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Removing The Poison

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  1. You're listening to the Cross Kingdom Sermon of the Week.

  2. We hope you enjoyed this message from Justin Carpenter twelve

  3. twenty two. Come on, are you revelatory people? If you

  4. don't know what that means, you're dull. I was watching

  5. an interview with Bob Jones from twenty years ago and

  6. that was one of it. He's like, you're dull boy.

  7. That's what he told John Paul Jackson. As they returned

  8. from a trip, they got to the airport, they were

  9. literally supernaturally transported to the airport. They were on the

  10. plane and they realized they left the hotel and got

  11. into the plane within like three minutes, and John Paul

  12. says to Bob Jones, do you Bob, do you do

  13. you realize? He goes, YEP, I was trying not to

  14. think about it. And then and he goes, Bob, either

  15. those two guys were angels that took our luggage or

  16. we don't have any suitcases and they took they took

  17. it the vehicle as well. They come back from the

  18. trip and his pickup truck is literally parked in the

  19. front parking spot at the airport. Bob jumps in John

  20. Paul jumps in the passenger seat. He drops the visor,

  21. grabs the keys and fired it up. And John Paul

  22. was like, Bob, how'd you know the keys were gonna

  23. be in the visor? He goes visor vision, You're dull boy.

  24. True testimony. Oh man m I love the testimonies of

  25. the Lord. Oh. By the way, Monday tomorrow, we are

  26. doing the first major move for the property. We are

  27. actually paying for the electricity to be installed on the land,

  28. so the utilities are starting. It's gonna it's still gonna

  29. be about ten weeks, but we're we're finally moving forward.

  30. So we will we will be getting a groundbreaking date

  31. and uh and we'll have a we'll have a big

  32. celebration out there. It's it's been a long journey and

  33. this campus will it's gonna be a continued journey of

  34. taking the land because I I personally believe that as

  35. the principalities and powers are coming down over this region,

  36. it coincides with the timeline of us taking this land

  37. on this campus. So if you all recall about two

  38. thursdays ago, I was in my prayer time and I

  39. was praying, and I was like, Lord, what in the

  40. blazes is going on like so many people are under attack.

  41. There's there's accusations and discord, everybody's butt hurt and fighting

  42. and division and all over the Body of Christ. And

  43. I'm like, Lord, what is going on? And I clearly

  44. heard the word poison. I said, what is behind this?

  45. And I heard poison? And so I want to talk

  46. to you this morning about removing the poison. My goal

  47. for you this morning is if you realize in the

  48. next three and a half hours as I'm teaching that

  49. if you have poison, you're gonna say, okay, Lord, I

  50. need to be cleansed. And you've heard the statement what's

  51. true in the natural's true in the spirit, right Well,

  52. guess what even in the natural in our country right now,

  53. for the first time, we're actually seeing the poisons remove

  54. from our food. We're seeing the poisons removed from some

  55. of the some of the jabs, and so we're literally

  56. the Lord is also dealing with the poison that's in

  57. the body of Christ. Because we are absolutely supposed to

  58. be a community that has such a gape love that

  59. that love within our tribe alone, the community, the Body

  60. of Christ at large, is literally a bullhorn for the gospel,

  61. and it's not if you get online right now, we're

  62. devouring each other, we're attacking each other. We're sticking our

  63. nose in everybody else's business. Here's a key right away.

  64. If you don't want people getting their nose into your business,

  65. don't post your life on social media because you're giving them,

  66. you're telling them you want to be invaded. Don't get

  67. upset if you post on social media and somebody said something,

  68. I love you. Oh, by the way, I come a

  69. little bit of So I kept seeing a nineteen fifties

  70. pickup truck, early fifties. Who's had a nineteen fifties pickup truck? Dave,

  71. you had a fifties pickup truck. Okay, So what I

  72. got from this. One of the things about the fifties

  73. was that there was a massive healing movement going on

  74. in the fifties AA Allen and all these guys. And

  75. I believe that I was seeing that pickup truck because

  76. the Lord wants to increase that gift of healing in

  77. your life. And also, pickup trucks pick things up and

  78. carry them from point A to point B. So you're

  79. also called to be a resource. So bless y'all. Sorry,

  80. I'm scraping around here, Okay, removing poison. Proverbs eighteen twenty one.

  81. Death and life are in the of the tongue, and

  82. those who love it will eat its fruit. Y'all, we

  83. have no idea what happens when we choose to bless

  84. or we choose to curse. You have no idea. I

  85. shared this first service. But Micah, my youngest son, he's sixteen. Micah,

  86. when he was little, he was quite feisty, and he

  87. had a temper. And I was like, well, my bloodline,

  88. my dad's side had a temper. Lisa's bloodline had a temper.

