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Unseen Seen - Kingdom Spirit

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  1. Thanks for checking out the Anchor Faith Message podcast

  2. from St. Augustine, FL.

  3. Now enjoy this message. All right, if you have your

  4. models, turn to 2nd Corinthians, chapter 4, 2nd Corinthians

  5. chapter 4, verses 16 to 18, when we get to verse 18, it'd be

  6. pretty common scripture, as you know, that you've heard from the

  7. platform multiple times. But I want to kind of set some

  8. context with it tonight, because this year, you know, we've been

  9. talking about the reigning spirit, right?

  10. And the the spirit that we have it, it reigns supreme.

  11. There is not one above it. We have the conquering spirit,

  12. the spirit that's above any other spirit, and there is a

  13. spirit world out there. You know, I was actually going

  14. back a little bit on, you know, because we've done some

  15. travelling here at the front of the year.

  16. There's some gaps in my sermon folders.

  17. You know, I usually go over and look at my month and then look

  18. at my and I say, OK, what have I done on the last few Wednesdays?

  19. I'm like, and I don't have a whole lot of Wednesdays out

  20. there because I'd been out of town.

  21. But, you know, I looking back at some things that we've taught

  22. already this year, I saw where we spent some time talking about

  23. willpower, the power of will. And we have to understand the

  24. context that all God's created spirits have a will.

  25. Amen. It's going to be really

  26. important as we continue to go and talk about things that are

  27. beyond the veil. When I say beyond the veil,

  28. beyond what you see with your natural eyes, OK.

  29. And so as we embark on some of these teachings, we need to, you

  30. know, put ourselves in remembrance of some things that

  31. we've taught. Why do I say that again?

  32. If you just came to Anchorage Church, you should go back to

  33. the beginning of the year and catch up because we are building

  34. context. The sermons we preach are not

  35. just because, well, what do we want to do?

  36. You know, I got my got a board up there in my office.

  37. I got a, you know, like a dart board, right?

  38. And I got my, my little dart. And I'm like, OK, I can preach

  39. on healing, prosperity. I can talk about forgiveness,

  40. you know, yadda yadda, not just close my eyes, toe and say, oh,

  41. the Lord wants me to do this, and then we just preach on it.

  42. No. When I preach, I have cohesion.

  43. The majority of the time that I minister, most of the stuff is

  44. building to something else. And so, you know, willpower.

  45. When the Lord began to speak to me, I realized, oh, this is

  46. really important for us to understand.

  47. When we start getting into the things of the Spirit, we start

  48. talking about angels and demons and things that are out there in

  49. the realm. Because again, what prompted

  50. this? The Bible said in the last of

  51. the last days. Some will fall away and they

  52. will give attention to or heed. They'll listen to seducing

  53. spirits and doctrines of demons, and there is a realm out.

  54. There, that you know it isn't commonly taught.

  55. There is teaching on it, and I'll be honest with you, some of

  56. the teaching is just as spooky as the things that we think they

  57. look. Like because it's not really

  58. grounded in the word, is what I'm saying.

  59. So with that being said, you know, we want to come from a

  60. very biblical perspective where we're letting God define these

  61. things. We're not adding our own sci-fi

  62. or fantasy. To the spirit world, OK, and so.

  63. But we have to understand that in the realm of the spirit, they

  64. have a will and and and and for us to get beyond the veil, then,

  65. you know, we needed to deal with that subject.

  66. So we've kind of continued to move forward in this thought

  67. process. So I realized because Pastor

  68. Marsh and I were talking some of the context that I will teach

  69. this year, I've never taught now.

  70. Some of you have been with us for quite some time, but you

  71. know, Sunday morning, we have a quite a few people that have not

  72. been with us. Sunday typically is their

  73. service. They're not, you know, yet

  74. developed and grown enough to where they see the necessity of

  75. the midweek. And, you know, so typically your

  76. midweek is people who, you know, have established themselves to a

  77. degree that, you know, I got to be where God's talking and I'm

  78. going to be in the house where he's talking.

  79. So it would be easier to navigate some subjects on a

  80. Wednesday night. However, I believe they would be

  81. at such a timely teaching that I did not want to limit it to

  82. audio only. So we've, we've intentionally

  83. started to film now on Wednesday nights like we do on Sundays.

  84. OK. And So what happens on Sundays,

  85. happening now on Wednesday that when we get into the subject

  86. matters, we can release those as well.

  87. Because I do want to release things that are operating in the

  88. spirit realm, rightly divided. You know, people tend to like to

  89. watch what they're hearing more than just listening.

  90. OK. So with that being said, because

  91. we are at home and typically, you know, we're such a large

  92. family Wednesday, we haven't had to think about cameras.

  93. You need to think about cameras because every time you need to

  94. go use the bathroom, make sure you're not in front of the

  95. camera. That's what I'm saying.

  96. Do everything you can. Now we understand if you're up

  97. here, you're like, what am I going to do?

  98. There's a camera behind me. How?

  99. How do I get out? Don't do this.

  100. Roll out and roll low. Crawl.

  101. Don't do that. OK.

  102. Yes, It may be that no one sees you, but you will, it will be

  103. very, I will have to pull the crowd back in.

  104. The congregation will be distracted by that action.

  105. OK. We do have multiple cameras.

  106. So typically when one pops up, what they do is they'll flip to

  107. another camera anyway and we can do, you know, post editing.

  108. We're just wanting you to be aware, obviously you don't run

  109. around the front. We have a camera right here.

  110. And so again, if you look where it's at, you say, OK, how do I

  111. can go to the restroom potentially so that I don't

  112. you're just in the line. I saw the line of one.

  113. It is what it is. So you know Coach Hurley, you

  114. know don't raise your hands too high because you'll take my

  115. shots out. So you get now if you get super

  116. excited about what I appreciate, you want to jump up and shout, I

  117. don't mind, we'll move, we'll we'll do in post.

  118. So please jump and shout. I just don't want you to be

  119. going like that. And then all of a sudden they're

  120. like, I can't see it. There's a hand.

  121. And that's why you understand we almost painted a line here so

  122. Pastor Marcy wouldn't quit worshipping over here.

  123. But she's learned her side. And you know, 'cause it's like

  124. Pastor Marcy's in the camera. Can you tell her to move?

  125. You tell her to move. That's what they're doing, you

  126. know? And then all of a sudden, Usher

  127. come down, your your wife's in the camera.

  128. Pastor Marcy, get over. Nobody wants to tell her that.

  129. OK, all right, all right, OK, here we go.

  130. Second Corinthians, chapter 4, verses 16 to 18.

    2 Corinthians 4:16–18

  131. Therefore we do not lose heart. But though our outward man is

  132. decaying, yet our inward man is being renewed day by day.

  133. For momentary light affliction is producing for us an eternal

  134. weight of glory far beyond all comparison, while we look not at

  135. the things which are seen, but at the things which are not

  136. seen. For the things which are seen

  137. are temporal, but the things that are not seen are eternal.

  138. Now you've heard me, minister, on this verse 18 multiple times.

  139. But the context that I like here, starting in verse 16, is

  140. that we are not to lose heart. Though our outward man is

  141. decaying, our inward man is being renewed day by day.

  142. Now in the realm of the Spirit, we are extremely strong, and as

  143. we renew our minds with the word of God and and then in

  144. fellowship with the Spirit of God through prayer and praying

  145. in the Spirit, we are building up our inner man.

  146. We are to grow up. I know.

  147. So let me say this The minute you're born again, everything

  148. that God placed in your spirit is there.

  149. You cannot be any more righteous, OK?

  150. But you have to understand your spirit is like a natural babe

  151. when giving birth. That's why Paul said that they

  152. were babes in Christ. In essence, your kingship is

  153. still like a babe. In fact, he went on in another

  154. letter and he said now a child of a king and the servant of a

  155. king, if they're both born, they can grow up together.

