Cloudy With a Chance of Reign - The Return of the King - Part 2

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You know, cloudy with a chance of rain because the Lord's

coming back in a cloud. Now, I do want to preface this

last week. I had no intention of explaining

to you of the passages I used of which one is the coming of

Christ for the catching away the Church and the coming of Christ

where he's going to put his foot down and reign for 1000 years.

I know I use both passages. The point of the message was

that when he comes in the cloud, either occasion, it is a scene

event. That was the point.

That was the point. The point was that, you know, I.

So again, you know, I understand how it can be, especially people

who, you know are studying last day at eschatology events.

There's always that little thing, you know, OK, Is this

because people debate whether there's a mid post pre Trib, a

post a mid Trib and a post Trib? Well, the Bible is very clear

about a pre Trib, extremely clear.

But it's also cleared about a mid Trib because the two

witnesses will be in the middle and they'll be called up.

The two will. So there is one.

It's just not a mass exodus, all right.

And then there's going to be things that have take place in

the end before he comes down. Amen.

Right when he comes and puts his foot down.

But that was not our comments for there.

We wanted to just go through the scripture because we've all,

most of us are. The popular stance is that when

the catch in the way of the church happens, it's going to

happen and we're just going to vanish and no one's going to

know where we're at. But we saw yesterday, last week

that the Scripture doesn't actually support that thought

process. It actually is an event that is

globally known. You have an opportunity to share

once you're changed the Bible. The only quick deal is that you

are changed in the moment in the twinkling of an eye.

OK? And again, even some of the

words associated with change is like violent.

It's like a, a, a casting off. I mean, you don't understand if

your clothes were on fire, how fast you think you'd get rid of

them. So again, you know, the fact

that you change like violently, you violently throw off

immortality or mortality and put on immortality.

You understand what I'm saying? That still doesn't say you're

leaving just as fast. Now I'm not going to.

I'm not saying that once you start to ascend, it's not quick.

I happen to use a hot air balloon, you know, last week.

And, you know, and through my conversation, I'm like, I'm

going to change that and let them know we on the coast of

Florida have the Kennedy Space Center.

Have you ever seen the Kennedy Space Center now?

Have you ever, on a clear day when a rocket goes off, been

able to stand on the East Coast, way up here in Saint Augustine

and see the rocket ascend? Yeah, Now is that like getting

out of the planet? I mean rockets are like getting

out of the planet. They are taking off.

I mean that's not like low speed, that's not like helium

balloon stuff. I mean it is blasting off, yet

we watched the cloud of smoke behind it and watch it and as

fast as it's going, we can still see it.

Hallelujah. So better illustration there.

Amen. But with that being said then

you know again, we're, we call this cloudy with a chance of

rain because you're like, what do you mean a chance?

Well, again, there's popular teaching.

And just because popular teaching is out there, it

depends on what lens you're looking at.

And again, we, the reason why we wrote the book The Forest is

because we've said a lot of times people lose the Bible

because they get very specific in their tree doctrine.

Salvation is a tree in the forest.

Healing is a tree in the forest. Deliverance is a tree in the

forest. Forgiveness is a tree in the

forest. Mercy.

All of those trees we could study and we would never exhaust

how much we could pull out of those trees in the lifetime that

we are on the Earth. But the Bible's not just about

salvation, it's not just about salvation.

So if we only look through the tree of salvation, then we only

see the salvation parts and we miss the other stuff.

Amen. And so as the, you know, saying

is they miss the forest for the trees.

A lot of churches sometimes miss the forest for the trees, which

means then some of the things that, you know, we're all asking

questions. Well, Lord, what does this mean?

How's this going to be? What does that look like?

Well, if we're only looking at through the revelation that we

currently have, we could find that maybe some of the things we

thought aren't actually as it is thought.

But once you expand and begin to see the bigger picture, then

things start to open up a little bit more and we want to be able

to address those. So in Matthew chapter 15, verse

Matthew 15 · chapter mention

three, we'll start with this scripture again and he answered

and said to them, why do yourselves transgress the

command of God for the sake of your tradition?

Now Jesus is obviously talking to people who have access to his

word. That's who he's talking to here.

He's talking to the scribes and the priests, the Pharisees.

These are people who have the scrolls, they have the Torah,

they have the 1st 5 writings of Moses, They have the Prophets,

they have the Psalms, they have all these writings.

And in their office as priests, they have an anointing to come

upon them 'cause in the old covenant, the anointing would

come upon the Prophet, priest and King.

And so there's an anointing that comes upon them so that they can

know what the word says. It doesn't matter that their

spirit man is dead. Doesn't matter.

I'm going to say that again, it doesn't matter.

Because if someone tried to conclude, well, you know, all

these people weren't born again. Well, Abraham wasn't born again,

yet he wasn't in he was in paradise.

He wasn't in the grave where he couldn't be redeemed.

That man lived by faith, and when he died and went to the

grave, he was in a place that allowed him to be able to be

redeemed or pulled out of, because he was believing for the

day that the Messiah would come. Amen.

So Abraham was never born again of the Spirit.

Yet because he was a prophet, the Holy Spirit would come upon

him and give him enough insight and revelation that he could

live by faith. Are you hearing me?

OK, so again, we can't discredit everything because none of these

people were born. Again, people have the

responsibility of what they knew and the revelation by which God

brought it. And this particular group Jesus

is talking to saying, I know that the Spirit has revealed to

you my truth. You're choosing to not do it.

You like your way of doing it better.

In essence, you want to serve God on your terms and not on

God's terms. OK, so with that being said,

let's look at a couple things. We ended with this passage of

scripture last week, Luke 21, verses 27 to 28, it says this.

Luke 21:27–28

And they shall see the Son of Man again.

They shall what it's going to see, see the Son of Man coming

in a cloud with power and great glory.

Again, I'm not here to tell you which one that is.

That's not the point. Because the point is verse 28.

Now, when these things begin to happen, that is not relating to

verse 27. It's relating to the things that

have been said prior to that. But you understand the context

was what's when we going to know that the kingdom's coming,

You're going to set it up. That's what we're talking about

here. And so he begins to give him a

whole list of different signs, things that they can be able to

see, discern, to know the signs of the times.

And he mentions this particular one, that you'll see the Son of

Man coming in cloud with power and great glory, he said.

Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your

heads because your redemption draws nigh.

And I said to you last week, most of the time in that

particular passage of Scripture, we tend to kind of look at that

in the context of, you know, all the things we're seeing that at

anytime Jesus may come. And that is true.

