Always Watching - Kingdom Rest

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Now, enjoy this message. Jeremiah 23 verses 23 to 24

Jeremiah 23:23–24

who's on the Bible, reading plan, who's up to date, you know

you just read this them. All right we just had this last

week. In fact we had last week what

Pastor Ramon preached about which it was like bam that was a

super Holy Ghost verse that's reminding me of our parenting

conference that's coming up in September that when he said your

been disobedient because you've been practicing Disobedience.

Since you were youth, I'm like my gosh I was ready to preach

that message. Right?

Then I was like, that went off in me.

I'm like, that's the problem, man, of Paris can just get that,

don't teach their kids to be disobedient.

He said, I don't teach my child to be disobedient.

You do what you don't hold them accountable, when there's no

consequences for their action, because there are always

consequences for our actions. In the Lord, we can eliminate

certain consequences by repenting.

Say, Amen. Anyway, okay, I'll push you to

excitement today. Amen.

Jeremiah 23. 23 and 24 says, this am IA.

God, who is near declares the Lord and not a god far off.

Now, he's saying this in the old Covenant.

Can a man hide himself in hiding places.

So I do not see him declares the Lord.

Do I not fill the heavens plural and the Earth declares the Lord,

and this is in the old Covenant, in the New Covenant.

Where's the holy spirit of God at right on the inside of you?

Not only is he on the inside of you, he came upon the Earth he's

moving and flowing through the Earth.

Right now Jesus says, is to your advantage that I go.

So that he may come, he only came down on prophets priests

and But now that Jesus has died on the cross and rose from the

dead. He's poured out his blood on The

Mercy Seat of God in heaven. And when we call on the name of

the Lord, to be saved, we become a new creature in Christ.

The old passes away, behold All Things become new, then the

third person of the godhead who is in the Earth.

Moving around, is now taken up residence on the inside of us,

then he'll come upon us with power, will speak in the

language of the Kingdom. Give us power to function

throughout who the gifts and do Supernatural things and be a

powerful witness for God. Now, how far is God now?

Just lookin. All you got to do is look in and

there is. But in the old Covenant he is

saying. He said, am I God who was near

or and I'm not a God who is far off yet to them because they

were lost without God, the regular citizen in the Covenant

of God's Nation, did not have the spirit of God in him, nor

did he come upon him but yet God had an expression of himself to

his Prophet priest and King in such a way that he still

considered himself near. Oh, that's good.

And how much more near is he now in our covenant in this new and

better Covenant, there is an equivalent verse to Jeremiah

found in Hebrews in the New Covenant.

It says it this way in Hebrews 4:13 he says and there is no

Hebrews 4:13

creature hidden from his sight but all things are open and laid

bare to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

Do you see that I said do you see that?

Amen, I just got some little function here.

I need to move over my own Bible out real quick.

I want to look at this myself. Do some other translations that

I did not put there and that I want to just kind of read them

for the Amplified says that this way and I and not a creature

exists. That is concealed from his side.

All things are open and exposed naked and defenseless to the

eyes of him with whom we have to do.

Do you hear that Said to hear that.

Hallelujah. The new English translation.

Says, and no creature is hidden from God, but everything is

naked and exposed to us to the eyes of him with whom, we must

render an account, right? The passion says, there is not

one person who can hide their thoughts from God for nothing

that we do remains a secret and nothing created is concealed,

but everything is exposed in defenseless before his eyes to

whom we must render and Count. Now when you hear that, these

two verses you're receiving. These two versus one way or the

other. The first way that people

receive it. Unfortunately they do.

Is that. Oh, God's watching me. now that

sounds a little who God's watching me like He's watching

me. I'm doing something wrong, he

sees it, right. But you know if you're not bent

to do wrong then that's not the way we should look at it.

I look at it this way, man. He seeing me.

He sees me, he knows what's going on.

There's nothing I'm doing in Christ.

He don't see. Much means of we reward is being

rendered. I'm not operating in faith and

he doesn't see it. I'm not praying according to his

word and he's not here. It.

I mean there's nothing hidden from him.

It's not lie. I can be in faith with God and

he like, oh sorry I missed that Pastor Earle.

We tend to only look at it from all you blew it.

I didn't miss that but God equally sees it every time we're

doing it right and I choose to stay on the right side because

I've been made right and I'll exercise that, right?

But in either case God Is Watching.

I said he's always watching, he's always watching.

So in order to get some context about this because again, I want

to encourage you today based upon everything we've heard this

past week and things. These will continue here, moving

forward, is that you need to know that your daddy is always

watching, and that is good news to the believer who is

passionately wanting to serve him.

But you know what else to do? Is also good news to help, keep

you from, from the Temptation that will show up in your life,

because if you knew that God was watching, If you know he's

listening then there's certain things you wouldn't be moving

towards. Are you would say man I'm

resistant Echoes gods in the room, right?

God's in the room wouldn't be doing this.

If God was sitting on the sofa right now.

Are you hearing me? Hey Luce.

I don't be washed that much. That you do because he rewards.

He's a rewarder. I said he's a rewarder.

Praise the Lord. So in order to get some context

here, we're going to go back to Hebrews chapter 2 and we're

Hebrews 2 · chapter mention

going to read a little bit because this is what I love

about. God, always watching me, it puts

me at rest I said it puts me at rest, all right, and Hebrews

Hebrews 2 · chapter mention

chapter 2 will start in verse 1. It says this, for this reason we

must pay much closer, attention to what we have.

What now what do we know about hearing?

Faith comes by hearing and hearing from the word of God,

faith comes by hearing periods or whatever you're here.

And you're going to develop Yep, a belief system you need to make

sure you're hearing is connected to the word of God.

If there's 168 hours in a week and you sleep 8 hours a day

that's 56 hours that you're sleeping.

You - that from 168 and we're down to a hundred and twelve

hours that you are conscious. What are you hearing?

because if you're listening to the news channel, more social

media more, Secular music more. I mean everywhere.

