Bishop Noel Jones - Sunday Morning Worship - September 19, 2021

tumblers when we're connecting we don't do this but when we're assembling uh then we have to do this of course it's in matthew's gospel chapter four and uh verse one through four and uh i must say that when i'm teaching i'm not thinking about anybody in particular i'm exegeting the text so i'm not uh you know if i have a grievance with you i will i will confront you amen i don't use the pulpit as a place to hide amen i will talk to you directly amen pulpit is not a place you hide behind when you want to uh stab or jab somebody amen that's not this is not the place this is a place of healing this is not i'm not trying to be a mugger here now i may attempt to be a surgeon both ways you're going to get cut but one way is to cut to heal the other is to cut to destroy and really and truly uh and understand this too whatever i preach hits me too i understand that because you have to examine yourself while you're preparing it to see whether or not you fall in the category of a need for repentance because of the way you behave and so please don't take it personal but don't take it personal so in matthew chapter 4 then was jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil and when he had fasted 40 days of course and 40 nights he was afterward and hungered and when the tempter came to him he said if thou be the son of god command that these stones be made bread it's an interesting dynamic that jesus fed five thousand fed four thousand but in response to satan he says it is written man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of god and here is this great savior who could feed five thousand and four thousand but would not feed himself because of the tempter's suggestion we spoke last week about the satan's favorite pastime and that is he likes and loves to divide today we want to move a little bit further into understanding the chicanery of the enemy he likes to play tricks and he is a master at introducing doubt one of the things that satan is a master in is making the subtle suggestions that bring doubt and notice now that jesus has experienced the marvelous revelatory move of the father and i should explain that when you deal with the father and you deal with the son and you deal with the holy spirit you deal with functionality of god it is functionality of god but it is still in essence god in the father god in the son god in the holy ghost and it's one god one god essence that is in jesus in the father and in the holy spirit the essence but the revelatory function for the need of salvation gives him the function as father the function as son and the function as the holy spirit but the essence is the same which means then that if in the functionality of the holy ghost i have an experience with the holy ghost i have an experience with god the essence the functionality of the son i have an experience with god functionality of the father i have an experience with god interesting however in person what god has done is that the whole godhead father son and holy ghost is in jesus christ the person and it's very important to understand that god in his functionality is interacting in each place so when i talk about jesus as the son of god operating as as the son but dealing with the father he has had an experience that is remarkable because he was endowed with the power of the holy spirit as a symbol to john that the one who you see the spirit descending upon he is the one that i've sent you to proclaim remember now john has to proclaim jesus i didn't intend for it to get this this john has to proclaim jesus but he has to identify who he must proclaim and the identification is when you see the dove descend and that happened in baptism so i could argue with the intellectuals and with the biblicists i could argue that the primary reason for john to baptize everybody was to find out who it was that the spirit would descend upon for him to know exactly who the person was that he tell had to extol and to worship and to praise and to preach who he sees so the experience is wonderful that jesus has and when the father began to speak this is my beloved son and declare that which tells me now that the greater the revelatory experience you have with god the greater the temptation you're going to have to face so for those of you who are moving into that place with god and looking for that next level with god you got to understand that every level has a test and you don't have first grade tests in college amen amen somebody's hollering i'm going through a lot well if you're going through a lot you must have a lot of power because you put no more on you than you're able to bear and if you're going through a lot it's because you have the capacity to handle a lot so please move from complaint to praise and praise him about your strength and understand that you're going to get through whatever is thrown at you particularly if the holy ghost led you into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil lord have mercy which means that after you've had this great testimony after you've jumped and shouted and called the devil all kind of names he says i'm going to meet you round the corner so now he is he is going to introduce doubt and he's going to introduce doubt when jesus of course is hungry baptism now is in his memory and the move of the spirit is now in his memory it is not actually happening