August 22, 2021: What's Your Focus? (Andrew Wommack)

[Music] he paid for all of the sins for all of the people for all of time you know it doesn't take a double doctoral or a master's work i'm not poking fun at anybody be who god created you to be please always boils down to our relationship with jesus that it that relationship affects everything in our lives god chose israel our founding fathers chose god be a doer of the word because faith without works is dead for real that's religion that's knowledge that's intellect you need to go out there and engage with your world and own your liberty praise god so what a blessing man i'm i heard a little bit of steve's testimony about his mom sharon and how he died and was brought back man this is just miracles everything here is a miracle and to see the way that god has enabled you to redo the church building here and draw people and stuff this is awesome i tell you i believe that god's pleased god's pleased with y'all amen and i can tell that y'all love the lord by the way you're singing so that's just great let me turn over to second corinthians chapter five and i just want to share with you i'm sure that these are things that you've heard steve and kay share and other people share but i just want to share with you about the goodness of god that god is a good god he's not mad at you he's not even in a bad mood and did you know that most religion is not teaching that right now there are churches meeting all around the world and yet the vast majority of them are saying that god is angry that god is ready to judge you they're trying to make people feel guilty and condemned about things and i am not saying that our actions aren't important and i'm not saying that there isn't a coming a time that we are going to give an account of what we've done but the good news is that jesus came and bore all of that punishment that you and i deserved and it's the gospel that is the power of god romans chapter 1 verse 16. paul said i am not ashamed of the gospel because it is the power of god unto salvation and the word gospel means good news and sad to say a lot of churches today aren't preaching good news they're saying that there's a hell you're going to hell repent or else turn or burn and did you know that those things are true if a person doesn't know the lord but it's not good news it's not the gospel it's the good news of what jesus did that gives people the power to believe and receive it says that it's the power unto salvation and the word salvation there isn't limited to just your initial forgiveness of sins but it's talking about it's the power unto healing deliverance joy peace uh freedom from depression discouragement anything anything that came as a result of what jesus did is a part of salvation it's not only talking about forgiveness of sins you know i was raised in a church that preached that salvation was all about just the forgiveness of sins and once you got saved it was over until you go to heaven you were saved and stuck and we saw people born again i got born again when i was eight years old and i was truly changed but i wasn't told that it was god's will to prosper us and to give us victory and joy and power and all of these things it was like we sang the song when we all get to heaven what a day that's going to be but man in the rough now and now there was no victory whatsoever you just got saved and held on for you know as best you could and hoping that you could go to heaven and because of that my dad was the chairman of the deacons but he died when i was 12 years old he was sick he actually died when i was two years old and was raised from the dead that's another story but he was sickly and he he was the chairman of the deacons but they didn't preach healing they didn't understand that and so anyway i lost my dad and grew up just not understanding that that the gospel gives you power to overcome sickness overcome everything it wasn't a full gospel at all and so because of it when i found out that man jesus paid for everything i became fanatical with it and i just started believing god and by the grace of god we've seen a lot of really really awesome things happen but here in second corinthians chapter five these are some of the verses that the lord used to transform my life verse 17 just totally changed me i'm going to read it but in the name of jesus i'm trying not to preach on this because i could stay here forever matter of fact i got a book entitled spirit soul and body that's based on this but it says in verse 17 says therefore if any man be in christ he is a new creature old things are passed away behold all things are become new you know that is so familiar to most people that they don't know what it says they just pass over it but man that's powerful your body did not become new you still got the same body that you had before you got saved if you were a man you're still a man if you're a woman you're still a woman i don't care what you feel like you are so your body didn't change and your soul hasn't changed automatically your soul is subject to change you can renew it it talks about in romans 2 12 2 to be transformed by the renewing of your mind so you can change the way you think and ultimately the way you think and controls the way you act so you can see the soulish realm change but this is talking about it's in the spirit that you were changed and this is what changed my life because when i saw this and understood that the change happened in my spirit and it didn't matter what it looked like or felt like in the spirit i was identical to jesus if you've been born again every one of you who've been born again have the fullness of god living in your spirit man when i saw that that changed my life and i didn't have a clue how to get it from my spirit out into my physical body but just knowing that i had it changed the whole thing i often say it's like a old squirrel if he doesn't quit you know an old blind squirrel will get a nut every once in a while if he doesn't quit and i just knew that this power was in me i saw that in christ i was a new creature and first john chapter 4 verse 17 as he is so are we in this world it didn't say so are we going to be in the next world so are we in this world when i saw that i just knew that inside of me was this raising from the dead power that inside of me was an ability to overcome whatever the devil threw at me and i didn't know how to get it out but it just so excited me i started praying for anything that moved i mean i prayed for i i bet you i prayed for hundreds of people before i saw the first person actually healed and i prayed for lots of people who were blind before i saw the first