Maintain the Spirit - Reigning Spirit - with Pastor Marci Glisson

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Now enjoy this message. Pastor has been talking about

this is the year of the what the reigning spirit say.

I have a reigning spirit. Say it again like you mean it.

Maybe one more time. That sounds good.

That sounds good. So if you're born again, we know

that we have been given a reigning spirit, a spirit that

can always win. Come on.

A spirit that can always conquer Amen.

A spirit that is always in victory, no matter what it seems

like. Amen.

And so Pastor talked about that last week and I don't have time

to go through all of that, but you need to go back and listen

to the last few services on the reigning spirit because we are

going to have to realize that we.

Have. To walk in that reigning spirit,

for us to be able to navigate in this life to come, Amen.

In everything that's going on in the world, we need to know that

we have the victory no matter what's going on.

We have the victory because we have the reigning spirit.

Amen. Hallelujah.

And in Romans Chapter 5, I want to start, I want to talk to this

Romans 5 · chapter mention

morning about how to maintain a reigning spirit.

We've been given a reigning spirit, but how do we maintain

that reigning spirit? Every day, every day we come and

we encounter circumstances, right?

We know that in this life we're going to have what?

Trials and tribulations. But what does he say about that?

Be of good cheer. Why?

Because you have already overcome.

Amen. Because you've already overcome.

So be of good cheer. So what does that mean?

That we can maintain a A rating spirit and be cheerful no matter

what we're going on, what's going on around us, what's

happening in the world. You know, the sky could be

falling and you know what? We could be in a place of

victory. We we we're not, you know, we're

not oblivious of what's going on, but we're saying we're going

to maintain the right spirit in what we do see going on.

Because we don't live by what sight.

We live by faith. We live by faith.

And so again, how? Do we maintain the reigning

spirit? Well, I already gave you one

point which wasn't in the notes. It just came up by the Holy

Ghost as we were worshipping the Lord, right?

We're going to have to build ourselves up on our most holy

faith. Praying in the spirit.

That's one way you can maintain a reigning spirit by making sure

that your spirit is remaining strong.

Your spirit is strong. Do you have a strong spirit?

Do you have a strong spirit? Amen.

And one way to do that is by praying in the Holy Spirit.

And we are a spirit filled church for some of you that may

be new and visiting. We believe in the Acts chapter

one. Acts chapter two.

We believe in the outpouring of the Holy Spirit and that you

should receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you.

And evidence of that would be that you would speak in tongues.

Amen. Hallelujah.

And so if you need scriptures, you know you can see anybody

here that's been here, and they can take you through the

Scriptures to show you that what we are doing is actually in the

word of God. Amen.

And it hasn't been done away with.

And it's not fanaticism. Come on.

And it's not excitement. No, I pray in the Holy Ghost

when nobody's around and everything is quiet.

Not just when I'm in a service and getting hyped up like people

say. No, we're not here to hype you

up, but we are here to fill you up, to fill you up so that you

can walk full. Come on.

And at the new flow of the Holy Ghost is a flow of fullness.

A flow of fullness with a supply that will never run dry.

With a supply that will never run dry.

Hallelujah. Glory to God.

So Romans chapter 5 this is the scripture one of the scriptures

Romans 5 · chapter mention

that Pastor used and I'm only well I did use two that he

brought up. But anyway, Romans chapter 5,

Romans 5:17

verse 17 it says for if by the transgression of one death reign

through the one much more those who receive the abundance of

grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign.

What in life? He expects his children to reign

in life. Amen.

As a Kingdom citizen we know that we are in a Kingdom and in

a Kingdom King's reign. Amen.

They reign and he expects. Us.

The King of Kings expects us to reign in life.

That means we don't have to fall in the traps of everybody else

in the world and what we see them doing.

Right. And how they're behaving because

we can reign over those things. Amen.

When you know who you are in Christ, you will be able to

reign. Amen.

So in First John, he did come out of this scripture in chapter

4. And this is where I actually

want to base the rest of my sermon from in First John,

1 John 4 · chapter mention

chapter 4, verses one through 21, so that you can read it in

full context, Amen. Yourself as well.

If you're taking notes, and you should be taking notes, Amen.

He tells us that we are disciples and disciples are

students or studiers of the word Amen.

So when you go home again, if we're going to reign, we're

going to have to actually read the word Amen.

We're going to have to read the word for ourselves.

Look over our notes, look over these things and study the

scriptures out. Amen.

