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Word Supremacy - The Reigning Spirit

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  1. Hey, hey, hey, hey, man.

  2. If you have your Bibles, turn over to 1st Corinthians chapter

  3. 2, First Corinthians chapter 2, later to the service, we're

    1 Corinthians 2 chapter mention

  4. going to be taking care of some water baptism.

  5. We're going to be rejoicing with people who have given their

  6. lives to Jesus and are publicly displaying in front of you that

  7. they have died and that they no longer live for themselves and

  8. the life they live now. They live resurrected for

  9. Christ, Amen. And they're going to follow his

  10. his will for their lives as long as they remain in the earth,

  11. Amen. And so you don't want to check

  12. out early, OK, don't be like a football game and leave the

  13. stands early because you know, you want to get your vehicle and

  14. go. Amen, I said.

  15. Amen. In fact, I was talking to Kenny

  16. Robshaw the other day. He end up going to the Gator

  17. Kentucky game. It's a little bit close.

  18. They weren't doing anything significant.

  19. So they said we left early, they left in the fourth quarter to

  20. come home. Well, Florida end up putting up

  21. three touchdowns. So they ended up, you know,

  22. showing out in the fourth quarter.

  23. He said we missed the whole game.

  24. Well, you know, a lot of times you can miss some moves of the

  25. spirit if you get out early. You just need to hang out.

  26. Amen. And it'll be worth it.

  27. So you want to be able to celebrate with those that have

  28. done water baptism in first Corinthians chapter 2 verse 12,

    1 Corinthians 2:12

  29. it says this praise the Lord y'all doing all right?

  30. Do we need to do a little practice today?

  31. Because you understand I love us to have passion for the Lord.

  32. Nothing in the world should demonstrate more passion than

  33. us. And passion a lot of times is

  34. articulated in your voice right now.

  35. A couple nights ago, it's the bottom of the 10th 2 hour space

  36. had loaded. And Freedman for the Dodgers

  37. gets up first pitch, he hits it. And when he hits it, he knows.

  38. He knew. And he just raises his bat up.

  39. That place went pandemonium. I mean, there was not a male in

  40. the stands that looked like this.

  41. Wow, the only ones if they were wearing the Yankees now, that

  42. may be true. That may be true.

  43. They might have been like, because that's what defeat

  44. looked like, right? But for those who were rooting

  45. for their team, there was not a man that did not come to their.

  46. Feet. Throw up their hands and shout

  47. with great enthusiasm. That means they went from a kind

  48. of quiet, just watching with anticipation, to exuberant.

  49. Do you understand you can have a shout of praise in a fraction of

  50. a second that the minute you get a revelation from the word, it

  51. should? Glory to God.

  52. I mean, you should be able to just jump to your feet.

  53. Come on. Did we want to practice it right

  54. now? Let's just think about, did

  55. Jesus die for you? Did Jesus die for you?

  56. Was he ripped? Was he raised from the dead?

  57. Did he give you power with the Holy Ghost?

  58. Glory to God. Hallelujah.

  59. So don't come to this place wanting me to lecture to you.

  60. I am not at a university. I am not here to lecture you.

  61. I'm here to participate with you, to celebrate our King,

  62. whose Kingdom has no end. Glory to God.

  63. So I give you permission at any time to get excited about your

  64. King. Amen.

  65. Because in these stadiums, they are not at.

  66. Would you mind if I get up and shout right now?

  67. Would it offends you if I get excited and danced a little bit

  68. right now? You know what?

  69. Nobody in this room is going to get upset if you jump, run,

  70. shout. Doesn't matter.

  71. Because when you're passionate for your King, however that

  72. manifests. Praise the Lord, Amen.

  73. Praise God. Amen.

  74. First Corinthians chapter 12 verse.

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  75. Our chapter 2 verse 12 says this.

  76. Now we have received not the spirit of the world.

  77. But the Spirit who is from God, glory to God, we have received

  78. the Spirit who? Is from God.

  79. Second Timothy 17 says this. The King James says, But God

  80. hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of what power and of

  81. love and of sound mind we do not have the spirit of the world.

  82. The spirit of the world is the spirit of fear, a spirit of.

  83. Doom and gloom, a spirit of you don't know what you're going to

  84. get, how is it going to happen? And they speak out of fear, They

  85. speak out of doom. They're always trying to get you

  86. to worry. It's the sound of the spirit

  87. fear, but God's not giving us that spirit.

  88. That's not the sound that we hear.

  89. The sound of the spirit we have is power.

  90. It's a conquering spirit. It's a rain.

  91. It is the reigning spirit. It is the spirit that overcomes

  92. every obstacle. It is the.

  93. Spirit that is not moved in any way, it can maintain its love,

  94. walk and it's always sound in mind, which means it's the

  95. spirit we have from God does not is not anxious one bit.

  96. The spirit we've been given does not wring its hands in concern.

  97. It's not fretful. It's not he's not fretful.

  98. He's not fearful. He's not concerned.

  99. He's not worried, no. He knows exactly what's going on

  100. and he is the one with full authority.

  101. Hallelujah, Hallelujah. First John 44 says this.

  102. You are from God. Are you born again?

  103. Are you from God? You are from God, little

  104. children, and have overcome them because greater, come on, say

  105. greater, say greater. Greater is he who is in.

  106. You than he who is in the world. Glory to God, we have the

  107. greater 1. And if you.

  108. Have the greater 1 then what can the world do to you?

  109. What? Can the world?

  110. Do to you religion would like to tell you that the whole basis of

  111. faith is uncertainty that we can't be.

  112. Sure, because if you were sure, what would you have anything to

  113. have faith for? This is how religion defines

  114. believing God. We don't know, and that's why we

  115. believe Him, because there's so much uncertainty.

  116. But the Bible does not define faith that way.

  117. The Bible defines faith this way.

  118. Faith comes by hearing and hearing from the word of God,

  119. and God always does his word. Faith is what's called a firm

  120. persuasion. In fact, the Bible tells us in

  121. Romans 4 that Abraham grew strong in faith not because he

  122. was uncertain of whether God would do what he said.

