Controlling Your Emotions

[Music] rise up in jesus name open eyes and heal the land rise up [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] rise up [Music] it's time to rise good to see all of you here all right seems that you're all at a social distance so that means you're close enough to be sociable that's what that means so okay so well if you have your bibles go with me we're going to go to several scriptures uh we want to talk about probably one of the you know i say it's all time one of the most important things that you'll learn in being a christian in this sense i mean there's so many different things that are obviously so important but you know you are a spirit you have a soul and you live in a body amen and your soul for for whatever is in your spirit for it to get out to the world it has to be translated or at least move through your soul if your soul cannot communicate with people you can't communicate and your spirit can't communicate so what is in your spirit as we know what's in your heart comes out of your mouth well before it gets out of your mouth it has to go through your soul to formulate the right words and then to tell your mouth how to speak those words so there is a process from spirit to the natural world that has to take place in one of the most important aspects of this and the way people see you and know what's in your heart is by how your soul expresses itself now no matter how your soul expresses itself it is going to for the most part i can't think of any real exceptions it's going to be translated by way of an emotion so there is an emotion that is going to be displayed which shows the state of your spirit at that moment does that make sense be with me so far now what did i do with my water it disappeared anyway um i don't know if you'll notice i had over here somebody sent me that hat it says make church great again okay so so we are working toward that in well that never have to do that that's good then i'd have to start speaking differently [Laughter] so but um so today i want to talk about this this this highly uh well this just this important thing that we call emotions because it is by far the determining factor in how you relate to other people how other people relate to you how you're able to get across what you're feeling at the time now the problem is most people don't know how to function out of their spirit and allow it to go through their soul in a way that is conducive to living a christian life i know that's a big statement but it's true and because of that people don't know how to function in the soul area now we know the spirit is most important but we also know that the soul is see in in the spirit we all look exactly alike because we're if we're born again you're recreated in the likeness and image of christ and so we are exactly alike oh thank you sir let me turn this that way and see if it'll sit and i want to put it right there there we go that way if it falls it'll go that way let's see so um the soul has to be trained the spirit like i said we are all the same in the spirit we're recreated i'm if you're born again i know what's in your spirit now many times what is in your spirit isn't what is exhibited through your soul and that's where the you know the the uh breakdown happens we could even say and so the real key is we know from romans chapter 12 that we are to be renewed in our mind so that we can prove the will of god well we know the will of god and even if you don't know you know you know it right you might not know you know it but you know it because it was put in you the minute you got born again it was birthed in you it's been formed even more so in you so all the components are there the problem is many times people's soul is not trained and i would even say conditioned correctly to align itself with the condition of the spirit and that's where the problem comes in and that's why uh honestly that's why in so much teaching in christianity people they will tell you that if you're messed up in your soul that it's because of a problem in your spirit that's not true your spirit is perfect and complete in christ and it is recreated in his likeness and image but usually i would say always if the emotions and the soul does not display the spirit of christ it's because the mind has not been renewed to the word and therefore the will of god all right now in saying that we want to talk about the emotions and i want to share some things because i'll be honest with you um probably one of the highest compliments i've ever been given was a person that we knew for many years uh they had seen me under all kinds of circumstances uh when i was strong in christ when i was weak in christ you know whenever i was walking straight and steady and when i messed up and i mean they saw me in all of the in all the fullness of everything right and they and they said this they said the the one thing that they saw i guess i appreciate it whatever i don't know but they said that they they had never known anyone who is able to control their emotions like i did and the reason they said that was because like i said they had seen me under all kinds of circumstances see it's it's generally fairly easy well for some okay you've got these different categories okay for some people it's fairly easy to control your emotions when something is happening to somebody else because you can distance yourself you can detach you can look at it and go yeah oh that's bad that's that's a bad situation or that's really good or you know whatever the range is but it's they're not connected to it so it's really easy for their emotions to go yep you know just like watching a tv program or watching something else which some people even get wrapped up in that and you know they're screaming at the bad guy and all this kind of stuff it's like you know it's a movie right they're getting paid they're going to walk off the set even if they've just got their head cut off they're going to walk off the set right but people forget that so but then you've got other people that really get into people's lives to the point where whatever's happened to that person they feel it and they and they allow it to affect them as if it was happening to them now it's good to have empathy it's it's vital i mean and if you're born again you're born again with empathy in you right just most people don't know how to really release it and because they've been trained wrong emotionally they switch from empathy to sympathy and sympathy doesn't do what empathy will do right so you have these this emotional range of people and if you don't know how to control your emotions then obviously your emotions are controlling you which is and we all know people like that that are totally emotional you know emotionally controlled and in almost every circumstance beyond absolute normal either above or below or whatever but anything other than absolute normal they are completely useless because when something's going on they're emotion they're screaming oh look at that and they get wrapped up in it and they or they where they have what uh we generally term fight flight or freeze and many people get totally excited scream holler do those kind of things and they're doing nothing but creating more chaos and confusion in the middle of the problem then you've got other people who feel absolutely who listen carefully who feel nothing and so obviously they can move through a situation without emotions but that's not good but then you have people that feel intensely but they are have been either trained or taught or they've learned or something even by the spirit of god and we're going to talk about that in just a minute to where they can function and they don't let their emotions control them to the point where they become ineffective it's good to allow your emotions to control you to the point where you become effective but not ineffective right and so if your emotions cause you to act in a situation to help somebody that's a good thing but if your emotions cause you to scream holler and draw attention to yourself and away from the problem that needs to be fixed that's a bad thing so the emotions this is the area where most christians where their christianity just ceases to exist because they allow themselves and the problem is we bought into the lie of well i have a right to feel this way no not if you're a christian if you're a christian you have no rights it's real simple you're you're a servant a slave of jesus christ you were bought with a price and you do not have the right or the luxury or the privilege of even having your own opinion do you get that and especially you don't have the right to an emotion and especially even beyond that if you're going to go back and put that emotion under well you don't understand i'm irish i just can't help you no that has nothing to do with it i know some very calm irish people who could kill you like that okay but all i'm saying is that you don't have an excuse well you don't understand my dad had a bad temper and i got a bad temper well your dad was wrong and so were you right why i thought you were born again yeah well then don't talk about your dad talk about your father amen you don't talk about your dad you talk about your big brother so we have to realize that controlling the emotions you have to realize this