What Do You Want to Know? with Pastor Vanessa Cintron

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Now, enjoy this message. It's a no.

On each any capacity. No pun intended.

I know that's been the lingo from the pulpit lately but it is

an honor to an any capacity that the Lord gives you gives us.

All of us to be able to minister the word of God.

So earlier ezeli was asking what I was doing home for a little

bit of kind of came and got some stuff prepared and she said, so

you're going to be with the with the, with the big people and I

said yeah, I'm going to be with the big people tonight.

I want to be with the adults in the main service.

So and we've really changed our lingo because I've always

endeavored in my Nautilus team for those that.

Don't know, I'm the children's Pastor here at anchor, Faith

Church. My name is Vanessa, and I

oversee all of children's Minister here at anchor, Faith

Church, and also direct our preschool as well that operates

Monday through Friday. But I don't like to look at

Children's Ministry is as the Adult Services, the main service

we call this, the adult service and the reason for that Because

there are Services going on all over this building.

We have the youth service right now.

We have Nautilus Junior Services.

We have a kingdom kindergarten, first grade service, and then,

right behind us, we have a second through fifth grade

service, so and then we've got our service in here, so we

definitely don't want to ever diminish.

That God is working and moving all throughout this building and

whatever package you come in and this space, the Lord wants to

minister to you. So You know, I'm going to miss

you tonight and for some of you have seen new Minister for a lot

of times I'll have object lessons because I just love

visuals. I love things for you to be able

to grasp hold of and be able to have like it's something

tangible that will remind you of his word.

So tonight I am the object lesson, I am the globe, I am.

The were my Great Commission shirt, so we'll get to that in a

little bit, but I want to ask you the question tonight.

What do you want to know if anybody ever ask you that?

You ever ask, you know, I'm trying to get to know somebody

like what do you want to know? What do you wanna know about me?

What do you want to know? So that's our key text for

tonight. We're going to get into Timothy

a little bit but I want to ask that question to you guys

tonight. What do you want to know?

Because there's a lot to know out there.

There's a lot to know in our everyday life if you can just

think back to where you started at this morning, we're inundated

with information from the moment that we wake up.

Up to the moment, we go to bed tonight and one great source of

that is this great smartphone that we have, right?

Some of you may have a flip phone and that's great.

You don't have to have as many notifications but for most of

you you have a smartphone and you use that smartphone to

navigate your life to take pictures to take notes and I'm

speaking for myself personally, I use my phone and it's a great

tool, it can be a great tool should be used as a great tool

but there can be hindered. It's, is it to it as well.

And so tonight, when I asked the title, what do you want to know?

We're going to talk about being Kingdom teachable because there

is something that can happen. If you choose to no longer allow

yourself to be teachable, It can be very, very dangerous.

Okay. And so we're going to go back to

the very beginning and not Genesis, but we're going to go

to the beginning of what the word says.

So let's go over to John 1:1 because John 1:1 tells us about

John 1:1 John 1:1

the word and, you know, I'm going to reference scripture a

lot. I told the guys back in and

their Booth back there, I should have my big old packet, don't be

alarmed, but I do have a lot of notes that most of it is

scripture. So, Us go again to John 11 and

verse 1. It says, in the beginning was

the word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Verse 2, he was in the beginning with God.

All things were made through him and without him was not anything

made that was made verse 4. In him, was life.

And the life was the light of men.

And in verse 5 it says the light shines in the darkness and the

Darkness has not overcome, it will go back to the scripture in

a little bit cuz we're going to talk about.

The days that we're living in, but we know right here in the

beginning that the word itself became flesh.

And in the beginning, the Word was God was with God and it's

the light that over shines. The darkness in this world.

Amen. So if you can think back to your

school day some may have had the best experience in life.

Some may not, but I bet you, you can think at least one teacher's

name that made an amazing. Easing investment in your life

right now. I'm sure all of you are thinking

of at least one teacher, at least one, that was your

favorite. And I venture to say that that

teacher probably made you feel safe and loved and cared for and

then made the content that they were teaching you fun and

relatable and wanted you wanted to go back to school.

The next day, anybody can attest to that out there around the

only one because I remember more than Actually one, but there's

something while we are. We come like a child because

the, the, you know, the kingdom of God, the Lord specifically

tells especially his disciples. He says, how should you come

into the king of you should come like a child, right?

And I believe, because I work with children so much children,

just come and they don't have any baggage, they don't have to

think about all the things as adults have to think about bills

bird. Owens.

All the things we've experienced in life, even in A Renewed state

that we've been born again. We're in his kingdom.

We still have a lot of responsibilities is a grown-up

and his child can just come and they can just in Freedom, listen

and glean and they're excited. They're excited about what they

know someone has taught them something and they just kept

their biting at the bit to tell us what they learned.

They have they come. With enthusiasm and passion, you

know what I'm talking about. The kids will they want to come?

They want to be able to tell somebody what they have learned

and recently in fact it was the Easter Service.

I was ministering next door and serving and if you're not part

of children's ministry, you're missing out because it is the

best. Well plug it right now, it's the

best area. I know Ricky ushers are great

and all but children's ministry. It is so fun.

You get to be few, get to have so much fun with them.

And I'm just standing in all with these kids and I hadn't

been in that particular class in a little bit.

And I was just talking about Jesus and, you know, again what

his purpose was, why, you know, he was getting ready to go to

the Crossman and three days later.

And I said, you know, right now your parents are next door and

they're learning about Jesus too.

