Kingdom Faith - Part III

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Now enjoyed this message. So Luke 12:32, it says this do

Luke 12:32

not be afraid Little Flock for your father has chosen gladly to

give you to give you to give you.

What notice? It doesn't say salvation.

Now, salvation is included in this but it doesn't stop there.

Are you hearing me? He says, you're do not be afraid

Little Flock, which means fear should not be a part of our

lives. In fact, the Bible has a lot to

say about do not be afraid. So, if you find yourself in

fear, I'm encouraging you to come on over to the kingdom.

Because if you'll come on over to the kingdom of God, you can

begin to eradicate fear. Fear will have no more dominion

in your life. It won't be able to rule you

anymore. All right, I don't care what

comes on happens in life period. You will not be afraid because

you're in the kingdom and you can go to a source.

Oh Jesus him. Jesus Christ himself says, do

not be afraid Little Flock for your father has chosen gladly to

give you the Kingdom. Look what it says in John 3:3 in

John 3:3

John 3:3 Jesus answering Nicodemus.

John 3:3

Is that the only time Jesus used these two words.

It's the only time he used these two words and this was A public

meeting. This was a private meeting real

early in the morning. We're talking like 2 a.m. to a

religious guy who would not talk to Jesus during the day because

he liked his position. With his religious Brethren.

But he knew Jesus was different. I said, he knew Jesus was

different. I mean, Jesus is words are doing

something to this guy, but he won't talk to Jesus out in front

of everybody, he won't call this meeting with all of his friends.

He's like, stalking Jesus. I would surmise that Jesus was

probably doing what he does and that was often he would find

himself alone in prayer. And I would surmise that this

religious leader. By the name of Nicodemus was

watching him and saw him slip out and thought.

Here's my opportunity and followed him.

While Jesus was going off to prayer, Nicodemus came to have a

meeting, and he says some things that Jesus concerning, you know,

how he's ministers wants, he do. And you can read this in this,

John chapter 3. But I want to show you what

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Jesus says here, not publicly, but privately Jesus answered and

said to him, truly, truly, I say to you.

Unless one Is born again. He cannot see the kingdom of

God. Now, why is it that we have

taken scripture and have basically kept such little

Revelation or information about Jesus to the reduction of just

be born again. So when you die, you go to

heaven when Jesus himself does not say the father shows in

gladly to You eternal life, so that when you die, you'll go to

heaven. He said, no, he give you a

kingdom, a kingdom by wish. When the disciples asked him,

teach us how to pray in the Luke's account.

He said, Our Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed Be Your

Name, Your Kingdom Come. Matthew's account says your

kingdom come your will be done on Earth, not pray so that your

life can have God in it so when you die you go to heaven.

And so we've made the gospel a destination instead of Instead

of the Kingdom. We made it a destination instead

of Destiny. We talked about this is the

relationship but we don't want to have that relationship till

we go to heaven. Okay, we don't want the real

relationship here, where the father invades the planet.

We want to wait till we get to heaven and have the

relationship. Yeah, he says when you pray pray

this way, Our Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed Be Your

Name, Your Kingdom Come your will be done on on Earth as it

is in heaven. So, God's not waiting for us to

come to heaven. To have the relationship, nor is

the relationship that we have with God by being born again,

exclusive to just knowing where children of God, so that when we

die, we go to heaven. Now, Jesus said, the father has

come to give you the kingdom I said, he's come to give you the

kingdom, and kingdom is Kings Dominion.

Is the domain, by which the king Rules, by All rights, Jesus

came. So that you'd hack have access

to God's government. That's kind of a foreign Concept

in a church right now. But, you know, not so form with

us because we realize that Isaiah's prophecy was reality

and Isaiah chapter 9. We know verse 6, says the Lord

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said, a child will be born, a son will be given and the

government shall rest on his shoulders.

So Jesus came to bring a government.

That's why Jesus publicly preached.

The Kingdom of Heaven is like this, in the kingdom of God is

like that. He said, if I cast out a devil

by the Finger of God, then, you know, the kingdom is here, the

kingdom is what here Jesus says, repent for the Kingdom of Heaven

is at hand, or in your midst, or look at it operate right here on

the earth. The kingdom is not wait till you

go to heaven, but Heaven is showing up in your life because

the kingdom and its Authority in his dominion and it's rain is

here, amen. So when Jesus says, unless a

person is born again, he will not see the kingdom in essence.

He's qualifying. If you want the kingdom in your

life, you must be a born citizen of that Kingdom.

Because you cannot buy your way in.

You can't work your way in. There are no work visas in the

kingdom of God. You can't apply for a work visa

and try to come over to the kingdom of heaven and try to do

God's word your way. And God say, I'm going to Grant

you citizenship you can't buy it either.

And you can't have your mama. Pray you in.

Your daddy can't pray you in now.

They can pray for you and make power available but you're going

to have to yield and become a child of God.

You want to be born again because again Nicodemus messed

up with a stemi sandman. How in the world am I going to

get back in my mom's womb? He says, you miss it, man.

This ain't about a natural birth.

This is about a spiritual birth because you did see when Adam

Who ate the fruit fell from Dominion?

He did not fall from Heaven. God did not kick him out of

Heaven. He was of the Earth with

Dominion. That's what Genesis 1:26 tells

Genesis 1:26

us. God said let us make man in our

image, according to our likeness, and let them both male

and female have dominion not salvation.

Let them have rule, allowed them to govern.

Allow them to manage the systems of this Earth that are c'mere

the systems of my heaven and will have relationship.

Why cause God, didn't, wait for a god, there's no scriptural

account of Adam going up to heaven to talk to God, but there

are scriptural accounts of God coming down to earth, to told

Adam. Are you hearing me now?

