End Time Shaking

Reach down and pick your Bibles up and wave them around over your head and and let's just make this confession Say heavenly Father, you are my father.

Thank you for moving in our midst this morning.

I'm here to give you all the glory, all the praise.

Thank you for the word of God, thank you for the Holy Ghost.

They're coming together in my life to bring me into your perfect will.

I'm willing to change, I'm willing to move from where I am to where you want me to be.

I'm growing in the things of God so that I can accomplish my purpose in Jesus' name.

Let's turn in our Bibles to two places Deuteronomy, chapter four, and Hebrews, chapter 12.

Hebrews 12 · chapter mention

And really you need to read both of these chapters in entirety as homework, because I mean I could, but it just takes so long to read that many verses.

I want to just kind of hone in on the subject today and what I'm speaking about today.

These I don't do sermons, these are messages, and this message is entitled End Time Shaking.

End Time Shaking.

We're living in the end times and there's a shaking that Is going on right now.

It started probably around 1999 and it's just gotten more and more pronounced as time goes on, and so I want to talk about it today.

Deuteronomy, chapter four, and we'll start with verse five.

And this is again Moses speaking to the children of the rebels Whose parents died in the wilderness.

Why?

Because of untold death, the children of the rebels whose parents died in the wilderness.

Why?

Because of unbelief.

They said we'd be not able to possess the promises.

It's just too big for us.

We've got wall cities, we've got giants.

We can't.

We can't overcome them.

God said you could, and they said they can.

Made God mad, said all right, you're going to die in the wilderness, I'm going to bring you, so afraid for your children, I'm going to bring your children into the promised land.

So this is who Moses is preaching to.

He's already been put on notice by God that he can't go in because, you know, he struck the rock the second time, got mad, his temper cost him, and so Moses didn't get to go into the promised land.

He got to see it from a way, a big distance away.

So he's preaching to him and he said verse five behold, I've taught you statutes and judgments, even as the Lord, my God, commanded me that you should do so in the land.

Whether you go into, possess it.

Keep the promise.

Keep, therefore, and do them, for this is your wisdom and your understanding, in the side of the nations and the side of the go yeem, the uncircumcised, the uncouven, the people with no covenant.

This is going to be a witness, in other words, to the people who are without God alone and without God in the world, ephesians says, which shall hear all these statutes and say surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.

For what nation is there so great who hath God so nigh unto them, as the Lord, our God, is in all things that we call upon Him for?

And what nation is there so great that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law which I set before thee this day?

Only, take heed to yourself and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which thine eyes have seen, lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life, but teach them unto thy sons and thy sons sons, especially the day that thou stoodest before the Lord, thy God, in Horad, when the Lord said unto me gather me the people together and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth and that they may teach their children.

And you came near and stood under the mountain and the mountain burned with fire, under the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds and thick darkness.

And the Lord spake unto you out of the midst of the fire and you heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude.

Only you heard a voice and he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even 10 commandments, and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.

So there was a shaking there that they witnessed.

All right, and then we go back over to Hebrews, chapter 12.

Hebrews 12 · chapter mention

Again, you know homework is read both of these chapters Deuteronomy 4 and Hebrews 12.

We'll start with verse 18.

This is, I believe, paul doesn't say that Paul wrote Hebrews, but I believe he did.

You can't prove he didn't, so I win.

And he's speaking to the church.

See, hebrews, even though these are Hebrew Christians, they've come out of Judaism and now they're saved.

And he's speaking to them as Christians.

And to us, verse 18, for you are not come unto the mount that might be touched and burned with fire, and unto blackness and darkness and tempest and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, which voice they had heard and treated, that the word should not be spoken to them anymore, for they could not in parenthesis, for they could not endure that which was commanded.

And if so much as a beast touched the mountain, it shall be stoned or thrust through with a dart.

And so terrible was the sight that Moses said I exceedingly fear and quake.

Talk about a whole lot of shaking going on, but you are, come, see, he's talking.

What is he talking about?

He's talking about what we just read about in Deuteronomy.

He's talking about Mount Horab.

He's talking about the giving of the law.

So he's saying you're not coming to that mountain, no, no, that's the Old Testament.

But you are come verse 22, under Mount Zion and under the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, to the General Assembly and the church of the first born, which are enrolled in heaven.

