Passing The Test

You're listening to the Cross Kingdom Sermon of the Week, we hope you enjoy

this message from Justin Carpenter. But I really felt led by the Lord to

talk about passing the test this morning because many of you are being tested right

now, and I know you're being tested in ways that you've never been tested

before, and some of you may be wondering, what in the world is

going on? Why am I being tested in the way that I'm being tested.

Interestingly enough, as I was praying through different subjects and asking the Lord

what to talk about, I realized it was exactly two years ago the last

time I talked about this. Now, isn't that interesting? Now we find

ourselves in a transition. When the Lord told me two years ago, yes,

this will happen, but it's going to be hard, I was just

like, you know, when the Lord says it's gonna be hard, I'm

thinking you should put your crash helmet on in a seat belt. And but

I want to talk to you this morning about testing. Why you're tested,

and you're tested for promotion. You're You're God. God is never testing you

for your demotion. How you handle testing and transitions in your life will absolutely

determine whether or not you get promoted. You don't fail in the kingdom,

You just you just get to go around the mountain again, anybody want to

go around some of the mountains that you've already been around a couple of times.

That was the biggest response. Yet neither do I, right, And

so it's it's yeah, I mean I the last few months have been just

if you haven't noticed, things have just turbulence, like the marriages. And

I mean every time I turn around there's you know, somebody's gotten sick or

their marriage is in trouble. And I have I've had to be very conscious

in recent months to not carry other people's lives. And you fully understand this

if you're a burden bearer or you do prayer, ministry and right, it's

way too easy to take on false responsibility for people's lives because deep down inside

you somehow think just maybe you're in control, if you're responsible for them,

maybe you're in control. And we say, logically, oh no, that's

not the case. But you're full of crap. Sometimes when you say that

we all are that's Greek for crapola James one two to four, count it

all joy Oh, that was really slick, wasn't it? Never mind?

I apologize family. Count it all, joy, my brothers. When you

meet trials of various kinds, For you know that the testing of your faith

produces steadfastness, and let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be

perfect and complete, lacking and nothing. Count it all, joy, my

brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, For you know that the

testing of your faith produces steadfastness, And some translations actually say patience and let

steadfastness have its full effect, so that you may be perfect and complete,

lacking in nothing. So when you're being tested, the issue is God is

viewing your relationship with him more valuable than gold. He's viewing your relationship with

him more precious than anything. Heaven went bankrupt so that you could actually have

a relationship with him. And when we back out of the testing, when

we refuse to allow the pruning process in our lives to continue, we're short

circuiting our relationship with him. We are guaranteeing that we're not going to be

promoted, and we're guaranteeing that we're going to continue to go around the mountain.

Has anybody ever figured out just because you might be sixty years of age

literally that that doesn't mean you're not two years old spiritually. Spiritual age and

spiritual maturity doesn't it does not necessarily equate to literal age. Timothy was told

to set the elders up by Paul, and Timothy was young. The Disciples

were super young, y'all when they turned the world upside down. Paul had

to encourage Timothy, don't let anyone look down on you because of your youth.

But one thing that will guarantee that we don't progress forward spiritually speaking,

even though we have a physical birthday, as if we buckle under the pressure.

Are you with me? Because what happens is when we're being tested for

promotion, the enemy is right there tempting you with a shortcut. He knows

exactly what the Father's trying to do with you in that moment. We see

this clearly in the wilderness with Jesus. He's in the wilderness. He had

nothing to eat for forty days and forty nights. More than likely he had

nothing to drink as well. It doesn't say that specifically, but we can

assume that Moses did that, and the Father kept Moses for two forty day

stints and a seven day stint, and I'm like that dude had eighty some

days without eating or drinking water. And in that process where Jesus was at

his weakest is when Satan himself came to him and said, if you are

the son of God, what did he do? The first thing he did

was attack his identity, and then he was like, well, that's the

case. Do this, you don't think Jesus and that we have to understand

he was not faking his humanity when he became a man. It was not

fake. He was one hundred percent human, and he limited his deity while

operating as a man. Now, what I did not just say was that

he ceased to have deity. I said he limited it. Okay, I

don't want emails of misunderstandings. One hundred percent God, one hundred percent man.

