Resolute Me - Kingdom Identity

I'm going to talk to you now about your Kingdom identity.

And so you need to become resolute.

You need to be a resolute me, all right, because we are now

February the 12th now. I do not do this, but maybe

someone here does. And that is every year you do a

New Year's resolution. So we are six weeks in to where

90% of all, all New Year's resolutions are being abandoned,

right? I mean, you know, the gym is not

as packed anymore because they made it the first four weeks

they realize they're sore and then they've decided, you know

what, that's not for me again, we'll wait till next year.

All right? So, you know, the gym is not as

crowded anymore because, you know, all those individuals have

kind of separated out, Amen. But this should not be with us.

We need to be resolute, Amen. We need to resolve that.

There are things about us that we are going to determine to do

period, Amen. So if you have your Bibles turn

over to Genesis chapter 1. Resolute by definite, by

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definition means this marked by a firm determination.

So if you're going to be resolute, you're going to have

to have a firm determination concerning the things that God

speaks concerning you, Amen. It's very important for us to

realize this because God has brought us out of something into

something, not out of something. And we're in a waiting room

until we finally get to go to heaven.

That was never his intent. Amen.

Amen. Would you give a warm welcome

for Pastor Joshua and Pastor Hope?

They are with us from Alabama right here behind Pastor Marcy.

Amen. They, they have come down for

Valentine's Day and swung by to see us.

And so we are honored to have you with us today.

And God's doing awesome things in their church.

We went and ministered there once.

I think we're signed up to do it again this year.

And so they're such a blessing and have two awesome boys and

God's doing some great things. He officially transitioned as

the senior pastor of the church. They're over from his

grandfather. His grandfather, you know,

pioneered that church and was there for how many years?

4050 years, 30 years. OK, I was giving him a little

bit more age, 30 years. And so Joshua and Hope, you

know, they have taken that work and man, it's already expanding.

Amen. Well, there's vision, Amen?

And I, I'm excited to see those kinds of transition take place

because see, his grandfather is able to be kind of like a King

David where he could see his son on the throne now this office,

his grandson, but see him take something that originated in him

that God started and now they're continuing the work there, Amen?

So that's really exciting. So I know that I'll preach

really well today because they're going to be pulling on

me. How about you, Amen?

Because you understand when, when ministers are in the house

and they give all the time they want to receive.

So it's always easier in a, in a setting where there's a lot of

ministers if they're hungry, and I know these two, they are.

So you're going to get fed. Well, today they're going to,

they're going to help pull for you, Amen.

And so on to encourage him. In Genesis chapter one, verse 26

to 27, it says this. Then God said, let us make man

in our image according to our likeness, and let them rule over

the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, over the

cattle, over all the earth, over every creeping thing that creeps

on the earth. God created man in his own

image, in the image of God. He created him, male and female.

He created them. Then when we get over to Genesis

Genesis 2:15–17

chapter 2, verses 15 to 17, it says this.

Then the Lord took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to

cultivate it and keep it. The Lord God commanded the man

saying, from any tree of the garden you may eat freely, but

from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not

eat. For in the day that you eat from

it, you will surely die. Now I'm going to be kind of

repetitive, but again, the Word of God is here to feed us, OK?

And, and many of you eat the same foods all the time, OK?

If you've had a hamburger once, you typically go after it again,

and sometimes you enjoy it as much the next time and the 15th

time and the 100th time, right? You typically are like, man,

I've had 100 hamburgers I don't want anymore.

Sometimes you're like, bro, I need another hamburger, right?

Well, the problem is in Christianity, if we don't watch

out, we'll be reading the same scripture and all of a sudden

we'll know whether we are moving from application to just he

knowledge base alone. Moving from a doer to one who's

only a hearer is if when the scripture pops up, you've heard

multiple times you're like, yeah, I know, Amen.

Now this is the word of God. It's alive and active.

It's here to feed us. Amen.

And so, you know, Pastor Josh and I were talking because we

ate before we came over today and he said the Lord spoke to

him and he says, is the Kingdom just as real to you today as the

first time you heard it? Because here's the thing, I was

Pastor Marcy and I, you know, last week we went over to a

particular conference and the minister, Keith Moore, who it

was, he said, here's the Israelites, they have God in his

glory all day in a cloud. We call it the glory cloud.

And yet they, they became so familiar with his glory cloud

and that it became common. Do you understand?

You can be under the supernatural power of God.

And if you don't watch out, the power of God and the things of

God will become common to you, Common to the point that you

would disobey, rebel, look for something different.

In fact, many of them decided we've seen the miracles that

delivered us. We watched our enemy die in the

Red Sea. We've seen the supernatural over

here. And we've seen how he's kept a

cloud over us during the day so that we do not get scorched and

a fire by night so that we do not freeze here in the in the

wilderness. And yet they at some point said,

let's go back and be slaves again because they became

familiar with the glory. Well, there's only one person

who can keep you from being familiar.

It's you. Just go ahead and point it

yourself. So say this, I will not become

familiar with any scripture or anything that the Lord has for

me. I will always be in awe.

You want to be in awe, you want to always appreciate.

Anytime you're hearing the word, you want to give it reverence,

you want to honor it. You want to be like, wow, God is

speaking to me. For me, these are reflection

moments that when I hear things, I'm like, wow, thank you, Lord,

I remember when you revealed that to me the first time.

You know, those kinds of things help propel me.

One reason why I go back to Rhema every year is to maintain

my gratefulness. In fact, it's Kirk in here.

