Gained - Kingdom Life

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You have your Bible turn to Philippians chapter 1 and talk

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to you about gained tonight, right?

IMA talk about gaining weight. All right?

Don't let the Kingdom Life. You gain, right?

You gain. It's always about increase.

We have this saying that we say here at a church.

Always advancing Siempre Amazon do that's in Spanish.

All right. We're always advancing.

We're game. We're making games all the time

because you know, with the kingdom of God is always

increasing. Creasing is growing right now.

We know the Bible says that the Gates of Hell grow wider, but

don't think the kingdom is not growing either.

Amen. And the kingdom is growing, and

it's not only, is it growing in numbers, but more importantly,

it's continually growing in as demonstration of power because

the Kingdom's never lost his power.

The kingdom has it. Although the Kingdom's

expression has been Limited in the Earth because of sin but

it's never lost his power. And if someone would dare to

believe then all of Heavens power would show up in the

planet. I mean, would you can you get

that for a moment? I mean, just that mirror thought

on a law, makes me think. Wow, the only thing that stops

the power of Heaven showing up is my belief.

My ability to believe that's all that stops.

IT. And if I would believe, do the

things that release unlock the kingdom, because there are

things that unlock the Kingdom, right?

We know the power to conquer Eternal separation from God.

Is contained in the prayer of faith.

In the prayer Faith, believe in your heart.

Confess with your mouth. Jesus Christ is Lord, and that

power. Has the ability to keep Eternal

judgment to be thrown into the lake of fire away from you.

Wow. And that amazing.

And that same expression of belief in prayer, the prayer of

faith. Okay.

The prayer of faith me, I believe what God says.

So I say it That it has the power to have that come to pass

in our lives. How amazing is that right?

Now we would just have to admit though that all of us get into

these seasons of life where we are more confident, we are more

aware conscious of what we're seeing than who we are in Christ

in the Unseen. And you know, when those Seasons

come, when those opportunities come, we have to arrest her.

Ourselves and say, wait a minute, I just need to believe.

I need to believe. I need to believe.

All right. So with that being said, I want

to look at this phrase that Paul said in Philippians 1:21, this

Philippians 1:21

struck me today when I was reading it, y'all are really

came to my spirit and then I went there.

It says this for to me to live is Christ and to die is gain.

Now in context, all right, in context literal context, Paul is

in prison, he's been thrown in jail and he is pinning the

letter to the Philippians church.

And the reason why he's having this, you know, letter to be

written as because he's actually received from this church and

offering Finance. So caetano offering to his

ministry but money to him. Personally that basically said

Paul when you get out, here's resource for you too.

Back to us and this is their way of communicating Paul.

We love you, we believe in you and we're bringing resource to

you. Are you hearing me?

Because that's what his fourth chapters about.

But prior to that, he's letting them know where he's at the

position that he has been in. And that is, he's been in a

tough spot and it's caused him to contemplate.

Right contemplate. Now the Greek scholar.

Rick Ritter who's an apostle in Moscow, his writing of the this

particular context here in chapter 1, says history

historically speaking in Pastor marching, I've been to this jail

in Philippi that Paul was put in the deepest part of the jail

cell, which means he wasn't on the floor where the prisoners

were, he was down. It underneath the floor where

the prisoners were there was another place.

It's another chamber, because when the prisoners, in the Upper

Floor, defecated are urinated. It would flow down to his floor.

Are you understanding me? And he said history says that

they would chain them within that space and they can be

anywhere from ankle to waist-deep in waste.

That'd be tough, right? I mean it's hard to go into a

porta potty sometimes right? I mean it's hard to go in the

bathroom after somebody sometimes.

I mean for some of you it's just hard to open up a diaper.

Those are some of the funniest videos I've ever seen in my life

is watching these guys gag over a baby's diaper, right?

So I mean that has to be, you know, traumatic myself, right?

And so Rick Renner describes that, this historical moment

that there would be actually rats that would run across the

top of stuff like that. And because they were

underneath, you know, there's not Windows and air condition

happening. You know Stones?

Right, no ventilation happening. All right.

So then everything would be Be moist wet.

And so then the change which were made of iron would begin to

rust. So the prisoner who would

actually be Shackled to that, then all of a sudden, you know,

the rust, what? Because it hanging and stuff

would eventually wear Source or could turn into gangrene next

thing. You know, rat smell that they

come knowing at night when you're kind of hang in there

sleeping. I'm just telling you what the

Greek scholar tells me, okay? Whether that's completely

accurate though? Historically speaking Apparently

that is this is where Paul is. Is, so when he says, I am

betwixt, or I'm between two places, where did the go on and

be with the Lord, Which is far better or to remain here with

you? Okay.

That's kind of where he's at. He's like man a it be better to

die right now, right? And I don't know that any of us

have been in this place where like it'd be better to die.

Now depression will try to get you in that place, but I've told

my like Paul's Place, I don't think anybody in this room has

been in that kind of scenario. Now, we may have been close to

some other types of scenarios outside of this that you're

like, man. It might be better to die right

now but you know, that's probably not a whole lot of us,

right? Okay, so We understand he's kind

of in this particular moment, but he gets a message, they let

him know that he has a letter. There's obviously some Finance

associated with that and out of that, he's having this

conversation for him, you know? I'm asking the question right

now in my life, whether to go on to be able to lower, Which is

far better, or to remain here with you.

So he says, in this verse, he says, for me to live is Christ

and to God, die is gain. So we all know that the minute

we shed this Earth suit more present with the Lord.

That's obviously going to be better, correct.

I mean no one disagrees with that even though we'll come back

to this Earth, where sin will still be during the millennial

Reign and will reign with Christ on the Earth, but will be in

glorified bodies to be totally different existence for us.

All right? And there's things that are

going to take place as a result of that, but we understand that

natural side. But you know what else?

