Leadership & Blindness

well i want i won't be before you long first bless the lord but i want to go into um a follow-up just a follow-up as to where we've been over the past couple of weeks we've been talking about salvation backsliding reprobation amen we've been talking about some of everything pertaining to salvation amen and we're trying to look at it from god's perspective that's what's important we've got to see it from god's perspective glory to god i i want to go let's see where we're going to start uh let's go to the to our base scripture in 2nd corinthians the 3rd chapter 17 to the 18th verse let's see if i can find it here second second corinthians 3 and 17 3 17. and now the lord is that spirit and where the spirit of the lord is there is liberty now that's where we were a few days ago we started on this scripture and so much has been taught about it since then amen and i hope that that we're retaining what god is saying where the spirit of the lord is there is what liberty liberty now when i when i when i when i look at this this verse of scripture it ought it ought to get us all excited because the opposite of liberty is bondage isn't that right amen now where the spirit of the lord is the scripture says there is liberty in other words implying there is no bondage you know there's another word in hebrews amen that's our second chapter that tells us that god has not given us the spirit of bondage again that we might fear are you working with me amen he has not given us the spirit of bondage again so that means that we had a spirit of bondage living inside of us are you working with me a lot of people don't want to accept that as fact you know we we don't we don't want to accept the the the truth as to what we were before we met god but we were children of the devil jesus even said you you know you're of your father the devil and it's his lust you will do amen glory to god and that that the enemy had a spirit that was working inside of us can can can you follow me here he had a spirit that was working inside of us and we know it now to be the spirit of iniquity now that was that was his and i remember uh jesus said uh the devil was a is a liar and he he's the father of lie and when he speak he speaks of his own are you working with me amen in if if the spirit of satan lives in you then those deeds that you do they're going to be his amen are you working with me the deeds that we do will be of the devil because we were of the devil amen and you know he said he said his lusts you will do that bondage that we were under forced us according to romans the seventh chapter when we would do good what evil was present isn't that right so the things that i would do i found that i couldn't do even though i delighted in the law of god after the inward man there was another law working in our members come on are you working with me amen that brought us into captivity amen i remember jesus saying something amen when he in in one of his messages he says i came to set the captives for you right are you working with me amen glory to god and and uh some of us don't want to believe that we were actually captives amen but then why couldn't we just amen live holy why couldn't we keep the ten commandments amen we couldn't do it amen even our conscience was full of of sin and dead works and when the conscience is full of sin and dead works it cannot judge the deeds of the flesh are you working with me because that's its function to judge the deeds of the flesh word of god but now the conscience was under captivity the will was under captivity come on are you working with me when i would do when i will to do amen there was something more powerful than me living inside of us are you working with me glory to god so amen that i didn't have the liberty i didn't have the liberty to serve god that's right i didn't have the liberty to do the things that i knew were right to do are you working with me the things that i knew were righteous i could not find it in me to perform them are y'all working with me why because amen i was in bondage i was under the spirit of bondage but now the scripture says where the spirit of the lord is there's liberty there's liberty to live holy let me tell you something saints let me just slow it down right now amen let me tell you something if you cannot live holy then you're not born again let's just be honest because see this scripture this whole bible this new testament is written to the church the church is a body of baptized believers something god said to me on the way here he says i didn't and i told you not to make provisions for the flesh i didn't write and i'm trying to to articulate it the way he said to me he says i didn't base my whole redemption plan on sin my redemption dealt with sin sin is supposed to be a done deal come on for the sons of god i'm not i'm not spending what what says in the i heard the lord so plainly on the way here he said 90 of the preaching of the gospel is directed at getting saints out of sin think about it we preach more amen about trying to get the saints to live holy then we do salvation to the loss we got maybe 10 of the all the preachers of the gospel going after the loss the most of it is we're preaching to to those who are already born again who act as if they're still in bondage amen the church acts as if there is no liberty we have no liberty see that god said i didn't do that you did that you did that because of promiscuity in the body you permitted yourself to be sinners oh come on we permitted ourselves to be sinners we permitted ourselves to go back to sin and then now amen we've made all kind of allowances we made all kind of explanations we've even formed doctrines that give place amen for failure that gives space for the flesh amen glory to god to be overcome amen by sin we have