Housed - Kingdom Temple

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Plan We just, you know come out of Second Chronicles, right?

So you you came across this scripture but Second Chronicles

2 Chronicles 2 · chapter mention

chapter 2 verse five. This struck struck my spirit

yesterday actually. Says the house which I'm about

to build will be great for greater is our God than.

All the gods. Let's see.

Let's say that again, the house which I'm about to build will be

greater. Great.

Yeah, that's good. For greater is our God than all

the gods. Now you can probably go back on

our podcast and hear a message that I ministered once called

someone greater than. Solomon is here, OK?

And if you hadn't heard that, I encourage you to go find that

message and listen to it. You know, Solomon is the one who

announces I'm going to build a house with the Lord, and

obviously his father wanted to do so, but the Lord's like

you're not building the house. He says you're a man of blood

shed. And now again David's bloodshed

was authorized, but he says you're not going to build that

house. And so he, you know, delegated

that to his son Solomon. And in his lifetime he began to

accumulate resource for the temple.

Not only did he accumulate it from the nation of Israel, but

from his own personal account. Did he put towards the building

of this temple? And you know you can take time

to go through for your own personal history lesson and see

all the wealth that was stored for this building.

And so now Solomon, and again, if you just jump over a chapter,

you'll begin to read him starting this particular temple

and the the main floor. OK, the main floor.

Build out a cedar. But you don't see cedar when

you're walking on it because the whole floor is overlaid with

pure gold. The whole thing, I mean this is

extravagant. And then they got precious

stones and then they hand carve palms, you understand?

He definitely loved the state of Florida and so.

They were thinking of us when he was carving out the temple, but

all gold. I mean, we really can't fathom

what this place looked like, this house.

And notice Solomon says this. He says, Now listen, I'm going

to build a house for the Lord, for God, and it's going to be

great. Now why is that?

Because he's a greater God. Than all other God.

If I'm going to build a house that we can see, that this world

can see, then there's no way some other temple dedicated to a

false God can be more impressive.

I mean, Solomon was like, there's no way that another

nation's going to come and see the temple dedicated to the

creator of heaven and earth. And they go that ain't got

nothing on our God. Oh, that's a shack.

Oh, wow. That's not a big deal.

Are you hearing me? Sodom was like, there's no way

that I'm going to build a house that can be publicly seen by

this nation or any other nation, and somebody would have the

audacity to come into this place and act like their temple to

their false God. Could even compare.

Do you understand? Solomon had this mindset?

Are you hearing me that when you see the House of the Lord, when

you see the House of the Lord that I'm about to build, you're

going to be in awe Now Solomon was someone who could clip

people in awe? In fact, the Queen of Sheba, if

you read about her, she came to see Solomon one day because she

heard about all of his wisdom. Now you understand why Solomon

has the wealth that he has anyway is because all he wants

to do is take care of God's people, which is a whole another

message by itself. When the king decides that all

he wants is the rule God's people well, in essence be able

to rule before the people well. Are you a little king?

Are you rulers? Then you should desire to want

to rule well before the people and because all he said, give me

wisdom and knowledge to rule well before your people.

And man, God came down and says wow, because you did not ask for

the heads of your enemy because you didn't ask for wealth.

He didn't even ask for long life, a legacy where your name

would be remembered. Oh, he said.

You're all you were concerned about is leading my people, he

said. Son, I will give you that

wisdom. But guess what comes with that

now? What comes?

What is happening? Hallelujah.

Is it me? OK, Somebody scratching on a

mic? Man, I'm going to be rapping

here in a minute. Hallelujah.

I think Meridas over there, going over there.

Watch her now, because I'm going to start beatboxing here in a

minute. OK, So what was I talking about

before I was rudely interrupted by her beatbox?

Over here, Wisdom. You get the wisdom.

Guess what? Guess what follows Wisdom.

Well, your enemy. And be at peace with you.

And everybody's going to remember your name.

Are you hearing me? So again, if we just put the

order right. So here's Solomon.

He's at his Kingdom. The Queen of Sheba comes, and

she does not come to not be impressive because when she

showed up, because you don't come to a king empty handed, she

shows up. I'm going to say that again.

You do not come to the king. And if you've come to this

house, the king is here. His name's Jesus.

I hope you did not come emptyhanded, but she comes with

the most spices that have ever rolled in to Israel.

The most. I mean, she has an entourage of

so much wealth. Are you hearing me okay?

And so with that being said, she in turn goes and sees the people

all right? And before she even sees the

king, she's like. Wow, look at his servants.

Look how they're dressed. I mean, they're not dressed like

slaves, although they were slaves.

They were so dressed so well. The order of his house, the

amount of wealth that it took her breath away.

Just the natural sight of his house and his servants struck

her in awe. Now you understand when Solomon

wants to build a house for the for God, the God that's greater

than all gods, He's like, it's going to take their breath away.

Now here's the thing. What he's building is not his

own, because the plan has come from the Lord.

The Lord is the architect, designer of what this temple

looks like. And so it's my, it's mighty

impressive. It's mighty impressive.

