Keith Moore Harden Not Your Heart Pt 1

thank you lord thank you Lord you know the scripture says if any man thinks he knows anything anybody know the rest of that verse what does it say you don't know anything yet like you ought to know right but that's not the end of it it goes on to say but if any man love God the same is known of him there is no way no how not now not ever you're gonna impress God with what you know huh do you know that you know this not going to happen but if you love him he acknowledges that that ministers to him and I the further I go the more I see that you can just you can condense it all down to that when you're talking about a person what kind of person they are are they for real are they the you know the real article whatever it is they might be or doing do they love God that's it do they really love God and if you do it makes you know it opens the doors in your life to the grace of God so that you'll have the real articles and whoever loves God he knows you hallelujah is known of God and you know that word know includes the idea of experiences so whoever really loves God is experiencing God and having the experience of the the reality of God in fact this is it's such a deal do you remember what Paul said by the spirit he said if any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ let him be accursed isn't that strong boy that's strong but that's just how it is it's not enough to say I believe in him the devil's believe and tremble and it's not enough no it's not enough to say I believe in God I believe in Jesus I believe he existed no no do you love him do you love him do you love him and if you do it governs your life right we've been on this at our church for some months now about the text in John that says Jesus said if you love me you'll keep my Commandments glory to God so that's how you know who loves him is the one that's running around obeying him night and day not just the one that hollers I love you forty times a day but the one is actually doing what he said and how many would raise up a hand and say unashamedly without reservation without timidity I love the Lord come on sit out loud I love the Lord I love the Lord is he your life is he he's everything he's everything Jesus is everything he's the Alpha he's the old maker he's the beginning in the end he's the author and the finisher of our faith he's the spotless lamb he's he's everything somebody say everything everybody he's Jesus is everything no man comes to the Father except by him nothing was made except what was made by him every good thing is by him every promise every prophecy everything has its fulfillment finds it's yes finds it's amen in him somebody say in him in him we live and move and have our being in him we're made righteous made holy made worthy in him in he'll any aren't you glad you're in him I'm in him he's in me he's everything everything everything I love the Lord go with me to Hebrews please this morning I had my direction changed majorly this morning about three o'clock did not intend to go this way at all but I believe it's the Lord's direction and like always I would ask you to believe with me I don't remember ever teaching on this just like this so this you know be the first time for me to teach it just this way and and when you're doing that you know your course you're believing God for the next phrase and the neck and the next part and so please don't snooze stay focused stay hook you'll make it a lot easier on me and of course you'll be so in good seed for yourself I know we got a number of preachers in here you want to sow good seed for next time you're up doing this right these meetings begin with the thirty days of glory so this is the tenth year is that right or not 99 98 so what is this eleven twelve okay yeah it's good it's a privilege right and I believe the objective of the Lord was to for us all to come up higher don't you to see things of him and be immersed in his presence and in his word so that we finish up the month and the year on a higher place you notice the Lord's will for us to come up come up not come up and go back down right not move forward and go back and regress but come up and stay there and then come up higher and stay there and then come up higher right and we we need to we we not not just that it's good to we need this to bear the proper fruit and to have the the grace the strength of Grace and strength of anointing to do and be all that we're called to be time is short this will soon be over how many no that will not do what we're doing now forever this is a very limited window of time that you and I are in and I know it seems like you know we've been having great meetings and you come to great services in your church and and but this is very very limited everybody that you're around right now that's changing people are coming people are going I mean if you could stand off about where the moon is and see in the spirit there's a mass exodus from this planet every day people leaving here I mean by the millions and people coming in being born and you're in my window is right now since it's all we've ever known sometimes we think the time drags on a little bit look old friend it's it's like a vapor the New Testament says what we're experiencing right now is the briefest thing we'll ever do so contrary to those that believe in reincarnation we get to do this one time we have one one shot at this and it's as it's going by in a blur and so we do not need to mess around the reason I said is because even with Christians and people that know some things about the Lord it's easy to just settle into your daily routine and the people that you're around and without meaning to you're you're acting like this is going to go on forever what you're doing now and the people you're around it's not it's not everything's changing and it's about to change a lot more so we want to keep our eyes open and if we're open and receiving from him he'll always have us prepared and ready for the next transition for the next change call apprised a lxz Nico's 9g avetis is morocco former prisoner eggs guinea LXE has not seen a Fe hustle for there is a time of transition upon you now you're at the threshold and things soon will be very different than they are now be a Gregg's uniform or regret Landis knee-highs