  89. I'm like, Lord, we got to make sure we get

  90. rid of all this iniquity because and I mean Micah

  91. used to try to beat the snot out of Coal.

  92. I mean it was it Coles four years older. And

  93. finally one day I was like, Cole hit him back. Yes,

  94. the pastor said that transparency and uh, and Cole broke

  95. down and say I'll never hit my little brother and

  96. literally had tears and uh. But Lisa, we we were like,

  97. all right, Lord help us. And the Lord specifically told

  98. Lisa start telling him who he is, declare over him.

  99. Who he is, and so like we we instead of

  100. focusing on the negative and and lasering in on that

  101. and making room for it, we kept correcting him by saying, hey,

  102. that's not who you are. You're loving, you're kind, you're

  103. in speaking life, blessing his spirit, and guess what, like,

  104. within a small period of time, he totally stopped doing

  105. that behavior. And one day a few years later, Lisa goes, Micah,

  106. what was it that finally snapped you out of all this?

  107. And he goes, well, I started to believe what you

  108. were saying to me, y'all. What if we spend more

  109. time blessing each other, encouraging each other, looking for the

  110. gold in each other, instead of trying to divide the

  111. house and tear each other apart. What if you actually

  112. realized every time you smack talk somebody in the body

  113. of Christ, that they're actually made in the image of God,

  114. and you're telling God you don't fear him and you

  115. don't fear what He created. Matthew twelve thirty six. I

  116. tell you, on the day of judgment, people will give

  117. an account for every careless word they speak. I don't

  118. know about y'all, but being prophetic in nature. I have

  119. a tendency to speak before I think at times, which

  120. means sometimes I can have careless words. That scripture should

  121. put the fear of the Lord in all of us.

  122. We need to be quick to listen, to speak slow

  123. to become angry James. And too many times we are

  124. quick to speak and slow to listen. We are more

  125. concerned about what we think you should hear, or what

  126. I think you should hear, versus even listening. When we

  127. listen to somebody, we're more concerned about listening to them,

  128. hearing their heart, connecting to their spirit than the revelation

  129. we have that's going to change everybody's life. He's not

  130. impressed with your gift. He gave it to you. Character

  131. will always be greater than gifting. I'm not saying don't

  132. pursue gifts. We need them so we can destroy the

  133. works of the evil one. But don't make that an idol,

  134. because your gift will take you straight to the scene

  135. of the crash, because your character will not sustain it

  136. James one twenty six. If anyone thinks he's religious and

  137. does not bridle his tongue but just his heart, this

  138. person's religion is worthless. In other words, if you think

  139. you're spiritually mature and all you do is smack talk,

  140. you're deceived. That's Justin's version of it. James five eight

  141. to twelve says, but no human being contame the tongue.

  142. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. With

  143. it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it

  144. we curse people who are made in the likeness of God.

  145. From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers,

  146. these things ought not to be. So does a spring

  147. pour forth from the same opening, both fresh and salt water?

  148. Can a fig tree, my brothers beare olives and grapevine

  149. produce it figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water. Man,

  150. When we get into conflict, when there's conflict with us,

  151. if we could just remember that the person in front

  152. of us is created in God's image, and Jesus shed

  153. his blood for that person as much as for you,

  154. What does that do to us? Listen? I know we

  155. all have people in our lives that at times are stinkers.