And you know, so again, this statement just struck me.

The house which I'm about to build, who's building it?

Solomon is. Who's building it?

Solomon is now. He's not personally building it.

He's, you know, because again, it's an architectural project

and he's is, is enlisted all kinds of people.

I mean, there's like 150,000 people that he's, you know, are

working. And 36,000 are foreman and he's

getting, you know, supply from all over the regions.

But ultimately, once it's built, then he does this massive

sacrifice, which was a lot of resource just to sacrifice 1000

bulls. Wow.

And all of a sudden God's present showed up in that house.

So much so, the Bible says that the priests that were inside it

couldn't even stand up. They couldn't even stand up the

weight of the glory of God his presence that when it filled it

is says his train filled the temple.

His glory filled the temple so full that the the measure of

that presence of God's spirit put them all down on the ground.

They couldn't even stand. Are you hearing me?

And he said, man, I'm about to build a house.

It's going to be great for greater as our God than all the

others. And then the Lord reminded me of

First Corinthians chapter 6 and 1st Corinthians chapter 6 will

1 Corinthians 6 · chapter mention

start in verse 19. It says.

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy

Spirit? Who is in you, whom you have

from God, and that you? Are not your own verse 20 for

you have been bought with a price.

Therefore glorify God in your body. 1st Corinthians 3 verse 16

says it this way. Do you not know that you are the

temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

Do we have the same attitude as Solomon that when we got born

again and the Spirit of God came to live inside us, that when we

look in the mirror we're saying, Lord, I am going to build you a

house because greater? Is he that is in me, then he

that is in the world? How in the world could I not

build this house so that when it walks around in society that all

of a sudden people are like, there ain't no way I'm better

than that. Are you hearing me?

I mean. All we are, we have.

It's like we are not taking thought that God did not want to

move in a gold house. He did not want to move into a

natural home. He always wanted to be back in

man. And now that he's showing up,

what are we showing the world that's housing God?

I mean, are we allowing the gods of this world to showcase more

in those bodies than what God can do in us?

Because at the end of the day, God came to the house that

Solomon built. And at the end of the day, God

made man, and through the dust of the earth he ultimately howls

this suit. But when you make Jesus Lord,

you're asking him to move in. And since he's moving in, what

is he moving into? And he's giving you the tool to

renovate. Are you hearing me?

He's giving you the tools to renovate.

He's giving you the tools to the renewing of your mind and to the

point of keeping your body subject so that there's no

excuse that when someone in the world would look at you, they

would be in awe, OK? Well, now the Spirit of God, you

can't see it. You may not be able to see it,

but you can sense it. In fact, Smith Wigglesworth

worked on his temple, so much so that when he was sitting on a

bus, it was. It was testified to him that

when one man was getting off a bus, he says.

Your mere presence convicts me of my sin.

Cause you understand, when the Holy Spirit or when the Spirit

of God came down in Solomon's temple that day, they couldn't

stand in his presence. When the power of God came down

upon the mountain, they were in fear and trembling.

I mean the presence of God and pure holiness is something to be

with, be to behold. And it will put all of us on our

face. I said it will put all of us on

our face. Are you hearing me?

But with that being said, we ourselves have a responsibility

to take care of the house cause we've been housed, we've been

housed, so we shouldn't be sick like the rest of the world all

the time. We shouldn't be, you know, beat

down all the time like the rest of the world.

We shouldn't be come, you know, there shouldn't be creaking

coming from our temple. You know what creaking is?

It's complaining and whining. Now that don't mean we're not

going to have problems, but we overcome them so fast that

people think we don't have them. They don't see depression

associated with you because that's other God's temples.

They don't see you walking around in fear, that's other

God's temples. You understand because Jesus

said you are of your father, the devil.

And some of those temples, those bodies, they not only are they

dead spirits in them, they're housing evil spirits and we

should look nothing like this. Now you understand Solomon built

a building. Anybody can build a building.

Anybody can build architecture. You know, he's not the only

person who can put gold over wood.

But there's something about this house.

And man, there was something about that ark.

That he brought into that house because that art, before it even

had that house and it was stuck in a tent.

But that was one fine looking tent people.

I'm telling you, the wealth of the tent itself, you understand

religious, religious Christianity can't handle the

tent or the temple because that would go against their

stewardship. They can't.

Handle that now, Pastor. We are definitely not going to

have gold floors in our church. That is way too extravagant.

Well, I guess you're not going to heaven.

I mean, we'll complain about how much we pay for carpet.

Speaking of carpet, we bought the rest.

You know, we asked for $45,000. We've got $41,000.

I'm like we're buying the rest of the carpet.

So if you're like, oh, I still want to get in that field and

and so towards it, you absolutely can because.

But I we bought the rest of the carpet.

So our goal is to have that all the way in by the end of

October. All carpet in the mall, all

right. Then we can move to continue

projects. And if you haven't been to the

front of the mall, we got a little sneak peek on the white

columns. They're disappearing.

A couple of them have disappeared, right?

We just laid hands on them. And they're gone.

It did take a couple days. And I think now that we know

what we're doing, we can do the next one in a day.

