The Power Of the Living Word - Co-Pastor Johnnie Johnson

And doing research, you find out that this Bible man

can cause.

A whole lot of uproar.

And so that's why I wanted you to raise up

your Bible instead of your phone, because we find even

the Bible apps on the phone. I know a lot

of y'all have that Bible app. Every so often you'll

see them get on there and they'll ask you to

donate donate finances to help get bibles, because they still

take those Bibles and send those Bibles overseas to different

countries that don't allow them there.

So we're able to take part in that.

If you donate those finances to I can't remember exactly

which one it is because I have a couple of Bibles.

On my phone.

But if you donate to that Bible app, then they

buy bibles and they send them to those countries so

that those people will be able to get the Bibles.

And I say that because that opens up to the word,

the message that I'll be breaking forth today, And my

title is the power of the Living Word. My scripture

would be coming from Hebrews four and twelve. Amen. There

is so much power in this word, and I think

sometimes for us, especially in the United States, we take

that for granted. We don't understand how much power is

in the Word of God. And I'm talking about the

saints in the church because I think if we've realized

how much power was in the Word of God, then

we would be more willing to get into.

The Word of God.

It wouldn't be such a struggle for people to say,

read the words. You need to read the word, study

the words, you need to study the Word.

And I think sometimes too, we're just lazy.

And maybe there's a spirit of laziness running rampant throughout

the land, or somebody has convinced us that if we read,

that's gonna take away lot of our time, or we

could be doing something different. But there is so much

within the Word of God that can help us to

live the way that God has called us to live,

that we miss out on it because we won't pick.

Up the book. And again, we do have our phones.

But if you can invest in a good book, then

you can get more out of.

Your study a man.

And so as we get more out of our study,

then it will help us to get a better understanding

of what this power in this living Word can do

in our lives. So again, I've had you to sit down.

Now we're gonna stand up again. We're gonna keep that

blood moving a man. It's powering that blood too, right, Dedre,

not just that name, but it's blood too, okay. And

the Word of God says for the Word of God

is quick and powerful, and it's sharper than to any

too edged sword, perishing even to the dividing asunder of

the soul.

And the spirit.

And the joint and marrow, and is a discerner of

the thoughts and intents of the heart. May God at

a blessing to the reading, hearing, and the understanding of

his words, you may be seated.

Amen.

Now, Holy Spirit helped me to dissect this the way

you gave it to me, Amen, because I only got

this one.

Scripture to deal with right here. But we come off of.

Some scriptures talking about the children of Israel and how

they missed out on the rest. And I think what

I want to take from that is out of verse seven,

and it says and again he limited a certain day,

saying in David, today after so long a time, as

it is said today, if you will hear his voice,

harden not your hearts. Sometimes we can't hear because these

these old hearts of ours have been hardened. And I

don't want us to not hear this word because we

have hardened hearts. Sometimes even with this two edges sword,

it's kind of hard for it to get through because

somebody has a hardened heart, and that hardened heart is

hardened because there's already been so much where that individual

has not listened. Where the Lord has been given us instructions,

given us directions.

And we have not taken heed to it.

The Holy Spirit has been dealing with us about a

certain thing, but we have not taken heed to it.

God does not force himself upon us, but by his

spirit he will lead us. He will guide us, and

he will instruct us, but he won't put you in

a headlock and make you do it. That's what it

means when the Bible says that we have free will.

But the nature of God's word is that this book

is not a dead book. This is a living book.

This book is alive, it is active, and it is

very effective. We should know that just by where we

are right now, we're saved. We're saved, sanctified fill what

the Holy Ghost should be. The Word of God has

called us to wherever we are right now. Isaiah fifty

five and eleven says, show shall my word be the

going forth out of my mouth? It shall not return

to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please,

and it shall prosper in the thing where to I

sent it. Whatever God said in his word, it shall

be why.

Because he said it.

Because nothing that God has said has ever went out

and came back and did not happen the way God

said it. We know that from the beginning of time.

The Bible says that the earth was void.

It was empty.

There was nothing on the earth until God starts speaking.

And for six days God spoke, and everything that God spoke,

every word he said, it came to pass. When God said,

let there be water, there was water. When God said,

let there be land, there was land. When God said,

let there be light, there was light. When He separated

the earth from the heavens, it was separated. So everything

that God spoke has come to pass, and so his

word never returns to him void. So in the same sense,

Jeremiah twenty three and twenty nine says, it is not

my is not my word? Like a fire said the Lord,

and like a hammer that breaketh the rock into pieces.

God's word does exactly what it says it's gonna do.

And Jeremiah twenty three and twenty nine he was talking

to about some false prophets that it went out and

told his people all these lies, and so God was

coming against the false prophets. He wanted them to know

how powerful his word was because they was lying.

So and they went out and told his people lies.

So when we lie, our words don't mean nothing, but

what God said means everything. So God's word is so powerful.

He wanted them to know that my word is like

a hammer. So if I say something and my word

is true, my word gonna break it, break that rock

like a hammer has just hit that rock. That's how

true my word is. Now your word gonna fall to

the ground, especially if it's a lie. So these so again,

with these prophets talking you, you wasn't saying much because

you just lying. So a lot of times what we

say it just falls to the ground. But when God

says it, So that's how we know when we say

what God says is. That's why it's so important for

us to learn to not just speak what we want

to say, but to speak what thus said the Lord.

She was saying, and we was talking about Bible study.

We was in here on Wednesday night, just saying the

same thing. Be careful about when somebody always say.

What they think.

Or this is what I believe or I think this

if it don't line up with the word of God.

We don't want to be listening to what somebody else

is saying, because it's not about what people think, but

what is God said? Even about a situation that I

may be in. I don't want to try to figure

this situation out. I need to be going to the Lord.

What does God say about my situation? Because so many times,

even when we get into a funk, the first thing

we do and we start putting everything down, woe is me.