  123. But no, he was. Firmly persuaded, it was certain

  124. it's going to happen. It has to happen.

  125. God never goes back on His Word, and that was confidence.

  126. That He exhibited, you understand, when you have the

  127. reigning spirit in you and upon you, you will have a bold

  128. confidence about you. Listen, the Bible tells us to

  129. boldly go before the throne of great, not beggardly, not

  130. sheepishly, not with uncertainty, but boldly.

  131. And then He says this in John 1/5.

  132. He says This is the confidence that we have, not uncertainty.

  133. Not for sure. Oh, I sure hope it is.

  134. No, he said. This is the confidence that we

  135. have, that if we ask anything, according to his will, we.

  136. What's the next word? No, not we, ma'am.

  137. That's why we're just trusting God, because we don't know

  138. what's going to have. That's not what it said.

  139. We know that we have that which we have asked for.

  140. Why? Because when you ask God to do

  141. what he said He would do, God's obligated to do what?

  142. He's going to do. And again, the confidence that

  143. and bonus that you portray when you say no, God said it, this is

  144. the way it is. That settles it.

  145. I'm not going to think any other direction.

  146. I'm not going to accept any other alternative or outcome.

  147. I'm only going to do it the way God says.

  148. When that occurs, your faith is in His ability to do His Word,

  149. not you doing His Word. He is obligated to make sure His

  150. word comes to pass. You are obligated to trust it

  151. confidently. Amen.

  152. So we've been given a greater spirit.

  153. We have the Great Spirit, the spirit that reigns.

  154. You understand, this year for us is the reigning spirit we've

  155. been talking about the spirit that reigns within us, the

  156. spirit that we have, which is the Holy Ghost.

  157. He's never been defeated. He cannot be conquered.

  158. He overcomes every other spirit, every other spirit.

  159. With that being said, you know what first Corinthians 619 says?

  160. You know, I love Scripture here because again, we're not here to

  161. preach opinions. We're here to communicate.

  162. What does the Bible say? He says.

  163. Or do you not know that your body now that's not church body?

  164. This is the church Bob. We're not talking we're talking

  165. right here go ahead and touch yourself.

  166. This is you, your body. Don't you know that your body is

  167. the temple of the Holy Spirit? So people like man, where's God?

  168. We'll. Look in the mirror.

  169. He's in you, I said. He's in you now you say, well, I

  170. don't feel him. That's irrelevant.

  171. Feeling Him is irrelevant. You should just know He's there

  172. and he is there. That means and he is the third

  173. person of the Godhead, which means He wants and will talk to

  174. you. In fact, He is the only voice he

  175. wants you to hear though. Or do you not know that your

  176. body is the temple of the Holy Spirit?

  177. Who is what in you whom you have from and that spirit we have

  178. from God is not a spirit of fear.

  179. It's not the spirit of this world.

  180. No, it's from God. It is light, love, power, the

  181. mind sound because I only do what God says Amen and that you

  182. are what not your own. Why does?

  183. He say that he says quit trying. To think of what you should do,

  184. do what he does. You're not your own, which means

  185. when you made Jesus Lord. Lord is not a religious word.

  186. It means supreme and authority. When you bowed your.

  187. Will. To the will of God.

  188. When you submitted yourself to King Jesus because of His death,

  189. burial, and resurrection, He paid the price for your

  190. transgression in your sin. You say I give up my way of

  191. doing for your way because I've tried it my way and it's filthy

  192. rags. I cannot be pleasing to you, nor

  193. can I be restored to you in the realm of the Spirit.

  194. But when you make Jesus Lord supreme in authority, you're

  195. saying no longer will I consult me.

  196. No longer will I limit decisions to my spirit, but I will yield

  197. to your spirit because I house the Holy Ghost.

  198. Can I get an Amen? John chapter 14 verse 16 and 17

    John 14:16

  199. says it this way. Jesus said now Jesus says this,

  200. this is your Savior. Jesus said I will ask the Father

  201. and he will what? Give you another helper?

  202. In essence, if you break that down to the Greek, that means

  203. he's going to give you someone just like me, OK, And that he

  204. may be with you. So don't ever wake up, say,

  205. where's the Holy Ghost because he's not left if there's a.

  206. Leaving. It's not on the Spirit side,

  207. it'll be on AU side. And next month I'm going to

  208. minister on a Wednesday night concerning the blasphemy of the

  209. Holy Ghost. I'm going to minister that and

  210. I'll give you plenty of time so you'll know be one service.

  211. But I want you to understand what blasphemy of the Holy

  212. Spirit is, OK? So here He'll be with you

  213. forever. Verse 17.

  214. That is the spirit of the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot

  215. receive, because it does not see Him nor know him.

  216. But you know him. Why?

  217. Because he abides with you and. In you we have received the

  218. reigning Spirit. Hallelujah, I said.

  219. We have received the reigning Spirit.

  220. We have the third person of the Godhead living in US, speaking

  221. to our Spirit and then coming upon us to indue us with power.

  222. That gives us access to the gifts of the Spirit and to a

  223. language that allows us to pray in a way when we don't know how

  224. we ought to pray. We receive the language of the

  225. Kingdom. The Bible calls it an unknown

  226. tongue. Because again, if I brought some

  227. people up on the platform now that speaks Spanish or German or

  228. Albanian or Greek, most of you wouldn't understand them either.

  229. It would be a unknown tongue to you because you couldn't

  230. translate it. You would have no idea what

  231. they're saying, but you sure wouldn't call it demonic.

  232. That's right. Well, God made tongues.

  233. So it's easy then for him to give us a language as a result

  234. of an overflow of power because he said, man, sometimes you

  235. don't know how you ought to pray.

  236. And at the end of the day, I want you to speak in a language

  237. that even the devil doesn't understand.

  238. Amen. Hallelujah.

  239. I mean again. How do we?

  240. Figure out that we are a brand new spirit once we ask Jesus to

  241. be our Lord. You can't even, you can't figure

  242. that out. I mean, it's like all I know is

  243. I was dead. Guilt, shame, I knew it.

  244. But God, when I confessed him as Lord, something on the inside

  245. happened. I know it.

