08 Divine Invasion - Curry Blake 2019

[Music] all right now we're going to continue thank you sir continue along the lines that we've been discussing so far but I'm going to in the process of that I'm going to take you to a couple of scriptures the first one how do you want to do this let's see yes okay yes yesterday we read to you Ecclesiastes 8 4 that says where the word of a king is there is power and we know that we are kings and priests unto our God according to revelation and so I want to continue all along those lines a little bit and I want to show you how it applies now first off do we all agree that first off that the Bible says where the word of a king is there's power okay secondly do we all agree that if we are born again we are kings and priests unto God okay so then we have to agree that as kings and priests we are to function as kings and priests and therefore we have to function like a king and priest would function now the primary I guess I should ask you this when a king wants something done what does he do yeah but he he gives a command he gives a command now when I was in the military there was you know kind of an unwritten unwritten law it is an unwritten law that if a commanding officer anybody higher ranked and you says if they ask for something they're just being polite and asking it's actually a command right so you can command in a polite asking voice right now so if you're so really it comes back to the old saying and maybe you heard it I know my generation we used to use a little bit but are we used to hear it quite a bit was your wish is my command right okay that's how sees us in the sense of our function in this world as kings and priests that whenever we speak we are to speak with words of grace but it's still a command amen so you don't have to be mean you know for it to be a command you don't have to yell you don't have to do this matter-of-fact usually the more you have to yell about something the less authority you actually walk in usually the more authority you have the quieter and more calm you can be right now because you expect to be obeyed we talked about that yesterday little bit now let's go back to Adam so that I can prove this to you and Adam we know in Genesis chapter 1 and verse 26 through 28 God told Adam to have dominion over this world over everything that flies swims creeps I mean you name it have dominion over that and even over all the earth is that right and now let me ask you this so here is Adam we know the earth is pretty much the same size that's always been right and God created Adam didn't put him in the garden and it said okay now do all this and keep it and guard it and subdue it and replenish it he said be fruitful and multiply all of that was the Adamic mandate right now in that how do you think well let's add one more thing in before I ask you this question whatever if you go back and read about how Adam named the animals it was Adam that named the animals right and when he named the animals that said that God caused the animals actually to come before Adam and Adam named them now I don't have any proof on this as the way it is but I would almost and it could go away so I'm not making some new doctrine right I'm just giving you some ideas and I'm Ronnie going to say my opinion because I'm not saying I'm not sure this is my opinion all right I'm just I'm just telling you something it's something that I you know I have thought about before and I've heard different opinions on it they're all pretty good and they can all argue pretty good but it said that when Adam named the animals whatever he named them that's what their name is okay now we know if you see a lion you say oh that's a lion right no matter what language it's in it's a lion right pretty much universally now we could say a lion which is actually the shortened term but if you go into the science then it has you know the species name gene I mean the whole thing I had this long name oh thank you so yeah yeah I'm waiting for a coca anyway no I'm just kidding just kidding and they're not spending a tithe check so I'm not going to advertise for him so anyway but I would only need one they just send me one check I'd be good the rest of my life I can just travel and preach never have to receive another offering we just go with this I hadn't got that to the headquarters yet don't anyone but so but if you talk to a scientist and universally each animal just like every plant has its scientific name now some people would say well whatever Adam called it that's what it is so if he calls a lion a lion then that's its that's what he called it or if he called it did you know did he call it - scientific name who knows maybe he did whatever is it's whatever he called it that's what it's called today right depending on how you want to look at and me person I don't care but now notice that what he called it also determined its purpose its function so the name he gave something meant something right and names throughout the Bible mean something today people pick names because you know it's the name of a famous star or something like that but used eight people names that meant something and had something to do with how they wanted them to be and that was part of the blessing whenever a child was as we would today we would call it a child being christened or whatever it is you know dedicated in church we dedicate babies many times that's how that's the purpose of that was to bless that child and that name was to reflect the blessing No so the question is this we know how Adam named the animals or we know okay when he named the animals how did he do it did he just think it or did he say it he would say it right and you say why do you know that because Jesus told the Pharisees even he said why do you take Thought saying so the way you take a thought see thoughts can pass through your head the enemy can shoot a thought through your mind right but you don't take that thought until you say it so when you start to say it now you've taken that dot right so there is a saying that goes along with thinking and if you think something long enough you're end up saying it right or if you say something long enough you're going to end up thinking it right I mean you really can't say it without thinking it but I'm saying it will form your thought patterns now so Adam being the okay just so you know I don't know and just immediately offend religious people Adam as a king spoke and expected things to be done so when God told him to have dominion over all the earth now this is before the fall right now notice this before the fall Adam was to have Dominion authority subdue the earth although all over the earth is that right now before the fall how was Adam to exert his authority and to subdue the earth how was he to do all of that how was he to have dominion over it well how would he function to cause things to happen or to cause things to obey him how would he do it he would gain he would speak right he would use words why because he was a king and we might say over the earth now the biblical term for what Adam was in the Garden was not a king right we say King just because religious people get mad if you say what what the Bible says okay you want to tell you