Being Kingdom Different

[Music] [Music] alright alright well if you have your Bibles you can turn with me to numbers chapter 14 numbers 14 we're gonna go a couple of places today and what I'm talking about today is being Kingdom different being Kingdom different how many of you know that that everything in the kingdom seems to be upside down from the way it is in the world well how many of you also know it's the world it's upside down not the kingdom amen and so really what God is doing and what Jesus did in his preaching was try to show people the right-side up kingdom and how to live in this kingdom that's he gave us all kinds of directives on how to function told us you know if we want to live we've got to die if we want to be exalted we got to humble ourselves if we want to basically receive we have to give I mean everything is the opposite and they're right everything is the opposite and one of the things that you can always remember is if you're doing things the way the world is doing it you're probably wrong right so we're gonna look at numbers 14 first numbers 14 verse 1 and all the congregation lifted up their voice and cried and the people wept that night and all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron and the whole congregation said unto them would God that we had died in the land of Egypt or would God we had died in this wilderness now first off you'll note that all through Moses leadership everybody around him all of the people he was leading out of bondage they were free and they were out of bondage and they were constantly wanting to kill him so there you go that's you know if everybody you're leading wants to kill you you're probably doing the things we God want you to do Wow didn't know that was going to play into the political structure of today okay anyway hold other thing all right now so now look at at the next verse he says in verse 3 and wherefore hath the Lord brought us unto this land to fall by the sword that our wives and our children should be a prey were it not better for us to return into Egypt in other words at least when we were in bondage we knew what to expect see a lot of people you know one of the worst things about the the prison system not not that certain system but when you talk to prisoners or you talked to a correctional officers I was a correctional officer for the state of Texas and when you talk to one of the things that is really sad is the recidivism rate of people that go back into prison after they've been there once a person has been incarcerated for a certain particular amount of time they almost always even if they get out they almost always go back because they do not know how to assimilate into society and and when they're in prison they know what to expect they know how the system works and many times they will do some crazy thing knowing they're going to get caught because they want to get caught to be sent back just so because that's the system they know how to deal with and it's a sad thing but if that's whenever that happens that is somebody that we in the correctional field they would call them institutionalized in other words they have been completely their mind has been changed to think in line with that system and they cannot think with the the system of society as it is so he says here in verse four and they said one to another let us make a captain and let us return into Egypt well they already had a captain there it had Moses he'd already got him free and it's amazing the things that he did for him and then they turn and said oh we're gonna find somebody else that'll take us back into prison well that ought to be pretty easy to do all you gotta do is try and you know follow your own footsteps you just came out of Egypt it'd be pretty easy to get yourself back there verse five then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the Assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel they fell on their faces now that in itself is a sign of humility here these people want to kill them and they don't run and hide and they don't start you know crying out to God basically you know saying oh do something about these people they fall on their faces before God because they know that's where their help come from right and Joshua the son of nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh which were of them that searched the land rent their clothes so now they're in another sign of mourning that they would rend their clothes tear their clothes and it's amazing here because the whole story here is they have just gone in to search out the land that's Promised Land Scalia a great land and it's amazing what they see there and now that people want to kill them and they want to go back to the not the promised land right they they don't want to go on into the Promised Land they would rather go back into bondage but it's because Moses had sent these spies out and Joshua and Caleb come back they say one thing and the other ten say something totally opposite and the people listen to the majority rather than listening to the voice of God or the voice of faith or the voice of hope how do you want to put it it says and they in verse seven and they spoke unto all the company that you're no visual saying the land which we pass through to searchin is an exceeding good land if the Lord delight in us then he will bring us into this land and given us a land which flows with milk and honey only rebel not ye against the Lord neither fear you the people of the land for they are bread for us here how they're talking if you want to talk faith if you want to be victorious you're gonna have to learn to talk like Joshua and Caleb right not like the other ten that you'd actually have to search to even find their names because they're not remembered today right and he says here and he tells him these people don't fear the people this land is a good land it's worth fighting for it's worth going into and he said if the Lord delight in us he'll bring us into this land give it to us the land which flows with milk and honey don't rebel against the Lord neither fear the people why God is with you don't fear the people right for they are bread for us their defense is departed from them here that they got no defense why because God is on our side you hear that nothing changed with those people those people were still in the same condition they were before unfortunately now they stood in the way of God's plan and unfortunately stood in the way of God's people and Joshua and Caleb recognized that and says they've got no defense what because our God is powerful enough to go over amen that's an it change with them they these the people in the land of milk and honey these these the people that the Israelites were gonna have to defeat we're not all of a sudden they hadn't had some terrible thing happened to him they were still strong they were still living their everyday life nothing had changed but Joshua and Caleb said their defense has departed them why because today they meet God do you get that now then in verse 10 in the way then he tells them fear them not verse 10 but all the congregation bade stone them with stones here that their standard saying we can do this man this is good their defenses down we can take them we can visit and then and people standar go hmm give me a rock let's kill these guys have you ever felt like somebody's gonna try to kill you because you brought them good news well especially if it's good news to you maybe not good news to them a lot of people are jealous when things happen good to you they don't they're not first Corinthians 13 that rejoices with people whenever they have good things instead they just say well I should have had that they shouldn't and they get jealous right so that's not to be we want to associate with verse yeah where we go and it's verse 10 and the glory of the Lord appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation for all the children of Israel and the Lord said unto Moses how long will this people provoke me and how long will it be here they believe me for all the sons which I've showed among them I will smite them with the pestilence and disinherit them and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they so what's he said listen Moses how long are these people want to keep doing this cuz I'm fixin to wipe them out I'm gonna start all over again and I want to give you a better group of people now you would think Moses would go yeah yeah ha ha you know but he didn't it's amazing again it shows the character of Moses he says verse 13 and Moses said unto the Lord then the Egyptians shall hear it for you brought us blood up to people in your might from among them and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land for they have heard that you Lord are among this people they you Lord are seen face-to-face and that your cloud stands over them and that you go before them by daytime and a pillar of cloud and a pillar of fire by night now if you will kill all this people as one man in other words to kill every one of them then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak saying because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore unto them therefore he has slain them in the wilderness so what if Moses say Moses not wait wait as much as I would have appreciated you killing these people and give me new ones if you do that the the Egyptians are going to hear it and they're going to tell the people that we're fixing the face and you're going to embolden them because they're going to think you're God that can't keep your word they're gonna think that your God whose arm is shortened and that you can't do what you said you would do and he's so here he is arguing with God and and trying to remind God of his reputation now think about that he says that you are not able because you are not able to do this you have slain them in the wilderness and now I beseech you let the power of my Lord be great according as you have spoken saying now look what he's doing notice the the process here he is going to start reminding God of what God said now this is what prayer should be do you