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Anointed, Disruptive and Prospering (1130AM) - 3.2.2025 (Pastor Terrance Richmond)

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  1. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Love Quest International

  2. Church Podcast where we seek to love all nations, equip the

  3. church, mobilize the equipped, and serve all.

  4. We're super glad you're joining us from whenever and wherever

  5. you're at in the world. Welcome to the family to get

  6. your Bibles ready, get some water, get some coffee, maybe

  7. some tea, and get ready to receive.

  8. It's go time. Let's get into it.

  9. Two things before they ate from that tree.

  10. There was no temporary. There was no darkness, it was

  11. just holy. And now in our humanity, we let

  12. temporary drive our lives. Once you see something the sin

  13. was they did not obey. But here here's how sin showed

  14. up again is they had knowledge of sin, the knowledge of sin

  15. caused them to sin, he says here's a very crucial question.

  16. God says who told you that? And it was almost like whatever

  17. they heard or whatever became they became aware of from eating

  18. from that tree caused them to see themselves different,

  19. therefore causing them to see God different all from one

  20. decision they saw themselves that a loving father says you're

  21. holy. We tamper with sin and we see

  22. ourselves different, unworthy. This is what shame does dirty,

  23. and that knowledge separates us from God.

  24. Today is very crucial, starting with myself, just from this

  25. morning, I am not the same God forget fit, not forget.

  26. But if it wasn't for February, this morning wouldn't have

  27. happened to a brother. And and and I cannot get when

  28. God just opens this thing up like this, like you can't stay

  29. the same. I don't understand how people

  30. can say they know God but stay the same.

  31. I don't see how people can come to church and stay the same.

  32. I don't I don't see how they can we, we, we can encounter God and

  33. stay the same. Did you really encounter God?

  34. You're anointed in this hour. You must be aware that you are

  35. anointed, and you are anointed to be disruptive and you are

  36. anointed to prosper. But I have an announcement other

  37. than what you are. The holy fire of God has

  38. arrived. Come on, we can get the eclipse

  39. off the screen and get to the Word.

  40. The holy fire of God has arrived.

  41. Yeah, you're anointed because the anointed 1 lives in you.

  42. And if I read what Jesus was anointed for, he was an absolute

  43. disruption. Now 100% of you looking at me

  44. like disruptive. Every last one of y'all are

  45. disruptive. It just, it just depends on what

  46. you disrupt. Every last one of y'all have

  47. disrupted God's plan in your life at some point.

  48. Every last one of y'all have disrupted your peace and

  49. somebody else's peace. You've disrupted your sleep,

  50. you've disrupted your wholeness. Everybody in here knows what

  51. disruption is. So do not play dumb when it

  52. comes to saying you're anointed to be disruptive to darkness.

  53. You ready? Everyone has been disruptive to

  54. light. Everyone has been impacted by

  55. darkness and you brought darkness in somebody's life.

  56. Even as a believer. You brought doubt, you brought

  57. fear, you brought shame, you brought brought confusion, you

  58. brought double mindedness. Everyone has brought darkness

  59. into someone's light and light light.

  60. And I'm telling you man, it is time for you to be light.

  61. Be salt, be who God's called you to be, and stop being who you

  62. think you need to be in order to have peace.

  63. I told them I, I 100% challenge 100% of you look at your plans,

  64. look at your dreams and look at your agenda.

  65. And then I want you to be honest with yourself when you look at

  66. them. Do you not have a hope that that

  67. thing is going to bring you something?

  68. Job, spouse, children, vacation. Now when you think of vacation,

  69. don't tell me what all you plan to do.

  70. Tell me what you hope vacation brings.

  71. Don't tell me, tell me through telling yourself in your head

  72. probably peace, joy, a break from blank.

  73. When you think you're going to start a business or get a job or

  74. start a career, you tell me you you not planning to do that so

  75. it can bring you what security. Let me help you.

  76. Everything you list God already gave.

  77. Now I can I get it. God ain't making it rain and

  78. just throwing money out of heaven.

  79. But in your mind, you think security is money.

  80. You think more money going to bring peace.

  81. You think relationship. You think children can make you

  82. feel more like a woman or a or a Mama or a where I grew up, it

  83. took a village, so I had hecka Mamas and hecka aunties and

  84. hecka uncles. I want you to see this.

  85. You believe if you strive and thrive for this, it's going to

  86. bring this. None of this is God here.

  87. God go because he says seek me first and then all this shall be

  88. added. OK, so whatever it may be in

  89. your life, I want you to think of all your beautiful goals, all

  90. that stuff you submitted to God and all that stuff you believe

  91. it for. Let me tell you, there are some

  92. of those things. He's like awesome.

  93. But ain't it funny how God don't need you to have in in order for

  94. him to want you, but you need to have in order to be closer to,

  95. OK, follow me today. Follow me today.

  96. If you don't follow me ever again, just follow me today, OK?

  97. Why is it that you think this is going to bring this?

  98. You ready? What I'm here to challenge you

  99. for? What you're saying is this is

  100. going to bring this. But what you really want is

  101. this. You want the peace, the joy, the

  102. security. And let me tell you, half of

  103. y'all would not go to work if you knew you could have

  104. financial security. Peace, love, hope, all of that

  105. satisfaction you can get rid of loneliness.