every minute i suggest to you that much of your experience is now in your memory and your memory banks aren't operating in an actual behavior situation right now it's your memory he is going to operate in your actual and we're going to see how powerful your memory is when he's introducing doubts i wonder if you understand what i'm saying there are many things in our memory about what god has done for us but in the middle of a satanic attack how often has your memory brought you deliverance i told that you're gonna meditate on that now in my own life i have been under a gruesome attack of the enemy and in the middle of that attack somehow i lost my memory i want to talk to i want to see that you know you praised him for years and you rejoice for years and you testified for years and yet you find yourself in a situation where all of the years didn't seem to matter and it's like it's like being in a position where the battle and the furnace is so hot then it's so intense that somehow you can't you can't reach for memory this is why i'm very convinced that one of the greatest abilities to go forward in life is to know what to remember and what to forget haven't you had difficulties forgetting where you've been hurt no remembering where you've been hurt but forgetting where you've been blessed i want to talk to you now see see you all go hold out on me so let's have a conversation i want to bless my wife i want to bless you want to bless your husband but you don't have a lot of money you just have a little bit of money but thank god for layaway i don't think they do that anymore but thank god for layaway so christmas is coming and january you decided that you wanted to get her a min code or something uh you know exorbitant and but you don't have the cash to walk up and buy but you uh you every month you you putting the lender every month you saving little you putting it there you putting it there here comes christmas you got the package you walk up to her or him and you lay out the package you say here oh man i saved all year for this amanda what quite a sacrifice everything i had i put in the layaway here is your gift oh baby thank you it's something i wanted and give you a big hug and uh 15 minutes later it's you know that's over you're riding in the car and she said something or he said something and without thinking you said something and uh you know your mother's too busy in our business or you say something and they get upset you didn't plan that whatever came out of your mouth that shouldn't come out of your mouth that you wish you could take back you didn't plan that but you planned and executed for a whole year to get a present now isn't it interesting that you executed a whole year to get a pla a present and the individual forgets that in a week but three years later they're telling you about something that you didn't plan to do i wish i had somebody to understand what i'm saying one of the greatest lessons in life is to have the capacity to know what to forget and what to remember because satan will attack you after years of having wonderful times with god and you forget that he delivered you yesterday he delivered you from referendum he delivered you as jehovah jireh he delivered you as jehovah niece he delivered you as jehovah macadis he delivered you as jehovah's summer he delivered you at jehovah's sycano he delivered you serious series of time and yet now you're in the middle of a test and you're about to throw your hands up because somehow you can't remember how he brought you out somebody ought to remember his goodness remember his grace remember how he brought me out remember how he anointed me in the middle of the test you ought to look the devil in the face and says satan you can't take this from me because i remember how he brought me out and he's going to do it again [Music] i feel like shouting you sometimes the best counsel when somebody is in the middle of the rough this test is simply to say i remember when you were in a serious situation five years ago and look where you are now i remember so why are you going to capitulate give in to the enemy and act like god has never done anything for you i remember god speaking to israel in isaiah and here he says you know you know you know you you tough you know you tough when you don't have a third party to adjudicate a situation when it's just two of you and you're not calling another witness it's just both of you and when he says to you what more could i have done we're not asking somebody to make a judgment here i'm asking you to look at what i have done and i'm asking you to become a third person looking at yourself and decide what i have done what more could i have done he said i've done everything i have put you on the best soil i have given you the best husbandman treatment i have put the best vines in you i have stepped up and i have made a tower to guard and watch over my investment what more can i do now that you have turned your back on me and treat me like i'm a piece of trash when i've done everything to bring you where you are what more could i have done i don't need isaiah to say it i don't need ezekiel to say it i don't need jeremiah to say it i'm talking to you you judge how i've treated you and now you're gonna throw up your hands and act like i can't deliver i am a deliverer and all i'm doing is set you up now to deliver you again [Music] that's all i'm doing yeah it's