All words are communicating all words are communicating and

developing a belief system. All of it is.

So you have to say, Okay, I need to make sure I'm maximizing some

hearing time when it comes to the Lord, whether sleep personal

meditation, whether it's through your own Bible reading, whether

it's hearing someone who actually rightly divide the word

of truth because sometimes it better listen to a secular song

than to listen to some ministers.

All right, because I can easily identify with some secular stuff

with that's just fleshly. Amen.

Some ministers are get messy, a doctrine of.

Alright. So again, he says, we should pay

closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift

away from it. Say, I can drift every one of us

can drift. None of us are excluded from

drift. You've heard me say this before

when I used to take my children to the beach, when we were

younger, because it was very inexpensive to go to the beach.

And so I would be out there with my children, my why?

My wife was working on her Tan Lines, we would be out in the

water. Me, and my kids will be played

play fighting at two boys. So we play fight a lot.

My daughter, you know, she would you know hang around a little

bit with that but not too much and we would end up doing

something different. A lot of times we would sit and

she would act like she's cutting my hair, you know.

So she would dunk my head and then she'd have pretend scissors

and cut my hair so you know, we would do things in the water but

every once in a while I would come out and I would let my

older Sons you know, out there player, my daughter as well and

I would give them a boundary because the currents always

moving. And so they would be playing and

not paying attention. And the tide would cause them to

drift and they would have to look up.

And I would look up and say, hey, I'd go out.

There's I said, did not tell you that every once in a while you

need to stop and look at the shore because you're drifting.

Yes sir. Yes, sir.

Now let's go get back over here, right?

I'll give you freedom but stay within the boundaries because if

you get in a rip current, It's not good.

I think it was Briana and Brooks her cousin.

One time, got stuck in a rip current, AL to A1A Frank Butler,

Frank Butler. If y'all how many go to Frank

Butler, there's a rip current, a Frank Butler, just let y'all

know that. If you ever go to Frank Butler,

there seems to be one always showing up there so just be

conscientious of that are conscious of that, okay?

With that being said, we were there, they got on a raft and it

started to pull them out. Out.

So I went swimming after them, all right, because you can get

out of one, you just have to, you know, how to get out.

So I went, you know, and so I was grabbing them, they had, and

we kept pushing, I kept going to the side trying to get out of

that. Rip, current kept going to us.

I mean, it was worse being on the having that float.

I was almost like a bless abandon this thing, come on,

because being on top of regardless, we got out, I was

quite exhausted after the fact. But you know, that's why we set

Andris in order to save their lives.

We as Believers can drift and we drift, it's because of what

we're not being careful. Did here, you know, like, well,

I've been in church for a while, you know?

So you go back to the 80s. Okay.

I grew up in the 80s man or some 80 songs out there, you know?

And you can be tempted, you know?

Well, let me just go back, listen to some childhood songs.

Next thing, you know, you'll start drifting, because you'll

think you're above it now because you're a child of God

and it don't affect you the same way.

No words, still affect you. They'll still affect you.

Now, I'm not saying you're going to hell.

Cause you listen to stuff and you parte.

I'm saying you have to maintain. You have to pay attention to

what you're hearing and you got to recognize, you know what I've

had too much intake of things that aren't built in my spirit

because how do you know you're drifting?

Well, you'll start responding more fleshly quicker.

You won't handle the situations. It is written.

You'll start trying to handle the situations your way.

You'll start doing it your way, so he warns us that we need to

pay attention verse 2 says, for if the word spoken through

Angels proved unalterable and every transgression and

Disobedience received a just penalty.

How will we escape if we neglect?

So great a Salvation after it was at first spoken through the

Lord, it was confirmed To Us by those who heard.

So notice he said, now, listen in the realm of the Angels, man.

When they got out of what God's saying he didn't change, he kept

his word truth and there are that there are beings that were

in a Heavenly realm. In that Eternal realm.

That when they fell, they are never to be redeemed.

He says, now who are we to neglect?

Such a great salvation that the Lord really preach to us.

When I say that, even though I may say it, it's not me that

Actually saves you at all. It's the words of God that were

saying that then the spirit of God makes it alive in you that

then when you act on it. So it's really the Lord that's

bringing salvation to your life. And when the Lord reveals to

you, your need for a savior, how would we neglect it?

Why would we neglect it? And the only way neglect

happens, because here's the thing, I agree.

The person truly born again, is not intentionally saying.

I don't want to do. Because if they're saying that

the minute, they pray a Prayer of Salvation to get into the

kingdom of God. Then I would say you're actually

not saved. You are not saved period, man.

If you need to go listen to Pastor Mark, when we put it out

online, his teaching on what it means to be born again because a

born-again Believer is always associated with seeing and

entering the kingdom. And if you're not seeing an

entering the kingdom, then, Has good, cause to question your

salvation. Are you hearing me a behavior

should follow? If there is not a change that

takes place with you, you are not born again.

You have a religion, you have a religion.

Amen. So there should be a change and

he's telling a do not neglect. So good at Salvation and a

Believer can drift. If they do not take heed what

they're hearing. And they begin to neglect it.

Alright, verse for God also testify with them both by signs

and wonders and by various Miracles and buy the gifts of

the holy spirit. According to his own will many

of us have come into the kingdom, and we have experienced

these things. We've seen signs, and wonders,

we've seen various Miracles we've seen the gifts of the

Spirit in operation and have been used even in the gifts.

And how could we neglect that? Why would we drift from this?

Well, it's because we're not taking heed what we hear.

We're not taking heed what we hear.

Jump down to verse 17 verse 17. This chapter says, therefore he

had to be made like his brethren in all things so that he might

become a merciful and faithful high priest in all things

pertaining to God, to make perpetuation for the sins of his

people. For since we, he himself was

what tempted in that which he has suffered.

He is able to come to the aid of those who are, he's there too?

Into the a so there's nothing that you're facing in your mind.

