Clash of The Kingdoms (The Breastplate of Righteousness)

You're listening to the Cross Kingdom Sermon of the Week. We hope you enjoyed

this message from Justin Carpenter. Some old boys don't get up here and say

some words. If y'all a stretch your hands out to him and say,

God, that's a good one. Have mercy. Oh okay, Shalon forgot

his phone up here. Y'all make sure you're here next week because we have

lots of cool things happening. Next week. We're gonna be announcing a couple

of members of the new Eldership team, which is a part of the restructuring,

and we've this Tuesday, we have another staff member starting coming on board,

and we're gonna we're gonna be doing some commissioning and uh so, yeah,

I'm excited. And if y'all are wondering about the the building fund number,

like is this never ending or is it going to be twenty thirty and

we're still going to see numbers up there, well we hope not at least

at that point. Maybe we'll have U Phase three going or something. But

we met with some let me say this real quick. We met with a

gentleman who volunteered to finish up the plans and elevations for free. We met

with him. Where's my mother in law? What's the name of his company?

Hill Country re re repro Graphics? Say that ten times real fast.

And then this coming Wednesday we have another meeting with the architect who's doing the

site plan and so things are moving forward. We've been getting bids. We're

gonna hopefully in the next few weeks to be able to finalize the plans for

phase one and actually get hard numbers, and then it's a timing issue of

when we break ground. So y'all keep praying, keep giving, keep believing.

We know God's going to fund this thing, and we're super excited for

the days ahead, regardless of the shakings. So you know we Oh and

Manna, where's Mana? Mana? Manna was accepted to IRIS, correct,

And you're leaving for IRIS the twenty ninth of this month, and so we're

gonna pray over her at the end. If they want to sow into you

and help you, how do they do that? Cash app or Facebook if

y'all would like pardon her or her mother, Lisa Davenport, But if you

if you're interested in helping her get to the mission field and go through the

school and everything. Please get with her so she can get you her pathways

of giving. So, you know, we want to we want to make

sure that when we're talking about kingdom, we're actually doing kingdom, which means

that regardless of where people are, we're all one big body of Christ.

Yeah, whether you like it or not, you have sisters and brothers and

other denominations. Even so, just get over it, right if they know

Jesus see U Cha, don't be getting all grumpy. You know. Oh

one other thing now, I'm gonna trust that you're gonna be honest with this.

I saw lights go out in a house, and I don't think it

was literal. I actually think if someone's struggling financially, you don't have to

answer it right now. I don't want to embarrass you. But if you're

struggling financially and your electricity just went out, or sorry, my wife's homesick

and she has texted me she corrected me on something, I love you,

babe, or your electricity is literally out right now, please come and see

me afterwards, because we are going to get your electricity back on. If

that's the case, Okay, she said, l O, l I see

you. She woke up feeling a little under the weather with a sore throat

and so and Mike has been up in the booth, so it felt so

weird just being there all by myself. Don't worry, everything's cool. Lisa

and I did argue this weekend, but we're getting over it. I always

tell him myself, right, because the worst thing in the world is for

people to have an illusion that leaders somehow like fly under their pants every morning

and then just supernaturally go no, it's it's real people, it's life.

And when you're doing all this stuff, sometimes you poop your pants for a

moment and forget who you are. I meant that in the most graceful,

pastoral way possible. You have to love me anyways. You know, we

talk about we talk about love a lot. We talk about John seventeen.

We talk about you know that love is supernatural. You know, we don't

love the way the world loves. The Lord has been teaching me over the

last several months. And this is a little extra caveat, but and he

reminded me this morning. We talks cheap, right when we say we love

each other, and when we talk about a love that actually prophesizes the cross,

a unity and a love together that looks like something. A church that

is fragmented and beat up and devouring each other does not draw the loss to

it. And I can tell you, after eighteen years of prayer, ministry

and helping other leaders get healthy and so on and so forth, that you're

going to have issues. I don't care what ministry it is. There's gonna

be there's gonna be things to work through. But the true test of your

love for someone else is when you disagree, do you keep loving each other

or do you get offended and break agreement and take off the world has seen

way too many churches, too many leaders in churches. When it got tough,

they took off. I want to tell you that your faith is going

to be tested beyond any any anything you've even thought of in the days ahead,

and your love for the Body of Christ will be tested. If you

think the exposure is, you know, on the other side, and we're

going back down. As far as the exposure with government and church, you

have not seen anything yet. You will continue to be shocked and appalled at

times in the days ahead, because these shakings are God shining his light,

his judgments are righteous, his judgments are actually his love and his correction.