Oh I can't do this, man, this is gonna be

telling And that ain't what God said.

God said, we're more than conquer us in Christ.

Jesus ay man, and we'll go to saying, oh this

is and I can't do and that is what God said.

The situation might look bad, but God didn't say it

was bad. God say you can do all things through

Christ Jesus, who strengthens you. You might be weak but

where you weak, my strength is made what perfect. So

what we do is we talk ourselves out of a

lot of stuff because.

We're not speaking the word.

We done forgot that this word is like a two

edge of sword.

It can cut through that situation.

So what we do is we keep ourselves in a

place where we can't even adjust or we can't come

up because we steady keeping ourselves down by speaking what

we know, yeah, instead of saying what God has said.

So we fail to realize that this book, this book,

not them other books. Now, there's a lot of inspirational

books out there. There's a lot of life changing books

out there. Yeah, there's a lot of get rich books

out there. But them books ain't like this life changing book.

Them books ain't active like this book is. Them books

ain't effective like this book is. And this book has

everything in it. This book talks about marriage, This book

talks about finances.

This book talks about our highs and our lows.

Why do we keep going to everything and everybody else

instead of going to the good book. When we realize

and understand that this book has everything that we need,

then we'll stop going to everything and everybody else. And

so what we want to find out what today is.

What makes this two edged swords so powerful? This is

also the source.

Of our life. What makes this the source of our

life is.

Because life begin with God and God's word again in

the Creation. In Creation, it was God's word about everything too.

God's words are not only the source of our life,

but God's words sustains life.

So God's words sustains life.

In Colossians one in seventeen, it says He is before

all things, and in him all things hold us together.

This is God's word, his word. Everything that needs to

hold us is in God's word. Matthew six and eleven

says it's our daily bread. If this is our daily bread,

then we should daily partake in this. So many of

us partaking everything else daily, but not the Word.

We'll get up and we'll have a meal, but won't

have a.

Daily reading, a daily scripture, defeed, our spirit. We'll get

up and have a daily conversation with somebody that don't

know nothing about us, but won't get up and have

a daily devotional with God, who knows all about us.

We'll get up and watch TV every day, but won't

spend no time with the word of God.

That can show us how to live every day.

We'll get up and do everything else but partake and

what can show us how to live right every day?

And then we wonder why so many of us falter

at this life called Christianity, so many of us that

can't live right, so many of us that still walk

and sin, but call ourselves Christians. When we have a

daily map, not just the daily devotional, a daily map,

it's the map app the way that we should live,

the way that we should go, and how we should

do it when we should do it. And it's there

and we won't even use it. So whether we use

it on our phones or whether we use the book,

it's there.

And one of the things.

That I like to tell people also because I hear

a lot of people say, well, mate, I don't have time,

I'm busy. The but the looks that excuse was taken

out again when we got phones, because everybody got a

Bible on their phone. You can put that little AirPod,

little connector. I ain't seen nobody that did not have

one of them yet. You can get the one for

nineteen dollars. If you don't have one of them, will

help you out put it in your error and listen

to the word. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by

the word of God. So you can listen to the

word of God all day long and bill your faith up.

So there's no excuses.

Technology has helped us out with those excuses. So the

Matthew four and Ford says, Jesus said it is written.

That was Jesus' way of warfare with Satan.

It is written. Whatever we need is written. It's all

written in the word of God. God did not leave

anything out. Everything that we need has been written down.

God has given inspiration to men. I heard that story

out of time where men wrote the Bible. So you're

getting information information for me. And no, those men were

inspired by the Holy Spirit. Come on now, now, it

wasn't It wasn't written by Larry Joe. These are powerful

men of God. These are men that we and especially

if you're a saint. Now, if you're a Satan, you

still stuck on that these were written by the men

of God.

You might not be a saint. Something may be written

you are ank. She say they ain't. They ain't saints.

Because if you believe in the Bible, then you have

to believe in the whole Bible. You can't say that

I believe in the Old Testament not the New Testament.

I believe in the New Testament, but not the Old Testament.

Or better yet, I done heard some people say, well,

I believe in John, but I don't believe in Romans

because Powell wrote this, but Paul didn't write that. And

I believe in some of what Pauel said, but not

all of what Paul said.

Because Paul said this, I wrote.

But this God told me, come on, now, come on,

God inspired every scripture that has been written. I don't

even want to hear the party about the parts that

are not in the Bible. God gave us what we

needed to know. He gave us what we needed to know.

This is for us.

And then what I say about the books that are

not in the Bible, know the Bible, and then go

look for the books that are not in the Bible.

But if you don't know this, why you're worried about

what's not in here? You don't even know what's in here,

but you married about what's not in here. I mean,

that don't even make sense. You ain't even got this,

damn Pat, But you're looking for the book of Enoch

and all the other books that ain't even in here,

and that's what it is.

But who is the author of confusion?

Come on now, your adversary, if he can get you,

I'll come misconstrued about this and then have you looking

for something that ain't even in here. Now you're even

more confused. So I'm just saying, get to know this. First,

study this, and then go out there. And if you

got this and you feel like you're living according to

all of this, then go get that. But right now,

let's get this and all you're getting, get an understanding

of this. Yeah, because we need this right here, because

right now what we really need is we need to

be transformed and renewed within our minds. So many of

us still have the world in us. We still Carnel minded. Yeah,

we hadn't even been transformed yet, and we're trying to

put some other stuff in us. So we need to

know that the power of the living Word has come

to transform us. That's why he said it's sharper than

a two edges sword. I looked up what a two

edges sword looked like. It's a knife, this double sided,

so when it goes in it was used in warfare.