  156. They're hard to love. But guess what. The love that

  157. He put inside of you is supernatural. It's not natural

  158. and maybe you're actually trying to love people in your

  159. own soulish love versus his agape love. And that's why

  160. you fail to preserve and to stay connected with them,

  161. because you can't. You won't yield your soul. You all

  162. with me Colossians three eight. But now you must put

  163. them all away. Anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk

  164. from your mouth. Do you know what Peter did when

  165. he wanted to deny Jesus to show that he didn't

  166. know Jesus. He started cussing, he started swearing. Now, I

  167. know none of us have ever said a bad word,

  168. including me. I was watching out for the lightning. But y'all,

  169. in this season, the Lord is pruning us. Why because

  170. he is moving and what he's doing, he's moving closer

  171. to us. There's an intensity of him being intentional and

  172. moving closer to us. And what you get away in

  173. the outer court with you will kill you. In the

  174. Holy of Holies, you cry out, you say, I want

  175. to know God, I want to move in power and

  176. authority will Authority has everything to do with relationship and

  177. how close you are to him. It's authority is not

  178. just a gift, it's the fruit of intimacy with the father. See,

  179. the enemy could care less about your power. He didn't

  180. lose his power, he lost his authority. And every time

  181. we partner with him, and every time we choose to

  182. let poison come off our tongue, we're forfeiting the authority.

  183. He's called us to walk in And I have news

  184. for you. You want to see people get free, you better

  185. have freedom in the area that you're trying to see

  186. them set free, or you will be mocked. Romans three thirteen.

  187. Their throat is an open grave. They use their tongues

  188. to deceive the venom of asps is under their lips

  189. for a service, I said, man, I didn't know there

  190. was a scripture for politicians. Y'all. If y'all want to

  191. get more positive and start blessing more, keep the news

  192. turned off. That's all I can tell you. I'm not

  193. saying be ignorant, put your head in the sand, but

  194. I promise you you'll have a much better day if you

  195. don't listen to the communist news network Psalms one forty,

  196. verse three. They make their tongue sharp at serpents, and

  197. under their lips is the venom of asps I was

  198. let me rabit trail real quick. I saw this video yesterday,

  199. and this is all about perception of your reality. It

  200. was a weather channel, you know how they love to

  201. make everything look, you know, look worse than what it is.

  202. This lady was in a canoe and she's rolling in

  203. the water and the camera angle it's like the town

  204. looks like stinking, you know, Noah's day. It's flooded and

  205. she's getting through the canoe and all of a sudden,

  206. two dudes walk by in the waters like this deep

  207. and they walk right by the camera. Well, but that's

  208. exactly what the enemy does with us. You get into

  209. a situation with somebody there's conflict, and the enemy says, oh,

  210. this is what they meant. You start having a conversation

  211. with them that they never had with you, and you

  212. start filling in the blanks of something that never happened.

  213. It's called imagination, and the goal of that vain imagination

  214. is to get you offended, so then that ultimately you

  215. will betray them, because if you get offended, guess what

  216. betrayal is on the doorstep. Titus three one and two

  217. remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to

  218. be obedient, to be ready for every good work, to

  219. speak evil of only some people. Oh wait a minute,

  220. it doesn't say that, does it, To speak evil of

  221. no one, to avoid corareling, to be gentle, and to

  222. show perfect courtesy toward all people. This is how we're

  223. supposed to be treating each other. Have you all read that?

  224. That's in Titus. Some of y'all have been right to

  225. the point of losing relationship. I'm not saying be a doorstep.

  226. I'm not saying compromise, But there are situations in real

  227. relationships where you need to figure out where you're going

  228. to stand and what you're going to be okay with

  229. because unity in Jesus doesn't mean complete agreement. And I

  230. can have a different perspective of something and still love Jesus,

  231. and we should still be able to be friends. Unless

  232. you've been bitten by a religious spirit, then you're running

  233. after knowledge with no love, and then you become a legalist.

  234. Y'all having fun. I'm having fun because I've already repented

  235. for all this stuff when I put the sermon together,

  236. and this is my second time. James three thirteen to eighteen,

  237. who is wise and understanding among you by his good conduct.

  238. Let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom.

  239. What is wisdom first and foremost, it is what meek.

  240. But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in

  241. your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.

  242. This is not the wisdom that comes from above, but

  243. is earthly, unspiritual, and demonic. So for those of you

  244. that think there are no demons and they don't mess

  245. with you, here's your sign, bitter jealousy and selfish ambition.

  246. If you're operating in that, you're under the influence. I

  247. mean that in the most gentle, meek, humblest way possible.