But he emptied himself in limited himself while on earth. Why so he

showed us the perfect example of the life that we can have in him with

the Father. He said, the things I do, you'll do. If

he did all of those things in his deity and not in his humanity,

he never could have said that to you because You're not God. There's nothing

about you that's God. I don't care what new agers say. That's the

lie from the garden. And you'll never be God. You have been a

partaker of his divine nature when you accepted him. But he made it possible.

He shows us the life that's possible. So think about this, Jesus

not faking his humanity. Literally, anybody'd done a forty day water fast,

only anybody one? Anybody else? Yeah, I would need an angelic visitation

to tell me to go forty days before. I've done a ton of fasting

in my life. And I don't say that, but yeah, no,

who bless you? But imagine your forty days in the wilderness and Satan himself

is coming to you. You know that you're gonna die the most gruesome death.

You're gonna be beaten beyond recognition as a human being. You're gonna be

spit on, mocked. Every demon in Hell is gonna be right in front

of you, going after you. Because remember it says in that moment they

didn't realize he was the Lord of Glory. Had they known, they never

wrote to crucify the Lord of Glory, so they thought they were just gonna

checkmate this thing and keep him from being a king. And in that moment,

with all of this going down and all of this happening, Jesus knows

why he was born. He knows what he can. He said, the

Son of Man didn't come to be served, but to serve and offer his

life as a ransom for many. So he knew from day one what was

going on. And then here's Satan saying, hey, if you're all it

literally says that that Satan showed him all the kingdoms of the earth in a

moment of time, which is a false vision. That's why you got to

test your visions, because not every vision you have is from Holy Spirit.

And he showed them all these kingdoms, and he says, look, I

will give you all of these kingdoms and the authority over them if you just

bow down and worship me. Now was he lying not fully? That's that's

the deception. Satan had the keys to death, hell and the grave.

He had authority over the earth because we gave it up to him in the

garden. So part of what he said wasn't a lie. But he knew

if he took the bait, we're done. He didn't fully know. But

if he would have, if he would have, if he would have buckered,

buckered, it's always that spot. If he would have buckled to the

pressure, y'all, there's no other name. What are you saying about it?

There's no other name. He was in such agony in the garden,

he was literally sweating blood. And I'm not a doctor, but I know

that that's not good to the degree of your test. It's actually prophesying to

the potential of your promotion. And if you allow the pressure of the testing

or the temptation of your flesh to be a shortcut, then don't blame God

that that prophetic word didn't come true over your life. Look in the mirror.

You're not a victim. Take responsibility, for if you so to the

flesh of the flesh, you'll reap corruption. If you so to the spirit

of the spirit, you'll reap life. Y'all with me, okay. The

Hebrew word for testing means to smelt, refine test, Yeah, like a

goldsmith. That means you literally are being burned by the fire of God.

Anybody ever feel the fire of God. You're literally being melted in the midst

of your faith. It's not to hurt you. The Lord only gives good

gifts. One of the things that the enemy has been a master at is

that John ten ten, the enemy came to steal, kill, destroyer.

But I've come to give life and give it more abundantly. One of the

things the enemy has successfully done with us is he comes into our lives,

he steals, he kills, he destroys. It happens through agreement, through

deception, and then he gets us to shift the blame onto God, as

if he had anything to do with it. In Genesis twenty two to one,

after these things, God tested Abraham and said to him, Abraham,

and he said, here, I am. We've talked about this before.

Imagine Abraham's journey. He had Ishmael, right which right now we're seeing the

fruit of Isaac and Ishmael as we speak in this very moment of day twenty

three in the Gaza, and he's there, and he's convinced for thirteen years

that by having being given to him, that that fulfilled the word. Y'all,

every one of you will be tempted to give into Ishmael with your calling.

It's a prophetic picture, because it's the easy way you with a little

Jesus sprinkle thirteen years, which the number thirteen biblically prophetically is rebellion. So

after the fullness of thirteen years with Abraham, guess what happens? God finally

speaks to him. No, we don't have a single recorded word of the

Lord to Abraham for that thirteen year stretch because of his decision. See we

wink at sin, we say, oh, it's okay, it's all under

the blood, it's all done. When I said yes, really, then

why is First John there that's written to believers, not non believers. If

you sin, he's what faithful and just to forgive you of your sin and

to cling you from all unrighteousness. For I've written these things under you that

know the Son of God. This is First John, and Abraham is there.

