Deuteronomy - BiBle Study

For allowing me to God to share.

We ask God even tonight that your spirit will do

all among us, that you'll speak through us to us,

speak for us God, so other people that God may

understand in disseminating your word.

Your word is truth. You declared it, and we thank

you for it in Jesus' name. Amen.

If you have to study God, I'm not sure how

many of us have it. We are on page nine.

We're on page nine. And if you don't have to

study God, that's still fine. We're on chapter two. Verse

number ten is where I put my intentions. But I

want to give you a backdrop because I am now.

It is so funny because you tend to understand better

why God has.

You do some things.

I believe that everything we do for God and with

God is for purpose, but you start to understand why.

Because when the Lord woke me up about somewhere between

three and would not allow me to go back to

sleep at five, the Lord actually showed me our church,

our ministry, and where we are now and why it

is that the enemy seeks to distract us, to disturb us,

to add things in our community of church. And it

has a lot to do with spiritual things. I question

for years why we have spent so much time on

studying spiritual warfare. And now that things have changed, I

understand that there will always be a season where we

are not.

Just wrestling against flesh and blood.

We're wrestling against spirits that seek to dishevel us, that

seek to frustrate us. And such is the case with Moses,

because in chapter two we're going to verse eleven, he's

having the same frustrations that we had. That we have

because the more you do for God, the more we

should expect the enemy to show us head. Again, I

remind you, Moses is here two generations of people have

already died off. From these two generations of people who

have died off, Moses is trying to rescue them and

allow them to enter into the Promise. So he's at

a struggle. Remember, we look at Moses as the pastor.

We looked at the children of Israel, or the children

of Egypt, however you want to refer to them right now,

because they have not gone into the Promised Man, we

look at them as the congregation.

He has gone from six million down to two million, and.

Then two and their children are going to enter into

the promised Land.

So two generations of people are going to.

Have to die off, and that to me should make

all of us nervous because as many people as you

have around them, not all possessed the promises of God.

Because unless there is a change, it's not gonna happen.

Okay.

So again, if you look at this, if you can

see the screen, I have it up on the screen.

The people were stubborn, they were hear hearted, and they

were rebellious. And as they.

Were stubborn, as they were hear hearted, as they were rebellious,

God began to deal with them.

Your phone is making a eco. Your phone is making

this echo.

I muted it.

Bishop, Okay, thank you.

So with that, the people were stubborn, they were hard hearted,

they was rebellious.

So the only way to deal with stubbornness.

The only way to deal with rebellious people, the only

way to deal with frustration or anything like that, is

spiritual warfare. So I would say to you that one

of the things I believe that the Lord wants us

to get from this is we will always have to

deal with spiritual warfare. I just I promise you just

got the phone been on the phone the whole day,

but I had a assignment from the Lord to causing

to encourage them, and it was about spiritual warfare.

This is the year.

If you're writing notes anywhere, in your notes, whether on

your note guides, whether on your notes, you need to.

Write this is the church age, This is the church's year.

This is the year you're going to see the church

come back to its prominence, and you're going to see

for most people, church or the spiritual part of church

will become intensified and necessary. Okay, So the only way

to deal with anything is not to get in our flesh.

The only way to deal with any kind of confusions

not to deal with our flesh. The only way to

deal with anybody right now who is rebellious, who is stubborn?

And I will say this on the onset, It is

possible to be rebellious and you don't know it. It

is possible to be stubborn, and you don't think you're

being stubborn. You just think you're not going.

With the flow.

So I don't want us just to talk about people

who are intentionally being rebellious.

But sometimes Satan can get inside of you and make

you rebellious.

And you don't even realize it because you do that

in the name of normalcy or in the name of

something else that's not God. Okay, and I'll explain that later,

or if somebody wants greater understanding, we'll get that. So

we're going to need and you need to write this

in your notes, to always be engaged in spiritual warfare.

You're going to have too fast, not just on a

fast church call. You're going to have to pray, not

just when church calls for prayer. It would be good

for us to get together, because the more of us

will get together, it strengthens the whole. But it's going

to be necessary and this next year to pray, to

fast not only when the church calls the fast, but

your own fast.

It's going to be important to be.

Self disciplined because the enemy is unleashing a spirit of rage.

The stuff we see on the news, the stuff we see.

Around us, how they're going about deporting people on army planes,

and it's causing them triple of what it would coust

them to do it the right way. But they're doing it,

Doctor Field, and filming it and putting it on TV

and putting it on Facebook and putting it on Instagram

so people can see that people are being deported. They're

doing it with no heart, they're doing it with no interest,

they're doing it reality TV made for TV that they're

doing that. But that same spirit of rage has been

loose in the earth and we're having to contend with

it even at church. Okay, So so say that is

unleashing an unholy a gentleman, and he's already released it.

But it's this is a call for spiritual people to arise.