  248. But it says for where jealousy and selfish ambition exist,

  249. there will be disorder and every vile practice. But the

  250. wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open

  251. to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere,

  252. and a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by

  253. those who make peace. Y'all, do you know how many

  254. church splits happen because somebody doesn't get their way and

  255. they take that as a personal attack of their identity,

  256. and then they cause division. I've got. I can't tell

  257. you how many ministers that I'm friends with in the

  258. last three years have gone through church splits. I'm headed

  259. to Washington State to do a conferences fall, and that

  260. gentleman had gone through two splits. Listen, if you're in ministry, great,

  261. guess what. It's not your ministry. If you're legitimately and

  262. called to full time ministry and you're in that ministry,

  263. that's God's ministry. You're building that ministry with him. It's

  264. not yours. Cross Kingdom doesn't belong to me. And if

  265. God moves me out to go someplace, guess what it'll

  266. be another overseer that comes. And if I did my

  267. job with feeding and leading, then it will flourish with

  268. me here or without me here, because it's not being

  269. built on me, my gift or my charisma, but it's

  270. being built on the foundation, the cornerstone of Jesus right.

  271. For nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom,

  272. and there'll be famines and earthquakes and various places. Y'all realize,

  273. up until we got technology, there was no way you

  274. really knew where an earthquake was unless you were where

  275. the earthquake was. Dold you like that. And now there's

  276. an earthquake app and every time an earthquake goes off,

  277. you can know where that earthquake is. If you ain't

  278. have anxiety, I would not recommend having that app because

  279. there's a whole lot of earthquakes and it's quite shaking.

  280. Y'all laughed a little better than the first time. Don't

  281. say anything, ben They will deliver you up to tribulation

  282. and put you to death, and you'll be hated by

  283. all nations for my namesake. And then many will fall

  284. away and betray one another and hate one another, and

  285. many false prophets will arise and lead many astray. And

  286. because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will

  287. grow cold. But the one who endures to the end

  288. will be saved. And this Gospel of the Kingdom will

  289. be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to

  290. all nations. And then the end will come. Y'all. Every

  291. one of these birth pains, every one of these signs,

  292. are present today and they're increasing. You're seeing a falling

  293. away in the church right now. You're seeing people that

  294. actually they had their eyes and their trust more in

  295. leaders than in Jesus, And when those leaders fell, it

  296. destroyed their faith. It says judgment starts first in the

  297. house of God. What are we seeing God's cleaning house? Why?

  298. Because he's a good father, he loves us, and he's

  299. dealing with the poison. What's it take to offend you?

  300. I think I asked this a couple of weeks ago.

  301. Do you offend easily? Or do you have thick skin

  302. and a soft heart? Can you overlook an offense? Can

  303. you respond with humility and love? Are you willing to

  304. look wrong for the sake of the gospel? Are you

  305. going to vindicate yourself at the expense of somebody else?

  306. Because make no mistake, we are all tried as believers

  307. in every one of these areas. You can stay offended

  308. and pack up your legos and go home, and many

  309. times people do that. That's probably why there's thirty five

  310. thousand denominations. Last time I checked, there wasn't thirty five

  311. thousand Jesuses though, right, No one's gonna die and stand

  312. before Jesus and he's gonna go Oh, my words, you

  313. had the perfect theology. I am so impressed with your doctrine.

  314. Not gonna happen y'all we know in part we prophisy

  315. and part we don't have it all together. Somebody asked,

  316. I was in a story yesterday or Friday. The gentleman said, hey,

  317. I don't know if I ever asked you about this.

  318. Do you believe in a rapture? Two hours later? Now

  319. one hour later, I told him I believe that the

  320. rapture in the second coming or one event. Now, that

  321. statement I just made right there could literally divide a room.

  322. But every viewpoint of eschatology has holes in it, so

  323. I refuse to camp out on minor things. I believe

  324. Jesus is returning in bodily form, and that's what I

  325. care about. All of our team believes Jesus is coming

  326. back in bodily form, So I don't care of your

  327. pre trib a' millennial, post millennial, pan millennial. That means

  328. it's going to pan out, doesn't matter. He's coming, and

  329. the birth pains are showing that it's getting sooner than

  330. we think. And I want to live a life that

  331. literally continues into eternity with fruit. I want to have character,

  332. not just be a character. Then they'll deliver you up

  333. to tribulation, put you to death. You'll be hated by

  334. all nations for my namesake, y'all, do you understand some

  335. people are gonna hate you because you love Jesus. And

  336. it's okay, it should be. We'll get over it. And

  337. then they'll fall away and betray one another, hate one another,

  338. many false prophets, and lead many astray. And because lawlessness

  339. will be increased, the love of many will grow cold.

