What measure do you measure in Him

Hey man, anybody come here to hear something from the

Lord today?

You ain't gon bandoned? Well?

God is good? Amen? Amen, we get glory to God

this morning. A man.

Who I'd like to believe is the head of our lives.

I know he's my savior. What about you? I can

claim him freely and I can claim him honestly.

Mm.

Don't get quiet on me. I should have started praising

him right there. I mean, yards be able to claim

the same way. Ain't no other way to claim it.

He ain't gonna take nothing else. Freely and honestly, I

can claim the Lord. I give him my praise because

I know he accepts it a man, and I give

him glory because it's due under him.

Anybody can praise him. Are you with me? But you

got to be one of his to worship.

Him the Bible to let the rocks cry out. I'm

not gonna let no rock, no birds, no bugs, no

nothing beat me giving God praise. Hey man, somebody, so

we give God the glory this morning, and the honor

is due unto God. Thanking God for yet another day,

a dated.

He has made a dated.

We know nothing of All we can do is wake

up in the morning, and let God have his way,

cause he gonna have it anyway. You can do what

you wanna do, but God gonna have his way. See,

you can go to the left, and God still gonna

have his way because his word is gonna dictate what's

gonna happen.

To you when you go to the left.

And you can go to the right, and his word

is still gonna dictate to you what's gonna happen to

you when you go to the right, because He already.

Put it in motion.

See see you, you're fighting against principalities and spirits. You're

not fighting against flesh and blood. It's a spiritual war

in this a spiritual world. And the sooner that the

people of God, I know, the world ain't got it,

But the sooner the people of God get this, we

can help the world out a whole lot better. But

here we can get it. There's no way they can

receive it. I get it themselves, because the Bible declares

that we don't want supposed to know the things of God.

Hey manh y'all ain't ready yet, and we keep on moving.

Let me God pray.

Then, Father, we want to thank you, Lord, thank you

for another day.

God. Thank you God for waking up this morning. We

know it was you.

God.

Somebody may have shook us, the alarm clock may have

went off, but if you didn't wake us up, God,

none of that would have helped, no way. So Lord,

we want to thank you God that it was you

that allow our eyes to open up on this side

and not the other side. Some of us might not

have been ready yet God, but God, I pray we're

getting ready for when you come. We'll be ready and

not getting ready when you come. We thank your Lord

for the safe travel and to come to your house

with a right mind. Thank you God for a sober

mind this morning.

God in the.

Name of Jesus, Thank you for being so good and

loving us more than we could understand. Thank You for

another day that we know nothing of. But we know

you in control.

God.

It don't matter what the government is doing. God, You

in control. They can only do what you allow them

to do God, and no more. But I know God,

that will come a time when they don't come right.

You're gonna shut it all down. So Lord, just have

your way and let your will be done, and continue

to cover your people God and protect them. I pray God,

even those listening today over the airways, that a word

will be spoken to them that are listening that are

not saved, that the word will put their heart to

come and running to You God for this plan of salvation.

I pray God, that those have turned their backs on

You and turn away from You by deceit, being vamboozled

and hood went by having itchy years listening to false

prophets and teachings, that they'll come back to the truth God,

in the name of Jesus.

And those that are.

Still holding on God, will continue to hold on by

the power of your right hand.

In the precious name of Jesus.

We in some trying times God, we need you Holy Spirit.

We need your strength God. Today.

God, in these lasting evil times, we need Your Lord

like never before, more today than yesterday. In the name

of Jesus, Old God, having mercy, Lord, have mercy.

Have mercy. God.

We thank you for your long suffering with us, for

your patience with us. Lord, and we know that your

patient because you're not lacking. Some believe that you're lacking

because they continue to get away with the mischief.

But you're not lacking. You're just long suffering, giving us

opportunity to turn from our wicked ways.

But we know you'll come a time where you are

gonna get tired of us and tired of our wicked

ways and give us over to them. But have mercy

God in the name of Jesus, because I know God

is not your will that anyone should perish. God, let

your word go forth this morning and do exactly what

you called it to do today.

In Jesus Holy name, we pray, Thank God, and the church.

Say Amen, Amen and Amen, Thank you Jesus, Thank your Lord.

We bless your name today. God.

Hallelujah. We give you glory. We give you glory. Thank

you Lord, We give you glory. Lord, Thank you Jesus.

We're gonna go into the Book of Galatians and chapter one.

I wanna talk about an individual here that very inspirational.

Should be very inspirational as towards all.

Amen. Right, Ah, I know Jesus is, but.

This is one of his uh patriots, one of his disciples.

It's very inspirational to me because of his tenacity and

his drive and his faith in believing in what it

is he's in.

Amen.

So we're gonna we're gonna talk about Paul who used

to be solved.

And Paul always measured up.

To what he believed in. But today I wanna ask

you do you measure up? I want to ask you today,

do you measure up?

Hours?

A lot of us run around talking about we Christians,

But do you measure up? Everybody saved? But do you

measure up? Have you been saved? You always know the question,

the answer that I get most of the time I've

been baptized. I didn't ask you was you a dry

devil coming up or wet demon? I said, have you

been baptized in the blood of Jesus? And I want

you to know that the water didn't save you. You

only got baptized because you was in direct line with

the word of God. And that's the only reason you

should get baptized.

