always shows the

  88. imperfection because when the Mason goes down, says, ah, man,

  89. that brick has gotten too close. Is is push the line.

  90. You know, they can get going long and don't realize one

  91. touches it and the next thing you know, they go along, they're

  92. building. They're like, oh, it's not, it's

  93. not hanging. Oh, we're off.

  94. So they have to go back, tear down what is out to get it back

  95. Plumb or they begin to build up and they don't pay attention.

  96. They were off now and they're like we're leaning in.

  97. We're not even close to the line.

  98. Once again we have to tear down in order to get us back on

  99. point. Are you hearing what I'm saying?

  100. So Amos saw a Plumb line that was in whose hand come on?

  101. Whose hand was it in? It was in the Lord's hand.

  102. Do you understand? The Lord is your Plumb line.

  103. So in these cases, the gift of the prophet, if anything is

  104. communicating to you, are you straight?

  105. A true prophet is going to ask you, are you straight?

  106. You understand there were kings that didn't want certain

  107. prophets to show up because there were false prophets who

  108. had no care for the plum line. In fact, Amos is not even

  109. technically a prophet or come through a line of prophets or

  110. study to be a prophet. He actually says, listen, I am

  111. just a farmer, but the Lord came to my field.

  112. And because none of the prophets that had the ability to function

  113. that way, we're no longer paying attention to the Plumb line of

  114. God. He has now called me to come and

  115. speak on his behalf. Are you hearing me?

  116. And so there's a Plumb line that is associated with the walk of

  117. God. Because at the end of the day,

  118. the most sure prophecy we have is not what flows through the

  119. gift of the prophet, but it is the Word of God.

  120. And the word of God is our plum line.

  121. It's not your opinion. It's not how you want to do it.

  122. It's not What you think's best because Amos is letting us know

  123. as we could Fast forward into this dispensation, is that the

  124. church itself is not. It is susceptible of getting off

  125. the Plumb line as well if it does not keep first the Kingdom

  126. of God and his righteousness of which they seek to study,

  127. rightly dividing the word of truth, not having an opinion of

  128. their all. But what does the word say?

  129. A congregation can get off, can get off.

  130. Now I'm not here to talk about those.

  131. I'm here to talk about we want to stay with a Plumb line, 11

  132. scholar said. This.

  133. God tests the character of it, a Plumb line in his hand.

  134. The Mason used Plumb line to determine the straightness of

  135. the wall and thus God tests the character of human action.

  136. What is God's Plumb line number one?

  137. His law as inscribed upon the human conscience.

  138. By this he tries all men. In fact Paul wrote in the book

  139. of Romans chapter 2 I believe it was where he says listen the

    Romans 2 chapter mention

  140. Gentiles function in a law even though it's not written and

  141. based upon it they are tried. The Jews had a law of which was

  142. their Plumb line to be able to stay straight.

  143. The Gentiles didn't even have a written law, but their

  144. conscience had them live in a straight enough line that then

  145. would bear witness against them. So all men because as as Paul

  146. said, creation itself testifies of the glory of God and his

  147. reality that he exists Are you hear me?

  148. And that all of us are without excuse, Jew and Gentile alike.

  149. The second thing is God's law as written in the Scripture.

  150. By this he tries all who possess the revelation.

  151. Do you understand revelation is very important.

  152. Most people want to be known as knowing, but they don't really

  153. want to have revelation. But here's the thing, revelation

  154. is what God will try you. His Plumb line is on that.

  155. This is why Paul said, listen, I have to live to what I've

  156. attained to. I have to live to that I have

  157. through the years of 21 years of planting Anchor Faith Church

  158. here specifically, there are multiple times I've asked the

  159. Lord Lord, if all that really matters is just a priest, that

  160. Jesus Christ died on the cross and rose from the grave, That's

  161. all that really matters. Then I will no longer minister

  162. on the other stuff. Just tell me because I'm not

  163. here to minister to where an individual would come in and

  164. struggle with the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

  165. What evidence is speaking in tongues the authority of the

  166. believer that healing is now that the Kingdom of God is in

  167. function and operation today that the Bible's about a king

  168. his Kingdom and the world lost Ram There's all kinds of gamuts

  169. of things that that we say that that that run against the

  170. tradition of US Christianity. So Lord, if that's it we if if

  171. Pat if everybody's just packing out because they're talking

  172. about the death burial and resurrection of Jesus.

