"Condemnation Interferes With Intimacy" Dr. Gearld Jeffers BOTT 2007

now you're talking about a strange situation the gentleman I'm bringing to you now dr. Jeffers I've never heard him preach that says that's a scary thought isn't it but I know since he's been here Monday night he's spoken some things into my life that has already healed me with brother tinny said I know dr. Jeffers and he said he will bless the conference and dr. Jeffers I've never heard you fact I didn't even meet him till he got to my home Monday night first time I've ever seen the man but I believe he's a man of God and he has something to say to us we're very glad to have you because the time for your first time please make you some home could you welcome dr. Jeffers kinda sticky [Music] [Applause] [Music] your hands all you people and shout unto God with the voice of triumph [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh come let us adore him Christ the Lord oh come let us adore him Christ the Lord you may be seated just slip your hands up to God a moment just love him we'll come let us door come on church oh come let us for those of you that just think this is a holiday song oh come let us it's year round it's year round it's eternal [Music] singing again church or car home o come let us hahahah will come there us ah door come on church okay laughs hey this is why for he alone is worthy or G long here somebody believes that or he he alone is worthy for he his word Z from this is the way I feel about it I cannot live without him I can not live with I can not live with I cannot I cannot I can not live with why I need him every hour I need him we I need him I need him I need them every hour ah me here cry [Music] we're in the book of st. John chapter 3 st. John chapter 3 verse 17 what a privilege what an honor and a pleasure it is to be here with you for the very first time we thank God for this host church and the pastor amen even his willingness to receive me there's such a love and Hospital hospitality in this church and we give God praise for st. John chapter 3 verse 17 verse 17 st. John chapter 3 verse 17 and it reads for God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world but the world through him might be saved one and read it through the amplified version but God did not send the son his son into the world in order to judge to reject to condemn to pass sentence on the world but the world might find salvation and be made safe and sound through him I simply want to speak to you on this subject condemnation interferes with intimacy condemnation interferes with intimacy would you just lift your hands before you're seated we're going to pray together father we thank you for every person in this house we pray that you would speak a sound and clear word we have heard so much word already we thank you for all the great speaking and the things that we've heard but we asked you now that you would open our understanding grant revelation deposit by the Spirit let the spirit make the word flesh help us to use what we've already heard that we may be doers of the word and not hearers only with this father we give you praise in Jesus name before you see to give someone a high five and tell them God is large and in charge he's large and in charge condemnation interferes with intimacy before coming to this conference a full-time evangelist and the month of December the Lord had certain things lined out and the next thing I know God was cancelling things because we have a saying blessed are the flexible but they shall not be bent out of shape God began to cancel things and I just looked at him saying okay he said I want you home for about three weeks and I want you shut in and I want to talk I have no problem with that I love that that's fine live by the gospel finances come from the gospel but really what he's trained me is the church is not your employer I am so with you go out and preach or not I'm responsible for you while I remained at home and listened to the Lord my prayer life is drastically shifted I don't do much talking anymore I do more listening in fact when I do too much talking I feel the Lord tapping me going you'll get a whole lot more if you just listen you began to tell me in coming here he said you will find a lot of wounded people here you said you'll find a place of tremendous passion he said but the issue is that their passion has sometimes pushed them to condemnation he said they want a world saved and I want a world say he said but many are functioning under condemnation they're winning souls out of guilt and condemnation make them to understand that interferes with intimacy jesus said I didn't come to condemn God doesn't use condemnation I've heard many soul-winning conferences and unfortunately I have to tell you not honesty most of us guilt-ridden most of it was pushed under guilt it took God to give me understanding many many years ago the Lord began to take me into shut-ins I would take my time off of work I was shut in to my church for ten days five days take just spend time take the rabbinical commentaries in the book of Proverbs seek and fast and pray and seek after the Lord on one such occasion on the third day I saw angels angels disappeared in the church and one of those things just wonderful things when God does that but then there came a shift the shift came in 1993 it's the first time I never met this great man of God and his wife over in England I was preaching the