God Works In You To Will And Do // Pastor Jay Eberly // September 11, 2019

Philippians 2:12 and 13 wherefore my beloved he's talking to the body of Christ as you have always obeyed not in my presence only but now much more in my absence work out your own salvation with fear and trembling now for a number for a while I thought Paul was talking about as you have obeyed me but you were gonna look at the context in a minute an we're gonna find out doesn't waste talking not what he's talking about it all he's not talking about obey and Paul was talking about obeying the Lord so as obeyed the Lord not just in my presence but in my absence now now that I'm absent see he said work out your own salvation with fear and trembling for it is God which worketh in you in you and me this is something we know about God now something that God's working in you and I to will and to do of his good pleasure oh how much time you got tonight god that works in you and I to will and to do of his good pleasure will and to do of his good police ed he said work out your own salvation how many of you know we don't work for our salvation but that's not what he said no he didn't say work for you say he said work it out because he said God's working in you both the will and to do of his good pleasure but he said it's you that's gonna have to work it out hallelujah I said hallelujah now I've been chewing on that for a while and it's gonna come out tonight I said it's gonna come out tonight praise the Lord God's the author of our salvation but were the actors of it God is is authoring things in us and listen salvation is not something that just happened one time when you confess Jesus as Lord you got saved that day but there is a there is a working out of that which this work was worked in you and continues to be worked in you all through your life you and my's life is not just a one-time salvation you could actually if you study the Scriptures carefully you could actually say three things you can say we are saved you could say we are being saved and you could say we will be saved hey man how many of you know that we got the new birth whenever we were born again and that's a that came by faith you know by receiving Jesus but then there is a continual working of that salvation into every area of our lives the renewing of the mind becoming willing to follow everything the Lord saying becoming obedience laying aside the flesh living in the spirit there's so many things that is still working that got that that that salvation is still working in you working in me and if you say no the work of salvation is done in my life there's a proof that it's not that's right there's proof that heat still needs to do some work in you because you're not done but then when it comes to the the statement we will be saved we're talking about our bodies it'll be chained these bodies will be changed won't even be more to want to be subject to death they'll take on immortality you know we get so caught up with believing God for see for you know victory down here in this life we forget sometimes there's a day coming there's a day coming this is it's not going our body's going to be changed we're out of here Alleluia praise the Lord but if you read some of these other translations like Weymouth translation says here this is Philippians 2 Weymouth translation says for it is God himself whose power creates within you the desire to do his gracious will and also brings about the accomplishment of that desire there's a will there's a plan there's a there's a a good life that God has planned for you both both concerning what he wants you to do for him and what he wants you to experience because of the redemptive rights you have both of those categories of his will could you hear the way I said that when we talk about God's will we're talking about what kind of blessings he wants you to live in but he's we're also talking about the plan of what he wants you to do for him in service to his kingdom there are no there's no such thing in the Bible as Ministry of pew armor everybody's supposed to be doing something Alleluia we're all to put our hand to the plough amen amen we are we all have something to do for God when when you got born again Jesus didn't look over to God and say you know I didn't have a plan for them didn't know they were gonna get born again no he's got a plan he's got a plan remember he said I know the plans I have towards you King James says the thoughts I have through or you know my plans to do you good the other trends they say plans to do you good he's got plans remember he said that we were to walk in the paths that are pre-arranged and made ready for us to live in Philippians 2 - is that 8 or 10 I don't remember in the amplified he said he's got plans for us there's paths for us to walk and that's where the good life is amen hallelujah now what which says concerning this this says it is ultimate - its ultimate conclusion in other words this salvation let me back up it says we are to carry our salvation - its ultimate conclusion likeness to the Lord Jesus in other words that's what salvation is working in us to do be just like him now you that makes you realize oh yeah there's still some work to do there's still some work to do that's the that's the that's what he's working in you Christ likeness Christ likeness all right now with that in mind let's go back to verse number 5 because we started sort of in the middle of some things because notice verse 12 says it starts out by saying wherefore I didn't come in tonight and say hi to you and the first thing I said was wherefore if I had you'd have said wait a minute I missed something that he was talking about before he said so before he said the rest of this here okay so let's back up to verse 5 this is in Philippians 2 verse number 5 he said let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus let this mind be in you all that rings in me who being in the form of God thought it not robbery the word robbery if looking at margin your Bible maybe I'd said the margin my Bible anyway it has a little letter W and it says the thing to be grasped in other words the thing to hold on to to be equal with God he didn't think it was something to be held on to to stay up there equal with God in that an interesting thought in other words he didn't hold on to that that that place that he had before his before his incarnation so but made himself of no reputation other translations say he emptied himself sometimes they say he emptied himself of his mighty power in glory now he was God fully God when he came in the flesh but there were attributes of that deity that he