OK, So you can tell him I talked about him.

So Kirk is a Kansas City Chiefs fan.

You know this, right? I mean, he came out, right?

I text him, I said, you doing OK?

Do you need someone to talk to? But here's the thing.

Patrick Mahomes, before the game, was being interviewed by

Tom Brady, who has seven Super Bowl rings.

OK. And he said, what is it going to

be like for you? Imagine that if you win this

game, you'll be the first quarterback to ever win three

straight Super Bowls. If there's one word to describe

it, what would you say? Now?

The word I thought was grateful 'cause just to make it to the

game is a feat by itself. To win it is a whole nother ball

game. But then the win repeatedly is

just something else. But he used this word started

with AG greatness. Interesting, right?

Do you understand? I go back to Rhema.

It doesn't matter what success I've had in the Lord, because I

have followed Him with all my heart, all my soul, all my mind,

and all my strength. I go back because I want to

maintain gratefulness. I'm grateful 'cause when I

didn't know nothing concerning Scripture, I mean, I thought I

knew something. I mean, I knew based upon what I

knew. You know, I was ministering

based upon the revelation I had at the time.

But man, when I sit in that class at Rhema, I was like, I

don't even know the Bible. Then I had preached a revival.

Now, what I preached was a subject and it was accurate, but

there were so much more about God I didn't even know.

And I'm sitting in church now. The number one issue with that

was is that I wasn't hungry enough.

I did the proverbial thing that most believers fail in and that

is let me just hear what pastor's saying because I'll

just receive from him and him only or her whichever, whatever

minister's ministering meaning you don't type time to seek the

Scripture yourself to make it your own.

So it becomes your own personal belief system.

Nor seek God to determine is there anything else He needs you

to discover because He can reveal things to you when you

seek Him. But when all you're seeking is

when service is here, and then you listen while it's here, and

then you never pick it up again until you come back.

When you come back, well, you understand you're not going to

have appreciation, nor will you grow at the level God intended

you to grow. So I'm always thankful and

grateful for what God has taught me.

And here's the thing, if anything we preach, you think,

man, I've already heard that you are running the risk of

developing this familiarity, that ultimately you are stifling

your own personal growth and your passion for your Lord.

Because again, Jesus did not die on the cross and shed his blood

for your sin, your wrongdoing, so that you would just be here

trying to figure it out on your own and really just hanging out

waiting to die so you can be with him in heaven.

That was never His intent. But you know why this message

prevails is because people weren't hungry to know more.

They just wanted the bare minimum.

I just really don't want to go to hell when I die.

Well, that's not why we make Jesus Lord.

We make Jesus Lord because He loved us first.

He paid the price for us and He wants to put us back in the

original design that He always had for us in the 1st place.

Amen. So we know in Genesis 11, it

said in the beginning God created the heavens and the

earth. Is it this earth?

Same planet? Planet has not changed.

There's not another planet. OK, same planet.

And so the Lord then says to that man would have dominion.

We know this, but don't that stir you up?

I mean, I, I just, I can't hear that enough that my God wants me

to reign with him. How awesome is that?

Just to stop and think about that for a moment, God wants me

to reign with Him. I'm not just serving him as a

servant. I'm not serving him as a slave.

I am part of the family business where Jesus is the King of

Kings. Wow.

And He has given us power because of His name and His

death, burial and resurrection that we can walk in today.

The term that is used in the earth is called power of

attorney. He has given us power of

attorney because He's given us the authorized us to use His

name in the earth. And His name is above every

name. Cancer doesn't matter, Christ is

above it. Lack doesn't matter, God is

above it. Depression doesn't matter, God

is above. That's why the joy of the Lord

is your stream, because you don't have to stay somewhere.

He's caused you to be raised up. But in Genesis 2, he says to

Adam, you can eat from any tree of the garden, but of the tree

of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat.

For the day you eat, you'll die. So we've asked this question, If

Adam had never eaten the fruit, where would he be today?

He'd be here. And now here's something really

powerful about this and the reason why I'm kind of moving in

this direction. Because man has fallen.

We have failed to see man as God originally had man because Adam

was made in the image of God. He breathed into his nostrils

the breath of life. His spirit was that of God, the

DNA of God. OK, he's God's son.

If you read 1 of the gospels and they do the genealogies, you'll

see it says Adam the Son of God. Now he's not the Son of God,

Jesus, which is God in the flesh, but he is still God's

son, OK? He is a man that is God's Son

and his spirit is without sin. But not only that, his soul, his

mind, his intellect, his emotions only know an alive

spirit. His soul, his mental capacities

are not affected by sin. His decision making never comes

from envy, strife, bitterness, unforgettable.

He has no, he has no concept of any of those things at all.

Then the body he is in that is like the one we're in, except

his. There's no sin about his makeup,

which means if he had not eaten the fruit, he could still be in

the earth today in that body that would have had no sickness,

no disease. Come on it.

It would, it would. He would still be the same.

I mean, we're talking thousands of years and and some scholars

believe that, you know, not not based upon evolution teaching,

but based upon biblical teaching.

When you start actually adding up numbers within the Scripture,

it's more than likely that the planet is in that six thousandth

year. Now that's mind blowing when

you've been taught forever that it's millions of years old.

OK, but as far as from the creation of man in Genesis one,

we are 6000 in OK, so just over and we're going to be getting

into a 7th 7000 year, which is going to kick off into a

millennial reign of Christ, Glory to God, Amen.

