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Behind The Curtain - 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. I want to talk to you.

  4. What's behind the curtain? OK, so in first Sam in chapter

  5. 16 verse seven, in first Sam in 16 seven it says this.

  6. But the Lord said to Samuel, do not look at his appearance or at

  7. the height of his stature, because I have rejected him.

  8. For God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward

  9. appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.

  10. Now this word heart is not the physical organ, because I could

  11. rip your physical organ out of your chest and see it.

  12. What he's saying is he sees in the unseen, and so we want to

  13. get behind the curtain, in essence, pull back the veil.

  14. Because there's another realm, spirit realm out there that is

  15. unseen to our eyes and our senses, but yet it exists.

  16. And since we're diving into the things that are behind the veil

  17. so that we can become adequately trained that way in this season,

  18. that most likely is the acceleration of the latter days,

  19. where the spirit explicitly says in latter days, that's the last

  20. of the last days. There will be many will fall

  21. away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits

  22. and doctrines of demons. Seducing spirits and doctrines

  23. of demons are not seen. They are things in the unseen

  24. that show up in our ears. They show up in our eyes and

  25. they create a doctrine or a thought process that we begin to

  26. ascribe to and believe. And we believe, people believe

  27. that we're of God, that these evil things are actually right

  28. now instead of what God says. And it's because they are

  29. looking like man and not like God.

  30. Because the unseen realm of the spirit that the devil functions

  31. in, he's always there to touch your sense, which means he's

  32. there to identify with what you already can easily identify.

  33. With the one particular pastor I met from Marion County, he said

  34. pastor again. He's quite a bit more tan than I

  35. am, he said. Pastor, he's a Bishop, he said.

  36. He said my congregation only filters God through tragedy.

  37. They only believe they can touch God through tribulation and

  38. tragedy. They don't.

  39. No matter how much I'm trying. That's why I need to bring you

  40. in, because I don't care how the light bulb comes on along.

  41. They won't take kingship because everything we've been trained

  42. and taught, our whole society, my whole culture has been taught

  43. to only see God through tragedy, which ultimately means we're the

  44. victim in everything and it needs to change because they're

  45. not Kingdom, I said. I understand now.

  46. I don't understand his level, but I do understand because I've

  47. been around, you know more than me, OK, And so you know this is

  48. the problem because the minute you've had an issue and someone

  49. starts talking about your issue, you can identify.

  50. Are you hearing me? So this the spirit realm, What's

  51. behind the current in the realm of the demonic or the devil is

  52. to get you to identify with things you already felt, right?

  53. So you can jump on it, because you can.

  54. You can. You felt that you've experienced

  55. that. And so it becomes more real

  56. because of your experience instead of it real because God

  57. says it. And if God says that, that's

  58. actually more real than the experience you have, because

  59. maybe the experience you have, God never intended, and the

  60. experience you had actually came from the devil.

  61. And God wants to deliver you from the devil's demonic attack,

  62. so he needs you to get over to his word and experience it.

  63. But because you want to keep identifying with your experience

  64. and make God identify with you through your experience, then

  65. God's like, I can't identify with you.

  66. Because here's the thing. God himself, other than through

  67. Christ the Father, has never failed.

  68. Jesus himself has never experienced death walking in the

  69. earth. He was tempted to sin, but never

  70. sin. The wage of sin is that now he

  71. became sin. So at that point there's an

  72. experience because he took on you, although he himself didn't

  73. do it, and Jesus did not take on you to identify with you.

  74. This is the problem. Jesus didn't become like us to

  75. identify with us. Jesus became like us because the

  76. first Adam had the dominion. So it requires God to be a man

  77. to gain back dominion. He's not here to identify with

  78. us, although he can't identify with our temptations, he said.

  79. God, if anyone understands, you have a high priest who can

  80. sympathize with you, right? Because he was tempted on all

  81. accounts yet never sinned. So he can say, I know what it's

  82. like for the enemy to come after you.

  83. Yet I'm the one who was victorious and never succumbed,

  84. So I was never the victim. I was always the victor.

  85. So what I need you to is identify with me.

  86. I need you to identify with me, 'cause when you identify with

  87. me, then you'll identify in Christ, which is in the king.

  88. And when you identify there, then you'll quit looking at how

  89. you feel or how you felt or how you went through.

  90. You'll start throwing that junk away and you'll only focus on on

  91. who he is and who you've been made.

  92. Then you'll actually see like God, because the minute you

  93. navigate towards people that look like you, you're already

  94. being ungodly because man does not look on the outward

  95. appearance, period. And the New Covenant says we are

  96. not to regard man in the flesh. So I don't regard you based upon

  97. your paint job, 'cause it's just a paint job.

  98. And you've heard us say this before, that if you go out to

  99. the parking lot right now, those are vehicles.