had laid aside he couldn't be everywhere at one place he didn't know everything he had to trust the Holy Ghost to reveal it to him plan and andrí Gide him you know he had he had things that his flesh didn't want to do remember the cross his flesh didn't want to go to the cross he had to work that out that was the will of God for him but he had to pray in the Garden of Gethsemane and work that out in his prayer life to get into the place to where he wanted to do what hey man what he what he was called to do so that's what he's talking about he made himself and he gets to that here in a minute he made himself of no reputation took upon himself the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men do you have do you realize how far of a step down that was every one of these statements being in the form of God he thought it not robbery to be equal with God in other words he being he made himself of no reputation himself that's a step down he emptied himself in outright and took upon him the form of a servant that's coming lower and in the fashion of a man that's came better even became lower being in found in fashion as a man he humbled himself became obedient unto death even the death of the cross that's even lower he became he be he said I'm not gonna hold on to be an equal with God because God's plans for me to go into the earth and redeem mankind I'm gonna go into the earth I'm gonna empty myself as some of the attributes of being deity I'm going to become a servant not only become a man I'm gonna become a servant to man and not only that I'm gonna take on all their sin and become their substitute and taking on everything they became because of sin and then he said it says down here in that's the end of verse let's read verse eight me and found in fashion as a man he humbled himself became obedient unto death even the death of the cross look at verse 9 wherefore God also hath highly exalted him and given him a name which is above every name that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow of things in heaven things is italicized he's talking about beings in heaven sea beings have knees not things every knee every knee should bow of beings in in heaven beings on earth or in earth and beings under the earth the day is coming demons will bow and say thou art the Christ our Lord that dead men are going to be saved too late there were people that after they die and go into hell they will say Jesus is Lord but too late too late too late so every knee will bow don't get all flustered about people that curses name today they're gonna bow their knee they're gonna bow their knee come on they're gonna bow their knee they spit on him at the car at the cross they humiliated him at the cross but they'll bow to him before the throne yeah so every knee of beings in earth under the earth above earth heaven you know notice what it says that verse 11 that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father glory to God wherefore see he's talking about connecting what he's just getting getting ready to say to what he had just said wherefore my beloved as you have always obeyed ok now go back to verse number go back to verse number seven no verse number eight being not being found in fashion as a man he humbled himself and became obedient obedient notice that obedient unto death we're getting to something tonight became obedient unto death Jesus became obedient to the plan of God for his life which was the cross okay come with before we finish here he says wherefore as you've always been obedient you can see now what he's talking about BT into God's plan when I'm there you've always been obedient he said just just know that even when I'm there not there you still are called upon by God to be obedient to God's plan even when I'm absent for it is God that works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure he said work out your own salvation with fear and trembling because God's working in you in other words that you you and I don't always want to do the plan and will of God it's hard on the flesh sometimes Jesus didn't want to do the plan of God at the cross when I cut his flag shouldn't say he didn't want that his flesh didn't want to remember the Spirit is willing but the flesh don't look at me like that you had times that might be going through one right now I just that I just don't have the wherewithal [Music] i disobeyed again come on and he said you're gonna have to do this versus saying it's it's not just you working it out you're gonna have to tap into the one who's working in you willpower is not enough amen willpower is not enough you're gonna have to tap in to the greater power of God who's working in you all right but before we get into that much further come over to Hebrews chapter number five a verse that might amaze you and startle you if you've never read it it's amazing that the by likes it real plain what Jesus did in the Garden of Gethsemane notice it says we'll start reading verse 7 remember chapter 5 verse number 7 who in the days of his flesh is talking about Jesus in the days of his flesh when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying's and tears unto him that was able to save him from death he was asking God remember remember we have record of it in Matthew Mark Luke he told the father he said father if it be possible he's talking this over with God if it's possible let this cup pass from me he is facing death on the cross now see God's not asking you to die on a cross see Jesus is the Redeemer of all mankind you're not I'm not but there aren't things that he's asked us to do that our flesh just like God and in our own ability we're not going to do that we're just not going to do it we don't have the ability to do it in our own about talked about in our own ability there's a lot of things in in a lot of our lives that if it's left up to us we have to say it just ain't going to happen it just is not going to happen I don't know what it is with you I had an experience this is the back in 2012 woke up one morning January 24th remember that morning I remember it because I got a spanking that morning I know if you somebody said I'd never get spankings yeah and you're an illegitimate son that's what the Bible says I'm just that's not on anybody's bumper sticker but that is in the Bible if we endure not chastisement that's what Hebrews said Hebrews remember how many remember Hebrews if we don't endure chastisement God we're iLET he says bastards that means illegitimate sons every son whom he receiveth he corrects and chases the Bible says now I'm not talking about with sickness and disease I'm not talking with a tour