Control - Will Power

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Well, I'm really excited about today and where we're going to

go for the next three Sundays starting today.

And so I really want to encourage you to make sure you

hear you're in attendance of what God wants to say and do in

our lives. You understand we started out

our this year calling it talking about the reigning spirit.

We have the reigning spirit. You know it's really kind of

it's truth but unfortunately in a lot of believers mouths it's

more cliche than it is reality and that is greater is he that's

in me than he that's in the world.

That's easy to say. It's another thing to yield, I

said. It's another thing to yield to

that because the Holy Spirit is greater.

And when the Holy Spirit's working on behalf of the king,

he's going to tell you what the king is saying and how you're

supposed to respond. But you've got to do something.

Amen. And if you do something, then

it'll come to pass. But if you don't, I said, if you

don't, he's not going to make it happen.

I said it's just not going to happen.

Amen. And so we need to learn these

things because in the last of the last days, we know there's

some trials and tribulations, some troubles are going to come

on an accelerated and more powerful level.

But we will be ready for it. Amen.

And we will be equipped to overcome.

Come on, say Amen. So let's receive the engrafted

word of God, which is able to save our soul.

Amen. You know, as it says in Matthew

15. Three, he says, Why do you

transgress the commandments of God?

For the sake of your traditions? And maybe I'll come back and

touch on that a little bit more. But again, we want to know what

God's saying, not what we're thinking.

Because when we do that, things that change.

So if you have your Bibles turn to Genesis chapter one, verse

one, we're going to start reading here and we'll go

through the whole Bible today. No, I'm just kidding.

Amen. This is a.

Theater. We used to watch 2 1/2 three

hour movies here, so just buckle up.

In Genesis chapter one, verse one, it says this In the

beginning. God created the heavens and the

earth. In the beginning, so before the

heavens and the earth, God was. Now, obviously this document we

call the Holy Bible is a reference to our beginning, But

that doesn't mean there wasn't something before our beginning.

All right. But we could say there's God in

the beginning. So in the beginning, before the

beginning, God was He creates the heavens and the earth.

And we understand heavens is plural.

It's not just one. So we're not just talking about

where He lives and resides. There are more than one heaven.

In fact, Paul said this. I knew a man in body or out of

body. I do not know.

Caught up to the what? 3rd heaven.

Which if it's their 3rd heaven, then there must be a first and

2nd. And God created all three,

right? But then he also created this

planet. I said he created this planet.

Amen. How did this come to pass?

Well, Hebrews elevens threes gives us some insight of how

this happens, and it says it this way By faith.

Say by faith, come on, say by faith.

By faith we understand that the world's were prepared by the

word of God so that what is seen was not made out of things which

are visible. Now I'm using this scripture in

a context that's not contextually in this particular

passage. All right.

In this particular passage, this word world is not earth, nor is

it planet systems. It is how our environment is

shaped around us is based upon faith.

So he said, by faith we understand that the world's were

prepared by the word of God. So the Word of God is

interjected inside in society and people's worlds, how they

live are functioned by that word, which means they have the

capacity to call those things that be not as though they were.

We're not limited to what we see now.

If we go back to the Book of Beginnings though in Genesis 11,

then we have to understand in the beginning God created the

heavens and the earth. Verse two says then God said so

God speaks according to his word.

Now let's go over to Romans chapter 10 verse 17.

Romans 10:17

So we can kind of tie this together.

So faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of Christ.

So we've established this is that faith comes by hearing

really period not so much comma but period.

Everybody, even the lost, the people cut off from God, have

faith. It's just that their faith is

based upon what they're hearing, what they're hearing.

And, you know, a lot of times we hear by our eyes, we hear by our

eyes. You know, somebody come by and

they, you know, throw their nose up or they look at you a certain

way and all of a sudden you hear that they're miffed at you,

aggravated with you, you know, not well with you.

And you begin to talk to yourself about them.

And they haven't even said anything to you.

In fact, most of the time they didn't even know you were even

on in the hallway. But we done picked up an offense

by our eyes because our eyes heard something, right?

So if faith in comes by hearing, he's establishing our hearing.

Our hearing should be connected to the word of Christ or the

word of the King or the Word of God.

That's where we should build our faith from.

Our faith could come from God because God's word spoken comes

to pass. So in the beginning God created

the heavens and the air. So out of nothing God spoke and

creation was made. Hebrews again 11/3 gives us the

insight that because we were creating the image of God, we

were to speak ours into existence as well.

How we live, how we function, we can actually have God's realm,

this unspeak. If we could pull back the veil

into the Spirit, we can pull heaven over into earth because

we can create things with our words.

God creates with words. And I know I'm not saying

anything new unless, you know, you haven't been here very long.

But we're going to see some things because I'm going to talk

to you about the most powerful thing, period.

The most powerful thing, period. Now look at what it says in

Jeremiah 112. Jeremiah 112 says.

If then the Lord said to me, you have seen well, for I am what?

Watching over my, over my what? Over my what word to perform it.

So what's the Lord doing? He's watching over his word.

What's he watching over? What's he watching over his

children, his church, the lost. He's watching over his word to

perform it. Look over Isaiah 5511, Isaiah

5511, he says. So will my word be, which goes

forth from my mouth. It will not.

Say, will not. Come on, say, will not.

It will not return to me empty, without accomplishing what I

desire and without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.

Why, 'cause He's watching over His word to perform it.

Why? Because in the beginning God

created the heavens and the earth with a word.

Let there be and there was. And then God said, let there be,

and there was. And then God said, let there be,

and there was. And then God said, let there be.

