Not to be Taken Lightly

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Well you know we just finished Jeremiah Right, here you go.

We just finished Jeremiah, we've gotten into limitations and I'm

going to preach out at Jeremiah tonight, right?

So you just went over this, I've off have often asked the Lord,

at Thomas said, Lord you think one year I could just like

preach from the Bible reading plan.

Like I'll preach only from whatever sections we were in in

that week, right? Because a lot of times, you

know, when you get into the old Covenant people do you know like

well what good is that? There's a lot of good in

everybody. Cut the Bible.

And when you study the word in context, you realize even though

we're in a new and better Covenant, there is history

lessons that we learn from the old Covenant, because the old

Covenant is a type and Shadow of the New Covenant.

In fact, Jesus said this, so please excuse me, I'm gonna show

you my belt Jesus when he said this.

He said, don't think that I've come to destroy the law, but

I've come to fulfill it meaning. All right, I got on the first

night. Ouch, he said in essence, that

means literally. I've come to tighten it up.

So we're in the New Covenant that's tighter.

Then the old Covenant and we need to understand that because

there's a lot of teaching out there in the New Covenant,

that's a lot. Looser is like we get to take

the belt off. Well, your pants fall down then.

a lot of people getting caught, Right exposed.

Sins. Exposing is what I'm saying.

So what does it mean to be tightened up?

Well, we're going to talk about it tonight and if you've been in

the Bible reading plan. So you know, I was, I was in it,

it seemed like the Lord's, just like just preach this and

everybody's going to know where you're at, because they've been

there, for those who've been reading.

Now, if you're behind, you need to catch up, you know, if you're

online, then you're good to go, right?

If you're not in the Bible, reading plan, it would just be

another message to you because you hadn't actually technically

weren't in it, but these things will come to your remembers.

Before we get here, I do want to remind you that the Bible is

about a king is Kingdom in his role offspring.

And so God in the beginning, created the heavens and the

Earth with a purpose and a design.

It wasn't just I'm bored. There's a design and that design

follows all the way from Genesis 1:1.

Genesis 1:1

All the way through Revelation is twenty one, twenty two or

twenty two Twenty One excuse me. Okay.

So with that being said we need to have context of what God's

doing then. He makes this whole earth.

Everything is good. They want.

He says they to he says they 3 says they for right?

And then he gets down and said, let us make man in our image.

According to our likeness and let them have dominion or rule

over the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, over all the

cattle, we're every creeping thing that creeps on the earth,

over all the Earth man was to have to me in both male and

female, he created them. So both male and female were to

have dominion. Now, I just want to point out

real quick because we have made the Bible so personal and are is

a personal to it but so personal that we Almost don't see what

God's looking at. Because God said, let us make

man. Well that's not Bob

specifically, although it includes Bob.

Okay, that's Ricky. It includes him but it's not let

us make Ricky in our image. This is important because God

can say anything and be true in what he's saying.

And some aren't what he said was doesn't make his word Allah

because if he says, let us make man in our image, according to

our likeness, then every man should be in his life image and

according to his likeness. Well, the problem is not every

man as it is, Imagine according to his likeness, not since Adam

ate the fruit Goes again, when we talk about the world today

from the church, our life. Well, we're all God's love and

people. Well, we're not all God's loving

people because not all the people are loving God.

Well, you know you're creating the image of God.

You're not creating the image of God if you're the son of the

devil. You're in the image of Adam.

The one who fell who now produces after his own kind.

And His Kind commits sin and God's not a sinner.

Are you hear me again? If this wasn't true, then Jesus

is a liar because Jesus looked at the Pharisees Works, were

religious people and said this, you are of your father of your

father, not my father, Okay, we didn't get too deep already

halfway. I mean, I hope not.

Are you hearing what I'm saying? So again, we have, you know, met

things in such a way that we we're missing certain things

that about the Bible as a whole or contextually and then about

how to live successful in our own lives.

And so, as a result of that, Jesus says, you're of your

father, Father, the devil. Because he was a liar from the

beginning. Now, God made man in His image

of corn, his likeness. But he definitely had made these

Pharisees that way because the Pharisees have sinned and fallen

short of the glory of God. They are separated from God in

their spirit. So their nature is not of God.

Their nature is of the devil. Now, if they'll call on Jesus to

be Lord of their life, then they become a new creature.

New is not a renovation, not a remodel.

Not getting a new mall. In order to get her new mall, we

would have to demo it. Tear it down, rip everything out

of the ground, go back to nothing and then build something

brand new now. I could put new things in the

mall, but that doesn't make it. A new mall is just renovated,

but when you get born again, God doesn't renovate, your spirit.

He makes you a new one of him. In fact, when it says born,

again, it literally means to be born from above, which means

you're up now. The god kind again.

How God intended man to be, but not all men will be.

When I say men, I'm not talking male or female.

I'm talking the spirit of man because both male and female on

the day of judgment will be cast into the Lake of Fire, which is

the second death because they did not accept Jesus as their

lord and they'll go to the lake of fire with their daddy.

With their daddy although God never intended for them to go.

And he's made provision for them.

Not to go. They have to choose Not to go.

Are you hearing me? Hallelujah.

Okay. So with that being said, we need

to understand that the Bible is about a king, his kingdom in his

role Offspring. So, the King has a kingdom that

has children. That's a pretty general

statement, just let you know Jesus.

The Lord is the king. The father's the King Jesus is

seated at his right hand. He's the king.

The holy spirit is the one who's operating on behalf of those two

and they are one. And then he has a kingdom, which

is a Kings Dominion a domain. Well, we know understand that he

is, Lord over Heaven Earth and under the Earth, right?

But then he is taking other property which is our skin

suits. Let us make man in our image,

according to our likeness. And he For Man Out of the Dust

of the earth. So by All rights, your piece of

property. And so he wants to redeem you,

he wants you to be in, hit on, in his domain under his

authority. Now, notice this.