  340. That word for love is agape. It's not your love.

  341. And there and there's a gape filio, there's there's three

  342. different loves. Uh. In fact, when Jesus is talking to

  343. Peter in our English language, it just says love, but

  344. he actually asked him, asks him in more than one

  345. type of love. As he was restoring him. He goes

  346. on to say, but the one who endures to the

  347. end will be saved. This gospel of the Kingdom will

  348. be proclaimed through the whole world as a testimony to

  349. all nations, and the end will come. Listen. Offended people

  350. will ultimately betray people. That's why the enemy works so

  351. hard to get you offended with somebody else. The moment

  352. you get offended and stay offended, you're going to begin

  353. to do the work of the enemy, and once we're offended, accusation, gossip, slander,

  354. and character assassination will be the fruit. The love of

  355. many will grow cold. Interesting if you look at that

  356. Greek word a god pey, a god pey, a gope,

  357. it means charity, love, love feasts like the love feast

  358. mentioned in the New Covenant, it means affection or benevolence.

  359. Pride and religion go hand in hand. Pride covers the

  360. religious activity blinds you to the fact that you've been

  361. given over to a religious spirit. Remember, the religious spirit

  362. makes you feel spiritual without true transformation. It is using

  363. God's word to execute your own will, and your pride

  364. will blind you from seeing it. So the religious spirit

  365. will make you feel spiritual without true transformation. You're going

  366. to use God's word to execute your own will and desires,

  367. and your pride will blind you from ever seeing any

  368. of it. Well, three says therefore, whatever you have said

  369. in the darkness in the dark shall be heard in

  370. the light, and what you've whispered in private room shall

  371. be proclaimed on the housetop.

  372. Hey, I don't know if you heard this, but Joe, yeah, Joe,

  373. Joe just did this and this and this and this

  374. and this, But hey, make sure you bray for I'm

  375. okay because I'm bearing spiritual at this moment. I turned

  376. my gossip into a prairie quest.

  377. You know the best way of never having anything shout

  378. from the mountaintop. Don't say it? Is it gonna edify?

  379. Is it gonna bring comfort? Is it is is it loving?

  380. Is it true? Is it praiseworthy? Does it have virtue?

  381. This is Philippians four eight. The things that we're supposed

  382. to be thinking about, the filter that's supposed to be

  383. on our mind and in our hearts. And we're all guilty,

  384. they're not. If he counted our sin, we're all smoked.

  385. But what happens if we shift the tide in the church?

  386. What what if just this three hundred people says, not

  387. on my watch, you're not prophetic because you can see

  388. dirt in somebody's life. Hello, we all got dirt, people.

  389. But when you actually can see with God's eyes and

  390. see the gold in someone and begin to prophesy to

  391. who God created them to be, then you can actually

  392. be used to bring life to proclaim His word. Romans

  393. twelve fourteen to twenty one. Bless those who persecute you,

  394. smack them in the face, and then turn your cheek

  395. and smack them again. No, wait a minute, hold on,

  396. Bless those who persecute you. Bless and do not curse them.

  397. Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.

  398. Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty,

  399. but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your

  400. own sight. Repay no one evil for evil, but give

  401. thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all,

  402. if possible, so far as it depends on you, live

  403. peaceably with all belove it. Never avenge yourselves. What does

  404. that mean? You don't get to vindicate your name? But

  405. then if you're over there, But what about my reputation?

  406. They think we're all nut jobs at Cross Kingdom. I

  407. just you know, people are jerking and shaking and moving

  408. and rolling and flopping. I just do. Jesus made himself

  409. of no reputation, so guess what, you don't have to

  410. carry the way to one. And if you're wanting to

  411. make yourself have a reputation, that's because you've not dealt

  412. with your pride, and your identity is still as an

  413. orphan rather than a son. Beloved, Never avenge yourselves, but

  414. leave it to the wrath of God. Do you know

  415. how many people I know and that have sued other

  416. believers took them into court and justified it. And Paul's like,

  417. why don't you just be wrong? Why are you taking

  418. your brother into court? Do you not know that you're

  419. going to judge angels and you can't judge this earthly matter? Y'all?