General Conference of the UPC Great Britain and Ireland and I came back from that depleted so many people hurting so many things going on and the Lord spoke to me and said I'm taking you on a 40 day fast I said can we discuss this you know I have a model god I'm never rude to food he said it's time for you to get a paradigm shift he said you're wrong on a lot of counts he said you have placed ministry over relationship and you're wrong he began to take me to Matthew chapter 7 if you wish to look with me Matthew chapter 7 and he began to talk to me very severely he said the problem that's happening is people are seeking my hand and not my face you don't want me for me you want me for what I can give you you want my hand you want me for miracles you want me for soul-winning you want me for finances but he said when's the last time you just stepped into my presence and say I need all those things want all those things but my greatest need is for you he said when you go into this forty day fast I don't want you to seek for souls this was growing against my grain I've been raised in the sack mister I didn't get that he said I don't want you to seek for miracles I want you to seek me for me and I want you to understand the purpose for why I saved you the purpose for why I say she was not doing souls the purpose why I saved you was to become a wife if you will become intimate with me souls are automatically born out of the intimacy gave me a total paradigm shift he told me he said your greatest opposition is going to be feared man fear of your colleagues for how they will proceed you with such radical thinking Matthew chapter 7 listen to Jesus as he Tonks starting amen in verse 21 not everyone who says to me Lord Lord will enter the kingdom of heaven but he that does the will of my father many will say to me on that day Lord Lord have we not prophesied in my name given out demons in your name I'm reading the amplified version then many mighty works meaning Jesus said that what people are going to do in the last day is point to ministry for validation they're going to point to gifts we're going to point in ministry they're going to point to how many souls were saved they're not liars he doesn't call them Liars they did it but now listen to his response verse 22 or 23 and then will I say to them openly publicly I never knew you now how do you win so many wonderful works how you cast out demons how do you pop a sign his name and he doesn't know you the Greek word there for no means I do not recognize no chronology I don't remember seeing your face up in my bedroom and the Lord spoke to me in this three-week period and he said many are winning souls he said here's the problem it's artificial insemination it's lab work step 1 step 2 step 3 it's procedure no intimacy he began to run down list of things for me Genesis chapter 15 verse 1 if you want you can put on the screen after the word of the Lord came unto Abram and a vision saying fear not Abram I am your shield and listen I am your exceeding great reward not souls I am the soul is worth the world but I am greater than the worth of the world I'm greater than the worth of the universe if you come to me and get intimate you will become the wife that gives birth it's the end result of the Lord spoke to me and said you're making me jealous I was counseling with a husband and wife and the husband was struggling with certain issues they had a baby not long and the Lord spoke to me and said and let me he said articulate the man's problem because he doesn't know how to say this I looked at the man I said you're actually jealous over your own child aren't you he said yes he said I don't he said oh no house to say he said yes he said before we had a baby I was husband she loved me but now we have a baby that's all she talks about and the Lord said are you listening to this because that's what I deal with with my people you're making me jealous over my own baby you don't talk to me anymore about how do you want me you only want me to get a baby and then once you get the baby all you talk about is the baby the baby needs our words that lady needs a ministry the baby needs finances the baby needs direction I am no longer your husband I'm just father AB diminished [Applause] ICQ a Maori you are my wife take a look at it second Corinthians chapter 11 verse 2 again if you would assist by putting up in the screens thank you sound people you've done such an outstanding job second Corinthians chapter 11 verse 2 listen to what he says he says from jealously this is Paul talking to the church I'm jealous of you that were jealous means I am godly possessive or protective over you why am i jealous over you he says I've espoused you I've given you to one husband as a chaste virgin either the whole purpose of the ministry is to present the church as God's bride he wants a wife the whole purpose for salvation is that God wants a wife now watch how this works I didn't understand it I've explained it to me I'm not pleased a Doctorate degree does not give you understanding to God and please no way I've learned a long time ago you can freeze by degrees and when you walk into the presence of God when I walk in the presence of God I don't bring dr. I don't bring time I want to know my strength I bring a little boy he's about eight years old and he walks into the presence of God going I don't know what I'm doing and he lets Scott just pick him up and hold him and whisper