nygaax nish in the hot seat and some would say how can we do it this way we've always done it that way what will we do now and some would be tempted to fear and panic but like dunes near Wausau afina Kyla pons Nagi but fear not from with you I've not changed and I never will and I'll be with you fear not for it will not be worse it'll be better if you'll walk with me fear not let not your eyes rest on the changing and the transition and let not your eyes look back to the former days and say oh I wish it could be like then no you don't wish it could be like then the best is ahead of you the best is before you my greatest is in your future hallelujah somebody say I believe it so I believe it glory to God well then transition is upon us right things are always changing and then there are times when they change a lot more quickly than at others and a lot more drastically than than others but if we'll hold fast to him and what with him will it'll always be for our better can you save me and how many would think that the Lord that'd be the case that this week would be helping us get ready and prepare and that he would be adding to us all that we need for the days to come that we not just survive I thought I saw the word thrive around here so right we're not word would not just survive but that we'd flourish right flourish and be fruitful and thrive now you're sitting up here in air-conditioned comfort on a cushioned chair saying this but then you got to be it you've got to be ready to shout this when some things change in your life that you weren't expecting hmm and maybe some things that you were counting counting on being that way that you find out they're not gonna be that way that's when you need to stand up and say oh it doesn't matter doesn't matter we will thrive anyway the Lord knew this he knew this was coming knew this was going to happen like this and so we will Excel will be fruitful right we're not going down not going back God's the god of increase never is his will decrease never never never always upward always forward always greater always more thank you lord somebody say it will be that way with me Hebrews three did you find it Thank You Lord these meetings are going to be different Hebrews 3 and verse 7 since wherefore as the Holy Ghost says today if you will hear his voice and this is a quote from the 95th psalm I believe it is harden not your hearts as in the provocation in the day of temptation in the wilderness when your father's tempted me proved me or tested me and my works 40 years wherefore I was grieved with that generation and said they do alway err in their heart and they have not known my ways so I swear in my wrath they shall not enter into my rest take heed brethren lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the Living God but exhort one another daily while it is called today lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin for we're made partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end while it is said today if you will hear his voice harden not your hearts and that's about the fourth time he said that in the last few verses right must be important mustn't it harden not your hearts as in the provocation for some when they had heard did provoked howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses but with whom was he griev'd 40 years that's a second time it said about him being grieved grieved was it not with them that had sinned whose carcasses fell in the wilderness and to whom swore he that they should not enter into his rest but to them that believes not so we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief let us therefore fear lest a promise being left us of entering into his rest any of you should seem to come short of it for unto us was the gospel preached as well as unto them but the word preached did not profit them not being mixed with faith in them that heard it for we which have believed do enter into rest as he said as I have sworn in my wrath if they shall enter into my rest although the works were finished from the foundation of the world for he spoke in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise and God did rest the seventh day from all his works and in this place again if they shall enter into my rest seeing therefore it remains that some must enter therein and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief again he limits a certain day saying in David today after so long a time as it is said today if you will hear his voice harden not your hearts that's the title of the message this morning harden not your heart everybody said that at last harden not your heart is this applicable to us I mean repeatedly he talked about less any of you or any of your brethren he's taking these truths that we learn from the first generation that he brought out of Egyptian bondage and that went through the wilderness and actually was out there for 40 years and perished he's drawing upon this example and warning them that he was writing too and warning us isn't that the same thing not happened to us right he said it repeatedly let's look at it again make sure we were clear about this back up to the 7th verse again in the 3rd chapter he said verse 8 harden not your heart and then in verse 13 he said exhort one another daily that's talking about you and me we need to be encouraged and exhorted and cautioned daily am i reading the Bible daily while it's called today lest any of you be quite hardened through the deceitfulness of sins and verse 15 he said while it said today if you will hear his voice what harden not your hearts and then again there in chapter 4 and verse 7 he said today after so long the time as it is said today if you will hear his voice what harden not your heart is this important I mean if it's if it's one time in the scripture it's important if it's four times in the same page we should be going but we got to pay attention to this we got if and when he says you need to be encouraging and exhorting each other about this daily I don't think we've put enough emphasis on this I know what in our soon be 30 years of ministry looking back over it I'm beginning to see this as absolutely one of the biggest problems that exists among Christians anything practically that you want to talk about can be overcome there is an answer