Everybody shout that's me, that's me.

And to God, the sugar daddy of all.

He gets us, oh, he gets us.

What a bunch of idiotic.

I mean, I love the Green family, they're good people, they've done a lot of good, but this is totally wrong.

What's he talking about?

Well, that ad campaign, you know, $150 million ad campaign to reach out to people who hate Jesus and hate the church and try to make the church and Jesus more acceptable to them, their natural way of thinking.

That never works.

That's not the gospel, and they can't be convicted of their sin.

You know, the Holy Ghost comes to convict the world.

That's them.

The LGBTQ people, that's them, make no mistake, that's them.

They're lost.

They're going to hell if they don't what.

The Holy Ghost comes upon them to convict them of sin, to convict them of righteousness when they get saved and to convict them of judgment.

The church isn't really talking about judgment.

This is an awful, awful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

He's not somebody that's going to give you a feathered nest.

He's not pleading with you.

It's fish or cut bait.

Time for the world and the church better start preaching the true gospel.

There is a hell to shun and a heaven to gain.

The good news is not that there's a hell, but you don't have to go to hell.

See that If we're going to just talk about, he gets us.

That doesn't do the job, boy.

I'd rather have that $150 million to give to some of the missionaries that we support.

All right.

Who are we coming to?

We're coming to the, to the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn Anybody shout, that's me which are enrolled in heaven.

And to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of a new coven, a better covenant found upon better promises Hebrews 8 6.

And to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better things than that of able.

See that you refuse not him that speaketh Woo.

For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth?

If we turn away from him, how much more shall we not escape if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven, whose voice then shook the earth, but now he has promised saying yet once more, about to shout, yet once more.

My intention is to let you know that yet once more is here, it's now.

Yet once more, I shake not the earth only, but also heaven, or the heavenlies, the atmosphere around the earth, not heaven, where God is, the atmosphere where the principalities and powers, rulers of darkness of this present age, wicked spirits in the heavenly places, in other words, the devil's army.

I shake not only earth but also heaven, and this word yet once more, signifies the removing of those things which are shaken or may be shaken, of things that are made, that these things which cannot be shaken may remain.

Therefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, or let us hold fast, whereby we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear, because our God is a consuming fire.

Everybody say, end time shaking, so the shaking has begun.

I could, I say, 99.

I hate to have a date, but that's when God started talking to me about this whole subject.

I'm a pastor of a church.

My mind is to feed the sheep and do local church kinds of things and go on missions trips.

I'd traveled to India and Philippines and Canada and Mexico places I've done some missions work myself personally and my family.

But God began to get my attention upon the fact that the church was asleep, march of 99.

I heard this voice we're talking about today.

It wasn't the voice of my heavenly father.

It wasn't the voice it was, but I wasn't acquainted with the kind of voice he used with me.

He used a very military.

He sounded like a drill instructor.

If you've ever been through the service, you know boot camp.

I mean, how were you talked to at boot camp, pete?

I mean they're not polite.

They called you every name under the book.

They called your names.

They make fun of you and so if you've got a thin skin, you won't make it, that's by design.

He said get up, just like that.

I never heard that voice before.

Get up.

I want you to wake up.

The church.

They're asleep in their beds with the covers pulled over their head.

They're just like you.

Oh ow, I thought I was awake.

I thought I was caught up with things.

I thought I knew about Israel.

I thought I knew about the end times.

I thought I was booing pretty well, I mean, I'm not patting myself on the back, but I sure didn't consider myself asleep.

He did.

He had a different definition.

Now, I had taken me 20, some odd years, 24 years, to find out all the things that we're asleep about.

I'll tell you the hours late, folks.

Jesus is coming soon and so that yet once more shaking has begun.

And God you know, god's plan for Israel was to be a witness to the nations.

Israel, if you look on a map, israel, jerusalem, is on the crossroads of all the trade routes of that time.

I mean, you had all the major countries of the world coming right through Jerusalem on their way East and West, north and South, and people were coming through that area and God's plan was to bless Israel so much and have them to make the nations of the world jealous and that they would see that the gods they worship are not God at all and that the true God would be manifest.

That was God's plan for Israel and they failed.

Now the church didn't exactly take their place, but we have the same.