what the Bible says okay let me show it to you SC go with me way too far where am I going see if I can find it here real quick see if I can find it well there we go okay now he said and this is funny I'm preaching this here because I wasn't planning on it but John Lake preached a message here that actually talked about this here in Portland when he was here and it is probably one of the two messages that he preached that caused him or caused him to receive the most flack and get the most blasting over and in that he said and he's just quoting what Jesus said so if Jesus said he he really can't argue with it right it wasn't said by somebody else where you go well hit they said it but it wasn't right because you know some people say things and it's written in the Bible just cousin about let's give him just because it's in the Bible doesn't make it true you that something can be truly or accurately recorded and yet what they said was not true but it was but it's true now if Jesus said it or if it's in a way that we are supposed to obey it it's true amen but you know there's there's plenty of times in the Bible where people lied or did something and the lie was alive but it was accurately recorded so it's in the Bible but then just cuts in the Bible to make it true are we good so far okay well jesus said this because they came to him talking about you know who do you think you are begging I'm paraphrasing but he said why do you get upset at me when a rich written in your scriptures I said Ye are gods he did that now so he said it now here's what I want you to realize okay there's there's a teacher an entire teaching on this which I'm not gonna do that this morning but maybe you've heard it and it's talking about taking your position in Christ and in that I'd go through the process of where Adam was at in the beginning were what place he was put in it and then what happened how he felt and if you go over to first Corinthians it actually says how the god of this world has blinded the eyes of those that haven't and yet and it's talking about Satan being the god of this world it's not talking about Jesus now talking about God is that right but yet he's called the god of this world meaning the god of this world system as it is now and whenever Jesus was being tempted in the wilderness you know Satan came to him and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and said I will give all of this to you and he said if you were just bow down and worship me because it was given to me it was delivered to me and said and I can give it to whoever I want and so here's the god of this world who became the god of this world whenever this world was handed to him by Adam now if Satan became the god of this world when Adam handed the world to him what was that him he was the god of this world and he passed that god ship so now understand when we say god we have to define what we mean by that because there is only one true God right and I'll tell you right now you ain't him okay and all the women said Amen anyway that's a told you but so Adam would have been classified as a godless world because he had supreme authority over the world in other words he even God even said several times that he would do through the scriptures that God does nothing except first he reveals it to his prophet why why does he have to check in with the Prophet first well mainly because he has got the Prophet to say it and that allows God to start working through the Prophet and through the words of the Prophet because there has to be a king on earth to give the command that allows God to come into it right because the world was handed over to Satan from Adam now notice what remember what whenever Adam was put into the garden what did God John have Dominion now you cannot find any place where God ever said I'm taking back that Dominion that would have made sense you know when Adam fell oh that's it you lost your dominion going he didn't he actually submitted under Satan which gave Satan the right to rule through Adam just as God was wanting to rule through Adam just make sense to you so now we know that when Jesus said I said Ye are gods it doesn't mean that you are divine right it just meant you were in complete authority so you could use that word that word is also used for well magistrates and judges and rulers and things like that so there is a correlation there so we're not talking about divinity we're not talking because a a true God is God in and of themself they are totally separate self-sufficient don't need any outside source to exist nothing else right but we exist from an outside source so we are not God but since we are in charge of certain things then we are gods over that area does that make sense to you and will make anybody nervous because I'm not trying to I'm just trying to say what the Bible says really and that's why I use that's why I said Adam was a king because you accepting king is a lot easier than what Jesus said about you being God's right so I don't mean your divine I'm just mean you have authority that's all I mean right you got that so make sure cuz then what you're going out of here and don't you you know tweeting kirb Blake says we're gods that's actually I didn't say it Jesus said it quo to him right but what it means is that God is the only true divine God matter of fact Paul talked about said you used to worship gods that were not gods so you can make anything a god but just because you make it a god doesn't make it a god that makes sense and so pretty much what whoever you serve that's who's serving you are so you know a boat can be a god to somebody a car can be a god to somebody right anything but even though it is they're still not gods because they're not divine and not self sufficient and all that so you understand what I'm doctor right now so in this here's the well as I would say now Adam was going to rule and reign and complete the Adamic mandate that God gave him through one means and that was through speaking right Adam was not going to have to run all over the world and fix this thing and fix that thing he was going to rule from one place give commands and it would be done amen can you see that now here's how we know this or this is one proof of it after Adam Falls one of the first things God tells Adam is what from now on you're gonna have to work by the sweat of your brow and by the work of your own hands in other words what does that mean that means that all this now we don't know how long this took we don't know how long Adam was in the garden we don't know how long it was before he fell we don't know all that right but we do know that there was obviously I mean some time there was some period of time they don't know how long it was but now so that means that Adam was used to reigning and ruling through words and through speaking and then God said because you have fallen now you're gonna have to reign in the rule through the work of your hands and you have to work for it and you got to by the sweat of your brow is that right so that proves that after the fall when he gave that command that means that that is not the way Adam had to do it before is that right are you with me so far okay now so all I'm saying is this and here's the