Honor Divine Connections // Pastor Jay Eberly // August 25, 2021

we were preaching from on sunday from matthew 18 18 that uh gives us a new testament revelation about the authority of the believer any believers in here [Music] jesus has made a statement that's a tremendous blessing to me whatever verily verily i say unto you whatsoever you shall bind on earth anybody on earth well we already said this ain't heaven that's for sure whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven notice the earth has to move first whatever you bind on earth in other words heaven will back that up you know there's a lot of people religion i heard pastor nancy said this the other day she said religion puts heaven first authority puts earth first the renewed mind and people that have their mind renewed with the authority of the believer they uh they put you know earth first because god this verse put earth first a lot of things people say they're waiting on god to do and god said i'm waiting on you to believe god to use your authority to make to follow the spirit what the spirit's telling you to do whatever said by whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven and so we were looking at that and this is a a one verse that is used many verses in the new testament about the authority of the believer but this is one verse talking about the authority of the believer binding and loosing binding and tr one translation or other translations or will say something whatever you forbid whatever you uh uh don't allow you know and then for loose it'll say allow or permit and so whatever earth allows heaven allows yes sir somebody said well why did why'd that go that way in politics or why did that happen in my life or why did that well we allowed it now that's not that's not uh you know bumper sticker kind of thing people don't people don't like to hear that you know but that puts the responsibility on us but that's really where the responsibility is down here on this earth people think god's running everything they say god's sovereign and yet they don't have a verse for that there's not even the word sovereign in the whole bible that that gets people a little little uh agitated when they hear that but you know your bad doctor needs agitated that's good amen somebody said they went to church and heard the word and they said you got me all confused we said no you were confused before you got here it's just that uh the word showed it up amen yes sir but anyway but i won't get off on that but the authority is on man's side now god will back you up you realize he's the one that delegated authority to us remember james four verse number 7 submit yourself therefore to god resist the devil resent who's going to resist the devil or wait a minute i thought god needed to do all that because he's running everything he's sovereign he's he's going to stop the devil for us no he said us we resist the devil and he'll flee from god huh who will he flee from he'll flee from you amen he'll flee from a 99 year old grandma dad will take your hand off there he goes yes sir because he understands authority because if she's using the name of jesus she's using the authority of the believer so whatever you whatever you you might want to underline that king james says whatsoever ye that you'd say whatever ye or you whatever you you need to underline whatever you amen because people are saying whatever god and god's not saying no it's not not up he's not saying it's up to me no it's whatever you now i just wish god would do something about this i'm praying god would do something about this he said why don't you do something about it you know whenever they got him up out of the uh they got him up out you remember he was sleeping in the boat and the storm came up and they said don't you care you woke him up said don't you care that we perished and he got up and rebuked the storm he says where's your faith he's sleeping through a storm that's filling the boat can you imagine that kind of sleep and that kind of peace and that kind of rest that's the kind he said my peace i give to you but he's sleeping and they woke him up then he said where's your faith in other words boys you could have done that no that wasn't what he was saying okay well then in the fig tree why did he say what he said he said you know he rebuked the fig tree and then he said they the disciples said victory your curses withered away he said have faith in god turn to them they stoned to them you the other subject to you have faith in god for verily i say unto you that whosoever shall say yes hallelujah i'm going to keep preaching faith whether people want to hear it or not whosoever includes me say that whosoever includes me whosoever what shall say unto this mountain be thou removed be thou cast into the sewage i mean the sea be thou removed and cast into the sea and see if you were on livestream you know what we're laughing at but and doubt in his heart believe those things well that's not going to work see you don't qualify you don't call it you doubt it in your heart you doubt it in your heart but it shall not doubt in his heart but shall believe those things which he said shall come to pass he'll have whatsoever he saith praise the lord amen so there he told them the disciples that they had that kind of authority they had that kind of faith well what are you waiting putting up with stuff putting up with fear i didn't plan on saying that anyway i just looked at the wrong person i guess that's what happened all right so james 4 7 submit yourself therefore to god resist the devil and he'll flee from you hallelujah so in other words you can bind up the devil according to matthew 18 18 and you can you can resist the devil resist the devil that's what it said resist him and he'll flee that's authority in that binding him and it's bound that's authority isn't that right in other words whatever you bind um you know we use the illustration of binding somebody up they they maybe they're they're you know you could use an illustration of handcuffs a similar thing that's what the police put handcuffs on people for and leg leg whatever you call those things because if they're violent or they're you know trying to do something they got to bind them handcuffs are binders and they're they're restraining them from doing what they want to do they may still want to do it but they can't do it when you bind the devil he may still have it in his mind to do it but he can't do it amen amen all right so that's one side of the authority of the believer but then we looked at ephesians 4 27 on sunday pastor you went over all this i know but some of you haven't thought about it since and that's not how the word gets in you've got to