of about a tornado though I'm throwing blowing your house over I'm talking about correcting you in your conscience dealing with you addressing issues and I got a spanking on January 24 2012 one of several you're looking at me like you haven't got any that morning the Lord spoke to me in fact I have it written down here somewhere and I'll see if I yeah he said he said as soon as I woke up the word of the Lord came to me I don't know if you know what the word of the Lord is or not but it it almost sounds audible it's not but it's the words ring on the inside of you as soon as I woke up the Lord said you're going to have to be changed in some ways in order to fulfill what I've called you to do because you've let some things in and as you stand you won't fulfill what I've called you to do he said these changes will only be made in my presence it was correction it was Stern hey man it was said in love it wasn't condemnation and I'll be honest with you it was said to me in a way that he didn't he didn't say what notice what he didn't say he didn't say you're gonna have to make some changes he said let me read it again how he said he said you're going to have to be changed in some ways in order to fulfill what I've called you to do the way he said it implied I can't do it now you might say well what was it well in general terms that had to do had to do with distractions he told me what it was there's a lot I'm not gonna tell you I'm not gonna hang out all my dirty laundry you don't hang out yours yeah I didn't notice I didn't think yeah I didn't see you coming to church tonight hanging yours out so just distractions I'm not talking about sin per se I'm talking about just distractions that's exactly what he was dealing with in my life at this time and and and I know I know what I had to start getting help on and but he said to me you're going to have to be changed and like I said it was it was Stern and it was a warning but yet it was said in such a way I in fact whenever he said it I I wasn't condemned it didn't come to me as condemnation it came to me conviction oh yeah oh yeah a lot of conviction but it came to me in the way he said it was it came to me like he was going to help me he knew I needed help he knew I couldn't do it on my own and he was offering his help you understand what I'm talking about and he also said it in such a way that he knew that he was he said it in a way that he was confident in me that I was gonna respond to his help he said he said and some of the things he said about it he's he's expressed confidence in me and all that that helped me you need to know that the Lord has confidence in you and so so this verse in Philippians that we're here in Hebrews five you're gonna we're gonna finish reading this but this verse in Philippians is exactly what he was talking about he was talking about I'm gonna have to do a work in you to will and to do of my good pleasure but he's saying you're gonna have to cooperate worth with me you're gonna have to work it out what I'm working in you you're gonna have to respond to that working and it is you know 1st Corinthians 3:9 we're laborers together with God there's a lot of people whose lives I can watch their lives and it the way they go about things shows me they don't realize that he's offering his help to work in them to do what they're not able to do whether it be just cut some things off of the flesh whether it be resisting temptation it might just be some natural tendencies to sit back and wait for God to do everything it might be just some of your natural tendencies to be passive and not step in by faith there's a lot of you know the Bible says in Romans chapter eight verse number 26 likewise the Spirit helps helps as a big word I like that word the spirit helps what our infirmities and he goes on says for we know not what to pray for as we ought now that's one infirmity we don't know everything we don't know when things need pray for so forth so on but he didn't say look at the spirit helps our infirmity and mention that one only firma Dino he said he helps our infirmities now you got to know what that word means in the Greek to really get a blessing out of some people to read that and they think it's only sickness or disease well he'll strengthen you in times of weakness and flesh we understand that but if you look up the word infirmities like for example the w/e vine says infirmities means weaknesses inability to produce results some things sometimes you just you there I did again disobeyed again and I've been I've been trying to quit to dis quit that disobedience and quit getting distracted and quit and inability to produce results the strong says the word infirmities means want of strength capacity it means the inability to do things grand and glorious look around your life and see if there's anything grand and glorious well they might be because you're trying to do it on your own strength we have the promise that he works in us to will and to do of his good pleasure what pleases him we can't do anybody know what I'm talking about don't look at me like there's nothing in your life like that I know your flesh doesn't have the ability I know there's there's weaknesses even it's spiritually sometimes in areas of our lives amen and so that's what these infirmities are the spirit helps our infirmities you remember second Corinthians 12:10 maybe you don't member the reference but you'll remember the verse it talks about remember Paul said he besought the Lord three times about this this thing coming against him and he said the Lord that it would depart from him and he Lord said my grace is sufficient for thee my strength is made perfect in weakness then he said most gladly therefore will I glory in my name I remember what the next word is infirmities if you have another translation it probably says weaknesses I heard somebody say weaknesses but that's exactly what it is the the King James though says infirmities and other trends they say weakness that's exactly what they are he's not talking about sickness and disease he's talking about inability to produce results in ability I just don't have within myself what it takes to overcome this this thought in this case the thorn in the flesh now what in a sickness people say that was sickness no he said what it was he said the messenger of Satan to buff at me and to oppose him getting the message out that's what it was I mean everywhere he went the Jews were stirred up and they wanted to kill him and they threw him outside the city put him in prison and and the devil stirred up a storm and shipwrecked him in the sea and he went on and on and on you read