The Choke Conspiracy - Kingdom Sabotage

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Now enjoy this message. First Timothy chapter 4 verse

1 Timothy 4 · chapter mention

one says this. Now the Spirit explicitly says

that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving

heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons.

You know, we started out this year utilizing this passage of

Scripture to to let us know that we have the reigning spirit.

And in the last of the last days, the Spirit is telling us

there's going to be great conflict.

But in that the Spirit of God expressly says, meaning this is

going to happen. You cannot stop it.

There are those who will fall away from the faith, meaning

they are sitting in church just like you are right now.

They are professing that they know Jesus Christ as their Lord,

as you are. Yet they'll fall away because

they have not trained their ears to hear properly or they have

not crucified things within their soul realm that is going

to hinder them. They've not renewed their minds

so that they function as they are born of God.

Once they made Jesus the Lord of their life.

So there are deceiving spirits. One translation says seducing

spirits and doctrines of demons. OK, so the spirits are there to

seduce you, and seduction is there in order to cause you to

go after something that seems really good.

No one would ever be seduced if it was showing you you're going

to die. Amen.

In fact, Proverbs talks about the young guy that's walking and

the woman's out and she begins to seduce him and he says he has

no idea that he's going into the place of death.

Right. My husband's gone, she says.

He's taking a lot of money with him.

I have prepared my bed so that you and I can have a love feast

all night long. And all the while that young boy

is going in there thinking he's having the time of his life, but

he's his whole life is being brought down to hell.

So seduction is very attractive. Very attractive.

So it came to my attention. My wife and I, when we were away

with a couple of our grandkids this past week, reminded me of a

message that I've never ministered at Anchor Bay Church.

Never. Now, Pastor Vanessa would know

this particular one. OK?

She would know it because she was single at the time when I

was at a church in Starke, FL and we had a revival in 1997 and

in that revival during the summer it was 12 week long

revival. In fact, my wife had been

praying in the Spirit, spending quite a bit of time in prayer

and by unction of the Spirit she got a word from the Lord that

our church was going to move into.

When I say our church, I was not the pastor, senior pastor of the

church. I youth pastored for this

particular church. I work full time in the Florida

Army National Guard and so it was volunteer that I served as

the youth pastor and man, we had an awesome thing going.

With that being said, she got my own chin of the Spirit.

We would go into a revival during the summer and that I

would preach that revival and that he would confirm that to

the pastor in three days. Well, she went over to the

pastor's house, told the pastor's wife and you know,

apparently it bore witness with her.

So much so that I was actually working with Pastor Vanessa's

father cutting some lawns that day and and they come flying up

to the house. We were cutting grass and begin

to tell us, well, I'll be honest with you, it didn't bear witness

to me. It was a shock.

I was like, what? You know?

Well, three days later, sure enough, Pastor Wade came and

said we're going to do revival and you'll minister, I'll do

Sundays. We were going to take off on

Saturday. We did Monday through Friday.

We did six days of church and we did those five nights for seven

straight weeks and then the last five weeks.

So I think we did, we did like a Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.

So we had Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and it

basically finished out the summer, man.

We saw miracles, people born again, people filled with the

Holy Ghost. And I was so young in the faith,

OK, I had not been to Rhema. I had just recently, two years

prior to that baptizing the Holy Ghost.

I've been raised in the Baptist Church all my life and I was

hungry for more. And so in my searching for

hunger, God had this Assembly of God minister come by knock on

our doors, who had great recently graduated from Rhema

himself. And next thing you know, we're

attending his church. I got filled with the Holy

Ghost. He asked me to work with his

children's because he knew I was called to ministry.

I said I would rather do youth if that's OK.

He said fine. We had one and before we left

the church ran 150 people total, of which 75 of them were youth.

It was awesome. We had an off campus ministry.

We had two prison systems, juvenile prison systems coming

to us and man those people get born again all the time.

It was awesome, but I just didn't know the word.

Like I know the word today, but knowing the word still doesn't

change the position I was in because I'm still in that

position today. And man, I would work all day

long because I worked Monday through Friday, except every

other Monday, the National Guard, we were off and so we

worked these 9-10 hour days, something like that, I can't

remember, but every other Monday I was off and so I had to go to

work. But I'm preaching that night,

and so my brakes would be in Scripture.

My lunchtime would be in Scripture because I'm like, what

in the world are we saying tonight?

And I remember many times, especially in the last few

weeks, that I would show up and Pastor Marcy can testify and I

would go into a little room right beside the the platform

and praise and worship would be going on.

And I have nothing. And I'm like, Lord, you better

give me something or I'm not going out there.

I mean, it, it was the fear of the Lord.

I did not want to preach something that that wasn't from

the throne room. Again, I mean, this was revival.

And so out of that came this message.

And I don't know why I've never ministered it here, but it seems

right in the Holy Ghost for me to minister here today.

Amen. So you understand, it's not an

old message, it's a message now. I can guarantee you it has

nothing like I preached it in Stark except for the scriptures.

Because how I preached back then and how I preached today and the

knowledge and revelation I have today opens the door for more

things. But the central truth never

changed. Out of all these years, that

central truth is still there. And I title the message the

Choke conspiracy. So turn over to Mark chapter 13

Mark 13 · chapter mention

and Mark chapter 13 starting in verse three.

Mark 13 · chapter mention

You know it well, it says this. It says, And he spoke many

things to them in parables, saying, Behold, the sower went

out to sow, and as he sowed, some seeds fell beside the road,

and the birds came and ate them up.