in this memory the baptism the heavens opening up then why not ask help of heaven as well as the dove spirit surely can make miracles possible so now do you have an assurance of who you are because you've got to know who you are because satan wants to cast a little doubt real simple if a son then will your heavenly father give you a stone when you ask him for bread that's what jesus said matthew chapter seven verse nine now jesus now is being tempted to go beyond baptism to go beyond the settling of a dove now he's being tempted to go to a deeper experience so these are the dynamics of jesus's first temptation the satanic voice is addressing disciples it's something like this to you and i for those of us who have just been so caught up with the spectacular how can you claim to be a child of god when you're struggling with big problems instead of being victorious over them why don't you just get rid of your problem since you're the son of god since you're so saved why don't you just get rid of your problem and turn these stones into bread if you do that then we will believe you have a strong relationship with god i ain't got to prove mom to you [Applause] if thou be all you say you are come down from the cross why are you hanging up on the cross with two thieves on both sides of you and you are the son of god you know i was riding i was riding my my you know i was just riding low wheeling and i rolled by i rolled by golgotha and i looked up and i saw three men there two i saw they're from cnn one in the middle is from tbn the one in the middle claims he's the son of god i heard him on tv again but the other two [Music] we realized on cnn that they were nothing but criminals how is it possible that i can have tbn faith and end up between two criminals according to what we're taught today that should never happen that you being so much a child of god and end up between two thieves all of you in the same situation how many times have your situation married mirrored rather the situations of others how many times have you been told as doubt is being inserted into your mind i thought you would say you would have given your money to church and you can't even get a car thought you know the law how many times have you had death in your family like everybody else how many times have you had to suffer financial difficulty like everybody else how many times have you had to cry like everybody else and go through like everybody else and hear the whispering of satanic forces i thought you would say immediately question your relationship with god three of them on the cross might i say one man died in sin one man on the other side died from sin and the one in the middle died for sin and they were all in the same situation you gotta know who you are when you're in a situation with somebody else oh i feel like shouting on this yeah we're in the same situation but i still know my relationship so we get caught up in the spectacular because we got to prove something you can't just normally walk with the lord in an everyday life because the saints want to see demons cast out amen people want to see you know you know power in the church i want to go to church where there's power where demons cast out well you're laying on of hands somebody find hebrews chapter 6 for me very quickly hebrews chapter 6. i'm digressing a little bit here you know i'm digressing but i think the ancillary approach will help make the point all right hit me hebrews chapter six go ahead and i'm gonna say like we used to do in the old time therefore therefore leaving therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of christ let us go on to maturity or to perfection in the greek there is maturity so now we're doing two things now we're leaving and we're going forward anybody who progresses in anything has to learn how to leave but you don't leave and stand still because you can leave and don't go nowhere amen if i'm leaving you honey i got somewhere to go and i leave until i have somewhere to go excuse me i had to work with you some of you already got exit plans well i don't know why she's still there honey she got a plan you better throw yet up in there she ain't leaving yet but she working a plan she ain't leaving walking out the house i'm leaving and then you see her sitting in the garden she's sitting in the garage she then left and she in the garage oh i wish i could i wish i could talk to grown folk let me tell you this since i'm on there since i'm so far out do you know how many people have left but they're not gone what did you say what are we leaving not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works we're going to leave that and what's the next one and faith towards god which should be a given by now the doctrine of baptism which we fight every day and of the laying on of hands he's asking us to move from the rudiments and get mature and part of what he's telling us to walk away from to get mature is the sensational laying on of hands you're trying to get me to come back to laying on of hands brother prophet when god has brought me to a place of maturity where i just take that for granted that ain't nothing special what is special is that me walking with god without anything spectacular without any special money without any special anointing and walking with god through my pain through my death of my brother through the death of my sister death of my mother through my operations