  173. Just let me do it and in 21 years.

  174. Do you know how he replies to me silence.

  175. He won't he, he already knows that I know and it always shows

  176. back up in the Philippian letter when Paul says I must live to

  177. what I have attained to. I do not turn back.

  178. I do not go backwards in revelation.

  179. I do not let go of revelation and, and, and just walk in what

  180. I started in. I must live to what I attained

  181. to. This is why again, I'm just

  182. going to communicate a little bit.

  183. Why? Because we have a Plumb lot, and

  184. our Plumb line is not based solely on the death, burial,

  185. resurrection of Jesus of which that opened the door to all the

  186. other revelation we have. But we have to acknowledge that

  187. Christ is the healer. We have to acknowledge that He's

  188. given authority to the believer. We have to acknowledge that He's

  189. made us kings in this earth today.

  190. We have to acknowledge that the enemy is at our feet.

  191. We have to acknowledge that our soul realm does not dominate us

  192. nor our emotions, and we are not led by them, but we are led by

  193. the spirit. Which means then song sung in

  194. certain congregations are based upon the revelation they have.

  195. But if that song came to this house, it becomes a problem

  196. because I can't just sing about how I feel because I'm not moved

  197. by how I feel. I'm moved by His word.

  198. So that's why, well, how do we sing this in the revelation we

  199. have? And this is not saying you're

  200. better. It's knowing what you have

  201. attained to. But I'm amazed again at the

  202. Saints is they will let singing run through their ears even

  203. though they know doctrinally it is off.

  204. Which tells me, what else will you compromise to accommodate?

  205. But I'm thankful that the prophetess said there'll be a

  206. new sound out of this house. Whoo Hallelujah, I said a new

  207. sound. Amen.

  208. Because there's revelation and you understand it's easier to

  209. just use somebody else's stuff and not actually stop and pray

  210. and get a song in your own spirit.

  211. I mean, it's easier to let somebody else do the work of

  212. mining out of truth and just sit and receive the effort of their

  213. time and their their sacrifice to be close with God.

  214. The third thing is God's law has embodied in Christ by this, he

  215. tries all who have the gospel. You understand we live in a new

  216. and better covenant and so we have to keep things in line with

  217. that covenant. This is why a lot of times songs

  218. in our in our church services do not have a new covenant

  219. perspective because they're dabbling in old covenant

  220. feelings. But the same thing as with

  221. preaching, and this is a holistic approach that when we

  222. do not keep context of Scripture from Genesis 11 to Revelations

  223. 2221, then in essence, what we do is we miss out on the big

  224. picture of what God is saying. And there is a Plumb line that

  225. is based upon the revelation. You have Reverend Randy and I

  226. have said on multiple times that when people have been exposed to

  227. the Kingdom of God and, and, and it's seen the Kingdom and walked

  228. and then to turn away and go back into churches that don't

  229. even mention it. It's like what is happening.

  230. I mean, it's no different than someone who has put their hand

  231. to a plow of a a particular revelation and now has looked

  232. back. What are we doing?

  233. We're trying to accommodate our opinion of God and how we want

  234. to live with him instead of his truth about himself.

  235. God's always trying to raise us up, always trying to perfect us,

  236. always trying to. Because here's the thing, God,

  237. God never wanted to be like man. And we preached that Jesus

  238. became a man and he did. Don't get me wrong, he did.

  239. And he suffered on our account. He was tempted on all accounts.

  240. He could sympathize with our weaknesses, but God never wanted

  241. that. See, we like say, wow, God loved

  242. us so much, he became a man. No, the reason he became a man

  243. and so we could be like him because originally he said let

  244. us make man in our image according to our likeness and

  245. let them rule and have dominion. God's plan for man was always

  246. that man would be like God, not that God would be like man, but

  247. we want to identify with God through our humanity.

  248. And I really wish God would release this word I have

  249. concerning God is not a man, so we cannot approach him from our

  250. human aspect, even though we know he can identify with our

  251. humanity because he became a human, because he gave dominion

  252. to a human that lost the dominion in the first garden

  253. where Jesus gained it in the ladder garden.

  254. And so that we can have the life that He originally gave us in

  255. the garden in the 1st place, and that we would be like God we are

  256. children of, and He wants us to revel in that.