  246. You can't explain there's. But you know, you believe, you

  247. can tell I'm a different person. People like I don't.

  248. You look the same. You're wearing the same clothes,

  249. you have the same haircut. Nothing about you looks

  250. different to me. No, I'm different.

  251. We understand. Does it matter that you can pray

  252. in tongues and not always understand what you're saying?

  253. By faith, you know that God said it's my will being prayed

  254. through you, and I always do my will.

  255. So I just trust him. Thank you Lord, you gave it to

  256. me. I don't know how I ought to

  257. pray. I'm just going to pray in the

  258. spirit now, as the Spirit gives my spirit unction, I'm going to

  259. release that. It is your will in the earth.

  260. No one may understand it, I may not even understand in my mom,

  261. but I know this. It comes from heaven.

  262. It comes from. You and it has power, because

  263. when the Word of God is spoken in any language, power is

  264. available. Amen.

  265. So he said he's going to send us a helper.

  266. Now why do we need this helper? I want you to know that the

  267. helper came to us, not just to tell our spirit, hey, when you

  268. die. Which your spirits?

  269. Not dying anyway. So it's really not having that

  270. conversation, but for the sake of, you know, communication of

  271. how people kind of live life. And that is, you know, when you

  272. die, you'll go to heaven and be with me.

  273. That's not why he gave you the. Spirit.

  274. Does the Spirit testify with your spirit?

  275. You're a child of God, Yes. Does it communicate you things

  276. to come? And that is this mortal body is

  277. going to come off. You're going to have a glorified

  278. body. You're going to be with the Lord

  279. forever. And wherever he is, I'm going to

  280. be with him. And he does testify of that, but

  281. he's a helper. And his help is not just to

  282. navigate while we're in the earth that it's all right.

  283. When you die, you're going to heaven.

  284. That is not what he's helping to keep you in remembrance.

  285. It's OK. I know how bad it's getting.

  286. But you're going to heaven when you die.

  287. That is not why he's helping you.

  288. That's not why he's helping you. No, he's helping you for other

  289. reasons. And the reason why he's helping

  290. you, First Timothy chapter 4, verse one, the number one reason

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  291. why he is there to help you is this.

  292. But the spirit that is the Holy Spirit explicitly says that in

  293. latter times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention

  294. to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons to deceitful

  295. what spirits? One translation says seducing

  296. spirits. Which tells us, and again, I

  297. love the Bible when it capitalizes God because it's

  298. letting us know that this is the reigning spirit, this is God

  299. himself and but yet notice. There are other spirits and what

  300. he's saying is, is that the spirit says that's the Holy

  301. Spirit, it's talking, but he's not the only one talking.

  302. Now he is the reigning spirit that we should only give

  303. attention to. But he lets you know there will

  304. be other voices that are coming and it's happens the minute

  305. you're born again. It will just accelerate and be

  306. even more dominant in the latter times.

  307. Now, let's just look at it from a natural perspective.

  308. Why would this be? Do you understand when the

  309. apostle? Well, let's keep, let's go back

  310. even sooner than this. I'm trying to think of who

  311. Pastor Rick Hutchinson, who's going to be planting an actrate

  312. church in the Dominican Republic, was just talking to me

  313. about the missionary who went and evangelized China.

  314. Do you remember? That guy off the top of your

  315. head, Hudson Taylor. Hudson.

  316. I think that's who it is. Hudson Taylor.

  317. Thank you. Thank you, Holy Ghost, and thank

  318. you for getting it right. OK, with that being said, he

  319. went in to didn't know the language at all, OK.

  320. When he would report back his work and this was just I mean

  321. few 100 years ago, few 100 years ago, he would write a letter

  322. back home. It would take him a year to get

  323. the response to his letter. A year.

  324. This is just a couple 100 years ago, you understand, at the turn

  325. of the 1900s letters Telegraph these things were dominant.

  326. Then finally we get into a thing called telephone, which means we

  327. could start hearing things more. Often then they developed this

  328. thing called radio, which means then we could hear voices more

  329. often. Then we got into a thing called

  330. television, which allowed us to hear voices with images.

  331. Now then we have now the Internet and now we have phones

  332. that we carry around what you understand.

  333. We have access to the voices 24/7 now, which not too long

  334. ago, really less than 200 years that in order to hear another

  335. voice, you either had to be around someone or wait for the

  336. communication through a letter to show up.

  337. So again, if you wrote someone and says, hey, you know, this is

  338. what I'm doing in that person life.

  339. This is stupid. You shouldn't do it for them to

  340. write you back and tell you how how much of an idiot you are and

  341. degrade you and it would take some time.

  342. Unlike now, you text. Hey, the Lords call me.

  343. You're an idiot. How fast is the other spirits?

  344. Talking. Come on now.

  345. So that's why I say now in the latter times, when information

  346. increases, when the in essence the enemy has a megaphone and

  347. multiple sources to talk to you, all the more that you need to

  348. fine tune your hearing to the reigning spirit.

  349. I said to the reigning spirit, Amen.

  350. And so the spirit explicitly says in latter times, some will

  351. fall away from the faith. And the reason why it's not

  352. because seducing spirits and doctrines of demons are talking,

  353. but it's because they're paying attention to them.

  354. Whatever you pay attention to, you begin to conform to.

  355. All right, young people, This is why you know when your parents

  356. say, hey, listen, I want you to read the Bible, pray, what are

  357. they doing? They want you to start paying

  358. attention to life, not because you're trying to get you in a

  359. religious exercise, because they already know based upon your

  360. phone, you're hearing a lot of voices.

  361. And if you keep paying attention to TikTok and paying attention

  362. to Snapchat and paying attention to Instagram and paying

  363. attention to whatever else is out there and every YouTube

  364. video, well, guess what? That will begin to get into your

  365. mindset and there's a barrage of things talking.

  366. And here's the thing, the enemy does not just come out again.

  367. It's called seducing, which means it touches somewhere you

  368. already feel and you can identify.