  100. What do they do, carry you? That's this assignment to take

  101. you somewhere. You're not your car, you're in

  102. it. Well, you're not your outward

  103. suit, you're a spirit man in it. And the black cars don't park

  104. together, the white cars don't park together, the yellow cars

  105. don't park together. The red cars don't park

  106. together. The blue cars don't park

  107. together. I mean, they just park.

  108. I've never seen a black car get by a white car and say, what are

  109. you doing here? I've never seen it pull out of

  110. its space when you're not in it and move somewhere else.

  111. It's never happened. Hallelujah.

  112. So don't care about your paint job because God, God is not

  113. colorblind. Because he's too creative to let

  114. us all be the same color. He's too creative.

  115. I mean, there's not one green, there's not one red, there's not

  116. one yellow or orange. I mean, we look at the trees,

  117. the bark on trees. Different.

  118. God's way too creative. This is why I personally can't

  119. have tattoos, because I would be completely tattooed.

  120. I would it would never stop because I'd be like, oh, that's

  121. cool. But then it's one.

  122. And I like more stuff. I like to be more creative so it

  123. would expand. So instead of me just turning

  124. into one big tattoo, I choose not to put on any odd.

  125. Are you hearing me, 'cause I know I will have a problem.

  126. Now if I did temporary ones where I could wash it off and do

  127. it, then that would be good for me because then I'd be like, I'm

  128. bored with that, right? OK, God's too creative.

  129. Yet the devil has used it for division and he said Samuel

  130. straight and says you're looking at the guy.

  131. Now. In this case, it wasn't

  132. technically a color issue, it was a statute issue.

  133. It's he compared him with the Last King.

  134. Well, he looks like the last guy, so he must be it, since

  135. that was how God picked the first.

  136. Well, God didn't pick the 1st. I'm going to say that again, God

  137. didn't pick the first. God gave the king the people

  138. wanted, and he knew what they wanted because they were

  139. eyeballing the rest. And they're like, they looking

  140. for a giant, somebody big and strong.

  141. You know, because if they look big and strong, then they must

  142. be strong, right? And so he's like, they still

  143. ain't strong enough. So I'm gonna help him out and

  144. put an anointing on them, Let him know that really how weak

  145. they are even and how big they are and if they'll yield to me

  146. it'd be awesome. But if they don't, he told King

  147. Saw. He said if you'll.

  148. Do what I say. There will not be in your family

  149. line a king that doesn't sit on the throne.

  150. Which tells me if he'd had done that, Jesus would have came

  151. through Saul's blood lung. But because Saul wouldn't and he

  152. didn't, he said, well, I go looking like I go look for

  153. because Saul's man's pick that I anointed to try to help out.

  154. But he didn't want it because he had selfish ambition anyway,

  155. because men are only selfish. So for me to go find someone

  156. that can be king, that I can anoint and stay within it, I

  157. need to find somebody after my own heart, right.

  158. So he says, you know, look, I don't look at the outward

  159. appearance, I'm looking at the heart.

  160. So God is is never captivated with what we see.

  161. He's already he, he effects what we see.

  162. Experience touched through our five senses from a behind the

  163. curtain perspective, and the devil does the same thing, all

  164. right. Proverbs 1412 says there is a

  165. way which seems right to a man, but his end is a way of death.

  166. So there's something he's seeing.

  167. He's making his judgments based upon it and based upon that

  168. without God being a part of the process.

  169. It just ends in death, right? Luke 1615 says it this way.

  170. And he said to them, you are those who justly justify

  171. yourself in the sight of men. But God knows, your heart for

  172. that which is highly esteemed among men, is what detestable in

  173. the sight of God. So there's something going down

  174. with these individuals that in the natural realm, seeing and

  175. hearing men are like, wow, how awesome that guy is.

  176. So awesome. That woman is so amazing, yet

  177. God behind the curtain is saying this is disgusting.

  178. So while a lot of men praise, God, gives no praise to, and we

  179. need to figure out what God's giving praise to, not what man's

  180. giving praise. To.

  181. We need to be able to discern this because both of them are

  182. being affected from things behind the curtain, and the

  183. devil behind the curtain is getting you to only focus on

  184. what you can see. Where God behind the curtain

  185. says, focus on what's behind the curtain and it will affect what

  186. you see. You hear me?

  187. This is what Paul said in Second Corinthians chapter 4, verse 16

    2 Corinthians 4:16–18

  188. through 18. He said, Therefore we do not

  189. lose heart. But though our outward man is

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

  191. means there's a conflict. You see me maybe getting older.

  192. You see me maybe, you know my body's not in the same peak

  193. performance as it was at one point.

  194. But know this on the inside that you can't see It is stronger.

  195. In this suit that's not as strong as it was at one time.

  196. It is even stronger. And the older I get, the

  197. stronger on the inside I'll be. Are you hearing me?

  198. Then He goes on to say, For the momentary light affliction is

  199. producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all

  200. comparison, while we look not at the things which are seen, but

  201. at the things which are not seen.