That God has not had it in his. So here's the thing, you can't

go to Jesus and say, you don't know what I'm going through, you

don't know what I'm feeling. You can't do that.

This is what's so awesome about our God that is seeing

everything when he sees you goes through.

Something's I know how you feel. Yeah, I experienced that myself.

And I would submit to you, Jesus experienced it on a greater

level on a greater level wha because you're one person

experiencing it. Jesus experienced it for all of

mankind. I said of, of aught for all of

mankind, so he has been tempted yet.

He's able now to come to the aid of those who are tempted as

well. Hallelujah.

So again, the Lord recognizes that if Don't give heed to what

you're hearing. Then you're going to run the

risk of drifting and then you can neglect that which you have

received and, you know, that you have it because there's blend

been many attesting signs to it. Right and God himself when he's

paying attention to us when he's watching over us, when he's

looking at us because he wants his word to be performed in our

lives. He is merciful at that time but

he's also faithful which means them most of the time he's not

coming to you and saying Rick your jerk man.

I understand why you did that. That would not come out of Jesus

Jesus, but Rick. I understand how you feel.

I know exactly how that makes you feel.

I get it. I get it, but there's a better

way. Now, let me give you my word.

Right. That's how he comes to us, in

these moments. Why?

Because he really just wants us to enter into a place called

rest. Now, with that being said, flip

to the next chapter in Hebrews, chapter 3, starting in verse 7.

Hebrews 3 · chapter mention

Jesus then begins to warn, because if you, if you neglect

or the writer of Hebrews, if we're neglecting, what we hear,

you know, we're not taking heed to what we hear.

When we begin to drift that then puts us in a place where we are

starting to neglect. And notice the lore says, do

you. I think you're going to be an

escape. If you neglect this salvation,

which already tells me. Don't have a thought process.

Once saved, always saved. Or let's least don't do this.

Let's don't think I can do anything.

And there's no consequence now that I'm born again.

At minimum, you have to believe that.

At minimum that if you neglect, so great.

Don't think you're going to escape Escape, what escape the

ramifications of what that looks like?

And it's not because God wants you there.

That's why the second chapter concludes with, I know how you

feel. I know what you're going

through, I've had the same issue.

Whatever the issue guys, whatever it is.

I've had the same issue but I know this my father's faithful.

His word always works. Just stay with me, just stay

with me. So then Hebrews 37 says is

therefore just as the holy spirit says today if you hear

his voice, they hear his voice say, here is voice.

You got to not only hear his voice, but do his voice?

Be a doer of his voice? Today, if you hear his voice, do

not Harden your hearts, as when they provoked, me as in the day

of trial in the wilderness. So when you hear his voice, what

should you not do? What should you not do?

Who's in control of hardening? The heart?

Now this should give you a little insight to the Book of

Exodus because again when you read the book of Exodus and it's

in the English, people take a wrong interpretation because it

says that God hardened, the heart of pharaoh.

Well God didn't hard the heart of Pharaoh Pharaoh chose not to

hear. Moses came and said, God said,

let my people go. That's that's the voice of God.

In fact, God said you will be God to pharaoh and Aaron will be

your profit. So the minute I say this, but he

says I know that he's not going to listen.

He said that the Lord tells Moses, I know he's not going to

listen. So in turn then when the writer

says God hardened, his heart it's because he resisted what he

heard from God. This is why it's so important

for you. Always to be sensitive to what

God is saying and not Harden your heart.

It's you that says I'm not doing it.

As Kiki testified today, the Lord says, there's something I

want to do and you but I need you to do first.

Oh man, what a powerful testimony that he talks to her

and do you know what he's saying?

He's saying, I know how you feel.

I know how you feel. I've been wronged.

I have been wronged, right? They sold me girl I've been

wronged. They have lied about me.

They have cheated about me. They beat me up.

I mean they killed me. I mean I've been wrong.

I know exactly how you feel right now but For me to do some

things I want to do and you I need you to go forgive this

person. And I'm glad she heard and

didn't hardened her heart. Now she was honest, she said it

to me, couple took me about a day, you know, have to okay,

okay. And I guess you're working

through emotions, you're working through the whole scenario,

you're working through the response, you're doing all that,

but the Lord was with of the whole time and strengthen her,

because she kept staying sensitive to want to do what she

heard and God brought it to pass.

Now again, we didn't get the rest of the story on whether

this person exceed received it or not.

But she's free and now gosh, she has given her God permission to

clean up. Anything on the inside of her

that's been hurting. He'll be at am in that.

Strengthen that treated in a way.

That is like she never experienced it in our life.

Wow. Because she didn't hardened her

heart yet. You know, people like I know

people that the minute they heard it, they hardened.

They resisted, amen. Hallelujah.

They resisted. Now Bishop garraway said this

when he was here he said, you can fake a praise, but you can't

fake an offering. But you know, he's only saying

that you can only fake appraised to people.

You can actually fake an offering because ananias and

Sapphira did but in both cases the praise and the offering is

known by the Lord, God knows whether you actually have a

praise or whether you putting on a show because you're covering

up stuff that he's told you to do and you harden your heart and

your singing now won't change that.

You're Dancin won't change that. Same in any way.

All right, so he says today if you hear his voice, do not

Harden your hearts as well as when they provoked me as in the

day of Trials where your father's tried Me by testing me

and saw my works for 40 years. Therefore, I was angry with this

generation and said they always go astray in their heart and

they did not know my ways as I swore in my wrath, they shall

not enter my My rest, they'll not enter my what my wrist verse

12. Take care.

Take heed, take care Brethren that there not be in any one of

you and evil, unbelieving, heart that falls away from the Living

God. Well, how could someone and he

says, take care Brethren now. Say it, take care sinner.

He's talking to people who are born because of the born again,

because of the blood said, take care.

Brethren that not, not, that they're not be in any one of you

and Eve. How can you have an evil heart

if you're born again? Well, if you have an

unbelieving, if you start to harden yourself from hearing,

What God Says and acting on that, because an unbelieving

heart will fall away from the Living God, in essence, it will

become a Traitor. verse 13 but encourage one, another how How

often? How often this is?