keep on thinking about it thinking about i don't know why i'm so mean tonight i'm not trying to be mean i'm really pastor david was real sweet today to me and that we're just mean on unbelief that's that's if if i get like this that's what it is so just don't get your feelings hurt ephesians 4 27 we looked at this one remember uh sunday we were on this one ephesians 4 27. let's actually look at verse 26 because it goes together amen let me i got to turn to it you turned and i didn't i want to make sure i quote it right don't want to say it wrong ephesians 2 4 26 be angry and sin not neither let the sun go down on your wrath neither give place to the devil that means you can actually not give him place according to that i mean if maybe maybe we should tear that out of there or can you actually not give any place to him neither give place to the devil don't give him any place how do you do that well he said in verse 26 don't sin be angry and sin not you can be angry and and not sin but he said uh uh you can sin that's the time whenever you get angry there's an opportunity there to sin you don't have to look at me i don't have to look at you we just both look at ourselves be angry and sin not so there's an opportunity there it's a lot more you're going to get you're going to sin much quicker angry than you will when you're you're calm but so he said be angry and sin not let not the sun go down in your wrath neither give place to the devil so he's saying sin gives place to the devil you can see that that's obvious sin gives place to the devil well what is sin you got you look through the new testament there's like several different several different definitions of sin whosoever knows to do good and does it not to him it's sin let's say it this way whosoever knows this this is a verse somebody looking at me real funny whosoever knows to do good and does it not to him he's giving place to the devil well you can bind and rebuke and and out front you know just say and satan take your hands off me and do all kinds of stuff but without without responding to what you know to do why is it so quiet in here tonight you're giving place to the devil and trying to resist him at the same time and you can't resist him and give place to him at the same time [Music] amen it's like i live in a wooded area and we got coons i put out cameras around the whole property you try to trespass on my property i got you i got cameras everywhere and most the most trespassers are coons i must have i was talking to somebody about it i must have a hundred coons on that property anybody want some coons you can have some coons so anyway but i said that to say coons are famous for wanting to get in garbage and stuff like that you know how many of you know i can't set stuff outside and invite the that they eat garbage and stuff all that and and and and give them an opportunity you know and invite them to come and give place to them and uh you know just sit in the house and get mad at them and try to rebuke them all at the same time get the food out get to get the food in where they can't eat it you know where they're not drawn to it but that's what people are doing they're putting they're putting devil bait out and then they're saying he comes and they go satan take your hands off my he said well you're inviting me you open the door to me how's come pastor go to get on this i don't know he that knows to do good that's the one of the definitions of sin i don't have the reference in front of me but you know it's in there anybody know what's in there he that knows to do good does it not to him it's sin no he's looking in each other's backyard amen that's why i don't know who i'm talking to because i'm busy keeping my nose in my own business i mean i got enough i got enough work on my own life to do you people come and want help and we'll share the word with them but that's not because we've got our nose in their business anyway that's one definition of sin i got to be good enough right there to work on for the rest of our life wasn't it but i mean just forget the other definitions the bible says oh unrighteousness is sin amen you got the who's who knows to do good and does not what's that james 4 17. james 4 17. so all unrighteousness is sin the bible says well we don't know what's right what's wrong well you do if you read the bible the bible yes sir anyway so that's all that's and there's other definitions of sin even even some that we could spend a lot of time on but but but but notice he said uh neither give place sin gives place to the devil so you could put in there anything that's not right in the eyes of god gives place to the devil amen amen how about not walking in love how about holding grudges that gives place to the devil how about disobedience to parents that gives place to the devil rebellion gives place to the devil worrying gives place to the devil we don't need to go on do we we know what these things are amen so then uh so we could we could take that route well um in other words you know we read on sunday we looked at some scriptures in the old testament how that the the israelites complained and uh numbers 21. we looked at numbers 21 4-6 how the israelites complained and it says in the king james god sent serpents fiery serpents means fiery means poisonous scent poisonous serpents king james had sent into the camp but if we read deuteronomy what was that eight deuteronomy 8 15 where it said that god had been protecting them that whole time they were out there for 40 years where all those serpents were and all those scorpions were and all that god had been protecting them the whole time they were out for 40 years and one time in 40 years those snakes got in because god sent them no if you look it up the hebrew has no permissive verb there's no such thing in the hebrew as allowing it's all causative it all sounds causative well you can see plainly that god didn't send them because the context was they didn't come in until israel complained remember they loathed the manna they were eating which by the way was keeping them alive how about just being thankful for the car you have how about just being thankful for the roof over your head you had how about just rather than say there's so much more that i don't have why don't you thank god for what you do here i remember when we first started out in the ministry i remember having getting down to having two suits and i would wear one suit one service the next suit next service and switch back the third service to the world of the first service i'm embarrassing but i didn't complain because i knew there's no way to go but up [Applause] nowhere to go but up now i've been going up ever since hallelujah glory so uh but but uh