  106. If you could not do all it is to get this, sign me up.

  107. So what you're saying is the real thing.

  108. You really want peace, joy, love, patience, kindness.

  109. But those are the fruit of the Spirit, not the fruit of work.

  110. You ready? Those are the fruit of Spirit,

  111. not the fruit of a spouse. Those are the fruit of the

  112. Spirit, not the fruit of Italy. Oh, wait a minute.

  113. So what you what? What you think, what the world

  114. has done is emphasize this. And there's a great longing in

  115. all of us to want this. But let me tell you, the way to

  116. this is not this, but because we're in our humanity and what's

  117. publicized is we got to do this, to have this.

  118. And that's why many people arrive to this and actually go

  119. further from this. Oh, no peace now.

  120. And here it is. If this is your source to get

  121. this, then This is why you'll do anything to keep this because

  122. what you're saying this has my peace.

  123. So you'll find women or men to will tolerate abuse because that

  124. person, although abusing brought them some type of security or

  125. comfort. You go to work every day because

  126. you got to make sure you keep this because it's going to bring

  127. this. And let me ask you this, if you

  128. take away this, let me ask you, what's your quality of life?

  129. This is why God says, seek me first.

  130. Do not build your life on that because that cannot sustain you.

  131. But the loving Father we have, he'll let you build your own

  132. sand castle. I'm about to, I'm about to show

  133. you who you are today. It's super simple.

  134. It's it's just like super simple, but the World and the

  135. enemy has done an amazing job in making believers frown on this

  136. four letter word. We frown on it.

  137. I don't see too many T-shirts rocking.

  138. I see T-shirts blessed and highly favored.

  139. I don't see too many T-shirts and people that's proud to just

  140. publicly rock these 4 letters they like, man.

  141. I don't see 4 letters up there. I do.

  142. What do you see? I'm gonna try to review.

  143. Why y'all put y'all going too fast?

  144. Come on, you. I reveal it and then you read

  145. it. You know what I'm saying?

  146. All right? Come on, girl.

  147. Thank you. Hey, locked in.

  148. Come on. OK.

  149. If if we are heading back to the garden, then we got to really

  150. look at what was there. We didn't need nothing but God.

  151. We didn't need nothing but His presence.

  152. That's what He made you for. You want purpose?

  153. OK, you ask? Ask a bird what His purpose is.

  154. You know what I'm saying? Why?

  155. We don't know. Let me My purpose can't be

  156. forever changing. The mountain's purpose don't

  157. never change. The ocean is still waving.

  158. You ready? Fish always got a home.

  159. Until we take it out. Why we still wondering?

  160. You ever see a fish out the water looking for purpose?

  161. But we find, but we find purpose in the ocean.

  162. Oh, when I'm here, it's just like one with the Earth, right?

  163. I, I, I, I hike because I connect with nature.

  164. All that new age stuff, like huh, why we lost, Why you don't

  165. know where home is, why you think it's sex?

  166. Husband degrees is going to take it.

  167. Money going to take care of you. You think I'm waiting for this

  168. building to get done, to have purpose?

  169. The building ain't my purpose. It's God's home, but God ain't

  170. waiting for the building to have a home.

  171. You you think I'm losing? I'm, I'm, I'm losing sleep over

  172. the over raising money for this. What?

  173. Because guess what, just like that building was abandoned.

  174. Praise God. Hopefully we don't abandoned it.

  175. Hopefully we don't build nothing.

  176. Nothing. Hopefully we don't build nothing

  177. for God that the world can come swoop up and turn it into what

  178. it wants to. Yeah, you're anointed, but you

  179. didn't need to be anointed in the garden.

  180. You need to be ready. You need to be anointed to be

  181. garden. Like, let me talk to somebody.

  182. God's on this so we can be like but he's trying to get us back

  183. to is and was and guess what, to come.

  184. You think he the only one is and was and to come.

  185. We we we was he trying to get us is and we are to come.

  186. But the if the if he was is and to come, then we got to know

  187. what we was. We got to know who we is and we

  188. got to know who's coming. We've mastered.

  189. We know that's what our hope is is in the in the glorified body

  190. that's to come. We know we was in the garden,

  191. but most of us think only Adam was in the garden.

  192. Well you don't read your Bible because in chapter 1 of Genesis

  193. and God made man, he didn't make humanity until the next.

  194. I was before Eve, but Eve was. God had to grab, just like Paul

  195. was in Saul. Terrence was in the garden.

  196. Yeah, yeah, my Mama named me, so whatever, Like whatever.

  197. My name was in the garden. But you get what I'm saying.

  198. It was no Adam in Genesis 1, but our humanity needed a name.

  199. But before Terrence, it was just holy.

  200. OK, let let us make man in our image and in our what's God's

  201. image and what's God's likeness? Holy.

  202. OK, so when he says let us make man in our image and our

  203. likeness. And then God said, and then

  204. after he made us, he couldn't just give dominion to nobody.

