Lord of Hosts //12PM// Pastor Terrance Richmond

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Let's get into it. I don't want to waste your time.

And so in the first experience, we opened up a message that was

called and you can put up the slide in the first experience,

open up the gates. I, I think this is a powerful

message because it really just dealt with preparing opening up,

because this is an announcement that the king is here and he's

ready to come in. We didn't invite him.

He made a decision. He was coming, and you might be

like, well, God's always here. Yeah, yeah.

No, no, no, no. We're not talking about God

being present. We're talking about God

manifesting his presence. We're talking about God throwing

his weight around to where it's like, oh, that was like split

the Red Sea. Oh, that was God.

Ain't no way a little rod gone. No, no, no, no.

Oh, you went in. You went in a fiery furnace and

came out. You didn't even smell like

smoke. Oh, that was got God throwing

his weight around. This is that year where God

throws his weight around. But there's a responsibility

that we have to not only prepare, we can't, Yeah, we

can't prepare because just because we got a word, we have

to stay prepared. We have to.

Stewart, it's like the word of peace, the word saying that you

are ready to New Year's Eves ago and you didn't realize for two

years God was getting you ready. So he will send the word and

then he will manifest the word, right?

It's like when you were a little kid, somebody said one day you

going to grow up and you going to be this Troy.

Well, you for sure wasn't that at 5, and it probably took you

20 years to even come close to that.

But God does not just have you in it without first sending a

word, right? He sent His word to heal our

diseases, right? And so for every God

manifestation, there is a word that goes forth.

Before Jesus came on the scene, there was a man called John the

Baptist, and it's there. Prepare the way, right?

So there's always a word to prepare the way, but now you

have to maintain the word and you have to continue to steward

and grow in that thing. And so then this morning it was

that it was like God's here. This is this, this is a

triumphant moment. The King of glory is coming.

We're carrying his all of those things.

And then I go to the back and I'm like, but what about that

other message? Because I'm like New Year's,

everybody come ready to be inspired because everybody going

to change their life, at least in the first week, you going to

live your best life. But then I was like a part of me

was like, Nah, I don't want to preach that because I know how

people here. But then I got someone gave a

prophetic word last week. I shared it with the elders.

He was like, sometimes we over explain the word, almost like

the word ain't powerful enough. Moving forward, there's going to

be anointed messages that are preach, but you just got to

preach the word and trust the word because you're trying to

explain stuff to people who already made-up their mind JT

They don't want to hear that. So you got to actually just be

the I don't think the farmer sows the seed and and just is

like insecure about if the ground won't it watch this.

I'm a sow the word that's on you if you love God and love

yourself and so 60 seconds prayer in the spirit.

I made a decision to move on to this other message.

You should go listen to this morning's message, but I truly

feel that you will not have a Goodyear.

None of us if we don't get this one thing under right.

Sometimes you got to preach the root message, not the fruit

message, because there's folks in here right now.

We can talk about opening up the gates.

Like in the back somebody was just like, what you talking?

Was we talking about opening up like real gates?

And I'm like, Dang, no, like your mouth is a gate, your eyes

is a gate, but your heart, the throne of your heart, the

throne, the throne of your soul. And it's like, whoa, talking

about opening up the gates. The only way to understand that

is somebody that desires a relationship with God.

And what I'm about to talk about is actually in a way of a lot of

you going deeper with Jesus. So should I talk about the thing

that you're going to arrive at one day or give you something

you need to handle today? See, see.

And then what you find out is people actually thank you for

not preaching, you know, people, people, there's a few people

that don't like these types of messages, But this is going to

be good. This is going to be good, I

promise you. But today is watch the throne.

No Co host allowed. This is the year of the host,

not the Co host. God does not share Thrones.

They're we're not Co hosting. And so watch the throne we hear

the Bible talks about watching over our hearts is watch and

pray. Guard your heart.

The earth is the Lord and the fullness of it.

Yeah, the the world and those who dwell in it, for he has

founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the streams

and rivers. Earth is the Lord's who may

ascend onto the mountain of the Lord, who may ascend, who may go

high, who may be promoted, who may get access, and who may

stand in his holy place. He who has clean hands and a

pure heart, who has not lifted up his soul to what is false,

nor has sworn oaths deceitfully, Watch this.

David is asking who has access? Watch this.

We're all saved, but we all do not experience the same access.

Can you believe that there are believers in here right now that

are experiencing a dark life? Believers.

Which means you are not accessing the Holy of Holies.

You are not accessing joy. You are not accessing peace.

You are not accessing a sound mind, but watch this.

You're a believer and I want you to hear this today, that

everything that I'm talking about, you are hearing this from

a person who has access to light, to life, to joy, to

peace, to strength, to self-discipline, to

long-suffering. David is asking who has access?

Watch this. Salvation is settled, but

ascension is stipulated. Your salvation is settled, young

people, your salvation is settled.

