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Reigning Resonance - Kingdom Decree

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  1. Thanks for checking out the Anchor Faith Message podcast

  2. from St. Augustine, FL.

  3. Now enjoy this message. But how many?

  4. Remember what this year is? Because you understand I'm not

  5. going to minister that Sunday. I got some other things to do.

  6. So I wanted to kind of end out a Wednesday night on reminding us

  7. of what this year was. Because you have what's today,

  8. the 20th. You have 11 days to get your

  9. mouth together, all right. To rekindle what you started

  10. saying, to check up on yourself and make sure that you cause.

  11. Here's the thing, just because there was an emphasis in the

  12. area of our miles this year, it was raining residents, which

  13. means our decree should go beyond our lifetime, OK.

  14. And that there's power in our words.

  15. We're going to see this again tonight.

  16. But you understand it doesn't stop when 2024 hits.

  17. Because you know, what I am extremely aware of is that when

  18. God brought us in the 2017 and he said, Pastor Earl, this is

  19. your year to equip the Saints, we're going to deal with

  20. equipping like never before. And we started on a journey

  21. that's produced a book and it took three years to do that.

  22. Because then 2018 came and we did it again, two point O and we

  23. did it equipped again 3 point O. Then we got to 2020 and it was

  24. year to rain and we've been talking about raining ever

  25. since. But what's interesting is in the

  26. Year to Rain was the year the world shut down and God had

  27. given us three years as a corporate body.

  28. Not that we aren't equipping because man, if you've not been

  29. to anchor Faith Church long, let me just let you know what goes

  30. on here. I mean, we have services on

  31. Sunday and on Sunday before you even come into service, you can

  32. do an Anchor Faith live class. There are three that are running

  33. each Sunday that you can attend to continue to grow and develop.

  34. As a believer, we are into discipling the Saints because

  35. the Bible says go make disciples, not converts.

  36. Although we have evangelistic things that we do, we are very

  37. purposeful in discipling the believer.

  38. OK, and so you can do that then. Then, if you're not doing one of

  39. those classes, you can come to corporate prayer.

  40. At 9:30, 10/30, we're hitting our classes.

  41. If you are a vision partner on Sunday night you can attend our

  42. Kingdom Institute, by which you would take three classes, right?

  43. And then you can be disciple there.

  44. If you are a male, that is a male by birth.

  45. You can then attend our 318 classes on Monday night, OK.

  46. And so that's a three-year commitment as well.

  47. So we have that discipleship. Then our women at various times

  48. through the year, they go through some additional

  49. training, discipleship through books and various meetings.

  50. Same thing we do some general sessions with men, not to

  51. mention our Wednesday night that we do here at the church where

  52. we're always training people and doing stuff.

  53. I mean, we're constantly in a position where we are wanting

  54. the Bible or the Saint to grow up and mature.

  55. But there was an emphasis throughout those three years of

  56. what it means to actually be equipped.

  57. And as you remember, one of our context was, if all you do is

  58. educate the body of Christ, and this isn't our book equipped,

  59. there's some great stuffing stalkers out there, stock

  60. stuffing, stocking stuffers. Thank you.

  61. Out there is that if all the church does is educate their

  62. body the best they can produce as a Pharisee.

  63. Because God never intended for the fivefold ministry to only

  64. educate the body. He expected them to equip them.

  65. And equipping is more than education, OK.

  66. And so you know, we endeavor to do that here.

  67. So when we came through those three years, we found out who

  68. developed an equipped body. Because when the world shut

  69. down, the church that Jesus Christ is building prospered and

  70. flourished. During that trial, it continued

  71. to grow. It took its persecution, but it

  72. did not back down and it is thriving today.

  73. Well, then we get into raining, and this may be our theme till

  74. Jesus comes, which could be very soon, extremely soon, super

  75. soon. That's why we're probably

  76. talking about all the things we're talking about by the

  77. Spirit. So you just need to look up and

  78. start practicing flying like Superman, right, 'cause people

  79. go watch me go up and I'm not going to look stupid.

  80. How many of you are one of those 80s kids like me?

  81. And there was that one show called The Greatest American

  82. Hero. Remember that show?

  83. And he lost the manual on how to fly and he stunk at flying.

  84. I'm not going to look like that being caught up.

  85. And if you do, I'm going to tell you.

  86. When we get to the Lord, you look like the greatest American

  87. hero guy. You should have been practicing.

  88. Say, well, Pastor Earl, how do I practice?

  89. We have gravity. Just jump out over on your bed,

  90. you know, see yourself flying. Imagine it.

  91. Have faith that you're going to look good.

  92. Got to believe God, for some things you understand.

  93. Not like you're going to just be doing somersaults all the way

  94. up, screaming, no, you're going to be like, all right,

  95. Hallelujah. So it's reigning residents for

  96. 2023. Amen.

  97. And it's concerning the Kingdom principle of decree.

  98. A decree is a Kingdom principle of decree is a royal decree is

  99. the declaration of a king that becomes law.

  100. It is sustained by the King's personal commitment to bring the

  101. declaration or promise to pass. What is a decree?

  102. By just a simple definition, it's an official order having

  103. the force of law given by a person with power or by a

  104. government. OK, why are we talking to Creed?

  105. Well, if you've been at Anchorage church long, do you

  106. know that we know that the Bible is not not a religious book.

  107. It's about a king, his Kingdom, and his royal offspring.

  108. All right? And that's all the Bibles ever

  109. been about. And when we see in Genesis

  110. chapter one, verse 26, when God said, let us make man in our

  111. image according to our likeness and let him have dominion or

  112. rule on the earth. So God created man in his image,

  113. in his likeness. So as God rules in heaven, man

  114. was the rule over the earth as God wanted him to.