Hallelujah. But with that being said, what

is your temple? Do you have the same attitude as

Solomon that you're like, I'm telling you, when the world sees

me, they are not going to mistake me with their temples?

This is why this temple's not full of debauchery, right?

I mean, this is not a dumping ground for toxic material.

I don't feel this temple full of toxic material that messes my

mind up. That starts to play with it

because there's plenty of other temples in the world.

Are you hearing me? I understand we're going to look

the same to a degree. We're human, but you can begin

to walk in the power and purpose of God so much that people will

say something about you, something about you.

I've been in multiple places where my wife where people have

said you're glowing and it's not because she just had a facial.

It's not that. It's not because she's, you

know, just came away from the sun.

It's not that something else. They're starting to sense

something else. Amen.

And you can walk in again. It's the inside.

It's the Spirit of God radiating through your soul and your body

that you decide I'm going to live such a pure life according

to scripture. That the other gods temples

don't look nothing like mine. Are you hearing me?

So what type of house are you building?

All right, Does it reflect God? Look at Hebrews chapter 6 verses

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one and two. Hebrews chapter 6 verse one and

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two. Therefore, leaving the

elementary teaching about the Christ, let us press on to

maturity. Not laying again a foundation of

repentance from dead works and faith towards God, of

instructions of instruction about washings and laying on of

hands and the resurrection of the dead in eternal judgment.

Notice Hebrews chapter 6 here lets us know that if you're in a

Hebrews 6 · chapter mention

place that only preaches repentance from dead works,

that's being born again. Okay.

Faith towards God. That's being born again.

That's one and the same repentance from dead works and

faith towards God, that's salvation of instruction about

washings again, baptisms. Okay to be baptized in water.

All the laying on of hands. And most of that has to do with,

you know, receiving the baptism, the Holy Spirit.

And there's some places don't even get their foundation

finished. OK, but then you lay hands on

the sick even, and then the resurrection of the dead, which

is the catching away, right? And then eternal judgment, which

is the final judgment, those that are going to go before the

great white throne judgment and be thrown into the lake of fire.

All of those are elementary teachings.

And if that's all you know, you have to say I am an elementary

student and all you have at best, is a foundation.

And we don't live only on a foundation.

You have a great foundation. But when the storm comes, you're

exposed. And This is why modern Christian

religion has you on the foundation of salvation.

Water baptism, right? Eternal judgment, the catching

away. But when the storms of life

come, they're completely exposed and they're begging out to God

do something. He's like, why don't you build

some walls? Why don't you get a roof on that

thing? Why don't you get central heat

and air in there? You know, why don't we build you

some protect? Why don't you come into the

House of the Lord? Why don't you get some other

truths? Because he says we need to go on

to maturity. And here's the thing, you are

not going to look different from the temples that house other

gods if you haven't gone beyond a foundation.

In fact, Paul, according to First Corinthians chapter 3,

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says to the church there. He says now I cannot speak to

you as spiritual people. I'm going to have to come and

talk to you as babes again. I want to come and give you some

spiritual meat. I want to give you some some

things that can move on to maturity.

But I cannot do it because you have identified yourself through

your words and actions that you are carnal.

You are acting like mere men. In essence, you have the Holy

Ghost in you, but you look like the other temples of people that

aren't even born again. You're carnal.

You're led by your flesh. You say what you want to say.

You're led by your emotions. You're moved by your emotions.

You respond by your emotions. You let the situations dictate

how you feel. You're jockeying for position.

You're doing everything the world does.

Now you're born again. That's true.

But man, I can't tell your temple from theirs.

And Solomon said I will not build a temple that you can

mistake that it's not greater, not going to do it.

And in the church today, I'm telling you God is in the

business of building you to maturity.

He's. He never sent Jesus so that you

could only have that one teaching of repentance from dead

works and faith towards God. So when you die, you go to

heaven. That was just the door.

It doesn't bring maturity. Are you hearing me?

Let's go over to Luke, chapter 14.

Luke 14 · chapter mention

Luke chapter 14. Once again, nobody.

Luke 14 · chapter mention

When I say nobody, I don't mean that literal, you know, it's

just that too often because of religious Christianity, OK?

And I say religious Christianity, and I mean that

because at the end of the day, if you take God's word and you

decide how you're going to apply it and never console God, that's

religion. That is religion.

And what we've done is we've done a disservice, OK?

Our our ministers have by communicating that you know the

word by itself. You know, if you try to do it,

you know it's law, law, law. And now we're under grace and we

have to do anything because we couldn't do anything.

Well, that's not what law was. We're confusing law with

religion and and the Pharisees were religious because they took

God's word and then they interpreted it on their

understanding what they wanted it to be.

That's why Jesus said why do you forsake the commandments of God

for the sake of your traditions? You are telling people that this

is what I meant by that when I did not mean that this is what I

meant. And the same thing happens after

you're born again. We will try to fit scriptures to

fit our emotions when it's not about fitting your emotions,

it's about you changing your emotions to go to the word,

renewing your mind to God's way of doing.

And you do that by faith that His way.