that not begging not crying oh God why'd you let this happen Oh God when's it gonna end dad that's not prayer that's complaining and gods very much against crank complaining and grumbling right that's not who he expects us to be he'll if we're gonna pray we need to pray this way remind him of what he said now this is the basis also of the confession message so you're not confessing something to make it come into being you're confessing it to actually help convince you it's true first off at the first level and then when you say because it's true now your faith is in God to bring it to pass right it's not magic yeah and you the confession message is not that you say it enough today will form in front of you that can that's a confession message is such that you are speaking something that is true until you believe it and then you speak it because you believe it and when you believe it now God can do something with it right and he can bring it to pass in your life now watch up prove this even further he reminds him and he says the Lord is long-suffering and starts to tell him what he said and is of great mercy forgiving iniquity and transgression right and but now notice this next part he even says and by no means clearing the guilty see that's why we had to die and get born again God couldn't clear the guilty you weren't you you weren't cleared you were recreated you get that the old you died why because you had to die in that sense but now you've been recreated so we didn't clear the guilty he recreated you so that your you were born again not guilty do you get that boy y'all should be shouting a lot more that's good news amen think about that you were born again not guilty that in itself is good news so he says here no watch and verse I want to go to we're Matt verse 20 19 no 18 sorry I'm visiting the iniquity of the father's upon the children unto the third and fourth generation now this is and and many people get hung up on this and go oh see this is my problem I got generational curse not if you're born again your generation doesn't go back to your three parents your generation goes back to Jesus and there's no curses in Jesus right and Jesus there's blessings so if you're going to talk about in anything generational you have generational blessings if you're born again right you're not born again get there quick amen because curses are chasing you all right so no now notice what he says in verse 19 pardon I beseech thee the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of your mercy notice not according to how much they deserve it he said pardon the iniquity of those people according to the greatness of your mercy not how much they need it why cuz if you do it if he said that they wouldn't get pardoned because they didn't deserve it but he said pardon according to the greatness of your mercy and he said and and as thou has forgiven this people from Egypt even until now and the Lord said I have pardoned according to your work notice he didn't say I'm going to he just said he's tell him okay I've heard you and now I've already made the decisions of their pardon he didn't even say I'm going to do it he said they okay it's done I mean just that quick all right now he says but as truly as I live all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord right now watch he says because I should go back to verse 20 I want to emphasize that in verse 20 and the Lord said I have pardoned according to your word hear what he said he pardoned according to Moses's work that's how powerful Moses's words were with God that he pardoned according to his word right now let's go back to verse 21 but as truly as I live all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord because all those men which have seen my glory and my miracles which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness and have tempted me now these ten times and have not hearkened to my voice surely they shall not see the land which I swore unto their fathers neither shall any of them that provoked me see it hear that now look at verse 24 and this has really ties us right back into being Kingdom different verse 24 but my servant Caleb because he had another spirit with him you know that Caleb had another spirit what kind of other spirit a different kind of spirit now in this sense it did not mean the Holy Spirit it didn't mean you know an angel spirit it wasn't covered that in this case the word spirit here directly relates to attitude it's an attitude like we would say esprit de corps the spirit of the core which has nothing to do with a spiritual being it has to do with an attitude that you have towards something and so here he said there is another spirit with him he has a different attitude his mind is different he thinks different he saw everything that the other people saw he saw the Giants he saw the walled cities he saw all these and yet he thought differently when he saw it see instead of an obstacle he saw an opportunity and too many times people see the obstacle and they go oh we can't go that way there's an obstacle no that is the way one because whenever you overcome an obstacle you have overcome that makes you stronger but it also glorifies God right when you run from obstacles when you run from problems you are not glorifying God because you're not giving him the chance to show that he's big enough with his mighty arm stretched forth that can knock down that wall amen so you have to be able to whenever people are saying certain things and we're gonna maybe if I get chance I'll get to that but now notice he says but my servant Caleb Caleb remember Caleb okay and this is numbers 14 right and you remember numbers came after Exodus right okay so anyway there's pretty more all right now watch it says but my servant Caleb because he has another spirit with him and now watch what else it says about him and has followed me fully him will I bring into the land wherein he went and his seed shall possess it here that Caleb's faith not only brought results for himself but also for his generations following him this again were taught my generational blessings amen he saw these things he saw exactly the same problems everybody else did the other ten did but and I can tell this every time you see Caleb what's the other name you always see with him Joshua always Joshua and Caleb Joshua and Caleb even later on when when Caleb's 80 years old right even at that point Joshua's right there with him what does that mean that means that Caleb was smart enough to hang around somebody that was of the same spirit that he had that could say we were well able right he didn't hang around people go you can't do that nobody's ever done that for well I know you remember how you were brought up remember where you came from there was a thing of a sent to me this week it was a clip and it was talking about how people and it's funny cuz I actually wrote down so no time you know the old saying we have these things birds of a feather flock together misery loves company all that kind of thing and it's amazing because they were showing the Friends of people before they were famous or before they were wealthy and it's amazing the people that are I'll just take for an example the people that are now wealthy had friends that didn't have the same attitude they did and as they kept moving forward their friends stayed put and they became wealthy and their friends are still in the same position they were in why because they're because there comes a divide between the two because and the whole idea behind this little clip that somebody sent me was that wealthy people hang around with wealthy people they don't hang around with broke people why because they know if they do they'll be broke they'll either start thinking like the broke people right which means they'll lose everything they got or the broke people will keep getting it from the wealthy person until the wealthy person is no longer wealthy that's the way it works okay and if you want that to be the transfer of wealth and that's not though the way God intends alright no but if God one of the main things if God's got enough for one he's got enough for all if he didn't have enough for all he wouldn't have made enough for the one do you understand that's one good thing about God he is an equal-opportunity blesser amen so anyway alright let's get back in this he says in and watch he has fully followed me followed me fully him will I bring in the land where and he went and his seed shall possess it now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley now that's just it by the way he's putting in there and then he says tomorrow turn you and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea and the Lord spoken to Moses and unto Aaron saying how long shall I bear with his evil congregation and notice now he calls them an evil congregation which murmur against me I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel which they murmur against me now watch stop right there notice right back up there it says tomorrow you're going to get by the way of the Red Sea and if you go and look and it's amazing whenever Egypt you know it took him 40 years to get across an area that should have only taken them at the most two weeks to walk across which shows that there was confusion and everything else going along with them but now notice also whenever they go straight out they get to the Red Sea in an amazing it said that they were led remember the pillar of fire in the cloud right they were led by God to the Red Sea but if you fly over the Red Sea you could actually fly the north of it and you could actually see a place where you could have walked around it so God led them to the obstacle that when they got there people said what are we gonna do now here comes the Egyptian army we're gonna die God led them to an obstacle he didn't lead them around it he didn't lead them by his spirit and go listen avoid this Red Sea you're gonna get pinned up against a sea that is not a good military maneuvers to get your back up against the sea when you got the world's most powerful army coming down on you but God is a tactician he is a strategist