I'm not saying that we can't go to heaven.

In fact, you don't even have to die to go to heaven because Paul

said, I know, a man. Well, he did on that particular

account. There are opportunities for

profits like Daniel and Ezekiel to be in a place where God

allows them to see things in a realm of Heaven.

John without dying was able to see things in the Realm Of

Heaven, Paul. A man, whether in the body or

out of body, he didn't know, and the scripture lets us know as

when they took him out and stoned him to death, he was

called up to the third heaven. Well, you know, that's why he

laid. He also wrote, he said to be

absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.

That's if you're born of God, because if you're not born of

God in your apps of from the body, you will not be present

with the Lord. You'll be separated from the

Lord eternally. Which is not God's will for your

life. It was never God's will for

Humanity in the first place. So, Adam was created to have

dominion. Jesus came to restore.

The Dominion that Adam lost. This is why Jesus said my father

shows and gladly to give you the kingdom.

Now, in order for you, have the kingdom, you're going to have to

be saved or born. Again, that's why in Ephesians

Ephesians 2:8

2:8. This Born Again, comes for by

Grace. You have been saved, how through

faith. Now, what?

Debated the ability of Grace to happen in your life so that you

could be saved or Born Again. Faith did it.

Because faith is the actual tool that is used to activate the

grace of God. Because by All rights, Jesus is

death, burial and resurrection. And when he took his blood over

2,000 years ago, and paid the price, cause without the

shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin.

That Jesus has blood Which is without spot or wrinkle that is

by All rights currency. It is paying your debt, your

treason. You'll Rebellion to God your,

I'll do it my way and you must accept it.

God. But God says, I do not and will

not accept it because you're tainted, your Unholy, your

unrighteous your filthy rags and anything you try to do good,

you're not doing good. In fact, the Bible declares us.

There's a way that seems right to a man but the analyzed Death.

Why? Cause no matter how Paul

recognized in First Corinthians chapter 7?

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He said man, the things I want to do.

I can't do with the things that I don't want to do.

I find myself doing. I'm just a Wretched Man who's

gonna save me from this life of sin, this Rebellion against

doing it, God's way, the way he wants it done, because there's a

lot of people who'll get in the Bible and say this is what God

says. So I'm gonna do it my way his

word. This is the context of the Rich

Young Ruler. Comes to jeans.

Say, what must I do to inherit eternal life in Jesus says,

well, you know, the Commandments, just keep, you

know, the scripture keep the Commandments he said I've done

it since I was a child. But then the Lord says, well, I

know what your problem is. There's one thing, you lack.

See what you've done is, you've taken my word, and you've

decided this is how I'll live it.

And this is how I'll do what you say and you should accept it.

Instead of you tell me how to do what you say.

Cause then he tested him. He says there's one thing you

lack, we'll find out if you did it because you were submitted to

me, it's the lordship test. He says, sell everything you

have. Give it to the poor and come

follow me. If you did it because you're

submitted to me, then you're going to do this.

But what happened? He hung his head got sad.

And left and they're like his disciples.

Like what? And he said it's hard for a rich

man now. That doesn't mean rich.

People can't get born again. Just hard.

Why? Because we let our money talk to

us. We let our money decide.

Now, you don't have to be wealthy and let you money to

sod. You can be poor.

Let your money tall for you and most people do while.

I can't afford it. Why who said that?

Well, my bank account while you listen to your bank account.

Because God has a way of getting Supply to you.

That doesn't have to go through your account.

But that's requires trust and believing and actually hearing

God could pay for things for you without you ever having to

personally financed it or it ever go through your personal

account. So why do you let your checking

account? Determine what you do.

So what's the lordship test, right?

Will you do what I say? So then in order for us to see

the kingdom of God, He must be different.

God does not accept us as we are.

I must say that again, he does not accept us as we are.

Now, you can't change yourself. What he accepts, is your

acknowledgement, that you can't get it right?

And that he got it, right? And that if you'll say Your lord

right in the Bible says every knee will bow and every tongue

will confess Jesus as Lord. Why do we do this?

Because this is what you do to Kings.

Now we do about our presidents. Right.

Nobody wants to about anyone naturally anyway, but you are

gonna bow to God, even those who never call on the name of the

Lord will bow. Before the great white Throne

judgment, make no mistake about it.

And they'll say Jesus is Lord, and He will say depart from me.

You worker of lawlessness, right?

So the minute we yield our will to his will.

Then we are born of God. We become a new creature in

Christ, in the spirit outside. We look the same mentally where

even the same and we've got an owl change our thinking because

Jesus lets us know when he begins to preach what he did.

Not preach the first time was you need to be born again.

But Jesus preached the first time.

As you think it's really bad right now, that's what repent

means. It's not even a religious word.

He said, repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.

It's in your mistress operating. The problem is, you won't get

it. Operate because you're thinking

is off. Now, you'll never think this way

to your spirit becomes alive to the voice of who can give you

Heavens will. And until you, your spirit can

hear the voice of Heavens will. Then you'll never be able to

activate the kingdom of God, because the kingdom of God is

hinged on his, will, your kingdom, come, your will be

done. So there is no Kingdom coming.

If you do not know his And you cannot know his will save the

spirit reveal it to you. That's why Jesus told Peter

literally when he said flesh and blood has not revealed this to

you. Matthew, 16 memory, you ask them

who do people say that? I am.

Why? Because there's a lot of talking

out there. In fact, in this room right now,

a lot of you would say certain things about God.

I mean, if I did personal interviews with you, every one

of you would give me some context of God.

Now, some of you have be absolutely wrong.