created whole doctrines god said the body of christ has created his own doctrine its own uh salvation glory to god we have a uh amen an erroneous perception of salvation and that has to change and it has changed now has changed now because jesus is soon to come amen jesus soon to come back for the church amen but that but that let me tell you the scripture says before he does there'll be a great falling away that falling away has already taken place there glory to god there are a lot of people that are going to be in hell because they are unbelievers they were saved but they became unbelievers they don't believe everything god says they don't even discern when glory to god when god raises up leaders amen after his own heart they don't discern those leaders because there have been so much allowances for sin in the body of christ until now even righteous leadership is not discerned god can speak to the body through a leader glory to god amen that god can tell that leader tell my people this and it's always open for discussion it's open for discussion and let me let me let me tell you how god sees that can i give you an instance with how god sees what he says when you open it up for discussion or you open it up for reasoning when we open up amen something that god has has spoken to someone to tell us and we we we we got well i don't know i i well i what i feel like the lord said this and and i've i i just believe this and and i just god don't care what you believe god don't care what you think god says i've already spoken and you can't discern that i'm speaking to you oh come on let me tell you something saying this is serious this is very very serious this has been so heavy on my heart because there are those who will not make it in they will stand before the judgment seat and they will not make it into the kingdom because they did not discern god they just didn't discern god they were too caught up in self they were too caught up in what they think what they feel what they feel ought to be what they think should be well you know i i just feel like this and i just god doesn't care about all of that god says amen i'm not leaving it up to your discretion i am leading you i am the guide i tell you what to do you're supposed to follow me if can you imagine if if our life the path of our life was left completely up to our discretion i don't want that i don't want to have to decide what to do i want god to you know i used to tell him this i said lord look don't don't don't please don't talk to me in dark sentences and and dreams and stuff i gotta interpret and all of that just tell me what you want me to do just say mary do this and i will do it all you got to do is make it plain just make it plain and i'll do it lord god but you know what glory to god we're going to find out why why why is god why is god not discerned why can't we discern god and see when you don't discern god you are subject to bondage you are subject to other voices you're subject to your own voice you're subject to your own reasoning you're subject to what you're hear on television what you hear in other conversations what to what you hear on your job what your friends say you're subject to everything but god when you don't discern him are y'all working with me and when you don't discern god it's because you have submitted or subjected yourself to some form of bondage there is spondage working in you are you working with me look at this look at this next verse the 13th verse the 18th verse 18th i'm sorry but we all with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the lord now when he said we all what is he talking about he's talking to the church you're not talking to sinners he's saying all of us that are born again with an open face we behold as looking in a mirror the glory of god oh hallelujah the glory of god and what else he says are changed into the same image from glory to glory we are changed into the same image of the glory of god that we see in the word that's the mirror the word of god is our mirror and we are changed into that same glory that we see in the word of god are y'all working with me now see you either believe that or you don't you see you see dave if when i read something in the word of god i have to discern is that me do i fulfill that and if i don't philip if i don't fulfill that i know i got to in order to make it in i've got to fulfill that see the the problem is some people read this and it just becomes knowledge it's just knowledge just just just more scripture to add more understanding amen more revelation glory to god but it's never something that we examine ourself by am i looking into the word of god seeing jesus and then when i continuously look do i see myself having been changed into that same image that's the bible that's the bible didn't say something close to christ something that might resemble christ it said the same image the same another word for one huh the same image there are no variations of christ you know how do i say this if the lord good morning shalisa if the lord if the lord allow anyone in your territorial spirit of influence to confront you about anything any deficiency of righteousness in your life that's mercy it may come from your husband your wife your child even amen amen your friend or a foe pastor but if if if the lord allows someone to confront you what do you do about it when i want you to stop and think all of us need to just take a moment stop and think how many times god has confronted us about the same thing come on now how many times has the lord confronted us about the same thing and we continue to do the same thing continue to have the same mind never change it same mindsets same disposition doesn't change how many years did we walk in things that we know god has confronted us with every year god