So when that knife went in, it cut on both

sides the same way, so it doubled up on its

work going in and coming out, so it cut in

a percise way when it went in, but also when

it come out. So what it said was it did

a lot of damage. And in the damage that it did,

it said it was like it had consequences to it

because it would do some good damage and some bad

damage sometimes.

Yeah, yeah, good damage because.

Sometimes now because sometimes there's some good damage need to

be done. Sometimes you still got some stuff in you

that need to come out.

Now, I'm just.

Saying, See, you might not have realized that, but God do,

because God know us inside out right.

Yeah.

So so so some of that good damage is that

stuff that's still in you, and you may not have

recognized all better yet you might even know it's in there. Yeah,

you just ain't saying nothing, Yeah, because you you had

that's the part of you you trying to hold on too.

You know when I when I was first learning to

be a prayer warrior, and the late Lady More would

have people to come in here and train us, and

we had a lady one time to tell us quit

patent on them while you praying for them, she say,

because you patting on them spirits were trying to deliver

them and set them free. And they come up here

and y'all comforting and patting on them spirits. Yeah, y'all, y'all,

y'all stand back, cause you don't never know, she say.

And so while we praying and calling our spirits, if

you patent on them, you making those spirits feel comfortable.

So so back up, and don't ever let them come

up here holding hands, she said. If they come up

here like couples, separate them, cause when they come up

here like couples, they feel sorry for each other, especially

if one of them go to cry, she say, So

separate them and let them babies cry, a women, man,

whoever it is, let them cry, and let it get

them out of them, she say, because sometimes.

They be filled with spirits. It's demon spirits.

And if you go to patent on them spirits, them

spirits start to feel comfortable and don't want to come

up out of there, So don't pat on them. See,

sometimes we be holding onto stuff and don't understand what

we holding onto. But the thing about this word is

this word know everything, and why you holding on the

something because you think it's just a little bit of that. See,

it only took a little bit of livin spoil a

whole God know what it is. So that's why he

said a two edges spoid, cause you'd send that baby

in there and let that baby do what that baby

need to do. That's why the Word is like that

two edges sword, because the word know what to go

in there and cut and bring it out. You might

not want that word to go in there and cut

it and bring it out, but you best believe once

the word get in you know, the word gonna go

in there to do what the Word know to do. Now,

it just depends on you whether you're gonna partake in

the cutting. You got to be able to partake in

the cutting. That's why it's so important for us to

partake in the Word, and so many of us won't

partake in it. And that's the scary thing, because it's important.

We have to have it for our making. Again, the

Word says we must be transformed. It's the only thing

that transforms us into being who we were supposed to be,

were supposed to be Christ Like, I don't know how

to be like Christ. If I don't know who Christ was,

this is the only example of who Christ was. This

mirror's Christ. There's no other book the mirrors Christ. I

can't go get a news paper, I can't go to

a scholastics and get a book. The only book the

mirror of Christ is this one. So in order for

me to be transformed into the image of Christ, I

must partake in the reading of the Bible. They call

it the Basic Instructions before leaving Earth. I call it

the Mirror of Christ. I used to be kind of

confused on why I needed to study it, and that's

my testimony.

I thought I needed to memorize scripture.

That was the lot of enemy told me when I

first got say I needed to memorize scripture. It has

nothing to do with memorizing scripture. I'm just gonna help

you out. God wants me to know him. He don't

want me to memorize no scripture. If I get in here.

While I'm in here, if I memorize some scripture, that's good.

I just heard a bunch of people that was memorizing scripture,

so hey, that was the thing. Girl, Get in here

so you can memorize scripture. But without knowledge and revelation

of who he is. Memorizing scripture don't do you no good,

waste the time. Yeah, it's to reveal him to me

and to show me how to live. So that's what

it's for. So that's why we get to this scripture. See,

they they needed to find some rest in him. It's

hard to find rest in somebody that you don't know. Yeah, yeah, no,

I see, you can't find rest in somebody you don't know.

We don't even trust people that we don't know. Hey, God, hallelujah.

How can you find rest in somebody that you don't know?

So we have to know him through his word. Hallelujah, hallelujah.

So the Word of Christ John one in fourteen, Hey God,

hallelujah and John one in fourteen, and it says in

the Word was made flesh. The word is Christ. It

was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld

his glory as of the only Begod, in Father, full

of grace and truth.

Logos is who he is. Logos is Greek for the

word that's Jesus. Jesus was the word.

God took Jesus and placed him in flesh rolled up

his word and put it in flesh, and it walked

among us Jesus, the little baby wrapped in swallowing clothes,

the lily of the valley, the bright morning star.

Deidri is the word. That's why it is so important.

Did we get to know him as.

The word and then let him do what he came

to do. He came to transform it us into his image.

Who knows him better than he do?

And so when we partaking the word, we partaken him.

John five and thirty nine said, search the scriptures, for

in them ye think ye have eternal life.

And they are they which testify me.

That's what Jesus was telling the people. Y'all think y'all

got it all together. Just don't know that when you

searching these scriptures they testifying to me.

Because they kept telling him he was blasphemous. Who gonna

testify you? He said, my father. But when you search

the scriptures.

They testified me too, all of them smart phariseesans. Had

you sees, y'all have read all that word, and this

don't testified to me, And y'all still don't even believe it.

So when we search the scriptures, they testify Jesus. They

testify who.

We should be, how we should be, how we should walk,

how we should talk, how we should act. Hey, yeah,

I'm just saying we don't get to be who we

want to be. We've been paid for with the price.

We no longer belong to us anymore. Yeah, so we

get a whole new makeover. And then the makeover just

in case some of us decide I don't want to

look like that. As we read the word, it helps

us to see exactly how we are supposed to look.

You can never have the.

Fruit of the spirit if you don't partake in the word.

And then he says, this is how you know them.

How would I know? How would they know? You'll know

them by the fruit that they bear. And then I

hear people say, well, I don't care what people think,

and it don't matter to what people say. Well, that

deck to differ, because the Bible says that's how.