walking with god and if he's healing me heal him if he don't heal let me heal him but my relationship is not going to change you steady trying to pull me back to show how powerful you are [Applause] jesus does not answer to if thou be he ain't answering to if thou be it's either you know or you don't know but you're not gonna have me running around trying to answer how sanctified and holy i am by proving to you anything i wish somebody'd understand that we don't live in this house together as saints with one another trying to prove to each other every day that i'm close to god and wearing it on your sleeve the devil is a liar you need to walk with god in the solitude of your own tranquility and the serenity of your own understanding that i am a child of god if i'm broke i'm a child of god in a one-room house i'm a child of god in a mansion i'm a child of god in a rolls-royce i don't have to buy anything to prove to you [Music] i'm almost finished the devil will let christians be satisfied with christ the church other christians and themselves only when all these are visibly transformed clearly miraculous radiant obviously making it men and women gotta be a globe the issue was clear sharp declare either we believe the voice of baptism either we believe the move of the holy spirit the anointing on your life you are the son of god or are you listening for another voice it's either you believe god has spoken to you and if god has spoken to you why do you need another voice i get in trouble a lot because of transparency you ain't got to whisper and ask somebody about the bishop ask me i'll tell you and i can't i'm like oh refrigerator anyway i saw the bishop with some wine did he drink wine ask me one thing i've understood about transparency is transparency indicates that you're comfortable in your own skin amen i'm sitting out with somebody way back in longview texas early in my ministry and i'm sitting with somebody oh i went shopping today and i bought six suits now i know he didn't buy no sick soap so i asked him afterward why did you have to say you bought six suits because somebody on the other side of the table said they bought two not comfortable with who they are and people when you're not comfortable with who you are you either are showy boastful i have to go tit-for-tat you went to neiman i got to go to sax not comfortably jesus was comfortable in his own understanding of who he is and he brings each one of us into that place where i don't have to compete with you i just want to be the best that i can be and wherever that puts me on the map i'm willing to be there on the map i don't have to compete with you i don't have to out-talk you i'll dress you i'll drive you out live you out house you out anything [Music] i feel like shouting here i'm gonna spend one sleepless night trying to figure out how i can out best you come on sisters if the man ain't looking at you he ain't looking at you you ain't got to out best out talk out somebody else if the woman ain't looking at you man just go about your business you ain't got to out anything you ain't got to get out it's anywhere can i preach like i feel it why should you try to get in somewhere where you don't belong amen and let somebody reject you i keep telling you rejection is direction hurry up and reject me so i can find out where i need to be be confident the relationship with god should bring you to a place of comfort the pharisees were showing off so you are the son of god when you can prove it by signs but what if god did not give you that gift what if the holy spirit didn't anoint you that way then how are you going to do the sign if the holy spirit didn't annoy you that way amen relax accept wherever god has placed you i i went to job and the book of job is the book to read for this temptation because when you get to job's 42 chapters would make an excellent meditation for the 40 days of lent and beware all the arguments from signs miracles and transformations it is not transformed that proves the truth it is simple truth in the sacred word of truth that you have to trust that usually has to be left out untransformed in the daily plotting through trust in god's word and that in itself is great transformation why i'm living and i'm praising god and glorifying god and he has not miraculously healed my brother and my sister is calling and we're dealing with things like like medical wills medical wills and to be on the phone and looking at him facetime and praying with everybody who's concerned about healing which god can do the leper says to the lord he's modest but he's confident he says i know you can heal me he puts it this way if thou wilt thou canst make me whole if thy will okay so here's what he's saying if i don't get healed it's not because you can't i wish somebody'd understand this it's not because you can it's because it's not your will and when i walk with you closely enough i will accept yes i will accept no i will accept not now because it's the same faith that gets you healed is the same faith that accepts you not being healed so what what what kind of conclusion can i come to based on that premise that is jesus says just ask ask seek and know all he says is ask and then when you pray and you say in the name of jesus you just gave him the authority to do whatever he chooses to do on your behalf walking with him when he doesn't change anything that's the power that's the maturity