blind eye open but just knowing that it was in here i started trying to release it and in the process uh if you don't quit you'll learn a lot of things along the way so anyway this verse just literally transformed my life but i'm wanting to focus on the uh verses right after this and verse 18 it says and all things are of god this is talking about the part of you that's born again in your spirit man it's hard for me to say this without trying to explain it because most people don't think this way most people are what the bible calls carnal and i i know that a lot of people take that as a criticism and stuff the word carnal just means you're controlled or dominated by your five senses what you can see taste tear smell or feel this is the way that most people live you know we just had a meeting and we prayed for people and i remember talking to this one person and and uh i said you're healed and they said well i don't feel any different that's what the bible calls carnal it doesn't matter what you feel right but most people why how can i live i mean how can i say that i'm healed if i can't feel that i'm healed see that's most people don't believe that there's anything that exists beyond this physical realm and your mental emotional realm and that's what the bible calls carnal it doesn't necessarily mean that you're a terrible person all terrible people all all rapists and murderers and stuff are carnal but you can be carnal and be holy you could be as straight as an arrow as straight as a gun barrel and twice as empty you could do everything right and be totally carnal if you were a person that can't believe and function outside of what you see taste tear smell or feel you're what the bible calls carnal and so this is saying that when you got born again you became totally brand new and some people struggle with that because they look in the mirror and they don't see the change they search their emotions and they still have some of the same feelings and so they say i just don't understand the bible it's because you are looking for god in just your physical body it's in the spirit it says in john 4 24 that god is a spirit and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth you have to worship him through your spirit and your spirit is a part of you that old things passed away all things became new and it says in verse 18 all things are of god in your spirit there is no impurity there is no lack there's no inadequacy the bible says in galatians 5 22 and 23 that the fruit of the spirit is love joy peace long-suffering gentleness goodness faith meekness and temperance that's describing what's in your spirit your spirit is full of love so guess what any time you aren't full of love you aren't in the spirit amen and some people say well i don't feel the love of god oh god pour out your love that's actually a wrong way to approach it because in your spirit you're already full of love joy and peace when you don't feel love instead of saying oh god just reveal your love pour your love out to me what you need to do is say father i'm sorry for being carnal i'm sorry then i'm just going by what i feel i'm sorry that i'm trying to find you in just the physical realm and i'm not relying on what your word says the bible says in romans chapter 5 verse i'm not sure verse 6 somewhere around there that the love of god has been shed abroad in our hearts through the holy spirit you have the love of god if you're born again you are full of the love of god if you've ever seen anybody full of the love of god and you look at them and think i wished i could be that way you are in your spirit you just haven't got it released through your mind and into your body and into your emotions yet but you have the love of god the fullness of the love of god on the inside of you it says you also have joy and i meet so many people that come to me and say would you please pray that i would have the joy of the lord no i won't pray that because you've already got it i've got a book entitled you've already got it so quit trying to get it and people don't understand this and they're just going by well i don't feel joy all it means is you're carnal it just means that you are going and being controlled by what you feel and some of you are thinking well man i kind of like to feel it you know it's amazing but when you become spiritually minded and find out who you are in christ and start walking by the spirit and by what the word says i'm not denying feelings but feelings follow what you think they don't precede what you think and when you begin to start finding out who you are in christ and what you have you'll have all of the joy i am one happy person and i guarantee you i've got a lot of uh people that hate me i've we've been two or three months that i'm trashed every week in the paper they they just say bad things about me but you know what i'm not it doesn't keep me up at night and stuff because i've got joy in my heart and i'm focused on the lord and i have joy and i have peace and i'm not discouraged and i'm not depressed and i'm not all of these things because in my spirit i've got joy and i'm walking in who i am in christ so i'm not saying that you ignore your body and that you ignore your emotions but you don't let them control you you control your emotions i pick how i feel and i focus on what god has done and as you keep your mind stayed upon the lord isaiah 26 3 says the lord will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed upon him because he trusts in him if you don't have perfect peace and i can spend an hour describing that contrasting what the world calls peace to what the bible calls a peace that passes understanding it has nothing to do with what you're feeling or seeing but it if you aren't in perfect peace it's because your mind's not stayed upon god it's because your mind is stayed upon what they're writing about you in the paper or what somebody said about you or you've been listening to you know as the stomach turns on television which is just producing all of this bad stuff i had i had a woman come to me last night and she was fighting depression and she was saying i just have all of these problems i said there is not a thing wrong with your emotions your emotions function properly it's what your focus is what the problem is you're focused on the wrong thing if you would be focused on who you are and what jesus has done for you i guarantee you there would be joy unspeakable and full of glory but it's different than the joy that you have in the world when there's just no problem you know we don't go we don't have situations where there's no problems very often most of the time you you have some