There's a hidden thing. Thing within this when I say

hidden because Paul in his latter letters rights on this

from a figurative standpoint. When I say figurative, I don't

mean physically dying but literally dying somewhere.

There is still a death to occur, so let's take dying.

Look, physically off the table and the phrase is still

accurate. For me to live is Christ and to

die is gain. Okay so if I die then I actually

live y'all know this scripture right?

Of any man tries to save his life.

He'll what loser but if he loses his life for my sake he'll he'll

find his life he'll be saved. Okay so in this context if we

die to self We're gaining. We know physically.

If we left our physical body, we be present with the Lord, is

going to be far better. I get that.

But if we die to self, Gain is there.

Gain, is there. Now, the thing about dying to

self is much like working, I physically is that you've got a,

there's going to be some pressure.

Apply, it's gonna be painful, it's gonna be a layer of pain

associated with that. Because, again, if you want to

get stronger, you've got to undergo some pain in order to

get stronger. The same thing is that in this

kind of dying to self, you've got to die to your flesh.

And that can be painful because there's part, there's a there,

the nature of the world where we can't, what we came out of the

domain of Darkness. We came out of still is trying

to court us because our skin suits themselves have not become

a glorified, body detached from the things of the world.

We have to in our soul realm, once our spirit, man is made the

likeness of God No, I'm not doing it anymore.

And that sense, I consider myself dead to that.

Although everything in my body screams do it.

Right, even though sometimes my emotions say, do it.

But I have to say, but that's dead as David Mackey for years.

If you've ever spent some time, talking with him, he'll say the

old man. The old man, the old man.

Your the Bible talks about an old man and a new man, you don't

want to be associated with the old man.

You want to be a new man, right? You want to be a new man?

And so Paul saying here, look for me to live is Christ.

So if we're going to live, then we have to recognize life is in

Christ. And we say, in Christ, we're not

talking about the last name of Jesus, we're talking about the

title of Jesus which is the king to live.

Right, for me to live is Christ, is the king life is to the king,

to Jesus Christ. The King because Jesus came to

reintroduce, the world to the kingdom of God.

That's why I went in the gospels.

He preached for the Kingdom of Heaven is like this, and the

kingdom of God is like that, right?

And he says, man, if I cast out demons with the Finger of God,

you know, the kingdom is here, he gave all examples of kingdom

and the reality is he's the Kia King of the kingdom.

And so Says I've lived for the king.

Life is with the King. My life is for the king because

the king gave his life for me, it's very easy exchange.

When I didn't deserve the king, the king gave me an opportunity

and life is in the cape and so dying to self is gay.

His game. And in this context in

Philippians 1, he made a very unselfish decision.

He said I'm between two places. Whether to go on to be with the

Lord which means there's something about his physical

body that was talking to him. That was probably saying go

ahead and go ahead and die. Just go ahead and die.

You know, when people are on the verge of physical death, they'll

fight that a lot of times people will fight that, you know.

Have you ever seen y'all know of these stores were people?

You know, they have the will to live and they'll fight that, you

know, that I've been, I don't don't make sense, you know, they

really shouldn't be around but they're fighting, right?

There's something about. I don't want to go, I don't want

to go on others, you know, they slip off, he's a while cause I

don't want to be here, don't even want to be here, okay?

But Paul is like, look, there's some about his body, but he

says, listen to live is Christ for the Inge.

And in this context, I'm between two places where there go on

with him or to stay here with you.

And what did he conclude? I should stay for you not for

him because for him, I can go. I've made Jesus.

Lord, I began I answered a call that he had eyes II.

Got stopped everything I was doing when I was confronted with

God on the road to Damascus. I began to move in fact that you

exist as a church because I answer that call.

So at the end of the day I saw people born against all people

filled with the Holy Ghost, I've planted a church.

Got that on my little you know, resume for And I can go because

this is harder than I thought. I'm getting persecuted.

Now, they throw me in jail over this stuff.

Right. And my body's saying, you know

what, you're right. We God, just go ahead and slip

on off. Amen.

But he said, no, I'm staying because of you.

And I'm glad he stayed because because he stayed, then we have

the current of the church in Corinth, we have the church in

Ephesus. We have the church, I mean,

these churches, he planted the in galatia, and then we have

multiple letters and then the letter to the Roman, and the two

letters to create and ended the relationship he had with

Timothy. I mean, it all the people that

were touched and changed because he decided, you know what, I'm

not going because I sensed the purpose that I'm here, which is

not for me. Still is here and I'm staying.

Amen. We need to come to the place

that we like, Paul died to self so that we can truly gain.

And let me say it this way, you have to do it on a consistent

basis. This is not a one-time event.

Aunt, this is a daily deal. In fact, Paul and one of his

first Corinthians 15 he says I Die daily.

I Die daily. Now, some of that was

persecution out on him, but then, on his own self, he died a

lie because we can see it in his writings, turn over to

Galatians. 2:20, you know, this one he says, I've been crucified

Galatians 2:20

with Christ and it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in

me and the life. I now live in the flesh.

Now, this word flesh is not a the word flesh.

We're going to use later. This word flesh is your skin.

Oh, suit your body. Okay, we are threefold nature,

man. We are Spirit.

We have a soul. We live in a body, so he says,

listen the life. I now live in the, in the body

that I'm in, I live how by faith in the Son of God, who loved me

and gave himself up for me now. Keep this scripture up, going to

break it down, he said I've been crucified with the King Okay,

the king took on my sin and became sin and what he died for.

I've died too. I must say that again what he

died for. I'd I do is dead to me, right?

And and it's no longer I who live now that doesn't mean

Paul's not living because when he says, it's no longer I who

live but Christ lives in me, that doesn't mean Paul was

actually Jesus. Now, it became a possession.

You are not possessed with Jesus.

None of us are possessed but you would think with some of the

Christian knees, talk out there is that we are actually

possessed of Jesus, because we say he's in control, and if he

was in control, he'd make you do stuff.