Why I struggle with those who have a hard time, just attending

church twice a week. Because we really are to have a

day after day, encouragement concerning the things of God.

Because there's so many voices out there and those voices are

getting through your ears and they're making an impression on

your heart. So if you're if you're not

taking captive thoughts, and again you can't even take

captive of thought unless you're hearing God because that's only

God's word that can take captive of thought, we are to take

captive every imagination that sets itself up again.

The word of God. If you don't know the word of

God, you don't know that thought sets itself against it.

So you have no capacity to actually guard your heart by

arresting thoughts in your mind without first.

Having heard the word. But we are to encourage one

another day after day, as long as it is still called today.

So that none of you will be what hardened by the deceitfulness of

sin for. We have become partakers of

Christ. If We Hold Fast, if that's a

conditional statement, it doesn't happen because you're a

partaker of Christ. Okay, Hallelujah.

Anchor Faith Church will never preach.

The absence of responsibility among the children of God

because the Bible doesn't teach that.

Jesus Christ. Did not come and save you from

being responsible. The Salvation you receive from

Jesus Christ. Did not allow you to be

irresponsible. It allow it.

Made you responsible. Irresponsibility will send you

straight to hell. He gave you a capacity to be

responsible in your decision-making.

Now called before you were just stuck of of the devil and had to

make choices that way. But now that you're born again,

you have the responsibility to hold fast these things.

You've Here, If We Hold Fast, the beginning of our Assurance

firm until the end. So what we hear God?

Saying, no matter what's going on in our lives.

As long as we hold fast. Hallelujah, say Amen.

Say Amen, again, same in one more time.

Say, Amen, louder. Just stand up right now.

Everybody, stand up. Just stand up.

Hallelujah, let's stand up. While I read Hebrews chapter 3

Hebrews 3:18

verses 18 and 19 says take and to whom did he swear that they

would not enter his rest, but to those who were what, what were

they, what were Were they they were disobedient.

So we see that they were not able to enter Because Of

unbelief. Unbelief will cause you to not

enter into a kingdom, rest. And even though you're born

again, born of God, you will wrestle your whole life.

You will still actually be living by your own Works.

Instead of resting in the work she labor with Christ.

Now you're going to work period. That is not an ugly word.

Because before sin even came into the planet, Adam had to

work. So religion has taught you to

not do any work and to be lazy. But the kingdom teaches you

responsibility, with working with Christ and you'll have

Victory and actually walk and rest.

It's the greatest life ever. But again, God is saying, you'll

never rest in this life, if you're going to continue to have

unbelievable. Leaf and unbelief is a result of

a hardened heart. A hardened heart is a result of

a Believer hearing God's word illuminated to him by the spirit

and saying I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it.

So every time you're in church or either building a wall gifts,

God are your pulled in walls down so that you can freely move

with God. Can I get an amen.

Amen. So we are to make sure that we

stay connected with the word with a cheerful heart.

Ready. And eager to receive God's word.

Amen. You can be seated.

Praise the Lord. Amen.

Well you did really good by standing up.

I mean, I didn't actually have to come out and pick you up and

you understand hearing God is that simple. because when you

think about hearing you, think about doing what I heard, You

heard me say stand up and you acted on it, you know you didn't

you didn't doubt that your feet would do it.

In fact, some of you probably had go through your mind.

Why is it trying to stand up? But you did it anyway because

you didn't want to be in the only one in the room.

That was still seated. Say, hallelujah.

And if you were to stay seated, you to bend the one with a hard

heart, You'd have been the known rebellious one even though you

think you're more relaxed? Oh I'm preaching now, I'm

seated. No, you're not seated.

You bet you're getting kicked off The Throne right now.

Are you hearing me? No staying seated in Christ is

doing what he says with a willing heart.

Eager now, all we got to do is the next time.

I say it. See who can get up the fastest,

because that's really how your yeah.

Yes, Lord. I mean that's the kind of

sensitivity. Yes.

Well got it done. Yeah.

Oh man, yeah. Now when I say that, it's not,

because we're trying to be competitive with one another,

it's just that we realize all that God has done for us and

when the minute dad says, hey suck.

Yeah, Dad, that's how our hearts are eager.

Our spirit man is that alive is like, yeah, Dad?

What, because whatever you say is life and it's awesome.

Amen, instead of be there in a minute, I'm busy.

I'm busy. I'll just say Amen.

So tournament over because again, this is a continuation.

When we hit Hebrews 2 3 and 4, he's kind of keeping a main

thing. So he says that, you know, they

were not able to enter in because of unbelief.

So V fluid flow on into chapter 4, Hebrews 4 starting in verse

1. It says therefore let us fear if

while a promise remains of entering his rest Any one of you

may see, seeing to have come short of it, do you know?

There's a lot of Believers that will die.

Leave their bodies be present with the Lord and realize how

short they were. I'm not talking to a statue.

I'm talking in not exercising, all the promises of God.

They're like, man, I could have had that on Earth.

I could have done that on Earth. That was for me on Earth I could

have accomplished that on Earth. Wow.

This amazing. So we've got to make sure there

were like man, my heart. I don't want to leave nothing on

the planet that I was destined to do because I hard myself from

doing it. And I've seen it and I just tell

you the longer we live with God, the more at risk.

We are to quit God. Now I don't mean quit loving him

in the context that we're going to quit being a believer in.

We're just gonna live like we're in the world again.

I'm not talking about, I'm just talking about resting on our

accomplishments, which is a false reality.

T like, oh, I've done enough. I'm going to retire.

Let the Next Generation do it. No, I got stuff to do till I'm

gone. Now, I want the Next Generation

to come along and do some things but you just going to come with

me, we go, I'm going to be to Caleb type, you know, I'm going

to help you conquer yours while I and then I'll go get mine at

the end. Because at the end of the day,

I've been here longer than you, I've conquered more things.