  115. And in turn, both heaven and earth would have had the same

  116. environment of which God came down the cool of day, spent time

  117. with Adam and Eve, no issue. But when Adam abdicated his

  118. throne by eating the fruit, God told him not to eat.

  119. Then he turned his power over to the devil, which is clearly

  120. outlined in Luke chapter four that he received that when he

  121. was tempting Jesus, he said, I'll give you all this domain in

  122. a moment of time, for it's been handed over to me.

  123. It was handed over to him by the 1st Adam in the garden, who

  124. rebelled against God, ate the fruit, and handed that power to

  125. the devil. Jesus Christ said I came to

  126. destroy the works of the devil, right?

  127. Which is the sin or rebellion against God's word.

  128. That's why Jesus only did what God said, because he's the last

  129. Adam. And all the miracles that Jesus

  130. performed in the four gospels we know were under the dominion

  131. that Adam had. What was that dominion He had

  132. demean over the birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, over

  133. all the cattle, over all the earth, and over every creepy

  134. thing that creeps on the earth. So it's not surprising when he

  135. can tell Peter, go out into the deep and put your neck down,

  136. 'cause fish will listen to him. Because fish were going to

  137. listen to the first Adam. OK, This is why he can say,

  138. Peter, go throw your hook in in the water and the first fish

  139. that comes is going to have your tax and my tax in it.

  140. And that fish heard him when he gave that order or decree to

  141. Peter. And when Peter obeyed that

  142. decree, that fish obeyed the King's decree, found the 2

  143. coins, and went and found Peter. Are you hearing me?

  144. So we know this again. Jesus could curse a fig tree

  145. pretty easy because it's a plant in the planet, right?

  146. He could speak to it. This is why he can multiply the

  147. loaves, because they came from grain, which came from the earth

  148. itself, and it had to listen to him okay.

  149. And so this is all about rulership.

  150. It's all about God being the ultimate king.

  151. Jesus is the king of And who are those kings?

  152. We are those kings and we are not those kings when we get to

  153. heaven where those kings the minute we come into the Kingdom

  154. of God because we are transferred out of the domain of

  155. darkness into the Kingdom of his beloved Son.

  156. A Kingdom, The Kingdom of God does have a physical place to

  157. it, but it's not necessary for it to be active.

  158. Just like it's not necessary for the United States to own every

  159. piece of real estate on the globe to enforce this policies.

  160. Because if you attack an embassy in a foreign territory, by all

  161. rights our nation can come after your nation and you are

  162. ambassadors for Christ. And when people try to attack

  163. the church, by all rights you're authorizing God to send his

  164. special forces. They're called angels and they

  165. will smoke you. There's not an army nor a bomb

  166. big enough. Are you hearing me?

  167. Because those guys are so stealth they can get in behind

  168. enemy lines. Push your button, let it blow up

  169. and walk out. Hallelujah.

  170. So the church is not this beat down.

  171. You know all. We're just wringing our hands

  172. wishing Jesus would come back. We are the most powerful force

  173. on the face of the planet. Amen.

  174. Now we are terrorized and there's tribulations that come

  175. to us because the world hates us and hates God.

  176. But we are not in the position of inferiority.

  177. We're in the position of power. And that's why we have mercy and

  178. compassion when we see people attack us.

  179. Because like, you just don't know.

  180. You don't know you're on the wrong side.

  181. You don't know you're on the side that's ultimately going to

  182. lose. And I'm going to respond in a

  183. way that you're not even used to in order to help open up your

  184. heart and your eyes to see so that you'll accept the same

  185. Christ that I did. So you can get out of that junk

  186. and get into what we're in. Are you hearing me?

  187. So then because God made man in his image and image of his

  188. likeness, we know that one of the very first assignments he

  189. did with Adam, when he changed in the guard, he brought him all

  190. the animals and he said to Adam, he said, you name them.

  191. Now, why did you do that? Because God declares with his

  192. words, and so he required then Adam to declare with his words

  193. as well. So our decree rest in what we

  194. hear Jesus saying, not in what the world is saying.

  195. Amen. And it is heir to think that the

  196. whole world can have a unified idea.

  197. And for some reason we think that's God when the majority of

  198. the world does not hold an allegiance to our King and it

  199. always tries to come about it in a particular way to discredit

  200. who we serve. And so, you know, when the mass

  201. majority agrees on a thing, you should take a step back and say

  202. because again, we are not led by what we see or what we hear, we

  203. are led by the spirit of God. You know, he can tell you

  204. something different now. The world can be accurate,

  205. actually concerning a condition. I'll give you a case in point.

  206. Isaac. You know the son of Abraham is

  207. in the land and there is a famine.

  208. And it's factual. There's a famine and everyone is

  209. taking the advice of the land and that is go to Egypt.

  210. That's where you can prosper. But Isaac heard God, and God

  211. said, don't you go to Egypt, You plant right here.

  212. Now, Do you think God knows there's a famine?

  213. Sure he does. Is he moved by it?

  214. No. I mean, this is God getting rid

  215. of competition. Just to be honest with you, I'll

  216. just go ahead and get rid of all the competition.

  217. Let you be the only one in the land to plant.

  218. Then he does. And he ends up having what the

  219. farmers call a bumper crop. I mean, he has a hundredfold

  220. return. And the transfer of the wealth

  221. of that area goes straight into Isaac.

  222. Why? Because he wasn't moved by what

  223. he saw, He was only moved by what he heard.

  224. And we have to do that all the more as we see the day

  225. approaching, is that we must become proficient at being led

  226. by the Spirit. Now let me caveat that the Holy

  227. Spirit will never say anything outside the alignment of His

  228. word. So if you come to me and say I

  229. heard the Holy Ghost say and it is in, it is not in keeping with

  230. the scripture, I'll have to tell you you're not telling me the

  231. truth. Now I need to help you

  232. understand how to hear the Holy Ghost 'cause that really wasn't

  233. his voice. Now it probably was a spirit.