You gonna know them. He wants them to know us.

He want us to be separated from them. Yeah, we're

supposed to look different from the world. We're supposed to

talk different, act different. Yeah, that's like saying I'm gonna

send all my kids over here and then I'm gonna

put Jenny.

Seu's kids over here.

But I want y'all to tell me what's the difference

between my kids and Jenny's How y'all gonna know my

kids from Jenny Suz's kids. There has to be a

difference between my kids and Jenny Seu's kids.

Because if it ain't.

A difference between my kids and Jenny Schoo's kids, when

I say, go get my girl, you realven win got

Jenny Schoo's girl and bother to men, I don't want

Jenny Sue's girl.

I want my girl.

And I'm just saying if that simplifies that, because well,

some people will kind of get messed up on that one,

and that's carnal. If that's the way you still think

that we should not be separate from the world, that's carnal,

meaning that's worldly thinking we should be separate from the world.

God wants to make sure that we.

Know the difference between his children and Satan's children, because

he said that there is his children and their Satan's children.

God himself says that that's not me, that's that's in

the word. So we need to make sure that we

get in alignment with God, say soul on what his

children should look like. So this is the nature Hallelujah

of God. But we want to get to the power

of his word. Amen, because that his word is sharp,

he said. God's word is sharper than a two edges

of sword. It's sharpened on both sides. But figuratively it

refers to something with both positive and negative consequences, something

that cuts both ways, harming both intended targets and potentially

the user or cause. The word of God is more

potent than any physical weapon because it's able to expose

your deepest.

And most internal parts without grave injury or physical death.

It's not much can do that, but the word of

God can.

It can expose your inner parts, your most innerparts, without

killing you, not physically but spiritually. And a lot of

us got some spiritual things that possibly need to be

put to death that ain't right with God. Amen says,

it's never never wounds randomly, and it cuts with a purpose.

Paul in Ephesians sixteen seventeen calls it the sword of

the spirit as one of our weapons in a spiritual warfare.

The word of God is what we war with. It

is our power to win a spiritual warfare. Tewod Corinthians

ten and four says, for the weapons of our warfare

are not cardinal, but they're mighty unto God for the

pulling down the strongholds.

So we need the word of God as a way

to fight with.

At the word of God of a way to fight,

then we will be fighting like.

The world fight.

And God ain't called us to fight with these fists.

God has called us again to fight with the word

of God. Remember, Jesus just kept telling Satan, it is written,

and that's all he said.

Satan was the it is written.

And so many of us are still fighting Satan by

I don't even know what, because we're still fighting Satan,

and Satan's still messing with us, and we're still giving

him the word.

Maybe we're giving him the wrong word.

Maybe we are coming at him with I'm sick of you,

because he's saying you what, instead of telling him he's

a defeated folk, get up under my feet, I'm tired,

leave me alone.

And he saying, you say you what, And so he.

Keep coming back, and it's the same situation, and you

keep telling him the same thing, and he's saying, but

she say what, So he keeps sending them over there

when we need to tell him that God said I

was more than a conqueror, that I'm the head and

I'm not to tell that you get behind me. Yeah,

the Lord rebukes you, Satan. You know you are lieing

and the Word is the truth. Whatever I mean. If

we study telling him, well, my baby is my baby,

so don't touch.

Her, I mean, he don't understand that.

And he don't because you you talking to him in

the language that he don't understand. We have to we

have to remember that Satan no the word. That was

the only reason why he could be defeated with And

remember he was taking the word and he was manipulating it. Yeah,

Satan don't have his own Satan takes the word of

God and he imitates.

So if he's the.

Imitator of the word of God and you're giving him

something that you God, he don't imitate you, so he

don't know what you're talking about.

But if you give him.

The word of God because he imitates God, then yeah,

he understand that. So he know that he can't get

over on God, but if he can get over on you,

so that helps him to know whether it's you or

whether it's God. So we need to remember that we're

not fighting somebody on our level. We fight somebody just

on God's level, and he understands where our level is

once we start talking to him. And if we're talking

to him and we're talking to him in our own language.

I got her. Yeah, I'm not worried about her. She

don't even know the word, she says, she hears. So

another reason for us to get into the word. While

the Word is cleaning us up, then we can also

get us.

Some scripture to fight with. They man. The word is

also Pierson.

The word of God pierces the heart of men, which

brings forth conviction. Acts two and thirty seven says, now

when they heard this, they were pricked in their hearts.

The word of God brings forth conviction if it's not

convicting you on something that you did. Because when I

was writing this one day, and the Lord reminded me

of how when I first got saved, and people I

was saying, ooh, that that convicts me. I can't listen

to that no more. That convict me? And they'd be like,

will they convict you? It don't convict me? And I say, well,

I can't. I can't do this no more, y'all because

that convict me. Man, they convict you, but it don't

convict me. And so he reminded me that everybody don't

get convicted because a lot of people just don't take convictions,

not that they don't get convicted.

We might not be convicted about every little thing that's

the same, but sin is sin.

So if it's a sin and you ain't getting convicted,

that's that's just because you're not getting convicted or you're

not heeding to the conviction. Put it that way, because

some people won't. And that's what starts to hearten your heart.

And that's what the Lord.

Showed me because there's some people that he's convicted about

sining and they just want heed to the conviction. And

so the more that your God convicts you about a

sin and you don't heed to that conviction, you get

your heart gets heartened towards him because you're not listening.

So one of the other things he took me back

to was when I was first saved, because I was

newly saved, I wasn't raised up in the church yet.

Most of y'all know my test money. And so I

had a young lady that used to always bring me scriptures,

and I thank God for now. I didn't then because

I just thought she was always beating up on me,

and so was God, which again helped me to understand

what this sword does. Because it hurts, it don't feel good,

but God chastings those whom he loves. So she would

bring me scriptures. First, lady, love more than I'm telling you.