  369. In essence, it comes to you and you're like, well, you kind of

  370. feel like me. You're kind of seeing it like

  371. I'm kind of seeing it then you know, we've said this at Anchor

  372. Bay Church. We have said in the beginning

  373. was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word.

  374. Then verse 14th of John one says and the word became so God is

  375. the author of words. He's the only one who has a

  376. right to define them. And the prophets of old in the

  377. Old covenant prophesied this. And I don't remember which

  378. prophet it was. So if you know, just yell at me

  379. and I'll receive it. But a prophet said there would

  380. come a time when they'll call what's good evil and what's evil

  381. good, right? Maybe it was Isaiah.

  382. OK as the. Which means then there's going

  383. to come a there's going to be spirits that are talking to

  384. humans and they're going to start saying, now I know we used

  385. to call that evil, but you know, it's really good and we should

  386. check calls. Love accepts everybody.

  387. Love's very accepting of every. Love's so tolerant.

  388. Love's this, that and the other. So we redefine love.

  389. We. Redefine, you know, morality.

  390. We need to coexist. We need to all get along and

  391. believe what we want to believe. Yet if you go to scripture, the

  392. Lord says no, I am the way, so it's my way.

  393. I am the life, so outside of me it's death.

  394. Because there's a way that seems right to a man, the Scripture

  395. says, but in the end lies. So they'll present.

  396. There's a way that seems right. And unless you have been tuned

  397. to know how the Holy Spirit, the reigning Spirit you have,

  398. converses. Then it's easy to say, you know,

  399. I never, I never looked at it that way.

  400. I've never looked at it that way.

  401. But when you know how the Spirit speaks, then you'll say, now

  402. that's a law. Look at First John 4.

  403. One, it says this beloved, why are we?

  404. Why do we have the helper? Beloved, do not believe, say, do

  405. not, do not believe every spirit.

  406. But test the. Spirits to see whether they are

  407. from God, because many, not a few, many false prophets have

  408. gone out. Into the world.

  409. And let me just say this a false prophet.

  410. Doesn't have to have a relationship with God because by

  411. all rights a prophet is one who's heralding a message saying

  412. from God. And it may not.

  413. They may not even be connected to God.

  414. However, there can be those who are.

  415. Born of God and have heard God correctly at a time, but because

  416. they haven't maintained a relationship and be and for

  417. other reasons can begin to speak.

  418. In a way that is not from God, because even evil spirits can

  419. communicate a truth. I'll give you an example.

  420. You know as well as I do. In the book of Acts, Paul was in

  421. a particular community, and as he was in that community, a

  422. girl, a young girl who was a slave to two men, used her to do

  423. fortune telling. In essence, she was possessed by

  424. a evil spirit. And this spirit is what the

  425. Bible calls a familiar spirit. We're going to talk more about

  426. these at a later date. But this familiar spirit and a

  427. familiar spirit, how does it function?

  428. It it leaves the individual because it's a spirit and it

  429. goes and it can follow Jesse, it can follow Lord leave, it can

  430. follow Joe, right? And it can see what you've been

  431. doing on any given day, what you were wearing, where house you

  432. went to. Now it's not omnipresent.

  433. It has to go with you, has to be, has to move in a way to

  434. survey you. Then it goes back to the vessel

  435. that it possesses. And so that that girl could have

  436. gone by Joe in the streets and say, yesterday you were at Home

  437. Depot aisle 13 picking up this and it would be true.

  438. Now you say, how do you know that?

  439. Because the Spirit said concerning Paul, this man speaks

  440. concerning things of God. And that was true because he was

  441. representing the Kingdom. And this familiar spirit spoke

  442. accurately of who Paul was openly for three days.

  443. But Paul getting aggravated by it and it was probably by the

  444. spirit and I'll tell you why here in a minute.

  445. He turns, rebukes the spirit out of the girl.

  446. It leaves her and now she had she's no longer the vessel by

  447. which this spirit can function. Now the rich, the the guys that

  448. owned her realized we just lost our business.

  449. Are you hearing me? You say now why did Paul do

  450. this? Because if Paul had not rebuked

  451. that devil out of that girl after he established the church

  452. in that community and had left, that spirit could start talking

  453. and saying, wasn't I right about Paul?

  454. Wasn't I right about what he did?

  455. Wasn't I right about when I listened to me?

  456. But by rebuking. That it showed that Paul had the

  457. reigning spirit, that that was actually a demonic spirit

  458. speaking truth, but it wasn't from it wasn't from God.

  459. Are you hearing me? Oh, this is good.

  460. You understand how many believers, if we don't watch

  461. out, we can get caught up in those things when people try to

  462. give you these analogy. Well, now if you had a child.

  463. That was kidnapped and a fortune teller says they knew it.

  464. You wouldn't go to them. I don't have to go to a second.

  465. A low class demonic spirit. And find out about my child,

  466. because God's not going to let some low class demonic spirit

  467. get glory for knowing where my child is.

  468. The Holy Ghost will tell me himself.

  469. Amen. We never reduce principle.

  470. Amen. The only thing we should do is

  471. rebuke it out of that person. And we'd have already known

  472. because the Holy Ghost tells us so.

  473. The highlight Ghost tells us we rebuke it out of the thing and

  474. clean up the community and rescue our child.

  475. Hallelujah, because you're inferring that God's not going

  476. to tell you something, but demons will.

  477. Demons don't love me. Demons don't love you.

  478. They don't love you. No.

  479. They come from the side that wants to kill, steal and

  480. destroy. Hallelujah.

  481. And that's. How seducing comes it is to

  482. offer you things. That's what the devil did to

  483. Jesus. He was trying to seduce him in

  484. the temptations. Come on, let me take you to a

  485. high pinnacle. Look, Look at all these

  486. kingdoms. That's what you're here for

  487. anyway, right? I know you're coming for the

  488. dominion. All this the Luke account of the

  489. temptation of Jesus. He said all these kingdoms,

  490. these domains I'll give to you for they have been handed over

  491. to me. Where did he get that dominion

  492. from? You know, Anchor Faith Church

  493. here in Saint Augustine, but we may have some guests today.