As a disciple and a student and a pupil of the word, we're here

to equip you and train you how to be disciples and students of

the word. So in first John chapter 4

1 John 4 · chapter mention

verses one through 21 it says this Beloved do not believe

every spirit what but test the spirits to see whether they are

from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the

world and by this you know the spirit of God.

Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the

flesh is from God. And every spirit that does not

confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of Antichrist

and of which you have heard that is coming and now it is already

in the world. You are from God, little

children, and have overcome them.

Because what Pastor Red, this greater is he who is in you than

he that is in the world. They are from the world,

therefore they speak as from the world and the world listens to

them. In this, Pastor explained this

so wonderfully, right? Because he said out of Timothy

that in the last days many are going to what we've been

studying this, and this is part of what we're going to be

talking about this year, that in the last days, many are what

going to fall away from the faith.

Because they're listening to what doctrines of demons,

deceitful spirits, right, and all of these false things.

But he lets us know here the key to maintain a reigning spirit

and being able to hear the difference between what's real

and what's false. Right here he says this we are

from God, and he who knows God listens to us.

He who is not from God does not listen to us by this say.

By this we know the Spirit of truth and the Spirit of.

Error. If we are going to walk and

maintain a reigning spirit, we must get proficient and knowing

who. The Spirit of truth.

Is and the spirit of error is right and he lets us know.

The key for us that know God is that we will know the.

Spirit of Truth, The Spirit of truth.

Say I know the spirit of truth. Hallelujah.

Then if you drop down to verse 7, this is the second.

The first point is we must know the truth.

We must know the truth. The second point is, and

hopefully we'll be able to cover both, is that we must know that

love is from God and that we're born of Him.

It said, beloved, let us love one another, for love is from

God and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

Now we know it says this, let us love one another for love is

from God. Say love is from God.

Love is not from this world and their opinions of what love is.

Love is from God. Love is from God, not what the

world is saying Love is. Amen.

So his love is a pure love. Amen.

His love is what we call agape love, and it's from him.

And those who are born of him know this love.

And this love is the truth. It is not figuring out your own

truth. No, this love is truth.

It's not determining your own truth.

His love is truth. His love is truth.

And if we're going to have a reigning spirit and maintain

that spirit and know the difference between the spirit of

God, the truth, and the spirit of error, and we've got to be

able to recognize it. And if you don't, you're going

to see. This is why the Church has even

fallen into the. Trap.

Isn't it sad? That even the church is starting

to believe their own truth other than what God said truth is Come

on. So he said, Beloved, let us love

one another, for love is from God, and everyone who loves is

born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does

not know God, for God is love. And by this the love of God was

manifested in us, that God sent his only begotten Son into the

world so that he that we might live through him.

And in this love, not that we love God, but that he loved us

and sent his Son to be a perpetuation for our sins.

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

We can still love people the way God says to love them without

accepting their truth. This is not about that, But it's

good, right? And then he goes on to say, no

one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God

abides in US and his love is perfected in US.

And by this we know that we abide in Him and he in us,

because he has given us of His what spirit He's given us his

spirit. And his spirit is a spirit of

truth and a spirit of love. And if we are going to not fall

into doctrines of demons and deceitful right spirits and all

these things, false prophets and all these things that are going

to be rampant and are rampant right now in this last day.

And you can see it because it's already infiltrated in the

church. But that goes to show you how

ignorant Christians are of the truth.

And it's sad. It's very sad, right?

Because they were not able to see the difference between the

spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

But we have a reigning spirit, and our spirit is the spirit of

truth, right? And our spirit is a spirit of

love because we know Romans 55 says when you get born again,

the Holy Spirit what his love is, what shed abroad in our

hearts. So pure love is shed abroad in

our hearts. But not only that, we know that

Corinthian tells us that when we get born again.

And pastors quoted this last Sunday, the Holy Ghost comes and

what dwells and takes up his abode on the inside of us.

So we have the Spirit of Truth, which is the Holy Ghost, which

we're going to show you. And we have the proper, you

know, definition of the love of God already in our hearts.

So we can't buy the lies which we know.

Who is the father of lies? Satan.

Amen. So we must be people that want

no truth and walk in that truth and not decide we're going to

change the truth to fit what we want.

And then we must be people that actually know him and his love.

That is not perverted because we know that the enemy's number one

goal is to come in and pervert and twist everything that God

has said and everything that God has done.

And he did it from the very beginning.

In Genesis. He twisted God's word and

manipulated it, right? And he's been doing that every

since. And that's how that the church

and Christians have even bought the lie because it's been

twisted and manipulated and you didn't realize.

Or know the truth even though he's in you.