is the aspect of you and people say well you know we're our family we're just hot-headed or we're just you know whatever whatever thing your family is known for if it's known for anything at all then we say well this is how we are you know it's how you choose to be especially whenever you're confronted with well why are you this way well it's because i okay see that moment you've been confronted so at that moment it's not about how your family is it's about oh wow yeah i guess i was overreacting yeah i guess i was under reaction yeah i guess i was doing it see it's a matter for at that point you've been confronted and you have to decide to change now your emotions is how people know you so really we could say your spirit is the real you but your emotions is basically your personality coming out under different circumstances and it's how people know the real you so many people don't know the you that god knows in that sense they know the you that you have shown them which is not the you out of your spirit but the you out of your soul does that make sense right now and this is where all the problems come from most uh arguments problems uh disagreements whatever it is ends up having to do with either many times both things communication improper communication or lack of communication or i would go back to improper communication of your emotions in other words you don't have the communication so you don't know so you make assumptions and you assume and your assumptions are wrong let's say they are wrong okay maybe they're right but they could be wrong but then you also have communications that are communicated improperly which gives the person the reason of why they think about you like that is because that's how they see it all that i'm trying to be very clinical and direct at this point okay now if you don't learn how to submit your emotions to the guidance and leadership of the holy spirit you will never have an effective christian life meaning your even your relationship with god will be way off track just because your emotions control you and have not been submitted under the leadership of the holy spirit it is impossible now here's the thing and i'm going to say some things and this is probably going to be a little controversial here and there but you know if all of you if i was not talking to bodies or to souls and i was only talking to spirits we wouldn't even have to talk about this and it'd be awesome but the fact is i'm not just talking to spirits i'm also talking two souls and i'm talking two bodies that are here so we're everybody that's here is still in the flesh now we don't need to act like we're in the flesh but we're in the flesh and the problem is when we act like we're in the flesh then the flesh gets the upper hand so we're really supposed to be in the flesh but walking in the spirit that makes sense right so if you have not learned how to submit that now here's the thing for example you have years ago there was a program i really really enjoyed it but it was a particular program it was like a documentary type of thing and they took uh special forces they actually they took several different special forces groups and you've got special operations forces and you've got special forces special forces are simply green berets that's what special forces are anybody they're the only special forces anybody else like navy seals 75th ranger division all these different groups of regiment uh they are special operations forces so there's there's a difference and it's in military terminology and you know you probably don't care one way or the other but that's just their terminology and if there's any of them sitting here i don't want to upset them i want to make sure i get it right okay so um and this program was amazing because what they did was they took they did studies and they took these group of actually these were navy seals i think it was yeah maybe us navy seals and so they took this group of of men together and they took them to a warehouse and they set this warehouse up to be what they would call a shoot house sometimes called a kill house but mainly a shoot house and they would go in and they set up targets and these men don't know anything about where these targets are they're in another room and they have to go in and do a certain series of uh things and then pick up a weapon here uh rack it and take out the enemy and le and everybody in all the targets are not enemy there's some with women holding babies and they have to be able to choose what the targets are and leave the good people and take out the bad people that's that's the purpose and so they have this thing and for their base study they would bring them in it was totally dark they bring them in they turn on the lights and then they have to walk across this board and climb under this and go over this and do stuff and then they have to get to the places where the weapons are and they pick them up and then these things would come on and they would shoot them and there was a they timed how long it took them to do that under normal just relaxed conditions and their time was i believe i should have looked it up but i believe their time was like literally 26 seconds to go through this house take out the bat do all this stuff take out the bad guys and get to the other door pretty phenomenal right then even more amazing and this is what got me to really start looking at it then they took these same guys because now they had a baseline of time to compare to then they took these same guys and put them in this huge vat filled with ice water and they put them in this thing and they put on and they did a thermal imaging so they could tell the body temperature and they put out and they kept putting in more and more ice more and more ice that kind of stuff and they kept putting in so much ice that they said okay and they actually before they started talking about they said okay by this many minutes the body will start to lock down it'll start draining energy out of the limbs and it'll draw it toward the core and then the body temperature will drop because that's a safety mechanism it's a you know survival mechanism uh because it will forfeit a limb to save the organs essentially and so you can see it they said it's gonna be this much time and this much time and by this point of time they'll be doing this and they're recording this whole thing and they're doing the thermal imaging so you can watch it and they're going through and they said it was something like eight minutes in and they should see these certain changes and then at 15 minutes in they should see these other changes and it like it uh 17 or 18 minutes in something then they're gonna have to pull them out because that's where they would start to go into hypothermia or hypothermia yeah they're freezing they're freezing to death by that time and so and they're talking about all this then they take these navy seals and they put them in this water and it has water in it but then they put in all this ice and they're like okay and they're washing the time and the first time goes by nothing's changed and they said huh okay put in more ice so i started dumping in more ice and more ice and more ice and said well by now his body temperature should have dropped to this uh but it's not and they're like we can't explain that we don't know why it's not dropping and so they kept doing it and it literally took three almost three and a half times the amount of time for them to get their body temperature down to the point where they wanted it then they started later now kind of jumping back and forth but later they asked him why you defied physics your body temperature stayed the same for this long and then it changed why did your body do different than what a normal person's body was they said because i wasn't there and they said what do you mean you weren't there they said as soon as i got in there as soon as i started feeling the cold i put my mind in a tropical paradise and he said and he said and that's where i put myself and he said and i stayed there and when if i start to feel it encroach i would reinforce it with details and he said but now think so he controlled the physiological reaction of his body with his mind that actually had something to do and you'll we'll see in just a moment it even goes toward the emotions now that was the first part of the test then as soon as he got as soon as they got his body down to a certain level then they pulled him out really quick before his body could you know regain the normal temperature they pulled him out and he had to go through that shoot house soaking wet which added weight obviously to what he's doing his body temperature had dropped to the point where he was entering hypothermia at that point and so you could you could see at that point he was starting to shake and think about this and they said as soon as and you could see it on the video when he went through the door and had to go down this he had to walk across this plane type of thing and get there and crawl in and do his stuff and when he picked up that weapon which was a pistol he picked it up and you could see it he was like this when he picked it up he went straight from shaking to steady why because this was what he was familiar with and his mind was on this of what he had done a thousand ten thousand times