Build Your House On A Solid Foundation

priests he have a liveth to make an accession for us and father you know what's name by name and you know our situations and so i thank you that you minister to us so i desire to know you so that we may serve you more faithfully and so father in the name of jesus i thank you every year it's anointed to hear and every heart shall believe and receive and as a result of this our lives will be transformed that's our prayer and so in advance we give you alone all the praise and all the glory all the honor and all the adoration for all that shall be accomplished and for all that shall be revealed in jesus name and the people said amen turn and greet a few people around you find out some names get some new names this is the day the lord's made i will rejoice and be glad in it turn around in your bibles to matthew the seventh chapter and the 24th verse and we'll get started in our lesson today you're ready for a full day in service today you know we're coming back tonight for our thanksgiving service amen and so uh we like to do that because we want you to have thanksgiving with your family and so we don't have a service on thanksgiving day this has been our custom for for years how many are traveling on thanksgiving going home to see parents or relatives and that sort of thing good well we we speak god's traveling grace over you as you go and um we'd always we think it's always good to uh uh spend thanksgiving with family and so you'll spend your thanksgiving tonight with us amen that's a good place to clap amen so uh we're looking forward to uh tonight amen of course you know uh in particular we just want to celebrate the lord delivering our lives from destruction amen hallelujah so uh god is good amen praise the lame of the lord so um all right and then we want you to be in prayer for the success of the uh offering of gold that we're going to bring next week amen i want you to be in section and prayer for that and we believe it'll be a great success it'll also set a pattern for many people other churches in the body of christ to follow and how many how many have already located your goal you gonna bring how many how many wave at my wave at my wave come on not nearly enough so i got to keep praying because some of y'all ain't really even at myself amen hallelujah everybody all do something everybody i'll do something hallelujah all right chloe all right thank you as musicians that we're ready to go let's have our smiling exercise but the person next to you smile real big show them your pearly whites your 32s your 22s your tens or whatever you have left amen amen oh my god how many want somebody to get him some gold i mean i want somebody to give some gold give and it shall be given unto you good mansion president no no i'm serious yeah i think y'all miss it y'all don't i'm serious press down run together shake it together run it over amen praise the lord all right let's raise our bibles give our confession of faith repeat after me this is my bible i am what it says i am i can do what it says i can do i am a believer not a doubter i am a doer not just a hearer and my life is the better after having heard the word of faith faith comes by hearing and hearing and hearing by the word of god amen so there in matthew the seventh chapter jesus uh tells this awesome parable about building a natural house and he basically says that the strength of the house is in its foundation verse 24 he says and therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine and doeth them i would liken him to the wise man which built his house upon a rock and the rains descended and the floods came and the winds blew and beat upon that house and it fell not for it was founded upon a rock he goes on to talk about the foolish man who builds his house upon the sand and the same rains come and that house falls but the essence of the story is that the foundation of the thing determines the strength of the thing we're teaching this series on the christian family boot camp and we started with saying that the foundation or the standard that you choose to live by is vitally important to the strength of your family the strength of your home and okay let me just do this because i i forgot about it and i just it's bothering me okay so y'all just shut me out for a little bit uh video people that like been out for three weeks so please get that light on uh and because it's bothering me that light right there been out for three weeks praise the lord okay now i'm all right all right now i have issues i do i i admit my issue that's what i mentioned okay um so you have a standard that you're going to live by and the standard that you live by is very important jesus says here that the he uh he equates uh the man who builds his house uh on the rock he's equated to a person who builds his life uh based on the work on doing the word of god not just being exposed to it but actually doing the word of god so we thought that was a good place to start with this series so that we understand that god designed the family and he has a standard by which we all ought to operate within the family we said once that's established we have to embrace it and last week we talked about embracing it and one of the key factors in the seven uh things that we said you need to do in order to embrace a truth was saturation because i get the word of god and i must saturate myself with that standard in order for it to uh began to transform my life psalms 1 says blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly nor stand in the way of the sinners nor sitteth in the seat of the scarf but his delight is in the law of the lord and in his law does he meditate day and night that's saturation joshua 1 again talks about saturation he says joshua said