Everyone's under his authority already You're either under it

has a son, are you going to be under it as a convicted?

Justly, convicted Rebel. To the crown, okay?

For committing treason. Against his word and his word is

life. This is not chauvinistic.

His words Live member Joshua said I set before you life and

choose and that life came from the word.

Jesus said, I am the way the truth and the the life.

So his word is life. So again, it's not like him

telling you what to do, his word is causing you to live.

There's a difference, it's different.

If I go George get up right? I mean that dissonant, it

necessarily causing him to live or die.

Right, but when God says, that's life.

That's life. So whole nother ball game.

All right. So he has a royal Offspring,

which means he has kids. The question is who are his

kids. Right.

Who's this kids? Well, what's once again?

It's General. Because again, he's a king.

He has a kingdom. And then he has children.

There are peculiar people. They are a royal priesthood.

They are a holy now. A nation is a group of people.

But they're identified by how they live.

So, their life shows that they are part of his kingdom.

So he can have a nation. Right.

And when we look at the Bible, he's always talking nationally.

He's talking nationally law given case in point.

Remember when Joshua went into the promised land?

And then they took Jericho because they did it the way, the

Lord says right? And the Lord said, when you take

it, you dedicate everything to me.

But a guy say a guy. Oh, God.

Hey guy went in and saw some stuff dedicated for the Lord.

What did he do? He took it went to his tent, and

hit it up, underneath it, correct?

So another little community that they're going to go and take

possession up there like man, this thing's so small we just

sent 3,000 got to be no big deal so they go in but 37 people

died. And Josh was like, seriously,

what is happening? I mean, everybody.

Now on this land, after we've conquered the most fortified

City that would completely be even more fearful of us because

that's any was already fearful of us and we'd even know about

it. But the rest now, we're going to

thank well. This little town beat us so now

they'll all come against us. We're going to get whipped.

But the Lord says this Joshua, Israel has sinned.

Okay. Did he say the one God's name

sinned? Because one guy said, but yet

the Lord says, okay. Israel has sinned, which means

one guy sin affected. The nation and specifically

affected the lives of 37. People are y'all don't hear

this. Right?

So he's like, you're gonna have to deal with the sin in the

camp, so he's out even know who did it.

So, they start drawing lost. Now, they drew Lots back them

because we didn't have the Holy Ghost Inside people.

And this was way. God's way of directing where

something was. So they began to draw these loss

and end up coming to the guys out and he said, what have you

done? He said, man, I did it.

Yep, I'm the guy. Send my tent.

Well it wasn't good for him. Right?

He died and then they conquer the next lands, right?

So they had to get rid of that person.

Oh, they had to remove the sin from the nation so that it would

be wholly in God's eyes again. Are you hearing me?

So, what does this tell us? This tells us that Israel is a

nation of a lot of people but not every person in the nation

will make it with the nation. and there's a reason why, which

is why we're in Jeremiah Because the reason why Jeremiah is there

is the let us know that we are not to take things lightly.

We are not to take things lightly, right?

The first thing we are not to take lightly is God's word.

We are not to take it lightly, right?

And we are not to take God's mercy lightly.

We are also not to take God's love lightly but we definitely

should not take his wrath lightly, right?

Now, everybody wants to be Jeremiah's a profit nobody want.

I mean Elijah, nobody wants to be Jeremiah, can't wait for

Ezekiel, what a powerful Prophet Ministry.

That is that nobody wants, okay? Because you are responsible for

telling everybody, you're in sin, you're gonna die, just

because you won't listen. Okay.

And that's what Jeremiah did in that amazing.

God's assignment. Jeremiah Was I have gone.

All these centuries now. With this nation.

And I have said back with Moses, if you will keep my word

Deuteronomy 28, all I got to do is read Deuteronomy 28, this is

Deuteronomy 28 stuff. If you'll obey my word, all

these things will happen to you. Verse first 13, verses then the

rest of the chapter, if you do not obey my word, these things

are going to happen. Okay, the problem is or what

seems to be in the nation of Israel?

Is it looks like God doesn't do what he says.

Because when people are responding, the way, contrary is

still a nation. But God is merciful.

And he's not well with it. He sins prophets.

Now, why does he send prophets? Because in the old Covenant, the

Holy Ghost Came Upon prophets, priests and Kings.

And the prophets are were the voice of God to the king even.

Right to the king, even the hot, the priest obviously had to have

an Oni because they were the ones that performed all the

sacrifices in order to keep the nation covered.

So that it can maintain his Holiness.

So, God could continue to bless it and hold back, its enemies.

Come on here. Am I saying And so the prophet

would come and say, you know, the word of the Lord says to her

to, the Lord, says the word of the Lord said, the word of the

Lord says, and Jeremiah comes into this season.

Where the Lord's, like I've seen enough.

Now, I'm going to send you when we're done.

This is a whole book of Jeremiah.

I'm sending you cuz we're done. And one more, pick up a Jeremiah

25. Start in verse 4.

Go to verse 8, Jeremiah 25 40 verse 8 says the Lord has sent

to you all his servants, the prophets, what again and again.

But you have not listened or inclined, your ear to hear

saying turn now everyone from his evil way, and from the Evil

of your deeds and dwell on the land which the Lord has given to

you and your forefathers forever and ever.

Now let me just stop right here for a second will Israel as a

land always exist? Yes, Yes, it will, it will

always exist because in the end a New Jerusalem is going to come

down out of heaven and Israel is going to be a nation period.

I don't care how many Nate natural nation is right now.

On planet Earth are trying to destroy that Nation.

Come against that Nation. It will never eradicate that

Nation. It's just not going to have it.

Is it is a waste of there, Tom. In fact, they'll get God

involved in their business. And they don't want him to get

involved in the business, he'll bring.

Okay. But so that's going to happen.

But yet, God when he says, forever, and ever doesn't mean

that if the nation won't do what I say, I'll disband okay.