You don't do. Just go ahead and say, Amen.

Anyway? Because I mean, Jesus don't

understand control then. If he's in control, now, he is

in control of his word to those who believe because he watches

over his word to perform it and if you believe him at his word

he's going to make sure it comes to pass.

No matter what comes against it that happened.

Every time he will make sure that word comes to pass.

Now if he has a plan and he wants you to be a part of that

plan and he's giving you a word to help be a part of that.

Plan. But you don't don't fulfill your

part. Well then he'll still fulfill

his plan. He'll just find somebody else

who can believe and his word will still come to pass,

although it didn't come to pass in you.

So when Paul says, it's no longer I who live, He's not

saying I became possessed by Jesus.

And I'm not even actually in the skin suit really I could say hi.

My name is Jesus Christ incarnate again in a different

suit. Now in one sis, there is a

reality of that. What I mean by that is you're in

Christ, you shouldn't look at yourself only as you you should

see yourself in the image of God.

With the authority of Christ with the authority of a king.

He is the king of kings. So you've been made royalty the

minute you're born again. So in a figurative sense.

It is Christ Living in you because again you're only there

to do his word and do his way and when you do that oh my gosh.

There's nothing that stops you. Nothing.

Nothing can stop you from fulfilling.

Your purpose period no one not even.

A devil in hell. Can't do it.

Cannot happen. Cannot happen.

Are you hearing me? So but Paul had to come to this

realization that if I've been crucified with Christ, the

person Christ died for has to be in the grave with Christ.

So he says that guy no longer lives, no longer.

And we have to set it in our mind on more than one occasion.

That guy doesn't live anymore. That woman does not live

anymore. They are dead.

So how he used to respond. I don't respond that way because

I respond like Christ. Why he goes on.

And says, now the life that I'm living in my body, I live how by

faith. Now Faith is what substance of

things, the evidence of things. How do we get faith?

Faith comes by hearing and hearing our faith comes by

hearing the word of God. So he says, I'm living by faith,

he's saying I'm Living by the word.

I hear from God. So what he says I do, which

means when he tells me something, when a situation

occurs, I when the other thought comes contrary to what my king

just said I say no, I'm dead too.

That I will not do that. The person who would have would

answer that boys is dead. I only listen to this voice

period. So the life that I Live.

Now in this body, I live y by faith in the Son of God.

Who what? Who loved me.

And We Know What Love really is God's.

True love is doing his word and Jesus loved us so much that he

went to the Cross because the father said, this is the only

way. That while I was in Rebellion to

God's kingdom, Jesus still obeyed the father and went to

the cross for me. Wow, he said I'll still be there

sacrifice, even if they never make me Lord, why?

Because Dad said to do it, love is doing dad's word period,

okay? So with that being said, then

turn over to Galatians 5:24 and 25.

Galatians 5:24

This is Amplified classic version.

Because again, when we die to self gain is on, so here's the

kingdom principle. Well, some things you're

sometimes you're going to have to lose something in order to

gain something. Nobody wants to have a loss.

They only want to invest and there's some investments in the

Kingdom, but in God's cares. There is a total loss in order

to have a total game. You got to lose everything

first. In essence, you have to become

bankrupt. You have to be willing to be

bankrupt. The life.

You lived. Must go bankrupt.

You can't have a little savings over here.

Little old me savings account. Well, in case, you know, I get

one of those situations that I need to call him back up.

He's there now. Just pull it out of savings.

I'll give you everything. But, you know, every once in a

while there's a condition by which the old man I think did a

pretty good job. Well, there are some things, the

old man did that I kind of liked, and I'm going to leave

that in there for a rainy day. Jesus told the Rich Young Ruler,

sell it all. now, if you would have went bankrupt that day,

Then he would have gained Beyond his wildest dreams but he

couldn't see it. You know, a lot of times

Believers can't see it. Because Believers can't see

themselves other than what they see themselves as or what others

have told them about themselves. The Little voices in their mind

was usually sounds like their parents or grandparents or

something because they haven't been able to wit that yet.

We only need to listen to what the Lord says, he says.

Now goes on and says, Galatians 5:24 and those who belong to

Galatians 5:24

Christ, Jesus, the Messiah have crucified, the flesh the Godless

human nature with his passions and appetites and desires.

If we live by the Holy Spirit, that's a conditional statement.

If we're living by the Holy Spirit, then what will be the

outcome. Let us also walk by the spirit.

So if you're saying you live by the Holy Spirit, then you're

after walk by it. If the Holy Spirit, we have we

have our life in God, let us go forward.

Walking in line are conduct controlled by the spirit.

Now, it says controlled obviously.

It really A Better Way. Would say yielded Because again

the Holy Spirit won't control you, he will communicate and you

have to yield and when you yield basically you're saying I'll do

it your way. Now you can say, I'm going to

let your words control my life, but you are in control of that,

you have to make the decision. I let you control what I do.

Are you getting what I'm saying? Because there's a lot of issues

with this word could control. And this is why people, you

know, are going through Waiting for God to actually take the

wheel. The Lord's, not taking the well

doors, not kicking you out of your seat and say I got this.

He's like, give me the. Will you have the seat?

Thank you. I've been waiting to get in it.

I don't know why you were there anyway.

No, I mean I don't have a problem with you driving because

we're co-laborers with Christ. Just when you're driving the

car, he's the GPS. I know a shortcut.

Lord, don't do the shortcut. Hey man, stay on God's path.

With all right. Anyway, so those who belong to

Christ Jesus again, the Messiah Christ in Messiah, are the same

word. Messiah is the Hebrew word.

Christ is the Greek word for the anointed one and his anointing,

which means the king. You anoint a king and everyone

was looking for God's anointed king, who would come and

establish a kingdom, that would never end and Jesus.

Is that one? He's Jesus the king.

Say he's the king. Say he's the king.