understanding into easier God said the problem that's happening as many of you you come to because of the times you're pumped you're excited you're ready to go back and within a month after because of the times you're depressed you're frustrated you're saying this only works for Alexandria and you're saying I don't know what to do God said I didn't come to condemn you some of you are trying your best to win souls you're trying your best to do what you know to do it doesn't seem like it's working that's our the problem that you're having is you're putting more emphasis on the ministry when you aren't on the relationship and the reason why I'm not letting some of your ministries work because if I did save the Lord you would take it as endorsement that this is the way to do it one morning I woke up and thank God for that you don't take that for granted you know and the Lord was there waiting so gracious so kind instantly he took me into the heavens and I began to see a vision of a creature I could not describe - you saw this creature from a distance it was beautiful was glorious it was just it was it was just amazing I was zoomed in closer to this creature and in the midsection of this creature there I was very small very minut that there I was the Lord looked at me and said do you know what you're looking at I felt like Ezekiel thou knowest he said this is the Bride of Christ and you are a cell in the bride he said I didn't say brides I said bride and you individually are not just a bride what you are he said let me explain it to you he said I am so large that as the human body takes one trillion cells to make up one body each cell can look individually on its own each cell has the ability to function on its own in fact the medical world will tell you that an individual cell is very much like a city it is not a simple life it is actually a very complex life he said but they must surrender the will of the cell the cell must surrender its will to become a member of the body he said I am so large that it's going to take all of you as individual cells to make one bride for me [Music] now we said what I'm looking for is a lover I'm looking for someone that will enter in to the love affair may I tell you this the reason why a lot of us don't know how to rest we don't know how to come out of the warfare the warfare will wear you out nobody can stay in the warfare 24/7 even Jesus pulled away and what many of us have missed is that the warfare is empowered by the love affair it is the source to empower you to perform the warfare here's how it works the Bible says resist the devil and he will flee now that's warfare but to resist I need strength so where do I get that strength the Bible says the joy of the Lord is my strength so I get the strength from the joy okay but now we're like at the joy from in his presence is fullness I got the joy that gave me the strength to resist the devil from the presence there is a biblical difference between praise and worship the Greek word for worship is cross Kamil pross means towards Kamil means kisses when you worship God you actually kissing on you throw kisses worship is not praise and praise is not worship you enter into his gates with and his courts with praise is strictly out of court living when you're shouting and dancing and running the aisle most of you think that's the height of the service not to God you're just an out forth [Music] when you struck going now to the plan because David's giving a tabernacle plan he said be thankful unto Him now and bless his name that word name again character identity this is what you start worship worship is where you start sharing your love with God watch how it works a couple become the Bible says that Isaac was sporting with Rebecca sporting with her he was flirting with her when you praise God you talk about God you flirt with him you dance with him you're going I know you want me because I want you to I am my beloved and my beloved is mine then what happens as it slows down and you start walking to the bedroom you have on God's favorite cologne it's not Chanel number five it's not white diamond but let my prayer be is incense his favorite Cologne on you is prayer he smells you prayers are smelt in the nostrils of God the Bible says the Angels release it out of the Angels hand come a sweet aroma into the nostrils of God you have on God's favorite garment the robe of righteousness if you will notice that in Revelation 19 that the bride has on white linen pure and white for it is the righteousness of the saints you walk towards the bedroom and this is why we are praise and worship before the word because now you lay down in a horizontal position or in a vertical position meaning you submit your will to whatever he wants now the word comes and impregnates you deposit the seed of God into you something of God is given to you but you can't have intimacy with armor and a lot of you are feeling condemned a lot of you are guilty for past mistakes missed opportunities and God said I want you to understand I came to the world when I talked about salvation with God's talking about salvation there are different definitions to salvation it is not just initial salvation there is progressive salvation and there is ultimate salvation I'm sorry but we are so stuck on acts 2:38 until we are missing God listen to Paul Hebrews 6 and 1 therefore leaving behind the principles of the doctrine let's move on to protection acts 2:38 can be