You ain't saved. Stay out of the water.

Because you're doing yourself an injustice because the water purpose

is not gonna change because you're feeling emotional about what

you want to do.

You see, baptism isn't Outwit's showing of.

It in what happening. And if you ain't save and

you go in the water, whatever demons in, you're gonna

come out more or that before they did, before you

hit the water.

Are you listening to me?

So today we're gonna talk about Paul, and I want

you to get these things in you.

I wish everybody was here during Sunday School.

Because David praised some prayers that should be praised by

each and every one of us on a daily basis,

because on a daily basis, each and every one of

us are being tacked by the enemy. There's nobody in

here that's not being attacked by the enemy. Even if

you ain't saved, you still being attacked by the enemy

because he's trying to keep you from being saved. He's

trying to keep you from Jesus. So that's an attack

all by itself.

But once you get saved. You know, some folk think that.

They don't need to do nothing else because they done

came to the altar and lifted up their hands and

confessed that they have given their life to God. But

yet when they leave here, they still living the way

they want to live. So you ain't did nothing but

a performance.

Amen.

God knows a performance.

Different from something that's real, Amen, just like he knows

if you repent because you.

Just saying I'm sorry, I got.

Caught whether than I have a godless sorrow as he

was producing in Peter, as we talked about last Sunday. See,

Jesus was trying to produce from Peter true repentance, just

like God is trying to produce out of us. They

claim to be saved and be a child of His,

to measure up to what we say we.

Are to God.

Y'all, don't hear what I'm saying. All these folks out

here doing so many things. I'm disturbed about him. I'm

disturbed about the folks standing behind his poor.

Pit more so. But there's a greater disturbance than me

about those that sit out there.

In the pews, because you allow this foolishness to go

on in God's house, Yes, Lord, you do. That's the

great accountability. You should not let somebody.

Preach, false teaching to you, false.

Words, telling you all kind of stuff, confusing your mind

about who God really is and what He really means

to you. And the only way that happens is because

you don't measure up. When you measure up, you know

the foolishness when you hear it. Hey, man, come on

in here now, folks, taking the word of God more today, I've.

Been watching it.

I'm looking at these preachers on the internet, and I'm

listening to the ministry that they're preaching to thousands in

their congregation.

Ain't that many people here?

Because I'm not gonna preach happy, happy, happy soul happy

happy emotions to you. I'm gonna tell you the truth,

right because the truth is the only thing that's gonna

make you free.

Why be happy and emotionally happy and go to hell?

Because that's what's happening in these megachurches nowadays. All they

telling you is how to get some money, and what

the only thing they're doing is telling you how to

keep them rich. They live, They got thousands of members

living in five ten twenty million dollar homes. Folk suffering

in their congregation, and they multi millionaires. If you ask me,

should nobody in the congregation be suffering?

If they multi.

Millionaires, they multi millionaires. Even if they had forty thousand members,

they can give each one of them ten thousand dollars.

If they can bless every one of them with ten

thousand dollars, that's only what four million, a four hundred thousand,

and they.

Got about they got about two or three hundred million.

They don't even that's a write off if they pay taxes.

All right, good, focus here, preacher. Through all of that,

I'm still saying, did you messure upright? Because they don't.

Paul here says.

In verse six of chapter one of Galatians, he said,

I marveled that ye are so soon removed from him

that called you into the grace of Christ until another gospel.

I'm marveled kind of ware of that. When I told

you the Truth will make you free. You believing that

the preacher said, the truth will set you free. I

marveled at that that you have gone into it. Believe

in another gospel soon, which is he says in verse seven,

which is not another?

There is no other doctor.

But there be some that trouble you and would pervert

the Gospel of Christ. But though we are an angel,

but though we are an angel from heaven, preach any

other gospel unto you than that which we have preached

unto you.

Let him be a.

Cursed, he said, I don't care if the angels from

heaven come down and start preaching to you some gospel

this outside of this, he said, let him be cursed.

I don't care who preaches. I don't care who they

say to. Y're the archbishop, the bishop.

The pope.

I don't care who they call theyself. If they preach

any other gospel than this, let him.

Be a cursed. He said.

Now, as we said before, so I say now again.

I just said it before. I'm gonna say it again.

If any man preach any other gospeling to you then

that ye have received, let him be a curse. I'm

gonna say it twice. Make it plain, he said. I

realized that God's number two is a number for witness.

So let me say this twice. Then he goes on

to say, for do I now pursue men? Do I

now persuade men a God? Who am I trying to

persuade with this gospel?

Huh?

Who am I trying to entertain? For I do I

now persuade men of God? I do I seek to

please men? For if I get pleased men, I should

not be the servant of Christ.

So all you stand behind that pool, be trying to

please everybody that's setting out there. You ain't pleasing God. Period.

Thank you, Sister Lisa. Turn me down some.

The one all the way to your left. He goes

on to say, but I.

In verse eleven, but I certify you, brother. But I

certify you, brother, listen to him, he said, I'm trying

to make it known to y'all. Y'all listening to him?

Are y'all listening to me? Paul said that, are y'all

listening to me? I'm trying to make it known to y'all.

I'm trying to make this known to you, brethren, that

the gospel which was preached of me is not after men.

See the gospel that was preached to me and not

after men. So the gospel that I'm giving you didn't

come from some man telling it to me. Hey man, somebody.