  202. For the things which are seen are temporal or temporary, but

  203. the things which are not seen are eternal, Unseen things Are

  204. not seen things. Now that doesn't mean you can't

  205. perceive it. You can't sense it.

  206. In fact, you can become so aware of what's not seen that it's

  207. more real to you than what you do see.

  208. Amen. When we were believing God for

  209. them all it was more real to us. And I know I can testify for

  210. myself and I believe this for most of you every day we came on

  211. the property and we were thank you Lord for 2121 US one no

  212. matter what we were hearing And I was here a little bit more

  213. than y'all but what we are, no matter what we're hearing I

  214. we're convinced this is our mall and us having mall 2121 and us

  215. remodeling is irrelevant to us. We are convinced that it's ours,

  216. even though in the natural I can't see it and maybe even in

  217. my hearing I'm hearing it ain't going to come to pass.

  218. But I'm so convinced in my spirit that that unseen reality

  219. is going to change this scene reality.

  220. And it did. Come on, can I get an Amen?

  221. I remember the first time my wife and I bought a house.

  222. We had never bought a house before, rented our whole time

  223. till we moved to Saint Augustine, gotten our purpose.

  224. And so not that we couldn't have bought one before, we just

  225. didn't. And so we got here and it's time

  226. to buy. My wife ended up finding a home

  227. that was a lease for, you know, lease to purchase type deal.

  228. And so we went in on it. And so we're going.

  229. And at this point, you know, we're starting to.

  230. Look. For someone to finance us to buy

  231. the house. OK.

  232. And at the end of the day, you know, I was getting some letters

  233. based upon me just moving into the state, Hadn't been here that

  234. long. Although I'm saying that I've

  235. been a pastor for, you know, multiple years and that whole,

  236. you know, career has carried through.

  237. I just happened to be in this location for less, you know,

  238. just over a year. And so I started getting letters

  239. in the mail that had rejected me for financing.

  240. Well, you know, when you read that, it can, it's, it's in the

  241. scene. It's telling you you've been

  242. denied, right? Well, that's coming.

  243. Well, there was a particular plant in our front yard that was

  244. holding moisture and caused one section to kind of rot out a

  245. piece of trim. And my wife didn't like it, so I

  246. went out to cut thing down. She said, what are you doing?

  247. I said, I'm getting rid of this, you know, we're going to cut it

  248. on out. She said this isn't our house

  249. yet. Now she was just talking.

  250. She wasn't being not in faith, She was just stating the facts.

  251. Me on the other hand, OK, it was my moment of faith declaration.

  252. I said this is my house. It will only be my high.

  253. And again, I'm not saying my wife was in unbelief.

  254. She'd not at all. She believed God with me.

  255. I'm just saying at she was like shocked at my violent response

  256. to the tree. Right.

  257. I am hacking on this deal. You're coming out.

  258. You know we're at the roots, people.

  259. I'm not cutting. I mean, I am digging out.

  260. I'm finding I'm cut, I'm chopping.

  261. I mean, I'm getting swollen with my muscles type stuff and we are

  262. tearing this thing out, this in our house.

  263. What if the owner, I said it's my house, I'm tearing.

  264. I ripped it. I threw it halfway across the

  265. front yard, right, 'cause I was so convinced of the unseen being

  266. more real than the scene. Now it was my moment, my moment

  267. to do that was my way of saying I don't believe these letters.

  268. You're lying to me. And ultimately they were lies.

  269. And bought the house and we lived in it for 13 years.

  270. Are you hearing me now? Paul knows this more than anyone

  271. because he knows what it means to live the life of only making

  272. decisions based upon what you can do.

  273. And this is outline of Philippians chapter 3.

    Philippians 3 chapter mention

  274. Amen. In Philippians chapter 3 verses

    Philippians 3:3

  275. 3 through AM, we'll read out of the Passion.

  276. It says this for we have already experienced heart circumcision

  277. and we worship God in the power and freedom of the Holy Spirit,

  278. not in laws and religious duties.

  279. We are those who boast in what Jesus Christ has done and not in

  280. what we can accomplish in our own strength.

  281. It's true that I once relied on all that I had become.

  282. I had a reason to boast and impress people with my

  283. accomplishments more than others, for my pedigree was

  284. impeccable. I was born a true Hebrew of the

  285. heritage of Israel, of the sons of a Jewish man from the tribe

  286. of Benjamin. I was circumcised 8 days after

  287. my birth, and was raised in the strict tradition of Orthodox

  288. Judaism, living a separated and devoted life as a Pharisee.

  289. And concerning the righteousness of the Torah, no one surpassed

  290. me. I was without a peer.

  291. Furthermore, as a fiery defender of the truth, I persecuted the

  292. messianic believers with religious zeal.

  293. Yet all of these, the accomplishments that I once took

  294. credit for, I've now forsaken them and regard it all as

  295. nothing compared to the delightful delight of

  296. experiencing Jesus Christ as my Lord.