So again, we would see Adam is 6000, you know, maybe 6950 years

old. He could be and he would look

good because there be there's no effective sin.

See the wages of sin is but he hasn't sinned so that he would

not have died. Amen.

So man, although he is a spirit, the spirit of the man is always

attached to the soul and was not intended to be detached from the

body. It was not intended to be

detached from the body because if Adam had never eaten the

fruit, he'd still be here. Now look at this.

You you know it in Hebrews chapter 4 verse 12 he says for

Hebrews 4:12

the word of God is living an active sharper than any 2 edged

sword and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit and

of both joints and marrow. Now that is what we call the

three fold nature of man, spirit, soul and body, OK,

spirit, soul and body. So the word of God is living an

actor sharper than any 2 edged sword.

It pierces meaning. The only thing that can separate

your spirit man and your soul realm from each other is the

Word. So if you do not have the word,

you cannot split or see the separation between spirit and

soul. And here's the thing, without

the word, you're going to side with your soul every time, all

right? Your mind will and emotions,

you're going to respond based upon how you feel.

All right. But then it says both join

Samara and it's this. This word is able to judge the

thoughts and intentions of the heart.

But the verse that I want to focus on tonight is First

Thessalonians 523. First Thessalonians 523 says it

this way. Now may the God of peace

himself, the God of peace himself.

Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you entirely.

You what? You what entirely?

Which means there's more than just one aspect of you all

right. And may your here it is spirit

and soul and body what be preserved complete without blame

at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Now we're going to be ministering on the fivefold

ministry gifts that God has given to the body out of

Ephesians chapter 4. Here is a challenge that has

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occurred through the five fold ministry gift of teaching, OK

teaching or teachers. They are line upon line, precept

upon precept, all right, which means they are subject driven.

And that means a teacher can come in and teach on the subject

of righteousness, teach on the subject of of healing, teach on

the subject of the threefold nature of man, teach on the

subject of how to be led by the Spirit, teach on the subject of

in Christ realities or faith. OK.

The problem is, is that sometimes teachers will become

so deep. When I say deep, I'm talking

line upon line. They're layering it.

They just keep going on the same subject line it to the point

that it they have turned the church into what the medical

profession has become. There was a time in the medical

profession, David just were general practitioners, which

means the doctors needed to know everything about you.

But now we have specialized doctors.

Right, Specialized, you know, when I went to the optometrist,

which you know, for your eyes, when I went to that particular

doctor, they checked my eyes to determine how well I can see

either close up in that far. But then they would, you know,

put a, a light in me and look at, you know, my retina and then

the nerve and all these things that are going on in my eyes.

However, if something wasn't right, that doctor will not

perform surgery on me. They will refer me to the

specialist, which means you could have a doctor that knows

nothing about feet and everything about eyes.

Are you hearing me? So when the medical profession

to some degree abandoned the concept of the entirety of the

body for the sake of specializing, then you

understand they can treat something going on in one part

of your body that they're specialized, but the source of

that is somewhere else in the body that they have to engage

someone else to figure out. And if they do not do that, even

if they treat this one area they specialized in, you could go a

year or two down the road and that area is no longer bothering

you. But you actually haven't found

the root of your problem. OK, Kenny.

Kenny, would you stand up real quick back here on the back?

Kenny Rothshaw. Kenny.

OK, Kenny, this happened with Kenny.

Kenny had this issue in his. It was in your neck, was it?

Or your shoulder? It was just shoulder.

OK. And so I said, I'm gonna pray

for you. So Kenny came down, and I prayed

for his shoulder. Now he had a doctor's

appointment. I said, Kenny, still go to the

doctor. Well, guess what?

We prayed for the shoulder, but the shoulder wasn't the problem.

The shoulder is well is where the pain manifested.

The problem was in his neck, correct?

So because we found out where the real problem was, again, you

laying hands on an area that is just having a symptom but isn't

the problem. You're like, man, my shoulder

hurts. Thank Kenny.

You can sit down, call my shoulder hurts so bad, you know,

because you know, Kenny helps me with golf.

So obviously when it affected his swing and he's like, man,

what's going on? What's going on?

You know, my shoulders hurt, my shoulders hurting.

And plus he works in concrete. He's throwing cinder blocks all

the time. I mean, he could probably

outwork, you know, most of our 3040 year old guys in here,

honestly, from what he does. The point is, is that you're

asking for prayer for something that ultimately isn't the

problem. So what happens is, is that we,

through the teaching gift, has specialized in the spirit of

man, so much so that we say it this way.

We are a spirit, we have a soul, and we live in a body.

But I don't believe that's how the Lord intended us to identify

ourselves ever, because we are now assuming that we can exist

without our soul and body. But the Scripture is not putting

us in a position that in Revelation 22 that we are

without a body. That's right, that's right,

that's good. So when man, God made man in His

image. The entirety of man is spirit,

soul and body. It is spirit, soul and body.

Amen. Now when Adam ate the fruit and

disobedience, his spirit died. But that when his spirit died,

guess what? It affected his soul and his

body. Because where he would have

never been sick, now he's subject to sickness.

Where he never would have had a wrong thought, now he has wrong

thoughts. But yet we are we if we don't

watch out, we are only focusing on the spirit of man.

This is why a lot of times the teachings are in places can be

all that matters is have you made Jesus the Lord of your

life? Have you confessed him as your

Lord so that you'll know when you die you'll go to heaven?

Jesus never came back to the planet for only your spirit man

to be right. Never.

