NCD111719 Honoring God By Honoring Yourself

[Music] let's confess together I'm about to hear the life changing Word of God instructs delivers and empowers I received from the Lord to believe the gospel of the finished work of Jesus Christ and I will leave here today full of faith do you believe that amen you know what's different is when I come when I come to Dothan that the dome is much bigger it sounds like it sounds like his softest just as the biggest space to feel some aspies can't project your voices I wanna I want to all share with you I got up this morning and as I was reading the Spirit of God took me to Revelation chapter 4 verse 11 but I want to read Revelation chapter 4 the entire chapter because what happens to us is that we get lost and in in our worship because we forget who God is some of us have been in church so long that that we think we know him and we become so familiar with him when we get close to him um we know he's a merciful God he's a gracious God but we forget that he's God and worship in another 70s a sense of awe you know we say he's an awesome God but if we lose the AH and he's just some God he got it and so I woke up this morning and I was I don't know why I got here but there's a part of my studies and our began to read the book of Revelation John was in the spirit on the Lord's Day and the Bible says that a part of what he saw he documents everything he sees as he's allowed to but he gets to a certain place in Revelation chapter 4 verse 1 he says then as I looked I saw door standing open in heaven and the same voice I had heard before spoke to me like a trumpet blast that was the voice of Jesus speaking I really need you to pay attention to this because I'm not going to necessarily teach this I don't want to teach this but I want just want to share with you work space that God opened my eyes to I woke up this morning and when I went to the word is the first thing that I encountered and it was here he says the voice said come up here the King James says come up hither flip the King James real quickly come up hither and I will show thee things which must be Hereafter and in verse 2 he says and immediately I was in the spirit and behold a throne everybody a throne a throne was set in heaven and he said and one sat on the throne everybody say one out last day one there was one person sitting on the throne and John says he says I'm brought into heaven he said transporting the spirit realm from the natural realm he said when I'm trying to get my bearing and I look around me to see where I was kind of getting locate myself he said the first thing I noticed is in front of me there's a throne and there's one person sitting on the throne when you go to verse 3 he says and he that sat was to look upon as Jasper not when you when you study this word Jasper I believe I'm correct when I say that jazz took Jasper could either be a purplish or greenish color he said if he said when I look at the one sitting on the throne he wasn't he didn't have the hue of human skin he wasn't feet he wasn't a light flesh like like what we call white people or dark flesh let me call black people or even like I'm a middle yellowish tone like an Asian a Middle Eastern person or brownish he said he that looked on I saw him sitting on the throne he fluctuated between like a purple and a greenish color and sard and stones sodden is always ready this is what I'm saying is is this person I've seen he said he doesn't have flesh tone it's a person but something is coming off of him and he said and there was a rainbow around the throne he said in sight like unto an emerald what colors an emerald is a greenish color but his emerald is not like a regular green it's almost like a turquoise almost like an island type of green kind of okay so he says he's now notice the colors he's saying round about the throne were four and twenty six now give me back the New Living Translation sake stop translating every word he said twenty-four Thrones surrounded him so this one throne and John says I began to focus I've noticed the one the throne but as I began to now be distracted I realized it's not the only throne he said twenty-four Thrones surrounded him and twenty-four elders sat on them now let me explain to you everybody look at me for me that these elders are representative of the twelve from Israel and the twelve from the church age so these people are representing the redeemed of the Lord these are people who are there only because Jesus saved them no one sitting on those Thrones did anything to earn them they didn't negotiate for them it wasn't politics on James and John the Bible says the sons of zebedee their mother tried to negotiate with Jesus warning that for them to sit on the throne well she didn't know was they were already too thrilled with their names on them twenty-four Thrones around him and the Bible says they were all clothed in white indicating that the in white robes indicating that that the righteousness they had was not their own but on their heads were golden crowns indicating perfection they be their crown of perfection of that look at the next verse from the throne came John says as I move from the visual part of it to the audible part of it he said I saw watches now I saw flashes of lightning but I also heard and felt the rumble of thunder now all of a sudden this is interesting because all of a sudden this is not the God we visualize when we worship when we worship we have no picture in mind we don't know what what we were so we worship because we were custom to it or we worship because we feel something we worship because we're grateful but the God that John is describing he said he's like nothing that we've ever encountered theologians try to explain this and there is no explanation for this I've not heard a credible explanation no one could tell you what we see our Paul said we see through a glass darkly in other words everything we see we can't explain cuz we don't really understand it all cuz we don't see it very clearly he presents God sitting on the throne is not even the color of human skin he described no facial expressions he's describing a God that's super above and beyond anything we could ever imagine as what he says in front of the throne were seven torches with burning flames and he said and actually you know what they were they were the Sevenfold Spirit of God how John John said I don't know he said I just knew from being in the presence of God that I'm looking at fire and on these scans and from the throne and I knew intuitively that's the Holy Spirit representative that's what he says go to the next where she said in front of the throne was a shiny sea of glass sparkling like crystal in the center and around the