You can be born again, but if you don't know the truth, if you

don't, study out the. Truth, you can get caught in a a

lie, you can get caught up in a lie.

And so as believers that's why we say in this church and we

challenge everyone with the Bible reading plan.

I have known Christians that have set in denominational

churches and have been in it for 2025, thirty years and never

opened the word of God themselves to read it.

I know them. They've admitted it.

What does that tell you? That they're illiterate of

truth. And This is why many of those

denominations now have accepted a new kind of love.

OK, so this is how we're going to know.

The difference is we have to be two people of truth.

We'll tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth,

so help us. Amen.

Hallelujah. So the love of God, the truth of

God are two things that we must understand to maintain the

Spirit. Let me finish reading because I

didn't finish reading all of those scriptures in John.

It says by this we know that we abide in Him and He and us

because He has given us of His Spirit.

We have seen and testified that the Father has sent the Son to

be the Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is

the Son of God, God abides in Him, and he in God we come to

know and believe the love which God has for.

Us You see that? We will come to know and believe

the love of God to us. So just because you get born

again does not mean that you actually fully know the love of

God. That means we have to grow in

the knowledge of His love. We have to grow in the knowledge

of His truth so that we have complete understanding of His

love and of His truth. Amen, because it doesn't just

happen the minute you get born again.

Jesus had to grow and discover who He was, he said.

When he was reading the What scrolls, he began to what see

himself in it, Discover himself. And we know Corinthians tells us

that we're to behold the word of God so that we can what?

Look in the mirror and see the reflection of who God is and who

he wants us to be. So this is a process.

Amen. This is a process of truly

discovering who we are in Christ and knowing Him.

It says we have come to know and believe the love which God has

for us. God is love, and the one who

abides in love abides in God and God abides in Him.

By this love is perfected with us.

You see that love is perfected. That means it's maturing.

That's what that means. It doesn't mean you're perfect.

It means that you're maturing when that love can mature in

you. When that love can grow in you.

OK, It says this so that we may have confidence in the Day of

judgment, because as he is, so also are we in this world.

There is No Fear in love. There's No Fear in love, but

perfect love cast out fear because fear involves

punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love.

I don't have time to teach my love class.

So it says we love because he first what loved us.

If someone says I love God and hates his brother, what is he?

Say it again. God's God will call you a liar

straight to your face. Because you're beholding the

word, and when I behold it, my face is in it, and he called me

a liar. If I don't, you see that you

need to start calling things a lie.

Because if you don't, you'll start believing it.

You'll start believing it. And the reason you'll believe it

is because you're not in the truth and you're not receiving

the truth. Because you can read the truth

and not receive the truth. You can hear the truth and not

receive the truth. You can have a deaf ear to what

the Spirit really is saying to you and to the churches, because

you don't want to hear that. Amen.

So he says we love because he first loved us.

If someone says I love God and hates his brother, he is a liar.

For the one who does not love his brother, whom he has seen,

cannot love God whom he has not seen.

And this commandment we have from him that the one who loves

God should love his brother. He commanded us to love one

another. A brother is a brother in the

church we're not talking about. We're commanded to love those in

the world, though we do because we are of God and we love

people. We love humanity.

But the number one thing is here is that we are commanded to love

the brethren one another in the body.

And it's not a suggestion, right.

We've said this before, it's not a suggestion.

It's not a well, you don't know what they said about me or you

don't know what they did to me or you know, blah, blah, blah,

blah, blah. No, it's a command.

And I think it interesting and we've said this before, it's a

command because he knows we are not going to want to do it.

So he says I command. You to do it.

Amen. I command you to do it.

Command is a little bit different.

You know when you're talking to your kids and you suggest, well,

maybe you want to? This is the new philosophy with

parenting, right? Mine were commands at all times.

Well, maybe if you feel like it today that you might want to do,

you know, go and make up your bed.

Or maybe you know if you might have a little bit of time in

between all your ball games that you might want to do your

homework. They give them all these

suggestions instead of get in your room and do your homework

instead of get in your room and make up your bed instead of get

out there. And take out the trash.

Sometimes they need a command, not a suggestion.

Most of the time, the first time you suggest it and they know

that it's a suggestion, What are they going to say?

I don't want to do that when they're little.

I don't want to. That's their first response.

So then what? I don't care if you don't want

to. This is what parents should be

saying. I command you to get in your

room and you got 3 seconds to do it.

Or. There's going to be a punishment

unto death? No.

But come on, they should be responding.

In your first command. Because isn't that how you want

them to respond to God? I don't want my kids.