I've held myself together longer than you have, and then I'll

help you get yours while. I still get my long before I

leave, and then when everybody else is gone, I'll be the last

man standing. That's what Caleb was Coleman.

Joshua left Caleb was still around.

Are you hearing me? Because K is like I'm not done

until I'm done. So again, I'm not like handing

this off to another generation. I'm handing you your stuff but

I'm still doing non because there's only as there's breath

in my lungs. I got work to do, I got a God to

serve a Jesus and a king to hear and listen to him respond to.

That's what I've got to do and I'm gonna do it.

And I'm not going to retire and go find a private island with my

wife and wait for him to catch me up one day.

Day, what I'm gonna do is be purposeful.

So you want to run, get in line. Let's go.

Let's do this thing because there's so much to do.

Still, Hallelujah, man in their training, churches, where's your

successor? Who you what me successor?

I mean there is no succession plan.

I'm here to the Lord says you're not the guy and then when he

says that then I give it to the guy or woman that it is until

then I'm going to be young strong.

When I say young, compared to Eternity at 120.

I'm still gonna be looking good. Amen.

Cuz my confession says, I get better with age.

You know, Pastor Marcy does too, she's got a birthday coming up.

I will not tell you how young she is.

You don't do that but we are the same age.

So if you know, mine you're good.

So you guys better with age, I'll tell her, I said maybe you

get better with age. Why?

Cause we do we do now my skin on my face may not be as tight as

it was when I came out as a baby.

I get it. But that's all right.

Amen. That's not the qualification for

being amazing. The qualification for being

amazing, is, how was your spirit man?

How much is it shining through how much glory?

Is it showing because you'll make a person on a magazine look

like a trap when you get around a Godly person.

All right, I'll just say it anyway.

Therefore, let us fear. If while promises remain of

entering his rest, any one of you may seem to have come short

of it for indeed we have good news preached to us just as they

also but the word they Her did not profit them because it was

not United by faith. In those who heard do you

understand? You can be in this room and

still miss. What's being said, if you don't

receive it by faith. Now, by faith is not a religious

word. It's not a cliché is statement.

Faith is a firm persuasion which means I believe that I believe

will, you know, a firm persuasion is, is you sitting in

the chair? I saw.

Nobody today, no one come in and say, hmm.

I don't know, man. You hold my stuff for a second.

Nothing on my way, type, I'm not sure.

Yeah. Wow, that's nice.

It held me. Praise the Lord, praise the

Lord. Help me.

No, no you did that now you just went like this.

I me, Jumpin Jumpin, Jumpin it you fall into the thing, right?

That's why I'm kind of glad we have these because we had him

already down, you'd be like, fall down in it.

Now some of those on those chairs are y'all better be

careful. Are you hearing?

But if you don't even look at you just jump in it.

We do this with so many things. This is what faith is firm.

A? I'm firmly persuaded that.

How it was made. It will perform God's word will

be performed as he says. And I am firmly persuaded of

that period And I don't doubt that one bit.

I don't allowed out to come so that I don't Harden my heart.

And even though what he says, may go against everything that

I'm Seeing and feeling right now.

I'm just going to believe him at his word because the minute we

hear you can do in your life and I can't believe that.

Guess what you heard a word, you're not mixing with faith,

which means it will not come to pass in your life and guess

what? You can't do, you can't rest.

So when Pastor rod and I'm gonna repeat what he says, and my God

shall supply, all your needs, now, if you can't see all as all

Yours. As yours needs as whatever.

That is met. Then you're going to question

when you need something and it's not there yet.

But to the here who's like God said this so it's gonna happen.

Now, there may be a follow-up question.

How's that happen? Lord.

What do is there anything else I need to do for my needs to be

met like you said because he may say well do this and then it

comes in do that and it comes because it's all about obeying.

Why it's about a relationship with a?

We talked about relationship with the Lord but most of

believers who say they have a relationship with the Lord, It's

to a Lord that doesn't talk. And the only talking in the

relationship is them. There's no two-way

communication, how do we know that they don't read their

Bible, when they pray, they're only asking for their stuff.

He may have said, Lord, what do you want?

You know what we don't do that because well you're God, you

have everything. What could you want?

What he wants your praise. I know he wants that.

He said he actually seeks. Those de Praise Him, worshippers

that will, that will worship Him in spirit and Truth.

Now, worshiper is not a singer, it's those who bow down and do

bow down, their will to his will.

So sometimes he say what you're saying to me, just go ahead and

wash up a little bit. Go ahead and sing a little bit

and that praise could bring in your provision.

But we're so concerned about a provision that we don't have

time to praise. He can say, well, just go ahead

and pay for so and so Zoe's I have my own stuff.

I didn't ask that. Oh, a man.

Please do not have Kingdom rise. Hangover Right?

You got a unite everything you here with faith and then asked

on it because if you don't they, he'd already told them.

I'm giving you the promised land Shores.

I've given it to you now, I'm giving I've given it.

It's yours now. Go get it.

Go give us yours. I say go get what's yours?

If I took your car keys right now and then you need to leave

you gonna come. Get what's yours?

No, I'm keeping it. You'd be like, that's Earl.

You better give me my keys. Now, some of you say, you got a

fight on your hand, right? I'll be like, try No, y'all

weren't intimidated. I didn't think so.

You're a little guy. Okay, you're right.

Okay. But my point is, is that there's

a fight, whether you physically fight me for more weather, you

through legal means fight me for it.

You're gonna get yours. Well, guess what?

That's what we call. The fight of faith.

The enemy's going to say you can't have it.

It's not, you know you can't have it.

No, it's mine. No, it is Mom and I'll get it.

I'll fight you for it. I'll fight you for it.

The good thing is in the realm of physical, I wanted to

physically beat anybody of all I have to do is cause my power is

laid up with principalities and Powers.