before and not where he was at that moment then he went through the entire shoot house and did it in almost half the time he did it the first time under all of those adverse conditions he actually lowered the time because of where he put his head now that same thing now what that when i saw that i'm like okay this what got my attention because i was christian and i looked at that and i said okay this guy just tapped into his spirit he was not operating just out of his mind now the military teaches you to train the mind but they don't realize well maybe they do actually they do now but back in the day they didn't talk about it much but now they know that when you train the mind through repetition enough it becomes spiritual and so then it's just like watching you know a great basketball player or something like that they can't miss yeah i think it was michael jordan when he was doing the the commercial and he was doing the and he had had to throw the basketball and the whole point of the commercial was even the great one misses but it took him 26 tries to miss he couldn't even miss when he wanted to why because it was beyond physical it had went through the physical stage to the spiritual stage that's why everything you do will become spiritual if you do it enough and it's the same thing with these guys in the special forces or the naval special warfare navy seals what they did was they had done they had gone through enough training that it had went past the mind they tapped into their spirit they gained the strength of the spirit and then lent that strength to their soul to allow them to do what they're trained to do i just gave you the secret of samson that's what he did now the difference is okay with samson is he also had the unlimited backing of god in his power whereas with humans there is a limitation unless that human is connected to god but the limitation of a human is so vast that most people don't know where that stops and god starts that's just the way it is now the thing is whenever it is it is so fast so vast that most people when they have especially if they have been training any length of time in any discipline whenever they have reached the point where they quit physically they still have at least 40 percent of that strength or ability to continue on most people go halfway a little over 60 instead of 50 but still they go 60 percent and that's the point with that is that and it's funny because when you go 60 okay you've got usually 30 35 then you've got 30 35 we could drop it down to 32 and then you've got the last which would be actually 33 33 33 technically but still it's only 99 so there's still one percent so but in that middle part okay the 30 percent 33 lower part 33 higher part the 30 middle part do you know what that 30 percent middle part is called in trying to think of the right term scientific terms or proper grammar you know what that'd be called mediocre mediocre means to go halfway up a mountain in other words you go so far and then you quit most people are only mediocre by choice because they still have 40 energy left but they choose to quit at this 60 percent now think about all this that we're putting together and that especially when we talk about the emotions when you think you have been pushed to the point where you're fixing to explode you still got 40 in reserve that you're choosing not to tap into okay okay now we could also look at it the 80 20 rule a lot of people talk about pareto's theory uh or principle but the 80 20 rule means that 80 of all good is done by 20 of the people right and that's in business i mean that has proven to be a a rule now personally i think it's slightly off but it's still very accurate i think jesus was more accurate because jesus said there's four kinds of people remember when he talks about the he talked about four kinds of people but only out of the four people only one person produces anything so if you take a hundred people and divide it by four that's 25. so it'd actually be 25 to 75 instead of 80 20 it'd be 75 25. i'm going to go with the 75 25 because i believe jesus more than i do pareto right but jesus verified the fact that the majority of good is done by the minority of people that's just the way it is now when you going back to these systems where people uh train themselves and the real key is being able to allow your emotions to be dictated by the spirit now let me give you some scripture hopefully you found galatians 5 by now you probably have to close your bible and said he ain't going there so but no here we go galatians chapter 5 verse 19. now the works of the flesh are manifest which are these adultery fornication uncleanness lasciviousness idolatry witchcraft hatred variants emulations wrath strife seditions heresies envyings murders drunkenness revelings and such like of the witch about these things i i tell you before as i have also told you in times past that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of god now if you were here at the nine o'clock you remember this i referred to this very scripture now notice these are the works of the flesh he did not say these are the works of the devil he said these are the works of the flesh now flesh is either controlled by the spirit or by the devil so we could attribute these works to the devil but a person has to embody them the devil can be mad all he wants he can be an idolatry all he wants he can have all these different he can do all that he wants but until a human decides to embrace that action the devil's got nothing and a human cannot blame the devil for what the human does because the human has to choose to do what the devil has tried to entice them to do that makes sense okay and if if the devil can't make you do it okay if god can't make you do something the devil can't either the problem is the devil works on you in a way and conditions you through society to get you to do what he wants you to do and by making you think it's normal to do that right now so we have all these bad things okay then you look at verse 22 but the fruit of the spirit is love joy peace long-suffering gentleness goodness faith meekness temperance which is self-control remember that self-control against such there is no law right so now these are the fruit of the spirit if you have the spirit in your life these are the fruit that will come from the spirit this is not something that you necessarily have to work at all you have to do is be in the spirit and walk in the spirit and these fruit will produce amen now i understand you can help them you can cultivate them and they'll grow faster but if you're if you have the spirit of god in you these fruit should be evident even in you know small form right now most of no notice this love joy peace long suffering gentleness goodness okay faith we'll kind of put aside for just a minute meekness self-control every one of these how do we know if a person has these they are all demonstrated by that person's emotions that's how they are are demonstrated out of their life it is through the emotions the fruit of the spirit is demonstrated through the emotions of a person means through their soul in other words it has to come from the spirit through the soul before you can see it amen are you with me okay now watch he says if we in verse 24 and they that are christ have means belongs to christ have crucified the flesh with the affections and lust now notice so he's talking about up there with the manifestations of the flesh and they're right the works of the flesh they were manifest how and he said here if you belong to christ you've crucified the flesh and want to watch with the affections and the lust now notice an affection is a lower form lust is affection taken out of control so you can have affections right but your affections would also be of the flesh but you have to crucify those and if you're in christ your have and i would even say are in the present time attempting to crucify those affections and those lusts because those affections and lust lead to the works of the flesh in verse 21 or 19. that makes sense now i know this is you know by purpose it's kind of like a class this is kind of how we would teach dvi uh along these lines so uh because i want you to get that i'm not here for a a rah-rah pep rally see pep rallies don't last you get home right what i want you to do is to think and make decisions and make changes in your life and because changes will not only affect your life but affect those around you and that's how we change the world is by first changing ourself amen we were changed in the spirit let's be changed in the physical and in the emotional because i'm telling you usually your physical doesn't get you in trouble generally speaking it is your emotions you know you're you're walking past somebody and you bump into them right and it's natural to go oh no excuse me you know or whatever it is and just be flat and keep on going and the emotions are not involved there but you're just moving on right but if you bump into somebody or worse if they bump into you and your first reaction is hey watch it man what are you doing okay see it wasn't the bump it was the emotions that caused the problem and if you can control the emotions you can control the problem god wants your emotions under control he doesn't want your emotions controlling you amen