Others fell on rocky places where they did not have much

soil. And immediately they sprang up

because they had no because they immediately they sprang up,

because they had no depth of soul.

But when the sun had risen they were scorched.

Because they had no root. They withered away.

Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns came up and

choked them out. Say choked them out, and others

fell on good soil and yielded a crop, some a hundredfold, some

60, some 30. He who has ears, let him hear.

Now He explains this parable starting in the 18th verse of

the same chapter, Matthew 1318. It says Now hear them.

The parable of the sower. When anyone hears the word of

the Kingdom, say the word of the Kingdom.

So other Tran other passages both over in the Mark 4 count

and the Luke 8 account, you know, say the silver seats, the

seed is the word. Well, we know that word is

specifically is the word of the Kingdom because when Jesus

speaks, it's the word of the king and where the word of the

king is there is there's power. So he says that the parable that

here if anyone hears the word of the Kingdom and does not

understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has

been sown where not in his head in his heart.

You know what that tells us? That tells us that the minute

the revelation of the Kingdom comes to you, if you do not

desire to know, then the devil will come and put out that

revelation 'cause he sure wants to keep you in religion.

The minute the revelation of the Kingdom comes on in you, if you

do not pursue to understand, then you're giving the devil

access to keep you blinded in demonic doctrine or a form of

religion. So we're not talking about a

casual conversation that I'm someone's preaching on the

Kingdom and you don't get the revelation of it.

No, this person has revelation because the devil steals it away

from their heart, not from their head.

OK, then it goes on and says this.

This is the one whom the seed was sown by the roadside, the

one whom seed was sown on the rocky places.

This is the man who hears the word and immediately receives it

with joy. Yet he has no firm root in

himself, but is only temporary. And when affliction or

persecution arises because of the word, immediately he falls

away. There are many that we see in

the in the churches today that come to a church.

They receive Jesus as their Lord.

They we receive salvation with joy, but because they are not

coming to be discipled, they're only coming to be converted.

They just want to know they're going to go to heaven when they

die. They have no real interest in

Jesus as Lord. They have great interest in

Jesus as Savior. They do not want to go to hell

for their own doing. They are condemned, they are

guilty, they have shame because of it.

And when they hear of the good news that Jesus has forgiven

them of all their own doing, they jump at the occasion to be

pardoned, to be forgiven, but with no aspirations to follow

Him all the days of their life. And it proves out because when

trials come and they have no commitment, they come to an

altar in tears and and they come to the altar knowing full well

they need Jesus to save their lives.

But they never come back to the church again.

They pop in sporadically. They may show up at an Easter

service or at a Christmas cantata, some type of thing.

They may periodically show up because Mama manipulated them to

come to church on Mother's Day. Yet when all the issues of life

come, there's no root in them and they fall away.

They live life like they're not even born again.

Verse 22 goes on then to say because they are verse 21, they

had no firm root, only temporary.

When affliction of persecution arises because of the word,

immediately he falls away and there's many that do not handle

the persecution that comes because you are a child of God.

You much rather blend into society, then stand out and

shine. Verse 22, the one of whom the

seed was sown among the thorns. This is the man who hears the

word and the worry of the world and the deceitfulness of wealth.

Choke the word and it becomes unfruitful.

We'll come back to that. And the one whom seed was sown

on the good soul. This is the man who hears the

word, understands it, and indeed bears fruit and brings forth

some a hundredfold, some 60 and some 30.

So verse 22 says those at the sea fell among the thorns.

This is the man who hears the word.

He hears the word and the worry of the world and the

deceitfulness of wealth. Choke the word and it becomes

unfruitful. Now it's important for us to go

to the other two gospels that have this same parable that

Jesus speaks. They're both ones in Mark and

the other ones in Luke. Let's look at the Mark chapter 4

Mark 4 · chapter mention

account. It starts in verse 18 concerning

the one sown among the thorns. It says this.

The others are the ones of whom seed was sown among the thorns.

These are the ones who have heard the word.

Have you heard the word? Come on, have you heard the

word? Now notice there's a progression

here. There is the progression of seed

falling to the wayside and it never gets in any ground at all.

Birds pull it out it had. It never changes, never

converts. It stays in seed form is what

I'm saying. The second one is one that comes

among the rocks and conversion takes place, meaning it's no

longer a seed but a plant. Plant is a conversion, OK, but

again, the seed is to convert itself.

In essence, it dies and it releases what's within it, and

what's within it is a plant. But we do not have plants for

plants sake where they're there to bear fruit.

Because again, the parable is about a farmer, and a farmer is

not just planting plants, he's looking for fruit.

So conversion takes place, it becomes a plant.

It's no longer in seed form. It has all capacity to produce

fruit. But because it does not have a

good root system, see, people like to look at the plant, but a

plant doesn't stay thriving if the roots are dying.

So you can come looking polished, but it doesn't take

long to determine if you're dying because we can hear it in

your mouth. We can see it in your walk, in

your talk. We can see it in the attendance.

We can see it in your actions of whether your root system is

pulling on the water of the word so that you can grow by it.

My wife, before we went on this camping trip with our Grant,

Grant couple of our grandchildren, there's a

particular hibiscus that we had planted and she had put some

additional fertilizer on it. Well, I thought I had turned the

sprinklers on. I had not.

And because I did not, that plant did not make it because it

did not have the fertilizer watered in.

The fertilizer burned it, killed it, dried it up.