So the gospel that Pastor Timkins preached to you didn't

no man give it to me. I'm giving you what

was given to me. But what was given to me

was given by some man.

What was given to me was given.

By God to give the you, So Paul said. For

I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it,

but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

I couldn't care Paul the same, for we have heard of.

My conversion in time past. He said, you knew about

my past. You know how my former conduct used to

be before this gospel.

You know how I was before I got saved.

You heard about it, for you have heard of my

conversion in time past in the Jewish religion.

See, I knew the laws of the jew. I was

a scholar of the laws of the Jew. Y'all know

about my past, how that beyond measure.

I persecuted the Church of God and tried to destroy it.

You know my past. That's what I used to do.

Y'all may be seated in the House of the Lord.

Stay with me. Stay with me.

Y'all know about my past. That's what I used to do, y'all.

Y'all know me.

Y'all heard my conversation. My conversation is my conduct of

how it used to be. I said how I used

to be, But now I measured up to what I was,

But now I have a different measure. Paul goes on

to say, and he said, and profited in the Jews

religion about above many. In other words, I was so

involved in what I was doing that I became above

all the.

Rest of my fellow courts. That's why he said it.

In profit profited in the Jews religion above many my equals.

So he done profited above many.

He had progressed above those in Judaism, and he became he.

In the Judaism that he was in, he profited above

those that were in it with him, above.

My counterparts of partners.

I was greater in this mess than they were, because

he said, above many my equals in my own nation,

being more exceedingly zealous.

See, I had a drive.

They didn't have to do what I was doing, of

the trends of the traditions of my fathers. But where

did please God, somebody say, when the change is coming?

Who separated me from my mother's wound, and called me,

by his grace, his Numerican favor, to reveal his son

in me, that I might preach.

Him above among the heathen.

See I was called to preach to the heathen. I

told you Paul was called to priest to a heathen

a long time ago. But yet Peter was called to

preach to the Jews. And that's why Paul rebuked Peter,

because he was acting like a heathen, trying to convert

them into being a Jew. And that's why Paul said,

why do you, Peter act like a heathen trying to

convert them to be Jews, when you yourself acting like a heathen,

You trying to convert them to be Jews, but you.

Acting like a heathen, had to rebuke him. Bring him around.

You know how we call ourselves Christians, and we out

there acting like the heathen and.

Trying to preach a word to them, doing the same

thing they doing.

M H. So he said him sixteen to He said

that he came to reveal his son and me, that

I might preach him among the heathen. Immediately I confered,

not with flesh and blood. Neither went I up to

Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me. So he

didn't go amongst the apostles. He adn't go amongst the disciples.

But I went into Aruba and returned again into the Micas.

Then after three years I went up in Jerusalem to

see Peter and abode with.

Him fifteen days. Fifteen days.

When he went.

After he was amongst God and was taught by God.

He was ready.

But other of the the other of the apostles saw I,

none save James, except James brother, the Lord's brother. Now

the things which I write unto you behold before God.

I lie not.

I'm telling you the truth.

Afterwards, I came into the regions of Syria and Sister

and was unknown by faith. They knew his name, or

they knew his name.

Until the churches of Judah, which were in Christ. Look

what happens. But they had heard only that.

He which pushed, he which persecuted us.

In time passed, in time passed.

We've heard about this brother who pursed yout to the

church in time passed.

But now this brother is preaching. He preaches the faith

which once he destroyed.

What he used to clock out on us, dic trying

to drive us into.

Prisons and take us to God. Godfer And now you're

preaching what you didn't like before.

They were afraid of Paul. But Paul had a speaker

to help him to understand. I'm measuring up to God now,

and they glorifact God in him. Can the church say man?

Can they say man again? Let's look at this Paul.

He was Saul.

He assaulted the Church of Jerusalem because it presented a

threat to him.

Heymen, the church is a to the devil. The church.

I ain't talking about this building. This building is a

temple and a synagogue. I know y'all keep talking about

I'm going to church. I don't know how you're gonna

get there. When you are the church. When he talking

about the church, he talking about.

You and me. We the church. This is a building.

So Paul, he used to be saw.

God will change your name to some righteous when you

run around with the devil's name, just like he did the.

Three Hebrew Boys.

But the three Hebrew.

Boys already had a name after God. But the King

changed their names that they would worship the devil. See

a name gonna worship something? Amen, he changed their name.

You know, y'all call him Shatrack, me Shack and Bendigo.

That's what the names that worship the devil that the

king needs to give them. But God called him as

a Michelle and the and I So Paul who was

saw and when he was sold, see when he was solved.

When he had the name Saul, he assaulted the church.

But when his name became Paul, he lifted up the church. Amen, somebody,

but see the church. It presented a threat to him,

and it presented a threat to all that Paul had.

Most that Paul held most did to himself. Ay man,

that's the same thing that happens to the devil. You

present a threat to what dear to the devil, and

that's why he comes after you.

And the worst offense was.

The proclamation of one who had suffered, which is Jesus,

a death cursed by the Jews law as Lord and Messiah.

See the Jews.

See the Jews, a lot of Jews having come up

and measured up yet because they like to believe that

Jesus Christ has never come, only because they don't like

the fact that the world knows it was the Jews

that crucified him.