problem or there's one on the horizon one will be coming but uh we live in a fallen world and you just are never going to have true joy and peace and all of the fruit of the spirit and if you are carnal and looking for it in just the physical ways but i tell you i've had uh joy in the midst of terrible situations i had my son died and uh he was uh dead they woke us up at 4 15 in the morning and and my oldest son called and said i'm sorry to tell you this but peter's dead and i said what happened and you know what jamie and i had to get up and get dressed and head into town we were four uh we were an hour outside of uh colorado springs and during that period of time i started having uh depression or discouragement or you know grief anything that anybody else would have but i just refu i know that i can control how i feel and i didn't like feeling grief and i didn't like sorrow and i just said i will not have it i know what i'm saying is rare is hen's teeth to a lot of people like you can't do that i can do it i can choose how i want to feel and i just chose to start praising god and i said god i am i am not going to grieve you are a good god you didn't do this you aren't the one that killed my son and i just started praising god and i started thanking god for his goodness even though my son had died i chose to praise god and did you know when you do that the bible there's many scriptures that talk about that praise it you abound in faith with thanksgiving colossians 2 7 that praise is strength to steal the enemy and the avenger and psalms 8 2 with matthew chapter 21 and there's scriptures that the lord has taught me and i just started praising god and did you know when i did the faith of god rose up on the inside of me god reminded me of prophecies and man i just sat and declared that he will not stay dead he's coming back he had been dead for five hours he was in a morgue stripped naked he was a white boy and he was black he turned totally black stripped naked had a toe tag on in a on a freezer and he sat up and started talking after five hours and no brain damage no more than it had before it was awesome and he was just with me in chicago and he's the one that puts our led screen up and does all of that and the guy's alive and well and the year after he was raised from the dead i had my granddaughter the only grandchild that i've got and uh and it was awesome and it was because i chose to be controlled by your flesh by your feelings by what you see is bondage it's bondage man the lord set us free not just set us free from hell that's awesome if that's all there was to it that'd be more than we deserve i'd thank him forever just for that but he set you free from being controlled by how you feel if somebody spits on you i've had people spit in my face before and you know a big old wad at the back and i just wiped it off and kept talking didn't miss a single word in the sentence i kept telling them about the love of jesus i've had people threaten to kill me i've been kidnapped i've had a lot of things happen to me and you know what i still just continue to praise god i am not going to let what somebody does to me or what circumstances do to me change how i feel and if you're one of those that when something bad happens you just fall apart like a two dollar suitcase and you can't control yourself that's bondage amen some of you are looking at me strange you think i'm weird but i think you're weird to have love joy and peace on the inside and you aren't going to use it instead you're going to go because this person said something to you this person did this because you don't have enough money because of you know whatever and because of this you're going to let it affect your emotions the whole time you're sitting there depressed and discouraged sucking your thumb talking about how bad everything is your spirit is just basking in the love of god if that's true which it is then why would you sit there and let your physical emotions the carnal realm control you instead of being controlled by who you are in christ i have to believe that the reason most people don't live by the spirit and what they have in the spirit is because of ignorance they just honestly don't know that this has happened they think that all that's real is what you can see taste tear smell and feel but did you know that there's there's a spiritual realm right now there are angels and demons in this place somebody say how do you know that i hadn't seen them i haven't heard them i can't touch them but the word of god says it come on all right i even know two of my angels names it says surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life it says the angel of the lord and camps round about those who love him i've never seen that but did you know i know it's true i read over in second kings chapter 6 where elisha had multitudes of angels horses and chariots of fire surrounding him and the new testament says that what we have as new testament believers is greater than anything they ever had so if elijah elisha had thousands of angels around him i've got thousands of angels around me and you've got thousands of angels around you man this place is crowded there's a lot going on but i can't see it i can't feel it but when i focus on what the word says see the word of god is like a window it's it's like a way to see into the spiritual realm it says jesus said this in john chapter 6 verse 63 he says it's the spirit that quickens word quicken means makes a lie it's the spirit that makes alive the flesh profits nothing amen boy that is so different than us to us the flesh is everything the flesh is the focus you have a hangnail a little toenail problem or something man it just ruined your whole day the flesh dominates and controls but jesus said the flesh profits nothing the words that i speak unto you they are spirit and they are alive god's word reveals spirit to us and so what you've got to do is get to where you walk by the spirit and not by your sight not by your feelings not by just your thought life you have to get to where god's word is more real to you than what you can see taste tear smell or feel and that's exactly what happened with when my son died i didn't deny that my son died i didn't deny that i had negative emotions but i refuse to allow them to dominate me because i am not only physical i also have a spirit on the inside of me and i am going to walk by the spirit and not walk by the flesh and when i made that choice and started praising god is when the spirit of god started flowing and that's when this resurrection power came that's when my son was raised from the dead and you have a choice you have a choice whether