  494. They don't know they he received it from Adam.

  495. For God said let us make man in our image according to our

  496. likeness and let them have rule or dominion.

  497. Adam was the God of this world, as God is the God of heaven.

  498. He gave the earth to man, and they would converse, and he

  499. would always function under the authority of his Father who was

  500. in heaven. But when the devil seduced and

  501. deceived Eve, then she turned and gave the fruit to Adam, the

  502. fruit he was never to eat. That God never wanted him to

  503. eat. That God put in the garden to

  504. prove that he loved him. It was Adam's proof every day.

  505. I love God because I obey His Word.

  506. He said the day you eat the fruit of the tree of the

  507. knowledge of good and evil, you'll die.

  508. And then when he ate, he rebelled and he turned over the

  509. dominion. That's why 2nd Corinthians 4

  510. four calls the devil the God of this world.

  511. Now that's not planet Earth. It is the systems, it's the

  512. rulership. It's the way this planets

  513. function. And the devil has killed this

  514. planet. He has brought death and

  515. destruction to this planet through one man's transgression.

  516. Sin has entered the world. And the devil has been

  517. propagating this these lies forever.

  518. Amen. So here he is.

  519. He says, come on, Jesus, I'll give it to you.

  520. You want Adam's dominion, don't you?

  521. I'll give it to you. But this is what it cost you.

  522. Just bow down. And do what I say.

  523. And Jesus said I will worship the Lord my God and him alone,

  524. because what he didn't know is that I'm taking it anyway.

  525. I'm going to take it all and you're going to be left with

  526. nothing. Hallelujah, I said.

  527. Hallelujah. So we are to test every spirit

  528. to see whether they are from God.

  529. Because many false prophets have gone out of the world, we must

  530. be able to determine what the voice determine, the voice of

  531. the Spirit in these last days. That's for us to determine.

  532. Well, how do we do this? God tells us how the reigning

  533. Spirit in US speaks. He tells us He's very clear in

  534. John chapter 14 verse 21. John chapter 14 verse 20 He

    John 14:21 John 14:20

  535. says, but the helper, who is the helper?

  536. The Holy Spirit? What's he going to whom The

  537. Father will send to my name. He will.

  538. Teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I

  539. that's Jesus said to you. So the Holy Spirit is only.

  540. Speaking on behalf of Jesus. He doesn't speak on behalf of

  541. any other party. He doesn't speak on any on

  542. behalf of any other person. He only speaks on behalf of

  543. Jesus. We can go over now to John

    John 16:13

  544. chapter 16, verse 13, and it says this.

  545. But when he, the Spirit of truth comes, that's the Holy Spirit He

  546. will guide you into. Now when I say, oh, he says all

  547. truth, that's not just biblical truth, meaning what's true of

  548. the Bible. Do you understand?

  549. The Holy Ghost can tell you truth about what's going on in

  550. government, what's going on in education, what's going on with

  551. your neighbors. He can tell you.

  552. He can say the truth is, you know, the Holy Spirit can say

  553. the truth is they don't like you.

  554. They're always talking nice to you, but they just want to use

  555. you. They want to, they envy what you

  556. have. They're just looking for a

  557. reason. He can tell you those truths as

  558. well. Amen.

  559. He can do that. So it's not limited when we say

  560. He'll guide you. All truth is just Bible truth.

  561. It's just knowing from Genesis to Revelation what God's saying

  562. in His Word. No, He can tell you those things

  563. too. He can tell you whether the deal

  564. somebody wants you to do is a good deal or not.

  565. Well, the truth is, you probably shouldn't invest in that.

  566. Or the truth is you. Should invest in that.

  567. But it goes on to say this, It says he will not speak of his

  568. own initiative, which means the Holy Spirit does not give you

  569. his personal opinion, but whatever he hears, he will

  570. speak, and he will disclose to you what is to come.

  571. So the Holy Spirit will only communicate what he hears from

  572. Jesus Christ the King, and Jesus is seated at the right hand of

  573. the Father. Now why is this powerful?

  574. Because we know Ecclesiastes 84 says where the word of the King

  575. is, there is so you understand the Holy Ghost in you, the the

  576. reigning spirit that you possess.

  577. He has direct access. To the throne room in.

  578. Heaven to the courts of Heaven to the throne of grace to the

  579. word of the final authority. And He's going to communicate to

  580. you exactly what the ruler of heaven and earth says concerning

  581. this situation. That's powerful.

  582. That means I'm never limited in any information necessary for me

  583. to walk out my the plan and purpose God has for my life.

  584. I'm never at a disadvantage because my King's word reigns

  585. supreme. I said my King's word reigns

  586. supreme. Why do we know this?

  587. Look what it says in Isaiah 55 verse 8 and 9.

    Isaiah 55:8

  588. It says this for my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are

  589. my are your ways my ways. Says the Lord.

  590. Again, this is in context to there's a way that seems right

  591. to a man. But if you're only thinking on

  592. your own, all right, go on. For as the heavens are higher

  593. than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my

  594. thoughts than your thoughts. Now that scripture never.

  595. Was to be used as we can't know his thoughts or ways.

  596. This scripture does not imply that he is just literally saying

  597. don't depend on your ways and your thoughts alone because I am

  598. supreme. My way is supreme, my thought is

  599. supreme. And here's the good news, you

  600. can have access to it. Look down to verse 11.

  601. Why is this important? Because his ways and thoughts he

  602. says, yes, so shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth.

  603. It shall not return to me void without producing any effect or

  604. useless, but it shall accomplish that which I please and purpose,

  605. and it shall prosper in the thing which I sent it.

  606. There's only one thing that causes the word of God void.

  607. It is your unbelief. That means it's your rejection

  608. of his way or thought concerning the situation you're in and you

  609. take it as truth. Walk in confidence that what he

  610. says he's able to perform. If you abandoned that then then

  611. you. Hinder God from doing what he

  612. wants to ultimately do in your life, but the word he says

  613. nonetheless has the power to. Perform it.