  205. And now they may let man have dominion over the fish of the

  206. sea, you know, over the over the over The Who.

  207. Who's he? He's he's, he's he's talking to

  208. his his likeness and his image. He's not talking to Adam.

  209. And he looked around and he said, OK, I'm gonna make all of

  210. this. There is no man.

  211. So God form man this stuff that we think we somebody because

  212. this is, you know, acne gone. So we somebody now.

  213. I was holy before acne. You know what I'm saying?

  214. Sorry. Anybody got acne?

  215. Remember, you don't. You don't got acne.

  216. You holy with acne. OK, Hallelujah.

  217. Hallelujah. OK.

  218. Right. So he formed and then here he

  219. goes. He didn't do this to nobody else

  220. or nothing else. He came down.

  221. Who did he? Just breathe in the dust.

  222. He breathed himself. Wait a minute.

  223. So you telling me that I I came out of him?

  224. OK, OK, so if I came out of him and he is holy, then what did

  225. he? He put holy in human.

  226. OK, so let me tell you this. My kids are human because they

  227. came from human. You, you're not going.

  228. My kids aren't animal. So.

  229. So God's not human. God is holy, but we are trapped

  230. in humanity and most of our diet is from humanity and carnal and

  231. what we can see. But the Bible's always Paul's

  232. saying hey, hey, not by what you can see or what is temporal.

  233. You are an eternal being. So then we'll just feed off of

  234. whatever the world tell us we are and we just grinding and we

  235. just for all temporary stuff that can only serve humans.

  236. And we're passing up one of the greatest experiences that we can

  237. have on earth. And that is not only being in

  238. his holy presence, but that is living holy.

  239. But there's this great separation that he's holy and we

  240. are jacked up people. So do you see, if you have a sin

  241. conscious and sin view of yourself, then no wonder you

  242. can't hear from God because God only talks holy.

  243. That's what God's not really. He's going to send a human man

  244. or a human woman to remind you that you're free from your sin.

  245. And that's in his word, God. God Rhema doesn't spend time

  246. trying to remind you you're not a Sinner anymore.

  247. He's holy. His mind's not on sin, so he's

  248. not sitting here having a conversation with you about sin.

  249. How he deals with how he talks about your sin is you are free

  250. from it. So he sends preachers, humans to

  251. connect with you and they have to yell, you're you're free.

  252. Hello. You're you're no longer a slave

  253. to fear. Hello.

  254. He sends anointed people to be anointed, to spend time to talk

  255. to people who choose not to hear.

  256. And he anoints us to be patient. And then maybe one day you'll

  257. walk out of here and stop selling yourself for cheap and

  258. hurrying up to get a man or hurry up to get a job.

  259. Hurry up to hurry up to all that, because you hurry up

  260. because you don't know who you are, Because when you understand

  261. you holy, the creator of the heavens is earth and earth is

  262. holy. So then if I understand that if

  263. a holy God created the heavens and the earth, and if all my

  264. needs are provided through a holy God, it's probably

  265. beneficial if I just live in my holiness.

  266. He said seek me all these things.

  267. Seek me first, my righteousness, my Kingdom, all holy, all holy,

  268. holy, saved you, holy graced you, holy covered you.

  269. And when you die, you going to return holy.

  270. Let me, let me, let me spend $3030 on my book.

  271. Find out who I am. Let me, let me follow all these

  272. inspirational speakers. Find out who I am and find my

  273. purpose in. And the Lord said, whatever you

  274. behold, behold in you holy, you are God.

  275. God. God asked me to come by here to

  276. remind you He ain't the only one holy.

  277. Oh, it takes courage and confidence and relationship to

  278. talk like this because even in the churches, we want to make

  279. sure that God is holy. And this is how you come to a

  280. holy God. I'm wretched, I'm a Sinner, I'm

  281. undeserving God. I, I don't deserve you because

  282. you're holy. I don't deserve you because

  283. you're holy. I'm, I'm, I don't even deserve

  284. to be in your presence because you're holy.

  285. I don't even deserve all these blessings because you're holy.

  286. I mean, show me where Adam fell on his face like Peter did.

  287. Show me where Adam felt undeserving.

  288. I know he gave us only a couple chapters with Adam in his

  289. perfection because I believe those couple chapters can only

  290. be revealed. You got to walk to God in order

  291. to be placed back where Adam was.

  292. Or you could be like Adam and Eve and live a life with banana

  293. leaves on form of godliness but denying the true power of His

  294. Holiness. Holy you are.

  295. I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I got to skip all this.

  296. In the last days. There's a heavy anointing upon

  297. us that would destroy the yoke and remove the burden.

  298. It is the anointing. It is not true.

  299. It it is nothing else is going to dissolve the, the, the, the,

  300. the, the fruit of sin except the anointing.

  301. You know how the devil know that?

  302. Look at where he got some of his greatest talent and influence.

  303. And music is influenced by the church.

  304. There is no music industry, there is no music industry

  305. without the gospel see You know I'm saying when you stop giving

  306. the devil fun and we get a devil everything and stop being

  307. religious and be like oh y'all doing y'all too loud at church

  308. where you talking about? But you don't complain about the

  309. world. So the world stole fun see?