But ascension, glory to glory, faith to faith, promotion,

experiencing the fruit of the Spirit, That's that's a life

that is not accessed by. Watch this.

It's not accessed by every believer, but it's available to

every believer. Watch this.

And you say you love yourself and you going to leave the peace

of God on the table. Watch this.

You're going to eat all the candy on the table and leave.

You're going to eat all the candy, but leave all the

vegetables and say about you, you care about your health.

Yeah, the stipulation is no rival idol lifted in the soul.

That's the stipulation. There is no rival idol lifted in

the soul. There is nothing that comes

before God, Nothing. No one.

Nothing. No one say that with me.

Nothing. No one there is nothing.

The stipulation is no rival idol, no Co host, no Co host.

Watch this. The real question is whose

house? I know this.

I forgot I wasn't kidnap. Canada runs house.

My bad, my bad, right? But this is the question.

This is the question. All you who claim you love you,

All you who claim you want a better life, All you who are

praying for a better life. Whose house, who who, who is?

Let's, let's let this be as real as possible.

Who's governing your life? Who's governing your decisions?

When temptation rises, who's making the decisions?

Which one is stronger? Which one do you have a harder

time doing? Watch this.

Some of us have a hard time praying for 30 minutes, easy

time stroll, scrolling 3 hours. Watch this if you can't pray.

Watch this if you're if you are more disciplined to scroll, less

discipline to pray. I'm here to tell you, believe it

or not, God is not on the throne of your heart.

And if God is not on the throne of your heart, who is?

And that is who governs your life.

So you are insane to expect God results without God governing.

OK OK OK OK OK OK. Every house is hosted, every

heart is governed, and every inner life has a throne.

Every person in here has the inner throne, every person in

here. Genesis 3.

And when the woman saw that the tree was good, wait a minute.

The tree was good, suitable, pleasant for food, and that it

was delightful to look at, and a tree to be desired in order to

make one wise. She took of its fruit and ate,

and she gave some also to her husband, and he ate.

Watch this. Watch this.

You pass on disobedience. And that's the bad part.

That's why the enemy grip loves to grip believers, because you

can be a believer and help somebody to hell.

Come on, tell your neighbor. Don't get distracted now.

And now you get to say it back to them.

You get to say it because some people had too much fun telling

you don't be distracted. Yeah, watch this, watch this.

I want to read this one more time.

And when the woman saw that the tree was good, when the woman

saw that the tree was good, what was the tree?

The fall began with vision, perception, and imagination.

Watch this. We start falling at vision, We

start falling at perception, we start falling at imagination.

So it's safe to say that before eating, there was seeing.

Before disobedience, there was desire.

They're going to put it up in a second and before separation,

watch this. Before you were separated, you

were hosted. Before eating, you saw you

enter. Watch this before you send you

entertain the thought. Watch this.

You're not sinning because the thought crossed your mind.

Watch this. You got to learn how to tell

thoughts. Keep walking right, right,

fellas, when that when you at the crosswalk, you can't help

it. That home girl walked in front

of you in her lulule limits, right, But what you got to tell

her? Keep, keep, keep, keep walking.

Watch this. What you can't do I, I, I got a

family member. I always tease.

I was like, don't just don't take a picture there.

There's a period of time you can look to where the picture stays

instead of they just walk past you in the name of Jesus.

I'm walking this way. I'm not going to do this and act

like I'm not going to you know, the you know, you know, fellas,

what you'd be doing now, something important that way and

your eyes just get to wondering watch this.

But you looked and now you she gone, but she present.

So now that gave birth to maybe not them cheeks, but cheeks

ladies too ladies. Ladies, stop hiding behind lady

we in 2026. You use just as foul some of

you. OK, Don't look at me like that,

OK? I love you.

No, no, no. Watch this.

OK, If I look at the clock, I'm January 4th.

I got 361 days. So God-given me this word on day

four, and I get to make a decision on day four and have

361 good ones. Have you ever heard a message?

And was like, where was that at back then?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're not going to have to say

that this year, right? The blessing going to come.

You ain't going to have to fumble it because your hands

died. You going to be in position.

Watch this. Watch this.

Sin did not enter humanity through behavior first.

It entered through imagination and appetite.

Watch this. You imagine this.

Why you can move to another country.

Guess what you take with you? Your imagination and your

appetite. And depending on where you

moving to, your imagination and appetite might get enhanced.

Yeah, you can move. It's peaceful around blue water.

You know what else around blue water?

No, not sharks. Temptation, Amen.

I ain't going to even say nothing, Amen.

You just keep staying pure, sweetheart.

You just keep staying pure with your pure heart.

Your parents did an amazing job. Watch this shark tale.

Amen. Amen.

Shark Tales. Amen.

They said it proud to sharks when you get it right, but it's

wrong. Amen.

That's not the that's not the answer we're looking for.

Sin did not enter humanity through behavior first.