The king is the savior of the world, but he did more to more

than just save you. He came to save you to conquer

and as long as you identify with the old self, you're going to be

a Slave. Your mentality is going to stay

with the old nature and you're gonna side with it in essence.

You're not dying to self, but if you will go to the new man and

die to self, then you'll say whatever.

God says, going to come to pass period And I believe it and

that's it. And I won't believe anything

else. Man, I was reading in Exodus,

you know, because this, you know, past week we were in

Exodus a man. There was a big Context about

them coming out right Moses. You brought us out here so you

kill us and our kids, right, man, I got a whole sermon I

could have preach tonight on that deal.

I'm not. But, I asked, can I preach on

this right here? This is gonna be good.

This is liberate some people, amen.

Right. You know, when someone still a

victim when they taught like that chapter.

All right, so he says, listen for those who belong to Christ.

What do you have? Crucify.

The flesh was that mean the god, the Godless human nature.

With its passions, appetites and desire.

This word, crucify means to crucify the flesh.

It means to destroy its power utterly.

So you have to look at things that are contrary to God's way

word and nature. With such hatred.

So wait a minute, we're not supposed to.

Hey, we're supposed to love you, haven't read Proverbs.

You haven't read the Psalms where it says, there are some

things God hates love. Hates hate, is not the opposite

of love. At all, lust is actually the

opposite of love. Hate is not because God hates

some things. He hates it, we should hate some

things, we should hate things that are against the word of our

King and we should be at a place where it's utterly destroyed in

my life. Are you hearing me?

It's utterly destroyed in my eyes.

It's not going to happen now that doesn't mean the idea the

thought the Temptation is it going to occur?

It's that when it does you're like it's not going to happen

that is utterly destroyed in my life.

Because as long as you're alive, it becomes an option.

If there's any part of you alive, I guarantee you the devil

will create a condition that will allow you to step back in

and resurrect that old man. He will, he will.

He is the master at creating The Perfect Storm, they can anybody

identify with this? Yeah, he'll did.

I mean there's been times in my life that I've been running

doing and I'm like, man, I'm I sense in my spirit, I need to go

pray in the Holy Ghost and read a little bit because I am.

I am seriously, giving out way more than I'm having an intake

right now. And I've had the thought on a

couple occasions, this is not a great place to even be at

because there could become a perfect storm scenario and the

minute that thought has hit my mind.

I will stop everything. Because I'm like I refuse to

have that man. Resurrected Refuse the things

I'm talking about tonight will set you free.

I'm telling you really will because know, everybody in this

room, everybody in this room has this problem.

Is a resurrection of self and that crazy thing will come.

I was talking to our staff. Who do I preach out of the?

Do I read a let me look. It's an earlier earlier.

In this verse it talks about how the Flesh and the spirit battle

constantly. I told our staff, we've been

doing a church for 19 years and many people have been with me

for 19 years and plus I've known some beyond that I'm like have

we not learned a lot in scripture?

Yeah. Have we not?

I've seen God, demonstrate his power and lat.

Yeah. Have we not like grown

tremendously? Yeah.

Have we not conquered and overcome and won?

Many Faith battle. Yeah.

I said then how is it? No matter how strong and mature,

I get in the spirit that dog gone flesh, can still show up.

Spiritual maturity does not mean, the flesh won't talk.

Spiritual maturity means you keep it dead.

But it never stops. And it's amazing.

You cannot get so spiritually mature, that the flesh can't

talk. That is not a conflict you know

and I feel I see it's that there are many Believers that have

abandoned God because they had this fantasy about their

spiritual walk that they would not have to deal with certain

things. Yeah, you're always going to

deal. It's just that the same thing

that got the victory. The last time is all you got to

do this time, but we get weary in our well doing.

And it's because a lot of times, we just get back in a site

driven thought process because you understand the devil can't

directly destroy you. He'll start picking off people

around you. Are you hearing me?

I mean, his goal is to try to get something that you get.

So like I can't even believe these people are acting like

this doing the. Because again, he's trying to

eat away at your soul. Because he wants a resurrection

himself. He wants your old man to show

back up to start, calling the shots to start making the

decisions. Amen.

The good news is if you do have the old man talk to you for a

second and you respond to it and you're like cheese, I shouldn't

have done that because it's the Newman's.

Like, why did you lie? Why'd you let him talk?

Why'd you do that? You can repent.

Are you hearing me? But again, maturity is not

letting the old man, talk all the time and then repentant real

fast. Well, you know, I Repent every

time. That doesn't mean mature.

That means your baby your tossed to and fro that's in maturity

when you're living. By the flesh.

One moment and living by the spirit.

The next minute living by the flesh.

One minute living by the spirit, and your, I can't help it.

You're I'm just a sinner saved by grace.

You were a sinner. Now, you're a new man.

You're in the likeness of God, put identifying with your old

nature. Come on over to the other side

that God placed you in and that is the kingdom of God, a child

of God. And I have the third person of

the godhead. The Holy Ghost on the inside of

you who's trained in our mind. Renewing our mind and we can

live a conquering life. That's what we have to stay,

right? So we don't identify that way

anymore because I've learned, man.

My gosh gain happens. The more I keep myself dead.

This was the very first concept message.

Not this literal message, but concept message.

I preached when I was hired as a youth, pastor in Oklahoma with

Josh clay, and and Marcus, I don't think Todd was even coming

to church them nor Meredith. I'm trying to think of my

Oklahoma people here. Probably just Josh and Marcus

were the only two teenagers that were there.

And the first message of the I heard me preach was Earl has to

die because there was a country song by The Dixie Chicks.

You're in, Oklahoma, is country capital of the world.

I mean, Oklahoma's more country, capital than Nashville.

Are you okay? And so I'm like, you might as

well go ahead and preach that one because it was popular and

then I'm Pastor Earle, it's coming.