the chapter right before that 11th chapter and he talks about all the stuff I don't have the ability to get this message out with all this stuff coming against me and you might feel like in your life you take one step forward spiritually and get knocked back three you and your ability just cannot fulfill the plan of God well it's time to stop trusting our ability amen though the he said Paul says that I take pleasure in infirmities for whenever I'm weak then I'm strong who glory there's revelation in that you need to go meditate on that he said I'm these these areas that I'm weak he said I'm gonna start praising God in the middle of those that's what glory in my infirmities means I'm gonna praise God in the middle of my infirmities and whenever I do that he pitches a tent over me of his power and ability and what he said then you know there in Romans uh he talks about it in another place there he talks about what is that I'm trying to get the fur Philippians 4:13 he said I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me I can do I can do not through my ability I can do through him through his strength his anointing his ability his grace his help I can do it can't do it in myself forget it honey it ain't gonna happen it ain't gonna there's a lot of things ain't gonna God it ain't gonna happen within my ability it just didn't gonna happen God said that's alright I got you covered I'll work in you how I don't even want to do it I'll work in you both to will both both both both to will nothing burns that's the want to right there both to will and to do it you can't do it you only want to do it but come to me get in my presence felt a fellowship with me yield to the spirits and the want to will come up out of your heart you know as well as I do the weaker you and I get spiritually I can speak for myself the weaker I get spiritually the less I want to do the will of God and the more my flesh comes alive said I got some plans I got some things I'm gonna do come on I am I going to take you forget about the eastern hour the way they talk I am I'm going to do this right now you understand one little one I'm not gonna do that that's too far Don the flesh that hurts the flesh look here in Hebrews five we didn't finish it yeah look at seven who in the days of his flesh Jesus when he was in the flesh when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying's and tears under him that was able to save him from death this is talking about in the Garden of Gethsemane he was praying in the garden to him that was able to save him from death he said you know let this cup pass from me he's looking let's do this another way can't can't we do this with another sheep or something I mean there's got to be a way around this everything in him was recoiling from the cross he had never been out of fare here's something else he's recalling from he had never been out of fellowship with God never sinned never broken fellowship with God yet he's he's facing taking on all our sin and God turning his back and him having to say my God my God why hast thou forsaken me he's facing that he recoiled from that he didn't want to do that his flesh didn't want to die and his spirit didn't want to be out of fellowship with God he didn't want to go to hell he didn't want to pay the price for you and my sin his spirit didn't want to do that didn't want to get out of fellowship with God but he sought God and said is there another way let this cup pass from me so he's praying with strong crying's and tears this is not a little Lord bless me cook it up prayer this is a let's get this worked out in prayer kind of thing and unto him that was able to save him to death and was heard in that he feared that means he reverence God actually he said that back in Philippians to work out your own salvation with fear and trembling reverence before God all right now loud note verse number eight and though he were a son yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered and being made perfect that means fully mature fully mature being me and made perfect well I thought Jesus was born perfect you thought wrong now what I said that I didn't mean he wasn't perfect than that he not never sinned he never sinned he never sinned he was perfect in the in the sense that he never sinned but this verse said and being made perfect when what that's not talking about never sinning that means mature Jesus had to grow up spiritually just like you and me when did he finally mature it tells you right there when he said he became obedient in the garden and said not my will but thy will be done that's when he was made perfect and became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him I want to grow up pastor okay there's some suffering involved didn't we read that verse eight though he were a son yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered there's some suffering oh you mean I got to go through sickness no no no no no you got to rightly divide the Bible you got to know what he took for us as our substitute so we don't have to take he took for us in Redemption some things though we don't have to take it but he took some things as our example and this is an area that he became an example he suffered in the flesh ouch that means the flesh didn't want to do it and the flesh is gone ouch ouch ouch ouch I don't want to do that I don't want to do this the whole time he's doing it now his spirit he got to the place in the spirit he's fully willing fully willing hallelujah never disobeyed fully obeyed fully obeyed willing completely willing but he had to work that out you're not in sin because you're still working it out you might have seen cuz you disobeyed but but you still had you got to work some things out between you and God there's some things you and God got to work out I can't work them out God can't work I mean can't work it out he'll work in you but you have to work it out you had to you have to spend some time in his presence letting him knock some things out of ya letting him inspire some things in you I never forget one time the Lord was talking to me about some things and he said this life no no excuse me that's not the way he said he didn't say this life he said this world has nothing for you I thought yeah yeah before I came into the things of God I was nothing but tormented harassed bound and that's the only thing this world had would have to offer for me to get away from God I'd go right back to it has nothing for me so I'm a dead man - it don't have out my own plans I can't do it anymore well you looking at me like you can you can't either I mean if you sitting just for ministers or pastors