  614. Are you hearing me? Are you hearing me?

  615. Which brings me to this thought concerning God.

  616. Because God is supreme. Do you understand?

  617. God will never stop you from doing what you want to do.

  618. He does not violate your will, doesn't do it.

  619. He can give you a thought so you'll change your thought.

  620. He can give you a way so you'll change your way.

  621. He'll communicate to you through people and through your own

  622. spirit if you're born again of how He wants it done.

  623. And if you resist it and choose not to, God cannot make you do

  624. it. Cannot.

  625. But if you ever try to take your will and your way, which is

  626. directly opposed to God's will and His way, to the place that

  627. it would hinder God's way and will, then he will intervene.

  628. Now he doesn't intervene to change your mind, but he can

  629. intervene to stop your course. The Tower of Babel is a great

  630. example of this. The Tower of Babel was man's

  631. will to do God or get to God or access things in the Spirit

  632. outside of God. And when God said they're in one

  633. mind 1 accord, they're in unity. I cannot change their will

  634. concerning the direction they are going.

  635. But because it's directly opposed to my will, my purpose,

  636. then he changed their language and they were unable to do it.

  637. God may not change your will, but he can't flatten your tire.

  638. God may not change your will, but he can cause your weapon to

  639. misfire. Are you hearing me?

  640. I know a friend of ours that's in Nicaragua.

  641. Him and his wife were attacked because his mother, the mother

  642. of his wife, had her boyfriend hire people to try to kill them

  643. or land and so they were attacked with machetes.

  644. And one of the guys had a revolver, pointed it at him and

  645. pulled the trigger multiple times but it never went off.

  646. And though he had lost a lot of blood and she he was able to

  647. pick her up, carry her over 2 kilometers down a mountain to a

  648. hospital and they're alive today.

  649. My point is, is that ultimately if man is trying to hinder

  650. through their will, God's. Plan for you, he has a way.

  651. To hinder those plans, Paul was actually killed.

  652. I believe. The context where he said I know

  653. a man in body or out of body, I do not.

  654. Know is a result of when they drug him out of the city and

  655. stoned him and they thought he was dead because he most likely

  656. was, but when he went up. The Lord was like, I couldn't

  657. change their will concerning you.

  658. They acted in a way that I didn't want them.

  659. But here's the thing, what the devil is meant for bad, God is

  660. going to turn for good because I'm fixing to tell you some

  661. things that you're not even going to be an express, but it's

  662. going to empower your confidence in me so much even more than the

  663. road to Damascus experience that you had with me.

  664. When you know that you know that you heard that it was Jesus that

  665. you were persecuting, that it was me that you were coming

  666. against that empowered you to go share about my kingship.

  667. Now that you've been in this realm, the 3rd heaven man, when

  668. I put you back in that. Body he got in that body, he got

  669. back up and went back into the same town of the people who had

  670. drug him out and stoned him, talking about confidence.

  671. No, this no weapon formed against the Church will prosper.

  672. We may not be able to change the will of people, but ultimately,

  673. if people's wills is to enact so that God's plan can't come to

  674. pass, God will render it null and void.

  675. He'll do things that we can't even comprehend.

  676. This is why I'm not fretful or fearful concerning anything

  677. going on in the world, because the Church is the powerhouse.

  678. Of the planet, He said the church is the powerhouse of the

  679. planet and you cannot eradicate the church because Jesus is

  680. coming back for the church. So man, as much as he may plan,

  681. scheme, legislate, pass laws to hinder the Church of Jesus

  682. Christ, it cannot come to pass. God will always intervene

  683. because he said I'm coming back for it, so it can't not be here

  684. when I get here. Which is a double negative.

  685. Please forgive me. But that being said, Isaiah 4523

  686. says this. He said I have sworn by myself.

  687. Now this is powerful. The word is gone out of my mouth

  688. in righteousness, and shall not return that unto.

  689. Me, every knee. Shall bow, and every tongue

  690. shall swear allegiance. I want us to look at a few

  691. scriptures here, he said. I've.

  692. Sworn by myself, the word is going out of my mouth, and

  693. writes in, and shall not return that unto me every knee shall

  694. bow, and every tongue shall swear allegiance.

  695. What's he saying? We'll look at Philippians

    Philippians 2:10

  696. chapter 2, verse 10 and 11. Says it is so that at the name

  697. of Jesus every knee will bow of those in heaven and on earth and

  698. under the earth. There's no existence that's not

  699. bowing to Jesus and that every tongue will confess that Jesus

  700. Christ is Lord, which literally means supreme in authority.

  701. Say supreme, say supreme. I'm not talking pizza here.

  702. Supreme in authority. OK, Jesus is supreme in

  703. authority to the glory of God. Now look at this next passage of

  704. scripture in Hebrews chapter 6 verse 13 through 17.

    Hebrews 6:13–17

  705. I'm going to read out of a a pretty neat translation called

  706. the Remedy translation. It says this.

  707. When God made his promise to Abraham, there was no one

  708. greater than himself to guarantee the promise, so he

  709. guaranteed it himself. Now what are these scriptures?

  710. Telling us when God speaks, there is.

  711. No word higher. When God speaks, there is no

  712. word higher. So man cannot redefine marriage

  713. because God's. Word.

  714. On it is supreme. There's nothing in any.

  715. World government that can redefine and it be more supreme

  716. than God's way. Do you understand when people

  717. are talking to me about positions, whether it's

  718. political, whether it's educational, whatever, it all

  719. sums up to this. Whose word do you really want me

  720. to believe? Do you want me to believe your

  721. word that you didn't get on your own anyway?

  722. Because most people have gotten it from someone else and someone

  723. else is either somebody that has a degree somewhere that we've

  724. deemed an expert. I don't care how many degrees

  725. you have and how many people call you an expert.

  726. You're not God. Now many.

  727. Think they're gods, and they think their word is God, and

  728. they think their word is final. And again, how do I know they're

  729. of the Antichrist? Because they want to kill you

  730. when you disagree. As a believer, I'm not going to

  731. get upset if you disagree because I take the same position

  732. of my king. You can believe whatever you

  733. want to believe, but you're not convincing me of your position

  734. if it's outside of his word. I don't have to get mad at you.