But is it also, could it be a context that when we do actually

look up and see him and we're changing the moment of a

twinkling eye that we're fixing to move into a seven-year

process with the Lord before we return and we're going to be

getting assignments while we're with Him.

So when we return to Earth with him in the millennial reign,

we'll know where God has given us dominion to rule on the

planet with Him during that particular rain.

And that we can say our redemption or this thing's about

to close. We're going up to get our

marching orders for the next age.

Are you hearing me? Now?

This word look up means this. It comes from a Greek word that

means to raise up. That's pretty obvious, right,

because it says look up or to raise up.

But it comes from a root Greek word which means to bow the

head. Now you say, well how can you

look up and bow the head? Well, the root part is bow the

head. When you add the prefix of the

Greek word, then it makes it the opposite.

So if you're bowing your head, then the opposite of that would

be what to look up. But this root word, it's base

meaning, or this, this, this particular what is that suffix

word has a base, which means it comes from another word, which

is the root of which this next, this word we just said, which

means to bow your head, comes from.

It means this. A wave or of impulse and

restless men tossed to and fro by their raging desires or

passions. Now, when you know it that way,

put that verse back up. In essence, he's saying this.

When all these things begin to happen, you need to quit running

around to and fro with your fleshly passions.

It's time to get rid of that and get yourself in the position

God's created you in. In essence, look up, do the

opposite of being this person. That is like the wave of the sea

that James talked about. He says, OK, if any man lacks

wisdom, let him ask God, right? And James and he says, you know.

But when he asks, he must ask in faith, not doubting, because if

he doubts, he's like a man tossed in the sea.

That man should expect to receive.

Now that's a righteous man in covenant with God, but he won't

receive because he has doubt. That's a righteous man that's

been born by in a new covenant, by the blood of Jesus, a child

of God. But they can expect to receive

nothing because of doubt. So in essence he's saying quit

doubting, quit running after your flesh get up and then he

goes on and says and lift up your heads.

Now when you break that word heads down, it goes down to the

Christ Lord of the of the husband or the church.

So in essence he's saying look up, get rid of all your little

worldly passions. Don't let anything of the world

hold on to you anymore. You better get rid of that stuff

and you better put on the mind of Christ.

What you need to do is you need to start thinking like you are

in Christ because your redemption is drawing not are

you hearing me? So we then need to understand a

couple of things. Because again, Jesus tells the

the Pharisees, the the, the scribes, these that have access

to the anointing in order to be to have revelation of the word

in that age to where they could walk in it by faith.

And they in turn were deciding how they were going to follow

God. And then God must be pleased

with it. We're going to do it our way.

We're going to tell you how you should interpret your own word.

Are you hearing me? OK, we have the same problem

today because again, we must let God define how he wants us to

interact with Him, right? And again, any church that

believes Jesus Christ died on the cross and rose from the

grave, any of them, they're all going to conclude our only way

to have a relationship with the Father is to believe in our

heart and confess with our mouth.

Jesus Christ as Lord. That is the way.

And there's not a alternative. Correct.

There's not a. So that's God defining to us.

This is how you have the relationship.

That's not us telling God. This is how I'm going to have

the relationship, OK? And that is generally easily

accepted. However, how to love God is not

that is not generally accepted because although Jesus clearly

defines how to love him, the church is basically after

they're born again. Say now I'm going to tell you

how I will love you and you should just accept it.

All right. Hallelujah.

I thought y'all were ready for today because it has not got

tough yet. Hallelujah.

Amen. Praise the Lord.

Say I'm ready to receive from the Lord by the Spirit what the

word has to say, and my tradition has got to go.

All right, So Jesus in Mark chapter 12, verse 30 says this.

Mark 12:30

And you? Who's you?

That's us. And you shall love the Lord your

God. How with all your heart, comma,

and with all your soul, comma, And with all your mind, comma,

and with all your strength. This is how you're going to love

him. So you cannot say you love God

and stop at your heart. Well, the Lord knows my heart.

He knows I love him. He said.

Well, what about your soul? What about your mind?

And when he say soul, you understand what well you know?

Do you love him with all your emotions?

Do you subject your emotions to him that when situations happen,

you love him so much that when the Holy Ghost in you says don't

get angry about that, you submit your emotions?

Well, now he understands. You know my family.

He's like, excuse me, I thought you were in my family.

Yes. Last I checked, you were under

the blood. That's a new family.

I don't care about your natural bloodline anymore.

You're in a spiritual bloodline. OK, With all your mind.

Is that what you think on is that what you move towards is

all your thought processes towards the Lord?

If everything you do is it based upon, are you doing it the way

God? And then with all your strength?

Meaning you get my strength first?

Yes, that's right. And you know what I love about

God when it comes to your strength?

First, that's means physically present to participate in his

local body in the fit that he's designed for you.

That when you really accumulate the 168 hours that you are

functioning in a week, that God's really not asking a whole

lot of you. And when you take that time and

compare it to other time, it's really a a small amount.

But what it does for all your other time if you'll just submit

to it. Are you hearing me?

So we are to love God, basically our spirit, soul and body.

Everything about us is his. Are you hearing me?

So again, if I love him with all my strength or with my body.

So how can a believer be fornicating with someone else?

Well, the Lord knows I love them and I love them too.

Would And why are you shaking up?

Just say Amen anyway. All right.

You have the ability to keep your body under subjection.

Let's go on to the next one. John, Chapter 14, verse 15.

John 14:15

She's very clear here. This is in red red letter stuff.

If you have a red letter Bible, Jesus says if, that's

conditional statement, so do you meet the condition?

If you love me, that's an emphatic answer.

If you love me, if you love who, Jesus, you will keep my

commandment. So to say, I love him and not

keep his commandment or his word.

Who's lying now? Can I truly be able to say I

love Jesus? And yet Jesus says Bull, why

don't you keep my word? So Jesus's definition of loving

him and my definition could be different.

Now who do you think he's going to follow?

Your definition of love or his? OK, jump on down to verse 21.

He says it this way. He says He who has my

commandments and what keeps them is the one who loves me.

And he who loves me will be loved by my father, and I will

love him and disclose myself to him.

Hallelujah. So it's very clear then that

Jesus defines this term and that we are to love Him with all of

our heart, soul, mind, and strength.