you're going to become bitter or better you have a choice whether you are going to take the word of god and stand on what it says or if you're just going to live like everybody else like a mere human being you just go by what you feel what you see but this is this is what the doctor said the doctor can only check your physical body they can't check your spirit but in your spirit you've got raising from the dead power ephesians chapter 1 verse 19 and 20. you got the same power that raised jesus christ from the dead living on the inside of you a doctor can't find that they can't they don't have a test for it but i'm telling you the word of god says ephesians 1 19 and 20 that you have the same power on the inside of you that raised jesus christ from the dead now are you going to function in what you have in the spirit or are you going to go by what the doctor says about your physical body are you going to go by what the spirit says that he's already blessed you with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in christ jesus are you going to go by what your bank account says are you going to go by what you know whether it's in the red or whether it's in the black see most people just totally live in this natural realm and think that this is all there is to it and they look at somebody who's talking the way i do is man you're weird you're not you're in denial i'm not in denial i don't deny that the flesh exists i don't deny that there are times that i don't feel faith and that i don't feel like doing certain things i don't deny any of those things but i do deny that that's all there is to me there's a spiritual part of me that i am identical to jesus because it is his spirit that is sent into my heart crying abba father galatians 4 6 i have his spirit living on the inside of me and it's at my disposal he told me he gave me his name and that i can say in the name of jesus i can release his power and i have a choice and i know that there's some of you here that you know this is sunday morning you're sitting in church you got your best church face on and you're nodding your head but during the week man if you don't feel joy well then you just settle in well i'm depressed and you give in to depression you give in to fear you give in to discouragement and stuff and you don't have to every one of you have been given everything that you need to be above only and not beneath the head and not the tail is what deuteronomy chapter 28 says man i talk to people sometimes how are you doing well not too bad under the circumstances what are you doing under there you're supposed to be above only and not beneath why do you let circumstance you can choose how you feel if that's true if you can choose how you feel why would you choose to be depressed and again some well i didn't choose this yes you did you chose to focus on your problems the lord said he'll keep you in perfect peace when your mind is stayed upon him if your mind is stayed upon him you'll have perfect peace if you don't have perfect peace it's because your mind is not stayed upon him isaiah 26 3. so there's nothing wrong with your emotions it's your focus you are focused on the bad things and there's plenty of bad things out there i saw a bumper sticker that says if you aren't depressed you aren't paying attention and you know that's true if you're just going to talk about the physical natural realm we are seeing things happen that i never thought i'd see happen in my lifetime you know steve was talking about first responders people going into the military and men they're having to fight things they don't have the support of people people are defunding the police ambushing the police i mean it's terrible i never thought i'd see these things happen in my lifetime there's a lot of bad things going on i mean bad bad things people can't even figure out which bathroom to go into i mean it's like people have lost their ever-loving mind it's just crazy and if you are focused on that i guarantee it's depressing it's discouraging and so that's what causes depression is you focused on all of the negative things you know i've got so many i've got so many challenges against me right now if i was to tell you some of my problems most of you go to feeling sorry for me i've got a lot of problems i could i could focus on them and if i did i'd be discouraged i'd be depressed but i've also got so many good things that god is doing and it's up to me whether i choose to think about it somebody said well i hadn't got any good thing in my life boy it's a good thing i'm not god i just turn you into a little pile of ashes right now man you think you haven't got anything to praise god for you live in the greatest nation on the face of the earth and despite the things that we see happening this is the best thing afloat you've got freedom and liberties you are living in luxury that kings in in past times wouldn't have ever dreamed that you could stick a you know a cup in of water in the microwave and in just a few seconds have the thing hot and all of the conveniences and travel that we've got and on and on and you've got things that most people that have lived on this planet have never had and you're going to focus on what you don't have instead of what you do have that's your choice and that's the reason that you get depressed and discouraged you know i've got uh 26 acres on the place where i live and it's just solid trees and so i'm doing fire mitigation i'm cutting trees down cutting off limbs hauling them off and doing all of this and anyway 26 acres is a lot of land to mitigate one day i was i was hauling trees that i had cut up to the road where i could haul them off with my skid loader and i was doing this and i walked 61 the equivalent of 61 flights of stairs in one day pulling this wood up and down and it's just a lot of work so anyway my point is that when i drive down my driveway nearly every time i'm looking and thinking oh man that tree needs to come down i need to do this and i just constantly see all that i've got to do and this last week as i was driving the lord spoke to me and he says why do you always look at what you've got to do instead of what you've already done and i just consciously started saying man this part looks really good and i started looking at what i had done instead of what i needed to do and it changed my whole attitude and there are some of you that all you do is look at what you don't have instead of what you do have you need to go to praising god for things being as good as they are you know i was teaching this very message probably 30 something years ago and there was a man uh pastor bob nichols who's a good friend of mine he's