and he knew what he was doing he wasn't destroying the children of Israel he was leading Egypt into a trap because they thought that they would be able to overcome them and then when he parted the scene I think about the arrogance right of the Egyptian commanders that would think here they're the the god of the Israelites is parting the sea making it stand up like walls the land under it instantly becomes so dry they can walk across it because there should have been yards at least of mud but he causes all that to dry they walk through and the Egyptians think yeah we can go through - and they're going to kill the people whose God just did that right and you talk about arrogance they were arrogant right and God let them right into an ambush and then the walls of the water of course collapse on them and drowned basically the entire army now that was a by the way the main point there was that God did not lead them around the obstacle did not lead them you know around the problem he led them right to a problem and the problem became the greatest victory that Moses ever witnessed think about that it's the greatest victory Moses ever had and in one more little like an obstacle now you think well that's all old testing what about New Testament or Jesus said he didn't say listen when you see that mountain go around it no he said you speak to it and tell it to move he do you get that this is a characteristic you'll you'll see in people of faith people of faith expect to be victorious they expect to overcome right and when it listen people of faith man when I was a doctor some wrong he did things that if you just look at you think that's crazy because he would forget well I think well I guess he did forget it because but he would forget his Bible he'd forget it sometimes in the airplane where he was flying around it he had to go places sometimes he forget in his car sometimes they forget it his house he would just leave it because he didn't need it because it came out of his spirit he knew it but he so he didn't need it like he had to go find everything he knew what was in it but he carried it with him but a lot of times he would just leave it and whenever and I'll never forget the first time I've heard him say I thought well what is you know how does he think because there was a guy there with him I believe us Stephane who's actually still there in something and he turned to him and he said where's my Bible and he and Stephane said it sits at the pulpit and I was staying over near him I wasn't behind him errata wouldn't got it but I was ten over name and Stefan said it's at the pulpit and he said well go get it and so Stefan ran and got it and brought it to him and he's and later on it was funny because dr. Sommer oh if you knew him and he was very he didn't think he was better than anybody I mean he was down to earth with everybody and he wouldn't say oh you know you're my armor bearer so you go get it for me because you know you are my inferior that kind of thing no he went in that way he would do things himself he wouldn't ask for help a lot of times but he told Stefan to go get this thing and then later on somebody asked him why you know why did you do that and he said because I don't back up I heard that I thought how is that backing up right but in his mind he wasn't going to retrace his steps and go get it he had already moved toward the back of the church with shaking hands talking to people partying for people in different things but in his mind that would have been backing up and it would have been a waste of time for him to go do it when Stefan was a third of his age and could run and get it and bring it right to him right now what am I saying because men of faith don't like to back up they also don't like to stop all right even if they're moving slow they like to keep moving forward another thing they don't like to do they don't have to go around obstacles they want the obstacle to move right they don't like to sidestep something they don't want to sidestep and get out of the way and and it's amazing they're they're humble obviously to be men of God but at the same time there's their humble before God and to do that they show that humility before man but they don't as we used to say kowtow you know what that means it means to constantly say you're sorry say and you know be bowing down and that kind of thing to someone right why because they know God is with them so they keep moving forward and they don't sidestep problems they go through the problem or they tell the problem to move amen so there is that grit there's that thing in them that says no I'm here to win the Bible says that the Bible says thanks be unto God which always causes us to triumph in Christ Jesus right and it says that the steps of a righteous man are ordered of the Lord so if the steps of a righteous men are order the Lord and we're always to win wherever we're going we're going to win amen God is not leading us into defeat the problem in too often is that we follow him into a battle then we get scared and quit and we suffer defeat which was meant to be a victory all along amen are you with me so far all right now this I'm try to move quickly to here he says then in verse ya look at verse 27 how long shall I bear with this evil congregation which murmur against me I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel which they murmur against me say unto them as truly as I live saith the Lord as you have spoken in my ears so will I do - you hear what he's saying and I've Minister on this before so hopefully you know I don't think that I forgotten I preached on this before okay but God has freed me from the fear of repetition right I can repeat something as much as I need to all right for you to get it but now notice what he said God said listen I'm gonna do to you exactly how you talk about me you say why didn't we die here in the wilderness all right now if you'd have been like Caleb and Joshua and said we are well able let's go up and take the land well guess what he told Joshua and Caleb go do it what do you tell the others you and your kids are all going to die out here you're gonna march around this wilderness - you all done why God why are you doing that to us I'm not doing it to you you did it to you because I said you can have whatever you say and you're gonna have what you said and so now I'm going to get you out of the way so the next generation won't have to put up with your doubt and unbelief and won't as Psalm 78 says that they won't forget the mighty things that God did in the ordinance he's already said I've showed them 10 times different miracles and they still murmur they still grumble they still complain God hates complaining he hates grumbling he hates murmuring he hates it good you can study this at I would advise you to do a study on those three words you will find out he hates them those are some of the things that he hates most as a matter of fact what because it shows an absolute not just lack of faith but faith in the enemy and watch whenever you grumble and murmur and complain about things that God you think God has done to you or for you or whatever it is what you're saying is the devil is stronger than God because look what God let the devil do and God would only let the devil do it if the devil was stronger that's essentially what it comes down to you have to well that's a whole nother aspect of theology that we don't have time to get into today so I'll leave that for another time yeah so now notice he says here verse 29 your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness and all that were numbered of you according to your Horner from from twenty years old and upward which have murmured against me now why twenty years old and upward why because at that point now you'll notice there would also be a break meant what I said earlier about birds of a feather flock together well usually young hang out with young and old hang out with old right that's usually the way it works now when young gets smart they learn to listen to the old and get the wisdom but they also have to discern between the wisdom of the old and the disappointments of the old because many times as you get older you suffer disappointments and you get hardened to things and you start becoming negative and you start looking at things and the bad part about getting older is that you either get negative about the way things are and if you're not talking about negative of how things are you're talking about how good things used to be which means things are bad now right let me tell you we hadn't seen our best days yet best days are ahead of us right as a person as a people as a state as a nation we haven't seen the best yet there are still plenty of good that God has for us amen if we will remember from whence we came amen yeah he says here one of the last Sunday I talked about just a matter of fact I talked about one of the key ingredients of faith and living a life of faith is having an attitude of gratitude as they say and being grateful for things and one of the ways to be grateful now listen carefully I'm not contradicting myself but one of the ways to be grateful is remember where you came from say that I constantly remember where I came from our constant remember how it used to be everybody said well the good old days huh these are the good nowadays right and and tomorrow's gonna be better what now now I learned a lot in the old days right but I remember also how I felt in those days they weren't good I was you know it was not good all right so that's a whole nother you need to be grateful no matter what no matter where you are no matter what you're going through no matter what's happening and I'm not saying be grateful for what's happening I'm saying be grateful that you sort of a-gonna that can change what happening amen and show your gratitude toward him and let him know you're a God that changes things you hold my destiny in your hands and I'm yours and you're gonna treat me right right that's that's how you feel toward him and you wake up with that grateful attitude um yeah I have actually have a son a little wooden son kind of