In essence, anything He's telling us, both in a general

sense, in the word that covers every one of us, and then in a

specific sense based upon our purpose and our personal

relationship with Him. If we're demonstrating love, we

are obeying it because that is really loving Jesus.

Anything else is a counterfeit. It is a counterfeit.

And you can say I love you all day long, but that doesn't make

God come off the throne and go, well, we're going to take you.

You know what? I I understand you're busy.

I get it. I see all the problems you have.

I get it. You know you're doing the best

you can. That's not what he says.

Because for he's like, I see all the problems.

That's why I'm going to give you my word.

You'll overcome everything, right?

I gave you my nature. This is going to be easy.

I said. It's going to be easy.

In fact, he said it was easy. He said my yoke is easy.

My burden is light. We got this.

He said be a good cheer, man. You going to have some trials

and tribulations? That's all Good.

I've already conquered this bad boy.

So you understand, if I've done all this, the least you can do

is do what I say. But it's not the least.

It's what's required. I said it's what's required.

This is not fantasy. This is the reality of

Scripture. And we also know that the

Scripture tells us that we are to live by faith.

Are you hearing me? So let me throw out a thought

process. Are you ready?

Oh, I hope so. Hallelujah.

Does it require faith to be born again?

OK, let me step. Take a step back.

Has Jesus come in? Has Jesus?

Has Jesus been to the earth, born of the flesh, died on the

cross, and rose from the dead? Has the action of his blood

being put on the mercy seat enough payment to deal with

every sin that's ever been committed?

Has it been finished once and for all?

So from a blood perspective, sin has no power For who?

Everyone? For everyone.

So whether a person is born again or not, payments made, is

it not, He doesn't go up to the mercy seat when a person comes

down and says I'm going to receive Jesus as Lord, OK, go

ahead and cut me. Let me pour a little blood out

for them. Does he do that?

No. You said that's already been

applauded. It's already been there.

It's done right. So then, in the spirit realm, or

in the realm of God? No one technically, or everyone

trying to see how I can say this from the perspective of the

blood, they're all saved, but we know not everyone's saved.

What's required for them to receive salvation?

Faith. Believe in your heart.

Confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord.

Faith is what brings it to pass. It's the grace of God through

faith, right? So even though in the realm of

the blood so to speak, is finished yet it doesn't actually

apply to a person in the realm of receiving until faith's

there. So they can't have it till they

have faith in it, right? OK, so we know then that when

people receive Jesus as Lord, is faith required.

From then on it says the righteous shall.

OK, so a born again person that's in Christ, in Christ,

they in God's eyes they are his child.

Period. Are there other benefits they

could have? OK, one of those benefits is

baptism of the Holy Ghost, right?

To be in do with power. Are there believers on the

planet today that are born again but not baptized in the Spirit?

Why 'cause they haven't exercised faith, so it's

available, but yet they're not walking in it because they

haven't received it. How, by faith, Hallelujah,

healing is it for today? But how many are born again by

faith, even endued with power? By faith, where the evidence of

that power they've received it is?

They speak in the language of the Kingdom.

It's called an unknown tongue. Yet they themselves stay sick.

Why? For some they have no faith at

all. There's not faith concerning it.

Look at Hebrews chapter 4. I want to read this scripture

Hebrews 4 · chapter mention

real quick, just so you understand, says for indeed we

have had good news preached to us, just as they also.

But the word they heard did not what profit them.

Why? Because it was not united by

faith in those who heard. Those who heard.

Can we receive anything from God without faith?

OK, that's not entirely it is true.

But yet it's, you know, there's a little we need to talk about

this. I can literally have no faith,

and yet God can do something for me.

He can. But it's through somebody else's

thank you. It's through somebody else's

faith, OK? Because again, the gifts of the

Spirit can function in someone who believes that they've heard

the Spirit in a particular area, let's say the working of

miracles. OK?

And because of that yielding to it.

Then they go by faith to a person who has no faith at all,

that they will be delivered and have a miracle happen in their

life, a physical miracle. Yet they lay hands on them and

the miracle works. Are you hearing me now?

Does God want us to live that way?

Obviously not, because Jesus had this issue with the guy that was

carrying had his mat and he went to him and he says do you want

to be healed, You know, And he ended up telling him, He said,

well you know, basically he healed him.

He didn't even know who Jesus was.

He said take up your mat and go. Then when Jesus found him later,

he says go and sin no more so that nothing worse will come on

you. Because again, here's the thing

that a lot of believers have this messed up mindset about,

and I don't know why that is, is that because we have the ability

to have health in our bodies, that doesn't mean we're going to

be immortal, that we'll live forever again.

And I'm going to say this, the Bible says this.

It's been appointed once for man to die, OK?

As people get older, we never want them to leave.

But there comes a time when they're appointed and there are

many that are believing God that he's going to heal them when the

reality is it's appointed. And they themselves are ready to

go and they're allowing the symptoms to be the catalyst.

OK. And I like what Prophet John

Todd said. He said, look if you want to go

on to be the Lord, get healed first and then just go, OK.

But I'm going to be honest with you.

There's most of are not going to do that.

You can. Everyone in this room can

because we know God. But I just want to, you know,

even be more candid. Let's just believe for the the

catching away. Let's just be changed.

Amen. Let's go out that way.

And man, I think we could. All right.

My point is, is that a person in covenant does not receive from

God without faith. So then if faith is required for

God to be a part of our life, and anything he says he's going

to do, did God say he's coming back?

Why do we think just because we're born again that we can get

something from God without faith?

Let me read this passage before I make the next statement.

Hebrews Chapter 11. This is the Champions of faith.

Hebrews 11 · chapter mention

All right now, faith comes by what.

Faith comes by what. Faith comes by what.

And hearing from the word of Christ.

Faith comes by hearing. So you can hear something, not

God, and believe it. Faith just comes by hearing.

Paul's letting us know your faith, your hearing should be

connected to the word of Christ because that's what you should

believe. Period.

OK, Faith comes by hearing. So when we begin to read

Ephesians Chapter 11, then when it says by faith it means they

must have heard something. Verse 5.

By faith, Enoch was taken up so that he would not see death.

By what faith? Which means if Enoch's in faith,

he must have heard something and God apparently said something to

Enoch, he must have said something to him to say, well,

you could just come now. Oh, OK.

There was some conversation God had with Enoch that he believed

it so much that he was taken up. Now, for me, I would conclude

it's the big plan. It's the purpose.

It's the purpose of Enoch. OK, And I'm not the only one who

believes this. OK?