  234. It just wasn't the Holy Spirit because the Holy Spirit will

  235. never speak against or violate truths within God's word.

  236. I'm not telling you he's going to give you specific Scriptures.

  237. What I am saying is that whatever concept he gives you is

  238. going to have a biblical truth based to it, whatever that

  239. leading is, and you'll be able to trust it emphatically without

  240. doubting, and it will come to pass.

  241. Amen. So then God's Word in your mouth

  242. is the same as God's Word in his mouth if you are firmly

  243. persuaded the authority of God is in what you say.

  244. This is not just reciting Scripture.

  245. This is being firmly persuaded that the Word I just said, God's

  246. authority is within it to perform it, period.

  247. And it cannot be any other way. And the easiest way to explain

  248. this one is you know when you first came into the Kingdom of

  249. God, OK? And the reason you want to use

  250. this one is because you didn't know Jack, right?

  251. You just knew I ain't right with God.

  252. And somebody right now is telling me that if I believe in

  253. my heart and confess with my mouth, Jesus Christ is Lord.

  254. That He that he was born of the Virgin.

  255. He died on the cross. He was dead for three days, but

  256. on the third day the Holy Ghost raised him.

  257. And I can't get to God by myself.

  258. I could not do it alone. I need what he did, His

  259. sacrifice his blood to take care of my sin issue.

  260. OK, so I'm. I call him Lord, which is not a

  261. religious word. It means supreme in authority.

  262. He is supreme in authority of my life.

  263. OK, When you did that, when you made that confession, which is a

  264. scripture at the end of the day, then you know you were born

  265. again. You didn't go and say, well, I

  266. hope I got it, 'cause if you said that, then you made a

  267. confession where your mouth without your heart, because you

  268. can say God's word and not believe it.

  269. That's what Pharisees do, right? That's what lost people do.

  270. You know, Jesus himself says, you know, they, they use my

  271. word, you know, But there are hearts far from me, OK?

  272. And so when you truly believe, I mean, it's every bit of your

  273. being, you are firmly persuaded that I am right with God.

  274. And with this confession, I believe God.

  275. I believe God at His word. Well, then, you know you're born

  276. again. And 1st John 513 confirms that.

  277. He says, you know, that once we've accepted Christ, we will

  278. know that we have eternal life. So I know I do.

  279. I mean, I know that I have no doubt about that.

  280. I know that I am right with God now.

  281. Why else do I know it? Because another scripture tells

  282. me that since I was born again, I became a new creature in

  283. Christ. But the Holy Ghost came and

  284. moved in on the inside and bore witness with my spirit.

  285. I'm a child of God, so I had the Holy Ghost telling me, which

  286. again, sure, he would tell me that because the scripture tells

  287. me he would tell me that. Now what he wouldn't do is say

  288. you're the most special one of all.

  289. Now we're all special, but ain't none of us better than others.

  290. We all have equal access to the Father, but not all of us enjoy

  291. the benefits of the Father because not all of us accessing.

  292. Although we have equality to do so now, we're not all equal

  293. because our assignments dictate what our Father needs us to

  294. have, and that doesn't show favoritism.

  295. That's just called placement. Are you hearing me all right?

  296. Because if that was a problem for you, then you'd have a

  297. problem when he said, well, I gave 1512111, but the five and

  298. the two, when they did what he knew they could do, what was his

  299. report on both of them? Well done.

  300. And that's pretty amazing. So again, we're not in

  301. competition with one another. We're just doing what God's

  302. called us to do to accomplish the task.

  303. Amen. All right.

  304. I better get moving or I won't finish tonight.

  305. OK. So with that being said, Psalms

    Psalms 33:9

  306. 33, verse 9. For he spoke and it was done.

  307. Man, you should just say that 100 times.

  308. I mean, this one verse should be on your refrigerator, right?

  309. I mean, it's right here. Get you jacked up, right?

  310. For he spoke and it was done. He commanded, and it stood firm.

  311. That's our father. Our father is not how some

  312. people well, you know if the Lord wants it or not, you know,

  313. well, I mean our God is not like that.

  314. Our God does His word. So when someone's talking like

  315. that, then I I know, OK, you haven't got, you have not set

  316. down enough and heard the father's word on it yet to have

  317. a confidence. And that's OK.

  318. But you need to have at least acknowledge that that I haven't.

  319. I do not have at this point such confidence that I've heard him

  320. on this matter because when he speaks, it's done.

  321. Now I'm going to add this to my book capacity when we write it.

  322. I was listening to Doctor Miles Monroe the other day and he made

  323. this statement. I thought, wow, I knew right

  324. then. I said I might have to put that

  325. in that capacity book when we write it.

  326. He said, you know, because the Scripture says that the Lord

  327. knows the beginning from the end.

  328. And so he says this if God starts something with you, it is

  329. guarantee that it's completed because he knows the beginning

  330. where from the end. Which means then he's not asked.

  331. He If he's asked you start this, his guaranteed is completed

  332. because he never starts something that he hadn't already

  333. finished. Wow, you know, so people here,

  334. all the Lord wants me. Don't be afraid.

  335. He's already got it mapped out. Your assignment in this process

  336. now is to be led by the Spirit and stay on the path.

  337. Let his words be a lamp into your feet and a light into your

  338. path. You're guaranteed.

  339. Amen. Now, that's if you're hearing

  340. right. Because again, when the Lord

  341. says it, he's already had the end before he spoke.

  342. The beginning. All right.

  343. So he spoke. It was done.

  344. He commanded. It stood fast.

  345. Look at Psalms, 148 verses five and six, he said.

  346. Let them praise the name of the Lord.

  347. For he commanded and they and they were created.

  348. He also established them forever and ever.

  349. He has made a decree which will not pass away.

  350. Amen. Will not pass away.

  351. So when the Lord speaks, that's why he's careful at what he

  352. says. He himself is obligated to the

  353. word He says. This is why.