I deal with that realm and then it comes to pass because at the

end of the day, I'm going to get what's mine because God gave it

to me already and they didn't enter into the They 12 Spies

entered in but came out Stan crying because they hardened

their heart from what God Said even though they had these cite

evidence that the lamb was exactly as God said.

Now he can tell you exactly what's in the land and how it is

prosperous and blessed and land flowing with milk and honey.

But you know, as far as you get that he was kidding.

I mean, why do you think God did that?

Because he knew he wasn't in them and he's like, just so you

know that I'm right. This is what the land is going

to look like. So when I prove that out, it

should be easy for you understand?

We going with this deal, Joshua and Caleb saw that way.

I said Joshua, and Caleb saw it that way, and they did not left

40 Years of hearing wine bags. Affect their hearing.

They kept he'd, you know, they kept hearing when the Lord says,

I'll put you boys in there, but the rest of them, it's going to

be 40 years before we get there. And every, you know, when they

were, watch them, drop this at. But the Lord said we're going

in. We're going in, we're going in

the Lord said were going, and they kept hearing that we're

going in, we're going in will get it.

We're going in, then the day came Moses has gone.

Wow, Moses even gone, he's not even here.

Okay Joshua, you're the guy. What do we do?

The Lord said we going over, we going somewhere.

We've never been before, Kate was like, oh, I've been there

once but many And this is a different season.

Now, here we go. Kevin said I'll leave this whole

group. And he's double their age.

He's 80 and says let's get some come on.

Now he did pull his Dentures out and say that's it.

We're done. He is on the other side and go.

Y'all get that boys this. I wish we only could have done

that 40 years ago. Yummy Saints of already stopped

Well if it had just been named Eva, just been it's now because

faith is now Now's the Time to act now is the time to move now

is the time to do. All right, let's close it up

with this. He says for who for we who have

believed entered the rest just as he said as my as I swore in

my wrath they shall not enter my wrist.

Although his Works were finished from the foundations of the

world. Wow.

There's like, I mean, you're just finally coming into what

now good thing is that the writer says full, we who have

believed in ER that rest. Now this Riders not talking

about the promised land, he's talking about I'm living a rest

life in the Kingdom now. You want to retire, start doing

the word. And you'll quit working on your

own immediately, you'll still work, but you'll work with the

Lord, and it would be the best work ever.

It won't be free from conflict. It won't be free from trial and

tribulation, but you'll know, whatever I'm doing, whatever.

I'm put my hand to is going to prosper, it's going to turn out

to my benefit period. It's going to do it and you'll

have the greatest time ever, and you don't need a title.

From man to feel like something because God Gave You conferred

you on a title In Christ, there is no title higher than in

Christ and there is no rank higher than ambassador of the

Kingdom. So he gives that to the babes

And we are fighting and struggling and trying to figure

out what we need to do in the world.

And what people can address Us by what title by some

educational qualification, in the Lord's.

Like, when you got my kingdom, I Kings you, I put you in Christ

and then I gave you Ambassador ship.

I mean, I don't know what else, I mean, that's retirement.

All your needs are going to be mad.

I'm gonna take care. Everything you do.

You just do what I say it's done.

Any conflict we're going to win. Just don't let go just believe

what I say. We're gonna win.

We got this. I said we got this so Hebrews

jump down to verse 10 cause we're bringing it all around.

Now says this for the one who has entered his rest has himself

also rested from his works as God did from his.

Now, when we say rested from his works, that doesn't mean you do

nothing. When he says he's literally just

saying instead of you trying to do it to please God you're doing

what God wants you to do and it pleases God.

Cause hearing God, is how faith is accessed for you.

Your faith, your belief system, then your doer of that.

Because without faith, it's impossible to please him.

So you become instantly pleasing because you're doing the word,

he told you to do. And the work of that word comes

to pass because you labor with Christ.

Meaning, you do your part to hold on to believe to just stay

firm in that I'm resting and I will rest Right?

We seen that in. Your promise is my confidence.

Is your faithfulness, right? Well, he's faithful to his word.

So all you got to do is believe the word, and you can just sit

back and getting a rocking. Chair says going to come to

pass, it's gonna come down to work.

You still have to work your confession.

You have to say it. You have to take every thought,

captive that would say something else because all that is trying

to do is get you out of rest. Trying to get you to figure it

out. Get you to do man.

How am I gonna pay that bill? Humming gonna pay that bill.

We eat better, get a second job. What did Lord tell?

You get a second job. If I get a second job will be to

go to church on Sunday. I don't know if that's the Lord.

Amen. I mean, we just heard a testify

by Saji. He's like, man, I've been

working every Sunday and I was like, I'm done.

On the inside is like man this is too important for me to be in

service. He says you know what all I did

was ask He said I didn't have it cuz I didn't and in that of

scripture James says, you have not caused you but so many

people are afraid to ask because they see their job as their

Source. It's their Works, keeping the

food on the table and the mortgage being paid instead of

his finished work of you walking into his word.

Verse 11. Therefore let us be diligent to

enter that rest so that no one will fall through following the

same example of Disobedience. So he's telling us.

Listen, what you saw in the wilderness is applicable to the

New Covenant. They couldn't get in and enter

their rest and receive all the blessings and benefits that God

already have for them before. The foundation of the world, you

can have the same issue here. If you do not enter into Rest by

believe in God at his word, taking heed to what you hear and

be a doer. But listen I don't care what

kind of services we have. I don't care if we have a

shouting service, if we have a laughing service, if we have the

Holy Ghost comes in there by hits the ground service.

I don't care if we have a song service that the roof rips off.

And we actually see angels in manifestation, I don't care if

Jesus Christ himself, walks through this wall and visits US

service, it will always come back to you being a doer of the

word. It never changed from there.

The the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit in his eternal

Kingdom, that will never have an end that when heavens and earth

change. And then we get new heavens and

new earth, they will be people who are obedient to his word and

love to do his word. That's what it's going to be

that will never not happen. So the quicker we are willing to

say yes Lord to his word because all of his promises are yes and

amen in Christ and we're like bad.