Well, they're grown now. I don't want my grandkids.

I want them that when they hear what God says that they say,

yes, Lord, you're my commander and my chief.

Yes, Lord, I'm going to do it so that they don't have to go

through and have consequences of disobedience and go through the

pain and the suffering, right? Because how many of us said,

well, if you just would have done what I, then you wouldn't

have had this result. Amen.

I don't know how we got on that. Oh, commandment.

Yes, commandments. So he commands us to love.

So let's look at a couple of things.

We have to know Truth, right? Who is Truth?

Is the world's opinions. Truth.

Come on. Is is Hollywood Truth is a

movie. You watch Truth.

How about this one? Is social media truth?

Give me a break and even. If they try to throw a little

truth out, you know you shouldn't believe it.

You actually should go and investigate it.

Which is what we're supposed to do with the word.

Hey man, we're supposed to search the scriptures out, not

just believe what we hear. Like a bird with our mouth wide

open and and listening to everything.

Come on. So he says we're to no truth.

If we're going to maintain that reigning spirit and know the

difference between his spirit and the spirit of error.

Let's go to John chapter 844. It says you are of your father

the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father.

He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in

what truth. There is no truth.

In him, whenever he speaks, it is a lie.

It's a lie straight from the pit of hell.

It's a lie. He is a liar and he is number

one goal we heard last week is to come steal, kill and destroy

your life. And it starts by you buying a

lie. That is the opposite of the

truth buying the lie. He speaks from his own nature,

for he is a liar and the father of lies, and he knows that he

can get Christians off if they are ignorant.

My people what perish due to what lack of knowledge or truth

of God's word. And he knows if he can keep you

out of the truth and start listening to the truths of this

world. And by he can get you to hook.

Into one little lie, one little bitty, right?

It's the little foxes that spoil the if he can get you to hook

into one. Philosophy of a thought of the

lying systems of this world. He can get you off because it

doesn't start out blatant. Remember, he comes as a what?

Angel of light. So he can get you twisted and

hooked up on one little thought or one little truth of this

world or one little opinion. It's the the, you know,

philosophies of this world and the imaginations of this world.

One and John, he talks about the courses of this world, are

swayed, are swayed. What are they swayed by the lies

of the enemy. And so you must always back it

up with truth. That's why he says in

Corinthians that we're to what take every thought captive and

what line it up to the truth, to the word of God.

We are to line it up with truth. Because I I take every thought

captive because you know what? There are some good.

Thoughts that come my way. They're not all evil, but is

that good thought? A God thought.

It sounds good. It makes my flesh feel good and

easy. Oh well, that would be easy.

Why am I working? Why am I serving the Lord so

much when all these other people get to listen to their own truth

and decide when they want to serve and when they don't?

See that one? If he can get me hooked.

On that he can take me down a road that is not in his.

Truth. Come on, it's the little things.

It's the little things, because he's a liar and he wants to get

you off of the truth. Of God's Word, John 1417 That is

the Spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive.

This is talking of the Holy Spirit because it does not see

Him or know him. But you know him because he what

abides with you and will be in you the working of the Holy

Spirit. That's why he said it was more

advantageous for him to go read John 14/16/17.

I don't have time to teach on the Holy Spirit, but I have a

good over a month worth of teaching on line that you could

go and listen to on the Holy Spirit will help you become

familiar with Him and know Him as a.

Person. Not as a thing.

We'll help you know him as who he is instead of how you feel.

Oh, I don't feel the Holy Ghost. Well, you don't have to feel him

because he's in you, right? So he is the Spirit of what

truth and he where he lives what in us?

He said it's more advantageous for me to go.

Jesus said so that he, the Spirit of truth, may come wise,

so that he can live in you, the Spirit of truth, so that you no

longer have to listen to the lies of the enemy, and so that

you can discern between the Spirit of truth and the Spirit

of error. And in these last days we must

get into the truth of God's word first.

John 519 through 20 It says we know that we are of God and that

the whole world. This was the scripture I was

quoting earlier. The whole world lies in the

power of the evil 1 The whole world.

Lies in the power of the evil 1. All this world's systems, these

world's philosophies, these world's teachings, they all are

rooted from the Father of. Lies.

Amen. And so we have to be wise and

know that I'm not going to listen.

To this person, just because they're a psychologist and I'm

not going to listen to this person on social media because

they have a certificate that was emailed into them and call

themselves prophetess or and call themselves this or that.

You ought to know the truth better than that as a believer.

And I'm not going to listen to you know this person about you

know, self help and self-care when they're not even a believer

because they have their own truth.