confront us do you know we ought to raise our hand and tell god thank you that he didn't wipe us out that that he didn't write us off that he didn't kick us to the curb that we will not reprobate that he didn't just throw us back now god said now don't trample on my mercy don't think that i have to continuously because you've gotten by so many years don't think tomorrow is promised to you don't think now that you can just trample upon my grace trample upon my mercy glory to god do what you want and eventually you're going to repent oh i'm going to repent see because you've done that year after year after year after year you've done that after one confrontation after another continuously repent repent repent repent lord of god that's just a lifestyle of sin that's all that is repent just just some words you say why you know at intervals of sin amen it's not a change it doesn't change so how many times god has said stop doing this don't do that i'm sick of that now stop how many times have god confronted us over and over and over again and we now what do we do we bring we do despite to the scripture that says with the spirit of god is this liberty we have the ability to live holy so if god is confronting us we're just disobedient now i i have i've seen so much pride i've seen so much pride you know i i i um i'm the overseer of over 20 some churches most of them i started myself now i'm overseeing all those churches and god has blessed me tremendously tremendously i mean spiritually naturally you name it god has blessed me but i have never in my life seen so much pride so much pride as that that are in people that have heard the word receive fresh manna every year year after year after year year after year after year after year how do we dare continue to walk in our own pride how do we reject the warnings of the lord the confrontation of the lord how do we continuously continuously disobey god from me on down amen because i can look i can look at years of how god said look i'm sick of you now stop that stop that don't do that i i i i can't even count the times lord please forgive me but god said you better stop that stop that now that day over with that's over with don't try me don't try me it's getting late in the evening don't try me now your soul is hanging in the balance i'm not winking at it i'm tired of it i need true worshippers i need true worshipers i need people that are going to walk in the liberty of the spirit i need people that are going to be a manifested son of god that's who i need now we we we have this big head to think that god won't discard us come on we think god you know we because we've repented so many times and he's forgiven us we've got we somehow we've convinced ourselves that we won't be one of those that he just discards we won't be one of those that he just turns over we convinced ourselves of that but you don't know god that's right we are just a peon in the sea of people god god will reject us if we continue to reject him because we make ourselves a lie we become lie we become a people that says we don't have any liberty the devil still controls us we still glory to god we we we still have to do what the devil tells us that's just a lie and we have become that lie the every time we sin against god we maketh a lie because we are sons of god who were created sinless sinless no sin and when we sin we manifest a lie because here is a sinless creature righteous created in the image of god almighty sinning sinning sin in the face of god sin sin and then we have the audacity to just go back that you know that night or the next morning or whatever and say lord forgive me i'm not gonna do it anymore knowing that we're to do the same thing god said how long do you think how many how much longer you think i'm going to allow that how many more times are you going to try me in this saints the reason why god is saying this is because there's one thing that's one major thing that he's trying to bring to the body of christ and that's to fear the lord that's right he's trying to bring back the fear of the lord there is no fear of the lord in the body of christ body of christ amen calls his own shot the body of christ leads itself the body of christ takes everything god says and just put it up for debate put it up for discussion there's no guidance of the holy spirit the holy spirit is not even reverenced in the body of christ god says glory to god amen how long will you do despite to my spirit how long are you going to ignore it hallelujah we've been changed we've been changed into the same image amen in the same image of god okay now let's go to um second corinthians second corinthians the fourth chapter in the third verse i think it's the third through the sixth verse but if our gospel be hid it is hid to them that are lost if our gospel be what if it's hidden now he not remember this this is what god wanted me to want to show us this morning he's still talking to the church he's not talking to the sinners they're already lost this gospel not written to the world it's written to us it's written to us it's written to the church he says if this gospel be heard to anyone amen that's been born again if you can't hear the word if you can't receive the word of god then you lost if you can't discern oh lord if you can't discern the word of god if you can't descend so watch this don't see this is where christians have failed at the only time that you discern the word is when it's being read you can't discern the word when someone else is speaking it when if if it comes off this page and it out of the mouth of one of god's servants you can't discern it every time the word now comes out amen comes out off the page and comes through a vessel that god is using amen it's always open for debate you can't discern it you can't discern it i was i