Andrew's Live Bible Study: Did God Do This To Me? - Barry Bennett - February 27, 2018

well welcome everyone to our Tuesday Night Live Bible study we're so excited that you're joining us again it's just so great to have such an amazing group of people that watch us on a regular basis but then also every week we always have people that join us you know as we as we get the names and stuff we always say all these different nations and and these different states you know Nigeria and Jamaica are joining us tonight South Africa and the West Indies British West Indies we have Florida and New York and Carolina and Texas so just thank you all of you for joining us you know we have first-time attendees we have an Emmy from Minnesota and a grace' from Facebook so welcome tonight for those of you that are new that are not here you know one of the things that makes this Tuesday night Bible study so dynamic is that it is interactive it's that you're watching us live we're bringing you a word from the Lord from you know whether it's Andrew or another guest minister they're bringing you a word but you get to interact with us and you get to ask question and answers and so I just want to give you a little direction of how you can interact and be a part of this of this family and this this teaching time any form that you're asking on right now any for them that you're watching whether it's Facebook or or that's the livestream with Andrew mic ministries on the website you can just go to your comment section and just ask a question and what they'll do is they'll send that right to me I've already got a number of questions that come in so we try to get to as many as we possibly can if you keep them on topic it's better and more likely that we'll be able to answer them but what we're able to do is we're able to go through these questions as you guys know for those of you that maybe watched earlier today off of Facebook you know we try to take part of Tuesday and answer some previous questions of last week and so our speaker tonight Barry Bennett so Barry is one of the favorites that comes in and fills in for Andrew everybody loves Barry he's such a great teacher and he actually answered about 910 questions this morning and so this is a really great way to interact if you even if you don't get it tonight then possibly next Tuesday were able to get to it so this is a really great opportunity and you know the thing that also is powerful about this is that you also get the Bible study notes and so I know Barry here has how many pages maybe six eight pages here Andrew - maybe - okay good he can stretch out two pages I promise you they are a meaty pages but you know usually Andrews got a number of pages as well and it's so important to get these you'll want to get them because they're gonna talk about things that they're not even gonna be able to finish or go into in depth and you're gonna want to go through those through the week or they may say something is exactly the answers you were looking for for maybe a situation or a friend and so you're gonna 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there's just a number of different people that join us and it's just such a pleasure as always what you guys can also do is during this time if you're saying I would need any prayer you know Barry touched on something or last week andrew shared on something i just really need prayer our helpline is open and there are ministers that are ready to pray with you they're ready to answer questions they're able to guide you towards resources and material that andrew has on our other speakers and so seven one nine six three five eleven eleven and you're going to want to reach out to us this is such a great resource sometimes you just don't have anybody like-minded that can agree with you in prayer or encourage you properly this is an amazing resource that andrew has provided for you as his partners and his listeners and so we're just I really encourage you to be a part of that so without further ado we're gonna share some other things here at the end of Barry's lesson but this is very bennett for those of you they joining us newberry is one of the favorite teachers outside of andrew in the in Kerris and so he's personally one of my favorite teachers I enjoy him so much I get so much from him and he's also the dean of students here he's an author he's a writer he's a minister he travels around the world he'd been a missionary so he's he's done the whole gamut pastor churches so he's just got so much experience to share with you so very thank you for being here tonight we're excited and so what are you gonna be sharing with us this evening well first thank you for having me I'm thrilled to be sure it's been really really happy to be with you again I wanted to mention first of all the the book that Kerry mentioned did God do this to me I was asked to expand this book and so it has eight new chapters in it we're turning up we're turning the mic on here so we're live anyway did God do this to me as a book I read a number of years ago and recently I think about a year ago I was asked to make it bigger and so we've done that and now it is being published by Harrison house it is available at Andrew Wommack ministry as you can see at the bottom of the screen Andrew Wommack ministries or Karis Bible College websites you can order the book or from Amazon Kindle other digital formats it's available in all those I want to just read through the table of contents real quickly with you because basically this is a book of questions and answers and one of the major turning points in my life and my ministry is when the Lord really spoke to my heart that many Christians are not getting their questions answered in church because many times the pastors don't know the answers either and this is back in 1998 I think that was I was a missionary in Chile and I just the whole focus of my ministry changed to begin to dig into the word and try to help people with answers to their very common question this game and so some of the