God is for You, Not Against You

[Music] [Music] good morning again good to see you all here we appreciate you staying over and coming in for church this morning and we're going to fellowship together and then we're going to participate in communion together so we are pleased to include you in that if you have your Bibles you can turn to Romans chapter 8 / Romans chapter 8 we're going to read a couple of things very quickly here while you're doing that I want to turn to another passage and read it to you so you're at Romans chapter 8 and I'm going to read from 2nd Corinthians chapter 4 verse 11 says for we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus's sake that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh so then death works in us but life in you then in verse 13 we having the same spirit of faith according as it is written I believed and therefore have I spoken we also believe and therefore speak then he says knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus and shall present us with you for all things are for your sakes you hear that all things are for your sakes that the abundant grace might through the Thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God for which cause we faint not but though our outward man perish yet the inward man is renewed day by day for our light affliction which is but for a moment works for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory while notice it didn't just happen it happens while we look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen for the things which are seen are temporal temporary but the things which are not seen are eternal so now notice he says he said we having the same spirit of faith there is one spirit of faith and if you have faith you have the spirit of faith and you have the same spirit of faith that Paul had the same spirit of faith that Jesus had the same spirit of faith the Wigglesworth had the same spirit of faith that anybody that ever had faith in Jesus and faith in the Lord God that anybody that had that faith you got that same faith there is no difference in the faith you got that there's no difference some people don't have better faith or worth worse faith or in that no you can have you know you in your own faith you can be weak in faith or you can be strong in faith but regardless that's up to you because the faith is the same it says it's just like basically if a person is born is we would say normally in other words if they are born normal okay then we all have the same number of muscles but our muscles are different based on how much we use our muscles so even though we all have the same muscles the muscles can differ after we get them based on our use of them so it's exactly the same thing with faith we're all born with the same faith but you can have stronger faith or weaker faith based on how you use faith right but know this if you're born again you've already displayed the greatest faith you'll ever discipline so anything after that now your faith can continue to grow meaning that you use it more often in that knie but essentially because the moment you got born again you went from not belonging to Jesus to belonging to Jesus and that's the biggest change you'll ever make so your faith at that moment was the greatest faith you'll ever have to use everything after that is just a normal function of the faith that you developed and that you used when you got born again you got that now this and this we return with this little bit in the beginning man Romans chapter 8 starting in verse 26 it says likewise and you could go back and read what he says before this that he compares this to but he says likewise the spirit also helps our infirmities and Fermi's can be sickness and disease at times but usually based on the context in this context it has to do with weakness or a not readiness right in other words not being prepared not having not knowing enough to be ready I mean you can take a test and you can know all the answers because you've studied or you could take a test and not be prepared for a test right because you didn't study you didn't have all the information well not having all the information would be considered an infirmity in this case a weakness in some area okay here he says the spirit also helps our weakness our own readiness ok for we know not what we should pray for as we are in other words so now we see that this unread eNOS this weakness that we have is not knowing how to pray for things the way we should pray you hear that so if you don't know how to pray the spirit knows how to pray so if you don't know how to pray for something as you are then you can pray in the spirit and the Spirit will pray through you the perfect will of God you got that no he says but the Spirit is King James says itself we know it's a he okay not an it but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered and he that searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit because he makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God and we know now here's the part I want to tie this with what I just read out of second Corinthians and we know that all things work together for good to them that love God to them who are the called according to his purpose notice everything doesn't work together for the good for everybody everything works together for the good to those who love God and are the called according to his purpose right so that's a sacred cow right there well whatever happens it was meant to happen and then God will it'll it'll work for your good it's all meant to work for your good know what is meant to work your good is the Spirit praying for you and interceding for you because you love God and because you are the called according to his purpose so the things that work together for your good are not car wrecks right not sickness and disease the things that work together for your good are the things that the holy spirit prays for you and even in times through you as you love God and as you are called according to his purpose right so if you want everything to work for your good then two things are going to happen number one love God right be those that are called according to his purpose and when that happens the Holy Spirit will be interceding for you and through you to intercede and pray the perfect will of God and when that happens you'd start seeing a lot of these other things that you used to think happen for your you know for your good they stopped happening like getting sick might because that's not for your good the devil comes to steal kill and destroy he's trying to kill you with that sickness right hit that's not for your good now God can turn your captivity he can heal you and he can turn it around but that one doesn't mean that it was God's will for you to get sick so that all that would happen right and what he's praying is he prays through you he will stop things from happening as you pray in the spirit if you love God and you're the called according this purpose then he then what the holy spirit prays through you and prays for you will actually stop to these other things from happening and cause the right things to happen you get it and your life will start to balance your life will start to come into harmony with God's will no because I'm just going to be blunt and this isn't meant to in any way put condemnation or anything on anybody I'm not not saying that this but you have to realize if you're sick if there is sickness in your body you are not in the will of God do that I'm not saying you're going to hell if you died right now and I say that yeah that but I'm saying your life is not living out the perfect will of God while sickness and disease is in your body the perfect will of God is that you be healthy healed whole have life and life and abundant and have so much you can give away to somebody else and not to knock the sickness and disease out of them amen so please don't get under condemnation if I say you know that that if you're sick you're not in the will of God I'm not saying you did a sin that took you out of the will of God and now you're saying I'm not saying that I'm just saying sickness in your body is not the will of God all right are we all agreed all right so don't don't tweet or Twitter anything out okay whatever it is no don't you know curry said that you know your if you're sick then you know somehow you're going to help I did not say that okay no then he says here in and yeah verse 29 well go back to verse 20 and we know that all things work together for the good to them that love God to them who are the called according to his purpose for whom he did foreknow he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his son so now you know what your goal is now you know exactly where he's headed heading you too right which is