So my wife was transplanting some hibiscus.

We call it salad row because the deer that come out of the

preserve come down that part of our driveway and they eat their

hibiscus salad as they go. Those hibiscus cannot make it

over there on that side of the house.

It is salad row. All right, so if we had a

camera, we could set it up. There's no telling how many are

coming by. All right, But there's a

particular hibiscus they do not touch.

So we purchased that particular one and she pulled up the

hibiscus salads, put in the other ones, and she was going to

take one of those and plant it over there.

Well, she couldn't dig out the old one, OK?

Even though it was dead, it had a far enough root system that

she couldn't pull it out. It was going to require my

muscular strength. She needed Herman to show up.

All right. OK.

But Herman did not do this before we went camping.

So she took her other hibiscus that was beautiful and green,

put it in a pot, watered it, and we left.

When we came home, that plant was yellow because there was no

additional watering. And you understand, when you

pull a plant from its environment where it's been

growing, it's at risk because it needs to get planted and it

needs to be watered often. You can't just water it once and

think it's going to be OK. Thank you, Lord, the Lord just

said. That's like many of my

believers. They uproot from one church and

then they go to another and they think they get a little bit of

water and then they don't show up for about a month or two or

so and they're wondering why they're all yellow and brown and

they're hindering and they can't seem to get no fruit.

It's because they don't get planted and get somewhere.

They're watered. If you've been out of church for

a while, you shouldn't think one time's enough.

You should be committed to every service.

She should be anyway, but that's how you thrive.

With that being said, you know, it looked a little rough.

It looked rough. Well, again, there are believers

that aren't getting planted water.

They're allowing their root system to develop so they can be

somewhere. All right.

But then we know when they get into good ground, ground where

it's being when. When we say good soil, we're not

talking about just the soil itself.

We're talking about the environment by which all the

nutrients are being released, which means that irrigation is

happening. The the farmer is making sure

it's being irrigated. The farmer's making sure there's

no pestilence. The farmer's making sure no

weeds are coming up around it. He is caring for it so that it

can produce and bear what fruit. Again, the latter three are all

some form have a conversion process because they're no

longer in the seed. They are plants.

So the one that is sown among the thorns is no longer a seed,

but it is a plant in it of itself, because the Bible tells

us here, look at this in Mark four, the others that are among

the thorn, they heard the word. But the worries of the world,

the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires of other things

enter in and choke the word and it becomes what?

Unfruitful. Well, if you're still in seed

form, there's no way you're going to bear fruit.

But if you're in plant form, fruit is expected.

So as the plant grows, guess what else grew around it?

Thorns. And the thorns began to invade

and choked it so that it could not produce the fruit.

But I like what this one says in verse 19.

It says but because the other one said the worries are the

cares of life and the deceitfulness of riches.

But this one goes one more further and it says and the

desires for other things. So it's not just worrying the

worries of the world. It's not just the worries of the

world. It's not just simple worrying.

It's the worries of the world. You know, many people are in

anxiety because of wars going on right now.

That is a worry of the world. You know, how many people are in

anxiety or worried because of financial things right now?

You know, people are worried about food or worried about

there's many things going on, Worried about whether they're

going to, you know, be able to maintain their job or get a

better job or whether they'll get into school, worried about,

you know, how their kids are going to be.

I mean, it's the worries of the world.

OK. Then you have the deceitfulness

of riches, meaning this desire to be rich begins to seduce you.

But not just that then just desires that you have on your,

which is where many believers have taken the scripture out of

context. God will give me the desires of

my heart. Well again, God will give you

the desires of your heart. God gives you the desires that

he puts in your heart that then you can have, but you're not

creating your own desire and saying you're going to give me

what I want. You're saying, Lord, I want what

you want from me. And he says this is what I want

for you, and you say, OK, I'll have what you want from me.

So there are desires that are coming from seeing the things of

the world, seeing the comforts associated with this world

system, the pleasures that are associated with it, and it will

cause other desires to pop into you, so much so that what it

does, it chokes the word and it becomes what?

Unfruitful. Now look at Luke chapter 8.

Luke 8 · chapter mention

Luke chapter 8, verse 14. It says the seed fell among the

Luke 8:14

thorns. These are the ones whom have

heard, and as they go on their way, they are choked with

worries and riches and pleasures of this life and bring no fruit

to now. I like this one 'cause this one

lets us know what takes place on the plant.

This one confirms that it's not seed, but that it is a plant.

So it has been converted and this person sits and hears the

word, so much so that fruit actually begins to manifest.

But just because fruit is on a plant doesn't mean it's matured

or it's time to harvest. You've heard me tell the story

of the banana tree I had in my one of my other residents before

I move where I'm at today. And so we had these nice little

cute ones. They were little bitty ones.

I don't know what, you know, what type it was OK.

But it was just, you know, these small ones and they're green.

And I'm looking at them and I'm like, waiting.

I did not Google to determine when they're ready to harvest.

They had been like that for a while.

The ones up top started looking pretty nasty looking, you know,

like they weren't. So I'm like, surely this is it.

I've learned since when to cut it off for it to write.

But prior I did not know. And in my ignorance, OK, because

I've been to Publix more than one time and seen green bananas

that when I brought them to the house they ripened.

OK, so I cut that whole thing off and I cut off one of those

bananas and I waited for it to change some color.

Well, it eventually changed a little bit.

I peeled that thing back. I put it in my mouth.