  310. And so the devil has taken what's holy and he's wrapped it

  311. in something else. And we we spent so much money on

  312. on it. Tupac was anointed.

  313. Whitney Houston was a you notice God don't take away the gift.

  314. The anointing worked in the reverse because look at how many

  315. of y'all follow the like, like people at the top.

  316. Let's get, I get it, like little, little Bob, Bob like all

  317. limits. But but the church is a part of

  318. those 200 million followers. The church.

  319. And then you go look at some of our artists.

  320. You don't even follow some. But I'm an anointed artist.

  321. What you when last time you followed me, huh?

  322. Yeah, You don't follow the anointed.

  323. You'll follow the perverted version of the anointed because

  324. it has more flair and and more charisma and more man, we got

  325. drip, we got swag. We we all lay up in here.

  326. But you see, he wraps it up. There is no music industry

  327. without the church. There is no you ready.

  328. There is no swag in art without the church.

  329. Like, like if you really want to get down to what's at the core

  330. of some of the sounds that move your soul, that's why we got

  331. choirs out here that ain't got a church home.

  332. Because they they know, they acknowledge choir, they

  333. acknowledge gospel but don't want to be accountable to the

  334. gospel but want the sound of the gospel.

  335. And you can go on and on and on down the list of how many people

  336. started off in the church. We can't keep living ignorant.

  337. Sin is the separator and separation births ignorance.

  338. Holy you are holy. We are because holy he is.

  339. These are things that I went over this morning.

  340. I'm trying to like speed up so I can get a couple new things to

  341. you when we get out of here. Great revival precedes great

  342. cleansing. I will tell you right now, love

  343. quest. We've, we've been saying revival

  344. has landed. Revival has landed it, it, it

  345. has, but there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a fire that

  346. has landed in this house that it is, it's is something different

  347. because there's been a great cleansing in this house and

  348. there's been a core of people who have sacrificed in, in, in

  349. laboring and here it is. Some of you didn't.

  350. That's OK, but you're going to benefit from the labor of, of

  351. some of the people that have been in here night after night

  352. after night. Nothing wrong with it, nothing

  353. wrong with it. But what I'm telling you is man,

  354. you better start hearing from God.

  355. God is way more interested in some other stuff and you want

  356. him to be interested in your stuff.

  357. There comes times and seasons where you just got to trust God

  358. with it, like and and nobody, just like nobody is, is trying

  359. to be a crackhead, but they just like one hit.

  360. Nobody's trying to be a slave to the workforce, but just one just

  361. I just want, I just just let me just get enough to get and I

  362. promised God when I set this up and when I set that up and when

  363. I set this up and when I set that up, then God, I because I

  364. know I got a call in all my life, but my calling can wait

  365. while I try to set this up. Show me where that's at.

  366. Like somehow at minimum you can't do both.

  367. You can't be faithful to call and you can't be faithful to

  368. what God has allowed you to do to support call.

  369. Labor should never lead you away from call.

  370. And and what is easy to do is to say what I'm doing out here is

  371. call to an extent. But you know what else is a

  372. call? Building the church.

  373. You know what else is a call? Gathering with the Saints.

  374. You know what else is a call? Giving, forgiving, helping each

  375. other out. It's a call.

  376. But God don't blame, is he? Like, Dang, I knew this was

  377. going to happen when you became aware of sin.

  378. The Holy Fire has landed. OK, OK, OK.

  379. We cannot carry the oil if we don't know that the vessel is

  380. holy. So it's one thing to tell me you

  381. anointed. It's another thing to understand

  382. what's carrying the anointing has to be in a certain

  383. condition. Like no longer will you be able

  384. I'm I'm about to say it like this, like real harsh.

  385. I don't care. Wifey might be watching.

  386. I don't really care right now, but you can't carry the oil and

  387. be screwing people. You you can't be carrying the

  388. oil and be masturbating. You, you can't be carrying the

  389. oil and robbing people. You can't be carrying the oil

  390. and cussing people out. You can't be carrying the oil

  391. and being disrespectful to your spouse.

  392. That time is over because the portion that he has poured out

  393. is holy and we see in the Bible what happens when folks

  394. mishandle the oil. I'm telling you, church, don't

  395. listen. This is not the time to to try

  396. God and play with God. The, the, the issue is we don't

  397. know us because we don't know him.

  398. You want to know the world's props?

  399. Stop following the world to this quick fix weekend or seminar or

  400. or, or or, or or going to a ball game or.

  401. You're going to get to know yourself through a book.

  402. You're going to get to know yourself through.

  403. Yeah, you can read a book to understand your talent.

  404. Books serve great purpose, so I'm not excluding any of it, but

  405. I am excluding it when it's the it's a source you use more than

  406. God because man, what, what did they read when they didn't have

  407. no books, but they walk with God when they didn't have no Bible

  408. or anything, but they walk with God when, when they, you know

  409. what I'm saying? We got way too many options and

  410. God has fallen further and further and further down the

  411. list of needs, right. Jesus was a Carpenter and I, I

  412. mean, he seemed to find time for God like you ready and the

  413. church he was building and battling.