on my board of directors and has been like a mentor to me and he pastored calvary cathedral in fort worth texas and his daughter had a car wreck and hit her head started having headaches and in about two years she went into seizures and i was actually in the hospital when when the doctors walked into her room and said pastor bob you need to pull the plug she's brain dead and he just was polite to him says no that's not what we're believing and he stood and believed and anyway it's now been 25 years later and she's still alive and she she can't function she they say they do test on her every once in a while and according to them she's dead she has no brain function but she can stand she can take a few steps every once while if you do something she'll yell and say no and she's there but according to them she's not there pastor bob has had to have 24 hour a day nurses in his home for 25 years or whatever it is his wife is dealing with memory loss he was going through financial problems in his church and on and on i could go he this guy had more problems than most of us have ever dealt with and as i was saying this about focusing on the good and praising god for the good and not focusing on the bad pastor bob just on the front row he stood up and threw his bible on the floor and he says i've had all of this i can take i can't take it anymore thank you jesus that things are so good and he just started praising god for how good everything was and nearly everybody there knew how bad things were for him and boy you just started seeing people hit the floor and apologized oh god forgive me and repent man if you think you got things bad i i guarantee you i've dealt with enough people i if i could talk to you personally i could mention people that have had it ten times worse than you've had it and they're still praising god i'm telling you brothers and sisters it's up to you whether you focus on who you are in christ what you have in christ or whether you walk by your flesh and let your feelings and your emotions control you it's totally up to you you can choose and many people will take what i'm saying and say that this is your you aren't compassionate you aren't having empathy for those that are having trouble i have compassion towards you and sometimes what you need is not somebody to come along and val validate how bad your situation is and tell you how bad it is sometimes you need to bend over and let somebody give you a good swift kick in the rear amen and tell you to pull your thumb out of your mouth and start you know acting like a person who's been born again and has the power of god in them you know we've been resurrected from the dead we're alive other people are dead there ought to be a difference between alive and a dead person man i was in a church service like this somebody died they called 9-1-1 and they took out half the congregation before they found the dead person and you need to act alive the buzzards are coming amen i'm telling you we got so much reason to be rejoicing and praising god he's been so good to us but most of us are what the bible calls carnal we're just looking at things in the physical natural realm if your situation is so bad that you just think there's nothing good going on in my life then just think about heaven you know i believe that this is what the lord was saying in john chapter 14 verse 1 when he says let not your heart be troubled you believe in god believe also in me that was the night before his crucifixion most people would think well this is unreasonable to tell these guys not to let their heart be troubled they should have been brokenhearted to see their master arrested and beaten and then crucified and yet jesus said don't let your heart be troubled and that goes through 14 15 and 16 john 14 14-16 and at the very last verse of john 16 he says in the world you shall have tribulation such as in the next 30 minutes in the world you shall have tribulation but be of good cheer for i have overcome the world jesus was proclaiming his victory and his overcoming even before he saw it and telling them to rejoice if they would have taken what he said they could have rejoiced by faith not by feeling not by sight but they could have rejoiced by faith in between the crucifixion and the resurrection because he had prophesied to him 14 different times that he would be resurrected from the dead but they just went totally by what they saw they got into fear they wound up denying the lord running from him i'm sure that during those three days it was torment for all of them but jesus told them in john chapter 16 verse 1 these things this is the night before his crucifixion these things have spoken unto you that you should not be offended and yet every one of them was offended because they didn't take what he said and they just went by what they saw and what they were feeling and so he told them don't let your heart be trouble and then john chapter 14 verse two the very next verse says in my father's house are many mansions if it were not so i would have told you i go to prepare a place for you and if i go and prepare a place for you i will come again and receive you unto myself that where i am there you may be also you know why i believe he said that right after told them not to let their heart be troubled if nothing else if you can't see anything positive in your life which again i believe is more of a criticism of you than it is of your situation because all of us have have things that we could be praising god for but if you couldn't find anything good in your situation then you could just close your eyes and start thinking about heaven that man in heaven you're going to live in a mansion it doesn't matter if you live in a dump now doesn't matter if you're homeless now that's no reason to be griping and complaining and you can start thinking about heaven in heaven you're going to have a mansion you're going to live forever and there is just zero reason to be depressed discouraged griping and complaining because your future is so bright you gotta squint to look at it i mean god's got great things planned for you but you have to choose to lift up your head you know the scripture says that the lord is the lifter up of our head you know when a person is depressed and discouraged their body language shows it they walk around with their head down and their shoulders slumped and they're just looking down they're looking at the situation that's right in front of them the lord says lift up your head oh you gates the lord is a lifter up of my head that means that you aren't just sitting here occupied with the the temporary problems that you've got but you look out you're looking