You understand? Everything in my mind was

thinking of every store bought banana I ever have eaten, I've

ever eaten, you hear me? And here I am biting into this

fruitful banana. But much to my surprise, it was

not mature. It was fake because I had

harvested before maturity and when I put bit into it, there

was no moisture. It was sticky.

In fact, it pulled every piece of saliva away from my mouth to

the banana. I could barely open my mouth.

I had no moisture. It was the most horrific

experience in my life, period. Now it was a plant.

It had fruit, but it was bitter. I said it was bitter.

It was no good. It was only good to discard.

Now anybody walking by with say, wow, look at the fruit, but the

fruits no good. It's not brought to maturity.

I pulled it off before maturity came.

I have a citrus tree now and you know this is like it's 3rd, 3rd

or 4th year. Maybe third?

4th we're just kind of waiting because for it to develop a

little differently because it's not had grapefruit yet.

We're waiting. For it to develop better tasting

fruit, to get it to mature. Every year there's a boatload on

it, but they never mature. I never have been able to yet

harvest off that tree. So there are a lot of believers

that go to church, hear the word, start showing fruit, but

they never allow their fruit to get to maturity.

This is very. Important.

Because. Mature maturity is is the

expectation of our Father. Maturity.

Is the expectation of our Father.

Hallelujah. This is why the church he'll

come back for will be without spot or wrinkle.

Do you understand we were in the greatest time ever?

I mean, think about it in. The beginning they had the Holy

Spirit poured out upon. They had power.

There were every miracle signs and wonders were happening.

Miracle signs and wonders are happening even now in this age,

right now, in this time frame of the age of the Church.

But you know what the early Church did not have?

It did not have the combination of all the writings put together

in such a way that they had such ease of access.

To the sacred. Writings, I mean what we have

available for us right now plus the multiplying of the Spirit.

We are of no excuse not to mature in the fruits of the

Spirit and flow with the gifts of the Spirit.

We are without excuse. In fact, Jesus makes a demand

that we function that way and we are.

But in order to, we must avoid the choke conspiracy in the last

days. So it.

Says that they heard the word, but because of worries, riches

and pleasures of this life, no fruit was brought to maturity.

Now has. Jesus ever experienced this con

this? This.

Conspiracy to pull him out of his assignment through being

choked. Absolutely.

We find it in Matthew chapter four, starts in verse eight in

Matthew chapter 4. This was the devil's seduction.

Matthew 4 · chapter mention

Here's where the. Devil tried to seduce Jesus.

Cause. Cause.

In what he knew what Jesus was coming for.

And he wanted him to. Have it.

On his terms. On his terms.

Again, the devil took him up on an exceeding high mountain.

This is the temptation of Jesus and showed him.

I find this interesting because two chapters, a few you know, in

the same book. Later on, when he gives the

parable, Jesus has knowledge of this conspiracy, of this ability

to choke you. So when he talks his.

Peril. He's talking from experience.

This has happened to me. He says.

The devil took him to exceeding High mountain and showed him all

the kingdoms of the world and their glory.

And he said all these things I will give you if you fall down

and worship me. Now if we were in the Luke

account of this temptation, we know that he says this.

He says all this domain has been handed over to me, and I can

give it to whomever I want. Who gave him the dominion?

Adam did We know in Genesis 126 that God gave man dominion, and

when Adam ate the fruit, he gave his dominion to the devil.

Adam was the God of this world. God is the God of all creation.

He delegated his authority to man to rule over the earth.

But man abdicated his throne and gave it to the devil.

And now the devil wasn't is known as the God of this world

or the systems of this world. It was handed to him.

He has it because he seduced Adam.

Into thinking he could. Have all that God offered him on

his terms. He says I'll give all.

This to you if you'll just fall down and worship me and Jesus

said away with you Satan for it is what?

You shall. Worship the Lord your God and

and him only you shall serve. How does why does Jesus know

this? Jesus knows this in Matthew

Matthew 6:24

chapter 6 verse 24. No one can serve 2 masters.

For he will. For either he will hate the one

and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one who

despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.

Now, that doesn't mean you cannot have wealth.

We're going to. This is the great conspiracy

because everything the devil is offering you through worry,

through seduction of riches and your own personal pleasures.

In essence, he's. Saying if he's keeping you from

what's rightfully yours. By.

Seducing you to have it his way. This is the great.

Conspiracy and he's convinced many believers that they can't

prosper. They can't have anything so he

keeps them in low level living then others he'll get them over

into I'll give you the wealth, I'll give you the prestige, I'll

give you the popularity. I'll give you all this.

He'll hand you the world. The Bible says what good is it a

man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul because he only

be continues to be a slave to the one who's no longer his

father? In essence, the.

Devil convinces you. God doesn't want you to have

anything. God doesn't care about this

earth. God doesn't care about your

life. All he cares about is you go to

heaven. And you know what?

You've made that. You've done that.

You've asked him. That's good.

Now you just come on over here and I'll take care of you.

I'll give it to. You.

Convince you. Through one of his doctrines

that the grace that's been applied to your life now it's

got you covered. You can live with me again, live

for me again, live like me again, but because of the grace

you covered all right, he. Says for this.

Reason I say to you verse 25, do not worry.

About your life. As to what you eat or what

you're going to drink, but no, for your body is what you're

going to put on. Is not life more than food in

the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air.

The they do not sow nor reap or nor gather in the barns, yet

your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than

they are? And who are you being worried

can add a single hour to his life?