Finally God's promise shows up Isaac, and he says, sacrifice them.

Now I'm pausing because too many times we talk about this stuff, and we

talk about biblical history, and somehow we kind of think sometimes it's just like

a fairy tale or you know, just a good, you know, Bible

picture story to talk about. But this was reality. Dad's imagine getting that

word and Abraham didn't falter. Abraham said, we're gonna go worship the Lord

and he'll provide the sacrifice. But there's a prophetic picture in this when you

realize you've been holding on to Ishmael and you get Isaac. You got to

lay Isaac on the altar and you got to take your hands off of it,

and you got to leave Isaac with the Lord. You got to trust

the Lord that he knows what to do with Isaac. Even if it looks

like Isaac dies, Isaac is resurrected because of the Lord. And in that

moment, that's the dark Knight of the Spirit. There's the dark Knight of

the soul and the dark Knight of the Spirit, and the dark Knight of

the Spirit is where you've done everything that you can in a righteous way,

and either God shows up or he doesn't, but you are a full surrendered

no matter what comes in front of you, and you're fully trusting and committed

to the Lord Jesus, and ultimately we become bond servants of Jesus. Ultimately

we embrace the cross and we don't just we don't get uncomfortable anymore because we

realize without the Cross, there is no life and every part of our lives

that we don't embrace the splinters of that cross is a part of our life

that we lose. It's a part of the abundant life that he died for

that he longs to give us, that we forfeit when we say I'll take

Ishmael. The testings just getting started, the testing for the Body of Christ

and America is just getting started. And if you take the shortcut now,

you won't even have a chance of standing five years from now. But what

keeps you embracing that cross, Which keeps you embracing the testing of the Lord

isn't a bunch of rules and regulations. It's not fear. It's the awe

of God. It's the fear of the Lord. It is the intimacy with

him. It is what the disciples confessed and said, Lord, where will

we go? Because you are the only one with the words of life.

We are in a culture war right now in this nation. We just had

professing Christians dressed as drag queens at the devil Wards a week ago. Anybody

know that the devil Wards? Oh yes, this is the culture parents that

trying to fight against with raising your children in the ways of the Lord.

Will you buckle to the fear of man? Will you buckle and compromise and

say, oh well, it's not that bad. Listen. It is clear

about sexual immorality and perversion in these lifestyles that they don't inherit eternal life.

But that's not it. No drunkard, no liar, no coward. Listen.

If we want to see revival come, and we want to see revival

sustained, we cannot divorce word and spirit. You better be just as strong

in the written word of God and know his word and hide it in your

heart that you will not sin against Him as you are for a dream or

a vision or an angelic visitation. And if you don't know that written word

and you have these spiritual encounters, you will be deceived. And if all

you do is produce are seek after spiritual encounters, you will absolutely shipwreck your

faith. You need to focus on Jesus, get close to him, and

supernatural things will happen. But we don't get to choose what happens. All

we do is say, Lord, I'm all in and I want to know

you, no matter what the cost is. And it's time that we say

we're all in it's time, we say Jesus, no matter what comes our

way, no matter what comes out of those gates of Hell, they cannot

prevail. We are standing in line, in agreement, in unity. We

are one body, and we're gonna charge Hell, and we're gonna plunder Hell,

and we're gonna take this the treasures out of darkness. And if it

means we get, you know, we lose social media sites, then so

be it. But I would rather stand before the God of the universe and

know that I've fulfilled my assignment and I spoke the truth and love than to

make a bunch of people feel good about themselves and then watch them go into

a lake of fire. Terry Bennett says that the playground of Satan is attached

to the School of Christ. See, Satan thinks he's just, you know,

he's just. He doesn't know that God's actually using his attacks against him

every time. Do you understand every time you are attacked, if the opposite

wasn't true, why would the attack hurt? There would be nothing there for

him to steal. If so, whatever he's trying to steal, guess what

the opposite is true? When you are feeling rejection, and you're feeling this

overwhelming feel of rejection. It's because he's lying to you about your identity that

you have the spirit of adoption and you cry out, Papa. But if

you focus on him, you just made room for him. That's why it

says take every thought captive, which means you go on that thought out.