To their learning about what it, what Jesus was about to go

through and one of them raised their hidden and the little girl

was so excited. She goes my mom's in there right

now. She loves, she loves past her.

She lives here in the preaching and she was just this exuberant.

She just couldn't wait to get it out.

And tell me how much she loved her parents.

Her mom, loved Jesus and loved lives.

Listen to preaching, because she had a knowledge.

That means that she's she's seeing it.

It's being modeled in front of Her a passion for the word.

A love for the word of God and she was excited to tell me.

Well, that's the same excitement.

We need to have all the time and every single truth that God

shares with us. We need to have that passion.

We need to ask the question to others.

What do you need to know? And when they ask that we're not

just, we're not just giving them the answer.

We're showing them that answer in our everyday life because

we're sure, Shining the light to them.

Amen. So let's have that same hunger

as a child tonight. Once you, you've probably heard

many of these scriptures before, but this is how we have to come.

We have to come like a child, ready to ready to learn, ready

to listen. And when I was getting ready to

administer tonight, I was reminded of something I do with

preschoolers. I was like, I'm not gonna have

an object lesson. I'm just gonna, you know, I'm

just gonna preach the word but the Lord reminded me of

something he gave me right on the stage about four years ago,

I was ministering Chapel to our preschoolers and right in the

middle of it, he gave me a phrase to say to them and it's

very basic, but it's profound. And so I'm going to have you

guys do this with me. This is something we do with our

preschoolers, okay? But I want you to concentrate on

what we're doing and then we'll go to the why everybody with me

like this. Stop And you're with your both

hands, you're going to look at your eyes.

Say look. Okay.

So let's do it again. Say stop.

Then you can, then you're going to reach to your both of your

ears and you're going to say the listen.

And then you're going to reach up to your head.

You're going to say here, then, you're going to go down to your

heart, your spirit, man, and you're going to go out to do,

okay? So let's do it together.

So, listen, when you're born again, our spirit man is

recreated in We're new creatures everything that we need is

recreated and new. This this up here though is what

has to be transformed and changed and then because we are

beings that are made in three parts, where a spirit being that

we have a soul. That's how we make decisions.

That's how we process thing in this Grand brain that God's

given us. And that's how we deal with our

emotions make decisions. And then we live in a body that

houses both of those. Well, the spirit and the soul,

Have to work together because we need our brain to be able to

process information that we're learning and we're growing in,

but then it has to line up with God's spirit.

So that day I got it and I thought this is what our kids

have to know. It's not just about them

listening, I don't need them, just to hear information.

I need them to really stop and look.

And so, when we teach this, we tell them, this is something you

do with your teacher. This is something you do with

your Parents. And this is something you do.

When the, when you hear the word of God, that when you hear an

adult, speaking you stop, what you're doing and you turn to

them and you look at them and you listen to them and you hear

what they're saying, so that it can get deep down and that

connection between your heart, and your spirit and your soul,

and then you can go out and you can do it.

What's the same thing for us? Adults, we have to learn to stop

and listen to the voice of the Holy Ghost.

We To stop and learn to listen to what the word of God is

saying. And then from there we stop and

we here, so that we can what process it down in the heart and

we can go in, do it because it's nothing if we just here and

we're going to get into that. So we'll do that maybe just a

little bit again. So tonight, we're going to go on

a little journey with Jesus and his disciples.

You know, I love, I love the connection between the old and

the New Testament tonight. We're going to Stay mainly in

the New Testament though, because Jesus there's so many

lessons, we learned from him in the disciples, he calls them, he

picks them, he knows exactly the one that God has ordained to go

on the journey with him to be disciples, right?

Disciples or pupils, right? The whole premise of them being

disciples, it they were to learn that were to come alongside

Jesus so that they could learn. So that not only That they could

learn a bunch of information, but that they could replicate it

in their own lives that they could.

Then in the new church in the new phase, they could become

what the church. They could be Apostles where

they would this this information in this experience that they

have with Jesus living with him each and every day.

They now can live it out. And so they had to learn to

become teachable. And that's what we have to do in

the word. Teachable means it's a person

who's capable of Being taught a person who's at or willing to

learn. Okay, there's somebody who's

capable of being taught and they're apt or willing to learn.

Now person who teaches or a teacher comes from, a Greek

word. That means Deo to learn, and it

literally means the person that means to call someone to learn.

So, a teacher, their responsibility is to help the

person learning, but they literally cause the person to

learning by them teaching and instruction.

Also in importation or instruction of knowledge and

this word teach died died. ASCO.

If I'm saying that right in the Greek, that means to teach okay.

Another word to learn itself means men than 0.

There is a manthe know it's a cool word, it means to learn or

be. Appraised means to increase

one's knowledge to be increased in knowledge to hear be

informed. And then it goes on to say, Say

that it means to learn by use and practice in and be in habit

of. So these definitions help us to

kind of understand what learning means knowledge means.

And when you learn, it's not that you're just gaining a bunch

of information because we can do that, you know, we any of us in

this room, could go and take a class on how to knit or how to

play an instrument, or how to cook, right?

They have these things on in celebrities, do things called

the a master class and you can learn from someone who has

mastered a specific skill and then you can go take.

You can pay and you can take classes and you can learn,

right? How many of you when you need

it? Question answered.

What's your first thing you might say to what?

Google it YouTube it right earlier today, somebody ask me

something and I said well let's Google it.