It entered through imagination. Imagination.

Man, we could be sitting in church, right?

We don't really got an aisle. So you just ain't nobody going

to really walk down the aisle here yet, but something,

something. And when I say something I'm not

talking about, I'm talking male and female because ladies, you,

you looking that fitted suit, that nice smile, big teeth,

clean, whatever, whatever you looking for.

He walks down and you like, whoa, he's saved too.

You don't know if he's saved, it might be baby dedication and

he'd a baby godparent or something.

You over here just oh man of God, mighty man of God, he like

mighty man or what now y'all you weird right?

And all of a sudden you distracted the whole service,

the word getting good. He is a man of God and he's

stepping up and he engaging in the service.

If he a man like JT, don't let us have praise Brace because you

you start seeing a man dude, I know Breeby Bree, like, oh, my

man. Yeah, Amen.

Yeah, we're talking about. Look at this kids.

That's how y'all got here, Amen. Because your daddy got a praise,

Amen. Your man a mighty, your dad a

mighty man of God. That's your mom, Amen.

Amen. Right, right and so right but

look you right watch this, this is and we going to get to this

but you having a righteous reason to us.

This is a mighty man of God. I'm looking Lord, is this him?

He in church, he, he used to be. He used to be whatever.

Oh, this check, you check the box, not a heart.

You check the box, not a bloodline, right?

We do we check bloodlines anymore or we just check in

pocketbooks? I think we got the right message

today, Amen. I think we got the right message

today. Amen.

Right. We we check in.

We check. Watch this.

We check. We check potential more than we

check Bloodlines. What?

I guarantee you if Bloodline was a standard for you, you would

not have that second date. I think by date.

I think by date, too. We need to have the bloodline

conversation. Show me a picture of your mom.

Show me a picture of your dad. Where your mom and dad at?

Oh, they divorced. OK, tell me more.

They divorced. Tell me more.

OK. What tradition you got?

What do you you know what I'm saying?

Like watch this. And any man or woman that don't

want to have that conversation, watch this.

That should lead to you doing too much.

You're right. I'm doing too much.

And so I'm not talking to you no more.

I'm done. Thank you.

Thanks for the dinner. Whatever.

Actually, I'll pay it for myself, OK?

I'll treat you because I'm not treating you ever again.

OK. Watch this or is going to show

how serious you are. He is or she is and that's a

good thing when someone is not intimidated.

How dare you apply for a job that requires a background check

that you plan on leaving one day, but when it come to

marriage, you don't do a background check.

You out of your mind. Come on, tell tell yourself you

out of your mind. Hey, watch this cause bloodline

lasts longer than looks. Hallelujah.

Hallelujah. Yeah, yeah.

Watch this, Watch this. It was a throne issue before it

was a hormone issue. Oh, The reason your hormones got

the best of you is because hormones was on the throne.

Flesh was on the throne. Sexual immorality was on the

throne. Porn was on the throne.

Hormones is from the Lord. Why are they evil?

Because he's not king of your hormones.

Before eating it was seeing they saw before disobedience, it was

desire they desired and before separation there was hosting.

They ate, they ate. Watch this.

It was some of y'all going to know what I'm saying on this

one, but it was a thought before it was a thought.

Hey man, if you don't, if you don't know, you don't know,

Amen. If you don't know, you don't

know in inside your inside some of y'all just like Amen,

Hallelujah, Amen. You go look it up, take a

picture. It was a it was here, it was

here. Who's been the king of your

appetite is the question. And how long are you going to

keep entertaining king flesh running your appetite?

Watch this. We'll deal with this later.

But some of y'all, when we talking about lust, you think

sex and lust ain't just dealing with sex?

Watch this. Some of y'all it's a sex issue.

Some of y'all it's an eating issue.

Some of y'all it's an Instagram issue.

Some of y'all it's a social media issue.

Some of y'all, it's a money issue.

Eve was not drawn to evil, She was drawn to good.

This is why God is like, Nah, I could deal.

I can really deal with with you desiring good things.

He just says delight in me and I'll give you the desires of

your heart. Desire is not evil.

It's just who's king of your desires.

It's nothing wrong with want to get married, but who's the king

of that, of that drive? Are you wanting to get married

because you're tired of being single?

That is not a kingly motive. No, I'm getting married and I'm

waiting because I'm royalty. I'm saving these lips not

because I don't got hormones but but all it is is royalty.

So I am staying away from giving my body away a kiss.

You can't even hold my hand too long like who am I fooling?

You hold the hand. You're not just you're not just

strong. The thumbs start rubbing the

inner hand, like, who are you fooling?

Who are we fooling you guys? This is his temple.

But in today's world, anybody that's trying to help you have

godly, kingly boundaries is trying to control you.

Who wrote the Bible? Is God trying to control you?

No, He's actually trying to get you back to the garden.