So let's just go away. I played up the portion of the

song, right? When I came out first sermon and

I'm like that's right. Earl had to die because Earl was

killing me. I need to get in Christ.

I need to be crucified with Christ I Quit living according

to my flesh. Amen.

So galatian tells us that we have to under Lee.

Just we have to destroy the flesh, we have to destroy his

power utterly. And here's the thing, you have

the ability because Christ has done it.

And now the third person of the godhead is he listen who raised

Jesus from the dead. who did come on, who did so on the third

day, the Holy Spirit went to the Grave where Jesus was Who became

sin, but he was illegally killed because he was not a sinner.

And the power of God pulled him out of that dead place, which

means then the holy spirit is a conqueror of dead things, and if

he lives in you, the, same spirit that raised Christ from

the dead lives in you, then he has the ability to get you out

of dead things. So, you don't have to live

according to the flesh. If you're born again, it becomes

a choice. Go ahead and say it.

Anyway, it's a choice. So again, when you are lost

without Jesus, it wasn't a choice.

Even though you think you're choosing everything, you're

doing is wrong. Paul said, look man, I was

trying to do everything. I mean the what the good I

thought I was doing. I found myself doing the bad.

I didn't even want to do that. Stuff about myself doing it

anyway. I was just a Wretched Man.

Right? He said, man, when I looked at

my life, my religious life prior to knowing Christ and all the

things I was doing, I mean, according to my religion, I was

the best, but when I met Jesus, it smelled like poop.

Now, he said that that's in scripture.

He said it was dung was the term.

He said that, that whole existent Was human feces, that's

what it smelled like and I thought I was living for God.

Right. But that's what the old man

smells like he's dead. I said he's dead.

He's dead. I mean sometimes you know you

know in my mind I have these ideas.

There's a couple things I'm thankful for number one.

I'm thankful that when we pass gas smoke, doesn't show up

right. I know, I know it's a weird

thought but I had this fall. I thought, man.

Aren't you? Glad he didn't, it wasn't smoke.

Right. I mean, basic is your body

burning off things. It's just it's natural gas.

Its natural gas. I'm just glad it doesn't have

smoke associated with it because there is no such thing as

silent. But deadly anymore, it's like,

why are you smoking over there? It would be easier to identify

where the smell was coming from, right.

Can you imagine being on a plane and God would have done that

been like oh man right. Three key.

Be yeah yeah yeah no doubt. I mean that's embarrassing.

And you know obviously I mean have you ever been embarrassed

that his was loud somehow some I understand you get around some

people. It's a game.

I get that right? I get it and they need to renew

their minds. I understand that.

Because it's not fun. It's not like funny, you know,

to be doing that loud, right? Yes, it's not nice right.

Okay. My point is and I said,

sometimes you just can't help. So you're at running somewhere,

there are place. You're like, I don't want this

to happen right now, am I right? Okay.

So I'm glad that the Lord didn't do that.

Amen. And my point is, that's where

I'm stalling to find that point of gift, because it was, it was

a good point, here it is. Thank you, holy spirit, because

thank you for bailing me out of that.

They be like, why do you talk about gas flagellants in

service? Sometimes I wish the Lord would

allow us to smell like the sin were in Because if you send, and

you started to smell like your flagellant, what's that?

What's up with you? The toughest smell I've ever

smelled before, okay? And again, this is tame for most

people. I get it.

But I went with my dad, he was a contract paying her and we were

working on a hotel and we were doing some finishing touches.

Well, there were some people that were coming to clean and

the person that had come to clean, it happened to be a

female, which was even more shocking.

But the female was cleaning the windows.

Well, they had some serious body odor, serious body odor.

But what made it worse is they put perfume on so for whatever

reason, the perfume in the body odor created a much, Potent

smell that I could not be in the same room when they were

cleaning. It was tough.

Now, I felt for the person got my first, all his do they know

you know, because you can get used to Smells right.

I never knew that nicotine or cigarettes had a smell never in

my life. My dad, smoked my whole life did

had no idea that cigarette smoke gets left on your body.

And about three months after my father died.

There was a new Aroma that showed up in places, I had were

around where people smoked and I had, I realized I went to school

smell like this, my whole life, and didn't know means.

All my friends smelled me like this, and I don't even know it.

You know what's instincts like that except worse.

So Paul realized and look my whole life as Saul of Tarsus,

but really, I was just walking around smelling.

Horrible to God. If if we when we went back to

our old self had that we would man you wouldn't want to live in

that. But Genesis to Weiss living by

faith, not by sight because they are by all right, smelling is a

in the sense realm. And if you can go up, oh wow.

Yeah, everybody's going to know I send this weekend.

I smell horrible. I mean you're not many people

would be asking the Lord to forgive them for they ever walk

in the room, you know, I need a Holy Ghost.

Right now. But you know somebody I need a

hold of goes bath. Because your sin will surely

find you out, which means, and when it's found, I was like,

wow, what do you typically say, find out when someone's blown

it? Well, that stinks.

Right. Oh man.

That stinks. And it does to God.

So, the old man must stay dead. Romans 6, verse 4, and 5.

Romans 6:4

Therefore we have been buried with him, through baptism into

death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead, through

the glory of the father. So we too might walk in newness

of Life, both in galatia Galatians and now enrollments is

talking about walking now. I'm not going to be preaching on

the fruits of the spirit tonight.

But you want to know whether or not you're walking, you're going

to have the fruits of the spirit Are light flowing out of your

life. People are tasting them all the

time, okay? And you don't have that kind of

fruit if you're alive to yourself.

You stuck fruit production, the fruit of the spirit production,

okay, but I'm not preaching on that.

Anyway, we are to walk in the newness of life.

For if we have become United with him in the likeness of his

death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of his what

Resurrection. So, again, it's not, it isn't

good enough and in fact God never wanted us to have the

realization that Christ died for our sins.

Ins. And he's made a way for our sins

to be forgiven but yet still walk in them.