Man.

I thought this her and God had it after me,

and I would ask God all the time, why you

keep beating me up?

Every scripture she gave me was bad.

I mean he was gonna curse me and he was

gonna do stuff to me. This was like old Testament,

Go get them people scriptures.

And I was like, good this, Jesus, I mean, like

what I do.

And then you're a foreigner, cater, you're an adulterys and

you did you nasty up and I was like goodness.

But I didn't know what she was talking about. I

didn't know church. So but what it did was push

me to read the word and look up stuff.

Because what's a fornicato? Well looked up fornicato. It was me.

I said, oh, Lord, I'm fornicating. Yeah, I was a fornicator.

Not only was our fornicado, y'all, I was an adulteress.

I didn't know what that meant. I was.

I was married and me and Alden had got back together,

and hey, I did not know.

This and I was doing all this stuff.

But let me help you out if it's any fornicatos

adulteress over the earl waves or sitting here, I'm just

telling you.

As soon as the Lord.

Bout this to my attention, soon as he did, I

felt a conviction. My heart didn't feel right no more.

And so I went to him and I said, boy,

we can't do this no more. I did, no, sure,

sure cannot because I don't feel right and this ain't right.

And yet man, and tried it.

After I had found out then it wasn't right, and

heart was hurt. Heart was heavy, and I man, I say,

you got to go stay with your sister or something

got to give. And because of who God is, that's

how I know the word will hurt if you living

right for God and you want to do right for God.

Yeah, yeah, that conviction gonna come.

It's gonna hurt, but God gonna help you to get right,

because I didn't know nothing about no divorces, none of that.

And I'm telling you God worked that thing out. I

did my own divorce, didn't need a lawyer. I was

telling somebody the other day that was my testimony. Thrifty

nickel newspaper. I they don't even think they made thrifty

nickels anymore, But I wouldn't. Got a thrifty nickel newspaper

from United Grocery Store.

I'll never forget it.

In the thrifty nickel newspaper, there was an ad that

said you could do your own self divorce. Got that

at that newspaper. Did my own self divorce. When printed

out the paperwork, went to the courthouse, got what I

need to do. I don't even know how long it took,

but it did not take long. I ain't even have

the money for the divorce. That's fine, because God was

all up in this thing. My ex husband was looking

for a divorce too. The man drove from Fort Work,

came down here, paid for the divorce. Thirty days later

we was divorced. I think thirty days later we were

standing right here and this man was marrying us. Don't

you tell me what God won't do when you trying

to do it right. See that's what I'm saying. But

that's this word is powerful because all this come through

the reading of the word.

One woman read it, told me about it. I went

back and read it, and conviction came. I was able

to be transformed, renewed in my mind. And now don't

walking and write standing with God. See, people that.

Don't change, they don't change because they don't want to change.

See I said that earlier. Some people just have an excuse.

They want to stay in sin. But God don't want

us to stay in sin. That's why he gave us

a whole book, a living word. See, we don't have

much time. We ain't never had much time, even though

we don't know when that time is. I always say

this time is not based off of Jesus. Do you

know how many people have passed and Jesus still ain't came.

It has nothing to do about when Jesus is coming,

when you going.

Because if we keep waiting on Jesus.

To come, some of us not even gonna be here

when we get here. We can't let that be our excuse.

We need to get it right. While the time is right.

So we have to understand that this word is so

powerful that God is using the word right now to

change us.

Right now.

You might not have tomorrow, but you got right now.

So because this word is piercing, it appears through everything

that the enemy is trying to use or you trying

to use to.

Keep God from getting through it.

The Holy Spirit uses the word to perience the heart,

producing repentance. When I didn't know, God knew, and God

used the word to get to me. So in that

it's almost like the word does a surgical operation.

When he gave me that, I thought of the surgeon.

I end up having five surgeons within a four year span,

and I think the worst out of all of them surgeons.

I used to think was the.

Anesthesia, but after doing this study, I think the worst

was the cut. Even though you can't feel the cut

when you come out of the surgeon.

If anybody has.

Ever had a surgery, when you come out of the

surgery and you look at that cut, and how precise

that surgeon is with that cut, can you see the

precision of God? If that surgeon has been trained to

do such a precise cut, Just think of our Father

when he cuts thank God Man.

He's surgical. Two.

Hey, God, the word and that word is just cutting,

and it's doing the right word to cut right how

to cut, knowing what to cut, what not to cut,

making sure he gets exactly what he needs, and being

able to go around what he don't need so that

he don't hurt anything.

Because if you ever had a surgery and.

They like missed the spot and got the wrong thing.

I done.

Heard some people say, well, they should have went over here,

but no they didn't.

They went over there. But it says where the word

goes deeper.

That's the surgical operation, to not only deal with the what,

but the why. The word exposes the enner, the soul,

and the spirit. Like a skilled surgeon. The word of

God doesn't just treat the symptoms. God gets to the

root of things. The surgical procedure brings forth transformation, which

means the cut in the way of sinful habits and thoughts.

And because no surgery is without pain, Hebrews twelve and

eleven says, now no chastening for the present seemeth to

be joyous, but grievous. Nevertheless, afterword it yielded the peaceable

fruit of righteousness. Unto them which are exercised. Thereby, it's

gonna hurt for a little while, but just know it's

working for your good. Yeah, I'm telling you it hurt

for a little while, and that's how you know that

you don't need it. That's how you know that you

don't need it, because no.

Pain, no gain.

I've never gained anything without a little pain. That's even

an exercise. You don't gain muscle without some pain. You

got to put in some work to get that. And

when you start putting in that work, it hurts. That's

how you can normally tell when the muscle is starting

to get tight, because you will start getting that pain.