So in the thought and imagination of God, He spoke and

it came to be and He watched over it to perform it, which

means when He spoke, those things happened.

That's pretty powerful. Then we go over to John chapter

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8, starting at verse 31. He says, So Jesus was saying to

those Jews who had believed him. If say, if if you continue in my

word, then you are truly disciples of mine and you will

what? Know the truth, and the truth

will make you free. I said the truth will make you

free. That's if you know it.

I said that's if you know it. So he says if that's a

conditional statement. If you continue in my word.

Now what does God do with His word?

He watches over it to perform it.

When He speaks it, it won't return unto him, boy, but it

shall accomplish that which it was set to do, right.

So His word is a very powerful thing.

In fact, we could almost call it the most powerful thing,

couldn't we? We could almost say it's the

most powerful thing. But I want you to understand

there's something connected to his word and we need to discuss

this today. In fact, he goes on.

If you drop down to the 51st verse, it says this truly,

truly, I say to you if say if, if anyone keeps.

My word. He.

Will what? He'll never see death.

Wow. What a statement that God is

watching over to what to perform.

But notice in the 31st verse and the 51st verse there's this two

letter word called if and if is what's considered a conditional

statement, which means if you don't meet the condition, then

you don't get what the condition creates.

So if if you are my disciple, you'll continue in my word.

If you continue my word, then you are a truly a disciple of

mine. So if you're not continuing in

the Word, you may call yourself a disciple, but God would not.

Call you one. Now we know this.

Matthew chapter 6 Again Jesus. Now when you pray, pray this

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way. Our Father who art in heaven,

hallowed be your name, your Kingdom.

Your. What your what your what now?

What is always done, His word. So his word is His is his will.

It's his will. I said it's his will.

And God himself doesn't go against his will.

That's why he exalts his word even above all of his name.

Oh my goodness. But so, with this being said,

we're going to have to have a conversation about a doctrine of

demons. And here it is.

God is in. Now, if you define control

properly, you might be able to say that.

But if you've been around any believer that's immature in the

things of God, you know that literally is meaning to them.

That God is literally carving out their path, that they can't

deviate from whatever he wants done for them is going to happen

regardless of anything because he's in.

Even if you get in a car accident, he controlled that

because he's trying to teach you something because you understand

his ways are higher than your ways and his thoughts are.

So they take scripture out of context to justify because the

devil takes scripture out of context to help justify his

doctrine. Well does God control something?

His word, Because his word is his will.

Yep. Yet he states in John, If, well,

how in the world can you go against?

It then. If he's in control, everything.

The word control, by definition of the Merriam Webster

definition, as far as a verb, means to have power over to

exercise, restraining, or directing.

Influence over the noun is to act or or an instance of

controlling. Have you ever heard that word,

man? You're just being controlling.

Right. And again, we hear this term,

people's receiving this in the definition of they're making me

and forcing me. I see nowhere in Scripture that

God forces because if God was in total control, well, it's his

ways the best. Then why are people going to

hell? Which is why a lot of people

have fallen away from the faith because they have a hard time

siding God's in control with all the sin going on in the world.

And if God's all controlling and powerful, why is he letting the

devil do what he does? Since you're thinking Because if

we're going to understand the reigning spirit and be able to

overcome in life, we've got to deal with this thing first, and

it's called will power, willpower.

Now here's the thing you've got to understand.

God's creation has within it a will of its own.

I'm going to say that again, God's creation has within it a

will of its own, because God is not the only one with a with a

will. And God never violates the will

of another. God cannot Force One against

their will, but only influence. It.

But you understand this is happening all.

Over the place. My wife influences me all the

time concerning what to wear. Yeah, sometimes I come out of

that closet feeling like Superman.

And she said you better get back in there, Clark Kent, I don't

know what you were thinking when you put that together.

Now, ultimately she can't control me, right?

I remember one time I'm like, I'm wearing it anyway and did

and somebody had the audacity on social media to talk about my

clothes and my wife came back and said, see, she can't control

me, but she can bring influence. But I have the ultimate.

Willpower Oh y'all, don't want to hear this.

I have the ultimate willpower. I decide whether I'm going to do

this or not. And so God has a will, but when

there's places, layers within his creation, that has a will as

well and he doesn't override it, even if they go against his.

We've said this before, but I'm going to say it again.

God will let you do anything you want to do, but will hold you

accountable to whatever you do to.

His will I'm. Going to say that again and let

me just say this, it couldn't be any other way.

God could not be a God of justice if he didn't give you

the free will. To do something else.

And he did this in his creation before God even spoke anything,

he said. The minute I speak, I'm life.

And when I create elements, Heavenly host, we're going to

talk about Heavenly host today. We'll talk more about man next

week, OK? That he gave them the power of

will because the minute he sets the condition of life and if you

want to be with him, to truly love him.

You have to of your own free will, and God will not violate

your will even though He is life and love.

This is the most powerful thing. Will is the most powerful thing.

This is why Jesus said again said in Matthew he said why do

you transgress the commandment of God for the sake of your So

you have a saying that you're saying is your will about this

concerning God. But God has a saying concerning

him, and you've chosen to hear your side, and God didn't stop

you. Now that doesn't mean he didn't

try to influence you. He didn't try to send his word

by you. He didn't try to say, hey, I

said before, you lie, fan, choose.

But you have to now. Just because God knows his will

for your life doesn't mean he's going to be guaranteed you'll

you'll do it. The word will means this again

to, according to the Merriam Webster dictionary, the power to

control one's own actions and emotions.