He said turn now everyone from his evil way and from the evil

of your Deeds, dwell on the land which the Lord your God is

giving your to you and your forefathers forever and ever and

do not go after other gods, to serve them and to worship them

and do not provoke me right to anger with the work of your

hands. And I will do you no harm.

Yet. Yet.

Now in the old Covenant, obviously there was idol

worship, I know that, but don't think there's not idol worship

today. Because, again, Jesus already,

let let us know in the New Covenant, which is the strongest

Idol anyway, and it never left. Now, I'm not talking about

making little Idols per se, although people do have no

Idols, you know, people got like little Stones now, crystals,

some do have that little boot of guy with a big belly.

I was actually at seriously I was actually at Salt Life the

other day and there was a guy that was there and I'm serious

he looked like a living Buddha I thought man you know this guy

really probably could make a lot of money just in a natural sense

you know if he like took his shirt off and covered himself

gold and say grub me right for $5 my belly that is Right.

I mean seriously, he looked bad obviously he's not but I miss

the first human I've ever seen that.

Look, that close to the little statue.

It's really amazing. Wow.

I wonder how many people said you look like Buddha?

I didn't say because he's big God, I wasn't gonna do it right.

I wasn't going to do it anyway, but it was interesting.

You know, I mean, I know people say that I look like people at

times, you know, some like I saw your twin then I see my twin.

I'm like dude I'm ugly what happened?

I really look that bad in my mind, you know.

Just kidding. Everybody's beautiful, right?

Okay yet, you have not listened to me.

What's the idol in the New Covenant?

Jesus said, you cannot serve both God and Mammon which is

money, you know how many Christians move and don't even

ask what church they can go to. They'll do it for a job and they

don't even go to church. You know why they don't is

because I have a personal relationship with the Lord.

So, they made it so personal that you don't count now.

And I don't have to be connected to the body.

But, I don't believe the body. The the Bible doesn't even

support that Because you're you're the one.

I mean, the Bible says, if the shepherd has 99 sheep one goes

away. He'll leave the 99 which means

there's more pop. The shepherd can walk away from

99, sheep in a field where the fought where the wolf can come

and he believes because they are together.

They have more power without me there but I got to go get this

one. Well, you know Pastor I don't

need to come to church, you know Galah, bro.

You're off by yourself. You are wolf.

Eight, your wolf bait. Period, you have been deceived

that, you know, if God's coming after you all by yourself,

that's a problem. I said that's a problem.

Okay. Anyway, yet you have not

listened to me. Declares the Lord.

In order that you might provoke me to anger with the work of

your hands to your own harm. Therefore, thus says the Lord of

hosts because you have did have not obeyed my words.

Right. And then he goes on in verse 9,

10 dada, dada, dada. So the prophets come, they say,

they say, they say, they're doing wrong God's, not saying

it's okay, they're still a blessed Nation, he is still

dealing with her enemy. He will because of one or two.

That will have their hearts right towards God.

Especially those in leadership. SWAT was very important for the

king. To get right with God because it

can do something for the nation. But they just kept going and

eventually the Lord's like you don't think I'll do Deuteronomy

28. Which obviously it wasn't

Deuteronomy 28 you understand, you know what I mean?

It was that letter you don't think I'll do this.

So all of a sudden they begin to take lightly Obviously we're in

a new and better Covenant, right?

We'll get to it limitations limitations, or we're in there.

We read this today limitations 1:8 9 look at this Jerusalem has

grievously sinned. Therefore she has become an

unclean thing and has been removed.

All who honor honored her despise her because they have

seen her nakedness. Yes, she herself groans and

signs and turns her face away. Her filthiness was in.

And on her skirt she did not seriously and earnestly consider

her final in and, you know, most people, cause they don't take

lightly their walk with God and its connection with his Nation.

They don't understand their final end are the things that

are coming their way, just because they're not valuing are

taking lightly God's voice. God in the New Covenant.

Just doesn't tell us things to come.

Nor does he just continue to give us more knowledge?

He will do some other things with his voice and we'll get to

that in a minute. But she goes on and says there's

therefore, she has come. Look at this.

Now she has come down from what Brown to slavery.

Oh, I'd love that the new member of the amplify classic here.

So she was on a throne. And she got reduced to slavery.

We've been raised up in a new covenant seated in Heavenly

places in Christ Jesus. Can you come off your throne and

get back down and slavery? you sure can, if you take

lightly So she came down from throw into slavery singly and

astonishingly she has no comforter.

Oh now, who's the comforter? What's his name?

The Bible tells us in good Thessalonians says, do not

grieve. The Holy Spirit.

Now, that's not talking to the world.

That's talking to the church and Paul is talking to the church at

thessalonica. I've been there. he's saying

don't grieve the Holy Spirit, meaning when he comes talking,

you need to listen. He said, O, Lord, cries

Jerusalem. Look at my Affliction for the

enemy has magnified himself in Triumph.

Now, the problem is, is when we look at this account, because

again, you're going to read it, you read in.

Jeremiah says, the Lord has ordained these things like

they're working for God. Obviously you need to get

context just because God says that I'll use the nation from

the north. What he's saying is That Nation

hates me. He hates me, they don't love me,

they don't care. They have all their other gods.

They think their gods are are over me.

And when they pitch their gods towards Israel and his God, they

hate that God, they hate who he is, and they want to destroy and

prove to that Nation. My God stronger, but if you'll

be holy and blameless with me, I'll keep them at Bay.

I'll let him know. I am.

I am, but if you will openly Disregard my word and how I am

supposed to be lived in front of the world.

And you are, are living like them and then you want me to

protect you? Well, I'll just move out the

way. I'll just step back and the

enemy can come because here's the thing Babylon, wasn't the

wasn't the flower child, or The Golden Child.

Because Jeremiah Tim prophesize. Yeah, babylon's going down going

down for its ain't going down. Going down for it sin.