He's trying to protect us. So Eve was not drawn to evil

guys, she was drawn to good. Come on, somebody say it was

good. The tree was good for food,

flesh. It was delightful to the eyes,

vision, and it was desirable to make one wise.

These are all three things that the Bible says it was good for

worldview. You following me?

These are all three things good for food, delightful to the

eyes, and desirable to make one wise.

Please follow me. Lust rarely announces itself as

rebellion, it presents itself as reasonable desire.

And so you're made. You're like you're looking at

people that's holding you accountable is like you trying

to hold me back from doing this. Because lust is on your own, is

king in your life. You think the it's reason.

No, it really isn't. Nothing wrong with you wanting

to. Nothing wrong with you wanting

to have sex. Nothing wrong with you wanting

to get what? Watch this high.

But when you say I want to get high, what are you actually

wanting to do? Are you trying to escape

something? Well, God has something to help

you escape to. Are you trying to have joy?

Then God has something to help you have joy, right?

Do you want to have strength or courage?

God has something to help you get strength and courage.

Guess who it is? The Holy Ghost.

It is His word, but lust is not going to be like hey, I'm about

to take you and cause all kind of hell in your family.

Lust don't show up with horns. Lust don't show up red hot.

Lust doesn't ask to replace God, it asks to sit beside him.

He lets you know it can't replace God.

So he's just like, can you just give me a seat next to him?

Like can I just share your life with God and watch this?

The enemy knows that God. He is a jealous God and he ain't

sharing nothing. Watch this.

The enemy gonna lie to you and make you think you could share.

Knowing God, he watch this sharing create separation.

So the way the enemy gets you to himself is to convince you that

you can share yourself with him and watch this.

We get to it later, but you cannot serve 2 masters.

Yeah, Desire was hosted before authority shifted.

You entertained Desire before you gave that seat up.

You entertained desire before you gave that seat up.

Eve did not deny God. What?

Eve did not deny God. She trusted appetite over

authority. Come on, EJ, She didn't deny

God. Watch this.

Watch this. I I just want to think a crazy

thought real quick. I don't think God can be denied.

What is the result of you denying God?

What does God like? It's not like if I denied you,

if I rejected you, that God ain't going to feel how you

feel. She didn't deny God.

First of all, God didn't give her the Word.

What she trusted was her eyes, what she trusted was her

appetite, and what she didn't trust is the authority of the

word passed to her. By the time she got the word,

she handled it with extra words, right?

God simply said don't eat. And if you go back and read,

you'll see in there the word touch got in there.

God didn't talk about don't eat, don't touch.

He says simply don't eat it. So watch this.

So God don't mind. Watch this because sometimes

you'll get to this place. Well, I'm already here, so I

might as well, Joseph, look, hey, like I've I've tried this

muscle over the last couple years plane now I've just gotten

smarter. I'm going to get insurance on

every plane ticket now, but I've I've got a plane ticket on my

way somewhere. And God was like, no, you ain't

going, you can go. But you I don't, I don't, I

don't need you to go. And I canceled the trip.

Now you want to minimize how much stuff you got to cancel

because you didn't listen to God in the first place.

But sometimes there's divine set up.

Go kill your child, Abraham. Nah, I got a sacrifice for you.

So cool. You got the apple in your hand,

but you have not eaten it. You got your pants down, but you

have not done it. You, you, you.

You rolled up the joint, but you have not inhaled it.

You went to the party, but you don't got to stay.

If you stay, you don't got to engage.

If you engage, you don't get like, there's so many steps

before you fall. Watch this.

You don't just wake up out of bed and fall when the last time

you just woke up and failed. This is such good news to me

because sometime when you're wrapped up in these moments, it

feels so impossible. But God's saying, no, we just

got to you just got to let me be king.

Watch this. Here it is.

Remember those three areas? And then and then John talks

about them. John points back to Genesis for

all that is in the world. The lust and sensual cravings of

the flesh, the lust and longing of the eyes and the boastful

pride of life, the pretentious confidence in one's resources.

Watch the wisdom or in the stability of earthly things.

These do not come from God, but are from the world.

Wisdom is great. He is wisdom.

But living off your own wisdom ain't wise.

That's not wisdom. He's like, that's not from God.

I am not going to bring you something that is going to take

me off the throne. And how many times have you

called something a blessing and a dethrone God?

So now your testimony to people is God that did this for you,

but now God is off the throne. What kind of witness is that?

Just say you begged for it, you worked for it, you wanted it,

you desired it and it sucks you here, but stop putting stuff on

God. You got what your watch this,

some of you got what you desired watch this, but the verse was

flipped. It was seek my desire 1st and

then all the seeking God later. It was it was desires of my

heart 1st and then I'll delight in you.

And if you don't hurry up and bless me, I'm going to be bitter

with you. I ain't going to delight.

God is saying what you desire. I actually have a better version

of it for you if you can just wait.

Why are we saying that? Wait on the Lord Genesis, lust

of the flesh, good for food. It's right there.