And it says that judgment starts first with the House of God. It actually

starts with the elders. Even in Ezekiel nine where the battle man. Thank

God, we don't have those angels coming at us with those actes. You

know what I'm saying. But but it said start with the elders. Though

the eldership, those in places of authority are responsible, we have more responsibility.

I can't get away with Like I'm on the shortest leash you could ever

imagine. Like I can think about doing something and all of a sudden I'm

being corrected somehow. I'm like, Lord, I was just a thought.

But you're wondering how all this ties in. And I'm back on the series

of Class of the Kingdoms, and we're actually going to talk about the breastplate

of righteousness. I think how we get Heaven's attention? How we If you

could impress God. I don't think you can, but if you could impress

him, I think it would be a life pursuit of righteousness, living a

life that actually exemplifies the character, nature, and love of Jesus, and

too many times we are characters, but not necessarily having character. The word

righteousness has mentioned five hundred and ten times. You think it's important. Psalms

actually says that God's the foundation of God's throne is righteousness and justice. And

we see clearly in Proverbs when it says righteousness exalts a nation, but sin

is a reproach to any people. We've got the cheerleader in the front.

Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people. We

live in a nation right now that has lost its way. We live in

a nation where even much of the body of Christ leaders have compromised and and

gone woke, if you will. And I believe wholeheartedly that in the days

ahead, as God recovers the foundation of this nation. God didn't cut covenant

with the United States. You understand that right he cut covenant with Israel.

We made a covenant with him in the United States. And don't let all

this garbage of rewriting history in the public school systems change your mind about the

truth that they're trying to hide. That this foundation was built on Jesus period.

But what allows us to stay on the front lines and not become casualties

of war is the reality of that breastplate of righteousness. It also identifies us

on that battle line, so that we don't shoot each other. Are you

with me? We're not supposed to be shooting each other. I know that

may sound weird, because as we look throughout the body of Christ, we're

really good at tearing down the temple. I has listened to teaching from Francis

Chan. I love that dude. He'll put the smack down on you,

and talked about put down your hammer. So convicting because we start going after

each other. And oh yes, by the way, Mark Mark Piper wanted

me to remind y'all that they're going to be starting I'm rabbit trailing, I

know, starting a new Bible study from brain come on, turn on,

uh John Eldridge Wild at Heart and it'll also be in the announcements next week.

But that's on Monday nights. See, you don't want inside this head.

Put down the hammer. I'm moving on, Francis Chan. Every time

we attack each other for unjust cause, like we attack each other and we're

a part of the body of Christ, guess what happens You're attacking a living

stone. The temple is spiritual. We have a spiritual temple today, not

a literal temple. And that temple was destroyed in seventy eight D. And

Jesus was ushering this issue in He says, hey, and the day's ahead.

My father's looking for those that are worship and spirit and truth. We

are the temple. That's why I don't believe biblically we have to have a

literal third temple for Jesus to come back. Oh now I know that they

have every stone cut, and I saw they just anointed the red heifer.

They and I'm not saying there won't be a literal temple. I'm just saying

from a prophetic standpoint, I do not believe there has to be. And

you don't have to agree with me, and I'll still love you. But

the Hebrew word for righteousness, in the Hebrew it literally means righteousness or justice,

and in the Greek for righteousness, which i'll butcher. The Greek word

it means justice or justness, righteousness of which God is the source and author,

not you. This is the righteousness. It says that we have become

the righteousness in Christ Jesus, that we've become partakers of his divine nature.