And why are you worried? About clothing, observe how the

lilies of the field grow. They do not toll, nor do they

spend. Yet I say to you that not even

Solomon and all this glory clothe themselves like one of

these. But if God so clothed the grass

of the field which is alive today and tomorrow's thrown into

the furnace, how much more will he clothe you, you of little,

little faith? Notice now in these two contexts

here he's talking about birds and he's then he's talking which

is dealing with food, and then he talks about plant flowers.

When he's talking about your clothing, in essence, he's

saying, listen, I created the birds, so I'll provide for the

birds. That's the lesson there.

Well, if God created us, then what's he saying?

I'll provide for you. The second thing he says is look

at the lilies, he said. It's in their DNA to look like

that. 'Cause if.

They only do what they were designed to do, then they're

always covered. And if you will.

Only do what you are purposed to do, what you were created to do.

You're always going to be covered.

You're taken care. Of it is a guarantee by the

king. Guaranteed.

Guaranteed by the king. Hallelujah.

It's amazing how much comfort we put in a paycheck.

Yeah, your daddy owns the planet.

That we put our. Worth and how much we filed on

our taxes. Instead of the.

Worth that we are in the Kingdom.

Verse 30. One he says, do not worry then

saying, what will we eat or what will we drink, or and what we

will wear for clothing? For the Gentiles eagerly seek

all these things. Your heavenly Father knows that

you need all these, but what? Seek first his and His, and all

these things shall be added to you.

Shall be added to. You now the Luke chapter 12

Luke 12 · chapter mention

account of this same passage of Matthew has another tag at the

end when it says in verse chapter 12 starting in verse 31

but seek his Kingdom and the things these things will be

added to you. Then he goes on and tells us in

verse 32, Do not be what? Little.

Flock in essence, don't worry, don't be anxious, have no

concern, live carefree. For.

Your father has chosen what gladly to give you the Kingdom,

so the devil wants to give you wealth.

Riches. Fame pleasures, but at the

expense of your life. Your Heavenly Father wants to

give you wealth, notoriety in his Kingdom cause fame's a whole

nother ball game. Significance full provision.

He's he's glad to give you. He's not withholding wealth from

you. He's not withholding from you a

good life. 'Cause there are.

Certain things in the Kingdom that have greater value.

He said the. Kingdom of God is not meat or

drink, meaning natural substance, but it's

righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.

Well if you have righteousness then it's going to open up a

whole thing for you. Things that the devil can give

you on credit. What do I mean by that?

He will seduce you in to working for him.

He'll give you. Bonuses, promotions, no fame.

He'll give you national prominence.

Get your name out everywhere only to crush you.

He only comes. To steal, kill and destroy.

And he will prop you up in order for you to decimate other

people's lives. Are you hearing what I'm saying?

He'll do these things. OK.

And so we have to understand there's a conspiracy that is

taking place within the church that all of a sudden you really

can't, cannot get along or, or really go somewhere if you're

going to follow God. You're not going to get.

Ahead, if you really stay loyal to him.

Look what it says in second. Timothy chapter 2, starting in

2 Timothy 2 · chapter mention

verse four, says no soldier in active service entangles himself

in the affairs of everyday life so that he may please the one

who enlisted him as a soldier. Also.

If anyone competes as an athlete, he does not win the

prize unless he competes according to the rules.

The hard working farmer. We started this out.

We're talking about sowing seed from the farm.

The hard working farmer ought to be what ought.

To be the. What the What 1st to receive his

share of the crops. Notice the farmer sows, knowing

it's not all for me. You don't want to hear that.

That's fine. The farmer knows I'm sowing not

all for me. It's not just for me.

There are others that this is going to bless, nourish, help.

I'm not living life just for me. I'm not doing that.

And he says the farmer ought to receive first.

So understand when you're giving your life to Jesus, Jesus say,

well, I'll take care of you. OK, well, when is it?

When am I going to get my time? Are you doing for the Lord?

God is thinking. About you first.

In what you're. Doing.

But here's the thing, you are not to entangle yourselves.

With the affairs of the. World.

And there are more. Believers that understand more

about stock markets today, economic trends.

I'm not saying you shouldn't know things, and I'm not saying

that God couldn't lead you to do things.

Brother Hagin. Knew a particular gentleman who

had wealth and he invested his money, but he said I I never

lost on an investment. He said when I invested in one

of his books, he said he would go to his prayer closet because

this is how believers they seek first.

He heard of. An opportunity to invest and he

would ask the king, do you want me to put my money there?

Because again. Even Jesus understood of natural

markets for increase because he reprimanded one of his servants

because they did not take the talent he left them and put it

at least in a bank to earn interest.

Because God always. Expects increase because God

always will have increase because God's always increasing.

But he. Prayed and and the what some

markets that everyone was getting into.

He did not, and the ones everyone was not getting into,

he would invest in, he said. I never lost.

Once. Because I only invested, as the

Lord said. But you know what?

Most people aren't listening to the Lord, They're only listening

to the market. Many of us.

If we don't watch out, we will learn the world system and it

has a system, and that system will bring prosperity.

But it brings a whole. Lot of other stuff with it too.

Whereas if we'll. Seek first the Kingdom.

God will tell us how to engage different things within this

world so that we are not at loss.

Yet He Himself has some systems in play, period, that are not of

this world. Tithing is not of this world.

Giving offerings to the Lord is not of this world.

There are certain markets he has that he's always talked about a

return on, and they are foolproof if they are

accompanied with your faith. Yet we will learn other markets.