  297. To truly know He meant he let. He meant letting go of

  298. everything from my past and throwing all my boasting on the

  299. garbage. He it's like a pile of manure to

  300. me now so that I may be enriched in the reality of knowing Jesus

  301. Christ and embrace him as Lord in all of his greatness.

  302. Wow, isn't that amazing? But we need to understand this.

  303. With every new natural way to accomplish an event or task, the

  304. less dependent the believer will rely on the spirit of God and

  305. faith. Smith Wigglesworth said this The

  306. further medical science gets, the less people will believe God

  307. to be healed. Why?

  308. Because they can see the medication naturally.

  309. Take it. Period.

  310. Now that is not to say you can't take medicine.

  311. I'm not saying that. So know that because if the Lord

  312. talks to you about taking something, take it.

  313. Period. Because in some sentences

  314. instances, for those who based upon what it is, there may be

  315. some things that God wants you to do in a natural sense anyway.

  316. For some people who have some challenges physically, it is a

  317. natural issue. Because diet itself can change

  318. things. Exercise can change things,

  319. right? Not everything that God's doing

  320. has to be supernatural because he designed our body in a

  321. natural way. However, if what we do is look

  322. to the shelf 1st and not to the word first, then we're failing.

  323. And that's the difference, OK? You know, a lot of times people,

  324. in fact I know of one particular individual had a situation and

  325. it came out of their mouth. I don't have time to believe

  326. God. I'll just go ahead and do this.

  327. Well, that's a problem because now you're allowing what medical

  328. science can can do, can do, and you're not even consulting God.

  329. Now God may say go ahead and do something, especially when it

  330. comes to surgery, because even the scripture gives an occasion

  331. for that when he says if your eye offends you, what now we

  332. know. Now in a literal sense, if you

  333. can't keep your eyes from lusting, he's being real.

  334. It'd be better for you not to see it and go on and stay

  335. righteous with God instead of forfeit your soul and your walk

  336. with God. Because you can't.

  337. You won't allow the fruit of the spirit of self-control to

  338. function as gross as that and gruesome as that sound in

  339. comparison. It's better to gouge your

  340. eyeballs out. But what I'm saying is, there

  341. can be things happening in your body that God says remove it.

  342. So again, what if you have cancer?

  343. Can God cure it? Can he eliminate it

  344. supernaturally? Sure.

  345. But what if he says have it removed?

  346. Well, what's the problem? Cut it out, because cancer is

  347. offensive to your body. But consult God, is what I'm

  348. saying. That's what I'm talking about,

  349. all right. But we have to make sure that we

  350. don't put ourselves in a position to where we 'cause we

  351. can in our natural body look behind the veil of the spirit

  352. realm, but then close the curtain and stay in the natural.

  353. And the reason why that is because there's always a

  354. conversation happening and I'm going to use this Luke 1720 and

  355. 21 account because this is the challenge that comes, it says

  356. now having been questioned by the Pharisees, that's when the

  357. Kingdom of God was coming, he answered and said to them, the

  358. Kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed, nor

  359. will they say, look, here it is or there it is.

  360. For behold, the Kingdom of God is in your midst.

  361. Now again, the reason why the religious people are asking this

  362. is because they could see kingdoms, they could see the

  363. castle so to speak. They could see the throne that

  364. Caesar would sit on if they were in Rome.

  365. In this case, they could definitely see the throne that

  366. King Herod set on, right. So they could see the.

  367. So they're like when we going to see it because when you're

  368. around things that can be seen, you can make a demand on seeing

  369. it. When you're inundated with your

  370. senses, you can begin to make a demand on being able to see it

  371. first before you actually believe it exists.

  372. And that's what this conversation is about.

  373. Well, it can happen even in the new covenant where we start

  374. things out recognizing I can't be have a relationship with God.

  375. There's nothing I can do in the natural to have that

  376. relationship. I I I just know in the unseen

  377. that Jesus Christ died. Rose.

  378. His blood is on the mercy seat, though I do not see it.

  379. It's behind a curtain that I cannot see right now.

  380. But I know it exists. I know it's flowing.

  381. I know forgiveness is there. I believe that I'm firmly

  382. persuaded. So I'm going to call on the name

  383. of the Lord. I'm going to be saved.

  384. And then we don't see it, but we, the spirit of the man that

  385. was dead, law, separated from God, gets evicted from this

  386. suit, although we do not see it. Leave our body, and a new spirit

  387. comes in, which is in the likeness of God.

  388. Then we don't see it, but we know the Holy Ghost is in us

  389. because he bears witness with our spirit that we can't see in

  390. that dimension. Yet we know it.

  391. We're convinced of it. We're firmly persuaded of it.

  392. We know we're alive to God, and then we can start looking

  393. natural again. Paul dealt with the Church of

  394. Galatia concerning this. I'll read it out of the message

  395. Bible Galatians chapter 3 verses one through 4, he says.

    Galatians 3 chapter mention

  396. You crazy Galatians because it's crazy.

  397. It's what I like to call a freak of nature.

  398. Your spirit man is alive and the Holy Ghost lives in you and

  399. you're going to perform like you don't have God, he said.