contents of this book why did God create man knowing that he would send is God sovereign or did God do this to me and that's what I'm going to talk about tonight did God predestined who is saved and who is lost who has God predestined what does it mean to worship God in spirit and in truth he's being born again a biblical concept does water baptism remit sin does God create evil we're gonna change battery so just keep talking they'll catch it online oh good old Joe loves me does the Lord chasing us what does that mean all right unless we forgive others forgot to forgive us and the list goes on and on about the gifts of the Spirit doctrine of healing what about Ananias and Sapphira capital punishment the chapters I've added are what about war does God allow suffering what did they really say that's Shadrach Meshach and Abednego that's an interesting one that I enjoy what was Paul's thorn what does a generational curse what about those who haven't heard the gospel what does God's timing what does that mean and what about sexuality and identity so excuse me a lot of great questions in there hopefully there's some good answers at least something for you to think about all right so again you're gonna want to you up for those of you that want to apply for that or have an opportunity to win that a WMI debt slash Bible studies and get the notes and you have a possibility of winning that but again you're gonna want to get this book I really hired highly encourage you again on the lower screen it tells you how you can order it so I would do that and maybe a friends-and-family I would go ahead and get a couple copies for them as well okay they ran so tonight I want to talk about a little bit about the sovereignty of God and I know that this is a can be a very controversial subject and probably some of you will be stirred one way or the other but I think this is incredibly important for us to understand because we have been enculturated in this culture Western culture the religious traditions that we have have infused our lives our culture every part of our being basically tend to lean toward the idea that God is micromanaging the earth micromanaging our lives that he is in control God is in control is a very famous catchphrase God moves in mysterious ways who knows what God's going to do and so all of these things we have probably most of us been raised in that environment and I'm gonna challenge that tonight I'm going to challenge the idea of control I'm not challenging the idea of sovereignty but we need to understand what sovereignty really means God sovereignty means that God had the privilege we'll say to create the earth and its systems and its principles and its spiritual laws the way he wanted that's his sovereign will he created the earth the way he wanted and then he created man in His image and so until we until we understand that and in the next thing that I want to say really is the most important part of this it was that many of us don't really understand that God gave the earth to man if you can go to psalm 115 verse 16 and I have these written out for me tonight the heaven even the heavens are the Lord's but the earth has he given to the children of men God gave the earth to us Genesis 1:26 through 28 and says that God gave man dominion over the earth Psalm 8 and these are in the notes if you want to send in for the notes some eight verses three through six finish up by saying you have put all things under his feet meaning under man's feet God has given the earth to man and I don't think many Christians really believe that or really understand that typically the question and I tried to answer that question earlier today is why does God allow and then fill in the bank blank whatever why does God allow all of these different kinds of tragedies and this I really want you to listen God does not allow these things he's specifically told Adam do not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil so he is not allowing the evil in the world pay attention Adam did this man is allowing what's happening and because God created man in His image therefore he has to you know I'm at a loss for words but he has to abide by his own word in the sense that if he's given God if he's given man free will he is a given man the opportunity to choose and man chooses wrong God is going to have to sustain that choice in other words that choice is going to be honored if you will the good thing about that is that your choice to believe in Jesus will also be honored in other words if God is to remove free will from mankind then we can't choose Jesus we can't choose to love God so we are not robotic creatures we are created in His image he gave us the earth so let's move on what happened yeah I have these in number numbered so number one God gave the earth to man number two sin Unplugged man from god's purpose sinem plug to god for man and from god's purpose so in other words when adam sinned he had been created with god's image his identity he had been created with god's authority to have dominion over the earth God had blessed him in other words he had equipped him for success and then he gave him a purpose to be fruitful to multiply to have dominion over the earth and when Adam sinned he became immediately unplugged from his identity from his authority from his blessing and from his purpose and he was basically free to run amuck therefore the sin that we see in the world the darkness the corruption the loss the evil the the heartache the grief all of those things God isn't allowing that God said don't do that but Adam did that and God is going to honor Adams choice people many times question the idea of free will that we and they'll challenge that concept that we really don't have free will that we are being micromanaged or we're being controlled or everything that happens happens for a purpose and all these kinds of cliches but you know I'll talk to in in Bible College I'll talk to spirit-filled Christians a classroom of 200 students in the room and I'll say how many of you are