hardest thing about preaching what the Bible says is that generally you're preaching to people who honestly mostly twenty-four hours a day they are thinking in alignment with the way the world works right so they have this constant influence and they have now have they have certain patterns of thought that has been dictated by how the world does things so if I come in here and I tell you listen if you want to change your life you want to change your circumstances you need to start speaking the change not speak what you have speak what you want to have speak the change all right now most of you have heard this or at least that part of it but the problem is in saying that most people say well that's never work for me you know I'm this is new I don't know how to do that and and then we started thinking no that's not that it has nothing to do with my previous experience my previous experience was if I want to change I have to do this have to do that I have to do this thing and words have nothing to do with it because that's how the natural world thinks even though now the natural world is also starting to get a hold of the truth what because they're taking biblical principle and trying to apply it without God right and you see us all time you sit in all kinds of areas and business and everything else you have neuro linguistic programming you have all these different methods that have to do with words and so the world is starting to catch up and the bad part is the world should never catch up with the church but they're trying to mainly because the church while the church has been crawling along the world has been running and so they've been getting these things and they hear it but now so the key is if you really want to make change if you're so the bible tells us that we are to rule and reign as kings in life through jesus christ is that right so now you had adam he falls he gives his command his Dominion more or less to Satan but he still has Dominion he can still exercise Dominion it's in every man to have dominion that's not changed right and that's why people go to outer space and you know explore under the ocean what they're having they're trying to exert Dominion they want to have dominion over every area and we talk about well we got a conquer space well we got a conquer what they call inner space which is under the oceans and it's amazing because we understand that Dominion principle that's in man yeah many of you probably know today is July 20th well and that's it's amazing how many tank how many things happened on July 20th throughout history one of the earliest that I talk about just for a minute and July 20th 1944 a group of German officers tried to assassinate Hitler back on July 20th right they failed but they attempted to it and it was one of many attempts but it was the biggest attempt then on July 20th 1969 Apollo 11 lands on the moon right another big deal right then on July 20th 1973 3p I had 20th 1973 Bruce Lee died I know it's not a big deal to you but it was to me at the time so it's the an aborted a is that anniversary of his if his passing has been affects him so a lot a lot of things happened historical things happen on July 20th now but now notice it is in man to conquer things and that's what they even said when they step to the moon one small step for man but a giant leap for mankind right Wow because they had conquered something now so there's this Dominion in men now whenever Adam passed that over saying he didn't lose Dominion but what really changed was his nature took on the nature of the person that he now made his God which was evil and which his nature was the nature of death and the amazing thing is it from that point on apparently it took about well we're not sure how long exactly but somewhere how many of you know that whenever God said the day that you eat of that tree you're gonna die how many know when he ate he didn't drop over dead so he wasn't talking about his body he was talking about his spirit so what that meant was as soon as he did that why did eating that of that tree offset that way why did that change something because it was obedience to somebody else it was disobedience to God that disobedience to God and the obedience to Satan actually changed his nature because now he said okay I choose to listen to you instead of God and so he took on the nature of Satan which was death which was fear which was negativity right does all these spec's right and so now and which the prompt one of the primary parts of Satan's nature that men got hold of or that came into man was selfishness and everything's try to be in about self rather than hearing God and accomplishing God's will right so the minute it became about Center it became it started being about self immediately Adam could no longer be successful what because success is never just about you right six being successful has to do with you accomplishing God's will for your life that's what success is right no matter what that will is now I can tell you there is a a flat-out general will of God that it for everybody there's actually several levels of it one is it everybody be saved that's God's initial will after that it is God's initial will or is will after that that we all be conformed to the image of Christ so that is God's will right now individually there are things that are God's will but he didn't put that in the Bible like you know where you are to live or these things so in some of these things it could be God's will but most of it has to do with you making a decision of what you're going to do so God basically says here's my name my spirit my word my power is they now show me what you want to do with it and in that you're walking with God but you don't have to do things specifically now that here's the thing you can ask God and say which one of these two things should I do and he'd say do this so then you're following his will and you're doing that but now notice that doesn't mean that that was initially his will and what I mean with that is this just because God for knows something does not mean that he has foreordained it right I mean did God know that Adam was gonna fall yeah did God is that was that God's will know so God's will is not always done if it was we wouldn't have to pray that will be done on earth as it is in heaven it that would be an idol repetitive word that you said don't do that right so there has to be something to us at us actually praying saying God's will for it to be done that makes sense so we have a part in playing out God's will on this earth by how we speak and what we say now the bad part is people in the earth and unfortunately many people in church they have never okay they've had their spirit changed because they got born again and there's life in their spirit but because their mind has not been renewed they've never changed their mouth and their mind will still be negative and their mouth will still be negative man that's why he says be renewed okay first off he tells us that how we are transformed is by the renewing of our mind but then he also says but be renewed in the spirit of your mind so you have a mind and then you got a spirit of your mind right now let me explain what the spirit of your mind is that's