was talking to a gentleman and uh he was trying to convince me of a doctrine an erroneous doctrine and uh i was i i let him let him give all the scriptures all the scriptures and then i said to him i said well what about this scripture and this scripture and this scripture and that scripture and every time i mention a scripture he would reflect he would deflect what do you call it deflect amen he would always go someplace else he would never deal with the scriptures i brought for him he could not discern that god was speaking to him through the scriptures because they were coming from me are you here they come off the page amen and i'm speaking those scriptures and you can't discern them and you can't deal with them you have no rebuttal for them and they because they destroy your doctrine if you have to discuss those scriptures they will destroy mindsets they would destroy doctrines are y'all working with me amen but if this gospel is hidden if it's hidden from a son it's because the son of god is lost the father of the prodigal son had two sons i at tucson right one of them took his money and went to another land squandered it when he returned home the elder son was upset and the father said to the elder son he said you know it's right that we should rejoice because this your brother was lost he was lost but he still was the son was he still not the son he was still the son of the father but he was lost when he left home and did what he did he was lost and every time we walked out oh hallelujah every time we neglect to walk outside of the spirit when we don't walk in the spirit guess what we're lost you're lost we are lost every time we reject god every time we reject the word of god every time we refuse to walk in the spirit we are lost and when we and and there's some symptoms though of those that are lost what do you say here he said if this gospel here is he to those that lost what he said in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not i would not wait a minute god delivered us from the god of this world come on he delivered us from the god of this world how in the world now is satan able to come back and blind our mind blind the minds of them that don't believe that's how you don't believe now your mind is confused and blind and you'll believe a lie before you believe the truth you will receive everybody else's opinion everybody else's way and god and see god's way is so simple it's so simple god just says what he want to say he said now you do this that's all now it's not you go over here and people say well you know what you need to do this right here and do this and everything they're telling you to do is so complicated but you're going to find a way to do it because they said do it when god just said just do this right here baby just do this simple just simple not complicated just do this but we're going to find but somebody else can say but you know what if you do this right here a b c and d and we'll try to do a b c d e f g glory to god amen whatever they say amen we'll neglect what god says totally neglect what god said blind mind blinded blinded to the word of god blinded the gospel the word of god is hidden because you don't believe god and i asked god i said god what wait a minute wait wait wait wait god said they don't discern me they don't deserve me what is he talking about do you know when your mind has been blinded it's easy to reject the counsel of god it's easy and some people are buried what it what that word called passive aggressive they don't they're not they're not belligerent you know they just passively reject you know just a subtle rejection you know very nicely but they're going to do what they want to do anyway they're going to do what they want to do they're blinded their mind is blind and then there are some that are very arrogant i've encountered some of those recently that are just very arrogant in the face of counsel god is trying to counsel and and and what's really tragic about it is they think that they're being arrogant to me they really do they see this as their opportunity to just say what they want to say to dr banks so and get very arrogant and in the wrong spirit glory to god and i just like i recoil i said okay baby okay darling praise the lord i recoil i'm not i'm i don't have to address that i don't need to address that huh because the holy spirit will deal with that the holy spirit will deal with that because they are addressing the holy spirit they think that they are addressing dr banks but they are addressing the holy spirit that that spirit of arrogance there is a uh and it's sad because and this is what i've been fighting for for many years from in some people's lives as much truth as we hear there are still some martial that that don't see this gospel for what it is they still see this the preaching of the gospel as just good preaching things to greatly inform us things to just make us know give us knowledge they don't really see it as life i have to become that i have to become that it's not just for me to know it's it's not just for for for knowledge sake i have to become that if the word says it i have to be it that's that's that's and they and they don't believe that i've i've noticed that i i've been watching that and i'm like what is that lord why is it that there are those that can set on the truth they can sit on the truth for years and years and years and years and years hear the truth love the truth anon after the truth glory to god get excited about the truth but when there's a confrontation it's always up for debate when god says do this it's always open for debate how is it that god can give you a truth that that you believe will change your life and take you to heaven but then crisis can come situations can come and god said well in this situation just do this