born again every hand will go up how many of you are filled with the spirit every hand will go up how many of you are controlled by God not one hand will go up because they know they're not controlled by God they know they can still choose the flesh they know they can still choose what shirt they put on at which toothpastes they use they know they can make moral decisions they know they can make legal or illegal decisions they know they can speed in their car they know they have free will yet they are possessed by the Holy Spirit and so when people challenge the idea of free will I would start there Christians if anyone should be controlled by God it should be Christians and I would suggest that we're not we have free will sin is what opened that can of worms if you will we have the capacity to choose good or evil the tree of the knowledge of good and evil evil people can make good choices sometimes we see this all the time and the news people that we know are corrupt can be very philanthropic they can be they can do good things and then people that we know are good or that we estimate might might be good people can turn around and we find out later behind the scenes they're not good people they've made very bad choices and so that's all the result of sin in the earth alright so number three is man's free will apart from God often chooses evil man's free will apart from God often chooses evil God is going to honor that choice because he can't if he takes away someone's free will he has to take away all of mankind's free will he can't just take away this person's free will and that person's free will he wouldn't he gave it to mankind and if he takes it away he has to take it away from mankind so we have men choosing evil because they've lost their identity they've lost their Dominion they've lost their blessing they've lost their purpose and so now what do they do they look to satisfy the flesh so these are major subjects on and know they deserve a lot of a lot of time and thinking but let me read let me read Isaiah twenty four five and six Isaiah 24 verses five and six says the earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof because they have transgressed the laws meaning the laws of God spiritual laws they have changed the ordinance or that which God has established that which God has ordained I could we could talk about marriage between a man and a woman we've changed that ordinance if you're familiar at all with what's going on in our country they have broken the everlasting covenant and we could talk about covenants in different perspectives therefore has the curse devoured the earth and they that dwell therein are desolate therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned and few men left it sends a prophetic view toward it and other things involved but the principle is what I'm looking at here the earth is defiled because of man because of man's choices because of man rebelling against God the whole point of what I'm sharing with with you is that when people say well God is sovereign and God allowed or caused the tsunami God allowed or caused the hurricane God allowed or caused the tragedy or the the Twin Towers getting knocked over or and we can go on and on the the recent horrible shooting in Florida God caused or allowed that to me makes God an accessory to crime he becomes the perpetrator or the accessory to to the crime down I mean I'm sorry but I'm not gonna go with you there God is a good God God has given the earth to man and man has made choices that God is going to on earth but he did not allow it he is allowing us to make choices he is going to honor that sovereign decision to give man the capacity to choose that's what that's what sovereign about this all right so what happened besides man losing his identity his authority is blessing his purpose what else took place well we'll go to number four the devil became the god of this world the devil became the god of this world Jesus refers to him in John 10:10 as the thief yeah he says the thief comes to steal to kill and to destroy yeah well here's the the schizophrenia that some people have is that they attribute the characteristics and the nature of the devil to God and they say God caused or allowed the tsunami God caused or allowed the hurricane the earthquake the war the tragedy the child issues what's the sex slavery and all of these things God's allowing that to happen no God isn't allowing that to happen the thief comes to steal kill and destroy if you don't hear anything else tonight listen to this God is not the thief God is not your problems God is not the one that has brought heartache and grief and misery and sorrow and poverty and sickness into your life if that's been your thinking then I hope I can jar you shake you in some way God is not the author of that he is not the thief he is the one who comes to give us life and to give it abundantly or God is because we have the capacity to choose God is giving us a choice and the choice is Jesus and when you choose Jesus if you can get your mind renewed to the fact that God is not your enemy God loves you God wants you to have abundant life God gave his own son so that you could choose to have abundant life and all of the spiritual principles that we can talk about the grace of God the faith of God the love of God the authority of God everything that was lost through sin gets rebirth when we get born again our identity we get plugged back into God and now we have his identity we are the righteousness of God in Christ that becomes real to us again Authority Jesus says you shall trample upon serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy and nothing shall by any means harm you that's authority that many Christians don't know that they have they're still letting the double push them around make them sick steal their money divorce their their spouse all of these things the enemy is coming to steal kill and destroy but if you know who you are in Christ identity if you know what your authority is in Christ if you