  257. Hallelujah. So man's character of this Plumb

  258. line may be compared to masonry in several aspects.

  259. It has one foundation. Walls are built not upon 2, but

  260. upon one foundation. So is every man's character.

  261. There are some one principle on which it is organized.

  262. That principle is the paramount affection of the man.

  263. Whatever he loves most governs him.

  264. If he loves pleasure most, his character is sensual.

  265. If he loves money most, his character is worldly.

  266. If he loves wisdom most, his character is philosophic.

  267. If he loves God most, his character is divine.

  268. Hallelujah. And our character is to be that

  269. which is divine. It is our Plumb line.

  270. Isaiah 2816 and 17 says this. Therefore, thus says the Lord

  271. God, Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a tested stone, a

  272. costly cornerstone for the foundation, firmly placed.

  273. He who believes in it will not be disturbed.

  274. Come on, who is the cornerstone? What's his name?

  275. Come on, what's his name? His name's Jesus.

  276. Jesus is the cornerstone by which God the Father drops from

  277. heaven his plum line of which he peers into the character of man

  278. and says to those who call on the name of Jesus to be saved,

  279. He says, now it's within you the ability to be straight.

  280. The new birth gives you the ability to be straight.

  281. Now what do I mean? Righteous, holy, just in

  282. alignment with God, no imperfections.

  283. Here's the thing, God knows that through the light, through your

  284. life and the renewing of your mod, in essence He is saying

  285. here's Christ, you're in Christ, this is out.

  286. I'm pushing it in or I'm cutting that off.

  287. This is too far, we're going to pull that back out.

  288. He's constantly looking at you and He's examining you according

  289. to this Plumb line in this dispensation and was awesome.

  290. Unlike the old dispensation with the nature of man could not

  291. change in ours, the nature of man does change.

  292. We become new creatures in Christ.

  293. We are set up on His foundation, and if we allow the Holy Spirit

  294. to renew our minds through the reading of the Word, the

  295. studying of the Word, and through the gifts associated

  296. with the Church, then we will cut things off.

  297. We will get things right, We will make adjustments.

  298. Why? Because when God's peering over

  299. it, He'll be able to say that is my servant or my child in whom

  300. I'm well, well pleased. Hallelujah.

  301. So again, you understand as an apostle or pastor or teacher of

  302. the Word, you understand a lot of times the gifts get attacked

  303. because God is using our voices to mess with your wall.

  304. And instead of you saying thank you, Lord Jesus, you just want

  305. me to be straight in every aspect of my life, Hallelujah.

  306. I mean, when the Lord spoke to me on a physical sense of

  307. alignment, he says, Son, you need to get your diet together.

  308. I'm like, Lord, I'm not overweight, you know, I work

  309. out, he says. You don't know what that food is

  310. doing to your insides. Later on when I had blood work

  311. years later, come to find out I had some vascular slug things

  312. within my vascular system that didn't show up on the outside,

  313. but on the inside. It was the steps towards heart

  314. disease. Just because I could burn things

  315. off didn't mean it wasn't leaving a residue.

  316. But by the spirit He spoke to me.

  317. Why? Because he wants me to be in

  318. alignment with him, spirit, soul and body, in order to accomplish

  319. the work that he's called me to do.

  320. And what he's called me to do requires me to be able to

  321. physically manage and move. In fact, one particular prophet,

  322. Kenneth E Hagin, he went from a teacher to a prophet later on in

  323. life. He himself admitted, He said, I

  324. wish I had taken care of my body better because he said on the

  325. inside I'm strong, vibrant, but my physical man just cannot stay

  326. up. There was a challenge.

  327. And you know, I get a little bit older every year and, you know,

  328. so things are different each year and I have to be very, I

  329. have to be more intentional. I could be less disciplined when

  330. I was younger, it seemed, however, I can't afford it as

  331. much. It shows up quicker.

  332. You're like, what's that right now again, somebody may look at

  333. me and say, what are you complaining about?

  334. It's all relative. Listen, I'm not judging my body

  335. against your body. I'm judging my body against his

  336. word and what I'm called to do period.