what conformity to the image of his son right well you know God's will for my life is that I become an apostle God's will for my life is that I go to school God's will for know God's will for your life is that you be conformed to the image of Christ bottom line that's as well for your life now these other things you can find out if that's God's will not God's will and that kind thing but God's will is definitely you be conformed to the image of Christ above everything else and I will tell you this anything that does not conform me to the image of Christ is not God's will right he said he also did predestinate it'd foreknow he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his son that he might be the firstborn among many brethren here that why because he's supposed to be the firstborn of many brethren so we're all supposed to be just like him I use the term clones we're supposed to be clones of Jesus Christ we are we are created out of his DNA and his DNA is in US and therefore we are clones of him and when we grow up we're gonna look just like him amen now in the sphere right now you look just like it and so the real key is getting worked on the outside to look like what's in the inside and that's called Christian growth right now he says in verse 30 moreover who he did predestinate them he also called me here that followed the follow the trail here whom he did foreknow he predestinated to be conformed to the image of Christ is that right is it now just me is that you okay moreover who so now we know you're you're for known and now you're predestinated right to be conformed the image of Christ no so moreover whom he did predestinate again that would be you them he also called so now you're called is that right okay and whom he called them he also justified so if he didn't call you you didn't get justified in their right so favor well you know I'm a Christian but you know I don't I don't feel called that's this no that doesn't exist Christians are called right now it depends on what you think calling is but you what you're what you're called is you have the same calling Jesus came to twelve which is what being a possible no not necessarily but called to follow him because before he said be an apostle his call was not to be an apostle that was an appointment his call was come follow me you got that so that's the first call that's what your call is come follow him right walk with him be pre-and be conformed to the image of Christ because you can't be confirm the enter Christ if you don't follow him so he said them he also called and whom he called them he also justified and whom he justified them he also glorified your that you've already been glorified that happened quick right right oh by their right call justified for known predestined come on man all right on through right so you're already there that's just walking that out and acting like it's true because it is true so basically what you say if you're not acting like it's true you're acting like it's a lie or we could say you're living a lie if you're not acting like it's true would that be true so if you're not living what he already said if you're not living justified if you're not living pretty dust if you're not being conformed to the image of Christ if you're not being if you're not being for known by God if you're not walking these things then you're actually living a lot so if you're not living who you are who God made you you're actually living a lot you ever seen somebody come to church and then something goes I don't know Church man all of you hypocrites up there you know I saw how they acted out there when they were doing this and I you know I saw him the other day and they didn't act like the hack in church so they're hypocrites and I don't want to I don't want to sit next to a hypocrite okay they were hypocrites are you gonna get this you're a hypocrite when you don't act like what you are is that right when you act like you're something different than you actually are so you have been recreated in the likeness image of Christ so technically any time you're not acting like Jesus you're being a hypocrite that's just fresh manna right there off the throne I had yes okay had no intent didn't know that was coming all right I didn't even see it coming all right does that make sense to you so you're not a hypocrite whenever you act holy you're a hypocrite when you don't act holy you get that because you were made holy so you get that right okay now he says verse 31 what shall we then say to these things what's the answer if God be for us who can be against us well I Got News for You a lie people can be against you a lot of things can be against you even if God's for you but nothing can be successfully against you what because no weapon formed against you shall prosper it does not say there shall be no weapon formed it says no weapon formed will be possible prosper against you in their right so don't be surprised when there's weapons formed against you just stand and know that that weapon can not prosper see what most what most people do is they get to a place where when the weapon is formed they fall apart and then the weapon actually prospers against them because now they're not standing in their position in Christ so they see the weapon they see the mountain and all of a sudden they just buckle and then they go through hell for a period time and then they say well why didn't the scripture work because you let the weapon prosper because your job is to do what stand in faith which does what faith doesn't waver which means what see this is a wave so if faith doesn't waver the same all the time just like we talked about at nine o'clock you get that the same always the same see when you're always the same the devil can't tell when he's having an effect on you saying there's a thing that we used to talk about if both the there just didn't common people you know people hear this it's like a shark you know smelling blood in the water they just go into a feeding frenzy right we used to say you know don't let the guy get in your head right they'll try to psych you out before a fight don't even get in your head or they'll say the whole point you know it's you you try to draw first blood why because if you draw first blood in other words if you jump in there and bust the guys nose he's bleeding there's a psychological effect and then you know you you want to have that effect on your enemy you don't want the enemy to have that effect on you right and so there's this thing that whenever you see the mountain or you see the weapon being formed against you if that the purpose of that mountain in that weapon number one is to destroy B century that's the purpose but the the visual of it is to cause you to buckle to cause you to to quit - back off - it is to bring fear so that you'll quit and because he knows he can't beat you unless you quit see you stand there with your shield of faith he can't beat you but the minute you turn to run you have no armor on your back technically that God's got your back if you trust you get this so the purpose of the mountain the purpose of the weapon is to get you to drop your shield of faith and start looking go oh my god look at that mountain no keep your shield up if you keep your shield up guess what you'll never even see the mountain come on cuz you can't see through your shield on the other side amen then you just keep on walking to the same what and when you get to the mountain guess what it's gone and then people say how did you beat that mountain you say what mountain well I just kept on walking yeah cuz that's what faith is it's always the same amen all right now let's keep going watch s he says what shall we what shall we then say to these things of God before us who can successfully be against us nobody right verse 32 he that spared not his own son here I that starts he that spared not his own son in other words he loved you so much that he didn't even hold back his own son so if he spared not his own son but delivered him up for us all how shall he not with him also freely give us all things do you hear that now listen here's here's the here here's what's got to be done it's just as simple you had people that possibly you know of that walk in faith they're an inspiration their faith exploits encourage you whatever it is and you you know and you want to do that or maybe not exactly the same things but you want that kind of faith and you want to walk in faith like that and you want to live at that level and you keep looking at them and said okay this was there but you have to realize to do that they did something no when it comes down to us because God loves everybody right he in the sense that he sent Jesus to die for all for all for us all as the scripture says so he's not partial he has no he's not a