leaving going on to maturity so jesus responded very simply and i'm coming to a close it is in writing it is written a human being will not live by bread alone but by single word every word that comes pouring out of god's mouth what is it that gives you confidence as a child of god what is it that gives you the understanding of who you are the word which means that i'm never alone when i have the word why the word became flesh the word is god in the beginning was and the word was with god and the word was god and by verse 14 and the word became flesh so when i have the word i have jesus i wish you'd understand that when i have the word i've got god in me so i'm not alone say that i'm alone physically but i'm not alone spiritually and when you attack my relationship with god you're attacking a spiritual relationship with god i ain't got to prove anything on the outside because i know who i am on the inside his spirit testified with my spirit that i am i am a child of god so jesus what he does now he quotes deuteronomy 8 and 3. and then he starts wheeling ephesians 6 and 17. he takes up the sword of the spirit which is the word of god you cannot trip up a word-filled individual you can do all the tricks you want but you can't mess up a word-filled individual a word-filled individual will look past all of your miracle actions and be able to tell whether it's god or amen [Music] i'm going to digress again i'm going to digress again i had a very interesting sound real jamaican there interesting interesting conversation with my sunday prep group elders and pastors and i received a question and the question was asked me bishop can an individual fall from grace and i've been i've heard it all of my my life falling from grace what is grace unmerited faith how do you fall from unmerited favor alma alma was out fishing in montana so i hit him up i say how are we gonna fall from grace uh bishop bishop said if you married it then you can unmerit it but if you don't merit it in the first place you so cannot unmerit it i wish somebody would help me here how are you going to fall from what you didn't achieve amen now let me take it further if i can fall from grace then obviously i got in and then i fell which means that there has to be a level of unmerited favor that's greater than the other level and it's got to get so great until it cripples grace but paul settled that argument when he says where sin doth abound grace doth much more about you cannot out sin god's grace so now the smart people said so shall we continue in sin that grace may abound and the answer is how can you continue in sin if you are dead to it one of the reasons satan can whisper to us and cause us to doubt our relationship with god it's because of the mistakes we make on our way to maturity i would like you to understand this nobody comes into the kingdom and jump from natural to spiritual without going through carnal should i say that again nobody is born again and immediately upon being born again they become spiritual with no difficulties no sin along the way no getting over the sin that so easily be set which is yours he said to the corinthians you were yet carnal still babes in christ you're born into this thing you're not fully grown into it and so he whispers you don't have a relationship with god because you don't mess up with that man you don't mess up with that woman you ain't got no relationship and then here come the judgment if you were sick amen how many of us have got out of relationships and doing this pandemic thought about who could deliver you from it financially you got saved but you didn't throw that rolodex away you still got some numbers you can remember amen and i know when it came down to lockup and you were everybody's going to lock up i know some people gave some consideration to who they need to be locked up with amen praise god you were locked up with who you married some people are having trouble with that lockup people got cursed out behind that lockup can't leave it's when you have those challenges i wish i could talk to the saints it's when you have challenges of your own lust your own lust of the eyes love of the flesh and the pride of life it's when you have those challenges satan likes to come in and say you need to show us something else to prove that you're a child of god but when you have the word in you the word the word helps you to forgive yourself it's the word that helps you to recover yourself if you didn't have the word you couldn't recover yourself [Music] it's the word that brings you back to god it's a word that says come boldly to the throne of grace in the time of need come boldly look at somebody and say you got to be a person of scripture so the temptations entailed to drill truth into the church's mind and as i conclude ministry is christian in the measure that it is ruled by scripture that's it we have too many presenters who are not biblicists you take them and put them in the bible they lost i have never seen so many people just walking around talking and the lord's going to give you a double for your trouble and you're going to get it all back and then and just walk around talking took a scripture ain't followed ain't exegeting dealt with it ain't built on it ain't done nothing with it just walking around talking ministry is christian in the measure that it is ruled by scripture so we learn from jesus opening sentence in that jesus