We're not saying that everything, but listen to what

the Holy Spirit is saying above everything.

Else. Above everything else, that's

what I weigh my decisions upon my thinking upon.

Well, what does the word? Really say about that before I

just take it hook line and what sinker sinker?

Because that is a sinker. It's a stinker and it's going to

sink you and your walk. With the Lord.

Amen. Hallelujah.

This is the truth. Say.

It's the truth. Say it's the truth.

Say I want to receive the truth. Hallelujah.

You want to have ears to hear the truth, no matter how hard it

may sound. I want to know the truth.

And you know, one of the worst things I hate is when people lie

to me. That's what I hated.

With my children lied to me. They, you know, just don't.

Just don't lie to me because your father is not the devil.

You can do some crazy things, but don't you lie to me.

You should hate lying that bad. Don't you lie to me and you

going to get double If you lie, you think you going to get some

whooping. You lie to me and see what's

coming double for your. Trouble.

Don't lie to me. Don't lie because we don't want

anything to do with lying. A lying spirit because it comes

from the devil, the father of lies.

And as a believer, you ought to hold to your word, and you

ought. To not be lying to people, Lying

to people and you going to lie to yourself.

And that's how you become deceived because you lie to

yourself. OK, so where were we at?

What scripture were we on? Did anybody take a note?

Did I finish it? No.

Verse 20. And we know that the Son of God

has come and has given us understanding so that we may

know him who is what. True.

Aren't you thankful? That you are not bound by Satan

anymore, and that you don't live according to the courses of his

directions. That you actually heard the

truth. You came to the truth, and you

should continually embrace the truth and be thankful for the

truth. Oh, I'm so thankful for the

truth of God's word. Where would we be if God had not

arrested us with His truth? Think about your life and where

you would be if God had not put the Spirit of Truth on the

inside of you. You would still be buying those

old stinking lies that you were unworthy, that everybody hates

you, that you were rejected, that you're a victim of your

reality. Come on, That no man wants you.

Hallelujah. And that every man abuses you.

And come on, all the lies that he told us before we actually

knew the. Truth about who we really are.

Hallelujah. And that he has a purpose and a

plan for our life. And that we weren't just a

mistake. Come on.

Come on. And that you don't have a daddy

in your life, so you ain't going to be no good to nobody else.

Come on. All the lies that the enemy told

us, we. Bought them all.

We bought them all, but thank God.

For the truth of God's word that we know the truth it says and.

We are in him who is true in his Son Jesus Christ.

This is the true God and eternal life.

What did Jesus say about himself in John 1416?

It said, Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the

life. No one comes to the Father

except through me. Hallelujah.

Glory to God. Now let me just keep reading

these because they're good. You just need to hear it, John

1837. Therefore Pilate said to him, So

you are a king. That's right, we serve a king.

And Jesus answered and said, you say correctly that I am king and

for this reason I have been born and for this I have come into

the world. What did he come into this world

for? To testify to truth, to say here

I am, the father said he was going to send me come on to

redeem the world, and I'm here as a testimony and to testify to

the truth of God's word that he is true and every man is a liar.

Hallelujah. He came to testify the truth to

let you say, to let the devil know.

No longer do the people have to buy your life.

Because I am truth. I am truth.

I'm. Truth Hallelujah.

He came to testify of truth and listen what he said.

Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice.

You want to not stop listening to truth because you're locking

up his voice in your life and some.

Of you have. Listened to lies.

And you're wondering why you're having a hard time hearing him.

Because you've locked up listening to truth.

You've locked him up. You're not listening.

You're not hearing him. Come on.

I don't ever want to be in a place where I can't hear his

voice. And hear his truth.

But if you quit listening to truth?

You won't hear him. You won't hear him.

I don't care that he lives in you.

You've closed your ears off to him, and your heart has locked

up to him because you don't want to receive the truth any longer.

Hallelujah. John 424 says God is spirit and

those who worship him will worship him.

In what spirit and truth? Because you can't have the

Spirit of God without the truth of God.

You can't have the Spirit of God without the truth of God.

They are inseparable, inseparable, and they work hand

in hand. Amen.

Now John 1526 says this when the helper comes, said, I have a

helper whom I will send to you from the Father.

That is the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father.

He will what testify of me? You see that we have the Father

who is truth. We have the Son who is truth and

testifies the truth, and then we have the Holy Spirit come on,

That is truth. And all three, all three are

going to be in agreement. All three are going to be in

agreement that I am. Truth.

This is truth. This is the word.