respecter of persons he is a respecter of faith right so but he's not a respecter of persons in other words what that means is anybody can do anything with faith what because to him that believes all things apart you know they didn't just say oh all things are possible to everybody it doesn't say that it's this Tim that believes so if you don't believe that all things aren't possible to you you give that and yet you got people quoting it all the time all things are possible right do you believe well but then not to you because it's only possible to those who believe you got that I know I mean you know this is I'm just just telling the truth so you've got this that you're gonna the the difference is that somebody did something that let them believe or cause him to believe or something that gave them faith or they did something in faith that if you're not experiencing what you want to experience that they experienced it's because you haven't done what they did and they're right so there has to be something that we do now listen I'm not talking about you know God okay there's a lot of thing boy there's something you know he say this all the time and it's amazing how slips in because God loves and it's what is we don't differentiate because God loves equally right in the sense that he gave Jesus for everybody so everybody can be saved okay so whatever Jesus did in the atonement anybody can receive every bit of that it doesn't matter what so everything in the atonement anybody can have right that means you know healing salvation deliverance whatever is in the in the atonement anybody can get now when we say that there's and then we take that further and we say and there's nothing you can do you know to make God love you more okay probably not because he's God he's always gone you always loves however there are things you can do that brings him pleasure or not brings him pleasure right because without faith it's impossible to please him do you get that so without faith he's not pleased so if you're gonna please him you're gonna walk in faith in there right and then we we say things like well you know and there's nothing I can do you know - well I don't say this but I've heard it said there's nothing we can do to cause God to use us or not that's that's garbage there are things you do that will allow God to use you now he wants to use everybody but there are people that won't let him use them because they don't do what's necessary to be usable right and then but yet we try to tie that with even salvation or we try to tie it in somewhere where we think because he said men you know there's a lot of scriptures that people forget about because we know that without faith it's impossible to please God but it also says them and we'll say well now you know we don't we don't fast to get this and we don't do this to get that and we don't do this to get that or try to get God together no the Bible is clear God is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him he rewards they see we talk about like everything is just well beyond say what we have is in the church a socialist mentality where everything is equal for everybody and that's not true the potential is true right but the idea that anybody can do anything at any time is not true in the sense that that would be true if everybody had the same walking consistently in the same level of faith that would be true but faith is the determining factor right so if there's a difference in faith and there's a difference in not your potential but your actual reality of what you're living so this idea that well you know well if people talk about rewards and they think in the future there's going to be these rewards and there will be rewards in the future but what we have to realize is that these rewards it's we you can do things that will cause God to reward you amen you get or you got a question oh yeah yes that's a good point did you hear what he said did you okay I'll try to recap yeah he said what if you've done it before but then you were he said incarcerated for a long period of time and basically is talking about is getting what we generally call institutionalized you start to live at a certain level and you don't live where you used to live in that sense now I will tell you the people are people are incarcerated in a lot of different ways first off in you can be institutionalized by the church that cousin Hammond but any person can rise if okay faith can can waver in that sense in other words you could be strong in faith you can be weak in faith the apostles were out healing the sick in Matthew 17 or Matthew 9 10 and then Matthew 17 they couldn't even get a boy healed so their faith at one point was functional but in Matthew 17 their faith wasn't functioning so it stops so your your faith is not always on an automatic constant you know incline uphill it's not it's not always growing you have to constantly keep it fresh keep it stretched keep moving forward so it's it's like breathing you do it every day but honestly I gave you the secret during the conference the secret of faith is the same secret to bodybuilding progressive overload every day doing more than you did yesterday if you want more faith tomorrow than you have today tomorrow you're going to do more faith things you're going to have a progressive overload you're going to stretch yourself now I will I will agree 100% it's easy to get into a place where with people around you as you were saying incarcerated you're around people is the same thing you can be incarcerated in a church well that's a sermon title anyway I preached on that next week all right but you can be incarcerated by heaven because that's what happens is strongholds are built up in your mind and you're incarcerated in the struggle so these strong those come about usually but people around you because if faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God well guess what doubt and unbelief comes by hearing and hearing by the word of man right which is ultimately the word of Satan so if you constantly hear the word of satan you're hearing doubt and unbelief then that's the level that your faith will fall to so you have to constantly hearing the Word of God in a sense that you're also living it out not just hearing it man you can there I know so many people that can quote every scripture in the Bible just about and there is back saluted as they can be so no in Scripture and even here in Scripture now faith comes when you hear it but you've got to walk in it just because it comes you know you yeah I could come to your front door with a million dollar check like this whether you used to do the Publishers Clearing House thing yeah we can come to the front door with a big check and you know it can come but if you don't answer the door and receive it just to be broke right so faith can come but you actually have to walk in it you have to receive it you have to walk in it so you have to stir yourself up to walk in faith and every day and you have to go back there's a lot of things we've seen you know what I would call fluctuations of faith in myself to where we see things happen and then if we go to this thing where you're not seeing things happen like you did before or when that happens I don't say okay God you know you must not want me to do this anymore you must not want this no what it is is I got distracted or I got my eyes on other things and was not focused and was not pushing forward in things like I should be doing so really when I noticed that then I have to go okay go back do this and do this what and usually the first thing that you'll notice is you stop spending as much time in the word that choose the first thing and so as soon as I recognize in it the first thing to let's go back okay no matter how much time to spend the word I'd go back in and I just spend more time on the work what because it's not just spending time of the word to spend time in the word every every decision you make is a decision for something and against something so when I decide to spend more time in the word what I'm also doing at the same time as I'm deciding to spend less time doing this or watching this or doing it so you're cutting things out to do this now if you do that if you're diligently seeking him then he is a rewarder and what he rewards you with is what you were diligently seeking that's what in which is it now notice but notice what your diligently seeking God is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him because you can diligently seek healing but that would be the wrong pursuit you got that so you got to seek Him now in this I want to get I'm gonna get back over here and watch this because the point the really point I want to make for you this we drama with this and I've talked a little bit I'm gonna give you the scriptures