Because God himself knows man is not just the spirit, he has a

soul. It's where he can think, it's

where he can process information is where his will is.

You understand when we, when we get the account of Abraham's

bosom where Abraham has died, others have died there in what

is called paradise, because Jesus looked at the one thief

and said today you'll be with me in paradise, not in heaven, in

paradise, because paradise is not heaven.

Paradise was the grave, but in the grave there were two places.

There was paradise which was called the righteous dead.

They were awaiting payment because the wages of sin is

death. They are separated from God, but

they believe that the King is coming and that he was going to

lay down his life and he was going to make that payment.

And they accepted him as their Lord prior to him dying, raising

from the dead and pouring his blood out on the mercy seat in

heaven where we have salvation made available to us.

But there was another place in the grave is where torment

existed. Now there was a Jesus given this

account said there was a rich man that when he looked up he

saw Abraham and then he saw a guy named Lazarus who used to

sit at his table. Notice in his soul realm his

body was not with him but his soul and spirit.

That he could recall the relationship he had with someone

when he was alive in his body on the earth.

So when we leave our body, our spirit and soul leave.

But yet our spirit and soul is not ever is not going to

continually be disconnected from a body because we all know that

we're going to put on another body, a body that would be

imperishable, right? No longer will be.

Mortals will have immortality. Amen.

So God designed us so that all three parts of our being would

be blameless, be preserved. Now let's look at that Scripture

one more time. It says this.

Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you.

How entirely So you we have to decide that you know what?

It's not good enough that my spirit man is alive to God

because he came to do more than that.

He came to sanctify me entirely. And I'm not just my spirit.

I have a soul and I'm in this body and he's come to sanctify

me entirely. Amen.

Amen. So that may your spirit, soul

and body so their keys communicating the entirety of

who we are would be preserved, complete without blame at the

coming of the Lord Jesus. Sanctify by definition means

this. It means to separate from

profane things and dedicated to God to to purify internally and

externally to make here it is holy.

Now this is powerful because we know first Peter chapter one

verse 14 through 16 says as obedient children.

This means you've made Jesus the Lord of your life as obedient

children. Do not be conformed to the

former lusts which were yours in your ignorance, but like the

Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your

behavior has to do with your soul realm, not your spirit.

Your spirit man, has been made in the likeness of Christ.

We'll see that here in a minute. But then it should affect your

soul realm so that your behavior will line up with your spirit

that is in Christ, of which the Holy Spirit lives in you and is

giving you instruction. Amen.

The Holy Spirit is not in their only say, is not in their

saying. Hold on.

I know it's bad, but you're going to be with God when you

die. Yeah.

This stinks. Nothing we can do about it.

Just hold on. I'm only here for your spirit.

I'm only here for your spirit. No, no, no.

Then it goes on verse 16. Because it is written.

Say it is written. It is written.

Well, who wrote it? Who wrote this?

The Lord. Are we supposed to obey what He

has said, What is written in His word?

Well, look what His word said. You shall be, for I am.

Which means not only are we holy in our spirit man, separated

unto God, and by definition separated from the profane

things. Our spirit man was dead.

We were lost in our transgression and sin.

We were all trying to, to some degree, have God look at us with

favor that he could accept us. But no matter what we did, it

mounted to nothing. It it, it's just filthy rags.

We cannot attain to the place to where God could look at us and

say, that's good enough, that's good enough.

No, not without God, not without God, but God being rich in his

mercy while we were yet sinners. Christ, he died for us, so he

wants us wholly in all of our behavior.

In essence, he says, I want not only your spirit to be separated

from profane things, I want your soul separated from profane

thing and I want your body separated from profane things.

Remember Paul said when it came to the body, he said, listen,

how can you be a child of God and sleep around?

Don't you know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit?

He no longer dwells in buildings.

He doesn't have to come down on a building or temple that only a

high priest can go in who's the only one anointed and at a very

specific time go into the holy of the holy.

And he can be in there only if he has done everything required

so that he doesn't drop dead behind the veil because God is

holy, Amen. There's no sin any no darkness,

any glory to God. But we also know this God has

body parts. In fact, Moses said, Lord, I

want to see your glory. He said, Son, no man can look

onto my face and live. He said this is what I'll do,

I'm gonna put you in the cleft of the rock.

That is a prophecy of the soon coming Christ.

He is the rock and we are in Christ, so he puts us in Him.

He said I'm gonna put you and put my hand on you as I pass by,

then I'll release my hand and you can look at my back parts.

Well, if he didn't have a body, you couldn't see his back, nor

could his finger show up in a King's castle one day and right

on the wall. Hallelujah.

No, he has a body. He has legs, arms, chest, a

head, eyes, nose, mouth, ears. God the Father.

He's not just a beam of light, although he's light.

And we know Jesus definitely has a body because he left and put

himself in a man's suit that is obviously glorified his flesh

and bone, and he will be in that forever.

But he's glorified that body, even though it's flesh and bone.

He can walk through walls. That's pretty amazing.

With that body, you can walk through things.

That's pretty amazing that I mean, that's one of the first

things I really want to do, right?

Because when we're changing the moment of the twinkling of an

eye, should we be the generation that's called up and somebody's

going to get called up? Why not us, right?

So let's just say we are, let's say the, the, the shout came

from heaven right now. And all of a sudden all of us

are changed in the moment, in the twinkling of an eye, we put

on our glorified body. Then the Lord catches it.

Guess what? He doesn't have to send a storm

and RIP the roof off. We can go straight through it.