Listen, y'all. If you don't want to become a casualty of war,

if you want to finish well and not become Yesterday's man, then you better

understand this pursuit of righteousness. It's not just when we're here in Sunday morning

and the worship music's going and the anointings flowing and we feel ten foot tall

and bulletproof and so impressed with ourselves at times. It is when we're in

the trenches during the week, when you're around people you really don't like,

and and God's like, you're gonna love him. You're like, I love

this well, I love you. I just don't like you. And I've

said that before. I'm not. But the truth is, if you have

people in your life right now that you love but you don't like, I

would say, maybe check your heart, maybe dig a little deeper, Maybe

look at the belief system you have, Maybe look at the lies you're still

believing. You cannot like what somebody does when it's not righteous. But you

lose the battle. The moment you turn this fight to flesh and blood,

you've already lost. You're already shooting the people on the front line because you're

not recognizing the breastplate of righteousness. All you're seeing is their immaturity. That

was good. So the breastplate protects all the vital organs, but most of

all, it protects the heart. Proverbs for twenty three, guard your heart,

for out of it flow the issues of life. And Jeremiah thirty one,

thirty three to thirty four. Y'all in this pursuit of God and living

in the kingdom and seeing a this kingdom advanced, there's so many things that

can try to get in the way. There's there's so many of Many times

we preach our opinions as if it's the truth, and it's just our opinion.

Many times we prophesy our opinion and it's not even prophetic. Somebody needed

to hear that Isaiah. You were in Isaiah forty five. Isaiah's been coming

up a lot lately. I'm flipping through my electronic pages. Here. Can

you hear them? Thank you for that sound effect. That's important. It

says he put on righteousness as a breastplate and a helmet of salvation on his

head. He put on garments of vengeance for clothing. Part of me and

was plaid with zeal as a cloak. This was Isaiah fifty nine seventeen,

and then Matthew eleven twelve says this. It says, and from the days

of John the Baptist until now, the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and

the violent take it by force. There's a reason why when he talked about

the armor of God, he talked about the breastplate, he talked about the

full the full armor. Jesus is your armor. And I think I said

this a couple of weeks ago. So when when you're like, oh,

don't take your armor off, well, I sure hope that Jesus didn't leave

you when it says don't take your arm you ever hear people say, oh,

keep your armor on, don't take your armor off. I understand the

principle. It means walk in the spirit. But Jesus is your armor.

Y'all know that, right. He is your breastplate of righteousness. He's the

reason why you stand justified before the Lord when you know him right, He's

He's he is the truth. He is the shield of faith. He is

your helmet of salvation. He's the reason why you have peace. He is

the armor and you have a choice and whether or not you're going to actually

walk in spirit and truth, which means you know, let him out.

Remember Clark kent Man, I love Superman when I was a kid, when

my dad can I think I said this before some years ago, but you

can hear me again. My dad told me that if I ate enough Superman

peanut butter that I could fly. Yes, I hit my head. No,

So I had my sup I had my Superman underwear, my Superman shirt,

my Superman cape, and and I'm eating this Superman peanut butter and I

ate the whole sandwich and I jump off the couch and I just land and

I'm like, man, something's wrong. And so I eat another peanut butter

Superman. Not just any peanut butter people, this was Superman peanut butter.

I ate a whole another sandwich, and for the life of me, I

could not figure out why I was not flying. Meanwhile, my dad is

laughing up a storm at me, especially because I was twenty two when I

did it. Now I'm playing true story, but I wasn't twenty two.

Yeah, now, now what's interesting. Yes, but here's the advantage.

Right now, my wife is not in the front row to give me the

eyes. I mean, she's probably yelling through the camera. Don't say,

oh, she texts you. Moving on straight and narrow, okay. First,

Thessalonians five eight says it literally calls it the breastplate of faith and love.

Now, I want to make an illustration here. I already offended,

Shawn, so I'm on a good track. First Thessalonians five eight it says

this, let us who are of the day, be sober, putting on

the breastplate of faith and love and as a helmet the hope of salvation.

What is it? So? What fortifies the breastplate of righteousness? You just

found it faith and love. If you want a weaken and righteousness, then

you allow your faith and your love to grow weak, and you're gonna lose

the thickness. You ever heard have thick skin and a soft heart the way

you have thick skin, And if you're in ministry, you better have some

thick skin people and maintain a soft heart. The only way that happens is

if you have a thick breastplate of righteousness, which means you're growing in this

issue of faith and love to fortify that breastplate of righteousness. Are y'all everybody

here? Are you with me? Am I making sense? I'm not speaking

in tongues. Okay. This whole armor is also called the armor of light.