  354. And you know, I'm not going to go down and teach this at this

  355. juncture because there's too many new people in here and I'm

  356. not going to go there. But when the Lord said to Adam,

  357. you can eat from any tree of the garden, but at the tree of the

  358. knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat for the day you

  359. eat, you will surely die. That's going to happen.

  360. Let me back up one. Let us make man in our image

  361. according to our likeness, and let them have dominion.

  362. Rule over what? The earth.

  363. They don't own the planet, but they are to rule the planet.

  364. So who now rules planet Earth? Man does not God.

  365. Then he tells his man. You get to do this as long as

  366. you are obeying what I say. But if you eat this, you're

  367. going to die and we're going to be separated.

  368. Adam has never blown it his whole life, never made a

  369. mistake, never sinned, didn't even know what sin was.

  370. Then a tempter shows up in the garden, right convinces Eve to

  371. eat the fruit, of which she does.

  372. Adam totally rebels, eats the fruit, and then two things

  373. occur. A transfer of power doesn't go

  374. back to God, but goes to the voice they submitted to.

  375. Because notice when Jesus was being tempted by the devil in

  376. Luke chapter four, he said. All this domain's been given to

  377. me. You know I can give to you.

  378. I have it. I can give it to you.

  379. Give it to whoever I wish, because it's been handed over to

  380. me. Notice she didn't say it is

  381. written. The earth is the Lord and the

  382. fullness thereof. Notice he did not say that

  383. verse. He did not rebuke that thought.

  384. OK, he said. I'll give this to you if you'll

  385. fall down to worship me. And he says it is written you're

  386. only going to worship God. That's all we going to do.

  387. Because you don't know I have a plan to get it back legally.

  388. You understand what I'm saying? We got a plan you're unaware of.

  389. OK, so then the minute that takes place, God doesn't come

  390. down because the way we talk about the Father today, you

  391. know, why didn't the father just come down and say, Adam, where

  392. are you? Right.

  393. And he said, well, you know, we were naked and we hid ourselves.

  394. Well, who told you you were naked?

  395. Did you eat the fruit? I told you you weren't supposed

  396. to. Well, it's that woman you gave

  397. me. She ate it and gave it to me.

  398. He goes to Eve, right? You know, he's blaming God, not

  399. Eve. So he goes to Eve, said what he

  400. does, she tells the truth. I was deceived.

  401. I ate the fruit from this serpent.

  402. So he goes to the serpent and he goes and says, OK, I'm, I'm

  403. obligated to my decree. So this is what we call an

  404. amendment. He said, well, I'm going to

  405. bring my seed through a woman because I can't use man.

  406. His seed's corrupt, so I'm going to bring my seed through the

  407. woman, OK? And Joshua?

  408. Where's Joshua? Shirley.

  409. Joshua hates it when I do this, too.

  410. I call him out. Yeah, he probably is.

  411. Joshua, you're going to want to talk to me about God?

  412. Said to the serpent. I'll bring my seat through the

  413. woman. OK.

  414. You'll crush his, you know. You'll bruise his heel, but

  415. he'll crush your head again. We we treat forgiveness so

  416. flippantly now. Why didn't God just say Adam?

  417. I forgive you. Let's just sound like it didn't

  418. happen. I mean, you never made a mistake

  419. before because he's obligated to his word.

  420. Do you think he loved Adam? Sure he did.

  421. But love put Adam out the garden.

  422. He did that because his word he has to perform.

  423. He can't let emotions dictate his decisions.

  424. And that's the power of our words.

  425. Are you hearing me? Colossians 116 and 17.

  426. For by all by Him all things were created, both in heaven and

  427. on earth, visible and invisible, whether Thrones or dominions or

  428. rulers or authorities. All things have been created

  429. through him and for him He is before all things, and in him

  430. all things hold together. Revelations 411 Worthy are you,

  431. O Lord and our God, to receive glory and honor and power?

  432. For you created all things, and because of your will they exist,

  433. and were created at His Word. Then when we get Jesus in the

  434. flesh because he decreed He would come because he can't stop

  435. death now in this way deaths in the earth.

  436. So he's obligated to his word said, well I'll have to pay the

  437. price because the wages of sin is so somebody's got to die.

  438. So guess who dies? God.

  439. He puts his Son in a skin suit, which is himself.

  440. Yeah, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

  441. So we know God. Jesus Christ is the Son of God,

  442. our God, the second person of God.

  443. So in essence, God says I'll die.

  444. I'm going to do it. I'm the only one who can.

  445. I'm the only one righteous enough.

  446. I'm the only one who can redeem. Amen.

  447. He created the plan because the other plan's still in play.

  448. Man's died and man's dead didn't stop.

  449. But the alternative to come back in alignment with what God

  450. wanted for man, which is to have dominion, has now been reopened

  451. because of Jesus. Hallelujah.

  452. So Jesus. Then when he God, gets in the

  453. flesh, God the Son in the flesh, we call him Jesus.

  454. Notice how he functioned on the planet.

  455. It says this in John chapter 12, verse 49 and 50.

    John 12:49

  456. Because Jesus knew he was a king, right?

  457. Jesus knew he was a king. I mean, he said, you know,

  458. talking to the woman at the well because the woman at the well is

  459. like, you know, can you tell me when the Christ, when they say

  460. the Christ, that's not Jesus last name.

  461. As you know, that is title. That is the Greek equivalent to

  462. the Hebrew word Messiah. That is the king who's coming

  463. and he's going to set up his Kingdom.

  464. There's going to be no wind. They looking for a king.

  465. They ain't looking for a lamb, but the king is a lamb and a

  466. lion. He had to be the lamb first.