easy you talk to person and they say no do you know so-and-so yeah I know they're the most negative person it's me okay that's the spirit of their mind see being negative is the spirit of a person's by being positive is the spirit of a person mom why because it it completely taints or colors everything they say everything they do because you know well I heard you you know just won the lottery yeah I did but you know the government's gonna take most of it and you know I probably you know all my relatives would probably gonna be all over me now trying to get money from me so you know I almost wish I hadn't won okay that's a negative spirit that's a bunt all right but you understand what I'm saying I'm not telling you go play the lottery okay I'm just saying but you can see that in people's minds right are you telling well you know how you doing you you know you're looking healthy looking yeah but you know man that's the flu season sure the world I'll catch it comes around every year and I kaolin the first thing but you ever hear people like that and and it's what really stands out is when you're not like that you know I go to Walmart and I'll be checking out and that person say wait have you got your flu shot and I'm like nope and and and they're like oh well you know what you can get in trouble here it's free I'm like why are you worried about it and anyway you know you might catch it no no I ain't gonna catch it I'll kill it but I ain't gonna catch it if I do catch it I'll kill it that's what all this but I said and I ain't gonna catch it and it ain't gonna catch me right and I said oh I don't need it and one time they told me well you got to get this flu medicine or whatever I'm like nah don't need it and what do you mean you don't need it well I don't get sick and it's like everything stopped there anyway you know just what do you mean you don't get sick I don't get sick how do you do that I'm like I refuse for it to live in my body and they said well how'd you learn that and I said my body I present my body as a living sacrifice it belongs to Jesus and they're like oh ok so you mentioned Jesus it's all over they don't talk no more you know but it's funny because but it stands out if you say yeah I don't get sick I don't catch that all of a sudden they're like what I mean everything stops and everybody the story just stops and listens that's just so because they're not used to that right they're used to the negative but most even most Christians spend most of their time surrounded with the world and the spirit of the world gets into their mind and they've never had their mind renewed and they never had the spirit of man renewed so they keep talking the negative stuff and and anyway you know I don't know why that stuff doesn't work for me you just said it doesn't that's why I tell you know I just can't ride that well there's your problem you don't try this you do it right it's not trying you just do it and so but a lot of people don't realize now this all goes back to being a king and we were to be training as I think was Rick Joyner somebody said training for reining right we are to be training as kings and the way you train as kings is the first thing you have to learn it's okay my analogy is not going to hold up totally okay but the first thing you got to learn is being a king or a person in authority is to learn how to control your mouth like I said now she doesn't hold up right now because people in authority don't know how to hold their mouth anymore okay and they tweet out everything and they say everything they want to say if they just learn to control their mouth they would be so much better off amen so we have to also do it's funny well blasphemy well they just they shouldn't be tweeting well they shouldn't be saying this well follow yourself around maybe you shouldn't be saying some stuff it's easier to point out when you hear it I was into place one time where this lady had a little child with him and the child was in diapers and I'll never forget it cuz you know I'd been surrounded I'd think I've been in a conference for a couple days and you're surrounded with people that talk you know the Bible and and and you just surrounded with that what I would say would be positivity and all that kind of stuff it's all good and then I go to this place and there's a lady with this lady talking somebody else or no baby or the child had diapers on and this one of the person said I think your son is needs to be changed right and the lady said oh I don't know and Walker he goes and she goes are you have you dirtied your diaper and it comes naturally she goes you hadn't dirtied your diaper and she's walked walked I was just oh oh yes you did you little liar and you know up to that point I'm listening I'm thinking and she said you know why did you use a lot and I'm like any but it hit me so hard when she said that and I didn't realize that I had been that renewed in my mind so that those words from her would hit me so hard and I'm thinking oh lady you are in for it right because right now you're sowing and you're gonna reap and we don't realize what we put into children and yet all to the Bible especially the Old Testament over and over again they blessed him they blessed him they blessed him right and then Deuteronomy 30 chapter 19 or you know in chapter 30 verse 19 God even said look I place before you life and death blessing and cursing choose life right and so how do you choose life well you choose it through the words do you go into Proverbs I would suggest everybody start going through proverbs there's 31 chapters go through it one chapter a day the majority of Proverbs whether it's a lot about business but the majority of it is about words and it's about how you think and how you treat people and do different things but it's about words and it says that words are life or death our of life and dentists in the tongue and just goes on and on about it and yet people think oh that doesn't matter well you know I understand that I know the power of life and death is in the tongue but that doesn't apply to me and it's like but it doesn't mean anything well what what does it mean if it doesn't mean what it says right and so today I want to take you first off we're gonna go to James if you're gonna talk about the tongue in the New Testament you're probably talking and out of James for the most part if I can get over there there we go we're gonna go to James chapter 3 so I just want to show you some basic things here he said yeah in James chapter 3 verse 1 my brethren be not many masters knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation right and when he says masters the word there is teachers and he says you know now every believer is supposed to be a teacher but here he says be not many teachers are actually masters right but what he's saying is because Jesus said every believer is supposed to be teaching others that's great Commission right but what he's saying is don't set yourself up to be an authority in this sense he said but now notice because every believer is supposed to be teaching or de cycling someone but he says you know don't because he tells you out there if you're going to teach others you're going to receive the greater