throne were four living beings when you flip to the King James right here I like what the King James says because definition is going to help you he said there were four beasts in the Greek the word theory Ron is a word that means let's listen to this animals that can think it literally means animals with intellect and John said Allah as I was there around the throne I realized that these things they weren't human but they weren't animals there was a combination he said God in His wisdom put his image on human beings he gave us animal life but in heaven when he chose to worship Him was a combination of a beast and humanity was just representing everything he created in the earth and their job their job was we gonna see in a minute he says that their job was to worship Him but before we get lazy and run about the throne were four beasts full of eyes full of eyes what does this thing got God said they had eyes everywhere like leopards have spots they had eyes functional eyes that could see the next verse says and the first beast was like a lion the Bible says that Jesus is the conquering Lion of the tribe of Judah in Matthew he's represented as the king of Israel the lion is a king of the jungle it says on the second gimmi gimmi are the New Living Translation real quickly so I would have to translate words the first of these living beings were like a lion the second was like an ox the Oxus is the servant beast and so in mark Jesus is presented as the servant King he's the ox of mark the third was a human face in the Book of Luke Jesus is presented as the man Jesus Christ his lineage is traced back to Adam and then it says the fourth was like an eagle in flight the king of the birds Jesus in the book of John is presented as a son of God that the one that came from above he has no earthly lineage in the book of John all of these these animals around these intelligent animals are representing Jesus in the next verse the Bible says each of these living beings watch us now had six wings and their wings were covered all over with what what is this obsession that God has with seeing everything around him as eyes nothing around him is blind nothing around him he is allowed to miss anything and so I'm reading this as four o'clock this morning and I'm thinking to myself the God that we worship we have reduced him to man-made concepts and precepts we treat God like he's one of us some people's like why you know it's cold I won't I will come out today and say feel God is not worth the trip I don't have to I don't have to go to church I don't think I'd be a Christian and what you see what we're doing we come up with all this carnal concept and and the God that we worship me he's sitting on high he's went to extreme lengths to redeem us and to restores no one here saved themselves nobody in this prison no one in this place keeps himself alive you have no honor that you be a Duke or earn of yourself it was all given to you the God that that I saw this morning I said Lord we don't worship you for who you are watch this is that each of the living beings had six wings their wings were covered with all of the earth eyes inside and out day and night after he said washes out day after day and night after night they keep on saying why do what are they saying this holy holy holy is the Lord God Almighty because they were created to do that that's all they do and here's what it says it says they said Lord our holy holy holy is the Lord God Almighty the one who always was the one who is now and the one who was what he still to come and then the next verse it says this whenever the living beings give glory and honor and thanks to the one sitting on the throne the one who lives for ever and ever verse 10 says the twenty-four elders those who represent the redeemed of the Lord they're provoked they get up off their Thrones they fall down on in front of him and they worship Him go back to verse 10 I'm not done that they worship Him the one sitting on the throne the one who lives forever and ever and was it and they take the Crown's off their heads in arm in unison and they put him before him as if to say we didn't earn these and whenever the living creatures would take a pause they will get back on the throne and they'll sit there surrounded sitting on Thrones they didn't earn be receiving honor that they didn't earn that was just described to them and whenever the living creatures will start again the intelligent beasts intelligent animals these these elders these representatives of the redeemed will get off their turn again and it was not a bother to them to keep on doing it many times in our churches what happened when worship is stirred is because at some point in the worship service our hearts seems to be selfish and we actually tap in it was because what John saw happening is not something to happen back then no it says it happened back then it happens now and it still it will happen in the future and sometimes we tap into their worship and I came today as we talked about honor to say I believe that one of the biggest problems we have with honor is we're trying to honor people and we've yet to under God I don't believe that we understand what it means to honor God so I don't understand him nobody does so pastor you understand I don't I serve Him and what he has done with me is he's giving me a gift that I haven't earned he put me in the office that I didn't earn it's all his choosing and he reveals things to me bit by bit Sokka share them with you don't take for granted it because I've been teaching you something and I've sung I sound learned that I know everything I barely know the stuff I'm teaching you his wisdom is unmatched he's there's no one in the universe and like him what you have to understand said well well where does God live didn't you ask the wrong question the Bible says in him we live in him we move in him we have our being you see the credit you see you're trying to seek God like one of us what's his address you'd already even understanding even the statement we made when we said you know we were in church today and the Lord came in stop wait a minute how can God come in when he lives in you says it's not that God comes in what happened you know it really happens what happens when we get together and we sense the manifest presence of God is not that God comes in is that we connect is that I you I there's a unison the Bible says under their Pentecost they all were in one place on one of they connected in one place with one agenda and when they did that then God comes in now he was always there he was waiting for them to acknowledge that what we are doing together is important what we're doing together will change the course of the world what we're