  156. You can't tell them apart, but the tutor helps the one he he's

  157. like a child. But then eventually the tutor

  158. develops him so that when he's older, he can take his kingship.

  159. All right, he can function as a king because he's been trained

  160. in it. So when a child is birthed,

  161. everything that child's going to be is in there.

  162. But there's a development. You have to grow.

  163. So even though your spirit man has been made righteous, you are

  164. royal and holy. If you do not allow that spirit

  165. to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit that's in you and

  166. get your mind to think like that from the spirit, you can be a

  167. reigning king that never develops, period.

  168. So you can grow spiritually. All you're doing is releasing

  169. everything God put it in you at the new birth, but it is a

  170. growth none the less. All right, So when people act

  171. like, they basically act like God's giving birth to full blown

  172. mature Christians. He is not.

  173. The Bible is very clear about babes.

  174. Both Peter and Paul reference babes, and Paul says that you

  175. need to desire the sincere milk of the word so that you may

  176. grow. OK, now the the greatest place

  177. that you grow will be in your soul realm, in the renewing of

  178. your mind, so that you will think, respond and behave like

  179. your spirit is created to do and wants to do and loves to do.

  180. That's all somebody post. On Instagram.

  181. So it's probably somebody in this room even maybe I don't

  182. know but posted something about working out you know and instead

  183. of seeing working out like it's you know, I I work out so that I

  184. lose weight. No.

  185. I work out because. It it's it strengthens my body.

  186. Instead of looking at it as a something I have to do, it's

  187. something I get to do. So your mindset of why you do

  188. something is very significant most of the time because we came

  189. from a lost and existence. Being dead to Christ, we come

  190. from a very negative perspective anyway, and then we pull that

  191. same perspective over into the Kingdom of God to where we

  192. always look at the negative. 1st instead of it looking it through

  193. a positive lens. So again I see the cup half

  194. empty, you could see it half full.

  195. It's the same cup, same measure, but it's the attitude, attitude

  196. behind it. So a person's like hush, I got

  197. to get up and go work out is going to be more prone to I'm

  198. staying in. But a person says what a

  199. privilege to be able to keep my body in a position so that I'll

  200. be strong when I'm and I get I get to do it.

  201. I'm not. It has to submit to me.

  202. Well, that person is going to be more disciplined to continue to

  203. do so. Are you hearing what I'm saying?

  204. So if you don't change your thinking about things, then the

  205. reality is you're going to get the sum of what you're thinking

  206. and you're going to live that lifestyle.

  207. But I also want us to look at it from this because though our

  208. outward man is decaying, our inward man is being being

  209. renewed day by day. Verse 17 says, for momentary

  210. light, affliction is producing for us a eternal weight of glory

  211. far beyond all comparison. Then Paul gets into what we're

  212. seeing. You could almost conclude that

  213. Paul is saying look, don't lose heart.

  214. So the outward is decaying. And are we not looking at a

  215. world that is outwardly decaying, but the Kingdom we

  216. serve is renewed day by day? In fact, because we know the

  217. scripture says that once the rock that is made without hands

  218. crushes, hits the planet okay, it's going to grow into a great

  219. mountain, It's going to ultimately take over.

  220. So the Kingdom we're in, once it's in, it doesn't leave.

  221. And the Kingdom of God will never leave.

  222. I said it will never leave the planet.

  223. It is. It is the most dominant

  224. government in the planet today. It's behind the veil, in the

  225. realm of it, spiritually speaking.

  226. It's functioning. We can't physically see it.

  227. It will physically manifest one day, but it can manifest by the

  228. spirit in the natural, through us and by faith.

  229. And it is growing at an enormous rate.

  230. I said it's growing at an enormous rate.

  231. It's already taking over nations and they don't even know it, OK.

  232. And so we have more that are with us in power than the number

  233. of people that think they have power.

  234. Now our numbers may not be as much as being reported as far as

  235. the plan is concerned, but the power of 1, the power of two

  236. has, does a lot. I mean, one sends 1000 anyway, 2

  237. will send 10,000. I mean, we exponentially are

  238. greater in numbers. And God has proven this with his

  239. nation. You know when he took Gideon, he

  240. said give me 300 guys, man, at the end of the day we gonna

  241. reduce this to 300 'cause they meet the character and

  242. qualifications of what I need to be able to demonstrate my power.

  243. So they won't take credit. So the nation won't take credit.

  244. And they wiped out just by turning lights on an amount of

  245. people that they say you weren't counting them.

  246. Now, we counted how many were on the hill or, you know, on the

  247. mountain, but we weren't counting how many were down in

  248. the valley. And all they had to do is turn

  249. the light on, right? So we are the most powerful

  250. force on the planet. We really are.

  251. So again, I while we don't look at what we're seeing and it's

  252. decaying because we have something that is powerful in

  253. this momentary light affliction. So the trials of life, you have

  254. to change your thinking and say this is light.

  255. I don't care what report you get, it's light 'cause there's

  256. no name greater than the name of Jesus.

  257. I don't care what report you could get from the world.

  258. I don't care what decaying report you have life in you.

  259. You have the word of the king about any particular thing that

  260. can overcome any situation, right?

  261. So This is why Paul referenced then, why we look not at the

  262. things that are seen. So we don't want to get so

  263. fixated in our minds or with our eyes on the same realm more than

  264. what's in the unseen. Because there's more there than

  265. here. I said there's more there than

  266. here. So we need to learn how to see

  267. the unseen. We need to learn how to see the

  268. unseen to where we're so good at seeing the unseen that we pay no

  269. attention to the scene. Amen.

  270. Amen. Pay no attention, because this

  271. temporal it will change to what we are viewing in the unseen.

  272. OK, but the question we have to ask ourselves is how do we view

  273. it? Because First Corinthians 12

  274. verses 1st Corinthians 2. Excuse me?

  275. First Corinthians 212 through 14 says now we have not.

  276. Well, now we have not received, excuse me, now we have received

  277. not the spirit of the world. But the Spirit who is from God?

  278. So that we may know say no, the things freely given to us by

  279. God, which things we also speak, not in words taught by human

  280. wisdom. So you're not going to learn

  281. this at the university, but in those taught by the Spirit,

  282. combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words.

  283. But a natural man, say, natural man does not say, does not, does

  284. not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are

  285. foolishness to him. He cannot understand them

  286. because they are spiritually appraised.

  287. One translation says spiritually discerned.

  288. So again, notice in verse 12 we do not have the spirit of the

  289. world, OK, but we have the Spirit who is from God.

  290. So that we may know, which means there's something that we can

  291. know, something we can see that is of God.

  292. But it's because we have the Spirit of God in the natural.

  293. You're not gonna see, right? That's right.

  294. So you're gonna have to get over in the Spirit.

  295. And again, when you don't know how to view the Spirit, you'll

  296. make things up. When you can't see something you

  297. imagine. But God's letting you know.

  298. I'll let you know what's on the other side.

  299. It's not guesswork. It's the ability to see into the

  300. unseen, and you cannot do it outside of the Spirit.

  301. See, Christianity in our nation has been reduced to where you go

  302. when you die in the majority of congregations.

  303. And they're not discipling new believers babes in Christ on how

  304. to see the unseen. That's right, they're not doing

  305. it. And as a result of that, they're

  306. born again. But they still live by what they

  307. see, and then they behave by how they see, and they make

  308. decisions by what they see. Yet the Lord's like, I want to

  309. raise up your view. I want to pull the veil back for

  310. you. But you can only do this by the

  311. spirit, can only do it by the spirit.

  312. Yet most people don't want to know nothing about the spirit

  313. realm. They only want to know about

  314. where am I going to go when I die.