behind it real quick and then we maybe take some questions here again to in just a minute kind of because you know questions were a lot of people grow so we want to we want to hit some things there right now in what we're talking about is God is for you not against you he's your help not your problem so I'm gonna read some scripture and then we also want to get to the communion because we want to fellowship with you in communion today Jeremiah chapter 29 verse 11 everybody knows this you know it's on pillows it's on blankets and some t-shirts I mean it's all over the place you know and the amazing thing is people still don't believe it Jeremiah 29:11 for I know the thoughts that I think toward you says the Lord thoughts of peace and not of evil to give you an expected end oh brother card that was to Jeremiah that's not to you no no no all Scripture is given by inspiration of God all scripture is good for correction for rebuke for instruction in righteousness and there right now and you say well but he didn't say that to you he said it to Jeremiah yes but the essence is it because God is always the same he's not respecter of persons then his attitude toward Jeremiah is the same attitude he has toward me so if he said that to Jeremiah if I fit in Jeremiah's situation then it applies to me right yeah it's just like Philippians everybody wants to quote Philippians you know a lot of good verses in Philippians you know but my God shall supply all your needs according to the riches and glory by Christ Jesus everybody else to quote that but that doesn't now listen carefully that applies to you if you fit the same category of the Philippians which did what gave sacrificially help Paul advance the gospel did so that would be true because of what they were doing they fit he didn't write that to everybody he worked to the Philippians and he said and you've done this you've you've actually done this you have given sacrificially above and beyond what everybody else has done you've done that to help me and in turn 'yes and guess what because you've done that and you've helped me reach the world with the gospel my God will supply all your needs but see now anybody can claim that and it's for anybody that fits the category say it's just like people think well you know Jesus will save anybody yeah anybody that will seek him with their whole heart you got that there anybody that will repent turn to him because that's what Paul said he was called to do was called to Cosman to repent show repentance toward God and faith toward Jesus so that's and he said his job was to call all men to obedience to the faith so to be saved there has to be an obedience to the faith so there's a lot of conditions because it well O God loves you unconditionally and salvation is unconditional half of that is true God loves you unconditionally the salvation has a cost jesus said count the cost count the price any right so see we have these ideas that are floated around and most of it is floated around by an idea that the church is supposed to be a debauch a democracy somehow it's not it's a theocracy which means God is in charge and why and if you know what if God today decided all right switch everything guess what everything is switched why because he's God amen no he can't change his nature because he says I don't change but haven't you known to change from the Old Testament New Testaments pretty big change right but God didn't change what does that mean that means that God's Will was always the same both through the Old Testament and New Testament that's why I tell people in the Old Testament God had to treat men as he would have to treat fallen men in the New Testament God gets to treat men the way he wants to but and it's the way he always wanted to but he couldn't because man was fallen you get that no he says no watch us for I know the thoughts that I think toward you say that the Lord thoughts of peace and not of evil to give you an expected end then show you call upon me and you shall go and pray unto me and I will hearken unto you and you shall seek me and find me when you shall search for me with all your heart and I will be found of you saith the Lord and I will turn away your captivity and I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places whether I've driven you saith the Lord and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive when when you seek him with your whole heart so see there was a there was a condition to this but God's nature was I don't have thoughts of evil towards you I have thoughts of good I haven't expected in well guess what is expected into view is to be conformed to the image of Christ that's is expected in for you and now I'm gonna go through these real quick I want to show you God is for you he's not against you he's your help he's not your problem so I'm just gonna read something so just listen to what what's being said and understand this is God's heart it's his his will for you and I react here it's when these during the conference Genesis 122 this is when God first started dealing with mankind God blessed them saying be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters of the sea and that foul month one year notice be fruitful and multiply Genesis 1:28 God blessed them and said unto them be fruitful and multiply replenish the earth and subdue it and have dominion and then this is so this is showing God's will why because this was his will for mankind Genesis 817 this is when God started over with Noah he said bring forth with the every living thing that is with the awe of all flesh both the foul and of cattle of every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth that they may breed abundantly in the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon the earth Genesis 9:1 God blessed Noah and his sons and said unto them be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth so over and over and over and over he says be fruitful multiply that's God's will for you to be fruitful and multiply means that you have to have as we would say healthy stock that's how you have to be fruitful and multiply you can't be fruitful and multiply if there is a genetic malfunction in what you're trying to multiply right because you will be creating literally a mutant that's what people have done with Jesus they've created a mutant Jesus what because they messed with this DNA they took away healing you take away healing you don't have Jesus the Lord of you know king of kings and Lord of lords what you have is a new age Jesus that everybody loves because he ain't a problem anymore the pause' as long as you preach a gospel there's gonna be an offense to the cross but if we can take away the offense we can get a bigger crowd so let's take away the offense and and then and we can just and all of a sudden now are you doing the preaching New Age which doesn't work it's a lie from the beginning it's not even New Age it's old age it's the way things are it's been around a long time right but it's wrong now Genesis 35 111 God said unto him I am God Almighty be fruitful and multiply Genesis 41 52 and the name of the second called he from and from God hath for God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction here that God will cause you to be fruitful in the land of your affliction in the middle of problems God will bless you we were talking about some he sings the other day there's a guy that I know personally that had a farm and in the middle of the farm okay on both sides there was a drought it was bad nobody could grow anything and he went out there every day and he went ahead and so does the other people did too but then he would go out there every day and he would quote the scriptures mainly Psalm 91 was the first one but he quoted the scriptures about being fruitful and multiplying and he went out there and commanded and that year no other farmer around him enough I think this is like almost countywide him maybe not quite seem like he said it was County what nobody else produced what he produced and he produced over 12 times what he normally produced and obviously he made a lot of money amen you see that what because he went out there and he believes the word and he was fruitful and he multiplied and he was right in the middle of a heart of a drought and right in the middle were no and it wasn't just you know things that it was right in the middle of everybody else that couldn't produce show in the hand of God and it was right there in the land of his affliction okay now I want to yeah I get one more Psalm 62 8 trust in him at all times you people pour out your heart before him God is a refuge for us and at the end of that it says Selah now we're to think about this meditate on this right now I'm going to just read this straight through to you I'm trying not to come in as much