you know israel complained and that's when those serpents were allowed literally as would have but well somebody said why did god allow that we just read it in matthew 18 18. see the bible's progressive revelation in matthew 18 18 we find out that god allows things we allow how did they allow it by disobedience by complaining which is disobedience complaining's not faith you just always remember that complaining is not faith anything you're complaining about you're not in faith about that's right right you're complaining about the third you know you only have two suits you're not in faith about the third suit or the fourth one amen so i'm having a good time tonight i don't know about you uh so you know we could take a lot of time on that when we when we get into sin and get into disobedience to the word in any area anything against the word is sin when we when we come up to light and we refuse to walk in it sin well i didn't steal anything from anybody i didn't i didn't cheat or lie no but you didn't walk in the light somebody said boy that's a high standard i didn't write it i didn't i didn't write the bible brother don didn't either actually he and i probably have lower standards than god has just a little bit so anyway let's get to let's get to an area we need to all examine before we get to that okay well no let's just go let's just go let's just go let's just go how about let's go over here to look at something come over to uh where can i start this let's go over to well just started in james 4 7. submit yourself therefore to god resist the devil and he will flee from you really what we're talking about is two sides of authority we're talking about resisting the devil with words of faith and words commands of faith take your hands off so-and-so take your hands off this situation take your hands off that in my life that's one side but the other side is don't give place to the devil you can't do that and then give place to the devil somebody says which one's the most important both of them are important you can't do one without the other amen you can try i've tried i can tell you ahead of time i can't do one without the other yeah save yourself a lot of heartache and just take my word for it submit yours that's what he's saying there in james 4 7 also submit yourself to god resist the devil see it's not just resist the devil it's being submitted to god which includes being submitted to his word which reveals his plan god's plan is in his word well we just don't know what god's will is or god's plan for our life is just read the bible just read the bible yeah but specifically well just emphasize that and god will deal with you about the specifics later just get started on what is already generally true for all of us amen you get busy with that you'll have plenty to do people want a specific word from god without reading the general will of god and they get on dangerous ground and i'll tell you why you want to know why okay come back next next time i'm here why is it dangerous to try to get a specific word whenever uh you're uh you're not willing to submit to the written word it's because if you're not submitting to the written word then you're open to deception and you'll hear a voice all right but it won't always be it won't always be god's voice lord just tell me if i should marry this unsaved man the bible already said don't be unequally yoked together and you open yourself to deception praying for a direction about something god already gave you the answer for amen so uh you know a lot of those people that that are unwilling they're praying about the specifics because they're unwilling to listen to the general written word of god and when you're unwilling to hear this see the same voice that's going to speak to you in your heart is already spoken in the word and if you want to become familiar with that voice and not get deceived by another just get real engrossed in this anyway that's all free i i'm probably not doing a good job explaining all that but it's because i got other things to get to all right so all right so uh obedience to the word is a closed door to the devil we were talking about that on sunday if you were here and uh so i want to take that a little bit further um if you go to first corinthians chapter number 12 and verse number 18. first corinthians 12 18 is going different than i planned tonight but that's all right now have god set the members every one of them in the church as it has pleased him god sets us in the church as it pleased him not as it pleased me not as it pleased you you know there's a lot of things in fact i'm not doing anything in life i plan to do. somebody said i am well then you're probably not listening to god you're probably on your own plan when i was a little young boy i was planning on doing this and doing all that and well yeah not you either so but but uh he sets us in the body as it pleased him boy i could take some time on this but uh ephesians 4 16 says something similar about this ephesians 4 16 says for from whom the whole body from the head the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supply it according to the factual working and the measure of every part makes increase of the body under the edifying of itself in love what i want you to see is is that he joins us into the body as it pleased him there again it says in another language but he said where the joinings are are where the supply is every joint supplieth see that term in that verse every joint supply the body of christ is illustrated with the human body and the human body is not a bag of parts floating together in the air everywhere they're all connected that's the way the body of christ is the body of christ every member of the body has a divinely appointed connection to the rest of the a body that god wants them to to be and where they fit that's god's plan that's his will in his word his will for reading his word and it says god says there in first corinthians 12 18 he says there that he puts us where it pleased him he sets every member in the body as it pleased him did he do that with you or are you kind of a oddball uh oddball you're a misfit not not you i mean you know you're a lone ranger out there by yourself over here is how about you any lone rangers oddballs in the body of christ over here not me i'm not an exception see that's people's problem they want to make an exception for themselves there are no exceptions you know what i'm talking about sometimes i've i've almost pled with god to have mercy on somebody and he said to me things like i will not violate my word and you almost weep about it you're almost like ah and he's like i know i won't violate my word it's true for them just like it's true