  315. Because it really doesn't matter what's going on in the spirit

  316. realm. Well, the minute you take that

  317. conclusion, then the spirit realm can dominate you because

  318. God's not the only one in the spirit realm.

  319. And what you don't know about that spirit realm because you're

  320. not willing to access it, the way God can train you to access

  321. it can kill you, He says My people perish due to lack of and

  322. God says, now I'll show you things of the spirit By the

  323. spirit I want you to know some stuff so God wants us to know.

  324. Now, with that being said, that doesn't mean you know that I

  325. want to become proficient in demonology.

  326. But that doesn't mean I don't. I can't know by the Scripture

  327. and by the through the Spirit how that how evil spirits work

  328. and function, how they talk, how they try to engage you,

  329. manipulate you, 'cause there's plenty of things in there that

  330. lets us know that way. When we say, well, the Lord

  331. said, we actually know the Lord said instead of someone else

  332. saying all right. So we have to conclude we cannot

  333. even begin to deal with spirit realm stuff if we do not know

  334. how to 1st be led. By the Spirit.

  335. So being led by the Spirit is imperative to understand the

  336. spirit. The problem is, people want to

  337. learn about the spirit realm only from a natural perspective.

  338. I don't care if you know there's demons, nor do demons care that

  339. you know they exist. And demons don't even care that

  340. you know Jesus's name they have to submit to.

  341. They don't care that you know. In fact, they hope that you will

  342. take that knowledge and apply it without revelation.

  343. Because they'll do to you what they did to the seven sons of

  344. Skiva. Seven sons of Skiva knew they

  345. were demonic realm out there, knew that people were demon

  346. possessed, obviously saw Paul do it.

  347. That's the reason why they went and found one and said we rebuke

  348. you in the name of Jesus, the one whom Paul preaches about.

  349. We were in his meeting. It was amazing.

  350. We wanted to do that. They had knowledge in the

  351. natural number one. They were not led by the spirit

  352. to go run down a demon possessed guy.

  353. That was their own selfish ambition to try to look

  354. powerful. These seven guys were really no

  355. different than Simon the sorcerer who wanted to pay Peter

  356. and John for the laying on a hand so that people can receive

  357. the baptism of Holy Ghost. You're like, wow man, this is a

  358. man. He was born again.

  359. He received the he believed what Paul or Philip was preaching and

  360. saw the miracles of healings that were taken with Philip.

  361. But yet then when Peter and John came down and started laying

  362. hands on people and they got baptized in the Holy Ghost.

  363. And how did he know? Because it says he saw they were

  364. speaking in other tongues and he's like man let that in

  365. essence because he was sort of, that's a good trick.

  366. I would pay to have knowledge on how that works.

  367. And man, did he get rebuked. So it's amazing because here's

  368. the thing, everybody wants to be spiritual.

  369. Everybody. This is why we love fantasy

  370. movies. Some of you are saying I don't

  371. like them. That's not true.

  372. Everybody likes to be spiritual, and there's a there's a point in

  373. time in your life now, Some of you grew up enough, like, you

  374. know that stuff is wizardy, you know where that realm comes

  375. from. But at a child you didn't think

  376. that way. You just enjoyed watching

  377. because we wanted the power to be able to throw someone against

  378. the wall or pick somebody up or, you know, those types of things.

  379. We want that kind of, you know, that's why we get enthralled

  380. about superheroes, because it's supernatural power.

  381. The whole world wants this. But the problem is when they

  382. just try to naturally engage, there is a spirit realm that

  383. will accommodate the Lord. Saying to you, I want you to see

  384. the unseen, but in order for you to do that, you're going to have

  385. to be in the Spirit, which is why Romans 814 says for all who

  386. are being led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God.

  387. So the sons of God are not, are not identified by their

  388. knowledge of God. I'm going to say that again,

  389. they're not only identified or they're not identified by their

  390. knowledge of God, they are identified by the leading of the

  391. Spirit. That's a very important point

  392. because we do know the Bible says that if any man call on the

  393. name of the Lord, he is saved. We hear that and then we know

  394. that the Bible says that the minute you the action of being

  395. caught calling on the name of the Lord means you become a new

  396. creature in Christ. The old pass away, Behold, all

  397. things become new. Then we know another scripture

  398. says that your that his spirit bears witness, which we'll read

  399. it here in a minute, testifies that we are children of God.

  400. Once that confession takes place, a union happens with the

  401. Lord. But what is the evidence that

  402. you are opera or that's occurred?

  403. Is that a real son? Who by all right is a son

  404. because he has made Jesus Lord supreme in authority?

  405. I follow you. So we have to carry on the

  406. conversation and say sons of God follow the Spirit, yet most just

  407. want to be a son of God through a confession and never follow.

  408. This is a problem you're not carrying on your sonship 'cause

  409. God expects that sons follow the Spirit.

  410. In fact, the Greek of this sentence is actually reversed.

  411. It should read this way, for as many as by the Spirit of God are

  412. being LED. They are sons of God.

  413. Are you hearing me? So it puts the Holy Spirit at

  414. the first of the verse and we are placed behind him.

  415. Our picture of response. It's our picture of

  416. responsibility as children of God to follow the leader.

  417. It also carries this idea Romans 814.

  418. Following the leadership of the Holy Spirit is one of the

  419. privileges of being a son of God, although it may be

  420. agonizing to learn how to defer to him and to really let him be

  421. your leader. Now the word lead.

  422. In Romans 814, the Greek word means this.

  423. It means to simply lead. It means to gently to be gently

  424. LED about and. Was the same word used to

  425. describe a man leading his cow about on a rope.

  426. The farmer is a leader. The cow is merely the follower.

  427. The cow doesn't argue with the farmer.

  428. The animal simply trusts and follows.

  429. Are you hearing me? So Rick Renner says this.

  430. He says the leading of the Holy Spirit is often subtle, taking

  431. the form of impressions or nudging in our hearts to do

  432. something. So again, taking the picture of

  433. the farmer, he's got the rope around the cow and he's leading

  434. it out right, he's And typically what do they do?

  435. You know if he wants it to go one way, he'll nudge it, turn

  436. his head, and it begins to follow that path.

  437. He can turn the head another way.

  438. Follow that path is just sitting there.

  439. He can pull, which would pull his head forward.

  440. It's a nudge and now we're moving.

  441. Are you hearing me? So again, the leaning, it's like

  442. a nudge in your spirit. It's not a dragging, it's not a

  443. picking you up on their shoulders.

  444. So they're carrying you like footprints in the sand.

  445. Says are you hearing me? See, Most believers say, well,

  446. if the Holy Ghost wants me to do something, then he just needs to

  447. make me do it. Demons make you do stuff.

  448. God leads you well. The Lord made me do it.

  449. The Lord did not make you do anything.

  450. The devil made me do it. The devil will put way more

  451. pressure, but you still will consent.

  452. At the end of the day, you're consensual.

  453. In both cases, one's just more violent than the other.

  454. Are you hearing me? I said one's more violent.

  455. So again, the devil made me do it.

  456. Yeah, 'cause he's violently pursuing you, he's trying to

  457. destroy your life and he is pushing you around and you're

  458. letting him 'cause you actually have authority over him.

  459. Hallelujah. But the Lord will say, well,

  460. come on. And if you don't want to come,

  461. we'll come on. Well, if that's.

  462. What you want to do? But I'm over here, Lord, come

  463. help me Lord. Lord, I need some help.

  464. Lord, Lord, would you do something?

  465. Lord's like I'm talking. To you, I've given you a nudge.

  466. I need you to move. Hallelujah.

  467. Hallelujah, all right, he said. Goes on, goes on to say.

  468. However, his leaning can be more dramatic, as though through a

  469. prophecy, a dream, or a vision, or simply through a voice

  470. speaking clearly to our spirit. The truth is, learning to know

  471. the voice of the Holy Spirit and being led by him should be one

  472. of your primary concerns as a growing, maturing child of God.

  473. It's all part of the lifelong pursuit to know him, the power

  474. of his resurrection. As you press towards the mark of

  475. his high word calling, the Lord can use other options.