Are you hearing me? So again, when we read these,

there is a devil. There is an enemy that comes to

kill, steal, and destroy. And when you are in right

standing with the governing Authority and you live out your

righteousness, and you do not take lightly God's voice in your

life, then man, he's able to make your enemies.

Be at peace with you. Notice he didn't make your

enemies, your friends, your buddies.

Yeah, lies. He'll make your enemies.

Even at peace, that means they're still your enemy.

Honestly, if it was up to them, they would love to see you fall

and die. They would love to crush you,

but because you are staying in right standing with God, your

living and stay out, because you're obeying, the instruction

you're passionate about doing God, his way, then he'll cause

your enemy to be at peace. He'll prepare a table before you

in the presence of your enemies. Not Not change your enemies to

your buddies. but, you know when Israel was living this way and

they were at peace with these nations, they all of a sudden

want to give Buddies, they wanted to be a buddy.

You know how many churches have turned into buddy system?

Be a buddy with the world. Let's just be buddies with them.

Maybe we can win them. Are you don't want it?

Want to be buddies. That end of the day, they're not

in my nature, they can be my nature.

If they'll call on the name of the Lord, I mean, I was there

nature before I call on the name of the Lord, but the men I call

on the name of the Lord. I'm not in that Kingdom.

No more. I've been transferred out of the

domain of Darkness into the kingdom of his beloved Son.

I am not going back. I don't ever want to go back

now. I admit in my infancy when I got

born again, and as a babe in Christ, I would totally wear the

place I came. Out of my mind would lead me

back in actions and and behaviors and and attitudes that

were of a Dominion. I've been redeemed from snap

style of and I shouldn't even be thinking like that anymore,

right. But God was merciful and

Jeremiah lets us know guys. How many times did God say just

quit doing it that way. How many times did he come by

and say hey, what about this? Don't do that.

Don't do this. Don't do that.

Let me say it this way. Generally speaking, Israel will

be with the father, and Israel will have no sin, but Cora will

not be there. Just give you one example.

Cora was in Covenant with God and came out of Egypt with

Moses, but he rebelled so bad that the Lord opened up the

ground and he went to she'll alive.

Now when the new Heaven and new earth done, guess who's not

going to be in Israel although they were formerly of Israel.

Coral wall through the Red Sea, like everybody else chorus, all

the miracles signs and wonders like everybody else.

Core ate the bread of life, like everybody else drinks the spring

of life like everybody else. But Cora will not be with

Israel. We could name others.

I said we can name others. but Israel be there, and those whose

lifestyle and their faith in that lifestyle, Modeled what God

was saying, we will see them. You know, who we're going to

see? We're going to see Moses.

We're going to see David and David blew it.

They even made a couple bad calls, couple back holes, they

were recorded. I mean, either way more good

than he ever did bad anyway. And it's not a scale in the

first place, but when he blew it he let us know.

And when he did blow what'd he do?

He repented he cried out to God. Why has he God was a merciful

god and at the end of the day, if I do, this is what he I'm not

going to take lightly, he just corrected me.

I could show you another king, were a prophet showed up

corrected him, and they killed the prophet.

But when Nathan, the prophet corrected, David for his

immorality. Instead of him killing Nathan

and saying, I thought I had this thing under wraps.

And you ain't going to let it out.

So y'all just go ahead and cut that man's head off.

And if any man in this room talks about it, I cut your head

off too because you're going to see what I'm gonna do.

I don't know. I am not afraid to even kill the

prophet. But no, David was like.

Well, that, that ain't the prophet talking.

That's the Lord, and he has seen it all.

And I need to repent, then he wouldn't even eat when it's when

the Sun. Bathsheba got sick, member

didn't at all. Didn't it all?

Because he was like, maybe just maybe there could be some mercy

there, but the reality is he didn't make it.

When he didn't make it, he claimed stuff up went on says,

you know what that was God's decision.

Let's go on, let's go on to the next thing which really it was

the choice of David that brought that on there because that could

taint a bloodline. Oh you don't hear this.

Are you hearing me? So, we understand then that

there's this General state of Israel, which means every person

that was ever an Israeli, we could say, And they're a

covenant does not mean they will be with the Lord forever.

Now, look what it says here in Isaiah.

Look what it says to be. Isaiah 49:6, New King James

Isaiah 49:6

Version says this way everybody. Okay.

And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldst be my servant

to raise up the tribes of Jacob and tourism and to restore the

preserved ones of Israel. I will also give you as a light

to the Gentiles that you should be my salvation to the ends of

the Earth. Someone's coming.

What's his name? What's his name?

His name is Jesus. Now, Jesus does something that

Israel don't even know about Because Israel knows we have a

king coming and he's going to establish his kingdom.

Be no in, right? We know this from the same

prophet. Isaiah Isaiah 9:6 says, a child

Isaiah 9:6

will be born. A son will be given, and I must

say it again, Bears repeating, but there's people in the room.

Probably never heard this before.

The child was born, but the sun was not born.

The son was never born, the sun, always existed.

So, the sun was given. So God the son, the Son of God,

clothed himself, In the skin suit of a man, a child is born.

A son is given and the government.

The Bible says, shall rest on his shoulders, right?

And they'll call him wonderful counselor, then you get to verse

7 and they'll be no end to the increase of his government.

Or if peace and he'll stablish. This on the throne of David.

So Jesus, when he comes, it is spoken by the angel Gabriel that

you're going to name him Jesus. He is the Messiah.

He is the king. He'll sit on the throne of the

House of David out of the tribe of Judah.

This is all about kingship, not about a religion.

It's about a king coming. That's going to set up a date.

Eternal rain for Israel but not just Israel.

He would actually be a light to the Gentiles and the Gentiles

are all the other nations in essence.

When this King comes, he will answer in essence.

A, I open up my rule to the world All you have to do is come

and bow down, receive me as your king.

Now, what did our King do for us?