perfection it was never designed to protect you that concept of affection means maturity [Applause] lift your hands just a moment and just love him would you in this house come on just love him a moment he is so good to us I must tell you simply what he said he said the only reason why souls count is because I said that count if I did not say Souls count you'd have to do something else they count because I said they count he said but you're missing the purpose for studying and for preaching may I say this to you preachers as God said it to me he said would you please stop studying to preach and would you study to know me would you study to know me if you will study to know me you will have plenty to say [Music] because the purpose for why we're doing things we are missing it prayer means communication with God is talking listening one of the reasons that's been founded for divorce is lack of communication you see what's happening to many of yous prayers of duty I have to pray I have to pray a does not pray in order to touch God I gotta pray to get final to thank God I pray to get healing I gotta pray to win souls got afraid of it it's duty it's not love he's looking for a lover he wants you to talk to him because you love him not because you're afraid that if you don't talk to him he's gonna slap you or condemn you but he said come here I want to hold you see what intimacy is NaturallySpeaking intimacy is the revealing of the secret parts of your body what intimacy is with God is the revealing of the secrets of your heart when you uncover yourself to God the Bible says draw nigh to God and he draws nigh to you so you draw nigh to God and you uncover your heart at this point God draws nigh to you and uncovers himself when God uncovers himself this is what we call revelation but what revelation means to uncover or unveil impregnation happens in God revealing himself to you in seeing him you now can become like him Daniel 11:32 is an equation they that know their God shall be strong and do exploits if you know him you will be like him being like Jim makes you strong and do exploits but God told me to say this to many of you oh I know you would want to admit it he said but you dread Sunday mornings oh I know it supposed to be the high time I understand that it supposed to be he said but you're really dreading it he's reading it because you're afraid what's going to mess up what's going to happen you're free you feel like everything's on your shoulders you sigh a relief when it's over man made it do another Sunday whoo that was never the purpose of the service if you will love me save the Lord you will give birth to my children listen to what Jesus said to Peter I'm not going to be much longer listen to what he said to Peter Peter do you love me mm-hmm then feed my sheep you know what Moses do we just jump to the feeding of the Sheep you missed the whole point the point was the love if you love me then love persuade to move not out of guilt not out of condemnation not out of shame not out of fear of failure oh you know that in many of you comes time to fill out the report of how many people got baptized how many people got filled you're ashamed feel guilty you've tried everything you know you brought in every soul-winning program you tried everything you know to do and now you've got to fill out the report and send it in and you feel humiliated because you know others are going to have huge numbers I want you to hear me God does not base his pleasure on you on how many souls are saved God blesses his pleasure on you on your worship we just heard it earlier he measures you by your worship somebody just lift your hands and worship Him the Lord's come to move to the guilt move the condemnation with a shame off of you if the whip out of your hand stop beating yourself up he didn't come to condemn you let me love you let me take that armor off you expose your heart to me tell me you're scared tell me you don't understand be real with me stop trying to fake it til you make it I want to tell you something I believe in ministry please don't get me wrong but ministry is a byproduct of intimacy and that's what we've missed it we've missed the process we've missed the process if you will go into the Holy of Holies with him you will give birth to things it's a byproduct of it but you must learn to seek Him for him and listen to me soul-winning has seasons to everything there's a time and there's a season there's a time when God's not trying to win souls I know God I know I'm sounding blasphemous I'll never forget I went to a beautiful church is a strong UTC church and the pastor called me and said listen we got a lot of souls on the altar neat souls to be worked with know you work with souls come let's pray let's have great revival let's have Souls being saved awesome and that no problem of that that's great start to seeking the face of the Lord started going after God went there for services every sermon it seemed like God gave me was for the church this is like anywhere for souls I struggled I mean I struggled I started fighting I started struggling and yet even though I struggled God wouldn't let me out of this until finally the last sermon I preached not one solid inside not one Sullivan baptized and I felt like an utter failure pastor I was beating myself up so I acted maybe I didn't faster nothing you know what I should have gone five days instead of just to fall it's time to go out to eat now