I mean we do that there's just kind of a that's a pretty

standard word that we use a phrase that we use to find out

information. And again this is when these

phones can be great tools but they don't ever need to replace

the word of God because ultimately this is the source of

truth that we want to make sure that we're going to.

This is the knowledge that sir. Surpasses, any otherworldly

knowledge that we could get any stats.

We could get from the TV from YouTube, from ESPN, from any

political outlet, from Facebook, from Instagram.

All of those things are fun and cute.

But when it comes down to it, the word of God is where we need

to get our source. That's where we need to be in

the know. Right.

That's where when we're asking the question, what do you want

to know? I want to know what the word

says about something. I want to remain.

So that I don't miss out and I don't go down a path where I

deceive myself. We're gonna talk about that a

little bit. So in our journey with Jesus, he

had his disciples, and there's many phrases, where we have, we

see him, say the word Rabbi, which meant teacher, and you go

through, and they recognized him as a teacher and in John ours,

that might go to, Johnny, let's go to Matthew.

Matthew 4:23 says this, it says, Jesus was going throughout all

Matthew 4:23

Galilee teaching in their synagogues and preaching.

Preaching, the gospel of the Kingdom.

What was he preaching? The gospel of the kingdom and

healing every kind of disease, and every kind of sickness among

the people. So, what was he doing again?

He was teaching the kingdom and then we see the Miracles

miraculous signs come after okay, in John 3, verses 1

John 3:1–3

through 3, we see that Jesus and we'll read just a little small

snippet of this, but this is when he's teaching about

Nicodemus and he's teaching about the fact that you must be.

Born again and then Nicodemus is confused.

And he's like, well, I can't go back to my mom and start that

process over again. I did that a long time ago and

so then he gives a little bit more clarity.

And so then you know, here it is.

In verse 3, he says 3:2 me first one, it says now there was a

Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was a member of the Jewish

Jewish ruling Council. He came to Jesus at night and he

said Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God

for no one. Could perform the signs.

You were doing if God were not With him.

So they recognized who he was and what was coming as a result

of the word that he was bringing, and he used that word

teacher. So the disciples they follow

Jesus. They see the teaching of the

word, the crowds followed him and there are several instances

were healings. Take place in another instance,

happens to be where in John chapter 5 Jesus and his

John 5 · chapter mention

disciples or returning from Jerusalem and they he goes and

heals a lame, man. So we're going to go go to John.

John 5:19

5:19 and Jesus is explaining to them after this happen.

Again, the religious people of that day.

Always had something to say to Jesus, when he was healing

people and he was doing the work of the father on the Sabbath

day. You know, they had something to

say about it. And so, Jesus, in verse 19 says,

I tell you the truth, the son can do nothing by himself.

He does only what he sees the father, doing whatever.

The father does, the son does also.

And so then he goes on and he tells them and verse 24, I tell

you the truth, so Jesus Continues to tell them the truth

over and over again and every instance he brings the truth

verse 39 of the same chapter. He says you search the

scriptures because you think they give you eternal life but

the scriptures point you to me yet you refuse to come to me and

receive this life. You see they weren't teachable.

although they were the ones who had the most knowledge, the

Pharisees were the scholars, they knew they had studied the

scripture, they knew, they knew all of historical data, but yet

in their heart, they were hearing.

I mean, they were listening. They like what they were hearing

then they didn't they weren't hearing from here.

And, of course, we're dealing with the, with the people before

Jesus, you know, have went to the Cross but still, they were

of a religious spirit. They did.

Want to hear the truth. They didn't want to hear the

real truth because they didn't want to change.

They didn't want to have real knowledge so that they could,

you know, be different. They were set in their ways of

exactly how they have always been operating.

Here we go into John 8 now. Jesus, again, he's dealing with

the heart of a Humanity. They bring him a situation.

There, always Trying to stop Jesus.

And here they are and John. Excuse me, verse 1.

He's here in the Mount of Olives. and, of course, the

crowds Gathering and There's this woman who has made a very

bad mistake. She's been caught in the very

Act of adultery And they're like, well what are you gonna do

with her, right? This is what the law of Moses

says to do. And you know Jesus, what does he

do? Is the answer real quick.

No, he takes his time. He said somebody wise will take

time. They don't have to spread out an

answer. I don't have doesn't have to be

quick right? He's slow to speak quick to

listen and who is he listening to?

The father, he's listening, the Holy Ghost is given him the

words of wisdom and knowledge at that moment, to be able to

impart to the disciples to the people and how to handle with

this woman. And of course, we know Jesus

says, You know, he in this area here who hasn't sin, go ahead

and pick up a stone and you cast the first one?

Well, they were like, well, they start thinking of all their

baggage and all their mistakes and are they, can they do that?

Can they, honestly throw that stone know, they can't.

And so what does Jesus tell the woman?

He says go and sin no more, right?

Go and sin, no more and so Jesus then gets a moment where he gets

to teach his disciples, what's happening and he tells us in

verse 30 says, the many of the Jewish leaders had heard him

saying these things before they begin to believe him, to be the

Messiah. And Jesus said to them, you are

truly my disciples. If you live as I tell you and

you will know the truth. And the truth will set you free.

So not staying in their own mindset, but Ali coming into the

knowledge of his Kingdom and who he is and who his father is so

that they could truly walk in truth and be free.

Amen. You know, we have to be careful

if we want to be in the know. I did bring some statistics

tonight because you know, as great as this device is always

want to make sure we come back to the word of God.

And I wanted just for some information or and we have

information at her fingertips all the time.