  337. And so that to me is what's important.

  338. Acts chapter 17, verses 30 to 31.

    Acts 17:30–31

  339. It says. Therefore, having overlooked the

  340. times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all people

  341. everywhere should repent, because He has fixed today which

  342. he will judge the world in righteousness through a man whom

  343. he has appointed, having furnished proof to all men by

  344. raising him from the dead. Amos comes at a time that the

  345. nation of Israel has gone, has rebelled against God for

  346. generations. And let me just say it this way

  347. because I I've got another, I got a few things working.

  348. And when God delivered in Egypt, they took gods with them and

  349. they had them the whole time they were in the wilderness.

  350. And there were groups that were sacrificing to them the whole

  351. time they were in the wilderness.

  352. This bears out in. Other prophets words and in the

  353. New Testament specifically of the of the gods that they

  354. brought from Egypt, even though they watched, God himself

  355. delivered them. And I would say in.

  356. The new Covenant. When you know what God.

  357. 'S done for you to give you life, yet you still have other

  358. idols in your life you keep carrying along.

  359. That you keep putting in. Front of God that becomes a

  360. decision first for you and churches later.

  361. Now, I say church because again, it's a little bit of

  362. controversy, you know, within the Saints world.

  363. But the reality is you need to get revelation that you are

  364. trying to amputate, are trying to decapitate Jesus every time

  365. you act like the church is not important or that it's

  366. secondary. Jesus is not the head of you.

  367. He's the head of the. Of which you're a part of once

  368. you're born again. Hallelujah and the body.

  369. Is where he assigns you, not where you pick.

  370. All right, First Timothy, chapter one, say Amen.

  371. Anyway, First Timothy, chapter one, verse 18 and 20.

  372. I'll be even more bold than that.

  373. This command I entrust to you, Timothy, my son, in accordance

  374. with the prophecies previously made concerning you.

  375. That by them. You fight the good fight how

  376. verse 19 keeping faith and a good conscience, which some have

  377. rejected and suffered a shipwreck in regard to their

  378. faith among them are and he names them Paul names them.

  379. You know who they are. Now.

  380. Now this is a. Letter to Timothy.

  381. I'm not telling you that it was a letter to the whole church

  382. body. All I know is it made it to the

  383. canonization. And as the church, we are aware

  384. of these two individuals and they have shipwrecked their

  385. face, so much of which Paul moves into a prayer life for

  386. them, that most believers are not praying for Saints this way.

  387. Whom I have. Handed over to Satan.

  388. So that they will be. Taught not to blasphemy, Paul

  389. was more concerned about these two people based upon the

  390. revelation and how they have function in the Kingdom of God

  391. that by turning now they are at risk of blasphemy of the Holy

  392. Spirit. And he is like, it's better that

  393. I would send them on over to darkness, pray that the enemy

  394. would go ahead and eradicate them, take them out of the

  395. planet where they could still be present with the Lord, than them

  396. to totally abandoned and reject Jesus, the one who saved them in

  397. the first place. And love does that.

  398. But what do we see? Out of this passive scripture,

  399. first and foremost, a word is spoken over Timothy and Paul was

  400. saying in order for you to accomplish that which was spoken

  401. to you, you're going to have to fight the good fight of faith.

  402. As we Pastor Mike ministered on Wednesday Apostle Marcy spoke in

  403. prayer today and last week prophet Doctor Mary Francis said

  404. contend for your destiny. And when she said that she

  405. wasn't talking about your personal destiny.

  406. She's talking about the destiny you have connected with the

  407. church because when she was praying for us, she was praying

  408. for the church, not just for us individually, although she was

  409. listening. That if God had something that

  410. she would be sensitive to move. And I'm just going to be honest

  411. with you, she had nothing on anyone except my wife and I

  412. because she knew us as the overseers and that's it.

  413. She did not know your name, did not know your circumstance.

  414. It was when she was in service, she was able to come over and

  415. talk to you about worship and your leadership because she saw

  416. something then or you hear me now, I'm not telling you that

  417. she couldn't have seen a face, couldn't have done that.

  418. But the majority time she's seeing it as she's with me and

  419. she's sensitive to that. On our occasion, she was.

  420. God spoke to her about us. And there were things mentioned.

  421. In at the Olive Garden that she didn't entirely mention to the

  422. whole church. So that's for my wife and I

  423. Hallelujah. And she just confirmed things

  424. that we already knew. And it let me know.