Mental powers manifested as wishing, desiring, choosing, or

intending to determine by an act of choice.

Now think about if we drop this will down to a the simplicity.

This is why you can't separate will from word.

OK, you can't separate will from word because will is the sum

total of word and when you are deciding, you're deciding based

upon some word. The question is, is the word

you're siding with to make it your will, the supreme word and

the word that has life? Because God will let you side

with whatever word you want to side with.

And he even allowed this with heavenly hopes.

And he can't stop it because he's a God of justice and mercy

and love. And he wants you to love him

because you want to love him, not because he's forced you.

He stripped you of your ability to choose.

Because his way is right, Because his way is, oh man, his

way is life. I mean, it's love.

It's everything. It's perfection.

It's awesome. It's the existence of love and

life. It's that we can't even fathom

it. It's so awesome we can't even

look into the face yet. We can choose another word.

That's good. That's why in First Timothy 4/1

it says this. But the Spirit explicitly says

that in the latter, at the time, some would fall away from the

faith. And why did they fall away?

Paying attention. This is why I said in

Corinthians chapter 10 tells us we are to take every Oh my gosh,

because God's like, listen, I at the end of the day it's in your

power. I've said my word of delivery

but it's in your power. You have the power to take the

thought captive, but if you don't, you can have your will

but. Ultimately, in the end, it's my

will that's going to be done and you really want to side with his

will. Because it's the Creator.

He knows more about you and for you and better for you than you

know about yourself. And I love that word that came

up today that you know through the unction of the Spirit, it'd

be by all rights, in First Corinthians chapter 12, the gift

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of prophecy, where the Lord wanted to give you a

encouraging, edifying word that God's faithful and that many.

If you don't watch out, you're trying to view the things that

are happening around you through your own broken mirror, your

experiences, instead of, let me just let God define how to

handle this deal. How to look at this?

How to view this? Let me get my let me yield.

Because you understand, you don't put your will on the

table. You get your will assigned to

his. That's why Jesus said he said,

Lord, if there's any way for this cup to pass yet, not mine,

because at the end of the day I'm siding, I will side with

your will. I will side with your will.

So if there's a different will of yours that keeps this thing

from happening, it's tell me. Let me know so that I don't have

to be separated from you. I don't have to go to the cross.

I don't have to bear all this in.

But if that's is the only way, if this is life, if this is how

redemption must come, then I give my will to your will.

And my will becomes your will because your Will's live and I

do it with all my heart. No reservations.

I'm not holding back. It is all me totally committed

to your way of doing it. Because Jesus had the power in

the suit to say no. Wow.

They're paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines

of demons. Even in the heavenly host, a

will was available. Isaiah chapter 14, Isaiah

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chapter 14. Now again, most scholars believe

this action occurred prior to the creation of the earth we're

in today. As far as how the earth is

functioning today, there are many scholars that believe that

this account took place prior to this.

But in Isaiah chapter 14 verse 12 it says this all or how you

Isaiah 14:12

have fallen from heaven. All Star of the Morning, Son of

Dawn, you have been cut down to the earth.

You have weakened the nations, but you said in your heart.

In essence, this is his will. I will ascend to heaven.

I will raise my throne above the stars of God.

I will sit on the mount of the Assembly in the recesses of the

north. I will ascend above the heights

of the clouds. I will make myself like the Most

High Revelations gives us a little inside of some things

that are happening in the realm of the spirit Revelations. 12.

Seven through 9 it says. And there was a war in heaven.

Michael and his angels raging war with the dragon, and the

dragon and his angels waged war, and they were not strong enough

and there was no longer a place for them in heaven.

And the great dragon was thrown down.

The serpent of old who was called the devil and Satan who

deceives the world, whole world. He was thrown down to the earth

and his angels were thrown down with him.

Now get this. God creates the heavens and the

earth. He is perfection, love, no sin.

He said there's no darkness in him.

He's not a man that he shall lie.

In fact Jesus said when he goes to the God of this world or the

tempter of the devil, he said he has no part in me.

There's nothing about me that we are connected together.

So in God it is life, love, perfection, it's everything.

And he creates in his heavenly realm a heavenly host of cherubs

and Seraphims and angels and archangels A heavenly host.

Yet they had the choice in a realm of perfection before any

type of alternative thought manifested.

The anointed Cherub himself, because of will, because of

willpower, corrupted himself in perfection.

I mean, the tempter wasn't tempted.

No one's up there tempting him because the minute the Creator

creates beyond himself the capacity and free will is to

choose an alternative even though it's not written.

Now with that being said, I can't tell you what was spoken

in that realm. If I was to go with the

character of God, that is, that is spoken within the context of

the Bible, I might conclude God gave the capacity of choice, and

most likely did because we see with another creation that God

gave the power of. So there must have been

something that took place in the heaven realm to where pride gets

lifted up in this anointed cherub and his will was so

powerful that God couldn't stop it.

Oh y'all, don't want to hear that.

Nobody wants to ever hear that. Why?

Because we think God is all power.

He is according to his word, but he wasn't.

He's not all powerful at the point that he can stop someone

from not choosing him when he's given them the power to not

choose and he gives that choice. This is why she had never have

sympathy for the Satan or for any fallen Angel.

Are you hearing me? What did Jesus say in Luke

10/18? He said.

Then he said to them I was watching Satan fall like

lightning from heaven. And why does Satan fall?

Because God didn't like him. Because God was on a power trip.

Because God sits up in the heavens is like, I'm so awesome.

I'm so cool. I'm a narcissist.