  476. He could speak with a loud voice, there's no doubt about

  477. that. Again, he can do dreams, he can

  478. do visions, He can do open visions, he can do it through

  479. prophecy of someone else. And it is the Spirit of the Lord

  480. speaking to you which gains your attention.

  481. But in all cases you still have to consent.

  482. Are you hearing me? So Romans 814 really means those

  483. who follow the leadership of the Holy Spirit.

  484. They are the sons of God, right? So again, Romans 816 two verses

  485. later, the Spirit himself testifies with our Spirit that

  486. we are children of God. The Passion says it this way,

  487. for the Holy Spirit makes God's fatherhood real to us as he

  488. whispers into our innermost being.

  489. You are God's beloved child and the Holy Spirit when announced

  490. by Jesus in his prayer in the Book of John, when he's talking,

  491. first they've heard that he's coming and that that he's going

  492. to bring some fire because he's going to burn away some stuff.

  493. But when Jesus talks about him, he says this, He said, Now when

  494. he comes, that is the spirit of truth.

  495. First thing he's going to do, he's going to remind you.

  496. What I said. So guess what he's going to do

  497. first, talk, then he's going to teach you all things.

  498. Guess what's the second thing he's going to do?

  499. He's going to talk. Then he's going to guide you

  500. into all truth. Now that you've learned a voice,

  501. he's going to give directions so that you can begin to yield and

  502. navigate. Then he'll disclose which is

  503. still talking, things to come. So it's very important that we

  504. learn the voice of the Spirit. And so many believers today are

  505. just all I care about is I know where I'm going to go when I

  506. die. Most have no discernment of the

  507. Spirit and because they have no discernment of the Spirit.

  508. In fact, a scripture in Hebrews literally tells us that unless

  509. you're trained in righteousness, which is a form of getting over

  510. into maturity, then you cannot discern good and evil because

  511. evil will sound good and nice and to your benefit, but it

  512. still be from the devil. And if you're not doing the

  513. things necessary to rightly understand the voice of God

  514. because we start getting over into angels, you understand.

  515. The challenge here is that I'll introduce you to a realm that

  516. you could try to worship. And there's plenty of Scripture

  517. says don't do it. In fact, the Angel say don't

  518. worship me. Or because you become aware of

  519. it through knowledge, then the devil can show up as an Angel of

  520. light and totally mislead you. So we get into the subjects of

  521. angels. Or you know, evil spirits,

  522. right? Don't be lusting to know this.

  523. Want to know it because you want to be at a see into the unseen

  524. so that you can navigate that realm effectively.

  525. In the New Covenant 'cause you understand the Old Covenant,

  526. there was a a way that realm operated, and it does operate

  527. that way in part still. But in the New Covenant there's

  528. some things different. Do you understand?

  529. I'll just say this real quick, 'cause we talk about again.

  530. Daniel. Lord, I need an answer now.

  531. Daniel's in the Old Covenant. He is a prophet.

  532. But the prophets have the Holy Spirit come upon them.

  533. He didn't live on them. Means he would come upon and

  534. then he would go. Come upon and go.

  535. Why he? Why can't he stay 'cause he's

  536. sinful. He's sinful, man.

  537. His spirit man's not alive unto God now.

  538. He can be living by faith, doing the principles of God, and

  539. righteous based upon the knowledge of God.

  540. That's in that dispensation. But by all rights he's still a

  541. sinful man that he's going to go to the grave.

  542. He'll be in Abraham's bosom because he's got to wait for the

  543. blood of Jesus, so he doesn't have a direct connect to the

  544. throne except when the spirit comes down.

  545. Will God use other messengers during the Old Covenant as well?

  546. So he asks. And because the spirit of God is

  547. not readily in him, God sends an Angel that gets detained because

  548. the devil still has authority. I mean, he has the dominion in

  549. Daniel's day of this realm. Don't let it through.

  550. But God's realm is obviously more powerful than the dominion

  551. that he's will throwing. Wielding.

  552. That's the word I just want to say.

  553. Wielding. Right?

  554. And then Michael comes down, holds him.

  555. What happens 21 days later? Daniel gets his answer.

  556. And what's what's the Angel say? The Lord sent me on the 1st day.

  557. You know what we do in the new covenant.

  558. You know, it may take 21 days. OK, I'm not telling you that.

  559. It may not take time. And it's not taking time because

  560. we're waiting for an Angel. Because you now have the Holy

  561. Ghost in you. You don't have to wait for an

  562. Angel to get through. God just may be wanting to spend

  563. time with you. It's part of the seek in the

  564. relationship. Are you hearing what I'm saying?

  565. So again, what we do when we start talking about angels, we

  566. it's just like the new. We got to keep the Old Testament

  567. in light of the New Testament, and that is the spirit realm as

  568. well. The spirit realm as well.

  569. In Malachi it says if you'll bring the tithe in and the

  570. offerings to the storehouse, that God would rebuke the

  571. devourer. In the new covenant, you get to

  572. rebuke him. The Lord doesn't have to rebuke

  573. him. That's your assignment.

  574. Now. Submit to God.

  575. Resist the devil. God didn't have to resist the

  576. devil. You have to resist the devil

  577. because you've been given authority over him, right?

  578. You can't say, Lord, I wish you rebuke the devil for me.

  579. Rebuke. He's like you.

  580. Say something. OK, so there's things that we

  581. get to do in the spirit because we now have a connection to the

  582. throne by the spirit. OK, Y'all doing.

  583. All right, OK, now why is all this important?

  584. Because man always was originally designed to have the

  585. spirit in bath. In Genesis 126 and 29 it says.

  586. Then God said. Let us make man in our image

  587. according to our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of

  588. sea, over the birds of the sky, over the cattle, over all the

  589. earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.

  590. God created man in his own image.

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

  592. them. Then we get over to chapter.

  593. Two. And we know that he forms man

  594. out of the dust of the earth, and he breathes into his

  595. nostrils. The what?

  596. Breath of life. So his spirit man was alive to

  597. God. The Holy Spirit was in Adam.

  598. He was a carrier of the Holy Spirit.

  599. Why is this? In this way human beings were

  600. created by God to live from the inside out.

  601. The very spirit of the King himself was given a humanity.

  602. Human beings were made in the image and likeness of the King

  603. with his own personal presence living within them.

  604. Human beings were designed to function like their creator

  605. King. It is soon it assured that they

  606. would be able to rule on earth as he rules in the heavenly

  607. Kingdom, having the very nature of love, mercy, kindness and

  608. forgiveness. Are you hearing me?

  609. The Holy Spirit, as a governor of the human spirit, was

  610. humanity's bridge to the home country.

  611. We're in the Kingdom. The bottle's about a king, his

  612. Kingdom, and his royal offspring.

  613. So it was the presence of the Holy Spirit within the human

  614. beings that gave them the authority and ability to have

  615. dominion over their environment. They were to exercise dominion

  616. over the earth under the direction of the spirit of the

  617. King. Are you hearing me?

  618. In every person's search for power and meaning in life is

  619. this. They are actually seeking the

  620. return of the King's spirit. I'm gonna say that again.

  621. In every person's search for power and the meaning in life is

  622. this. They are actually seeking the

  623. return of the King's spirit. A human being without the King

  624. spirit is dysfunctional because he's never complete.

  625. His very purpose requires the presence of the Holy Spirit.

  626. His very purpose requires the presence of the Holy Spirit.

  627. And when the Holy Spirit shows up, he tells you who you are.

  628. Amen. Because he comes from the

  629. Creator, the Potter. Well, this is what type of

  630. vessel you are. This is why you're here.

  631. This is your function. This is what you are to do.

  632. You're not to look at what others do and want to do what

  633. they do. You're only to hear from inside,

  634. from the spirit of the King, who will tell you what the Creator

  635. designed you to do. Because that's the question

  636. everyone's asking. Why am I here?