  467. He's coming back as a lion, bro. I'm telling you, he is not

  468. coming back as a suffering servant.

  469. He is not coming back as a lamb. He is coming back as a lion, a

  470. Judah with a scepter to rule. OK, he's paid that price.

  471. He went to battle for you. He did not let the troops come.

  472. He said. I got this all by myself, I'll

  473. pay this price for you. But notice when Jesus wrapped

  474. himself in man. Look how he functioned on the

  475. planet. Because again, Jesus did not

  476. come to earth to let you know what he can do.

  477. He came to earth to let you know what you can do when you are in

  478. Him, because this is how man was supposed to function.

  479. That's why I said every miracle that Jesus performed was in the

  480. dominion that the first Adam lost.

  481. So he says. For I do not speak on my own,

  482. but my Father himself, who sent me, has given me a command as to

  483. what to say and what to speak. I know that His commandment is

  484. eternal life. Therefore I therefore the things

  485. I speak, I speak just as a Father has told me.

  486. We run off at the mouth because we have too much USA government

  487. in our way of life. Now what do I mean by that?

  488. You exercise your First Amendment in God's Kingdom.

  489. Now let me just be honest with you.

  490. There is no First Amendment in the Kingdom.

  491. Now there's free will in the Kingdom, but people who love God

  492. say I just speak the word. Because again, you realize this

  493. isn't about denying me. I wouldn't even be here if it

  494. wasn't for him. He is the existence of life.

  495. To speak anything other than he says means I speak death.

  496. Again, we look at this thing as right and wrong, good and evil,

  497. but when it comes to God, this is life and death stuff.

  498. So your First Amendment right in the Kingdom doesn't exist, but

  499. we sure use it in the USA church.

  500. Well, let me tell you what I think.

  501. Oh, freedom of speech. OK, right.

  502. I mean, that's like having the having Jesus Christ himself

  503. stand up here, or the Holy Ghost, one of the other.

  504. And they tell you what they meant in the book and you argue

  505. with them. Well, I don't.

  506. I just can't believe. I don't think it's that way.

  507. Seriously, let me tell you what I think.

  508. Right? I have a right to say something.

  509. There's freedom of speech here. Well, you know what?

  510. God will let you think what you want and do what you want, but

  511. he'll hold you accountable to what you think and what you do.

  512. And it'd be according to his word again.

  513. So if anybody ever accuses you of being afraid of some groups

  514. or being certain ways, you're like, no problem bro.

  515. You can do whatever you wanna do, gotta let you do whatever

  516. you wanna do. But at the end of the day,

  517. you're gonna be held accountable to what you did.

  518. According to his word. At the end of the day, I'm not

  519. here to make you be different. I'm just saying you it's not my

  520. opinion in the matter. See, that's what ambassadors do.

  521. Ambassadors don't give their. I'm just tell you right now in

  522. our U.S. government, our ambassadors are supposed to.

  523. I'm not saying that they all do it because I don't live around

  524. them. Right.

  525. But by policy and ambassador is not supposed to speak his

  526. opinion. Well, I really think the US

  527. should do this concerning the Ukraine conflict, or I really

  528. think the US should do this concerning the Israel and Gaza

  529. Strip conflict. Ambassadors don't do that.

  530. Ambassadors say, I have no opinion in the matter, but our

  531. president's position is, and that's all they speak.

  532. That doesn't mean they don't have an idea, but we're supposed

  533. to be ambassadors for Christ. But what do we do?

  534. We bring our First Amendment rights in on our marriages.

  535. We bring our First Amendment rights in on our parenting.

  536. We bring our First Amendment rights on.

  537. You know how often we come to church?

  538. 1st Amendment rights concerning healing.

  539. I mean, the list could go on. You know, I have no opinion in

  540. the matter. I only speak what the Father

  541. says. So what's the Father say

  542. concerning this subject that I've been right now?

  543. Are y'all doing all right? All right, John. 14 verses 10 to

    John 14:10–14

  544. 14 says this. Do you not believe that I am in

  545. the Father? The Father is in Me.

  546. The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own initiative,

  547. but the Father abiding in me does his work.

  548. Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me.

  549. Otherwise believe because of the works themselves.

  550. Truly I say to you, he who believes in me and the works

  551. that I do, He will do also and greater worse then these will he

  552. do because I go to the Father whatever you ask in my name that

  553. will I do so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

  554. If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.

  555. Wow, what a guarantee. How awesome is that?

  556. Now if only every Jesus Christ confessing believer believe that

  557. I mean was firmly persuaded and got rid of their U.S. government

  558. thinking concerning the Bible, then it would be this way.

  559. Oh man, their lives will be different.

  560. John 828 and 29 So Jesus said, when you lift up the Son of Man,

  561. then you will know that I am he and I do nothing on my own

  562. initiative. That doesn't mean he didn't have

  563. other thoughts. We know this.

  564. The garden lets us know that when he's in the garden praying

  565. to his father just before he's handed over to be beaten so bad

  566. you can't tell he's a man and to be scourged and have stripes put

  567. on his back so that we can walk in the divine healthcare or

  568. Kingdom healthcare while we remain in the earth, he said.

  569. Father, if there's any other way, let this cup pass, but not

  570. my will. Your will be done.

  571. Yeah, 3 * 3 times. Hallelujah.

  572. But he put it down. And do you think he was

  573. suffering emotionally? I mean, this is 3 years of

  574. ministry, three years of raising dead people, healing sick

  575. people, giving finances away, feeding people, delivering

  576. people from demons and devils. I mean, everybody's seeing his

  577. miracles all over the place and now a mobs come to kill him.

  578. This is the things I get. I mean, even the most solid

  579. person can get a little aggravated at that.

  580. It's like really, Lord, I'm. Dying for these people here.

  581. I mean as much as. We've seen, I mean, and they

  582. still can't figure this out. But what'd he do?