  414. The other issue is we don't know him because we don't know us.

  415. I'm gonna skip that and I'm gonna jump to this.

  416. We've been trying to find ourselves outside of holy.

  417. We have been looking for ourselves in carnality.

  418. We have been looking for ourselves through flesh.

  419. And Elder John, ain't it crazy of how we confirm God showed up?

  420. Do you know because you got a new car that could not be God.

  421. That could just mean you went to work.

  422. For real though, like we all over the place of what's God?

  423. Because in the Bible I read people who was in famine and saw

  424. God was president. I see people blessing the Lord

  425. at all times in the Bible. I don't I don't see an increase

  426. in attendance when folks get jobs and raises and bonuses and

  427. stuff. No, no, in this world you you

  428. see less of people when they get blessed.

  429. We read Romans 8 now the mind of the flesh.

  430. I think that's where we left off, Marie, that Gee, a couple

  431. more and we going, yeah, I don't know.

  432. Now the mind of the flesh is death both now and forever.

  433. Somebody say now and forever because the mind of the flesh,

  434. it pursues sin. What is the mind of the flesh?

  435. I'm going to tell you in a few minutes.

  436. But the mind of the spirit is life.

  437. The mind of the spirit is life. The mind that is wooed by

  438. controlled by led by the spirit, it's life.

  439. And what peace, the spiritual well-being that comes from

  440. walking. That's why I can be in beautiful

  441. iskia and and and and roam and and be like I cannot wait to get

  442. home. Some of y'all like Oh my God,

  443. why I got to go home. But for me that that's not where

  444. God is for me. I find my most piece where I'm

  445. supposed to be. I like Italy was cool, but I

  446. couldn't be married to that. I want to travel the world and

  447. just see everywhere. I just, I don't know where I

  448. want to go. So I'm going to go everywhere.

  449. I'm just hitchhike everywhere. And I want to eat pastries in

  450. Europe and I want to, I want to, you know what I mean, try

  451. barbecue in the South. And I want, I just just, I want

  452. to wander. I want to go to this church

  453. because this church has this and this church has that and this

  454. church has cute girls and and handsome guys and their music is

  455. really good over here. It's just too long.

  456. And then this church over here, they let me out right at the at

  457. the right time. This church over here, I can

  458. only go there because I work during this time or this church

  459. is good because it's close to my house.

  460. But you'll drive to where to get what?

  461. You'll sit in a plane for 1516 hours and in 45 minutes too far

  462. go to Europe on a plane. And when you fly, when you take

  463. off, I'm a drive from here to Vancouver as many times as it

  464. take for you to get to Europe. And we going to see how many

  465. times I get to church before you get to Europe.

  466. Let me stop playing with y'all today.

  467. The mind of the flesh with its sinful pursuits is actively

  468. hostile. Now.

  469. I don't know nobody here that loves hostility.

  470. Not get it. You like I want all the smoke.

  471. Bring it. You want to mess with me?

  472. I'll show you what's up. You know what I'm saying?

  473. But but a hostile environment is not a safe environment, am I

  474. correct? So when God says you are

  475. actively hostile, you ain't safe for him to be around.

  476. Oh, I can't hear from God. But you live by the flesh.

  477. Guess what that means He don't talk to unsafe people, so he'll

  478. talk to a safe person to talk to you.

  479. And here's what the devil has done.

  480. He has caused you to be offended at the safe person.

  481. That's why I got to find leaders that's over my life that that's

  482. cool with God like that. I need somebody that's cool with

  483. God like that more than I need somebody to just teach me about

  484. where Jesus was born. You go to school for that.

  485. I can YouTube for that. But where I plant my feet, my

  486. roots, I need that man and that woman to be talking to God like

  487. this all the time. You're not going to wow me

  488. because you know you read the Bible 58 times but you can't

  489. tell me what God is doing today. I need a word, even if it scare

  490. me, hey, I need to go to church and somebody say hey, don't go

  491. there tomorrow because there's death.

  492. You're right. Some of y'all like, oh, I

  493. wouldn't want that word, why wouldn't you?

  494. OK, cool, just show up tomorrow to death and be like, wow.

  495. But then somebody got a word of knowledge, a word of wisdom.

  496. That kind of house where the fire is and where it's stirred

  497. up and you in that place and you really pulling on the anointing

  498. of the house. Man, you'd be you'd be surprised

  499. how God will save you through safe people.

  500. Yeah, that was like, let's get them offended at people who walk

  501. in with God because they use the TPT.

  502. Shut up. We pick in churches now what

  503. translation of the Bible they use.

  504. Not if God is there. I'm sorry, that ain't even what

  505. today's message is about. Because we're not looking for

  506. holy, we're looking at forms of godliness.

  507. It says your flesh cannot. Those appetites of the flesh

  508. cannot please God. Can I tell you I didn't learn

  509. this in in seminary. I learned this by being fleshy,

  510. by being carnal. By screwing around, by smoking

  511. dope and by drinking and by being hungover and throwing up

  512. and hurting girls. And that's how I learned this of

  513. what the flesh does, watching too much TV, porn, Instagram.