like what I get around here they said wake up every morning expecting today to be better than yesterday and that's exactly the way I live that's how I live and then now he says here look at verse let's go down to verse 30 doubtless you shall not come into the land concerning which I swore to make you dwell therein except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of nun now can you imagine here he there the whole people are hearing this you're all gonna die 20 year-olds enough they're all gonna die you're gonna die the word of your carcasses are going to drop in the wilderness oh by the way except Joshua and Caleb you know immediately the people hated Joshua and Caleb as many as soon as they heard that they're like what's up with him why was God favor them it's not that God was favoring them more than the others it's that God heard their faith and could do something through them he couldn't do to the others amen now he says here in verse 31 but your little ones which you said should be a prey then will I bring in and they shall know the land which you have despised but as for you your carcasses there it is again not a pretty word when God says your carcasses you are in trouble Amen but as for you your carcasses they shall fall in this wilderness and your children shall wander in the wilderness 40 years and bear your whoredoms until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness now notice he said bear your whoredoms see automatically that says that the children of Israel as the Old Testament say had gone a whoring and how were they going a whoring after other gods they were not listening to what God said they were listening to the voice of the people and because of that they become a God in their own eyes and God calls that whoredoms study it out all right and give me some word studies to go and search these things out now he says here and I say verse 34 after the number no I'm gonna 33 sir about that and your children shall wander in the wilderness 40 years in barrier whoredoms until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness after the number of the days in which you search the land even forty days each day for a year shall you bear your iniquities even forty years and you shall know my breach of promise in other words he said but you NN in there for 40 days and searched it and and now you come back and say I can't do what I told you to go do so now you're gonna spend one day for every year forty years in the wilderness and see not trusting God has a consequence I the LORD have said I will surely do it under all this evil congregation that are gathered together against me in this wilderness shall they they shall be consumed and there they shall die and the men which Moses sent to search the land who returned and made all the congregation to murmur against him by bringing up a slander upon the land even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land died by the plague before the Lord but Joshua the son of nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh which were of the men that went to search the land lived still and Moses told these things under the children of Israel and the people mourned great great greatly now numbers 13 if you go back one chapter right start in verse 23 and this I'm just giving you these references so you can remember and it says and they came unto the brook of Eshcol now this is when they were in the land searching it out so we're kind of doing you know how they do in the movies I'll show you something and then I show you a memory of something and they kind of show you the before picture well here he says and they cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes one cluster of grapes and they bare it between two upon a staff it took two men to carry one cluster of grapes now you know what that's called prosperity whether you like it or not that's prosperity that's what he a land that flows in milk and honey he said you're gonna be taken care of that's being prosperous now prosperity and America might be different than prosperity in another place right I know in India prosperity in India you know is having two goats instead of just one goat in some places is having one goat at all so prosperity is really relative to the situation around you all right now then he says and they brought of the pomegranates and of the figs so they did the same thing it doesn't it doesn't say specifically but the wording here would say they had two men carrying one cluster of grapes they had another two men carrying a cluster of pomegranates as was their a group I know a bunch of pomegranates and the same thing for the figs and the place the place was called the brook ishq all because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from this and they returned from searching the land after 40 days and they went and came to Moses and to Aaron and to all the congregation that your individual under the wilderness of paran to Kadesh and brought back word unto them and unto all the congregation and showed them the fruit of the land and they told them told him and said we came under the land where you sent us and surely it flows with milk and honey and this is the fruit of it nevertheless it's in other words it looks good it's amazing just like you said you're just like God said it's good but we got a problem the people be strong that dwell in the land and the cities are walled and very great and moreover we saw the children of anak there the Amalekites dwell in the land of the South the Hittites and the Jebusites and the ammonites do well in the mountains and the Canaanites dwelt by the sea and by the coast of Jordan now notice if you go back and read exactly what Moses told them he said you go and spy out the land check everything and see how we can go in and take them he didn't say go in and see if we can take them why cuz God had already told him you're going to take them Moses didn't say go in and see if we can and come back and report how strong they are he said come back and tell me let me give me a picture of it and see how we can overcome with the Lord as our help right so they were giving him information that he didn't ask for right and as many would do it's amazing it's like the front page of the newspaper reading this thing they say it to Moses in front of the people so the people can hear you're that so they're saying this in a way okay that's called leaking okay well now I'm going to go there but that's what it's called this was an Old Testament case of leaking right leaking information anyone notice what he says in verse 30 and Caleb now notice they're all standing there they're talking they're saying stuff and then here Caleb steps up and Caleb's still the people for Moses so now the people starting to murmur what Oh hear that the Amalekites the Giants oh it's gonna be bad oh we got all these armies we're not to fight how can we do that and if people start murmuring and talking and start getting fearful Caleb steps up stills of people hold still hold still be calm don't worry about it and watch what he says he stilled appear before Moses and said let us go up at once and possess it for we are well able to overcome it you hear that now notice why did he say let us go up at once why because he knew something had to change he had to do something to get these people to move forward because if he just let them stand there and murmur fear is going to set in and then they didn't do it quick enough and you can see that in verse in chapter 14 fear set in and they started wanting to kill Moses and now everything changed he knew that many times when there is a question when there is a what looks like a overwhelming problem now listen we're talking about Israel here we're talking about moving in this land all these but I I want you to be able to see bring this down to your life maybe your problem is a sickness maybe it's a you know some debt that you can't pay off maybe it's it's a you know hospital bills or a mortgage that you can't meet or something there's some obstacle that right now is facing you don't just look at this as some pretty little Bible story look at this as how it would apply to you what obstacle are you facing and I can tell you most of the time you will get into more trouble more doubt more unbelief and into defeat itself if you just sit around and think about the problem if you sit around and keep looking at that obstacle you're because what you look at you become you keep looking an obstacle you're gonna become an obstacle I mean and you will defeat yourself many times whenever you face an obstacle there's times and this may sound counterintuitive but there are times whenever you face and I was going to choose it very quick that as soon as you face the obstacle move don't dwell on it now you know there's this thing called paralysis by analysis you don't want to get that and you don't want to go off you know and do things without any wisdom without any knowledge of something you want to know what's going on but many times there comes a time when you have to move there comes a time whenever you face a situation and it's usually very quick because if you don't you will lose heart you will lose your your your your aggressiveness in it and the more you look at the problem the bigger the problem gets that's why whatever you're going to do do it quickly that's what Jesus told Judas and there right now I'm not telling you to be a Judas I'm just saying that what you have to do many times the key is to act quickly you know matter of fact again going back to that thing that somebody sent me today they said one of the key traits of people that are successful in any field you know what and and this they took people from all kinds of different fields and they look at their key traits and one of the key traits that showed up most often was this they took quick action on anything didn't mean they didn't do research didn't mean they didn't look at things but when they had was enough enough information that they needed they moved quickly on something they didn't keep waiting all right so no it says here he told them let us go up at once and possess this