Life Conference 2026 (Friday AM) - Bishop Tony Kemp (February 6, 2025) | Life Bible Church

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enjoy this week's message. When I found myself

in heaven, one of the persons that the Father

arranged for me to meet was the Apostle Paul.

Who said to me, read my gospel and put it into

practice. As if to say, you don't really understand

my gospel. A couple years ago, I had a friend

of mine from South Africa come and speak at our

In Supernatural conference. And so we're just

sitting there talking, and he lets me know he

had been in heaven, and the Apostle Paul asked

him, when are you going to actually start preaching

my gospel? I want to let you know I felt so much

better. So, do I have permission to challenge

you some more? Okay. So, on one of those occasions

where I found myself in heaven, I'm before God,

and the Father isolates something for me, a spirit

being. Comes out and the father begins to sing

into this being. He really does rejoice over

you with singing. But the father is singing into

this spirit being. Divine purpose. The father's

will. Natural giftings. Spiritual giftings. And

the father blows. And the spirit being into the

father, into the mother. And obviously the person

is born. And when they get the revelation of

God through Jesus. And they begin to learn the

word of God after being born again by the word

of truth. And being born again by the word of

God which lives and abides forever. And being

born of the spirit. John 3. As they received

the word of the Lord, what the father encrypted

and encoded into that person's spirit through

a series of God encounters, what was encrypted

becomes decrypted and what was encoded becomes

decoded. Is that biblical? Is that scriptural?

Well, I take you to the first chapter of Jeremiah,

where Jeremiah has an encounter with the living

God. And in that encounter, something awakens

in the prophet Jeremiah. And God says, before

you were born, I knew you. Before you came out

of your mother's womb, I appointed you, I anointed

you. I sanctified you. I set you apart. I consecrated

you and I made you a prophet to the nations.

So what was encoded was decoded. What was encrypted

was decrypted through a God encounter. Look at

your neighbor and say, you got a whole lot more

going on than you think. Now you've given me

permission to challenge you. So if I had the

time, I would play a video of a master pianist.

I could play a video of a great mathematician

or physicist, scientist, or first class. world

-class, gold -winning athlete. And what you would

do is you would marvel at their dedication, their

intelligence, their more than 10 ,000 hours of

study to produce expertise. And then we come

to church and this is how we think. The gospel

is simple. The gospel is easy. And the gospel

is painless. And we think. Spirit life is gonna

be simple. It's gonna be easy. It's gonna be

painless. And in a sense, the gospel is simple.

God was manifested in the flesh through the person

of Jesus. He did die on a cross for your sins.

He was buried. Three days later, he came back

to life. He proved himself alive with many infallible

proofs. He ascended into heaven and is seated

at the right hand of God the Father. He set down

the Holy Spirit. You're born again by the word

of God. You get filled with the Spirit. You speak

in tongues. You love God and you love people.

You come to the end of life and there is the

resurrection of the dead and there's eternal

judgment. But before the resurrection of the

dead and eternal judgment, you have your lived

experience. And in your lived experience with

your spouse, you discover that that simple man

is complicated. And that's why you spend so much

time talking to your sisters. And you men. Women

are a mystery. You need the help of heaven to

decode women speak. Because what she said was

not what she meant. So you have to understand

the code. You have to understand the language.

You have to understand the meaning in the message.

Which means you got to really practice active

listening. You have to look closer. You have

to look deeper. You have to pay attention not

just to the message and the meaning, but the

feeling. Because a woman isn't just communicating

to you a message. She's trying to get across

to you the feeling. So, Although we men appear

simple. We help your relationship with God because

of our own personal mystery. In short, Jesus,

what am you going to do about this man I married?

Look at somebody say, you're more sanctified

by the trouble you're in. So Paul says, hey,

let's look at the depths of the wisdom and the

knowledge of God. Look at somebody say, maybe

it's not as simple as we want to believe. Maybe

there's a greater dedication required to enter

into destiny. Maybe there's a stronger consecration

that I need by the grace of God to really comprehend

the resurrected Christ. Maybe it's not so easy.

Maybe when the people heard Jesus say, you must

eat my flesh and drink my blood or you have no

life in you. Somebody said, that's a hard saying.

See, we say stuff like this. This is what we

do is we quote Luke 9, 23, where Jesus said,

whoever will come after me, let him deny himself,

take up his cross and follow me. And then we

say stuff like this. I kiss the cross. Do you

realize that if you kiss the cross, you're going

to get a mouthful of splinters? So are you going

to tell Paul that things are simple? Are you

going to tell Paul things are easy? When Jesus

speaks to the man of God in Damascus, that simple

disciple who later becomes a bishop in Damascus

and says, Jesus says, I'm going to show him how

great things he's going to suffer for my namesake.