  583. Not my will butcher will be done, he said.

  584. I do nothing on my own initiative, but I speak these

  585. things as the Father taught me, and he who sent me is with me.

  586. He has not left me alone. For I always say always, always

  587. do the things that are pleasing to him, and again, that word

  588. pleasing. You have to know that in

  589. context, anytime you're seeing this word pleasing to him, that

  590. is the context of faith. Because Hebrews 11/6 says

  591. without faith it's impossible to please him.

  592. And we saw on Sunday that verse five talks about how Enoch was

  593. pleasing to God because by faith, Enoch just went on home,

  594. which means the Lord told him, son, I could just bring you up

  595. here and save you for another time.

  596. I got a different purpose for you.

  597. And he believed that and left the planet in his flesh.

  598. Wow, that's amazing. OK, So he was always pleasing,

  599. which means he was always in faith.

  600. He was always believing Father at his word.

  601. Where does that bring us to us in our decree to remind us?

  602. Mark chapter 1122 to 24 right. Huh.

  603. My dad's name was. Enoch.

  604. That is true. My dad's name was Enoch.

  605. My father unfortunately did not care for his name.

  606. But it's probably because he rebelled.

  607. Against God anyway. Not till the later part of his

  608. years He did get born again, and he's present with the Lord.

  609. Hallelujah. But he did not like his name, so

  610. he used the pseudo name Earl instead.

  611. So, well, my wife, my, my, my, my wife.

  612. But my mom got pregnant with me or and had me because they

  613. didn't have what you were having back then.

  614. And I came out and it was a boy. So they had a name picked out.

  615. They were going to call me Gregory Frank at one point.

  616. That was really my second name. My first name was going to be

  617. Stephen Paul. Yeah, right.

  618. But my father's brother had a son 18 months earlier and called

  619. him Stephen Michael or Michael Stephen.

  620. I don't remember now. I just called him Steve, so I

  621. don't remember if it's a middle name or whatever.

  622. So I lost Stephen Paul because of that.

  623. So. Then my mom was thinking about

  624. Gregory Frank. Frank happened to be his father.

  625. I don't know where Gregory comes from, to be honest with you, but

  626. my dad's like, I may not have another son, so I would rather

  627. him, you know, have my initials. But he didn't like his name.

  628. His full name was Enoch Washington Glisson.

  629. Right, So. And here's the thing about

  630. Enoch. It was a family name.

  631. It was in every generation. Tell me.

  632. Yep. So he wanted EWG.

  633. So he went with his pseudo name because he went by EW.

  634. So much so they didn't even know how to spell his name when he

  635. was in 6th grade. They say write out your name,

  636. put EW, glisten. They said no, your full name.

  637. He couldn't spell Enoch Washington because he never

  638. spelled it. They always called him EW.

  639. He was from Georgia I. Get it?

  640. I mean, he was from Georgia. I mean, that's true.

  641. Here's what it is. I mean, it is what it is.

  642. So anyway, I got Earl Wayne Glisten, but Earl is noble and I

  643. appreciate that. At the end of the day, my wife

  644. didn't like Enoch either, so it didn't make it any my sons.

  645. But my daughter brought it back into the bloodline with Caius

  646. Caius Enoch Fouche. So.

  647. He'll be an Enoch that gets caught up.

  648. I believe it in Jesus name. All right, Side Story.

  649. Thank you. Mark 11.

  650. And I was on time to finish early.

  651. So, Jesus. Answered and said to them, Have

  652. faith in God, one translation says, Have have the God kind of

  653. faith. For surely I say to you, whoever

  654. says to this mountain be removed and be cast into the sea and

  655. does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he

  656. says will be done. He will have whatever he says.

  657. Therefore, I say to you, whatever things you ask, when

  658. you pray, believe that you receive them, you will have

  659. them. So there's power, in our words.

  660. We know this. We've talked about this all

  661. year. And you got to make sure you

  662. always recognize this. Because the more and more we're

  663. being bombarded by social media and all kind of stuff, and the

  664. hours, if you don't watch out, are being bombarded, you're

  665. going to say stuff that you should not decree.

  666. OK, your. Words have power, period.

  667. Because. God is going to.

  668. Judge us by every idle word. So that's why I said be quick.

  669. To hear Slow to open your mouth. Come on.

  670. Reminds me of the. Movie Titanic at the end when

  671. they're all on the boat and the one lady was screaming, he says.

  672. Shut that hole in your face. Husbands, you need to let your

  673. wives. Have permission.

  674. When you start speaking out of lineman of the word say, shut

  675. that hole in your face. That's not.

  676. What a king would say connected to Jesus.

  677. Amen. So again at the end of the day.

  678. You're going to have what you say.

  679. The key here is you don't doubt. So this is not magical thinking.

  680. It's not wishful thinking. These are not.

  681. This is not like this is not a A spell.

  682. Right. You know, a little.

  683. Magical spell that with a little enchant that you enchant and it

  684. comes No, this is a firm persuasion because you will say

  685. what you firmly believe all. Right.

  686. It's going to come out. That's why Proverbs 1821 says it

  687. this way. Death and life.

  688. Are in the power of the tongue. And those who love it will eat

  689. its fruit. That's both fruit.

  690. You can eat death or you can eat life.

  691. It's entirely up to you, but you're.

  692. Saying it. Because there are two laws out

  693. there, right? There are two laws out there,

  694. and let's just go there. Romans chapter 8, verse 2.

    Romans 8:2

  695. Says for the law. Of the spirit of life.

  696. For the law of the spirit of life.

  697. In Christ, Jesus set you free from the law of sin and death.

  698. There is a law in play with sin and death.

  699. If you speak according to that law, you will decree that law

  700. and you'll get what that law demands.