If I do it his way then I'll get the result of his way.

OK, but in Luke chapter 14, verse 25 to 30 and then we'll

Luke 14:25–30

jump to 33, it says as massive crowds and read out of the

Passion follow Jesus. He turned to them and said, When

when you follow me as my disciple, you must turn aside

your father, your mother, your wife, your sisters, your

brothers, yes, you will even seem as though you hate your own

life. This is the price you'll pay to

be considered one of my followers.

And anyone who comes to me must be willing to share my cross and

experience it as his own. And he cannot be considered or

or he cannot be what considered to be my disciple.

So don't follow me without considering what it will cost

you for who would construct a house before first sitting down

to estimate the entire cost to complete it.

Otherwise he may lay the foundation and not be able to

finish and the neighbors will ridicule him saying look at him,

he started to build but couldn't complete it.

He couldn't complete it. Then verse 33 says likewise.

Unless you surrender all to me, giving up all you possess, you

can not be one of my disciples. Now what I love about the

passion translation put it back on the 25 to 30 is there's a few

things we want to say. Other translation says this.

Unless you hate your father, your mother, your wife, your

sister, the brothers, you know to come follow me.

Now, it's not literally saying, husbands, you have a right to

hate your wife. Now wives, you have a right to

hate your husbands. Now, that's not what it's

saying. What it's saying is it's

literally saying this. If you're going to be my

disciple, then you cannot. You got to put aside what daddy

says. You got to put aside what Mama

says. You got to even put aside what

your wife? Says cause what your sister says

your brothers have said. In fact, you got to put aside

your own thoughts to the point that you even hate your own

thinking when you know it doesn't line up with mine.

In essence, a husband saying, honey, we're going to go to

church. Well, I don't want us to go.

Well, honey, I might have to put aside that thought.

I'm going to church. You can stay home if you want

to. But As for me and my house,

we're going to serve the Lord. I got to put aside that, I said.

I got to put aside that. I got to put aside that.

There's Mamas out there. Some of the kids need to put

aside Mamas. I'm talking about, you know,

ones that are a little bit older.

But again, even then, if you don't watch out, you know we

should condition our children, our own lives, that we're what

does the word say? What is the Father say?

And he say, listen, if you're going to be my disciple because

he's He's, this is what's crazy is that God clearly communicates

what a disciple looks like, just like He clearly communicates

what the church looks like. And I got this while I was

cutting grass. The Lord's like, you know what?

You know, people. It's amazing how people throw

church around and just run church through the ground.

It's, I mean, they drag church through the ground and.

Right. I mean, the church has been

attacked the most than anything. OK.

But here's The thing is what? And I don't know, it's so

amazing because of the illiteracy of believers.

Why? Because they have a foundation

that they never build, OK. And as a result of that, they're

ridiculed. But here's the thing.

The Lord's like, you know what everyone knows?

You know the religious Christians, that there's God,

only one true God, and that there are false gods.

Well, if there can be false gods, then there can be false

churches. But because we assumed church is

only our name, well, you know God's not the only God.

Now when I say that, I know he's the only God, but the world has

other gods and we even acknowledge that they have them.

We can go to like out. We'll be going to India in

November. And I can say, well, that's

their God. Now we it's no God.

And I would love for God to let me just start ripping down idols

in India. That would be amazing.

The amazing practice of the Lord would just say tear it down,

take it to construction team. Maybe we'll let us do it.

I mean, they won't let us back. I get it.

They ever catch us. But you understand what I'm

saying. I mean, you know, you want to

have one of those, like knock it over, grind it up moments, You

know, you wish you could go back to some of that old covenant

stuff. But with that being said, you

know, well, here they are, That's that God, that God.

And we know they're not gods, but we say that.

But then we use church and we think church is only Jesus.

Well, Jesus clearly defines what his church looks like.

So then, if it doesn't look like that, I would say, well, that's

a false church. That's really not his shirt.

Oh no, that's it's not his church.

Just like I can say you're not his disciple now, I'm not saying

you're not born again. I'm just saying you're not a

disciple. And Jesus never came or never

commissioned us to go make converts.

He says. You need disciples and disciples

go beyond foundation. So look what happens, he said.

Now listen, if you're going to be my disciple, you're going to

have to put aside everybody else's thoughts, their way of

doing it, Their thoughts. This is my parents.

You got to be wiser than this. You got to say okay.

Well. How does the the Lord want me to

respond to these situations? And then you got to correct some

stuff. You know, when you've been

saying stuff wrong and you got to go back and say, you know

what, I got to correct that one thing that parents need to

correct right out the gate is telling your kids you can't

afford nothing. You need to stop that.

Now, it may not be in your account, but you know, when

somebody hey, can we go? Don't say, well, we can't afford

to go there. Say, well you know what?

Let's see if the Lord wants us to do that, you know, because if

the Lord wants us to do it, he'll supply it.

Now that's more accurate. Now you're not promising them to

go, nor are you telling them you have the means today to go, but

what you are doing is acknowledging that if the Lord

wants it, then it had come to pass.