I'm taking this thought right here that says I'm a son of God. I'm

a son of light. I'm the light and salt of the earth. I've

been called to reconcile the earth back to Jesus. I mean, you can

go on and on and on about your identity and what He's called you to

do. That's what you're supposed to think on. Philippians four to eight tells

us what to meditate on. Don't let the enemy rent space in your mind

before you bite the dust. Every single thing you do, guess what,

It starts with a thought. And you're not in charge of your thoughts that

come into your mind, but you are responsible for every single thought you choose

to let stay in there and you focus on You've been given the mind of

Christ, the helmet of salvation. When I get back on that series again,

the helmet of salvation is there. Whatever goes past the shield of faith,

maybe you got a crack in your faith. Guess what you have the

helmet of salvation. You have the mind of Christ that's protected. And so

any thought that comes into your mind, that's not the mind of Christ,

that's not the Lord. Are you with me? Hezekiah was tested and failed.

In fact, Hezekiah was unaware of the testing completely. When he was

given an extended fifteen years of his life, guess what happened. He puffed

up with pride and he showed the king everything of his kingdom. The prophet

comes to him and says, what did you show him? Oh? I

showed him everything. The Prophet's like, oh, And Hezekiah totally threw out

the focus of legacy and his children and his children's children, and he said,

well, at least they'll be peace in my day. So in the

midst of your battle, in the midst of you wanting to quit and throw

in the towel because things get tough, because you know, fill in the

blank, whatever you're dealing with right now, you're not just fighting for yourself.

You're fighting for a bloodline. And love is not self seeking. Listen,

I never stepped into shepherding to build a megachurch. I stepped in out

of obedience, and I want to see people become exactly what Jesus paid for.

That's my heart. And when I see the only thing I've told the

Lord is Lord, I want the fruit to match the battle. Lord.

If I've got big battles, then i want big fruit. That's what I

want. But I can tell you you do not become a champion of the

faith without big battles. You do not become a champion without facing your fears

on the battle line. Your promotion is going to come when you're facing your

biggest giant. There's a promised land that we've been given in kirk County,

and there's giants in the land, but the grapes are worth it. That's

exactly what an angel told John Paul Jackson in Scotland when he was facing problem

after problem. When he was over there doing ministry, two cylinders of lights

appeared two angels and spoke and said, there's giants in the land, but

the grapes are worth it. And then they go to some Irish prophet dude's

house that was really weird, and he goes, yeah, the Lord talk

to me while sitting in me tub about you too. And he's like,

oh, did the Lord do that? And he goes, yes, he

did. He says he'd go about the world prophesying to people. And he

goes and that was pretty good. Huh. And again, oh, I

don't want to there's annoying there or something, and and he's and he's talking

to John Paul and John Paul's like, yeah, whatever, and and he

says a couple of things, and he goes and the Lord told me you'd

be stubborn. He goes, I am not stubborn. He goes, just

listen to you, and uh, he goes, Yeah, he told me

you'd be falsely humble. And so he's telling him all this and John Paul

in his younger days, he'll burn a hole through you with his eagle eyes

and know everything about your life. The dude was whoo. And so he

goes, but the Lord said this, after I tell you this, you'll

never question whether I hear from the Lord or not. And he goes,

there's giants in the land, but the grapes are worth it. And John

Paul was like, oh, my land, you do hear from the Lord,

Because he literally the day before had an angelic visitation with those two angels.

Did he have a clue? Listen, y'all, if you want to

encounter God, get on your path that he's called you to, because if

you look through the scriptures, people weren't having encounters because they just, Oh,

sign me up for a dream, Lord, Oh tomorrow, I'll take

a vision. Oh I'll take a prophetic word. No, it's in moments

when they're facing their giants. They feel like their highnees being handed to them

and they need to be strengthened by the Lord. And the Lord says,

that is my son. I'm releasing my angels to strengthen him so he will

fulfill the very purpose that I created him for. That's why these things happen.

And when we're in moments of weakness, his strength is made perfect.

When we're going, Lord, what is going on? Are you even with

me? All of a sudden, in his mercy, something supernatural happens.

Lord, did we really see the glory of the glory, weighty glory in

front of the porch? And then, all of a sudden, a week

later, a literal, tangible cloud appears in our yard at night radiating light

and expands and then disappears. As we're talking about Thanksgiving, because talked when

you were thankful. It focuses on the majestic of God, how majestic he

is, and we magnify his name with thanksgiving. The Psalm says, sorry

about the Greek the Greek word earlier forgot it was family, Please forgive me

all. Thank you. One of the kids did praise the Lord. We'll

keep you around for sure. The wilderness is always a time of testing.