Amen. Now, I don't think we'll

probably go through the roof. I think he was going to give us

time. If you look at Scripture to

actually talk to people on the planet and say don't take the

mark. I told you, you understand,

'cause he's leaving, no doubt with those individuals during

the wrath of God, period. OK, So we have to determine, as

the word resolute means we have to be marked by a firm

determination that we are going to take care of our entirety,

our entirety. So no longer do we accept that

the other parts of our nature are not important, that they're

all important and they are all important, Amen.

Now you're not going to get your soul realm right, nor your body

right to the capacity of it being complete unless you're

born again, Amen. Because plenty of people are

filling their minds and work it out and eaten right with their

bodies, but they still find themselves in with cancer.

I mean, you know how many times we've heard people say they were

in such great shape? How did this happen?

Well, the wages of sin is and a spirit man separated from God is

living in death and it attracts those things.

All right, OK. But the Lord says we need to do

something else. So we're going to be holy as he

told us to be. So back to First Thessalonians

523. Y'all doing all right?

It says. Now may the God of peace himself

sanctify you entirely. God is personally working on

you. So we can't take this.

Well, the Lord don't care about my body.

Oh, yes, he does. If he didn't care about your

body, then there'd be no reason for him to take all stripes on

his back. I mean, he could afford go the

the scourging. Yeah.

You know what, we're not going to do The scourging because you

know, Lord, where I'm in the garden.

Is there any other way? There's not another way.

Now listen, the scourging though, because really doesn't

matter. I mean, we going to give them a

glorified body anyway at the end of the day, right?

Well, all that really matters is I'm going to go to the cross,

I'm going to lay down my life. My blood's going to be shed for

them and I can bleed without being scourged, right?

So at the end of the day, all that really matters is that they

asked me to come into their heart and save them so that when

they die, they come to heaven. And whether they go out by

sickness and diseases and what, who cares?

See, it's amazing if we don't watch out is that things that

are given to us freely, if we do not understand the cost that

Jesus took to give to us freely, then we won't value what's

available to us, nor will we be in faith by it.

Because I mean, if you watch the Mel Gibson the passion movie and

watch him getting beat, which is one of the best examples Now, I,

I still think it pales to show it all, but it was better than

the little crown and these little couple, you know, read

things. I mean, skin and muscle is being

ripped out people of his body. I mean, he took on all of those

stripes, 39 stripes so that your body could be complete, not

glorified, but complete for the assignment he has for you and

the earth. Amen.

So sickness and disease should just make us mad because my, my

Jesus is sanctifying me. He has separated me from the

profane thing of cancer, leukemia.

I mean, we could just list all of the diseases because he wants

even my body to be complete. Now, that doesn't mean your body

is saved. You'll never save your body.

You're going to get a new one. No problem.

All right, so the word entirely means complete in all respects,

Amen. So you, we need to take time to

say, OK, 'cause this 2025, I know, you know, some of you may

have done New Year's resolution, some of you may have not, but

just resolved, Lord, no matter what part of me you're talking

about, in my spirit, my soul or my body, I'll obey because I

know you wanted all, all parts to be complete, all aspects.

OK, Preserve means this means to attend to carefully, to guard,

to watch over, to keep in a condition.

Well, that's good to keep in a condition.

You know, the Lord wants to keep you on perpetual health.

He wants to keep you with a sound mind.

Amen. Hallelujah.

He wants to keep your spirit from being contaminated 'cause

you can contaminate the spirit realm because of what you allow

through your soul. All right then, the word

complete means this. Complete in all its parts, in no

part wanting or unsound. Now I'm going to give you an

example. Obviously, we're going to be

minister on the church here starting Sunday, finding your

fit. Do you understand that for me to

be up here today, the entirety of my body is functioning.

It's functioning. And if there was a part that was

unsound, it could be creating me, creating such pain that it

could hinder me from actually being up here, right, Right.

Marissa, she had a surgery on your neck or shoulder, right?

Again, there was a challenge there.

The Lord spoke to her about surgery.

Obviously, she was standing on the word period.

And you understand, because she stood on that and did what she

needed to do. God, you know, supernaturally

brought her through this process where there's really wasn't even

any pain because she didn't take any pain medication.

However, there was still a mending.

And during the mending process, that area wasn't complete.

It's better that it's complete, right?

I mean, you don't want to walk around and swing the rest of

your life, now, could we? Sure you could.

You could walk around with a sling in your life.

In fact, most people can adapt to allow something that's not

sound on their body to still continue the course.

And I understand the whole grand scheme of things.

I get it. But if God says I want it all

complete, then we then in faith can say God wanted me complete.

He wants the body part of me complete.

So I'm going to know what God says about what He's done for my

body. I'll be in faith so that my

whole body can be sound. Glory to God can be sound.

All right, look at what it says again, we're just going to look

at the three different parts real quick.

Second Corinthians 517 says this concerning our spirit man.

Once we made Jesus Lord, he said, therefore, if anyone is in

Christ, he has a new creature. The old things passed away.

Behold, new things have come, which means our spirit man that

was dead separated from God because of sin.

And even though we may have been trying to get God to acknowledge

us, we kept falling flat on our face.

Again, Paul said I was doing the things I didn't even want to do,

and when I was trying not to do the things that were wrong, I

found myself doing them anyway. I was a wretched man, a Sinner,

wretched who's going to save me from this life of sin.