for you because i'm no respecter of persons sometimes it's rough but see we're all we're all in the same place where the word we're subject to the word of god we might not choose to submit ourselves but but we get the blessing if we do and the consequences if we don't not from god remember we talked about giving place to the devil it's that's giving place to the devil and people want to act like they don't know why and that gets old but gets old because they know why they just don't like why i already told you i'm not mad at a person i'm just mean on unbelief tonight whenever you see things destroy people's lives you don't like it you know what i mean you don't like it so it's not anybody that i don't like it's the what defeats people that we don't like so i remember whenever finally we got started the service here this is really what i wanted to get to what god put on my heart strong to get to not me i didn't um but uh he i remember back whenever when i was meditating on this what flooded in on me today was whenever but we didn't know it yet brother hagin was getting ready this was in 2003 but it was before before brother hagin passed in september i believe of 2003. is that i think september 2003. um we were we were uh uh for years because we had just come here to pastor in 2000 june of 2002 is that correct i'm starting to it's a long time ago you know and uh but brother dawn was born way before that he's already retired way before that i better move over here um but we went down we had been preaching for seven years in a row i think at a camp meeting down south here and uh we we were guest speakers there for a number of years and then but the year we came here to pastor he got some new guest speakers and he said you know come on down if you would like to and i said sure so we we went down and and dr dufresne was one of the guest speakers um so i had set in one of his services in my life up until that time and but i knew who he was respected him and everything just never had set in many of his services never had never any real connection or anything just just uh i'd recognize who he was stood in the office of the prophet so forth but you know never much connection so but we were said in his service and the night he was supposed to preach they asked you to sing and uh so she was getting ready to sing and i don't remember i don't think we had uh yeah i remember the order now we should they had they had some she was gonna do special music they had already sang the praise and worship set but she was gonna sing some special music after the praise and worship said the emcee of the meeting got up and said greet your neighbor and so forth and so on the spirit of god spoke to me and said uh go over and speak to dr dufresne tell him who you are and tell him your pastor tell him where you live and invite him to come to your church and he said do it right now while they were saying uh greet your neighbor and say hi to your neighbor and you know i just had a real short time to do it i mean i've got instructions and i whoa i got and he said do it now so i went real quickly it was like walk you know running from there to here kind of thing and i introduced myself and i said hello i'm pastor jay you know everything so he and i said i'd like to invite you to come to my church he said sure he said i'd be glad to where'd you you got a card and i said no i've got i haven't carried a card i haven't carried a business card for 30 years i mean i printed them a couple times and they sit up you know never never use them so um so you can't accuse me of handing out my card you know [Laughter] so anyway so i i did and uh he said i'd be glad to come and so and uh you know i kind of got real quick back to my seat because everybody's sitting down and um the lord spoke to me and he said there now he said you obeyed me it's going to save your life that's sobering but it saved my life it wasn't fearful because it saved my life the lord didn't say that to make me afraid he said he said it i believe to keep me sober about how important this connection is so um so i'm i'm kind of standing there in the you know thought thinking about what the spirit just said just save your life and so i'm just saying well thank you lord praise god and anyway so she got up to sing they said a few things announcements and she got up to sing and he brought the healing anointing in and he was going to preach right after that and and she brought the healing anointing down because she sings that anointing and whenever he got up to minister he went right into ministering to the sick because he he said that that he didn't know us that that pastor's wife she just brought the healing anointing he she used to call him uh mrs j or brother hey brother uh dr frank used to call her excuse me mrs j because he didn't know her name amen so dr dufresne is just right here with me but he said uh he ministered and he said that pastor's wife brought that healing anointing down on me he ministered healing and then he started preaching within i don't know what 10 minutes he's preaching and he's over there i'm over here of course he's over here and he's preaching he's like yup yup yup yup where's that pastor where's that pastor he said i'm coming to your church right moment something happened in the spirit it was like a divine connection it was as if i had known him for 20 years it's like i knew him by the spirit he knew me by the spirit how many of you know when you know somebody by the spirit it's totally different than knowing him what color do you like you know where's your favorite restaurant you don't know them but when you know somebody in the spirit you know them and i describe it like it's like you know him for 20 years and and so he said i'm coming to your church there was something just in my spirit and from then on dr dufresne was was somebody that we were close to in our spirits just just you know and and i he he would say things about him too being close he he liked our closeness and so but anyway i said all that to say the lord spoke that i want you to hear that statement there you obeyed me and saved your life amen notice again from this passage of scripture he sets us in the body as it pleased him isn't that right isn't that right there you obeyed me and saved your life what's that saying obedience puts restraint on whatever the devil would like to do in our lives it's going to save your life he said well what big bad thing did you do to be out there where the devil's trying to take your life nothing more than you he's after you just as much as he's after anybody christians ought to be sober about that tell your neighbor i'm a christian so uh the fact that i took that step of obedience put some sort