it wasn't just for Jesus he's talking to believers in Philippians he said it's him that works in you you work it out you work it out but he's there to help us aren't you glad we're not on our own aren't you glad seat will power will disappoint you every single time but you don't have to depend on willpower you've got the greater one the Holy Spirit in you to work in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure you've got the fruit of temperance temperance is self control has the ability to control somebody said I've tried to I just you know I've tried to will to do something I can't do it well there's a force to read to reinforce there's a force from the spirit realm to reinforce your will because you got to set your will to do the will of God we're gonna talk about that but will powers not enough we've all tried that I mean but there's a force to reinforce our will to do the will of God and not only to do it but I want to do it you want to do it love to do it and I don't sound like a victim to while I'm doing it anymore if you still sound like a victim there's still some things you got to get worked out hahaha laugh about is somebody cuz some of you are gonna hurt in a little bit right now see this is called growing up this is called growing up Jesus fully grew to a complete maturity whenever he said it in the garden not my will but thine he got there that mean he had ever sinned he just was still growing up amen I don't know if you get knit us or not praise God now notice those two words o beaten in verse number eight though he were a son yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered in other words suffering obedience includes suffering in the flesh flesh doesn't want to do some things but if we're going to grow up let me say this if we're gonna see the glory and would have said in Philippians he'd becoming obedient under the death of the cross wherefore God has highly exalted him given him a name but he he stepped from through that into the glorious plan of God and and that's how you're gonna get into the glory of the plan of God for your life you're gonna have to step through that obedience and the flesh gone ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch and you say haha it's him that works in me to will and to do it's him that works in me to will and to do praise the Lord the wonderful thing is that we have Hebrews 4:15 but we have not a high priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities but was in all points tempted like as we are yet without said in other words he has compassion on us because he's experienced these things and he's been through that the flesh down here and he knows what it's like and he's right there with us he's right there with us he's right there to help us he's right there to to work in us both the willing to do it we don't have to depend on our own if it's up to our flesh we out of here we're out of here we don't split adios bye-bye I had a young man one time say to me he was giving up on God actually on Christianity on everything on the church on being a spiritual son everything he called me on the phone said I'm not who you think I am I can't live like you live I'm out of here on quipment and I had we talked a little further but I couldn't get him to respond indifferently he said and he said I just can't live like you live I said what you don't understand is I can't either that's your problem you don't understand I can't either see I was trying to help him understand that what he was seeing in me it was none of it was of myself you understand and so my sufficiency was of God to walk where I walk live free like I live free and to to walk in victory walk in faith and so forth and so on and I was trying to help him understand if I focused on my weaknesses and my in abilities I'd say the same thing I can't do this I'd hook-and-eye doesn't hook from the greater one and and I'd crashed down to where he was crashed cuz I got flashing infirmities just like he had you understand I'm talking about amen but I can't depend on him alright that's why we work these things out because it's him that works in us we work these things out fear and trembling fear and trembling means conscious of the fact that we can't do this fear and trembling means we're actually fully aware that we're gonna fall short of a goal because of our human sufficiency and we're fully aware and conscious that without God we're done we can't do it and so we're very reverent about that we don't trust ourselves I don't trust myself any further negging throw myself you gotta get you got to learn that about yourself I can't afford to just get weak spiritually I within three months every one of us in this room could look like any old sinner out there in the world our life could look just like that within three months we just stop and quit and do what that young man did that called me and his life today is but and so we're gonna have to keep tapping into the greater one and and keep keep trusting in the greater one all right so we think we thank God we got Jesus here's our high priest he's touch with the feeling of our infirmities aren't you glad so it's the Ministry of the Holy Spirit to strengthen us with might by his spirit in the inner man fijian says that feeds 3:16 and Romans 8:24 tells us that God by the Spirit is a Romans 8:28 I meant is being he becomes a partner in our labors and by such were able to produce results that were formerly but we're only able to produce amen how many of you know Satanists take looking for advantages in our life and let me time let me tell you the primary areas he looks in fact there's a verse a you I just write this down you can write it down if Psalm 27 11 he talks about his enemies which observe him well the margin says that that observed me and that's accurate from the Hebrew so there are actually those are not just natural enemies there are actually evil spirits in the spirit realm watching every single one of us that's not to make you afraid but what let me tell you what they're looking for they're looking for the advantage in you and my's life and the primary area that they have the advantage is these areas of weakness that's their that's what they seek to take advantage of you understand I'm talking about so in the spirit realm there are beings that are just watching they know areas that if we send somebody long a lot along in their life to push that button right there push that button thus the little demons say some some center person yeah what word am doing that don't they'll cuss you're not watch somebody come push and here we are fly off the handle and and it's that was that they