This is a call for you to be spiritual. This

is a call for you to be strengthened by God.

And when I say spiritual, that ain't mean being no

super saint. That ain't mean being more than you can be.

That means you be at your greatest res spiritual place.

That means you be at your greatest potential. That means

you be at your greatest uh uh spiritual that you

can be. You may not be able to do what

others are doing, but it does mean that you need

to have the ability to be spiritual. Okay, So what

we're dealing with in chapter two is which is the

second part of rebellion, witch craft and unrepentance, we're dealing

with rebellion, witch craft, and people who are unrepentant.

The problem with that is this, all three of.

Those spirits are contagious, and if you're not careful, you

will have to deal with all of the repercussions that

come from that spirit being loosed in your house, that

spirit being loosed over your family, that spirit being.

Loosed in the church.

Okay, So I don't want anybody think by any means

it's going to be easy. So let's pick up chapter two,

verse nin eleven. We were talking about the superhumans the Anarkites,

because there are two groups in the Bible, and that

long story.

Those of you who have been with me any such time,

we always get.

Caught up on anakins because a lot of people believe

that the angels came down, they had sex with humans,

and they produced a superior race that was superhumans that

were bigger than everybody else, that had strength. And if

you're not careful, as we're talking about being spiritual, we

don't want to talk about being spirit TechEd because there

is a difference because spirited people. When I walked into

Ed McCay's the New Ed McCay's, I couldn't stand it

because the whole front part is talbot cars, the whole

front part is crystal balls and crystals and horoscope stuff

and astrology based because the whole world is turning to

spiritual stuff.

Now, they're turning to.

Grabbing a hole of stuff that has more to do

with your emotions than it does with your spirit.

So Versus two and eleven, which.

Also were counting giants as the anakins, but the Mobites

called them immons. What God is doing in this particular

chapter is showing them and reminding them of how many

people they have already conquered. And we see this through

the Bible. We are more than conquerors. We see this

in the Bible. Isaiah saw him high and lifted up,

and his train filled the temple. His train is a

signet that he has won many battles, and he has

made us more than conquerors. So we're already that's where

we are, but he's reminding them Verse twelve. The Harms

also dwelt in Seer before time, but the children of

Esau succeeded them, and they had destroyed them before them

and dwell in the state. He said, actually just telling

him there were. These were people who dwelled in caves.

So he showing that while they're going through the wilderness,

they're having to deal with their enemies. Writing your notes,

part of the wilderness process is dealing with our enemies.

God gives a strategy. Notice what he says. Some he says,

occupy here for a while. Some he says, don't even

go near them. Some of them says, buy food from them.

Some he says, go past them, don't even stop. So

he's giving them instructions. And part of our relationship with

God deals with the instructions we get from the leader,

the pastor, and from God. I'm gonna make I'm gonna

some of this. Some I'm gonna say tonight may seem controversial,

so so hold it, staying there with me. I promise

you it'll make sense. Verse thirteen says, now rise up,

and I will get you over the brook ZERI and

over the brook. This was the river of the wilderness,

and we see that in Isaiah fifteen and seven, and

the space in which we came from Cadesperana, which is

the threshing floor of the threshold of the promised land,

until we will come over the brook. Zarah was thirty

and eight years until all the generations of men, So

this is thirty eight years in So they are still

two years from possessing the promise.

For indeed, the head of the Lord was against them

to destroy them.

So he's showing us how they accomplished among the hosts

until they were consumed. So it came to pass two

and sixteen when all the men of war were consumed

and dead from among the people, that the Large spake

unto me, saying, this is Moses talking thy Lot to

pass over through air ar the coasts of Moab this day.

So the Lord has given them instructions, but he's using

Moses to give them the instructions. And when our coming

is not over against the children of Amman, distress them not,

don't bother them, don't meddle with them, don't take time

with don't have conversations with them. For I will not

give you the land of the children of Amon or

any possession, because I have given it to the children

of Lot. So God has a purpose place for every group.

Let's skip down to the verse two. One are people great?

Now we're talking about the giants again. The Ammonites called

them the zam munims, zam munis, and men, excuse me,

a people great and many tall like or ask the Anakins.

But the Lord distroyed them before them, and they succeeded

them and dwelt in the stand. So a lot of times,

when God is trying to take you into your promise,

it is in the possession of somebody else. And although

it is in the possession of somebody else, it does

not mean it's not yours. You can't be moved by

what you see, because a lot of times your enemy

will possess hold onto what belongs to you. You gotta

have faithful enough and hear the instructions being given by

the Man of God before you go up. Okay, let's

let's let's let's let's let's jump on down to uh

and look at our notes, because I want to put

all of this into perspective on chapters one in chapter two,

So what Moses is dealing with.

Is rebellion witch craft.