Watch this, this at the beginning of the Bible and at

the end of the Bible. It's in real action, prophetic

action. Watch this and then it is here

in principle form. Watch this.

Adam and Eve didn't really have this understanding that you have

lust of the eyes, delightful to the eyes.

I know, I know, I know they look good.

I know you awakened your flesh and it feels good.

I know your body is calling, but but we have great examples in

the world where you end up when your body is calling.

Yep, not going to even go there. Next one.

Pride of life. Pride of life.

My mind just went pride of life. Watch this.

You got to manage the thing. Watch this.

King Jesus just said don't go there son.

Yes, Sir, Yes, Sir. Right, right.

I'm, I'm, trust me, if I didn't let the governor govern while

I'm up here, some of the stuff I'll be wanting to say, Oh, you

think, 'cause I'm anointed? No, I'm anointed because I'm

governed. I'm not anointed 'cause I got

crazy thoughts, but my crazy thoughts are governed.

Pride of life, his desire to make one wise watch this.

You think you know it all kids. You think you know way better

than your parents, your parents just all now you don't you don't

know you don't. That was back then, Ma No sin

started way back then. I didn't start saying right.

They're like, no, no, no. What we're trying to help you

from is, is having the knowledge Adam and Eve didn't have.

They lightweight got an excuse because they they God just said

don't eat from there. We got don't eat from there.

We got why we shouldn't eat from there, and we got a whole bunch

of dumb family members who ate from there and we looking at

them and you want to be like, yeah, but I don't, I take a

risk. No, no, no.

You don't understand. As revelation increases in a

bloodline, the leash gets shorter, right?

It might have took me 10 years to go to jail, but for you 2 you

are you going to be in prison real soon?

That ain't a prophecy. That's understanding you on your

way to prison because I told you not to gave you my testimony,

all of that and you think you going to get my testimony?

You're going to get the principles I learned out of

making it through and then somehow you going to outlast my

leash? No, your leash is shorter than

mine was. Watch this.

I'm going to die with all my teeth in my mouth.

You for sure going to be missing a few teeth by the because you

hard headed right. It's like it's like having a dad

with like 3 teeth and you like dad, why you only got 3 teeth.

Well, you know that crack it'd be it'd be that meth be really

hitting you up and you like man, yeah, I love meth.

It ain't it ain't going to do me that way, though.

So you because you high, you just brush your teeth longer.

You just you just like I'm keeping my teeth and I'm going

to do meth. I'm not, I'm not No, no, no, no,

you not going out trick the system.

Watch this God. The testimony of your of of your

parents is proof God's after you.

Hallelujah. God wants nothing to do with

lust guys. Lust is desire that seeks

fulfillment apart from God's will, God's timing, or his rule.

Lust is desire that seeks fulfillment apart from God's

wheel, timing or rule. God wants nothing to do with

lust. Watch this.

Lust begins inside, not outside. It is internal desire pulling

away from God's authority. Look at what James One says.

But each one is tempted when he is dragged away, enticed and

baited to commit sin by his own worldly desire.

There's desire before sin, you can stop it.

That that length of time where God is sending warning and you

getting distracted, you can stop it.

No no no, it's not about feeling like stopping.

It's about by faith, stopping, trusting God, stopping.

It's about believing My stopping is not for me.

My stopping is for y'all right here.

It is why you can't stop. It's because your why is not big

enough. Lust is desire without

restraint. Lust is appetite without

authority. Watch this.

I thank God like like my wife and and her Mama used to get on

my leg. Watch this.

I used to, I used to get high to stay high, not have to come home

high and my wife is just wearing disappointment, right?

Like there's nothing. Fellas, you understand what it

feels like when you walk in the house and your wife is looking

at you like you just a disappointment.

Watch this. And then you just get offensive,

not realizing the blessing that God, your wife is a boundary.

Your husband is a boundary. Watch this.

God is convicting her about you because he can't convict you

about you. God convicts Mamas about you

because he can't convict you about you.

So he got to in order to keep The Word Alive in the bloodline.

He got to get it to somebody He can get it through.

So you don't understand your nagging wife or husband is a

boundary sent by God. It is a preservation.

It is salt in your house, even if they communicate salty.

Watch this. And then here it is.

We don't want to misrepresent God, people.

So this is where you got to do better this year.

You got to stop being agitated communicating God's will to your

spouse because God's not mad at them.

God desires them and the way you trying to get them to stop does

not sound like God is desiring them.

Yeah, so when I stopped, it was like, man, I got a daughter.

I'm stopping so my kids don't have to deal with this.

I'm getting this out of my bloodline because anybody that's

doing it can look back to why you started doing it.

Rather it was a person or an event.

You didn't come out the womb with a joint.

Maybe some of y'all did. I don't know.

Some of y'all did. You didn't come out of the womb

with a martini. You didn't.

Maybe some right people are born in these situations.