Therefore, Hebrews three seven and eight. Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says

today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in

the rebellion on the day of testing in the wilderness. He brought them into

the wilderness for intimacy. But what was in them came out? Y'all?

We want John fifteen. We want the fruit that remains on the vine.

So guess what this is? How this works? In case you haven't figured

it out yet, You cry out to the Lord, You tell him you

want to fulfill your purpose that he created you for. And then things get

hard. Yeah, Lord, what do you call me to? What's going

on? And all of a sudden you're just feeling hit all over the place.

The word of the Lord is purging you. When you get a prophetic

word, it's not guaranteed. It's an invitation to become something, to have

an upgrade of intimacy with him. It's not to flaunt to everybody else.

Look how spiritual I am. I'm an intergalactic international apostolic prophet. Can you

not tell servanthood leadership? If Jesus made himself of no reputation, then why

are you trying to have one? Are you trying to build a reputation?

Because he loves crushing idols. We want to be like new wine that can

be poured into any vessel he chooses, and we say, you are Lord,

your will not mine. And sometimes some of the hardest some of the

some of the hardest moments is when injustice comes into your life and you and

you are chomping at the bit to vindicate yourself. But guess what Jesus did.

He didn't respond back, he didn't open his mouth, he didn't take

the bait of Satan. He chose to have no reputation because he wanted the

Father to be glorified in his life. Now I know every one of us

have blown that in our lives. I know, as a prophetic minister,

I cannot stand in justice. And guess what I've had so much thinking and

justice happened to me since I was a little kid. Like the opposite,

right, Guess what I was renamed by my aunt. My name on the

birth certificate was Matthew, and my aunt was like, no one's naming.

I don't know why, but she didn't like to name Matthew. No offense

to Matthew Faust. If you're online watching, I love your name. Almost

got your name, but justin means justice. So many times your identity in

your name. Jesus renamed people. Why because he put their destiny in their

name? Y'all. Even Jesus learned obedience by the things he suffered Hebrews two

eighteen, For because he himself has suffered when tempted, he is able to

help those who are being tempted. And Hebrews five eight although he was a

son, he learned obedience through what he suffered. The body of Christ in

the American Church better get a doctrine for the sufferings of Christ. And it

comes with a promise that the glory the spirit of glory rests on those when

they're experiencing the sufferings of Christ. See, we want all the we want

all the accolades, we want all the encounters, but we don't want the

suffering to go with it. And yet Paul said, I'm filling up in

my body the suffering. What's lacking. I'm filling up the sufferings of Christ

in my physical body. What's lacking in the church. He talks about the

joy of the Lord in prison and a pit. It wasn't like our prisons

where there's colored TVs and three square meals a day, and just like a

whole other city inside of a building. He was in a pit. The

Disciples and Acts. Y'all understand something about the Book of Acts, because there's

always this big, huge fight over in the church. There's always this division

of well, people don't like corporate gatherings or they only want home gatherings,

and all of this stuff has been happening for decades. It's not either or

it's both. You understand. What happened and Acts was they went into persecution,

so they no longer could meet publicly. But before that persecution hit,

they were gathering corporately and going home to home daily breaking bread. What does

that say? You can't survive on two hours on a Sunday? Y'all?

This is training ground, but we need to be together daily as a body

of Christ breaking bread. So I want to encourage you. Don't don't think

that you're gonna become a champion in the faith with two hours a week,

Like what does your walk with the Lord look like the rest of the time?