I'm going to throw a name out just so you'll know that I'm not

the only one who believes this. Perry Stone, who studies in

times. He believes this as well.

Not everyone believes this, but I think it's very difficult to

not conclude it. There's only two people that

have ever been on the planet that left the planet without

physically leaving their bodies. There are two witnesses that

will come back during the tribulation time.

It is the E brothers, Enoch and Elijah.

Then they will die in the street and everybody's going to see

him. Hallelujah.

But in three days they're going to get up and then they're going

to watch him go up. So I I have to conclude the

Lord's like Enoch. I got a plan and he must have

conversed with him concerning this deal because Jude talks a

little bit about Enoch and Enoch having some conversations about

what was going to happen in the end.

So Enoch obviously had a conversation with the Lord that

Lord's like Enoch, I want to use you, I want to bring you back.

In order to do that, I need you to come now.

So by faith Enoch believed that he could go without dying, and

he was not found because God took him.

For he obtained the witness that before his being taken up, he

was what? Pleasing to the Father?

Well, if you're pleasing to the Father, then what are you?

You're living by faith. The Father's pleased when you're

by faith called the very next verse.

We always read verse 6, but not in context of verse 5.

And without faith it's what impossible to please him.

For he who comes to God must believe that he is that's God is

God, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek Him.

So Enoch heard something from God.

He had faith to be taken up. And if faith is required for us

to receive salvation and faith is required for us to receive

the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and faith is received for us to

walk in perpetual healing, and faith is required for us to walk

in joy and faith is required, then why do we think we get

caught up without faith? Come on, come on, come on.

Why have we accepted that we'll all hear the trumpet?

Because there's many that are in covenant with God and love God,

but die early because they don't judge themselves rightly.

We have made the catching away of the church as if automatic.

All that's required is that you're born again.

Well, you know what all this required for you to be healed

is? That you're born again.

I mean to walk in it. For you to prosper is to be born

again. For you to have, you know,

fullness of joy is to walk in it.

Right. All you got to do is believe

God, believe to have wisdom. I got to just believe God.

I mean, we have heaven on earth, right?

What stops God from pouring out everything he has for us?

Our faith. Hallelujah.

Amen. OK, so let's back up a chapter

in that Hebrews chapter 10, Hebrews chapter 10 to get us in

Hebrews 10 · chapter mention Hebrews 10 · chapter mention

context. All right, he says this in

Hebrews 10. Starting in verse 19.

We're going to read a little bit, OK?

But again, for us to dissect this cloudy with the chance of

rain, then we have to get into Scripture.

All right, I'm not here to do talking points based upon oral

tradition. Therefore, brethren, since we

have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of

Jesus, by new and living way, which he inaugurated for us

through the veil that is his flesh, and since we have a great

high priest over the House of God, let us draw near with a

sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts

sprinkled clean from an evil conscience, and our bodies

washed with pure water. Let us hold the confession of

our hope without waving. For he who promised is man.

He's faithful, full. And let us consider how to

stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking

our own assembling together, as is the habit of son, but

encouraging one another. And all the more as you see the

day drawing near, as you see the day.

What day are we talking about? We're talking about the catching

away of the church as you begin to see that day drawing near.

And are we near? Are we the nearest people to it?

I mean, has anyone been more near than us?

No, We are the nearest at this juncture.

OK. And so because we're the nearer,

what should we do all the more? Assemble and encourage one

another. Assemble and encourage one

another. Assemble and encourage one

another. And he literally says don't do.

Like the habit of some. Now, who's he talking to?

Plus 'cause if you go back to the very verse 19, it says

therefore brethren. So he's not talking to lost

people here, he's talking to people who are in covenant with

God. They are children of God.

They are in the new covenant, a new and better covenant.

And he's telling them now listen, verse 23, that they are

to hold fast, which tells us you can let go.

That's right. They are to hold fast the

confession of our hope. King James says the profession

of our faith cause. A confession of hope or hope is

a confident expectation. If you're speaking what you

confidently expect, by all rights you're in faith, 'cause

you're calling those things that be not as though they were.

Are you hearing me, 'cause? He says he's faithful, who has

promised right? And then he goes on and says,

Now listen, as that day gets closer, you need to not forsake

the assembling of yourselves together.

I mean, everybody's like, I want Jesus to come back, yet they're

not assembled. Hallelujah.

I said Hallelujah, because most of them think it's going to come

whether I believe it or not. James.

OK, I'll do that. James says you believe God, you

do well. But even the demons believe and

shudder. So believing that you could be

caught away isn't the same as having faith cause faith is a

corresponding action. I said it's a corresponding

action, which means there's something that you need to do.

In fact, if you read James, he said, look, faith without works

or a corresponding action is dead, period.

Like the spirit, like the body is dead without the spirit, so

is your faith. You can tell me all day long, I

believe, I believe. But if your lifestyle is not a

corresponding action, then by all rights it's a dead faith,

which means you actually do have a hearing.

But you're actually not mixing faith with it.

And when you don't mix faith with it, it won't profit you.

So hearing the word enough to hearing the word is not enough

for you to be active in faith. All right, let's go on verse

262626, he says. For if we go on sinning

willfully after receiving the knowledge of truth, there is no

longer remains A sacrifice for sin, but a terrifying

expectation of judgment and the fury of a fire which will

consume the adversaries. Anyone who has set aside the Law

of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three

witnesses. How much severe punishment do

you think he will deserve, who has trampled under foot the Son

of God, and has regarded as unclean the blood of the

covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the

Spirit of grace? For we know him who says

vengeance is mine, I will repay, and again the Lord will judge

his people. It is a terrifying thing to fall

into the hands of the living God now.

Verse 26 for if who? Who's he talking to?

He's talking to covenant kids. He's not talking to the lost.

This verse has nothing to do with the Lost, he says.

If we go on, if we go on sinning willfully, after we've received

the knowledge of the truth, we have revelation.

We know what we're supposed to do and how we're supposed to

act. It's been revealed to us by the

Spirit, yet we're choosing to not put down the passions of the

flesh. This is problematic.

Now, when you read this, your first thought is that obviously

because of verse 27, we always go to hell.

But you know what? Hell is not just the fury of

fire. If we go on and he says this

again, 28 is a covenant statement.

He who sets aside the law of Moses, which means they are

under the law of Moses. They were constrained within

that they're supposed to do, and if they disregard it, they'll

die without mercy. Then he says, now it would be

worse for us. Why?