for but you can get in a situation with this where there is no remedy there is no cure there is no fix now I'm gonna need you to leave with me this morning and these sessions we we're gonna need to get into some things that are sobering but I'm not just talking to people that got saved yesterday mm-hmm I don't know what to do with this already a lot of folks in here have been safe for a while and have heard a lot and this is all the more situation to be cautious because when you've heard a lot and for a long time you can get hardened to it and it's a very serious situation the word hardened if you look it up it it means to endure rate which means to make callous to make stubborn to become unfeeling when he said harden not your heart what exactly as he said he's saying don't let your heart become hard just like it says don't let your heart become calloused don't let your heart become stubborn and unfeeling you know there are a whole lot of folks that actually take pride in their own stubbornness including Christians and one of the big parts of the nature of the devil is this stubbornness this rebellion it's a big part of what makes him what he is and the reason it's so prevalent in the earth is because he's the guy this world and from the very beginning what he was doing when he was out there lined Eve and tempting her and tempting at him about that fruit he wasn't just trying to trick them I Eve was deceived but the way she got there was by letting this in she knew it was wrong Adam wasn't even deceived so he knew it was wrong so if they know it's wrong while they're still out there he was able to breathe to mock the devil and to inject into them his nature of rebellion and they defied God and they hardened themselves against how many understand there's no way that the inside of them and their spirit wasn't screaming get away from the tree get away from here believe what God said don't listen to him and they had to harden themselves to that we just got through reading in this chapter hardened through the deceitfulness of sin did you see that deception and hardness go hand in hand and so from them having fallen all the way down through humanity there is this rebellion in flesh you can see it with a little one hadn't been in the world a few months can't even talk and they go you don't even need an interpretation [Laughter] what are they saying no no no no no there's something that rises up in the flesh and even though you know what's right in your heart you've got this to contend with don't you you do I do even though you're born again it wasn't your flesh it got born again now was it hmm it was your spirit it was the inner man and the thing is and this is where the trouble comes in your flesh is just like Joe centers down the streets flesh then got saved yet you'll flash it just like his and that's why Galatians talks about this other passages talk about is that the flesh is against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh right and everyday you got it aside which one you go yield to and you can do wonderful for six months and be full of faith and full of power and just be walking into glory and get up the next day and just yield to the flesh and act like a heathen if you won't - did you know it's true oh I know you know it's true [Applause] [Laughter] if we got any question about it we can ask the people that live with you in their houses we all have flesh and if you yield to the flesh you will be yielding to this this defiance this rebellion fear and unbelief and what will happen is it will harden your spirit your heart it'll harden you and that my friends is a dangerous situation now I'm getting a little bit ahead of myself for a lot I suppose but we'll touch on this and then that so you'll be believing God with me the Lord did you hear that word earlier transition transition is upon us it's here things are changing they're gonna be changing I mean that's they're always changing but sometimes they change more rapidly and more radically than at other times and there are situations in which people are going to miss out if they don't make some changes did you hear me because they have just been hard-headed and stubborn they're good people in so many ways but when it comes to certain things in certain situations they are as hard as a brick wall and they've got their reasons and they've got their excuses for why they're that way and they've justified themselves but friend it is a dangerous thing did you hear me it can get you into a situation where there is no recovery I'm not just saying that I'm quoting the scripture and we're going to get to them before we get through but go with me to Genesis I say that just so you'll you'll be believing with me because I you know why would the Lord have us beyond this I'm believing they're gonna be mighty changes huh and hindrances are going to be removed and things that have been held back will come in oh come on come on torments and things that have held people out how many believe the anointing can destroy yokes huh and remove burdens and and break bondages and grace can come in and hearts can be softened hearts can be changed and so then lives will be different and what the enemy meant for destruction will not affect will not prosper his devices will not be successful and the will of God will be fully done People of God not be robbed in Genesis the well excuse me Exodus I told you wrong Exodus 8 one of the crowd can sit like this the poster child for hardness of heart his Pharaoh king of egypt I'm glad you laugh right then you needed to how many of that's true though I mean he's what's he known for he hardened his heart he hardened his heart again and again but I want you to notice that it wasn't just him hardness hardening his heart but a sequence in Exodus the eighth chapter Exodus chapter eight you know the judgments happened the the miracles happened the Lord said through Moses let my people go at first and first off he said who is Jehovah I don't know who Jehovah is and I'm not going to let let you go well miracles begin to happen signs and wonders and judgments on them and he still I mean they're being destroyed and he wouldn't do it now I want you to know and you've heard this you know about this but I want you to put yourself in that place with that situation what's