Now remember this issue of light that it's not metaphoric, it's literal.

So this little lot of mine, I'm gonna let it shine, Let it

shine. Yeah, there you go, come on, keep it up.

It's not a little light. Jesus is light. When you were born again,

your spirit became light. You literally radiate light. The only way you

dull that light is if you choose to allow sin into your life as a

bushel to cover that light. Otherwise you are radiating light literally, not metaphorically,

and that light you carry has the potential to change those around you without

saying a word. And when you start to think in terms of light and

realize that your new nature is light because you're made in His image and He

is light. You're the children of light and you're called to walk in the

light, then you stop walking around as a victim and you actually walk around

recognizing you can shift the atmosphere in a room. Romans thirteen says this eleven

to twelve. Besides this, you know the time that the hour has come

for you to wake from sleep. What is one of the number one things

Jesus said concerning the last days? By the way, it's two twenty three.

Can we officially agree, all of us right now theologically, that we're

in the last days? Okay? Can we all agree that Jesus is literally

physically coming back. Can most of us agree we're not in the millennial rain?

I want my money back if we are. Okay? But he says,

he warns us, stay awake, watch, watch, and pray,

stay away, stay awake. See you're walking around and you think, oh,

I'm awake, But I can tell you if your spirit sleeping, you

can be in a service and the anoincing can be flowing. God can be

moving, and you are dull and you feel nothing in that moment because your

spirit is slumbering. And one of the quickest ways to get a slumbering spirit

is to have a broken spirit. As a child, y'all, as you

get your heart, as you get your core personality restored, all these broken

places, as you get healed and whole, and you see the restoration of

your soul, that actually helps awaken you so that you literally have eyes to

see and ears to hear. So shun deabo core ra blah blah, mercy

the workers the night, so it says, for salvation is near to us

now more now than when we first believed. The night is far gone.

The day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of

darkness and put on the armor of light. Jesus said, your light,

your salt. Remember we talked about running into these places that has everyone petrified,

and actually being the light and salt that He's called us to be,

so we can pull gideons out of the fear. John twelve thirty six.

While you have the light, believe in the light that you may become sons

of light. When Jesus had said these things, he departed and hid himself

from them John twelve thirty six. And again, and Luke, he says,

no one when he's lit a lamp puts it in a secret place or

under a basket, But on a lampstand that those who come in may see

the light. The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore, if

your eye is good, your whole body also is full of light. When

your eye is bad, your whole body also is full of darkness. Therefore,

take heed that the light which is in you is not darkness. If

then your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, the

whole body will be full of light, as when the bright shining of a

lamp gives you light. First, John says that if you claim to walk

with him but have hatred towards your brothers, you're a liar and you're in

darkness and you don't know where you're going. These are reminders we need.

If you want to walk in the light, it looks like something, and

that means a pursuit of righteousness. It's the highway of holiness. Isaiah talks

about Jeremiah said, cry out for the ancient path all through the Old Covenant

when it talks about this issue of righteousness. Y'all, I'm in Judges right

now. I literally just finished the Book of Judges, and over and over

it says, and there was no king in that time, and everyone did

that which was right in their own eyes. Everyone did that which was right

in their own eyes. We have thirty thousand denominations, and yet when I

go to the Word, I can't find one single denomination in the Bible.

But what happened somebody got offended with somebody else, and they thought, my

doctrine is superior to your doctrine, So hence I will create another denomination,

and over and over and over and over. Hey, I came out of

a denomination. I was so narrow minded I could see through a keyhole with

both eyes. Why are you so surprised about that joke? It's good?

Who hey, I take that back. You know that wild at heart thing.

You gotta tame that down. Oh Lord help me. Second Corithian sixth

seven, by the word of Truth, by the power of God, by

the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left. That's new

King James eth. It says that our weapons of righteousness and our right hand

and in our left. Do we understand this issue of the armor and how

we literally function day by day as we walk in spirit and truth? Do

you have eyes to see so that when you get into disagreement with someone,

you're you're not putting them under friendly fire. You actually recognize the spirit of

Christ in them. Even when there's altercations or conflict. Y'all, we're gonna

live with each other for eternity. So you might want to learn to get

along now because you're gonna be Look around, everybody, look at each other,

say I'm gonna be with you forever. Even if you're not getting along.