  735. I have to get all upset at you. I can just say according to that

  736. thinking, my king says, and it's not my job to persuade you, it's

  737. my job just to communicate the truth of the king.

  738. And I trust the Holy Ghost are going to talk to you way more

  739. than I will, because the scripture tells me He will.

  740. Because unless God draws someone, they can't be saved

  741. anyway, so it's better for me to release.

  742. Well, you know, the King says this.

  743. Well, I don't believe that. You don't have to.

  744. And you know what? He'll let you.

  745. But the result of you not is this because that's what the

  746. king says? Well, I don't believe that.

  747. You don't have to believe that, but I'm just telling you this

  748. what the king says. So at the end, we'll find out

  749. who was right. You.

  750. Are. Jesus.

  751. I don't have to sweat one bit. I don't have to have a vein pop.

  752. I don't have to come try to slap them.

  753. Because here's the thing, God, if he was so concerned, he'd

  754. take them out himself. In fact, it's his mercy that

  755. leaves them. Come on, believers, it is an act

  756. of mercy when you just release the truth and don't get

  757. argumentative about the truth you have.

  758. Don't be frustrated with them. Those that are lost, they can't

  759. help it. Can't help it, but you

  760. understand God, there was no one greater.

  761. Let's go on, he said, saying, I will absolutely bless you and

  762. give you a multitude of descendants.

  763. And Abraham trusted God and patiently waited until he

  764. received what was promised. Verse 16 says people will swear

  765. by someone greater than themselves that what they say is

  766. true, and the oath is supposed to guarantee that what they say

  767. was true and put an end to any further dispute.

  768. Isn't that powerful? So again, when someone tries to

  769. give me a policy or position and they tell me a certain thing, I

  770. can hear. But who's giving you that?

  771. Who are you greater than you? Telling you that.

  772. Because again, when I was in the as a former veteran or former

  773. soldier, I am a veteran today, OK, As a former soldier, there

  774. was a voice that had authority in my life, OK.

  775. And that was not the actual voice, himself or herself, but

  776. it was he, at the time anyway. The governor of the of the state

  777. of Florida would issue orders to our unit that would be read by a

  778. soldier within our unit. And it would usually start out

  779. like this, attention to orders, which means then we would be in

  780. formation at parade rest and they go attention to orders.

  781. And then we get because someone with authority that we are to

  782. honor and respect. That is higher than our

  783. authority is talking, and for us it's the highest one because

  784. it's the governor of the state of Florida.

  785. I was in the Army National Guard, Attention, orders, boom.

  786. Now everything spoken which is not by the governor himself, but

  787. the one reciting what the governor has.

  788. Written and has signed with his own name and has the seal of the

  789. state of Florida pressed into the document that validates its

  790. authority. And it begins to communicate to

  791. us our next assignment, which means it doesn't say, well, if

  792. you want to stay home with your wife, you can.

  793. If you don't feel like coming, it's really up to you.

  794. At the end of the day, you. Decide no, it was get you.

  795. You're going to be packing up. You're going to be deployed

  796. here. This is where you're going go

  797. kiss your wife and kids goodbye. This is the duration of your

  798. deployment. This is how this is going to

  799. function. So again, didn't matter how much

  800. my wife would cry and want to say stay home with me, which I

  801. was never deployed. So I'm having to use, you know,

  802. a little bit of a expanded thought process here.

  803. Matt and Andrew, y'all have this and others in the room.

  804. But I didn't have that kind of deployment.

  805. But those that did, they had to go home and say we're leaving.

  806. This is the. Date don't matter how much

  807. they're like I need you to stay, I don't want you to go doesn't

  808. matter. It doesn't matter because

  809. there's a voice higher and it proved it had authority in my

  810. life and and why not? Because it made me, I chose to

  811. enlist into its. Service do you know you chose

  812. after he chose you and he has the highest say so again in

  813. verse 16 it says people swear by someone greater than themselves.

  814. Why? Because they say, well, so and

  815. so said it well, OK, well, if so and so said it there you go,

  816. right? Well, that's what you need to

  817. say. Well, Jesus said that's the

  818. highest word verse 17 says because God didn't want any

  819. doubts. They no doubts because God

  820. wanted those who are heirs of His promised redemption to be.

  821. Certain say certain. About the unchanging nature of

  822. his methods, principles, and character of love, he confirmed

  823. it with his own word. In essence, what I've said is

  824. final. It will be that way only, and

  825. nothing is more supreme than what I just.

  826. Said, are you hearing me now? Why is this important concerning

  827. having a reigning spirit in the days we live in today?

  828. First Corinthians 2, verses 11:50.

  829. Says for to us, God revealed them through the Spirit.

  830. For the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.

  831. So the reigning Spirit you have searches the depths of God, the

  832. one who has the final say, the supreme Word, His Word is

  833. supremacy, period. It's final, there is no

  834. disputing it. So when the enemy talks.

  835. He's a liar and His word is not more powerful.

  836. His word will identify with you, though, because we've all lived

  837. in the flesh. We've felt it.

  838. We've had doubts, we've had fears, we've had insecurities,

  839. we've had struggles, we've had guilt, we've had shame, we've

  840. made mistakes. He knows it.

  841. We know it, God. Doesn't know it.

  842. Because when we repent, he forgets it.

  843. We're always reminding the King and the King's like I had the

  844. final say on, that it is forgiven.

  845. But yeah, we will let God let the devil talk to us and say you

  846. can't do that. You know, you've blown it.

  847. You know you can't go there anymore.

  848. There's no way that ever use you, you know.

  849. But the Lords, like, I don't even know what you're talking

  850. about. Why are you trying to bring this

  851. up to me? My word is supreme.

  852. Quit listening to the liar. Your sin has been removed as far

  853. as the east is from the West. I don't even know who you're

  854. talking about right now because the one I'm looking at is holy,

  855. blessed, royal, righteous as a head and not the tail.