  514. That's how I learned that. Oh, yeah.

  515. But ain't it funny how you can read that and be like, man,

  516. that's crazy. No, that's you, the appetite of

  517. your flesh. You want to do what you want to

  518. do and the timing you want to do it.

  519. And you want God to show up when you want to show, when you want

  520. him to show up instead of walking with God and he's

  521. enough. Here's the carnal mind.

  522. The carnal mind is not set, period.

  523. That's why he says a double minded man, an unset mind,

  524. cannot possibly think that whatever he or she is praying

  525. for, it is going to come because why?

  526. When you're praying with double mindedness, you're praying a

  527. carnal prayer. It's not said, it says it's not

  528. fixed and it's not focused on God.

  529. Who is it focused on? You, the author and giver of

  530. life. Therefore the carnal mind

  531. cannot. I want to learn how to hear from

  532. God. OK, you don't need to go to a

  533. conference. Let me, let me save you some

  534. money. Put it, put it in there for the

  535. remnant. Therefore the carnal mind cannot

  536. receive. Oh, oh, no wonder 1/4 of the

  537. room is worshipping. Watch this.

  538. The carnal mind cannot receive or experience or transmit life.

  539. The carnal mind is a breeding ground for fear, doubts,

  540. unbelief, worries and anxieties. Oh no, you can get over

  541. anxieties by taking this pill, not overcoming fear.

  542. So I need a pill so when fear shows up, I can respond to fear,

  543. calm. But my response, my calm

  544. response is not overcoming fear. It's just I'm chill and I got to

  545. keep taking that pill so I don't lose my grill.

  546. You see what I'm saying? Instead of a holy God didn't

  547. make you like that and he is trying to get you back to how he

  548. made you and you can't God cannot bring you the freedom

  549. when you're trying to hold on the coping.

  550. OK, OK, you see this, The carnal mind is a breeding ground.

  551. What does a breeding ground mean?

  552. Somebody tell somebody tell me a place where things can not just

  553. give birth, but to what grow. And in order for something to

  554. grow, it needs to have roots. So anxiety has roots in your

  555. mind, so the only way is to uproot what's causing it, not to

  556. take a pill to calm it. OK OK.

  557. Everything is skyrocketing when it comes to health in this

  558. world. Being a Christian here it is, is

  559. not about conduct and behavior modification.

  560. OK, All right. Now, I'm not going to tell you

  561. how long I'm going to be, but I'm, I'm almost closing, OK?

  562. Almost so in, in, in two hours. Don't tell me you said you was

  563. going to close in 10 minutes. I said I'm almost closing.

  564. OK. Being a Christian is not about

  565. conduct. So what if I told you God's like

  566. awesome for coming in the house. Now here's my question.

  567. You spent money, resources, time, energy, what you going to

  568. do? Now I'm talking to the church,

  569. not the person who is seeking God.

  570. We should all be seeking. But I'm talking about I'm not

  571. talking about new believers who who are ignorant of a lot of

  572. what is required to follow God and all that.

  573. I'm talking to you believers who show up every week.

  574. Now what? What you going to do?

  575. The the church got to stop being as worse as the world is.

  576. Being a Christian is not about conduct and behavior

  577. modification. Being a Christian here it is is

  578. about living in his image and likeness, which is holy, which

  579. is holy that that's what it's about.

  580. You ready? If you live holy, you'll follow

  581. Jesus, but because you don't want to live holy, you're just

  582. satisfied with being a Christian.

  583. Excuse me? You can't just be satisfied with

  584. being wife. No, no, no, Julia, Pastor Julia

  585. if you're watching no, no, no, thank God you are not satisfied

  586. with just the title wife like some are with Christian, but you

  587. actually are wife. That's why he said he that a man

  588. that finds a wife not finds a a woman with the title wife.

  589. He finds someone that is a wife, right.

  590. You didn't go to a building and be like man, this could be a

  591. school I'm about to enroll. Some of y'all didn't even get

  592. it. Some of y'all didn't even get it

  593. right. The building ain't the school

  594. because it got classrooms. A wife ain't just because she a

  595. woman, and a Christian ain't just a Christian because you

  596. come to church. You see how we try to do all the

  597. work. I don't got to remind my wife

  598. every day be a wife. She don't got to remind me to be

  599. a husband. I'm husband, not a husband.

  600. I'm husband, she wife. That's how they talked in the

  601. Bible. Go look.

  602. Actually they said Lord, that's in the Bible, right?

  603. B he made us beings, but we're we're we major in doers.

  604. I'm a doer. I'm a doer.

  605. No, I can't say that that don't sound right.

  606. That don't sound right. Nope.

  607. Can you say that in church? Somebody going to crucify me?

  608. Hallelujah. Yeah, yeah.

  609. New ears pay close attention. God isn't the only one holy.

  610. That's that's like a massive statement to come out of

  611. somebody's mouth. Now I'm looking for any

  612. doctrinal searcher. Whatever.

  613. You tell me what's wrong with that after church.

  614. OK, Don't tell me. Elder John, raise your hand.

  615. Go tell Elder John. OK, Look, let me.

  616. Let me. Let me.

  617. I just want to help everybody. Because when you walk out of

  618. here, you need to know this. So when you go on your next

  619. date. Hi.