this book of the law should not depart out of thy mouth thou shalt meditate therein day and night saturation so if a truth is going to change my life i must take the time to saturate myself with that truth to be consumed with it faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of god and so if this whole teaching is going to have any impact on your life it will not be just because you come and hear it on sunday but it will be because you will take the sea take the time to invest get the cd and listen to it over and over and over until the truth saturates your life now i listen to an average of about two hours of the word uh on a daily basis you know uh i still got cassette tapes i got the word on it i got cds then i put it on my my iphone and all that sort of thing why am i doing that because it is the principle of saturation that will help bring transformation that is fundamental everybody say fundamental now today i i want you to uh you don't really have to put on your thinking caps today you want to really think with me as we study today this is not difficult but it does require your attention go to romans chapter 12 because we want to talk about the spiritual fortitude for behavioral transformation people do change people do change amen people do change now without the without the hope that a person can change would mean that the family situation that is in uh disarray and that's dysfunctional could not be transformed you see so people do change how do i know people change well we have testimonies throughout the word of god and many of the heroes that we have in the bible are people who went through change the apostle paul he did not start off being you know the classical god of integrity he was a guy who killed christians yes he was i mean he was a guy who killed christians put him in jail moses moses was a fugitive yes he was but people change everybody say people change rahab was a harlot but people change everybody say people can change all right now so what we want to study today we want to study uh uh the spiritual fortitude uh for a behavioral change because once you see a truth if you don't know how to take that truth and let it impact your life and bring a change what's the sense of even knowing the truth because we're going to get into the specific of what god says a man ought to do what god says a husband ought to do what god says a father ought to do what god says a woman ought to do what god says a wife ought to do what god says the children ought to do what god says that parents ought to do well when we give you these standards if you don't know what to do with them then i just really you know just i could have just you know i wasted my time because you know you're not going you're not going to change but if you know what to do when you see a truth in the word of god how the impact how to incorporate that in your life now you're equipped to go to the next level amen and so i'm going to teach you the principle that god taught me years ago when i needed to change amen because change for the believer is the product of human effort sustained by divine help now if you want to write something down that's something good to write down but you're going to get to see it you can write it down later change for the believer is the product of human effort sustained by divine help god will not change you against your will but he will work with you to affect change in your life and that's what we're going to talk about how god works with us to bring the manifestation of behavioral change amen and it is what sacrifice is about because soccer if i have to sacrifice doing what i want to do doing what i'm comfortable in doing i have to and sacrifice simply means to go above and beyond your initial expectation you're going to have to put forth some effort but if you will put forth the effort i'll show you in the bible the spirit of god will strengthen you so that that change can be a permanent change and you will not be wavering going back and forth back and forth amen all right romans chapter 12 look there with me in verse verse one it says i beseech you therefore brother and by the mercies of god that you present your body is a living sacrifice holy acceptable unto god which is your reasonable service and be not conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is that good acceptable and perfect will of god so the bible lets me see i can see here that transformation takes place by the renewing of the mind transformation takes place by the renewing of the mind transformation takes place by the renewing of the mind transformation takes place by the renewing of the mind just that phrase renewing of the mind suggests a process we want to look at this process from scripture because i'm like this if i understand the process i understand the whys and what's behind it i am more committed to it when i can understand it so we want to look at this understanding of this process of change as we can see in the word of god now fortitude is the strength of character to hold an established course of action without wavering when we talk about the fortitude the spiritual fortitude for behavioral change i'm saying you have the strength of character to hold an established course without wavering now i behave the way i behave because i think the way i think i behave the way i behave because i think the way i think if my thinking is inaccurate i am subject to misbehave if my thinking is inaccurate i am subject to misbehave why because i behave the way i behave because i think the way i think so if my behavior is to change my thinking has to change amen now once i have thought through a process once i have deliberated a process my will goes into play to keep me on course to keep me locked into a particular behavior this