going on with him he's the Pharaoh he's not used to anybody telling him what to do right and so even though it got to the place where he saw I mean the nation's being destroyed his pride can you see this he's hardened himself in pride and pride has that effect on people a hardening where is how do you soften yourself you humble yourself humbling yourself is an exercise of softening your heart in the eighth chapter and the fifteenth verse one of these plagues had just come again they the frogs you know verse 13 the frogs died and verse 14 this is Exodus 8 they gathered them together in heaps and the land stank and when Pharaoh saw there was respite he hardened his heart and hearkened not unto them as the Lord had said now back back in verse 8 when he's got frogs hopping out of his coffee cup and in his oven and in his bed in his shoes here he asked them entreat the Lord that he take away these frogs and I will let the people go that's verse 8 but as soon worse' 15 when Pharaoh saw that there was respite or one translation says relief what did he do he immediately hardened his heart again didn't he so he's a liar isn't he because he just got through saying asked the Lord to get these frogs out of here and I'll let you go but as soon as the frogs were cleared out he said no I'm not letting you go and and and can you can you hear in that and can you see in that a hardening he's saying no I'm not gonna let you go this didn't just happen one time it happened again and again and again and again look going over to the the nineteenth verse there came you know lice after this and lice was everywhere men beasts verse 19 and the magicians came to Pharaoh and they now they're testifying they said this is finger of God they said this you understand a few verses ago nobody around there believed in God it's a truth Pharaoh was saying who is God I don't acknowledge any God I mean they preached that he was God a Living God so he's not gonna acknowledge another God but his own magicians they come in and tell him hey this is God why are they telling him this they want him to back off so they're not all destroyed but what did he do but his heart was hardened and he hearkened not to them as the Lord said skip them down to the 32nd verse same thing happened here when the swarms had come and Pharaohs trying to make a deal ya get get get us relief again and I'll let you go verse 28 he said I will let you go and verse 29 he did it but he told Pharaoh before he left he said let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the Lord you remember the phrase in Hebrews hardened through the deceitfulness of sin because he's already done this before he'd say yeah yeah get get us delivered and and I'll let you go and as soon as they were delivered he said now huh I'm not gonna let you go and Moses went out from Pharaoh and entreated the Lord and the Lord did according to the word of Moses and he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh from his servants from his people that remain not one I'm gonna take supernatural power to get every fly out yeah God can do it we just said there didn't remain a one not one and so what did Pharaoh do thanked and praised God for His mercy what did he do he hardened his heart at this time also neither would he let the people go now we could take time and keep reading into the next chapter and you see the same thing you have you read the story before you know how this goes right but I want you to notice when the pressure is on he doesn't think he's going to make it he starts repenting doesn't he and he says yeah I'll get this off of me and I'll do what God said but as soon as he got free as soon as it was gone what'd he do about that pride he's right back up that hardnesses or not no I'm gonna do it I'm gonna do it now want you to remember what happened to them it got worse and worse and worse and finally everybody's firstborn died in one night including his right and at that point everybody's scared I mean his own staff his own people are yelling at him let them go let them go for every one of us is dead and finally he let him go just probably out of terror in fear that they wouldn't live out the night but how many know they hadn't been gone any length of time - what does he do he who he calls his generals he hardens his heart they chase after him and it didn't end until he was dead on the bottom of the sea there was no cure in what he had can you see this there was how many understand he could have repented anyplace but it went worse and worse and worse until he who he and his people his whole army all the firstborn totally destroyed look in Proverbs 29 please this verse sums this up and is a big part of what I believe the Lord's leading us in in my part of this meeting proverbs actually chapter 28 there's something that leads up to this proverbs 28 verse 13 he that covers his sins shall not prosper you know in job it's written who has ever hardened himself against God and prospered well I'm understand that has never worked getting hard with God are there people on the planet that have gotten hard with God oh it's so sad there are many many many that something didn't go the way they wanted it to or the way they were praying that it would and they feel like God let him down and there are who knows many many hearts hardened against him they've quit going to church among so called word and faith people many many they you know they made a confession and it didn't happen they prayed a prayer it didn't happen somebody died somebody didn't make it through this and something didn't happen in this area and they they get hard at God the the psalmist said concerning the Lord with the pure he shows himself pure with the froward he shows himself froward if you will humble yourself and be tender-hearted before God he even though he is so awesome and mighty he could scare you absolutely to death out of your breath with hardly lifting up his hand yet if you'll be tender-hearted he'll be tender with you but if you get hard with him you're gonna come up against the wall how many other psalmist said with the froward that will show thyself froward contrary and if you do that how many know there is no help anywhere helps and you're being a complete fool you are hardening yourself against your only help your only hope how many Noah