Well, he only died for us. He went to battle all by

himself, lay down his Precious Blood, never blew it ever and

poured out his blood. So that any human that was ever

born from Adam to the last one, if they call on his name, could

be saved, right? Not only saved, but they will

become a new creature in Christ. Their name would be written in

heaven. In essence, their citizenship

would be recorded there. Because they are the kingdom of

God. Are you?

Hearing me? And then we would be ambassadors

for Christ. So Jesus then says, in Matthew

Matthew 16 · chapter mention

chapter 16, this organization are this governmental entity.

He would bring to the planet in Matthew 16:18 says, and I'll

Matthew 16:18

build my church. All right here.

So Jesus told Peter upon the rock, the Revelation that I am,

the Christ, the King, the Eternal one, the Messiah, who

would come set up his kingdom and have no end.

I am the anointed one and his anointing.

I am the anointed king upon that Revelation.

I will build. My church is a really general

statement just like Israel is Which means them.

Jesus knows exactly what his church is going to look like.

Okay, I'm bringing it from old Covenant over into.

Are you in the New Covenant? Okay?

So look at Ephesians 5:25, Ephesians 5:25, says husband's,

Ephesians 5:25 Ephesians 5:25

love your wives and just as say just as not, maybe like Like, do

the best she can. Oh, okay.

All right. Wives, you ought to lie.

Shout me down. Husbands love your wife just as

not maybe as when you feel like ass, don't be an ass.

Are you hear me? Just asked Christ.

Also loved the church. So I have to love Pastor Marcy.

Like Christ loves the church. And what did Christ do before I

got into the church, or the church could even be in play, he

has to die and I don't even love him.

Which means Marcy don't have to tell me, she loves me for me to

show her affection. Because while we were yet,

sinners disobedient to the king, and we hated him and wanted

nothing to do with him Christ died for us.

Well, honey, I wish you'd show me some affection.

Why don't you just show her affection?

Be done with it. Just be done with it.

Because if you love her like, Christ loves the church.

Oh my, and I could testify, maybe I should have Pastor

Marcus. He's not here, she talks about

me when I'm not. Oh mama.

All right. So, just as Christ also what

loved the church and he gave himself up for her.

So why did he do this? So that he might sanctify her

know, having cleansed her by the washing of the water with the

word that he might present to himself?

What? Present to himself what present

to himself. Present himself, Rafael present

to himself, Pastor, Angie present himself, Kim,

Blankenship. Present to himself.

Now. Can't blame his ship, Pastor.

Angie and Rafael are in the church.

If? Okay.

So they might say to himself having cleanse it with the

washing of the Water by the word that he might present to himself

the church and all her glory having no spot or wrinkle or any

such thing that she would be what holy which is separated

unto God and and blameless. So you can't be running around

saying I'm in a church and living in the world and talking

blameless. Now, your spirit man can not

sin, but your soul is wrecking your testimony.

Was he requires you to actually renew it Asher responsibility?

Because the reason why he didn't save your soul as well as

because it would have put you in a robot status.

So, he's like, I made your spirit alive to me.

Now it has the capacity or you get this now to hear the

prophet. In one sense.

Ready now? I'm not talking just the profit.

Why? Because the God can't speak

through the pasture. The Apostle, the prophet, the

teacher and the evangelists, no doubt.

But here in the New Covenant, unlike the nation of Israel that

needed a man or a woman to show up and say thus saith the Lord.

Because if the man's not they're saying thus, saith the Lord,

we're not hearing the same floor because my Spears dead.

I'm not alive to God. God doesn't speak to me.

That way in the old cup but in the New Covenant, all of a

sudden, I become a new creature in Christ.

And the third person of the guy, had the Holy Ghost comes and

lives inside me. And now, he Bears witness with

my spirit that I'm a child of God.

And when I read the word, the Holy Spirit, talks to my spirit

and says, now change your thinking about that, son.

Because he said now man, when this Covenant comes, we don't

need other people. Having a runner you having to

wait for someone to show up and teach you something.

The spirit of God will be in you to talk to you.

And don't think the Holy Ghost is not saying the same thing.

The Holy Ghost was saying in the old Covenant, What are you doing

right now? What are you doing right now?

What are you doing? What are you doing right now?

That is not our nation. That's not the church.

It's not what we do. It's not how we do it.

You're greater than that. I'm a greater one.

I can Empower you. We can do it, different.

Let's change our thinking. Let's don't go with that.

Feeling less. Stay with the word.

I mean, it's one thing for them to say, well, you know, I never

heard of profit. I mean that's why I'm blowing it

all the time. How you gonna say that now?

Okay, how are we going to say that now?

Well, this is why people quit coming to church.

The reason they don't want to come to church because they want

to fine-tune their ability to hear the spirit of God in them.

90 the Holy Spirit saying when they're out of church.

Well, you need you back in church, right?

And he'll do this. Let's start with the word who

gets in the word Adventure. Like, man.

I you go to church, right? Because he like, you know, you

with your brothers and sisters, man.

I didn't leave you out here all by yourself.

I'm going to leave you here by yourself.

Come on, you need, get around other like-minded people.

Let's go, let's get it together right now.

If you think lightly of that, Hebrews chapter 12.

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Hebrews chapter 12. You all right man.

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Let's don't take stuff lightly. So what I love about jeremias

when I'm looking at light. Praise God.

Look at the mercy of God, look how many times God was like,

come on just do what I say it's life is protection.

Is blessing. Is prosperity is health.

Is healing is causing your enemies to bow down before you

and what an awesome existence. So I don't take lightly then his

instruction or his correction. And in the New Covenant because

again, well brother, I'm saved by grace.

Well, you better activate it then because if you're not

activating it your grace of doing nothing, because Grace

does nothing without faith, We are saved through Grace how it

faith in their gray sitting there.

So you can't come down to this Altar and seeing we pray one

Prayer by faith to be born again and I'll say my spirit, man is a

lot. The Holy Ghost in me.

I do whatever I want to because the grace of God on my life, the

grace of God is there for you to empower.