I'm, and I've got some sources, I looked up some tech

information, just in general, how much time we use, and we

spend on our phones and it says that 80's it, this is a tech

website, but it says, 86 percent of Americans.

Go online daily. That means you're going on the

internet daily using their phone.

Using a quick source. 86 is pretty, pretty big number.

It says, by the year 2025, which is just around the corner it

says that the The number of smartphone users in the United

States will reach over. 311.50 3 million people.

So a lot of people having phones using finding information,

right? And it says that the average

person has it minimum 63 pickups a day.

That means you've seen something flash across the screen and

you've it's caused you to pick up.

Now, I was studying earlier, just go through.

Scriptures and I had several. And I'm like, see case in point.

It's happening to me right now. So I actually went in and I'm

like, I don't need to know that. So, and so is having a cell

every time they're having a sale?

I just, I went in and literally changed my settings, because if

we don't watch out, we're in bombarded with information all

day long, that's useless. And we can control it.

So I'm like, well, I'm not. I'm going to take the control

back. I'm about to teach about this

tonight. I need to take control of some

of mine. So I went through and change

some of my notifications and put no notifications because I don't

want to be notified about that. I don't want to get too busy

with that, that I don't stop to be able to know what's I really

need to know and that's the word of God.

Amen. But on the things that are

really important but the things that aren't we don't have to

focus on. Amen.

Because what do you want to know?

What do you want to know? We want to be Kingdom teachable.

We want to know what the word says, amen.

Let's open up some more scripture.

Let's get into now. Jesus.

Jesus is with his disciples. We know we, he goes on a journey

with them for three years, we just celebrated Resurrection

Sunday and we know that Jesus is purpose was to fulfill this

right. Fulfill this so that we can be

part of his kingdom. So he's living his Kingdom

Purpose. And after he Risen.

He gives the disciples. A couple of different things.

First of all, he promises them. He before he goes, he even tells

them. Listen, I'm going to send

something that's going to help you even more than me being

here. And of course, they still didn't

understand again. They're still learning growing,

he has to give them several examples sometimes.

But, you know, I don't think Jesus got bothered with his

disciples. You sometimes, we can read that

scripture. We can think gee whiz.

Do you think they would get a clue?

But do you know, Jesus follows the Holy Ghost and felt follow

the Holy Ghost with his disciples and the Holy Ghost

follows patients. So just like our kids that may

come up to us and tug on us and say you know ask us a question.

No question is a wrong question and I don't think the disciples

were coming with dumb questions. I think that they were generally

doing what they were called to do and be in disciples learning

and growing in knowledge. And so Jesus would have to

sometimes spell it out, you know.

And then he Would explain any said, the reason they don't

understand. It's because they don't have

what you have, but let me tell you, when I leave, it's going to

be better. It's going to be better because

I'm going to send something called the Holy Ghost.

The Holy Spirit. When the Holy Spirit comes your,

he's gonna recite reside in you each and every day and you're

going to have him with you to help you and you're going to be

able to do this and you're going to be able to do not just what

you're seeing. Now you're going to be able to

do greater things more things and so they had to understand

this and he he tells us in John 14. 17 is he tells them in the

Amplified classic, it says the spirit of Truth whom the world

cannot receive or welcome or take to its heart because it

does not see him or know and recognize him but you know, and

recognize him for he lives with you constantly and will be in

you. That's us.

So that was the, that was him telling the whole, the

disciples. But that was him getting ready

for us to be able to have the Holy Ghost.

The enemy tells us this way. It says it now and I will ask

the father and he will give you another Advocate who will never

leave you ever. He is the Holy Spirit who leads

us into what truth. So when we need to know

something, what do you want to know truth?

We got the truth teller on the inside the truth teller, that

will bear witness with this word.

We don't have to go search in all over the place.

In fact, if you're part of this body here at anchor, Faith

Church, you don't have to go here and there in fact the word

tells us about that it tells us about making sure that we're

planted firmly in a body. So if you're not and you've been

coming here for a little bit, and the Lord saying, this is my

home than make it come. Be part of.

It will be called Vision Partners here because the Lord

wants you to be planted somewhere so that you can get

strong roots in him. And then You can grow in the

place and you can listen to the shepherd.

That's part of the flock that you part of the body and we're

part of the flock so that we listen and we follow and we work

this together as his church. And so you don't have to go to

this church and that church and this and that if you know that

God's called you, then you get connected, get connected, so

that you don't go astray, right? We don't have to listen to all

this information. God is so simple.

It's although he is so I was thinking about this tune getting

ready, the kingdom is so vast and some of the parts of it are

so unfathomable, but yet our God is so easy.

The Holy Spirit doesn't make it complicated.

He's simplifies things for us and it's crazy.

How many of us, I mean how many is in this room right now

without counting? He tells me something.

He tells you something, he tells You something.

I go down the line. He tells us all he speaks to

every single one of us. How more amazing can we get than

that? That he speaks to us that he

cares about each one of us so much that he talks to us.

That he gives us exactly what we need.

The knowledge that we need. So what do you want to know?

Be Kingdom teachable because he wants to tell you so so much

more about your life and your purpose.

So, Jesus, of course, promises the Holy Spirit and then he

tells his disciples in Matthew 28:16, he says to them, they

Matthew 28:16

verse 16. It says the eleven disciples

went to Galilee to the mountain where Jesus had told him to go,

and when they saw him, they worshiped him, but some doubted.