I don't believe in replacement theology.

Some people think that we took the place.

No, we're not taking the place of, but we have a similar plan.

We're to be witnesses with evidence of how great God is, and part of that greatness is an awesomeness and a fearfulness.

You know, in verse 33 of Deuteronomy 4, he says it this way who else heard God's voice and lived?

See, you heard God's voice and you lived.

You were afraid.

See, the children of Israel.

When he went up on the mount, they said, oh, we can't go up there, we're afraid.

They stood as far away from the mount as they could.

They still heard his voice.

They heard all that and they felt the shaking, but they were afraid to get up to it.

They were afraid and said Moses, you go up and you come back down and tell us what he said and we'll do it.

Well, they lied.

They didn't do it.

This occurred before you know.

They sent the 12 spies into the land.

Even after this, hearing God's voice from the mount, they just didn't connect the dots.

They walked in unbelief.

They were more scared of the walled cities and the giants than they were of God.

Well, I'm not afraid of God.

We ought to have a reverence for God.

We ought to.

The shocking lack of the fear of the Lord and the church is one of the reasons why society is what it is because we have not manifested.

We spent too much time trying to be like them instead of being a difference, trying to explain instead of proclaim.

The gospel is not to be explained, it's to be preached.

It's to be proclaimed as truth.

That's when the conviction of the Holy Ghost comes.

It's a supernatural thing.

The gospel of God is the power.

The gospel of Christ is the power.

It's the power, and this is the year of God's power.

So the gospel's got to be coming to the forefront, all right.

So it said in verse 34, what other nation was ever delivered through signs, wonders, by war and a mighty hand and by great terrors?

I mean, god on Egypt was a terror.

I mean, they were struck with fear.

Well, pastor, that was Old Testament, I know, but God doesn't change.

God is the same God today as he was then.

And what we've done is we've washed all this out of our theology schools and we've washed it all out of the New Testament.

Well, we have the New Testament is a better covenant, all right, but he's the same God.

And right now, the message that needs to go out to these folks that are lost is not the message of Jesus gets us, but that Jesus demands that you change, that you turn from your sin.

It is a sin, what you're doing is a sin, and you can't go to heaven with sin.

You've got to be born again.

You must be born again.

See, let's get back to what we used to preach.

Well, like Hellfire I'm really not talking about Hellfire and Brimstone, because it's still good news we tell people the benefits of salvation, but we leave out the other part.

We don't want to talk about hell.

Did you know that something like 80% of Christians today don't even believe in hell.

Well, how can you have a sense of urgency for a harvest if you don't believe what the Bible says about hell?

There is a hell.

I grew up knowing that.

I didn't like to be reminded of it because I knew I was going there.

I mean, something in the middle told me I'm going there.

I kept thinking well, you know, I know I'm headed there, but sometime between now and then I'm going to have my good.

Well, I'll outweigh my bad.

That's what I thought I was going to do.

It's going to outweigh my bad.

Well, you know, I didn't even know what the gospel was.

I went to church three times a week Sunday morning, sunday night, wednesday night this Catholic boy, president of the Knights of the Altern.

I didn't know what the gospel was.

I hadn't received it.

Are y'all with me now?

Yes, so the shaking started in Egypt.

I want you to get this now.

The shaking started in Egypt and then it continued up to the Mount Sinai where he gave the law.

He came down off of there and his face was going.

40 days and 40 nights at the top of Sinai, I received the law, put it on those tablets of stone.

He come down and he had to cover his face because they couldn't stand to see him.

His face was shining with God's glory.

Put the veil over his face so they could look at him.

They were still afraid.

Are you with me now?

And then it continued on until they all died and their kids marched across the Jordan and Psalm 114 tells you what happened.

It says what held you.

You see, that you fled.

What held you, you Jordan, that you were driven back.

You mountains, that you shook, that you leaped like rams and you little hills like lambs.

What was it talking about?

The shaking that happened in Canaan land when they came into the Promised Land?

There was a shaking.

Where was that shaking?

On earth.

And that shaking helped them possess their promised land.

That was God's side of the equation.

You can't shake the earth, but God sure can, and he still can, and he is right now he's shaking these things.

35,000 people so far died in that last one In Turkey and Syria.