person said you might need to get the cd today coming you might get good sleep yeah once i have fought through a process my will locks me into a particular behavior my will is the gatekeeper for the deliberation of my mind after i have deliberated after i have thought a thing through then my will is what locks me into a particular behavior if i say stay with him stay within them the will of man is the most dominant factor in the earth that determines in the determining of man's affairs even god will not violate my will god will not violate my will god will not make me do anything against my will we're going to show you now he will work with my will but god will not violate my will amen he'll let me do something contrary to his will he made us free moral agents we can do what we want to do when it comes to behavioral transformation it's more than somebody giving you a regimen and you just do it but it's don't want to do it that we're talking about today have you ever given your children a chore or something to do and they did it but they did not do it willingly you know and their attitude showed that you know but the bible says if he be willing and obedient that's isaiah 1 19 if you be willing and obedient you shall eat the good of the lamb now the willing is the willingness is important because that is what caused you to hold a consistent course when i'm when i when i'm willing when i want to do it amen and so my willingness is important so i can do something without being willing to do it i can be constrained and to do something you follow me you can you know make people can make you do something you don't want to use do it but you don't want it but when i'm willing i don't need on-site supervision when i'm willing nobody has to stand over my shoulder because this is what i want to do and what god wants us is he wants us to be willing to do his will he wants us to be willing to behave the way he wants us to behave he wants us to willingly embrace his plan for our lives and our role in the family amen all right and watch this go up in your bible to john chapter 20 john chapter 20 let's talk about respecting the power of will of the will of man the power of the will of man now my will controls what i do once i set once i deliberate it my will it backs me up all right verse 24 but thomas john chapter 20 verse 24 this is after jesus has resurrected from the dead been seen of several disciples thomas wasn't with them and let's examine the report but thomas one of the twelve codedemons were not with them when jesus came the other disciples therefore said unto him we have seen the lord but he said unto them except i shall see in his hands the front of the nails and put my finger into the front of the nails and thrust my hand into his side watch this now i will not believe i will not believe he's saying your testimony does not move me he says i am in control of whether i believe or not my will i have set my will not to believe him until i have sufficient evidence put my hand in the hole in his hand thrust my hand into the hole in the side until i have sufficient evidence i choose by an act of my will not to believe because god has designed us where we are in control of our will we are in control of our will look at the person that says i control my will okay all right watch this go up in your bibles let's look at another passage here in first corinthians chapter seven first corinthians chapter seven first corinthians chapter seven so god wants us to understand how the will functions if we can understand how the will function they'll understand how the holy spirit will help me in the transformation of my thought life and the support of my will so that when i choose to change i can stick to the new behavior or the new habit that i've established to be the will of god all right first corinthians chapter seven are you there all right look there with me in verse 37 and we're going to discover something right here it says nevertheless are you there all right first corinthians chapter 7 verse 37 nevertheless he that standeth steadfast in his heart everybody say in his heart all right having no necessity but has power over his own will and has so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin doeth well now this is a teaching of the apostle paul on abstinence but the principles are universal the principle he says here is he that stands steadfast in his heart now when the bible talks about the man's heart a man's heart it's talking about his spirit he's not talking about this organ that pumps blood but it's talking about his spirit because as we will see in in other passages my heart my spirit has influence over my will everybody say stay with him stay with me all right but look what he says here nevertheless he that stands steadfast who's strengthening his spirit having no necessity in other words this person is a person who uh you know uh in in essence uh has his priorities right and has power over his own will the bible says we have power over our own will all right and have so decreed in his heart that he will keep his version do it well in other words this person even with one of the most strongest uh desires the passion for sex the bible says a man can restrain himself control himself because he has power over his will strengthened by his heart he has power over his will amen all right all right now watch this watch this so that is why we see in so many cases in the bible that god wants men to do things out of their out of a persuaded will everybody say persuaded will all right let's go to isaiah 1 19. we quoted it but i want us to see it isaiah 1 19. hallelujah all right are you there huh you're going too fast today oh come on now isaiah 119. we could quote it but i want you to see it if you be come on class if