doing together will change the city what we're doing together will change families what we're doing together there's no way we could do this and thinks they're the same if I honor that God has called us together and honor that this God that we serve is not like everybody else look watch this the Bible says in verse 11 when they casted crowns before him pay attention to what they said and this is the part that I want to share with you and I'm taking so much time to share my Bible study with you this is not even the message the part that grabbed me was verse 11 I only read the first 10 verses for context here's what they've said to him when they when they pray he said you read it with me you are worthy O Lord our God to receive glory and honor and power for you created all things when you study these words from schoolís a Scholastic point of view the thing that jumped out at me and maybe I want to share with you maybe you already saw it is that there's not much difference in the definition of these words I was looking at the word worthy as compared to glory and honor and power and the only difference the only different word was the word power it seems to be synonymous term but they're not when you read them in the Greek what they were these men were saying to God was tremendous the first word that that stands out to say you ever said worthy we say it all the time when we worship we say you're worthy and we don't know what was saying the Greek word Axios X iOS is a word that means that a thing has inherent value inherent value so what it speaks of is is um something is valuable when I find it I did nothing to make it valuable if we're mining for diamonds and and we cut into the ground and we find a piece of coal we understand it at some point this coal can become a diamond we may even see something that that is a view of you into diamonds you mean look at and say you know what but a little bit more time this will become a brilliant diamond but is this a totally different situation with you when you hack into the ground and you hit something hard and you start brushing away the dirt and what you discover is a huge brilliant priceless diamond watch this when you find it the value is already in it this is what Axios means russia's noun no one gave me my value no one ascribed anything to me what I have what is now itself generated so when when the men said to when the other set of the Lord you are worthy here's what they're saying they say there's no one like you who has within himself the power to be great and to make great there's no one like you whose value and Worth is in themselves the rest of us that we're not like that we have to do things for people to consider us worthy we have to do something to be considered great someone has to give you position but not God that's not the way he is the way he is is that all he has is already in him so when they said you are worthy that when the emperor of rome and they were there using actually the language of the romans when the emperor would go out to war and he and he would win when he's coming home they will put up a big sign at the entrance ways coming and in the roman language you will say you are worthy in other words it will say same you you won the battle because you're worthy and they use the word Axios which is a idolatrous blasphemy because they are the only reason that the emperor was considered worthy was because the people honored him but when you say dove god they bucked the bar the same language instead of god you are worthy there's no one like you consider your God for a minute you didn't make him you didn't find him you didn't love him he found you he loved you he made you and when you come to him and worship your whole position you cannot be your mentality cannot be what we just want to worship know you're in the presence of the God who holds every part of you in his hand and as much as we would like to think that we that we that something about us makes us desirable you know that reality no in God's presence there's nothing about us that makes us desirable the fact that he allows us to come into his presence of worship him it's a big deal when you know when we lose that our of God when we've been in church for so long that we will protect our dignity around each other and Rob God of the glorious his it means that what we're doing has been reduced and reduced to religion so this morning I read this I said you're worthy of God to receive glory and honor and power don't want to go through that the definition of the words they are magnificent but the partner I want to share with you before I go into the lesson today is this you created for you created all things read that with me for you created all things and they exist you know in the Greek that's not the way reads in the like it says in the Greek Erie's for you created all things and they exist because they pleased you not because you created what you pleased it's because they is because you created what pleased you everybody said what pleases him say it again said what pleases him I said this some years ago and I want to repeat this do you know what I believe about our facial a Vistage what the quarry of this is the look of your face look at your neighbor's face real quickly this is the last time you go look at your neighbor today I don't do the look at your neighbor thing now let me show you something do you realize now realize this where did God have the concept they were made in the image of God after the likeness of God where did he get the concept of our faces from you mean look at your name and say man my name is ugly but you know but but that's relative what have I told you that every face so um feature every every look that a person has that well you know people say well I was I was off I was somewhere over here and I saw your twin you ever heard that and if you were if you a little bit have a little bit more vocabulary you say I saw your doppelganger doppelganger you look alike and so I believe I've discovered exactly what it is I've said this before but it's been a while Simon show it again I believe every facial feature it is inappropriate to call people ugly i'ma tell you why because every facial feature represents a snapshot of God somewhere in time have you ever taken a bunch of pictures of a baby let's let it take pictures and it catches users on real real weird looks God instead of wasting them he took every and he put them on and the reason I believe that some people look alike he said man you look so much alike it's because it's because the millisecond or whatever the measurement was that this this frame was taken and that frame was taking God's not using both he threw nothing away and put him on different people