  637. You can only find out when the Spirit's there.

  638. And he wants to talk to you. So we've got to get our

  639. Americanized conversations gone. I'm going to ask a question.

  640. I want to know. Answer.

  641. Period. Right.

  642. Amen. We just finished a marriage

  643. conference. We know, men, that your wives in

  644. the realm of romance is not fast.

  645. Yet we want it fast. It don't work like that.

  646. God built them different. Are you hearing what I'm saying

  647. yet? We want to tell God you're going

  648. to talk to me the way I want you to talk.

  649. He's like, you don't even understand relationship.

  650. You've been cut off. I'm going to teach you

  651. relationship. So we come to our relationship

  652. with God with our own preconceived ideas.

  653. Yet the Lord's the one who says you need to change your

  654. thinking, right? The restoration of the King's

  655. spirit to humanity is the scent is central to the restoration of

  656. his Kingdom on earth. So here you got to understand.

  657. When Adam fell from dominion, when he ate the fruit of the

  658. tree of the knowledge of good and evil, his spirit died and he

  659. was led only by his soul, his mind, emotions.

  660. His will then made decisions based upon his mind emotions, So

  661. he's and his body how he felt. So he his.

  662. All of a sudden all of his decision making got reduced to

  663. his five senses. And humanity is proficient at

  664. making decisions on their five senses.

  665. That's why the Lord says, But you don't live by sight, you

  666. live by faith. And what is faith and how does

  667. it come? Faith comes by hearing and

  668. hearing from the word of God. So we are to hear God's word

  669. through the Spirit of the King that lives within us, and we are

  670. to make the decisions based upon that, not based.

  671. Upon the soul realm. So Adam's decision making got

  672. reduced to only the soul. Are you hearing me?

  673. AW Tozer said this. If the Holy Spirit was withdrawn

  674. from churches today, 95% of what they do would go on and no one

  675. would know the difference, he said.

  676. Though if the Holy Spirit had been withdrawn from the New

  677. Testament church, that means the Book of Acts, 95% of what they

  678. did would stop and everybody would know the difference.

  679. Now here's the. Kicker.

  680. The latter church, the the church that Jesus is coming

  681. back, is going to be greater than the former.

  682. And if it's going to be greater than, we must know the realm of

  683. the Spirit. And we are going to know it

  684. because we know the Spirit King. Come on, are you hearing me?

  685. We need to know the Holy Spirit because a lot of times we're not

  686. taking the time we do a really good.

  687. I mean, most of you are really good at getting me information

  688. through Google and you become very knowledgeable in the

  689. natural well, where we're going, we're going to go here.

  690. Well, now I'll look it up and you get direction.

  691. You know what you're not showing me.

  692. You're not showing me the accident that will occur in the

  693. future that Google doesn't show that is there at now the

  694. traffic's going, but you know who can the spirit say don't

  695. take that route and he don't have to tell you why, but he

  696. can't tell you. I mean, he could or he doesn't

  697. just say don't take that one, take this one.

  698. But that one is 15 minutes longer.

  699. So what do we do in the natural? I don't want to go 15 or 30

  700. minutes longer. Yet the Holy Spirit knows an

  701. accident's going to occur on the one that's 30 minutes faster,

  702. which is going to make it 2 hours longer.

  703. Oh. You don't want to hear me?

  704. We've become so proficient in this and even Smith,

  705. Wigglesworth communicated. The more science or or natural

  706. things become a a a prevailing option to the things of the

  707. spirit. People will not turn to the

  708. spirit for an answer. So he said it this way.

  709. He said the more medical science advances, more and more people

  710. will not trust God for their healing.

  711. They'll just go to medicine. In fact, most believers today go

  712. to medicine 1st, and the only time they're talking to God is

  713. when medicine says or they're talking to God while taking the

  714. medicine, but they're more firmly persuaded in the medicine

  715. they're taking. Then God heals them.

  716. They just throw the tag on, Well, I'm just believing God I'm

  717. healed, but they're really believing that that pill is

  718. going to do it. Now at the end of the day, if

  719. you put your faith in the pill and God uses the pill to do it

  720. because again, God has used natural things in order to be

  721. able to do stuff. But ultimately, he wants you to

  722. know his word is the ultimate source.

  723. I'm not saying for you to abandon your medication.

  724. I am saying make sure you start with the spirit first.

  725. I know a particular lady who's not with us today.

  726. She was older, got diagnosed with cancer.

  727. And so they. Ran her through chemotherapy, I

  728. think it was. And she did awesome.

  729. She was prayed up, believing God physically.

  730. She handled it amazing. It's awesome.

  731. I heard that. They're like, you know, it took

  732. an effect. We want to do another round just

  733. to make sure we got everything, I literally told her on the

  734. phone Don't do that. Wait, your body needs more time

  735. to recover. You don't have to rush this.

  736. Don't do it. The daughter came in, convinced

  737. her to do it. She died 'cause it was too hard.

  738. Cancer didn't kill her. The effects of the chemo did,

  739. because they rushed it. But by the spirit we knew, it

  740. can work. Less weight.

  741. No rush. They already think they've

  742. tackled it. This is for in the abundance of

  743. caution, Yeah. And she fought till the end.

  744. I'm telling you, she fought the best she could, but it was

  745. really, it was too much on her body.

  746. It's like, what? Come on, Lord, thank you.

  747. I see his face. I need his name.

  748. Jim Hockaday. Jim Hockaday said this when he

  749. was doing the prayer and healing school.

  750. He says. You know, it's never too far for

  751. God, but sometimes. It's too far for them because by

  752. the time their mind can get connected, to actually get in

  753. firm persuasion, their body don't have the time to be able

  754. to do it. And here's the next thing,

  755. sometimes they can get the body so far that they didn't medicate

  756. you and then you can't keep your mind to fight the good fight of

  757. faith. So I wasn't there that day, but

  758. they put me on the phone to the person's ear and I said to them,

  759. it's going to be all right. You can go see Jesus.

  760. We got it here. We'll take care of it. 10

  761. seconds later she was gone. 10 seconds later, I'll see her in

  762. heaven. See, sometimes when we don't

  763. listen to the Spirit, it can cost us our lives.

  764. And God was warning us, But there's our voices out there and

  765. we're going to see that it's impossible to worship God from

  766. your soul, although many people are doing it.

  767. Lot of soulish praises going on. Very emotional, very exciting,

  768. but hadn't touched the spirit of God once.

  769. I'm telling you, seeing someone cry, seeing someone run and jump

  770. and shout, does not indicate that that's the spirit.

  771. It can be the spirit. I'm not saying that it sure can

  772. be, but I can tell you there's plenty of times it's not.

  773. And when you learn to know how to see into the unseen, you'll

  774. know if that worship service was spiritual or if it was just the

  775. soul, if that display that just took place was spiritual.

  776. Or was it just the soul? I'm going to tell you right now,

  777. Brother Hagan said this. He said, you know, I've come off

  778. the platform in the flesh, meaning in the natural.

  779. I I felt nothing of the Spirit, but it was a by faith.

  780. And he said, when I hit the ground, I was in the Spirit.

  781. So from here there was a calculated soul realm that was

  782. trying to connect to the spirit, but I had not entered it yet.

  783. But I perceived that if I acted on what I had not yet

  784. experienced, by the time I get there, I'll be in it.

  785. And he did that. That's different than someone

  786. just out of their soul crying out to God, giving a bunch of

  787. emotional expressions, trying to get, in essence, conjure up God

  788. to notice them. It's not going to happen.

  789. So worship can only produce religion.

  790. So Adam could only all humanity now can only worship God from

  791. the realm of soul. And that's not worshipping.