And still be bound to him that was never.

And that we're still kind of stuck and can't help it till we

go to heaven, because that's when true Liberty happens.

And that's just not true It's not true at all.

Full Liberty can happen. Now, there is a mechanism called

your mortal body that is still decaying.

That has a Detachment out here that can draw on the flesh.

But if you'll keep your spirit strong and your mind renewed,

you can keep that crucified utterly destroy its power And

just be living on the hope and then your body itself will

perform it the best. It can even as it breaks down

because the spirit will Quicken your mortal body and cause you

to be in a house. This eternal life, Spirit, full

of the life of God to fulfill, the purpose God has for.

So we need to walk in this newness of life.

We have to recognize he died for me so that I could be raised up

to walk in this newness of Life. Say I can walk in this newness

of life. You got to get that now.

Jump down to verse 8, verse 8, and same chapter says, now, if

we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live

with him, and that's not heaven. Although most people believe it

that way, but it's not. It's right now.

Say right now, you can live with Christ now, he talks to you now.

He talks and communicates with you through his word revealed by

a spirit, that's on the inside. And when you get in any

situation, all you have to do is say King Jesus.

What do we do? I don't live on my own.

And I'm not going to. I have no idea how to respond or

how I want to respond. Right now, that's an old way of

responding and that person is dead not listening to that.

So I'm waiting on instructions and the many gives you

instructions that that's how we gonna handle this.

That's how we're going to handle this.

Period. That's how we're going to handle

it. Why?

Because I'm dead. That Man's dead.

Jump down to verse 13, verse 13. It says, and do not go on

presenting the members of your body, at to sin as instruments

of unrighteousness. But present yourself to God, as

alive from the dead and your members, as instruments of

righteousness to God. At the end of the day, the one

who controls The outward expression of righteousness that

has been completed in your spirit, by Christ is you.

And the only reason why it's not modeled more frequently, is

because of how we identify Don't doing all right now.

Please don't take this as boring teaching.

Because I'm going to tell you right now this to change your

life. It is this this what I would

consider Elementary principle but yet a consistent one that

has caused me to conquer multiple things because the

minute, you take this thought on my gosh, let me re Colossians.

First Colossians 3, 3 and 4 says this for, you have died and your

life is hidden with Christ in God.

When Christ, who is our life is revealed?

Then you, Also will be revealed with him in glory, so if you

want to know who I am Christ, is going to show up.

That Christ answers going to show up when I learned this here

for you died and I've always, you know, kind of had this

concept with John. The Baptist says statement I

must decrease, he must increase, right?

So I'm always being renewed in my mind to get rid of me.

The old me. The human nature, the sin

nature, the way of response. That's not the kingdom response.

And anytime that kind of like, you know what, which brought

this thought it's nothing personal.

So now no matter what happens, it's nothing personal.

Because Jesus is really blunt with us in John chapter 17 when

John 17 · chapter mention

he's talking to the disciples. He said, now, listen, They're

going to hate you in this world. Why?

Because the world lives by the Flesh and you live by the spirit

and they're in opposition. So the world's going to hate you

because they hated me. So, in essence, he saying don't

take it but how can you take it personal if you're dead, Let me

say this way. How can you get offended if

you're dead? Because you can't offend a dead

man. A dead man.

Can't get offended offense. Can come, but it can't stay to a

person dead. So there's a lot of thing

weapons that the enemy form against us.

That doesn't even can't stay with me because it's associated

with the dead man. And I know that Man's dead.

I keep him in the grave. In the grave.

So I'll give you a couple examples.

Obviously, I won't go into great detail on all any of them but in

a, from a pastor church perspective, when we were

located over here across from Cobblestone and we were

Remodeling and the County Inspector came in and says, shut

down the work. You're not allowed to be here at

all. You're not even zoned to be

here, which was a surprise I didn't take it personal, I just

said to them, okay, you know, he said don't shoot the messenger.

I said you're just doing your job.

Thank you for doing your job, no problem.

I just need some instruction and that's when he said, you sure

are taking this. Well, well Christ takes

everything well, because Christ is the answer.

There's not a problem Christ's face that he couldn't conquer.

So, you're not attacking me. I mean, you're just actually

doing your assignment. At this point Christ has an

answer and I need to lean to it because he's like, wow, you

know, what, you're not acting like the other pastors.

They get mad. Well, the old man could get mad

I mean, cause plenty of thoughts are.

Well, I called the county. They said, I could be here.

Who's this guy think he is? Who complained, who called?

And complained on us, because that's what happened.

Somebody called and complained. So it's somebody's call

somebody's complaint against you.

You need to find out who it is. You need to go to their house.

I'm, I can give you all kind of thoughts that the old man would

say, right? You're gonna, you're gonna, you

can't even be here. Now, you've signed a lease

you're gonna have to pay all this money and go somewhere

else. And then you're going to go

broke and everybody's gonna look at you laughs.

I mean, I can tell you all kind of stuff.

Now, you got this whole congregation says coming and now

you're going to have to tell them.

They can't be here. They're all going to leave you.

You're just a waste. You should have never came to

this city. But that Man's dead, that man

would even listening the Christ was listening.

Christ was like, who do we need? Talk to That's all Christ.

Need to know who's the authority.

I have no problem getting in front of authority because the

king is the gate. He is a softy, he changes all

kind of stuff. And sure enough, y'all know the

end of the story froze. Have been here.

A while those who hadn't we want, we stayed in the building.

We overcame the obstacle because we didn't take it personal.

We were friendly. Did not raise our voice.

At the county did not I cussed him out.

I say that because there are some leaders within churches and

Ministries. I could we compare a Church

Ministries, you know, their Ministries outside, the church

that will cuss people out. We're like well how can you talk

holy Hallelujah. Jesus, and because somebody else

when you're mad because you Doug someone up, And you know that

dead man's back in the corner light, Let Me In.