  701. But if you'll speak from the. Other law, and this is new

  702. covenant stuff, OK? Because people who says the laws

  703. done away with are ignorant of the word, OK, It's just

  704. ignorance of the word because they take stuff in such a little

  705. nugget and it's so wrong. Jesus, I said don't think that

  706. I've come to abolish the law, I've come to fulfill it first

  707. thing, he said. But you understand things are

  708. not off the books. Because thou shalt.

  709. Not kill is still in this covenant.

  710. OK, all right. Obviously we're not sacrificing

  711. the animals. Jesus is the sacrifice.

  712. My point is, is there is a law in effect.

  713. It's called the law of the of life, the the spirit of life in

  714. Christ. So when you speak what Christ

  715. speaks, you speak life, and then it has to be created based upon

  716. that. So if you keep calling, you know

  717. your kids stupid, dumb, they're never going to obey you.

  718. Well, guess what you're. Keeping an.

  719. Environment in your home now again, they are free will.

  720. They can do what they want, but there's no reason for you to

  721. have a counter environment. I mean, they're.

  722. Going to have a challenge. In love themselves you.

  723. Might as well call them. Something else.

  724. Same thing with your spouse. You should call them what the

  725. Bible says. Even if they act different, at

  726. least create the environment that life can show up.

  727. I mean, it's easy to call those things that are as they owe are,

  728. but we're faith people. Amen.

  729. Now, some things I'm calling 'cause they are and 'cause it's

  730. life. You know, when I say my wife is

  731. better than silver and gold, that's not faith, that's

  732. reality. It's happened.

  733. I have what I say because she loves God and she does it, and

  734. she is very proficient at putting down her flesh and not

  735. walking according to her personal desire in any matter.

  736. And I am the I am a beneficiary of that type of person who's

  737. living by faith and loving God in the fear of the Lord like

  738. that. I understand that it's not

  739. because I declared it by myself, but I sure declared it before

  740. she knew it, 'cause I used to call her a woman of God before

  741. she would even believe she could be a woman of God.

  742. She was just glad she's going to heaven.

  743. Right, you've heard her. Testimony, she said.

  744. I was raised in the church. She was raised heathen and at

  745. the end of the day we both got touched by God and he's done

  746. something amazing in our lives. And neither.

  747. One of us picked what we're in. We just said yes, I mean that's.

  748. It, you know, you could say, well, you were born to do this.

  749. Yes, I was. I had to find that out.

  750. I didn't know that when I. Was born.

  751. I didn't know he called me into this because I have my own

  752. plans. In the 4th grade I was going to

  753. be an astronaut. And what an awesome report I

  754. did, Yeah. And in the eighth grade, I was

  755. still. Kind of pursuing it because I

  756. actually applied to the Air Force Academy.

  757. Yeah, I got a great score on the SAT in the eighth grade.

  758. Then I went ahead and submitted an application of which they

  759. wrote me back and say we love your scores but you.

  760. Need to. Graduate.

  761. OK, kind of ironic one time, I. Was watching the Air Force

  762. county play a a football game and a guy was on their team that

  763. had the last name Glisson. Yeah, it never would have been

  764. me. I was too small.

  765. I I don't know. They might be kind of desperate

  766. in the Air Force to actually have players on the football

  767. team, don't you think, King? They probably were desperate,

  768. especially when I was in high school.

  769. I might have made it anyway. I didn't make it.

  770. My father died 15 days after I graduated, and I became highly

  771. unfocused. So anyway.

  772. What we're saying or decreeing life and death are in our mouth,

  773. and this is always in play. So again, even though God wanted

  774. us to emphasize, I think God just needed us to really focus.

  775. And I hope you've been doing that this year and I hope you've

  776. seen that there's been things done different in your life this

  777. year because you've been focused on what you've said and.

  778. Continue to do this and again. You're not better.

  779. We're just doing what he says. And when we do what he says, we

  780. have it. We're guaranteed it, and it's

  781. life. KISS keeps showing up around us.

  782. Now there's trials and tribulation, but we're able to

  783. speak through that because we have life and we choose not to

  784. call the problem the problem. We find God's answer.

  785. Aren't you glad God's got an answer?

  786. There's nothing more draining than to be around people who all

  787. they want to do is point out the problem.

  788. I mean, everybody can do that. That's.

  789. The easiest thing. To do is find a problem.

  790. It's a whole nother breed when you begin to say yeah, that's a

  791. problem, but lost an answer. How do we fix?

  792. It How do we not get stuck now at this problem?

  793. We're going to have the answer that gets us in restoration and

  794. reconciliation and, you know, recovery and love or whatever

  795. makes us better. All right, Matthew 1237 says,

  796. For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you

  797. will be condemned. So again, what's going on?

  798. What's wrong with your life? You.

  799. Nobody else. See, I've learned to speak.

  800. Such with my words that even if people are creating a negative

  801. environment towards me with their words.

  802. Because here's the thing. The words.

  803. I speak have more power. You, I mean, you got to kind of

  804. imagine sometimes, I mean just think if someone's bombarding

  805. you with constant negativity, you know, and that seems

  806. extremely powerful because some people just let that weigh them

  807. down. But you understand I have a one

  808. word from God that can obliterate all that.

  809. Blitter if I believe what? God has said about me.

  810. Let me say this. Yeah.

  811. Thank you, Lord. The way that you know that your

  812. words have power is when you first believe God's word about

  813. what he has said about you. Because the minute you know what

  814. God has said about you, you are the righteousness of God in

  815. Christ. You are fearfully and

  816. wonderfully made, right. I don't care what you've been

  817. through, how you were raised, what happened in your life,

  818. where you came from, what kind of atrocities happened, Doesn't

  819. matter. Makes you got blood ball, man

  820. minutes. You got up underneath the blood

  821. and you got into the Kingdom of God and and you begin to renew

  822. your mind and begin to realize who God has made you to be.