Pharoah had to had any understanding and revelation he would have jumped off that throne huh he to put his nose in his carpet or whatever was in front of it and asked Moses to pray for him wouldn't he even if he had never had any experience of God how many understand if you got any smart it's not going to take too long into this thing with these kind of signs and wonders anybody could get a clue and go wow this is this is something beyond men and anything we've ever seen or know what this is given us as an example of hardness to just show the extent this goes to you can be face to face with the glory of God and the most amazing miracles and you can still retain your pride and harden your heart and stiffen your neck any of us can do it at any time we're fools if we do how many know the smart man the wise men the wise woman will humble themselves under the mighty hand of God huh will humble themselves bow before him have a heart that is soft it's mostly soft tinder tinder I found in my own life times that I'm the closest to God and my heart is the the most right and the most consecrated and dedicated to him tears come easy for me then quick and easy quick to repent you don't wonder around and debate about it half a day man you see you're wrong boom hit the floor Oh God I'm know the other thing you could do is well I mean other people do that I don't know what's so wrong with that I'll have to look at that some more can can you hear the spirit of this what what is that it's pride and what else is it it's a stiffness it's a resistance it's a hardness he said if you cover your sins you won't prosper you can't pride and rebellion is sin what else did he say though what's the good news but if you're confessing and forsaken what will happen you'll get mercy did you know he resists the proud but what does he do with the humble he gives grace how many want grace how many want grace and mercy then you better not be stiff-necked you better not be hard-headed and stubborn and hard-hearted you better be tender-hearted soft-hearted he went on the same verse 14 happy is the man that fears and references all way I'm gonna understand if Pharoah was blind to who he was getting in the face of how many oh you got to be blind to stand up in the face of the Almighty and lie and say yeah I'll do it and say no I changed my mind who is this god I don't know no God I'm Pharaoh I do what I want how many understand you got to be a fool you got to be a blind fool to stand before the face of the Almighty who created the heavens and the earth and talk and think like that Nebuchadnezzar did that he was ruler of the known world the Bible said even the beasts of the field were given to him and he built him a place he could look out over the vastness of it and he got up there and he put his hand on his portrayal and he said look what I have made for myself I am the man I am we man I am the man and God said you ain't the man so let's see how you like eating grass and he lost his mind just like that he didn't know if he was a cow or a man he didn't they put him out in the pasture they did and he walked around and then his fingernails grew long and his head didn't take a bath he thought he was a dog or a cow I didn't know what he was until all these much passed and he stood up one day and he said I ain't the man and he wrote letters and said the Lord he is God and he puts up whoever he wants to and he puts down whoever he wants to and everybody everywhere ought to worship Him I want to know there's a lot of people on the planet need to get this revelation don't cuz they they really think there's something in and of themselves and they're getting God's face and they say such things and you've got to be a blind flying fool to say that before the one who's gives you your next breath and not realize how how many understand how frail we are I mean it hardly takes anything to kill us did you know that I mean it's just the grace of God that will make it through the day today right where we are we're we're failed and we don't even know what is right and what is wrong and what to do and what we have no understanding no discernment unless he gives us light I'm to understand every good gift every perfect gift every bit of light and understanding and strength that we have has come from him and if we have any understanding every day when our eyes open one of the first things I hid our mind and hid our mouth is thank you lord thank you lord you are my life you're in you I live and move and have my being everything I have this good is from you and everything that turns out right and everything that I'm able to do that's good it was you it wasn't just me it was the grace of God in me and on me it was the knowing of God on me and through me and I give you all the glory somebody say I give you all the glory come on lift up your hand say lord I give you all I give you all the glory I'll give you all the glory I'll give you all the glory I give you all the glory hallelujah you know the scripture said I will that men pray everywhere lifting up holy hands without wrath and doubting this paints a picture doesn't far different from this you know preachers we get a different perspective from the platform looking back than you do looking up here and just all the time you see you see these looks you see these Scouts you have to not dwell on the Myrtle it'll distract you and you'll see some people oh they love God their hands are up and you can just tell just their stance just their body language says I yield to you and there's others like this like you can't make me I don't care what you say it's in the face it's in the eyes they may say they may put on a smile and go mmm hi hallelujah it's it's an on yielding now so many of them think they have a reason one and I'm seems like I'm just touching some things this morning and maybe we'll get to expound on them as we go through but you're believing God with me right I mean so many feel justified in being so hardened because they say they have been hurt they've been hurt and so they had to harden themselves to protect themselves this is a lie I said this is a lie maybe they have been hurt I'm not denying that but it is a lie that you had to harden yourself to protect yourself the truth is the more you harden yourself the more you're going to hurt