now watch uh ephesians well actually go back to verse 25 there in galatians 5 if we live in the spirit let us also walk in the spirit so he's saying look i'm telling you what the fruit of the spirit is so i'm telling you if you if you live in the spirit then walk in the spirit let this be how you live your life verse 26 let us not be desirous of vain glory provoking one another envying one another now when you provoke what are you provoking emotion is that right see you can't tell if a person is provoked or not unless some emotional outburst follows it right so ephesians chapter four see this is you have to realize what we're talking about and we've talked about in the spiritual warfare training and i've demonstrated how the spiritual warfare training the the warfare in the spirit is the same principles that apply there apply to hand-to-hand combat they're they're the exact same principles whether you go on personal level or on a national level or even on a spiritual level the principles are all the same so the enemy here he tells us listen let's don't provoke one another right why is he saying that he said because that's how the enemy works that's that's one of the tactics of the enemy the enemy will do what as you know if you've been through the swat training the enemy will do what is called a probing attack and a probing attack is when someone just let's say in the physical it's when they just throw out a punch to see how you react you throw out a punch oh he blocks oh he moves okay what is he doing he's not trying to hurt you he's trying to see how you react so he can set you up for what he wants to do right and what he wants to do is take you out right or make you a very good example of why you shouldn't follow jesus right and so he will watch so he watches at what he can do to push your buttons now he may not be trying a physical thing he may be trying an emotional thing and he will get somebody to push your buttons emotionally and see how you react and then he'll just write that down and it's just like a good fighter uh watching you know fight reels from hit for his next opponent he wants to know how does he respond what's he going to do how is he going to do if i do this what's he going to do and if you watch enough of their fight you'll see and you'll find their weaknesses and you'll know what you can do and that's exactly what the enemy does to you well it's time we do it to him amen let's find his weaknesses the bible says that we are not to be ignorant of his devices am i right that we are to know the wiles of the devil the methods of the devil so that we know how to defend but also how to defeat right and if you don't know you know it's the old saying that if you know yourself i could actually say the way that if you don't know yourself and you don't know your opponent you will lose every battle if you know yourself and you know you and you don't know your opponent you'll win 50 and lose 50 if you know your opponent but don't know yourself you'll win 50 and lose 50 but if you know yourself and you know your opponent you can win 100 of the time so the key is to know who we are what we have in christ and to know our opponent and what his weaknesses are and when we do with them we can know that our shield of faith can quench every fiery dart of the wicked one amen and we can live untouchable by the enemy right there right now what the enemy will do is he will try to see mostly you know even let's say he tries to uh make you sick somehow right somehow he tries to brainstorm or even a symptom or whatever what's he looking for he's looking for an emotional response because if he can get an emotional response he knows he's doing something but if you show him nothing he doesn't even know what good he's doing you know you may be ready to quit he wouldn't know it why because you haven't told him you say i would never tell the devil that anyway you don't have to you tell your neighbor you tell your friend you tell your partner you tell whoever it is you tell somebody and the devil listens and you can do it through an out you know some type of outburst maybe it's fear oh what is that oh what is what is that oh you know well i've heard about this and and you know people in my family had this and he worked on your mind see right now that's what the enemy is primarily trying to do here in america he is trying to feed fear and trying to get a frenzy of fear because people that operate in fear don't only hurt themselves they hurt each other that's that's just the way it works um years ago over here on arapahoe make sure i'm going right away i had a martial arts school there and we were there a lot my family was there my kids were all young and so we were always there and i was training or training people or practicing or whatever and my son and two my two daughters uh went out and they would wander around right near the school and it was an industrial kind of area but it wasn't a lot of people there and they found a dog and they brought this mangy dog home at well to the school and you know oh it's their pet and his pup they found it one and so they put her on a leash and they're trying to do all this you know train it and all this and this thing it was sad and you couldn't tell at first and we didn't know it but it was sick and it it had to temper and we we couldn't tell it first you know because i wasn't analyzing it or anything but eventually it started exhibiting symptoms and eventually and i knew with my children okay we have to do something with this dog and it's gonna hurt them and you don't want your kids to hurt and so i'm okay so i there was an empty building and i said okay well i'm gonna the dog is sick he needs to rest he needs to be there and i wasn't gonna kill it i'm tenderhearted you know and so i'm not going to just kill it myself and so i took it over i said i'm going to have to see if this animal is really sick we'll know pretty quick and so i took it over and tied it in this building and then just kind of kept an eye on it and didn't want my kids near it obviously for obvious reasons and but i would keep a check on it and it got to the point where because i would go over and try to feed it and i was seeing and i didn't know really what was wrong with it at the time but i would take food and water and that kind of stuff and i started noticing when i would take the food and water the thing would start snapping at me trying to get at me think you know thank goodness it was tied but i mean he would lunge at me and try and and the thing is he didn't even realize i was trying to help why because he was hurting see hurting people hurt people because they're hurting and and they don't know how to ask for help or they don't know how to get help or receive help by man or from god and so they hurt other people and they you know it's just like a person in great pain you can take a person that is really a nice person but when they're in great pain their emotions come in and they'll snap at people and they'll say why the man i've never seen them like that you don't know what they're going through it's either physical pain emotional pain something and they will snap at you why because of what they're going through you're not necessarily the cause of it you're just the recipient of it does that make sense that's why a lot of times you go to a restaurant you get a server sometimes maybe they're not good friendly servers or whatever and you're kind of blessed guys i'm not gonna even i'm gonna tip them they just they you know they didn't watch they weren't they weren't attending you i'm not telling you no matter what you should do whatever i'm just saying that you don't know what day every person has had you don't know if that person's child is home sick and they're worried about them but they can't afford to take off you see just all kinds of things that could happen you don't know if they just lost a loved one but can't afford to take off you don't know all this stuff and so it's always good to give someone the benefit of the doubt of okay well it's probably something that's not easy because you know bless god we have rights as i've already said scratch that right if you're a christian you don't you have the right to be nice right you have the right to remain silent that's what you have to remember okay that's what you should we need to take that right a whole lot more a lot of times right now so let's let's move forward because i want to get this in ephesians chapter 4 verse 29 let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth right that means anything that doesn't align with god's word anything that doesn't bring grace to the hearer that's corrupt communication anything that like i said doesn't agree with god's word anything that denies god's word but that which is good to the use of edifying that it may minister grace unto the hearers and grieve not the holy spirit of god notice how he put that right after talking about corrupt communication right whereby you are sealed unto the day of redemption now watch this let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and evil speaking be put away from you with all malice put it all away right now notice again he put don't grieve the holy spirit in between two scriptures dealing with your mouth your mouth is the fastest way to grieve the holy spirit okay verse 32 