Would be absolutely wrong because your context is actually

doesn't line up with scripture and typically what we do then is

we desire first and foremost to try to convince God that our way

of him is better than his way of him.

And again, you're really not far off at the end of the day.

What do I mean by that? Most people their challenge is,

is I want God to know me. And so we're saying God, no, me

based upon how I say and accept that, but that's what God's

saying, No Me based upon what I say.

So it's better for us to say, well, I'm not God, and most of

us can admit that. Well, I'm not God.

Well, since you're not admittedly, then let God tell

you how you are to engage him, which means you're going to have

to change your thinking. The first thing we had to change

just to even be born again was, I do not have a relationship

with him, I don't have it. Wow.

Everything I've done it, don't work.

So God, how does it work? And the Lord says, well, you're

going to need to be born again. Well, how's that work?

Dad. Well, you're going to have to

believe, with all your heart, that Jesus Christ.

Came, he died on the cross and that he rose from the grave and

that the blood that he shed for you was enough to save you, and

it's already been paid for it's done now.

All I need you to do is acknowledge Him as Lord, which

is not a religious word. It means Supreme In authority.

The government term actually. The closest term or context that

we have in the United States with this because again, we are

not in a kingdom. Right, I mean, Naturally

Speaking is the land as a landlord, right?

The landlord is the owner of property. and so when you enter

into a lease agreement with a landlord, what you do is there

are terms and conditions that allow certain things to take

place, the landlord has a responsibility that you agree to

and you have a responsibility that you agree to and the final

say, in that lease, if the terms are changing, is going to be on

the landlord, Are you hearing me?

It calls. They ultimately are the supreme

authority of how things are moving.

And Jesus says, I purchased you with a price and not with silver

and gold. but with my blood, which means allow me to speak

into your life. And I'll pull great ass out of

you. And we've just got to say, okay

because here's the thing, every one of us in this room have been

in situation. Like man, I don't even know what

to do here. Aren't you glad you can go to

someone who actually knows? Now, I'm glad I do.

I'm like, Lord. What do I do?

What do I do here? And the Lord say, well do this.

And man, I thought I do it his way.

Then I'll have the blessing. I said I'll have the blessing.

So then we have to catch the in Galatians chapter 5 verse 20.

Galatians 5:20

He says, I've been crucified with Christ and it is no longer

I who live but Christ lives in me and the life, which I Live.

Now, In the Flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God who

loved me and gave himself up for me.

So Paul recognizes that Jesus had to come lay down his life so

that the kingdom could show back up.

Because Jesus said Lord if there's any other way for your

kingdom because again, what he say, my father's chosen gladly

to give you the Kingdom. So in the garden when he's

praying, Lord, how do we give them the kingdom?

He says, you're going to have to stand in the Gap.

You're going to have to lay down your life.

You're going to have to be the one that pays the penalty that

all humanity is under that Adam brought on for Roman says,

through one man's transgression sin, and sin is disobeying God

at his word. That's what sin is.

That's what sin is. Disobeying God at his word.

So when Jesus forgives you of your sins are delivers you from

sin, in essence, he's causing it.

So that sin are the the desire to always, Rebel leaves your

spirit. And your spirit actually wants

to obey God's word. Now, your mind still will cause

it's not saved yet. That's where you have to renew

it with the word. But when you renew it with the

word, then it'll on up with this new spirit on the inside.

And you'll do the will of God for your life.

So he goes on a sudden now it's no longer I who live, not that

he's not breathing, not that he's not alive, but what he's

saying is my will is not what's dominating me anymore.

I'm allowing Christ The Kings will to live and dominate in my

life, the life that I now live in the body, I live how by

faith. Faith is how we live.

So the first thing you have to do, if you're one of us really,

start having some Total Transformation in your life is,

you've got to quit identifying yourself with your job?

Well, what do you do for a living?

Well, not now I live by faith. Better.

You asking me what my job is. The job I'm currently holding.

Right, so you're not an electrician.

You're not a lawyer or doctor? You're not a sanitation

technician. You're not an admitted executive

administrator. Those are just job titles where

you show up at a workplace and influence them with the kingdom

because what you do is you actually live by faith.

You live according to God's word because God's word can keep you

in that place for a while. And then later also, you know,

I'll move you somewhere else when our Lord, I've been

electrician for 30 years. What about your not electrician?

You've never been electrician. You've done, you've done

electrical work, you are a Believer, you're a child of the

king. You're supposed to be living by

what I say, cause if you live by what I say, you won't be living

limited to want, the job can give you.

Hallelujah. Amen.

Most of that's just seed money. Anyway, they amplify classic

says it this way. I've been crucified with Christ

in him. I have shared his crucifixion.

It's no longer I who live. So in essence we have to say,

look, I am dead to myself and crucifixion is not like a nice

thing is brutal. The Bible tells us to crucify

the flesh daily. I mean anything that sets itself

up against God, we should violently remove it.

What do I mean by that? We should see it as if I mean we

want to just destroy that out of our mindset.

You you you don't have. You're not going to go Tiptoe

Through the Tulips in my brain. I'm not going to let it be

entertaining. I mean, you try to come in my

mind and I've got weapons waiting on you.

Okay. It is no longer I who live but

Christ the Messiah lives in me. That's the king.

That's the anointed one of his anointing and the life.

I live. Now in the body, I live by faith

by adherence to and Reliance on and complete trust in the son of

God. Who loved me and gave himself up

for me. Does he love you?

Well, he doesn't love you just to save you from hell.

That is the most shallow thinking.

That is st. Can have well, he loved me just

to keep me from Hell. He's like, are you serious?