now I believe God will bring this out and give us light on this as we go but I'm telling you that's the truth that's the truth the more you harden yourself the lonelier you're gonna be the harder life is going to be and the more you are going to hurt and you can blame other people if you want to but it's you hardening yourself because when what when something's hardened what does that mean things cannot penetrate things cannot get in you remember the parable of the sower the different types of ground the first type of ground you may remember what type of ground it was Wayside remember that and do you remember what happened the seed was sown on it but the fowl of the air came and just picked it up right off the top of the ground didn't he why it never got in and if you read Matthews account it said they didn't understand it it never they never understood or discerned or valued or received what they heard it never got in them it never got into their heart it might have bounced off their ears it might have came before their eyes the thought might have went through their mind but it never got in it never penetrated them hardened through the deceitfulness of sin the Bible in Romans talks about the understanding being darkened because of not being thankful you showed me a tender hearted person I'll show you a humble person and a thankful person a hard-hearted person is a proud person and an unthankful they're not acknowledging and they're not thanking well we've already gone over a couple of of really important things if you're serious about humbling yourself and getting your heart more tender you could begin to practice it right now today just by acknowledging that you're totally dependent on him all the time and thanking him all the time right thanking him thanking him thanking him thanking him it has a a breaking up action inside you thank you master you still in Proverbs he said happy is the man that fears our way that is reverential but he that hardens his heart shall fall into mischief evil destruction now look at chapter 29 this is what we've been referring to alluding to the whole time verse 1 he that being often reproved hardeneth his neck what will happen shall suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy without remedy somebody say without remedy what does that mean without remedy it's no cure one translation says no recovery from let me read this to you from other translations the the NIV says a man who remains stiff-necked after many rebukes will suddenly be destroyed without remedy the new century said whoever is stubborn after being corrected many times will suddenly be hurt beyond cure so that's where I got that phrase part of that phrase earlier the more hard you are the more you're gonna hurt right see it's alive the devil harden yourself so you don't get hurt that's a lie that's the very way to get hurt the most now that was worth you you come into church this morning right there right because the world believes this and a whole bunch of the church believes that oh you got to throw up your defenses you gotta you got to protect yourself because I've been hurt bad before and and when it happened I made up my mind I'm never gonna let that happen again you don't even know what happened you you've skewed it a lot of people don't even remember they've recreated stuff in their own mind from what actually happened 20 30 40 years ago are you with me now but one thing's for sure the Bible is true the Bible is true and the only future of hardening yourself no matter what your reasons are is destruction I don't want to be destroyed I don't want you to be destroyed hmm I know this is maybe different than what you thought you would hear this morning but uh all I know to do is give what the Lord puts in my heart I don't have anything else other than that and I don't believe this is negative I believe it's sobering I know it's sobering we may get in the floor for this is over with and cry I'm serious we may repent did you hear me and that's all right but on the other side of this is glory the the English version says if you get more stubborn every time you are corrected one day you'll be crushed and never recover mama the God's word translation says suddenly you'll be broken beyond repair the Living Bible says suddenly you'll be broken and never have another chance you I don't know of another thing in the Bible that the Bible itself says this is incurable I've been involved in the healing ministry for years and and you know to me the word and curable is just don't exist right and there is no disease it can't be healed well we had a wonderful report Sunday of a lady healed of lupus glory to God doctors have given her the paperwork discharged her said you're free you're healed the doctor said you have made my day what way to God there is no such thing as an incurable sickness and incurable disease how many know it's the truth there is no such thing and other conditions are fixable curable you can be ignorant that is not an incurable condition right you can learn we are all living proof what you can learn don't you even unbelief unbelief is not an incurable condition I mean we got people like Abraham and Sarah in Hebrews 11 and we got passages in the scripture that showed where they responded to God in gross unbelief left at the promise of God laughs that's funny talk about unbelief but they got cured I said they must have got cured they got right and instead of scoffing and mocking and laughing and making fun they started believing God and got the miracle answer anyhow and wound up in Hebrews 11 unbelief is not an incurable condition isn't that good to know being broke poverty is not it you can be the brokest person on the planet it's not incurable you can be the sickest man or woman it's nothing too hard for the Lord but did you see this you can get yourself in a place not not just harden in your heart for a little bit through repeated now we looked at the story of Pharaoh that was over and over again wasn't it yes not one time not twice not three times over again over and over the same thing how many know he had to know better time after time after time and what does this say he who being what one time reproved twice three times Oh often oh this is how people get to that incurable place you just keep stiffening your neck