  420. Every one of us have been made a little bit

  421. lower than the angels, right, but when we hit the resurrection,

  422. part of our our inheritance is we literally become equal

  423. with angels, and we are brought into that divine counsel

  424. to rule and reign with Christ. To the contrary, if

  425. your enemy's hungry, starve them, I mean, feed them. If

  426. he's thirsty, give them salt. No, if he's thirsty, give

  427. them something to drink. For by so doing you'll heat

  428. burning coals on his head. Do not be overcome by evil,

  429. but overcome evil with good y'alls. They're poison. Do you

  430. have poison on your tongue? Do you have poison in

  431. your heart? Do you need the Lord to move in

  432. your heart and mind this morning to remove poison? It

  433. doesn't belong. Jesus paid for it. We don't want to

  434. be miserable, do we. You ever meet any Christians that

  435. need a B twelve shot of joy? You ask them

  436. how they're doing. They say they're doing great, but their

  437. face makes them look like they ain't. One more scripture,

  438. I'll start landing. Finally, all of you have unity of mind, sympathy,

  439. brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind. Do

  440. not repay evil for evil, or reviling for reviling. But

  441. on the contrary, bless for those. I'm sorry. Bless for

  442. to this you were called that you may obtain a

  443. blessing for whoever desires to love life and see good days.

  444. Let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips

  445. from speaking deceit. I want to challenge you the next

  446. time somebody ticks you off, are you reminded of someone

  447. who ticked you off? Say Jesus, will you give me

  448. your perspective of this person? I don't like their shenanigans.

  449. What's going on with them? Lord? Why are they responding

  450. this way? What's going on in their life? Happen to them?

  451. And Lord, how do you want me to pray for

  452. them so you can bless them and that the goodness

  453. of God would lead them to repentance. When it says

  454. we're to pray for our enemies, that doesn't just mean Lord,

  455. I don't like Bob, but would you, you know, maybe

  456. lighten his load a little bit. He seems like he's struggling.

  457. He's being a real jerk towards me. So would you

  458. just kind of would you help Bob out a smidge. No,

  459. that's not how he's saying. To pray. You pray for

  460. that person the way you would want to be prayed for.

  461. You bless that person the way you want to be blessed.

  462. And I promise you that if you'll begin to pray

  463. for those that you're in conflict with, this issue of

  464. offense and for giveness, bitterness and all this nonsense will

  465. never take root in your soul because your weapons of

  466. righteousness are in your right hand and then your left,

  467. and they are not carnal. And when you're feeling self pity,

  468. woe is me? Oh everything's wrong. I think that's what

  469. sounds like in heaven when we go into intercessory whining. Bye,

  470. It's like, can you translate that going to Thanksgiving the

  471. moment you see a lack and all of a sudden

  472. you're tempted to fear lack. Say, Lord, I thank you

  473. that there's good works attached to the works you've called

  474. me to. There's an abundance, good of provision attached to

  475. the good works you've called me to. Lord, I thank

  476. you that as I walk with you and I'm obedient

  477. to your will, provision comes. There is no lack with you,

  478. because you are the God of abundance, and all the

  479. promises are yes. And amen, Lord, I thank you for today.

  480. I thank you that I live in Kerville, Texas. I

  481. thank you I live in Texas and not another state.

  482. How's that I'll probably get our live stream cut now

  483. it's jealousy. They'll deal with it. But seriously, move in

  484. the opposite when you're starting to feel heavy hearted, start

  485. giving thanks, start praising. Move in the opposite and stay

  486. there until that breaks. And besides, y'all, faith is not

  487. a feeling. You have to stewart your heart, And when

  488. you begin to feel negative emotions, simply understand that that

  489. emotion is the bridge back to your belief and it's

  490. an opportunity to be renewed in your mind, because you

  491. cannot have a feeling without a belief behind it. So Lord,

  492. take me down this bridge of fear. Where is this

  493. coming from? Because you said that you didn't give me

  494. a spirit of fear, but of love, right a sound mind.