and be kind one to another tenderhearted forgiving one another even as god for christ's sake hath forgiven you notice all of these things bitterness wrath anger clamor evil speaking all this what are those those are displays of emotion do you see that they're not just information they are displays of emotion then he says of course bitterness wrath anger clamor evil speaking there it is again he's showing that these are emotions that are in control of a person and the person has lost control does that make sense okay and then he says in verse 32 and be kind one to another tenderhearted forgiving one another even as god for christ's sake hath forgiven you now again this is emotions under control what's he doing he's showing the difference between emotions out of control and emotions under control okay ephesians 5 be therefore because remember paul didn't break up a chapter it was a letter right so 5 is continuing on chapter 4. be therefore why because of the things he just said followers imitators of god as dear children imitators of god what is god god is love imitators of love do you see it and walk in love as christ also has loved us and has given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to god for a sweet smelling savor the fornication all uncleanness or covetousness let it not be once named among you as becometh saints you hear that those things ain't supposed to be in you at all he says neither filthiness nor foolish talking now you could put those two together you could say foolish talking but you could also say filthy talking i have noticed a change over the last years it's been some years more so now it's definitely hit a tipping point where all humor is innuendoes towards some filthiness and and the thing is see real humor i don't know if you know this or not but they did studies on stand-up comedians and stand-up comedians are some of the most brilliant mentally of any people because they have to be very quick very sharp very thick especially improv and especially people that interact with a with an audience they got to be really sharp they got to be quick and and they have to have a high iq to be able to function that way and they found out that the profession with at i'm trying to this was actually uh about 10 years ago when i read this so i'd have to check it i would assume it's still true but the profession with the most genius level iq was comedy so you look at these people and the more stupid a person can look the smarter they actually have to be to be able to look that stupid and not be that stupid but you don't get that famous that rich that whatever by being stupid just by looking like it okay i mean back in my day you know it was lucille ball people like that they could make themselves look really foolish but if you really find out her real life she was brilliant right and a powerhouse i mean she was oprah before oprah you know i'm saying she had power in hollywood desi arnez said yes ma'am if you know who does anyway okay so trying to figure out what generation i'm talking to here so now and there are several others that were like that that had that mentality now but now notice he says here uh yeah verse four neither filthiness nor foolish talking nor jesting which are not convenient but rather giving of thanks for this you know that no whoremonger nor unclean person nor covetous man who is an idolater that's what a covetous man is an idolater hath any inheritance in the kingdom of christ and of god and these are writ this is written to christians so it's pretty blunt isn't that right i mean it's not a well you know we we can't judge we you know you don't know no right there he says let no man deceive you with vain words but because of these things comment the wrath of god upon the children of disobedience now why is he telling about things of children of disobedience unless it's possible for these people who claim to be christian to also be children of disobedience be not ye therefore partakers with them for you were sometimes darkness but now you are light in the lord walk as children of light for if the fruit of the spirit for the fruit of the spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth proving what is acceptable unto the lord and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness but rather reprove them you hear that it's not enough to disagree you are to reprove works of darkness you are to speak out against works of darkness you can't just well they should know better no you are to reprove because they may not know better maybe maybe they do maybe they need to be reminded but regardless you are to reprove the works of darkness for it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret but all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light for whatsoever doth make manifest is light wherefore he saith awake thou that sleepest and arise from the dead and christ shall give the light you notice you have to awake from sleep arise from dead before you get light isn't that something well awake notice what he says awake from sleeping that means while you're a sinner i'm giving the examples here while you're a sinner you have to be awakened to the fact that you're a sinner then you have to be raised from the dead which means you have to die to your sin and be raised from the dead this is represented through baptism and as we know right and be raised from the dead become a christian right and then you receive light why because the things of god cannot be received by the natural person do you get are you seeing how all of this fits okay he says here verse 15 see then that you walk circumspectly in other words aware knowing things right not as fools but as wise redeeming the time because the days are evil wherefore be ye not unwise but understanding what the will of the lord is now if he's telling you to understand the will of the lord that means knowing the will of the lord is possible and be not drunk with wine we're in his excess but be filled with the spirit now he tells us something about being filled with the spirit speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs singing and making melody in your heart to the lord this is one of the way to maintain the spirit-filled life giving thanks always for all things unto god and the father in the name of our lord jesus christ submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of god now real quick in uh when the revival happened in wales 1904 and 1905 it was actually the revival that predated the uh azusa street revival now the revival in the midwest up in uh topeka kansas started really at the end of december of 1900 and into january of 1901 and that started spreading and really went from 1901 to 1905 down in houston texas and then william seymour went to los angeles by the time he went to los angeles that was 1906 but the revival in wales had already happened 1904 in 1905. that revival was led by a person who never wanted to be a reliable revivalist his name was evan roberts or evans roberts and he was just a young man he was a strange person if you read his life he was given to a lot of melancholy type mindset and very seem to be depressed a lot and things like that until the spirit of god really changed him and when he did then he started preaching i believe there's more temple uh yeah the the church there mariah chapel sorry you have to go back and look at some of these things in the history but it's really good because the revival that followed mainly hit at first the coal miners which were a tough group of men it started with men didn't start with women started with the men and so evan roberts would go to the coal mines every day go down into the mines while these men were working and he would just walk through and preach the gospel and just share the gospel and just talk about god and talk about the goodness of god and he would go through well men started getting saved and the thing is the revival started going from there into other parts of the community and hit the country pretty strong and then during that time there were actually several people involved in the azusa street revival that also were in contact with evan roberts were writing letters back and forth and that's how it kind of jumped to los angeles there also now the thing to to know is this these men were so drastically changed that the mules in the mine would no longer listen to them wouldn't obey them why because the men's mouth changed and before they always used cuss words to command the mules and the mules understood the cuss words as commands to move so when the men got saved they quit cussing and the mules quit working now that's a change when you take a bunch of coal miners and they get cleaned up in the heart to where their mouth changes where they're not even cussing anymore that's revival amen but do you see what i'm saying when i say that until the heart changes see when the heart changes the hand will change and it won't do what it's done before the mouth will change and will not say what it said before and the thoughts will change and not think like it did before that was one of the best things that i ever read by william seymour about the azusa street revival he said the bloodline has erased the color line i was watching a program or an interview with um morgan freeman just the other day and they were talking about it