  400. You crazy Galatians? Did someone put a hex on you?

  401. Have you taken leave of your senses?

  402. Something crazy has happened, for it's obvious that you no

  403. longer have the crucified Jesus in clear focus in your lives.

  404. His sacrifice on the cross was certainly set before you clearly

  405. enough. Let me begin with this question.

  406. How did your new life begin? Was it by working your heads off

  407. to please God? Or was it by responding to God's

  408. message to you? Are you going to continue this

  409. craziness? For only crazy people would

  410. think they could complete by their own efforts what God

  411. begun. What was begun by God?

  412. If you weren't smart enough or strong enough to begin it, how

  413. do you suppose you could perfect it?

  414. Did you go through this whole painful learning process for

  415. nothing? It is not yet a total loss, but

  416. it certainly will be if you keep this up.

  417. And so if we don't watch out, and we do know that the Bible

  418. tells us in the last of the last days, the Spirit explicitly says

  419. in the last days many will fall away.

  420. Or some, excuse me, will fall away from the faith, paying

  421. attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons.

  422. In essence, they'll get captivated here that what's

  423. behind the curtain will convince them that this is more real than

  424. what's behind the curtain. Yet God says, let me get you

  425. behind the curtain, because this is more real than what you see.

  426. And if you keep your focus behind the curtain, then it'll

  427. change what you see here. So the demonic realm is using

  428. the scene realm to worsen your scene realm, and they're

  429. manipulating you behind the curtain where God wants you

  430. behind the curtain so that your scene realm will line up to God.

  431. Amen. One convinces you that this is

  432. as good as it gets and your thinking is the best thinking.

  433. Again, I'm going to say this because I want to safeguard you

  434. when it when it comes to ministers to date and I don't

  435. know everybody. Trust me, I do not.

  436. And my my interaction with pastors are limited.

  437. But of all the pastors that I've interacted with, of those that

  438. became avid readers of material other than the scripture, all

  439. have gotten off but one. Meaning they'll bring in

  440. secularism, new way, all kinds of stuff because they're reading

  441. from people that basically are not purists and because their

  442. peak, they will begin to take these thoughts, patterns.

  443. And and I'm talking people that are considered Christian books

  444. that they are reading their have dove into these authors so much

  445. so that it becomes the meat of their study instead of the

  446. scripture and they all get off. I only know of 1, and that's

  447. Apostle Scales out of Columbus, OH.

  448. He's the only one that I know is a well read man of other

  449. material, but he is so well read in scripture that he never lets

  450. those books influence that core belief.

  451. He's the only one I know to date.

  452. You don't have that problem with me because I spend a lot of time

  453. in scripture. Don't spend a whole lot of time

  454. and other stuff because honestly, I don't even have time

  455. now. I always read people's stuff

  456. that the Lord directs me to, and when he does that, then I'm

  457. looking at it through the lens of scripture.

  458. I'm not there to believe everything they say.

  459. I'm there to read it and believe what's in context of Scripture.

  460. And that and that alone. OK, But with that being said,

  461. what if we don't watch out? We will do this.

  462. And again, there's 168 hours in a day, right?

  463. You come to church twice, maybe. I think y'all, most of y'all

  464. come to church twice. At least some of y'all more

  465. times because the Kingdom Institute and 318I understand

  466. that. But you actually sit through and

  467. I preach longer than most intentionally.

  468. OK, because I'm competing with the world because this used to

  469. be two theaters that if we were running theaters again, you're

  470. watching 2-3 hour movies and holding it till the movie's

  471. done. Not like what I see on the

  472. camera. We we clicking.

  473. Y'all. I'm start getting a count.

  474. Seth, you were out of your seat three times a day.

  475. No, I'm kidding. Hey man, you know 'cause

  476. sometimes we just get kind of LAX and we're not hanging on,

  477. but God wants to give us life, right?

  478. So again, you know, in that context you're if if you're not

  479. deliberately taking up your other space with very

  480. intentional things of God, and you're just letting other stuff

  481. come in, the doctrine of Fox News will dominate the doctrine

  482. of the Bible. The doctrine of CNN will

  483. dominate the doctrine of the Bible.

  484. The doctrine of the cubicle or the workspace doctrine will

  485. dominate the doctrine of the Bible.

  486. It'll do it because you're hearing it more right.

  487. So you have to be very intentional.

  488. OK, so there is this realm that we have to understand exists

  489. behind a curtain that we need to make more real in our lives.

  490. So again, by stirring you up by way of reminder, I'm probably

  491. going to end with this one tonight, that the unseen exists,

  492. period. And as easy as that sounds, and

  493. we can all agree with that, living from that realm is not as

  494. easy. It's not.

  495. It has to become intentional, 'cause it's easier to live

  496. natural. You understand?