Horrible, you mean God wanted that?

No, he didn't want that to happen.

But see, we have got to preach the gospel.

People are dying and going to hell.

Where's the urgency?

How come the church isn't awake?

Are y'all with me now?

So this shaking started in Egypt and what happened?

Psalm 105 says they came out with silver and gold.

Not one feeble among their tribe.

It shook the wealth out of Egypt into the hands of slaves.

They were broke city men.

I mean they owned nothing except just a few farm implements and wagons and animals.

But I mean they didn't have.

And they came out with substance.

They came out, they spoiled the Egyptians.

God told Abraham 400 years before that was what was gonna happen.

See, it was God, by God's design.

The shaking is partly to shake the wealth out of the hands of the wicked and give it to the hands of the righteous.

Why?

Because it all belongs to God, every bit of it.

And so the shaking kept on going and it shook and divided the children of Israel, from the believers to the unbelievers.

You marked who didn't?

Everybody that wouldn't do what Moses told them to do.

That's the group that just doesn't.

They're not going in.

There's a group like that in the church today.

They're not gonna go to heaven in the rapture.

They might go to heaven eventually, but they'll never be part of the church.

Why?

Because they didn't obey.

They've refused him that spoke.

Are y'all with me now Talking about the end time shaking?

It's not sent for us.

It's sent for the unbeliever.

We can't be shaken.

The kingdom cannot be shaken.

That which we're involved in cannot be shaken.

It's for people who are unbelieving or people that are standing around the edges.

You know they're part of church but they're not really.

You know.

They just kind of come when they want to and they kind of look and they're really not born again.

There's millions of them in America not born again, cause God don't have any grandkids, just cause your parents took you to church your whole life and you never got saved.

There's, there's, I'm telling you, there's kids that came through this church and are out in college and out in life today and they're not saved, even though they've had the gospel preached to them.

They came to the you know youth services, they, they came to children church, they went through all of this stuff but they don't love Jesus.

They went off the rails long time ago.

I'm not saying they're hopeless.

I'm saying you better pray for your kids if they're in that condition, cause they've got about that long to get it right, cause Jesus is coming.

So we have a better covenant found upon better promises.

They have the same purpose reach the nations, carry the anointed word with demonstration and to get people healed.

So, but he says here yet once more there's another greater shaking that God said he's going to have it's.

He said yet once more I'm going to shake not only the earth but heaven also.

So we're not coming to Mount Sinai, the law, we're coming to Mount Zion, which is what Grace, god's ability, god's power we have, god's power, the power of the gospel is, is such a powerful force that we have on our side the word of God, and so our God, his covenant, his people, cannot be shaken.

Now let's look at Hagiai.

Cause, he said yet once more, and he's quoting Hagiai, chapter two.

So let's turn back there.

He's a minor prophet.

I'm not going to tell him that when I see him.

Pretty major, if you ask me, that's on page 1117, if you're still wondering where it is, but that's only if you have a Kenneth Copeland Bible, chapter two, verse six.

For thus saith the Lord of hosts Now notice the prophet.

Hagiai is speaking for God, but specifically the Lord of hosts, everybody shout.

The Lord of hosts, who is the Lord of hosts?

The Lord of the armies of heaven, the Lord of the angel armies, has got something to say here to us and to Israel, yet once more.

Thus saith the Lord of hosts, yet once it is a little wild and I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land, and I will shake 49.8% of all the nations.

I'll shake all nations, including America.

America's been shaken to its core.

I said America's been shaken to its core, but the church is not being shaken.

See the church.

It's not for the church, it's not for the church.

Everybody say I've shaken, not for me.

I will shake all nations and the desire of all nations shall come, the desire of nations.

Some people say that's Christ, but literally, the Hebrew, it just means the forces, or the good things, the pleasant things.

Really it means the riches shall gather, shall come, shall be assembled, shall come forth.

At the shaking, the good things of every nation are gonna be available, of all nations, of all nations, of all nations.

Their wealth is gonna become available and I will fill this house with glory.

Saith the Lord of hosts.

What house is that?

The house that's there when the shaking starts.

We're the house of God that's here when the shaking starts.

You know, it wasn't true of churches back in the 19th century or early 20th century we're living now.

This house is here now when the shaking has begun.