Married couples, look at your spouse say I'm gonna be with you forever.

Okay, So I choose to love you now, warts and all.

Don't don't say it to your spouse. Okay, you have no warts on,

I promise. The breastplate is what distinguishes you on the battlefield from the

enemy, and it's the first thing the world sees in you before you even

talk to them. Understanding your identity is directly correlated to the breastplate of righteousness,

because everything you believe about yourself that is false is unrighteous. Let me

say that one more time. Understanding your identity is directly correlated to the breastplate

of righteousness, because everything you believe about yourself that is false is unrighteous.

You know, the greatest measure of humility, it's actually agreeing with God and

who He says you are. Too many times we have false humility, right,

and it's actually still pride. Somebody says, oh, man, that

was a great teaching or that was man, and you're like, oh,

it was all God. No it wasn't it wasn't that good You had something

to do with it. He chose to flow through you. He chose to

use you, which I that part of that was. I forgot who said

that I borrowed it. Nothing's new under the sun. People, righteousness is

imputed and imparted to the believer says, no flesh will be justified. Your

righteousness is as filthy rags. When when we don't know the Lord, our

good is not going to outweigh our bad. It's clear that no flesh is

justified outside of Jesus. The wages of sin is death. Romans three twenty

one to twenty three says this, we receive a measure of righteousness at conversion,

and yet we're said to seek first to His kingdom and his righteousness.

We are we are justified the moment we step into Christ, to be able

to stand before the Lord, come boldly before his throne of grace, not

with a righteousness that we found in ourselves, but because of Jesus, because

he is our righteousness, you've become partakers of his divine nature. Let me

tell you something. If you're if you're on the front lines and you're really

advancing the Kingdom, and you're engaging people and seeing them get healed and set

free from the demonic, you better be living in righteousness. You better not

be living with both feet are both feet one foot on each side of the

fence. That would not really be straddling with it. You're never You're never

going to take ground out of somebody else's life that's not been advanced by the

Kingdom in your own life. If you've not allowed the Lord to deal with

something in your life, forget about seeing other people set free in that same

area. If you're not, the enemy will have a heyday with you.

When I was minister, probably a decade ago, I was ministering to an

individual. I've shared this story a couple of times over the last seven years,

probably, but yeah, it's probably a decade ago, eleven years ago,

and I'm ministering to this guy. The lights are kicking on and off

in the in the room, his eyes roll in the back of his head.

He comes back, he looks at me, proceeds to tell me about

a vision that he just had about four people. And before I could even

think, could even filter my thoughts, I looked at this person and I

said, those are the four people you murdered. And I was like,

what did I just say? And this They dropped their head and they said,

when you call him the cops. Now, this was the first time

I had ministered to someone who had killed four people. Thank God that that

was the first time. And it doesn't happen often. But in that moment,

the spirit of murder came all the way forward and said, you can't

have him. You don't know what he's done. So imagine if I would

have been guilty of the same thing and I would have been in the same

place, how that outcome would have happened. It would not have been good.

This was clash of the kingdoms. It was on, I mean,

lights kicking on and off. It was full blown battle. But thank god,

I you know, y'all have I've never shed blood, just so if

you're wondering. And I confronted that spirit of murder, and I said,

it doesn't matter what he did. The blood of Jesus cleanses him from all

in righteousness. And I fought for this man's freedom because he had repented and

gotten saved. Y'all, Remember, Paul, let's take it another step,

Saul, he's murdering Christians all over the place, and all of a sudden

you hear a whisper that the guy who's persecuting the church now is a follower

of Jesus. The disciples were scared to death to him. They were They're

like, oh, this is a ploy. He's just coming to get us,

y'all. You understand. I mean right after Jesus rose and he had

not come to them yet, they were all locked up in the upper room

because of courage. No, they were afraid. So if people's hearts will

fail them for fear in the last days, what do you think one of

the biggest things we're going to consistently out in front of us have to deal

with fear. What's gonna help bring you confidence that you can stand before these

things knowing the breastplate of righteousness, that you are the righteousness of God in

Christ Jesus, and that you engage only what he tells you to engage.