  497. It's easy to be carnal. Extremely easy.

  498. It takes no effort to be born again, but live fleshly because

  499. you've been trained in it and most of the people around you

  500. are fleshly because most of them are lost and they live according

  501. to their flesh. So you know, I was talking to

  502. Marissa before service. She said, you know, her company

  503. just had a massive layoff, just had a massive 1.

  504. But they told back in November, was it that they were saying

  505. it's coming? So, you know, obviously her

  506. immediate supervisor was like, you know, now if y'all need to

  507. have some anxiety classes, you know, to help deal with all

  508. this, yeah, yeah, this is. Corporate world people, I mean,

  509. this is her corporate, global world she's in because what

  510. she's in is global, OK? And so, you know, they're like,

  511. you know, we understand if you need to take some time to have

  512. some, you know, go to attend some anxiety classes, right.

  513. So they end up you know? The boss or her supervisor end

  514. up talked to her and says, you know, you know, whatever you

  515. need. And she's like, I'm fine, no

  516. problem. I'm going to be here anyway.

  517. Well, you sure are confident in yourself.

  518. Well, the the God told me I would.

  519. I would stay. OK, All right.

  520. Well, they had layoffs. Everybody in her department's

  521. gone but her now on one side. She was like, cut me loose,

  522. Lord, I'll go, I'm out of here. Am I done?

  523. The Lord told her, backing up, you're not done.

  524. So her supervisor says, well, seems like what you believed

  525. happened. She said, well, I believed it

  526. because the Lord told me. And they said, you know, I'd

  527. probably like to talk more of you about that because they

  528. realized she was never anxious in the last two months.

  529. Because she's from a different world, people.

  530. Aren't you glad we're from a different world?

  531. I said. Aren't you glad we're from a

  532. different world? Amen.

  533. Because here's the thing, even if she had been cut, she's

  534. wasn't anxious anyway. In fact, she was excited about

  535. the opportunity of where is God planning me next?

  536. Because they don't know that an ambassador's about to show up,

  537. and they're going to pay me to be an ambassador for the Kingdom

  538. in the workplace. Right.

  539. But that so happened the Lord let her know she wasn't being

  540. cut. So she's in it to win it, right?

  541. And you know what? It could be for this person.

  542. For all we know, it could just be that she's testifying, this

  543. person. And they may never accept God,

  544. but when they stand before the Lord one day he said, I sent

  545. you, Marissa. She walked it in front of you

  546. and you knew it. And you even said you won't talk

  547. about it. But then we got down to it.

  548. You didn't want to hear it. So don't tell me you didn't

  549. know. Because, you know, you know, now

  550. depart from me, you worker of iniquity.

  551. I'm not saying they're going to do that.

  552. I'm just saying or you hear me. We must be intentional to know

  553. that what we're constantly seeing.

  554. Because I live just like you. I mean, actually I don't live

  555. just like you. Most of you I don't live like at

  556. all because most of you only are dealing with the things that are

  557. at your home address. So I deal with my home address

  558. and I deal with this address and then I deal with the 83

  559. employees that are part of this address and their addresses.

  560. And then I deal with the community because of the

  561. influence we have through this, the outreaches and businesses

  562. that we have to connect them, you know, So just like a major

  563. stuff we're dealing with constantly, OK.

  564. And I have to keep my focus on the fact that this is temporal

  565. and this is changed by what I keep my eyes connected to this

  566. unseen realm because it exists. It is more real than this

  567. because that environment that's behind the curtain of God will

  568. come to the forefront naturally, to where it's the only

  569. environment that exists in both the seen and unseen realms.

  570. It will squeeze everything else out, and everything contrary to

  571. will be confined to a place called the Lake of Fire.

  572. It will be confined. It will be stuck in a set of

  573. boundaries. No freedom.

  574. There's no freedom. It will be bound.

  575. It'll be in one location, all of it, period.

  576. But the rest of us will be free, just as we're free now.

  577. Are you hearing me? Because whom the Son sets free

  578. is free indeed. So let me run through a few of

  579. these scriptures and we'll close, says this in Romans

  580. chapter one, verse 20. Again, to remind you, this

  581. unseen realm is more real than what we see now.

  582. OK, Romans 120 says this for since the creation of the world

  583. his what? Invisible.

  584. What is translation is this? Where are you at?

  585. OK, I'm in verse 20. They are they.

  586. They jumped up in 18. I'm just reading 20.

  587. It says this for since the creation of the world, His

  588. invisible attributes, his eternal power and divine nature

  589. have been clearly seen. Now this is crazy.

  590. Because of His invisible attributes, it makes an effect

  591. on His divine nature. So what we see as a result of

  592. what He is doing from an unseen realm.

  593. This is why the discoverers of the DNA strand, those who

  594. discovered the DNA strand, then once they discovered it, they

  595. immediately knew evolutions off the charts.

  596. It can't be plausible for us. I abandoned that theory.

  597. Now that doesn't mean they became believers in God himself.

  598. They knew somebody started this. This is not through an

  599. evolutionary chain, is not. Period.