in this crisis just do that but you can't believe any of that but you believe everything else god has said except when he deals with you directly when he comes directly glory to god because if god used bishop jones to come and tell you something directly amen because you're facing you know you're facing something and bishop jones comes and tell you amen this is what you this is what what you need to do this is what god is saying this is what god is saying to all of us or whatever why is that open for debate yeah yeah when everything else he preaching you hallelujah praise the lord oh that message just moved me oh that was just awesome but now when when when when when there's something that you're facing huh and he comes directly to you and say but god said this suddenly now the mind is blinded you can't discern that god just like god said what he said on sunday morning god said what he said on wednesday evening at the dinner table that was god too that was god you can't discern it why because your mind has been blinded why because of unbelief unbelief why because you don't discern god now the problem with that is this if you cannot discern god then guess what you don't discern satan hello if you don't discern god then you don't discern satan are y'all working with me amen what is the what is the problem with that can you imagine not discerning satan then you'll follow him that's what it boils down to if you don't discern him you're following you'll follow what he whatever his intent is whatever his purpose is if you're listening to satan if you're not listening to god you got to be listening to the devil and you will do his bidding and think that you're doing god doing it for god you'll do you do what the devil tell you to do and you'll put god's name on it are y'all working with me read on lest the light of the glorious gospel of christ who is the image of god should shine unto them see if your mind wasn't blinded if you if you if you actually just believed then god the light of the gospel would shine in your heart oh my god and see the the thing about the gospel shining in the heart the light of the gospel shining in the heart is that darkness can't comprehend light light is always more powerful than darkness but we won't allow the light in that's what he's saying you won't allow the light you won't hear god you won't discern god you won't believe god so the light can't come in to get rid of the darkness are y'all working with me amen now notice what he says here read them for we preach not ourselves now listen listen to what paul said we don't preach ourselves now in other words he's saying if we gave you a message that was rooted and grounded in flesh then maybe you'd have some excuse he said but we don't preach ourselves who do we preach but christ jesus we preach jesus the lord and ourselves your servants for jesus's sake we are your servants on his behalf we are your servants we serve you hallelujah and it's just like sister marcel coming up to give me a drink of water a glass of water and i do this just knock it out her hand i don't want you to be my servant don't serve me that's what you tell us us leaders don't don't serve me take that away i don't want that i don't want that that's what you say when we that hear from god those of us who do hear from god not all of us do but those leaders that do hear from god and they are your servants and you reject what god tell them to deliver to you you're just doing this i don't want that take that away from me i don't want to hear that you may not say it that way but in your heart you're going to do what you want to do you've already decided what you're going to do and what you're not going to do but there's always somebody say always there's always a consequence for not hearing god always always a consequence when we don't hear god are y'all working with me let's go to second peter oh no no no no let's go to james james 1 23 to 25. for if any be a hearer of the word and not a doer he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass now now if you hear the word and not a doer listen to this now these are the people who are blind sons of god they come to church every time the door is open are y'all hearing me come to church every time the doors of the church are open hear the word hear the word but they are not a doer that person is is like a man looking at his natural face in a glass in a mirror what does he say for he beholdeth himself and go with his way he look at himself and go on his way and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was and straightway forget that he's the son of god do you know how dangerous that is do you know how dangerous it is to walk as if you have forgotten that you're a son of god but that's what happens when the devil blinds you when the devil blinds that that mind you look at yourself you look at yourself and you look you look at your hallelujah now notice what he said though you don't miss this you'll behold your natural face didn't he say that you behold behold as himself amen his natural face in a looking glass and he going his way satisfied you looking at a natural man that's why you miss god self is still in the mirror see we're supposed to remember the first scripture we're supposed to look in the mirror hallelujah and see christ when we're looking in the in the word we're supposed to see christ but instead we're looking in the word and we're we're we're applying that word to a natural man come on now we apply the word to our natural state we look in the word as a human being and not as a son y'all working with me when you look in that word and you still see yourself as a human being then you got to do everything humans do you're trying to do everything humans do to survive everything humans say that oh you need to do this to survive or you