Do you think that that was simple? Do you think

that that was easy? Do you think that that was?

Painless? That same Paul who said, fight the

good fight of faith? Greek. Agonize the good

agony of faith. I have fought a good fight. I

have agonized a good agony. Wait a minute. Faith

and agony in the same sentence. Watch. I think

I'll go on this side. So in Acts chapter nine,

Jesus appears to Paul, knocks him to the ground.

And up until that moment, listen to me carefully.

Paul, who thought he knew the scriptures, says,

who are you, sir? I am Jesus. Every, listen to

me, every religious thing that Paul knew in the

presence of the Christ collapsed. Look at your

neighbor and say, every bit of religion that

you think you know can collapse. In the presence

of the resurrected Christ. So, whenever you have

a false framework. See, most of us. don't have

what Paul had. He had a total collapse of his

religion. I can't take a total collapse. I'm

a wimp. I have to experience incremental collapses.

In my wrong thinking. I have to experience gradual

collapses. In my wrong theology. So. When Jesus

collapses false frameworks, he has to reframe

my thinking according to the intelligence of

the Spirit and give me the interpretations of

God the Father. And I personally don't like change.

resist change so the father initiates outer change

to bring inner transition and I am not happy

cause I have control issues Transition. Look

at Moses, 40 days. Noah, 40 days. Jesus, 40 days.

40 days is the time of transition where something

has, the chapter has come to an end, your transition,

but yet you have not yet come into the new beginning.

So you experience uncertainty. There's ambiguity.

There's a loss of self -confidence. I didn't

say personal confidence. I mean, let's take a

look for a moment. I'm still talking about capacity

code. Let's take a look at the prophet Elijah,

who was among the settlers in Gilead because

there was a civil war. He was a self -made man

who was used to being alone and didn't depend

upon anybody. And he really did have a revelation

when he told King Ahab, you know, it's not going

to rain. I got the key. I'm putting it in my

back pocket. The father's got to keep me alive

because nobody else on earth has the authority

to unlock what I just locked. And I'm going to

wait three and a half years. I'm going to be

supernaturally sustained. By the way, God tells

him to go to the Brook Cherith. If he would have

went to the Jordan, he would have been hungry.

Because God meets you in the place where he told

you to be. The angel... Okay, I'm going to leave

that alone anyway. I'm going to leave that alone.

Then God... Takes him through a series of experiences.

Eventually, you know, the fire falls. The false

prophets are killed. The rain comes. He's in

a state of depletion. Everybody say exhaustion.

Everybody say burnout. And after the great victory,

Jezebel curses herself. She doesn't realize she's

cursing herself. But she's saying, just like

you killed them prophets 24 hours from now, may

the gods do to me what you did to them. I'm going

to take your head off. This brother, listen to

this, runs from the northern kingdom toward the

southern kingdom. He runs 300 miles. To go to

Sinai, to go to Mount Horeb, which in the Hebrew

means desolation. Joanne, they heard me, but

they're not really hearing me. Because when she

said, I'm going to take off your head, because

he was mentally and emotionally depleted, he

was no longer God's man of faith and power. Because

after all of that spiritual exertion, he had

now reached a point of mental, emotional, and

physical collapse. Because he was trying to do

it all by himself. You heard me, but you didn't

hear me. And so when he runs, he gets under a

broom tree and the angel of the Lord says, arise

and eat. The journey is too great for you. Okay?

Water. He is so depressed, he falls back to sleep.

He's in self -pity. I don't want to kill myself.

So Lord, I'm no better than my fathers. Lord,

you kill me. And the self -pity is hiding his

pride. Look at somebody saying, it ain't so simple

now. Things have got hard now. Things are so

painful, he doesn't want to go on. He runs because

of anxiety. He runs because of fear. Look at

your neighbor and say, he sounds a whole lot

like you. He's having a panic attack. His brain

is shut down when she made the threat. You got

fight or flight or you got freeze. Here's the

point. God has grace for you just like he had

grace for Elijah. the father was not at all concerned.

He felt like a failure. Paul said in 2 Corinthians,

I don't want you to be ignorant, brothers, of

the trouble that found me in Asia. How I was

pressed above measure. Above strength. I was

in despair. Wait a minute. Let me see if I got

this right. Jesus appears to you. You write all

these scriptures. You get caught up to heaven.

You hear words that either. There's no language

for or you're forbidden to speak. You have visions

and revelations from the Lord. You are the apostle

to the Gentiles. And you said you are in despair.