That's why I keep talking about let's shoot a little higher, let's quit shooting low, let's lift our sights and believe for more, because part of this shaking has to do with wealth.

Well, where do you get that?

We're gonna keep reading.

I mean, it's all connected.

Here in Haguei, I will shake all nations and the wealth of all nations shall come and I will fill this house with glory.

Saith the Lord of hosts, what's the glory for Were?

The glory is for signs, wonders and miracles demonstration.

These people are gonna have to have miracles to be convinced to change their life.

I mean, some of them have got such terrible diseases from the lifestyles that they're living.

We're gonna see drug addicts instantly delivered.

We're gonna see people that have got all kinds of STDs instantly healed.

Nothing too hard for the Lord.

Then he says verse eight the silver's mine, gold is mine.

Saith the Lord.

I'm in the middle of talking about the glory.

He starts talking about money.

By the way, silver's mine, gold is mine.

I mean it's coming out of those nations.

Silver's mine belongs to me.

What belongs to him belongs to us.

Some of you are gonna get this, maybe this afternoon about three o'clock.

You might get happy.

Then, when you start thinking about it, you might start getting happy.

Silver's mine, gold is mine.

Saith, the Lord of hosts, the glory of this latter house.

Again, what house is he talking about?

It's us.

The glory of this latter house shall be greater than that of the former.

Now, they thought he was talking about the temple.

They thought he was talking about you know, back there.

But he's talking about us.

You know, prophets can talk about more than one thing at a time.

Double meaning.

And in this place, what place?

This house, that cannot be shaken.

Well, I give shalom, health, prosperity and peace.

Say we.

Do the believe in God, does the performing?

Are y'all getting anything out of this today?

So the shaking is over wealth.

I mean, he shook the wealth out of the hands of Egypt and they spoiled the Egyptians.

They all came out with silver and gold, and not one feeble among their tribe, after almost 400 years of slavery.

You talk about reparations.

This is greater than any kind of stupid political move to give you reparations.

Let's believe for the real thing right here.

So the glory and the gold are connected.

All the silver and gold is God's, and so, you know, the shaking was all about the transfer of wealth.

When they went into Canaan land, all the wealth of Canaan land came into their control.

They ate crops that they didn't plant.

They took all the wealth of Jericho and put it in the treasury and then AI was all of theirs.

They belonged to them except for the tithe, and they spoiled all the way across all the kingdoms of Canaan land, all the itch, you know, the parasites, the Jebusites, the Bud lights, cellulites, all the lights and the itch.

So what must we do to respond to what I'm talking about?

See, how can you act on what I'm saying?

And if I don't preach it, you're not gonna have faith for it.

You're gonna exclude yourself.

The devil will make sure that you exclude yourself for any number of reasons.

You're not good enough, you don't have enough education, you're not really good in accounting, you're not good at making money, blah, blah, blah, blah you know there's nobody listen all those slaves they didn't have any talent to speak of.

I mean, yeah, they could do a few things.

But I mean, are you kidding?

They had all that money and they had money to stake them until they got over into the promise.

There was only gonna be a few months, but then they disobeyed God.

So all they, they left all their money to their kids.

Their kids are rich now, but they got richer when they went into Canaan land.

How much is enough?

Well, I'll tell you what.

We don't have enough right now, because we have a massive harvest out there.

It's gonna take billions, maybe trillions, to reap the harvest in these last days.

Gonna take money.

So what is our response?

Well, number one it tells you let's turn back to Hebrews 12, and it tells you in this chapter some of the things that we need to be paying attention to, because I wanna talk about the fear of the Lord and the reverence for God that church is lacking Because we live in here in the world, where we're just faced with all kinds of ungodliness.

We hear it, we see it.

It's almost like we're baptized in this evil and we just have to work at remaining pure and God at the center of our lives, where he's way up here, priority wise.

So it says here in chapter one, chapter 12, verse one wherefore seeing, we also are accomplished with so great a cloud of witnesses.

Who's he talking about?

All the Old Testament saints he talked about in chapter 11.

Let us lay aside every weight in the sin that does so easily beset us.

Weights and sins are different.

Weights is not technically a sin.

A weight is anything that you're engulfed with that you make time for, that doesn't really have any particular godly purpose in your life.