Come on tag, let me remember. Wrestling have the Tag Team tag

me. Clunk just touch me.

Touch me. Just, Just Let Me In The Rain.

I'll take care of this, but you understand?

You're in Christ. You're like the strongest ones

in the ring right now. That's the problem.

The strongest one is in the ring right now.

I let you in, we gonna get whipped honey, I'm not.

In fact, I don't have to have a partner right now.

Okay. Amen.

So You Gotta Die. You know, I know that some of,

you know, that our whole Community, we first bought them

all had a great opinion about stuff.

Many people have opinions People pep personally, attacked me.

And people like are you going to say something like the king?

Then just as my thus saith the Lord, I will repay.

That's my response. I'm not saying nothing because

that guy's dead. They're picking a fight with the

King. You don't want to pick a fight

with the King. Can I say that?

You do not want to pick a fight with King Jesus?

But yet many even believers do. Because they resurrect an old

man and do an old man way of doing it, right?

Hey men and I'm telling you you'll win in life.

If you do that my wife and I we can get in disagreements.

In the home. Why does our marriage

flourishing? Be 32 years.

This year, why? Because I died I don't and I

tell you don't have a right to hold this position.

You're dead. Your, your position is Christ

position and you don't Christ, position is reconciliation.

You got to reconcile this, you've got to get this

reconciled. You have to get this reconciled.

You know, say Pastor Martian, I don't have conflict like a lot

of marriages because we don't live according to the flesh

anyway. So our disagreements are never,

you know, a sin issue. Their opinion based.

Right? I don't want the couch there.

It's opinion-based, you know. Well let's go clean this one.

I'm going to clean it. Are you giving me a sign or

something back there? Don't give you a song, I'm not

done. Anyway, my point is, is that,

you know, well, what do you do this?

Well, I'm going to do it this way, and at the end of day, we

can choose. Am I gonna do it your way, or my

way? Because neither way sinful,

they're just different. But yet, opinions can create

emotions. Same in any way.

I'm helping some of y'all going to get married one day, right?

I learned this lesson give up your right to be right.

I don't have to be right. My wife doesn't have to be

right. That's why we compromise, that's

why it can change. That's why and what seems like a

conflict that we're not resolving, we have to resolve

it. And let me tell you, I've been

adamant about the one scripture says do not let the sun go down

on your anger. Now, when I was a little less

mature, I took it so literal that my wife and I were having a

disagreement. The lights, don't go off, even

if she turned them off, they came back on.

We are resolving this conflict. Now I know my wife is so

merciful to me she resolved in on my behalf so we she could

sleep, I get it. And then Somewhere in the Night,

her and God squared at away and when the morning hit we were

good. I had the championship belt as

if I conquered that. I know that happens, sometimes I

do I'm not delusional, you know, there were some that it worked

other times, it was like okay honey you're right in sh shut

up. Let's go to bed because it's

really not a big deal for me at this point and I feel praise God

we got this right? Can we kiss now?

Right. Hey man.

There's nothing worse than laying in the bed opposite.

Each other You're not even want to touch the person on the other

side. None worse than that.

You're like don't touch them. Yeah, the night before you like

I'm touching you everywhere. Just say, Amen.

Okay. But when you die to self, This

is what you have to do. I'm not alive.

All right to scriptures and will be gone.

Romans chapter 8 when I say to two passages.

Romans 8 · chapter mention

Okay. Just want to be clear, Roma's

eighth chapter 5, we'll start there and we'll end somewhere.

The passage translation says that this way, see the guys they

never helped me. They're like oh this is all he's

gonna say. Okay thanks those who are

motivated by the flesh, only pursue what benefits themselves

but those who live by the impulses of the Holy Spirit are

motivated to pursue spiritual realities for the Mind Set On

the flesh, is but the mind set. Controlled by the spirit.

We've already explained what that actually means, finds life

and peace. In fact, the mindset focused on

the flesh fights. God's plans, God's plan and

refuses to submit to his Direction because it cannot no

will no matter how hard they try.

God finds no pleasure with those who are controlled by the flesh.

Now, these are the ones that are trying to convince God their way

is right? And though you scripture to do

that, Okay, do you scripture to do that?

All right. Let's go on bug when the spirit

of Christ, empowers your life. You are not dominated by the

flesh, but by the spirit, and if you are not joined to the spirit

of the anointed one, you are not of him.

Now, Christ lives his life in you and even though your body

may be dead because of the effects of sin, meaning its

mortal. It's decaying, it's not

glorified his life, giving spirit and parts life to you

because you are fully accepted by God.

Amen, this means that we have this comp capacity to say you

know what, flesh is dead. Now for me, I began to see

spiritual maturity play out this way.

How fast? Do I utterly destroy the flesh?

If it takes you three days to get over yourself, right?

I M in it. But then you finally come out

and then you it's only takes two days, you're progressing.

When you get it to where, you know the minute it hits your

like whoa. Because the things of the spirit

are that readily available, you're that much red.

In the words, you're that much time in the spirit that much

time in prayer that it comes up and you're like, okay, now we're

starting to get to spiritual maturity and I'm talking about

in any situation, any situation. Because the devil will Mount

multiple things against your life.

You got to be able to handle any type of situation.

I know what some people if I talked about their kids, as

great as they are, in certain areas, they would be fleshly

unglued because they have not conquered the flesh with their

kids. What do I mean by that?

Don't you talk about my kid? Who are you where did that

person come from? Because the minute you thought

your child was an angel, you there's a problem already.

I mean, I'm not going to talk about your kid, and I must say

you what, your kid may not be doing with the King, and if you

can't handle that, that's the problem.

But you can sure let the coach correct them.

And their, I coach Leo that let you chew them up one side and

down the other, you know, in a nice way.

I know, right? Like, yeah, because your face,

you know, like you better, this is the Old Coach, but then

passed. Like, I'm telling you, you need,

they need to get out of here. Don't you tell me about my kid?