condemnation why because you're not supposed to be teaching something you're not doing amen but now watch this he says verse 2 for in many things we offend all in many things we offend all okay If any man offend not in word this same is a perfect man here that you want to be perfect you can be perfect right there he says you can be perfect if you don't offend in word he says then a lot of things we offend but we should not offend in word in there right now most of the offenses talked about in the New Testament have to do with the offense of the cross or the offense of preaching the truth you can't help that if you preach the truth you're going to offend people but you don't have to be a and says just because you offend people a man a lot of times we as we say we shoot ourselves in the foot because the way you do things are how you act sometimes makes it where people don't even want to hear what you do have to say right so but he says you know this is it right here he says if you offend not in word you are a perfect man so it seems to me like we might want to start focusing on words right and be a fast shortcut to being perfect right because you said you just okay let me tell you the fastest shortcut to the shortcut shut your mouth you cannot offend inward if you just shut your mouth right that's the first step and then when you retrain your brain and you get your mind renewed and then you get your the spirit of your mind renewed then when you open your mouth you won't offend at least not you know unless you're preaching the gospel okay you might offend if you're preaching the gospel but now watch he says now let me I guess I should ask you from very beginning do you do you believe the Bible you believe what it's written so if you just read it or if I read it to you and you see it you'll say that's true is that right okay he says there if any man offend not in words the same it's a perfect man and able also to bridle the whole body hear that so if you don't offend in words if you learn how to now what is the bridle do you know the essence of a bridle is that nobody when you put a bridle on a horse people see all the harness and the head harness know that but what they don't realize is what makes a bridle work is that bar that goes across that tongue because it puts pressure on the tongue which hurts if the horse tries to go against that pressure so the horse has to give in to the pressure and when he gives in to the pressure then he does what the master wants him to do so here it says that if we bridle our tongue if we put pressure on our tongue meaning if we learn to watch our tongue you know David even said the same thing he said Gordon put a watch on my mouth that I would not sin against you so apparently a lot of the sin if you go to the New Testament to a lot of the sins have to do with words gossip backbiting tale-bearing I mean come on all this there bearing false witness all of that has to do with words right so he so you put that bridle on and here he says now watch this here he says if a man offend not in word the same as a perfect man and able also to bridle the whole body so what's he saying if you can control your tongue you can control your whole body do you get that so if you can just control your tongue you can control your whole body now let's keep working reading I'm going to come back to this he says behold we put bits Bridals we would say in the horse's mouth that they may obey us and we turn about their whole body behold now he goes on and on about this also the ships which though they be so great so now I said listen it doesn't matter how big it is I don't have it doesn't matter how big your problem is though they be so great and are driven of fierce winds yet are they turned about with a very small hell whithersoever the governor listed ok in other words what he's saying is here you got this big boat you can have the sales and everything up and the winds what I'm about but if the governor the the owner of the boat the ship's captain we would say it whichever way he wants that boat to go even though the winds blowing he's got a rudder even though it's a small rudder it can turn the boat even though the wind is going against it he can turn the boat to make it do what he wants it to do is that right ok so all it takes is a small rudder right and he said that our tongue is a small rudder so you can turn your whole body about is that right then what he said so far ok he says here now and I want to remind you the governor the captain of the ship I will tell you what that's talking about now we know that's us we are the captain of our ship amen now what God wants is he wants you to submit your will to his will so that he can accomplish his will through you but to do that he will not override your will so he has to convince you to submit your will to his will that makes sense he's not gonna make you get saved if you don't wanna be saved he's not gonna force you to do anything right so he's going to suggest he's gonna woo he's gonna preach to you he's gonna get the word to you in all kinds of ways but he's constantly trying to get you to decide to work with him right now in that now notice the governor the captain of the ship well you know we could say that's us we are the captain of our ship of our life however the governor of you is actually your heart because your heart decides where you're going to go what you're going to do now the heart has to do with the will right but now notice if Jesus said out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks so what does he do it he with that what he's telling us is you got to get your heart right and you got to get to heart and right accord with God and when you do that out of the abundance of your heart being right with God you will speak the will of God and you will turn your body accordingly in alignment with God's will do you see that okay now I will tell you when it and I've said this before when it comes to confessing God's Word agreeing with God whatever you want to call it you know obviously finding a well you know you can't even get saved without believing in confessing God's Word because he said that salvation makes a confession bleeding the heart and confess confession is made unto salvation so you have to confess Jesus is Lord is that right so the way you start your Christian life is how you live your Christian life how you got in is how you live in right you got in by confessing agreeing with what the word said and that's how you're supposed to live your entire life is agreeing with what God has said bringing your heart into alignment filling your heart with the word of God filling your heart with the will of God which is the Word of God and when you do that if you fill your heart with the Word of God you never have to worry about your what comes out of your mouth when you open it and so you fill it and have the abundance of your heart your mouth will speak and if your mouth is speaking according the will of God guess what your life is going to change but most people just think to get saved all I need to do is say a prayer and then the rest of their life they don't use their tongue as a rudder to change their life and they sit in church for 30 years with the same