They don't like that. They don't like that. You want

to fight on your hand.

Telling Jessus is one that crucified Jesus. You have a

fight on your hand. That's why they don't want to

believe that he ain't come yet and that he's still coming. Oh,

he's still coming. But it's the second one. They don't

believe he's come before. Paul, just give me a little background.

He was born in tars Tarsus, that's the city of Sicily.

He was a citizen of Tarsant Watch why Paul, Watch

how he he came about? That city was called no

mean city. You see that in Acts twenty one and

thirty nine. He was also born a Roman citizen Amen

Acts twenty two, twenty five to twenty nine. But that

worked out for Paul's favor because he.

Was an honor roll student.

In his zeal, Notice, he said that I was zealous

more than any I mean, he had this thing about him.

He just wanted to know it.

That's the reason why he came.

So it didn't change because that's what God put in him.

So when he began to turn it over to measure

up to what God really called him for. That's why

he was so zealous in the Word of God and

wrote and wrote more of the New Testament than any

other because of the zeal that he had.

Amen.

So it worked out for his favor because he was

on the honor.

He was more zealous than any other the Jews in

the Jewish laws and in the Jewish traditions. And he

was taught by the great Gamriello or Gamella something g

A M A L I E l. Because he was

the most highly person in the Jewish law who illustrated

the law and taught the law.

He was a rabbi, a teacher of his days.

You can see that in Act five and thirty four.

And he was also a pharisee, a man. So Paul

learned from the best about the laws of the Jews,

and that's why he was so zealous in going out

and keeping those laws. But when he met Jesus, all

these things had to change, Paul says in verse fifteen.

But when it pleased God, who separated me from my

mother's wound and called me by his grace, Paul saying

that my conversion to being a Christian was due to

God and not man. You see, there are some people

out here who call themselves Christians, and they call theirself

preachers and apostles, and they and they put titles on

people they ain't ready. Those things are from the devil

and they're not from God. Are you hearing me and

that message, folks up?

I know it for a fact.

I got a kin folk who were messed up by

a person that wasn't even supposed to be a pastor

in the first place, trying to ordain him the something that.

He wasn't ready for.

And right now today the demons is running him ragged

and we're trying to get to him. But when your

conversion is of God and not of man. God will

help you to measure up to who he called you

to be, because he's the one that he owed you

to be it and he's the only one that can

help you the message up to be what he called

you to be. Man can't do that for you. Is

that your measure that man tell you who you are

in God? Or did God tell you who he was

in you and you and him? Did somebody tell you

you look like a preacher? You look like you said, well,

the devil can look like that. The Bible confers that Bible.

Say he comes as an angel of life.

That don't mean he is an angel of life. It's

because they say you are Christian just because you do

good things and folks know you for.

Being kind to them, don't mean you saved. See all

kind folks not saved. Can you can be? I should

tell you used to tell kids all the time, even

a monkey can go to school and behave it self.

What am I saying?

If you get bad grades in school and bad conduct,

that's a serious problem, because even a monkey can go

and behave itself. Every child that was raised, that's raised,

that's raised, that's raised, can.

Go to school and behave.

You might not get the lesson, but every child should

get an E in condom.

You might not get a C plus, may get a

D plus. You might get a B or A in.

Your curriculum, but you should have an E in conduct.

Hey man, somebody you can measure up to that as

long as you've been raised, long as you've been raised.

The kids today raising their own parents, they ain't raising no,

they keep the parents ain't raising them. And that's the

reason why they don't measure up in society like they should.

Is a good citizen. But do you measure up? Is

that your measure? Or did somebody tell you who you

are and you look like somebody that they believe you

look like, or do you look like who you're supposed

to look like the God? See, Paul made it quite

plain that his measure came from God.

He said in sixteen to reveal his son.

He said, to reveal his son, after he separated him

from his mother's womb and called him by his grace.

He revealed to him.

Then in him, that his son is in me, that

I might preach him among the heathen. Immediately after that

was told to me, I conferred.

Not with flesh and blood.

So he said he to reveal his son in me.

So I had I asked you do they say do

they see this in you? Do they see this in you?

What is this? Past or?

Do they see the Son of God in you? Because

when they see the Son of God in you, then

you absolutely measure up because that's what God wants to

see himself.

He wants to see his son in you.

He said, you are like a filthy rab You said,

I die that he may live. So if he lives,

and then he must see his son in you. If

you live, because that's the only thing that lives in you.

You say, he live in me. And if he live

in you, and God see that, then he know you

measure up? Hey man, So do they see this in you?

They the world? Do they see this Son of God

in you? I told you my story.

One time I was in this warehouse working.

I was riding on the fork living and I stopped

because I was waiting to pick up something and put

something up in the God and walk just just walked

up to me out of the blue and say, are

you trying to let your life shine? He saw the

Son of God in me. I'm not bragging. I'm telling

you what my testimony. That's what he saw. Do they

see the.

Divine disclosure.

To man of the person Christ in the essence of

the Gospel?

Can people see Jesus in you?

Because if they don't, you already know what your measure is.

Hey man, he.