Witch Craft and rebellion are the same thing, but witchcraft

deals with people who want their way. They don't like authority,

they don't like leadership, they want to have their own way,

and they don't want to listen to anybody they are unrepentant,

and that these three spirits are contagious.

A little rebe is gonna lead to great rebellion.

A little witchcraft is gonna lead to a lot of

witchcraft or a lot of control, unrepentance.

It's gonna lead to people not having respect, not being sorry.

So Daniel eleven thirty two says, and we know the scripture,

it says the people who.

Know their God.

If you have made copies of the notes, you need

to circle no, because I want you to understand that

when the Bible talks about no, it says the people

who know their God.

When you talk about no.

He's using the word that is Greek called ganosco.

It is the same word.

Those of you that are well versed in the Bible,

we hear ganoskics. A gnostic is a person who feels

like they know it all.

These are groups that will.

Rise up at the enner Malachi when we have the

four hundred years of silence. These groups started to rise

up and they name theirself Ganotskis. That comes from the

Greek word gnosco. But Daniel says, the people who know

that no, right there does not mean acquainted with It

means the people who have relationship, the people who have

established a prayer life, the people who have established a

fast life, the people who spend time with God, the

people who spend time in this world. The people who

have relationship with God shall do great exploits and one

translation say great feats. The people who know Gnosco, the

people who have a proper relationship with God are going

to do great things. This is the year and Psalmson says,

and God shall arise and bless Zion because the second

time to favor her has come. We are in the

set time of God. We're in the time of favor

for God's people. But that also means does not mean

that heathen. It's not gonna rage all Hell is not

gonna try to break loose. But we have to be

above that and our spiritual walk with God. Philippius three

and ten says, I want to know Christ. We know

this is Paul say, I gotta know Christ in the

power of his resurrection. And again know here means I

gotta have a real relationship with him.

I just don't want to know about him. I just

don't want to know.

What my grandmother said, well, my mama said, well, my

daddy said, well, my aunt said, I have to have

a real relationship.

That's what Moses is saying in chapter one and two.

This is the time for you guys to establish to

start establishing relationship with God. You're gonna have to pray,

You're going to have fast, You're gonna have to read

the Bible.

You're going to have to study it on your own.

You're going to have to have the encouragement of others

in your household to walk with God. So the first

Bulley point here is the knowledge of God on what

he will do and what he will not do, comes

through our times of testing and our trials, or you

can write right besides that in the wilderness. It is

in the wilderness that we get to know God. It

is you have to have trials. You have to have situations,

because it is through those that we get to know God.

We would know there are other dimensions, other sides of God.

We will never know until we are faced with a trial.

And then I know he's a way baker. Then I

know he's a door opener. Then I know he's a

burn embarrasser. Now I know he'll bring you out. Now

I know he'll meet your financial needs. Now I know

he'll be your comfort.

Okay.

So the wilderness gives us knowledge of what God will

do and what he won't do. So rebellion is the

same as the spirit of witchcraft. First Salmon, Chapter fifteen,

twenty three. That means actively defying, going against, actively being

in rebellion, actively coming against God's people, coming against authority,

coming against leaders, coming against the pastor actively defying the

authority of God's command.

It's just as serious as transgressing or transgressions, which is sin.

And it's just as serious as practicing witchcraft.

You might as well go ahead and be a witch.

If you feel like you can control people and stuff

like that, you might as well go ahead.

And be a witch. Okay.

Then in parentheses, and I use different types of parenthesis

for different things. With knowledge and this witch craft, discontrolling

this rebellion is with knowledge or willingly not being obedient,

that's still witch craft. You do it by mistake, it's

still witch craft. You do it on purpose, that's still

witch craft. If you don't listen, that's still witchcraft because

you are making a conscious and unconscious decision not to

obey God.

So it's that's rebellion, not doing what you're supposed to do.

It's the same ass. You can be rebellious willingly or

I'm just not gonna do it. You can make a

conscious decision or unconscious. Hopefully that makes sense. Okay, zach

Ry four and six. These are just words that live

by And this day time is not by might nor

by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord. But

my spirit, but by my spirit. It's not by might,

it's not by your strength. It's not by how much

a power you have. It's not by your human power.

But it's by my spirit, said the Lord. So the

spirit and our spirits have relationship with the Spirit of God.

So our spirit has to have relationship with the Spirit

of God. And if there is no fellowship, if there

is no communion, if there is no time spent, if

there is no prayer, if there is nothing, if those

things are not happening, then what happens is our spirit

is not maturing and growing.

This is a spiritual prayer. There are going to be battles.

For us to fight as a church that will only

be able to be fought in the spirit. Okay, there

are battles that we're going to deal with that are

only going to be successful if we fight in the spirit,

not physically, fight, not argue, not complain, not come against

But only the spiritual folks are going to survive.

So in the three stages of leadership that Mostes has

shown us.