  856. Above and not beneath. Reigns in life overcomes every

  857. circumstance. I don't even know you who you're

  858. talking to. Talking about right now because

  859. it surely isn't you. And his word on the matter to me

  860. is all that matters. Amen.

  861. Verse 11 says, For who among men knows the thought of a man,

  862. except the spirit of man, which is in him?

  863. You know what you thinking. Even so, the thoughts of God no

  864. one knows except the Spirit of God.

  865. Verse 12 Now we have received not the spirit of the world

  866. there it is again, but the Spirit who is from God.

  867. Why? So that we may what know the

  868. things freely given to us by God.

  869. He's there to let us know. This is the.

  870. Supreme word on that and nothing is higher than my word though no

  871. other spirit talking tested if I've said this and you're

  872. hearing something else. It's a lot.

  873. Don't accept it. Don't accept it.

  874. Take no thought, pay no attention to it, because the

  875. King's word has supremacy and it's the final say on all

  876. matters. It is the only voice.

  877. That does matter. And again, if you're not in the

  878. Word, then it's very difficult sometimes for you to hear what

  879. the Spirit's saying because He only speaks the Word.

  880. The Bible is God's Word to us. It demonstrates His character.

  881. You cannot find in any place of Scripture that God did not do

  882. what He says. If anything, that we should see

  883. every time we go from page to page, Genesis 11 to Revelations

  884. 2221, we should see God's faithful to His Word.

  885. He always brings it to pass Amen.

  886. He always brings it to pass, which brings me to this passage

  887. in closing in John chapter 10, verse two to five, I'm going to

    John 10 chapter mention

  888. read the New American Standard. Then I'm going to give you a

  889. different translation because it's really amazing, he says.

  890. But he who enters by the door is a shepherd of the sheep.

  891. To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he

  892. calls his own sheep by name and leaves them out.

  893. When he puts forth all his own, he goes out ahead of them, and

  894. the sheep follow him because they what know his voice.

  895. A stranger they simply will not follow, but will.

  896. Flee from him because they do not know the voice of a

  897. stranger. Your confession daily should be

  898. I know the voice of my king. I hear the voice of my king by

  899. the reigning spirit he's given me.

  900. We should never doubt. Now you may not be currently

  901. hearing something, but you go ahead and say I hear my King's

  902. voice cause the reigning spirit in me speaks to me through by

  903. him and just accept that and whatever the reigning spirit

  904. says to me, that's final. Nothing else I'll accept.

  905. Nothing else I'll accept, because anything spoken to me

  906. that may be factually correct can change to what my king says.

  907. Actually, you could have cancer eating your body up and you have

  908. two weeks to live. The truth is the king says by

  909. his stripes he were healed. This is the healthcare of the

  910. Kingdom. You are healed of the Lord and

  911. it can kill every cancer. In your body, no matter where

  912. it's hiding out, that's the final say.

  913. I said that's the final say. That's the final say.

  914. But you have to have certainty. I know I hear His voice.

  915. I know I hear his voice. I know I hear his voice.

  916. I know I hear his voice. Amen.

  917. Let me read this out of the remedy translation.

  918. It says this, but the shepherd of the sheep enters through the

  919. gate. The guard opens the gate for the

  920. shepherd, and the sheep that know him listen to his voice.

  921. I like that. Because you understand, it's one

  922. thing for him to know us, it's another thing for us to know

  923. him. It is a relationship.

  924. So in order for you to know him, you've got to get to know him.

  925. Now, I can tell you right now if I married Pastor Marcy September

  926. 12th, 1991, First Baptist Church, Archer said.

  927. Our vows, went to our honeymoon, consummated the marriage, and

  928. then the next day I said you can go home.

  929. I got things to do and then I'm gone for three years.

  930. Go back up three years later, say hey, I'm home, let's Make

  931. Love again and then leave for another six months.

  932. Well, you are my wife. Legally, I have a right to this.

  933. Do we have a relationship? Amazing how many believers want

  934. to have intimacy with God without relationship with God.

  935. But the reality is you're not even having intimacy.

  936. I just want to be in His presence.

  937. And a lot of that we don't watch out can really be lustful

  938. because it's not coming from, Paul said.

  939. I just want to know you. In order for me to know my wife

  940. for 33 years is because we talk, we converse, I hear what she

  941. likes, what she doesn't like, and then we merge.

  942. But it's because we convert, not because we do what we do.

  943. And then we show up and every once in a while we just get

  944. naked. That's not relationship.

  945. I'll never forget the Lord told me one time he said if you spend

  946. as much time with your wife as you do with me, you wouldn't be

  947. married very long. As far I was called to ministry,

  948. I was born again, but I would work, you know, I'd do stuff on

  949. my wife, my kids. You know, I love God, but the

  950. reality is I wasn't reading the Bible.

  951. I wasn't praying. I once spent, I'd show up to

  952. church whenever I decided and I was in a situation praying, he

  953. says. You know, son, if you spend as

  954. much time with your wife as you do me, you wouldn't be married

  955. very long. Hallelujah.

  956. He said. But the shepherd, the guard, the

  957. gate of the shepherd, the sheep that know him, listen to his

  958. voice. He calls the sheep by name.

  959. And all who know the shepherd he leads out of the pen.

  960. When he has brought, when he has brought out all who know him, he

  961. goes ahead of them, leading the way, never driving them from

  962. behind. And his sheep follow because

  963. they know. His voice and love him and all

  964. his. Ways.

  965. In the last of the last days, it's imperative that we decide

  966. that the Word of the King is final and the reigning spirit

  967. we've been given is only telling us his final say.

  968. We need to know and trust that God's way on it or thought about

  969. it is supreme. And mine will always be

  970. crucified. And anyone else speaking other

  971. than what's clearly seen within the context of Scripture, of

  972. God's nature, ability, and. Way of doing things then we will

  973. no longer be compromising to the whims of culture or society we

  974. will say this is our. King, this is what he says.

  975. He's given you an opportunity to receive Him at His word, and

  976. you're going to have life and life more abundantly.

  977. But I will not compromise His way to bend to your way, because

  978. His word is unmatched.