That's why i ain't did it in a while, But

I'm just being honest with you. You'll start feeling that it's tension,

and it's like that with us in our lives. But

you gotta keep at it. And it's the same way

with partaking in the word. We gotta keep at it.

The word can't.

Never exposed to us who we really are.

If I only pick it up once a month, I'm

gonna take that back, because that's even if you only

pick it up once a week, And for some of us,

if you only pick it up once a day. If

we have enough time to pick up the word once

or twice a day and be consistent in that and

not just pick it up and read it. One of

the things that I'm learning to do is the when

I get into the word, say here I am, Lord

exposed me to me. That's been my prayer, and I

believe that's why the Lord gave me this message. Because

the more that I pray that, the more that I

find Him exposing me to me. I done got to

the point where I'm not praying to God about other

people anymore. I'm praying to God about me, because if

I'm not right, I can't help nobody else get right.

And what I look like praying and asking God to

do something fix somebody else? And I'm broke. So the

first thing I do now when I do my prayer time,

it's hearing my Lord. I'm like David, here a mine

expose me to me, because I believe that there's some

stuff in me that sometimes I don't see why because

I'm not perfect. I'm not perfect, and I can falter

at any time, don't I done. Just been sitting y'all,

and then had some thoughts, and I'll be.

Like, whoa, Yike's what happen? Damn?

Where did that come from? And I'm just saying that

all honesty. I can always tell on me. First, I

don't know where that came from. That was not even

my thought. Lord Jesus, get that out of my head.

So I have to watch me. I have to take

care of me, filter my mind, filter my body.

Lord, anything in me does.

Not like you, Lord, uproot that thing right now, in

the name of Jesus.

You cut it out.

And so I'm saying, that's what his word does.

So when I get into the word, Lord, use your

word to expose me.

Is there any ill thoughts, any ill feelings, anything in

me does not like you.

Man, expose that thing to me.

And so that's what the Lord was showing me when

he was talking about the surgical procedure, because that's what

he does. And in surgery he can expose everything because

in surgery he can cut you open.

The word can cut you open, expose.

And go in there and surgically remove anything that needs

to be taken out. Because he said, sometimes there can

be some hidden things in us, some things that we

don't even see. That's why it's good to pray that prayer.

Verse thirteen says, neither is there any creature that is

not manifest in his sight, But all things are naked

and open into the eyes of.

Him with whom we have to do. He can see it.

It might be something to know.

You can't say here, I am, Lord, here, I am.

I don't think we think about stuff like that, but

he know. So we need to start saying, Lord, here,

I am. Search me if you ain't scared to say that,

because I think that takes something to be able to

say Lord, here, I am anything in me? Yeah, because

that's the only way that we're gonna find out, because

there's some hidden and He wants us to know that.

And some of that.

Stuff won't ever come out except that we give God

permission to take it out, because again, we serve a

God that does not force himself upon us.

It's some stuff that you've gotten.

You got it because you want to keep it, and

He not gonna just forcefully take that thing from you.

He probably been dealing with you again and bought for

some convictions and you still not listening, so you still

got that thing. But we're praying for you on today

that you'll have a heart in mind to take heed

to this word. The Word of God does not just

look at what we do again, it looks at why

we do what we do. Psalms thirty nine, twenty three

and twenty four says, search me, Oh God, that's me.

Search me, o God, and know my heart.

Try me and know my thoughts, and see if there

be any wicked way in me, and lead me in

the way of everlasting. Many of times there are things

in us that again even we don't know of we

have closed our eyes to or our ears.

If the spirit has been trying to deal with us again,

it's time.

For us to say, here I am Lord, to commit

ourselves unto God, to say, Lord, have done own weigh

in us. The exposures as mentioned earlier will lead us

to a place of repentance, but not only a place

of repentance, a place of renewal in our thoughts and

in our hearts. Our response for this should be that

we should want to read more with an expectation when

we read the Word of God.

It's not again just.

To especially if you would memorizing scripture. If you memorize

some scripture, that's good. Yeah, If you don't again the

Holy Spirit to bring it back to you, and it's

needed a man. But we should have an expectation that

when we read, expect for our lives to be changed.

First off, because that's what it's for.

Expect for God to change our lives through the partaking

of His word.

Expect to be transformed again.

The Bible says that if we've all been called to

be transformed, transformed and renew within our minds, how can

we be changed from who we used to be to

who God has called us to be without knowing the

word of God. We don't even know know who we're

supposed to be if we don't know the word of God.

I mean, the butterfly didn't know that it was I

mean the caterpillar didn't know it was supposed to be

a butterfly until it turned it into a butterfly. So

we don't know until we get in here, and that

is so important. I don't know why church people think

that they're not supposed to read to God, that everything

they get they're supposed to get from the pastor of

a Sunday school teacher or whoever has the word, because

you can't take them home with you, and you only

see them once a week, twice a week if you

go to Bible study. And so then you have Christians

walking around here who don't know anything. And like when

we're saying on Wednesday, they're feeding off of social media.

And half the people on social media, man.

They're they're googling, they're chat yeah, chat GPT.

I was looking at a couple the other day, and

and they have whatever you want to call it. And

they're on the telling people that you don't sin once

you get saved, that you you don't sin, and they're

arguing with people who are saying, well I do sin, Well,

you don't have to. But that's the whole reason why

we have an advocate in heaven. It's the whole reason

why God gives us the opportunity to ask for forgiveness.

So if we were gonna never send no more, but

they arguing with them. So hey, but I'm just saying,

we got all of these people walking around in confusion

because they won't pick up the word and get and

be informed by them own selves. Will probably read a

love story before they'll read the Bible, which makes no sense,

especially if you're gonna call yourself a Christian, but have

an expectation when we read the Bible and expect the

Bible to convict you.

Unless you're perfect, I get convicted.

I'm just saying, because I'll be reading this sometimes I'll be.