of restraint on the plans of the enemy that's what the lord said there there you obeyed me it's going to save your life what does that mean save your life god wasn't going to kill me if i didn't obey god god's not god's not a killer death is the last enemy that will be put underfoot death is an enemy [Music] if death is is attaching itself to somebody it's because they're giving place to that somewhere it's not politically correct to say that maybe but but it is true now don't misunderstand me maybe they're giving place to it through ignorance but god has a remedy for that too it's called divine connections it's called divine connections i'm finally getting to my service tonight amen what did james 4 7 say submit yourself to god would that include his will for his plan for his connections and and uh submit yourself with god resist the devil and he'll flee from you so there's two sides to that amen the plan of god the divine connections that god has for you in the body of christ are your safe place that's where you're the safest you will be anywhere in the world in the body of christ anywhere tell your neighbor that's your safe place amen when you're uh in the plan of god which includes divine connections there's authority that comes with that amen amen do you realize um that obedience holds things back that satan wants to get on in our lives even death premature death not you know because we're all going to eventually some if jesus doesn't come back live out our lives and go on you know but but i'm talking about premature death obedience is such a powerful thing that it can even save you from premature death somebody said well that's you're trying to scare us i'm just preaching what the lord said to me he said this to me that's true about you man me well i don't want to do that or i don't want to go to that church or that's not where my mama's tears are on the altar or grandma's tears are on the altar what's that got to do with it grandma's not lord jesus is lord amen well that's not where i want to go well guess what honey your life isn't your own anymore well my family makes fun of me for because i go to that church guess what honey that's called persecution and you're supposed to rejoice in the opportunity to suffer from the persecution for his namesake pastor i never heard you say that before well you heard it tonight branham was uh i don't remember which denomination he was i was going to say baptist or maybe it was presbyterian or something he was a minister before he anybody know who william brandon was greatly used in the healing revival uh maybe that i would say i don't call him the leader of the healing revival because really oral roberts was the leader of the healing revival but he's probably number two you know and he had tremendous healings and tremendous revelation gifts in operation just if you've ever read any of his stories it's amazing but anyway so he was uh but he was a i was it anybody know was a presbyterian or baptist or something minister baptist he's a baptist pastor before he uh and what was happening was came back from a trip and he found a he came across the tent with some people having meetings in it and went in just to find out what it was and some pentecostal folks having meetings and uh they asked him to preach and he got he got filled with the spirit somewhere along the line there they asked him to pray then all these pastors and people started inviting him to come and he was thrilled that he had made a new discovery from the word that he hadn't seen before about the baptism and so forth and so he's uh he's getting all these invitations because god used him that night he preached and uh he's excited about it he told his wife about it and his wife maybe he or his wife told the wife's family about it they were both excited about it but the family the wife's family wasn't the wife's family was high society folk you know what i'm talking about and they went to the uppity church and they weren't too thrilled about their daughter and son-in-law associating with these low society folks pentecostals and so they persecuted the family of the wife began to persecute them and and uh talk them out of all this healing and speaking in tongues and all these things because you know we're we're not of that we're not of that caliber of people and william branham let them talk and his wife i guess at the time talk them him out of all these meetings that he had scheduled all over the country really and and so he canceled all the meetings and kind of went back to the way he used to preach it and in the process of just a period of time he lost his wife and daughter to tuberculosis i don't know was the flood i think it was the flood maybe tuberculosis was in there his wife from tuberculosis i think the daughter was in the flood and on the death bed his wife's death bed she looked at her husband and said sweetie do you know where we missed it and he said yes she said we should have gone with those pentecostal folks she said promise me and she before she passed she said promise me you'll raise the rest of our children because they already lost one daughter raised the rest of our children in pentecost we let mama talk us out of pentecost that's where we miss it that's why we lost our daughter that's why i'm dying of tuberculosis that's what she said and he said i know i know you're right i know you're right so he repented amen and started obeying god and god used him and raised him up in a mighty way to do what god you know we the rest is history as we know we know but but the point is disobedience cost there was a cost somebody said god do that no god doesn't do that we already read it's satan don't give place to the devil disobedience gives place to the devil amen amen i didn't write the bible did you write the bible just letting it sink in a little bit it it there's a high price to pay somebody said it's too high a price you know like family persecution that's that's too hard for me well the alternative is worse when light comes you got to walk in it because the alternative is is a high price to pay well anybody know what i'm talking about divine those people in that pentecostal tent meeting of william branham was a divine connection huh well hallelujah not too much shouting on that you can't exercise authority and disobedience amen what is obedience holding back in your life right now i i don't really that's quite a thought isn't it well here's another thought in this life you'll probably never know and to be honest i'll tell you for myself i mean you'll never know unless you spend much time on the territory of disobedience that's one way you can find out and just start tasting of it just the beginnings of it and just the beginnings