in the future you're looking past your problem you're seeing that god is alive and well and he's coming through for you i'm telling you brothers and sisters we got every reason to be rejoicing and praising god and yet the average person is just letting the circumstances of this world weigh them down and hold them down and it should not be that way man we are blessed blessed blessed blessed blessed but it's not always in the physical realm ephesians 1 3 says blessed be the god and father of our lord jesus christ who hath that means past tense it's already been done who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places they aren't just physical they're in the spiritual realm and as you believe and begin to start rejoicing and acting you draw what's in the spiritual realm out into the physical realm it works that way it's not good enough to just leave everything in the spirit because you aren't only spirits you've got a soul and a body you eventually want to be serving god and experiencing god spirit soul and body but it starts by you recognizing that everything is already complete in the spirit it's done in the spirit and you've got it you know i just man these things are exciting to me it's hard for me to get through these verses i was really wanting to get through these other verses let me go back to second corinthians 5 18 all things are of god who hath reconciled us to himself hath it's already been done we aren't waiting on god to reconcile us he's already reconciled us the word reconcile means to make friendly again or to harmonize did you know when you play a guitar these guitars that they were playing before they play them they reconcile those strings they put them into harmony if they aren't reconciled they're out of tune and it just it doesn't sound good at all likewise we've been reconciled brought back into harmony with god you know you reconcile your bank statement you keep tabs on everything and so here's your balance supposedly but then the bank sends you their bank statement and you have to reconcile you have to make them say the same thing and so this is saying that we have already been reconciled brought back into harmony put back into right standing with god it's not something that's going to happen it's already happened you have been reconciled and i know that steve has taught these things but hebrews chapter 9 and 10 you've been reconciled from all sin not just the past sins but all sins past present and even future sins have been paid for you are reconciled you have been reconciled and you're going to stay reconciled forever regardless of how how you act man that's awesome you ought to be praising god for that so he says he hath reconciled us to himself by jesus christ and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation again churches all around the world are going to be telling people that man you god's angry at you god's upset god's not going to answer your prayer god's not going to do this they're they're amplifying the problem instead of the answer but this says that he gave us this ministry of reconciliation and then in the next verse it says that god was in christ reconciling the world unto himself not imputing their trespasses unto them how did he make us reconciled brought us back into harmony the way he did it was he did not impute our sins unto us the word impute is a accounting term it means to record like in the days when you used to go into the store and you would buy something and you'd say put that on my account so they'd write it down and then at the end of the month you'd have to settle your account you'd have to pay the balance the way we do it today is like with the credit card and you give people a credit card did you know when you give them the credit cards you didn't pay for it you just gave them information that allows them to impute it unto you and if you don't agree with that if you think no i paid for it well when your credit card statement comes don't pay it tell them no i paid for it i gave him my credit card see how that works no you hadn't paid for it you just had it imputed unto you and you have to pay for it later this says the way that we were reconciled unto god god did not impute our trespasses unto us he hasn't recorded them god is not keeping track of your sins all of your sins all of your sins past present and even future sins if you've accepted jesus if you haven't accepted jesus this isn't true but if you've made jesus your lord all of your sins even the ones you haven't committed have already been paid for by jesus it's like you're getting ready to give your credit card and he pushes your hand away and says no put it on my account he paid for your sins and yet many christians think but i've got to pay too i can't just i can't ex god can't love me like he loves steve or k or somebody who's walking with god uh i've got to suffer a little bit no jesus paid it all that's like somebody coming up and pushing your hand away and using their credit card and you say but i've got to pay something let me go ahead and pay some there's no reason for it it's already been paid for he he reconciled us unto himself by not imputing our sins unto us and has committed unto us the word of reconciliation we then are ambassadors for christ as though god did beseech you by us we pray you in christ said be you reconciled to god back there in verse 18 and 19 god reconciled you unto himself now he says you reconcile yourself unto god god is friendly towards you god is not imputing your sins unto you but the sad fact is most christians are imputing their sins unto them that's what that book i gave away about who told you that you were naked is all about our conscience is condemning us you know i've talked about uh my son being raised from the dead i just heard that man steve was raised from the dead when he was a little kid i know that most of you here believe that god raises people from the dead or you wouldn't be at this church you'd be at the first church of the frigidaire down the street so you you're fanatics you believe that miracles exist and if somebody was to die right now and if i said man how many of you believe that god will raise this person from the dead most of you would be right there with me amen but you know where i'd lose a lot of people as i say all right if you believe it you come pray for him and all of a sudden some of you who don't have a doubt that if i pray for him steve prays for them that they're going to be raised from the dead you don't doubt god can do it but i say you come pray for him all of a sudden instead of faith there's fear instead of excitement there's dread what happened did you quit believing that