Then, Jesus came to them and said all authority in heaven and

on Earth has been given to me. Therefore therefore go and make

disciples of all Nations, baptizing them in the name of

the father, and of the son and of the Holy Spirit and teaching

them to obey everything. I have commanded you and surely.

I Am With You Always to the very end of the age, there's a lot in

this scripture, you know, we know this is the Great

Commission, right? That my got my Globe shirt on

and it is my Great Commission shirt.

We are to go. But in this there's so much Yuri

Realize that these disciples 11 because one didn't make it.

But the 11 disciples that have been spending time with Jesus,

have been learning have been growing in the things that they

didn't know what they knew three years previous.

He's saying now You Go Make Disciples.

The one that was learning is now teaching that's us.

We are to learn but yet we are at the same time, we are

learning. We are all So, teaching, and the

greatest way that we all teach is by how we live every single

day, if we're a light or not, because there's only one choice,

you can either be shining the lighter, you can be hiding the

light. And if you're hiding the light,

it's either because you're ashamed or it's because you

don't have the light yet. So only two reasons.

But the Lord has given us the light to shine it boldly so

everyone can see it. So we can truly make disciples.

So we teach we train and then they do the same.

Amen. Because we, you know, the Lord

desires that all men would come to repentance.

That all would be able to come in his kingdom.

It's not just be for a few people.

I mean, this these wall should be busting out with people.

Right. Not just to be here on a

Wednesday night or Sunday. But to be here because this is

the house of God, they won't want to miss.

What, what God has to teach them?

Because what do you want to know the?

Holy Ghost wants to teach. So we got to be ready to listen.

Amen. So the what we learned from God

is deeper than mere intellect. Right?

Because I love education. I mean I love ministering and

teaching young children, I love, I love listening to those who

have gone before me my elders because I love to hear what

they've gone through. I love to hear their testimony.

Right. Not their complaint.

But I love to hear what God's done in their life.

And I love to hear where they could have been and how God's

restored them. So that's amazing, right?

We can glean from somebody. I love to hear from people who

have a knowledge of something that I don't know, right?

Because we don't know what we none in this room, know,

everything and none of us in the room.

In this room could have could ever get to the place where we

know everything in This Bible either because again with the

kingdom, I was talking about being unfathomable.

It's one of those things where you can't grasp everything and I

think there's the Lord was purposeful on that because

there's so much in here. It's so rich he gives it to us

when we need it and if we stay focused to learn it and we grasp

hold of it and we let it get down here, we get down here, we

understand it, then we can apply it and it can come out here and

we can do it. So he gives his just what we

need, right? Some of you in here, may have

just got born again God speaking to you tonight.

He speaking to every time you come in here and you and you get

the word every time you're out your home and you're reading the

word, the Lord, you know, speak to speak out before you read.

Lord, speak to me today, teach me as I read the scripture.

Let it be not just a box that you're checking, but let the

Holy Ghost speak to you believer, who's been doing this

for 20 years, 40 years, 60 years, Ears that God speaking to

you. He's speaking to you.

And in this room tonight he's speaking again he's care so much

about each one of us individually that he's speaking

to each one of us what we need. Right.

What do you want to know? He's gonna speak it to you.

And then from there, what are you going to do with it?

So we're going to spend a little bit of time now, talking more

about what this Deeper truth is that we're not just thinking of

things and intellect and it's not just in our brain but it has

a connection from our brain to our spirit, man and back and

forth so that we can truly understand who we are in Christ

and we can be led by the Holy Spirit and it's a

transformation, not just information.

Right, because we get a lot of information off this phone.

Right targets having a sale. Great love it, but that That's

great, but I need to know something is going to really

transform my life, right? So Romans, 12:2 says this, don't

copy the behavior in the customs of this world, but let God

transform you into a new person by changing the way you think.

Then you will learn to know, God's will for you which is a

good and / pleasing and what perfect will.

Okay. Let's do it.

Let's do a little recap of our our stop.

Look listen ready, I'm going to do the motion.

See, if you remember the parts of it.

Hey you sit nice and Loud. Ready?

Alright, one more time, let's say it again.

Good job, good job. What do you want to know?

You're ready? Now.

You're ready to listen. You're ready.

Okay. And as you learn and grow in,

this is one, I probably have told the story before when I

ministered. You know, I learned I got born

again when I was a child and I got filled with the Holy Ghost

as a child. So it just comes easy.

And I know sometimes if you didn't experience, it didn't

experience as an adult, you know you did, you know, you didn't

know, you don't know what you don't know, but I learned as a

child. Early to hear the voice of the

Holy Ghost. So for those who have young

children, it is possible that your children at a very early

age, Early Elementary age can grasp hold of the Holy Ghost in

here it and the Holy Ghost saved my life several times.

And I was grateful that I was raised in the church and not

only that I hear but I had parents that listen to the Holy

Ghost and spared my life more than one occasion.

Where they said, don't let her go there, don't let her do that.

And at the time, I was mad. I didn't like what my parents

had to say to me. But then I seen the power of

God. And those moments were the Holy

Ghost spoke. He knew more than we, he knows

more than we know. So, what do you want to know?

I want to know what he knows in the moment so that I make the

right decisions so that I do the right things that I don't have

to go down a road, you know, I I've given this testimony when I

was 17 years old, I was driving and I got to a stops or to a red

light and I know vividly it was almost like it was audible

wasn't but the he goes spoke to me and said, don't go.

And the right light turned green and what are you doing?

A green, you go. But the Holy Spirit was so

strong that moment and said don't go that.