and sometimes you say these twins look exactly I can't tell them apart when they came out the womb God getting the exact same looking for you look close enough you see just a little difference why because watch us now God wants everything the earth to honor who he is the problem with us and I honor is you can't honor people if you don't honor God watch this you could be religious you could be deeply spiritual if you have no honor for God you honor people no second thing I'm teaching now the second thing is you can't honor people if you don't honor yourself so if God if an honor guard for his intrinsic value God has inherent value he said has an inherit worth in other words no one gives him is worth he gave us the same thing do you know you have worth in it of yourself the problem with most of us is that we believe if they'd be connected to someone to something to be valuable so you feel rejection when people don't want you in this circle and you don't understand you think what I'm losing I'm losing out on something no in most cases when you're rejected from a circle it is the hand of God watch this now I'm gonna show you something because if you think you need to be connected to someone too or something to have value then you don't honor yourself and normally when I don't honor myself is because I don't honor God first I believe one of the first lessons that God teaches us when we begin to honor him properly when we begin to acknowledge that he is the all sufficient God there's nothing lacking in him when I begin to honor him by just not honor him spending time when I realize that I'm in the presence of the person that's all worthy that he that he is the because you are worthy everybody say you're worthy say that lot say you are worthy it means that everything I need is in him here's what we do here's what proves that we don't know the worth of God we would say to God God I need money I come to you I ask you for money Jesus and then when I sense peace when I says that that there are the anxious anxiousness is left and I said I have peace about what I prayed the old Saint Jesus I pray through so you pray through you leave you said God won't give you the money that tells me you don't even know who God is that old church when Peter was arrested in acts 12 has what they did they asked God to deliver Peter then they didn't leave the place of Prayer and go figure out a way to get him out no they stayed in the presence of the one who is all worthy understanding that the freedom that Peter needed he had it the problem most of us is that we're praying and we're praying we pray and then we leave the presence of God looking for the thing I'm not saying we don't act seek and knock what I'm saying something sometimes we think that I asked God not let me go look for the valuable thing when we don't realize we were in the presence of the valley the thing thanks for this 50 class you can try to increase them as we go along yes that's the thing that that works for me that you need to understand I can tell when a church especially but it's not just a church is a church a family it could be a community can be a city could be a team give you a group of friends when that when there's no value for God when there's no honor for God but they will do is for example they the little things like like um let us pray as a family and it because awkward moment especially blessing food we just you stretch a hand on food you know bless it you know and we say some kind of little thing over our food and it's a joke because at least you bless the food we weren't serious and when God says to bless the food you eat he wasn't plain he said I will take sickness and disease from the midst of your food in your water but what you got to do is he said what's just not Paul said be that people say you sure to eat me parsley eat whatever you want to he said but just we receive it with Thanksgiving translation you say if you honor God before you put it in your mouth he said God will change that thing will become the point of making it to us is that what happened you say pastor use I need a word I need a word no you need the Lord and you God we need him we need to see him the way we used to see him is he still worthy to you know best I don't understand the language okay here's a question is he still worth it is he still worth it do you remember where you were before he found you there's so much we have to share about the culture of Honor but here's what you to understand what I honor God first the first thing he said to me is I need you to honor who you are and what just when I began to put put all our attention on honoring myself I become an honorable person everybody say honorable I become an honorable person when I become an honorable person now I can look out around me and Bill honor circles I want to talk to you today for the time I have left about this are building these honor circles and how it looks in your world it's important for us that we understand that if we don't see God properly we won't see people properly and so this culture of Honor remember we start talking about or in every gathering of people that come together there is gonna be a need for leadership if you have you I'll have a circle of friends or any circle you in I would suggest to you that you define it what I put it put a label on it what is it what's your connection what do you call your friendship because some of us watch us now are in seasons of lack and season of struggle not because God wants us in that season but because of who we connected to there may be people in your circle that's keeping you in their season because they don't honor God but you honor them and the Lord will show you you watch it's not the Lord will show you the level of this honor they're operating in but you my committees at them then you are committed to the Lord are y'all gonna talk about to me what I got a mic in my hand I'm preaching so you gonna watch this and so so you pick up your phone and call your friend say girl did you hear and he said with get next in phone so you hold on you you you get it in out these three of y'all then she gets a pretty nice five you on the phone y'all cackling like hyenas watches now you have just you have just rung up your gossip circle this honorable but what's this do you know the same energy that you used to ring up your gossip circle you could transform that into a prayer meeting the same thing you were discussing you could actually been praying about it but here's what happens unless you establish that what the circle is for unless you define the circle this suffers open to anything anybody hear me today that means the circle is open to anything and what happens is that traps you in cycles and