But thanks be to God, right? Because what I could not do

myself through my soul and body realm to try to jump start or

make my spirit alive to God, it didn't work.

It can't work. Only God can do that.

So Christ died for our sin, our transgression, everything that

was wrong in the realm of the Spirit.

And when we call on His name, that old spirit passed me, it's

evicted from this body and we get a new spirit, not a remodel,

but a brand new spirit that is in Christ and is alive to God

and can hear the Spirit of God that comes and dwells on the

inside of us and tells us, tells our spirit, you're a child of

God. That's why when you call on the

name of the Lord and you finish that with all your heart, you're

like, I know I'm born again. I know I'm a child of God.

I, you had have such an assurance that man, if I did

leave my body today, I'd be present with the Lord no

problem. I know that I don't.

It's not even faith anymore, it's reality.

I am born of God and I know it in my spirit.

I know it so. Verse 21 of this same chapter

says this. It says He made him who knew no

sin to be sin on our behalf so that we might become the

righteousness of God in him. How do you become the

righteousness of God in Him? You call on the name of the Lord

to be saved, and then you are made righteous.

Where? In the Spirit, but not in the

soul nor in your body. Those are two other aspects of

you that then God gives you the authority to change and effect.

Hallelujah. Now he's done the work, but your

faith does the change in those other two areas.

Are you understanding me? So Romans chapter 5, verse 17

Romans 5:17

says this. For if by the transgression of

one death reigned through the one, much more those who

received the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness

will reign where that's this life that's not heaven, that's

now you'll reign in life through the one Jesus Christ.

And here's where you'll reign. You'll reign in your spirit.

You can reign in your soul and you can reign in your body.

Now you can tell your body, no, you're not going to go after

that flesh. No, you're not.

Now you have within you the power to say, I'm no longer

going to listen to that thought. I'm going to insert another one

and it comes from the word of God.

Now I 'cause my spirit man has been made alive to God, my

spirit tells my soul, don't take that thought that didn't come

from Dad, that didn't come from heaven, that didn't come from

the throne room. That's not what the Father has

said saying about you or what he says about you or how you should

handle this. You take captive that thought.

Then say God takes captive the thought.

You take captive the thought and what do you do?

You take that thought. You bring the word to it and

say, does this line up with the word?

No, that isn't what God says. So you cast it down.

You say, I'll never think or dwell on you again.

I'll only think on what God say. Amen.

So when the thought comes, we'll look how they treated you.

They done you so wrong. Now you know they done your own.

You're like, yeah, I know they done me wrong.

But then the Lord says, yeah, but just forgive them.

Well, they're not asking for it. Doesn't matter if they're asking

you just go ahead and be in the position of forgiveness.

You do that. But what do people do?

They'll play the scenario through their mind.

How do you know you're free from those things when you can see

them and you're not playing it in your mind?

You take cap to the thought. That doesn't mean that

everything's restored, doesn't mean everything's perfect,

doesn't mean the relationship's been reconciled.

But you're in the posture that I'm holding on and I'm going to

do it God's way. God's going to do.

I'm going to do what God's told me to do.

There have been times when I've had situations in relationships

that the Lord said just go to them.

I remember 1 particular lady, I, it was a perceived offense, got

offended over something that didn't actually occur.

But again, at this point it's kind of like beyond trying to

explain. So the Lord said just ask her to

forgive you. He said I know you didn't do it,

but it's an issue. So I said, you know, whatever

was said, please forgive me. I did not mean it and I don't

even know what I'm really saying this about, but I'm saying it

because God told me to do that. So because I did it, they

forgave and the cancer came off their body.

Hallelujah, come on, say Hallelujah because they were no

longer holding an offense and I didn't have to prove I was

right. I just had to do what God said.

But now there's other times the Lord says give them what they

want. I've heard him say other times

he said just let it go and he gave me the picture of the

prodigal son leaving. He says you don't go after him.

Oh, you don't want to hear some of y'all need to push that 99

clip that's on Instagram around you know, he'll leave the 99 to

go to the one because the 99 is very powerful by themselves

because they've learned from the shepherd.

Amen. All right, but you understand

this. There are some that wander that

the shepherd doesn't go to the father didn't leave the house.

So what we do is we again, as a teacher, if you don't watch out,

you'll take one thought and then you'll think it's applicable

everywhere, but it's not always applicable everywhere that you

know. I'm not leaving 99 to go after

the one because in this case, you're leaving.

I'm giving you what you want. You can go and if this thing's

going to turn around, you're coming back here because the

father did not run him down in the towns, didn't keep tabs to

find out whether he had money or not.

Now, that doesn't mean that it didn't get back to the father.

I'm not saying that. I'm not saying that people

didn't come. Say, man, I saw your son with a

bunch of harlots, man. Well, and as much as he wants

him not to live that life, that was his choice.

But I'm still at my house and he can come home If he'll just want

to come home, if I can just have him, if he, if he just come

back, it's on him. Well, you know what, I, I saw

your son working for, you know, this particular farmer and, and

was feeding their pigs. Wow.

Well, he can come home 'cause in this case, it wasn't going

after, it was staying. Sometimes you can go after

someone that is not going to repent and all you do is

reinforce the hardness of the heart every time you show up and

try to help. But see, you got to be led by

the Spirit in that. Now in order to be led by the

Spirit, you also have to renew your mind because if you don't

get your mind right, then the emotions of your loved one doing

something wrong and you want to be their Savior, which you

cannot be, only Jesus can. You have to be able to hear, you

know what I'm talking about right now, right?