I'm thinking just just take me back to my hotel room don't even give me the offering I don't deserve it we're in the car it's got the his family in the car begins to drop people off at the front door the restaurant I go to get out he says hold on I want to talk to you though it's on hey I have it I have a coming you know he made it clear and it didn't happen he pulls into the parking lot turns the car off fouls his head and he starts crying to his whole body is shaking I'm going oh my god this is worse than I thought if we do the rapture right now Lord played through his tears and shaking he finally says to me I know why you were here I'm thinking God please tell me because I don't know he said a week before you came here I had a gun to my head he said the only thing that stopped me from pulling the trigger is I thought you just might have a word for me he said instead all four messages worked from me and the Lord spoke to me said see he would have been trying to save sheep and you would have lost the shepherd follow me I am the Savior not you it's a guilt off the combinational it defeats with your intimacy didn't come to do that this is why allowed you can't get pregnant you can't get pregnant and God says you can do you go in and you worship but you condemned you don't walk out with a baby it ties your tubes he's not trying to kill you pastor shock brought us some beautiful message inferred phenomenal messages thank God for all of them but he began to talk about rest and the Lord had to start talking to me about rest he said I'm by the way did you do you who's talked to me said do you understand the rest is a command it's not an option it's wait a minute God their souls I gotta be safe you don't understand God I'm telling God this you don't understand God your souls we're gonna sleep look at no time to rest he said if I wanted you like that I'd made you like the Angels who don't need to rest and he said when you don't rest you violate your design and in essence you tell me I don't know what I did by making you to rest I read in the scriptures Jesus said it here's this disciples coming they had gone out and preached souls were saved I mean you know people getting delivered man this is awesome this I move of God who they're coming back the shouting Jesus listen that's great yeah yeah yeah oh then he says now come your part in the desert and rest a while he called them off the soul-winning he called them off the Bible studies he called them off the laying hands of people and said come away and rest with me come away my beloved I couldn't do that I didn't know how to do that that was this contrary to my nature I didn't know how to do that but that was sinful you understand no no there's another soul he said don't you understand if they were to run and try to get the other soul even they won the soul they were been disobedient because I called them to come away and rest and they're running and doing something other than what I called them to do at the moment he said it's the spirit of word that applies the word of the Lord to your life so the Spirit of the Lord makes the Word of God aligned to you the letter kills but the Spirit makes a life so the Spirit is telling you go rest even though the word says there's more Souls to say you must follow the spirit because the Spirit will ultimately lead you to the fulfillment of the word [Music] what's happening to many of you you're not resting in fact you feel guilty for resting yes sometimes you sit back kick up in a recliner chair maybe go out and hunt or do whatever but you feel guilty the whole time you're doing it that's not rest rest is a state of mind and you want a lot of you out there doing stuff you're not resting you out there playing golf and you know what you're doing you think about the things you get me to preach for Sunday morning that's not rest didn't we think about the plans you've got to do you almost like hurry up with this golf game I got work to do he touch your neighbors say he designed you to not rest tell someone it's a commandment it's not an option when God designed you to rest remember now about the Sabbath day the word Sabbath means rest I want you to notice the ten commandments the first four Commandments are towards God the next six Commandments are towards your fellow brethren the fourth commandment and it's not an accident for the number four the number four is God's created work through his creation like so that's why it's on it's the fourth commandment that God said remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy remember rest is holy rest is holy so now he says now what happened when they found a man working on the Sabbath day Moses says I don't know what to do with him hold him the Lord says Stoneham kill him for not resting I was not a paradox and he was picking up six on the Sabbath days right he was working he didn't rest when he was commanded to rest and God said kill him for not doing it now pictures I want you to catch this because what's happening a lot of yous you're letting your burden for souls and for the ministry push you into disobedience and you are you are camouflaging it by saying but at least I'm doing it for the Lord you can't do it for the Lord if you're disobeying the Lord the Lord spoke to me said now in this grace dispensation what happens is grace gives you a space to get it right so if you don't rest the first time grace keeps back judgment grace gives you a space it empowers