It's not a sin by itself.

It's just time that you're wasting in a pursuit that leads to nothing.

It leads to no permanent purpose in your life.

Everything that you're doing now should be kingdom oriented.

You've gotta do an audit of the time you're spending right now.

And we all most of us work, most of us travel, most of us have a commute, most of us have to get up early and come home late.

It's just what happens.

And so what little time we have left.

Let's make sure that we lay aside weights, literally.

What is a weight?

Well, when they ran a race back there Paul uses this imagery a lot, the games and when they ran, they ran with very little clothing.

I mean, you know they dressed with robes and stuff.

You can't run a race with a robe on.

You get tripped up, fall.

Those are.

They would take all that off.

And the Greeks?

They didn't have any morals, so they'd get rate-run naked like some of these Hollywood people.

They just get less and less clothes every time you turn around and they're not running anyway.

So so lay aside.

It says to lay it aside.

You know, sometimes you just have to look at your life and say you know, I'm involved in this thing right here, but this is not really kingdom, it's not a sin, it's not sinful.

You know, it's just a little entertainment, but you know, really, I'm gonna lay that aside.

I mean, once you ask God, what do I need?

Is he Lord or not?

Is he the Lord of hosts, lord of the angel hosts?

I mean, is he your Lord?

He should have something to say about how you spend your time.

So just do an audit.

You ever work at a company that had to do an audit and it's all hands on deck, everybody's gotta get.

You know, sometimes they have to work on weekends.

I got so mad because Gladys was working at some little dumpy hardware store in Referio and she and I only got to see her on the weekends.

I was at A&M and, boy, I was ready to see my girlfriend when I came home and she was working at what was that little old place.

She worked and they were having inventory and she was down there the entire day, all day, saturday into Saturday night, like eight, seven or eight o'clock at night, and I was so mad at them I just refused to ever do business with them because they dominated her time.

So take some inventory, take a little time and find out what you're involved with that you can lay aside and spend more time on kingdom business.

That's lay aside the weights and the sin.

Now we know what sin is, but it's not the big things, it's the little foxes that spoil the vine.

Let's fine tune our Christian lives and let's be more accurate witnesses of who Jesus is.

That's really the message that we can live like Jesus in front of these people.

It's not so much preaching to them as just living in front of them.

Your integrity, your truthfulness, your faithfulness, your loyalty Are y'all with me now.

So that's something that we need to be paying attention.

It has to do with the fear of the Lord.

What is fear?

Well, it's reverencing him.

He knows everything, he's watching you, he knows what you think about, he's with you all the time.

It's not like he's up there and he forgot you.

He's walking inside of you.

So let's live like God inside minded.

The best advice I can give you right now, at this moment in time.

This is when the church needs to lay aside the weights and the sin that does so easily beset us.

And then, number two, run your race with patience.

Run your race.

What race is that?

Well, it's an endurance race.

It's an endurance race and I'm gonna tell you right now we're living.

God conceived of you before the world began.

You weren't an accident, you weren't just somebody that showed up.

God doesn't do random.

There's nothing random about God.

You were born on purpose into this age.

And the end of this age is right here.

There's.

What do you mean?

The end of age?

Well, there's ages.

This is the age where the devil's lease is about to run out.

That's why the shaking has come.

He's been put on notice.

The heavenlies are being shaken right now.

They are aware that their place of authority, they're coming down out of it.

They're angry.

The devil knows he's got just but a short time.

So he's great wrath.

He's trying to wear out the saints.

He's trying to give them all kinds of substitutes for God's plan.

He's trying to get them sidetracked and distracted.

Listen, you're gonna run a race.

You can't be distracted.

It's not a competition among other people, it's a competition with yourself.

Are you gonna run the race and just peter out at the end?

I was watching track meet yesterday on television, wasn't anything on?

Football is gone, man, I'm just, I don't have anything to do now, I'm weak and just watch track indoor track at that.

But I saw this guy and he was leading man.

He was a 400 meter dash and he was leading.

I've run that before.

Oh man, it's horrible to race.

I mean you just, you feel at the end like your guts are gonna fall out.

Gladys is laughing, but anyway, she, you never came to my track meets, so anyway, he got around the final turn.

He was about.