Said, neither went I up to Jerusalem. He said, I

didn't go up to Jerusalem to then, which were apostles

before me. See they were apostles before he was hav

an apostle. He said, I didn't go up there to

Jerusalem to the apostles before me, but I went into

Arabia and returned again unto Tamacus. Paul lets us know

he didn't go to Jerusalem where the apostles were, where

men were that could possibly teach him this gospel, but

went to Arabia for three years where God himself taught

Paul not man. See, your teaching got to come from God.

You can come to Sun's school be taught about a teacher.

You can come to Bible study and be taught.

By the teacher.

But that teaching that you're getting has to come from God.

And the only way you don't know if the teaching

is from God is that you yourself are at home

with your word of God, hearing from God, who will

teach you. Ay Man, Now I'm not saying because that

he said. I'm not saying because the preaching that you

get from the Man of God is from God.

This Paul's case. No, Paul's case.

Was he was taught directly from God, not through some man.

For three years. For three years, Paul was taught directly

from God. I'm gonna tell you something. I was taught

directly from God for three years. Three years. I sat

in a place just like Paul did. He was on

an island.

You can say I was on an island because you

couldn't leave it.

You couldn't leave where you wanted to. You understand what

I was saying.

But for three years he took me out of where

I was before man and took me. That allowed me

to go to a place where I was taught by God.

For three years, every day, every morning, every night, I

was in my word before God, learning from God. Every

single day. Didn't the day go by? Are you listening

to me? Thedn the day go bye? I didn't pick

up God and begin to learn of him. Not a day,

not a day and sometime. It was three four times

a day, and before I shut my eyes, I was

before God when I woke up in the morning.

Before I had to go to where I was called

to go, I was before God for three years. I

know I measure up. That's why I tell myself all

the time.

If I cut up sideways, I tell myself, you are

without excuse you. That's why I hear in my spirit

every time, every time I decide to do something, I

say something I don't need to be saying.

God said you would out excuse you. Know you know better.

I taught you myself, and it shakes me. Y'all want

to know about Scared straight, Yeah, because I know what

he can do. I mean I really know what he

can do. I ain't telling you what somebody told me.

I know what he can do.

Now.

I hear these stories about people talking about this, but

I know those are lies because the Bible don't confer

it like they don't. If it ain't in here, it

ain't real and you can take it and twist it.

That's in here. But if it ain't like it's supposed

to be in here, no, no, no, people talking about

I went to hell and uh hell ain't. Ain't no

visitation place. And I came back. You ain't gonna go

to hell?

And are you going to Hell and come back, Sirs James?

Not according to this word. Now, God gave me a

glimpse of Hell. I didn't go to Hell, but he

gave me a glimpse of hell. That was my testimony.

You hear me, brother, married, Hell ain't no vacation spot.

Even the devil ain't in hell. Why are people run

around thinking that he down there waiting to tor him

in folk?

No, my Bible tell me when he visits, when he

get down there, he.

Gonna be torn minute. What time he got to be

messing with you? When he's trying to get it off him?

It ain't no visitation place. The devil don't hang out

in Hell. He going there, though, And anybody else that

want to go with him.

They welcome. God welcomes them in the hell of heaven.

It's up to you. You don't if you don't measure up,

if you don't see the sun, you going. I got

ten things I want to I want to throw at

you ten things and I'm done. But before I throw

him at you, I want you to do this. I

want you to take that mirror. It's a spiritual mirror.

You can't see it with your natural eyes. You can't

see the mirror with your natural eyes. You got you

can only see it with.

Your spirit Are you with it?

You can only see in this mirror with your spiritual eyes,

not your natural eyes.

And there's ten things you need to look at.

Don't be you know some people are like you say

something like, well.

You know she needs to do such, and you know

you need to do such as.

You might be up for a predencess.

Some of y'all need to tell and so and so

on and so and then folks be looking on that. Yeah,

that's brother Marion, he need to do that too. Now

I want you to look at you in your mirror.

You ain't gonna see brother Mary in your mirror.

You're only gonna see you.

So yeah, So I asked you today that are ten

ways to.

Know that you measure up.

One is that you have a hunger to know God

and his truth on it, not just to know it,

but on an intimate level. And an intimate level means

what I just told you, This word of God will

always bother you if you're at home doing nothing. They

be calling out to you, read me, read.

Me, pick me up.

I want to talk to you. I want to talk

to you. And but yet the.

TV got more.

Of your time than this word.

I'm guilty of as sometimes well a lot of times.

But then again, I use the TV for that instrument.

God gave it to me for as well, and I

listened to the.

Word of God on it.

But number one is a home to know God and

his truth on an intimate level. Number two is an

increasing awareness of sin, not.

Sining, but your sining.

Are you with me?

See, I haven't increasing awareness of sin, not just if

I but getting ready to commit it. And that's why

you need to have an increasing awareness of sin, because

they'll keep you from getting in it, hey man. And

it also will show you others that our sinning. Why

not for you to judge them in a particular manner,

but for you.

To help them.

You know, one of the most famous scriptures quoted even

by Heathens when you correct them, the Bible says, judge

not least you be judged. You ain't supposed to judge me.

That's a lie.

That ain't what it says. That's what it's saying, But

that ain't what it means. I tell you all the time.

People know what it says, but they don't know what

it's saying. Heath and can tell you what it says,

but they don't know what it's saying. And you have

to know what it's saying. And the only way you

can know what it's saying is if you have that

intimate level of knowledge and hunger for God. And that's

why we run around quoting scriptures and running off of

stuff where the Bible.