I loved you so much. I put my nature back in you and

then I put my own spirit in you which is greater than the one in

the world. Then I give you access to my

kingdom that you can operate in and on the earth.

Now it's not a waiting game. This is a now game.

This is the kingdom thing. This is an access.

Now this is like pull it down on the Earth today.

This is like function in it right now.

You're a totally different species of being on the inside.

Amen. I would be remiss.

If I was, if I took you to the gym with me and I say, now, if

you do the workout that I do, you'll look like, you know, a

bodybuilder, that's a lie. Every person who ever goes to

the gym. Knows you're not gonna look like

a bodybuilder just because you lift weights.

That is only one component. There is another component is

called diet. And I'd take self-discipline.

right, cuz when the Krispy Kremes are calling You got to

keep on driving but I didn't. I hit Krispy Kreme and games

till yesterday, oh my gosh. And then I'll pull in a parking

lot. It was like God's will, which

was it? It was the devil cause it was in

red hot. He was telling me it's hot.

It's a lake of fire. Don't go but I yielded oh my

gosh. Right?

So I had to repent this morning, get five miles in and prayer.

Oh, Jesus. It's a lie.

But, you know, we're telling Believers will just ask Jesus

to, you know, be born again. And you know what?

You're going to go to heaven, and then we're able to walk

around. Say I have faith and they don't

have faith that all. They have the maybe the

assurance that when they die, they can be present with the

Lord but they don't have the kingdom functioning in their

life. They're not living at its

fullness. And there's many people who

start things but because they don't see a result and they're

thinking, they abandoned them. So Ima take you to the library

and tell you, if you read this one row of books, you'll change

the world. It's not true because you can

read all kind of stuff and never apply any of it.

Hallelujah. So Hebrews chapter 11, then

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because we are to live by faith. So what his fate now, Faith is

the Assurance. The title deed, confirmation of

things hoped for divinely guaranteed in the evidence of

Things. Not Seen the conviction of their

reality Faith comprehends, as fact, what cannot be experienced

by the physical senses. But you understand.

We, we live by faith. All the time.

We've said this, we're going to say it again because it Bears

repeating right now because at the end of the day, I realize

that it is a fight. Towards the end because Jesus

has literally said before he left, he said, now when I

return, how many believe Jesus is coming back, how many

expecting him to come back? I mean, you ready for him to

come back? Okay, I'm ready.

If he's needs to come, but not at the expense of me, not doing

my purpose. But with that being said, Jesus

says, now when I return, will I find faith?

In the Earth. Well, now he's gonna find Faith

because there's going to be a lot of people who are firmly

persuaded that, he's not Jesus. It's gonna be a lot of people

who are firmly persuaded by the definition of faith.

That he, his Rule and Reigns, not real confessing him as their

lord is not necessary. So what faith is he talking

about? Then he's obviously talking

about faith in his word and he says, well, I find it now.

What's crazy about that is the church's here.

That should be like a duh moment, right?

Just like when Peter. And we'll get to this context

here in a minute. And Jesus stopped said, somebody

touched me is like, There's a crowd man.

People have been touching the whole time.

Why are you asking, who I'll be going to figure that one out.

He says somebody touched me like nobody's touched me up to this

point as we've been going to this man's house.

So you can touch without touching.

Are you? Can touch and not get what

somebody else gets when they touch.

Again Jesus actually ask blind people, what do you want?

I mean, aren't you the aren't you the Son of God shit.

You know what they want? You know not everybody wants to

be healed. You assume they want to.

And Jesus himself wants to know where their faith is.

And unless the gifts get in play, he won't override it.

I'll give you one specific. It is the man at the gate,

beautiful. When Peter was going by, he's he

doesn't want to be healed. He's begging for alms, but

because the gifts of the Spirit happened, Peter fixed his Gaze

on him. Meaning he heard the Holy Ghost,

begin to say to him. Now, you're gonna begin to

operate in What's called the gifts of healings and the

working of Miracles. And I want you to snatch this

guy up off the ground and he has no faith to be healed none.

And he says, silver and gold. I have not not that he didn't

have any just want, carrying it. But that's not the point because

what I do have I give to you in the name of Jesus, get up walk

and he snatched him up, you read the Greek.

It means he jerked him up off the ground, he want life.

I sure hope this works. Come on, brother.

He snatched him up, when he snatched him up, his legs got

strong and he could walk, he began to dance and the Lord

healed him without his faith at all.

Now, God doesn't do that all the time because he wants us to live

by but most of us want us to live by a gift of the spirit.

The Bible doesn't sell us to live by the gift of the spirit,

although we are to earnestly, desire them.

But typically when they come there for someone else, anyway,

they weren't even for Peter. Okay?

So then faith is this a sure sis a firm persuasion.

Then what's that mean? We are firmly persuaded that.

What God Says and we don't have to have any evidence of it.

All we need is a word and all of us operate by that will hear

stuff and begin to operate based upon a word.

Someone will say something and you'll begin to operate that

way. Just because it said and I'm not

talking, just pause, I'm talking - someone could text you and say

so. And so says something about you

and all of a sudden you'll get worked up well, who do they

think they are talking about? Well, you ain't even asked him,

you're going off what someone said, but you're now convinced,

they actually said it. And then you're emotionally mad

about And then you'll text. It's also say did you hear

what's on? And even you may have had five

conversations for you ever get to the one.

Now, what if you get to the one that I like?

Yeah, I said that. Now, what you going to do?

I mean I don't the Bible tells you to do forgive them but a lot

of times, no that's not what I said.

But yet you've got five other people convinced.

That's what they said before. I even got to the one that now

didn't even say it. Okay.