Look at me. No, He's the embodiment of love,

right? Well, we go pick on somebody

today. See, that's through the fragment

of sin that we look at. That when the reality is, as

long as you have a will and you always will, then you can always

choose. I can't believe that Pastor's

controlling my Sundays service at 10:30.

I would much rather be here at 11:45.

Well, I'm not actually controlling you, am I?

Because you made a choice to come within the boundaries that

have been set. I'm telling you, if you're

hanging your hat on stuff in your life based upon what

someone's done to you. The Lord wants to liberate you

in this series because the minute you get liberated from

that and you realize the power of your will, then it does never

matter. 'Cause you can always choose his

word. Always.

This is what I love about the power of will, that it didn't

matter what happened to me, what life, whatever.

Even if I was still in the perfect environment, I can

choose. I get to choose.

What does Jude say? Jude says this, Jude chapter

one, which is only one chapter, verses 5 to 6.

The Passion says this, he says. I need to remind you, even

though you are familiar with it, that the Lord Jesus saved his

people out of Egypt, but subsequentially destroyed those

who were guilty of unbelief. What we'll talk about this more,

I mean, he delivers them, yet because of their will, because

of their will, they don't get to the promised land.

Verse six, though, is where we want to, you know, focus on

because we're talking about the heavenly hosts, he says.

In the same way there were heavenly messengers in rebellion

who went outside their what rightful domain of authority,

and abandoned their appointed realms.

God bound them, and everlasting chain is in key, and is keeping

them in the dark of dark abyss of the netherworld until the

judgment of the great day. Which means then this heavenly

host had the willpower to leave what was assigned to them, where

life existed. God through His Word, created

the boundaries of life for this heavenly host, and the minute

they chose to come out, then the effect of His Word concerning

going against His Word goes into play.

It goes into play because not because God wanted this, not

because God desires it, but because the power of will has

now made it mandatory. God can't be in sin, so the

minute you choose to go against his will cause again sin, simply

defined, is disobeying God's word, and God can't be in the

presence of that. That's nothing to do.

He can't be in darkness. So you choose darkness not

because God wants you to choose it, but you choose it.

And he'll let you have that choice.

But he'll give you the consequence of that choice, that

you won't be able to blame God because you always have the

power. See, the power of will can

overcome any circumstance. It doesn't matter.

That we're in a fallen state now.

But before we get you to fallen state, let's trickle over a

little bit this morning into the realm of man Genesis 126.

Come on, you see, in this God is love and life, and every part of

His creation wants to be with Him, will be with Him of their

own free will and those who do not.

Will not of their own free will, and he will not violate their

will. He did not do this with the

heavenly host, and he certainly will not do this with those

created in his image, because at the end of the day for him to be

a God of justice. See, it's such an error for us

to take this so well. God's in control.

He's controlling everything. He won't let this happen, this,

that, and the other. You understand.

God will not let you be tempted beyond what you're able to

handle, which means he will help influence things.

But at the end of the day, if you accept the temptations that

you are able to handle, then additional temptations are going

to show up. So He won't let you be tempted

beyond what you're able. Which and what are you able

what? He's already empowered you with

his will, which is his word, to overcome that thought.

But if you don't overcome it, guess what?

More temptations are coming and you end up going down the road.

He never intended you to be because he gave you the power to

overcome it here, but you didn't choose it.

You chose to go a different direction.

And it's not God's fault. It's your fault for not

choosing, because you never lose personal responsibility, even in

grace. Grace does not 'cause your will

to be exempt. You got into grace because of

your will. You received the grace of God

because of your will. Why?

Because you made a choice by faith to believe God in his

word, and that Jesus Christ died and that he rose from the dead.

And you called on his name to be Lord of your life, and it caused

the grace of God to show up. But when Grace moved in, your

will didn't move out. Steal your will, and what's

really awesome is Grace actually empowers you to be able to have

without issues anymore. He's able to clean up all the

broken places. He's able to make the glass

completely clear. He's able to pull the veil back.

He's able to show you a great clarity.

Because he's giving you the teacher on the inside, to say

this is my word, this is my will, this is my word, this is

my will, Get your will with my will.

And there's nothing that'd be impossible with you.

But at any time, even in deliverance, you can side with

the wrong party. You can side with the wrong

party. And that's not God's fault.

That's God saying I'm not going to force you.

See, there's a day that comes called judgment.

He's spoken it. He's spoken it.

But you know what else He's spoken how?

You don't get it. So when the judgment comes, if

it's coming to you, it's not because he didn't give you his

word or his will on the matter for you to submit your will to

and want it to be your will too, so that when he judges you,

he'll say I'm giving you what you wanted.

Now you understand. Liars lie then.

Oh, Daddy, what I wanted, Lord, he's like, really?

Let me just go ahead and show you your heart.

Oh my gosh, the Lord knows my heart.

You bet he does. This is why Jesus came and

started ripping on the will. Are you hearing me?

He said. You've heard it said.

Thou shalt not commit murder. But I say unto you, you didn't

kill the guy, but on the inside you wanted to kill the guy.

You wish that you could get away with it.

You wanted to do it so bad. If there was any way that you

could will it this way, you would have done it.

And you rehearsed it in your. Mind 100 times and every time

you saw them, you're like, I wish they were dead.

Although I won't do it because I'm holy.

Are you hearing me? And Genesis 126th?

And God said, let us make man in our image according to our

likeness. Well, if he's in your image and

in his likeness, God has a will. Guess what you have.

Yeah, and let them. So what's the will of the

Father? For man to rule.