you be if you be willing and obedient you shall what good of the land he just didn't say if you'd be uh uh obedient but if you be willing and obedient you eat the good of the lamb that is why god wants our giving to be willing out of out of our will he wants us to be willing and i give him he says god loves a cheerful giver he doesn't want us to be get he doesn't want us to give unless we do so out of a willing heart all right now watch this go to uh exodus chapter 35 exodus chapter 35 and we're going to practice this uh next week but i want you to see another principle in this this whole idea of of giving and the connection between my will and um and my heart already there exodus 35 let's look there in verse 5. now this is god talking to moses asking moses to ask the people for a certain offer and look how he does it all right and this lesson is not about money it's about a principle all right watch this it says take ye from among you and offering unto the lord whosoever is of a come on come on class willing heart let him bring it and offering unto the lord of god silver brass and he goes on list a whole list of things drop down verse 21 verse 21 and they came everyone whose heart stirred him up and everyone whom his spirit made willing his spirit made willie and they brought the lord's offering for the work of the tabernacle but you see here my spirit can affect my will my spirit can affect my will you see that my spirit come here can you see that class i'm gonna cause i'm getting ready to show you something that that that uh uh your spirit is very important in the establishment of your will it's not solely a matter of your mind see we are born again if we just eliminate the spiritual aspect then uh uh then then our lesson is no more no no no different than the philosophy of the world i'm kind of the scattering amens on that gonna be one of these kind of days all right now watch this go to philippians chapter 2 philippians chapter 2. everybody say his spirit made him willing yeah spirit yes spirit mayweather so so i understand now my spirit my spirit always wants to do what god wants me to do i was created a tripartite being body soul and spirit body soul and spirit the real me is the spirit being that lives on the inside of this body that possesses a soul i am not my body i am a spirit being who lives on the inside of a physical body and i possess a soul when i got born again made jesus my lord by the confession of my mouth my spirit became alive to god and my spirit desires to please god that's why the scripture says the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak so there's something in me that want to do what god's word says even though i may not be doing it there's something in me that wants to and that something is the spirit part of me it wants to line up with the word of god it wants to do what god wants me to do and my spirit and my spirit will through the help of the holy spirit convince my will to change all right philippians chapter 2. are you there all right amen now look there with me in verse [Music] 2 verse 13. watch this verse 13 verse 13. all right for it is god which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure wow so god works in me now how does god work in me he works in me by his spirit he works in me by his spirit not my might not by power but by my spirit saith the lord and so god works in me both to will he's working on my will and to do not that i just become a robot and just do it because god said do it because god said do his good god no no he walks on on the inside of me so that i have a passion about doing a passion about obeying him i got to understand i got help in this so i'm not in this transformation by myself okay let me just get real with you okay let's say the husband is real mean you follow me and cold you know unemotional and just you know blah they got it uh and uh you know that's just the way he is you know and he's almost like a terror when he comes home everybody starts start tiptoeing around the house because dad is home you understand yet the bible says men ought to be sensitive he's supposed to be part of the nurturing as well you got it and so um but he don't understand that man he don't understand i did it because cause he's been his thinking is that that's a punk being all sensitive you know and he says go get my stuff you understand you know you know the little kid falls he said get up just get up go about you you know the kid wants some nurturing you know get away from me and then the wife you know she wants some romance go talk to me talk to you come look i'm tired hey man i know you can't talk too much around here just bring him okay but how do you make that transformation see how you make that transformation it's good to know god wants to help you amen good know that the god the scripture says as a believer god want to work in you both to will to so that there's a want to change now we got to invite him to help us but once i invite the holy spirit to help me he began to work in me both to will and to do not what i just will to it but then he helps me carry this thing out amen amen amen now you know i could go to i could just flip the switch flip the script that's a mean women too you understand that's a mean folk you understand and so uh you know you grew up mean to protect yourself you follow me just mean i'm not just one just folk i mean you understand and and you really want to open up but you don't want to be hurt and that's your protection you know that you're tough amen amen but yet you cannot carry out that sensitive compassionate role that god wants you to play with this tough attitude how do you change how do you change are you just a a a uh uh pathological liar come on y'all know we got folk in our family this past you can't