  620. What's your name? John?

  621. What's your name, girl? Holy, holy and anointed.

  622. Holy, anointed. First name, Holy last name,

  623. anointed middle name. Righteous.

  624. Hallelujah. Holy, righteous anointed.

  625. Yes, here it is. Here it is.

  626. PT. How you?

  627. How you going to talk to the devil like that?

  628. How you going to talk to me like that?

  629. How you going to say God ain't the only one holy?

  630. I'm just speaking what he said. Sorry you didn't read that part.

  631. God isn't the only one that is holy.

  632. Just like in my household. I ain't the only one human in my

  633. bloodline. The Richmonds all human.

  634. Why? Because I'm human, but then also

  635. the man of faith talking spirit. Now.

  636. Now I can see I'm giving birth to spiritual children, not just

  637. biological children. So my kids have faith because

  638. they household got faith. My kids got joy because they

  639. daddy got joy. My kids got hope because they

  640. daddy got hope. What you birthing?

  641. You are human because your parents are human who remember

  642. this? Why are you acting like an

  643. animal? That's my Mama when I why are

  644. you acting like a buffoon that's my Mama would say something like

  645. crazy like that. Why you actually say something?

  646. Why are you acting like a ho? Yeah y'all know don't act like

  647. y'all gonna be cussing. I didn't just cuss I just yay

  648. ho. Have you ever had someone why

  649. they acting like that? What you're saying is why are

  650. they acting out of their humanity?

  651. Why are they acting like animals?

  652. When you see people murdering why are they acting like so?

  653. Church. Why are you always acting human?

  654. Why are you stuck there? How much life you missing out

  655. on? Watch first Peter, first Peter,

  656. so then prepare your hearts and minds for action.

  657. Oh oh stay alert and fix your hope firmly on the marvelous

  658. grace that is coming to you. Oh, oh for when Jesus Christ is

  659. unveiled. Oh, oh, a greater measure of

  660. grace will be released to you now.

  661. Hold up. He is, was, is and to come.

  662. So greater measure was released, greater measure is released and

  663. greater measure will be released.

  664. But here's why. Because he's unveiled when we're

  665. in heaven, what's coming, we will be in our holy.

  666. So He don't need to be unveiled, but He has to be unveiled now.

  667. He has to be revealed. Our eyes have to be open and

  668. it's when our eyes open. That's why I can't act the same

  669. no more because Jesus Christ has unveiled Himself to me.

  670. And I remember my change. I went to church all my life,

  671. but it wasn't until June 2007 I left the ways of the world when

  672. it came to my lifestyle because He unveiled Himself to me.

  673. And so I went from where I was in May 2006 and in June 2006, I

  674. walked in a greater measure of grace.

  675. And I am telling you in March of 2025, I, as He has unveiled

  676. another measure of His identity to me, I am stepping into

  677. another measure of grace. Here it is, here it is, you

  678. cannot be the same when he unveils himself.

  679. The only reason you should want to come to church is your prayer

  680. is unveil yourself and it said it will be released.

  681. It is say it will be put in your hands.

  682. I am telling you there is a greater measure of glory that

  683. has been released. Watch it as God's obedient

  684. children never again shape your lives.

  685. Come on, PP pro presenter Sorry next slide shape your lives.

  686. The other sorry shape your lives by the desires that you followed

  687. when you didn't know better. So when you walk out of here

  688. today, there's a greater level of accountability, Saints.

  689. So don't come here setting up no wisdom sessions because you are

  690. eating the fruit of your defiance.

  691. I'm telling you now, here's the wisdom.

  692. Never again shape your lives by the desires flesh carnal that

  693. you followed carnal flesh when you didn't know better.

  694. God has a grace for not knowing better.

  695. You are a baffoon if you walk out of here today and continue

  696. to make some choices of your flesh that go against God's will

  697. and his life for you and not walk in the spirit of life.

  698. I'm sorry you chose this day to come, but you didn't choose this

  699. day to come. God chose this day to come.

  700. Look at this when you didn't know better.

  701. What's yours. Use now instead.

  702. Shape your lives to become like the holy One who called you, who

  703. called you Holy one right now. For scripture says because it is

  704. written, you shall be holy. For I am OK.

  705. You remember my statement over there, right?

  706. God ain't the only one holy, He said You shall be holy.

  707. What is holy? Set apart.

  708. I can't act like my cousin's me. If my cousin's me.

  709. I ain't acting like him. Why?

  710. Because now I know better. You shall be holy.

  711. It is say in, in anywhere. Say set apart, it is say.

  712. You shall be holy. Long dress, you shall be holy.

  713. Turban, you shall be holy. Cover your face, you shall be

  714. holy. No lipstick, you shall be holy.

  715. Don't slip up and curse. Oh, but when you be holy, it

  716. will shape you. That's why he just told you,

  717. look, look, he says shape your lives.

  718. Don't shape your lives by the desires that followed you, but

  719. let holiness shape your life. So holy is absolute purity.