seasons that you were supposed to be in I remember when I was I'm gonna tell you sir real quickly when I was first in ministry when I first was called to ministry the first thing that stood out to me was I didn't know anything and so I remember they used to have these cook us at the church after church every Sunday someone was cooking out and my family we're going to the cookout you're coming but by the time they will come to get me I there were no computers back then they were I have 10 books around me I'm studying and it's like why you're studying you don't have to preach I couldn't answer the question I wasn't studying because I wanted something to preach I was studying because I was serving a god I didn't know I don't have time to eat not with not with because I know it's gonna be about we're gonna start out eating food and the more full we get the Mogul start joking about who danced in church and how did and who fell out that's that's all we ever did I was tired of it what starts to happen when I started using my time and defining other people who are with me if you don't wanna fast if you don't wanna pray you couldn't be my circle you know why because I knew God was calling me somewhere some of you got too much time on your hands you you you have no sense of destiny so you entertained this honor you entertain anything as this honorable why why would you reduce yourself to that when the potential and your circle is so strong you have people your circle with gifting and calling just like you do in every circle than it needs to be a leader what did I just say that leaders should be you volunteer to be leader listen suggest it Carly call you Circle out with a question remember honor ask questions control make statements so you say something like why are we always talking about people are we really friends all we ever talk about a close did you hear what happened over here can we pray for that nothing reduces your circle like choosing to become honorable now let me share with you what you need to know honor and control as we said before are the two options of every leader in your family your family is either being governed by honor or control and here's what happens with what happens in each circle if your family is being governed by control it means that that you're producing fear in those that you're trying to control your children are either afraid of you or they resenting you right now because watch is not control is not birth in honor it's not birth in love control is birth out of fear its birth out of insecurity the reason we want to control people and outcomes is because we're scared it's fear and I'm gonna share someone's link with you about controlling you need to know that I love to share this stuff because when we don't know it inadvertently we do crazy stuff so what happens is um this is our work of the flesh and Galatians 5 is called witchcraft when you think witchcraft what you think of is some some hag in the basement of a house stirring a black pot with purple stuff in it bubbling but that's not what witchcraft is is that it's talking about as a matter of fact watch this now um whenever we seek to govern by control whether it's our friendships our relation arm our family relationships our pastors and as leaders or even any leader a boss for example that has a business if you seek to govern by control you have to more likely you're gonna use this tactic call manipulation the root word every word if you study if you study our words for a living like I do you find that every word has a prefix a suffix and a root word the root word in the word manipulation is the word Manu is a Latin word in the word is my new MA in you you see the word all the time we said it means it means the hand or with the hand and so my mama you were talking about manual labor it means the work that's done with the hands we talk about manufacturing give me something that's made with the hands when you talk about manipulation it means to shake with the hands to govern the outcome the problem is is that when you deal with spiritual things and souls your hands now spiritually are contaminated that means anything you touch I'm not talking about in the natural but anything you touch the intent of your heart is what affects people have you ever heard after all you could transfer spirits by touch yeah how many ever heard that it's not true that's not true there's no biblical basis for that to that that false teaching if that was a case if you could transfer spirits but I just put hands on people we all demonic but also we all anointed so that's not what it is here's what happens the intent of a spiritual touch the intent of my not just a physical interaction if my intent is control and I use manipulation intimidation or domination here's what happens I inadvertently open in the spirit realm a portal and I give unauthorized access to demons so here's how it works anyone I seek to control I will feel good because I'm in control of the situation I feel good because I know what the outcome is gonna be I told my kids to do is they gonna do it because I'm in control but here's the thing what I'm controlling them I feel good about myself I've put them on the demonic torment because what they're dealing with now is either the fear of the person who's patrolling them or the resentment why do you think teenagers who are bullied in school take their lives I'm tell you why because once they feel intimidated and dominated then that gives access to demonic forces to speak into their world and to put pressure on their souls and sometimes especially they've not been exposed to spiritual things they don't know what they're dealing with and they have no language to articulate it to their parents not to anybody else you know what they do in their lives we many times when we use control we use control as a means to help you I used to do it control the situation they don't play with me but it doesn't work what it does it creates the adverse and reverse effect and so here's what happens in a marriage y'all used to love each other all of a sudden you don't get along and you said past I just don't know what happened we fell out of love could it be that instead of honoring each other in the relationship when you realize how differently you were raised and how differently you see life that you started this campaign and this competition of control could it be that you tried your best to control the situation your husband's trying to control you you try to control him and if he got control in that area you took control this area so if he did something he didn't like you control him with silence if she did something you didn't like you control with him taking money if he if if he did Sonny