  823. Well then, at that point, nobody's negative words can

  824. touch me, 'cause you ain't talking to me.

  825. So what that? Does it has eradicated all

  826. insecurities? I don't have one.

  827. How can I have an insecurity when the king has called me his

  828. favor? His beloved.

  829. Right. How can his child?

  830. How can I have any? That's my old life talking and

  831. it's dead. I said it's dead.

  832. It doesn't exist anymore. So I don't let somebody come

  833. talk to me about my past or my perceived path past or what they

  834. want my future to be. I only speak out of my nature.

  835. And when you know that. Then you can say boom.

  836. And it just Iraq because. Again, they are.

  837. They have what the Bible would call dark sayings, and mine's

  838. full of light and there's no place.

  839. That darkness is. Overcome will ever overcome

  840. light unless you put the light out.

  841. And I'm telling. These last days, you're going to

  842. need it. You're going to need it.

  843. So you need to talk up yourself. Man, you fearfully and

  844. wonderfully. Made.

  845. That's not conceit. That's God's confession over

  846. you. I'm strong in the Lord.

  847. And the power of his mind, I mean, that's what he said about

  848. me, right? So again, I'm only saying what

  849. God said. So I have no inferiority

  850. complex. First Peter 3. 10/4 The one who

  851. desires life to love and see good days, must keep his tongue

  852. from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

  853. Peter actually got that from Psalms 3413 If you want to write

  854. that down, Proverbs 13 Three says it this way.

  855. The one who guards his mouth preserves his life.

  856. The one who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

  857. So you don't. You don't want to be known.

  858. As a person who talks all the time, I mean, you don't know how

  859. to carry on conversation because there's some people who are

  860. extremely gifted to be able to carry on conversation.

  861. I have no problem with that. Some personalities lend to that.

  862. I'm just saying you need to be aware of what you're saying.

  863. You need to become very aware. Of what you're saying, so that

  864. your words are intentional, exact.

  865. Right and and let. Me.

  866. Just say this. You're going to say more when

  867. things are positive, you'll say. You'll say less when things are

  868. negative. When I say less, that just means

  869. you'll hold your tongue more to make sure you know what you need

  870. to say before you say. When everything's going good,

  871. it's easy. Just to talk.

  872. But when things start going bad, you shouldn't try to retaliate

  873. quick. You should be listening in here,

  874. not what this is saying. What?

  875. How do I respond, Lord? Because again, it's slow.

  876. To speak because I'm hearing from the inside on how to speak

  877. life decree the right thing last.

  878. Verse tonight is first. John 514 Well, 2 verses first

  879. John 514 and 15. This is the confidence which we

  880. have before him, that if we ask anything according to his what

  881. will he God always hears his word.

  882. In fact, the Bible says that. He is going to and fro looking

  883. to perform His word. His word will not return unto

  884. Him void, but it shall accomplish that which it was

  885. sent to do. He's always looking over His

  886. word to perform it. So when we begin, like Jesus,

  887. only speak what we've heard the Father say, when we declare and

  888. decree it as a king in the earth who represents the King Jesus

  889. Christ, then we know He hears us.

  890. And then verse 15 says, And if we know that He hears us, which

  891. we do, He hears His own word in whatever we ask, we know that

  892. that we have the request we have asked of Him.

  893. So again, our decree is not our own personal idea, and we're

  894. making God submit to us. Our decree is His will for us in

  895. our situation or for our lives, whatever the case may be.

  896. Or it could be a word of knowledge for someone else's

  897. life, because for whatever reason, they just happen to not

  898. be here in the Holy Ghost. OK, in any of those occasions.

  899. We're there to speak life. We are we speaking what God,

  900. which will speak life. And it will cause you know, us

  901. to be able to move in the things that God's ordained for us.

  902. Our decree always rests within His Word.

  903. His Word is where the power is. God exalts His Word even above

  904. all of His name. When everything's said and done,

  905. heaven and earth will pass away. And when I say that, that mean

  906. they will cease to exist. They'll be changed, but His word

  907. will never end. So you want to get into?

  908. Real maturity. As a believer you know and do

  909. not know. Alone know and do His word

  910. rightly divided, and nothing can stop you, because you'll hold

  911. all the authority, just like nothing could stop Jesus.

  912. He could not be stopped. On the planet, he had to lay

  913. down his life. I mean, think about it.

  914. The beatings they did on him couldn't kill him.

  915. OK, the only reason? Death.

  916. Exists is because sin. And when did Jesus sin?

  917. He didn't. He became it.

  918. That's why Jesus has to say it is and he gave up his spirit.

  919. Hallelujah. Amen.

  920. I said Amen. So when you're in the.

  921. Perfect will of God doing. Nobody can stop you.

  922. Nobody. Now your exit strategy or God's

  923. will for you may be like Paul. Paul knew and so did Peter for

  924. that matter. It's time to go.

  925. We just happened to go because someone's going to cut our heads

  926. off. And it's permissible this.

  927. Time but before you couldn't do it.

  928. You couldn't kill me in the sea. You couldn't beat me with rods

  929. and kill me You. You couldn't even keep me dead

  930. when you stole me and drugged me out of town.

  931. When Paul said I know a man in body or out of body I don't

  932. know, called it to the 3rd heaven during that time and Lord

  933. said you ain't done. Get back in your body.

  934. We got things to do. And then he walked back into the

  935. same town are the people who stoned him.

  936. I mean, that's bold stuff, right?

  937. There. Are you hearing me?

  938. And then John. They bold him and all.

  939. He's still alive. I'm not done.

  940. Are you hearing me? I mean, we're unstoppable.

  941. Force. What can man do to us?

  942. So you got to make sure your mouth is always in alignment

  943. with the Kingdom, baby, I'm alright.

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