You now to live this church life, or we would call it a

kingdom life because you're no longer of the world, but if

you're not in faith, that happening the grace, you're

claiming you have. Isn't actually working.

And you're actually deceived what?

I just heard one Minister say, why is it that when the Bible is

very clear in the last days, there will be many deceived and

we act like that's not the case. Now, I'll get well, brother.

You just trying to work it out, I am working out my salvation

with fear and trembling, that's a New Testament, scripture.

Meaning I am working in the word by the spirit to renew, my mind

to live out all that I am. Because if I don't do that, I'm

telling you take a seed, put it in the ground plant.

It's a it's an orange tree, right?

Plant it in soil, that allows it to break, but then don't water

it ever are fertilized. It all the potential to have

fruit and it'd be a great but it can be squandered not because it

wasn't available but you didn't keep it into conditions and keep

working it, so that it can completely come out.

Yeah, we at like the me? Get born again.

Then all of a sudden it's going to come out without our help.

Well, they didn't get in you without your help.

I said it didn't get in you without your help.

You had to believe with all your heart and confess with your

mouth, Jesus is Lord. And didn't only then the grace

activate and you became a new child and the Holy Ghost came

and lived on the inside of you. And now all of a sudden we don't

do nothing when as a sinner we had to do that.

Oh you don't want to hear that. Now obviously I'm talking to

people on the camera, right? Which is not live but Case they

pull that piece, they can have that part.

Okay. Plus it's you know a podcast so

somebody could be listening to it.

Alright, let's read this. Therefore since we have so great

a cloud of witnesses surrounding us.

Let us Okay, you're in Grace, right?

Let us let, who, who, who? Who Who's responsible here?

This is why we don't like this. Why?

People who love their Grace message.

Not God's grace message. Wants no responsibility.

When an ex in essence God says, I'm giving you power and the

responsibility and ability to never let sin dominates you

again. Be subject to it ever again, you

have control now. Go before I did have control, I

was bound to it stuck in it couldn't help it had to do it

and when I didn't want to do it, I still doing it.

Right. Paul wrote this.

In First Corinthians chapter 7. I'm just arrested.

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God, man. I'm trying not to do this thing

if I myself doing it. But thanks be unto God, right?

Thanks be unto God, why? Because he calls us to try it

out in Christ. Jesus.

Meaning, now that I'm in the king, the Holy Ghost is in me.

I'm raised up and seated with him in Heavenly places in

Christ. He's my spear Man's Alive.

To God, I have the ability to hear and understand scripture

without any distant person per se having to teach me to a

degree. You do need a five fold Ministry

in your life Aid. All of them actually because

it's in the church and they're there to equip the Saints.

There are some things you'll never learn from God, outside of

his church city period period, because God would be a liar

through Paul. If we says, he said some gifts,

he gave his Apostle dada da for the equipping of the Saints.

Well, you don't have to quit me. Don't need a pastor.

You're a liar, cause you're already out of context with

First Corinthians chapter 12, the arm can't.

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Say to the leg. I don't need you.

So, you're already in deception. Okay, therefore, since we have

such cloud of witnesses rounding us, let us, let us also lay

aside every encumbrance. I like that.

And the sin, which so easily entangles, us.

So, an encumbrance is a weight, meaning.

What is it about my life? That hinders me from going after

God, with all my heart and it may not be a sin, it may just be

I don't want to get up. To go, pray.

And that hinders you from going the distance.

Now I work out when I can make it to the gym because I have not

been there for a little bit, but when I go I you can't have

certain things without application.

Right? You can go in there, walk around

touch the machines. Talk to people, pull out your

membership card, but you're not going to be changed.

You're only changed unless you get under the weight.

Right? You break something down.

So that you can get stronger and there's always a little bit of

pain with it, you know. And I was in the Army.

I was like pain is it or really in in high school?

Pain is just weakness, leaving the body, unless you hurt

yourself in, it's just pain because you did something wrong,

right? Remember one time I was doing

the suicide grip on the bench press and I brought it down to

35 when I was probably 140. 235, brought it down like this.

When you put it back up, right? And it wiggled here and fell

right there. Yeah, my spotter.

Where were you at? That was like, oh, and picked it

out, right? And life?

Here I am. And I'm good.

I'm good. Yeah, I'm good.

All right, we're done for the day though.

I'm good. Came back the next day to bench.

Dude, it hurts so bad. I bruised my sternum.

It was horrible. It was horrible.

Thank God. We went into inventory because

it didn't work out like that. Anyway.

He was like, six months. And I could not get under any

weight because it bruised me. So it wasn't pain, leaving

weakness, leaving the body, it was an injury that was let me

know you doing nothing. You're doing nothing.

Are you hearing me? So we then have to lay aside.

We have to submit to something that allows us to go.

So if there's a something that's hindering us from being all in

or going to the place, we need to go, then we're just going to

have to put that down. But then, there are certain

things and sometimes, you know, all of us special, when we were

younger babes in Christ, we did it way more often.

Obviously, when we get older, that's why for me, you know,

everyone's not equal in the room because in the room, I may have

some babes in Christ which means they're going to stumble and do

some things you're like, mmm, it's not good, it's in, it's

wrong. But let us repent, there's

mercy. God to forgive it, and let's

move on. Then there's some is like bro,

really seriously? Because we know more, then

there's more accountability as how it is.

It's just where you're at, on the Spectrum but at the end of

the day, Mercy is everywhere. Should you repent and do what

you're supposed to do, right? Because God's love is so

amazing. so amazing, because when I read about what happened

to Israel with Babylon, like it never had to be And never had to

be and there's some individuals in the realm of the Church New

Covenant that you're seeing their lives.

You're like, it never has to be this way.

It doesn't have to be that way. Why are they being stubborn and

stiff neck man? All right, let me wrap this up

because I'm read this whole chapter.

Okay, so Sam was so easily, entangles, us and let us run

with endurance, the race that is set before us.

Okay? So it's not a Sprint.