god raises from the dead but no it's because you don't believe you haven't reconciled yourself unto god you believe that you aren't worthy you don't think god can do something like that through you and it's not god who's not reconciled to you it's you that haven't reconciled yourself to god you are still imputing sin unto you and feeling like well i'm not holy enough man i didn't even study my bible this week i got mad at my wife on the way to church today god couldn't use me that's against what this is saying he says now you have to reconcile yourself unto god god's done his part he's provided everything he's not imputing your sins unto you but are you imputing your sins unto yourself are you holding them against you and i can guarantee if there's any of you that were raised in religion one of your thoughts you're having right now is boy if i was to believe what you're saying that'd just allow me to go live in sin because for most people the only reason they don't sin is because they're afraid god's going to reject them god's going to punish them god won't answer their prayer and it's negative motivation that causes most people to live holy and so if i say that god's already dealt with your sins and he's already reconciled you and he's not holding back from you because you have some sin or failure in your life then most people think that's encouraging sin it's just the opposite if you ever really understood what god has done for you if you got a revelation of this it would make you love god so much that you would serve him more by accident than you ever did on purpose before matter of fact if you back up a few verses in second corinthians 5 14 for the love of christ constraineth us it was the love of christ that constrained him most people it's the fear of god and again i just taught on the fear of god we should reverence and honor god as christian but we shouldn't be afraid of his punishment all of that was placed upon jesus but out of love and out of respect we should be serving god now and yet most people don't fear has torment first john 4 18 and if you are fearing this is talking about not reverence and love but if you are dreading god it's because you haven't reconciled yourself unto god god's reconciled you unto him but you haven't reconciled yourself unto god you're still imputing sin unto yourself you're living with sin consciousness a sense of unworthiness hebrews chapter 10 verse 2 the very last phrase of that verse says there should be no more conscience of sin you shouldn't even be sin conscious there's a difference between conscience and conscious conscience means that you know that it's right and wrong you know the difference between right and wrong but you're no longer condemned over it you should not be condemned there is no condemnation to them who are in christ jesus and yet the average christian is living with condemnation again if i said you come up here and pray for this dead person most people would lose their confidence because you live in this constant state of condemnation awareness of sin i had a guy one time that i was listening to his tape and he he was at the 8 30 service on sunday morning and he said how many of you have sinned today and every hand in the congregation went up and his wife was one of them his wife raised her hand and he says what have you done it's only 8 30 in the morning what have you done and she said well i don't know of anything particular but i just know that i constantly fail and that i come short and she just lived confessing that she had sinned and he says why don't you focus on what you've done right you got up you took a shower so that you wouldn't smell bad you brushed your teeth you combed your hair so you'd look better those are all good things why do we just live with the constant sense of unworthiness religion has made us sin conscious but christ has redeemed us and if you fully understand what i'm saying it won't set you free to sin it'll set you free from the sin the guilt and condemnation and so this last verse it says for he god the father hath made him jesus to be sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of god in him jesus became sin he didn't have any sin it wasn't his sin he took your sin and my sin he became sin he didn't just take a little bit of sin he became sin sin penetrated his body over in isaiah chapter 52 it talks about that his face was marred more than any man who has ever lived on this earth i've seen people with growths coming out of their eyes i saw one man that had cancer that had eaten his nose and mouth away and you could see up inside of him jesus face was marred more than any person who's ever lived on this planet and the last part of that verse says and his form so that he didn't even look human it wasn't just the roman beating that caused that he took our sin unto him he took our sickness every deformity that has ever happened on the human race every sin i've seen people with elephantitis and stuff where their legs are you know 40 inches around at their ankles and just deformities and everything all of those things came into his body when he hung on the tree it wasn't his sin it was your sin and my sin jesus paid for it and i tell you he didn't just make a token pake of payment for it and you have to pay the rest he paid 100 for our sins so that we stand before god and it's just as if i'd never sinned that's my little layman's definition of what justified means just as if i'd never sinned you are just as if you've never sinned god doesn't see you as a sinner because he's god he knows what you've done but god is a spirit and god looks at you in the spirit and in the spirit you are 100 pure all things are of god who hath reconciled us unto himself your spirit is perfect and pure and god sees you that way but the problem is we don't see ourself that way we live in the flesh you look in the mirror and see you know gray hairs and bags or whatever or ugly and you just you don't like what you see but god's not looking on your flesh he's looking in your spirit and he looks at you and he says perfect you are the workmanship of god and he's pleased with you he became sin so that you could be made the righteousness of god you are righteous you are just as if you had never sinned your spirit is is perfect right this moment as it will ever be in eternity there's going to be no change in your spirit it's only your physical body you're going to get a glorified body and your mind will be totally renewed and all of the junk erased and you'll function only in a godly way but your spirit right this moment as jesus is so are you in this world first john 4 17. man that's good news if you understood what i