  720. He is unstained by sin and evil. He is perfect in every way and

  721. perfectly good all the time. God's never not good belonging

  722. to To be holy is to belong to or come from God.

  723. Anybody else come from God? I know I did.

  724. So what is being born again if you ain't being holy?

  725. Big question. Sin had reign in your life

  726. because you were separated from holy.

  727. Now Holy One came back in what you being?

  728. Holy is consecrated and sacred and spiritually perfect or pure.

  729. So spiritually perfect. So because of the blood of

  730. Jesus, I am perfect. Because of the blood,

  731. spiritually perfect, That's how he sees me.

  732. Perfect. Hard to believe.

  733. Yet this man, humanity, not perfect, but in Jesus, perfect.

  734. That's what the Bible says. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

  735. Untainted by evil or sin, sinless, saintly, regarded with

  736. or deserving deep respect, awe, reverence.

  737. You see that holy deserves deep respect.

  738. Oh, why we settle for less. Holy deserves awe, holy deserves

  739. reverence, and holy deserves adoration.

  740. So if this is the year of the fear of God, how can it be?

  741. How can you ever receive the benefits of living in the spirit

  742. of the fear of God without walking holy?

  743. I'll close with this one. Exodus 19 Now, Therefore, if you

  744. will obey my voice in truth and keep my covenant, then you shall

  745. be my own peculiar possession and treasure from among and

  746. above all peoples separated. For all the earth is mine.

  747. Here it is, and you shall be to me.

  748. Don't miss it. You shall be to me a Kingdom of

  749. priests, a holy nation consecrated, set apart, not

  750. trying to fit in the world, not trying to get accepted, not not

  751. trying to get people who don't even see God see you.

  752. So those family members that that that ain't saved or don't

  753. want nothing to do with God, leave them alone, just love

  754. them. You're different.

  755. You can't, you can't come to Jesus and keep keep the O you a

  756. holy nation set apart to worship of God, to the worship of God.

  757. This is what we do is why He set us apart to worship Him In

  758. everything we do, it should bring worship how we talk to

  759. people, it should bring Him worship in our business affairs,

  760. it should bring Him worship. These are the words you shall

  761. speak to the Israelites. We are His people.

  762. You are our God, make us. Ain't it funny how we sing that?

  763. But we like make us holy you are.

  764. Then on Monday I don't want to be holy like you are.

  765. We just be singing y'all. We are his children.

  766. Life will always be frustrating and unsettling when merely

  767. trying to change and make moves. In order to have, feel and

  768. arrive versus live, repent, seek and be.

  769. Life will always be frustrating and unsettling when merely

  770. trying to change and make moves and shake in order to have, feel

  771. and arrive versus live, repent, seek and be.

  772. Want to know who you are? A holy people separated by God.

  773. For God wanna know who you are. A holy people.

  774. A peculiar people. You should be strange.

  775. You, you not weird, strange. You should have some lonely

  776. times. You ready?

  777. You should find peace in singleness.

  778. You ready? It wasn't Adam's idea to have a

  779. woman. God saw and it wasn't.

  780. Here you go. Elder John, please tell me.

  781. By knowing the nature of God, Was God saying Adam needs a

  782. woman because he God's not enough?

  783. You're holy and I'm here to speak a declaration over every

  784. believer in here. You will suck at sin.

  785. Let hey, hey, hey, hey, let. Let me prophecy.

  786. You are the worst Sinner in the world.

  787. You suck at sinning. Terrible Sinner.

  788. I'm not glorifying your sin. You're holy.

  789. You're peculiar. You're set apart.

  790. You're different. You're God breathes.

  791. Come on. You're an overcomer.

  792. You're more than a conqueror. You're a resurrected being.

  793. You are wise. Favor of the Lord surrounds you

  794. like a seal. You are fearfully and

  795. wonderfully made. You are the apple of His eye.

  796. You are his Son. You are his daughter.

  797. You are redeemed, you are saved, You are washed.

  798. You are the righteousness of God.

  799. Come on, begin to pray. Right where you are.

  800. Right where you are. You are set apart.

  801. Come on. You can sag your pants and still

  802. be holy. You can rock your hat to the

  803. side and still be holy. You can have gold teeth and

  804. still be holy. Huh.

  805. Come on, you're holy. Come on, you're holy.

  806. Come on, Church. Come on.

  807. We're worshipping a holy God as his holy children.

  808. Come on Holy Spirit, purge that sin conscious, sear the sin

  809. conscience in our minds. Come on, you gave us the spirit

  810. of holiness, not the spirit of fear.

  811. Come on, open your mouth Saints, never the same.

  812. I'm washed by the blood of Jesus.

  813. The devil is under my holy feet. In Jesus name.

  814. Yes we are. We we take our identity back.

  815. Lord God, we are holy. No, I'm not ratchet, I'm holy.

  816. Only a holy child can come to his Holy Father.

  817. Bold. Thank you so much for tuning in

  818. to this week's sermon. We pray you were challenged,

  819. equipped and encouraged. Make sure to follow us on all

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  824. But until next time, you know the drill, you know the motto.

  825. Get your love fixed man and we'll see y'all real soon.