Romans 4 22:21, he staggered, not at the promise of God

through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God

and being fully. Persuaded that.

What he had promised, he was able to perform whatever God

says. He'll do.

Why? Because God has chosen gladly to

give us a kingdom. And the kingdom, is all

dependent on the ability of the king to cause his word to come

to pass. So faith comes to us because God

wants to give us access to the Thrones final say about anything

going on in the planet. That's why Romans 10 16 and 17,

lets us know, faith comes by hearing, right?

Because again, Isaiah the prophet says this, whose report

are we going to believe? A lot of people are saying

stuff, but who are we going to believe God saying something.

But then other people are saying some, who are we believing mean,

who are we firmly? Persuaded is telling the truth

now, this is what I know. Because again, this is the

argument. Well, how do I know you're

right? You don't have to believe that.

I'm right. I'm not asking you to believe it

because I'm saying it, but I can guarantee you the Holy Ghost.

Who is the third person of the godhead will speak to you.

Clear enough that you'll know. The question is, what will you

do when it comes? Because I know the holy spirit

is talking because God desires that none would perish but that

all would come to what repentance, which means a change

of thinking and how they think they should do something or

something should be done. He doesn't want you separated

from that. He wants you to live a life of

Faith. The word that comes from the

King, so, So faith comes from hearing and hearing by the word

of Christ. The message says it this way,

the point is before you trust, you have to listen.

But unless Christ word is preached, there's nothing to

listen to I said there's nothing to listen to.

I don't care what the world says.

I don't care what they say. I don't care what your doctor

says. I don't care what your

accountant says. I don't care what your job says.

I don't care what they say. I don't care if what they say is

factually correct. They should not have the final

say in your life about that situation.

I have and people can come to me all the time.

Well Pastor Earle so-and-so, love God believed and they were

believing God to be healed, but they died.

I can give you multiple of Aunt, evidences of those who did

believe and they did not die. which make me would question the

one that you say was believing but we don't want to act like,

man can get it wrong. But God is not a man that he

should lie. Hallelujah.

So I don't care. I'll give you many examples

where the doctor says it's over. But God, I said, but God because

he had to say about it, I said he had to say about it and a lot

of times we don't want to hear what he says.

Are we're not willing to stand in the fight for what he has

said to come to pass because will allow the other boys to

dominate us. Fear.

I said, fear. You know what voice talks to,

Anchor Bay church every year 3rd quarter?

Third quarter. Don't know why that is but third

quarter for whatever reason. The giving changes.

Don't know why that is. I don't know why it's less

should be less. We should just increase because

God's always given increase. So I don't listen to it.

Just drive on believe God, call what God told me to call and I

stay with it and then I get words of things not happening.

there was a grant that we were supposed that we are entitled to

we're getting and so they gave it to us.

Bam, 30 days. Well, the initial interpretation

is that we'd get another one 30 days later and another 130 days

later. So, would all come within 90

days? And that's how they heard it.

Unfortunately, that's not how it was spoken.

Okay. Let me read this scripture real

quick. It says this in Mark chapter 4,

Mark 4 · chapter mention

this is very good for verse 23 and 24.

If anyone has ears to hear, Let Him hear then, he said to them.

Take heed what you hear with the same measure, you use it will be

measured to you measure to you and to who you who hear more

will be given that the passion translation says that this way,

if you understand what I'm saying, you will need to respond

and then he said, be diligent to understand the meaning behind

everything you hear for. As you do, More understanding

will be given to you, according to the depth of your longing to

understand, much more will be added to you.

So it's not that you're hearing me.

Preach. Today is, how are you hearing

me? Preach same thing for us.

It's not not that we heard it would come in increments of 30.

It's that when we went back and read at for ourselves, we found

out that the next one won't come for another 90 days.

And then the other one another 90 days after that.

So technically it could be given to us within a You know, hundred

and eighty hundred and are 210 days.

That's a little bit different. They think we're getting it in

three months. So, there was some initial

planning about that money coming.

Then Alice, not coming the way we thought.

Well, what do you do about that? Well, I wasn't living by that

money anyway. So, I just divert, well, praise

the Lord. He'll do it another way.

I planned this way but at the end of the day, that's not going

to happen that way y'all doing. All right.

So, how you here? So your belief in God will

determine what I'm saying about God.

I've had people tell me to my faith.

I just can't believe that. Then that's the problem. because

if the word says it, that's not And where we are in our growth

and development is turn. Determine how we're hearing and

how successful you are without God determines your hearing.

Because many of us think we can make it without him, because the

devil has one of his greatest, deceptions is giving you the

world at the cost of your thinking.

Right. So James says this but prove

yourselves doers of the word. James, 1:22, prove yourselves,

doers. So faith comes by hearing and

faith is a firm persuasion. Meaning I'm convinced that what

I heard And again, I can't break it down any more simple than

natural ways. I mean if someone tells you

let's just do it this way. All of you.

How many you've ever bought anything on Amazon?

Yeah, I thought I'd get much already of you guys.

I mean done doordash right door that, I mean instacart, we had

an instacart this morning Yeah, I didn't do it but I walked

outside and someone's pulling up to my house or I mean but it's

like 8:00. I'm like and then are parking in

front of my house. I'm like what is going on here?

Lady gets out. I got your in staccato order.

I'm like that's not mine but I know whose it is.

I got some Champion insta. Carter's living at my house

right now. Some Champion insta Carter's So

I all okay but you know, you go online and you order.

You see a picture? Oh man, you see a picture?

You have an item. You pay for it and let them

access your account. You get a confirmation number.

You don't see these people, you don't know what Warehouse is

coming from. You're firmly persuaded the

picture is what you'll actually get.