But at the end of the day, God doesn't do everything just cause

we want all right. And it begins to give them this

thing that you know, we're just talking with the Lord.

It's like a regular conversation.

Cause I didn't know you wanted to go to universal.

And now you're saying, hey, this summer, let's go to universal

and we're just conversing. But maybe we can and maybe we

cannot. And there may be a legitimate

reason why we would not. But just say, well, we can't

afford. Well, then you say, well, I'll

go to a place that I can always afford, and we're acting like

God can't, so we can't. These thoughts, we have to put

them aside, he says. And then he says this, he said.

Now listen at the end of the day, and if you don't position

your life, close again. You are the temple of the Holy

Ghost. You're building a house that

you're like. You got full liberty to give me

all the instructions necessary for this house to be glorifying

you, that through me you'll be glorified.

And he says this is the price you'll pay to be considered.

Now you may say on such and such day I ask Jesus into my heart,

but that doesn't mean God's considering you a disciple.

He may accurately be saying, well, your carnal they can't

really do nothing with you. You're just a babe because

you're not being trained in righteousness.

I can't even give you mature stuff yet.

I got to keep giving you milk because you won't get off the

foundation, You won't build on the foundation.

And again, if all you have is a foundation that keeps getting

exposed to the elements, what do you think's going to happen to

your foundation? It's going to erode.

It's going to crack, and you have to continually do

foundation maintenance. That's why all of those

religious Christians are always having to come back and

rededicate their life. I'm gonna do a rededication.

I've come to fix my foundation because they constantly be

exposed. They won't go on the maturity

and they're not counting the cost.

And so This is why it goes on and says if anyone's wanting to

come come after me, must be willing to share my cross, What

does that mean? It doesn't mean you literally

carry a cross. It means you do what's Christ

did. It's not my will, but your will

be done. Even death on the cross, My

purpose was to die for you. So you're going to have to have

the same thing. You're going to die to your will

and do the will of the Father who sent who who calls you to be

born again and knew you before the foundations of the world,

before you and your mother's womb.

He knew your destiny. And I came into this world to

only do the that's what Jesus said.

He said, look, as the Father has sent me, I send and he only came

to do the will of the Father. So he's saying same things

required out of you. And let me tell you a few

things. That's not on God's top ten list

for you. A good job it's not on his top

ten list. Well, for retirement it is not

on his top ten list. It's not what college you go to

is not on his top ten list, because you should already be

enlisted in his university the day you got born again.

Because what all professors fail to know is what the Holy Ghost

already knows. Because he was there when it all

started. He was the power that caused it

to come to pass. Now, I'm not saying you can't go

to college. I'm just saying we have this

mindset. Got to get a good job, got to

get a nice house, got to get good retirement, got to get good

benefits. The Lord's like, I've took care

of the benefits. I put you in the Kingdom.

I got your education covered. I just need you to do my will.

That's all I'm concerned about. You to seek First, the Kingdom

and his rights and everything else.

I mean, it's not complicated. Where's our kids going to go to

college? You know, after they have you

even asked the Lord, should they even go to college?

Have you even? Maybe the Lord's like, they

don't have time for that. Don't waste, don't waste four

years on a piece of paper. I go ahead and do them with

power and I got a whole another project for them to do.

I'll tell you them all over the world, you understand the

wealthiest people do not have college degrees anyway.

But I'm just saying it's not necessary.

But what's the enemy do? He gets us bond lives to

distract. Why?

So we won't build. So we got to take the cross

again. We learn the parenting

conference. The best thing you can ever tell

your children is you need to discover why.

What God's plan is for your life.

It's the greatest thing you could ever do, because if you

don't do that, you can't even be considered as disciple.

I'll just even be more bold if you've never asked the Lord and

what I do. Am I what I am?

What I am doing currently right now?

Is this even your will? If you've not even asked that

question, then you're probably not a disciple, even though you

may have informational knowledge about scripture.

Because applying God's word to your will, that's right.

Is religion. Is religion.

Is everyone going to be called the pastor?

No. Is everyone going to be called

to be a prophet? No.

I mean, he tells us this very specifically that not all are

the fivefold ministry. I get it.

But again, why are you in the sector of society that you're

in? And are you doing what you need

to do in that set? Are you walking with the Lord?

And are you walking in a way that when you're at work, people

are like, your temple's different now.

They're not saying that, but you understand there's just

something about your atmosphere that's all of a sudden different

than everybody else. You know, I've never heard you

cuss. How was that?

You know, you did not get upset when we heard they were going to

do cuts. Why is that?

Because the great, the God in me is greater than all gods.

And this house I'm building, it's going to be great.

It's going to be such a reflection, right?

So it goes on verse 28 though. And this is where the problem is

in modern day religious Christianity.

So don't follow me without considering what it will cost

for you who construct a house before first sitting down to

estimate the cost to complete it.

Otherwise he'll lay the foundation, not be able to

finish. You know how many people are not

coming to the Lord because of people who came to the Lord and

stayed on a foundation? Man, I got saved.

I went to church. Oh, really?