  495. If your mind's not sound, you're not right in the head.

  496. You're like that old boy from Brave Heart. This is

  497. my island. You may need some ministry. A gentle tongue

  498. is a tree of life, but perverseness and it breaks

  499. the spirit. Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life. He

  500. who opens wide his lips comes to ruin. I said

  501. last scripture, I gave you a couple more. It's bonus points.

  502. Let no corrupt talk come out of your mouths, but

  503. only such as is good for building up, as fits

  504. the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

  505. Let your speech always be gracious, season with salt, so

  506. that you may know how you ought to answer each person.

  507. And I'll leave you with this. The reward for humility

  508. and the fear of the Lord is riches and honor

  509. and life. Anybody want riches honor in life, then the

  510. prerequisite to getting that reward is genuine humility in the

  511. fear of the Lord. What do I say? Stay humble,

  512. stay hungry, stay teachable, stay accountable. You keep those characteristics

  513. in your life. I can promise you you'll persevere, you

  514. won't fall away, You'll make it through, and in thirty years,

  515. whatever God's called you to, you'll still be doing it

  516. and hopefully there'll be a smile on your face. All right,

  517. let's stand our keyboard. Mic is gone, Wayne's gone? Can

  518. you play your guitar in real quick? Yeah? Let's just

  519. take a minute and really allow the Lord to examine

  520. us and ask him where we've had poison? Because I'm

  521. telling you, see, we what we minimize on earth is

  522. actually a big deal in heaven. What you think is

  523. a little a little weakness, a little sin, that's not

  524. that big of a deal. It's actually what's keeping you

  525. from your promotion because by your deception and your pride,

  526. you perceive it to be small, and it's actually a

  527. very big thing. And God is too good to give

  528. you a gift that he has to turn around and

  529. judge you for afterwards. Are you being crushed this morning? Great?

  530. Because oil comes in the crushing takes fifty pounds of

  531. olives to have one gallon of extra virgin olive oil.

  532. Are you being shaken? Awesome? Everything will be shaken, except

  533. for the Kingdom. It can't be shaken. Did the Lord

  534. put somebody in front of your face this morning? Awesome?

  535. Forgive them, But you don't know what they did to me.

  536. I know what Jesus did for you. Fire always falls

  537. on sacrifice, and if you desire to walk and see

  538. His kingdom advance, then it costs. There's a cost to intimacy, y'all.

  539. There is a genuine cost to intimacy. And I believe

  540. there's an invitation this morning for God to begin to

  541. use us in a much more significant way as we

  542. draw close to him. So, Lord, and the prayer team,

  543. would you come up as as I pray? So Lord,

  544. would you forgive us for turning on each other? Would

  545. you forgive us for being fruit inspectors? That's your job.

  546. You said, we're to love everyone, and Lord, we acknowledge

  547. that actually the way we love others prophesies to how

  548. we really love you. So Lord, would you come with

  549. your light, come with your presence? Lord, would you by

  550. your spirit convict of sin, righteousness and judgment? Lord, don't

  551. let anyone leave this room that does not know you.

  552. If your battling this morning, trying to figure out if

  553. you even know Jesus, don't leave here. Anybody up front

  554. here can help you surrender your life and trust him.

  555. Some of y'all are in a wrestling match this morning,

  556. right now, even as I speak, and you're wrestling with

  557. surrendering your heart to him. You're wrestling with truly, truly

  558. surrendering at all. So Lord, I pray for that grace

  559. to wash over them. Would you overshadow us with your

  560. presence this morning? Would you release your ministering spirits. Some

  561. of y'all may need to pick up a phone this

  562. afternoon and have some brave communication with somebody. Some of

  563. y'all been waiting for loved ones to call you, and

  564. you need to call them, which means you got to

  565. humble yourself and stop being right and love. So Lord,

  566. would you release grace this morning for the forgiveness of debts, Lord,

  567. regardless of what kind of debt it is. Somebody that

  568. rejected you and cussed you out, told you what they

  569. thought of you. Lord, forgive them because they don't know

  570. what they're doing. M and give us for every idle

  571. word that we've spoken, Lord, forgive us for every time

  572. that we have cursed. Thank you for listening. For more

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