Over the fish of the sea, Over the birds of the sky.

Over the cattle. Over all the earth.

Over every creepy thing that creeps on the earth.

God created man in his own image.

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

He created them, he said. You're like me.

You can speak things in existence if you'll just hear

what I say. You have your will side with my

will. You can speak life.

You can call those things that be not as though they were.

You can live by faith. The whole world will function at

your word according and it will build life.

It will build life. It will build life according to

your word. It will build life, just like

me. But if you choose other, then

your words will build death. And out of your own mouth you

build death. Because life and death are in

the because the tongue is expressing the will of the words

you have sided with, that you've kept in constant repetition in

your mind. And it wasn't God.

I can't believe God put me through this.

God ain't put you through nothing.

Your will put you through a lot. Are you hearing me now?

We live in a sin state, which means people's will can get on

you. Are you hearing me?

And people can violate you, but you still have your will on how

to respond. And nobody can stop that.

I can't believe you forgave them.

I mean, how could you forgive them for what they did to you?

Well, because the Creator of life said his will is to

forgive. And he sure forgave me and his

will said, well, if I've forgiven you, then you need to

forgive. So I'm going to side with him

and I'm just going to forget. Now that doesn't mean

consequences, but that just means I forgive.

I'm not holding this account against you.

So really, if we're talking control, you want to know who's

in control. Just stare at yourself in the

mirror. Just stare at yourself for a

while when you're complaining about how things are going down

because trials and tribulations are coming.

Yeah, they may be outside of what you would have wanted, but

yet you can change them. You can turn it what the devil

meant for bad. God will empower you to turn it

for good. But if you don't stay with his

side in the midst of the storm, if you don't take control, then

it will ultimately influence you and you will take control of

that thought as well and let that thought happen.

I refuse to be a puppet to anyone's strings.

Amen. Genesis 215 to 17.

You've heard us say this says Then God took the man and put

him in the garden of Eden and cultivated it and kept it.

And the Lord God commanded the man saying, from any tree of the

garden you may eat freely, but from the tree of the knowledge

of good and evil you shall not eat.

From the day you eat, you will, surely I can't tell you how many

times I've had people have conversation.

Well, if God knew he was going to eat it, why'd he put it there

in the 1st place? Because man, God can't know if

you love him. God doesn't want anyone with him

because he's made them. Yeah.

That's good. And the power of choice is what

makes you decide you'll be with him.

So God having this condition in the guard, in a perfect

environment, no sin, no sin. God clean that up.

No sin. And yet, man, all he has to do

is say I choose to have my will be his will, and I have that

power, which means Adam had the power, which is true authority.

God really gave him some authority here, the power of his

will that God can't control, he can't influence.

If that's all we're going to use the word for control with, he

can do that. But he cannot make because in

the end, do you want it? Then you make the choice to want

it. And now you're free.

You won't with God. Not 'cause you have to.

Then you say, well, that seems kind of bad, though.

I mean, I have to really, 'cause if I don't, it's death, OK?

I didn't even make sense that you would choose death, because

really what you're saying is my idea of life is higher than

God's idea of life. So again, now we've just moved

down to the simplicity of words. So basically you're saying your

way would be actually better than God's way.

And you know what? You can do that.

But here's the thing. God's way is the highest way

because before any of us existed, God, before the

heavenly host God, before sin God.

So at the end of the day, the argument is, is that you want

God to actually submit to you and your will.

And God does not yield to any other God, not even his own

creation. He doesn't do it.

He just lets you choose. And he's giving you.

That power. See, This is why we're without

excuse. We're with that excuse.

We're with that excuse, right? Think about it.

You could read the Bible as often as you want.

You can pray in the Spirit as often as you want or not.

You have the choice. Now I get it.

Because again, well, that's not true.

I mean, in life, you know, we have to do well.

Again, all of you are going to go to work tomorrow and guess

who's choosing what time you show up.

But you know what? You actually don't have to show

up. So they're really not

controlling your time. What they're doing is they're

saying we have determined that this is success business and

this is the type of workers we want.

Now of your own free will, you can be a part of that or not.

Now, we'll reward you to these levels if you do it our way, but

at the end, and any environment that's technically having a

forced agenda in one sense you understand, is coming from the

devil's side. Because really all the devil is

doing is doing everything he can.

Because here's the thing. Even if they threw you in prison

today and beat you daily and gave you just enough so you

could. Survive.

You could keep your will intact. You could still love your the

ones who beat you. You can still pray for them.

They can't break your they may break your body, they may abuse

you, they may do, but they can't break you.

And you choosing to stay with the nature of God.

And God says, I don't care what happens to you, I'll still

reward you. And when you take the account of

that kind of life, even if it was their whole time on the

planet, what will that be compared to Eternity.

It's not even like a dust. Yet the majority of humanity is

not going to live under that kind of condition.

So what we do is we take extremes to try to justify our

will and how we're doing it, how we want God to associate with

us. And you know what?

And God won't stop you from that thinking, although that thinking

will bring death to you, because God has no.

Power over your will. He can influence, I'm not

saying, and he does trust me, he influences.

He's the greatest influencer. In fact, he's the chief

influencer because he can influence you with his spirit,

with other people. And again, he's given before you

live and he's just telling you, choose it, choose it, choose it.

But at the end of the day, you have to.

You have to choose it. So when people say from the

statement God's in control of God's such a loving God, then

why is he throwing people in hell?

He's not. They choose to go of their own

free because your will is always free, even if you're caged.

