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I have what I heard ♪ ♪ Healing today is mine ♪ ♪ Victory is mine ♪ ♪ Victory today is mine ♪ ♪ According to the Word
I have what I heard ♪ ♪ Victory today is mine ♪ ♪ According to the Word
I have what I heard ♪ ♪ Victory today is mine ♪♪ Isaiah 26:3 says, "Thou will
keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee:
because he trusts in Thee. Trust ye in the Lord for ever:
for in the Lord JEHOVAH is everlasting strength." Hallelujah. Let me read this to you from
Young's Literal translation and it's interesting how it's worded
there. "An imagination supported You
fortifiest peace - peace!" He says it twice for emphasis
and to denote the completion and the measure of the peace. "For in Thee it is confident. Trust ye in Jehovah for ever,
For in Jah Jehovah [is] a rock of ages." Hallelujah. Now this sounds like stability,
doesn't it? On the everlasting Rock. But back up in thought to the
previous verse. What is our part of this? Doing something with our mind. Doing something with our
thinking. This is our part. This is our responsibility. And if we do what He is telling
us to do with our mind and our thinking, He's making a
commitment us that He, the everlasting Rock is going to
keep us in peace, peace, which is Hebrew for perfect peace. Complete peace. We understand that kind of talk. Not just peace, peace
peace. (Laughs) Hallelujah. And you notice He mentions the
word 'trust' repeatedly. Trust. What you're doing with your mind
is you have your mind on Him. What you're doing with your
heart is you are trusting Him. Trusting Him. And what He's doing is keeping
you in a cocoon, in an environment, an atmosphere of
perfect peace. Down here and now, in this
world. In this life. Is it possible? Some folks who think it's not
even possible, but certainly it is, and it's God's will and plan
for our life. Now look with me in John 14:1-2. John 14:1-2. Now we need to put some context
around this. Jesus, this is right before He
left, right before He was scourged and went to the cross,
and He's been telling His disciples that He is leaving. And it has upset them. They are upset, they are
troubled. Now from the natural, you can
understand that. Their lives have radically
changed since Jesus came into their life. I mean, they were living like
everybody else, and Jesus came into the picture, and they left
everything and followed Him night and day. They have been in meetings with
Him, they've been in services with Him, they have heard
revelation from heaven. Is that right? Flowing from the throne, from
the Father through the Master's mouth. They have seen such miracles. They have heard such amazing
things, they've seen the dead raised, they have seen walking
on the water, they have experienced - their life is
amazing. Their life is supernatural. They are not confined to the
ho-hum doldrum natural life that the rest of the world is
experiencing. They have come up into another
dimension of life and experience. Now the Master looks at them and
says I'm leaving, guys. And you can't go with Me right
now, but later on - and they are upset. And in this context, notice what
Jesus tells them. Verse one, what does He tell
them? And of course this is the
anointed Word of God to all of us. "Let not your heart be
troubled," now that lets you know - why is He saying that to
them? Because their heart is troubled. And what is He telling them? What is He telling them? Don't do that. Stop doing that. Now this is a revelation most of
the church world does not have and does not even have ears to
hear and doesn't believe that it is actually within my power
whether I'm troubled or not. The enemy has convinced most
Christians that they are victims of whatever happens around them. And people are troubled. Are Christians troubled? Oh, troubled all over the place. Upset, frustrated, anxious,
worried, scared, troubled. And if most Christians that were
troubled and upset, if you looked at them and said quit
being troubled now, stop it right now. What would be their response? More upset. Anger. Resentment. "Well, you're not experiencing
what I'm experiencing. You haven't been through what
I've been through." I didn't say this. Could the disciples have tried
to tell Jesus, well it's easy for You to say, You're leaving? And we're going to be here
without You. And they're already thinking
what would it be like without Him, and nobody wanted to think
about it and nobody wanted to look at it. But they are upset. And one of the first things He
tells them is what? "Don't let your heart be
troubled," or we would probably use the word today "upset." Don't let your heart be
troubled. Say it out loud: "Don't let
(Congregation repeats) your heart be troubled." Say it again: "Don't let
(Congregation repeats) your heart be troubled." One more time: "Don't let
(Congregation repeats) your heart be troubled." Well, what if your heart is
troubled? That's because you, I, let it be
that way. Now we're going to need to camp
on this more than just tonight. You're going to hear this again