know what the grace of God means that you've been blessed with every blessing in spiritual places everything you need spirit soul and body has been provided so you can begin to turn your life around if you have the right thinking but if you think God is your problem your life is gonna be a mess a miserable mess alright did you want to jump in I am I know no you're great okay so bless all right okay so God is not the thief number five I have two more here number five the earth suffers under the curse of sin because of sin the earth was subject subjected to a curse it says in Romans 8:21 it talks about the creation itself will be delivered from the bondage of corruption or in other words the bondage that the earth is in right now is because of the corruption of sin the bondage of corruption so earthquakes hurricanes tornadoes other kinds of disasters aren't from God they are natural disasters dudes a sin in the earth the bondage of corruption and so when when Sun and all of us live in an earth in a world that's fallen we're all subject I lived in South America and Chile for many years as a missionary and we have earthquakes frequently those those hit the just and the unjust hurricanes hit the just and the unjust tsunamis and what have you those are natural disasters now as believers we have the ability to walk in divine protection from those things not everybody realizes that or does that but we do but they're not from God and so all of the the trauma that the earth is experiencing just a shaking that's going on in the earth is called the bondage of corruption it's due to sin it's not due to God God did not allow it he allowed man to make a choice man made the wrong choice and unleashed all of this God then made a choice God's choice was to become a man to become flesh to come and live in our midst demonstrate if you've seen me you've seen the father and then died for us and raised from the dead for us and give us another choice a choice to escape the corruption that is in the world praise God that's good news that's why we preach the gospel that's why I get so upset when I see Christians attributing to God things that are really from Satan or from sin yeah they're not from God God is every good and perfect gift James 1:13 James 1:17 is that right every good and perfect gift comes from the father in whom there is no shadow of turning in other words God hasn't changed one iota man changed and God is wanting to change man-bag but it's got to be with our cooperation all right and then finally number six God isn't this is another another can of worms so I'm given a smorgasbord of worms right but God is not judging us for sin in this age of grace many people think they're being judged by God for sin no you're not God has put us in an age of grace is called the today of salvation in Hebrews chapter 4 2nd Corinthians 5:20 excuse-me 5:19 2nd Corinthians 5:19 says he is not imputing our sins unto us I've heard some of the most famous preachers in the world not understand this he is not imputing our sins unto us and they say well God's judging the earth because of sin and John's God sending hurricanes and God's doing this and God's doing that no he's not imputing our sins unto us we impute our sins unto each other but God's not doing it he is not judging your sin right now he came to set you free from the power of sin there is a coming day of judgment but it's not now it's in we're in the today of salvation right now it says in in John 5:22 Jesus said this John 5:22 for the father judges know man and then it goes on to say he's committed all judgment to the Sun and so you say okay well it's not the father then it must be Jesus is causing all these terrible tragedies in the earth no it's not Jesus what Jesus says is that in John 12:48 he says he that rejects me and receives not my words has won that judges him the word that I have spoken the word that I have spoken shall judge him in the last day I know I've covered a lot here but let me try to sum this up God isn't sending trauma grief heartache death loss destruction sickness into your life that is not from God it is not because of your sin it's because of the sin of Adam that we live in this darkness this corruption that's in the world God did not allow it God allowed us to make a choice he was allowing you still to make a choice he's not sending those things the word will judge you but not until the last day we're not in the last day yet we're still in an age of grace and so if you want to understand sovereignty the sovereignty of God is that God sovereignly chose to make you in His image and allow you to choose and now it's up to you what are you going to choose the corruption that's here because of sin or are you going to choose the abundant life that came because of Jesus that's just a really quick introduction to a very profound subject but I hope that it may have got you thinking that's awesome I like what you said about you know if you believe God is the author of all situations and all this bad stuff then how can you be a believer because then it's hard to stand for the promises of the word have faith the same one that gives the promises also as busy killing yeah so you you're schizophrenic on the inside how do I believe am i doing right and so is this is this is life-changing you guys I'm gonna I'm gonna encourage you you definitely want to get these notes as as far as the scriptures and things and the goes into more detail yeah so is specifically different questions and I know we've got a ton of great questions here and because you know it's it's easy with this kind of mint of all gods you know God's in control and God does all these bad things that they can pick and choose verses that seem to confirm that and so different people are asking some specific questions about some verses and I think that would be really good so again if you're watching on a different format just go ahead and look at your comment box and put your question in and we're going to try to get to as many as we can but Graham here on on chat and