believe nothing they say come on you can't believe nothing they say you don't know what i'm doing just just straight up lie you got it and you know that's your issue you'll be wanting to tell the truth but somehow that lie just sound more exciting i mean you even know what the facts are but when you come out of your mouth you can change the facts and you're just a pathological liar and you know folk don't trust you because you know you lying too and you want to change that's why this lesson is important can i get back to my lesson now so i had to pull you all in cause y'all looking at me like i'm from mars and i'm trying to tell you how important this principle i'm about to teach you is that god wants to help you change i changed because god helped me change you know talk about i was that cold kind of guy that insensitive kind of guy that's where i was my generation brought me up like that i was around a lot of old pastors you know because a little boy preacher and they were very insensitive to their wives sit down shut up till you do something you do it i tell you to jump high that's all you need to say you understand that's why i was there bridget didn't go for that [Applause] you know so we had issues now no no no can we get back to study now can we get back to us all right watch watch watch watch watch watch this now all right so god works in me both too will and all right now go to ephesians chapter 3 ephesians chapter 3. i got a commitment here from the scripture that he helps me that he will strengthen me he's going to strengthen me in my inner man he's going to strengthen me in my spirit my faith has to be when i want to change for god to help me that i i don't just need a set of rules i need his help and to the degree that i will surrender and ask for his help he's willing to strengthen me all right watch this in verse 16 that he would grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened watch this with might by his spirit in the inner man so what he's going to do is strengthen me by his spirit his spirit works to strengthen my spirit in a man is my spirit so that i will execute the principles of righteousness willingly amen which frees him up to do supernatural things in my life all right now how does god work in me how does he work in me that's the question that comes to my mind okay i see you work in me but i'd like to know how you do that how does he work in me well when a decision is about to be made remember the will is the gatekeeper for my decision when a decision is is being made there are four factors or elements at the decision table number one my mind which thinks logically number two my flesh that does not want to obey god number three my spirit which is in tune with god and always wants to obey god and number four my emotions which are really unpredictable my emotions are totally unpredictable but these are the four factors that are at the meeting table when i'm about to make a decision and the argument that either the spirit of god puts up or the influence of darkness puts up is going to decide the conclusion and whatever the conclusion my will is going to carry it out did y'all get that hunch the person next to you check their eyes make sure they blinking because some folk can sleep with their eyes open come on now because this this is very important now at the decision moment remember the will carries out the decision whatever the liberation is and the deliberation conclusion the will backs it up that's it at the deliberation table is my mind the logic is my flesh don't want to please god is my spirit that wants to please god and my emotions which are unpredictable got it but all of these three are all getting a point and the force of darkness sets on one side to try to sway the argument in his way in on his favor and the spirit of god is on the other side trying to sway the argument in his faith whatever conclusion is made that the will feels comfortable with that's the one he enforces that's the want to the want to comes out of the decision let the person say get this get the cd get the cd coming say get the seat because this is simple say this is simple let me know don't tell them this is simple this is simple this is not difficult this is not difficult you whatever you want to do that's what you're going to do and your will just backs up your want to got it you slapped the person i didn't want to yes you did that's why you slept at that moment in time that's what you wanted to do and bam that's what you did now you may regret it but you wanted to at the time you understand at the time good or bad your will felt this is what the decision has been and that's why you did what you did amen now we got god working in me both to will and to do his good place in other words the holy spirit is there convincing you he's there working with your spirit strengthening you so you make us a decision born out of your spirit that wants to please god and not born out of your flesh okay now here are the six uh influences um um of decisions or of the will six things that will influence the will even though the will is in your favor you will as will is in your control there are six things that will influence the will number one a spiritual experience or a spiritual encounter if i say spiritual encounter all right now watch this moses goes up to the burning bush a shepherd but after god talks with him the spiritual encounter he walks away an emancipator because he has this spiritual encounter with god amen paul on the damascus road is a christian hater he's a serious hater fighter of the christians but then this bright light comes and knocks him off his beast he hears the voice of god he gets up changed spiritual encounter got it his will was impacted by the spiritual experience all right number