Said, Jesus, this lady presented us to.

Me at the store. I was talking to a lady

that just opened up a business, and they they in

the ministry and I said, well, she said, well, what

do you I was telling about different things. She said,

what do you think about wine? I said, the Bible

said wine is a mockery and strong drink you shouldn't drink.

She said, well, Jesus turned water into wine. I said, yeah,

but it wasn't for a minute, baby.

It wasn't for a minute, baby. And I said, let

me help you with one more scripture.

The Romans said, presenting.

Your bodies, if you got a whole glass of wine

inside even your body, ain't why unto God.

She was done with that subject.

See, but when you have an intense.

Hunger for the intimate level of truth in God, that's

how you can speak to folks and help them. Number three,

you have to have a sincere repentance and the desire

to become more christ Like and to turn away from

your sining. See, I'm sorry, I got caught. Don't work

with God. And a lot of folks have been bamboozooed

and hood went and believe in just because they repented,

and they know there wasn't a God felt repentance.

They think they free of it.

You're not.

You didn't.

You didn't receive forgiveness from God because it wasn't God's sorrow.

So you got to have a sincere repeat and the

desire to become more christ Like. Because see, when you

got a the sincere repentance, you will have a desire

to be more like Jesus, because christ Christian means to

be christ Like, and you will have that desire to

be more like him, your leader. How many of us

want to be so much like Mike, but don't want

to be like Jesus. Mike gonna die and go somewhere

out whatever way he lives. Mike, don't hold heaven and

in hell for you.

Mike can't bless you like God. God is the only

one that has life.

I want to be like Michael Jackson. I don't want

to be like Jesus. Number four and this one right

here is the one that really gonna don't really help you.

And a lot of us miss this measure. But number

four said view spiritual battles and trials and temptations and

failures as avenues of growth instead of obstacles. And a

lot of us when trials and tribulations come, we don't

view them like that. We gonna sing that song whoa

as me? But if you want to measure up to

Jesus Christ and leader is considered war with me. So

if you want to consider those things as what was me,

you're not gonna measure up. When those trials come, those

battles come, those failures come. You should you view those

as a way that God is trying to help you

grow and not an obstacle for you to.

Fail and fall short.

Hey man, And when you do fall short, because the way.

You view them, you're gonna get up. Yeah, I see

you again. Move on.

Number five A desire for godly woo. You can get

a sea lit on this one. Somebody say, sea lie

a desire for godly obedience and commitment regardless.

Of the personal cost.

Woo wow.

Yeah, they cuts you out. God said, don't cuss them now.

Uh huh.

God said, go, you better go. You question the God.

You sure about that? God, nigger, I said it go.

I'm always sure about what I say. Well, I'll just

do a little bit of this. Well, you ain't been obedient.

To God.

Number six and increasing faith through trials and tim so

when the trials and tribulations come, it only comes to

bill your faith.

How does it come to build my faith?

Because when trials and tribulations come, we must remember, even

though they come, I still got my faith, and no

weapon formed against me should prosper.

See.

Even though they come, I still have my faith in

what God says for me is gonna be. I still

got my faith in even though the trials and tribulations come,

that God has already.

Seen me through it.

It's like that little footprint poem. When he walked in

the sand, he saw two sets of footprints, and then

when he got in trouble, he only seen one set

and he was hollering whether I wasn't in trouble, you

was walking. I had two sets of footprint, one was mine,

when one was yours Jesus. But now that I'm in trouble,

I only see one set of footprint. Well, when he

did understand those footprint, whatn't is don't footprint.

But one set with Jesus.

Because Jesus was carrying him, so he wasn't making no footprints.

That's why you only see one setting. Now you got

in trouble, I had to carry you.

It ain't but one setting now. Number seven. A hunger

for private devotion and prayer. A hunger for when you're

at home by yourself, some private devotion, but just you

and God, devotion and prayer. I ain't say prayer and

that's it. I said devotion and prayer. Who don't know

what devotion is?

Okay, then tell the truth.

Number eight A desire to please God by making decisions

based on his will and not on personal wants and needs.

See, it's what Jesus always did.

When the enemy came at him after forty day fast

and the wilderness, he said, man, I know you home

here I'm peraphrasing gon't turn I know you got the power.

Godn't turn that stone into bread and eat Jesus you hungry,

jesusd I'm gonna do the will of the Father. And

the will of the Father is that he said bread alone.

And what's the scripture somebody tells him man should not

live by bread alone, but by every word that proceed

out of the will of God or out of God's mouth.

In other words, I'm not gonna do my will and

turn the stone to bread like you're trying to convince

me to do. And I'm not gonna listen to you,

because I'm always listening to God said to.

Us a lot of things. Right there.

He not only is he not gonna do his own will,

but he ain't gonna listen to the voice trying to

tell him to do something that God's voice ain't telling.

Them to do. Amen.

So that's a desire to please God by making your

decisions based on God's will and not your own personal

wants and needs.

But by the will of God.

Will we make the decisions in our lives we make

as a matter of fact, God tells us, and if

we obedient to it, everything that we do, we supposed

to seek Him first Amen.

Supposed to give an ac count to God.

Number nine and desire to be used by God in

the lives of others. I like this right here because

you know we we people of choice, and we like

to know you know we we people of choice.