It's erase and is for the rest of our lives, fixing our eyes,

we're on Jesus, the author and Perfecter of Faith, who for the

joy set before him, endured the cross, the joy set before him.

Now we got to Define what Joy was set before him and we will

before the end of this chapter. But the joy set before him what

he do, he endured the cross. Despising the shame and sat down

at the right hand of God, right hand of the Throne of God verse

34, consider him, who has endured such hostility by

Sinners against himself, so that you will not grow weary and lose

heart, just read about how he got hassled and you're like,

well, I don't get as bad as him, don't lose heart then, Don't

lose heart. Then he goes on and says this.

You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in the

striving against sin. Right.

And have you forgotten the exhortation, which is addressed

to you, as that's children of God.

Now, Sons is not just the guys in the room that is all of us.

So much children of God. He said, Anne, have you

forgotten the exhortation, which is addressed to you as Sons, my

son, do not, what regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor

faint, when you are reproved by him For Those whom the Lord. he

what what's he do, but what whom the Lord what The Lord is what

loving you when he disciplines you now parents, you need to

learn from your daddy in heaven because you're not loving your

kids when you don't discipline your kids.

You're letting them get away with it.

Your it blows me away. Some parents, their kids are so

young, they're negotiating with a weld I'm like just do the

Bible, pull it off spank, it a couple times and let's move on.

Let's move on. That's a Biblical principle.

I don't care what the world says about it.

It is a Biblical principle. I'm not telling my beating I'm

not talking about leaving Mark, I'm talking about bringing

enough, correction that their little mod.

All of a sudden says, hmm. You know what?

My little granddaughter love her to death, but she put her hand

on the oven. Got this massive blister right

past them. Are she told you about on

Sunday? Those who hear?

You know, what I guarantee you now, that's not how we teach at

all. That was her fault, but I know

she's not going to be going like Let's do it again.

Right. It's not gonna happen, so the

Lord allowed a mechanism. In our bodies, the way we are

built that in a younger portion of our life.

It can help get us straight and then it literally will drive.

She'll Or the grave far from them, because what we are

teaching them is that there's no consequence for Disobedience and

Jeremiah says Road. There's a consequence for

Disobedience and the New Covenant saying there's a

There's a consequence for disobedience.

So, quit at like there's no consequence for Disobedience.

Well, I told him not to do it anymore but they're still doing

it. Okay, For Those whom, the Lord

loves he disciplines and he scourges every son, whom he

receives it is for discipline that you endure God deals with

you as Sons for what son is there whom his father does not

discipline. Well, obviously we could show

the Lord a lot today but if you are without discipline, look

what he says of which all have become partakers then you are

illegitimate children. And not Sons.

So people want to come to church and never be corrected.

Bro, I'm sorry. Pastor slang right there.

Sorry seriously. We are a mess prior to the Lord.

Our thinking is so utterly jacked up.

I mean, we think we're doing right?

And the scripture lets us know there's a way that seems right

to a man but the analyze all roads lead to death.

And then you realize I need Jesus, but the minute we get

born again. We're like that baby now.

No, no, I'll take my belt off right now.

I'm gonna show you know, I'm gonna show you know, right?

Because it's gonna be yes. Yes.

And amen, right? I mean and but you were like

telling God, no. Don't talk to me like that.

Don't tell me and you want to be considered a son.

I want to come to a church where I'm not keep being corrected.

Man, if you, if you can make it through a whole month of anchor,

a church. And I feel a little twinge man.

I'm not preaching right now. I'm not trying to get on your

couch. Just say I know the Lord wants

to perfect, you. That's what I'm saying?

Like, hmm. Yeah.

I could do that a little better. Thanks Dad.

Thanks Dad. That you love me so much.

That you're trying to bring perfection in my life, not being

perfect, but maturing me so that I can handle each situation

exactly as you would and bring life to it.

He goes on, says verse 9. Furthermore we had Earthly

fathers discipline us respected them how much more rather be

subject to the father of spirits and live for.

They disciplined us for a short time as it seems best to them

but he disciplines us for our what good, this is good.

So that we may share in his own and I feel real good.

I felt like they were speaking right, to me, it was good, it

was really good message. Yeah, you might not have jumped

around and dancing and shouting. Whoo, that was a good message,

those aren't good messages as much as the ones that you're

like, man. Okay, I can make that

adjustment. That was a good message, but it

was for your his for you. Good.

And all of us parents. We say that y because if we're

you good It's biblical why? And I tell you why.

Father don't tell me why half the top father.

Not tell me why I have to Tom, why are we doing this?

Because I said so right, all right, I'll discipline okay for

our good so that we may share In his Holiness, all discipline.

For the moment, seems not to be joyful granted I get it but

sorrowful yet to those who have been what Man, when you workout,

it is sorrowful the next day but it's going to be all right?

I mean, when you studied to pass a test it was sorry for being

you feeling it, but after you get the grade, your life, praise

God. You got joy, ladies, you got

pregnant. And then all of a sudden is time

to have the baby. It's like Dave.

Whoo, this is the best feeling in my life.

No, you're like, don't look at me.

I'll slap your face. Not all of you for sure, but you

understand, I need an epidural. I need it.

And, you know, to can I get two Okay, with that being said, my

wife told me something that she thought was as bad as pregnancy.

She had to do some work on her gum and it didn't take real well

and they had to cut her gum and she said that was worse than

having a baby I thought. So you mean if I go do that, I

could sympathize. I'm not doing it.

I don't want to know at all. Anyway I'll just flip for a

moment. Seems to not be joyful but

sorrowful yet to those who have been trained by it afterwards,

it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.

Therefore strengthen the hands that are weak in the knees that

are feeble make straight paths for your feet.

So that the limb which is lame may not be put out of joint but

rather be healed. Pursue peace with all men, the

sanctification without which no one will see the Lord.

Man, I could camp there but I won't see to it.

That no one comes short of the grace of God.