obeys the spirit given him in baptism not by obeying spiritual voices or heeding supernatural visions or by other special revelations go back home with your dream ain't got no time to be preaching dreams i'm closing i had a dream one night i'm serious i had a dream i was still in texas and somehow i was out here in california and after having ridden to the council with two of my brothers from longview all the way to san antonio anybody know texas you know that's a good ride from east texas boundary all the way to san antonio and it was storming and just was just a horrible kind of a situation and my wife had given me some uh potato salad and so i was eating that on the way got down to san antonio went to sleep and i had a dream i had a dream i looked over to the pacific and the water was coming in about a mile high tsunami and the lord said to me go get a corn dog so i went over to the mexican brother who was selling corn dogs i said let me have one of them corn dogs he looked over at the water and said you can have all of these called though church i put that corn dog between my legs like this and that wave took me to phoenix arizona now please don't ask me what did that mean in the spirit christian is based only on the word of god and you can get all this excitement you want out of all these extra things but at the end of the day you have to know that you know that you are a child of god i'll pick the rest of it the next time but if you're in this building and you're not born again if you've been broken if you've been broken in church and if you've been hurt by church folk i'm telling you ignore it and come to jesus my hope is built [Music] on nothing less than jesus blood and righteousness i dare not trust the sweet refrain on jesus [Music] is [Music] on christmas [Music] is [Music] one more time [Music] is [Music] to those who are watching online the lord is speaking to your spirit right now and he's talking to your heart and the central power of our lives is jesus christ i don't care where you were last night i don't care what you were into if in your heart you're being moved right now then i want you to pick up the phone get that phone in your hand right now go to a private place in the house go out in the yard and call the number that's on your screen please call that number 844 [Music] 267-7729 call that number right now eight four four two [Music] six seven seven seven two nine and the lord will move on your behalf people are waiting with with baited breath [Music] to be able to pray with you and to talk with you hundreds have called every month join that number and reach out to the lord father we come in jesus name we thank you for your word we thank you for the clarity that you have given us in the revelatory optics of your word and we pray now lord that for those who have been discouraged for those who have been broken that you will reinstate in their spirits the fact that you have always been and will always be their god and i pray god that somehow we take this onus off us and as you said through peter cast all your cares upon him [Music] because you care for us and i claim that now in jesus name amen and amen before we go before we go i do have a correction last week i think i was preaching or teaching and i said something about paul cast all your cares upon him before he cared but it was peter it was peter who said that and i want to thank god for the person who sent me that an email to correct me and i said i would come and correct it today because accuracy is critical when you come dealing with the word of god so it was peter not paul now i have looked at the boss program and i would like everybody who can participate in this very positive action for our boys and we can't do the teaching we don't sit with the boys we don't spend a lot of time with them all of us aren't participating in terms of instruction but we all can participate with a gift that will continue this program on a level of excellence that only money can do so i'm not participating with a lot of my time you're not probably ever going to be in one of the sessions but we all can participate with giving a gift so i want you to get a gift in your hand commensurate to where you are financially on the level of your financial capacity i want you to get a gift on that level and i'm going to add to that gift in fact i won't get too happy to say what i'm gonna do when i count all this gift up but if you bring a gift for a very practical a very real and necessary adventure then certainly the church will augment supplement corroborate whatever word you choose come on my brothers god bless you come on my brothers my sisters people with sons people with daughters who are skilled just a gift according to what your capacity is why are you calling for no 100 no no give according to your capacity this is operating in our church my hope is built on nothing left then jesus righteousness i shall not trust the [Music] on jesus [Music] oh [Music] amen as you giving your gift we want to thank god for sister janine white amen for coming to be with us on this morning before you leave sound by solomon corner amen to get the brunch special off today amen don't forget to register for the education department classes don't forget to sign by the manning ministry table in the lobby amen god bless you look to see everyone next sunday god bless you you

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