Like, oh, yeah.

I don't close it, but I'd be like whooah. I mean,

it helps us to know that the Word of God

is for us, it's living. And again we talk about

how reading some of the scriptures in the Old Testament.

We're looking at the Old Testament right now, seeing a

lot of the things that was in the Old Testament

written hawever many years ago. Goodness, it's been manifested right

before our eyes in the world that we're living in

right now.

So we know that.

This word is a living word. I mean when people

say that I don't believe in the Bible, well, you

keep believing what you want to believe. But I see

some of the stuff that was written over two thousand

years ago, way over two thousand years ago, this happening

right now today. Yeah, So you keep believing what you

want to believe. So when I get in here, I

got an expectation. And then the other thing is engaged

with the word. We're taught that in Bible study. When

I first joined the church, ask questions, what, why?

Why? When? How? So? You said? What God? You meant

to say? What? Yeah, engage with what you're reading, ask

those questions, and then submit submit to the word of God.

Don't resist the word when it exposes you of your

sin and your wrongdoing. Man, Okay, Lord, I see why

I was wrong. That's why I said when I heard

that I was a fornicator, Okay, hey, I got to.

Make this right. I just didn't know what fornicating was.

I wasn't shamed, man, I'm hey, I got to get

this right. Man.

And again, it did not feel right. Sining.

You should not feel good if you see that you're sinning.

Man, I don't. I don't know about anybody else. But

it hurt me.

And the reason that I I believe it hurt me

is because what I realized is that I was hurting

God for me. It hurt me to know that I

was hurting him.

There was a girl.

I have a real deep sensitivity to hurting God.

I had the spirit convict me a.

While back about what was that having some bitterness and

and I think I cried because I didn't I didn't

want to have bitterness in my heart.

My whole thing was I was dealing.

With some stuff and like I said, I can always

tell on me. I was really struggling in the area

and I was like, well, hey, Lord, kind of like

sister Tamika there. I mean, I think we be going

through stuff and we kind of keep it to ourselves.

But I was still the place, was like, okay, God,

I'm ready to go.

I was gonna take my own self out, but I

know I'm with you, so you can take me.

Yeah. And then the Lord told me.

Now, cause if I take you right now now, you're

not going with me. And I was like why And

he allowed me to see that I had some bitterness

in my heart and I'm just that's how our Father

works with us. And so I needed to get that

thing right. And when the Lord showed me that I

had some bitterness, Hey, what I need to do to

work that thing out? And so anytime there's some sin,

because that's not that's sin.

God ain't called us up to walk in bitterness. Yo.

If you need to forgive somebody, you need to forget

that person. Don't let Satan tell you, hey that it's

okay to be mad and angry for a long time.

The devil is a lie.

That's that scripture again, all those words is in here.

Sometimes we just get in our flesh, won't let some

stuff go cause cause we want to do woe is me,

or whatever the case may be. So we need to

make sure that we're always in the right standing with God.

That's why I say, Lord exposed me to me on today.

So helping somebody out, make sure we're out daily, go

before the Lord daily.

Lord, I repent on today. Lord, forgive me on today.

God, if it's something that I need to get right,

because that's why I say. It ain't even always about

when Jesus is coming, but I want to make sure

it ain't time for me to go and I'm going

and I'm in a state that's not right with you.

So make sure that once we see something, we submit

ourselves unto God.

God, I want to make sure I'm in right standing

with You.

And then as we're in the word, obey and apply

so that we can be transformed. If I'm reading something

and I'm not in obedience to that part of the word, no, no, no, no,

let me get that right and let me apply that

to God. Transfer happens when we can be convicted about

a thing and then bring it into action by changing it.

I'm not right in this area, so I feel a conviction. God,

forgive me. Let's make this right. I need to get

this right with you, God. I need to align myself

with your will and your way so that I can

get some help in this area. And then closing, let

us be committed to letting the Bible vibrantly live through

us daily, meaning that we must be partakers of God's

word daily that it may have its perfect work within

us and.

Through over us.

God's word doesn't work within us, we miss out on

what God wants to do when we don't partake in

his word.

God wants to change us. He wants to transform us.

He wants to renew us in our mind, that old

thinking thinking that we be doing.

God want that out of us, that thinking like the world,

that living like the world, that doing.

Things like the world. Y'all, that's all cardinal. God ain't

called us to be cardinal. There is no way.

The Bible says that the cornal mind is that enmity

with God. It's at war with God. So if I'm

at war with God.

No no, No, that means there's no peace between me

and him.

I want to be at peace with the Father.

I'm just saying, man, I just said, because who can

find rest in somebody that they don't trust? And I

want God to I don't only want to trust God, y'all,

I want God to trust me. I think meant that

was a conversation me and you used to have if

he was your if he'd seen you as a friend,

and I would say, he see me as a friend

because we're friends.

Men, God, I don't know about everybody else. Yeah, yeah,

that yeah.

And I want to keep it that way. So I

don't want to have carnal thoughts.

I don't want to walk with carnal thoughts. I don't

want to have carnal ways.

And so I used to but here all the time

when I first got saved, and now I hear it

all the time.

So I guess it ain't even just from years ago.

Some other people have picked it up and.

They running with it that you're so spiritual, you're no

earthly good.

That that that makes no sense, makes no sense.

You cannot be so spiritual that you cannot be any

earthly good.

God has called.

Us to be spiritual. We are spiritual beings. That's why

you're such a peculiar person. We are not supposed to

be like the world. When we can get that out

of our mindsets, God has not called us to be

like the world. How can you continue to witness to

somebody and you just like them, and you have the

same thoughts as that they they have, You have the

same ways that that what are we witnessing to them about.

You can't witness to the world to the dark about

light if you're not the light.

Light and darkness is different.

If the dark witnesses to the dark, that's not a

witness that's a conversation.