didn't like you controlling with intimacy or lack thereof and when you begin to use control as a means to govern the situation you invite Devils in the midst say something nod your head do something I know you're listening to me let me help you out with this it's control seeks to do by force I'm repeating myself I know it control seeks to do by force what honor does naturally control seeks to do by force what honor doesn't naturally and so what happens in our lives watch just now we find ourselves in this war and I'm gonna tell you something about this I'm saying this about your children change the way you govern your kids change the way you run your business you do not want them to fear you I was in the fall with my with one of my sons the other day and he was just talking about how you saying dad you know he said oh he said when I was younger used to say these things to me I love him I love my children you know my oldest son is such I cannot break it in for a minute listen I love the man he has become so we just have this conversation he said you try to get me to do all these things he said I just didn't I just didn't honor where you been he said my son came to me he said I was saying you know co-head he said I thought to myself my god that's what Dad said about me but but the conversation I had with him was so filled with honor I felt I felt like a veteran I felt like an old man being being honored by my younger he's saying to me he's the things that I've said to him he's retained them III have enough wish list of this worthless term I have enough honor equity with him and the problem with a lot of us watch us the problem with a lot of us is you have no honor equity your kids don't know how to pray because you never honored God and prayed with them your kids don't know what to find out for the fine connection spiritual connection because when they said I don't feel I go to church you honor the fact that they didn't want to go to church instead of instead of dealing with them they remember control make statements with honor ask questions why don't you want to go to church well that says there's certain questions you could ask that will bring them to a realization you ignored what their wills and you intimidated their minds and their outcome of that is that you have people now that you should have figure out what how can I control them now this is crazy my kid won't use it my kid won't even move out my house how could they you control them the entire childhood you intimidated them they don't even think they can but you know what I learn about honor it's never too late to start to insert honor into the equation let me let me share this with you so so what happens to us many tenders and says I want you pick up your ear to hear this because this isn't speaking to you where you are let me help you out with something this is important when people fail people fail what we tend to do is we deal with that with the thing they did wrong will say to them you did this you did that how could you do it to this family if the picture was in the newspaper they started how could you you you you thief you we would deal with what they did will bring them to tears will bring them to shame will bring them to guilt and then we will leave them because what we think what we're thinking is is that once they start to cry not you repentant and at no point was just now at no point do we take the time yes what they did was wrong and yes what they did is a potential you get you said this will get your troubles will get you killed you're right everything you're saying is right but their approach is wrong using control and now in when you use control you try to intimidate and dominate them and that work because of that spirits of shame and spirits of guilt and now you say pass to my child acting differently you know why because they're living in shame you never restored honor to them you never look to them and said you know who you are you know who you're destined to be you never spoke to them all you talked to them about is how they made you feel and how they made you look that is assess now as I see you because of not being you I'm trying to show you that what we did was wrong we all never taught that the way to get a person to be better is to restore honor in them we restore honor when you were still on you restore value you restore worth to them you make that you remind them of who they are your child steals money the school calls you yours child took this Patel's money now you shame just wait till we get home I'm gonna deal with you you little thief you get home you go off on the kid I was so embarrassed everything me me me me was just so child real child acknowledges okay I was wrong would you leave it there do you think by shaming the child you just delivered them from stealing no if a child thinks if the person that that they honor that has been given Authority in their life thinks that they're nothing but a low-down thief they will live down to that they will live you know you can live up to something to live down to it they will live down to what about this what about the question why did you take that money I will try to buy these shoes why didn't you ask me because you never had money why do you think I never have money because you say you always broke why do you take me literally I don't know what just not what was happening is a dialogue is it shoes you wanted yes ma'am then here comes the Power Move don't you know if you needed those shoes I would turn heaven and earth upside down extra hours I don't know what I have to do listen and not a chance says something like I don't want you extra hours and you say but that's what I would have to do but I will do it for you you know why because you worth it to me whatever watch this now now you're elevating the child he's not just a thief anymore now he says mama son but just your father comes home we have to tell him do you think he'd be disappointed yes ma'am do you want me to tell him are you gonna tell him I'll tell him do you want me come with you okay when he walks in the door tell me you have to talk to him but you have to tell him yes ma'am that comes in the house if the snake dad has been sitting under honor teaching his son comes to mr. dad absolutely to tell you mom had to come to school today because I stole some money and got caught a father who walks in on it and understands that every person just like God is someone that was someone that is now and someone is still to come when you understand me from worshiping and honoring your God you know when you honor the one that was the one that is now the one who is to come you realize he's everybody's like him they have the world they are they still coming