We will invest thousands of dollars to go to other seminars.

And yet spend. Very little time in the

scripture. It's a choke.

Conspiracy. Because.

The minute you start bringing it in, I know what believers do.

They hear the word, Oh the Lord bless me.

Did he? Because the devil can.

Give you good stuff too. That's how he seduces.

You have to know in your spirit I'm doing the will of God in

this action. And if you don't know that.

In your spirit, then you're just doing natural, and you may

prosper, but that natural may become seductive.

Man, you can go make. A lot of money, You know, there

are a lot of believers right now that are in marijuana farms.

Hey, I'm a preach. It's a plant.

An illegal one at. That for a long time, but you

know, the government needed another revenue to tax.

I mean, it's easy to. Change a drug from being illegal

to legal. Just go to Portland.

They did that experiment and it didn't work very well.

Decided that. All these particular drugs are

not illegal. And there and society just

continued to plummet. Hallelujah.

It really shouldn't be that quiet here.

But people like the. Way it makes them feel right.

Amen, say. Well, I'm using it.

For municipal. Yeah.

That. Well.

Prescription drugs are used for that, but do you want to live on

them? Because I don't see too.

Many I'm trying to come off of it.

And why is it not? Regulated.

OK, it's a conspiracy. All these things are to try to,

you know, all the things of the world are to try.

There's conspiracies to try to give you a false sense of peace.

Take. Off the pressures of you know

how many people are avid drinkers or smokers because they

say it calms them? They say that.

You saw How do you know? Because I had a father who said

that who was an alcoholic who could not go a day without

drinking. Calm his.

Nerves. Well, it just slowed down his

judgment. Didn't bring him.

Peace, because the same problems were there the next morning.

It gave him no answer. So the enemy's.

Constantly trying to give you this illusion of what the Father

chooses to give you gladly through his Kingdom, but it's on

his terms. And he wants.

To bless you, in fact, let's look at this.

Look at Psalms 3527. This is powerful.

It says let them shout for joy. Let them shout for.

Joy and be what? Who?

Favor my righteous cause. What do we see in Matthew 633?

He says, seek first the Kingdom and his righteousness.

That's his way of doing things. He said, you can shout for joy,

you'll be glad who favor my righteous call.

Let and let them say continually let the Lord be magnified.

Who, who's who? The Father is who?

Who is who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servants?

So God does not have pleasure in your poverty.

He has. Pleasure in your prosperity, but

prosperity is a direct result of you knowing His righteous cause,

'cause when you seek His Kingdom and seek His righteousness, then

wealth has to follow, because God owns it all anyway.

The silver. And gold is not the devil's.

Nowhere in scripture does it say the silver and gold is the

devil's. He has access.

Is he using it? Yes, but it says the silver and

gold are mine, says the Lord. He's the one who put it in the

earth in the 1st place. He says I own all the cattle on

1000 Hills. He's the one who actually owns

the planet. He's just looking for his kids

to prosper his way. And.

Not get caught in the conspiracy of the great promotion, the

great fame, the great, you know, bonuses, the great new salary

that sucks you out of your your place in the church, keeps you

working constant hours. But man, you're buying your boat

now. You're buying your bigger house

now, but your family's falling apart, your kids are falling

apart. And all the while you're saying

God's bless me all the while, all the while, yeah, the Lord's

like I got things for you. And he has great.

Joy. And many have.

Fallen away from the faith because they're just tired of

being broke. So it's.

Easier to accept that I'll go to heaven when I die.

Well, I am going to work, I'm going to get a job, I'm going to

make money. I'm not going to live like that

while I'm here and I'm going to enjoy this life while I'm here.

And they? Compromise.

They're fit in the church. To pursue.

It. Great.

Wealth is laid up for those who'll seek the Kingdom.

Great wealth. Actually, great wealth.

Great wealth. In fact, the Bible even talks

about that the wealth of the wicked.

Is being laid up. For the righteous problem is, is

that we have personal desires that we want to see fulfilled

now. More than we.

Want the desire to please him daily?

Look at this proverbs. 18 Proverbs 8 this is powerful.

Look at this Proverbs 8 starting verse 17 and this whole you

should read the whole chapter because it's talking about

wisdom. OK, verse 17 says I love those

who love me. And those.

Who diligently seek me will will find me see you have to seek

first the. Kingdom.

I mean, there are people. That are diligent.

Diligent. At following every billionaire

and learning of their ways. It's.

True, it's good all. The while compromising their

purpose to choke conspiracy. 'Cause they really don't.

Believe that God wants them to have everything they need for

their purpose. Because for some of us, when I

say some, I'm talking about general, in general, is that we

imagine a life for ourselves that doesn't mirror the purpose

by which we were designed. And we are trying to tell God we

love our image of our life better than your image of our

life. But he's the one who made.

You. He's the one who knew you before

you and your mother's womb. The greatest thing you could

ever do is discover why you're here.

Hallelujah, you got to ask yourself the.

Question why is the Lord giving you riches to pay off all your

stuff? So that you can have.

More stuff, look what it says here.

I love those who love me, and those who diligent, seek me will

find me. Riches and honor are with me.

Enduring wealth. Riches and honor.

Are with me enduring wealth and righteousness.

This is amazing, he says. My fruit is better than gold,

even pure gold, and my yield better than the choice of

silver. I.

I walk in the way of righteousness in the midst of

the paths of justice to endow those who love me with.

With wealth. That I may feel their

treasuries. Now here's the thing.