two my will is impacted by situational evaluation if i say situational evaluation in other words my will is impacted by the uh evaluation of a situation so nehemiah comes on the scene and he tells the people hey we're better than this we don't have to live like this we can change we can rebuild these walls he give them the speech and uh they evaluate their situation he says i got the lumber i got all the supplies we need all we need is your commitment and after they evaluated the situation they said we can do this and they rose up and the bible says they did it because they had a mind to work their will was impacted by situational evaluation all right number three my will is impacted by suffering episodes suffering episodes the prodigal son left home cussed everybody out when he left but then when he got in the hog pin he's suffering and he said i'm tired of this i'm going back home the four lepers in in in the book of kings second kings there they were they were suffering they said why sit we here till we die we better go back home we better go back we're gonna go back into the end of this camp maybe they'll have mercy on us suffering after you've been kicked and beat around enough you decide i'm tired of suffering he say he love me but love don't give you a black eye i get too real got too real i get back to the people in the bible my will can be impacted by suffering episodes all right number why am i not number one that's number four all right number one was spiritual account number two was situation number three why all right number four now is um surrogate experiences surrogate experience in other words i hear the testimonies of other folk and that experience that testimony can impact my will i hear what somebody else did and i go um yeah and the holy spirit is there saying that could happen for you that can happen for you see that's how he's he's on one side pulling you into righteousness you follow me and the devil would be on the other side trying to take a surrogate experience somebody said i tried tithe and they i ain't never got nothing out of time same thing the devil uses that now to set your will against tithe all right now number one was number two number three suffering number four all right number five now is scriptural exhortations scriptural exhortation in other words there's the power to impact your will when you hear god's word oh my god see that's what happens on sunday you come in here and you hear god's word and man that's something that happens when you just hear god's word there's a power in his word now ephesians chapter 1 and 13 talks about how you trusted and believed after you heard the word so me hearing god's word impacts my will amen amen amen all right then the last one is seductive emotions seductive emotions in other words there are some emotions that can seduce me at the moment to do what is right or what is wrong but these are the things that either the spirit of god is using to bring you your will to the point of being established to go a certain way or the devil using it to establish your will to go his way are we okay now class oh all right go in your body got the closing got to close it all right ephesians chapter six and verse uh verse seven all right the will functions in concerts with decisions and beliefs until challenged by pain or pleasure now y'all ought to remember this right okay not enough not enough said amen all right my will is designed me has designed me to be attracted to pleasure and to keep me away from pain my will either brings me to the place of pleasure and it tries to keep me away from pain so if a decision is painful my will goes we don't want to do that even if it's the right thing to do if i have if to me it seems painful my will stops and say we don't want to do that amen my will has designed me to keep me away from pain and toward pleasure that's how god designed me but now there is a law of new meaning where i can give the proper meaning to a situation when my desire is to please god and he is the object of my affection if i say well my desires to please god he's the object of my my affection okay i can learn to associate pain with displeasing him and pleasure with pleasing him everybody say pain with displeasing god pleasure in pleasing him pain to disobey pleasure in obedience now the holy spirit helps me in defining life situations as to whether or not they will be painful or pleasurable to me so then when a situation arrives go to luke 22 well we need to read we didn't read the fish and let me read the ephesians uh ephesians chapter six chapter five to six all right let's let me read it verse verse seven it says uh with goodwill doing service as unto the lord and not unto men in other words my chief desires to please god in a believer's life a believer's chief's desire has to be to please god i'm not trying to please myself i've got to find more pleasure in pleasing god than pleasing me more pleasure in pleasing god than pleasing me more pleasure in pleasing god than pleasing others more pleasure than pleasing god than anything else he's the chief joy of my life he's the object of my affection now this is critical for behavioral change because if i'm changing to please a person when that person makes me angry i no longer want to hold the course if i'm changing to gain something once i got it don't need to change anymore go back to my old behavior but if the change is based on pleasing god then now i am totally committed to that and others are getting the overflow of my decision to please god so i'm going to do what god says do regardless of what you say do or regardless of what you do see when i sit down and talk to people they say well i'll change if she'll change never happened change won't come to that home i'll do it if he'll do it