land for we are well able to overcome it and notice this was that another spirit that Caleb had he went against everybody else the whole mob now watches God called Moses and he used Moses as a deliverer for God's people and foremost people in there right and you see in the beginning that when Moses was born there was a decree we all know and he was put in the basket and Pharaoh's daughter took him out of the out of the Nile out of the river and raised him in her own household he was raised right there in Pharaoh's household right and so he's raised there and he starts to grow up and then at some point he decided to go live with the Israelites when he found out who he was he said it's better to go suffer with them then to partake of all these good things in the palace and so he had the strength and which gives us a kind of a foretaste of his strength of character and his will that he had and so he goes and lives with him and while he's there he sees an Egyptian mistreating and other and he ends up killing him and then he has to flee right and so he goes out in the wilderness and in while he's out there guess what happens he meets God and then God says hey you got to go back why cuz you're supposed to be a deliverer I called you to be a deliverer go deliverer Moses had all his excuses just like you and I have I'm not a good speaker I'm not able to do this I don't know and God said tough I did I didn't call you I didn't look for a good speaker matter of fact there's Aaron he's your brother he'll speak for you now what's your Excuse right he just removed that that obstacle all right so then he goes back now here's the main thing when he goes back God has chosen his deliverer see that's one of the main things you have to realize you don't always get to choose your deliverer see if God okay if the Egyptian of the Israelites were going to choose their deliverer they wouldn't have chosen Moses right but God chose Moses whether the Israelites lacked it or not right and then later when he goes back what notice it wasn't the Egyptians that said you know who are you you know remember what you've done or they wasn't him it was the Israelites that said who are you to be a judge over us you killed you know a man you you you did it and that what were they doing they were bringing up his past you know how long ago that was he was out in the wilderness for a good number of years he was out there shepherding sheep for his father-in-law Jethro and it was a long time out there but now guess what he goes back and guess what they remember what he did when he was there well how many of you know that's the same way people are today go back to the word you came from whatever city it may have been and whatever was and and the people you used to be around and they're not gonna say well what have you been doing for the last 20 years you're gonna go back and go oh yeah and I remember the time you did this and that and they're gonna remember the bad things you did they don't even remember the good things they're gonna remember the bad things that's why almost all people of faith eventually have to move from where they start to somewhere else so they can start over and if they're smart when they start over they don't hang out with the same kind of group they left behind they found a new group that alike that it's actually either I hate to even say equal to them or better than them that will help lift them up right you say what do you mean better what do you mean by better that's up to you you're the ones gotta choose the people the friends the number one characteristic number one determining fact concerning your destiny now I'm not talking about what God has for you I'm saying whether you realize your destiny or not the number one determining factor is who you associate with that is the number one thing after that comes the books you read the information and command things like that but the number one thing is who you hang around with there are friends dear friends people that honestly I would and would have died for that if they needed me and even to this day if they need me they know well I don't know if they know or not but if they called for help I would be there for them but I can't hang around them I can't spend time there's family like that to what because I refuse to stay where they decided to stay I'm not going to keep wandering the wilderness just because they want to go one more time around I'm moving forward amen I'm going to accomplish what God called me to do it's just that simple and it's not being selfish I'm in service to him right but I can't be of service to God if I'm gonna let people determine my direction amen so now remember this sometimes the person you would choose as your deliverer or let's just go back to the person that God has chosen to be your deliverer now we know Jesus is our deliverer but how many of you know people sometimes human help to get that deliverance and the person that God chose may not be the person you would choose and though it wasn't for me because whenever there was information I needed and the only person I had that information was a person I have I've never had a problem with with women preachers my mother was a preacher right she still preaches and so I never have a problem with that I've never had a problem with female preachers you know them being women and and you know all the controversy if it goes along with that kind of stuff never had a problem with that and there was a woman preacher that I it wasn't because she was a woman that it made it hard for me to listen to it was the sound of her voice I know that is petty I know that all right but her voice just grated on me like you know fingernails on a chalkboard you know what I'm - somebody might not know what a chalkboard is anymore okay but if you don't find one okay and run your fingernails down it I'm telling you I mean hurt just the sound of her voice just irritated me to the point where I literally didn't hear what she would say because I was kind of saying I hate that boy baby boy I don't wanna listen to that and it just I know it again I'm you know I was Petty and guess what when I started searching she was the only person that had a tape series that had the name of the answer for what I needed so I had to go and get that tape series and it wasn't a two tape series it was like a twelve tape series and of course my answer was on tape twelve because if it had been on tape war and I to just listen to tape one right and got it done but I did I'd listen to our whole thing all the way through and it but God and what God was shown was guess what get over the vessel listen to the message hear the message of God hear what God is saying through that vessel regardless of how the vessel says it regardless of the sound of their voice regardless forget all of that go to the message itself and I had to work through that and since then I've had the pleasure of meeting them and telling them how much I appreciate him make me which is true because if it wouldn't have been for that and but it I did not get to choose where my answer came from I had to go where the truth was amen regardless there been people that I know that our ministers that I wouldn't fellowship with wouldn't hang around wouldn't talk with I'd listen to him preach why because God uses them but when they get after my on the pulpit I wouldn't want to have anything to do with him right but I would listen to him preach one because I know God can use people amen he didn't have to wait to were perfect for God to use us I mean that'd be good news for everybody right so now notice matter of fact I give you one more example now that was where a person had to be a deliverer for me whom I wouldn't have chosen but years ago right when we first started there was another major ministry that had to do with the healing and healing rooms and that kind of thing and their regional director was I was in their area and people were coming to the meetings and what we taught was completely different from what they taught and they started going back to this person this person got really mad at me I never met him but they got really mad at me because I was saying things that you know basically discounted what they said and what they taught and so they got really mad and they said a lot of bad things about me and said all kinds of stuff and I didn't even know anything about it too way later but then after we had left and came we came back to Texas that time they the people there called me some of our people had gone to pray for this guy because they'd heard he'd had a heart attack and it was really bad he's going to die and so there wasn't much they could do for him and so they were praying and praying and praying couldn't get a breakthrough and so finally they said would you would you let crave like pray for you and finally now they had asked him several times he kept some no no no I don't want him to pray for me I don't want no I don't even bring finally got to the point where apparently he was gonna die and he said okay let him pray and so they called me and I pray for him God healed him instant amen now listen he would not have chose me to be his deliverer you get it but I believe the reason God chose me to be his deliverer at that moment was because of the things he had actually said against me right now as people would have it just before I prayed for him everybody wanted to tell me what he had said about me just before I prayed for him right they couldn't have saved it till afterwards right but they had to tell me ahead of time now this is a guy he's been saying there's a and but still we prayed so it was up to me to get past that and they go you know who cares and so there was a part that in delivering him I was delivered from myself and had to died to a bit of myself amen so alright know one more place I think I'm trying to hurry yeah we're doing pretty good go to 2nd Kings 2nd Kings chapter 7 now this is a story you've heard these stories believe or not the the Bible has been written no new stories in the Bible right and we don't need new stories because everything in the Bible was written for us to