along and what you do is you swore you're speaking to now who you're speaking to when your son said to you I stole them and I did it dad I wanted shoes and the money was sitting right there anything anybody will trace it back to me honorable father will say you can never do anything that doesn't have consequences 9 the question started did you think you'd get away with it yes sir so you will do something wrong if you think you can get away with it what are you doing you're making him think is that who you want to be no sir watch this I snooze with my kids all the time how do you think I should handle this what do you mean what should I do now what's my options what should I do now what do you want to do about this the child that ball I gave the money back I can't apologize and give some extra money is that what you want to do yes sir what you just did you just turn your child who was on his way to becoming a thief into problem-solver and he will never forget the moment that his parents had a chance to control and shame and guilt him but they chose instead to honor him you're raising problem-solvers you're raising thinkers if you if you still if you still don't see the advantage that honor gives you over control you're not listening it would have gone for us is that we become honorable people we've everybody say this out I said we are a culture of honor we honor everyone inside of everyone yes glory is value that God placed there my said my goal now listen don't just say they said my goal is to discover it says what I want to do I want to show you something so you know how many mer people gonna have to put your hand up you married okay you know the big problem is young lady wrote me and I hope she's watching she won't me she said pastor she says why you teaching my honor and Chicago she said my husband and I were having the worst problems she said oh you made a statement she say you actually asked the question how do you expect him to be honorable when you don't honor him she said made up my mind I'm gonna go home and she said and I put myself on a seven day on a challenge she said was gonna honor him for seven straight days and see what happens she surround a third day she said she said Oh and angry at him for something he had done and she said I've made up my mind and punished him she said when I start to honor him the first thing he noticed was I was talking to him she said stop talking to him he said I'll start serving him start doing the things he needed I started being there for him she said pastor by the end of the seven days we have a brand-new marriage she said my friend who's not even saved noticed it and she said I just decide to honor my husband she said I put myself on a seven day on the challenge and the young lady said I'm gonna do it here's what the lady rose she said before the day was over before day one was over the lady called her she said I I started honoring my husband today she said I my marriage changing hours but it's not just the wife to the husband how do you expect your wife to be the wife she's supposed to be well you don't honor her I'm gonna angry so God sees Adam in the garden Hisle God says it's not good that the man should be out loud what alone now how do you know that the word alone is a contraction of two words all one say that out loud well when you see the word always it's a contraction of the of the phrase all the way it's when Jesus said I will be with you always what he's saying is I will be with you all the way right go back to this term all one God says it's not good that the man is self-contained ease all one let me tell you what it means and it's gonna blow your mind and some of you is gonna kill a sacred cow when God created everything he made them made of male and female he made Adam by himself and so Adam was a balance of testosterone and estrogen he was as much male as he was female that's what all one meant God said this is not good good house is not beneficial in effect and it would not leave me to my to the outcome I'm looking for God says um if I want him to reproduce this thing of work so ends with God he puts Adam to sleep follow me I want to show you about honor he puts Adam to sleep he pulls out of Adam what the Bible says is a rib I'm not gonna deal with the depth of that word it wasn't just a bone he pulled out of Adam the completeness of I say that it's enough femininity where Adam woke up masculine don't know I'm gonna say something the Arlen brothers I'm tonight listen I ain't ain't no every man has estrogen in him you can be masculine but you're still a nurturer and you still defend feminine ways you better if you can't hug your boy but he's crying now son I go read some joke here and there teaching that you should be hope that's not what I'm saying what I'm saying is you got to have enough in you where you can feel and you can be system sensitive God pulled out of atom the majority of the sensitivity you got it but what God did also was what God did he put it in Eve understand this so Adam gets up but he sees Eve here's what he says he sees even here's what he says he says I know who you are God never introduced Eve to Adam God never said to Adam this is this is your wife now when the God just took her and brought her Adam watch this now so the first part of honoring your mate is what Adam did Adam saw even here's what he said I know who you are he said you a woman watch this Adam realized that he had the sperm or the seed of God in him but she has the womb of God in her I gotcha snot I have the life of God in me but I have no ability to bring life to pass in other words I can't give like anything unless I put what is in me in her I'm the one watch it's not at initially age but she's the one at incubates if I don't honor her ability to incubate brushes now we can't give birth to nothing and that is why a lot of men will never give birth to anything because they don't trust they don't honor their wives enough to trust it with incue bation i Adam honors Eve watches not so they become intimate now watch this let's modernize it they become intimate and not Eve is pregnant Adam understands I gotta take care of her cuz she got something valuable in her so you know how we do but you know women do two o'clock in the morning baby I'm craving pickles and peanut butter with caramel syrup on top a man that honors his wife and understand watches now I'm not the one carrying the baby thank God for that and since she has the burden of caring the child I get up I don't like it but I honor a request I put on my clothes I go down to the shop I bought all the ingredients when I come back she said you know I don't feel like eating that anymore then you go okay what do you want not see if you ever