Yeah. And they're different for two

weeks, a month, three months. And you know what happens at

work? Well, we'll see how that is it a

path. And you know what?

For most of them, it does. Next thing you know, they're

drinking with them on the weekend.

Again. They're custom with them again.

They're jumping back into the same things.

They're just like their passion, their fires.

Why? Because they didn't consider the

cost. Because too often the call to

repentance. Isn't even a call to repentance.

It's a call to be saved. Jesus did not preach publicly.

Get saved, he said. Repent.

You're going to have to change. That's his first word.

Change. President Obama didn't didn't

inaugurate that word change. The Lord Jesus Christ did change

'cause what you're doing now in Kingdom, it's not.

And The thing is, is that God does it first have to educate

you to get in it. He gives you the Spirit that can

stay in it. Are you hearing me?

He gives you the Spirit that can stay in it.

Now you have the ability and no excuse to build a house to

maturity. You're with no excuse and the

reason why people laugh at you and laugh about you laugh about

your marriages. Now, I'm not talking about you,

I'm being general. But the the reason why religious

Christianity is laughed at by the world is because their

marriages fall apart like everybody else's.

You know, they live on the weekend like everybody else but

still go to church. They had.

They act in rebellion. They hate authority.

They talk about their managers and their bosses and their

pastors. They gossip like everybody else

because they haven't considered the cost.

What do you think about the manager?

I have nothing to say about it. What you just saw they did.

Doesn't matter. I'm not falling back into that.

I'm a different person. There's too many that are doing

it. Why?

Because they don't have the same mindset.

They don't have the same insight that Solomon had.

And I'm going to build a house that is great because our God is

greater than all gods. Do you understand?

The Hindus are more dedicated to prayer than USA Christian

churches. Islam is more dedicated to

prayer than US Christian churches.

They're more dedicated now. It's religious nonetheless, but

at least they have a commitment and we actually have the God on

the inside of us. I mean, the one they're

searching lives here. Right here.

He's right here. He's alive in me.

Yeah, like, well, you know, I'll get into prayer when I can.

It's not building the house. Hallelujah.

Go ahead and smile anyway. First, Peter, Chapter 2.

Amen. I mean, this is good news.

Honestly, the only reason why you wouldn't be shouting and

running around is because you know, if you're like, dude, I'm

letting my house stare up, you know we'll fix it.

Guess what? Good news, good news.

Good news if your house is utterly falling apart right now.

I mean everything's like, geez man, I got the tiles.

I mean my shingles are coming off because you know, I'm

gossiping, you know, I mean you know I got water pot pipes

busting you know, my hot water heater went down you know,

whatever. I don't care how bad.

And you're like I I don't have enough to fit the Lord's like

that's alright I'll, I'll, I'll get you all the funds you need

to. Fix it.

I mean, he's going to fund your project.

I mean, what would your natural house look if there was no, if

you didn't have to come up with the money yourself?

Oh. You don't want to hear this,

right? Come on, Pastor Tim.

You, you and Pastor Bridge. You don't know what I'm talking

about. What would it be like if God's

like, son? Just go buy it now.

Again, God ain't going over there putting your sheetrock on,

putting in your electrical outlets, putting up your.

But you have all the resource. All you got to do is put forth

the effort to apply the material that he's bankrolling and God is

bankrolling on the inside of you.

Everything you need to renovate this thing so that the glory of

God is walking around with you everywhere you go.

He's like, oh, you need a little bit of love to cover up that

offense. I got that.

Oh, you need some peace. I got plenty of peace to cover

your pain right now. All you got to do is work it,

put it in your house, build your life around it.

And then people like, wow, how's he do that?

First, Peter chapter 2, verses one through 5.

He says therefore say therefore, putting aside all malice, all

deceit, all hypocrisy and envy, and all slander like newborn

babes, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may

grow in respects to salvation. If you have tasted the kindness

of the Lord and coming to him as to a living stone which has been

rejected by men, but it's choice and precious in the sight of

God. You also as living stones are

being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood to

OfferUp spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Christ

Jesus. I mean he wants a place that is

seen in the world that when people come by you all of a

sudden this house that is housing the Holy Ghost is so

different from the rest of the world that you have understood

that God will only take up residence in the place that is

holy and pure. And Jesus put the new spirit in

me that gave the Holy Spirit permission to move in.

He was the great sacrifice that allowed my spirit man to come

alive and for the third person of the godhead to move right in.

And now the greater one. I said the how many times we

quote this? Greater is that is well how you

housing him, You taking the Holy Ghost to bed on the weekends and

fornication. I mean you taking the Holy

Spirit out and say now, I know you could get me drunk, but I'm

gonna get you drunk. I got some tongues.

One starts with an F There's other languages because the Holy

Ghost isn't talking that, I said he didn't talking.

That and people will walk by your temple.

And go. That place reminds me of the

temple I saw at the club last night.

And that temple reminds me, you know of that person at work and

you know that sorry old manager, you know, it's always

complaining and stuff. And the one who's who's tasked

with the building is you. One of the powerful statement

that Pastor John said. He said God took the

responsibility of saving your child's spirit, but as a parent

it's your responsibility to save their soul.