I just stayed there didn't care for somebody was behind me but

if I would have went, I would have been head-on with a semi I

would have died. I wouldn't be here standing

today if I wouldn't have obeyed the Holy Ghost and so it's such

a profound and powerful thing. I know that the Holy Ghost spoke

to me. And in the more we listened, the

more we stop. We drown out all the other

noise. Get it out silence.

It the TV and the music even sometimes, it's okay, just to

quiet everything we need that and I'm all for music.

I love to jam in the car, I loved it.

You know, my kids hate that I love to dance and jam, but they

try not to do it unless I'm by myself.

But it's sometimes it's just good to be.

Be quiet in the car and just get along with God and pray.

Just have a moment where you just don't have to be so

inundated with all the noise, because if you can stop and

listen to the Holy Ghost, that's what we need.

That's how we need to be able to be in the know.

That's what we need. Amen.

So the word tells us that if what, that if we hunger and

thirst for righteousness, we will be what.

Phil, that's what it tells us that Matthew 5 6, it says we're

blessed. Right that The Blessed ones that

are, if we're hungry and thirst for righteousness, we will be

filled. So, we're asking the question,

what do you want to know? I don't want to just know,

facts, I don't want to know, just statistics, I don't want to

know reports. Because yes there's things in

our life that are going to come and we're going to know these

things. We're going to need to know

because we're going to need to know how.

Then we take that information and we go to the word of God

with it, right? For example you get a diagnosis,

you've had a symptom in your body and you go to a physician

and Physicians are great. The medical field is a great

tool. You go there and you get a

diagnosis but that's just facts that's not truth in the

knowledge of the words. Of the new line it up with what

God's word says and you you trust and you stay focused on

that alone, right? That's what you're speaking the

Year. This is the year of raining

residents, that's what you're speaking out of your mouth.

That's what you're hearing. If we're hearing anything else

for silence and everything else. So that we can only hear what

God's word says about a situation.

Amen. So we utilize the method of

stopping so we can hear We're not just listening with our ears

but we're truly hearing what he has to say.

And when we do that, we allow the Holy Ghost to lead us and

guide us every single day in every single way of our life.

And again, God cares so much about us.

He cares about every detail of our life, there's not a detail

heat that he's like oh well that's no big deal.

No, we're a big deal to God. He loves us and we got to

sometimes stir ourselves up because if You will get if you

have it, drowned out the world and you have it drowned out what

the enemy because he comes trying to do his little

business. All the time.

He lies. That's all he does.

He comes to kill, steal, and destroy.

And he's a liar and a thief. And so, his main weapon is for

us to, for him, to bring his facts to, for him, to bring his

information. And his information is lies.

It's not the truth. So he'll come tell you how you

don't look a certain way or you don't.

Tad up or you're not enough for you did this and you did that.

You're wrong it. No that's all lies.

So you combat it. You you shut him up by speaking

the word of Truth and only What God Says About You matters,

right? Do you really believe that?

What do you want to know? You want to know what the God's

word says right now, somebody's been dealing with that thought.

Focus on the word, it doesn't matter what you did.

He Jesus came to make it new. And if you've already taken care

of it in the spirit and you've already prayed, it's done the

enemy tries to bring up old stuff all the time.

Shut him up, tell him. We're what about himself?

Don't let don't listen to him. Be in the know of what God's

word says about you because that's all that matters.

That's all that matters is what his word says.

Amen. Well let's go.

We're going to continue. Gnu.

We're going to do something. We're going to go into second

Timothy and I just started reading.

I'm like man in scripture so good.

We had it in our Bible reading plan and it came out.

I believe it was last week or week before we read we were

reading and second Timothy and I were going to go to chapters 1

through 4. We're going to hit some

highlights but my main text of scripture, I would say tonight

is in second, Timothy chapter 3, verse 7 and this is what it says

it says. Learning and never able to

arrive at the knowledge of Truth.

And so this is what I want to make sure we don't do we.

There's a danger that we get all this information that we're

always have it at our fingertips and we're doing we're reading or

hearing. But we want to make sure we're

not just gaining knowledge and not getting to the truth and

church. It could happen even sitting

here service after service. It can as powerful as our

pastors are. As I mean, Pastor early, he's

got enough energy for all of us. I mean, he's amazing.

I mean, I've known him most of my life more than my lifetime.

I've known him. I mean, I've known him for a

long time, and it's amazing to me.

The word of the words that come from our King from him, but the

Lord knows what we all need and the words come and do season.

And if we don't watch out we just hear a scripture in Leo.

I heard him say that before. I've heard that scripture

before, oh, he's going to talk about that in the Kingdom today.

It said, then you check out and you check out, we got Kingdom

rice coming next week. We might have some ministers.

Praise the Lord and bite. Somebody get this place packed

out because they need to hear the word.

They need to be in the know, but we have to be careful that

during that we don't get comfortable with the pastors

that are speaking all the time. Maybe guest, ministers that come

and we've heard heard them before.

Don't be familiar with them. Remember that it's the Holy

Spirit within them speaking out. It's a vessel used by God but

don't ever diminish. You gets to get in front of the

pulpit because it's the word, the rightly dividing, the word

of Truth here. That true.

So it'll set you free. It'll keep you in truth.

Don't don't do what verse 7 says, and just be always

learning but never able to go. This is why it's so so important

that you don't go to church to church and you don't go Ministry

to Ministry and you don't like have our podcast and 15 other

pastors podcast from other places.