to get talking about one of these verses in Matthew 11 verse 29 jesus said not one sparrow falls to the ground apart from your father's will what does this teach about God's sovereignty it does not say that in the Greek it does not say your father's will it just says without your father that has been an addition made no Greek manuscript says we'll get to know that's been an addition made by modern bible translators who believe in the sovereignty of god message they've added that in and it's a very very poor translation no sparrow will fall to the earth apart from your father and if you read the context as talking about your father's knowledge not his will so that's that's great this is why these Bible studies are so important because there's things that we don't study maybe we didn't know those things and so thank you for being here and answering the discussion okay so I want to make sure that I get the right ones um okay so Deb's on chat she said there are consequences to our actions for example unprotected sex can result in a baby bad life choices can result in sickness etc how can you explain to someone that it's not God who causes or allows these things to teach a lesson but it's just consequences to what people have chosen to how do you communicate that especially if someone's got a real strong oh guys just trying to teach me something well here's the deal if sickness and loss and disease and tragedy if those are your teachers you're in the wrong Kingdom God sent the Holy Spirit to teach us so you have a choice if you want to learn through sickness and loss and tragedy have a nice day I've chosen to learn through the Holy Spirit in the Word of God that's what he gave us to learn to perfect 2nd Timothy 3:16 and 17 the word perfects us we don't need to be sick we don't need to go through loss now going back to the first part of the question sin carries its own consequences yeah it's not the judgment of God it's just sin is corruption yeah anything my definition my latest definition of sin is independence from God anything that is an independent thought an independent word an independent action anything that this separates me from the mind of God the heart of God the the attitude of God the faith of God anything that separates me and makes me independent is sin and what does that mean it means that I have chosen to so to my flesh versus so to the spirit or live by the spirit well there are consequences for that sometimes the consequences can be mitigated and they're not severe other times they can be very severe sometimes they'll be instant sometimes they may be on down the road but there are consequences to being independent from God that was what Adam did in the beginning he chose independence and look what happened yeah apart from God excellent Amanda from Facebook she asks us what do you do with the predestined and chosen versa sometimes it just says chosen by God for good works which he prepared for us but a lot of times it really sounds like he's saying he's chosen who will be saved I don't believe he is predestined who will be saved or only chooses certain people to be saved but I also know I don't know what to do with these verses because there's a lot of them all of those verses and I teach this you need to come to Bible College yeah I teach this in school those verses each have a second part to them and typically our sovereignty friends will stop at the at the word predestined or predetermined or predestinate what have you but if you keep reading the verse it will tell you what has been predestined or what has been predestinated once you've believed on the Lord Jesus Christ your future is predestined to it you're adopted into his family you bear His image you're to the praise of his glory if you go on and read the rest of those verses you'll find out that once you've chosen to believe then you're not going to bear some other image you're going to bear the image of Jesus you're not going to go into some other family you're going to go into the father's family you aren't going to be some other periphery thing you're going to be to the praise of his glory those things have been predestined so in each of those verses if you keep reading and and look at what it's actually saying it's not saying people are predestined to salvation or to help its same believers have a predestined future once they choose to believe yeah it's prepared all these good things Christ Jesus right excellent so Joe from Facebook asks her a really good question he says this why is it that bad things we do seem to affect us sooner than the good things we do sometimes that's true sometimes it's not true there was the whole the whole issue of sowing and reaping again we Paul says in Galatians that if you sowed of the flesh reap corruption so the Spirit you reap eternal life or the blessings that come with life and sometimes harvests are very quick sometimes harvests or not and that goes both ways typically you say a negative word to your spouse the harvest is going to be rather rather quick right that's a joke but some some good deeds that says do not grow weary in well-doing because in due season you shall reap and so there are times when our doing well is a seed that is producing a abundant harvest but that abundant harvest might be on down the road sometimes sin has a quicker consequence depending on what kind of sin we're talking about but the sin of will say telling lies someone is telling lies they can get away with that for a long time but eventually that can catch up with them and then comes the harvest so it's not always as you've stated it sometimes it's quick sometimes it's not so quick yeah we have another question here from Ruthie Ruthie always sends great questions she said where do people get the idea that Satan has to ask for God's permission before he does something well they probably get it from the book of Job whence a favorite button yeah when Satan appeared before the for the throne that that deserves a lot of time I teach an hour on the book of Job but they're probably