How can the madman of Gadarean who had a legion of demons still

be able to find himself when God showed up that they abused his

body, controlled him? I mean manipulated Ki mean

that's how the devil functioned, yet that willpower of that guy,

that human spirit was able to run towards God fall.

Down then the other. Started to manifest.

Have you come to torment us before our time?

And he delivered the man. Are you hearing me?

Wow, the power of the human will.

So again, God says to him, if you don't eat the fruit, you're

going to live forever. If you eat the fruit, you're

going to what? You're going to die.

So was it God's fault that he put the tree?

Because you understand what people do like we holier than

God. Well, God should put a tree

there. It's your fault.

No, no, Genesis 3 one through 5 says now

the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the

Lord God had made. And he said to the woman,

indeed, as God said, has God what?

Why does he want to know what God says?

Because what God says is his will and his word.

You shall not eat from any tree of the garden.

But the woman said to the serpent, from the fruit of the

tree of the garden we may eat, but from the fruit of the tree

which is in the middle of the garden, God said, you shall not

eat or touch it, or you will die.

And the serpent said to the woman.

And the serpent what serpent What said?

He's. Trying to control her, which

means he's just trying to influence her.

'Cause he actually can't control her, it is impossible to

control. Her.

This is really powerful. Adam and Eve are in the nature

of God, and when you're in the nature of God, it's impossible

for the enemy to control you. That's why the New Covenant

we're in 'cause it's a new and better covenant.

We are born in Christ, we are born again.

Our spirit man is alive to God, and the Holy Ghost lives on the

inside of us and bears witness with our spirit that we're child

of God. That's why the Scripture says

this. The devil roams around the earth

roaring like a lion, seeking whom he can get permission of

those who are in covenant whom he may devour Devil has no power

over you. If you're in a new covenant,

you're born again unless you yield it.

And how do you yield it? The same way these before sin

ever entered the earth. How did was it abdicated or

yielded to him? Through a word, a thought, they

align their will to his. Saying.

And let me tell you, it's not too opposing.

It's not. The devil is the author of

death. Death manifests the minute life

is spoken. What do I mean by that?

The minute you take the alternative.

And anyone could have awoken. Caused that to wake up.

Could have caused that to wake up OK.

Anyone of free will could choose to rebel in the heavenly host

realm. It was an only cherub in the

human realm. It was Adam.

I said it was Adam. So.

Sin on the earth is not God's problem.

It was willpower, but God has the power of the will.

And he says, Nah, I'm going to establish a condition that I'll

come myself in the form of a man and get it back.

And here's the condition. If they call on my name and they

willfully want to stay with me in covenant, the minute they get

in covenant and never deviate, then they'll never taste death.

The power of will, the power of will.

Man ate the fruit and God came down verse 9.

Then the Lord God called the man and said, where are?

You. And he's still asking that

question today, not only of those outside of his Kingdom,

but even those in his Kingdom. Where are you?

Where are your thoughts right now?

What are you entertaining? What are you thinking?

What are you allowing to start influencing your willpower?

What are you meditating and churning and letting get in your

mind? Is it?

It is written. It is written.

It is written. Or is it?

I can't believe they did that. I can't believe that happened.

I can't believe our history. That's good.

You know, we, I've never been a my whole family.

We've never I've. Always had this?

Yes, that's good. What are you chewing on?

And it will manifest in your willpower cause out of the

abundance of the heart and it's what you're meditating on.

It's what you keep churning around.

And This is why in this covenant we're in.

He's like, I know your mind's broken.

I know it's all jacked up. I know junks happened to you.

But I've given you a willpower to come out.

When I brought my word by. And not only did I save you, not

only did I give you a new spirit.

Not only have I made your spirit alive.

I put myself in you. And now, if you'll continue in

my word. If you'll take the willpower to

continue in my word, my word is going to be truth.

It's going to set you free. And you'll be my disciple.

And if you'll keep my word, you'll never taste death.

But it's you got to get your willpower to be my will.

You got to align your will to my will To my will.

I don't care that what is God saying?

Truly free people are like, doesn't matter.

What does the word say? They stole my money.

What if they did? That's all right.

I got a God in heaven that says he'll supply all my needs

according to his riches and glory, and I'm fine.

There's not a situation I can't overcome 'cause I have the power

to believe God, and you can't stop it, and nobody can stop

you. Ain't that amazing that the

Creator of heaven and earth has given you the power?

To maintain your righteousness, to live holy and blameless, To

to display the nature of God. If.

You'll continue in his word, because his word is his will,

and he watches over his word to perform it and will never

return. A damn boy, but it shall

accomplish that which it was sent to do.

Isn't that amazing? Which means if I can have joy in

the Holy Ghost, then when my whole world makes me want to

cry, I can choose by the power of my own will.

To say, I'll just take. Some joy in the Holy Ghost.

I can get over in the Spirit. I can pray in the Holy Ghost.

I can begin to laugh. In the Spirit, I can begin to

build up my most holy faith. But again, if you're talking

about what's going on and the problem that's happening and the

issues that are going, guess what?

Your will is siding with your. And God didn't do that.

He sent His word to heal you, to deliver you, to redeem you, to

set you free. But you have to choose.

It all comes down to this. The personal responsibility to

choose because a loving God lets you choose.

Period. No excuse, man.

How liberating is this? This is I mean if you're because

again, right now if you're if you're just thinking on what you

want to think on and you're like, yeah, but I feel like I I

mean I'm I'm entitled, OK now. I mean now see if you go there,

I shoot. I I get it.

God can't stop you from going there.

I mean if you want to debate with God about your entitlement

or if you want to go over to God's side.