He had about maybe I don't know 50 yards to go and you could see he was tying up and two other people just blew by him.

You know he came in, I think, fourth place.

He didn't place.

You know he came in fourth place.

He led the whole race and that's the way some of us, you know, it's not that we're running against other people, but we're getting tied up.

Now.

Let's not get tied up.

Let's run with patience the race that God set before us.

Let's not be trying to mimic somebody else.

Don't take shortcuts, don't get distracted.

We're witnesses with evidence.

You know, when God speaks, let's obey him.

They didn't and they didn't make.

They didn't get into their inheritance.

I'm not saying they went to hell, I'm saying they didn't get to go into promised land.

They didn't get their full inheritance.

I mean some Christians they might go to heaven but they're not gonna get their full inheritance, they're not gonna get their full reward because they refused him that spoke.

Everybody say I'm listening and I'm obeying.

Look at verse 28, hebrews 12.

It says wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved.

Let us have grace.

My margin says let us hold fast, whereby we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear.

You don't hear that preached, it's just you know all the goodies.

Well, yeah, there's goodies, but I mean there's serve God acceptably.

That tells me something that you can serve God unacceptably.

What you can serve God unacceptably, in other words, what you're doing, is not necessarily a sin, but it's not God's perfect will for your life in its vein.

Let's the Lord builds a house, a labor in vain that built it.

Let's the Lord keeps the city.

The watchman wakeeth, but in vain.

So I mean we started all these series of teachings about the power of 2023, god's power, year of God's power with that verse, and we've got to make sure that we're doing what he said, not what we said.

You got a plan, but God's got the plan.

Are you with me now?

Let's serve God acceptably, with godly fear and reverence Always in mind.

You know God.

If I'm taking a wrong turn, I want you to tell me Amen.

Let's look at verse seven.

If you endure chastening, god deals with you as with sons.

For what son is he whom father does not chase him?

Chasing doesn't mean give cancer, send a car wreck.

Chasing just means child training.

That's what literally it means.

It just simply means that God will correct you.

It's not even really punishment.

We think chastening means punishment licks.

Well, I'll be honest when God speaks the word to you, sometimes, like that day, he said I want you to wake up the church, or just like you, it felt like he slapped me, it felt like he whitened me.

But he just spoke his word to me.

What was he doing?

Chasing me why?

Because he loves me and he wasn't willing for me and my ministry to sit there being unproductive, going down a road that he had other things that he wanted me to start paying attention to.

So I've lived this, I keep living it because I haven't arrived yet, amen.

So it's good to just be open to his chastening or his correction.

It gets back to that whole idea of taking inventory, all right, and then finally.

So run your race with patience and then finally receive the kingdom's wealth transfer.

Don't rule yourself out because of your education or lack thereof.

Don't rule yourself out because of your age.

You're too young, you're too old.

Don't rule yourself out.

You are living right now, you're alive right now, and God, every one of us, is eligible for this wealth transfer to come out.

Well, how does he don't know how?

Well, that gets back to rearranging your schedule to spend more time, maybe around God, instead of all the things that you're doing.

I mean, we all have the same amount of time every day and we're so busy and maybe there's some things that you need to extricate yourself from.

Just withdraw from Again weights and plug yourself into some things that will help you to identify ideas, concepts and insights that God has for you that you can develop into a profitable situation for you.

He wants to bring the wealth of the wicked into the hands of the just.

That's all I know.

And abundance is not optional, because it's gonna take a huge amount that the church does not yet possess.

I think about $150 million are wasting on that campaign and they're gonna have to stand for God.

I mean, they're God's servants, not mine.

I don't hate them, I love them.

They do a lot of good, but this is one of those things.

If, when nobody says anything, I hope that they'll end it and realize what they've done is wrong.

I don't know who's advising them.

They didn't get the best advice.

I can tell you that.

Amen.

And we've gotta be smarter with the money we spend on kingdom business, because why?

It's God's?

It's God's money, all of it is God's money.

And so, anyway, let's receive the end time.

Kingdom wealth transfer.

The end time.

Shaking brings end time will finance the end time harvest.

Come on, lift your hands and receive today Hallelujah, glory to God.

Did you get anything out of this today?

Did you receive encouragement today?

Come on, let's rejoice today.

Glory to God, amen.