It will even tell you estimated deliveries, and some of you you

track it. You start tracking it.

You'll say oh my package is in the bottom.

Have you seen it in the body? Have you personally seen it in

about, but you'll talk to people like us in the biologists showed

up in Atlanta. I mean, we were firmly

persuaded. That's Where It's At.

Hey, when you get that pay all this in Atlanta right now.

They say it to be here next couple of days.

I mean, you're talking like, this is it.

This is the gospel, man. This is Manis is going to happen

like this. Right.

Hey man. And then a lot of times you

insta. Carter's the doorbell.

Rings comes who's showing about your house.

Anyway, ringing a doorbell. We don't give people showing up

that kind of age is like over where your neighbor comes by

very few are doing that. All the instacart here yet.

Even seen it yet yet. You're firmly persuaded this at

the door and most of this your persuaded by images.

Our pictures are words. Before you actually see it. and

the King that made Heaven, and Earth says, just believe me at

my word because unlike Doordash who has definitely got your

order wrong, or got your Chick-fil-A with soggy french

fries, right? No.

He'll never fail to get it. To come to pass.

The problem is, you don't track it.

You go ahead and say it's lost. And you let the enemy get

involved. You change your mind, but I

don't want it going FedEx. I'm gonna go ahead and try to

get UPS to get it now. Pick it up, we're in Atlanta

cut, what are you doing? Okay.

No, you gotta prove yourself to be doers of the word too and not

just hearers only, so we're already living my faith live by

faith on God's word. God's word works.

Even more efficiently. James says this 122.

He says, approve, but prove say, prove don't, I'm in Faith.

Pastor prove it. Don't just tell me prove the

thing. Okay, pastor Rowdy, y'all know

Pastor ideas. Those are no Pastor Rod

pasteurized for years, guys, for years, he pulled out his little

kico to his gym. He said, you know, I joined a

gym, there's my card, prove it and he's never gone.

Never gone. But he's a member.

A lot of people are into Body of Christ.

You're a member But he had it Outreach, you know, he's an

Outreach guy. You know, that's the Evangelist

part of him and he went to a particular location and it was

hot. And he was doing a lot of setup

and teardown and then had to preach began to preach and then

when he got home, he said it took him three days to recover.

They finally started listening. And the Lord says it's not going

to change until you change. You're going to have more than a

membership you going to do something.

So, he changed his diet. He started doing something.

He lost 20 pounds, he's had a membership for years and

couldn't get that 20 pounds off. But when he started acting on

it, I said when he started acting on it, then something

happened. So, the Bible's real clear, you

gotta prove will prove me, you remember then show up and don't

show up and talk show up and get on it away.

Oh Pastor, I pray show up and pray, then show up and study,

then show him come to church and participate, but prove

yourselves doers of the word actively and continuously

obeying God's precepts and not merely listeners who hear the

word but fell to internalize this meaning deluding yourself.

Unsound reasoning. Contrary to the truth means I

hear what God says here. But then I walk out there in the

foyer and I'll listen to another voice about my situation and

talk myself out of it. I've done that not here, but

I've done it for the call of God on my life.

I remember when God called me to start anchor feature church, it

was in February of 2003. My wife and I were at a winter

Bible seminar, and we were sitting there and brother Hagin

before he went on to be with the Lord that same year.

He began to say in 2003 this happened. 2004 this happened

2005. This happen 2006, that the

happen. I think he stopped after 2006.

And we were listening to that well, while he was doing that in

my spirit, I heard the Lord say 2004.

And I knew that 2004 was start. Anchor Faith Church, but I was

like, In my how can I do that? I'm use pastoring here my son,

graduates. 2005, this is conflicting.

So we went over to a little cafe.

Got death by chocolate and it killed my vision.

Seriously we ate death by chocolate cake with coffee, that

night, talking about the service and then talking about she had

the same perception. I'm like that honors.

Obviously, God would not want me to take my child out of his

senior year. and we, With reasoning, contrary to the

impression. I let the thought go but I knew

I was coming here. So, I vacation, three months

later here, walk the beach and the Lord began to talk to me

about something. I would listen to.

Now when you go back to Oklahoma, I want you to study

prayer in the anointing. Yeah, Lord, I'll do that.

So I did and when you study pray, you pray more.

And then you realize the anointing is something even

bigger. Then I realized my whole family

is Anointed not just me when I need to move and then I realize

the Lord's Like Son 2004 is when you start, you need to leave

now. Whew.

Well, that's different story. I was like whoa I let that

chocolate cake. Kill a lot of stuff.

And by assault by time, it was over.

I was here in 2003 and we started the church 2004, just as

God desired, amen. So, I had to change my thinking

about how that would work and what that would do to my family

because God is not trying to destroy my family.

But I would have destroyed my family if I'd accept them

somewhere outside of God's will. And many times will do this,

will reason what something else and what is it, it's usually

something we can see. So that being said, let's come

to this context. Matthew chapter 5, verse 25,

Matthew 5:25

y'all doing. All right.

Matthew 5:20, that's about a kingdom.

Matthew 5:20

God wants to give us and faith in.

The kingdom is US. Firmly persuaded that.

The Kings word is the final say, in our life and will let no

other voice dominate us. We'll always make it submit to

God. And what he says in Matthew

Matthew 5 · chapter mention

Chapter 5 on, we give you to context of where they would

believe God in his word, more than the other voices.

They heard in. Matthew Mark chapter 5 verse 25.

Mark 5:25

It says this, a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve

years and had endured much at the hands of many Physicians,

and spent all that she had and was not helped at all.

But rather had grown worse after hearing.