knew exactly it anybody noticed that the devil seems to know where to push the buttons it's cuz he's watching he's been observing and taking notes cuz he why oh oh oh push that button and they fly off the handle make him know send that back to headquarters everybody knows everybody everybody learned that hey push that button and he'll fly off the handle push that button and he'll get offended push that button and they'll quit push that button and they'll start complaining and say God's left me and God you know push just they find a button and put okay there it is push it crazy drivers the devil knows crazy drivers are I am overcoming crazy drivers I had three of them on the way tonight and I overcame every one of them with my gas pedal no I'm just kidding [Laughter] but these evil spirits they exploit weaknesses they're trying to get the upper hand on us amen hey man cuz they want to gain access to our lives I mean even though the Bible said he's going about seeking whom he may devour but he's looking for the way that it works oh this is what works right here amen you know where there is they are in your life shake your head say Amen something I once asked the Lord about a particular person I said what why isn't the devil just keeps coming for that person and keeps coming and keeps coming that's where my prayer life I was keeping it off of him for a while I said just keeps coming I didn't know what the Lord's gonna say but he said something that gave me revelation he said he sees weakness I thought Oh yeesh well he probably sees something me too I go to work I don't mine but I can in my own ability close those doors well praise the Lord what does that mean strength is a deterrent you remember Paul said I glory in my infirmities for whenever I'm weak there I'm strong he said when I praise God his path when I praise God in the middle of infirmity his power comes on me and the area that I was the weakest now becomes an area of strength in my life that's what can happen through tapping in to him who works in you both the willing to do what was usually it used to be an area of weakness now as an area it's very very very strong because you didn't shock you did you didn't you didn't depend on yourself to overcome that you tapped into the greater water you tapped into the - the one who levels up those insufficiencies when we're continually filled with the Holy Spirit member the Bible said be not drunk with wine we've continually failed the word filled there if you look it up means to level up in other words it has to do has to do with an idea of deficiency right here there's there's an air of deficiency right here and when you're filled that gets leveled up in other words God fills that in and it's not a deficiency anymore hallelujah praise the Lord you getting it and and the devil can't get in there anymore because it's it's not weak anymore and the Bible says in John 14 that he's not left us orphans he said I'll not leave you orphans that's the actual Greek there King James says helpless I believe or something but the Greek is orphans and so an orphan is somebody that's maybe born into a situation where mom and dad are gone or they're raised by somebody that's not really interested in them you know just not really raising them and you know maybe they're maybe even in a home of some kind and they they don't have the advantage of the input of parents and so they're at a great disadvantage and so but he said I'm not gonna leave you orphans so if you feel like well I just I just got started in life with disadvantages because you know mama wasn't there daddy wasn't there and I wish I'd had somebody to train me more and teach me as it as a kid what are you saying here is if you'll learn to depend on the Holy Ghost he'll level all those areas up you know what I mean by that he met if you learn to turn to him amen you'll find him more than sufficient amen to round out every area of deficiency and maybe you were really naive and didn't understand cunning people and they take advantage of you so forth that can by the Spirit of God be an area that you become very sharp and it just doesn't work anymore like we were teaching the other night in Bible School mentors ministers mantle it becomes you're wise as a serpent you're on the people your honor people amen you're just not dumb anymore you know not trying to harass anybody by using that word but it's just you know something that we doesn't work on us anymore amen how many of you know ever heard somebody talking about a great man of God you know they call a person that was a great man of God this person is a great man of God I'll tell you what a great man of God is he's a he's a he's a mediocre man who makes use of the sufficiency of a great God [Music] that's who a great man of God is amen praise God all of us are like you ever read over there in Isaiah talks about Isaiah and the presence of God was immediately aware of all his inefficiencies all his insufficiencies he saw the glory of God and they saw the throne of God and he said I'm a man undone I'm a man of unclean lips you know he saw all his inabilities he saw all his lack all his inability because God's calling him to the Ministry there you understand but in the presence of God that recognition of inabilities is not there just so one Zone in efficiencies can become forefront on their consciousness amen and make people insecure there there that inability that knowledge of your inability shows up so that you can learn not to try to trust yourself and tap into the one who's going to be the only way you're gonna make it amen it's not there to discourage you it's not there to condemn you that awareness of inabilities is there to help you say I'm gonna have to trust the one who said he would work in me both to will and to do of his good pleasure cuz otherwise honey it ain't gonna get done it ain't I'm going fishing like Peter I'm going fishing it ain't gonna get done forget the church age I'm going fishing he shows us these things to make us sober and not think we can do it amen this is different tonight not as many amens tonight but that's all right praise the Lord God never intended us to be left alone and her into our own abilities to consecrate ourselves to do his will in fact he knows that on our own that just isn't going to happen that's why he said I offer my help I offer my help you don't have to labor on this all on your own if there if there's an area of lust of the flesh or an old habit of the flesh to keep falling back into gods are there he's offering say that means let me work in you let me work in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure and so he's offering his help and when it comes to knowledge of his will and doing it like the Bible's talking about in Philippians has said he consecrated to do God's will not my will but thy will be done you know and became obedient he's saying let this mind be in you also he started out that passage saying let this mind be in you also in other words you're gonna have to decide I'm going to tap into his help to do this because he's they're offering to will is it to help me to will and to do it amen and so that's the first area of consecration consecrate yourself to let him help that's the area grace starts working in first to let it to help you with what you don't want to do and can't do so I'm going to fish and forget it I'm going fishing I'm going hunting I'm gonna hunt forget it I'm out get gone phase three I can't do it I can't do it can't do it don't have the ability forget it I'm going hunting see now I just made it real in my life but what it is that what is it in your life ah I don't know what it is in your life not gunning for anybody tonight I'm gunning for me right now hey man whoo got him man got him the Lord got him so consecrations not something you can do on your own power but God never did expect you to do it Jesus in the garden was praying not my will but thy will be done that was the prayer of consecration amen it was any other way I want to go another way let's go another way god I got a better idea let's go another way there's a spiritual battle going on amen within Jesus to surrender his will to the father's and that's what a lot of spiritual warfare is really over Satan will bid high for you he'll say you don't want to do that he told Jonah that you don't want to do that you don't want to do that you don't want to do that I'll tell you why you don't want to do that because God will be merciful and then you look like a you know crazy guy you go read it that's what he was dealing with and so yeah I don't wanna do that God said go to Nineveh he said where's Nineveh God said North he said okay I'm going south don't want to do it don't want to do it don't want to do it but see Jesus was in that place in the garden and what we see is him tapping into the power of God what we see is also an angel came from heaven to strengthen him fool you know what that means heaven is committed to helping you heaven is committed to helping you I am so thankful for that because otherwise honey it ain't gonna happen young people if you're in here tonight you got to stop trying to do it yourself humble yourself say God help me amen hallelujah hallelujah there's help from heaven didn't there but you're gonna have to pass an answer said you have to put this verse in your mouth it's he that works in me both to will and to do of his good pleasure man in other words yours your faith to deal with your flesh cuz your flesh will disqualify you if you just keep saying I don't want to I don't want to I don't want to eventually God say I'll find somebody else but he's offering he's right there saying I'm here to help I'm here to make you want to do it and to help you do it amen how many of you know if you'll start saying that verse it's he that works in me both the willing to do there might be areas you don't even recognize that you need something worked on I'm how many of you know what I'm talking about but if you'll start saying that God knows where the areas are that you don't even know that are there and he'll go to working on him because you're saying that it's he that works in me both the willing to do of his good pleasure so so he'll go to working on the areas you don't even know need worked on and so when it comes time for you to do something for him he's already been worked at he's already worked it in you he's already worked it in yeah and and you'll be able to just work it out hallelujah praise God so there's two sides to this both to will and to do do you see that that's talking about willingness and obedience remember Isaiah 1:19 you be willing and obedient it's not just the outward doing of it people sometimes think well I'm doing it I'm okay with God no not if your insides aren't willing not if your insides are saying I don't want to know I don't really don't want to be doing this I really don't want to come on though I don't want to come that often I don't want to you know the church you know praise the Lord people try to put things together and put things in order in their life break habits and fleshly things and so far so forth but the power is there to help let's tap into it amen God knew we needed help did we're learning we needed help but God knew all along we needed help and he's offering us to quit doing it in our own strength hallelujah grace does it through us but we have to put a demand on that grace while I'm talking go over to first Peter chapter number four we're gonna wrap this up the way we put a demand on that grace is a couple of things one thing is we just start saying it it's he that works in me both the will and to do of his good pleasure mm-hmm but the thing we've got to understand is he works the willingness into it some people want some people want grace to do everything for him it won't do the doing of anything he works in you to will and to do in other words he gives you the ability to do it but he doesn't do it he works in you to will and he works in you to do but he doesn't do it we do it but we do it by his help amen he doesn't do it his grace is there to help us do it now look here in first Peter this talks about the same thing first Peter chapter number four the same situation Jesus went through in in Gethsemane I'm starting verse number one for as much then as Christ has suffered for us in the flesh arm yourselves likewise with the same mind for he that has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin then he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lust of men but to the will of God notice that we read that and we think suffering is something we don't need to do but he said G like as Jesus like Christ hath suffered in the flesh arm yourselves likewise with the same mind now somebody said well I didn't sorry am I supposed to die on the cross that's not what he's talking about although for him that was the will of God but it wasn't necessarily the death on the cross it was the flesh being crucified that lets put let's put this way that the desire of the flesh to not do it being crucified in other words Jesus was crucified before he was crucified he crucified his flesh before they crucified his flesh you get what I'm talking about and that's what he's saying to us do the same thing and he says what he's talking