Because and those under the law of Moses are on the covenant,

the old covenant, where God revealed to them how to live.

And let me say, you could have lived under that law, righteous

enough for redemption. It doesn't make you right with

God, so that the blood's not necessary.

But there were plenty who lived under it in faith that it it

allowed them to go to Paradise or Abraham's Bosom once they

left the planet. So how much more severe

punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled under

the foot of Jesus? Meaning you're born again, you

have the third person of the Godhead on the inside of you,

and you're going to go on and willfully sin.

And I love this because he goes on and says you're going to

insult the spirit of grace. And then it interesting that

Hebrews says that because Hebrew, the writer of Hebrew,

knew that people would take the the doctrine of grace which and

turned it to lasciviousness and what they would do is they would

say, oh, you didn't do anything to deserve it.

There's nothing you're doing to keep it when the reality is

faith got you. The grace faith continues to

move you forward. Obedience has always been in

play and will never not be in play, because obedience is how

we actually demonstrate we love God.

And the thing about this is like you're insulting the spirit of

grace, saying seriously, you're acting like you don't have

dominion over sin, you're acting like you're subject to it.

Still. This is why Romans says, shall

we continue to sin So that grace may abound, may it never cause

the grace that brought you into the Kingdom was transformed into

the grace that Jesus had. And Jesus had an empowering

grace which allowed him to avoid to overcome every temptation of

sin so that he himself would no longer be subject or would not

be subject to sin. But if someone goes on we act

like that there's not a challenge.

Cause verse 30 says God says vengeance is mine.

I will repay the Lord will judge who whose people He's not

talking about the world. So again, the Lord is always

examining us in Christ. That's right.

Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

Now let me just make this statement real quick so we can

get rid of this, you know, thought that people are

struggling with even now. Nowhere am I saying that if you

do not, if you're not in the catching away of the church,

that that means if you're a covenant child and you were left

behind, that by all rights, if you died in the tribulation,

that you wouldn't be in heaven. I never said that, never said

that. Obviously if you die in the

tribulation, you're going to be up underneath the throne.

A lot of people are going to die in the tribulation a lot, OK?

They're going to be martyred. It's going to happen.

OK. So I'm just saying again, a

person can be in the planet today, as many of you have

experienced, is that man, I'm born again.

I'm filled with power. I walk in healing God's prosper

me. Everything I touch prospers.

I mean, we're just moving and going, yeah.

Do I have trial? But, man, I'm at perfect peace.

I'm at rest. I mean, God's moving in my life.

It's just amazing. And then you go with him.

Yeah. There's others that have already

died before you. OK.

That when they get before the Lord, the Lord's going to say

you could have been healed, you could have prospered.

They're going to realize there was so much I could have had

that I didn't. It's not like the Lord's going

to say, well, I didn't want you to have anything anyway.

You really weren't my favorite child.

You're really, you're just lucky I got you in.

No, that that's not what he's saying.

He's going to say, you know, at the all of this was available

for you there, right? So again, it doesn't mean

they're not going to heaven, but it does mean the quality of life

here is severely different because of their their inability

to believe their unbelief period.

Could everyone of the Israelites gone into the promised land?

Why did they now enter unbelief? Were they his covenant kids?

So did God judge his people? You're you're my covenant kid.

You just can't get in because unbelief, well, you can't do

something contrary to God's word.

And God say OK, don't worry about it.

It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.

Are you hearing me? OK, let's go on verse 32.

But remember the former days, when, after being enlightened,

you endured a great conflict of suffering, partly by being made

a public spectacle through the reproaches and tribulations, and

partly becoming sharers with those who were so treated for

you, showed sympathy to the prisoners, accepted joyfully the

seizure of your property, knowing that you have for

yourself a better possession and a lasting one.

Therefore do not throw away, implies you can.

Do not throw away your confidence, which has great

reward, for you have need of endurance.

Why? So that when you have done the

will of God, you may receive what is promised for.

Yet in a very little while he who is what coming will come and

will not delay. He's coming, verse 2038 then.

But my righteous ones shall live by faith, and if he shrinks

back, my soul has no pleasure, he said.

But we're not of those who shrink back to destruction, but

to those who have faith, to the preserving of the soul.

So in essence, he says now we gonna stay in faith so that when

the day comes that's right, we're not the ones that are left

behind, 'cause we don't shrink back, we don't turn back and go

willfully sinning. We don't openly insult the

spirit of grace. We don't live like the world and

the world watch us live like them, and then we disappear.

Well, how we lived was no different than how they lived,

but we did. Ashley's in our heart and save

us. Say Hallelujah.

Amen. Mark chapter 13.

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Mark chapter 13. But of that day.

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Now what day we talking about? We talking about the day Jesus

is coming. But on that day of that day or

hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son

but the Father alone. Take heed, keep on alert, for

you do not know when the appointed time will come.

It is like a man away on a journey, who, upon leaving his

house and putting his slaves in charge of signing to each one

his task, also commanded the doorkeeper to stay on alert.

Therefore, be on alert. For you do not know when the

master of the house is coming, whether in the evening or at

midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning, in

case he should come suddenly and find you asleep.

What I say to you, I say to all be on the alert.

Now why in the world is Jesus Christ telling us to take heed

and be on alert? If it's automatic, that when he

comes we go, why is Jesus Christ ahead of the church instructing

them? Now you're going to have to keep

watch. You have to be on alert.

Hallelujah. Amen.

You got to be on alert. You got to take heed.

Now notice it says. But in that day or hour, notice

what it doesn't say. It doesn't say that year.

It doesn't even say that month. In fact, the scriptures are more

conclude more that we can know that it's imminent as opposed to

I have no idea 'cause how can you take heed for something you

don't know? OK, we'll go to others.

This word is sleep in verse 36. And in case he would come

suddenly and find you what? Asleep.

This word of sleep comes from a Greek word that means this to

yield to sloth or sin. It means to be indifferent to

one's salvation. Oh my goodness is right.

You know how many born again covenant people are indifferent

to their salvation? Whether they come to church

doesn't matter. Whether they read the Bible

doesn't matter. I'm only going to converse with

him when I'm in trouble anyway. And their whole thought process

of God is in their way of processing God, not in his way

of them to process God. They've created the image of God

themselves using his scripture and he goes on said Now, in case

he finds you suddenly asleep, meaning you are being slothful,

you maybe, as Hebrew says, are going on willfully sinning.