You're depressed. Look, somebody said, don't

sound simple to me. Don't sound easy to me. Look,

somebody said, don't sound painless to me. See,

because here's the issue. You think because you're

in pain that there's something wrong with your

faith. Oh, wow. Would you grab that for me? Yeah,

just throw it up there because eventually I'm

going to need that. See, I'm going to show you

how it's not so simple. Proverbs 29, 18. Where

there's no vision, you can put it up there if

you want, if somebody cares to. Sometimes people

need a visual. That's pretty good. Where there's

no revelation, the people cast off restraint.

But whoever keeps the teaching, he shall be happy.

Huh? Wait a minute. Revelation. Wait a minute.

Revelation. Revelation. Revelation. Everybody

say supernatural perception. Everybody say supernatural

discernment. Oh, wait a minute. Let me put it

in a formal question. If you can't see it, you

can't describe it. If you can't see it, are you

able to describe it? No. I have to see it to

describe it. Look at your neighbor and say, you

got to see it to describe it. Wait. Don't you

have to describe it in order to be able to define

it? I have to see it? Revelation, the revelation

of the word, what's in the mind of the father,

the intelligence of the spirit, the strategies

of Jesus to be an overcomer so I could know the

operations of the enemy and how to defeat the

enemy because through revelation, I'm no longer

ignorant of the enemy's devices. I have to see

it to describe it. I have to describe it to define

it. Wait a minute. If I can see it and define

it and describe it, now I have to govern it.

Huh. Under the lordship of Jesus and under the

leadership of Jesus, I got to see it? I got to

describe it. I got to define it. Now I can govern

it. And because I govern it, now I can measure

it. And since I can measure it, now I can grow

it. And if I can't see it and describe it, if

I can't define it and govern it, and if I can't

measure it and grow it, then I can't harvest

it. And if I can't harvest it, why even do it?

Since Jesus is the Lord of the harvest. So if

I'm having problems with harvest, that means

I'm having problems seeing something I was originally

intended to see. There's something wrong with

my definitions. Because I don't have the actual.

Picture the description. So now I can't govern

it. Now I can't grow it. Now I can't harvest

it. Wait a minute. Give me 1 Corinthians 3 .10.

What does faith sound like when it thinks? When

it thinks. When it thinks. What does faith sound

like when it thinks? 1 Corinthians 3 .10, according

to the grace of God, which was given to me, as

a wise master builder, architectia. Which means

before he begins, he has the end in mind. That

means in order for you to build according to

the pattern that's in the heavens, I have to

see it, describe it. I have to get the definition

of divine purpose and destiny. I have to govern

it so I can grow it because I'm able now to measure

it against the... plumb line of the truth. And

now I can bring the harvest that's in the heart

of the Father that Jesus paid for back up to

the Father. So if I'm not getting the harvest,

you ready? Things don't go wrong, they start

wrong. Because the seeds of destruction are always

in the foundation. Architechion. Everybody say

architechion. Everybody say blueprint. Everybody

say architecture. Things don't fail because of

your desire. They fail because you don't have

the design. People think if I just have godly

desire. You're supposed to have godly desire.

But your godly desire leads you to the design.

Where you're frustrated is where you desire something

that's outside of your God -given design. If

you're a deacon and you try to pastor, you in

trouble. Because you're going to have pastoral

trials, but you're a deacon. Look at somebody

say, it ain't so simple now. Look at somebody

say, it ain't so easy now. You're going to have

pain that you aren't equipped for. Because what

determines your capacity is your calling. Your

calling determines. what kind of capacity God's

going to build in you in terms of internal architecture.

You ready? Talk to me. The Spirit moves through

the Father's God -given structure. You have to

be structured for success. The kind of success

I'm talking about, Joshua 1 and 8, no other foundation

can be laid other than that's already laid. Things

don't go wrong, they start wrong. I don't know

if that's true, Pastor Tony. Well, let me answer

you this way here. So you read the Sermon on

the Mountain, and at the end of it, Jesus says,

whoever hears these sayings of mine and doesn't

do them, he's like a foolish man. Built his house

on the sand. Built his house on the sand. He

heard what I said, but he didn't do what I said,

and there were three tests. Rains, floods, wind,

and the house fell. Great was the fall of it.

Whoever hears these things of mine and puts them

into practice, I'll show you what he's like.

He's like a wise man who dig deep and laid the

foundation of a house on a rock. Three tests,

winds, floods, rain. And it stood. Things don't

go wrong. They start wrong. That's why sometimes

things have to be. reframed and you have to have

a brand new foundation because the depth of the

foundation determines the height of the building.