But man, to me, I wanted to break this.

I want to break divorce. I want to break single

parenting. I want to, I want to break these

things out of my bloodline because to truly love my kid is

to think about their kids. What kind of kid am I?

Watch this JT. You are raising your

grandchildren's parents. I mean, your grand grandkids

parents. Who thinks of that?

These are your grandchildren's parents.

Whoa. You're like, daddy, Why you sit

on the front row there, Bree? Like, get the whole family.

Get the whole family. No, no, no.

That just hit me like a ton of bricks.

Like, like, like I am. I am raising my grandchildren's

parents. And I am raising my great

grandchildren's grandparents. I'll stop.

I'll stop. OK, We can you get the pattern?

We can keep going. So my why is so much bigger.

So what restrains me is not that I don't have desires, not that I

don't want a quick fix, but is that quick fix?

First of all, fixing anything but also my resistance to fix

it. How could I look at my wife and

say I love you when what I'm doing may be bringing me

pleasure but it's hurting her. I cannot look at her in her face

and say I love you if what's hurting her or him is not enough

for me to stop or get help or get accountability.

Lust is desire without restraint.

Lust is wanting what God has not authorized and lust is desire

that refuses to wait and lust is desire trying to rule.

Some of every person has been in here.

You got what you lusted and it ruled your life.

Why watch this? It impacted your schedule.

Now all of a sudden you got this joker in your life.

You can't go to family dinner. No MO.

You can't. It impacts your money.

It impacts everything, right? That lust is coming to rule your

life. You had dreams.

Can't. He ain't dreaming no MO.

Hallelujah. Are you with me?

I know you with me. You ain't even got a holler

back. I know you with me to fix

desire. Lust is to fix desire to long

for with intent or to direct appetite towards possession.

I got to have that. Lust is not noticing, it is

intending. Lust is not that I notice

something I desire, it is the intention to possess it.

You notice the message is not it, it's not kill desire or the

words not kill desire. It's watch the throne.

It's not kill desire. Don't kill desire.

That's hope deferred. It's it's watch the throne.

To Jesus lust is a throne threat.

To Jesus lust is a throne threat.

Watch this, watch this, watch this is Jesus talking.

However, I say to you, y'all listening, if you look with lust

in your eyes at a woman or a man who is not your wife or your

husband, you've already committed adultery in your what

heart. Watch this if your right eye

seduces you because some people only got 1.

You know what I'm saying? So your right eye seduce you,

your left eye seduce you, both eyes seduce you.

All you need is one eye for it to come through.

Watch this if it seduces you to fall into sin, then go blind in

your right eye. This Jesus talking, you think

he's serious? For you're better off losing

sight in one eye than to have your whole body thrown into

hell, right? Right.

I know we're not in the fear of God culture anymore, but that's

that's Jesus talking. This is not a metaphor.

This is not a parable. This is truth.

He says you are better off plucking that eye out then to

have your whole body. In other words, your sight

impacts your temple. The eye watch it governs vision

and vision shapes desire and desire determines direction.

This is not self harm, right? So nobody go home and pluck the

eye out and say Pastor T told you to pluck your eye out.

Just like people be carrying snakes around and all that.

None of that's not what we talk about here.

This is self-discipline. Stop it at the seeing because

once desire is enthroned, action is inevitable.

You're not going to stop it once it's on the throne because it's

king. The eye is not a passive muscle.

Watch this. The eye is a gate, a governing

instrument. It's the lamp to the system.

It's the windows to the soul. This is not behavior management,

people. This is the throne.

This is throne protection. Stop it at the sea.

We're not asking you to modify behavior.

We're asking you to protect your heart.

God is not after behavior modification.

He's after exclusive rule in your life.

Somebody say exclusive here it is.

Hands act eyes, host hands act eyes host hands.

Do the work that my eyes gave permission to do.

My eyes are the gates. Sometimes it's best to close

your eyes. But watch this.

You got to get to a point where you don't got to keep closing

your eyes like like like fellas watch it.

Stop putting it on the ladies to not wear certain things so you

not tempted and ladies decide what you're going to wear not

for attention, not out of insecurity and and not selling

yourself a man that finds a wife so he's going to find you God's

God's watch this you want to be revealed, not exposed.

Like everybody got a Tesla now everybody got a Bugatti or

everybody knew you, you right, right.

There's comes a point where you just a dime a dozen and if you

sell yourself cheap, guess what? You're replaceable.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You want to just be one of them

ones that you can't be found nowhere fellas too.

Same same way both ways. God does not Co host with lust.

God does not Co host with pride, nor does God Co host with the

flesh. And as we approach this fast on

Tuesday, we fast not to earn God but to clear the throne.

We're fasting to clear the throne, not earn attention from

God. If you lose weight but flesh is

still on the throne, then you lost and you can just see it in

the Bible. Job made a covenant with his

eyes. He said I made a covenant with

my eyes. Job governed vision before

desire ruled. Watch it.