of it'll cure you if you're you got about three brain cells serious i'm serious you start getting beat up kicked from pillar to post people don't like this kind of preaching but that's too costly a way to learn uh you know people like william branham he found out and told us let's just take his word for it amen lester summer all he was 16 years old didn't want to go to school anymore he ran with the wrong crowd got in a rebellious crowd god called him to preach he didn't want anything to do with it mama prayed and said you you're a christian you're going to serve god you're going to preach he didn't want anything to do with it so he ran with the crowd and started getting sick and collapsed on the basketball field i mean no that was but but it got tuberculosis it was bedfast and got down to death's door and they were praying in his room he said nope don't want anything to do with god he'd curse him under his bed his and and uh one night on his 17th birthday he's he's he's he's in his room and he turned and he saw a casket he said what's that lord and god said that's your casket tonight you choose he said i don't want that he turned this way and there's an open bible what's that lord he said tonight you choose it's either preach my word or the casket there's no more daylight for you tonight's your last you saw your last day light today that's the voice that came to me i'm paraphrasing but that's basically what the and so he said well man i don't want to die i'm only 17 years old haven't lived yet and so he uh he surrendered to the call of god and was healed that night within three weeks he's on the road and went on the road for the rest of his life preaching all over the world lived to be 80 what was the 85 or something like that hallelujah that's a lot of daylight days glory [Applause] [Laughter] so uh we'll take his word for it no i'd rather not know in this life you know what we're being spared from i don't really want to know i'll wait to heaven's videos to see what i've spared from i don't want to in this life plumb the depths of knowledge of disobedience i want upon the depths of the knowledge of obedience amen and when it comes to the knowledge of obedience i want book knowledge and i want experiential knowledge amen there's a lot of church folk completely oblivious to what they're kept from because of their connection to their pastor and his faith and authority amen that's why jesus said to me i mean whenever he said that to me he said that you obeyed me it's going to save your life we don't always get that kind of information but i think in my case he just wanted to sober keep me sober about that connection because that usually if there's that kind of a importance attached to something the devil's going to really come after it and you need something to anchor you amen he wanted to give me a little glimpse into how important it was and uh that's all i need i'm sober about it don't need any more soberness you know what i mean i don't need to open the door of the devil to find out how important that connection is so don't try to get between me and pastor and answer get between pastor davey and i and pastor nancy [Music] you're going to get left behind because for me it's life amen hallelujah i think the rest of us ought to treat these divine connections just that important amen we don't want to learn the hard way we need to learn the easy way amen so many times people they have to get beat on the head about between one and 27 times between before they really get this how important this really is and the reason they didn't say 28 is because people are usually dead before that well psalm 23 4 and 5 says the lord you know verses 1 2 lord is my shepherd you know i shall not want so forth he makes me to lie down green pastures leave me inside still waters to restore my soul he leads me beside uh he leads me in the past of righteousness for his name's sake yeah though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death i'll fear no evil thou art with me thou rod and i staff they come for me thou notice they'll prepare us a table before me in the presence of mine enemies notice the presence of mine enemies notice they're still present so since they're present and because whenever you're in obedience they're restrained but they're still present that ought to keep you sober to live close to god does that make any sense live sober to live close to god because they're not removed they're just restrained and you can live with them restrained for years but then change your mind about obedience they have access [Music] amen in fact the further you go in the kingdom of god the more they want access i remember brother hagin saying that he was he was at at one point he was his children were beginning to be raised at one point uh pastor kenneth hagin juniors his son went to vietnam you know through the draft and everything vietnam to be in be in the war and uh so you know of course i remember how long that was but the point is one one period of that tour of duty brother hagin here of course back in the united states in the ministry he was praying and started getting pastor hagin on his heart and found himself praying and travailing over pastor hagin in in vietnam he didn't know you know because they only got back then he didn't have emails and stuff all that just had a letter now on that kind of thing so he didn't know all the details in fact he's not able to pastor him not able to tell him all the details where he is and what he's doing and stuff like that but but you know but he got he picked it up in the spirit picked up something that something's dangerous something something about pastor hagin's life ken jr was named back then he was he was in dangerous territory or or his life was in danger or something like that and brother hagin prayed it out and got the victory and and got you know how you pray things out and you get to laughing or you get through on the other side you pray it out when you don't know thank god for speaking in other tongues and so he did that he prayed that out and uh later on after getting a chance to talk to pastor hagin pastor hagin told the story he said uh my i was i he said me and my buddies we had whatever time off however that works and they they were riding motorcycles in some of the mountains and the motorcycle that he was riding that came up on a sharp curb he's going too fast and the motorcycle the back they went back later to see the skid mark and the motorcycle back wheel actually went off the edge of the road over a cliff i don't forget how far down he said it was it was death if he'd have gone down there and and that motorcycle wheel they found the skid mark went off the uh road bed over the edge of