You know what I'm saying? You have to hear God because God

knows the best pathway to repentance.

Oh my goodness. So God desired for us to reign

in this life, and that is in every part of our body, our

being, should, I should say our being, our spirit, our soul, and

our body. We should reign in it all.

Amen. Now, if you're not raining in

one particular area, good news you can.

This is what's good news you can.

OK, We're all improving. We're all growing.

Now my spirit man is alive. I, I cannot improve on my spirit

because God did that, but because my spirit is alive and

I'm allowing my spirit to hear the Holy Spirit in me.

Now we can do something with our minds, our will, our emotions.

We can make sure it stays in line with the Spirit of God and

what God is saying in His Word. And then we can also grab hold

of our bodies and say, no, we're not doing that anymore.

And make certain choices that what you used to do, you don't

even do anymore because now you reign over your body and you

reign over your mind. You're not subject to them

anymore. You've decided to stay subject

to the Spirit. Glory to God.

OK, so in Romans chapter 12, verse one, one through 1 and 2,

Romans 12 · chapter mention

it says this amplified classic. I appeal to you, therefore,

brethren, and beg you, in view of all the mercies of God, to

make a decisive dedication of your bodies, presenting all your

members and faculties as living sacrifice, wholly devoted,

consecrated and well pleasing to God, which is your reasonable,

rational, intelligent service and spiritual worship.

You should tell your body, no, you're going to church today

because your body tell you on Saturday night, man, don't get

up, don't you? It's Sunday morning.

I mean, while you're shaving. Well, your body said, why don't

you just get back into bed? You're saved.

You can get this online. Oh, I'm preaching verse 2.

Do not be conformed to this world, this age, fashioned after

and adapted to his external superficial customs, but be

transformed, changed by the entire renewal of your mind, by

its new ideal ideals and it's new attitudes.

So that you may prove for yourself what is a good,

acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is

good and acceptable and perfect in His sight for you.

So we have now been given the ability to reign over every area

of our life. This is what's so awesome.

When you become a resolute me, you're marked with

determination. You decide.

I have determined to have my whole body, my whole being,

spirit, soul and body to be blameless or or perfectly

complete sanctified entirely until Jesus comes.

Amen. Now we can do this.

I said we can do this. God has given us the power to do

this. Now it all starts with this

simple thing, forgiveness. Once we have received God's

forgiveness for our sin and make Him Lord, our spirit man comes

alive. Then once our spirit man comes

alive, the Holy Ghost comes and lives in US and becomes the

great teacher. And then at that point he says,

now we're going to work on your mind.

And he says, now in order for me to work on your mind, I need you

to tell your body stay awake while I read the word.

Are you hearing me? Because you understand you could

be sitting down on your couch or chair reading the word.

Because the word renews your mind.

It gets you to think like the king you are because you're no

longer a sorry Sinner saved by grace.

You're not that you were a Sinner.

You've been saved by grace through faith.

Now you are a believer. You're the child of a king.

You're royalty. And we haven't been trained to

think royal, to think in line with the Kingdom.

We haven't done that and we are not there yet because I'm going

to tell you right now it's easy to not.

I'm going to tell you why living a life as a believer to attain

to 1st Thessalonians 523 takes determination.

It takes determination, but yet God's empowered us to be

resolute. I will be everything God has

said I am. He says I'm healed.

I will be healed. He says I have a sound mind.

I will have a sound mind. I will have the mind of Christ.

I'm going to have that because here's the thing, in order for

this to occur, you have to do something intentional, resolute

every day is called crucify the flesh.

You have to crucify the flesh. Now notice they use the term

crucify. Crucify is a violent term, which

means it's not normal or casual. In essence, once you made Jesus

the Lord of your life, you're not just falling into something.

You're intentional to make sure those two areas of your being,

the soul and the body, stay in subjection.

And you do it by crucifying the flesh.

You've heard us say this for years, that we are not a flesh

friendly church. OK, That means that if you want

to live according to your flesh or carnally, you're going to

feel a little more challenged here because you're surrounded

by people who crucify that daily.

Daily they don't let themselves get over into Molly grubs and if

they get over there, they get out as quick as they can nor

they don't get offended when someone says you're into Molly

grubs. You know what you're right.

I need to get out instead of who you talking to?

Because here's the thing I've seen it happen.

People come up underneath the environment of individuals

within the body that are joining and fended together says we have

determined we are resolute we will crucify the flesh daily.

We're going to live spiritual being lives and we're going to

be intentional and you understand you have to have no

intention to live by the flesh don't even have to work at it.

The Bible says that in in Galatians 5/17 that our spirit

and our flesh by battle day. Have you noticed the more you

know about God that if you just break away for a few weeks from

church and the word how all of a sudden your attitude will start

sounding and acting like somebody that has been dead a

long time. Now, here's the thing, when you

are every day under pressure, oh, I could preach, man and I

need to stop. We tell our Washington parents,

listen, we're helping your child cultivate the difference between

acting fleshly and spiritual. The public school system is not

doing that for your students. So you think your child's always

in trouble. They're not.

But they are everyday dealing with their flesh of which we are

helping to navigate them to make spiritual choices.

So when they come home and cry, 'cause it's hard, 'cause again,

you could go to a number of churches that have no

requirement of spiritual growth and let you live carnally.

You can do it. And you know what?

Living carnal is so easy. It takes no effort.

We just act like the world and then say we're saved.

I mean, it's the easiest thing to do.