as akin much as I can help myself or only try to read through it just to Psalm 34 starting in verse 1 I will bless the Lord at all times his praise shall continually be in my mouth my soul shall make her boast in the Lord the humble shall hear thereof and be glad o magnify the Lord with me and let us exalt his name together I sought the Lord and he heard me and delivered me from all my fears they looked unto him and were lightened and their faces were not ashamed this poor man cried and the Lord heard him and saved him out of all his troubles the angel of the lord encamps around about them that fear him and delivers them o taste and see that the Lord is good blessed is the man that trusteth in him Oh fear the Lord you his Saints for there is no want no lack to them that fear him the Young Lions do lack and suffer hunger but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good things should not lack any good thing come ye children hearken unto me I will teach you the fear of the Lord what man is he that desires life and loves many days that he may see good keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking guile depart from evil and do good seek peace and pursue it the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous and his ears are open unto their cry the face of the Lord is against them that do evil to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth the righteous cry and the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles the Lord is not unto them that are of a broken heart and save it such as be of a contrite spirit many are the afflictions of the righteous but the Lord delivers him out of them all he keeps all his bones not one of them is broken evil shall slay the wicked evil shall slay the wicked evil not God evil what is that sowing and reaping evil shall shall slay the wicked and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate now I could preach on this earth for just a second right I think it will thank you there are people believe it or not they don't like me like I said last night I don't understand it but seriously there are people that hate me I mean and it's where it's it's to me again I being honor I don't understand I don't understand the level of hate that some people have for me for this ministry and it's it's a it's a it's like yeah I don't get it because all we're trying to do is help people that's all I'm trying to do right that many people come along they want different things they want something they want to be somebody or they want something and they don't get it and then they get mad and then they go off now here's the thing so far to my knowledge and you know I'm not saying this across maybe it is I don't know I haven't I haven't followed up ok I haven't called them to check on them I'll be honest a but I hear things and to my knowledge the people that have come against us I mean I'm talking about vicious you know things that have said things about that and if you look at their lives it is this is exactly true their lives are desolate they're hurt they're broken they're they're broke so I'm begging for money what and and and it's amazing because they never were able to are never are able to like get ahead or you know just get on an even footing and and it's amazing because I mean the people that have become good I've prayed for them I bless them and know whatever you know release them and forgave and I mean all that kind of stuff what because the Bible tells me to them because I don't want to see somebody hurt no matter what but at the same time his word is true you don't have to fight your own battles if you let him fight if you let things go if all you have listened I've never claimed to be perfect don't claim to be perfect you know other than what Jesus has perfected that which concerns me in there and you know inside in the spirit okay but do I make mistakes sure you know is he still working on personality quirks that I got sure right he's still working all this stuff but the one thing I can say is this this I know my heart is right my heart I love God and I love people and and and everything I'm doing and if I mess up and I and I recognize and I see that I did then I'm quick to repent in that right and I tell God that I'm sorry no I know I don't every night before go to bed go through some condoms later Oh God if I missed you somewhere please tell me show me oh god okay I confess that I don't live that way I expect that if I mess up I expect the Holy Spirit to convict me to show me to tell me and if he didn't bring it up I ain't stupid enough to bring it up okay if it doesn't bother him enough to bring it up I ain't gonna mention it right and I just wrote thank you Jesus right oh there we go all right just okay so that's just but my life is blessed I live in peace in in me I'm in peace even though sometimes there's storms all around me I'm not saying I don't sometimes get rattled of course I do especially when there when the storms are you know as we used to say close to home and of course it's gonna rattle you but I'll quickly try to get back on my even footing on solid footing because I know God is for me and so you know I'll tell you one time you know you may not like me but don't fight against me because gods for me why that's just the way it is you know now I don't pray any of those you know Dirty Harry prayers you know you know you know you know Dirty Harry go ahead Punk make my day you know that guy would I don't I don't pray though you know David prayed those kind of prayers Lord crush them break their teeth and like break their teeth more he's getting specific drive them down to the pit I mean it's it's just I mean some Dirty Harry prayers a bow you know you know you can imagine people don't make David mad you know because not only does he know how to pray God knows out of here you know like so when but I don't get it because I've seen this I'm like it's just so much easier we've drove into the day after that you know I don't know I mean I believe I got an interesting life okay I believe I do I've lived an interesting life I'm living an interesting life to me it's interesting and I'm enjoying it and it's great and I you know I thank God for it but I don't understand to other people while my life is still interesting they want to waste all their time talking about me you know and especially the negative side you know way I don't like this don't like that okay well then go live the life you like don't worry about my life you don't like don't live your life and like your life you know I'm just be busy out there like in your life right and you know leave me alone I'll leave you alone just you know go and just go live your life love god help people you don't love people got no problems with that we don't have to work together for us supposed to be in the same Kingdom it's a big Kingdom we can live on opposite sides you know of course we get to heaven you're probably gonna have to live right next door to me I don't know does this make sense listen life is you know even on this earth the Bible talks we know we're just a vapor and life is a flavor all that kind of life I don't care if you live 120 or 150 or you're Methuselah you know 969 come on it's still too short to waste looking and focusing on another people's lives he's a you know get to get the beam out of your own eye before you try to get the splinter out of somebody else's and everybody's going around and see no splinter inspectors and what Korean Splinter you got my kind of you got you know and it doesn't matter because you can't see it anyway because you got the beam in your eye but at some point let's just you know just do what you're supposed to do and if we're all in if we're doing the same thing then we can walk together if we're not doing the same thing then all right you work in your part of the kingdom I'll work in my part of the kingdom great this you know with us let's love God and help people amen get past all this petty stuff that doesn't matter so he says here evil shall slay the wicked and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate the Lord redeems the soul of his servants and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate hear that if you trust in God you won't be desolate if you're being desolate you need to check yourself maybe your hating the righteous right well that didn't apply to me cuz I'm a Christian so anyway you're not a Christian if you hate the righteous because he said if you hate your brother you walk in darkness and the light didn't in you and you're naughty you don't even know God is that right I mean Carl just quoting scripture but see we have this idea okay I'm a Christian I say I'm a Christian I'm a Christian so nothing else applies to me I can do anything cuz there's grace and nothing else a button so that's