The first one is he starts out leading before the people.

He's in front of them, before the people.

You will always have a problem when the leader has

a relationship and the people have none. But you start off,

you don't start off with the knowledge of God. You

start off with somebody telling you and teaching you. A pastor,

a leader, a spiritual partner teaching you about God. You

don't have a relationship yourself yet, you're just listening to

somebody else teach you, say to you, show you how

to have a relationship. So numbers twelve, eight through ten

shows us in the beginning, only Moses has a relationship

with God. In the beginning, only Moses has a relationship

with God, and his relationship is he's face to faith.

But the people become disturbed. Pastor, we're tired of hearing

you talk about God. Pastors, we're tired of you coming

back telling us what God says. But they weren't saying

we want a relationship ourself. They were just saying we

don't want to hear what you have to say. Stage

number two is Moses is not in front of the people.

Now he is with the people. And with the people,

the leader encourages you to develop a relationship with God.

So Moses now is saying, you, guys can have similar

to what I have. You can have a relationship with God.

So with the people means to develop a relationship with God.

So God desires a relationship with his people. And the

second bullet to that is the people had a problem

because God was communicating through the leader, but they were

not at a place to receive what he had to

say for themselves because he was waiting for them to

develop a relationship.

So no longer would they have to hear through their pastor.

But now I can deal with you like I deal

with Moses face to face.

Stage three, he.

Says, finally he's behind them, and a leader does not

lead from behind until his people have developed a relationship

with God.

Now the people people know God and now they're just

like Moses.

Every person needs a leader to teach them about God.

Until you're able to walk on your own Okay.

Second part of that, after you acknowledge to him, you

need a leader to wing you away from him or

herself and point you to God. And finally they will say,

now you're ready to go to God on your own.

Now your relationship is strong enough that you don't need

me anymore.

And we see this in several places in the Bible.

Samon didn't know God.

If you read First Samuel, Second Samuel, or first Chronicle,

Second Chronicle, it would tell you that his.

Mother prayed for a son. When she prayed for a son,

God gave her a son.

And the first thing she does is takes him and

gives him to Pastor Eli, who has two sons that

are running a monk.

Okay.

So Samony didn't know God for himself. He needed Pastor

Eli to teach him until he was ready. And it's

crazy how God uses a man who had lost his

eyesight spiritually and physically to teach a eight year old

how to serve God.

So you're always.

Gonna need a leader to teach you how to serve

God until you get to the places you can serve

God on your own.

Okay. Later Eli would teach Samuel how to know God

for himself. We see that.

You know the story, pastor did you call me? Because

he was hearing the voice of his pastor, Pastor you

called me, No, boy, I ain't call you. And then

I love what it says. It shows us Eli is

not selfish. Neither is he jealous. He said, Oh, I

perceive what's going on. Next time you hear him say

speak Lord, you're serving is listening. You want a leader

who's not jealous, who's not envious, who doesn't feel like

it's all about them, he says. Next time you hear

it say speak Lord, go, servant is listening. It's the

same thing Moses taught them about out God until they

were able to start learning about God themselves. So number one,

he encouraged the people to build a relationship with God

and not with the leader. He encouraged the people to

build a relationship with God and not with the leader.

He encouraged the people to build a relationship with God

and not with their leader. They were trying to build

a relationship with their leader. We're gonna see this at

the end because at the end of the Theeronomy, Moses

dies and God has to hide his body because they

were so at chant to their leader that God was

afraid they were going to take, and they took his body.

What they were going to do was they were gonna

make a god out of it.

Number two, Build the people and they will build the kingdom.

Build the people and they will build a king. So prophetically,

this is where we put in. And this is why

I believe the Lord woke me up. We do this,

and then we opened the line. Uh, this is why

I believe the Lord woke me up last night. The

Lord says, even in our ministry, even in our house,

there is a rebellious spirit, a rebellious generation. There are

people who have the spirit of Satan. So a whole

generation of rebellious people dies off. And the Lord said

this to me last night. Don't get caught up in

the rebellion. Keep doing what I say do because they're

getting ready.

To die off. I asked the Lord, like.

Genesis, do you mean physically die or spiritually die? The

Lord said both. The Lord said, haven't you already seen?

We were full at one time, almost packed. But the

Lord said, I have to let people die off because

everybody can't go to your finished place. I'm prophetically speaking,

Lord said to me early this morning.

Don't be afraid of what you lose. Don't be afraid

of what is not attached.

It's time for you now to take what's not a

tax and to get rid of it.

The we in the tail go together.

You heard the one on God talk about that if

you was at service, it all looks the same, it

all sounds the same. But you only the right eyes

can tell the difference between the weak and the tear.

But God said, what I'm doing in your house right

now is showing the folk whoever read they ain't gonna

live right. They're not gonna do right. They're not gonna

follow the leadership. They're not gonna follow the leaders who

place the place. They ain't gonna do us right because

do right.