need to do that to survive oh you better look at this and you better get this you're doing everything that human beings do to survive why because when you looked in the mirror you saw yourself as a natural man glory to god you're walked away from it glory to god you don't forgot you have forgotten that you are a son of god you shouldn't look in the word and see amen the same thing that a a sinner sees you are a child of god used to look in this world word glory to god and see that i'm in this world but i am not of this world amen i have a natural body glory to god but i am the son of god i am a spiritual creature glory to god i am not subject to the same thing that these people are subject to we look at it glory to god and we look at the word and we see ourselves as natural beings still natural that's why we follow after everything that natural people talk about everything they say on the news oh you better do this and you better do that and you got to do this and god everything they tell us to survive they're telling us how to survive amen we're going to use all of their tactics to survive instead of just going to the word of god what did he say what did god say what did god say but as long as you see yourself in the natural you'll always debate god you always got a debate for him you always got reasoning for him you got to do everything you got to run everything god says through that that that that that oh what is that thing that that that thing amen you got to run it through some kind of of microscope that that now uh judges it against everything that the world says you got amen a filter thank you brenda amen you gotta have it's got to filter amen and and let's see how close it comes to what the world is saying and if it coincides with what the world has said i might do it as long as you continue to look at the at the word of god which is your looking glass as a natural person you will always deny christ always and you will always look to the world for survival you look to your government you look to your spouses you look to your job you look to your savings account you look for everything that you amen this world has to offer across the bible not even discerning that god can touch all of them and it's all gone god is your only hiding place he's your only hiding place but when you see yourself as natural guess what you're gonna do everything natural people do to survive are y'all working with me amen my last scripture here let's go to uh peter amen ii peter first chapter eighth verse through the eleven for if these things be in you and abound they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our lord jesus christ now he told you to add to your faith amen all these different virtues and he said if these virtues be in you and if they abound in you they make you they make it so that you you won't be barren or unfruitful in the things that you hear the knowledge that you receive it will be fruitful read on but he that lacketh these things but now wait a minute if you lack these things come on if you like these things where are we now come on is blind and cannot see afar off but if you like these things you're blind here we go back to blindness the the god of this world has blinded the mind the mind is blinded you can't even amen you know you're trying to fit god inside of your reasoning he doesn't fit his ways are not your ways his thoughts are not your thoughts he doesn't fit in your reasoning his purpose is beyond your purpose are y'all working with me you see god got one god got one purpose one one one for you one one for all of us and that is that we be conformed to the image of his son jesus and so and as long as your mind is blinding that can never happen for you you will corrupt see god did it as salvation but you if you continue to to to to be to to be led by the world or satan which is synonymous amen if you continue to be led by something other than god then you corrupt the image that he made you to be you corrupt it you become alive you become a lie if you don't add to your salvation these virtues you're blind and you can't see a far off uh-oh and listen to this and has forgotten that he was purged from his own sin have forgotten how do you forget that you were purged you live outside of the faith and confess the faith but live outside of it so long until you become comfortable as a lying saint a lie you become the lie and you become comfortable with the lie and you forget that you were purged by your sin of your sin you forget what is it what does it mean by forget you live as though that's what that means you live as though you were never purged of sin that's how you live what's the next verse say wherefore the rather brethren give diligence to make your calling and election sure uh oh wait a minute somebody said god did this no this scripture say for us to make our calling and election sure the onus is on us the responsibility to make our election we've already been elected by god we've already been called by god but he said you better make it sure because the race is not given to the swift not a battle to the strong but he that endureth to the end so you better make your call in in election sure stay in the faith don't depart from the faith walk inside of the faith stay in the boundaries of the faith for if you do these things you'll never fall will never fall but those who are blinded have already fallen notice what it says in the 11th verse for so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly now if you make your election sure how do i do that i listen to god i listen to god and for god i listen out for god i don't want to choose my way i don't want that responsibility and if i hear god and follow god he says an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of god we'll get into the kingdom let me tell