About the wealth from God, it looks nothing like the world.

Nothing the way to obtain. It is totally different.

In fact, I would say this, when the Lord allows you to utilize

some of the systems in the world today, it's because He's

transferring that wealth of the wicked to you.

But your. Wealth is not tied up in only

the wicked's wealth. There is new wealth to.

Come. To that you can have based upon

God himself, and some of these things are ideas.

Things that haven't. Even come to the planet yet, but

God just wants to foster the idea in you.

That you create. Your own wealth.

But these come. Because you seek and this word.

Seek is not a casual word. If we only.

Pursued God like we pursued the world's way of getting wealthy.

And in the. Last days great seduction.

Great seduction. In fact, I'll even prophecy

right now. I believe I have the ear of the

Spirit, he says in that scripture that says the wealth

of the wicked is laid up for the righteous.

Many of that wealth is coming from those who used to be with

me, and I'll transfer it from them back to my house.

Yet they'll. Say that they were blessing me.

Because you understand a. Person that's deceived in

religion believes they're doing everything for the Lord.

Come on now. Let me get out of the get out of

the Christianity for a minute. Anyone that is following

Muhammad believes they are doing that for the Lord, for God, and

those actions are honoring God. They are convinced of.

That until life changes them, they're convinced of that.

There are many people that are praying to Mary today because

they are convinced that she is the doorway to the Father.

They are convinced of that and they are doing the work of the

Lord when they pray to her. Are you hearing what I'm saying?

And they are. Blessed, you know, praise the

Lord. God bless you.

They're saying these things. Yet those who are.

Discerning realized. Not so.

And there are some who. Will fall away from the faith,

only to give back into the faith because the Lord says, well

that's mine anyway. And you went out.

Of order in order to obtain it. Hallelujah so.

We understand then if we just stay with the Kingdom, then

riches, honor and enduring wealth.

Hallelujah right now. You're just like me.

You're like Lord. We need to crack that

revelation. More so, more so.

We need to crack that revelation how that works.

I still believe we're only scratching the surface of how

that functions, and mainly it's because we're not technically

seeking him to determine it. Now with that.

Being said, you have to honor your heart.

This passage is not seeking wealth.

This passage is. Seeking him.

So you always have to. Examine yourself when you're

going in, said, Oh Lord, I'm coming to seek you because I've

already concluded I am completely taken care of.

I'm in your Kingdom. I am the wealthiest person on

the planet and it doesn't have to be in my account.

Hallelujah. But I do have access.

Hallelujah. And you're going to give me the.

Idea You're going to give me the wisdom, you're going to tell me

how to navigate. You're going to help me, you're

going to show me, and I'm going to seek you.

And I am not going to look at the world's ways to determine,

in fact, Abraham. Abraham.

Turned away. The world's way.

Literally, God made him. Exceedingly wealthy.

Which means, again, let me say Jacob real quick so we can get

over to Communion. Remember Jacob?

Jacob had been working for Laban for 10 years.

He changed his wage constantly. Now the Lord's like you got to

go. I've changed his ways 10 times.

He worked in 20 years. He's going to leave now.

And so he goes lame and says, look, I'm going to, I need to

take care of my own family. It's time for me to go back

home. He said, OK, name your price.

He said, look, I I'm not asking you to do anything.

Why does he do that 'cause you're not an honest guy and the

world system is not honest. All markets are manipulated.

They are driven by fear. Everything, everything.

It's the spirit of fear. So as a result of that, he says,

I don't need you to do anything. I just want every sheep that is

spotted, right? They have spots on them now when

Laban looks out at his flock. There are very few spotted

sheep. So he's like.

It's great deal. What he doesn't know is that God

gave him a business plan in his dream, in a dream where he had

to bring some reeds to the watering through.

A thing that is. Not happening anywhere.

And based upon that method he transferred all the wealth and

strength of the flock to produce nothing but spotted sheep.

So much so that Laban looks out one day or he gets a report from

his guys that there are way more spotted sheep and they're a lot

stronger than your feeble looking plain ones.

And what did he want? To do still again, because

that's what the system does. You weren't for me.

You make me wealth and I'll steal from you.

But Jacob. 'S life it's time to go packed

the family up and they were gone right Abraham had gotten had

received God ideas on his wealth with his livestock.

Then he received divine favor from kings that gave him wealth.

Then when he went to go conquer some kings because his nephew

and his family had been seized. The King.

Of Sodom, who was a extremely unrighteous king.

Horrible community that did not make it in the planet.

Out of. Appreciation.

Says to him. You can keep the spoils.

And what does Abram say to that king system?

He says, I'm taking nothing from you.

This is powerful. See, this is no a person who has

heard the voice of God, who doesn't conclude all the wealth

of the wicked laid up for the righteous, just 'cause I know

the Scripture, I'm taking it. It may not be applicable.

In this case, it was not applicable.

And he says no, I'm taking nothing from you because I know

you. I've been given an inside track

of your character and you'll go around and tell everyone that

the prosperity that I have, you're the one who gave it to

me. You going to take credit for it.

So I'm taking nothing from you. Now the guys who came with me,

they get to replenish anything they use, but for me, I get

nothing. Only one person is going to be

known that they brought me wealth is it's the Lord.

It's the Lord which tells me maybe some who are getting great

gains and stocks should never talk about it.

Well, the stock market. Made you wealth?

No, I was in a closet and the Lord told me to invest in that.

But the world won't believe. That it's a choke conspiracy.