Is not in them. But the Lord said, don't worry.

You're getting ready.

To see death in your church, because I will not

allow this. The spiritual continue. So the two keys, and

the two keys are obedience and submission. Obedience and submission.

Everybody in our ministry has to be willing to be obedient.

And they also have to be submissive.

The Lord said, the two keys to our church and

the success thereof people gotta be obedient and they got

to be ready to submit. Submission and obedience brings accountability.

That means when you're not there, you ain't just gonna

not call, You ain't gonna not contact you, ain't gonna.

Not you just say well whatever.

Only people who are crazy and on their own do that.

You don't belong anywhere.

You don't.

You don't not show up for a job six weeks

and then show back up one day, punch in like,

ain't nothing happened. That's foolishness, God says. When there is

no accountability, when you're disrespected, and when people don't appreciate

the sacrifices you made, that's a person who does not

have it in them to do right. That's a waste

of time. That's a waste of your energy. Take the

people that want to do right and go on. We're

wasting time with crazy folks that don't love God. They

don't want to be taught how to love God. They

don't want to be taught how to spend time with God.

They just want to waste time, take up a space,

and take a whole lot of positions. God says, I

ain't gonna let you do that no longer. God says,

it's time now to get rid of the foolishness, the silliness,

the stupidness. If there's no accountability, several people, the Woman

of God wasn't gonna be there. Please let pastor know

I'm gonna this is why I'm gonna be sonning several minutes.

Please that past.

But there's a whole lot of folk that got positions

and titles that don't say nothing.

And some people had another while I was waiting for

you to call me.

It is not my responsibility or anybody else in the

ministry to call you. You got a title, you got

a position. You ask God for what you have, and

you're gonna be foolish with your assignment.

Watch God kill them. Now take that as a prophet.

Watch God kill them, either physically or spiritually.

Watch what I say. Watch it's gonna happen.

So the accountability and the disrespect has to be to

Isaiah one in nineteen says, if you be willing, and

we quote this all the time, and obedient, you can

eat the good of the land. You can get everything

God has for you. The scripture says, delight yourself in

the Lord. He will give you the desires of your heart.

Hebrews thirteen and seven says, obeyed them, have rule over you.

Ephesians five and twenty one says submit yourselves one to another.

And that's one scripture I forgot, it says Hebrews Thank

You thirteen and seventeen is at the bottom.

It says, don't grieve the heart.

Of your pastor don't make your pastor have to check

up on you.

Gotta call you, gotta do it. That's foolishness.

That's not how the kingdom works, especially if you got

positional title in the church. That's not how it works.

God says, I'm trimming the fact. God says, people disqualify,

and that's what we see here in this second chapter.

He says, people disqualify themselves. We they have no accountability.

We they have no discipline. When they disrespectful, the Lord say,

I can't bless them.

I can't bless what that doing. I can't help them

hold on to they stop.

I can't keep their children safe, their house is safe

because they have disqualified themselves. They have no accountability, they

have no When are you gonna grow up? When are

you gonna be disciplined? When are you gonna have some

integrity about yourself. When are you gonna stop cheating? When

are you gonna stop doing all this crazy stuff.

That you know is not like God.

It is time for mature Christians to rise to the top.

John fifteen and two says, every branch that bear if

not fruit, he cuts it away. So I said, don't

you worry about I'm cutting it away. I'm stopping it.

I'm no longer gonna allow it to flow, because all

that dead branch does is it stokes and SIPs the

life from the branches that really want it and that

needs it. It causes the fruit not to produce on

branches that are really trying to produce. I hope he

that having here, let him hear with the spirit is

saying to the church thirteen sixty nine said the paraple

little fig. Jesus says, no, he cursed the fig tree

because he says, you're not doing what you're supposed to do.

We're talking about basic stuff. Seeking first, the Kingdom of God.

We're talking about basic stuff. Praying, We're talking about basic stuff,

paying time. We's talking about basic stuff, attending church. We're

talking about basic stuff. When you don't do what's supposed

to do, God curses the fig tree, and he says.

Let no figs grow.

You don't just all of a sudden go somewhere else

and start producing fruit. You never produce fruit again. And

some people are already at that place. Ben would be

for two and three years, and it ain't produced, not

one piece of good fruit. That's a waste of ministry time.

That's a waste of my time as apostle. That's a

waste of my time as a pastor. Pillip Psalms fifty

one and six says God desires truth on the inward part.

Either you with it or you're not. Either you mean

God or you don't. Either you mean right or you

mean wrong.