I mean, whatever happens, I just go to God's.

I'm like, let me just let me get a vision of the cross real

quick. Lord, just give me a vision of

the cross. I sometimes it's just good to go

read the crucifixion again. Why?

Because I can say OK. Let me see that crown of thorns

on your head. Let me let me imagine right now.

Maybe I should just watch the Passion of Christ.

And even though that's G rated compared to what really happened

to Jesus, let me just imagine as I read these scriptures of them

putting a crown of thorns on your head and stripping the

flesh off your back. Let me just get this imagination

of them taking and punching you in the face and ripping your

beard. Let me and taking that staff and

punching you in the top of the head.

Let me just envision this thing that you laid out in front of

everyone completely naked and you're taking on my sin.

Let me just imagine. You're doing this willfully so

that I can align my will to your will.

So before I feel like I have an injustice done before, I feel

like, man, there's something here.

Let me just take all this real quick.

Let me just think on. Let me just meditate on this and

let me move. Because at the end of the day,

if there's anything out there that ain't right, you're going

to deal with that. You're going to vindicate me.

You're going to bring vengeance for me.

You're going to do those things. You're going to make it right by

me. You're going to do these things.

You, you, you're. In fact, there are times that

the Lord has said just go ahead and bless your enemy, man.

It's like, I don't feel like it, but you all going to take your

will on this deal. The enemy said walk a mile, I'm

a walk 2 with them. They don't deserve for me to

walk through. They don't even deserve for me

to acknowledge they exist. But I'm a walk two mile because

the will of the Father is for me to go 2 miles now and I'm going

to go 2 miles because I'm free. I'm free.

From what they did, I'm free. From what they did, I'm free.

From how they act, I'm free. From this circumstance.

I'm free from this situation because he took all that on so I

could be free. Free.

Indeed, I'm free. My gosh, I'm free.

I'm free. I'm free.

I'm free to prosper. I'm free to have joy.

I'm free to run. I'm free to laugh.

I'm free to dance. I'm free to shout.

I'm free to overcome my emotions.

I'm free. I'm free to act like God.

I'm free to be full of life, To be full of joy, To be full of

peace. In the midst of the storm.

I'm free. You can't stop me from acting

like God. From responding like God.

From being like God. From having joy like God.

From being redeemed. From my past, From having my

mind renewed. You can't stop my progression.

That's true freedom, I said. That's freedom.

You can't stop the crowns that God wants to throw down at me

for my reward of being faithful. Can't stop it.

I'm free And whom the Son is set.

Free Free indeed. Free indeed.

Free indeed. Free indeed.

Free indeed free indeed. I'm free.

I'm free. I'm free.

I'm free. I have the power of my own will

to get with the will of God and have God's stuff come into my

life. Woo man.

That's true freedom. That's freedom.

That's freedom, yeah. In this life you go have trials

and tribulation. Jesus said that, he said.

But be of good, for I've overcome the what if that's his

will to overcome the world and be happy, Then I'm happy.

I choose happy. I choose it 'cause really.

Half the stuff that we're choosing to side with isn't even

as. Bad as the enemy is puffing it

up to be Woo. I'm free.

I'm free. Come on.

Anybody free in this place? Yeah.

God has given you power. Even though you can choose

against it. Still your choice.

That's why we're out. Excuse.

What's awesome is I'm alive to God and I just choose life.

I choose life. I choose life.

Devil can't stop me. Demons can't stop me.

Temptation can't stop me because I want to love God.

I want to do His word. I want to live according to His

word and His will. I want it to manifest in my

life. I want heaven to show up in the.

Earth through me and through you and through His church.

Wow, what a powerful. How powerful is your will?

It determines your destination. God will guide your steps, but

will not drag you there, not drag you there.

We'll talk more because there's a lot that that.

God's in control. It's taken a lot of Scripture

out of context that we're going to have to talk about.

We're going to talk about. Are you hearing me, Father?

We love you and we honor you. We thank you.

You're the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.

We thank you for willpower that you gave creation.

So we choose. We choose you.

We choose life. We choose you.

Oh, we choose you. Whatever head bow and every eye

closed. No one's looking around.

We're going to do communion here in a second.

But in order to have communion, you must be born again, and it's

your choice. See, God through the act of

Jesus Christ has conquered every wrongdoing and has given an

opportunity for you to choose. Look at me real quick.

Look at me even if. Jesus is not Lord of your life.

And you by your spirit, which is dead and separated from from

God, has to sin. It's its nature.

Yet your. Willpower is strong enough to

tell that dead spirit you're not staying in me any longer.

I'm going to accept Jesus. Listen, your dead spirit that

cannot go after God, that God at him at his word to speak to you

and let you know that Jesus died on the cross.

For all your sin, all your wrongdoing, everything you've

ever done wrong, whatever, it doesn't matter.

God Forgives you. All you got to do is make him

supreme in authority, Lord of your life.

He will take his blood, apply to your account, He'll make you a

new person, and you have the willpower even in as a lost

person. To make that choice with all

your heart and confess with your mouth.

Jesus is Lord, and God will take that spirit according to your

will that was dead, snatch it out of you, and put a new one on

the inside of you that's alive to God.

That's the power you have right now, but it's up to you.

Because he will not remove a dead spirit from you if you

choose to remain dead, but if you want life, he'll do it now.

If you're a believer today, sometimes we choose death.

We entertain thoughts that bring division and strife to us.

Anxiety and our eyes are being filled and our ears are being

filled to support it as the reality of life.