If you start going after stuff he tells you not to go after, there's

not going to be a grace in covering over you. You only engage what

he tells you to. Don't let the enemy draw the battle line and draw

you in. I can tell you from personal experience. After eighteen years of

this stuff, you will stink and get exhausted. I've seen more manifestations early

on because they were just literally trying to wear me out. Now I'm like,

GPS, go pounce, and like I'm not responding unless the Lord tells

me to. I'll let that sit in for sect. GPS go pounds in.

It's a shirt. I'm gonna make a shirt. Now. Check this

out. The breastplate of the High Priest and the Old Covenant, the breastplate

means really a pouch or a bag. The reference to it was found exclusively

in the Priestly Code and Exodus twenty five, seven twenty eight, chapter twenty

nine, chapter thirty five, and Leviticus eight. The description of the composition,

and particularly the directions with regards to wearing it, are exceedingly obscure,

according to Ezra two six two six and Neemiah seven sixty five seven sixty five

like I'm counting down. The urum and the thummum, which were called in

the priestly pouch, were lost during the Babylonian exile. The actual pouch was

a span in the length and span in breadth about a nine inch square,

and it was made of an epot of the gold of blue, purple and

scarlet, and fine twine linen. I'm not going to kill you in details,

but when y'all have a chance, go back and look at the stones.

The color of the stones in the breastplate of the ipa, the breastplate

of Judgment is what it's called. It's the twelve stones for the twelve tribes.

What's interesting when you understand this issue of light and color, and you

understand, like an Isaiah eleven, the seven spirits of God, and you

correlate that with Revelation chapter four, you begin to see definition to color.

You can actually begin to see definition to the character of each one of the

suns. And when you parallel that, are you all with me? I

know when you parallel that while you're reading the character is the blessings over each

tribe, and then you look at the color of their stone, you begin

to think more in the terms of light. I promise you it will radically

change your relationship with God. When you understand that you are light, you

are a spirit temporarily living in a physical body period, and you have to

understand that your spirit rule over your soul in the gardens, it flipped.

Now it's flipped back in Christ. I'm telling you there is a there is

a maturation process when you understand this issue of light and walking as light,

because you understand that your spirit is not stuck in a physical body, that

your spirit's actually larger than your physical body, or it can be. And

you can actually touch people without touching them physically. Okay, you can release

your spirit and bless people because the Holy Spirit goes out with you. Why

am I going into this because I'm sick and tired of the occult going into

churches and jacking up the atmosphere and messing with things. And meanwhile the church

is so stink and dull they don't even know's going on. I mean that

the nicest way possible. So you have these stones, and you have the

urum and the thummum, which were probably precious stones used as lots and giving

decisions and all probability. The restored text of First Samuel fourteen forty one preserves

the true custom. On one side stood Saul and Jonathan and the people on

the other side. If the result was yurum, Saul and Jonathan would be

the guilty parties, and of the result was thummam, the guilt would fasten

on the people. You see all through scripture where it talks about casting lots,

right, did you know the last time lots were cast were actually in

the New Covenant, just before Pentecost. After the Holy Spirit came on the

day of Pentecost, we have no more written records of the casting and of

lots. And they would cast lots, and when they would inquire the Lord,

the stones would light up almost like yes or no? Are you with

me? But it was called the breastplate of judgment. See, Jesus told

us to judge righteously. He never he never told you not to judge.

He said, judge righteously. And he says, with a measure, you

judge, it's going to be measured back, pressed down, shaking together overflowing

in your lap. I'm almost done. Revelation nine fifteen to seventeen, it

talks about four angels wearing a breastplate, the thorax, properly a breastplate or

coat of mail. It protected the chest and extended down to the hips.

What protects the heart our capacity of moral preference? We all do understand that

over the last several years we've seen leader after leader after leader biding the dust.