problem same struggles same bondages and all they're doing is waiting to get out of here rather than being a force far god while you're here amen so now watch so this governor is the heart right no he says verse 5 even so the tongue is a little member and boasted great things right now when it says boast of great things now most of my when you read that you'll put that in the negative they always it's your tongues a little mirror but it brags a lot right well that can be true but actually if you read the rest of this look at the next part he says behold how great a matter a little fire Kindles in other words he said listen the tongue is a little matter it's a little little member here it says but it'll boast great things well boast Paul said if I'm going to boast I'm going to boast about what God has done through me and they're right it's so boasting is not bad unless you're boasting on self and you say you're doing this you know I'm a self-made man yeah and that's pitiful okay maybe maybe you need some help right but if you're only going to brag on yourself then yeah that's the wrong kind of boasting but if you're going to hear he says the tongue is a small member but it boasts great things so you look at look at some of the things look what Joseph said his tongue said some great things and it caused him a lot of trouble but it ended up being a blessing why because he started speaking the things out and so your tongue can be a small member but he said listen just cuz your tongues a small member don't think that it can't start a big fire because it will you know in the negative you've seen your tongue and others start big fires right but how many of you know that you can also start a big fire for God and you can use your tongue to start that big fire for God amen jesus said I've not come to bring peace but I've come to start a fire and I wish it was already kindled all right well what does that mean well he was talking about the gospel of course but how's the gospel spread has the fire of the gospel spread preaching words right all of this goes back to the same thing now look at this he says how great a matter of little fire Kindles and the tongue is a fire so ask your little fire it starts a big fire okay a world of iniquity now notice he's talking about if your tongue is not controlled it will cause problems right world of iniquity so is the tongue among our members that it defiles the whole body now notice the tongue if I was right you know what Jesus said he said well it's not what goes into a man that defiles him but what comes out of him what welcome how does it come out add the abundance the heart the mouth speaks that's what defiles a person do you say important words art by your words you'll be justified or by your words you'll be condemned there's a whole lot you said don't don't speak out of words why cuz you're gonna be held accountable for every idle word you say an idle word is a vain non-productive word so any word you say you should expect them to come to pass not be idle or unproductive every word you say should produce something amen now I know a lot of people don't like this message and don't like this idea of it but I'm not talking about going off to the extreme for yourself because that's where you see a lot of this stuff go they say they know oh okay I can speak and it'll happen okay I'm gonna speak a new car I don't speak a new house I'm gonna sneak a bigger bank account no see you've already missed the whole thing he's talking about setting the whole world on fire how do the Gospels to preaching the gospel he's talking about setting the world on fire through your tongue but he said in the process how many of you know God is pretty smart have you know that eh okay if how many of you own a business or you you manage your business or you own a business okay goodly amount okay yeah whenever you start to hire somebody is one of the questions you generally ask them how many sick days did you take off last year is that one of the things you generally want to know why because if they are have a history of being sickly you know they're not gonna really be a productive employee why cuz they're gonna be off sick well God's smart he wants productive employees what does that mean he wants us healthy and well what because I helped the employee is a better employee than a sick employee not putting down sick people and you understand that right and actually this is good news what it means is I'm hoping to prove to you God want you well right so you can work better for him makes sense yeah generally you don't hire people with chronic sickness it takes them out of their job where they can't work for you know days or months on it so God is at least as smart as we are right so I mean you would right I mean cool so you question it sometimes when you eat some of the people he made but butts on beyond that no but now notice so here look at this he says here and the tongue is a fire world of iniquity so the tongue is among our members that it defiles a whole body and sets on fire the course of nature here that the tongue can determine the course do you get that so what you're saying will determine the course of your of nature of your life of where you're going your tongue will determine where you go why because what you think about you talk about what you talk about you get what you get you have to live in and that sets the course now notice he said the tongue sets the course as we would say here well what is he saying the tongue is a rudder it sets the course of your life how you angle or set your tongue is how your life is going to go so you should set your tongue and according to the Word of God and say what he has said all right not not saying what the news says not say about the flu epidemic or this thing or that thing but instead saying what he has said what has he said by His stripes you were healed amen and when you start saying it how many of you know as soon as you set the rudder and you know all of a sudden the boat doesn't take off that direction a lot of times sometimes it takes a little bit of time to get the thing turned around and get it going right right well so if you're sick but you don't want to be sick and you want to live in divine health then the first thing you got to do is you got to start changing the rudder of your tongue to set the course of your life and you say but I'm sick how can I say I'm well well God says your will that's how you said and God can't lie so if God says you're well and he can't lie then if you say what he said you're not lying unless you don't believe it and if you don't believe it maybe you're lying but it's still truth even if you don't believe it it's still true right and so as I said before this is the most important principle I've learned in my Christian life the number one thing this has determined how our life our ministry everything has gone is because I understood this principle early on and started putting it into practice and it was there was a slow turn but and it didn't just take off all of a sudden my life didn't change overnight everything but I started changing the course of my life and it took a little bit of time because I had now listen just because you changed the rudder