  425. God knows. And what I've been praying.

  426. He's heard. Hallelujah.

  427. And he'll do exactly what he says.

  428. Amen. Praise the Lord, But let me tell

  429. you this, the Bible is full of prophecies about you already.

  430. The Bible prophecies. That all men would repent, which

  431. means there's a prophecy that you would be right with God and

  432. He wants you to fulfill that. There's a prophecy that you'd be

  433. in do with power from on high He wants you to fulfill.

  434. That there's a prophecy about you having the authority of a

  435. believer and walking as ruling in reign in this life.

  436. There's prophecies already about you about living by the Spirit

  437. and not according to the flesh. And if you would just fulfill

  438. those and fight the good fight of faith, you can accomplish

  439. your purpose. And the thing that is?

  440. What's so crazy is that Saints will abandoned church to get out

  441. in sectors of society, but you can't help sectors of society if

  442. you don't stay connected to the church properly.

  443. Because the reality is it is these two individuals that begin

  444. to peer back into society and separation.

  445. He Paul even wrote of another man by the name of Demas and

  446. said this he has abandoned me for he has love for the world

  447. has shown back up. In essence, he started to align

  448. his life with the Plumb line of the world.

  449. And let me tell you, we live in a world that is seen.

  450. And even though you may be born again, you can align yourself

  451. with the culture of the world and the way it does.

  452. And the devil is easy to accommodate you with scripture

  453. to get you out of alignment. You say I don't believe.

  454. He can do that. Really.

  455. He did it. Did you?

  456. He tried to do it to Jesus. Jesus said when he said, hey, if

  457. you're the Son of God, turn this stone into bread.

  458. He said, man shall not live on bread alone.

  459. But I have every word that proceed out of the mouth, right?

  460. It is written. So then the devil comes back and

  461. says, you know what else is written so.

  462. He used. Scripture to try to get Jesus

  463. out of alignment. And if you don't know.

  464. How to rightly divide? Guess what?

  465. He'll get you out of alignment using Scripture.

  466. He'll say, you know what? The Lord wants you to take this

  467. job and prosper you, so you're going to have to move.

  468. OK, man, because you know the Lord wants to prosper you.

  469. Well, yeah, he does. But yet the Lord doesn't want

  470. you to move. Because there's no church.

  471. That you're going to nor body he's planting you in.

  472. But we have to. Fight the good fight of faith to

  473. the things that were spoken to us, because if we do not, we can

  474. find ourselves suffering shipwreck.

  475. The Plumb line still exists today, even though the blood of

  476. Christ has been shed. Because the standard.

  477. Is the Lord. He never.

  478. Ever. Nor is it preached this way.

  479. To be born again gives you the ability to stay out of alignment

  480. in the world until you come home.

  481. Ecclesiastes 12. We're closing down now 13.

  482. And 14. Says the conclusion.

  483. When all has been heard. Is fear God keep his

  484. commandments? Because this applies.

  485. This applies 2 Come on, finish it. 2 Are you a person?

  486. It applies to you, for God will bring every act to judgment.

  487. How many acts? Who's this applied to Lost and

  488. saved? Now again in the.

  489. Church, because we're not rightly divine the word of

  490. truth. We're saying, oh, I'm born

  491. again. I'm free from judgment.

  492. No, you're not. You are free from.

  493. Eternal damnation. That's that's that's in.

  494. Existence OK, but judgment is there nonetheless for what

  495. you've done in Christ. He says so he goes on.

  496. For God will bring every act to judgment.

  497. Everything. Which is what?

  498. Whether it is doesn't matter. Now let me get you into the new

  499. covenant because again, I know I'm reading out Ecclesiastes,

  500. but King Solomon had insight into this because King Solomon

  501. started this thing out. Lord, give me wisdom to follow

  502. your people. And the Lord's like, man, that's

  503. pretty amazing. You're not asking about anything

  504. for yourself. She didn't.

  505. Ask for a long life. You didn't ask for the death of

  506. your enemy. You didn't ask for wealth.

  507. You. Asked for the.

  508. Wisdom from me to lead my people.

  509. You understand your responsibility.

  510. Man. I wish Saints would have that

  511. same responsibility today. That our first thought was not.

  512. About Lord Prosper me Lord, you know how they're attacking me.

  513. It's at work. Lord, I just want to live.

  514. Forever let me have a healthy life.

  515. Solomon didn't ask about himself.

  516. He said. Give me wisdom to lead others

  517. that are yours. That's a big picture.