the i don't think the front wheel did maybe but the back wheel over the edge of the cliff and then they saw it where it caught and came back up and it scared them they they all saw it or the rest of them and they all stopped because it shook them up they were going too fast you know and so they uh and then so of course pastor hagin then later told brother hagin the story about what happened then he said well i knew that that's what i was at that time then i knew what i was praying about and uh and then he said the lord spoke to him and here's what he told that story for he said the lord spoke to him said now if you had not obeyed me when i told you to obey me in the ministry and certain certain things he told him to do he said if you had not obeyed me then he said i could not have spared your son's life but because you obeyed me somebody said it's it's too hard it's too high a price to obey no the price is too high to disobey do you notice william branham's disobedience affected his family do you know your disobedience can affect your family your obedience can also affect your family close that door to the devil get to your family whoo ah that makes us pay a little attention doesn't it so when the lord says that what's that mean that means his no matter how high the cost is it's always best to obey because the plan is the safe place that's your safe place amen it also means that in the place of obedience there is restraint put on the devil the devil was trying to take his life and couldn't do it because the holy ghost because of pastor brother hagin had obeyed the holy ghost could warn brother hagin about it and he could cooperate with the spirit to change it you can't change things in disobedience there are certain things you can't change in disobedience people say that and then people see stuff like that and they say well that faith business doesn't work or that faith business you know that faith preaching's not not really true then see it didn't work over there well you don't know the disobedience that personally amen what you fail to exercise authority over or what you can't exercise authority over because of disobedience that's where the devil will get in amen and having the devil having access to is dangerous i'm almost done what is obedience holding back in our lives so we're kept people amen we are kept people. thank god for the for the privilege of being in this place this this protected place so what about responding in obedience to the place god's connected you we're talking about different areas of obedience but what about this place where god's connected you in the body obedience to that puts a restraint on the devil connects you to the spiritual endowment that enables you to finish your course you remember uh uh king saul in the old testament was called to be king but he really wasn't insufficient he wasn't sufficiently equipped for it and god said okay you connect with that company of prophets coming down there remember that and he got in the company of prophets and god took what was on them put it on him and he was equipped for what he was called to do amen that's exactly what god does whenever he says i want you to join up and come to that church and want you to be there every service [Music] he's saying what you what i have for you you don't have the ability to finish it but see extra extra read all about it i've got supply for you from others in the body of christ if you'll connect to them and connection doesn't mean just say that's my pastor down there but they don't see you but every three years that's not connection [Music] connection means be there connection get what they've got hear what they're saying get the message they're preaching so glory so you're going to need what's on somebody else in the body of christ it's what you connect to that will enable you to finish your course obedience puts a restraint on the devil but it also brings the supply of the spirit that'll equip you to do what god's called you to do praise the lord you're going to need what's on somebody else somebody said well you're just trying to talk about yourself i'm talking to myself tonight i need what's on somebody else recently i was talking to someone about some things about aviation right in the middle of my conversation the person the person could testify and explain they said yeah this i was there when it happened right in the middle of my conversation the spirit of god came on to me come on me and i zoned out i don't know what they were saying i was like yep lord yup yup yup because in the spirit all of a sudden i saw a divine connection in the body of christ and the lord said i want you to start going to their meetings because they have a supply for you in the area of aviation he had been dealing with me about going but but i was asking some questions because of some other things he had said making sure i was understanding and you know i didn't want to misinterpret things and so he explained some things i'm like ah amen thank you lord jesus amen praise the lord so these things people sometimes uh you know too many times they don't take these things serious enough they're trying to do all their standing against the devil on their own you know making a royal mess out of it amen but see people go through a lot of things in life operating in a measure of constant defeat a measure of constant defeat in an area of their lives and in their minds because they never really know and they never really know why tonight we're telling you why it's because they don't really properly connect to others in the body of christ amen why don't we go all in on this both feed in praise god praise god until to full victory your full victory is out there where you're supposed to be not back where your flesh is comfortable and your mind has decided you want to be yeah i just don't know yeah you know you just don't want to amen but that's not the way i had things figured out exactly exactly because the way god does things is above the pay grade of your mind your mind just i don't understand that exactly because god is smarter than you amen and me don't take it personal he's smarter than me i mean i look at how he's led us and because none of what i'm doing is my plan but i look how he led us and what it's done and brought into our lives brilliant brilliance it wasn't me but it was brilliant still is getting brilliant and brilliant amen don't tell ms weiser i said that that's my english teacher in high school hallelujah the lord once said to me you'll never learn obedience without a prayer life remember jesus in the garden he had to work through that his flesh didn't want to do certain things amen i'm closing almost done you and i need to watch over this area a