Look at what somebody said. Everybody say, you

have a simple foundation, you're going to have

a simple building. You're going to have a little

foundation, you're going to have a little building.

You're going to have a great foundation, a deep

foundation, a wide foundation. You're going to

have a big building. Look at what I say. It ain't

that simple. It ain't that easy. See, we don't

want the digging because the reason we don't

want the digging is because your earth has got

to be disturbed. There's areas of your mind and

heart that's got to be excavated. Oh, I want

the fullness of the spirit. Okay, eight ounce

or gallon. I want the fullness of the spirit.

Yeah, well, the size of the river is determined

by the size of the riverbed. me permission. Still

with me? All right, let's go. The book of the

law shall not depart from your mouth. The teaching,

the revelation. Wait a minute. I need the word

of God in my mouth. You're going to meditate

in a day and night. Oh, I need the word of God

in my mind. I really do. So I can observe to

do it. All that's written. Everybody say the

word of God in your mouth. In your mind and in

your obedience. For then you will make your way

to prosper and you'll have everybody say good

success. So the word of God in my mind, the word

of God in my mouth and the word of God in my

life through obedience creates an internal structure

because now I'm a prepared vessel that can handle

the weight. Of the kavod. The presence. And the

glory. Wait a minute. You'll have good success.

Wait a minute. If you can have good success.

Can you have bad success? Wait a minute. Structure

comes before success. Success actually in the

Hebrew means. That you become and you do. What

the father originally had in mind. Everybody

say, the Holy Spirit says, you become and you

do what was originally in the heart and mind

of the Father. So it's about structure. I'm going

to let it set for a minute. Have I not commanded

you? Wait a minute. I got to be strong and I

got to have courage in some places in my life

to be restructured. I got to stop being afraid.

When I'm in the... Can I tell you something?

Okay, let me tell you something. I need the word

of wisdom for the season I'm in. You have one

purpose, but you walk through many seasons. My

problem is my own rigidity. I'll say that again.

Matter of fact, why don't you help me? Look at

your neighbor and say, your problem is your own

rigidity. Look at somebody saying, when the father's

giving you new revelation, he's trying to deliver

you from your personal rigidity into the flexibility

of the father. Look at somebody say, you got

to know what to let go of and you got to know

what to receive. So it's okay to be rigidly righteous.

It's not okay to be rigidly religious. I know

you don't think you've got any religion. But

when you are disobedient to the word of the Lord,

ask your wife. I really want to know how a brother's

doing. All I got to do is ask his wife. Are you

guys all right? So anyway, I'll tell you a story.

I didn't even get to page one. I got issues.

So I knew this brother. His name was Harold.

Harold was a womanizer. And his wife, she was

an alcoholic. Her name was Louise. And they lived

across the alley from where I was growing up.

Because we lived on a dead end street. They lived

on Hope. We lived on Lamb. There's a message

in that. Anyway, so Harold, older brother, Jesus

appears to him because he worked at the post

office and he gets saved. So in his excitement,

he comes home to Louise and says, Louise, I met

Jesus. I am saved. Louise says, I'll tell you

when you say. a pool stick and hit one of her

sons. You don't mess with Louise. She took a

pool stick. Bam! You gotta be careful. She said

to Harold, I'll tell you when you say it. One

year later, Louise said, Harold, you really saved.

She got saved. Got delivered from alcohol. Her

kids started getting saved. That's why I say.

If I really want to know how you're doing, I

just ask your spouse. You all right? You still

all right? I'm just checking. Just checking.

Just checking. So, now, I have to set Greg up

now. I'll give it back to my notes later. So

book of Acts chapter two, verse 42. You know,

Elijah, you know, when his, when his self image

collapsed, he went to a cave, actually went to

the very same cave that Moses was at after he

travels 300 miles. And the Lord says, what you

doing here? I'm the only one left. They done

killed all the prophets. They done throw down

your altars. They done want your word. They seeking

my life to take it away. And then he experiences

earth, wind, and fire, not the group. Stay with

me? And then the Lord is not in the earthquake,

the wind, or the fire, but he's in a still, small

voice. And the Hebrew means the sheer silence.

It took him running 300 miles. Watch this. In

his fear, in his self -pity, in his anxiety,

in his anger, he had lost purpose. I'm no better

than my fathers. Let me just die. And when he

gets in the cave, the place of solitude and silence,

he pauses long enough to hear. A silence that

penetrates his own mental and emotional darkness.