getting that from that because job saw that or excuse me Satan saw that job was a blessed man God had blessed him but job didn't have a covenant with God to protect him job didn't know God he repents for his ignorance at the back of the book and the end of the book job had no knowledge of God he had no knowledge of Satan he had no he was not born again so he had no spiritual weapons the job had no gifts of the Spirit he had I'm missing a couple things he had no intercessor I teach this eight differences between job and a New Testament Christian and so he had no intercessor he had an accused or Satan was his accuser so there is nothing in the book of Job that pertains even remotely to us in our New Covenant but the idea that Satan could go before God and accused job probably that's where that comes from however the accuser has been cast down Jesus is our legal representative he sat down when he sat down at the right hand of God we now have an intercessor and even if the enemy could go before the throne of God which I don't think he can anymore but even if he could he cannot get past our intercessor and so things have changed once Jesus was on the cross and said it is finished and then rose from the dead and sat down at the right hand of God things have changed so those Old Testament examples don't apply in the Covenant that we have yeah that's good excellent so we have here from sallee from Facebook Sally rights issues as I was reading today how God hardened Pharaoh's heart more than once this seemed to be God's choice to take away Pharaoh's freewill what do you think I'm gonna disagree with you if you read more carefully before God hardened Pharaoh's heart Pharaoh hardened Pharaoh's heart I think at least four times before God moved in in other words Pharaoh had the opportunity God saw that his heart was hardening toward the people of Israel and God moved in finally and and sealed the deal with Pharaoh but God didn't begin by hardening Pharaoh's heart we'll begin by hardening his own heart yeah okay it was good we had a couple questions on that so that that speaks to a lot of people how Stephanie from facebook says can you speak to situations where a person is standing believing for a promise from God when this promise involves another person and their will so if someone else is free will when we're standing and we're wanting to see those things for them I you know I have a little teaching I can even send well I don't know maybe I could add it into these notes on how to pray for a lost person you can't violate their will but you can by the Holy Spirit create an environment in which they can be more apt to hear God or to be touched by God and so I teach I think five or six different ways you can pray that are Scripture scriptural ways to pray for people that are lost that you're concerned for and you can pray for the work of the Holy Spirit in their life you can pray for any seed of God's Word that they've ever heard pray that it would spring forth you can pray that God send laborers across their paths that are relevant to them and so there are different ways to pray for them but you can't violate their will that's something God has put in place they will have to open their ears open their heart and allow the Word of God to work in their lives that's okay so that account that's a question kind of online when you want to see a promise or you want to see in a restoration or something a miracle for another person this is kind of on the other side and maybe it's the same answer but it's it's a good way to mm-hm to look at this Ruthy again as she says how do you fight the evil of some people's free will for example abortion same-sex marriage and other things that aren't pleasing to the Lord how do you fight against those things that other people are choosing freely well the greatest weapon that we have Johnny thirty two Jesus says and you shall know the truth if you abide in my word you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free people are in bondage to wrong ideas wrong thinking wrong concepts of God they're in bondage to sin to corruption they're in bondage to the culture that we live and they've been conformed to this world and they really the only thing that that can set them free is truth and so they've got to be exposed to truth they've got to run into people that stand for truth got to hear truth we've got to know answers to questions so that we can give them truth instead of just religious cliches that leave people still confused and so that's why I'm so passionate about this is that once you get a taste of truth the chains start to fall off I was talking to someone very recently that had heard me talk about and teach on abortion and she had had an abortion and she came came forward and we talked for a while and it was the truth that set her free and it was the truth that ministered God's grace and love to her in spite of the mistake that she had made but this is the answer for everything is that we need to know truth and be able to share it in a way that is relevant that is comprehensible so that people can have the opportunity to choose truth excellent maritza on chat says this can you explain divine appointments if God does not control anything on earth divine appointments good good question yeah maritza next I said I'll give you the hard ones oh he's the answer man come on I think if people are walking in the spirit in other words if you are if your heart's desire is to be led by God then God can lead you but he can't push you yeah that's good alright so you can be led into what we call divine appointments that's you know dependent once again upon you choosing to be sensitive to God and to walk in what he's showing you yeah I think that he said he's prepared good things beforehand yeah so he's got these great things but he says you know you get to choose so if you're following after God then there's just a right place at the right time I read something today on my public figure Facebook page about choices and how the choices we make can