  600. There is a higher form of being that started this process.

  601. They were convinced because again, his invisible attributes

  602. again through his world. OK, Since the creation, his

  603. eternal power and his divine nature have been clearly seen

  604. being understood through what has been made so that they are

  605. without excuse. Which means I don't care what

  606. nation you go to on the planet, the minute they start looking at

  607. the trees and animals, God is clearly being seen.

  608. Period. Are you hearing me?

  609. Because the unseen is being reflected in the natural

  610. Colossian. But again, the natural is being

  611. being affected because it first came from an unseen.

  612. Again, where is the trees? Where is the fish?

  613. Where are the animals? Where are the stars?

  614. They're in the mind of the Father.

  615. And then, but God, then God. So from his imagination,

  616. someplace none of us could see, He spoke it and then it became,

  617. do you understand? There's no situation you're

  618. going in that His spoken word to you from his written written

  619. word doesn't change it. So don't say, oh, we got a bill,

  620. what are we going to do? Oh, my body's being attacked

  621. with sickness. What am I going to do?

  622. You got to tap in. I said you got to tap in.

  623. Do you hear what's going on in the news?

  624. You know, they they say we're going to have a a economic

  625. collapse. Well, aren't you glad you're in

  626. a different economy? They cannot collapse.

  627. But have you invested in that economy?

  628. Because you understand you can't lose stocks if you're not in

  629. stocks. You can't lose on your 4O1K4O1B

  630. or retirement fund if you don't have anything in it.

  631. You can't lose Social Security if you're not in it.

  632. But they taking it so you know what's in there for you.

  633. OK. The point is, if you haven't put

  634. something in it you can't expect, you can't be concerned

  635. if it collapses. So when people during, you know,

  636. 2008 or especially during the Great Depression, you know it

  637. was in those arenas that people lost that then eventually

  638. affected other people in general.

  639. But if you didn't have anything in it, then it didn't

  640. technically affect you. Well, let me tell you something.

  641. If you're not in God's economic system, you're already being

  642. affected by the world system because you're not tapped into

  643. one that's they can't be shaken because once you get into it,

  644. this whole economy on the world can collapse and God still take.

  645. Care of you. In fact, he will transfer

  646. wealth. I'll say they'll transfer.

  647. Amen. He'll do it.

  648. I don't care if they only go to a digital currency, OK?

  649. If they go to it to where you know your account is based upon

  650. a number that you never see, that they can freeze and keep it

  651. from you anyway, or erase it and then you don't have it because

  652. you don't have anything tangible anyway.

  653. But even if that happens, God can send birds to feed you

  654. daily. And while the world is looking

  655. for scraps, you hanging out waiting for your next Raven

  656. cause a global collapse didn't kill the birds.

  657. Amen. But again, unless you're in His

  658. economy, then you're not going to reap the benefit.

  659. So you need to get in this economy.

  660. How do I get it? You tithe.

  661. You give offerings. That's how you get in.

  662. Amen. You trust God?

  663. Oh, you just want my money. I don't want your money.

  664. You want to put your money in the heavenly account, Jesus says

  665. Store up for yourself treasures. Jesus said that he.

  666. Can't lie. There must be a way you can

  667. store it, 'cause God is not a man that he should.

  668. Amen. And our book's about to come

  669. out. We're about to finish the book

  670. on economics. Hallelujah.

  671. Amen. Colossians 115 to 16 It says,

  672. For he is the image of the invisible God, the first born of

  673. all creation. For by him all things were

  674. created both in heaven and on earth, visible.

  675. And that means there's things created invisible you don't see,

  676. but they're visible to God. Whether Thrones or dominions or

  677. rulers or authorities, all things have been created through

  678. him and for him. So God creates the invisible and

  679. the invisible. For us, the visible is only

  680. visible, and the invisible we think don't exist.

  681. But God says the invisible is just as visible as the visible.

  682. It's invisible, yes, because to some it is, but to me it's not.

  683. So from God's perspective he has the visible and visible, but

  684. when he's talking to us, he says the visible and invisible.

  685. Because what I see you don't Hallelujah, but when you tap

  686. into God, then really everything's visible.

  687. Because I see my faith, I know I'm firmly persuaded, and it

  688. eventually produced that which I'm speaking and firmly

  689. persuaded by the word of God. Are you hearing me?

  690. Amen. First Timothy 117 says this, Now

  691. to the King, eternal, immortal, invisible, and only God be honor

  692. and glory forever and ever. Amen.

  693. Well, I can't see God, so he doesn't exist.

  694. Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

  695. And again, we talked about this Sunday.

  696. There's obviously oxygen in the room.

  697. How do we know? Because you're not dead.

  698. Because if the oxygen got sucked out of this room, no more was

  699. coming in. It would get replaced with what

  700. bit of oxygens in us with our carbon dioxide until it becomes

  701. so toxic that we die and they come in and think we were a

  702. cult, right? I knew they were a colt.