We close with this third John. The second verse says this.

Beloved, I pray that in all respects you may prosper and be

in good health. How?

Just as your soul prospers, so this is the three dimension of

man. Do you understand?

Number one, because we are born again.

Our spirit man is alive unto God.

We are made righteous. We are the righteous of God in

Christ. We have access to the throne

room of heaven. We have access to the throne of

grace. He will give us help and time of

need. We can boldly come before the

throne. We have access because the

Spirit of God living in us. He is our financial advisor and

He is extremely wise. Extremely.

Wise again, when you have that kind of financial advisor, you

can receive funds from anywhere. Jesus showed.

This because he was full of the Holy Ghost.

And he says, Peter. Go fishing and he gets tax money

without having to go all the way back and find Judas and get it

out of their account. He let the fish.

Go bring him wealth that day. He could pray.

Over the amount he has and it would multiply in front of him.

See again we. Want to have certain things yet?

The Lord's like, I'll take care of what's already in you.

You don't. You don't know how much rice you

actually have right now. Oh, you don't want to see

because the Kingdom system of wealth looks way different.

That you may be in a. Place that you're like, man,

we're going to have to eat here. The Lord's like you have no idea

how much is actually in your cupboard right now.

You have more than every stockroom in the nation right in

that one little jar. Oh, you're not you're not

hearing me. I mean, you got to get

revelation of this. You understand you have more

access than every Amazon warehouse right now.

You have more access than that that it could be in your

cupboard right now. That when the.

Worries of the world and recession and inflation and all

these things are happening and like, how are we going to pair

out you like we can always pay the house.

We're going to have the house paid off.

We're going to have this you're It's amazing what God can do

with what you have. God says.

You want to know who the wealthiest was today in the

offering? It wasn't the wealthy ones, it

was the one who gave everything she had.

And to you it seemed insignificant, but it opened up

the windows of heaven. And now that account will flow.

Every. Time.

Miracle. We we are all hungering and

thirsting for miracle signs and wonders, but the only ones we

want are blind eyes open, the lame walking, the deaf ears

coming up. And nobody wants a miracle of

you know what, honey? We may not have enough for

groceries. In fact, God spoke to me today

that I should give extra in the offering, which means we're not

going to buy groceries this week.

Oh. Y'all don't want to hear this?

At all. Why?

Because it's crazy thinking. We are going to.

Sew that. And every time.

Because I heard the Lord say there's more than enough rice.

So why? More than enough this week.

And every time you go, if it can happen for a widow woman back

then, it's the same word. Is this good yesterday, today

and forever? But we don't want to tap into

that because the deception, the seduction, the conspiracy is you

got to see your wealth. You got to feel your wealth.

You got to have access to your wealth all the time where you

can see it, check in on all your accounts, look at your

portfolio, know your net worth. Yeah, you walk into.

A cover and says Publix does not have as much rice stock today as

I do. Cause I've heard from.

The King. And that is not.

Lack. That is more than enough.

That's exceeding abundantly beyond what you could think or

imagine. See, we think exceedingly

abundantly are huge numbers. How in the world can I put gas

in my tank and it go 5 weeks? That's called.

Exceedingly abundantly beyond what you could ask or think,

'cause he just kept it in the tank.

Now, that doesn't mean you. Won't have material possessions

that you can't arrive to certain aspects of great wealth, sure,

as long as when you come to that place and the Lord says so that

100,000. That you're like.

Sure. Been waiting on you.

To ask. That's why it was there the

whole time. And yet we're teaching.

The church that you you barely are going to make it.

You're hardly going to make it. Just wait till you get to

heaven. The Lord's like there's not a

warehouse in the earth. That's right.

That's. Right 'cause I'm going to.

Tell you your greatest resource and I'm going to close with this

and we're going to do communion. So come on ushers, listen.

The wealthiest? Nations today are the ones

holding the oil, the ones holding the oil, the ones who

have a deep reservoir. What kind of?

Oil are you holding right now? What kind of oil is on the

inside of you? What?

Anointing. Do you have?

How? What?

Kind of oil reserve, are you carrying that you're not tapping

into? It's the wealthiest thing.

You just got to pull it up. Just got to pull it up.

Just pull it up, pull it up. And as you pull it up, praying

in the Spirit. Building up your.

Most holy faith. 'Cause with faith.

You can do anything. Pulling up the word.

Of the king pulling up wisdom, pulling up insight, shutting

down all the voices. You just keep drilling.

Pulling it up, pulling it up, pulling it up produce some

barrel after barrel after barrel after barrel after barrel after

barrel. And when all the natural oil

runs dry, the Holy Ghost lives forever.

You have an. Exhaustible supply of the Spirit

and. The devil wants to.

Seduce you with pleasurable desires that God says I would

gladly give you if you just seek my Kingdom.

Cause with me. You'll never be in.

Lack if you're here today and. You've never made Jesus, the

Lord of your life, come to the wealthiest place on the planet.

It's the Kingdom. It's the Kingdom and I do

believe in these last days, not only will things we have

multiply because God is just doing that to test our faith.

But we'll. Also just have and those who

have is because they know how to hear.

Because what they have. Doesn't have them, they're just

waiting to sow it. In essence, I'm just looking for

another good work to give it away.

I'm just going to give it away. I just need to give it away.

Because I just have. So much.

Because I have. The name of Jesus.

What else do I need? Because I can ask the.

Father anything in his. And he will do it.

According to his will, wow. Thank you so much.

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