was black history month and they and uh the guy was talking to him and said what do you think about this i don't like it they said we mean you don't like you don't like black history month he said no he said why should my history be relegated to one month he said you can't take a history of an entire people and put into one month he said my history is every day he said what about you do you have a white history month he said and the guy asked me well actually i'm jewish he said well do you have a jewish he goes no he said would you want one he says no he said here's what i'm going to do he said i'm going to i'm going to erase this is what didn't what i'll say denzel because that was another program i watched but this was morgan and he said i'm going to eliminate racism and he said how are you going to do that because simple i'm going to quit referring to you as a white man and i would appreciate if you quit referring to me as a black man and if you if we quit referring to each other by our color racism ceases he said you make it a thing because you keep talking about a thing and this and this was a deal he did years ago it was amazing but see we have to realize as christians we listen it is impossible to be colorblind unless you're actually physically blind but it is foolish to be color uh directed amen now i i thank god i went when i listen i can tell you stories i was raised in a family that my uncle a postmaster in the town where i was raised was the head of the kkk that's my uncle right i was raised around that now but the thing is my mom and dad one of our good friends was a and i again i don't i don't even like fans he was a black man why why don't i like saying that because i don't like referring to his color because to me me and his kid we played together all the time there was nothing there was no color that was ridiculous i mean we were friends and we went and we played and he owned a a donut shop and gave me free donuts he was a good man okay and then my mom used to take me in there and they and i was little and she'd pick me up or actually he would pick me up his name was zeke and which was short for ezekiel and he would pick me up and put me on the countertop totally uh non-sanitary right but he put me on the countertop put money in the jukebox and say if you want a donut dance that's why i dance all right and i got donuts okay so but that was how we lived we knew them now but i was raised uh and my my dad i never saw any racism in my dad i never started my family or my mom you know in our family and and my dad was a policeman and i saw what policemen were like behind the scenes and you've heard me i've talked about this a little bit before but the amazing thing was where it really where i really noticed uh racism and it being bad and how it wasn't a part of me at that really was when i went in the military because when i went in the military it didn't matter you were you're repelling up a wall it doesn't matter the color of the man ahead of you you're the man behind you all that matters is do they hold on to that rope that's all that counts and if you need help do they help you and it didn't matter what color i was uh whatever if i needed help that hand was there and i didn't go oh come on man get move that black hand and i want a white hand to help me come on no i wasn't stupid amen does this make sense now i'm saying this because there's a particular thing here now notice here but when that revival happened okay they had to be changed because the minors mouths were changed because their hearts were changed if you cannot control your emotions you will not control your mouth if you don't control your mouth you cannot control your emotions because your emotions will feed right the mouth will feed the emotions and the emotions will feed them out that's what will hurt so that has to be brought under control now i will say this god and i believe this with all my heart in his infinite wisdom saw fit to use two similar things to train me to control my emotions number one u.s military right that was one of the now i that wasn't the first thing the first thing was what i'll talk about a minute but by the time i went to the military i'd already been involved in the other thing but the other thing was what gave me the foundation and really helped but the military helped me put it into context and in the context of the military you had to control your emotions especially at the rank i was at you had to control your emotions because everybody was above you and so and at any moment anybody could yell at you and you know punish you or whatever make you do push-up whatever they wanted you to do pretty much you know assign you to latrine duty or you know peeling potatoes in the you know kp duty that kind of stuff so you had to you know there are a lot of times i wanted to speak back to the person yelling at me but i wasn't that stupid because life was rough enough as it was i didn't want to add to that so i learned to keep my mouth shut now that didn't keep my head from saying stuff but they couldn't read my mind thank god right but i kept my mouth shut but they they taught me that there is benefits to controlling your emotions because just because you don't set out your mouth doesn't mean you're controlling your emotions i mean there's a whole lot of non-verbal emotional outburst right by how people do things do different things all that kind of stuff so you have to learn how to control all of that so that the enemy can never know if he's getting to you that makes sense because if you react in any way he knows all that all i gotta do is push that button and here's what will happen so you have to die to that thing so that it doesn't now the way you die to it in the beginning is you refuse to react to it then once you die to it you don't have to think about refusing to act to it you've already trained and disciplined yourself to react the correct way the right way and that's a correct thing discipline is a good thing do you get it you you discipline yourself the bible says exercise yourself unto godliness you hear that exercise yourself discipline yourself unto godliness so there are things that you can do yourself body and soul especially emotions those ideas thoughts things like that that you can control and you can actually exercise yourself discipline yourself just like working out in the gym just like practicing whatever your whatever you practice for your discipline you can work that to the point where you exercise yourself unto godly character now think about that now that was the first one u.s military if you let your emotions rule you in battle say like in military you will die and you'll probably cause others to die because of you just the way it is if you let your emotions control you now secondly the second thing and this is what i really now again i can't always explain these things but i do know that god led me to enlist in the military i'd do it again today you know if i pass the age where they will accept me but i would do the same thing again under the same conditions today because of the benefit it gave me and by the same token the second thing which was really the first thing god did started when i was nine when i started martial arts and being in martial arts helped discipline me and trained me to control my emotions and my body so that my body wouldn't react in a way i didn't want it to and now but you say well okay where does god come into that well at that time there was nobody teaching on emotions there was nobody teaching about these things none of that it was all just get saved uh you know at most get filled with the holy spirit and wait till you die or wait till jesus comes back for you that was pretty much it and and that was especially in the groups that i was around that was pretty much all there was to it and so and then i got saved at nine i got saved the same year i started martial arts and i wish both had grown equally at the time uh but they didn't work that way but so god used martial arts to help me discipline myself emotionally now the reason i say that is because in personal hand to hand combat if you lose control of your emotions you could either easily die or you can you could actually take a life unnecessarily and you don't want to be able to do either because and honestly it's people talk about oh this black belt that black belt which is you know awesome ranking obviously but at the same time it's not the black belts that'll hurt you why because they know control it's the lower belts that don't know control right they don't they don't understand stuff they right on through oops sorry you know and you got a bloody nose or whatever it is so it's it's the less trained you are the less control and less discipline you have the higher trained you are the more disciplined that's why more more lower ranking belts get in fights than black belts why because black belts know okay um you're stupid for starting this and i'm smart for not engaging and being stupid too right and being able to walk away because at that point you know what you can do and you don't have to prove it right and it's so it's not about ego now it's about self-perfection or controlling yourself the way you're supposed to act right now um yeah so this is why you train in the martial arts or in the military now i'm not talking