Who who was in shock with Robbie Zachariah to find out that he was

in horrible, horrible sexual sin the I mean totally jacked up in perversion the

entire time that he was operating in his gift. And I promise you very

few, very few people understood what was going on with him. First John

two twenty nine says this, and now little children abiding him that when he

appears, we may have confidence and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices

righteousness is born of him. And again Psalms eighty nine fourteen, the foundation

of God's throne is righteousness and justice. Do you understand that when you're living

a life of righteousness and you're allowing God to be your avenger or for him

to uphold you, when someone does something unrighteous towards you, you respond in

righteousness. You don't respond in evil. If you respond evil to evil,

evil advances, But if you respond in righteousness, then evil stops. You

trust the Lord to vindicate your name. But we're in a culture where you're

told to vindicate your own name. We're in a culture where we have Christians

just totally butchering the scriptures and acting as if there's no consequences to their sin

because it feels right, or are they lean on their own understanding Culturally,

when it comes to sexual purity, God didn't make a mistake when he created

man and woman and wanted a man and a woman to come together in marriage.

You can choose to do whatever you want, but understand this, if

you sew to the flesh of the flesh, you will reap corruption, and

with the measure you use, it's going to be measured back. You live

in a nation you can choose to do whatever you want, but guess what,

there's going to be consequences to that. So if you're living a life

swirling in the flesh, and you're and you just for the life of you

cannot understand why your life is going to hell in a handbasket. Look at

your harvest. If you don't like your harvest, change your seed. The

only way you change your seed as you go from sin and unrighteousness to righteousness

and pursuing a life of righteousness. And some of you, all right now,

don't quit because you're actually walking out of a life you used to live

that you're still having consequences for those decisions. You understand. It's like when

the Gibbeon Knights cut covenant with with Joshua. They came and they deceived him.

Joshua and the elders did not inquire of the Lord. They cut a

covenant with him. Later, Saul breaks that covenant and guess what happens.

He tries to take them all out. He breaks the covenant that they made,

even though it was through deception, and fifty years later they're in a

drought. David inquires of the Lord and says, hey, why in the

world are we in drought? And he said because Saul broke the covenant with

the Gibeon Knights, and so David had to take seven of Saul's descendants to

ratify that breaking of that covenant to break the drought. See, if you

think in earthly terms you're going to get earthly results, you must, I

repeat, you must start inquiring of the Lord for things and don't lean on

your own understanding. If you want things to change, you have to go

to him, and you have to use the mind of Christ. If you're

in him, you have the mind of Christ. Let it out, all

right, all right, protein bueler bueller, we do have a proyer tein

correct calling to protein. Don't everybody run it once? Now the beauty of

this whole pursuit of righteousness we beholden, we become. This righteousness doesn't increase

in our lives because we listen to a certain type of music, or or

have our hair in a bun or dress a certain way. I can't do

a bund personally, but that's okay. It doesn't happen that way. We

spend time with the Lord and we allow that divine exchange. We allow His

spirit to transform ours. We go from glory to glory, strength to strength,

light to light. If there's one thing among many, but if there's

one thing that my heart is passionately beating for in this hour, it's to

raise up an accompany of people that know their God and will do great exploits.

Because I believe with all my heart we're living in that day that was

prophesied of Daniel eleven, and we'll see those things begin to manifest more and

more. This is the hour we were created for. God intentionally puts you

on earth right now. He did not make a mistake with you. You're

literally living in Kerville, Texas for a purpose. Do you know how many

people I've met over the last decade, over and over and over and over,

said I don't know why I'm here. I just know God told me

to come here. Hey, who who Who's moved here because they knew God

told them to come here. Yeah. Look, look look around, y'all.

Look at the hands, and so many are like And you still may

not know the fullness of what He's called you to, but I'm telling you

that there is a crescendoing moment of the Holy Spirit coming to this region.

And there may be churches down the street that are not in revival, but

I can tell you right now that we are going to live and sustain whatever

you want to call revivals. It's growing and God is giving us the capacity

because we're not just called to be a tiny little church. God has put

his eye on us for an in his sovereignty, and He's longing for us

to become a movement so that he can see his kingdom touch the ends of

the earth. If there's one thing I know, I know that because of

the leaders he's put me in place with in the prophetic words that have been

spoken over this house, that He is going to show himself strong on our

behalf and we are going to literally see great exploits in the days ahead.

So be encouraged. I don't care what you're going through right now. It

pales in comparison with what God is doing and what He is going to do

in your life. Sean, can you grab your guitar real quick or is

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