Because I will tell you not every Ministry, is preaching

this what we hear in this house they're not and, you know,

February I had a little bit of time off, and there was a couple

services that I wasn't here. And I, you know, pulled up a

couple of other places and because our had our listen, all

of our messages, and we didn't have anything up, and my husband

died. One that we had to turn the

preacher off or like this is, this is trash.

So you think he just took that scripture completely out of top

context, we literally turn it off and it was a Rhema church

and I I was just, wow, this is not even right prayer.

And then I was like, praise God, thank you for where I'm at that.

I'm hearing the word of truth. Thank you.

Holy ghost, that you just told me that that wasn't right and

Lord help that congregation help them to see that truth that,

that that what they're saying right now is not the word, not

the word that should be preached.

Right because they weren't they were going down a old meal by.

It wasn't even a testimony. It was it was rough.

So do that. You are in a good place and the

word is Rich and what do you want to know?

He's going to teach you a men. So let's go into our second

2 Timothy 1 · chapter mention

Timothy chapter 1 a little bit. I'm just going to hit some

highlights because again, it's a lot of great scripture.

This I know Pastor, Marcy always gives you guys homework.

This would be a great one for you.

Just to read through again, Paul.

All rights majority of the New Testament.

Jesus is already went on. So in our journey now the Holy

Ghost is come down and acts. They've been filled and now we

have Paula, we have Paul who's traveling the churches are being

established and Paul is the apostle that starts the

Ministries it but then he makes sure everybody is he keeping him

in check. He's making sure that they're on

step and they're not going astray, right?

And he in this journey finds Timothy, o Timothy's.

Great Timothy is the great example for us in the New

Testament. But what it looks like to be

like-minded to be serving alongside someone else and have

the same vision and passion is them.

That's us guys with our pastor. Well we come and we partner Have

and Have The Vision the same vision that we see you know.

God has connected me here. Then we have a passion to come

show up and serve with a smile that we can't wait to get these

doors open so that we can get here and be in our fit that we

feel weird if we're not here because If my arm was outside

right now, I'd look pretty weird, right?

And if my foot, you know I'd be only half of a person the body

has to all be in one place and be connected because the Bible

tells us that that's the way he sees it.

It's like a human body connected with a with the ears in the head

and the face and all the different parts need to be

there. So church we get to partner and

we get to be just like that Timothy that Paul had.

And so Paul is with Timothy and He and then there's times where

they're apart and he's writing letters.

So we go through and second Timothy, he's writing letters to

him, and he is just encouraging him and talking about what he's

going through. And he says, you know, and

chapter one or second Timothy 1 verse 14.

2 Timothy 1:14

He says, you know, I need you to remind them of some things, he

says, remind them of these things in charge them before the

Lord, not to quarrel About Words, which doesn't do good.

But only ruins the hearers. And then he says, in verse 15,

do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker

who has no need to be ashamed, but rightly handling.

Laying the word of Truth. So it begins to give them some

admonishment and in teaching he says, I need you to go back and

tell them this and see the thing he had it with Timothy is no,

even though Paul wasn't with him at the church's, Timothy would

go and deliver the message he would go and deliver what needed

to be known. And again, Paul was only

speaking what he was getting from God.

He was getting a from God and he was in Imparting it to these

churches. And so he goes on and he said,

you know, they're there you do all this with handling the truth

so that there won't be some irreverent Babble, right?

That would lead people to more ungodliness.

Then he goes on in verse 21. He says, anyone who cleanses

himself from what is dishonorable?

He will be a vessel for honorable use set apart as holy

useful to the Master of the House for every good work.

I don't know about you but I want to be useful to the master

for any and every good work that he'd have me to do.

So I want to be in the know not about the latest and greatest of

this or that or the latest information about.

Other people and what's going on in their lives because we have

to be careful about that, too. He warms us.

Got to be careful. We don't turn into gossips.

Right? If it's not useful for us to

know about what's going on in somebody else's life than we

shouldn't be repeating it to somebody else.

Go to the source, right? You got a question about

something, go to the source that one of my notes I just feel like

I should say that. So alright now we're going to go

to verse 24. It says in the Lord's servant

must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone able to teach

there's that teach word again patiently enduring evil

correcting his Opponents with gentleness, God, May perhaps

grant them repentance, leading to a knowledge of the truth.

Again, God wants everyone to come into the knowledge of

Truth. So his people that are his work,

that are his hands and his feet, have to be able to take that

information. That's not just information, but

the transformation in their own lives that they've gained, so

they can go out into the world and they can preach it.

Amen. and then this is where we're kind of out and Chapter 3

of second Timothy, Here we are in the last days and I believe

we're in the last days has been understand this that in the last

days, there will come times of difficulty for people.

Will be lovers of themselves. Lovers of money, they'll be

proud, arrogant, abusive disobedient to their parents

ungrateful, Unholy heartless, unappeasable slanderous without

self-control brutal, and not loving good verse for

treacherous Reckless swollen with conceit, Lovers of pleasure

rather than of God having the appearance of godliness.

But denying its power avoid such people for among them are those

who creep into households and capture weak, women burden with

sin and led astray. And this is where the danger is

verse 7, always learning and never able to arrive at a

knowledge of truth. I know that's all grim and

that's all what we we will be around us in the world but we

don't have to be that we are the Opposite of that.

Excuse me. So anything that we just read

we're going to be opposite of in his kingdom.

We're not going to be lovers of money.

We're not going to be proud or arrogant, or abuse.

We're going to be whatever the opposite of those.

We're going to be grateful. Holy appeasable following

self-control. Loving, what's good?