Let me say the Lord's not giving rewards to rebellion.

I mean, you're going to have to prove you love him with all your

soul, all your mind, all your heart, your heart, soul, mind.

You got to you're going to prove that.

And he's made it available for you to do that.

But you have to prove it. And you prove it through obeying

him, because that means you love him.

You reckon I love you? I couldn't even do this without

you. I I wouldn't be able to make

these choices without you. I couldn't yield to the Spirit

and resist the Devil if it wasn't for you.

But I'm doing it. I'm the one doing it.

And he's empowering me to do it, 'cause my new spirit can hear

the Holy Ghost and I can resist the Devil.

But if I'm not resisting and I'm just running in the world and

saying, my gosh, I ask Jesus into my heart and save me, and I

can live like the rest of the world, but I'm safe.

I mean, the blood's been applied to me because it doesn't really

matter what I do. It doesn't matter what you do

now. Well, how in the world are you

in a better position than the first Adam?

Because the first Adam had no sin.

He was perfection. And he ate fruit and died cut

off from God. I know we have an advocate with

a father, and I understand he's always interceding for us.

What's he doing? Make the right choice.

Do what I'm saying. Just follow me.

Sure, he's doing that. But at the end of the day, he

still ain't gonna make you. Now, you were rebellious for you

knew him. Sure, your nature wasn't there.

But you know, you can be rebellious after you know him.

I mean, if that's not the case, then why do we have these altar

calls where people rededicate their lives?

And I was like, you know, I'm just not living.

Why do you feel that way? Well, because you get convicted

by the Holy Ghost, he says. What are you doing?

Don't you know your lifestyle is condemning you right now because

you're living like the world? You need to get right, bro.

This ain't you. This ain't your nature.

Need to get it together. Always trying to draw you.

Always trying to draw you. Always trying to draw you.

My gosh, he's so long-suffering and merciful.

He's always full of compassion. But at the end of the day, you

can go your own way. And he says I might show up and

you'd be asleep. Is being asleep a problem?

Oh, it's a problem. Go back to Luke, chapter 21.

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Luke 21. Let's go to verse 34.

Luke 2134 says this. Be on guard so that your hearts

will not be weighed. Downward disputation.

You know how it is. Thank you.

And drunkenness and the worries of life.

And that day, what day we talking about the return of the

King where he's going to catch away.

The church will not come on you suddenly like a now how in the

world. Let me even finish reading.

For it will come upon all those who dwell on the face of all the

earth but keep on alert at all times, praying that you may have

the strength to escape all these things that are about to take

place and to stand before the Son of God.

My gosh, I mean, he says be on guard.

Why you got to be on guard if it's autumn.

Dramatic deal. And here's number verse 36.

He said to keep on alert at all times, praying that you may have

strength to escape, which apparently you have a part of

the exit strategy. You have a part to play.

He tells you to guard your heart so that it's not weighed down.

Why? That you're not drunk on the

things of the world. You're intoxicated with the

world's way of doing it. You're carried away by the cares

of life. The thorns of life have pulled

you in and choking the word out of you.

You're in essence, you're unfruitful and not showing

anything that demonstrates that you're the child of a king.

And he says then that day can suddenly come upon you.

Like a what? Not like a time of rejoicing,

but like a trap. Like now.

What's a trap? I'm caught.

I'm caught. Hallelujah, aren't you glad

Christmas tis the season to be jolly?

I mean, this message is only weighty to those who are in

trouble, but to those who are not, you're like, praise God.

I know what I'm doing. I'm following God with all my

heart, all my soul, all my mind, all my strength.

I got him first in my life. I do what he says.

I crucify the flesh. I'm following him.

Thank you for letting me know. I'm a candidate for the day he

come, 'cause I'm assembling, I'm encouraging.

I'm staying with the word. Simple, Pretty simple.

But if you want to go try it on your own, go ahead.

Because I could be waving and singing this song to you as you

go. Ba ba ba, this word escape in

the Greek. Got to get y'all laughing

somewhere. It's heavy in here.

This word escape means to flee or to escape.

Again, it comes from. The suffix of this word means

or. The prefix of this word means

out of or away from. And the suffix of this word

means seek safety by flight to escape safely out of danger, to

vanish. Everybody believes we're going

to vanish. We're just talking about how,

how, how that event actually looks.

We are going to escape by literal flight.

Can I get an Amen? So this word actually is talking

about the catching away and he tells us put that back up there

verse 36 that you have to pray that you have strength to get up

out of here. Now why is this important?

Because the Bible lets us know Jesus said.

Now when I return, will I find faith in the earth?

Because he says the love of many, and that's God's love.

In the hearts of his covenant, kids will grow cold, which means

they'll become indifferent to their salvation.

They'll get caught up in the things of the world.

They'll be more running after the things of the world, doing

like the things of the world. And they've kind of got this

little thought in their head that when the time comes,

whether I'm in church or not in church, whether I'm reading the

Bible or not read, whether I'm living perfect or not, I'm

going. But they have no connection to

the head at all, other than a former confession of faith.

Now, I would love to be entirely wrong on this subject matter

right now, because it'd be great if it just poof, we're all gone

if you did it one time. But there's unfortunately too

many scriptures that do not conclude or support that.

And I'd be doing you a disservice if I'm saying, well,

let's just hope it's the other when I have no support of

scripture to say that when this scripture is literally telling

me I got to be on guard. I got to make sure I don't let

the cares of this life and the things going on in this world

and the things that we trying to do to get ahead, you know, so we

have this awesome life down here because that was the whole thing

about the Hebrews, like these people, man.

They had their seizure of their property.

They were, they were not trying to make a life down here.

They were staying connected. They just want to stay

connected. They want to stay in faith.

And it didn't matter what it cost them because they knew

there's something better at the end of the day.

So again, we can't we can't take on the things of the world.

And again it says you got to keep on alert at how many times.

That's why I come to church. Help keep you on alert.

Encourage one another because you're seeing so much out there.

To be easy for us to get mad, to get aggravated, I'm I must to

get judgmental. I mean, the world's going to

sin. And he said gross darkness is

going to cover the earth. So the more you hear about it,

like, my gosh, don't seem like nothing's working.

You know what God's working. His word works.

He's still delivering. He's still saving.

It doesn't matter what the world's doing.

God is still forgive him. He'll still save him.

He'll still bring him into the Kingdom.