You can fall off fast, but you got to be resolute to say

nobody. You don't tell me what to do

anymore. No, Sir, you do not control me.

Every man in this room can be at the beach and see a lady with

more cotton in the top of an aspirin bottle than is on their

skin. Did you get that right?

And it doesn't take long for you to figure out.

OK, that's the lady. Maybe I understand, I understand

it. There can be some debate today.

However, the remodel of the outside or by birth, whatever,

or you know, the modifications, a lot of modifications are going

on. And have you noticed that they

all have the same plastic surgeon?

Because they all tend to basically look the same at the

end of the day anyway. I've seen those lips on 100

women. Right.

OK, with that being said, you now have the ability to either

stare while holding your wife's hand.

What you're looking at nothing. Or you can be like, not going to

look there again. Father, I just think that you've

given me a wife that's better than silver and gold.

Hallelujah. 'Cause it's easy to slip into

watching, it's easy to slip into drinking, it's easy to slip into

smoking, it's easy to slip into a cussing.

When I say slip, I'm just saying, you know, I'm not going

to crucify myself. It's easy to go there, you know.

And here's the thing, when you've been crucifying your

flesh for as long as you have, and then you get this idea.

I'm just tired. How come it seemed like

everybody else is? We don't live our life based

upon what others are, what it seems like they're getting away

with. Because when you sow to the

flesh, you'll reap of the flesh. So I don't care that, you know,

a bunch of believers that say they love God, sing songs,

dance, but they do everything that the world does and it seems

like they're getting further ahead.

God is not mocked. Whatever a person sows, they're

going to reap. And you may not be around them

long enough to see the fruit of what they've been so into.

But man, when you've been crucifying the flesh and you're

like, I'm going to take, it's going to feel good the other

side, 'cause the flesh has a pleasure to it.

This is why Hebrews has said that Moses chose and he wasn't

even born again. This is the power of your mind

chose to suffer with the Hebrews instead of enjoying the

pleasures of sin that came if he would have stayed a Prince of

Egypt. He can't.

He said you know what, I'm just going to put it down.

And he did it through his soul and body realm without being

born again. Now that didn't make him

righteous with God. He needed the blood of Jesus

just like we all did. However, now we are in a new and

better covenant. Our spirit man is alive to God.

We are with less excuse to not crucify the flesh and not live

according to the flesh. If you're a child of God, you

are to be led by the by the Spirit and the Spirit is never

saying it's OK for you to be fleshly.

That's why God's grace is there. No, God's grace on you after

you've become born again will now empower you to resist the

flesh you can put on Christ. But you got to be resolute.

But if you don't watch out. You'll treat your relationship

with God like you do a New Year's resolution.

You'll do it for a season, and then you'll back off.

And yeah, you're still breathing.

Yeah, God still loves you. I get it.

I understand that. But is he pleased?

Because without faith, it's impossible to please God.

And you're not going to please God through carnality.

He's going to ultimately say, let's clean up your mind.

You, let's come on, submit yourself, train yourself, become

a disciple, study to show yourself approved.

Let's get this mind cleaned up. I got some awesome things I want

to show you and you can do it. Because again, if you're not,

it's not God's fault and it's definitely not the devil.

Humanity never had a devil problem or a Satan problem.

The only problem in the earth today is rebellious man.

That's the problem. Because man has always had the

power, even before being born again, man had the power to

follow God based upon what he had revealed.

Amen. So let's decide today with this

last scripture, First Corinthians chapter 15, because

1 Corinthians 15 · chapter mention

again, at the end of the day, our spirit man has been raised

righteous. Now we are alive unto God.

We are children of the Kingdom. We've been transferred out of

the domain of darkness or the Kingdom of darkness, and we are

in the Kingdom of His beloved Son.

Our mind now is renewed as we wash it with the Word.

We study, we come to church, we submit ourselves to all that God

wants to teach and train us, and we take His thoughts.

We think on those things, we think on those things.

We think on those things, we think on those things, we take

captive of everything that doesn't line up with Scripture.

And then ultimately the Bible says for this perishable meaning

the body must put on the imperishable and the mortal must

put on immortality. But when the perishable will

have put on imperishable and this mortal will have put on

immortality, then it will come about the same that is written.

Death is swallowed up in victory.

So in the beginning of the book, let us make man in our image

according to our likeness. Let his Spirit be of my nature.

Let his mind be like my mind. Let his body be eternal like I

am. And now, Adam, don't eat the

fruit, because if you do, you're going to mess up your being.

But he did. But God, being rich in mercy and

because of his mandate for man to have dominion, has to send a

son, Jesus. Jesus has to come so that he can

be a man, because he gave the earth to man, gave man dominion,

so a man must take it back. And so Jesus comes as a man

anointed of the Holy Ghost, who kept his spirit, his soul and

his body free from contaminants until the day he went to the

cross. And that day he took everything

on. Physical, mental, emotional.

He took it all on. He took it all on.

He took every broken place in your mind, every emotional scar,

every tragedy you've ever gone through and you could replay in

your. He took it all on.

Then he took on your sin. He became sin.

Rick Rayner talks about how because he put on sin, in the

sin of all humanity, anyone whoever has lived and all who

were going to live, he brought it on himself, said that they

couldn't even recognize he's a man because the sin distorted

him so bad he didn't even look like a human anymore.

That's why we've not seen what happened on the cross.

And he did this so that he could sanctify you entirely, not just

your spirit, but your mind, will, emotions, and your body.

Hallelujah.