You know, you take all of that and because we've chosen to be

in the right. No.

And to Follow the knowledge that God has given us.

We are not going to fall into the verse 7, where it says

always learning but never able to arrive at the truth, right?

It goes on to talk about the Old Testament with Moses that these

particular verse 8, Janice and jambres opposed Moses.

And these men were opposed the truth and these men became

corrupted. Mine and were disqualified

regarding the faith. But you see in order for us to

continue growing, we have to have a love of the word, a love

of the truth, a love and an importance of it right now.

I believe here at anchor faith. We have that we cuz we Would you

something so profound that many Ministries?

Don't do. And that's that.

We read the Bible. I mean, that was just in me as a

kid. We read the Bible.

I remember, somehow I got it on if it was for Christmas, but I

had this one book that it was a Book of Proverbs and I would

that route was so torn and tattered.

By the time I grew up, I read it, I just sat in, read it, and

I'm grateful that I got that scripture in me now, was that

scripture enough to sustain me now?

No, I got a reading. Read and read and read.

But I remember because those early days, I had a love for the

word. That I believe that's where I

get my being. Now, if I wouldn't have had that

and it doesn't take you having that as a child.

Again, we come with childlike Faith now was the day.

Now, you can start right now making the word priority in your

life right now. As a child of God not in stature

or an age. But in being that you're wanting

to come to, not just get information, not just check off

the box that you came to Wednesday service.

Or you came to Sunday service or you came to a couple of Kingdom

rise conferences, but that you came because you know, the word

is so rich and you want to get it in you so it can come out of

you the truth. Amen.

And so we get to one of my favorite scriptures about the

word in 2nd, Timothy 3:16 that all.

Scripture is breathed out by God and is profitable, what is it?

It's profitable for these things teaching, for reproof, for

correction for training in righteousness.

That the man of God, may be complete equipped again for what

every good work and their Seasons with the word because

sometimes your season in the word might be that God needs to

do some correcting in your life, right?

Then always feel the greatest. Maybe it's just like tonight.

Simple training in righteousness of our righteous living.

What it's going to take for us to be able to get all the we

need and God, so that we can do the good work that he's called

us to do. Amen.

And then, we're going to go to this next key in chapter 4 verse

2. It says preach, the word be

ready in season and out of season, reprove, rebuke, and

exhort and complete patients and teaching.

And that's what we get to do in. The Lord.

You see, we are the ones who are learning and growing, we're

being taught so that we can go and we can teach we can preach

and, and verse 2, the second Timothy 4:2 the work.

2 Timothy 4:2

Excuse me, it starts with preach the word.

This word preach means to Harold or to Proclaim.

We should be with our life showing others.

What they need to know, what they need to know that.

They don't know that they need to know, which is the word,

heralding and proclaiming the kingdom of God.

And we do that in our life. Amen.

I preaching the word we Harold Harold it as a public crier at

says, and in not just a preacher.

Now, we may not all be called to be preachers, but we all could

go back to that. Matthew 25 where the Lord says

to his disciples in that same word is for us, that we were to

go into what all the world, Great Commission shirt.

This is what we should put on every day and go out and the

light. And the love of God.

And show it to the world. Amen.

So is another scripture. Let's go to James.

It's me, James, 1:22, and 25. Give we want to make sure that

we are in the know and we're not just listening.

It says here do not merely listen to the word as so to

deceive yourselves, do what it says, anyone who listens to the

word but does not do what it says.

Is like someone who looks at his face in the mirror but then

after looking at it goes away and immediately forgets what he

looks like, but whoever looks intently into the perfect law

that gives freedom Mm and continues in it.

Not forgetting what they have heard but doing it they will be

blessed in what they do. You see the Lord wants us to be

able to hear the word. So what was that last part?

So we could do let's do it one more time tonight.

Let's say So we can do. He doesn't want us to just take

in information. He wants a true transformation.

So what do you want to know church?

What do you want to know? We should want to know all that

God has for us all that he has for us in his kingdom.

All right, we're going to go to First, John 2 21st, John 2:20.

John 2:20

And again, we've said we've got the great one living on the

inside and it says in verse 20. But you have been anointed by

the Holy One and you have all the knowledge, I write to you,

not because you do not know the truth.

But because, you know, it and because no lie is of the truth.

We have the truth living on the inside of us.

If we've been born again, amen, that was my final scripture

tonight because I want to leave I want the truth.

Don't want to leave in Al, I want to leave with what the what

the Lord is given and is that he wants us to walk.

In this truth each and every day, he doesn't want us to

desire to have a bunch of facts and a bunch of statistics and a

bunch of things that we can be armed with.

And again I don't diminish higher education, you know, I

personally have had goals in my life that I've achieved and many

things God's blade on my heart to do in the future.

ER, because we, you know, there are things that we need to learn

to be able to grow in whatever God's called us to do, you know,

if he's called us to the medical field, and there's some extra

training, you're going to have to do, if he's called you to be

a teacher, you're going to have to learn certain skills to be

able to hold on to those things and do that.

As an educator yourself, are going to have to learn.

What does it mean to be a teacher, right?

If you're a welder, if your condition Construction, Right,

there's different ways to do different things, but you're

going to have to go and learn those things.

And those things are great, but the greatest thing you can learn

as a Believer, no matter what field God's called you in is

that you Learn to hear the holy ghost that you learn to stop and

listen so that you can truly hear what the Lord is saying in

his word so that you can go and you can do it.

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