No problem. Just live the Kingdom in front

of them so they'll have a hope when they see you.

Don't live like them under grace because you give them no hope.

You're trying to sell them a God that doesn't exist.

He don't care what you do, just ask him to forgive you.

He does care. In fact, he cares so much.

He's like, I'm going to have to pay the price so they can get

out of this stuff, 'cause if he didn't care at all, then when we

have the new heaven and new earth sinning in heaven wouldn't

be a problem. OK, y'all, don't want to hear

that. That's all right 'cause it's

fantasy, thinking God is never well with disobedience, never

will. OK, so with that being said,

turn to Matthew, chapter seven. We doing all right?

Let's move. We got to move a little quicker

now. Matthew 721 to 23, it says.

Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord will enter the

Kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who

is in heaven, will enter. Many will say to me on that day,

what day? It's that day, the day of the

catching away the Church. Lord, Lord, did we not prophecy

on your name, and in your name cast out demons, and in your

name perform miracles? And then I will declare to him I

never knew you. Now we got a problem with this,

because again we hear this word, never knew, and we already

conclude as somebody not in the Kingdom.

Depart from me, You who practice.

There's the key with you who practice lawlessness.

Now the word new here, I never knew.

The word new comes from the Greek word which means to become

acquainted with. Are you ready for this?

To know is in this context, sexual intercourse between a man

and a woman. In essence, he's saying I was

never intimately acquainted with you.

In essence, he's saying you received me as savior, were born

again, and you got my name. You come into the marriage, you

come down the aisle. Because let me tell you what

Jesus is not doing, sleeping with you before you come down.

So you get rid of that thought. You ain't never slept with Jesus

before. Marriage ain't never happened.

Jesus was not shaking up with you and getting it on with you

before the wedding day. So when you came into the

Kingdom, it's like you were getting married to Jesus, the

head of the church, the bride of Christ.

You said I do. Jesus, I love you.

I want you to be my man. And then when the honeymoon

came, you didn't show up. You have his legal name and all

that goes with his name, but she never consummated the marriage.

You never became one with him, and you went around in his name

that you got a legal right to 'cause you were born again in

Christ. This is why they're going to

prophecy on his name. They're going to cast out devils

in his name. They're going to perform

miracles in his name. And he's going to say, I was

never intimately acquainted with you.

We never consummated this thing. Oh, you've seen them.

They've come down to church. They got born again.

Never see them again. Never, never come to a church

again. Yet they'll say, Oh yeah, I'm

born again. And they'll pray to him, and

they'll invoke his name. And God out of his mercy will

say I love you. I mean, he'll still give to you.

So you're my. Come on.

Come, come. Come to the bed, man.

Get here. Let's get this thing.

Let's get together. Let's become one here.

Quit just using my name. And you were using my name for

your own self. And then you want to come up out

of what's happening. And you live like the rest.

Matthew 24, verse 36. Are y'all all right?

Matthew 24:36

OK, he said. But the but on but of that day,

say that day an hour no one knows, not even the angels of

heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.

For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of

Noah. For as in those days before the

flood they were eating and drinking and marrying and giving

in marriage until the day that Noah entered the ark, and they

did not understand until the flood came and took them all

away, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.

Then there will be two men in the field, One will be taken,

and 1:00 will be left. Two women will be grinding at

the mill. One will be taken, one will be

left. Therefore, be on.

Be on alert, for you do not know which day your Lord is coming.

But be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known what

time of night the thief was was coming, he would have been on

the alert and would not have allowed his house house to be

broken in. For this reason you also must be

ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour when you do

not think he will. Whoever then is the faithful and

sensible slave whom his master put in charge of his household

to give them their food at the proper time, blessed is that

slave whom his master finds so doing when he comes.

Truly, I say to you that he will put him in charge of all of his

possessions. But if that evil slave says in

his heart, my master's not coming for a long time, my

master is not coming for a long time, and begins to beat his

fellow slaves and eat and drink with drunkards, the master of

that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him in

an hour which he does not know, and will cut him in pieces and

assign him a place with hypocrites in that place where

there is weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Shadaba Satah, are you hearing me?

So he says, listen, the day's coming and hours coming, Nobody

knows. The angels don't know.

The Son don't know, but the father knows.

Again, it's not a year. It's not a month.

We can get this thing pretty tight, he said.

But this day is going to be like Noah.

And in Noah, everybody's going to be running around doing their

own thing. The world's going to be going,

They're going to not want anything to do with God.

And if you don't watch up, you can get caught up with it.

I didn't use Noah as a catching away type, but Noah is

considered a catching away type because Noah never actually

leaves playing Earth. He's just caught up.

Aren't you glad he was in the boat that day?

Because he didn't know when the father was going to shut the

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

this, cousin. Father shuts the door on the

ark. Well, there's another door that

gets shut. It's with the 10 virgins.

But I don't have time to preach on the 10 virgins today.

I'm sorry. My point is, is that he's

saying, look, don't you get caught up in everything going on

in the world, because if you don't watch out, he's going to

show up and you are not going to be ready for this.

Now again, we conclude that two are in a place, one's gone,

one's left. We automatically assume it's

only people who are lost that are staying back.

Yet the Scripture lets us know that if you are behaving in a

way that is not in in keeping with the covenant of God, you

are at risk. That's right, of not escaping.

Now again you if you get stuck in a tribulation and make sure

that you never take the mark and maintain a confession of faith

in Jesus, you're gonna go to heaven.

But you're living in a time frame you were not supposed to

be in. And again, you say, I can't

believe this. I mean, that's why you got to

read the Bible. God is not schizophrenic.

Scott did. God did not do something in the

Old Covenant. He's not doing a new covenant.

I mean, his character's the same.

So you understand he had covenant kids in the Old

Covenant that his wrath showed up on, 'cause his wrath showed

up for the purpose of them to repent.

But it didn't come to the ones that were in righteousness.

He protected them. Same thing in the New Covenant.

If you're gonna and how much more severe, 'cause we're alive

to God, we have the Holy Ghost in us, and then we're gonna mock

God and live like the rest of the world and expect that Trump

is going to blow and we're going to blow out of here with having

no thought process about it, he says.

You got to be on alert and he tells us he says we don't know

they are, but notice he concludes in this he said, Now

listen, if you know and he says now listen, you got to be ready.

Because if he says if you knew when the thief was coming, then

you would not let him be broken in.