not true that's not true grace teaches us how to live righteously grace does not give you the right to live and righteously and then claim it in the name of Jesus right grace gives us the ability to have faith towards God so that we can actually walk with God know him and be changed so that's what all this comes down to it's not just a profession or making a statement you know well I'm a Christian so nothing else matters nothing else counts all those other scriptures none of that applies to me anymore that is not true all of this has to fit since when people talk about well we're not under the law that's right you know and honestly Gentiles never were right but it's amazing yet Gentiles want to go back under the law that was never intended for them and start becoming legalistic and thinking that they're pleasing God by how legalistic they are and then we look at this some people say well but you know but here's the thing the law is out there and in people say oh no the law is gone nothing was not gone it's gone to those who are in Christ it's still after an eye on tooth for tooth outside of Christ what because it's grace that makes it where we don't have eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth you understand that so you're either under law or you're in and every man has law in himself and knows what is right and what is wrong right and that has to be trained out of you which can that can happen but it's still that's what nations still have the right to enforce law see law is based on eye for an eye tooth for tooth that's what it that's the whole basis of it but and if you're outside of Christ you're still under law so there still being just based on how they act in that sense but we that are in Christ now we're not under the law and it's foolish to try to put yourself back under the law why because now you've got to live by every detail every jot until I got to do everything just right oh no I mean that's that's the way it would be so but in Christ see this one in Christ is so much better and so much more freeing because you're not and and you're not always wondering oh did I miss step gonna make them no but yet that's exactly how I see Christians living what did I do what what is this on me what what did i do did I get over here and then and God did this because I got off off the mark and that no evil right evil tries to slay the wicked if you got off the mark it's not God trying to slay you God's trying to get you on the mark because that's where it's safe God doesn't say if you step off the line I'm gonna crush you no he says stay in here where it's safe see we quotes is in Psalm 91 you know the righteous rule you know the name of the Lord is a strong tower the righteous run into it and are safe why cuz in the name in him in where he is in the name is where it's safe right outside the name not safe right in the name strong tower safe winds come storms blow rains on stuff guess what your house will be strong what because you're standing on the words of Jesus you're building your life on the words of Jesus and your house will stand and where is your house in the name of Jesus it's in him it's in Christ because your life is hid in Christ what does that mean that means the devil came and find you to put this stuff on you that's why God wants you to stay hidden but mostly what I'll stay hidden they have a strong tower that they run to and then they run out of and the Bible doesn't say they're right this the name of the Lord is a strong tower the righteous run in and out he doesn't say that he says they run into didn't say ever come out so get in and stay in you know I've had people ask me for you know oh you believe in one saved always saved I said I don't want out you know what do you think about once saved always saved I don't think about it I got in I don't want out [Music] it's just that simple now could I get out maybe I don't think God would keep me if I absolutely didn't want to be in you know cuz that wouldn't be I mean come on that would be the type of marriage that you know one of you wants out and the other one doesn't know it's not a happy marriage right if somebody's always one now you gotta let him go at some point in that right so I mean come on guys not gonna take you to heaven if you don't want to go right so you have to realize that it with me it's like myself I can't Oh John just I don't want out you know and and sometimes you know you can bump against the wall in the middle you know leaned against the door I don't want fallen open you know something cuz then you fall out that had to go over the analogy okay this yeah so finally we're going to finish right here where we at I need to finish right here I want to read through these there's only 12 verses well you know I from that I'm serious no Isaiah 53 Isaiah for you only to our verses right who hath believed our report and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed it's revealed to whoever believes there's report that's what it is for he show growth before him as a tender plant and as a root out of dry ground he have no form nor comeliness and when we shall see him there's no beauty that we should desire him now that's talking about Jesus so right there I ought to give you an idea then whatever picture you how you pictured Jesus that ain't how he looked when he was here in the flesh he has this picture of a certain look mmm said right there there was nothing about him that would draw us to him nothing about his physical person anything on that they make us desire him or anything else so he did not look the way you think right because we always pictures it always beautiful in the hair and the tears and so I was it well know nothing about him that would draw you to him what because God chooses the foolish to confound the wise he can he takes the weak and makes it strong everything so what have you pictured him now how he is nowadays his eyes burn bright and there right and he has a as it says a girdle of gold around so you know do you got a problem with jewelry he got a whole girdle of gold alright sorry no but just trying to make it think a little bit right he says that he will come off as the root of dry ground he has no form nor comeliness and when we shall see him there's no beauty that we should desire him he is despised and rejected of men a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief and we hid as it were our faces from him he was despised and we esteemed him not surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows now this is translated in the New Testament as sickness and disease yet we did esteem him stricken smitten of God and afflicted but he and here's the part of one to get he was wounded for our transgressions he was bruised for our iniquities the chastisement of our peace was upon him and with His stripes we are healed we hear that so what he did with his stripes had an effect on us just as his wounds had an effect on our transgressions if his wounds did not have an effect on your transgressions or let me say it this way if his stripes did not have an effect on your sickness then his wounds did not have an effect on your transgressions hence you are still in sin and doomed to hell so you have to realize well he gonna need all that important and you know it's just a pity none of them it's all important who are you to try to divide who are you to say this is important that in he did it all if he did it it was important if he didn't have to do it he wouldn't have done it if he had to do it it's important real simple aim there right this is not a matter well you know is in the overall scheme of things salvation is more important I'm glad you said that because the word salvation means healing it means deliverance it means freedom so yeah I agree with you hundred percent and the overall scheme of things salvation is everything and to be totally saved you're healed delivered set free blessed prosperous multiplying amen okay he says verse six all we like sheep have gone astray we have turned every one to his own way and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all is that there enough - Q - Sam he was oppressed and he was afflicted yet he opened not his mouth he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter and as a sheep before her Shearer's is dumb so he opens not his mouth he was taken from prison and from judgment and who shall declare his generation for he was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of my people was he stricken he made his grave with the wicked and with the rich in his death because he had done no violence neither was any deceit in his mouth no notice here where it says in verse eight he was taken from prison from judgment and who shall declare his generation we just have a song in the charismatic church back in the day I