After hearing, after hearing, after hearing, after hearing

after, Hearing faith comes by hearing faith comes by hearing

faith, comes by hearing and when she heard it created a firm

persuasion that she needed to act on.

And after hearing about Jesus, she came up in the crowd behind

him and touched his cloak for. She thought, one translation

says said she kept saying, if I just touch His Garment I will

get well immediately say immediately immediately.

Immediately the flow of her blood was dried up and she felt

in her body that she was healed of her Affliction immediately,

Jesus, perceived in himself that power proceeded from him.

Had gone forth, turned around in the crowd and said, who touched

my garments? And his disciple said, you see

the crowd pressing in on you. And you say, who touched me.

And he looked around to see the woman who had done this, but the

woman fearing and trembling aware of what had happened.

Can't happen to her came and fell down before him and told

him the whole truth. Then you said daughter.

Your whose Faith whose Faith your faith has made you?

Well, go in peace and be healed of your Affliction.

So we see here that this woman has something talking to her,

and you know what's talking to her, you're not getting well,

you're not going to make it. In fact, it's getting worse.

I mean, that's what she hears. How long she been hearing this

12 years every day of her life. She's been hearing for delay.

As 12 years, you're not going to get well it's not gonna get over

you're not gonna finish it. So she went to the experts She

went to the ones trained, the ones that got the, the have the

degrees, the ones that are the voice of Healy.

She went to the Physicians and in order for her to get the

position to help her, she had to give them Finance, she had to

give her own money, and she gave one to one doctor and it didn't

work and his prescription didn't cure her.

So she goes to another doctor and that prescription didn't

help her at all and went. Another doctor and that

prescription didn't help her at all and went to another doctor.

And next thing you know she's now broke, she doesn't have any

more money and nobody can make her better.

She just gets worse. So, you know, I was talking to

her, it's hopeless. You never going to get better

and not only that because she is a Jewish person and the Jewish

law means if you have any shedding of blood, you can't

even go to the temple because you're unclean.

So the in, for the last 12 years, she's being kept away

from the blee of being able to go to the house of the Lord.

So her relationship with God has been challenged by All rights.

It looks like even God himself doesn't care.

Nobody's helping her and the ones that try to help her can't

help her. This is hopeless situation.

But then she want, she was hearing about Jesus.

You know, she was here about Jesus.

Hey, there's a guy by the name of Jesus and everyone he touches

gets healed. Everyone, he touches, man, he

was over in this city and he was touching people and they were

being healed and he was over in this city, and he was touching

people. And she thought to herself, man.

If I could just touch him, Now, she had enough understanding of

her condition that she didn't put it, where I need him to

touch me or I need him to come to my house.

But there's so many people, I will have God wants to do some,

he gonna have to come to me. Well, maybe it's time you go to

Hill. Maybe it's time you go to Hill.

Well, if he's really gone, he could have her from God and

showed up at my house. She won, requiring that Sheila,

I'll go to him. This was so awesome about our

Jesus. You can go to him.

I mean, people waiting for God to show up, open up the door and

walking in her house and say I'm Jesus, I'm really the god.

I am the Son of God. See Thomas I'm the guy when all

you got to do is get some tenacity.

Like the woman and say I'm hearing that he is the Healer so

I don't need him to come to me. I'll just go to him.

But she realizes that. My condition has made me

extremely weak, so I don't want to believe that if I touch his

shoulder. Because by the time I get to

that guy, You know, she started. Moving out.

He's in town. Oh, where is he?

Okay, I'm going to go out and finish you off.

She goes. Wow.

Look at this crowd. Now, the first problem she has

now is that according to the law?

I'm I have an issue, but I'm supposed to say unclean.

If I touch anybody, they're going to be unclean for the rest

of the day. Ain't nobody going to.

Nobody wants to move out of the way, so I'm going to put my life

in jeopardy here. But I'm not going to let

anything stop me from trusting in what I believe.

So, she realizes, you know what? By the time I find this guy and

get to him, I'm probably going to be on my knees.

Can you go take everything? I got to get out there.

Oh, I'm so glad she didn't give up on the first couple people

who stepped on her fingers. Are you oh you know how many

people abandon God? Because the first couple people

that say, something in a church or don't respond a certain way,

they thought or didn't get preferential treatment like

somebody. Oh they're gone.

And then you miss out this state about what they're doing here or

what they're doing. This about you and your

relationship with God. Be key and you're going to

believe God. It's you gonna get what God said

you can have, and you ain't gonna nobody, stop you, not even

a saint. So she prayed Sis through the

crowd. We don't want to press, we want

to just believe once easily given us and the world's going

to shout at you and say you're sick, you're gonna die, you're

not gonna make it man. Anyway, gets a little contrary

to God's a know. You can do this thing but I

don't feel like I can do it. Don't worry about how you feel.

Just get to me. Just get to me, just get to me.

And here's the thing about Jesus, he didn't even know she's

coming. So, she keeps pressing and

eventually finds him. That's Supernatural just by

itself and she touches his him but she done just touch his

cloak Faith from her made an exchange and pulled something

out of Hill that it pulls out of him so much that he knows power

left me. Healing power, just left.

Mom, who got this hook? Who got this?

Peter's, like, what are you talking?

Somebody touch me, man. Jesus!

Everybody is touching you right now.

We are in a crowd. No.

No. Somebody has asked who touched

me. You just Jesus had to say in the

crowd. Who touched me?

Who touched me? Who touched me in the woman

realize she is not unnoticed now, because God is going to get

glory for what he did. She comes back tells him to

whole story, then he doesn't say well daughter.

You know, only I can do that. You don't want to hear this in

essence. He says power is available for

you to be healed anytime but it's your faith that activated

it, you got it today because of what you believe.