Hebrews thirteen and seventeen says, do not grieve the heart

of your leader. God gets upset when you grieve the

heart of leadership. When you take the leader away from

time to pray, Take the leader away from time when

the rest of the body can be strengthened. Take the

lead away for some foolishness, take the leader away for

some stuff that don't even make any sense. I will

say to us as a church. God is getting ready

to cut the fat. God is getting ready to get

rid of the foolishness. God is getting ready to cut

off every branch that's not bearing fruit because he would

not bring us to this place and bring us to

a promised place and not bless us.

But he can't bless you with a whole lot of

dead weight.

That's what chapters one and chapters two most is saying,

you so close to the promise, and you're gonna blow it.

You so close to getting what God has me.

You're gonna blow it, You so close to if you

be willing it, o' be you've been obeating all this time,

and then all of a sudden. One time I was

driving from We were driving from Washington, DC, coming from complication,

and I saw sign said this one was living Ondesday

Winston settlem fifteen miles and we had been driving all night.

I put my foot down.

I put that a gas pedal down.

To the ground because I said, fifteen miles, make these

fifteen miles and three minutes.

No sooner than I put my foot down, and had.

Been going about fifteen to twenty miles over to speed

limit in a few minutes. I saw the blue light

and the man when he put me out, he says,

what are you doing. What were you thinking? He says,

I've been behind you for the last hour, but all

of a sudden you just took off. I saw the

sign that say once to say them, and neither dec

I still got the ticket. But get the point of

the story. You can't get so close and panic, get

so close, get out of the will of God, get

so close. I don't understand. People, you don't have any money,

but then the Lord blesses you. It gives you six

thousand dollars from your taxes, and then you get grand

with God. I don't understand God bless you with a job.

You ain't been able to get a job, find a job,

have a job, and God bless you. Then you don't time,

you don't give. You start to splurge money on crazy stuff.

And there are people like that, just like there are

in chapters wanted to a Dodonomy, who all of a

sudden start splurging and doing everything else because you did

not learn your Some people, God has to keep you sick.

Some people, God has to keep you frustrating. Some people,

God has to keep you broke because he knows that's

the only way you're.

Gonna serve them.

That's a poor commendation on who God is and who

you are. God should not have to keep you sick

for you to pray. You ought to be praying anyway.

God should not have to keep you broke just so

you can be humble. If He blesses you today with

a million dollars, you ought to still have that same spirit.

God should not have to take us through trial. But

some people will always be sick, always be put down,

always be broke, because we haven't learned the lesson of

how to still love God and prosperous place you can

open the lines. I know I was rough. I meant

to be rough. I said, if I can't sleep, you

gonna know it. And from three to five I was

up with the Lord saying I'm not gonna let you

keep on dealing with foolishness. I'm gonna cut it off

so that the rest of the church can go on

to glory in Jesus' name. You're gonna open your lines, questions, comments, answers,

whatever you have, open your lines.

You can ask them.

Apostle, can you go back to what you started out

saying when you were talking about people who are rebellious

or stubborn, and they don't know that they are rebellious

or stubborn. How do you not know that you're being rebellious?

I thought rebellion was an intentional act.

Not mean to do this?

No, And that's my point. Sometimes you don't even intend to.

Sometimes I can get mad at you because you made

an announcement son, and I can start operating against you.

And I'm not really operating against the announcement you made.

I'm just upset with you. And so what I do

is I become un intentionally rebellious because I'm mad at you,

and you ain't had nothing to do with the announcement.

Why she get up to make the announce Why didn't

letting her make the announcement? So we get caught up.

It's easy to get caught up in your flesh. Some

people don't like people to tell them what to do.

For some people, that's a pet pee. Some people feel

like that all their lives. When you get like that,

then what ends up happening as soon as somebody tells

you what to do. Some people have been hurt from relationships,

or hurt from their father, hurt from their mother. So

when a person I was talking to somebody that the

said ooh, please don't say what you just say it,

because that's a trigger for me.

You have triggers.

From your father, from your mother, from your aunts, from

your uncles, from how you would treat it, from people

who fired your own job, that when you hear certain stuff.

I had one.

I don't like people to say to me, you need

to as soon as they say that, that's a trigger

for me. That's a set that you need to. You

can say the same thing without saying it that way,

but that's a trigger. So people have triggers and they

don't even realize what it do or what it does.

Excuse me, is it pushes them into rebellion. It pushes

them into witchcraft. It pushes a button into them and

they start to rebel, but they don't see their rebellion

as rebellion because what we like to do. I've had

a couples in and we were talking and I'll say

to one of them.

You're jealous and don't know pastors, I'm not jealous, I'm

not jellous. Yes you are.

No, no, not no, And then I have to say

the same thing another way, and then they come back

and say that's what I am, and I want to

say to them, just as playing. That's what jealousy is.

So we like to like to rename stuff so we

could be comfortable with it. We like to deal with

stuff in a different way. So sometimes the enemy will

trick us into thinking, I'm not being rebellious. I just

don't like nobody telling me what to do. I'm not

being rebellious. I just don't like a whole lot of

folk up in my face. I'm not being rebellious. I

just like I just want to I just like to

get stuff done. So we will say things like that,

but all it is is rebellion. All it is is disobedient.