change our lives even little choices and I use Paul as an example where he chose to go to the temple and pray and why he's praying God speaks to him and said get out of the city they're coming to get you they're gonna take your life and so because he chose to go pray he was able to get a message from God and and move out of his so I use this as a slightly humorous but what if he had chosen to go to Starbucks I think what if he had chosen to go to the gym and work out and I'm not putting those things down but what I am saying is that we've got to be very discerning in our choices so that we are always contactable the Spirit of God that he can't lead us yeah can't speak to us that's good excellent okay so Sharon on chat she says does God use things to test us I don't believe so but recently someone tried to tell me that he uses certain incidents in our lives to shape us okay I'm gonna disagree with that - all right I feel very negative to me in a positive way no James 1:13 says God does not tempt us or tête and the word tempt is the same word in the Greek for for tests it's the same word there's no difference at all sometimes it's translated tests sometimes tempt God does not tempt or test us he cannot be tempted with evil nor does he tempt or test any man so he doesn't need to hear folks Jesus went through every possible test and temptation for you so that you don't have to go through it in other words he had to he had to confront the double face-to-face he had to go in the wilderness for 40 days he had to be shown all the kingdoms of the world and be able to say it is written you shall worship the Lord your God only and so he went through those tests as a divine demonstration of the power of righteousness well we're the righteousness of God in Christ God doesn't have to send tests to us we are being tested 24/7 by the world in which we live everything is a test every thought every word everything in the world is a test for us but it's not from God what God did this is the good news is that he equipped us to to overcome and conquer every test in other words he's and I do this a lot in my messages but he gave us the name of Jesus he gave us the Holy Spirit he gave us the shield of faith he gave us the Word of God he gave us all the promises that are yes and amen he gave us the keys to the kingdom he gave us the gifts of the Spirit and we can go on and on and on and everything that God has given us so that we can reign in life that we can be more than conquerors that we can overcome these tests the tests aren't from God the provision to win is from God yeah that's good I think that's a good we're almost we're almost done here unfortunately but I won't add just another couple questions here at least one for sure Devin from chat says what about where it says God won't give us more than we can handle he won't allow you I think this is first Corinthians if I'm not mistaken first Corinthians 10 or something like that he won't allow you to be tempted in other words he what I was just saying he has made provision for you or in other words he's not sending the temptation he's sending the provision and there is no temptation that is bigger than God's provision yeah you never have to give in you always have the grace of God available to you to vent to and when in Spanish there to to conquer every temptation that's good alright last question here Renee from Facebook she said she asked this is God in control which I think you know you've answered this really well tonight but the rest of this question is does his will automatically come to pass this is well automatically come to pass ultimately everything God has decreed will come to pass God has decreed jesus is coming back that's going to come to pass God has decreed that he is going to pour out his wrath on those that hate him that's going to come to pass God has decreed that he's going to take his his children with him that's going to come to pass those things that God has decreed are going to come to pass now who is going to be involved in the mix that's our choice so we we choose whether we're going to be part of God's purpose and plan or not one thing I didn't talk about that I think is important because there are some verses in the Old Testament to talk about God creates evil eye.i formed the light I create darkness I create evil I do all these things and those need to be understood within the context of the Old Covenant those are specifically spoken to Israel because they chose to rebelled against his word his covenant with Israel was that if you do well I'll bless you if you don't do well I'll curse you that was their covenant so when he talks about doing evil in the Old Testament it's in at context we have Hebrews 8:6 a better covenant established on better promises in our covenant Jesus became the curse for us yeah God is not cursing us he's not judging us he's blessing us well this has been excellent tonight so I just want to thank you guys for joining us again you want to get this book if if you've got all the answers but you have other friends and family who don't and they're still seeking the Lord this is a great book again the Bible study notes a WMI net slash Bible study you're definitely gonna want to check that out also for our viewers that are watching you know one of the things with Kerry's Bible studies and and just carries as a whole we're trying to minister to you on on every level so check out the men's advance March 8th through the 10th that's gonna be coming up here at Karis really soon we've got Tony Dungy and James Brown and Andrew Wommack as for those of you that know Tony 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imparting into my life the Bible City knows how I'm able to go through these then that's also the same number the helpline seven one nine six three five eleven eleven you can call and just sow into this ministry so we can continue to reach out and touch people's lives so thank you berry this was fantastic can you just close in prayer just for a lot of our listeners and the audience