don't happen you've got to love god enough to say i'm going to do what's right whether he keep asking a fool or not whether she keeps acting a fool or not i'm going to please god and god and you are going to get the overflow of my relationship with god so jesus is at the cross i mean god in the garden of gethsemane in luke chapter 22 and his will is diametrically opposed to doing what the will of god is he does not want to down calvary that's always shocking when i tell that to believers you know you've heard me teach it before when i tell that to believers on the road they almost look at me like i'm a heretic but i'm just reading his words there in verse 42 he says father if thou be willing remove this cup from me he don't want to die i mean that doesn't sound like somebody ready to go across he talk about move the cup no you can't move the cup you got to die you've been preaching dying all this time three and a half years been preaching you don't give your life now you have the time to give in your life then jesus is going to be choking see a lot of people people can't heal that huh someone jesus choked yes he was he was choking because he was a man in flesh just like you and me but if we find out how he process his moment we process our choking moments in the same way and so then he says watch this nevertheless not my will but wow something happened and a change took place a change that affected his behavior to the point now that he could go and give his life when moments before he was not willing to do so all right watch this watch this now all right verse verse uh he says nevertheless not my will but thine be done thy will be done look at verse 43 because that's the important verse and they appealed and ain't appeared an angel unto him from heaven doing what wow once my will is set for righteousness the spirit of god shows up to strengthen me to hold my course so what does jesus do jesus in this tough time testimony he gives new meaning to the behavior of pleasing god in hebrews chapter 2 12 verse 2 it says looking unto jesus the authentic finish of our faith who for the joy that was set before him if i say joy that was set before him so for a moment's time jesus was looking at the cup the pain of calvary being crucified being whipped crown of thorns on his head all of that pain his will didn't want that pain because my will is designed to keep me away from pain and toward pleasure so now what he has to do intentionally jesus processes the moment and in his processing of the moment he has to find more pleasure in what happens after resurrection more pleasure that happens after calvary for the joy set before him his focus now is on what life is going to be after i go through this after i face this difficulty look at what my life and look at what the lives of others are going to be and the law of new meaning says that when i choose to give a meaning to a situation and that meaning to that situation is a meaning that pleases god something happens on the inside that i get the courage and the strength to do that which was difficult to do before so you have to give a new meaning to the transformation that you're going to go through that your life is going to be better your families are going to be better i had a spiritual encounter and with the word of god man i was reading my marriage all jacked up that sort of thing i read the bible everybody says husbands the wealth of your wives according to knowledge giving honor to the wife as unto the weaker vessel that your prayers be not hindered you know what the holy ghost told me he said if you don't get your marriage straight god don't even want to hear from you oh my god may god anyone talk to me now that's what the bible says i'm the pastor i'm gonna leave the church if god don't talk to me that's how that's how impactful it was so even though i had to make some difficult changes some stuff i just didn't even want to do you understand because i figured i'm making a good living y'all be happy i'm making y'all be happy now you want all these emotional stuff and i got to have compassion i got to take time to talk i'd be sensitive but the joy i said before me was that i would please god and pleasing god is more important to me than anything so i could endure the transformation period where to put my flesh under and then the holy spirit strengthened me and the process wasn't that bad after all so in the coming days when we began to lay out this is what a husband ought to do this is what a father ought to do and these and these are not things you're doing then all you got to do is sell the joy before you that if i will do these and please god my marriage is going to be better my family is going to be better my life is going to be better and most of all god is going to be pleased with me and when a man's ways pleases the lord he may get even his enemies to be at peace heads about and eyes are closed please nobody's walking nobody's moving father we thank you your word has fallen on good ground and it produces fruit all over the building while heads about and eyes are closed today you say pastor i am not a christian but i want to be i am not right with god but i want to be right with god what must i do i want to simply pray for you right where you are but i want to know who i'm praying for i'm not going to embarrass you this is not being recorded for television but i believe that god brought you here today for more than just you hearing a good message but that you would be able to make a step to change the course of your life remember change is a product of human effort sustained by divine help if you will make an effort to change

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Length: 50min 36sec (3036 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 09 2020