doesn't mean you change it one time and you leave it there you have to constantly tend to that thing and to set the course and to adjust the course what because you learn so when you start maybe you're sick but you start saying what God has said you're set in the course but it may take a little while you know just because you set the course don't mean you're there so it takes you a little while to get there right so when you maybe you're sick and you start setting your course to be able to say okay I'm going this direction I'm heading right now I'm sick but I'm heading toward health so I'm setting the course and as I changed my tongue I'm altering the course of my life but I'm heading toward health doesn't mean you got there instantly all right maybe you got healed and then you got sick again you got healed and you got sick again and maybe it kind of you know you're constantly kind of back and forth but if you set the course you set the rudder then you're heading toward divine health and then you get there and you get closer and closer how do you know when you get closer to your objective to your destination it starts coming clear and the clearer it gets the more excited you get about being there and here it comes oh look we're close to are closer and so you start walking in this and the good thing is that when you start walking in it all of a sudden you're you're healthy more than you're sick and then you started looking and going you know what this is working and then you because now you're seeing it too now you're talking correctly and you're talking health more than you're talking sickness see nothing breeds success like success right and so you get this momentum going and you can get it going in the spirit realm but you have to start somewhere right it's like going to the gym you go to the gym first time you come out you don't look different you just feel different right you know the other day I was coming back and I was on the phone with somebody and it's so funny because I'm getting him a car I'm driving and I mean I can't live and I it was it was a good work I could not move it was hard I asked the girl at the front desk I said you don't have any like golf carts to carry them up carry me to my car do ya I'm like I'm not sure I can walk out there that far so when I get in my car and it was everything I could do just throw my hands on the steering wheel I didn't hang on to it I couldn't grip it I was just humming I'm like man I hope no idiot pulls out in front of me cuz I don't have to make a quick turn I'm just it's the best I can do is just hang my head my arm over the steering wheel of God and my phone ring and so I pulled out my phone and I know just to hit it and I hit the speaker and I start I said yeah I think I can barely hear you and I said well I can't hold my phone to my ear I said I I can't even pick up my phone I said just talking uh we'll see what we can do and so I said I cannot hold anything I can I'm like I tried to pick it up holding my own I'm like I just can't do that that's gonna do it so it was a good workout but you know I didn't see any different right then but I felt different and I knew I'd done some some good even though it came in the form of damage right and so but the real test was two days later when I had to go back you know I'm like I had to not remember afterwards right so but that's so you don't but you don't end up where you're starting at the beginning you just see where you're going right and so as I'm working out I'm not trying to see you know I'm not going for bodybuilders and that kind of stuff I'm just going for fit and toned you know health what it is is I'm 60 years old and whenever I go on a mission trip I don't want okay I go with people usually half my age and I don't want to be the old guy at the end going yeah no go ahead okay I'll be there in a minute no that's not what I want right I'm a leader I gotta be at the front I gotta be at the head of it right which means I have to work four times as hard as those you know 25 and 30 year olds right just to be able to stay ahead of them right or throw something back say go get that for me and that puts them way back to what cuz it's in me right to lead and you want to lead from the front you don't leave from behind yeah y'all go do this that's not how I want to lead right so I'm having to stay in shape to do that right and believe me I'm prey I'm applying the spiritual and the physical I'm you know I'm I'm doing what I need to do and then I'm trying to go and hope God help me help me help me and and you know I do supplements and nutrition and stuff and and when I do my supplements I don't drink hardly any cokes I've you know maybe one a day then so I'm drinking a whole lot more water and and you know and then people say you know if you drink a coconut doing all those vitamins doesn't do any good and I'm like I think it does that's what matters is this point cuz I know how I eat I don't get to nutrition my body needs right I know I did so I up lament right and it's actually easier to supplement and eat right in that sense I'm still not gonna go out and eat vegetables or eat a salad not gonna happen inmate mainly because most Dialga done got me scared off of that because everyone you standing my heat in line every one of yous eating salads so I'm like I ain't working for you so I ain't gonna do it at least if I'm eating meat I'm getting aggressive but there's all this you know there's as we would say balance to these things and I understand your body needs certain nutrition and and I look at when I was in martial arts and back way back I was a floor trainer and a sales rep for President and First Lady's health club Bally's method I'm I used to work there and I've did all the training stuff had to go through all this training in the martial arts had to study Chinese herbal medicine oh and so I know that stuff and you know my students used to come in you know they're this is going on and I could step back my little herb cabinet and put things together here drink this and in 15 minutes they're like yeah I'm ready to go you know and it was all legal you know anything illegal out there which isn't a whole lot cuz I'm a lot more as legal now than he used to be but but I learned all that stuff and so I know that's the sad part I know tradition I just don't practice it so anyway cattle a closed Christians they know Christian there's no practice yeah so another thing anyway so I'm trying to hurry here I really am and now are you getting anything out of this so are you understand what I'm saying now here's the thing see the Bible tells us this and we've known it for years and some of the Word of Faith camp they've known this for years they've been saying your babies laughing at him ha you think this do you think and then all of a sudden Caroline leave comes on the scene and starts verifying everything the Word of Faith people were preaching and it's so funny because they're saying all these people go oh I guess that was right you know and all of a sudden and now you would think the Word of Faith people would yeah yeah told you you know met they're being humble about it well anyway okay so so but this is a main principle I've learned is the tone and what you