you gives you gives mercy keeps the judgment back and and you have time to get it right but if you keep doing it and doing it and doing it after a while judgments start seeping through high blood pressure comes stress comes judgment you're starting you dying faster you don't have the stamina judgment is coming oh yeah you're doing it for souls oh oh yeah yeah yeah you'll love me when it's over [Applause] can I close by telling you this the concern of the Lord with the Apostolic Church is that you are so busy with the work of the Lord until you have not spent time with the Lord of the work [Music] his second concern is you have confused spending time with the work of the Lord for spending time with him spending time with the baby or with your child is not spending time with your spouse spending time with the ministry teaching Bible studies doing administration preaching the gospel or whatever either Avenue administer your in is not spending time with God and somewhere God has got to help us to come into an intimacy where we don't only just spend time with him to deal with the baby the ministry but sometime friend you've got to come to God and say it's me you know a lot of you a lot of you are so into intercession that you feel guilty and condemned for talking to God about yourself you are so consumed with the needs of others that you actually feel guilty for talking to God about your own needs one day the Lord said this to me you simply just said this is it son I have a naught against you because you don't think I'm a good daddy oh no Lord I think your good father said no you don't he said what good daddy what good father wouldn't celebrate their child's birthday why have you never asked me for a birthday gift I was there the day you were born and I breathed breath into you and I will celebrate that day but you think you're not wearing [Music] haha see uncle I played it for your days on it can you get calm I heart black I'm waiting to hear your steps I thought you might talk but you were too busy doing your old day we not listen to my lord where you not come to my chamber I don't really think the ship it to you I love you please stop to be and I will bless you that is a divine invitation I want you to hear me now you need to go find yourself a place if you want to sit in your seat you want to kneel you want to talk you want to I mean you want to come to the front that's all up to you friend but we need to define a place right now don't talk to God about the ministry about souls being saved don't don't talk to God right now about the word you need for this coming Sunday or about would you just talk - about you - some of you your men your women but you're scared your pastors but you're scared you don't know how this thing's going to work this thing's larger than you and you don't know what - and he just need you in front of his face right he doesn't want to condemn you he's not trying to beat you up some of you are beating yourself in Cup and condemnation man I can't preach like Bishop Mangum or I don't sing like sister Nicci manga but God said I'm not condemning you I gave you the voice I wanted you to have you didn't use that voice I gave it to you come on and just love him with you this is true worship exposure heart to him ask him to teach you how to rest teach me teach teaching at arrests teach me oh god comfort my heart move this condemnation of this guilt shame [Music] we're going to get ready to pray right now together I want to just tell you this as we're going to get ready to pray together the Lord is reaching to get the whips out of your hand for many of you are whipping yourself if you don't do something right you wit yourself even though he was already whipped for you if you get up and feel like you to preach and you mess up you go back after the sermon doesn't matter how many people were blessed you go back up to the message and oh god that was bad oh god I wish you'd do if you were singing and people were even blessed you go back and beat up oh I miss that note oh god I'm awful would you want your child to respond like that is that join you no you know what you do as you as a parent you pick the child up and say listen okay you didn't do everything right but that's okay I'm proud of you I love you that was good come on you'll do better the next time that's God didn't come to condemn you would you just do this right now if you could please just reach over and grab someone by the hand you say why it's simple this somebody just need to know they're not alone right now somebody's need to know they're not alone you're not alone you've been feeling like a failures you can see me like you'll never be good enough a lot of you do not accept God's compliments you can only accept his criticism if he tells you you're done good you're afraid of getting proud you're afraid of getting proud you fear oh god we begin to pray and touch and agree right now together lift the spirit of condemnation let the spirit of guilt let your wife come into the bedchamber and be productive through intimacy well let her understand it's about loving you it's about being in your face it's about being naked before you and these other things are the byproducts of it Thomas and Abba or running the reaction shaker or Amelia Shania move the shame and the guilt that's binding up the productivity yes yeah that's it that's it that's it

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Published: Tue May 02 2017