Now, that doesn't mean you don't already have it.

Because there's a Saving Grace, but then there's the

multi-faceted of Grace. There's multiple Graces.

We can walk in, and you can come short of those Grace's once

you're born again, and if you come short of the grace of God,

then that no root of bitterness springing.

Springing to the next line up cause is trouble.

And by it may be defiled. Some of you may know some people

who got bitter with the church got offended and they say, no,

they're bitter and they were in the household.

But we know this prior to, this moment coming, the Holy Ghost is

correcting. And they regard.

They did not regard it. They were no different than the

Israelites that the prophets kept coming.

And every time the Holy Ghost kept coming and telling them,

don't do it. Don't get there.

Don't take that. Thought, don't hold that.

Thought, don't act like that? Don't say those things.

There that there be no immoral or Godless person like Esau who

sold his own birth right now, we talked about a covenant kid.

But Sonic, Covenant kid. Okay.

Hey bruh. Abrahamic Covenant with you and

your descendants, I'ma call you Abraham, Abraham gave birth to

Isaac. Isaac begat gave birth to Jacob,

we don't talk about, Esau, Esau was actually the first born.

And should have been in line. It should have been Abraham.

Isaac Esau, but it's not easy. Salt because Esau sold his

Birthright for a single meal to fulfill his flesh.

Then it says this for, you know, they'd even afterwards.

When he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected for.

He found no place for repentance though.

He sought for with tears. For you have not come to the

mountain that you, that can be touched and to a blazing fire

and to Darkness and Gloom and Whirlwind, and to the blast of

the trumpet in the sound of Words, which sound was such that

those who heard beg, no further now, they are talking about the

old, the experience when God came down on the mountain and he

said don't touch nothing on the mountain.

You going to die because I'm holy, I'm coming down and all

y'all are lost separated from me, you die.

If you come up in here, Right. And man, it was such a racket.

They didn't even want nothing to do with it.

They ran. He said for they could not bear

the command. If even a beast touches the

mountain, it will be Stone. So, terrible was the sight.

That Moses said, I am full of fear and trembling but you have

come to Mount Zion. Now, see, we're talking back

over to Israel and to the city of the Living.

God the heavenly Jerusalem and to a myriad of angels, to the

general assembly and And what church of the firstborn, who are

enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the

spirits of the righteous made perfect look, and to Jesus, the

mediator of a New Covenant, and to the sprinkled blood, which

speaks better than the blood of Abel see to it.

Here it is, verse 25. Now, see to it that you do not

refuse him. Who is speaking?

For if those did not Escape when they refused him who warned them

on Earth, that was the prophet. Prophet.

Elijah Prophet. Nathan Prophet Gad, prophet.

Isaiah Prophet. Jeremiah Prophet Obadiah.

Come on you're hearing me if if those did not Escape when

refused him who warned them on Evan much less.

Will we escape? Who turn away from him?

Who warns from When I walk up and win, we're in a new one.

And the new one has Jesus seated at the right hand of the Father

in heaven, and we're raised over him and we have direct access to

his voice. We have direct access to the

voice of Jesus by the spirit that lives in us, and we refuse

that. This is why I'm Blown Away by

the immature baby Christians that run around looking for a

prophet to give them a word. Now, if you're in a situation

and God wants to use a prophet to give you a word and it Bears

witness with your spirit and the Holy Ghost in, you great receive

the word of the prophet. In fact, a profit today, gave me

a word and I received it because it Bears witness with me, but I

didn't come looking for it. It just happened to show up no

expectation. But if a prophet never talk to

me, I have the written word of God.

The spirit of God loving me and I hear straight from the throne

room. And his voice shook the Earth

then but now he has promised saying, yet once more, I would

Shake not only the Earth, but also Heaven this expressing yet

once more denotes, the removing of those things, which can be

shaken as of created things. So that those things which

cannot be shaken May was the implication.

The implication is in the end, there will be an Israel and the

only ones in Israel. Are the ones who live the life

that he said, Israel people would live.

Same thing with the kingdom. The end of the day, the only

people in the kingdom are the ones who hear a voice from

Heaven. Take the correction, make the

change, repent and live it with all their heart.

Therefore since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be

shaken. Let us show gratitude by which

we may offer to God and acceptable service with

reverence and awe for our God is a consuming fire, you know so

awesome about the New Covenant although it's tighter.

His Mercy, endures and doors. Now again when it says forever,

we know that's really not forever.

In every case, Oh, you want to hear that?

Just because a state. Again, it's a general, my Mercy

endures forever, but there comes a point that my Mercy may not go

with an individual. But Mercy will be there.

We keep taking these scriptures and applying them across the

board and the scripture does, and the Bible does not even

support. That God because if that's the

case, then God can never hold anyone accountable to anything.

And it's no wonder why the world doesn't want to come to the

church when the church can live like the world and say they're

getting in. yet, you know, if you live like the kingdom, it's

way better. It's way better.

And at the end of the day aren't you?

Glad the Holy Ghost is in you. and that he is merciful and

every time you hear the voice of Mercy in your life yield, Our

yield and say, thank you for that word, Lord.

Oh, thank you for that word. You love me so much.

You gave me that word and I will act on that word.

Oh, you love me so much. And then what's crazy?

Is the minute you believe that word?

You just heard will work for you, he'll cause it to work for

you. The only thing that happens is

you activated it by faith. You actually didn't get the word

to work. You got your faith.

Got released him to do the work in you.

We're in love shows up now piece, shows up now.

Patient shows up. Now, kindness shows up now,

forgiveness shows up. How can I forgive them?

What they did? Well, Jesus, forgive everybody.

So, if you yield to his instruction about that, then

guess what? You'll be able to do walk in

forgiveness. Look at them like they've never

made a mistake, just like God looks at us like we've never

made a mistake. Never blown.

It. Never even seen one time Ricky

is like, I never even blown it. He looks at me like I'm perfect

without spot. Or wrinkle.

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