and hardening your heart you can get yourself to a place where nobody can get through to you nobody can talk to you not even God himself and when you get there the only thing that's going to happen as soon suddenly destruction will be that if we believe this then we ought to be very serious that when something comes up we don't play with it we humble ourselves now quick because we want to keep our hearts tender and never let ourself get like this tender-hearted soft hearted pliable the Bible said resist the devil resist the devil and he had flee from what about God no I said yield yourselves didn't it go over there and look at it was that James 4:6 and seven James for six but he gives more grace wherefore he says God resists the proud you don't want to be resisted so my god resisting you if God be for us who can be against us if God be against us who can help you out God resists what what does resist me and the Lord's helping us out already this morning oh thank you lord thank you lord why would God be resistant to proud everything everything in the creation of God operates off the principle of sowing and reaping everything why would God be resisting this person because they are resisting him pride is resisting the obstinacy is another word for hardness and rebellion goes with this and rebellion has to do with resistance that's what that's one of the definitions of the word rebellion and and pride the very nature of pride is rebellion it's the nature of the devil himself why would God be resisting this person because that's what they're sowing can you see this that's what they're sowing their sowing resistance against him so they're reaping it there they're getting hard with him so he's resisting them it's only just but what else what else but he does what he gives grace to the humble you soft in your heart before him you humble yourself before him it gives him a right to be kind to you oh do you like this to be kind to you and even though you deserve a good spanking it gives them a right to be tender with you and merciful with you well if we had any smarts we would be gracious to everybody we would be so kind everybody why because we know we gonna need it for the day sir we go need him to be gracious with us and kind with us there's no way we can earn and work and achieve and attain and merit the full blessings of God we can't do it the only way we'll enjoy it is by the grace of God just by being gracious to us and merciful and sparing us and forgiving us and overlooking our ignorance but if we sow hardness we don't qualify to reap this what do you say he gives grace to the humble you want grace humble yourself verse 7 was it saying submit yourselves who's going to make you do that no they understood subject is you nobody's gonna make it God Himself not gonna make you nobody can make it you must submit yourself therefore to God resist the devil and he will flee from you get the picture in here let me sit like this you've got to be watchful about who you resist right yes resist the devil but not resist God now most people you say well you know how to tell me that I ain't or was this guy and yet they're doing it all the time because he speaks through people he does things through people the devil does things through people you know when Jesus wheeled around and said to Peter get behind me Satan he's resisting the devil isn't he and yet that's Peter standing there that he's manifesting through and the same thing God manifests through people the devil manifests through people and God was speaking through Moses and through era and Pharaoh thought he had a problem with Moses right and he's defiant in front of Moses and even the people of God later they thought Moses and Aaron were their problem didn't they and they spoke against them and they railed against them but what were they really doing when they refused to obey Moses and Aaron they were resisting God can you see that because the Moses didn't come up with this his self he was saying what the Lord gave him he was leading them in the way the Lord was directing them you know the exact same thing happened with Jesus I mean the rulers of the Jews the rulers and leaders of the Pharisees and Sadducees they saw him they despised what he said they hated what he did and the Lord said they've hated the Scriptures fulfilled they hated me without a cause I only said what I heard my father say I only did what I what he told me to do and sort of been hating me they've hated both me and my father they thought they just had a trouble with this carpenter right they thought they he just had a problem and they're resisting this itinerant preacher they're stirring up problems but they were resisting God weren't they and said we need the discernment to know when God is talking to us and when he's speaking through us no matter who it is or where it is because if we don't like it save and that's the thing you know that preachers you know this already I've had Pete if you've gone very far in the ministry then you've had people get mad at you I've had people meet me out in the parking lot and I thought I thought for sure they about to take a swing at me I mean they were Samantha couldn't talk straight I thought people meet me out in the hall and they're shaking and they're just full of fury can hardly talk so mad and and this was this guy at the park at parking lot I'm talking about he's gonna take a swing at me he you know what he was mad about I kept saying the word rich RI CH rich and I guess I said it a lot of times during that surface rich rich rich rich rich rich rich and he's just he's just blubbering and going that ain't right that ain't right I said which verse don't you like God gives us richly all things to enjoy and I started quoting him quoting him and just made it matter these are versus how many Stan Heath this thought he had trouble and a problem with Keith I didn't write these verses right but see people don't want to do that you know if you got any sense you don't wanna jump up in God's face huh no they like to imagine you know me and God we're like this but I can't stand that preacher who I can't stand that one it who like he'd stand that one and so they get heart they harden themselves with these individuals and with these messages and with these ministries and with these manifestations