and again and again because we need mind renewal. Christians everywhere believe
they can't help it. They are convinced well hey, if
that happened to you, you would be upset too. Not if I did what He told me to
do. "Sometimes you just can't help
from being upset." Apparently He didn't know that. See, you have reasoning, you
have people basing things on previous experiences, and then
you have the revelation of the Word of God which is the truth
that if you will receive it and believe it, it has the power to
make you free. And there is a level of life in
Christ that is far above where most folks are living. And it is a life of faith where
you don't let it trouble you. But you can see why I'm being
repetitious about this, right? Because we need mind renewal. We need mind renewal. Because folks will argue with
you. "I'm trying to not get upset but
I just can't help it." That's a lie. But if you believe the lie, you
are stuck. This is the truth. Anybody believe the words of
Jesus are truth? If He said, "Don't let your
heart be troubled," what does that mean? That means with His help, I can
do this. I can refuse to let my heart be
troubled. And if you have that power in
Him, you can live a different life than the rest of the world
round about you. And if you say, "I know all
those verses and that's great, but I'm doing the best I can,
and you just can't always help it." Then you're saying this is not
true and you know better: and you will be stuck. We have been camping on for
weeks and months on Living by Faith, right? We walk by faith. Not by sight. Right? We look not at the things that
are seen, but the things that are not seen. And this is an application of
what the Lord has been putting into us. Do I have any faith people in
here? Come on, help me out. Faith people. You believe it? Alright, it's time to do it. Time to do it right here in our
own head and heart and house and car and workplace. Because you will be tempted to
get upset. You will be tempted to get hurt,
mad, scared. You will be tempted. Somebody said, "Don't say that
over me." You're living in the world with
everybody else, come on honey. You will be, it's going to come. The temptation to be frustrated,
anxious, worried, scared, upset. But, tell me the truth. Tell me the truth. I can choose not to let this in
me. It's going to come against me
but I don't have to let it in my heart, I don't have to let it
shake me and trouble me. Now He keeps on going down
through here. He said, "Let not your heart be
troubled," the understood subject is you. You are not to let - you are not
to allow your heart to be troubled. "Believe in God, believe also in
Me." And in verse sixteen He bring
something else up. He is endeavoring to console and
help His upset disciples over Him leaving. But of course, this is bigger
than this. This is inspiration, it's for
everybody for all time. He said in verse sixteen, "I
will pray the Father, and He shall give you another
Comforter," He was the first Comforter. And He said I'm leaving, but
you're not going to be alone, I'm going to ask the Father, I'm
going to pray the Father. He is going to give you another
Comforter and He's never going to leave you. He will, "Abide with you for
ever; Even the spirit of truth," glory to God, "Whom the world
cannot receive, because it sees Him not, neither know Him: but
you know Him; for He dwells with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you
comfortless: I will come to you." Now skip down to verse
twenty-six, "But the Comforter," He keeps talking about the
Comforter, why? They're upset, they are
troubled. The Comforter, "Which is the
Holy Spirit, Whom the Father
will send in My name, He shall teach
you all things," what will that do for you? That will comfort you. He will, "Bring all things to
your remembrance, whatever I said to you," what will that do
for you? It will comfort you. Minister peace to you. Verse twenty-seven says it. "Peace I leave with you, My
peace I give to you: not as the world gives, give I to you." You cannot find this in any
other religion, in any kind of mental discipline or education
or drug, you can't find this anywhere else except in Christ. In Jesus. Because it's His peace, it's
His. You're not going to get His
peace and you don't accept Him. Because the peace comes with. "Peace I leave you, my peace I
give to you: not as the world gives, give I you," and then He
says it again what He started saying way back in verse one. What did He say? "Let not your heart be
troubled," what is He telling them? Here's what we have to get clear
on. Some modern translations insert
the word "try" on some verses. Try to do this, do your best. This is bad translation. The Lord never told you to try
to do anything. Never. And He wouldn't tell you to try. Why? Because try would imply one of a
couple of things. Either He didn't know if you
could do it or not, or you might not be able to do it. Would He know, does He know
whether we can do it or not? Then He's never going to tell
you to try to or to attempt to or to do your best to do it. If you find anything like that