I don't care what you're hearing.

I don't care what that person said.

This is truth. Because the Father said it, the

Son testified of it, and the Spirit of God is the Spirit of

truth. Hallelujah.

So we have them all. Three, glory to God to maintain

a reigning spirit. Now look at this in First

1 Timothy 3 · chapter mention

Timothy chapter 3 and verse 15 says this.

But in case I am delayed, I write so that you will know how

one ought to conduct himself in the House of God, the household

of God. Do you know this is a house?

We're a family. Come on, we're family.

We're part of one another. We're one with one another.

And he lets us know how we ought to act in the household of God.

And he says this which is what The Church of the living God the

pillar and what support. Of that was the Church's

assignment to be a pillar of truth in this world that is full

of lies. And to be what?

One that would support truth. And what has the Church done?

Not been a pillar of truth, backed off of being of support

of what God's word really said because they want to please man.

And that was the church's goal, not to win the lost.

The Church's number one assignment is to uphold truth in

a world full of lies, and the church has failed tremendously.

Of in whole, in a whole, not this Church.

A pillar and a support of truth. That means my responsibility as

pastors and those that are equipping the Saints is to

always speak the truth to you, even when you don't want to hear

it. Because I am responsible.

You are responsible as the Church to uphold truth at all

cost, at all cost, no matter how bad it hurts your little

feelings. In a counseling session, I can

only speak the truth in. Love.

But that truth we know, will What set you free if you receive

it. If you don't, it's on you.

It's on you. But we are to uphold and be a

pillar. A pillar is something that's

strong, just like this pole here, you know, this lovely pole

that we've had for now, what how many years we've been in this

facility, maybe what, 15 years in this theater.

And believe me, we wanted to take this big pillar.

Out. But it was going to cost a.

Lot of money to take one little pillar out to reinforce it, but

what it's. Upholding this, this roof, it's

upholding it. It's strong.

I mean, it's not going anywhere, right?

Come try to bounce up against it.

It's not like you going to knock it over.

No, it's there. It's a support.

It's upholding. Come on.

And that's what that we are to do as the Church of the living

God. We are supposed to be a pillar

of truth in a world that is full of lies.

And when people come to us and say, well, you know, I really

want to be in this relationship, but they're a female.

I'm sorry, the truth of God's word is that he loves you, but

that will not be acceptable in his Kingdom.

And you know what? He can take that away from you

if you just yield. We're upholding the truth of

God's word when somebody comes and says, you know, I, I I want

to be with this other woman and I'm married.

Oh, well, truth of God's word is not to be committing adultery.

Come on. So when you have to make those

hard calls, you know, people don't like to hear it all the

time and they have talked bad about.

You, you know, slander You. Why?

Because all you're trying to do is uphold truth so that they

won't buy the lie and be in a place of destruction in their

life. Because we all know that it

leads to destruction. Amen.

So the church was to be the pillar and the support of God's

word, God's truth, no matter what is relevant.

For today, no matter what, we're going to uphold truth.

Amen. So look what he says about this

truth. Listened.

He says this in John 1613, but when he, the spirit of truth

comes, what's he going to do? He's going to guide you into all

truth. For he won't speak on his own

initiative, or what is that his own opinion or what he thinks

about the situation? No.

He's going to guide you into all truth and but whatever he hears,

he will speak and then he will disclose it to you.

What is to come? Aren't you thankful that the

spirit of Truth lives on the inside of you so that he can

begin to lead you and guide you into what?

All truth, the whole truth, Nothing but the truth, so help

us. We want the truth of God's Word.

Look what happens when you receive the truth of God's Word

in John 1717 through 19 Sanctify them in Thy truth.

Your Word is truth for their sakes.

I sanctified myself that they themselves also may be

sanctified. In what?

Truth sanctification comes to your life by actually being in

the word of God and the truth of God's Word.

And not only that, what receiving it you've there's

there's multiple ways for you to say that.

I'm a doer of the word. You've got to hear it.

You've got to receive it. You've got to believe it, Come

on. And then you've got to do it.

That's when it's actually a part of your life.

That's when truth is revealed. And a part of your life is when

you're actually walking in it, because you can hear it all day

long. And there's people in this room

right now. I heard by the Spirit saying I

disagree with that. Well, I don't care that you

disagree with it. The Word of God says it.

So you can. Do whatever you want with your

disagreement. Just know you're listening to a

lie and you are listening to the Father of lies.

Amen. So he says this.

The Word will sanctify us. John 11 In the beginning was the

Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God and the

Word. What made flesh and dwelt among

us and we? Beheld his glory, the glory of

his only begotten of the Father. Full of what?