that Oh God let's pray how do you father we love you Lord tonight hearts would be touched with a revelation of how much you love them that you are not their enemy you're not the thief a man you are the blesser you are the giver you're the one who wants to give abundant life to do exceedingly abundantly more than we could ask or think and I pray that mines would be getting renewed tonight and hearts would be open to the seed of truth that we could be set free farther from the corruption that is in the world from the bondage of Lies and father we could embrace you know you as you truly are that if we see Jesus we've seen the father we have seen the love we've seen the provision we've seen the Grace and Lord I just speak that over everyone watching tonight I just speak blessing into your life blessing into your into your physical bodies blessing into your circumstances into your families and homes we thank you Father for your goodness we give you all the praise and glory in Jesus name Amen well we look forward to seeing you next Tuesday please join us hear tell friends and family and again always you can go back and check out the previous Tuesday night live Bible studies and you're gonna continue to get blessed oh all right we'll see you next Tuesday and god bless you [Music] [Applause] [Music] freely my sin hi I'm James Brown men I'm inviting you to come to the 2018 men's advance at Karis Bible College Andrew Wommack myself and Hall of Fame coach Tony Dungy will be speaking on how to win from within and to train for greatness you won't want to miss the 2018 men's advance Andrew Tony and I want to see you there the 2018 men's advance march 8th through the 10th register at a WM I dotnet slash events there is nothing more important in your life than you taking the truth of God's Word and planting them in your heart when you begin to find out all that God has placed on the inside of you you'll get up and change your action I just have these amazing revelations from God and it's already transforming my life there are strongholds over cities that need to be shaken with the Word of God and somebody's got to go there is enough grace and truth in you to bring healing and salvation to every person on this earth but it's you making a decision I have got to let the word be hidden within my heart so that is what pours out your journey starts here at Karis find out more at campus days 2018 in Woodland Park Colorado April 4th through 6th register now at campus days org this March go on a journey with God watch the bible come to life as it's retold by the Apostle Peter to persecuted Christians in Rome bully spirit thank you that you will lead us and strengthen us and remind us of the faith of Abraham the hearts of David the wisdom of Solomon and the boldness and courage of death by order of Emperor Nero all persons suspected of following the religious sect known as Christianity will be thrown to the Lions in the Circus Maximus God chooses the weak things of this world because it isn't our weaknesses history is repeating if God is for us then who can be against us hello this is Andrew Wommack and I'd like to encourage you to check out our gospel truth TV that's gospel truth dot TV it's an internet-based television network and you are not only going to get my teaching but you are also going to hear instructors from Charis Bible College you got well known people on there like Kenneth Copeland Creflo Dollar Jesse Duplantis Keith Moore these are all people that are friends of mine we have differences in variances but we're all preaching the same thing and it's a safe place to be you are gonna be blessed so check it out it's 24/7 gospel truths dot TV [Music] heard about Andrew through my father my mom had sent me a tape a friend of mine had told my husband but we heard about it from my dad through my pastor came across him on YouTube you gotta listen to this you need to watch this I can't think of another patch of soil that's any more fertile than what Andrew has going on right here at Cass Bible College in Angelo Mac ministries he shook my hand he says you know this is happening because of you [Music] gosh it's just so good to be part of Andrews ministry many Christians believe their salvation depends at least in part on their performance even though they believe that Jesus died for their sins they think that there is still a certain standard to meet if that's true then what is the standard and how do you know when you've met it it's not what you do but what Jesus did plunge the depths of God's grace through the Romans collection package if you want to throw off shame and condemnation and learn how to walk and the grace of God that comes freely through the finished work of Jesus Christ than the Romans collection packages for you visit our website to learn more hello this is Andrew Wommack and I just want to thank you for being a part of our social media we are seeing some great things happen I just wanted to share some of these testimonies with you things that have happened recently that we got testimonies through the postings that we put on social media one of them says I thank God first for allowing me to read on this page hallelujah I was a Muslim but by the grace of Lord Jesus Christ he called me to become his son and I am a born-again Christian for his the law and that right there is awesome another testimony says I was healed tonight while watching him drew on healing is here I've had chronic back pain been to many doctors and have been taking medicine strength motrin for more than 15 years I am completely healed and free of pain for the first time thank you Jesus and thank you Andrew for the healing word so these are things that are coming out of the social media ministry and I would like to encourage you to be a part of this these testimonies could be amplified many times over if we just had more people participating in it so thank you for being a part of it god bless you and share this ministry with other people you you you

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