Paul governed flesh. He said I discipline my body.

These are three areas that got to be disciplined.

Authority but not abuse. And then King Nebuchadnezzar

dealt with his pride, lifted himself, lost the throne,

humbled himself and was restored.

This is very important. Thrones are reclaimed through

surrender, not merely prayer. Thrones are reclaimed to

surrender. Watch this God's not going to

come take the throne. You are going to give him his

seat back. The Lord of Hosts is not a

visiting deity. He is a territorial ruler.

He is territorial. You are his and when God

reestablishes weight, lust loses gravity and flesh loses volume

and pride loses his seat. I'll leave you with this 5 keys

to overcome King lust. Number one, crucifixion, not

management. Watch what the scripture says.

Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified their flesh, not

managed it. In in the church we try to find

out what we can get away with. No, what you're saying is I want

to do beer and Bible study. Oh you're trying to share the

throne? But I watch this.

Drinking beer and reading the word is not going to send you to

hell, but it could sign off on your Co worker being an

alcoholic because you can sip it.

You got self-control. But the person you actually

trying to get delivered from alcohol, you actually have no

power to do so because alcohol has you.

You're like let me let me, let me do a bite.

We going to go out. No, no, no, no, I'm going to

wear some Air Force ones when I go witness to this young man.

I'm not we I'm not because I know he can, he can connect with

the drip. I'm not, I'm not going to smoke

a joint with him. And then at the end of our

meeting, I'm going to pray, Lord, deliver him from, from,

from, from, from, from, from marijuana, and then try to try

to cast out demons. That got me.

Yeah. Watch this.

You have no power from a place that you're entertained by.

So another reason why I stopped what I stopped is because I dare

not in my calling have people in here who struggle with certain

things. Kids losing their parents over

drugs and alcohol, marriage is being broken up.

And then I'm going to have ability to pray for you.

No, me and my wife said no. We had a good time.

We got some memories from being in the club.

She could throw down me anyways, like, but we could not as much

as you. At the end of the day, if I told

you I'd just still drink and I still smoke and I still did, you

would look at me funny. But why?

You don't look at yourself funny?

I feel, I feel freedom in this place.

The flesh is not rehabilitated. It's executed.

You stop playing with your flesh.

For some of you know, all of you.

It is really urgent. Don't be afraid to make a

decision. Cut it off, Right.

You don't play with Jezebel. You push her out the window,

right? And the dogs come eat her right.

That they wouldn't. The horses trample over.

It's not. Why?

No, no, no, no. You don't play with your flesh.

I've. No, you can't do it.

You can't. It's a cut off.

Watch this. It's not.

One more night with the frogs. It's not one more night.

God, I tried that game. God let me do these last three

shows and I'm going to quit drinking and smoking forever on

the way to that last drink. Lost cars, the marriage didn't

get better. Nothing.

No, it's like a today decision. Watch this.

Look around you. And then you say, man, I love

this person. I love that person.

Are they worth a today decision? Watch this.

You said I do in one minute for a lifetime.

You had a party one day. You don't think you can make a

decision to give your life to somebody for a lifetime?

That's a big decision to give your life to Jesus, who you've

never met. Huge decision.

You don't think you can walk away from that thing today?

Will it be hard? Yeah.

Can you do it? Yeah.

Why? Because he is on the throne.

You do not negotiate with what was crucified.

You enforce the verdict. So make a decision today.

I'm no longer negotiating with you.

Nope. Not one more day.

Nope. Not my last bag.

Nope. I'm burning it.

I'm throwing it away. I'm flushing it.

It's done. I'm done.

I'm giving this person authority in my life.

You have a right to to check me. You have a right.

The greatest thing I could have did is give my wife start

listening to to my wife. Watch this.

My Mama right there. My my Mama used to.

My Mama used to call me. Be like where you at, son?

Grandmama used to call me, my Mama used to call my wife and my

wife not really tell on me, but kind of slickly tell on me

because she'd be like where Terence had, I'm assuming that's

how the conversation went. And my wife would be like he out

there again, dah dah, dah. Because she tried to be

respectful. She's not going to disrespect me

to my Mama, right? But then my Mama would call me

and be like, son, you can't do this.

You got that good woman at home. You got a child.

That's a boundary in my life. The moment you start ignoring

boundaries that God sent, it gets darker and darker.

God wrote your story, so he's invested it to realign you.

Because I used to look at my wife sometimes my mom.

Oh my y'all hating on me right reasonable desire, but I'm not

everybody else. Mom mom, God gave me a a a a

woman of God for a Mama. God gave me a woman of God for a

wife. Watch this with her mistakes

with how she tell me sometime but I have to put look past how

she's saying it and listen to what she's saying.

And is what she's saying bad, or is it for our good?

And I've come to benefit from her trusting me.

I've come to benefit from her feeling safe around me.