Because you were firmly persuaded.

If you just touch me, you'll be healed.

She's not gonna let an obstacle getting her way.

I'll give you another one. Here it is.

In Mark, let me say a couple things that we turn over there,

to Mark chapter 10. There will be times when the

Mark 10 · chapter mention

natural reports appear to be have more evidence than his

report. It's going to be times that's

going to happen. And again what are you going to

believe? We must never allow natural

experience to determine the finality of our hearing.

Many of us have gone into a faith battle and we allowed our

experience about something dominate our thinking.

Instead of what he said, there will be issues in life but your

issues are not. The only voice you should listen

to, it's always going to be issues.

And if you're doing the plan of God, I guarantee issues because

the enemy always wants to attack the plan of God, he wants to

stop, try to stop it at all cost, but he can't.

I said he can't. You have to be able to continue

to press on. So again don't let your past

experience, determine your belief system.

Only let God, I won't even let my faith victories.

Determine my new ones. I will only see them as God was

faithful here so he can do it again.

Here. Now, how he did it?

There may not be high, he'll do it here.

So I'm not going to make a demand on God, to do it the

exact same way he did it there. And that's how many Believers

are going from Faith to Faith to because they're like, oh, I've

going to be healed. Okay.

So I'm going to be healed, the Lord is going to heal me.

Well, I know I healed me here. So bless God, he's gonna do

that. But again, I've said before,

sometimes our healing is a natural issue.

And sometimes the law word of the Lord to you is change the

way you eat. True.

Mark 10:46 245, then it came, they came to Jericho and as they

Mark 10:46

were leaving Jericho with his disciples, a large crowd, a

blind beggar named Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus was sitting

by the road and when he heard that it was Jesus, y'all doing.

All right, the Nazarene. He began to cry out and say

Jesus, Son of David have mercy on me.

Many were sternly telling him to be quiet but he kept on crying.

All the more son of David have mercy on me and Jesus stopped

and said, call him here. And so, they call the blind man

saying to him. Take courage, stand up.

He's calling you throwing aside, his cloak.

He jumped up. And be came to Jesus and

answering him. Jesus said, what do you want

from me? Or what do you want me to do for

you? And the blind man said to him

teacher, I want to regain my sight in.

Jesus said to him, go. Your do your has made you.

Well immediately He regained his sight and began following him on

the road. Are you seeing what I'm saying?

So we learning this passes that you do not.

You need to not allow anyone to talk you out of your faith.

Don't let anyone talk you out of your faith.

This guy. Now this very important what he

calls Jesus. He says son of David.

That's important because that tells us he has the context that

faith is connected to. which is the kingdom because the son of

David is, the one who has is an heir to the throne So he is

basically saying King Jesus. Have mercy on me, King Jesus

when he says, son of David because David was on the throne

and God told him, David, I'm on from you, I'm going to put a

person on the throne that their Kingdom of have no end.

That's why Jesus was born of the blood line of David.

Are you hearing me? So he is of that bloodline

naturally speaking. And so he's saying King Jesus,

have mercy on me because In essence, he saying you're the

king your final say, on my condition is what matters, what

do you say? What do you say?

So, he begins to cry out. Have mercy on me.

In essence, King, what do you say about my situation?

What do you say about my situation?

What do you say about my situation?

And man, there were people that tried to shut him up from here

on what the king would want to say about his situation.

And how many people are trying to shut you from here?

And what God wants to say about your situation?

That's why you can't go to Instagram.

That's why you can't go to your social media sites and ask all

your little friends that are out somewhere across the country

about what they think about your situation.

Because they're sitting there they're ideas, not the

determining factor or the final say to your situation.

It's amazing how much we want to draw advice.

And in many of us, when we begin to move their like all, why are

you playing Church? Why are you going after that?

Why are you, do you know how many people will talk a new

believer out of coming to church?

All they want to do a stop you from getting all that the

kingdom has for you. Well, let our job talk us out of

church. Will let us a failure.

Talk us out of church. Will let I mean, we let so many

things yell and scream it us. When all the while we need to

say. No.

No, I'm getting to Jesus. He has an answer for what I

need. See, there are plenty of voices

out there that want to shut up your faith.

But he knew, if I man, all I needs a word from the King, all

I need is a word from the king. I just need to hear from the

King on this matter, so he gave him the attention.

And let me tell you where he was at.

He was so confident, the Lord's going to talk to him about his

situation. The Bible says he threw his

cloak. Because see, when you're blind,

you can only be reduced to a beggar.

Which means somebody brings you dropped.

You at a spot, they put a cloak down.

That's what you you know, are there to sit on?

He throws his Assad. I'm done with this.

I won't be begging no more. That's where his faith was that.

Because he's heard about Jesus, he's already heard that he gives

sight to the blind. So when Jesus, then asking, what

is your request? What are you asking?

You've come before the throne of grace.

Now, You've come before the throne of grace.

Now, what is it? You're asking.

Well, I'm not going to ask anything outside the will of the

father, and the world of father. Is that I be healed because

Jesus already answered that to the leopards.

Lord, if you're willing, will you heal me?

I am He is Jehovah Rapha the Lord, that healeth thee.

So, he's like, King, you heal me?

I want to regain my sight. He says, according to your faith

and it says, immediately, he saw Why?

Because these are things within the kingdom of God, that Faith

was always entitled are designed to Pull into your life.

Faith is always been designed to pull Kingdom realities that are

unseen into the natural. It is the power or the exchange

that takes place so that whatever it is that is the

Father's will that you are requesting and believing at

hearing him it shall manifest in your life.

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