Yes. Lord I want to do your word yes.

Or this is where success is, he told Joshua?

He said listen you want to be prosperous and successful?

What do you do you meditate on my word?

You know how many Believers are trying to only be successful by

doing their own Works to get successful and they're really

trading their soul. Therefore fitting really great

Treasures because we at like what we do only last in this

lifetime. Now, I'm not against your 401k,

I'm not against your 401k be because there's things that do.

When Ministry, I'm not against your investments in the stock

market, none of that. I'm not against anything that

you do in order to be able to have your money work for you.

No problem. My question is, are you actually

saving for eternity? Because the reality is we have

dumbed down the message so much that we have accepted this whole

Bible as asked Jesus into my heart and save me.

So when I die and go to heaven and that's all that matters

because you take nothing with you that is not true.

You take your faith with you and I'm not talking to you.

I'm talking everything you did in hearing his word.

Not only do you receive a reward right now in the life you're

living. You'll Receive one in the age to

come and that Asia comes actually a millennial Reign.

Which means you want to know what you're doing in the

millennial Reign. You better be sewing for it.

We would act like God is a socialist.

When we get to heaven will be the same.

No, you will not. That is not in the Bible.

He didn't call his self a social State.

It's a kingdom and he rewards based upon your faith.

How many times did Jesus do things to people for people in

the earth? And he says, daughter according

to your faith. I've not seen such great faith.

No! Not in all of Israel because of

their faith. It's according to your faith.

You're not his faith. Their faith.

And your faith will carry over into the millennial Reign and

into the, the kingdom that has no sin ever associated with it.

Again, the divine order of God, it is totality, when all of sin

is thrown into the Lake of Fire, which is the second death and

you will reap Rewards. And continue to be promoted.

We had like if you're faithful little, you be faithful for much

stops in the planet. It's his word.

What did Peter say? He said when everybody was

leaving, Jesus, And Jesus turned to his 12 and he says are you

going to go to? He says, where we going to go,

you have words of life. He says your words are Eternal,

he has eternal And we got like these words are only for the

planet during sin. Yeah but we need to expand our

thinking it's because what we've done is we've actually said we

don't want to know about the end.

We just don't want to go to hell.

And that's not lordship. That's not kingdom kingdom is

he's Lord, his kingdom is coming.

We need to know how to function with the King because the king

is coming. The king is coming again, and

he's coming with his kingdom and he's reward.

He has his says, he has his reward with him.

He's opening up books about you and he's wanting to know their.

Did you do everything? I ask you to do?

Because I'm a reward. You not only in this life but in

the one to come, Jesus said, listen.

There ain't nobody who has left mother and father in essence,

there's nobody who has put that stuff.

Secondary to me that won't receive in this life and the

life to come. And he talked about material

possessions. So there may not be a U-Haul

with all my natural possessions going to the cemetery.

But make no mistake about it. There are houses and lands that

are awaiting me on the other side and I'm not talking about

in heaven, I'm talking about when I come back to the Earth.

You maybe this could this very well could still be at my

property when I show back up but not just about the whole city

could be the whole state and the Caribbean.

You might be looking at the governor of Florida, really, I'm

sure you might be looking at the governor of Florida in the

millennial reign as our old house Florida.

Doing it's doing just fine, sir. We have one standard.

Here's Kingdom. He said the US government won't

be there anymore. It's not going to look like the

same. I mean, it'd be around but

they'll be subject to the king. I said they'll be subject to the

king. I said, they'll be subject to

the king. You want to know who the next

great superpower is, it's the kingdom of God.

Let's finish this out. Therefore let us be diligent to

enter the rest so that we will. So no one will fail through

following. The same example of

Disobedience, verse 12 for the Word of God is living and active

sharper than any two-edged sword and piercing as far as the

division of Soul, and Spirit of both joint and Marrow and able

to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Oh, Glory to God. There's not a place in your

being that the word can't get can get to your physical man and

get to your soul man and a definitely impact your spirit

man. But here it is verse 13 and

there is no creature hidden from his sight but all things are

open and laid bare to the eyes of him with whom we have to do

therefore since we have a great High.

High priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the

son of God, let us hold, let who let, who let, who it's up to you

saying to God problem is she you problem?

Let us let us hold fast, our confession.

The king said, I have no opinion in the matter as an ambassador

of my king said, my king said, my king said, my king said, my

king said, I believe what Mike, King said.

I only believe what Jesus said. He's the savior of the world, he

died for me, he rose for me. He is the king of glory and

whatever. The king says, I believe it, I

said I'm holding fast to it. Why?

And he sees me, he knows I'm holding, he knows I'm holding.

He knows I'm in faith. He knows I'm not wavered.

He sees me. Take captive.

Every thought he knows that I believe him and I must have what

he said that I will have. He sees it, he sees it, but he

equally sees it if I'm faking it.

And I'm not a fake and you're not a fake.

So no, the rewards there just hold fast for, we do not have a

high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses,

but one who has been tempted in all things.

Here he goes, though, it goes further in this first.

As we are yet. Without Rebellion without

Disobedience without sin, which means when your life woge Lord,

you won't meet us believe. What you want me to say, what

you want me to do, what he says, I know how you feel.

I was in the same circumstances you but I did it.

The word it worked for you I actually didn't blow it so let

me just help you out because people like man if you ain't

going through what I'm going through then you can't help me.

Well then you can't listen to Jesus because Jesus has never

fornicated, he's never committed adultery.

He's never been in a homosexual relationship.

He's never, he's never done drugs.

He's never gotten drunk, he's never lied.

He's never cheated. He's never stolen.

He's never manipulated Back Body.

He's never gossiped, he was tempted to do all of it. but

resisted it, he is the most qualified because when you go

hang out with your old drunk buddy, who's now sober, And you

are sober and you thinking y'all know about stuff.

Jesus, like never got drunk a day in my life.

But I'm more equipped to talk to you about, not getting drunk,

then your buddy who used to get drunk.