talked about who shall declare his generation and we would sing that and actually it was a David Engel song if you remember David Engels I still believe in my still listen to his stuff I still put it on it's just good scripture just scripture music in there and you know the music may be a little dated a little bit and that kind of thing but man you can't get past the the words in it and so he would but he would say you know who shall declare his generation and we would play that at church and then every time they would then they would stop and put a microphone in front of you have a testify to declare his generation because there were no witnesses for Jesus said testified it on his behalf so now we are his witnesses and now we are testifying on his behalf of what he has done in our life and so we did that and it was it was a great time together he and again David Engels some great songs he's saying he didn't write mark 11:22 23 and 24 but he did sing a song about it right that really helped us memorize all these things so they were all scripture songs but so here he says no I just yeah yet verse 10 yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him he have put him to grief when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin he shall see his seed he shall prolong his days and the the Lord shall prosper in his hand now if you read that that's also a definition or a description of isaiah 55:11 in 12 and going through there where it says that his word that goes forth out of his mouth should not return to involve allure prosper in the thing that he sent it okay and now he says in verse 11 he shall see of the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied by his knowledge or the knowledge of him shall my righteous servant justify many for he shall bear their iniquities he for us therefore will I divide him a portion with the Great and he sure divide the spoil with her strong and we've talked about this a little bit and I don't have time today but if you haven't heard that you're to go back and listen to what we what we preached about it it'll set you free because he has poured out his soul unto death and he was numbered among the transgressors and he bare the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors now we're going to keep reading for this minute chapter 54 verse 1 sing sing o barren thou that didst not bear break forth into singing and cry aloud thou that didst not travail with child for more are the children of the desolate and the children of the married wife what because of the Lord sayeth the Lord enlarge the place of your tent and let them stretch forth the curtains of your habitations spare not lengthen the cords and strengthen thy stakes for thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles and make the desolate cities to be inhabited fear not for thou shalt not be ashamed neither be thou confounded for thou shalt not be put to shame for thou shalt now watch it for thou shalt forget the shame of your youth and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood anymore for your maker is your husband the Lord of hosts the Lord of armies is his name and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel that God of the whole earth shall he be called for the Lord has called thee as a woman Forsaken and grieved in spirit that's how he found you and a wife of youth when you were read used saith the Lord for a small moment I have forsaken you but with great mercies will I gather you in a little wrath I hid my face from you for a moment but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee saith the LORD thy Redeemer and notice this is referring to Jesus what he did what he accomplished in us this is for us well this is why I wanted to get across you today this is this is a if you can if you were here during the nine o'clock also this has been the theme the whole day there wasn't something I was trying to bring out I will tell you the truth when I walked in that door this morning I had no idea what God wanted me to say no idea I sat down I prayed I said what do you want me to bring the people the nine o'clock and this came out and then well because and I don't know if who's here what's going on but I'm going to tell you this whatever you were like he said there the the shame of your youth will be forgotten wherever you get no condemnation to you your shame is gone why because there's nothing between you if there was something between you there would be shame there be condemnation there be guilt I'm telling you if you are in Christ if you have come to him and made him the Lord of your life not on the same being perfect and never making a mistake there are there is a a clause in our contract that that takes care of mistakes you give that okay okay let me just let me do it the Bible says be perfect perfect don't make mistakes then he says but if you make a mistake confess it and he'll cleanse you of unrighteousness and they're right do you realize that that Clause is in your contract so if you make a mistake and you confess it and you're made righteous you're still considered perfect because you're still doing the contract do you get that and as soon as you confess it guess what is gone he can't remember no more he can bring it up no more what because now you're still in the contract you're still doing the agreement you give that so you're technically not ever considered out of the agreement out of the agreement of the contract that he made with is that makes sense to you so you can live free there is nothing between you and God Matt fat we're taking communion that's what this is about this is his body broken for you this is his blood shed for you what so there can be nothing between you and him he said you cannot be my disciple unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood and he said this is my blood that was poured out for the redemption for the remission of sins for many so this is for you this is him saying look I'm giving you everything we are one there is nothing between us anymore there's no there's no bound you know there's no barriers between us you can walk in me and I'll walk in you and you can talk to me and I'll talk in you and we'll go and we'll bring forth truth and we'll speak truth them and I'll work in you and I'll pour out my spirit through you that's what he said he didn't listen he did not say well what he said in on the day of Pentecost and and through Joel he said I will pour out of my spirit on all flesh I will pour out of my spirit on all flesh that happened beginning on the day of Pentecost but he's not pouring out his spirit what now understand what I'm saying now that you're in Christ once you're in Christ he's not pouring out his of his spirit on you he's pouring out of you what because out of your belly shall flow rivers of living water this he spoke of the spirit which was which should be given to those who believed on him but had not yet been given because he had not yet been glorified amen so he was talking about a future time and in that future time is this time so now he has poured out his spirit we have drunk in his spirit now with the spirit pours out of us he can't pour out of us he wouldn't allow it to pour up he wouldn't even allow it to be in us if we could not handle it if we couldn't carry it if he couldn't be a part of us we have to carry this to carry it he has to cleanse us he has to make us whole he has to make us new old things are passed away heating listen he didn't put new wine in an old wineskin you've got new one in a new wineskin a new creation a creation that never existed before you're new before him as I said during the conference you're in God's witness protection plan you got a new name a new job a new career a new life he is completely I don't care what you were before you don't have to be that way anymore now the problem is there's a lot of people they'd like to play the lottery in some of them very few but some of them win big money sometimes hundreds of millions of dollars and you know usually within five years they are in more debt than they had when they were broke before they won the lottery what because their mentality and their actions didn't change and they had the same mentality and they spent the money the same way they spent money before they want it and because of that they didn't change so if you get into this new creation and yet you don't change and guess what you're going to have the same problems but now that you're in this new creation you can actually change and be the person God created you to be and when you do that however you were before you know to make a list I was sick I was broke I was beaten down I was guilty I was condemned I was in shame now push that over there because that's on the other side of John 10:10 but over here I'm blessed I'm prosperous