Grace and truth? So he didn't just save you by

his wonderful, Amazing Grace. Come on.

He wants you to operate in truth as.

Well, and truth has to be received Hallelujah and acted

upon for you to actually do it. John 831 through 32 So Jesus was

saying to the Jews who had believed in him.

If you continue in my word, then you are truly disciples of Me,

and what happens you will know. The truth and the truth will set

you free, make you free, one translation says.

And Marcy's translation says, We'll keep you free, we'll keep

you free. It will set you free.

Come on, it will make you free. And it will keep you free.

If you remain in His word, if you allow His word to take first

place. Dominance in your heart, above

everybody else, above everybody else's opinion, above your

husband's opinion, Above your spouse's opinion.

Come on. Above your parents opinions of

what the word says. No, I want to hear the spirit of

truth. I hear what you saying.

But what's the spirit saying? Because it's the spirit of

truth. And many of women been taken out

of the church because they listen to the husband's doctrine

and vice versa. Instead of what did the Spirit

of truth and the word of truth say?

Come on, do you know him? Do you know him?

Yeah, all the time. It's happening.

And the number one reason is because we don't know the Spirit

of truth because we are not abiding in His truth, in His

word. His word is truth.

John 15-7 If you abide in me and my words abide in you, you shall

ask whatever you will and it shall be done for you.

So we must be people, students of the truth of God's Word.

We must continue to be people that put ourselves in a position

that we are studiers of the Word.

We're reading the Word. What did he say the Word would

be to our lives. Life, he said.

It was daily bread, Daily bread. It's our life source and if

we're not in the word and in Our Daily Bread, receiving the

truth. Then we are easily going to be

swayed in these last days, he said.

Many will fall away from the faith.

Many will be seduced, deceived by doctrines of demons.

Many. And we have to say we are going

to position ourselves to be in the word and be in truth, so

that we don't ever buy a lie of the enemy to get us off.

Amen. Hallelujah.

Because we want to be people of the word, students of the word,

hiding the word. Psalms 119.

Hiding the word in our hearts so that we won't sin against him.

Do you know when you deny truth, you sin against him.

So we want to hide the word of God in our hearts so that we

don't sin against him, so that we don't listen to a lie that is

not his truth. That's somebody else's truth.

Come on. We don't want to buy the lie.

We want to be those that know the word of God for ourselves.

Colossians 316 It says Let the word of Christ dwell in you

richly, richly. That's what you need to position

yourself to do this year. To say.

I'm going to put the word of God in me so that it dwells in me

richly what it just like I'm full of the Holy Spirit.

I build myself up praying in the Holy Spirit, and the Spirit of

Truth is speaking to me. But the Spirit of Truth cannot

remind you or reveal to you anything if you don't have the

word richly dwelling within you. The Word of God, Steve, you've

been a student of the Word for 32 years.

You ought to be full of the word that anytime a situation

happens, No, the Word says this. I don't even have to think about

that because that's so foolish. It's a lie because I have the

Word. And what is the word?

Many scriptures that can come up on the inside of me as the Holy

Spirit is what? Speaking to me, reminding me of

the word of the. Truth.

That's been put in my heart because I've hid it in there.

If you don't have anything hiding in there, then you're

going to believe every lie, you're going to believe it, and

then you're going to. What in the world have I been

doing if you ever come to? Come on, just that easy.

So Proverbs 4 says this and 20 my son, Attend to my words.

Incline thy ear to my sayings. Let them not depart from your

eyes and keep them where? In the midst of your heart.

Keep them in the midst of your heart so that truth can always

speak to you. Truth can always cause the word

to come up when a lie or a word from the enemy is there.

No, the truth is popping up because the Holy Ghost is truth

and he's reminded me of the truth that's in the word of God.

Amen. It's not just about feeling

goosebumps with the Holy Ghost. I'd much rather than have the

Spirit of truth living on the inside of me and feel nothing.

And feel nothing. But thank God.

We can sometimes feel the presence of God and that

tangible presence. That's awesome.

But I'd much rather have the Spirit of truth living on the

inside of me, and the word of God richly dwelling on the

inside of me. Come on, then.

Feeling a thing. I don't care if I don't run

around this building one more time, or if I don't shout one

more time. As long as I have the spirit of

Truth and the word of God richly dwelling on the inside of me, I

can be assured I will have a reigning spirit.

A reigning spirit. Hallelujah.

But guess. But guess what?

We can. Experience him and feel him.