of the Spirit and don't realize they are resisting God and in doing that they will get resisted and if they do it long enough and repeatedly enough they will bring themself into destruction Miami and a number of these it's not I'm not saying they'll be lost some of these folks that these people that are born again but there will be destruction of the flesh that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus but even so how many don't want any destruction it's not ours from the Lord we're redeemed right so who do we resist let me go over this real slow ha the devil and only the devil what about God we never is this God never we always yield to God right God says something we talk soft we get ready to respond right even if it's totally different than what we thought he's right yes sir yes sir right now sir he humble you said you think about that syrophoenician woman who reached into the future because the Lord said you know it's not right to take the children's bread and cast it to dogs I'm not saved but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel that wasn't available yet to the Gentiles but by faith she reached out into the future and got it got it anyhow got her hey how'd she do it send her away you to be if you'd have been very proud you couldn't take taken that could you man you just stiffened yourself send me away and it went on and it went on and then it's not right to take the children's bed and throw it to dogs and and yet what'd she do did she humble herself did she if the Lord says you know you're a dog your people are dogs what do you say Bow Wow is right exactly right because the truth is they were the syrophoenician lived like dogs hehe wasn't trying to insult her that's just the way it was and yet she says okay right you say we dogs we don't but you know little dogs get crumbs under the table don't think so I just want my crumb shit-faced she said I don't I don't need a whole loaf and just a crumb of this will fix what I got just I believe a big smile broke across the Masters face he lifted her he said woman you've got something it's your faith be it unto you even though he got she got home her daughter was delivered and healed glory to God but many many people would never have received their pride could not have taken that their racial pride their national pride their family pride they too got up and said what we saw the Phoenicians just as good as you Jews let me tell you about some Jews I know dog dog who you calling a dog Bridger I'm gonna people get huffy old man oh and she could have had her say she could have told him where to get off and left without and her daughter's life been totally destroyed and hers too and you'd have never known about her she wouldn't be in the book the humble get grace and with enough grace you can get through anything with enough grace you can reseed anything nothing's too big nothing's too hard nothing's out here with enough grace you can be anything you can be more than you ever dreamed you could be God can use you to accomplish more than you ever imagined but just be sure you don't pull on Nebuchadnezzar no matter how much God bless you how much he adds to you and how much he prospers you don't grab ahold of your rail and go I'm the man unless you like grass [Laughter] stand on your feet everybody to God okay oh thank you Lord singers players would y'all all come up Oh bless the Lord let's practice these words lift up your hands not a stance of defiance but lift up your hands the act of submission act of humility begin to tell the Lord you know you know that you wouldn't have anything you wouldn't be anything you wouldn't know anything good if it wasn't for him and begin to repent in any any area in fact I'll just lead everybody in the prayer everybody said out loud father God any times any situations every situation a hardened to myself I became stubborn unyielding obstinate I repent I don't want to be like that by your grace a purpose not to be like that open my eyes help me to realize people you've manifested through people you've spoken through and I didn't like it and I resisted them and thought it was just them if it was you speaking through them and I didn't admit it have mercy on me helped me to see it helped me to realize it I'm willing to be willing to change by faith I humbled myself before you hallelujah glory to God glory to God just lift your hands praise the Lord oh thank you look oh thank you lord thank you lord tell the Lord you love him and praise oh thank you thank you master for loving us and helping us and giving us all we need oh thank you thank you thank you thank you for the George Carlin glory to God thank you Father we're off to a great start here aren't we praise God give God glory lift your hands and give him the glory lift up your hands to the Lord lift up your hands to the Lord [Applause] can I can I say something here before we're dismissed for this service this is something that I'd like us to do throughout this entire time we should be doing it anyway but brother Keith I've gone back and I've been listening to a lot of brother Hagin messages I just finished probably for the third times plans purposes and pursuits and one of the things that brother Hagin has brought out brought out to us back gosh in the late 80s now was how to reverence a spirit of God in these meetings and we don't clap for the Lord that's the lowest form of appreciation we lift our hands before him and we glorify Him and some of you may not have heard that some of you may not have been familiar with what the Lord brought to us about that but throughout these meetings let's do that let's reverence the holy spirit and let's do it in such a way that we we don't do this for anyone else on earth we don't do this for anyone else except him and we want to offer him the highest praise and the highest glory keeping ourselves tender towards him so whenever somebody says let's give Lord the Lord honor let's give him praise let's magnify him that is that is our cue right there that we lift our hands to the Lord we don't clap for him but we lift our hands to the Lord and so father we do that right now we tenderize ourselves to you in these meetings we reverence you Father we glorify you

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Published: Tue Oct 16 2012