was talking about today man this ought to put a shout in a statue and if you would think on these things instead of thinking on all of the problems and what you don't have and if you'd focus on what you do have you would be able to rejoice and have a peace that passes understanding when everything in the world is falling apart you'd be able to rejoice because of what jesus has done for you and i haven't even emphasized this but you know in your spirit you got that raising from the dead power there is no sickness and to the degree that you let the spirit man control your physical body you can walk in total healing i don't get sick it's been 53 years since i get sick i don't get sick i don't believe in being sick no germ can touch my body and live and people who are carnal think well that's arrogant i'm not saying that because of my physical body i'm saying it because of who i am and what i have in the spirit and i'm letting it out through my thinking and as much as i will allow this life that's in my spirit to flow through my flesh my flesh receives that benefit right here amen you can be healed today you can be delivered anything that you need amen so i want to give an invitation if there's anybody here that doesn't know jesus personally man i've shared enough with you today about what salvation is that you've got no excuse you can't stand before god and say well i didn't know you heard the gospel today if you have never made jesus your lord you need to do that is there anybody here that would raise your hand and say i don't think i've done that or i'm not sure if you aren't sure then you haven't done it because the bible says that when you get born again you know that you've passed from death unto life and you have this witness in yourself if you're just wishing and hoping that you'll get to heaven you need to do something sure anybody here that's never made jesus your personal lord if that's you i'd like you to raise your hand i'll pray with you anybody everybody born again if you're born again raise your hand keep them up i'm looking all right it looks to me like everybody here's saved then you don't have an excuse all right is everybody here baptized in the holy spirit and speak in tongues raise your hand if you do praise the lord awesome brother would you like to receive the holy spirit would you anybody else here like to receive the baptism of the holy spirit that does not have it anybody else i don't want to put you on the spot if you're going to do this just because i'm in home do you really want to receive the baptism of the holy spirit would you like to speak in tongues amen anybody else i tell you what you don't have to have the holy spirit to go to heaven as a matter of fact you can get there quicker if you don't have the holy spirit because the bible says you receive power when the holy ghost comes upon you but man i would recommend the baptism of the holy spirit it'll transform your life would you just come up here and let me pray with you the bible says that if you ask for the holy spirit he'll give the holy spirit to those who ask can you believe that yes sir you're already born again yes sir awesome god wants to fill you with his holy spirit more than you want to be filled yes isn't that good that's good man god loves you praise god father we just pray for our brother here father he asked to be filled with the holy spirit and i stand on that scripture that if we being evil know how to give good gifts unto our children how much more will the heavenly father give the holy spirit to those who ask so father we're asking we open up the doors of our temple and welcome you holy spirit to come fill him and you said we lay hands on the sick they recover we lay hands on people they receive the holy spirit so i release the power of the holy spirit to flow into him right now you know let me ask you to put your hands up like this the bible says when you lift up your hands this magnifies the lord it blesses the lord let's everybody in here just begin to pray if you have this baptism of the holy spirit and speak in tongues begin to start glorifying god right now and father we thank you that our brother here receives this holy spirit right now and we choose to speak in tongues in the name of jesus praise god praise god brother i believe god's given you the holy spirit could i get one of those books that i gave away on the new you holy spirit i'm going to give you this book i believe that you are filled with the holy spirit but you need to go ahead and speak in tongues will you do that read this book yes sir all right amen here comes this book and i promise there's been thousands of people speaking tongues after reading hey god bless you anybody in here need a miracle today here's do you or do you not amen anybody if you need a miracle in your body i'm we need to get out of here pretty quickly so just stand right now and i'm going to pray with you and i want the people that are around you to lay hands on you all right so everybody stood what i was i was talking about those that need a miracle all right if you if you need a miracle and you're standing raise your hand so we can see who you are and those of you that are around these people lay hands on them i'm going to lay i'm going to lead us in prayer but you lay hands on them and we're going to release this power of god so father right now in the name of jesus we just thank you that by your stripes we have been healed that you've already provided this and that in our spirit we have the same power that raised jesus christ from the dead it's in us it's not out there someplace it's in us and right now we release it with our words we lay hands on these people and we command sickness disease infirmity cancers problems whatever they are we just command those things to leave right now in the name of jesus father we release your power right now into their bodies and believe that from this moment on their physical bodies are changed that they recover that they are healed and we thank you we receive it by faith in what your word says in the mighty name of jesus amen praise god praise god again let me say thanks for having me come man this is an honor i really appreciate it i've enjoyed it you guys are awesome praise god so i'll turn it back over to pastor steve now please receive the blessing that the father has for you he calls you beloved the ones that are greatly loved and we he and i both desire that you prosperity and his type of divine health and the way this happens is by allowing your soul to prosper through intimacy with him and knowledge of his word i love you and i'll see you again soon

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