OK, now you understand it's your responsibility to help them save

their soul. Because ultimately they going to

have to save their own soul, just like you have to save

yours. Meaning you're renewing your

mind to the new person you are and the recognition that the

Holy Ghost is in here. Man, when you know the Holy

Ghost is in here, it changed the way you start responding all the

time when you're in a real awareness, because at that

point, all you. Got to do is go.

What would you do? What would you do?

You know he's not going to respond carnally and as I was.

Going to say, well, I'm in this flesh like you.

I feel it too. Let's do this still.

No, he's going to respond. I mean, he's going to respond

beyond your capacity because he'll be able to say, I know.

Things I know, things he can talk to you and say, you know, I

know things. And at this point I just want

you to forgive. Because if you'll do this, I

know some things, it can unlock some stuff in them, but I need

you to be the first one to do it, because I know some things

could also say I know some things.

All that you're hearing right now.

It sounds good, but it isn't coming from my round.

There's manipulation with that and they're using my scripture

to boot. So you just hold your course

because I know some things. But I don't want you to give

vocal and get frustrated and mad.

You just be quiet, because I know some things.

And what happens is when you yield to that, then the temple

starts taking on the glory. Everything gets purified and

refined. You understand, Solomon, when

they laid the gold out, it was not unpurified, it had been.

Tested by the fire, the dross has been pulled off and purity

is covering the temple. And so the Holy Ghost could.

We always want the Holy Ghost and fire, for the fire is to

burn off the impurities, the impurities of your thoughts, the

impurities of your flesh. And listen, it's a constant

burning because your flesh and your spirit battle daily because

your flesh is like, I'll take that, I'll go back to that.

And you're like, no, you're never going back.

And the greater is he that send me that it keep you from going

back. Because I am the man of the

house with the man of the house And we're going to make sure you

don't take residence here. We don't have a temple that

looks like the other gods. Ours is greater.

So how you going to build your house because in these last

days? Listen, in these last days.

Wow, should I say that? Thank you, Jesus.

Hallelujah. Hmm, hmm, hmm.

In these last days, the Bible tells us that things will get

worse in the world. Gross darkness.

That's in the world. It should never have put you in

fear. Ever.

I don't care how bad it is, and let me just say it this way,

it's not going to get any worse than the days of Noah.

So my point is it can't get worse than it's already been.

So don't think this a new bad that's never been.

Because the Lord will come like the days of of Noah.

Now when his wrath gets poured out, that'd be like the world's

never experienced. Because when he did it in the

flood, I mean that was quick. They drowned.

What's the longest that a person can hold their breath?

Well, anybody know what the record is right now?

20, maybe 20 minutes? Maybe somebody Google it real

quick so I can help save your life.

OK. The days of Noah says he'll come

like the day. It'll be like the days of Noah,

OK, they'll be eating and drinking, giving to marriage,

right? They'll just be going on as if

nothing's coming. But those that are like Noah the

righteous, they know. It's coming.

Wow. Y'all's phones are really slow.

24 minutes. All right, 24 minutes.

So, OK, just so you have perspective, the most somebody

would have been living when the flood hit and the waters got

there and they went under. 27 minutes, 24 minutes and 37

seconds. That's nothing.

Compared to the tribulation that people are begging to die, just

perspective. But he said in the last days

people will be deceived and deceiving.

So deception will be at a heightened place, which tells me

if you're not a disciple. You're going to be in trouble,

even if you're a believer. I preached a message in 20/17/18

and 19 called equipped only for 2020 to turn out being a very

different time, but it didn't take us long to find out who was

applying the last three years of teaching.

The good news? The majority did.

There are very few people who did not.

I actually only had one person leave the church because of

COVID that they're thinking was I'll never assemble again.

Only one person. Okay.

But that means the Lord prepares you again.

These moments that we're having right now are not just midweek

fillings. These are in preparation for

things to come. Again, one of the assignments of

the Holy Ghost is to disclose things to come.

And the thing of it is, is that disclosing things that come are

not just coming through the gifts of the Spirit called a

Word of Wisdom. They can come through the

teaching of the word and subject matter that you're like, you

know what? I just got into this trial and

pastors been. Preaching on this and now I got

plenty of things to stand on. 10 virgins are waiting on the Lord.

Ten of them, and they all have oil in their lamps, all of them,

and the fire is lit, but five have more oil.

When they hear the bridegroom coming, they wake up, trim their

lamps. The five that had more oil

resupplied. The five who did not said, man,

we're not going to make it. Can you give us your oil?

Some of them they said can't do it won't be enough for us both.

You're going to have to go back and get your own.

You got to get your own and says why they were gone.

The door opened. I said it's why they were gone.

The door opened. The five came back and said

knocked on the door and said, Lord, Lord, let us in, He's

like, who are you? He said.

Because I don't even know who you are now, that word means I

was not intimately acquainted with you.

That don't mean I don't know. I don't know of you, but I don't

have a intimate relationship with you.

The Lord's showing me very clearly.