help us understand things today amen so in the second cream second creams 2nd Kings chapter 7 now this is a situation where a city is surrounded it's under siege the situation is desperate the city is about to collapse the Syrian army the armies are around it they're going to take it's just a matter of time the people are starving things have been happening in the city that are horrible but they're they're about dead and so in verse 1 it says then he'll I she said hear ye the word of the Lord thus saith the Lord tomorrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel very cheap and two measures of barley for a shekel in the gate of Samaria he's saying man this is and nobody could believe this why because prices were high because demand was up and supply was very low and they'd already gone through all this so for him to step up and say this stuff is gonna be sold so cheap the people could not see how that could possibly happen so he says then a Lord on whose hand the King leaned answered the man of God and said behold if the Lord would make windows in heaven make this thing be and he said behold now look now he likes your answers bank says you will see it with your own eyes but you will not eat of it you'll see it but you won't partake of it here's this advisor to the king very close to the king he goes I had my names even if God opened windows in heaven could this thing be what's he doing he's doubting the word of the Lord right that would be equivalent to us doubt in the Bible right because that's the word of the Lord to us right now the Lord can speak to us also of course but I'm saying he was doubting God and then the Prophet just speaks and says you'll see it but you won't partake of it why because he said this can't happen now notice how I want to show this to you so important you can have people that are in the same house one believing one not and the believing one will receive the benefits of believing and the one not will won't in the same house in the same family in the same sometimes in the same church sometimes in the same city different things like that can go on just because and get it god is good toward all and the only reason that he can't be good towards him is because people think oh he's mad at me and won't bless me until he's not mad at me anymore well when's he now coming back when I do everything perfect well guess what you're in bad shape because you ain't never gonna be that purse all right and so here is exactly what happens here is a high-ranking official that says it can't happen and the Prophet says you'll see it but you won't partake of it now you would think if he's Iran King official he could per take of anything he wanted right but he says verse three and there were four leprous men at the entering end of the gate and they said one to another why sit we here till we die now they were not in the gate they were outside the gate the city was under siege the gates have been shut and these four leprous men now think about it as if having leprosy wasn't bad enough now they're outside the city and there between the city and the army that's coming to take the city what does that mean they're gonna be the first to die right and they're gonna die quick and they're gonna die at a distance because ain't nobody gonna touch them or get near them because they got leprosy right and so here they're I mean that's a bad situation they didn't even have the protection of the city so they're all sitting outside there these four leprous men sitting outside and they say why sit we here until we die and that is one of the smartest things that anybody in the Bible ever said and it's for leprous men why sit we here till we die look weak we consider and die or we can get up and go do something we're gonna die anyway we got leprosy but we don't have to die sitting sitting you know in the Old West the whole thing was you know die with your boots on right and that was one of the things that Doc Holliday just for he died he died in a sanitarium up in Glenwood Springs in Colorado and he had always said I'm gonna dab my boots on because he was always getting in gunfights and trying to seem to be he was actually trying to find somebody faster and better they would kill him so he wouldn't die the long slow death of tuberculosis which is what he had at the time and whenever he died his some of his last words were he looked down and saw hit and I'm not just going by the movie tombstone that was in there but it was well portrayed because it was accurate but it looked down at his bares his socks on his feet and laughed and said isn't that funny what because he was actually dying without his boots on and so to him that was a big deal because they'd always said I'm my boots on so you know that's kind of the same thing today why sit we here do we die if we're gonna die let's die moving amen you people say well you know you may fall what if you fall fall forward amen don't fall backwards move forward and then it's not how fast you move it's the fact you keep moving amen and if you're not moving get moving right now he says there verse four if we say we will enter into the city then the famines in the city and we will die there if we sit here we'll die also now therefore come and let us fall into the hosts of the Syrians if they save us alive we will live if they kill us yeah we're gonna die anyway right and they rose up in the Twilight to go under the camp of the Syrians and when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria behold there was no man there for the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots and the noise of horses even the noise of a great host and they said one to another lo the king of Israel has hired against us the king of the Hittites and the king of the Egyptians to come upon us wherefore they arose and fled into the Twilight and left their tents and their horses and their asses even the camp as it was and fled for their life I mean they didn't even take time to jump on their horse now I think if I was going to run at least try to jump on a horse I can but they didn't even do that they just took off running left everything there now watch and when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp they went into one tent and did eat and drink and carried dense silver and gold and raiment and went and hid it now think about they wouldn't hit it and what good is it gonna do about your lepers that are dying that's human nature it's amazing even though they're gonna die they try to take all this stuff to store up and came again and entered into another tent and carried thence also and when hit it then they said one to another we do not well we're not doing the right thing here this day is a day of good tidings and we hold our peace remember that word hold our peace okay if we tarry till the morning light some mischief will come upon us what we're not doing right and if we don't do something about this if we wait it's not gonna be good right now therefore come that we may go and tell the king's household so they came and called under the port of the city and they told them saying we came to the camp of the Sirians and behold there was no man there neither voice of man but a horses tied NASA's tied and the tents as they were and he called the porters and they towed it to the Kings house within and the King arose in the night and said unto his servants I will now show you what the Syrians have done to us now look at this says see the king was not a man of faith they know that we be hungry therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field saying when they come out of the city we will catch them alive and get in the city he said it's a trap he didn't say the Lord has delivered us he didn't remember the word of the Lord he was he was going by the word of the lepers and he said it's a trap if we go out they're gonna kill us and one of his servants answered and said let some take I pray thee five of the horses that remain which are left in the city behold and they are all as a multitude of Israel that are left in it behold I say they are even as all the multitude of the Israelites that are consumed and let us send and see take five horses go out and they took therefore two chariot horses and the king sent after the host of Syrians saying go and see and they went after them under Jordan and lo all the way was full of garments and vessels which the Syrians had cast away in their haste and the messengers returned and told the king the people went out spoiled the tenth of the Syrians so a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel according to the word of the Lord and the King appointed the Lord the one that had said this can't happen and he appointed the Lord on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate so the King says this and go down take charge of the gate people coming in going out make sure it's orderly and nice and go handle that and the people rode upon him in the gate and he died so they trampled him right so he was trying to keep people calm they trampled him killed him and he died as the man of God had said who spoke when the King Day came down to him and it came to pass as recounting what was said it came to pass the man of God has spoken the king saying two measures of barley for a shekel measure of fine flour for a shekel shall be tomorrow about this time in the gate of Samaria and that Lord answered the man of God and said Behold if the Lord should make windows in heaven can such a thing be what's he saying he said listen remember the word of the Lord God says something don't disagree he said you'll see it but you won't protect he didn't get to protect he was that close but he got killed in the gate why because he did not believe the word of the Lord you get that you see how important it is that we believe the word of the Lord now what is the Lord the word of the Lord that he came that we might have life and that more abundant that he came to forgive us of our sins in that right we have to remember that but we also have to remember that by His stripes we were healed that's the word of the Lord that by His Christ whatever not just by stripes