Because they actually got drunk. And know this.

If they don't take heed, if they don't give her Nostalgia

tension, they'll drift away and found the bottle again, but I'll

never have looked to the bottle. I'll never go back and smoke.

Leviticus. You had to be in the conference

for that. Amen.

Are you hearing me? Jesus is the most qualified

verse 6. He therefore let us draw near

with what confidence to the throne of grace.

So that we may receive mercy and find Grace to help in time of

need grace empowers us to overcome to not submit to not

fail to not fall. Grace is not picking us up when

we fall mercies, picking us up. When we fall Mercy comes

running. When you're falling Grace keeps

you in something and Grace will keep you in it.

When you know I'll only do what the king says.

I'm going to get I'm going to live the life of Kingdom.

Rest on the earth. I'm fixing to just rest the rest

of my life because whatever God says, I'm doing it.

I'm putting it to my I'm getting it in my heart, I'm acting on

it. I'm going to hold fast to it,

and I know every thought them bars.

Me were the same. Thoughts have been barred.

Did Jesus. But Jesus Took captive those

thoughts and because I take heed to what I hear, I'll take

captive to those Falls and I'll have exactly what the word said.

I'll have period, no way else. That's the only way and I'm just

going to sit back here and rest in it.

And that's what God wants you to have.

So, no matter what we teach, no matter what we preach, you

should see yourself in a restful position.

I can do that, that way when the storms of life come, when the

storms of life come, I'll give you two last examples.

Jesus says to his disciples. Just go to the side.

It was enough in that word to go to the other side.

He'd have to say a storms coming but don't worry about it because

I'm telling you, we're going to go to the side.

He didn't say that he just said just go to uh side.

And he's tired because he'd been ministering to people and he's

any human suit. Like we are.

And he's like, man, I need a nap.

So he goes down the boat and he sleeps but then all of a sudden,

a storm hits and the for professional fishermen that are

on. It is look at are looking at

this storm and they know it's so bad.

That men have lost their lives and they can't get control.

Why? Cause they're working it

themselves, instead of working the word, instead of saying no,

we going to the other side. No, we're going to the other

side. No, we're going to the other

side. They didn't quit.

They didn't say that. They didn't hold fast.

That They're like my gosh man. Remember when such as a this

looks like the storm of, you know, whatever.

You know this the storm of you know, 2820 ad remember when I

had people lost their lives on the storm and so many, you know,

of our fishermen Community died and they were talking, the

conflict that eventually, they went down to Jenn, say Jesus.

How can you be sleeping? Aren't you concerned?

We're all going to die. Jesus gets up rebuked, some win,

some ways and then rebukes his disciples.

He said, why don't you have any faith?

You woke me up from my rest because you weren't in rest.

I should have been out of sleep, the whole trip.

But instead you woke me up because you don't believe me at

my word. Paul had a similar experience

but he couldn't be authorized to talk to the winds because he was

authorized to talk before the winds.

Gentlemen. I perceive we get on this boats

going to be a problem, so let's not get on this boat and they're

like, looking at the natural and they're like, nah, we going to

get on the boat. This ain't where we're staying.

We're going on. Peter can't say Paul couldn't.

Say I'm not going Paul can't say that Paul was like I'm a

prisoner, I got Ago. So we're fixing a problem.

I know what God Said, So what's he doing storm comes just like

he says, but he goes back to a word.

He goes back to work because the Lord told him before he ever

was, it was arrested by Prophet by the name of agabus.

He says you're going to go to this local Jerusalem.

You're going to have many things are going to attack you, but

you'll stand before, Caesar. So he's praying while he's

working with everyone else to lighten the ship in the middle

of the storm that everybody's losing, hope that now we going

to die and he's like, Lord, I can't dye hear what everybody

else cuz you said that I'd go back to Rome.

You said that I would speak to Caesar you said that.

So I cannot die here and I warned them on the shore and I

will not die on this ship and I know that but now that I know

that and I'm reminding you and I'm convinced.

Now, I'm going to go a little step further because the rest of

these, I warned in ain't living. Like I am.

And I'm asking you, for Mercy for their lives, Lord, give me

their lives. Give me.

They're ignorant, Lord, they don't know.

Like, I know, And and Lord I want them save Lord, please will

you allow them to be safe with me?

Because I'm not going to die out here and then Angel shows up.

It says Paul the Lord heard your prayer and what you've asked him

concerning you going to go to Caesar and he's also granted

your request. Nobody's going to die, but this

is how it's got to be done. So then Paul after he gets an

answered prayer, stands up to the three men that he talked to

on the shore and he says, gentlemen, you should have

followed my advice and a change of leadership took place and

they said, what do you say Paul? He says, listen.

We're going to lose the ship but there's an island.

We're going to go to and we're not going to die.

So take courage. We're going to get there.

And so they all start listening to Paul, we need to do this, do

that. And then the Centurion now is

falling apart all and then all of a sudden a couple guys like I

don't like Paul's way we gonna die, we're going to take this

little ship and we going to leave, we gonna get away from

this thing since it's going down, that's what they said.

And Paul said to the Centurion unless these men stay with his

ship, I can't guarantee their lives.

And so, they cut the boats away and they stayed.

And he said, now, y'all need to eat because we fixing to go get

in the water, and you're gonna need your strength to swim to

Shore. And then they hit.

And next thing, you know, he has saved their lives, they can see

the land and the soldiers that Paul's has prayed for to save

them, think to themselves. We going to kill the prisoners

now because if they escape, we will die and they were going to

kill him. But the sincere and said, don't

you're not killing. Nobody, we're all going to swim

if you can. I'm swam, if you can't get a

board and, and Float yourself there, and all 276, people live

that day because a man was resting.

And I'm going to Rome and now that God says your mind, if

you'll do what I say, I guarantee you're going to get to

the island and they all did. Now it wasn't free from conflict

but he was the man resting because he knows my God cannot

fail. And that's how our lives should

be. Be amen.

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