So that's why we don't witness to each other.

What we do is fellowship the Bible cause it fellowship

because of a communion. We witness to dark because the

light should illuminate the darkness. But dark don't witness to dark,

and light don't witness to light.

There's a because there's a difference.

So spiritual don't witness to spiritual. Spiritual witness to carnal.

But if you have a carnal mindset and you're bringing

colnel to colonel, you're not witnessing because you're giving them

the same thing that they already have. They need to

know something different. If my friend, when she was coming

to me, if she would have come to me with

worldly things, I more than likely would have never accepted

what she gave me. And the thing about my friend

was I got saved first, and she was Jehovah's witness.

She got saved through me because she recognized the difference.

We used to be drinking buddies.

And when I got saved, she said, he did such

a thing with you.

I want what you got.

So we literally at work, went into the bathroom and

again did the senter's prayer what I knew to do

as a center's prayer, and he got saved automatically.

She started changing.

So when she started changing and stopped doing the Jehovah

witness thing.

She already had some word in her because she was

Jehovah witness. I've never met a Jehovah witness that did

not have word. So she started preaching to me. Because

I'm new to the word. I didn't get saved with

no word, y'all. I just got saved. And I always

get his testimony.

Because I loved my brother in law and my sister

in law, and I remember when I first got saved.

They was trying to tell me how to read my Bible. Y'all.

I didn't know nothing about nothing. And Vivi girl used

to teach Sunday school and Chill.

Gave me his prison ministry and he did and he

used to tell me, well, my nickname was we We

for y'all to didn't know, he said.

We we read the Book of Proverbs.

You can read a chapter of day because he got

thirty one chapters in it, and read you a chapter

every day, and that'll help you with the Book of Proverbs.

Something they helped me. I tell you, I didn't know

nothing by nothing. And Lin would tell me read some

scriptures because I talked Sunday school. And then he'll come Brenda,

and she was the one that was doing all the preaching.

That was her name, and she would give me all

these scriptures.

But she was helping me. But they wasn't giving me

what the world said.

Now, my sister in law and my brother in law

wasn't professing to be saved, but Brenda was. But I

was still receiving for all of them because they was

giving me word. Now you talking to a bunch of

drunks that used to go sit under the tree. And

while we was under the tree, y'all, we used to

tell Bible study. I don't know if you nothing.

She's shaking our head, so I know she remember. I

was just being safe.

I don't know if she remember, but we used to

we used to w uh and now he I can't

even uh. Don Radley would be over there cooking now,

and he saved. So I'm just saying, look how the

Lord is, cause Don Ridley used to be over there barbecuing,

and we be setting under this tree, and we'd all

be drunk as a skunk, and but we'd be setting

under that tree, and it was a whole Bible study

under that tree. And I don't know that any of

us knew much of what we were talking about when

we were drunking. Jesus was the topic of the conversation. And again,

I can tell you this now, the majority of us

are saved. We're in church now, So don't tell me

what the Word of God won't do sharpen than any

two edge of sword cut even to the son of

the sinners. So not just for the the saints setting

in the church, house. Keep reading this Bible if you

want to setting under the tree drunk. And I'm telling

telling you, but we would sit there and read this

Bible and I received everything from everybody that gave me

something because I didn't know.

And so I see where I am today. And I

say that because.

Again I realized that with carnality, we wasn't sitting there

and we wasn't playing. We were serious in what we

were saying, especially the ones that new She talked Sunday School.

Chip did some prison ministry. I'm guessing you know how

when people go to prison and.

They do they study their word. When we first got saved,

was the Bible study teacher at the house. I'm just

being honest. We didn't go to church for a year

and a half. Our first year of church was setting

at our kitchen table, and we made to Niko and

Pat set at the kitchen table with us, and we

would go around the table and we all did picked

the Bible verse, pick Bible verse, somebody gonna eat and

we're gonna all explain it when we come back the

next time. So I'm just telling you what the Word

of God did, and even though we wasn't we might

not always got it right. We picked them out, so

but we picked them out. But but again I'm saying

that to say this, because the cornal mind wouldn't even

pull out a Bible. The cornal mine gonna sit there

and tell you what they think and what they believe.

I think this is what the words say. I think

this is what it means. You know them people that

that ain't even picked up one yet, And I think

this is what God is doing. Now, we took the

we had, we had the Bible, and that's why I said,

this is the living word.

This word is power.

For what comes out of here is so powerful that

it saves drunken sinners. Then it'll soap up somebody. Then

it'll take the drug man and stop him from dealing drugs.

I believe that.

Then it'll bring the prostitute off the ConA hallelujah.

So what I'm saying is when we.

Get the realization of how powerful this word is, witness

witnessing becomes easy because I'm not out there telling people

what I think.

I'm telling people what that said the Lord.

Even if it's just that God said he loves you,

that God said he called you out of his darkness

into his marveulous light. That Jesus died for you. He

didn't just die for me, he died for us.

All. Yeah, it don't. It don't a whole lot.

Some people think you got to preach a whole sermon.

So you ain't got to preach a whole sermon.

Yeah.

All you just gotta do is give them a couple

of words, living words out of here, and it'll change

somebody's whole life.

And so that's why I'm.

Saying that, because we don't have to give them what

we think they need. We have to give them what

God says. And God just want them to have the

Word because it's the word that changes them. It's the

word that illuminates and brings somebody out of darkness into

his marvelous life.

So as we continue to allow the Word.

To get into us, then what we do is allow

the Word to come out of us, and then we

give that to somebody else. Stop giving people what we think,

stop giving people how we feel, Just give people Jesus.

Just give people the Word. Amen.

And so again, as our close today, it says, let

us be sure to allow the Word of God to

dwell richly in our hearts. And as it dwells richly

in our hearts, then we allow it to illuminate through

our lives.

Amen. Amen,