  518. The problem is, as he was moving in that endeavor, and though the

  519. Holy Spirit could come upon him because he was a king, the

  520. reality is, is that he allowed his wives and he did not keep

  521. what was written from the law of Moses.

  522. That the king is supposed to have the law writ, writ, read

  523. before him, and he was to ride it out every year himself.

  524. And because he did not do it, he violated things that would have

  525. kept his soul. And then because of all.

  526. The treaties and things he did with women, then they brought in

  527. their gods from their countries and he began to appease them.

  528. And that the then this whole Ecclesiastes is how I started

  529. with God. Now I just went and tried to see

  530. what it was like for myself. And he has come to a conclusion

  531. and this is the conclusion. Fear God, keep his commandments

  532. because he's going to judge every act whether good or evil.

  533. Romans chapter 2 verse 16 says is on the day when according to

    Romans 2:16

  534. my gospel, God will judge the secrets of men through Christ

  535. Jesus. And then the last scripture.

  536. Is this Second Corinthians 510 For we all, for we must, For we

  537. must all. Appear before the judgment.

  538. Seat of Christ Now not everyone appeared before the judgment.

  539. Seat of Christ because those that are never called on the day

  540. of the Lord, they'll go before the great white throne of God

  541. and Thrones are in kingdoms not religions and judgment has to do

  542. with a judicial system that the Kingdom of God is because the.

  543. Bible's actually about a. King his Kingdom in his royal

  544. offspring, of which God is the judge, and He is the only

  545. righteous one, of which he holds the Plumb line.

  546. And so we're all going. To appear before the judgment

  547. seat of Christ, so that each one may be huh, recompensed,

  548. rewarded for his deeds in the body according to what he has

  549. done, whether good or bad. So even as a believer, God will

  550. judge your motives. He knows what's in your.

  551. Heart. He knows what's going on.

  552. He knows why you do what you do. And all the while he's sticking

  553. out his Plumb line. He's saying now do this because

  554. of this, because if you do this because of this, you're out.

  555. You're not in alignment. You may be on the foundation of

  556. the rock, but your walls getting off.

  557. You're leaning one way. Or the other, and if you keep

  558. going in this direction, you'll lean either too far in or too

  559. far out and you'll fall and grade is the fall.

  560. But the foundation will stay steady.

  561. I said it'll stay steady. And This is why we've seen

  562. people that started the first few layers of their life on the

  563. wall straight, pure. They were in church serving God,

  564. hungry for the word, worshipping him, totally engaged.

  565. But then all of a sudden, somewhere along the line, some

  566. things got pushed out of alignment and they allowed those

  567. things to stay. And when the world was trying to

  568. make them adjustments they didn't do till eventually they

  569. got out and they fail and all this, they're back to the the

  570. few layers that were true. And I would much rather fall and

  571. get to a few layers that are true and rebuild of which God is

  572. a Redeemer of time, glory to God.

  573. See, the biggest lie the devil can tell you is that if you've

  574. gotten out or you've gotten in and you're leaning and you're

  575. falling and you can't get back in alignment, he's a liar.

  576. Not only can he get you, God get you in alignment, but he could

  577. double time to build into that wall and get you back to where

  578. you supposed to be before he returns.

  579. But there is a sliver of time coming.

  580. Just like with. Israel.

  581. Because what did he tell? He said I got my Plumb line out

  582. this time I will not pass over, which means he had come by

  583. before and he says that's out and that's out and that isn't in

  584. alignment and this isn't right. And that needs to be fixed.

  585. So prophet, you go and say this, and prophet, you go and say

  586. that, and prophet, you go and do that.

  587. Because all that's about getting them in alignment.

  588. But they did not heed the words of the prophet.

  589. In essence, what did they do? They put them in prison and they

  590. killed them and they persecuted them.

  591. And then finally he said, Amos, I'm pulling out the line.

  592. This time I will not go by. I'm tearing it all.

  593. Down. I'm going to get it straight.

  594. And in the last. Of the last days, he's doing

  595. that in the believer's life. He says the time of ignorance is

  596. there, but he's coming and you need to get it straight.

  597. You need your Kingdom character to produce.

  598. It's not your religion of. Jesus, it's the King and what he

  599. says.