Because if you can't. The Bible says to husband's and

wife submit yourself one to another. It says to us,

submit yourself. It's more, there's a lot more to this

than we know. May I tell y'all and Mama and

on those other people on the phone, then they can

vouch for what I'm about to say. I didn't like

everything Vision Williams told me to do, but he was

the leader. That was his house that God assigned him to.

I disagreed with some of the decisions he made as

a pass. Some of the decisions he made as a leader,

and I'm here to say and confessed. So y'all understand

I worked the gangst him because I thought my idea

was better and he should be doing it this way.

Well, he needed to see he old timing. He need

to get with the times.

We do it unintentionally under the guidance or the framework

of something else. It's still rebellion, it's still witchcraft. It's

still being disobedient to God. And be sure you will

pay for it, hopefully, hopefully. With all of that, I

gave clarity to it.

Howard, Yes, sir, you did.

Thank you.

You can post it as much as you want to.

I want everybody to know. I wish everybody was online

tonight because I am very serious about us not continuing

to deal with foolishness. It's one thing to have mercy

and grace, but we keep having mercy and grace with

the same people who are not learning their lessons. That

wears you out. That makes me old before my time,

because it would just be better if people would just obey.

And I'm not just saying obey me. I'm saying the

leader had to teach Moses, had to teach them how

to have a relationship with God. But then they got

to a place he says, now you got to exercise

your relationship. That comes a point where I can carry you.

When it comes to point that God says you can't

carry her no more, you do.

You've done your You completed your task here. Let me

let me, let me give you a sticker.

You did good. So everybody has to get to that place.

But it's the leader. The first thing you need is

a leader that teaches you about God.

They teach you.

Samuel was eight years old in the temple working, but

he did not have a relationship with God. You don't

believe me, go back to First Samuel chapter one and

read it one and two. It tells you he did

not have a relationship with God. Eli his pastor's job

was to teach him how to have a relationship. And

then he got to the place where at the end

Samuel is the king maker. He got a relationship with God,

but he had to be taught that first. So to

be honest, it's a travesty for me to let you

get away with not being faithful. It's a travesty for

me to let you not get away with loving God.

It's a travesty for me to let you come in

church and we say praise Lord.

You know all that's a travesty. It is our job

to teach you.

How to have a solid relationship with God. Then after

back up and see if you can do it on

your own. And sometimes even the tdler after you learn

how to walk, still hold on to things. But that's

the same analogy. Any other questions apossible, Yes, get out

through into everybody.

On the lines of hardheartedness and stubbornness and witchcraft.

To what is stint?

Does grace abound where whether you're a leader or not,

whether it's in your own, your job, the church, To

what ex stint? Do we go when we're trying to

do what the Lord say, you're trying to live right

and you still need to show grace. But to what

is stint? There's grace abound.

I think that's a different place for everybody. And you

have to pray, you have to seek the face of God.

Because the Lord woke me up three to five last

night and say enoughing is enough? You got too many.

We got a couple of people talking about coming back

to the ministry and I was like, waitmn, Lord, because

they were there before, and I wonder, Okay, God, it

didn't work the first time, is it gonna work this time?

And I say that to say this, I am at

the age. Let me put it on me that I

can't keep wasting. I don't have another twenty years to

waste having graceful folk. I don't even have another two

years because I've got to complete my assignment that God

gave me. And to keep allowing the wheels to spend

in the mud and not put some up under the

wheel so we can get out the mud makes me

a terrible leader. That's just that's me. I feel like

I'm a terrible leader if I see you drowning.

And I throw.

In the ring to pull you out and you don't

grab a hole of it. Am I supposed to jump

in the water and save you When I've thrown you

the life thing three times? Grab a hole I'm gonna

pull you out. No, No, I'm scared. I'm scared. No

grab it, no, no, come in and get me. Do

you know what happens to people who come in and

save people who are not ready to be saved?

Anybody, you die with them, You die with them.

They take you right down because until that person has

given up the fight, they're not savable. And I'm saying

that that's the extent you get to. Is this person savable?

And then you have to pray, God, what as a leader?

What do you want me to do? And I'm telling

you all, God is starting to say, I'm trimming the fact.

That's the way the Lord said it to me. I'm

trimming the notes you got are the notes. He woke

me up and said, right, I'm trimming the fact. I

could take it from one of your kids. Uh, dickon, Nick,

for you a grown adult. You fifty years old, you

forty years old, you thirty five years old, and this

ain't your first church, this ain't your first rodeo.

How long are we gonna have to spoon feed folk?