And you know how you.

Have ministers on the road can't wait to get behind

the poor hit the priest, the people that the pastor

priest to every Sunday. Somebody help me in here. You're

a minist of the gospel. Why don't you preaching the folks?

Or your poor pit is out there? God gave this

poor pit.

To the pastor. That one's out there.

And if the pastor want you to come up here

by the move of God, then here. He knows that

you got a word, He'll set you up here. But

other than that, you don't be sitting out there with

a frown on your face because you ain't never get

behind this poor pit.

Your puopit out there, hey man.

And when you understand that, then you have a desire

to be used by God to preach it. No matter

who they are, we always want to tell the same something,

tell them heeding something out there.

They the one that's supposed to need the help. Yeah,

help your brother.

Don't get it twisted when they're in need of help.

But how many of them out there that really need

heaven ain't got no heaping, ain't nobody helping them.

That's why the world is in.

The condition that it's in now because the Church, which

is the body of Christ, can't get behind these walls.

And one of the main saddest reasons they can't.

Get beyond these walls because they're too busy fighting with

each other.

And they ain't ready to go out there to talk

to nobody.

See God win his house right first before he send

you anywhere, huh.

Then, and Jesus our leader, then he get the disciples

right before he sent him out. He didn't send him out,

so he.

Knewe they was ready. And when he knew they was ready,

he empowered them. And then he sent them out. And

they was amazed by what growth they had because they

all came back.

They were just they were just cheerful and testifying. Whooh boy,

I touched.

That man and he could hear it when he was there. Man,

I pray for that lady boy, and the healer came

upon her. They was excited. Some of y'all boys, y'all

went out there trying to pray for somebody might run

from me because I don't never see your smile. You

come in the House of God and you look like

something wrong with you. I always used to I always

used to love, and I still do because it's the

same tenacity when I used to sit out there and

the choir.

We used to have a choir up here.

It was one in the It was two individuals that

I always focused on because they had they measured up

to being up here.

They did.

I'm telling you about me. I don't know what y'all thought,

but I'm talking about what God.

Was showing me.

Sinceter Lisa was always bubbled up here all the time.

No, it ain't chained.

And Sister Marriage was always bubbled up here, even though

she had some weight on her. Sometimes she had to

she had to masket sometimes because it had some heathens

up here that wouldn't comply. And that's the way we

should always be bubbled up for the Lord. People always

need to see that in you see that. That's what

Paul said that they saw. They they see the sun

in me. They need the son in me. They need

to see the son in you. You don't just need

to see the son in you in here, because that

ain't the real son in you.

They need to see the son in.

You out there, every backing look like they got the

son in them. And if it's here, even the he

didn't come up in God's the center, come in God's

house and know he gotta act like he got some

sense because he know what he is. And then he

go to cutting up some of them cut up in

here too, just like no claiming to be saved.

God has the desire, but you have to have a desire.

For number nine, you have to have the desire to

be used back God. God has a desire to use you.

But you have to have the same desire to be

used back God. And when you have a desire to

be used back God, you do God's will, not your will.

Hey man, somebody, God is awesome.

And not only do you have a desire to do

to be used.

By God in the lives of others.

This is the most important part of this part.

It has to be no matter who it is. It

has to be no matter who it is, for you

to be. I ain't going over there and tell her nothing.

I can't stand that helper.

You know she don't like me that you ain't got

that desire. You ain't got that desire. She don't like me,

I ain't got nothing to say to her. Well, you

ain't got that desire.

You ain't doing God's will, he said, no matter who

it is. And if you know she don't like you

need to be praying for it. Not liking her because

she don't like you. That ain't God.

That's another way you gotta measure. That's the desire.

And the only way you can have those nine is

because of the temper. It's only one way. I believe

y'all know what it is. Y'all know you know what

it is. I talk about it all the time. You

can't even have joy, You can't have peace, can't you

can't have you can't have patience without this one thing.

This one thing still is a driving force for these

other nine. A vibrant love for God. Love is a

driving force. You can't forgive folks.

Unless you got there God. They love of God.

You might give them a past, you might give them

a free Bible. You you ain't still loving them. You

ain't really forgive Him until you have a vibrant love

for God. Can you even do the other nine? You

have to have a vibrant love for God and an

awareness of His presence amen indicating spiritual growth at.

All times, not when you want to at all time.

I keep telling y'all, He's an all God. He ain't

gonna take this a little bit of here and a

little bit there. He want it all.

And for you to do that, it means you focus

on him. Hey man, you focus on him. He ain't

gonna take a little bit. Well, I'm gonna go to

true Sunday and uh give God the praise and you know,

act right. But Monday through Saturday, you a gonna fool God.

Don't accept that. He don't accept that. He don't accept that.

And if you keep doing that, you're gonna fool yourself

real good, and you gonna wake up in hell cause

you done Van Boozer the hood with yourself.

You understand what I'm saying. You can't love this person

to mistreat that person.

I don't care if they don't like you, you still can't

mistreat him. Why because you ain't measuring up like that.

They hung your Savior on a cross, stabbed it in

the side, beat into a Pope mocked him, and he

still said, forgive them because.

They know not what they do. Ain't nobody hung you

on no cross and beat you half to death. O.

Well, she talked about me, so what they talked about Jesus.