little bit better and put a premium on its importance amen because some of our authority is not working right right connections can restrain some things that our own authority hasn't reached the level of development yet in other words while we're learning some things can be kept off if our heart's right and we're pro if we're not if we're not behind in the area of obedience we're staying up but we just don't understand some things yet there's some things that others that god put you in connection with in the body of christ can keep off of you until you get to the place you know how to do that yourself but not without good connections amen hallelujah so right connections really carry some restraint with them and your life's going to need something beyond and someone beyond where you are spiritually amen they might have more light on authority they may have they may have a supply because of divine connection i'm out of time i could tell you stories i wanted to tell you more stories tonight so um nobody can say to other members in the body i have no need of you amen and those that are signed over your life assigned to your life can use the place they are set to bring a supply into your life that you won't have on your own that's true for my life pastor me and pastor debbie's life but um but by connecting to them you can get it the lord said to me one time there are things that you'll need to finish your course that i won't give you directly through your fellowship with me if you i have already given it to someone i told you to connect with you'll have to get it from them he didn't say he couldn't give it to me through my personal prayer time let me read that again you want to hear that again there are things that you will need to finish your course that i won't give to you directly through your fellowship with me you know revelations how knowing how you know how things work how to function in it could be the authority of the believer function in faith how to function in certain anointings whatever if if there are things that i'm going to need to finish my course that i want the lord saying that i won't give to you directly through your fellowship with me if i have already given it to someone i told you to connect with in other words if they have the revelation and i and i told you to connect to them i'm not going to share with you personally out here by yourself without that connection i'm not going to tell you everything through your prayer time that you should be getting because i told you to connect to him he didn't say i couldn't he said i won't because he honors divine connections i have to honor it too he said there are things i'm going to say it again because i think some of you are trying to write it down the things that will need that you will need to finish your course that i won't give you directly through your fellowship with me if i have already given it to someone i told you to connect with you'll have to get it from them amen and i've had that happen many many times i am much further along because of properly connecting in the body than i ever would be i'm probably about 95 percent further along come on come on that's that might be too high i mean too low further along because of right connections than i ever would be on my own thank god for the rest of the body i need i need the rest of the body i need to be around them i need to hear them i need to receive i need them laying hands on me i need i'm the ones that god's connecting me to i need them in speaking into my life i need to pay money to get where they are that's what people put people value money more than they value divine connections they just aren't going to make it amen well praise the lord everybody glad you came tonight i was divinely inspired directed of the spirit to say all that so if you uh are happy say amen i'm happy i'm glad i came [Laughter] all of us that are satisfied that uh you know god's told us where to be and we're obedient we're happy tonight the rest of us are convicted and we're going to get in line amen i just want to be i want to be right i want to be i never have thought i have it you know these people think i don't need anybody else i got it all i i don't know that mindset to me never i always wanted to be a part of something bigger than me you know just that's just i don't know something wrong with people think other ways i don't think it's scriptural do you amen stand with me to your feet amen amen praise god the word is sometimes tight but it's right isn't it glory to god you know we can be uh and i've had the lord deal with me about this we can be rightly connected and sort of get accustomed to the person and may be familiar with him in the flesh and we're still not getting what we should be amen i know god speaks to pastor dave and i a lot about honor yes sir amen in fact i'll just tell you we weren't uh we were we had our plan pastor debbie and i i don't know if i've said this publicly we had our plan to celebrate pastor nancy's 60th birthday because you know she was here and we we did what we wanted to do and that was proper and we honored her the gifts we gave and we passed president david and i gave a personal gift and you know fed her donuts in the back and everything she likes which she tried to tell us was an honor but anyway we were having fun about it but anyway so but but then we plan i plan to be at the fredonia meeting and spend some more time with her you know just help and celebrate her birthday and everything but the first night of camp meeting on the way home well actually during the camp meeting something started stirring in me about her birthday party this weekend out in california i'm like that's interesting and so i said uh on the way home after the fellowship time in the back and everything on the way home from the from the camp meeting service first night monday night here i said lord what was that stern in me about pastor nancy's birthday celebration because we weren't planning on going because we did we had our celebration here saw her in fredonia for a week and fellowship and gleaned many spiritual things and you know two weeks and the month ought to be enough that was our plan but on the way home i said i asked him what was that stirring in me about pastor nancy's birthday celebration out there in california i said do you i i knew inside but i said do you want us to go and he said this it's just so easy what would honor do yeah yeah yeah so that's where we're going this weekend amen my goodness you're out of town for that and this and then yeah well maybe you ought to watch and learn amen hallelujah hallelujah learn from people that it's working for them good

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