also but also that whatever we put our hands to it shall prosper it will be blessed amen if I put my hands to people they're blessed how if they're sick what does that mean they get well if I put my hands to a business guess what it's gonna prosper one because I put my hands to it amen why because it belongs to me amen and so we have to realize this is what God has said so we should be those that expect we believe the word of the Lord and we expect to see it we don't want to go how could that be you know I've heard people that's amazing to me when I've heard people say well nobody in our family has ever gone to college well nobody our families has ever bought their own home nobody in our family has ever done this and what are they saying they're not saying oh and my son is gonna be the first to do it you're not saying that there's only so it's never happened before so it can't happen now saying with that kind of mentality I guarantee nobody that has that kind of mentality ever created invented or blessed humanity what because all they're concerned about is gathered enough for them to survive they're in survival mode they're in siege mode right and they start thinking like this guy that said oh if God opened the windows of heaven it couldn't even happen and so we have to believe the word of the Lord and what he said now what's this it says finally verse 20 and so it fell out on to him for the people Troad upon him in the gate and he died now Matthew chapter 20 one of the last places I'll go I already said the other was the last I thought it was sorry Matthew chapter 20 now you remember this is this is Jesus passing by two blind men one day right and it says in verse 29 and as they departed from Jericho a great multitude followed him and behold two blind men sitting by the wayside when they heard that Jesus passed by cried out saying have mercy on us O Lord thou son of David now hold your place right there because I heard just now by the spirit no no if it's in here or by any you know internet because we broadcast this now but somebody and you have to raise your hand you can if you want to but you don't have to raise your hand and so but somebody was just thinking as I was going from here going to into Matthew we just talked about lepers and in your mind your upbringing or your teaching or your doctrinal background or whatever it is said yeah God used the leprosy of these men to bring deliverance to see no no that's not true at all God did not use leprosy he used lepers do you give that he used people people who happen to be lepers he did not use the leprosy do you give that get that out of your head God does not use sickness or disease now you can in the midst of your sickness or disease you can stumble onto truth you can find truth and God can can can you know turn what was bad to good but he's not using bad say he didn't he didn't instigate the bad to cause all that to come to pass if that were true he wouldn't have to turn bad to good it would all be good because it was all his will do you get that so don't think well he was using leprosy Nate God doesn't use leprosy right the devil uses leprosy to try what to steal kill and destroy God uses health he uses life amen and so so remember that David I heard that in the spirit that somebody was thinking that along those lines so we're gonna change that we need to change your thinking change your thinking you got you get that change your thinking now notice he said have mercy on us O Lord thou son of David ease those two blind men and the multitude rebuked them they get that Jesus come by they here Jesus that's Jesus these two blind men start crying out Jesus son of David have mercy on us right and the multitude rebuked him you get that here Jesus has this great reputation as a healer to people who are blind start crying out and the multitude the crowd says shut up hold your peace remember that hold your peace and then what the that particular if we hold our peace is that we can't hold our peace no now watch if you're smart you won't hold let me put it when he says hold your peace it means be quiet right let me put it this way we should hold our peace we should not hold our voice the understanding about that in common language today we are we have peace we are to hold our peace we should not let anything steal our peace we should never give our peace away in the sense that we don't have peace you got that we should always have peace but here of course hold your peace means shut up so we hold our peace but we don't shut up all right we'll get to that in just a minute what just he says have mercy on us well and the multitude rebuked in verse 31 because they should hold their peace but they cried the more what does that mean two blind men are smarter than a whole multitude that's what it means right if you're in the middle of problems you when people tell you to shut up and don't say it no don't do that confession thing that don't work in Israel no you tell them shut up and you know even be polite about it but don't hold your peace get louder if they tell oh you know you know you shouldn't be confessing God's work not get louder right matter what that serves two purposes it shows God you believe him more than people and it'll also make them mad enough that hopefully they'll leave you alone right and you won't have to have to hang out with him anymore women go get you some new friends right so he says Jesus stood still and called them and said what will you that I shall do unto you and they say I am Lord that our eyes may be opened so Jesus had compassion on them touched their eyes and immediately their eyes receive sight and they followed him so notice immediately okay how did they get here because they didn't listen to the crowd if they listened to the crowd that they would have stayed blind do you get that so the crowd is usually wrong especially if it is somehow causing you to stay in your current condition right now first off the crowd was saying one thing but now notice these two lepers are demonstrate these two blind guys here they had a different spirit you get that they had a different spirit they had a different attitude than the crowd had they didn't stop they they didn't get quiet they got louder as we said now the crowd and this just a note I wrote down the crowd with the loudest voice isn't usually saying the right thing right now just as a by the way you know I've never seen a time in my lifetime and I know there were some things in the 60s and things you know that I was too young to be aware of really but very similar to today in the things in the country that's going on but I've never seen a time not even back then that I know of that I've watched the videos and stuff on I've never seen a time when people didn't that they call it protesting but they're not just protesting they are trying to use free speech to bully people I've never seen that I've never seen a time when people were as rude inconsiderate as as how can I say vicious and and I'll be honest with you and I'm not trying to point out individual people or anything but I will tell you this as of the 1st of this year I left how much you even noticed you're not but as we started noticing it right away as of the 1st of this year especially something happened there was a change in America in in the in the spirit you understand there was a change that took place It was as if the gates of Hell opened to where all of a sudden it's okay to be vicious under the guise of will I have this right or whatever it is and and there there's something going on and as Christians we have to recognize the spiritual thing that's going on behind it yes as Americans those of you that are listening to me that are Americans yes we have rights and free speech is one of them and we could go even further okay and you know the reason we have free speech reason we have the First Amendment because we have the second just to be honest with you but the whole point about free speech is that behind that we as Americans as Christians we have the right for free speech we have the right to voice our opinion at the same time just as an American I don't participate as a Christian I can't say I have the right to say this this way because I'm an American no you have to be a Christian first and then American do you understand that now and believe me I love America I still tear up when the national anthem is you know star-spangled banner is sing that kind thing I served in military I get it I listen I know America we got problems right we got some serious problems and but I'm telling you I've been to over thirty some-odd other countries and I always come back here and I'm glad when I do I love other countries and all that but it's the same time we got problems but we are fixing them but we can't fix them if we don't participate but we also have to do it from a Christian attitude right I hate to even use that turn that way so anyway no as I said we have a constitutional right to voice our opinion but there's a difference between really protesting and harassment right between protesting and assault one of the things I got a book the other day for it's called the John Wayne Code is really it's grow up my generation John Wayne was like the American icon right and one of the things he said was is that on a piece of paper he had on his wall he said I don't insult people I don't treat people bad I don't put my hands on people and he said and I won't let any of those things to be done to me and he said that was where he stood in the sense that he treated people the way he wanted to be treated is what it came down to and he expected to be treated the way he treated people at some point America has to get back to civility or we'll tear ourselves apart which is exactly what the enemy wants us to do right so now here's the thing a group for the largest voice to say one thing but the facts are ok very simple I'm talking about a kind of America here but I really want to get to this point regardless of what else is going on regardless of your political views regardless of anything the statistics are very clear ok unemployment is down to its lowest on almost