Get over it. She mistreated me. He mistreated me. He

ain't doing me right. Get over it because sooner or later.

As Sister Forward said in Sunday School.

They ain't gonna read what they saw. See.

If you just do your part, God don't do his part.

But when you try to do your part and God's part,

God don't do nothing because he don't need your health

to do his part.

So when you put your hand.

In while he's trying to help you, on his head

out because you ain't gonna testify I help God out,

it ain't gonna happen, Captain. So let God do God,

and you do you like God. That's the reason why

God says, seek first the Kingdom.

Of Heaven and his righteousness. That's all he ever told

us to do. Everything else falls up under it.

He said, And I shall supply all of your need.

I get rid of your enemies. Don't worry about your enemies.

I got them.

I know it taken a long time, but I'm gonna

get them, and they ain't gonna reap whatever they did

to you.

They gonna reap it worse than they did it to you.

It never fails. I know it.

Don't fail.

I don't feel it. Don't fail. I've seen it personally happen.

When I was in the penitentiary and folk come against me, God.

Got rid of them. I wanted to get rid of them,

but God did it.

I said, you must don't know what I come from.

You don't know what I come out of. You don't

wanna come against me.

I rain on you worse than you ever seen a flood.

You don't know my own life.

And when Paul said, you don't know where I come from,

you don't know what I used to do.

I go to a city and folks start running because

they know my reputation. But God said, you got a

different reputation. Now all you got to do is seat

first the Kingdom of God.

In my righteousness. Ill handled your enemies. I got him

keep on walking, and it happened.

God came to me one time I was coming through

the door at the penitentia, threw his shoulder to me.

I know it wasn't no accident.

Brother man, everything in my body got hot, I said,

he thinking, Yo, he thinks I'm gonna fight, I'm killing

cause that's what.

I'm used to do. I'm not gonna fight you, brother.

See, I learned the law in Los Angeles a long

time ago. You don't fight nobody so you can look

at him again. You gotta get rid of them so

they can't come back to you.

But then God spoke to me and he said, I

got that. So I stood there. He was right there,

I was right here. He looked at me. I was

looking at him.

Then I started smiling cause I start speaking to me.

Then I just turned to walk away, and the like,

you gonna get it doctor now for me, God gonna

handle it. And God handled it. I ain't see him

no more. I don't know where he went, but I

ain't see him no more.

You see, if.

We just stay focused on God, I want you to

get this and I'm done. If you just stay focused

on God, I don't care how long you think it takes,

It's already done. I've been praying for three weeks and

God finally didn't know. God did it before you ever prayed, because.

He knew you believed in it.

It just manifested because you got in the position of

faith to believe it.

And now here it comes. But it wasn't three weeks ago.

It's right now with God. See, Ytta understand, he lives

in eternity. We live in time. So whatever he does

is right now because already done in.

Six days, God created everything even this day. And that's

before he even manifested at him. He'd already created everything

that was gonna be back in the garden.

Back then in six days. What was gonna happen today?

He already knew it. It ain't no surprise to God. Nothing.

You can't fool him, you can't trick him. You can't

play with him. And when you come up the part,

you will realize all of that.

When you measure, you better quit playing with God. Man,

he can't play with God. It's impossible to play with God.

How you gonna play with somebody that's all knowing, How

you gonna play with somebody to know your thoughts before

you even think your own thoughts. How you gonna play

with him before you think about the mischief you're gonna do.

God already saw it. It came to you late. You

got his second hand, your own thoughts, you got him

second hand. God already knew it. It ain't no to God.

Then you were gonna mistreat somebody, He already knew. And

you know, if you're gonna repent about it and be

true about it, he already knows. You can't bamboozle him.

He hood wig him up, pull the wool over his eyes.

He's all knowing. So when y'all run around talking.

Back, bed could playing with God. You can't play with God.

What you're doing is playing with your own soul salvation.

You're playing with your position. You're playing with your You're

playing with your presence. You're playing with your future. You're

playing with your whereabouts. You're playing with your own whereabouts.

What's your whereabouts?

Heaven or Hell?

That's what you're playing with. You ain't playing with God.

So in order to have the nine of the ten,

you have to have.

A virant love for God.

And that love for God will cause you to be

obedient to God.

And that's what God, God says.

Obedience is better than sacrifice.

Amen, I'm done. You got a handcuff for us? Amen?

Amen, I hope you looked in your own mirror.

I hope you saw where you did measure up and

where you didn't that wherever you don't, you need to

fix it because if you don't got it all, you

ain't got none of it. That's the where God rose.

If you don't have it at all, you don't have

none of it. You gotta have it all.

Just like the law.

If you break one till of the law, you've broken

the whole law.

That's the word of God. That's the reason why we're

not under the law anymore. We under grace.

Because God realized we couldn't keep the law. God gave

six hundred and some laws to his own people, the Jews,

and they added.

More laws to God's laws.

Wasn't even keeping the laws God gave him in show

was and keeping the ones they made up. And we're

still living in that dispensation of time. Look at our

government giving us all these laws to take and laws

to abide, bye, and the government don't even keep them.

They like the Pharisees and the Sadda Seas.

Same thing. You see police driving down.

The street that speeds pass the speed literally you're breaking

the law. They run red lights, they breaking the law.

They unlawfully arrest people they breaking the law.