tasted like and she started described something you wanted to look what you on what you honoring you're honoring the fact that she's carrying something valuable and I'm not exaggerating you know how something you get when you get pregnant my mother's like liver my father's like you want what liver okay I wanna know cow liver my dad is like okay when you honor watch this now you honor her function so words like submission in order that they're not they're not bad words put Ephesians 5:21 on the screen I want to show them this real quickly but you see it when everybody said the word submission say that last say submission well you see the word submission you think oh my god somebody trying to control me know what submission is the Bible says are and further submit to one another out of reverence and the word River says is honor for Christ that's what it means the word submit means to honor the person's function to honor the person's function so how even this honor your husband when he's called to cover you I'm just greater than my husband that's pride and you get you're inviting Devils in know if he is the one that covers you then think of it like this you're the pot he's the cover what's in you and bubble out if he doesn't cover you you got it and you have to honor that and husband's you have to honor who their wife is and how she's made her Constitution I got made her and that that understanding of honor and not seek to control will change your marriage in hours it will cause your children to see you differently those of you who serve in a church somewhere so me my pastor don't get along what the automatic on the same level somebody got to submit to somebody right says the Bible says here we submit to one another wife out of the fact that we know who God is and we honor him I hope I help you today this is like free marriage counseling and child rearing counseling everybody lift your hands together in effect put your hair down for a second let me do this first I want to put you on a seven day on a challenge seven days starting today what was that I want to challenge there are people in your life right now who either they seeking to control you or you've been controlling them and you can tell because when you heard this word today you start saying oh my god that's me I don't do that oh my god you've been even offended at certain parts of the message which is good revelation sometime offends what am I asking you lift your hand you can make a confession are you gonna say something a prayer prayer to God today how many of you are interested in engaging in this 7-day honor challenge lift both hands to the Lord say these words with me say father I commit starting today to seven days of honor I will honor my mate my friends those above me those beneath me those are equal to me on my job or at home even strangers I commit today to honor you by by being in prayer by reading the word and especially by worshiping you in these seven days manifests to me the glory of who you are change my heart as I as I commit to honor wait wait wait wait you just say work you just say words say starting now I even commit to honor my own body for I cannot honor others until I first honor myself but you just sit you put your hands down what you said something strong what you just said is something deep and you said it to God the garden you have eyes everywhere the God who loves you beyond anything you could ever imagine God who sees you never sees you in the God who hurts for you when your life is in pain the God who never forgets why he sent you to the earth the God who forgives you when you don't deserve it that God has his eyes on you and he loves you and your future the future that he has for you it may seem dim but what he's doing now is preparing you for the next things to come take your time walk through the process grieve losses let me heal you because the next thing on his agenda for you we're in glory or see that father pray for every person is saying to I pray for people watching my stream and thank you Lord for the wisdom God you've given to us to know these things are there people in this room that don't know you that people who have abandoned their relationship with you maybe through trauma maybe through temptation as some may be just through weariness today as I invite them back to you give them the heart to respond even the courage to say yes Lord eyes are closed pushes an attitude of prayer if here today he surpassed I don't know Jesus Christ never gave my life to Jesus but I want to do that now I want to give my life to Jesus I'm gonna be praying right now if the Lord will draw you to him he said that's why you think I was speaking to me if that is you you want to give your life to Jesus Christ lift your hand say pastor that's me I need to I need to give my life to Jesus today need to give my life to Jesus today while while you are considering that question I want to make a second invitation you say pastor you know what I have given my life to Jesus but I'm one of the people that you said that they're just abandoned my faith I walked away from the Lord I guess got sidetracked distracted things just off and I just I let go of my faith and if that is your semester but I gotta make it right with God that is you show your hand to say best I need to rededicate my life to the Lord because I got to go forward with God I see one I know that others will see two either one I see one hand right here where the ball is what are you looking okay wanna make a third invitation say pastor I come it's a hand in the rear if it is an adult or child kiss and I don't forget our students god bless you it's not see - if you're here today and you say pastor I believe there should be a member of this church I believe that God is connected me the NCC is connecting me here to be under your pastor and I believe that the learning rule here if that is you you will be all ready to make it official lift your hand and said pastor I believe us we'll be a member of this church looking for you see one hand looking to see to around everybody wanted this for men just begin to present as begin to purchase quickly I'm just beginning previous for everyone around you father I pray for every person that needs you and know they needs you that you give them courage to respond I pray the Lord those who raise their hands that even as they make they take the next step and you do something so profound in their lives that their lives would never be the same I trust you I trust you God to do what you promised in Jesus name Amen [Music]

Channel: Pastor Hart Ramsey

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Length: 63min 31sec (3811 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 18 2019