  792. That's why they have false gods. That's why religion shows up.

  793. Don't you know? Religion was in full swing when

  794. Elijah showed up to the prophets of Baal, he said.

  795. Let's find out who has the real God, right?

  796. You go first. Now.

  797. They had a praise service going on.

  798. They were dancing, shouting, screaming, cutting themselves.

  799. I mean, it was the most, you know, passionate display.

  800. Passion doesn't necessarily mean it was connected to the spirit.

  801. Then Elijah dig a ditch. Put water on it.

  802. Do it again. Do it again.

  803. Right. And then he's like, Lord boom,

  804. there's the fire, right? God move without him having to

  805. do all that. But then his passion really

  806. manifested because I've been on that mountain where that event

  807. took place in Israel and the. Brook that he killed all those

  808. prophets. It's not right here.

  809. It's a pretty good, pretty good walk, and with his passion in

  810. the spirit, he was able to rally and take them against their will

  811. down a long mountain to a brook and kill them.

  812. Have them killed because of the zeal of the Lord because God

  813. hates. Idol worship Loving God hates.

  814. You worshipping other gods? He's jealous.

  815. He's the only one who deserves that, and to him it shouldn't

  816. even be in the earth. Especially if it takes people

  817. off course from me because I'm life.

  818. Their worship only leads to death.

  819. That's why the Bible says there's a way that seems right

  820. to a man, but in the end lies. That's why we got to live life

  821. beyond just seeming what's right.

  822. We need to have a Holy Ghost knowing what's right.

  823. Because the time we hear the word seem in the book of Acts,

  824. James said it this way. It seems right to us and the

  825. Holy Ghost, not just to us. And the Holy Ghost.

  826. And the Holy Ghost. We believe we've heard the voice

  827. of the Holy Spirit about this particular issue.

  828. This is what we're going to do. Are you hearing me?

  829. So, Adam's first sole response. Was to cover himself with leaves

  830. so he could be in the presence of God when he heard him coming

  831. in the cool today. Did it work?

  832. No. But look at this in Luke 2.

  833. This is why it's so important for us to understand the things

  834. of the Spirit. Because we were always destined

  835. to know the home country, to be able to connect to the Kingdom

  836. in heaven, to bring that realm into this realm.

  837. But it's only done by the Spirit.

  838. We have to be able to get into the unseen, see the unseen, in

  839. order for us to be able to access what's in that realm.

  840. So we have to take the leading of the Spirit, a very serious

  841. business, to our growth and development.

  842. We cannot get complacent in just knowing where we're going to go

  843. when we die and the end's going to work itself out.

  844. Well, it's going to work out according to what God said.

  845. The question is where you'll be out?

  846. Where are you going to be at in the working of it?

  847. Come on, 'cause some people are assuming they're going to be in

  848. places that the Bible says. You're not going to be in that

  849. place. All right.

  850. That's good. Hey man.

  851. But Luke 2 four, verse 40 and then verse 52, verse 40 says,

  852. and the child, this is Jesus grew and became strong in

  853. spirit, filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was on him.

  854. Look at verse 52. And Jesus increased in wisdom

  855. and statute and in favor with God and man.

  856. Jesus is first recognized for his wisdom.

  857. See, he's strong in spirit. Why he was filled with wisdom.

  858. So Jesus is first recognized for his wisdom in scripture before

  859. his supernatural miracles. So when we talk about the spirit

  860. realm, most of the time people are thinking about the

  861. miraculous. I don't know why it got so

  862. quiet. I mean, y'all want me to pop a

  863. vein or something. Here I mean.

  864. What we got to do here? What's going on?

  865. I mean, you know, Arnell, when Vanessa and Arnell were in

  866. Puerto Rico, it was it was horrible.

  867. I mean I see the man standing in the pulpit, line upon line,

  868. precept upon precept. And he would say, you know, Luke

  869. 240 And the child grew and came strong in spirit, filled with

  870. wisdom. And they would all come to the

  871. service at Anchor Faith there, and they would look at him and

  872. say, we've never heard this teaching, this is amazing, but

  873. they wouldn't stay. Why?

  874. Because he didn't scream and yell like all the other pastors

  875. that were on the island. Now at the end of the day, I

  876. don't care if it's part of your gifting to scream and yell.

  877. I do it myself. However, if it's not attached to

  878. the Spirit, then all you're doing is screaming and yelling,

  879. and there are congregations full, especially in Latin

  880. American countries that think they have the spirit there and

  881. all they have is a soulless service, very emotional.

  882. All right, it's fine. Jesus is the greatest example of

  883. hearing the Spirit because he was well equipped to rightly

  884. divide and discern the word. This is why Jesus first preached

  885. repent which means change your thinking.

  886. Jesus did not first preach you need the Holy Ghost power for

  887. the Kingdom of heaven is at hand.

  888. He did not say that you need the power so that you can cast out

  889. devils for the Kingdom of. No, that's not what he said.

  890. He said repent, for the Kingdom of heaven has at hand.

  891. You got to change your thinking. And when you change your

  892. thinking, you'll hear the spirit right.

  893. And guess what? You'll cast out devils.

  894. He's a man if I. Cast out devils.

  895. By the finger of God, that's a little thing.

  896. Yeah, we make it the big thing. Psalms 14310.

  897. The New Living Translation says that this way teach me to do

  898. your will, for you are my God. May your gracious Spirit lead me

  899. towards a firm footing. So how do you become proficient

  900. at following the Holy Spirit? You become well equipped at

  901. rightly dividing the Word of Truth.

  902. Are you ready for this, John? 423 to 24 says this, but an

  903. hour's coming. But an hour's coming.

  904. And now, yeah, so that hour's here been there when true

  905. worship say what? Which implies false ones.

  906. So not every congregation has true worship.

  907. OK, when true worshippers will worship the Father in and and

  908. and truth, not just in spirit. So you get fanaticals that have

  909. been in expressions of true spirit LED services that they

  910. want that. This is what I loved about

  911. Pastor Rotti Kingdom Rise of Valdosta.

  912. When we were celebrating in the Spirit, we did a demonstration

  913. of just by Scripture and and his encouragement and monishment and

  914. showing things in Scripture. Then we acted on it.

  915. And you know what? Many of them acted, not feeling

  916. it, but they in faith believed what he said.

  917. And the Spirit got called up in the praise, the dance, the the

  918. running, the shouting. And it manifested so much that

  919. without giving an altar call, people started running and

  920. saying I want to get born again without even doing an officer

  921. call. It was literally this Acts

    Acts 2 chapter mention

  922. Chapter 2, what must we do? Moment in Valdosta and Roddy's

  923. like what is happening and he would pray with the one and hug

  924. him and he was so excited. Then all of a sudden I wanted,

  925. oh, and then he prayed for next to you.

  926. Seven people later, no obstacle. We're just, I mean, it's like

  927. the if you weren't used to that, you'd be like, what is going on

  928. in here? But the Holy Ghost was drawing

  929. lost people in that environment, 'cause it was a spiritual

  930. experience. It was not natural or soulless

  931. or we're just conjuring up something.

  932. Now I'm just going to be blunt, honest.

  933. The gifts of the Spirit are as he wills, not as I will.

  934. So if a minister has the exact same expression of the Spirit in

  935. every service they do, you might want to question whether it's

  936. actually the Holy Ghost. Brother Hagen literally dealt

  937. with a minister in the times of the healing revival that he said

  938. you need to repent and stay with the Lord because you are coming

  939. to the service, because he could give words and knowledge, he

  940. could do operating the gifts. And he says, you're in one

  941. service, you're yielding to the Holy Spirit, the next service

  942. you're yielding to familiar spirits.

  943. And he said this to Brother Hagen.

  944. I have to because the people expect me to perform, because

  945. familiar spirits can tell, give you by all rights in a

  946. definition, a word of knowledge. For the word of knowledge is

  947. something presently known or something in the past.

  948. And you know what? Familiar spirits have been

  949. around some people's families a lot knows what they are.