I forgot how many other hour? How many hours there are in a

week, but yeah, one hundred and sixty eight, So what are you

going to do with the other one hundred and sixty six hours? He used

to burn me up. I'd see all these big, massive churches and the

lights are off six days a week. They may have something going on on

a Wednesday night or a Sunday. Our heart as we build out that there

are things happening daily that we have connect groups, we have Bible studies,

we have the School of Ministry, we have conferences, we have workshop because

this is an Antioch hub. This is an equipping center for people to come

in, get healed, get equipped, and walk in what they've been called

to walk in. And if that's with us, awesome, If that's not

we have to fulfill the kingdom. I love people. I'm not into this

thing to create programs. I'm here because I want to see the Holy Spirit

magnify the Father and the Son. We want to be a spirit led community

that is running after the tangible presence of the Lord Jesus, and as he

moves in our midst then we build structure to support what he's doing. We

don't build structure to make him move. Are you with me? You can't

make God move. We can't just say okay, Lord revival. That's why

I always laugh about here my heart. But like when we do revival meetings,

I understand the heart and the hungery it. Please don't get mad at

me, But you can't make God pour out. That is a sovereign thing

that he chooses to do, and he does these B twelve shots in us

when we need them. But guess what, as God moves and as God

begins to pour out his glory, we want to be a community that can

stewart what he's doing so that it's not a visitation but habitation, so we

can actually hand that off as a spiritual inheritance to the next generation. Every

revival started with God and ended with man. Study him if you can't tell

him a little pumped up this morning? All right about to lot, haven't

I cut my coffee back this morning? That's only my third cup? Thank

you? Well technically anyways, Yeah, there was a quad shot in the

first one. You know, it's crazy, I've almost I've gone I didn't

even look at my outline and I've already gone through a bunch of it.

So the greater the call of God on your life, the greater the testing

that must take place. Testing brings humility and forgiveness. Testing is for the

praise, glory and honor of the Lord. Let me give you a few

signs of if you know if you're being tested. Can you all give me

about seven minutes to land this? Okay? Signs that you're being tested when

you find yourself going through circumstances you've never gone through before. When you have

a dream that you're back in school and you're taking a test, when you're

being tempted in ways that you've never been empt before, when you're being persecuted

in ways that you've not been before, when you've been betrayed by someone you

trusted. You have just received a powerful prophetic word. I let me tell

you something. When the prophet come, when the prophets come to town.

I used to be like, Jesus, do you see me? Do you

see me? That honeymoon phase ended? Can I get a witness? Troy?

Now I'm like, don't see me, don't see me. Lord,

I got ten prophetic words and I'm getting my butt kicked on. They're not

fulfilled yet. I don't need another one. Yeah. If y'all didn't figure

that out, you will trust me. The honeymoon of being called out by

another prophet is not always hmm, because then the purging starts. Is what

is happening. He's removing everything from you that when you get there, would

destroy you. That's the purging. So open your hands and say purge,

because he rewards our faithfulness with pruning so that we produce more fruit. Pruning

hurts when it's getting cut. Y'all right, If trees could scream when you're

pruning them, you probably hear something. You've just had a vision of your

future. Get ready, everything's going wrong and you don't know why. When

you're right on the edge of breakthrough and then it seems to fall apart.

The danger of that is all of a sudden. Now, guess what you

think. You feel like there's this proverbial carrot being dangled in front of you,

and that you just can't quite get it. God doesn't play games.

You show up to a place, you're called tomaturely, you're gonna look around

and nobody else will be there. Your destiny is tied into others. Your

destiny is in people, not in buildings and things, and God is moving

in their lives and orchestrating and putting people in place. If you're a leader,

turn around, who are you leading? There's enough that some are called

some show up just because we say something. The fruit proves it. Embrace

the cross. Trust him, that is it getting that bad? Trust him

for I've hey, I've had moments where I wanted to cry like that in

my walk. Lord, no more, almost done, I promise. Here's

another thing. And this is what we don't want because wilderness. Wilderness times

in our life come by two ways, either by design for your promotion or

by default because of your rebellion. You don't want to go into a wilderness

period because of rebellion. We need to come into a place of such sensitivity

of the Holy Spirit, that he can lead us with his eyes alone.

Yet, remember when you were a kid and your dad gave you that look

when you knew you need to straighten up. Our mom gave you that look,

and you knew that when you got that look. Oh streetbuck boys,

come on now, Oh are you doing Dad's look? That's awesome, but

you know the look right. Let me encourage y'all. We want to get

into a place of such sensitivity with the Holy Spirit that just the slightest lift

of his presence, just the slightest nudge, and we're like, Oh,

he doesn't want us to he doesn't want me to do that. You ever

get ready to say something and then you feel a check. Don't blow past

that check. I've done it way too many times in my life and it

doesn't work out well if you can't figure it out. Some I'm still unfiltered.