So he's concluding. You don't know the day or hour,

but you can know he's coming and be ready and you're not going to

be taken like a trap. And then he goes on and gives a

clear example which reinforces love.

The master has his servants and he entrusts them.

And if we were to jump over to Matthew 25 and I don't have time

to go there today, I'm going to conclude here.

OK, Then in Matthew 25 he goes on and says to them, I give

151211 and he goes away. Is Jesus not with us today?

Where's Jesus at? He's seated in heavenly places.

Is he coming back? Yeah.

And when he comes back, we got to give an account.

That's what the Bible says. Said we give an account.

And so when he comes back, he wants to find us, so doing.

And when he comes back to the one he finds him doing, guess

what? He rejoices.

And he says to him, I give you all these possessions for you to

be in charge of. In essence, the catching away of

the church is where God goes through the resume of our life

and say, because you were faithful, obey here and faithful

here. And you didn't compromise here

and you didn't do this, When we go back to this planet, you're

going to have this territory and that territory.

And I have this assignment for you and this assignment for you.

And that's what you're going to do next.

But the one when he shows back is not doing it.

In fact, what are they doing? They are being slothful.

He calls them evil. And we think, well, that means

they're cut off. No, their master is the Lord.

They're evil because all covenant kids that don't obey

God, that's an evil action. The minute you don't obey God,

that's evil. So if he says in the heart my

master's not coming for a long time begins to beat his fellow

slaves. That's why we've been talking

about unity. You think you can talk about the

body of Christ like this, and God's all right with that?

You think you can beat down the body of Christ.

You can talk bad about one another.

You can have offences towards one another.

You cannot walk in forgiveness and love.

You think that you can pretend that you are not doing the same

thing. And we don't understand that you

ain't really repented yet, that you're masquerading.

Are you hearing me? He goes on to say.

And then they're going to eat and drink with drunkards,

meaning they're intoxicated with the world, he said.

When he comes back, he said. And then this verse 51 is really

important. He says he'll cut him in pieces,

assign him a place with the hypocrites.

There's only one group of people Jesus called hypocrites.

Let me tell you, they were not. They were not the lost.

He never called the lost hypocrites.

Now what do I mean by that? I understand in his time frame

nobody was born again. I get that.

What I'm saying is, is that who he called hypocrites were the

ones who had an anointing to be able to understand the word of

God. It was the Pharisees and

scribes. It was the priesthood.

He called them hypocrites because they knew how to live

different but chose not to. In essence, he is saying we can

say a hypocrite is this one who follows God on their own terms

and not on God's terms. And these priests are covenant.

These priests have been come down from the line of Aaron.

Are you hearing me? There's an anointing.

I mean, the high priest who who authorized the killing of Jesus

spoke under the anointing, He said.

You're a hypocrite. Weeping and gnashing of teeth is

not just hell. The tribulation will be weeping

and gnashing of teeth. What if he finds you not doing?

Does she look like the rest of the world?

Then he'll let you have the wrath that the world's having in

order for you to repent. He didn't have to get left

behind. It doesn't mean you won't go to

heaven, doesn't mean that. It just means you don't get to

leave, because the leaving that's catching away is for the

faithful. He's coming back for the church.

That's without spot or wrinkle. Those who are doing and it's and

it and this is not. Well, that's not fair.

How is it not fair? Every one of us that got born

again have the Holy Ghost living in US.

Every one of us that got born again became a new nature in

Christ. We actually have the nature of

the King. We are without excuse.

We have the written word that transforms our mind.

We are without excuse. We are in a time frame that

God's like, are you serious right now?

And let me tell you God has shown this throughout his pages.

Moses going to have this face to face encounter with God and then

disobey God by hitting a rock twice and God's like it doesn't

matter. I'm gonna let you take them in

any way. I forgive you.

And did Moses ask for forgiveness?

He did. He said, Lord, I'm sorry I did

that. I didn't mean it.

I didn't mean. And he talked to God all the

time about that. And finally the Lord said, look

out there, son. And he looked at he said, that's

the promise saying, he said, now listen, I have forgiven you for

disobeying, but it has stopped you from getting in, period.

You can't be this close to me and dishonor me like that and

think you're going to be able to finish your course, he said.

Don't talk to me again about it. And God was a forgiving God.

No. When we have the fear of the

Lord then we'll do something great.

I'll close with these two scriptures because I'm

seriously. I just have to say these

scriptures try to leave you on a high note.

Romans 6/6. I can conclude it like this,

knowing that our old self was crucified with him in order that

the our body of sin might be done away with so that we would

no longer be slaves to sin. Galatians 220 Is this.

This is it right here. Galatians 220 I've been

crucified with Christ. How can you be confident?

How do you be confident that you know what I'm gonna hear?

The trumpet. I'm ready.

I'm ready. I've been crucified with Christ.

In him. I have shared His crucifixion.

It is no longer I who live, but Christ.

The Messiah lives in me and the life I now live in the body.

I live by faith, by adherence to and reliance on and complete

trust in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for

me. In fact, Bible tells us in

Galatians 5 that our spirit and our flesh battle.

And you know who's getting caught up?

It's those who crucify the flesh, who walk by the Spirit,

who are led by the Spirit, who do the word of God that he will

come back and give them their reward.

Because we know God is a rewarder of those who diligently

seek Him. But for those who will not

crucify the flesh, who will not allow the spirit that's in them

that can dominate their flesh now in the spirit realm to

dominate that God say, why don't you just stay on the planet and

prove? To me that you will submit to

me, 'cause when I gave you the power to do it in the realm of

the spirit, You wouldn't. You wouldn't.

So now you're gonna have to prove it, 'cause I couldn't tell

by your walk. You love me?

Hallelujah. You're not working out your

salvation, but you are working out your exit strategy.

You're determining when you're going because if you want to be

born again and live like the world, God is not a man that he

should lie. And he's not mocked because

whatever a man soweth, that's what he'll read.

And for us that are born again, Dad's like, really?

I did that and you still can't obey me.

You still are indifferent with the salvation that I've given

you. You still want to try to

convince me of how you're living.

I'm supposed to accept. You're telling me it's OK to

keep drinking. You're telling me it's OK to

keep cussing? You're telling me it's OK 'cause

yeah, when you were doing it, that's what you were doing.

And I paid the price, so you don't have to do that no more.

And you're going to act like you can do.

And I'm supposed to just be OK? I'm not OK.

That's why the Holy Ghost keeps talking to you.

And when you renew your mind, you can't conquer everything.

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