about at the end of verse number one he that has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin he's talking about cutting off sin and in this case he said mentions in verse two what the sin is that we should not live the rest of our days no longer live the rest of our time in the flesh to the lust of men but to the will of God in other words just to the lust of the flesh the sin is just doing our plan rather than his plan I get amazing some Christians nowadays they they're about an inch deep and a mile wide extremely shallow people don't get mad at me cause I'm preaching better the longer I go extremely shallow people they just think any of their passions are the will of God well God gave me this passion there are things that you will have to crucify and that's a Bible word amen Bob talks about crucifying the flesh well just catch the devil out of me sometimes the devil's not involved sometimes it's just your flesh doesn't want to that's what some of you young people are dealing with you just want to live in the flesh I just don't want to do I just don't want Jesus rebellion it's the fleshy nature well then you're living in sin and he said there no longer should live the rest of our time to the lust of in the flesh to the lust of them of men but to the will of God in other words we have to he here he's talking about Jesus dying to the his own fleshly desires to not go through with the crucifixion and I want you to notice what he said here arm yourself with the same mind oh I saw that the other day things started going off in me I still don't know how to express them I'm getting a little bit of it out tonight but arm yourself how many of you know arm yourself sounds like take up arms arm yourself with the same might in other words your spirit in order to win this battle needs your mind it needs to be armed with a renewed mind that's why Philippians started out by saying let this mind be in you which was also in Christ a renewed mind is the mind Christ and a renewed mind is the as is a piece of armor to help you win this fight I said there's a piece of armor to help you win this fight hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah it's part of the armor of God that's why people struggle so much they're not renewing their minds and their minds sides in with their flesh there's three parts of your being spirit soul and body and the Bible said the flesh lusts against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh and it says they are contrary the one to the other so that you cannot do things in other words that the purpose of the flesh lusteth against the spirit so you can't do the will of God and the Bible says in Hebrews I mean in Romans 8 that the the carnal man is enmity against God it's also enmity against the will of God doesn't want to do the will of God no no not doing no I was that way for a long time now I delight to do thy will o go remember the Lord told me to shout that real loud I'd like to do thy will o God you got to get that stuff off of you sometimes but they whichever one the so you got the flesh lusteth against the spirit and spirit against the flesh and there there's a battle going on there people talk about spiritual warfare this is a bigger battle than any battle you ever deal with the devil but that was a little weasel defeated guy but you still have a nature and your flesh doesn't want to do the will of God so you got the flesh in the spirit there at war with one another which one's gonna win decides which one the mind sides in with if you arm the spirit with a renewed mind that's what he said there arm yourself with the same mind who's yourself that's your spirit arm your spirit with a renewed mind in other words that will put that will give the spirit man the advantage to rise up like Arnold Schwarzenegger and put the flesh down zip boom or gomer pyle you do what I said praise the Lord haven't preached like this for a while but it's time praise the Lord but you got to tap into the power of God to work in you to willing to do in order to do that see he'll work in your mind by renewing your mind he'll work on your will he's not gonna listen there's something about your will God gave you a free will didn't he didn't God give us all of free will the free will is something God gave to us we're free moral agents and the power to will and to do as we please comes from God but the use of it lies with us and we're responsible for our choices before God one who will not use the power of his will to work out his own salvation will be held responsible before God Amen all people possess this power - will but all don't use it correctly Amen some use it against God amen praise the Lord anybody know what I'm talking about I don't wanna do that I just don't do it some of you young people are telling your parents I don't want to do it start putting in there it's him that works in me both the willing to do of his good pleasure rather than I don't want to start saying I'm gonna I'm gonna renew my mind of the fact that he wants to help me here I'm gonna arm my spirit with a renewed mind it's him that works in me it's him that works in me I'm gonna work it and work it out with his help he's gonna work in me hallelujah how many of you need his help to reinforce your will he's not going to take your will out of you amen he wants us to accept his will as our will and make his will ours and he'll help us do that I said he'll help us do that he knows will powers not enough and he'll give it he gives us things like the the fruit of the spirit of temperance he gives us the greater one in us he gives us all these he seems since helps along other Christians to encourage us there's all kinds of things but he won't force our will or his will on us he'll work he'll just keep working in you working and you working in you and sometimes if we disobey and get in our life all in a mess we sit we tend to get a little bit more willing to listen to him but he didn't do that he didn't do that he's he's trying to get you out of any of those troubles but he'll let you go your own way because he won't force you against your will and let you go your own way get yourself on a mess and then whenever you're willing to turn to him he's right there it's I'll work in you I'll work in you both to will and to do they're in the doctrines of the church doctors with a God did all that to you to get you to obey Him the God didn't do all that to you you just eaten the fruit of your own decisions well hallelujah a little different tonight I don't really want a baby church I want a church this growing up growing up

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