My relationship make me an okay, fine.

Let em fornicate but I don't respond that way because he's

dead. But I want to Go, let you miss

Angel. Go on there and sleep with 5 or

6 people because you are so, asinine and know what thought

thinking that your phone and getting them in trouble right

now. But, you know, coaches can talk

away pastors. Can't there's areas.

You got to ask yourself, is there a place that if someone

went there with me, I would respond fleshly about that.

Then you need to fix that because there's no place, the

devil ought to be able to push a button on you.

That resurrects your whole old being and they show up in the

room. You got to be able to smell your

old self. What is Oh, no, you're not.

You are not coming out. You are not coming out.

All right, I'm praying I'm reading.

You are not coming out. You are not a quit, making the

excuse. Well, we don't, you know,

everybody blows it. You know how crazy that really

is in the realm of the spirit. Can I tell you?

That's like me going down to the cemetery by Craig's funeral home

and dragging a casket on platform Sunday and opening up a

dead body. And be like Pastor.

What did you do? You know that takes effort to

dig that junk up what? I'm saying is you can't all what

I can't help it. You took effort to dig your old

self up. You put work to it, you work to

rest to get grab that thing out of the Grave.

It takes work to dig dead bodies up.

Something this utterly destroy it, it takes work.

To dig that up. Amen, don't let it dig up,

praise the lord, we close with this to scriptures, second

2 Corinthians 5:14

Corinthians 5:14, and 15 for it is, Christ's love that fuels our

passion and motivates us because we are absolutely convinced that

he has given his life for all of us.

This means all died with him so that those who live should no

longer live, self-absorbed lives, but live, but lives that

are poured out, Out for him, the one who died for us and now

lives again. That needs to be our daily

thought I died today. I'm dead today, too.

I only live for one person. Jesus King Jesus.

What have you got to say? Jesus?

I said, I'm for spawning doesn't matter.

What I go through today. You have a word for me.

You have a direction, and if I hear nothing, I stay quiet

because even a fool seems wise. They keep your mouth shut.

I know that scripture and that is keep myself from, stinking in

a situation, like, hmm, what did you say to me?

Oh my gosh. Why you smiling you just walk

off, right? And then they fill all your

puffed up, you know. Whip down.

We told them. We told him who he and your

life. That's all right.

You got an answer for me because I really did not they're dead.

They're dead, not doing it. I'm not doing it because

whatever that was was attacking somebody.

Do you have silly? It looks we think about get this

in your mind. This is what's happening when

they attack you. It's like going to a grave and

yelling at it. I'll beat you.

I'm going to be you. I'm gonna kick you and your kid.

I'm gonna do this on do that. And what, I mean, really, what's

the dead person thinking right now?

Now, those inhale are probably thinking, I wish you could,

because we're, I'm, as bad. I would love to come back and

experience what you're saying to me, because it's bad, but those

that are in the Kingdom up there in heaven with the Lord, I mean,

with the Lord present, because wearing the kingdom now Okay,

it's saying what a crazy, what do you think?

I'm going to get up, Jesus, let me just stand up one time for

fun. I mean right now because no

matter who you are, if all of a sudden, the ground started to

shake and all of a sudden it comes to nobody is like, they go

home and I don't know of anybody that's probably going to stay.

They gonna be freaking out a little bit because there's too

many Walking Dead movies out there.

Right now, right? And they're running.

Okay, my point is that's what it's like, you got it when

they're yell at, you got to be like they're talking to the

cemetery because I'm dead. And I'm only got a response is

from Jesus. And I've seen hard Hearts melt

away. I'll close with this one.

Alright. So my closer, literally, y'all

heard me say this before, I was at Rhema as a student, now

pulled up to get off the campus look one way, look the other

way, right? Because four-lane highway is,

looking looked looked how much shot I took off.

Well, apparently the four-lane highway.

This guy was behind. Someone took off and started

coming. When I came out, they were a

Closer, you know, and they were close enough, made them that.

So I started heading this direction, they were coming,

this direction, they turn that truck around in the road and

boom got on me. I mean, we ain't even a quarter

mile and they're on me and they're say your number one and

he uses finger. You're Number One, You're Number

1, right? And so I'm looking in the

rearview mirror. I mean, they are like all kind

of, you know, beautiful. Language is happening, you know,

about how number one I am. And so in my spirit I pulled

over and got in a parking spot. I mean, typically just keep

driving, I pulled off that and when I pulled off, they come

flying in. Got right here beside me.

I got up and went around my vehicle.

I mean, I came right towards them and they were anticipating.

Now I wasn't a huge guy, I don't remember what year it was.

I feel second year, I'd have been bigger a lot bigger.

I mean, I'd have been bigger But if I was first year ice, pretty

skinny, this guy was skinny too, though.

Okay. But that means nothing because

I'm not a fighter anyway. Anyway, so the guy's got his

wind down. So he pulls back because he

thinks I'm coming in and I came with my hand.

I mean I came leading with my right hand.

I came around. I said, hey man, I just want to

say, I am so sorry. I didn't see you and I'm sorry

that I pulled out in front of you and he was like, I mean.

He, he was dumbfounded. And he laid forward, he shook my

head. All right, man.

Well, God bless you. He said that, I mean, I was

coming out of the church rice of this is what Sinners do when

they get around Christians. They have to act like they're

right. Just and it was over.

Right. But it that other guy was dead.

I didn't have a road rage moment.

I didn't have a house. Tell him who I am.

I can't believe he's cussing me like this.

You know, God forbid of my kids would have been here.

I would you not many people like getting the flesh to defend

their kids. Wow, thanks for showing that So

showing him Jesus. But it disarmed them completely.

Just like that. One time, I got slapped in the

face and I said, here's the other cheek and then that person

pay for my second year, Rhema. Because the person was dead.

That got hit and if you live your life that way you'll be

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