I'm extremely bold in this statement, very clearly, he

said. Son, everything is by faith

everything, nothing that you get from.

Me does not come by, does not come unless by faith, period.

Are you hearing what I'm saying? So healing can come to you by

somebody else's faith. There are some things that God

will allow other people's faith to come over to you, but then

there's some things that it requires you.

You know what one of those are? Being born again, I cannot have

faith for your salvation. I can believe for you to be

saved, but ultimately you're going to get your.

But we know people today that are born again.

They've confessed Jesus's Lord, but they do not by faith believe

in the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

Whatever speak in its tongues. They're in the Kingdom.

Why are they not in do with power?

Why didn't it just come on them anyway?

Why didn't it just fall on them anyway?

Why didn't it just happen? Cause here's what's crazy is

that a person not born of God can be an atmosphere of people

that are are that are full of the Holy Ghost being one of

those meetings where the Holy Ghost falls and they fall down

under the power, but they don't yield to anything and they just

fall under the power physically. They can't stand in the weight

of the presence of the Lord, but yet they're still not speaking

in tongues because God will not make them do something they

don't yield to. We know there's people that are

born again, filled with the Holy Ghost, but sick because they

never renew their minds that healing is in the Kingdom.

So why do we think that when a trumpet blows, everyone

automatically goes? Why do we believe that?

Because there are so many people that are ask Jesus in their

heart and they don't think about God at all except as a CEO.

Christmas and Easter only, and most of them are just an EO.

Easter only. It's true and yet you're think

and you're you're and you're like because and I understand

the debate that takes well you're that's worse.

No it's called faith. It's called faith. 10 virgins is

10 virgins. So anyone who tries to take that

scripture and tell you the five virgins weren't born again,

that's the law. They are pure.

They're pure, but they don't get in.

Now I'm not telling you they won't ultimately go, But man,

I'm saying some things because we are in a we have always been

from Genesis one. We've always been in the

position I prove my love by obeying his word.

So I sacrificed my will on how to do it.

That is consistent in any covenant of God, in any

dispensation of God. And it's by faith in every one

of them. There's not one that doesn't

exist. Not one, not one.

So there's some form of crucifying something in order to

live to something else. At minimum, Adam has to crucify

not his flesh because he had him have sin.

He just has to crucify His will and do His after the fall.

Now it's crucifying and today we're in.

We crucify our flesh daily. So that we walk by the Spirit.

Could it be, if you're not willing to crucify your flesh

today and let you and be led by the Spirit, that you find

yourself left behind? And the Lord's going to say,

well, we'll find out in the natural if you really love me

because you, Are you going to take the mark or not?

Because when you didn't have to die, all you had to do was die

to yourself. You didn't do it because taking

a mark is the same as what Adam does.

Because the work of obedience is consistent, Adam had to obey to

stay alive. Forever.

So why are we in this dispensation that we know we

have an advocate with a father? I get it.

But that we think we can go back and practice, live, be habitual,

and think of trumpet blows. And we're coming that that kind

of life is discipleship, although the scripture never

says it. That's called religion.

It's called deception. The life I Live Today.

I live by faith that the Lord shows me.

Son, I made you a new spirit. You know you alive now.

Then I put my spirit in you, and he bears witness with your

spirit, your child of God. And you know you are now.

Now, son, you know that I talk to you about things you're

thinking that you need to get rid of.

And you know we're talking. You know I'm talking to you, and

all you got to do is yield. I can't make you do it, son.

But I can empower your choice to choose me.

I can cause what I say to you, come alive.

And you have the power now to deny that stuff.

You've always had the power to deny your will.

You now have the power, through a spirit that's alive, to

operate like I do and build your house, that the glory of God can

be seen to the world. So these meetings, these times

together are not just Fillins. They're strategic.

They're necessary. Some of make you laugh or some

of make you examine because God knows what's coming and you're

not going to stand before Jesus and say I didn't know, I didn't

know. For some he's going to say, I

told you leave that other church a long time ago and you didn't

listen to me, but you loved your tradition, so you have no

excuse. You loved your tradition.

Told you leave that church a long time ago.

You know, it's really going to be shocking to most believers

when they found out, when they find out that there was a

church. Because I believe there are,

there is a church within a I'm not going to say every

community, but I will say within the vicinity that there's no

excuse. And what's vicinity?

Well, how far will you go for a vacation?

How far will you go for a quick weekend getaway?

Man, we'll run down to Disney like no problem.

We'll have season passes to football games.

You told my vicinity. Those people in NFL and college

are die hard. They show up at the away games,

they go make it to church, so they going to make it to their

church and they going to pay their offerings.

They don't give their tie to get their season tickets and then

they going to pay their offerings through concessions.

And then they going to be drunk, as we suppose, and they going to

brag about it all week, about the next service they're having,

and then they get depressed when the season's over and they can't

assemble. Oh, y'all.

Don't want to hear that kind of preacher.

I get you. Oh, yeah.

Hallelujah. No, I'm here.

I'm going to do the little father.

You know what? I want to build this house that

every time I walk by anyone that's not of God, God can

rattle them. That I'm never confused with a

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