But it's not all about that. And I when I.

See people, that's all about that.

They're wacky, they're kooky, and they listen to deceiving

spirits and they get off. I'm telling you, I have seen it

now. For 32 years when they don't

have. The.

Word of God. To keep them balanced by the

spirit of truth, because that's what the Word will do.

The Word will pull you in and say, come on now, keep you

straight. All right, we're not going to

get to my love. My second point, but I want to

read this last scripture before we close.

Pastor did let me know that he's assigning me some Wednesday

nights in February, so maybe we'll finish this out second

Thessalonians 2/1 through. 12 Hallelujah, 2nd Thessalonians. 2

One through 12 says this now, brethren, concerning the coming

of the Lord Jesus Christ, and are gathering together in him,

We ask you not to soon shaken in your minds, or troubled either

by spirit, or by word, or by letter, as if from some of us,

as though the day of Christ had come.

Let no one deceive you by any means, for that day will not

come unless the falling away comes first.

This is Speaking of what Pastor was saying about the falling

away in Timothy, that many are going to fall away from the

faith. So this is what he's saying,

that great falling away will come first.

And the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, right?

Which is the Antichrist who opposes and exalts himself above

all, above all that is called God or that is worship, so that

he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is

God. Do you not remember that when I

was still with you I told you these things, and now you know

what is restraining that he may only is restraining that he may

be revealed in his own time. For the mystery of lawlessness

is already at work. Only he who now restrains will

do so, until he was taken out of the way.

And then the Lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will

consume with the breath of his mouth, and destroy with the

brightness of his coming. The coming of the Lawless One is

according to the working of who with all power signs, and what

lying wonders, and with all unrighteousness and deception.

Among those who perish, what happened because they did not

receive the love of the truth that they might be, And for this

reason God will send them strong delusion that they should

believe the what, that they all. May be condemned who did not

believe the truth, but had pleasure in what?

Hallelujah. Say thank you for the truth.

Aren't you thankful that you're sitting in a body that's

speaking the truth? Aren't you thankful that you are

receiving God's word and? Truth.

So that you're not one of them that's going to be condemned

because they did not love the truth, nor what believe the

truth means They didn't want to hear it.

They didn't want to hear the truth.

They were stubborn, stiff, necked against God, Hate God.

Come on. And there's people like that

right now in our world that hate God and hate when you even

mention Jesus Christ his name. They don't want to hear the

truth. And they're going to be

condemned for it. But we need to recognize that if

we're going to have a reigning spirit and be able to walk in

the rest of the time that we have still left on the earth,

then we are going to have to be people that love the truth.

Of God's Word. We are going to have to be

people that say yes, Lord, speak the truth to me, even if it

hurts. Speak the truth to me, even if I

have to radically change my whole life, my whole purpose, my

whole destiny. Because my truth is this is what

I wanted to do with my life. But I'm hearing you say, but

this is what you want me to do. And that means.

I would have to radically. So what are we going to do?

Are we going to deny truth and not do what it is we know the

truth of God's word is saying and be one of those no that

reject truth? No.

We want to always be a person that hears truth, receives

truth, understands truth, studies his truth and answers to

truth. Answers to truth.

What does that mean? Whatever he says, the truth is

my answer. It's my answer to people in the

world. It's my answer to you and the

body. It's my answer to me.

What is his truth to me? Hallelujah individually.

And so now is the time that if we're going to walk and maintain

this reigning spirit, we've got to be those that love.

Truth I was reminded of. Remember when they were stoning

Stephen? Anybody remember reading that

they were stoning Stephen and all he kept speaking forth was

what? The truth of God's word and what

happened? They wrenched their ears and

cover. They covered their ears and and

and gnawed at themselves because they just hated to hear truth.

Isn't that what it says? And we and he saw Jesus standing

up and looking over because you know what?

He was being a support and pillar of truth in the midst of

being stoned and killed for what he believed, for speaking the

truth. And they didn't want to hear it

one bit. But guess what?

It's the truth nonetheless. It's the truth nonetheless.

And we are living in a day and in an hour that we must be

people of truth, no matter what the cost, no matter what we're

facing, no matter what we're standing before we are going to

release truth into people's lives.

Because. You know what?

It's literally. The only thing that can set

people free. It's.

Literally the only thing that can set people free is the truth

of God's word. All the programs, there's tons

of programs to help people and their addictions, all kinds of

stuff in this. World psychologists have to

offer all these things, but it's the one thing that they need,

and that is truth, because it is the only thing that's going to

set them free from themselves. From themselves, Hallelujah.

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