  950. They wore on Tuesday because they've been leading them and

  951. influencing them for generations.

  952. So they can show up in a service and say, talk that person out,

  953. tell them that their uncle was wearing a a denim shirt on

  954. Tuesday. Then you can do it.

  955. And they're like, why do you think sorcerer or card reading

  956. and all that stuff, people actually go there.

  957. So you know what? People have sent on to me

  958. before. They're like, now listen, Pastor

  959. Earl, if your daughter was kidnapped and was somewhere and

  960. A and a fortune teller could tell you, wouldn't you use them?

  961. I'm like, no, I don't need to consult the devil to tell me

  962. where my daughter's at the minute.

  963. I consult the devil to find out where my daughter's at.

  964. By the time I get there, she's dead.

  965. But when I consult the Holy Spirit, he can send an Angel

  966. ahead, kill the person, translate her to me and I'm all

  967. right, 'cause that's stuff that actually happens in the realm of

  968. God's spirit. Go ahead and preach that.

  969. Like all of a sudden just because they know you wouldn't,

  970. I have the reigning spirit. I'm not going to give in to that

  971. hypocrisy. So now is we'll worship the true

  972. worship will worship the Father and spirit.

  973. And true for such people, the Father seeks to be his

  974. worshippers, which tells us if you have no seriousness about

  975. becoming a disciple and rightly divided, you have no seriousness

  976. in wanting to rightly divide the word of truth.

  977. Daddy's not looking for you, doesn't mean he doesn't love

  978. you, but he's not looking for you.

  979. He's not seeking after you. God doesn't violate his word.

  980. Well, I don't care what you do, I'll.

  981. I'll come. Come see you anyway.

  982. He's serious of and he gives us what to do.

  983. He said. Look this, I want you to be a

  984. true worshipper. I've given you the spirit of

  985. truth. He's going to guide you in all

  986. truth. He's going to teach you all

  987. things. He's going to disciple you.

  988. He's going to get you so that you can be trained and

  989. righteous, so that you'll know how to function, flow, live in

  990. the fruits of the spirit man. And then he'll give you access

  991. to things that are beyond your He'll, he'll pull back the veil

  992. of the unseen so you can see as you grow.

  993. And then you can literally worship me because you'll be

  994. tied to the Spirit and you'll know the word, so there'll be no

  995. complication in hearing the right voice.

  996. Man, I'm looking for you. He's telling us how to do it.

  997. Then he says God is spirit, and those who worship him must

  998. What's that word not maybe? So that tells me, if you're

  999. singing songs and the church doesn't teach the word, then we

  1000. don't have true worship there. And I don't care what your best

  1001. intentions are. Let me tell you something.

  1002. A person who truly wants to seek God, God will move you out of a

  1003. congregation that is not seeking spirit and truth.

  1004. I know that for a fact because I was in them.

  1005. I got hungry for him, he said. It ain't here.

  1006. They've only spoke this truth. They're not going to give you

  1007. nothing else. Let me take you to another place

  1008. that's got more truth. They told me another place that

  1009. had more truth. Glory to God.

  1010. And we're not withholding any truth from you because about the

  1011. minute we receive the revelation of the truth, we're trying to

  1012. get it out. Except for the stuff you choke

  1013. on. It takes me a year to get out,

  1014. but we eventually get there because we've learned about

  1015. love. All right, John 10, four and

  1016. five says this. But when he puts forth all his

  1017. own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because

  1018. they know his a stranger they simply will not follow, but will

  1019. flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.

  1020. Now let me show you what it doesn't say.

  1021. Leave that up, the. Sheep hear his voice.

  1022. A stranger. They will simply not follow,

  1023. which implies strangers are talking.

  1024. It doesn't say in verse 5. The minute you hear the voice of

  1025. God, you'll never hear another voice.

  1026. Doesn't say that. In fact the devil and his whole

  1027. realm is always talking. They're that person.

  1028. When you get in the room, they talk and they won't let you

  1029. talk. This is why you got to tell them

  1030. to shut up and come out, right? Shut up, come out.

  1031. You're talking too much, right? You're talking way too much.

  1032. Amen. So they talk.

  1033. So a stranger, they simply will not follow.

  1034. Doesn't mean they won't hear a stranger.

  1035. Now how do they flee from a stranger?

  1036. When they hear what the stranger says, they take that 'cause that

  1037. thought come. You can't stop thoughts from

  1038. coming. You can stop them from being

  1039. entertained. OK.

  1040. So when the thought comes, because you're trained in truth,

  1041. you can say that thought doesn't line up with the word.

  1042. I take you captive. I I won't listen to that Next

  1043. voice comes that doesn't line up with the word.

  1044. I take that captive. I cast that down.

  1045. I won't entertain that. And all the while you're just

  1046. throwing down thoughts. And then all of a sudden one

  1047. comes and you're like, that's the word, that's the spirit.

  1048. Now I'm going there. And now that you're tuned in,

  1049. you can get so tuned in that things can be talking.

  1050. Because again, seriously, how many times are you not around

  1051. people and other people are talking, but you're talking to

  1052. them, which you're all these other voices around, but you

  1053. have. Tuned them out and you've given

  1054. your full attention to the one you're listening to.

  1055. Well, if you can do that in the natural, you absolutely can do

  1056. that in the spirit when you can see the unseen.

  1057. But if you don't see the unseen, then you won't be able to give

  1058. attention. Because, again, if my wife's

  1059. talking to me in the crowd, I can look at her, I can see her

  1060. mouth, you know, I hear her words, you know, and I give

  1061. great attention. I'm focusing all of my ability

  1062. to only hear her vocal cords, her frequency.

  1063. Well, how do I do this with Jesus that I can't see?

  1064. In the beginning was the and the Word was.

  1065. With God, the Word was and the Word became, and we call His

  1066. name. So how can you stare Jesus in

  1067. the face in the earth? You know, His word, and you get

  1068. so focused on that word that nothing else you're listening

  1069. to, 'cause you're looking at the face of Jesus, your king.

  1070. Wow. So the Lord would not let evil

  1071. spirit speak on his behalf. So don't use that realm to get

  1072. information about God 'cause they will tell you about him.

  1073. Paul himself by the Spirit shut up the advertising of someone

  1074. who was following a demonic spirit.

  1075. Because that girl who was a fortune teller was saying when

  1076. Paul was walking in town, he speaks from the Most High God

  1077. and that was truth. And the spirit that she listened

  1078. to was that. If the spirit said to Jesus,

  1079. remember. But the first time hit one of

  1080. his encounters when he was in the synagogue, he shows up

  1081. there, 'cause we I just read this in Mark earlier this week

  1082. and he shows up there and all of a sudden an unclean spirit, said

  1083. a man. And begins to say, what do we

  1084. have to do? We know who you are.

  1085. Shut up 'cause that spirit knows Jesus.

  1086. Shut up. It was telling the truth.

  1087. But don't you advertise for me? If if God would allow that

  1088. fortune teller to advertise for him when Paul left the city, and

  1089. they would have been convinced that what she said about Paul

  1090. was truth, what else does she say?

  1091. But you won't fall into this when you get trained in truth.

  1092. So how do we become proficient in being led by the Spirit?

  1093. We must be serious about being disciples of his word, doers of

  1094. it, acting, believing it. Then we become more proficient

  1095. at hearing his spirit, his nudges that we can't see.

  1096. It's a leading Most of the time it's here.

  1097. Sometimes it's a little more vocal, audible, a stronger

  1098. impression. Again, could be a dream, could

  1099. be a prophetic word that someone says something and you're like,

  1100. that's God. I know that is, I understand

  1101. that can take place, right? But you need to understand the

  1102. last of the last days. Brother Hagan Kenneth E Hagan

  1103. said it this way. He said.