every demographic right food stamp use is down lower than it almost ever has been all of the things taxes are lower than they've ever been which means more money should be on your paycheck right I'm not saying this for one party another what I'm saying is that all the statistics prove one thing America is beginning to prosper right that's the facts whether people like it or not that's the facts America is beginning to prosper now are there social issues you bet but show me another country where there are not social issues and show me another country that tends to handle them better than we do right I mean I'll admit there's some countries that are handling pretty good in some areas but we learn and we have to be able to handle these social issues now so what I'm saying is this now is the time if you've ever had a dream of owning a business starting a business of owning your home over now is the time to do it what because now's the time when you can step forward there's always gonna be voices and oh it's tour it's it's terrible it's horrible the sky is falling it's going to get bad yeah it looks good you know as we said before pessimist or people that always have you know a problem for every solution and so we have to look at things and yeah things can be bad things can happen but at the same time if we as believers trust God and move forward now is the time for believers to prosper in the middle of all this if we don't listen to the fear-mongering and try to just hold everything back and not know things are moving forward amen so now I mean again I'm not you know trying to get political on this I'm just saying but if Christian listen one of the problems about Christianity that we've had especially here in America over the last 50 years is we constantly fight against this notion of separation of church and state right and we know that the Constitution does not guarantee separation of church and state what is what it guarantees is that the government shall not establish a national govern a tional religion that's what it is right and so there's not a separation of church and state that was one line in one letter written by Thomas Jefferson and it is not a legal standing and what it comes down to is this even though churches and Christians say we don't believe in the separation of church and state in that sense we treat as though it's true by not participating and by not speaking up and whenever righteous men do nothing evil prevails that's the way it works we need righteous people in politics right people that have character but they also have to know that they're gonna be torn apart right but we have to have the character to do what's right and not necessarily do what just what's easy amen so so with that I'm announcing my candidate no I'm kidding so to finish up we're never finished yeah I'm I'm in the highest office I will ever hold again now so let's go real quickly what did you learn today what did I share with you okay well I got about five things I'm going to share with you just statements you can write these down or I can get you copies of this what did you learn today number one you learned watch what you say especially what you say about God he is only limited by your words about him and he can only really do through you what you say about him so watch your words number two when the circumstances and the crowd say you can't your answer should be I am well able is that right that's the other thing you should have learned number three the deliverer you need may not be the one you want right so get over the sound of the voice or whatever it is or the mannerisms or whatever it is okay number four when the situation looks hopeless get up and do something that's not the time to hide right get up and do something say something be at least like the for lepers why sit we here till we die let's move forward amen remember that what you could even say what if I got to lose right as we move forward we sit here we die we go we die who cares we're gonna do something right die move I always say die moving I'm moving targets are harder target to hit right so die moving now number five when people say shut up it's time to speak up only louder than you did the first time right keep speaking life and victory until your naysayers voices are drowned out finally the last point as I said before I've mentioned us before no single factor determines your destination more than who you associate with birds of a feather flock together as they say misery loves company what does that mean to us what should we learn from this guard your ears guard your heart guard your thoughts guard your words when you and most of these you guard by simply guarding your ears if you guard yours years ago you know as we would say here if you do these things you will overcome sometimes overcoming is lonely but you still overcome years ago I had I've heard my story I broke my foot I was on a trampoline trying to dodge other kids that were on that well other kids probably so but anyway trying to dodge some kids that were on there too and I had to go off the trampoline and when I hit the rail first I hurt my foot break and then whenever I hit the ground I rolled to try to keep from hitting it and so it broke and so I limped into the house to you know check out my foot and whenever I was looking at it it had in a matter of minutes it had swollen huge I mean many bones had been broken and so it was sitting there swelling up and turning red and purple and all that kinda stuff and a friend of a friend of ours walked in and as soon as she saw my foot she said Oh hurry you got to do something about that or that could paralyze you that could you as well she said that could you and as soon as she says and I by this time I'd already known I already heard and known and believed the the power of words in your life and so as soon as she said that I looked how long she's you know I'd want to hear it okay because I knew I would hear those words again and I did about three times over the next year and a half that I would wake up in the morning because most of you know by that time I was teaching a Bible class on healing I'm right in the middle of it and the people come and I'd be standing there and the people come in that I'll sit down and I would you know that this was the foot that got broke and so I understand like this and teach and as you know I don't teach short lessons but as I got Dennis all right you're all dismissed god bless you you can go because I wanted them to leave so that I could walk off and I didn't want them to see me walking on I'm teaching the healing class right and so they didn't and they said you know once you go over here what's going on like no I'm good good here what's and they all refused to move and so finally we know we heard about your foot and we're going to pray for you and they did and they prayed and some of the pain left but it didn't heal up and I ended up having to slap it and I can you know the story anyway so it yeah and and then after that it was well right but then about six months later one morning I woke up got out of bed and as soon as I did as soon as that my feet hit the ground it was like dead and I couldn't feel my foot pins and needles kind of thing couldn't find it couldn't walk it was just like it was before guess what I heard if you don't get that fixed it's gonna you I heard it in her voice in my ears the enemy brought that right back to my mind now that's what I'm saying guard your ears some things and like what she said I really couldn't stop her from saying it I mean if I had a know now to lock the door but it was their house so hard but if I'd have known she's gonna say it okay but but the bottom line was that you know you you if you know you're gonna you can avoid a lot of stuff just by guarding your ears you can avoid the enemy putting thoughts in you and putting these things a lot of stuff you can avoid if you just depending on who you hang out with and who you talk to and who's around you you can't avoid everything it's like brother Hagin used to say you you can stop listen you can't stop the bird from flying over your head but you can stop it from building a nest in your hair and so we need to realize where is our greatest problems coming from most the time it's from people's words that sit with us that we start agreeing with them rather than agreeing with what the Word of God said right so guard your ears guard your heart guard your mind guard your mouth guard your thoughts guard yourself in these areas amen ant they tell you to shut up get louder get loud enough and consistent enough until they won't hang out with you anymore right and when that happens you have overcome amen so all right y'all get anything out this today amen all right well and remember you know these messages they're not meant to be heard one time if they're right once they're right always and so it's good to get a hold of these go online listen to them tomorrow they usually have them up the next day or whatever or get the CD or whatever out of the bookstore but get out of that play it in your car listen to it you're going to be listening to something it might as well be something that will help you and not something that is just even neutral or negative amen because we're here to help so alright but if you need ministry my staff will help put that together we'll be praying for you and I'm gonna go put all my my stuff up here and then I'll be right back out other than that god bless you we thank you and look forward seeing you all again soon amen god bless [Music] [Applause] 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Channel: John G. Lake Ministries

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Keywords: John G. Lake Ministries, JGLM, Curry Blake, Divine Healing Technician, DHT, New Man Seminar, Life Teams, Jesus Christ, Holy Spirit, Dominion Bible Institute, Diversities of Tongues, God's Son Man's Servant, Renewed Mind, Healing in the Atonement, Killing Sacred Cows, iChurch, JGLM Media

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Length: 85min 1sec (5101 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 09 2018