I'm healthy I'm strong I can give it away I don't always have to be taking it amen that's what this did when he poured out his blood on that cross whenever he gave his body to be ripped apart at the whipping post that's what this was that's what this represents today and we can partake of it and it can be a ritual or it can be a remembrance to remember to put you to stir up your your minds and a holy remembrance of what is yours because if he gave him if he gave you Jesus then what in the world would he leave out and not give you and this represents Jesus and him pouring out his life to us and if he gives us himself what is he not going to give you I'm just not sure God wants me well this this brand broken representing his body proves God wants you well because he bore those stripes and by his drive you were healed well well you know I just can't live above sin no no no this proves you can what because he did and then that same spirit that was in him that helped him live above it he put in you to help you live above it not to live in it and still think well you know this is just a just didn't come to save you in your sin he came to save you from your sin so that you don't have to live the same kind of life amen he came to deliver you from your sinful life and maybe even some from some years sinful friends and relatives or anybody else that is trying to keep you from living the life he died to give you amen God is for you he has so much like we have any scratch of surface and whenever you know the love he has for you fear is gone fear of lack fear of death fear of sickness fear of failure all those things they're gone what because if he loves you come on if God be for you who what can successfully stand against you and ain't no person ain't no devil in hell big enough to successfully stand against you amen so the real key is just aside does that mean me is God for me well did he let you in are you born again yep then he's for you if he wasn't he wouldn't let you in in there right so if you're in he loves you and that proves it so now when we I'm not gonna read all of you know 1st Corinthians 11 and go through the whole thing you know cuz we could do that but I pretty much just summed all that up so we're going to participate in communion and as we do let it be a remembrance that on that night the night before he was crucified that he did all of this so that we could experience everything he died to give us amen as we say he paid it all so we can do it all he paid it all so he can have it all amen there's nothing he died for that he did not include in the atonement and therefore it's yours why because all the promises are in him yes and in him so--but amen all right let's all stand up say this with me father your word is true I believe your word be it unto me according to your word is that participate in communion I receive the blessings of Jesus's Redemption and I thank you and I recognize and I remember his sacrifice and I receive of that sacrifice what he did he did for me and I receive it healing blessing prosperity advancement all for me I believe it and I receive it and I give you great things from the bottom of our heart for what you did and I receive it and I won't let any of it go unruhe sieved i will walk in this truth in Jesus name so--but if I have a staff and my staff can come and help direct how we're gonna do this do we we have them ready okay so we can move forward now father I thank you in Jesus name for the people that are here I thank you Father that is we participate in communion we do it as one body regardless of wherever one is from we are one body in Christ so we welcome you we participate together and father we thank you even now it is every person who participates they receive the fullness of all that this represents health healing wholeness blessing profit every bit of it in Jesus name we also speak and say this represents freedom from habits addictions mindsets that are not godly we thank you Father and I thank you Father that this juice that represents your the blood of your son that that breaks apart destroys grinds to dust shame condemnation guilt and we can walk free free and bold knowing the love that you have for us knowing that you have predestined us to be conformed to the image of yourself and we welcome that conformity in Jesus name Amen amen amen all right I worship and have you got it laid out everybody ready all right you want to direct them or whatever them okay go right in all right father we thank you again we can never thank you enough for the sacrifice of your son and all that he has provided father we just want to completely embody everything that he died to give us the Father I thank you and right now in the name of Jesus Father we thank you the bread and juice representing the body and blood of your son we thank you for these what they represent but not just the representation but actually the fullness of all that they are so Father as we are about to partake of the bread that was broken by those stripes of Jesus by which we are healed Father let it become a living vital revelation in the heart of every person that he loved them so much that he was willing to give his body to be ripped apart just so we could be healed sickness and disease every aspect of harm to our physical bodies to our emotions to every part of a spirit soul and body father let there be absolute total healing for every person participating now so even now we recognize this is his body that was broken for us and that by His stripes we are healed partake the Scriptures tell us that after Jesus broke bread and blessed it and they ate that they took the cup he said this cup is my blood poured out for the remission of sins for many and he told him to drink all of it to recognize that this totally destroys any barrier of sin any barriers of shame and guilt and condemnation of fear that this blood sets all men free totally free spirit soul and body and we partake of this recognizing our freedom that we've been translated from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of his dear son and then now we're in the kingdom of light father we thank you for it in Jesus name partake father I thank you that as we go from this place that this won't be just another service but these these things that we've discussed today by the unction of your spirit these things that can be taken as rituals that they won't be but they will be a living reality daily in our lives healed and whole one with God in union with God through Christ redeemed from sin justified perfected made holy recreated in the likeness and image of Christ himself so that as he is so are we in this world in Jesus name Amen amen amen well will dismiss you before I do I do want to mention one thing I meant to mention it last night I didn't I've actually gotten a new phone and it's not my other phone touching myself I still have my other phone she has the same phone number that that number will remain the same but in the process of getting a new phone I've been trying to switch everything over to the new phone and I am by no means a techie by any stretch and so it has I've had some glitches in it so whenever I finally was finishing some things up on it all of a sudden things started coming through and I realized through the text and some of the emails and things that some of you had even contacted me this week and I hadn't responded I apologized for that and and it wasn't on either phone that's the thing and but now it's coming on the new phone and so it's dinging constantly and it's getting caught up so it'll take me a little bit to get caught up because just I just checked it just a bit ago and it said that I had in the last well between the between the time that I started at nine o'clock this morning and then I went back right at ten o'clock I had 325 new texts so that's not even including the emails that have come in that I haven't seen yet so please bear with me if I I'm not ignoring you if you wrote me this week or text me this week I'm not ignoring I did not get them I will be going through them and answering what I need to I know some of them were time specific I saw one of those this morning so I feel really bad about it but there's nothing I could do about at that point but we will get caught up on this very quickly so please again if you did text me and you don't hear from me in a few days text me again yeah you know if it's not time-sensitive better than that I do apologize so please bear with me as I switch phones and get things up they did so other than that you are dismissed god bless you and we look forward to seeing you again soon amen there's anything we can do for you let us know amen [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]

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Published: Mon Oct 28 2019