Sometimes I'm like, oh, justin, I'm getting better. I'm trying,

I promise, but you know what I'm saying, James says. Be

quick to listen James one nineteen or one twenty. Be quick to listen,

be slow to speak, and slow to become angry, because the anger of

man does not produce the righteousness of God. In fact, I'll say this,

to the degree you struggle with anger prophesies how much fear is in your

heart. To the degree that you struggle with anger is actually prophesying to how

much fear is in your heart. When you're fearful, anger comes and says

I will protect you. You Ever, notice when when you get hit with

fear and all of a sudden, the very next thing the jawbone chop,

your and your and your some of y'all have issues with your uh TM and

you need to get delivered of anger. Sorry, your soul, your physical

body manifests what's in your soul. I love you, but I'm not gonna

lie to you. That much of the iceberg shows above the water, and

that's just like the very core of your personality, very little of your You

have your consciousness and you have your subconsciousness. And we are experts at disassociation.

We are experts at partnering with checking out because we want to put distance

between the pain and the rejection that we've gone through in our life, and

we don't want to deal with the trauma. So the enemy offers solutions,

right, and you you may have battled drugs because of all the pain you

went through. You may have battled alcohol. You may battle pills, you

may and and other people battle other ways. Sin is sin, y'all.

We need to trust the Lord to go deep to cut us with his word

to bring healing. Okay, anybody, anybody not offended yet? Okay,

I'm gonna read. I gotta read this. I can't. I got one

minute, I said seven, So bear with me. And we've gone through

this before, but this is really interesting. On the same day, the

Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, to your descendants, I've given

this land from the river at Jip to the Great River, the River Euphrates,

the Keennites, the Keenan, keen Brah the Kenites, the Keenazites,

the Catamites, the Hittites, the Purzites, the raphae Em the Amorite,

the Canaanites, the Gergashites, and the Jebusites, and all other otherites.

When the Lord your God brings you into the land which you go to possess,

he has cast out many nations before you, and he goes through all

these lands. But they had to deal with them. They had to deal

with these ten lands these ten peoples, and do you know that names mean

something? Are you ready for this? The Keenites mean fabricator, lies,

false accusation. You're gonna deal with the giants. Everyone will deal with There's

been false accusation against you. And will you make yourself of no reputation and

allow the Lord to vindicate your name in his time? Or will you vindicate

your name yourself? The Keenozites means possessive or coveteousness, trying to look more

spiritual than you are. Are trying to be someone else or walk in someone

else's anointing. You have your own shoes to walk in, and the anointing

is attracted to authenticity. And when you try to act like somebody else,

you're robbing the world of an authentic expression of a part of the nature of

God that only you can manifest. Katamites means ancient ways or religious spirit.

Remember the purest definition of a religious spirit is using God's word to do your

own thing. So you lookiritual without repentance. And he says, look,

there are seven mightier and greater than you. So he said, look,

y'all, you can take out the first three without me. But You're not

going to take out the other seven without me. This goes back to the

reference to the dark Knight of the Spirit, where you have done everything you've

been called to do. You're bearing your cross, you're walking with him,

and either he shows up to fight the battle to take out these giants,

or you do not inherit your inheritance. And if you keep trying to help

him with these seven, then you're gonna keep going back around the mountain because

you have to get into a place where you're totally reliant upon him to remove

all of the giants. Are you with me? The hit sites mean sons

of terror, subliminal torments, phobia's terror, depression, deceit. The Gurgashites

mean stranger, feeling out of place, like you don't fit in. Amorite

means sayer or to speak, to speak against our boast, its pride,

and guess what. He gives grace to the humble, but he opposes the

proud. Canaanites means zealous, a premature opportunity. Perzites means squatter, limited

vision, lazy, our low self esteem. The raphaem means giant villagers vision

limited to enjoying an earthly inheritance, hedonism, and the final one Jebusites means

don don don trodden our depression, our victim mentality. If you leave a

victim spirit in your life for comfort, because it allows you not to take

responsibility of your life, and then therefore you don't have to feel the pressure

checking out and you're never gonna get free because the victim spirit will guarantee you

don't take responsibility for what you actually believe in your heart. There's giants in

the land, but the grapes are worth it. Will you step into a

place in Him where you're truly gonna let him do it? Compromise doesn't bring

fruit, all right, it doesn't bring righteous fruit. Let's stand if I

can have the prayer team come up? Wayne? Could you? Hey?

Can everybody just I just want to again acknowledge Wayne and just bless him first

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