in your modern translations, you need to ignore it. It's not good translation. What did the Lord tell us right
here? What did He tell them, what did
He tell us? "Let not," let not, is that
trying? Doing your best? Attempting? It is a choice, it's a decision,
don't let your heart be troubled, "Let not your heart be
troubled," and He went on to say what? "Neither let it be afraid." So if my heart and your heart is
afraid, why is it afraid? Because we let it get that way. If my heart, your heart is
troubled, why is it that way? Because you, me, we let it get
that way. But if we keep our mind stayed
on Him, trusting in Him, what did He say? He will keep us in peace, peace,
perfect peace. Do you believe that? Philippians 4:4, you'll see the
same thoughts and ideas right here in the epistles to the
churches. The Spirit of God saying to us
through Paul, "Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say,
Rejoice. Let your moderation be known
unto all men. The Lord is at hand." Now let's step right here in
verse five. We need to qualify. Look at this word "moderation"
on your own and you will find it does not mean at all that you
think moderation means. There have been so my people
that have developed doctrines supposedly based on this verse
and people say, "All things in moderation. All things in moderation," is
not a Scripture. It's not a verse. And it's not what this is
talking about at all. In fact, some translations say
it like this and this is good translation, "Let your sweet
reasonableness be known." He's talking about, and you have
to again put it back in the context of the passage, he's
talking about not being hard, not being desperate. He's talking about being kind
and being easy to get along with. Why would he be talking about
that right here? Because when you are troubled
and scared, you are not easy to get along with. No, you're not. And besides that, you're just no
fun to be around. No fun to be around. (Laughs) And immediately you
know you can almost hear the yeah, buts, can't you? "Yeah, but... Yeah, but if you were dealing
with what I'm dealing with... Yeah, but if you had to go
through what I'm going through... Yeah, but you wouldn't be happy
having a party either." I didn't write, "Don't let
your heart be troubled." I didn't say that. Come on, are we going to believe
the Word or not? So connected with this is verse
six, you see how this flow together now. "Be careful for nothing," being
full of anxious care, don't be full of anxious care about
anything. Except your kids? Be careful for nothing. "Except if you get a really bad
doctor's report. Of course, everybody understands
that." "Be careful for nothing." "Unless you really owe a lot of
money and you are way behind on your bills and then of course I
mean, nobody could be okay in that situation. You're going to be upset and..." No. Not if you do what He tells us
to do. You see, many Christians know
the Scriptures, "Take no thought for the morrow, be careful for
nothing, cast all your care over on Him," et cetera, et cetera,
et cetera. How many of you would heard
those Scriptures before? Come on, you've heard that
before? But most Christians take them as
suggestions, something to work on. An ideal that maybe super
spiritual people could touch once in a while. They are not suggestions. They are commands. It is the way people who live
and walk by faith are supposed to live. Worry free. Fear free. Carefree. Trouble-free. Is it possible? Is it possible to have what the
Word says? "Be careful for nothing; but in
every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving
let your requests be made known unto God. And the," what? And the what? And the, "Peace of God, which
passes all understanding," now see, you can wrestle with that. "Yeah, but I have this and they
are in a mess... How can I help but worry?" You are locked in understanding. There is something that
transcends understanding. The peace of God is
supernatural, and the peace of God can quiet your hearts and
keep your mind when it doesn't make sense to your head and the
people round about you why you are not just losing it. But this is supposed to be part
of our witness. This is a big part of our
witness and our light. When everybody else is just
freaking out, just coming apart and we have the peace that
passes understanding? You are going to stand out my
brother. You are going to stand out
sister. And it's going to make people
wonder how can they do that? It will be a witness of the
reality of the living God and the Comforter, the Holy Spirit
inside you and in your life. Announcer: Keith and Phyllis
Moore and Faith Life Church of
Sarasota invite you to join us for the
2017 Marriage Meeting, June 5th through the 9th. Come and receive answers, help,
and strength, from the Word of God on marriage and learn how a
man and woman truly experience a flourishing and enjoyable life
together based on biblical truths. Whether you are married or
desire to be, everyone is welcome. Services begin at 7:00 p.m.
each evening, and children's ministry will be provided. For more information visit
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