saying just simply to agree with God's Word now notice he goes on and he says for every kind of beast and a birds and I've serpents and if things in the sea is tamed and has been tamed a mankind but the tongue can no man tame you say oh well there now we're in trouble no no it says no man Missy you're not operating alone yeah the power of the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit can tame your tongue amen but you have to rely on him why cuz I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me right you're not doing in your own power you do it through the power of the Holy Spirit in you to energize you because believe me the Holy Spirit wants you to quote him because he wrote this right so now he says here but the tongue can no man tame it's an unruly evil full of deadly poison that's true you have to remember James was written to a brand-new Christian as a primer and explaining what's going on trying to get them to change their tongue that's what he's trying to do therefore there with bless we God even the father and there with curse we men which are made after similar to to God out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing my brethren these things ought not be so see that's why whenever you when blessing and cursing comes out of your mouth what that means is you're double minded now what happens if you're double minded don't think you're going to receive anything from God so the first key to getting single-minded is to change your quit blessing and cursing right you know oh I want to pray for people Oh bless them Lord bless help of it and you get in your car you stupid idiot hope all your tires blow out no you don't you can't bless and curse out of the same mouth amen if anything all you can say is bless them Lord bless them or as we say in Texas bless your dear heart that's another that's another X just a nice way of saying his stupid thing but we don't want to do that so no notice here so here he's talking about he says does a fountain sin force at the same place sweet water and bitter no of course not can the fig tree my brethren bear all it buries no he's saying look if you want a different life change your mouth don't speak blessing and cursing don't free don't speak negative speak positive and I know that's kind a kind of new agey sentence I'm just trying to get across to you the point now not and it's not always positive and there are things that you need to tell and if you're talking to cancer you need to tell it you die you leave this person's body so but that's not an understanding that's not cursing man or God that's blessing man because you're getting the cancer out of them do you understand that okay now the last thing is this just to back this up we know with Caroline leaf how she has started emphasizing the words and the things like that now in that and and how words create space in your brain and actually create the neurons and the thoughts and all that now and she talked talks about it being toxic which is a good term for it here's the thing she's proven and through science that just like I told you yesterday if you want to okay your your information goes from one side of the brain to the other back and forth how fast it travels depends on how many glial cells is in this corpus callosum which is that white kind of area that holds the brain together and how fast you think is determined on how many glial cells you have the more glial cells you have the faster you can think you're really not smarter you just think faster okay whenever they examine Albert Einstein's brain after he died the autopsy took his brain out they found out his brain was actually slightly smaller than the average brain but what the only abnormality other than that was that he his the glial cells in the corpus collosum he had a lot more glial cells which allowed him to think faster to get to the end of a thought and it allowed him to help focus on one thought longer than most people and so the real key to intelligence is not just the information it has been able to translate the information use it quickly so and dr. leaf as well as others have proven that if you want more glial cells all you have to do is stop for one minute and say I want new glial cells and just think at that moment I'm going to produce new glial cells and as you're thinking that and this is science this is this isn't you know just religion okay this is science now unfortunately you'll believe it when I tell you it's science but you didn't believe it when James said it because James said the same thing but now if so if you stuck your brain produces more glial cells just by you deciding to produce glial cells now but you have to say now notice if you're gonna stop and do it you're gonna think when you think I want more glial cells how are you thinking in words so you're still saying what do you say for she said within herself so you can say within yourself and it's still saying that right so when you say within yourself I want new glial cells your body immediately produces new glial cells now the Bible says you can turn your whole body not just your glial cells around so you can actually turn your entire body around so if there is disease or anything else anybody you can turn your body around by simply thinking it deciding it and saying this is what's gonna happen I'm gonna have health in my body now what basis do you have for that by His stripes you were healed do you get this this is science it is it is you know Christianity but it is scientifically proven now and that's the sad part is that whenever in in the Bible and people were preaching it many people wouldn't believe it but now that Caroline leaf comes out with it and it's science now they believe it so are you really believe in God are you believe in science so at some point you have to decide your unchoose to believe God so you can turn your whole body do you know that most of what you need done is produced out of your pineal gland that's a little bitty piece sized thing and you know we would say at your real brain so really you are pea brain but anyway that's it but there's a little thing right Connie in the center of your brain that produces and causes everything else to kind of produce and so if you could by your words your thoughts what you're doing you can direct it toward the pineal gland you can actually cause the pineal gland to produce the right substances that would change your body absolutely you can change your whole body I don't care what part of your body is giving you problems you can change it by simply deciding for it to change because God made you that way now get it he didn't do that because you're Christian he made you that way as a human but now he is telling you to turn your brain around and use it for him and he will empower you so now can you not only do what a human can do you can do it through the power of God which means it happens quicker faster better and when it's done it's perfect because I'm gonna add a scripture in here at last scripture is this the blessing of the Lord maketh rich and a death no sorrow amen maybe we'll talk more about that later joke anything out this morning [Music]

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Published: Wed Aug 21 2019