Because it looks it looked it were next next time

that I'm a preaching, I'm gonna call up one of

one of y'all men, and I'm gonna I'm gonna have

a baby baller, and I'm gonna say, come on, I'm

gonna say, lay right here and drink this bottle, because

i want y'all to see how stupid that looks for

somebody forty five fifty fifty five, sixty sixty five, seventy

seventy five eight to.

Be laying there with a baby bottle.

It does happen sometimes people that age have to go

back to the bottle. But I'm saying that's not a

good look, and that's not a good look for ministry.

The places I went this last weekend, everywhere I went,

covenantionp Covenation, all the choiet, all the all the music,

all the creature, all the world. I'll watch y'all every Sunday,

and y'all see it. You see results online one thousand

and five hundred by the end of Sunday. People are watching.

But we can't let him keep watching, and we allow

foolishness to go on in our house. Either God called

you here or he didn't. I'd rather you be where

He called you and be free to do what you

have been asked to do, than to be with me

and be rebellious because, in case you guys missed it

in a note, that spirit is contagious.

It takes over. It's like the apple in the basket.

If you don't get it out, one rotten apple will

spoil the whole bunch.

I'm sorry, Michael Jackson. You was wrong. It happens. Just

give me. I had one potato, sweet potato.

One sweet potato went bad and the whole rest of

the bag was corrupt. I had to throw the whole

bag out. That's what happens. One thing can destroy it all.

You can mess up your destiny, you can mess up

your life, you can mess up your ministry, you can

mess up your house, you can mess up your children.

By being unchased and respectful, you can mess it up.

And I'm saying to you as a leader, I will

be terrible to let you do it. Other questions that

we have, like three or four more minutes, Apostle.

That was the That wasn't Michael Jackson.

Gil can't tell you how I love Michael Jackson.

Okay, that was That was the Brothers the wonder that

got it wrong.

I ain't know. It's the Osten Boys, Okay, okay, white boys.

Well, I'm sorry for throwing off on your Michael Jackson.

I thought it was him, That's who I thought I

heard saying.

But it was doing that same era, but still a

whole bunch.

Yes it will, Yes, it will. You don't believe.

Get your bag of potatoes and put it, leave a

rock one in there, and see how long the rest

of them will last.

I hear somebody, I was.

Just gonna ask, Bishop, when you when you said, you

said that God said spiritual death or physical death. So

in in in the in the case of spiritual death,

people don't always know that they're spiritually dead if they're

not seeking after him.

Is that right? Well, most of the time spiritual.

Well, most of the time, spiritual death is for us

to let that person know.

Oh.

Sometimes Mary walked away and it was three days before

she recognized Jesus was no longer will and she was

the mother of Jesus. Well, three days she had traveled

and Jesus was not with them. She panics and she

goes back. I wonder how many people realize their preachers,

but God ain't with them, their pastors, but God ain't

with them, their leaders, but God ain't with them. Because

it is possible to walk away and not know Jesus

has left you. So I believe that the spiritual death

is to show us.

Uh.

I can put it in another way so everybody can

be more comfortable with it. The other way is the

Bible says a tree is known by the fruit that

it bears, and if it could bear, if it bears

corrupt fruit, it's not good. It's not good for anything.

That's what the Bible says. So it is possible to

be producing fruit. But all the fruit is on your tree,

is right, and you waste some time because you get,

you're gonna get to heaven. If you get to heaven,

if you get, if you repint get to heaven, it

ain't gonna it ain't gonna be worth your while because

you spend a whole lot of time being rebellious fighting again.

It would be easy.

For every one of our members at this point of

ministry to be obedient to God and to the leadership

of the house. We can get stuff done quickly, but

the devil seeks and comes to distract, to detract, to

pull away that they weren't so posed to be there.

This is thirty nine years thirty eight years in. It

was an eleven day journey, and the people jacked it up.

I was wondering when I first did this study, guy,

why God, why you want us to do? See somebody'll way,

why you want us to do?

Do the run?

Because the Lord saying I don't want you all to

make the same mistake of turning what I intended to

be a blessing into a curse. When you get to

Douduronomy is it twenty eight twenty nine, it's gonna one

chapter's gonna talk about blessings, one chapter gonna talk about cursing.

If you do these things, I'll bless you. But if

you do these things, I'm gonna curse you. And I

see the spirit trying to break free in our house

of rebellion.

A folks being respective, a person of folks are are

not handling or not understanding what God is saying or

doing it just. And it happens in every church. I

have other passors on here. It happens in every church.

But how long are you going to allow it to

happen to you?

How long I forgot who it was we.

Were somewhere pastor perks And and the person says, no,

I recognize the spirit because this is what happened to me.

And that's God allows us to go through stuff so

we can see what not to be like.

So we have to be very careful.

Any other questions, I take one or two more, then

I'll release you anymore. Everybody's good nobody ask any questions.

All right, God bless you, have a great night, and

thank you for

Becoming a part of my