  703. No, the oxygen got sucked out of the room, man.

  704. We didn't know it at the time. We are culture though.

  705. Amen. But again, God says he's

  706. immortal, invisible, just because you don't seem to mean

  707. he doesn't exist. There's angels in the room right

  708. now. I said.

  709. There's angels in the room. Amen.

  710. And we could tell our angels we'll talk about it.

  711. Even though you don't see them. They're listening.

  712. They're waiting a command. We don't worship them.

  713. And they'll tell you don't worship me, but just give me a

  714. command because I'm here to help you.

  715. Are you hearing me? Got two more scriptures And

  716. we'll close Elisha in second Kings 615 to 17.

  717. Now he's he's This is Old Covenant Guy.

  718. All right, says now, when the attendant of the man of God had

  719. risen early and gone out, behold, an army with horses and

  720. Chariots was encircling the city.

  721. And his servant said, Alas, my master, what shall I do?

  722. What shall we do? So he answered, do not fear, for

  723. those who are with us are more than those who are with them.

  724. And the master went out and said, OK, I mean all these

  725. people are with that army. It's you, me, it's two.

  726. Let me go back out and count. I don't know.

  727. You didn't sleep well. Did you eat something?

  728. Because master, I counted 5 times and there's definitely

  729. more of them than you and me in this tent.

  730. So what's he saying? Verse 17.

  731. Then Elisha prayed and said, oh Lord, I pray open his eyes.

  732. What was he? A blind guy?

  733. Obviously it wasn't, because then the first part of the

  734. scripture doesn't work. He went out and saw right.

  735. It says the attendant of the man of God, risen early, gone out

  736. and behold, an army with Chariots.

  737. And the servant said to him, Alas, my master, what shall we

  738. do? In essence, how could he see it

  739. if he was actually literally blonde?

  740. He obviously wasn't blind. He could see naturally.

  741. But yet Elijah's asking him to be able to have eyes open to

  742. see. And it's not natural eyes.

  743. It's pull back the curtain and the Lord opened the sermon's eye

  744. in essence, he said. Because they were down at the

  745. city and they were obviously in a valley and there was mountains

  746. around them. So God started grabbing the

  747. curtain at the top of the mountain and was pulling it

  748. back. And when he pulled it back it

  749. says this and behold, the mountain was full of horses and

  750. Chariots of fire around Elijah. Glory to God.

  751. So Elijah is aware I've had this army with me the whole time.

  752. I said I've had this army with me the whole time because I'm

  753. more aware of that realm and its existence.

  754. So when these come, they don't move me.

  755. And when you're aware of that, then no trial temptation or

  756. test. Is going to move you because

  757. you're very much aware of #1. I can't seem, but you understand

  758. the greater ones on the inside of me.

  759. So you're already at a deficit because you don't.

  760. But I mean, I would love to take my shirt off right now and show

  761. you the Holy Ghost. You hear what I'm saying?

  762. I like to take the. Curtain off and you see God, but

  763. I know he's there and I'm more aware of that.

  764. Which means that I also am more aware of the fruits that he's

  765. holding in his hand, Which means when someone attacks me, I can

  766. be like hey may that patience. Go ahead and give me one of

  767. those self-control ones while I'm there, right?

  768. Because I'm more aware of that than what I'm seeing right now.

  769. For me to respond I'm giving you practical stuff that's saved

  770. your life. Romans 417 last scripture.

  771. Is this because again the unseen exist?

  772. The latter part in the new King James says it this way.

  773. God who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do

  774. not exist as though they did Amplified says this who gives

  775. life to the dead and speaks of the non existent things that he

  776. has foretold and promised as if already existed.

  777. In essence, Abraham said I'm going to have a son.

  778. I'm having a son with Sarah, period.

  779. Because Sarah was wrong unfortunately and I should have

  780. never slept with a woman. The Lord corrected that.

  781. So at this point, this lady's going to have a child.

  782. And it says he did not stagger in unbelief but grew strong in

  783. faith because he's the father of faith, father of us all.

  784. And God calls those things that be not as though they were.

  785. And to the world they'll say it's dead, you're dead.

  786. It ain't going to work. Ain't going to work.

  787. No hope for you. This is it.

  788. This is a problem. And they're showing you

  789. everything in the natural. But you're like this realm, man

  790. is real, this realms good subject to change.

  791. Because I'm behind the curtain and we're not talking about the

  792. Wizard of Oz here, people. You understand what I'm saying?

  793. I'm not talking about the Wizard of Oz.

  794. I'm talking about the King of Glory, the creator of Heaven and

  795. Earth. He has a whole.

  796. Host of invisible things visible to him that he wants you to be

  797. able to see from this side and pull things over.

  798. Let's pray, Father. We love you and we honor you.

  799. We thank you. You're the king of.

  800. Kings and the Lord of Lords, thank you so much for listening

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