about hobbies i'm not talking about sports you know sport martial arts thing i'm not talking about that um i'm talking about actual hyundai in combat is because the training sessions have to be tougher than actual combat that's the same thing in true combat arts it's the same thing in military the training should always be harder than the battle because if the training isn't harder than the battle if the battle is harder than the training then your training is going to fall short of what's necessary but if your if your training is harder than the battle then the battle won't seem much like a battle why because you'll be able to move through it and do what you're trained to do now obviously here i'm talking about physical things but transfer that over to the spiritual if you can train yourself by submitting your will and your emotions to the holy spirit then you're constantly working on on really controlling the emotions and then the more you work on it and the more the enemy comes at you the more you're able to resist reacting and every time you resist accurately you get stronger and so the idea is to get stronger and stronger that now the thing is for you to get stronger now this is true physical mental spiritual in every field for you to get stronger require for you to constantly be getting stronger it requires constant progression of resistance in other words for you to get stronger the next battle has to be bigger and tougher than the last battle now you don't want that you know you don't you don't want you're not looking necessarily going oh i can't wait till the next you know thing where i have to really restrain myself right but the fact is that is what you want if you're going to grow you need to be able to say at what point does my control break down because like dr sumrall used to tell us all the time uh whatever beat you means it was a little stronger than you so what does that mean that means you have to work at being a little stronger than it now we could go further on this but i believe you're getting the the idea behind it so you know notice in training you expand the emotions so that in actual combat you remain totally calm and never lose control of your emotions combat should never be intense because your training has already made you the point where the the combat is less stressful right now what that means is in training real intense the the training is intense why so that when you get to the battle it's not as intense so it's easier to remain under control right now that means in whatever field you're going to be working in you in whatever discipline you're going to try to develop your emotions through that means you have to find a way to allow your emotions to feel that moment so that you know next time when you get there okay i gotta back off so it's a training progression now finally also in the bible you see god exhibited through jesus as a person that is calm cool and collected you never see jesus freaking out right you can't even picture that you know i mean i mean and he faced some pretty big things right devils storms people trying to arrest him people trying to throw him off a cliff and he just kind of the bible it's amazing it says that when they take him out they're going to throw him off the cliff and when he gets to this he just walks through them he's like okay you think you're going to no i'm not going to die here see i know i got an appointment with a with a treat and i got an appointment with this crossover so i know i'm not dying here so it's it's really it's really sad to see you guys think you're going to kill me uh but it shows your heart so now you know who you are and what you are so okay i think i've taught you the lesson you need to learn okay thank you and just leaves and see that's that's the way to be calm cool collected don't let it push you to the point where you react see the thing is you will react the way that you have trained yourself and if you have not trained yourself then you're going to react wrong that's why you should never make a decision in the middle of the battle the decision should have already been made before the battle comes when you make the decision ahead of time you never have to worry about it so you have to make that decision of how far you're willing to go jesus was willing to go to the edge of the cliff and then he turned around and said okay we're done and you have to decide how far are we willing to go right how far am i willing to go in this how far now see i am willing for for let's say a personal confrontation i am extremely calm i i will not uh i just won't throw the first punch i just i just won't do it i've proven it to myself i will not do it now by that same token right i will try to de-escalate whatever i can do i'll try to calm everything down if i can and try to keep everybody alive and keep everything good right now i can't say the same thing if i see somebody doing that to you doing something to you my tolerance level is much less because i don't know what you can take but if somebody's doing something to you i will interject myself in that situation i've proven it before i've done it before and i will interject myself in that situation why to protect you you know and you may have even been the wrong person you know it may have been your fault right maybe you smarted off and somebody's doing something but i will still interject myself one to solve it especially if i don't know what's going on one because i don't know how far you can go before you lose it and either get hurt or hurt somebody unnecessarily does that make sense because i know what i can take i know how far i can be pushed and for me it literally takes someone putting their hand on me for me to get loose as i i just i'm not going to throw a punch not first right last maybe but nothing okay i hope you understand i'm just trying to get across you you ha listen this is where the battles fall the battle is in your emotions right because it's already one in the spirit and if you stay in the spirit your your emotions remain under control but if you get pulled into the carnal realm that's where you end up losing because that's the devil's realm that's where he works and that's what he tries to pull you into so if you can maintain control of your emotions then you can see that's that's the same thing again being raised in a policeman's family i was around my dad around a lot of other policemen that's the thing i was always amazed at them at how well they were able to control their emotions and just do their job now i'm not saying everybody's always done that there's good cops there's bad cops a lot more good ones and there are bad just like there are preachers right there's there's i'm not talking about how well you preach i'm talking about good moral character right there's some bad ones and there's some good ones i believe there's more good ones and there are bad ones right but regardless the light is always shown on the bad ones because they stand out why do they stand out because it's not all of them if it was all of them then no one would stand out right so but what i noticed about them is that because i saw my dad i was i rode with him especially when as a teenager and i saw my dad be spit on and be cussed out and all kinds of stuff and and people trying to do things to you know doing the flinch thing like they're going to do something and he'd just stand calmly well usually he stood like this his gun was away from him his hand was on it but it was there and then his hand was out that was almost always in it i remember even as a teenager when he would come in to talk to me he'd go curry i must be in trouble you got your hand on your gun but i can tell you some stories i sat in jail one night just because i was in the wrong part of town and a friend another policeman that knew me picked me up and said you're not supposed to be here and i know it because i know your dad and cause they worked together and he made me wait there and he said you know call your dad i said nope and so he made me wait there until the morning because i wasn't going to call my dad at two o'clock in the morning and wake him up so i just waited the next day and called him so that way at least i you don't want to wake somebody up the middle of the night anyway so i just sat there so situations okay now so let's get back over here okay so uh but what you see jesus never engaged in heated rhetoric or lashing out in anger toward an individual he would point out things but even and then it we all know it was out of love not out of anger to get back when he had every right to right especially with the pharisees and sadducees and those guys right but you do see him logically and spiritually attack dead legalistic religion several years ago god gave me a vision and i don't haven't had a whole lot of things like that but i'll never forget it because it has become part of what i work toward in my own life of a warrior like a knight in armor holding this huge sword in one hand and holding a baby in the other and i'm looking at this and he had to explain it to me he said i want you to be strong enough to be able to wield the sword effectively but tender enough to be able to do it while holding a baby and not crushing the baby why because when you fight you you can get tense and you'll tighten up and you can't do