I've come to benefit with her being able to honor me because I

am a real man now. Back then, I was a little boy.

So is it hard? Yeah.

But is it fruitful? Yeah, my son gets to look at his

dad and understand what worship looks like.

He does not have watch this. My son does not have to look

outside his address for integrity.

Watch this, watch this. Whether you like it or not, if

you are not the image that God has called you to be there are

areas of your children's life that will they will be parented

by others. Even if it's not directly and

I'll be gosh darn, my wife get attention from another man.

My wife feel heard from another man and that's not out of fear.

I'll be gosh darn my son can't come home and have somebody to

talk to. He can't look at me and get an

example of what worship is that will not happen.

Now everybody else. JT is icing on the cake.

Troy is icing on the cake. EJ is icing on the cake.

My son comes up here and he rapping.

You ask him if he really rehearsed.

He didn't really rehearse. He's been in it.

He's watched. He's watched me rehearse.

What if I wasn't that exact? He's called to rap.

What if God allowed me to rap long enough for my son to catch

the vision? So I'm gonna have, I'm gonna

pass the baton. But if I wasn't, if that vision

wasn't in the house, it might be a little Uzi.

And then God got to realign it, right?

What if what God is asking you to correct is because God needs

your son or your daughter to have the image in the house?

That's the same. We are image bearers.

There's three more. I'm not.

I'm not. I don't want to rush them, but

where image bearers, so the same way I look at Jesus to align my

image and likeness with him is the same way we do with each

other's. Look at Elder John, it might be

you might struggle in finances, but you got somebody to look at

and see how they handle finances and you got to ask them

questions, right? That's where a body so we help

each other. So your why has to not just be

because you need to do better. It's because there's other

people that need you to become who God's called you to be.

Lord Jesus, we thank you, we honor you, we adore you, we

thank you. You have the throne of our

hearts. You have permission to rule and

reign in our lives. So take your seat today.

Take your seat today. We put king flesh and king lust

under our feet today and we say Lord you rule, take the throne

back to our lives. Lord forgive us where we may

have pushed away people you've put in our lives to help us, to

guide us. We say thank you for good wives,

even if they say it rude sometime thank you that they

would say it because we got friends that won't say nothing.

So may we hear what you're saying through it, not be

offended how it was delivered. Lord, may we be family members

and friends that honor one another, because when we honor

one another, Lord, God, that's honoring you, that is bringing

worship to you, loving our children, loving our neighbors,

loving our our spouses, it's honoring you, Lord God.

So Lord, as we enter this fast on Tuesday, we make room for the

king. Come on, we make room for the

king. Lord, this will be the most

disciplined year of our lives. This will be a year where we

have more courage than we ever have, Lord.

This will be a year where we throw some things on the altar

and leave them there once and for all.

Hallelujah, once and for all. Lord, we thank you that that bad

habits will be thrown on the altar once and for all, even

things that were good, but you have no need for them anymore.

We lay it on the altar. It was good, guys.

It was good. It was a good desire.

But I promise you the King of Glory has a better version than

what you're imagining right now. Just lift your hands up by

faith. And I'm here to encourage you.

You can. You are strong enough because He

is your strength. You are confident enough because

He is your confidence. You can.

Today we topple over. Today we cast down the idols

that have risen up in our souls. Watch this.

The secret ones, the ones our spouses don't know about.

The ones our Mama and daddy don't know about.

Lord, we come out of darkness into the marvelous light, and we

no longer live consumed and weighted down by secrets.

No, no, no more double life. There's no peace in double life.

Lord, whoever we got to repent to, may we have courage to

repent and repent quickly. Get it over with.

And whoever comes to us and repent, may we not have any

condemnation, but we were. We forgive as quick as you

forgive. They have already been forgiven.

So who are we to hold them accountable or hold grudges?

Lord, may we be able to love like we've never been hurt.

May we be able to love like we've never been disappointed.

May we never close up our heart. Lord, You need our heart.

You need our hearts to love people.

You need our hearts to extend grace to people.

So Lord, as we go, we make room for you.

This will be the best fast, the most disciplined fast that we've

had. If you break chains but don't

lose no weight, let me tell you, you've won, Lord.

Thank you, Lord, we honor you. Lord, we adore you.

Come on, lift your hands right where you are.

Just take the next 60 seconds and lift your voice and just

lift your voice and give him some praise.

Give him some honor. Give him some glory.

Surrender what you got to surrender.

Lay down what you got to lay down.

We won't let our trauma be an idol.

We won't let disappointment be an idol.

We won't let childhood rejection be an idol.

No more excuses. You take the throne.

Our trauma will not rule our lives.

You take the throne, Lord God. A fatherless home will not rule

our lives. You take the throne.

A motherless home will not rule our lives.

Someone rejecting you, leaving you will not rule your life.

Today is a new day. Today is a new day for you.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And we are your people.

We are your people. Come on, lift your voice.

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