  1104. I guarantee you this as we move into the next wave of the

  1105. spirit. We're going to see more and more

  1106. excesses of fanaticism. Because there's always excesses

  1107. in any move of the Holy Spirit Now, not by the Holy Spirit, but

  1108. when the Spirit himself is moving, there are excesses, he

  1109. says. Because he says, you may as well

  1110. get ready for it. You'll not have any move of the

  1111. Spirit without excesses. Why, you may ask?

  1112. Because there will always be those in your midst who are

  1113. unlearned. They're unlearned.

  1114. Sunday had a powerful time from our praise singing to the Lord

  1115. all the way to water baptism. Powerful time.

  1116. Pastor Marcy obviously received a word concerning finances, and

  1117. we're already seeing evidence of that.

  1118. So you want to grab hold, so you'll be the next testimony.

  1119. All right. Anjali got got an impression by

  1120. the Spirit to speak concerning based upon the song we were

  1121. singing. You need to basically put

  1122. yourself in a Thanksgiving mode that what you've sought is

  1123. already done OK? Matt Hunt comes up to me because

  1124. the custom is, if you're in the sanctuary and you believe you've

  1125. got something by the spirit that may be released to the

  1126. congregation, there's an order to this.

  1127. So he came down and he spoke to me.

  1128. And what he spoke had a little more detail, but was primarily

  1129. the same thing that Anjali had already said.

  1130. And I had said to him, if you had been here first, you could

  1131. have released that, right? But you're hearing what the

  1132. Spirit's saying. Then I had Priscilla at Gilda

  1133. House come, and her sister Sophia interpreted for that.

  1134. And she had a context within the same thought process, a little

  1135. different detail, but yet it's still what the Spirit was

  1136. saying. But they had such an impression

  1137. in the Spirit that they were. Maybe this is beyond me.

  1138. Well, you understand what God was saying was making such an

  1139. impression in. People.

  1140. Because he was speaking very clearly to your spirit.

  1141. Audrey had a particular word that my wife spent some time

  1142. with. And you know what?

  1143. She seemed like it was something that needed it, had maybe missed

  1144. a moment or it was a different time frame.

  1145. Whatever the case, because sometimes you can guys can get

  1146. some things in the spirit they didn't for the service we're in.

  1147. Especially sometimes when I'm ministering, along the lines

  1148. that are going to go multiple weeks, you may actually have a

  1149. word for the third week. Are you hearing me?

  1150. Which means the word you have is not a word of knowledge as much

  1151. as it is a word of wisdom, because it's for two services

  1152. later, and I'll call you. I've had that happen before.

  1153. I'm like, you know what? I know where I'm going.

  1154. Next week, come get with me and I'll.

  1155. Let you release that. Then Josh Kitchens came up, had

  1156. a context again. Again, this He's having an an

  1157. encounter with the Holy Ghost. He's talking to him and it's so

  1158. strong that what are we doing We're we're training.

  1159. There's nothing wrong to move and ask.

  1160. Ultimately me being the overseer, I'm going to determine

  1161. what's literally released or not OK.

  1162. However this is part of the training exercise.

  1163. This is how we get equipped because and those 3 they were

  1164. basically had a another aspect of what Angie had Anjali had

  1165. said and as a result of that I would just encourage you're

  1166. hearing what the spirit say now honestly.

  1167. If they had moved. First, then they would have

  1168. released that first. Now the Bible is very clear on

  1169. the gifts of the Spirit. How many can function in a

  1170. service? Paul says two.

  1171. No more than three. Because we need to get to the

  1172. teaching of the work, because the teaching of the Word allows

  1173. us to become more proficient at the spirit of of God.

  1174. So again, you can do math on your own.

  1175. You're back there and we've had one person do a tongue and

  1176. interpretation tongue, and then somebody else give a prophetic

  1177. word, whether it's a word of knowledge, word of wisdom or

  1178. something. And then some other thing

  1179. happened with the gifts. You can be, well, that's three

  1180. times. We probably need to go on to the

  1181. teaching of the word. It's not.

  1182. Oh, I think I got something now you understand.

  1183. I mean, there's a guideline already set in place because

  1184. Paul was dealing with the church that was basically only trying

  1185. to function with the gifts, and he's like the spirit of God, and

  1186. his gifts will not compete with whom.

  1187. He is identifying you to cause the Holy Spirit's here to do one

  1188. thing to show you the king. OK, so there can be excesses.

  1189. And again you may hear something that ultimately we may say,

  1190. because I've had some come down and it is a word from God.

  1191. I had one person, one service come down.

  1192. They were shaking. It was obvious that something

  1193. was on them, that God was speaking to them.

  1194. It was clear as day. And they had never heard the

  1195. voice of God so clear in their life.

  1196. And because of that they concluded maybe it's for the

  1197. church Now came to me. And as I heard, I said I knew,

  1198. man, I heard it. That is for you.

  1199. And God is clearly wanting you to know it.

  1200. My and I applaud. I said, I am so excited that

  1201. you're hearing the spirit of God and what he's saying act on it.

  1202. I mean, it was a powerful word for them, for them, OK, So

  1203. sometimes that'll happen. I am always.

  1204. In expectation of the Gifts movie.

  1205. Right now, not every service. The gifts will move 'cause this

  1206. as he wills and Pastor Roddy. And that service says this at

  1207. the end. Now listen, you can't have this

  1208. kind of service, every service. In fact, this service is a

  1209. byproduct of all the good teaching you heard this week.

  1210. He literally says this. Most ministers that flow like

  1211. that never say that. They just want to get to that

  1212. moment so that you leave like that.

  1213. Great. We shouted and danced and

  1214. laughed and ran around, 'cause that's all we wanted to do.

  1215. I'm telling you, I know him. Roddy had the wisdom, the

  1216. insight to say, listen, this was my task.

  1217. It's what I was asked to do. It's what God wanted me to do.

  1218. But you don't do this in every service, he said.

  1219. You know, you may do them once a quarter now, he said.

  1220. Now if you never do them, that's a problem.

  1221. But this is not in every service moment.

  1222. So in conclusion, what the Lord is saying, I want you to become

  1223. proficient at seeing unseen things.

  1224. Because in the last of the last days, to avoid being some who

  1225. fall away, you're going to have to be serious about your

  1226. discipleship training in the word.

  1227. And then yield to his leading so that you'll recognize the nudges

  1228. and move with them. And when I say nudges, they're

  1229. not just you delivering a gift like a tongue or interpretation.

  1230. It may be the spirit nudges you and say go on down and you dance

  1231. before me tonight. Today I've never left my seat.

  1232. I don't care. Leave your seat.

  1233. Get down, 'cause there's something in that act of

  1234. obedience that God wants to do that He's not going to do in

  1235. your chair. You cannot conclude that every

  1236. time you come to service that you can get everything God wants

  1237. for you in the seat you picked. Cannot conclude that 'cause God

  1238. has the right to move you, He has the right to move you, and

  1239. you should obey. I said you should obey.

  1240. That may not happen every time, but when it happens, just as

  1241. Kenneth Estrada says now we don't always dance, you know,

  1242. but but when he says when it's right, it's right.

  1243. When it's Tom, it's time. We don't always shout.

  1244. But when it's time, when it's necessary, it's necessary.

  1245. It's not always necessary to shout, but when it's necessary,

  1246. it ain't always necessary to run, but when it's necessary, it

  1247. ain't always necessary to laugh. But when it's necessary, it's

  1248. it's not always necessary to be quiet but when it's necessary.

  1249. And this church is going to be proficient at pulling back the

  1250. veil. Because it's been prophesied in

  1251. these last days, we would flow. When the Spirit is natural as a

  1252. bird flies in the air, it only becomes because we're serious

  1253. about our discipleship, knowing the word, trained in

  1254. righteousness, conquering every obstacle.

  1255. We are not led by how we feel what we see.

  1256. We are only convinced that the Word of God rules and reigns,

  1257. and will never miss the voice of the Spirit when doing so.

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