you something saints if you've been blinded if you've been blinded if you feel that you've been blinded you can take the blinders off it's not hopeless it's not hopeless if you if you if you know that you have done despite the lordy spirit by continuously saying i'm not going to do it anymore i'm not going to do it anymore but you keep doing it if you have not listened to god knowing that you have not listened to god knowing that you have no confidence in the holy ghost don't have any confidence in the holy ghost don't even have confidence in the spirit that's in you the holy spirit that's in you let forget about the the holy spirit speaking through other people what about the one in you what about the spirit of god that's in you where is your confidence in him come on if you don't have confidence in him it's because you're blind you're blind you can't you you cannot discern god you're an unbeliever you don't believe that's what blind that's what gets you blind the fact that you don't believe god see see watch this you can't do all this stuff over here in god but right over here there's this one thing that you just don't believe don't think that that is irrelevant to your walk when if there's if there's this one thing over here that you don't believe that is god there's one thing that is god and you don't believe it lord god guess what you are an unbeliever it's going to affect everything about you everything about you so god is saying now if you are if you have shut aways and see just don't miss that scripture the one we went to if you look inside of that looking glass the word of god and behold a natural your natural face if you behold your natural face didn't know what it's scripture to say if you behold your natural face and that's where you are that's how you got blind you look into the word of god and you see yourself as a natural man that's beholding your natural face and when you see yourself as a natural individual individual now you got to do what natural people do to survive you listen to natural men you listen to their wisdom and now you're trying to survive by the wisdom of the world instead of what the word of god says because you have not seen yourself in the word as a son of god a spiritual being you don't see yourself in the image of god the scripture said the other scripture we read remember it says that when we look into that mirror we should see ourselves as christ being moved from glory to glory into the image of christ is that right amen but now if i look and i see myself as a natural person come on if i behold my natural face i should not behold my natural face because he said when i walk away from that i have forgotten i have forgotten what manner of person i am i am a son of god i've forgotten that because every time i look in the word i'm looking at it from a natural perspective i see myself as a natural person glory to god i cannot i cannot achieve i cannot achieve the image of god amen when i don't even see myself as the image of god i can't walk in that image because i don't see myself in the word i don't see myself why why can't i see myself when i'm looking in the word why can't i see myself as a son of god as a spiritual being someone that is not of this world why can't i see it why don't i see that because i've been blinded i'm blinded amen by the god of this world oh you oh saints let me tell you something amen you might as well receive it glory to god because god said it amen it's satan that has blinded you it is satan amen that you can't dress it up you can't see amen and it's not gonna smell good it's satan ain't but two spirits in this world amen and if you can't see god it's because satan got you blind if you can't perceive him if you don't know him when he's talking and and don't miss his point you can hear god you can you can read him amen when you read the scriptures oh god is talking but when god used a servant to tell you his mind and his heart you've got to debate that that's open for discussion because you don't discern god we must discern god amen stop putting god up for debate stop putting him up for discussion there's nothing to be discussed are y'all here there's nothing to discuss god said it we believe it and that settles it why did they see no more discussion are y'all working with me it's not too late if you feel that you have been blinded take the blinders off tell the devil he's a liar amen he's not going to make you alive i will perceive god i will perceive god hallelujah i will perceive god i will know god i'm going to know him when he's talking i'm going to know him when he's trying to get my attention i'm going to know him i'm going to know him i'm going to know that this emotion i feel is his emotion this thought that i'm thinking is his thoughts this way that i take he has directed me i will know god don't let the devil take that from you i said don't let the devil take that from you don't let him take it from you and if you if you if you feel that god i've i've i've just i messed up i i've messed up it's not too late lord help me take this blinders off help me get these blinders off help me get these blinders off at such a time as this we feel the burden to reach out beyond our normal means to provide both spiritual and natural relief to those in need as this budget increases we reach out to you to support and sustain the vision that god has given this ministry there are many ways to support these efforts and your giving helps to further the reach of this message across the world if you would like to give simply visit www.marybanks.net forward slash give and proceed to follow the prompts you can give by one of three ways credit card paypal or cash app our catch up tag is dollar sign nb global church you

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Published: Mon Oct 04 2021