that and hold a baby without hurting it so you have to learn to be able to fight and remain totally calm relaxed and able to hold a baby in the middle of all of that and that picture of that night in that armor holding that baby has been kind of my carrying thought of how i want to be in my own life so over the last few months people have been under tremendous stress lost jobs decreased or even eliminated incomes fear of sickness fear of the unknown fear of riots fear of destruction the idea of is it coming to my home is it going to be near me the fact that for the most part you can't travel you can't fly i mean you can but it's definitely different can't visit elderly loved ones you can't have really any physical contact with people and the sad part is humans require physical contact not not even just engagement of speaking but physical contact you know some people weren't even able to attend funerals of their loved ones all of that can con um it constantly i believes it compresses all of this to create higher tension higher stress higher fear level all this stuff and it creates this angst in people not to mention the fact that many people have been locked into their homes and people started getting what everybody calls cabin fever i mean and it's a reality of people and they start getting short with one another and they start you know nitpicking and all that kind of stuff you know they found out that babies in a maternity ward that are held are actually physically stronger they develop faster they do better they're physically healthier and they've actually did experiments where they held some babies and didn't hold others now i would hate to be the person who had to make that decision because of the long-term effects but they showed how the babies that are held and are nurtured through physical contact actually we're healthier even later in life and yet we have what we can't even contact get near each other you know all that kind of stuff people are afraid you go to the grocery stores you see our people and now it's gotten the point where it's even been politicized or it is moralized to the point where people will shame you you know if you don't do exactly what they want you know i was at a post office the other day and that and it was the main part it wasn't the part where everybody stands in line but it was just where the p.o box is and this i was walking out and this person walked past me and they had a mask on i didn't and this person said and yeah and that was the thing because you know i'm if if somebody has a mask on they want to maintain six feet i don't have them i'm not gonna encroach on their six feet i get it right and honestly i like the six foot distance i'll be honest i'll be honest with you it see again in martial arts that six foot distance uh we used to call it my and it actually means as far as i stretch my arm and you stretch your arm if you do that that's about six foot and that's how far if we maintain that distance you have to move toward me you can't just reach out and hit me you have to move toward me so and if you move toward me i can intercept your movement so i actually like the six foot distance because it it does give me that buffer zone right now admitted in my profession i don't get to maintain the six foot distance however i can speak the word and send the word i can't but okay okay but um but the bottom line is that this lady um you know i didn't encroach her six foot but she had a mask and she thought i should have one and she just said well you need a mask and i'll admit i did not control my emotions perfectly but i kept walking and i said and you need a brain that's what i said anyway because you know why don't you have on a mask because i think and they like to breathe anyway okay so nothing okay so okay so but people crave physical contact yeah okay now it says that we cannot maintain physical contact well i can let you all go i'm sorry i'm turning this into a seminar but jesus and paul said to greet one another with a holy kiss not a french kiss a holy kiss okay but we're told to keep six foot distance from anyone and masks also hide people's faces so that we can't even determine their emotions or their intentions toward us it's amazing used to you go to a bank if you had a mask on you went to jail nowadays you almost go to jail if you don't have one that's amazing it's amazing to me i i really really i want to find a mask that i can wear that is so offensive that people will ask me to take it off and i i found a trump mask that might actually cause that to happen because the people are really concerned about that probably don't like it anyway so okay now all these things add up to overall stress levels not to mention it now summer's here and historically summer has always brought with it higher homicides higher tensions higher temperaments along with the higher temperatures right which means also higher hostility so controlling your emotions is not just a good thing it's not just a good idea it is imperative to good health into a peaceful life talking about controlling the emotions the only true way to control your emotions is to submit your mind your will and your emotions to the governance of the holy spirit and he tells us how to do that first off he says to submit ourselves to god it says to spend our time to spend time with god and then he tells us to think on these things so that's how you control your mind real simple philippians 4 8 finally brethren whatever things are true honest just pure lovely if they have a good report if there be any virtue and he prays think on these things he said those things which you have both learned and received and heard and seen in me do and the god of peace shall be with you and notice the god of peace will be with you if you do these things you want peace very simple change what you focus your mind on what you have your thoughts on change your words on purpose speak what you want to have and what you want to be like now is the time to be a light not a dark cloud we have enough of them amen if you want to give god control your mind mouth and emotions then we're we're going to do something here in just a second now i do want to give you some of these things what these are these are things that they have said will lead to a long healthy life this is just from science right avoid stress even if people are trying to pile stress on you have a positive outlook believe that god is good and is not out to get you have a good sense of humor a person that will have a long life along these lines they're going to look at life like it's an adventure not like it's something that's happening to them for instance based on what we've been talking about let's just say someone decides to punch me in the face then my goal is to say yeah he hit me did you see how perfectly he threw that punch now i'd be talking after he's knocked out hopefully but anyway okay because i want to give him time to think about what he's done see i i'm trying to also practice having a good sense of humor i hope you're picking up on that amen but now so how many of you realize and recognize the fact that you need to control your emotions how many of you say you know what i think i could be better at it i think i could definitely work on it okay okay how many of you think your spouse could no don't raise your hand don't raise your hand i see the elbows going to the ribs right there so say this with me father your word is true i believe your word and you said that i'm supposed to control my emotions i want my emotions controlled by your spirit so right now as an act of my will i submit my emotions to the guidance leadership leadership of your holy spirit continue conforming me to the image of christ [Music] in every area especially my emotions father i thank you and i receive the answer to this prayer and i say starting now i am in control of my emotions i receive and nurture the fruit of the spirit of temperance self-control in jesus name amen amen well give them a shout father we thank you hey guys hey i just wanted to welcome you i'm curry blake uh general over here at john g lake ministries we are so glad that you have decided to take the step to investigate life teams becoming a certified divine healing technician getting plugged in and taken the responsibility to enter into the life that jesus has actually died to give us so the next step now since you've come this far is to simply sign up that's how to get started just sign up and when you do now you're going to go and check your email box and you're going to get instructions on how to become certified dht how to start a life team but you know and maybe some of you are already within jjlm and you're already a leader at some level and you're saying okay why do i have to do this well it's very simple we're putting everybody into the same system so that it works like a well-oiled machine like we've talked about because we want to make sure everything is working very well together so if you are an existing leader within jjlim we can tell you nothing's going to 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Channel: John G. Lake Ministries

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

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Length: 87min 1sec (5221 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 25 2020