But God, I said but God and today if you are believing you

say man I know I'm meditating and my will in a particular area

is is set against the will of the father.

In this situation you can come and repent and get that right.

You can turn on a dime. You can become willing because

the Bible says it's the willing and which means you can obey

without being willing and you don't qualify.

That's called manipulating God's word on your condition.

And there's plenty of people that keep the word, but on their

condition needs to know the willing and the obedient.

We eat the good of the land. So whether you're born again and

you know there's an area in your life, you need to get under

God's will cause your mind is definitely not entertaining his

will. Or you've never made Jesus Lord

and you want to make Jesus Lord. Today I want you to be bold and

step out. I'm calling you out because at

the end of the day, it's a great exercise for you to show

yourself that my body doesn't control me.

They didn't do what I say, and I'm going down and getting right

with God. But you got to move.

If it's you, whether you're born again and you need to just

repent of something, or whether you are not right with God and

you want to be born, I got people to my right, left that

pray with you because I don't want you taking communion.

If you're not right with God, in fact, if you're right with God

and there's an issue that you're in right now, you know it.

And this is how I know, because the Spirit of truth is here to

liberate you. He's here to set you free.

And if you know God's word about it, but you're not choosing,

that's that's tough. Because when you take communion,

you'll start drinking judgment to yourself because you're

judging the situation according to how you want it done.

It's not what he has said. God is the only righteous judge,

and he'll work it out. Make no mistake about it.

There's no sin that's not going to be dealt with.

There's no situation that's not going to be dealt with.

None. I'm going to ask one more time.

Definitely not begging because God's worth running to because

that's mercy. God's mercy is saying just take

my will. Come choose life anyone, law,

anyone, law before we take communion.

Hallelujah. Well, let's have a seat.

If you did not get a communion elements, just lift your hand

our. Ushers are going to look around,

find you. And give it to you.

Amen. Oh my Mama.

God has given you the ability to believe him at his word.

You can do it with your willpower.

Oh, my Mama. You can do it with your

willpower. You can do it.

You can do it, my Mama. Thank you, Jesus.

Do you know there are people in the earth that have not done

wrong, but a wrong was done to them?

That has happened in prison right now.

There are some people in prison right now that did not do what

they've been accused, tried and sentenced, but the majority

have. The majority have, but how they

live on the inside is up to them.

In this sanctuary right now, there are people that were in

PCI. And you know what they did?

They chose to come to service. They didn't have to.

They weren't forced. But they made a choice.

And then they chose to entertain the words of God and live like

God in prison. And then when they got out, they

chose to stay with him. And every day they choose.

But there's others in that same prison that didn't take the

invite because if I had them stand up and say, did you invite

anybody to come to service? When?

Anchor Face showed up. I'm telling you, it'd be 100%

that they'll say I did. Was there some that didn't come?

They didn't. So of their own free will, a

place that spoke the word rightly divided, and could have

set them free. Of their own free will they

chose. But when they stand.

Before the Lord, the Lord would say.

Didn't I send you so and so? Didn't he invite you?

You had the power the whole time.

It wasn't the system. It wasn't your upbringing, It

wasn't your crime. Because even in prison I came to

you, there's not a place that God doesn't go to.

God was so meticulous with this guys that Romans one tells us.

By nature, people know that there's God.

Wow. The Bible tells us.

In the night in which Jesus was betrayed, he was with his

disciples at least eleven of them, because one left to betray

him, one took it upon himself to do the will of the devil and

betrayed Jesus for money. Yeah, Jesus didn't make him.

This is his choice. Even after the miracle signs and

wonders, he's still with his own willpower, chose to betray

Jesus. But the 11, he said this bread

represents my body. It's going to be broken for you

because ultimately it's going to enact a covenant of healing in

your life so that you can be healthy and whole in my Kingdom,

so that your body can stay healthy to house your spirit and

my spirit and your soul to fulfill the will of God for your

life. And then he raised the cup and

said, this cup is my blood. It represents the covenant of

and blood where I'm going to shed my blood for the remission

of sin. It's going to be the payment to

redeem you, because without the shedding of blood, there is no

forgiveness. I'm going to take on all your

sin. I'm going to take on all your

hurt. I'm going to take all on all

your injustice. I'm going to take it all on all

your problems. And in return, I'm going to give

you my righteousness. But you'll have to choose.

And so they broke the bread and they ate and they drank the cup.

And he says, And often, as you do this, do this in remembrance

of me of his death, the ultimate price that Jesus said, not my

will, but your will be done. And I'm so glad Jesus sided with

the Father, because he's given me life and he set me free.

Father, I thank you, Lord, for the communion today, for the

bread and for the cup, for the covenant of healing and the

covenant of salvation, the covenant of the Kingdom, that we

get all the benefits of the Kingdom.

That we can have the Kingdom manifest here because you want

your will to be done on the earth as it is in heaven and you

can't through us because you've given us the power to choose

life and we choose it in Jesus name.

Break the bread and take it and take the cup

if you don't learn anything today.

But this, when it comes to humanity, us creating the image

of God, is that the devil attacked man when he knew God

and was liking the most. He's never satisfied in any

covenant that you would side with his will, and he'll always

come after you, and he's always going to use things to try to

get your will to side with one of his thoughts, even if it

means using scripture out of context.

That's why doctrines of demons and seducing spirits are going

to prevail in the end, because people don't know the word, but

it will still be their power that does this.

If any thought brings division, you should cast it down, because

this is what Jesus is coming back for the Church.

And if anything's trying to get you out of the church, know that

that is not the voice of God, even if it's using scripture.

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