And he's delivered from that darkness and returns

to destiny. And now the father has done something

in his mind. that has changed how he's going

to operate from here on out. And the father says,

anoint Hazel, anoint Jehu, and anoint Elijah

to be prophet in your place. Here's a man who

lived in isolation because his whole life was,

he was a settler in the inhabitants of Gilead.

He knew how to make it on his own. Relationships

were not his thing. And now he forms a relationship

with a son. And let me mess with you. Elijah

never did anoint Hazel. He never did anoint Jehu.

He sends a young prophet that he had a relationship

with to anoint Jehu. And Elijah prophesies to

Hazel. Elisha, not Elijah. I can't talk. I'm

from Missouri. We have our own language. Now

he's working with others. Okay. Somebody wrote

a book and the title of the book was everything

I learned in life. I learned how to live. I learned

in kindergarten. Look, somebody said, the issue

is, can you play well with others? Oh, should

I do that scripture? They continued steadfastly

in the apostles doctrine. Everybody said they

did it. I have a message called the continue

code. It's a word from the Lord. My goodness.

If I do say so for myself, I woke up one morning

and there it was. Steadfastly. Ooh, steadfastly.

They continued. They did it together in the word

of the Lord in fellowship. They were fellows

in the same ship. Everybody say, you need the

word of the Lord. You need to continue in the

word of the Lord. And you need to continue in

the fellowship. Look at your neighbor and say,

I am here for your personal growth and perfection.

I am here to rub you the wrong way and smooth

you out by the power of the Holy Spirit. If you

could still love me after I have gotten on your

reserve nerve, you really know Jesus and you're

obeying the gospel. Now look at him and smile

and say, we walk by faith and not by sight. Somebody

wrote a book and the title of the book was this,

as God is my witness, can we just kill them and

tell God they died? There's a lot of homicidal

saints running around. It connects you with that.

Breaking the bread. Everybody say covenant with

God and covenant with each other. By the way.

The Bible talks about with one accord. With one

accord is homo thumadon. That means that we lock

arms and we walk through fire together. We refuse

to let go of each other. That's where it says

they were all with one accord in one place and

the Holy Spirit fell. And in prayers. Do you

know, there's a brother, his name is Steve Sampson.

He looks like Bob Newhart. No kidding, really.

He wrote a book, and this is the title of the

book. Don't talk to me now, Lord, I'm praying.

for real. I've been there. Well, God has to interrupt

me to get a word in. What are you saying, Tony?

Here's what I'm saying. I'm saying Unless I let

the grace of God take care of my own unfinished

business, I will have personal distortions. I

will not see myself through the eyes of the Father.

And that will restrict and restrain and hold

back and block my discernment and my perception.

What Jesus is up to, where he wants to go. And

how I'm supposed to follow. Are you still with

me? So let me tell you about my second experience

with Paul. He's a little man. A lot of people

are little in comparison to me. So we're talking

and we're on what you would call grass. And he

steps off the grass on a golden street. And says,

follow me. So I look to the Lord and the Lord

says. And I start to follow him. And the Lord

says, he quotes one Corinthians 11 and one where

it says, follow me as I follow Christ. Look at

somebody said the Holy Spirit says. Follow Christ.

Now, reverence came upon every soul. And as a

result of. The church, the prevailing church,

each one of them walking in the apostle's doctrine,

which is the teaching of Christ, fellows in the

same ship, together going to the same place in

covenant with God and with one another, and in

prayer, praise, and worship. Now the reverence

of the Lord is upon every soul, and now we see

signs and wonders. Wait. All who believe were

together. Everybody say they were together. They

had all things common. Now you had a move of

God among the rich for those who were less fortunate.

They sold their possessions of goods and divided

them among all as anyone had need. Watch. And

continuing daily with homo thumadon. With one

accord in the temple. Breaking bread from house

to house. Everybody say they continued daily.

Watch this. They ate their food with gladness

and simplicity of heart, praising God, having

favor with all the people, and the Lord added

to the church what? Wait a minute. They continued

daily, and the Lord added to the church daily.

And because they loved God and loved each other,

they had favor with the people. And the Lord

added to the church daily those who were being

saved. What's the point? The word of the Lord

and the spirit of God increase my capacity. So

I not only get a revelation of the resurrected

Christ. I can bring manifestations of the resurrected

Christ out of heaven into the earth. Why? Because

Colossians 1 .27 says, Christ in you, the hope

of glory. Galatians 2 .20, I'm crucified with

Christ, nevertheless I live. Yet not I, but Christ

lives in me. Look at your neighbor and say, Christ

in you, the hope of glory. Everybody say, Christ

in me. He lives in me. He's going to manifest

himself through me. Stand to your feet, will

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